Paper Tiger Edges Edgemere in Blanket Finish
Paper Tiger won the $28,300 Edgemere handicap in a three horse photo finish on a damp track. Straight Face and Red Hannigan finished second and third as Paper Tiger paid $12.10 to win, with Conn McCreary aboard the Stymie offspring for Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs.
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NEW York
Ethel D. Jacobs
Paper Tiger
Edgemere
Greentree Stable
Woodley Lane Farm
Red Hannigan
Stymie
Conn McCreary
Straight Face
Osterkorn Retires from Professional Ranks
Syracuse star Wally Osterkorn announced his retirement from pro basketball. The Ox was a popular member of the world champion Syracuse Nationals in the NBA.
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Osterkorn
Syracuse
N. Y
Wally
Ox” Osterkorn
Syracuse Nationals
National Basketball Association
Berkley Heads North On Duck Banding Job
Iowa Conservation Commission area game manager Tom Berkley leaves Cedar Rapids for Alberta to join a Federal Wildlife cooperative waterfowl banding project with 18 states. The team will net and band mallards and black ducks to study flyway usage, with Berkley joined by Jim Sieh and others from Missouri Wisconsin and Alberta.
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Nces Ansae Pevale
Val LE
Ove Berkley
Iowa Conservation Commission
Alberta
Canada
Federal Wildlife’s Cooperative
Berkley
Federal Wildlife Service
Alberta Game Branch
Missouri
Wisconsin
Jim Sieh
Okoboji
Iowa
Thirty-fifth Street Drive
Cedar Rapids
Maquoketa
Iowa Staff To Occupy New Building Aug 1
University of Iowa athletics department plans to move into a new administration building around Aug 1. The $300,000 center will house the athletic business office and offices for Dr. Paul Brechler Rollie Williams Forest Evasheski and Frank O Connor. The second floor will contain coaches offices intramural spaces a lecture room and a strategy center for meetings.
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Gazette
Don Sulhoff
University of Iowa Athletic Department
Athletic Department
Department of Physical Education
Iowa
Iowa City
University of Iowa Department of Collegiate Athletics
Paul Brechler
Rollie Williams
Brechler
Forest F Evashevski
Frank “Bucky” O’connor
Evashevski
University of Iowa
Harness Races At Independence July 3-4 Featured
More than 40 horses enter Independence harness events for a July 3 and 4 celebration. The card includes 2:24 pace 2:18 trot and free-for-all races with two heats each and purses of 200 dollars plus added money. A Dusenberry starting gate will be used with J H Nutter as presiding judge. Circus acts carnival midway and music by the Independence high school band accompany racing. Night entertainment includes circus acts and dancing.
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Gazette Independence
Dusenberry
J. H. Nutter
Independence High School
Local YMCA Horseshow League Scores 16-0 Wins
Collins Radio and Cherry-Burrell posted 16-0 victories to highlight YMCA Allied Industrial Horseshow league action. On Monday Collins beat Wilson and Co while Cherry-Burrell defeated P M Lattner Co. Wednesday saw Collins triumph 10-6 over Link-Belt Speeder and Dewey and Army Co beat City Sanitation 912-615.
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Collins Radio
Cherry-Burrell
Collins
Wilson and Co
P. M. Lattner Co
Link-Belt Speeder
Dewey and Army Co
City Sanitation
Three Steelers Sign Pro Football Pacts
In Pittsburgh two rookies and a veteran signed 1955 contracts with the National Football League team. Dewey McConnell defensive back last year with the Steelers Fred Broussard 23 center and linebacker and Joel Sweatte 24 defensive halfback joined the roster.
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Pittsburgh
National Football League
Pittsburgh Steelers
Dewey McConnell
Steelers
Fred Broussard
Joel Sweatte
Four-Wheel Drive Entry Highlights Hawk Eye Downs Races
Bert Hellmueler of Louisville fields a four wheel drive sprint car for the July 4th races at Hawk Eye Downs. He claims the machine will beat Offenhausers with new features and IMCA innovations. Time trials start 2 pm with racing at 2:30 pm, as Frank Richards joins late model IMCA entries.
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Bert Hellmueler
Louisville
Hawkeye Downs
Bert
Offenhausers
Cedar Rapids
Frank Richards
C. R. Field
Cedar Boat Club Wiener Roast at Ellis Park
The Cedar Boat Club holds its annual June wiener roast on Wednesday at 6 30 p m in Ellis Park near the boathouses. Menu features wieners buns potato salad beans coffee milk and trimming.
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Cedar Boat Club
Ellis Park
Iowa marble champ suffers second loss in nationals
Denver AP reports Ronald Young of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the state marble champion, dropped his second match in the double elimination U S national marbles championships. He won one of two Friday matches, beating Jerry Huttson of Clifton Indiana 7-3 7-6 then losing to Bobby Jones of Murfreesboro Tennessee 7-1 7-0.
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Denver
Iowa
Ronald Young
Council Bluffs
Young
Jerry Huttson
Clifton
Ind
Bobby Jones
Murfreessboro
Tenn
U S Trio Orders Five Maseratis for Racing
Briggs Cunningham of the United States leads a group including Alfred Momo and Sherwood Johnston to Maserati in Modena Italy. They test models before placing an order for five 3 000 cc Maseratis to be used in U S races.
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Modena
Italy
Briggs Cunningham
Cunningham
Alfred Momo
Momo Corp
New York
Sherwood Johnston
Johnston
U. S
Sports Slate Highlights and Schedule Fragments
A scrambled list covers baseball softball golf and racing events across Keokuk Cedar Rapids Burlington and Missouri Valley venues. Entries mention Memorial Park Elmcrest Hawkeye Downs and Dan venues with times ranging from 2:30 to 17:45 and dates including MONDAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY with several matchups and tourneys noted.
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Keokuk
C. R
Memori Park
Mason City
Burlington
Bottumns
Rosan- Missouri Valley
Cedar Valley
Vinton
A.m
Memorial Park
Nordstrom
Thede's
Potthell
Quaker Oats
Eby's
Sanitary
Imco
Elksstag
Elmcrest Country Club
Memorial
Beck
Armstrong
Chie
Thede
Speeder
Hall
Dan
Iowa fishing and park maintenance eyed by state board
A meeting of the Iowa state board of control and the conservation commission is set for June 28 in the state house offices to address fishing use in state parks and related maintenance issues at spots like MacBride. Other notes discuss improved fishing methods, gear care, summer safety for dogs, and a Linn County Fish and Game club boat float on July 17.
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Iowa
State Board of Control
The
Conservation Commission
Macbride
Tom Moen
Iowa Conservationist
Linn County Fish and Game Club
Riverside Park
Cedar Rapids
Palisades
Ed Clark
Miles Martin
CSPS
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Independence
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Dewey
Almy
P. M. Lattner
Dewey and
Link-Belt
Rand Nenally
Las
Mexico
U.S
Sid Stemlar
Bob Ellison
Francis Anton
I Gus Winter
Joe Long
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Sports Slate Today
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Daniel's
Claremond
Kenny Johnson
Fifth Street
Mose Yeahle
Second Street
Cedar River
Nancy
Ricky Johnson
Minnesota
Hunter Field
Detroit Lakes
Hunter Flying Service
AIR Ambulance
C.A.A
G.I
Howard's Worm Hatchery
Hiawatha
Robbins Road
Jeicounc
Russ Graham
Paul Wright
Graham
Mississippi
Hartwick Lake
Delhi
Steve Berke
Eagle River
Wis
Lake Norfolk
Arkansas
Minneapolis Sunday Tribune
Idaho
Forest Service
Arkansas Traveler
Danforth
Buell Horns Northill
2Nd Ave
Stey Petiany
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