The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-01-04
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Joe Truskowski was elected captain
of the Michigan football squad for
1929.
Tom O'ROurke is manager of the
new Irish heavyweight sensation,
Con O'Kelly.
Joe Wright, ST., famous, oarsman
and rowing coach, has been elected an
alderman in Toronto.
No one was hurt in the annual
meeting between Penn and Penn State
which is record in itself
The American lad who once Joined
the navy to see the world now joins
football team or jazz orchestra.
Frank Sheppard, left wing for the
st. Paul club of the American assOcia-
ton last season, has been sold to
Tulsa. ~
Three opponents of Georgia Tech
made total of "a complete forward
passes and yet not a touchdown re,
suited.
English boys golf championship at
Formsby, used twenty clubs during
the tournament.
The caddy-stowaway on the Zeppe-
lin is back from his trip abroad, prob
ably with wholly new conception of
what water hazard can be.
A giant tackle, Paul Jessup, 6 feet
Z inches tall, has been elected leader
of the University of Washington foot.
ball eleven for the 1929 season.
When Massachusetts citizens voted
for Sunday baseball in the recent cleo
tons they joined fans of 80 other
states who want Sunday baseball.
Outfelder Homer Summa is being
mentioned as one of the players
Cleveland will send to San Francisco
as part of the deal for Earl Averill.
The presence of new felders on the
Athletic roster is said to be the paw
ing of the way for the release Of
Sammy Hale. Several clubs can use
him.
Johnny Niemic, Notre Dame foot
ball and baseball star, will join the
Chicago White Sox for trial at the
conclusion of his college career next
June.
The University of Pittsburgh Pan
theirs, the team that battled the Corn
huskers to a scoreless tie last fall,
will meet Nebraska at Lincoln Octo
Der 10.
Only a single Iefthanded golfer was
in the field numbering 143 who start
ed in the national amateur champion
ship at Brae Burn. He failed to
qualify. i&ak 81 i.ist88
Bert Niehoff, for FIVE years pilot of
the Atlanta Crackers in the Southern
association, announces he will not be
with the club when it starts its 1929
pennant chase.
Rogers Hornsby, the National
leagues leading hitter, considers
Grover Alexander of the st. Louis
Cardinals the greatest pitcher in
modern baseball.
National Ski association clubs have
rejected a proposal made by twenty
two of the more prominent ski riders
that professional class be organized
within it's jurisdiction.
Avery Brundage, new president OF
the Amateur Athletic union. was a
member of the U. S. Olympic team at
| Stockholm and was three times ma.
| tional and all-around champion.
Klein is about the best bet the Phil
lies have had in the way Of rockies
| for years. He Is but twenty-three
years old. Up until the tail end Of the
'27 season he always had played
semipro ball.
| One view of an athletic man Is the
fellow who hires a small boy to cut
the grass so he can play golf and OBJ
/ tain q little exercise.
Africa has its own baseball league,
known as the "Iigue Tunisienne de
Baseball" which was formed by an
American, DR.. C. G. Kelly.
So long as horseshoe-p pitching and
cow-calling contests are In the news
no one can charge that the country is
not meeting the city halfway in main
tanning American sports. ,sa ~.