New York Teams Struggle to Improve in a Tight pennant Race
New Yorks Giants and Yankees sit 3.5 games back as the season nears its halfway point. Miller Huggins faces fan blame while John McGraw reshapes the Giants with trades to bolster the infield and pitching. Cleveland and Pittsburgh lead the leagues as both clubs play solid baseball despite injuries and rough patches.
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Youthful Golfers Start Tourney Play in Western Events
Chicago July 11 Youthful golfers led the first qualifying round of the 22nd Western Golf Association championship at Westmoreland Country Club over 6504 yards of fast heat dried links. Only Chick Evans remained a notable veteran as 200 roughs and warped greens tested players. After 18 holes, the field halted before darkness. tomorrow resumes 36-hole qualifying, with 32 advancing to 18-hole match play Wednesday morning.
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Rockford
Oelwein Beats Jesup 6 to 0 In Baseball Showing
Oelwein shut out Jesup 6 to 0 on the Jesup Diamond. Wolgamot led with three baggers and Page hit a double for Jesup. Oelwein totaled 12 hits including nine singles and two threes, while Jesup had five singles and one double. Learn and Weitzgamot replaced Rook and Wagner as Oelwein pitchers. Umpire attendance listed.
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Oelwein
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Page
Learn
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Last Giants infield joins baseball retirement wave
The piece laments the final departure of the Giants famed infield, noting all four core regulars from the early season era have left major league baseball. It references Doyle, Fletcher, Vergoe, and others as cornerstone players whose retirement marks the end of a celebrated quartet.
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A Comic Strip in Type Ends with Hyena Laugh Memoir
Fragmented tale recounts Claude the hyena who grows sad until a motorcycle ride reveals a fat girl on the back seat. The punch line yields laughter for Claude and all hyenas. Copyright 1981 Associated Editors.
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Associated Editors
Cornell Football Faces New Coaching Lineup Next Fall
Parson Peterson of Waterloo and Buck Exsign of Burlington join Cornell football as Parson Peterson and Red Thompson of Renwick are among backfield aspirants. Gordon Morrison, Royal Plying corps flyer, joins as head coach with Sherman Finger guiding the veterans. Franklin O Neil and Alan Gowans lead a strong tackle and halfback pairing as Grinnell, Hamline, Carleton, and Coe schedule games.
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Faber Pitches Ada to Victory in 4-1 Win
Red Faber shone for Chicago White Sox, defeating the New York Yankees 4 to 1 to notch his seventeenth win of the season. Faber limited the Yankees to one run and prevented a cellar drop for the Sox, while Quinn struggled on the mound for New York.
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Standings and Results From Yesterday's Baseball Games
Yesterday's standings show American Association leaders like Columbus and Kansas City with strong scores. Western League results list Des Moines and Joplin winning, while St Louis and Philadelphia posted decisive wins in Saturday action across American and National Leagues.
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Grand Circuit opens week at Fort Miami track
SPORT FLASHES. The second week of racing in the Grand Circuit will be inaugurated as the mile track at Fort Miami Monday Detroit Mick. Baseball reports note John Collins of the Boston Americans was struck on the head by a Middleton throw and rendered unconscious briefly. In golf Jock Hutchinson arrived in New York from England with the British Open cup. Chess news records the formation of the United States Chess Association in Atlantic City for the eighth American chess congress. In rowing Peoria may host the 1922 regatta of the Central States Amateur Rowing Association. Western golf championship qualifiers in Chicago include 759 players. Put In Bay hosts the Inter-Lake Yachting Association regatta with wide Great Lakes representation.
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Village barber loses bet in Neleville wager
Neleville Wis July 11 local barber Flosd Jianson bet on Carpersvt to beat Dempsey and must share and trim the hair of Augrey of Haagen wieiever Augen d Ras until May 2 1906. He also loses a five Vand a ten-mile car ride for the next three months and bets a two-acre crop of airing beans on the champion.
Hole in One Marked by 123 Yard Tee Stroke
The Dunwoodie Country Club golfer Stephen Roberts holed out in one on a 123 yard tee at the tenth hole using a mashie. Roberts previously did the same on a 120 yard hole. In Huntington W W Maj T M Hays, Huntington Chamber of Commerce president, was elected to membership in the Hole In One Club of America after holing out in a recent match at the Westmoreland rinks. The shot covered 150 yards and the club reportedly has fewer than a dozen members.
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Dunwoodie Country Club
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Huntington
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Huntington Chamber of Commerce
Robbers Blow Safe at Comiskey Park
Robbers blew the safe at Comiskey Park yesterday likely targeting gate receipts from the White Sox Yankees game. About $3,000 was taken from concessions while roughly $50,000 had already been sent to a bank. no papers linked to former White Sox players on trial for the 1919 World Series fix were in the safe, Charles Comiskey denied such reports.
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Associated Press
Chicago
White Sox
New York Yankees
Comiskey Park
Charles Comiskey
Waterloo Friars Lose To Dysart Nine 3 to 2
A pitching heavy game yesterday saw Dysart defeat Waterloo 3 to 2. Both Smith of Dysart and Jones of Waterloo fanned many batters with little hit support, Jones adding a long triple to his stat line.
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Burleigh Grimes Tops Pirates as Eight Straight Wins
United Press scoreboard notes Burleigh Grimes earned his eighth consecutive win by guiding Brooklyn to a 7 to 3 victory over the Pirates. The column also mentions Bigbee’s drought after two straight hits, Hillefer’s errant throw aiding a Giants run past the Cubs, Morton delivering a fifth inning single to back the Indians over the Athletics 1 to 0, Faber’s 17th win and Sox 4 to 1 over the Yanks, Ruth’s single, Yor’s two homers and a triple fueling Washington past the Browns 9 to 4, and rain delaying Detroit’s 4 to 1 game with the Red Sox.
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United Press
Burleigh Grimes
Brooklyn
Pirates
Bigbee
Guy Morton
Indians
Athletics
Cedar Falls Beats Waverly 5 to 2 in Local Game
Cedar Falls defeated Waverly 5 to 2 before a large Cedar Falls crowd. Worrell of Waterloo struck out eight for Cedar Falls while Knapp was chased by strong bats. Cedar Falls had eight hits to Waverly's three and committed one error to four by Waverly. Washburn to play Cedar Falls Sunday.
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Worrell
Waterloo
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Allenstein
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Davis Cup match dates announced for 193? season
The United States Lawn Tennis Association released the Davis Cup schedule. Great Britain, Australia meet in Pittsburgh on August 4, with the winner facing Denmark in Cleveland on August 11. Japan vs France semifinal charts in Chicago on August 12. The final rounds run in Newport on August 21 with Forest Hills hosting the challenge later in September.
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United States Lawn
Big horseshoe match draws near Cedar Falls stars
Nearly 300 horseshoe fans watched Cedar Falls champions Ed Short and Ed Strine win five of nine in the intercity series against La Porte City rivals Howard Van Fleet and C. C. Hahn at Cedar Valley fairgrounds. Short topped the individual tally with 118 rings, Hahn scored 91, Strine 69, and Van Fleet 67 as steady pitching decided the nine game set with future rematches planned on the La Porte City court.
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United States Dominates World Sports Honors Amid Record Wins
New York reports the United States solidifies supremacy in Davis Cup tennis and golf, with British and international competitors challenged on American soil. California’s rowing eight, the Hudson victory at Poughkeepsie, and Yale’s upcoming Harvard showdown are noted as proof of American strength and sportsmanship in rowing.
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Knepper Wins Iowa Golf Championship
Sioux City golfer R B Knepper captured the Iowa golf championship for the second straight time by defeating Des Moines Grand View club’s Robert McKee in the finals. The match, one of the state’s best ever, featured a neck and neck battle until Knepper pulled ahead late, with McKee leading early and the two tying at the 33rd hole.
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Missouri State Tennis Tournament Opens Today
The Missouri state tennis singles tournament opens today in Kansas City with 82 men and 32 women entered. Notably, last year’s champion Wallace Bates of Florida is absent, as the event draws interstate competitors in both men’s and women’s divisions. The first round of the women's singles is set for this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Wallace Bates
Florida
Dodgers Edge Cadillac Gang In Big River Park Showdown
At Cedar River park yesterday morning the Dodgers led by Bilky Sunday’s patronage defeated the Cadillac Morris nine by a large margin. Reported scores varied from 5 to 1 to rumors of 20 to 4 or higher as spectators described an epic, champagne-sprinkled clash.
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Waste in Industry in Uncle Harry Talks
Uncle Harry discusses American industry waste and its causes. He cites a 50 percent employer and 25 percent labor share of waste, urging engineers, business leaders, and lawmakers to adopt efficient methods and curb resource loss across the nation.
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Uncle Harry
Helen
United States
Federated American Engineering Societies
Married men and wives triumph in bachelor hunt game
At a picnic in Cedar River parks the St. Mary Foresters held a baseball game where married men plus wives defeated the bachelors 12 to 2. Bill Rei umpired as Hoifer and Harter formed the married men’s battery while Neremers and Lasche supported the singles. The event was the highlight of the Foresters’ outing at Chautauqua park yesterday afternoon.
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