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

! i ‘ ’ [ SEATTLEIN SWAT GAME BEAT OAKS Sacramentmses fo Los Angeles - Hollywood Celebrates at Home (By Associated Press) Seattle pounded out 24 hits for 13 earned Salevson to win the opening game yesterday of the series with Oak-~ land. Jo Jo White connected. with two three-baggers and Les Scarsella slammed out another in the eighth inning. Scarsella was ousted from the game by Umpire Bill Engeln for protesting a decision at first base. The victory moved Seattle a notch nearer the league's leading Sacra- mento Solons who were nosed out yesterday by the Angels. The Angels got nine hits off three Solon twirl- ers. Hollywood celebrated the first game of the season at home yester- day by defeating Portland in a tight slugfest. Hollywood's skipper Bill Sweeney belted a triple and double. Ted Norber homered for Portland in the free swatting contest. San Diego defeated San Francisco in the tenth inning of a game that saw a parade of pitchers, the Seals using three and San Diego four. GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League Portland 7; Hollywood 9. San Francisco 3; San Diego 4. Los Angeles 3; Sacramento 2. Seattle 13; Oakland 2. National League St. Louis 7; Cincinnati 3. Boston 5; Philadelphia 6. New York 6; Brooklyn 4. Chicago 7; Pittsburgh 4. American League Chicago 4; Cleveland 3. Philadelphia 3; New York 1. Detroit-St. Louis, postponed. Boston 7; Washington 6. runs off pitcher Jark‘ NAlI*lEADER IS TO INSPECT RUSS BORDER Builder of Siegried Line Makes Extensive Trip Along Frontier BERLIN, April 16.—German Min- ister of Munitions Fritz Todt, who built the German Siegfried Line, has gone to Poland with three ol tus closest coliaborators on an extensive inerection of Germany's eastern ! fortifications, according to cfficial sources here. The trip will take Todt along the German-Russian frontier avhere thousands of German workers have been digging a great East Wall ever since the new border between Ger- many and Russia was agreed upon. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League I Won Lost Pet. Sacramento 8 2 800 Seattle 7 2 18 San Diego 6 3 667 Oakland 5 5 .500 Los Angeles ... 3 5 375 Hollywood “ 3 6 .333 | San Francisco REN .300 Portland . 2 : § 222 { National League | Won Lost Pet. | St. Louis 1 [ 1.000 | Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 New York 1 0 1.000 | Chicago 1 0 1.000 | Cincinnati 0 1 .000 Boston 0 1 .000 Brooklyn 0 1 .000 Pittsburgh 0 1 000 American League Won Lost Pct. Chicago 1 0 1.000 Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 Boston 1 0 1.000 New York 1 1 500 . Washington 1 1 .500 Cleveland 0 1 000 Detroit 0 0 000 St. Louis 0 0 000 e WHY SUFFER with vour feet? Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. Steves. | (adv.) — - —— Try a crassinea ao m The Book ‘S“ALASKA’’ By LESTER D. HENDERSON The Story of Alaska in Printed Word and Picture ne pmpies BIGTIME | BASEBALL IN SWING Seven Games Played as Season Opens-Many Surprises for Fans (By Associated Press) Baseball’s major leagues got down to business yesterday with an as- sortment of surprises for 195,000 fans who turned out for seven games that escaped the weatherman. Champions of the American League, the Detroit Tigers, failed to get onto the diamond with St. Louis as the game was rained out. Chief among the unexpected de- velopments yesterday was the Chi- cago White Sox trimming the Cleve- land Indians with a great show of disrespect of Bob Feller. ‘The Philadephia Atheletics beat the New York Yankees in the Yankee Stadium. The Cincinnati Reds were hum- bled by the St. Louis Cardinals. | further continuing the upset of champions. i The lowly New York Giants blud- | geoned the Brooklyn Dodgers with four runs in the eighth inning yes- terday. The Phillies edged out the Boston | Bees on four-hit hurling by Cy| Blanton. > Lacing Her Corse!| CHICAGO, April 16.—Mrs. Alice | Walther, thirty-three, went to a cor- | set shop for the usual reason. éhs‘ tried on a corset, just for size, and | was in the throes of lacing it when her foot slipped. At Augustana Hos- pital, wheré she was taken by First | District police, doctors finally found ‘ the trouble — a disclocated knee- | cap. | i e i Try a classified ad In The Empir- * Regatta Winner Aleta Van Sant of Elizabeth City, N. C., waves to the cameraman as she wins her event in the annual Miami Yacht Club regatta in Bis- cayne Bay, Miami, Fla. Piloting her speedy Stormy in faultless fashion, she led the men a merry chase to v the Florida State Moth class championship. Judge Hour Late; Fines Himself § MADISON. Wis., April 16.—Cir- £ | As the second of the five-match | | cuit Judge Robert S. Cowie of La Crosse fined himself $5 for contemp? of court here. H | | Metealf Dislocates Knee Bl 1" B B o o | rived in court an hour late, found ' Lavenik himself guilty of contempt, handed Clerk R. D. Lewis a check Stewart for $5. - e VIVIAN SELLS Capt. Charles Larsen of the hali- | buter Vivian docked in Juneau at the cold storage dock this morning | to unload 8.500 pounds of fish and | sell to Alaska Coast Fisheries at 7. and 5 cents per pound. — SBubscrive to the Dauy Alaskn | Empire-~the paper with the larges mid circulation. Frdr [0 0 WE'LL HAVE TO THAT BATH OF FIXIN' ' SORRY-MUM-BUT TUB TO, OUR PLLMBIN' SHOP- IT NEEDS A LLl%T TAKE 1 N T _ ), TN R . - = ON SALE AT The Empire and Newsstands Learn About Alaska and Its History! Seventh Printing The Widest Selling Book on Alaska! Price $1.00 Waner Duo Is Busted This Year Pirates Have Only One "Poison’ for First Time i in Fourfeen Years JUNEAU GIVES ANOTHER LOSS 10 KETCHIKAN l -7 | iElks Telegraphic Bowling ?‘ Match Shows Locals | Still Leading il : PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 16 telegraphic bowling series between |qi o and toil have broken up the the Juneau and Ketchikan Elks 5 1 . o Nod datn i Tikoe'. Ing most famous and successful brother jlodges rolled down the alleys 1ast|qep iy paseball. For the first time night the Juneau men continued | their lead over the First City kezlers | as they piled up a 164-pin lead for | | last night's matches to make a total lead of 250 points in two games | The Ketchikan feminine bowlers | P 3 o | duplicated: last night's victory over | Plaved together in the Bucc | the Juneau women s | field, mainstays and idols of they rolled a | | total of 2215 to Juneau's 2099, giving Pitt Wa | since 1927 the lineup of the burgh Pirates will not list P er and L. Waner. Down the ars Big Poison ye Little Poison—Paul and Lloyd and 0 out- | Pittsburgh club. But now the fear=d - *SINCE 1878 » * <- The FIRST Beer of Wushington" the Ketchikan women a lead for the combination is no more. Paul, Big 'two nights' play of 267 pins Poison himsell, got his waiking B M C | Metcalf, of the Juneau squad,|[Papers last December and i now EATTLE BDREWING & IVIALTING 0. | walked v with all the honors as with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Little {he finished the three-game_ match | Foison, Lioyd, Is still with the Pi- $ince 1878 % Emil Sick, President last night holding a high pin total | !¢ | | “Yea, itl be kind of different - - of 648. 15-year average with Pittsburgh of .340. Onmly ‘in 1938, when he hit THIRTEEN LUCKY .280, and last year, when he bat- ~ | ted 200, did he ever slip beneath | Kipby Higbe, pitcher with the|the .300 figure. Three times Paul | Philligs, last. year, won his 13th|led. the league hitters, victory: on Friday the 13th. Team-|times he smacked out more timn |mate Hugh Mulcahy tried for his/200 hits a season. 13th from July 31 to Scptember} Lloyd, too, was having continued }m—snd lost 12 straight. success, and proved a hard one for B | SANS THE SEA_At least there's no sign of seasickness in sand-sailing—a favotite sport at exclusive Sea Island, Georgia. But it’s quite a trick to remain on the track. This SAILING is Alexandra uston sailing over the sand. By GEORGE McMANUS and eight | | Scores for last night's tel(’gn\pmclnut to have Paul with me this year, |, pitchers to master. His all- | bowling match follow: but I think hell do the Dodgers',; .. ctrjreout record is 446, which (RA ! Juneau Women |some gocd,” drawls southern-born . ... l.mwl out ‘an -average vk 131 161 187 479 Llovd. of only orice. in every 40 times Taylor 131 147 105— 383 “Me? well, T hope to do better| . the" Blate 3 | white 149 140 157— 446 than last year.” Mo \\(]\';Il:l Pittsburgh fans sigh ki Sperling 137 118 113— 368, Manager Frankie Frisch believes pidaiat vt b think of e 2 Stewart 147 136 150— 423 there 1s Another good year In Lit-| oo ToBret RO nar come |y, STASBUUKL, ‘April 16-SEHEA o S 18 TI0RW'S. -foutiin./ Fia “lan't Worcld | TS PREENG of "this. broper keepers, many to their sorrow, are | et ¥ | bination. Theyll never see another jeoio o oot Nazl Germ 3 Total 695 692 7122099 | over his slump last year, when - earning that Nazi ermany en { ™ : i Big Poison and Little Poison. forces its laws Juneau Men | he hit only .259 playing in a util- A3 forces its law 214 237 197— 648 | ity role | . Mupx:_v have been fined, a few up 192 174 193— 550 Whether or not he has a better to 15,000 marks, for raising prices. 186 157 173— 516 |year, the Waner record stands in REX MAY SIG“S Inspectors found some shops were and | Thibodeau 162 160 165— 487| brilliant relief behind the two charging 30 percent more for shoes 214 194 171— 579 | brothers. Lloyd’s l4-year average F R AN"UA[ spl“ than was being asked for similar | —= —= —= —— with the Pirates s 319. For ten -*“2‘[‘“"" the old Reich. {oBss Totals 968 922 899—2789 | seasons he batted over .300, rang-| " flothing prices - were Up to&e Ketchikan Men | ine trom. 363 0 1030 to 308 five| . INDIANAPOLIS, Apri 16—Rex{percent higher until a coupletiof Daniels 521 {iva later: Be onritr-0; fketaargh | s 18 Glendale, Cal, who stll gractic fines regimented the mer- foctiar ¥ ; ¢ SBUrEN ¢yinke rain cheated him out of & cpangs Ziegler 545 along with brother Paul,| juro® 0 00 ks 500-mile Tn-| oo Iffert 501 |but was optioned to Columbia and 4. il M B A A 4 Ty Howard 527 Eihs Bock tha et dianapolis motor speedway race, has Helland b g o et Mg T [signed to drive the same car in GRID CANDIDATE R ’;mm;“":“‘;“u::gmf ‘:m‘":xp:oll;h::;‘\vhi(‘h he finished second a year Alan Donelli, 155-pound half- Total 2625 that year, Paul clouting the ball|“t* back from Duquesne, may’ be a& Ketchikan Women |for 380 and the loop title, and = o candidate for - Jock Sutherland’s Pghe. Pedersen M o e g The Laily Alaska mmpire guaran- | Brooklyn Dodgers football team Castle 437 Serfes:- \\A'hm{ ‘“w great Yankee | V68 the largest daily circulation ot next fall. He would be one of the Hildinger 449 achi v o " |uny Alaska newspaper. | machine won in four straight | Hildur Petersen 457 33 g 4 it | e e liie Petar | Paul hit 333 and Lloyd a sensa-| | aude Peterson 430 ticnal .400. | Total 2215 Paul Waner, incidentally, had a « AIMING FOR A HEART?_Pretty Kitty Motter of St. Joseph, Mo., and New York, draws a bead at the skeet shooting club in Sea Isiand, Georgia, where she proved a good marksman. | She’j been waiting out the North's winter, in Georgia. |t A PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD