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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 1937. BRINGING UP FATHER SHUT UP- | SAID THAT YOU ARE GOING TO CALL ON DR SCULLENBONE-HE 1S ONE OF OUR LEADING CITIZENS-1 MET HIM AND | WANT YOU TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO HIM- LEADING CITIZEN-EH? | HE LEADS THE! TO Tnl:lE CEMETERY AH-I'D LIKE TO SEE DOCTOR SCULLENBONE- M ALL a MIDDIES SINK ENGINEERS IN ELKS BOWLING 1 Kegel and Miss Monson| Bright Lights of Dull Evening Led by Admiral Paul Kegel, who topped a low-scoring evening at the Elks' with a 555 total, Annapolis walked off with all three games in its conference bowling tilt with Carnegie Tech last night. | In the second match of the se: sion, Mrs. Percy Reynolds rolled pat lone hand, and her 487 total, Lolstered by Jack Elliott and Herb Redman's average, was plenty to sweep the slate for Drake and leave Alaska out in the cold. Miss Mabel Monson came through with a mighty 512 effort for Holy Cross, the second highest score of the cvening and peak among the la- dies, but it was not quite enough to keep the Crusaders from dropping the deciding engagement to Minna- sota None of the conference pin-busi- ers were able to blast the two- tury mark last night. Winding up the next to final week of the present tourney, Richmond ties into Duke, at 7:30, and Prince- ton campaigns against Oregon, t 8:30 this evening at the Elks. Conference scores last night were: MINNESOTA 160 147 . 186 127 175 149 158— 465 176— 489 162— 486 Petrich Connors, Jr. Delebecque Totals ....... 521 423 HO™Y CROSS 149 174 *170 170 171 172 496—1440 BRAWN TRUST NANKING, China, Jan. 16. — De- termined never again to suffer the humiliation of a 100 percent failure in the Olympic Games, China is set- ting up a “bone and brawn trust” to raise standards of speed and strength throughout the country. Rejecting such excuses for her unbrecken string of defeats as weak- ness from sea sickness, strange food, e of climate and other similar ps to the injured national pride a lot of patriotic eye wash, athlet- ic leaders of China have agreed that their athletes failed at Berlin be- 147— 470 170— 510 169— 512 486—1492 Monagle .. Bringdale Miss Monson 490 516 DRAKE Redman *170 170 Elliott . *150 150 Mrs. Reynolds.... 147 157 Totals 170— 510 150— 450 183— 487 Totals 467 477 503—1447 UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ‘Wilson €153 153 153— E. M. Kolasa... *104 104 104— 312 Mrs. Davlin *127 127 127— 381 Spot 82 82 82— 246 466 466 466—1398 ANNAPOLIS 189 177 143 163 *147 147 459 Totals 189— 5565 181— 487 147— 441 Kegel Hollmann Finlay fDaily Sports Cartoon THE VETERM A PRO WAS m/F~ WARD Luc< ” GOLFER oF 1936 { MAUREEN orCUTT CREWS HAS COME CLOSE 8uT HAS NEVER wonv wE WOMEN'S NATIONAL TiTLE OPEN IN 1933 BUT THE AMATEUR. TITLE, HIS REAL AMBITION, HAS ELUDED HiM Al Righis Reserved by Th to Cooper. a thing of two about thi jinx business. Smith has been play- ing golf for something like 25 years and has yet to realize his ambition of *winning either tis: British or the United States open title. He has come mighty close at times, even closer than Coope: did at Balusrol, | but just when it appeared that Lady Luck was about to smile on Smith with favor, ‘the jinx reared its ugly‘ head. He was just a lad in his teens when he came to this country from Scotland and tied for first place in the United States open with | his brother Alex and J. J. McDer- mott. Brother Alex won the cham- pionship in the play-off. That was as close as MacDonald ever came to winning. Smith’s greatest disappointment probably came in the British open of 1925. He went into the final Team Loses, 4-2 to Mich. Tech HOUGHTON, Mich,, Jan. 16— The Michigan Tech last night de- feated the Polar Bear hockey team from Fairbanks, Alaska by a score of 4 to 1 in an ice game he begins practicing with grim determ- ination. Mrs. Opal Hill has a flock of championships to her credit, but as it has the others, the one big one eludes her. Mrs. Hill does a better M SORRY-BUT THE DOC I'M AFRAID HE WON'T BE BACK FOR ABOUT ‘Maska Hockey By GEORGE McMANUS TOR |5 OLIT AND I'M NOT AFRAID - 'l WAIT= © 1936, King Features Syndicate, Ine, World aghts rewrved Indoor Gridiron 'Huge, Egg-shaped Building Is Being Constructed at Baton Rouge QUINCY EWING BATON ROUGE, La. Jan. 16. Louisiana State University is build- ing a huge, e aped building in waoich ts football team will practice when rain drives it indoors. 1l ructure, architecturally de- an indoor coliseum, is not nstructed primarily to pro- shelter for weather-harrassed but will ‘be available for pose il they don't punt too I vide gridde that p much Tlie Coliseum'’s principal use will be to promote Louisiana’s cattle in- dugtry and furnish an hall for the state univers siudents. It is Gov. Lache’s idea Floor May be Taken Up The coliseum will consist of thou-' of scats ranged around an arena un a dome roof with- out a post or similar support, and will cover 14,000 suare feet, or about cne-third of an acre. The arena will be 125 feet wide by 250 feet long, with a hardwood floor that may be removed at any time. The floor will come out for football practi > coliseumn will be used by the College of Agriculture for horse shows, rodoes, fairs and livestock judging, and it will also be the meet- | ing place of the state essemblies of 4-H Clubs, agricultural conventicns, the Future Farmers of America and for summer short courses for farm- ers. i Besides its seats and arena, the| coliseum, which will cost $500,000, will house agricuitural college cla: es in animal industry and pathol- ogy and miscellaneous classrooms. The university athletic departmen is also to share in its benefits through its availability for intra- mural sports. It will have locker rooms, showers, lounges and offices as well as a large stage. | Ths structure is part of a $2,500,- 000 building program by the uni- versity for 1936-37 and is to be ready| for use in the fall of 1937. ——————— | JAGK FOXIS WINNER OVER y and led 8 to For Instruments, Too le J-HIGH HOOPERS GRAB 27 - 23 WIN OVERISLANDERS Crimson Bears Rally to Capture Second Game | of Series | { ) [ | | | Juneau High School's Crimson Bear basketball team won a narrow victory from a vastly improved Douglas High squad last night in the second contest of the Gastineau Channel series by a 27 to 23 score before a packed house in the Juneanu High gym, after a Merriwell finish had put the game on ice. | The Islanders jumped into an! early lead with Gerald Cashen car-' rying the chief burden of the attack, 2 at the quarter. Ju-| neau’s quintet then got to work and . led by Harold Hansen, put the Bears ahead at the half by 14 to 9, hold- ing the Douglas boys to a single free throw. | Shock Troops | Douglas took the lead again in the | third quarter when Coach Hautala ran in his shock troops, but mn; foul shots by Hansen made it 18-17| in Juneau’s favor at the three-quar- | ter ma and the local lads gradu- liy drew away. In the curta’n raiser the more ex- perienced City All-Stars swamped the Juneau High Reserves, 27 to 14, afer leading at the half by the comfortable margin of 17 to 2. | Bud Lindstrom, “Dutch” Beh- rends, and Hub Sturrock divided' most of the points among them. The Summaries i Huskies 23 B. Shitanda 1 J. Reidi 2 G. Cashen 10, 27 Hansen 10 Smith 6 DeVault 3 J. Smith 4 R. Feero 4| B. Brown 4 G. Stragier 6 Substitutions: Bears — Behrends, ' Lucas, Krugness, A. Brown. Huskies —H. Savikko. | Officials: Claude, Erskine, referee; Elmer . Lindstrom, umpire; Alex Dunham, timer; Harry Harmon, Bears A0 - 6 F R. G. G G | scorer. i | CITY ALL-STARS 27 J. H .Reserves 14 Alexander 5 Gubser 0 Hickey 3| Krause 0 City All-Stars 27 F D. Behrends 7 F B. Lindstrom 8 C H. Sturrock 8 G H. Harris 2 G Riendeau 2 Daniloff 1 Substitutions: J. H. Reserves — | Ritter (2), Notar (1), Gullufsen, (2),! Hussey, Powers. All-Stars—Edwards, Nelson. o ity Jdere is the start of the unique race that featured the opening of Inter- national Sports Week in Havana, Cuba. Jesse Owens, world-famous runner is shown on his mark, with horse and jockey ready for the start. U. WASHINGTON IS BEATEN BY P.S. COLLEGE Tacoma Organization Wins Over Huskies for First | Time in Ten Years | TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 16.—Play- | ing a Giant Killer role, the College of Puget Sound last night defeated | the University of Washington bas- | keteers by the close score of 30 to| The win of the collegians was the first over Washington in ten years. The Huskies lead at half time 20 to 15 then trailed by one point in | the final seconds of play. Chuck Wagner, Huskies’ missed two free throws. The two five meet again tonight in Seattle. guard, OTHER GAMES Results of other basketball games last night are as follows: | Southern California 41; Califor- | nia 37. Stanford 63, UCLA 40. |way; M. E. Rogers, Skagway; stamina, Owens outran the horse. ARLENE GODKIN IS HONORED, BIRTHDAY Honoring Arlene Godkin on her sixth birthday, a party was given this afternoon by her mother for mény of her daughter's young friends. Arlene is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Godkin of Ju- neau. Pink candles lighted the pink and white table decorations and fancy birthday cake which carried out the birthday motif. The afternoon was spent in playing several games. Those who were present at the en- joyable affair were: Phoebe Ann Logan, Mary Thibodeau, Allene Ma- loney, S8andy Anderson, Gloria G- lufsen, Rose Doggan, Marylin Mec- Allister, Joan Monagle, Beverly Stone, Betty Kobby, Alice McKenns, Eileene McDermott, Jerry and Ai- lene GodRin. g AT THE HOTELS | N a st e S BT Gastineau Fred R. Lucas, L. G, Wingard, Mrs. Georgla Gallagher, G. Russell, J. E. Davis, Juneau; James Tropen, Skag- Dale Y e | - Craven, Skagway. Alaskan E. E. Clayton, Juneau; Jack Had- land, Juneau; Guy Scott, Juneau; C. E. Herron, Haines. e SONS OF I NORWAY MEETING 8:00 O'CLOCK Totals 479 487 5171483 CARNEGIE TEACH Robertson 177 177 177— 531 Brown *172 172 172— 516 Mrs. Darnell *100 100 100— 300 Spot 103 4T =61 Totals 466 466 466-—1398 *—Average score. Did not bowl. > ALTER RULES AT MARIETTA | | | cause they were slower, weaker and less clever than their opponents. Hence the appeal to the government to do something abut it, and the government’s decision to place phys- ical training activities throughout China under a national board of control and supervision. ———t——— Sport fodpc round with a 6-stroke lead and it did not seem likely that he could be de- feated. A crowd of 15000 followed him from the first tee and bothered him so much that he posted’ an 83 for the final 18 holes. The best he could get was third place, the same as in 1923 and 1924. He has made some threatening gestures since then, but, at the crucial moment, ‘lihe old jinx always takes a hand m the matter. Johnny Goodman, the Omaha amateur, hasn’t given up all hope of winning the U. S. amatuer crown but by this time he ‘must be pretty well convinced that there is little hope left. Johnny still is a grand golfer. But he is inclined to put than fair job of upsetting the fa- vorite in the national year after year only to suffer the same falc somewhere along the way. You can't blame them for tryin: —where there is life there is hope And funny things happen in golf e U. S. OLYMPICS ~ SAVE $10,000 NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Amer- ican Olympic committee is not only out of the red, but has more than 10,000 in the bank. TONIGHT CARD PARTY DANCE Refreshments to Follow L 0.0.F. Hall Admission 40c avn STOW Storm SN ERTD s Round as Former Cham- fnr E rick s 0 " pions Reels About SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 16.—shut- Pilot Kirkpatrick Is Forced fling *Tiger” Jack Fox, Spokane ne- | ) B g % gro, last night won in the second round by a technical knockout over Bad Weather Bob Olin, former light heavyweight | 1 champion. | e | Referee Walter Wall stopped the, CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 16.—Af-| fight in the round as Olin was ter taking off from the frozen sur-! reeling about the ring after getting face of Lake Eyak with pontoons, Public Invited MARIETTA, Od., Jan. 16.—Mar- y lotta’s recent defeat of Alfred Hol- _Tony Manero, in selecting Harry brook, 53 to 32, was virtually a fore- (Hardluck) Cooper as his No. gone conclusion in Ohio basketball golfer, merely echoed the sentiments circles. of most of the pro club swingers. But the circumstances surround- The gesture must have pleased Har- ing the game make it “tops” in the 'Y, but at the same time it must rarity column. have sent his thoughts back to a When the referee blew the op- June afternoon at B_altusrol vwhen ening whistle, Holbrook took the he posted a .284 as t_us score in the court with five players, as usual, National Open and listened to well- but there were no reserves on Washers acclaiming him the new the beneh. The rest of the team, champion. enroute here by bus, had been | Cooper stood in the clubhouse with halted by motor trouble. \his fingers crossed that day. While However, the game went on, | his lead appeared safe he knew only under an agreement to ban the too well that all the scores had not customary personai foul ejection been posted Tole. The worst did happen. For Tony After a couple of minutes of play, Manero, the fellow who recently a Holbrook player was forced out pajq Cooper homage, went haywire by injury. Marietta, realizing there on the last 18 to score an unbe- were no subs available benched one Jjeyable 67 and nip Cooper by two of its players, and the game went gtrokes. on for t_hirty-five minutes with each o way Manero literally stole team using only four men. the championship from Cooper Late comers to the contest reached pegyy prope the veteran's heart. for 1936 rule books, thinking the po .o ya¢ peen knocking the little nationel rules committee had reVO- wpite payy around for a long time. dutlonieed ,4he game.‘ He is not getting any younger. Sev- S 8 R enty-two holes of championship play NEW TELEFPHCWE BHiRECTORY -, gruelling test physically as well To be issued abount March 1, and 35 mentally. It was no wonder that forms close February 20, For space Cooper went into the 1936 open or new listings call Juneau rad tournament with a “now or never” Douglas Telephone Co. —ady. attitude i ] Jinx Rides Wiiii Smith Today's News Today-—Emplre. Old MacDonald Smith could tell on weight and it is no easy task for him to keep in the physical trim so vital to success in top-flight tour- naments. Goodman was lavelled a comer when he crashed into the headlines in 1929 by knocking off the great Bobby Jones in the National Ama- teur. He won the U. S. Open in 1933 but his real goal always has been the amateur crown. He came close in 1932 when he was runner-, up to Ross Summerville, the Canad- ian who took the title that year Johnny Fischer eliminated Good- man in the semi-iinal round in '36. Goodman may or may not believe a jinx stands in his path, but he is determined to keep on trying and man of the executive and foreign does not intend to forsake the ama- relations committee. Avery Brun- teur ranks until he gains his goal. dage of Chicago is a member of the Women Have Trouble, Too foreign relations body, and Lorrin Male golfers are not the énly ones Andrews of Los Angeles is chairman with thwarted ambitions. Take the °f e Tules revision body. case of Maureen Orcutt Crews. Mau-, "y TR reen just cannot seem to connect A0 NEW ETTIZENS where the women's national crown! g A Ivan Andrin Marinovich, 46, and is concerned. She shoots fine golf Lars Oy, = gard, 36, were admitted to and 188 o S “‘:"h‘;‘ overy ONET yniteq States citizenship this morn ShampOWCHDrT) g one al- jng at a naturalization hearing in ke i LA S day as Fed€ral District Court, held by Judse 2 e George F. Alexander. far as big-time competition is con-| * My, Marinovich resides at Kim- cerned. yet each year when the shan Cove and was formerly a citi- National rolls around ‘Mlureen zen of Montenegro. Mr. Oygard, of thinks of the spot she has' reserved Norwegian birth, is a resident of in her home for the trophy and Juneau. Gustavus T. Kirbe, treasurer of the A. O. C., said the committee had paid all outstanding debts. including a loan of $25,000 from the American Olympic Association. “Every athlete on a major teem who actually had to dig into his own pockets to pay his way to Berlin has been reim- bursed,” Kirby said. A final report is expected some time in the near future. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, newly- |elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union, named members of the A. A. U’s executive, foreign relations and rufes revision com- mittees. Mahoney himself is chair- up.on the count of nine. Fox weighed 176 pounds and Olin weighed 181 pounds. | | ————.———— ‘GRID ACE CLAIMS “IRON MAN” HONORS| KANSAS CITY, Jan. 16. — Les (Honey) Spurick, junior guard on the Rockhurst College football team | here, would rate high in a contest to determine the “iron man” of the game. In his high school and college ca- reer Spurck has played in 43 games and has never once been removed because of injury. After playing in| 38 consecutive games, he was bench- ed for one game last fall by an attack of influenza. e THIRD SHRINE DANCE TONIGHT The third Shrine invitational dance of the winter season will be held to- night at the Scottish Rite Temple. J. W. Lievers is host for the dance| and Mrs, Katherine Hooker is in| charge of refreshments which will be served in the banquet hall at | midnight. Pilot M. D. Kirkpatrick was forced| back yesterday by a snow storm from an attempted search of the west side of Prince William Sound for Andy Erickson, of Seattle, mifs- ing watchman of the N:llie Juin Cannery of the Copper River P ing Company. Erickson has been missing since he took off from Latouche for his cannery on December 28, Sever:l boat parties and the Coast Gnarder Morris have made a fruilless search for Erickson. Pilot Kirkpatrick received his or- ders to make a further search from J. E. Most, superiniendent of the cannery, and who is now in Sea™.c. | PLANE SMASHED, SINKS | SEATTLE, Jan. 16 —Edward Han-| ley, Copper River Company can-| nery President, said this afternoon| the aerial search for Erickson has been halted when the chartered unoccupied airplane smashed and sank in a heayv wind storm in Cor-| dova Bay. He authorized the search to be resumed by boats as soon as possible. P ok - - R LEAVES HOSPITAL E. Eichel, a medical patient, was dismissed today from St. Ann’s Hos- pital. e - Try The Empire classifieds for fuick results. OO0 AR | The First National Bank JUNEAU ® CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$75.000 [ J COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 2% Paid on Savings Accounts

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