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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1934
Page
4
Coe College's Kohawks drill for the September 29 opener with Upper Iowa as 32 players report. Moray Eby enters his 21st season as coach, juggling guard spots and ends while building a deep backfield including quarterback Ralph Martin and promising sophomores.
Quasqueton Iowa hosts a thriving kittenball scene with a 14 to 21 year old all female team undefeated this season. Manager Carl Walter also serves as mayor while the squad works as a local sensation drawing crowds up to 1,600. The team has played road games in Davenport, Waterloo and Muscatine among others, charging 15 cents and denying ringers. Geneva Clark, a star pitcher, accounts for much of the offense with 13 strikeouts in a 1 0 win over Davenport V F W. A Sept 21 22 tournament with $85 prize is planned.
Elka softball team played fifty five games with a 32 wins and 23 losses record. Lineup includes Hopkins Mullin Hensley Diehl Anderless Rye Ratns Hahnors Harmerss Shaffer Walker and others. Location details mention Stanwood and Atkins Town with various unnamed opponents.
Special to The Clarette identifies Troy Mills schedule for baseball. Games listed include Sept 15 at Quasqueton, Sept 19 at Walker, Sept 25 at Walker, Sept 28 at Alburnett, and Oct ? Center Point. coach WB Guthrie arranged the year.
Phillies fall twice to the Pirates in a doubleheader. Allyn Stout pitched a complete game for Cincinnati, holding the Braves to seven hits as Jordan, Lee and Whitney delivered key singles. Slade doubled and scored on Bottomley’s single for Boston’s win over the Reds. Brout earned the save and Betts started for the Pirates.
Washington coach George Freshwaters fields eighteen candidates for the Cardinal eleven this fall. With limited reserve strength, he aims to fill two additional spots for Sept 21 and a Sept 2 cancellation altered schedule. Practice shifts to positions late this week after scrimmage at the local high school.
Czech night school to be combined with U S and city night classes at Grant School for twelve weeks. Registration Monday night at Grant High from 7 30 to 9 30. Executives and committee members listed. officers named.
The Ke-Wash conference officers elected are President R. O. Wright of Richland and secretary-treasurer F. W. Johnston of Brighton. Football schedules show games from Sept. 21 through Nov. 10 with Wellman, Keota, West Chester, Kalona, Richland, Brighton, Oelwein, Monticello, Marion, Anamosa, Cedar Falls, Arlington, Independence, and other towns, including a Tri-Valley conference note. Basketball schedule listed for December through January with Wellman, West Chester, Katona, Katona at West Chester, and Richland. Obtuary mentions Fletcher at tackle and Eber hart as forward wall mainstays. Mullan backfield experience, Roloff shifted to full back. Open at home versus Oelwein.
Washington kittenball banquet honors All Nations as city league champions. Eight teams played last season with over 10 attendees at the YMCA event. Leigh Soule presided while Jay Brown Hallie Ward and Walter Kieser were elected to the 1935 kittenball commission. Elmner McFadden received a jacket for service.
Special to The Giarette Manchester grid squad with 46 hopefuls works out under coach Sherman J Tollefson. Only five are 1933 lettermen. most players are freshmen or sophomores trying out for the first time. Captain Bushnell leads the returning letter winners at center.
Special to The Gazette outlines Tri County league basketball schedule with president L M Bogle of Wyman and secretary-treasurer G W Schantz of Wyman. Dates list games from Nov 27 to Feb 22 including Wayland Cotter Olds Crawfordsville Ainsworth Mount Union, with multiple matchups and locations noted amid several OCR errors.
Monmouth High defeated Baldwin 12 to 4 on a wet field to start the season. Streets of Monmouth fanned thirteen while yielding one hit, and Hale, Sterk, and M Hale combined for eight strikeouts and eight hits allowed. Future games are Sept 21 Onslow here, Sept 28 Baldwin here, Oct 5 Onslow there.
Grinnell Charles DeLong defeated Philip Hendrixson 2-6 6-4 6-1 to win the city tennis title. He also shared the doubles crown with Leland Bach, beating Bridgham and Thalacker 6-1 6-2 while Bach and DeLong held control through the finals.
America's richest racing program drew 30,000 to Belmont Park as Widener's Chance Sun dominated the Belmont Futurity, a 6 1/2 furlong race won in 1 17 3 5, four lengths ahead of Balladier with Plat Eye third and Psychic Bid eleventh amid treacherous conditions. Dark Secret broke and fell after finishing, with Faireno and Inlander also noted in the two mile classic.
Frontier park will host harness and running races next Sunday under Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsorship with Carl Hamilton of Oskaloosa as starter and master of ceremonies. The Nash Finch trot and Roosevelt hotel race will be in three heats, with runners like Third avenue Virginia event and pacers Tiger Bill Jimmy Bumpas Peter Duke. Notables Red Willow Peter W Eclipse Dense Benboe listed among trotters. saddle show planned. tickets on sale at loan emporiums.
Russell Sheetz and Byron Stoney, local horseshoe authorities, will face Sac City champion Guy Zimmerman in a 2:30 p.m. event at Ellis Park, followed by Zimmerman's trick shots exhibition and Mrs. Zimmerman’s performance. Sheetz recently beat Zimmerman at a Midwest tournament, while Stoney posts 254 points per 100 shoes. The Cedar Rapids Horseshoe Club beat Cedar Falls 34 to 15 last Sunday, with a rematch planned at Cedar Falls next week.
Stanwood Blue Streaks win a doubleheader against the Cedar Rapids Elks Club in Stanwood. They beat the Elks 7 to 3 in the opener and 2 to 1 in the nightcap. Bennetts defeated the local Chevrolet Knee Actors 6 to 1.
A typhoid fever epidemic precaution moved serum from New York to San Diego, arriving in lead at the California city more than a day after dispatch.
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