Reberry Throws Two No-Hitters to Reach Cedar Rapids Semis
Paul Reberry of Iowa City hurled a 1-0 no hitter against Coleman Florists and a 4-0 no hitter against Me Too of Cedar Rapids, as Cochran Roofing toppled Me Too to reach the Cedar Rapids softball tournament semifinals at Ellis Park. Me Too won tourney opener 1-0 over Morocco Inn with Ralph Danner’s no-hit win and Bill Middlesworth’s homer. Al Cherry homered but was called out for missing second base.
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Paul Reberry
Cochrane Roofing
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Ellis Park
Coleman Florists
Me Too
Morocco Inn
Dubuque
Ralph Danner
Grocers
Bill Middlesworth
Cochran Roofing
Florists
Colbert
Davis
Reberry
Kelly
Stahle
Ralph Dannen
Me Too Foods Run Ends First Round Victory at Ellis Park
Bill Middlesworth of Ced ar Rapids Me Too Foods slides home for a 1 0 win over Morocco Inn of Dubuque in the softball tournament at Ellis Park Monday night. Dubuque catcher Harris is seen taking belated photos by Blake Shipton.
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Bill Middlesworth
Cedar Rapids
Me Too Foods
Ellis Park
Me Too
Morocco Inn of
Watkins Set To Face Walford In Nonleague Tilt
Watkins hosts Walford in a Friday 8 15 p m non league baseball game. Next Sunday they travel to Marengo for an East Central Town league contest. Over the weekend Watkins won 11 2 at Victor but fell 16 2 to Iowa Manufacturing Cedar Rapids. Byers Pickart and Tom Gibleny homered in the Victor win.
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Walford
Marengo
Victor
Iowa Manufacturing
Cedar Rapids
Byers
M Pickart
Tom Gibleny
Fleagle
Casteel
Tyrdik A
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Westiine
Newton
Eeeter Voss and
Erser
Waets
Mace, Stokes and Cram
Probe Midget Racer Death in California
An investigation was held into the death of Jimmy McMahon 35 Australian midget racer killed Sunday night during an exhibition at Carpinteria thunderbowl His car crashed into a wall and telescoped into a light pole killing him before his wife Betty in the stands.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Ins
Jimmy McMahon
Carpinteria Thunderbowl
McMahon
Betty
Iowa Names 27 Grid Officials for 1948 Football
A Iowa City report lists 27 officials assigned to nine 1948 Iowa football games with Rollie Barnum of Wisconsin serving as referee in three contests. The assignments span referee umpire field judge and head linesman across dates including October 18 at Iowa City October 30 and November 11.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Rollie Barnum
Wisconsin
Erwabeer
Nix
Hogs Ota
DeWitt Oibron
Ortha Tes Gs
Onte
T &T Viator Carithe
Aisa
Ly Lyle Clarihe Vie Bean i
Iowa to Mail Grid Ticket Material Soon
Iowa plans to mail 40 000 envelopes with the 1948 football ticket application material from the department of athletics next week. Business manager Frank Havlicek said the mailing is the largest football mailing in Iowa history. No orders will be accepted before the material is mailed.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Department of Athletics
Frank Havlicek
Anamosa Snappers Beat DeWitt 8-5 On Reformatory Diamond
ANAMOSA The Reformatory Snappers outplayed the DeWitt V.F. 8 to 5 on the Reformatory diamond Sunday. The winners won with 11 hits off Fletcher as he yielded five singles and six walks. Malumphy was the winner, relieved in the eighth by Neifert. Donnie hit the only home run for the Snappers.
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Reformatory
DeWitt V.F
Fletcher
Malumphy
Neifert
Donnie
Minor Facts AMERICAN ASSOCIATION and Three-I League scores
Exhibition results show Milwaukee Columbus 2 and Indianapolis Pittsburgh 5. Cross-league standings include Milwaukee 34 .606 and St Paul 46 40 .535 with Denver 40 46 .500, plus Three-I League records for Quincy 49 20 and Danville 41 27 .603.
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Omaha
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Kinepin
Pueblo
Sioux City
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L Pet
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Waterloo
Danville
Springfield
Evyanaville
Waltonians Rally Past Knights in 5-4 Win
The Waltonians edged the Knights of Columbus 5-4 at Daniels after a 0-0 tie through five innings. Norton and Horabik each had two hits for the winners and losers respectively, as Waltonians surged with five runs in the sixth. Bordens toppled Hatch Brookman 6-1 with Meyer tossing a one hit gem.
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Daniels
Knights
Norton
Horabik
Bordens
Hatch Brookman
Meyer
Riverside
Kiwanis
Rotary
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Morehouse
Brane Boo
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Ditonnets
Abraham
Rorecarek
Duarte Hatch
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Mead
Mayers Nda Sohvter
Ryan
Bourek
Ran
Jags
Feoliert
Myphets
Roseber
Cascade Sports Rally Beats Platteville 7-5 in Seventh
Cascade scored four runs in the seventh to win 7-5 against Platteville, an independent team from Wisconsin. Trickson and Sardeson pitched. Brown J and Moran provided the hitting.
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Cascade Sports
Dumps
Cascade
Platteville
Wis
Escade
Trickson
Sardeson
Kurt
Brown J
J. Moran
3 Big 9 Stars Among 4 New Rocket Players
CHICAGO AP Four more players three of them former Big Nine standouts joined the ranks of the new Chicago Rockets Tuesday They are guard Ralph Babe Serpico a member of all 1946 Rose Bowl champions quarterback Ben Raimondi who played with Indiana 1945 Big Nine titleholders accounter Ernie Lewis of Colorado and halfback Don Griffin another Illinois product
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Chicago
Chicago Rockets
Ralph “Babe” Serpico
Ben Raimondi
Indiana
Ernie Lewis
Colorado
Don Griffin
Dlinois
British Warships To Carry Runners For Olympic Flame
London reports the navy will escort the Olympic flame on its Greek to British route. Frigate Whitesand Bay and destroyer HMS Bicester will transport the flame from Mount Olympus to Bari, Italy then onward to Calais before crossing the English Channel on July 28 to Wembley.
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Greece
Whitesand Bay
Mount Olympus
Gulf of Corinth
Adriatic Sea
Bari
Italy
H. M. S. Bicester
Europe
Calais
France
Bicester
English Channel
Wembley Stadium
Golfer Lawson Little's Father Dies at 71
Col William Lawson Little Jr., 71, father of noted golfer Lawson Little, died of a heart attack early Tuesday at his Monterey home in California.
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Monterey
Calif
William Lawson Little, Jr
Lawson Little
Brown Tuero Top Seeds Reach Second Round in Chicago
In Chicago at the National Clay Courts event, top seeds Tom Brown of San Francisco and Jack Tuero of New Orleans advanced from the first round at River Forest Tennis Club. Brown beat Al Hetzeck 6 3 6 2, while Tuero defeated Tony Trabert 6 4 6 4.
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Chicago
Tom Brown
San Francisco
al Hetzeck
Detroit
River Forest
Dodger Manager Is There as Spectator in All Star Game
St Louis report says Burt Shotton the former Dodgers manager sat as spectator during the 15th annual All Star game. Shotton led Brooklyn to the 1947 pennant as a pinch hitter for suspended Leo Durocher.
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ST. Louis
INS
Burt Shotton
Brooklyn Dodgers
Leo Durocher
Cedar Rapids K of C Wins 10-2 to Lead Loop
The Cedar Rapids K of C entry extended its lead in the Eastern Iowa Knights of Columbus softball league by routing DeWitt 10-2 on Sunday at DeWitt. Bob Jennings went 5 for 5 with Fritz Foran and Jerry Shea hitting home runs. Gene Dyson, 41, pitched superbly for Cedar Rapids.
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Jerry Shea
Gene Dyson
Baseball Results in Northeast Iowa League Calmar Aces
Northeast Iowa League results show Calmar defeating Crese Sautolne 8 to 5 near West Union. Lucas noted as contributing pitcher and batter for Calmar in the game report.
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Northeast Iowa League
Calmar
Ris and Scarpello Sail to Olympic Team Honor
Wally Ris 100 meter swimmer and Joe Scarpello 174 pound wrestler sail from New York aboard the SS America to join the U S Olympic team. Ris won the 58.4 second 100 yard freestyle in Detroit trials, becoming the first Iowa Town swimmer on the U S squad. Scarpello qualified in May 1 final trials as Iowa’s second wrestler. Swimming championships run July 29 to August 7 at Empire pool Wembley. wrestling July 29 to 31 at Harringay arena.
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Wally Ris
Joe Scarpello
SS. America
New York
University of Iowa
United States
Ris
Detroit
U S
Scarpello
Iowa
Hawkeyes
Paris
Amsterdam
Los Angeles
George Saling
Ed Gordon
Empire Pool
Wembley Stadium
Harringay Arena
Browns belt Phillies in Exhibition at Doubleday Field
St. Louis Browns toppled the Philadelphia Phillies 7-5 at Abner Doubleday Field in Cooperstown. Browns pounded out 13 of 23 hits including two by Ed Anderson and circuit drives by Don Lund Bryan Stephens and Ed Pellagrini. Phillies homered by Granville Hamner and Del Ennis.
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N. Y
Abner Doubleday
Philadelphia
Garver
Stephens
Moss
Lakeman
Heusser
Padgett
Three Shifts Listed In Maquoketa Valley
Cascade-Dubuque Elks game moved from July 18 to July 16 at Cascade. Dubuque-Dyersville rainout rescheduled for August 1 or August 29 in Dyersville. Dubuque-Elkader rainout on June 27 now set for August 29 at 9 p.m. in Elkader.
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al Y. Fickle
Dyersville
Elkader
Roach and Janiro Victors In Boxing Card Reports
A clipped AP wire summary notes Lavern Roach from Rinthview Texas outpointing Aaron Perry with a 10 round result in Washington and Tony Janiro of Youngstown Ohio defeating Jose Vinel Bertola in New York plus scattered scores and names from the boxing card.
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Associated Press
Shington
Lavern Roach
Rinthview
Texas
Aaron Perry
Washington
New York
Tony Janiro
Youngstown
Ohio
Jose Chet Vinel
Enrico Bertola
Eric Wilson Joins Circus For Vacation
Eric Wilson Jr plans an unusual vacation by joining Ringling Brothers Circus in Detroit next Sunday and traveling with the show for a week. A longtime Iowa professor linked to publicity and sports information, Wilson hopes to contribute to the publicity office as the circus tours Flint and several Indiana towns before Milwaukee on July 25, when he returns to Iowa City.
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Don Sulhoff
Iowa City
Eric Wilson, Jr
Eric
Ringling’ Brothers Circus
Detroit
University of Jews
Sports Information Service
Paris
Eric Wilson
U. S
University of Iowa
Wilson
George Bresnahan
Ringling North
Flint
Mich
Sevraltowns
Indiana
Guth ‘Bend
Milwaukee
Wis
Wier and Spencer Tearing Up Hawkeye Hardwood Court
Iowa City report says Murray Wied and Jack Spencer join the Hawkeye team, boying the court four years. A new hardwood will be moved twenty feet west to make way for end folding bleachers. The old court had been refinished so often it could not support quality play.
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Murray Wied
Jack Spencer
Iowa Ba
Hawkeye
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