The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-02-03
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Denny Gearin, Milwaukee pitcher,
has been released to the Atlanta club.
one of the sports of northern Swed-
en- is racing in the akja, or light Lapp
sleigh, drawn by reindeer.
After seven years a new chess cham
pion has been crowned, but no movie
contract has been offered him.
Charles W. Bachman recently re-
signed as football and track coach at
Kansas State agricultural school,.
Joseph McLennan, who developed
Man o. War, has a stable of % horses
running at New Orleans this winter.
Some constituencies seem to favor
the Knute Rockne system, and send
in their second-string statesmen first.
. Only four horses-Man o. War, Ex-
terminator, Zev and Sarazen-have
won 100000 or more in the history
Of American horse racing.
Two perfect 300" games within a
week is the bowling feat recently ac-
complished by Roy Arnold in tourna-
ment competition in Denver.
Joe Sewell, Cleveland shortstop, led
the American league last season in
striking out the least number of times.
In 153 games, Joe whitfield only seven
times.
Back in 1888, Billy King, of Prince
ton, pitched a game for the Cape May
team against the Pennsylvania rail-
road nine at Cape May and struck
out 20 men.
The Ontario Hockey association has
instructed its referees to penalize all
teams which attempt stalling tactics,
or Tagging the puck" as it is COM
monty called.
The Montreal Hockey club is web
named the MiIIionaires One of the
players is said to have cleaned up
$4,000 in two weeks playing the
stock market.
Walter w. Osmun, president of the
Michigan Skating association, recent
ly celebrated his fifty-ninth birthday
and his fifty-fourth anniversary in the
skating pastime.
There are 90 greyhound racing com.
panies, capitalized at more than &c.
100000, registered in England. The
price of fast greyhounds ranges from
$500 to $1,000.
Santiago Gorilla, featherweight box,
err, now in this country, is a member
of the San Bias Indians, an almost ex-
tihct pigmy tribe of the jungles of
southern Panama.
Winning nine straight victories
without a defeat, a record which has
not been equaled for years, Neal Jones
won the three-cushion billiards cham
pionship of Indiana.
Great changes have come over the
public's preferences in sport and we
holf IL
the neighborhood, offhand, who don't
know a batting average.
Lee Matthews, who has served as
athletic director and head football
coach at Saint Louis university for
the last two years, has handed his
resignation to officials of the institu-
ton.
From one of the heaviest football
teams in the United States to one of
the smallest basket ball teams is the
record in prospect at the University
of Idaho. The varsity cage team is
without a single six-footer.
Billy Evans is the secono umpire OF
the American league to take over man.
agerial reins in the circuit, George
Moriarity having hung up his mask,
pad and indicator a year ago to sue
coed Ty Cobb as. Detroit pilot.
Vincent Dundee, brother of the well
terweight champion. has fought 76
times with but single defeat-and
he is only nineteen years old.
Playing in both games of double
header, August 81, 1920, Joe Sewell
accepted "a out of % chances at short
stop for the New Orleans club.
James NJ. Phelan, head football
coach at Purdue university. was re-