The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-20
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The Yankees hold the attendance
record in every American league base
ball park.
Pitcher Harry Sutton of Ohio State
university will get tryOut with the
Pittsburgh Nationals.
OF course, Miller Higgins team
might be made champion-emeritus or
something, and we could start all
over.
The New York Yankees have signed
Smith of Columbus, a pitcher and
shortstop. They farmed him out to
Hartford
Well, well, WELL Babe Ruth says,
or has it said for him, that baseball
is entirely too uncertain to make
prophecies.
The hobby of a member of the
Pittsburgh pitching staff is aviation.
Cynical fans profess to see nothing
unusual in this
Fred Monciewicz, for four years
shOrtstOp on the Boston college team,
has signed with the Boston Red Sox.
Rhyme that one
Babe Ruth has played in more
world series than any other major
league player-three with Boston and
five with the Yankees.
Mortimer Wilmer of Washington, d.
c., regular second baseman, will cap
tain the University of Pennsylvania
baseball team next season.
Infielder George Toporcer and
Pitcher Tom Kaufman have been re-
leased by the Cardinals on option to
the Rochester club of the Interna-
tional league.
Bib Falk. Chicago outfelder, was a
pitcher for three years in college, but
was converted into an outfelder
when he first Joined the White Sox
because he could hit.
Outfielder Press of the University
of Chicago baseball team had a
chance to join the Brooklyn club this
summer, but turned it down so he
could play football next fall.
Charles Bednar, of Berwyn, H., has
been elected captain of Knox's 1929
baseball team. He starred this sea-
son at shortstop. Van Peters, Gales
burg, was elected team manager.
The highest batting mark ever COM
piled by regular in one season in
either major league is the .43S aver
age of Duffy of the Boston Nationals
in 1894. He played in 124 games.
For the past three seasons, Joe
Sewell of the Cleveland Indians has
made the least number of strikeouts
of any player in the big leagues. Dur
ing this time he has whitfield only II
times.
Kyle Anderson, captain of the Uni.
versity of Chicago baseball team,
which won third place in the recent
conference race. has signed with the
Pittsburgh Pirates, and will report on
June 20.
The much-talked-of trade involving
Catcher Johnny GoOch of the Pirates
came off when the BUGS sent Gooch
and the veteran Joe Harris to Brook
Ign. in exchange for Catcher Charley
Hargreaves.
Jacobs, the infielder released to To
ledo by the Cubs, got away to great
start. His first twenty-one times at
bat resulted in eleven hits for a .524
average He is being used bit at
second, but mostly at short.
Marty McHale, who was major
league pitcher for eight years. was
also three-letter man at college, a
"ten-two' Splinter and holder of the
amateur record for the Fox Hills golf
course on Staten Island. N. Y.
With the league leaders averaging
.331 and the lowest team batting
mark in the league at PIG, pitchers in
the Southern association are bowling
about the lively ball and saying it is
almost impossible to get em out.
Rogers Hornsby saves his eyes by
reading only the headlines in the
newspapers. Finds most of the news
about himself there. perhaps.
The baseball team of Purdue uni
versity finished second in the Big
Ten conference race this year. They
won six games and lost four.
c. L. Nance, right-hand pitcher,
who has been playing with the Seat.
tie club of the Pacific Coast league,
has been obtained ny the Dos Moines
team of the Western league.