Gazette-Biumenshine photo

BASKETBALL’S BEAU GESTE—Franklin's Thunderbolts, runners-up for the state high school
basketball championship, wrote a new chapter in sportsmanship Saturday night at lowa City
when Capt. Bill Fletcher presented the tournament ball to Waverly's Jim Strotman. The ball had
just been knocked down to the Linn county war finance committee on a bid of $116,000 in war
bonds, to the keen disappointment of Waverly rooters. Fletcher changed their disappointment to
delight when he accepted the ball from Craven Shuttleworth, who did the bidding for Cedar Rap-
ids, and promptly passed it on to the Waverly champions. In the background is Arthur Brayton of

Des Moines, who conducted the auction.

 

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