The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1938, Page 5

SDAY, OCT. 26, 1938. st [1eft hand against his right. He wor . cither way. Kipke Now As they say about the coaches THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WED : S of strong football teams, the Yan- | T ALMOST FERGOT T o e ey, S Broadcasts | SECEUNT DR out over their system of farm clubs | ” CES30M T/NIGHT ! are players the Yanks already have| DETROIT, Oct, 26—Harry Kipke, tabbed for future spots on the var- deposed University of Michigan sity. When any of the Yankee coZs| roothall coach, has joined the ranks slow down, Colonel Jake just reaches | ot former mentors who have taken to one of his dozen or so farms and | yp proadcasting. Kipke, who was picks up a suitable replacement. let out after the 1937 Michigan There’ll be some changes on the season, is broadcasting games Yankees next year. Hoag and Sel-| plaveq by his former team and kirk and Powell weren’t any bar-|games of the Detroit Lions of the gains this season and one or more| Ng tional Professional Football of them likely will be gone next|jeague, spring. Charley Keller, the Inter- | i national league batting champion | from Newark, and Jim Gallagher | C ’ from Kansas City are coming up. oacn And Buddy Rosar, the hard- g g saeher o newsrs| Worried probably will don a Yankee uni-| form. He hit around 380 for New-, NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 26, — T 'S 50 HARD ark. Bill Dickey still is tops among | Cridiron backers of East High, TuE,(y%?_%%fi?gfii%mgN ’S’;?_(SAAfiHEGS HSE cAAN BUT, O' COURSE, YUH backstops but Bill is getting no| Nashviile, are moaning, not because SWING MUSIC COMPOSER ! SCARCELY HEAR A REALIZES IT'S TAKIN' younger . Manager Joe Mc- Of the dark football prospects, but - SOUND . ISN'T_IT A MIGHTY UNFAIR 4 Bl Carthy can use Rosar. ?l‘:’gnlsr b ?rf“ ltfls;yveg:;;u'::;oihee" WONDERFUL ? J ADVANTAGE | Gehrig Going Down? o VA, Lou (Iron Horse) Gehrig ap- parently has begun te slide, but DINNER HUNORS gracefully. Lou wound up with a batting average under 300 for the first time in the 14 years he has INNE been a Yankee regular. But you can't begin to ready a guy out of the league when only eight other players in the entire loop batted in more runs. Tommy Henrich now an outfielder, is tagged to be y the first-baseman when Gehrig _ Guests present included Misses finally steps down. Esther Johnstone, Barbara Her- The Yankees also will look over|mann..Mary Stewart, Virginia Wor- some pitching talent next spring, ley. Betty Wilcox, Katherine Camp- Ruffing, despite his two 1938 Se- bell, Sue Stewart and Idabell Dob- son. Honoring Miss iiarianne Skinner, Miss Ruth Allen entertained last evening at her West Tenth Street residence with a birthday dinner. < i | ries triumphs, is 34 years old and . Twelve just as well go on indefinitely, if|City of the American association|a veteran of 13 years pitching. He's Wocld | Colonel Jake so desires. He has and Newark of the International been at his peak during the last can bet that the Yankees will find st 186 Fagersonr 12 155 the Cubs in four 186 G. Messerschmidt 15 154 victories in their BARRAGARLEADS &= Wilson 9 152 Series starts. the best team in the major leagues. league. Kansas City beat Newark three years, but age may begin to the answer somewhere on their MacDonald 9 150 It May Conti Likewise he owns perhaps the two for the Little World Series cham- get him before long. farms—the best minor-league set- Bloedhorn 15 149 And it appears that this may best minor-league clubs, Kansas | pionship. It was Ruppert pitting his' Whatever the need may be, you up of any club. | ward 3 149 — Duckworth Holland 12 146 Robertson Elison 15 145 Redman Hermann 15 143 Benson Whitehead 6 143 | 2 — Bavard Foster 12 140 ' . 8 Ramsay 9 138 Y/ Davlin Leads Small Fry— 12 £l U ] . Cleveland 12 172 Clar] < | ¥ ‘ Tunas and Smelt Top Hendricks 18 171 Niemi 12 136 Teams So Far Hudson 15 170 Delebecque 3 135 pelind Kaufmann 9 169 Hales 12 119 ) Sin Bhpeapar Bbd DA Badde oie 12 i X = 2 OD and AD were machinists many T S5 the King Fish bowiing league Hollmann 6 168 % B ey | the 22iks haveihe Hop- avetygs § Boggan 3 168 ] years ago. One day, at a fair, they saw ‘ the fifth round of play, Barragar Bringdale 18 165 i abuggy with an engine in it. They saw I 27 with nine games played and a 194 Burke 15 104 | many ways to improve it, ar}d each /I[ average, and Radde, with 18 games| Riendeau 18 162 | decided to build an automobile. But played, and a 193 score. Halm 12 16 | when it came time to sell their first Top team in the King Fish cir-| Duncan 2 108 : cars, OD and AD had different ideas. cuit is the Tuna squad, with Alb Shepard e 12 157 core and Pickerel bringing up second H. Messerschmidt 6 ::g and third places. Kegal 12 5 Py e . In the Small Fry league, Bob| Council 3 142 e How ()1) lr]ed to Sell IIOW AD SOld 10 Automoblles Davlin is high average man with | 9 o 5 Small Fry League ; 5 . ~e . 170 and. the Smelt lead the team | .. . Last night at the Elks’ club, with S 3 sl lists with the Grayling and the| . oo P W, L. T ;06 Werner leading the Eels with | His First Automobile AD had also spent nearly $3,000 in building his Smelt 5803 10 2 0 Bt st ie b bt Bl ath Shrimp bringing up the second and| &1 o 5748 § o 1 521 the Eels downed the Smelt two rst car. He knew that only a few people could afford third places. ‘s‘l *fl"m 8 SisTn p giofibuof theee. ] OD invited all his friends and s0 high a price, and to find them he must show his Averages of individuals and tearas | ;7 P 5378 8 4 o The Chubs, with Aviator Lon > neighbors to his house. He drove car to a great many. So he advertised that he would follow: {en bf 5519 6 5 1/Cope entering bowling competition, his automobilearound the block demonstrate his car the following Saturday after- R foer 2213 9 3 o0 Won two of three from the Shrimp. and gave them a ride. They noon. People came from miles around. AD ran his G IR M | i a452 3 o o The Greyling won three straight were thrilled. They wanted to car up and down the street. Afterward, ten men fao i e 5405 3 9 o from the Minnows. buy it. But when they learned wanted it. AD told them that by making ten cars Sihatore 8161 8 7 5303 3 9 o The scores follow: that it cost $3,000, not one of he could cut costs and reduce his price to $2,500. So Pickerel 250 7 8 Carp 5312 5 7 0 Smelt OD’s friends could pay such he hired several men, rented a building, and started Paligs 79;73 o 8 ofMulet 5356 6 6 0 Walmer 162 162 162—*486 a high price. 2 making more and better automobiles. hale 87 | p'o]Ouligen 5302 3 9 o Hutchings 116 191 151— 438 Heiion e e o 4 Fagerson 144 137 152— 433 Muskies 7939 8 6 1 ndividual aveiages to date: s S e : 4 Tarpon w6 8 Games Average) Totals ... 42 4w 4537 H gy OD Finally How AD Sold 10,000 Automobiles Sharks 7829 6 9 0| Davlin 6 170 | els Porpoise 743 7 8 0| Henning 12 169 | Werner 171 181 169— 521 OD heard that AD had sold A ) : ki " [ 3 decided that if | 1d s Dolphin (4th r'nd) 6319 5 7 0| Iverson 12 163 em) 8 g again. When his second car was improven’\enls. So he appointed agents and adver- UL e Spose, P e Totals 437 528 4631428 finished, it had cost him almost BTG tised in other cities. In this way he was able to tell S Avamgt] SRR By sy R e gEEi e Ay ot T shiowed Fopeek 8 the story of his car to thousands and thousands of ::;rdaegar 13 :2: ;rwr]‘ 3 igfi Soley ‘165“ 156 141— 462 it to as many people as he could A people neither he nor his agents had ever seen Th ¢ 93 ermie S R, y er a 1 it g ! Ugrin i o e s i 160 | irmsehs 142 158 132— 432) x;ee and nfi:u a |0‘:1_|: t»ln;:: Zold it more agents he appointed, and the more he ady« Lavenik 12 191 MecDonnel 6 158 Morgan 164 158 151— 473 h'-i" mJ"lS: f:h:l;‘:’“:t E:e"ye:“‘(‘)’«;; tised, the nl:‘orc [;::]()p/]\c Tn‘w in to try hishcal;), q.‘,d o Stevenson ... 12 189 Nichols 3 158 S, Bt I ST M m. 8 more cars he sold. And the more cars he built, ti. Stewast, . 189 Stevens 12 156 | Totals 471 472 4241367 s :mh fever-albmolr.e a}noni:")b""’ better he built them, and the less they cost. Metcalf 187 Werner 12 ol Chubs . W always by the time his cars By 1911, AD was making such a good car foi r . . c Ward 1697 169 169—*507 were finished AD was making $1,500 that he sold 10,000 that year. A’ bl ool el better cars for lower prices. _y lvr’y |Cope 136 186 183— 505 | Totals 64 514 5111489 Minnows . Q 11; . Sterting e 16— Why OD Gave Up Trying How AD Sold Millions of Automobiles Hermann 136 152 135— 423 . : 2 P 144 144 14—vem to Sell Automobiles AD now realized that there were millions of people ; b g i who would buy his automobiles if the prices were only i 5 461 4441350 lower. He also knew that if he could build hundreds Greyling | of thousands of cars a year, he could make them Williams 167 167 167—*501 OD now saw that he could better and at less cost. So he enlarged his factory, Brown 132 178 191— 501 s 4 2 employed more men, and advertised to millions of i not possibly make cars at low : Eliason 158 135 136— 429 ey people all over the country. By 1921, he was making cost by building only a few : . ” L —_—— = — h Wt ‘Sndld his /ool a fine-looking car with a six-cylinder motor and a Totals 457 480 4941431 st bowed ‘ self-starter. And the price had been reduced to $1,000. |y e enough to make more by telling AD's profi 2 g | Average; did not bowl. | peonle: abolit them .ofe ¢ 4 )’s profit per car was now very small. But he sold | iz et : . i3 baisi e e o hodididod (g Back so y.cars that h.n business was successful. And, 5 as prices became lower and lower, millions of people to work as a mechanic. He ho Kol nacer d e 1d afford al Iled at AD.S fuctory and W 0 had never dreamed they .fo\l afford automo- PP i dared biles were able to own and enjoy them. was promptly employed. & By 1938, AD was making the best and finest looking ; NEw s ET u P ' car he had ever built—and the price was only $750. 4 - ; FOR YANKEES AD Tells OD How It Came About That / G So Many Families Now Have Automobiles 4 Slrong' Mmor League ProP Ox~E pAY OD went into AD's office at the factory. OD enjoyed by people of small means just as they are by | osition Appgqrs for { said, “Remember the time we saw the horseless carriage the well-to-do.? ! Any Position i at the fair? Who would have believed that in 30 years “But you spend millions for advertising,” said OD. | | almost every family would have an automobile!” “Yes,” said AD. “But we sell so many cars that our | ot ‘K AD said, “It never would have been possible without ' advertising costs only about §15 per car. That is not * AP Feature Service Writer | » y . NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Maybe] advertising. All the advances in manufacturing would much when you remember that in 30 years the average | Uncle Sam’s aizi-trust agents down have been futile without advertising to tell the story. price of a car has been reduced by more than §1,500. § 10 sl gton shovid, do samehing As it helped us to sell more and more cars, we were able So, advertising has really helped to reduce prices and :gfi":mc:‘l,;'fi; M movperes el to make them still better and sell them at lower prices. year after year has helped make it possible for millions £ Hastening across the field for a pass Jay McDowell (37), University | Tne Chicago Cubs would prob- As a result, the advantages of an automobile are now of people to have better cars for less money.” : of Washington end, found competition when he -got there because | ably be happy to swear out war- of U.C.LAA. players who arrived too. As shown here three of the | rants, | players went up for the ball and they all came down without it. Three straight World Series pen- The pass was incomplete. Other players identified are: Harold | Dants—each won a bit more im- Copyright, 1938, by G. Lyna Sumoer . Hirshon (33), U.CL.A. half; Jack Sommers (11), U.CLA. guard; |Pressively than the preceding one. | 5 Joe Dubsky (47), Washington half, and player whose number is not | 11¢ Yanks lost two games o the| visible is Strode, U.CLA. The game, which was played at Los | 0t in the 1036 World Series. Last year they gave but one to the| Angeles, was won by U.C.LA. 13 to 0. Giants. And they've just walloped | (Car prices given above for 1911, 1921, and 1938 are the appresimate average of mew car prices in those ysars.)