The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1928, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1928. - ! HERE COMED-JIM- BY GOLL ¢ LT TOOK ME THREE WEEKS . TO FIRE HIM- HE WAS TOO LAZY TO QUIT- HOW 19 _‘WT HELLO-JdIM- EVERYTHING ||A FINEJOB- AT HOME”J By CEORCE McMANUS SHES FINE- DONT I THAT'S SOME LOOK IT ? | GOT HER ROCK YOU VE GOT THERE RN REAL oxAMOND’ o .(4 IT BETTER BE REAL: IF ( 1T AIN'TIVE BEEN STONG ) School Age Youngsters Win Coast League Jobs, Hmled as Coming Stars|, . ..s s sermme -~ |, WATCH &M Wy, (Y SR v — , Brenzel and Gabler, both 18, have jumped dlrectly from high school to battery jobs in the Pacific Ccast League, while Crosetti, a semi-pro product, is a regular third sacker in the same circuit at 17. WINS BY KAY0 IN ONE ROUND SAN FRANCISCO, May Three youngsters are making his- tory in the Pacific Coast League this season while most boys of their age are still at school. Frank Crosetti, regular third baseman for the San Francisco Seals, is 17 years old and seems destined for stardom. He came NEW ORLEANS, into prominence in the winter|Tony Canzoneri, featherweight league, a semi-pro organization, | champion, last night won a sen- was signed by the Seals and blaz- | sational one round knockout over ed a spectacular trail through the | Claudie Wilson, of Birmingflam. training season, ending up with a’The bout was scheduled to go 10 firm hold on the “hot corner.”|rounds. He carries a hefty bat, which —_——————— yields a steady run of extrabase| MILKING MACHINE FREES hits. BOY FOR DIAMOND CAREER Glenn Gabler, 18, takes a regu- p lar turn in the box for Los An- SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 29— geles. He throws right handed|A patent milking machine put and his effective relief hurling|Leonard Backer in Class AA base- makes critics believe he is one of [ball. His father’s cows stood be- the best pitching prospects ever|tween him and a diamond career. picked up by a coast league club.|Fle had to help milk the cows. Gabler is a product of Long|The problem was how could he Beach high school. \ do this and play baseball at the Another 18-year-old who has|same time. won his spurs in the heat of a Backer, junior, went to work season’s campaign s Willlam|as a dairy hand, saved hiss coin Brenzel, catcher for the San Fran-[and bought his father a milking cisco Missions. Bremze! jumped | machine: Then Dad withdrew from an Oakland, Cal, high school | his objections to the baseball ca- to a Class AA uniform in 1927.|reer. Now Leonard is utility in- While he sees only occasional|fielder for the Sacramento club service, his owners predict aland going strong in the Pacific bright future for him and are con-|Coast Ieague. . ———a— tent to let him develop slowly MEXICAN TO TRY CHANNEL 29— May 29— PARIS AIDS 'ORT CLUBS B GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mexico, PARIS, May 29~8wrung clubs| May 29—Francisco Vizcaino, a na- of Paris are getting on a sound|tive of this region and swimming financial basis through city aid.|champion of Mexico, has gone in A fund of $40,000 a year has been |training here preparatory to a| appropriated to pay for five-|trip to Europe and an attempt to eighths of land or whatever fa-{swim the English Channel. Swim- cilities are devoted exclusively to,ming along the coast here in the general sports. Gulf of California, Vizcaino has ——to—— remained in the water more than BRITISH GET TENNIS COACH |22 hours at a stretch. — > WIMBLERON, England, May NOTICE 29—Engaged to coach Great Bri-| Notice is nereby given that tain’s lawn tennis players, Karel men congregating in crowds on Kozeluh, the Czecho-Slovakian |streets in front of pool halls apd professional, has taken up his du-|élsewhere using - profane lan-. ties and is trying out the form of |§uage, spitting on sidewalks, etc., several prominent men and wo-|Will be arrested and fined. men players on the famous courts here, 1—-141 :| | he has been forced to take ! | ' i ! BRIAN BELL IATED PRESS SPORTS WRITER) ball player first base for but fragile, at Washington. Judge started the season by getting four I hits in the opening game and has playing regularly, although hitting has been only fq ler sits on the bench and p thinks of the days when he: was no bench that could hold him while a was in progress. AT THIRTY-FIVE George Sisler, since 1915 a star n the American league, but only B ars of age, is on the| Washington bench g for something to turn up. The man | who went from the University of Michigan, where he was a star left-handed pitcher, to the St Louis Browns and at once demon- strated that he was good enough for the major leagnues as a pitch- er, outfielder or first baseman, seems to have run his course while a young man. A month after the opening of e Am n league , Sis. ler, who sold to Washington last December, had played in only DEL PRATT STARTED THE 'BAMA EXCURSION With half a dozen former stu- dents of the University of {bama playing in the !leagues the Crimgon Tide caloosa has become famous | baseball school sending its young eight games and had a batting| men to do postgraduate work in average of .154. He appeared as!the American and National a pinch hitter in most of the| 5. Time was when the Uni- games, starting only two, one in| of Alabama had only one left field and another at first mnus in big time baseball. base. The pioncer of the baseball move- It that | to the bench after 12 years as a star He was stricken with eye trouble in 1923 and was forced to re- rrln ouf, of; the game. .all, season, e came back and was belicved | to have recovered, but he has not been the same since, although he batted .327 in 149 games last sea- son. He is all right on high throws and will hit high pitches far aw but all the throws to first base are not high and the pitchers will not pitch high to him. Sisler twice hit over .400 in the American league, .407 in 1920 and | ¥ 420 in 1922, In his 12 years as || a fullfledged player he has fail- ed to hit .300 only once. He was declared the most valuable play- er in the American league in 1922 and in 1923 was appointed manager of the Browns. He was released as manager in 1926 and played through the 1927 season under Dan Howley, pres- ent manager of the Browns. Un- der the system of President Philip DeC. Ball of cleaning, his base- ball house, Sisler was sold to Washington for a price estimated at §$15,000 when six years ago sale of his contract would have been a case of “write your own ticket” if the Browns would have considered letting him go. When ! Sisler went to the Senators it was taken for 'granted that he would sunceod J(w Judge, a gmal is no fault of Sisler's cen-zu HARRI MACHIN SHOP Where the best always prevails PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL WORKS The Reliable News Stand 219 Front St. Next to Reliable Transfer We handle all Alaskan publications including Ketchikan Chronicle—Cordova Times— Anchorage Times — Fairbanks ews-Miner—Dawson News We are agents for the Kris Kross Razor and Supplies—Stationery and Miners’ Supplies If we haven't what you want, we’ll get it for you. 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