The Ely miner., 1929-11-15

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| American baseball club of London.
England. that it send the midship-
man baseball team across the Allan
tic for game with that clubs nine.
Lieutenant Commander F. G. Rein
icke. graduate manager of athletics.
has replied that the only chance of
such game lies in the practice
cruise of the midshipmen going in
that direction next summer. If that
is the case. the game probably will
be arranged.
Bucknell university, which has beau
tiful concrete bowl commemorating the
memory of Christy Mathewson, one of
Bucknell's most famous men. but odd
ly enough there is no memorial of any
kind in the Pennsylvania coal regions
to Hughy Jennings. who came out of
Pittston to become one of the great
leaders Of baseball. stadium project
launched by civic organizations in
Scranton as tribute to Hughy's men,
ory fell fiat.
Baseball offers reminder each year
that honest sport is help in prevent
ing a public from taking the world
too seriously 1t gives opportunity for
enthusiasm without resentments and
stands invariably for the spirit of fair
play.
While the amount of revenue from
football. at Yale is not mentioned in
the annual report issued recently by
George Parmlyday, treasurer of the
athletic association, the indications
are that the figure went over the mil
lion mark again.
In two previous years the gross rev.
enues in sports exceeded million dol
lars. For the year ending June 80,
1923. the gross sports figure was ST.
119.2SO. out of which was paid $685.
100 to visiting teams. which left gross
net revenues from sports of S734.17O.
This compares with gross net of
S753.23075 in the 1929 report after
payments to visiting teams.
Coaching rivalry passed the boiling
point, recently at the University of
Cincinnati. An Improvement in the
Cincinnati backfield was attributed by
the university publication to new
assistant backfield coach. The head
backfield coach, resenting the praise
of his subordinate, assaulted the edi-
tor of the paper, who swore out
warrant for his arrest. President
Snider of the university. arbitrated.
however. and the young journalist
withdrew his charges.
DR.. John l.. Lavan, former National
and American league shortstop, and
later manager of the Kansas City
Blues, in the American association.
has gone in for aviation. He has been
appointed assistant flight surgeon in
st. Louis, Mo.
Father Lumpkin, the big fullback
who dropped out and lessened this
years chances of Georgia Tech, is
playing for the Portsmouth (Ohio)
professional team this fall.
Jack Ryan, assistant to Dick Han
ley at Northwestern, is not numbered
among the coaches who wish to swing
football closer to an exact science by
cutting down the penalty that may
follow in the wake of tumble.
The New York Evening Post quotes
leading football coaches of the coun-
try as opposing suggestions that the
captain of an eleven be given respOn-
sibility for the direction of his team
during a game and that the coach
take a seat in the stands. The recent
Carnegie report on college athletics
remarked that "a college football or
baseball player has opportunity to ex-
hibit little more initiative than a
chessman." and in other quarters foot
ball has been referred to as a "coach-
ridden" sport.
Roger Wethered, former amateur
golf champion of England led team
representing the JOkers in a match
of singles and foursomes against Ok
ford university players at Southfield.
near Oxford, recently. and his side
won by II to 3.
Gus Sonnenberg, wrestling cham
piOn.. claims that his shoulders have
never been pinned to a mat. his only
defeat being the result of a dive out
sf ire ring his head colliding with
cement floor.
The Notre Dame band, which num-
bers S3 pieces, is one of the snappiest
college musical organizations in the
country. The band accompanies the
team on its engagements away from
home. and on the campus II is an i'm
portant factor in many student activi-
les
The hoy in the eastern university.
whose distant cousins turn up for
the big game and expect good tickets.
wishes that more effective work might
he done by the committee on football
relations.