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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1937
Page
2
Louisiana State University and Santa Clara accepted invitations to compete in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. The announcements came from the New Orleans Midwinter Sports association executive committee.
Special to The Gazette Iowa City Forty five University of Town freshmen football players were designated Monday night to receive 1941 numerals on recommendation of the freshman coaching staff. The list includes Ends Ken Pettit Logan Jens Norgaard Iowa City etc.
Culver Motors defeated Peter Pan 17 18 to lead the opener while Baby Ruth triumphed over the same foes 25 20 The field appears uneven with unclear lines but shows Culver Motors and Baby Ruth claiming early wins for the season amid scattered player names and scores.
Monticello announces its toughest ever basketball schedule starting December 7. Co captains Ray Mee and Fard lead a team that lost three of twenty seven games last season and reached the district finals. Upcoming dates include December 10 Maquoketa December 14 Dubuque and January 25 Hopkinton among many away and home games with opponents such as Marion Manchester Iowa City and West Branch.
Nearly 800 baseball leaders from coast to coast gathered for the 36th annual minor league meeting in Milwaukee. Major clubs sent reps with trades anticipated at next week’s Chicago meetings. New York Yankees made the day’s only bona fide deal by selling George Stumpf to St Paul.
Burke Powers of Oskaloosa will head the Grinnell College football team as captain for 1938 after election at Grinnell on Monday. Powers, noted for his versatility and leadership, succeeds the previous captain and brings experience from the Iowan grid scene.
In the final AP writers poll Pitt received 327 points to California 277 with 29 first place votes. California placed second and Alabama fourth with Minnesota fifth. Fordham and Notre Dame also received minor votes while Santa Clara tied for ninth.
New York reports the University of Pittsburgh football team won the August V Lambert Memorial trophy for eastern gridiron supremacy for the second straight year as 31 judges from major eastern sports media selected them.
Fordham surged to a narrow second place behind a Panthers team. Dartmouth secured third with Harvard Yale Villanova and Holy Cross following in the voting order.
Pitt places five players on the All Eastern football squad chosen by AP in New York. Marshall Goldberg Tony Matisi Al Lezouski Frank Souchak and Hal Stebbins earned first and second team honors alongside Fordham Dartmouth Yale and Cornell standouts.
Lucien C Powell Jr of Forester Ark was chosen captain of the Naval Academy football team for the next season. Powell plays right end and also participates in varsity baseball. Fred M Bush Jr of New Hebron Miss was named team manager.
The Brooklyn Dodgers, long on the market, have cut their asking price to 1.3 million dollars and may change ownership before spring training. Capt. Tilly Huston’s prior bid lapsed, while two to three syndicates circle, possibly with Jimmy Walker or a Whitney member as front. Giants owner Horace Stoneham eyes Van Mungo amid Dodgers’ business shift and post Gormar management.
Golfer John Montague formerly known as La Verne Matthew Moore asks to drop the old name. He says John Montague has commercial and sentimental value. Moore, born in Syracuse in 1904, was acquitted in a New York robbery case and a hearing is set for Jan 6.
Iowa City reports University of Town coaches plan seven sport bookings at the Western conference December meeting in Chicago. Schedules for baseball track gymnastics swimming wrestling golf and tennis for winter and spring 1938 will be drawn with expected more than fifty bookings including forty five dual contests. None of the events start before mid January. Hawkeyes basketball schedule is already complete.
University of Chicago basketball team suffers loss of star guard Bob Fitzgerald a two year regular after a fall injury. Maroons, led by veterans from the 1936 squad, look to rebound with upcoming De Paul game despite the setback.
Pitt football players voted 16 to 15 against any post season game urging focus on the regular schedule. Officials denied any second meeting but noted the 1937 season appears closed for Pitt. Invitations had come from Sugar and Cotton bowls, with Rose bowl consideration briefly discussed.
The Non sectarian Anti Nazi League pledges a fight to the finish against Max Schmeling and urges promoters to bar Schmeling Louis title plans. The group demands revenues from Schmeling bouts stay in the United States and cites preventing German funds aiding Germany.
Iowa City AP Nile Kinnick Omaha sophomore is out for three days after a gash over his right eye from scrimmage required four stitches and is not considered serious by coach Rollie Williams. Hobbs also injured wrist in first practice session for the Iowa basketball squad.
Iowa City based coach and former Stanford All American Ernie Nevers will officiate a football game between Memphis high school and a Chicago school at the Memphis sports carnival in Tennessee. He has been invited to broadcast and speak at a dinner. Nevers and other Iowa staff have attended high school football dinners since the season ended, with Ottawa Illinois listed as a stop on Wednesday.
Johnny Magovich of Buhl Minnesota was selected as the player of greatest value to the Town State Teachers college football squad at the annual banquet in Cedar Falls. The senior halfback led the 1937 team with 42 points. twenty lettermen earned awards including Gaylord Indvik Forest City Carroll Cook Dexter Walter Ditzler Mason City and Howard Rabey Belmond.
The Associated Press reports uneven boxing results with Harold Brown outpointing Johnny Narhara in Chicago while Tommy Howell and Melvin Harper also feature across other cities. Joey Raymond wins in New Orleans, and Ralp Providence scores another decision in Providence.
Busy K a 3 year old bay colt that was once buyable for 2500 dollars defeated favored rivals Burning Star Calumet Dick and others to win the Bryan and O Hara handicap at Bowie earning a three length victory and ending Bowie's eight month major eastern racing run.
London report says Tommy Farr accepted promoter Mike Jacobs offer to fight former champion Jimmy Braddock in Miami on February 26, 1938. Farr had lost to Joe Louis in five rounds last September.
Real estate transfers recorded including Clifford B Maynard et al to Merchants Natl Bank as trustee with 4 percent interest in specified lots and conditions of a trust agreement. appointment of Merchants Natl Bank as successor trustee. transfers involving Juhan Sopousek to Charles T and Mary L Bowman with joint tenancy and full title rights in Cedar Rapids properties. dates 8-37.
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