The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937. BRINGING UP FATHER JAMES-I WUZ JUST THINKING A NICE AN’ LOTS OF SUGAR AN'A BIT OF LEMO IN 1 T- BOY-| CAl HARDLY WAIT 'TIL HE MAKES IT— By GEORGE McMANUS 5 | pioMT 1 TELL | YOU WANTED SOME TEA? b GOODMESS SAKE- WHAT'S KEEPING HMNM? Oé-I-JAMES‘ Copr. 1937, King Features Syndicate, Inc, World pightm reserved. NO,SIR-YOU JUST SAID 1T WOULD TASTE GOOD ON A HOT DAY LIKE THIS— | SENATOR SET SEALS DEEPER IN THIRD SPOT Homer Winmr Padres— Oakland Hurler Limits Angels to One Hit (By Associated Press) Bewildered as to how the Sena- tors overcame a six-run lead to nose them out, the San Francisco| Seals wallowed deeper in the Pa- cific Coast League’s third place today. ! San Diego s still riding high | alter walloping Portland with the | aid of "Williams' homer with two men aboard, while the Angels are bemoaning their winning streak, broken yesterday by Bonham, Oak-' land righthander. Bonham saw his chances for a “no-hitter” go by the boards in the eighth, when Mesner slashed a single for the Angels’ only hit of the day. The lowly Missions continued their winning streak at the expense of the Seattle Indians. GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League | ESacramento 8; San Francisco 7. Missions 5; Seattle 2. Ogkland 1; Los Angeles 0. £an Diego 11; Portland 3. National League Philadelphia 1; Chicago 4. Brooklyn 4, 4; Pittsburgh 5, 10. New York 2; Cincinnati 3. Boston 2; St. Louis 5. American League ENFORCED IDLENESS DUE 70 A SERIES OF SINUS OPERATIONS, HE 15§ BACK ON THE JOB IN THE CINCINNAT/ REDS OUTFIELD HE IS BATTING /N CLEAN-UP SPOT AND HITTING QVER 300 o’ AT 34, HE /S STILL. ABLE TO GO AND GE7 EM WiTH VHE BEST YANK HOMERS BLAST WHITE SOX' DESIGNS |Gehrig Opens Game Num- ber 1,900 with Circuit Smash—Cubs Win (By Associated Press) | Employing the time honored homerun technique—hit 'em where they can't possibly be—New York's Yankees blew down Chicago's White © Sox in both games of their double- header yesterday in Manhattan. | Homers won both games for the . Yanks and swelled their league lead to seven full games. Bill Dickey hit his nineteenth four-base blow of the season with three on in the eighth inning of the second battle, while Joe DiMaggio got his num- ber thirty with two on bases in the seventh inning of the first game. Tony Lazzeri whacked out a circuit clout in each of the games yesterday. | Lou “Ironman” ! first-sacker, starting his 1900th consecutive ball game, hit a homer in the first inning of the opener. { In the National League, the Chi- | cago Cubs, employing homers by | Lee, Hartnett, and Demaree, sub- ! jugated the Phillies to stretch their !leading margin to seven games, l'over the Giants, tight ten-inning tussle to the Cin- | tinnati Reds. —By Pap Gehrig, Yank tfj&a AN Rixhis Tewerved by The Awso: | Chicago 2, 3; New York 7, 5. Cleveland 2; Boston 13. Detroit 1; Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 8; Washington .3, twelve innings OFFTOTH YAGHT RACES ™ By GARDNER SOULE Al’ Feature Service Writer Regattas have been held since 1700. In 1794 one was interrupted, a British “newspaper” of the time explaining why: “Last week some gentlemen who were taking a cruise | in a schooner around the Isle of Wight fell in with the Dugomar, French privateer, and were taken intc Dunkirk, where they were stripped of everything valuable and set at liberty.” STANDING OF CLUBS National League Won Lost . 5 52 %} 4 95 68 58 66 58 65 1 58 69 52 73 .. 49 8 National League Won Lost 60 32 . 54 40 50 42 49 43 40 49 . 37 38 .. 39 Pet./ 590 564" 540 532 478 457 410 .386 san Diego Sacramento San Francisco Portland Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Missions Pet. 652 574 543 533 479, 407! The Royal Yacht Club sponsors 418 British entries in America’s cup 402 races. One of the club’s early commodores, the Earl of Yarber- t. 'ough, believen in strict man-of-war .gg discipline. In 1833 he offered the Admiralty a gift of $5000 if it Chicago New York Pittsburgh St. Louis Boston Erooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia American League Won Lost 62 29 57 38 .. 51 37 51 39 . 43 45 .. 39 49 New York Chicago Boston Detroit Uleveland ‘Washington St. Louis 30 61 Philadelphia ... 27 62 Gastineau Channel League (Second Half) Won 6 4 0 — e, —— FLEISCHMANN'S GINS (Dry or Skilled professional crews man Sloe) cost no more than ordinary America’s cup yachts today. Once,| gins! —adv. however, things were less compll- Cooking Contest Competitors 567 his men. 489 443! The New York Moderation So- 303 the 1885 races, but took along a |person of immoderate humor. This, worthy in turn took along the dum-, Pect, my figure of a woman, which he 750 threw into the sea, Taken for a real! 571 body, the dummy caused conster- .000 nation among the excursion fleet. Lost 2 3 Douglas Moose Elks red & salmon loaf, and | Mrs. B. L. Maxey (ldt)olVfllha. m. e e | Angeles, entered contest at the Women's National Exposition ‘:L Grand Central Palace in New York City. Evelyn lhd:h. :‘rl::hm du Arts and ‘5g0 Would grant him a warrant to Ilogj 330 ciety chartered a steamer to follow, |cated. The Defender, U. S. boat in 1895, had a crew made up entirely ‘of fishermen from Deer Island, Shamrock IV had a crew of pro- fessional British skippers, each |with his own opinion as to what| |every move should be. An army | with too many generals, you might | have said. Sir Thomas Lipton, who spent $15,000,000 vainly seeking the Amer- | ica’s Cup, came closest to winning 'in 1920—with Shamrock IV. three of five races decided. Lipton's ‘yacht won the first two, and fin- ished 19 seconds ahead of the Reso- lute in the third,- -But Resolute’s (time allowance wiped out the mar- !gin and the U. S. yacht eventually ‘won the series. From 1851 to date, the U. S. has |won every race, and every race of 142 sailed except five. The U. S. 'lost one race to Livonia in 1871, two to Shamrock IV in 1920 and two to ‘Enterprise I in 1934. In 1851, the yacht America won |the first cup race—from 14 boats! |In 1870, 23 U. 8. yachts started against the Cambrai, first British challenger. Nine Americans fin- lished in front of the British entry. The 2-foot, solid silver America’s cup, emblematic of world yachting supremacy, was originally offered (by the Royal Yacht Club to be sailed for by all nations over the club’s own course—around the Isle of |Wight. The race was sailed on that course just once—in 1851 L4 } Enterprise, successful defender {of America’s yachting laurels in 1930, cost $700,000. Enterprise sold for junk in 1935, went for $5,000. Crew members. of a yacht go {through one of the most terrible 'grinds in sport, from morning until |night on a race day. Few amateur yachtsmen can stand the work, |to which the average Corinthian 'is not accustomed. ‘The strain hurts 'most in the hands, which must be itough as leather to manipulate the "aafls. Once up, sails do not neces- Sarily stay up, byt may come tumb- |ling down after a® moment aloft. { Experienced yachtsmen with hard- iened muscles find their honds ke- 'come raw under the ordeal. | é The New York World in 1887, sent a diver down fo measure the, IScotch cutter inistie, chaucnger| ifor the America's Cup. There was a discrepancy of 18 inches between challenge figures and actual meas- urements. The races were held af- o T In 1851, some Americans tried to secure bets on the race but the Englishmen would not gamble. However, Commodore Stevens of Only One Inmate In This Punrhuuse INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 4— The Indiana Department of Public ' ‘Welfare soon will close a unique This is from a New York news- Podrhouse in Ohio County. paper of 1887—just 50 years ago:| There is only one inmate, a man |“A marked feature of the races was Seventy-nine years and ill. |the amateur photographers. They! This lone occupant of a twelve- 'fairly swarmed on all the excursion Yom institution on a 104-acre tract boats. Every now and then some ©f farm ground has been receiving elderly person would be startled by the undivided attention of a S“l’e" hearing an ominous click and turn'intendent and a matron since '-he suddenly to behold the fierce-look- death of a companion inmate, Jan- ing instrument turned upon him.' UBTY 22, at the age of ninety- ~three. | | The institution is operated un-; |der the obsolete contract system,: which = provides that the county ‘(ommisstoners shall furnish the TABLE TENNIS TOP t POST FOR 4TH YEAR -, buldings and seod while the |and tools. s e KRIEGER KAYOES JOE DUCA, SIXTH NEW YORK, Aug. 4. the America bantered Ramsey, the English yacht builder, into betting the price of a jibboon, and persuad- | ed the maker of a flying jib to risk the price of that article. This was the extent of speculation on the first race. GOTHAM MISS RATES CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 4 — Ruth Aarons, of New York City, has been named for the top spot among the nation's women table tennis stars, for the fourth straight year. Oregon, was rated sixth and Geor- a tgchnical knockout over Joe Duca gianna Fossas, of Seattle, has been in’the sixth round of their ten-| ranked twenty-first. round ring mix here last evening. Duca, who hails from Paulboro, slMMs GETS NOD | Néw Jersey, weighed in at 159 FROM TEXAS LAD ™™ ___ .., —— { though cotton production sag-| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 4— ged in other Panhandle counties Eddie Simms, 198-pound Cleveland- 'last year, Castro County, Tex., gin- er, outpointed Tom Beaupre, 196, ned 2,334 bales, or nearly twice the of Dallas, Texas, here last night number in 1935, in ten rounds. | —————— ————— ! Try The Empire classifieds for Try an Empire ac. results. This released from SEOKE.OU SHIMNEY. Diesicmntt i iocut her mother (left) and her husband, the-prince M‘“fi;‘hny are who dropped & Manager — Solly | Mayo Rae Rolph, of Portland, Krieger, 166, of New York, .scnred; Sport Slanits Chick Hafey's courageous come- ‘back is one of the lLighlights of the jcurrent baseball season. Hafey was counted out by every- J‘one but himself two years ago, when |a series of sinus operations seemec to write finis'to his baseball career. His eyesight was bad—so bad that the dozens of pairs of glasses he tried proved little help. The hard-hitting outfielder, who had won the Nationul League bat-| ting crown with the St. Louis Car- dinals 1n 1931, was going wlong in! Ifine style with the Cincinnati Reds early in the 1925 campaign. Then he caught the flue wolie "taking part in a rainy 1l-inning game against the New York Giants. 'Lhat brought the old sinus aliment back with a vengeance. 1ln nine days his weight went down 35 pounds. More. operations, ‘iaen back to 4 his California farm to try to build himself up for the comeback. It wus a long, discouraging task. The rapid improvement in Chicl condition during the winter promp- ted Lim to seck another trial with the Reds. Tae Cincinnati man- agement was none too enthusiastic When Hafey reported at camp, he was just another ballplayer trying to win a bbrth. | It tock him some time to adjust his batting sights but before long Chuck Dressen saw he could help the Reds. At first it ,was only in the role of an occas- ;sional pinch-hitter, but eventually, {when the youngsters on whom Dri (sen had counted failed, Hafey was in‘extcd in the lineup. Today he is one of the leading hitters on the Reds’ roster, and bat- ung in his old clean-up spot. Chick isn’t certain just how long the cure s~. going to last, but he's hoping. He's had hopes before and seen them fade. He's 3¢ now and an- other punch from Old Man Sinus (would just about prove a finisher. — e 11-Pound Weight - Gan't Break Glass i PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4. — Lead welghts that bounce off glass like !rubber balls are among the won- ders of Pittsburgh’s famed Mellon Institute. In the glass exhibit at the insti- |tute an eleven-pound weight falls seven feet, strikes the glass and | bounces harmilessly away. The glass ;is specially tempered and will hold a man’s weight. | Al sorts of glass abound in the | institute. | There’s heat-withstanding glass, sound-reducing glass, bullet - proof glass, glass to keep off frost, and document glass to prevent impor- jant papers: from fading. | Reducing the weight of a ship by 'thousands of pounds is “battleship” glass. And, say the Mellon Institute re- search experts, a livable glass house isn't so far in the offing. R Beef cattle raisers should select a type smooth in conformation and blocky in bulld, advises F. W. Bell, 'animal husbandry expert at Kansas iState College. the salvaged cargo of the wrecked who has h?:(ed she expects an heir, shown on the steps of their new home [BRAINS WORK | DURING SLEEP NEW YORK, Aug. 4-Students may fall asleep in class, but their brains go right on working, any- Louise, on which they are puszn( ers, was in port. Richard E. Krop:, promincnt at< torney who is a Past Potentate of Mcdmah Temple in Chicago, his wife and two daughters, the Misses Mnrlun L. and Katherine E. Kropf, of the American Color Type Com- pany and Chief Rabban of Medinah and Adolph G. Foss, vice president Temple, and his wife, compose the way. party. | A pigadsaile Y:;_:’suzf‘j"‘::’;“t;::"g‘ifl“t CNE(;V | Purchase of land for Federal mré i R ests was first authorized in 1911. § Clark gave the first public demon-!_~ "~ stration in this city of the electro- -i encephalograph, or ‘“brain-wave” machine. Using a pretty coed, Marion Greene, as the subject, “Professor Clark hooked up the machine, turn- ed out the lights and ordered Miss Greene to close her eyes and relax. As she obeyed the instructions an oscillograph recorded the brain waves on moving ticker tape. As Professor Clark instructed Miss Greene to ‘“open your eyes,” or ‘“close your eyes,” the wave- length of her mental responses en- ,larged or flattened out on the mov- '1ng ticker tape which was projected on a screen. The professor admitted that he wouldn't know just what the ex- |periment proved until there was some way to interpret the recorded brain waves. — .- Seagram's 7 Crown BLENDED FOR FINER TASTE PROMINENT CHICAGO GROUP ARE vnsum{; A Chicago party of six, including two men high in Wid-West Shriners §' |organization, visited in = Juneau 294 |Tuebday nlght while the Princess Remember!!! [f your “Daily Alaska Empire” has not been delivered By 6:00 P. M. PHONE 226 A copy wul be sent you IMMED- IATELY by SPECIAL CARRIER. (Do not call after 7:15 P. M.) For Your Friends: Extra Copies of this 1937 Development Edition of the Daily Alaska Empire are available at the Business Office of the Empire Printing Co. 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