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The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Same Old Problem Makes
Deeds of 1871 Team
UnpredictdbLe.

/ First job involving the Ely junior
college football team when school be-
gins Tuesday will be to determine il
IL men are willing and available tC
come out for the sport, Edward T
Buckley, athletics director, told The
Miner today.
The same problem has faced ths
college every year since football was
started in the fall of 1899, but this
year, at the present moment, it seems
more acute than during the others.
In the spring of 1899, when talk
about inaugurating the gridiron game
first became serious, there were many
who threw up their hands and declared
that there weren't enough prospects
to make a second-class line. Even the
most ardent hackers of the drive to
put the sport on the college calendar
privately admitted that a couple of
faculty members might have to be
disguised as students in order to get
backfeld.
But squad Of about 18 reported
for the sport, ready and willing to
tackle with bare hands the thunder
bolts that were prophetically turned
upon them. Well, when the clouds of
battle cleared away, no one was killed,
except a half dozen expert" seers on
the Mesabi range, and the Ely team
closed the season with at least a
moral claim on the Northern Junior
College conference title, although Vir-
ginia was in actual possession of it
Ely had a little bad luck in the final
game with Eveleth or it might have
been an entirely different story.
Dawned the 1910 season, and the local
fans foresaw nothing but grief and
tough Shedding for the college club,
with not enough regulars left over to
make a second-ciass line, etc.
With not even a full team avail
able, how could the boys possibly fol-
low in the footsteps of the initial
eleven? Designing eyes were again
cast at the ex-footban greats (and
there are a goodly number of them
if the truth be known on the
faculty
Well, history records that the 1910
team had possession of half the title,
the performance of the 1899
club. And again Ely suffered a little
bad luck in one game, TO defeat at
Itasca, which gave Itasca a half share |
in the conference crown. BY this time
the experts" on the Mesabi were |
up to the fact that Ely was
IN the conference.
Now comes the advent of the 1941 |
season. The burden of following in
past footsteps is enough to weigh the
coming squad to the ground.
There is half a conference title to |
defend, not to mention a few other |
TENS like avenging the Itasca defeat |
and polishing off the "favorites" that
The Mesabi experts" have already |
ined up for the title. The boys, if
hey step squarely where the spikes
Of their predecessors have torn up the
,urf, will have to upset" such per-
snnial title contenders as Virginia, |
and Eveleth.
Yes, there is a job ahead to get at
east IL men to sign Up for the team,
md once again designing eyes are di-
,ected toward the faculty. There will
De trouble and hard going apently.
The outcome? See you after the
male Oct. 18 with Duluth j. c. on
Memorial field.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
H|BBING COMING
HERE IN 7 DAYS!
Start of Football Wars
is Right at Your
ELbOU!

With the seasons opener, yes, sir
the initial game of the campaign, but
ONE WEEK away, Coach Steve
Smrekar isn't wasting any time in get
ting his 1941 Memorial high football
team into shape.
HIBBING will come here Friday
night, Sept. :, to give the Ely
gridderS their first test. This will
also be the opening game for the
BluejaeketS.
Since Sept. 7 is just SEVEN days
away, there's no time to lose, opines
Coach Smrekar; so the Memorial high
candidates for positions on the club
which will oppose Hibbing are being
given the works with a minimum of
emphasis on preliminary friIIs.
Going into its fourth year, this first
of-the-seaSOn game between Ely and
Hibbing is rapidly becoming a classic
of the first water. It's all fight and
no quarter when the two clubs take
to the field, and in the past they have
usually dished out to the fans one of
the best spectaCles Of the entire sea-
son.
Ely's lettermen, enough to make up
an entire team with a couple for re-
serve duty left over, may give the
Vernilion range the edge, for once,
for this years game, but this apparent
advantage may be narrowed down
somewhat when news from the Hib-
bling training camp comes in.
Memorial high will play a seven
game schedule, three games being
here and four on foreign gridirons.
Besides Hibbing, Tower and nnterna-
tionaI Falls will perform before local
crowd
Seventeen men turned out Monday
for the opening day of the practice.
Included in the group were seven
seniors, nine juniors, and lone soph-
omore Additional men may show up
the last of this week or when school
begins.
Candidates for positions, absent from
which are several of last seasons
letter men, follow:
Seniors-Louis Senta, William LIE
Beau. Merlyn Thompson, Gerald john
sin, Joe Buckner, Stanley Mestnik,
Sheldon Kayute.
Juniors-Joe Omerza, Robert Kosh,
Harold Koski, Roland Charles, Her
bert Kermit, John Spreitzer, Gilbert
Zbasnik, John Perushek, John Novak.
Sophomore Mauser.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

Ely defeated Virginia, 4-3, here Sun
day afternoon before a near capacity
crowd in the second game of the
three-game playoffs.
Slipping and sliding around on q
muddy field, the two clubs staged a
spirited fight in which Ely battled the
Ore Diggers to a standstill
With the score tied at all going
into the eighth, John Lefty" PuceI
proved himself a hero by smacking
out single between first and second
base that brought Al Banks in with
the winning run.
Banks, first up in the inning, sent
burning grounder to third base that
got away from Ernest Lamppa. Mana
ger Fritz Banks attempted a bunt 70
advance Al, but the ball went I'D. in
stead Of down, and Catcher Charles
Dellago had an easy out. Tony StukeI
then walked, putting men on first
and second, and Ed Buckley followed
with long fly to center field that ad-
vanced both runners.
Then Pucel, who held down left
field during the game, came through
with his game-saying single, scoring
Banks from third base Joe Novak.
who was having his worst day at bat
since the Hibbing game July 20, was
struck out to end the inning, but the
winning run was in and it didn't
make much difference.
Some nice work in the field ended
the game after Virginia had taken its
turn at bat to open the ninth Frank
Vertnik struck out Pitcher Arle Carl
son, who previously had garnered two
successive singles. long fly by s.
Gentilini to Don Prola in center field
went for the second out Then VIII
lard Hanson connected with a single,
but died on base as A. Lamppa, who
had two singles and a double 70 his
credit, flied out to Frank Lobe in left
field to end the game.
Three tallies in the fourth inning
gave Ely a head start on the Diggers.
Manager Banks, who walked, and
Stukel who singled, crossed the plate
when Buckley came through with q
long double. Before the next three
batters we're out, Buckley had travelled
from second to home with the third
run of the inning
Virginia made it 81 in the fifth as
Gentilini, safe at first on felder's
choice, came home on single by A
Lamppa, and then the Ore Diggers tied
the count at all IN the sixth as E
Lamppa and DeIlago crossed the plate
In the second inning Team President
William Langen was hit on the side
of the head by a pitched ball and
was forced to leave the game. Next
his eye was still swollen shut
and was as nice a black eye as any
ball player ever carried OF the dia-
mond Prola took over Langen's cen
ter field outpost, Lobe went TO left
field, and Pucel entered the game at
right field.
The box score:
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Cooler Weather to Stop
EncephGLitis Outbreak.

No new cases of sleeping sickness
have developed among humans dur
ing the past two weeks The medical
world is of the opinion that the
cooler weather will put an end to the
encephalitis reign. DR.. j. E. Thomp-
son informs us that he has vaccinated
about so horses in the Embarrass,
Kugler and Vermilion district where
nine cases among horses have de-
veloped so far.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

menC to lVe-trap the bears and pu1
them in the city ZOO.
A California man, a former Virginia
resident, took Duluth to task in ar
article in the Herald, as follows:
And to pick up the newspapers day
after day and read where your police
officers, and even game wardens are
wantonly killing these bears is simply
too much. In California We have bears
and big ones. But our game war
dens aren't hired to kill them, they're
hired to protect them. When berries
and other natural bear food is scorce
in the woods, we sportsmen and the
game wardens find food for them and
put it where they can get at it. These
'invaSions' last but a few weeks, but
they certainly don't warrant slaughter
of the animals"
The story is told about the two beaver
poachers who were given lesson in
woodcraft by hungry bear.
The two trappers were violating the
Quetico ProvenciaI park and were
many, many hard miles by paddle-pro-
PEELED canoe from civilization.
One night they stopped in what they
afterward discovered, much to their
CONSERVATION, was great bear, as well
as beaver, country. They slowed their
grub underneath their canoe, and
turned in for the night.
Along in the wee hours of the morn
ing a hungry bear was attracted to
their camp, and the bears sensitive
nose soon directed the animal to the
food supply Not a bit disturbed by
the apparent inaccessibility of the
chuck, the bear took one good swipe
at the canoe bottom and ripped it
wide open.
There wasn't enough left of the
canoe TO bother to repair it, the story
goes, but the trappers, veterans of the
woods, were not so easily stopped. They
set about, Indian style, to build a
canoe out of birch bark. and with it
returned to civilization.
books is that of the fire guard who, a
few years ago. literally sicked bear
onto another fellow guard to teach
him a lesson IN politeness.
It happens that one of the guards was
crowding into the cabin door ahead
of the other guard Well, the man
who was getting crowded out eontinu-
ally, finally got fed up on the idea
AMI by chance was given an oppor-
tunitv to teach his fellow guard a
lesson.
They were walking to the cabin, and
as usual. the hurry up" guard crowded
through the door first. But he hadn't
seen what the mot in such a hurry
guard had. This last gentleman, just
as the two approached the cabin
thought he spotted a bear going
through a window. When the frs
guard entered the cabin, the Other
Slammed the door shut.
The commotion that followed left
no doubt about the presence Of
bear in the cabin. Excited yeIls rem
the air. drowned momentarily by tht
crashing of a window pane as the beal
escaped from the cabin, and tht
frightened guard rushed through ths
cabin door at Top speed
( While this method Of teaching ;
companion a lesson is hardly recon-
| mended. it was successful and for
tunateIy not disastrous for the fr'
guard.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Disagreement OUer Date of
Final Game May GiUe
Virginia CrOUn.

virginia may get the Range league
| playoffs title without meeting Ely or
the baseball diamond in the third anc
deciding game of the series.
Arbitrarily setting the dates for the
| playofs games without consulting Ely
league officials declared that unless
Ely played the final game on Wednes-
day night they would award it tc
| Virginia.
Half dozen telephone calls made
! by Manager Fritz Banks to DR.. Will
liam Heiam, Cook, league president
and Bert Ackerson, Hibbing, secretary
went for nothing but income to the
fatty refused to change the final game
from night to day baseball, or to play
it on the Ely diamond.
Latest word from the league secre-
tary Tuesday was that he would at
tempt to change the game to day time,
although there is little hope for that
now. Wednesday afternoon there was
still no word from him.
Reason for Ely's inability to play
night ball this week, is that FIVE
MEN, including both pitchers, are
WORKING NIGHT shift in the mines
They are Manager Banks, Frank Vert
mix, John Pucel, Tony Stukel, and Joe
NoVak.
Setting TWO GAMES of the series
at Virginia, both NIGHT BASEBALL,
was declared unfair by Manager Banks,
and when he informed the league
secretary how the team here felt
about that, the secretary intimated
Virginia had been given the edge In
arranging the schedule because Ely
had insisted on a FORFEITURE of
two games scheduled with Eveleth
rather than accept requested CAN
COLLATION..
The forfeiture meant a tie with
Chisholm for the league title, while
cancellation meant second place in
the league. The Ely team felt that
it deserved the Eveleth games, because
Eveleth had but one win in league
competition-that over CHISHOLM
League officials asked Ely to forego
playing EveIeth so that the playoffs
could be started.
Manager Banks told The Miner that
he would refuse to forfeit to Virginia,
and that the league officials could
arbitrarily award the game to Vir-
ginia if they choose to do so. Jim
Hodge, Taconite, is league vice pres
ident, but the Ely manager was not
in contact with Hodge during the dis
cussion of WHEN to play the final
game.
Il can't see why Virginia should get
the benefit of playing two games on
it's field while a team that finished |
in first (Ely) was given only one,"
Manager Banks declared 1.-The way
things look now we would rather have
them award Virginia the game than |
play it under the lights"
Ely agreed to play the final game |
any time during the day, or Sunday |
but this was turned down by |
league officials. The game must be |
played before Sunday afternoon, be- |
cause the Region Two meet starts then. |
Ending of the playoffs in this man |
her undoubtedly will precipitate hot |
argument over night baseball for |
future league games. There is no |
question about the advantage held by |
teams accustomed to night ball over
those not. Even so it is probable that |
Ely might have gone through with a |
second night game if nine-man team |
could have been put on the field
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
The Miner Has Been
Boosting Ely for ~ Years
Ely Batters Garner
Three Top Positions

five games and losing one Vertnik's
performance was topped only by that
of Les Carlson, Virginia, for pitchers
getting into a good number of games
on the schedule Carlson won four
without defeat. John Lefty" Pucel
won three and lost three to finish
among the upper one-third.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Autos Not the Cause

State highwzy patrolmen have
discovered only negligible portion
of the auto accidents are caused by
mechanical oeIects, thereby giving
a new lease OF life to that ancient
and honorable wheeze about the nut
behind the steering wheel.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
View With Alarm Lack of
Jaysee ootbaI| Material
MEMORIAL HIGH
SCH EDULE

Fri, Sept. 5-Hibbing here.
Fri, Sept. I2-TOwer, here.
Fri, Sept. I9-At COIeraine.
Fri, Sept. 26-At Virginia.
Fri, Oct. 3-At EveIeth.
Fri, Oct. I0-FalIs, here.
Sat-, Oct. I8-At Gilbert.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

In this time of national emergency
your country needs your help. Buy
Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps
regularly.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Patron Saint

St. Dorothea, who was martyreo
under Diocletian, was the patron
saint of gardens or flowers
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Series to
Virginia!
Ely Refuses to Meet Queen
City With '4-Man' Team

The arbitrary attitude Of league OFF,
cials in serving what the Virginia
Daily Enterprise headlined as an
"uitimatum" to Ely to play or for
felt" was at best an unhappy sOlu-
ton of a problem that had more than
one side.
Until proven otherwise the Ely team
is strongly convinced that the scheduI-
ing OF two night games at Virginia was
deliberate attempt TO give the Queen
City an edge.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

Ely. singles. Stukel 2. Pucel: doubles.
Buckley. Pucel Virginia, singles. Han
sen 2, A. Lamppa 2, Carlson 2. Raukar.
Eaton; doubles. A Lamppa-
Vertnik. strikeouts. walked none.
hit one batter; Carlson. strikeouts.
2 walks, hit one batter.
TRV a EFrZyrp UaEr IN
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28
Toads Drink

Toads drink through the skin, not
ne mouth.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

TRY A MINER WANT AID.
The Ely miner., 1941-08-28

With the seasons opener, yes, sir,
the initial game of the campaign, but
ONE WEEK away, Coach Steve
Smrekar isn't wasting any time in get
ting his 1941 Memorial high football
team into shape.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
U. S. Airmen
 To Have Base
 In Greenland
Agreement Is Signed for Building American Bases
 on LarQe Danish Island

WASHINGTON, April To- = The United States will establish air bases in Greenland to protect Greenland and for the protection of the Vest ern Hemisphere under an Ameri- can- Danish Agency agreement sign ed yesterday by Secretary of State Cordlel Hull and Henri De Kautf- man, Danish minister.
 De Kaufman signed as the high est ranking Danish official despite the fact that Denmark is occupied by German forces, and since the Danish Government cannot now ex- ercise her sovereign rights over her Territory.
 The move is within the scope of the Monroe Do octrine, President Roosevelt said, and the agreement is intended to make sure Greenland remains Danish colony.
 Presidential Sec tary Stephen Early said the agreement was con- sumated after information had been received that German planes were flying over Greenland
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
12 Vessels
 Sell, Seattle

SEATTLE, April 10.-Halibut arr rival, catches and selling prices to- day are as follows:
 From the western banks-Aleu- tian, 10000 pounds, 12as and Il cents pound.
 From the local banks-Argo, l5,- GOO pounds, II and 9lz cents; Di- ana 10000 pounds, Dawn 1000 pounds, Blanco 5000 pounds, all selling for llM and g cents; Des- tiny 5000 pounds, Aegis 70OC pounds, Lloyd 5000 pounds, all sell ing for II and g cents; Faith Sec ond 15.00O pounds, llA and cents; Arne l1,000 pounds, Il and 9A cents; Alma l1,000 pounds 10 3i4 and 9ls cents; Angeles 13.- 900 pounds, 11A and g cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
Government, Fearing lnvas- ion, Removing Portion
 of Population NOTE OF ASSURANCES
 NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY Hit|er's Forces Are Said to Have S|ashed AIong-
 side of Border
CBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Fears ol an imminent German at tack and invasion of Turkey, neu- tral nation, but ally of Great Britain, is seen today, as the Turkish Gov ernment m de an announcement that it has found it advisable to re- move considerable part of the pop ulation of Istanbul.
 The announcement of the partial evacuation of Istanbul was followed only few hours after Rome radio broadcast reported Germany's are diplomat, Franz von Papen, Ambas- sador to Turkey, reiterated assur- ance that Germany has no intention of an attack on Turkey.
 The assurance, however, is not taken seriously by the Turkish Gov- ernment, it is indicated, in view of past assertions of like kind made to N,ther nations.
 4 Istanbul lies on the European side of the strategic Bosporus, the link between the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, and less than 100 miles from German occupied Bulgaria.
 It is officially announced tn is morning that Nazi blitzkrieg forces have already slashed down through Thracian Greece alongside the Turk ish border.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
GENERAL LEE IN pB.Y BOMBER
Returns via Sifka from h. speCtion of Dock FdeiI-
 ities in Westward

Returning from an inspection of decking and transportation facili- ties at Seward and Anchorage, and a flying trip to Passage Canal, where the new terminus of the Alaska Railroad will be moved in the near future, Brigadier General John c. H. Lee, Commander of Port of Embar- kation for the Pacific Coast, landed in Juneau in Navy Patrol bomber from Sitka late yesterday.
 General Lee, who stopped in Ju- neau overnight about week ago when he flew north from his home base at Fort Mason. California, to inspect the Westward ports, return ed to Juneau by way of Whitehorse, Skagway and .Sitka. He will be in Juneau today with his party and will fly to Seattle tomorrow on a southbound Lodestar.
 Conference With TaIley
 Stopping at Fairbanks before con- tinuing down the Alaska Railroad to Anchorage. the General confer red with Major B. B. Talley Area Engineer in charge of Army con- struction in Alaska. and met Col Richard Park, North Pacific Divis- ion Engineer. stationed at Fairbanks Col. Park and Colonel Otto F. Ohl- son, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, accompanied the General to Anchorage, and then returned to discuss details for the change of the terminus of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Passage Canal.
 Army Day
 The complete force of planes, from the largest bomber to the smallest pursuit ship" stationed at Fairbanks Ladd Field, was in the air for the celebratino of Army Day, March ' said Gen. Lee The Army man said that miners and people from miles around the Interior city came in foi the spectacle. The ships flew in for nation, he said, and gave a very impressive sight" The Infantry Field guard also turned out for the occasion.
 At Anchorage the following day the infantry forces were turned oul for parade.
 Late yesterday Major R. H. Wylie Superintendent of the Army Trans port Service, who arrived with the
 fNosafisaa.ad <,s, Y1ona Sasros,1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
us. Troops, Supplies To Be Moved af Once,
 Overseas Possessions

WASHINGTON, April l0.-- The War Department disclosed today that all Army passenger and freight transports have been diverted to move troops and supplies between the United States and overseas pos sessions and bases.
 Undersecretary Patterson an nounced at the same time complete censorship has been clamped on all military inf pr m ation regarding movements of forces and supplies o all overseas bases.
 Twenty-six combination passenger md cargo ships and freighters of the Army are stated however to com prise the Army transport seryict hifted to the new assignments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10

WASHINGTON - With Martin Dies chalking up new records as a statement-maker an energetic Ma zi propaganda machine has been flourishing right under his nose. It is the German American National Alliance or Einheitsfront, which many Nazis treat as successor of the Bund.
 One interesting phase of the Einheitsfront is the vigorous CO., operation it gives the America First Committee. One of it's pamphlets urged that contributions from s1 upward be sent to the America First Committee, Board of Trade Build- ing, Chicago, as part of the ef- fort to defeat the Lease-Lend Bill Another of these pamphlets carrying the same appeal for the America First Committee, published also an appeal against aid to Bri- tain, written in the same brand oi lavish language which usually em-
 
 anates from Berlin.
 Those who shout loudest fol war" it said, :" '. are usually old men steril biologically, and ever sterile of all dreams and memories of life. Their senile bodies, theil cold, calculating brains, frequently find compensation for their lost youth in hatred and false ambitions for glory or gold; and their con science is hardened like their ar teries and their hearts
 The Einheitsfront also has beer active in drumming up audiences for America First speakers, sucf as Colonel Lindberg. When Lind. bergh was scheduled to speak 1T an f,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
 IsNearing,
 Ford Strike

DETROIT, Mich, April 10.- The United Auto Workers have accepted the three point proposal for the set clement of the strike against the Ford Motor Company.
 The proposal was submitted by Gcv. M. D. Van Wagoner who laid the agreement before both sides of the controversy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
JOHN MCCORMICK
 TO TAKE DRAFT
 POST WEDNESDAY,
Succeeds Tony Kdrnes Who Is Leaving North for
 California

John Mccormick of Juneau will become Alaska Selective Service Di- rector on April 16, next Wednesday succeeding Anthony E. Karnes, it was announced today by the Gov ernor's office.
 Karnes, formerly Territorial Con- missioner of Education, will leave for California with his family
 Mccormick, member of the Leg islature for the past two sessions, is native of Gastineau Channel, hay ing been born in Douglas. He is ac- tive in veterans activities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-10
Baranof Now
 Enroufe Norf|l

SEATTLE, April 10.-Steamer Bar anof sailed for Alaska at 10 o'clock this forenoon with 169 passengers aboard including 55 in the steerage,
 Juneau passengers aboard the Bar anof are D. D. Hull, Raymond Isaac son, Mrs. H. R. Mcleod, Mary Rice c. H. Kyle, Lars Larson, D. w. AL bert, Rufus Bean, Miss Mae McFall Miss Joan Coy.