Whose real wrestling title sparks Memphis debate
Memphis readers are told that no clear world wrestling champion exists as Ed Lewis Joe Stecher and Joe Malcewicz claim supremacy. U S district attorney Phillip Mecon warns prosecutions if others advertise as champions in Louisiana while sporting editors in Memphis favor Joe Stecher based on a local bout.
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Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Ed“Strangler” Lewis
Louisiana
Joe Stecher
Phillip Mecon
U. S
Lewis
Wayne Munn
Wake
Munn
Malcewicz
Tex Rickard
Wrestling Commission
Stecher
Warren county to seek road bonds for paving and graveling
Indianola Iowa October 13 approval of a special election to authorize issuing 1 200 000 bonds to pave 170 miles and gravel 12 miles of primary roads in Warren county will be sought by the board of supervisors in a meeting with the state highway commission Monday.
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Indianola
Warren County
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State Highway Commission
Woman Manager of Fighter to Try Him on a Vegetable Diet
In Atlanta on October 13 a prize-fighting tenor and choir singer known as Smiling Johnny Vickers plans to wed Frederica Coleman. She will manage the lightweight fighter, train him with a vegetable diet, and attend his bouts, though she has not yet seen him fight.
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Johnny” Vickers
Frederica Coleman
Johnny
Left handed switch keeps Homer Ezzell in lineup
Minneapolis baseball note reports Homer Ezzell of the Minneapolis Americans changing from right to left handed batting after siting out six weeks. He kept practicing daily and earned a second trial with manager Mike Kelley, becoming a regular at second base as the season ended with a batting average near .300.
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Minn
Homer Ezzell
Minneapolis American Association Baseball Club
Mike Kelley
Hawkeye Fuls Johnny Rice Returns to Loop Next Year
Former Hawk outfielder Johnny Rice who played in the Virginia league batted .319 with a .961 OPS in 1927 and plans a return to the loop. Des Moines prep for Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig exhibitions with each captain of teams built from wintering players. Purdue football’s Ray Welch praised by Fritz Crister as the top back since Red Grange, while Drake schedules a grueling week with Pittsburgh Simpson and Grinnell ahead.
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Iowa Capital
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Chicago University
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Crisler
Ossie Salem
Drake
Pittsburgh
Simpson College
Grinnell
Kansas
Ames
Minnesota
Notre Dame
Weeks Heads New Des Moines Pharmacy College
Des Moines Oct 13 Carl Weeks elected president of the board of directors of the Des Moines College of Pharmacy The new college replaces the former Des Moines university program and enrolls eighty two students in its first year
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NEW Des Moines Pharmacy College
Des Moines
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Des Moines College of Pharmacy
Des Moines University
Theatres Showings At Five Downtown Cinemas
Crystal features Irene Rich in a Paris love tale about divorce and remarriage. Evans Revue presents a new musical comedy with vaudeville specialties. Palace screens Bill Cody in Born to Battle, a western romance amid a family feud. Also tenth chapter of Melting Millions and news reels. Plaza presents Two Girls Wanted with Janet Gaynor, plus five Orpheum artists Tidbits of the World and Way Watts. Strand showcases Beau Geste with Ronald Colman in romance mystery and military adventure. Rialto screens Ben Hur with Ramon Navarro and May McAvoy, with Bushman, Carmel Myers and Betty Bronson. adds comedy and M G N news.
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Evans Revue Company
Palace
Bill Cody
Orpheum
Way Watts
Strand
Ronald Coleman
French Foreign Legion
Coleman
Rialto
Ramon Navarro
May McAvoy
Lew Wallace
Francis *. Bushman
Carmel Myers
Betty Bronson
Class Meads at Iowa City Not in Fraternity Group
Four class presidents at the University of Iowa are nonmembers of the Pan-Hellenic frater nity. The heads are Senior William Gamble of Missouri Valley, Junior Ralph Young, Laurels, Dennis Myers of Algona, and freshman Stanford Stoddard of Shell Rock.
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Liberal”Arta College
University of Iowa
Pan-Hellenic
William Gamble
Missouri Valley
Ralph. Young
Laurels
Dennis Myers
Algona
Freghmas
Anford Stoddard
Shell. Rock
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