The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1941, Page 5

CUBANSTO BETRAINED THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1941. SHINES AT TOURNEY PIN TOURNEY HAS ONLY THREE MATCHES LEFT With only one more series of three matches remaining in the Elks bowling tournament, the Co- Star End Tackling | NewLline FEATURED for SATURDAY Sale of Dress Lengths A hand-picked collection of sparkling new Guaranteed American Beauty Dress Lengths —and as on all previous occasions these will be a sell out. If you've never had one come in for a big surprise and value. If you have, we know you'll want several. You save over one-half the price you would ordinarily pay if you were buying these from the bolt. lumbia Lumber Company boys last e Bensenas mane. xepers| FOOIDaNlist Howell Runs President Batista Organ- . . . . as final scores showed the Lumber- H H H izes National Commis- , | men oz o fiv-point iea. Up Against Legislative . . | The Alaska Federal Savings sion for Athletics whipped the Bloedhorns squad 3 Problems Now By DILLON GRAHAM evening's pin play. Final totals By R. HENDRIX CHANDLER ere 1503 to 1493. AP Feature Service | Medical Clinic came to the top with| LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 28 —-: a win over the Juneau Florists as|Law-making and pro rotball have| 1394 for the Clinic. Authority: Jim Lee Howell, six- Tonight's games are between the foot-four end with the New York| Per Length Sperfe Editer, AbP F;;lllr; S;,arvice 814 TO 47 YARD LENGTHS HAVANA, Cuba, arc! ey Cuba is a sports-minded country and President Batista wants the youngsters of this island republic to know how to play many games. He has organized a national to 1 in the second match of the | In the third and last match, the Srie zame scores saw the Clinic holding|this much in common—they both| a 3 to 1 lead and final scores involve a lot of tough but interest-| stopped at 1326 for the Florists and | rousing work. | a sports commission with Col. Jaime Marine as director general. Ma- rine is a former army officer who was Batista’s aide when the Presi- dent was a military officer. Now he is Batista's right hand man. | Cash and Carry and the Snow White at 7 o'clock, the Home Grocery and Henning's at 8:15 o'- clock and the George Brothers and | the Juneau Drug at 9:30 o'clock. Last night's bowling scores fol-| football Giants, who is cwrently| serving his freshman term as | member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from his home/| county of Lonoke. I Although a newcomer, Howell has | THRILLING NEW MATERIALS IDEAL FOR— Dresses Jackets TYPES Spun Rayons Rayon Crepes I had a chat with Colonel Ma- ' i 3 : % | rine the other day and he told me 4 ; 9 Y low: i:uready steered one measure of his sports program. Instructors Behrends Bank through {he assembly, a sports bill teach the boys how to play base- Mrs. Brewitt 112 156 133— 401 extending fishing privileges to the | fisherman.” The folks ball, soccer, tennis, jai alai and how to box and swim and per- form in track and field events. Any youngster can take this tcaining. He just applies and, after passing a physical exam- ination, he is issued the neces- sary equipment and begins training. | One of the boxing instructors is| Chocolate who was a rank-| ¢ fighter in America a few years 150, Marine has arranged for a| roup of Cuban amateurs to go o New York and m the Golden Clov champions. A New York team wiil come down here for| bouts Ccuba has had only one world‘ championship fight recently. That‘ was two years ago when Henry‘ Armstrong, then welterweight,cham-1 pion, knocked out Bobby Pancho in four rounds. But Marine is ar- ranging a championship engage- ment between Small Montana, fly- weight kirig, and Luis Castillo, the Mexican champion who defeated Cuba’s best here a short while ago. Marine also wants to get Joe Louis down here but hasn't had any luck J. Brewitt E. Cleveland 189 160 182— 531 (Spot) R | 1—- 3 | ‘Totals 432 487 4941413 Cclumbia Lumber Hank Luisetti (No. 7), led the San Francisco Olympie Club basketball team to a 53-28 victory over the St. Louis Nebocs in his first appear- ance at a National AAU basketball tournament in Denver. He scored 17 points in the contest. Here he tips in another sucesesful follow shot while Krey (11) and Wulfmeyer (3) try to get the ball for St. Louis. team this year. .lon the order of New York's Madi- Baseball is played all over the son Square Garden. Boxing, ten-, island and the best teams come | nis, basketball and jai alai can be to Havana for the island cham-‘played in the palace. Don Budge nionship. Marine has arrnngedland Alice Marble were here a with the Cincinnati Reds for four!short while ago with their pro- Cubans to try out every spring. A| fessional tennis troupe. committee selects these four lucky| Marine believes fhe youngsters youngsters and the sports com-'of Cuba can become as adept at won the championship |held in the sports palace. This is| John Halm 221 196 163— 580 | Mrs. Sperling 145 143 148— 436 | W. Eveland 134 134 134— 402 Totals 500 473 445—1418 { Alaska Federal Savings M. Lavenik ... 161 221 177— 559 | Bess Lavenik . 120 169 214— 503 |H. Petrich 146 120 175— 441 421 510 Bloedhorns M. Ugrin 134 191 | Mrs. Stewart .. 125 118 P. Bloedhorn 167 138 132— 437 (Spot) 38 38 38— 114 464 485 544—1493 | Totals 5661503 212— 531 162— 405 Totals Juneau Florists L C. Carnegie 174 178 167— 519 Mrs. Burford 120 142 124— 386 Paul Kegal 139 138 135— 412 (Spot) 3 3 3—- 9 130 170 178— 478 “poor-man back home wanted him to immdum} it. Mild-mannered and retiring, the' 2i5-pcund Giant star prefers to| sit quietly at his desk and absorb the technique of more experienced’ colleagues. He compared his situa- tion with that of the rookie bid-| ding for a berth in the Big Time.| “They don't think much of you! until you've been around a while," he said. | Takes Some Maneuvering | Getting a bill through the legis- lative mill requires something more | than the business of rushing the pigskin downfield to a score: “In football you can knock the other guy down if he gets in your way, but here you've got to out-mareu- ver him.” * { Toughest work in politics, How- ell observed, is the campaigning. He admitted without hesitancy that last summer's Democratic primaries in which he squeezed through by a 140-vote margin, beat any football training grind. He said that during that campaign stretch e lost more poundage than in any game last fall. Skirts Redingoates Slack Suits Play Clothes Prints Solids Stripes 115 different pieces to make yourself every type of new clothes. Imagine buying 314 to 47 yd. lengths of these quality materials for $1.95. Another example of a great Behrends’ value. "Tn Juneau — It's BEHRENDS for VALUES!"” so far because Joe's price is too mission pays all their expenses. sports as American hoys. He X high. If the Reds like any of them they | wants to train them and sefid his| Totals 436 461 4201326 Jim TLee got his first taste of They say baseball is America’s can have them and farm them out best to America for theére is sol Juneau Clinic politics at the University of Ar- national game. But it is Cuba's to minor league clubs for season-{ much more money for profes- Dr. Williams 150 150 150— 450 kansas where in addition to being too. The Cubans go just as wild ing. | Council 166 132 123— 421 a crack football and basketball per- | sional athletes in the States. Ma- Dr. over the game as Americans do. The woild’s amateur baseball 1rine suggests that Americans. keep Dr. Blanton 176 161 186— 523 former he was president of the The Brooklyn Dodgers, - who are championship was held here their eyes on the Cuban newcom-‘ _——— — slu.denn'_i;:fyv training here, are idolized—but last year and six countries, in- 'ers for he thinks some of: themn| Totals 492 443 459—1394 Easy Campaign | m— - e Cubans howled with glee when cluding the United States, sent |will be among the leaders in all| . o P BTG | In that instance, it was sort 0"legulature and — the folks back v a 3 v . their all-stars trounced the Brook-, That population group known os wished on him. He was elected t0 ,,,ne being willing — intends to| Nazm Use Hot An_' to Save Gas {cams. The Cuban team won. |sports before long. i lyns in the opening exhibition The championship will be held D - “rural - nonfarm,” consisting of the campus office while he was ou!‘ keep on coming back. game. | here again next September. CARLSON TRAVELING; those who reside in villages of less of the state with the university| e The Cubans have a winter Marine brought the Cornell Uni- IS ON KETCHIKAN TRIP than 2500 and other non-agricul- cage team competing in the 1935 league of four teams. One is W. O. Carlson, well -known fl.sh;v.urnl rural residents, showed the Olympic tryouts. :HOME SI ATE [VEAS“}' basketball team down here managed by Mike Gonzales, the Howell held down an end berth B. M. BEHRENDS Co. QUALITY SINCE 1887 this year for three games and a buyer, who left for Ketchikan on | greatest increase in the last Cen-' St. Leuis Cardinals coach” and Mexican team came over .for five a recent steamer, will retugn to! sus. This group increased 14.5 per-|on the . ‘merial-conscious Arkansas Juneau, a passenger on the Ton-|cent, while the farm population football teams of 1933-34-35, and indoor shows are gass. | remained stationary and urban was named on both Southwest -——- | population increased by 7.9 per- Conference football and basket- NEW ORLEANS, March 28. — A | veteran southern sports editor has ball teams. He joined the Giants | come up with an idea to end bick- '« E: H : - | cent. est's First Paris-Like didewalk Ari Jnow g, R Try a classified ad 10 The Empire.{ He likes this first taste of the ering about proselyting of college Csnadian Envoy in Washington athletes. He would forbld them to| play for institutions outside the | state in which they were born. To show that -his plan would }not “work a hardship on any ! school” Fred Digby of the New| | Orleans Item cited this years’ Rose Bowl Nebraska Cornhuskers as al team which got along without out- side talent. Evidence of how Germany is being forced to conserve her gasoline Vast Reclamation Plan in Mongolia b g g Ay Ty sy et g o A e Mot air unit is used to prepare the bomber for flight. Adds Rice Farms There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising | PEIPING, March - 28—Vast rec- lamation projects io expand rice| {1 MNNRESOA MRS RAARSRRRRRR AR R PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0OD . LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD another by Adolf Lugque, one- |games in March. time Giant pitcher. Gonzales’ Most of the I | | Honan, which is also an import- ant cotton producer, is working on the reclamation of 60,000 acres as part of the construction of a net- work of waterways and flood pre- i vention works. In Inner Mongolia, Leighton MéCarthy (left), new Canadian minfiter to the United 'large tracts are to be reclaimed in States, is shown with Canadian charge d'affaires Merchant Mahoney the vicinity of Paotow, likewise for ow they left the state department after & call on Secretary of State rice land. Water will be diverted' Cordell Hull. The call wndp-{:limlnry 10 the formal presentation of | from the Yellow River for irriga- An estimated 50,000 people elbowed their way into a historic onie-time Barbary Cosst alley recently to view Fhomephets work of western artists which hung on the brick walls of San Francisco’s Hotaling place, now lair of paint- ers’ studios. This was the first Paris-patterned outdoor exhibition ever held in the West. _Above, part of the throng which jammed the sidewalk show and which bought more than $2,000 worth of art—something that doesn't always accompany a formal gallery ‘exhibition. 7 i b!—:%. new envoy. tion. 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