The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1941, Page 5

CLAIMS EYE HEX SUPREME; 2-WAY KAYO Evil One Makes New Year Resolution About What He Is Going fo Do By DILLON GRAHAM Eports Editor, AP Feature Service | NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—A whistling | w.nd puffed its cold puffs in hurried stuceession down upon’ the bleak | { concrete promenade of Jacobs Each, Broadway's Cauliflower Al- where the bashed-nosed and ctiing gentry folter «ipning their ettes and changing their and “doses.” | The street—49th betwesn Broad- | tray and 8th—was almost d ted. | Yis habitual hangers-on sur- yandered to the cold. But shivering | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY,:JAN. 16, 1941. Pro Foothall Star Weds i1 a doorway and mumbling to him- \ E Eclf was The Eye. ! A cordial greeting aroused no re- | ponse from The Eye, His schnozzle | buried in the folds of hi: i Japels, his thin hands gesticulate even from within the winter hideawav of his pockets, The Eye continued his mumblings. Final- | 1y, he looked up and appeared to | notice his visitor for the first time | I beeri in conference,” he said,! explaining his deep concentrauou and his mutterings. ] “Yeah?” | 1 been making a Noo Year revo- Jution “Its colossal, masterpiece.” The Eye twitched excitedly. “3h! It's secret. I ain’t announced it for publication.’ The man with the famous Eye xplained. He looked around nerv- ously and then bent forward. A Double Kayo! “The Eve will bring about double xnockout!”g He waited a momem for the full preposterous! My a ‘;JlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII|I||||II||I||IIIIIIIII||||IIIIII||MIIII|III||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIHHHIIII e DONE ‘BY" AT LOW PRICES! = = E = = = I B shock of to sink into his v Unbelievable boxing history I'll put the Eye on both fighters at once.” fear of the d some hoxers, wa cold sparks down his spine. T Casily ensconsed in their Hollywood apartment, Johnny Drake, former Purdue grid star now playing with the Cleveland Rams, and his bride, the former Pat Ducke of LaCrosse, Wis., received congratula- tions upon their marriage at Las Vegas, Nev. must be off and was gone, the tement l 3| “Its The Eve's mastelpiece. . . . greatest feat ml Thr must wait and ponder, The Eye, whose ugly hex puts the | Year’s resolution. vil in the hearts of | The Eye suddenly pulled away. beat favorites, challengers EXPERTS 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 crafts- men, is in a position fo offer fine printing at unusually low pri(;es 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 PHONE 374 BRINGING UP FATHER WELL—-1 DO HOPE IT 1S ALL RIGHT NOW TOPUT IN MY APPEARANCE~ gotta make plans” whether Benjamin Einstein Finkle, The Evil Eve, will carry out his New | the thrust directly in | hired out to put the Evil Eye on front of his visitor's face, sending | rivals of boxers who employ him. He claims to have helped underdogs beat bers are invited to attend. and champions retain their crowds. And now he is pro- paring for his supreme task, a double knockout, a hex on both your houses. pxees Joey Archibald into the nweight championship,” Finkl» ys. “1 win 13 straight. Then,” sneeringly explains, “Al Weill (Jo2y's manager) figures he didn't need ‘me | any more. So I hexed him. Joey was | fighting Pete Scalzo. And Weill ain't | no more than turned his back to! \walk down the ring steps as the bell ! rings when Archibald hits de deck. | out cold. I put the Zaza and the| Zinzer both on him, but quick.” The Eye Gets Lazy Finkle says his average is around cent. “Sometimes The Eye ! he explains Occasionally, he uses The Evil Eye | | outside boxing. A couple of yea ago he found it worked on ho {too. War Admiral was a heavy ‘av- orite to beat Seabiscuit in their| | match race at Pimlico “But I hexed (!(‘ Admiral and d(‘; | 'Biscuit win easy." | Big Lew Diamond, the character who manages Finkle and is known as Honest Brakeman, says some managers go wild at the sight of The Eye. “One time down in Washington T ! had to grab a guy and hold him. The i | Eye was putting a hex on his fighter | and the guy was hysterical. He was running around with a needle n his hund swearing he'd jab Finkle's | eye out.’ | You can probably laugh at Thcv Eye, but in boxing, where supex-‘ | stitions are many, there are those who turn pale at the mention of his name. | champions, - Marthas Meeting Here Tomorrow With Mrs Gununr Blomgren and ghout 1941 the boxing world Mrs. A. F. Knight as hostesses, a des- wondering sert luncheon will be served at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow in the Parlors of Northern Light Presbyterian Church preceding the Martha So- For several vears now Finkle has cietv meeting Mrs. B. Smith will read early ac- ounts of missionary work in Al- ka during the s . All mem- miIIll|mlllll!llll!llllllllmlllmumlmunmummmnmmnmmmunmllmmlummwmnmm“m|Hummmm"mu“mu""mm""“m“mmm"m FIRST CITY I_IIlllllll 1 Larsson | Barcus ELKS TAKE PINMATCH {Juneau Lodgemen Roll Poorly-Ketchikan Now Leads by 158 Pins Ketchikan's lu came out of the tail position last night in the First | City to make up for the 84-pin .‘dgo Juneau Elk bowlers took Tuesday night and put the canning town's lcnm ahead 158 pins. | With three matches left to play, ' Junecau Elks will have to hustle to | catch up. Scores were as follows: Juneau Elks Carnegie Hagerup Riendeau Holmquist Stevenson 482 509 435 458 448 Total 2332 Ketchikan Elks Malacoa Bauer Spindor Whaley Howard 536 493 580 426 539 Total 2574 High games were rolled by Spin- | dor, 235, and Hngexup 195. LAUNDRY TRIO WINNERS OVER HOTEL'S TEAM | Alaska Launderers swamped the Baranof last night at the Bruns- 'wick, four points straight and George Brothers measured off three wins from the Royals. Tonizht's games are Brunswick vs. Islanders and North Transfer vs Alaska Laundry. Scores yesterday were as follows: ® Alaska Laundry Hagerup 160 160 Ellenberg 189 167 | Stevensoft 184 184 160—°480 186— 542 184552 5301574 533 511 The Bararof 169 167 150 150 145 147 464 464 Royals 122 134 118 Totals 163— 499 150-—"450 177 469 4901418 R. Galao Totals 162 158 181 Bradley- 152 436 Aquina Mura Totals 3 4 »01 . George Brothers 150 178 149 167 177 153 476 498 did not bowl D e LAW NO WORSE THAN MAN'S BITE NOBLE*V]LLL Ind., Jan, + —! Albert McIntosh of Chicago was! haled to court charged with driving recklessly from one side of the road | to another. His automobile swerved, | Harter Judson Smith 467- Totals 1441 “A JI’IDKE |he explained, when he took hih‘ hands from the steering wheel L[ youme i be announced for mw twist himself off a chew from a plug of tobaceo. “Why didn't you bite it off?” as k- od the judge. McIntosh opened his mouth. had na teeth. 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January, 23—7:00 pm., Grocery vs. Dodge Dealers; pan., Juneau Drug vs. Engineers; 9:30 pm. Alaska Laundry’ vs Home | Snow White. January 24—-7:00 pm, Federal Savings vs. ists; 8:15 p.m., 20th Century vs. Golden Age; 9:30 p.n., Capitol Theatre vs. Juneau Medical Clinic. January 27—-7:00 p.m. Juneau Drug vs. Columbia Lumber 8:15 p.m., First Nuational Bank v. Butler-Mauio Co.; 9:30 p.m,, und Carry vs. George Bros. January pm, Girocery vs. A B. M. Behrends Bank vs. Henning': 9:30 pan., Triangle Inn vs, Juneau Drug Co. January 30—7:00 Grocery vs. Snow White; Alaska Laundry vs 9:30 p.m., Theatre, Before schedule, Engineers the other dates the and playing | end of aocve wmnnlnl two months of bowhus.| e e SCHILLING MAN HERE Lecnard Taylor, Schilling repre- * | “entative, is on the Baranof passen- vu list gomg through town, A g it BLACK BEAR MAN R. G. MacDenald of Black Bea Manufacturing Company is a Bar-| |anof passenger with his wife, going to the Westward. > WEST (‘OA"TER J. J. Chisholm of West Coast Gro- | cery stopped in Juneau for a few hours while the steamer Baranof | was in port on way west. - eee RICH IN TOWN Gil Rich, well known traveling | man, came in from the southon the | Bnrflnof He is at the !hmno[ Hotel. e ERSKINE GOES WEST and Mrs. E. D. Erskine of Mr. | Seattle Hardware passed through on| the Baranof. By cr:on'c}: McMANUS Henning's vs. | 8:15 pm,,| George | 8:15! 8:15] Alaska | Juneau Flor-| = Co.;| Cn.’!h‘ California | Home| Seattle, Wus.hmqion The Champlon Takes a Wife Phonephoto very much the newly-married ecouple, mlddlewel;\:t boxing champion | Ke:u Qverlin and his bride, the former ia Venezky of Washington, o pretured upon their arrival in the national capital, where they will make their home, They were married in South Mill, N, C, x A Hit for British Defense Among the popular booths at the Star Spangled Ball, in New York City, ‘was this one in which the &mtx tossed darts at & urztt ‘which bore an amazing resemblance to fuehrer of a certain European country. Rosalind Russell, movie actress, is displaying her prowess. The Ball Was given by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies O, | B pHoNE 374 | ¥xa GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "“SHORTY" WHITFIELD | | ]