The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1937, Page 5

By GEORGE McMANU l Anchorage SCRIBES HONOR TONY LAZZER NEW YORK, Feb. 24—The Base- ball Writers Association has voted plaques to Tony Lazzeri, New York Yankees second baseman, as the most valuable player of the year, and to Travis Jackson, former cap- tain and third baseman of the Giants, as outstanding contributor to baseball. YOUR FATHER WONDERED WHERE ALL THE BUTTONS ON HI b TROUSERS WENT=- LATE! TIODLE-DY- WINKS /bN\TH THEM- BRINGING UP FATHER Beran Seeley 634 Bragaw 562 | Ostrander | Miller | Romig “ *Kunkle AND EVERY WHEN \O-\. R ALINT INNY DRESS UP HE'D HIDE IN ¥agECEI_LAR SO THE GANG WOULD- N'T SEE HIM-—- WAS YOUR LINCLE SORE THE DAY O N A DEPARTMENT STORE WHEN LIGHTS WENT OUT - HE WAS IN THE PIANO DEPARTMENT- JERRY THE BARBER WAS IN WELRY AGGIE REMEMBER-WHEN WE WERE KIDS"| VESTIAD A DOB NAMED "EIFI" AND | HAD AR HEISD PLEA PR FOUND THE KIDS PLAYING Totals PSR PO R N NE2\ o3 Faie IS Unkind | = . 73 fo Umpire Sears .| The latter award goes annually 4 ‘ i to a veteran who has reached the IV I £ ——8 ' end of his playing string. Jackson s FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 24— h lis manager of the Giants' farm at Ziggy Sears, the burly National| . 4 League umpire, is a disturbed man|Jersey City after a long and bril- these days. liant career in the National League. H 210- d o | Eanheth Lazzeri was voted his award for i Q’S_l g l"‘:“‘;" . *‘l‘; weball playes| IS outstanding play through thes O dine Journatism oqd|season and because he 15 the key- —and Is studying journallsm ancigone and braing of the Yankee {voice! ooy eam. - : i % i “c urage s Young Kenneth's utter dislike for 2o ey i | left-handed pitchers will keep him RHODA MAY CLARK—FOC, oUf- . out of baseball. Ziggy says he un-| . ;..o s17 aielr Bl tu Margm uvar Heistands hia hoy is & “natural hite| o ORIk STROGUSI Sis. S |derrick can’t get him off the bench ““ea" nw ers‘whcn a left-hander is throwing.” ter against right-handers but a| yoge and piacer location notices for sale at The Empire office. “That's not worrying me so| JARMAN'S Custom Built §650 | ey 79 much as this journalism,” says Zig-| FRIENDLY FIVE §§ Elks' Squad Is Trailing by sie “When I speak to him about| Men's FORTUNE Shoes $4.00 wearing out the chair I gave his Nationally More Than Thousand |mother for Christmas by sitting and| Advertisea s 1 |reading -the paper hour after hour, Straight Pms i Seven Sets lall he says is that “it’s required, Prices | learn how to ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb, 24— 80d anyway, how can I 5 [Slipping behind another 224 pins use words that'll tell who, when .in yesterday afternoon’s set, the Ju- neau Elks' bowling team is trailing' | the Anchorage alleymen by 33 pins! | more than one thousand, in the pin and where?" | totals for the bowling tournament “All T can say is ‘Nuts. “Think of me—a ball player and here to date. Anchoragé has com- piled a total of 19,328 pins, and Ju- an umpire—raising a son to be a sports writer!” — e Today's News Today—Empire, neau 18295 pins in the 21 games rolled so far. | Sceley, local star, broke the single game mark of the tourney yester- day afternocn when he bowled a !game of 257 as part of a 634 set to-| tal. Beran, also of Anchorage, eased him out by one pin to score the highest set mark of the meet, 1635, wuile Stevenson, of Juneau, was not far behind, bowiing 629. | Following the Sunday layoff, An-| 'chorage in the two sets rolled Mon- day boosted its lead over Juneau {from 381 pins ito 809. The locals | rolled cne game in Monday's sets wart of the Badger forces, that the: s t that totaled 1,048, an average of i ree- nearly 210 .pins per man. | match was credited to the Tree. por WOULD \ERY LIKELY i bowll’ing o Nt o \ BE PITCHING FOR- p \ juntil Thursday night MILLIONAIRE TOM | Individual scores in sets rolled| YAWKEY'S BOSTON ! 'since Saturday are: } toads by the odd game edge. Slants - RED SOX | MONDAY SETS Though Fred Henning'’s total was| to withstand the assaults of suc- By PAP — : . ! 4 | Juneau boxing el . ” 480 ceeding rollers, that secure appear- 491 nglily Sports Cartoon 207— 617| 167— 522 | 183— 544 | 557--1683 | Scores made by the Ringers last night were: ARMAOILLOS Pullen ... 199 211 Halm . 165 190 Parks 190 171 STEALS GLORY BY THREE PINS " | Dr. Stewart | Duckowrth Opening the Ringers- meeting at|Dr- Council the Elks' last night, W. S. Pullen| started off the roiling with a 199, followéd by a 211 and 207 for a to-| tal of 617 pins, a performance that I: Henning should by all that is proper have EHott resulted in the honors of the even- X¢8al ing being conceded to him forth- with. But, 'twas not so ordained. For, even though Mr. Pullen’s marks were sufficlent to turn the| tide of battle toward his Armadillo team, with the result that a two! out of three game victory was scored by them over the Alligators, his really excellent efforts, brought him | no more than silver medals, Ior!Ugrm Fred Henning and Herb Redman,Lubbs came along to spoil Mr. Pullcn's’mevcmnd night. Not at all daunted by the 617 chalked up on the wall, Henning went about the business of bettering, that mark, and when he had fin-| ished his third game had corraled a total of 620 that included a hkelyl looking 234 game. And, as a side issue, Henning’s score gave the Treetoads enough edge over the 590 rolled by Frank Metcalf, lone stal- HEAVYWEIGHT i \ ' f | et CHAMPION f g é | 554 572 | ALLIGATORS 193 185 190 182 *173 113 171— 549 185— 557 173— 519 —_— — : | 556 540 5291625 _ | Totals . TREE-TOADS | HIS CONTRACT WITH - N \ 2 | [ 183 234 203— 620, MAX SCHMELING AND 195 161 178— 534 FIGHT UJOE LOUIS INSTEAD 158 182 193— 53] BECAUSE A BOUT WIFH T T T THE BOMBER PROMISES BAD?;n;W 5741687 AMUCH LARGER GATE Y . 199 202 Totals 189— 590 172— 516 174— 522 535—1628 Metcalf Delebecque N. Bavard . 172 172 “174 174 545 548 CROCODILES *182 182 191 180 170 158 543 520 UNICORNS 163 186 SUPPOSE THE IPEA INVADED OFER FIELDS Totals 182— 546 Totals 506—15€9 158— 507 *170 170 170— 510 . 162 234 190— 586 Totals 495 590 518—1603 “—Average score. Did not bowl. Michols Sperling Redman PLAYING FOR KALE TOLAY - THEY MADE ME ing 234 game was to prove not so impregnable, meeting its match from the arm of Herb Redman in Lavenik Professional long since Barragar the final match, as Mr. Redman piled up a 586 count, the fourth high | score of the night. And- to that 234 game of Mr. Red- man’s must be laid the glory of! swinging the day to him and his! Unicorn mates, in the deciding | game of their match with the t}m-I codiles. With tonight being set aside for the gathering of the Elks' clan in the council chambers, the Purple| alleys will once again catch a breathing spell, before submitting to their Rookie assailants tomorrow dropped all pretense of being a sport. It has been business, noth- ing but business, a long time. But ordinarily “honorable business prac- tices seem to have no place in box- ing. A contract is a scrap of paper. And the cash bond posted to bind the contract? What is $5,000 where hundreds of thousands are involv- ed? When a heavyweight cham- pion wishes to repudiate a contract he simply breaks it. In boxing, evi- dently, the king can do no wrong. It’s hard to get excited over has decided w aucepi a Chicago offer of 500,000 to fight Joe Louis and forget the engagement prev- iously contracted for with Max Schmeling in New York. The dif- ference of $400,000 between what he could earn against Schmeling | and what the Chicago promoters offer, seems sufficient reason for Braddock to ignore a agreement. Heaven Help The Honest Man Things like that are not new deemed sufficient reason for the tioned himself in Pastor’s corner in boxing. Tie present setup being champion’s manager to seek richer|and for nine rounds shouted in- as to what tney get away with in the game. The Illinois commission,| knowing that Braddock has signed to meet Schmeling, welcomes the | champion. It's every man for him- | self. The heavyweight crown is valua- | ble. The possessor is entitled to make all the money he can. The, previous |fact that the threatened boycott |promised the public Pastor was go- | would likely reduce the Braddock- | | Schmeling gate to a pittance is| Vukovich Stevenson Kaufmann Radde The reccni LOWS-PAstor N&SCo| was a fair example of how things are done in the boxing world. Jimmy Johnston, by his very con-| nection with Madison Square Gar- den, theoretically was interested only in promoting an entertaining bout for the customers at $16.50 per. In the pre-battle ballyhoo he Totals Beran Seeley Bragaw ing in there to stop Louis. Ostrander . What happened: Johnston sta- *Romig ... **Johnson 585 484 408 2907 Anchoraie 526 602 577 Miller ... 2558 149 537 461 342 565 355 159 RUGS at the CONGOLEUM |structions to Bob to keep away from — ———-—— |the Bomber. That was hardly the TR R i s ta » h 0000000000000 ORI 152 5 more cham 8100000, cheir = , | Dai ly Alaska Empire ol i Free Good Will Tours To Old Mexico and California fight him.” He was giving the fans one round of fighting instead of the 10 rounds The first tabulation of votes showing the standing of contestants in The Daily Alaska Empire’s Good Will Contest and On to Mexico Tours will be publish- ed in The Daily Alaska Empire Thursday. WATCH FOR IT! 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