Mrs David Gaut Missed Putt On Gum Marker
The tale recounts Mrs. David Gaut of Memphis missing a decisive six yard putt when a caddy used a wad of chewing gum as a marker, causing the ball to stop and halved a fourball match at Memphis Country Club.
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Mrs
David
C. B. Keeler
Associated Press
Virginia Hot Springs
Hot Springs
David Gaut
Memphis
Aut
America
Dorothy Campbell Hurd
Mayfield
Gant
Hurd
United States Golf Association
Three Hundred Brave Rain for Park Festival
More than 300 children and adults attended the Gates Park Playground association party despite early rain. Children led games while refreshments of hot dogs cake coffee and sandwiches were served. Noise makers were given to each child, donated by a Waterloo store. Mrs Frances Studebaker presided as president.
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Gates Park Playground Association
the Park
Fourth Street East
Waterloo
Frances Studebaker
Increase in Chattel Mortgages Boosts Filings Record
Filing of instruments in the office of Eva Brebner, county recorder, tops all records. By October end 13,427 instruments were on file, with 854 filed in October. Ten month totals: 1927 11,841. 1926 10,815. 1925 9,990. Rise attributed mainly to more chattel mortgages.
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Eva Brebner
Two Waterlooans on Committee to Revise School Study Course
William W. Gibson principal at West High and Maude Palmer English teacher were named to posts on state committees by Miss Agnes Samuelson to revise high school study courses. Gibson serves on the social science panel and Palmer on the English panel. Committees will report to Miss Samuelson later this year and their recommendations will be included in curricula adopted next year.
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William W. Gibson
West High School
Maude Palmer
Agnes Samuelson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Gibson
Palmer
Palace and Plaza Theatres Present Mixed 1920s Screen and Stage Lineup
Palace offers Quick Triggers Paneaky Pancakes and The Yellow Cameo with stars Humes Landis and Landis. Plaza presents Getting Gertie’s Garter with 10 girl chorus plus Woman Wise with Collyer Russell. Riviera hosts The Battle of the Sexes with Wass and Haver, plus Movietone news. Strand shows The Show Girl with Alice White and Sharp Tools, plus Vitaphone acts and news. Waterloo features Rain with Trousdale Players and Sadie Thompson with Geneuro, matinee Saturday.
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Palace
Fred Humes
Jeanne Landis
Plaza—Paden Players
Gertie’s Garter
June Collyer
William Russell
Alice White
Vitaphone
Ethel Grey Terry
Adele Rowland
Bell ‘& Coates
Dramatic Stock Company
Boyd ‘Trousdale
Josephine Generro
Sadie Thompson
Cyclist Hurt In Six Day Race With 60 Stitches
In a six day bicycle race at Broadway Armory, Rene Boegman of Holland suffered a near severed throat and 60 stitches after a handlebar lock crash with Pete Van Kempen. Boegman’s partner Art Spencer withdrew. Van Kempen and Mike Rodak led at the 76th hour despite injuries.
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Chicago
Broadway Armory
Rene Boegman
Holland
Pete van Kempen
Boogman
Worthington named to Texas league all star team
In The Balance column, Red Worthington of Waterloo earns a Texas league all star selection with four other Houston players. The Houston club won the pennant and manager Frank Snyder is discussed as a potential 1929 St. Louis manager. The piece notes a California Winter Industrial Baseball league with four teams and lists other joining players such as Mickey Heath and Evar Swanson, plus well known players Goslin Meusel Dumovich Barnabe Rhyne. It also covers various baseball notes including Fred Heimach's fine and two year driving ban after a reckless driving incident near Camden, New Jersey.
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Red” Worthington
Waterloo
St. Louis Cardinals
Houston
Frank Snyder
St. Louis
California
Mickey Heath
Ottumwa
Evar Swanson
Moline
Shell Oils
Goslin
Meusel
Dumovich
Barnabe
Rhyne
National Association
Sporting News
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Charles J. Doyle
Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph
Columbia Lou
Columbus
Babe
Lou
Washington Post
Rogers Hornsby
Boston Braves
Broadway
Tom
New York
Charles A. Stoneham
Mr. Hormsby
State Teachers Beat Upper Iowa in Fayette Showdown
Cedar Falls based Iowa State Teachers college, led by Coach Bender, eyes a pivotal clash with Upper Iowa in Fayette. The Tutors boast 110 points scored in four games while allowing 32, with Coe's early 32 points their sole surge, and Cedar Falls holds a strong eight year edge over Upper Iowa in these meetings.
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Courier Special Service
Cedar Falls
Navy
Iowa State Teachers College
Upper Iowa
Fayette
Bender
Iowa
Coe
Upper Town
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Phyllis Haver
Movietone
Paramount News
Jack Bain
Pauline Gaskin
George Schreck
Paulay Brothers
Ralph Jones
Boyd B. Trousdale
Paden
Gertie
Force Candy
A. H. Woods
William
Fox Fee
Mocking
Texas
Florida
Fred Heimach
Camden
N. J
Heimach
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Moray Eby
Kohawk
Eby
Soms
Moray
Burlington Gazette
Ruth
Walter Hagen
Pirates
Glen Wright
Wright
Hornsby
Manager Bush
Cutie
Dixie Dugan
Sharp Tool
Alice Grey Terry
Bell and
Coates
Jean Hersholt
Phyllis Haverbelle Bennett
Milady
Publix
West Point Drill
Paramount Pictures
Waterloo Ball Park
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Aste Tae
Avawe Eertee Ag
As Eee
G. C. Kennedy
UIA
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Eve. Telegram
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