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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
11
Eastern athletes discuss discipline and genius as Einstein and Dempsey hang over debates about science and sport. Witty quips from Big Ed and Billy battle lines about golf shots and old legends. The column riffs on ring legends Ruth and Foxx and the ever present tension between mind and muscle in early 20th century athletics.
The Stark County public links tournament begins Saturday at Highland Links Country Club with the first 18 holes of 72 hole medal play to decide the county’s top four and a representative team to the National Public Links tournament in Forest Park, St. Louis, Aug. 5. Entry lists include seven pay-play courses and clubs from Edgewater to Tam o Shanter, Lake o Lily, Edgewood, Bonnie Brae, and Lawndale Estates.
Reigh Count, the American thoroughbred, won the mile and a half Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs beating Athford and Plantage. The $10,000 race crowned owner Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago with a $1,000 gold cup and sets up a possible Ascot Gold Cup challenge. Joe Childs rode the four year old horse to victory over a weight of 129 pounds.
Miss Jeen Orcutt clinched the Eastern golf championship at Aronomink Club in Philadelphia, finishing 241 for 54 holes to repeat as champion. Helen Es of Inwood, N Y, took second, while Dorothy Campbell Hurd placed third with 250, setting a course record with a late surge.
Heckamans Thiefs members are asked to reportUniform at Dayton Malle Field this evening at 5 30 for a duce game with Wildwest Billiards A warming up affair precedes the Clothiers game Sunday at the Y Field Eastend A C meets at the Y Field
Joie Ray, famed miler turned roller skater, will start in the first international six day roller race at Madison Garden next Monday, as announced. The event marks a bold shift in Ray career from track to roller racing.
Umpires from Canton plan a gathering tonight at the Recreation office in the Battery Building to discuss association matters and scheduling.
Chicago dispatch reports a Purdue case may be brought before Big 10 athletic commissioner Major John L. Griffith. Coach Everett Case of Frankfort High School allegedly exchanged credits with Iowa to influence players to Iowa, while Iowa’s new athletic director Edward Lauer seeks names of athletes who received improper aid.
Dr Ed Folk wins the Canton doctors blind bogey tournament at Brookside Country Club with a net 83 after a gross 103 and 20 handicap. Low gross honors go to Dr J P DeWitt with 90. fourteen entries enter the season’s first meet amid threatening weather.
Tom the Maltese cat remains imprisoned in a pad locked soft drink parlor after federal marshals closed the shop 13 days ago. Humane society and newspapers urged action but district attorney says no authority to release the cat. Citizens watch as the cat paces in the empty store awaiting relief.
Paris June 6. The French chambers of commerce rally to form a European entente to combat new tariff regulations proposed by the United States Congress. A 500 chamber resolution warns France against protectionist U S policies and urges immediate steps to ease trade with America amid Italian protests and debt-erected tensions.
National Broadcasting Co will continue its radio political series on June 12 with a 15 minute talk by Paul R. Mallon chief of the capitol staff of United Press. He will discuss the current Washington situation from Station WRC. A nationwide network will distribute the address. Raymond Clapper will speak on June 19 over the same hookup.
The Irish Free State dail debated an appropriation to set up a legation in Vatican City. Appropriations for legations at Paris and Berlin were already approved. The papal envoy is due to arrive June 24, a milestone in Catholic emancipation celebrations.
The Gibbs School swept the annual grade school track and field meet at the Lehman High oval, scoring 280 points across seventh and eighth grade boys and girls. Dwight V. Peabody directed the event, which ran smoothly though threatened by dark skies, with Gibbs players winning most events and notable performances from Burns and Horace Mann.
Jefferson County Kennel Club officials announce Rush Run greyhound racetrack will host a meeting starting June 15. Sheriff W. J. Yost says no betting will be permitted at the track, ending two seasons of pari mutuel style wagering.
Announcement states local officials will be held responsible for any gambling law violations in their counties, backing a warning against betting.
The 150 pound crew from Columbia University leaves New York to compete in the Henley regatta on the Thames River marking the 1929 rowing season.
In a brief item the column laments missed chances and opportunities within the classified section. It notes overlooked ads and potential deals that could have been pursued through the column’s listings.
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