The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1939, Page 5

POLLY AND HER PALS eate e Wi rches To Visit CHICAGO, March 15. ‘Grimm, former Cub manager, now a radio announcer, intends to visit eve major-league camp this, SHE PLAYIN' PRANKS AGIN, PAW 2 LEFTY GOMEZ LEARNS ABOUT | | ed Prota.ts Yaikee Rivals — Charlie | | | INDIAN - SIGN. { e | A" (amps‘fioof,\' Act M-y Bring Heat- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE YEAH . SHE PUT CARPET TACKS IN MY ToBACCO! YUH SHOULDA CLIPPED HER A OLD-FASHIONED CUFF. < OME people are news fig- ures, others just have them. Take Miss Frances Eaten here, who came from Meridian, Miss. She has Broadway’s ““best back™ in the opinion of judges. Then— | | Meet Some News Figures spring. He will work out with the| y A players and will make several 15-| NEW YORK, March 15—Its a minute broadeasts. iwonder that Lefty Gomez's goofy HOMEGROCERY 5 coc s e e SQUAD TALLIES HIGHEST TOTAL Home Grocers rolled up the best totals of the evening at the Elks Club Classic League kegling last night as pinsters had a mediocre evening. The Home Grocers hit, 1666 and took the White Spots three games in a row. Ed Radde bowled highest individ- ual tally of the evening with 576, getting robbed of a 600 mark by four splits in the last game. Radde’s team, Blue Ribbon, won two of three games from Connors Motors. United Food started off the eve-. ning by winning three from the Triangle Inn. Scores follow: United Food 169 168 163 165 168 215 500 548 Triangle Inn 160 167 183 183 147 147 E 490 497 Connors Motors 183 183 147 217 175 175 505 575 Ribbon 194 214 183 183 170 199 549 596 Grocery 170 188 191 193 175 187 536 568 White Spots 167 183 151 169 197 146 164— 501 193— 521 180— 563 537—1585 Metealf Lavenik Hendricks Totals 201— 528 183—*549 149— 443 Stewart Robertson Cleveland Totals 533—1520 Bavard 183—*549 Holmquist Redman Totals 531—1611 Blue 166— 576 183—*549 138— 507 4871632 Radde Hagerup Tubbs Totals Home 212— 570 159— 543 Ugrin Carnegie Hudson ‘Totals 562—1666 182— 532 172— 492 Stevenson Iffert Benson . rivals. While other upright, clean-living and fair-minded player, were moving to spring training camps sneaked over to the National Sports- men’s Show and swiped some point- ers from Chief Buffalo Bear. (It is our impression that such steals from the Indians were pro- { hibited under 77B or the Wagner Act. But maybe we're wrong.) i Anyway, according to an Indian ilegend Pocahontas started, Chief |Buffalo Bear was the first redskin to win a double-header. Tossing for the Cherokees, he beat the Al- | gonquin Buffaloes and the Semi- inole Bears the same twilight. | So he became Chief Buffalo Bear instead of plain Warrior Whosit. 1t was quite an honor, and the title has remained ever since with Chief Buf- | falo Bear, who feeds it regularly and gives it a Saturday night bath. . Gomez slunk through the crowds to Buffalo Bear’s tepee. Then, with- |out the slightest hint of an invita- Ition, he squatted down. | Disguised as an otter munching on sweet bark, I was privileged to hear their conversation, and repeat it here, rather literally: | “Hello,” said Lefty, throwing a sort of waste pitch, just to get ac- quainted. “Ugh,” haughtily. { “I understand youre a pitcher,” replied Buffalo Bear, —— ,ventured Gomez. “Ugh,” answered the Chief. | “I'm a pitcher, too,” annnounced | Gomez, | “Ugh,” replied Buffalo Bear, un- | impressed. | (Gomez produced a shoulder shrug | that said: “Why the heck should I | waste pitches on this duck. I'll put one across the dish that'll wake him up.”) “Chief, I'm looking for a three- and-two pitch,” Lefty said. | Even the chief couldn’t withstand {the plea of a man searching for the impossible. | “Wampum papoose Ugh and hey 191— 553 \nonny nonny,” shouted Buffalo | Bear. | (Roughly translated, the chief said ihe'd been looking for the same thing.) “But, Chief,” Gomez said, coming Gomez 190— 533/ through with a wide pitch-out, ~— - i“what about the Indian sign? I've 544—1559 peen hearing about the Indian sign |ever since I was big enough to sass | umpires.” “Ah,” said Buffalo Bear. The Chief dragged out his peace | pipe. El Goofy was game. He puffed away until he entered a daze, or |maybe it was the “transom” King Levinsky found the night he met Jog Louis. Anyway, in his deliri- ous state, Gomez reached for Buf- falo Bear’s drum and began beat- ing the tom-tom in E Flat Minor, very sharply. That was the clincher. The mu- 515 498 id not bowl. - Totals “Average; di Mansions For Athletics HELSINKI, Finland, March 15.— To take care of visiting athletes a the 1940 Olympic Games, 29 three-| storied houses are being built. After the games the houses will be leased as private dwellings. ———— TWO MATCHES ARE SLATED TONIGHT, BRUNSWICK ALLEY Windy weather kept keglers away in the Commercial League play last night, and no tournament games were rolled. Tonight, at 7:30, George Brothers meet Brunswick, and at 8:30, Seven- One-Seven rolls. Emil’s. ——————— HORSEBACK BAND NEW ORLEANS, March 15— Jockeys at the Fair Grounds have, formed a hillbilly band and have re- celved several offers from radio sta- tions. The musicians are Bobby Con- ley, Joe Cowley and Eddie Hensen, harmonicas; Jack Richard, guitar; Hal West, Ty Heloche, violins; Harry Krovitz, jug; and Charley Hanauer, washboard. ——————————— Glass-blowing was practiced by| the Egyptians more than 4,000 yzars ago. sic soothed Buffalo Bear. And he confessed the secret to Lefty. It seems a pitcher holds baseballs in both hands with the first two fingers of each hand outstretched |over the balls. Then he winds up |with both arms and lets go.- One pitch shoots in, the other out. The | | finally ducks hurriedly to keep from 'getting beaned. Both pitches split the plate and the umpire has no 'choice but to call it—or them—a | strike. Gomez shook hands hurriedly and |sped away. Reports have it he was { hot-footing it to find Joe McCarthy ,and see whether American League |rules would let him get away with |the two-handed Indian sign pitch. LUCKY TOSSERS | NEW YORK, March 15. — Only four pitchers in the American | league last season were good enough {to take three decisions each from |the champion Yankees. ‘They were ‘Buck Newsom, Jim Bagby, Jr., Monte Stratton and Thornton Lee. e e Brussels sprouts were sold in the markets of Belgium as early as 1213. 1 batter can’t decide which to hit and | TIME MARCHES ‘This shape took the form of “Fa- ther Time” in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras parade. The ample u)r‘\‘(:lies were worn to keep out chill. CASABA (ROWN BATTLE IS T0 . START TONIGHT ~ ON SPANISH WAR Juneau High Meets Peters-‘ ' bury Quintet in First of Three Games The High School gymnasium should see its biggest crowd cof the season tonight at Juneau turns out to back the local High basketball squad in its first tilt with the strong Petersburg five for the championship of SoutlLieast Ai- |aska. ' ! Yell Queens Ruth Torkelsen and Marian Dobson have promised the box office a heavy turnout, with the school band in. upiform, and “sink 'em Juneau!" .he cry. But the “sinking proposition is ,another thing. Petersburg Coach Les Wingard brings his fast-break- ing Norsemen to Juneau with the promise that the title will go back to Petersburg. | Petersburg does have a basket- iball team. They have range, speed, land. good basket eyes. Petersburg has a fine gymnasiy, and the squad has made go use of it, |whipping up a High School basket- iball aggregation that would do icredit to any High Sctool. 1t will be the first time this sea- !son that local fans have seen Ju- neau High's Crimson Bears up against any real competition in their own age brackets. They have played Haines and Douglas, and beaten them easily, but those two schools lacked the size to turn out number one basketball squads. Petersburg has a cracking good squad, and Juneau has another fine team. It adds up to a “gced contest.” First game of the evening will be between the High School Frosh and the Grade School team, starting at 7:15 o'clock, with the main fire- works to start at 8 o'clock, referee Bud Foster blowing the whistle. —————— DUFRESNE RETURNING Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission, who has been to Washington on business, will sail from Seattle Sat- BEAR HUG Shapely Ruth Allen fell into stuffy Mr. Bruin’s arms when they met at Boston’s Sports- men's Show. He didn't even come to life. MUSSOLIN! NOW RIGHT ON SPOT (Continuea 1rur auy Onel willing to withdraw frem Spain. But the canny Italian was not putting | his “M” ‘on paper, willy nilly. He would withdraw, of course, only after the war was over and Franco had ! won A STRATEGIC MOVE 5. Just to be sure that Mussolini {wculd have no further excuse to re- main in Spain, France and Great Britain recognized Franco as soon as it was certain he’d won. Tardy recognition of the Franco regime would have been the one excuse for Mussolini’s troops to s’.ick around 1in Spain to guarantee: that Franco's victory stuck. But now Spain has been recognized. It's Mussolini's move. 6. That’s what put Mussolini on the spot. If he expects trouble in | Europe soon—some military move- ment by Hitler, say, or a flare-back from his quarrel with France over African colonies—he would natur- ally find some plausible excuse to | keep Ttalian troops in Spain. Italian troops in Spain are a di- | rect threat to France, forcing her | to plan defenses of both her Italian !and Spanish borders. Spanish air- planes and submarines in the Bal- | earics—where they now are—could !menace Franch communciation with her African possessions. So Italian military positions in Spain give Mussolini something of a drop on France. And since France is Great Britain's first line of de- fense, those positions are not so agreeable in London, either. If a fel- low expects trouble, and he has the drop on his adversary, he doesn't quietly put his gun in the holster he keeps the barrel up and his finger jon the trigger. Those are the big reasons why experts here are watching Musso. lini. If his intentions are peac ‘und if he expects no European fur- jore in the immediate future, he'll | put his gun away. Otherwise, he may keep it drawn. The experts say | either move will telegraph his in- | tentiofls to the world. | - The Hundred Years' war between | England and France lasted through WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT TONIGHT FOUR BILLION . SPENT YEARLY | IN SPORT WAY Angling Tops List, with ' Hunting, Motor Boat- ing, Golf Next | | | | i NEW YORK, March 15.-—-Amer- ica's caddy bill is more than its payroll for professors. It is $70,000,000—exclusive of tips. There are 3,500,000 golfers in the fU. S. They spend $500.000,000 a | year on the game, or an average ! cost {o the group of $140. Americans spend $4,000,000,000 a yeah on sports Angling tops the 200,000,000. Other order are Firearms 000. Motor boating—$600,000 000. Golf-—£500,000,000. Bow!ing-—$450,000,000. Skiin $150,000,000. Attendance group — $260,000,000. (This includes admission fee an ‘all normal costs for attending '/ | forms of athletic contests.) Miscellaneous—$180,000,000. (Tiris {includes cost of equipment and ex- penses involved in such sports as | billiards, tennis, table tennis, row- ling, court tennis, racquets, squash, handball, fencing, etc.) These are a few items gleaned | from the recently published Fnev- | clopedia of Sports by Frank G. Mgnke, 235 East 45th Street, New | York City. In the book's more-than- 300 pages, Menke gives the history | of ‘almost every sport together with iriteresting and unsual information about each. . Other Menke data: ‘ofthall outdraws baseball and |'Basketball outdraws ‘em both. There | were 90,000,000 paid admissions to | basketball last year. Softball drew 112,000,000 and baseb all 60,000.000. | Football attracted 45,000,000 and box- ing 22,500,000. Tennis draw only 600,000. | 'Biggest single day's attendances: Aulo racing, 165,000 at Indianapolis on Decoration Day, 1938. Baseball, 84,555 at Yankee Stadium, New York vs. Boston, Decoration Day, 1938. Basketball, 23,000 at Peéiping, China, tournament in 1931, Boxing, 120,757, Dempsey - Tunney, Philadelphia, centember 23, 1926. Corn husking, 1 130,000, 1935 championship, Newton, |Ind. Football, 112912, at Soldier | Field, Chicago, Notre-Dame-South- |ern California, November 16, 1929.! Horse racing, 100,000, last year's Kentucky Derby. $1,- in list with sports Dbills $650,000.- (hunting) | | | ball-and-stick games. Next to field hockey, lawn bowl- | asserting LABOR FACES BIG CRISIS RESTORING PEACETO GROUPS {Cenlinued rrom Page One! crganizations appears to outnum- ber AFL craft membership. AFL leaders heartily distrust the National Labor Relations board, it has persistently fa- vored CIO organizations. As a re- sult AFL has submitted a whole course of amendments to the act and hearings have been arranged by the Senate Labor Commlittee. But members of the committee, feeling that peace between the two groups would end the fight over the act, have already ar- ranged to postpone the hearings previded peace negotiations ar: started. Some AFL officlals have privately conceded that certain of the proposed amendments were “refallatory” against alleged fa- voritism of the board toward CIO. These, at any rate would be dropped if the two came to terms. AFL IN BEST SPOT? Which side will come victorious out of the proposed negotiations is anybody’s guess. Eighteen months ago when they first attempted to end their difference, CIO seemed in the ascendant; having organized big steel, the automotive industry, and a number of minor industries, bringing its membership above AFL. woman, “looked like someone had | It is likely now that AFL's posi- tion is the better. David ‘Dubin- sky's garment workers have with- drawn. from CIO in protest at C1O refusal to come to terms with AFL. Moreoyer, the Supreme Court awm. phatically condemned 'the sitdown strike, one of CIO's principal weap- ons a year or so ago. —ee PRINCESS PA DOCKS HERE ON WAY T0 WEST Capt. Jack Anderson and Family Returning fo Coqk Inlet The well known Westward motor- ship Princess Pat, arrived in Juneau last night on its way to Seward with a 90 ton barge loaded with freight in tow. The Princess Pat, under veteran skipper Capt. Jack Anderson, cars ries freight and mail from Seward to Anchorage and way ports, Seldo- via, Homer, and other towns Arriving i Juneau last night about ten o'clock, heavily iced down, & difficult time was had in doek- ing is the oldest game. There are 104 breeds of dogs, al belonging to one of the six major groups: Greyhounds, wolfhounds, hounds, spaniels, terriers and mas- tiffs. Handball was Irish in the 10th century One billion dollars is bet annually | on horse races in the U. S. and $100,- | + DeCou. | 000,000 is deducted in breakage and, " pegoy i Superintnedent of the state and track fees, at mutugl!King Crab Company, operating at tracks. {Hallbut Cove, 20 miles from Sel- Joe Louis’s punch travels 127 miles idovia, an hour. Jack Dempsey’s had &[ The trip to Juheau from Seattle, speed of 125 m.p.h. 9 la “good trip, took eight days, and Jai-alai was invented in the 16th|¢he first real unpleasant weather )/ ing because of the Taku williwaws sweeping the harbor and playing | pranks with the barge in tow. ! Aboard the craft with Captain | Anderson, are his wife, a daughter invented by the; i engineer, Jack Anderson Jr., and Jim Farsdale, John Johnson, Peter Cassidy, Finley Gillis and Richard | century by the Basques. A combination of running and | hurling was man's first competitive sport. Throwing was second and | wrestling was third. And baseball is all wrong cele- brating its Centennial this year. For, Menke says, (1) baseball was played long before 1839; (2) it prob- ably never was played in Coopers- town, N. Y, this yedr; and (3) Abner Doubleday neither created the game’s rules nor laid out thej first diamond. B Alaskan Prospectors Get Cold Feel BATAVIA, N. Y, March 15. — Once they braved 40-degree below zero weather in quest of the Klon- dike's yellow muck. But the same group of ex-pros- ectors,. meeting recently in re- union to talk over those old times in 1898, decided to change the date of their annual meeting from the last Saturday in February to the last Saturday in March. urday for Juneau, according to word the reigns of five English and five| 'The reason: February in New received at his office today French kings, York state is too cold! of ‘the voyage was encountered here last night in docking.” It is éxpected that eight days more will put the Princes Pat in Seward. e e Curb on Chatter HAUGHLEY, England, March 15, ~Parishioners here were asked to sign an anti-gossip pledge by their vicar, Rev. W. G. White, HosriTaL NoTE Llovd Bavers was admitted to St. An's Hospital this morning for sur- |- gical care. Alex Bradley was a sr-~ical ad- mission this morning at St. Ann's Hospital. Nels Landen and son were dis- missed todav from surgical care at St. Ann's Hospital. Axel Antonsen was dismissed last night from St. Ann's Hospital where BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES i TeTd e GAMES PETERSBURG HIGH vs. JUNEAU HIGH AT 8 O'CLOCK Preliminary Ga Grade School me at 7:15 P. M. All-Stars vs. High School Red Devils - MRS. RAY RETURNS FROM VACATION TRIP Juneau Woman Back After Four-Month Sojourn in South After four months of leisure, which time was spent visiting in Washington, D. C. Los Angeles, Miami, Florida, and Havana, Cuba Mrs. Ray G. Day returned hom llast night on the Northland, and DAY | {baked a cake, the first since her departure from. this city, which, quoting . the wellknown Juneau sat on it.” Going south shortly after Thanks- giving, Mrs, Day went direct to of her nicce. When asked if. she had seen the President, the reply |was mnegative, and that she had |been “too busy.” While in the Cap- ital City, Mrs. Day lunched with {Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, and Mrs. Mae Jernburg, formerly of this city, and also enjoyed a luncheon engagement ‘with Saidie R. Dunbaf, National President for the Woman's Club, of which Mrs. Day is Past President for the Juneau Division, After a seven weeks' stay in Washington, Mrs. Day motored to Miami, Fla, for a six weeks' stay. It was in this city that she felt Midas’ touch, winning a deluxe tour tp Havana, Cuba. Leaving Miami on the luxurious liner Florida, Mrs. Day enjoyed a five-day vacation trip in the tropics. Staying at the Bristol Hotel in Havana, she was taken on a tour of the city, visit- ing the National Casino, the Bacar- di distillery, all of the night clubs, including “Sloppy Joe's.” She was fortunate in being able to view the twenty-six carat diamond at the beautiful capital city and enjoyed a drive into the country, visiting various farms, plantations and the botanical gardens. Also a trip to she ' saw dungeons and torture chambers used many years ago by Cuba's rulers. A portion of the huge being used as a sehool, ‘She visited the home of the President and Commander-in-chief Dorothy, 11, and older son who 15101 the Army, and marveled at the | ibesumul buildings and residences of Havana, which are now being made tlom & chalk-like substance, which substance, when exposed to the air, becomes as hard as marble. This new building material is pure white, and may be used only in warm countries. Cuba, to Mrs. Day, is a gorgeous sight, and, but for the imilljons of beggars, would be almost Utopla, | ‘Returning from Havana, Mrs. Day iwent to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, and was fortunate in-getting a front-line-view of the parade, ‘which : lasted for two and one-half hours. From there she left for Los Angeles, where she spent a great deal of time, then visited the World’s Falr at San Franeisco. Treasure Island proved a great dis- appointment to her, as it is only about 85 percent finished. Some structures are complete, said Mrs. Day, and are really marvelous, but the unfinished portion really spoils the effect, However, with all the unrest found in the States, Mrs. Day is glad to be home again, and has all this a pleasant memory, and an ex- perience never to be forgotten. he had been receiving medical at- tention. Thomas Parke was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last night for surg- ical care this morning. ———————— In 1870, during the siege of Metz, a dog which was accidentaly locked in a room passed 39 days without food and recovered |today, feeling almost like a bride, | washington, D, C., for the wedding | Morro Castle was enjoyed, where | fort, explained Mrs. Day, is now | military training | HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Use Sixth Street Entrance ONLY POUR ACROSS BORDER LINE . i R g SN T as his troops took possesioh of “the anclent city. ; RN 4 1 is officially disclosed that Nazi troops entered Sloyakia. - f° In Prague, Contmander German Third Army Geén | witz, has been pmlln'gl"‘é:b" 1 or's commangd, ‘to haye lud' Executive Power. s B sident Roose! ! "' - Ni Department Officials (oday, thi Unized smu]n 1'”&? i lam- d U by, ving . . Op: med to capacity, lea axm} portunity to byild, ships’ for America. o Star President Foosbvelt Yold" ican Republl L ed that any questidn on the ing of ships for the Latfh countries must: be: referyed State or Nivy Departmients. The question was braught up al Senator Pittman Introduced fn | | Senate a joint resplutior that American Wari im! 3 be made available to-Latin can nations. ¥ ’ The big guns and Warshipl wi be groduced. gt' cost “fn’ | plants, for. the squl n R Ummrphu uamm: decl to i ability d&%% o yards to build | by the Latin e‘t‘gflflg‘ufi lever that he thought that the ) Department was ‘ prepared . 10 . 84! it was in a position: to ‘comply ‘wit] the provisions. of -the resoh | However the Chiet " of: the | Bureau of yards and, dooks, | Morrell told the Senate Com jthat the Government na were jammed with work, he thought the same situation ex |ed in private ' yards.: The (Adm expressed the opoinion ~that | condition would continue for | next ten years. o | The Pittman resolution | clared a logical result .of nreighbor policy. 1t's 4m | stressed becajise of. | will increase the g ern Hemisphere {6 from abroad. % provides P {eration shall niotbe et tefere with the U. 8. Naval slon. Indians Gath {Totem Tints {From Landscape Colors from the rocks, from sea and from the soil are be gathered into a figurative pallet fi which Indian artists will totem poles of Southeast Alaska part of a CCC and WPA restoral project. A party of four Indian CCC rollees returned to Ketchikan week after collecting rocks at C green and blue. This week an pedition is at Annette Island getti black reck. A red paint is to made from mud which Indians where to find near Ketchikan. 1 rocks and pulverized and then into an oily salmon egg base,