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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1949
Page
5
Sports editor Pat Harmon is sidelined by flu after reporting March Ides references. The Red Peppers column will resume once he recovers.
Two class B favorites Ankeny and Roland advanced as major sub state battles loom. Iowa City Davenport Roosevelt Clinton and other top teams clash Tuesday and Wednesday with AA and A finals planned for Thursday and Friday.
A garbled recap lists results from Ames eAthena 39 Steamboat Rock 31 Roland 43 Pocahontas 8 and Ketene Cle hp 00 Waylands Welman V8. Tuesday fixtures in Iowa City Davenport 15 Clinton 9 and several matchups across Carroll Ottumwa Waterloo Des Moines and other towns with numerous missing names and uncertain scores.
Entries for the state AAU wrestling tournament in Fort Dodge must be marked before midnight Wednesday. Don Breese, physical director of the Fort Dodge YMCA, announced the deadline on Monday.
Eight teams in, eight to come for two major college post season tournaments. The National Invitation opens Saturday at Madison Square Garden with five teams selected and three slots to fill from New York and one from out of town. The NCAA western playoffs begin March 21 in Kansas City with no teams picked yet. Sixteen teams in eight regions compete for spots, with New York City and the district in play.
Johnny Small of Chicago, a 15 tournament veteran, posted 1942 to lead the all-events division at the ABC championship in Atlantic City. He moved Chuck O'Donnell to second with 1918, and totaled the high doubles series of 772 with a 289 in the second doubles game after opening with 10 straight strikes.
Mrs Edward Bush of Hammond Indiana and Marjorie Lindsay of Decatur North Carolina led qualifying for the Florida East Coast championship at St Augustine Florida. Lindsay shot 74 to top the field while Bush posted 78 as other qualifiers included Mary Agnes Wall Pat Devany and Jo Anna Durban with scores from 86 to 90.
Cedar Rapids Immaculate Conception coach Phil Seghi will depart Thursday for Marianna Florida to begin spring training with Green Bay in the Wisconsin State League. Seghi, who managed Keokuk last year in the Central Association, will lead Green Bay this season.
Iowa City Iowa football units report uniforms issued to 21 holdovers from 1948 squad as spring drills start lightly. About 50 freshmen eligible for fall varsity are to receive attention from Dr Eddie Anderson staff while several regulars sit out for track or baseball.
The Cedar Rapids Open golf event with a $5,000 purse is scheduled for August 27 and 28. The Young Men's Bureau golf committee announced the contract from the PGA has been received and will be signed if satisfactory. Dr Hal Olmsted heads the committee and will appoint route chairmen shortly.
New York dispatch reports Ray Robinson notified the 20th Century Sporting Club that he will defend his world welterweight championship against Cuba's Kid Gavilan in June. Robinson had considered relinquishing the crown to chase Marcel Cerdan's middleweight title, but the plan was shelved after ex-champion Tony Zale pressed for a rematch with Cerdan. Bellows?jokes aside, middleweight contender fights J. T. Ross of California at Madison Square Garden Friday night as plans to go to France for two bouts were announced.
The final Associated Press poll names Kentucky as national champions for 1948 49 with Illinois Villanova UCLA Wyoming and Rice among top leaders. Oklahoma A and M and St Louis high in Midwest and many others receive votes in the nationwide ranking. Kentucky eyes both the national invitation and NCAA tournaments.
The Associated Press selects the 1949 Big Nine first and second teams with Illinois Minnesota Michigan Ohio State Wisconsin and Iowa all represented. Eight players received between four and all first team votes. eight 1948 all stars did not repeat.
Coe College opened the season at the North Central relays in Naperville. Ernie Atkinson cleared 11 feet 9 inches in pole vault and then 12 feet in warmups. Cedar Rapids contingent Lamb praised the team as Cedar Rapids athletes Kohawks faced injury and led in relays while Chilly Hopkins posted solid early times. Coe placed second in the 12 lap heat and third in the eight lap heat. Marv Levy was sidelined with a leg injury. The Kohawks next meet is a triangular indoor meet at Cedar Falls.
Chicago report states former Chicago White Sox shortstop Bill Cassell, 45, is in serious condition after a heart attack. He had recently overcome a leg nerve condition that had stopped him from walking and was sent to hospital in January after being found living in poverty with his 13 year old son.
New York UP reports George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers continues to rewrite the BAA record book. He breaks Joe Fulks marks with 5602 field goals and 466 free throws, leads the league with 1470 points and a 28.3 point per game average.
CORVALLIS Ore INS longtime Oregon State football coach Lon Stiner aged 45 asked not to be reappointed his contract expires July1 He led the Beavers since 1933 and piled up 74 wins 48 losses and 16 ties with Coast and Rose Bowl titles in 1941 42 The athletic board directs immediate search for a successor with spring practice to start in six weeks and Roy Spec Keene guiding the plan
Rose Bowl films will be shown at 8 15 p m at the Cedar Rapids Elks lodge open to lodge members only due to limited seating. Ball coach and Max Hawkins director of personnel for the Iowa athletic department will introduce the screening.
Lee Winterberg president of the Cedar Rapids Baseball Club will speak at the Builders club meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night. Films of the 1948 World Series will be shown, per President Ed Euken.
The National Fastball League will hold a meeting next Friday through Sunday at Wind sor Ontario. Members include Rock Island NL and Iowa City IA. Chicago AP reports the annual gathering for league officials and teams.
Michigan defeated Illinois 70 to 53 in the final Big Nine game, with Mack Spurwicz scoring 18 for the Wolverines while Fred Green led Illinois with 15. Illinois ends league play with a season total of 783 conference points, breaking the old mark, and will advance to the NCAA tournament eastern regional at Madison Square Garden March 21-22. Dwight Eddleman scored 10 to reach the top ten scorers in the league for the season.
Nebraska defeats Missouri 52 48 in Columbia to stand 9 3. A final game at Norman Saturday could give Oklahoma a share of the crown if they beat Colorado. Oklahoma A&M earns a playoff shot for district five after the Big Seven clash. Nebraska trailed seven times before surging to victory.
Kirk B Herrick of Alamosa Colorado was named executive secretary of the class A Western League in an announcement by Sen Ed C Johnson. Herrick will take over April 15 in Omaha Ne. He succeeds Robert Howsam who resigned to become general manager of the Denver Bears.
Tickets for Thursday night’s wrestling show at Memorial Coliseum go on sale at Tony’s Grill and Uptown Village. The feature is a women’s match pitting Nell Stewart from Birmingham against Helen Hird from Chicago, with a preliminary team bout including Art Bull of Dubuque Mire vin Buckwalter of Washington D C Danno McDonald of Ireland and Billy Veneba of Chicago.
Meaghan and Pratt of the Cedar Rapids professional baseball club spoke at the Exchange club luncheon at the Montrose hotel Tuesday noon. They said the club would soon announce definite plans for the 1945 season. George Hallenbeck introduced Hallenbeck and LeRoy Kling, Exchange club president, introduced Hallenbeck.
Lipps Grill and Kutehra's clash Wednesday at 7 pm in the YMCA gym for the league title. Both teams finished the regular season with one loss each. Lipps upset Searles Dairy while Kutehra's fell to Lipps.
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