The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1939, Page 5

" POLLY AND HER PALS SO YUH DID GO BUTTER-NUTTIN, AFTER ALL, EH,OAF? This writer has seen a lot of bas- | ketball games and earned a lot of floor bruises, but we don’t recall seeing a more nip-and-tuck excit- ing game than the Haida’s overtime victory over the High School last THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC D R———_ YEH-ER === WAL, THAT IS 1 STARTED ter, generally a high scorer. He scored but once last night, but his backboard play was good, and with hapados, makes a team there that vill save a lot of balls for the cloth- ng men. Henning'’s led all the way, 16-2 | first quarter, 26-11 at half, 45-15 at third quarter, and 48-20 at the end of the game. Fans got their money's worth 16, 1939 By CLIFF STERRETT BUT I HAD A LOT MORE LUCK WITH TH' GOLF COURSE . ! enters high shool and who ¥ suf- ang | without him The preference of most young play-| continued Hobson. ers for offense forms another major coaching tribulation, in Hobson's opinion “Nobody can coach a winner un- less he can coach defense. the drudg- ery of basketball. Every little move- ment counts and most of them have to be learned by rote—practice, practice You have to take kids whose natural desires are to grab that pumpkin, race down the floor and bang it through the buck- et, and turn them into defensive au- tomatons without stunting their na- tural ressiveness. It takes do- ing™ the Oregon skipper continued. Once a basketball team has been schooled into a trained unit it's. a matter of nursing the movale along practice Plenty of Strength “Our champion team wasn’t much of a morale problem,” Hobson said except that they got themselves so don't you call a time until HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alaska T Employment Scrvice MECHANIC — Male, single, age 27. Three years ad landscaper, laying rock gardens, pruning, etc. Experienced in overs hauling gas engines, running boats, mining. Will take any job avail- able. Call for ES 30. D MONTGOMERY WARD LOSES WAGE, HOUR ROUND IN COURTS GARDENE! which ficient patience with the tall boy: By FRED HAMPSON “It’s the big tall feliows who are EUGENE, Ore, Dec. 16.~How- hard to tell about and hard to de- ard Hobson didn’'t marry the boss' velop,” Hobson says. daughter, but otherwise he quali- A case in point was 6 foot, 8 inch fies for the title of basketball's Al- Slim Wintermute, Oregon center. ger bey. Two other Northwe coaches passed Th2 University of Orezon coach, him up but Hobson thought he saw in his fifth year a college tuto mething. Wintermute had basket- js laying plans for deferse of the ball coordination, which is rare for you're really tired.’ upheld constitutionality of “We beat Ohio State 46-33, with- out calling a single time out. Ohio State called five. ‘Why didn't you take a time out rest after you had a lead?’ I asked Anet after the gAMe. ' e e e “'Well, replied Anet, ‘vou said ) Today and Everyday the Better not to call time until we were tired. | Foods Are Served at the the act. - The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale: $1.00 We just ain't tired.'" And Hobby doesn't think ; BRUNSWICK CAFE National Collegiate A. A. basketball G feet, 8 inches, but he lacked com- championshin petitive fire. He just dawdled ated—ever will get tired. | Hobson engineered his fourth var- “Anytime you've got a guy that “I hope sometime before I re- sity team to the first title of its tall who can scamper around with- tire from the coaching bench to the kind. Previous teams have been out tripping himself, you've got the gallery that I get just one more oul- L acclaimed national champions but|makings but those big boys don’t fit like that,” Hobson concluded ’ last season for the first time the|make easy. Wintermute nearly drove wistfully. | f nation was zoned by the N.C.A.AA.|me bughouse, but when he finally - Chinese and American Dishes Year's D Zcne champions battled each other took the polish the whole 6 feet 8| DR. STEVES, CHIRGPODIST, Special Breakfasts, Lunches, in inters onal tournaments until inches of him was unbeatable. We Makes Arch Appiiances to measure Dinners accompanying pageant will be . beautiful Healani Carroll, pretty 0‘ io State won the eastern title couldn’t have won the national nffice. 10 Valentine Ride. Phone 64x - Havailan o pictured bove. . G333 D B S BB DD BB BB YD I I F DI B D HI SIS DI BEHIBNI I 4 R DON'T MISS THE ANNUAL Christmas Edition throne. The Oregon squad will sail of the DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE night 35-3¢ with a hundred loyal lineup—four of which have gradu- students shouting their lungs out That ball game, capping the dou- | bleheader that opened the 1939-40| City League season, was anybody's game from the opening whistle to the last gun The first quarter found the High Echool ahead, 8-6, but the Haida led at theshalf, 17-16 and at the end of yhe third quarter, 25-24. Hi Starts The High School started rolling in the last quarter as the Haida Wuen Univers.ly of uregon s 1004 ball team takes the field against the University of Hawaii in Hopo- lulu’s Pineapple Bowl classic New reigning queen of the Totals 16 3 High School (34) FG FT Comiskey Defeated 8 Rounds Steve Dudas Gefs Decision ~Comes Up Off Floor fo Do It NEW YORK, Dec. 16—Steve Dudas & came up off the floor last night to score the fistic upset of the season |by winning an eight round decision Jover Young Pat Comiske before a | near sellout crowd It was the first defeat for Comis- |key in 25 bouts. Dudas weighed 196 pounds and Comiskey weighed 207 pounds. [wrocoworma wlmococomocoe favowamns Totals > @ = Henning’s (48) f . A 3 L Chapados Lucas Bird Lawson Metzgar Taylor Schubert Parkinson Lewis | weBoanvonnwe YOUR SAVINGS ARE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY The AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT- ER RETURNS WITH THE [ i ver, ve tw Y n stern, Hobby's keyed up in the championship drive Constitutionality of the fair la- lads slowed and with four minutes ever, they do have two of the league's | G 0 and Oregon the wes! 0 C itutionality ol . AT 48 I left to play, the Bears were leading, |best forwards, that will show a lot w'“- REEI OREG N ' boys trimmed the Buckeyes at Chi- that they couldn't sleep. I spent por standards (wage and hour) act ) | 28-25 when Waldron of the Haida of stuff when the kinks get smooth- TEAM 3 Y cag half the season flguring out WayS has been upheld in the U. S. Dis- | Hobson has no false hopes about of making them relax trict Court at Chicago in the case the lead to one point Hautala combination o e et hanging onto the champlonship. He "I never saw suc h a display of of the U, 8. versus Montgomery Miller ¢f the High School sunk| Henning's five, on the other hand, thinks Oregon will v 10ther energy l\w‘ wil"“;;:“-’““ ,“ -"(‘i(‘“"" ward and Company, according to one, followed by his team mate Mc- have practiced more than most| h ’ good team and readily pr it In six days with 0 miles o AV= word rcceived by B. D. Stewart, Shrigley, substitute for the Haida, | Guy Schubert is still a cracking good wn but he adds that “basketball to play for the national on the sev-| wMontgomery Ward refused o | came into the game for the first guard and » good shot. He led the| strength is scattered and no team '“f_“ A “])xmlm‘l‘ records of the wages pald time and got into the clear for a evening’s scoring with 13 marks, is apt to succeed itself as a na- Before the champlonship 88Me anq hours worked by its employ- charge-in shot that made it 32-29.| followed by always smooth-working | tional king.” The Webfoots lost With Ohio State I told Bob I’nw‘ ers. The Government obtained .a s His runninz mate, Staack, then|Leo Chapados. a four regulars our captain that our strategy would | g h0ena for the records and the Spot The Comers s S BN It to play and gut. the Haida in Seatdln, i playing a Dick ball hand- Coach Harry Hobson Is All The Webfoot boss has no formula. cye “‘\{"’:nW"’t\;‘llr‘:“:-"’m‘l‘“f:s*“’l‘:c';‘_ poena quushed on the grounds e R oo M T A0 S8, R 0 R Y DN L fer success. He thinks that any coach £ s T don't care PESage ol ghe act was not & vasH Un Ball Games- Reischl, Bear forward, planted a|passing is erratic. Another big as- Set for Defense of first, T told the boys. ‘I don't care ... i of the power of Congress. p o d 7 o H coll comer about the time he poope oo o g Noise Terrific High School after Powers and Mil-|Ed Metzgar, former Fireman cen- Blg Honors make them call the first time out. oo o ™l ol e Court ¥ ler had missed free throws, and then, Faids 35: High School 31. with the school leading 34-33, Nagy throws on Jones' foul Score Tied He sunk the first to tie the game, sounded After five minutes rest, and nm} ;ame under way again, Reisch) foul- two free throws and put the Haida land most of them will be gack to in front, 35-34, the final score. {next Tuesday's double-hecader. During that ball game, no player | Box scores were as follows: continual bedlam of noise in cheers' FT {and songs and snake dance, and Nagy spectators shouted at each other to Ropkins | High - School Coach Hautala took McMahon Referee George Willey to task for shrigley his whistle work after the game to Staack sat on the mid-floor stripe, the High Mead | Bchool lads gave just as many pokes- | in-the-eyes as their older opponents. Big rangy Nagy of the Haida to- | | talled highest of the evening with Reischl {11 points, but no particular player | Rice gerous to any outfit in the league | Hickey this season. | MéDenisls The High School has more speed | Jones a little more than some of the boys| Powers jcary handle themselves—but they | are smoother every way you look | good little squad. The Haida again is better than |last year. Flashy Love is gone, but without him, and with Ropkins, ,McMahon and Wagoner in there| | fighting all the time, the Haida is a | ;every game this year, it appears, in | contrast to last year when they lost {a lot of games in the last minutes First Game Henning's Five, very evi- strong, isunk a one-handed push shot to cut |ed out. That’s the Joe Snow-Art FAST GAME; : I Daniel, making it 32-27. squads and show a bit more polish. e will go all cut in defense of the eling thrown in and they were r AV ex-officio Alaska administrator < 0 : ith B ng mace {wo in a row with two minutes| Joe Bird, recently arrived from be to ‘run the legs' off the Buck- ,oppany sought to have the sub- Jeason upens wi ang- push shot to take the lead for the set on the squad is high-reaching will do all right who can Spot @ yay taired you get, keep running and The company's attorneys have baen i ot g omigy o of the Haida was given two free but missed the second, and the horn ed Wagoner, who made the first of got a rest, the students kept up a Haida (35) make themselves heard. ‘Wagoner cap the climax, but from where we Waldron Teams Dangerous |stood out. Both teams will be dan- | Hussey than last year—sometimes perhaps | Miller at it, and they rank as a mighty Nagy works better as a pivot man | club that will be able to go the limit | by weakening more rangy, more| ] - | 3 Totals dently <] v “-f‘fl.\l)n(‘(‘:l than the Moose, gave fans ALASKA FEDERAL inorerarea for the nighicap. thri- & er. Savings and Loan Assa. | of Juneau TELEPHONE 3 Knight Snow Hautala Westall Vories Sundquist Smith Guy Packstone Looking them over, the Moose | are going to have to get more ball | players like former Fireman forward | Art Hautala' and former Chilkoot | player Joe Guy, who did most of | the Moose scoring. | The Moose don't look as if they have had practice. They don't| KNOCKED OUT vloonomooool leamcwvwane | Totals jelovoonnuncy® 9 8 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Pat Davis welterweight hopeful, knocked out Tippy Larkin in the fifth round last |night with a right to the head and - S . Lttt ol A Some of Its Conienis B Gift Buying Suggestions. 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