The minor sports at test size: boxing, bowling, golf, racing — the test record assembled

The sixth item takes the minor sports one by one at test size, and the pattern the tests return is uniform: the county's minor-sport record is real, and it is seated in the county's cities, not on this ground. Boxing first, because it carries the register's named pattern — hall and women pioneers. The hall end of the test is JoAnn Hagen (born Jo-Ann Verhaegen, South Bend, 1930/31 – February 5, 2004), the "Bashing Blond from South Bend": discovered while working at the Bendix brake factory, trained at promoter Johnny Nate's South Bend gym, and forced onto the road because women's boxing was banned in Indiana and Illinois alike. She lost to fellow South Bend native Pat Emerick by fourth-round technical knockout at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1949; she remains the only boxer to beat Barbara Buttrick, taking an eight-round decision at Calgary in 1954 in the first women's bout broadcast on radio, before 1,200 fans; she lost the national title to Phyllis Kugler in December 1956; and in the 1950s she built a sports center at 513 North Hill Street, South Bend, to train girl boxers. The honors landed posthumously: International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame itself in 2023. Every foot of that record is South Bend ground. Tested for this ground, no boxing hall, gym, or card seated in Osceola or Penn Township appears in any record reached — boxing closes tested negative for a local seat, with the pioneers' line told at boundary.

Bowling's test is shorter because this build already banked its negative, and the second look confirms it: no bowling house stands in the town, and no Osceola or Penn Township bowling record at league size was returned by the searches run. Golf's line for this ground is likewise a tested negative with boundary pointers. No golf course stands within the town limits (banked, and it stands); the county course an Osceola golfer actually plays is Mishawaka's Eberhart-Petro Municipal Golf Course, 801 North State Street, Mishawaka — opened 1929 with nine holes south of the St. Joseph River and expanded to 18 holes in 1949, taking in four river crossings, at 89 acres, par 70, 5,924 yards, on the course's own repeated listing copy (2019, 2021, 2023). One variant is flagged and not merged: a single 2023 twosome listing prints the expansion year as 1994 against the repeated 1949, and a GolfLink record's "opened in 2018" is a data error against the same record.

Racing completes the set at pointer size. The county's oval is the South Bend Motor Speedway, 25698 State Road 2, South Bend — a quarter-mile paved oval opened Friday, August 23, 1946, built by the South Bend Auto Racing Association for midget racing; its final "The Last Lap" weekend was reported in May 2024 (SPEED SPORT), and the track has since been offered for sale as land in 2026 reports. No track, strip, or racing ground was found in Osceola or Penn Township. The article's verdict, as the register framed it, is the test record itself: four minor sports tested, four county-seat records at boundary, and no seat on this ground in any of them.

Sources:

1. International Boxing Hall of Fame and International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame biographies of JoAnn Hagen — Bendix brake factory; Johnny Nate's gym; the Emerick loss (Council Bluffs, 1949); the Buttrick win (Calgary, 1954, first women's bout broadcast on radio); the Kugler title loss (December 1956); the 513 North Hill Street sports center; IWBHF 2014, IBHOF 2023 (boundary).
2. This build's Sports — the banked negatives: no bowling house in town; no golf course in town limits, Eberhart-Petro being Mishawaka's (banked; re-tested November 2026, stands).
3. Eberhart-Petro Municipal Golf Course listing copy, repeated 2019/2021/2023 — 801 North State Street, Mishawaka; opened 1929, nine holes; expanded to 18 holes in 1949; 89 acres, par 70, 5,924 yards. Variant flagged: one 2023 twosome listing prints 1994 for the expansion; GolfLink prints "opened in 2018" (data error against the same record).
4. SPEED SPORT, May 2024, and 2026 land-sale reports — South Bend Motor Speedway, 25698 State Road 2, South Bend, opened Friday, August 23, 1946 (South Bend Auto Racing Association, midget racing); "The Last Lap" weekend May 2024 (boundary pointer).
5. Open-web searches, November 2026, for boxing halls/gyms/cards, bowling, golf and racing grounds seated in Osceola or Penn Township — none returned (tested negative at web strength).