The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1939. POLLY AND HER PALS By CLIFF STERRETT ¥ - ~ WHERE YUH TAKIN' UNK OFF T! AUN'T SUSIE 2 TWO GAMES BASKETBALL ON TONIGHT Fans fo See First Mixes in| Several Days as Loop Reopens Play Referee Bud Foster will have a cranberry merchant’s evening to- night in the high school gymnasium | when he toots his whistle for a| doubleheader of basketball opening the season again after several days layoff. | The first game of the evening, | beginning at 7:30, is between the fast breaking Elks five and the strong passing Henning attackers, both teams playing their first game of the second half. Henning’s troupe ended the first; half far down the list, but showed new faces and new talent in the last few games that make them as| dangerous a team as there is in| the loop. i In tonight’s meeting of these two| well matched teams, watch the EIks # forward, Dick May, if you haven't' seen that smooth working lad in' action before—ar.d because the sub- | ject of offense- calls to mind the matter of defense, watch this Hen ning guard, Pope, a boy who is awfully hard to get by. That one game would seem enough | for fans expecting interesting ball, | but add up the attractions of that | second game between the Firemen | and the Haida and you have another | worthwhile picture. | The Fire men haven't lost a mix this season. They have an aggrega- | tion of men who are serious ball hawkers, fast and accurate in their shooting. The Haida has a club with | a never-licked spirit that makes! them dangerous in any scoring! bracket. | For smooth working forwards, ' watch the Hautala brothers in the' Firemen lineup, and for a sweet line of offense, keep your eyes on this: colored boy, Love, big Naggy, and| ball juggler Waldron for the Coast | | Guarders. Ed Metzgar, tallest man in the loop, playing the pivot post for the Firemen, is going to have his work cut out for him under the basket + with this man Naggy. e HARTNETT SAYS THIS SEASON IS TO BE HIS BEST Has Mappemi His Plans -Would Catch 100 or More Games for Cubs - CHICAGO, Jan. 18. — Manager Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs went into a huddle today with Player Hartnett of the Cubs and from the conference came Gabby's prediction that he will catch 100 or more games for the National League champions next summer. “I'm going to try and'hit that hundred mark again,” he said, “and T'll do it if the old batting eye holds out. In my mind, the question mark is my hitting. I'm not worried about my arms or legs, even though I'm going on thirty-nine and it will be| my eighteenth season in the majors. I can still throw and I can still get around—well, at least as well as I have during the last few years. So if I can hit that ball T'll stay in there.” Gabby Frets For sixteen seasons, Gabby had a lifetime batting average of .300 and his drop to .278 for last season troubles him no little. However, he slammed ten homers and drove in fifty-nine runs while playing in only eighty-eight games. The thumb frac- ture he suffered in August kept him from setting a new record of 100- game catching in twelve seasons. One thing Gabby worried about last year apparently won't be back to give him the jitters in 1939. Re- placing Ken O'Dea as No. 1 substi- tute next season will be the veteran Gus Mancuso, with young Bob Gar- bark ready to fill in when necessary. With those relief men, Gabby's mind shollld be jmore at ease than it was last season. Should Hartnett attain his goal of catching 100 games and Pitcher Dizzy Dean stage a comeback, the Cubs are certain to have a banner HE WON'T TAKE HIS KNEE -BENDIN' UP- AN DOWN EXERCISES TH' DOC PRESCRIBED - Wrestling M i BILLY SPENDLOVE, | Bone-crushers are going to stage a match at the Elks Hall on mnext | week, Thursday night, January 26, {according to Uvall D. Moody, who | is matchmaker. ! There are several mat artists in ;Juneau including Billy Spendloye, |Karl Omdahl and of course, Doc | Webb. { | Spendlove reports ne has wrestled in the States and Canada, also the | Hawaiian Islands. He has held the Montana State title twice and was last defeated for the title on Febru- ary 117, last year. He is known on the mat as the Little Giant and will | engage in matches here. Omdahl is known as Killer Karl. He is built on the rugged order, is strong as a bull, can take punish- ment and also hand it oue, He is scheduled to meet Spendlove next Thursday night. The match will be billed as the main-eventer. Doc Webb, who has been seen in action here before, is known as the man who uses the roughest tactics to down his man although some of his tricks make it unfair. His op-| ponent has not yet been picked but whoever he is, will have to throw the dirt, the same as Doc. year at the ticket offices. Both fiery Dick Bartell at shortstop, the Cubs may come up with a victory aggregation in place to fthe docile club that has been performing at ‘Wrigley Field for several years. SERVICES TOMORROW FOR NATIVE CHILD Funeral services for Agnes Jack- son, 7T-year-old native girl who passed away Tuesday at the Gov- ernment Hospital, will be held at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Chapel of the Charles W. Car- ter Mortuary. The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff will deliver the eulogy and interment will follow in the Evergreen Ceme- tery. gVl Y5 Bele ik PLACE IN SUN A picture of Ellen Repp, contralto widely known in Juneau, appeared in the New York Sun’s January 7 edition. Miss Repp appeared in con- cert at the Town Hall in New York last week. NEW BONE CRUSHER SO I'M GONNA TAKE HIM DOWN T' TH' MOVIES ----- aich Is INKETCHIKAN BOWL CONTEST Elks’ Pinsters of First City Have Lead of 200 in Two Games Following two meets between the! Juneau and Ketchikan Elks on the bowling alleys in the First City, Ketchikan has a lead of 200. The first match, rolled Tuesday resulted in a score of June 2623 and | Ketchikan 2591. The second match, rolled Wednes- day, resulted in Ketchikan piling} up a score of 2734 against Juneau's 2502, Individual scores are as follows: TUESDAY MATCH Ketchikan 517 546 482 500 546 2591 Daniels Maloco Zorich Roady Howard Total Juneau 504 478 556 565 520 Total 2623 WEDNESDAY MATCH Juneau Lavenik Stevenson Metcalf Carnegie " Ugrin Lavenik Hagerup Metcalf Carnegie Ugrin 482 439 512 482 587 Total 2502 Ketchikan 541 565 506 531 519 2734 'SI(IINii IS NEAR PERFECT ABOVE orawchowp, 1o S CABN Moreau Reports Two Inch- ELKS' MEETING es of New Powder on |"Ev" Nowell Voted Most Crust, Douglas Bowl r - Popular Mat Artist in Capital City Daniels Maloca Zorich Helland Howard Total RASSLE BOUTS Perfect powder snow, two inches deep on a hard crust offers local skiers exceptionally fine slat-riding on the peaks and in the basin at the head of the Douglas Ski Trail, ac- Elks turned out strong last night i : 5 cording to reports brought back by | for Legislators’ Night at the regular | Ralph Moreau, who followed up yes- weekly meeting of the lodge followed terday morning’s new snow fall to by two bouts of wrestling, music and refreshments. ! Highlight of the party meeting was registered when the big and| | handsome traveling man, “Ev” Now- ell, took on two wrestlers and the/ referee at the height of the flrst} ! mat mix between “Doc” Webb and | Karl Omdahl. “Doc” Webb (always clownmg)! grabbed “Ev” by the hair and ask | 4| to be badly washed out and rutted him why he didn’t put his two cents | spend the day in the basin. The trail, however, is iced over and rutted and presents very fast and difficult running from the cabin down to the lower edge of the mea- dows, he said, and advised begin- ning skiers against trying to run the trail until it has been covered by some new snow. He declared the lower meadows by the recent continued rains, with have plenty of color, and with the | worth of boo into the ring—and | B mompdy LAE O 108 a0t peedirirat 5oy . to question the authenticity of e ! performance. It was worth seeing. ‘washed i o Webb and Omdahl fought to a| draw, while in the nightcap, Tiger Jack Morrison appeared for the first MAR'HA so(lm IS time in two years in a Juneau ring and took on recently arrived Billy | MEE""G o" F RIDAY Spendlove who won a fast moving "4 |bout in the fourth round with a, With Mrs. Peterman presiding, Boston Crab hold that came awfully members of the Martha ‘Society | close to breaking Jack’s many times will gather in the parlors of the broken ribs. Northern Light Presbyterian Church The bouts were announced as pre- | at 1:30 o'clock Friday for a dessert- liminary to a smoker scheduled soon. ' luncheon. Marian Borders played and sang| Mrs. Katherine Hooker and Mrs. a number of entertaining songs L. E. Gruber will act as hostesses | after beer and food had been served. for the afternoon. During the busi- | | ness meeting plans for the year's Bridge Dinner Honors ™ "->=-e== i ——— s = . | An interesting, crunchy sand- |wich filling is made like this: Mix (Couple This Evening = ers % e i 2o | {celery, add half as much cream | Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams will |cheese and chopped candied or- | entertain this evening with a bridge- ange peel. Season with a dash of | dinner - and miscellaneous shower, |salt, paprika and a little salad honoring Miss Mae Fraser and | dressing. Douglas Gray, whose marriage will| | “be an event next Sunday. | 1 Sixteen guests have been l.l'lvnerll to be present for the evening. —— e The Poinsettia or Christmas Eve Flower. grows wild in Mexico, and scarcely & garden is without it. Slated JUNEAU SLIPS Sporis-Page liems Sure To (qme Up (By The AP Feature Service) Attempts to come back by prac- ticaly every boxing champion of 1929, Every attempt will follow statements that the ex-champion had positively and finally retired. Predictions by 16 major-league baseball managers that “We have strengthened our weak spots; we will bear watching this year.” Predictions by 500 football coaches that “we have lost too many vet- erans; we can't possibly be as strong as last ye: after which their teams will have successful seasons Statement made, by Glenn positively repeatedly Cunningham: “I am too illl to take another step,”| after which he will run some of the fastest miles in track history. Predictions by 42,493 sports writ- ers, who will be in agreement upon one thing “The football season will come, roughly speaking, between October 1st and Thanksgiving day.” Photographs of 80 baseball pitch- | ers rearing back with one foot ktck-i ed into the sky. Discovery of the world’s champion baseball fan: An individual who has failed to step outside Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, for 52 years Viewing-with-alarm of the colleg- iate football situation by (1) a foun- dation; (2) a college president, or (3) a sports writer who can't think of anything else to write a story about., It will be announced that football is a big business, and foot- ball players are sometimes known to receive emoluments therefrom. Magnzine article by oldtime col- lege football player, who regrets to note that college football did not help his teammates become successes in life. Magazine article by oldtime college football player, who is happy to note that college football did help his teammates become successes in life. Paradoxical announcement by any promoter of a wrestling, boxing. football, basketball, tennis or ping- pong event, on the day before the big show: “An overflow crowd of enthusists will be on hand, but good seats are still available.” Cleaning-up of the football situa- tion by 13 colleges, that seek “more on the field and fewer in the grand- stand.” After a general tightening of policy, that is what they will probably get. Song from any holdout: “I won't sign for a cent less than $40,000. After which he will sign for $25,000, or else it will be disclosed he signed last winter in the first place.” Quotation from any wrestler: “I'm the undisputed world champion.” American farmers realize approxi- mately $50,000,000 a year from the trapping of small furbearing ani- mals. THE 90 PROOF. HIRAM WALKER & SONS INC., HIM IN A AISLE SEAT! 'CONDUCTORS | ENTER RACE; | BOTH CLICK| | SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Through 30 years or more as (Great Northern) |railroad conductors, John Scott, 65, and Edward Osborn, 66, cherished 'an ambition to punch the daylights out of an eight-foot, 30-day round- trip ticket. ! All their lives, they moaned, they'd merely punched out a little dab here or a little dab there, but |nothing big. Nothing colossal. Just dabs. And their “punchin’ hands" itched. : | So when they retired recently, the boys at the King Street station fixed up their “dream ticket.” “Get your punch out, John,” Ed said. “We've got some real work to | do. I'll start at this end and punch | backward.” Conductor Scott grinned. “I'm at Seattle,” he said, his punch nipping into the green bank note paper. “I'm at Spokane. I'm at Fargo. I'm in St. Paul. I just punched out a stopover at Chi- cago.” “I'm in San Francisco,” said conductor Osborn. “Wow, now I'm in New Orleans. I'm in Atlanta, Ga. I'm in Philadelphia.” They met at a dead heat at the Grand Central terminal, New York City. — e PLASTERING ON BARANOF HOTEL IS ABOUT ENDED The 21,000 square yards of plas- tering on the interior of the Baran- of Hotel building is virtually com- pleted. According to A. R. Lauch, of Rus Lauch and Sons, Ine., plastering contractors from Seattle on the ho- tel job, 10 members of the plaster- ing and lathing crew, will leave for the south tonight on the Northland. One store interior and the kitchen remains to be plastered. This work will be finished over the week-end and the remainder of the Seattle crew of plasterers will leave Juneau on the Baranof Monday. A total of 39 men have been at work since November 1 on the plas- tering and metal lathing. Completion of this phase of the | work is a major step towards the| finished structure, according to A. R. Lauch. He arrived in town on the Baranof Tuesday and will leave south on the same steamer next | Monday. — e — CHISHOLM HERE L. B. Chisholm, Wrangell City Clerk, is a visitor to Juneau, regis- ered at the Gastineau Hotel. Chis- holm is the father of Mrs. W. P. Johnson of Juneau. SLIP-UP BREAKS PUTTIN' ON HIS TOP HAT—the first he'd ever worn—“Two 'l'ln"\ Tony Galento posed with Mrs. Galento and a cane at his Orange, N. J., tavern before a trip to N. Y. night clubs. Tony has been called a challenger to Joe Louis' crown. | newspapermen. The seal was not discovered until hours later, al- though likely it would have been | ignored on a document in the bill room in the belief the thing had been officially waived. Ingraham spent nearly an hour divesting the detailed report and scored a thregs hour beat on the story, a neat trigk in this city. | In time the Nuvy Department station and listed the projects ac- | tried to withdraw the report, but cording to the urgency of their | the stories already were widely RED TAPE ON BIG STORY, U.5. NAVY (Centinued {rom Page One) need. Outstanding on the list was fortification of the island of Guam. This little island is 1,200 miles from Japan and in fact right in the heart printed. Japanese and German cor- respondents were eager students of the thing. oy The Navy Department ultimately , of transmittal | Reg Ingraham, kept it foremost, in of several islands mandated to Jn—]cuncumgd that nothing could be pan after the World War. done about it, and that no greit |harm had been done anyway, and DEEP, DARK SECRET perhaps some good. It at +least Ordinarily such projects are kept|showed foreign powers that the hidden in secret files and only com-| U. 8. had more aces to play. It could municated even to Congress on de-| not have been kept secret indefi- mand. | nitely, since Congress would have This report was compiled especi- had to know about it before the ally for Congress as requested in the money could be made available. , billion dellar naval bill of last ses-| —— s sion, ‘ i 7 During the summer a thorough » study of need was made, submitted | Members Of House by Admiral Hepburn, chairman of 4 the board, to Secretary Swanson of | G ' tG the Navy, and by him relayed to the | ues s a overnm's President. From him it came to the desk of | Members of the House were enter- Speaker Bankhead about 10 days tained this afternoon at the home before the session opened. There of Governor John W. Troy, with it lay awaiting convening of Con-|luncheon, with the following being gress, when the House Naval Af-|present for the occasion: Represen- fairs Committee was to study it. | tative Howard Lyng, Speaker of the It was marked “confidential”|House, and Representative ' John with a red naval seal. But the letter | McCormick, A. P. Walker, Karl A. accompanyinz the Drager, Harvey J. Smith, Chestér T, report was tightly affixed to the Spencer and Jesse D. Lander. cover page, completely hiding the| Others present for the afternoon “gonfidential” seal. A few reporters weer: J. J. Connors, Frank Boyle, knew of the existence of the report,| John E. 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