The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 5

THE BRINGING UP FATHER OH! HELLO M, YES- ALL RIGH YES-JUST A Jou LI PROFES FOOTBALL ONLY ‘POST GRADUATE' Just Another Step for Col-| lege Players, Declares | . Red Grange 26—Pro- HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. i fessicnal football is nothing more | than “post graduate” work for col- lege men, according to Harold (Red) Grange, acting coach of the Chicago Bears, pro team. “The games are remarkably alike,” says Grange. “You have to be much better and more versatile to play pro football but we treat our players like the colleges do. If they are injured, salaries con- tinue and all hospital expenses are paid. Training rules are just as rigid. “I could call the names of two or three men who would have been great professional stars. But they wouldn't train. And soon we drop- ped them from the squad—just like a college coach would do.” e EMBARRASSED PALESTINE, Tex., Jan. 26.—Hus- ky D. M. Telford, East Texas bas- ketball official, was embarrassed. It happened this way. He placed his conventional strip- ‘‘ed shirt, knickers and basketball shoes in a leather bag, boarded a bus and started for Grapeland to officiate at a high school basket- ball game. He arrived on schedule, hurried to the men’s dressing room and started to dress. He opened the bag and pulled out, to his chagrin, a varied assortment of women's pink underclothing. Game time neared and team coaches pushed Telford, but he de- clined to wear the feminine regalia. His bag, with the cage equipment, exactly matched that of another accidentally carried off the bus. Sport Slants Bu PAP’ It is interesting that Indian Broom, coast racing sensation of 1936, is rated the future book fav- orite for the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap at 10 to 1. Indian Broom went to the Ken- tucky Derby last spring with a great reputation. Earlier he had set a new world mark for the mile and a furlong and was regarded as a likely winner of the Blue Grass classic. The thoroughbred had sky- rocketed to prominence by his sen- sational victory in the Marchbank handicap over Top Row and Azu- car. The coast champion did not come through in the Derby, finishing be- hind Bold Venture and Brevity. However, the colt did very well the rest of the season out west. Incidentally, Indiam Broom made that world mark under a stirring ride by Jockey Basil James, the Sunnyside, Wash., apprentice who stepped out and won the 1936 rid- ing honors. James booted home in first place 243 of the 1,101 mounts he took to the post. His big thrill was that record-breaking ride aboard Indian Broom. Backing May Wane | Being rated the future book fa- vorite at this early date does not SIONAL D MINUTE" J 1 poris Ca rtoon " INDIAN BROOM IS RATED WE FAVORITE 7 IN HE FUTURE BOOKS 2 sibility that they will even go to the post, let alone give the fans o run for their money. Had No Alibi ‘When Trainer Darrell Cannon re- turned to San Francisco with In- dian Broom, immediately after the Kentucky Derby, well-meaning friends tried to worm ah alibi out of him. Cannon would have none of that. “We have no excuses to make, he said. “We just couldn't beat the winner. Indian Broom is a fine colt, and before the summer is cut he will live up to all the promise he showed early in the spring.” Indian Broom made good. Bold Venture passes out of the handicap picture with the an- nouncement that the 1936 Ken- tucky Derby winner will stand in stud in Kentucky. His owner, Mor- ton L. Schwartz, was prompted to make the decision after the cham- pion failed Yo train well following a long layoff caused by an injury. Bold Venture's passing into re- tirement follows close on the heels of one of his greatest rivals last year, Granville. Thus the two lead- ing contenders for 1936 3-year-old honors pass out of competition. SHE IS TOPS No. 1 Soprano Fan Is Loyal to Browns for Sixty Years ST. LOIS, Jan. 26.——Miss Anna Oberbeck, 72, can rightly lay claim of being baseball's “No. 1 woman fan.” She is loyal to those kicked- about St. Louis Browns. Dropping into the office of the American League baseball club re- cently to buy 10 shares of the stock the new owners offered to the public, she said she had followed the Browns for 60 years. She stands up for the against its critics. “One day last season three men team necessarily mean Indian Broom will sitting behind me were razzing the g0 to the post highly favored. A Browns,” she said, “particularly Jim lot can happen to a thoroughbred Bottomley. Well, I stood it until in a few weeks. It is going to be the fourth inning and then I turn- very difficult to rate Indian Broom ed around and told them that if over Roman Soldier, Rosemont, all they could do was razz the Time Supply, Top Row and other team, they should stay at home. They Pass; They Pray Latter Day Saints Church | Takes Religion to Youth \ Via Basketball SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 26.—The | Latter Day Saints Church carries religion to youth to the tune of |a bouncing basketball. Some 12,000 young men partici- pate in its gigantic league, said to be the largest in the world. To be eligible for play, boys must attend at least two weekly meet- ings a month of the Mutual Im- provement Association, an auxil- iary. Organized in 1920 by a group of church officials determined to rem- edy a “falling away” among young men 17 to 24, the league soon gain- ed a foothold throughout Utah and spread to all parts of the globe where the church has missions and branches. College Athletes Barred Homer Warner, athletic director | “huge success.” . “Basketball attracted many young ! men reluctant to attend church because of bad habits,” he says. “Participation in athletics encour- ages them to overcome these hab- its. They also benefit from religious | instruction at the meetings.” League rules bar college and jun- | ior college lettermen—-to give the little fellow a chance,” says Warner. Approximately 1,200 ward teams of 10 players each compete in stake competition throughout the winter. Stake championships then fight it | out in 14 divisional tournaments, winners coming to Salt Lake City, capital of the church, in Marcht to contest for gold medals for the| titlists and silver medals for the runners-up. Baseball, Cricket, Too of the church, terms the plan a| DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 1937, By GEORGE McMANUS WEATHERLY HAD! HARD FIGHT TO BET TO MAJORS B2 | {But Now He Is One of Am-| erican Loop’s Best Slug- | gers — Watch Him By FELIX McKNIGHT | Tex., Jan. 26.—Five |years ago> a youngster of scarcely :lfl, tugging a pair of overall pants | iheld to his slender walst by al Irope, walked into Mr. Rube Stuart’s ' baseball stadium here. | To say he attracted little atten- | tien would be a gross misstate- | ment. He attracted practically no | |attention at all. | Roy Weatherly, who had just; {left his home town Honey Island | |way, except for those overall pants, | rope and blue work shirt, was just | {enother hopeful performing at the| Beaumont Exporters’ rookie school. |He encased his feet in ancient| baseball shoes, obvicusly hand-me- | !downs, that threatened to fly apart | with every step he took. | The tattered glove he wore -on {his left hand was patched with ‘adhesive tape. For several days he shagged fly balls in the outfield !—and shagged them well. Then {came his turn at the plate. | That's His Start That was the start of a young- |ster who became the Cleveland In- dians' prize rookie outfielder and | hitter of 1936 and of whom much jis expected in his “sophomore” iyear 7! Beaumont, productive farm of (the Detroit Tiger system which has sent along Hank Greenberg, | g |Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe, Jo-Jo' Brlefs {White, Pete Fox and many others,! didn’'t completely ignore Weatherly. | | !But it did miss a bet. | | Weatherly’s performance won him | A track record sev by Epithet in g trial with Fort Smith of the| 11932 never will be broken. Epithet western ssociation. He flopped mis- | |ran the Futurity course at the cen- erably there. | tury-old Kentucky Association track| Next season he tried again and |at Lexington that year in 1:08 3-5. Janded a place on the Opelousas,, | Tht track no longer exists. La., semi-pro team. He never quit thinking of his failure with Beau mont, however, and confided in one of his mates he was “about fed |up with baseball and was going to quit.” Warren Wright, Chicago sports-| A little persuasion kept Weath- man, is owner of two winners of erly in baseball, however, and he the Preakness. They are Nellie started his comeback. Morse, who triumphed in the Mary- | Craches the Southern land classic in 1924, and Boston- | He went down to New Orleans| i‘a"‘ victor 1n.1027. |of the Southern Association, a et Cleveland unit, made good and at Because of congested conditions ) was hustled off to (leevelnnd. in the Michigan State College gym- | He rode, the bench for quite a| ?:::;:l‘l ::: b::s an;d ends of the ;e byt finally got into the line- e getting their win- |, anq Justy hitting kept him ter Graining.iu & bary. there. He is one of the Amcrican‘ loop’s best sluggers today with a 1936 batting average of .335 in 84 games. Detroit and its Beaumont farm, |where crafty Jack Zeller keeps a| eather eye peeled for youngster | ars, have missed few bets in the| last few years—but they still hear! about Roy Weatherly down here. ——————— Pap i | INDIAN BROOM FINISHED TURD IN THE MAD SCRAMBLE CALLED HiE 1936 KENTUCKY DERBY—<= All Rights Reserved by The Associated Press S poft# | Notre Dame and Buuer basket- ball teams have been meeting since 11909. William Stack, who will be a soph center on the ‘37 Yale eleven, as a high school boy practiced with the Michigan State College grid- ders. Sickle, imported thoroughbred sire that topped the list of money- | winning stallions in 1936, got off to a good start in 1937 when Tem- | pestuous, his 6-year-old son, won. Kent Ryan, durable Irishman the Santa Anita New Year's stakes. from Utah State, generally was re- | |garded as the best collegiate ath- Suffering effects of an appen- | lete in the Rocky Mountain area decwm.y. Paul Nowak, Notre Dame last year. Ryan won a halfback basketball center, scored only ll‘posfz on the all-Rocky Mountain points in four games. Shaking off cleven for the third year and was | the effects, he rang the bell for named to the all-conference bas- 40 markers in his next four appear- ketball team at forward for the ances. second time, . E. C. Sweeney You are invited to present this_coupon at the box office of the Last March's church-wide tour-| zona, California and Canada, the| remainder from Utah and Idaho.| These divisional champions repre- ! sented 110 stakes and more than 1800 wards. | The 1936-37 program expanded outstanding runners. i “They were a bit more quiet | Santa Anita promoters wisely after that.” i have refrained from trying to build Miss Oberbeck will be a guest up their rich handicap by import- of honor when the Browns open| ing a flock of “big names”—the their home season next spring. | Cavalcades and Twenty Grands to . | be specific—just to add lustre to NOTICE : the entry list. The result is a far The Rebekahs will hold their! more interesting contest. regular meeting Wednesday, Jan.| Turf followers, quite humanly, 27, at 8 P.M. in the Odd Fellows' welcome an opportunity to see in Hall. Installation of officers. All action the thoroughbreds they have members are urged to attend. heard and read about. But there is MILDRED CASHEN, , * little to be gained by advertising —adv. Secretary. ] the entries of these same thor- ———o—— | oughbreds when there is little pos-, Empire ads are reaa. to new territory, including the British, Mexican, Czechoslovakian and South African missions. | In foreign countries, however, the missionaries include baseball and cricket in the sports program, also. Church officials invite non-mem- bers to join in the athletics, at the same time requiring attendance at auxiliary meetings. — The birthday of John Underhill, American colonist born in Warwick- shire, England, is not known. He Jdied 1n 1672. | nament brought teams from Ari- || Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for your- self and a friend or relative to see “Bullets or Ballots” As a paid-ap subscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering. Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE WILL, YOI IYESN-AND LISTEN TOME- NOW- | WANT— 1936, King Peatures Syndicate, Inc., e U STOP SAYING- SPORTS HELD 0 WESTWARD Anchorage, Falmer Hockey and Basketpall Teams in Tournament ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 20.— The Anchorage Hockey team defeat- ed the Palmer bunch here Saturday by a score of 2 to 1. The Palmer boys’ basketball team defeated Anchorage 24 to 21 but the Anchorage girls beat the Palmer girls 24 to 14. Return games will be played next Saturday. ESBRRCORT SR RSl S It is estimated that today there are 20,000 bowlers in New Jersey, Cklahom A. and M. teams had a winning percentage of .622 in all sports in 1936. Only in football did Use Cornstalks to Build Roads Being_ Advocated: Chemist Is No»;_Conducting‘ Laboratory Test to Bear Out His Scheme By HOWARD L. :RICKLEY COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 26,—High- |ways built from waste farm pro- ducts are the goal of Dr. Hans Win- terkorn, assistant professor of soils at the University of Missouri. Winterkorn discovered that fur- fural, a fluid obtained by distilling | cornstalks, bran and other cereal hulls, has great potential value as' a cement in the construction of semi-flexible roads. Furfural was developed by sci- | entists several years ago, but the soils specialist here is the first to investigate its possibilities as a pav- ng material. Used In Argentina | When mixed with soil, Winter-' korn says, the fluid forms a hard cake possessing a tensile strength of 200 pounds per square inch. Fur- fural-treated soil cubes have with- stood 36-day water tests without noticeable disintegration. The chief obstacle to develop- ment of the distillate for use as a highway base, the chemist says, is the present cost as compared with ‘he lower priced industrial mixtures made from bituminous asphalt and tar. “Where bituminous asphalt and ‘ar products obtained from coal are relative scarce and farm waste products abundant, furfural dis- tilled from the latter may prove eco- nemically more advantageous,” he explains. “Such a situation exists in Argentina.” The Argentine government is co- the Cowboys fall below the .500 mark. operating with the United Ctates department of agriculture, the . | ALL Missouri college of agriculture and the state highway department in sponsoring Dr. Winterkorn's experi- ments. There are three way- 0 use the mixture in road building. It can be spread on the surface of a dirt road in much the same manner as oil at a cost of $250 a mile; mixed with soil loosened to a depth of six inches | —at a cost of $4,000 a mile; or mixed with soil in a mixing machine and pressed into play with a roller. The last method, Winterkorn says, would cost around $6,000 a mile, but would provide a durable base that should last 14 years or more. In each method a wearing surfage of an eighth of an inch of asphal or gravel is applied. : Before coming to the United States in 1931, Winterkorn was as- sociated in research work with lead- ing German scientists. AUTO BREAKS DEER’S BACK; HIT NIGHT TIME (Ketchikan Chonicle) A deer, its back believed broken by an automobile, was found on the Ward cove trail about a mile and a half above the first lake. The animal, a two or three-point buck. was found in the ditch alongside the road by a CCC worker, Allen Sallee, who was on his way to work Saturday morning. The animal was still alive wheén found and Sallee, after attempting several times to get it on its feet, killed it with a wrench. He report- ed the incident to W. R. Selfridge, game warden, who said that all evidence indicates that the deer was run down by a motorist Fri- day night before the heavy snow. After reporting to the game warden, Mr. Sallee and Mr. Seif= ridge returned to the scene where they skinned the deer to see if it had been shot. There were no bul- let wounds, but the buck's back was found to be broken. It ap- parently had been struck by a fast= moving car and was either knocked or fell off the road into the diteh below. TONIGHT Alaska-Juneau Employees ARE MEETING IN THE OOSE HALL AT 7 OCLOCK 0000000000000 00000 TONIGHT