The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1933, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA'EMPIRE, TUESDA BRINGING UP FATHER g DoN'T WORRY, MOTHER, DEAR - + KNOW FATHER Wikl RETURN- HE CANT BE ALWE- HE WOULGNT STAY AWAY THIS LONG- RALLY BROKEN UP IN NINTH; CHICAGO WINS CHICAGO, II, April 25.—The White Sox broke up a ninth inning ‘rally by Cleveland yesterday after- noon to win 5 to 4. For some erally an astute judge of ing prospec has brac! New York Giants with the GAMES MONDAY Louls Cardinals as third choice, National League the short price cf 3 to 1, Brooklyn 0; New York 4. ,National League pennant chase. Boston 5; Philadelphia 6, twelve! It is all the more surprising in view ‘of the quotation of only 2% innings, broken up by a single to left field by Al Todd, pinch hitter, to 1 on both the Pittsburgh Pirates with the bases loaded. and Chicago Cubs, although these American League odds, together with those of 6 to 1" New York 10; Washington 11. on Philadelphia and Brooklyn, co- Cleveland 4; Chicago 5. ;incide with the general expectation Philadelphia 16; Boston 10. jthat the race will again be a Si. Louis 3; ‘Detroit 4. iscramble. Boston and Cincinnati jare rated 20 to 1 by Kearney but Paci Cbast League No games were played yesterday |it could just as well be 100 to 1 ithout undue risk being involved. as the teams were traveling tow open this afternoon on the follow-; There are too many “ifs” involved figure the Giants'in the first hedule for this week: Hollywood at Seattle. | division groups. Whereas the Cardi- Mission at Portland. !'nals have enough pitching cla: Sacramento at San Francisco. |alone, regardless of other proble |to keep them in the running, Oakland at Los Angeles. |Glants have only two moundsmen STANDING OF CLUBS |of known class, Hubbell and Fitz- Pacific Coast League | simmons, Won Lost Pct.| Moreover, unless Travis Jackson 667 can come back fo play shortstop 571liin his old-time form, the Giants 524 | will not be much better off in that 524 |Position than are the Cardinals, 476 minus Charley Gelbert. 476 429 | Yankees Odds-On 333 Kearney's latest quotations on {the American League, with the Pct. | Yankees as odds-cn choices to r 875 |peat, at 1 to 2, are more consi 667 tent with the spring outlook. 500 Washington's chances are figured 444 lat 2% to 1, with Philadelphia 3 to 4291, Cleveland 8 to 1, Chicago and .375 | Detroit each 20 to 1, St: Louis and :375 | Boston each 100 to 1. +333 | 1If there are any criticisms here, they come from the backers of the White Sox, who would hardly give 178 jeven money on their chances of 127 (the Sox (finishing higher than the A545‘T1gers 500 500 | Picks Pittsburgh .333| “If the Cardinals had a good .264 | shortstop and if there was a cer- St. Louis 273 | tainty about Frankie Frisch, Rog- R 8 i T SRR ers Hornsby and Sparkie Adams,” Read the ads ag carefully as you |writes Roy Stockton, for the St. read the news articles. ab {to Oakland Sacramento Portland Los Angeles Hollywood Mission San Francisco Seattle 10 National Pittsburgh New York Philadelphia Boston Chicago St. Louis Cinecinnati Amerl;ean L RN N Pet. New York Chicago ‘Washington Cleveland Detroit Boston Philadelphia mqmammu&g AND | DIDNT TREAT HIM AS | SHOULD - | NEVER REALIZED HOW MUCH | LOVED HIM- OH, MY DARLING HUSBAND! I'LL NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN- for the | ¢ | Louis Post-Dispatch, “Gabby Street ©.1933. King Features Syndicate, Inc. Great Britain rights reserved. would be leading the outstanding faverite in the National League race. Without a shortstop and with |out any certainty about at least two of the three big “if” men, difficult to overlook the Pit! Pirates as the most probable | ner. “Of cour: the outlook may !ch:mgc very shortly, There have heen rumbhngs of an impending trade, ially since they (Brea- don and Rrkq) must feel the is gh win- I don Slade has mjuwd his throw- ing arm. cago, having won last year, be ranked at least third for politeness sake, but there are oth- er teams in the league good enough, if they get pitching, to drop the Cubs out of the first division.” ROWING BOOMS NEW YORK Apnl 25.—Although crew racing was inaugurated at Manhattan College here only a year ago, 75 candidates reportad for the initial workout this season. - .o SOPH RELAY STARS NORMAN, Okla., April 25.—The Uni ty of Oklahoma's crack quartet of quarter-milers, who ran the fastest mile relay ever paced in the Sooner state, is composed en- tirely of sophomores. They were timed at 3:19.7 and are regarded as odds-on favorites to lower the Biz Six conference record in their first year of varsity ccmpoz;uon e OUT FOR RECORD LONDON, April 25.—An attempt to regain the world’s land speed record for motorcycles for Britain is shortly to be made by J. S. Wright, the previous holder. At present it is held by the German, E. Henne, at 151 miles an hour. — ., AFTER 15TH LETTER ALEXANDRIA, La., April 25— |Dalton Faircloth, Louisiana colleze senior, is seeking his 15th letter in college athletics here this spring. Already he has 13 and expects to capture the other two in tennis and track. His sports are football, basketball, tennis and track. —— - DANCE The Women of the Moose will | sponsor a dance at the Evergreen Gardens on May 13. Save the i date. —adyv. DAILY SPORTS CARTOON —By Pap RATED ONE wr ™E BEST LEFT- HANDERS I\ THE GAME 18 1931 —HE SLIPRED LAST YEAR o8 -Tue cHanee OF SCENERY OUGH], T0 BRING HIM DILL meKER — FORMER GIANT uum_efl-t DHO WAS TRADEOD O T Sl LQUIS CARD:MAI-&- o NO TEAM IN THE GAnr CAR BOAST THREE LEFT-HANOERS 1o MATCH TehS CARDINAL— RIO. —— 2 A4 Tights Beserved by Ton Associned Proes ~ i LONG STORY, MAGGIE- | 3 | a nag| being gr harness | in Ohio thi s | no gat baseball to this | admission games There is Notre Dame spring. ‘hurler is a right- ‘Duster” Mails, the Kansas [t-handed pitcher. handed penman. eccendir] City Blu but a of The Wichita, Kas., Henrys, nobed | basketball team, won all eight of their games on their recent invas- ion of Hawail. Chattanooga starts the Southern League baseball season as a favol e to repeat for the champlionshi McClure, Louisiana state recently se! a new | 't Edwin golf champion, record for the Broadmoor course Sumvepart, vmh a card of 65. STAR ATHLETES OF ARMY LEAN TO AIR CORPS Graduates of Military Academy Are Seeking Commissions Now 'WEST POINT, N. Y., April 25.— A number of Army's most promi- nent athletes in this year's grad- uation class at the U. S. Military Academy who will be commissioned second lieutenants in June have applied for commissions in the Air Corps. Army regulations provide that these men will be commissioned || in various branches of the Army and detailed to the Air Corps for a year’s instruction. On winning their wings as pilots they will be perma- nently transferred to the Air Corps. Summerfelt to Fly Included in the group of embryo aviators are the captains of five varsity teams, headed by the foot- ball leader, “Milt” Summerfelt of Benton Harbor, Mich., All-America guard and lacrosse letter man. Other sports captains are Robert Epler, Norton, Kan., captain of the basketball team and letter man in track; Stephen O. Fuque, Wash- ington, D. C. baseball captain; Winton 8. Graham, Big Stone Gap, l Va., captain of the track team and half-back on the football squad, and Chalmer K. McClelland, Fay- etteville, Ark., captain of the swim- ming team. Other football players who will look for their Army careers in the Air Corps include Felix Vidal, Mad- ison, 8. D, last season; A Whitestone, L. I, N. Y., who in ad- dition to football letters has awards in track and hockey; Dick King, Georgetown, 8. C., left end, who received All-America honors from many sources last year; Joe Mac- William, Perth Amboy, N. J., qual terback, and Bill Frentzel, Danville, 11, foothall halfback and lacrosse player. Fields Outstanding Another outstanding cadet apply- ing for the Air Corps detail is “Ken” Fields, Elkhart, Ind:, who is first captain, or regimental com- mander of the corps of cadets. He stands number one in his ¢ academically, pitches on the base- ball team and was a triple threat man on last year's Army football squad. One member of the polo trio, Duff W. Sudduth, Starkville, Miss., also will be in the group reporting at the Air Corps training center at San Antonio, Tex., in September. —— - APPRECIATION For the many expressions of sym- pathy during our bereavement in the loss of a beloved husband and brother we wish to voice our hear*- felt appreciation. MRS. M. J. BAVARD, NICHOLAS BAVARD AND FAMILY. ady. APRIL 25 TS A ONE - H03. AND NOT A TRUE Ll WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN -YOU BIG LOAFER-? Prmceton Wmner of F irst Relay Race F orty Years Ago By JOHN RFITI‘J(‘FR PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—Wars | h‘ n from Penns race the Imlm\m,: among nations and world-wide eco-l\w” nemic depressions may come €0, but the University valia carnival of relay and of Pennsy races go @ jon serenely as ever. Next Friday and Saturday Fran lin Field here will be the ne of 39th annual baton-carrier meet, the original and, therefore, the oldest athletic gathering of its kind in the world. The Olympic games never bring together such a large army of track contestants as does this clas- sic congress of athletes. They come from small elementary schools and from world-famed uni- versities. Last year more than 500 universities, colleges and sent teams, and nea 500 indi- vidual athletes, represcnting near- ly half the states in the union, took part. The outlook this year, despite econcmic conditions, is declared to be as good as in recent years, Princeton First Winner So far the een educa- tional institutions w: held in 1893, just forty years ago. It was between Pensylvania and Prince- 4% 1 ton. Pennsylvania invited | schools | | as athletic history goes, | " ithe (first relay race beb Princeton | to send down a team of four quar-| ter-milers to run a similar Penn- sylvania quartet in the university’s | spring games. the | which This time Pennsylvania won in the that attracted even more attention. Because of the ss of the two e-spre \(I mlm unexpected suc trial and the ed Penn- con- gurating meet open to all g rted in 1895 and called a “carnival,” a namo has remained ever since. ce was that Mile Relay in 3:34. made up "mx- al athletes, Harvard be outside comp: riers of Harvard won the mile relay in 3 minutes, 34 2-5 seconds. Since then the compx n gradually improved until the time for the mile event in the carni- val has been lowered to 3 minutes, ly of leoc The baton ¢ |15 2-5 seconds. The sport grew year after y The events of the first relay meet 38 years ago covered only a small part of one afl It now takes two full days to run off vents, have numberzd than the more 100. So popular has ti that it is run in eve part of the United States and in foreign coun- tries. The International Olympic council has recognized relay rac- The race was a novelty and cre- ing, and it now forms an impo ated a great deal of interest. The! ant part of the program in Tigers won, and their elation was’quadlennial international meets in 50 greng that they accepted an-|both swimming and track. ITALY TAKING Sports Are Endorsed as Mainspring of Fas- cist Culture ROME, April 25. — Combative 'national pride international and vigor comes an symbol of He is the ladvance guard of mational prestige.” ~ FORWARD STEP | | tournamenit sport, pointed toward wne develop- | ment of champions and champion- ship teams, has been endorsed by the Italian government as one of the' main-springs of Fascist cul-| ture. ‘The chamber of deputies thus or~ ficially glorified athletic activity with thunderous approval of a broadside attack against “old and unsound academic precepts’ re- cently delivered by Leandro Ar- pinati sub-secretary of the inter- jor and president of the Ttalian Olympic committee. Premier Benito Mussolini, parent advocate of Ttal- ian sports regeneration, led the ac- clamation. ' Does Not District “It never has been true,” Arpinati asserted, “that physical exertion or competitive sport distracted the youth's mind from academic work. The classic tradition that athletes study is erroneous. “On the contrary, |conflict with serious and sciemiflc) sport serves a high educationel, national and so-| cial motive. Competition speeds up the mental processes, teaches self- control and poise, and scatters tor- pid youthful fantasy.” 1 | Arpinati emphasized the neces- | |sity of national and international championship events “to keep Fas- cist youth forever reaching beyond | the limits of medioreity.” National Prestige “The champion,” he said, “b PEOPLE Being in a hurry doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a deli- cious lunch. Come here and be con- vinced. 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