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Tl HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1940. SEATTLE IN 1{MOREWIN FROM SACS' In Fact Allfipers in Pa- cific Coast League Crush ‘ Opposition Wednesday (By Associated Press) Rinaldo “Rugger” Ardizoia, Hol- lywood’s strikeout master who has been sold to the Yankees, lasted a little more than an inning last night against San Francisco. He faced eight batters, gave six hits, a walk and two runs came in be- fore he was derricked | The other games last night were the same old story, the three top- pers bowling over their cpposition led Sacramento giving Se- Paul Gregory d with three-hit pitching, a victory Cakland won on an error Kled with a 30-hit affair from Diego. attle sprin- San| 0ld Guys | Hurl Good | OnMound =% F=m Hubbell, Al Smith, Screw-' ball Exponents, Show ‘Em How fo Win (By Assoc Ialfd Precs) The old guys, with the funny de- liveries, did all right yesterday Carl Hubbell and Al Smith, foremost exponents of the sc ball, gave {lashes of their old form the best pitching of the day mith did the best. Working un- der lights for Cleveland last night Smith limited Chicago io a single hit, Jimmy Webb's single, thus the in ! enabling Cleveland to hold a two- owd of 59.000, the game lead. A largest ol the ason, witnessed the | game Hubbell five-hitted the Boston bunch for 12 innings, then Mel Ott, on the bench as a pinch hitter, sin- The basement Portland got 14!gled and eventually scored the win- hit twice hat Los Angeles got,|ning run pbut the Angels won in the second game, Manuel Sal- | vo blanked his former mates and GAMES | won with eight hits 1 Pacific Coast League | Meanwhile, Brooklyn flubbed a Seattle 5; Sacramento 1 | chance to close the gap behind idle Portland 4; Los Angeles 6. | Cincinnati after winning the first Hollywood 2; San Fran . jeame as the pitehing staff folded Oakland 7; San Diego 6. | completely National League | New York 1, 0; Boston 0, 6. Philadelphia 5, 9; Brooklyn 6, 6 Pittsburgh 6; St. Louis 7. American League | Boston 3; New York 8. Washington 5; Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 7; Detroit 13. Chicago 0; Cleveland 4. Gastineau Channel League | Elks 6; Moose 0. | STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet.' Seattle 93 47 664 Oakland ki 64 546 Los Angeles 75 65 .536 San Diego 1 69 507 Sacramento 0 b 495 Hollywood 68 12 478 San Francisco 62 8 443 Portland 45 95 321 National League Won Lost Pet. Cincinnati 67 37 644 Brooklyn 63 43 594 New York 54 48 529 Pittsburgh 53 51 510 Chicago 54 55 495 St. Louis 51 52 .495 Boston 41 64 .390 Philadelphia 34 67 337 American League Won Lost Pect. Cleveland 67 44 604 Detroit 65 46 586 Boston 58 52 527 New York 56 51 523 Chicago 55 51 519 Washington 48 60 444 St. Louis 46 67 407 Philadelphia 41 65 387 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost Pct Moose 6 6 Douglas 6 6 500 Elks 6 6 500 - e NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showlng‘ air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J, B. Burford & Co. adv. ———.——— — The Daily Alaska Empire gusran-' tees the largest aaily circulation of any Alaska newspaper. | battering | ehme. | stepped to The Yankees crept back into the ! tirst division yesterday by lambast- ing Boston for the third straight time. Ruffing allowed six hits, in- cluding homers by Lou Finney | Jimmy Foxx and Ted Williams. a slump, a loose Detroit emerged from the Browns in A walk in the eleventh inning, with the bases loaded, gave the Cards a victory over the Pirates in a night game. ELKS WIN OVERPAP BALL(LUB Koski Hurls 4-Hit Ball-Red Shaw Pops Out Nice Single The Elks ball club outbatted and cutplayed the Moose last night to win a seven inning ball game and tie up the second half three ways, Shavey Koski setting the Paps down with four lonesome singles | Highlight of the game came in the first of the seventh when um- pire Red Shaw, in a Moose baseball suit after seven years of lay-off, the plate and started the inning off with a ringing single to left field to start what tempor- arily looked like a rally. [ Elks got their six runs in the third and fourth innings, grouping | three hits in each frame and tak-| ing advantage of four errors. As the schedule now stands, all | three teams are tied for second half honors. Moose have drawn a bye, putting the Elks up against Douglas | tonight, and the winner to play | RSSO USSP ————— Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank Tunecu, P, Savings ¥ % Alaska [ER— NATIVE OFFICERS FOR NATIVE ARMY . o Captain Charles Norton, of the 16- foot sailhoat Pupcye arrives at New York. afler an 800-mile trip from | His crew of ore deserted him at Atlantic City, neces- itating “sizning” Morehead, N. €. a new crew. Tri took 27 days. BUICK PROGRAM FOR 1941 PUTS PRODUCTION UP Plants Also Able fo An- swer Any Calls for Na- tional Defense Aug. 15 the completion An- of FLINT, Mich nouncement of a major expansion and retooling program in preparation for pro- duction of 1941 models was made today by Harlow H. Curtice, Presi- dent and General Manager of the Tnick d n of General Motors Corporation The executive said that the pro- gram in ed extensive changes and improvement in plant and equipment in virtually every manu- facturing department and will bring [ confers at Colorado Springs, Col., with his campaign Sam Pryor, eastern campaign chief; Rep. Joseph Martin’s executive assistant; and Henry P. Wendell L. Willkie, G.O.P. presidential nominee, steering committee. Front row (left to ‘right), Martin, Jr., national chairman; ‘Willkie, John Hamilton, i Fletcher, national counsel. Back row, Russell Duvenport, Willkie’s personal representative; C. B, Good- speed, national treasurer; Oren Root, Jr., head of Willki for-President clubs; Gov, Harold Stassen, 4 Mlnn., advisory committee chairman; and Sinclair Weeks, eastern treasurer. _ | P BRIN GING UP FATHER BY GOLLY - IT ENOUSH WHO HAS AN ICE PLANT NEAR 'I'O-E POLE-ID GO 1S HOT TODAY -1 WISH | KNEW AN ESKIMO WHAT IN l | 'I"I—E “WORLD KIN MAKE MAGGIE By GEORGE McMANUS | YOU SAID IT- HE 1S SELLING ELECTRIC STOVES-HE'S BRING~ ING ONE_OVER TO DEMONSTRATE IT = WE MUST_ BUY THE FIRST ONE FROM HIM- WHAT DO YOU THINK ? MY BROTHER DANNY GOT A JOB TODAY — | while | gun | heights. | Ritchie, m\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\m\m\mmmnmmmwmm | E SUNNY BROOK 4 BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Sunny Brook that you U productive capacity of the Buick plants up to 1500 cars a day or ] during the model run just ended of approximately 1,300 cars a day He aid that Bu in 1941 will L] panded market requirements for its new cars and at the same time answer any calls made upon it for gl ] A . : In this connection, Mr. Curtice One of the mainstays of the Philippine commonwealti’s natienal defense program, in the face of unset- disclosed that Bu.ck engineers have ‘tvllrd conditions in the Orient, s the reserve officers t-aining corps. Here are native Filipino youths in "‘ '}' .Kf“'f.'., (Aflx)nl)‘:ll\nl';\ltlh]ilrv\ljltl"li New ShOOhng RuIeS May anila getting their lessons in how to run an army of natives. Planes flying overhead are Philippine | 000 (0 adapt the Buick valve- ' army. ships. i ensme o mintary wses. However, Lower Scores By At the same time, other armament e A i el Tagrit s s nsed-BHoUt to capacity. This was production was being considered in Commg Event permitting. about the first day in three weeks' He indicated that any arms ‘Box score and summary for last ourney the courts were dry enough to per- production would be coliateral with By FRITZ HOWELL night is as follows: » | mit of playing. A large number of Buick passenger car output, de-| AP Feature Service Elks [l tournament games were played off claring it to' be industry’'s duty to AR )\ll RHPOAE perlods and it'i§ hoped that quite a num- maintain normal operations and yYANDALIA, O., Aug. 15 Guns Taguchi, 3b £7 08 o ber more will be cmopleted before employment in addition to its share| will boom for a full week at the Ellenberg, cf 311000 this! weke-end. Several tourna- of the preparedness program crossroads of America where MadBpaddencrt - ~3 2.'2 00,0 L oL R ik - the National Highway meets the i SR aaho ow ready for the final set. A break . el S L o Sl b s in the weather should allow for the StUdy of a Prihcess, |suooiiug Ascctstion sages s Pacquin, 1b. £ 01310 Y ‘u‘m )Iellml\ of '\lk ot ‘lw‘““_”_m' 5 41st annual Grand 'Amvncun pro- ows e S w0 iTae 2 a0 8 by AHERO of next wiek: rett Augit 1 19 = Kumsaka. 5. T Eyergreen P|ayf|eld |s| by the e From among the thousand-odd| “Neilse! B - I . , Ca a o 1,7 ,0 el 10 = & venis ‘1 ::;)OI" ‘"‘"' jA Yo i the Canal Zone will come the new| Totals 30 6 72112 0 Frldays Program e 2,:‘" ((‘1 (‘|‘,|“‘V‘h M “Roaring Grand” handicap king, Replaced Ellenberg in sixth pry 25 yard dlqm 'il. ar but any attempt to put the finger , Bxi dn X on him before the firing starts Mo It is certainly tournament time at 25 yard hop race (ages 7-9 ould e ahest foll . ABR HPO AE| . prergreen Bowl with nineteen years Tough Shooting Lawson, s, 2 0 0 0 8 2| oments in progress at the same| Girls 25 yard hop race (ages 7-¢ o Veasd ikl GiphTethet i F. Schmitz, 2b. 301131 0. These tournaments are di- V has "been | an “unknown from nob Masdn, & 30000 0 yjeq into three main divisior three-legged race (ages 10 ok Hogilsai b (UIadT Y Johnson, 3b.-p. 2.0 003 2 .0 hool high school, and|13 years). 1hs Vo onrta e \tbeo FHiine:” fia Sharek, rf. 20100 0 _ 40 Al contestants must play| Girls three-legged race (ages 10- e s e AT R 2.0 1.7 0 0 ¢ peir games immediately or for- |13 years) on yardage in tHiakieatiid o:'epm ‘ézhl’z""" ok j g g [1) g fi feit. The tournament schedules are| Boys Indian Wrestle (ages 14-16 sl prttadot diisd apaans, D all posted on the office bulletin | years) = pinteolhs - Blake, ©. Ll ) n]‘m-" Girls Basketball Freeze-out (age :;:;(:vmrr:rll]:nv\tl:-:;p::'-\:-lkndtou‘)z(; m::;: | Nowell, ct 2.0 1050 <080 Ping Pong Featured Friday 14-16 years) e b e R [, 1.0 1.0 0 00 quo ping pong.contests are to| —There will be three prizes given s ey e 5 | *Henn’ng 1000 00 roapyre the activ at the Bowl|in each of the ping pong tourna- ”‘i i ;’"w“"‘:‘;mf‘» BRSUR. | An wrrow. There p S0 rate 5. The others be 4 us- 2 Batted for J. Schmitz, Ist of SeV- 4, they will both be in progress ——— o Sty l}.," REDESS, oRige enth, at the came time. All contestants % ¥ }'m}:fhr,tl(]' 8. quDln . 28 0 Summary must be under 16 years of age and BOOTH AT. FAIR Margaret Rose | gt '”‘ Flaws D T e Stolen base: Willey; two-base hits, | have their name signed up at the| The.Juneau‘Chamber of Com- l el g ey (e MacSpadden, Ellenberg, Pasquin; powl before 1:30 o'clock in the af- merce has decided to take a booth princess Margaret Rose, who cele~ o; o e s'OVOU() .pry« truck out by Koski 3, by Sogaard ernoon in order to be eligible as|®t the Southeast Alaska Fair. brates her tenth birthday on Aug. o w‘u.n.m ever won lhl'”hzm(h- by Johnson 3; walked by Koski (he contest will start at that time e b 21, is fond of painting and is seen Cap crown, although Mrs, Lela 1; 7 hits off Sogaard in four in- Wednesday a Busy I The Daily Alaska smpire gu hcr(, engrossed in her work. Brit- Hall of Strausburg, Mu‘_ n:u,uu.ml hits : ed ) 'y y > ‘ain’s rulers have declined to send feminine queen from 1935 to 1938 nings; ‘hit by pitched ball, Mac- All day Wednesday the tennis|tees the largest daily circulat | {their children to safety of Canada gl Tt el Spadden by Sogaard, Lawson by courts and other Bowi facilities were any Alaska rewspapei i VRS plonn V. NOYORRONGRNERN Koski; sacrifice hit, Collins; time of | — — | The 40 preyious champions have {game, one hour, 35 minutes; um- 3 : . itt i iy Moo vires, Erskine and Iffert; scorer, H S C | cities and farms; s ri e G.O.P. Nominee Meets His Steering Committee ;. Tan mmpg ] . | A 14-year-old boy won the title kS % once, as did a 70-year-old man. 800 Miles by Sea | |vormer champs include railway- | | men, farmers, storekeepers, plumb- ers, oil men, mechanics, auto sales- men and unemployed. Some of the champs won with guns costing as much as $1500; one man won it with a second-hand arm for which he paid $40. An- other copped it with a sliding-bar- rel automatic he used for hunting, still another borrowed the with which he stormed the The TR A and now a Ohio, He king barber Goshen, present former storekeeper at | broke 99 of 100 from 22 yards last and then| year to tie for the title, cracked 22 of 25 in a shootoff to win the crown. Almost perfect scores have been necessary to win the 14 events un There’s a genial quality about old lowness and grand flavor that register an instant hit with your palate. Try it. HMEERFUL AS ITS NAME” ’I1 like . . .a mel- i \\\l\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\.\\\\\. years, but totals will year unless the their beads” u trapshooting past the the program in there's a chance drop a bit this marksmen “draw little closer. New rules limit the shot load to one and one-eighth ounces, eliminat- ing about 40 pellets from the mer trap shell The same amount | formerly (about | will propel the creasing velocity | Consequently, the cut down their | angle targets. A | broken to be counted “dead,” and since it is possible for one or two pellets to pierce the clay without | breaking it, a large part of the | shot charge must meet the flying target One new for- of powder as three drams) lighter load, in- of the charge. shooters musi “lead” on the target must be championship, the father-daughter and father-son, been added ta the 1940 pro- It is expected to attracs has gram 50 pairs. - OLD HANDS AT ENDING WINS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15—Stop- 1m-xu pitchers’ winning streaks i§ old stuff to the Philadelphia Ath- letics. When they stopped Busz Newsom'’s chain of victories at 13 games, fans recalled that it was ‘!h" Athletics who, a few years ago, ended Schoolboy Rowe's after had reached the string it league’s l()p mzuk 16 in a row. FAST AT FIELDING IS FAST ON BASES CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 15 Add' reasons the Cincinnati Reds have been leading the way in the National loop The Reds, in the first 90 games, had completed 94 double plays |and had had only 80 completed against them. RSB RS SR T ESKIMO HANDICRAFT CARVED IVORY CURIOS MODELS—MOCCASINS MITTENS—MUKLUZS FUR JACKETS and PARKAS We deal direct with the Eskimos of King,Diomede and St. Lawrence Islands & Wales, Shismaret and Nome. Send for Our Catalog Dealers please write for Terms. A.POLET NOME Established 1900 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD

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