The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-03-28
PICK GALLANT FOX
AS DERBY CHOICE
Conservative Judges Back
Horse Cutting Odds.


Winter favorites seldom cross the
wire first in the Kentucky derby. For
that reason the announcement that
Gallant Fox, at to l, is favored to
win the derby may not be taken too
seriously.
The report, however, is that conserv-
alive judges are backing this horse
which accounts for the shrinkage In
his price from 10 to s.
At this stage of the race wild
plunges are launched on the merest
shadow of foundation.
For example:
Uncle Luther had a pretty good
workout. The next day they ham
mered his price down from 100 to 40
to l. Other derby horses being played
in the future books are: All Upset,
Busy and Buckeye Poet, backed from
100 to GO to /. Broadway Limited,
hammered down from 100 to 40 to l.
High Foot, the best played horse In
the derby, is now at II to l, but he
has earned the right to attention
through his fine races down South.
Bookies have ceased to gamble on
the derby since Black Gold sent so
many bank rolls to the shambles. Tom
Kearney says his Big Store is lucky
to break even on the derby each year
and that he operates it only because
it has become an institution and not
because it is profit producer.
They're getting too smart for us"
Tom hints.
Lefty Grove is this years highest
priced baseball pitcher. He is to re-
ceive $4,000 for the year. Dazzy
Vance, who received that amount last
year, has taken cut
Old-time pitching stars didn't fare
so well. Walter Johnson got $4,000
at the last. Christy Mathewson drew
$4,000, Ed Walsh received $500.
The 3,0O0-hit club, very exclusive
order in baseball, has only five mem
bers. They are Ty Cobb, Iris Speak
er, Hans Wagner, Nap Lajoie and
Eddie Collins. But another member
is knocking at the door. Rogers
Hornsby had 2,706 at the end of the
1929 season and needs just 294 more
to get in. At the end of the 1880 sea-
son he will be within hailing distance
and 1881 should put him through.
Ty Cobb has 4,191 to his credit and
he really belongs to higher order,
one in which he may be the only mem
Der for eternity.
Back home years ago there was
lady who took jiu-jitsu lessons by mail
in case of being accosted by masher,
which she never was, before or later.
Nellie Tayloe Ross has gradually
convinced the bulk of the cOmpositors
that the name it Tayloe, not Taylor.
On the other hand we just saw anoth-
er reference to Rogers Hornsby in the
singular.
Managers in baseball are always on
the lookout for left-handed first base
men. A left-hander at first base is
regarded as having the edge over any
right-hander in throwing.
1t may be that the managers have
gone over to the pOrtsiders because
of the records of left-handed throw
ing first basemen in the past, but the
1929 figures will not bear them out in
their preference. Lew Fonseca,
first baseman who throws with his
right hand and arm, had 107 assists
while Lu Blue, left-handed first
baseman, had IS, and Lou Gehrig, an
other left-handed throwing first sacker,
totaled 50 assists for 1929.
New Orleans wants to stage post
season football game in that city be-
tween the champions of the southern
conference and team to be selected
by the champions, as an annual climax
to the football season, starting this
fall. New Orleans will guarantee
100000 to the competing teams. The
idea is to play the last week in De-
cember or New Years day.
A trophy IS inches high has been
received by the University of Iowa
military department as the result of
Iowa's victory in the national inter-
collegiate rifle match held last April
at st. Louis. The travelling trophy
was held by Missouri in 1927 and by
George Washington university last
year.
Believe it or not, Jack Sharkey's
real name is John Zukauskas Sharkey
may disagree, as he frequently has de-
clared that his Lithuanian name is
John Coccoskey, but the Lithuanian
legation is determined that this error
be corrected.
In letter to British newspaper men
an attache at the legation protested
the Offensive mutilation of Sharkey's
Lithuanian name" "Coccoskey is an
absolutely impossible combination Of
letters calculated to make anybody IA
miliar with the Lithuanian language
writhe in anguish" he said.
Bronko Nagurski, all-American grid
star of 1929 has been signed to play
for the Chicago Bears professional
football team next fall.
Nagurski played in the backfeld
and on the line for Minnesota last
year and was a main cog in the Goph-
er eleven for three seasons. He was
picked by most of the football ex-
perts of the country for berth on the
1929 all-Americans.
1t was a strange punishment the
boxing rulers melted out TO Max
Schmeling. He was suspended and
has been idle for nearly a year but
all the time he is kept on the heavy