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26 TEAMS WILL BATTLE FOR $5,000 IN BLUFFS JOURNEYSouthwest Iowa'Baseball Tournament in lt;Co. Bluffs Starting August 24 Will Feature ‘ Famous {Teams of Middle WestThe greatest array of fast semi-pro baseball clubs ever to participate in any Southwestern Iowa tournament throughout the 14 years of its existence, will make up the 1934 tourney which starts in Council Bluffs, Friday, Aug. 24. Twenty-six teams will compete, 10 of them j in Class A. I| The teams will fight It out fori $5,000 in cash prizes. IThe famous “whiskers” House of I David are officially entered, and the I powerful Oklahoma Indians who | played here two years ago, are al- { most certain to be. The whirlwind Canadian Clowns of Winnipeg, Canada, whose comedy stunts befoi-e games and in between innings have made them popular, sent in their «n-, try early this week. They play real baseball, as many teams have found • out. 1Two “hot” coloi'ed teams, the Monroe Louisiana Monarchs, and the Memphis Tennessee Red Sox, will be ^ hard to stop. Rex Stacker's flashy Sioux Falls Canaries are again en- j tered, and Kansas City is sending, that crack semi-pro outfit, the Terminal Taxis.The Pragcr Beers of Dos Moines are coming, having won the eham-1 pionship of the state-wide Iowa semi-pro tourney at Des Moines. Dakota City's fast ball club wants in, and so does the Oakland, Neb., winners of 15 straight games, and still going: strong as this is written, The Coun-, cil Bluffs Chevrolets, last year’s champions, will build soon for the 11934 tournament. |j The Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the tournament this year, and sparing no effort to present a “star” doubleheader every day during.the 11 clays of the meet,There will be 10 Class B teams, mainly from representative southwest Iowa and eastern Nebraska towns.Doubleheader every day, starting Aug, 24, until the tournament ends on Labor day.Admission this year will be forty cents, with season tickets good for the entire tournament, selling for $2.50,
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Glenwood Opinion Tribune
Glenwood, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1934
Page 5
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Michael W.
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