The Ely miner., 1937-04-29

out several seasons ago, still can
star for the Bees is simple. The
Boston infield is the deadest in the
league. That is, the ground is
so surfaced that balls do not take
the fast and erratic hops they take
in Chicago and other spots.
Dick Shikat, former world heavy
weight wrestling champion, is in
town trying to buck the Trust.
Indian Quintana is very anxious for
Champion Sixto Escobar to know
that he'd like to fight him for mon
ey, marbles or old moth balls.
Bowie, the track that opens and
closes the Maryland racing season,
once was a rabbit hunting ground.
.. Bill Johnston will promote box
ing at the Coney Island Velodrome
this summer. Also, not at all awed
by the task of filling the $4,000 seats
in the Velodrome, he is dickering
for show or two at the local ball
park. Johnny Neun, the former
Tiger who now manages Norfolk
in the Piedmont league, also is
Baltimore sports writer as well as
a noted basketball and soccer Of
fetal.
Although he is doing well enough,
it is Jack Dempsey's ambition to
promote a big heavyweight cham
pionship fight. An American
league club could make a smart
move by picking up Babe Herman.
The former Dodger still has a year
or two of big-time baseball left in
him and change of surroundings
would give him chance to bring it
out. :. Purists can take the word
of one of the nations most cele-
brated gambling house proprietors
as t. why roulette wheels-which
never fail to provide the house with
a better than per cent profit
still remain in action. He says,
"We gotta keep 'em going. The men
got wise long ago. But we gotta lot
ia lady customers and they squawk
like hell whenever we try to remove
the wheels. Incidentally, an
other eminent proprietor of such de-
vices of the devil provides the in
formation that 45 per cent of the
money gambled in Florida during
the past winter was gambled by the
gals.
The main thing holding up the
sale of the Dodgers is Judge Steve
McKeever. The Ebbets heirs, who
own so per cent of the stock, are
more than willing to peddle their
end. So are the Ed McKeever heirs,
who own Is per cent. But even
though his Is per cent of the stock
is in his daughters name and she
would like to get rid of the head
aches it causes her, the Judge has
been holding out for the past sev-
eral weeks. Keeps insisting that
Cap Huston must let him have
Is per cent of Brooklyn's new deal
or there will be no sale. Naturally
Huston, who very well knows how
divided ownership already has
wrecked baseball's best town, is
firmly opposed to this.
Harry F. Sinclair, once a mighty
turf force, has only one horse left
on his expansive farm in Jobstown,
N. j. That's the old, and once truly
great, Grey Lag. Jimmy Foxx is
playing first base for the Cam
bridge, Mass, Latin school base
ball team while Lou Gehrig is a
candidate for second base. They
are not related to the major
leaguers.
Sam Leslie, the Giants first base
man, wanted to be a prize fighter.
Herb Stegman, who virtually
junked a Harvard education and
an architectural profession to be-
come a wrestling referee in Los
Angeles, is writing a piece for a
magazine on the life of a referee
and is calling it: BOO for the Ref
cree" Bob O'Farren, the
Waukegan boy who made good be-
fore Jack Benny ever owned a vio-
lin, says Carl Hubbell is the great
est pitcher he ever caught and
among O'Farrell's battery mates in
the National league were Dizzy Dean
and Grover Alexander. George
Uhle, coach of the Cleveland Indi-
ans, says Bob Feller's greatest as
set is his wrist action.