The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-05-13

there may have been some improve
ment here and there. Lou Chiozza
is not as finished a third base per-
former as Travis Jackson, but he
has added needed speed. Then Hal
Schumacher, who made his mates
uneasy each time he went to the
mound in 1886, seems back in form.
But don't go to asking too many
questions about the Dodgers. The
BroOklyns have so many other wOr-
ries that it would be unfair to take
their minds off their work just SO
that you can give good example
of what killed the eat. In word,
the Dodgers continue to be the
Dodgers.
Manush, so long as his legs hold
up, will provide line-drive assistance
that the directors would not obtain
for the fans twelve months ago. The
experienced Woody English prob
ably can combine with young Cookie
Lavagetto to produce more double
plays than could the keystone COM
bination so generously allotted to
the fans by the owners in 1886. Yet
the truth is that the Improvement is
not enough to make any apprecia-
BILE difference. Like the Ebbets field
teams of 1885 and all too many other
recent years, the Dodgers just do
not have class.
They try hard, just as did the
sorely battered outfit which played
the second best ball in the league
from July on last year. The addi-
ton of such fighting veterans as
Manush and English makes differ
ence now just as it would have last
spring. There also are schedule
blessings, such as the fact that the
club meets favored Westerners on
the home terrain, before venturing
upon a long campaign on foreign
terrain.
That may mean-indeed probably
will mean-the Dodgers will do rel
atively well in the early stages of
the race After that weaknesses that
were evident to all on opening day
and pitching problems that soon
must crop up will tell the story.
A summer book rating of the ESQ.,
called Ivy League football teams
makes Penn the favorite and Yale
the second choice, with Princeton
figured to battle Columbia for show
money. Incidentally N. Y. us Nal
Stevens says that Captain Clint
Franks Yale backfield should be
the best seen on an eastern grid
iron in many years.
Unsung heroes always are being
uncovered at the strangest places
and now Princeton has come up
with one in the form of a wrestling
coach. He is Jimmy Reed, former
Lehigh two-tims national champion
and Olympic star, who produced at
least one titleholder during each of
the five years he has been at Mas
sau His mat teams have been I'M
defeated during the past two sea-
sons in dual meets and the Tigers
got so excited about it that 2,700-
one of the biggest Princeton indoor
sports crowds on record-of them
"ltuCooCO OliC illCCt last WiltlCl
Corporal Izzy Schwartz, former
fiyweight champion, now is a mo-
tion picture operator at Fordham
theater. Weighs 154 pounds, al.
though he used to have to build him.
self up to make 10 -. Lou
ErOuillard, the middleweight, has
purchased 140 pigs for his farm near
Worcester, Mass. Balls used
in National League games are made
six months in advance of the time
they are distributed to the teams,
Takes them that long to age prop.
erly. Jack Knott and Sam West are
the only members of the Browns who
were with the club when Rogers
Hornsby took charge.