The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1937, Page 5

~ BRINGING UP FATHER NEPHEW-RUST Y- REMEMBER YOUR - PAgA IS NEEDED IN BASEBALL GAME Present Day Sport Is Too Commercial, Lacks Fight- ing Spirit, Says Rube MIAMI, Florida, March 2.—Rube Marquard, ona of baseball's highest priced players a quarter of a cen- tury ago, greets old fans today from the mutuels window at Hialeah Park racetrack here. The fortune he made as a pitcher was wiped | out by the collapse of the Florida real estate boom. Thirty years ago Marquard's! sale from the minors to the New York, Giants at $11,000 set a new price mark. “I lost everything I made in base- ball, about. $110,000, in the boom,” Marquard says: “Now I'm broke but happy. I've got my heglth and that's-all I want.” The famous southpaw. still is in- terested in the game and hopes to manage a team, but he thinks present-day baseball is too commer- cial and lacks fighting spirit. “Years ago we loved to play ball and to win,” sighs Marquard. “You never heard of holdouts for more dough, or pitchers complaining . of being overworked . if . they had to hurl more than two: times a week. To Majors at 17 “The game is slowed up. They 86~ HE VETERAN' haven't the hitters they’had years' ' ago, and the pitchers have chang- ed. Nowadays a fellow doesn’t want to pitch if he has a little headache or his nail§ arep’t, manicured just right. "7 % “The whole game needs more fight, more hustle and bustle, and more cussing. Get some of the old-| timers back and develop' these; youngsters.” ' Marquard, christene¢ Richard William, but dubbed “Rube” for the balance -of ‘his days: by fans after he outgrew, the title of “Slats,”" en- tered professibnal baseball at the age of. 10, The late John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, bought Rube for $11,000 in 1907, when he was 17, after the youngster won 27 games and lost 8 for Indianapo- lis in the American Association. “You don't look like the man I Daily S ports Cartoon AND HIS CELLULOO PLODED AND THE AR CALG HT ON FIRE LET ME AT oIz zyl ’DE AN -AT 34, Wi ALMOST WO YEARS OF BASEBALL. HE HAS BEEQ ON HIS FARM SINCE ILLNESS FORCED HIM TO R TRE I MAY, 1938 'H,erm ann, Hollmann and Ed Brown, of New York, was the ! ;- ] By GEORGE McMANUS AND “‘GAS-BAS" FINNEGAN HEARD THAT THE GLIY WHO INTRODUCED HIM TO HIS WIFE WAS IN TOWN AND WAS GONNA CALL ON HIM-T T " I Inn 'KANSAS FLIER TAKES | SPECIAL BOARD RACE CONDORS DWARI REST OF ROOKS, ATSerowiaticans ELKS' PINNING e b Cunningham, miler, galloped home in front of all rivals in the special one thousand {yard race of the Tenth Annual Se- |tonhall Games here last night. | pace-setter until the last lap, when {Cunnirigham turned on the heat. | ANCIENT COUGAR MASCOT NEARING Bloedhorn Split High Marks Monday Opening the Rookie rolling at the Elks' last night against the| Buzzards, the Cohdors proceeded ! END AT PUL[MAN to walk off with most of the hon- ors' for the night, while defeating! PULLMAN, Wash, Mar. 2.—S8uf- the Buzzards in two of the'three fering from old age, “Butch,” Wash- mes. ington State’s Cougar mascot, ' 1s With Paul Bloedhorn rolling the|believed to be ending his last days high single game mark of the night, in the State's largest animal hps- 4208 in the first game, {he Con-|pital here. ! dors gomplled a team game total| The old mascot was named after of 585, . Then, with'Doc Hollmann “Butch” Meeker, the immorial earrying. the - chief -burden, they quarterback to whom former Gov- went on to gather in the feam set ernor Hartly presented the cougar mark for the night, 1,515, Hollman teri years ago. The veterinary in. at- rolled a 528 toial to .place second tendance has prescribed & diet of ih that division;. R. R. Hermann's milk, eggs, and cod liver oil for-the 844 being the only other total over Bging warrior. 500, S53 | s . Hermann alsa was one of the two RISING rollery to better.200 In a single game, and his scores had, much to do/ with the Pintails two out of three win over' the Seréech Owls. Sher-| wodd Wirt led NET STAR.. UPSETS VETERAN INDOOR CHAMP| Leading Idaho by One NOTICE Dr. J. W. Bayne has moved his Dental office from the Triangle Bldg. to his new quarters in the | Gross Bldg. above Brownie's - BEAVERS AND VANDALS VIE . . FOR DUNGEON Oregon State Hoopers Are Game, Northern Div. MOSCOW, Idaho, Mar. 2.—Undis- puied possession of the cellar utle in the Northern Division Pacific Coast Conference basketball race is at stake here tonight when the Ore- gon State Beavers meet the Idaho Vandals. ! The Orangemen are at present one game ahead of Idaho in the cireuit standings, Teams from the U. of Washington and U. of Oregon, tied for first place, meet in Seattle this week-end. e —— The Gentlen s'of ' Hand Washing PAST EXALTED ‘Comb.‘ned with RULERS' NIGHT Mochine Speed 1S TOMORROW Elks Will Observe Annual Feature—Announcement Is Made of Officers Past Exalted Rulers’ night will be celebrated tomorrow night by the | Elks at 8 o'clock. | The Past Exalted Rulers and the offices they will hold for the even- ing are: Exalted Rulers, Henry Messer-| achmidt and John H. Walmer; Es | teemed Leading Knight, R. E. Rob-| ertson; Esteemed Loyal Knight, Dr. G. P. Freeburger; Estesmed Lec- turihg Knight, John A, Hellenthal; Secretary, Dr, C. P. Jenne; Tregs-| urer, H. E. Biggs; Esquire, Harry Sperling; Inner Guard, J. L. Ony;' Tiler, George Messerschmidt; Or- | ganist, Lou Turoff; Chaplain, Ralph| B. Martin; Trustees, Wm. Dick-) inson, G, B. Rice, M. E. Monagle. Cash Cole is in charge of the' entertainment for ‘the evening. ' B NEWSPCT "Gentle Hand WASHE INACTINITY BEHIND HIM, WILL TRY A COMEBACK. WITH CINCIWNATI . (CHICK WAS A GREAT HITTER W HIS PRIME leven 500. ' v | The closing mateh. saw the Hell {Divers ‘take - the ‘odd "game from the' Magplex, a m| thie losers with an| | NEW YORK, Mar. 3—Ray Pal- ‘mer, Jr, New York youngster /turned in = ‘sensational upset Vic- |erage of 42 moonshine stills a month {tory here last night, defeating G n Oklahoma. Federda] agents confiscate an av- {27 MORE MOORES UP IN MAJORS Dee and Lloyd, Rookies, to Appear in Cincinnati . Uniforms CINCINNATI, Ohio,” March 2.— A - pair “of likely looking rookies named Moore may give Cincinnati in 1937 gne or two baseball stars to add to the big crop of Moore’s al- ready in the National League. Dee = Moore;, pitcher - catcher- | bought,” McGraw told him when Sport Slants Chick Hafey seems determined to regain a berth with thie Cincinnati Reds. He's listed among those ex- pected to report at Tampa. Chick feels fit again, but wheth- er he will be able to step back after an absence of almost two years it something else. He is not too old to have some baseball left in his system—he’s just 34. 'THere are outfieldét, who spent a few days many bigtimers at that age or older. Southeast Alaska, hes arrived from he failed in his first game for the |y v cloge of the 1936 season with| Hafey's biggest handicap is that Giants. y “I was pitching against Cincin- Cincinnati; caught. the fancy of i Manager Charles Dressen as a like- long absence. Few ball players can stay away more than a year and nati that day” Marquard recalls.|), . roenect No less did Chuck|then come back. “About 45,000 fans were out to see what an $11,000 pitcher looked like and my heart was pounding. Under McGraw Nine Years “Well, I hit the first batter and walked the next two and decided to loosen up. The fourth batter sent my first pitch sailing over the elevated tracks and I went to the dugout. > 3 “Oh, it was pitiful. I couldn’t even ride a street car without hear- ing folks say in a leer. “There goes the $11,000 wonder! Two days lat- er, however, I beat Philadelphia 2-1, struck out 12 men and gave only 3 hits.” Marquard pitched nine years un- der M¢Graw and later saw service with Brooklyn, Cineinnati and Bos- ton, playing in five World Series. Afterward he managed several teamp, including Providence and Jacksonville. The farmer star meets hundreds of old fans as he goed: from one track to another as’seasons-changs He's still easy to recognize—6 feet 3% inches tall. Occasionally he plays on a team the turf men get up, and he likes to watch kids on 8 sandlot. Watch him a while and'you'll ' likely: hear him tell a bunch of little fellows: “It isn't speed you need; it's control. Pitch to the batter’s weak- nesses.” That, in Marquard’s opinion, is the secret of baseball. e NOTE OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation and thanks to our many friends for the kindness shown and gifts and beautiful flowers sent our mother during her recent illness. 4 ADDIE McKINNON, LUELLA EGAN, GARNET LAHR, TED LAUGHLIN. ————————— More than" 2,000,000 patents have been granted to American and for~ eign inventors during the past 100 adv. grin over the way Lloyd Moore, up from Eldorado, Ark., performed as a pitcher. Dee and Lloyd paired up in a final day. exhibition. Dee pitched innings then went behind the 'bat_to catch Lioyd for the last several innings. A right smart job both did, toa Dee smacked gut & couple of dou- bles. (Thats always an impressive way to mike a major league debut.) He didw't ‘yield a hit while he was on the mound. Down at Macon, Ga., last summer he yed the outfield the fisst game of a double header.and pitched the second game perfectly—he didn’t allow a hit. Lloyd; & tall blond, was wild in his start"but he settled down after a couple of innings and won from best' pitching prospects I have seel pitchers totlay ‘who -have speed.. He is & comer my guess.”” w4 i ———ero—— Holdout Sets = g and Joe Di Maggio was the one staged By Casptain Shortstop Hal of the San Francisco It -seems that Early in 135 Chick was stricken | with flu. It left him a chronic sin- us aflment. 'He went on the volun- tary retired list. He Feels Helpful Last Spring when Hafey appeared oured the Reds placed him on the roster.. They thought that when warm weather rolled around the big|Petersburg - 1 |1981; Douglas '1032; ‘ Junieau, 1933; 1934 gell 1935; R fellow. would put-in.an appearance. But he never.did. . Perhaps Chick,| found. that ‘he was fot quite ready. His. correspondence with Cincin- pati this winter indicated Chick feels he can be of real help. He is hardly one to go to the trouble of training unless he feels reasonably isure there is some chanee of re- capturing . some of - the. form that enabled him to lead National league batters in 1831 while still with St. Louis. J Has a Few. Znemies In his prime Hafey was a terrific \ 8| right-handed batter. Few ever hit 8 ball harder. His big league aver- ‘age was .320. He was a dependable fielder and. boasted one of the fin- est throwing arms, . ' ?1 Chick I8 picking 16 'soft spot for ¢ |his comeback. The Reds’ outfield mey not be; the best in the league, |but there are several promising | youngsters mig‘ up to vie with veterans. 3 Only right fiéld seems definitely .| filled—with Ival ' Goodman, - Kiki Cuyler likely will hold down cen- ter field -as- long as his legs hold up. The real battle is going to be for Seals.|left field. For that berth, Chick will have to beat out: Babe Her- man, the one and only; Phil Wein- traub, former Giant who hit 371 'with Rochester last year; Joe Dwyer .{of Nashville, who -hit 65 doubles ayTities and ees’ | tween 5 ————————— and batted .383, and Jack Rothrock, who is up for another fling in the hig show after a successful '36 sea- ! | | {clock, .the Towhees' engaging the! Orioles méeting - the. Waxwings at 7:30 o'~ | Siskink at 8:30, and the Blue Birds in mortal combat with the Mo.TTng Birds at 9:30 o'clgck. % Scores made last night by the FOR BB TITLE T0 BE PLAYED Petersburg Five Expected Here lomorrow—Will | Meet' Juneau ‘High Bt i Juneau High Scnool students learn- | ¢d yesterGay tihat the silver bas-| ketball, ‘which is' given each year: |to.the champion basketball team of | Ketchikan. and 1, iow awaiting the | joutcome of the ‘games 'this week ' decide who will be the proud pos- The silver basketball was donat- ed by the ‘Alaska Electric Light| and Power Comj in 1922 and! has beenheldbylh'etbflwmzteamai who have: won the‘ Southedst title: Ketchikan H Ketghikan 1936, Juneauy, . 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