Max Baer Vows to Regain Heavyweight Title
Max Baer predicts he will reclaim the heavyweight crown by defeating Con Nova on June 1 and then Joe Louis, insisting he is a better fighter at 30 than in his prime. He touts training plans, a $5,000 wager, and confidence in his improved power and speed.
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Wayle Talbot
New York
Max Buer
Joe Louis
Mas
Farndale
Con Nova
Percepritory
Nova
Louis
Hboyc
Max
Ce Bember
Chicago Golden Glovers Meet European Team
Chicago reports the final international boxing match between the Chi nateur Team and the European champion will be held May 12 at Chicago Stadium. Officials announced the return bout after early-season exhibitions.
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Chicago
Golden Glovers
Chinateur Team
Chicago Stadium
Jacobs Eyes Box Office As Ropers Upset Looms
Michael Jacobs predicts big swings at the box office while eyeing Jack Ropers potential upset over Louis next Monday. He cites past shocks like Schmeling KOing Louis and Baer beating Braddock as examples of ring upsets and gambles fans chase.
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Bos Angeles
Michael Strauss Jacobs
Jack Ropers
Mike Jacobs
Mike
Baer Predicts Time Will Catch Yankees Limited by Three
A compiled sports column notes Max Baer ranks himself fourth among heavies behind Louis Galento and Nova. It also mentions predictions that Lou Gehrig will play over 100 games and hit above .320 for the Yankees. Other items touch on Colgate denying Keer resignation, Budie and Perry curbing Baron Von Cramm, and various golf and boxing chatter.
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New York
Ford G. Frick
Yankees
Louis Roper
Joe
Lou Gehrig
Yanks
Colgate
Andy Keer
Hew Bream
Gettysburg College
Bream
Tisbury Telegraph
Budie
Perry
Baron von Cramm
Ray Hayworth
Dodgers
Yankton Hounds head to Hastings relays in Nebraska
Yankton College track and field coach Carl Youngworth takes eight selected athletes to Hastings College in Nebraska for the 13th Hastings Relays. The squad features distance runners Virgil Grace Paul Barber Verle Heller Jack Martin Walt Flannery Don Sinclair Ralph Halla and others in sprints hurdles jumps and weight events with Halla defending his two mile crown and Putnam Stanieck contending in hurdles and high jump.
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Yankton
Serena
Carl Youngworth
Yankton College
Hastings
Neb
Hastings College
Virgil Grace
Paul Barber
Verle Heller
Jack Martin
Walt Flannery
Don Sinclair
Ralph Halla
Maurice Wika
Bob Putnam
Henry Coolidge
M. T Smith
John Smith
Joe Brewer
Howard Bussey
Youngworth
Putnam
Ray Stanieck
Stanieck
Pogaibte
Kurt Wipt
Bearded Bluejays Prep for Union Pacific Premiere in Omaha
Creighton University asks attention as its 68 man Bluejays football squad grows beards for the bearded 1869 era. The city readies a four day civic celebration for the April 28 world premiere of Union Pacific with Omaha men in beards and 1869 attire while thousands of residents join in the historic costume homage.
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Omaha
Neb
Creighton University
Marchie Schwartz
Bluejays
Union Pacific
P Wnich
Barbara Stanwyck
Wayne Teachers take firsts in 440 880 and mile relays
Last Saturday Wayne Teachers of Nebraska swept the 440 880 and mile relays while Greyhound runners stumbled in the first meet yet showed strength in sprint medley and distance relays. Yankton dominated medley events and claimed the team victory under the English scoring system.
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Wayne Teachers
Nebraska
Yankton
Wayne
Sconnm
Redfield Letter Winners Feted By Kiwanis Club Banquet
Redfield high school athletes were honored at a Kiwanis Club dinner with awards for football and basketball letter-winners. Guests included Theodore H. Fenske who spoke on Kiwanis ideals and the athletes, plus Jerry Lammers and several coaches and invitational players.
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Redfield
Kiwanis Club
Redfield High School
Theodore H. Fenske
Minnesota-Dakota
Kiwanis International
Kiwanians
Kiwanis
Jerry Lammers
Madison
Lyman_ Bates
Herb Wilson
Richard Wagner
Vaughn Wolffe
Jim Humeston
Clinton Lyle
Maurice Olson
Jack Pennington
Frank Miller
John Tinker
Don Woodford
Walt Schroeder
Carroll Anderson
Merlin Lovold
Clinton Johnson
Hill Wright
Clayton Hutteling
Davyl Benning
John Andersen
Bob Beckman
Jim Samuelsen
Douglas Dulany
Wait Boettcher
Clarence White
Clarence Muellenberg
Charles Robernson
James Harcie
Dean
Baseball Shows Vast Improvement Under LaFayette Coach
EASTON Pa April 13 Bill Coughlin who led Detroit to AL titles looked back over 20 years as LaFayette baseball coach noting improvements in pitching and batting. He recalls early era when wild power dominated and strikeouts outpaced walks while today pitchers show better stuff and batters wait for quality pitches.
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Bill Coughlin
Easton
Detroit
LaFayette
Coighlin
Detroit Tigers
Pennsylvania
Knights of Columbia
France
East
Coughlin
Bestall
Major Hoople Predicts 1950 pennant winners by geomancy
Major Hoople, writing as a baseball prophet, touts geomancy and gyromancy to pick major league pennant winners. He muses on teams nicknamed Red and the pitfalls of divination while joking about Red Ruffing and the 16 team field.
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Hoople
Amos B- Hoople
Cople Manor
Cardinals
Hogshdad
Bram
Qohica
St. Louis
Shertly
Tallance
Red Sox
Boston
Cincinnati Reds
Red Stockings
Indians
Red Men
Browns
Yankee
Mound Corps
Geomarcy
Kernels Open With Canaries Western League Opener At Mitchell
Mitchell will play its arch rival Sioux Falls at Kernel Park on May 11 to open the Western League season. A tentative schedule was set by League President Roy Carter and will be released after formal club approval. Rex Stucker and F L Abel attended the Mitchell meeting with local officials.
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Kernels
Canaries
Mitchell
Weisser
Mi Baseball Association
Sioux Falls
Kernel Park
Roy Carter
Carter
Rex Stucker
The
F. L. Abel
Norfolk Association
Henrichs No 2 prospect Charley joins Canton Terriers
WASSILLON Ohio April 13 The House of Henrich gives its No 2 prospect Charley younger brother of Tommy Henrich to the Canton Terriers a Boston Red Sox farm club Charley 20 from Canton Massillon area left handed outfielder hit .353 in 40 semi pro games last summer workouts start Saturday. Also notes wrestling results in Rochester and St Paul with various weight figures and disqualifications.
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Henrich
Wassillon
Ohio
House of Henrich
Charley
New York Yankees
Tommy
Canton Terriers
Boston Red Sox
Canton
Massillon
Flashes Of Life And Quiet Incidents Across Towns
In Columbia South Carolina Alice Baldwin marked her 13th birthday as her sisters and brother approach ages 17 and 19 on upcoming dates. In Kansas City Mrs Geraldine Bowling stopped a theft by striking the robber with a souvenir plate and vowing to keep it forever. Evanston Illinois David Terrill 22 earns praise as an outstanding pupil of the city’s traffic violator program after a recent speeding arrest and mandated safety classes.
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Columbia
S. C
Alice Baldwin
Mary Elizabeth
William
Kansas City
Geraldine Bowling
Evanston
David Terrill
Miller's Dark Horse Target For League Fresh Start
In Columbus on April 13 the Tyee Sovoricas Association opens its 38th baseball season with Frank Colley predicting a strong year though a four-team first division mix may reshuffle. He notes top contenders from Minneapolis, Columbus, Toledo, and Kansas City, with Milwaukee facing Louisville and Paul at Toledo as opening matchups amid chilly weather and canceled workouts.
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Columbus
Tyee Sovoricas Associaton
Frank Colley
Colley
Ipneapolis
Columnsville
Toledy
Meyer
Kansas City
Way
Milwaukee
Louisville
Exhibition baseball rounds up nine games across cities
In Owensboro and Portsmouth Pirates and Sox wrap a nine game exhibition series started last month on the Pacific coast. Cincinnati Reds open a four game set in Detroit with Derringer and Thompson. Buck Newsom shines for St Louis in final exhibition before home series with the Cardinals. Cronin shuffles pitchers and starts Jack Wilson against Newark’s IL champions.
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Owensboro, Burgh
Pirates
Sox
Pacific Coast
Pie Traynor
Bob Klineger
Portsmouth
Paul Derringer
Junior Thompson
Bill McKechnie
Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
Topeka
Kane
Fred Haney
St. Louis
Cardinals
Buck Newsom
Newsom
Chicago Cubs
Newark
N. J
Joe Cronin
Lefty Grove
Eldon Auker
Jim Bagby
Fred Ostermuecller
Boston
Jack Wilson
Spartans Basketball Letters Awarded at Meeting
Wessington Springs Spartans awarded basketball letters at a student association meeting Friday. Coach M B Wheeler announced letters for eight players including seniors Dean Schryer Hohnegren Reedy Flutie Jones and juniors Holmgren Wahl.
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Spartans
Wessington Springs
Wessington Springs Spartans
Student Association
M. B. Wheeler
Vandal
Dean Schryer
Ance Hohnegren
Charles Reedy
Douglas Flutie
Paul Jones
Lee Holmgren
Ervin Wahl
Harbingers of Spring at Elmcreef Featured in Oddities
A quirky report notes a local phenomenon in Elmcreek with a boy Terrill earning a prize and a citizen finding a rabbit, a cellar probe uncovering a black and white lizard, and Mrs Poulson discovering two garter snakes in her linen closet.
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Elmcreek
Elmecreek
Mander
O.E. Poulson
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