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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
5
A distorted OCR item notes a weekly sports section with a 14 page feature and mention of a 24 page edition. The garbled text references a magazine or paper titled War Punter and an actor figure tied to the lead story. No clear names, dates, or locations are readable.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a tubular press and a stalled end at a péninsula near a west avenue. Other bits reference a navy event and a late language line. details are unclear and names or dates are unreadable.
The evening standings include Grub Teco Knotty Pine Do Nut Jack's Sandwich Shop and LG A Girls Janda's Shrimp, Herok Aces Broadway Food Mart and Hub Hardware with high scores by Perrow Hardy Bayes Gabi Skorbo and M Hertenback. Individual high series include t 477 and 502 by Hardy and 536 by Bayes with team leaders Federal Savings and Anka Giinetter.
Riverside Brookfield High School set a meet record in the class B medley relay with 3:14.29 at Oak Park Relays held in the Oak Park River Forest High School field house. standout performances included Charles McClinton of Hyde Park clearing 22 feet in the broad jump and LaGrange clinching the team title in the final four lap relay.
A fragmentary report lists Mile Run results with first names and last initials, Medley Relay placements for Evans ton and Oak Park, a 4 lap relay showing New Trier and LaGrange, freshman and senior events with participants including McGraw Naperville road and Beukenville, a 3:08.98 time for a relay and a 60 yard high hurdles mark.
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