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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Celebrated Gee Gees
Wind Up in the Army

Some of our most celebrated gee gees
wind up in the army. Sir Barton and
Behave Yourself (both Kentucky Derby
winners), Wander Pool, Audacious,
Chilhowee, Single Foot, Kentucky Car
dinaI and Capt. AIcock are in the Re-
mount service. incidentally, there are
700 stations in the American Remount
association -. William Graham, who
stars for the Bay Ridge Hearts, is the
son of the soccer scribe of the same
name, who once performed mighty
deeds for the Visitation F. c.
Turfmen hope for one good break
out of the news that Governor Lehman
refuses to be reelected. They hint
that a new governor may mean new
state racing commission or that the
commission may be strapped as was
done years ago when Harry F. Sinclair
was chairman ~. Joe Louis has let
ter postmarked. from Germany in
which the sender confides he is pray
ing that the Bomber will beat Schmel-
ing =. Louis, Incidentally, gets SO
much mail that he has hired Chester
Washington, Pittsburgh newspaper
man, as secretary :. The fame of
Eddie Brannick already has spread to
Cuba where the Giants will train next
year. The coffee drinking champion
secretary has just received letter in
forming him how to order his favorite
drink in Spanish.
THINGS I NEVER EXPECT TO
SEE:
A New York State racing commits
sioner remembering (and proving) that
he really is as much a servant of the
mugs who exist in walkups as of the
millionaires who reside in Westchester.
Max Schmeling beat Joe Louis, Jim
Braddock meet Joe Louis before June,
1887.
The Phillies winning pennant. The
owners of the PhiIlies, or the AS, re-
fusina a helping of that Boston and
Chicago gravy.
A Broadway columnist getting an
item of sports news first. Or getting
it right.
The New York State Athletic com.
mission keeping within proper legal
bounds and thus giving the public a
break.
Any commission appointed to super
wise sports acting as if the wishes of
| the people really came ahead of the
| orders of the politicians.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

metropolitan SOCCeE
league. once starred for the Norwood
and Roslyn F. G. in Scotland. He
helped organize the Greenock West of
Scotland F. c. and is the proud holder
of a Glasgow Juvenile Cup Medal.
Sharp trainers already are beating
the new rule requiring the jockeys
names to be released with overnight
entries at metropolitan tracks. They
wait until the $50 deadine before
giving a name. Then, just as likely as
not, they change the rider before race
time the next day -. There also is
considerable lifting going on because
the celebrated bookies who crashed the
cIubhouses this year are said to be op-
posed to giving the same prices that
are quoted in the main ring -. Bud
dy Hassett, newest of Dodger heroes,
has found way to beat the autograph
hunters who lie in wait outside Ebbets
field. He borrows pair of glasses
from a reporter so that he can escape
in disguise each afternoon.
Archie Walker, former lightweight
contender, now works in the Curb EX-
change Clearing house :. Although it
has been years since he won a bet,
Jimmy Kelly, the celebrated Sullivan
Streeter, still manages to breakfast on
scrambled eggs and champagne :.
Hambla Bauer, the lady trainer from
the West, who was merely given
badge by the New York Jockey club,
can ride her own horses better than
most Jockeys.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Ducats Bring Back
Fond Memories of
Rings Old Timers

ALL day long they sit there. Old
4 timers, most of them, they have
little else to do. Occasionally they ut
ter words of wisdom concerning this
cream coIored youth who gIowers at
them from brightly tinted posters
tackled against the walls. Occasional
Iy they smile little secret smiles at the
antics of sweating fat men who rush
in to offer kings ransoms for squatters'
rights at Yankee stadium for the
ous-SchmeIing fight.
More often though they just sit
there, these fighters, managers and pro-
mOters of another day. Probably all of
them are glad that collections are so
good in this palace of the Broadway
duke who deals in ducats. But what
they like best is another collection.
SO all day long they sit there looking
at the ticket stubs, mementOes of al
most forgotten fights, neatly pasted in
frames outside the doors of Mike ia
cObs' office. And these are the tales
that are told:
There is the scrap of faded card
board which entitled a Brighton Beach
visitor to see Gibbons and Mcfarland
lead with agile iefts so many years
ago. Prize-fight balIyhoo and customs
were much the same then as now. Pa
pers of that day carried the proud
tidings that John Mccormack had
bought the first box of six for this one.
That night the eminent Irish tenor
walked leisurely to his favored spot
and found six thick muscled citizens
seated there, caps pulled far down over
bristling foreheads.
II beg your pardon, boys, these are
my Seats" pleaded Mccormack. The
boys snarled. Ushers were summoned.
The boys continued to snarl.
Ever a diplomat, the singer saved
the day. He took his friends back to
where there were some vacant seats
20 rows from the ring. While watch
ing the bout from there he had excel
lent company. Charles r. Murphy,
leader of Tammany Hall, and Tom
Foley, who had not yet achieved true
fame as political preceptor of young
guy named Al Smith, also were seated
there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

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Now as he wandered
near the arena in the early morning
he felt in need of that other refresh
ment which comes from a cooling tub.
He looked, saw barrel brimfu of
sparkling liquid and cIimbed in. The
durable Dane from Hegewisch had
himself a refreshing dip and then
climbed out again and proceeded on
his errands, bIissfulIy unaware of the
contents of the barrel.
Cold drinks sold at such premium
that afternoon that vendors neglected
what otherwise might have been
swell business opportunity. They made
no effort to charge bonuses for sips
from the tub of lemonade in which the
once great lightweight champion had
bathed.
Carefully pasted in the frame there is
another Dit of cardboard with $500 en-
graved upon it in tall numerals. This
is one of the ducats from the carpen-
tier-Levinsky Iight-heavyweight scrap
at Jersey City on Tuesday, October IL,
1920. Members of the international
Sporting club, which staged the affair,
were taxed this tidy sum for the pretty
privilege of a ringside seat. Outsiders
also were called upon for fancy prices
but even though the big shots tossed
In their c notes as If they were deal
ing in cigarette coupons, the show was
not a great financial success. About
all It did was to pave the way for the
winner, Gorgeous Georges, to meet
Dempsey.
When they met year later the face
price of each ringside pasteboard was
$50 but first row ducats were being
peddled as high as $500 each.
For hours during that eVentful after
noon while milIionaires and outright
phonies fought for priced locations, one
seat remained vacant almost within
touching distance of the ring.
Next day Tex Richard, who had pro-
NOTED the affair. and Mike Jacobs, who
had bankrolled it, were chatting con-
corning mathematics, finance and the
curious frenzies of the public. Tex
absently stuck his hand into a side
pocket and pulled out piece of paste.
board.
"Gee whizz!" he said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
The Mind By
LOWELL
Meter q HENDERSON
!. 8 = 8 = . |. . : : . =.
g Bell syndlcate.-wNU Service.
Jumbled Sentence,
True-False Test

In this test there are eight mixed.
up sentences, which are either true
or false. First, rearrange the SEN
tence to read properly, and secondly,
underline the letter L if the SEN
tence expresses a true fact, or I'M
derline the letter f if the fact ex-
pressed is false.
1. was original of Connecticut
states the Que thirteen. TT.
2. republic Mexico a is. TT.
8. land States cannot Navy United
seaplane over fly. TT.
f. Lakes the Superior of Great
largest is. TT.
5. Yale in is Cambridge located
University. TT.
6. Washington the the Independ-
ence George of of signer was Declar-
alton first. TT.
z. United two women in outnum-
Der by the about men States mil
lion. TT.
s. New north Francisco than far
ther San York is. TT.
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a RTIsTs unable to visit Max

a RTlSTS unable to visit Max
4 Something's fight camp missed
a. rare opportunity for entertain
ment and enlightenment. Mickey Nc
Avoy, one of the Germans better spar
ring partners, has "Good Luck For
ever" tattooed on his right shoulder.
There is a picture of sailor on his
left shoulder. His right arm is adorned
with ~. S. A. Navy" On his left leg
there is pictured the smiling face of
girl who seems to be named Anna
When Bill Wineate, very good Balti-
more sports writer, died a few days
ago, the mayor of the town issued a
public resolution of regret.
The next rumor the Brooklyn base
ball club will have to deny is that
Frank Hague, Jersey City's mayor, will
buy the joint and install Travis Jack
son as manager Latest suggestion
for the What to Do With Camera club
. 'Stuff him and save him for the
laughs" They are saying that Eddie
Mayo, the neat fielding third sacker
bought by the Giants, cannot hit south
paws. Yet last year he went to bat
I'D times against left handlers and had
thirty-nine hits for a .313 average.
When he loses a game Fred
Farmhouse saves his temper by not
reading the newspapers until two days
later.
Could it be true that Joe Louis man.
ayers requested Mrs. Joe to leave camp
because the Bomber was spending
more time in billing and cooling than
in training? :. Anyhow, Mrs. Joe,
who dotes upon fights and who never
missed a workout, decided to stay in
New York Gnstead of Lakewood) until
after the night of June IS -. In the
gay nineties a pitcher always warmed
up with the first baseman, instead of
the catcher, before entering the box
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uJtMt o
8 &C 'ai,h,
NhivlbD about
self-Annointed Leaders.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ Only eight years ago Bishop
Cannon sat in high state at Hous-
ton, wringing the last drop OF
moisture out of bone-dry plank
in the Democratic doctrine so Al
Smith, the wettest of the vets,
would have something congenial and
appropriate to run on.
In the opposition camp the politico-
financial high god, to whose lightest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
something to do with the high cost of
living"
Real Frost
Deduction

THE winter up in Gulch Pass was
the coolest of them all" said the pros
pector. "The thermometer frequently
registered 30 degrees below zero"
THAT really was nothing" said the
salesman. up in the north country
where was making call one winter.
it was SO cold in one of the hotels that
the bellboys kept their hands in their
pockets even after making a call"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Answers

1. Connecticut was one of the orig
inal thirteen states. L.
2. Mexico is a republic. 7.
cannot fly over land. f.
cannot fly over land. 7.
4. Superior is the largest of the
Great Lakes. 7.
5. Yale University is located in
Cambridge. f.
6. George Washington was the first
signer of the Declaration of indie
pendence. f.
Z. Men outnumber women by about
two million in the United States. I.
s. San Francisco is farther north
than New York. F.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

in whom he repOsed everlasting faith.
And the Republican Old Guard was ex-
planning that when it's candidate had
promised two cars in every garage he
didn't figure that for either car there'd
be a deputy sheriff with a writ.
All of which proves our anOinted
leaders are not only courageous but
consistent. Well, let's see what the
boys will promise us this year in those
fictional whimsicalities called plat
forms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Recalling Bat Nelson
at Dempsey-Willard Go

There are dozens of stubs which
bring back memories of that great lit
tie fighting man, Terry McGOvern.
There also is a chuckling Renaissance
of the prim little man who now is one
of the theater. When he climbed into
the ring to second McGOvern in those
days Sam III. Harris always wore
bright new suspenders across the
shoulders of a roll top sweater.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

WOfu I'LL present re-
sponded with halls and
hallelujahs, was Bank
er Charles Mitchell.
Today, if either of
t h e S e gentlemen in
serted himself into a
national convention of
his party, he'd be ar
rested for trespass.
Four years ago Mr..
FL e ars t was moving
heaven and earth and
Jack Garner to nomi-
nate T. ID. Roosevelt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

VI AAAo SN1AA IL
c o m in g young bail
players. Nicholson, the
Washington (NId.) col
lege outfelder w h o
soon will be presented
as a member of the
Athletics, should make
good in the big time
within a year or so.
He comes from Jimmy
FOXX'S neighbOrhoOd
and hits almost as
hard James Gra-
ham, secretary of the
MntrOnolitan SOpcpr
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Durszzo I. Ancient Port

Durazzo. port of the youthful king
dom Of Albania, was founded as Eoi-
damnus at the end of the Seventh GEN.
fury B. G. Quarrels over its ownership
led to the Peloponnesian war of ADJ
B. c. 1t changed hands many times
until Albania was created in 1913.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25

A larger piece of
pasteboard bears the
names of Willard and
Dempsey. Seldom will
there be such sWeIter-
ing heat as there was
on that afternoon aft
er Battling Nelson
took his bath. On the
night previous to the
Toledo massacre Bat
had been scurrying
hither and thither on
4
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Well-Which Is 1t?

The film magnate was describing his
latest picture.
MY boy" he said, 'it's tremendous |!
It's magnificent; It's mastadonic! It's
mediocre !"-Tit-Bits Magazine.
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able to house
wives, wherever
they live.
w. c. Coleman,
pioneer inventor
of gas-pressure ap-
planes, brings to
a lifetime of in
ventive genius his
browning achieve
ment in this amaz-
ing new Coleman
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act

Doctor" quavered the patient weak
ly, show am II"
"Oh, you're much better" replied
the medico breezily, "but if / were you
wouldn't start reading any serial
stories !"-London Answers Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
pefyinu the CONGRESS.

THREE years ago Bishop Cannon, the
i famous Virginia smooth-bore, invited
q senatorial investigation committee to
go jump off the Washington monument.
Perhaps they didn't jump off the mon
ument, which caused regret to some,
but it was the best offer they had all
season.
This year Doctor Townsend, who
hasn't lost cent by being the head
of the Townsend plan, tells an investi-
eating committee of the house to kiss
his foot.
They never punished the bishop for
contempt, although they sputtered like
a bunch of damp fire-crackers. Here's
laying a little eight-to-ive they'll never
punish the Doc, either. He'll go mer-
rily on with the ever-popular idea that,
If there isn't pot of gold at the foot
of the rainbow, the government should
supply same without any more of this
shilly-shallying.
Next to the League of Nations, moth
ing seems to make so much noise and
accomplish so little as a defied con-
gress-unless it is some fellow playing
q slide trombone into an empty barrel.
IRWIN S. COBB.
G-wNJJ Seryice
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Bitterroot Forest Large

The Bitterroot national forest In
idaho and Montana has the greatest
net area of the nations timber re-
serves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Something Lacking

'It do look" said Uncle EbeE, "like
a man kin be mighty smart about
maxim money and not have sense
enough to buy anything Wit 1t but
trouble"
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@-wNU Service.

Dogs In America Million Years
Dogs, or at least animals of the dog
family, have been numerous in Amer
lea since the Oligocene period, which
ended some 1,225,OOO years ago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
new KITCHEN stove
makes ITS own GAS
Housewives Marvel at Coleman Range
That Lights Instantly Like City Cas-
Cooks a Meal with &c Worth of Fuel

A new kitchen range that offers
every cooking convenience of the
finest CITY gas range is now avail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Connie Mack Is Still
Wizard in Rookie Hunt

In spite of gray hairs and advancing
years, Connie Mack has not lost much
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
Reatind the welkin-


THE poor old welkin certainly took
Il an awful beating at Cleveland,
didn't it? And just about the time the
new skin forms, they'll rip it all over
again at Philadelphia. Language is to
national convention what yelping is to
a coon dog trailing. It's fine personal
advertisement for the dog and doesn't
mean anything either way to the coon.
The old superstition that the Repub-
licans always pick their candidate at
2 a. M. "in smoke-filled room" didn't
come true. You'd think the bosses
would emerge from the session looking
like so many hickory-cured hams when
you hear people tell of the old times.
I'll bet the G. o. p. boys kept win
dow open to clear the air. 1t might
also have come in handy for chucking
Senator Borah out of.
But when the credentials committee
sat to hear. the contesting delegations
from the deep, dark South-that's
when you'd see what properly might
be called a smoke-filled room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
First American Families.

WE'VE been skirting the sun-baked
w domains of one stable group of
early American families who don't care
who's been nominated at Cleveland or
who'll be nominated at Philadelphia.
No matter which side wins, these folks
still will furnish the raw material up
on which blithe amateurs of the In
dian bureau work weird experiments
in the name of civilization.
Nothing worse can happen to them
than already has been wrought by
well-meaning meddlers and earnest
muddlers under this administration or
that. For instance, trying to make
farmers out of Apaches, task akin
to training Gagged henhawks to initiate
cuckoo clocks.
Of course, should their reservations
by some miracle prove productive, the
white man will crowd them over into
a remoter thirst-blasted area, where
horned toad would have to go on relief
or else starve to death.
The vanishing American can't com.
plain that we've ever failed to eXpe
Gite his vanishing act for him.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-26
B[OODHOUNDS ARE
HELP FOR PRISON
Their Easy Accessibility to
All Camps Is Reducing
Escapes
Daily Dispatch Dure1n,
I'm The Sir Walter Hotel.
BY j. G. SkERVl1E

Raleigh, May 26.-The dog business
is paying big dividends to the prison
division of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission in the form
of greatly decreased escapes, accord
ing to Acting Director Oscar Pitts.
For ever since the prison division has
been increasing the number of blood
hounds under it's control and SUD-
piled more prison camps with these
dogs, the fewer have been the ESCAPES.
Pitts said, pointing out that the PR
soners have learned that while thew
may fool guard now and then and
manager to slip off unseen, they can
not fool the sensitive noses of these
dogs.
At least 20 well trained bloodhounds
are now located at various camps
over the State. Eight of these, includ-
ing Joe and Dan, are the property or
superintendent w. r. Brooks, of the
Wilson camp. Joe and Dan are regard.
ed as two of the hest bloodhounds in
the State, while Superintendent
Brooks is regarded as one of the best
trainers and handlers of bloodhounds
in the South. He has reared and train
ed many of the dogs now located at
the other camps.
Two bloodhounds are kent at the
Harnett county camp, near Ellington.
while two are also kept at the Scot
land county camp near Laurinburg.
two at the Iredell county camp near
Statesville, two at the Mcdowell coun-
ty camp at Marion. two at the Chero-
kee county camp at Andrews and two
at the Alexander county camp at Tay-
louisville.
by having these bloodhounds dis
trlbuted as we now have them, we can
get a pair to almost any point in the
State where an escape may occur. with
in two hours or so, while the trail il
still fresh,' Pitt said 1.-THE prisoners
know this, with the result that we are
having fewer escapes than ever be-
fore. Not that the bloodhounds are
the only factors in reducing escapes.,
since we are convinced that the big
gest factor is the better morale thro-
ughout the prison system and the bet
ter guarding on the part of our
guards. But the fact htat we have 20
'~loodhounds scattered over the State
does serve as a definite deterrant."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-26
IS Percent
OF Growers
Are Signed
Accept New Soil
Conservation Pro-
gram in Lieu of In
validated AAA

Approximately 35 percent of the to-
bacco and cotton growers of Vance
county have already signed soil con-
servation agreements with the Fed
eral government and others. are being
added to the number from day to day
]. w. Sanders, who is directing the
work in the county, said today. Mr.
Sanders, as county agent, was in
charge of the crop control program
under the old AAA
No intensive campaign is being
waged in the county for the soil con-
servation movement, the county agent
said, but committees are active in d
way in signing all growers who can
be induced to give their cooperation.
Under the, agreement, the govern
ment will pay around $40 per acre for
tobacco land taken out of production
and put into soil Improvement or con-
servaton crops, up to the extent of
the old AAA allotments for 1886.
There is no compulsion, and the &C
ceptance of work sheets does not OBJ
ligate the grower. 1t merely means
that he will later receive government
payments only if he lives up to the
agreement and complies with lis