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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-22

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
NOT THE BOX SCORE:

When the Hambletonian was trot-
ted at Goshen, N. Y, recently, a
ten-year old jinx which has pre-
vented any driver from winning the
event twice was licked. The hOcdOo
wrecker was Rosalind, the favorite
driven by Ben F. White, who won
with Mary Reynolds in 1888. White
drove carefully, but with an air OF
great serenity. The White family
was S19,604 weather. by catching
the winners share.
Bullet Joe Simpson, the former
Americans manager who distin-
guished himself in the World war,
and Murray Murdoch, who set that
consecutive play record, have been
offered manager-coach jobs with
amateur" hockey teams IN Eng
land Rental for the St. Nicho-
las Palace, which will be coupled
with the Central Opera House as a
boxing enterprise this winter, IS
81 ,075 per week. That could indi-
cate that boxing business is pick
ing up. Judging, though, from the
state and federal tax returns of 9TH
er small clubs recently it also could
indicate that Steve Brodie and the
daring young man on the flying
trapeze were far from being the
suckers people suspected Char
lie Snow, the blacksmith who spe-
cializes in trotters, has shod so, 600
horses during his So years on the
Grand Circuit.
Although Saratoga is the only
New York track with 81 field,
gents who patronize that section OF
the joint are in sad turmoil. They
sob that the way favOrites have
been running recently there soon
will be dire need for 15-cent sec
ton for twO-bit parlay betters =.
Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, who spends 200
grand or so at the Saratoga year
ling sales, does not do all that bid
ding and buying merely on femi-
nine intuition. The lady, who last
year purchased Case Ace, Airing
ton Futurity winner indicated in
three starts this season, has staff
of experts to infinitely inspect each
bargain Because of the many
abuses which cropped up last sea-
son the next Pennsylvania legisla-
ture will be presented with bill to
abolish amateur boxing and wres-
Ting shows.
Anyhow, it might have happened.
Doctor: 80, you say you haven't
been feeling well lately and have
had to run out on your work and
your guests?" Hitler: "Yessir, ev-
cry time I get out in the sun I
keep seeing black spots in front of
my eyes"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03


sturdiIy beside him. McGraw would
have liked a scene like this. Old
time players had an appeal to him
that was irresistible. He chummed
with them and helped them when
ever they needed it.
There also were men of later
baseball generations. Otto Knabe
once-that was in the days when
he played second for the Phillies
and when he managed the lament
ed Baltimore Terrapins-was one
of the most hard boiled as well as
one of the most capable of players.
George Smith also sits sereneIy.
Columbia George, as few people
recall now although it has been a
mere thirteen years since he left
the game, also was an athlete with
whom it was unsafe to take lib
critics. Now sedate school teach
er-aS indeed he was during most
of his seasons in the big time-he
merely chuckles when reminded of
that feud waged for years with
Lavan of the Cards.
There they sit. Harry Courtney,
probably less than forty even now,
but ten years removed from base
ball, and rising young man in Wall
Street. Jocko Fields, who starred
with both Pirates and Giants. Dan
ny Murphy, great outfelder with
the Athletics of the more celebrat-
ed 500, 900 infeld. Moose McCor-
mick. pinch-hitter extraordinary of
the Giants. Bill Coughlin, Dick Ru-
dolph-. The list is too long to
name them all.
They sit there watching, tiny
smiles, proud and wistful upon
are watching so intentIy innings
are to be played as they were sixty
years ago. But this day is some
thing else. 1t is basebaIrs recog-
milton of those who
There is a silence while the bugler
blows taps.
Now I know this feeling that has
not come over me for years. Sports
and war are alike in far more things
than ethics.
Too long ago I used to watch thin
lines of men In gray and blue pa
rade down the streets of a tiny
Maryland town on an afternoon late
in May. Il
I hope baseball continues to keep
its Memorial day trust as well.
Connie Mack, asked once wheth-
er he ever thought about his age,
replied only on certain occasions
Explained the dean of mana
gers: ''0nce in while when | read
about an old friend of mine who died
at sixty-four or so / say to myself:
It's too bad, but then he lived full
life, he was sixty-four years old.
Then / suddenly realize that / am
away past that age. / am seventy
four.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
PIay On and With Words

once upon a time a preacher
~ from Hartford, Conn, was
called upon to give the opening
prayer at a session of the state
house of representatives and i'm
mediately afterwards listened to
the debate over divorce case. (In
those days the Connecticut legisla-
ture could grant divorces and was
noted for its readiness to do sol.
Struck by the irony of the fact
that he, who performed marriages,
should be witnessing this ''unmar-
rying process" the preacher COM
posed these lines.
For cutting al connections famed,
connect-i-eut is fairly named;
| twain connect In one, but you
Cut those whom l connect in two.
Each legislator seems to say.
What you Connect I cut away.
When two men named Willing
and Schott fought a duel In Phila-
delphia some wag composed this:
Schott and Willing did engage
In duel nerce and hot;
Schott shot Willing willingly,
And Willing he shot Schott.
The shot Schott shot made Willing quite
spectacle to see:
While Vikings willing shot went right
Through Schott's anatomy.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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handbook operators in jail
What high public official has threat
ened to resign his racing post il
the starting is not improved at the
New York tracks? Jock Whit
ney's heavyweight, Abe Simon, has
such big paws that he has to bring
his own gloves when he goes to
club to fight Francis Alder
TAM has passed up offers from both
of the big bushwacking fight organ
izations to handle publicity for the
National Bowling Congress
Caswen Adams, the very able Her
aid Tribune sports writer, will pub
icize Columbia's football this fall.
Dutch Carter, the attorney and
former Yale athlete who died re-
Gently, was true sportsman. Both
his alma mater and the game Of
baseball, to which he gave such
unselfsh devotion as a fan, will
miss him That to price
quoted on Braddock over Schnel-
ing is far out of line Bookies
claim Terry Burns was bumped
off because he WEIGHED on a race
bet, not because he was hot with
Lucky Luciano.
Probably this has nothing to do
with the benefits that come from
owning a farm. But the prevailing
rate of big-time hockey pay is about
81, 900 a season. And the paternaI
Rangers reward their amateur
grads, Alex Shihicky and Mack Col
vile, with $1,000 apiece In
addition to anticipating an unde-
feated football season, FOrdham
folks already are trying to per-
suade the new university president
that the ban on Rose Bow! trips
should be lifted. :. Although he sell
dom appears on the street with one
of them, Madison Square Garden
Jimmy Johnston has a collection of
twenty-five walking sticks.
Stewart Iglehart, ten goal polo
player, learned the game on a BIZ
cycle Professor Charles E.
Merriam, University of Chicago po-
litical scientist, dined with Max
Schmeling aboard the Hindenburg
on its most recent trip to America
Ray Daughters, American
Olympic swimming coach, has been
instructing aquatic stars since six
teen years old Earl AverilPs
ambition is to quit baseball with
enough to buy a cabin cruiser, re-
turn to his Snohomish (Wash.)
home, and spend the rest of his
days fishing In Puget Sound /.
Young Corbett, former worlds well
terweight champion, holds licenses
as a referee, second and manager IN
California German journalists
and athletic experts were aston
ished more by Cornelius Johnson's
ability to relax than by Jesse Ow-
ems sensational sprinting and broad
| jumping One columnist, re-
ferring to the high jumping cham
pion as panther, said: His rest
ing stretches from his finger tips
/ to his eyes" Gov. David Sholtz
of Florida, who was born IN Brook
lyn, once had a trial with the Dod-
! gers Sammy Mandell, former
lightweight champion, who has been
promoting bouts at Northwest sta
dunn, Chicago, has shifted his ac-
tivities to Rockford, his home town.
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what /ILh
-IWU/ thinks
- about:
The Campaign Blues

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ What with Roosevelt taking
over the ancient Hamiltonian
theory of centralized authority
and Landon promising to restore
the Jefersonian principle of state
sovereignty the campaign is in
"high."
What with Farley undertaking to
organize the Negro-voters of the
north for Roosevelt and the other
side claiming to be hopeful of car
rying Florida with the aid Of white
votes; what with Andy jackson
turning over in his grave and James
G.. Blaine stirring fretfully under
the sod, it seems the most appro-
pirate campaign selections would
be for the Democratic orchestra to
render John Browns Body and
the Republican quartet to sing
''Bonny Blue Flag" with special
emphasis upon the stirring line,
'Hurrah, Hurrah, for Southern
Rights, Hurrah!'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Baseball's Tribute
Brings Hope Game
Will Uphold Trust
{ New York Post.-wNU Service.

THERE is little wonder that L
i could not recognize the feeling.
i have not felt that way IN years.
So I Just stood there and watched
around the Polo Grounds.
On they came in barouches, Ian
daus, bUggies drawn by lone horses
and by pairs. Cops marched ahead
arrayed in those queer old helmets
and long-belted coats OF a gasHt
era. There were ladies' in dresses
so gay that even now it seems sad
their fate has been some lonesome
corner in a costumer's shop. There
was a band that might well have
played under waving torches, while
Manhattan whooped it up for I'll
den and Democracy. There was
wonder of all wonders on this very
baseball field where luck has be-
haved so well of late-a carriage
drawn by two white horses.
In the boxes near the dugOut sat
basebaI's veterans, hands gnaried
by many a foul tip or hard-sped
grounder, clasped tightly in their
laps. Some of them still are In their
prime as life is reekoned In most
businesses. Others were taking
beIated grateful glimpse OF a pa
rade that long since has passed
them by. The faces of all of them
some deep wrinkled, some full
fieshed-had that leathery look
which never fades from those who
have spent many busy hours squirt
ing into a hot sun.
Memories of yellowed newspaper
clippings came back as I watched
them. There was Jim Mutrie, a
shrunken little man with bristllng
white moustache. Jim, they say,
is ninety-two and so he does not see
much baseball now. Indeed they
also tell that the last time he came
over from Staten Island he was so
puzzled by unfamiliar scenes that
he was lost before leaving the Bat
terry and so never reached the Polo
Grounds at all. But it was Jim,
whose eyes still fash as in bettef
days, who managed New York's
first pennant winner in 1888.
There was ArIie Latham, boon
companion of John McGraw and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Bermuda's Water SuppIy

In Bermuda al the roofs of the
houses are white because these
roofs are used to catch the rain as it
falls. There is a strictly enforced
law that every house must have a
suitable water catch and storage
tank. Rain falling on the white roofs,
or into hillside catchments dug into
coral, is diverted to storage tanks
which are inspected and lime
washed regularly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
LoWest-Pitched Sound

The lowest-pitched sound used in
music is the lowest note on a few
of the greater organs, which vi
brates at 16 times second. Ma
chinery often makes sounds still
lower in pitch than this, but these
are usually felt as vibrations rather
than heard as sounds. The highest
pitched note of the most complete
type of piano vibrates 5,120 times a
second; higher by two tones or
about 500 vibrations per second than
the shrillest note Of the piccolo.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Hollywood Dog Days


TOURISTS to the Hollywood Sec
l. tor come during a dullish inter-
lude. The diary of Miss Astor has
been closed, and the next chapter
In the love-life Of John Barrymore
has not been opened.
It might be said for Miss Astor's
output, before the court shut it off,
that it was well-written and caused
the public eagerly to await further
disclosures. Certain parties may
have gone out of town, but they
all left word where the paper was
to be sent. Hereafter, for a series
of such purely personal confessions,
it might be well to begin each in
stallment like this:
May it please your honor and
my precious pettykins."
PraiSing John Hamilton
7 HEARD John Hamilton speak to
L selected group of his own folks,
and please don't laugh when I say
that the individual he most reminds
me of-in engaging personality, in
sound sense-is the rival national
chairman, Jim Farley.
Without comparing these two as
to past records or future prospects,
I figure they're temperamentally
alike in various ways-notably in
not getting unduly excited or hastily
indicative.
II III %,II- uo,,iI+oy, Al ,o% 10
clare the American flag was In dan
ger, did not implore anyone to save
the American home. He didn't call
the Republicans saints; didn't call
the Democrats knaves or idiots. He
didn't claim for his side a monopoly
of patriotism. Quite calmly he told
his hearers what points he thought
should be stressed by his party in
this campaign-and poked fun at
himself while poking fun at the
other crowd.
Congressman Versus Taxes
a GAINST my better judgment,
\ I'm trying to be cheered by the
announcement of the present ma
iority leaders in congress that, look
ing forward to the next session,
they behold no new taxes ahead.
But, after election, when the lads
look closer, they'll probably be able
to behold quite few.
That's why balanced budget is
like the idea of santa claus-some-
thing everybody talks about, but
nobody ever expects to see. Ex-
cepting when a campaign is on and
the voters are sort of f1inching their
CALLED backs under the load, a IA
vorite pastime of legislators, wher-
ever found, is thinking up more
taxes to go along with the taxes
the've already thunk up.
They resist the craving for Just
so long, and then they notice some
previously overlooked dollars hiding
behind the Dashboard, and then
well, you might hire henhawk to
| guard your henhouse, but could you
depend on his word?
IRWIN S. COBB
Western Newspaper Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Palindronne

THE man glanced idly at the au-
l. tomobile that had drawn up to
the curb, then leaned forward for
a closer look. 1.-THE perfect palm
dromel" he murmured.
''Palindrome?" queried his COM
panion. Never heard of that make
of car. 'Let's see-P-i-e-r-c-e-A-r-
r-o-w-why, that doesn't spell Pal
indrome."
Look at the state license tag"
was the reply. cts ALA. 36163.
Both the abbreviation Of the state
and the number read backward the
same as forward. Such things are
called paIndromes. Plenty auto
mobiles from other states have
numbers that are the same back
ward as forward, but in Alabama
is the only place where you can
have the perfect palindrome-name
of the state and number-on your
license tag"
To have been an even more per
feet palindrome" that car should
have been driven Dy man named
Bob accompanied by a girl named
Hannah or Anna Perhaps, though,
a person should name no one
man. in discussing this subject. No
doubt there are other names that
have that characteristic
In fact, the history of palindromes
goes back to the Garden of Eden
| The first woman pointed to herself
and uttered one word: Eve. !"
Whereupon, the first man is said to
have replied palindromatically,
Madam, I'm AdamI"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

ANAA2 o44N ~ OSEASNA
cruel practice. So
our commissioner
to the interna =
tional antinarcotic
conference at &C.
neva is disguised.
NJ a y b e because
I'm hopele S ly
old = fashioned, I
still prefer that a
horse should b e
trained on the turf
and not at a drug
4 IL
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Derivation Of ..Iris,, cited

The word iris" the flower, the
same word also standing for part
Of the human eye, together with
the word ''iridescent," come from
the Greek goddess Iris, whose
outer form was the rainbow.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Music In Early Times

Music was one Of the graces Of
life carefully cultivated by races
rising IN the scale of early civiliza-
ton. Egyptians and Greeks h d
their harps, flutes, trumpets, GIN
gres primitive oboesl and drums.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Heel Gave Height

Back IN the days when men as
well as women wore high heels,
Louis XIV, monarch Of France IN
the Seventeenth century, had them
placed on all his shoes In order to
appear taller.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
In Perfect Accord
Sauce for the Goose

Mistress Ito new mald)-Now,
Nora, I always take my bath at
nire every morning.
Eora-'Sa1 right, nam, it won't
interfere with me bit. I'm nev-
er ready fer mine b'fore ten.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

still proudly en-
ployed by the game
he served so well.
Arlie came into
baseball in 1872 and
it was Mutrie who
brought him to New
York in 1879. 1t was
then that he came
to know Smiling
Mickey WEIGH, who,
for all that he
pitched the towns
first Polo Grounds
U9ua in IS23 sits
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

IA GAAASA 81 -
Could it be that the
eyeless racqueteer
on the posters adj
vertising the nation
al tennis champion
ships symbOlizes the
q. S. l.. T. AS
blindness to viola
tons of the amateur
rules? The
racing commission
in the state of Wash
ingtOn is making a
drivn tn mt all
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Feathers Always Ponular

There is, perhaps, no period of
history in which feather fans were
not used; feathers were primitive
mans favorite decorations, and an
outspread wing or a cluster of tail
feathers is a natural fan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Universal Opiuion

Captain-Did you enjoy your
leave, lieutenant?
Paymaster-Yes, but there's
nothing like the feeling of good
desk under your feet again--Ral
Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
ssPeeping Tom

Peeping Tom was tailor of Cow
entry, said to be the only person
In the town who peeped at Lady
Godiva as she rode, naked, through
the streets to relieve the people
from oppression.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Look Out.

Willie-Oh, mother, here's lit
tie green snakel
Mother-Well, stay away from It.
It may be just as dangerous as
ripe one.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Wauuing. Part of London

Mapping Is the name of the old
section of London below the Tower
where many of the docks are To-
Gated. 1t is historically famous as
the place where pirates were for
merly hanged.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Doping the Geegees.

HESPITE revelations that some of
~ Americas most priced race
horses have repeatedly been doped,
one of the state racing boards rein
stated a trainer found guilty of this
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
ArEUn1Anf

what are those holes In the
wood?"
Those are knot holes"
They are holesi Don't you think
I know a hole when / see one?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

AnneriCana=

By Elmo Scott Watson

"I9 Days Hath September :"
"THIRTY days hath September
L. ;" Thus runs the familiar
jingle, but it wasn't true in the year
1852 when Great Britain (and her
American colonies) adopted the
Gregorian calendar. In that year,
the month had only 10 days.
But let James Franklin in his
"Poor Jobs Almanac" Gan inita-
ton of his brother, Benjamin
Franklin's Poor Richards Alma
nac"O, tell it:
Kind Reader: You have now such year az
you never saw before, nor will see hereafter,
the King and Parliament of Great Britain hav-
ing thought proper 10 enact that the month OF
September, 1752, shall contain but nineteen
days, which will shorten this year eleven days,
and have extended the same throughout the
British dominions; so that we are not 70 have
two beginnings 20 our years, but the hrst 81
January is to be the first day and the frat
month of the year 1852.
Eleven days are taken from September, ard
begin, /, 2, II, Is, etc. Be not astonished,
nor look with concern, Dear Reader, at such
deduction of days, nor regret as for the loss OF
so much time, but take this for your consola-
ton, that your expenses will perhaps appear
lighter, and your mind be more al ease And
what an indulgence is here for those who love
their pillows, to lie down in peace on the Sec
ond of this month. and not perhaps awake or
be disturbed till the fourteenth. in the morning.
And, Reader, this is not 10 hasten the pay
nent of debts, freedom Of apprentices or sery-
ants, or the coming 20 age OF minors; but the
number of natural days IN all agreements are
to be fulfilled All Church Holidays and Courts
are to be on the same nominal days, and 50
deemed to be held eleven days later. Now,
Reader, since tits likely you may never have
such another year nor such another almanac
l would advise you to improve the one for your
own sake, and recommend the other tor the
sake Of your friend, Poor Job.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

SIOI Z. 4NOW dOdyo I14C
fellow who prowls the paddock just
before a race is liable either to go
to sleep suddenly or go to bucking.
It depends on whether the geegee
he shifts has been drugged to lose
or drugged to win.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Travis Jackson May Head
Giants New Rookie Farm

IF the Giants run a farm at Jersey
City next year Travis Jackson will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
BANG. BANG.

Bug Autoist III never hire
FREELY chauffeur again and let him
Ill my gasoline tanki
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03

There was Arlie Latham, boon
COMPANION of John McGraw and
La gaceta., 1936-08-06
DICK POWELL LUCHARA
CON Ell FELIZ

FL hombre del escandalo de
Dick Powell, Ell que estuvo dos
esta semana en- Benjamin Field,
wees en- la carcel Y sali6 sonrien
te y con mayor paga, luchara ell
pr6ximo lunes, en- la Arena de
los Artilleros, teniendo de con-
trario al argentine -1ntonio Fe-
liz.
Powell pega patadas } pune
.tazos. "sin distinction de perso-
mas, y Feliz es un experto en-
lucha, sabiendo atacar y defen-
derse.
Walter Underhill, otro villa
no, sera ell contrario de Larry
O'S:hocker, un sensational j6-
ven luchador del Norte.
Big Bill Middlekauff, ell cor
pulento floridano, Sc batira cor
Ell poderoso hebreo Friedman.
Dan Hogan y Don Mcintyre lu-
charan al comenzar ell progra-
ma.
La gaceta., 1936-08-06
JARRETT INICIARA
ACCION LEGAL CONTRA
Ell COMITE OLIMPICO

Berlin, agosto 6.-Arthur ia
rrett anunci6 aver su intenci6n
de tomar acci6n legal contra ell
comite Olimpico americana al
regresar a New York con su es-
posa, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, que
fue despedida del 'team" a su
llegada a Alemania.
Jarrett Sc indign6 cuando Sc
enter6 de que Avery Brundage
rehusaba "sentarse y hablar
tranquilamente acerca del case.
Cortesia es 10 menos que 20 po-
dia esperar despues de un viaje
de $500 millas lDeseaba tener to
dos los hechos e information dis
ponible.
Eleanor fue despedida por in
gerir bebidas alcoholics v VIC
lar las leyes del entrenamiento.