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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1912
Page
1
A summer baseball dispute within the Big Eight Conference draws attention as a proposed rule change faces pushback. The article notes a two thirds retention concept and cites an Iowa figure involved in the discussion.
Chicago dated report covers Western Conference eligibility debates and the White resolution amid university comments. It notes post graduate eligibility, a pending committee report, and various local sports mentions including high school basketball and upcoming college baseball dates for Iowa Chicago Minnesota and Champaign venues.
AEC AL reports the first evening of matches saw the east side win volleyball 39 to 34 while the west side won basketball 25 to 13. The series continues in two weeks with volleyball and basketball again. losers will host a banquet. The gym class lists about 60 men from banks along the river, with names across Watering east and various others.
A promising recruit on McGraws staff for this season is Burns from the Utica club. Burns is heralded as a clever fielder and bats a hitter and hopes to make the regular team.
Dubuque plans a strengthened line as center Whittle and right guard Cotter join left guard Shiery for a game in the city next Friday evening on the floor.
Catcher Schalk now with Milwaukee led the Illinois Missouri league last season with a .898 average in forty seven games. Hirdle Cree of the Yankees tops left fielders in the American League with a .348 average and .946 fielding. Arram will stay in California and pitch for Sacramento due to ill health. Doolan of the Quakers upgrades to a major role after his spending spree last season. Inter league spring matchups include Athletics versus Quakers in Philadelphia and Giants versus Senators in Washington. Detroit’s new ballpark will seat thirty thousand while Cleveland fans note a 27 thousand gap in capacity versus expected turnout. Sullivan signs to play in St Louis January twenty nine. The eight most worked starters are Walsh, Alexander, Harmon, Coombs, Johnson, Rucker, Moore, Matthewson. Grantland credits Ed Walsh as the greatest pitcher ever.
In the New York Evening Mail a chorus of chatter swirls around Matty and Johnson as rivals, managers, and fans debate who leads the league. Notes include Wrightson and Kling on gear, Irwin on worker load, Weuhling’s bursts, Walsh’s peak, and a cured bedwetting remedy anecdote from Lovington.
St Paul’s Mike Gibbons and New York’s Jack Denning may meet again after a first bout that showed mutual sizing up and a less aggressive pace. Managers seek a return engagement as both prove clever exponents of the bit and sway style of milling.
Al Tearney of the Three I league is to be stakeholder in the Jack Johnson Jim Flynn fight with a 40000 purse posted by promoters and principals. Location remains undecided with Salt Lake Jarbridge and Windward among candidates as Curley negotiates with backers. Flynn trains in Louisville and Toronto, while Santry emerges as possible referee in the title bout.
West High defeated Dubuque last evening by 41 to 47. Star scorers Whittle with seven points and Weller with five led the effort. Waterloo's lineup included Right forward Weller and left forward Rice in the game.
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional disease. It asserts internal use to reach blood and mucus membranes, building constitution and offering a $100 reward for proof of cure. The notice lists Cheney & Co of Toledo as makers and claims nationwide druggists carry the product.
Johnson delays trip to New York for two weeks to appear in Chicago theatres. Authorities bar him from sparring, though several venues have secured his services, leaving the nature of his act unclear.
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is presented as a reliable family medicine for children and adults to prevent and cure coughs colds croup bronchitis and pneumonia. The ad lists H W Taggart and Chas Denby as distributors and promotes safety deposit vault storage with Waterloo Savings Bank in Dubuque Iowa.
A brief Christian Register comment warns that innocent amusements can be misread as sinful, noting that natural impulses may be misinterpreted as temptations to wrong behavior. It frames the issue as a moral concern about perception rather than actual wrongdoing.
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