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TH E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1940. L e e ————————— | | 5i|ch,ers Have Day On Mound len Teams]n]dion, Ma- jor Leagues, Only Get Eight Hits Each (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) teams in action yesterday in leagues averaged and making John statement that pitching ercent of a ball game easier the eight sult - of yesterday's . play moved Brooklyn within a single point of the first place Cincinnati club in the National League, while Boston ground in the Amer- ican Leagu Whitlow Wyatt pitched the Dodg- ers to a decision over the Boston with the help of one big in-| when the Dodgers got both Jake Mooty, night game expert, pitched Chicago to a win over Cin- cinnati. Chicago nicked Derringer SUBSTITUTE FOR SMOKER HERE T0 BE ON JULY 3RD Frankie Wilson Is o Meet Trambittas-Challenges Are Received Challenges have been recel adiogram by Slugger Weaver Bill Scribner, matchmaker ved by has two good fighters, one in the middieweight and th velterweight divisions. The promising boxers have not yet been jefeated in any Sitka meet. ng to meet the winners of the July 3 smoker in Juneau, in their divis- jons, for the sport card now being arranged for the Labor Day smoker here. For the smoker on July 8, which ,5 to be held in the A. B. rink and starting at 8 o'clock sharp, there has | been a substitute. Hank Brouilette, who was to have fought Jack Tram- | bittas, injured his ribs while in | training with his sparring partner Eddie Muruhy. The substitute is Frankie Wilson, | of Douglas, a type of fighter who for eleven blows. Mooty kept the Reds scoreless until the seventh in- ning. ( Fiddler Bill McGee whipped Pitts- | burgh with a seven - hitter| and Washington’s Dutch Leonard duplicated in beating the Boston | weight, so he could show his st““‘smme Red Sox. | The Yankees got a winning stfeak | to two games, the longest ak since June 15. The Yanks; beat | Philadelphia. / | Four Athletic errors spoiled Bucky Ross’s 8-hit pitching job. | - e - | ALL RIGHT; NEXT LOS ANGELES, Cal., sune 29— The McReynolds family claims a record of some ' kind Members ranging in age from 3 to 90 and belonging to four gen¢rations all| went up in a plane tegether, ! e s e A S T PHONE 767 | THRIFT CO-OP RETAILERS OF FAMOUS SHUBFINE and TASTEWELL PRODUCTS FREE DELIVERIES——3 Our Store Is as Close as Your Phone—SHOP EARLY PRICE IS*“NOT EVERYTHING'' 3 4T Economical General Electric Calrod Units : 'F‘{fi PRICE/:S NOT EVERYTHING"’ throws the gloves from gong to gong. Slugger Weaver says Wilson is clever and also fast. i Wilson has been in training for the last month in hopes something | | would turn up in his class, middle- at the smoker. EVERYBODY BUSY INDIANAPOLIS, June 29. was a busy week for the John F. Gillespie family, were graduated — Joan A third daughter, phine, got married. - e days ite Jose] Empire classifieds bring results. ITS TIME TO CHANGE YOUR HEAVIER LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY | Detroit. | Boston | New York | St. Louis | Chicago | Washington | PHONE 767 318 MAIN STREET SEATTLE IN 2ND DEFEAT, 2 STRAIGHT (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Seattles’ castoff of four years ago, Herman Pillette, pitched two in- nings of shutout ball last night from | and for the |League’s | |San Diego | Los Angeles i IUPcrtlnnd Two daughters o~inoinnati Frances Brooklyn from grade school and Theresa now York Jeanne from high school. Theresa * Chicago 17, and her father 50, had birth- Plt:sbirgh Marguer- st. Louis | Moose | city fathers handing the Pacific Coast leaders their second mokers at Sitka, stating that he | straight defeat by San Diego. | Oakland got 16 hits while lacing e other in the|Hollywood's Movielanders, who got two | ten hits but could not make them count. San Francisco evened the | series after trailing for six innings, Scribner says his proteges are will- |to win the game GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 3; San Francisco 4. Sacramento 4; Portland 3. Oakland 14; Hollywood 1. San Diego 6; Seattle 5. National League Boston 1; Brooklyn 2. Chicago 3; Cincinnati 2 St. Louis 8; Pittsburgh American League Philadelphia 1; New York 4 Washington 1; Boston 0. Gastineau Channel League (Second Half) Moose 5; Elks 3 2. STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 53 33 50 45 46 45 42 42 31 League Won Lost Pet. 616 549 511 .505 489 .483 477 .365 Oakland Hollywood Sacramento San Francisco National Pct. 644 643 625 531 411 411 .365 .351 Boston Philadelphia American League Won Lost 24 24 25 31 34 32 39 Philadelphia 36 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 1 0 0 1 0 0 e Pet. Cleveland .625 Pet. 1,000 000 Elks 4 000 Douglas 1T HAD T0 COME LOS GATOS, Cal, June 29.—The here seem to agree When Councilman pretty well, | Stanley Mills cast a “no” vote on a minor appropriation. It was said to be the first dissent in ten years. - e Empire Classifieds Pay! Now Every Woman Can Afford the Best Twelve members of the Cleveland Indians, including Pitcher Bob Fel- ler, have demanded the ouster of players made many charges including insincerity, ridiculing players and caustic public criticism. Vitt is shown conferring with President Alva Bradley in Cleveland. Bradley later said he was going to in- vestigate the charges and see “what they were all about.” When first told of the charges Vitt said he thought someone was joking. i Proposal for Compulsory Military Training Forces Several Issues fo Front (Continued irom Page One) | you) of all men between the ages of 18 and 48. This would put about 25,000,000 on the rolls, On the, basis of World War experience,! about 8,000,000 of these would be found physically unfit for military service. That army a potential of course would leave (hypothetically, —there would have to be exemp- tions) of 17,000,000 men. Actual-| ly, strategists consider only men from 19 to 35 for combat purposes and in this group there are only | about 12,000,000 men. From these rolls, then, be drawn the men who receive military training. we went into military on the same basis ‘that we went into armed force in the World War, we would have 4,800,000 men in trainthg before 1942, That's pos- sible, but it means the United States would have to turn itself into an even greater armed camp than it was in 1917 and 1918 COULDN STAND THE From what I can gather, i not the intention to put forward 'anything as drastic as that now. Our present defense program, ]even traveling “full speed uhead"‘ {couldn’t stand the gaff. | | What is more likely is that a| program will worked oul to draw from very narrow age limits, | perhaps 19 to 21 or 22, to put| 1,000,000 young men into train-| ,ing immediately. Even that has to clear its “bot-| would would Now, if training FF it Commercial Demand Vitt’s Ouster ODildest Bank in Alaska Safe Deposit PAPS WIN IN wooLY BALL GAME | . Kimball Lasts Four Batters| | -Dogs Ramble Over Playing Field j the first the Gas- ball game half of Last night's n the second tineaun Channel Baseball League, got away to as funny a st as | | any game ever played on this chan- nel ( | Bob Kimball, on the mound for| | the Moose, hit Ellenberg of the |Elks with his first pitched ball Then he walked Taguchi Then he hit MacSpadden with a pitched answered that one by | Sllecnberg home and Ad- firet dleman to That's when ashore and Clancy given the mound Havlic grounded and Taguchi | was cut off at the plate, but Pas-| quan lofted a long fly to center| lon which MacSpadden scored—and then Willey was hit by a pitched ‘bnll. the third in one inning Kimball stepped | Converse was Manager Oscar Vitt (left). The Moose came back in their opener of the second and scored two runs with Taguchi booting a ball at third to start the ball rolling and boot- ing another four batters later. In the fifth frame Snow scored from second base when Jolm.toni hit to Taguchi, Taguchi threw wide | catch with but tield | To even it up again, Taguchi got hit by a pitched ball in the Elks tle-necks,” and they are numer- half of the frame, went to third| ous. There are arms, tents, planes, ion MacSpadden's double flgainst} shoes and uniform Let's just|the right field fence and scored | take the last. {on Addleman’s roller to sécond. | Only a few weeks ago, Gen Tie Broken | George C. Marshal, Chief of Staff,| In the first of the seventh, Moose | said: he situation regarding|broke the tie with Lawson singling, | uniforms is critical, If it should|Schmitz advancing him with a sec- | become necessary to mobilize the|!ifice bunt, Guy getting aboard on national guard at peace strength,| MacSpadden’s error in left fleld.i we would not have on hand theliawso n scoring then on Snow's| cloth to' dommence the manufac-)single and Guy scoring on John- ture of uniforms for the 85,000|son’s grounder. additional men, I would say, for| TWo spectacular catches and one possibly four or five months. | fiasco with the dogs completed a Other army officials have esti- | Wooly evening. Johnson robbed Lewis mated that the 25 firms now man-|°f & three base hit in deep left in| ufacturing uniform might turn the fourth inning when he ran out 10,000 a week, If there were | | backwards, leaped in the air, twist- one “unHform. to & man and:po-|°0 BRQ came down with the ball. | body ever'wore one out or slipped| Focce-0dy by, WWiley and fipped his breeches, it would | ,Iw'”.” SRR prer X o | e T earts. to got 1000000 re- VIl hit by Snow in the fitth, but | cruits into the trappings of war. Iy Senplete o R0 | managed to ne: 4 ersault a i There ‘are other problems to il Come tp it e LAl compulsory military training, you in time to throw to second and see, than just getting out the men, | make a force-out. but it’s this last that yowll el Ry writing your Congressman about if|thirq, but while prancing in the you have any convictions. |third base line ditch, he was get- | 4 A T |ting far from safety and catcher P. SWEENEY DIES |Kelly Blake let fly a ball to third Patrick Sweeney, deputy United sacker Joe Werner—who had his States Marshal at Candle, died back to the play and was trying to recently in the hospital at Fair-|ccnvince a dog or a pack of dogs banks at the age of 68. The re-|that they should get off the dia- mains w flown to Nome for | mond. burial | The ball hit the ground, but e | Werner recovered in time to trap S. 0. EXPANDING | Willey between home and third. The Standard Oil is doubling the| Moose got eight hits, no errors. capacity of the diesel oil storage|Elks, unable to hit Converse, scored tanks at Fairbanks, only three, and made in turn five — - errors, Score and summary is as follows: Moose ABR H PO A slapped Johnson | as he went bv,| bounded into right the the ball Willey Lawson, ss. | Schmitz, 2b. Guy, cf. Snow, 1b. Johnson, If. Werner, 3b. Kimball, p. Converse, p. Sharek, rf. | Blake, c. ccooccoccoocel Savings Totals Ellenberg, cf. ... Moose Score ( \Sports and Ofher Classy b€l had doubled to left and had reached North Carolina Gridsfer Gets Pro Baseball Tryout George Stirnweiss, North Carolina football and baseball ace, has signed a contract with the New York Yankees. .The lad who passed his team to many victories last fall will take that accurate throwing i arm to the Yankee farm club at Newark, N. J, immediately after | spring examinations at Chapel Hill rmiveiss batted .391 in the 21 | ved by North Carolina's baseball team this year. He drove He is a second games in 28 runs and made only two errors in 126 chances. baseman. | to first and Pasquan, pulling out to| — catching them without losing their balance. A very appreciative au- dience helped in this contest im- mensely and many of the contest- ants and their dizs re ed 2 big d when their three minute time as over. The following is a list of the win- ners Pet Show A. The largest pet, won by as George Jr., whose entry. a large Bernard, weighed pounds. B. Smallest Pet, won Thompson with her canar; Belle.” Weight unkncwn. C. Queerest Pet. Winner, “Pan- ‘v) guinea pig entered by Ed- | ball, Willey by Converse, Taguchi by Converse, MacSpadden by Kim- ball and Ellenberg by Kimball; bases on ba. Kimball 2, Convers ; struck out, Converse 3, Koski 4; Stolen bases, Snow 2, Johnson 1; 1 fice hits, Schmitz 1; charge w defeat to Koski and credit victory to Converse; Umpires, Shaw and Iffert; Scored Bob Henning. GREATDAY ON FRIDAY IN"BOWL" Thom- ‘Duke,” St. 185 Ann Dixie eir,” 2 {mund Heisel and John Douglas. | D. Prettiest Pet. Winner“Che- |kie,” a Cocker Spaniel entered by Joan Sabin. (This was a very close decision by the judges between Che- kie and another Cocker Spaniel en- tered by Mary Gregory.) | Smartest Pet, Won by “Taf- Events Pulled Off fie,” handled by Earl Hunter. (The Su((eSSfu”y [dog followed his master’s commands {very well and showed signs of con- isiderable time spent in his traifing saying, “Every dog must have | Boys standing bread jump, ages true Friday after- 11-13—1st place, Russell Clark, jump en Bowl when!6 feet 8 inches; 2nd, Beverly Lane, 4 ; a chance (3rd, tie by Daniel Mor Lindy to “strut their stuff,” according to|DuPree and Tom Fukuyama. Director Harold F. Roth. Mickie,| 3. Girls standing broad jump, agzes spike, ‘Tafffe, Bingo, Christina,|11-13—1st place, Dorothy Thibodeau; sandy, Nick, Jep, Chekie, Rusty and 2nd, Alga Dapcevich; 3rd, Anna Skipper were only a few of the Neilson. many dogs and other pets onleredi 4. Running broad jump, boys ages in the big pet show. | 14-16—Won by John Floberg. They didn't need a pedigree to| Running broad jump, girls ages win in “our” contest but it may 14-16—Won by Ann Day evich help, scemed to be the decision of| 6. Sack race for boys, age the three judges, David Bernstein,|—I1st, Lee Nance; 2nd, Arthur Anderson, school teacher Sprague. from Bethel, Alaska, and Jim Bar-| 7. Sack race, ages 8-10, girls— rie, well known Juncauite. ‘lxl, Mae Dapcevich; 2nd, Helen A large variety of pets of all|Dapcevich; sizes and descriptions were entered,| 8. Novel method of crossing a varying from canaries to guinea line (open to all)—I1st,” Mary Greg- pigs. In weight they varied fromjory; 2nd, Mary Sperling; 2rd, Alga slightly under 200 pounds to so| Dapcevich. little they would hardly tip the| Soft Ball League scales. | Monday evening starting at 6:30 At 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon o'clock there will be a double-head- the contestants lined up their en-|er in the soft ball league with the tries and a parade was started at|first game being between the Haida the tennis courts going around the | Blues vs. the Independents. ‘rhe ball diamond and ending on the|second game to start just as soon stone wall near the Bowl office.|as the first is over to be between The animals were lined up each in|the Rinky Dinks and the Haida the care of its master and the judges | White team. On Tuesday, if the passed down the line making their weather permits, we will have the decisions. postponed game between the Fed- About 300 persol were at the erals and the Independents. The Bowl to see the events. Each dog | public is cordially invited to attend The g his day” came the Ever forty do; 3 8-10 James Banking by Mail Department Taguchi, 3b. MacSpadden, If. Addleman, c. was required to be held on a leash | until the time came for the contest for the smartest pet. At that time they were released to be “king for these games. There is no charge for activities at the Bowl. SRS e S ATTENTION MASONS Havlic, rf. | Pasquan, R Willey, 2b. Lewis, ss. Koski, p.-... a day.” The dogs showed up well for their young masters and mistresses | in spite of the enticing stimulation |8nd Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 at of a large audience, not to mention |the Masonic Temple in Juneau, about 20 cats of all sizes and de-|Monday evening at 7:30. Work in scriptions. The activities of the| the MM. degree and official visita- dogs varied from climbing a ladder|tion of P.W. Bro. C. P. Kirtland. and sliding down the slide, to stand- | Refreshments after lodge. ing on their hind legs, tossing pieceail- W. LEIVERS and SAM DEVON, of dog food off their noses and' Secretaries. adv. There will be called communica- tions of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 ean-—cou»—c.-a The B. 1. Behrends Bank co~cocomo~l GENERAL ELECTRIC $95,00 Standard of Quality! Alaska Electrie Light and Power Co. PHONE 616 Our Prices Are Seattle Prices! BRINGING UP FATHER Totals Summary Two-base hits, Willey Spadden, one each; hit by pitched " By GEORGE McMANUS MAY WE TOOT ? ? WE CARRY THE BEST (.)NLY IN ALL TYPES OF - OIL BURNING EQUIPMENT? WE EMPLOY ONLY THE BEST MECHANICS TO MAKE INSTALLATIONS! | ] WE GUARANTEE EVERYTHING WE SELL AND DO. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin PHONE 34 THAT REMINDS ME-1| MUST HAVE THE PIANO TUNED-AS | MUST RESUME MY SINGING LESSONST WELL-IT WON'T BE LONG NOW M BEFORE WE ARE HOME -OLD HOME-SWEET _HOME - AH-TO SIT ON THE VERANDA - AND. LISTEN TO THE BIRDS AND' HEAR THE PEOPLE FIGHTIN BAU- | HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THE SINGING LESSONS =

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