The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-07-04

| to change the original signal. Which
shows the yOungster has a pretty fair
idea of sizing up batsman."
Babe Ruth always has had special
fOndness for the outer reaches of
SpOrtSmen's park in st. Louis, scene
of his two great outbursts of worlds
series home-run hitting in 1926 and
1923. AS a salute, therefore, the Babe
stepped up to bat in the first inning
of his first game this season there and
belted one of Walter Stewards south
paw Slants into the right-center pa
viion for his nineteenth round-tripper
of 1890.
Ruth hit one of his first hOmers
there in 1915, when he was with the
Red Sox and has ratified off AZ alto
gether in st. Louis, more than in any
other western park.
They laughed when Jeff Tesreau,
former Giant pitching ace, left New
York to become Dartmouth baseball
coach at a moderate salary, but today
when Jeff makes out his income tax
he includes therein the statements,
not only of his coaching salary. but Of
his thriving campus restaurant, his
well paying gasoline station and his
motor car SaleSroOm. which net him,
according TO report, far more money
than he received as a high-salaried
baseball star.
Joe Lally, the Cornwall (Canada)
sportsman, in an effort to put lacrosse
back on the sports map, has offered
TO donate trophy for worlds cham
pionship competition if the Mimic cup
cannot be secured for this purpose.
Goose Goslin is giving Manager Bill
Killefer good cheer these days. He
has been performing right up to Bills
estimate of his ability and may yet
make the baseball world cease litter
ing OYER the trade for Manush and
CrOwder. "GOose" not only is hitting
hard but he has shown that he has no
lame wing.
The Tom Thumb golf course is a
move in the direction of greater con-
venience, and we suppose the next
step is an 1S-hole board you can fold
up and slip in topcoat pocket.
Perhaps Mr.. Sharkey's next Oppo-
nent, if any, will stand on his head.
This should confuse Mr.. Sharkey a
good deal, and mitigate the chances
of foul.
Golf is harmful, in the opinion of
DR.. William Muhlberg, Cincinnati,
president of the Association of Life
Insurance Medical Directors.
1.-The average man who plays golf
goes out to the course, dubs a shot,
gets mad, tears his hair. maybe throws
his club away, and as result in
creases his blood pressure" Doctor
MuhIberg said in addressing a group
of life insurance agents.
Next to the Pirates. Jewel Ems, man.
ager of that team. thinks the New
York Giants figure the strongest team
in the National league. you've al
ways got to figure on John McGraw,"
he says. land in strength the McGraw
boys also look better than Brooklyn
or Chicago"
In spite of published stories to the
effect that Max Schmeling and Jack
Sharkey will box again in September,
the bout is still doubtful. 1t is true
that Something's claim to the heavy
weight title is bit douded. He won
it while on the floor. One of the
New York boxing commissioners had
to stoop and lift Max's head, while an
other commissioner fitted him with a
crown. But under the agreement,
Schmeling is the pugilistic king.
Night baseball in the new San Fran
cisco park in 1880 looms as a strong
things it is believed by some of the
enthusiasts practical TO schedule eight
games a week. George Putnam, Sec
rotary of the Seals, fayors starting the
series as usual on Tuesday, have a
double-header on Saturday afternoon,
eliminate the Sunday morning game
and play in the evening instead.
The National league club owners
recently decided to let sleeping dogs
lie. That is to say, they will not move
to modify the official baseball or I'M
dertake any change in conditions that
might reduce the hitting
The rabbit ball and the home run
without zoning is in the National
league to stay.
The reason for this decision is that
the public wants it !; and what it wants
the public ought to have. A straw
vote showed that fans like an average
Of IA runs per game. The 10 stuff
received no votes at all.
That straw vote indicates that the
fans want haymakers, what?
A new japanese headliner soon will
visit the United States in quest of
billiard honors. Yoshio Fugiwara, hold
er of the 1872 balk-line championship
of Japan four years ago, has just an
nounced that he would arrive here
some time this summer. This infor-
nation was received by Kinney Mat
suyama, now in New York. from DIR.
X. Suzuki. former holder of the Amer.
lean junior 1872 balk-line crow3 nnd
now billiard official in Japan.