Sub-State tourneys open with top teams pairing in early action
Mitchellville and Franklin begin sub-state play as Waverly Montour Edgewood Hopkinton Sioux Center Everly Hull Cedar Falls Laurens Ottumwa and Creston host opening games. Numan aims for 36th straight win facing Russell in Ottumwa feature while Roosevelt Des Moines meets Harcourt.
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DES Moines
Waverly
Montour
Cedar Falls
Edgewood
Hopkinton
Sioux Center
Laurens
Swea City
Everly
Hull
Numan
Miners
Russell
Ottumwa
Franklin
Cedar Rapids
Mitchellville
Muscatine
Burlington
Roosevelt
Harcourt
Creston
Wiota
Manning
Mel Harder Plans 17th Season With Indians
Cleveland veteran pitcher Mel Harder signed for his seventeenth season with the Indians. Classified 2-B due to a war job at Ohio Rubber, he will quit war work to play until called to service. Harder has 197 wins in 16 seasons and aims to top 200 this year.
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Cleveland
INL
Mel Harder
Cleveland Indians
The
Tribe
Ohio Rubber Co
Harder
Armed Services
Mel
Hawkeye Baseball Squad Up to 29 Candidates
Iowa City. Coach Waddy Davis surveys 29 hopefuls for the University of Iowa baseball team ahead of the Big Ten opener. The Hawkeyes face Chicago in Iowa City April 7 and 8 with potential pre-conference games. Most candidates are inexperienced and will need outdoor practice before Davis picks his lineup.
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Iowa City
INS
Waddy" Davis
University of Iowa
Hawkeyes
Chicago
Iowans
Davis
Catcher Mike Tresh Rejoins White Sox
Chicago White Sox official Harry Grabiner announced catcher Mike Tresh has secured his release from military service and will join spring training with 29 teammates in French Lick Springs Indiana. Pitcher Lee Buck Ross and infielder Tony Cuccinello have been classified 4 F.
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Chicago
Harry Grabiner
Chicago White Sox
Mike Tresh
Detroit
Tresh
French Gick Springs
Ind
Grabiner
Lee “Buck” Ross
Tony Cuccinello
Bill Jurges Agrees To Giants' Terms
Shortstop Billy Jurges, once Giants' noted holdout, signed a contract after a meeting with president Horace Stoneham in Lakewood New Jersey. He reportedly earned about $15,000 last season and agreed to a $10,000 salary with a compromise figure. Jurges is 35 and recently was rejected for army service.
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Lakewood
N. J
Billy Jurges
New York ‘Giants
Horace Stoneham
Jurges
Stoneham
Feller misses chance to fire as Jap planes attack
Bob Feller aboard a U S battleship in the Central Pacific says he was disappointed no enemy planes came within range of his 40 millimeter anti aircraft gun during a Saipan raid. The former Cleveland ace serves as gun director and four hour on eight hour off watch, while also acting as athletic and physical conditioning director. He trains himself hoping to resume pitching after the war and notes his family back home near Van Meter works a 400 acre farm as his father died last year. His wife serves at the Great Lakes naval training station.
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United States
Central Pacific
Bob Feller
Saipan
Bob
van Meter
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Beardsley shoots 88 in Florida senior golf meet
Dr. D. E. Beardsley of Cedar Rapids Iowa turns in an 88 in the qualifying round of the tenth annual mid winter senior golf tournament in Sebring Florida. He draws Fred L. Riggin of Port Huron Michigan in the first round of match play. Peter Kerkner a 50 year old contractor from Cleveland carded a 79 for the low medal in qualifying.
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Sebring
Fla
D. E. Beardsley
Cedar Rapids
Fred L. Riggin
Port Huron
Mich
Peter Kerkner
Cleveland
Ohio
Vern Kennedy Lands on Neck in Pole Vault Feat
Vern Kennedy, 35 year old Cleveland pitcher, vaulted nine feet in a Purdue fieldhouse pit after a workout in Lafayette Ind. He landed on his neck and rose smiling, a vivid echo of Bill McKechnie recalling Lou Boudreau. Kennedy had won 10 games in 1943 for the Tribe.
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New York
Bill McKechnie
Lou Boudreau
Vern Kennedy
Cleveland
McKechnie
Cincinnati Reds
Bucky Walters
Bucky
Reds
Kennedy
Lafayette
Ind
Indians
Purdue University
Tribe
Boudreau
Jack Salveson
NEW York Giants
Buster Maynard
Army
Ken Chase
Oneonta
N. Y
Billy Jurges
Lakewood
N. J
Horace Stoneham
NEW York Yankees
Atlantic City
Hank Borowy
Emerson Roser
Joe Page
Jim Turner
Don Savage
George Stirnweiss
Philadelphia Phils
Jimmy Wasdell
Wilmington
Del
Glen Russell
California
Chicago Cubs
Frank le Roy
Chicago
Pittsburgh Pirates
Vince DiMaggio
Bucs
Muncie
Gee Walker
Bloomington
IDPA all state ballots tally names from Iowa players
DOTTIE IRELAN notes coaches and officials to return IDPA all state ballots mailed to them. Seventeen of twenty four 1943 honorees are in service. ten in the army, six in the navy, one in the marines. Remaining players include Ives and Danner of Iowa City, with several others from Mason City, Dubuque, Webster City, Ottumwa, and Sioux City still in civilian life or high school.
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IDPA
Association
Army
Navy
Marines
University of Iowa
Dave Danner
Dick Ives
Hawkeyes
Ives
Danner
John Holmen
Mason City Quint
Cage
Camp Roberts
California
Woodall
Webster City
Schweitzer
Burlington
Magnusson
Fort Dodge
Taylor
Ottumwa
Sheehan
Council Bluffs
Siebert
Oskaloosa
Bacon
Harlan
Thoren
Grundy Center
McMurray
Glasener
West Waterloo
Rockwell
Muscatine
Day
Mason City
Baker
Davenport
Fee
Cedar Rapids
S.C
Gilligan
Sioux City
Loran Day
Strotman
Waverly
Straatsma
Sioux Center
Williams
Leibsen
Lester
Blunk
Wiota
Diagonal
Iowa City
Towa State
Red Cross
Iowa State
Iowa U
Cyclones
Iowa
Nye
Baseball Camps and Cedar Rapids Hopefuls Shine
The piece notes shaky rosters in early camps and war draft tensions, with Iowa figures like Frank Nye highlighted. It discusses possible Iowa baseball leagues involving Ottumwa Preflight, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Davenport, and Iowa City, weighing travel and park issues, plus Cedar Rapids as summer entertainment.
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Ottumwa
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Billy Southworth Jr Moves Toward a Movie Career in Wartime
War hero Billy Southworth Jr after completing 25 missions returns to the United States on leave and unexpectedly signs a movie contract. Hunt Stromberg meets him at Hollywood Legion Stadium and discusses a plan to start filming upon his return, amid the war.
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Billy
Santa Monica
Hollywood Legion Stadium
Hunt Stromberg
Billy, Jr
Stromberg
Boxing Results Roundup From Across The Nation
The AP reports a series of lightweight to welterweight bouts across major cities. Ortiz defeated Acuilar in Los Angeles while Armstrong stopped Jones in New York. Other winners include Green over Sawicki in Buffalo Graziano bested Rovelli in New York Warneck knocked out by Pisnataro in White Plains Riggle beat Giscombe in Jersey City Brown over Maloni in Hartford Demers outpointed Zullo in New Bedford and Hubert defeated Miller in Harrisburg.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Manuel Ortiz
Ernesto Acuilar
Mexico City
Miami
Henry Armstrong
Johnny Jones
New York
Buffalo
Johnny Green
Leo Sawicki
Worcester
Mass
Rocky Graziano
Ray Rovelli
Weehawken
N. J
Vic Pisnataro
White Plains
Tommy Warnock
Jerscy City
Steve Riggle
Rudy Giscombe
Hartford
Conn
Johnny Brown
Jerry Maloni
West Springfield
New Bedford
Pat Demers
Brockton
Jerry Zullo
Chelsea
Harrisburg
Tee Hubert
Washington
George Miller
Philadelphia
Novotny Tops Classic Irish Start Spring Drills
Notre Dame plans spring football practice kicks off in two days with Friday, St Patrick s Day, seen as an appropriate opener for the Irish gridders as Joe Novotny tops the Classic.
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South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame
St. Patrick’s Day
Golden Gloves Plan to Maintain Year Round Boxing in Cedar Rapids
A Golden Gloves dinner in the Roosevelt hotel mapped plans to keep amateur boxing active year round in Cedar Rapids. Local leaders from La Plant Choate, Universal Engineering, and Iowa Manufacturing will keep the CYO gym open at Immaculate Conception church basement, with Ottumwa Navy boxers eyed for a Cedar Rapids match. Volunteers led by Jim Burlingham, Joe Benson, Bill Dykhuisen, Claude Kuebler and Alex Fidler will run the gym, while Jim Gibson gears up to restore a training facility and provide equipment for his group.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
la Plant-Choate
Universal Engineering
Iowa Manufacturing
CYO
Immaculate Conception Church
Ottumwa Navy
Golden Gloves
Ottumwa
Bob Turner
Dick Daly
Bobby Diaz
Don Fritz
Andy Blakey
Billy Smith
Virgil Harris
Roy Lee
Jim Burlingham
Joe Benson
Bill Dykhuisen
Claude Ku
Budge Upset by Coast Guard Cadet Kramer at MSG Tennis
Lt. Don Budge lost to Coast Guard Cadet John Kramer 6-3 6-2 in the Red Cross benefit tennis show at Madison Square Garden. About 9,000 spectators contributed to a gross gate of 19,270 dollars.
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New York
Don Budge
Coast Guard
John Kramer
Red Cross
Madison Square Garden
Navy Accepts Glenn Cunningham for Duty
Glenn Cunningham former world mile champion and Cornell College athletic director was accepted for navy duty after a pre induction physical at Camp Dodge Des Moines Iowa on Tuesday.
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Des Moines
Glenn Cunningham
Cornell College
Navy
Camp Dodge
A A U Cage Meet Finals Set in Des Moines
The Town A A U basketball championship will be decided at the Jewish Community Center in Des Moines. Semi finals feature Boyntonthank vs Huxley and Moose Lodge vs Kelley with the victors meeting for the title later Wednesday night.
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Des Moines
Boytonthank
Huxley
Moose Lodge
Kelley
Pinehurst Leads Open Golfers After First Round
Nine players share the early lead in the $3,000 North and South Open at Pinehurst. Clayton Heafner Gene Sarazen and Leonard Dodson shoot 71s while Jimmy Johnson Ed Furgal trail with 72. Several players at 73 follow as Horton Smith carded 74.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Sgt
Clayton Heafner
Gene Sarazen
Leonard Dodson
Jimmy Johnson
Farmington
Mich
Ed Furgal
Detroit
Bobby Cruickshank
Richmond
Joe Zarhardt
Manuel Ortiz Retains Bantamweight Title in LA Bout
Manuel Ortiz defended his bantamweight crown in a 15 round fight in Los Angeles California beating Ernesto Aguilar of Mexico City. Aguilar pressed hard as a southpaw challenger but Ortiz maintained control throughout the bout to keep the title.
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Manuel Ortiz
Aguilar
Los Angeles
el Centro
Calif
Mexico City
Ernesto Aguilar
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