The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-07-19
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Bullet" Joe Bush. former pitcher
for the Yankees, Red Sox and Ath-
letics, has joined the Newark Interns-
tional league baseball team.
The Memphis club of the Southern
association announces that it has pur-
chased Frank Wilson, an outfielder,
from Milwaukee Of the American as
ISOLATION.
@. A. Russell, a first baseman who
was given brief trial by Indianapolis
last year, has been signed by the Du-
buque Tigers of the Mississippi Val
ley league.
Cleveland parted with $4,000 for
Earl Averill Pacific Coast league slug
the experts who are calling him sec
ond Speaker.
Tom Angley, recently made free
agent by the Chicago Cubs. with whom
he has played this season, has been
signed by Kansas City of the Amer
lean association.
Heinie Sand, veteran infelder, went
ten games without getting hit for the
Rochester club. But the club was win
ming partly through his good work in
making double plays.
Ethan Allen, Cincinnati National
league outfelder, has received BACH
elor of arts degree n physical educa-
ton at the University of Cincinnati
commencement exercises.
Although Yale recently completed a
modern baseball park with grand
stand seating more than $4,000 per-
sons, less than 1900 witnessed the
last Eli7Princeton game.
President Robert Quinn says you
cannot buy good player at any price
in the big leagues today, and as re-
suit club must depend on what it can
get from the minor leagues.
Raymond Coombs, nephew of the
famous Jack Coombs of the Athletics,
has been star athlete for the Exeter
School for Boys and Connie Mack is
said to have his eye on him.
Melvin OFT, Giants outfielder, is
rated as real star of the major
leagues, although he has had no pre-
liminary experience in the minor
leagues. He is just past twenty.
An English university is offering a
new language, Panoptic English. OF
only 500 words. That would hardly
give vocabulary for one to express
himself at single baseball game.
Here we just get the hang of pro-
nouncing the names of Yde, Uhle, Sig
afoos and others and the Tigers come
out with the announcement that
Wrestling of Portland is to join the
team.
Nine cities in minor leagues exceed
Cincinnati, a major league city, in pop
ulation. They are Milwaukee, Mime
apolis, Montreal. Baltimore, Toronto,
Newark, Buffalo. Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
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cold in Montreal that the home club
had an oil stove in their dugout sew
eral days. Montreal had many early
season games postponed this year as
well as last.
Dan Howley, manager of the st. Louis
American league baseball team, ia
nous as a catcher, boasts of the fact
that his fingers are in perfect shape.
He never sustained finger injury.
The baseball days of Emil (Irish)
Meusel of the Giants are over. The
once clouting outfielder of the Polo
Grounds tribe was released by the
Sacramento club of the Pacific coast
the other day because of his slowness
in the oulfield.
The University of Nebraska clinched
the big six baseball championship by
defeating the University of Missouri
to 2.
Topeka has sent Second Baseman
Golf to Muskogee of the Western as
ISOLATION in exchange for Catcher Err
ME Winfield.
Bruce Galloway, a brother of Chick
Galloway, injured Detroit shortstop, H.
playing center field for the Salisbury