The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-11-28
Is W alter Okeson
Headed for Gate?

Do those leading football officials
really mean it when they talk about
refusing to handle games next year if
Walter Okeson, present dictator of as
signments, is kept on the job? -. Big
George Corrigan plans to visit ireland
in search of new White Hope
Mary Hirsch, the first woman trainer
ever granted license by the New York
Jocket club, did not saddle horse on
the metropolitan wheel during the sea-
son. Her only horse, Captain Argo, was
taken to Narragansett, where he was
lost in the claiming box siggy
Workman and Ernie Schwartz nomi-
nate Henry Hunter, former coach of
the Hakoah S. c. of Vienna and now
coach of the Hatikvoh AII-Star Jewish
eleven, as the best soccer tutor in the
business g.. O.. When a horse is disquaIi-
fled at Tanforan he is placed in back
of the horse with whom he interfered.
Although racing has been highly
profitable for New England track pro-
motors this year, the Narragansett pari-
murueI clerks had to take 81 daily
cut -. Earl Moore, who is twenty-one
years old and who has been totally
blind since he was eight, is a 1885,
pound wrestler at Upsala college. He
also won his letter in the sport while
a member of the Overlook school
team Chick Wergeles. second as
sistant press agent for the pro foot
ball Giants, has been on the Job IL
ALTHOUGH
of a big betting man, he waited until
the Bears game to make his first wager
on them-and lost Captain Bill
Shuler, Irish O'COnnor and Alpine King
of the Army varsity eleven are honor
students. But 81 members of the orig
inal Plebe squad of so have been
dropped for scholastic deficiencies
Because no really first-class rider has
been developed since stall gates came
into use, hOrsemen are insisting that
these starting devices be abolished.
What eminent group of sportsmen
shiVer every time the income tax is
mentioned? q. John Reed Fitzpatrick,
who now operates Madison Square Gar
den in conjunction with the William
Randolph Hearst Athletic club, con-
tinues an amateur at heart. Although
other members of the prettiIy named
amateur hockey" league wished to cut
loose from the A. A. u, the Garden
will continue to share the gravy frcn1
its all-for-qiory team this winter
This team, not to be confused with the
Rangers, who, of course, get paid for
their work, is the Rovers Tony
canzoneri and Jimmy Braddock receive
bigger oVations than any other fighters
when they visit small local clubs.
Gil DObie again is having alumni
trouble at Cornell i. ~. Western folks
are insisting that Bob Quinn. business
manager of the Brooklyn baseball club,
will succeed Tom Hickey as president
Of the American Association :. In adj
ditiOn TO being manager of the Cres-
Hamilton soccer team. Joseph ].
Barriskill also is president of the Unit
ed States Football (soccer) association.
If college football coaches really are
in earnest about protecting the high
morals and general sanctity of their
profession a suggestion is offered to
them. When they meet in December
they might inquire whether various
high-priced character builders actually
are deeply concerned over whether a
college team can beat a pro outfit and,
if SO, why. After that they can spend
the rest of the day exchanging trade
information as TO how much baIlyhoo
really is needed before the always mer-
itorious writings of the most gifted au-
thor-coaches can be forced upon the
public.