Babe Ruth Flings Homer At Florida Camp In St Petersburg
Babe Ruth abandons golf for a Yankee uniform and belts six long hits at Crescent Lake. He crows two homers that would clear many ballparks. Ruth also tries pitching but jokes about the homer racket. Other notes cover spring trains in Augusta, Avalon, and Tampa with various rosters and exhibition plans.
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Johnny Mostil
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Pittsburgh
Paso Robles
Australian fighter defeats French heavyweight champion
Paris reports George Cook, an Australian, defeated Moise Bouquillon in a ten round bout last night. Cook boxed effectively and Bouquillon landed only two solid blows in the contest.
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Paris
U.P
George Cook
Moise Bouquillon
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Prince of Wales 2nd in Lord Manners Cup race
At Bicester England Maren 1 The Prince of Wales finished second to Lt Col John Heywood-Lonsdale in a point to point meeting for the Lord Manners cup today.
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Bicester
Eng
Prince of Wales
John Heywood-Lonsdale
Stone cold at 6 Rube knocks em cold at 3
A garbled report mentions a 6 to 3 outcome and a player named Rube delivering a decisive win. The fragment references a game in New Orleans and notes about a coach or club, with many unreadable portions.
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Stone Cold
Rube
Intramural Tank Meet Slated for Tutors Thursday
Cedar Falls March 7 The annual intramural swimming meet at State Teachers College will be held tomorrow evening in the large pool at Tutor Field House. It is the third major event in the intramural program, following basketball and wrestling tournaments. The meet is expected to be the best yet with many star performers and a large number of swimmers and divers. The program includes a 40 and 60 yard back stroke, 40 yard freestyle, diving with six dives, 40 yard breast, 60 yard relay, 100 yard free style, 40 yard dash, 10 yard medley relay, and 220 yard free style.
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Teachers College
Jockey Min Ved Bratty Bloan Promotes Women Riders in Mexican Race
Ved Bratty Bloan, once wife of a famed showman, urges Tish Women to renounce plans to ride in the Coronado Town Plate at Myuana. The race is the sole Mexican event exclusively for women jockeys.
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Loren Murchison Resumes Southwest Visit for Health
Loren Murchison arrives in the Southwest with his wife to regain health after a cerebral spinal injury. The Olympic sprint star, famed as a king of speed, announced retirement and plans to visit friends while recuperating at a hospital in Deestur, Texas, after weeks of treatment.
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Saa Antonio
Tutor Wrestler Breaks Thumb in Sparring Match
Cedar Falls wrestler Mareh Fe-Lonis Orr from Preachers college wrestling team suffered a broken right thumb during sparring with Clyde Drury a noted middleweight. Orr did not realize the injury yesterday and will miss Olympic wrestling tryouts at Tune City this month.
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Cedar Falls
Mareh Fe-Lonis
Orr
Preachers College
Hyinb Mornechy
Boswig
Clyde Drury
Ahler
Tune City
Bud Taylor Defeats Fernandez on Coast in Bantamweight Bout
Los Angeles reports Bud Taylor, bantamweight champion, earned a ten round decision over Tarnario Fernandez of Piliping on a rainy coast card. Veyler also won a bout by decision over Punebmisut, score details not stated.
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Los Angeles
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Pinta
Ames Sends Seven Matmen to Valley Wrestling Joust
Ames Iowa March 7 seven Iowa State college wrestlers and coach Hugo Otopalik will travel Thursday to the Missouri Valley wrestling championships at the University of Missouri. The team includes Higgins Holding Gerling Captain Grooms Blair Ruggles and Goodale. The Cyclones enter a changing field as Missouri and Oklahoma contest the traditional edge held by Oklahoma Aggies and ISU.
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Missouri Valley
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Holding
Gerling
Captain Grooms
Blair
Ruggles
First Baptist clinches league title in Sunday school basketball
In the final series at East High, First Baptist defeated Walnut Street Baptist 20 to 10 to seal the championship. Other results included Bur ton Avenue Baptist 29 over Linden M. E. 18 and Calvary Evangelical 23 over Grace M. E. 18. Final standings follow.
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Burton Avenue Baptist
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First Mr. B
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Church of Brethren
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Sharkey Primes Bout Hopes with Tunney in New York
Jack Sharkey has the first call on a bout with Gene Tunney in New York if he defeats Johnny Risko next Monday night. Tom Heeney filed a challenge with the New York boxing commission but it was pigeonholed. If Sharkey falters, Heeney will be rated No 2 among Tunney's challengers in this state.
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Gene
New York
Jack Sharkey
Gene Tanney
Boston
Johnny Riska
Tom Heeney
Tunney
New York Boxing Commission
Chariie Harvey
Heeney
Risko
Alumni Banquet Invitation From Waterloo Inter-Sunday School
Members of University of Town club of Black Hawk county and other Town V alumni are invited to the annual Waterloo Inter-Sunday School Athletic association banquet Monday evening. Sam Barry, basketball coach, and Hawkeye players may attend. Tickets available at the M. C. G. A. or from Sunday school athletic managers. must be bought before Saturday afternoon.
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Notre Dame Coach Signs for St Louis Footballstaff
Notre Dame veteran Charles Chilly Walsh will join St Louis University football as a coach assistant to Anderson after graduating this spring. The move follows a three year contract period with Notre Dame.
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Strangler Lewis Defends Title in Atlanta Bout
Ed Strangler Lewis retained the heavyweight wrestling championship by pinning Paw Jones of Houston in the first fall after 39 minutes with a headlock and winning the second in 19 minutes with another headlock. The March 7 event was reported from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Rockne Assistant to Coach at St. Louis U
Hartley Hank Anderson, assistant coach to Knute Rockne, joins St. Louis University coaching staff during March events in South Bend Indiana with Rockne team affiliations.
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ST. Louis U
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Ind
Hartley
Hank Anderson
Knute Rockne
College basketball results and historic English village license
The record lists college basketball scores with University of Commerce 1 percent at Osceola Junior College 39 to Central 24 and Trinity 25 to Sioux City K of GC 1a Luther 38 to Columbia 22 Tadlana 27 to Trinois 23 fovertiint. It also notes a village believed oldest in England, operating under a license dating from 1397.
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England
Black Kansas guard fools Tigers with delayed timeout ruse
Kansas and Missouri clash ends 22 to 19 as Charlie Black uses a sly back step and a whispered cue to mislead the Tigers, allowing the Jayhawks to preserve their unbeaten season. The Iowa Athletic Directory note follows about compiling past and present Hawkeye athletes.
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Pandemonia
Indoor Baseball Scores From The Farm League
Galloway beat Standard Glass and Print 7 to 0 in indoor league play at the Farm. Repass Auto defeated Fowler 17 to 2, and Altstadh and Langias won by forfeit over Waterloo Fruit. Highlights included a triple by Strayer and E Richmond for Galloway and double plays by Clark and G Foard for Repass.
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Four of sixteen big league clubs never won a World Series
New York March 7 reports that four of the 16 major league clubs training for the season have never won the World Series and one has never appeared in one. Brooklyn and Philadelphia in the National League and Detroit and St. Louis in the American have not yet won the title. The St. Louis Browns are the only club to never win a pennant.
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Fights Last Night Feature Wide Boxing Card
A fragmented boxing round up lists fighters from New York Philadelphia Portland and other cities. Results mention Bobby Turis defeating Duke Menard and Floy Burger kayoed by Jack Renault with various bouts and locations across the country.
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Sittbsting
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Los Angeles
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Glenna Collett Leads East Coast Joust Field
St Augustine Florida Glenna Collett former national champion led entrants with 74 at the East Coast Joust in a Florida cash event Collett was favored to win the women's division as top shooter and St Augustine hosted the event
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Pla
Martel
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Florkia Cash
Collett Sets Coast Golf Record With 74 In Qualifying
Miss Collett shot a 36 28 74 to lead the coast golf tournament by eight strokes, breaking the course record of 77. Maureen Orcutt was third at 83 followed by Bernice Wall at 84 and Beatrice Gottlieb tied for fifth at 86. Frances Hadfield and Chinage also figure in the field.
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Frances Hadfield
Milwaukea
Wis
Ted
Early Bird Schedule Keeps Harvard Far Ahead in 1929 Grid
Cambridge Massachusetts March reports Harvard plans a long lead in football scheduling with Bates Yale and Michigan already set for 1929 Crimeon list, Bates opening the season.
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Bates
Yale
Michigan
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