The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-10-07
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Football has been substituted for
head hunting amorg some of the Fiji
Pine tribes.
Rog Hornsby has always discount
Ell the theory thar white shirts handi-
cap batter.
Remaining mountains and conduct
ing beauty contests rate among the
leading sports of 1927.
Twenty-Five of the candidates for
the 1927 Minnesota varsity eleven
weigh 100 pounds or more.
A world record, Is consecutive dou-
bic ringers, was set by G. Carney Of
Boone, Iowa, at the Iowa horseshoe
tournament.
Chick Evans, veteran golfer, uses
sQuare-handled clubs. so that he is
more certain to take hold of the club
in exactly the same way every time.
The feat of Charlie Sweeney of the
old Boston Nationals in striking out
10 men in one game has stood as Il
major league record for over 40
years.
In capturing all four National A.
A q. senior fancy diving contests,
no other has ever achieved in sim
gle year.
Rumors are heard that Marty
Krug will not be re-engaged as man.
ager of the Los Angeles team. follow
ing the poor showing Of the Angels
this season.
Now in his seventeenth year, Sim
gle G, famous racehorse, still enjoys
whizzing around the private track
near Richmond, Ind, where his own
er, William Barefoot, has retired him
to the stud.
Shortstop Buddie Dear, whom
Washington had an option with New
Haven of the Eastern league, has
been transferred to Clarksburg Of the
Middle Atlantic.
1t Is a matter Of record that pitch
ers, after leading the majors, usually
follow up with poor season. George
Uhle of Cleveland is certainly living
up to that precedent.
Add to the list of baseball players
with iaw-breaking cognomens-Chris
Kolodzieczysk, who has reported to
the Waco Cubs in the Texas league
for a trial as a pitcher.
when don't play tennis" says
lovely Helen Wills. II get thinner"
Her countrymen trust she will con-
time to play tennis. They do not
want any less of Helen
Leslie Mann, veteran outfielder now
with the Giants, comes close to being
the oldest player in the big leagues,
yet he still appears to be among the
speediest on the base paths.
Still another bespectacled player
has entered the major leagues, the
latest being Haskell Billings, a col
legian, who bids fair to become star
hurler for the Detroit Tigers.
The rumor persists that all is not
Washington and Manager Buckley
Harris. Gossip has Iris Speaker as
the man who will succeed Harris
AL UlbricksOn, successor to Rutsy
Callow as crew coach at the Univer-
sity Of Washington, was captain and
stroke of the Huskies' championship
boat two years ago. During the past
season he was freshmen coach.
The Quantico Marine Corps foot
ball eleven will play ten games this
SCdSOL ne -cdlUIc event VIII ne IU6
contest with the Army for the Presi-
dents cup TO take place at the Catho-
lie university stadium, Washington,
November 10.
Lefty" Rainier, young southpaw of
the Houston (Mo.) club, struck out q
batters in game recently. but lost
by a score of 6 to g.
Jack Britton, forty-one, is credited
with fighting over 800 battles. Judg-
ing by his age some of them must
have been in the Civil war.
Purchase of three rigtt-hand pitch
ers, Sylvester Johnson, Allyn Stout and
Fred Farmhouse. from the Syracuse
club of the International league is an
nouneed tY the ST Louis Cardinals.