The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1938, Page 5

WAL, HERE COMES HAROLD, TH' HYFNO, FER HIS LAST CALL, GLORY BE !/ TOURNAMERT CLOSE FINGS RADDE CHAMP Santa Fe Takes Top Rung in Both Halves—Hag- erup Individual High The bowling season at the Elks' Club is over. Champion bowler in the Big Four League is Ed Radde. who copped high average honors and individual three-game totals Ervin Hagerup took high single game honors Pennsylvania ran Sa Fe a close second in both first and ond halves of the tournament, but Roger Stevenson, Bill Pullen, and Lou Hudson came out on top both halves. sec- Breakdown of scores follow: FINAL STANDINGS First Half Santa Fe 14,857 Pennsylvania 14,824 Southern Pacific 14,586 Lackawanna 14,566 Canadian Pacfic 14,473 Union Pacific 14471 Northern Pacific 14,304 New York Central 14,266 Baltimore and Ohio. 14,175 Reading 14,086 Second Half Santa Fe 14,668 Pennsylvania 14,609 Scuthern Pacific 14,574 Union Pacific 14,637 Candian Pacific 14,515 Reading 14,503 Lackawanna 14,394 New York Central 14,322 Baltimore and Ohio.. 14,305 Northern Pacific 13,938 Winners, first half—Santa Fe— Stevenson, Pullen, Hudson. Second prize — Pennsylvania— Lavenik, Bavard, Halm. Third prize — Southern Pacific Henning, Duckworth, Wirt Last prize Reading—Metcalf, Benson, Bringdale. Winners, second half—Santa Fe Second prize—Pennsylvania. Third prize—Southern Pacific. Last prize — Northern Pacific— Stewart, Tubbs, Blanton. Individual high average—Radde, 189. Individual 3-game total—Radde 666 | Individual high game—Hagerup, | 252, Individual av erages for both halves of tournament: Radde 54 189 Stevenson 45 186 Barragar 36 186 Metcalf 48 185 Lavenik 48 184 Holmquist 45 184 | Pullen 54 183 Duckworth 47 183 Bavard 25 8L 183 Ifferts 36 181 Sperling 13 181 | “The Talk of e ,@ REG.U.S. PAT. OFF. 'l with the Oaks getting HEAVY FUEL OIL AND DIESEL OIL BURNERS —Sold Exclusively by— Rice & Ahlers Co.-Phone 34 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938. CUZ HE'S GONNA PROPOSE T' POLLY =-=AN' POLLY'LL TURN HIM DOWN SURE AS SHOOTIN'/ Red Sox Being Watched . : The great cye of Tem Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox, is shown * here a6 he watches his play He knows the game and is heiping ers. cut at the tr: g camp. Stewart 51 Sanford, singled in the tenth in- Ugrin 45 ding of a one to one tie with San Boyle 54 diego to score two men on bases Benson 48 f a three to one win. Henning 21 nry Pippen, Solon chucker, Halm 51 handcuffed the Portland Beavers for Hudson 51 a five to two win. Hagerup 42 san Francisco sparked after drop- Bringdale 54 ping three in a row and licked the Hendrickson 45 Hollywood Stars in a batfest that Blomgren 42 was enlivened by the third fistfight Kaufmann 45 between Walter Beck, Hollywood Blanton 172 pitcher, and Ted Norbet, Seal out- Shattuck 172 after an argument over an | ‘Tubbs 171 Wirt 171 W Shepard 170 MES FRIDAY Redman 168 L Angeles 3; San Diego 1 Davlin 168 Portland cramento 5 S as gan Francis Hollywood 5 Ecaltle 6; Oakla SEATTLE GETS NDI OF CLUBS ific Coast League Won Lost Pet. THIRD V|GTORY San Diego AR R Hollywood 4 3 571 Portland 4 3 571 Seattle 4 3 57 Los Angeles 4 3 571 Sacramento 4 3 571 — San Francisco 3 4 429 Seals- Stars Battle Pepped ©*¢ -} ¢ 14 Up by Fistic Display | for Third Time (By Associated Press) The Seattle Rainiers outiasted the Oakland Acorns yesterday to win their third game in four this week, three run: in the first frame and two in the last of the ninth, to fall one short of a tie Ange] ADAMICK GETS DECISION WIN DETROIT, April 9. — Jimmy Adamick, brilliant heavyweight prospect, Tast night took a decision here over Al Ettore, Philadelphia veteran. The ten round circuit was mark- ed by a knockdown in the first round when Adamick caught Et- tore on the point of the chin with a straight right. e NOTICE Rummage Sale, Tuesday, begin- ning 10 a.m., Salvation Army Hall. . adv. Jack baseman, second the Town” HIM DOWN --BUT WOT MAKES YUH SO SURE HE PLANS T’ PROPOSE 2 BOGGAN WINS RAILROADERS' PIN RIBBONS Conductors Win Twicc— Art Burke and Warren Wilson Get Prizes both first and the tournament Cenductors second halves of just ended at the EI Clabk. Garland Boggan, with an aver age of 182, topped the Railroade League average list. Art Burke took high three-game total ribbons and won Warren Wilson walked off with hi; single game. Conductor winners are Garland Bezgan, H. M. Hollmann and Mert Benedict Last tallies of the season follow: FINAL STANDINGS First Half Conductors 13,486 Firemen 13,241 Engineers 13,127 Switchmen 13,118 Brakeman 12,958 Dispatchers 12,802 Mail Clerks 12,797 Telegraphers 12,756 Otlers 12,743 Supers 11,977 Second Half Conductors 14,010 Telegraphers 13,287 Switchmen 13,265 . Dispatchers 13,215 Supers 13,017 Mail Clerks 12,991 Oilers 12,974 Firemen 12,950 Engineers 12,884 Brakemen 12,765 Winne! first half—Conductors, 13,486 — $3.00, Boggan, Hollmann, Benedict. | Second place — Firemen, 13,241 $2.00, Burke, Riendeau, Carmichael. | Third place—Engineers, 13,127 $1.00, Shaw, Hermle, Foster. Last place—Supers, 11977—8$1.00 Brown, Delebecque, Williams Winners, second half—Conductors, 14,010 — $3.00, Boggan, Hollmann, Benedict. Second place—Telegraphers, 13,~ 287 — $2.00, Hutchings, Walmer, Sterling. Third Place—Switchmen, 13,265— $1.00, Redling, Kyler, Bloedhorn. Last place — Brakemen, 12,764— $1.00, Iverson, Blake, Holland High individual average—Boggan, 178, $3.00. High 3-game total—Burke, 627, $3.00. High single game—Wilson, 240, $2.50. Individual Averages *Hollmann 36 182 Boggan 51 178 Shaw 50 176 Kyler 54 172 Burke 40 172 Riendeau 49 170 Wilson 168 Williams 30 167 Rupe 40 166 Brown 13 166 Redling 45 165 Sterling 36 165 Iverson 33 165 Stevens 39 164 Hermle 50 163 ‘Thibodeau 39 163 a AS A PAID-UP SUBSCRIBER TO The Daily Alaska Empire is invited to present this coupon at the box office of *““CAPITOL THEATRE AND RECEIVE TWO TICKETS TO SEE “TRADER HORN" Your Name May Appear—WATCH THIS SPACE | i ANNOUNCEMENT— . Due to increased costs of operation, it is necessary to raise hauling Effective Monday—April 11 JUNEAU TRANSFERMEN’S ASSOCIATION == LOOK ALL MEN i L Here is Owner Jake Ruppert, of the New York Yankees. of the most interested cf the baseball leaders at the Flerida iraining Walmer 30 162 Delebecque 15 160 Hutchings 39 159 Blake 12 159 Benedict 157 MacSpadden 156 Monagle Hermann Bloedhorn Holland Carmichael Whitehead Foster Fagerson Hollmann high aver ldid not qualify for priz not bowl required number of RIFLE SHOTS 70 60 AFIELD Outdoor range shooling will be- gin officially for the summer sea- son tomorrow at the Mendenhall Rifle Range Members of the Juneau Ritle and| Pistol Club and marksmen from the Coast Guard Cutters Haida and| Alert will leave town tomorrow| morning at 9 o'clock from the Haida’s moorings in buses and cars, for anyone wishing transportation. It is veported that considerable improvement work has n - done at the range in the way of recover- ing targets and altering the shelter house. - e Champions Met In Golf Battle PINEHURST, N. C. April 9-— George T. Dunlap and Frank Stra- facci meet today in the finals of the North-South Golf Tournament here. Dunlap was 1933 amateur cham- | pion and Strafacci is an ex-public links champion. - e - Legislature at Toronto Ended | | TORONTO, Ontario, April 9.—/ The Ontario Legislature has ended its session, and many of the law- makers started at once for home The 1938 session was the last one in which members of the body will be known as members of the Legislative Assembly. They voted to be known henceforth as members of the Provincial Parliament. L z Kudzu Plants Used To Control Erosion| GREENSBORO, N. C, April 9— Here is how C. B. Higgins is sav- ing three acres of his farm from washing away: First, he dug a 700-foot ditch to divert water that had been run- ning in from a nearby road and washing the land into gullies. Then, he planted 2,500 two-year-old kudzu crowns and gave the plants a lib- eral treatment of fertilizer. Now the kudzu vines, which make good stock feed, are 30 to 35 feet long and there is no more washing on the land. e A thrice-waeekly air service is ow operating between Pekig and Tokyo. ) By CLIFF STERRETT s HE'S GOT THAT DESPERATE TH' OCCASION ! camp where he is getting an eye-full of his players. JAVELIN TOSSER T0 BE ADDED TO YANKEES' STAFF HAS FER _]m‘ B('gg Is to Throw Balls Insteads of Spears During Season ANAM ¢ Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 9 The Yankees are going to h a javelin thrower pitching spher instead of spears toward the plate this season He's Joe Beggs. one of the mi- - nor leagues' outstanding twirlers last th,() ‘ (u.ko()s year, a 2l-game winner with New- e first time Joe ot his mitt ar 1 javelin he tossed the stick 1 wvon himself a col- cholarship, to a school that did not have a baseball team! He was good enough to place second in the Penn relays for Geneva col- 1 but too interested in baseball even to try for the 1936 Olympic team Yowd have to Ic while to find a pitcher with as nifty a rec- ord as Beggs bas compiled in hi four years in the Yankee chain He has won 65 and lost only 23 games during that stretch and Marse Joe McCarthy figures he'’s ripe now for the majors. Father Puzzied was cut out to be a steel puddler. His dad is an engineer in n Aliquippa, Pa., mill and the sen- Beggs " was angry as a bee en Beggs passed up a chance in ] to go to college. And he didn't like it when Joe became a ball- He is ene play although Joe sa he rather likes those salary checks the er has been sending hon senior still can’t un- dersta hy men are paid to play ba The Yankees beckoned Beggs to Frank Makosky and ny Broaca. Lefty Gemez and Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson, BOSTON, April 9.—The American | along: with Bump Hadley and Chemical Society announces that | Johnny Murphy, give the Yanks Prof. Gilbert Lewis of the Uni- & pretty fair hurling corps but Mc versity of California had een | Carthy likes to take no chances, awarded the fifth Theodore Wil- | That's why he has brought up liam Richards medal. He was given | Such rookie aces as Beggs, “Atley the award on the bases of his study | Donald, Steve Sundra, Spurgeon of the cubical atom " | Chandler and Joe Vance. DS 5 % Beggs is a 182-pound, 6-footer lark-haired and 24 years old. He's | the only Crotian in the league. | He Has Control ch H k | Joe has something that most youngsters don't possess—control. Last year he walked only 33 men all season. He has plenty of speed and a repertoire of curves and a OTTAWA, April 9 defeated the Quebec Aces 2 to 0 last night in the deciding ame of a serles to determine the fast sinker He was a catcher in high school That is, until the day he substitut- cd on the mound and proceeded to The Cornwall Eastern Canada hockey champion- Pitch a no-hit, no-run game. He ship. | basn’t had on a backslop’s mask Cornwall won the series two | Since. Joe has been spending his win- ters working in a steel plant, but | no more, he says. “Il's too danger- ous,” Beggs explained. “A drop of that hot steel would go through your hand like a bulle.. I'm up games to one and the right to represent the East in the Allan Cup finals i s i Try The Empue classifieds for results. where the big money grows now and I can't afford to gamble with my arm.” Halo-British Trade Pact s anfiifinMa.king LONDON, April 9.-The House of Commons has approved a bill providing for a new trade agrees ment between Britain and Italy. The meast provides for the settlement within six months of Italian debts to creditors in the British Empire id the agreement pro- the Officia vided for large increases In purchase of British coal in Ttali nd would help Ttaly British goods S FREE STYLE SWIN WINNER markets, buy other COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 9.— alph Flanagan of Miami won the ard free style swimming championship last night at the Na- tional AAU Senior Tournament. Flanagan’s time was two minutes, ten and nine-tenths seconds. Patnik of Ohio retained his title in the one-meter springboard diving championships. Patnik won the event with a total of 148.17 points. Great Britain fo Slash pthe Tolls LONDON, April 9.—The govern- ment announces the provisions of a bill to be introduced in Parlia- ment to reduce rates on cablegrams within the British Empire. The teoll reductions are .expected to save two and a half million dollars a year on cable charges between the United Kingdom and the dominions and colonies. The reductions will apply to mes- sages sent to Canada, Austrialia, and other Empire colonies. A.P.BUSHIS DEAD, MOBILE MOBILE, Alabama, April 9.—An Alabama financier and philanthro- pist, Albert Peyson Bush, is dead at the age of 63. Bush was director of the Federal Reserve Bank at New Orleans. - e TAYLOR RETU NG lke P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, sailed from Seattle this morning aboard the Yukon for Juneau. 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