The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1932, Page 5

¥ P AT THIS POLITICAL MEETIN, AN'] HAVE MY COLLEAGUES HERE, WHO WILL ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS WELL! YOu PUT TO WHO ADDRESSES THE COMMITTEE? | SAY ! WHAT BECOME OF THE MONEY WE PUT IN THE ELECTION at Britain rights reservea, NOW-WHO ELSE \WOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION? plisy > * This is the second of ten THE STORY OF BABE RUTH, storics relating the prodigicus |1 world’s series feats of the one ‘ 1 and cnly Babe Ruth, Near- | ing the end of his carecr, the Babe this year will make his tenth and perhaps last ap- pearance in the classic.) By EDWARD J. NEIL (Associated Press Sports Writer) NEW YCRXK, Sept. 16—Back in| 1914, a long, lean, raw-bo: youth ! cf 20 sidled into Fenway Park, in Boston fresh from spring train- | ing, a gangling left-handed pitcher round faced, wide-nosed, and with: ears that stuck out like the han- dles on a loving cup. { His name was Ruth, he admit-| ted. George Herman Ruth from' Baltimore, and Jack Duan’s Or-| ioles. A bit earlier Dunn had found him in an industrial scheol | for orphan boys in Baltim The | priest in charge of the by ball | team had suggested diffidently that this youngster, already nick- ramed “Babe,” was good enough 4 égart to F a;te Begfi;t AsH_urlmg;lce ‘ In Heyday of Great Red Sex Machine and Slam . Series/ RECORD WRECKER CHICAGO CUBS TAKE ANOTHER GAME IN RACE | Five More Victories to Win | Pennant—Pitchers { Have Duel FHILADELPHIA, Penn., Sept. 17— Chicago took another stride toward the pennant by defeating Philadelphia 3 to 2 yesterday af- ternoon. | The game was a pitching duel !between Tinning and Holley. | Chicago needs only five more triumphs to clinch the flag. | | | | | Here’s the Babe when getting the ball over the cor-| ner of the plate and not a fence was his chief con-| cern. Photo shows Ruth as the star! scuthpaw of the Boston Red Sox/ back in 1918. The Babe was crack- ing world’s series records even then. He holds a mark of 27 con- secutive scoreless innings pitched GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Oakland 3; Missions 4. Los Angeles 2; Seafttle 4. Sacramento 2; Hollywood 3. San Francisco 9; Portland 7. National League Chicago 3; Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati at Brooklyn, rain. Pittsburgh at New York, rain. American League Boston 6; Cleveland 2. Washington 8; Detroit 3 i Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 2;. | New York 4; Chicago 1. . STANDING GF CLUBS Pacific Coast League »won Lost Pet SIZE DOESN'T COUNT ANYMORE IN RING BOUTS Wa]ker's WEight Is Sma”*world's series does not seem Factorin Coming |[strike as much terror into the |heart of an average National Schmeling Battle \ NEW YORK, Sept. 17. — Size coesn't count any more, it seems —not that insurance companies view kindly clerks who made a practice of swinging on safe mov- ers. The theory has grown out of speculation on the 15-round bout September 23 in the Madison Square Garden bowl betwee Mickey Walker and Max Schmel- ing The former heavyweight cham- | plon. will carry a weight advant- age of around 22 pou and will tower six inches taller when the The thoughts of tackling the New York Yankees again in th agine, remembering that the Yan have taken their last cight world's series games in a row. Those sweeps, however, were reeistered back in 1927-28 when Miller Huggins directed his last and greatest aggregation, when ‘4‘flv."rs like Punnock, Lazzeri, Ruth, Gehrig, Combs and others were in their promise, fortified as well by a great defe current Yankees have clinched the American flag im- pressively enough, shaking off the champion Athletics early in the mpaign and having no special Qifficulty with any other outfit, pair enter the ring, but plenty but Joe McCarthy has not yet put of the wise boys will be down together the finished product that on “Mickey” the Mouse” before Huggins turned out. |the first gong. { Draw With Sharkey { Walker last summer proved that |he is not cver-awed by sheer bulk, even if it is hanging on an out-| standing heavyweight. He held! Jack Sharkey, new titleholder to a | draw in a 15-round bout. The majority of newspapermen at the! |ringside thought Mickey was entitled to the decision. In that battle Mickey took most of the belligerency from the Bos- | ton Gob with a two-fisted attack from a “trouching position, featur- ing a left’ hook that popped like a paper bag. He plans the same typeof campaign against Schmel- ing. > Marse Joe, of course, has done a splendid job in two years, with a record of being the only man- ager in the big league history to pilot winners in each of the two major circuits. t +his forces, with a few exceptions, -still ars concentrated around the slugging prowress of Gehrig, Ruth, Combs and Lazerri, Offensively as dan- gerous as ever, this quartet never- thiess has neither the speed nor defensive skill it possessed five or six years ago. GOMEZ NEW “PENNOCK” In place of the aging Pennock, Vernon Gomez has moved for- ward as ohe of the best south- paws in the game. Bill Dickey Is a great catcher, useful in every department than Bengough or Collins, the men be- a hide as tough as a crogodile’s, Der Maxie has let slip the et that he sl ke body punmmnt, Béfarekg:!es'wehg down to be a professional ball player. e S Sort . Priest. Leaned Baskiard " | fae e Rex nthetEomLS “ae me |from.a low blow in the first title [hind the bat for the 1028 Yan- The priest, it developed almos: | . [ San Pramcisce 7" 90 85 | sad|fleht, with Sharkey he had been | kecs. Ruffling, Allen and Mac- + immediately, had been excessive- | | Bacrasante’ s 8 83 517\ rably - annoyed by body|Fayden, replace Hoyt and Zach- ly conservative. The lanky kid |Los Angeles - 8 93 517/ FU ary, th Pipgras one of the few had a pitching arm of rawhid> Rt (o ‘S':ame 84 85 .497| Body punches in theearlyrounds |Pitching survivors of the last in his thin waisted, long legged, | [J) | Oakland 74 96 435|rounds of the bout with Sharkey |champlonship combination. a 6 foot 2 inch frame and 200 pounds ‘Missxons 6 106 ‘330 |1ast June were in a large way re- Chapman, Lary and the veteran was limitless stamnia. In his ming, i sponsible for the cautious offen- ;’(O:en?;welldha;i replaced Mteus]el schooled to industrial trades, was Natfonal L sive that cost him his title, x g P9 TEPROETeY, hidden baseball genius. | | Ao s s Rui Savooells’ Greb with the youthful Frank Croscii But from the very start his| ! § I Chicago 86 59 593 In his campaign with the big Jrn's. p(_Jsltion to make his world's clouting ability grew with his left- | | Pnnsburgfi 3 79 64 552 boys Mickey is taking up where |¢ries debut if needed for infield banded pitching prowress unul| | § | Brooklyn 7 69 527|the late Harry Greb left off. The |duty. 5 finally the first over-shadowed the| * | Philadelphia . 74 1 510|“Pittsburgh Windmill” who aver-] It is a coincidence that finds sccond and sent him to the out-| | Bo: 73 73 500 @g8d around 160 pounds, battered |Koenig a factor in the late surge field to become the greatest slug-(the first baseman, Jack Berry was|Phillies in 1915 he appeared but|pey o 66 77 462 |the big boys around for years. He|Of the Chicago Cubs, ready to op- ger and home run hitter of all|9t second, Everett Scott, short-|once, as a pinch hitter in the|s: Louls 66 178 458 8ave Gene Tunney his worst beat- |Pose his old teammates in the times. stop and Larry Gardner, third|firsi game Grover Cleveland Al-|Cincinnati . 58 88 397|Ing during the early days of the |Dattle for the big end of the ser- ¢ Befors that happened, however, base. Burly Buck Cady caught|exander won, and he grounded present Connecticut society man'’s|ies players’ pool. he carved himself a lasting name €ach pitcher, as Ernie Shore, |out, American League career, and his big ambition was as a southpaw pitcher in company |Dutch Leonard, Carl Mays, George| But in the next year, when the| Wo:\‘ Lost Pet.|@ title bout with Jack Dempsey. CUBS FASTER that stamped him great. |Foster and finally Ruth. Sox downed Brooklyn ih five' New York . 102 44 699| Joe Walcott, the old “Barbadoes = :?ons‘ldg;lng .meMCubs ask thle On the great Red Sox teams of| 1t took the Babe a couple of |games, the Babe was a regular Philadelphia . 89 56 .614|Demon’” who recently was taken t;:)xon: i Latgu:vs 4y {);ew,g;m xe ; 1024-1918 was an all-time out-|years to break into Yhe forefront|starting pitcher.. In his only , washington .. 8 58 597 to the hospital with a combina- e 4 “flf me th erfin field, Duffy Lewis, Tris Speaker, of such company. In the Red Box start he left handed the Robins|clavcland . TR Sl o e it gl Harry Hoope:, Harry Hoblitzel was world's series triumph over the|into defeat 2 to 1 in a fourteen |Detroft . 70 71 496 the big “‘“0"5»” P ter pitching and perhaps 8 strong- 2 T T e AT S e 2 —=—— |8t. Louls . 60 83 420/ Good Little Men i ¥ DAILY SPOR TS C IRT N B P | Chicago . 45 97 317 In the matter of sheer poundage ;rm:;le:mund Siategso " than . the 00 - Boston . 41 105 281 | difference there have been many < - y ap |battles in which the little man|, 1ne Cubs present an odd mix ’ | Iheld his % or defeated a man ture of youth and experience, with = |inning classic, allowing only sixlvmo i ;"’;re 18 ;;eXghc %47 |boys like Demaree, Herman, Hack, kits over that distance. Warneke and Jorges mingling with | vantage that Schmeling beasts cver > He was put five times in th“'wmker old Hoss_ Stephenson, Charley W '"/e |Same AT fo ek o'k The] 08 dast samous of ‘the baumef Srioe. ICX| Dulerand Gabby -~ 22 {Babe was still a pitcher include, Sayers, 160, vs. Heenan, 2 s e 225; Mitchell, 158, vs. Sullivan,| They have much of the exper- RMEN FEW (190, Walcott, 140, ience, where it will count most— OICKEY'S n MARYLAND LETTERMER 190: Burns, 160, vs. Hart, @20: | the box Burleigh Grimes, no sulng FOR TOUGH YEAR ON GRID|30: 3 ¢ %, | matter what his season’s record, SUSRENSION INJURIES It Fitzsimmons, 160, vs. Moran, 200; wmvbe Wongh 15 -beat a’m “me' 4 COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 17.|Dempsey, 180, vs Willard, 265. he starts in the big money show. » % —University of Marylands football 3 Root, Malone and Bush were un- <& team has a hard job ahead of it able to stem the surging tide of & {this Fall to maintain the high UUT Philadelphia bats in 1919, but they d place the old liners have gained_. are still good. % S é} Last year the Old Line machine Warneke, a first year sensa- < X lost but one ‘?f e afinlfm tion, likely will be thrown into This year it faces the front line despite his inex- BRwsine ve A PENNANT g schedule, with 11 of the 17 let- perience and the memory of what WINRER WASNT BEEN ExacTy (@ termen having been graduated last happened to Paul Derringer of A~ "BED OF RoSES® ror | spring. NEW YORK, Sept. 17. — Thelno Gardinals last October. MECARTHY 110 Included in the 11 lost were|fifteen-round championship bout " % Y3 eight regulars, six of them in the petween Tony Canzoneri and Billy * Pme end two in the backfield.|petrolle will be held in Madison DEER HUNTERS #H. C. “Curley” Byrd, the coach,iSquare Garden November’ 4, it| Gasboat Ace for charter any foresees trouble in ‘rebuilding. the|was announced. The match was|time. See George Brothers. adv forward wall. ' l- A’] scheduled for some weeks llilgo bl;t But with Ray Poppelman, was postponed when Petrolle suf- Weods, Paul Kierman, BuckY/fered an elbow injury COM[NG SOON TO Buscher and Norword smm'lranI S > 1931 reserves to start with, Byrd 4 f r has good men around whom to| WOMAN'S CLUB MEETING iild an offense. 3 o ———————— The Juneau Woman's " IF THE EAGLES AND AUXILIARY |hold its regular mon meeting | § L o4 YANKEES at 2 pm, Tuesday, 20, in MasAGER. 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