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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1925
Page
5
Waterloo's baseball club faces potential leadership changes as Buck Willford weighs resignation amid budget scrutiny. Directors emphasize a winning season under manager Dixon with talks of signing Willoughby and Schultby while awaiting a national suspension ruling. Willford has funded debts, sustaining club finances during a turbulent period.
Ohio State clinched the Big Ten title as the season nears completion. Indiana Michigan and Minnesota have finished their schedules, while Purdue faces Wisconsin to decide fourth place. A win by Ohio State over Wisconsin would leave it with a single defeat, while a loss could create a tie with Indiana for second.
Michigan 47 beat Chicago Towan Etats 38 while Indiana Kansas Angles led Washington 74 to 21. Enlorada calilere posted 25 and Colorado U trailed 14. Harvard 34 fell to ERie 25.
Odd fragmentary notes celebrate early violets and March bloom with playful misprints and musings on fashion seeds and hats. The piece shifts to sports and local business chatter, mentioning turtles, a Detroit baseball player, and a Cedar Rapids meeting, ending with a historical nod to Coolidge and Johnson signing with Washington.
Iowa University cagers wrap up the season with a 26 to 15 victory over Northwestern in a listless game plagued by fumbles and poor shooting. Capt. Janse and Jimmie Jaude played their final Iowa game, with Laude the season’s standout and a top Big Ten scorer. Five wins and seven defeats mark Iowa’s 1924-25 basketball year.
Lou Rollinger draws California crowds with his sensational bouts and growing media hype. Larney Lichenstein asserts Rollinger’s willingness to fight Earl Blue after a seventh California bout since December, with several wins and one draw. San Diego Tribune notes Rollinger knocked out Tom Kelly in the fourth round, drawing comparisons to Jack Dempsey and signaling a rising light heavyweight prospect.
Stoneham, a young Independence billiardist who won the interstate pocket tournament at Omaha, will meet Elmer Mour of the Popular Cigar store billiard room in Waterloo this week. The match is free and open to the public with 125 point games at 7:20 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Stoneham won $400 at Omaha after a 41 ball run in the final against Jimmy Barber of Des Moines.
Willie Hunter, long time captain of the British International Golf Team, argues indoor and backyard setups help golfers improve during the off season. He says such practice keeps focus on form, reduces the urge to “kill” the ball, and aids learning and correcting chronic faults.
Featherweight champion Sean Francisco-Luis Kid Kaplan will face French featherweight Edoard Mascart in New York sometime in June, per Kaplan’s manager. In Omaha Corrinne Condon, 14, set a midwestern AAU record with a 100 yard freestyle in 1 8 5 seconds. Milwaukee Finn Paul Wurmi plans a self decided distance at the Milwaukee Journal games. Illinois Athletic Club and Chicago Athletic Association enter seven open events. Jimmy Callahan, former White Sox manager, takes Mount Carmel high school baseball coaching role. Jake Schaefer delivered near flawless play in Chicago, while Willie Hoppe predicts Schaefer as champion through 1926.
Cedar Rapids Indiana March 9 The eldest co operative farmers organization in this part of Town is no more The Farmers Grain company incorporated Fairfax 13 years ago has sold its elevator and goodwill to W J Behle who has been manager for years Price paid 7500 There were 800 stockholders and they will not receive a cent for their holdings Only one dividend was paid during its existence It handled a large quantity of grain for farmers in the western section of the county
Caleb ic Johnson, a former second baseman for A G Spaulding's White Stockings in 1866 67 and said to be the world's oldest professional baseball player, dies Saturday in Sterling Illinois. He will be buried tomorrow. A mine fire near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania, burning for 40 years, resists control.
New York boxing commission debates the Dempsey Wills match after Jack Dempsey replies to the commission accepting both challenges. Tex Rickard eyes a possible New York stage but warns sums must be high. Dempsey and Kearns push for a multi hundred thousand guarantee as talks continue. The commission plans an emergency tally ahead of tomorrow’s meeting where Dempsey’s stance may shape the heavyweight slate.
Fifteen Catholic high school basketball teams began a tournament at Columbia College in Dubuque Iowa to represent the archdiocese of Dubuque and its 30 eastern Town counties. Cedar Rapids and Waterloo each send three teams, with the final on Tuesday pitting Class B winners against Columbia Academy, the sole Class A entrant.
Christ Episcopal and Walnut Street Baptist clash in the Intermediate division as they contest the second game of a three game series at Hast High to decide the championship. The Baptists beat Christ Episcopal 17 to 13 last Tuesday and the Episcopalians seek to even the count with daily practice. A junior division game between First Brethren and Christ Episcopal follows at 7 30 p m.
Iowa City March 9 Northwestern's swimmers outscored Iowa 46 to 22 as Captain Breyer led with five firsts, two individual wins and swimming on the winning relay. A brief note adds fifty women joined the Buenos Aires police force, patrolling parks in their black straw hats and navy blue dresses.
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