The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1940, Page 5

s EATTL E “ | Si Deny Rumors of Romance LOSER OF ONE DOUBLE GAME Oakland Loses as Rainiersf Stretch lead to | 17 Games § (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Tal Turpin failec ch night his twentieth victory Sacramentc won th ond gam after Seattle won the win 13 six gam by taking the fi ceettle trailed in the first ga until the ninth inning when the core was tied and then the winr run in the tenth frame. orge Archie homered in each ¢ \ttle went 17 games ahead in the Pacific gue as Oak- land lost inning game. Stan Sperr single with two men ¢n bases produced San Diego as the winner in the game with Oak- land last night. Portland got only seven scattered hits last night while Los Angzeles bunched eight hits to win San PFrancisce 12 hils ght routed Hollywood, last n FRIDAY Coast League Seattle 5, 1; Sacramento 4, 2. Portland 1; Los Angeles 4 Oakland 1; San Diego 2. Hellywood 4; San Francisco 11. Naticnal League innati 9, 6; Chicago 4, 3. urgh 6, 5; St. Louis 5, 9, Iphia 3; New York 5. 2; Brooklyn 1 American League Chicago 13; Detroit 4. Washington 6; Boston 7. St Louis 3; Cleveland 8. STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet Pacific Coast League Seattle 48 664 Oakland 5 545 Angeles 65 542 n Diego 0 507 amento 3 493 Hollywood 3 486 San Prancisco 9 444 Portland 96 319 Nationa! ue Won Lost Pet Cincinnati 69 38 615 Erocklyn 63 45 New York 55 49 Pittsburgh 54 52 St. Louis 52 53 Chicago 55 57 Boston 43 64 Philadelphia 35 68 340 American League Won Lost Pect. Cleveland 69 44 611 Detroit 66 47 584 Boston 60 52 536 New York 56 52 .519 Chicago 56 52 519 Washington 49 62 441 St. Louis 46 69 400 Philadelphia 42 66 .389 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost Pct.| Moose 6 6 .500 Douglas . 6 6 .500 Elks .6 6 500 e Subscribe to The Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest| paid circulation. 1 ( | | | | o - Mrs. Margaret Drayton Vanlaer and Count Reventlow In New York to look after business affairs, Count Kurt Haugwitz- Reventlow, Barbara Hutton, Woolworth helnv’ Drayton Vanlaer, a divorcee. Friel Yanlaer had been constant companions on t| Danish nobleman and estranged husband of the former ss, is shown with Mrs. Margaret nds reported the count and Mrs. he liner S. S. Marques De Comillas, a Spanish ship on which they arrived in the U. S, but the two denied rumors of romance. Foxx Gets Homers for Near Record Cincinnafi Takes Chicago for Two Games—Cleve- land Goes Up (By SOCIATED PRESS) Jimmy Foxx's second homer of the game in the tenth inning yesterday Washington and boosted the homer total to 495, just one ahead of Gehr tatal d sccond to Babe Ruth 14 homers. Chicago exploded nine runs in the eighth inning yesterday routing Detroit Tommy Bridges, of Cleveland, stretched his lead over Detroit to three games as Bob Feller yielded six hits in the first two innings but only six the rest of the way. Cincinnati climbed six and one-half games ahead. The winning pair, Whitey Moore and Junior Thompson, pitched vic- tories and St. Louis climbed to fifth place, ahead of Chicago. - D TALL TALES DEP'T RALEIGH, N. C—When a Ra- leigh resident told a telephone operator that he would “speak to anybody” at a New York address the operator said to the New York- er answering the call: “Mr. N. E. Body. Raleigh is calling.” | e s e 2 e ) Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Savings Safe Deposit ’ Banking by Mail Department f ¥ MEDALIST _For valor in France in 1918, Staff Sgt. Wm. T. Sheffield of Kelly field, Texas, recently received a be- lated decoration. His medals, left to right: The Purple Heart, Vic- tory medal, Silver Star medal, Texas Service medal. CONWAY IN JUNEAU J. Conway, merchant of Sitka, paid a brief business trip to Ju- neau yesterday, arriving here and returning home by plane, g Mgl NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air .route from Seattle to Nome, un sale at J. B. Burford & Co, adv. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: The B. M. Behrends Bank Junequ, Alaska BY GOLLY -I'M GOING TO GIT HOME BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE TELLS ME THAT IT IS HOT - BRINGING UP FATHER | that at 10 o'clock A.M., September |12th, 1940. in the District Court, |First Division, at Juneau, Alaska, hearing will be held on the petition ;or Max Behrmann, bankrupt, for | final discharge in bankruptey. Cred- Dot TIIS WEEK all Alaska celebrates Dis- covery day, marking the forty-third an- niversary of the discovery of gold in the Klondike and the beginning of Alaska’s McCANN-KID BOUT COMES ' OUT DRAW New Ring F—ac; fo Appear | Here - He May Be Real Joe Louis Billy McCann, outreached and cutweighed, fought a whale of a boxing battle last night in the A. B. Rink to earn a draw from the highly touted Sitka Kid, Lou Lo- ficial middleweight crown for Southeast Alaska. At the end of ten gruelling rounds, McCann, half crouched, was still hammering beneath the Kid's guard and delivering punishing body blows, but taking a constant jarring from short jabbing lefts and jabbing rights that the Kid, with his long reach, found easy to shoot. Tough Fight It was a difficult fight for both men. The Kid was much taller, | itors and persons concerned may ap- | and found it hard to throw a straight | pear at said time and place andpunch. He was constantly shooting show cause, if any they have, why his tosses down on McCann's head knee and couldn't move. | petitioner’s prayer for final dis-|and doing little damage. He really | charge should not be granted. ROBERT E. COUGHLIN, Clerk, District Court. First publication: Aug, 10, 1940, ! Last publication: Aug. 17, 1940, hurt McCann but twice, once with a straight right and once with a straight left that McCann rushed intc. McCann, too short with his reach, vos, in a bout for the Kid’s unof-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1940. present and future occasion, the Alaska Steamship Company, which originated, also, with this dramatic discovery, reprints portions of an address delivered in November of 1927 at the an- nual banquet of the Chamber of Com- merce of the State of New York by J. W. Spangler, then president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce: “On June 15, 1897, the steamship ‘Excelsior’ of the Alaska Commercial Company steamed into the harbor of San Francisco and came to her dock at the foot of Market Street. She had on board a number of prospectors Yukon River in the ers .... telegraphed Boston and other edit story of the arrival of and too short from ine ground up |to attack the Kid's face, was pre- |vented from getting in a greater |number of blows, but his attack on | the Kid’s heart and midsection was | persistent and damaging, although |twice ‘he brought blood from the visitor's nose. | 0dd Draw Fans seemed to think McCann won the fight. The writer thought so, | too, and thought the Kid was riding |every chance he had in the last five |rounds, although the judges, who scored the actual punches, found the |Kid’s jabbing attack gave him the | most blows. Altogether, a crowded hall saw a !good smoker, | Flyweighters The opening flyweight bout be- |tween Kenny Trafton and Tommy | Valero, in which the latter got a decision, started the evening with {a banging little slugfest. | Trafton was knocked down twice once in the second and also in the fourth. He put up a game fight, {but Vallero was to oheavy, and too strong a puncher. runny ruush The second prelim ended as com- ically as any fight seen here, wtih Jean Lee, young 110 pounder, win- ning from Filipino lad Fidel Cor- tez, 107 pounder, in the fourth round when Cortex amazed everyone by sitting down in the ring and calling the fight off. He had suddenly been taken with |a cramp in his right leg below the Powers Lacks It ! In a a special event, fans saw | one-time headliner Eddie Powers, at one time one of the classiest fighters in the fight game on the Pacific Coast, throw in his own suT Vo S RaRR- W ol i a weight of valises, boxes and bundles. . “That night San Francisco water-front report- 000—brought down by miners from Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Yukon River. The East " was only mildly interested. What was a mere $750,000 to Wall Street, accustomed to headlines dealing with dollars in billions? The story waa given a small caption and the world wagged on. “Three days later another vessel, the ‘Port- land’ of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company y GEORGE McMANUS MIGHTY ENFIRE development. On this rode into the harbor at Seattle and berthed at the Schwabacher dock, also bringing gold dust from the Klondike. With a flash of genius....a Seattle newspaper reporter wired New York that a ‘ton of gold’ had arrived—a ton! He told the truth, but he wisely failed to remind the sapient Mr. Knickerbocker that a ton of gold dust is worth only $384,000 on an average, a little more than half what the ‘Excelsior’—unhonored and unsung — had already unloade 1in San Francisco. Instantly the Eastern editors wired for every word of the story that could be obtained. .... The country was electrified. Headlines from Broadway and the Battery to Barbary Coast rang every possible change on a ‘Ton of Gold, a Ton of Gold'—and who had wintered on the North Country. As they walked down the gangplank they staggered under New York, Philadelphia, ors an offer to furnish a gold dust valued at $750,~ towel after the ena of the third round in a scheduled four round go with Larry Trambitas. Powers, who hasn't fought for six or eight years, but probably just couldn't stand the temptation of oeing asked to fight last night, was in no shape for battle, but for half a round, he looked like the really coming battler he was formerly. Without a single day of training,| and with a half dozen bad boils on his right forearm bandaged up, he came out in the first canto punch- ing and weaving in fancy style that had Trambittas bothered. Near the end of the first round, however, Trambittas hit Powers and wrt him with a strong right cross to the jaw. From there on, Powers couldn't tand the gaff enough to produce a real attack, and finally, at the end »f the third round, puffed up, and nable to defend his face at all, he miled ruefully and a little punchy it referee Johnny Harris and ad- mitted he had enough. Crisco Smeared Jack Trambitas took a decision | n the semi-final from CCC boy Joe Crisco, both supposedly fighting at 160 pounds, but Crisco looked very much heavier. Crisco fought a football type bout, rushing his man continually, but souldn’t do much more than absorb punishment. Trambitas floored Crisco in the fourth round with a powerhouse right cross, and did most of the damage, earning the decision hand- ily. Crisco was a substitute for Hank Broulette. Colored Challenger During the middie of the fight card, Slugger Weaver introduced a the historical rush to the Klondike was on. “This incident marks an epoch in the history COMPANY Juneau Joe Louis, Anderson Rog- lers, colored boy off the Haida, who | weighs between 155 and 160 pounds land challenged “anybody in South- |east Alaska in his fight class.” After the Trambittas-Crisco fight, | Rogers personally challenged Jack "I‘rumbnms in the right and appar- | |ently was accepted for, the Labor | | Day bout. | This lad Rogers hails from St. | |Louis on the Big Muddy, where| fighting is not exactly small time. | He has fought sixteen battles, won | |all of them, and seven of them by | | knockouts. He looks like a boxer and (his record sounds like trouble for| [the so far unbeaten Trambitas | | boys. Dolly Gray was impresario for |the first part of the evening and put on a great show—at one time | introducing referee Johnny Harris |at 190 pounds along with the fight- | ers. Slugger Weaver took over after |Gray, and Referees were Sammy Nelson, Johnny Harris and Wayne Johnson. Judges were K. G. Mer- ritt and E. C. Adams. Timekeeper was Jack Wilson. e Subscripe to The Daily Alaska Em- pire — the paper with the largest guaranteed circulation, of not only Alaska but of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, by centering attention upon them, and marks the beginning of development in that _ still largely virgin region. .... “The use of the word ‘ton’ as applied to gold had dramatized even to New York a situation that had existed virtually unobserved for some time. The one syllable, flashed by a genius into the world’s consciousness, at the right moment, quickened the pulses of venturesome men throughout the universe, challenged the atten- tion of financiers, appealed to the love of the romantic, magnetized the latent pioneering in- stinct of virile manhood, and started a stampede that created a veritable empire. Fact, lying dor- mant, had long been {utile. The genius of one word shook a world—and Broadway—from lethargy.” “ALASKA STEAMSHIP HURLS SATURDAY; PREACHES SUNDAY EAST ORANGE, N. J, Aug. 17 —Bert Humphries manages to keep pretty busy over the weekend. On Saturdays he pitches for the East Orange baseball club. On Sundays he preaches from a pulpit in a lit- tle church at Baldwinville, N. Y, where he is the regular minister. e CANTALOUPE GETS BREAK FEDERALSBURG, Md. Aug. 17. —Epicures will be pleased to learn that this machine age is doing something for the cantaloupe. A melon packer here has in- stalled a waxing machine that dusts and cleans melons, then sprays them with a fine coating of wax. The wax closes pores in the fruit and preserves its delicate flavor for weeks longer than the normal period. | GLACIER HIGHWAY | DELIVERY . DAILY 1 TRIPS * COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES [ PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD