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New Director and Coach to BeAt Helm of Athletics SeptPlayed on Varsity Teams at University of Michigan and University of Maryland;With Cleveland Indian* TKfa* YmmRobert T. Knolt;R\ former member of the C1* vo!him1 American League baseball club, will succeed Wilbur iSeantlcburv as direetor of athletics in the Findlay schools next September, it was announced last night by I. V Mattoxnn. superintendent.Knode is a graduate of the Fniversity of Michigan and the Fniversify of Maryland. In addition in coaching the school athletic teams lie will serve as director of physical ration in all th»» schools of the eitv.IHuamHotonmInffohighcdu-ThcdlatThthfstrStart Practice Sept. 1Itie new alhletic director plans to move his family to Findlay from I'lcveland next week, tie has a wife and two children. Football practice, he said, would start Sept. 1.ViGSuperintendent Matreson tnrl i -cated, however, that Knode would;have an assistant jn basketball !who wnuld go ahead grooming the.material In ^ the .fall before the1 gridiron .season is rinsed, Jt j* the plan to encourage track and field •sports next spring in addition to ba.se ball.Knode was selected out of a field of a score of candidate*, thernpnrintendent r»afd. He has beenhighly recommended by Fielding JI. Ywt, director of athletics a’ thr University of Michigan, and Tad Wiemans, head football mentor of the Wolverines.Going to ( caching School.The new coach will attend the Aomnier coaching school conducted! this year by Yost, and hie staff at { -Ann Arbor. He Intends to special-J ir.e in football, basket ball, track* and physical -education work.Knode began bis college athletic1 rareer at the University of Mary-j land. In hla senior year, 1920, he, ■wa* honored with the captaincy of the football, baseball and basketball squads. He was a quarterback;on the grid eleven. ;After receiving hie degree therehe entered Michigan aa a sophomore and graduated in 1923. He won his football letter in 1922 and 1923, playing quarterback and halfback on the varsity. Ho held down the first sack on the baseball club.Knode on graduation took up professional baseball and during the eeaeoit of 1923, 1925 and 1926PitticismsBILL PITTTThe office slenog got a tough break today. She didn’t mind los-R]—I*heigoutpltcfling her vanity case, but there waS'^orYa bathing guff in ft.The suit was a gift from a friend, it came by postcard.girlThe post office departmenthflts T\andsixtlfive in tlStepPiappiloagRue 1924 menIihomPhlc Rrolt;n.Van Bthought It was an extra stamp andsent a refund of three cents.* » *When our stenog tried it on she had to borrow a microscope to see dric if it fit. it was .next/to nothing—two ways.• • •Her old man found it on his birthday and got sore. He thought someone had sent him a daintyhandkerchief.• * ♦fine dav the sienog forgot sheBiVhad it on and stepped into a shower bath. When it shrank, the trunksidb bcmauu mi xvoo* ***» i nearlv strangled herhe win utility first baaoinan for,nearly strangledHowever, she finally got it off by and hung it across lit Cigarette seriA 4 H Mthe Cleveland Indians, serving as understudy to George Burns.In 1924 Cleveland sent him to Birmingham Of the Southern association and hie effective work there caused him to be recalled by the Indiana for 1925.SI III Cleveland Properly,Knode is still the property ofthe Cleveland club. He war, to have joined Mobile of the Southern association this apring but he didnot report. Climatic conditions pronvpted his decision to remain in the north.N — Bdiddowlo dry.Flying Cloud Lead*Indian MarathonersSCOTIA. Calif.. .Tune 17—UPi— Flying Cloud continued to lead runners in the 482 mile Indianamarathon race from San Francisco to Grants Pass, Ore., but he was being pressed today by Lutci,While with Birmingham he waaj® Indian who ran through-NevhoirTstarvictanseri1cwit)aixtrumPoffered an opportunity to join the!°uf the night. By remaining on football coaching statt at the Uni- *»* (luring thd cooler hours.;nvarsity of Alabama, but be elected lo enter the field that provided a physical education program alongwith coaching.Knode aaid he felt there weregreater possibilities in physicaleducation work than in just coacn-Lutci was able to run into second place today displacing Melikn who was reported 183 miles north of Sausalito by timers who checked the field this morning.Of the original 27 starters, eighteen remained in the race todayiv.rell.GriiSeIeducation jori lo“ J »thlot- most surprising casualty was Ing a particular branch oX athlc ^ Mad RulJ winner of thetea*' * t** Kntr.tr 1927 event who was forced toHe expressed himself a* ^c'n*!qutt a„ neared Coolldge Park.enthusiastic over his new work ''liere. and ha fait that he was very fortunate In getting lined up with Findlay schools.Speaking of the new athletic190 mile* north of Sausalito.At Eostoriaplant now in the making al Find!,,rear of tits Donnell Junior hign. RalJArt1fe}n^ islt;* josschool, Knode said— . nr*u*r n»* i*»244It's a finer plant than Maryland j Moorehcad ........ 211 187bad when 1 entered there.” JR. J. Neuman 16J, - ------------ ij. Neuman ........ 14.'* i«2mi ____ C___1 —!S7— 519 1*2— 473 248— 824 1 70— 519 188— 523C. 1 AI; diarI do 11! in tto ffirs the eigt sixfror seer
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Findlay Morning Republican
Findlay, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 18, 1928
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