The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1941, Page 5

COULDNOT (OMEBACK i DURING'40 Snorts Pace Was Certainly Fast During Past Year- Many Left at Posts By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Service Sports Editor The 1940 sports pace was so fast 1hat few champions successfully de- fended their honors. ht boxer Joe Louis was So did light-heavy golfer Betty Jameson Alice Marble, who high-ranking golfer turned professional w repeated his 1939 ndianapolis speedway aute went football season unbeaten won the single sculls crown again and Don Lash 1 up his seventh straignt country triumph. Yanks Flop n tumbled as the and the National phases winning Heavy one who did Bill and Conn tennist along with unsung the American League nosing out Cleveland, internal troubles led play- ers to unsuccessfully demand the firing of Manager Oscar Vitt in mid-season, but lost nati in the series. The Reds, re- taining their National League pen nant, bro the senior circuit first & triumph since 1934 Herry Armstrong, who has held more boxing titles for four was dethroned, in a wel- by Fritzie Zivic, Lew Jenkins Lou Ambers. it one o year terweight brush while newcomer topy lightweight d all-time 173 'WASN'T MinER through | |a miner. of | to Cincin-| middle, bantam and feather- in the 80's and 90's with a couple weight champions also were cruwncd.' Harmon Year i On the tennis court, Oklaho- ma's Don McNeill upset Bobby Riggs to win the National singles championship and also took clay court and intercollegiate honors. | Southern California won the N.CAA. track championship for the sixth year. Football was fea- tured by strong Boston College and Minnesota teams, Stanford comeback, the saga of Michigan' Tom Harmon, and the emergenc THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8, 1941. SMASHING VALUES! Tip-Offs On 600D BASKETBALL By CLAIR BEE Long Island University Coach - ; Shooting and passing, already vered, are the most important of offense but to get a e to shool or pass you must | e able to get free of defensive men. Several things can help you do that of one of pro football's great teams in the Ch rs who massacred Washir : Redskins in the title game, 0. | R s of the simplest is nu-{ | change of pace. I you run always| At the same rate of speed your -d need only match your speed | ind hold that pace. But by using your head—and constantly chang- ing pace—you can save your feet and get free oftener. It is vital that you master “change of direc- tion.” Feints, starts, stops, re- verses and pivots are all important in getting an opponent off bal- ance. Feinting, you must remember,| is done with the eyes, head, shoul- One ALL HIS LIFE, JUST 70 YEARS| SPOKANE, Wash., Jan, ~—Wes- ley J. Herring, sprightly 98-year-| old president of the Elgin and Og-/ den Mining Company of Wardner, ders, and hips. T. 01_!ens¢_e THE FEET DO NOT MOVE, except when a long back step is required after a feint in order to get off a shot. It's good practice to fake left and go right; right and go left; left, right, and go left; right, left, and go left, But don't move those feet until your drive actually starts. Idaho, denies he has always been & of six-shooters of cayuses, a pair and a bowie knife.” “You know something,” he !switched the subject as the pho- | tographer Snapped a picture. “That’s the first picture I've had taken since one that was taken of me {and another fellow in South Bend,| | Indiana, before we came West. I was 23 then “Hmm, that would be 75 fears ago, wouldn't it. Yes, sir, time does fly.” ‘Moral: Do Not Put Cat in Refrigerato SHAWNEE, Okla., Jan. .—Nancy |S|oo]v,_ three, put her cat in the “Just the last 70 years,” he ex- plained on one of his infrequent trips out of the silver-lead-zinc district of the Coeur d'Alenes where he operates. “I expect I'll keep at it a cou- ple of years more™ he added re- flectively. “That will make me a hundred, I might retire then. I don’'t know, though, it depends| on how I feel.” Herring drifted into the Coeur d’Alenes from New Mexico nearly half a century ago and stayed— first as a mine employee, then as a contract miner and finally as an independent operator with three claims in the famous dry belt on| Big Creek where the famous Sun- shine mine, richest silver pro-| ducer in America, is located. Herring sees little romance in being a factor in the development of the West. “It's mostly a lot of work,” he surmises, “But,” he added “it was a lot of fun drifting around New Mexico |opened the cat came out hale and | hearty . . . but the lunch meat was ' gone. - Empire Classifieds Pay! | electric ice box. When the door was | Drunks Working In Co-operafion Wilh (_ily Cops FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, Jan. " — Fayetteville police are well pleased with the cooperation drunks have accorded them of late. One un- steady fellow dropped in for a chat, another staggered in to demand sat- isfaction for a traffic ticket and an- other pulled wearilv to a stop in front of headquarters and ordered an officer to take his bags for he was “tired and needed a hot bath and lots of sleep.” - This is the way to make cornbread stuffing: Bake cornbread the usual way, but omit any sweetening. Cool and crumble with the fingers and substitute the cornbread crubs for half the amount of white bread call- ed for in the dressing recipe. O AR AL DONE BY EXPERTS AT LOW PRICES! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE T GOOD PRINTING is an essential to most busi- ness men and to many private individuals. The Juneau Empire, equipped with fine, modern printing machinery manned by expert crafts- men, is in a position to offer fine printing at unusually low prices. You'll find printing done 1o the most exacting standards when it's done by THE EMPIRE, and you'll find also that it's done economically. PHONE 374 R T W = = I = E T GO =| January Clearance Qver 1500 Yards of SILK C REPES 1 L . . .RAYONS WQOLS TOMORROW STARTS THE GREATEST PARADE OF JANUARY CLEARANCE VALUES JUNEAU HAS EVER KNOWN. Over 1,500 yards of better dress materials drastically reduced in our thrilling January sale—less than HALF in most cases. After this sale, perhaps never again at these low prices. SHOP TOMORROW and buy for future use. You'll be amazed at these great Behrends’ Values! Reg. 65¢ to 1.50 yd. Crepes, Spun Rayons, Flat Crepes A wondertful selection . . . All 36 inches wide, pure silk flat crepes, printed rayon crepes, solid color spun rayons. WE REALLY MEAN IT THESE ARE VALUES. - 50 yard Reg. 1.00 to 1.95 yd. PURE SILKS--RAYON CREPES All better dress materials, Clearance Prices. COME EARLY FOR THESE but out they go at Grand All colors, 36 inches wide, pure silks, feather flannel, novelty crepes. ™ 88¢ yard REMNANTS A group of GRAND REMNANTS, a lit- tle of everything — Regardless of yards, they all go at these prices. 5¢- 10¢-25¢ EACH HOOP YEAR IS OPENED IN JUNEAU ‘Hennings and Firemen Produce Winning Squads in.1941 Pennant Race The basketball calendar of 1941 opened last night in the high | school gym with Henning's Cloth- |jers taking the National Guard in "(lvluult because the latter did not | have enough men, and then going len to beat a pickup team 43-36, |the Firemen following this game th an unmerciful trouncing of the Elks, 52-22. .The first game, a rough and tumble affair, produced only four | National Guardsmen for the start- | ing lineup and two extra men were drafted into the Army lineup from he spectators’ benches. One of the draftees, Kinky Bay- | ers, who hasn't played much ball lin recent years, pulled the old ‘Bayers “sleeper” play to good ad- vantage and potted 19 points for | the evening’s high tally. Henning's Clothiers, paced by | manager Joe Bird, never were seri- ously challenged after the game got well under way, and led at the end of the game by seven points as they had at the half when the score was 21-14. The second game showed a Firemen squad that was really “ticking.” Brown, Powers and Lind- | strom were all hot and working to- | gether beautifully. Blind passes | ing to the right places and were gol quick off-balance shots were drop- 21 Copr -}940, King Peatures Syndicate, Inc, World nghts seserved. LACES . v, bolt from 1 to 17 the bolt. PER QUALITY ping with surprising regularity through the netting. . In addition to a fast offense, the | Firemen were dropping quickly back | nto defense position on losing the y ball and found little trouble in | immediately bogging down any real | Elk rally. Although | wasn't firing on all five last "the squad still has as good Do { tialities as any team in the league ! with Russell, VanderHoeck, Dru- | liner, Moss and Woods in the line- up All are experienced playersand hard-working ball hawks. That al- | ways helps to make a team. | The next league game will the Elk combination be INSERTION - A bargain hunter's dream, everything in the way of trimmings. All imported pieces, and regardless of the yards on a| also regardless of the yards—3 to 10— 10cand 15¢ Reg.2.50002.95 ydl. 54 INCH WOOLENS You'll love these woolens, and even more their feature low price. Dress weights, coatings, suitings, stripes, Scotch plaids, shepherd checks, 9 5 d 1.95 yar FOR IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE Values to 83¢ yd. A GROUP OF BETTER COTTONS, RAYONS, NOVELTIES AND SHORT ENDS — FOR IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE. RIBBONS You buy these satin ribbons by the boit . BEADING TRIMMINGS you buy them by| ot ONE PRICE— 1 0c per bolt BOLT B. M. Beurenps Co. SINCE 1887 = v vo r To Train Objectors | Woods 0 Druliner Vanderhoeck Watson Havlic Totals next Monday, cither in Douglas or & Juncau. ‘The players and scores made last night follow: ‘ Henning's FI' PG T 3 P Taguchi Krugness Bird Clark Hickey . Stewart Lewis Se e | o Totals 9 National Guard McLaughlin Arnell Fuller Willey Bayers Henning Totals Firemen 3 Lindstrom ...... Powers Jones Taylor Brown Chapados MacMurray . N Bluwoowas Dr. Thomas Elsa Jones Thomas Elsa Jones, president of Fisk University, at Nashville, Tenn.,| has been offered position of national director of civilian public service. The post was created to supervise civilian rather than military train- ing for conscientious objectors, . < T UR F—Uncle Sam takes over the training program of W. J. “Buddy” Hirsch (above) from now on. A horse trainer himself, and son of Max Hirsch, Buddy’s going into army, - Cocked beets in straws or slices give extra flabor and gay color to fresh vegetable or cabbage salad. Cool the beets and chill them before cutting. A PHONE 3774 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO00D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "“SHORTY" WHITFIELD