The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1940, Page 5

lywood, the first game victory in the present series. Portland and Sacramento split a doubleheader last night. SEATTLE IS GIVEN SWAT BY OAKLAND San Diego?fially Wins Game from Hollywood First in Series (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Oakland fans had something to cheer out last night after the second placers in the Pacific Coast League spanked Seattle with a shut-out game, Jack Salveson held | the Rainiers to seven scattered hits. Seattle Ilal Turpin bheld Oakland fairly Oakland well but gave way to a pinch hit- Los Angeles ter in the eighth.®Ira" Seribner {San Diego gave up three of OdKland’s blows. | Hollywood San Francisco defeated Los An- Sacramento geles last night. Both teams take San Francisco a rest today Portland San Dieg GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Portland 2, 2; Sacramento 6, 1. Hollywood 1; San Diego 7. San Francisco 7; Los Angeles 5. Beattle 0; Oakland 4. National League Boston 8; Cincinnati 7. Brooklyn 4; Chicago 11. St. Louis 3, 5; Philadelphia New York 5; Pittsburgh 2. American League Chicago 9; Washington 1, Detroit 4; Boston 0. St. Louis 9; Philadelphia 7. New York 15; Cleveland 6. 2 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS Cacuic Coast League Won Lost 317 Pet. 565 523 491 474 174 459 352 51 38 National League Won Lost 52 25 50 4" 44 35 33 28 26 i took a win over Hol- | | | SAVINGS HERE ARE EARNING 47 Your Money Is ® Available for with- drawal on request. Insured by U. S. Government up to $5,000. Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia American League Won Lost 49 33 49 34 47 43 .37 35 Pct 508 590 573 Detroit Cleveland Boston New York Chicago St. Louis Washington 36 Philadelphia 32 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 4 3 3 3 2 3 -, RED CROSS DONATIONS 538 474 461 434 .395 Pct. 571 500 -400 Moose Elks Douglas Contributions to the Tanana Val- ley Chapter of the Red Cross for relief of war sufferers in Europe totalled $2,504 up to July 17, ac- cording to the Fairbanks News- Miner. Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Telephone 3 e The Daily Alaska wmpire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. KS Compare Them With All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CO. PHONE 411 e o “THE PRICE TAG IS NOT EVERYTHING” PHONE 767 PHONE 767 THRIFT COOP .. Didest Bank in Alaska SHURFINE and TASTEWELL PRODUCTS Commercial 3——FREE DELIVERIES——-3 Safe Deposit Our Store Is as Close as Your Phone—SHOP EARLY “THE PRICE TAG IS NOT EVERYTHING” Savings Banking by Mail Department | world THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940. (FOURTH OF A SERIES) Having mastered the dog paddle, start appeals to you most, such as the stroke, lie on either side, people. water. inas The upper arm, as the under arm is reached forward. I prefer the crawl, and advocate first learning to roll from side to side, so as to get the arm out of the waier on the over: beginners do not roll sufficiently and plow s ting any traction with the arms on the roll arm is naturally partly out of the water. 1t is good practice to hook up your toes on the edge of the pool and roll the upper torso and shoulders as you go through the arm stroke. GET IN THE SWIM By JOHNNY WEISSMULLER i Former World Sneed Chamnion though the right side is preferable for The arm stroke is an aiternate pull, with neither hand breaking | cissors kick is used, the legs drawn up and ti s movement, with the kick made on the downward pull of the ; TALE NOW CHAMPION OF CLASS ‘Wins Over Al Hostak by ‘, Technical Knockout in Thirteenth Round SEATTLE, July 20.—Tony | former stcel mill puddler from | Gary, Ind, last night methodically | mowed down Al Hostak of & to win the National Boxing Ass | ciation's middleweight chamy | ship with a technical knockout in |the thirteenth round of a sched- |uled fifteen rounder. Zale entered the pounds and Hostak v | pounds with whatev |" Hostak was knocked down in the In the side- | tweifth and thirteenth rounds. most | Zale floored Hostak who never | before had hit the canvas Hostak never lcoked like a champion and he showed fire only {in a couple of rounds last night. In the first rcund of the fight ? |he appeared worried over his hands MOst | g said tow” audibly once when %€t | ho attempted to hit with his left onelhand. The hand was not broken, | however, according to physicians. Hostak's timing was off and his heaviest blows apparently did not affect Zale. ring at 158 ighed 150 3/4 next stroke lestroke or the crawl n kicked out 'm stroke t ahead without It you turn the body, YANKS GET " FORMBACK IN HOMERS 1Detroi1 Tigfiens Hold on Top Spot with Shut- out Over Boston ‘ (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS( | The New York Yankees defin- itely are the coming champions and lcok daily more like their old iselves as the American League 'race takes on a new character. Yesterday the Yankees made their third straight win, a victory with home runs in which Babe Dahlgren got two. The Yanks got seven runs in the first inning. Detroit tightened the hold first place in the American League with a shutout over Boston idges. Chicago stopped Washington yes- | t0 win the batting crown with a terday. Brooklyn took a beating from | | i | | and the end of the year. Rip Rad-| on| had on 1936 when Chicago and the game was marred | by a fistic free-for-all atfer Hugh Casey hit Claude Passeau with pitched ball. e e a In 100 years the use of tobacco Subscripe to 'whe Daily Alaska Em- the pire — the paper with the largest via | guaranteed circulation America around | to America again Spain, the Philippines, China, Siberia and Alaska. spread from THE BRAKES The B. M. Behrends Bank funeau, Alaska Zale also hurt his left hand, but then merely switched his attack with his, right which was equally daming to the champion as his {left had been Hostak went down after two kid- ney punches. Both of Hostak's eyes were most closed at the end Hostak took the count once in the eighth round. Hostak told Zale after the fight: “You are going to be a cham- pion for a long time. You can hit like the devil. I just could not take them, try as hard as I might, You really hurt me.” Manager Eddie Marino said APPLING IN SPOT T0 COPE LEAGUE SLUGGING TITLE AP FEATURE SERVI(‘E CHICAGO.—Luke Appling, Chi- cago shortstop, may win the 1940 American League batting champion- ship. Why? Because al- of nine Appling is per-| haps the greatest September hitter in baseball, In each of his nine years as a regular with the White Sox Luke has boosted his average| at least 15 points between July 4| he fight again. One Man’s | City WELCH, W. Va., July 20.—When John 'W. Blakely took over as Mayor of Welch 16 years ago, the community had a population of 3,000, was ill-lighted, ill-paved, and in debt. Blakely served eight terms and decided that was enough. He left his' successor 'a city with a population of 7,000, with sidewalks, uniformed’ police, a paid fire de- partment and a balance in the city treasury of $500. - .o g cliff of St. Louis usually falls off | a few points in late season and Lou Finney of Boston and Taft Wright of Chicago are hitting over their heads. On July 11 Finney led the league with .35, followed by Radcliff, .355; Appling, .355; Wright, and Barney McCoskey, Detroit, .346 Only once before has Applin; as high an average at this of the year. That was in he as hitting 362 He bettered his average by 26 points time 388 average. In 1937 Appling average from .302 on July 317 at the finish and last he jumped from 209 to .314. So keep an eye on Luke—ne may be the new champ. - - d his 4 to year incre A standard musical pitch A above middle C hours a day from Beltsville, Md, by the national bureau of stan- dards. - Try a classified ad in The Empire N'THOLD porches. DRY SPELL AT Joe Kultel, White Sox first baseman (left), scrambles madly in an effort to ”t back on third base after over-running it in the seventh inning of a game with the Boston Red Sox, but Third Sacker Jim Tabor | of Boston »does a body dive across the sack to cut him off and register an out. BRINGING UP FATHER WELL-NOW, I'LL GO HOME AN’ TAKE A NAP - IT'LL BE GOOD TO GIT BACK IN ME ROOM AN' TAKE A SNOOZE ON ME FAVORITE SOFA- SORRY- SIR-BUT WHEN YOU WERE AWAY-YOUIR WIFE'S BROTHER CALLED-AND SENT ME OUT TO MAIL A LETTER - AND WHEN | RETURNED HE WAS GONE AND SO WAS YOUIR SORA AND CIGAR-STAND- WITH IT= Zale, | doubted whether Hostak would ever H - is broadcast 24 ° | * By GEORGE McMANUS | CALLED HIM UP AND HE BAWLED ME OUT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET THE PILLOWS TRAT GO to about July season arrived, MODES South American influence is strong in Lilly Dache's collection of new hats. hat with the generous drape about the chin is in “chi: The Peruvian tambourine, center, is anchored to a tiny knitted skull cap. striped hod of Peruvian wool. MINER MAKES LARGE PROFIT INSIMPLE WAY HALIFAX COURT HOUSE, N. C., July 20.—His neighbors thought | W. Passavant was making mistake four years ago when gave up his modest machine “shop a| he | and started a gold mine, Today|! meet | terested few wouldn't trade with him. There were other gold mines in Halifax County, some inactive, and about $3,000000 had been taken out But Passavant who thought he had found a vein of ore, was without mining experi- ence, He read up “on geology, then bought a second-hand rock crush- er for $5. He worked alone with a mercury and amalgam system | of taking gold from ore. What he | profits is his own business, but Clifton C. Daugherty, a state as- places the tors of the Red Cross from Wash- ington, | the o | this evenir | primarily for pleasure, is sayer, says “that little mine nets | him a lot more than any machine | shop TI've seen around these parts.” | Now Passavant plans to install a cyanide plant to refine all the crushed ore, And he expects that for every $1,000 he already has made he will recover $1,000 more, D This Hous Was Built Backwards PENNINGTON GAP, Va, —Hugh Massingill owns a house | which was built backwards. It hap- | pened like this; | About 18 years ago Cam Lewis| built a cottage on a knoll. A later owner sold earth from the Kknoll| until only a block of clap support- | ed the cottage. Then the corners! were propped up and the clay dug away, leaving the building on stilts, When Massingill bought the house he built a new set of room underneath the old, and added L G R OME IS FOLLOWED BY RAIN The dry spell at Nome has been followed by rain and miners are consequently happy. There con- tinuous sunshine from April 1 1 when the rainy - - - - Subscribe for The Empire. LOOK DOWN THE CELLAR AN' SEE IF THE FURNACE 'S STILL THERE! July | K o[t/re MOMENT by Amy Porter The wide-brimmed Gaucho med for Indian corn in South America. Close to the head again is the " a color n |RED CROSS MURSING SATISFACTION DIRECTOR DUE HERE Miss Annabelle Public Health IS THREE FOLD NOTRE DAME, Ind, July 20. When Cliff Brosey, Notre Dame shotputter, tossed the ball 51 feet, 2 3/4 inches for the Irish this year, his chest swelled with three- I .| fold satisfaction. He scored his 4 first victory in four attempts over Archie Harris of Indiana, a rival of high school days; he set a new state meet record, and he broke {Don Elser's Notre Dame record Empire cuassifieds bitng results. |of 51 feet, 6/10 inches. Peterson, Nursing one of Direc- D Princc on herz C., is a passenger Charlotte, due Miss Peterson, while here with individuals in- in Red Cross work. - ARE NOT NUMBERED YA IN ROTATION, THUS: 1,2,3/} THEY RUN: 13,1002, 47- 7 Heven RicHey, THE WORLD'S FIRST AND ONLY WOMAN AIR-MAIL PILOT/ filuromrx’, houses are not numbered con: streets, with few exceptions, have no names, and an addr only the section of the city in which a house is situated. utively, and their numbers ear no relation whatsoever to their location. First house, first num- ker, ete. Odd, isn’t it? GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY COAL——WOOD LUMBER-—-GROCERIES % PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD