The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-03-07
COLLEGIANS FIND
PRO CAGING HARD
More Difficult in Basketball
Than in Baseball.

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The leap from college stardom to
success in the professional ranks APP
pears to be even harder to make in
basketball than in baseball.
OF the seventy men now playing in
the American Professional Basketball
league only about fourteen ever went
to college. Half dozen of these are
regulars.
Fort Wayne has two of the best of
the collegiate products-Shang Chad
wick of Wabash college, center, and
Frank Shimek, Iowa, guard.
Chicago has Gilbert Ely, Michigan,
who plays either forward or guard,
but Gil did not learn much of his
basketball at college; also Whitney
Wickhorst, Michigan, and Tilly Voss,
University of Detroit, both substi-
tutes.
Tiny Hearn-but he is big enough
for two. Until they put up the new
Chrysler building Tiny was in a class
by himself. Towering six feet nine
inches, this former star athlete at
Georgia Tech is the best center in the
league at getting the tap.
Syracuse before losing it's franchise
had done more experimenting with
college men than any other club in
the league, using Eddie Wineapple,
Providence college; Gotch Carr, for
mer running mate of Vic Hanson on
one of the best of all-Syracuse uni
versity teams; Allen, another ex-
Orange player, and Gillian, who is
working his way through Syracuse uni
versity by playing the professional
game The one and only Nat Holman
also belongs with the coonskin coat
brigade, as he attended Savage insti-
tute and G. G. N. Y, but it was not
at college that he learned to dribble
and shoot.
Ray Barbuti, former Syracuse col
legian and American hero of the 1923
Olympic games, announces his retire
mentor this season at least-from
track athletics.
The former Syracuse flyer competed
in the sprint series of the annual
Newark A. G. games, but his insur-
ance business hadn't kept him in con-
dition. He ran the full 90 yards of
the first sprint event, but was left at
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out to be poor fifth in the T0-yard
race.
Atlanta Crackers of the Southern
league won't have to worry about
managerial material this year.
Head" Manager Johnny Dobbs, the
new Cracker boss, who won the
Southern title for Birmingham last
year, has four former pilots on his
roster.
They are Milton Stock, former pilot
Of the Dallas Steers of the Texas
league, third base; Jimmy Johnston,
former Chattanooga boss, shortstop;
Jack Sheehan, manager of Elmira of
the New rk-Pennsylvania league in
1923, second base, and Red Wingo, ex-
manager of Columbus of the American
association, catcher.
intercollegiate boxing at Annapolis
has outgrown the commodious facili-
ties at McDonough hall.
The problem of handling the crowds
has become so troublesome that Ann
apolis athletic authorities have de-
cided to institute a ticket system for
all the rest of the dual meets on the
Navy schedule this year. 1t means that
the fans will have to order well In adj
vance to secure seating accommoda-
lions.
More than twenty-five Of this years
159 major league recruits are former
college athletes, check of the rosters
of the sixteen clubs revealed today.
The Cleveland Indians will carry
south nine collegians, the most promi-
nent of which is Bruce Caldwell. ALI
America back (192S) from Yale.
Three former University of Michigan
pitchers will try for major league
berths. Pete Jablonowski, formerly
with Cincinnati, will be tried out by
Cleveland; William McAfee will get
a trial with the Chicago Cubs, and
Fred Adbeck. measuring six feet six
inches, win be locked over by the
New York Yankees.
Howard Harpster, all-America quar-
terback on the 1923 Carnegie Tech
football team. has signed two-year
contract to coach at Geneva college.
Glenn Warner. Stanford coach. like
Dob Zuppke of Illinois. finds diver
sion and avocation in painting land
scapes and still-life studies.