The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 14, 1941. 1940 s fihe Year In Sports mn:vl?'! Seabiscuit wins at Santa Anita to become turf’s greatest money-winner By DILLON GRAHAM Eports Editor, AP Feature Service York tracks, pari-mutuel time, paid !> million lengths with Dit third. Bimelech ralued the following week to ta the Preakness by a couple of iengihs from Mioland with Gallahadion third. Col. E. R. Bradley’s coli also copped the other major three- year-old [ixture, the Belmont Stakes, but a brgken bone in his fcot iorced him to retire in late summer. He was the season’s top money-winner with $110,005. | Challedon won five ol his seven starts, including the Hollywood Gold Cup race and the Pimlico! Special,” in which he beat Can't Wait. He won top handicap rating despite defeats in the M setts Handicap and Lhe Nari sett Special. Whirlaway, victor in the toga Special and Breeders' Fu- turity, won a close vote over Our Boots for two-year-old honors Level Best, with eight wins in 11 starts, was the best two-year- old filly | €. W. Phellis’ the Hambletonian. trotting fixiure. operating under the system for the first the state more than dollars. A year ago California led other states with omething over three million. But Seabiscuit’s story. was the No. 1 turf yarn of the year. Fig- wred as through after he pulled 'p lame in an early 1939 race, Seabiscuit was sent back to ‘the farm. They fired his ankles to strengthen them and let him romp around the pasture to toughen himself And then they NEW YORK-—Sprightly old Sea=- uit, granddaddy of race horses, lcped out of retirement to score most -popular turf triumph of Biscuit, one of the most of thoroughbreds, raised , kicked up his heels ippety-clopping around track last March to| country’s richest race, the| “anta Anita Handicap, and become th test money-winner of all| time. with $437.730 to his credit. | ; Seabiscuit’s gallant m)mchack(i face the vharnm' again, ! allahadion’s su! _‘a victory that would boost his 9 | Lentueky Derby victory,| money winnings . past Sun Beau's {riumphs in the Preak-| $376.744. The seven-year-old cam- Belmont Stakes, and | Paigner -outfooted a fast field to Pimlico Special yig-| finish ahead of Kayak II, carn i writers voted Challe- $86.650 and step past Sun Beau's horee-of-the-year for the figure. and also the top Then he retired, with laurels named Bimelech €nough to keep him always in the three- minds of race goers. Derby Big Upset Gallahadion’s Derby victory was perhaps 1940's big upset. A 35-1 , .ongest in modern times, he favored Bimeiech by twu n the asked him to to try for ove d Sara- 3 r nd Spencer Scott won most importan ftecord Track Take also saw an the country as - eee all-time New cutran Try a classified ad in The Empi: T or TS DONE BY EXPERTS AT LOW PRICES! GOOD PRINTING is an essential to most busi- ness men and fo many private individuals. The Juneau Empire, equipped with fine, modern printing machinery manned by expert crafis- men, is in a position fo offer fine printing at unusually low prices. You'll find printing done to the most exacting standards when it’s done by THE EMPIRE, and you'll find also that it's done economically. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE FIREMEN WINHOT CONTEST Eagles Nosed Qut in Over- time-Hennings Beat DeMolays LAST NIGHT Firemn 43; Eagles 37 Henning's 20; DeMolay 21. KOW THEY STAND Won Lost Pet, 1.000 1.000 .000 000 000 000 000 National Guard DeMelay High School cooCoww FIREMEN-EAGL] BATTLE After trailing miserablv for {he first two periods of the ball game in Douglas last night, the Juneau Fire- men came from behind with a blist- ering attack to tie the score in the last minutes of play and then 2o | into an overtime period and win a real thriller, 42-37 Before the Firemen-Eagles battle | (and mister it really was) the Hen- ning Clothiers overcame an early game lead from the DeMolays and won out. 30-21, But that second game! are going to have to get into Even the 0 condition for the rest of this bas- | on if they are going to | ketball s keep on secing that kind of basket- ball every time the Eagles and the Firemen meet Many Fouls From the opening sun it was np- parent evervhody was' playing for koeps and the only thing that pte- vented many ball hawks from leav- {ing the ball game on personal fouls was the fact that the Rev. E. ¥ | Knight, tooting the whistle, just 0O TR OO M (couldn't keep up with all of the | fouls. In the first quarter, the Douglas Eagle five stepped out to make ten points while the Firemen made only two. Thenl by the end of the sec- ond auarter, Eagles led 16 to 6 Sammy Nelson had been banging them in one after the other for the \Eagles, and played a bangup ball me all the way through. It was larg mmv's unerring eye in the [fivst half that put the Eagles out |in front Firemen Work Smoother | In cond balf, a smoother | Firemen squad came back on the | floor by the end' of the third | auarter 1 cut the Eagle lead to [one slim point, The score at 22, In the feur ened the period by dropping a pair of free throw rd the score, but L. B Ison Bagles. runni mate for Sd popved a counter two handed er the basket « Lead Stretchel stretehed the lead with and Claude Erskine « nes to drop ¢ nd put the d h frame, Powers cp- me of to f ‘he Jencen free throw down the the outskirts g front. 28-23 Leo C smooth Firemen. piv d then on t line and shoved mnded lofter that Mills of the E wen- {ed up with a long flat peg from ihe {middle of the court. With five minutes to go, Elmer | Tindstrom glarted the fireworks again, boosting a backboard rebound into the net. Mark Jensen then 1of1 the game on personals and Jones made the free foss to cut the Bagles {lead to two points Again the E working e 17-fort in a on s pulled out ‘n front, Sammv Nelson bounce pass- ing to L. B. Nelson urder the hoep for ancther counter to give a three- point od wo Minutes (o Go | With tw wites 1o [Lindstrom dunked a long {hooster in the twine and Powers followed his teammate boiling down the court for a ~on verted charge-in and tie the tally and Kiher ceiling mmy 20 Tslander fs gymnasium with aeir cheers, Claude Erskine let flv o pair of beautiful shots from back court, but thev rebounded from the i hackboard a fraction of an inch too high to score and the game cnd>d at 32-32 Overtime Period In the overtime poviod, the men turned on the heat. s dropped two sleepers in a row, Brown went out fouls, Nelson scored one of two free tosses, Strag- ier went cut on fouls. Jones bagzd a sleener for the Es s to give them a five-point edge. L. B. Nelson lobbed one in to cut the lead to three points with one and a half minutes to go but Elmer Lindstrom flicked one of those one- handers from the side court Mills, of the Eagles, bagged a long looper, but Lindstrom dreve in for another counter and the game on Los Angeles “Dew” Forces Travel by Boat tood PO VRO Torrential rains have made rivers of many Los Angeles streets, much to the discomfiture of motorists and the embarrassment of the Chamber of ( Jommerce, Here, boatmen come to the rescue of motorists whose car stalled in an inundated strect in the Culver City district. | ended with the in front | In the curtain-raiser, DeMolays fighting squad got started on the road to winning a ball game with | the aid of a tight zone defense that the Henning cly wasn't tting through. At the end of the first quarter, DeMolays led, 11-8, but shoitly be- fore the half ended, the Henning hoopsters opened up the zone cde- fense with a long shot and follow in- attack, ending the period 12-11 in their favor . From there on, the Henning club managed to stav out in front, spark- ed by center Clark, a hard-driving steady ball player from New Mex- ico, who iooks better every night. Games Tonight | Tonight, the basketball wars re- sume on this side of the chamnel with the Juneau High School mixing with the Natioral Guard and the Elkd playing Hennings reb game starts at 7:30 and use sixth Etrect entrance only ! Sedring last night was as follows: HENNING'S—Lawson 7. Lewis 3, Clark 14, T chi 0, Hickey 4, Stew- art 2, Kum: ka 0 LEMOLAY: W. Johns, Brown 8, Vicklund 3, Behrends Byinaton 0, Garela 0, Broom 0 FIREMEN--Lindstrom 12, 7, Powers 14, Ch dos 8, Br Echubert 0 EAGLES—Erskine 2, 8. Nelson 12, L. B. Nelson 8, Stragi , Jensen 9, Mills 4, Rustad 0, Guerin 0. - Firemen five points b 10, 0, Jones wn 1, Only six of the, approximately 150 bric spanning the Missis- sippi River are at or below Mem- phis Tenn., some 750 miles from the stream’s mouth ' In Raid on N. Y. Gambling Den Where War Struck in Pacificr Natives are laboring at the phosphate beds on the Pacific island of Nauru, former German possession now administered by Britain under a League of Nations mandate. According to reports, the undefended island was shelled by a ship flying the Japanese flag. The island is located in the Gilbert group, about 2200 miles southwest of Hawaii, BEII'NA ;l_;!:snru. NortES ] ISLOSER OF TITLE Baftler from G}eece Wins: World Light Heavy- | acwn. Joe Nyland was a. Ann’s Hospital today and & 1 ing’ mcdical cara, Medical attention, is at St. Ann's, Admitted for Mrs. Ray Watson Mrs. Elizabeth Ackerman of Auk Bay is at St. Ann's for s}lrgl(ui at- tention, D author of the animals, famed fa- | died about | 560 B.C. o e ] CIEVELAND, Ohio - l’ 0 w ]Al N ( Anton Christoforidis, battler from « . Gicece, Jast night won the world G light h weight championship by pounding out a 15-round decision Melio Bettina Bettina, who held before losing the e four cunds as the slugied toe Lo toe Light theusend fans witnessed the and they paid than Jan. 14, Gve the it in tithe to the two six Billy final men menth; Conn, had match 520000, more Brunswick Bowling Alleys A PHONE 374 GEACIER Following a police raid on an elaborate New York gambling establish- ment, some of the evening-gowned, jewel-bedecked patrons: are pictured leaving the premises. Several patrons were questioned, “hen released. Authorities declare the establishment was frequented by scores of socialites. 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