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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1938
Page
9
In a chatty preview Lawson Little selects a reluctant partner for the St Augustine pro am. The author, an eager amateur, recounts bracing for the first tee and vows to help Little win while joking about his own lack of golf prowess.
Marion Township Centralized School will have eight months of term this year as decided by the board of education. It is the county’s only centralized school with a shortened term. Early closing shifts the eighth grade promotional exams after the school year ends, tests prepared by the state department of education.
Miss Marcella Risch of Ohio State University will spend spring vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs I V Risch near this city after attending the Starner Brooks church wedding in Marion.
C. S. Chidister of this city will travel to Yellowbud on Sunday to attend field trials hosted by the Bird Dog Association. He will observe dogs entered by his brother-in-law, Herb Bope of Fairfield County.
Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Bees 4 to 3 as rookie Johnny Vander Meer pitched five scoreless innings in spring training. He walked five but allowed only two hits, while Lee Gamble and Frank McCormick led the Reds with two hits each. Paul Derringer signed his contract, rumored at $7,500 for the current year after earning $18,000 last season.
New Orleans outfielder Weatherly, once a top rookie with Cleveland alongside Dimaggio, impresses in an exhibition against the Phillies. He collected three hits in five plate appearances as the Indians, despite outhitting Philadelphia, faltered on base running and a costly error by John Kroner. The Tribe planned a rematch with Philadelphia.
Columbus Red Birds traded pitcher Max Lanier to the St Louis Cardinals for infielder Joe Stripp and pitchers Nate Andrews and Clem Drelsewerd. Stripp and Andrews are former major leaguers. Drelsewerd played in the Piedmont League last season.
The Varsity football benefit game for the Student Lounge Fund has been postponed from this afternoon to Friday. The site shifts from the stadium to the baseball field for the event.
Ohio University trackmen head to Indianapolis for the Butler Relays with two relay teams and a sprinter led by Bob White. The mile relay squad will include White Powell Cunningham and Hicks while the medley team fields Cunningham Hicks Hoover and Powell. Ohio faces Notre Dame Kansas State Michigan State and others as matches loom. Coach Bill Herbert remains uncertain about entering Jim Johnson in the shot put.
Henry Armstrong world featherweight champion outpointed Baby Arizmendi in a 10 round non-title bout in Los Angeles. Armstrong, a Los Angeles native, moved to 36th straight victory with 34 knockouts, while Arizmendi from Tampico had defeated Armstrong twice before and lost once in prior meetings.
Claude Westfall returned from a 10 day Florida trip with a dominant win at the National Mid-Winter Small Bore Rifle Championships in St. Petersburg. He led with 1 564 of 1 600 for the aggregate and claimed the Yankee Rebel and Snipers' matches among several prizes, accompanied by Wes Hansche and Fred Johanssen who teamed up to win the two man event.
Logan hosts Chief Logan Chapter with 51 members led by instructor H. D. Saxton. Laurelville Chapter, 26 members, is guided by Walling Corwin who succeeded George Dix. Dix left Laurelville for Amanda, where superintendent Paul A. Potts runs the school.
Checks totaling 1676.61 were issued Tuesday to relief clients through Auditor Ora B. Yaw's office covering the current two week period.
District Commander E L Eveland of Crooksville urges membership drives to raise District 8 from a low standing. County quotas as of March 10 show Athens 95.2 percent Gallia 94 Fairfield 87.8 Hocking 85.5 Jackson 82.2 Perry 80.5 Meigs 76.1 Vi n ton 64.6. County conventions are planned to elect delegates with dates to be announced.
Many out of town relatives attended the Logan funeral of William McKinley Poling. Attendees included Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Poling and daughter Elizabeth of Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Crew and sons Robert and William. Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Lehman of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Robinson and daughter Martha. Mrs. Barney Pond and daughter Ruth. Mrs. Jonanna Cook. Mrs. John Walters. Mrs. Julia Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. George Jones. Mrs. Sally Riggs of Murray City. Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher and two sons of Racine. James Hamer and daughter Leah of Nelsonville.
Thumbnail sketches of Class A entrants for the Ohio scholastic basketball tournament. Teams include Findlay, Akron Buchtel, New Philadelphia, Xenia Central, Canton McKinley, Toledo Woodward, Akron Feast, Hamilton, Newark, Youngstown East, Mansfield, Cincinnati Roger Bacon, St. Vincent, Marietta, Bridgeport, Bowling Green with notes on records, coaches, key players, and title chances.
Os Vitt drives a new era for the Cleveland Indians aiming for a hustling, disciplined ball club. He bans poker and dice, demands midnight curfews, and vows no quitters, while reshaping the infield and relying on a strong pitching staff led by Johnny Allen and Bob Feller.
The Athena Theater presents Walter Huston in Of Human Hearts directed by Clarence Brown with James Stewart Beulah Bondi and a large cast. The story follows an itinerant preacher and his family in an Ohio village during Lincoln's era with a Civil War interruption and family turmoil. Dramatic father son conflict blends with humor and romance as the film debuts Huston’s screen career and features Pilgrim the horse actor.
Cairo report states the International Olympic Committee fixed the 1940 Tokyo Games from September 21 to October 6. A Chinese proposal to move the 12th Olympiad was defeated.
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