The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1932, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932. BRINGING UP FATHER BY GOLLY-1 CAN'T SLEER IN THIS HOTEL ' NEED FRESH AIR,BUT | HATE TO GIT UP— FER THE WELL- 'LL PAY AH! THAT FRESH BREAKIN' AR FEELS WINDOW IN THE MORNIN o 4 PAAVuU NY ATHLETICS WIN DOUBLEHEADER Thic is the tenth of a serie icles by Paavo Nurmi in h the great Finnish run- ner in his own way tells the story of his life. By PAAVG NURMI (Written for the Associafed Press.) X. A MATCH NEVER TO BE SEEN From time n I left the mile to run for younger men, nts have appeared on thac the over-whelming and among whom is enchman Ladoumegue. 1 have never had the opportunity of runnir ainst him, but I have im at g one a; - FROM BROWNS | Jimmy Foxx Makes Home | Run in Second Game— | Has Total of 39 l: { PHILADELPHIA, Penn., July 20.1’ -The Athletics slugged their way! {to two victories over the St. Louts! | Browns yesterday, 9 to 8 and 16 to! l6. | | Jimmy Foxx made a home run/ jin the second game and boosted| | his season’s total to 39. | Roger Cramer made four hits in {five times at bat in each game. The Athletics made a total hits for the day. of | 129 hat Ladoumegue has : GAMES TUESDAY | rs T know the most | Pacific Toast Leazue i The power of his | ©Oakland 8; San Francisco 6. i simply enormous. He | Hollywood 1; Portland 4. his legs oth- Sacramento 1; Los Angeles 5. ers do, but sin skips on tn Missions 10; Seattle 11, * in a most supple and sofe man- | National recague ner. Although a comparatively Brooklyn 3; St. Louis 5. small man, he stands hout | New York Chicago 5. doubt far above the others. | Philadelphia 2, 8; Pittsburgh 5 I Pick Myself | Boston 2; Cincinnati 0. | V a match it would have! | American League | been: Nurmi of 1924, Peltzer of Chicago 3; New York 6. | 1928 and Ladouniegue “of last “year: | Detroit 3; Washington. 2, | The Lord only knows who would | St. Louis 8, 6; Philadelphia 9, 16. have won such a race. I h.\*f |\ Cleveland 8; Boston 0. so mary vanity however, that I| ] . S should have betted on Nurmi of STANDING OF CLUBS 1624, My form was particul y | Pacific Coast League fine at that time, and my ne: | Won Lost Pet would most ‘certainly have W Portland 45 591 the case for me. Ladoumeg!lv | Hollywood 4 has lost in the greatest duels NURM| o e San Francisco 50 among others Larva has beaten | LOROUMBCHE. |Los Angeles 53 him both the times the two have| The greaiest miler—Nurmi or Ladcumegue? One of the Finn's |Seattle 56 run together. biggest regrets is that the question can never be answered. Nurmi | Sacramento 60 453 Ladoumegue’s results raise DiM| pever met the “Flying Frenchman,” who heids the unofficial world’s |Oakland 60 450 as a miler above all of Us OWCTS{ yooorg of 4:09 2/5 for the distance, and mow is barred from the |Missions 65 4K Hard lines for the world that the| .o o0 g on charges of professionalism | Fre Athletic Association have 2 | National League declared him a professional. S SETY S | ST ‘ Wwon Lost Pc “The Finnish Wolf” |of Paris and Amsterdam. T can|Ritola is frankly extraordinary. Pittsburgh 49 35 o Jium distances the great-}well remember what some farm} There are a couple of excel-|Chicago 48 38 < n has been shown me ;laborers said of him when they lent runners on 5000 and 10,000 Boston 4 42 by “The Finnish Wolf,” Ville Ri- saw him training in 1928, “Before |meters here in Finland of whom‘phnadelpma ) 45 46 tol He is the most energetic|the summer that devil will have |in other articles, as they deserve St. Louis 42 44 and merciless living thing T have killed himself.” Well, Ville Ritola |it. | Brooklyn .42 48 ever met in my long running is still alive. | —- INew York 38 45 life. Hardly one of the go!d-dlg—i If Ritola had only been more (Copyright, 1932, The Asso- ;ancinnan p 40 55 gers of the West or the self-tor- lcose and supple, I should have raentors of the Middle Ages has had no chance whatever in our | tortured himself in the anner duel. His best distance is from | this man did when he prepared the 3 mile up to 6. The 3 mil himself for the Olympic Games indoor record which stands for cited Press. All rights reserved | in’ all countries, including Fin- : Amerfcan League DAILY SPORTS CARTOON HIS BAT JUST ABOLT Tue BesT TIRD Basemaw W THE GAME % = CAPTAIN OF THE™ VIRATES land, Norway and Sweden. Re- Won Lost productions in whole or in New York 61 28 part forbidden.) Philadelphia 54 38 T > Cleveland 52 38 Detroit 48 38 ..-By Pap Washington .. o 4, ! . | St. Louis 39 48 | Chicago 30 57 21 66 }Boston Junean City League (Second Half) Won Lost Pct.| | Elks & 3 e8] | Moose .3 3 500 | American Legion .." 2 4 .333 INO-HIT PITCHING IS HELPING To ?\pfip ™E IS COMMON EVENT ATES ’ on Toe . IN GOPHER LEAGUI.:‘ o ST. PAUL, Minn, July 20. — |Big league ivory hunters might' ‘rmd some pitching gems in the jrough in Minnesota’s state ama- jteur leagues this year. | Only the laboratory of a major |league spring training test would, lof course reveal whether the fre- quent mo-hit and low-hit games ihnve been flashes in the pan or ‘true indices ‘of the real hurling, \worth of their authors. | Ernest Westerman of Brook {Park trounced Bandstone, 7 to 1 without relinquishing a base hit, and came back two weeks later| | with a one-hit performance. | ; Wolff of Maple Lake is anothe | no-hit flinger, while Charles Lan- | deen of Fairfax authored a no-hii | exhibition last summer and this year has pitched a one-hit game, {a two-hitter, and two four-hit | contests, 1 | Pitcher Thelan of Freeport, is not far outside this select circle with two one-hit games to his o) ' ——.—— David A. Armbruster, swimming coach at the University of Iowa | is ‘writing a book on advanced swim- ' ming technique. AL Rigbts Reserved by The Asscciated Press ~ WALKING ART |ing Svas' banished from the 1928 meter dash, the pole vault, disca » 1924 at Paris was riotous. - 'and.no Austrian. | aside. CRASH LAST N THE GLASS IN BOOK-CASE ? S T0 BE WORKED OUT IN SOUTH Heel and Tfiport to Get | New Life in 1932 Olympic Games | OLYMPIC WALKING CHAMPIONS Year Distance Winner, Country Time 1906—1500 M. Bonhag, U. S. A. 1908—3500 M. Larner, England 14:55 11908—10 miles Larner, England 1:15:57.4 1912—10,000 M. Goulding, Canads | 46:28.4 1920—3000 M. rigerio, Ttaly, 13:142 1920—10,000 M. Firgerio, Italy 48:06.2 1924—10,000 M. Frigerio, Ttaly 47:49 (No events in 1928.) | Event on 1932 Olympic program ' Is 50000 meters, for which no American or world records listed By ALAN GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, July 20—The or-| dinary pastime of walking, exag- gerated into a semi-contortion for compebitive purposes, has provoked more disputes than any other half dozen Olympic events combined. Mainly for that reason, all walk- Olympies but the heel-and-toe boy: as well' as the officials who make "jit gough for them, will be back in @ big 'way at Los Angeles. The Tenth Olympiad progran. cally for nothing less than a_ 50,- 000 ¥meter hike. The ‘event will require anywhere from four to six hours to com- plete, if anybody completes it at all, but the customers will be giv- en the happy alternatives, during its progress, of watching the 200- throw, 110-meter high hurdles, y 1500-meter trials and 80-meter la- dies’ hurdles. Champ to Appear Ugo Frigerio, of Italy, the las: Olympic walking champion, is re- ported ready for a comeback. If so he will help make the pedes- trian frolics a good show. Ugo ; has a flair for dramatics. He likes g @pplause in his turns around the ; track and bids for it. Some of the by-play to Friger- io’s triumph at 10,000 meters in One of the competitors, an Austrian, gained a gocd lead in the trials, and appeared a sure winner. Of- ficials in long linen dusters who had been scampering around, even stretching themselves flat on the ground to peer intently at the heel and toe work, finally pounc- 2 €d on the Austrian. Officials Win Most of the officials spoke French ‘The pedestrian spoke no French. There was sud- denly much gesticulation and shouting, which the athlete waved He kept right on walking, Soon the whole patk of officials was trotting after the Austrian. They were getting quite out of breath but highly indignant. Fi- Anode Household Gloves Protect Your Lovely Hands "~ 50¢ . 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Both men entered the ring last night at 141 pounds. - nally things became so clut up that the walker There was a big po night, the WAustrian's sustained and he was other chance the next day judges who had ruled him signed. But they had venge. A new set of disqualified him again. There won't be any repetition | & | of this at Los Angeles. Th | Stuart W. Skowbo, cross-country | 000 meter walk is scheduled jus |*nd half-mile star, hasbeen award- | tered an- The 1 | Off re- their re- inspectors Associatea Press Photo Fru Gerda Munck, foils cham- once, on Thursday, August 4, with- |°d the Big Ten medal at the Uni- Blon et Defl'mari"k who isf e:;‘nict-d out any preliminaries, i |versity of Towa for athletic and|So Pe ohe of the atars of Shat ngs 4 c} b ofio b tion’s Olympic team. Only eight out of 48 starters|‘cholastic proficiency. He is a finished the American tryou:s|Th! 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