Baseball In 1936 Featured By Yankees Spectacular Feats
The 1936 season saw the New York Yankees rebound to the world championship amid dramatic reversals and stellar rookie exploits. Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig powered a record breaking Yankee attack while the Tigers and Giants faced injuries and late-season drama. The World Series set attendance and receipts records as Lefty Gomez and Jake Powell starred for New York.
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New York Yankees
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Bill Terry
Giants
Joe di Maggio
Memphis
Bill
Terry
di Maggio
San Francisco
DiMaggio
Lou Gehrig
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Mickey Cochrane
Hank Greenberg
White Sox
Jimmy Dykes
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Carl Hubbell
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Pirates
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Moray Eby Heads to New York Meetings
Moray Eby athletic director and football coach leaves for New York as Midwest conference delegate to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Football Coaches' Association meetings. He will attend a Coaches' special train, arrive Monday, and return next Friday.
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New York
Coe
New York City
National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Football Coaches’ Association
Eby
Midwest
Chicago
Lighters Renew Rivalry With Bellevue Bears
Bellevue hosts the Iowa Electric Light and Power basketball team Sunday afternoon at the St Joseph gym. The series began Labor Day 1935 with a 4 to 2 baseball win by Ockie Theisen. Theisen scored 14 points in last year’s 29 to 27 victory for the Lighters. The Light quintet have seven straight wins and lead the YMCA league with five wins over league opponents.
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Bears
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
St. Joseph Gymnasium
Ockie Theisen
Bellevue High School
Lighters
Theisen
Local Preps Celebrate A Strong Year Across Teams
The four city high schools posted a successful season with Roosevelt claiming the city basketball title and Franklin winning the sectional event. Franklin led in track with several top finishes, while McKinley and Davenport produced standouts such as John Davenport who claimed state broad jump glory. St Patrick’s captured the parish basketball crown, and St Wenceslaus girls earned a consolation championship after a diocesan loss.
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Franklin
Marion
Davenport
St. Patrick’s
Shamrocks
St. Wenceslaus
St. Mary’s of Waterloo
Dubuque
Waterloo
Youth Stars Dominate Iowa Sports Headlines in 1936
Des Moines AP reports a year shaped by youth as Bob Feller set a single game strikeout record and pursued a Cleveland contract, Billy Hall won a 39 hole golf final, Edith Estabrooks crowned Iowa's youngest state champion, and teen athletes propelled Iowa to major college titles in swimming tennis and golf amid coaching changes and high school triumphs.
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Iowa
Bob Feller
Billy Hall
Sid Richardson
Edith Estabrooks
Feller
van Meter
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Husky
Kenesaw Landis
Signsa Feller
Sanders
Landis
Indians
Bob
Hall
Merle Stimson
Waterloo
Creston
Chicago
Little Edith Estabrooks
Five Engine Points Need Attention in Automobiles
Ignition followed by gasoline mixture compression lubrication and cooling demand constant attention in automobile engines. Coast guard planes are used in search for bootleg whisky stills in the southern highlands.
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Coe Athletes Run Strong With Two League Titles
Coe College teams earned two league titles and multiple individual track and tennis honors. Moray Eby’s football squad went undefeated in conference play and was not scored upon, Drake and State Teachers the only defeats. Track produced three individual conference champions Bob McKinley Ralph Martin and Charles Claypool plus a new pole vault loop record. Hayden’s tennis team went 9 of 10 and won doubles, Turner reached singles final. Baseball diamond project planned as baseball returns. US aeronautical exports rose 55 percent to about 14 million in eight months.
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Iowa
Jennet Jones
Des Moines
University of Iowa
Dave Armbruster
Ray Walters
Harris Coggeshall
Missouri Valley
Coe
Cornell
Kohawks
Knox
Drake University
Bulldogs
Creighton
Oklahoma Aggies
Franklin
Pitch) Johnson
Ames
Mason City
Mohawks
Centerville
Redettes
Cumberland
Dale Brand
Fort Dodge
Cornell College
Ozzie Simmons
Ossie Solem
Iowa City
Solem
Storm
Oze
Temple
George Veenker
Iowa State
Moray Eby
Drake
Forest Rutger
Bob McKinley
Ralph Martin
Charles Claypool
Tom Hayden
Jim Carruthers
Chuck Roberts
Hubert Turner
Louis Schmeling Bout Changes Boxing's 1936 Lens
The 1936 heavyweight scene centers on Joe Louis and Max Schmeling after Louis’s upset loss in Yankee Stadium. Braddock avoided a title defense, while Schmeling earned a title shot that Braddock’s arthritis halted. Other divisions see Steele, Apostoli, Canzoneri, and Lewis active as era-wide shifts unfold.
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Schmeling Kaye
Jack Sharkey
al Ettore
Jorge Brescia
Eddie Simms
Schmeling
Braddock
Madison Square Garden
Twentieth Century Club
Boxing Commission
Gunnar Barland
Finland
Arturo Godoy
Chile
Leroy Haynes
Non Impellettiere
Jack Trammell
Freddie Steele
Seattle
America
Babe Risko
Risko
Tony Fisher
Fred Apostoli
Young Starley
Pacific Coast
Harry Balsamo
New York
Sally Krieger
Pittsburgh
Teddy Yarosz
Ken Overlin
Oscar Rankin
Krieger
Marcel Thil
France
Europe
King
Lou Brouillard
Lou Ambers
Herkimer
N. Y
Tony Canzoneri
Lou
Eddie Cool
Jimmy McLarnin
McLarnin
Canzoneri
Jimmy
Tony
John Henry Lewis
Five YMCA Cage League Games This Week
Five games are set in the YMCA basketball league this week. Leaders Iowa Electric Light and Power and Culver Motor each have five wins. Wednesday action features Lighters versus Bishop Cafeteria at 9 p.m. and Motormen vs Armstrong Clothiers at 8 p.m. Monday games pair International Harvesters with Cherry Burrell and Bishop’s with Hall Manufacturers, while Wednesday Iowa Steel meets Peter Pan Bakers. No games Friday.
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Culver Motor
Motormen
Herbeck
Bishop Cafeteria
Culver
Armstrong Clothiers
International Harvesters
Cherry Burrell
Bishop's
Hall
Iowa Steel
Peter Pan Bakers
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