New Pitcher Adds Hope For Iowa Managers
Art Ecklund arrives in Cedar Rapids to work for Martin-Roasa Company and offers pitching services to local teams. Former Caterpillar Tractors star and ex pro pitcher has experience in the Southern Association and Eastern League. He vows to pitch for any nearby squad as 1950 rules end courtesy runners.
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Martin - Roasa Company
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Caterpillar Tractors
Peoria
Bill Rucker
Memorial Stadium
Chattanooga
Williamsport
Loop Pennant To South Side
The South Side Civic club defeated the Elks 5 to 0 at Hayes Wednesday morning to win the second half and season championship of the Service and Civic club baseball league. Teply and Holmes doubled, Serovy had two singles, and Mrstik contributed a hit.
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Lantz Lectures To Greenskeepers
H. L. Lantz, professor of horticulture at Iowa State College, lectured on strains of grasses to about seventy greenskeepers at the monthly meeting of the Iowa State Greenskeepers Association held Tuesday at Elmcrest Country Club.
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Iowa State College
Iowa State Greenskeepers Association
Elmcrest Country Club
Local greenskeepers meet at Cedar Rapids area clubs
The meeting lists attendees including Walter Fox Keith Engle Dick Baher from Cedar Rapids Country Club with George Maxenfield Charles Maxenfield Eldridge Martin Ray Sells Gene Sells Marsh De Martelaere from Elmcrest Joe Benson Ellis Park and Bob Hutton at Indian Creek.
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Keith Engle
Dick Baher
Cedar Rapids Country Club
George Maxenfield
Charles Maxenfield
Eldridge Martin
Ray Sells
Gene Sells
Marsh de Martelaere
Elmcrest
Joe Benson
Ellis Park
Bob Hutton
Indian Creek
Knapp Retires From Men’s Singles In City Tennis
Russell Knapp, two time city champion, will skip the men’s singles citing an ankle injury. He hopes to play in men’s and mixed doubles. Entries close 10 a.m. Thursday. manager James McDonald can be reached at 32675. Pairings and rounds follow in upcoming papers.
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James McDonald
Knapp
Bill Ball
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Sugar Wins Weight Bout Before Fusari Title Fight
Welterweight Champion Ray Robinson weighed in just one ounce under 147 pounds after two earlier failures. Challenger Charley Fusari came in at 145½ pounds. Robinson, having to make the limit, endured three official checks and a heat box attempt within 25 minutes, then received a two hour respite before the title defense.
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Charley Fusari
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Locke Mangrum Tie As Tam Open Finishes In Drama
Veteran stars Bobby Locke and Lloyd Mangrum battled to a tie after a dramatic finish in Tam O'Shanter's All American Open. Locke shot a final burst of par plays to reach 67 and 282 total, matching Mangrum to contest the $2,500 winner's share in the $15,000 event. Ed Furgol led early with a two stroke edge over Alexander, Douglas, and Hawkins before the final round.
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Bobby Locke
Lloyd Mangrum
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Mangrum
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Ed Furgol
Skip Alexander
Dave Douglas
Fred Hawkins
Peters To Face Hoeksema In Davenport Duel Tonight
Cedar Rapids pitcher Ray Peters meets Quad Cities ace Dick Hoeksema in a third round clash in Davenport tonight. The Quads beat the Indians 4 3 Tuesday as Larry Miller homered off Ray Narleski in a late rally.
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Woman Stock Driver Injured in Waterloo Race Collision
Dottie Harris of Davenport is hospitalized with back injuries after a women’s stock car race in Waterloo Tuesday night. Her car collided with Helen Downs on the back stretch and both vehicles rolled over.
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Izaak Walton League Trapshoot Sunday at Morley Road Grounds
The Izaak Walton League holds a trapshoot on Sunday afternoon at its Morley road grounds one mile south. Merchandise prizes will be awarded to winners.
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Izaak Walton League
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Standings and Schedule for the Three-I League
Baseball standings for the Three I League list New York at Boston at noon with Hearn facing Chipman, St Louis at Pittsburgh, and Chicago at Cincinnati with rain. Thursday games include Brooklyn at Boston and New York at Philadelphia. Probable pitchers cover Detroit Chicago and Boston New York matchups across multiple times.
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Dancers Top Speeder in Major Open Softball Clash
Dancers Top Speeder captured a 5-1 win over Link-Belt Speeder at Ellis Park to earn a spot representing Cedar Rapids in the state softball tournament. Both teams had six hits as Stark held off a late Speeder push. The Ma jor Open features Eby's against the Eagles at Ellis Wednesday night.
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Big Ten Theater Video Hookup
The Western conference approves an experimental plan to televise select Big Ten football games on large screen theater televisions this fall. Northwestern Illinois Michigan are onboard with plans to include Minnesota and Ohio State if possible. United Paramount Theaters will run the program on a year basis to control audience size and site choices.
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Lusty Song Wins In Hambletonian
Lusty Song takes the $75,209 Hambletonian at Good Time Park in Goshen New York sweeping two heats. Del Miller drives the Volemite colt to win the first heat by two lengths over Star's Pride with Lord Steward third in a field of 13 three year olds.
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Phils Favored To Beat Dodgers In title run
The flying Phillies boast a strong chance to claim their first flag in 35 years. Eddie Sawyer inspired the team to 8 wins in 13 meetings with Brooklyn this season, cementing Philadelphia as a top contender as they pulled ahead in the standings.
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Ice Crash Highlight At Ce-Mar Speedway
At Ce-Mar tonight the ice crash will headline a busy card plus regular races. Jack Fleming of Davenport plans a head on into a wall of one ton of ice while more than 35 cars chase Cotton Hodges in the Midseason Championship race. Time trials start at 7 with racing at 8 15 and Wynne Friction Proof Oil Company presents a three foot trophy to the winner.
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Davenport
Cotton Hodges
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Western League Scores Mixed With American Association Results
Western League results show Lincoln 4, Wichita 3 and Sioux City 14, Pueblo 7 while Denver and Omaha posted 6 and 5 runs respectively. In the American Association Indianapolis led 5 and Milwaukee 4 5 with Toledo defeating St Paul and Columbus 7 with Minneapolis blanking 0.
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West all-America game co-captains named
Memphis Tennessee reports tackle Joe Bush of Davenport and Harol Lofton of Brookhaven Mississippi were named co-captains for the West squad in the East West high school all star game to be played Wednesday night in Memphis.
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Davenport
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Amputee Star Faces Fair Races at All-Iowa Meet
Bill Schindler, an amputee after a 1936 Mineola crash, returned to racing and racked up 4923 midget victories and four national titles. In May 1950 he entered the Sam Nunis-AAA meets at the All-Iowa fair, qualifying sixth fastest in Indianapolis history, and stars like Par sons, Ruttman, Carter, Brown, W allard, Rogers and Hinnershitz join the card for a dramatic race program including time trials heats a match race and a 25-lap sweepstakes.
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Phillies Edge Brooklyn 5 4 Behind Ennis and Seminick
The Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn 5-4 to extend their NL lead. Del Ennis and Andy Seminick hit homers in the third inning as Meyer earned the win with 8 strikeouts. Pelica and Campanella homered for Brooklyn.
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Braves End Giants Long Winning Streak In Boston Thriller
Bob Elliott’s sixth inning double drove in the tying run and he scored on Tommy Holmes’ sacrifice fly as the Boston Braves defeated the New York Giants 3 to 2. Hearn Kozio and Westrum Crandall mix in for New York. game details show late scoring and a tight pitching duel.
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