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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1941
Page
6
Judson Bailey reports the 1940s draft is reaching baseball as stars like Bob Feller face calling. Cleveland fears losing its ace during the pennant drive while Hank Greenberg and others across the league loom as draft prospects.
Des Moines lawmakers predict the Iowa High School Athletic Association bill will pass the senate with little trouble by week’s end. Senator G W Hunt says the measure, drafted after a controversy involving George A Brown, keeps control with Iowa school officials and limits state supervision to ballot counting auditing accounts and selecting a secretary from three candidates.
Chicago reports Grace R Comiskey became the first woman to serve as president of an American league baseball team. She succeeds her late husband J Louis Comiskey as president of the Chicago White Sox after a board meeting. Since his 1939 death the club was controlled by the First National Bank of Chicago as trustee.
MIAMI UP reports Cubs' manager Bill Terry and Giants president Horace Stoneham weighing a bid for Hank Leiber former Giant. Terry said Cubs asked him to bid. Stoneham would welcome Leiber back and would trade Franzee and Joe Moore to get him.
A collage of sports notes from New York AP dispatches recalls DiMaggio timing with Mrs Barrow’s cold. It notes Oaklawn fifth race winners, Glen Rose’s Arkansas basketball record, Cardinals camp vitamin B briefing, and other colorful items from baseball, skiing, and boxing circles.
New York AP reports a 10 round lightweight non title bout between Lew Jenkins and Bob Montgomery at Madison Square Garden was postponed to allow Jenkins to recover from a cut over his right eye from last week's fight with Lou Ambers. Promoter Mike Jacobs will seek a date in the last week of March.
DES MOINES AP Tommy Harmon former Michigan football star will play basketball Monday March 24 with the Hammond Indiana Caesars. Bobby Grund organizing the Indiana squad aims to add the Globe Trotters if possible as Grand owner says the pro team was booked but may be released from the contract.
Scores from various teams include Loyola Chicago 34 and 41 for two games, Princeton 33, Drake 42, Oregon State 35, Arizona Teachers 48 and Arizona 43, Midland 30, Rockhurst 51, Texas Mines 87, Adams State 42, plus multiple other listed matchups with inconsistent spellings and partial team names.
Lincoln Alleys keglers sparked the Red Crown City Classic league Tuesday night posting 956 997 989 for a 2942 series. Wille Hoppe and Tony Novotny led with 676 and 661. Hoppe had 211 269 196. Novotny 225 210 226.
The 1941 Iowa basketball team endured a seven game losing streak from Feb 8 to March 3 despite tying the conference scoring record with 519 points in Big Ten play. Vic Siegel and Milt Kuhl led with 125 and 120 points, as Iowa finished eighth with four wins and eight losses, while Wisconsin and Minnesota posted sharper defenses.
The Indians physician advised Hal Trosky to rest several days after X rays showed no bone damage in his left thumb joint. Trosky believed he chipped a bone sliding into base in an intra squad game. The Indians prepared for a three game series with the Brooklyn Dodgers in Cuba after the workout.
The Iowa State College rifle team topped Coe College in a tight duel Tuesday by 912 to 870. Seven shooters per side, with the top five scores counting.
Lakeland Florida reports Tiger stars Louis Newsom and Floyd Giebell confident in repeating as champions. Newsom praises Giebell’s ice water mound presence after a 2-0 win over Cleveland, while acknowledging last season’s pennant and World Series run. Newsom plans minor weight loss to sharpen form and predicts similar success.
The 1940-41 Iowa Hawkeyes finished with 12 wins the best since 1932-33 and went undefeated in non conference play. Vic Siegel led scorers with 194 points, Milt Kuhl had 183, and the team set a season record of 886 points in 20 games and a single game mark of 75 to 35 against Monmouth. Iowa stood eighth in the Big Ten with four wins and eight defeats.
Independence junior college clinched at least a tie for the Northeast Town conference crown by beating Lenox junior college 39 to 25. The Rockets led 19 to 15 at halftime and 29 to 25 after three quarters.
Wisconsin Badgers basketball team defeats rival fast break opponents in a decisive home win, led by strong defense and key scoring from standout players. The victory boosts conference standing and fans celebrate the late game surge.
Wisconsin clinched the Big Ten basketball title with 11 straight wins, challenging Indiana's famed fast break. Purdue, Minnesota, and other teams faced sectional matchups at Marion and Anamosa as Cody era games opened. Ticket and seating details were listed for Marion and Anamosa tours.
Des Moines AP reports four weeks of boys high school basketball championship action opens tonight with a record field of 937 teams in sectional play. The 128 advancing teams move to 16 district tournaments next weekend followed by four sub state events at Ottumwa Spirit Lake Cedar Falls and Des Moines. Final next suggests March 27 28 and 29 at Drake Fieldhouse with no class distinction. Newcomers include 50 Catholic schools in IAIA. Mason City and Ames are noted entrants in Nora Springs and their home sectional respectively.
Ames as University of Nebraska swimmer Richard Pete Hagelin is elected president of the Big Six conference swimming coaches. Iowa State's Charles McCaffree is reelected secretary treasurer and statistician.
Kansas City AP noted trapshooter Ted Renfro of Armstead Montana won the International Flyer championship at Elliott's Park. He tied with Phil Miller French Lick Indiana Art Stifel Casey Illinois and Otto Schulz Sheridan Montana at 92 in the 100 flyer race. The overtime shootout saw Renfro beat Miller after Stifel and Schulz faltered. Prizes ranged from 746.98 to 3546.48 for the top finishers.
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