The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-10
LARGE CAGERS ON
WOLVERINE COURT
Only Four Players Are Less
Than Six Feet Tall.

this season gives observers an oppor-
tunity to dub the Wolverines giants"
OF the ID men Coach Veenker has
retained on his varsity squad only
four are less than six feet tall Six
men stand above the six foot mark,
while four are an even six feet tall.
If Coach Veenker should pick Norm
Daniels, sophomore forward. it is prob
able that every man on the team will
hit the six-foot mark. Capt. Bob
Chapman, who jumps center, is the
second tallest man on the squad, be-
ing 6 feet 2 inches. Truskowski and
Orwig, forwards. as well as Daniels,
are an even six feet tall as is Lowell,
guard. Jones, sophomore guard pros
pect, is an inch taller than his rival,
Lowell
Henry Weiss. sophomore forward
from Cleveland, is the midget of the
squad. He is feet Z, the same as
was Danny Rose. star floor guard of
last winter. Weiss, however. stands
fine chance of breaking the monopoly
of the six-footers.
The three men besides Weiss who
and Downing, forwards, and Hudson,
guard. They all stand feet 10.
Torrell, sub center, is the tallest
man, feet 21a inches. Dougall, an
other center. and Jennett. guard. are
an inch shorter. Ricketts,. another
guard. is feet 1.
An indication of what the recently
authorized additional playing strength
will mean to National Hockey league
teams is seen in the acquisition by
Montreal Maroons of Bill Phillips,
tlashy center of the Vancouver profess
SIGNALS, who was sold by the Coast
club to Windsor, Ontario. for $4,000,
and resold for the same figure to the
local team.
Maroons will now send into action
three complete forward lines, all with
real merit. They will consist of
Stewart, Siebert and Hooley Smith
as regulars Phillips Trotter and Ward
as seconds and Phillips, Northcott and
Robinson as thirds.
Eddie Wittmer, star halfback at
Princeton, is captain of the basket
ball five. Vogt. Carey and Bennett
are other football regulars to make
the court team
Representative Ham Fish, who Is
racking his brain to find way to
bring the Army and Navy together in
football again. always put a lot of
color into all that he did at Harvard.
He was a wizard receiver of for
ward pass, even going to the extreme
of catching them sitting when need
be. His unusual height gave him a
valuable reach aloft and he could
pick the low ones off the ground. In
the law school he put in his spare
time organizing teams of former Har-
ward and Yale players for games.
Jane Bell of Toronto, member of
the Canadian women's Olympic track
team in 1923 and winner of many ma
tional and international honors, has
decided to give up running. The an
nouncement of her retirement came
through Myrtle Cook, another Olympic
star. Miss Cook, who is forming a
team to compete in the Millrose games
in New York, said Miss Bell had re-
fused to join the team because she
was retiring from the track.
The French Tennis Ranking COM
mittee issued a new list for the 1929
campaign. with Henri Cochet and Rene
Lacoste grouped together in first place.
Jean Borotra was third and Christian
Boussus and Jacques Brugnon were
tied for fourth.
In the women's ranking, Nine.
Matthew was first, followed by Nine.
Lafaurie, Nine. BOrdes and Nine.
Cleinadel in that order. Mes
demoiselles Barber. Neufend and
Metaxa were together in fifth place.
Yale's basketball coach, Elmer Rip
ley, was generally conceded to be the
most consistent foul shooter in the
professional ranks a few years back.
There Is possibility that the Lee
high university lacrosse team will be
one of those to meet the combined
Oxford Cambridge team when the Eng
lishmen tour this country in the spring.
Some of the colleges already sched-
uled were divulged by the Intercol-
legiate Lacrosse association but Lee
high was not included.
1t is understood that the negotia-
lions now under way will materialize
favorably Lehigh is one of the
pioneer colleges in this sport and on
previous visit of combined Cam
bridge Oxford team was one of the
colleges met.
Eddie Halicki, Bucknelrs greatest
athlete since the days of Christy