The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1938, Page 5

SOLONS HOLD | TOP RUNG IN COAST LEAGUE Seattle Indians Loze Two Yesterday — Acorns in Last Place (By Associated Press) The boys who swing the hi sticks in the Pacific Coasi L« took a brief breathing spell today with the opening games of the 1938 season histor S Sclons holding sion of the top The usua headers the Oakland Acorns loss column and claim to cellar position Oakland lost the season's cpener Saturday in a 10-inning thriller marked by a brace of homers, four © windup, CONDUCTORS HIT SNAPPY PIN TOTALS With Garland Boggan out in front, the Conductors bowled Big Four ball in the Railroade: League the Elks’ Club Saturday night w they hit a total of 165 Conductors bested Supers three games in a row. Dispatchors won three straight in close games with the Oilers . Tonight's games will end the Big Four second half (Railroaders fin- ished Saturday) and begin the play- ~ off of postponed games. Those games scheduled for to- night are Northern Pacific vs. Bal- timere and Obio for the Big Fou to be followed by post- pcned playoffs, New York Central vs. Pennsylvania, and Firemen vs. Switchmen. Saturday night's scores follow:. Cenductors doubles and §ingles galore. 187 215 190 The San Francisco Seals staged 160 213 217 a typical movie finish to defeat 158 158 158—°474 Portland in the first game yester ;A = day, but suffered defeat in the qoo. 508 596 second when the Beavers squared i Supers accounts. . £ Brown 162 162 157— 481 After dropping the first game of Delebeeque 157 157 157—*471 the year to the Seattle Indians, the s 156 156 156—°468 San Diego champions gave movie- 3 i O e town folk o treat by nosing out, ropals 475 475 470—1420 the Tribe two in a row for Sunday " Dispatchiers h“;;“:‘i‘-_ FAE B e Thibodeal 154 156 500 ollywood played a give and take yyijson 155 < 171 491 game yesterday to take a win in Hermann 170 166 486 the afternoon game and a defeat B ok y St et in the nightcap. Totals 479 493 505—1477 G e Oilers 2 GAMES SUNDAY Monagle 161 161 161—*483 Seattle §, 0; San Diego 4, 9 Stevens 187 174 160— 521 Oakland 0, 2; Sacramento 5, 5. ' Macgpadden .. 130 142 164— 436 Hollywood 8, 3; Los Angeles 1, 13. sot g Y Portland 8, 5; San Francisco 9, 2. Totals 478 477 485—1440 i Average; did not bowl. GAMES SATURDAY L Seattle 4; San Diego 1. Oakland 4; Sacramento 6. Portland 4; San Francisco 6. Hollywood 5; Los Angeles 6. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet. Sacramento 3 0 1.000 San Dilego 2 1 667 Los Angeles 2 1 667 San Francisco 2 1 667 Seattle L 2 .333 Hollywood 1 2 333 Fortland 1 2 .333 Oakland 0 3 .000 Rookie Shortstop Fractures Ankle, Exhihitiun Game LAKELAND, Fla., April 4—The sensational rookie shortstop of the Detroit Tigers, Frank Croucher, suf- fered a fractured ankle in Satur- day's exhibition game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Groucher fractured his ankle while sliding into second base. He was filling in at shortstop for Billy Rogell, who is laid up with an infected hand. Manager Mickey Cochrane is now without a regular shortstop. Don Cross, rookie third baseman, will fill the shortstop position for the time being. Detroit won the game Saturday 3 to 2. BOREAS TRIO CONCERT T0 BE TONIGHT Musicale Will Be Given at Northern Light Pres- byterian Church Tonight will be the occasion of the Boreas Trio Monday evening solree, for which event scores of residents are scheduled to be pres- ent at 8:15 o'clock in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. Helen Arlene Parrott, violinist; Edythe Reily Rowe, ‘cellist, and Carol Beery Davis, pianist, will appear on the program which will feature Miss Parrott in a solo selection. Following the concert, coffee will be served and the audience is in- vited to remain and meet inform- | ally with the musicians. NOMINATIONS: CONTINUED BY ROTARY CLU W. O. Carlson presided in the ab- sence of Charles D. Beale at the meeting of the Rotary Club this noon in Percy’s Cafe, where nomina- tions were continued. Tom Cole was admitted as a new member under the bus service clas- sification. — Downing street, residence of the British prime ministers, was named for Sir George Downing, a 17th century secretary of the treasurys., TEXAS MUST FIGHT TO BE BB REGULARS Bunch of Southerners Are Picked to Make Good in Big Leagues By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Service Writer Most Texas league rookies are going to have to make jobs for them- selves in the majors but a post is ready and waiting, and begging, for Mark Joseph Christman. He can be the answer to Detroit’ third-base riddle, quite a puzzline problem since Marv Owen was traded. Mark was the scourge of the southwest base paths last season, pilfering 46 bases in 50 attempts. The 23-year-old Beaumont young- ster has shown fine fielding and a fairly heavy bat during the last two campaigns. The Tigers' pitching staff also needs bolstering and Joe Rogalski and Stan Corbett of Beaumont and | Ed Selway of Fort Worth can have | regular berths for showing a few | fancy curves. | Stanley Sperry from Oklahoma City is thought capable of giving | | another rookie, Dario Lodigiani| | from the Pacific coast, a scrap for second base with the Philadelphia | Athletics, while Sandy Sands of | Tulsa has a better than fair chance| ; of breaking into the Pittsburgh| outfield. | ‘ The St. Louis Browns gobbled | up a flock of Texans. They'll ob- serve Catchers Angelo Guiliani land Sam Harshany, Infielder Stan | Gryska, Outfielder Melvin Maz- zera and Pitchers Harry Kimber- | | lin, William Miller, Bob Muncrief | |and William Tietje, all of San An- )mnlo, and Ed Cole of Galveston. | 'The Chicago Cubs will inspect | Infielder Tony York of Tulsa. In-| fielder Dutch Mueller of Houston | goes to the Philadelphia Phillies. | The St. Louis Cardinals will try| Outfielder Hal Epps of Houston.| The Chicago White Sox grabbed | Catcher Norman Schlueter of Tul-| |sa and Pitcher Bob Uhle of Dallas. | The Philadelphia Athletics have | Pitcher Ralph Buxton and Out-| fielder Paul Easterling of Okla. homa City. | PIONEERS TO MEET | TONIGHT, TOMORROW | Members of the Pioneers of Al-| aska, Igloo No. 6, meet in regular | | Ssession tonight at 8 o'clock in the /L. O. 0. F. Hall with Cash Cole, | presiding. i | The Ploneers Auxiliary, Mrs. J. | C. Michaelson, President, will meet |tomorrow at 8 pm. in the 1. O. O. F. Hall for a regular session. Mrs. J. J. Stocker, Mrs. Arthur | Riendeau, and Mrs. Joe Green are in charge of refreshments and en- | tertainment. | e — | RACE ovER ROUGH ICE | | Esau Thompson, Fort Yukon| | musher, recently drove 12 miles| |over rough river ice in 24 minutes | |to win the dog race at Fort Yukon. | Angus Joseph of Beaver was in| second place and Paul Francis of | Fort Yukon was third man to cross ‘the line, | ) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, POLLY AND HER PALS HOL! ON THERE, \1 PAW PERKINS , YER NOT STEPPIN' OUT T' NO POOL AN' POKER CLUBBE T'NIGHT ! ISS orks on Waistline e Although he and Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yanks still are at odds over his 1938 salary, Joe DiMaggio, the slugging out- ficlder, is getting in shape with the San Francisco Seals at Han- ford, Calif,, while his Yankee teammates are playing practice games in St. Petersburg, Fla. Joe, demanding $40,000, has been offered $25,000, which the portly Ruppert insists is his final figure. SURVEY CREWS TAKE T0 FIELD Two Public Survey Office survey crews went into the field this morn- and two more will take the field for Ketchikan to conduct homesite surveys in that area. Larry Dau- phiny, assistant, will accompany Betts Allard arrived in Juneau recently after transfer from the Land Office in Arizona. Homesite during the early pe at Sikta, Hood B: and the Gartin: ne Creek section ing, to begin homesite sur-| near Ketchikan, as well as at Ket- will occupy the four crews chikan and Auk Bay, near Juneau. the first of July. - - - W. Williamson and Leonard 10 COYOTES CAUGHT Berlin headed two parties that will| Einar Varlson, trapper and reg- make homesite surveys at Auk Bay,|istered guide on the upper south survey will be conducted 't of this season Port Alexander each surveyor having with him fork of the Kuskokwim, got eight three assistants, wolves, a good catch of foxes, ten Floyd Betts and A F. 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(7) New-type handle—invites relaxed guidance. lowering of handle Own a Complete Cleaner Service ' GENERAL @ ELECTRIC CLEANERS Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. JUNEAU——ALASKA DOUGLAS I WONDERS IF THAT HAROLD, TH' HYPNOTIST,COULD HYP YUH INTA MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1938. MAGININ' YUH WUZ SOME GREAT PERSON ER OTHER| MIGHT MAKE SOMETHIN' WOULD YUH LIKE T'BE \F YER WAY 2 | out a touch of pride. | Expects Good Season The Great Reformation seem- | Ingly has caught Mungo and Dizzy | Dean of the Cardinals the same cHANGEn; IN year — the National league’s two | best right-handers. Dizzy has every | one confused over at St. Petersburg | by his dignified ‘actions around the St. Louis Cardinal camp. “I'm in bettéer shape than I'vc \1} | been in five y Mungo de- Declares that BYO_OH_V“ will clared. “And, if I have as good a Re in TOp Division season as I expect, you can just tigure Brooklyn into that first di vision picture somewhere.” Van Lingle Mungo is a CLEARWATER, Fla, April 4— |competitor and a hard lo Van Lingle Mungo, looking just as| 8ives all he has and he goe colemn as a hoot owl perched on!|ing mad when he can’t seem to a limb, sat back on his haunches in| t0ss that ball the way he knows This Year M4 spirited He rav- By CLIFF STERRETT I'LL TELL YUH ,DAG- NAB UT! 1D LIKE T!' BE NONE GTHER:-- b 4% 7 A— r. ? % g N 1938, King Pearure Syndicate, nc.. World skt cserved - was no better after having them extracted. So finally he just tossed a nice roughouse in St. Louis and took French leave of the club— drawing a suspension without pay And the year before his periodic outbursts were featured by a bat- tle royal with other Brooklyn mates in a Pittsburgh hotel. He's be 50 intent on winning that he welcomed a scrap on the field with any and all, and has drawn mere than his share of fines from he arbiters Times Have Changed But that was before the reform movement caught up with him He s he is serious about this alte: and will bear down to pass the 20-game victory mark this season. tion of his pattern of living| eye-to-eye with Grimes. But he's okay. He's just like me, a hard fighter, and a hard loser. Nothing tastes good to us after we've taken a licking.” - FLOWER LEAGUERS BOWLING TONIGHT Tonight's games at the Bruns- wick bewling alleys are Flower League matches with Violets meet- ing Tulips and Gardenias bowling Asters. Emil Galao today requested that teams whose games must be post- poned, notify him beforehand. : PGS seen DIES ON TRAIL The body of Edward Duffy, vet- eran miner and prospector and resident of Dawson, was recently found by Indians about six miles below Dawson. He had been rep- resenting some quartz claims on Ballarat creek and presumably was returning to Dawson when sudden Mungo took the occasicn to deny the reports that he and Manager Burleigh Grimes couldn’t get along. He asserted he had never satd he wouldn't pitch another game for “Boily,” a story that whipped about the loop after he ditched the Dod- the Dodgets’ dugout here the other | he can day and declared he had signed the, That was the trouble last season pledge when he jumped the Dodgers, he Loafing around his Pageland, S. says. He'd won nine games and C., home this winter, Mungo went | lost only four before the fourth into a huddle with himself, added up|of July and it looked like a fine his assets and liabilities, and ar-|season for him. Then he hurt his rived at the conclusion he hadn't|arm and back pitching against the gers death struck him. | been figuring the angles correctly.| Giants. He couldn't seem to get “Burleigh is all right. You're - -, “I haven’t had a drink since be-|going after that. They said the bound to disagree with other peo-! Try the Empire classifieds for in his tonsils. But he results | fore Christmas,” he said, not with- trouble lay ple sometime and I haven't always VOTE THE ECONOMY TICKE STRAIGHT! OUR PLATFORM WE ADVOCATE AND WILL SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING PLATFORM: 1. We pledge our selves to conduct the City’s Business on a Strictly Budget Basis System, said budget to be prepared and predicted upon the retirement of a substantial amount of the City's bonded indebtedness. : 2. Upon assuming office we pledge ourselves to make and publish a Complete Financial Statement showing the City's financial condition, and we further pledge ourselves to Publish a Financial Statement Quarterly while we are in office. 3. We believe that Our Schools Should Be Maintained at the Highest Possible Standard, and, We Pledge ourselves to Co-operate with the School Board and ‘ will assist in carrying out their recommendations as to Teachers’ Salaries, Im- provements and Maintenance. 4. We favor the continued maintenance of the present high Efficiency of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department. We believe in a continued Adequate Police Department for the protection of our citizenry. 6. We Approve of the recognition of Organized Labor, their right to bargain col- lectively; that a spirit of harmony should exist between Employer and Em- ployee and that differences should be adjusted by arbitration. Juneau Needs a Street Conmimissioner with Years of Proven Practical Experi- ence so that the varied new work to be undertaken and maintenance work can be carried forward with Greater Efficiency. thereby saving the citizens of ‘ Juneau Considerable Money: We pledge ourselves to appoint such an exper- ienced and practical man. We believe that the City Should own its own Public Utilities, and yet we are opposed to jeopardizing the Financial Standing of the City. ; We pledge ourselves to exert the utmost effort to secure a small boat harbor, and improvement of present boat facilities. . We are Absolutely Opposed to combining Executive office of Mayor and Fi- nancial office of City Clerk. 10. We Pledge Ourselves to Administer the'City Affairs in a Business- Like Man- ner. 2 VOTE IT STRAIGHT FOR A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION G. E. KRAUSE for MAYOR OSCAR HARRI WALLIS S. GEORGE WYATT KINGMAN for COUNCILMEN I (Paid Advertisement)