The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-02-28
MAJORS SPENDING
MONEY IN MINORS
New York Yankees Drop
$4,000 at Chambersburg.

A checkup in the Blue Ridge league
for the season of 1929 reveals the
enormous amount of money that the
major leagues are expanding in main
tanning farms. Conditions in the Blue
Ridge circuit differ somewhat but not
radically from other leagues in the
country, especially those below the
Class A classification.
Cleveland at Frederick dropped
$4,000; the Yanks at Chambersburg.
$4,000; the Athletics at Martinsburg,
1000. and the Cardinals at Waynes-
boro, $1,000.
Hanover received 5000 from De-
troit, and also lost considerable more.
Hagerstown had to be helped out to
the extent OF $1,000 to retain its
franchise, and the club management
also lost considerable.
Cleveland, the Yanks, Athletics and
Cardinals spent we'll in trying out
young ball players. Apparently they
tried out every youngster recommend
ed. They paid these players fares
both ways, and the big majority of
them hardly remained overnight in the
town to which club they reported.
Whichone and Boojum, leading juve-
niles in 1920, will not run in the Ken
lucky derby next May, Tom Healy,
trainer for II. P. Whitney, announces.
The Whitney pair were favorites in
the winter books on the derby.
Whichone led the money winners
among the juveniles last year, earning
$135, 455 for Whitney. Boojum was the
third best money-maker among the
1929 two-year-olds, bringing in S57 $50.
J. B. Adoue, wealthy Dallas bank
er, was placed fifth in the official
ranking of Texas tennis players for
1929. He is forty-seven years old.
Only Berkeley Bell, University of
Texas star, and three others rate
ahead of him.
Five feet FIVE inches tall and weigh
ing only 124 pounds, Earl Jansen, one
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prep circles, has won 13 letters in
track, baseball, basketball and football
at Cleveland high school.
Pete Donohue of the Reds has just
got married. Maybe his battle with
Hack Wilson was merely a training
stunt.
To promote interest in wrestling
and to honor CornelPs veteran wres-
thing coach, Walter E. O'Connell, who
has brought ten intercollegiate cham
pionships to the university, eight med
ais will be awarded annually to those
members of the wrestling squad who
have given their best efforts to the
sport and have not been able to win
their letter or the university cham
pionship medal. According to the an
nouncement which was made by
Thomas 1. S. Boak, IA, of Seneca
Falls, former intercollegiate champion,
the medals were underwritten by
Charles X. Bassett, IA, of Buffalo,
n. Y, a former member of the wres-
Ting squad.
One of the entertaining features of
the bales of publicity now being sent
out concerning Primo Camera is the
frantic effort to find some sort of pop
ular nickname for the phenOm with
the No. Is shoes and the No. hat.
It's a quaint old custom of the ring,
this business of making fighter affec-
tionately known by anything else ex-
cept his real name. 1t goes clear back
to We olde John L. Sullivan, who pre-
ferred to be known as the Boston
Strong Boy" and followed the sport
down through the modern Wild Bulls
of the Pampas, the Big Rocks from
Down Under, the Manassa Maulers,
and the like. These were expressive
and became more or less popular.
But in the case of Camera the at
tempts so far seem to have been
melancholy bust. Right now, lacking
anything better in the way of an in
spiration, they're trying to make Car
nera known to the hoi polloi as the
"Dinosaur of the Dolomites."
The pitching and not the lively ball
is responsible for the run of smuggling,
according to Bobby Quinn, president
of the Boston Americans. Quinn is
widely known in the Association, hav-
ing handled the reins of the Columbus
club for many years. Columbus men
are interested with him in the owner
ship of the Boston club.
1.-THE pitching is more to blame for
heavy hitting than the lively ball."
says Quinn. "When pitcher has con-
troll you do not see any runaway score.
The first game of the Worlds series
is an example. The ball did not prove
very lively that day. OF course, when
you get pitcher who can't pitch it
where he wants to, and when the bat
ter takes a toe-hold, you're going to
see some long-distance hitting"
Boston's regular first basemen, Phil
Todt, of the Red Sox, and George Sis
Ter, of the Braves, will have to hustle
to keep out Bill Sweeney and Johnny
Neun this spring.
Horton Smith on one occasion said
that his major vice was missing short
puts.
Bobby Jones says that short puts
are what you have to worry about on
the green, not the long ones.
Great putters are the boys who con-
sistently sink puts within a radius Of