The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1941, Page 5

AITE“MPTING " SHORT CUTS | 10 MAJORS Fifty Retrufiine Up for!i Making Running Broad Jump from Minors | | | AP Feature Service March 20.—There’s a possibility, but slim, that & .an jump from baseball's minor leagues to the majors in | cne big hep. About 50 recruits try-| ing to make that running broad jump this spring. Sid Hudson made it a year 2go0. He twirled for Sanford in the Flori- da State league in 1939, And last' year he Was one of the rookie stars Aerican league. Not many, | in get a through ticket like NEW YOR! however, is not e: a ie, for he played part of last year in Brooklyn's outfield. The Dodgers are counting on him for regular service in 1941, Maynard Watched } The Giants are paying close at- tention to a young outfielder from Richmond, Walter Maynard, who led his league with a .337 average. Woodrew Rich looked like a comer during his with the Boston Red Eox a couple of years ago. Then he * developed a sore arm and went back to the minors, He was with Seranton last year and if he has his old stuff | the Red Scx will welcome him. | Sherrar Robertson of Charlotte y fielder but his weak hit- ay keep him from staying with e Senators, | Cleveland was spring by was with Wilkes-Barre last year and the chances are the Indians will figure he needs still more seasoning. The Red Sox are going to give a chance to Norman Brown, who won 11 and lost 5 for Rocky Mount. Ver- ler's X impressed ALL ALIKE? No other ice cream can compare with % JUNEAU DAIRIES'. With any flavor of JUNEAU DAIRIES' you'll eat every drop! JUNEAU 't DAIRIES last | Pitcher Mike Naymick. He | 18 and 5 record for THE DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE. THURSDAY, MARCH' 20, Greenberg Reports to Tiger Camp at Lakeland Fla. Hank Greenberg, left, greeted by Pitchers Tom Seats and Clay Smith kxpected to be drafted by Uncle Sam soon, Hank slugging outfielder of the l‘xgers, reportl to the Tlger camp at Lakelamd Fln Greenberg, Flint interested Cleveland. Alex Zu- kowski won 22 and 14 for Greenville and the Senators will look him over. The Bees will inspect Arthur John- son, l’l-uame winner for Hartford. Scotland consumes more meal per person than any other country. Sets World Record ] Al Blozis, of Georgetown, breaks the world shot-put record as he wins the event at the IC4A games in New York. The speedray catches him in the act of heaving the heavy shot 56 feet 6 inches, bettering his own in- door record of 56 feet 8% inches. [ ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT NOW ONLY $124.95 MODIL L3641, 6.2 cu. ft, capacity. 11.7 sq. ft. shelf area. Famous sealed-in- steel G-E Thrift Unit with the wnsurpassed record for. performance, Come in and see this Big Bargainl AND POWER (O. PHONE 616 {up the boys from Flatbush ' that | they're +| Davis will Detroit Clay Smith. salaried player i BIG TIME IS PREDICTED BY DODGERS By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service| HAVANNA, Cuba, March 20. This land of the rhumba has given new rhythm to the Brooklyn Dod- gers—a rhythm " Lippy Leo Duro- | cher thinks may lead to a pen- nant. The pulse - quickening beat of\ Cuba’s rhumba bands has so pepped no longer talking about! | “next year.” Brooklyn's next wnr\ is here. Every last one of these Dodgers thinks Brooklyn will win the Na- tional League championship. And there are no “maybes” or “ifs” in their = eonversations. - They're - cer- tain. They dare | haven't the league. Lh(‘y the ‘ you best to say infield in the Reds—they say they'll still| | Cincinnati’s. | Some of the more opnmisnc; ! members of the gang. are talking! in terms of 30 victories for young Kirby Higbe. Higbe has got the | spirit too. “If I could win 14 for‘ the Phillies, I should be able to: coast to 20 for the Dodgers, maybe | more,” he says. Whit. Wyatt won| 15 last year when he was bothered | part of the season by a knee in-| jury. He figures he's a cinch to! add another five or six wins. ! Just Carnival Spirit? | Perhaps it's the carnival spirit| of gay Havanna but the boys also| predict big years for Luke Ham-| | line and Hugh Casey, Luke won 20 zames two years ago and the| | bench experts think he can do “l again. They've always been high | 2! ]r“ Ceeny but he's never quite | bome through, i 4ol Geswwe May be the one to! furnish the “velvet.” If he should have a good year ' the Dodgers would be much closer to the pen- nant land of their dreams. Van| | Lingle Mungo, before he was ousted, was in the same_category. Fred Fitzsimmons, who won 16 last year, Jim Carleton and Curt do relief work and make infrequent starts. It's too early to judge the rookies too se-| riously but Durocher is high on Edward Head from Elmira and Al Sherer from New Orleans. The infield of Dolf Camilli, Pete Coscarart, Pee Wee ‘Reese and Harry Lavagetto is tops. Lava- getto has put on weight and is hit- ting the ball hard. Reese has com- pletely recovered from his ankle and is met at the gate by Pitchers Tom Seats and Greenberg is probably the highest n baseball. [injury, is covering lots of ground in the short field and slugging the tagnle. | Joe Medwick, no longer plate- sshy after his beaning a year ago land completely happy with the, | Dodgers, has his aim on the bat-| | ting championship, Generally late spring training the Cardinals, Medwick has been here since the Dodgers opened; | camp and is in marvelous shape. | Reiser Looks Good Durocher hopes to play young | Harold Reiser in center field.| al starter wlbh: Farsy. New Bill Dickey Is ‘Joe Grace, Six-Foofer, Is | ‘ Outfielder, Catcher and | What-Have-You By FELIX R. McKNIGHT AP Feature Service i e SAN ANTONIO, Texas., March | 20.—If it works, there may be an- i other Bill Dickey in the offing. | The mame is Joseph Grace and | he's six foot, one inch reformed outfielder of the St. Louis Browns Constructed along the same rangy lines as the Yanks' Dickey, the ;gangllng Grace is going through a | transformation down here in the | St. Louis training camp that Man- | ager Fred Haney hopes will make (him a catcher. | It isn't exactly a brand new {thing for Grace. He started as a | maskman back in his amateur and semi-pro days. “Sure I think he has a chance |to make the grade” says the | beaming Haney. “He knows | fundamentals of catching from ‘hls earlier days. But his biggest asset is that he wants to do it. “There are lots of outfielders— |but not many really good catch- l(‘rs, Joe has the qualities. He has ia fine arm, is fast and shifty and jowns lots of power up there at |the plate. Furthermore, he is a | stout lefthand hitter.” Versatile Fellow Joe Grace could plav |just about any position on the | Brownie club. Only 25, he has | played every position on the field ‘ac various times — including | no-hit pitching performance while in high school. The Grace catching experiment 1940. ' I switched to TEN HIGH i 5 years ago!” In Offing tell you why: Lottt your eqq/mmfmfi over to Memphis in the Southern Association. He played left, right !and center field for the Chicks in| '37 and batted .306. During the '38 season he went to 309 and| then w: sold to the Browns. He spent most of '39 with Toledo as an outfielder, returned in late season to bat .304 in the Ameri- | can loop. Now he's going for the c.il(‘hm" experiment in a big way. “I'm going to hurry back to St. Louis ahead of the club, have my ,tonsils removed and try to be in a shape for the season. I think I can do that catching job.” | He will split work with bril- liant Bobby Swift, last year's fine Reiser hit 381 for Elmira and Leo| struck a quick snag in training rookie who is still a litlle weak by as a fielder. All the rest of the peq and lost considerable weigh! flychasers are battling for - the \ Deep in the 1940 season the right field berth. Dixie Walker| Browng saw need of more catch- perhaps Paul‘mg strength. So they hustled out- Waner, who is in good shape and| fielder ‘Joe Grace over to their| may get | Vosmik, Gallagher Jim it. Or and Joe! i/ wants to have another big Year|gpringfiéld farm to brush up on | before the bell tolls for him. Joe Wasdell | his catching. He tried it for a month but the are also in the lists.| gamp climate and the constant Arnold Owen land Babe | catching. This tropical sun will do things with only 268 for his interrupted | And - just -about the best 'to you. And perhaps it has affect-|season. sense of values.| then let's | outfield. They believe the catching{ed. the Dodgers’ will be satisfactory - and—with a|That's something we won't know| bow to Walters and Derringer of | about until leave take the Brooklyn pitching over‘with Lhelr dreams. | Charley Gilbert is -perhaps the| peeling behind [best fielder of the lot but lack of| him with a misbehaving knee. Fi- {a punch at bat may send him back|nany He gave up the ghost and| in|to the minors. from. St. Phelps will late summer. split the plate left |straggled back to the Browns in uu,,\ane sefison——as 'an outfielder. the| He had one of his leaner hit- ting years in 40 — winding up Haney Confident But he is essentially a hitter Until; and will regain his form with his the Flatbusherslsm:nglh Haney believes. Back in 1936 he hit 344 m the other car hlts a bus sbandmg sull‘ } ! thinks he will add some punch W‘camp when he reported an ailing at the plate. Brooklyn's offensive if he can get|ihroat For many days he lay .n - 'BOWLING S(HEDU[ED ’ FOR ELKS TONIGHT Eiks bowling will continue tonight after last night's postponement for meeting, with the Columbja Lumber | Company playing Henning's. At 7 | o'clock, the Dodge Dealers playing the George Brothers at 8:16 o'clock tand the Medical Clinic playing the | Triangle !m\ at 9:30 o'(‘lov MORE THAN GOOD peka bus company awarded a bonus of $25 each to 16 drivers who went through 1940 without an accident. And it’s an accident, so far as the company is concerned, when: an- | Tragedy of the Turf—Two Jockeys Hurt Wendell Eads, 17, one of the leading riders in Florida, lies on bad spill at Tropical Park, outside Miami, when his mount stumbled on Eads’ horse, which had injuries. Atkinsom received Fla. 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Right now John Ford is tied to the soil and the sea. Ernst Lubitsch is labeled the naughty sophisticate. When Lubitsch does something a little different, like ‘The Shop Around the Corner,’ he's away from type and some people are disappointed. I do mystery and suspense, so I can't do a comedy. It's silly. I don't really care, of course — ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is doing fine at the box-office.” Hitchcock undertook the comedy, he said, more or less as an interlude — or a prelude to his present work, “Before the Fact,” or “Fright” as they're now calling it. It is decidedly not a comedy- The “cattle’ in it — Hitchcock delights in labeling his actors “cattle” — include Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce and Bruce's wife, Violet Shelton, Clive Brook’s daughter Faith, and another pretty young English actress named Carol Curtis Brown. PERCY’S CAFE sTOP ® DELJCIOUS FOOD © FOUNTAIN SERVICE © REFRESHMENTS AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakiast, Dinner or Light = | “I hope,” said Hitchcock of his new film, spread the word that it is awful. That it stinks.” He was referring to ‘the too glowing advance reports on “Mr. dhd Mrs. Smith.” He would rather have “Fright” surprise by its virtues, if any, than be held up as perfect of its genre — vaunted perfection making such a perfect target. Then, for getting his miff and his hurt, Hitchocok turned again to the scene — in which Misses Shelton, Brown and Brook on the steps of an English country church have just dis- covered that Fontaine and Grant, who started to services with them, are missing. “Fright” is the story of a wife who suspects her husbands wants to murder her. After the fourth take, Hitchcock pronounced with zenhl acidity: “In all confidence I can assure you it is getting worse” and the company, breaking into laughter broke for lunch. Hifcheock sets usually are like that, once the “cattle” busi- ness is made clear. Cary Grant, a first-timer with Hitchcock, was mystified for the first week, as he later confessed to Hitcheock. You'd be irked, too, if you were a top-ranking star and after yowd done a scene your director called to an assistant, “Run over to the westerns and get me a COW-| -puncher to handle these cat- tL.”, Joan Fontaine was initiated in “Rebecca.”