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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1911
Page
1
Chicago reports billiard star Calvin Demarest will tour Paris for three months with exhibitions mainly at the Olympic venue. He recently completed arrangements but has not fulfilled them, and may meet Willie Honpe who sails for Paris next month.
The Waterloo club’s court win keeps Springfield in the Three-I league as Dick Smith returns to manage the team. Manager Boyle trains the squad with many returning stars and several new signings including Collins Long Clemons Belter Fremer Wilkes and several pitchers. Pepper Stis joins Peoria as a second baseman and shows strong Connecticut league batting.
Judge Gridley rules Waterloo remains a member of the Three League after ouster at a meeting deemed unconstitutional. Injunction stands. Central association may face costs if further Waterloo gains occur. Also notes a church chicken pie supper at First Congregational on Wednesday February 8 at 5:20 p.m. 35 cents.
West High's basketball team suffered two close losses to Clinton and Davenport, 33–27 and 26–20, on back to back nights on foreign floors. Home-floor advantage and conditioning were blamed for the setbacks, with two more state contests upcoming against Sioux City and Cedar Rapids. Football plans were outlined for next fall, including five signed games and possible dates with Mason City and Dubuque, plus the annual East West clash on March 24 or 34. Chicken pie supper at First Congregational on Feb 38.
Grover C. Beiter Waterloo baseball team player and city engineer winter worker was summoned to Carroll by the death of his father Nicholas Beiter who died suddenly Saturday night. Nicholas, born in 1847 in Prussia, came to Carroll in 1874 and conducted a meat market. He served on the city council and school board and was active in Masonry. He and his wife, who died in 1887, left five children.
Kansas City Journal reports little chance of a Hackenschmidt versus Gotch world title bout this year. Four top wrestlers lead the scene including Hack, Gotch, Mahmout and Zbyszko, with slim prospects of matching within that elite group. Curley says no deal is struck and expects no bout, while Hackenschmidt would wrestle Gotch but blocks meetings with certain opponents for personal reasons.
Des Moines Iowa February 6 This is a busy week for Frank Gotch a wrestler and newly married man. To pick up pin money for his honeymoon tour Gotch will meet four men this week with his first appearance at Sioux City where he ...
Wednesday night he will beat Kansas City in the revised match against Americus. Saturday night he will appear in Omaha in a match with Bob Mogonoff.
Dubuque captain Forrest Plass argues the Three I dispute hinges on Waterloo winning an injunction securing a franchise vote. He accuses Tearney and the Kinsella faction of highhanded methods to oust Waterloo and predicts the northern clubs will keep Waterloo in the circuit with Dubuque leading the 1911 race.
Des Moines Register reports a baseball dispute involving Waterloo areas test faith among fans who recently followed Billy Sunday. The clash centers on religious sentiment and community reactions amid a heated regional game.
In Columbus Ohio on February 6 prize winners in corn, grain and seed contests were announced. Stephen Henry of Melrose Iowa and Jerry Moore of Winona South Carolina, both 15, won Agriculture Department awards for best production per acre of corn. Each received an automobile and a ribbon respectively from the exposition of possible production on one acre. World competition winners include oats by Fred Mc.
Timothy seed and clever seed figures tied to Belle Plaine and South Amana leaders H. W. Burgy Fred McCulloch and the McCulloch family. The brief item lists these names as parties in an agricultural trade note from Iowa and Illinois connections.
In Eldora Iowa February 6 the jury found Walter L Weaver not guilty on charges of forging notes mortgages and abstracts. Weaver son of Iowa Supreme Court justice S M Weaver departed for his Iowa Falls home after a all night deliberation. He showed no nervousness during the trial and was later found living in Iowa Falls with his family after the alleged forgery was attempted and he left town.
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