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

. I{.’ e A (%é R BRINGING UP FATHER WELL~-MAGGIE HAS USED UP ALL THE TRUNKS AN’ BAGS, SO ! HAD TO BUY MESELF A NEW GRIP TO PUT ME THINGS IN - OH-\WHAT A CUTE LITTLE GRIP-JUST WHAT | NEED FOR MY PERFUMESD AND BUT- MAGGIE! | QOT THID OF COURSE - ALWANYS THINKING OF YOURSELF- WELL- I'LL TAKE THIS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933. " They Shouldn’t Be Up There But They Are MANCUS O 2 ! in A | the back stops of both leagues in Mid-June in passed balls. Some of ¢ his attempted pegs are frightful to | come up with a couple of chances | that would kpock your eyes out, | retire the side with a flourish and [trot to the dugout with the huzzahs B | of the multitude ringing in their | ears. It's almost uncanny. What' a Catcher! Mancuso they call ‘butter-fingers’ the press box. He was leading behold and more than one cbserv- er has come down with the jitters 'aner watching him stagger around iunder a high foul. But in the | tight spots he looks like a combi- :nauon of every good catcher who jever trod on an umpire’s bunion. | The latest addition to the ‘des- tiny’ team’s family circle is Frank % | ‘Lefty’ O'Doul, late of the Brook- ) BLONDIE RYAN ) FRANK O'DOUL vy Above are thrce reasons why their critics contend the Giants have no business leading the Na- ticnal League. Critz and Ryan can’t hit, much; Mancusco is erratic and O’Doul can’t peg a ball from here to there. But they can win ball games, which, after all, is the main idea. By GAYLE TALBOT (Asscciated Press Sports Writer) NEW YORK, July 11.—One of the most pleasurable afternoons available this vacation season is one spent in the press box at the Polo Grounds, observing the puzzled expressions worn by baseball ex- perts of the metropolitan sector. ‘They are the same jolly group who had a peck of fun late last season with Bill Terry, who at that time was wery serious about re- building his Giants. “Yessir,” Bill would say, “we might not win that flag next year, but we’ll be up there in the race.” And how the boys would chuckle and wink wisely when Bill wasn't looking. It was good—Bill wrecking a second division club and making a pennant contender out of the pieces. Slightly Flabbergasted So they're sitting there each aft- ernoon now, watching those Giants win ball games and feeling—well, | flabbergasted. They don't believe it. The more they watch the ‘Jints’ the less they believe it. “It must oe what they call a ‘team of destiny’, or something,” one veteran observer sighed after watching Bill's rascals make five errors and four hits and win a ball game going away. They've done that so many times this season it has ceased to be a novel- ty. Maybe it is ‘destiny.’ It’s bound to be something. The Giants have been getting sensational pitching from Hubbell, Fitzsimmons and Schumacher. That's granted, but even pitching isn’t enough to ac- count entirely for the miraculous success of a team with so many uncertain links. The club can’t hit. Only Mel Ott and Johnny Vergez of the regulars are over the .300 mark. At last re-| ports Blondie Ryan, the club's; shortstop, was pasting the apple' at a 204 clip. Hughie Critz at sec- ond was hitting 216 and Gus Man- cuso, catcher, had a 244 average. But what do you think of this| my dear Watson? Ryan with 38 hits, has driven in precisely the same number of runs as has Chick | Fullis of the Phillies with 94 sale-} ties—23 apiece. Ryan had knocked | in only seven less than Pepper Mar-| tin of the Cardinals, with a .349 average. ‘Then there’s Critz. He, like Ryan, has a habit now and then of kick- ing a ground ball all over the in-lsecond game of @& double header | ~ MILEAGE- field and then heaving it into one of the better box seats. He and Ryan at times collaborate in kick- ing the ball around until they have filled the bases and brought| down the wrath of Giant fandom. Then, with that setting, they'll{ DAILY SPORTS CARTOON ONLY JULES LADOUMEGVE™ OF FRANCE RUN HE MILE | GLENN'S AMAZING 4:09 4 M COLLEGIATES FASTEST RUN N Tuis W ANOTHER- YEAR OF vARSITY COMPETITION AHEAD % 4 J OF 85 RECOROS Aee@ SowG T2, a, CUNNINGHAM T T el Vet THE. UNIVER S/ OF —By Pap N JULES HOLDS TIE WORLOS 3 RECORD OF 4mm. Q Yssac | | | | HAS ILE AT THE NATIONAL 1S THE EvEeR- COUNTRY " HIM ~ WHAT A ATING THE « lyns, who couldn't peg a ball from left field to second base with a sling shot. However, if you think i the fact is of any moment you don’t know the Giants. Chances are that any baserun- ner who tries to take advantage of Lefty’s weakness will fall and break three bones and be tagged out while he 1les there in pain. LINDSTROM IS * BACK IN GAME; USES BIG BAT Pulls Pirates Across Plate | to Nose Out 3 to [ 2 Victory PITTSBURGH, July 11.—Freddy Lindstrom’s big bat, after silent for several weeks, boomed into action Monday to give Pittsburgh a 3 to 2 triumph over Philadelphia. ‘With two out and three on base, the big outfielder singled sending Gus Suhr home with the winning run and boosting the Pirates ahead of the Chicago Cubs. HELD TO THREE HITS PHILADELPHIA, July 11.—Milton |Gaston held the Athletics to three hits yesterday afternoon to give Chicago a 7 to 1 victory in the after Philadelphia won the opener 3 to 2 in an eleven inning game. GAMES MONDAY National League Pittsburgh 3; Philadelphia 2. American League Cleveland 3; Washington 2. St. Louis 9; Boston 5. Detroit 6; New York 10. Philadelphia 3,.1; Chicago 2, 7 Pacific Coast League No games were played yesterday as the teams were traveling to opcn this afternoon on the followin: schedule for this week: Seattle at Sacramento. Los Angeles at S8an Francisco. Portland at Oakland. Mission at Hollywood. STANDING OF CLUBS 1 Won Lost Pct Sacramento 59+ 40 Portland Los Angeles Hollywood Oakland Missions Seattle San Francisco New York St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Boston Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia° 45 4 American League Won Lost F Washington 650 26 5 New York 48 30 6 Philadelphia 39 39 A Chicago 3 40 494 Detroit 38 42 41 Cleveland 38 43 46 Boston 32 416 R 38! P 60 500 The explanations tained as well as unexpected pen- nant drive of the New York Giants under Bill Terry's leadership range | all the way from claims they are| for the sus- another “team of destiny” to sug- gestions they are achieving suc- cess with the aid of “psychic” or sleight-of-hand influences. ) The simple truth probably is that in a league lacking any stand- out, thoroughly well balanced team, the Giants have kept up a hot pace by real hustling and team spirit, plus the phenomenal development | of a pair of young pitchers, Roy | Parmplee and Hal Schumacher, and an acrobatic shortstop, Blondy Ryan. The deal by which they got “Lefty” Clark from Brooklyn | may mean the flag. ‘There 1s no panticular mystery jinvolved, beyond that artificially created by a number of the clan which Babe Ruth describes as the| “paper boys.” They discarded the Giants as strictly a second-divis- ion outfit in April and have been tryfng ever since to discover some means of wriggling out of it with-{ out doing a complete somersault. The National League sxtuav,ion‘ this year was made-to-order for a | | “STANDARD By GEORGE McMANUS LHEREB THE BALL OF 9TRING | Cardinals. | last ling, but they were not as bad as AND THE NEWSPAPERS YOU ASKED FOR-SIR JUST PUT'EM OOWN- | AINT READY To PACKK peppery club like the Giants or the Both went into reverse season, without much warn- their records indicated when they wound up 1932 in a tie for sixth | place. Both have come to life again afier a shake-up and now, a year too late to suit the experts, they are the twin-favorites in the bet- ting, th s to the collapse of the Phi and the slump of the Pi- rates. YANKE CRACK. Broadway as well as Main Street has been no less astounded by the feats of the Giants than the fact that mid-season finds the reigning world champions, the Yankees, scrambling to stay around the top of the American League standing. By this time last year th: Yan- kees were nine or ten games in front and making it a runaway. | For a time this sprink it appeared they would repeat the process, but the inzvitable cracking-up has de- veloped and forced manager Joe McCarthy to make some changes. Fortunately for McCarthy he has had replacements for just such an emergency, so far as infield and outficld problems are concerned. Players like Lynn Lary and Fred Walker would have been regulars from the cutset on any other club. WILL IT LAST? The Yankees have won pennants in the past mainly on power and th2y can do so again, whether or not the pitchers pull themselves to- Another decision from Motordom’s Highest Authority, the American Automobile Association Contest Board GASOLINE -unsurpassed’” Hereisthe AAA Report. Readit: “Thisis to certify | that we, the Contest Board of the American Auto- ' mobile Association, have conducted a series of tests on Standard Gasoline, manufactured by Standard Oil Company of California, for der actual road conditions, comparative mileage un- in comparison with six other gasolines considered to be of leading brands. On the basis of these tests, we find Standard Gasoline is unsurpassed in MILEAGE per gallon. Each of the seven fuels tested was purchased by our representative in the open market from regular con- sumer outlets and was identifiable during the tests by code name known only to us. All tests were conducted by us under carefully con- trolled conditions of operation, in a 1933 stock model sedan, over a measured circ ular course, on the Oak- land Speedway, in accordance with the rules and policies of the AAA Contest Board. This statement is based on data developed by and on file with the AAA Contest Board.” Contest Board, American Automobile Association Starting Proved!— Acceleration Proved! ! — Mileage Proved! ! | — Watch for AAA report on Anti-knack. " STANDARD GASOLINE is unsurpassed in ALL qualities \ jto the champions, instead of try- gether. Meanwhile the rest of the league can pluck up courage and make it close by carrying the fight ing, like a punch-drunk merely to go the route. Most of the American League strategists made the mistake of conceding the flag to the Yankees in advance and finding some of their worst fears justified at the start. Consequently they were un- prepared on short notice to take complete advantage of the first big slump of the champions, feeling perhaps that it was too good to be true and probably couldn't last Maybe it won't. ————— CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received up to 5 pm. July 14, for the construc- tion of approximately 186 ft. of concrete sidewalk on the south side of Second St., between Seward and Franklin Sts. Specifications on file at Clerk’s Office. A, W. HENNING, City Clerk. | NOTICE! : | fighter, —adv. The Juneau Water Works have moved their offices to the First| National Bank from where it will| transact all business. adv.’ JOHN RECK, Manager. | undersigned was on July 6, 1 requested NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Probate Court for the Ter= ritory of Alaska. Division Num-+ ber One. Sitka Precinct. In the Matter of the Estate of ELIZABETH BARRON, deceased. . Notice is hereby given that the 1933, appointed Executrix of the above entitled estate. 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