The Golf Links at Waveland Park Adds Tennis and Croquet
The Golf Links at Waveland Park attracts visitors seeking exercise and leisure. In the last few days courts for Tennis Croquet Ping Pong and other activities have been added to the facility.
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Newspaper
Des Moines Daily Leader
Location
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1902
Page
16
The Golf Links at Waveland Park attracts visitors seeking exercise and leisure. In the last few days courts for Tennis Croquet Ping Pong and other activities have been added to the facility.
A retailer boasts broad selections in golf goods tennis equipment ping pong croquet and related items. Claiming to buy at jobbing prices the dealer says offerings surpass western rivals and prices undercut typical retail dealers.
Grinnell, Iowa dominates the June high school track meet on Marsh field scoring 23 points and topping Chicago Latin, Evanston, and other schools. Maxwell and Cheek lead field events, while Ritter and Blair pace sprints amid a long drizzly day, with rains delaying events and a lake forming on the track.
Des Moines and Kansas City rained out. grounds muddy after heavy precipitation Friday. Des Moines to host Kansas City this afternoon at 3, with Teales likely in relief and Quinn managing. Stearns, Ryan, and Wilson feature among lineup notes as players deal with injuries and ground conditions.
The article lists events for the Guild Cup track meet with participants Garner Latimer Cassady Calvin and others in sprints jumps throws and distance races. It notes Monday proceedings on home grounds with Goodell as a star and Garner expected to set a pole vault record. A football schedule for Cornell Mont Vernon includes a game with Morningside at Sioux City to open the season on September 1.
Princeton University beats Yale 5 to 2 at Princeton with Yale alumni watching and applauding as captain and pitcher are carried off field. Nearby games see Illinois over Pennsylvan ia 11 to 8, Chicago over Michigan 8 to 7, Notre Dame 2 Purdue 2, and Beloit over Northwestern 5 to 1. Walnut Bouquets win 18 to 5 over Second Streeters. ad for Walnut Bouquets players and 15 second street lineup follows.
The life and fire insurance men arrange a 2 team battle at Worth street ball park, Saturday at 3 PM. Captains J T Sharp and Ben Lehneider lead rosters with substitutes and officials, including Mayor Brenton as umpire and Dr Schooler as surgeon.
The Ames Simpson game was postponed to 2 45 pm and called at 4 00 with even innings after a rain delay. Four innings were played and the contest was ruled no game. Reese struck out seven, Middleton four, and Ames offered to play Iowa for the bat but Iowa declined. Grinnell seeks a make up in Des Moines for the bat next week. J B Kenna signed to join Milwaukee Western league team.
London reports the king will wear a robe of gold cloth embroidered in rich colors, finished after three months by thirty Royal School of Art Needlework workers. A former George II barge will be refurbished for royal water pageantry on Windsor waters with scarlet liveried watermen. Royal music features new anthems by Bridge Parratt and Parry, with Westminster boys greeting the monarchs during I Was Glad.
London readers embrace forced fruit trees for winter bloom in homes and conservatories. Plum cherry peach and currant varieties are grown solely for flowers, often double flowering with no fruit. Sprays fetch modest prices and perfumes intensify when floated in dishes of water. Three or four branches in a tall vase imitate the celery glass display.
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