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Delavan and Lake Geneva to Battle for TitleBaer Back in Heavy PictureFloors Farr 3 Times to Gain Decision Before Crowd of 18,222.New York —(/P)— The clock has turned back to another day, and once more the two Maxes, Baer and Schmeling, stand athwart the path of a heavyweight champion.Max Baer, the golden boy, has fought his way back to the heights.It took 15 rounds of blistering action against Tommy Farr, the sturdy Welshman, to do it. In those 45 minutes the smiling Baer battered the iron-hearted Farr around the ring.He proved to the 18,222 fans, who booed him roundly when he entered the ring, that he had something left, enough to batter Farr to the canvas three times, a feat that Joe Louis found well nigh impossible.Baer didn’t come out unscatched. His lett eye w^as puffed up the size of a walnut, a trickle of blood ran from his mouth, and his ribs were sore and red.Deans Are in Their ComebacksSt. Petersburg, Fla.—(/P)—Manager Frankie Frisch wishes the Dean brothers would get their comebacks under way soon. With a fifth of the Cardinals’ training season already gone, here’s Dizzy with a severe cold that has taken 10 pounds off his frame, and Paul, hopeful that his arm is right again, not yet ready to bear down.Auto Workers in A. B.C. Team LeadChicago—The United Automobile Workers local No. 190 team from Detroit bowled into first place in the five-man event of the American Bowling Congress Friday with a score of 2,967. Members of the team are Pete Traverse, Ed Bentley. Frankie Acierno, John Rysh and Phil Przybyla.TIGER ROOKIE HURLERS LEARN FINER POINTSLakeland, Fla. — i/P) — Detroit’s rookie pitchers are getting high class teaching in how not to balk and how to field these days. Mickey Cochrane and his “brain trust,” Del Baker and Bing Miller, are schooling the boys about motioning toward first base and in breaking up double plays.Evansville Shatters Rock Valley League TraditionClash Tonight at WhitewaterNatural Rivals to Tangle for 2nd Straight Year for District Flag.of fo( i baWfGAMES TONIGHT 7 p. in.—Milton Union vs. Elk-horn for consolation.ft p. m.—Edgerton vs. Whitewater City High, for 3rd place.9 p. ni.—Delavan vs. Lake Geneva for championship.j no ! te« ; wi neRESULTS FRIDAY NIGHT Delavan, 21; Whitewater City High. 16. lake Geneva, 20; Edgerton, 17. Milton Union, 35; Burlington, 27.Traditions mean nothing to the classy basketeers of Evansville high school, coached by George O’Neil. There was a tradition that a Rock Valley league champion could not win a district tournament title. Bui no more, the O’Neilmen having sentit into the discard by defeating Stoughton Friday night, 25-22, in the deciding game of the Stoughton class B tourney. Pictured abov° is the Ev ansville team, victorious in 18 consecutive games this season. Front row, left to right* Ted Greenway, Co-Captain Ted Thompson, Co-Captain Bernie Golz, Robert Horne, Donald Rosen, Coach O’Neil. Back row: Or land Hubbard. Prentice Eager, Jack McKenna, Garry Fellows, Robert Graham, Bill Schuster and La Verne Helge-6 Teams Enter Class A MeetNeverman Expects Other Entries Before Deadline on March 15.Marinette—(/P)—Paul F. Neverman, secretary of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic association, announced today the entry of six teams for the state class A high school basketball tournament.Neverman said he expected three or four, and possibly more, would be filed before the March 15 deadline.Schools thus far entered are Eau Claire, Wauwatosa, South Milwaukee, Antigo, Shorewood and Wausau.WISCONSIN BOXERS TRIM TIILANE. 7-1; JIM WALSH WINSMadison—(fP)—The University of Wisconsin boxing team reasserted its bid for a mythical national championship Friday night with a 7-1 victory over Tulane university mittmen in the field house before a crowd of 9,000.The Badgers have not' lost a home program since the sport w’as started in 1935, and are undefeated at home and abroad this season. Another southern team, Louisiana State, bowed to the hard-punching Badgers at Baton Rouge earlier this week.Wisconsin put together two technical knockouts and five decisions, one on forfeit, in its crushing win over Tulane. Omar Crocker, 135-pounder, dropped Maurice Geldert of Tulane in 55 seconds of the first round. and Truman TnruotsnnHoltz Throws Kodrich H ereinKrause Defeats Bartu Semi - Vi indup; Another Show Next Week.With less than a minute remaining of the time limit, Pete Holtz, Chicago, won the deciding fall from Louis “Gorilla” Kodrich, Peshtigo, to take the windup bout ot the Armory wrestling card Friday night. “Tarzan” Krause, Milwaukee, accounted for Pete Bartu in straight falls to win the semi-final. Joe Bauer, Kansas City, and Pete Vukovich, Milwaukee, battled to a draw in the opener.The final bout produced 30 minutes of the best wrestling of the night. Holtz gained the first fall with an arm scissors and KodrichWhitewater—The two crackteams of the Southern State conference, Delavan and Lake Geneva, traditional rivals, will battle for the Whitewrater Class B basketball tournament championship in Hamilton gymnasium here tonight.Delavap won its right to fight for top honors by defeating White- i water City High, 21-16, Friday night, and Lake Geneva defeated j Edgerton, 20-17.Finalists Have Fine RecordThe title battle tonight should be one of the outstanding games of j the 1937-38 season in southern Wis- j consin, for it brings together the; two teams w hich finished first and j second in last year’s tournament, | and also in this year’s conference race.Although Delavan won first place in the conference this year,| the teams have very similar rec-j ords, having broken even when ! they tangled in conference play.{ Each team lost only two games j : during the entire season. Lakei ; Geneva dropped two conference games while Delavan lost one conference and one non-conference tilt.Delavan nosed out Lake Geneva, 19-17, in the deciding game of the tournament a year ago.Delavan Spurts to WinAs always a fourth quarter; team, Coach Webb Schultz’ Delavan high five checked in with their 16th straight district tournament win when they overcame Whitewater City High’s basketball team in a fast, well-played game Friday night, 21-16. Whitewater, ahead all the way until Jordan sank a hook shot early in the fourth period, played the best game of the season. Harold Reed, Delavan center, was held to three baskets by A1 Hoyum who, although handicapped by an ankle injury, rang up four baskets to tie with Jordan of the winners for scoring honors.'T'V.o, ---t. l a a ;__.Tl
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Janesville Daily Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Mar 12, 1938
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