The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 2, 1932. BRINGING UP FATHER \ YOU NEEDNT LOOK AT ME I AINT GoIN' TO TAKE * You ouT GEE\WHAT A RELIEF JTISTO BE SAFELY AWAY FRoM THAT DOG QU along with big it is not surprising that leagues’ principal -pen- ing clubs have caught spirit of reconstruc- | window, ent Curves No Old Hurler Tells of Days| I baseball books told about them that spring, and printed diagrams show- ing hew to hold the ball and turn 11t 1o | be 150 runs Bv GEORGE McM ANUS /° J @ ey F 2 ~ \ ) e ‘Mystery 50 | Years Ago i Gone By in Baseball in Georgia F"\'RBU"R.N Ga., March 2—I% le over 50 years ago that uson startled the Georgi sandlots by throwing a curve ball. I‘c~ uson follows the fortunes of in the big leagues now e interest of a- youngster, although he is getting along in He knows all the tricks resent day pitchers use, and said ke knew about all except two, back in his days on the mound. He never | threw the spit ball or knuckle ball.| § It was in 1879, Ferguson said, that he first heard of curves. The “I. practiced according to direc- | tions, but couldn’t do any tricks,” he said But that summer Ferguson got a | chance. to watch a pitcher from EKnoxville throw curves and dogged his s until he showed him how it was done. During his career as a pitcher, Ferguson lost but one game That was against the first professional | team he ever saw. True enough, there wasthe game en Fairburn and Douglasville | in 1884—when the opposition took off Ferguson's delivery— phis, Tenn., won A t even the venerable Mr. Con- | it now seems, will stand | 1 unearth a fast, hard- tfielder in the training A e Athletics or find a AFIGNT | v combination, due to the BETWEEN EQNIE azing of comrades Dykes Bish- AND AlS BOSS | 2 | JACK SHaRKEY | | none of Mr. Mack's MIGHT VoVE" es are old enough to 1 of the downgrade. Sim- | A et el i | { for greatness for a num- i but the patriarchal . I on the lookout for youth especially the | C injection of Mr. Dib Williams into the infield last | PP L ME : . % pro- OUTSTANONG ‘ cess T ss conspicious now that OFO%{DEECY | o th lub ‘occupies world champion- YOUNGER_, ] ! -+ HEAVY WEIGHT 4 Mr. Dizzy Dean CQ,O"':’ & e newcomers in the il - Tex Carelton and | ERNIE i Ernie MODELED For. such veierans | THE MULDOON-TURNNE . aines, Syl Johnson d TROP: v e ekt Reiiy BIUE St FAHYd AN bench in the shade. Eddie Delker | and Jimmy Collins, young infield- R O S rd o ers, are also on the verge of be- cours The pair cost the coming Cardinal regulars. | yankees around $100,000. F OUND P ER‘FECT K | " The neighboring Giants of Johu‘ JOB, PAID FOR = McGraw do not contemplate any- | v Hcpe History f“pf’a"f ge Thing quite so radical, but Len | NOT WORKING RTH H Nn B pon g m!;‘le Koenecvke, the $75,000 beauty from | v o e s came Lndianapolis, is counted on to m-‘DCA%HW?- Sioch, 1< Jos ns 12 y ject cpei - { s, erstwhile manager of & 4 | ) tart another pennant-win- | Jroy, Po0 8nd punch info the out | At " Crackers, imger_ ok_ 110 'Kid Slaughtgr Wms Over| b with a raw rodkie paid |to a comfortable and remunerative. Chuck Raines in In- i infield—Short- | i N 4 . | ¢ s plbngi e Ll iy Cubs Well Siocked P e e e ) dianapolis Go Baseman Tony Lazzari, Lou Gehrig _The Cubs wiil do plenty of ex-| 0 "o o™ W0 o™ or ocr e s a newcomer that year at perimenting with expensive mk““wa;‘s Gontraot wm‘ for $9,000, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 2 g Tk |under Rogers Hornsby at Catalina | ¥ . tiod “in. —Sammy “Kid” Slaugh .l first base. |Tsland. Before he died William Ris- | Wi be paid in full in monthly in- it o " ‘Slaughter, Terra The club may try to repeat his-| 5'and. Belore he died WHam RIZ- | 4onmonts previding he doesnst Haute negro middleweight, knock- y tory this year by inserting two 1%, Jr., turned loose his resources |y .. onofter job. In that case, ©d out Chuck Raines, of Muskogae newcomers into the same vital po- 0r the acquisition of some sensa- |, "y " ge; omy the difference ma, in the fourth xound of sitions, Frank Crosetti, California g,“l“alflio‘mg Drospese: :““:Id‘f between his old and new salaries. & ton round event here last night i6n, at shortstop and Jack m‘igmer‘zm“‘ and Staniey Hack, | “gye Joiure probably will be spent SRR 0% 0 A r, St. Paul recruit, at sec- |with his calves and pigs down on his Ringgold, Ga., farm. The Cub outfield also is due for a revamping, but if the Bruins| !make any real threatening gestures | it will be because Grimes, Roof, OLD TIME DANCE Malone, Smith and Bush combine | Mocse Hall Saturday night. Music to produce consistently effective by Arctic Players. Admission seven- pitching jty five cents —adv. | ‘/Immer Joe McCarthy frankly admits he will give these two young men every chance to take over the sitions, moving Lyn Lary over to d and keeping Lou Gehrig, of CHl(.AGO FISH PEDDLER PINS ONE ON DEMPSEY Asorratea I Ascociated Press teiephoto showing King Levinsky planting a stiff left in Jack Dem;:s'ey’fs the fouith roufd of their bout in Chicago. Newspaper men at the ringside awarded Levinsky the decision. CAGER HIGHEST SCORER FOR OWN TEAM AND FOE OSBORNE, Kas, March 2—It happened in a baskethall game be- tween the “B” teams of Stockt: and Osborne high schools. | Sheldon Henry of Osborne was high point scorer for both teams. Henry made six baskets his own quintet and accidentally lcaged a field goal for the opposi- | tion, which lost, 20 to 5. The on.y| s<ockwn points not scored by the !Osborne lad were made on free | throws. —— ARKANSAS “FROSH” QUINTLI' |KEEPS UP VICTORY HABIT | i IS | FAYETTESVILLE, Ark., March 2—These freshmen at the Univer- sity of Arkansas believe in winning their games. | After going through - the 1931 football season ' undefeated, the Razorback yearlings, under Coa: Glen Rose, took matters up and| exchanged the gridiron for basketball court. They have won 13 basketball games in a row this winter, six of them at the expense of college aN junior college quintets. ———— Boxing is being organized at Vanderbilt University for the firs PIGGI.Y the ! with 150. | catcher. for | but pion by a technical knockout over Oddone Piazza of Italy in their Milwaukee fight. the ®Fairburn boys countered | “That,” declared a d it, “was the ball game ever | Georgia.” Judge W. S. MclLarin, {bell county, Ga., was There were | breast-plates, and no gloves in| \thow days, but Judge McLarin | “had about the toughest hands 1! ever saw,” Ferguson said. He| | caught 'em all, crooked or straight. ; B e native, who best. dog- played ir e e CLEVELAND GOLF THRIVES CLEVELAND, O. March 2.—No depression in golf is evident in the Cieveland district Three new courses, one an 18 hole layout, will be opened when the grass begins to turn green in the spring. S eee B. P. 0. ELKS | Regular meeting Wednesday night. Election of officers. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. JUNIOR PROM Friday night. Music by the Serenaders. —adv. of Camp- Ferguson's no masks, 'ROOKIE’S FAITH LANDS HIM BERTH NASHVILLE., Tenz. March 2.— Frank Severa, of Troop. Pa., has | faith in fortune tellers. and so does | James A. Hamilton, vice-president | lof the Nashville club of the South- |ern association. Hamilton received the following letter: “I am a young catcher and !a good one. Having been playing | n local semi-pro teams for th: past two years, T want to go into proféssional ball. “While in New York last month 1 consulted a fortune taller. 'She |told *me T was going to play in \the Southern league this season and in the big games next year. —adv. | { [T iving Nashville the first op- n port ity to get me. How about & YOU SAVE contract?” 3 % LA in many ways when After “requesting and receiving you buy a ‘phommphs and records, Hamilton decided to take a chance on the fortune teller. He maled Severa a F D contract. e o SROWS PING PONG TRICKS KANSAS OITY, March 2—John | ASK | Borg, \.Bwedish ping pong expert, |recently arrived from his native land, has been displaying his Eu- ropean style of play in local con- tests. ——— BUSY WHY Not Only Cheaper but Better JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street oo SPRING STYL and COLORS m KNAPP-FELT and STETSON SABIN’S Everything in Men's Furnishings RICE & AHLERS CO. 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