The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1940, Page 5

DOLLY GRAY TELLS ABOUT FIRST MITT Local Basel;aIIAFan Recalls refreshed. He sat in the hard- backed chair in his office at the Gity Dock and reminisced . . . and told the story of Gunson, the origi- nator of the first catcher’s mitt, a mitt now in bascball's Hall of Fame, the National Baseball Musc- um in Cooperstown, N.Y. “The glove was born dent,” said Dolly as he | stor) “It happened in 1888 when Gun- |son was catching for the Kansas City Blues.” A foul tip split one of his fingers and as a result of the swelling it looked as if he told the | by acci- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940. SEATTLE IS |Win Streak MOVINGUP Of Dodgers BYVICTORY Is Broken San Francisco Is Checked?(incin n a}i.léeds Finallyi Joe Gunson by Story In Magazine could not catch- the coming game. The other catcher, too, had a split | hana and it looked tough for. the Blues. In those days there were no J. L. (Dolly) Gray. Alaska's mitts, the catchers.wearing gloves grandfather of * baseball, told a'similar to men's kil gloves for story today of his 1939 trip to tne!dress today. world series and a visit with his friend, Joe Gunson, who invented the first catcher's mitt. His mem- ory had been refreshed by an ar- ticle about Gunson, catcher 1tor the Kansas City Blues in 1888, in the May issue of the Baseball Magazine. “Gunson got a bright 1dea, sewed the fingers of the glove together, padded it with wool, stitched it with wire to make it stiff and cov- ered it with buckskin. And thus the first catcher’s mitt was born.” Mitt Successful All during the doubleheader that had worried the manager of the Blues, Gunson was behind the bat- ter's box, and the mitt was a success. When other playe: saw the degree of success Gunson had achieved, they, too, wanted a mitt and almost every catcher in the league used Gunson's. But Gunson, for various reasons, failed to patent his origination, and as a result he is merely known as the originator of the mitt, and not as a man who had a good idea and made some money from it. Alaska’s most avid baseball fan, Gray, who says that he thinks a big-league baseball player is a greater man than the President, had been corresponding with Gunson for some time. He wrote to the inventor of the mitt after adding an eastern newspaper’s’ story of Gmnson to his scrapbook and explained that Gunson the first pro-catcher that had ever seen and he saw him way back when. Dolly himself played with the Blues in 1906, '07 -named, and '08, | And so Alaska’s grandfather of Visits Gunson in Philly | baseball spoke of his friend, the And, as Dolly tells the story, 8randfather of the catcher’s mitt there was nothing for him to do but yisit Gunson when he made' a pilgrimage to the East to at- tend the World Series last year. Dolly and his wife went to Gun-| son’s home in Philadelphia as had been insisted, and visited him un- til the wee sma’ hours of the morn- ing. When Dolly walked away, uc carried with him a baseball auto- BABY BOY BORN T0 VAL POORS | Mr. and Mrs. Val Poor are the graphed by Gunson, and prized to l::;i‘:::z :{ Sat_ b:x’;n"s)all)-lyos:z:; ’]:lzz such an extent by Dolly now that new citizen tipped the scales at he “wouldn’t take $1,000 for it.” |7 pounds 2 ounces at birth and This all happened on the 22nd has been named “Val Joseph.” of September, 1939, as was proved The father is an employee of by the date on the autographed the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining ball. Company. Memory Refreshed | by Oakland-Solons Wallop Padres (By Associated Press) The Seattle Rainiers moved into a tie with the Los Angeles Stars| last night for third place by de- feating Portland 5 to 3. Rookie Joe Orrell was wild in the first inniag and that was when the Rainiers did their main scoring Milo Candini, big Oakland right- hander, checked San Francisco last night by allowing only six hiis. Oakland won 4 to 2. The game was an iuter-city contest. Sacramento bombarded three San Diego hurlers last night for 18 hits to even the series and win 9 to 2. Righthander George Mun- ger, young Sacramento hurler, al- lowed San Diego only six hits, Hollywood evened the series with Los Angeles last night, defeating the Angels, to 2. Rube Thompson made a homer over the right field in the sixth with one man on base and this was responsible for the win, GAMES WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League San Diego 2; Sacramento 9. Los Angeles 2; Hollywood 3. Oakland 4; San Francisco 2 Seattle 5; Portland 3. National League Brooklyn 2; Cincinnati 9. | rain, | American League | Cleveland 1; Philadelphia 5. | St Louis 3; New York 5. Boston 12; Chicago 4. Detroit 8; Washington 20. | STANDING OF THE CLUBS | Pacific Coast League ! Won the Stars winning 3| Others postponed on account m‘ Stop Brooklyn by | Batting Spree (By Associated Press) The sensational nine-game win- | ning streak of the Brooklyn Dodgers | crashed on the rocks yesterday by | the overwhelming victory of the Cincinati Reds who batted around in the fourth inning for eight of | their nine runs. The score ended 9 to 2 for the only game played | in the National League Pearson Holds Browns Monte Pearson held the St Louis Bro to five hits yester- day as the Yankees rapped threc hurlers for nine blows to win 5 0 3. Slamm Out Hits The Detroit Tigers slammed four Washington Senator pitchers to win 8 to 2 Two Homers in Eighth The Boston Red Sox smashed the | Chicago White Sox for two eighth | inning homers and two doubles to| win 12 to 4 Plane frip | Resuls in ~ Bag Limit ‘ Yol | Nimrods Who Caught $30 | Rainbow Trout Have |~ Reason fo Brag The merry ha-ha given last week Dramatic Clearance VEW SPRING BETTER DIRES OVER 100 NEW SPRING DRES! AT JUL YOU v S N Y CLEARANCE PRICES AVE 2.50 TO 8.59 ON EVERY DRESS!? No Approvals!? OPEN UNTIL OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF BETTER DRESSES GOES ON SALE TOMORROW, in a thrilling clearance of remarkably lovely dresses. All originals and ex- clusive styles . . . flaitering models in the season smartest silhouettes . . . You'll not only find lo dresses but you'll save handsomely. 9.5¢ 12.50 14.50 19.75—25.00 l 6050 SMART blacks with frosty white trims. PRINTS, pastels and dots. JACKETS, redingoat, costume dresses. MILITARY ftrims. “CASH and Carry” pocket. 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(to three local fishermen, who Just today, Dolly's memory was' Daily Empire classifieds pay. |Oakland .19 13 594 |caught the famous $30 rainbow, was easaasas i e b R —_ - |san Diego 18 13 581 returned with interest today when | Seattle 15 14 517|they came back from their second . | Los Angeles 15 14 517 |airplane fishing trip . . . but this i ITS TIME TO | sacramento 15 17 469[time with their creels full and| = » o CHANGE YOUR Hollywood 1“1 453 | overflowing | L4 | 8an Francisco 180 4 433| The three, Fred Jacgel, Jim O'- - e i | Portland 12 17 414/ Neil and Dean Hammond, yester- Q"“l“y Since 1887 THINNED - ouT | National League |day flew into Lake Florence with LUBRICANTS' | Won Lost Pct ;Julmny Amundsen, fished for a yars , ! | Brooklyn 9 1 .900|little over two hours, according to Vi B T N 7 2 e | Cincinnati 7 3 700| the story, and returned with the 2 b&‘nmm the: whaling industry ( Miss Wing's 15-year masquerade| Intensive working of ‘the Trans- o co“ l J‘Ncw York 4 4 500 AAT pilot before dark, everyone, | thi t-had to do with the Pacific. as a man was revealed when she at- | vaal gold-fields in 1939 boosted pro- A . 0 s “mn Chicago 7 7 500 including Anx:undb;\|1 wlti) his llmn'i M sState Department official tempted to obtain an automoblile | duction to 12,819,344 fine ounces, an lu | Pittsburgh v T 6 400| The largest -cutthroat of 'the|chccked up on that and discov- ARE DuMpED drivers license. She said that she|all-time record. BRI‘A"O“ com““ PRULE b ke W A, 3 lered Doctor Townsend's hobby.| gave herself a men's haircut and| ok n- St. Louis 4 6 400 | catch was caught by Jim O'Neil ) . | I3 i P 3 5 375 S . He found that not anywhere in donned men’s clothes because she | Fr——————— — — e ;.l;hf?delnlna Bpeig S0 ssneaker play” and measured | (. oy books is there such a I“ (HI(AGO found it dittieult to practice the| | Bill'e Parcel Deli ) : Won Lost Pot. |it really should have measured 24 PiOjition and habltation of the) ., R [t A Adeys el Seniande, Top raak: PHONE 701 ; TODAY'S BATHROOM IS ELEGANT | Cleveland 8 4 657 inches but.becatse he had to force| UPALOWN Or .unimportant islands Strike Called vesfefday—‘:'icé::f:‘ .S:":”'"""L; d‘" i DAY or NIGHT ’ Boston § 4 607/t Into his creel, it folded up like Of the world as in Doctor Tow- o | el g ‘ Frompt, Courteous Delivery | BRIGGS Beaut ware Detroit 7 5 583an accordion and lost two inches,|S¢Nd’s minutely pin-jabhed maps Federal COI'I(Illa'OfS | Bill Rudolph, Owner and Operator 4 ‘Washington 6 6 .500| Hammond was fishing in the D"Dmiv’:‘_; VZ: ;f;‘:;::o;h:nv;hfl:;; 4 ]’r Arb"ra“o“ l < 5 s 455 | th of a ¢ A 5 Iz » white and they're just grand. Philadelphia 5 & .38 time he saw two fish strike for|COPMibte mast to 4 nation'sclaims [ ON DISPLAY! Chicago 3 8 .213Hammond's egg, a small one and|'°.18nds which fly no flags. CHICAGO, May 2.—Twenty trucks| H. S. GHAVES of milk were halted in the outskirts | of the city limits today and wcmf ear ea | dumped into ditches in the midst| |of a milk strike which has cut off the supply of most of the consumers| GEROME, Idaho, May 2. — The of the state. | veteran New York Yankee Scout, Federal conciliators are endeavor- | Chick Fraser, is reported near death | ing to arbitrate the issue |in & Gerome Hospital. Fraser is suf- The strike was called yesterday fering from a hlood infection. morning by the Milk Wagon Drivers - Union, who held out for the old| Cash income from livestock and | | wage scale of $40 plus commissions, | livestock products to farmers liv-| | which had expired at midnight Tues- | ing in the Eleventh Federal Reserve “The Clothing Man” | | HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER | & MARX CLOTHING | the 22-incher. The smaller, measur- |ing about 14 inches, struck Ham- STILL CLAIMING LAND | mond’s bait and the other was/ DO you see why the Doctor’s | hooked by O'Neil when he sneakad hobby has become one of the im- !a cast behind Hammond and tossed portant treasures in the State De- | the bait in front of the large cut-|Partment files? | throat. The idea that the United States' Florence Lake, according to the|ls Static as far as its land acqui- ! fishermen, is one of the best trout|Sitions are concerned can be dis- i | fishing spots in the Territory and| missed right now. 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