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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1937
Page
2
Cubs stretch to seven straight with a 2-1 victory over the Giants to inch within a half game of second place. ava Gomber and veteran Stre Chicaca contributed as New York and Chicago traded runs in a tense contest.
Midday Sun captures the IXth running of the British Derby amid tight finish. Jockey on board secures victory for the owner and trainer as the crowd watched the sunlit stretch.
Local softball results obscure text with scattered team mentions and partial scores. The clippings reference games near Washington D C with unclear dates and team names.
The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians 4 0 behind two four run explosions. Charley Ruff delivered a homer and drove in runs while Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and teammates contributed to the scoring spree. Cleveland rallied with late offense but fell short.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a PhD, a person named Vander Mec and a charger. Lacks clear event, date, or location to form a solid summary.
Brooklyn Dodgers manager Burleigh Grimes leads a one man campaign for reviving the spitball. He argues it is not dangerous and could level the field against modern pitchers. He cites past bans and notes Cochrane and Hadley incidents to support his case.
Fragmented report records a baseball or softball line score with players Newsom Coffman and Cohen featuring, describing innings and hits. The text is garbled, names are inconsistently rendered, and no clear final outcome or teams are identifiable.
Harvey T. Woodruff former Chicago Tribune sports editor and horse racing authority died Tuesday in Evanston hospital from a heart ailment at age 62. He served as secretary of the Western Jockey Club and later was resident manager of Lincoln Fields track. Born in Brazil Indiana, he lived much of his career in Chicago.
The Gazette reports three additional captains to be named for Iowa University teams as senior leadership dominates the selections. Current captains include Homer Harris football Sam Johnson basketball Bush Lamb track James Lyle track, Robert Christians swimming Robert Nelson cross country Wilbur Nead wrestling and Don Dodge gymnastics.
Fragmented lines list bowlers Lesan Riddle Bean Bowers Butiland Peacock Lewe and others. Scores shown like 000 260 022 and 006 601 3110 accompany names. No clear match dates or final outcomes available.
A 172 player field qualifies for the National Open to be played June 10 to 12 in Birmingham Michigan. Sam Snead and Dutch Harrison led the qualifiers with 136 totals, while Crawford Rainwater topped amateurs with 140. Notables missing include Chick Evans Leo Diegel Abe Espinosa Reynolds Smith and Charley Yates.
Roosevelt Juniors beat Smulekoff Furniture 8 to 2 at Daniels Park, extending Smulekoff’s skid to six games while Roosevelt improves to four wins in as many American Legion games. Tom Farmer led the attack with a double and three RBIs, and Wayne Bruce pitched eight innings of two-hit ball before Kenney’s late relief.
Dwight Porter of Omaha has been reelected captain of the Grinnell College tennis team. He previously served as coach and captain of the 1937 Grinnell squad.
Davenport pitcher Bill Prince limited Rock Island to six singles as the Blue Sox defeated the Islanders 9 to 2. Michaels drove in two runs, while Davenport’s defense backed Prince in the third game of the series in Davenport Iowa on Tuesday night.
The 18 year old Cleveland pitcher Bob Feller stayed under an assumed name at a Milwaukee hotel while visiting fellow pitcher William Zuber of the Milwaukee Brewers. He denied plans to see a bone and joint specialist though a local expert claimed he saw Feller three weeks earlier. Feller discussed his arm問題 and emotional reactions to mail from doctors urging treatment and prayer.
Iowa will play two baseball games at Notre Dame in South Bend to start a closing road trip facing Michigan State and Western State Teachers. Eight athletes will compete in eight events at the Central Intercollegiate Championship in Milwaukee led by Bush Lamb and John Graves.
Cedar Rapids Raiders outlast Waterloo 9 to 8 after an early 7 0 lead dissolved. Cal Lahman homered in the eighth and drove in three more. Mack Stroner added four hits including a seventh inning grand impact.
Volga City built a four-run sixth inning to pull away for a 6-2 win over West Union. The victory solidifies Volga City’s late-game surge as they topple West Union on home turf.
Lost Nation Indies routed DeWitt 17 to 0 Sunday afternoon. The Lost Nation battery was Eight and Flemming for DeWitt, Klahn, Bloom and Shelton. Lost Nation will play next Sunday at Bellevue.
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