Waverly Cheers
Cage Beau Geste
Of Franklin Team

‘Cedar Rapids. News—

“My happiness as a citizen of
| Waverly on having our team win
| the state basketball championship’
iis. matched by my happiness as
'a citizen-to-be of Cedar Rapids
/on your achievement of the all-
‘time championship in sportsman-
‘ship. All Waverly joins me in
‘admiration of your fine spirit.”

Franklin high school’s beau
geste of basketball—presentation
'of the state tournament ball to
Waverly’s. champions. after Linn
‘county had bought it for $116,000
‘in war bonds Saturday night at!
Iowa City—Monday drew the
above reaction from D. D. Off-
ringa, Bremer county extension
director.

Offringa, who becomes Linn
county extension director April 1,
couched his comment in a tele-
gram to Sports Editor Tait Cum-
mins of The Gazette. Before the,

 

 

 

for war bonds, Waverly had de-|
feated Franklin in the final round,
30 16.21,

When Lyle Quinn, secretary of
the Iowa High School Athletic as-
| sociation, turned the microphone
over to Auctioneer Arthur Bray-
ton, chairman of the convention
bureau of the Des Moines Cham-.
ber of Commerce, the bidding)
started at. $10,000.

Brayton quickly ran that up to
$50,000, $75,000 and finally’ $100,-
/000, a Waverly bidder matching,
{Craven Shuttleworth, speaking.
|for the Linn county war finance |
|committee, dollar for dollar up to
|} that point.
| Waverly rooters were several
|hundred strong, and they wanted
|the tournament ball badly. When
it finally was knocked down to

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