The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-02

observed that perfect
communion between horse and rider
when they were winning the $4,000
feature here, l do not doubt it.
Wright, who rode Top Row in the
Santa Anita, also says that Brevity is
the best horse of the year. Probably,
at the moment, he is correct in that,
too. Yet for the benefit of newspaper
brethren who, short weeks ago, were
beating the drums for Discovery and
the NJ. Y. U. basketball team one or
two things might be limited at before
the Kentucky classic is permitted to
go by default.
Prize fighters who are seeking their
fortunes down in Florida are getting
little save Sunburn this season. / saw
two fast neutrality-suspicious. perform
the other night before a crowd Of 600.
There were four knockdowns before
the final convincer was put on in the
fifth. The winners end was So, the
losers 81.
Miami would like to persuade one of
the New York teams to train there
next year but citizens still are putting
the rap on Bill Terry. Their year-oId
complaint concerns the admission fees
charged by the Giants. Phil Vein
traub, the hard-hitting outfelder ped
died by the Giants, also no longer
loves his former boss. :. Young Eddie
Thomas, who got them off so neatly at
Santa Anita, is the best starter since
the celebrated and departed Dade, &C
cording to horsemen who have arrived
here from California. He will work at
Detroit this summer and they are hop
ing that the New York state racing
commissioners will scout him.
Suggested sign for Shibe park, home
of the ailing A's-"Abandon hope all
We who enter here" :. Although some
umpires are nubbed a dozen times a
season, Bill Klein has never been hit
by a batted ball during his 80 years
of being the best of them all.
Duffy, the Boston college end who
hopes to pitch for the Dodgers this
year, looks like Rudy Vallee and knows
it. Jai Lai stars look enviously
even at rookie ball players. Their sport
requires rare skill and possibly is the
worlds fastest, yet S65 week with
occasional So bonuses for winning
games) is tops for them.
Bill Dwyer, the hockey, night club
and racing magnate who was so badly
bent only few months ago, is getting
back into the "bet-a-milliOn" class. Z. i.
Rumor mongers have it that Mike ia
cobs' contract for promoting Joe Louis
fights contains a loop-hole by which
the Brown Bomber can forsake the
Hearst A. C. when the time comes
to battle for the heavyweight title. s. :.
Whispers persist that the Cubs are
covering up concerning the true state
of affairs in Lon Warneke's arm.
They 1.-THE rumor makers) say that the
ailing wing never will return to 1885
form.
While training in Puerto Rico the
Reds played against several teams we'll
loaded with performers from the Amer
lean negro leagues. They say that one
hurler could make Lefty Grove look
like a slow-ball pitcher and that at
least five other dusky lads would be
$4,000 a year stars If permitted in the
big time The negroes draw $50
week for their Puerto Rico playing and
are glad to get it. Jim Braddock, re-
Gently returned from refereeing wres-
Ting bouts in the cotton and peanut
area, did all his travelling by automo-
bile For several weeks he averaged
800 miles a day at 90 miles per hour.
. GossiperS insist that Madison
Square Garden wants to back pro
basketball league Zone in which all col
legians are definitely ex) next winter.