The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-08-15


every preteXt. There is too much run
making now.
"Take the restrictions off pitching
and we will have real pitchers again.
And with real pitching restored the
home run will come back into its old
fans consider it too common today"
Big league baseball scouts lolled in
southern collegiate stadiums this year
and found large number of pros
poets" Among them and the clubs
that benefited were: Frank "Pinky"
Higgins, Texas second baseman and
captain, Philadelphia Athletics; John
ny Ralston, Texas southpaw pitcher,
New York Yankees; Bob Carr, out
fielder, st. Louis Cardinals. and Den
mis- Cantrell, Arkansas State Teachers
college catcher, st. Louis Cardinals.
Dog racing is still popular in Eng
land. Twenty dogs won $1,000 or
more and q others over $500 at VIM
bledon park, London, in 1929. Cups
and trophies presented totaled slightly
more than $4,000. Honeyman's Lass,
the hurdles champion, was the most
successful dog, winning $1,000. Bris-
bane was the most successful on the
fiat, collecting $1,000 in winnings.
Like the bridge player who was
dealt Is hearts but didn't get the bid,
a golfer shot a hole-in-one and it
didn't count.
Barry Scobee of Fort Davis, Texas,
was the unfortunate one He had been
playing around and when he reached
the eighth hole he made such poor
tee shot that he teed up another ball
and tried it again.
For a time Scobee thought he had
lost the ball, but after a search he
found it resting nicely in the cup.
The hitting of Alex Metzler since
he migrated from the White Sox to
st. Louis by the waiver route gives rise
to the belief that the Browns grabbed
off a big bargain.
Macdonald Smith would have won
the two open tournaments this year
with a bit more luck. Not another
entry made as few bad shots as Smith.
He stayed on the line. He had all the
distance he needed and he coupled dis
lance with accuracy. His strokes were
lost on the green's.
AS long as he lives Macdonald
Smith will have in his mind pictures
of puts hanging on the lips of Inter-
lachen cups and pictures of puts rim
ming Interlachen tins. Always up and
rarely in was his fate. Probably no
golfer in history ever had so many
puts of two inches or less in tGurna-
ment rounds as Macdonald Smith had
at Interlachen.
Dispelling the popular notion that
kings of swat must all be big, beefy
and broad-shouldered men, Connie
Mack, veteran baseball manager. writ
ing in the current issue of Boys Life,
claims that "the smaller, lighter man
may have the better eye or the quick
err coordination, and where he may not
have the shoulders to pole out home
runs, he will have the speed to beat
out short hits and bunts I do not
think that it takes a broad-shouldered
giant like Babe Ruth to make good
Thnro lnfc Of inh
in the leagues today who have high
batting averages" Batting ability, ac-
cording to Mack, consists of combin-
ing "the snap of the wrist along with
the use of the forearm into a smooth,
free swing in which one should get
into the clout. The result is a good.
strong, heavy hit that is as likely to
be a home run as 1t is to be a SINGLE"
Dutch Ruether, former major league
lefthander, who is pitching for Seattle
in the Pacific Coast league, defeated
San Francisco to 3 in II innings
the other day and was fined S25. The
fine, imposed by Manager Ernie John
son, however, was not for winning the
game but for failing to cover first base
in the ninth inning when convention
of players was held about the ball
after it bounded from the pitchers
glove.
J. c. Griffiths, who has maintained
q hraad;no nursery of Criffwood form,
near Baltimore. and a small racing
stable which included such good horses
few years ago as Single Foot and
Canter, will sell his holdings and
retire.
Plans are being made TO dispose of
Canter and 3o lead Of mares and
yearings early next fall. Harry Rites
Is his traine, and farm manager.