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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1942
Page
17
Hunting season ends as winter nears and farmers may leave unhusked corn shocks on field edges near brush to aid birds and rabbits. Dealers value shocks at 25 to 60 cents, with birds preferring small kernels. Farmers may accept reimbursement, aided by birds as insect control.
McKinley High faces Alliance in county Class A playoff opener on the McKinley court. Coach Bupp Rearick’s Bulldogs seek form and a fourth straight win, while Alliance’s tall lineup tests McKinley’s inside game with guards Coleman Garver and Haverstock providing a Bulldogs edge in rebounding and defense. The undercard features Lehman hosting Wooster with reserve action at 7:30 as part of the same rivalry night.
Western conference race previews a tumultuous start as Wisconsin defends its title against Illinois in Champaign and Northwestern meets Indiana. Minnesota leads with perfect nonconference play while Indiana Purdue Illinois enter unbeaten in league play and Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, and Chicago aim for a strong start.
Arkansas based bow maker Ben Pearson turns a Scout hobby into a global business. The Pine Bluff craftsman supplies lemonwood and yew bows and Osage orange arrows to four continents, using 56 steps for each high grade tournament arrow. Pearson's operation emphasizes materials from Cuba Oregon and Coos Bay with turkey wing feathers and tough hardwood footing.
The Associated Press reports Cornell University will open a ski center this winter eight miles from Ithaca. The campus has acquired 30 acres of hill property and allocated funds to clear slopes install a ski tow, a ski jump and a shelter house for enthusiasts.
J T Maris of Porterville in Morgan County declared himself the county’s mightiest hunter at 80. His season tally reached 59 rabbits 14 pheasants and 13 squirrels. I can wear out any young man in a tramp across the hills.
Frankie Frisch, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will leave Mercy hospital on Sunday after a foot operation over two weeks ago. He will return to his New Rochelle, New York home.
New York Ace Adams of the Giants pitched in his first major league game ever seen as he won the 1941 season opener between the Polo Grounds Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
International News Service reports five large indoor arenas will serve the Ninth Corps area this winter. Two completed structures at Camp Roberts and Camp Luis Obispo add basketball, boxing, wrestling, volleyball, tennis and badminton plus stage shows. Three more arenas at Fort Ord Camp Cooke and Fort Lewis are under construction for January completion, costing 235000 total. Each arena includes dressing rooms, showers, lavatories, storage, post exchange and three basketball courts with interchangeable layouts for multiple games.
Frankie Talaber, 29, former world light heavyweight wrestling champion in 1936 and 1937, has been added to the guard staff at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus. He is married with a five year old son and will continue wrestling only if it does not interfere with his penitentiary duties.
The narrative records two bears weighing 534 pounds and 238 pounds. An arrow that killed the larger bear was fired from roughly 40 yards, pierced the animal through three ribs, traveled about 20 feet, and lodged in a fir tree.
St John Crusaders chase a fifth win in six games against Youngstown Ursuline on the K of C court. Ursuline, led by Joe McCullion and Wallace Banks, beat Benedictine 40-30, Bessemer 21-15, and alumni 32-29. Halpin preserves a steady lineup with Dehnke Palumbo Drotovich Nelson Tillitski and Abdulla backing a fast break and passing attack.
Carlisle Pennsylvania. Coach Arthur D. Kahler of Dickinson College survived a rough season record of two wins five losses and one tie but returned home to find thieves had backed a truck to a window and stolen silverware valued at 700 a shotgun an automatic pistol ammunition several suits shirts and nearly 50 in silver from a bank before escaping.
Salem Oregon Willamette University has won the Pacific Northwest conference basketball title nine times in the last 15 years and posted a 16 loss in 52 conference games over the past five seasons.
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