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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1933
Page
3
AL president William Harridge said attendance is higher this year than 1932 despite rough weather. He noted improved business and competition, though profits remain uneven with losses for many clubs. The league plans to raise per ticket revenue and opposes double headers as bargain attractions.
Independence Iowa reports a larger attendance on day two of the Buchanan county fair with events including 2:22 pace won by Don Bell owned by O C Sargeant Tipton in two heats 2:15 and 2:15½ a 2:22 trot won by Calumet Can also owned by Sargeant in three heats 2:21 2:23 2:21 a baseball game Independence 10 Center Point 5 and a horse show plus vaudeville separate.
Denver based George J. Charpiot, a local golf course user, is defendant in a $50,000 damage suit filed in district court. Earl E. Figg, a 17 year old caddy, says Charpiot failed to warn before driving through a foursome while he was placing the flag staff on the ninth hole. The drive struck Figg on the head, left him unconscious, and endangered his remaining sight.
The Searles kittenball team defeated Mount Vernon 14 to 7 Wednesday with Campbell and Schrader on the battery. They followed with a 10 to 5 win over an all-star Belle Plaine team, Schrader aiding again with White and Michalek. A Sunday double header host is 4000 of Dubuque at Ellis Park starting 1:45.
The C. S. A. Cardinals will practice at Daniels Park Sunday at nine o'clock in preparation for the Hampton tournament next week. They will pair with a Waterloo team during the session.
Grinnell College prepares for the 1933 football season as coach L L Watt counts on eleven veterans and about seventeen promising returnees. Key losses include Fritz Graflund Snap James Dick Ullrich and Spider Alexander. Returning starters include Howard Gould Abe Rosenbloom Bob Morgan Bob Sutton Bob McMillin Pete McKee Al Rose and West Clark. The Pioneers schedule features Coe Michigan State Iowa State Teachers St Louis U Drake Cresshton Carleton and an open date with Drake.
The Cedar Rapids tennis team faces Waterloo at Coe College and Country Club courts this Saturday with a 1 30 p m start. Waterloo brings ten men and four women. Cedar Rapids fields nine men and four women, including James Netolicky and Dr. Robert Netolicky on the men’s side and Mrs James Bell among the Cedar Rapids women.
Gazette Newsboys won nine straight innings against Boy Scout Troop No. 18 9 to 0 at McKin Jey diamond. Dave Bare pitched a one hitter. C Koch caught for the Newsboys. Scouts battery was R Schroedermier and H Beals.
Patsy Perrone, 189, Cleveland, outpoints Isadoro Gasbarra, 19014, Spain. Vernon Cromier, 1264, Worcester, and Pete De Grasse, 12844, Brooklyn, drew. Tony Dominguez, 15514, outpoints Paul Perrone, 160, Cleveland. Rob Olin, 133, Brooklyn, and Al Gainer, 68, New Slaven, Conn. drew. Mike Belloise, 121, New York, and Lew Farber, 118, New York, drew. Leonard Del Genio, 99114, New York, stopped Joe Regis, 12814, Puerto Rico. Sioux Falls, S. D. Johnny Martinet, Larchwood, Ia, and Rattling Nelson, 133, Belgrade, Neb., drew. New Haven, Conn. Carmen Knapp, 187, New Haven, and Jimmy McNamara, 186, New York, drew. North Adams, Mass. Joe Gorman, 18, New York, technically KO’d Vincent Green, 161, New York.
Lou Gehrig extended his consecutive games streak to 1 308 while adding nine big achievements from 174 RBIs in 1927 to four-homer games in 1932. The piece recalls his Columbia background and Yankees rise, plus Hagen Sarazen golf banter and Chicago Cubs White Sox pitching feats. It notes Rogers Hornsby’s impact with the Browns and a late homer to lift St Louis in a pennant race.
The text notes Hornsby may be shaping a managerial career with the Browns. It suggests he has the baseball intelligence and driving power to lead a team, warning rivals to watch him next year if he can manage himself.
CHICAGO Lew Fonseca will be manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1934. Harry Grabiner, the club’s vice president, confirms the choice despite no new contract. The piece notes public bets and a playful card game about managers, with humor about other figures.
The Gazette reports at Iowa City that among about a dozen contenders for halfback positions two major lettermen return. Sophomores Russell Fisher Des Moines Richard Yordy State Center and Walter Ewald Sioux City headline varsity hopefuls with others like Haltom and Ekdahl possible. Joe Laws may move to signal duties shaping early splits.
Crayne appears to favor Fairfield for the former post. Salem may field capable punters and passers with speed and weight. It marks the first time since 1929 that kicking and passing talent at Salem rivals other Big Yen schools.
Ellsworth Vines, the national champion, was outplayed by Frank X. Shields in straight sets 6-2 6-4 6-4 to exit the Newport Casino tennis tournament. Shields advances to the final as Vines, the two year defending Casino victor, is eliminated.
Judge E. S. Cavanaugh of Fort Dodge Iowa led the National all around casting championship race though not winning a first place. He finished runner up in the fly casting for distance and the three eighths ounce bait event for the best average. Anthony Accetta of Cleveland won the fly casting event with an average of 115 feet 4 inches and W J Bookwalter of Cleveland won the bait cast at 254 feet.
Sam Gray a veteran right handed pitcher for the St. Louis Browns has been sold to the Washington Senators in a finalized deal announced Friday in Saint Louis.
The Brooklyn National League club faced renewed court action as Ebbets heirs obtained an order to compel the club’s executors and directors to show cause about the team’s affairs. They cite a $30,000 loss on minor league properties, a drop in estate value from $1,066,814 to $839,468, and seek details of a $200,000 loan from Brooklyn Trust.
The newly organized Firemen team on Captain Ben Benish's shift defeated the Police 19 to 13 in their first game. Police errors and solid hits by Firemen Lyons Hall, Thompson and Forney, White aided the comeback while Mikota Simon and Funcke Cunningham struggled in key moments.
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