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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1936
Page
16
Western league owner J. J. Ostronic blames incendiary fire for the park ruin city officials lament outages and $80,000 in damage to park and nearby homes. Fifteen injured as flames spread east and north. remaining twenty games moved to Council Bluffs under Hank Severeid.
Mrs Mary Rehan announces daughter Mabel will marry Johnnie Schinski right fielder for the Sioux City Cow boys on September 6 The romance began at Stock Yards park with a wave from Mabel in the grandstand and Johnnie on the field The couple exchanged a signature baseball and began going steady
Columbus Junction leads the Community Softball League with a 7 to 4 win over Louisa Center as standings were announced. Games will be played next week at Columbus Junction due to the Louisa County fair.
John Batterson and his team aim to launch a glider from Mount Wilson summit to reach 15,000 feet using cumulus cloud updrafts. He previously set a 5,979 foot altitude record at Elmi ra and believes eastern thermo flying offers superior lift compared to California slope currents. Weather and cloud banks will determine if the ceiling is surpassed.
Manhattan Kansas ap says Dr C W Campbell head of Kansas State college animal husbandry dept calls rye the most dependable crop for fall, winter and spring feed. He notes rye produces more pasture and withstands bad weather, trampling and grazing better than any other small grain.
Ethel Silver a bay mare owned by Roland Manbeck of Des Moines swept all three heats in the 2 18 trot at the Delaware county fair in Manchester. Howard Warren a bay gelding owned by P J Cassidy of Strawberry Point won two of three heats in the 2 18 pace and was second in the final heat.
In Wellman Iowa Taylor and Glenn Smith pursue the city golf championship for the third straight year with Taylor holding two prior wins. Smith reached the final by beating Ora Hooley 5 and 4. Taylor edged Willis Bash on the final hole 1 up in an 18 hole match to reach the final.
Billy Wilkinson set a distance record at the Marengo American Legion pool by swimming 250 widths, about 256 miles, Thursday. Myron Rathjen quit at 182 widths, and Wilkinson earlier in the week completed five pool widths in 1922 for a speed record.
North English defeated Harper 4 to 2 on the celebration day with Bates and Bate behind the plate for Harper and Tane and Herd liska for North English. The contest opened with steady pitching as both sides traded runs in a tight early innings.
Ed Strangler Lewis from Glendale California defeated Lee Wreoff from St Louis while the match featured Alter and Bours at 14:45.
The Western league plans a major reorganization for 1937 led by Dr A J McLaughlin. Sioux City Waterloo Davenport and Cedar Rapids stay. Des Moines and Omaha face possible surrender. Cities eyed include Rock Island Peoria Rockford Madison and Decatur with Rock Island already organizing a return to baseball.
The article explains a forward swing where the wrists snap naturally as the left arm pulls the ball and the right hand and arm push. It warns against using the left tight side and recommends keeping the head still to ensure the right hand slaps through the ball with a clean impact. An editor's note promotes Chester Horton golfing booklets with a 3 cent stamp and SASE to Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1936.
COSMA Calif. UP An improvised drama shows a bull acting as bodyguard for Godfrey Twerder, a rancher. State highway patrol Captain Paul Perussima approached, misjudged Twerder, ran, and the bull charged, forcing Perussima to detour a mile around the fence to his car while Twerder stood by.
Rock Island Shops rout CCC 17 to 2 at Daniel's Park in a high scoring league game. Holloway allowed five hits in five innings while teammates sparked offense with seven runs early and constant hitting. Dvorak homered, Mattler and Strouse doubled, and Carter added two hits as Rock Island improved to a decisive win.
Plans are under way to search for the Chicora which sank in a storm over Lake Michigan on January 31, 1895. Allan Chesebro will direct the effort using an airplane to locate the hulk about 80 feet deep three miles west of South Haven. The Chicora carried 30 carloads of flour and about $30,000 in money.
In Chapel Hill North Carolina an unsuccessful state legislature candidate itemized campaign contributions as meals, lodging, transportation, and assorted items. The list included two haircuts five nights lodging cheese crackers soft drinks tobacco four rides to nearby towns three pairs of half sales and heels and cash gifts totaling fourteen dollars eighty cents plus two lunches with advice.
International Illustrated News reports Fort Knox maneuvers start August 6 involving over 20 000 U S troops of the Fifth corps in a mass concentration to test modern mechanized warfare across terrain. The exercise simulates an enemy from the southeast and emphasizes aviation mechanized forces and motor transport.
A sequence of 1930s real estate transfers records deeds from Co. L Watsabaugh to Max Bromwell and multiple others to spouses and trusts. Notable entries include Jennie Hayford Mickel and Ernest M Riley joint tenancy, Ray B France and Helen A Graham as joint tenants, and Edith C Ashby to Lee O Nelson with easement covenants for utilities. Multiple other parcels across sections 31 to 83-8 exchange hands for nominal sums, with covenants, restrictions, and easements noted.
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