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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1943
Page
13
Iowa ends its season by hosting Ohio State after a 43 41 upset win over the Buckeyes. Captain Trickey leads scoring with 146 conference points as Iowa braces for next season with a roster rebuilt by enlistments and ROTC plans.
AP reports Southern California plans to cancel its fall game with Notre Dame and Stanford may follow due to transportation limits. Colleges likely rely on freshmen and schedule lighter schedules before September.
South Dakota State captured the North Central Conference basketball crown, finishing 9 2 and vaulting from sixth to first. North Dakota State fell to second after losses to North Dakota in the annual series, with Abison's decisive wins over North Dakota shaping the final standings.
Kansas faces Missouri at Columbia and Kansas State at Lawrence as Army service draws affect the Jayhawks. Coach F C Allen says Creighton would be Missouri Valley’s NCAA qualifier. Kansas aims for a perfect conference record after eight straight wins.
Doug Bentley of the Chicago Black Hawks moved into first place in the NHL scoring race with two goals and an assist in a 4-4 tie with the Boston Bruins before 16,261 fans. His 65 points edged rival Bill Cowley while brother Max Bentley added a goal and two assists to reach 64. Toronto shut out Montreal as Detroit beat New York 5 to 1 in a rough clash.
Mason City Mohawks, unbeaten in 20 games, are favored as Iowa class A and B teams join sectional play in wartime format. They face Chapin at Hampton, while Ottumwa defends title against Agency. Muscatine meets Tipton in Muscatine section. The tournament seeds lead to eight district contests March 11 and state finals a week later.
Des Moines AP reports Creighton the Missouri Valley champ and 19 wins, will finish regular season with a Kansas game in Omaha Thursday. All seats sold. Creighton beat St Louis 61 40 for its tenth straight Valley win. only remaining business is Washington St Louis on Tuesday for potential second place tie with Oklahoma A&M.
Bill Roberts of Council Bluffs named new Drake University track captain succeeding Dave Griffith who left for the army air corps. Roberts, Missouri Valley mile champion in 1941, clocked 4 minutes 22 seconds for the mile.
The writer lauds Illinois as having the top basketball quintet in college history for offense and defense. Phillip serves as a decoy as Doug Mills emphasizes team play and cohesion, bolstering Illinois to a 86 44 victory over Wisconsin and extending praise to coach Mills and the squad. The piece also notes Waterville’s near-upset in district finals and coach J W Collins planning for sectional play.
Illini basketball, led by Ken Menke Andy Phillip Gene Vance Jack Smiley and Art Mathisen, nears undefeated Big Ten with 11 wins and 663 points across 11 games. They crushed Northwestern 86 44 and target more records as coach Doug Mills plans to start the big five tonight.
The undefeated Illinois basketball team must beat the University of Chicago in Champaign to clinch the Western Conference title for the second straight year. Chicago has dropped 38 in a row, while Illinois aims to extend its season-long win streak and bolster a national playoff bid.
Hopkinton jumps to the Delaware County title by beating Delhi 50 30 with Burns 18 and Littlefields 11 while Carey nets 27 for Delhi. Tiffin’s cagers crush Parnell 52 34 and reserve beaters 22 16. Thornburg defeats Webster 34 24 and Lost Nation tops Wyoming 31 13 with Reserve Bane 17 12.
ST. LOUIS, The Cardinals added Deb Garms to the 1943 roster after purchasing him from the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast League. Garms, 34, is an outfielder and infielder with prior time with the Browns Pirates Braves and the Giants with home in Bangs Texas.
Drake defeats Tulsa 65 52 with Towa 43 Ohio State 41 Nebraska 51 Towa State 36 Grinnell 44 Doc 39 Knox 39 Cornell 33 Ambrose 57 Parsons 44 Week schedule lists Iowa State Kansas State Ohio State Towa Western Buena Vista Loras Luther Coe Parsons St Ambrose Central Penn Grinnell Drake Augustana St Ambrose.
Harold F. Rose 35 longtime athletic director in Oskaloosa public schools has been commissioned lieutenant jg in the navy preflight physical education program. He will report to duty at Chapel Hill North Carolina within the coming weeks.
Clutier defending champion will face Colfax in the first round of the Iowa high school girls basketball finals at Drake Fieldhouse on March 11. Pairings were released after Saturday district finals, pairing Clutier against Colfax, the only 1943 state entrant never before represented.
Cornelius Walmerdam California pole vault maestro returns home with the James E Sullivan award as outstanding amateur of 1942 and a new national AAU indoor record his bid for a world record height of 15 feet 8 inches fell short after three near misses his vaulting drew attention away from Frank Dixon and Greg Rice as they continued winning streaks in a season marked by strong state tourney showings and district finals results across multiple towns.
New York AP Leo Durocher manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was rejected by the army due to a perforated eardrum after his physical. He planned to consult with Dodgers president Branch Rickey and then report to West Point as advisory coach while the Dodgers begin spring training at Bear Mountain around March 15.
Ohio State is favored to win the Big Ten indoor title at the Western Conference meet in Chicago despite two key ineligible or graduated stars. Michigan and Iowa loom as rivals with strong distance squads led by Dave Matthews and the Hume twins, while Illinois fields top performers such as Bob Said and Clarence Dunn. Dallas Dupre heads the Buckeyes with support from Trepanier Thomas Hatfield Hoeflinger Schmidt and others as contenders for multiple events.
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