The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1937, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER ! NOW-REGARDLESS THE CORONATION BEING OVER- WE ARE GOING TO RE- MAIN IN ENGLAND UNTIL YOU ADOPT ! SOME OF THESE ENGLISH CUSTOMS NOW- | WANT YOU TO CAL.L ON SIR ROUNDED- HE 1S AN ENGLISH ARISTOCRAT— : YOU WATCH SIR ROUNDED — AND COPY HIM- Copr. 1937, King Features Syndicate, Inc, World rights reserved THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937. By GEO RGE McMANUS { Dail;;f S b&rts Cdrtoon DOUGLAS WINS OPENING GAME OF 1837 SEASON Moose Lose Before Large Opening Day Crowd— Contest Exciting One | \ HAM Hyder - = E CORNELL'S NATIONAL A.A. L. 200~ HETER LOW HURDLES CHAMPION Cool and clouay read the weather report, neverthless, auspicious was the inaugural of the 1937 Gastin- eau Channel Baseball League sea- son last evening. Right after the traditional ritual for baseball op- cnings, the Moose and Douglas balli ciubs took the field for nine innmgsk chockful of brilliant stops, sizzling s, sparkling double plays and oomer or two; a really colorful 1l game in which the Islanders A-wnad the defending champion Moose squad by a 7 to 3 count wain, wneir etforts to the tunes of the Juneau City Band, the ball; driv hawks staged a lively pre-game lim- ber up, while anticipatory fans con- tinued to pour into Firemen's Park| till lwhen Umpire Ev Nowelll called | pl ball, the bleachers were filied,| and the h parked g dnyi 1t tield was crowded w one of the best ope crowds in several years. Promptly at 5 o'clock, the honer- ary batteries took their places.| League President William A. Holz-| Leimer, on the mound, -caught Mayor-catcher Tom Judson’s sig- nal, tied his good right arm into a/ knot and unloosed a sinker that HE WON THE 440 HURDLES AT THE PENN HUCKER 1S A SB-SECOND QUARTER= MUER AS WELL AS YST ABOUT THE BEST LOW HURDLER /N COUNTRY HE hit the dirt three fect in front of RELAYS the plate while batter Frank All Rights Reserved by The Assoclated Press Heinke, Vice-President of the League, created 4 vaCUUM iN the | —m— e e e e e e ¢ By ieighborhdad”, of - the platter;, yith ball in left field long enough to let ~ All in all, it was a tough ball a mighty swing. Play Ball ‘The Moose then jogged to their positions on the field, Eddie Roller stepped into the hitter's box to lead off for the Islanders, and the season was under way. With their game for the Moose to lose. Had the breaks been the other way, the score would have been much closer. The earned runs totals showed thr for Douglas and ome for the Paps. Score By Iannas Erskine reach second, from where “Big Andy” Andrews drove him across with his second single to right field. Then the Moose came up with the first double play of the ascn to shut off the Douglas g 4 spust. 123456 new suits, ordered to replace those i " § i . The Moose went scoreless again Douglas 000311 burned in the big fire, not yet ar- 4 5 . in the last of the sixth, and an old- Mcose 002000 rived from the South, the Douglas ayers pr 4 " timer, Matt Carton, relieved Kim- Boz Score 3’1‘:.},.01{;0!:;Effi:.!lfdl:rnx:(];]:};;:33:: ball en the aill for the Moose to DOUGLAS ABRHPOAE nearly everything from overalls to start the seventh. The second dcu- Roller, ss. b Loy A W I | evening clothes being included in Vi€ Play of the day for the Moose Bonner, 2b. 300020 their playing appaarel — but — just across u_n'.x his second single to right Erskine, p. ¥ ¥ 3 014 0 wait until they climb into those the first of the seventh, but Lh_c Andrews, 1b $ 18 KN new red suits. Paps could do no better in their| Jensen, If. 401000 Though Bob Bonner, tbe Island- 2@lf- Gray, c. 3221400 ers' second hitter, reached first Loses Second Base Manning. 3b. 552;0 3.2 when hit with a pitch by Moose Roller led off the eighth inning J. Niemi, cf. -1 3400 hurler Bob Kimball and reached for Douglas and cracked out a long Balog, rf. 400000 third on Claude Erskine’s first hit drive to left field on which he 70— 7 000 ™ of the season, Douglas was shut out Pulled up at third after running in Totals 38 714 2721 in the opening frame, and' a pitch- circles in center field, trying to find i ers’ bazt‘l): un:ued until the 1:5', of second base in its new location. An- MOOSE ABRHPOAE the third, when a triple to the drews singled Roller across for the F. Schmitz, 2b. 3 0.1.2-2 D cars in deep right field by Hurler sixth Douglas tally. The Moose Grummett, If 5 1 D8N0 % Kimball, a single by Fritz Schuiitz 28ain went scoreless in the last of Haglund, cf. 401200 and an error put two runs across the eighth. Snow, 1b. 4 001 10 for the Moose. Kimball crossed the| The final Douglas tally came in J. Schmitz, ss. 400211 plate with the first run of the ball the ninth when Red Gray singled, Werner, 3b. 4 0 201 game, thereby winning the Arrow |reached second on a wild throw to Moreau, rf. ;i G U S ) shirt offered by H. S. Graves, anq |first by Pitcher Carton, and Nierzi Hawkins, c. 4:0 191" 3¢ Roller pulled the boot, to claim the drove Gray across with a sin;le to Kimball, p. 1110380 i*Carton, p. 2000 41 twelve bottles of Regal Amber beer left field. i posted by George Brothers Payn-| With their backs-against the wall, Takit. The case of Alt Heidelberg the Moose went out to get some| s beer put up by the Jakeway Dis- funs in their final time at bat ! buting Company went hegging and all looked rosy for them for a The Summary | vesterday when no one came across While when Joe Werner led off with| Stolen bascs: Bonner, F. Schmitz With -a homerun, but is still held @ single over second and Ralph 2, Haglund, Werner, Hawkins; sac- in escrow for the first hitter to crash Moreau followed him with a double rifice hits: Bonner; two-base hit: out a four-bagger. to left. But, Eddie Roller then Moreau; three-base hits: Kimball, Totas 373 72118 4 “—Replaced Kimball. WAR ADMIRAL IS WINNER OF Defeats Pompoon by Length | and Half in Preak- ness Race BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 17 —War Admiral, recent winner ol 0 the Kentucky Derby, has entered Turfdom’s Hall of Fame. | The Derby winner last Saturday afternoon won the $50,000 Preak- Pompoon. Flying Scott was third. War Admiral made the mile and three-sixteenths in 1:58 2-5. TSR A RS FROG JUMPING RECORD BROKEN ANGELS CAMP, Cal., May 17— Frog jumping, started by the min- champion in Emmett Dalton, cis tern dweller from Oklahoma. Dalton hopped three times the 'total footage to a record of 13 fect and 5 inches. The previous record was 13 feet ers during the gold rush, has a new | .1+ ANOTHER EVENT | | | Chicago 6; Cincinnati 3. | | i test, |opener was won 4 to 1 ! American League WELL-THIS ISN'T HARD TO ©O- SUNDAY GAMES SEES SWITCHES IN'P. C. LEAGUE Seals Miss by One Contest from Winning Series from Oakland (By Associated Press) The San Francisco Seals missed meking a clean sweep of the seven game series with Oakland by split- ting a double header Sunday. The {Eeals won the first game by a score of 10 to 6 but lost the second con- 1 to 0. Dividing a twin bill Sunday with San Diego, Sacramento was pushed out of first place in the Pacific Coast League into second place. The and a re- was the result of the versed score second game. Portland took a pair of gamcs Sunday from the Missions. Seattle pounded out a 16 to 3 win over Los Angeles in the first game Sunday but lost the second 4 to 1. GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League San Francisco 10, 0; Oakland 6, 1. Seattle 16, 1; Los Angeles 3, 4. €an Diego 4, 1; Sacramento 1, 4. Portland 9, 5; Missions 7, 4. National League St. Louis 1, Pittshurgh 2. Philadelphia 6; New York 0. Brooklyn 2;. Boston 3. Chicago 2; Cincinnati 3. American League New York 8; Philadelphia 4. Cleveland 4; Chicago 6. Detroit 5; St. Louis 4. Beston 4; Washington 5. Gastineau Channel League Douglas 7; Moose 3. | | BASEBALL SATURDAY i Pacific Coast League Portland 6; Missions 3, {innings. | Secattle 1; Los Angeles 4. an Francisco 3; Oakland 0. San Diego 6; Sacramento 3. National League eleven Philadelphia 6, 1; New York 2, 2. St. Louis 4; Pittsburgh 2. Brooklyn at Boston, rain. 1 ness by a length and one half over; i | | | New York 6; Philadelphia 5 Cleveland 0; Chicago 6. Detroit 5; St. Louis 11. Beston 4; Washington 5. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast wcague Won Lost Ean Frapcisco 28 15 Sacramento 29 16 Los Angeles 26 18 san Diego 2¢ ;21 Portland 20 22 Seattle L 20 23 Oakland 15 30 Missions 14 31 National League Won Lost Pittsburgh 16 5 St.” Louis 13 9 New York 12 11 Brooklyn 11 11 Chicago 10 12 Philadelphia 9 14 Boston 8 13 Cineinnati B 12 American League Sport Sianits By PAP' As far as 16-yes Ben Mintz is concerned the die is cast. He is go- ing to be a sports-wr To that end he spen gpare moments in the locker rooms at Cornell, where he observes the Big Red athletes at close range ien he retires to his study, decorated with pictures of athletic heroes, and pounds out a yard on the portable. ! The youngster is well informed on Lappenings in the sports whirl His selections for All-America and all-starhonors are a good match for the experts' and show rare individ- 3 ual judgment. Considering his conta nell athlettes it is not at all sur- prising that Ben takes me to task for having overlock»d Sam Hucker, the Red hurdler and sprinter. He writes:—"One drizzly spring after- noon in 1934, a well-built Cornell freshman covered the quarter mile n 485 whicih Carr or a Williams would sneeze at, but very {fast steppinz for, James Hamilton Hucker, who was running his first 440 in actual competition, Today 8am Hucker 1s ¢ of Uncle Sam’s time a finest low hurdlers and quarter- milers “Like most real champions, Huck- er is at his best when the chips !-.“.- down. Two years ago he won the 1. C. 4-A low hurdles cham- I picnship havint had to run n extra heat to qualify. At the Pinn ays this year he finished |second in Lis heat of the qua imile Lurdles but came back to win T |in the final, when the gold medal was at sta “He wus out of Corncil last year but ed to keep a hand in c won the AAU. ‘hurdlzv title over the 200-meter iroute last summer. He boasts a victory over Eddie O'Brien at the |Syracusan’s favorite distance— the quarter, | “Hucker came to Cornell from {Bennett high school, Buffalo, N. Y., whers he learned to skim the 1 hurd He developed rapidly as a freshman under C: E | d wken his i |rolled arovni Huck>r was combin-| ng 484 quart ith econsist-4 ently fast performances over the| Isticks. Right now he is cn2 of the| most valuable members of Coach| Moakley’s Big Red squad. He show- ed that in Philadelphia when, af- ter winning the 440 hurdles event, he paced the Cornell team to vie- ts with Cor- ~ Two-Run Lead The two-run lead grabbed by the Paps looked not too good to the Islanders and they came up to start the fourth frame wth fire in their eyes, and before the inning was over had put across four runs to take the lead from which they were never headed. A beautful running snatch by Hilding Haglund robbed Mark Jen- sen, first Douglas hitter in the fourth, of what had appeared a sure extra-base ht, but then the Islanders went to work. A walk, an error by Jack Schmitz, Moose shortstop, a single from the bat of Johnny Niemi, an.error by Tex Hawkins, Moose backstop, another single, by Roller, and the Islanders had their three runs. After blank- ing the Paps in the last of the fourth, Douglas put across another run in the fifth, when Andrews and Jensen singled, and Red Gray got another safety to drive An- drews across. Gray's hit was a short drive ‘over shortstop on which Hag- lund made a great effort for a shoe string catch. Another Score | pulled the spotlight play of the day Roller; runs batted in: Roller, An- |when he came in fast from short drews 2, Gray, Niemi 2, F. Schmit; (and 4 inches, ¥ Won Lost lon Tex Hawkins' scorcher, made & struck out by: Erskine 13, Kimball| Twenty-five hundred persons wii-|New York 127 barehand stop and whipped the 7, Carton 2; walked by: Erskine 3, nessed the jumping. Philadelphia 10 7 |ball to the plate to cut off Werner, Kimball 5; Hits off: Erskine, 7 in! iR o s AR Cleveland 9 8 Moreau going to third and Hawkins 9 innings, Kimball 9 in_ 6 innings, Boston 9 8 reaching first. A steal put Hawk- Carton 5 in 3 innings; runs off: Ers-| 5‘?”“",,”” Detroit 1m 10 ins on second. A low ball got away kine 3, Kimball 5, Carton 2; earned “Miss X” Gave Chicago 9 1 |from catcher Gray letting in Mo- runs off: Erskine 1, Kimball 2, Carl-! 2 t. uis 8 11 y {Cards Their Name Washington 8 1 ireau from third, but that ended ton 1; hit by pitched balls; Bonner the scoring, as Grummett fanned andBalog by Kimball; wild pitch:| ST. LOUIS, May 17.—A spors| Gagfineau Channel League for the final out, after working Erskine; passed ball, Gray; left on . 3 : the count to three balls and two bases: Douglas 12, Moose 8; time of WFiter and an “““““0"":‘0“‘1““50 g:“:; : Won Lost 4 strikes. game: two hours and thirty-five 52V¢ ‘h;\s‘- L°““”N_f‘Ca°lfé‘;m]:fig | Douglas 10 1000 Heavy Hitter I minutes; umpires: Nowell and M. l“l‘: 1‘90:) l:):: ;;"er i el wlgi‘:se g ‘1, eavy hitter for the day was Walt MacSpadden; Scorer, Clark. of the Cleveland Spiders had been: AR N 9 |Andrews, Douglas first sacker and Following yesterday's opening i manager, who started off the sea-/league ball game, President Holz- transfgm:d tf’n s‘;‘hilc":u:‘ J5 e PANAMA SERGEANT son with three singles in four trips. heimer issued the edict that no one WAS Piaving i “HCHER Red Gray got two out of three,'except ball players connected with. -« f | TRAN, RRED and Claude Erskine and Jobnny participating teams and officials |t field, in gray unifotms HEPRAC) Is SFE T0 Niemi_each got three out of five. will be allowed on the players'! Pright xed, e WX CHG AT Joe Werner was top hitter for the|penches during the games. Al oth-‘s}?ase '5(:" car;itna‘l“?l‘s" e Moose with two singles in four|ers, i i 11 players of other i 3 trips. Erskine startedgout the sea-'fer;;;x:gccl:::g :;1 bl: gar:ed | Billy McHale. St. Louis newspaper | Transferred from duty at Pan- !son on the mound in top stride. i D e 'man, caught the exclamation, re- ama, Sergeant L. B. Williams ar- 4 (ferred to the team as the “Cardin- rived aboard the Mount McKinley, collecting 13 strikeouts, while is- NOTICE A R e T 4 . | suing only four walks. In the six| Second annual meeting of zhe’fl}‘: in his story of the lflm‘"a"“:Satums’ evening, visiting briefly in innings he pitched, Kimball stockholders and board of directors th¢ Mame e Juneau before proceeding on to Haines where he is to be stationed | Chilkoot Barracks. | Sergeant Willlams was accom- C. F. Doody, Jr, nephew of Carl panied | of Jack Wade Dredging Company ' b ,will be held Tuesday, June 8, inl charged Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. | whiffed seven batters and granted five free trips besides hitting two GOES TO HAINES CHILKCOT BARRACKS The Paps went down onme, two, batters. Besides being by his wif three in the last of the fifth, and With the season’s first error, Eddie (Signed) CHARLES A. WHITNEY, : gy h a Aha Bt Rowes, wix ''Bomstad at Haines, was a pas-| - the Islanders opened the sixth Roller pulled the first boner, when, adv. Secretary. . onger aboard the Mount McKinley | NOTICE chukker with their fifth run, scoredrunning for Red Gray, he allowed when Erskine singled through third Joe Snow to work the old “hidden| Lede and placer location notices and ‘Stan Grummett juggled theball” play on him at first base. for sale at The Empire Office. en rcute to Haines to join his iuncle. For special fresh dressed chicker: call Pemmer, phone 114. adv. 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