The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1932, Page 5

| ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1932. - BRINGING UP FATHER NOW-+ WHO TOOK MY BOOK? THERE'D ME DAUGHTER-! WONDER IF §HE TOOK 1T . DAILY SPORTS CARTOON no HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE OUTSTANDING ATHLETE OF CANADA FOoR: 1931 7% HE The business of signing Babe Ruth to these big contracts has always been done with a flourish | of ballyhoo, as befits a ball player good enough to be paid more than the President of the United States. After Ruth smashed the home| run record with a total of 59 round | trip raps in 1921, friends told him| he ought to demand a big increase. The Babe had been collecting| about $25,000 for his first two years with the Yankees. He figured he might talk about a salary of “around $50,000.” But he didn't pay much attention to details. Col. T. L. Huston, then a partner of Col. Jacob Ruppert in the own- ership of the club, filled in the| contract at Hot Springs in 1922/ after Ruth signed it. The docu- ment called for $52,500 annually for three years, with a two-year renewal option which the Yankees exercised. Under this agreement half of Ruth's salary was held out until the end of the season as an incen- tive to thrift. The Babe “blew” most of it anyway as soon as he collected. The fragrant atmosphere of the 11th floor of “Jake” Ruppert’s old brewery surrounded the next big step in Ruth’s financial advance- ment. Tt was in February, 1927, The Babe came back from the west coast talking about getting $100,-| 000 a year. He signed for Lhrefl‘ years for a total of $210,000. The scene shifts to the Jungle Club, on the fringe of St. Peters- burg, Fla., three years later. De- manding $85000 a year for twd years, Ruth had rejected Ruppert’s compromise offer of $80,000. | At breakfast the next day the| “Missus,” Claire Hodgson Ruth, | told him to quit being so stubborn, | to go in to see Ruppert and sign at | “Svengali” will be at the COLISEU Fl | UUANIMOUSLY AWARCED TE MORTON £ CeowE MEMORIAL SHIELO whist in play. Admission 35 ™ “THE L\FE AN’ SOMEONE TOOK IT- WAS /7 the colonel's generous offer. This correspondent's car being handy for just such an emergency, the wife’s orders were carried out. Here xou are, Goidie “Please give me your opinion as to who was the greatest baseball player within the last 20 years,” lasks a gent whose signature looks like “Arthur Goldie.” The answer is easy, anyway. It's two four-letter words Babe Ruth. Quite a number of pretty fair ball players have been in their prime or thereabouts within the specified period. Ty Cobb, for ex- ample. Or Christy Mathewson, the greatest pitcher of all time. Both, however, also belong to an earlier | era. Taking the record from 1912 on, nothing ¢an touch Ruth’s per- formance. Ruth was the best left-handed pitcher in the major leagues when the Red Sox converted him into an outfielder, subsequently disposing of him to the Yankees for $135,000. The rest of his record is too well known to call for any tabulation. Battle Cry “California is not satisfied with moral victories,” clarions Carroll (Ky) Ebright, the head crew coach of the Golden Bears. “California is on her way, and close observers have already sensed it. The fight that Bill Ingram has injected into the football team will move on to the crew house. T know we will have a powerful and smooth row- ing crew. We need confidence, ambition and fight. It looks like we will have them too.” Fight, fight, FIGHT! A S i CARD PARTY The Women of Mooseheart Legion No. 439 will hold a card party at |the Moose Hall February 11 (Thurs- day) at 8 pm. Both bridge and cents. —adv., The United States is the world's most important user of gas for heat ey L & T WOZ_JUST STARTIN D A BOOK ON H. x c AM‘/(DIIOAI I QH! | DIDN'™T ©OF NAPOLEON KNOW T WAS YOURS: | TOOK] ITAND GAVE \T s ot AN NCW ! GOT TO FIND MAGGIE - | CERTAINLY AM STARTIN' ON TO MOTHER- 1200 METER |JACK DEMPSEY T0 BE BARRED He Must Pay Debts of Recent Exhibitions CHICAGO, M., Feb. 1. — Jack Dempsey has been barred from all \terriwry controlled by the Nation- al Boxing Association until pay- tion with his exhibition appearance in Mississippi. As a result, Dempsey may not appear in exhibition in Milwaukee and Chicago this month. | promoters of Dempsey’s exhibition ard Sachs, denied the charge, ins| ing the former title holder merel | exhibitions. | was to have received a percentage lof the gate for his services but the promoter ran off with all of the proceeds. EARLY GRID BIRDS; TRAINING IS BEGUN JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 1.—If the jearly bird catches the worm, Mill- saps foothall players cught to grab a lot of victories next fall They were out for “spring” train- Sachs said Dempsey country’s post-season games had been played. Although Coach T. L. Gaddy does not expect to start early training is cver until after bas- ketball is over, all football men not playing on the hardwood floor are out for limbering up practice. Coach Gaddy intends to get down' to real business this month when all candidates for the '32 team will be required to report. .- Hard Times Dance, Feb. 4th, Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Admission, gentlemen $1.00, 50s. Aus- ices D, I. W. FROM FIGHTING Boxing Association Says| ment of debts incurred in connec- | Dempsey and his manager, Leon. acted as referee and had no con- | nection with the promotion of the| ing almost before the last of the| WINTER HITS FLOOD AREAS IN'2 STATES {Cold Wave Prevails from| Canada to Gulf of [ | Mexico | | KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1.—Winter has pressed a claim for altention) with rain, snow and sub-zero tem- peratures. Rivers in the lower Mississippi| Valley basin, swelled by heavy pre- lof acres of land have been flood and Louiniana. | The cold wave extends fromI |Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Snow and cold struck the Pacific | Northwest with three inches of! sncv al Seatile. | S e | PACIFIC FOR TEBENKOF ! With a large cargo, the motor- | ship Pacific, Capt. . Paul. Kegel deJ parted from Juneau Saturday fom| | Tebenkof and way ports. €he id scheduled to be back here Wed- nesday. LITERARY CAREER- Bv GEORGE McMANUS OH! YES: DAUGHTER GAVE \'T TO ME AND AFINE MRS BOND WAS HERE AND SHE WANTED TO READ 1 T- 901 LENT \T TO HER: AIN'YT THAT NICE?) x\\\‘fl/ = 2. HAMMER USED TO KILL MAN Fourth Motiveless Murder Since January 1, Un- covered in Chicago CHICAGO, Tll, Feb. 1.—Another apparently motiveless murder, the| fourth since January 1, was uncov- | ered today when Earl Davis, aged 22, hammer in a garage where a watchman, in the same manner, met his death. The garage is about two blocks from the office of Dr. James Shaf- fer, beaten to death on January 24, The police theorized that a nar- cotic addict is responsible. i MILD WINTER IS BIG BOON TO GOLF ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 1.—What- ever an unusually mild winter may have meant to other lines of en- cipitation and a cloud burst, caus- | deavor in the south, it has been| ed the drowning of two persons.|good for golfing in Georgia. Put-| At Ellisburg, Kentucky, hundreds |ting greens remained smocth, fair-| ways were in good condition and Cold has added to the suffering many who never played golf in| of the flood refugees in Mlssissippi}the winter have kept right at it.| In some cases winter rules not been put into effect. - WILE GOES TO KETCHIKAN have Albert Wile, merchandise broker, who makes his headquarters n | Juneau, is on a business trip to| Ketchikan, —— - TRAVELING MEN HERE Sam Baker and Sam Shucklin, traveling “iaen, arrived in Juneau aboard the Admiral Evans. was beaten to death with a' ADAMS OPPOSES PLAN T0 MERGE ARMY AND NAVY ‘Secretaty Tells Congress- | men Scheme Is Funda- mentally 'Wrong WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 1.— | Secretary of Navy Charles F. Adams opposed the Democratic sponsored opposes the Democratic sponsoered Navy Departments as a measure | which would throw “overboard all i past experience and start on a new | adventure.” Secretary Adams sald: “There is ja theoretical thought that the merging of the two great defense | departmentes will achieve econ- jomy. That will be proved only by costly experience. Creating of the unit is too big a proposition for |any one person I know of and it would be the ruining of the pres- ent organizations.” Secretary Adams said England studied the merger twice but decid- ed against dt. Referring to ithe proposed Sec- | retary of National Defense to sup- plant the present Secretaries of War and Navy, with additional | Secretaries for the Army, Navy and Aviation, Secretary Adams said |that “by consolidation, you are doing something fundamentally wrong in principle. Think of the political power a secretary of Na- tional Defense would have? 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