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N skl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT DAG NAB IT/ SLICED OFF INTA TH* TRAP AGIN / ELKS' NIKE WHIPS REDS i A fire alarm was sounded this I.AS'I' NIGH'I' ot o S Go 'I'ONIGH]' morning about 10 oclock from fifly-fou 1 oo hit 100 b Douglas Phene Office to take fives {howe ruus o iuore during their men to the A. R. Edwards home carec nafor ledcu® basehh [where they found a small fire on O i S e ok . lthe roof apparently having been Douglas Squad Boofs Five ..\ ' A Winner Gets Whack at Javiod by Anarka FORnS. Gl | players have hit more (hon 4ud Lo i . f . wy. A chemical extinguished the Balls - Lodgemen Are |2 i i i o e Title with Winner of e H G a yactive players have hit more than i ~ Errorless in Game | et v i tive e - Louis-Galento R e pall club lengthened | - BULLE — NEW YORK, JANITOR'S DUTIES their lead in the Gastineau Channel | e 1.—F weighed in this 1 chlegel took over the fan'- | League yesterday evening by outplay- | afferrcon with an 8'. pound ad- |ter's duties at tha Douglas Pab! ing the Douglas Reds, five to one, | 9 vantage, weighed 2101 £ Schocl this morning and will no Sekan it ] pounds Nova tipped the doubt be kept busy with the list of Hagerup tok the mound for the| scales at 202 pounds. hich have been outlined Eiks as Red Henry cast about m] — work by the desperation for a hurler, and| NEW YORK, June l—Lured on v-inckidgvdms pitched good steady ball and| by a shot at the heavyweight cham- grounds and build- whiffed eight men, only one Doug- plonship big money, Max Baer, re- building of some ne los man geiting across the rubber | HURI-ER GAME formed playboy, and Lou Nova, de- fob smanial thiiviie for a tally. termined young collegian, will fight e The Elks got their first tally in 15 rounds in the Yankee Stadium | the first of the fifth frame Hrn-{ tonight COMMUNICATION ning walked and on a hit and run e '+ A crowd estimated at between 30.- k Etten | tenticn, “Red” Henry I with Hautala slapping down | Seame Drops cOmes' fo 000 and 40,000 will pass through the Jlay of Nick Etten, rookie first anacer of the Elks ball club a bounder, went to second with Hau- | gates, it is said baseman of the Philadelphia Ath- so the fans who attended the ball tala crossing first base safely as| Sa(ramemo Afler Hfl(d |~ The clash shapes up as one of the letics, in early season games me Tuesday evening between the Doug vainly tried for a douk /! | closest headline heavyweight fights highlights activities of first-year and Do (won by the Elks play. ’ ]'ry |0 Wlfl |in years for each fighter as it is his Ien in the majors. Etten, a na- o 1 bp virtue of Red Henry Ellensburg flied out to left field. | important match as the winner is tve of Spring Grove, 1L, batted | manager of “the Eks. who AL e | 370 with Jacksonville umpired the game, made all the and with Hautala and Henning on| second and third after a passed| ball, Koshak rapped out a double,| scoring Hautala and Henning | Runs Scored | Peterson, Elks shortstop, drove a| low hard hit ball over left center| fence in the next inning | home run, and in the last frame,| Hagerup, second man up, made first | safely on an error by Erskine at| shortstop, took second when Ellens- | burg walked, and both came in when | Koshak hit to Turner. Turner threw | to first but hit Koshak with the| throw and the ball bounded out of | | | for a the playing field i pitching. | Cornell and Navy drew the favored American Olympic Games con-fp minutes' rest—and I'll prove It: | 0 0" oy pives the campers In the last half of the seventh in-| Successive singles with two out wingjde" lanes for the four-mile Ungent of 350 athletes will arrivel In the sixth inning “Red” Henry ... ..ncportation to the Glacier ning, Douglas started off with Roller |1d two on base in the ninth inning { yarcity race of the Intercollegiate oF Helsingfors, the Finnish capitalimade a ruling that when two men 'y 0 u (ooee “on g packages hitti double inst the right|gave San Diego a win over Portland Rowing Association regatta on the JWY 13, which will give T ccupy the same bose one man ts STV TERIEE (G PR the field fence and came in for Douglas’ | only tally when Turner singled | throueh second Foster came in from third then to pitch for Hagerup, cvidently tir- Bonnet and Balog in succession to| Bonner and Balog ni succession 1o finish the game. las scored seven hits to the | Elks' five, but lost the game on er- rors, with a total of five, while the Elks played errorless ball and made two double | on the shortstop- sccond base: base combination BOX SCORE FLKS ABR H PO AE| Ellensburg, cf 3:1:2:0.0 ol Kosh; 3 0,11 0 € Foster » 400020 Hildinger, 1st 100000 MacSpadden, 1st 20901000 Addleman, ¢ 300400 Pet °n, S5 24 178 90 Henning, rf 210010 Hautala, 2nd, 3rd . 3 1 240 Hagerup, p, rd S SR 21 5 2 0 DOUGLAS ABR HPOAE Grant, ¢ 3008 30 Whiting, 1f 200100 Balog, If 200000 Erskine, ss 3.0 2 22 2 Andrews, 1st 10125000 Gribble, rf 200000 Jensen, 3rd 8 09 L By Roller, 2nd B, F 8 1Y Niemi, cf bRl | e N 2 O Turner, p 80 P irap g Bonner 100000 26 1 72117 5 *—Batted for Grant in seventh. SUMMARY Hit by pitched ba. MacSpadden by Turner, Andrews by Hageru, struck out: by Hagerup. by Fos- ter 2, by Turner, eight; bases on balls: Turner 2, Hagerup 2; double plays: Elks 2, Peterson, Hautala, MacSpadden, Hautala Peterson. MacSpadden; earned runs: Elks i, Douglas 1; stolen bases: Andrews; left on bases: Douglas 5, Elks two-base hits: Hagerup, Koshak Roller; home runs; Peterson; passed balls: Grant 1; time of game: one hour 25 minutes. Um- pires, Nowell at plate, Iffert on bases. Man,iflfi;éfing u. Si!lizenship ORLANDO, Fla., June 1. — Wil- liam Harry Lucas. who said he was born at Dorsett, England, May 30, 1836, applied in Federal Court for American citizenship. He said it was “never too late to change.” FUNNY GAME ) GOLF, EH2 PLAYERS WITH HOMER RECORDS BAER, NOVA | *neo iow READY FOR | | promised a shot at the title in Sep- * mighty ITAINT MEANT NEWS ROOF BLAZE OUGLAS (By Associated Press) tember against the winner of the RO be f”'r;‘ {"flm“fillmlmfi' in |rules, as he did in a previous game Leo ‘Stiak Angels' righthand-' June 28 title go between Joe Louis : ol il played by the two teams) Now, folks in the grandstand er, shut out Oakland last night, al- and Tony Galento. lowing only five hits. | R scattle lost ground in the league's lalso on the Elks bench—-I not pla . -ace by dropping a contest to Sac- D M d who know that three of a kind ramento. The Seattle teams outhit raws a e In lEAVING IN JULY hmn:r two pairs, because it is a rule Sacramento but double plays stopped | . |ol the game. There are also rules Hollywood took a one-game ad- | Alp h . ng, “A ball game is never ovor vantage last night in the series with oug eepSIe Ay juntil the last man is out,” there NEW YORK, June 1 San Francisco by eme: ng victericus in spite of Rugger Ard o SEEN June 1.—Columbia, NEW YORK last night. | Hudson at Poug | Columbia drew lane No. 1 keepsie June 17 closest, lio the west shore, with Cornell and tWelfth Olympics, July | return voyage the Pilsudski will leave | Navy, last year's winner, in the sec- 't 150 FYEEL B R Sacramento 5; Seatlle 4. jond and third “slots.” Wisconsin trye ors AUSHS drew No. 4, Syracuse 5 and the Far Nev York, August 19 Western representatives, Washing- | ton and California, were in 6 and 7, | respectively San Diego 4; Portland 3 Hollywood 4; San Francisco 3. Oakland 0; Los Angeles 6. National League Embarking was no “last out” from Hobcken on July 3, 1940, the [{fti] the Elks took the field after and dock at ->-ro—— 2 Rule 52, Sec. 3: | bases, upies the wesday evening week on the scene to become ac-|automatically out. 1 differed Wwith climated before the opening of the| pim 20 “In case a On the yyner 15 being run down between and the following runner oc- same base the first run- ner has left, the second runner can- |uct be put out while holding ase. If th first runner, |returns safely to the base said however, he has arc then oc- secondd ouched Henry Brooklyn 7; New York 4. { For the threc-mile junior varsity | STOCK QUOTATIONS | icft, and both runner American League | race, with all but Wisconsin repre- upying the same base, the No games played | sented, the order was: No. 1, Wa {runner is the man out, if t stinehu Channel League ington; 2, Cornell; 3, Navy; 4, Cali- with the ball’ 5; Douglas 1 | fornia; 5. Syracuse; 6, Columbia. NEW YORK, June 1. — CIosINg | ppiiper ule of Manager Por. e tg e reaibmian gash - quotation - of Alsski Junss"mine | et L L el futian b G OF CLUBS al Standings) Pacific Coast League the draw was 2, Wisconsin; 3 {with Navy | No. conda 24% stock today is 8'i, American Can 92, American Power and Light 4%, Ana- Bethlehem Steel strikes out if first base is oc 9" Iregardless of whether e cupied, catcher cumstance: the -runner could even tep, sit on the players' bench and then resume his run to first base, provided he return to the base path at the point whieh he left it, with out liability to be called out if the ball had not been held on first Lase before he reached it “When Batsman Is Out (Ru'e 51, Sec. 6): If, while first base be oc- unless pi out.” Now ered in the the Blks two men folks, the Tuesday's first of ball the se after ball”; the umps had when Grant ing “time out” pire’s joh ger’s. But Grant had to third base, that the run counted hould have been Dou 2.~Thank you (Signed) Walter And Manager, Douglas Firen - ATTENDANCE game on cupied by a base runner, the third tike be called on him by the um- alrcady are above rules cov- except when decided to play ball again d “Play base for Douglas stole home. Henry then » changed the rules again by claim- which is the um- and not the second mana- 8o back while 1 still maintain nd the score 2, Elks venth pe third to 10 irews, men AT SCOUT CAMP IS LARGEST EVER Messages fiér. Eagle River May Be Left atF. S. Warehouse With the largest attendance in history, the Boy Scout camp E River opened yesterday for its annual two-week period. Wayne Young is director of the camp and Mrs. O'Malley cook. A Acting at 'DISCOURAGED? UNHAPPY? ¥ STRATTONS JUST SAY NO Mcnty Stratton is coaching for the White Sox, The — looked up CHICAGO, June 1 Strat- tons — Menty and Ethel tragedy in the face and came smiling. Less than six months ago Monty Stratton was one of the most prom- ising young pitchers in the big leagues. He'd just won 15 games for the Chicago White Sox. The future looked certain. Then, in November, came the hunting accident in which Monty lost his right leg at the knee “Sad?” smiles Mrs, Stratton. “Dis- couraged? No. Why should we be. We're too lucky—and thankful.” Those few words, spoken quiet- ly. cheerfully, reflect not only Mrs. Stratton’s attitude, but also that IJ![ her husband, who has so quick: learned to walk with a wooden leg | that he is coaching for the team he once hurled to many victories Monty Is Cheerful “There’s no use getting down in the mouth about something that's boat between Eagle River Landing happened,” grins Monty. “Say, I'm Forest ervice where they will be Eagle River every few The 34 boys at the Tioop 611 bus)—Jack Gucker, Merritt F Monagle, warehouse, (Knights Roger delivered days. camp are: of Gaddy and Bob Pasquan American Legion Mill and Walter Fukuy; Auk Bay Troop—Wa and Joe Kendler. Douglas Troop—Ru Bill Osborne. Norlitemen Troop-- Troop y Kr ama. arren Jim from to Colum-~ Donald Mur- phey, Bob Murphey, Bill Kennedy, Conner, ank Dugan, John Kennedy, Bill Minard Haines and Glasse, lucky to be working—and working for a great outfit.” On May 1, the White Sox and Cubs played a benefit game which netted Stratton more than $29,845 That sum already has been turned over to him, and a few small items yet are to be added to the fund | “Boy, weren't the fans swell to turn out like that?" Stratton says. “The newspapers, radio—everyone helped so much. It made me feel great. | “I think T'll some day be able !pitch again. I'm going to try the meantime, I'm happy to |able to remain in baseball one has been fine to us.” But while everyone hopes that Monty some day will hurl major- league ball again, it's likely to be a long time before he is able, if In be Every- to| DODGERS WIN OVER GIANTS, HOT CONTEST Brooklyn Ti'glilréns Hold on Fifth Spot in Nation- al League (By Associated Press) The Brooklyn Loagers tightened their hold on fifth place in the National League with a stirring vic- jtory over the Giants yesterday in the only game played in the major leagues. . The victory came in the eighth | inning when the Dodgers shoved three runs across the plate on four hits. The win gave them a two to one edge in the series. -ee 'McCANN WILL MEET DIXIE IN MITTFEST Two GoodA“Looking Lads Scheduled to Box in | 'Main Event Soon | Two evenly matched boys are | shaping up in preparation for the | main event bout of the smoker | scheduled for June 13. | Enlisted for duty in the top set-to will be Billy McCann of Juneau and Dixie Wetterhauer of Seattle. - Both boys tip the weights at 145 pounds and are aggressive hard working scrappers. McCann who has been in the pro- | fessional ring since 1934 has tucked | some 30 fights under his belt in the | past four years, winning them all. His complete record of 54 fights since he has been in the fight game shows | be back in his old place next year nhe has dropped only three decisions. Won Lost Pet.' Syracuse; 4, Cornell; 5, Washing- . 'ldrops the ball; also that a runner Los Angeles 39 .1;2[9 ton, and 6, Columbia 5 WashiBe= Gommonwealth and _Southern 1%, (.",,O,"t,tmfi,‘ \\’,".“'.h‘:.] ‘i,vil,‘.““,‘,," :,‘,',',,,. John Newmarker, Bob Vernon, John ever, to regain the balance and Seattle el Lol o Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors v;m:]‘;“' “{‘“m home base to firss, 1| Hock, Rodney Nordling, Charles | poise he once had. He practices San Francisco 532 | 43';, International Harvester 3 8 ’ 'm' Hare i s Linchan, Claude Anderson, Eddie ' throwing occasionally, however, and Hollywood 450 AlASKA RIH_E Benneooitas B | ifered with bim again Her® ¥ oy Hushes, Dick Clithero, Bill Allen, says “I'm gone to take care of this Oakland 2 458 B N WK‘Ru]‘- 56, “,(. 5 If in running Join Tanaka, Lester Troast Jr., old arm for a long time, anyway S’ Dises 3 ' 31 e | Steel 48, Pound $4.68 5-16, e G e ihe distance from JCUn Cass, Malcolm Faulkner, Gil- just in case. . . . " Sacramento 25 32 .43\ TEAM wu_l. BE A e O e Jirst base, while the |DCrt Monroe, Mariyn Feero, Bobi . Mrs. Stratton a Fan Portland B8 DOW, JONES 3 e D 0 Mded 1o first base, | Phibs and Nathan Skinner. | Mrs. Stratton saw her husband National League { pICKED JUI. The following are today’s Dow, oy being l"l‘f‘] i m! 4 TBE {turn in many a victory. Their Wi Tt Pl y Jones averages: industrials 136.20, he runs outside the three-foo ¢ A et | romance began in her home town Ghicihriag 25 13 658 | BTy rails 27.95, utilities 23.40. |a sdefined in Rule 7, unless he do WILLIAMS GO SOUTH lof Omaha, Neb, when Monty St. Louis 2 14 611 ' " o N I 0 A |50 to avoid a fielder attempting to ¢ | pitched for Omaha in the Western Chicago 20 18 52 Tex” Leonard Is Aga n OFF TO CALIFORNIA |field @ batied ball, the runner 15| Joo Williams and family left League. They were married in 1936 Pittsburgh ‘1‘9 18 '5“' % ' | Mrs. Hugh Coke and two sons “”"‘l""t for running out of line only if aboard the Princess Louise for the and have a year-and-a-half-old e G )l Cap'am_]'hmeen Men 'south bound on the Princess Louise |the ball is being fielded to first base |south and before returning will Visit | son. Prueklyn ; ASE | A for the summer to be spent in Cali-'and he runs out to avoid being put | for the most part of the vacation in| “Yes, it seems funny not having g;“ )‘;‘"k iz ;; :?;1 Al’e to Make T”p ‘fm'nia_ § out.” To cite an extraordinary cir-' California, Monty out there in the box, but he'll Philadelphia 12 25 324 - . l' ’ D b | —wait and see,” she says. “Are we Amcrcn fegse ™| rous e s waer vy 0. 500,000 See Blue Peter Win English Derby i o Vi C! S .. the sl 'y at Camp notice any change i . He's New York 20 7 806 Perry, national shoot in Ohio that . ” 7 | just as m,‘v,,,,v .,,:1 (.hr:‘px.n.;‘;vs ..i‘:,.,. Boston 21 12 636 is attended by approximately 6,000 |And T certainly don’t feel blue Cleveland 19 15 559 of the country’s best riflemen and Why, evéryone has been so good Chicago 19 16 543 some from abroad. to us, and we're thankful Monty is Detroit 16 22 421 Thirteen Alaska riflemen will be still alive. What else can we be Washington 14 22 389 given expenses for the trip, one of but happy?” Philadelphia 13 22 371 them a team captain, And her smiling dark eyes sparkle St. Louis 1. 2 297 George H. “Tex” Leonard, ha: lcourage and confidence as she Gastineau Channel League ibeen named team captain again speaks. Won Lost Pet, ' He announced today that tryouts for | —— e m TR 3 1 750 the team will end July 21, with res- | DR. STEVE SAYS Douglas 28 4op pective local clubs throughout the | Comfortable feet are the key to Moose pais ety 2 33 Territory choosinig*fHalr. best men. | happiness.” Valentine Building — RAET A 34 To be eligible for the shoot, Leon- | £ phone 648 aa, ‘ard said, one must be sixteen years |of age or over, a citizen of the| CI,EVE'.AND SEIS | United States and at least have one | {year'’s residence in Alaska. ! 7 NlGH'I’ GAMES The firing course will be the same | as last year. ten shots off hand at| 200 yards, ten rapid fire at 200, ten| # rapid fire at 300 yards, and 20 .\mw; £ fire at 600 yards. The match at Camp Perry open.s1 runs to September 10. “ b CLEVELAND, June 1.—-The Cleve- land baseball club announced today an official schedule of seven night | games to be played by, the Indians this year against every rival Am- erican League team. The schedule for the big lake- front Cleveland Stadium: Detroit, June 27; Boston, July 13; Philadel- | Japan Recognizes ; phia, July 18; St. Louis, August 7; | } Slovakla S!fle Chicago, August 11; Washington, | August 22, and New York, August| TOKYO, June 1. — Japan has! 30. | recognized Slovakia as an lndepen-| Games originally scheduled the dent state and has opened formal day after the night contests have diplomatic relations. been moved to other spots as parts ——————— of doubleheaders. : Try an Empire ad. August 20 and i SR | With nearly half a mi and Heliopolis, third, at Epsom, England, to win the 155th derby by four lengths. This picture was cabled from London, illion persons shrieking his name, Blue Peler, 7 to 2 fav The finish is shown with F orite, dashed down the stretch x Cub second NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: | that on May 31st, 1939, in the U. 5. | Commissioner’s ex-officio Probate | Court for the Juneau Precinct at | Juneau, | pell was appointed administratrix of the estate of John H. Chappell, deceased. All persons having claims ‘ngalns! said estate are required to present them, with the proper | vouchers, and verified as required by law, to said administratrix, at the office of her attorney Howard D. | Stabler, Shattuck Building, Juneau, | Alaska, within six months from the | date of this notice. Dated: Juneau, Alaska, May 31st, 1939. GUILA H. CHAPPELL, Administratrix. First publication, May 31, 1939, Last publication, June 21, 1939, Alaska, Guila H. Chap-| A fast infighter and a fellow who likes to mix it, Billy has won a fat share of his bouts via the KO route. Dixie Wetterhauer has lost one scrap in his fight career and shows | real promise of being a headline at- | traction. He is strong and young |and to date his good looks show no indication that he has been trading | leather for the past five years. The bey has an effective right hand with |a cooling influence as witnessed by |a record of 10 knockouts. Among other members of the prespective ecard, who have been working out regularly at the Par- ochial School - gym, are Marshall Lambert from Montana way who will give plenty of trouble in the 150 | pound class, Austin Brown, a crafty Indian boy from Juneau, and Wat- son from Oregon. 1 The card which is tentatively lined up will be given at the Elks Hall and will be a Benefit Smoker for a worthy Juneau cause. —,——— 'STREET GRADING | BEGINS TOMORROW Work on grading of Junean streets preparatory to paving will {be begun tomorrow by the L. J |Dowell Company. A power shovel !will commence the grading along Calhoun Avenue. Sidewalks are poured, | already being