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Iowa City Press-Citizen from Iowa City, Iowa • 7

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Clipping from Behind EiicGss Baggage'ins "for Cards OUT OF I nnimns Barren Comet Within One Scratch Single of Perfect Game By ROY LUCE 1 i Moil, Sept 194. 5 IOWA CITY rKESS-CmZEV gma give the Redbirds an even split with the first place Chicago Cubs, who won the opener 4-1, but he came within one looping single of becoming the first National league pitcher in modern history to hurl perfect game. Lea Merullo, with a chop single behind second base la the third Inning, was the only Brula te reach base against Barrett, who walked none, a he 'faced but 17 nwi. Merullo was Navy Orders Iowa Seahawks To Cancel Grid Schedule Comdr. George D.

Fitxhugh, commanding officer of the Iowa pre-flight school, late an announcement from Washington, D. that the Seahawk caught stealing. Toba Simon get football crop add hair cutting te hi dally stint football team's schedule had The announcement last week ped at the pre-flight school at Folk Tale followed by the Washington dispatch that stated that the schedule of the Iowa Seahawks as well as the schedule of the a veteran trainer Jack Holm at Penn State. Navy WinsTourney Enlisted Ten Takes Ft. Madison Crown By Yfinning Three Games Navy Enlisted, one of two Iowa City entrants in the Ft.

Madison softball tourney held Sunday, copped first place and $35 in prize money by defeating the Ft. Madison Sacred Heart ten in the finals, 5 to 4. The other Iowa City team George's Standard Service dropped out of the tournament in the first round, losing a close contest to the Ottumwa C. I. O.

team. li jit -W i 1 4 5 jK'' Saturday afternoon confirmed been cancelled. that football was being drop the University of Georgia was N. had been cancelled. the- past have- been-most -enjoyable." This wa th Seahawk schedule: Sept 22 Ohla Stat at Iowa City Sept 29 Seahawk at-Miraic ota Oct.

7 Bunker HU1 NAS at Iowa City Oct 14 Ft. Warren at Iowa City Oct 21 El Toro Marine at Iowa City Oct. 28 Seahawks at Lincoln (2nd Air Force) Nov. 4 Ft Worth AAF at Iowa City Nov 10-Seahawk at Purdue Nov. 17 Seahawk at Wisconsin Nov.

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Not beyond the hill, not tomorrow, but today, he', can feel the new pulBe of blood, the invigorating strength of extra muscle and the pervad ing spirit of doing great things. Tha Golden Age of Sport used to be known as the Fabulous Twenties and still but all of that will be chanted. When will our portlnf acene aee auch times aa the day of Red Grange, the incredible- Babe Ruth, the great feat of Jack Dempaey The amwer, curious ly enough Is right now: The end of World War was the beginning df. a tremendous phase of sports consciousness that swep across the country. New concepts of physical training and rec reation passed from city to town to hamlet.

Spectator interest multiplied and the stadiums grew. Now, with the end of World War II, we are on the verge of another great sport building program. Athletic official all over the' country have already real ized the importance of physical education and are taking steps to add such programs to their schedule of classes. The army and navy have instilled in the minds of many a Joe the importance of the interest created and the skills acquired will not be left behind when Joim ny comes marching home. The football calendar for 1945 has been brightened and extended by the return to the gridiron of many college teams Princeton, Vanderbilt, Baylor, Idaho, Coe and many Once again the rosters of most colleges and universities will average young in year and size and probably In ability, but re-.

ports from every campus Indicate the prospects of stronger teams and closer competition for file coming season. Throughout the state, saw dust is spurting in the tackle dummy pits, the charge-ma chines are creaking, the passes and the plunking punts are on the wing as the high schools swing into serious practice. Yes, Old Man Football is here once again and 'this time to stay. 8E AH A WK FAREWELL It's goodbye to tae Iowa Seahawks. A fond and sad goodbye, for we enjoyed every minute of watching the Sea-hawks in action last year and were looking forward to an- "other great year of football BuCSnow, that is ''all gone.

The navy department has can celled the Seahawks' grid schedule as well as two other pre-flight schools in the coun try. Only one St. Mary's college-i-will be permitted to play out its schedule. Gone are the days when you could see a collegiate grid game almost every Saturday In the Iowa stadium. No longer, will we be busy every Saturday afternoon, Jfo longer can we watch the Seahawks battle like their brother before them.

Yes, it is with remorse that we say "goodbye and good luck. Seahawks." We, for one will miss those Saturday DOORS OPEN 1:15 S2c Till TCDAY zzi TUESDAY BY JOE SEICHIXK AuacUUa1 fmi SaarU Willu. Charlie (Red) Barrett, the guy the Boston Braves threw in aa excess baggage in their deal with the SL Louia Card-inals for Mort Cooper three months ago, stands supreme today as the National league's only 20-game winner. Not only did the 30-year-oM righthander reach that figure Sunday with a 4-0 triumph to Indian Mickey Cochrane To Be Discharged from Navy Tuesday Lieut Cmdr. Gordon S.

(Mickey) Cochrane, former Detroit Tigers catcher and manager, will be discharged from the navy shortly af ter he returns to the base here tomorrow, a public relatione officer at the Iowa Navy Pre-Flight school announced Saturday. Discharge orders already have oome through for Cochrane, the officer said. Cochrane wa at Detroit spending a week-end liberty. Ranked as one of baseball's greatest catcher, Cochrane had been assigned to the football and boxing department here. He en tered the navy in March, 1942.

Hawkeye Coaches To Talk at C. R. Coach Clem Crowe and Line Coach Bud Boerlnger of the Hawk-eye football coaching staff, Fops Harrison, basketball coach, and Athletic Director E. G. (Dad) afternoon spectacles of foot ball at its best football as it should be played and as you shall play it when you return to civilian life and once again to college.

With the end of football for the pre-flight school, it is more than possible that the Cadets will not be playing competitive basketball this winter, either. The announcement did not refer to basketball or other sports, but from all probatal ty, it appears that sports in general are through at the Seahawk camp. Ends Tomorrow First I i Run mm I to? ndskliSXif "and came cut ef the (MO OH. MAT A DIFHPtUCS Only six perfect game have ver been twirled, with th four achieved atnce 1000 all belonging to the American league. Th last on wa pitched by Charlie Robertson of the Clilcsgo Whit Sox against Detroit In 1922.

A crowd H.MI (paid), largest for the Cards at home slaoe August IS, 19S9, watched! Sunday's split, wales left tha Cubs still two games ahead of St. Lout. The American leagu leading Detroit Tiger were not so rortu naU. They dropped their fifth gam In the last six start with Cleveland, 00 wing 3-2, to enable th aecond place Washington Sen ator to edge within one game of th top. Jim Bagby, who hadn't beaten th Bengal In two year, scattered 10 Tiger hit and naved th way for th winning run by singling In the seventh.

eventually cored on Felix Mackewfca' single. Th Tiger received additional bad new when they learned that Hal Newhouser, their ace lefthander with 31 victories, planned to enter Henry Ford hospital in Detroit today for examination of a back Injury and may not leave with the Tigers tonight for their last eastern trip. He suffered the injury in the third inning of Saturday' game. Washington gained by dividing a twin biU with the New York Yankees. After Joe Pag out-pitched Dutch Leonard 4-2 in the opener for the Yankees, Roger Wolff came on to whitewash th McCarthymen 3-0, although he needed held from Mickey Haefner, In the 'ninth.

Nick Etten drove in three run with a base-clearing triple to win the opener. The Tank, in fourth place, ar four and a half game away from the top. St. Louis' Browns retained their third place hold by halving a pair with the White Sox. Eddie Lopat topped them with a 0-0 five-hit performance in the opener, but the Brown bounced back to win the aecond, 3-2, when Myron (Red) Hayworth singled in Mark Christman-in the ninth with the payoff tally.

Philadelphia's Athfetlrs swept a pair from Boston's Red Sox, 1-0 and 7-2, with Bo bo Newsom applying the whitewash brush to Pinky Woods In the opener. A single by Georgle Kell brought In Dick Siebert with the only marker In the curtain raiser. Brooklyn retained possession of third place in the senior Circuit by splitting with the New York Giant, winning the first of two, 7-4, then losing the nightcap, 6-2. A. three-run' outburst in the llth won the first for the Dodgers.

Bill VoiseUe. aided by homers by Mel Ott and Danny Gardella, gained his 14th win in Uia. night cap. Pittsburgh 'won both contests from Cincinnati, 4-2 nnd 7-3, aa Walter Beck and Nick Strince-vich handcuffed the Reds. Beck gained hi fifth in a row ince purchased from the Reds, vhiie Strincevich won his The Phillies and Braves split, Philadelphia winning the second 5-4, after Jimmy Foxx was beaten in the opener 6-3 aa Tommy Holme of, Boston hit hla-27th homer.

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Mary's at the present level. The Seahawks were scheduled to open their season here, September 23 with the Ohio State Buckeye. Other team a the schedule Included: Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin of the Big Ten and five service team. Four of the nine game were to have been played In the Iowa stadium. On learning Saturday that the announcement of the cancellation of the schedules had been made in Washington, Cmdr.

Fitzhugh issued the following statement: "I am sorry that we had to give up the football schedule. However, it was felt that with the war over, conditions were so uncertain for the future that it was only fair the teams we were going to play to call off our schedule now, rather than wait and probab-ly have to do it later. "We are sorry that we won't be meeting the university and service opponents scheduled, for football has played a vital part in our training program and our as sociations with these teams in now AT THE EKGLERT! WW Of' MS'- fcOOV CM lion ENDS -WEDNESDAY- M. I I I I' I I I I I I 3 I 1 I I 1 I I I 1 I SW4 I il -ana now were is much rejoicing and hopes far a pennant IF NOT TMS YAQ -THEH tm fOR SORt) THE END WILLIAMS HERE FOR LIBERTY Lieut. Cmdr.

Rollie William, afhletic r. officer of Great Lake naval training station and former University of Iowa basketball coach, spent a liberty here at his home Sunday, Hut he declined to talk about hi future plans. Hi wife said that he had not received a discharge. Last week the navy said Wil Hams would be placed on the In active list soon. E.

G. (Dad) Schroeder, athletic director at the university, previously announced that William future wa "some thing to be Worked out" by the atnietic board. Lawrence (Pops) Harrison 1 be came Hawkeye basketball coach, succeeding Williams. Schroeder, win be the featured speaker at the Knight of Colum-bu clubrooms in Cedar Rapid tomorrow night. The meeting the first imrti tag or the year for the Knight or uoiumous will spotlight Hawk-eye sports for the coming season Coming September 12th Swisher Pavilion JOE SANDERS "The Ole' Left-Hander" BOX OFFICE OPEN 1:15 9:45 EEC It? ftlBl 2 First Bun Hits 9 TO-DAY TUESDAY" ROARING ADVENTURES.

OF THE kt COMSTJCK) KITCHUM -JEFFREYS WHIiniUS.eiTFS-HlIIII 11 CO HIT. .1 Navy Enlisted swamped the Bur- llngton Jaycee in the opening round, 19 to Th sailor scored 16 ran in the first inning of the five inning affair. -Don Merchant started the contest for the navy, but Karl R'jpp took over the mound chorea in the second and allowed the Jaycees only four hits the rest of the wy. Mike Fran-chuk led the navy hitters with three for three, including a home run. The Sailors met up with the Ft Madison Moose ten In the second round one of the favored, team in the tourney and' earn out oa top In the seven Inning contest, 6 to 1., Danny Kaiser threw a no-hitter for tha Enlisted ten.

The Moose ten scored their only run in the fourth on a walk, wild pitch and aa error. Previously, the Moose team had won 25 of 27 game. The final contest with the Sacred Heart ten was a thriller aU the way, the Navy team coming from behind in the last of the eighth to score fourrun8nd take the Merchant started for Navy, but after walking the first two men Clip This Weekly Summary of Prec-Citlzen and Send it to BREMER3 Iowa City' Flnet mondat, September ms 18-20 Tons of Waste Paper In their aecond city-wide paper collection of the summer the Junior Chamber of Commerce picked up between 18 and 20 tons of paper Sunday. a Coral viOe. Reservoir i Up for Discussion Throughout the week different interested bodies expressed their approval or disapproval of the Coralville res ervoir proposed for construction by army engineers.

A public hearing will be held this week to discuss it. a a Safety Council Is Incorporated The newly-organized Iowa City Safety Council, Dorr Hudson, president, approved article of incorporation during the week and agreed that a membership drive would be included among their first plans, a a a Schools Have FaD Openings Iowa City public schools open here tomorrow and county school throughout the county opened either last Monday ortoday, as the fall school season got underway. Iowa Frosh to! Report Sept 17 Beginning freshmen at th lUniveraity of Iowa will report Monday, September 17, for admission. Regular clauses start September 24. Sports Roundup 8tate indoor track and field championship meets for high schools will be stared in 1946 In the 8.

IX, I. fieldjiouse, end- lng a lapse nf three year. a Th 16 wa Hawkeye battled the Iowa Seahawks to a standstill for 45 minute Wednesday afternoon in the Iowa stadium, before the Cadets finally broke looa with two touchdown jaunt in the last quarter to win, 35 to 21. a a a According to Mrs. Eddie Anderson, th Hawkeye-fooU ball coach, is expected home soon.

She said that he was definitely planning to resume hi football coaching BEEMEKS to face him In the eighth. Kaiser came In to finish the contest Two runs scored before Kaiser could retire the aide and it looked like the Iowa City representative was out of the tourney. Then canie the- big four-run eighth, featured by doubles by Richart and Yohe. Yohe led the Navy hitter with two blows, including his game winning clout in the eighth. '7 MAKE A TRIP IN A HURRY! Wa are aa asatpp ta kaadla aartar trlpa tor plaaa.

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Dial 7SJ1 laws City Maaletpat Strpart Local Newr ffonrth Someone in Service LETTER Stor for Men and Boy Ioa City, Iowa The reported return of Rollie Williams as Iowa's head basketball coach for the 1945-46 season has caused more than, a ripple of speculation and antagonism among local hoop fans, a majority of which want Pops Harrison- retained. The Navy Enlisted Men and Bremers battled for eight innings Monday night before the Navy 10 scored five runs in the last of the 8th inning to defeat the Clothiers, 8 to 6, in the best two out of three series' fori the- city Softball championship. a. a -a Leo Amelon and Boyd Brack teamedi upl Monday night to win the double championship of the City! Horseshoe tournament, downing S. Evan and M.

Htacock for the title, 50-28 and 50-30. a The first state Moose invita- tional golf tournament will be held at the Sowa City country club Sunday, September 16. There will be no Iowa Seahawk football team or schedule this year. They were cancelled by orders Saturday night. Home From Service Pvt.

Charles W. Kom Richard Drake, S2C--. -Srgt E. E. Switzer Corp.

L. E. Povonder -Pfc. James F. Lodge Walter M.

Rouse, AeM3C James K. Larson, S2C Pvt C. Griffin Max Seaton, SIC Pfc. Eugene Brlde'nstine 1 Wedding Bells Esther E. Zeller, North Liberty, and Srgt K.

L. Alley, McAllen, Texas. Hazel Slders, Iowa City, and Srgt M. A. Pollard, Greene-ville, S.

C. Henrietta Frauenholts, Iowa City, and Samuel P. Miller, Kalona. Vr Stork Club A son. Lieut.

jg) and Mr. R. W. Helnenr Iowa City. A daughter, Mr.

and Mr. Walter Watkinson, River- aide. A daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Swenson.

Iowa City. A son, Mr. and Mr. Harlan Butterbrodt, Tipton. Publihed Weekly by Vol.

DJ No, I Post-War Labor Needs Surveyed jAi estimated 62S new employe will be needed in Iowa City in the post-war penoa, according to a survey made by the Chamber of Commerce. Servicemen Are aTkStXAlta. vesVatil V19VllaUVU Diacharred durinr the week were the following: IPfc Donald Roger, Iowa City. IT5 Jo Turecek, Iowa City. Srgt.

J. J. Langenberg, Tiffin. Don Mcllree, seaman second class, Iowa City. The Weather, It Was Hot The weather in Iowa City during the week was a subject of much concern, ranging up and down between 86 and 86 degrees.

It was hot! a Navy Blues in Order Here Navy enlisted personnel switched from white to blue in Iowa City on the first day of September. Officer and WAVES also had changes to be mad in apparel. New USO Man Named Here Frank 8. Morrl was.named to succeed J. B.

Martin as director of th local USO center. Mr. Morris la from York, where he wa a USO director since 1943. Physics-En gineerin Project to Close The university physics -engineering project, employing aa AAA 1 iua.il ai ouu pvrwna, wiu ciosa her September 80. The secret research development ha been maintained her on 6 large acale ainc February 1.

Capt. Zahrt Is Ifisaing Capt. Norman Zahrt, SO, ha been reported missing on a plan flight In the Pacific as of July 25. The flight surgeon's family reside in Iowa City. it" MWIIIMIIIII.

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