The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1939, Page 5

POLLY AND HER PALS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1939. IWUZ JESS AT A LECTURE BY PROFESSOR PROMPTER. HE SURE MAKES A BODY STOP TO THINK / WAL, I I(r:I—OWS SOMETHIN' THA'S A GREATER THINKIN'~ PRODUCER THAN ANY PROFESSOR !/ SEZ YuH ! MIND MENTIONIN' T2 Streak Has / BeenNipped Seaitle Keeps in Second ' Place While Portland ; Slips fo Bottom SPORTS—ANGELS WIN (By Associated Press) Whether the amazing Los Angeles team can recover from the shock of losing two games in a row an out after another dazzling series of wins, is the Pacific Coast League's big question: At the close of the third week of play, San Diego nipped the Angels’ streak of wins just before the club had reached the record breaking 20 straight victories. Sunday the An- gels won the first game of the doubleheader but lost the nightcap. THE 65TH RUNNING of Kentucky’s famous horse race, the derby, has the name of Time Alone included among the en= tries. THis three-year-oid bay colt owned by F. A. Carreaud earned $16,715 last year, won 2 firsts in 6 starts. Hollywood and Seattle split a doubleheader Sunday during which time 35 runs were recorded Portland completed a gentle three-week skid from the top to the bottom. Sacramento took the San F cisco series five to two, spl doubleheader on Sunday CASE LOTTERS TAKE 3 GAMES FROM GROCERS sature bowling Brunsw alleys the Lot trio a triple win over the Cali- A Grocery trio, 1373 to 1204. No 500 was rolled doubleheader is American Meat vs. Brunswick night scores GAMES SUNDAY at e Coast League attle 3, 11 San Francisco for ay nigh gave Hollywood 18 Sacramente 4,1 San Diego 5, 2; Los Angeles 4, 12 Oakland 2; Portland 4. Second game postponed on account of .rain National League Brooklyn 4; Philadelphia Boston 2; Neéw York 4 Pittsbur, Cincinnati 7 Chicago 6; St. Louis 5 American League Philadelphia Boston 8, St. Louis 4; Chicago 17. Detroit 8; Cleveland 0. New York 7, Washington 4 GAMES Pacific Coast League San Diego 12; Los Angeles 6. n Francisco 0; Sacramento 6. Oakland 5; Portland 3 Tollywood 1; ttle 3. % it's Coop at 7:30 and at 8:30 Irv Last lows: 5 Case Lot 143 18! 145 133 " Craigo Druliner Tucker 5. 421 7 California G Kearney Bavard Bertholl Totals Totals 3 CAGE CAPTAINS, | HUFFMAN FAMILY, NEW CASTLE, Ind., April 24—/ Anjéridan Teagus | Vernon, Marvin and Gilbert Huff-| New York 1; Washington 3. | man are known to the home folks Philadelphia 2; Boston 5. as the “captains of basketball.” | Detrolt 1: Cleveland 3. Vernon, the eldest, set the pace St. Louis 5; Chicago 1. by serving as co-captain of the 1936-37 Indiana University squad. | Marvin was elected captain of the | 1939-40 Indian team. | Gilbert, the youngest. entered the | University of Tennessee and as a sophomore in the season just closed was one of the outstanding players | in thé Southern Conference and was chosen captain for next season. The trio started playing at New Castle High School. Vernon and Marvin are guards, Gilbert. a center. - National League Pittsburgh 2; Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 6; Brooklyn 4. New York 6; Boston 5. Chicago 0; St. Louis 9. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost . 20 13 . 12 . 13 e ) 10 9 e National League Won Lost 2 Pct. Los Angeles Seattle Hollywood San Francisco Oakland Sacramento San Diego . Portland Pet. | '» 667 667 667 600 500 500 + 250 = 250 American League | & Won Lost Pet. | WAGE 50| & 667 600 500 500 500 250 250 Chicago Cincinnati Chicago New York St. Louis Philadelphia Pittsburgh Brooklyn ey 00 00N New York Cleveland Detroit St. Louis Philadelphia Boston ‘Washington Chicago - MOTHER'S ILLNESS CALLS MRS. STELLA YOUNG TO OAKLAND Called scuth by the illness of her | mother, M in the office of the S Alaska, left on the Alaska today | for Oakland, Cal. z - - CHILD TAKEN SOUTH Mrs. Charles Miller and child left on the Alaska today to obtain medical care at Seatile. e MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued today by U. S. Commissioner Felix | Gray to Jack Marshall and Mary | K. Martin, Douglas natives, o - ‘NEVER STRONGER’ were the words of French Pre- mier Daladier (above) when he coupled his summary of France’s desire for peace with a warning of her military strength, He said that France would not yield an | inch of territory to aggression, | {left Hockey's Best RS Eddie Shore Though handicapped with a broken nose, suffered during one of the earlier playoff games, the play of Eddie Shore, star defense man, has featured the drive of the Boston Bruins for the Na- tional Hockey league champion- ship and Stanley cup, emblematic of ice hockey supremacy. Little Girl Shocks Electric Compan SCHENECTADY, N. Y., April 24. —Officials of the General Eléctric Company were confronted with a new problem the other da; From a little girl in New York came a postcard which read: “Will you kindly send me a lit- tle sample of electricity, if you can spare it. We are studying mbout it in geography.” e Hammond Leaves Two h!i!li_on Estafe NEW YORK, Ap) Hays Hammond, en v who died June 8, 1936, at Gloucester, Mass a net estate of $2.719924, it was shown o transfer tax ap- praisal His children were hequethed the residue in equal shares under John in four .o HOLBROOK RECOVERS Assistant Regional Forester Well- man Holbrook was back at his desk in the Forest Service office today after being out of commission for a week due to a flu attack. Bl SO TR Try an Empire ad, Rowe Boosts ' Tigers Into - Third Piace | Paul Dean Is Belted from Box Sunday-Yanks Also- Knock Chase Off Mound (By Associated Pre Schoolboy Rowe's fou out of the Cleveland In day raised the Detroit consideration for a spo; their fourth plac Paul Dean, who also comeback for the St inals, was belted out of the fourth inning Sunday by Cubs. He is charged with a loss The Giants subdued the Boston Bees and the Reds took the second straight from the Pirates behind the six-hit pitching of Bucky Walters The Phillies took another hair= raiser from the Dodgers. s) it shut- jans Sun- Tigers into better than st year sought a Louis Card- the | The Yankees knocked Ken Chase #! of the Senators out of the box Sun- day in the fourth frame The Chicago White Sox amassed 19 hits Sunday, including four doubles by Marv Owen, which tied the major league record the St. Louis Browns. - BILLY McCANN IS STRUTTING STUF ly McCann » ring in Juneau, good in Seattle a fr has been is also mak the follow- Seattle Star who seen ing clipping a 21-year-old wel- who has attle fans with . has learned his by experienc has had o many, man gone into cap- his aggressive siy tricks the hard way ough he boxed not lar nd and all scrappers who seek frequenter of es on any parring partners. Billy has hoxed practice sessions with virtually all.the middleweights o have fought here in the past year and is always welcome ‘because s fast, shifty and constantly try- A graduate of Kitsap High School, McCann is now a resident of Seai- He is being handled hv Eddic Marino and is petitioning his pilot for a scrap wiui mehie Washoun Edmonds star. -ee RIVER AFLAME, ~ MAINSBLOW UP CHICAGO, April 24. Grease floating on the Calumet River caught fire and caused explosion of three large gas mains which run {under the river bottom. The . river was fired, according to Capt. Ar mand Hilling, BEast Chicago chicl, by burning grass near the voing where the mains go under the river. One cf the pipes was Thirty feet of pipe in each of th mains was destroyed. — et —— Try The Empire classifieds for results tle. 1eauinis —— CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY BARANOF BARBER SHOP i WE NEED YOUR HEAD HAIR-cutTING TORUN OUR BUSINESS ARTISTS Shave 35¢ ENTRA \CE TH the box in &% to wallop Copr_ 1919, King Fearures Sy YELLOWBALL T0 AID FANS, ~ SAYS MAKER New Invention Will Help i Those Whose Vision Is Not So Good GARDNER SOULE | AP ¥ea‘ure Service Sports Editor NEW YORK, April 24. reder Rahr is a baseball fan, He is nea sighted. He has trouble keeping his eye on the ball. 8o he invented the yeliow baseball you read about. H by t yellow baseball, he ys, will help thousands of fans with poor vision, and thereby help club owne! by increasi atten- dance. vellow ball will help bat- ters because of its high visibility. Tt Il help fielders and pitchers for same reason. To hear Mr. Rahr, cheuld be a unanimous choice. The yeliow roid has become official N e ball this year., Last year some college and pro- fessional games were played with it. Results of games showed no startling amount of hitting, some- thing parhaps to be expected from of high visibility. The box es were about what you'd expect { good average games M. is a cclor engineer. t'That’ he knows so much about color e aren't very many color engineers. But one of the fir 1- [or experts in the U .8 8 1t of whom you have heard. His name was Beniamin Franklin He Drew Attention “When anklin went to the ench court,” Mr. Rahr his cb was to make himself known as the ambassador from the U. 8. So dirty chestnut brown into a court full of rich brocades, gold, silver, pink, yellow. green and other pale colors. Benjamin was the only man there who did not affect deli- cate cclors and lace.” Yellow was selected as the color of the new baseball, because it is the' color of hte highest visibility. Red baseballs were tested, but did not prove satisfactory Mr. Rahr is a Harvard man, class of '29. He is full of ideas about col- or. “One place they’ll have to use or scen is on hockey sticks,” he says. “When a player is overtaken, he then could tell who was who behind him by the color of the sticks, Iden- tification is one of the most import- | ant. reasons for ‘color.” ! Mr. Rahr has a color scheme for football uniforms, He would put bright colors on the backs of his | team’s uniforms. dull colors in front. | The idea would be to encourage only | yeur own team. Bright colors cause, mental uplift, and give your team the old fighting spirit. | “The backs of helmets and both| arms. of the football jerseys,” says Mr. Rahr, “would be colored a high-| visibility yellow “The backs of the jerseys would, be yellow-orange. This would build up morale and stimulate the team and help the hoys follow their inter- | ference. “The backs of the football pants would be red-orange. Backs of stock- ings and shoes would be red. Would Subdue Enemy “The fronts of the uniforms, on the other hand, would be of grass, or earth-green and brown. The fronts of jerseys would be broken up, with bars, to reduce visibility and help hide the football. Further- more, these are subduing colors. The | By tho 2 ball ays, [ | | PHONE 411 | Haircut 65¢ ROUGH LOBBY opposing team would see these col- ors, and its excitement would be kept as low as possible.” Mr. Rahr didn't say if he thought there would be a flock of forfzited games caused by teams being lulled into the spirit of Ferdinand the Bull upon seeing the enemy in Rahr uniforms Everyone is color conscious, and responds to various colors, he says. “It's no accident that circus wa- gone are painted® bright reds and yellows and golds. Imagine a circus parade of wagons colored lightblue, light green, or gray. There wouldn't attendance at the circus aft- er such a parade.” D FAIRBANKS ICE OPENS; NENANA REMAINS SOLID Weather Bureau Reports Large Open Sections in Chena River Ice is breaking up rapidly on the Chena River al Fairbanks but ice conditions at Nenana are “un- changed,” according to reports today to the U. 8. Weather Bureau. Fairbanks observers said that there is a great open section on the “hena just below town and many other open places on the river. American Legion ice pool tickets are still availablé in Juneau. .- MAY 14 WILL SEE OPENING OF BASEBALL Unsigned Players Must Register, Holzheimer Announces Today The Gastineau Channel Baseball League will begin its season May 14, on Sunday afterncon, it was announced today by League Presi- dent Judge Wiiliam Holzheimer, fol- | lowing a Saturday night meeting of league officials and managers. New feature of Firemen’s Park attractions this year will be paid- " admission softball on possibly two days a week, with softball enthusi- asts planning four commercial teams of the “real McCoy” in kitty- ball jygglers. Names of holdovers from last sea- con on the three baseball teams were announced, and Judge Hoiz- heimer said that “All who desire to play ball, and whose names do not appear on the holdover lists, are free lancers, and must sign up at The Empire, the OPR offices, or Stan Grummett's -in the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Associa- tien.” Free lance players must sign be- IIIIIIIHII"IlllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIII!IIII[IIII AMERICAN LEGION FROM DAFFY TO DAFFODIL is no trouble at all, when spring invades Boston college football field and finds Capt. Ernie “Ferdinand” Schwotzer sniffing a flower that grows, strangely plantless, in the turf. He's from Waltham. Mass. Escapes Execution for Theft : Red the Snatcher, half chow, half police dog, faced death in the lethal chamber of Chicago’s dog pound after being identified as the thief that stole food, elothing and even a small rug from suburban Jefferson Park's porches. At the last minute, he was reprieved when Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin offered him a home in her canine refuge, “Orphans of the Storm.” Werner, Tom Martin, John Smith, Clarence Converse, Kelly Blake, Stan Grummett, Bob Kimbal, Jim Orme. 3 evening at a meeting of league o(-‘ Douglas, Lonnie Grant, Walt An- ficials |drews, Wallace Rogers, Jim Man- Gil Prucha, of the U. 8. Weather | ning, Mark Jensen, Claude Erskine, Bureau, will be official scorer for |Dave Turner, Andy -Balogy Boh |the league. Umpires have not been | Bonner, John Niemi, and Eddie chosen | Roller, Players held over from last sea G4 {son are as follows: [ Elks, Mollie MacSpadden, Bud Foster, Earl Forsythe, Al Ellens- berg, Harold Abrahamson, Erv Hag- erup, Orrin Addleman, H. Russell, A. Kos | Moose, Fritz Smith, Jack Schmitz, Snow, Hilding Haglund, Joe fore 6 o'clock Saturday evening, Holzheimer said, with plans pend- ing to distribute the new players among the teams next Satur ay | NEW PUBLICATION Coples of a new mouthly maga- zine, Alaska Boy, have been re- ceived published at Petersburg by F. V. (Skipper) Smith, Publisher and W. Weslee Ward, Editor. ¥ | Jce L OTHER AGENCIES: —These antin;- hlvlm:nve: themselves in TROLL] an Atlas-Imperial Diesels IS tis. B Egliyer Endinge COMPACTNESS—QUIET Johnson Outboards ECONOMY—LACK OF and other engines VIBRATION—CLEANNESS of quality CHAS. G. WARNER CO0. 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