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0si000000010Humphrey Gets Another Job.George Humphrey, elongated first baseman, who was a member of Frank Boyle's Ansons, until the return of Dameron, has been taken on by the Waterloo club to replace Miller,IWaterloo to Pla*' Sox.t1i45While Manager Bill Collins and the Bunnies are battling Fiilder Jones' St. Louis Browns on Monaav, May 28, Ned Egan's Waterloo club will be fighting the Chicago White Sox in an exhibition affair at Wraterloo. The date is an open one for both big league aggregations. St, Louis making a jump from the mound city to Chicago for a series withthe Sox starting Tuesday.a basketball forward; Captain-elect | Henry Bender, of the gymnastic team; Roy Jensen, wrestler; Frank Kriz, 1 1916-1917 gymnastic team captain; Carl F. Kuehnle, jr., gymnast; and four football men, L. L. Leighton, Floyd C. Duncan, Orle Triplett, and L. L. Tick-tin, have .also gone to Fort Spelling.Prize Fighters HereOn Way To Waterloo*IEGAN GETS YOUNG HURLER.i,i.fftl.-Ed Flaherty, a young pitcher from the Washington American league club, was released to Waterloo of the Central association yesterday by the Des Moines team of the Western league. Flaherty went on the spring training trip with the Senators this year and was reported to the Boosters to be in fine condition, but strained his arm the first week and has been unable to show anything since.Cedar Rapids was invaded this morning by an automobile load of Davenport and Rock Island prize fighters, enroute to Waterloo, where they will appear on a boxing program tonight. In the party were Buck Timothy, of Davenport, and Tony Capaneo, George Dand and Babe Maneo, of Rock Island. Frankie Whitney of this city joined the party here.Buck Timothy is slated to meet Bobby Burns, of Des Moines, as the main attraction, and Capaneo will meet Joe Kelly, also of Des Moines,IWAR MAKES INROADS ONGIVES PASS TO GAMEWITH BOTTLE OF POPUNIVERSITY ATHLETICSFootballIowa City. Iowa, May 18, prospects at Iowa university are impaired by the inroads of war. Fred Becker, an all-American tackle in 1916, according to some critics, has gone to Fort Snelling, and former captain. Charles E. Laun, the punting backfield star, is with him. Clifford R. Berrien,Minot, N. D., May 18.—Pop at Sunday baseball games may jump to 55 cents a bottle. But fans won’t mind, as they are to get a free ticket to the game with each bottle. It’s the latest way proposed to dodge the North Dakota law whichforbids charging admission to Sunday games.■iIi
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, May 18, 1917
Page 8
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