500 Thinclads In District Meet At Jeff Saturday
The district track meet at Jeff Saturday will start at 1 20 with an afternoon session priced at 75 cents for adults and 30 cents for students. State top contenders from nine class AA schools and 12 class A schools compete in events including AA shot put and high grades from Jefferson Doug Lane and Jon Meskimen. Lane has a 61 9 percent mark the best by a prep in Iowa. Washington's Jim Van Dine leads AA in the 19 8 low hurdles. Washington's relay team and Jeff’s entries loom as state threats in class AA and A. Morning preliminaries for clashes and hurdles plus finals in class A field events and AA shot and discus conclude the program.
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Doug Lane
Jefferson Soph
Jon Meskimen
Lane
Iowa
Wayne Keller
Brooklyn
Washington
Jim van Dine
Belle Plaine
Bgm
LaSalle
Prairie
Cedar Rapids
Grundy Center
LaPorte City
Marion
Orange Township
Tipton
Benton Community
Vinton
West Liberty
Linn-Mar Monticello Conrad host track meets this Saturday
Districts at Linn-Mar and Monticello feature class B and C fields with top teams. North Tama and H-L-V join a B field bidding Saturday at Conrad as Monticello hosts class B and C competition.
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Linn-Mar
Monti
Baseball scores and homer details from Midwest league games
Multiple game snippets show Decatur Burlington Wisconsin Rapids Quad Cities Quincy Dubuque Clinton Waterloo with runs, hits, and errors. Home runs credited to Edwards Koegel Rossi and Beamer with pitchers listed. scores include 14 13 5 and 58 across games, plus inning-by-inning glimpses and on-base mentions.
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Zink
Sieverson
Lain
Young
McKenzie
O'Riley
Kinch
Jensen
Fleischauer
W—O'riley
L—Zink
Edwards
Koegel
Clark
Wisconsin Rapids
Brown
Spelman S
Contreras
Mingo
Almonte
Schultz
Bryce
Harrison
Viel
Healy
Fuchs
Brantley
Little
Quincy
Dubuque
Boyle
Mai
Webb
Wotick
Renner
White
McCorkle
Renfro
Popovic
L—Bavie
Quincy—Rossi
Dubyave—Wisnays
Corvette Club to Host LeMans Style Event Sunday
The Cedar Rapids Corvette Club hosts its third annual field spectacular on an oval at Joe Kwapil farm highway 74 five miles west of Cedar Rapids. Registration 11 30 a m to 1 p m with six classes racing for top five trophies. A victory dinner follows at Essen House. public welcome with no admission.
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Cedar Rapids
Theevent
C.R
Palo Road
Joe Kwapil
Hawks Host Triangular Track Meet With Drake and Chicago Track Club
Iowa faces Chicago Track Club and Drake University in a Saturday 1 30 p m triangular meet here. Coach Francis Cretzmeyer expects a tight contest with balance favoring the Hawkeyes while noting Chicago at full strength is dangerous and former Hawkeye Steve Goldston will run for Chicago TC. The article also previews Iowa baseball's three game series at Minnesota with a Friday 3 30 p m single game followed by a Saturday doubleheader at 11 a m as part of Minnesota Spring Sports Day. Minnesota leads the Big Ten with a 5 0 conference mark as Michigan and Ohio State trail unbeaten.
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Gazette
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Drake University
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Hawks
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Gophers
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M-F-L
Haugen
Willie Mays
Mike Schroyer
Hoopes
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Steve Sauegeling
Mike Linden
Hall of Fame
Frank Renner
Cooperstown
N. Y
Tom Staack
Francisco Giant
Whitcher
Pinchbeck Hired as Director of Special Events for AFL
The American Football League names Val Pinchbeck 35 as director of special events as part of a front office reorganization under new Commissioner Al Davis. Pinchbeck has spent a decade as Syracuse University's sports publicity director.
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American Football League
al Davis
Val Pinchbeck
Pinchbeck
Syracuse University
Mickey Herskowitz
Houston Post
Roethlisberger Wins Long Horse Vault Title in AAU Meet
Bartlesville Oklahoma AP Milwaukee’s Fred Roethlisberger defeated defending champion Makoto Sakamoto to claim the men’s national long horse vault crown at the AAU gymnastics championships. He led qualifying and held his edge through a tough final in Bartlesville.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Fred Roethlisberger
Millwaukee
Wis
Makoto Sakamoto
University of Wisconsin
Sakamoto
Cedar Rapids Cards Rally in Extra Frames Past Opponent
In a late inning sequence, Shortstop Gayten Pitts throws to first for the out as Maness advances on Hague’s error and scores on Melton’s single. Cedar Rapids adds two more in the seventh, Joe Gegg scoring on Hague’s double. The team heads to Wisconsin Rapids for two games before returning home to face Dubuque at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Cedar Rapids.
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Gayten Pitts
Maness
Hague
Melton
Cedar Rapids
Joe Gegg
Om Hague
Wisconsin Rapids
Dubuque
Regis Raps Central City 14-3 in midweek baseball win
Regis defeats Central City 14 to 3 as Gary Nowlin collects a single a triple and three RBIs. Steve Anderson earns the win on the mound and later added a 3-run triple while Doug Morehead contributed a hit as well.
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Central City
Gary Nowlin
Steve Anderson
Doug Morehead
Steele
Sand
Anderson
Guinn
Ceremany
Wash Hosts Tennis And Golf Meets
C R Washington headlines a Class AA sectional golf tourney and a district tennis meet Saturday as spring sports enter their final weeks. Twis Pises Golf course hosts the sectional golf event with Wash Jefferson Regis and Tama Toledo in the field. The Warriors are favored with the top two teams and top two individuals advancing to the district meet in Manchester on Saturday May 14. Other Class AA sectionals in the Gazette area take place at Iowa City and Oelwein.
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Twis Pises
Wash
CR. Jefferson
Regis
Tama Toledo
Warriors
District tennis meet opens with singles and doubles play
The Warriors district tennis meet features CR Jeff Iowa City Waterloo East Columbus Muscatine and Tama Toledo. Singles begin at 9 30 am on the Wash courts and doubles start simultaneously at the Memorial Tennis Center courts.
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Warriors
CR Jeff
Iowa City
Waterloo
Columbus
Muscatine
Tama-Toledo
Memorial Tennis Center
J-Hawk Golfers Defeat Regis in Cedar Rapids Match
J-Hawk golfers Jefferson and Cedar Rapids beat Regis 157 to 159 at Twin Pines. Dave Young and Jerry Meletak shared medalist honors with 38s. Regis IVs later won 163 to 177.
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Cedar Rapids
Regis
Twin Pines
Jeff
Dave Young
Jerry Meletak
Regis Ivs
C. OR. Dott
Lynn Lawrence
Dave Noueey
Greg ii iStruve
CR. Resis
Bill Seidel
Dick Lockwood
Jim Twaddle
Dan
Kony
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