The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1939, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939. '™ 3 WOT D'YUH MEAN - POLLY AND HER PALS AWRIGHT THEN NOTLL WHERE'S Y £R) MANNERS MULE-HEAD 2 WHERE'S MY MANNERS 2 I DON'T SEE NOTHIN' T BE +-=- ER A HAJ A SHAVE RCUT 2 FLORIDA GIVEN CIRCUS TIKGE, EARLY SPRING Spring Baseball Training Camps Have Their Fat Men, Also Beanpoles By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Sports Writer BRADENTON, Fla, The spr baseball camps little Florida towns is like the an- nual arrival of the carnival, only the camps last longer and the ferr wheel and loud-tcned calliope are missing But the ball parks have the fat men ‘and the beanpoles and the fireball throwers instead of the fire- eaters, And some of the camps have their barkers, just like the carnivals, telling of the prodigious feats of the players as they step up to bat in- stead of telling about the tatooed women and the midgets. Most of the stands wooden affairs seating, 2000. Theyre generally with shirt-sleeved men and W men in summer dresses or slacks or shorts, Some persons prefer sit in the bleachers unprote from the burning Florida They don’t seem to mind dodging foul balls. The ladies screech foul balls as loudly as at home runs, ju they do back in the m league parks. Ev s Brown Or There's quite a bit of beauty these camps, for many of the come straight to the ball parks from the beaches and sit on the outfield grass in their bathing suits. Everyone is sunburned. Some per- have nice tans— other red as beets. A good many are oldsters fr Ohio or Maine, in Florida’s watching the about, but Programs camps. The trying to gue March 29 to the are small perhaps pac at Red at Is sons of the spectators m Wisconsin or taking their ease warm climate, and players they've read ve seldom seen ® not available spectators have who's who and r ©Iniy the players from picture they've seen in the papers. They | get as much fun out of the daily practice routine as from an exhibi- tion game. Sports writers are all over the d, talking to players and duck- ing foul balls. There are half dozen writers at every camp, rep- resenting the papers back home Then, there are always several touring scribblers from the press associations dropping in to look at -the rookies. Typewriter keys tinkle in the makeshift press boxes | as the reporters bat out their daily | yarns. Photographers always furnish the crowd with laughs. While they're taking pictures their backs may be | turned to the plate. In that case they never see the balls that singe | their ears as they drive past. Every | now and then a picture sleuth gets hit or his camera is smashed. Crowds marvel at the cameramen who stand | almost in front of the plate to snap a hitter in action. It would be just | too bad if Jimmy Foxx, for instance, failed to pull the ball away from the fotog as he hit it. at all fun 1 Owners Watch Practices The late Colonel Jake Ruppcrtx is missing this year. But many of | the other owners watch daily drills. | Sam Breadon of the Cardingls often | puts on a uniform and engages in pepper games. Commissioner Kene- | saw M. Landis sometimes leaves hl.si golfing retreat at Belleair and takes | in an exhibition contest. Autograph collectors and can- did-camera enthusiasts aré just as thick here as anywhere else. And the players have to run the gaunt- let of them as they pass from field to clubhouse. It seems that there are more gray-haired autograph seekers than young ones. The bat boys are the envy of all the home town youngsters. The home town kids just sit and stare at them. The bolder local youths move down to the grandstand and screen and try to scratch up a con- versation. Dazzy Vance, the old twirler who just licked pneumonia, is an occasional visitor at the Brook- lyn camp and Harry Heilmann, the old outfielder, gets material for his | radio broadcasts at the Detroit park | in Lakeland, HOMERS a|s | percent NEW YORK, March 29. Lou Gehrig in 1938 hit a homer in every | city in the league except Boston. Joe | DiMaggio connected for one in| every city except Cleveland. Stratton Still Smiles | | | the SUCKER TRAP; IT IS BARED Lardner's column g K, March (Johin in NEWSW The Kentucky Derby oldest horse-racing fixtu United States, nor the richest truest. The Travers toga since 1864, is the nor n at oldest | The Belmont Futurity and the Santa | Anita Handi |of money nearly twice as much in p s as the Derby. The Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, aid to be a truer test of a three-year-old’s mettle. But the Derby is the people’s race and one proof of this is the amount sucker money, undoubt- ~-that the people pay into fu- or winter, books on the running p pay edly- ture, 1of the classic at Louisville. The future books open in March with the publication of the entry | list. One hundred and fifteen horses are entered in this year’s Derby fand, though the race will not be run till May 6, the betting is lively this minute and getting livelier. Book- 'rs estimate that the total Hmmh on Derby future bets will be | more land than $2,000,000 May 1, all on between now a play-or-pay | basis, which means that ybu gamble Monte Stratton It takes more than the loss of a | leg in a hunting accident to make Monte Stratton gloomy. Smiling happily in Dallas, Tex. his home town, Celeste), the former White Sox pitcher demonstrates how his artificial limb enables him o get about almost as ably as CHEVROLET SALES SET NEW RECORD DETROIT, Mar percent more new have been sold at retail by Chev dealers of the nation in 1 to-date, than in the 1638, it was anr et officials here e given was 29.6 senting 102,699 units aiist 79,249 sold riod last vear. Sales for the last 10-day period of February totalled 17,138, an in-} crease of 4,129 units ever the 13.- 009 sold last year in the same period This represents an increase of 31.7 percent. Figures for quring the : of 274 the entire’ month February show an increase of over Pek ry, 1938, with 50,766 units sold as against 39849 last year, an increase of 10,917 units sold, accerding to the Chevrolet an- nouncement. A total of 113,779 used cars were sold during the month, 42,255 units being sold during the final 10-day period. >>oe SPRING HITS THEM ALL; FEELINGS ARE SUDDENLY CHANGED (Continued from Paae One) another by an urge to say the devil with it. And they did the latter. It always is a problem. An edi- tor in New England writes that he likes it best when the column sticks to serious business. Yet from out in Minnesota a woman writes that while she is a glutton for knowledge she. gets tired of the wrangling and jangling in Washing- ton and wishes somebody would do something qmck to fix it all up. Sta= ics, politics and economics are beginning to wear on her. It was not until the woman had written and we had thought of life among the pueblos and read the rhapsodies of the three gton pundits, that it dawned on us what had brought about the change in atmosphere. It just tn k a glance at the cal- endar. is here—in Wash- ington, where even the buttercups watch the Plu‘tmn returns, NICE GOING BALTIMORE, M: 1 29. — Don Kerr, rookie pitcher with the Bal- timore Orioles, allowed only two | not only on your horse’s chance in i the race but on his chance of run- ning at all Freak Betting ward Riley Bradley, the poker-spined gambler | and horse breeedr who has won four | Derbies if eighteen years, sometimes offers 5 to 1 that you can't name a !nm-l y in February. That's not Comparing this year's jentry list of 115 with the average | starting field of from twelve to fif- {teen animals, you can see that the { correct odds are nearly 8 to 1 Come to think of it, Bradley was {badly trimmed once at his own par- me. In 1923 his offer was over- lu“v"(l and gobbled up by Harry Sin- 1d Joshua S. Cosden, owners ox three-year-olds named Zev and Martingale respectively. They bet $5,000 each that their horses would | lor tistart in the Derby. They did. They ran one-two. cost Colonel | Bradley $50.000. That shows you what lengths lavarice will drive a man to.” said -1 sardonically, as he paid nclair didn't think he had They “|a chance in the world with Zev.” It's true that Sineclair regarded Zev as a mere sprinter. It needed | the advice of Earl Sande—and pos- sibly the goad ©of Bradley’s bet—to make the oil man start his horse. Beats Them, Sometimes Bradley, who shares with Col Matt J. Winn, promoter of the race, the title of Mr. Derby, has trounced the future books himself now and then. He bet $500 on his own Brok- er's Tip in 1932, at 40 to 1. Broker’s Tip won by a nose from Head Play as Jockeys *Don Meade and Har Fisher wrestled and cursed in thel saddles. The Colonel also did well with Bubbling Over, books. But all racing experts, Bradley among them, will tell you that the future book is a sucker trap. For instance, thig year's winter favorite, El Chico, is a meager 4.to 1 in sev- eral books. No bookmaker offers you consider that the true odds against a single hore's starting, let alone winning, the race are 8 to 1, you perceive the terrible folly of your ways, Still, if you like El Chico, there he is, at 4, 5, or 6 to 1. Other win- ter favorites are Technician, 8 to 1; Challedon, Benefactor, and Johns- town, 10 to 1; Xalapa Clown and Porter’s Mite, 15 to 1; Third Degree, Hash, Impound, Lightspur, and Yale O Nine, 20 to 1; Inscoelda, Ariel Toy, and Steel Heels, 30 to 1; and No Competition, Teddy Kerry, Time Alone, and Up the Creek, 40 to 1 Hurry Up Bet If you want to ride with the Bradley horse, as the hardboots of Kentucky do every year, his name is Benefactor. But your bet sheuld be made in a hurry, for the odds will not stay at 10 to 1.Hardboot money will press the price down. As for long shots, some of them are Jay Heart and Our Laddie, 1,000 to 1; Worthy Matron and Prince Saxon, 500 to 1; and Scotch Trap, Say Judge, and Shambles, 400 to 1. Only a handful of boockmakers circulate future odds on the Ken- tucky Derby, for national consump- tion. They tell you, with the profes- sional weariness that the bookmaker earned runs in 80 innings at Thom- asville last year, puts on with his shirt in the morn- ing, that it's not worth the trouble, 1926 winner, f which was 12 to 1 in the future more than 6 to 1 against him. When | Teny Galento was on the hot seat, a heart-esting mac 2 physical examination in New Yorl Joe Louis in June. e that was s Doctors behind him gave him a tho TURNING TO NEW STUNT Terry’s Men Are Slugging | but it was NOT fatal. It only was rapned to him as he underwent k to determi his fitness to fight iugh gmll}’ over under instructions fram the New York Bosing Commis: verdict was to be anncunced lates it doesn’t pay, you're apt to get your brains kicked out. But it does pay, murderous percentage and in advef And, conversely, the sinful | 's of the future-odds book- r have helped to advertise and h the peoplé’s race. - (anzoneri Loses Bout, just the same, in ak nouri 10-Rounder - NEW YORK, March 29,—-Tony Canzoneri dropped a ten-round de- cision last night .to Irish Eddie Brink, of Scranton, Pa. ———e———— SOME SKATER SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., March 29—Johnny Rawiins; 17, who re- d ne-mile British amateur ating championship here 6 consecutive races since Stewart 19 won 1937, - e | CAMBRIDGE, England, March 29.—Rev. John Duckworth, coach of the Cambridge University crew,) rides a bicycle along the tow-path! instructions through a gaphone. W. C. Barron was a surgical ad- mission to St. Ann's Hospital this| morning. | | Fred Coleman was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital today for medi- | cal care. Charles McGrath was a medical | admission to St. Ann’s Hospital last | night. | Sam Malone entered St. Hospital yesterday afternoon. Lewis Meldahl was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hospital this afternoo after receiving medical attention Ann's Jox |to call Mrs, McCormick as Mrs. Lawrence Carlson, of Doug- las, and baby boy were dismissed from St. Ann’'s Hospital yesterday afternoon. |Lillian Uggen, Mrs. Mae James.was a medical dis- missal this morning from the Gov ernment Hospital, —_————— Empire Classifisa Ads for resuits T. CLASSIC LEAGUE TRUNDLERS HAVE MEDIOCRE NIGHT Classic Leaguers rolled poor ball for their circuit last night at the Elks and no three-game total went over 550, The Blue Ribbons won two from the Triangle Inn trio, Connors Mot- ors took two from the White Spot, and United Food won three from the Home Grocers, taking the first ame by a single pin. Scores were as follows Blue Ribbons 163 149 183 183 163 189 509 521 Triangle Inn 186 101 172 169 127 191 485 551 Connors '\lo(nn 183 155 175 Radde Hagerup Tubbs 235— 547 183—*549 189— 541 1637 Totals 607 151— 528 190— 531 161— 479 502—1538 Robertson “leveland Totals Bavard Holmquist Redman - 183—*549 57— 467 175—*525 | 513 513 White Spot 167 158 Totals 180— 538 166— 494 204— 499 550—1531 Stevenson Ifert Benson Totals 157 —516 141— 521 175— 471 Ugrin Carnegie Hudson 222 122 525 510 United Food 183 183 154 216 189 190 Totals .. 526 589 —Average; did noL bowl. Easter Breakfasi Will Be Sponsored Totals | Metealf avenik uvndricks 183~ 150— 520 169— 548 5021617 Preparations are beipg made Business and Women’s Club to sponsor an Easter Breakfast at the Legion Dugout, in charge of which is Mrs. McCormick. I'he breakfast will follow the norning church services, and any- wishing reservations are asked 5000 as possible. Assisting on the committee will be Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Mrs. Pearl Burford | nd Mrs. C. P. Jenne. e A survey indicated the use machinery displaced 20,000 families rom -farms in Texas during 1937, 473 —1508| 549 | by | Professional | John | of ! Ball Just in Case Pitch- ers Take Slump By NORMAN WALKER BATON ROUGE, La., March 29. Power is the poétion Bill Terry is cooking up to rejuvenate his New, York Giants. Dotcors have patched up many of the key players. But Manager Terry thinks a flock of basehits will be the best medicine to win the National League pennant Maybe it's a tip from his neigh- bors, the Yankees, who do all right hitting the ball. Anyway, the Giants are turning to slugging in case the question- mark pitchers, Carl Hubbell, Hal Schumacher, Clyde Castleman and Cliff Melton, fail to round back into the form that made them in 1037 the most effective mound staff in baseball. And in case the peanut-farming Phi Beta Kappa, Burgess head, flops in his comeback at play- ing second-base. 70-80 Home Runs? The heavy guns in the Giant at- tack are the ever-dependable Mel Ott and his new running mate, big Zeke Bonura, the Ttalian first-bas man purchased from Washingtor From these twin bombers Terry ex- pects a total of 70 or 80 circuit clouts during 1939 with something between 225 and 250 runs batted in. A big order, but Ott and Bonura think it will be easy. Ott hit 36 homers last year. Bo- nura blasted 22 with Washington and may pole out as many as Ott over the closer Giant left-field fence. Tom Hafey, a rookie with a mur- derous cut at the ball, slugged 24 homers, 38 doubles and 11 triples! for Knoxville in the Southern As- sociation last year and, for this reason, may replace the fleet George Myatt at third base. More power at the plate will come from Bob Seeds, the outfielder who hit nine homers for the Giants in| 81 games after delivery from New- ark last year, Harry Danning, Jim Ripple, Joe Moore and Frank De- | maree, all strong hitters. The batting order is dangerous from end to end with Ott at clean- up and Frank Demaree — fencebusters few pitchers in the National League | will be able to stop. Hub, Schumacher Look Good The warm Southern spring sun finds Hubbell and Schumacher feel- ‘Ing pretty chipper after their elbow | operations, Castleman and Melton ‘me recovering from their physical |ailments and Whitehead is looking tsurprlsingly good in the infield. Terry is hoping and praying his cripples will stand the gaff. So far the situation looks promising but |any one of the reconditioned boys may collapse during the long sum- | mer campaign. Memphis Bill is prepared for the worst. But he believes the new bat- ting strength will help his wobbly oldtimers over the rough spots and give the Giants their fourth pennant since he succeeded the late John McGraw as manager elght years ago. Girl Scouts Profit By Recent Food Sale Members of the Girl Scouts wish to express their appreciation for the wonderful cooperation shown by citzens of Juneau during their re- cent Pood Sale, all proceeds for which will go towards the maintain- ance of the annual summer camp at Eagle River. The sum of $40 was cleared at the sale, it was announe- ed today. A special council meeting will be held next Wedne.sdny at the home of Mrs, H. Wilcox, at which time plans wm be made fo arrange for in the near future. RO e ;< 5%, S FROM FAIRBANKS Della Hill, Fairbanks grocerywo- man, arrived by plane from Fair- banks today and is a guest at the IBarnnor Hotel. . REBEKAHW'S FOOD SALE aturday, April 1, at Hollmann's Pharmacy; stayting at 10 am. adv, White- | followed by Bonura, Danning | the Girl Scouts to sponsor a show | With snow falling continually on the slopes of Mt. Hood, near Port- land, Ore., teyouts for the Olympic to be very successful. Games April 1 and 2 are expected This proving ground for ski experts boasts of the longest skiing season in the United States, November to June. Pheto shews Frances Langley cf Portland receiving a letter from Raymeond H. Combs, rural mail carrier from New York. Establishment ol a “snow delivery” postoffice at Timberline Lodge, famed hostelry on the slopes of Mt. Hood, for the duration of the Olympic Games tournament, was announced by Combs. The Golden Rose Interna- tional Ski Tournament will be held there June 11. TEACHERS HERE WILL BE GIVEN LARGER SALARY Schools in Territory Are| Permitted More Wage Funds By ANTHONY KARNES Commissioner Of Education | In Alaska the enrollment in the schools has also increased at the usual rate of increase, and conse- quently, the number of teachérs has increased, afl of which means in- creased expenditures on the pur(.} of the Territory and cities. It is alse shown that teachers are better qualified than in the past| and are remaining longer in thel Territory than heretofore. More eighth grade graduates are attend- ing high school and more high school pupils are attending college. Also an increased number of resi- dent teachers are being employed. Then too, during the biennium, | Federal funds for vocational edu- caticn have been secured and used even though the 1937 Legislature made no appropriation for this | work. Most of the high schools were giving courses in Home Economics and Manual Training even before we secured Federal aid. During the past year, as well as the present, | two-thirds of the salaries of these teachers, where they are qualified | were paid out of Federal funds, The funds are also being used to pay two- | thirds of the salaries of the twoj mining extension teachers of the ! University and one-half their travel | In all, we will use about $18,000 Fed- eral funds during the current year, and for functions, which normally are carried on by the schools and the University when no Federal funds were available. In other words | the Territory is $18,000 better off this year by having the Federal voca-| frtional funds than it would be other-, wise. Another long felt need is now be- ing filled and that is the construc-/ tion of a new course of study. Dr. J. C. Ryan, of the University, with the assistance of Prof. Erickson and a number of teachers and superin- | tendents, is doing this work and ex- pects to have the first draft ready for use the next school year. After using the course for one year then| it will be revised in accordance with the suggestions of the teachers and ' will be put in permanent form. Minimum salary for teachers for nine months' work in the First Div- ision is $1800; in the Third Division, $1.980; and in the Second and Fourth Divisions, $2,100. The Territory is to give refunds to cities on minimum salaries only; school boards may pay more than the minimum but they must pay all over the minimum. | Appropriations have been made | for additions to the Nome and Craig school buildings, remodeling the Haines schocl building, and for the construction of rural school build- ings at Snag Point, Haycock and Unga. In the matter of schoal bulldings, a new act provides that the Super-; ! intendent of Public Works shall pre- | pare the plans and supervise the conjstruction of all school buildings where the Territory provides a part or all of the funds. This act will re- lieve the office of the Commissioner .or Education of (onmdenble respon- | sibility and work, This office is proud of its trips out~ | side and the results we have obtained | from them. We have secured over $300.000 in Federal funds whichi ) would not have otherwice been re- ceived and at a cost of not more han $3.000, or 1 percent to the Ters ‘itory. Wa have also increased the rumber of accredited high schools from four to thriteen, thereby doub~ ling the number of high school grad- uates who may attend - college, or university wlthout exlmlnuuon GOOD WILL TOUR DUE HERE NEAR END OF SPRING By HARRY GOWMAN, CHAIRMAN Alaska Good Will Tour Committee Seattle Chamber of Commerce Seattle’s leading business and pro- fessional men will arrive in Junéau with the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce Good Will Tour Tuesday morning, May 30, for an all-day visit, according to T, Harry Gow- man, Chairman of the Seattle Chamber Committee arranging the trip. . ‘The group will leave Seattle on the Aleutian Saturday, May 27, and will spend sixteen days covering all the principal cities in Southeast and Southwest Alaska, including Ketehi- kan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. Another call of several hours will be made at Juneau southbound, Thurs- day, June 8. The Aleutian will remain at Sew» ard for four days so the members of the party may go by special train to Anchorage, Palmer, Mount Me- Kinley and Fairbanks. This is the first time the entire group has been able to visit the Interior, and this is possible because of special ar- rangements by the Alaska Steam- ship Company and the Alaska Rail- road, The Seattle Chmaber has taken over all the accommodations on the Aleutian and the schedule has been changed from the regular twelve day one to sixteen days so more time | will be available for the Seattle men |'to visit with their Alaska business friends. “Our representative business men 2o North on these biennial Good Will trips, arranged by our Chamber of Commerce, to express this city’s apprepciation for the immense trade emanating from Alaska” sald Chair- man T. Harry Gowman, prominent hotel proprietor of Seattle. “We ffilly realize the great importance of Al- aska to Seattle, and the mutuality of our interest, as well. Through these visits our people become bet- ter acquainted with yours and can better understand the problems of Alaska. The prime purpose of this trip is to pay a friendly call on nur Alaska friends.” Interest in the Good Will M this year is greater than on any previous one, for already nearly 130 definite reservations have been | made, including senior executives of Seattle’s leading firms. This num~ ber will be greatly increased before sailing time, BRSNS CHRISTENING SUNDAY ¥ AT TRINITY CATHEDRAL Glern Frederick Tiedt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tiedt, was christen- =d last Sunday noon in Holy Trinity Cathedral. Dean C. E. Rice performed the ser~ vice and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haigh were sponsors. O ; DONATIONS . For Martha Society Rumage Sale on Thursday, March 30, thankfully received at Northern Light Church Parlors, or call 373,