The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1929, Page 5

NOT DINCE | TOLD YOoUR H WIFE YOU OLGHT TO GO ON A DIET | HAVEN'T A | SEEN “YOuL IN | SOME Ti\ME- HAVE A, CIGAR WHO SLGGESTED S VI WUOZ T You ] THAT ? P Mo ©1929, Int'l Feature Service, Inc., Great Britain rights rese: to one performance a week in a ,scason that lasts only about three imonths at the most but on the basis of drawing - power-per-game, ,Cagle is a bigger card than Ruth or anyone else in sport, at least for this year. Pacific Coast League Mission 4; Hollywood 12. Los Angeles 7; San Francisco 6. Portland 10; Oakland 2. Beattle 13; Sacramento 6. The Army ceplain, n his_ five National League main games last fall, furnished the Philadelphia 2; Chicago 5. main thrills _Ior some 315,000 fans. Brockiyn 2; Cincinnati 4. This year, with West Point playing New York 10; Pittsburgh 5 the most pretentious schedule of its Boston 4, 'St. Louis 11, 7. history, Cagle's performances are American League likely to be the main attraction Chicago 4; Philadelphia 7. for upwards of 350,000, an average Detroit 7; Boston 8. of 70,000 spectators for ecach of St. Louis 5; New York 0. i five games that will take place in Cleveland 2; Washington 5. Cambridge, New Haven, New York, . N Urbana and Palo Alto. The biggest world’s series turnout Sl et was 328000, in 1926, when Babe Won Lost Ruth and the Yankees dropped the Mission 45 29 .608 | final decision to the Cardinals, and Los Angeles .44 30 595 |1t took seven games to roll up that Hollywood 4 31 587 | total. Portland 42 31 575] Jack Dempsey, in his five out- San Francisco 41 33 554 landing battles for the heavy- Oaklang 36 34 514| veight championship, drew an ag- Sacramento .. 32 48 .400 | 8regate turnout in excess of 500,- Seattle 19 56 253|000 . Nationa: League All of which seems to show that Won Lost Pct ) he big punch, the home run and Chicago 90 44 672| he wild dash through a broken Pittsburgh .8 57 578 field make up a trio of the greatest New York 71 61 537 ‘gate” attractions anywhere in the St. Louis 66 66 500 Wworld of sport. gkrl?;akv;éll;hia gg Z:; fig It was easier ir wvaseball's pre- Cincinrati 58 T 5 var days for a pitcher to collect Padton 51 8 383 30 victories than it was for a slug Rnsian Yetns er to bang out 30 home runs. It Won Lost Pt vasn't unusual for Mathewson, Philadelphia .. 93 P voung, Alexander or Johnson to L g = P 571] 228 30 triumphs on, the mound in R 0 62 :530 the old days but it was not until St. Louls 7 63 530 1920 that»Babc RuLh_ began rock- ¢ Washington e 72 459 nig the firmament with unpreced- Ditrolt: 6l 4 ‘452 ented totals of circuit blows. Chicago 53 79 402 Now, thp situation is exactly re- Bhaton o § 50 87 365 versed_, with the 30-or-more home ; run hitter no novelty whatever but the 30-victories-or-over apparently an extinct accomplishment amongz the boxmen. Half a dozen clouters have pass- runs and as many more may do so sefore the season closes. Not since Sergeant Jim Bagby turned the trick for Cleveland in 1920 has any twirler registered 30 victories and the spell won't be broken this season. Grove of the Athletics and Grimes of the Pirates got good starts, each reaching the 15th victory around mid-season but they bogged down somewhat after that, for one reason or another. ‘Tzie biggest drawizi carz on any| e clouter, it seems, is making gridiron this fall, or for thot mat- |¢ tougher for the pitcher. ter in any other field of sport, will be Christian Keener Cagle of Louisiana and West Point. The Army's All-America ball- [ Pebble Beach may be pardoned toter puts the finishing touches tc | for thinking about “Black Wednes- a dazzling career this season and |day” with some apprehension, for Sport 1 Slants ALan J.GouLp Most of the star performers in likely will pack ’em in, from Bos-,that’s the day when the 32 sur- ton to Palo Alto, as they haven't|vivors of the qualifying rounds been packed since the days of that|start match play with two 18-hole other famous redhead, Grange of [rounds. Not since he won the title Illinois. 3 in 1926 has George Von Elm got-| Over the day-in-and-out cam- |ten by this particular day of nerve- ¢ paign of baseball, Babe Ruth of |wracking competition and the great course plays to far bigger crowds|Bobby Jones has had ‘his closest than any football hero, restricted Jcalls in those opening tests. - . ’ - ing 7”7 $1.10 each . |No. 805 Pudding 8” $1.35 each No. 806 Pudding 9% $1.60 each > 4 (o No. 817 Steak Brofler 13%"38%" $4.00 each ed the 30 mark already in home! ‘he amateur golf championship at | There were any number of dep- recating gestures early in the base- ball season when such names as Herman and O'Doul began crowding the top of the National League ,batting list. The Implication was clear that this sort of thing was all right in the spring but would be quickly stopped when real hitters like Hornsby, the Waners, Terry Frisch and others swung into the stride. | But at the end of August, no one cxcept Floyd (Babe) Herman of Brooklyn had been able to stop Frank (Lefty) O’Doul of Philadel- ‘phia and no one at all had suc- ceeded in checking the National league’s “Bustin’ Babe.” The ter- rific hitting of these two outfielders lattached to second division clubs, ;ranks as one of the biggest sur- 'prises of a season full of unexpect- |ed developments all around. | There has not been the slightest |fluke about the way Herman club- (bed himself well out in front in ithe tussle for a batting crown that Rogers Hornsby has worn several times in the last nine years. The rangy Brooklyn slugger took over the pace-setting from O’Doul about the middle of June, with a mark of .338. He was up to .392 on July 15 and whaling away at a .413 |clip a month later, going toward the September home stretch. A boost of 25 points when the start- ing mark is .338 represents mighty consistent hitting. O'Doul was at 383 the middle of June and .385 the middle of August to remain a constant threat to the leader. It would be difficult to find two checkered nore piaymg careers than those of Herman and O'Doul They are among “the boys who have made good in spite of all.” Herman has been with 13 clubs al- together of his time shuttling back and forth between the East and Pacific Coast. He once was a pitcher with the Yankees, turned to the outfield in 1924 and was voted the most val- uable player in the Pacific Coast League in 1927 when the Giants | drafted him from San Francisco. | McGraw thought so little of O'Doul that he tossed him in with al bundle of cash to get Fred Leach from the Phillies. Now Lefty in| his first regular job, is also playing | the best ball of his career. Big Bill Tilden has been some- what harassed on the courts over the past two or three years as he fought gallantly against the inevi- i O'Doul has spent most | \ \ 8am Solomon, 13, has achicved the goal aspired to by thousands g l2aguse. of small boys—a job in the with the Chicago Cubs and is by a major league club. Rlana SIGNS WITH BIG LEAGUE AT 13 “dssoctated Pr He has signed a contract s youngest player ever to be signed ar Jos McCarthy e looking on. table slide down from the eres.t . But Big Eill, for all that he has slipped from the heights of 1920-25, : still has a lot of good tennis in his system. With no Frenchmen in his path, he figures to regain some of his old prestige at Forest, Hills in the national singles cham- pionship. At 35, Tilden's legs no longer can carry him about with the old cai s ease, the old sure- ness, but his crience and strok- | ing ability should keep him one or two jumps ahead of most chal- e lengers, including Doeg, Allison,{' Van, Ryn, Mercur, Lott, Cell and, e others, among- them the Englishman e “Bunny” Austin. . RECRUIT'S DEBUT A ONE HIT VICTORY INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12. —A kid from the Indianapo- lis sandlots has joined the fiction-like characters of baseball. He is Prentice (Lefty) Hall who in his first professional game, pitched Indianapolis to a one-hit victory over Mil- waukee. The first batter was the first and last to cannect safely. eeec0o00cc0oce ,T‘\VO HOLES IN ONE MADE ON SAME COURSE IN HOUR i PROVIDENCE, R. I, Sept. 12— Two holes-in-one were scored on the golf course of the Wanna- moisett Country Club within an hour of each other recently. Judge Benjamin W. 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