The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-01-28

program will be the cross country ski
races. This will be five mile run
beginning at the ski slide and ending
there. The course will be so arranged
that the contestants will be in view of
spectators from the ski slide Elmo
PasSi is In charge of this event and all
contestants are requested to register
with him at once.
The ski jumping contest will follow
the long distance races, according to the
propram prepared by the committees.
Riders are expected from Duluth, Hib-
bling, Coleraine, Haley and other points
in the state. As the Ely Ski Club is
a member of the Central Association
and automatically a member of the Ma
tional Association, riders from all clubs
may participate for records.
Clarence Chinn will have charge of
the dog derby in which the favorite
pets OF all boys and girls up to 16 years
Of age may enter. This race is sched-
uled from the Standard Oil station on
Central avenue to the ski slide, a dis
lance of three blocks. Dogs should be
entered by Saturday to participate in
the competition.
The annual tug of war between the
Oliver and Zenith forces is an attrac-
ton near the skating rink. This event
is looked forward to by the mine en-
ployees as furnishing a test of strength
of their individual teams. The rope
will be stretched through large snow
bank and the winning team will pull
their adversaries through the bank
Skating races for both men and
women at the rink will be feature. A
program of two races each for the
senior men and two for the senior
women have been arranged. The
younger skaters also will have their
innings for prizes.
A major attraction expected to prove
popular with all classes will be the ex-
hibition skating by Frank Sullivan and
his troupe of talented youngsters who
will present series of numbers in
GLIDING a comic, double, dance, single
and tango numbers.
Mr.. Sullivan will be accompanied by
Roberta Barton, Robert Specht, Alice
Barthelme, Jenny Tancig and Carol
Jean Smith, youngsters of professional
ability and members of the National
Association of Figure Skaters. They
put on show of exceptional merit and
appeared at major ice events of the
northwest including the Paul Bunyan
carnival at Bemidji and the Winter
Sports carnival at st. Paul.
A broombau contest between the
Oliver police force and the City force,
entered under the name of the Oliver
Cops and City Cops, will open the even
ings festivities at the rink followed by
another game between teams made up
of County employees and Standard Oil
employees known as the County Crew
and Standard Oilers.
Hockey gmes between the Ely North
Star team and the Eveleth team and
the Ely Oilers and CCC teams will be
played in the evenings schedule. The
hockey games promise to be warmly
contested as teams named have de-
monstrated their ability in the contests
SO far this winter.
Amplifiers are being arranged and
prepared by Bill Strand through which
the announcements will be made. This
feature will be appreciated as an
nouncements will be heard over the en-
tire section given over to skating and
hockey for the afternoon and evening.
Community skating will follow the
races and events. Music for this will
be furnished through the amplifier
system.