The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1938, Page 5

3 ! K EAGLES LOSE FIRST GAME TO FIREMEN Elks Take One-sided Bas- ketball Victory from Krause Concreters Speeding througn to a 33-31 W a fast, hard-fighting Fireman sqt knocked the top-flight Douglas gles from their ch in the City League standings last nizht, chalk-| ing up the Islanders’ t deleat in the seascn’s backotball tour ment before a crowd of enthuci rooters in the Jun-au HMiga Selodl gymnasium Second game of the don'le the Firemen- B the only real of tie ¢+ the openir me between the Krause and Elk squads ending with a lopsided Elk victory of 66 to 19, widest margined game of the ser- ies. fig Firemen Fight With Guard Sturrock pla; outstanding fleor game all ev the Firemen managed to k few points ahead of their opponents seen after the second quarter was under way. Hze tought trom the minute the whistle brought the game into pl the battle was neck and neck at the end of the first quarter with the Eagles holding an expected lead of 9 to 8. The sec quarter brought a different story as the red and gold Firemen rushed though to a five point lead ending with 18 to 13 as the half-time whis- tie blew. 8 Points, Each Team Eight points were made by each team in the third quarter as basket was matched for basket in a de- termined drive by the Eagles to win their accustomed place as leaders the Well into the fourth five point margin narrowed to th and the score stood 34 to 31 wit the Douglas rooters crying for vic- tory. A timely field quarter, goal by Sturrock as the game neared its close down- ed Douglas hopes with Behrends through with other Fire- joal soon after to spell t seven point defeat High Point Man Bebrends was hign point man ot the game with 14 points to hi credit, two of which were made in a beautiful 40-foot shot in the first quarter. Orme, spectacular Fire- man long-shooter, came through with a perfect shot as the fourth quarter commenced, while Linds- trom and Snow made eight points each during the game. Firemen had no substitutions and made no foul shots during the entire evening. For Douglas, Mark Jensen came through with 13 points, followed by six each for Edwards and Erskine. Slow in checking, the Douglas squad let the Firemen break away for un- contested chances at the basket which counted heavily in the Eagles defeat toll. No Competition Out-ranged, out-speeded, and out- hot, the Krause Concreters fought thankless battle against the su- perior Elk squad which found little cpposition to running up its 66 to ——— 19 victory. Rudolph of the Con- creters started the game off mak- inz all but one of the Krause puints for the first quarter, and came through with 11 of the final 19 points scored. See was the only nd § Katherine Rawls Announces She Will Stay in Swim Game Katherine Rawls, diving, freestyle and breast-st of Fort Lauderdale, Fla; is the most versatile werld, She has held reeords, and championships galore. isters, all of them swimming champions. When her engagement anncunced, the public wondered what would happen to her career. Katherine replied she would go on swimming. He Dhighlights of what, regardiess of her future activities, will cne of the bright careers of the sport. ke swimming woman swimmer in the She is one of four 3 Skght ef baild, Katherin Kitty” — always has photo- well — something she has in ecemmen with Eleanor Hoim Jarrett, another Olympic sw Here she is (left) in Olympic 3 with McKean of * a Olive cture ttie. o YOUNG STAR Reporters in VE' 1931 had trouble | ERAN STAR ing the name of “Kathryn” In 1937 she retained her nation- r who, as 14, was one of | al indoor breaststroke title at (he youngest entrants in the wo- | Chicage. At San Franciso, where men’s national AAU. cham- this picture was made, she won pienships. Miss Rawls was al- [ the national A. A. U. titles in ready junior diving champion. | the 300-meter medley, the 440- Many ancther titic lay ahead of | 880-yard and one-mile | FIANCEE COLL Last autumn Katherine entered On November 21, 1937, the en- Flerida ate Colle for Wo- gagement of Miss Rawls to Wil- men. Majoring in journalism, liam W. Starr, Daytona Beach, she wrote her first “signed” Fla., advertising man, was an- nounced. Miss Rawls did not set a date fer her marriage. She ay what effect her tough college course had on her de- Scholars, Too NEW ORLEANS, La., story for The AP Feature Ser- e. She complained her scheel-work was hard, and told of the delights of food packages frem home. Hits Homers Jan TUSCALOOSA, Ala., 12— Jan. 12.— real battler of the short-man squad, Victor Bradford, Alabama halfback, Al Wolft, Santa Clara tackle, is but had little effect on his tall op- was the nome-run leader among the No. 1 student in his engineer- ponents. Crimson baseball players la ring. ing college. May played a consistent, all- He's also a basketball letterman. | - - —= around game again for the purple ——— g AT S \ 1 Elk squad, while Davlin was out- Substitutions :Firemen, none. ersa I e standing with a strong floor game, pouglas, Edwards (6). i offering 10 points in his share of | Rt baskets. May made 16 points, while SUMMARY | TUSCALCOSA, Ald., Jan. 12— Roy Smith, anticipated high scorer, ELKS (66) came through with 28, Perron Shoemaker, Alabama end in football, is a star guard on the bas- ketball team and catches in base- KRAUSE (19) R. Smith (28) R Bardi (1) SUMMARY Davlin (10) F. . Rudolph (11) FIREMEN (38) DOUGLAS (31) May (16) c. James (2) ball. Lindstrom (8) . F. Mills (5) S. Hill (4) G. ... Mercer (3) S A Behrends (14) Erskine (6) Druliner (2) G. see 2 REBEKAH LODGE AT Snow (8) Jensen (13) Substitutions: Elks, Paul (0); Sturrock (4) F. (o} G. Orme (4) G Stragier (0) Gissberg, (6) ... Niemi (1) Peterson {0); Jewell (0). Krause, Barrie 0/l FAIRBANKS INSTALLS | ; x | Thelma Hering took office re- daughters, Barbara, 15 months, snapped as the Dempsey at Home A e few pictures ever taken of Jack Dempsey and his two Ops st . and Joan, three and one-half, was former world champion showed his youngsters how some of their Christmas toys worked. . . . |cently as noble grand of the W 1th KlddlCS "Golden North Rebekah Lodge No. (4A, at Fairbanks, at an installation iceremony in the Odd Fellows Hall Ithat was attended by more than {100 persons. | The retiring noble grand was |Margaret Kramer who is teaching school at Peak Island, near Valdez. Other officers installed were: |0ddncy Hausmann, vice-grand; Ed- “na. Woodward, secretary; Barbara | Woodward, treasurer; Katherine E. | Kramer, right supporter to the Jnohle grand, and May Gibbon, left; ! Florence Marks, warden; Ina Me- | Phee, conductor; Theo McKanna, chaplain; Theresa Picotte, inside ! guardian; Amante Hanson, outside | guard; Grace Becker, right support- ler to the vice-grand, and Hilda Nikkola, left; Agnes Wilbur, music- {ian; Mary Main, Naomi; Mary J. | Creamer, Rebekah. | Following the ceremony, | was served by Florence Brown. H U LA | SKATING RINK PLANNED 1 A skating rink on the Chena has been started by the Northern Commercial Company. As |soon as the ice is cleared of snow [by caterpillar tractor, the place will {be flooded to permit of a “glass” fice forming. e e Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Off dinner ) i J loutfielder NUMBER ONE - MEN OF 1937 | BA. ARE CITED § Honors Go to Executives of I Great Sport as Well i as Players ! ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 12—Cita- 'tions as to the No. 1 Man of Base- ball for 1937 are tiven E. G. Bar row, secretary business manager of the New York Yankees; William B. McKechnie, as manager of the § Boston Bees: Johnny Allen, pitch- er of the Cle nd Indians; Bob |LaMotte, vice-president and busi- § ness manager of the Savannah Sally |L sue club; Jake Flowers, man- of Salisbury in the Eastern League and Charles Keller, of the Newark Interna- League Bears, by baseball's |national weekly, in its annual aw: to leaders in the business, |managing and playing ends, just tional |announced | FIhA N T Philip Holzworth, of Chicago, is 13 Honorable mention went 10 ponehs old. Six wecks ago he Branch Rickey, vice-president and gouldn’t stand alone. * His dy general manager of the St. Louis strapped skates to his feet, and say: he can skate better than he car walk. Philip weighs 32 pounds and has eight teeth. Cardinals; J. A. Robert Quinn, pres- ident of the Boston Bees, and Tom Yawkey, president of the Boston Red Sox, among the major league executives; Jos McCarthy of the New York Yankees, Bill Terry of the New York Giants and Connie Mack of the Philadelphia ics among the big league man: and Joe Medwick, St. Louis dinals; Charley Gehringer HOSTAK BEATS HIBBARD RIGHT Car- Detroil ‘Tigers, Lou Gehrig and Verncn Go- Hubbell, New York Giants, among | 45 L the players. Stand-Outs Other minor league e listed as stand-outs are Ea utives rl Mann, Makes Fourteen Straight Victories for Sav- president of the Atlanta Southern Association Club; Paul Flovence, age Slugger former catcher, now president of Erelenr the Durham Piedmont SATTLE, Jan. 12—Al Hostak Bulls; Roy L. Thompson, president savage, slugging heavyweight, last of the Liitle Rock Southern As- night technically knocked out Jack sociation Travelers; Joe Becker, Hibbard, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, | business manager of the Joplin Wes- in two minutes and 29 s tern Association Miners; m Pol- the first round opene a sched-{ panny Quigley has seen enough nle DURESS(SRRRO (0T IRECREGLI0 MOk ) ot 'town ‘Tife during. the holiday Portsmouth Middle Atlantic League The win was Hostak's fourteenth |y paipa s e ooet Be 200t club, and Ray Oppregaard, business cansecutive knockout and he is now sy oo o o e of the Crookston North- considered the Nation's No. 2 chal-'yioy o o Mol Porcii] ague club. Ranked just be- Jenger for the crown. He had thir- ]\1I<”".’- says alrbanks low Flowers among the minor teen fights last year and won them g o AR AL League managers are Oscar Vitt, gl She's had her white hair prethiec for poiloting the Newark Bears to Last night, Hostak entered the Itfl)‘l"l\\;'vllv! |]-nv”(”“.1‘ n:‘»;‘r‘- a_championship before going to the ying weizhing 158% pounds and pow woine soft sttle Rock; Buck Crouse, Balti- iy e | aving § ! 1d more, and Burt Shotton, Columbus S :‘lvu'l»:ils in tllw mmvn Ir‘n‘v:-|||lvu”x‘\: Airasiban A saniiabios Kk 7 Bikey Fairbanks, and having completed Enos Slaughter, outfielder of Col- ing perishables and one other pas- umbus, O.; Joseph Kohlman, pitc er of Salisbury Eastern Shore League; Ash Hillin, Pitcher of Okla- FROM SPARKIES Hot Shots totaled 1467 last pconds afte T BASEBALL MEN PLAN BIE DAY IN NEXT YEAR NEW YORK, Jan To every baseball fan in the land the year 1939 will mark a notable anniver- e hundredth birthday of rounding out the first cen- vy of the history of America’s national game, a hundred years of pioneerir rowth, development, build wards an even greater ar e glamorous future. For the fans of the nation, an appropriation of $100,000 is the first toward the nationwide of baseball's centennial The donors are the National and American leagues. They took this action their joint meeting it | Chicago with the feeling that t i fund will give a wor |basis for the centennial celebra- {tion, which, of course, belongs no |only to th two major agues but to every minor le associa- land, everyt n, wheth tion in the |er amateur or professional, eve | arch committee in 1906 . presidents of the two leagues, established histori t the first game of baseball s played at Cooperstown, N. Y in the summer of 18%0 Abner | Doubleday, then student at a mili school. later a eral |the U. S. army, was the author T'he centennial celebration therefore have the little up-state e as its ima ally but its ications and ance will touch city ar in the baseball world, just as the game of baseball itself spread from |Coopertown all over the United States and across oceans into fa tinents and colonies. - 'She's Going Back To Home on Hill senger, Norman Crooks nny Quigley is a famous cl 'acter of the Interior. She was born in Nebraska in 71, came North to All-American Squeeze Play! oy g R bl [Eadie Lou Wheat and Jim Ryba [B¢ m left Tuscaloosa’ for Just before the Alabama University football (e Pasadena where they played California on New Year's Day in the Rese Bowl, Jim Ryba, all-American guard for the Crimson Tide, was given a real send-off by pretty Eddie Lou Wheat, Alabama co-ed. 36 icky bounces, drives that fi s reach. What we are try- ing eliminate is the thing happens when a batter hits o piece of the bail,” as they say, in- stead of connecting squerely Sometimes it's one of those lazy bounders that get to the outfield because the smoothness of the ball won't let the infield grass or clay that FLUKY HITS 1S NOW AlM Noat: o 11 once Maonle take hold of it. Sometimes it's a {Nation "l_ Sl M,‘)%l‘l‘* pop fly just out of inficlder’s | Take Action—New Balls [reach.” sometimes iv's even a home n or extra base hit in parks where |'he stands or fences are not too far |from home plate are | 1f-Hits Fail Leaue ball that far it. The Make Blows Tougher 2.—Hits @ re outs and that's| The it should be. 1It's the fluky,|iravel that y half-hits, in the twilight it is only between that the National cover and heavier sea gunning for with its 1 friction when it YORK outs Jan won't when thicker nes League i 8 more model buseball. Homers will con-|ground so that it won't slither on tinue to be homers whenewer theithrough the s like a billiard ball i quarely hit as last year'siball. If it's only half-hit—say on bone Kde homers, It's only theithe very end of the bai, or ths halt-bit homers that are doomed handle—some fielder will get a fair by this latest prc sive move of'sporting chance to field it Ty the senior circuit solons time Improved chassis s the keynote| “In the air, those half-bit drives of the senior loop's No. 4, a cover,Won't travel as far next year as 11-128 of an inch thicker, its seams they did with the ball in use in sewed with a five-strand thread in-|both major leagues the past four Istead of last year's four-strander, Yo¢ Squarely hit drives will {Otherwise the ball is the same have just as good chance to be hom- streamlined spheroid so popular ers with the old ball. The oniy with the youth and oldsters of our ¢hange the new ball will make in nation these past four National League heme run statis- ll”»nxm City Texas League and John al the Brunswick alleys 10 Dawson in '98, to the old town of | Hit It e 5 is the elimination of fluky hom- A'”A“_ of Brocksville Canadian- down the Spark Plugs by 90 PINS, Chena in 1902, and to the Kan-| From cover to cover it's exactly €rs ‘uncarned home runs yo O e e b Hildinger le the march tishna in 1905 [the same ball, same core, same Might call them.” b R e ; _:’iltlpd‘::s l;rvr;vn»: S “““"‘!"’"E“_‘)’fl deteated SNOW, Her home is in the Kantishna |winding, same materials. It trav- - blited fangho Vacthe elkes o the: [TIHIE 18741271, S mountains, 97 miles from the Mec- |els as fast as ever when you hit it TO HAVE HOCKEY TEAM inkees through his acumen in Tonight's games are T’fd““'fl V5. Kinley Park station on the Alaska nose in the middle. You can hit At a meeting of the Dawson Fiandling BIAvEN - mkiitetrins Boak. Columbia and Arctic vs. Wood Chop- Railroad jone a mile per gallon with the same Amateur Hockey . League recently es Tor Tiaw G Rt and Kiineas dan: T 4 | Mr. Crooks is an employee of 'full gallon of swing-power you used plans were made to insure Dawson Badtl Arire G REAR s e Last night 8 scores {wl‘lw\\‘ Hawkins and Fransen, quartz op- last year and the ar before of a team for the winter and also the accolade for his skill in pi- BOLGBHOTREY |« _erators on Quigley Hill in the Kan-| You've got to hit this ball square- a rink in which to play. A certain e S Hildinger 1 150 178— 517 tishna, ly to get maximum results, e will be flooded and the rink light hitters, handling of pitchers Burke 125 158 152 44: Clifton Hawkins and Ernest R. ihe only difference,” Ford Frick, will be an outdoor affair. AT ARV R bR i Thimey a8d R. Galao 181 150 505 Pransen have the Quigley ground !National League president, explain- D Lot Pt 2 Allary Was. “diyan . tha: . & e — under lease, and are developing the to New York reporters in his FAIRBANKS NIGHT SCHOOL palm because his feat of winning'| o> 458 5041467 hard-rock property {Radio City office. “Our aim in| Fairb started night school Fr e el i ~ SPARK PLUGS | -oo—— |making the change is to do away with an enrollment of 49 adults. s8ikoR, | Wterriiptad by ‘81 sbpin- H(.-ndnck:, 17‘0 184 lfiuf 543 W. C. Deke of Mercedes, 1'uxus_}\u|)~ those halt-hits which some- Courses offered during eight weeks Attt S e i o e Frazer 133 130 135— 4?‘f picked a naval orange measuring |times play so big a part in a ball include typing and s hand, ac- time winning percentage record in Hotelho 161 128 137— 426 17% inches in circumference on hie game. counting and a public speaking 1 ey, S gpon ittt iy farm. . There'll always be ‘breaks of the class. ik any pitcher, past or present. 3 SNOW WHITE {‘ 4 | LaMotte, a former shortstop. is i.mL;,.w“ el bt rs. noosevelt pell( S 1011 ayS 1t fll.lg nter credited with being largely respon- g parcon 170 140 142— 452 2 - sible for the 192,726 attendance at Savannah the past season, a record 464 417 390—1271 for a Class B club. Flowers, a for- b s HEIDELBERG ,mer Brooklyn Dodger and St. Louis " 1st 135 |Cardinal infielder, is picked as the Doe 147 {leading pilot in the minors because Russell 156 he inspired his Salisbury team to TOREe come back and win the champion- 33 5 Rl Wher dronping) frow the top!. TO@M 58 a8 Meel to the bottom by having 21 victories subtracted on a league ruling. Kel- ler's spurt to the top of the Inter- national League's batting averages in his first year as a professional player is acclaimed as the outstand- ing performance in the minors, ASHES TO BE STREWN FROM MOUNT M’KINLEY In compliance with the last wish- es of Billy Owens, his ashes will be C |scattered from a plane at Mount McKinley. | Mr. Owens died at Covina, Calif., December 28, according to a mes- |sage from T. W. Buckholz of Long e . Beach, Cal, to W. H. Gilcher in B ul "m Fairbanks. { | Mr. Owens was a bartender in |Fairbanks before Prohibition. He worked for Bill McPhee, noted Billy” Meyers, 71, resident of Ju- pioneer. When the dry law went neau for many years and Property ingg effect in 1918, Mr. Owens went {owner here, sutfered a strcke this Outside, Mr. Gilcher recalls. (morning and was taken to St. Ann’s Ashes Sent North Hosplial. = i “His last wishes were that his He was found in his Willoughby ashes be returned north and scat- {Ave. home this morning and Of- tereq from a plane in the vicinity ldered taken to the hospital by Dr.!oe Mount McKinley, Mr. Buckholz W. W. Council. stated. Al i i i A o The body hes been cremated, and |the ashes are en route to Fair-’ | banks. Choir rehearsal will be held by| The deceased was about 75 years the Holy Trinity Cathedral at 8 9/d, Mr. Gilcher said. He is sur- oclock tonight in the deanery, ac-|Yived by a sister at Covina cording to announcement this, MF. Buckholz, friend of the de- morning. I:L’?:ed formerly was a mate on a —————— r steamer out of Nenana. The mineral wealth of the de- PR D e cludes gold, silver, tin, tungsten,| JOhn Brown's body is buried on partment of La Plaz, Bolivia. copper and bismuth, TRINITY CHOIR lnr Lake Placid, N.Y. in-18_farm he owned two miles east | Making a surprise Franklin | visit to Seattle, D. Roosevelt spent the holiday: daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, and her two grand- | wife of the Seatile publisher. Mrs. Roosevelt, daughter and grandchildren Wash., Mrs. | with her children, Buzzie and Sistie, abcve. One reason for the visit was the recent illness of Mrs. Boeitiger, 4