Spring diamond frays set as 10 county clubs open play
Ten Hardin county high schools prepare for spring baseball with five opening day games this afternoon. Steamboat Rock hosts Eldora while Whitten visits Owasa and Union plays New Providence on the Blue and White diamond. Ellsworth faces Radcliffe tomorrow and Alden travels to Hubbard. Weather has delayed practices to indoor warmups. most squads expect to field openers despite limited prep time.
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Hardin County
Steamboat Rock
Eldann
Whitten
Owata
Union
New Providence
Ellsworth
Radcliffe
Wewtardin School
Alden
Hubbard
Vets Return to Providence Nine
The spring baseball season brings eleven lettermen back to New Providence diamond camp under John Bartholow. Only Bill Stowe is a two-year veteran. Rash and Liston loom as top pitching and field options to fill gaps. Stowe or Liston back up Stowe as catcher. Rash, Cook, and Davis anchor infield and Brown heads the outfield with others in contention. Fall record was 4-4 with light hitting. leading hitters included Brown, Rash, Cook, and Williams. Spring schedule lists games from April 4 to May 19, with Hubbard opening Thursday as Alden journeys to the Redskin camp.
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Steamboat
Pirates
Steamboat Rock
Fairgrounds
Lloyd ‘Simester
al Hadar
Pirate
Figer
Simester
Don Luiken
Steamboat Aggregation
Hadar
Eldora
Orland Mitchell
Mitchell
Frank Waldo
Manley Draper
Tiger
Tiger Reien
Walde
Draper
Owasa
Bryan Starr
Berkley Berges
Jack Bowman
Duane Davenport
Marvin Reed
Roy Thayer
Whitten
Don Rhoades
New Providence
Union
Dick Maas
Diamondmen
Bud Hamm
Cardinals
Providence
John Bartholow
Bill Stowe
Bartholow
Phil Rash
Carrol Herndon
Stan Winters
Rash
Herndon
New Providence Batteries
Stowe
Jess Liston
Frank Cook
John Davis
Louis Davis
Jim ‘Lunsford
Norman Harris
Chet Brown
Gua Klemme
Joe Williams
Lawrence Lawler
Liston
Brown
Cook
Willams
Williams
Radcliffe
Hubbard
Sectional
Eldon
Larry Dubberke
Vin Ritland
Ray Silvest
H. BR. Bruns
Dick Topp
Paul Mark
Laverne Peterson
Alden
Redskin
Walt Tuttjer
Arvene Doering
Gale Peterson
Edi Streeter
Stan Halfpop
Harold Dole
Diamond Antics COMING GAMES
Tuesday Steamboat at Eidorn Whitten at Owasa Union at New Providence Wednesday Ellsworth at Radcliffe Thursday Alden at Hubbard Friday Union at Albion
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Steamboat
Eidorn Whitten
Owasa
New Providence
Ellsworth
Radcliffe
Alden
Hubbard
Union
Albion
Rockettes Crown State Title Amid War Era Pine Lake Basketball
The Pine Lake conference awards for 1941-42 list first and second team boys selections from Alden Hubbard Steamboat Rock and Whitten plus notable guards and centers. War conditions in 1942-43 forced travel limits and gas rationing, with the league declaring its Hubbard tournament the official standings. Alden boys and Steamboat Rock women defended titles as the joint boys and girls tournament debuted at the same site, with new coaches at Owasa and Union and Alden's team entrenched as a conference power.
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Max van Derveer
Pine Lake
Don Lawson
Alden
Dick Pfaltzgraff
Hubbard
Bob Silke
Max Mabie
Whitten
Harold Ridaut
Owasa
Lawrence Liming
Radcliffe
Buck Weaver
Joe Rash
Dwight ‘Long
Merle Bolar
Steamboat Rock
Marjorie Bolar
Helen Michaelson
Charlena Johnson
Lucille Green
Rosemary Trickey
Ruth Dubberke
Catherine ‘Walters
Edith Pingle
Frances Gast
Dorothy Waldo
New Providence
Lois Jaspers
Rock
Anda Reece
Arlene Kramer
Hardin County
Des Moines Register
Bolar
Reece
Michaelson
Kramer
Johnson
Walters
Green
Louise Finger
Doering
Waldo
Bob Faris
Silke
Allen
OPA
Hardin
Alden’s
Steamboat Rock Femmes
Rockettes
Art Borwick
Vernal A. Jones
Maynard T. Newhouse
Union
Aldens
Redskins
Wayne Lawson
Joe Brotherton
K. E. Amsberry
Iowa Falls
Williams
Femmes
Roland
Gilbert
Ellsworth
Zearing
Hansell
Steamboat
Readlyn
Wellsburg
Ossian
Des Moines
Seymour
Viota
Havelock
Jean Folkerts
Vivian Taylor
Mary Bolar
AIB
St. Joseph Mo
Espe Joins Iowa Wayfarer Nine on 10 Day Southern Tour
Arnold Espe former Radcliffe diamond star appears on the Iowa university baseball club roster as one of nine twirlers during a 10 day southern tour. He is remembered for Radcliffe high school play and as part of the Junior Legion nine that reached the state finals. Max Mabie, now Marshalltown Ansons manager, pitched with Espe during that era.
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Arnold Espe
Radcliffe Diamond
Iowa University Baseball Club
Espe
Hawkeye
Cardinal
Radcliffe
Junior Legion
Max Mabie
Marshalltown Ansons
Fisherman's Paradise
Hardin County
Mass fish kill at Clary gravel pit woods northwest of Gifford
About 600 fish including quillback trout bass crappies and catfish suffocated in the pond at the Clary gravel pit near Gifford due to low water levels and moss gas. Friday fishermen removed carcasses for bait and freezing as numbers declined. Also notes naming Bob Finger as an Iowa Daily Press allstate cage team honoree and plans for a county track meet led by Coaches DeVault Streeter and McLoran with tentative May dates.
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Clary
Gifford
Finger
Hardin County
Pirate School
Pine Lake
Cinder
Dale DeVault
Eldora
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Guy W. Jones
Bateson Building
Herald-Index
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John Deere Machinery
JD van Brunt
JD Rubber Tire
JD Springtooth
JD Harrows
Endgate Seeder
Sam Sorensen
Towa
Name Finger
Iowa Daily Press Association
Bob Finger
Steamboat Rock Center
Stetson
LEE
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Men & Boys
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