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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1931
Page
6
Goray Evening Journal reports the State Armory hosts four opening cage games tonight and Wednesday as teams chase the silver trophy. The piece notes fan anticipation, rivalries, and the indoor court drama expected to spark strong attendance.
Hight teams open the independent basketball championship of Corry and vicinity at the State Armory tonight with the first bracket games starting at seven. Four contests tonight, four Wednesday, and a Thursday final crown champions and consolation title holders. Visiting Clymer Flying Dutchmen and Spartansburg Merchants lead a strong field in the 1931 tournament.
Clarence Anderson of Kane wowed a large crowd at the Pinch Billiard Parlor with about forty remarkable trick shots. The youthful virtuoso performed rapid, uncanny feats across pocket billiards, displaying precise, lightning-fast cue work and a wide repertoire of shots that impressed veteran players.
Heavyweight boxer W L Young Stribling waited in Houston as his plane was repaired after a crash during a rain storm near Kendalton forty miles east. Five aboard including his father manager W G Blanchard J L McCord and Jack Bell escaped uninjured. Stribling planned to stay three days to supervise reconditioning before resuming to Macon Georgia.
Boxing results from Pittsburgh Cleveland New York Newark Newcastle and Denver on March 31 feature Jackie Rodgers delivering a ten round decision over Johnny Datto in Pittsburgh while Larry Madge tops Young Rudy in Cleveland and Joe Banovie and Joey Lagrey win on points in New York. additional outcomes include Fred Polo stopping Emil Guisto in Newark and George Manley and Karl Ghet Shandel scoring knockouts in Denver.
The report lists several exhibition outcomes with St Louis, Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Rochester, and Birmingham among others scoring varying results. Details are fragmentary and partial, but show a pattern of close, high scoring matches and shifts in lineups across cities.
The Tionesta Vindicator reports the State Fish Commission will stock streams in Forest and adjacent counties ahead of the April fifteenth opening. About 1,200 trout six to twelve inches long were released on March nineteenth into Big and Little Coon creeks. Additional stockings will follow in Jauns rut and Jamieson rin areas and other Crawford Warren Clarion and Venango streams under the commission supervision.
Macon Ga March 9 1 Dazzy Vance star pitcher for the Brooklyn Robins returns to sign a contract after a holdout Spring. He would not disclose terms but stated the salary named was satisfactory. His initial demand was 25000, higher than offered, and he recently indicated 24000. It is believed he accepted the club's original offer.
Henry McElmore reports Detroit manager Bucky Harris confidently anticipates a first division finish for the 1921 Tigers. Spring exhibitions bolster belief in strong pitching led by Whitehill Sorrell Hoyt Uhle and Bridges, backed by infielders Alexander Gehringer Akers McManus Owen, outfielders Shiver Dolsack Walker brothers Johnson Stone, and a strengthened catching group with Wallie Schang and John Grabowski. Hoyt is forecast to win at least twenty games.
Notre Dame football legend Knute Rockne dies in a plane crash near Bazaar Kansas. Debris indicates nine bodies. two crew members named Pry and Mathias were aboard. Five other passengers listed as Miller Hopper Rotrock Christen and Goldunwatte. Ambulances transport victims to Cottonwood Falls mortuary.
Joe Freeman of Detroit KO'd Benny Ray in the fourth round of a ten round lightweight bout at White City. Chicago welterweight Geo K Kerwin stopped Herbert Anderson in the second round. Mark Burke scored a knockout over Jack Taylor in the fifth round.
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