The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-09
WINNING fame
IN ATHLETICS
FORMER ELY BOY MAKING REC
ORD IN MINNEAPOLIS HIGH
SCHOOL.

Many local people will remember
Martin Norton who left here several
years ago for Minneapolis where he
now makes his home. He was former
ly Martin Muhvich Of this city but
was later adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. W.
A. Morton of Minneapolis who in a
letter to friends in this city enclosed
the attached clipping from the Min
neapolis Tribune which explains it.
self. The excerpt from the Tribune,
written by their sport writer, reads:
Eat the close of the 1920 high
school baseball and tennis season,
Martin Norton of Central high will
have, won the coveted sc" in his
sixth branch of athletics while at that
school. Norton has to date won six
letters, one in football, two in basket
ball, two in track and one in cross
country.
"Not only has Norton won the let
ter of his school in these branches of
athletics, but he has excelled in each.
Last year, his first on the gridiron, he
won the distinction as an end. He
was fast and aggressive and played
an unusually brainy game. FoFr the
past two years he has been placed on
all-city basketball teams. He was
Chosen captain of the Journal all
city team this year. In 1918 Norton
was the premier crosscountry runner
of the city high schools, winning the
two big meets. In track, for two
years, Norton has been star middle
distance runner and pole vaulter.
Besides these sports, in which he
has won his &C." Norton is an excel
lent tennis player and this year is
second man on the school team. He
is a good boxer and has been in a
number of amateur boxing shows in
the city. Norton is a good swimmer,
but because Of his other athletic OBJ
legations has never had time to get
into competition.
The Central star, who captained
the twin city championship basket
ball team this year, is almost certain
of catcher's position on Coach Guy
Throner's baseball team. In 1916
and 1917 he was star backstop for
the Bryant grade school nine. Norton
has two more years OF football, two
of baseball, two in tennis and one of
basketball before ne graduates at
Christmas time in 1921.
While at Chicago with the Central
high quint, Norton so impressed fol-
lowers Of the game that he was placed
on the National all-star prep school
team. He has just received letter
from Pat Page, coach of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, conference basket
ball championship team. Page con-
graduates Norton on his unusual
ability to alter his speed while drib-
bling down the floor. The feat is
one of the most difficult known to
basketball.
Morton, who is only II years of
age, first came into prominence as an
athlete at Central high in the spring
of 1913 when he won his letter as a
half miller. Since that time he has
been the leading athlete of the school.
Weston Mitchell, Central high coach,
said that in all his 10 years Of coach
ing he has never seen a high school
student who compares with Norton
as. an all around athlete. A higher
tribute can hardly be paid a high
school man as Mitchell has seen many
prep school athletes come and 60.
Morton received his early training
in lumber camps near Hunters Island,
Canada, where he was born. AL
though Norton never did much work
while in Canada, because of his youth,
he built up a, strong, viriie body and
mind that have since made him one
of the most unusual athletes ever de-
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