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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1951
Page
3
More than one hundred athletes are expected at Eldora for the first annual Iowan State Training School invitational track and field meet. Officials Ed Streeter and Dale DeVault ran lane assignments. events start at 1 p.m. with preliminaries including the 100 and 220 yard dashes and hurdles.
Aplington defeated Hubbard 2 0 in the Town high school district diamond final as Hubbard stranded runners in key moments. Arvene Doering pitched well for Hubbard with 17 strikeouts, while Aplington capitalized on a wild pitch and a long seventh inning double to claim the title.
The schedule lists upcoming games including Tontant Radcliffe at Story City Sunday, Des Moines Ramblers at Hub, Whitten at Albion, Eldora at Traer, Steamboat Rock vs New Providence at Eldora, and District Tourney first round pairings in Hubbard with Aplington, Rowan, Sheffield results. Monday and Tuesday results show Grundy Center 2 Eldora 1, Radcliffe 10 Ellsworth 1, New Providence 10 Owasa 0, Eldora 5 Teachers High 8, Steamboat 12 Wellsburg 9, Liscomb 10 Whitten 7.
Hidora will close their high school diamond season today when they travel to Tracy to face the Red Hawks in a North Iowa Cedar Loop matchup. Guests at Mrs. J. A. Landis’s home for Mother's Day included her son Russell and family from Cedar Rapids, along with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schwartz and relatives. Church services followed. Several plan fishing in Minnesota after a Wednesday departure. Elders and Rural Women Day attendees listed with local names.
Ed Streeter, athletic director at the Iowa state training school for boys, signs to coach and teach at Humeston High School next year. He will direct football and boys basketball and teach high school mathematics. He leaves June 1 to pursue a master’s in school administration at Drake University.
Eldora volunteers organize the 1951 softball program with a 7 30 p m Saturday meeting in the courthouse supervisors room. Eldora softball association officials and all team managers are urged to attend as a new scoreboard is to be installed at the local park funded by last year’s Kiwanis Rotary contest. Kiwanis representative Paul Hodgson Rotary’s Doyle Felton and association member Carl Cordes traveled to Ft Dodge to complete the purchase.
Grundy Center pitcher Gordon Lamb held Eldora to three hits as Marion Ruebel delivered a run with a seventh inning single to cap a 2-1 win in Cedar League play. Ives Allbee led Grundy Center with a first inning run, while Eldora’s Ted Tietz drove in their lone tally.
Liscomb defeated Whitten 10 to 7 in a rapid slugfest on Tuesday afternoon. Whitten rallied with four runs in the third inning, but Liscomb’s pitching by Schwarck and Vinton held firm as Liscomb built the lead with strong hitting.
Hubbard and Radcliffe lead the newly formed Mid-State league with two season openers. Radcliffe visits Story City for the opener while Hubbard hosts Buckeye. Whitten already beat State Center. Schedule features 24-game loop, six open dates, and a final round-robin tourney.
Montague Lodge A F and A M of Eldora conferred the Master Mason degree on Willard Martin of New Invidence Wednesday evening. Lunch was served after the ceremony.
Lost by Saturday 6 15 pm the green billfold contains identification cards a girl scout membership card and $3 in cash please return to Hale Jane Perkins Rincon ette New Providence OQ C Jensen Eldora or contact the office. Also notice of lawn mower theft and request for its return from Eva Crosley. Sky High Wallpaper prices ad copy by Russell W Holmes Steamboat Rock.
Gordon Daleske powered Steamboat Rock with two home runs and worked relief to seal a 12-0 win over Wellsburg. Daleske hit a first inning grand slam and a second homer in the following frame, while Don Finger pitched the fourth inning. Leland Johns added two hits in four trips, and Don Luiken drove in two runs.
Eldora Tigers rally with a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth to beat Teachers High 5-3 in extra innings. Orlan Mitchell pitched eight for Eldora allowing 13 hits as the Tigers moved to 5-3 after a 5-5 tie through seven frames.
Larry Dubberke drove in six runs for Radcliffe with a homer and two doubles as Ellsworth fell 10-1. He pitched five innings and allowed one unearned run while freshman Jerry Bergeson relieved to start the sixth.
Regular HI V M E T meeting elected officers: President David Wilson Vice President Roger Harrington Secretary Charles Crandall Treasurer Phil Bauer Chaplain George Fagg. Plans for a May 21 mothers banquet and a May 20 Tri Hi Y tea at Mrs C E Greef were announced with committees named and Mrs Carl Piper as guest speaker. Clarys visited Spirit Lake to open Mrs Bachman’s summer cottage.
New Proy Rambles battered Owasa 10-0 in a brief diamond game ended after 1 1/2 innings on Monday afternoon. Phil Rash Norman Harris and Louie Davis sparked the attack with Rash and Harris homering and Davis adding two doubles.
Five Eldora golfers won the nine hole blind bogie tourney at Pine Lake Country Club Tuesday afternoon. Winners were C. W. Red Cote John A. Wood Clark Bramwell Keith Strother and Glenn Kurtz. The event is part of the summer stag series. Next Tuesday features another nine hole blind bogie with a special contest on the number one hole starting at 4 p.m.
Plaintiffs counsel Bump and Walters announced their next witnesses Rev Gains Cook of Indianapolis secretary of the Disciples of Christ international convention and Rev WII Moore of Drake University Bible college. Local witnesses are expected later.
Eldora Odd Fellows and the volunteer fire department plan a joint supper at the IOOF hall after the lodge meets Monday evening, likely around nine o clock. The event aims to raise funds and strengthen community ties between the lodge and the fire department.
The Crosley farm store reports corn acres rapidly advancing by May 18 with Kingscrost Hybrid corn, Adams Certified Soy Beans in bulk at 4.85 per bag, and soy bean inoculant stocked at 16 to 10 cents per bushel. Garden offerings include 16 types of lower plants, 300+ bulk seeds, bulbs, onion sets, Bermuda plants, asparagus, straw berry plants, fertilizers, tools, weed killers, and pesticides. Also announced are three more Ace-Hi chicks and ready-start poultry, plus complete livestock feeds including pig meal grower mash and milk chow.
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