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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 11, 1938

Page

3

Grimm Weighs 1939 Return to Major League Baseball

NHICAGO AP Charles John Grimm plans a 1939 return as major league manager with two offers, likely to join the St. Louis Browns. He will not name suitors but may accept by year end. Grimm, ex Cubs manager and current radio broadcaster, started in baseball as a peanut vendor in St Louis and rose to lead Cubs to pennants.

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Traer Opens Friday Night With Vinton

Traer meets Vinton in the grid opener with an almost entirely rebuilt line. Veteran end Rodney Wood is the sole returning lineman, while captain Robert Wignall Bruce Erickson and Robert Currell lead the backfield. Twenty one high school players and ten junior high students form the squad as practice continues.

TRAER Vinton Glenn Stavenhagen Rodney Wood Robert Wignall Bruce Erickson

Year Books At Iowa U. Go On Sale Sept 20

Special to The Gazette Iowa City The annual campaign to furnish about 3,500 yearly athletic books for students and fans starts Sept 20. The I-book coupon admits holders to 35 contests in football basketball track swimming wrestling and gymnastics on Iowa's 1938-39 home list. Year-book holders get reserved seats for four home football games and major basketball contests. Student price is 10 dollars with no tax on season activity tickets. other buyers pay a 10 percent tax of 1 dollar.

Gazette Iowa City University of Iowa Iowa United States Supreme Court

Manchester Grid Team Heavier Than Average

Manchester high grid team enters fall with four lettermen, heavy linemen Captain Richard Burt Ed Du Bois Milan Chrystal and Gordon Bechelli returning. Coach Don Belknap works to develop backfield from inexperienced players as 43 boys report for practice. Schedule lists seven games starting Sept 23 Monticello and Sept 30 Vinton with multiple November dates.

Manchester Manchester High Grid Richard Burt Ed du Bois Milan Chrystal Gordon Bechelli Don Belknap Belknap Paul Beckman Monticello Vinton Anamosa Trisvalley

Purdue And Fordham To Meet Again In 1940

Purdue announces Fordham addition to 1940 football schedule. This will be the sixth meeting, with a game slated for Oct 15 in New York. The series will pause next year as Purdue travels to San Francisco to face Santa Clara. Opening date yet to be filled.

Lafayette Ind Fordham Purdue University Bob Woodworth Boilermakers Rams New York San Francisco Santa Clara Purdue Michigan State Chicago Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota Indiana

Clarence Wins Wapsie Eight Opener In Defeating Wheatland And Stanwood

Clarence Lowden beats Wheatland 3 to 1 and Stanwood 6 to 2 to start the Wapsie Eight baseball season Friday. Meier hurled a three hit game with fourteen strikeouts for Lowden, while Smith allowed five hits for Wheatland. Clarence pulled ahead with two runs in each of the last two innings to break a 2-2 tie, led by battery Pease and Pruess and strong defense. Stanwood’s Sister pitched seven frames and fanned six.

Clarence Lowden Wheatland Clarence Stanwood Wapsie Meier Lowden Smith Pease and Pruess Clarence Battery

Tulane and New York University Schedule 1941 42 Football Series

Tulane University announces a two game football series with New York University to be played in 1941 and 1942 in New York. Athletic director Dr. Wilbur C. Smith confirmed the contract on a Saturday afternoon.

New Orleans INS Tulane University Land the Violets New York University New York Wilbur C. Smith Tulane

Kaffir Girls Adorn Headdresses For Mabela Breakfast

In a striking display the Kaffir girls wear oversized headdresses to accompany their breakfast cereal mabela, illustrating a vivid cultural or promotional scene from early newspaper text.

Y M C A Plans Sept 24 Bicycle Races at Coe College

The Y M C A boys bicycle races set for Saturday September 24 at 2 PM on the Coe College track. Events include ages under 12 100 yards, ages 12 14 300 and 440 yards, and ages 15 17 440 880 and a four rider one half mile relay. Team entries from shops possible, with blanks at cycle shops and Y M C A.

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Ke-Wash Conference Announces 1938 Football Schedule

The Ke-Wash Athletic conference released the 1938 football schedule with Richland cited as the defending champion. The note includes scattered OCR remnants about game denotation and city labels for venues.

Gazette Wellman Ke-Wash Richland

Fayette Opens Season With Postville Eleven

Fayette Iowa reports 33 football players for practice under Coach Madden with returning lettermen Miller Timm Moore Earle Billings Thomas Kappmeyer Proctor Corkery Paine and others including W Johnson Blake Schneider Wagner Davis Wooldridge Hall Gaynor King Arthur Fish Wright T Johnson Robinson Goebel Claxton Paul Ross Briggs Wilder Clements Brewer Faust Deaton. Schedule lists eight games starting Sept 16 at home against Postville and includes Monona BentonSummner Maynard Arlington Elkader and other sites through October.

Fayette Madden Miller Timm Moore Earle Billings Thomas Kappmeyer Proctor Corkery Paine W. Johnson Blake Schneider Wagner Davis Wooldridge Hall Gaynor King Arthur Fish Wright T. Johnson Robinson Goebel Claxton Paul Ross Briggs Wilder Clements Brewer Faust Deaton Postville Monona Bent Knoll Sumner Maynard Vaivue Elkader

Thirty-Three Report For Cue Grid Squad Thirty-Three

Thirty three football candidates, including ten lettermen, trained under Coach Moray Eby at Lee during two Saturday sessions. Kohawks expect more players next week as workouts continue twice daily until September 26 opening. Open with St Ambrose at Davenport September 23, St Ambrose undefeated in 24 games over three years.

Moray Eby Lee Kohawks Ed Cisler Walt Kinch Cedar Rapids Don Martin Blue Hill Neb Bob Norris John Prasch Fort Madison Roy Roughton Des Plaines Angelo Saccaro Seymour Alfred Sammet Adam Slapetis Chicago Ronald Smith Sanborn Fritz Wooster Eagle Grove Bob Lamb Kewanee Ralph Es=shém Belle Plaine Albia Junior College James Archibald Melcher Jack Clark Mystic Jim Scott Williamson Bob Smith Albia Clem Carney Ce‘dar Rapids Howard Cher Don Dunlop Orange City Bob Dunlop Vernon Elslager Cicero Ill Art Hass Clinton Wayne Hackett Bob Kosanke Park Ridge Eldon Levis Clearake Lawrence McLeod Traer Bob Marshall Winfield Harley Moore Davenport Lloyd Patterson Joe Singer George Starcivich Ross Williams Mount Carroll Bob Frisch Sumner Bob Lee St. Ambrose George Makar Dick Pollack Bob Formanek Cliff Hellman Paulina Coe St Ambrose

Freshman Iowa Grid Candidates Report Sept 26

Iowa City Iowa freshman football hopefuls will report the afternoon classes open on September 26 Coach Irl Tubbs announced after the kickoff dinner More than 100 candidates expected many from top high schools in the state They will learn the Iowa style with a focus on fundamentals Some top players may scrimmage with the varsity J E Waddy Davis returns as head freshman coach with Otto Vogel Rollie Williams and Joy Kistler assisting

Iowa City University of Iowa Irl Tubbs Los Angeles Tubbs Iowa J. E. “Waddy" Davis Hawkeye Otto Vogel Rollie Williams Joy Kistler

Infantry Riflemen Edge Marines To Win National Match

CAMP PERRY Ohio The United States infantry ten man team won the national rifle team match beating the Marines for the first time in eight years. The contest went to the final string with the infantry totaling 2792 points while the Marines had 2788 and the Coast Guard finished third at 2742 amid a rain shower.

Camp Perry United States Infantry Marines Infantry Coast Guard Coastguard

Huygens and the Wave Theory of Light

In 1685 Christian Huygens proposed that light travels as waves from its source, likening it to spreading circles on a pond after a stone is dropped. This view contrasted with particle-like ideas and laid groundwork for wave optics.

Christian Huygens

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