The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1941, Page 5

BOB FELLER WINS TENTH GAMESOFAR (By Associated Press) extended his string ings to 29 as he won of the season yes- terds lowed only two De- troiters to advance beyond first base. He gave up only seven singles in the gams for his third straight shutout. He fanned eight men. While Louis’ Chet Labbs spoiled the no hitter for Chicago’s be-spectacled Bill Dietrich with a fourth inning single yesterday, only {wo other Brownies got on base, both walking. ton beat Philadelphia without the se es of Foxx yesterday when he was benched on his own re- quest. Ted Williams homered in the rain yesterday to wash out the yankees' lead over Washinton in the sixth while the score was tied two all. In the National League the Card- inals captured their tenth straight staving off Cincinnati in a ninth inning rally after battering five pitchers yesterday. Bob Carpenter gave the Giants a victory over Boston yesterday giv- ing four hits and two runs in the fifth inning with only one hit there- after. Hartnett and Ott homered. e Trv a classiflea ad inine Empire Feller Bob his tenth vie £t by THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941, } Phonephoto Maj. Gen. Edwiti B Watson, alde to President Roosevelt, receives an apple blossom from Queen Shenundoah XVIII as she calls at the White House to issue an invitation to the Apple Blossom Festival in Win- chester, Va. In private life her majesty is Miss Mollie Foulkes Lee, of Breoklyn, N. Y. LOMEN DUE HERE TONIGHT { Bound for Nome, Carl Lemen will MORE 'I'HAN 100 larrive in Juneau board the Denali GREATEST A Jumneau Soap Box Derby Entrants! Are You Getting Prepared? The Juneau Race IsOnlyaFew Weeks Away. BUILD YOUR CARS ACCORDING 10 RULES! Be Sure Your Chances Are Equal JUNE -EMPIRE SOAP BOX DERBY ROTARY MATEUR RACING EVEAT IN THE WORLD. = | SOAPBOX DERBY AN RACES SCHEDULED 'Alaska Joins 34 States, | Canada and District of Columbia RIC | With 34 states, the District of Co- | lumbia, Canada and Alacka already represented, the 1041 All-American | i Soap Box Derby will blanket the| ! country this summer, more than 100 | | hometown races being scheduled with as many local champions due Hurlers Duel As Moosemen Wallop Elks Antlered Tfil;e Falls in Sixth as Pifchers Hold Almost Same Record Moose Elks The Juneau Moose miraculously trimmed the Elks by a lone run last night after a pitching duel that saw the score tied for two frames and broken by Grummett’s fast score in the last of the sixth. In a freak battle in which pitch- ers Lewis of the Elks and Snow of |the Moose each gave four walks and fanned seven men,. the fans saw a fray that wobbled along like a bicycle with a bent front wheel, finally ending as the Moose pulled ahead at the last minute and held their narrow margin lead to the end. Six Hits Total | The two pitchers held down the | batters with a total of six hifs, | while the outfielders pulled tricks |on the grounds that have only been seen in the movies. The Elks got |only two hits off Joe Snow and; | the Moose doubled the hits as they| |did the score by taking four from AID SEATTLE IN WINNING Seals Take Game from Sol- ons, Scoring 7 Runs on 1 Hits, Tth Innning (By Associated Press) Seattle evened the series with Hollyweod last night by getting a Holiywood made two costly errors in bad infield bounces. The Stars fill- ed the bases in the ninth inning but failed to make a score. €an Francisco humbled the lead- ing Sacramento Solons last night for the second straight game behind Tom Seats’ tight pitching. The Seals scored six runs on seven hits in the seventh inning. Portland’s Ad Liska hurled a sev- enhitter, beating Oakland, while his mates surprisingly playéd errorless ball Four pitchers battled in the San Diego-Los Angeles affray, each side getting eight hits last night. GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 3; Hollywood. 1 San Diego 6; Los Angeles 4. Portland 7; Oakland 2. San Francisco 9; Sacramento 2. Natnwual League Boston 2; New York 9. Cincinnati 9; St. Louis 10. American feague Philadelphia 4; Boston 6. St. Louis 0; Chicago 4. } } | break in the eighth inning when} | Clark Griffith. Max Lewis. Right from the start of the fray, which was rained out ten days ago, Kumasaka pulled an error out of Guy's bag to get to first. Then Taguchi and Lewis filled the sacks.| both on slow fielder's choices to second which did no good and ai- lowed the men to make first. Catcher Stan Grummett passed a ball and while fumbling for it Kumasaka came whistling in from third to make the first score of the evening, and bringing the Elks in the lead. In the next one and one-half innings seven men were struck out New York-Washington, called in |fifth on account of rain. | "Cleveland 9; Detroit 0. Gastineau Channel League Moose 2; Elks 1. H STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 37 14 23 25 2 27 27 it 29 - 31 Pet. 125 549 519 491 460 438 420 302 Sacramento Seattle ... 8an Diego .. San Prancisco ... Hollywood . Portland Qakland e Los Angeles to compete in the national finals at | Akron, Ohio, August 17. Closing date for acceptance of | Derby contracts has been announced | as June 1, by J. P. Gormley, nation- | rector of the race for Chevrolet | h co-sponsors the Derby in co-| operation with Chevrolet dealers and | leading newspapers from coast to| }coast. | Ohio, site of the natiopal,finals, wins honors for Derby participation, | Gormley said, with 12 races schedul- ed in as many cities throughout the | |state. Close behind are New York with 11 races and-Indlana with 10. | Final tabulation will not be possi- [ble until the end of the month, he ladded, by which time many addi- tional cities are expected to register as Derby sites. i Indicative of the wide spread of the race is the following enumera- tion of states and Derbies: Pennsyl- vania, 9; Michigan, 8; Illinois, 6; Texas and Iowa, 4 each; Georgia, 3; and two races each in South Carolina, Massachusetts, North Car-| olina, Virginia, Galjfornia,iNebraska and New Jersey. States currently scheduled for one race each are Wisconsin, Idaho, Mis- | souri, West Virginia, Colorado; Ar- tansas, Kentucky, New Hampshlre,l‘ o Florida, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah | New Mexico, Washington, Arizona, Kansas, Montana and Nevada. ! Ten preliminary Derbies will be| Leld in the area around Atlanta,! Georgia, with the victor represent-| ing that city at the finals. Plain-| v'’e, Massachusetts will stage al oreliminary to the Boston race. Fourl' tewns will send champions to Cape ! Jirardeau, Missauri. Des Moines will Mlay host to winners from 14 sur- ounding towns. Gary, Indiana, North Platte, Nebraska, and Port- ‘and, Qregon, will hold one pre- dminary race each, and Oil City, Pennsylvania, two. ! With these 3¢ sub-races and the 100 main Derbies already scheduled, ‘otal number of Derbies in the coun- try already tops last year, Gormley :aid, At Akron, however, approxi- mately the same number of cities ¥ill be represented in the finals. — e oo —— NO FIGURE OF SPEECH CUSHING, Okla—“We've got a ;weet -mess. to' clean up out here,” 1 couple of highway patrolmen re- ported after they had been sent out 'to’ investigate a highway acei- dent. A. truck loaded with honey _had overturned. bt in the |in any league was the play in %the National League Won Lost 30 9 27 12 20 14 16 20 17 22 13 20 as the two hurlers bore down on the bat. In the third the Moose- men tied the score one-all as Fritz Schmitz grounded out and Guy, after taking base on a single and making two bases on Vorhies' er- ror, came in on the play. Freak Play First time this season and freak Pct. 169 692 588 A4 421 304 353 | 278 " 8t Louis | Brooklyn | New York Chicago Cincinnati 12 22 | pittsburgh | Bosten hiladelphia 10 2 American League Won Lost 15 16 18 20 18 21 fourth when Vorhies put his own man out while running from fiist| to second. Vorhies had been walked | Cleveland and Kumasaka came to bat. A slow| Chicago one came at the batter and he NeW York lopped it slowly out near secondib"""" where it collided with the running, Boston Vorhies. Philadelphia Last score of the battie was made | St Louis ...... 2% ‘ashington 26 Pct. 659 | 519 | 550 512 | 500 475 351 350 ' bought Al By DILLON GRAHAM t Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW Dykes, YORK, May the squatty squire behind the st has shown that don't need a hunk of dough build a baseball club if you've got a discerning eye for ivory At the end of the first five weeks of the American League season, Dykes had skippered his Chicago White Sox, a gang wiln- out a single high-priced perform- er, Into second place. Besides being a cle the best of the and & loquacious down, Dykes is canniest trader mond marts. He's foxier than the And he foxed Griff several times. Jimmy's eyes are weary from scanning the major league waiver lists for broken-down athletes who might be rejuvenated. He's acquired fallen arches from tramping from one 'baseball bargain counter to an- other in search for grey-beards or sore-arms who just possibly might have another good year in them But bes built a contending club out of these outcasts, left-overs aad diseards. Can’t Understand It “Hell,” he observes, “on paper we don't belong in the same league with Cleveland, but we ain't a fur piece behind 'em now. “We're just playing winning ball. I can't explain why, if I look at the averages. Because we ain't hitting—we're last - in the league,| we're no flelding geniuses, and we ain’t knocking in many runs. But to ' manager, jockeys. dresser- the dia- umpire Just about around the ol has Fox, out- we are .getting good pitehing. “Don’t keep up,” know how long itll he commented, taking ia long, black cigar from his kiss- |er and deli¢ately knocking off the | ashes. “The White Sox ain't spent any| real cabbage for a ball ylnycr‘ since they bought. me,” he sald.| Then he laughted. He likes to e: plain that he and Mule Haas were tossed In as ballast when the Sox' Simmons from the Athletics back in 1932 for $150,- 000. ; “They didn’t do so bad, at that,”, he sald. “They got themselves a manager—me—and & coach—Mule —and they sold Simmons for $75,- | The entire. White Sox squad| codt less ‘than the Chicago Cubs patd for “their latest coach, J. Hers man Dean, Old Diz cost the Cubs $185,000 and. several players when he was purchased several years ago as a pitcher. Appling Expensive | Luke Appling, shortstop and top hitter;, was bought for approxi- when Stan Grummett took first| V! on Iverson’s error in the sixth,then| . COastineau C"';';‘" :::‘" dashed home from third after Guy on had flied out. s 3 4 Pet. 1666 | 500 333 Douglas Game Today and Tonight Today, as part of the Memorial Day holiday program, a picked team from the Juneau High School| Grummett, Snow to J. Schmitz; hit will meet a team from the gunboat|by Pitched ball: Martin by Lew!s, | Charleston at 2 o'clock on the Firc-| Hagerup by Snow; bases on balls: men’s Ball Park. |off Snow 4, off Lewis 4; struck Tonight the Elks and the Moose out: by Snow 17, by Lewis 7; passed will play a regularly scheduled ball: Grummett; will pitch: Lewis; game beginning at 6:30 o'clock on wnpires: Batello at the plate, Shep- | the Firemen's Ball Park. ard on the bases; scorer: Gaffney; The box score: time of game: two hours. Moose R — - BROTHER BATTERY COLORADO SPRINGS, May Zo —Fountain Valley School. has a brother battery—Pitcher Phil Kemp, |and Catcher Bruce. Kemp. Phil E! pitched a no-hitter against the Col- 0|orado College frosh ' this spring. 0, They are brothers of Frank Kemp; 0!Jr., Yale tackle last fall. 0 — - 0| Re-heat: leftover biscuits, muf- 2|fins or cornbread in the. upper 0| part._.of a double boiler and serve 1 atop creamed meat, fish or vege- 1|tables. This gives a meat ple ver- —Eslop in short time. You can also 4, dip, the leftover tread ‘quickly in Summary [hm water and then cover creamed Stolen bases: Taguchi, Ellenverg, foods placed in a casserole. Bake % vl comccococorn Guy, 3b-lf . Schmitz, F., 2b ... Martin, cf Snow, p Kern, 55 .. Rodenberg, rf Grummett, ¢ Sturrock, 1f-3b Schmitz, J., 1b E 2 1 1 2 S B B Rlovwwwwrnoes sl cococormmenm ol vocococoo Kumasaka, 1b ‘Taguchi, 3b Lewis, p .. Ellenberg, ¢ McDantel, ef . Hagerup, 2b . Nielsen, 1f .. Iverson, ss Vorhies, 1f .. Ricinnubaval’ ~locococococorow vlorcorococoon Here's Model For Debf Disclaiming \ AUSTIN, May 2-—For husbands| who want to disclaim any debts; contracted by their estranged wives, University of Texas librarians think| they have as good a model as can be found. Printed in a newspaper of 1830, it says: “ . . . she has, without cause,| left my habitation and is floating on the ocean of tyrannical extrava- gance, prone to prodigality, taking a wild goose chase and kindling her pipe with the coal of curiosity.| “To. abscond and abolish such| insidious, clandestine, noxious, per-| nicious, diabplical and notorious ae-{ portment, I therefore caution alll persons from harboring or trusting | her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting from this date, unless compelled by law.” — - — Here is a good treatment for baked ham. About 40 minutes be- fore the end of the baking period, rub the fat side of the ham with| one cup dark brown sugar, mixed with a teaspoon of cinnamon, ' tedspoon cloves and 1 teas) grated orange rind. Press well| Iverson; two-base hit: Snow; dou- 15 minutes — or until heated ble plays: Snow to F. Schmitz ‘o through. e " BRINGING UP FATHER ( L TO GO RIGHT TO THE MANE YR8 TR OUR FRIEND - & -TO CANCEL THE | WILL NOT LIVE 1 'PHONE AN MR DINTY MOOR LEASE | SIGNED ~ IN A BUILDING OF WHICH HE THE OWNER~- LISTEN=DO ME A FAVOR -CALL UP DINTY MOORE-AND TELL HIM MY WIFE WANTS THAT LEASE ON THAT APARTMENT CANCELED — AND TELL HIM s TO DOIT AS A FAVOR TO ME- | TOLD Hil ALL WLIZ. AND * By GEONGE MMANTS E SAID HA. WHISTLING AND HUNG uUP - into the fat and then baste sgveral times with a cup of orange juice. M-SIR~ 30—Jimmy | you i PR JIMMY DYK Just about b ball’s canniest trader. mately $25,000 in cash and play- Lodigiani, third baseman, came ers. But Dykes hurries to explain from the O's for hurler Jack that that extravagant flourishing of greenbacks occurred in 1930, before he came to the Windy City. No one else cost near that much. Dykes' latest acauisitions, Piten- er Lee Ross from the A's and Out- fielder Myril Hoag from the Browns, came the $7,500 waiver price. Taft Wright, the club's ting outficlder last year and Pete Appleton, relief pitcher, came from Washington in a swap for Gee Walker. Walker hadn’t cost a greal either, for and Mike Tresh, a youngster veloped into a good ed the Sox in a with the Tigers. Thornton Lee, the No hurler, was obtained in g barter for dohn * Salveson, a hurler who didn’t lasc long in the major ond - Base man Bill Knickerbocker caimn from the Yan) in a swap for a substitute catcher, Ken Silve trl. . Julins Soller A btained from the B for Rip Radelif who hadn’t mucl Haot Fancy Dealing Inficlder Jimmy Webb, ers Jack Hallett, ¢ Turner and George cost less than $7,000 each Pitchers Bill Dietrich and gar Smith came on walvers Kuhel, first baseman, was tained from Washington for Bonura, who had cost around $15,000 and is no longer in the majors. Outfielder Lawrence Ro- senthal cost $16,000 and Mike Kree- 1,500 piteh- Ed- Joe ob- B Zese top hit- (337, Pitcher y Bob Ken- nd Fiteher Ted Lyens were caught young and cost the Sox cally nothing. Lyons came alght from the Baylor University 16k, in, 1923 he ign 2 Sox Lyons. paid jinson, erves in second in the pam, cost for Ted 55 than the Tigers rookle Pitcher Fred Hutc “And, as Dykes ob «ing, “the Box are and Huteh stil! in W e cost The estranged Morton Downeys presented this pie they lunched together in New York. The singer’s divorce suit against the former Barbara Bennett, actress, was pending in Connecticut. “We have reached an amicable settlement of our property and the custody' of the five children,” Downey explained. . Byrd Greets Antarctic Heroes Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (center) greets Ashley C. Snow (left) and Earl B. Perce, naval pilots and heroes of the Byrd Antaretic Ex- pedition, as they arrive in Boston on the barkentine Bear. Byrd said he would recommend them for citations for their rescue by plang of : rm-stranded members of the expedition, 3