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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1934
Page
10
Western conference coaches push for a one meal a day training table and may seek earlier practice start. Faculty athletic committee to vote at annual meeting on Friday and Saturday. Also discussed are post season eligibility to write and coach, and a round robin schedule proposal.
Iowa prep track finals set after district meets across the state. Estherville edged Holstein for Cherokee district honors. West Waterloo led Mason City. Washington Cedar Rapids topped Cedar Rapids meet. Thomas Jefferson of Council Bluffs won at Denison. Fort Dodge led with 80 points amid strong showings from Webster City Eldora and others.
In twenty districts across the nation the annual thirty six hole medal play trials begin Monday for the national open golf championship. 984 candidates vie for 109 spots at Merion Cricket Club Ardmore PA starting June 7. 41 places already filled. Smith, Burke, Perkins, McCarthy, Espinosa among contenders in Cleveland and New York districts feature Bunyan and four former major winners Von Elm Creavy Walker McFarlane.
Special to The Gazette Decorah reports Turkey Valley opening games Sunday with Fort Atkinson 6 and Decorah 3 Ridgeway 14 Burr Oak 0 St Lucas 7 CCC 1 Spillville victory at Ossian The text also mentions unrelated notes about baby elephants and design trends from micro-photographs of germs.
Western league fans see the Raiders visit the Islanders on Tuesday with a lunch program led by league president Dale Gear and Raiders chief Harry Johnson. Parades, speeches, and a 8 30 p m start kickoff the season as Cedar Rapids fans travel to Rock Island for the opener.
Five games in the Eastern Iowa league produced wins for Lowden Walcott Clarence Wheatland Stanwood Durant Grand Mound and Lost Nation. Key performances included Dixon Gibson and Ballard for Lowden. Walcott's bats led by Sehnack Stender. and Grand Mound's Miller fanning eighteen. Lost Nation fell 3 2 to London Midgets at Lost Nation.
Philadelphia Nationals announce veteran pitcher Jim Elliott has been sold to the Boston Braves via waivers. Elliott debuted with St. Louis in 1921, later starred for Brooklyn, Seattle, and Brooklyn again before joining the Phillies in 1930. He won nineteen games for Philadelphia in 1931.
ST. LOUIS INL Hank Leiber outfielder has been sent on option to Nashville of the Southern Association, announced by Bill Terry Giants manager. The move reduces the Giants to the required twenty three players effective next Tuesday.
Nearly one hundred track and field stars from eight conference schools will compete in the Midwest conference championship at Cornell College Mount Vernon May 19. Petch from Coe aims to surpass his 15.5 hurdle mark. Osburn of Cornell seeks the broad jump record. N Stookey of Coe and others threaten multiple marks as the meet shapes to be a close team race among Carleton Knox Coe and Monmouth with leaders from each school expected to score heavily.
A collection of remarkable golf hole in one feats includes Capt. C R Bull of Kelowna one armed golfer in Vancouver Bobby Clark aged eleven in Watertown and Vancouver pros Alexander Duthrie and Ralph Galt with multiple aces. Miss Joyce Wethered recalls a feathered birdie incident while Fred Entler and Comer Lloyd also post aces. The piece notes memory trivia and a quiz on Waite Hoyt’s World Series pitching history.
Major Fred Brewster of Jasper National Park introduces a saddle ash tray device to riders on trail ponies. The tray attaches to the saddle to collect pipe ashes matches and cigarette stubs, preventing ground litter and reducing forest fire risk.
Glenn Cunningham, top American miler and Kansas senior, plans a coast to coast summer chase for a world mile mark with rival Bill Bonthron of Princeton. Coach W H Hargiss expects strong showings in Princeton and Los Angeles with Cunningham aiming to preserve amateur status and avoid coaching. Cunningham has not lost twice to the same runner in collegiate events.
After six months of city action the downtown area is sparrowless yet leaders of the ouster admit no true victory. Workhouse superintendent Anthony Sauer says birds left only as mild weather lets them move to parks and suburbs. He warns they may return in the fall. Buyers of Michigan apple crop look to larger orchards in 1933.
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