The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1930, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MO\DAY JAN. 13, 1930. By GEORGE McMANUS i BRINGING UP FATHER NOW | HOPE YOUL WiLL STOR TALKING ABOUT MY B8ROTHER | HE GOT A JOB8 AD CONDULCTOR | ON) THE STREET CAR LINE YESTERDAY- HELLO "MR QIGGS THIDIS THE PRESIDENT OF THE STREET RAILWAY | WOLLD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUL IN REGARD TO YOUR WIFES BROTHER TH *r\‘s‘ PREDIOE ‘\lV OF | | STREET RAILWAYN | | AN SAID HED !»av\ur ? THING ABOULT YOur \F HELL dL)?)T L\r\n\ X THERES THE OHONE- | | EXPECT TO HEAR FRO™M A GUY WHO SAYD HE DIDN'T LOSE ANY MONEY BROKEN WINDOWS REPAIRED DO YO MEAN TO TELL ME HE HAS =8 REALLY couE o ok | WORK? IN THE STOCK MARKET: | NOW LISTEN @© 1929, It Feature Service, Inc . Great Britail BACK - ‘x I in rights reserved s athletic rece:pls from | exceeded $1,000,000 at Eastern. colleges in 1929— Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania If they were not quite up to that mark, the figures at Michigan in the middle west and at California, Stanford and Southern California on the Pacific coast were fairly close to the million-dollar level. Foothall receipts contributed more than three-fourths of the athletic ! income in each and every case and the ends of commercial enterprise, ; the Carnegie report, arc | not in sight. | Pennsylvania within the past two years has substantially increased the | ity of its big stadium, Frank- | ield, and built a magnifice: indoor Palestra. Harvard this year | enlarged its stadium on 4 perma-! nent basis, besides installing a cov- ghted press box that brought | three rousing cheers from the wan- | de: 7 correspondents: i Yale's complete athletic plant, made possible by huge:profits from | football in the bowl, is one of the ' best in the east, if not in the en- | tire country. ! Southern California alone of these | major colleges has no exclusive stadium of its own but the Los An- | (Astociated Press Feature Service) geles coliseum, set in Exposition| NEW YORK, Jan.13—Somz angles ark adjoining the university, pro- |0f baseball appeal to the fans'| vides an ideal battleground at a |imagination even when mest of the | reasonable cost. country is locked in snow and ice. | And one of these angles concerns Basehits, especially home runs, | “Smack 'Em” Smead Jolle: may be as decisive as any factor in uled arrival in the major modern big league baseball but the| Jolley, who goes to the W National League averages for 1929 Sox, needs only to keep step with reveal conclusively that something Earl Averill and Roy Johnson, the besides the big punch is needed to other members of San Praneisco's | win pennants or even get into the/great outfield whom he paced in | first division. l1928 to' assure himself of wide ac- | “Smack 'Em” Smead Jolley, the super-cocker. from the cific coast league, is going cast in 1930 to add to the cannon- 1 Avel hasn't mise2d the .385 mark in five years and reckons he is du> to stay around that averag: the big circuit. By JAY VESSELS Sports Editor The Phillies led the circuit in claim his first year in the upper |1928 averages showed their true sured of a dangerous rival. | O 4 JOLLEY FOLLOWS PALS TO COAST CLOUTER HITS AROUND .390, JOLI.EY N o | spectively, | soon after the official White Sox Art Shires will be as- PHONE 1-2 Complete Stock of Window Glass, Doors, Sash and Roofing Papers fel Juneau-Young Hardware Company If It's Hardware We Have It SPORTS . O MAJORS; b2 EARL AVERILL | So Smead had to co: ue mas- league fences for an- His cause ly by the way Aver n whangzd the | apple in the American league. In 1929, Jelley: made. 314 ed 172 runs and bagged 35 finishing with a batting 1ge of .386. | Johnson hit .314 for Detroit, es. | tablishing himself as a slugger by |getting 48 doubles to lead the league. | Averill now branded as’ anoth 1 Tris Speaker, batted .331 and show- |ed he was also a long distance hit-| |ter by getting 73 extra base blows, ‘42 of which were doubles. | Jolley, who is six feet, two inches |tall and weighs 210, hasn't the speed | that Averill and Johnson possess. | hut he is stronger at the plate. He | hits, hom- aver- batted around .390 for the last five | ‘years and in 1928 hit more than| 400 to lead the coast loop. If he can keep it up with the I ‘i for - | “What’s the best * fuccess with horses?" ~ 'understand, just shaking them up.” “HE MAKES EM GIT UP SAY TRAINER 5y RALPH WHEATLEY (A. P. Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS ,Jan. 13.—Merlyn Knight, 18-year-0id mite of a youngster, rode into fame as 1929 |champion jockey of America out of |the hardest school known to horse- imen—the western rodeo. " Unknown a year ago this lad fell under the keen eyes of Ed Mc- Cune horse owner and trainer, who ltook him out of the ranks of exer- }cise boys and mounted him on isome of his best colts. The boy quickly showed handling high strung jand a genius for nosing | pounding field at the wire. | On December 20 he had 1403 horses in the money. !the total, 142 were W 138 |second and 123 third. No othor/ |rider came near his record. a skill horses out a placed Out of To meet this boy in off hours you |would never suspect his being the {premier rider of the American turf. \Fc {s modest to a fault and runs y from newspapermen was born in Gooding, Idaho, 118 years ago,” he said. “I was | just about born with horses and at |14 I began riding my father’s string 'in rodeos and on western fair cir- cuits “A friend of mine goi on the |main circuits and brought me in as exercise boy. Mr. McCune picked ime up and gave me my chance. horse I ever rode? Well, I dunno, but Flag- bearer never lost a race under me.” “How do you account for your he was asked. “Just a knack, I suppose. I ride them all alike. That’s a lot of bunk about some boys getting speed out of horses by talking in their eats and lifting thém in with their hands. I am a whip boy myself. { ’bellevc in shaking them up with the whip. Not beating them, you ing oval And that was all this grey eyed teely haired boy would say. But friendly stableman contributed the {opinion that Knight not only was e e ? AND GIT.” THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS OF LEADING RIDER THE GASTINEAU Our Services to You Begin and FEad at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Casrying Boat THE NUMBER OF FORD TRUCKS SOLD DURING THE FIRST 8 MONTH OF 1929 EQUALLED 49: % OF TOTAL SOLD OF ALL OTHER MAKE OF TRUCKS COMBINED IN SAME PERIOD OF TIME There’s a Reason Ford Trucks Now Have the Four Speed Transmission Juneau Movors, Inc. FORD DEALERS Safe and Economical ELECTRIC APPLIANCES Make Useful Lasting GIFTS canter 1 —5 |the best jockey on the tracks, bu» ‘w “the best kid alive.” | “You know that kid hasn't got a {bad habit unless you call smoking “ {one” he said earnestly. “All he | |thinks about is horses. He knows | |how to sit 'em, hand ride 'em and ; MERLYN KNIGHT. ! fractious Focus for an early mom-j on the Jefferson Park! ‘That's a bo, H | (;ARBA(’E HAULING ! | W. E. TARR | Inquire building below Cable Office, make 'em git up and git. Alaska Electric Light “Nerve! That boy has it,” waxed (this stable philosopher. . “He has H)QC! thrown and trampled and got !back up and made 'em win race: |He was thrown four times in eight ys up in St. Louis. & Power Co. Juneau—Phone No. 6 grade slugging strength. Many other clubs 'this case it would be “Smack 'Em hitting last season with the re- markable average of .309, seven; Averill and Johnson were picked inquired about Big Jolley, points better than either Pittsburgh Up by Cleveland and Deuoit re- found his pnce mg too high. or Chicago, but the Phils pinished | no better than fifth. Their pitch- ing staff, or rather the lack of it, was the answer to where Burt Shot- ton's men finished. The Phils pounded out 153 hom= runs, as compared with 140 for the | clouting Cubs. This mark was only five short of the major league vecord of 158, set by the Yankees | in 1927. : Of the handfull of players who| missed not a single National League game last season, three oll them were Don Hurst, Art Whit- ney and Lefty O'Doul, all big gunsl in the Phillie attack and the hmerI pbatting champion of the league. 1f old Grover Alexander can find | a few more winning games in his| aged arm and if another pitching ' find or two can be added to the staff for next season, the Phillies will give most any club an argu- ment, if not a knockout wallop. | So great has been the golf rush! for the $25,000 Agua Calientie Open the middle of January that the of- ficials in charge of the Mexican yesort’s big money tournament have limited the field to 90 players. Tais makes it more exclusive than the National Open which is limited to around 150 performers. Leo Diegel, the club pro, heads the list of eligibles, who will com- prise the 32 qualifiers in the re- cent P. G. A. championship, the first 30 and ties in the last Na- tional Open and the leaders in the $10,000 Los Angeles Open. - e - ATTENTION EASTERN STARS Juneau Chapter No. 7, Order of Fastern Star will hold a regular business meeting Tuesday, Jan. 4th at 8 p. m. Visiting members wel- come. ! LILY BURFORD, Worthy Matron. FANNIE L. ROBINSON, Becretary. Burleigh Grimes. star pitcher of the |Pittsburgh Pirates, with his wife, in the days when there was no discord to mar their marital existence. Now Burleigh has filed a counter divorce peti- tion to a suit which was started by his g vife several weeks ago in Pittsburgh. Grimes, in his petition, claimed that his wife’s jeal- ousy caused his Ntransfer from Brooklyn to the New York Giants several years ago. HASKELL SIGNS TO MEET IDAHO ELEVEN LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. |Branch was announced here by Frank W. McDonald, athletic di- |rector of the school. lN P OCATELLO GAME] The game will e played Novem- | 13.— ber 15 at Pocatello, Idaho. Another Scheduling as the eleventh foot- | western game will take the Indians ball game for the 1930 season of the Haskell Indian Institute with the University of Idaho Souther: |into the Far West November 11, when they will meet Gonzaga Uni- versity at Spokane. but Smead’s bat vs. the Great Shire’s the harmony of | Look at him there!” He pointed tongue. |as M. Knight took a leg up on the | ee 00000 0v o o0 (‘.\RNEI;.A MAKES HIT WITH “PA” STRIBLING MACON, Jan. 13.—“Pa” Stribling would like to man- age Primo Carnera, Italy. “I could make more money with that guy than the law allows,” said Pa. “I'd buy him a high-top silk hat and a pair of those collegiate shoes that clatter on the pavement and let him parade up and down the street to blockade traffic for a while,” declares the ex- acrobat. < Repossessed Ford Coupe $100.00 McCAUL MOTOR CO. 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