The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
SPORTING
WORLD
Cleveland woman swimmers have or.

Croquet is about the only sport that
hibernates.
The season is about over for picking
the 1916 all-star crop.
The chief objection Of most boxers
Is the floors are too hard.
It is quite natural for some anna
teurs to get cramps in the fingers.
There is considerable elbow action
in meeting of the baseball magnates.
If most golfers could play the game
IS well as they talk it, they'd be cham
pions.
Before baseball gloves were invent
ed, players fought under London prize
ring rules.
Just discovered why ball players
make good billiardists. They are ia
miliar with ivory.
The weather never bothers a real
golfer. The only time he can't play is
when he is gagged.
Movement to make. boxers wear
heavier gloves must be for the protec-
ton of the referees.
The United States Lawn Tennis as
ISOLATION ranking committees list con-
tains 1900 players.
There is very little difference be-
tween wrestling and boxing. Both are
featured by clinching.
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Most Of our leading boxers are as
clever at shaking hands as a politi-
clan just before election.
Wyoming has passed law prohibit
ing the leaving in the woods Of the
meat of elk or deer killed.
| A total of 274 tracks were represent
ed at the recent meeting of the trOtting
governing bodies in New York.
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The Amateur Athletic union does not
claim jurisdiction in baseball, soccer
football, golf, tennis or bowling.
Except in weight, height and reach.
Jess Willard doesn't seem to be phys
ically superior to any of his rivals.
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Freddie Welsh is not afraid of John
ny Kilbane. He asks only $4,000 for
battle with Johnny, showing his dis
dain.
When 1t comes to elasticity, rubber
band won't have much on the 16-player
rule which again has been adopted by
the A. A.
! Quail are so plentiful in and about
Los Angeles, CAL, that the public
parks are becoming breeding places
for the birds.
The United States Referees union.
the national governing body Of the SOC
Ger referees, is made up Of IL state
organizations.
Havana wants the Olympic games,
but if she can't get 'em she'll be salts
fed with the skating and ski-jumping
championships.
BuenOs Aires boasts ON Argentine
baseball league made up of six teams
of former Americans, now engaged in
business there.
A Louisville wag rises to remark
that man carrying load would have
no trouble in pronouncing Thomas ].
Hickey's last name.
The press agent who sued Benny
Kauff probably wrote all the stuff
about what Benny intended to do to
National league pitchers.
All the baseball poets are hoping
that Mathewson will hold his job for
ever, because Matty and Cincinnaty
make such bully rhyme.
Charles Ebbets says he wants 2,OOO,-
300 bucks for the Dodgers, but he
didn't stipulate whether he would like
stage or counterfeit money.
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An optimist is fellow who says
that the baseball season is over, and
a pessimist is guy who says the 1917
baseball season will soon begin.
Somebody has said that golfers make
poor executives. On the other hand,
we know lot of good executives who
have made mighty poor golfers.
Since they are playing chess by wire
less, why not play baseball that way,
and give Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco a chance to horn into the big
show?
Football is charged with the deaths
of 1S players the past season. But,
on the other hand, how many players
went through every game without
scratch?
A Michigan hypnotist offers instruc-
tons enabling his students to make
others believe what the hypnotist
wants 'em to. If Mathewson will only
spend the winter studying these les
sons, maybe he'll be able to make the
Reds believe they are a major-league
ball club.