The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1941, Page 5

BROWNSIN TTH PLACE BY VICTORY Washingiorr[);feaied by7 to 4-Sewell fo Man- age St. Louis Club (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The St Browns gained eventh ce in the American League yesterday by one percent- age point while beating the Wash- ington Senators. | The high spot of the game Washington was the offense \ Bloodworth’s homer. i imultaneously with the winning, | President Don Barnes of the St. Louis Browns announced that Luke | Cewell, Cleveland coach, is repla ing Fred Haney as the Bro Manager. Sewell will take charge tomorrow Louis for and - CRIPPLES GET JOBS NEW YORK = All 53 of ihis vear’s graduates of the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled left the school with jobs. Arc welding, leather craft, printing and com- mercial art are typical trades they learned. | BREATEST AMATEUR RALING EVENT M THE WORLD Juneau Soap Box Derby Entrants! Are You Getting Prepared? The Juneau Rac IsOnlyaFew Weeks Away. BUILD YOUR CARS ACCORDING TO RULES! Be Sure Your Chances Are ‘Equal in the JUNE ROTARY-EMPIRE SOAP BOX DERBY (OBB DROPSK THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, MATCH - e ‘This is one of three seventh-round knockdowns which Buddy Knox in their scheduled 15-round fight at Pittsburgh. Coni was awarded victory on 3 technical knockout when it was announced Knox could not come out for the eighth round. BEST DIAMOND ACES NOX TO WIN Conn DON'T ALWAYS WEAR BIGGEST PRICE TAGS By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, June 5—The Brook- lyn Dodgers may win the National | League pennant with a $100 ball | player in center fieid. | He's Harold (Pete) Reiser. | Scout Ted McGrew signed Pete for Larry MacPhail’'s Dodgers three years ago for a single century note. Reiser was uncovered in a baseball | school conducted by the St. Louis { Cardinals and played in 1937 for | Newport in the Northeast Arkansas League byt when Commissioner Kenesaw Landis declared Reiser {and ~other - Cardinal - hands free agents the Dodgers signed . him. He played some with the Dodz- ers last year. Manager Leo Duro- | cher started the 1941 ~campaign | with him in center field. | m late May he was hitting |around 300 after bging out witn| an injury he suffered when he | bumped into a fence chasing a fly. | The Lodgers wouldn't take $100,000 for him now. Reiser is the latest of many “chicken-feed” priced players | who havc turned out tethe stars | and have helped balance the budget for cowners who were | stuck with' “lemons” that cost | fabulous sums — such as De- | troit’s $75,000 Freddie Hutch- [ inson who hasn’t yet been able to make the :major leaguc grade. : hi There's Frank McCormick, vote first baseman, the Reds paid only |to the Cincinnati farm at Beck- 'ley, W. Va. er who was leading the American better than 400 after the what owner Joe Engel of Wash- ington’s Chattanooga farm professional ball. Barney McCosky, hard-hit- ting center fielder, didn’t cost the Tigers a dime. He was signed off the Detroit sandlots. Barney was promised a bonus if he made the big leagues and later got $5,000. Bob Feller, discovered by Cleveland scout, the Indians nothing, but when Commissioner Landis investigated | | | | a $7,500. Charley Gehringer, greatest players { | |the National League's most valuable! | player in 1940. To get this husky train fare from New York's Bronx Cecil Travis, Washington infield-| originally cost! his case the Tribe paid Milwaukee' one of the in American League history and now in his 16th Baseman Joe Kuhel in a swap for season, cost the Tigers nothing. Hank ‘Bonura, now in the minors; Babe Young, from the local sand- Mel Ott, another crack player clos-'got Mike Tresh, a fine ing out a long career with the Gi-| ants, was practically a gift from a fan-admirer to John McGraw. Atley Donald walked into the New York training camp at St.| Petersburg, Fla, a few years ago and said he'd like a trial. Just as simple as that for the Yanks to |acquire a flinger who won 12 straight games in his freshman year, 1939. Carvel Rowell, the Braves' sec- ond baseman, cost Boston only a $1,000 bonus for signing in 1938. And Chet Ross, an outfielder. who * worked his way up through the Boston farm teams, is another. who cost little more than a song: Tiger pitchers Tommy Bridges and Lynn (Schoolboy) Rowe' cost Detroit I than $500 each. ‘The Piratcs have a trio of sophomore stars whose com- | bincd cost wouldn’t pay a month’s salary for a mediocre major leaguer. Beb Elliott and . Frankie Gustine were picked up fcr virtually nothing from the sandlots and Maurice Van | Rcbays e from a bush | league in Canada for peanuts. The Red Sox have spent :bet- |ter than half a million dollars on |thelr farm system and the first "full-grown product to reach the | parent team is third baseman Jim ‘Tnbon He jumped from the Uni- versity of Alabama (for nothing) and signed with Little Rock after attending a ' baseball school spon- d sored by Boston in that city. Lou Finney represents another fine piece of Yawkey's bargain- ' grabbing., Lou cost after some tutoring from Hughey a Red Sox regular. Three “cheap” jare Gene Thompson, who cost League with a batting average of|train fare from Decatur, I, fo first' 2 Cincinnati farm; month of play, cost $205. That's obtained by the Reds for the Jim Ripple, | waiver price from Brooklyn, and club| Harry Craft, who entered the Reds’ paid him when Travis signed for farm system direct from Mississip-| (pl State College: Bill Dietrich, conqueror of Bob Feller on opening day and apparently headed for the fin- est year in his pitching career, was obtained by the Chicago White Sox from Washington for the $1,500 waiver price. Shortly after he joined the Sox he pitched a no-hit game. The Sox gave up only Jack Salve- son, a pitcher who could never make a go of it in the majors, for. Thornton Lee, now ranked as Chicago's No. 2 hurler. Jimmy Dykes " acquired First young "BRINGING UP FATHER ISNIT IT HORRID ~ BOY-THAT'S A SWELL DOC TOR~NOW | REST FER TWO CAN 4 DAYS WITHOUT GETTING ORDERS TO DO THIS AN' THAT- $10,000 and| | Duffy, became a heavy hitter and} Cinecinnati stars| 1941 SACRAMENTO | IS SHUT OUT BY SEATTLE Angels Come Out of Cellar | -Beavers Win Second I Straight Confest | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | | i | | | Seattle gave Sacramento the first | shutout defeat of the season last |night as Turpin scattered 10 hits | through eight innings. Kleinke gave only four hits but Seattle made them count. Turpin aided in win- ning his own game with a clean Los Angeles came out of the cellar last night and shoved Oak- Lland in as the Acorns weakened alter getting a first inning run, Hollywood has splurge Hollywood outhit . Ban Francisco {last night 9 to' 7 in an early in- | ning splurge and clung to the lead despite an eighth inning rally oy | the Seals. < Portland Takes Game | Portland staved off a ninth in- | ning rally last night made by San {Diego and the Beavers won the second straight victory over the ' I'Padres. Liska's game was saved for {him by Gonzales' reliefing and Pel- lagrini homering with one mate on base. | GAMES WEDNESDAY { Pacific Coast League Seattle 2; Sacramento 0. | Portland 6; San Diego 4. | Hollywood 5; San Francisco 3. | Los Angeles 6; Oakland 1. National League Louis 2; Boston 4. American League Washington 4; St. Louis 7. | Chicago 6; Philadelphia 1. | st i ANDINGS G THE CLUBS | Pacific Coast League | f Won. Lost Pet | Sacramento 39 18 684 Seattle 30 536 San Diego .20 492 {San Francisco 29 482 Hollywood b | f 491 Portland .25 455 | Los Angeles 25 431 ' Oakland 24 421 National League Won Lost 32 13 32 14 22 19 19 23 20 25 15 21 Pittsburgh 14 21 Philadelphia 14 29 American League Won Lost 30 19 27 18 2% 21 .22 19 23 22 2 2 Pet. | {Brooklyn .'111‘ 8t. Louis i iNew York {‘Chicago | Cincinnati | Boston 696 537 452 444 417 400 326 | Pet. 'Cleveland 812 Chicago | New York | Boston i Philadelphia | Detroit hA iy St. Louis .16, 29 ‘Washington .16 3 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 5 3 Moose 4 600 Elks [] 250 —_— catcher, as “extra baggage” in 3 six _player deal with Detroit; bar-| tered substitute catcher Ken Sil- jvestri for Bill = Knickerbocker, “wtlo is playing second base, and got Pitcher Edgar Smith from the |A’s for $7,500. The St. Louis Browns got George McQuinn, slugging first baseman, i Walter Judnich, hard-hitting outfielder, for the $%,500 draft iptice. Lucadello, Swift, Berardino| and others were grown on the Browns’ farms and cost little. The Indians’ keystone pair —Lou Bowdreau and Ray Mack —came to Cleveland for prac- tieally nothing, while Al Mil- nar, No. 2 pitcher, was found on Cleveland sandlots. The , Cardinals paid very little| for most of their players since a majority of the squad came up through the St. Louls farms. The Athletics caught outfielder Sam Champman fresh from the University of California campus and signed him for $8,500. Hal Schumacher came to the New York Giants straight from St. Lawrence College and the Giants got their first baseman, 600 543 58| 511 511 341 340 Pet. Douglas 6256 lots. Marius Russo, New York By GEORGE McMANUS MRS, JISGS AS %mou, MUSTN'T TALK -SO SHE HAS WRITTEN DOWN THE | second place yesterday in the on)yi SUNDAY, JUNE 15TH, IS FATHER'S DAY . and of course you" —“The greatest mar featuring a Robe Sal 11 want to remember Dad 1 in the world.” We're e as a special event, for you to give Dad an out-of-the-ordinary gift— at a more than out-of-the-ordinary price. single in the eighth inning. | Hollywood Has Splurge | CARDINALS | DROPDOWN: BRAVES WIN (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Boston dropped St. Louis tol National | rained the being played in the others game League, out. * Rookie Art Johnson held . the} Cardinals to nine scattered hits| while the Braves belted Gumbert| for 11 hits, DOUGLAS T0 | MEET MOOSE After a two-day rest from a con- centrated spurt in the season due‘ to unusually good weather, the schedule of- the Gastineau Chan-| nel Baseball League will continue tomorrow night as the Douglas fight it out with the league-leading !ed last night by Chicago walloping Reg.8.95 Rdbes 5.95 ® Aqua-Terry ® Thistle Down ® Wine ® Blue ® Green ® Camel ® Teal ® Stripes Two striking robes featured. Our kit- ten-soft THISTLE DOWN in a rich as- sortment of warm colors. The new striped AQUA-TERRY — a perfect in- formal striped robe. Dad will like either. SEE THEM TOMORROW! B. M. BEHRENDS CO0. MEN’S SHOP MACKMEN LOSEOUT, BIGNIGHT Connie, in Pre-game Cere- mony, Presented with Watch and Plague (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) T Connfe Mack night was celebrat- Philadelphia behind Thornton Lee’s five-hitter. Mack received a gold wateh and a plaque in the pregame ceremony. Bob Johnson of Philadelphia got his - eleventh homer during the game. f —— Whefé an lsland Nes in a river, D¢ across a. state boundary, entire; possession of it usually is given/ to the state in which the larger portion falls. TEST RUNS FOR SOAP BOX DERBY AUTOS PLANNE Entrants Should Notify D Ralston as Soon as | Cars Ready | Soap Box Derby entrants are urg, ed as soon as, they finish their. for the big race on June 26 to n Chief of Police Dan Ralston, so arrangemments can be made for runs on12th’ Street. % As 5000 .88 @' sufficient number'of cars are. ready, Ralston will: c! the street to traffic in order to entrants to.try, out - their ahead of the race. Several even: a week will be devoted to this Sixty-four boys are entered in Juneau Rotary-Empire ' Soap e Subscribe 0 the Daly Empire—the paper with the paid circulation. Moose in a game that might turn| ... the table in the standings. The game will start at 6:30 o'- clock on the Firemen's Ball Park, Yankee southpaw star, was found, in the Metropolitan district, Red Rolfe came direct mouth College and Charles Kel- ler was given a small bonus. for signing after he had starred at the University of Maryland. | The entire Washington _infield | cost only $455. Jim Vernon cost| $250 four years ago when the Senators bought him front Easton,| Md. Cecil Travis cost $205 while Buddy Lewis and Jim Blood- worth cost nothing. Subscribe for The Empire, \— from Dart-| ;