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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1936
Page
5
Across the region Elyria High and peers posted wins as Toledo Scott crushed Woodward 62 to 0, Lakewood won 7 to 0, and Shaker Heights beat Bedford 14 to 7. Other results included Fremont 12 to 0, Oberlin 27 to 7, Shaw 13 to 6, and Sandusky extending a long win streak.
Timmy McLarnin, Vancouver Irishman, is a slight favorite to turn the tables on Tony Canzoneri in a return clash at Madison Square Garden tonight. Canzoneri edged McLarnin last May in a fierce bout, but bettors think Canzoneri has slipped since. Also notes Crosetti, Yankee shortstop, celebrated his 27th birthday with a 5-2 World Series win over the Giants. Crosetti leads series hits. Giants’ hopes fade with Carl Hubbell’s loss. East Clevelanders eyed Lake Erie League title after Heights field rout. Walt Sandrock started at right guard for Ashland College in a 27-0 win over Ohio Northern. Jimmy Black meets John Felix in Rialto Theatre semi-final boxing. Pep Justo to coach Toledo boxing as intercollegiate boxing begins this year.
A special Ohio Conference committee will meet in Columbus to determine the eligibility of Akron football players Al Abdalla Carl Lee and Stanley Junius. Protests allege withdrawal re enrollment and night class attendance as disqualifying factors. The panel includes George Daniel Baldwin Wallace president Dr Ira Wilson Heidelberg and Dr O L Dustheimer.
Frank Gabler of the Giants, nicknamed Gabe, kept spirits up in the locker room after a 18 to 4 defeat. He avoided tragedy personally and reminded teammates no one was killed, urging them to keep faith as Lou Gehrig and the Yankees dominated.
The report recalls an eventful series where Gabler notes a fast ball that nearly hit Terry’s knee, risking surgery. Gehrig’s two-bagger leads the Yankees against rivals, while Abler speculates on exploiting the Yankees’ weakness with wild pitches. Gabler reflects on minor league hardships and eventual big league success.
In New York McLarnin of Vancouver was a 7 5 favorite to beat Tony Canzoneri in their ten round return at Madison Square Garden.
The Cleveland based I. T. S. horseshoe team split its final season double at Cleveland. In the morning they defeated Woodhill Park 23 to 15 and in the afternoon lost 20 to 16 to Brookside Park, champions of the Greater Cleveland League.
Lorrin Thurston president of the Honolulu Advertiser predicts rapid expansion over the next two decades as land sales to visitors rise in the first half of this year. He notes a building boom, hotel expansions, a hotel shortage, and larger naval facilities at Pearl Harbor boosting Honolulu’s prosperity and growth.
Fire at the Don Enright farm home near Solomon Kansas was blamed on mice gnawing matches in a clothes closet. The blaze woke owner Don Enright who saved his home.
Samuel B. Sherman of Fulton claims the oldest farm implements in Michigan. His mower has run 55 years, a hand pump and a one horse hayrake are equally aged, and a six foot binder bought in 1888 by his father is used yearly in harvest.
Readable clues show a mixed up OCR puzzle with entries like that thing fields of snow and weapon. Many items appear garbled but indicate a themed crossword with French terms and broad wordplay.
A columnist contrasts Democratic and Republican platforms noting vagueness versus contradictions. It argues voters should focus on broad issues: balanced budget, social aid, and attitudes to federal vs state power, gold standard, and the candidates Roosevelt and London.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be invited to a winter gala at the National Training School for Girls in Washington. The renovation, funded by Congress with $100,000, will turn the former Washington building into a model vocational school with beauty parlors, a steam laundry, budgeting classes, a store for practice, and dorm improvements. A new heating plant, gym, and cottages are planned, with 40 girls paroled since March and only one in serious trouble.
London hosts a tea party for 262 Anglo-Indian guests where the Maharajah of Mysore displays his famed Mysore diamonds. The gems, as large as swallows eggs, sit on a fine cloth against his tunic. Prices are undetermined, potentially reaching a billion dollars, with additional jeweled pieces in his ears and a green-tinted turban ornament valued at $1 050.
Miami Public Safety Superintendent Andrew J. Kavanaugh offers a police officer to drive the car of any person who has been drinking and cannot safely drive, aiming to curb drunken driving.
Scientists Henry Spencer and H. G. Hansen were dispatched from Honolulu to Wake Island to control a rat infestation before opening Pan American Airways service to the Orient. They face a cycle of predators and scavengers, including rails and hermit crabs, complicating poison and trap strategies on Wake, Peale, and Wilkes islands.
Legal notice announces a 1936 Lorain County vote in Henrietta Township School District to approve a tax levy exceeding ten mills by up to two mills for four years. Polls open 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM Eastern Time on November 3 1936. Deputy Clerk S H Waite signs.
Indiana moves to establish a state merit system for selecting and maintaining personnel in social security divisions. Examinations will determine eligibility and ratings guide promotions and dismissals. New hires face six months probation with possible hearings after. Employees are barred from political activity beyond voting and expressing views.
Berkeley reports the University of California has received an SOS from Nkana in tropical Africa asking for latest scientific developments on killing mosquitoes with electrically charged light traps.
William Budge Baikie tells police that thieves removed eight of his houses in Rosemount, a Montreal suburb. He says the flats had been vacant for months and were demolished brick by brick, with no trace left as rails and crabs are mentioned in the odd report.
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