The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1941, Page 5

1940 iy THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1941. STANFORD WINS FROM The Year In Sports Baseball By DILLON GRAHAM | Detroit surprised from the start, Sports Editer, AP Feature Service | with three “old men” and a new- comer Rudy York, in the infield; a none-too-stout outfield with Hank | Greenberg as a flychasing experi- & somersault in ‘1940, | ment, and several rookie pitchers. The National League, beaten mc1 Experts figured the Tigers couldn't straight years, finally won a World |, i up but the infield hung to- and also swept both thej .. “york Greenberg and the s and summer All-Star GaMeS.| /oo i were successes and the The senior loop race generally al,, s outpunched the Indians down «ogfight, turned into a runaway eboh | such as the American has had in recent years while the American he Cardinals couldn’t get going| borrowed the National’s customary "Icr R‘I‘»‘l Blades ;‘"“ “’l“"dr it was teo late to make much of a| Lot argument script. 4 3 The Detroit Tigers, given no con- | 2O* M6 "vl“"'v b Sou(nwc’)xr‘;h sideration as contenders, won [ll": X I“ .IHJI\JX:J‘IF in Jull]e’ 2 American pennant as the New York C1ants and Cubs flopped Yankees, favored to capture their JnmY ~Wilson fifth straight flag, collapsed. Over 1atinett as the in the National League, Lhe St, M€F the season. Louis Cardinals, pre-se NEW YORK.—Baseball form did| Series spring Cubs' manager ason favor ites, wobbled as the Cincinnati Reds coasted to a 12-game National League victory and then beat the Tigers i the series Cleveland mnd Brooklyn the runners-up., Internal strife likely hurt Cleveland's most Ti- ous bid in years. The Indians »d an uprising in June and asked the front office for Mana- ger Oscar Vilt's scalp Vitt hung on, though, while some sports writers and fans jeer- ingly dubbed the Indians the “cry- babies.” Despite the dissension, the Tribe was in the battle down to the closing week when Detroit won the clinching game when a rookie from Buffalo, Floyd Giebell, out- pitched Bob Feller. Feller had his best season, leading the league with 27 triumphs including baseball's first opening day no-hit game Brooklyn Hot Brooklyn set a league record of nine straight victories to open the year and was a threat until August when injuries, pitching weakness and the lack of another clu hit- ter stopped the Dodgers. The Yankees, with everyone but Joe DiMaggio having a bad year got left at the post and were i the cellar after a month’s pla They climbed to fourth place, on three games back of the leade: in early June. Mid-August found them back in the second division but then they unloosed an offen- sive that threatened the pace- setters. On September 9 the Yan- kees were third, one game out of the lead. But after they dropped three straight to the St. Louis lyn with Cardinal Curt Davis for Browns in mid-September they, four pl and some $100,000 in had to rally again to finish third,|the year's biggest deal, was hit by only two games back. |a pitched ball and out for some The Boston " Red Sox jumped time as was Bill Jurges of the out in front but lost the play to|Giants and Pee Wee Reese of the Cleveland and Detroit in late Dodgers. Reese, juvenile shortstop, June and never threatened thex’c-l‘wns perhaps the top rookle. after Joe DiMaggio, with 350, and Deb Tip-Offs On 600D BASKETBALL 2: Coordination s Toppled ‘The Tigers got the jump in the eries, winning the opening game behind Buck Newsom after chasing Dervinger in the second Then it was nip-and-tuck, the Tigers finally galing a game lead when Newsom s father died the night of the contest, won the fifth L3 - were ning. with 3-2 wh opening game. But the Reds cvened the series with Bucky Walters and won the clincher as Derringer outpointed Newsom, Jira Ripple, outfielder who came up iale from Montreal, Bill Werber, and Jimmy Wilson were Cincinnati stars. The 40-year- old Wilson, put on the active roster alter Willard Hershberger commit- ted suicide during the summer, had to catch after Ernie Lombardi suf- fered a foot injury. Walters, Derringer and all won 20 or more games again. The veteran Fred Fitzsimmons of Brooklyn had the best National League percentage with 16 wins against two losses. Brooklyn's Tex Carleton entered the hall of fame with an early no-hitter. Hank Greenberg probably was the player-of-the-year, He tried a ditficult experiment in shifting from first base to the outfield and became one of the best flychas He led the league in homers and runs batted in, and was voted the most valuable player. Frank Mr- Cormick of the Reds was the Na- tional’s most valuable Newsom Bean Ball Joe Medwick, traded to Brook- By CLAIR BEE Long Island University Coach “Zcu don't shoot baskets with your feet—but you won't get a chance to shoct many unless you learn proper coordination in footwork. That's why these paragraphs come before we even mention shooting +echnique. You must have footwork to be able to get around the floor properly, both on offense and defense, and there are certain exercises which will help get proper coordination. Before you ever pick up a ball in practice sessions at the start of the season do a little shadow boxing, rope skipping, and practicing of sprint- ers’ starts. Fencing exercises also are a help in strengthening leg mucles. | baseman i $45,000 ! dent with 355, Vitt, Roger manage Garms of the Pirates, were the batting champions. replaced at GCleveland by Peckinpaugh, signed to Portland, Ore Newark won the Series from Louisville. Commissioner K. M. Landis au- thored the spring’s big news by freeing five major and 87 minor league players after an investiga- tion into the Detroit farm system Benny McCoy, most publicized of those involved, signed as second for the Athletics for and $20,000 two-year | Little World a contract. - > badly, | | replacing Gabby | CHRISTY URGES | " SKI-BASKETBALL TOURNEY HERE Chamber Working on Planf for Joint Doings | af Juneau | Plans tor a joni skling and| backetball tournament a Juneau carly this year were proposed at today’s Juneau Chamber of Com-| merce luncheon by Myron Chrisf President of the Juneau Ski Club, The matter was referred to a: Chamber Committee consisting of ¢y Sperling Horace Adams and Green. COAST GUARD HEAD EXPLAINS | " WHY KETCHIKAN New Radio.SiaIion Follows| District Headquarters, ' Writes Waesthe | | | The Ccast Guard’s new q\muu-.' millicn dollar communicaticns sta- {ticn will be built at Ketchikan be- | cause District Headquarters are, {there, and District Headquarters are ‘at Ketchikan because of a lack: of |adequate office space in Juneau a| year ago when the “Juneau District”, jof the Coast Guard came looking for | la place to locate. This was the reply of Rear Ad- imiral R. R. Waesche of the Coast Quard to a Juneau Chamber of Cemmerce radiogram urging him to , Withhold his decision ¢~ designating headquarters until afte: he had con- sidered Juneau’s advantages. Advantages Weighed | “Decision to retain Coast Guard headquarters at Ketchikan,” Wae- |sche wrote, “was reached after full | and’ careful.consideration of the ad- vantages of both Juneau and Ketch- ikan. One of the principal consider- | aticens influencing this decision was {the lack of adequate Government quarters at Juneau at the time the! unavailabilty of funds to construct ! ) hobbles | stamapaded | weird a ruitable building to take care of Ceast, Guard needs. dio station depends to a large e itent wpon the rituation of District | Headquarters. When it was dc ‘e eontinus with the Distriet h {quarters at Ketchil that the lo¢ation of the radio staticn | Ialso would be at Kechikan,” | No Chamber Blame | ! Commenting cn Admirai Waesche s letter, Curtis Shattuck, ne of the Chamber, s today that he felt nc blame could be placed on Juneau City officials cor the haraber of Ccminerce for the Coast | lGuard's going to Ketchikan. “We should not feel,” Shattuck | said, “that in the growth-of other ‘towns in Alaska, we are losing any- thing.” Juneau profits from such growth, wherever it is, he said. The Chamber has don: what it could to have national defense money spent here, so far without neticeable success, Shattuck said, theugh he pointed to the proposed To loosen and strengthen your arms for their strenuous basketball duties a little medicine ball throwing each day is a big aid. You'll be surprised how easily a basketball handles after tossing those weighted | pills around. ~ "BRINGING UP FATHER YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE -NO REFINEMENT- JUST CRUDE-OH-WELL- YOU SEE jone projec $500,000 field on Mendenhall bar as| t which Juneau appears to have obtained. D - | Try a classified ad In The Empire. GRACIOUS -HERE I AM WASTING MY TIME TALKING TO YOU AND FORGET- ING TO LOOK AT THE ADS _IN THE PAPER- FOOT BALL RESTLTS The following are final scores of Bowl football games played yesier- day afternoon At Pasadena—Rose ford2l; Nebraska 13. At El Paso—Sun Bowl: Wes Reserve 26; Arizona State 13 At San Francisco—All-Star Char- ity game: West 20; East 14 At Miami—Orange Bowl: Missis- sippl State 14; Georgetown 17 At Dallas—Cotton Bowl: Texas Aggies 13; Fordham 12 At New Orleans—Sutar Boston College 19; Tenmossee >oe Coffon Bowl Game Goes fo Texas Aggies Southern Gridders Defeat Fordham Rams by Score 13-12 DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 2. — The Texas Aggies finally broke their yesterday afternoon and Fordham's Rams for a Cotton Bowl football game triumph by a score of 13 to 1. After being bottled and capped and just 11 “other guys” for 30 minutes, in six brief minutes of the dramatic third period, the Aggies presented a great passing magic in gunning that made them rulers in Southwestern football for a two year period Early Smith, third string half- back, started swishing down the sidelines from his own 35 yard line, didn't look over his shoulder until he reached Fordham® ard line where he caught a forward pa from Marion Puch then ran the rest of the way for a touchdown. Five minutes later, a fake kick combined with a weird display of laterals, forward passing and field running resulted in a touchdown and Puch kicked the winning point A crowd of 47000 spectators wit- essed the game. - Bowl: Stan- ern Bowl: 13 VANISHING LAKE KONSTANZ, Switzerland The Rhine and other streams are fill- ing Lake Konstanz (area 214 square miles) with stone and sediment st the rate of 4,000,000 cubic feet a year. - Empire Clussifiecs Pay! _ Dinosaur’s Footprint His Bathtub “The location of the propossd ra-| ? Tommy Pendley, 3, gives you an idea of the huge proportions of a sauropod dinosaur by taking a bath in one of the pre-historic monster’s tracks, 36 inches long. Dr. Museum of Natural History-Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition, uncovered the tracks near Fort Worth, Texas. A slab of limestone 29 feet in length and 7 feet wide bearing the impressions of the four feet of a bronto- | Empire. PETETT ™ g s 5 Mack Marks 78th Birthday NEBRASKA IN GREAT GAME PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 2 Stantord’s gridiron magicians rolled to a tenth victory yesterday after- noon in the Rose Bowl by down- ing the stout hearted Nebraska Cornhuskers, who were unable to solve the mysleries of the V-T for- mations, by a score of 21 to 13 while 90,000 spectators roared them- selves hoarse Score in Two Minutes Nebraska scored in the first two minute play by smashing line plays by Butch Lut . Mike Fran- ois and Roy Petseh, Francis picked the point Stanford Clicks But the T-model engine started clicking and Stantord got a touchdown by a trick end play that gave Pete Kmetovie 20 yards and Gallareau was helped with couple of lne plays seored. Albert converted Fumbled Punt ki second was in cond quarter on Herman Roh- ric’s pass (o Zikmund after Stan ford fumbled punt Stanford came right back with a scoring pass, Albert to Gallar- neaun, and bert broke the tie with a place kick Reserves Go In Nebraska sent in reseives but the Stanford line off further threats. Kmetovic, in the third quarter, ran 30 yards for the final Stanford touchdown and again Albert’s kick was good Held on 8-inch Nebraska's line once held on the 8-inch line and down other Stan- ford threats in the closing minutes The Nebraska offensive [finally stopped clicking howed decepuion unu while Nebraska deu: driving power, Fairy Story Comcback The victory yesterday gave Sta ford a reecord of three wins, thre and one tie in Rose Bowl s00n Se score in droves held Line Staniord riority in mations much ial nstrated 63 losses games ih falry story comeback Shaughnessy, who vesterday had difficulty in buying an ordinary spectator’s ticket the Rose Bowl game after his Uni- versity of Chicago team disap- peared under him MARTHAS WILL MEET TOMORROW Martha Society members will meet ced the vach Clark year ago vietory clin ust a to temorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock | in ti.e Parlors of the Northern Light Presbrterian Church for a dessert luncheon and. business session. Hc sses will be Mrs. Katherine Hooker and Mrs. Florine Housel. -e to the Daily Alaska with the largest Subscribe the paper paid circulation saurus, was also excavated, IN ROSE BOWL (OLLEGE WINNER Great Ienness'ee Volun- teers Lose 1910 13 in Sugar Bowl bame RIEANS, La e defeated the yeste four minutes v ternoon in of the Sugar Bowl game as ¢y haltback Charley O'Rourke in- tercepted o pass, then passed, then ran and j d again three times ond tossed and hit the bullseye fin- ally on the fourth time and then dropped back fenness defenses scattered lo stop the | O'Rourke faked a renessee unteer the lasi sse ) ©° Marking his 78th birthday in Philadelphia, Connie Mack, manager and official of*the Philadelphia Athletics for 40 years, shows one of the Christmas-birthday greeting cards he received from admiring 55, ran 20 yards for the winning £ans. Connie purchased additional shares of stock in the baseball %X points before crowd of T2.- club, making him complete hoss of the organization. . 000 spectators, the largest football i throng in southern history, junction below the first meadow by < Cn Douglas Trail a the Ltwo great work teams were Sther than of ers are urged (o hesd these signs, as O'Rourke the a serious accident occured yesterday evenly matched when a skier disregarded the warn- lne Bostonians o hind twice to tie the Appreximatel College made 13 first - vantage of a beautiful New Years len made eleven and tc Day to their hickorys on - Miss. Slale =s Wins; Score Of 141017 Georgefownilrbrses Orange Bow! Foothall Game | Before 36,000 Fans | MIAMI, F! rom be- i o 35 skiers took ad- Bos ton dowy wd see IN SKI ACCIDENT CCC worker, is at St. Three overnighters and a dozen merming arrl visited the upper in. 8ncw conditions were report- ed fair, with variable crust and deep T nest Ray sustained while skiing yes- terday afternoon below the first were placed at the trail meadoweon the Douglas Ski Trail. British Commons Damaged | , Jan. 2—The sharp-| sooting Mississippi State banged over a pair of first half touch- downs yesterday in the Orange Bowl foolball game to win by a score of 14 to 7 from Georgetown. Mississippi State staved off| Georgetown's desperate attempt at a comeback and thereby won the ninth annual Orange Bowl game! before a crowd of 36,000 specta-| tors. T'he the first score and swept 61 for the second touchdown, winners blocked a punt for yards A guard stands amid the wreckage of bomb-wrecked Cloister Court, which forms part of Britain's House of Commens in London. One of the most ancient and architeeturally beautiful parts of the Houses of acnt, Cleister Court was damaged recently by a German bomb. ~.cture was radiced from London, A PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY 1 DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO00D LUMBER ——— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "“SHORTY" WHITFIELD This Barnum Brown, leader of the American