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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
1
General Sporting News notes ongoing Three-I league friction as Waterloo battles with Peoria Bloomington Springfield and others over independence. Readers are told to expect front page updates and that predictions of settlement are deferred with a light-hearted take on the heated dispute.
Peoria and southern clubs balk at Chicago meeting over Waterloo status. David Rowan says southern owners favor independent play if Waterloo remains in. Danville president James Boyle skips meeting. general view favors league disbandment. Bloomington president Pierson ties northern franchise to Quincy.
Grundy Center high school will send two representatives to arrange a basketball game with East High for city honors. The match will be at the Y M C A on March 21 or March 25, with officials to be chosen and a date set. Track work begins soon under Coach Mallory with an April 1 interschool meet between East and West, plus a Cedar Falls triangle later. Five football games are booked for fall, including Marshalltown, Dubuque twice, Fort Dodge, and the East vs West high school Thanksgiving showdown.
John Vincent Wells known as the pool room king dies at his Paterson New Jersey home after four months of illness His estate is valued around 150000 and friends say his winnings in fifteen years surpassed a million dollars He was 38. Hack remains a showman wrestler in Battle Creek and Olson is overpowered after a long hold Cantillon trains Minneapolis players at his Hickman Kentucky ranch to prepare for the season aiming for another pennant Ad Wolgast lightweight champion meets George Memah in Los Angeles next Friday.
Champion Frank Gotch defeated Ernest Koch, the German champion, in Kansas City last night. Gotch won the first fall in minutes 50 seconds with a half nelson and crotch hold. The second fall was forfeited after nine minutes when Gotch applied his toe hold. A Chicago dispatch notes President A K Tearney of the Three League refuses to resign under pressure, saying he will not retire in this crisis.
Ackley Iowa March 16 special report describes Herman Heetland nineteen-year-old son of H H Heatland who with his right hand torn to shreds still drove a touring car one and one half miles to his home and sought help. The display astonished surgeons and local residents alike.
In Ackley a teen named Heetland suffered a shotgun discharge near the wrist while hunting ducks at a pond near Chassgbor. He drove home at speed after the accident, calmly directing help as surgeons operated. He maintained steady nerves throughout treatment and after awakening.
Klaw Erlanger bring Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur to Waterloo Theatre for April shows. The production features a 2000 member traveling company headed by Richard Buhler in the title role. Major stage reconstructions are planned to accommodate the chariot race and large scenic effects.
The production involves about 260 staff plus a full orchestra and grand opera line. It requires eight 46 foot baggage cars and two arm palace cars for horses and camels. Movements run via two train sections for company and stage gear. Event billed as a historic Waterloo premiere with extensive regional advertising. A Bryant Forty car model arrives, pleasing auto enthusiasts.
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