The Ely miner., 1928-11-02

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This is said to be DR.. John Wilce's
last year at Chic state.
Grady Adkins, Chicago White SOx
hurler, is one of the slOwest, most de-
liberate pitchers in the majors.
Mr.. FoXX of the Athletics is a figure
in baseball, even if his name looks
more like an equation in algebra.
Temple university football team is
coached by "Heinie" Miller, former
all-American end at Pennsylvania.
Crib Buck, former All-American
tackle at the University of Wisconsin
is coaching football at Miami univer-
sity.
University of Dubuque has decided
to return to intercollegiate athletic
competition after lapse of three
years.
Hugo Bezdek, famous football coach
at Penn state college, has received his
final naturalization papers at Belle
fonte, Pa.
Who can remember when you had
to pitch underhand to the little kid
who played right field for the other
scrub team?
A runaway race hurt the Mississippi
Valley league this year Waterloo ran
away with the flag. being 121a games
ahead of Moline
Completion of deal whereby
Charles (Slug) Tolson, first baseman.
goes back to the Chicago Cubs next
spring was announced
The biggest heavyweight fighter on
record was Charley Freeman, who
stood seven feet three inches in his
ring shoes and weighed $50 pounds.
George Lott, co-hOlder of the nation
al doubles title and third ranking ten
mis- star, has enrolled for the autumn
quarter at the University of Chicago
st. Louis university high school
maintains a fully equipped first-aid
room, with a trained nurse in daily
attendance, to accommodate the school
gridders.
Thirty thousand racing fans attend.
ed the opening program of the half
mile TimOnium track in Maryland
the largest crowd in it's fifty years of
existence.
Joe Devine, Pittsburgh scout, says
Earl .Averill with San Francisco is
the best outfielder he has seen in the
Pacific Coast league since the days of
Paul Waner.
Many sensational halfback has
succeeded in later life, after recov-
ering from the idea that five or six
stalwarts will always be on hand to
clear the way.
Recent changes make almost no diff
ference to the football spectator who
still explains the game TO his wife in
a loud public voice. on the basis of
the 1908 rules.
The New YORK World complains that
boxers seem to have lost all origin
ality in selecting their fighting names
This has been referred to our old
pal. Bad News Eber.
Ninety-eight batters went to the
plate in the American Legion elimina-
ton game between the Bismarck and
Linton clubs in North Dakota, the for
mer winning ~ to 2
Jack Quinn has been pitching for
twenty-five years, despite the fact that
he has always been horse for work
From 1914 to 1917 te pitched total
of 1913 games. an average of nearly
fifty season.
AL IeSko, Penn State football and
baseball star. made good in basehall
his first year out. The Yankees Rad
him and farmed him to Jersey CITY
where he caught good ball lie is one
of the four stars lost by graduation
Marty Purtell, manager Of the Jop
lin Western association club which
won the 1923 championship. announces
that he will not return as manager of
that club next season.
The University of Illinois football
squad lost one of its brightest stars
when Pete Yanuskus. speedy sopho
more half back from Kewanee, III
Withdrew from the university.
Willie Garner has replaetd Far
Sande as Jockey for the j. f. Widt.ne
r.,cipp stable