The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1932, Page 5

VTHE DAILY ALASKA El MPIRE S \TLRDAY MAY 7 WORSE-1'M COMMENCIN' TO ACHE ALL OVER- —By Pap ATHLETICS WIN FROM INDIANS, TWO STRAIGHT Makes Fom Victories. i/ Row — Mahaffey Pitches Fine Ball FLINT gty the ST.LouIS CARDINALS [ | | | | | | their sec- ItS. > secret HE HAS DlTCHED THES N CARDINALS TO F/VE ORENING CAY VICTORIES !/ PRATES m the Cleve- afternoon | [ s This s | | |the faurih win in four &::r.nghll games. | | | Roy Mehaffey held the Indians| |to five hits, allowing one hit after | the third inning. | Glenn Myatt hit a home run in | the third frame. ! | Combinatiorn s e Pacific Coast League 11; Portland 8. slons 7; Los Angeles 8. Night | me. . Cakland 2; GAMES FRIDAY I | | Sacramento 4. Night || , Francico 1; Hollywood 3.|. nothin [ ke A gooct National League 461952, ¥ i # § i Associated Press Photo Eleanor Holm of New York, one of America’s swimming cham. | pions, appeared in this new low-cut swiming suit at the Olymple pool in Los Angeles. Miss Holm, a leading candidate for the United States’ Olympic swimming team, is in training for the National Amateur ath- letic union indoor championships. ; Cincinnati 14. American League Cleveland 2; Philadelphia 5. Chicago 5; Washington 3. St. Louis 6; Boston 5. WERE HIS FIRST VICTIMS THIS YEAR: Detroit 0; New York 1. |te STANDING OF CLUBS fter day chunky Jimmy and gets ’'em” for k around third base. ally recognized as one the foundation stones on which ancient leader built a great ball club. Afield there’s little chance for es or anyone else to steal the v fro mthe deadline cast, Sim- Cochrane, Foxx, Grove and haw. But around hotel (obbies be- and after games, chunky Jim- the outstanding star of the letics. He's the wit of the club, the sharp tongued jester, a con- | versationalist home run clouter. He even reaches out and does a little professional taiking at ban- ts on the side. little old but still that's Dykes,” he laughs. He has to have a fresh stock ofl stories, enough to go around. 8o he “goes and gets 'em.” good— SUCKER FOR A SOUTHPAW Here's some of his latest: Mike Brennan, scout for the A’s,!| was rembling through Texas on a hunt for ivory ten years ago when he dropped into Wichita Falls to see the home team tangle in a doubleheader with Port Worth. Playing in the Wichita ¥Falls outfield was an old-timer named Johnny King, the hero of many a hotel lobby tale. Johnny was play- ing out his string, still cursed by the failing that had brought him to the Texas league—inability to hit left handed pitching. Fort Worth promptly trotted out a southpaw to pitch the first game and Johnny looked very bad. Five for the coliar” was Dykes’ ¢ of explaining that he got no In between games he talked dis- consolately with Brennan on the subject of baseball in general and southpaws in particular. “Imagine,” he muttered. “All the left-handed guys that went to war and came back alive while they killed right-handers.” LEFTIES EVERYWHERE But the second game was even worse. Another lefty pitched the game. “Eight for the collar” was| King’s portion for the day. Dis- couraged, the veteral walked with, isaid the island was given without the scout down the main street of Wichita Falls. They came upon a blind beggar, tapping his cane along, his tin| cup suspended from the chest. King immediately seized his op-| portunity to change his luck, and | switch the curse back onto the | southpaw. He marched up to the blind man and dropped a shining silver half dollar into the cup. For a mo- | ment he listened to the beggar's | ihanks. But to his absolute horror, uw1 beggar reached for the cup to| extract the coin WITH HIS LEFT HAND. King was stunned. Then he let out a bellow rage, grabbed | the beggar's wrist as he lifted v.he half dollar. Why you left-handed so—and-. s0,” he shouted. “And youd even take my half doflar. Gimme mat‘ back.” HUSKIES BEAT COUGARS, DUAL TRACK EVENTS SBEATTLE, May 7.—The Univer- sity of Washington won a wen.q\-lcmcagg tional track victory over Washing-|Baston ton State here yesterday after-|rnjladelphia noon, 68 to 63, the dual meet be-|cincinnati ing decided by Washington’s vic-|gs Louis {tory in the mile relay, the final| grooklyn | event. New York Pacific Coast League 2 19 18 17 i 13 13 8 10 13 14 14 15 18 19 24 |San Francisco | Portland Hollywood Los Angeles Sacramento | Cakland Seattle Missions 594 563 548 531 419 405 250 National League | ‘Won Lost Ret. | 14 100 i 667 10 526 1 500 9 420 7 412 7 412 T 350 American League Won Lost Pct 37 647 | Washington New York UNIVERSITY OWNS ‘ 800-ACRE ISLAND; | GlVEN AS PRESENT‘ | NEW ORLEANS, May 7—Tulane University now owns an island. It is Harbor Island, consisting of 800 acres, in St. Mary’s River, Michigan, which has been present- ed to the university by Chase Os- born, former Governor of Michigan. Dr. A. B. Dinwiddie, President ur Tulane, announced the gift and‘ terms of any kind and the uni- versity may use the island in any way it sees fit. Osborn, a close friend of Dr. Dinwiddie, has made frequent trips to Tulane and has expressed in-| | terest in the work being done here. Administrators of Tulane will send representatives to, Harbor Island this summer to determine, for what purposes the land may | |be used. It has been suggested as a base for biological and general scientific study. The island is approximately sev- en miles long and has a large inner harbor. NOTiCE After May 10th, no telephone rentals for the month of May will be accepted at a discount. Al remittances by mail must bear |postmark of not later than last ‘DUKE PLACES GRID ‘arui the backfield will hardly av- GOING STRONG SHREVEPORT, La., May 7— Although not so fast as in former |scasons, George Sisler, onetime Ma)or League idol, has been play- ing good Dall this season for | Shreveport of the Texas League. | He is manager of the club. 6 565 500 444 300 176 Detroit Cleveland St. Louis Philadelphia ‘Chicago Bosdion {EX-YANKEES ARE WITH SHREVEPORT SHREVEPORT, La., May 17— Two of baseball's veteran catchers —Mickey O'Neil, formerly with the Boston Braves, and Wally Schang me-time Yankee backstop — arc catching for Shrevepont in the Texas League. Auron Ward, an- other Yankee star of other day: is playing second for the same club. HOPES ON TEAM OF LIGHTWEIGHT MEN DURHAM, N. C., May 7.—Wal- lace Wade's 1932 edition of the Duke Blue Devils is going to be a sort of lightweight affair. 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Our morale seems| % be good and the Yoys worked | so hard we are hopeful the team will make a fair showing.” BOWLER WINS WITH FIRST HIGH SCORE % WOODBURN Ky., May 7.—Train- {ing |Wodburn High Sck by all the seriousness of a boys' who coached her girls to two state | championships ys that her girls Won Lost Pet. 80 not engage 688 | fot N | ties during the . season, their diet |is carefully supervised before the es, and they are given rigor- ous drills and exer - IN THE FUEL OIL LINE GIRL PLAYERS DATES FOREGO 8a a girls’ basketball 1 is team at attended am. Mrs. We handle diesel oil only. For reasonale delivery rates telephone 81. THE NORTH TRANSFER, “Service With a Smile.” —adv. Frank D. 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