The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 5

MR-CRAMP 1S \ QITTIEAG ON THE THINKIN' UP YES- | WANTED TO BE ALONE SOI'™M SITTING| HERE SMOKING- DISAGREEABLE THINGS FOR | WELL YOULL NEVER HAVE A CROWD AROUND YOU WHILE YOURE , Srorin’ S | HEARD WHAT You %AIDTO MR- CRAMP-YOU'VE OFFENDED HIM-YOU IDIOT- I WISH | HAD THOUGHT TWICE BEFORE | MARRIED YOu - / i WEST BRANCH, lowa, July 24 Lawrie Tatum, old Quaker who was Herbert Hoover's . guardian Uncle Sam s OIympm F amily Bound for Amsterdam SKETCHED AS THE 85 PRES\DENT ROOSEVELT SET SAWL— FROM NEW YORK. ®OR AMSTERDAM HOLLAND AMERICA'S HOPE = LLOYD WAHN CHEERFULLY POSED WITH HIS COACH JACK RYDER BEFORE BOARDING THE OLYMPIC NEW YORK, July 21.—America’s big, happy family of Olympic ath- letes, for the 1928 Games at Am- sterdam, have reached that port. Sailing from New York June 11, on the President Roosevelt, the young men and women who will wear the Stars and Stripes in the international contests, have a duty which, if successfully performed, will again make the United States supreme in the world of athletics. In the past five Olympics Uncle Sam’s athletes as a unit have been unbeatable. Pre-Olympic dope this year again gives them the edge over the best that will gather at Amsterdam from all parts of the globe. Reaching foreign shores will mean loss of sea legs and other en. cumbrances of ocean travel but it will mean no change in tempo- rary domicile for the 400 persons aboard the big liner for plans call for quartering all aboardship until the return voyage is completed late in August. When the vessel reached Ams- terdam the American entries found that even Yankee conveyances had been arranged to carry them to and from their hotel-ship. Two Navy motor launches were taken along for this purpose. And American food was served almosy exclusively. The liner was Stocked with tons of American food. Five head chefs and a vast staff of cooks, waiters and other helpers attended to the appetites of the cruising athletes. If they choose, the Olympic pegformers could have water from the home- land, too, for five thousand durms of water were stored aboardship. FRANKIE GENARO DEFENDS CROWN TORONTO, July 24.—Frankie Genaro, of New York, last night successfully defended the National Boxing Association’s flyweight crown when he held Steve Rocco, of Toronto to a draw in a fast 10- round match. : e A Beck’s Vacation Tour of 40 residents of Omaha, Neb., s aboard| the Dorothy Alexarder, under the #upervision of W. E. Bock. e Dr. M. W. Garhart, prominen: physician of Seattle, was a passen. ger for Juneau aboard the Admiral Line stoamer in port today. .—v—.”— 014 papers for sale at the Empire. BoAT 08 KNG (LEFT) STAnFORD [ TALKING TO ED HANN SEORGIA TECH LAWSON ROBERTS ON HEAD COACH = y trious and energetic.” | shrewdness, was a sterling one for @ X WhERE T LosT| MY §TlLTQ NesT oAy / BELOW RIGHT = MARY WASHBURN, | of CALIFCRNIA, ON BOARD ¢ BN DOPE GIVEN ON BIG BOUT ON THURSDAY Claims Made that Tunney Will Knockout Heeney in Early Round FAIRHAVEN, J., July 24— Tom Heeney finished training yes- lerday with four rounds of hoxing which he did not appear to take seriously. It is said he is in fine condition for the fight next Thursday. Leo P. Flynn, who trained Demp. sey fir his last battle, takes issue with the former champion over Heeney's chances. “Tunney will win. I do not know about knocking Heeney out, but you must admit Tunney is a great fighter,” said Flynn. TUNNEY'S CHANCES SPECULATOR, N. Y., July 24— Although not over confident, Gene Tunney believes he has an excel- lent chance te knock cut Hecney. The champion claims he is in bet. ter condition tham for either of the fights with Jack Dempsey and Biliy Gibson, manager, claims newspaper experts, fresh irom the Heeney camp, agree that Tunney will win, probably by a knockout, in the early rounds. RENE LACOSTE NOT COMING TO FOR TENNIS TOURNEY AUTEUIL, France, July 24.— Rene Lacoste has decided not to defend the American Tennis Champicnship this year and will not proceed to the United States with the remainder of the French team next month. This was his announcement today. The general interpretation of Lacoste’s action is that France is taking a shot back at the United States Lawn Tennis - As- sociation for disqualification of Tilden which the French consider practically wrecked interest in the challenge round for the Davis Cup held by France for the first time mmy l (Internutiona: ‘That the Madlson Square Garden Corporation is soon o acquire i the New York Giants through the purchase of controlling stock ‘ is hinted by sports writers close to Promoter Tex a deal would, the report has it, involve roughly two million | dollars and call for Rickard’s rctention of Manager Johl Js ‘McGraw, (left) in the role of president. --—-J— Hiustrated Mewss ' . Such # Hoover's mother grow each year when he was a boy, predicted the | success of his orphan charge when Hoover was only 21. “He will succeed,” Tatum fore- cast, “because he is frugal, indus- The example of his guardian, in making the tiny nest egg left by by the alchemy of thrift and the orphan lad to follow. On ‘the rumpled and much- thumbed pages of the old records in the Cedar county courthouse at Tipton may be traced the story of how Lawrie Tatum's strict econ- omy and careful investments made i the original sum of $304 with which Hoover faced the world in | 1885, grow to $8. in 1891, when | the future republican nomin had 'reached 18. Tatum'’s first annual report as guardian of Herbert Hoover was | made in 18 It showed that §1.50 a week was being paid for the boy’s board with an aunt and |¢ uncle. When Hulda Hoover died she left $1,000 and a house and lot in’ West Branch. Herbert's share of the small fortune was $832.13%, according to the concise report of Tatum. But $15 for a suit of clothes and railroad fare to i the hothe of his uncle in Kingsley, Towa, = reduced the amount to $304.62. Through the courthouse records| may be traced to progress of the | boy from his mother's death until he was ready to enter Leland | Stanford university. It was the (firm and kindly hand of Lawrie| | Tatum, the understanding old Qua- ker, which shaped his early for. tunes—making his original ]IIH-‘ tage grow by sale of the house, by | investments which brought eight per' cent and by careful expendi. ture which enabled Hoover to en.| ter college with a nice sum still| saved up. | | Lawrie Tatum, has long since| passed from earth, but his orphan! ward has more than fulfilled his | prediction, In 1894 Mr. Tatum| made his final report to the clerk of couft in Cedar county, lowa,| with these optimistic words: “Herbert C. Hoover is making excellent progress at Leland Stan- \ford University, California. Al 'though his funds in my care are about exhausted, yet he is ambi- tious to complete his course in the i university.” U — | Old papers for sale at the Empire. G = THE WHITEHORSE | INN | The New Palatial Modern | tel at Whitehorse | The Whitehorse Inn has just | been ‘bullt in keeping witk | the latest in hotel construc- tion. 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STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet 17 14 12 11 11 11 6 6 League Won~ Lost imento Hollywood San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles Mission Seattle Portland " Nationel St. Leuis Chicago Cincinnati {New York Pittsburgh Brooklyn Boston 59 American League Won Lust Pet New York 66 2 Philadelphia . Louis Chicago Washington Cleveland Boston 51 .42 35 65 .389 Juneau Citx League Won Lost Pet. L7650 667 500 American Legion.. Elks " Moose Alaska 1 1 2 3 2 Juneau.... 0 which in some pa will mean that property owners will pay 35 per cent less for protection, were on file today at the office of the State Commissioner at Olympia, insurance men announced. The reductions were said to be the third step in a rate war waged between the companies affiliated with the Board of Fire Underwriters and the companies which operate independently of that board. The rates apply to 162 panies operating In this State, and represent the third cut in three years. 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