The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-03-29
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JOuU McOrdW mas IuTHeO over 10 the
Bridgeport farm a Cuban pitcher
named Ruiz.
The fellow who swallowed the first
oyster was doubtless very brave, but
what of the inventor of skis?
The boxing commissioner IF Califor-
MIA plans to create d fund to provide
for the unfortunates in the boxing
game.
PENIS football team will play Wis
cOnsin at Madison in 1880 and the
following year the Badgers will return
the visit.
Monroe of the Cotton States league
has purchased Catcher Tillie Metteer
from the Hattiesburg club of the
same circuit.
George Kirby, a golf professional,
recently made a record hole-in-one,
$40 yards, on a course at Southhamp-
ton, England.
Time flies and there is change IL
all things, except the faces in the
right field seats where the big league
ball team trains.
"Skin" Dewar, defense star of the
Upper Canada college hockey team,
scored six goals and assisted in two
others in one game.
Primo Camera, Italian heavyweight,
is bigger than the former champion,
Jess Willard. He stands 6 feet IL and
weighs 2G6 pounds.
Binghamton of the New York-Penn-
sylvania league has arranged an ex-
hibition game with the New York
Yankees for May 16.
Chicago will have its first taste of
football at night next fall when Notre
Dame plays Drake at Soldiers field
under electric candlepower.
About the commonest case of re-
dundancy in everyday writing of the
period is the word dangerous" as in
dangerous grade crossing"
What has become of the old time
ball player who reported a little fat
but with the old eye as keen as ever
due to a winter at cowboy pool?
Ray Schalk, former White So1
Iuminary. has told New York scriv-
eners that he will be able to catch
whenever it becomes necessary next
season.
The New York Yankees have LED
the American league in hitting home
runs for the last six years in success
sion and thirteen seasons out of the
last fifteen.
In an effort to further popularize
the old Indian game. lacrosse, Eastern
schools will make efforts to have
many of the 1919 games broadcast by
their local stations.
Babe Ruth boasts the best lifetime
percentage of any pitcher in the
American league for more than two
seasons. From 1914 to 1920, he won
81 games and lost 46.
Harvard has scheduled Florida in
football next fall and the Southerners,
with their 1928 team returning prac-
tically intact. hope to defeat the East
erners when they play.
Four pitchers from one team, the
Baltimore Orioles, were advanced TO
the majors during 192S-Ogden with
the Browns. Earnshaw and Bolen TO
the Athletics, and CantreIl to Wash
ingfon.
The onward march of Herr Schmel
ing, frsm over on the Rhine, may
finally lure Tunney from retirement,
sayefh a dopester. Then would you
see the headline. 'Tunney May Stop
SchmeIing?"
Ed Albert. seventy-two-year-old To
ronto runner. who 80 years ago was
one of the leading long-distance rae
ers. has issued challenge to any
man of his age to keep pace with him
over any distance
Cy Pook, a former amateur cham
pion of Hght-heayyweight in, Canada,
and later pro. has applied for rein
statement as an amateur.
Mary K Browne is the only woman
ever 10 reach the semi finals i'm fwa
national championship tournaments
golf and tennis. I'm the same season
II Is said the late Walter Camp got
the -tiaiIy dnzenr idea from watching
tiger stretch II is thungbi the first