The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1941, Page 5

o —— . Former Cafcher | Has Dope Little is known today on the fish- ing situation as no c muniques are ferthcoming from heddg ters at the Auk Bay and Tee Harbor fronts; | however, usually reliable sou dicated that two large kings w ing about 35 pounds each were caught early this morning. each ithin five-minutes of one another.| Inferman aid that they had not been able to catch any kings, al- heugh they had been trolling since 4 o'clock this morning. Well in- ¢ TR | fermed authorities said that thel erring are still running in Auk Says B'g Tra n s SmOke Bay. | "Easy’ Compared with Art Beaud'n. Cliff Nordensnn and Don Bates stalked the steelhead in Peterson Creek for several hours| but said they goi nary| WASHINGTON, May 2 — Eddie a strike nor a glimpse of the fighting | Ainsmith, the old Washington trout. They fished the creek up to|catcher, likes to tell how catch- the falls and back without luck. ing Walter Johnson’s fast ball used‘ Beaudin says they're there, bucito leave his mitt hand sore and| where? He suspects the concealed almost raw but—Eddie 'says he'd; pools by fallen logs. !lather catch Walter's smoke ball 'than Dutch Leonard’s knuckler. | | | | “I liked to get it quick” | Ainsmith said, referring to | Johnson’s pitch. “Walter's fast | ball stung, but at least you knew where it was going and | Dean Goodwin, flying-fisherman| could protect yourself. i who likes to fly on floats because “The trouble with this thing‘ he’s closer to the finny denizcns of | Leonard throws is you don't know the deep, dropped into Hasselborg | where it's going and you have a Vic Johnson brought in five kings from Auk Bay late yesterday . all good size fighting fish. Not bad for one man. yesterday while flying in a lead o[;Lerrihlc time trying to grab it forest service materials and men.| Ainsmith worked for a while be- He was at the upper end of the|hind Eddie Rommel, one-time Phil- lake and decided to try his luck.|adelphia A's hurler. “His knuckler| He didn't catch anything, but he;almost drove me crazy. I couldn't had fun, anyway. Most of the fish|watch it—you'd get cock-eyed try- are caught at the other end of the ing to follow that pitch, so I'd| lake, and it is probably still a little| just look at third base and watch| carly. | the ball out of the corner of my e |eye. When it got to the batter I'd Dr. James C. Ryan, Territorial!slap at it. No use trying to m | Commissioner of Education, aud A.|a decent catch.” B. Phillips with a party of men here | Ainsmith shook his head. “No | for the text book commission left| sir,” he said, “give me the fast early this morning for a trip on| pall every day over the knuck- | the Leota. Perbaps theyll bring| per | back something to talk about. | Ainsmith, now some 50 pounds| { heavier, at 230, than when he was| la player, is a New York Giants’| NINE PLAYERS b 2 O I ASSIGNED _ T0 - LEAGUE CLUBS Nine new piayers for the three| teams in the Gastineau Channel League were assigned today by League president J. L. (Dolly) Gray | than 2,500 population, 2100 of after they had signed on the per- them lack any system of mass manent chart in the Empire edi-| transportation. torial rooms. J et Players and their teams are Rudy Empire Classifieds Pay! | Notar, Ellis Ketcher and Art Dem- | Eugene Lee and Ronald Nsungiuya ‘Lo Douglas, and Eddy Saloum and John Garcia to the Moose. — ,e——— Of U. S. urban centers of more GMC ASSISTS IN ARMY RECRUITING suoto oY u. 5. ARy sicwaL conrs ( The Urited States Army Recruiting Service uses this 1)4-ton General for a trailer—the two units combining to for use in remote uectionsT%l t.hs col:'ngrz the Army maintains no regular recruiting station. e advertisin, s of the streamlined unit, coupled with its mobility, assists Uncle Bam in attracting recruits to his rapidly-expanding armed fc;rces. mple office space is provided in the trailer for the interviewing of young mes aesirous of trading their civilian garb for the olive drab. Motors Truck as prime mover form a mobile recruiting station Knuckle Ball | B One of the late-comers to earn a spot on last year’s rookie honor roll was youthful Earl Johnson, a 6-foot-3 southpaw who came up in mid-season from Rocky Mount and posted a 6 and 2 record for the Red Sox. Joe Cronin expects him SAGRAMENTO IS DEFEATED BYPORTLAND }Seame Puts in Old Hurler: Johnson Who Wins | Over San Diego 4 (By Associated Press) The Portland Beavers cnnvrrtml} {six hits into two runs last night| to defeat Sacramento and check the Pacific Coast League leaders' winning streak on the current | northern road trip at six games, Submariner Ad Liska all but made it his fourth shutout of the year, a lone Sacramento run coming in in the ninth inning after two men | were out. Seattle called on 40-year-old Syl- vester Johnson to defeat the San Diego Padres last night. Johnson| sparked in his old time effective| mound work with a two-base hit at |a critical period in the fifth in- | ning. | 'The Oakland Oaks hammered two { Hollywood Star moundsmen last !night for 11 hits and a victory,| | winning the game in the ninth| | frame when two runs were scored | to overcome the Stars by a one-| i run_lead i San Francisco defeated Los An-| | geles last night in a free-hitting| contest. | Lt | GAMES THURSDAY | Pacific Coast League ! San Diego 2; Seattle 7. | Sacramento 1; Portland 2. | Hollywood 4; Oakland 5. San Francisco 11; Los Angeles 3., to be a real sensation. Bob Feller Knocks Over Philadelphia Bucky Walters” Arm Stops Brooklyn Dodgers’ Winning Streak (By Associated Press) Cleveland yesterday flashed imert to the Elks; Stanley DeLong,|P°Wer at the plate as well as on|the flag, and acting Governor E. ! the mound with Bob Feller. snatcn- |ing glory for them both as he de- National League St. Louis 5; New York 0. | Cincinnati 2; Brooklyn 1. Pittsburgh 15; Philadelphia 2. Chicago-Boston, postponed. American League i Washington 7; Chicago 0. Philadelphia 8; Cleveland 13. Boston 15; Detroit 9. New York 14; St. Louis 5. | OPENING OF BALLSEASON T0 BE GALA STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League | feated the Philadelphia Athletics. The young speedballer batted in four of the tribe's runs, one of which was a fifth inning homer. The New York Yankees buried the St. Louis Browns under a 17-hit attack with three home runs and a triple when they met yester- day. The Boston Red Sox yesterday salvaged one game out of three with the Detroit Tigers in a merci- less attack on three pitchers. Dutch Leonard, Washington knuckleball twirler, turned in his first victory of the season by a shutout that snapped the Chicago White Sox winning streak at four games. . Bucky Walters yesterday stopped the Brooklyn Dodgers’ winning streak with stellar pitching and timely hitting to come out with |an eleventh-inning triumph for | Cincinnati. The St. Louis Cardinals made a clean sweep of their three-game series with the Giants last night at veteran Lonnie Warneke pitched a nine-hit shut-out, and Martin Marion and Jimmy Brown hit homers. The cellar-dwelling Pirates gave dose of their own medicine when they blasted three Phil pitchers for 23 hits. H. R. VANDER LEEST IS FLYING SOUTH H. R. Vander Leest, of the Butler- Mauro Drug Company, is flying south on a PAA Lodestar today for a visit of at least one month in the states, business and pleasure. Mr. Vander Leest expects to visit his mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Mothers' Day, during his trip south, ——————— Empire Classifieds Pay! pmEy » Won Lost Pet. i Famous Ball Signed by |sscramento 1 6 760 S San Diego 14 11 560 ool Yankees to Be Used in |seatte 4o sl i e Hollywood 13 *qq 542 First Pitch of League [san Prancisco 12 13 amo X4 ,Oaklund 10 - 15 4400; Portland 9 15 375| With the high school band : | full uniform, a formal raising of| 0% Angeles L 08 408 Naiional League L. (Bob) Bartlett and Mayor Harry] g “f/oo” Ten-idet’ ek I. Lucas as the batteries of the Bx:ooklyu 13 5 ',’,72‘ | formal opening, the 1941 baseball New York 8 7 '_,,:';31 season on Gastineau Channel Willl a4 8 8 "500‘ begin at 3:30 o'clock Sunday after-| G0 Bl P noon in the Firemen's Ball Park|p oo = ;1 9 400 | as the Elks meet the Moose. 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QUA LITY SINCE 1887 “'l iers and elght ;major league | ganized baseball that gave the ates, directly, have aided him. It is an advantage he would gladly relinquish for peace, but he gets excited talking of the 20,000 military nines under his pregram now, Although the semi-pro system nervous little Frenchman his big- | gest rebuff. National Semi-Pro Nines, mat wes in Get Started May 4- 1937 when he in- present plan | tracts, a move he described as a has uncovered hundreds of minor | of ‘slgmm; all semi-pro players to con- | | protection against raiding by rival, - , Philadelphia Phillies 1 who forsook Sunday baseball for the chance to play it every dav. Connie Mack found Porter Vaughn | and Crash Davis among Dumont's | semi-pros and the Detroit Tigers are others |came up with Clay Smith and Freddie Hutchinson. - Although the Philippines are situated in the middle of one of | the Dbest fishing grounds in the “wnrld, canned fish is a major im- port. —————— Subscribe w0 uiie Daily Alasks Empire—the paper with the largess { pald circulation. [, the Philadelphia Phillies an over-| | baseball owned by League President American League | Sandlotters Play 2 Won Lost Pct. | . L. (Dolly) Gray‘and given *0| cleveland 12 7 50| |him by Joe DiMaggio. It is smmdiNew York 1 6 647/ By HAROLD CLAAS B e i ie ] Ohioalis o 5 oa AP Feature Service litis. Dinth 40 ast ShEAH o SoieR -9 6 60| WICHITA, Kas, May 2 — Pre-| e hacs i hed 1% ray | DO 6 8 42|senting Raymond Harry Dumont,| S Fomitds 1o iy the| Washington -8 10 -333 -high school debater and ex- | promises to be a good one with the| AL Rx-2 1 " - | Philadelphia. . 4 10 -280| ercise hater who used a nickel 2i- ;"“““f.“, °{m"“’ t;""’ e'f;]"t‘s E:Vg::y";st. Louis o3 9250 gar and on idea as the foundation, q}:lesill’mlfelga Eg]ks emanage'r and| for a world-wide athletic organi- pitcher S}‘mvey Koski said, “Beat| zation and an endless supply of 'em? You're cockeyed right we’ll| beat ‘em!" | { Grunted Moose manager Stan | Grummett after being told of Kos-| ki's prediction, “Cockeyed?”, and said no more. He made no prop-' hesy and refused even a tentative| line-up for the coming game. Av-! parently Grummett has something| in store that he’s not publicizing.| Line-up for the Elks follow Ellenberg, cf; Taguchi, 3b; Mac ; Addleman, c; Kuma-| saka 2b; Lewis, ss; Nielsen, If;| Hagerup, rf and Koski, p. Moose line-up is indefinite, but Grummett. did reveal the list of| his players, saying that Sunday’s game would come from the follow- ing roster: Kelly Blake, Jim Orme, Fred Schmitz, Joe Snow, John Smith, Red Shaw, Joe Bird, Lee Kern, John Slagel, John Krugness, Roy Moore, Stan Grummett, K. L. Brown, Harry Sturrock, Bill Roden- berg and Joe Guy. The High School band will have| a reserved section in the grand- stand and will play during the game, .- — Growing girls need plenty cf] proteins and fats for body-build- ing and vitality maintenance. | dime stogies. | The organization is the Nationall ! Semi-pro Baseball Congress which opens its season May 4 with an estimated 80,000 nines making a | simultaneous start at 3 p.m, (CST).| That’s an army of approximate-| |1y 800,000 athletes who will sweat| | through nine innings of play all| | because Dumont got restless seven years ago while chewing his to-! sleepy sporting Thousands Of British - Die, Greece Gel'man Claims fO CaSlla|-‘ The armyL wzi’l’l cv.;rumzfi iLl:J x_):a‘)’" g 9 until ugusf when e nited | fies Opposed fo Those [ staies champion witi be _aeter-| Made in London | mined at the conclusion of the na-| | tiona] tournament. | BERLIN, May 2—Berlin military! Thirty-two teams, the best sand- sources sald two-thirds of tne|lot outfits the country can find in Britjh Expe|tionary Forde of|a series of league, state and re- 60,000 men were lost in Greece. This|gional playoffs, will come here is almost diametrically opposed to| August 15 for the 12-day show. the British claims that three-| The winner will get a huge fourths of the BEF escaped safely|trophy, a check for some $2,500 from Greece, and the privilege of meeting the — .. - - Professor Dr. Rudolf Hennig, a German scientist, in a study of the life of Christopher Columbus, mont this year has added a $3,000 fixes the time and place of Co-|purse for the leading hitter in the bacco-torch in a the world crown. lumbus’ birthplace as September | congress. or early October, 1451 AD. at Dumont believes that the war Genoa. Historians have debated in Europe, indirectly, and the both time and place. defense program in the United " BRINGING UP FATHER INSTEAD OF SITTING AROLIND THE HOUSE ALLTHE TIME - TAKE UP SOME, SPORT — DEVELOP YOUR MUSCLES- YO ARE JUST GETTING FLABBY AND FAT- WHAT ARE YOL TALKIN 1S TRAT SO?ME MUSCLES ARE STILL AS HARD AS ROCKS-WHY - | KIN PICK P UP A HOD RIGHT NOW | WITH MEN IN IT-THERES NOTHIN' \ N'T LIFT- WHAT'S IN THIS CHEST- | own park, | Cagauas team of Puerto Rico fDl'i In addition to these awards Du-| managers or sponsoring firms. Immediately organized baseball interpreted the step as & move by, Dumont to corner all young play- ers, forcing the leagues to junk their scouting systems and come to him for talent. The misunderstanding was crased but it left a tension that never has been entirely re- moved and the man who re- vived sandlot baseball just be- fore it received the knockout punch from seftball still is re- ccived with a chill by the pro- fessionals. 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