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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1948
Page
11
In a May 5, 1948 baseball game the La Crosse teachers defeated Eau Claire 8 to 3. The contest featured solid hitting from La Crosse and a steady pitching effort that limited Eau Claire to a few runs.
Logan high school travels to Sparta for a quadrangular conference meet with Sparta Manston and two others. Ken Gilster is injured but Logan hopes strong distance depth and field events will carry the squad. Zip Zimmerman and Bob Ames provide sprint and hurdle power while Harbaugh and Gilster pace discus gains.
The Woman's International Bowling will end its annual tournament in six days. Few changes have occurred in the standings over the past week as top teams and individuals have largely appeared and no major shifts are expected.
Peerless manager Kelly Emberson schedules a Thursday evening practice at Copeland Park at 6. All team members are urged to attend the drill.
Central High beat Aquinas 12 to 4 at Country Club on Tuesday. Phil Smith led with a 77 defeating Kubiak 3-0 while R Anderegg shot 76 to beat Kraft. Arneson 83 over Sweeney 91 and Hutson 98 plus 24 points. Schoenenberger 103 edged Kelly 111. Central to face Winoana on Thursday at Maple Grove.
Green Bay signs Ken Roskie a 230-pound fullback from the University of South Carolina and Great Lakes. Roskie helped Great Lakes defeat Notre Dame in 1943 and played one season with Seattle in the Pacific Coast League while in service. He is the Packers tenth rookie signee.
La Crosse defeats Eau Claire 8 to 3 in a conference game behind McEldowney and Lukes pitching. Key hits include a two run homer by Dohr and a timely blast by Schumann as La Crosse builds early lead and holds on for win number three in five days.
Forty Tomah high school athletes earned letters for the past school year at a banquet attended by 297. Elroy Hirsch of the Chicago Rockets spoke on football and commented on a 1944 Marine Navy game film. Other honored include basketball letters for John Schedler and John Rose, boxing letters for Dwight Dickinson and Dick Hubert, with Rose named captain and Rose receiving the McKean free throw award.
A nine man goodwill Swedish team from Stockholm led by Sten Petterisson joined the 45th American Bowling Congress championships in Detroit. They compete for the Frank Pasdeloup all events trophy worth $900 rather than the half million prize. They aim to beat 9,181 as an average 204.1 per man to top Billy Sixty Knudten Paints of Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin State baseball league starts its sixth season with Sheboygan defending. Joe Hauser's Indians defend 1947 title and meet Wisconsin Rapids in the day’s feature. Openers send Green Bay to Janesville Fond Du Lac to Wausau and Oshkosh to Appleton.
United States libraries stocked about 100 million volumes in 1939, roughly half of all books in libraries nationwide. The figure reflects the scale of public libraries during the era and underscores the era’s literacy infrastructure.
Eunice Buswell was elected president of the Ladies' Merchants' league for 1948-49 bowling season at a recent meeting. Martin Morgan was named vice president with Marie Mueller as secretary. Marie Meyer was re nominated treasurer and Alma Palmquist named sergeant at arms.
The fifth annual Pla-Mar Grand Finale sweepstakes starts Friday at the local alley and runs seven days. Two events scratch and handicap singles offer first prizes of 150 dollars each. Roy Wasmuth heads the event with entries open to all. Bowling begins 1 20 p m on weekdays and 10 a m Sundays.
Oklahoma Aggies beat Wichita 11 to 10 in a high scoring day with Nebraska also tallying a win. Kansas defeated by Duke 6 to 1 while North Carolina fell to Duke 6 1. Dartmouth edged Harvard 9 to 6 and Illinois College topped Carthage 9 to 1. Oklahoma and Iowa State each posted wins. Arkansas also showed a win while Oklahoma City University registered a result. The report notes a grim daily figure of 16 deaths in the United States with a striking statistic of a death every other minute at Reuse Ques.
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