The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1940, Page 5

gy e R - AP Feature Service NEW YORK, Sept. 21—Gene Tunney- got in the first punch in the rain at Philadelphia’s Sesqui- Centennial Stadium almost 14 years ago and with it virtually stripped Jack Dempsey of his world heavy- weight boxing championship. In his autobiography, “Round- By-Round,” published today, Demp- iey tells of his customary strategy of rushing his foe at the outset, landing the initial blow and taking immediate command of the situa- tion. That was his plan against Gene and he came in, weaving from side to side, and threw a left hook. But, he writes, “before it could even land, his own right counter- blcw took me on the side of the head with a force that staggered me. In Bad Shape “Instead of my having landed the first blow against a formidable oppenent, softaning him up for the entire fight, Tunney had handed it to me. I tried not to let him see how badly I had been shaken up. Iw cven able to fool a good many of the reporters. Only a few of them wrote that I was barely able to weather the round.” Tunney easily cut-péinted Dempsey to~win the title. Dempsey attributes. his loss to a three-year-layoff, the effects of an attack of grippe, and nervous- ness brought on by lawsuits. ck retired but was persuaded by Tex Rickard, the promoter, to try and regain the crown. First, Rickard booked him against Jack Sharkey, and Dempsey knocked BSharkey out with a left hook to the jaw while the Boston sailor had his hands down and his face turned to the referee in protest of an al-| leced low punch. Dempsey answers critielsm of |Merris, Bill Brennan, Fred' Fulton, | the comment that is downl and taking the count he is re-| blow with when a fighter this “except quired to defend himself at all| times.” " JACK DEMPSEY: The Manassa Mauler in his prime. | bemp#eY,’sAuiobiogtaphy = Gives Inside Fight Dope; High Spols in His Career seventh round of their return tilt at-Chicago in 1927 he thought he had regained the title, -that Gene would never recover in ‘ten sec- onds from the flailing he had re- ceived. But Dempsey went to the wrong corner after the knock- down and had to be directed by Referee Dave Barry to a corner farther away. Then Barry began counting over Gene, starting at ‘“one” rather than picking up the count with the timekeeper. ‘t'nat Long Count This was the now famous “long count,” from 14 to 17 seconds, and | it gave Tunney time enough to re- | cuperate. He back-pedaled until his head cleared and went on to outbox Dempsey. This was Dempsey’s fifth ! million-dollar. gate. The crowd of 1 102,000, smaller than the 140,000 at | Philadelphia, paid around two and |a half million dollers. In the early chapter Dempsey tells of his youth in Colorado, his work in the coal mines, his deci- |sion to follow two older brothers, mediocre fighters, into the ring and a half dozen years of fruit- lesc wandering around, trying to arrange bouts that would -advance him inte the top flight. His success. starfted when Doc | Kearns became his managed. Doc |’ |quickly elected to send Jack against a top notch, more experi- enced fgihter, Gunboat Smith. Al- | though out on his feet and .dazed, | Dempsey won. Doc made him work jup the hard .way, tackling one op- | ponenit after another who was ‘sup- “)os':dly better than Jack. | At the start of 1918 Dempsey |was still a long way back. There were ten championship fighters |standing between him the Cham- pion Jess Willard. But during ‘that |vear Dempsey won from Carl Homer Smith, Jim Flynn, Gunboat Smith, Battling Levinsky and Porky Flynn. He fought a draw with Billy Miske and later out- peinted him. - Didest Bank in Alaska Commercial Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department ; The B. M. Behrends Bank g Tunequ, Alaska bons, whom he outpointed. He ex- National League Won wost Pcv Cincinnati 04 47 667 Brooklyn 83 61 578 St. Louis 7 65 539 Pittsburgh 0 510 Chicago LR < New York 6 16 465 | Philadelphia . % 9 32| American - League Won Lost Pct. Detroit 8 61 58 Cleveland . .. 8 62 578 New York ... 80 64 556 ;l; 68 537 .6 521 64 83 435 60 8 414 Philadelphia 53 90 371 —————— s THE. DAILY fight against Willard at Toledo July 4, 1919. He knocked Jess dowh a half dozentimes or more ‘n the, first round and thought’he wd kayoed himi But in the wild cnfusion as the reforee counted ver the fa'len Jess, no one heard the bell that saved Willard. Demp- ey ‘had bet, $10,000 at 10 to 1 that he would stop the ¢champion in the first round.'In the third Dempsey ave Jess ruch a beating that Wil- lard’s handlers' thréw in the towel. Ar champicn Dempsey had three poor fights, agfainst Bil; Misk and Bill Brennan, whom he tmally knocked out. and Tommy Gib bad perfciniances by ay'ng he was not in good “hapo. The high cpots of his caree = shamnien ware agpinst Genrge Carpentier at Boyles' Thirty Acres in New Jerscy and against Firpo, the Wild Bul of the Pampas. The Carpentier fight, with its bally- A ntecnafional event lair= his us -ew the higzest erowd mn to tha ime. Dempsey won with a third ~nd knockout e bad tranblr with Firpe Dempsey belted the Argentinian lown secveral times in the firs ound cnly to have Firpo got uy wnd kreck him through the reper | nta the vow of snortsw Dempsey got back into the ring, urvived that round and then kay- »1 Trpo in the next round. Th2 fight was perhaps the most spec acular in boxing history. Dcempsey closes the book with | n illustrated chapter on how tol box. The book. written in collab-| oration with Myron M. Stearns, is| published by Whittlesey House. ore | | TIGERS TAKE LEAD AGAIN OVER INDIANS Race in An;rican League Developing Hot Spurt for ‘40 Pennant | (By Associated Press) are following the usual September major league custom and this Sep- tember has developed one hot team, in this case the Detroit Tigers. | So far the Tigers have won 14| of 18 games since September 4. | Cleveland Indians have won 10/ and lost 10. | The Tigers and Ifidians have five games yet to play with each other and yesterday's fiction-like Detroit victory may be a straw in.the wind. ‘The "Tigers touched the boiling point yesterday .in the eighth in-; hing when six’ singleés brought in| five runs, pounding hard both Bob Feller and. Joe Dobson. The idle Yankees were little af- fected by the victory and remain in third position in the League's standings. “The two leaders must split even in all games if the Yankees have a chance at the flag. The only other major league game | was last night, a big affray of thcl season. The Browns beat the White | Sox when Harlong Clift homered | The major league baseball teams | were never able to catch up. GAMES FRIDAY National League No games scheduled. American League Cleveland 5; Detroit 6. | Chicago 6; St. Louis 7. Coast League Playoff Oakland 2; Seattle 4. San Diego 2; Los Angeles 5. STANDING OF THE CLUBS NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES; showing with three on bases and the Sox| | als route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1940. 21, TRIO AT T.C.U._How to fade back in finding receivers is the subject of this football lesson at Texas Christian by Coach Dutch Meyer to Kyle Gillespie (left), star passer from Paris, Tex., and Dean Bagley of San Saba, Tex. Big Match Next Week-Last Day | Before Ducks | Sunday morning, the Juneau Shot- gun Club holds another regular | the Glacier Highway. clay bird gunners will brush up their | swing-and-squeeze technique for the | last time before the duck and goose | season opens. { On that day, all gunners with paid-up membership dues ($2.50) will enter in a series of matches | with three events, singles, doubles, | and novice singles, all shooting with averages. Any shooter desiring to enter any event should contact Milton Daniel, Club Secretary, to facilitate classi- fication of averages and figuring handicaps. g G | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.—Pro- moters have dangled $20,000 before | lightweight .champion Lew Jenkins | |for a titie bout with Bob Mont- gomery of Philadelphia or Atlantic City. | Jenkins, a native of Sweetwatar, Texas, took a close decision Montgomery delphia. | sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv, FIVE NEW groups of motor cars embodying such advanced features as compound carburetion, new aero- dynamic bodies and engines de- veloping 115, 125 and 165 horse- power, are announced by Buick. A feature of the Buick line is the car shown above. It is the new Sedanet, a six-passenger coupe- sedan, available on the 40 and 60 Series chassis. Throughout the range, the new models bear a distinctive style Shotgun Club LOS ANGELES, Shoofs Again SEATTLE ARE ~ This Sunday LEADING NOW Tt ‘ .. = N Is Planned for,Rainiers, Angels Have Two. - Game Advantage in P. C. L. Playoffs Seattle and Los Angeles stepped ific Ccast weekly shoot at its club grounds on |Teaane’s nlavrff series. each hold- ing a 2 to 1 advantage over the first A week from Sunday, on the 29th, | -« the front in the Pa e U WASHINGTON GRID SQUAD IS " UP IN TALENT Foothallers 'Measure Upto | Fighting Bunch of 1938 Season | UNIVERSITY OF WASHING- | TON, gepi. 21.—0ld Jupiter Pluvins ind 53 Purpie and Gold jerseys urned cut Thursday, September 12, | s the Huske: prepared for their | 15t football seasdn, Old Jupe drew | the most comment Onee azain the Husk have acn dubberd the perernial “Sum ner Chamn ofy:" f the Pacific ast Conference. But Coach Jim Phelan i= more than just skeptical | This champienship stuff is just s5 much finaer ponting to him. Ac- cording to Phelan, equaly convine- ng cases might be built prior to the 1940 season for any cor all of four “ther pls: U.S.C.. Or>pon State, “alifernia, TTCLA In ciher words, he wants no part f the title until the season ends. ays Jim. “1010 w1l be a touzh sea- ~n, ard pre-cepson t can easily e bectowed random untn oany f these t this championship tuff wiil h t~ wait for the close the schedule.” | Senad Ts Grod | But nevertheless the Huskies are o'nZ tc be cppesition for any team in the league this fall. The squad | s a whele compares with the 1938 Huckies. Where there was a good | ‘ine and an excellent backfield in (-38, there i< an excellent line and 1 good backfield for '40. And where | he Huskies opened with the Min-| irs | me wed cppenents as the result of ! last night's games wesota Gophers in Minneapolis in| Three runs in the ninth inning 1938, they open with the Minnesota last night gave Seattle the win over Oakland. Los Angeles tallied four times in {the third inning last night to keep the game ahcad and winning over San Diego. The fourth game will be played tonight. Teams must win_ four games advance to the finals. 'BRUNSWICK BOWL ALLEYS ARE 10 BE RECONDITIONED | Beginning next Monday the Bruns- |carried off the field with a torn | wick Bowling Alleys will be recon- |ankle, ditioned so they wili be ready for | Col fall and winter tournament, The alleys will not be closed at | one will remain open while This ive the public a chance to|Behind Mucha is Al Zemeck and hefore the matches begin, | George McClintoek, seniors, and Bill Fajl and winter tournament play |Bittle” a sephomore, over| will start as soon as the alleys have | last Monday in Phila-| peen resurfaced and finished, ac- [fo say. Football is an art the way cording to the American Bowling |the blond, 195-pound Caldwell, Ida- onee, as work _progresses will pragtie on the other Congress regulations. All those who are interestd Orihmll in every department, be AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, nhl)WlnfiE want, to enter the tournament are |passer, kicker, runner, or defensive air route from Seattle to Nome, on adyjsed to see Emil Gaiao at the work. Statistics give -him a better Brunswick. treatment which takes full advan- tage of modern principles of streamlining. Among outstanding mechanical developments are the new engines which have unusually high com- pression ratios making them avail- able for the use of the new high octane fuels now developed for the commercial market. The engines are of the “fireball” design, hav- ing dome shaped pistons and com- bustion chamber contour that com- BRINGING UP FATHER BY GOLLY- MAGGIE HAS BQATH BEEN TAKIN’ A FOR OVE! 1 E%S‘ CAN ON TAKE DES, | MUST WASH ety BUT DADDY- ' WAITING. FOR TO FINIEH HER BATY ONE -~ - AND MY to ~ By GEORGE McMANUS | 3ophers in Minneapolis in 1940. |Mucha and halfback Dean Mc- Adams and a formidable aggrega- | [tion flanks them. But these two| threaten to be the weather-vanes of the Washington squad. As they 30 so will go the Huskies. Mucha js a typical “iron man.” His shortest game time last season was 55 minutes and in the last two| |seasens he has only come out of a | s2ame—when the varsity was in use | —twice, both times via “stretcher.” He was knecked out of the Minne- sota opener of the 1938 season and and he was helped off the um turf last year in the final | minute of- the U.SC. game. This time because of sheer exhaustion after being everywhere throughout 59 minutes of defensive greatnéss. With McAdams there i§ little left I ho, boy plays the game and he stands it "build-up than any sportsman could presses the fuel into the shape of a flattened ball, directly around the spark plug, providing maximum combustion efficiency without de- tonation or ping. At the same time, compound car+ buretion, involving the use of two dual carburetors per engine with a resulting step-up in: horsepower, yet & marked improvement in fuel economy, has been developed ex- clusively by Buick engineers for the 1941 cars. A STATEMENT BY GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. “WE BELIEVE the 1940 G-E Refrigerator to be the finest product of its kind ever offered to the American public —one that will cost you less to own than any other refrigerator you covld buy at any price.” A Better G-E Refrigerator For Less Money Than Ever vith CONDITIONED AIR Controlled humidity and tem- perature, and constant circula- tion of clean, sweet, freshened air, Keeps foods fresher longer! “You'll Always Be Glad You Bought A General Electricl® ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER (O. knock out on a typewriter and his slated to be the best ground-gainer record could make any back in the [among the Husky backs. There is nation envious. very little reserve in this spot, how- Other Departments ever. Seniors Bill Gleason and tlack The rest of the departments stack | Fluebel are experienced but light. up thie way: Two sophomore promises are Pete i Susick and Dwight Smith. Ends: Although the Huskies 10st| ~ punpack: Junior Jack Stackpool Dan Yarr, who beat out MacDowell jooked good in the Southern Cal for the left wing-tip last year, there | game and will probably average (he ere still Jay MacDowell and Bill pest gains for each time he carries Malrx H..c:nmvrs; .i:mn l:“w:né =Pn;0:i“mc ball of any of the Washington end Bob Vaughan, junior; backs. He is rangy, 6 feet 2 inches, Vounglove and Bill Sloan, juniors. lw;v_v, 195 rmu:r:s. and -fast. Hse All are well experienced and these g s out exceptionally well on de- three sets are backed by some S0Ph | fonse. Phelan shifted sophomors hopes, | walt Harrison from quarter to full Tackles: Glen Conley and B.V“R‘uuring spring drill and Harricon Nixen, the bird-cage twin regulars | ook Jike he is cut out for the job. of last, season—they wear glass 30 that's the way it stacks up. and thus have to have a spe Most Washington fans remember the catcher’s mask” helmet for their ccacon of '38 and refuse to be too Jébs—Walt, - Yonker, another senior, optimistic. Some will disagree with and Wayne Sterling, Junior Hawall- yhe majority and follow the reason- an; supported by a big pair of s0pho- g of the other Conference schools. meres, Carl Falk and Ralph Bock-| Anyway, Old Jupe was certainly ex- mier cited. Guards: Ray Fragkowski and SRR LP4 5 Dick Greenwood, a pair of juniors. | CUBS, SOX MAY Regular Frank Garretson was lost from the right guard post via grad- | uation. Added to the list of prospects are Bill Holmes, junior, and Ralph | Emerson, senior; and sophomores Bob Friedman, Ed Keblusek, Ed s 4 Mickelson, John Zeger and Jack| CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—The Chi- Wilson. |cago Cubs have. challenged the Quarterback: Last year sopho- | White Sox to a city series more Don Means, who had been| The White Sox rule the Chicago converted to quarterback from end | baseball roost as a result of beating 14 days earlier, was called upon to| !h2 Cubs last October in the city Actually, the Huskles line up like| | his: there are twe aces, center Rudy | do the regular signal-calling duties | %75 z ’ when veteran Chuck Bechtol suf-| The White Sox were virtuaily fered a broken arm in the Pitts-| Climirated from the American burgh opener. Means developed into L€ague pt'n'nnnt chances Plursd;y a smart field general, not one of | Y the New York Yankees. Should the best blocking quarterbacks but,| he White Sox accept the Cub chal- 2 danzerous pass received. Phelan lenge, the city series will begin the appointed an understudy for hm S2me day as the World Series, Ocx by turning left halfback Roy Cari- | tober 2. y son into a quarterback during this e e spring's: practice sessions. The ex- PITY THE SHERIFF periment had fair success. Other .~ i pend quarterbacks are Elmer Berg, senior, ROCKINGHAM, N. C.—The news and Ted Dorman, junior. | wasn't so much that a thief had Left Halfback: Ernest Steele, jun- robbed a soft drink machine. Im- for. Probably as fast as any man in | pertant fact was that the machine the Conference. All in all, he is|was beside the sheriff’s office door. GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WOOD LUMBER—GROCERIES ® PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD