The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1941, Page 5

BASEBALL TRADES ARE FUNNY--EXCEPT TO MEN WHOPUT DEALS ACROSS AP FEATURE SERVICE NEW YORK, June 18—It's funny sometimes, how oaseball work out. Let’s look over some deals of re- cent years. First, consider that maneuv of three years ago in- velving the great Dizzy Dean The Chicago Cubs chunked $185.- 000, a pair of pitchers, Curt Davis and Clyde Shoun, and an outfield- er, Tuck Stainback, to the St Louis Cardinals for Old Diz. Dean’s arm apparently wasn’t as good as it had been, he had won 11 fewer games *for the Cards in 1937 than he had the bundle of dough and four playe; Shoun has aided peared in 54 games, more thar the Cards and trades Jast year, chiefly as a reliefer, ap-| | The Cincinnati Reds outfoxed the Yankees last year when they |swapped Lee Grissom for Joe |Beggs. As & relief pitcher who |won 12 games Beggs was a big laid to the Reds. Grissom was cut | adrift. And then there was the swap | Bill Terry made a few years | ago when he sent Fred Fitz- | simmons to Brooklyn for Tom | Baker. Baker couldn't win for | the Giants but last year Fitz- led in with 16 and 2, League pitchers simmons, National percentage. | The Cubs sent Lon Warneke "to the Cards for Jim Collins and any other pitcher in the league.| ;. v paymelee. Warneke still is Stainback has made several shift and now is with Detroit. The biggest deal of two years azo saw the St. Louis Browns trade Buck Newsom, Beau Bell. Ralph Kress and Jim Walkup to Detroit for George Gill, Ver- non Kennedy, Bob Harris, Rozie Tawson, Chet Laabs and Mark Christman. Half of these are out of the majors now. Newsome ranks as one of the best pitchers and hurled the s|a winning pitcher—16 and 10 last! | year—while Parmelee is out of the| | majors and Collins, after twoyears| on the coast, is back as a utility| | player with Pittsburgh. | | One of the crack shortstops in | the National League is Boston's | |Eddie Miller. Yet Cincinnati — which could use a great short| | tielder — had him and let him| | loose. The Reds, after using Miller |in 36 games in 1937, traded him| [to Newark with Les Scarcella and| THE DAILY 'ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941. i | i L] ' BACKAGAIN, ~ WIN STREAK |Oakland D?éais Coast | league’s Leading Sac- | ramenfo Solons (By Associated Press) Hal Turpin won his eighth victory ' | last night against three defeats, al- | | lowing the Angels only six hits and ‘pumnz Seattle in the going streak | again, i Gyselman had a perfect night at | the bat last night with three doubles land a single and helped Oakllndi |to beat the Pacific Coast League’s | leading Sacramento team. Up to | the fifth inning, Sacramento held a | .\ previous year but the Cubs still were willing to take the gamble. Diz hurdly. was a success with the Cubs, although he had some good games. In his three seasons with Chicago he won 16 and lost| ton 8. He went back to the minors for er 1 to 0 lead. | Portland last night won over San | Francisco with a four-run outburst in the ninth inning. The Beavers | got 13 hits during th egame. | Hollywood lost the ninth straight | 'game last night. The Stars got only | | three balls out of the infield in the | first eight innings. Wally Hebert | won his eighth game of the season. |cash for the late Willard Hersh-| | berger, who served as a substi-| Kennedy to Washington. The | ute catcher. ! Browns still have Lawson. Howevey, it's easy to second-! After the 1930 season Washing- | guess and maybe the owners were traded Taft Wright and pitch-|right when they made those deals. | Pele Appleton to Chicago for| —————————— 1 a epell last year and a short whie Gee Walker. Wright was a heavy| | quit as an active player, He's| hitter, .337. with the White SOKFYANK SPREE | on the Cubs' payroll as a and Appleton was of some ald as ‘ | “ ] ‘ . _ o § | GAMES TUESDAY e .(-u:u'h a relief hurler. Walker had a fair PUT ON ICE , st o STEERS RATES CHEERS_Some 25,000 fans cheered tow-headed Les Steers (above) of But about the others? Well, year but the Senators let him go| Los Angeles 2; Seattle 4. ; Oregon when he broke the world’s high jump record by belly-rolling over the bar at 6 feet 107 inches at Los Angeles coliseum recently. His former mark was 6 feet 10-25/32 inches made at Seattle e . Curt Davis won 12 for the Cards a few months ago in a swap that! Sacramento 1; Oakland 7. the previous month, How simple it looks, done by an expert. i [ (Cleveland Videns League, his first year and in 1939 won 22. brought Roger Cramer to Wash- Then he was sold to Brooklyn, ington and Walker to Cleveland San Francisco 9; Portland 10. San Diego 7; Hollywood 0. National League H | Lead by Margin of | H.' 571 ' MEH (0“ . . one Wild Pitr FIIIS . or N, g { Boston 3; Cincinnati 5. (By Assoclated Press) Baflmg Averages at Half| ~ew vork, sune 18—soe Louis New York 6; Pittsburgh 3, Chicago stopped the Yankee win- Show 18 Men Hifting | Vaase over Bitly Gonr tonignt in Brooklyn 7; Chicago 6. Philadelphia 3; St. Louis 11. ning streak at eight games yester- 'day with an 11-hit attack and a | | vantage over Billy Conn tonight in 18th defense of the heavyweight .250 or Better S Eighteen batters in the Gastineau American League ‘\wnd struggle with each team using { rown Channel League chalked up hitting Chicago 8; New York 7. three pitchiers. Only extra baser | Louis weighed in this afternoon| averages of 250 or better during| Tigers to a pennant in 1940. Bell was sent to Cleveland and till along with Joe Medwick, or a via the Red Sox. RICAN |at 199% pounds for the match | which starts at 6 o'clock tonight | (Pacific Standard Time) at the Polo Grounds. | Conn, former light heavyweight Distrihwtiof by 174 pounds at his weighing in. Gastineau Channel League Seattle, Wash. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League ‘Won Lost 50 20 38 34 35 34 35 37 33 39 30 38 30 39 30 40 National League Won Lost 40 18 37 19 champion, balanced the scales at ational Groce P les a Cleevl 3. Philadelphia 2. Nati 1 G ry Co., | homer for the Yankees in the eighth. | | Cleveland widened the league lead | | by the margin-of a wild pitch yes- tterday as Gerald Walker scored the |deciding run in the eighth. | Boston downed Detroit yesterday 'with its wildest fifteen-hit barrage of the season. Detroit won the sec- out. | that his chauffeur got lost in the gegttle 486 | 458 a4 | sons packed the weigh-in room|Pportlana 435 | Detriot, 6, 8; Boston 14, 5. Beiting odds on Louis are 5 to T J 16" g he Wil /i 161 A, fireh | - DSuBa- 2006 posipaned, faln. . | to eighth round and score a' knock- | JI“ rn e' 's ] Conn had already weighed in! Pot. | | when Louis arrived, some 25 mia-' ’ *1” Sacramento 14 . utes late. T g | made was Charley Ketter's two-run 1 Bia conaeine ¢ dost . i eI T 242)91 S'opped In traffic coming from the training gan Francisco .48 camp at Greenwood Lake, | Los - Angeles A crowd estimated at 2,000 per-!Hollywood v . of the New York State Athletic'Oakland 420 | Commission and milled around the| | Pet, | i > | Abe Simon Makes Start for i el 661 State Building. | Dr. William Walker, Commission'St. Louis ......... | hitting 250 or better follow: | AB H Pct.| 28 16 Snow (M. |ond game of ‘the doubleheader with { four runs in‘the ninth as Rudy York 'homered in'the opened with the | | the first half of the League sched- ule, with Slugger Joe Snow stand- ing at the top of the list holding Willey (D.) Jerjsen 34 (D) 37 571 physician, said. both fighters are in 441 excellent condition and he ' also 432 stated that Conn showed the least 15 16 Brooklyn Cincinnati New York 30 28 27 27 @ Refurn Engagement {1 12 5 31 12 37 14 16 6 36 12 9 19 . 16 24 35 33 .. 35 35 35 24 2 482 21 29 2 416 signs of nerves, blood pressunre and Chicago -380 | pulse than any fighter he has ever Pittsburgh -378| examined. Boston 18 33 375 e, iphnadelphxu v 17 38 SSHOTGUNCLUB |, v ;bases loaded. { St. Louls scored four runs before ! |the first out in the first inning as | Pitcher Walter Beck was the Phil- {adelphia‘victim. The Cardinals to- T e . ‘!alled 13 hits. BREATEST AMATEUR RACING EVENT IN THE WORLD. ‘coorens om i wascers nvee.run +homer in the tenth. Chicago rallied ‘wnh two in its half. | Rookie Southpaw Art Johnson Juneau Soap Box | .o o 'man out as Cincinnati scored four Derby Entrants! | s o v ev vox X ’ (to get a five-run lead in the first three innings. Are You | | | Getting Prepared? | | Mattin (M) Rustad, (D.) Erskine (D.) Addleman (E.) Guy , (M.) down 571 Riding behind Snow's Douglas catcher George Willey, with 441, Douglas pitcher Mark Jensen follows close behind Willey with 432. Moore (M.) The Moosemen, sailing second Shaw (M. only to the high-flying Douglas ;SIEKIE (M.) nine, put themselves at the top of Manning (D.) the - batting averages by placing| Roller (D) nine. men on the .250 or better| Taguchi (E.) chart. Douglas holds second place' F. Schmitz (M.) with six men. The Elks bring up Ellenberg (E.) the League and the batting avec- Lewis (E,) ages by placing only four men. | Rodenberg (M.) PFirst half averages for players Kern < e with Champ. Joe 353/ NEW YORK, June 18. — Abe | Simon, tuning up for a return match | with Joe Louis, last night stopped pet |James D. Turner, of Sweetwater, 617 | Texas, in the sixth round of a sched- ‘5gg | uled 10 round bout. | Simon weighed 259 pounds and :536 | Turner 214% pounds. 525 | 464 | NOTICE 346| AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing .339 |air route from Seattle to Nome, on .. sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. Pet ———— lead is 'runs in the first wildness of the | WHERE FRENCHMEN ARE BA T ™l 3 333 ! Won Lost Cleveland 290 n 23 Chicago 257 | shoot tonight beginning at 7 o'~ Phlhdelphlia 30 250 | every Wednesday evening, club of- Gastineau Channel League 2 o 000 paid circulation, 315 23 TO HAVE SHOOT socn 280 i 26 257, clock. During the remainder of the'St. Louis . 18 34 250 . ficers announce. Won Lost 1.000 | Subscribe 30 the Daly Alasmx” o 2 ) e " A i 312 23 Bostol 260| The Suneau Shotgun Club will Detroit 28 .257| present season, shoots will be held | Washington . 19 37 1 0 .000 | Empire—the paper with the largesi e iccnr e ~ The Juneau Race Is Only aFew Weeks Away. BUILD YOUR CARS ACCORDING TO RULES! 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Vichy reported defenders had stemmed invasion, By GEORGE McMANUS DID YOU HEAR || DID SHE ABOUT MRS. || HAVE HER CAT TSENDOGS || OPERATION HUSBAND? YET? SHUT UP-CAN'T YOU SEE THAT WE GIRLS ARE PLAVING CARDS? GET OUT- | THINK YOUR I'M PRETTY SLRE | KIN DO THE CARD Ha ST MYSTERY WITH THESE TWO TRICK DECKS EVERETT MORGAN GAVE ME- =\ Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, commander of the Ninth Army Corps, pictured astride his horse, prefers (o make his inspection tours of encampments on horseback, leaving the staff cars and “jeeps” for those who don’t think much of the “old school.” The energetic gen- thuummwuumfludn*mvhunm: can't . . . and get there quickly, He calls his mare Golden Lady whem - . she behaves and Jughead when she misbehaves. ; Picture taken st Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, Calif, 3