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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-29
Diner Turned the Tables
On COMMITTING Couple

Upon receiving his bill, the diner
added it up and found that he had
been overcharged 81.
How Gomez" he asked, looking
sharply at the waitress.
We'll, you see, sir, she replied,
''the cashier bet me half a dollar
that you wouldn't see it and I bet
him you would. Just a friendly
little wager"
With a smile the customer wrote
something on the back Of the bill,
folded it, and said: Take that
to the cashier"
She did so, and on opening If the
two were startled to read: ''Tu
bet SIS I shall not be here when
you get back"
And he wasn't.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-29

Ukiah team. Five teams-that's
what you might call putting in a
FULL season.
Most of his teams had victorious
sweeps, but it was not until 1901
when his famous battle cry of
''Hurry-up-Hurry-up" arrived at
Michigan that Yost came to instant
fame.
81 still believe those Michigan
teams from 1901 through 1905 were
the greatest five consecutive foot
ball teams any university ever
moved into destructive action. Play
ing through heavy schedules they
won SIS games, tied one and lost
one while scoring around 5000
points.
Yost coached Michigan for Is
years before he took over the direc-
torship of athletes. In those Is
years his teams won 169 games and
lost but 10. They won or tied for
the Big Ten title eight times, and
during IL of those Is years the
Maize and Blue was not in the con-
ference.
What an aIl-time Michigan team
Yost could have put into the field
from the men he coached. He turned
out Is All-American nominations
through 1926.
In addition to all this, Yost directed
the construction of six athletic
buildings, including the Michigan
Stadium that seats some 81, 200
people.
Il Football Life
For over 40 years football has
been Yost's life. He has eaten it,
dreamed it, talked it and lived it.
The last time saw him we had
lunch together at one o'clock. At
three o'clock the next morning he
was still showing me what made a
good punter, and how to block. At
the finish I was a battered and a
beaten wreck.
You have to be In ideal condition
to talk with Yost. He hammers
your chest with the powerful, stub
by fingers of both hands.
Someone asked Ring Lardner one
day if he had ever spoken to Yost.
''No," Ring said. my father
taught me never to interrupt"
I started to say that football and
sport will miss Fielding H. Yost.
This is a mistake.
He'll be around for long time
yet. Stop Yost? Not with the
standing army, the navy and the
marines. / gave up trying 40 years
ago. When he is 80, viii be wear
ing a chest protector when we meet.
No other man has ever given as
much heart, soul, brain and tongue
to the game he loved-footbal.
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Long Cable Transport

The longest aerial-cable trans
portation system ever built, now
nearing completion in Sweden, is
% miles in length and viii be used
to carry limestone from a quarry
to cement factory. It's $50 skips,
or buckets, are filed and emptied
automatically and some of its tow
ers, suspending the cable over
waterways, are lat feet high to
avoid obstructing ships.
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FIELDING HURRY-UP YOST of
! Michigan was 70 years old a
month ago. He came along when
football was young and at 20 he is
still as rugged as his West Vir-
ginia oaks or his Michigan hem
locks.
BY rule of the Western confer
ence, 20 is the retiring age, which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-29

means that one OF
the ablest and most
colorful characters
from the American
sporting scene has
come to the end of
a football road that
goes back to West
Virginia and the
autumn of 1895.
Only Lonnie Stage
and Pop Warner
can look back a
deeper distance to
a faraway past
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-29

CROCHET this cape In cotton or
~ wool for evening or daytime
wear-for glamour or coziness.
It's such easy handiwork.
Pattern 2768 contains directions for max
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materials required. For a pattern Of this
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-22

free-wheeling and effective swing.
And those were the days when Ed
Walsh was spinning his famous
"spitter" through-when they were
using emery balls, and every type
Of fuzz to make the ball dip and
skid and duck and slide.
about Jackson
Who was this rookie who could
neither read nor write, who had
gone shoeless in most of his earlier
games, to challenge the great Cobb?
Connie Mack had turned him back
in 1908 and 1909. Cleveland had
turned him back to New Orleans in
1910. Why, we'll never know. For
his lowest average in those years
had been 1854.
Even = blind man could sense the
lyrical smoothness Of his swing.
That year Shoeless Joe carried Ty
Cobb to the wire. Ty finished at
40. jackson, the rookie, at .40S.
Ty needed his greatest year to beat
Jackson out.
Was Shoeless Joe merely a one
year fluke?
A year later Cobb found himself
down the stretch, again batting
above 400, with jackson now in the
lead. jackson was APO. It was
here that Ty, applying winning psy-
chology, refused to speak to Jack
son in a Detroit Cleveland series and
Shoeless Joe, wondering what he
had done to offend friend, fell into
q brief slump.
At least this is the story of those
days. In any event, Ty went on to
win with an average of .4l0 against
Jackson's 1895.
In those two seasons the Shoeless
Swinger had averaged .402 for his
first two years in the majors, yet he
couldn't lead the league.
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were sobbing over his long string
of second places. In the winter Of
1928 Craig had earned berth on
the Ryder Cup team that journeyed
to England to play the British pros.
While over there Wood and Denny
Shute tied for the British Open.
Shute won the playon and Craig's
legend Of being Mr.. Runner-Up got
its start. The legend gained mo-
mentum when Wood lost the 1884
P.G.A. final to Paul Runyan on the
second extra hole. Then he was
beaten by Gene Sarazen and 4
history-making double eagle in tho
1885 Masters. The series was eli
NAKED with his double tie with By
ron Nelson and Shute for the 1889
U. S. Open.
Victory no longer comes as sur
prise to Wood-in spite of that for
mer overabundance of second
places. Craig knows he has the
ability to win, and that new con-
fidence stems from tournament
held back in May, 1910. That tour
nament was the Met Open, ancient
New York classic. Ben Hogan,
Goodall Round Robin winner, was
the favorite to take the Met.
Scoring Record
But Craig paid little or no atten-
ton to the dopesters. He started
of with an incredible GA, seven un-
der par. Then he reeled OF rounds
Of 66-6S66 for a roaring 72-hole total
Of 264 strokes, an all-time scoring
record.
In addition to welding a smoking
putter, Craig is one of the games
long hitters, averaging about 275
yards. He himself says that only
Sam Snead and Jimmy Thompson
outdrive him and that Byron Nelson
is one of the very few who surpass
him on the long fairway shots.
Part of his latter-day success,
Craig states, is due to a carefully
cultivated fade. This sounds bit
battling to the average golfer who
connects slice with loss of dis
lance. Before 1884 Wood had been
a "shut-face" hitter. In other
words, he hooked his ball. And
each year he found himself getting
less and less distance as his club
smothered more and more. Long
developed habit made it exceedingly
difficult for him to open up the club
face. That he did it with a maxi
mum of results is evidence of long
hours spent in improving his game.
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liant pioneering of Meteorologist Viii
helm Bjerknes. An enthusiastic
Bjerknes disciple, Carl-Gustaf Ar
vid Rossby, brought it to the U. S.
in 1926, founded top-notch me
teorology school at Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology. Airlines
and other private concerns to whom
accurate forecasts were vital
snapped it up. Now the U. S. wealth
er bureau has IS air-mass stations
two operated by the army and seven
by the navy-ranging from mid-At-
lantic to Alaska to Hawaii.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-22

When the American league season
Of 1911 opened Ty Cobb, the Georgia
Peach, had led his league four sue
cessive seasons. At the age Of Is
he was just coming to his peak.
That same year . tall, lanky en-
try from Brandon Mills, s. c., had
reported to Cleveland from New Or
leans. His name was Shoeless Joe
Jaekssn, 1.-THE Carolina Crash
smith," picked by Cobb, Ruth and
Speaker n "the greatest natural
hitter that ever lived"
20, the brave song his black bat
sung as Shoeless Joe stepped into
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the ball. Cobb, on
his way then to nine
straight batting
championships and
a run of IL league
leading years out of
- in a row, kept
waiting for the Car
olina rookie to
break. Cobb started
above 400 and he
kept above 400. But
he couldn't shake
of the gangling
challenger with the
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eroaehing years. II may be the
humidity. But IN stand on the hg-
1res and the class, n the multi
tides Of ls4l stifie = laugh.
Cobb JacksOn-l9ll
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WE(

M nLIONS of those who follow
A'A baseball on the field or through
the sporting pages of the country
have become steamed up over the
stretch batting battle between Ted
Williams Of the Boston Red Sox and
Joe DiMaggio of the New York YAM
KEGS. Here are the two great mod
ern hitters, the ranking class Of l941
with 400 or whereabouts set as the
winning goal.
They deserve all the plaudits and
the hoarse huzzas of those who fol-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-22

tcold, dry)-gliding, tongue-like bod
les sometimes five or six miles
thick. U. S. analysts now send up
small, cheap, hydrogen-filled bal
looms carrying acknowledgements
or "radiosondes"-small, compact
recorders which automatically
transmit data to the ground by ra-
dio.
1t was in Norway about two dec
AIDES ago that air-mass analysis got
its start, largely through the bril-
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Speaking Il
SPORTS
oy ROBERT MeSHANE


CRAIG WOOD, 39-year-old golf
~ pro. climaxed one Of the great
est comebacks in the history Of the
game with his recent victory over
Vic Ghezzi for the unofficial world
championship.
Winner of the National Open and
the Masters tournament but elimi-
mated in the P.G.A. classic as he
sought the coveted triple crown, the
blond marksman won his mythical
championship with considerable
ease.
With 4 sizzling nine under par,
Wood defeated Ghezzi, P.G.A. king,
in 4 special 72-hole match played
at the Mahoning Country club In
Girard, Ohio. Besides the mythical
title, the and victory gave Craig
$3.50.
To all intents, the tournament was
settled the opening round of the first
day. Wood fred birdie two on
the first hole and finished the morn
ing round with a seven-under-par 50
one stroke better than the official
course record set back in 1929.
More than one authority claimed it
the best round Of the year.
Putting Magic
When the match ended on the
sixty-eighth green, Wood had an
eagle, IA brides and eight bogeys.
Ghe1Ii collected Is brides and 10
one-overs.
Wood won the match-as he has
won other matches-with a putter
that functioned like a magician's
wand. But such wasn't always the
case. 1t wasn't long ago that critics
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-22

Air-mass analysis is the biggest
thing in modern weather forecast
ing. Weather is three-dimension-
al phenomenon, SO instead of con-
filming itself to surface observations,
air-mass analysis gets off the
ground. Its practitioners take tenn
perature, pressure and humidity re-
cordings in the upper air, so that
they can study the movements and
Intersections of tropical masses
(warm, weD and polar masses
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-08-22
THE TAX COLLECTOR
GETS YOU ALL RIGHT

YOU MAY NOT SEE the tax col
lector with bill in his hand at
the front door, but you may be sure
he will sneak around the back and
come in with the groceries.
He collects from every dollar you
spend.
He is represented in So different
ways to a total of one cent on each
loaf of bread you buy.
From each dollar you spend, he
collects fraction over 10 cents.
These are the hidden" taxes our
representatives in congress hope we
will not know about or object to.
With them is not included any item
for which the tax collector directly
presents you a bill. They do not
cover the taxes you pay on your
home, your farm, your personal
property, the license for your auto
mobile or your income taxes.
1t does mean that for every hum
dred dollars you spent during 1910,
you paid the tax collector more than
SO.
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low the base hit
from the single to
the home run. But
if a few Of these
millions don't mind
I'd like to take
them back into a
younger country
and tell them the
story of three ma
jor hitting contests
that / believe over
shadow Williams
and DiMaggio.
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Cobb and Speaker

Cobb had run into a close call
years before against Larry Lajoie,
the most graceful ball player of all
time and one of the games great
hitters. But he came to the cam
paign of 1916 for his tenth consecu-
tive shot at the batting champion
ship. Today they rave about one
year at the top.
Here was his chance to lead his
league 10 straight years. Cobb
went into tailspin. He batted Gully
ST. as Speaker finished at .386.
He had been facing such pitching
stars as Cy Young, Walter John
son, Ed Walsh, Addie Joss, Rube
Waddell, Eddie Plank, Chief Bend
er, Jack COMBS, Smoky Joe Wood
IAN amazing galaxy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
WHAT ABOUT THE
IOWA FARMERS2

Everybody was enthusiastic a few
weeks ago about attracting to Imperial
Valley part of the group of Iowa farm
ers whose land had been purchased from
them by the federal government to make
room for new defense factories and other
expanding government facilities The
county board of supervisors discussed
plans for telling the farmers about I'M
perial Valley, and about the opportun-
tiles they can find here.
Today the plans seem TO have slowed
down to a practical standstill And
every day that passes lessons the chance
that any of these displaced farmers will
be. induced to settle in Imperial Valley,
because every day increases the chances
that many of them have decided upon
some other region in which to settle.
We have so much TO offer these practi-
cal, Woodworking, prosperous farmers
that it should not be overly difficult to
bring at least some of them to the valley.
Here, again, our big trouble is in our
old bugaboo-the lack of some centraliZ-
ed, well financed, thoroughly efficient
agency devoted entirely to- publicizing
Imperial Valley in the right places. The
structural weakness of the county board
of trade, discussed here q few days ago,
shows up clearly in this instance. The
board has neither the money, the time
nor the personnel to follow through on
such a campaign as would be needed to
attract the Iowa farmers here. 1t is not
the boards fault 1t is the fault of the
setup as it now is 1t is within the power
of the board of supervisors to improve
and strengthen that setup until the board
of trade would be exactly the kind Of
agency we need.
No other organization in the county
could do as much as a properly organiz
ed, sufficiently financed and officially
recognized board of trade to influence
the choice of the group of farmers who
are now seeking new homes after selling
out in the middle-west No chamber of
commerce, no service club, no private
organization, would carry the weight
with the farmers that a county govern
mental agency like the board of trade
could muster
We're missing a chance today because
we have no real agency through which to
publicize our valley from a valley-wide
standpoint If we do not remedy the sit
uation, we'll be missing a lot more
chances in the future.
It's time we We're doing something
about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
by. Willis Thornton
The Two Dear Charillers'

Debonair Captain Macheath OF
Gays "Beggar's Opera" was torn
between two loves-a sort OF Sia-
mese-- twin passion for Polly Peach
UNI and Lucy Lockit. Thus bedevil-
ed, the cap in sings the familiar
rueful refrain:
How happy I could - w.ta ell
ther,
Were t'other dear charmer
aWay!"
The United States is getting into
somewhat similar predlcament.
We love Polly England, but we also
love Lucy Latin- America. And Polly
is now suggesting that we do some
things that We've promised Lucy
not to do.
More plainly: 1t has been sug-
gested that under the proposed
lend lease plan. the United States
might open its ports for repair and
refitting of British warships, I'm
official suggestions have also come
from Britain that the British would
like to establish contraband con-
troll base at Trinidad. and also to
deny American port facilities to
all neutral ships "blacklisted' by
the British as carrying on trade
unfavorable to the British cause.
The difficulty is here: The Unit
ed States would not seem to be free
to do those things. There are care
fully cultivated relationships with
Central and South America to be
considered. And in furtherance of
those relationships, the United
States is party to certain agree
mentS.
AT the Panama Inter American
conference in October, 1899. eer-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
Crackers
Well Known Names

Weil Known Names
Some names pop up SO frequently
in the same places that it seems
one man is getting more than his
share of publicity, but it generally
turns out there are two men of
the same name involved. Can you
tell what these persons have in
common besides the same names.
l. Henry Knox and Frank Knox.
2. William Henry Harrison and
Benjamin Harrison.
8. Edwin c. Johnson and Hiram
W. johnson.
4. Alan Baxter and Warner Bax-
ter.
5. George Rogers Clark and vii
liam, Clark.
Answers
/. Both were cabinet members.
Henry Knox was first secretary of
war: Frank Knox is now secretary
Of the navy.
2. Both were Presidents of the
United States. Benjamin was
grandson of William Henry Harri-
son.
3. Both are senator's. Edward c.
Johnson is a Colorado Democrat:
Hiram w. johnson is a California
Republican.
4 Both are moving picture actors.
Alan Baxter specializes in criminal
roles; Warner Baxter in male leads.
5. Both were American frontiers
men. George Rogers Clark operated
IN the middle west; William Clark
explored the northwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

it's satisfactory, but Captain Hust-
vedt is expected to check on ev-
erything also. Another part of his
Job is TO see that the infinity OF
small stores and accessory equip
ment gets aboard. This includes
a staggering list of items ranging
from a set of flags of all nations
to 5000 feet of three-inch anchor
chain, and running to such unex-
pected things as an electrical bac-
THEOLOGICAL incubator, soda foun-
tain. four sewing machines, six
barber chairs, a dentists chair, a
portable pulpit, 38 oil lanterns, a
garbage incinerator, an assortment
of brooms and swabs and a supply
of neatly printed ships stationery
TEST RUN TURNS
UP THE BUGS"
Getting the ship into commission
doesn't end the get-ready work,
either. The new crew has to be
trained in handling the vessel.
There must be a shakedown cruise,
with a return to the navy yard for
adjustment of minor bugs" that
are sure to be discovered. After
that comes a trip to Rockland, Me,
for official tests over a measured
mile course. with careful checking
of fuel consumption, propeller revo-
lutlonS. speed and the like. More
adjustments and repairs will fol-
low those tests.
Then-some time in June, the ma
Wy hopes-the first battleship Un-
Gle Sam has put into service for
l8 years will be ready to take her
place as fighting unit in the bat
tie fleet.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
KAISER BILLS BIRTHDAY

Wilhelm Hohenzollern, % years ago
the war lord of Germany, quietly cele-
brates his S2nd birthday in Holland this
week.
No longer the active woodchopper he
once was, the former KAISER Bill' can
perhaps find dubious satisfaction in one
fact He is no longer in exile as he was
a year ago. To all purposes. Holland
has been embraced within the realm of
Greater Germany under leader whose
military success, thus far, might we'll
arouse the envy of HohenZollern.
Or does the dour and taciturn Wilhelm
ii foresee for Hitler the same disaster
which overlook him in the violent first
ten days of November 1918? Certainly
the HohenZollerns We're more deeply i'm
bedded in the traditions and sentiments
of the German people than the Nazi hier-
archy has yet become. For five full cen
turies that family of mobiles and kings
progressively extended their power and
lands in Germany By force of arms until,
seventy years ago, a Unified nation emerg
ed under their dominion. But it was a
nation in which unity was imposed from
the top. Up to the final hour, the rul-
ing nobility thought of the people as
subjects rather than as citizens, and re-
garded democratic trends as a menace
to powerful monarchy. When the last
of the Hohenzolerns abdicated, there
was something that could not abdicate
or be easily obiterated from Germany
a five centuries old tradition of central
lied power, a deeply ingrained respect
for authority, bureaucratic officialdom
and a governing caste who were not rep
resentatives but masters.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, a former mas
ter himself, may we'll reflect this week
that even masters have no protection
against devastating Waterloos which
send their grandiose schemes spinning
into the dust
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
NIEMBER

tain agreements were reached by
the 81 American nations, aimed at
keeping war away from the Ameri-
cas-.
These stated flatly that the AM
erican states would prevent their
respective terrestrial. maritime and
aerial territories 'Vfrom being utiliz-
I &c bases of bel.igerent opera
tions. II; { belli gerent warships
shall not be allowed to remain In
their, own ports or waters for more
"a hours That they shall require
all belligerent vessels and aircraft
seeking the hospitality of areas un-
der their jurisdiction and control
to respect strictly their neutral sta
tus." And, basically. that "the Am
erican Republics. as long as they
maintain neutrality, have the in
disputable right to preserve free
from all hostile acts on the part
of any non American belligerent
nation those waters adjacent TO the
American continent which they
consider of primordial interest and
of direct utility for their relations"
These principles we have agreed
to jointly with the other American
nations We can scarcely abandon
any of them, in letter or in spirit.
of our own accord and without
agreement with them. without jeo-
pardizing the good will we have
been so iaboriously building.
Contraband Inspection in Ameri-
can waters and on r-American
trade routes. opening of ports To
belligerent war vessels, acquiescence
in British black list" would seem
to float directly these Joint neutral-
ity agreements. - +
How happy we could be with
either, were t'other dear charmer
aWayl :
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-06
TURN ABOUT

Strikes are the worst enemies of the
labor unions, particularly when they are
completely unjustified One of these
days perhaps the union chieftains will
recognize the fact, and two things will
come to the working man in the United
States: industrial peace and greater
prosperity.
The Imperial Valley lettuce strike is
as good a proving ground as any of the
harm strikes can do labor union. Taken
in connection with the Salinas-Watson-
vile debacle of 1886 it is a perfect ex
ample.
Shed workers flocked away from the
A. F. of l.. and, in many instances, to the
CIO after the AFI. bungled the Salinas
strike in 1886. Thus the union sponsor
ing the strike lost most of its members
because of it. Now, in Imperial Val
ley, the Clo is losing most Of its mem
bers, and the AFL is gaining them back,
because of CIO sponsored strike.
Who's next?