The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1933, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MOND: AY, JAN. 2, 1933. THANK GOODNESS - '™ FEELIN' BETTER THAN | DID LAST/NIGHT § GESS VLL QT uP - “Big Four” Join Sports Immortals Future gencrations will rezd with awe of the cxploits of the 1932. two continents. Mildred (Babe) Didrikson, Dallas athlcte the world has known. Jimmy Foxx, Athletic slugger, led leagues, banged more bails over the fence than any righthand batte Triumphs of Gene Sarazen, Yankees and U. S. Olympic Stars Feature Year of 32 By ALAN GOULD | American talent otherwise was pre- (Associated Press Sports Editor) |dominant in these sports as well as NEW YORK, Jan. 2—Even if| Polo and rowing, and rose to new| the budgets failed to balance, the heights of Olympic conquest at sporting show of 1932 has been ona | Lake Placid and Los Angeles. of the most glamorous and excmng‘ Tne year 1airly scintillated with as well as one of the most suc-rn remarkable collection of record- cessful, from the viewpoint of your|smashing performances, ranging Uncle Samuel's girls and boys, in|from the roaring run of Sir Mal- the recent history of international| colm Campbell up and down Day-| competition. tona Beach to the dazzling dash | Although the United States failed of Bill Carr through the home to lift the Davis Cup, classic of| stretch of the Olympic 400. world tennis rivalry, and lost its| The high peaks of sporting drama | amateur golf crown to Cnnadd the | Vines conquered the world’s best on the tennis courts, just as Sarazen did on the golf links of stencgrapher, proved herself the greatest woman's | were scaled when California‘s won- | FLL TELL MAGGIE I'™M I FEELIN' BETTER - SHE | | FEELING BETTER TH (”% WUZ WORRIED LAST | TEA THIS AF TERNOON S ©1532, King Fearures Syndicace, Inc., Great B what the fans would pay to witness in the midst of the severest fi- nancial depression of all time. Los Angeles put on a show that twice on separate days drew over 100,000 to the mammoth coliseum, that attracted as high as 80,000 for a single day’s track and field com- petition, surpassing anything in the previous history of interna- tional sport. The cash customers, here and 2lsewhere, demonstrated they were willing to pay for what they want- d. Even though football gate re- :eipts fell off more than 25 per cent as a whole, capacity crowds saw such natural drawing cards as Colgate-Brown, Army-Notre Dame and Army-Navy. Southern' Califor- nia and Notre Dame played before 100,000 at Los Angeles. Even the Sharkey - Schmeling | heavyweight championship fight, a far cry from such spectacles as those featuring Dempsey and Tun- ney, surprised its backers by draw- ing 62,000 cash customers to the new Madison Square Garden Bowl. Popular ballot decided that Gene Sarazen’s twin triumph in golf and the sweeping baseball victories of the New York Yankees ranked as the outstanding individual and {team accomplishments of 1932, but |they representad only part of the 0 Ykaleidoscuplc spectacle. Ellsworth DIDRIKSON Vines, Eddie Tolan, Bill Carr, Jim- mie Foxx, Babe Didrikson, Helen | Wills Moody, Helene Madison, Bab: Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Harry Newman and Olin Dutra contributed spec- | tacular feats. Nurmi On Sidelines One of the world’s greatest ath- letic actors ran afloul of the an- \c ent law while waiting in the ‘derful Olympic championship crew | | wings for a farewell performance. | scored a fifth-second triumph with/Paavo Nurmi, favorite to capture its last stroke, over the blue-shirted. the Olympic Marathon, was barred | Ttalian giants; when Babe Ruth, in'from the games two days before | Octobe~'s baseball classic, magnifi-| they were to start, on charges of | cently gestured his defiance to the Prof:ssionalism. Subsequently, the Cubs and lashed a tremendous 8reatest footracer of his times sat ‘home run to the spot he had “call-| in the Olympic stands while his | ed”; when Gene Sarazen, with a youthful countrymen lost most of command of skill and nerve rarely|their athletic laurels to Poland, | witnessed under pressure, came | Argentina and the U. S. A. bounding down the stretch with fi‘ Jules Ladoumegue, France's rec- record 66 to win the United States| Ord-breaking miler, was banished | Open golf championship and cli- ]max his great double conquest at' | home and abroad. | Bumper Olympic “Crowds If it were true that many sports enterprises finished “in the red”; if professional baseball and boxing experienced a tough year at the | gate there was also the magnificent spectacle of the Tenth Olympiad |to show what could be done and | { { above quartet in the good year the home run hitters of. both | ¢ in history. For That COUGH DAILY SPORTS CARTOON HIS UICTORY IN TUE™ MIAM\ - BILTMORE OPEX NETTZEO H/M ‘f TRY Pinemulsion COUGH SYRUP JUNEAU DRUG CO. Anti-Freeze For Your Car NOW JUNEAU MOTORS DENSMORE g b OF CLEVELAND "On DEAR! T HOPE J1GGS 19 ] ) WANT HIM TO TAKE ME TOA 75¢ ' 1S MORNING riain rights reserved. | | GUESS V'LL STAY SICK- NEW YEAR IS WELCOMED BY ENTIRE WORLD Reception Is Diversified as Nations — Convicts Given Privileges NEW YORX Jan. 2—On Year's Eve, Mother Earth held a progressive party. As the hour of midnight circled the world, her children in many lands greeted 1933 in a manner of their own liking. The. carnival air was universal.| In Russia the cradle of Com- munism, observance was held with a political tinge for th~ day was the first of the second five-year plan. In Madrid, Premier Manuel Az- ana said: “The Republic for us. It must be a democracy directed for humanitarian consideration.” At 8ing Sing Prison the con-; victs were privileged to get to- gether until midnight to greet the New Year with band music and song. Throughout the States, watch parties and night club revelries| ruled. Warm. weather ruled in most of the sections of the country. W ashington State County Given Loan To Help on Relief WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — The nstruction Finance Corporation approved of a $200,000 loan to Pierce County, State of Wash- ington, where relief warrants is- sued by the courts are uncashed. before he had a chance to take a boat for the United States, as a violator of the much-debated ama- teur laws. The year closed with none other than the celebrated Babe Didrikson, double Olympic champion, also under suspension for an infraction of the code. Of his own volition, another fa- mous figures, John Joseph McGraw, took the baseball world by surpriss when he resigned his job as man- ager of the Giants, after 30 years, in favor of a young first baseman, Bill Terry. Less willingly, Amos Alonzo Stagg yielded his post as Athletic Director of the University of Chicago ofter a 40-year term in office. Rogers Hornsby was ousted as manager of the Chicago Cubs, in advance of their pennant drive, but Glenn (Pop) Warner beat his Stanford critics to the barrier by (Continuea wn Paze Six) 'NEW SCHOOL ?R.F . Ruidl STxc—c-eeds Kames| i New | ‘Washington graduate, | kan's | ‘Washington. FISHERMEN AT HEAD GHOSEN AT KETGHIKAN Who Becomes Alaska Commissioner KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. Phillip F. Ruidl, University of has been named Superintendent of Ketchi-| public schools, succeeding Anthony E. Karnes, new Terri- torial Commission of Education. Mr. Karnes will leave here late) this month for Juneau to prepare to take over his new post. Ruidl has been Superintendent | of two schools in -the State of; LR e KETCHIKAN IN NEW INDUSTRY Add $25,0‘07 to Income During Past Year Sell- ing Halibut Livers KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan, 2.— Fishermen of Ketchikan earned $25,000 extra during 1932, For the first time in history, the fishermen sold halibut livers to American pharmaceutical houses. The livers, rich in brought 12 cents a pound. During the year 3,200,000 pounds of halibyt were landed here which is only half of the amount for the previous year. ——————— 5 MEN LOSE LIVES, FIRE Burned to —I—);th in Elks’ Club Building in California City VALLEJO, Cal, Jan. 2—Five| men, sleeping in the Elks’ Club building, were burned to death Sunday in a fire which destroyed a three-story wooden building. The fire followed a New Year Eve's celebration. The victims all lived at the club. | Mink 208 West 30th St., Wanted! OPEN TO BUY LARGE QUANTITIES OF MINK BOTH RANCH AND WILD HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID N. SOBEL, Inc. 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