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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Mo \DA\ DEC 19, !932 BRINGING LP FATHER | WILLYCoU DO 4T ? | "LL DO SOMETHING | FER You somE DAY- ALL RIGHT- BUT DONT LET “YOUR MOTHER KNOW | ASKED You TO AsSK HER DO You UNDER- — GOSH! | HOPE SHE LISTENS TO HIM - S s L YOuU CAN DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW - 'HOW ABOUT A LITTLE CASH? 'LL'DO VT + GET YoU | JUST You LEAVE \T TO ME Not content with speaking eight languages fluently, Moe Berg, Washington catcher, is spending that tongue. K te cab YO, Dec. cher of is.—Mo2 cruc the Washington Senator 1933 baseball season by adding Japanese to his speaking reper- tory. When he's able to talk it, he’ll ave nine languages available for 7 enemy batters—or umpires. Before Berg bezan his present study, he could speak fluently in , Greek, Latin, French, panish, Italian, German and Jew- h. As a side line while he's here he's teaching the art of catching to students at e, UnTErsity of | Tokyo. And before the spring training A combination, say, of Japanese and French, should be sufficient to fluster any cpposing batter. Berg, | is getting ready for the, HOOPSTERS OFF FOR CRILKOOT BARRACKS MEET: Mcose-B. P R. Basketball ! Players Embark for Haines Tourney White Sox where he was trans- formed into a backstop. He play- ed f Cleveland and given an un- conditional release at the end of 1931 and then signed with Wash- i n for one of his best sea- I SF TS R R PiGEfiN RACES ~ ARE UNDER BAN ! MELBOURNE, Au“r?]..l Dec. 19.| “ »on racing has been banned| Wearing the colors of the Moose "n Victoria because ot the dan- basketball team, four Moose play- |ger of the birds spreading thejers and four B. P. R. players from 'drsad Newcastle disease, which is|the City League left on the Army jendangering the poultry industry.| bOaL Fornance at seven o'clock this morning tfor Haines to represent| Juneau in the annual basketball tournament staged by lekoal Barracks. Following are the players makin; t is feared racing pigeons might | not only spread the opidemic from | state to state, but, if infected, car-| ry the virus among the wild bush birds. ms of the Douglas High School foi boarded the boat. ball attendance this season, |er story has been rvcordedvh ; Miss Jeannette Stewart of Ju- ‘Tne‘ mated 70,000 who avend- neau accompanied the party to ed the Notre Dame-Army gamei,.i a5 official scorer. Miss Thea | was one of the big crowds of the! season, and the Western Reserve- Case game, a local classic, estab- |lished a new high record for at- | tendance. \“MARTY” MAGIC NAME ON OHIO STATE GRID COLUMBUS, O, Dec. 19.—Foot- Francis, who achieved fame for| {her hike from New York to Jju- |neau and who has been spending | (the past few months here, also !went along as chief rooter and |to spend some time at Haines. City League Schedule Tomorrow evening at the High the winter in Japan to pick up ers and TUnited Meat final games of the first half of the season. A High School team and the De Molays will probably fill in the double-header. ! The o'ne- two games remammg on the first half schedule, hetween he B. P. R. and Douglas Firemen and between the latter and the Juneau Firemen, have been post- ‘poned until Tuesday and Friday evenings of next week. HEL IO i BURNED STEAK tion in Barranger high school af | Newark, N. J. Then he went to|ball players, named “Marty” seem Princeton University, to Columbia |to have a better chance to make law college and to the Sorbonne |a touchdown from the kickoff than |in Paris. |do others who play in the Ohio | With his languages he has a |State University stadium. law office in New York, is quali-| “Marty” Varner kicked off against fied to practice international law |Pennsylvania this season, and got and apparently hasn't a great deal |a touchdown when the ball rolled to worry about when his baseball across the goal line. days are over. “Marty” Karow also did the trick | But baseball is his first love, in 1926 against Iowa in the open- and his record with the Senators | ing kickoff in the second half. He |last year indicated he is far from stole the ball from an Iowa player through with the game. A star | who was returning the Kkick. in his high school days, he later| No other player ever has per- > the tr! Paul Brown, Elmer Lind- HAS GPID BOOM | strom, Alvin Bloomquist, Jerry Led- | | | better, Tom Moyer, Herb Torger- | @ |son,, Sammy Nelson and Willie Ro- | CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 19.—While denberg. | |other football centers have been| ot Dsuglas the boys’ and girls’ suffering from a slump in fooi- School gymnasium George Broth-| play their | Bv CFOR()‘E MeM \NUH IBHIGAGU BEARS ARE CHAMPIONS - PRO - FOGTBALL 'M SORRY- BUT ‘SONNY WANTS T© GO TO THE OPERA WITH ME TO- NIGHT- S0 I'M AFRAID YOU'LL HAVE TO STAY ./ | k! | | Defeat Po;'rtis;n“outh Spal‘-}§ tans Last Night by |} Score of 9-0 \ § { { { 1. CHICAGO, Dec. 19. — The Chicago Be: won the National professional football championship Sunday night defeating Portsmouth Spartans 9 to 0. The Bears broke the 0 to 0 dead- lock in the fourth period. Nesbig, right halfback, intercepted a pass and raced to the Spartan's vard line. Fullback Nagurski ed through the line for a five the ODDS and ENDS seven- l'.x»xnfy:fimd persons, who have h:w(“ admitted, privately, at it |aln. Then he flipped a pass to ought all along that a cricket | wouldn't hav\r beesn I\ \. g00d | ipagn Grange, left halfback, for vas «‘m insect that made _u loud, idea for his “uninvited Co igate | . touchdown. Engebretsen place- rful sound by scraping its team to play in the Rose Bowl kicked the extra point. nd legs together, may be star- The practice field will be covered The Bears added two more points to learn there are an esti- |with snow pretty regularly from on a safety as the result of a ed 30000 cricket players along |now on, and the Raiders would | ipied pace 1 Atlantic seaboard. . Harvard have found it tough keeping in The game was played indoors, on Chi- has arranged by far zhe most ex- clusive 1933 football schedule, all games to be played at Cam- shape until New Year’s. Coach Bob Neyland of Tennes- see doesn't meed to worry, even bridge. if his Volunteers should accident- Possibly the most meritorious ally get beaten one of these. day: feature of the football season just He can retire in another four yea the dirt-covered floor |cago Stadium. of the my by the rejuveninated Ramblers s Hunk’s big achievement to date, matter. But it was a hot day an ending was the increased attention with a major's pension from Un-|3ictly a product of his own hand- he was comfortably seated bel paid to the linemen, The boys|cle Sam. ... George Blake can't|iWOo'k, and it carries big weight the wheel, so he turned to Am 10 do the heavy® work received make his great little scrapper, Fi-|?mong Notre Dame men all over derson. the country. ‘You handle ‘em, Hunk,” as much publicity as did the del Labarba, quit calling him “Mis- backs, who formerly enjoyed some- ter Blake” He says, “Call me AR L d.H 4 Ao ; h' g of a monopoly along that Gsorge,” and FiGel replies obed- HUNK COMES IN HANDY So Hunk opened the door of :. Tndy Kerr was said to!iently, 11 right, Mister Blake.” Speaking of Andursnn’ " Frank s;hde and sleprdvox;: :nd ba.xg‘e B T G e ettt LSl 8 A New . ork on: 1L TWO UEMI. SSRGS DN tells with a timely touch; the story of a time Hunk and Knute Rockne were riding along in a small car, Rock was at the wheel. The car little car hummed down the roa was brushed by a big truck, from the high seat of which two very PREDI CTION | “Nice work, Hunk,” said Roek, ; MeDE ABUUT " t,o;ghl-(la»okll(m::l eggs glared down. KEEPS UP PRACTICE ; [ 33 BASFBALL Shil;)cof 1;71: Ca};.ls head out of ms: i | “Why don't you look where you're Late season college football de- | going?” he demanded. “You're \V{ lopments hardly could have been |worse than a dumb tackle.” and punched them full of hol and climbed back into the Lr Rock stepped on the gas and the I i SAN F‘RANG!SCO Cal., Dec. 1 —Coach Lawrence ‘“Spud” of the University of San Prm R H b Th l( t a called for practice the week al ogers Flornsby INKs|better arranged in a number of | “Sez you,” growled the driver of the football 2 gostinc Cards Will Win Next |conspicuous cases for the healih|the truck. “Another word out of closed. He and his assista and security of coaching jobs. League Pennant | wew occupasions are riskier o R more subject to the fickleness of ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19. — Roge™s|fortunes and alumni. Most biz |Hornsby, the player-manager who league college coaches know what {bas been shoved around the Na- it means to hear the cry of you and I bust you on the nose.” “You and who else?” challenged Rock. “Me,” piped the truckie's assist- ant; as the two of them climbed down from the high seat. | took over the freshmen as well the remaining varsity memi 2 and began drilling them in n plays for mext Fall. - .. Advertisements are your pockek‘ | tional League quite a bit in his wolves in the distance or the roar| Now, Rock feared no man that beok editorials. They interpret the 18 seasons of his big league bace-|of the disgruntled pack at their|lived—or no two men, for that merchandise news. | ball, believes his new-old team-|very heels. S ~an | mates—the Cardinals—will be out| 1, times like these it may often {in. front In the 1933 race. |be enough to make a man resfleas "I can’t see how anybody canli, nig gleep or short-tempered with lick the Birds,” panted R%'er»‘me children. ‘musmg in one of the strenuous| ‘\mrkou:s he takes five days a week {and which he intends to keep un- ;m time to go south in the spring.| Thus it is gratifying to read that Medicine ball, stall bars, pul- | Jimmy Phelan no longer needs to leys, rowing machine and 10 laps worry this year about his job at {of an indoor track are helping the University of Washington. The |the Cards’ star second sacker of | talk about a successor to the for- |other years to shed 10 or 15 pounds mer Purdue coach and Notre Dame lhe doesn’t meed. |quarterback has been stilled by the “I'm not figuring on any trouble great battle the Huskies gave to from the Cubs,“ the Bruins' late‘,Southern California’s champions. It manager continued. “Last senson}was one of those glorious defeats their pitchers carried them, and that possess a value akin to vie- they won't be as strong as they tory. were last year. Mel Stevens was supposed to be “I pick Pittsburgh to finish sec- |definitely out after this season at iond to Cardinals. The Waner boys|Yale by mutual agreement, but ;wm be as good as ever, and Vaughn {now we hear that Eli partisans, PHELAN SECURE Mink Furs Wanted! OPEN TO BUY LARGE QUANTITIES OF |at short and Piet at second ought to be better.” The Cubs will face the toughest opposition of any club, he asserts, because “all the teams try hard- deeply stirred by the smashing defeat over Harvard, want the good doctor to stay in charge of the coaching at New Haven. From South Bend comes the tip MINK |was rated one of the greatest|formed the feat in Ohio’s stadium. | shortstops in Princeton history - |S HE ALTHFUL KICKERS COMING OVER season arrives he intends to com-,and joined Brooklyn as soon as he ! plete a globe-circling tour thacfreceived his diploma. CORK, Dec. 19. — The Kerry probably will give him a chance! He stayed with the Dodgers[tmm, all-Ireland gaelic football to add a tongue or so more to his through 1922, then was shipped |champions, will make a six-week list. Ito Reading in the International | American tour beginning May 5,( Berg hcgan his extensive educa- league and thence to the Chicago '1933. Head FoothCoach at U. of ‘Oklahoma Has New Wrinkle NORMAN, Okla, Dec. 19.—Lew- le Hardage, head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, is noted for more things than the -B Pap oy ‘eoes i .LASS|TER ° | gridiron talents. He is adept at R\ S , cooking over a trick charcoal stove, \ | which he brought with him from his 6,000-acre tract in Alabama. “Lots of people think that if you DAILY SPORTS CARTOON 808 @ILL LEAD || HE YALE ECEVEN TH(S UERSATILE YALE" STAR. H4OPS FROM THE | GRIDIRON TO THE bASKET‘G‘\Lu |opines. “They're wrong. A steak is better if it's a little burned. It keeps the juice in.” GLOOMY PROSPECT | FOR KERR AS 14 | LETTERMEN LEAVE l HAMILTON, N. Y. Dec. 19.—Now that all the hub-bub about Col- |gate's Red Raiders has died down and their record of going throuzi lthe season unbeaten, untiéd and |unscored on is a matter of his- [tury, Coach Andy Kerr is doing isome plain and fancy thmking as {he contemplates the loss of 14 let- { termen, including seven' first team —HE HALLS FROM CHARLOTTE, NORH CAROLINA // HE PASSED ANO CARRIED THAT RATER-LOGGED /. BALL AGANST | Dlayers, <« HARUARD | Of course, Kerr's immediate ob- ~ @AS | Jective is preparing the “All-East N |team” to meet an “All-West” team Mfiugf Siog] lon the coast, but that doesn't . 2 WonDERFUL | prevent his looking forward to next lord will be this time next year. ! ©Only four men will be left of the ifirst eleven. They are Captain- | Glen Peters, center; Bobby Sam- |uel, right halfback: and Charlie |ments from the undefeated fresh- imen must fill |this skeleton team, P s ———-——— All Rights Reserved by The Aseociated Prade chair. Read the advertisements. | |burn a steak, it’s ruined,” Hardage! i ifall and wondering what the rec-| |elect ‘Winnie Anderson, left end; | Solenu. quarterback. Reserves on | this year's squad and reinforce-| in the gaps aroynd Go window snopping in your easy er against the pennant winners.”|that “Hunk” Anderson will stay ! —_————— as head coach, but that Athletic The advertisements are your guide | Director Jess Harper will leave | to efficient spending. Notre Dame. The rout of the Ar- Geo. Simpkins | | Christmas Gift Suggestions PENCIL AND PEN SETS BOTH RANCH AND WILD HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID N. SOBEL, Inc. 208 West 30th St., New York City Contact for Information and Shipping Tags H. J. YURMAN, Alaska Representative Triangle Building, Juneau BOX STATIONERY DIARY, RECIPE BOOKS CHRISTMAS TAGS, SEA f i and DECORATIONS ELECTRIC LIGHTED TOYS AND Established 1898 INSURANCE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Juneau, Alaska CHRISTMAS CARDS IN BOXES IMPRINTED BY (— THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU Qur Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat Geo. Simpkins Co. 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