The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1941, Page 5

STEVE, THE JOKER, HAS ANNA'S THANKS FOR 10 HAPPY DAYS GARY, W. Va, March 25. — It Steve who brought about “I'- Affaire Sklepovich.” Steve is the 18-year-old brother Anna Sklepovich who receivea shony invitation to visit Presi- Roosevelt. Anna, of course, the President anyway, and ame a celebrity Steve smiles nie a of a dent w he when rout. (who it) nowleds - greeting to birthday Is As a post penned: “We would ave you come to the White and meet the President.” Anna went, in good faith. White House challenged the au- from the aides thentici of the Invitation, but M R elt saw her anyway, and the F st Lady gave her a British Captives Italian 3 ping, according to the official Rome which says the photo shows rescue & British ship. Berlin just release: piece of birthday’ cake. Anna also went to New York and did a radio broadcast, Back with her family, in this i e } ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker COMPTOMETER OPERATOR ‘Woman, married, age 25, high school and business college training. Seven years experience as comptometer op- erator. Call for ES 274. -~ —— Chemists report that if you wrap green vegetables in a damp cloth or paper before placing them in ice-boxes they will be kept rich| in Vitamins A and C. Otherwise,| vitamins are lost with evaporation of mciswure in the vegetables. talian Sub ‘ onl submarines are at work in the Atlantic, raiding British ship- { caption accompanying this picture, of survivors, including Lascars, of d a similar photo of & Nazi U-boat. | small mining community, Anna mm exulted over “the happiest 10 & X 3 § days of my life.” 5 Thanks to Steve, the praclicil hg?’ BILL joker. By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service TAMPA, Fla, March 25.—There's been a lot of strengthening around the National League, particularly at the Brooklyn and St. Louis camps, but when you start thinking about pennant chances it's pretty hard to shy away from Cincinnati’'s Derringer-Walters pair. They've guaranteed Skipper Bill McKechnie at least 40 victories the past two seasons and the cautious Deaccn figures he can count on| them for that many again. That's’ almost half of the approximate 90 triumphs which generally will as- sure a championship. Both Bucky Walters and Paul . Derringer are confident they can hit the 20- mark again, Walters, who led the league in victories the past two years with 27 and 22, got into shape early this | spring and McKechnie sent him | against Boston’s Red Sox in the | opening exhibition tilt. “My arm | feels great and I'm looking ahead to another good year,” Bucky says. Derringer, who will be shoot- ing fer the 20-circle for the | fourth straight year, thinks in- | creased batting strength in the outficld and general all-round | improvement will give the | pitchers more help. There’s an old saying—which has run pretty - true—that a pennant winner must have two big-game pitching winners. A pair who be- | tween them can account for 40 triumphs. i | For instance last year Buck' | Newsom and Schoolboy Rowe REDS ARE CONFIDENT OF R MSKECHNIE | Bridges 22 for the Tigers in 1834 pitchers who will win at least 20 games each. Rowe won 24 and and Carl Hubbell took 21 and Hal Schumacher 23 the same year for the Giants. Lefty Gomez accounted for 21 and Red Ruffing 20 for the| Yanks in 1937 You'll have to check far back in the record books, however, 1o find any other team that could boast a pair of 20-game winners for two straight years, The Reds'’ No. 3 man isn’t far behind Paul and Bucky. Young Gene Thompson grabbed 16 last year and should be good for more. Whitey Moore has al- ways been a good pitcher just a step from a big-game star. He's due to hit the jackpot | anytime now. ! Then there are Joe Beggs, who| won a dozen, chiefly in relief roles; ! the veteran Jim Turner and John-| ny Vander Meer, who may have| another good year. Elmer Ridd}e.; John Hutchings, Witt Guise and! Bob Logan may add eight or ten wins each. Logan was the top southpaw in the American Associa- | tion with 18 wins for Indianapolis.| Monte Pearson, who was an in-, and-outer with the Yankees, is | another McKechnie is counting on.| Monte can’t think of any ailments to mention. “I'm in top shape and I believe I can win a hatful of games for the Reds,” he says. That pitching corps is what the other clubs are going to find hard to beat. Other clubs can boast bet= ter outfields and infields and more punch but, cn paper, they can't] match the Reds' hurling. THUMBNAIL PREVIEW | champs $5.00 Down Now — enjoy famous General Electric Washer features at a new low cost. 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For each fleeting moment a fight- er appears in the glare of bright lights before big metropolitan crowds he’s probably spent days sharpening his mitts with the neighborhood serappers in some upstairs training | quarters. “There wouldn't be so much ac- tivity in boxing without the amateur clubs,” declares Pennsylvania's Ath- letic Commissioner, Havey Boyle. | “They serve as a recruiting field for the professional ranks. Most cham- pions develop in these clubs. Some | start out as pros but they are rare. ! Paflure of some cities to turn out | tifleholders like they used to might | be traceable to dearth of amateurs.” | Right now simon pure boxing |thrives in the Pittsburgh district, wheve some 50 clubs draw talent from ‘sturdy families of miners, steel workers, and other laborers. Producer of Champs Out of local amateur organiza- |tions have come champs and top- | notchers like Harry Greb, Frank Klaus, Sammy Angott, Teddy , Yarosz, Fritzie Zivic and his four fighting brothers, Billy Soose, John Henry Lewis, Tommy Ryan and others too numerous to mention. Billy Conn is Pittsburgh's only fistic great who forsook the ama- teur path to jump right in as a pro- fessional—an exception to the rule. “Amateur boxing clubs are a won- derful thing and I think Pittsburgh has the best in the country,” en- thusistically declares Klaus, former middleweigh king. “The boys go down to the gym like they were going to work. It makes gentleman out of them—keeps them off the street. They've gotta be tough to be fighters but not rough- necks.” MeGirr’s Place Typical Typical of amateur training cen- ters is Jim McGirr's well-equipped McKeesport Athletic Club where Policeman Duke O'Hara now puts 23 prospects through their paces daily in a third-floor arena. McGirr, pro- moting among the amateurs for 26 years, draws recruits from the mills and mines at $1 a month. This year O'Hara, trainer of ama- iteurs for 28 years and a former { fighter, got four boys in finals of the diamond belt tourneys, testing grounds for the simon pures. MeGirr's typical amateur does four caref | equa or five months training before he’s ever put in the ring. Then he is 1 gull! matched with a fighter of ability. “If & boy is really going any place in the'Boxing world, after 16 months, i he should be able to fight the best | amateur in the country. Three years, where you've got to do more in- | fighting. 25 Per Cent Stick “We used to break in 75 to 100 figitters a year. Probably 25 per | cent of them stick to it and only some 15 or 20 per cent of those be- come pros. The same condition exists in the other clubs. “To become a champion, a boy has got to have natural ability. No matter who trains him, he must be able to think for himself and assume punishment if necessary. That's about all there is to it. He can learn the rest from the trainer. Billy Conn is a natural born fighter but only probably 10 per cent of the boys who try to be boxers have nat- ural ability — and I'm estimating it high. “I've ofters had fathers ask me about their boys being boxers. I've always told them that if I'had a son, I wouldn’t want him to be a fighter. I have yet to advise any boy to take up fighting because the odds are so much against him getting any-where financially. Very few boys who become boxers take up a trade. That's. what they should be devoting their time to. Boxing only lasts 10 years for a fighter whether he meets with success or not — and only one out of 100,000 meet with success.” Monument Is Planned for Forward Pass SANDUSKY, Ohio, March 25—A monument to the forward pass in football may be erected nearby at Cedar Point. The Maroons, an organization of former professional football play- ers, plans to place a huge boulder at Cedar Point where the late Knute Rockne and Gus Dorals, University of Detroit coach, first nracticed the forward pass which Notre Dame elevens popularized. Both Rockne and Dorais were Notre Dame students who spent their vacations working at the Ce- dar Point summer resort during the 1912 through 1915 seasons. RV BUILDING PERMITS ‘Two building permits were issued oday by City Engineer Frank Met- calf. One, valued at $500, was issued to E. A. Kirby for the construction »f a garage at 1009 West-9th Street, Another was issued to Mrs, Sam Rosenburg for the repair of the foun- dation of her home at 319 Sixth Street. Construction will be handled jlead his Alaska aundry keglers to IRV HAGERUP CARRIES LEAD FOR KEGLERS Irv Hagerup chalked up another high total for himself on the Elks bowling alleys last night as he rolled 637 to sweep the field and v whitewash win over the Golden Age squad. Final totals for the| two teams werc 4 to 0 in game| score and 1278 to 1404 in pin score. An absent Henning team split a| natch with the Juneau Florists in he first play of the evening. The| Slorists held a pin play edge of| 13 points over the Henning boys| who were bowling their average| score. | The 20th Century, led by Dr.| | Stewart, walloped the Juneau Drug| keglers 3 to 1 and ended with/ totals of 1456 and 1382 with the! 20th Century squad leading. Tonight's matches are between the First National Bank and the tol Theatre and the Butler-Mauro squad at 9:30 o’clock. Engineers at 7 o'clock, the Dodge z Dealers and the California Gro- | | cery at 8:15 o'clock and the Capi- | F / /3 scores fol- ) TRAINER IN BOXES = " Madewith famons Custom-Fit Top.l 5\ Last night's bowling . - low: e - These stockings are real] Juneau Florists pals for those who live Carnegie 180 213 146— 539 on hud‘qelll ll: !:d Burford L e serviceability, Double\ Kegal 159 200 127— 495 Vita-Bloom Process ey o P e for long wear. cisin Totals 469 567 4171453 S new colors,” Hennings (Spot) . 44 =18 LS Henning® 186 186 186— 558 f: . e Dufresne 141 141 141— 423 Mrs. “Dufresne® 139 139 139— 417 RS w5 — o D - Totals 470 470 4701410 n”lelYI RATETRE “ » oy s A i 20th Century T wart 172 160 164— 496 Mrs, A W. SUC 206 146 137— 489 | LOPmNCTRA S Whitehead* 157 157 157— 471 | “In Juneau—It’s Behrends Whr kg ST » Totals 535 463 4581456 for Values | Juneau Drug { B M B h d c (Spot), I . M. benrends L0. ‘Hetmann 126 190 142— 458, “Quality Since 1887” Geyer 143 100 123— 366] Faulkner* 108 108 18 B T it T —— Alaska Laundry Totals 455 476 451—1382 Hagerup 200 212 225— 637 | Olsen 122 136 137— 398 Golden Age | Mrs. Olsen® ... 124 124 124— 373 (Spot) 15 15 15— 45| et Bt Overby 144 154 149— 447 Totals 446 472 4861404 Mrs. Overby® 124 124 124— 372 *Average score. Did not bowl. Reynolds 158 125 131— 414] S e { —— ——— —— -———| The boomerang first was used by Totals 441 418 4191278 Australian aborigines. Packed in a box and read l‘otlhlpmentlollmlnlflhthh“lnm-f state Cadet,” two-place trainer plane built at Interstate Alrcraft's . | El Segundo, Cal,, plant. This plane is the only light trainer built west of ‘the Rockies and is designed to C. A. A. specifications for use in the civilian pilot training program by private fliers. Many have’ been boxed to South America. ¥ ——_—__.._..__—_.’ e ——————-———1 [T I pHo“E 374 ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER (O. ~_BRINGING UP FATHER & SO MAGGIE HAS SENT FOR A FRIEND OF HER FATHER'S TO COME AND VISIT HIM IN- STEAD OF SENDING HIM HOME -1 WONDER WHO SHE WIRED ? GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY | DAILY TRIPS COAL——WOOD LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD sy C. A. Lindberg. Cost is estimated at $350. Hero is the new infield combination of the New York Yankees, left and some 300 fights among the to right, Phil Rizzuto, shortstop; Joe Gordon, first base, and Gerald |amateurs teaches him' enough to Priddy, second. Rizzuto and Priddy made up the sensational Kansas | take care of himself among the pros. City keystone combination of last year. Gordon, regular second | Another year with the amateurs baseman, is being tried at first. Rizzuto may be called to army !ruins him—gets him on to a style @duty, however. Red Rolfe, regular third baseman, is not in picture. |he can’t alter upon turning pro Y By GEORGE McMANUS AT GUY? DIDN'T W oW AND WHO-MAY Ui T Subscribe to the Daily Alasks &mpire—-the paper with the larges. mid circulation LHAVEN/T TOLD ANYONE-IT'S TO BE A SLIRPRISE TO DADDY-AND I HIS FRIEND DOESN'T KNOW HE 1S COMING TO THINKS 1T/S TO DO SOME WORK: IT'S MR. AUGUIST HANMAY- YOU KNOW YOUR FATHER AN’ HIM HAD A FIGHT LAST