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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1934
Page
7
A scattered recap lists football schedule rumors with Buckeye and Ohio teams, plus mentions of Heidelberg Transylvania Enmond Teachers Wesleyan and other campuses. Brief boxing note highlights a boxer named Jones and remarks on Babe Pinelli and Paul Waner amid baseball chatter.
Fragmentary score notes show Pirates 191, Allen and Waner pair with a 14 run surge, Suhr and Pi Giants at 32, Ber and Collins Cardinals Tigers 52 and Yankees 01 with West. overall victory hinted but details unclear.
Giants extend NL lead by a full game over the Cardinals, while Pirates win twice against the Cubs. Tigers hold AL lead as Yankees split with the Athletics. Cronin suffers a broken arm ending his season after a base‑running mixup.
Milwaukee Brewers invade Minneapolis to slow the Millers in the American Association western division race. Six games remain for both clubs as weather delays shift schedules. Columbus wins twice over Toledo while Louisville trims Indianapolis in the eastern standings.
WES FERRELL powered the Red Sox to a 13th victory with nine hits against the Senators. PIE TRAYNOR and FRED LIND STROM helped the Pirates in a double bill. Strom drove in the winning run in the second game while Traynor added a double and six singles. MONTE PEARSON limited Browns to six hits and homered in the opener for Cleveland. FRED FRANKHOUSE and HUCK BETTS pitched six-hits to sweep both games for the Braves against the Dodgers.
Dexter wallops Gallipolis 11 to 3 as McCann allows only five hits. In other action Milwaukee at Kansas City rain and Meron at St Paul canceled. American Association schedule lists Cleveland at St Louis Columbus at Louisville Milwaukee at Minneapolis Kansas City at St Paul Toledo at Indianapolis.
Forest Hills, Sept 4. Ellsworth Vines rates George Lott Jr. of Chicago as Perry’s toughest challenger in the men’s national singles. Vines says Lott has the shots and brain to expose Perry’s backhand with drop shots, but needs peak condition and a working serve. Twenty five second round matches are played today after rain delayed the program. the final shifts to Sunday.
Butch Grover led weekend club events at Athens Country Club posting a 73 in the best ball and winning on Sunday. Labor Day 36 hole honors went to Grover for low gross with 165 total and to Dr L D Nelson for low net with 158.
New York September 4 Eulace Peacock the Temple athlete defended his National A A U pentathlon championship winning with 3258.46 points. He led in broad jump and 200 meters while placing among the top eight in other events including third in the javelin fifth in discus and seventh in the 1500 meter run.
Notre Dame coach Elmer Layden warns of heavy losses as graduation ineligibilities and injuries deplete the team. He vows aggressive play and a rebuilt line, with key backfield questions and several candidate contenders, while listing upcoming games and locations for the season.
Columbus and Toledo split a doubleheader. Game one ended 5 to 7 with Riggs and Moore keying the pitching, Calvey and Zapusta contributing timely hits for Columbus while Toledo loaded the bases with late runs. Errors by Myers O D E A Calvey Reis Davis marked the Toledo win in a tight finish.
In Reno John Henry Lewis stopped Tony Poloni in the first round. Paris saw Emile Pladner and Obie Walker draw after 12 rounds while Walker stopped Benoltz. Chicago featured Everett Rightmire stopping Johnny Siegel and Mickey Misko outpointing Tony Zale. Manhattan Kislinger knocked out Jack Evans in Kansas City.
New York dispatch reports Jimmy McLarnin entering the Madison Square Garden Bowl title fight with Barney Ross in peak form. In a recent Orangeburg workout McLarnin’s punch, timing, and stamina drew praise from sparring partner Calvin Reed after a five round session.
Lawson Little, 23, a Stanford student and 1929 National Amateur winner, emerged as a leading contender after defeating Johnny Goodman at Pebble Beach. Known for long drives and composure under pressure, he learned golf in China while his father served as a U S Army surgeon in Tientsin and is seen as a potential successor to Bobby Jones in the forthcoming National Amateur at Brookline, Mass.
The Red fighter split the schedule with Reed and will quit boxing until the next bout. He plans to reach New York either tomorrow night or Thursday morning. Ross is already in town and the champion boxed two rounds in Ferndale, New York yesterday before traveling to New York. He weighed 138 1 2 pounds after yesterday’s workout.
The Crawford Gable team headline the Warner Bros production Chained at the Majestic Theater with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in standout roles. Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O Connor, and Marjorie Gateson support in a story about a woman torn between two men amid romance and conflict.
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