The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-11-12
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The Amateur Boxing association OF
London controls more than 800 clubs.
Jimmy Smith, ten-pin expert extraor-
binary, is arranging "a country wide
tour.
Canada has been asked to send four
amateur boxers to Denmark next
February.
The major league record for total
runs in one season is 157, made by
Babe Ruth in 1921
There has been nothing in the papers
about Tex Richards bank roll being a
mere shell of its former self.
The youngest player in the major
leagues is Melville OFT, aged seven
teen, of the New York Giants.
One advantage Of hiring profession
al athletes instead of amateurs is that
you can pay the pro off safely with a
check.
Willie Hoppe is one of the busiest
billiard players in the world, engaging
in match play week after week with
out rest.
All players contracts for next years
Washington team will include clause
forbidding the playing of golf during
the baseball season.
Jem Mace, one Of Englands famous
fighters, was born gypsy, but for
sock the rowing folk to enter the prize
ring at the age of twenty-six.
Detroit has purchased Pitcher Donald
Hankins from the Newark club of the
International league. Advices are that
the Tigers went high for the HEAVIER.
Portland. Ore, and adjacent towns
boast ii golf courses. The latest will
be located in the Peninsula district
and will be laid out on 141 acres of
ground.
A cynic is one who remarks that
when a foreign amateur wins an
American championship it means more,
on account Of the difference in ex-
change.
Edouard Horemans, former 1872 balk-
line billiard champion, will not COM
pete in United States tournaments this
season, having decided to remain in
Belgium.
Golf statisticians declare that more
than 100000 persons take up the
game each year and by 1910 this
country must prepare to accommodate
100000 players.
The world series remains strictly
American institution. 1t affords a
healthful relaxation in the midst of
the most irksome cares. Europe would
do well to get into the game.
A golf course and polo field will be
added to the Lincoln Field race track,
Crete, ILL.,, which boasts 700 acres of
land, the largest one-piece tract owned
by any racing association In the world.
The University of Honolulu foot
ball eleven, undefeated for three
years, hopes to entertain the Uni
versity of California 1gridmen in 1927
playing a series of post-season con-
tests.
Norman E. Brookes, the famous ten
mis- exponent, is president of the Aus
tralian Lawn Tennis association, and
SAYS the team from down under
will participate in the 1927 Davis cup
play.
LIZ. 1duZ EcilLSI, Tic Vel iidh I'LL
ner who recently set new worlds
record for the half-mile, is reported
to be even more "fussy" in his train
ing methods than Paavo Nurmi, the
flying Finn.
introduced In Japan but thirty years
ago by a civil engineer, named Hira-
Okla, after his return from the United
States, baseball has taken so deep q
hold that Nippon teams are now ca
pable of giving our professionals hard
battle.
Pop Warner, famous football coach
has turned his attention to golf and
has created a new kind of club ir
which the shaft runs in to the middle
of the head instead of the heel. Civ
Ing more even distribution of weight
and therefore more accurate shots.