The Ely miner., 1930-08-01
EVENING AS TIME
FOR ALL SPORTS
Latest Contributions Come
From Golf and Track.

vania university. it is said, is consid-
ering outdoor spring track and field
meets at night, and tentative expert
ments at lighting up a regulation
| nine-hole golf course with floor lights
and flares have been made.
| 1t is not for anyone to say with
| authority that this nocturnal business
is just fad, or that some of the
| groupings of enthusiasts in this direc-
| tion are doomed to failure.
Lighting a nine-hole golf course
| should not be much more difficult or
expensive than Illuminating a major
league baseball park. under the latest
efficient electric flood-light systems.
The cost for a ball park is $4,000
and. if the links were located con-
veniently, night golf might be made
to pay.
Night track-and-field events would
be the easiest of all to put over. AS
long as mans daily work forces him
to take his leisure at night time such
sports as can be adapted easily to
night uses will be successful. Many
pastimes which languish in daylight
for lack of customers. might really
flourish at night time, when all have
the leisure to attend.
Jim Wray, coach of the intercOl-
legiate champion Cornell varsity eight,
will lose only two of the crew by
graduation. A. B. Butler. No. 2, and
n. f. Scott. No. Z will be missing
when the former Australian sculier
calls out candidates for the fall row.
ing. Wray hopes to keep the Big Red
crewmen well up in the rowing races
hereafter.
Connie Mack says Lefty Grove is n
great pitcher because he bears down
all the time. He says:
"Grove puts everything he has on
every ball and that is one reason he
is one of the best pitchers of the day.
The batter of today has something on
the pitcher and the hurler must try
to put everything on every pitch"
Notre Dame plays one of the hardest
of all its schedules next autumn. The
Fighting Irish open at home with
Southern Methodist. one OF the tough
est arrays in the Southwest and fol-
low with Navy, Indiana, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Drake Northwestern,
Army and Southern California. The
date with Penn at Franklin field will
mark the only Eastern invasion of the
Irish, who have for the time being
also given up their Southern rivalry
with Georgia Tech.
The St. Louis Cardinals have a sub
stitute outfeld that is Outhitting the
regular trio by wide margin. Fisher
is hitting 423. Watkins. .3S5, and Or
satti. 1878. The regulars, Douthit,
Blades and Hafey, are batting .31S.
Johnny Ward, former Trojan foot
ball tackle, will turn professional this
fall and play with the Minneapolis
Redjackets, according to an announce
ment by his father The big fellow,
rated one of the strongest linemen in
Troy's history, is now ranching in
Texas.
1t is also planned that Ward will
take a fling at professional boxing.
When the late Pongo Joe Cantillon
was managing Minneapolis, he had
Carl Cashion playing right field for
several years Cashion was a pow
erful hitter. but showed a very great
weakness on ground balls. Joe had
been ION" Cashion for several days
about his deplorable shortcoming.
While playing in Milwaukee, Joe was
accompanied by Cashion on the trip
to the ball park. Nearing the en-
trance of the park. a youngster asked
Cantilon for a baseball.
Joe told the lad that he had no
baseball but the yOungster was in
sistent and following along with Can
tillon and Cashion. bargained that he
would pay a quarter for ball.
CantiIlon, seeing that the lad great
ly desired a horsehide, pointed 70
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you want a baseball, come into the
park and stand back of this big fellow
in right field. You will get baseball
in hurry
The proposed Olympic village to be
built near the scene of the 1882 games
in the Los Angeles coliseum. will be
similar to an army camp. Each team
will be housed in separate building
with a large dining salon and assem-
blv building available to all. The
village wEl be shut off with an orna-
mental iron fence The cost will be
So per day for food, housing and
transportation to the scene of the
events.
Bill Breckenridge, now a law stu
dent in the University of Oklahoma,
made $4,000 playing baseball last
season. AS a recruit with the Phila-
delphia Americans, he received $4,000
salary, $1,000 bonus for signing and
$4,000 for his worlds series share.
Tony Canzoneri, former feather
weight champion. is one of the few
fighters who will positively not allow
himself to win bout on a claim of
foul. Tony has proven it on number
of occasions when his opponent took
advantage of his vow and let few
lunches wander under the belt. Can
zoneri never complained but kept
sailing in with both fists flying in
revenge.
Encouraged by the success of the
two night football games of 1929.
which were witnessed by $4,000 peo-
ple Marquette university athletic au-
thOrities have scheduled four flood