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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1923
Page
9
Spring outdoor activities planned by the department chaired by Mrs. W. W. Wyant will begin next week with 16 sessions in tennis, valley ball, and baseball. Indoor sessions will run until courts are ready at Cedar River park, then outdoor lessons.
Boxers show willingness to support Tex Rickard's May 12 milk fund charity in New York. Renault, Fulton, and Johnston agree to participate or delay bouts to aid the fund as promoters adjust lineups for Willard and Johnson.
The First Presbyterian Bears defeated the Riters in the Amateur Championship at Academy gym with a final score of 18 to 1y. Reymond, center for the Presbah team, led scoring with six baskets and a late-game basket sparked the rally.
Tulsa reports Pittsburgh club paid 36009 for George Bohlar, with Yates promising a Western league year. Jack Renault signed to meet Tommy Gibbons in St Paul on May 2. The winner to face Dempsey. Minnesota bans white versus negro boxing until rates change. Eddie Roush may quit Reds for outlaw baseball if Cincinnati won’t raise salary. Harry Frazee refuses Chicago syndicate bid for Red Sox, cites political concerns as Paris Games postponed to 1925.
In a comic strip Aleck the Barber mocks changing times while humorously proposing National Prune Week and advocating other themed weeks such as National Cheese Week and National Bean Week. He urges patriotic support for simple domestic virtues and mentions cabbage, garlic, and sauerkraut amid playful social satire.
A reader asks about ball interference on fairways and putting greens and whether a ball displaced by an opponent must be dropped. The answers note that differences from putting green are only in placement vs drop, clubs are unrestricted, and threeball matches are officially recognized with two or four player options. send questions to Innis Brown for publication.
Willie Park advises golfers to view the line to the hole from the ball rather than bending toward the hole. He explains that looking from the ball to the hole yields the correct direction, which is found by standing by the ball and peering along the ground the ball will travel.
Reports from training camps show the White Sox beat the Giants 10 to 5 in an eleventh inning rally. The Yankees won their third straight by defeating the Brooklyn Robins 9 to 4. Ruth contributed a solo homer as idle play ended early due to darkness in San Antonio.
Last night boxing results show Toledo’s Johnny Ertle defeating Johnny Andrews by 17 pounds in Columbus. In Columbus Waldo Patterson stops Johnny Walcott in Akron in the second round. Ch Delano defeats Johnny Hewitt in six rounds in Fort Hayes. Mansfeld draws Johnny Mansfield with Eaaie Fiennes Horvath in Pitts arsh over ten rounds. Milwaukee’s Joey Sanger defeats Jack Schoendorf and Pay Conley in six rounds. Jimmy Nuss KO’s Frank Grace in the second. Joe Lohman tied with Floyd Johnson in Grand Rapids in a ten round bout weighing 170 to 199.
The article recalls Harry Greb being defeated by Tex Rickard in a notable match and Greb later refused to defend the middleweight title, citing fatigue and a desire not to fight further. It mentions a midgame surge and lists scattered local property transactions and ads from Cedar Falls and Waterloo, Iowa.
East High announces a banquet on Thursday evening April 12 at Captain Tollefson’s home 226 Oneida Street to honor departing players and elect next season’s captain. Eighteen games are planned against northeastern Iowa teams with lettermen Artus Ipp Johnson Flolman and Captain Tollefson among returnees.
August Greiner, a deputy game warden, investigates hunting licenses in Blairsburg. He warns aliens with residency licenses pay $10 yearly. some have $1 licenses, risking fines or arrests for noncompliance. Local and out of state hunters must meet the proper alien license fee.
A quoted statement promotes state game laws to aliens and nonresidents, inviting them to participate for their own benefit and urging them to take advantage of the chance.
Sailor Freedman the Chicago lightweight will challenge Benny Leonard, world champion, in a 16 round title bout at the Polo Grounds in New York on July 2. Freedman says he signed articles and posted 9500 dollars to make 135 pounds eight hours before the bout with 12.5 percent of the gross gate receipts as his share.
Westfield Athletic club to field two amateur baseball teams this year with Frank Flinn elected manager. A meeting last night laid preliminary plans. another session is set for Tuesday to finalize details as A. B. G. Tourney unfolds. Milwaukee bowling tourney saw minor changes with Herbert Lange rising to fifth after nine games totaling 1,950.
Johnny Kilbane presses for a court ruling to lift his New York boxing suspension, accusing the commission of jurisdiction and due process failures while Kilbane refused a Dundee challenge and waits for action that could also affect Criqui May and Eugene Cha()u. Kilbane and Criqui May face delays as the commission weighs leniency toward other fighters.
Traer Iowa April 6 The Traer municipal electric power and steam heating plant reported an operating profit of 4668 for the year ending March 31 1923 Gross operating revenue reached 30718 with operating expense 26157 Interest on bonds totaled 33358 and the plant closed the year with 2686 cash on hand. Burton Avenue Baptist quintet defeated Cedar Heights 24 to 14 at Cedar Heights gym last night. The Waterloo
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