Sixteen Teams Begin Battle For Iowa State Cage Title
Iowa’s boys basketball tournament opens at the Drake Fieldhouse with sixteen teams, eight class A and eight class B, entering a grueling series of sectional and district games. Notable pairs headline the early rounds as Rolfe seeks a title bid with guard Bobby Watts out, while Newton aims to continue a late-season surge under coach Art Moon.
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Tiowa
Drake
Iowa
Ames
Drake Court
Newton
Art Rust
Rolfe
Mitchellville
Bobby Watts
Blencoe
East Waterloo
Centerville
Adolph Burdolfson
Davenport
Central Iowa
Blue Devils
Paul Moon
Melrose
Geneseo
Harold Hartman
Dunkerton
Bronson
Sioux City
Sronx City
Les Davis
Clarinda
Ottosen
Delhi
Marshalltown
Church League Swim Meet Set at Y M C A Pool
The YMCA Church league swimming meet will be held in the Y pool with preliminaries Friday evening and finals March 26. Junior A events include 20 yard freestyle backstroke breaststroke and 80 yard relay. Junior B features 40 yard events and 50 yard relay plus diving. Intermediate class offers six events including 40 yard freestyle 100 yard backstroke and 160 yard relay. Age groups are Junior A eight to twelve Junior B thirteen to fifteen and Intermediate sixteen to seventeen.
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Y. M. C. A. Church League
Florida law closes Sanford beer roadhouse
In Sanford Florida Peace Justice J C Roberts invokes a century old law dating to February 10 1832 to abate a nuisance and shut down a local beer roadhouse under a statewide nuisance statute.
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Sanford
Fla
Florida
J. C. Roberts
Wilbur Nead Named Iowa Mat Captain
Wilbur Nead of Gilman was elected captain of the 1938 University of Iowa wrestling team. The junior wrestler won six of seven duals by falls this season and placed third in the Big Ten heavyweight division last weekend. Coach Mike Howard noted Nead has two more years of eligibility as this was his first varsity season.
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Iowa City
Wilbur Nead
Gilman
University of Iowa
Nead
Mike Howard
Geneseo Coach Hartman Seeks Second State Title With B Team
Geneseo Consolidated's Harold Hartman leads a small eight man squad, farm boys from Tama county, into Des Moines aiming to repeat his 1933 Dunkerton state championship. Geneseo, 23 wins in 24 games, faces Melrose in the first round with a fast break attack and zone defense designed for the Drake field house.
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Geneseo
Melrose
Delhi
Mitchellville
Davenport
Newton
Harold Hartman
Dunkerton
Des Moines
Geneseo Consolidated
Dysart
Tama County
Buckingham
Hartman
Tama Coun
Wally Gaddis
Iowa Star
Howard Irvine
Gaddis
Drake
Ponies Flip Fortune for Charles Pope at Belmont
Charles Pope, famed real estate man, turns $500 into $138000 at Belmont in 1922. He covers a prior $42000 loss, wins big on Pen Rose and Neap Tide, then Lord Herbert, before a late misstep with a two year old colt leaves him with about $127000. He later donates $1000 to an orphanage before being wiped out by bookmakers in under two weeks.
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Charles Pope
Belmont Race Track
New York
Pope
Bill Halligan
Belmont
Pen Rose
Halligan
Broadway
Neap Tide
Dominique
Jin
Kiddles
Pepe
Sixteen Quintets Left In National Cage Tournament
Sixteen top teams remain in the AAU national tournament after a day session with both low and high scores. Results include Woodmen Lincoln 36 Center Foods St Louis 35 and Kansas City Life Denver 73 Arkansas State Teachers 34, with Toddville and Linn County teams also noted in regional play. Eleven of fifty-two players will graduate, including seven seniors.
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Denver
Woodmen
Lincoln
Center Foods
St. Louis
Oklahoma City University
Newport News
Antlers
Hesston
Kan
Kansas City Life of
Arkansas State Teachers
Philline Oilers
Bartlesville
Okla
Wichita G & E
Golden State Creamery
Oakland
Calif
Royal Hearts
Gt. Louis
Toddville Girls Take First in Center Point Tourney
Coach E F McClenahan selected twenty two basketball players from fifty two students. The girls team led by Marjorie Andrews Jia McBurney Freeda Mae Oliphant Lena Waterbury Dorothy Morris Iva Jean Waterbury Udine Van Fossen Helen Bowers Florence Matheny Wilma McBurney Betty Oliphant and Ruby Hopker won the sectional tournament at Center Point beating the undefeated Center Point girls.
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Stanwood
Delhi
Toddville
Olin
Centerville
Des Moines
Vern Oliphant
Eldee Bowers
Paul Oliphant
Earl Newman
Russel Hagerman
Orval Morris
James Hoag
John Doonan
James Jorden
Richard Hagerman
Linn County
Wilson
Freda Mae Oliphant
Na McBurney
Leila Waterbury
Marjorie Andrews
E. F. McClenahan
Jia McBurney
Freeda Mae Oliphant
Lena Waterbury
Dorothy Morris
Iva Jean Waterbury
Udine van Fossen
Helen Bowers
Florence Matheny
Wilma McBurney
Betty Oliphant
Ruby Hopker
Marengo Girls Post Fifteen Wins This Season
Marengo high school girls basketball total shows 14 victories 1 forfeit 1 practice win and 2 defeats. Key results include wins over Ladora Newhall Conroy and Deep River and a sectional loss to Lynnville in a county tournament sweep.
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Marengo
Marengo High School
Lynnville
Eason
Olds
Conroy Ae
Ladora Marengo
Dort English
Marengo Divctor
Sarengo
Sharon
Newhall
Arengo
Conroy
Senso
North English
Ladors
Ladora
Convoy
Deep River
Guernsey
Drakebacks Loom in Iowa State Quadrangular Indoor Meet
Drake University leads a 102 entrant field at the annual state quadrangular indoor track meet in Iowa City with 31 from Iowa, 22 from Drake, and 26 from Grinnell. Drake features five Missouri Valley champions including Mahannah Evans Patterson and Feiller. The sixteenth meet includes twelve events totaling 165 points and a mile team race with a half mile relay.
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Iowa City
Drake University
Iowa
Bulldogs
Iowa State
Grinnell
Drake
Afair
Ray Mahannah
Underwood
Evans
Patterson
Feiller
Lynn Schlotterbeck
Schlotterbeck
Olivet Team Captures Pioneer Church League Title
Olivet defeated Church of Brethren 18-14 on the McKinley floor to win the Pioneer Church League basketball championship. The Olivet squad led 16-6 at halftime but faced a late rally from the Brethren before sealing the title.
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Olivet
Church of Brethren
McKinley
East Side
Right Hand Technique Guides Powerful Golf Swing
Instruction emphasizes keeping the right elbow tight during the backswing and timing the right hand to stay beneath the shaft. Keeping the head steady preserves shoulder alignment while the left arm leads into contact with the ball.
Blind bowlers wow at ALBC tourney in New York armory
Ten visually impaired players from the Lighthouse club bowled in two teams at the American Bowling Congress event. Otto Foelsch, 60, led the field with a 196 final game after 160 and 116. The Light house blue team totaled 1743 with 510 576 666. red posted 305 488 426.
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NEW York
American Bowling Congress
Lighthouse
Otto Foelsch
212Th Coast Artillery
Foelsch
Tom MccDonnell
Tony Ballista
Sigmund Malinowski
WPA
Carl Rice
Bill Meyer
Lower Manhattan
Peter Finnegan
Julian Diez
Louie Marisca
Isadore Schlein
Jerry Wood
Carl Stutman
Woolworth
Rice
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