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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
SAVE COLLEGE YOUTHS
Guard Boys Against Profession
aIism While Young.
Dean Briggs Of Harvard Says Ath-
letes May Be Protected in Gram
mar Schools - Cheering is
Termed as Good Thing.

College boys can be saved from pro-
fessionalism in the grammar schools, Is
the idea expressed by Dean lie Baron
R. Briggs of Harvard, chairman of the
| athletic committee of the college, in his
warning issued to prospective college
| athletes against playing for money, in
| an address on athletics at Harvard.
He said:
"The ethics Of athletics should be
like the ethics of anything else. If a
boy breaks his amateur standing, he
should be quick to say so and face the
music. think that any normal Ameri-
can boy will play game Of baseball
wherever and whenever he has the
| chance. Often they get into semi
professional company, and without car
ing much about the stipend they re-
ceive, accept money for their services.
Few boys realize what may be the fu-
ture effects of receiving pay for play
ing baseball.
"As rule, boy will keep secret
the fact that he has earned money for
ball playing. But sometimes-it may be
years in the future-the fact Is likely
to come to the surface at time when
the boy would give many times the
original amount If he could only blot
out his one slip into professionalism.
1.-The seriousness of playing for
money should be shown to the boy
when he is still in the grammar or high
schools. Oftentimes they have mar
red their amateur records before they
even think Of coming to college. If
advice of this kind is impressed upon
the boys early enough, the danger of
their being declared professionals and
ineligibles later in college life would
very likely be obviated.
Ihere are some phases of baseball
practically accepted as institutions of
the game, that are decidedly unsports.
manlife. Rafting the pitcher is one of
these. The incessant talking of the
players Is another phase that is hardly
necessary. The talk does not encour-
age.
Cheering is good thing. 1t is or
ganized and under the control Of the
cheer leaders. But even this institu-
ton can be misused, as it is in football
games, when the cheers may make 1t
impossible for the opposing quarter.
back to make himself heard"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

After a tramp of nine days across
the Sonora desert, Lieutenant Robert
son and Lieutenant Colonel Bishop.
the missing United States army avia-
tors who have been lost since Wednes-
day week ago, were found by a
searching party about thirty miles
south of the Mexican border.
Physicians at the hospital In Phila-
delphia where Harry X. Thaw, who at
tempted to commit suicide last week
by Slashing himself with razor, is a
patient, said that Thaw was not recOv-
ering as rapidly as had been expected
and expressed concern both as to his
mental and physical condition.
The egg famine came to an end in
Chicago on Friday. Prices on the
wholesale market sold cents a dozen
lower than on Thursday. Wholesale
values were brought down to 40 cents
a dozen for car lots and 400 AT cents
dozen to the retailers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
| AMERICAN LEAGUE is BEST
coombs Says Teams Seem to Have
Edge on Account of Their Supe-
rior Batting Strength.

Jack Coombs says the American
League teams seem to have the edge
because of superior batting power
Practically every team in the Ameri-
can league has three or more men who
are mighty dangerous with the bat"
says Jack. Detroit has Veach, Cobb.
Crawford, Heilman and Burns. Cleve-
land has Speaker, Roth, Graney, Gan
dill and Chapman. Boston has Lewis,
Gardner, Hooper and Barry. st. Louis
has ShOtton, Sisler and Pratt. Chicago
has John and Eddie Collins, Welsh,
Joe Jackson, Fourier, Weaver and
Schalk. New York has Baker, Pipp,
High and Magee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
scalifornia Syrup Of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and Bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup OF
Figs that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with.
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish. or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give .
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in few hours all the
foul. constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow.
els, and you have a well. playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache.
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic-remem.
Der, good inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup Of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for So
cent bottle of California Syrup Of
Figs" which has directions for babies.
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

talent while team had two big league players the line The
with the
final payof On the had been
much In evidence with his hitting.
Going into half of the big
led With third
bat Of handed first
had warming rushed into the battle the
hitter happened that this equally
either Believing that he pulling something Of the
ordinary pitches
right
singled the ball pitched driving
the plate
crowd rushed
the field The game, what did the umpire do?
Ansvve to Problem
The the two lineup won't
bat thought The
which had recorded
to batsman
batsman If from
batsnans position ready
quick take of this slip
and
the third side
by held when
the final inning started.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
HARTFORD IN GRAND CIRCUIT
Officer Of Connecticut Fair Associa.
ton Expects to See Best Trotting
Meet There in 1917.

Commenting on the widely circu-
lated report that Hartford may drop
out of the Grand circuit next year,
Mr.. w. FL. Gocher, one of the officers
of the Connecticut Fair association,
said that no action has yet been
taken In this direction. Without as
Stunning to speak officially for the or
ganization now in control of the Char
ter Oak Park, he said he expected to
see the best Grand circuit trotting
meeting in the East there in 1917
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Cap Arson Eayors Golf.

Cap Arson, heroic baseball figure,
frequently visits the public courses of
New York city. Van Cortlandt park is
Caps favorite hangout in Gotham. An
son is one veteran of the early days of
baseball who refuses to grow old. He
advises skeptics to take the golf diet
and stay young.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
ACTRESS TELLS SECRET.

A well known actress gives the follow
ing recipe for gray hair: To half pint OF
water add 1 OF. Bay Rum, small box OF
Barbo Compound, and Y OF. of glycerine,
ANY druggist can put this up or you car
mix it at home at very little cost. Full
directions for making and use come In
each box Of Barbo Compound. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray
hair, and make It soft and glossy. 1t WI
NOT color the scalp, Is not sticky OF
greasy, and does not rub OF. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Springfield Wants REGATTA.

Springfield, Mass, wants to stage
the intercollegiate regatta over the
four-mile Gala Shesta course on the
Connecticut river which is always
smooth and generally ideal for rowing
races. The board of trade has taken
the matter up and campaign is to be
waged to bring the big Hudson river
fixture to the Springfield course.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
ELECT PERSHING AS CAPTAIN
Nephew of Noted Major General Sc
Iected as Leader of Chicago
University Squad.

Frank e. Pershing Of Chicago, a
nephew of Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing,
has been elected captain of the Univer-
sity of Chicago football eleven for 1917.
Pershing is quarterback. He has one
more year to play.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Western Conference Track Meet

Western Conference Track Meet.
The annual championship track and
field meet of the Western Conference
colleges will be held at Stage field,
University of Chicago, on June 2, 1917.
The Conference wrestling champion
ships will be held at Northwestern
college on March II.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
EurODe0rl War News

The Norwegian steamship Bergen
nus. 3,6Oo tons, and the Spanish steam
ers Vale and Manuel have been sunk
by submarines, according to dispatch
es received at London. ,tt
The British steamer Yarrowdale
WIS brought into a German harbOr as
a prize by a crew of 16 men, says an
official statement issued at Berlin. 1t
carried 469 prisoners, the crews of
steamers captured by a German aux
Hilary cruiser in the Atlantic ocean.
The prisoners on the YarrOwdale were
from one Norwegian and seven British
yeSs els.
IN 81 surprise attack delivered ut
night, the Russians captured two field
posts from the Germans near BaranO-
Yitchi, the Petrograd war Office an
Ounced.
Savage fighting is in progress on
both wings of the ROumanian battle
zone. A Rome dispatch to London
Germans are evacuating Braila. 1t is
apparent that the offensive remains
with the reorganized Russo-ROumani-
an armies. ..,..
The British steamer Yarrowdale,
with the crews of eight ships sunk by
the German raider in the Atlantic, ar
do
islands, according to reliable informa
ton received at Rio de JaneirO. 1t
has been stated in official dispatches
that the YarrOwdale had on board 400
men of the crews of sunken ships.
Swiss newspapers assert that
masses of German troops are cOncen-
trating near Basel" says the EX-
change Telegraph's Geneva correspond
ent. 1.-The Swiss general staff is con-
WINGED that an invasion of Switzerland
Is contemplated, with view to freeing
Aisace from the French invader"
Gen. NJ. A. Beliaeff has been appoint
ed minister of war in place of General
Chouvaieff, who has been made men,
Der of the council of the empire, ac-
cording to q Petrograd dispatch to
Reuters at London. General Beliaeff
is fifty-four years old.
.r.-
The Petrograd war Office announced
the recapture of the village of Vadeni
In Roumania, six miles southwest of
the Danube town of Galatz.
Eight British and two French YES
sells have been sunk in the Atlantic,
and two British steamships captured
by German raider. Announcement
to this effect was made by the British
admiralty at London.
The allied army on the SalOniki
front will be REINFORCED as a prelim-
tnary effort to cut the Berlin
Constantinople railroad, according to
Il dispatch to London from a British
correspondent with General Sarrail's
forces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

SPORTING
WORLD
All boxers believe it is more blessed
to give than to receive.
Soccer football is growing in popu-
larity among the colleges.
In a couple of months from now the
ball players will begin to eat regu-
larly.
The chances for third major league
are about as good as those Of Belgian
| workman. .f.
When collection Of bicycle riders
haven't anything else to do they start
q six-day race. ~ t
The old Turk, Ali Bi, may butt in on
the proposed plan for Purdue Indiana
game at Wash park.
Square and fiat bats We're at one
time used in baseball, but the sphere
has always been round.
Les Darcy, the Australian middle
| weight, would rather smell tobacco
smoke than gunpowder.
Maybe the ball players who talk
| about strike would like to get under
the eight-hours-a-day law.
Someone with a few extra jitneys
should pay the Baltimore Feds that
100000 and stop the fussing
At the baseball meetings frequently
other limits are raised than those re-
ferring to players and salaries.
| Some ball players are now Just
rounding into fOrm-and some ice
skaters will be at their best next July.
| The Dartmouth hockey team is ne
| gotiating for the use Of st. Nicholas
rink IS New York for practice sessions.
i
"E'ldge" Heffelfnger is Fifty years of
age, but he is still able to play foot.
ball.
Although there's no water there,
many good golfer has been drowned
| at the nineteenth hole.
l
| By the way, who remembers where
the chess title tourney, announced sew.
eral days ago, is taking placer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Opposed to Woman's Rights.

Patience-You say she's an anti-suf-
fragist?
Patrice-Indeed, she is.
Doesn't believe in wOman's rights?"
"No, and her prejudice goes to such
length that on Christmas eve she'll
never hang up any but the left stock
ing"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Washington

1t was announced at Washington
that President Wilson has decided to
use the Second cavalry troops at Fort
Niger, Va, as his personal escort at
the inaugural ceremonies.
w. G. Lee, head of the Trainmen's
Brotherhood, presented to the house
commerce committee at Washington Il
substitute plan for President Wilson's
railway labor legislation. A board of
eight, divided equally between rail-
way workers and operating officials.
appointed by the president, would, he
said, solve all the present difficulties
over working conditions.
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington disapproved pro-
pOsals by railroads to double and
quadruple storage charges on export
grain at elevators at New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Boston, Newport
News and other Atlantic ports where
such grain is held longer than 60 days.
1t was announced at Washington
that DR.. Cary L. GraysOn, friend and
private physician of President Wilson,
was hOnored for four years of success
fully keeping the president in good
trim by 4 promotion to medical direc-
tor in the navy with the rank of rear
admiral.
Senator WadSwOrth introduced a
resolution in the senate at Washing
ton directing the army engineering
chief to grant permission to the Wom-
ans Titanic Memorial association to
erect a Titanic memorial ON public
grounds. a &c.
State department officials at Wash
ington said that while Ambassador
Gerard had been requested to send Oh
report of his speech and has done
so, the report did not contain an offer
of resignation, as. reported from Co
lOgne.
The president sent special message
to congress at Washington formally
announcing the death Of Admiral
Dewey and paying tribute to the dead
naval hero by saying that 'the people
and the government of the United
States will always rejoice to perpetu-
ate his name in all honor and affec-
ton"
The United States government at
Washington has been forced to so to
England to secure its 16 and 14-inch
shells for the navy. The navy depart
ment awarded to Hatfields, Limited, of
London, contracts for 1900 16-inch
shells, at $514 each, and $500 14-inch
shells. at $3.50 each, delivery in 16
months. E
| Sovereignty over the Danish West
Indies, after half century of negotia-
| ton, passed to the United States with
the exchange of notifications of the
purchase treaty by Secretary Lansing
and Danish Minister Brun at Washing
ton. IL $685.
Sherman l.. Whipple of Boston, a
Democrat and noted criminal law
yer, was invited by the rules commit
! tee at Washington to act as counsel in
| the peace note leak investigation,
which, it now appears. will extend
deeply into Wall street stock specula-
| ton.
Endorsement by the Vatican of Pres
| ident Wilson's peace efforts was trans
| mitted to the president at Washing
ton, as the administration sought to
work out the next move in the peace
negotiations.
The house ways and means commit
tee at Washington agreed on the plan
for raising sufficient money to pay the
governments bills. Special taxes will
be provided to raise $236, 100000 and
bonds will be issued to the extent OF
$219,OOOOO0.
Foreign
/ The food situation in Germany has
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
MOST IMPORTANT
news OF WORLD
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Kernels Cuiled From Events Of Mo.
ment In All Parts of the World
OF Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
THINKS KEEPER WILL star
Manager Lee Foil Of Cleveland Team
Is of Opinion Pitcher Will Be
Effective in 1917.

Manager Lee Foil of the Cleveland
Americans is of the opinion that Pitch
er Edward Klepfer will be much more
efficient next season, for the teason
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Winds up Season With Tim.

Elliott III. Binzen, the Junior national
indoor champion, wound up his tourna-
ment play for the season by winning
the championship Of the New York
Lawn Tennis club.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

CATCHER Oh tne AthIet1cS IS SUCH batSman when
southpaws are working against the Athletics,
Schang hits right handed and vice versa He pre-
fers hitting left handed, 1t renders his speed Of
greater value, but he finds that he has much better
success against southpaws when he shifts to the
right side. This by way of preface to the de-
scrptfon of simple play that caused big riot,
with well-known International league umpire as
the central figure
This umpire had been selected to preside over
a series of games at big baseball tournament held
at one Of the county fairs in the West where such
events are very popular. All the teams were
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Not Long Enough, to Reach Here.

NOT long EHougH 70 hedcH rrefS.
BILL see by this paper that China
has the longest National hymn.
Jill--Ever hear it?
ooh, no, I've never been over there
"Well, it can't be so awful long II
1t hasn't reached here yet"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
PLAYS STRONG TENNIS GAME
MoiIa Bjurstedt, Norwegian Star, Is
Most Speedy and Forceful OF
Any Woman Champion.

Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the Norwe-
gian tennis star, is perhaps the speed
Test and most forceful of any woman
champ the game has known. Miss
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

Constipation, indigestion, sick-headache
and bilious conditions are overcome by a
course of Garfield Tea. Drink ON retiring.
ADV.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Domestic

The court of errors and appeals at
Trenton, N J., affirmed the supreme
court decision that a recount in the
Third congressional district was legal.
This makes final the reelection of
Congressman Thomas J. Scully (Dem.)
from that district.
w. w. Eldridge of Flint, Mich, chief
of the division of issue, which has to
do with the issuance of bank notes in
the Office of the comptroller of the cur
rency, shot and killed himself at
Washington. '.t
A district court grand jury indict-
ment made public at Corning, Ia, is
against Swift & Co., packers, who are
charged with discrimination in the pur-
chase of poultry. 1t is alleged that
higher prices were paid by its agents
at Prescott, Ia, than were paid at
Corning upon the same day. Compe-
tition. it is said, is greater at Prescott
than at Corning.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor told
the house commerce committee at
Washington that if any legislation to
make Il strike unlawful were enacted
he. for one, could be counted upon as
one of those who would violate 1t.
President Wilson's life was threat
eued by an anarchist organization
known as "The Blasters," of which
Thomas J. Mooney, on trial at San
Francisco for bomb murders, was a
leader with Alexander Berkman, As
sistant District Attorney Edward A.
Cunha charged.
In fire of unknown origin the
armory of the Second regiment, New
York National Guard, of Troy, N. Y,
was destroyed. The armory was val
ued at 100000. The total loss is near
~ half a million dollars. 1e
Charged with shooting and killing
Miss Nellie M. Dunn, a teacher at
Oklahoma City, Okla, and suspected
of later shooting to death Rowland d.
Williams, vocal teacher, John M.
Couch surrendered to Deputy United
States Marshal Stallings at Guthrie,
Okla
An order making coal shipments
preferential freight and giving it a
clear right of way from the mines to
the dealers, was issued by officials of
virtually all railroads entering in Chi.
cag0.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

Many wOuld-be poker player made
a mistake in his calling.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Foreign,

The food situation in Germany has
become much worse in the last six
monAhs, according to the account of
correspondent who has returned to
Stockholm from trip to Berlin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

that Klepfer has undergone an opera
ton for the removal Of his tonsils.
"Klepfer's throat bothered him last
season." Foil said, "and I am certain
that if he had submitted to an opera
ton last spring he would have been
a different pitcher"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Mexican War NezCS

The first movement Of troops home
from the border in several weeks was
ordered when the war department at
Washington instructed General Funs-
toon to designate one company from
each of the First, Second and Third
Kentucky infantries to return to their
home stations.
Six MeXicans were killed by two
American cowboys, 80 miles west of
Nogales, AriZ., where they were fired
upon while herding back cattle rus
tied" by the MeXicans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
Personal

Rear Admiral James Fl. WatmOugh.
retired, ninety-five, last survivor of the
frigate Constitutions active service,
who raised the first American flag In
California In the Mexican war, died
at Washington of la grippe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

A bad boy seldom inherits his bad
ness from his father. The old mar
usually hangs on to all he has.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
RrickIey AGAIN siqned.

Charles Brickley has signed to coach
the Boston college football team for
two more years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEMS
the Famous American

written Especially This
League
There or
the Schang the famous young
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

Admiral George Dewey, who won the
naval battle at Manila bay, died at his
home In Washington, at the age Of
seventy-nine, after an illness lasting
six DAVIS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

An order making coal shipments
preferential freight and giving it a
clear right of way from the mines to
the dealers, was issued by officials of
virtually all railroads entering in Chi
cag0.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

1t was announced at Washington
that President Wilson has decided to
use the Second cavalry troops at Fort
Niger, Va, as his personal escort at
the inaugural ceremonies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

The allied army on the SalOniki
front will be REINFORCED as a prelim-
inary effort to cut the Berlin
Constantinople railroad, according to
II dispatch to London from a British
correspondent with General Sarrairs
forces .
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26

In fire of unknown origin the
armory of the Second regiment, New
York National Guard, of Troy, N. Y,
was destroyed. The armory was val
ued at $20O,0O0 The total loss is near
ly half a million dollars. n 1e
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-11-22
McGill Settlement News

Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. McGill and
daughters, Sulu and Jeffie and
Miss Ethel Hadley spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Muir
phree.
Miss Ola Smith spent Sunday
afternoon with Misses Susie and
Josephine Refers.
Misses Estell and Opal Dallas
visited Misses Audra and Vera
Davidson Sunday.
Mrs. Addie Hadley spent Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. S. F.
McGill.
Miss Ina May Bedford spent
Sunday with Miss Blanch David
son.
Miss Ethel Hadley spent Sun
day with Miss Sulu McGill.
Jessie Dallas spent Sunday
night with Clande Smith.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-11-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Gregory
children spent Sunday with MIR.
and Mrs. John Smith.
Miss Ina Kate McGilI spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mrs.
John Anderson.
Mrs. N. A. McGill spent Thur
day with Mrs. Margaret Hadley
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