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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1929
Page
13
Eastern South Dakota high school play centers on Huron vs Aberdeen this weekend as both chase top conference honors. Vermilion, Sioux Falls, Yankton, Madison and Mitchell battle for position with several matchups shaping the title race.
Geddes atop the Southeastern school conference standings with two wins and no losses while Platte and Avon eye key matchups this weekend. Tyndall scales with 2 wins, Armour and Scotland face tough tests as nonconference play continues and Riatté meets Winner in a high scoring clash.
Chicago reports Kenesaw Landis mailed the players their shares after the 1929 World Series. Each Athletics player received 5620.57 and Cubs players 3782.10. Total receipts for five games were 718,629 with 71,367.96 to Landis. Seventy percent of players’ shares, 271,660.66, was split by both clubs.
The South Dakota college conference grid season begins with Huron hosting Sioux Falls while Spearfish and Aberdeen Normal pursue early dominance. Western tops the standings at 29 games above .000, Dakota Wesleyan and Yankton sit undefeated though unused this week, with Augustana, Southern, and Southern’s rivals remaining in close pursuit. Aberdeen, Dekote Wesleyan, and Eastern Wesleyan show varying early strength as the circuit braces for homecomings and pivotal clashes.
Canton climbs in the Little Southern high school conference by defeating Beresford but will not play this week. Beresford drops to a tie for third as Salem and Dell Rapids clash this week and Parker remains without a major threat. Standings list Canton atop at 9 11, with Flandreau and Beresford chasing as others lag in the race.
Aberdeen South Dakota October 24 Coach Bob Campbell aims to halt Spearfish Normals conference lead by shoring up the Northern Normal team offense. Several players are banged up but the Wolves hope for a driving back to open holes as they prep for a two game trip and a Saturday meeting with the Yellow Jackets in Rapid City next week.
Gus Sonnenberg defeats world champion Ed Lewis in Los Angeles, taking the first and third falls with a flying tackle. A second fall near disqualification occurred after Lewis used a head lock and his seconds intervened, prompting the referee to rule no fault.
Moraga Calif Oct 24 Forty nine freshmen candidates from the 1923 St Marys College football program show promise as next years first stringers. Twenty of the 59 yearlings stand six feet or taller and the squad could average 196 pounds. Twenty three were team captains in high school.
Smith Brothers from North Dakota University will play the Nodaka as the Jackrabbita on Hobo Day. Austin and Vernon Smith, tackles, have grown beards for months, adding to campus pageantry as part of the day’s festivities.
South Dakota football faces a tough week with several first teamers sidelined by injuries from the last two games. Captain Gidley and others like Crakes Adkins and Ebsen are uncertain for the Dakota Day clash with South Dakota State Jackrabbits. The Coyotes beat the Western Union 42 to 9 last Saturday, and coach W E Montgomery plans lineup adjustments based on scrimmage results.
A Carnegie Foundation report charges one in seven college athletes is subsidized edging toward professionalism. It lists Harvard Princeton and 88 schools with varying levels of aid, noting reforms at several institutions and especially Princeton abolishing the practice. Major Griffith of the Big Ten defends conference purity amid the findings.
Pierre October 4 Bates state highway commissioner will attend North Dakota state highway letting October 25 at the discretion of the North Dakota commission. He will also confer with that state's commissioners on matters of common interest to the two Dakotas.
University of Iowa star Oran Pape and Joan Fuhrman travel to Dubuque to defend themselves against charges of being professional athletes. They deny participating with the Dubuque Bears against the Dubuque Cardinals for the 1926 championship.
The Orange and Black second eleven meet Cavour tomorrow afternoon at 3 30 at the high school field in their second game of the season Their first tie came with Do Smet who beat them 6 0 The lineup and positions remain undecided but expected players include FE Boge J Peterson Long Buswell Gross Lytle Nelson R Dolse Sherlock Smith Johnson Tonte Hart Lundetal Kuglsang Renshaw.
Football remains a family sport at the University of Iowa with a Hawk Eye roster featuring multiple sets of brothers and relatives among players.
McKinley clinched the B league title with a 2 point win over Lincoln, finishing 4 wins 0 losses. Washington and Wilson remain on the schedule for the final game. In A league upsets, Jefferson beat McKinley 5-0 and Junior High crushed the leader 5-1, reshaping standings with Washington atop after three wins and one loss.
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