The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1940, Page 5

Derringer, NotTooOldfo -~ Dodge Fluld Learn,andHeHasMisery Drive |s in To Tess fo Batiers Now Dodge Autos : \ | New'Methquf'dpulsionl Marks New Era in Moforing, Claim It has béen years singe the auto- mobile industry .has produced an opetating - improvement. approach- ing in newness and gemeral inter- lest the Fiuid Drive which will be featured In 1041 Dodge models, ac- cording to advices recelved by the ! Cowling-Davlin Company, auto firm of Juneau. in consequence there. is wide- spread curiosity regarding the quesiion-—how and to what advan- tage the power of the automo- | bile englne, ordinarily passed to | the car’s rear wheels through fixed mechamical connections, is now transmitted in an entirely dif- ferent f{ashion, namely through a body of oil. | A plain and homespun explana- tion of the Fluid Drive is one given by the Dodge Company's Vice- | { | President and director of sales, says Mr. Akers, “is mounted be-| | tween the crankshaft and the| | clutch, where it takes the place | of the conventional flywheel, The | installation is one of extreme sim- | plicity, for it consists of only two ‘wm-klng parts—two bowl-shaped | ! shells of steel into which a series| |of evenly spaced blades or fins are welded. | “One of these bowl-shaped shells is mounted—its open end facing | toward the rear—oh the end of | the enging crankshaft; it is called the driver or impeller; the other| fluid drive part, similar in con-| Istruction to the first one, 's| T LT | mounted on the drive shaft of| the car in Such’ a way that its| open end faces the impeller- | | most, but not gtite,” touching PAUL DERRINGER: Control, curves and now a knuckler. By JOHN FRYE - inning did they realize they were AP Feature Service \ otherwise hitless. The final score was Cincinnatt 4, Chicago 0. CINCINNATI, Oct. 2—Paul Der- e gnyckler has affected Paul's| “The two flufd driye parts, im- ringer, the biz Kentuckian and contro] a bit. He now: walks as peller and rubser, gre surrounded magnate of Sarasota.';nany a4 three men a game, where by a tighitly, sesled “steel housing i contradiction - of —and this housing' 1 filled with S vIlE last year he once went almost 50 ) old saw about old dogs and innings without givig a . free! two galleng of dil. That is all there m:;. tricks. | trip. | is, mechanibally, to: the Dodge Not (hat Qum Paul is an old| “giy onethig of ‘an. experi-| fiuld drive; 615 i ettect, & two-| :',‘,, : G”:.l';liuxou;‘ed:fiozg‘ ment, the knuckler may have|Section power traln ‘V!“‘J“ gap "l“ enough. o have ‘@ .right 0. be o C08t him SODN/GE the degen games| the center of H:’e flid drfve unit,| littte S0t his ways it he. likes. | e lost up to mid-September. On where oil is mafte the medium to Tl builh . his. pitching repu- | e other hand, it helped him to, CAFTY drivVIRRseuieRpy S one. soc- | e D b ot uq | 30 victorles i’ that, time &nd who's Hon of the unit to the vther. | ation on two things, control ande o mplaining? “When the -enging -turns the; a h}md 0) sortment of curves. i DolBly" U Hogx" front section; of the fluid coup- “hen bis greatest season, y., Unol P _|ing, - the rotating impeller - throws | 25 Viclor L_uul seven losses, he ~The average, knuckler “doesn't:ihe off by pehtrifugal force against| t learn the new trick— ' have much push behid i and'yne fing of ' fhe .vupner, which | a knuckle ball. That delivery is #eems to ‘wobble, ' But Paul's promiptly furis in tHe same direc- hard to master. Many a sage comes up fast. There's.1io spih on yion s the impeller. pitcher by refused to monkey it and it Wobbles. The bau.gr “The car, whén under way, pro- with it because he knew he'd never thinks it's slow. and when he's o much as it would move :f| Ernie 'Lombardi know where it was going. veady to swing, the fluid coupling: were a fixed Auspicious Debut Is already tossing the ball back one; though x:fl ugnotlonble that Paul worked quietly, None of 0 Paul starting, driving ‘and .stopping are| the fans and few of his team| Off the fiéld the big, curly- much smoother. mates knew he was experiment- headed Derringer is one of Cin-| “But the most ueful detail in ing. Then, about mid-season this cinnati’s best dressed men. He the operation of the: fluid drive is year, he gave it a formal coming drives away from the clubhouse the manner in which the rotation out pa and came within the in a snappy station wagon and speed of the runner metmiber may length of Stan Hack's bat handle looks like a : prosperous young differ from the spéed of the im-| of the pitchers' hall of fame. banker. peller under * conditions of start-| It was July 6 up in Chicago. Paul's a new fathér: A daughter ing and hill-climbing. With the| Ths Cubs had an idea that they was born late in the seasom, just car in motion, the oil and the run- | weren't getting anywhere but before he went out and lost a ner of the fluid drive will travel not until Stan got a little blooper night game. Pure coincidence,' practically together. When the ear off the handle in about the eighth he’ll assure you. TWO AMERICANS | slows down under conditions of| | heavy pulling, or in' getting under| way, the flow. of oil against and around the fins is such as to give| the fluid drive Dodge a truly as- tonishing operating flexibility and| " | control, The operator of the new | | fluld drive Dodge has it in his| ! power to drive, if he wishes, the! way he has always driven. Or ael ! may do 90 percent of his normal| | driving with the gear shift left 1m ‘high; He may stop the car| | without. releasing the clutch pedal; |he miay ascend hills in ‘high’ at| | speeds as low as one mile per hour, | | stopping midway on the incline,, then starting again, with the gears' I'still in ‘high’ He may negotiate' | the busiest city traffic without' |doing any gear shifting and,' | therefore, without experiencing the | fatigue whilch formerly was an ac- | cepted ' fedture of &ity driving.” lakig gl iiots ; o tees thie intdost aaily cifculation of any Alaska nrewspaper. ¥ 1 IN JOVIAL MOOD :Forest H. Akers. “Our Fluid Drive,"‘s EA T T l E I s * ‘Empire Classifieds Pay! Winner of the national amateur golf championship at Mamaroneck, N. Y., Dick Chapman of Greenwich, Conn., soon will marry Mrs. Eloise Shaeffer of Philadelphia, according to reports. WINNER OF (L. PLAYOFF Playeffi Wfigplil Pbl of $5,000-George Archie Drafted by Senators | | LOS8 ANGELES, Oct. 2—In a shower of homers, the Seattle Rain. iers last night pummeled the Los; Angeles . Angels into . final = sub- mission * in the ' coneluding game of ‘the President’s Cup Playoff of| the Pacific Coast League, taking the fifth game by a score of 8 to 8. The Rainiers won four games of the seven scheduled. The Angels’ Murderers’ Row ' was | completely outslugged. By the victory, the ‘players =pHL the' $5,000 pot. Eellcher and Gyselman hit cir- ciit clouts and Lawrence made two| folir-basers himself. v Fhe Seattle Rainiers not un!vl won . the season’s championship but | hiive now won the playoff series. | “As the Seattle Rainiers closed theé. 1940, season the announcement wés made that George Archie, first| bagéman, has been'drafted by the| Washington Senators, After the'-Blitz will w | | ' |day REDS" ACE HURLERS IN 60OD FORM Wild Bill‘ Declares His Moundsmen Are Best in Game By PAUL MASON AP Feature Service CINCINNATI, Oct. 2. Bl Walters and Paul Derringer, ace hurlers of the National League | champion Reds, are even better this year than they were last when be- tween them they won' 52 games says Bill McKechnie, their mana-| | ger. Both were late Inh artiving at the coveted 20-game mark this season, but with Joe Beggs, rellef ! fireman ‘No. 1, turning in 13 vyic- s nobody kpew = the ' differ- ence:’ the 52 counted for, s “I'ere you have the best two in the business,” commented Mc- Kechnie In .that calm, dispassion-| ate voice that he uses for most everyone but umpires. “They're even better in my estimation than “thoy were last year. They' went great guns when the breaks were | against us then—but this year too. | Ripple and Morris Arnovich, along I've been worried only two times| with Harry Craft and Ival Good- this season, once when Gene | Thampsoen was spiked (in, the his- stronger picket line, toric ‘Battle of Brooklyn’), and then when . Willard . Hershberger ended his life in Boston. “But Bucky and Paul shook off | their depression—and so did the by bad breaks in the 1939 series| | others—and since have been going at a remarkable gait.” | McKechnie, seated in the Reds’| dugout, looked across the green to his boys—engaged at the mo- ment in easily lobbing the ball among them. | “Look at 'em,” he smiled . . . “a| great bunch, that., I've won pen-| nants in four towns, but I don’t think there was | ever a swceterQ'ed l ons ball club on the field than this| NOTICE TO CREDITORS | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,‘ That the undersigned was, on the | 24th day of September, 1940, duly appointed administrator of the es- | tate of ELEIE M. KNIGHT, de-| geased, and that letters testamentary | therefore on said day were duly is- sued to the undersigned. | All persons having claims agalns” said estate are hereby required ‘°i present the same, with. proper vouchers, and duly verified, within six (6) months from the date of this Notice to the undersigned admin- istrator at the office .of his attor- neys, Ry 18, ROBERTSON, aid M. E. MONAGLE at 200 Sewafd Building, | Juneau, Alaska. gl Uk Dated at Jineau. Alaska, this 24th | of tember, lMfi e AR R L. PIN] N.. Admiistrator. | First publication, Sept. 35, 1940. Last publication, Oct. 16, 1940. BRINGING UP FATHER 2y — THE Sl PAGE? AH’/ A NEWSPAPER- AT LAST-1 HAVEN'T SEEN ONE_SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE YACHT=— 'LL GO OUT ON TH' DECK By ¥ were safe ahd .ac-|* GEORGE McMANUS HITLESS | REDS (AN WIN YET Don’t Laugh at Them-Just Remember 1933 | Giants By DILLON GRAHAM orts Editor, AP Feature Service Cincinnati’s “hitless ~ wonders” carry into the World fes one of the poorest club batting aver- ages in modern baseball history. Bub those who cast jibes at the punchless Reds might recall that the last “hitless wonder” club won its series engagement. The McKechniemen’s squad aver- age is around .263. That's the same mark owned L the New York Giants of en years ago who whipped Washington in their fall argument. And, where the Giants |had only Bill Terry in the .300 class, the Reds can point to Frank McCormick, Ernie Lombardi and |Jim Ripple. The Reds' pitching corps, paced by Bucky Walters (and Paul Derringer, rates as better | than that of the Giants with Carl ‘Hubbe]l as the “meal ticket.” Below 1939 Mark | The Reds are hitting some ‘percentnge points below their 1939 | figure but Deacon McKechnie says | he has a better club than a year | ago, Hits may not be as frequent| but they have been timely enough |and Cincinnati is winning by a | bigger margin than in last Sep-| tember. 1 Ordinance No. 76 of the City of Why is it a better club? Well,| Juneau provides that no BOY OR let's see: | “ 2, | GIRL under the age of 18 years Walters and Derringer haven't| CTNCINNATI Oct 2 It’s shall be upon the streets, alleys, won as many games but Lhny'roi"“"“""‘” gossip around here that'or public grounds of the City of the class of the league with both|30-vear-old Lew Riggs could get Juneau after 9 o'clock P.M., after past the 20 mark. Gene Thompson,|2 I®gular third-baseman’s job on October first until April 30 of each |a rookie in 1939, is more experi- | enced this year and has won more| | games. Jim Turner and John| Hutchings are new additions and, t “‘must important, there is Joe Beggs.| LW plays very iittle as Bill parents or guardian. From now on | He gives the Reds something “wy;xflm’lwr'.-, understudy, but he’s get- curfew will ring at 9 o'clock and didn’t have a year ago, a relief|ting paid handsomely just to be this Ordinance will be strictly en- pitcher who can go in and put/around in case forced, out the fire, He won more than| Although he played a few Dated this 1st day of October, a dozen games in relief roles, games in mid-season when Werber 1940, Jim Wilson, a veteran, and|! | Rookie” Bill Baker, along with the| regular Schnozzle Lombardi, pro- vide a backstopping group as| | strong ‘as in 1939. i Infield Surer The -infield remains the same, but it is a surer fielding unit. Riggs ‘and Joost effer fine insur- ance against injuries. The outfield, although lacking a real punch, is an improvement | over ‘the’ shaky group of last year ‘whlch included the injured vet- {eran Wally Berger, and old-timer | Al Simmons. Mike McCormick, Jim man, furnish Bill McKechnie a McKechnie says it is a better| team and, checking over the squad, | you can’t help but agree with him. He figures the Reds were beaten rather than by any overwhelming superifority of the Yankees. | Bill won world championships with the Pirates and the Cardinals| and he says he'll tag on a tnird| one with the Reds this year. Hei may be right. ! B Wins for White Soxg Veferan Hutler Holds Cubs’ - 10°5-0 Score in Chi- | cago Cify Series CHICAGO, Il, Oct. 2. — Ted Lybns, the 30-year-old veteran hurler of the Chicago White Sox, béal the Chicago Cubs yesterday, by a 5 to 0 score in the opening game of the City Serfes. I iLyons allowed only 10 seattered tits during the exciting game. >oo Subscribe fo1 I Empire. | l | . a game-winning doubie. When Billy Myers was laid up JlewRiggs | meen | asked why Lew wasn't taught to any of Bill Reds would let him go. njured a finger, his main job this (Signed) DAN RALSTON, year has been pinch hitting Chief of Police. He usually delivers, often with Publication dates, Oct, 2-3-4-5, 1940, a single and more than once with adv., Four generations are represented in this family portrait, made as the wuustvilis gathered at Hyde Park, N. Y, to celebrate the 86th birth- day of the President’s mother, M ara Delano Roosevelt. She is holding the hand of Franklin D Roosevelt, 3rd, while her son and F. D, Jr, look on, play shortstop. He is a harder hit- ter than Eddie Joost, but McKech- things the way he does and Lew sticks around. ——————— NOTICE Just Hangs With Reds them seven teams m if the other National League McKechnie of the year unless accompanied by some grown person having such child in charge or unless upon some {errand by direction of his or her he Manager Cincinnati Yankee Garb for British Tots 1 Aq one of the child sanctuaries somewhere in rural England, British children are outfitted in warm clothes sent from the United States. Approach of winter makes serious Britain’s clothing shortage which arose from war paralysis of industry. The American Red Cross is rushing garments for the small, innocent sufferers of the war. GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES ® PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD