Observers Expect Hornsby to Lose Browns Manager Post
Rumor swirls that Rogers Hornsby may be dismissed as manager of the St. Louis Browns after the current season with Oscar Melillo and Jim Bottomley named as likely successors. Financial woes and dwindling attendance press the team, while Hornsby’s popularity has waned among players.
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NEA
Rogers Hornsby
St. Louis Browns
Oscar Melillo
Boston Red Sox
Jim Bottomley
Rajah
Browns
Kenwood Net Team To Invade Marengo For Special Match
Marengo hosts Kenwood Club of Cedar Rapids for a Sunday match as Harold Swift and Harry Colvin lead the top doubles contenders. Richard Brown with Kenneth McCune form the No 2 doubles pair ahead of other ranked entrants including Irwin Zant and Harold Reynolds in a weekend ladder showdown.
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Marengo Tennis Club
Harry Colvin
Harold Swift
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Kenwood Club
Cedar Rapids
Richard Brown
Kenneth “Ike” McCune
Irwin Zanrt
McCune
Harold Reynolds
Lou Diers
Roland White
Melvin Fetzer
Richard Zentmire
Franklin Eddy
Wayland Brown
Dirt Track Auto Racing At Wapsie Valley Fair Carded
CENTRAL CITY Aug 8 features dirt track racing with top regional drivers. Entries include Walt Trevelyan D O Special Davenport Ralph LeGuire McDowell Rock Island Harold Rheims Fronte Ford St Paul Chet Edwards Dyall Special Ottumwa Tom Dyall L 22 Special Ottumwa Dwight Peck Peck Special Des Moines Les Lange Davenport Al Mather Fronte Minneapolis Speed Adams Miller Special Carl Silanstaple Fronte St Billy Donnahauer Don Special Hibbing.
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Walt Trevelyan
D. O. Special
Davenport
Ralph LeGuire
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Rock Island
Harold Rheims
Fronte Ford
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Kalona Team To Play In Riverside Tourney
Kalona kitten ball team lost both recent games to Richmond 12 to 9 and 13 to 3. At Riverside Sunday Richmond and Riverside start at 10 o clock with Kalona and Howels to follow. Upcoming: Racine Iowa City game Monday and local all star tournament Thursday with four local teams Red Yoders Bud Dawsons Tiny Conklins and L E Stricklers.
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Wilson Co Office Men To Play Pork Loaders Frolic Night Grudge Match
Wilson Co office force meets pork loaders in a grudge game at Frolic Field on Wednesday night. The pork loaders upset the beef crew last week and were challenged by the office team. A second game features Frolic versus Hills, Iowa, after the opener.
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Goliath Beetle Tops World List at Four Inches
The largest of the 100000 known species is the brown Goliath beetle from equatorial Africa. It measures about four inches long and stands out as the world’s biggest beetle species.
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Dick Westerfield Plans Tank Affair At Iowa Falls Pool
Iowa Falls pool superintendent Dick Westerfield reports inquiries about the third annual North Iowa Open at the municipal pool on Sunday August 9. Entry blanks have been mailed to 1935 contestants and pool managers statewide as plans move to sanction the meet with the Midwest AAU. Medals will honor top three in each event across four classes for junior girls and boys and senior women and men.
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Dick Westerfield
Midwest
Bisagnano to meet Jack Hader at Cedar Park card
Al Bisagnano headlines the weekly Show by Matchmaker Eddie Jennings at Cedar Park facing Jack Hader of Kansas City. The card also features Bull Martin of Omaha vs Ray Richards, with Lee Henning and Jack Sampson opening the event.
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Eddie Jennings
Jack Hader
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Chicago Bears
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Sunny Jim Bottomley to Receive Jersey Cow at Park Event
St Louis AP Sunny Jim Bottomley plans retirement to his Bourbon Missouri farm and will receive a purebred Jersey cow at Sportsman Park on August 15. The event is led by coach Jimmy Conzelman of Washington University, honoring Bottomley who began with the Cardinals in 1922 and rejoined from Cincinnati as a Brown.
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Myer considers quitting baseball for rest of year
DETROIT AP Buddy Myer Washington infielder and 1935 American league batting champion may quit baseball for the rest of the year due to a stomach ailment. Field captain of the Senators he has played little in two months and will decide after consulting owner Clark Griffith when the team returns to Washington next week.
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Buddy Myer
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Griffith
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Telegraph Olympics Suggested to Curb Chaos at Games
Harry Grayson argues for telegraphic or cable Olympics with strong officials to keep U S athletes in line. He notes flaws but favors telegraphic raff with a nod to Berlin 1936 torch relay and critiques Brundage and Eleanor Holm Holm. He jokes about 1936 missteps and praises nontraditional sports like weightlifting and canoeing.
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Berlin
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Joe Church
Howell King
Mrs. Holm
Germany
Olympia
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Universal Sport
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Payat
Jugoslavia
Joe Louis
Bernie Bierman Emerges Leader in All Star Coach Poll
In Chicago reporters note Bernie Bierman leads a nationwide vote to select a staff of former college stars to face the Detroit Lions at Soldiers Field on September 1. The Minnesota coach tops Elmer Layden by wide margin with 314,201 points to 148,499.
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Lynn Waldorf
Northwestern
Bo McMillin
Indiana
Francis Schmidt
Ohio State
Clark Shaughnessy
Lou Little
Columbia
Claude E. “Tiny” Thornhill
Stanford
Matty Bell
Southern Methodist
Ossie Salem
Iowa
Co. Crisler
Princeton
Bob Zuppke
Illinois
Owens Sets Three World Records Among Thirteen Approved
The International Amateur Athletic Federation approved thirteen new world marks in Berlin including three by Jesse Owens. Owens’ times and distances are 20.3 seconds for the 220 yard dash, 22.6 seconds for the 220 yard hurdles, and 8.13 meters for the broad jump. Other records include Keith Brown pole vault 4.39 meters and Willy Schroeder discus 53.10 meters.
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Jesse Owens
America
International Amateur Athletic Federation
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Keith Brown
United States
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Hungary
Willy Schroeder
Germany
Case Ace Wins Arlington Futurity in Sprint Finish
Case Ace narrowly defeats Orientalist and Apogee in the Arlington futurity before 27000 fans. The juvenile, owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars of Oak Park Illinois, ran six furlongs in 1 11 5 and earned a share of the $50 635 purse with $36 540 going to Mars.
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Apogee
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Oak Park
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Junior Legion Finals Set for August in Rockwell City
Four teams Bancroft Council Bluffs Eldora and Muscatine will play August 5 to 7 in Rockwell City for the Iowa American Legion junior baseball tournament round robin finals. Schedule lists Bancroft vs Council Bluffs Eldora vs Bancroft and Bancroft vs Eldora with evening games.
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Allison And Van Ryn Win Seabright Doubles Title
Wilmer Allison of Austin and Johnny Van Ryn of Philadelphia won the Seabright Invitational men's doubles title with a 6-3 6-2 6-0 victory over Bobby Riggs and Wayne Sabin.
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Austin
Tex
Johnny van Ryn
Philadelphia
Bobby Riggs
Los Angeles
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Portland
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Wilton hosts Aug. 9 softball tourney with Beesons Parksons
Two Cedar Rapids teams Beeson s and Parkson s will play in a Wilton softball tourney on August 9. Kelly Oilers of Iowa City also joins the field, with both local teams already entered.
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