The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

the best team in the league but that
the Cubs will provide the main OPP
position and that Rip Collins will
star in the full 154 games.
Harry Voiler, the fight movie man
has plans to win the ight-heavy-
weight championship with AL De-
laney. Delaney's injured hand, in
cidentally, has entirely healed and
he will soon resume fighting. >. One
of the prides of the Stevens Broth
ers, the racetrack and ball park
restaurant men, is that they have
more than 1,500 employees. But that
no valued employee ever has left
them except on account of death
or extreme old age.
Millionaire John Hertz doesn't
seem to care who knows how sore
he is about rumors that the Illinois
Racing commission will favor
Washington Park over his Arlington
Park in the assignment of dates
this year. Wilcey Moore, former
Yankee sinker ball pitcher, still has
a span of mules called Babe and
Ruth which he won from the home
run king his first year on the club. >.
Babe bet Moore that he wouldn't
make three hits during the season.
He made four. Moore is a
gentleman farmer at Hollis, Okla,
in the winter. He is with the Kan
sas City Blues this season. Stan
Laurel, the movie comedian, inter-
rupted a vacation cruise to stop in
Cuba and watch the New York
Giants work out. . Benevolent cit
liens of Auburn, WASH, are caring
for Amos Rusie, old New York
Giant pitching star, and his wife,
who were dispossessed recently
when a mortgage was foreclosed on
their farm.
Although his best friends tell him
to forget it Jack Dempsey still
dreams of promoting one big heavy
weight championship fight. 4. Harry
Hooper, regarded as one of the fin
est sun fielders in major league his
tory, once was charged with three
errors on two successive pitched
balls when playing right field for
the White Sox. He fumbled two
flies and made wild throw on one
of them. Shoeless Joe Jackson
now weighs 230 pounds and owns
two automobiles. Joseph Widener
has shipped four juveniles, I'm
breakable, Entertaine, Silver Spear,
and Soda to England. :. Fred Perry
shares Ellsworth Vines enthusiasm
for golf. Hans Steinke, former
heavyweight wrestler, is mat ref
cree on the Pacific coast. Bill
Terry's favorite Cuban dish is pes
cado papillot, a mixture of lobster,
crab, crawfish, shrimps and truffle
wrapped and cooked in a creased
paper.
Two sophomores with the Iowa
baseball team on its southern trip
are relatives of major league play
ers. Harold Manders of Abel,
Ia, right-handed pitcher, is cousin
of Bob Teller and Arthur Manush
of Burlington is nephew of Heinie
Manush. Although Glenn Cum
ningham set them both in the same
race, the American mile record is
lower than the worlds. Cunning
ham ran the distance in 4:067, but
since the International federation
does not recognize tenth of second
timing in races above a quarter of
a mile the world mark is listed as
4:06.8. George Sisler once made
five errors in a game with the st.
Louis Browns, Coleman Clark.
former national table tennis cham
pion, practiced seven and eight
hours day for five years. A
picture of the late Miller Higgins is
the only decoration in Joe McCar-
thy's dressing room at the Yankees
training camp. ;. Purdue used 100
footballs last season at So a ball