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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1933
Page
7
A rambling critique of sports reporting and spring training in major leagues. The piece notes sensationalism, coaching changes, and player discipline while musing on how journalism shapes readers’ view of sport. It mentions leagues training in Florida and California and interleague schedules looming in the season.
Tonight the Athens County High School league title may be decided when Jacksonville-Trimble meets Stewart at Ohio University gym. The replayed game follows a disputed prior tilt, with neutral officials and a neutral floor. J-T holds the lead and a win clinches the championship. Stewart needs victory to force a tie in the standings.
Logan High varsity fell 35 to 15 to East High of Columbus. Reserve team lost to Carbon Hill 25 to 16. East High star Starrett scored 10, four field goals, sat out final quarter. Logan’s Krumlauf led with five points as floor work showed effort but struggled to finish.
New York February 13 Ernie Schaaf, heavyweight boxer at Polyclinic Hospital with intracranial hemorrhage and partial left paralysis, remains under study to decide if brain clot removal surgery is needed after the Friday and Sunday knockouts.
Ralph Metcalf of Marquette has entered the 60 meter dash at the national championships at Madison Square Garden on February 25. He equaled the indoor world record of seven seconds in winning the 70 yard sprint at the West Virginia indoor games Saturday night, per A A U secretary Daniel J. Ferris.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee, after a secret three day session in Philadelphia, announced two changes. Side zones ten yards wide are now on both sidelines to stop futile line plays. The clipping definition now covers any contact with a player's back.
Five league games tonight and five more on Saturday pace the Big Ten as Ohio State leads at Champaign against Illinois and Purdue in Columbus. Northwestern and Michigan vie for position while Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Iowa also play, shaping the race with potential shifts in standings. A separate football rules report notes coaches' push for simplification, safety focus, and new penalties including clipping and sideline restart rules.
In Gallipolis on February 13 a marriage license was issued to Raymond Spurlock 21 of Huntington West Virginia and Garnet Jeffers 22 daughter of Tom Jeffers Braden. They were married by Justice of Peace Freq Milliser. In the same city Lincoln's birthday holiday saw banks and offices stay open despite the observance.
River ice from shore to shore stops the Steamer Duncan Bruce of the American Barge Line near Gallipolis. 13 steel barges bound for Pittsburgh with oil and cotton are stranded. Plymouth tow split and towed to Louisville for repairs. Dorothy McBride logs empty coal barges upriver.
Gallipolis reports funds from the $12,000 Gallia County Peor Relef Bonds sale are delayed due to technicalities after a denomination change requested by Middendorff & Company Cincinnati. Harry M Miller cites the issue and expects resolution.
Week end in Gallipolis brought no calls to city police or Sheriff Elmer Hatfield. Hospital attaches reported no admissions Sunday, signaling a quiet period with no major incidents.
Frank Gienn and Lloyd Campfield, both youths from near Vinton, were bound over to the Gallia County common pleas court after preliminary hearings. They were released on $1,000 bond each. Coins and bank certificates stolen January 31 from Mrs. Agnes Glenn’s home were identified by Mrs. Glenn after being received at the Vinton bank. Loot included $1,400 in notes, about $200 in bank certificates, and a buckskin pouch of old English coins dating from 1763 to 1815. Indictments will be sought before the next Gallia County grand jury.
Hearings were scheduled today before Justice of Peace Leo Cster for Hencle Persinger and Mrs. Esther Arrington. Persinger faces an assault charge accusing him of assaulting his wife, while Mrs. Arrington is charged with possessing seven bottles of beer. Patrol arrests were made Friday night.
In Gallia County a tentative Taxpayers League was organized by the Gallia County Trustees' Association at the courthouse. A second meeting set for Saturday Feb 14 will form a permanent body with H B Houck as temporary president and Charles E Northup as temporary secretary treasurer. Speakers include John Downing of Meigs County and possibly Representative Ford of Ross County. The league aims to pursue lower taxation.
Paul Healey of Gallipolis sustained minor cuts and bruises when his automobile slid off State Route 11 near Rodney Friday morning on the way to Rio Grande College where he led students. The car was badly damaged and Zelda Arnold, a fellow Rio Grande student, escaped unharmed.
Gallipolis February 13 a Gallia County grand jury returned an indictment against Paul Walters for distorting a religious meeting. An oversight left the indictment out of Sunday's Messenger. Arraignments on the charges were to be held today.
Chauncey hosts a packed gym for boys and girls basketball games. The Chauncey girls beat The Plains 29 to 17 with Locke scoring 16 points while Dukeman and Shuet lead Plains with six each. Plains boys win 15 to 13 aided by Coon’s late field goal and foul.
King Levinsky of Chicago, who stopped Jack Dempsey’s comeback, will again challenge Johnny Risko of Cleveland in a 10 round bout at Madison Square Garden. Risko recently defeated Levinsky, after an eight month layoff, and both men seek a headline win in the week’s boxing schedule.
Ohio State University announces its freshman track team will compete telegraphically this week against Indiana and Iowa freshman squads.
Toledo defeated Indianapolis 23 to 19 in a National Professional League basketball game on Sunday.
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