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TH]:. DAILY ALASKA HVI!PIRE WLDNESDAY JULY. 21, 1937. IT'S JUST AWFLJL THE Y MOTHER CARRIES ABOUT 'FIFI" BE[NG LOST- I WE DON'T FIND HER - MOTHER WILL NEVER GET OVER IT- BRINGING UP FATHER | WONDER [F | WOLULD BE MISS- SHE HASN'T ED LIKE THlss- EATEN ABTE IN TWO DAYS- SHE'S GITTIN' WEAnR_Y FROM By GEORGE McMANUS YOU HEARTLESS OLD WRETCH-HOW CAN YOU EAT-WHEN AT THIS MOMENT "FIFI" MAY BE IN THE HANDS OF SOME TERRIBLE KIDNAPERS 7 DOUGLAS WINS 'Dally Sports Cartoon FROM ELKS IN WIERD INNING L:leven Islanders Count Be- fore Purples Begin to | Play Baseball The Greeks may have had a word for lots of things, but not for the way in which the Elks lifted the curtain last evening on their min-| uet with the Islanders. Lvery-‘ thing bu! baseball was included in the repertoire from which the Pur- ple performers pulled their plavu in that inaugural fiasco. If one were to skip the opening cunto, last evening’s tussle would have gone on the books as a fair enough ball game, with the P.P.O.E's a bit the better of it. But, an anyone skip an inning which one side puts 13 runs s the dish, eleven of them be- cre the first putout was credited. It all came about when “Big Mac” | MacSpadden climbed onto the slab and started serving them up to the Douglas swatters, with peach mar- e smeared on them to make sweeter. Mayhap the balls were equipped with wings, also; for, hcw they did sail. It likewise ap- peared that all the Elks players ad the same philanthropic spirit, | whenever the ball was hit where it could be handled, one of them was sure to come up with a high quality boot. | Nine Runs and Then— | After dishing up a walk, two sin-| /7 WAS THE DORIVERS WERE NOT CAUGHT NAPPING' AMERICAN DRIVERS WERE BEATEN ON MARE AND TORTOISE FABLE ALL OVER =~ ONLY THE FORE/SN THE STRAIGHTAWAYS ~ ON THE TURNS THEY MORE THAN HELD THEIR OWN QUTSTANDING DRIVER. N WE \\.m' individuals have been able to time enough to “There is hardly ake any progress the proposed between now Seplember race ver the same course, so the best American drivers can hope for is a few crumbs in the way of special prizes while the foreign contingent romps off with most of the gold and glory. As far as the spectators are con- cerned the type of racing the Roose- velt Raceway offers has caught on some 70,000 viewed the recent racy And when American driv have machines worthy of interna- tional competition the interest will be even greater - " DEFEND TITLE NEW YORK, July 21.—Lights weight Champion Lou Ambers has received an offer of $40,000 for a title defense against Henry Arms strong, California negro, at Los An- geles on August 23, Ambers’ mans~ ager, Al Weil, announced. The offer, made by Promoter Jog Levy of Los Angeles, was taken un- der consideration, negotiations hav= ing been started for an Ambers- Armstrong or Ambers-Pedro Mon- tanez title battle hore on Promot- er Jacobs' all-championship cari 5,000 SEATS ADDED & Jucobs ui-championsiip AT WRIGLEY FIELD ;- When the new structure is (‘umplete R R TR 2 By AP et R % s the distance to the closest point i ) g e CHICAGO, July 21. — Wrigleylooon wing bleacher will be 335 lee:‘. (to take the dust from the lads from Field, home ©f the Chicago Cubs, T snter fie o adeigeie s }' ap across the Atlantic. It takes a lot is having 5000 seats added to the 10",“,:'_1",:' "“l"‘ m].‘ ‘:C"”” vil of moncy to develop machines of left field bleachers, extending -to i gt is nature, more money than pu- the score board in center field. Try an Empire ad. VICTORY N THE VANDERBILT CUR GRIND DEMONSTRATED THAT AMER ICAN RACERS ARE NOT N THE SAME - WITH MAXIE | German May Not Get hght with Champion for | Over Year ‘ NEW YORK, Juty 21 e certain that Max Schmeling will not get a title shot at Joe Louis this year. The best he can hope for is a date with Louis next year. | The cauliflower geniry unani- mously agreed that when Max tried (to outsmart Promoter Mike Jacobs by dickering for a fight with Tom- my Farr in London, he succeeded only in outsmarting himself out ot a return bout with the Brown Bomber. . Mike abruptly stepped in and signed Farr to meet Louis here August 26 and left Max holding an empty bag. 1 Wait a Long Ti | Mike said Schmeling must Wdll until he gets ready to do business with him and intimated that would not be for some time | | Meantime, Mike is rushing plans for the Louis-F: bout. He said| the fight surely would draw $400,000 and might even pass $500,000. He decided to charge $27.50 top for ring sides. | He said he has $60,000 in the llll from radio rights at $35000 and the picture rights at $25,000. | Mike believes the English, who haven't had a heavyweight of their |own to root for since the laughable | days of Phainting Phil Scott, will| , and three doubles, with four % errors thrown in to_ aggregy nne runs for the Islanders, * Mac” Kelly Blake. But round was still at full speed and 'y game postponed from June 29. three more Island singles were combined with another Purple patsy' Lefore the durn thing broke down, after seventeen Douglas hitters had stepped to the plate in one session. With the start of the secend in- ning, Blake decided that he had seen enough of the batters from the front side, and moved over to thnrdvELKKs |Blake, c., p, 3b. base, where he played the hot Cor'?Fubter 1b. ner in true catcher style, t,ossmg\McDmum c[ cff his cap before handling the,c M'Spadden, " ground balls that came his way»ol,me sia P Erv Hagerup moved from third "D‘Mol'eau 1. take over the slab duties. And take Hagerup, 3b. them over he did so well that it was Duckwol:th 'E'mP’ not till the fifth frame that Doug-]Good of - 3 las again got a man on base, "ndifNow'el] .ll then he got no further than flrst.| ety L Eiks Try Rally The Elks meanwhile hazarded a try at a rally, and in the last of the! fourth put across five runs and s chused Red Gray off -the rubber; Giray gomng to third to Of that spot Jereen: & - : cne hundred percent with backstops, ‘Andre\w‘s l.b. ) 4 while Andrews moved into the box.|, P i Roller’s error, followed by McDon- MOERYIRD- 3] 3 4 4 4 SCORE BY INNINGS 13 84 6°6 17— 000500 0— ELKS |{DOUGLAS 13 0 0 0 0 1 THE BOX SCORE » W bl o coommmSnnon H 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 O W W W B HNO RO A WSO Totals - 28 5 71811 | “Replaced Moreau in last of sixth. DOUGLAS AB R H PO A |Roller, ss. ook 3 triple, MacSpadden’s single, ‘Gr:ny. Ro-3b; Y s double, Hagerup's single.'z"l'j"‘ df Nelson’s. boot, and Good’s single, eson: ] put across the Elk counters. Hoonner, 3b. In the last of the sixth thé Island| lads got to Hagerup and tallied their final marker on Andrews’ double, foHowed by singles by Gray and Nelson. Two flies and a dribbler to the mound killed off the Elks in the first of the seventh. Umpire- n-Chief Ev Nowell took over left-| field for the Purples in the last nt‘ the sixth and demonstrated the duck that Dempsey forgot on a catch near the fence, as well as a | swan dive that Dutch Reilly wauld. ————p | JUNEAU SPORTS FISHING - CLUB Annual Salmon DERBY Finals, 1937 [ R 35 14 13 21 13 THE SUMMARY Totals Roller, Gray, TODAY WE SUNDAY, AUG. 22 Off Shelter Island We take Open to club members only. Membership $2.00. Entrance fee for derby, $1.00. Transportation for those without facilities $1.00 additional. ANNUAL BOOK is now on sale with all particulars. have. envied, going after a long fly. . . Channel League teams will enjoy runs batted in: McDonald, switched places with. catcher o rest this evening before the Moose the merry-go-{onnose Douglas tomorrow night in'Erskine 2, Andrews, McCay 2, Gray MONTGOMERY WARD three-base hit, McDonold; Mac-- Good, Roller, drews; Spadden, Hagerup, 12, Nelson 3; innings pitched by Mac- ‘prdden 0-3, Blake 1, Hagerup 5, |Gray 3, Andrews 4; at bat against T MacSpadden 9, Blake %, Hagerup 5 19, Gray 14, Andrews 14; hits ofl x—14 MacSpadden 5, Blake 4, Hagerup 75! |Gray 4, Andrews 3; runs off Mac- Spadden 9, Blake 4, Hagerup 1, E|Gray 3, Andrews 2; earned runs off o‘MacSpadden 2, Hagerup 1, Gray 2; 0. charge defeat to MacSpadden; o credit victory to Gray, struck out o/by Blake 1, Hagerup 2, Gray 1;| zlwalked by MacSpadden, McCay; 0 walked by Andrews, Orme; passed balls: MacSpadden 2; left on bases: |E1k> 3, Douglas 4; time of game 1 hour and 15 minutes; umpires, Nowell, McVey, scorer, Clek. P O L AR " White Sox Get Rent from Fight | CHICAGO, uiy 21.—Lou Com- iskey, president of the White Sox, received $29,696 as a rental fee from the Louis - Braddock heavyweight boxing bout, which was held at Sorw® —————— Comiskey Park. He was guaranteed 4|5 per cent of the net recelpts, Stolen base, Nelson; two-base hits | Comiskey received the profits from apolis piloted the first American the speed of the foreign importa- Orme, Nelson, An- the park concessions. ele[)rating! ARE COMPLETING OUR FIRST YEAR OF FRIENDLY, ECONOMICAL SERVICE TO JUNEAU—AND ALL OF ALASKA. this opportunity to tell you of our appreciation for your patronage. THANKS A MILLION! | which reached $593,380. In addition, | turn out in droves to see Farr. {__Farr is on his way here and will start training at Asbury Park, N. J. Louis will open his camp at Pomp-| ton Lakes, N. J, July 26. Watches Calendar l Mike also is studying what he lealls the three bibles of a figlit| | promoter—the Farmer's Almunac,I Jewish calendar and Catholic cal- endar. The almanac gives him a |slant on the probable weather and Y |the calendars advise him what holy ldays to avoid. He had intended staging his four Slants The second Vanderbilt cup race! on the Roosevelt raceway only serv- ed to impress a fact that we already knew-—namely, that American rac- ing machines are not in the same; class with the foreign thunder wa- world’s title fights—bantam, welter, gons for road racing. {light and middle weights, on Sep- | As to a comparison of the drivers, tember 13, but a study of the cal- {well, that's something else ‘again. endars showed that date was only Rex Mays finished no better than!tyg days before Yom Kippur, one Ithird behind Germany's Bernd (of the most sacred Jewish holidays. | Rosemeyer and Britain’s Dick Sea-'so he decided to postpone that man, but Mays was easily the best card until September 16. Ipilot on the track that afternoon., Mike has that card about set. |Behind the wheel of Taaig Nuvo- The only hitch is among the light- ilari’s discarded Alfa Romeo,‘ Mays weights. Lou Ambers wants Pedro Iz:]eau-ly outpointed the foreign con- Montanez to sign up for a return {tingent on the tricky turns. But bout in case Pedro wins the title {what good did it do him to gain and wants Pedro to post a $10,000 an edge on the turns whenghe was forfeit to bind such an agreement. jcertain to lose the advantige plus Mike said he would straighen out |some more distance whej cars this little matter in a day or two. lcame roaring down the long straight - | away? seventh place. 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