The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-07-15
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Five members of the 1927 Penn
State baseball team are former New
Jersey high school athletes.
Syracuse has optioned Pitcher AL
Grabowski, left-handed pitcher, to the
Houston club Of the Texas league.
Syracuse has turned Outfelder
Biggs and Infelder Mccall over to the
Danville club of the Three-I league.
From the baseball arenas we are
informed that this season everything
ON the diamond will be on the square.
Richmond has returned Pitcher Bill
Clancy to the New Haven club Of the
Eastern league. He developed sore
arm.
A woman dropped unconscious when
one of Babe Ruth's homers whizzed
by her ear He hits 'em where they
faint.
Joseph Griffin of Detroit has been
named track captain for Notre Dame
in 1923. He is hurdler and high
jumper. r........ .
Rochester has conditionally pur-
chased Arthur Cousins, pitcher, from
the Fairmont club of the Middle-At-
lantic league.
Another very adroit paradox is the
word contest" as applied to a ball
game in which the Yanks are II ahead
in the fifth. ...... .- .. .
The New York Giants have re-
leased Sanford Handy, young catcher,
to the New Orleans club of the South
ern league. ..
Montreal, the largest city on the
continent without a club in organized
baseball, may succeed Reading in the
International league.
The big thrill in ballooning Is that
you haven't any more idea where you
are going to land than baseball in a
Red Sox double play.
Lester Rouprich, a young right
handed pitcher, has been obtained by
Reading from the Chicago Cubs. He
had been with the big league club all
spring.
fielder, and Ralph Head, pitcher, to
| the Rochester club for Pitcher Prud-
homme, a highlander. Prudhomme
is youngster.
A baseball umpire has been sug-
gested as the one to take the place Of
the blindfolded man who draws the
| lucky number out of the jar in New
York lottery.
The longest game in the major
leagues was played by Boston and
Brooklyn, the two teams battling in
26 innings in Boston in 1920, the game
ending in tie at one-all.
Jim Cooney, infielder, and Tony
Kaufman, right-handed pitcher, have
been traded by the Chicago Nationals
| to the Philadelphia Nationals for Har-
old Carlson, right-handed pitcher.
Connie Mack, manager of the Ath-
| letics, announces that Carl Yerkes,
young pitcher from Hatboro, Pa, had
been released to the Portland (Ore)
club of the Pacific Coast league.
Homer returned to the world for
brief visit. "Who is this bird that's
| been making so free with my name?"
he wanted to know. Some of the fell
lows introduced him to Babe Ruth.
Coached by Billy Disch, the Texas
University Steers have won their fif-
teenth baseball title in sixteen sea-
sons. Disch has repeatedly refused Of
fers to pilot various minor and major
league teams.
Bud Castle, son of DR.. M. III. Castle,
| Cleveland Baseball Club physician,
has been elected captain Of Ohio uni
versity's 1923 baseball team Jesse
Glass and James Miller were picked
to lead next years track and tennis
teams.
When the Giants left Cincinnati,
Harold (Buck) Greene accompanied
them as their new trainer. Greene
has served as trainer of athletic teams
at st. Xavier college, Cincinnati, for
several years.
In Philadelphia the other day, after
a pair of wild hitting affairs, news
paper man found Tommy Connolly,
dean of umpires, Eliminating. I'm the
old days." said Tom, when a pitcher
was no good they took him out Now
adays when a pitcher Is no good they
take the ball out"