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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1949
Page
5
Michigan State has 12 games scheduled with Big Nine schools for the 1949 baseball season, matching the conference schedule among themselves. The piece also notes Iowa practices crowd control and sportsmanship during a recent Iowa-Purdue basketball game at Iowa City and mentions several historical sports figures and figures from the Harlem Globetrotters.
Cedar Rapids hosts opening night for the local boxing season at Memorial Coliseum. Card features Tommy Gavin versus Billy Sangster and Dick Kanellis, Jack McGinnis, Keith Carder in key bouts with Quad-City contenders. Notables include John Hargis and Ralph Johnson family connections. event labeled Link Belt Speeder Night with special rates for company employees.
The top National Basketball League team from Anderson Indiana invades Cedar Rapids to face the Raiders at Cue. The 8 15 pm game follows the Lipps Grill Link Belt Speeder matchup at 6 45 pm. Howie Schultz star of the Anderson Packer and former Hamline athlete features for Anderson.
DES MOINES AP Sites for the 1949 Iowa high school girls sectional tournaments were announced by R H Chisholm executive secretary of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Districts list multiple towns and schools including Center Point Coggon Conrad Dows Fertile Goose Lake Guttenberg Hubbard Little Cedar Marble Rock Monona Montour Olin Waucoma Akron Fonda Galva Gillett Grove Harcourt Hartley Kingsley Lakota Lohrville Ocheyedan Plover Schleswig Stanhope Altoona Brooklyn Donnellson Fairfield Garden Grove Knoxville Lone Tree Maxwell Moulton Junction North English Seymour Wapello ten Junction Afton Avoca Coon Rapids Gravity Guthrie Center Leon Macedonia Manilla Manson Valley nearby. West Des Moines.
Indiana defeated Iowa 50-39 as the Hoosiers rallied from an 8-0 start and Iowa struggled with cold shooting. Bill Tosheff led Indiana with 12 points aided by strong shooting from the team, while Iowa's Charlie Mason battled for 10 points before leaving the game after an injury.
Illinois, off three straight Big Nine victories, edged Ohio State 64 63 on the road to stay out front. Minnesota and Purdue trail, while Illinois eyes home return against Minnesota after a two away league swing and a non conference win over Indiana.
Loras college football coach Wallie Fromhart was the guest at St. Matthew's Catholic church Holy Name Society breakfast. Arthur J. Illon was elected president, Mellon was secretary, Dr C A Stark vice president, William Redmond secretary, with retiring officers Larry Reading and Harvey Lynch.
La Porte Rams held off a late St Patrick’s rally to win 54 49 at St Pat’s gym Monday night. Bill Teeter led all scorers with 16 points in the first half while Dick Brust and Wayne Krumbholz fueled the Rams’ balanced attack. St Patrick’s faded in the second half as Walt Hanson directed a Shamrocks revival, but the visitors held on for the victory.
Coe college basketball loses three regulars to injuries. Guard Bob Greene torn knee aments on crutches likely out for Wisconsin invasion. Bul Middlesworth bedridden with a cold and Squid Collins back from a fall, slated to be ready for Ripon and Lawrence.
About 50 University of Minnesota students will join the Iowa City event as guests of the University of Iowa student council for the January 18 basketball game. Council President Evan Hultman said Minnesota’s all university congress president George S. Arneson accepted with interest. The invitation aims to repair relations after tensions during the last football season and 1947 48 basketball season.
The 1940 Preakness purse was cut from 100000 to 75000 due to a downward trend in business at the Baltimore track.
Nathan Kobey Denver attorney and taxicab line operator reports no progress toward placing a Western league baseball club in Wichita this season. He met with Rogers Hornsby in Chicago who wants to return to professional baseball but cannot decide before January 20 due to other interests. Wichita and Cedar Rapids seek a chance to expand the Western league to eight clubs.
The Cedar Rapids Open ice skating meet moves earlier to Wednesday night at 815 at the Roosevelt rink. Playground officials say the rink will host skaters and spectators by then after last Sunday's postponement of the Gazette KCRG Silver Skates, now set for Jan 30.
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