The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1931, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE ]\h‘\l A QUIET-YOUL BIG ZEBRA- DON'T WELL MAGQIE! '™M READY TO TAKE" "R You SEE "FIFI" OUT FOR 1S DLEEPING? A WALK- DONT You DARE DISTURB HER- WELL: 'M GLAD SHES ADLEEPRP-IVE HAD A HARD DAY AT THE OFFICE~ 90 A LITTLE NAP WILL DO ME A LOT OF GooD - WAKE UP-~You LOAFER!, ALL YOUL THINK OF 1% SLEEPING- HERE! TAKE FIFI"~ SHE \S READY FOR A STROLL- — © 1931, Int'l Feature Service, Inc., Great Britain rights reserved. | 4 | [unced the newspapers that mey were of public interest. | Later, when the National Leaguc | was doing some re-organizing, ex- | Icmm-os were told Heydler was a| {good man to get “because he was | | the only one who had any knowl- | }Ei‘%’e of the; Playing re‘corfis.” He ic Club is announced by Dar- | ccame private secrelary 1o me: 3 VANCOUVER, B. C, March 2 Meisnest, Vice President and lflbe; Harry Pulliam, then league —A filva game play-off series hairman of the Board of trustees. ( > :)re:;]dent, ?tndl_S;bSequg?tly rose | R — start h n Seattle The club will be reorganized and | i 9 3 0 the circuit’s highest office. . and Vanco hockey S r | refina is wi | 8 Au\n!eua Seattle Athletic Commis-| i Simpismniy of the Coset| T ey ‘ sion Are Given Hockey thres-team lea OREGON BASKETBALL ; The teams endea the reguiar JEAN BOROTRA ' TEAM TURNS DOWN Inside Dope e wi | It is seldom if at any time that et pe edule with Seattle having 41 the boys look for their drama and | KETCHIKAN’S OFFER excitement among the columns of TC w7 OFFE SEATTLE, March 23.—Mem 30. INDOOR TENNIS baceball statistics, nor has there PRl iy of (;h\ S }1]\!,1 c ngm n - e e e 1 any recent campaign that I 3 on, Marcn 23.—The | said ¢ stimy as been given them ~m aware of to produce more and High Schosl Athletic Association | that fans “have been duped by GENE SARAZEN IS ¥ YORK, March J it Board of Comml has decided to|leged faked matches and wrestlers @ , of France, Davis Cup p! bette res, except insofar as A s be ‘somo competition Telect the invitation of the Ket-| have been booked around the cir- WINNER OF $5,000 <. 1ast saturday defeated Berkeley between such gentlemen as Al chikan High School basketball play-| cuit like vaudeville actors and told Bell, of Dallas, Texas, for ers for an intersectional gam with the winner of the State Tour- | nament. The Board said the policy | tified is to decline intersectional invita- | Hammc tions. when to Munro Elias and Irwin M. Howe, the chief chasers of the elusive numerals, Yet there has b: no little ro- mance. in the development of the statistical side of baseball. There is no question that is a matter of naticnal concern. For proof of this, it is necessary only to note the; baseball bugs who digest the box | scores eagerly each summer morn- ing along with their prunes or ham | and eggs. In no other sport, are the detailed figures subject to so much scrutiny as in the national| game Charles D. White, Spalding fig ure expert whose fame has b perpetuated by the “Little Red Book,” an indispensable item to all £ editors, furnishes some in- sight into this interest. “When we first began to assem- ble a major league record book some twenty ¥ ‘White tcld me, “it consisted cleven pages, supplementa annual Spalding guide. The latest issue is in separate book form and takes up 213 pages. hm meant years of the most h to straighten In the old days, o cne thought of making a com- e record and keeping it for pos- ty. As a result we have had z most of the information out scure places and we are still bcmg checked up. I have onz man alone doing nothing but loak~ ing for mistakes. “There’s a Harvard friend of mine who spends his spare time cross-checking the Little Red Book nd discovering mistakes. A pro-, fessor of the University of Indi- ana studles it carefully and writes me when he discovers any err One time I received a valuable lot of information from a train 'dis- patcher in a lonely Montana town. He wrote me that only one train | a day went through his place in either direction and that he spent his spare time pouring cver the records.” ¥ e————— Old papers at the Empire office | 66 It is not widely known but i a fact that John Arnold He the National league's able exccutive, first attracted the tention of baseball leaders becausz of his penchant for tabulating the major league figures. { While working in the government printipg office in Washington over 30 years ago, Heydler spent much of his spare time making up the player averages. Finally he con-| e ©1931, LicerT & MyERs Tosacco Co. Interwoven SOCKS NO EQUAL FOR WEAR! 1931 Values H. S, GRAVES The ClotRing Man 2 3 " WRESTLING IS EXPOSED:FANS Aber Kubey, Seattle referee, tes- tried to influence him to give cer- tain decisions. Floyd Musgrave, 've circled the globe FOR NINETEEN yeas, our Research Department bas kept intimate touch with every new development of Scie that could be applied to the manufacture of cigarett During this period there has been no development of t value or importance to the smoker which we have incorporated into the making of Chesterfield cigarettes. Liggert & Myers Tobacco Co. - HAVE NEW MANAGER ISEATTLE’ VANCOUVER TTLE, March 23.—The ap- TO PLAY FOR TITLE ment of Richard P. 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