The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-10
Ohio State Fears Grid
Date With New York u

Strange as it may seem Ohio
State fears that early football date
with N. Y. U. this fall Buckeye
track athletes, here for the World
Labor meet, reported that folks
around Columbus feel the Violets
are going to be so tough that there
is practically no betting money in
sight Yale men refuse to
talk about gridiron prospects but
there is a persistent runor that
Ducky Pond will surprise the ma
ton with a powerful team this fall.
Especially if some of the scho-
lastically doubtful scphs regain
good standing Don't expect
Lou Little to be overactive at Co
Iumbia this fall. Reports from his
Leominster, Mass, home town are
that his injured hip still pains him
nightly.
George Varoff, the high-soaring
pole yaulter, will stay away from
sports until after Christmas. He
feels that he has been spending too
much time on such play and is
anxious to catch up in his studies
at Oregon, where he is a sophie
more this fall Sign of autumn
Six Youngsters tossing the
Manhattan sidewalk seasons first
football on East Eighty fourth
street.
Although Jess Sweetser, president
of the Metropolitan Golf associa-
ticn, is playing as good golf as any
New York amateur this summer,
his temperament still gets in his
way during tournament competition.
In spite of his many years of cam
paigning he still enlists in the club
throwing ranks when the breaks go
sour For a lad who's had a
taste of Hollywood, Buell. Patrick
Abbott, the Californian who recent
ly won the national public links IL
tie, has mild aspirations for movie
career. ''AIl / want" he says,
speaking of that tabled city where
salaries always are quoted in the
higher G's, sis contract for $3.50
or $500 a week for four or five
years. Then I'll quit"
This has been a singularIy unfor-
tunate summer for Bill Cook, cap
tain and future coach of the Rang
ers. His mother died two months
ago, just after the popular hockey
veteran had moved his family east
to the new house he bought near
Hamilton, Ont. His two children
had to have their tonsils out and,
although that's ordinarily a simple
operation these days, his younger
daughter had a relapse and had to
return to the hospital. Then Mrs.
Cook became i'll and had to under
go an operation. Jughandle
Jimmy Morrison, former DOdger
and Pirate, is now pitching for not
too good semi-pro teams In Brook
Ign and getting $3.50 per game as
well as poor support from the UNI
pires who can't follow that sweep
ing curve.
Although he appears to be a quiet,
well-mannered fellow, Wally Berger
of the Bees likes practical jokes ev-
en- better than base hits. His pet
prank is to put eels In the pullman
berths of his teammates Hand
books take fve-cent bets in Mon
treal Watch North Carolina
States football team this fall. Hunk
Anderson, the old Notre Dame, viii
be working with 26 letter men, most
of them juniors.
Experts whisper that the best
buys en- the PhiIly mid-winter bar
gain counter viii be Pitcher Claude
Passeau and Catcher Bill Atwood.
The Cubs and Giants already have
been lingering the $50, 900 price tags
j. E. Widener's French star,
Frasnet, may be shipped to the
United States in time to race at
Hialeah park this winter Jesse
Owens is one of the softer touches.
The one-man championship team
has given away Is of the gold
watches he has won in track and
field events. His friends complain
that Jesse is so kind-hearted that
any glib stranger who pops up and
asks for the tine is apt to walk OF
with the tirneuieca ton