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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
15
The column notes a large opening crowd for Ohio University basketball against Marietta, urging fans to buy season seats. It praises the turnout, suggesting future games will draw even more. It also mentions the men's gym facilities are limited and a 2,200 attendance nearly fills the venue.
Ohio University's basketball team heads on a five game road swing starting Saturday with Western Reserve in Cleveland. The 10 man squad travels by train and faces Buffalo Scranton St Joseph George Washington and Buckeye rivals as they build toward conference play.
United Press poll shows 49 percent say no to Ruth managing a major league club while 25 percent vote yes and the rest undecided. Supporters urge minor league experience first and point to his legendary contributions to baseball.
A compilation covers Phar Lap’s limited U S exposure with his 1932 Agua Caliente win and death in Mexico. It also recalls the first Madison Square Garden Long Island City event a wrestling match on June 9 1932. A correction references a hockey score dispute from December and a Buchtel club seeking games.
Scouts of Troop 59 meet at the M E Church on Wednesday night to plan camp attendance next summer using funds earned over the year. G E Ashwill, scout executive, attended. The troop re registered with the national office per policy. Sponsored by Kiwanis Club. Ornithologists report 800 distinct species and one sub species of birds existing today.
Sydney experts describe SYDNEY-Entreaty the dam of Phar Lap and sister of Nea Lap as a plain black mare on arrival from New Zealand after being sold in 1933 to American Breeders for 7000 dollars.
Wooster basketball begins an ambitious 17 game Ohio Conference schedule tonight at Tiffin against Heidelberg. Coach Mose Hole dashboards a shifting lineup after Nick Frascella’s graduation as Dave Henderson and four lettermen plus three sophomores push to offset scoring loss.
Henry McLemore reviews Leni Riefenstahl’s Berlin 1936 Olympic film, praising its photography of Jesse Owens and coverage from Kiel to Deutsche Halle. He argues the four hour documentary captures the joy and glory of athletic achievement and should be shown to the youth despite boycott concerns.
Representa tives of three bodies governing American harness racing renewed talks to unite into one ruling body. AATA failed to send a delegate to the meeting though leaders plan to draft a unification proposal for the American Association later. Officers at the session included FE Harri man, Reese Blizzard, and George W Rittenour.
Bristow Oklahoma farmer Lawes Carroll, while hunting with a friend, shot at a squirrel in a hollow tree and a .22 bullet passed through the woods lodging in his heel. He continued the hunt. The note on radium cites earlier supply sources and prices from the Belgian Congo.
New York dispatch reports Ohio's major league clubs Cleveland and Cincinnati returned home with only one new outfielder each from two weeks of meetings. Cincinnati highlighted Warren C. Giles in the major league session, while Cleveland floated names from 11 players offered to St Louis Browns to land Don Heffner. Trade talks stalled as teams pursue proven infielders for 1939 pennant runs.
Arcadia Calif U P Seabiscuit the 1938 champion drew top weight of 134 pounds for the Santa Anita Handicap fifth running. The mark is one pound above his usual load and six more than Stagehand who beat Seabiscuit by a nose last year. Dauber and Sortendo tied for third with 124 pounds amid a large field.
Dr Sergeant P Martin of Tonawanda claims Patsy the cat holds a unique aging and maternity record after producing 129 kittens since being rescued from the Erie County SPCA.
Indiana Central 39 Hanover 84 and other results include St Ambrose 48 Parsons 21 Central Normal 83 St Josephs Wabash 86 Rose Poly 26 Manchester 58 Albion 87 Monmouth 84 Iowa Wesleyan 19 Washington Jefferson 43 Calif Teachers 22 Davis Elkins 51 St Vincent 46 Toledo 46 St Marys Minn 38 Ashland 58 Ohio Northern 35 Kent State 51 Muskingum 35 Swarthmore 46 Wittenberg 36 N.Y. A 38 Colgate 31 Franklin Marshall 52 Dickinson 31 Mass State 39 Middlebury 25 Michigan 40 Notre Dame 38 Trinity 37 Vermont 36 Villanova 51 West Maryland 20 Yale 37 Lafayette 27 Wilmington 28 Earlham 17 Scholastic Cincinnati Western Hills 46 Cincinnati Walnut Hills 28
Harold Jug McSpaden and John Geertsen shot 66 to open the Miami Open with a two stroke lead over a strong field of 200. Bookmakers posted 12-1 against McSpaden and 60-1 against Geertsen, while defending champion Sam Snead stood 6-1 after a 76.
Timetable snippets list B and O and Chesapeake and Ohio trains with daily and except Sunday runs. New York Central lines show north and south bounds with assorted times. Athens airport offers sunrise to sunset Airtag service and through airline connections with schedules for west and north routes.
New York fight fans expect a crowded Madison Square Garden as Lou Nova challenges Tommy Farr for heavyweight supremacy. Nova, a 7-5 underdog with 26 pro bouts, seeks a knockout to become the white hope against the seasoned Welsh challenger who has gone the distance with Louis and Baer. Promoter Mike Jacobs projects about 9,000 in attendance and a $35,000 gate.
The University of Chicago will contest three Big Ten games next season, facing Michigan Ohio State and Illinois. Harvard will be the lone non conference opponent with a debut set for October 14.
The Government Printing Office operates as the world’s largest printing plant, regularly producing and distributing over 70 daily weekly and monthly publications with a total circulation in the millions.
Major league winter meetings signal Red Sox Indians and Tigers building clubs to challenge the Yankees. Boston trades Higgins and McKain for Auker Wade Morgan and Irwin as Cleveland seeks Chap man and Earl Averill continuation. Detroit targets Hutchinson and Mechain and Fred Hutchinson as a centerpiece for a pennant bid while New outfielders Williams and Tabor bolster Boston pitching and defense. Cleveland eyes Heffner to shore second base as part of a broader infield patchwork. The era of night baseball and fierce rivalries looms as teams push to end the Yankees three year reign.
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