The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1939, Page 5

- 1939. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 30 * POLLY AND HER PALS 2SN W A FRIEND OF MINE WAL, IF WD\ HAS LOST EVERYTHING ITAIN'T TYRUS )7 YOU DON'T KNOW TYTEWAD. v N A4 HOW I FEEL ] YUH LOOKS /) ABOUT \T LOW, - A = 3 =~ By CLIFF STERRETT | BUT HAS YuH TRIED FEELIN' IN YER POCKET ABOUT IT 2 | TERRIBLE -- - A VERY DEAR FRIEND. You COULDN'T UNDERSTAND = dominated the mile-high l'ooleI]‘:\ complete switch for D. U. gl’ld»? realm from 1928 through 1932, | ders. Ike Armstrong, who's been cou(-h-; Tough Job at Wyoming ing the Utes 14 years, says (1) his| Wyoming’s new head man is Joel | backfield will be strong and (2) his| Hunt, erstwhile Georgia coach. line not so good. Rival mentors are | Material never is very abundant for | prone to ept. the first statement Cowboy elevens and graduation took and disbelieve the second with equal | two excellent backs and a tackle fervor, from last year’s team. Ken Stur- Bill Swan, all-conference quarter- man, an end, and Homer Fordyce back and the best play maker in the 8t center should be Hunt's out- circuit last season, will be back and | Standing veterans. there probably will be a stout-| At Utah State Murray Maughan,| enough line in front of him before 8 crackerjack center as a sopho-| e first Kot oreshouia e even vetser thie| Brooklyn Takes Firm Grip, Takes Lead of One Contest First Division—Cleve- | Over Angels-Double- year., Coach Dick Romney, a fixture land-in Third Spot ~ header on Sunday nal caller, too. Little Marvin Bell | & season at Colorado State and after | at Utah State since 1919, believes and Frank Olson are a couple of | (By Assoiated Press) | SACRAMENTO, Cal., Scpt. 30. —| | with the pennant clinched in | | Institute 1ast season — on Septem- | ber 1. Nothing could happen. It was all | set. Rice merely had to make an| ‘ | appearance every Saturday after- | noon to carry out the deal. ‘ | Death, i1l fortune and an incred- ibly large amount of injuries slipped | | into the picture. Mighty Rice stum- | PICK UTES AS WINNERS Utah's Scarlet Gridders Set to Sweep Big Again This Season By LOUDON KELLY bled through a season in which it won only four games, lost six. Full- back Jack Vestal died in mid-sea- | son. But potentialties remained in the ishambles of a ruinous season—so | Rice Institute still looms as a South- west power and coaches over the seven-club conference again point to them as the favorite. Back for their finai years are two | of the Southwest's greatest players —Ernie Lain and Olie Cordill, :\; Coast Leazue playoff last ht by |Pair of breath-taking backs. | e S D it i T Loaded with material At Colorado Coach Bunny Oakes is still looking for another Whizzer White, but what coach isn't? Paul McClung, Leo Stasica and Vern Lockard are clever-looking sopho- more backs and Ray Jenkins, a pon- derous greenie, may become C. Us best fullback since Eddie Wagner. ‘The sophomores are s0O numerous AP Feature Service DENVER, Sept. 30.—An undefeat- ed team in Universtiy of Utah scar- let swept to the big Seven title last season and pre-season dope indi- rates that the rest of the Mountain the centers’ tow-headed cousin, Seth | Maughan, should improve as a sig- | sophomore backs Wi shatid helg. Amid jubilation, somebody forgot| The fourth place Sacramento Sol- | This will be Harry Hughes' 20th |, ", off Cincinnati's ignition, and ons moved ahead in the Pacific I'tates conference will spend an- the pushing-around his Aggies had " ab. : " . o | and out-| P . " T v al League, the Reds went on, taking a double victory from the . rther fall trying to beat off the ““‘1‘ 7" “Il’F?'hml”.‘ H'fidrsy for duty | o take last year, he's due for better | P::m;:ll:, .,:Lv:” y (-|1'1-:nn"n with | Los Angeles Angels standing men of experience at each o War parties £t Colorado that most of last year’ R o vith | eld yest ks o . diirts s i ey Ute w parties. " S things. A big squad, replete with the second scrub team to beat Pitts-| The t teams are today moving position, Rice, with its combination varsity mean may have to take part time employment. Both Denver and Wyoming have changed coaches. At D. U. curly- haired Cac Hubbard, whom the boys swear by, was promoted from first lieutenant to head coach. Tom Moy- nihan, once a Rockne-trained center at Notre Dame, was brought in as line coach. Herb McCarthy, all-conference fullback last year, has another year and the line figures to be well an- chored upon Center Frank Scott. It remains to be seen how well Denver can learn the Notre Dame system— more ball carriers than Harry has looked at in some time, carries a hopeful promise. Hughes has decid- ed to try big Bud Lyons . sopho- more tackle last season at the pesky | fullback slot. In the Rocky Mountain confer- ence, now the “Little Five” with the| Altogether, this high-altitude foot- ball circuit should have a hot cam- paign. Colorado, Denver, Utah State and Colorado Sttae all are better than they were a year ago. . Wyoming may be about the same, but Brigham Young, the third Utah school in the conference, must re- place all but two of the 1938 reg- ulars, including Vaughn Lloyd, the chunky guard who made the third all-American. But the pick seems to be Utah, maybe because she’s the defending champion, maybe because mountain men haven't forgotten how Utah ;)m‘,\uf Lain’s passing and plunging and ° | Cordill's unmatched kicking and | broken fielding, certainly looks dan- gerous. The need of better quarter- backing may arise, however, and | veteran ends were graduated Tough Schedule Too, the schedule is tough. Other than the usual rugged Southwest Conference competition, the Owls meet Fordham, Vanderbilt and Louisiana State. Dope usually lasts until the kick- off in the Southwest Conference but the signs point” to four teams— Southern Methodist, Texas Chris- tian, Arkansas and Texas A. and M. —kicking up the most dust around »urgh. |to Los Arigelos where they will Eccentric Lefty Lee Grissom scat-|a doubleheader Sunday. ered hits, then knocked a homer for| Buster Adams drove in the win- ne of the two runs collected. {ming run in the last inning of the Frank McCormick, at first base, |cpener last night and then scored was the only regular working in the!the victory lally in the nizhtcap ame for the Reds. by coming home on a wild throw. Breoklyn won a first division place The standings of the two teams mass departure of the Big Seven|g . ertain yesterday when the|now is as follows: Los Angeles *has schools nearly two years ago, Colo-| 4o cilit 'a doubleheader with won one game in the playoff and Iado Mines looHs| a8 chist biddss | SBaeramento has won two games. : | Boston. for the title Montana State won last |~ 0,000 o qouble win yesterday |Seven games are to be piayed, may- vear, At least, the Miners are big| ¢, Betroit gave the club a firmer |be. and they survived the graduation| : 2 h 2 = r' ce merican 3 ab better than did the others— |5\ 0B third place in the Amcric 2 er i redi th the . C., Colorado College, Greeley League. Harder is credited with ¢ # victory although Feller worked the PUR An WWestern Stalb: last two innings of the first game. - WINS .- - | Harder made a home run. NN \‘ OLD SUNM Broox BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY § “CIIEEBFUL AS ITS NAME” | 0 3 Milnar pitched the abbreviated Rice's wobbly first ,"nnk!ng_ s ‘RWI five-inning shutout in the night- What of Texas Christians, the cap. undefeated winners of last fall and conquerors of Carnegie Tech in the Sugar Bowl? Tough again—is the general reply. Stripped of Quarterback Davey O'Brien and Center Ki Aldrich, two | All-Americans, and Tackle I B. Hale, the Christians couldn't be as rowdy as they were last year, in the opinion of Coach Leo Meyer, ybut “we’ll be up there scrapping around in the first division.” Successor to O'Brien will be Jack Odle, a 187-pound boy who can IS PRESIDENT ! (‘-‘AMI-IS FRIDAY i 2 ooklyn 1, 7; Boston 2, 1. Mrs. William H. Corwith, of Rock- American League ville Center, N. Y., was el(-ct_cd Presi- | cleveland 4, 3; Detroit 3, 0. dent of the American Legion Aux- Pacific Coast League iliary at the Chicago convention, Los Angeles 3, 0; Sacramento 4, 1. according to Associated Press dis- patches to The Empire. | - GRID GAME Scores Upset Win Over Texas Christians’ STANDING OF CLUBS | (Official to date) National League TBOWE | Watch a man's face after bis Won Lost Pet. iy | throw lots of football and kick more. first taste of Old Sunny Brook. Cincinnati 9 56 632| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 30.— The first string will be good; re- Joull e % ,!’;fi:m:' e FOR HEALTH St. Louis 9L 5 607The University of Galifornia at Serves are not what they could be. iy o 5 5 geles scored ¢ shi a) orse Piaregaurecil ey o AND g:};z?(?on g ?389 A‘Z‘;?):Lb“ Anbu(”\v'\ m‘o..l ,d Amia;;l:mg G Rated with TCU are Southern Sunny Brook tonight! y 5401t0 2 upset victory 1‘1.7(. night over ‘M L i ¥ PLEAS““ New York % T4 503! the powerful Texas Christian’s| Methodist, Arkansas and Texas A. S Pittsburgh 67 84 444 | Horned Frogs. | and M. | AT THE Boston 61 87T . .412‘ The first football game of the sea-| NoOt since the 1935 Rose Bowl days Philadelphia ... 44 102 2301 |son played here drew 55,000 fans. | has Southern Methodist had a top- BB““SWICK American League Y notcher, but Coach Matty Bell be- s 1 Won Lost Pet. | OTHER GAME SCORES | lieves this is the year. Sophomore New York ....105 4 05| San Francisco U 6; Hartin Sim- firestlo Jlohnson. a thgge trlrle; . ' J ansas 6: Dr 3 hreater who can punt ‘em out of Completely Refinished gl“:::l:nd gz gtli .g!éls}nuns i wke g | sight, is the big hope, along with = ________ Chicago .8 61 .55 |a batch of veteran lettermen back | Detroit ... 80 72 526 | ,from a fairly successful season in Washington . 64 88 421 GRID DopE ’38. SMU is the “dark horse.” Philadelphia ... 55 96 364 | The Texas Aggies, with power to St. Louis spare, will try more of the old bruising game in a pass-daffy league. Burly running backs will | feature its play, with a good dose of passing thrown in. The Aggies | have reserves aplenty, a factor that ;makes them dangerous. | Twehty-six sophomores adorned i the roster of Arkansas University [ last fall. They're all back and Coach | Fred Tomsen, who laid claim to the nation’s hard luck title last season | | by losing several games in the last Rea"y come True | minute of play, will have a serfious} This Fa“ threat. Veterans will crowd around | triple-threater Kay Eakin, a fancy | pass pitcher and kicker. By FELIX R McKNIGHT | Baylor, always dangerous, finished i x AAsP "I"‘W“"sees:';g"_rh | the season in '38 with seven vic- , Tex., Sept 30.—The Na- tories, two defeats and one tie. | tion’s football critics, a gullible 10t, | )iy a few of the key men are gone SEPTEMBER 22, 1914: German | thoughtfully wrapped up the South- | 4,5 jtg freshman team last season ubmarines sink the British cruis- | west Conference title, a Rose Bowl | walloped everything else in the Con-‘ ors Crecy, Aboukir and Hogue in|lark and a couple of All-America | go ence first year ranks. Here is a the No. .o Sea. positions and handed them to Rme; possibility—always well coached and it z= e i = | free wheeling because they are | usually counted out before they‘ start. Coach D. X, Bible at Texas, busy rebuilding after two seasons in the basement, will be starting with sophomores. They could come through. Just in case—don’t forget | Jack Crain and R. B. Patrick—two soph backs who tore all over the premises in freshman games. Bible won only one of nine games last | year but Bible teams just don’t do that two years in a row. CABARET DANCE IS 'm; pUTS Rl(E PUT OFF ONE MONTH The Cabaret Dance, scheduled for the big Elks feature entertainment and slated for tonight, has been postponed for at least one month. The committee in charge says that unforeseen obstacles made it neces- | ary for the pcstponement. The Elk: Baliroom will therefore | he dark tenight as the regular Sat-| wday v bt dance was cancelled | when the Cabarel affair was an-| 1ounced. ‘ 1 Last Year'sfidiction Ma Charming Beauty of the New ' Quakers Maiches Their Mechanical Perfection s —— Today, modern homes demand more than mechanical perfection. Efficiency of operation must be accompanied by beauty of design. Quaker, leader in the field of oil burning space heaters, was the first to recognize .this trend toward styling—and logically assumed lead- ership in artistic design as they had already done in efficient op- eration. The pride you take in the beauty of your home need no longer be Sacrificed for the advantages of oil heat. These Quaker models enable you to heat your home the modern way—with the comfort, convenience and economy of oil— and enhance the appearance of your home with their smart dis- tinction. g5 PHONESS - THOMAS HARDWARE (0. Royalaire A Versatile and Complete Home Cleaning Sysiem. B Cleans bare floors and linoleum. | B Dusts lamp shades, drapes, efc. B Blows or sprays demoth vapors. B Cleans and renovates mattresses. B Dusts and renovates upholstery. NOT just a vacuum cleaner. Have it demonstrated in your home. Oufboard Molor f Starfs with | Too Much Pep Signal Corps deskman Ernie Pow- | ers was working on his outboard mo- |tor in the garage to thc rear of | the Gastineau Grocery. That's why | the Fire Department turned out | to the 2-4 alarm at Front and Sew- lard at 8:30 o'clock last night. | With the outboard in a barrel, Powers pulled the starter rope after giving his engine an overhaul. As PARSONS ELECTRIC CO 140 So. Seward Phone 161 A stoker off the British aircraft carrier Courageous, his arm ban- daged, is shown in Lendon relating to another lor’s fe and a friend how he was saved after o submarine sank his ship. The Courageous carried a complement of 1200 men and the British autherities posted an incomplete list of 438 survivors. Picture cabled from London to New York, Sail for Neutrality Parley § & ¥ # i Indersecretary of State Sumner Welles heads this U. 8, delegation te he conference of American republics on neutrality. Twenty-one sov- wreign American neighbors will consider the peaceful measures they may ake individually or collectively to safeguard their neutrality. Left tc ight: Welles, Dr. Herbert Feis, adviser of international economic affairs: Paul C. Daniels. Dr. Mariorie M. Whiteman and Sheldon Thomas 'BETTY ROSS IS SUMDUM BOUND A duck hunting party for the Sunday opening of the season at Sumdum Flats will be six gunners on the boat Betty Ross. " Those in the party will be Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. C." C. Carter, Dr. W. P. Blanton, Don Abel, John Winn and Steve Ward. he pulled the rope, a spark did some- tHing “startling. There was a burst of flame and the metor - was enveloped in fire, spectdcular for ‘a few minutes, but | compdratively harmless and quickly extinguished. Now Powers has to start all over ~oain with his repairs, but he be- lieves he will advertise a “fire sale,” one partially damaged outboard mo- tor. - e Today’s News 1uuay—Empire, [z s A YOUNG ‘OLD GLORY ' ’—When Fort McHenry, Md., recently observed the 125th anniversary of the writing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, above 15-starred replica of the flag that inspired the national anthem flew over Fort McHenry. Key wrote song when, aboard a British vessel in Baltimore harbor, he watched the Britons bombard the fort