The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-10

Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds
A team of Scottish curriers' will visit
Canada next winter.
Charges of professionalism have
made the college gridiron red hot.
Princeton baseball team will play
the Giants at the Polo Grounds April
IL.
Y. NJ. C. A. of New York has de-
clined an invitation to join the Amer
lean Olympic association
81. D. Harral, of Philadelphia, has
been elected captain of the Penn State
soccer team for next year.
conference track and field champion
ships at Iowa City June 2 and 8.
Penn State has been forced to de-
cline a game with Harvard for Oc-
tober % on the football gridiron.
Bobby Wallace, once star of Amer
lean league shortstops. may be signed
as coach for the Cincinnati Reds.
The Charleston club of the South
Atlantic has purchased the veteran
catcher, Phil Wells. from Orlando.
The Lawn Tennis association an
nounced that the British isles had
challenged America for the Davis cup.
Duquesne Neil, pointer, owned by J.
L. Elder of Pittsburgh, won the derby
championship for bird dogs under two
years old, at Letohatchie, Ala.
New York Yankee squad, which will
report for spring training at New Or
leans, will number 81 men. The
squad had A men last spring.
Italy, for the first time in the his.
tory of the games, will send a team
to compete at the University of
Pennsylvania relay carnival in April.
Beginning with 1923, the British
champions to play through. In the
past the titleholders always have
stood out
G. B. Arnold, catcher for the Uni
versity of Virginia baseball team, will
make his break into professional ball
with the Charlotte team of the South
Atlantic league.
1t is reported from London that E.
A. Montague, the former Oxford uni
versity distance star, has run his last
race. III health has forced Montague
to give up athletic work.
The New York Americans have
transferred Joe Kelly, a young out
fielder who was bought from Norfolk
of the Virginia league, to the Reading
club of the International
Word is waited over from Detroit
that Ira Flagstead, hard-hitting out
fielder of the Tigers, will not play
ball this season, but will enter business
with his brother in the Southland
Distance of 81 feet instead of the
regulation 80 between bases is recon-
mended by the baseball rules commit
tee for diamonds on which teams
under sixteen years old are to play.
Oliver Aas, center of the 1921 Uni
versity of Minnesota football team,
was unanimously elected captain of
the 1922 football squad at the annual
banquet for letter men and the foot
ball team.
Golf Is said by its enemies TO be a
game for the old, but still youth is
winning most Of the golf laurels. 1t
takes time to polish a golf stroke.
But youth Is quick TO learn.
John Farley of the University of
Minnesota swimming team broke the
worlds record In the 1O0-yard breast
stroke event in the university tank re-
Gently by making the distance In
1 10 %.
w. FL. Witcombe, % of Mt. Vernon,
New York, has been elected captain Of
the Williams college varsity soccer
team for next fall.
Yanks Have Ideal Stadium.
The Yankees new baseball stadium
viii seat $4,000. The grandstand win
be triple-deeker, the only one of its
kind In the world.
Glen. Carberry. sub end for the last