The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1939, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939. 5 NEW STURT IS WINNER, SPORT WAY Halfback Trains Prize Steer by Playing Foothal! with Him NVER., Cel.,, March 28.—~A high hool halfback who trained his prize steer by playing ball with him was one of the 7 who won most of the biu the National Western £t 3y capturing the impor: ships, the six youns convinced ¢ ste ('\mu n ing prize stc 1 hobby has become & ness. The winners club competition to chamnionships—and cluded 13,495 entr Wil DE fe th club L wn bus advahced take the the fie from the 1 3 1 ampion fat steer. And he d a right to be proud. Prof. W. L. zard of Oklahoma M. Col a judge the How. show ever exhik r any other stock show Willard's explanatic “We've been training for e last June. I had won \-\n]] prizes T pooled that money to buy Nebraska, * I brought him hom in training for football I be ling and blocking him. He prised at first but scon take it and finally could do th lear That lelald animal “a solid form and tau and straight bi how ring. It also got him used to me—another big asset for show animal.” Flash went the same way as other prize fat steers—to the au T for pur: packing houses. “If I'm going fo be a stoc and I plan to be a good one well make up my mind there place for sentiment in the b said Frye. Flash sold for 68 cents a pound— Frye's check was for $724.20. The young winner says he plans to in- vest all the money in show stoc “and come back and win move priz- — e — Mrs. John Keyser Honored Last Night Mrs. M. S. Whittier, Miss ary Jeannette Whittier and Miss Clara Carpenter were co-hostesses with a dessert-bridge party and shower honoring Mrs. John Keyser last ev- cning at the Whittier residence on Distin Avenue. Daffedils centered each of the five tables and honors were won during the evening by Miss Mary VanderLeest, first, and Miss Jean Gallagher, second. YES,T WISH You'D- FIiX THE MIRROR ON \ THE WINDSHIELD, bitna s PLEASE Charles Dewey Eng May Diilon Graham, AP Feature e sports writer, is touring orida major-league spring training camps. Here's his story from Cincinnati’s stronghold in Tampa. Watch for more of Gra- ham’s articles. By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla., March Mild i1l McKechnie, who looks more like mangager e cool of s T tried to make him his Cincinnati Reds win the National League 1 baseb: was th confe should ev Wily n't climb ts on the a. He wants lays his money s opinion. Honest Will would be a liar to h and say his team pennant in Septem limbs and he or gives I “A manager come out in M would win the ber,” Will said. But twinkle in his eye. twinkle when there’s any wor ering around, McKechnie thinks the have as good a chance as ar club to win the flag. They're nitely out te win, this yea Will is not fiddling around with ny rookies this spring. He’s pretty well heeled. He is getting his boys ready to play for keeps from the start. ey, Riggs May Go He thinks he has a pretty fair second-baseman in Linus Frey and good third-baseman in Lew Riggs He thinks more high of them than do most riv ational League man agers. But Bill admits they could b improved on. That's why he is 100K~ ing over Eddie Joost and Charle: English. It’s just possible that this pair may oust Frey and Riggs. Joost was last year with Kansas City. only .270, but he knocked in 70 runs. Some of the boys around Kan- sas City say he was largely re- ponsible for the Blues winning the American Associatioin gonfalon. Charles Dewey English comes hov- Reds may other defi- from Los Angeles. His bat did some | timely speaking last season when he Cleveland’s Big Pictured at the Cleveland Indians’ League Hopés training camp, New Orleans, are three top-flight hurlers upon whom will rest Cleveland hopes in the big league baseball race, Left to right: Johnuny Allen, Bob Feller, Mel Harder, aid ish (left), Edwin Crash Lin there was a| in the Yankee chain| He hit | BUT I'M SURE YOU MUST BE MISTAKEN-- ITARE THE CARS MISS, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE Reich Seen Courting ":)!e Ihrough Her from Pa One) ze including the weil-trai :ch army, or breweri rich resou timber. and nd ad this the listorians mas important par ine Hitler may 1ble by extendin espe patriotic of be his rule ly a the Giermans fervently Austrians and the & the Czechs when the Bronx nal an- World W cot the the ain belore ring the brief of freedom ping m through $o- clubs that form n among Slavic na- Joost—Only Red Rookies Who up s ey Yarosz Is )-baggers ar going ) outpace. oing epll serve catch y couple of young 1 ! Thomp: n Co- 1d Red from ades Hti: K¢ thietic common bond tions P nce, observers ask OverlinGo ¥ to submit whole-h n rule? under Meer Botte:’ Former Champion Gives coup make: Thompson looks good ¢ e 1 McKechnie. And Oppo nt Bo XI'](] |es- inde- they Riges the Reds with the Wilson as a Otherwise are are arte; p Czechs a h e ry to atement to mor ke more often-ex- en ary last fall that looks good to Bill you £ itorial demar son to Take Decision on Emope, and, e portant, cor to I pressed policy of fak whanic people Into the Reich Maybe No BIG Crisis Austria-Hungary’s vast of Pit mpion Overlin, of and then cision at the know one he's have B Johnn population that helped that empire during the appears that Hitler just same 16-, st year Meer i than he was 1z itey Moo My good- ip Now it is willing to run th break war possibly Bu risis Syracuse Vander going to r pitcher And W ar last Chicago. won U end of ¢ - Miss Perry Honored With Linen Shower Grissom. The lean left-hander ! only if Hitler, perh: out most of last on, first th a sore arm and later with a| A linen sho ”“I“ at the home | gjings neip, challer prained kle, suffered when he(0f M v g »“ ye v‘y o ance in some vital area ¢ 2 sudden notion to steal second rented Miss YVON- \roqyepranean base for no reason at all ki S e If Grissom is at his best, well | McKechnie will be glad to reserve your World Series seats personally. | That is, if you know wm Corrinne WORD "APPEASEMENT Cor IS MOST "BOTHERSOME; |3 TRY OUT "BLUGGLUB’ (Continued from Page One) boxing lesson un dec that has little to do with THE people have been fearing— tain and France r ged nst and Germany in another dan- gerous showdown, And there may o long as Hitler low the line least s push to the east | ought to have a good y but he's gob lots of stuff. I he could swap off some of that he b a litile more con- | wish | trol MecKechnie believes the real dif- :nce between the Reds of thi 1 those of last year will be| for be no BIG crisis continues to fol- e in It may come 5 with Mus- tain or like the of seas to-be of Wit- In medieval times, a ! weod was limited to th mderbrush he could cut with a ook and the deadwood he could ¢k from the trees with a shep- d’s crook. Hence the expression by hook or crook.” -- - « News a5 spent in pl prize nean and with were: Mrs. Rohert kne Mrs. Richard Nichols, M Duncan, Miss Dorothy Miss Marylin Jackson and udia Kearney. Prague Square in Na21 Hands ' Gordon, 1ocav.- Finoire. produce two or of the list got together, it w diately interpreted as a conspir | to fix pri | consumer | sultation is ble, the “good consultation” as tinguished from “conspiracies restraint of trade,” he gave me Wifwaff, more imme- cy ach con- and dis- in the SOME OTHER POSSIBILITI | They were splendid ords, but even Frank could not tell whil Imeant which after he had used them. hand we can think of a iczen other words that could {a bit of revising. The word “pu used in Germany to extin h op position by use of the 5 en | ployed here during the last politi- mpai beclouded the handsome yet, ‘the New Dealers i from A&mploym “purge” haye no plaint ¢ E: in Deal, 5. who hap; differ with New Deal method .\Iblh.lh]v damned as nservatl tories.” Nowadays, in w Dealers, censervative is 2 In the eyes of some discontented censervatives, e New Dealer £ a “communist. ° Sucin usage makes good head- lines but plays havec With sensible understanding. -ee Short-wave radios are not per- mitted in Japan. Military authorities thoroughfare (above), as Hitler et fear the Japanese public would hear | Slovakia by establishing a “prot: ate” over tl:l(: Czech ?xo;_)h- T_lmu- to much Communist and pacifist| 3ands of residents crawded inio sbe auare 1o sing the Czech nutional | PIOPAGANAB, < s il | anthem and jeer the heavily-armed invaders, ui issue { And who the com- W of true of some contented the eyes B Wenceslaus Square, Prague's main German troops marched into St ympleted dismemberment of Czecho- By CLIFF STERRETT g, ALL I CAN SEE 'r\' - at | Planning Wage-Hour Changes BACK OF ME ;‘\ Geo. Sisler In Baseball One of Greatest Hitters of All Time Is Now Czar of Soft Leaguers Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour administrator, chats Mary T. Norton,of New Jer chairman of the House prior to secret meeting of the committee to draft amendr wage-hour act, s to the Local Firm Pla:mg New Engine in Liffle Elfin ST. LOUIS, March An eye ailment stifled his playing career when he was at the dop a decade aird ‘a half but George Sisler remains cne cf the busiest men in baseball. Just of the greate was_ eleeted Today he is the ¢ high commissioner, of ago isler, on¢ all time, to baseball's Hall of Landis™ semi-pro lent of the Na- ciation, He has s under his win; of a Judge tional Softball As thousends of play (& part cwner sporting goods firm here He's been active in thail but his heart commissioner’s job. H 7,000 clubs will semi-pro ball next also is promoting is in "the says that organized George play season to believes baseball can hold its place through encour- as the national game proper development agement of youngste It s be 922 that Sisler hit 420, the highest batting aver- in Am igue history. A menths us trouble *d him, affecting his ey ight so that he I to withdraw from basebail during 1923. only and NEW MODEL CHRYSL ER MARINE ENGINE Not all the attention, however, is devoted to readying old boats; naw vessels too are being crowned with finishing touches and prepared for their maiden runs, A current event n the waterfront’s activity is the installation now beifig Hads Chrysler Ace marine engine in. the Little Elfin, of Eifin Cove. The in~ are turning stailation is beiig made by the C thelr | G;. Warner Co, marine engincers cruisers into shape to meet the and machinists, who are agents hare fighting king when he follows the for the Chrysler marine engines, as herring to inside waters to open the well as other well known power - mpnn. season. its, ALASKA-TO-NEW YORK | o With the boats to the banks first halibut et out from Juneau for this week, on Thursday, activity on the local waterfront is high piteh, with not only the halibuters but the trollers and seiners bending their ef- forts to readying their craft for the coming fishing season He mana returned in 1924 as playiag of the Browns and hit Pitchers began throwing low | to him and, changing his stance, he hit .345 in 1925. But he slumped to 289 the next year, his final as manager, He lasted the majors, Sports fishermen too their attentions to whipping 305 another four years in with the Browns, Wash- ington and the Boston Braves. Alter a year with Rochestel wound up his active baseball career in 1932 as manager of Shrevey Iyler club in the Texas league. It was his hard batting that al-| most _enabled the Browns to Win|g well known type of motor vehicle the American League pennant. The ' from Ketchikan to New York with Yankees beat the Browns by a sin- ' o load of Alaskan vegetables as a game in 1922, and that’s the . publicity st back in Alaska, closest 8t. Louis cver came to win-, Walish stineau ning. Hotel, says he Juneau He thinks his fat batting record several days in line with an Al- is a good one but “all records are askan publicity program. broken sooner or later.” Liké Babe | e i Ruth, Sisler entered baseball as a TO WASILLA pitcher in 1915 but shifted to first| Mr, and Mrs. E, W. “'"“'“% of base so he could play daily. He‘Waxllla. nes Anchc passed was one of the fanciest fielding|through Juneau today on the steam- iirst sackers game has ‘:V"‘"J er Yukon after a trip to the States. known, and extremely clever | Horning is a well known mi bassistealer: operator in the Willow Creek dis- Among the his | trict. career, he recalls the (he pitched—and won— great Walter Johnson, But the day he hit safely in hi 415t cuccessive game to break '!‘yl Cuh“»)» n"v;f(l preught him thc‘quotnuon of Alask: greatest thrill of all, S8 Ambrican C | George played the game for the power and ngm \love of it—always remaining a'—— < _ gemleman on and off the field. He| seldom got mad. One he slapped‘ Umpup George Hildebrand in the‘ face with his glove, then npo]o— fized immediately. This was the only time in his career he had to be disciplined. Sisler, at 44, is enjoying. exu-l-! lent health. He no longer wem{ sses, and keeps fit by playing a | “terrible” game of golf. hunting: and fishing. 1 Sisler has two sons—both good baseball players. The eldest, George | Jr., who graduates .from Colgate this year, is rated an outstanding college, pitcher, Dick is a freshman t Coleate, and according to “Pop, s a darned good bitter. - DR. CUNNINGHAM DIES SUDDENLY Dr. John P. Cunningham, for 40 years prominent surgeon of the Pa- cific Northwest and for the pas: 25 years Chief Surgeon of the Great Northern Railway, with headquart- ers at Spokane, Wash., died sudden~ o werterdav it Peim Snfings Cal This is according to advices receiv- ed in Jjuneau today. | There are many, not only in Ju- neau, but throughout Alaska, who | bave, it is said, have beert“# patient of Dr. Cuntifigham at ‘some time. ! Bethlehem alth and Steel 657%, Seuthern Common= 1%, Curtiss necott 17', North an Pacific New York Central : 10%, South= od States Silee! VISITING IN JUNEAU W. T. Walsh, the man who took DOW, JON The foliowing are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 139.33, rails 29.34, utilities 23.50. JOIN HUSBAND Muys. ‘Rebert J. Schoeltier and daughter Marja, arrived on the Yu- kon' this morning to join Mr, Schogi- tler, manager of the Barancf Hotel With them was Joyce Quist, daught- er of My, and Mrs, Euv"nu Quist, - BACK TO SITKA Eiler Ha Superintendent of the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, and Charles Wortiman, Sitka merchant, took passage for’ the Historic City on the North Sea this afterneon ifter a short business trip to Ju- neau. y will be in an highlights of two games against the Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, M > oo TRAVELER uuwung man, h 28--Closing mine stock today 1 8876, American , Anaconda 267%, FORCED EDUCATION is the lot of natives in Shansi, north China, where boys are posted along the roads lo make pass- ing coolies stop and learn the dally lesson. These (hhnc characs 5 bers are “Han Chien,” whigh means “teaitor,” of a' VEGETABLE TRUCKER IS 1"} conicn o S s is