The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1940, Page 5

SEATTLE IN SPLIT WITH PADRETEAM Sacramento’s Hopes for First Division Roost | Are Now Lost (By Associated Press) The Seattle Rainjers broke even in a doubleheader last night with the San Diego Padres, winning the opener when Bill Walker bested Wally Herbert in a mount ducl. Jojo White hit a hpmer for the Padres to win the nightcap. What chance the Sacramento Solons had to finish in the first division faded as the Hollywood Stars drubbed them last night. Johnny Bettner stopped the Solons without a run. Los Angeles defeated Oakland last night. } San Francisco and Portland split a doubleheader last night. Sad Sam Gibson, pitched seven-hit ball in the opener for the Seals. the Big League” might Hayes, catcher with the GAMES WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League Oakland 0; Los Angeles 9. Hollywood 2; Sacramento 0. Seattle 3, 3; San Diego 1, and was K e, in either major leagu A hoded | | | | | Y at the time. s o g Portland 1, 9; San F‘mnc\scosl13.;BEA7"BA'.[°VF:IAE‘&V ‘ 1 National League Chicago 8, 3; Brooklyn 5, 2. St. Louis 7, 3; New York 4, 2. Cincinnati 8, 3; Boston 0, 1. { BATTER'S FAULT, Sl il | SAYS OLDTIMER New York 3, 3; Cleveland 2, 5. | | Washington 4; Chicago 1. | AP Feature Service Boston 7; Detroit 11, | PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 12, — Philadelphia 0; St. Louis 3. | Ernie Johnson, who played 13 | years of give - and - take major fleague baseball and now is the | Boston Red Sox West Coast scout, STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet.| believes that ‘“guessing on curve Seattle 109 63 334! ball” and not deliberate beanballs Los Angeles 929 3 ,5761cau59 most batting injuries. Cakland 92 81 532/ The scrappy ex-diamond star San Diego 89 82 520 doesn’t think much of the sugges- Sacramento 86 86 500! tion that batters wear helmets to Hollywood 82 90 477 protect them from beanballs, de- San Franciseo ... 77 95 4481 claring “it’s the silliest bunk I Portland| 54 118 .314 ! ever heard.” National League | “Pitchers have knocked down Won Lest Pct.jand dusted off batters since there Cincinnati 86 47 647! was professional baseball, and Brooklyn 8 57 578 will continue to do it, but it isn't Pittsburgh 70 61 ,aaqvthis so-called beanball that hits St. Louis .. 68 62 522 | them on the head,” he says. New York 66 67 496 “Guessing on a curve ball, a ter-, Chicago 66 70 485 ribly dangerous practice, causes| Boston 56 9 388 most of it. Occasionally there’ Philadelphia 43 90 323 trouble on a ball the hitter loses| American League sight of, or a wild heave from a Won Lost = Pet.|very wild man.” | Detroit 8 58 574 Johnson added that during hi-;‘ Cleveland By ¢ 58 570| playing days he dared pitchers to| New York .6 58 567] throw at his head and that they, Boston <1 63 537| couldn’t hit him if they tried all| Chicago 0 64 522/ day. | Washington 58 8 426/ “I'l tell you what will happen St. Louis 57 79 419|if they make batters wear hel- Philadelphia 49 9 ,383) mets—the pitchers will feel free e NS to really cut loose at them Lhen,‘ and gosh, how the ‘beanballs’ will| 1ly. | “To stop having batters hit on| NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY To be published this month and TAR FROM CONNIE_“How to Catch in -t be the title of this actioa shot of Frank Philadelphia Athletics. He’s regarded by Connie Mack and other baseball experts as almost the best catcher forms close Sept 16. For space, listings and changes please call ‘The Juneau and Douglas Telephone Co. Telephone 420 before the clos- ing date. adv. ———————— ‘Today’s news toaay m The Empire, the head is simple enough,” John-| son declared. “Let the batters quit| guessing; the .man who alwny.sj looks for a fast ball will mever| be hit on the head.” ., Empire ciussifieds oring results Oldest Bank in Alaska | Commercial \ Safe Deposit ¢ Banking by Mail Depariment The B. M. Behrends Bank funean, Savings busy in & White Sox-A’s game u“z Freehold, N, J. DYKES MAGIC AGA I N—Hcre's Jimmy Dykes, Chicago THEIR MIGHT'’S RIGH Indians’ clouters, Ken Keltner (left) and Jeff Heath, choose their | weapons for another slugfest. They've been doing share toward holding the Vitt men at top of theflAmnlun League, | The six-foot Keltner comes from Milwaukee; Hea Fort William, Ontario, lives in Seattle, @ | | White Sox manager, congratulating Bill Dietrich (right), who beat I the Red Sox at Boston with five-hit pitching, and then came | across with his own winning run in the eighth. The win, 3-2, Sulied the second-division White fourth-place Bostonians. It was Bill’s eighth win, Sox to within one game of the | | | | SOUTHERN CAL 10 GET STIFF COMPETITION Gridders Must Put Up Bat-| fle for 1940 Invita- fion fo Rose Bowl By ROBERT MYERS AP Feature Service LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11. — The University of Southern California’ grid forces suffered heavy losses by graduation and keen. competition is promised from several other members of the Pacific Coast Con- ference—but Troy once again stacks up as a powerful factor in the Rose Bowl running. Mighty Washington looms dark- ly for the Trojan'hopes, Oregon State may ‘bob up with its best team in history, the University of California .at Los Angeles once again will be tough for any foe, the Berkeley Bears of California might barge back into prominence and Stanford and its new coach- ing set-up could offer startling surprises. That takes in every conference team but Washington State. The Cougars, on paper, appear ready to dominate the cellar division once more. Victors in the Rose Bowl clas- sic successively over Duke ' and Tennessee, Southern, California lost of 1938 and 1939. Grenville Lans-| dell, blocking Bob Hoffman, All-| American Guard Harry Smith, a pair of regular ends, Amby Schind-| ler, Pass-Master Doyle Nave, Bill Sangster—all are gone from the Trojan squad, Key Men Lost | Loss of these men should cause| any coach to turn grey-headed—| and there’'s no proof that Howard Harding Jones hasn't lost a few already grey hairs worrying over the situation. But there is an air of optimism at Southern Califor- nia, the nucleus of another great team, and the possibility that some of the newcomers may ca-| pably replace the departed stal- warts. Dependable veterans on hand! include Bob Peoples, Jack Banta, and Bob Robertson in the back- field. Peoples, the javelin cham-| pion from Oklahoma, has been| shifted from fullback, where he was highly, important, to; the quarterback spot, in which he will| bear the brunt of the Trojan or-} fense under Jones’ system. | Pressing him for the starting call, however, will be a sturdy plece of greased lightning, Mickey, Anderson. Andefson starred in 1938—he was a preliminary fac- tor in the drive that led to the victory touchdown against Duke— but stayed out of the picture en- tirely last season. Jones, you'll re-| member, was loaded down with stellar quarterbacks. Well, Mlckey,‘ a track star, is ready for real football now. ‘Watch Phillips Replacing big Harry Smith will be Floyd Phillips, who weighs 179 pounds, 40 less than Smith. the key men from her greatteams | Some of the assistant coaches, | tradition of strong lines. | pounds ‘187 backfield a year ago. | | wars | Stanford, | Dame compiete the schedule. IS T—Two of the Cleveland more than their ! th’s & native of | | | though, say he will make Trojan backers forget the loss of All- American Harry, ! Ed Dempsey, captain, is back at center, and Jones has two fine ends in big John Stonebraker and Al Kréuger, the latter the lad who caught the winning pass in the Duke game, Big Ben Sohn, 226-pound right guard, and Bob De Lauer at right tackle complete the line of seasoned men Jones can use, and he has replacements which may live up to the Jones As it looks early in the fall, the forward ‘wall may average 193 and the backfield 185, which is under the 208 line and Southein California opens the against Washington State. State, Illinois, Oregon, Caliloinia, Washingion Seattle), UC.LA. and Notre Oregon (at e 1940ROOKIE ARE PICKED 5 Abundance of Good First! Yedr Baseballers Make Choices Hard for '40 By DILLON GRAHAM e et e ettt ettt Py e bttt Aris Gloves all sizes. Catcher—Warren kees. Utility—Hal Reese, Dodgers. Utility—Frank Gustine, Pirates. Utilityp—Carvel Rowell Bees. Pitcher—Sid Hudson, Senators. Pitcher—Vern Olsen, Cubs. There can be little "argument about the choice of Young at first base and Kennedy at third. Young has helped tighten the Giants’ de- fense and has also been one of their top thumpers with a mid- August average of around .300. Kennedy’s hitting fell off during Rosar, "YOUR NEW GLOVES,” are longer this fall . . . Our collection of Aris models is truly outstanding. Fabrics, pigskin, suede, English doe- skin and kid. Black, white, brown, rust, green, Fucia in 1.00-3.95 Costume Jewelry "YOUR NEW COSTUME JEWELRY" is lovelier than ever . . . Pearls, small gold cluster beads, amazing little novelties. Sports Editor, AP Feature Service|the summer but his fieding has NEW. YORK, Sept. 11. — Every| major leggue club shared in the bountiful rookie harvest this year and each can offer a candidate for| All-Star rookie team selections. Cleyeland came up with a pair of aces, Jou Boudreau and Ray Mack, who are driving the Indians toward,an American League pen-| nant. . Braoklyn brought up the most, ballyhooed recruit — Harold (Pee, Wee) Reese—and he more than lived up to his advance bill- in, in contrast to the failure of the advertised Fred Hutchinson of Detroit a year ago. The Boston Bees surprised with Carvel Rowell, who paced National League batters in mid-August, Here It Is Considering hitting, fielding, runs batted im, speed and all-round value to their teams, here is my idea of 1940's All-Star rookie squadt | First _ Base — Norman Young,” Giants, Second Base—Ray Mack, dians, . Third Base—Bob Kennedy, While Sox. Shortstop—Lou Boudyeau, dians, - Left Field—Chet Ross, Bees. Center Field — Dom DiMaggio, Red Sex. Right Field—Bill Nicholson, Cubs. (Babe) In- In- been good and some say he has the strongest arm of any . third baseman, There are three strong second base contenders. Rowell has out- hit Gustine and Mack and for a stretch led his league. However, he isn't much .of a distance knocker as the others. ‘And both Mack and Gustine have driven in more runs, Rowell isn’t as' adept a fielder as the others:although he is better at making double plays. Mack’s all round ability, along with his value to a pennant con- tending team, rates him slightly ahead in our book. Gustine and Rowell are too good to be left off any selection and are named as utility men. Rowell can serve as a flychaser, too, for he came up to the Bees as an outfielder. Shortstop also presents an argu- ment, with Joe Orengo of the Cardinals only a step behind Bou- dreau and Reese. Reese is gener- ally accepted around the circuit as a better fielder than Boudreau and would bring more in the open mar- ket. But Boudreau gets our nod for these reasons: He has played the full season, while Reese was out of many early games, on the sidelines for several weeks after being hit on the head and likely out for the rest of the season following an in- jury in August. 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