The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1937, Page 5

OH-DEAR- 'VE NEVER LIKED THIS APARTMENT- | DO WISH WE COULD GET OUT OF ASE BUT WE ARE SUCH DEsIQABLEQTENANTs— OUR LE. T WeL S HAVE Tg GRIN AND BEAR b s -1 SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1937. ° By GEORGE McMANUS DAUGHTER IS RIGHT-( ME- | MUST BE GAY— VL. GO IN AND SING — flmesT— OAKLAND GOES T0 CELLAR IN COAST LEAGUE Freitas Has Pitching Duel| with Posedal—Seat- tle Loses Game (By Associated Press) Oakland won a long battle yes- terday evening to get into the cel- lar and ousting Missions by a score of 12 to 9. Tony Freitas of Sacramento, lost a duel to Bill Posedel of Portland yesterday, on the strength of John- | ny Fredericks' ninth inning homer. The score was 1 to 0. The Pacific Coast League’s lead- ing Seals downed the Angels 7 to 3. San Diego kept up the pace and | defeated Seattle 5 to 4 by a ninth inning run. GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 4; San Diego 5. Portland 1; Sacramento 0. Los Angeles 3; San Francisto 7. Missions 12; Oakland 9. National League Boston 6; Pittsburgh 3. New York 5; Chicago 8. Brooklyn 2; St. Louis 11. Philadelphia 5; Cincinnati 6. American League Chicago 3; Philadelphia 4. Detroit 4; Boston 4, eleven in- ngs. Cleveland 7; Washington 5. Gastineau Channel League Elks 5; Douglas 3. ¢ | ni ! | | | STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast veague Won Lost 31 16 30 19 27 19 27 22 23 23 .21 26 17 32 16 33 | | ret. .620 587 | 551 | 500 447 317 327 | San Francisco Bacramento Los Angeles San Diego Portland Seattle Missions Oakland National Leugue | Pet. | ‘ Won Lost HE IS THE MOST DISCUSSED PITEHER. N THE NATIONAL. LEAGUE — ONE GATHERS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES THAT HE WILL_ MAKE TE GRADE N4 Daily S porté C&rtbon — THE Gunrs’ REGKTE HURLER. WON Z0 GAMES FOR BALTIMORE LAST SEASON LEFT HANDPED PITCHING CORRS AL Righs Sport Siants e PAP' A pair of ball games Go not make a season. But,in the case of Clff Pittsburgh St. Louis . New York Chicago Brooklyn Boston Cincinnati Philadelphia ... 18 7 15 1 15 13 14 12 1 14 1 13 9 15 10 W 120 536 | 538 440 | 458 375 | 370 American League Won Lost 13 9 12 8 14 10 14 1 11 14 9 12 10 13 8 15 Pet. | Philadelphia 591! Cleveland New York Detroit ‘Washington Boston Chicago St. Louis 435, .348 | | Pct. | 1.000 000 500 | Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 1 o [ 1 1 1 ———-e— STREET WASHING NOTICE Elks Moose Douglas { No parking of automobiles that will interfere with street cleaning | operations will be allowed on paved streets after 2 a.m. Sunday. DAN RALSTON, Chief of Police. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Daniel Ross, administrator. of | the estate of Catherine Blanche | Ross, deceased, has filed his final account together with a petition for the final distribution of said estate, and that July 17, 1937, at| 10 A. M. at the office of the United | States Commissioner for Juneau Precinct, at Juneau, Alaska, has | been set for settlement of said ac- | count and hearing of said petition for distribution. All heirs, cred- | itors and other persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why said | account should not be settled and allowed; and distribution of said | estate should not thereupon be| immediately made to the persons! entitled thereto without further no- | tice or proceedings. Reference is hereby made to said account and petition for further particulars. DANIEL ROSS, Administrator. HOWARD D. STABLER, “Shattuck Building, Juneau, Alaska. Attorney for Administrator. First publication, May 15, 1937, Last publication, June ) 1037 ! adv. | Melton, the New York Giants’ rookie lefthander, two games were enough B77 to make the lanky hurler the most- | timore purct discussed new pitcher in the Na- tional League. In his first two starts as a Giant, of Brooklyn. Even those not will- ing to concede CHff has as much speed as the league's fastest admit the rookie has the makings of real mound star. Melton reminds one of Lefty Grove, when Grove first came up ’to the Athletics from Bzliimore. Grove was a fireball pitcher then If anything, Melton has a bit mor |control than Grove showed'in his early games for Connie Mack. | Melton, 24 years old, started his | career with Ashville in 1£31. Bal- sed him before the {end of the season. He was usually {an Oriole for the next five yes | with side trips to Erie, the Yankees a NMUSTN'T LET IT ANNOY THAT WILL MAKE ME \F you HAVE HE FAMVED 22 W HIS FRST TWO CRONIN CLIMBS TO FRONT SPOT Medwick. Equals Cronin’s Mark to Continue in Na- tional Loop Leader ship | © NEW YORK, May 22, - Joe Cronin was returning to top While Melton fanned 22 Boston Bees. He Newark and Binghamplon, His WOtk oy o climb into front position lost the first game by a slim mar- [Showed stepdy. el i e E; ”_;:‘j;nmong American League hitters gin to Guy Bush, then turned the|Scason he {urned in VICLOTIES | fyjoky Meadows continued to pace tables on the same hurler in the second battle. Giant Catche. Gus Mancuso in- 600 Sists the mighty man from Black ‘583 | Mountain, N. C., is the fastest left-| - There will be a siated communi- nin is batting at a 443 ‘560 hander in the senior circuit since|cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, ‘440 Bill Hallahan's fireball smouldered|F. & AM., Monday evening .429 out. Gus should know. He caught Hallhan when Wild Bill was hottest —with the Cardinals. Giant bench chatter brings -t a great variety of opinion. Melton has supporters who feel certain he has as much speed as Van Mungo for Baltimore. at 7:30. By order of the W.M. J. W. LEIVERS, Seeretary. adv. R Don't miss the big dance at the | Terminal tonight. Cover charge 50c, ladies free. ady. | the National League cloutess. | Major league hitting honors last !week went to Cleveland’s Lyn Lary |and Brooklyn’s Buddy Hassett. Cro- clip while the St. Louis Browns' Beau Bel is tied with Lary for sccond spot in the Junior Loop with an avcroge of 433. ' Medwick has equalled Cronin’s average in leading the National Leaguers, while Hassett is tied with his teammate . Gil Brack, at .376, to split the place position o b o Winning by a knockout in the ‘tlurd round Freddie Steele retained Steele Defea;s Battaglia in Champioriship Bout | his title as middleweight champion of the world, when he recently defeated Frankie Battaglia in Seattle. Throughout the fight Sieele was “too much” for Battaglia, who was substituted for Ken Overlin of Richmond, Va, who was taken shortly after he arrived in Seattle. Photo shows Steele standing over the prone bedy of his opponent immediately after the knockout blow. —By Pap A. L. CLOUTSMEN JOHNSON SHINES ROLLER BOBBLES, AS PURPLES WIN LWil:] Fiflh-mling Proves Way Home for Elks’ Ball Squad — Gray- Hurt Isiander shortstop Eddie Roller {let the ball game roll through Ais legs last evening at Firemen'’s Park art the Elks team off on their n in first place with a 5 to 8 ». A big fifth inning put the les back into the running, after as had got off to a three-run ‘l(-:m_ and . pitcher Nick Johnson showed his stuff by besting the Is- lland ace, Claude Erskine, in the final three innings. Not only did Johnson have an over Erskine, but he had the ind murderers’ row nicely tamed he fanned eight of the eleven 1s hitters to face him. Early son wildness accounted for two s issued by the new Elks hurler land the eleventh hitter popped to ! | short. | i Dougl: Get to Manning Jimmy Manning started on the mound for Douglas and “Big Mac”, MacSpadden for the Elks. Manning | held the Elks well in hand until the fatal fifth, when the Purple| sluggers got to him for two hits and { a walk to push across two runs.! Manning then retired in favor of Erskine but the second of Roller’s «.eiul boobles let the tying Elks' |run across, before the Douglas ace {could set the Purples back. Douglas had gone into an early lead, pushing across one tally in the first inning when Roller led (off with a scratch double and was isingled home by Andrews. Andrews went down for the third out; at- tempting to steal third after suc- {cessfully pelfering second. Islanders Finish | Douglas added their second and | hird counters in the fourth round vhen Andrews and Gray singled and Mark Jensen laced out a long triple to center to drive them across the platter. But that was all the scoring for the Islanders, while the Itrio of runs with which the Elks |knotted the count seemed just to THAT SINGIN' THEY/LL %‘gAC';“NCEJ_O\)R | i = THE JANITOR DON"T CUT OuUT r MAGGIE: SUST PHONED AN’ SA\D g - watch out for the Purple-clads, Sev- eral new faces have capably fille: the Elks’ big holes, except for & gaping chasm at shortstop. NNINGS 6 2 0 SCORE B 1 s Elks 0 Douglas 1 BOX SCORE AB R 41 3 2b 4 Elks Foster, 3b P. Schmitz, rf, cf M. M'Spadden, C. M’Spadden, p Beede, 1b Hagerup, cf Blake, ¢ Bardi, ss Lowe, If *Johnson, **Manthey, 1b ***Hansen, rf **+*Peterson, p CocwmOommmoUmS Wy coco~cocoo oo ~~H 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1t Totals 27 4212 2 *Replaced C. MacSpadden in fifth **Replaced Beede in fifth, ***Replaced Hagerup in fifth, ****Replaced Lowe in fifth. Douglas ABR H Roller, ss Bonner, 2b Erskine, If, p Andrews, 1b Gray, ¢ Jensen, 8b, J. Niemi, cf Manning, p, 3b Balog, rf *Nelson, rf, ¢ **Frodle, ¢ ***G. Stragier, rf It -t O W W W W coccococommO o~ cCocOoCoOmMNHNOO - cocowocoNmaNOD cococcococococcocuwl ‘Totals 25 3 *Replaced Balog in fifth. **Replaced Gray in fifth. ***Replaced Frodle in fifth. THE SUMMARY | Stolen bases: Foster, Schmitz, M. MacSpadden, 3. Lowe, Johnson, C. MacSpadden 2, Andrews; sacrifice 1t. Balog; two-base hits: Foster, Roller; three-base hit, Jensen; hits off: MacSpadden 5 in 4 innings,| Johnson 0 in 3 innings, Manning 3 n 4 1/3 innings, Erksine 1 in 2 2/3 innings; runs off: MacSpad- den 3, Johnson 0, Manning 2, Ers- kine 3; struck out by: MacSpadden 3, Johnson 8, Manning 3, Erskine 7, walked by: Johnson 2, Manning 3, Erskine 4; earned runs off: Mac- Spadden 3, Manning 2; credit vie- tory to Johnson; charge defeat to Erskine; runs batted in: Foster 2, Andrews, Jensen‘2; left on bases: |put the B.P.OE. lads into high gear. At any rate, with the benevolent aid of shortstop Roller and Sammy ‘Nelson, who replaced Red Gray be- hind the bat for Douglas when Gray |got a split thumb out of stopping one of Erskine's fast ones with his |bare hand, the Elks nicked Erskine |for their two-run winning margin (in the sixth. It is feared. that Gray may be out for several games be- cause of his injury. Elks Squad Strong | Two walks dished out by Erksine land two passed balls charged up |against Nelson when he got his |signals crossed set up the two Elks |tallies on third and second bases, |then Roller came up with his third |bobble of the evening on an easy |bounder off Foster's bat and the winning markers were in. A score- less seventh inning and the game was over. Despite lack of practice, the Elks |came up with a strong ball squad, and if Johnson maintains the mound pace he set last evening, \DON'T RUN GIRLS! WYCKOFF DISHES ADVICE TO MAIDS SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May 22. —Frank Wyckoff, champion sprin- ter, has declared that girl athletes |who expect to marry happily and have children should avoid track and field sports. He recommended swimming, golf and tennis instead. * - + | STOCK QUOTATIONS l P s o t NEW YORK, May 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at the short session today is 12%, American Can 99%, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 54%, Bethlehem Steel 86%, Calumet and Hecla 15, Commonwealth lnd( Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 6,! General Motors 57%, International Harvester 109%, Kennecott 58%, New York Central 47, Southern Pa- citic 56%, United States Steel 100%, United Corporation 4%, Cities Serv- |ice 3%, Pound $4.94 3/16, Republic| | Steel 36%, Pure Oil 18%, Holly Su-! |sar no sale, United Treasury 2%s’ 67.18, Atheson Gencral fours 110%. ety ——— Lode and vlacer 1ocation notices' for sale at The Empire Office. Elks 6, Douglas 4; time of game 1 hour and 50 minutes; umpires: Nowell, Shaw; scorer, Clark. -, REPORTS MINE, NOT AIRPLANE, SUNK WARSHIP British Admiralty Aids U., S., in Ship Building | Program (Continuea frcm Page One) 2xplain why warehousing should be considered in interstate commerce when growing the tobacco was con- sidered not so. (The Supreme Court held in the AAA case that agriculture was strictly a local in- dustry). The attorney squirmed. He wouldn’t say that agriculture was not in interstate comnierce, but he insisted that problem was not in- volved in the Georgia case. Bran- dels kept insisting untfl Justice Mc- Reynolds cut in, acid as a horse radish: i “Why don’t you answer him yes‘v or no and be done with it." | The attorney blinked, Brandeis| grinned, stopped his questioning, whispered a remark in Justice But-| lers 'ear, and they both chuckled. Probably Brandies said: ? “Do you know, I don’t think that fellow McReynolds likes me so well."” Which is undoubtedly true enough. e DIES BEFORE FIRING SQUAD PRAHA, Czechpslovakia, May 22. —Sergeant Major Joseph Kreja, a Czech, was executed by a firing squad at dawn today. He was con- victed of being a Hungarian spy. His wife was sentenced to four months for failure to report her | husband’s offense. ——— - — Today's News Today—Empire. Carl Hubbell, the New York Giants’ lean southpaw pitcher who. won 17 games in a row last year and pitched the Giants to the National league championship, is shown here receiving from James Dawson a trophy denoting him as the league's ‘“‘most valuable player of 1936.” CHICAGO CUB KEEP VICTORY STREAK GOING Tight American League Race Remains Unchang- ed by Friday Games e 300 Rooms . 300 Batks From $2,5C St velal Weekly Kates ALASKANS LIKE THE (By ‘ated Press) | The Cubs ran their winning streak o four games yesterday by defeat-| ng the Giants 8 to 5. | The tight American league race, remained unchanged yesterday a Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York all won their games. The Indians, by a late rally, beat the Senators. | George - Casters’ four-hit hurnng; helped the Athletics to win. | Lou Gehrig’s homer helped the Yanks to win an e!evendnnmg‘ game. | Detroit won an eleven-inning game from Boston. 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