McKinley Plays Lehman in Key City Contests
Canton's teams keep a grueling pace with an eight game week. McKinley hosts Lehman Tuesday night as the Bulldogs chase the city title, while Lincoln meets Malvern in a Red Cross benefit game. Timken faces Western Reserve Academy, with multiple road trips looming.
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Nelson captures Oakland Open title after long wait
Byron Nelson finally wins a California golf tournament, taking the Oakland Open at Sequoyah with a 274 par total. He leads from start to finish, carding three 69s after a 71 opening round, five strokes clear of John Dawson who finishes 279 as amateur. Nelson earns $1,000. Dawson receives a defense bond.
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Learn to Skate with Megan Taylor PD
Megan Taylor presents an eighth instructive installment on figure skating technique. The piece details timing with music, the three turns, edge work, and teamed movements as a couple advances through the sequence. The article concludes by previewing The Fourteen Step.
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Canton Fives Set To Clash In Youngstown Tourney
Canton scholastic teams led by McKinley Lehman Timken and Lincoln join Alliance Minerva Louisville and Canton Two in the northeastern Ohio sectional at Youngstown. Massillon and North Canton go to Kent with Akron area teams. 28 teams total contest March rounds for state finals.
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Cage Calendar GAMES TODAY list of local matches
Industrial BB at Belden Republic Met Lab vs Canton Drop Forge 7. Sterling Bakers vs Corrugated Box 8. Republic Stamping vs Republic South Division 9. Grade School Roosevelt Hartford. GAMES TUEBRSDAY City Class CC Belden Union Metal vs Fairmont Jrs at Ahepg Irs vs 11th Street Church of God Holy Trinity vs Douglas A C 3. Independent Yale Clothes vs Buhl club of Sharon Pa at Horace Mann school.
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Hoppe Meets Reiselt Today in Billiards Title Race
The world three cushion tournament in Chicago heads into its final stretch with Willie Hoppe Welker Cochran and Joe Chamaco tied for first after four games. Hoppe faces Otto Reiselt while Cochran faces Chamaco in later rounds as players vie for a 2500 prize.
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Spring Sports Meeting Set in Mansfield for OAC
A special managers' committee meeting of the Ohio Athletic Conference will convene next Sunday in Mansfield to discuss spring intercollegiate sports programs. Commissioner George Daniel said the session targets problems in the spring season and public school physical education.
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Franklin and Marshall names head grid coach
Lancaster Pa Richard Barker of Cedar Rapids Iowa succeeds Alan M Holman as head football coach at Franklin and Marshall College. Holman, formerly football and wrestling coach at Cornell and Mt Vernon Iowa, resigned last spring to coach wrestling at the Cedar Rapids YMCA. He has returned to Columbus to enter real estate business.
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Joe DiMaggio Named Player of the Year by New York Writers
New York base ball writers select Joe DiMaggio as the Player of the Year for the 1941 season. DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak and .406 rivalled by Ted Williams influence, with the award presented at a Feb 1 dinner. Special honors go to Mel Ott and Hank Greenberg for outstanding service and military example respectively. Proceeds benefit the Red Cross.
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Mulloy Reaches Miami Net Title Final
Gardnar Mulloy, University of Miami coach and seventh ranked amateur, advanced to the final of the Miami university invitation tennis tournament by defeating Pancho Segura of Ecuador in five sets. He will face Jack Kramer of Oakland, California, for the title.
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Tokle Wins Ski Trophy for Third Year in Row
Bear Mountain N Y Torger Tokle a 22 year old Norwegian ski jumper today held the Franklin D Roosevelt trophy for the third year in succession. The 165 pound champion marked the 34th victory in 37 ski jumping contests. In the feature event witnessed by 19 500 persons Tokle jumped 152 feet for his best effort. Tokle also won the Class A title with jumps of 161 and 166 feet.
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Ice fishing and beagle derby move through Canton area
Reports from Congress and Cable lakes show bluegills and crappies in decent catches with eight inches of ice on both lakes. Ed Willaman dominates Cable with 189 fish in seven days and beagle clubs set a spring derby in New Philadelphia April 15 to 19. Prof Shetler notes steady marksmanship gains among Diebold guards and a busy Sportsmen's range with high scores and a Canton Drop Forge victory in a 83-80 team trap match. The Neo-Naturalist exhibit at Canton Art Institute highlights the great horned owl, its lethal diet, nesting habits, and early January nesting.
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Houghton Seeks Enlistment In Navy Air Training Service
Massillon high school coach William Bud Houghton has applied for enlistment in the Navy Air Training Service. He reports for a physical exam at noon Wednesday at the YMCA after being reclassified by the Massillon draft board. Houghton led Massillon basketball to a 6 1 record and football to nine wins in 1940 41 while succeeding Paul Brown.
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Bud) Houghton
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Ohio State
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Ohio Champions Named in Akron Table Tennis
Ohio State open in Akron crowned champions in table tennis. Bill Holzrichter of Chicago won the men's singles and Leah Thall of Columbus the women's singles. Holzrichter paired with Bob Anderson for the men's doubles, while Thall and Gladys May of Toledo won the women's doubles. Don Feak of Toledo won the veterans title for players over 35.
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Chicago
Leah Thall
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Dartmouth Skier Wins On Intervales Hill At Lake Placid
William Distin, 19, of Dartmouth, led nearly 50 contestants to win the college ski jumping contest on the Intervales 40 meter hill near Lake Placid.
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Pros Pass Hats And Get $2,000 In Benefit Match
In Miami Beach the American Red Cross raised over $2,000 at a four ball golf match starring Craig Wood Frank Walsh Gene Sarazen and Tommy Armour. After nine holes players passed hats gathering 1360 from spectators. Referee Al Jolson auctioned birdie balls at five to forty five dollars. Wood and Walsh defeated Sarazen and Armour five and four.
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Breezy Briefs Sports Roundup From 1928
EW YORK reports on tennis bosses pushing youth amid top pros and potential vacancies. Babe Ruth out of hospital but restricted, Ray Robinson unlikely to win Feb. 20 fight, Red Cochrane training delays. Frank Cuhel noted as 1928 Olympic 400m hurdles runner-up. Danforth predicts golf ball production cut will reduce slices.
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Atlanta Journal
Mt Union Wittenberg Clash Tops Ohio Conference State
Mt Union and Wittenberg clash in Alliance as both vie for the lead in Ohio Conference standings. Ohio State eyes another test after a late rally as the schedule tightens with 38 teams playing 33 games this week.
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Leahy says Notre Dame will continue program
Frank Leahy Notre Dame football coach said during a visit to relatives in New York that the university intends to carry on its athletic program without basic change unless ordered to do otherwise by the government.
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Parochial Tourney Out in Chicago Due to National Emergency
The national Catholic high school basketball tournament, held in Chicago since 1924, has been canceled. Rev Fr Edward F Maher, director, announced the cancellation today due to the national emergency.
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