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

BRlN(..lNG up FATHIZR 15 MR-SMITH IN7? 1F S0 TELL HIM MR-IIGGS 1D CALLINT SAY- I'VE PAL SPORTS D EIGHTY CENTS ALREADY TO-DAY GITTIN' ME HAT BACK AT DIFFERENT PLACES- YOUL GO AN'TELL MR-JONES M HERE - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1928.° = AMER, LEAGUE BATTING HAS HIGH PLANE Fifty Players Went Through | 1928 Season with Marks of .300 NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Bat.ing| in the American League through. | out the seascn of 1928 was on a high plane and the rec show | that fifty men went tarough with marks of .300 or large majority of the gulars | who were 1 all of the games. to' tinish, the strife for bat among the regular performers was chiefly among three men, Leon Goslin of Washington, Heine Man. ush of St. Louis and Lou Gehriz “Goos of New York. This contest went | clear up to the last week, when Gehrig fell a few pcints behind and not until the final day was ths winner determined between Gos- lin and Manush, the former nos out ahead with a mark of Manush was next to him, only point behind and Gehrig was thi with .374. e. made his record In game: a e arm making it cessary for him to lay ofé for time durihg the season. He poled 173 hits in 456 times at bat and| among his wallops were ‘oubles with ten triples and 17 home runs.| Goslin 'former manager nt Indianapolis. / YORK, Dec. |2 36 ded to The . record of Manush was per.| R Saih. more. inbressive Hacaibe e | PEUMUNEY (ini s, 0 al for Glenn| was in 154 games, making 241 Wright, Jess Petty returns to the! hits in 638 times up and he had|Manager for whom he won 29, games back in 1924. That year Petty pitched for In- dianapolis in the American Asso- clation. His boss was Donie Bush, now manager of the Pirates i 47 doubles, 20 triples and 13 hom- ers. He was tied with Gehrig for the lead in two baggers the latter also playing 154 games. | Once more Babe Ruth of the| Petty’s season's record of 20} Yankees was prominent with the|won and 8 lost placed him along. bat, hitting 54 home runs during|side the league's greatest hurlers the season which is only six be-|of all time and enabled the In- hind his record of the previous dians to finish just three games year, He was far ahead of them |short of the pennant. 1 all in the total runs scored having |, With the Indians that year was tallied 163 times during the year.}(_'armen Hill, now one of Bush's Gehrig was next to him with 139 hest hurlers at Pittsburgh. Petty PETTY BACK WITH HIS OLD BOSS DEMPSEY MAY Jess Petty, who with Harry Riconda gces to Pittsburgh in ex- change for Glenn Wright, again will pitch for Donie Bush, his MEET WINNER MIAMI MATCH Former Champion May Take on Winner Shar- key-Stribling Go and Combs of New York was|went to Brooklyn in 1925 and Hill MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 20 —Tex Rick. third with 118 runs. In runs bat-|to Pittsburgh the next year. ard announces that Young Strib. ted in, Ruth and Gehrig wound| Their careers have a striking re. ling will meet Jack Sharkey about up with a tie for the honor, h:n'n)uz semblance in w‘hm neulwr’ ‘;'nm-mj‘l*w,m”,‘.\ 26 at Miami Beach and driven in . Bob Meusel of the nis best baseball until after hely, ) honnsey will see the fight as Yanks was next to them having had reached thirty. Hill was 32 4 means of deciding whether he batted in 113 runs. years old when he won 22 games| .., o .. (he winner. Because of the heavy hitting, |and lost 11 for the Pirates in 1927 Of course the promoter may base running was not prominent and Petty was just 30 when hel, oo .0 q0 giacked another in the offensive play. The leadingturned in his great year at Indian- base stealer was Charles Myer of apolis in 1924, the Boston club and he had only| Wright, for whom " Brooklyn 20 stolen bases, Johnny Mostil of traded Petty and Infielder Harry Chicago was next with 23 and Har-|Riconda, had played better base- ry Rice of Detroit was third with 'ball than his record. for the last thy Sk [ 20. two years would indicate. In 1924, | 1) Batting feats of the season were 1925 and 1926, Wright rated as one |, . accomplished by Goslin who hit!of the league's est shortstops. He safely in 25 consecutive games and |hit better than .300 in 1925 and|,, by Heilmann of Detroit who on 1926 and looked like another Hans July 26 in one game, batted in|Wagner until he ran into a field- eight runs. jing slump which finally cost him The Yankees took the honors in his job as a regular. j team batting again but on this oc-| Next year probably will decide casion were hard pressed by the!whether Petty and Wright have a/ th said h | Demp {plans i“hlll {fight, 1 e thing is settled. Sharkey’'s manager harkey has signed. Pa St gin training January 25 an nvadis, As for his trainer, Dempsey, know but if he thinks the winner of the believe he will It not he do not e ring again. sey left Salt Lake with yesterday. Rickard said: I do not know Dempsey, Rickard Demp sey's he BO way but unless the deuces are wild, announced ribling son is to go to Miami and a Jack Jerry can Miami into prob. bly will stay in retirement.” Athletics, At the finish the Yanks' 'tature in big league baseball, |**¥ 1wyt peMfont team average was .206 and mu - - — i Mack-men's was .295. 'Hm'lmnd Kills e ey (S 0 ol T | = ' 4 TEAM WINS 3 GAMES | T ? Himself When | ALL BY FIELD GOALS EARLY RISING For ALL | Wife Bobs Locks ot | | CHINA'S NEW CREED | ARBOR, Mich, Dec, | = | METZ, France, n ec, 2).—Furious| | 29.—In a season in which field | NANKING, Dec. 29—~There is = because his wife had shorn off her no place for “sleepy heads” in | pecty hair, a workman, Henrij any department of the Nation- | Lohste locked himself in his| alist government, says a Nan- | co'la 1 hanged himself with! king decree designed to en. | nls lelt | courage early rising. When the neighb oke in| | “Be early risers” and “in- | the door he was de Lohstetter| | | dustrions and punctual in what | wags 24 yoars of age anl Lt two ever you undertake,” i3 the | children. wording of an order, addressed | | e e et ! to government employes, but | | PAGE DION YGENES! il | intended as an incentive 13 [ KINGSTON 11 ( wie ' | people throughout the country | Langdon, negio you Ed | to get a good start for th elderly white man dron ':n-_ I day’s work. Before he could retira (hy coim, | | Athletics are “also encour- | the owner had drivia n his aged for keeping fit those mot cautomobile. Willie crasled | own flivver aad over ot | engaged in manual labor. { man 11 miles aw.y. “You e‘ o f i Keep the dime,” the latier cald. Jdid field goals, goals were exceedingly rare in | scoring points, Michigan won all three of its games via goals | from the field. Illihois and Michigan State fell 3 to down 10 to 7, 0 while Towa went Gembis boot- ed 2 of the goals with Hughes, Furthermore, ines managed to count one more touchdown than In not a game | a substitute, getting the other. the Woolver- | Just they did the Maize and Blue gather more than a single touchdown, and one of the four compiled, that against Ohio State, on a fluke. was | The Rev. T. Sheerin, who was | {in Juneau over the Christmas J | ( | holidays, is a passenger for Seat- | [ g8 {tle on the steamer Northwestern | |As one of the privileges of his Swat Twins Responsxble b lchurch office the Rev. Sheerin| f 142 R D [ |came north to assist at the holi- | or uns During | | day services here and in Doug-| American League | J/ llas. The Mass of Dawn was said 7 by the visiting priest early Christ- NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Babe \ GISISOESIMERSSSSW / | mas morning and Christmas Day Ruth aid 1ot g the Mt re Luque, veteran Gin. [N¢ Went to Douglas and officiated Pwing. of . the lchbiing Naw|. [9ener Adplte Jil o his pitehing | 2t the mass there. Father Sheerin ¥ Yankebs, 'were rasponsdie| o mm‘"{ gL ohF Tn | el R Townend, YRkl for the: mout fUAE Susiag the 008 oL ano(h:r‘c‘c oo e ryepo;nd to| Bishop Crimont arrived on the Anisrican Leagin ‘campaigmisnt| ni oree Tanalfedfion’ | uaugls |NOTLAWERREEN fioi ths Wastwand gk e Bl AC- | have been . angling . and it was planned by both he cording to official figures. Ruth| yarvices. and Father Sheerin to meet be- and GSn¥ly wargeRD raypiERIil fore the ship sailed south. This for /143 runs PR T was impossible as the vessel pull- Bob Meusel, team.maie of the| T8 ouf. Kty radiatiiug: HeAE famous pair mmhr‘-d third. Heinie ELKS SET FUR only one hour and the Bishop |Manush of St. Louls, Al Simmons Saantd " to iokate MRCHER of the Athletics, and Harry Heil-| Sheerin who at the same time ! mann of Detroit were next in line, | MUNDAY'S HUP % to find Sio kG, in Ruth was 1 the most | — e s. Pitchers gave the |:Jm.‘ ATTENTION ks d the season For Carpenter Work of any | First Baseman Biue of the nrwmwslage All Fixed for Elks'|kind—shop or city—cCall Handy |followed Ruth. with 105 walks in oo b Andy, Phone 498. 154 gonco. Gebiig ranved mivd| Annual Hi Jinks New i T kg "',“\““"‘ the Year Celebration above homors Ituth was the biggest | . st:ikeout victim. He fanned 87| (Monday night the Elks Hi Jinks, event of the season, THAT SOUNDS © 1928, by Int'l Feature Service, Inc. Great Britain rights reserved. PROMISIN'- 'L TAKE A PEEP - RUTH, GEHRIG | HOLD RECORDS times in 154 games of ball. (,mmg,liu followed with 69 whifs and Mousel | WORLD DRUG | . DEMAND I8 the criminal law reform commis.|Oh¢ one-hundred of its present sion of the Reichstag, shows that|Y2lue: 0 the use af narcotic dru in Ger-| many has increased rapidly in | i ll‘,’“ WHY NOT LET US cel 80} quency. mand for narcotics at 80,000 pounds yearly, one fourth. German production market th al mate world demand fo! fu public health ministry now controls| ev in and that might drt pr adopted Reichstag to take adequate precau-| tions to limit the German produc.! tion ments of the medical within the Reich. ! Descendant of Rncin_e PARIS, Dec. 29 —A direct des.| cendant of the great French dram- atist, Racine, has been - rescued! from misery by the playwrights of today. Mademoiselle Genevieve Vaud- rey d'llliers, whose famous ances- to! mie Francaise two and a half cen- tu half blind and penniless and sick by of thy !port a demand g the copyright laws, | neaun o INCREASING BERLIN, »oc. 29.—A survey by| nt years. ning oceur Cases of morphine poi- with alarmirg fre- the world de-| Experts placed of which Germany exports To a suggestion to restrict the to the home the objection was raised at only a few countries produced kaloids and there was a legiti- for narcotics r medical purposes. 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N\ 4 \ ¢ 05 Qe 23 ) 12:22 ACE HUDKINS WINS MATCH NEW YORK, Dec, Ace Hud “Nebraska Wildcat” got a decision over Rene Devos, Belgian middleweight, in a close and spec- (tacular 10-round fight here last | night 29. - e |FATHER SHEERIN RETURNS SOUTH 's New Year's Bve celebration came third with 56 in 131 games Joe Sewell of Cleveland was the|The Bills have taken unusual care toughest batter in the league in|™ arranging for this event and A ; ) ¢ se something entirély new in e the matter of striKeouts having|DYOMIse something e ) ; 2 fanned only nine times in 155|(he Way of entertainment featuros.| | Plrbl.Nu"]er | games. | Hi Jinks, an annual affair with| | 13147 | Bing Miller of the Athletics ana|'he local Bills, has won the high-| | Oswald Bluege of the Senators(¢Sh of popularity. It is the me. were tied in the matter of hit|dim through which local fun-lov- scond Number | Ibatsmen, Each was nicked eight|®® speed the departing year and ) iy ©""| welcome in the new one. 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