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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1949
Page
25
Indianapolis AP reports 11 of 33 starting positions awarded to newcomers after final qualifications for the Memorial Day 500 at Indianapolis. Duke Lonon, Rex Mays, Jack McGrath, and George Metzler figure among the notable names. A veteran racer was seriously injured in an accident on the southwest turn as cars battled for the final lineup.
Readers pick All-Star lineups for 1949 with managers selecting pitchers. June 10 to 29 polls print in sports section. Last year over 1,000 readers voted. Louis Ristow narrowly missed on two selections. Stars named include Quinn, Gordon, Kell, Boudreau, Williams, DiMaggio, Mullin, Rosar for American and Mize, Stanky, Pafko, Reese, Musial, Ashburn, Slaughter, Cooper for National.
Marion Motley signs for a fourth term with the Cleveland Browns, strengthening their 1949 All-America Football Conference championship hopes. Motley, Canton’s three time All-League fullback, is hailed as one of the game's best and a stellar defender. Also on the page, Steubenville midget auto racer Bill Boyd returns to Sportsman Park after a near fatal crash, Wooster freshman baseball captains Ramon Dodez and Tom McCutcheon, OU trackmen led by Ray Johnston eye MAC laurels, Canton and Massillon athletes in OU tennis and Miami University football plans, Minerva boards lights for high school football, Jaycees praise Fred Jacobs, and Canton’s Harold Cline named honorary freshman track captain at Butler.
Xavier University Muske teers defeated Ohio University 3-1 in the home season finale. Don Ruberg earned his third straight win, scattering six hits, fanning four, and issuing one walk. Ohio crossed the plate in the second on two singles and an error before Xavier answered with three runs in the sixth on four singles and a walk.
In Columbus the Women’s International Bowling Congress winds down a 41 day event with prizes for low scores. Emma Phaler notes low money cuts to 440 in singles and 887 in doubles while nine games must beat 178 on average to cash. Columbus attendance breaks 1946 Kansas City record. 2600 teams entered setting new marks. Leaders include Enterprise Detroit for team, Svoboda Elyasevich Chicago for doubles, Mataya St Louis for singles, and Winandy Chicago for all events. Buttermore Youngstown posted best singles 580. Grafton Fridley Lima led doubles with 1034.
Frankie Parker of Los Angeles defeated Budge Patty of Los Angeles in four sets 6-3 1-6 6-1 6-4 to win the French international tennis tournament. Margaret Osborne Du Pont of Bellvue, Delaware won the women's title by beating Nelly Landry Adamson of France 7-5 6-2.
Sydney police say they uncovered the largest racehorse doping ring in Australian turf history. The scheme doped horses to win more than 800000 dollars across New South Wales Queensland and Victoria over the past two years.
Michigan State dominated the 73rd IC4A outdoor track championships led by Horace Smith and Fred Johnson, the Spartans sweeping the association titles. Smith won both hurdles events and Johnson defended the broad jump as MSU racked up 44 points, with Yale second and NYU, Seton Hall, Cornell, Penn State, Harvard, and Syracuse trailing. Andy Stanfield of Seton Hall and Horace Ashenfelter of Penn State posted other top wins, and four meet records were set including Smith’s sprint double and a high jump tie between Dick Phillips and Irving Mondschein.
Mike Ryba, 45, former Scranton Red Sox manager, replaces Fred Walters as Louisville Colonels boss in the American Association. Walters shifts to a Boston organization scout. Ryba guided Scranton to pennants in 1947 and 1948. this year Scranton sits fifth with 13 wins and 14 losses.
Michigan Normal scored 161 points to win the Baldwin Wallace relays in Berea Ohio, nearly doubling Baldwin Wallace 89 2 5 and leaving Bowling Green third at 46 2 5. The Hurons won 13 of 18 events, led early with six straight event wins, and set marks in discus by Gale Smith for Baldwin Wallace.
Detroit race track steward George Odom resigned to train for Mrs Elizabeth Graham of New York better known as Elizabeth Arden The Michigan Racing Association has not named a successor and he will report for duty Tuesday in New York.
The University of Wisconsin varsity rowing team led from start to finish to beat Navy by nearly three lengths over the two mile Lake Mendota course. The Badgers posted a time of 9 32.4 to secure their season opener victory.
Ohio high school track results feature Cleveland Central and Columbus Central leading Class A. Notable performances include Dale Kaiser of Ashtabula with a 156 ft 8 in shot put, and Earl Putman of Cincinnati Hughes in the shot. All-state-like showings from Mansfield, Toledo Scott, and Cleveland East Tech accompany numerous event wins and relay triumphs.
UCLA assistant track coach Pat Turner set the school broad jump record with a 25 foot 6.5 inch leap in 1940, highlighting his notable contribution to UCLA track history.
Cardinal president Fred M. Saigh announced that George Kurowski will serve as a scout and assist in minor league work while on the disabled list. His first duty will be the Dyersburg tryout camp on June 24, and he is expected to be sidelined until July 16 as Dr. Robert Hyland treats an elbow ailment that failed to respond to last year’s bone chips operation.
Michigan State's track team captured the IC4A indoor title with three firsts, three seconds, and five other placing finishes, earning the team victory overall in 1949.
Michigan captured the 1949 Western Conference golf championship at Ann Arbor with a 1,499 team total on a 6,660 yard course. Ed Schalon and Purdue’s Fred Wampler tied for medalist honors at 297 strokes. Ohio State was second at 1,557, followed by Purdue 1,562 and Iowa 1,565.
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