The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. GOULD PICKS TEN BIGGEST SPORT THRILLS ON 25.000-MILE FRONT By ALAN EW YORK, Jan. 7—The only definite conclusion we can reach after N hop-skip-and-jumping some 25,000 miles around the sporting prem- ises is that 1936 tops 'em all—since the war—for a combination of athletic storms and earthquakes, headaches and earaches, melodrama and high-falutin' exploits by our boys and girls. At home or abroad, it's beén the dizziést year we can recall since Babe Ruth first began .his main bonbardment, Louis Firpo knocked Jack Dempsey out of the ring, Man O'War was the king horse, Paavo Nurmi ran all the foot-racers ragged, and Bob Jones was the “boy wonder -of golf. Did we say stormy? Two of the year's biggest, most spectacular golf tournaments, the Augusta National and the United States amateur at Garden City, were lashed by such terrific gales of wind and rain that noa-combatants securried for their lives. . But they were just zephyrs compared to the tempestuous voyage of our Olympic lads and lasses, culminating in the expulsion of the comely Eleanor Holm Jar- rett for imbibing too much champagne. Tremors? Just a couple, the knockout of Joe Louis and the down- fall of Minnesota after three unbeaten seasons, will give you an idea of the shocks to which the experts were subjected in the line of duty ... But major league baseball's threatened upheaval was averted when GOULD Commissioner Landis ruled the brilliant young pitcher, Bob Feller, could stay with Cleveland for a nominal fee Super-colossal? ‘The Olympics were nothing else but—a combina- tion of pageantry, nationalistic fervor, and exploits excelling anything in athletic history and leaving even the Greeks groping for a word to describe it. Nearly 300,000 spectators turned out daily to see the world's greatest simon-pure atheletes achieve unprecedented heights, with America and Germany dividing most of the medals, laurel wreaths and oak trees; the renowned Jesse Owens, our No. 1 dusky “auxiliary,” duplicating Paavo Nurmi's quadruple triumph; and Herr Adolf Hitler receiving an impromptu but nonetheless celebrated “Olym- pic kiss.” Comeb The competitive whirl was filled with them, with Max Schmeling a fistic hero, Alice Marble a tennis heroine, and the New York Giants an indomitable c season depths to National League pen pitching influence of Carl Hubbell heights under the inspired Thrills and spills? They were a dime a dozen, from the Rose Bowl Melo- } hill Downs. . . . the ten sporting episodes to the Olympic stadium, from Aintree to Ch drama? We give you, without further debate of 1936 that packed the biggest punch, the mo moments, the greatest individual exploits: ipion that climbed from mid- | t exciting elements or 8omb Buster Max ' Schmeling's knockout of Joo Louis in the 12th round at the Yanke: Stadium, on the night of June 19—because it ended the Brewn Bomber’s streak after 27 victories in succession, proved how cempletely wrong all the fight “ex- perts” cculd be, and projected the vivid comeback of a veteran who was supp-ed to be “all washed up” and just another soft touch for {he dynamic young negro. . . . With a determination characteristic of his Teutonic background, Schmeling flcored Leuis in the fourth round with {he cne weapon everybedy knew he had—a lethal right hand— and systcmatically beat the negro ints subjection thereafter . . . . Metric Miler Jack Lovelock’s victory in the 5 blue-ribbon race of the Olym- pics, the 1,500 meters or ‘“metric mile”—because the slim New Zea- lander achieved the absolute peak cf his ferm, ran the world’s great- c:it crop of milers dizzy, and hung up a new world record of 3 min- utes 47.8 second, one full sccond uvnder Bill Bonthron’s old mark. . . The most heavily ballyhooed event of the Berlin Games more than ceme up to expectations with a 1ace that saw the runner-up, Am- e:ica’s Glen Cunningham also beat the former world mark, and the firct five finishers better the former Olympic standard. . HE year was jammed with other events and episodes clamoring for (the U. S. A. . . . Such as Navy's thrilling vietory, top-ranking recognition. . Boat Rocker The barichment of Eleanor Helm Jarrett from the Amer- jcan cwimming team for violation cf training rules because she wa: a dofending the prettiest and most- photographed girl in athletics, and central figure in the disciplinary storm that rock- cd the Olympic boat. Un- beaten at her specialty, backstroke ming, for seven years and nt of authorities who banned her fendness for champagne cock- tails, Mrs. Jarrett provided inter- naticnal headlinies and causes for argument that haven‘t sul sided champion, Meester Manero Tony Manero’s finishing spurt to win the United States open golf champicnship at Baltusrol— because, when counted almost out of the running and while “Light- horse Harry” Cooper appeared cer- tain of victery, the dapper little pro from Greensboro, N. C., shot the last round in 67, a course rec- ord, to triumph by two strokes and hang up a world record of 282 for title competition. . . . Never be- forte a sericus contender, Manero wiped cut the 20-year-old tourna- ment scoring record which Cooper himoclf had eclipsed and gave one of the grandest shotmaking exhibi- tione ever seen under pressure. . . . Puddle-Jumper Reynoldstown’s victory in the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree—because Major Noel Fur- long’s jumper repeated his triumph of 1935, thus becoming the third herse to do so in 98 years, under highly dramatic circumstances. . . . While 250,000 spectators roared, Reyncldstown came on at the very finish to pass Davy Jonmes, 66-to-1 shot, which gave its supporters heart failure by running off the course after being in front over the lact barrier. . . . Avenger, the 3- to-1 faverite, broke his neck in a fall and was destroyed; Golden Mil- ler, second Pete Bostwick piloted his Castle Irwell to seventh place... with the aid of the “breaks,” over the Army in football before the year's biggest crowd, 105,000, in Philadelphia’s municipal stadium. . . . Argentine’s smashing victory over the American polo team led by Tommy Hitchcock and supported by Gerald Balding, the Irish inter- nationalist who had played for England earlier in the year against Sports Briefs A high s$chool football game in 7iew Orleans drew 33,000 fans. When the Montana Grizzly cag- ers won eight straight last season, tHey set a record for the university, The University of Oklahoma, des- & a eo.:plrnuvelx;: unsuc«?‘ul football season, piled up 1,508 yards by rushing to only 1,123 for oppon- ents, The Utah State Aggies are de- fending hbasketball champions of the Rocky Mountain conference. Members of the 1vs6 Indiana University football team used 13% miles of tape during the grid sea- son. . John - Starnes, junior forward, -shot the- first basket of this season . Gophers’ Toth-ach: Northwestern’s 6-0 football vic- 3 tery over mighty Minnesota—be- cause it ended the Gophers' streak after 21 consecutive victories, clinched the Big Ten title for Lynn Waldorf’'s Wildcats, and was achiev- ¢d through an extraordinary se- quence of “break:." Battling in the - rain and mud before a homecoming crewd, Northwestern tallied its win- ning touchdown by capitalizing, in order, a freak rcbounding punt, a - - - 2-yard dash by Don Heap, and twe penalties, the last of which— for Ed Widseth's punching of Den r—brought the ball from Min- resota’s 13 to the one-yard line frcm where Steve Toth scored. Motor-Man Meyer 7 Lou Meyer's third vietory the Indianapolis tomebile race — because he drove the hazardous distance in new rec- ord time, averaging 109.069 miles an hour, to duplicate his triumphs of 1928 and 1933. . . . A record crowd of 168,000 saw the Califor- nian become the first triple win- ner in a. race in which the first five finishers beat the former In- dianapolis speed mark. . . . The Indgianapolis triumph, by itself, gave Meyer ‘runnerup honors in the race to name the champion hell-driver of 1936. . . . in 500-mile au- |in British and A Derby Dude 4 Bold Venture's triumph in the Kentucky Derby — because it was gaired in a stirring stretch drive with the faverite, Brevity, before 2 rcecrd crowd of 62,000 and after the rcughest start in the history cf the blue-grass classic. . . In the rodec race from the bar- ier, Granville, later crowned the year's 3-year-cld king, lost his rid- er, and Brevity was badly bumped. Boid Venture paid $43 for a $2 ticket, longest price in 18 years, ard hung up the third fastest Der- y time (2:03 3/5), but the win- jockey, Ira (Babe) Hanford vec sct d own for rough-riding, along with the jockcys astride three cf the first four finishers. . Olympic Stroke The University of Washington’s 8-cared Olympic conguest—be- cause it was achieved under dram- atic circumstances, bad rewing con- ditions and with Stroke Don Hume cuffering from the effects of a heavy cold, in a race that found the American collegians more than a match for the greatest crews in Europe. . . . The victory of the Huskies in the final at Gruenau climaxed an all-conquering season in which they swept the waters of their own Lake Seattle and the Hudson River before going abroad to set a new Olympic record cf 6:00.8 for 2,000 meters, in the trials, #nd then came from behind to beat Italy in a 6-crew final battle. Sinker-Baller lo Hal Schumacher’s victory cver the New York Yankees in the fifth game of the World Se- ries, 5-4—because it was a grand comeback for the right - handed sinker-ball star of the Giants, achieved after he had been knock- ed out in his first start and under melcGramatic circumstances. . . Wild but stout- hearted in the pinches, issuing six walks but fan- ning 10 batcmen, Schumacher sur- mecunted teugh breaks and danger- cus situations created by himself or his mates, scaling a peak when he fanned Joe Di Maggio and Lou Gebrig with the bases full in the third inning. . - England's Pam Barton, heroine of the first “slam’ merican women's goli since pre-war days. . . . John- ny Fischer's dazzling finish, with three straight “birdies” and the aid of a stymie, to beat Scotland’s Jock McLean for the U. S. ama- teur golf crown. . . ., Fred Perry’s sweep of the tennis courts, includ- | ing his third triumphs at Wimbledon and Forest Hills, before turning professional. . . . |for the Alabama cage team. | Dutton Brookfield of Kansas City, a 6-foot-T-inch center, is Missouri's |tallest basketball player this season. —,—— i FOOD SALE Of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held Saturday, January 9, at the Juneau Cash Grocery. adv, | ., | california’s 1936 honey crop is |scarcely half the 1935 yield, which was 22,155,000 pounds. Jobs Hunt Men GRAFTON, W. Va. — Manager Luke B. Ross of the National Re- employment Service says he | positive proof that there are fewer Jjob seekers. A Preston country coal operator asked Ross to send him 150 coal miners immediately. Ross tried, was able to send only 15. — e ‘The European tabie grape is now west Texas. has! THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1937. T'hrillers of °36 - 1 i i thrills, thrills! The year 1936 supplied enough to satisfy the most demanding sports addict. It would be impossible to out the most thrilling event of the sports year. Every sport had its big moments. Ii you happen to be a boxing enthusiast the surprising defeat of Joe Louis at the hands of Max Schmeling is entitled to first place. To my mind, no other single event matched the thrill of that stunning upset. Few conceded the shopworn Schmeling much chance to beat the supposedly Bomber. It was just a matter of hew long the German could stand up under the negro’s murderous punching. At most, Max was giv- en a couple of rounds. { When the opening gong sent the two fighters into the center of the ring one could sense the high pitch of the crowd. Schmeling wasted no time in showing his hand. The first round was less than a minute old before Max beldly lashed out with his right and caught Louis flush on the jaw. The punch didn't seem to bother the Bomber. Everyone felt that Schmel- ing would pay a dear price for his rashness, and in a hur it Couldn't Happen” wrills, But Louis hmeling wun't wilt unaer On the con- trary, kept settiag Louis back on his heels with perfectly-timed rights. It was not until he dropped the negro fighter in the fourth tound that anyone' realized that here was an upset of the first water in the making. As the rounds wore on, and Schmeling continued to land his sledge-hammer right almost at will with telling eff ! the crowd in Yankee Stadium grew | more and more excited over the| drama that was unfolding before | its eyes. Few could believe their| eyes when they saw Louis return’ to his corner on wavering ]egs: round after round. It just didn't| seem possible. | The finish came in the twelfth. | Louls backed half way across the ring after one of Schmeling’s crush- | ing punches to his swollen jaw. He turned, clutched at the ropes| and sank slowly to his knees. Then | he slid down to the canvas where he was counted out by Referee| Arthur Donovan. The huge crowd | cheered wildly as Schmeling hovped | arcund the ring doing & vicwry\ dance. The crowd still buzzed with ex- citement when the final bout of the evening got underway. As you| walked out of Yankee Stadium you may have noticed the huge negro who sat on the fringe of the bleachers, tears streaming down his| cheeks while he kept muttering over and over to himself, “It just| couldn't have happened — it just couldn’t have happened.” Perhaps your big thrill came at Churchill Downs, scene of the Ken- tucky Derby. There was plenty of drama in the thrilling stretch duel between 'Bold Venture and the highly-regarded Brevity. Bold Ven- ture out-gamed Brevity to win the rodghly-ridden Derby before a rec- lord-breaking crowd. Or, maybe it was the blazing finish Tony Manero staged at Bal- tusrol when he turned in a 67 for the final 18 holes to snatch the national open title from the arms |of “Hard-Luck” Harry Cooper. Manero's spree gave him a record- breaking total of 282 for the 72 | holes. g | Owens a Real Champion { Track and field enthusiasts saw |a series of brilliant performances | climaxed by an amazing show in! |the Olympic Games at Berlin. Jesse | |Owens, with three individual tri- |umphs, was the star of the big| | meet. His victories in the 100- and | HE LS. Wi A BoLD VENTURE ~KENTUCRY OF YALE, DERBY THE GRIDIRONS WINNER GREAT TWRILL- OFPEN BLAZING [ invincible Brown , - SCHMELINGS T~ ROUND KNOCKOUT OF THE SUPPOSEDLY AVINCIBLE he NEW =WDIAVAPOLIS SOO-MILE O TEAMMATES, Yok YANKEES s R T T A The inter-school basketball sea-| son will re-open when the Juneau High quintet meets the Douglas High players tomorrow night in the! | Douglas Natatorium starting at 8| o'clock. There will be a game every Friday | for the month of January and if a| playoff game is necessary it will be | played the first Friday in February.! ‘The schedule is as follows: January 2 at Douglas. | January 15 @& Juneau. | January 22 at Douglas | January 29 at Juneau. February 5 at Douglas, if playoff necessary. { e Fl Here’s W ere’s Way | 0% To Say- E “He Is Dead” LINCOLN, Neb, Jan. 7.—Speak- e S. national singles title and Alice Yankees buried their city rivals f Tomorrow Night Series in such definite fashion, hectic battle waged between Yale | Marble's surprise victory over Hel- | from across the Harlem River, the The foothball season turned out and Princeton in Palmer Stadium. LARGE DECREASE S ing of death—or. Louise Pound, the running broad jump. Here Jesse | found himself trailing. But he| s H came through like the real cham-l pion he was and set a new Olym- | pic mark of 26 feet 5% inches. | Perry's comeback to win the U.| en Jacobs in the nationals after ARE Tu MEET the latter had won her first Wim- | bledon crown stand out in bold | I p— relief in the tennis picture. 'Se 1 In the World Series the New York ‘s s Between Douglas and Juneau to Resume Giants, under a harrage of extra| e hits, four games to two. The Yankees practically rewrote the record book on their way to the pennant and in taking the Worid to be cne mad scramble with all the teams joining in the fun of knocking off some highly-favored cpponent. Perheps the maddest scramble of the season was the Yale finally won the see-saw battle 26-23 after trailing at one point 0-16. The customers were limp frcm excitement, 4 . Fire Department Reports|university of Nebraska English Estimates Damages fram | teacher, has collected many weird Fl slang synonyms for it and says she ames at $7,640 | uelieves people should frankly say | “death.” Fire losses in Juneau duriny the Dr. Pound traced back two cen- year 1936, were decreased more turies to compile her list of slang| - than one thousand dollars, accord- >xpressions meaning death and she ing to the annual report of the Ju-!concludes it is natural to avold the| neau Volunteer Fire Depariment, re- ' word if possible. leased tbday by Fire Chief V. W., She found such references: Mulvihill, | “The lamp of life flickered out.” A total of 98 fires tock place in| “The dews of death were upon Juneau during 1936, according to|him.” the report. Fifty-four of the fires| “He stopped a bullet.” ocurred during the afternoon or, “He's gone west.” evening, and the remaining 44 dur-| “They rubbéd him out.” ing the morning hours. Eighty of| “They put him in cold storage.” the fire calls were turned in by' “He’s gone to the happy hunting telephone, and 18 from fire alarm|round.” boxes. “He cashed in his chips.” The average number of volunteer| “He threw up the sponge.’ firemen answering each call during| A coffin is referred to as a “wood- the past year was 25, the report|cn overcoat”; a funera] a “cold meat | stated. party”; and a cemetery as an “un- According to Fire Department es- | derground jungle.” timates, the fire loss in the City of Juneau during the year 1936, wa $7,640, compared to losses amoun'-| ing to $9,500 during the vear 1925, making a decrease in fire losses during 1936, from the 1935 figures, of $1,086. ! During the past year the depart- ment used 7,500 feet of two and ons- half-inch hose, and 2,650 fect of cn> and one-half inch hose. | ELKS BOWLERS AT IT AGAIN, THIS EVENING Conference wowling resumes at the Elks' tonight with Washington opposing Cornell at 7:30 o'clock; Harvard tangling with Duke at 8:30, and Richmond sparing off against Rutgers at 9:30. Fish Story WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—Fireman Andrew Hinds tells this one: He SOCIETY MEETS Members of the Methodist Ladies Aid meu at the home of Mrs. O. L. Kendall yesterday afternoon for a short business meeting and cleared up several business matters left over from last year. * Mrs. Mary Whittemore and Mrs. . C. Bloxham were hostesses for the afternoon. A New Year's talk was given by Mrs. Floyd Dryden, President of the Ladies' Aid. The next regular meeting of the club will be at the home of Mrs. | George Tanner. ———, —— Big Pumpkins GLENVILLE, W. Va. — County |agricultural officlals said the Gil- {mer County pumpkin crop exceeded that in previous years both in the number grown and “n the size of the saw an angler pull an old slot ma-|vegetable. One weighed 95 pounds, 200-meter races were brilliant but | being successfully grow in Soulh-:me big moment of his exhibition quemanna 1,«43 reserved for the final leap of | chine, minus its back, from the Sus- was six feet, 11 inches in circum- river. The fisherman!ference and four feet, 10 inches pulled the handle. Out came a bn.ls“lang. TN IUEhs [eserved by The Assuciated Pre U WASHINGTON ¢ GRIDDER WEDS U. SWEETHEART Campus Romance Climaxed —"Chuck” Bond, Fran- ces Chessher, Married RENO, Nevada, Jan. 7—Climax cf a campus romance, begun three years ago, was reached here last night when Frances Judity Ches- sher, aged 20 of Reno, became the {bride of Charles Eishmel “Chuck” Bond, aged 22, University of Wash- ington football star. The couple met three years ago at the University. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Chessher, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Bond, of Hoquiam, Wash- ington. Both plan to continue their stu- |dies at the University. ACTION ON JONES LAWDEFERREDBY JUNEAU C. OF C. Committees for New Year Appointed by Presi- dent G. W. Folta (Continued from Page One) George W. Folta and Curtis G. Shattuck. As a special treat for the Chamber members on their first luncheon in the Terminal since he took over the management, Wilbur Irving pre- sented Miss Minnie Dooley of Cor- dova in violin numbers accompanied |by Miss Louise Kolitsch, Program Director and pianist at KNY. e FISHERMEN GIVE DANCE Annual Event Will Take Place Saturday Night at Elks’ Ballroom Fishermen have made arrange- ments to hold their annual dance next Saturday night in the Elks’ ballroom. John Lowell and Bert Alstead are heading the committee and have arranged for an accordion orchestra. Harry Crane and Al Peterson have promised to entertain with favorite pieces on their instruments and will provide lively music for the dancers. Field Is “Too Quiet” for Woman Veteran CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Jan. 7.— Mrs. Ethel Jester, who has operated cafes for 16 years in Texas oil fields, thinks “oil booms” aren’t what they used to be.” “Everything is too modern and quiet,” she says. “I remember when you couldin't see the derricks for mud. “I have seen many men killed by falling crown blocks, but I wouldn't call that exciting—it happens too often.” - e ‘Today's News Today—Empire.