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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1932
Page
29
Yankees outlasted Detroit 6 4 in fourteen innings as Babe Ruth sub Sam Byrd homered twice and drove in four. In the nightcap the Tigers and Yankees battled to a 7 7 deadlock before darkness ended play.
Standings and results from the Mississippi Valley League include Davenport, Rock Island, Dubuque and others with Wednesday results and Thursday schedule. Baseball and hockey style standings feature teams like Chicago New York St Louis and others with W L records and percentages noted.
The Chicago Cubs split a doubleheader with the Boston Braves to gain a half game in the standings while Pittsburgh faltered against Brooklyn. Chicago won 4 1 in game one, Charley Root and Bob Brown pitched well in a 3 2 Braves win in game two, Wally Berger hit his 16th homer.
Joe Mowry of Minneapolis and Bill Knickerbocker of Toledo are poised to set American Association marks. Knickerbocker needs one more two base hit to tie the 63-year-old league standard. Mowry has 159 runs this season, seven behind Bunly Brier’s 1921 mark. They beat Milwaukee 12 to 11 in ten innings, with Mowry scoring three times as the visitors edged the Brewers.
Gus Schrader of Cedar Rapids Iowa won the feature event the Gopher sweepstakes at the Minnesota state fair on Wednesday. He also captured the first heat and the final, with Sam Hoffman of Omaha second in both races. Vic Felt Denver placed third in the final, Ray Hebbert Pierre South Dakota fourth, and Bud Galloway Atlanta fifth as times were slow despite a good track.
New York met Babe Ruth when he arrived home after a Detroit trip to seek medical advice. Doctors preliminary say the pain in his midsection is likely a stomach ache rather than appendicitis, with a definite diagnosis promised later Friday.
In Forest Hills New York Ellsworth Vines and Henri Cochet advanced to the semifinals of the fifty first national tennis championship joining Wilmer Allison and Clifford Sutter. Vines defeated Lester Stoefen and Cochet beat Frank Shields while Allison outlasted Sidney Wood and Sutter defeated George Lott.
Rock Island will host the Mississippi Valley league playoff opener on September 13 against the second half champion from Davenport or Burlington. If Davenport wins the second half pennant games rotate among Rock Island Davenport and Burlington. Admission 40 cents, grand stand 25 cents, night games only. Umpires Tom Collins L A Williams and Jim Ward. Davenport leads by two games with five remaining.
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