The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1940, Page 5

McCann Will Battle Long Bouf at Sitka Isto Go FifleTn Three-Min-[ ute Rounds Against Recent Rival Billy McCann, generally recog- nized as welterweight champion of Alaska, will fight 15 rounds in Sitka, October 9, against the Sitka Kid, challenging for the Kid's middle- weight crown. Bob Jones of Sitka was in town Saturday arranging for McCann’s 1t and McCann goes into train- tonight for the return match vith the Kid whom he fought to a draw here some weeks ago in A.B. Hall. | As Billy’s manager Dean Hamlin will not be able to leave for the fight, Eddie Powers is to go over with McCann to handle him. Winner of the 15-round (three minutes each) will be known as the middleweight title holder in South- | HIS CHANCE_New- comer in Washington Senators’ uniform is Larry Wommack (above) who's called up for sec- ond base duty after “prepping”™ with Ocala of the Florida state league. He hails from Dallas, Tex., and is 20 years old. east Alaska and will then challenge the best Anchorage has to offer for a bout during the Fur Rendezvous. - Cincinnati Keepslead Nai.League Game of Twin Contest- ] Dizzy Comes Back (By Associated Press) Bucky Walters chalked up his 20th victery Sunday as the Cincinnati R-ds routed the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first game of a doubleheader The secend contest ended in an 11-| inning tie deadlock. Dizzy Dean took another step along the comeback trail by defeat- ing the Besion Bees to give the Chi- cago Cubs an even split in a double- header. I - Hosp1TaL NoTES Jack Zavodsky was n medicalad- mission today at St. Ann's Hospital. Admitted to St. Ann’s, Holm is recelving medical ment. Andrew treat- Mike Lycns was a medical dismis- sal today from St. Ann’s. Admitted for rgical care this Mrs. Selina Kathleen is at rnment Hospital. | Mrs. Andrew Gamble and her by daughter were dismissed from he Government Hospital today. spirited jump on the League boards as the Indians knock- | ed the Philadelphia Athletics over| in both ends of a doubleheader bar- gain bill Sunday to remain in the leadership. itrrned in a two-hit performance in the opener. = (LEVELAND CISBACKIN TOP PLACE ‘Defroit Is ih_S;(ond Place Braoklyn Is Routed in One With New York in Slight | Third Spot Lead (By Asscriated Press) Meveland's pennant stock took a American Fireballer Bob Detroit Dumped Emil Leonard yielded only six hits Sunday to dump the Detroit Tigers | out of first place as Washington scored a victory before 21,000 base- Feller THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 1940. Sept. BLANKET SMASH! The Greatest Blanket Sale JUNEAU HAS EVER HAD EPIayofl Series Starts To- | morrow Between Four | Upper Bracket Clubs | (By Associated Press) Herman Pillette, San Diego’s 43- | year-old pitcher, had his day | Sunday as the Padres defeated Seat- | | tle twice in the final games of the | | Pacific Coast League 1940 season. Pillette was showered with gifts, then went to the mound to win the nighteap. San Francisco and Portland, cellar | clubs, wound up the season with an even split in a doubleheader. Sacramento took a pair of games ;from Hollywood Sunday. The second place Los Angeles Stars closed the season yesterday with a | double win over Oakland. | The playoff series, the games be- | tween the four in the first division, cpens tomorrow as follows: Seattle meets Oakland. Los Angeles plays San Diego. 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Pet drubbing before the largest daytime | geattle 112 66 629 | STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League defeats reduced the Yankees to third | 0akland 94 84 528 | place by a margin over the Chi-|San Diego 92 8 520 cago White Sox as the White Sox | sacramento 90 88 506 | defeated Boston twice on Sunday. |Hollywood 84 94 472 BASE {IEAUNG San Francisco 81 971 455 | | | Portlang 56 122 315 National League DETROIT, Sept. Won Lost Cincinnati 90 47 83 58 72 64 | Pittsburgh 72 66 | Chicago 68 3 | New York 66 72 Beston 59 82 | Philadelphia .. 45 93 American League Won Lost Cleveland 81 59 657/ 589 529 522 482 478 418 32 16. — Baseball | men wear basebal] uniforms. A gun- man clad in diamond garb recently tis, 50, and robbed him of $50. —e—— Subscripe to The Datly aiaska Em- Pet ct. 579 | Detro't 80 60 571 e Didest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank funeau, 554 | 549 525 429 423 368 New York i 62 Chicago 8 64 Boston 4 67 | Washington 60 80 | 8t. Louis 60 82 Philadelphia .,50 86 HOUSE SPEAK BANKHEAD DIES IN WASHINGTON (Continued from Page One) Savings by two of his sons. When “Will” was elected to Congress from the newly- created Seventh District of Alaba- ma, Ris father; Senator' John Hollis Bankhead, already had carved a dis- tinguished career in the ‘national legislature. About 10 years after the father’s death, another son, John H. Bankhead, second, won a Senate learn the rules,”. made “Will” Bank- hcad one of the ablest parliamen- tarians in Congress. It was to this | kncwledge he attributed his rise | B to the Speakership but he was aided materfally by his ability as an orator and his wide popularity among the members. A product of the hill country of R I s 1. 3o oD 2 DA o % powet and distinction in the momen- | tous. New, Deal session of Franklin 'D. Roosevelt’s first administration, ankhead proved an efficient legis- | | lator. Teamed with his Senator- | brother, he engineered passage of the celebrated Bankhead Cotton ]C(mlfol Act, an integral part of the Roosevelt farm program. He also was guthor of soldiers' rehabilita- | remained an ardent angler. “I would | rather hook and land a small-| mouthed black bass with light| tackle,” he used to say, “than make the greatest speech I ever gave in the House. RS M U AR MMER JOBS SALT LAKE CITY.—Art Gilbert, his native state, he wa’ educated in ticn legislation which made it pos- | Brigham Young guard, has a sum- sity’s law school. Soon after receiv- ing his law degree, he almost for- sook his profession for a theatrical career in New York. Family opposi- tion induced him to give up the idea wuu he lived to see his ambitions in that direction attained by his daughter, Tallulah, star of stage and screen. Law-Politics Just before the turn of the cen- tury. Bankhead entered a law part- nership with his brother, John, and began an active participation in Democratic politics. He served Madi- <on county in the Alabama legisla- ture, was City Attorney of Hunts- ville for four years and Circuit So- licitor of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit from 1910 to 1914. Then he tried for Congress but lost to W. B. Oliver. Two years later the district was divided and Bankhead won the new seat thus created. Oliver con- tinued in office and years later pre- sented Bankhead'’s name to the House Democratic caucus as a can- didate for Majority Leader. Once Known As “Boy Orator” Bankhead’s oratorical reputation was established even before he was sent to Congress, for in 1912 he was the “boy orator” chosen to present Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. This was at the Baltimore convention, scene of an historic struggle before Wood- seat. Rlaska Versed in Parliamentary Law row Wilson was nominated. Serving his congressional appren- Pct.| 108 schoolhouses, the University of)gpe for thousands of crippled vet- Alabama and Georgetown Univer- erans to earn a living. Bankhead was twice married. The lf!rsL union, contracted in January, 1900, was to Ada Fugenia Slege of Memphis. She died a fev rs later | leaving him with two baby daugh- ters, Tallulah and Eugenia. In 1915 he married Florence McGuire of Jasper, Ala. Studied in Lez House Panthead wa= reared in days | when the South still was feeling the effects of the reconstruction period following the Civil War. His father, in common with many other sup- orters of tha Confederacy, was in | straitened circumstances. “We_studied in log schoolhouses,’ | he ‘reealled “in later years. “The chool terms were only three month: |leng and sometimes shorter than that.” Roads were bad, travel was hy mule or ox-cart and young Bank- | head often made the weekly trip to town for the mail on the back of a mule, | s Was Gridder The family purse fattened a bit as | he emerged from boyhood and he | ‘ntered the University of Alabama. | There he played fullback on the| school’s first football team, an ag- | -regation famous for its ‘thin red line.” He also was centerfielder on the baseball team, participated in track and gymnasium events and, incidentally, won the college medal for oratory. Some Angler In later years he played golf un- Adherence to his father’s advice to ticeship in the grim days of the|til his health forced him to give up “stay on the floor of the House and | World War and achieving botheven that form of exercise, but he mer job a little out of the ordin- ary. He mows lawns and digs graves in a Salt Lake City cemetery. Got Navyg'Fiea | There is o substiluie for Newspaper AdvertisingT GLACIER HIGHWAY Lawrence W. Robert Lawrence W. (Chip) Robert, secre- tary of the Democratic National Committee, is head of the engineer- ing firm in Atlanta, which, according to Representative Carl Vinson, of that state, received navy contracts amounting to $931,560. The estimated construction cost of the projects he designed amount to, $26,869,08; - " BRINGING UP FATHER 1= You PLEASE By GEORGE McMANUS i SHUT uP- I'M TALKIN' MR. JIGGS~ machine gun in tests reported to fire 10,0 plate that were perforated by the steel ball bullets. 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