Iowa
Old Press
The DesMoines Register, Friday Morning, July 30, 1926
Sports Section- page one
[Sports Headlines Only – posted here for your reading pleasure.]
GREAT DUELS FEATURE GOLF PLAY
VAVRA SHOOTS A SPLENDID 70 AGAINST RIVAL
Bartlett Is Eliminated: McKee Herron and Hubbell Remain.
Defeats Bartlett [brief story]
John Vavra of Cedar Rapids sprung a big surprise in the state golf tournament at the Wakonda Club yesterday, when he eliminated Arthur Bartlett, four times state champion, in a third round match, 4 up and 2 to play. Vavro gained an early lead in the morning round and was never headed.
SENATORS GET FOUR RUNS IN ELEVENTH TO WIN.
TRIM PALE HOSE AS SOX HURLER BREAKS THUMB
Five Double Plays Aid Washington in Holding Chicago.
Chicago, July 29 (A.P) – Washington staged an eleventh inning rally…..
TRIBE COMES FROM BEHIND TO CONQUER
Cleveland, July 29 (A.P) – Cleveland made it three straight from Philadelphia ………
TYGERS OUTHIT BUT OVERCOME RED HOSE
Detroit, July 29 (A.P.) – Boston outhit Detroit today but lost.
ROSCOE and HIS STABLEMATE
(brief story)
Ace Hudkins, sensational Nebraska lightweight, and Roscoe Hall, Des Moines, Ia, lightweight, (photo) shown here sparring in Stillman’s gymnasium, New York, soon after their arrival in the East this week. They are to box on a card at Coney Island, Aug. 6. Both Hall and Hudkins are managed by the latter’s brother.
SOLDIER MAULER FACES MAYS IN BOUT TONIGHT
Tonight’s Program:
Louie Mays vs. “Indian” Ted Rogers, six rounds.
“Dutch” Kimball vs. Jimmy Hogen, four rounds.
Joe Christenson vs. Joe Thorpe, four rounds.
“Kid” Carpenter vs. George Meyers, four rounds.
“Indian” Ted Rogers, a soldier at Fort Des Moines, will trade wallops with “Lefty” Louie Mays, a local favorite, for six rounds in the main event of the weekly open air show at Riverview Park tonight.
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PACKERS TIGHTEN HOLD BY WINNING TWIN BILL.
Ottumwa, Ia., July 19 (A.P.) – The Ottumwa Packers took both ends of a doubleheader here today from Dubuque, 8-5 and the second game over five innings, 5-1, thereby strengthening their grip on first place. The second game was called at the end of the fifth because of darkness.
Al Bauer, Packer pitcher, was overcome by the heat in the third frame of the first games and taken to a hospital. Four home runs featured in the opener while Johnson hit is second circuit drive of the day in the second, driving in a mate each time.
BEES POUND BALL HARD TO DEFEAT PLOWS, 7 to 2
Burlington, Ia., July 29 (A.P.) – McCann held Moline to four hits while Burlington pounded Jimmy House for fifteen safeties today to even the series, 7 to 2.
Manager Reichle of Burlington hit safely four out of five times, of which two were doubles.
SEMIPRO and AMATEUR.
CHARLES CITY LOSES.
Charles City, Ia., July 29 (Special)—Charles City lost to Gilkerson’s Union Giants, 5 to 4. Batteries—Radloff and Brandon: Sims and Ray.
CHEROKEE 16—SPENCER 0.
Cherokee, Ia., July 29 (Special)—Cherokee defeated Spencer here today 16 to 0. Flannigan held Spencer to three hits, while Cherokee gathered sixteen off the visiting trio. Batteries—Flannigan and Scholl; Ballantine, Barnholt, Mack and Fleming.
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THINK ARSENIC CAUSE DEATH
LeMars, Ia., July 29 (Special)—It is reported this morning from the state pathological laboratory at Sioux City, stating that the stomach of Fred Hatton, who died suddenly and mysteriously, contained arsenic. A more complete report will be made later on other internal organs sent in for examination.
According to a local druggist, Hatton purchased rat poison a week before his death, and local officials lean to the opinion that his death is a case of suicide. Hatton, although intermittently sick for a week, refused to have medical care.
BOY IS KILLED BY AUTO AS HE DODGES TRUCK
Charles City, Ia., July 29—The responsibility was charged today agains the driver of the car which struck and killed the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sours, living near Riceville, last night. The boy was crossing the street in Riceville and dodged a truck only to jump in front of the car occupied by members of the Kelley brothers orchestra.
YOUTH, 15, SAVES LIFE OF DROWNING CHUM
Cedar Rapids, Ia., July 29 (Special)—Louis Bemer, 15 years old, living six miles northwest of here, rescued Lester Spicer, 20, his swimming companion, from drowning in the Cedar river late yesterday. Spicer could swim but became ill when he swallowed a huge quantity of the river water. He had gone down for the third time when Bemer reached him.
[transcribed by L.Z., Jan 2022]