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BRINGING UP FATHER DEAR-| WAS '\'ALK\NG TO MR.LEW BRICKATE 'XHE BOILENOIL COMPANY HE SAID HE WOULD BE_PLEASED TO PUT SON- NY TO WORK_FOR r«s COM- PANY- | WANT TO H SONNY MEET HIM‘ MAKES HOMER T0 BREAK TIE AND WIN GAME Cardinals \an ers Over| Phillies After Two Men Knocked from Box PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 23— Jimmy Collins second homer, his ninth of this season, in the eighth inning with Pepper Martin on base,| broke the 6 to 6 deadlock and gave the St. Louis Cardinals an 8 to 6 triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday afternoon. The Phillies drove Walker and Jess Haines from the box but Dizzy Dean stopped the attack by fanning three of the seven men him YANKEES GO HIGHER CHICAGO, Ill, June 23. — The New York Yankees strengthened their position at the top of the American League standings as they \ put over six runs in the seventh| inning yesterday afternoon to de-| teat Chicago 9 to 6. The victory, coupled with Boston's defeat by the Detroit Tigers, increased the Yanks' margin to five and one- | half games. | GAMES YESTERDAY National League | St. Louis 8; Philadelphia 6. Cincinnati 7; Brooklyn 2. Pittsburgh 5; New York 11 | Chicago 1; Boston 5. American League New York 9; Chicago 6. Detroit 8; Boston 7. Philadelphia 4; Cleveland 3. Washington-St. Louis, rain. | Pacific Coast League No games were played in the Pa- cific Coast League yesterday as the teams were traveling to open this afternoon on the following schedule | for this week: San Francisco at Seattle. Los Angeles at Portland. Oakland at Mission. Sacramento at San Diego. STANDING OF CLUBS | PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Won Seattle 46 facing | | the | score | Jensen | Roller | The most Lost Pet. | r's A GOOD THING e PROMISI JOB BEFORE HE I'M JUST WHAT j=e) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE BATTING DOPE LOCAL LEAGUE GIVEN RELEASE Four S!icl;; n Continue Over Four Hundred Mark —Stolen Base Records | First half batting statistics for the Gastineau Channel League players show four stickmen still top- ping the 400 mark, with Wayne |Graham of the Legion and “Dea- jcon” Paine of Douglas the ace lead- |ers with marks of 417 and .412. Joe Snow, Legion first sacker, has col- lected the most hits, 12, but has made more trips into the batters’ |his. The Douglas clouters, Claude (Erskine and “Big Andy” Andrews, are right behind Snow with eleven land ten hits each, while Mark Jen- sen, Ken Junge, Dick McDonald and Ralph Bardi have gathered |nine apiece. The important “runs batted in" »olumn gives Andrews the palm as he most effective hitter in the pinches with nine men driven in by his bat. Snow is next with seven, followed by Jack Elliott with six, while “Big Mac” MacSpadden, Red Gray, and George Benson have each tnocked in five. Erskine has crossed fourth base most times to ten runs, next in line being Andrews with seven, and Gray, Don Bradley and Eddie with five. Stolen Bases Leading burglars of the league re Bardi and Ted Adams of the Elks, each with seven stolen base: on their records, Ward McAlister | with six and McDonald with four teals. Earl Forsythe are away out in front when it comes to getting free passes to first base, both having worked opposing pit- |chers for five walks. “Clancy” Con- verse, Irv Hagerup, Elliott, and Bob |Jernberg have stopped the most |pitches for free trips, each having |been knocked on the noggin twice. “sacrificed” lads are a couple of Islanders, Jensen and Bobby Bonner who both have laid |down three successful bunts. Paine, Erskine, Snow, and Bud |Foster have died on bases most joften, each having been stranded Stan box than those whose averages top | and Roller | Srummett and Hagerup have been left on bases seven times. Bonner| has thirteen unlucky times at bat against him to lead the strike out list, Hagerup and Bardi being next with ten apiece. Other leading strikerouters are: Roller, Jensen and Jack Batson 8; Dan Livie, Red Frodle, Shavey Koski, Grummett7.|E: Eleven Home Runs League hurlers have been touched | for eleven homers but have spread them around, not more than oxh“ to a batter, so there are eleven lead- | ing homerun hittel Grummett, Forsythe, Snow, Gray, Foster, Mc-| Alister, Adams, Jernberg, Andrews,| Paine, McDonald and Erskine. Ne» in line in the sluggers parade are| three men, Andrews, Jensen, m\d‘ McDonald all of the Douglas squad with a brace of three-baggers eaci Two-base hits have also been weil divided, that department with a pair apiece Snow, Ev Nowell, Gray, Elliott, Pete Schmitz, Benson, Bardi and Paine. The League's fattest batting av-| erages, including men hitting 300! or better are: Batting Averages Team D ) L Batter J. Niemi, Graham, Paine, D MacSpadden, Nowell, L Snow, L Junge, L Andrews, Gray, L Moval, M Jensen, D Erskine, D Bradley, E Bardi, E McDonald, That a good offense is the best defense is again proved by the| team batting averages which show| the teams in the same order as that in which they finished the firsi half in the won and lost standings, Douglas leading with a mark. | Douglas also leads the sacrifice, the left on base, the strikeout, the three-base hit, columns, and is tied | for tops with Legion in homerun | clouting. The Elks have counted the | most runs, the most earned runs, the batter most hit by pitched balls ! and the most stolen bases, while the | Legion is high in runs batted in, | in number of safe hits, and in two- | base hits. The Moose’ claim to glory lies in their having gathered the most bases on balls. i Team Batting AB 267 253 E D 9 1 D 310 Team Douglas Elks Leglon ‘1."“”1 eight hitters being tops in|s == King_Featyres Syndicate, Inc Moose 5 31 40 SB Safc. R a4 .9 23 1 1.2 w 21 21 18 22 26 30 31 18 SO LuB Douglas Elks Legion Moose Team Douglas Moose 2bH 5 10 14 4 [LEW KAY ENROUTE Doug Elk Legion Moose (.—mc—: HERE ON ALEUTIAN Lew Kay the Aleutian fer Juneau neau Mr er Mr. Kay has been making ummer trip to Alaska every summer | for over two decades, and he has a | host of Juneau friends - 5 MISS COLEMAN HAS DES MOINES GUESTS Miss Ann Coleman, Ci ian, has as her gt Mrs. Grace Carpente friend, and her daughter Carpenters visit to the re making their | yesterday morning Northwestern landscape architect aboard ‘L GO IN AN' TELL SONNY_HE (S TO GO TO WORWK- World rights reserved 170 RBI ER 3bH influential Seattle man, °d this morning from Seattle on From Ju- Kay will go to Chichagof in the interests of the Hirst-Chich- agof Mine of which he is part own- Librar- sts this week , an old school Bethane Carpenter, of Des Moines, Iowa. The first Territory and took the trip to Skagway and returned here the Miss Carpenter is a 23, 1936. MAGGIE - JUST | MENTIONED THE WORD “WORK" TO SONNY AND HE HAS FAINTED - PLANE CARRIES MINE FREIGHT IN QUICK TIME Munter Gets Contract for Unuk when Canadian C()Inpany Fd]l\ 21 25 24 16 HB SRR - W i n Pilot Herb Munter, the Aircraft Charter Service of | Ketchikan, who arrived here this morning at the controls of his Bel- lanca Pacemaker seaplane enroute to Bristol bay, reported that his company has completed transporta- tion of several thousand pounds of freight to the Unuk Gold Placer Mining Company’s mine at the mouth of the Unuk River manager of a A contract for transportation of the freight was awarded the Air- craft arter Service several weel ago, but after Pilot Munter had cured special permission to enter into Canada, from officials at Ot- tawa, and after making extensive preparations to handle the freight including the remodeling of his plane and installation of a chute for dropping items of freight, the contract was cancelled after it was learned that a Canadian airplane was available. However, after an at- tempt by the Canadian plane, a Stinson, piloted by W. J. Holland of Vancouver, B. C., to deliver the freight to the mine had met with poor success, the contract was again TR LS LET’S BUILD A TOURIST HOTEL! The time from Coast the vision. to Coast. Some of the big hotels, could be interested if we are w ary work and take a little stoek in it, Some day our have a rude aw. and a half dozen PEOPLE and other Alaskans with a capital they need. [t kening. fish mine is going to s been made ready to take its place, the boats TIME TO TALK TO THE was thus that Southern We have everything essential chains like the uddenly property quit and owners given to Munter’s company, he said Since no landing field available at the mine, it was necessary to drop the freight from planes The Canadian plane made six trips 10 the mine in two days, and car- ried a total of 3,200 pounds of freight, consisting of lighter items. “They took the mouse trap: left the pianos,” Pilot Munter s The first drum of gasoline dropped from the Canadian plane damaged a pontoon, he reported. Pilot Munter’s plane transported a total of 6,100 pounds of freight to the Unuk mine, including 10 drums of gasoline, two 15-foot tim- bers, and a quantity of dynamitie, in a single day, and dropped the entire lot within an area of 100 yards, he said Pilot Ray Ren: W, who accom- panied Pilot Mun! on the flights. freighted supplies from Seattle to the Cascade mine in Western Wash- ington with a Gorst Air Transport flying boat two years ago with per- fect success A Munter’s plane and tested by actual operation with test containers, be- fore the transportation of freight to the Unuk mine was undertaken Rebekahs Elect Spokane Woman As President WALLA WALLA, Wash,, Estelle Temple, of Spokane, Wash., has been elected President of the Rebekah Assembly of Washington and Alaska at the annual conven- tion here of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows June 23 is more than ripe for a big TOURIST HOTEL in Juneau, known except the will for it, or Jiltmore, accustomed to operating seasonal illing to advance some money insuring community support. for mission- has to unless something of Juneau are going Imagine us trying to live off of Government employees A hotel M. big idea but no money, ike this will bring WEALTHY, SPORTY The proprietor with his prospect and will have a chance to interest the California became more than a in flight. | pecial chute was installed in | AUTO | N[EDS Have It Done Right! 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Portland Oakland San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Sacramento NATIONAL 46 42 538 537 500 | 482 41 _ Every property owner in Juneau should be willing to invest 5 or 10 per cent of his values in this. All values rest on jobs and he should be willing to spend something to insure them. ONE MINE towns are risky. The American steamship companies would be glad to cooperate with us d]lh()llgh we could not expeet much of the Canadians as they have similar enter- prises of their own. A “Biltmore Alaska” is not an idle dream. We receive tremendous adver- tising all over the country but Alaskans needing mh\ get mighty little out of it. Our present situation is like that of the animals in the zoo and their holiday visitors. They receive a few peanuts and exchange some good-will grunts. Prophets of gloom are not popular when things are going fine. And their predictions come true they are often suspected of having a hand in it. 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Elks 1 0 1.000 Douglas -000 American Legmn Moose VETS,PAPSTO MEET mmsm Tangling again tonight in their| first meeting of the second half | schedule, the Legion will meet the Moose in a seven-inning tilt at 6:30 o'clock at the Fireman Park. Rivals last year for the league| championship and rivals the first half of this year for the cellar championship, another grudge bat- tle is on tap tonight, with the Paps; behind hurler Pete” Rogers out to overcome the slight edge that the| Legion has seemed to hold over them lately. Legion batterymen are expected} to be “Grassy” Lowe and Red Gray, | while “Tex” Hawkins will cateh for | the Moose. e, — Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire office. 672 581 | 508 .500 492 475 . 1sland of the West Indies . Eternities 65. Scene of action . Prepare for publication . Proofreader’s direction . Transoceanic steamship routes 69. Nerve network 70. Spreads to dry 7L Puff up *DOWN . Frolic . Above 3. Fatigue Take up again Go silently Fell . 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