The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. I, 1937. IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED SOME ARE CALM as Vice-President John Nance Garner appears here, relaxing for a smoke. Refreshed from a vacation at his home in Uvalde, Texas, the bushy-browed veteran legislator appeared ready for the arduous fask of keeping the U. S. Senate in order. * ...AND SOME ARE PERPLEXED as Speaker William Bankhead seemed to be when this picture was taken. A +ough assignment is his job of maintaining order in the House of Representatives, top-heavy with Democrats, incliued last session to quarrel among themselves. ... SOME ARE MEDITATIVE as is Senate Major- ity Leader Alben W. Barkley upon whose shoulders has fallen the mantle of the late Joe Robinson. To aim falls the task of driving through a program which includes easing tax burdens on business and providing federal cron control. VERNE SRUK" . BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG "/ PULL YOURSELE TOGETHER, SNUEENY- DO NOU REALZE NOU HAVEN'T SEEN HOME THAET'S NO WAY TO TREAT rDailryVS pbfis Caftoofi FOR & WEEWK--222 LOWIZIE AND YOUR L(TTLE JAYS\RD-- }g NE KNOW--H\T'S BEEN NORATED ROUND THET TH "DUNKEN DEBSBY" \S GONTER BE POS PONED TILL SNUFEY SMIE GITS THAT ORN'RY CRATTER O W\S'N W SHAPE TO RUN-- USSEN TO Ol GROUN-HOG--- HE HAIN'T BEEN OFFA H\S FRONT CORCH N TWO_NMEAR, TWLL TERLAY-- { V--By P&i) FE BALL oW ALMOST EVERY PLAY HE EFFECTIVENESS OF HARUARD 'S iR S & HE FOR HIMSELF RUNS INTERFERENCE STRUCK 1S IDEAL N HE SINGLE WG BACK N ROLE ~ COACH HARLOW CALLS HIM "THE MAGNIFICENT FAKER 7 ] | AL 2, AT RIghis Fieserved by The Associated Press ANOTHER HERO IN ALABAMA'S HALL OF FAME | TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. 1. — {Sandy Sanford, a raw-boned sopho- more, wrote his name on Alabama’s hero scrool as the man who called his play from the sidelines and made it to save a tough game for the Crimson Tide. It was in the Tulane game at New {Orleans with two minutes to play. The hard-playing Greenies had the Tide stalemated, 6-6. ‘Bama’s 1937 undefeated-untied record, Rose !Bowl hopes and national gridiron prestige all hung in the balance. The Crimson Tide drove to the Tulane 23-yard line. Sanford, who had never tried a field goal before, turned to a teammate on the side- In Verne Struck, Harvard Coach Harlow has the ideal back for chis set-up. A halfback in the fullback | position, he has developed decep- tion to an art. Harlow calls him “the magnificent faker.” Struck had a field day the after- noon Harvard snowed under Prince- ton by 34-6. He carried the ball 30 times, and gained 216 yards on spin- bucks aimed through Princeton’s tackles. He crossed the Tiger goal “three times and produced one of Eight members of the New York the finest exhibitions ever shown by YanKees and Giants, who make |a Crimson back. their| homes in or near San Fran- A whitling dervish If ever a foot- cisco, have appeared in charity ball player was one, Struck carried 8ames here since the World Series. Ithe ball on two of every three run-| Outstanding attraction was Joe Stars of World Series Play in a teammate on the other. " Coach Pritz Crisler, when asked loval followings. what he thought of Struck as a ball-| carrier, replied: “To tell you the |truth I didn't watch him much af- Charity Games | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 1.—{ i ning plays and slipped the ball to DiMaggio, although Tony Lazzeri, s Ere Lefty Gomez and all the others have VE BETTER GHET NORE. TATER-TRAE GOOGLE- AFORE NYE SET DOWN WIE A CRASH--- NOU'VE SEEN AROLND THAT OONKEY SO0 MUCH LATELY YOU'RE SEGINNING TO &CT UKE OoNE --- AN WE'S AS EYLL OF NEWS &S 3 > ALABAMA PLAYS w 1 GONNIES W THAT GIVES ME a eLums GOOD \DEE-- 1 SW'AR - By BILLIE DE BECK W& THIS HERE DUNKEN O' MINE, OU EMMY, CAN'T OUTRUN THET CRITTER O' SNLEFY SMF'S, THEN T DON'T KNOW & D\.\NKE‘(‘ FROM a ewe KIND LN ) FOUR CASABA « CALIFORNIA ON SQUADS MADE o) WOQQ© - Rudolph, L. Desmond, M. Peterson, E. Bardi A. Bradley and Walter Jewell. Elks: Stan Hill, Dick May, Dale Druliner, Spiro Paul, Bob Davlin, Roy Smith, Guss Gissherg and M. Rakovich, JANUARY FIRST UP FOR YEAHQFARRWTL MEET Football Teams Will Meet in Rose Bowl in An- nual Clash BERKELEY, Cal, Dec. 1. — The Unjvarsity of California officials announce selection and acceptance of Alabama’s unbeaten, untied foot- ball team to play the undefeated Golden Bears in the Rose Bowl con- test on New Year's Day. e GERWELS RETURNS Dick Gerwels, former Juneau bas- ketball star, has returned to Juneau to spend a few weeks in the Capi- tal City before sailing south for the winter, Gerwels has been in Hyder in re- cent mor“us with a Bureau of Public Roads Survey crew working on a bridge survey over the Salmon river and a rock fill for the Hyder dock enproach. He Is stopping at the Gastineau. The opening night of Juneau's basketball season is only six even- ings away and today, all teams are supposed to be lined up ready to go. A meeting of the managers of the City League have decided to limit the number of teams in the circuit to seven squads to enable an early season’s close. Bud Foster, of KINY former Seattle casaba chucker, will blow the whistle as official referee. Four of the teams already com-| plete are listed below: Douglas: Claude Erskine, Mark Jensen, Gordon Mills, Albert Strag- ier, Glenn Edwards, Gerald Cashen,’ Ken Cordle and Tauno Niemi. | DeMolay: Lioyd Bayers, Elmer | Lindstrom, Woody Woodring, Jack Gould, Sam Nelson, Wayne Bying- ton, Ray Manthey, Rex Hinkley and Gordon Muma. Krause’s Concreters: Jim Barrie, | Herb Mercer, Tom James, Paul JIMMY BRADDOCK LONDON, Deec. t.—iommy Farr will fight Jimmy Braddock in Mia mi, Florida, next February 26. The agreement was made hy Trans-Atlantic telephone, Farr talking to Mike Jacobs, New York reporter. Farr is the Welsh heavywelght who surprised a Brown Bombing Joe Louis recently. 4 MASETET R The world's largest fruit juice plant is to be built in Honolulu at la cost of $1250,000.. It will spec- ialize in the canning in pineapple Juice. - e Louisiana’s 48,46 square miles Laclude 8,097 of water and a great- er mileage of navigable streams than ‘any other state. Sears at Seattle ServesAlaskaBest | person, ORDER EARLY if you can, but if you can't remember—SEARS Serves You Best. or by telephone. ALL ORDERS PLACED AT SEARS JUNEAU ORDER OFFICE BEFORE 9:00 P. M. DECEM- BER 12, will be shipped from Seattle on Decem- ber 18—To reach you before Christmas. SEARS Order Office is ready to serve you in ter the first few minutes. Most |of the time I sat on the bench with my hat before my eyes. Every time T looked up the Harvard team was lining up to try for the point after He “Receives” ~ His Own Kick ALL LARGE ORDERS are wired to Seattle FREE. Final date for wired orders—Noon, linés and said: touchdown. Struck had scored| December 16' “I can do it—kick a goal and win|again. GOLDEN, Col, Dec. 1.—~George this game.” | “A well-meaning alumnus rushed Rout, Western State halfback, “re- Coach Frank Thomas sent him in. up to me between halves,” Crisler jeived his own kickoff — for a Sanford booted the goal cleanly|contiriied and said: “The way to'touchdown. Rout booted a long one from the 31-yard line and gave the stop Harvard is to tackle Struck against Colorado Mines. A Mines Tide a 9-6 victory. lon every play.” | player only touched the ball, which And then Sanford, a lad fromi “My answer was: ‘That’s exactly rolled across the goal line. Rout Adoma, Ark., saved the game a min- what we have been doing. Trou- galloped downfield and fs'l on the ute' later by intercepting a pass and.ble is our safety man has been mak-|oval ‘in the end zone. ——————— breaking up Tulane’s last desperate ing all the tackles.’” ' o Suis Tn e SBNE g Co, 2 L &2 Dec. 1.—There 15 There is $31,000 prize money await- | Harvard uses two offensive for- nearly 100 pounds difference in jng golfers in seven tournaments to {mations—a single wingback to the weight between Greeley State's tWO e held in California during Jan- (right or left behind an unbalanced guards, yet opposing linemen have- ,ary and February. First and weal- |line and a straight kick formation. n't been able to agree which is the hiest of the state’s open tourna- |The single wingback shown this tougher. Frank Barnhart, Ottawa, ments will be held at Los Angeles, season by the Crimson has been I, junior, weighs about 250. Er- january 7-10, with $8,000 at stake. the same as that used in 1936. Most nie Kraemer scales in at only 155. | oo plays involve a ‘spinning, bucking e — o - |back. The finance department of the The Island of Java, in the East w"“ The " effectiveness of Harvard's United States army disburses all Indies, is the most densely popu- a check upon the administration. Last spring he was on - |single wing is dependent almost en-|funds appropriated for national de- lated 1and mass in the world—821 ing foes of Supreme Court re tirely on déception. fense. to thi square. mile, Juneau Order Office 205 Seward St. PHONE 233 ... AND SOME ARE SKEPTIC, liam . Wi announs lore mzr:lal:nvrvyfluio& that feel obliged to use