The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1940, Page 5

SEATTLE IN tained his mastery over the San Diego Padres, who haven't beaten him since the playoff of the 1938 season, as he hurled the Sacra- Ray Prim, Los Angeles southpaw, TWIN loss | mento Solons to a victory. [pitched his seventh straight vic- | LAST NIGHT Hollywood Takes Third, Game from Oakland- | FrietasHoldsPadres | (By Associated Press) The Portlardd Beavers, taking ad- vantage of ragged fielding and wild pitching, won a doubleheader from the Seattle Indians last night. The| Rainiers committed nine errors in| the two games | Hollywood made it three in a| row over Oakland last night as; Bill Fleming breezed his fast ball | past the Acorns for a decision and| holding them scoreless until the | ninth inning, | Tony - Frietas last night maln-‘ SR RIS, SAVINGS i HERE ARE | EARNING T 'New YoYrk 4% Your Money Is Available for with- drawal on request. Insured by U. S. Government up to $5.000. Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Telephone 3 | San Francisco . tory last night over the San Fran- cisco Seals, GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League Portland 7, 5; Seattle 4, 4. Los Angeles 1; San Francisco 0. Hollywood 5; Oakland 1. Sacramento 7; San Diego 1. National League Pittsburgh 2; New York 1. Chicago 8; Boston 4. St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain. American League Boston 4; Chicago 6. Washington 2; Detroit 5. Philadslphia 7; Cleveland 6. New York 13; St. Louis 8. Gastineau Channel League Douglas 6; Elks 12, F THE CLUBS ‘oast League Won Lost 6 67 62 60 59 57 53 42 League STANDING Pacific Pct. 644 5564 525 504 484 AT5 Beattle Oakland Los Angeles San Diego . Sacramento Hollywood Portland National 359 Pct. 699 600 549 Cincinnati Brooklyn Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Boston Philadedphia American League 469 451 .363 .346 Pct. 614 584 .534 523 512 418 418 402 Detroit Cleveland Boston New York Chicago ‘Washington St. Louis Philadelphia Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 5 3 5 4 3 6 — - Pet. 625 556 333 Moose Elks Douglas LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. E. W. Jenson was dismissed today from St. Ann’s Hospital where she has been receiving medical care. G M C T R UCKS Compare Them With All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CO. PHONE 411 e - “THE PRICE TAG IS PHONE 767 THRIFT COOP NOT EVERYTHING” PHONE 767 318 MAIN STREET RETAILERS OF FAMOUS SHURFINE and TASTEWELL PRODUCTS 3——FREE DELIVERIES—-3 Our Store Is as Close as Your Phone—SHOP EARLY “THE PRICE TAG IS NOT EVERYTHING” -3 Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial SafeD Savings eposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Juneau, Alaska 453 1 THE TIMMY SULLIVAN OF YANKEES; IS GOOD LUCK CHARM |MEH BATBOY Timmy is both humble By FERD BROWNING AP Feature Service Sports Writer | NEW YORK, July 26.—America’s kid baseball fans think Timmy Sul- livan “is the luckiest guy in the world. So does Timmy Sullivan. Timmy is the peppery little bat boy for the New York Yan-, kees. In the past four years he's earned about $2,000 in regular pay| —with tips totaling an extra $2-| The regular pay amounts to $20 a week. The “tips,” are Timmy'’s| share of the Yankees' World Series money. Timmy was mascot for Colum-| bia University athletic teams from! 1933 until 1936. Then Andy Coakley, | Columbia baseball coach, learned one day that the mascot almost matched some of the athletes in| age. He recommended to friend Joe McCarthy that Timmy be hired as Yankee batboy. Timmy saw his first World Se- ries from the Yanks' dugout a few months later, His employers won it. They haven't missed since. Timmy's pretty proud of that record. He plans to quit his bat- \ boy ' job, though, and leave Lhe Yankees to their own resour(‘cs' after they win this fall. (“Sure, we're a cinch to pull out.of this hole.”) Timmy doesn't look it but| he’s crowding 21—and a guy has to think of his future. Popular With Squad | The youth is popular with the players. The way they've treated | him in World Series cuts shows| that. In 1936 he received $500.| The champs voted him $750 in| 1937, $1,000 the next year, and $1,500 in 1939, He's a happy mixture of hum- ble helper and players’ pal. A crook of the finger brings him running but he can match barbs with the sharpest tongued ban- terers on the squad. Red Ruffing, pitching ace, stuck his head out of the dugout as Tim- my recounted his bat-boy experi- ences. The redhead chided: “Hey, fellows, look who's givin' pleces to the papers. Timmy! Tim- my’s tellin’ em what to put in the papers.” Timmy grinned and turned the redhead: “Somebody’'s gotta talk fast around . here until you guys get goin’." Ruffing chuckled and pulled his head back in. Four Southern Trips Timmy’s been south to training camp with the Yankees the last four years. He makes one eastern and two western trips each season and all the World Series jaunts. No other bat boy gets those breaks, he says. He chums around ‘with all the players, but Lefty Gomez is probably his closest- pal. Timmy has a score of small du- ties in addition to mere bat-tend- ing. He even fills in at first base on occasion for part of the pre-game infield drill. The infielders imme- to 750. | e diately try to knock him down with every throw. Timmy, all but bowled over, just grins and whips ’‘em back with all the power his 130-pdd JOE DIMAGGIO AND BATBOY SULLIVAN helper and players’ pal. pounds can muster. “Youw're Wrong, Umps” He's one of the most photo- graphed units of the Yankee squad. Timmy's always on deck at the plate to shake a home run | clouter’s hand and newsphotog- raphers dote on that shot. Once the camera caught him in violent disagreement with an umpire’s decision — Timmy standing hands outstretched in the “safe” gesture, the umpire beside him, thumbs up. I was right,” Timmy contends. The runner was a Yankee, Timmy hopes to land a secre- tarial job in the Yankee office at the completion of his bat boy ca- \reer. He's a graduate of Com- merce High School, spent a year at Central Commes 1 College. His current ambition, though, is |to sit in on another Yankee World Series triumph: “Five championships in five tries, that's what I want. Five for five and I'll be a‘atlsh(’d 2 Tlgers Win ToMainfain Leadership Cleveland’s Win Sireak Is Snapped-White Sox Keep Up March (By Associated Press) The Detroit Tigers defeated the Washington Senators yesterday to maintain a slim lead over the Cleveland Indians. Costly Senator errors helped the Tigers to three of their runs. The Athletics snapped Cleveland’s winning streak at five games ac Buck Ross scored his fifth triump! yesterday. The Chicago White Sox ran theil string of victories to seven game: by defeating the Boston Red Sox yesterday afternoon. The setback tc the Red Sox was the eighth in a row and came despite the fact that Jim .Tabor made two homers and Bobby Doerr made one. The Yankees salvaged a victory yesterday out of the three-game series with the Browns by slugging their way to a well earned decision. Hard luck dogged Hal Schu- macher again yesterday as the Pi- rates overcame his six-hit pitching to nose out the Giants, scoring the deciding run in the ninth without a hit. The first triple play of the seasor in the National League season failed to help the Boston Bees yesterday as they dropped the series fina to the Chicago Cubs. ———————— BREWERS TO SEATTLE Paul Brewer, with the PAA here has left for Seattle, accompaniec by his wife and daughter, on a vncanon trip of several weeks. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 26 ELKS WHIP ISLANDERS IN BATFEST Oldfimers F;;'ide Wares | on Douglas Pitch- er's Mound 1940. Without Claude Erskine, who is| at home with an injured eye, the Douglas ball club had a ragged time last night as they were defeated by the Elks in a 12-6 slugfest, but fans enjoyed it and the Douglas ball club took their licking with| smiles that looked good to zhe\ grandstand, It was something like going through the old family album last | night. Big Andy Andrews, who for | many. many years has not seen much action on the pitcher’s hump, | started the game last night fon‘ the pitcher-less Islanders. Lacks Early Day Drive For two and a half innings the veteran Douglas mainstay l,cmed; over a ball that lacked its early day power, and finally, after let- ting in five runs, stepped ashore to his old position at first base and| let another veteran take the mound | —Jimmy Manning. | | Jimmy, who used to smoke them| over the rubber some years ago so hard that few catchers could| hold him, appeared to be thorough- | ly enjoying himself, although his cohtrol was bad and he cut the| heart of the plate too frequently. In Bottom Spot *Losing second place, facing Lhc threat of -another game tonight, and seemingly out of the second half race, Douglas had a lot to worry over last night, but they came up, grinning—and by the sound of the fans, they had a lot of rooters in the ‘stands. Even as badly beaten as they were, Douglas did get the first tal-| lies, scoring three runs in the| second inning. Elks tied the score| in their half of the second, then| made six runs in the third. Cutting the lead down to three runs, Doug- las' pulled in three more runs in| the fourth frame, but Elks pulled | away again in the fifth by mark-| ing~three talliés. Lewis’ Good Pitching | Hardest hit ball of the home run- less game was that made by Mec- | Cay in the second inning. He\ banged out a golfer's drive to left that landed in the pnrkcd cars for ‘@ griple: ITiewis pitched the first six in-| nifigs for the Eiks, but went out| of ‘the 'box in the seventh to give big Bill Ramsey a chance to loosen up his arm. Tonight Douglas and Elks meet again at Firemen's Park, and Sun- iay, Elks and Moose are to tangle, while Monday, Moose play Doug- as. Box score and summary is as fol- lows: Elks A Taguchi, 3b Ellenberg, cf Addleman, ¢ Willey, ss-cf MacSpadden, 1b Nielsen, 1f Lockridge, rf Kumasaka, 2b ewis, p-ss Ramsey, p [ R G O S el ] SRR ocxmocOoONOON P Totals Roller, 2b Manning, 3b Andrews, p-l1b Rustad, ss Jensen, 1f McCay, 3b-1b Bell, ¢ Niemi, cf .. Miller rf .. Klovdahl, cf . Totals ... Summary j0-base hits: Bell, Klovdahl, El- 8, 2, Lockridge; three-base/ ats: McCay; hit by pitched ball; vmeSpadden by Andrews; bases on 3'. Andrews 3, Lewis 2; struck Ramsey 1, Lewis 4, Andrews I, Manning 1; wild pitches: An- irews 2, Manning 1; double plays: Lewis to Kumasaka to MacSpad- den; charge defeat to Andrews, BRINGING UP FATHER HELLO -WHAT-YOU SAY MAGGIE'S BROTHER TOOK OUR ELECTRIC STOVE ? WELL-YOU CALL HIM UP AN' TELL HIMN TO RETURN T RIGHT Away- " M GONNA SHOW THAT FANLY, THAT THEY'VE TO STOP TAKIN' OH!YES-SIR- CAL! HIM UP-BUT HIS B%-ER ANSWERED -AN'ADMITTED THEY HAD THE STOVE- BUT THEY DON'T HOW TO | credit victory, 5S. lates * The third in a series featuring the steamers o) Alaska’s greatest fleet. e — Lewis; sacrifice hits: Taguchi; stolen bases: Jensen, | Klovdahl, Nielsen 2, Lockridge; um- | pires: Shaw and Iffert. 'BOTANIST SEES NEW WEALTH IN Territory to Have Valuable| Industry from Bogs, Says Dr. Riggs Thousands of acres of Southeast | Alaska “muskeg”, the peat bogs that along the Territory’s coast, soon will furnish Alaska with a new in- dustry, according to Dr. George B. Rigg, University of Washington botanist. An account in the Seattle Times concerning Dr. with Alaska peat continues as fol- lows: “Alaska peat, which varies in depth from three to 20 feet, is un- usually acid in reaction. This con- dition furnishes ~ highly desirable quantities for improving alkaline agricultural soils of certain sections of the Pacific Coast. Equal to Foreign Product “United States Forest Service of- ficials recently shipped a sample ton of Alaska peat to Pacific Coast importers of European peat, which formerly supplied the heavy Pa- cific Coast demand. Importers’ ex- periments proved the Alaskan var- iety to be the equal to the foreign import in cvery way. Now that war has eliminated the foreign competi- tion, commercial development of the Alaskan supply is expected immed- iately. Low transportation rates for the product have been estab- lished by Seattle-Alaska shipping companies. Washington also, are being developed by Seattle interests, Dr. Rigg said An outstanding authority on bogs, to the study of which he has de- voted most of his life, Dr. Rige frequently consults with commercial peat harvesters in Seattle and has surveyed Alaskan bogs. Used by Poultry Raisers “In harvesting peat for horticul- tural use, the heavy accumnlatior of vegetable matter is first drained, By GEORGE McMANUS McKinley is 5,000, ALASKAN PEAT range from tidewater to forest line| Rigg's experiments | “Small peat bogs around Lake BARANOF 55 mount meKinL<y SERVI(® Mhis seasom to Scutheastern and Southwestern r. Each of these twin ships measures COMPANY then cut and dried. Shredded peat also is used by poultry raisers, rm'l stable bedding and fruit and veg- | etable packing. [ 1 “Tentative plans now being pre- | pared by Alaskan interests call for | the exploitation of a 1,600-acre mus- ‘km. area near Petersburg. Seattle \umnula(l!u(‘r\ have devised an ec-| | cnomic method of mechanical de ‘l\vdxuuon air drying being impos- sible in Alaska's humid climate. | Other Alaskan centers where peat preduction is feasible include Ket- [(lukm Metlakatla, Wrangell | Juneau.” ‘Alaska Road Is Urged as SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 26. —America's defense program has revived plans for an Alaska-to-Ar- gentina highway. The road long has been advo- cated by western motoring organi- zations. It again has been brought (to the attention of Congress by W‘Thomas P, Henry of Detroit, presi- dent of the American Automo- bile Association, who points out it would be valuable for moving troops and munitions. Existing highways form part of the route. Some of the longest stretches yet to be developed ave in Canada and Central America. WAR-APPETIZER ARCADIA, Cal. July 26. — The menus at George Young's lunch counter have the bill of fare on one side and the latest war news on the other. Young says it at- tracts trade and “the customers eat more.” and Defense Plan Alnska ports, the S&. Baranof and the SS. Mount MeKinley are scheduled to alternate on Wednesday sailings from Seattle, and to be in service this winter on a schedule to be announced feet in length, 5114 feet in breadth, and has a displacement of 8,900 tons. The gross tonnage of the Baranof is 5.004, and of the Maunt The SS. Baranof accommodates 200 first class passengers, and accommodations for 209 are offered on the SS. Mount McKinley. ALASKA STEAMSHIP \ [ SAFEGU AR D — British in- terest in this steel and rubber corset invented by Gera Laughlin is announced by U. Armor corp. It's being wern above by Gladwin Hill, in N. Y. ————— mnpln ciassifieds bimg resultl. GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES ® PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD