Sumner volunteers complete Cub Baseball Park with lights
The Sumner baseball club finished a new ball park and lighting project in a town of 1900, featuring a 180000 watt system, bleachers for 1100 plus, dugouts, and a concession. Volunteers provided most labor, cutting 60 white oaks and hauling logs to build the structure and seating. The project cost about 8500 dollars, with plans laid in February and construction underway for two months.
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Sumner Baseball Club
Compiette
Jake Frisch
Mew Park
J. T. Bump
East Woods
Bump
Schuldt Bros
Cub Park
Sumner
Ball Park
Midwest
Wescott and
Winks Hatchery
Council grants land for baseball diamond
The Sumner town council on Tuesday granted use of pasture ground south of town to the local baseball club and other athletic groups. A volunteer-built lighting system and field improvements followed, with a plan to form the Sumner Athletic Field Association to supervise the park. The project involved community volunteers, donations of labor and equipment, and gridiron-style preparation for Cedar Valley league eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. 5. Shales
G. J. Loxton
W. E. Pitka
the Park
H. S. Shales
Cedar Valley League
Sumner Athletic Field Association
A. F. Miller
William Meyer
G. L. Winks
W. R. Heiserman
A. E. Zicrath
F. Busching
Jim McMeans recalls lifelong changes in baseball
Local sports figure Jim McMeans, long a familiar Stetson at events, reflects on baseball’s evolution since his first interest in 1873 at a Sumner Independence Day game. He lists early local players Hein, Fred, Mayle Woods, Jim Love, Harry Sodin and Fred Fink, and at 86 still cherishes Sundays watching the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim McMeans
Jim Lakes
Sumner
Jim
Hein
Fred
Mayle’ Woods
Jim Love
Harry Sodin
Fred Fink
Jimmy
Pirate
Three Sumner natives reach major league baseball ranks
Leslie W. Tietje and Floyd Olds from Sumner pursued pro baseball, with Tietje debuting for the Chicago White Sox after earlier stints with the Dallas Steers and Waterloo Hawks. Olds moved from Waterloo to Detroit, part of a Browns farm system trade, while Claude Wilharm earned a Dubuque tryout. The piece notes Sumner’s early ball days and local field sites.
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Leslie W. Tietje
Sumner
Waterloo Hawks
Leslie Tietje
Waterloo
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
New York
Dallas Steers
Yanks
Les
Babe” Ruth
Gehrig
Pasadena
Calif
Floyd Olds
Sumner Boy
Detroit Tigers
Waterloo Club
Olds
Detroit
Cletus Dixon
Walter McCreadie
Tigers
Cubs Baseball Team Organized At Local Meeting
A school baseball nine was organized at J A Smith store with John Hurwitz as chairman and Leslie Schuknecht as secretary. Officers named are Schuknecht president Hurwitz treasurer Dewey Latimer manager Kenneth Carroll captain. A fundraising entertainment is set for May 16 at the Gass Opera House to establish finances. Players pledged positions and agreed to play the 1912 season with moral conduct rules and fines for violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Smith
John Hurwitz
Leslie Schuknecht
Leshie, Schuknecht
Dewey Latimer
Kenneth Carroll
Gass Opera House
Cubs
Peter Theisinger
Max Spreedow
Leo Wells
Howard Latimer
K. Carroll
Lyle Winks
Edwin Wilharm
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Cub Baseball Park
Bell
Little Wapsie
Iowa
Fague
Oak St
Walnut Street
Saint Paul
Tietje
Sox
Dubuque
Claude Wilharm
Dubuque Times Journal
Johnny Armstrong
Ironmen
Sumner Lad
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Cub
Messerer’s Field
Ernie Dedor
Sumner, Jowa
Lution
Chicago Great Western
Sumner Gazette
Harold Frisch
Mer
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