The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 5

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A. v Evans Predwts Cleveland Will Be in Pennant F ight CLEVELAND, April 11.—A clos- er race at tne top, with the Cleve- land Indians furnishing stronger | opposition to New York, Washing- ton and Philadelphia, is the way General Manager Billy Evans sees the 1933 American league season. BALL PLAYERS ARE WARNED T0 DO NO LOAFING Fraternalizing ng Under Ban —Great Sport Fight- ing for Existence NEW YORK, April 11.—For purpose of develeping. a grea spirit of aggressiveness on the ktall fields and giving the game more of a custcmer appeal, John A. Heyd- President of the National erday appealed to play. ers to avoid fraternalizing with ri vals and loafing at any stage of| the forthcoming pennant race. President Heydler said baseball, which starts in the Major Leagues Wednesday of this week, is a pas-| time facing the acid test of popu-| larity in competition with other | amusements. Heydler said the people are bud- geting expenses regarding sports and amusements and will choose one that promises the most en- |Business and Profes |five SCHOLAR S Hi P Observers Say Rookie Lou DANCE PLANNED Finney Will Make the Fans ON APRIL 21 Business and Professional Women Prepare for Annual Ball The Third Annual Scholarship Dance of the Business and Profes- clonal Women's Club will be held in the Elks' ballroom Friday, April 21. The Serenader’s orchestra, v.mch will furnish the music has <ance music. The local orgauization of the nal wcemen will be one of the hostesses ol the Northwest Cornvention of the o: to be held in Seattle in 1935. At the | close of the convention, a good will Sour of Alaska is planned for prom- |inent members attending the con- clave, and the officers. Twenty- percent. of the dance money will be used toward defraying the prom- | sed a good program of late, peppy | Forget A LOU FINNEY l Simmons Even Again consigned to fourth place for the fourth consecutive year by most experts, the Indians have made no sensational trades nor ap- parently been greatly strengthened by high-priced purchases. Yet Evans confidently expects his club to prove stronger, though on| the surface it is the same team | that has played good ball in past| seasons but developed weaknesses that prevented it being a serious| pennant contender. { | | Streng Mound Staff Here is how the Cleveland offi- cial analyzes it, point by point: Pitching—With only one veterani among them, the pitching staff in- cludes Willis Hudlin, Wesley Fer- rell, Mel Harder, Clint Brown and | Oral Hildebrand, may reasonably | expect to improve for some years| introduced some uncertainty into the situation by salary arguments. Catching—Roy Spencer, obtained in trade from Washington, is ex- pected to help the pitchers, and Frank Pytak, a fine youngster, is| expected to do an ever-increasing share of regular work. Three Promising Rookies Infield—Clevelana will have the advantage of Chalmers Cissell's| second base play from the frist of to come. Hudlin and Ferrell have | § First National Bank OF JUNEAU FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. New Wall Paper Here! See the New 1933 Patterns. Freshen Up the Home. Full line of BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS JUNEAU PAINT STORE | THE CHAS. W. CARTER MORTUARY “The Last Service Is the Greatest Tribute” Corner 4th and Franklin Sts. Phone 136-2 ———— i ] i : 3 i joyment. He declared baseball is|convention costs and the remainder the season this year. Johnny Bur- i the best amusement but it must |will be devoted to the club's annual | nett apparently has found his niche i 5 3 be conducted on an aggressively/scholarship award. | at shortstop. There are three prom- T SPORT BRIEFS 7 For Your Health’s Sake Eat Our B competitive basis. Scholarchip Award ising prospects, Harley Boss, who | g Py CRACKED WHEAT BREAD i COAST LEAGUE GAMES | There were no games played yes- terday afternoon in the Pacific Coast League as the teams were traveling, to open this afternoon on the following week: { Seattle at Sacramento. | San Francisco at Mission. Portland at Oakland. Los Angeles at Hollywood. STANDING OF CLUBS | Pacific Coast League [ Won Lost Pct. The annual scholarship is award: i ed to a girl graduate of the Juneau | High School who is earning or partly earning her. way through an | institution of higher learning. The 1931 scholarship was award- | schedule for this ed Miss Muriel Jarman and an‘ 1932 to Miss Marie Holst. Entertain Officials’ Wives The club’s next social meeting, {which will be held at the home of Mrs. Pearl Burford, will honor the wives of the mew Territorial offi- cers. e | SPORT BRIEFS This young man, Lou anc,, any of this year's major league fi Simmens’ big shees in left field (This is another of a scrics of personality cketches on out- standing figures in the base- | ball training camps.) ;wsslbly faces the biggest task of roshmen. He's expected to fill Al for the Athletics. .J watermelon. But give them time. | Lous great play with Portland |last season inspired a veteran Pa- 'cific Coast League umpire to de- clare: may give Eddie Morgan a battle at first;, “Bad News” Hale, who is ready. to step in at third any time Willig; Kamm falters; and Billy Knickérbocker, a lively prospect at shortstop. Outfield—Evans thinks Joe Vos- mik, Earl Averill and Dick Porter make up the best outfield in base- ball. He expects the team’s de- fense to be tightened by shifting Vosmik to center field. amount of territory to haul in drives with his long arms. No less a judge of big league Preliminary boxers in New York State now receive a mininmum pay of $10 per round, as against $20 in |more prosperous times. Jim Leonard, a lanky fullback on the Notre Dame team Jlast year, probably will be tried out at guard in spring training. Girls of Milan high school in Ten- nessee, went through a 30-game basketball schedule this winter, los- ing only two. | JUNEAU BAKERY (Next to Juneau Drug) ALASKA MEAT CO QUALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIKING Meadowbrook Butter Austin Fresh Tamales PHONE 39 Deliveries—10:30, 2:80, 4:29 | R Gastineau Pool Hall o Dakland ; g ; 3\‘;}‘. i “He's a second Ty Cobb. He's as |talent than Mark Koenig, veteran| Three footballers—Babich, Kawal, Los Angeles FORT MYERS, Fla., April 11— fact as Cobb ever was, he can hit |Cubs infielder, who played in the |and Lind—were among eight North- RUDOLPH TENCICH, P: ! ) e g rop. Hollywood R, -671| There are ten players in the ma- If even half the things they say ,n4 throw and he has the same |C08Sb circuit with Finney last year, |western university athletes winning § E 3 San Francisco 4 3 571 jor leagues this year 40 years of age |about Lou Finney are true, the figniing spirit that made the old |Made this comment on the A’s|all-campus boxing championships. Front Street Telephone 183 3 Portland 3 4 420 or over. Jack Quinn of Brooklyn,|Philadelphia Athletics are due t0 Georgia Peach the terror of «his|PrOdigY: “Meet Your Friends Here” ! Sacramento 374 429 about 51, is the dean of them all.|miss Al Simmons for about five gjme “Lou can do everything Al sxm- Capt. Eddie Anderson scored all Seattle 2 5 -286 | minutes after the 1933 campaign «1 pelieve that kid would cut his|Mons can do except step in the |his team’s points as Colfax high de- Mission A8 .143| Pitcher Monte Weaver of the opens. From there on, Al Will be yrother's leg off to steal a base. One | Pucket.' His only weakness is try- |feated Nekoosa in the Wisconsin - e |Washington Senators is a professor | just a memory. day last year he gave the spikes to | 8 to hit, and usually hitting, any [state high school basketball tour- Al Smith is the name of a young pitcher who won 22 games for Winston-Salem in the Piedmont league last season. of mathematics in the off-season. Knows his curves. The Presbyterian College Cardi- For this Finney, who will patrol 3 ¢eccond baseman, and when the the left garden for the A's, comes ooy began to squawk Finney close to being the most highly rec- aireq him if he thought they were {nals of Durant, Okla., are national Promote Frosperity With PmMni- women's basketball champions for Iso far, his admirers have claimed ,ie) all, Finney might have diffi- er'’s Ink! 'the second straight year. he can do everyrhmg except palm DAILY SPORTS CARTOON SR NO @ITH CINCINRAT( QAp' \ © Al Righis Roasyved by The Assoclated Prese 5 — FORMER CARDINAL- . VM WORT 8E lONESOME" .= HERE ARE A FLOCK OF foRmMeR CAROINALS WITH THE REDS // —By Pap . JIM NEEDED A CHANGE CF SCENERY ANO THE CINCINNATL REDS NEEDEDO HM - THE TRADE OUGH[ N T© HeLO ommended rookie the American piayving tag» League has seen in recent years. Tne speaker was reminded that, culty stealing first base. | From Buffalo, Ala. “Listen, you don’t have to worry about that baby’s hitting,” came the ‘re!orl. “He can make that apple ,\\hlsule a tune on the way to the | {outfield. And can he throw? Why, |he can throw strike nine times out ¢f ten from deep left.” | Lou hails from Buffalo, Ala, a| [town whose population largely is Icomprised of Finneys. He was play- |ing with Carrolton in the Georgia |State League less than three ycar~| ago when the A’s bought him and | “Sugar” Cain, the pitcher, for $750. He belongs to a family of fine athletes. One brother, Hal, is a catcher with Pittsburgh. Lou didn't g0 to college. “I had one brother who went to college and ruined his chances to make the big leagues, and I wasn'n‘ {going to make the same mistake,” \he declared. Finney, farmed out by Connie | Mack, spent one year in the New York-Penn, league, with Harrisburg iand York, before blossoming into | the great player last season at Portland. He was a little weak | |against southpaw pitching early ilast year, but he remedied that. Long Arms and Legs | “Every morning,” said the same | umpire who compared him to Cobb, pxwh ‘within range of his long bat.” ney. 12 to 11. | “Finney hired all the left-handed | kxds in the neighborhood to pmm ’w him, and everyone who struck | him out got a quarter. Many times | Iv~ seen him come to the plate in | “ne afternoon with his hands Ulu Physically, Finney is something Of an athletic. freak. He's all arms and legs, with very little torso. His waist line and elbows almost are| and his lvfli‘ on the same level, ‘oi blisters.” Leem almost a deformity in JUNEAU Easter F lOWCl‘S We have an abundant supply of Easter Lilies and plenty of home-grown tulips, hyacinths and other Spring flowers at very reasonable prices. ORDER TODAY—Telephone 311 Store on Third Street FLORISTS COALHEAT that's easy on your pocketbook é CARBONADO ! COKING FURNACE COAL 3 with INDIAN COAL ! 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