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

on the hook! Windfall Lake is causing mild ex- citement among trout fishermen of the hardier class today as plans are being made for the long hike this coming weekend. Little is said about them other than a hazy guarantee about bringing a large catch back, and that the lake should be good. Heavy(age ~ - Schedules FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941. his softball s. When he heard what Crespi did to hardball pitch-| ing “he talked him into taking a| paying fling at the sport. { | wiespl mie 314 at Snelby and m| | 1938 went up to the Springfield, Mo, Cardinal farm club. The Cards put him on their roster in 1939 but he was something less than sensa- tional as a fielder. They shipped | him to Rochester and he moved on | to finish the season with Columbus.| That short foray into the up- | per strata convinced the creep- | | er—he gets the name “Creepy” ‘ | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Crespi, Cardinal Creeper, Tells How He Gof Start < emg | because he's only five feet | eight and does his cavorting ‘preity clese to the ground — that there were still things he | | could learn about baseball. He ‘ | went to Cuba for the winter of | 193040 to learn ‘em on Card- | | | | inal Coach Mike Gonzales’' team. | He reported to Rochester in 1940 |with a new batting stance and |new fielding confidence and fin- s LR ‘ishl‘(i the season with a .301 bat- Up at the Federal Building, Ken on emne ting average and 86 runs-batwd-’ Nelson breaks into this column | in. : again with a real fish story of re- { Billy Southwork took him to Sl it |the Cardinals’ camp this spring portorial accuracy. He says he ap- preciates the interest people take in |and, when he found he had an in- jfleld full of shortstops decided MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 16 Coach Bill Chandler of Marquette's Wilson Bros. Shirts s fish catching ability, but his wife| “O0" ¢ = (Iu‘:‘;;:'l’l ‘:‘: n:h: It -eas Dot 95 s;u;n‘m.l forces lhmks.llmavy cage Crespi was going to be the second S . schedules are inadvisable, especi- ! baseman and told the kid so. | pounds as we said, but 20 pounds; |0 1CES FEE S Y | and 'twasn't caught on Sunday but ?P\L for high school age boys. He Crespi, h;tlng 347 after 13 | Beg' 2.00 to 2.50 Friday. Otherwise the story was “°7° g 3 | games of the regular season, i i wenty games are plenty in one | has turned out to be quite a | campaisn. Health and studies both I may be seriously affected by load- second baseman. Gus Mancuso, the veteran catcher, says Frank $1.65 Sfor4.85 Dave Paterson at the Baranof | 3% ; : : Hotat akarees mlidly and a9ty witn | 108 DR 6 BERCE.GICRNER S, XC8 | ‘gets the ball away faster than tht opfinianot e hand-irallers om] COLoES - BoYRL WELFD - geries 8 { 'any other man he ever saw at the salmon situation about the high Y™~ _ o = | the position. It's the Creeper's 3 i first try at the job. Since hix tides and the large amount of feed | | The Styles in the waters making the catching i = o ( softball pitching days he has almost an impossibility. Al he will s o on Frank Crespi: A softballer exclusively until 1935, played first, caught, chased : ; ; say is that the fish are there and' Y flies and—for the -last couple Your Choice: All popular they will strike. Sounding like & war AP FEATURE SERVICE pitcher for a local city league o mon omy commor: A 3 Squat and sturdy, Creepy car- ST. LOUIS, May 16—Come out! team, didn't like baseball. When a ries 180 pounds on that five-foot- | friend of his, Tony Steins, needed eight frame of his—and he's put- points and tabs . . . broadeloth, machas and other distinctive weaves. Paterson’s statement | - Poor Alumni communique, comes from reliable sources close to R e e i of those dark doorways, you soft- TOMORROW IT STARTS . . . Our annual Spring indicate, but cannot be quoted. 2 a catcher for his hardball outfit he ting a pretty good chunk of that ; ball enthusiasts, all is not yet| ARG OULF 3Rt © bahtoA DRI bn fre- Sale of Wilson Bros. Exclusive Shirts-—and what MORGANTOWN, W. Va., May 16 lost | asked Creepy (real pame Frank)| £ o % o \ Both Sheep and Nugget creeks are | , W. Va., May s | quent occasions these fine spring The Fabr!cs an event! Our 120 New Spring styles on sale. True, Lou Novikoff has let you|to take a crack at it. And it was a crisp crack Mr. Coach Bill Kern's Tl kin You save 35¢c to 85¢ on each shirt. They're famous for up-to-the-minute styling, handsome good with small fish runing between | : e y » g3 | days. | virginia University footballers con- down, at least on the basis of el L% ek cbtiths, Wiriphaans iy - -inches, and like the brook v ! i, :?ou:ngxfi ar(;]LT\ev have very little | cluded ‘their spring training with early returns. But the Clnuting[ Crespi took. Creepy, and a few A A fight‘ The bigger ones are in the @ game against the alumni, atn- Cossack who failed to clout is not baseball scouts as well, did other patterns are in- patterns and long wear. Shop for your own needs 3 |letic officials worried about only the only ex-softballer in big-time| some eye-blinking when his 324 | A T E cluded in this sale . . . and remember graduation and Father's Day are pools about a mile from the road and will strike only in the morning | softball batting average soared to .600 as an amateur baseball- Complete size range . . . 14% baseball. right at hand. This one item—the possibility of injury to some of the unconditioned old- Creepy Crespi kid who's| to 17 aken from the field of the softball diamonds. | cfor municipal) league and in 1937 and evening rises. ity ! timers. been banging the ball around in| er. Montana Creek shows more and| The varsity won handfly, 26-7, alarming fashion for the St. Louis| The next year, 1936, Creepy more cutthroat every day, and re-|but at the end of the game three Cardinals is a bona fide graduate, played in the St. Louis “muny” M BBHRB D () . . - . . ports are that in the ripples and fast | men had been tal water the fighting trout can't resist because of injuries. worms. Go up the creek several And.all of them hundred yards past the bridge. performers! Matter of fact, - the 23=year-old| he became a pro. It seems that the second baseman’s experience was manager of the Shelby, N. C., state softball until 1935. He was a'league club had known Creepy in were varsity 2ND SPOT ‘Sacramemo—fieps at Top == = | of Standings as Friefas | MEN'S SHOP all DOUBLE PLAY Sporfsmen National League 2 Won Lost Pect.! R The Book “ALASKA?’ Hurls His Sixth Win | nrookiyn 2 6 8 e | St. Louis 18 6 .7591 . By LESTER D. HENDERSON | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) |New ¥ork o "'Q;::ENDS THREAT Sllre| l'ke » cago Gerod y . - | -Beattle . took undisputed . second| Boston 0. 14 A1 y The Story of Aaska in Printed | place. in theé standings of the Pa-| Cincinnati 1016 .355! g " | cifie Coast -League last night by| Pittsburgh 8 14 364 word and Plclure | collecting 14 hits off three Holly-| Philadelphia 8, 19 206 e'r ams wood pitchers. Hal Turpin is credit- | American League | jed, with the victory although he Won Lost Pct.) | was relieved in the eighth 'inning| Cleveland 21 9 100 TR CASHMERE, Wash.,, Ma, A ., May 16 — after. Hollywood runs' were scored.| Chicago 14 10 583 | . . . Three tons of Puget Sound butte | Saeramento keeps in the League's| Boston 13 11 .leankS leen Fl“h S"algh clams, served by gt;e town'’s leadf |leading position as Tony FPrietas| New York 14 A5 AR f Mak ing residents, from the banker hurled his sixth win against one| Detroit lf 14 462 |.OSS as Chl(ago aKes down, were consumed at Cashmere's loss, last night to' defeat San| Washington 12 16 429 L 23rd annual sportsmen’s associa- | Francisco. Four unearned runs in| Philadelphia 10 16 385, Fou[teen H“s tion clam feed. | the seventh inning decided the|St. Louis .. o | 15 375, Eleven hunfl',ed sportsmen s game. Gastineau Channel League plia in on the gathering, held in a Joe Gonzales pitched a three- Won Lost Pet. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) huge warehouse, Sitting on uph hitter last night for Portland and| Douglas 2 1 867 Cleveland won the opener ‘”‘cnded apple boxes—one of thi gbsnzed out a triple scoring three| Moose . R | 2 .soogme important Boston series yes-ltrwmm:zlmy used .‘,7,, the thre; | runs to defeat Oakland by a shut-| Elks ... A 2 333 | terday as Bob Feller was called :\s“ tons of clams, 36 pounds of cof- |out. Jack Salveston went the route | for :Oakland although he yielded 17 hits. Los Angeles pounded three pitch- ers last night for 13 hits, including | Eddie Mayo's two-run homer io defeat San Diego. the ninth inning relief hurler with| fee, 120 pounds of butter, 20 gals two on and none out. A lucky|jons of tomato juice, 225 dozen double play ended the threat. | rolls, 100 pounds of weiners and Chicago got 14 hits yesterday,| 125 pounds of beans. humiliating the Yankees with their| LS £ ol BN fifth consecutive defeat. Chicago took three homers, | Denny Galehouse pitched a one-| r a e with a whitewash for Washington. | Detroit, fighting it out against GRINNEL, Ia, May 16— Ol Philadelphia, got 18 hits to break Thompson has a piece of furniture its six-game losing streak. 'he calls “Table of Tragedy.” ROLLER SKATING MORE DANGEROUS THAN ICE SKATING CLEVELAND, May 16—Injurics in roller skating are much more common than in ice skating. The! GAMES THURSDAY hitter for St. Louis to come up Pacific Coast League Sacramento 7; San Francisco 3. Portland 7; Oakland 0. Los Angeles 10; San Diego 3. " ON SALE AT The Empire and Newsstands Learn About Alaska and Its History! . d wooden rollers cannot dig ‘into| The Cincinnati champions lost He bullt it of 576 inlald picces Seatt :..Hollywl A wooden floors the way steel skates!their fifth straight match as Gene of wood, each taken from the bite the ice surfaces. Thompson blew up and ylelded four wreckage of automobiles invoived | New York 2; Chicago 1. Brooklyn-Pittsburgh, postponed. Philadelphia 5; Cincinnati 4. American League Chicago 13; New York 1. Detroit 10; Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 6; Boston 4. St. Louis 7; Washington 0. runs ‘in the ninth. in fatal accidents. The table repre- Hal Schumacher’s tough luck sents 972 deaths. finally was broken yesterday as he| Thompson drove 100 miles (o yielded only six hits for a New get one of the pleces — not more York victory. |than an inch square. i 8 RO ORO AR OO PHONE 374 There is no protection for the roller “skater. Where the ice skater has learned to slide when falling, the roller skater must roll, but his decision must be made in the bar-| est fraction of a second; it must be an automatic action. As the roller skater grows older he becomes more cautious. He realizes the dangers and takes|| Pacific Coast League fewer and fewer risks. That's why h W'd S ll' B k Won Lost Pct.| most of the champions are young. e l est e lng 00 Sacramento .26 10 722 —————— Seattle 21 17 853 WILL POWE G L A on Alaskal San Diego ......20 18: 526 et E R 4 San Francisco ......19 19 500/ LONDON—With smoking forbid-} A Hollywood ...........17 20 459|den in airplane factories and mu-[ Hlan AY Price $l 00 Los Angeles .. 16 21 .432| nition works, girls are taking fo| . Oakland ... 16 22 421! snuff, says one dealer, and “try-| ¢ Portland 14 22 .389ing not to sneeze.” DEIJIVERY By GEORGE McMANUS DAILY TRIPS COAL——WOOD | LUMBER —— GROCERIES ' PHONE 374 "“SHORTY" WHITFIELD IR YES-SIR-I'VE CALLED LIP EVERYONE ON THIS LIST-SIR-MR. DOWDY 1S OUT OF TOWN-MR MOHAN ISN'T HOME - MR. DEVOYEM IS SICK ‘N THE HOSPITAL AN MR. MCMOHAWK'S WIFE SAYS SHE WON'T LET HIM TALK TO ANY- ONE- EVEN IF HE WAS HOME- I NO-SIR-THE ONLY ONE THAT | FOUND THAT WAS IN-WAS - MR. Bl \) 54 \ [ _AU:- o