The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1938, Page 5

SUSIE, TAKE OVER! T'M THROUGH-FED UP ! I'M AWRECK FROM THIS FAMILY BUDGET-BALANCIN' BUSINESS ! ARMSTRONG IS WINNER IN 66 WITH AMBERS Gets Decision at End of Fifteen Rounds, Bloody, Vicious Fighting DEFENDER KNOCKED DOWN ONLY TWICE New Colored d\ampiOn Is Now Holder of Three Fistic Titles NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Henry Armstrong, colored fighter, last night won the lightweight champ- jonship from Lou Ambers, by a cision at the end of the 15-round bout The decision was bo fans who were won ov courageous battle. The fight was bloody and vicious all the way through but the tire less negro, notwithstanding the boo- ing of the decision, won a clear-cut margin. ved by 18.000 by Ambers HAPDPY, E- MAKES YUH THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938. ) 53 YUH KNOWS IT DOES, SAM'L _7v./ strutted before Lou WAL, NOT COMPLETELY HAPPY --- Titles o Ambers n over etting the deci Ambers. Vuteilsrstrung Prominent Iili;\ois Man Is in Juneau Enthused Over Alaska (Continued from Page One) shorter time Mr. Igoe suggested through pas- senger rates on railroads from the East, planned boat tours with one to two days stopovers in Alaska ports, and coordinated air tours with volume business holding down expense. “It's a dirty shame,” Igoe said “that more people cannot see- Al- aska. It's a beautiful country and it has wonderful promise. Mr. and Mrs. Igoe will remain in Juneau for a few days before going sotth. He hopes to meet Secretary of Interior Ickes in Ju- neau tomorrow. The Secretary and Igoe are old friends. THIRD SERIES GAME IS SET THIS EVENING Rained out last evening, the third tilt of the Gastineau Channel : League “Little World Series” play- , | off series for the 1938 title between the Moose and Douglas ball teams is set for this evening at Firemen's Park. Weather permitting, the seven- inning contest will begin promptly at 6 o'clock. Rain one-half hour before game time, at 5:30 o'clock, will put the struggle over to an- other night. Bob Kimball for the Moose, against Claude Erskine for the slanders, are the likely starting tchers as both squads shoot to ak the one-game-each deadlock in which the series now stands. .. AT YIELD TRIPLES HIS WHE YADKINVILLE, N. C.—Five years Ambers, according to the Asso- ciated Press figures, won only four rounds, three of them by fouls but * he fought such a game fight that it brought the crowd to their feet Ambers was knocked down twice one count in the fifth that w: ended with the bell and in the sixth | for the count of eight. § Henry Armstrong, by getting the E decision, becomes the first man to 2 ) win three world fistic titles. Last : : 2 night's fight was for the light lieve is a close-up of the muscular power that Hl?l'll'_v Armetrong welght crown. Armstrong alre night's fight. Armstrong won the title of lightweight champion by g held the welterweight and feather- The colored fighter hclds light, welter and feather titles. weight crowns. - Ambers entered the ring weigh- s e e RUSSIATORUN - CUBS DROPPED Ex-Congressman , tipped the scales at 134 pounds. e | 4 SLUGGING ARCTIC FARMS T0 4TH PLAGE, lgoe Says Demo plans for setting up agricultural in- - stitutes, experimental stations, state —_—l TR farms and nurseries beyond the . BOSTON, Aug. 18—For the last Arctic Circle this year have been Plrales Tfll‘.e Another ClOS(’ six years infielders h‘m,e won ‘Lh(- outlined by the Rlls.smn‘ uu?\lun:r ‘Gamer——fSingle Dl‘i\'CS % American League batting champion- tration chief of the northern sea i ship—Dale Alexander, Jimmy Foxx, route. in Needed Tally Lou Gehrig, Buddy Myer, Luke Ap- An institute for research into - pling and Charles Gehringer. This Arctic agriculture, cattle breeding, (By Acsociated Press) year three infielders, Foxx, Myer hunting and fishing will be set up Henry Craft led the parade yes- and Cecil Travis, are in the thick of at Igapka. The activities of this terday with 2 runs and a homer as| the fight along with Earl Averill, institute will extend all over the Cincinnati beat Chicago to drop Cleveland outfielder. far north of Russia and Siberia. the Cubs into fourth place in the R e o Experimental reindeer - breeding National League pennant race. Domestics in Sydney, Australia, stations will be organized in Mur-' The Pirates came through with have their “day out” and by gen- mansk and Naryan-Mar. apother one of those close games. eral agreement among all con- ———,——— Rizzio’s single sent home the win- d cerned it is a full day, not a half i ning run in the tenth inning of the ane. Fifty London policemen Visitilg game against the Cardinals. — e, Germany took part in specially- = George Myatt hit a homer to give Lode and placer location motices arranged athletic matches at Ham- | the Giants a victory over the Dod- for sale at The Empire Office. burg. gers, 52 < The Yankees - Solon game was rained out. Cleveland dropped the verdict to St. Louis and the third place Bos- ton Red Sox trimmed the Athletics twice yeste: y: — .- . $400,000 NOW MEDWICK VALUE ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18.—Joe Med- wick, St. Louis Cardinal ouifielder, probably would bring the highest 2 sale price of any major leagu Baseball experts say an open mar ket bid for Medwick, one of t National league’s heaviest hitte; would be around $400.000. The highest price ever paid for a player was the $250,000 the Boston Red | Sox paid Washington for shortstop Joe Cronin. —— .- - - Slang Helps MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 18.— Milwaukee high school seniors and principals like their new civic beoks because they use slang. Students now can read chapters on municipal governments being “ corrupted by “political bosses” and 48 ‘ how public employees are forced N L ” (to “kick in” with contributions to WORRIED BY WILDNESS of batfing practiee pitch- Byron Moser (with bat), St. Louis banker, and A. F. Howe Geveloped this robot hurler which throws four balls a minute and can be adjusted se that xpeed and height of piiches are regulated, |hold jobs with “racketeers” in the | “political machines.” | —— .- | Poland is smaller in area than | California, . ago Hernon Matthews’ land would produce barely five bushels of wheat an acre. He terraced his land, limed it and planted legumes and this year he harvester an average of | 195 bushels an acre, By CLIFF STERRETT S BUT WITH THREE NEW OWNS AN'A COUPLA HATS / OFIT. HUTCHINSON IS VICTOR FOR 20 CAMES, SEATTLE Los Angeles Take Another Contest, Increasing P.C.L. Standing (By Assoviated Press) Freddic a homer last night the ramentc bunch to three hits, win- ning his gan:.c +» a shutoui, which was his twentieth victory of the sea- for Coming from behind in the eighth inning with a 3-run uprising, the Angels whipped the Padres last night and naturally increased the lead in the Pacific Coast race wood sconed five runs in the ad an time land last night cisco-Portland game ng and Os easy The Sar was rained out G S WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League tile Sacramento 0. Hollywere Oakland 4 Del Baker Los An San Diego 1 Most sudden shock of the season for the baseball world was when Del Baker, above, was appointed Portlar rain 8 cag manager of the Detroit Tigers, re- h 4 Louis 3 placing Mickey Cochrane who 2; New York 4 3; Philadelphia 0. may go to the Boston Red Sox as manager. Cissell Gets Chicago 3 St. Lo Boston 10; Cleveland 7 , 5; Philadelphia 3, 0. CLUBS Pacific Coast League . Weon Lost Pet Trl(ll Los Angeles 82 5 581 Bacramento 80 5 San Francisco 4 NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Bill Cis- San Diego 73 ell, the infielder who couldn't last Seattle 72 68 in the American League, has fin- Portland 66 5 468 | ally gotten a chance in thé Nation- Hollywood 6 16 461/ al loop. The Chicago White Sox paid Oakland 52 90 367 $75.000 for m in 1928. After four — Cason: he went to C land Nationai League Later played with the Boston Won Los Red Sox and the Philadelphia A’ Pittsburgh 65 39 The Giants took him from Balti- New York 46 4| more in an effort to plug a gap «t Cincinnati 48 second base Chicago 49 > Boston 54 NOW AN GLD STORY Brooklyn 56 472 RV St. Louis 60 434) MANITOWOC, Wis.—Capt. Louis Philadelphia 72 .308| Hanson, retired carferry skipper, es- b | timates he has crossed Lake Michi- American League {gan 21,000 tir He began sai Won Lost Pct | with his father in 1886, at the z New York 33 6301 of 13, and took his first comm: Cleveland 41 598 on the first Lake Michigan ca Boston 44 564 ferry, the Ann Arbor No. 1, in 1903- 53 509 1904, 61 65 486 Chicago 43 55 439 Philadelphia 38 65 369 St. Louis 37 66 359 ————— FOen SALE | By Lutheran Ladies' Aid, at Bert's | Cash Grocery, Saturday, August 20.| Sale starts at 10 a.m. adv. CIRCLE PIONEER ~:-. 5 ition run lic propo: also well and Tim ast win- in a drag- 1S GOING CAMP Harry Greep, Waiting for Plane, Lists Many Val- on Cold zes, oper= ests Jimmy are devel- pper and rge dre uable ]’u\portl:‘s ping a piece of ground for a hy- operatic v ¢ mining game In Harry Greep, oldtimer from Circle s ntr Greep sa Hot Sprin, g fo a PAA most of the surface grav- plane to Fairk after a trip Oui- el d ric round is worked is “anx to get back” to out, t nee rise in the price 1e believes is one of the best of go rcle has really become a min camps in the north mp a Greep listed a long number of I Greep draglines, dredges and hydraulic eaid, “not bscause ch, be- t his belief. He first ec and the ground v nto the Circle-area in '98, four is easy to w most of it is fine vears after gold was struck on Pitka gravel and tw feet to bedrock Bar on Birch Creek, and has been n 1 the Circle area.” ere ever since A romise of future He m ed in ground rowth « ection, Greep said, Deadwood Creek, Ketchum, and on “T! new outfits going in all main Harrison. e aren er 1he list of r n prop § the Circle district, according to yp wWAS JUST 4 SHOEBOX Greep are as follows: “North Fork BUT IT CONTAINED $900 of ¥ on, hydraulic outfit worked fo al wv!‘; by \n, Blondeau JIE. Tnd 18 Abbh and son Ray Hamilton. Below is a/¢ 1 contractor. r!v {reeg did nol give it second “Ketchum, dragline and hydrauiic | g ; oIk ; P e operated by Geol ylor and H.[ ©\ "o e Bae C. Carstens, drag ated by strom Brothers bel that. Porc picked 1 up imed "Bf"’" . I'm sure gl back. T've pine Creck, one dragline on the ; main creek, and on Bonanza, a {rib- D?eN searching for it the last half ut Lars Westenvik is operating 'Y bbb The man e box and Dea | Creek is being workea Pulled out more t I by the Deadwood Mining Company '™ with a drag and dredge, while over ~ g on Switch Creek Nick Knudsen i working a hydraulic and Langloe draulic plant. On independence Creek, three hvdraulics are working, operated by Bob Bartlett, A, Zimmerman, and John Frasca Miller Creek is still being worked by Jay Kelly with a hydraulic pl On Mammoth Creek, the Berry Holding Company is operating a 1 while > same company the Original ..AGE-DATED BFER Pordand - - Seaule has a hydraulic outfit on Mastadon two other plants are working, one a dragline outfit in n is interested, and Creek. where which Joe Cross Buvy Ao FEw PACKAGES TODAY She’s Got Everything 1 V e a , 111, Distilleries at Pecria; We!karville, Ont.; Glasgow, Scotland. 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