The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1941, Page 5

SEATTLE IS LOSER, GAME LAST NIGHT Hal Turpin,V_;leran Hurl- er, Chased from Mound | by Stars, First Inning (By Associated Press) Babe Herman last night batted in five Hollywood runs with a single, double and triple. Seattle’s veteran hurler Hal Turpin was the victim in the first inning of a four-run assault and was relieved in the sec- ond frame. The big assaults in the first and seventh innings yielded Hollywood seven runs. Johnny Bitt- ner held Seattle to six hits. Wally Hebert shaded Ray Prim in a southpaw mound duel last night a San Diego won. Hebert yielded seven hits. Whitey Hilcher held Oakland to five hits last night and fanned 10 men as Portland clinched the game in the seventh inning on five hits, including two doubles and a triple GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 0; San Diego 2. Seattle 2; Hollywood 8. Portland 4; Oakland 1. National League Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia 3; Pittsburgh 6. Chicago 4; Boston 3. St. Louis 3; New York 2. American League Chicago 3; Boston 2. St. Louis 3; Philadelphia 7 Cieveland 2; New York 1 Detroit 4; Washington 5. Gastineau Channel League Elks 0; Douglas 4. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pet. Sacramento 25 9 135 San Diego 20 16 556 Seattle 19 17 528 San Francisco 18 18 500 Hollywood 17 18 486 Oakland 15 21 417 Los Angeles 14 21 400 Portland 13 21 382 By LESTER The Book ‘S‘ALASKA’’ BROOKLYN IS WINNER, 6 STRAIGHT (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) rBrooklyn won the sixth straight game yesterday and pitcher Hugh Casey chalked up his fifth straight win with a six-hit performance. Pittsburgh yesterday ended a four - game baseball famine by handing Philadelphia a fifth straight setback before perhaps the smallest crowd to witness a game, only 986 fans who seemed lost in the grandstands and bleachers, Chicago wen yesterday when Hank Leiber was walked with the bases loaded in "the seventh in- ning. Previously Leiber had hit a two-run homer. St. Louis downed the Giants yes- terday with the winning run ‘n the ninth inning. : Chicago climbed into second place in the American League yesterday by defeating Boston on John Rig- ney's four-hit hurling. Young Sid Hudson handcuffed Detroit yesterday with three hits while Washington got eight. Philhdelphia “'won from St. Louis yesterday with a 12-hit attack. | National League Won Lost Pct. Brooklyn 21 6 78, St. Louis 18 6 150 New York 12 11 522 Chicago 10 12 455 Cincinnati 10 14 ALT{ Boston 10 14 417 Pittsburgh 7 14 .333 Philadelphia 5/ 18 280 American League { Cleveland 19 9 679 Chicago 13 9 591 Boston 12 10 545 New York 14 13 519 Detroit 11 13 458 Washington 11 15 423 Philadelphia 10 14 417 St. Louis 17 15 318 Gastineau Channel League . Won Lost Pet. Douglas 2 1 667 Moose 2 2 -500 333 Elks 1 2 D. HENDERSON The Story of Alaska in Printed Word and Picture A run of cutthroat has ztarted up Montana Creek in the days and the fish are biting as fast they're suckers for worms. They investigate eggs, and take them thrown to the bottom, but when the eggs are put on a hook, they mere- ly investigate. Thirteen of the trout were taken out just a few days ago, nearly all about 13 inches. lers, alike, are Wi of high tides to diminish before kings. The kings aren’t striking in urday and they're getting back to normal now. Just yesterday, a newcomer to the Territory and a man who will fish for anything that walks, swims or crawls in the water, pointed out the danger of a man fishing in Alaskan streams where there are any num- ber of trout. A man takes his life’ in his hands if he ventures into the water with plains why with a story that claims is true. | He was fishing cali deep in a stream with eggs, and one dropped from his hand into the water. The egg sank and settled on his boot. At least a 15-inch rainbow wrig- gled through the water to pick the egg right off his boot . . . unquote. What, says he, chance would a man have if he were standing on the €ggs. The fish would trip a man to get to the bait ! ([ AR NI T &~ 3 . - on the hook! up in the Federal| past few Building, is walking ‘ around these | photographs of a 25- as the line can be returned to the pound king he landed Sunday at| water. They won't take anything in Auk Bay. He's just as proud of the the pools, but in the rough water king shot as is a new father with Ken Nelson, days with the pictures of his offspring After while fishing lake the two men are sworn cure, sure-fire spot and take up golf. | AN Shocking Fish Tale SEATTLE, May 14—The partment of numerous dead along the lakeshore, the developed a short circuit. The shock, traveling into tance The Empire and Learn About Alaska and Iis History! Seventh :Printing The Widest Selling Book on Alaska! Price $1 ON SALE AT Newsstands .00 Carson Lawrence stepped into Auk Lake up over his head v the other night, his partners, Carl Danielson and Bud Nance, have apparently decided that | and stream fishing are too|" Salmon fishermen and hand trol- ' cangerous. In a mutual pact, prob- aiting for the run ably signed with each other’s blood, to fish making even an attempt to try for cvery Sunday morning at the ses on the corner these tides and the boys know bet- of the Cold Storage dock. If they ter than to make the waste of ef- come back from there without a fort to get the babies on the hook. fish as they have been known to co{ Highest tide recently was on Sat- in other places, they might swear off State Won Lost Pet.| hip boots on, he says, and then ex- Game Department solved the mys- he tery of Steel Lake's dead fish. They were being electrocuted. After residents notified the de-| fish the depart- ment discovered that an electrically the water via the pipeline, elecl,rocuted‘ all fish within a considerable dis- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941. T 7Breakinvg a Record ! 1 | 1 Fred Wilt ! [Fred Wilt flashes across the finish {'line at the Penn Relay Carnival, {Philadelphia, to break a Relay re- cord that stood for 20 years, He won | 'the two-mile event in 9 minutes, 17, seconds from a field comprising some of the best intercollegiate stars’ in the country. ONLY THREE HITS GIVEN i | Douglas Wlmwashes Elks Team in Game Last Night on Island Douglas 4, Elks 0 | Behind the three-hit pitching | Erskine, the Douglas Firemen base- ball nine defeated the Juneau Elks F,.O to 0 to jump into first place in| the Gastineau Channel baseball logp. “Shavey” Koski went the full game for the Elks, and although he got himself into a hole several| times, managed to hold the blasting | (bats of Douglas to four runs and | eleven hits. The highlight of the contest was the superb pitching of Erskine, w'm»| is ‘acclaimed the fastest’ throwing piteher in the league. He not only set the Elks nine down with three hits, but he gathered 15 strike outs, setting a new record for the sga- son, Possessing excellent control, he| slammed. the old “steamer” past | the swinging bats of the Elkmen| time and time again, and left the| outcome of the contest never to be doubted. Besides his pitching feat| | Erskine also shone at the bat, get-| ting three for three and scoring! once. 1 No Dents in Plate The first two innings of the game went by without a dent in - the nome platter. But in these two in- nings, Erskine gave two of his three oits during. the game. The first man up in the first inning, namely, Kumasaka, for the Elks, got the first hit for the Elks, while in the second inning, Nielsen received a hit, dying on third base. Kumasaka reached second base. The third inning the Douglasites began to hit Koski after Stragier reached first on an error. Willey came up and hit, putting him on second, then Erskine followed with another hit, scoping Stragiér, but hat. was: the end of scoring for the time being. ¥ was here that Erskine began smoking the ball across the plat- ter. He struek out three men’ in succession to retire the side in one- two-three order. Score Each Inning i The remainder of the game was a score each inning for the Doug- fas team. In the fourth canto, Jen- ~ BY ERSKINE operated pump drawing water Iroml lake to a nearby rarmhnu:sul | it | Total last night, of “Speéd Ball” Claude E scored when a throw by Addlemn,' in an attempt to catch him on third, hit his leg and bounced into right field, giving him the oppor- tunity to romp home, scoring an-| on bases every inning but passed up several opportunities to score. At the end of the fourth inning speed-pitched the Elks to submis- sion, and then managed to make, another score for teammates when he went to bat and slammed a two-base clout into left field among | the rock pile. He was followed by Norman “Rusty” Rustad, who was late and had just entered the game. Rustad's big bat blasted an- |other two-bagger, scoring Erskine. The sixth inning was much the same for the Elks, with Erskine getting hotter and smoking his‘\ speed down the groove, Thn\y‘ | couldn't touch his offerings. | { The Douglagites’ last time at bat| showed Culbertson up, hitting for| Stewart. He gathered a nice single into right field, went to second on a hit by Johnny Niemi and scorrd‘ the final count of the contest when Willey slammed a long double mto: the rock pile. 1-2-3 Out The first of the seventh and lasi| inning saw. Erskine make it a8 one-| two-three affair. He slammed his| high hard ball in there §o fast| and so hard no batter even touched | {it. The scrappy Elks. went down swinging, but fighting to the last | ditch. They were just plain: out orj {luck for the evening as big Claude )was on and was tpo bot to handle. The Douglas nipe will play anln; the Moose. club. Both teams havei | won a game each in the two con- tests they have played against onchlh other this segson. This game Fri- | ‘day should be a battle as the two | clubs will be out for & wn to clncn! a hold on first place in the leugut’ | standings. | Following ls the flnst night's contest: | DOUGLAS Willey, ¢ Manning, | Erskine, p | Graham, rf ! Jensen, 3b | Roller, 2b | Stewart, 2b Niemi, cf Stragier, ss, rf Rustad, ss iCulbertson hox scores AB R HE b | wi Wi e mwowes | m-omocomowow cloccocococcoscscs - “Substituted for Stragler tPatted* for Stewart LKS Kumasaka, 1b . Taguchi,” 3b Ellénperg, . 2b Addleman,’ ¢ Lewis, ss Nielsen, 1f McDaniels, Vohries, rf Koski, p ... > BE5F ol cccooeeea’&gol ~omooomomoo cf wlroorcoocowmTa Blovwwwowna Total s of 3 Summary—Stolen bases, Nielsen | 2; sacrifice hits, Manning; double| play, Ellenberg to Lewis to Kuma- saka; -2-base’ hits:’ Erskine 2, Rus-|, tad, Willey; bases om balls; off|, Erskine. 1, off Koski 2; styuck out: by Erskine 15, by Koski 2; passed! balls: Willey 1, Addleman 3; um-! pire Lowe .at plate, Battello on bases; scorér, Gaffney; game time,| 1 hour and 30 miputes. HANK'S WAGE WAS $50,000 FOR SEASON Detroit Slugger Makes Statement as He Goes to $21 Monthly Army Job DETROIT, May 14—Hank Green+ berg moved froin his $55,000-a-year Jjob as slugger for.the Detroit Tigers to a$ 21-a-month post a5 private for the U. 8. Army. ¢ The . $56,000-a-year - figure from the Tigers was something of a sur- prise which Hank dropped just be- fore he left Detroit for Camp Custer. Most guesses had agreed that he was under a $50,000 contract’ for 1941, and nobody heretofore. took issue with the guesses. Hank explained: s¢n singled into left field, reached second ‘on a passed ball, and went to third on a fielder's choice. He RE R-TAKE THE HOLSE-ILL * %LYOU UP. £ IN AWHILE- “I'm in the army now. There is no reason to pull punches. “First, I'll straighten out the many other run. Douglas had several men' { Rustad died on second. | & Friday night when they tangle with g, ¢55 000, out another of | Bame. i perfectly as it should be. I have bar- | gained for my serviecs with the Detroit ball club, and, perhaps, I for what'I thought I was worth, I| (always got it. was asked to give up first base. I| the count was 2 to 0, | & The fifth inning Erskine qulcluy‘ & HEAD OF THE BOURBON FAMILY ONE TASTE WILL ¢ BOTTLED IN Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY £ Seattle, Washington o g = kS { guesses on my 1941 salary contract | agreed. with the Detroit ball club. I sizned | “But I agreed to go only if T a $10,000 raise. “I have made a lot of money in short time in baseball, and I leav baseball well situated financial “I would also like to straighten thing. Many stories ave been written that Mr. Briggs (Tiger Owner Walter O. Briggs) paid | I've been lucky enough also to mal my salary for the entire season. This isn’t true. good investments.” “Taxes being what they are, I'l. not crying about dropping from $55, 000 to $21 a month. ? “The public deserves some explans ation on why T refused the extra days reprieve from the draft bbard to play in the flag-raising game. I refused this grant, first, because T never asked for it. Secondly, be- cause the ball club never asked fo: it.” ' S——— “1 was paid through Tuesday's ball No more, no less. That is as a hard bargainer. I always asked Too $10,000 Raise “At the end of the 1939 season I | as asked to go to the outfield. I Empire Classifieds Pay! ~ Jack Dempsey's BOXING SCHOOL: 8 ¥ ' May Landis, left, blocks Phil Catdy’s right hand punch. ! BLOCKING AND FEINTING: You can't duck every punch. Some _ of ‘them are easier to block and blocking often leaves you in beiter * position for a. counter punch. Here are a few blocking tips. 4 To catch a left hook to your right jaw, use your right forcarm, } P raising, it up and out to catch your opponent's wrist. Use the left ¢ arm, of course, to block a right. Blocking a hook body, blow your . defending arm is bent so that the forearm is almost perpendicular. It 1 moves -out to throw the blow off. Uppercuts should be' blocked at | waist }ev,el’ with the forearm. In practicing with a sparring partner, # try only soft blows until you perfect your blocking, % Feinting is oné of the finer arts of boxing. It's merely pretend- | ng to throw on punch when you're really planning another kind of .punch. .though it ;were the real thing, then stop the blow after.two, lnchel‘ :when your opporient’s guard goes up—which leaves you an excellenf - 'openlng for a bona-fide bone-crushing left to the body. Don't feint * “omly with your, hands. Often you can feint a jab, moving your body forward as Use your shoulders, your body, your knees, 1t’s a big help to be a good actor up there in the ring. Now you know what to do. But don't think that you're ready yet to step into the ring with all comers. It takes practice, constant - gnd painstaking ,to master all these tricks. y (End of Series) e !lillifllllfllllillfllfllllllflfllfllIIIIIIIIIlllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllll ; PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS - COAL——WO00D - PHONE 374 .~ "SHORTY"