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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 19:8. By GEORGE McMANUS GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League ENG. CHANNEL | ;o075 s ew York 6, 3; Pittsburgh Seventeen-Year-Old Girl in irooklyn 0, 1; Cincinnati Water Slightly Over American League Fifteen Hours RRINGING UP FATHER WELLTHIS 1D ABOUT ALL | | CAN STAND-MWE GOT ME TEMPER UP- I'M GOIN' TO FIND OLUT WHO UPSETS MY THINGD AROUND HERE- ecattle LISTEN- | SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN THIS JOB- 'M BEATIN' A HORSE QUT OF A JOB- 19D THAT 907 WELL- DON'T TALK BACK TO _! ME-I'LL TAKE NO LZF, OA%S FROM YOu OR_ANY: e | RIEDSD V'LL SAVE MY COMPLAINT UNTIL THINGS SETTLE DOWN g W7 ARoLND HERE * leveland 1; Philadelphia 3. etrcit 2; Boston 1 3; Washington 4 STANDING OF CLUES Pacific Coast League won Lost weramento Hollywood 3an Jakland Angeles ion DOVER Miss Laddie 8 London girl, swam Channel, arriving at ! | Cape Grisnez, France, aft 1 X in the water 15 hours \“’ I} minutes. ”m] | = { Miss Sharp is the fifteenth per |#on and the fifth woman to swim the Channel. She failed to break Gertrude Ederlo’s record of 14 | hours and 31 minutes thus losing W.. prize of nearly $5,000 offered by a newspaper. - ‘POPULATION OF CANADA TODAY Aug. 24 estimated England harp 24 years the BEnglish Dover Francisco from e v ‘ortlénd Seattle bein 1| AL nt'l Feature Service. Inc [ it cu"-‘. Britain rights bl Nationai | ! 1 [y ™ Teague Won' Lost 68 16 71 48 New York incinnati Foofball Herd Takes New Bfide £ kj“ OTTAWA " population i 658,000 by the Bureau an increase of over the estimate of last The population of British Co lumbia is put at 583,000 against last year's estimate of 575,000 The 1921 census put the Dom- nien pepulation at 8,788,000, Chicago Pittsburgh Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia American 32 18 League Canada’s Won Lost at York of Philadelphia St. Louis Detroit Senators Give tistics, | SECOND GUESSING = BASEBALL —, Jy San Sev, WHERE ARE THE GIANTS % OF YESTERYEAR? | Where do the Gi Juneau City League ki il Won Lost game for ( " lanta instead of ts go when |92y When he s a bit wild he they got through playing baseball] Might have exceeded the major {for John J. McGraw and the New |league record for generosity. The| 28 . e - York entry in the National league? | former Yankee walked ten Crack- 3 = a Many of them go to Toledo, Casey |8 in his tour of duty and the Stengel, who was once a Giant,|record for the major: tands at| looks with favor on the New York 16, shared by four pitchers over a| cast-offs and has 14 on his To. Period from 1887 to 1915. Bruno ledo pay-roll. The former Giants Haas of the Athletics was the last | s include + Koehler, Fullis, Jess Pitcher to walk 16 in one game,! R o s, Ryan, O'Neil, Huntzinger, June 23, 19 Willlam George .M‘w»*m«--'f lins, Scott, Hamby, McNamara, Of the New York Nationals was =g ; mero, Crawford and Mueller. the ‘*"*'i May 30, 1887. This feat| i § *.,‘% Cascr himselt makes it 15, more Was made in the morning, but the| & i players than many & good bage. NeXt month George Van Haltren| Yot seSmmmenis Bl e b ot o wrms. Spme Of the Chicago Nationals tied it in E ot Phexs. witistes farmed to the afternoon. . Beall was not the American Association cluh|charged with a defeat at Chatta- Afluivill he. Fachlisd. - Mall inooga, however, for the Lookouts {outfielder and Crawford, who jwon the game, 10 to 9, after he (play almost anywhere, will get an./had rcsigned for the day. His other chance, and perhaps some of (WO successors were content to is-| the others. ~With all this array Sue one pass each. The oppos.| of talent Toledo has not been able|iNg pitchers also did some wild | flinging, dividing six passed into| three parts FAN WITH MIRROR ks 1 WHIFFS BABE RUTH innings one Amedican Legion. 4 Alaska Juneau.... 1 A rabbld : SICK HEADACHE pulling for his team and fearful of the Babe, flashed i «.. QUICKLY a pocket mirror in Ruth's Carter’s Little Liver Pills eyes as he gwung. move the bowsls fres frow Ruth fanned, and the fan was expelled from the park The Sox won the game by one run 1 4 CHICAGO, new way Babe Ruth Aug. to strike Found out to member of the family. 25 | CARTER'S i PILLS a te Ted Coy, one of Yale's most famous gridiron supermen, is here | ictured for the first time with his wife, the former M Lottie ruhn, at El Paso, Texas, where they plan to make their home, | *Twas just a short time ago that the immortal Ted was divorced | by Jeanne Eagels, sta{;e and screen star. ¢ nternational Illustrated News) THE NEW VICTORY SIX NEW DESIGN BRINGS GREATER PERFORMANCE The finest performer in its class—the greatest maximum speed and the swiftest acceleration ever brought to this price field—the most horsepower per pound of car welght !to make its presence felt to any extent in the 1928 race. The .- CROQUET GAME champion of 1927 is not likely to | repeat as its best for the current |edition of the race is to hover in 0 | GENE TUNNEY -—the lowest center of gravity—the greatest riding comfort —the strongest chassis and body construction—the most or- iginal beauty — that is Dodge Brothers mew Victory Six. BACK TO LAND - OFANCESTORS Former Champion Greeted by Thousands with Wild Irish Cheers DUBLIN, Aug. 24-—Gene Tun- TIIES COMEBACK IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24.- l’ru,: fessional men, their wives and! children have joined forces \\'ilh} the “average citizen” and his fam-, ily in aiding croquet to stage 2 comeback in the world of sport. | Each afternoon, Sunday included; | finds dozens of devotees of the IR game at Palmer Park here nu.h”"" came to the land of his an. the click of mallet against ”m‘l('(',\tm’x yesterday and thousands wooden ball is heard through da_‘,_mr admirers greeted him with wild bbby |Irish cheers. So great was the Charles W. Willlams, reviewing | Press of the crowd at Kingston, appraisers of the Federal Land|Yhere he landed, that the g Bank, revived the game in New |Pers of the reception committec Orleans. He sces in it an ideal|Dad difficulty in getting him to sport for the business man the _esr for: Dublin “There is no other game to equal 1""9")/ flonted ”“’_ ’."Xm'i' croquet,” Mr. Willlams declares,| "¢ Will be married in P “In the first place it takes real e brainwork in engineering your play. Golf has the wrong hours for busy men with little leisure. Few men can take the entire af- ternoon or morning away from their office. Croquet, in compari- son, allows plenty of good exer- cise with from one to three hours play after the day's work is done. “Croquet is a fascinating game. It doesn’t matter what else you do or what your hobby is, if you start playing croquet, you will drop all other sports and play nothing but that.” | R E. M. Polley, Territorial Tax Collector, took passage for La- touche on the Yukon after wisit- ing in Juneau for several days. inhuul 500 per cent, far from nough to registe timate vic- W st e McCaul Motor Compan.y | TY COBB WAS A 1GOOD BASE RUNNER TOO There are base runners on the 500 boys' baseball teams playing {in the American Legion sponsored !circuit in Greater New York and !then there is Resnick, unidentified |by first name in the box scores of |the Junior Giants, but well-known to opposing catchers. Resnik who aided the Giants in defeating the New Yorks 26 to , stole 12 bases liif the game. It was observed by spectators at the contest, played in Hamilton Fish Park, that Res- nick was running more or less wild, but the full extent of his larceny was not apparent until the box score was checked, when American Legion officials found that he had made a record. The major league mark for all time for stolen bases by one player in a single gam is seven, dating i back to the 90's. Eddie Collins | holds the modern record at six. |A dozen major league baseball stars have donated trophies for leaders in the several fields of baseball endeavor, to be competed for by 8,000 youngsters playing in the American Legion tests in Greater New York. Hazen Cuy- ler has offered a cup for the lead- ing base runner. The winner ‘probahly will have to do some- thing to stop Resnick, WILD GAME IN SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION If Wally Beall had pitched a full For onc young star and tentative promise of two others, Minneapolis of the American Association obtained enough help from Washington to become a pennant contender. Pitcher Liska (left) and Cutfielder Harris (right) are the undelivered players. Confidentially, they have about everything here, ice cream, cold drinks, even Phonographs and records, . Ls ) 4 The Greatest Reduction MINNBAPOLIS, Aug. 24.—Big 16 1ost one leg in the World War, league clubs don’t always have the| 'has just climbed the 14,705-foot advants In trades with small|patterhorn, one of the most diffi- teams. Witness the case of theloul of Swiss mountains, Minneapolis club of the American | Young, who has a metal leg, is Association. |the son of Sir George Young, of ABe st Cookham, Berkshire. ~ The loss 1928 season of his leg has not prevented him ing that the |from following any of his favorite ond division outfit revealed tHat|occupations which are mountai. the club had three outstanding|negring, swimming, travel and all young stars. 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The Senators came through with anoth- er infielder and another pitcher, meanwhile permitting the Millers | to retain Liska and Harris, So, for one player and an op- tion on two others, the Millers got five Washington men, picking up enough strength to grab second place and become a strong pen- e s RL ~ : - I Costs Less bit of business acquired Pitchers tO Operate than our Old Ice-Box Van Alstyne and Lisenbee, In. fielders Gillis and Hayes and Catcher McMullen, 4 People are finding that Frigidaire usually costs less to operate than they formerly paid for ice. Added to this feature of economy are the great il The Senators will have to wait| until the close of the American number of Frigidaire advantages that are obtain- able in no other way. TRUESDELL’S GUN STORE GET YOUR GUNS IN SHAPE Don’t wait until the opening of the HUNTING SEASON! We carry a full line of all kinds of Ammunition and Guns e AR » . 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