The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-04-07


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CongratulatiOns-Ran on the
winning of the 1888 city basketball
championship and a complimentary
vote to the Swanson team which
looked great even though defeated.
Fans who saw the championship game
in the city basketball tourney last Sat
urday, were more than satisfied with
the exhibition of the game as played by
the contestants. For four periods the
Rangers and Swansons put on a great
battle, the game ending in 17-all tie
The RACERS took the game in an over
time session 81 to II.
Carmen" Hill, forward on the
Swanson team, almost pulled
Frank MerriwelI" in the city finals,
when his shot at the basket which
was in the air when the final gun
barked, rebOunded off the back
rim of the hoop III good, the Swan
sons would have won the game.
Both the SwanSonS and the Rangers
showed something unusual in defensive
play in the city basketball finals:
Swansons held the Rangers scoreless
for Is minutes during part of the
third and fourth quarters. The Ranger
defense went a little better when it
held the Swansons without a counter
for almost the entire second half, 1914
minutes to be exact. Defensive play as
shown by both teams is something to
crow about.
The all-city team will appear in
this column next week. Originally
the announcement of the all-star
selection was to be made April Is.
As the annual banquet of the city
league has been postponed until
April %, and basketball will be
quite dead issue at that time,
announcement of the mythical team
will me made sooner.
Spectacular plays, playing and shoot
ing featured the Ranger-Swanson game
of last week. The defensive play of
both teams was an outstanding feature.
but to Stiff" Sayovitz and "Toot"
Tuotloff go the honors that you read
about" in story books. Stiff" broke
fifteen-all deadlock with long shot
which put the Rangers in the lead in
the last minute. foot" duplicated the
feat with less than 80 seconds to play.
Hill lost out in a hero'S role when his
last second toss missed.
Two of the main cogs in their re-
spective teams, whose play stood out
all season and in the tournament,
our vote goes to Bob Nicholas of the
Rangers and Ray Passi of the
SwansOns.
The Eveleth Rangers are the 1888
champions of the Central Hockey League
and fitting champions as proved in their
play in the league playoffs last week.
Finishing the regular playing schedule
at the top of the league, the Rangers
showed their class and the right to rule
the roost by beating the Minneapolis
Millers three straight games in the
championship playoffs.
"Play BalT"-The big league base
ball season opens Wednesday, April
12th-"Batter Up"
Spring football practice opened Mon
day at the University of Minnesota
Reports from the Gopher camp indi-
cate that the Gopher gridiron machine
will be very much in the running for
titular honors in the Big Ten next fall
We go that one better by saying that
Minnesota on paper looks like one of
the nations best football teams in the
next Autumns campaign.
GOLF-Ciff Takkunen has laid
out course on Burnside Lake,
the hard packed snow making fine
playing course. Cliff and his friends
are polishing up on their driving and
remark that there isn't much danger
of hooking or slicing into the rough
unless you hit an island.
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