The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1936, Page 5

GRACIOUE;-MOTHER- | HEAR SOMEONE GROANING AND | THINK TS COMING MOOSE DEFEAT MAKE-UP VET PLAYER TEAM Legion Members Fail to All Show Up, But Game Is Snappy for All That It seems that the Legion like to play baseball—when are winning—that is most of them. At any rate, only five Legion ball players (not even the manager ar- riving with the bats) showed up for their meeting last evening. With Ev Nowell, Bagerup, Wayne Graham and Al Blomquist as a nucleus, it was a pick-up Legion ball club that put up a fine seven-inning fight be- fore dropping a four to one decision to the Black Sox in one of the most hustling and the fastest plav- ed tussle of the season. The old spark that has been missing from the Vet lineup all season was there last night and the conglomerate aggregation put up a grand scrap— but the Pap power was too much for them. Moose Substitutes The Moocse, too, missed a pair of their regulars, ‘ex” Hawkins be- hind the bat and Earl Forsythe at short, but with Jim Morgan doing a’fairly nice stretch of mound duty to hold the Legion to four bingles, were out in front all the way Irv Hagerup took over the hill for the veterans and managed to keep most of the Pap blows fairly well scattered but was nicked for four extra-base clouts that did a quadruplicate’s worth of damage. Not all of them were his fault though, as some of the recruits were a bit out of touch with the game and didn’t quite hold the runners down. First Run in First Fritz Schmitz strolled to lead off for the Moose and Clancy Con- verse tripled him home for the Joe Snow, Irv first run of the game in the first| half of the first. Fritz came right back in the third with a three- base bingle of his own and came across with his and the Moose's second marker when Tal Picinini walked and drew a throw to second base on an attempt to steal. The sixth saw three one-basers count another Pap run and the fourth was scored in the seventh on White's double and Converse’s single. Legion’s Lone Tally The Legion got theirs in the fourth when Graham safetied, was singled to second by Snow and driven in by Nowell’s two-bagger. Nowell got two of the Legion's four hits for a .667 average in the box. Fritz Schmitz was top hitter for the Paps with a triple and a single and a walk in four times at the plate. Rogers got a double and a single in three, Morgan two singles out of three and Converse a triple and a single in four trips. Bardi, of the Elks, made a mess of beau- tiful stops at short for the Legion as did Graham at second, to turn in the flashiest fielding perform- ances. Red Shaw, who has been playing as an umpire all year made a comeback at centerfield for the Vets with a nice running catch of a fly to short right center. The game did not get started ' until 6:55 because, when the Legion team failed to show up, none of ZORIC DRY CLEANING [ Soft Water Washing Your ALASKA LAUNDRY PHONE 15 MY GOODNESS,HE'S ALWAY'S GROWLING, BUT I'VE NEVER | | lads | they | with the Moose INDIAN ATHLETE WAS THE BIG STAR OF \ THE 1912 OLYMPIC GAMES ». ~ HE WAS FORCED TO rEURN JAMES-GO INTO MR. JIGGS' ROOM- HE MAY BE ILL-— NO ONE COULD GROAN THAT LOUD AN' BE = ELLISON STARZAN ¢ _WN_ AMERICA EFIRST TO WIN A BLACE ON THE U.S. \ OLYMPIC TRACK and FIELD TEAM. A FULL- (W BLOODED NARRAGANSET] FOR THE ,WINNING HIS TROPHIES BECAUSE HE~ LHAD PLAYED BALL FOR. PAY the League officials present were stony-hearted enough to forfeit it to the Moose. Instead, they waited for enough willing lads to appear to fill out the Legion lineup. It was “O. K.” with the Moose they wanted to play ball. ! SCORE BY INNINGS Team MOOSE LEGION SUMMARY MOOSE AB R F. Schmitz, 2b. | Converse, | Picinini, cf. ... J. Schmitz, 1f. Grummett, 1b. Morgan, p. Rogers, rf. Werner, 3b. White, c. wooowoonny B RS D Totals LEGION Blomquist, Hagerup, p. Graham, 2b. Snow, 1b. Nowell, 3b. Bardi, ss Stroup, rf. Shaw, cf. Herman, 1f. ooocole Totals 42119 Stolen bases: F. Schmitz, Con- verse, Rogers, "'Nowell; two-base hits: Rogers, Nowell, White; three- base hits: Converse, F. Schmitz; runs batted in: Converse, Picinini, Morgan; struck out by: Morgan 7, Hagerup 2; walked by: Hagerup 2; earned runs off: Morgan 1, Hagerup |3; passed ball: Blomquist; left on bases: Moose 6, Legion 2; time of game: 1 hour, 5 minutes; umpires: Jernberg, MacSpadden; scorer, Clark. LONDON WANTS 1940 OLYMPICS LONDON, July 11.—London wants the 1940 Olympic Games Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of London, on behalf of the British Olympic Association, has invited the International Olympic Commit- tee to hold the games here. If the committee accepts, ar- rangements will be made to raise a guarantee fund of $500,000, ac- cording to the British association. Half that sum already has been pledged. This city's chief competitors for !the honor are Tokyo and Helsing- fors. The international committee will make its selection when it meets in Berlin July 30 and 31. The 1908 games were held in Lon- don. ————,—— Lode and placer iocation notices for sale at The Empire office, LIGHT HEAVY CHAMPION 1S EASY WINNER Lewis Just Drubs Max Marek of Chicago in Ten Round Béut CHICAGO, Ill, July 11.—Winning every round, John Henry Lewis, of Phoenix, Arizona, world's light heavyweight champion, administer- ed a one-sided drubbing to Max Marek, of Chicago, in a ten-round title bout last night. SPORT SLANTS There is pl:‘nl "of {ndioation tHat the United States Olympic track wnd field squad will be made up of a startling mixture of transplanted Irish, English, Swedish, German and other athletes; so it was fit- ting that the first to be named t ‘ne team should have been a na- tive American—a fullblooded Indian Ellison (Tarzan) Brown, the Nar- ragansett redskin, earned the right to represent the United States ir the feature event of the program-— the marathan—when he ran a flock of pale face runners ragged and won a Boston race in April. Brown’ trek of more than 26 miles covered the very territory through which his ancestors tracked deer and oth- er game. The presence cf a full-blooded In- dian on the American squad is cer- tain to call to mind the fact that a few years ago we sent another na- tive American to compete in the Olympies. Jim Thorpe was the fel- low. He did very well, too. Back in 1912, Thorpe, a thorough- bred Sac and Fox Indian, out-ran, out-jumped and out-did all other candidates for Olympic glory. He walked off with the pentathlon and decathlon championships. He was easily the star of the show at Stock- holm that year. Made King Wait | King Gustav of Sweden present- | ed Thorpe with a flock of medals and trophies, but not until Indian Jim was good and ready to come out and get them. After he had been proclaimed the greatest all- around athlete of modern Olympic games, the court chamberlain or- dered him to appear before the Swedish monarch. Jim was resting aboard the Fin- land, floating home of the Ameri- can competitors, when the royal messenger presented himself. Jim in- formed the courier that he was per- fectly comfortable right where he was. After all, his friends were all on hoard, And there was a| \MAEATAON ' sufficient amount of sweet | tent punch at hand to satisfy INDIAN, HE QUALIFIEQ SQUAD &Y THE BOSTON 1§ AII m(nu Roserved by The Associaied Pross and po- the demands of any Sac and Fox In- dian. What did the king have to offer him that he did not already have, Jim wanted to know? In due time Thorpe did appear, and if the Swedish monarch resent- ed the Indian ‘s slight, he did not show it. King Gustav greeted the great athlete most cordially. Jim collected his athletic spoils to the accompaniment of the cheers of the assembled thousands Maybe He Knew The noble redman might well have saved himself the trouble of claiming the trophies (perhaps sub- COLLEGE ~ THANKS, JAMES- FOR WAKING ME UP- | WUZ DREAMING MY SON CAME HOME FROM | Bobby Jones, one Bill Tilden and one ANNOUNCER IS DEAD IN EAST Joe Humphreys Dies Sud- denly, Heart Ailment, Aggravated by Heat FAIRHAVEN, New Joz Jersey, July 11 announcer, fight of Humphreys, noted died late an ailment of the heart, had been xcessive heat. yesterday physicians aid aggravated by The sixty-three-year-old fight an- nouncer suffered a stroke, his sec- ond, last December. Returning here from a trip to Florida, Humphreys went into ab- solute retirement and devoted his time to the care of his rose garden in the back yard of his home seldom venturing off the premises A con, two brothers, one sister and two grandsons survive, his wife and four other children having died hefore him a sequent happenings explained his reluctancy to go and get them in the first place) A short time after he returned to this country the A. A. U. Committee announced that Jim Trorpe had a past past that rendered him ineligible to compete against the wcrlds amateurs for Olympic glory. The eharge was that Jim had played a bit of all for money Not much money—perhaps not enough to cover his incidental expenses on the trip to Stockholm—but money nevertheless. All his Olympie prizes were pack ed and shipped back to Sweden What eventually became of them no one knows. They stripped Thorpe of his trophies but they erase the picture of his all-conquer- ing efforts on the cinder paths. To all who saw him, including King Gustav, the Indian remained | the outstanding athlete of the Olympics. In the years that have followed, every all-round performer of merit has been compared with the great Sac and Fox. But there was only one Jim Thorpe- beén only one Babe Ruth, one fair | couldn’t f | their manager on the mound, so it just as there has| Johnny Weismuller son Brown stands a fair chance of winning the Olympic classic—at least his chances are every bit as good as those of any of the men who will face the starter in Berlin. America has not won the Olympic marathon since little Johnny Hayes grabbel the laurel wreath at Lon- don in 1908 after the much-dis ed finish in which the Italian run- ner, Dorando, was helped over the line ahead of the field. — .- ELKS, MOOSE WILL BATTLE HERE SUNDAY Purples and Paps Expected to Put Up Good Fight for B. B. Honors Tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock the Moose and Elks baseball teams oppose each other on the Firemen's Park diamond. The Moose, a half rung higher on the second half lad- der than the Elks or Douglas, next in line, will have to really hang tough, if, short two important men, Earl Forsythe and Tex Hawkins, they are to knock the high climbing Purples down a step. Victory for cither team means tops in the league standings while defeat will put eith- er in third place. Plenty of spur for both squads. Tal Picinini, with no defeals on his record so far, will be on the hill for the Black Sox. The best guess for Pap catcher appears to be Earl Mo- val—the big fellow looked pretty in.one game he has caught so far this year. But Tex Hawkins leaves a big hole, “Big Mac” MacSpadden is primed to do the P.B.O.E. hurling. The Purples always play their best with looks to be plenty tough tomorrow. | Vinton Clark is slated to do the re- | ceiving. Clark did a mighty pretty 1912/ Job behind the plate in the Fourth | of July game at Douglas. e ROAD CLOSED Basin Road is now closed to all vehicular traffic. 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