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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1935
Page
5
A fragmented excerpt stitches together baseball football boxing and yachting mentions. It references Joe McCarthy in 1931, Vince Dundee boxing, the Yankees coach and various players, colleges Purdue and LSU, and the Endea vour yacht with notes on managers and agents. The piece reads as a stray collage of sports figures and events tied to famous teams and venues.
Cubs beat the Giants 5 to 4 to trim New York from the NL lead as St Louis Cardinals downed the Dodgers 10 to 3 and 6 to 1. Dizzy Dean earned his 22nd win while Mel Ott hit his 29th homer. Giants next face Pirates, Cards visit Philadelphia. Chicago remains two games behind New York.
Otto Vogel, coach of the University of Iowa baseball team, has been appointed police chief of University Heights, a suburb of Iowa City. The move places the prominent figure in a municipal law enforcement role within the university area.
Connie Mack, watching the Detroit Tigers from Navin Field, says the club is the best balanced in the league and could sustain success for years. He compares the Tigers to the 1915 1916 Red Sox, notes key players Greenberg Gehringer and Mickey, and praises youth as a strength while acknowledging his earlier AL picks.
In Brookline at Longwood two strong pairs Wilmer Allison with Johnny Van Ryn and Don Budge with Gene Mako contest the national doubles championship. The result could shape next year’s Davis Cup team, while Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Enrique Mater meet Kay Stammers and Roderick Menzel in mixed doubles afterward.
Chuck Klein of the Cubs led at tack on the Giants with a double and two RBIs, scoring one run and driving in two. Charley Gehringer of the Tigers had three hits in a perfect day against the Athletics. Dizzy and Daffy Dean helped boost the Cardinals to a double victory over the Dodgers to lead the league. John Whitehead of the White Sox and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees excelled. Whitehead held the Yanks to three hits in one game, Gehrig hit his 24th homer in the other. Al Todd of the Phillies delivered a pinch hit that produced runs against the Reds. Fritz Ostermueller and Johnny Welch of the Red Sox each had seven hits in the doubleheader win over the Indians.
John Levi Arapahoe Indian is chosen as coach for football basketball and track at Haskell Institute in Lawrence Kansas. He succeeds Gus Welch and is noted as one of the school's greatest athletes with 16 letters earned from 1921 to 1924.
The college all star squad tightens drills with two weeks of practice as the Bears face scrutiny from George Halas who orders written exams after intra squad and Sunday drills. Frank Sohero and others boot for the college squad while Notre Dame style attack shows efficiency.
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