Draft-Proof Cubs Laden With Talent Amid Draft Loom
Chicago column notes Cubs have eight drafted players from 1944 roster, plus Pafko Stanky Hanyzewski and others on waiver from Eisenhower era. It predicts J. T. Gallagher must engineer pennant challenge with Wrigley climate and draft deferments shaping a powerful Cubs core under wartime conditions.
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Cardinals
Marion
St. Louis
J. T. Gallagher
Cubs
J. Wilson
Bill Nicholson
Eisenhower
Andy Pafko
Los Angeles
Ed Sauer
Nashville
Pete Elko
al Kreitner
Gallagher
Wrigley
Wilson
Chicago Cubs
On His Way Fort Jackson Induction for Van Lingle Mungo
Van Lingle Mungo, 32, New York Giants pitcher who won three of ten last season, passed his preinduction physical Saturday at Fort Jackson South Carolina.
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Fort Jackson
S. C
van Lingle Mungo
New York Giants
Plans Progress For State YMCA Volleyball Meet
Volleyball Chairman Lee Winterberg reports steady progress for the state YMCA championships to be held here on February 12. Entries have arrived from Dubuque Davenport Waterloo Marshalltown Fort Dodge Burlington and Cedar Rapids. Waterloo meets Cedar Rapids Tuesday at 7 30 in the evening with Cedar Rapids list including Captain Lee Winterberg Henry Gundling Russell Knapp Bill Whipple Louis Hensley Howard Wilfong and Clayton. veterans on Cedar Rapids side include Captain Jack Skien Fred Taylor and others.
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Lee Winterberg
Y.m.lc.a
Old-Time Baseball Association Seen
The National Baseball Congress meeting in Chicago will consider a national plan to organize old-time baseball associations across the country. President Ray Dumont said the move aims to boost interest in baseball in all regions during the war period.
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Chicago
INS
National Baseball Congress
Ray Dumont
First Round Champs Crowned in Allied Industrial Cage League
The Quaker men and Wilson girls claimed first round titles in the Allied Industrial league. Quaker men, undefeated in league play, feature balanced scoring led by five strong players. Wilson girls dominated the first half with an undefeated run and strong finishing. Individual scoring honors went to Bob Heffler of Collins with 77 points to Sid Schweitzer. Bernice Crozier of Wilson topped the women’s field with a dominant scoring margin.
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Hy Chuck Faber
Quaker
Wilson
Iowa Manufacturing
Collins
Link Belt Speeder
LaPlant-Choate
Iowa Engineering
Sid Schweitzer
Bernice Crozier
May
PLAN ARMSTRONG BOUT SIGNED FOR BOSTON GARDEN
Former boxing champion Henry Armstrong and Lulu Constantino of New York are signed for a 10 round bout at the Boston Garden on March 3. Boston promoter Eddie Mack announced on Saturday.
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Boston Garden
Boston
Eddie Mack
Plan for Filming Life Repugnant to Amos A Stagg
Stockton California INS Amos Alonzo Stagg, coach of the College of the Pacific and football's man of the year, refused a $75,000 offer for his life story being filmed. He called the idea repugnant and said he had rejected other bids for motion picture rights in recent months during an honorary dinner for his 1943 grid team.
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Stockton
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
College of the Pacific
Stagg
Illinois Line Coach Resigns After 40 Years at Illinois
Justa n M. Lindgren, 65, longtime football line coach and chemistry faculty member at the University of Illinois, announced his resignation from football duties. He will continue teaching chemistry and had prior stints as head coach at Cornell College in 1902 and 1903 before returning to Illinois.
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Champaign
Justan M. Lindgren
University of Illinois
Lindgren
Illinois
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Groundhog Day and Wartime Hunting News
The column discusses Senator McCarran's defeated bill to allow wholesale hunting on national lands, wartime material limits on guns and fishing tackle, and Groundhog Day traditions. It notes Ames High School biologist Richard Trump studying groundhogs, local hunting, lake resort closures, war plant workers, and license statistics for 1942 43 with details on coon hunting by Otis Cochran Riley Floring and their dogs.
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Senate
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Groundhog
Ames
Richard F. Trump
Trump
Otis Cochran
Riley
Crack Field in State Y M C A Handball Meet
Handball chairman Bob Kutchera announces a strong entry list for the state YMCA handball championships to be held here in February. Key entrants include Des Moines’ John Carr, AA champion, Gerald Stouffer, and Cedar Rapids players Bob Kutchera, Donald Steffa, and doubles teams Van Thompson with Abe Marcovis and Wendell Tutt with Harold Freedman. Waterloo’s Morey Lazar, Omaha’s Max Everett, Iowa City Preflight’s Ensign E W Davies and Ensign Levine, Grinnell’s Pvt FE Gregorieff, plus Des Moines, Iowa City Preflight, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids entries in Class B.
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Bob Kutchera
Y.M.C.A
Des Molnee
John Carr
A.A.H
Gerald Stouffer
van Thompson
Abe Marcovis
Wendell Tutt
Harold Freedman
Waterloo
Morey Lazar
Paul Nissen
Cedar Rapids
Nissen
Donald Steffa
Steffa
St. Paul
Omaha
Max Everett
Iowa City
Ensign E W Davies
Ensign Levine
Grinnell
Pvt FE Gregorieff
Des Moines
YMCA notes and schedules highlight busy Monday games
The YMCA basketball slate on Monday features three games with Colonial Bakery on a bye. Keystone and Link Belt Speeder clash at 8, Alburnett vs Universal Engineering at 9, while 7 p.m. matchups include Iowa Manufacturing against Iowa Engineering. Standings show Keystone and Link Belt leading. several teams remain early in the season. High scorers span Alburnett, Colonial, Keystone, and others, with pre-army conditioning sessions and league volleyball resuming soon.
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Former Raider Joins Tribe
Paul O'Dea, 24, a former Indian rookie outfielder, signed by the Tribe as a free agent in Cleveland. Out of organized baseball for a year, he previously endured a 1940 spring training injury above the right eye, attempted comebacks with Wilkes-Barre and Cedar Rapids, and underwent growth removal surgery last year.
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Cleveland
Paul O'Dea
The
Tribe
Wilkes-Barre
Cedar Rapids
Valdina Stables Sold in Major U S Turf Deal
Henry Knight a Kentucky sportsman bought Valdina Farms racing stables in Uvalde Texas, a landmark purchase involving 149 horses from Valdina Farms in one of the largest transactions in American turf history.
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New Orleans
Henry Knight
Valdina Farms
Uvalde
Texas
America
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