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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1938
Page
3
Minnesota faces Michigan in a crucial home test while Northwestern hosts Indiana in a race defining game. Iowa travels to Columbus to meet Ohio State with a converted lineup led by Captain Sam Johnson and Floyd De Heer as center options.
St Wenceslaus of Cedar Rapids beat Conroy high school 29 to 19 on their home floor, taking a 12 10 lead at halftime. Sedlak 11 and Movak 9 led St Wenceslaus in scoring while Conroy’s Plagsmann Hempel Hartgrave and Jones contributed. A preliminary game saw Conroy girls win 41 20.
Cornell coach Judd Dean and ten players head to Northfield Minnesota to face Midwest Conference champion Carleton Saturday night. The trip includes a stop to scout Rip on Friday and a Monday game at Decorah against Luther after a rest day in Owatonna. Carleton's home record is strong but both teams seek their first conference win this season amid a nine game Midwest drought for Cornell. Four sophomores will start: Howard Schneider Bob Maloney Wallace Grams Don Pease with Bob Swenson at guard.
In Tipton Iowa the Anamosa High School basketball squad defeated Tipton 29 to 20 after leading since the third period. H Westphal scored 12 for Anamosa while Wayne Miller led Tipton with nine points. Rininsland topped the visitors with 18 in Muscatine junior college action, 51 to 18.
Quasketon high school took both games from St. John's Independence in a double header at Quasqueton with girls' 48 to 23 and boys' 27 to 21. Dau Benberg led the girls with 26 points while Franck topped the boys with 15. A prior card at La Mont saw Quasky win the first 28-25 and the second 24-11.
Coach Dick Barker of Cornell college plans a fuller eight game slate with Grinnell plus five Midwest opponents Coe Beloit Carleton Monmouth Knox and Simpson. Negotiations for two more games include a possible Mount Vernon trip against Columbia College Dubuque and a final distant away game. Barker also wrestles during week pending next season.
The Cedar Rapids Y M C A junior A junior B and dual swimming teams will meet Davenport in the local pool Saturday afternoon. A ten cent admission fee will be charged to fund Shark Club monograms for top earners this season.
Reproductions of 20 000 year old caveman art are on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Dr Leo Frobenius notes echoes of spell casting to control quarry animals, with traditions seen in Australia and Africa. He explains how natives drew on ground or stone and pierced a quarry neck in ritual, and how prehistoric art preserves via tracings on canvas. Two styles are identified Franco Cantabrian static and East Spanish dynamic.
Woody Jensen nicknamed the Sphinx of the Pirates defied management over a rift with owner Bill Benswanger and players. He criticized lack of cooperation, while manager Pic Traynor and teammate Paul Waner debated the team’s direction. Jensen’s remarks blamed the front office for poor batting averages and internal strife.
The Light Co representing the Y Industrial league and Peter Pan of the Y Open league meet in the first inter league game at the Y gym at 7 30. Baby Ruth and Yager s play the final game of the first round at 8 30.
Two basketball games are scheduled at the Quaker gymnasium on Saturday night. At 7 15 La Plant Choate meets Witwer Grocers, and at 8 15 the Quakers oppose Culver Motors. These are not Allied Industrial league games.
Transfers show D W Bates rer of Iowa State Laws Bank to Frank Micer deed for lots 12 and 13 block 2 Bever Park Place with 2750 dollars recorded 12 17 37. Esmeralda Heinicke to Emma Tipple deed with 49.6 feet lot 12 block 13 Murray 3 addition 1 dollar value. Herbert E Baldwin to Annie E Geyer deed lot 34 Aud. Plat 154 1 dollar. Joseph A Kriz and Esther A Kriz as joint tenants with survivor rights transfer of George and Esther Kriz property 1 dollar 12 23 37. C A Frederickson to John H Brookman deed lot 5 block 2 Kenwood Park addition 1 dollar value 9 8 32.
Salary figures from the era reveal managers like Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy earned far less than star players such as Mickey Cochrane and Hank Greenberg. The piece traces 1936 payouts, the 1937 forecast for Cochrane, and the uneven pay landscape including Enrico Venturi’s failed bout and boxer contracts. It also notes Iowa's upcoming games and a veteran pitchers feud, detailing Derringer and Dean earnings and trades.
George A. Munger, 28, fresh from Penn as player, is promoted to head coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team succeeding Harvey Harman who stepped down December 27. Gates notes Munger’s loyalty to university athletic policy and his work as freshman athletics director and coach.
Iowa City coach Charles Kennett says Willie Thomsen of Racine Wisconsin is elected captain of the 1938 Iowa golf team. Two triangular meets scheduled at Finkbine field with a schedule covering key non conference duals and a May 22 23 Big Ten tournament in Minneapolis alongside events in Evanston Chicago and Northfield.
Cornell wrestling opens season at Grinnell Saturday evening. With Bill Watson out due to a dislocated shoulder sophomore Jim Taylor will fill the 175-pound vacancy. Sophomores Bob Crumbaugh 118 pounds and John Klousie or Miles Knight 145 pounds also appear. Five lettermen tallied weights include Gene Hopkins 126 pounds John Miller 135 pounds Franklin Cole 155 pounds James Watson 165 pounds Edward Mickey heavyweight.
Miss Patty Berg of Minneapolis and Mrs Jane Cothran Jameson of Palm Beach opened Augusta women's titlist golf with 78s, one under par. Kathryn Hemphill of Columbus trails in second with a 80 after 18 holes in Augusta, Ga.
HOPKINTON Iowa Lenox college Crimson cagers lose to Waukon by 22 to 19. Lenox battled hard, keeping the lead under six points for most of the game and putting up the fiercest effort seen on Lenox floor this year.
Brandon high school basketball swept Urbana on Tuesday with three wins. The second team won 9 to 2, the girls edged Walker 24 to 22, and the first boys team triumphed 36 to 28. The girls face Walker again Friday at Walker. Farmers offer ads appear in the Market Place.
Jerome Herman Dizzy Dean, ace St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, received a 1938 contract offering $10,000 as Branch Rickey confirms. Dean had a poor season last year with 13 wins and 10 losses and arm trouble. Mrs Dean was said to refuse, Rickey states contract not sent to her, but expects Dean to sign and be satisfied.
The McKinley high school varsity football team honored players Friday including Robert Adams Donald Hersch Vernon Stolba Robert Julis Edward Person Marcene Raftis Richard Reilly Roy Olson Ray Ingels George Gable Jack Young Earl Carr Jack OBrien Frank McConkey Richard Tow Godfrey Plotz Charles Blahnik Ralph Ingels and Hilbert Siegel who received managers awards. Varsity cross country honors went to Robert Gibson George Politis William Naylor and Lad slav Tlustos. Sophomore football award winners include John Plotz Charles Kresic Lester McCune Robert Bitzer Robert Schneider Wilbur Gregor Leo Plotz Russell Ferguson Ernest Jackson Steve Santos Robert Woolerhan Robert Tewart Charles Vejda John Krabbenhoff Warren Johnson Dean Tosh Charles Griffith Jack Melichar John Huston Donald Brown Tom Huston Jack Pilgrim Dick Staves and Dick Olson.
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