The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1941, Page 5

For 12 rounds Billy Conn, the Pittsgurgh challenger, gave heavyweigh June 18. But Louis caught Billy in the 13th and scored a knockout. This seauence of pictures shows Conn hitting Louis with a left hook. It was a punch like this that Joe crossed Py DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, July 7—The brash- ness of the Irish cost Billy Conn| the heavyweight championship of the wo The Lur spirit the light Pitts- | r ha own in all his fights | with him against Louis. He, i to win decisively, he had to yw that he could hurt as well as THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, M " THE GUY JUST COULD NOT BE CAREFUL, S0--—- s S A with hizgh right to start Conn to the canvas. t champion Joe Louis a boxing lesson in their title battle in New York ONDAY, JULY 7, 1941. %lhe fastest surest finisher boxing "has ever known. And, with his two-handed attack, Conn left himself open. As Billy tossed a left hook, Louis saw the opening he had been waiting for. He drove a terrific right to the jaw that paralyzed Conn’s legs, befud- dled his brain and left him al easy victim. He must have taken two dozen hard blows to the head and body as. he staggercd and reeled. Then another right sent LOUIS ADMITS ‘NAT. LEAGUE LOSING GRIP; LEAD WIDENS MIGHT RETIRE FORDODGERS | | SOLONS IN COMEBACK P.C.LEAGUE Seatfle Climbs Back Info Second Spot After Drop- ping fo Third Place (By Associated Préss) Sacramento strutted old stuff Sunday and took the series with Portland by splitting a doublehead- er. Portland won the first game but Tony Freitas pitched shut out ball in the nightcap for the Solons. Sac- ramento had a decidedly off week last week. Seattle, which had dropped to third place as the result of losing a doubleheader on July fourth, moved back into second place by taking a pair Sunday from San Diego to di- vide the eight-game series 4 to 4. Dick Barrett allowed only five hits insthe first game and Ira Scribner only two hits in the second contest. The San Francisco Seals snapped out of their lethargy Sunday to whip Hollywood in a doubleheader. The Stars won the series 5 to 3. Los Angeles and Oakland took | turns at coming from behind in a doubleheader on Sunday, the Angels winning the opener and the Oaks the nightcap to divide the series, four games each. GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 1, 2; San Diego 0, 0. San Francisco 11, 4; Hollywood 5, 2. Portland 8, 0; Sacrmento 7, 3. Los Angeles 6, 3; Oakland 3, 4. | Erskine's Arm Breaks Under Moose Drive Douglas Hurler Allows 14 Hits fo Give Paps | Victory ‘ SCORE LAST NIGHT | \ 4 \ | Moose 8; Douglas 3 Score by Innings | 123456789 TI Moose 0000030148 ;Douglus 0001010103 Claude Erskine shattered into a1 million pieces last night as he gave | 14 hits to the slugging Moosemen, | allowing two homers during the | spectacle as elght happy lodgemen | | made the tour. After two blistering | frames that allowed seven runs and eight hits, the score ended 8 to 3, pushing the Moose more solidly in | the league-lead. | Starting only 52 minutes late, the | contest ran for three innings with- ;‘ jout a score and without any hltaj from Moose hurler Guy, who allowed {only three for the full nine cantos. Then came the mighty Rustad to| the plate with no one on and only | one away to tear out a homer over | the center field fence. Douglas had t drawn first blood with the game ! running like a ball game should, | not spectacularly but good, solid | ball. Erskine Quavers Erskine scattered out four hits over the first three frames and then held the Moose to no hits for the | next two. But his efforts were to CINDERELLA 06 B e ¥ Because he’s the only dog in Hollywood who can bay in “A” key, Caruso, brown and white beagle from an S. P, C. A. shelter, has a job in the movies. Conductor Max Steiner (at piano) needed a hound’s Says Had Conn Measured Yanks Trim Athletics Twice} National League dazzle his slow-footed, slow-witted| him to the floor, dazed. Billy got| D e T er 121 voice as part of the musical score for “Sergeant York” and among rival. had said he wouldn't punches with Louis, wouldn’t slug. But, in one hour, a bexer can’t change his ring batits of many years. He can't e his temperament just because some voice within tells him it is wise to be cautious. And that Icve of fighting, that thrill of trading blows, of | beating your rival to the punch | | i | | [ | | was burned too deep into Conn, novice, had made the champion miss badly and had successfully weathered the few hard blows that Louis did land. In fact, in several go¢ {, pecome flustered. He just! flurries he had outpunched Louis had made the champion backtrack. He had tired him, had hurt him badly in the 12th round. He was far ahead on points. In less than six minutes time the ¢ 1pionship and all its thousands of dollars was to be his, it seemed. It all contributed to make Conn too cocky, too sure of himself, too confident that he could continue to dodge or block Louis’ blows. Just landing single blows, swift| left jabs, quick hooks or fast right crosses wasn't enough. Conn had to| prove that he was a two-fisted fighting man. And, in that fatal 13th round, he went all out. But it wasn't his accustomed lignt Leavy foes he was meeting, it| wasn’t the mediocre heavyweights, it was the hardest punching heavy the ring has seen in years, i liam ' D) resident the Detroit Tigers. Receints of the All. |up, but a fraction of a second too| llmc. Al Conn had to do for those last threc scheduled rounds was to waltz around, evade Louis’ dynamite punches and slap him point-scoring jabs and hooks. He had done it most of the route, he could have continued doing it. But the Irishman loves to fight. He had to win the dangerous ‘way—and you can't win that way against Louis. g Although made to look foolish by| too far, I'll give it all up.” He said | He had made Louis look Uke A copys swiftness and boxing clever-|of his recent fight with Conn, “Why | ness, Louis still proved himself a real champion. Even though he was bewildered, he never allowed him- kept on stalking Conn, waiting for the opening, hoping for the one punch that would save his crown. When that single opportunity came Joe was ready for it. There’ll surely be a return match. And it can go either way. Conn| can play it safe and win. And he can be knocked out the first time he gives Joe a clean shot at his chin. e GANTY AND JERNBERG HERE P. S. Ganty and R. L. Jernberg, both of Sitka, arrived here yesterday from the Coast and are stopping at the Baranof. ->>o—— Bubscrme 0 the Daily Alasks Empire—the paper with the larges A PAGE OUT OF lASlIALI:'S WHO'S WHO—BIig | recent game in Detroit, where the All-Star game is scheduled for July 8. Left to of American Landis, League; Kenesaw M. tar Boston 2, 4; Brooklyn 5, 4. zame will £0 te the United Service | Twice, But Could Not ‘ Make Kill DETROIT, Mich., July 7.—Be- | tween rounds of golf on a Detroit |links today Joe Louis told report- |ers, “I guess I'se slipped pretty far, {but I won't know how far until my {next fight with Lou Nova in Sep- | tember.” | The heavyweight champion of the |world spoke with deadpan serious- ness, then without batting an eye said, “If I find then I'se slipped |T had him in the third round and again in the fifth, but I can’t fin- |ish him.” e, | (6OOD ADVICE IS GIVEN BY UMPS MINNEAPOLIS, July 7 — Bill | Guthrie, American Association um- | pire, is in his 32nd year as an ar- biter. During his career Guthrie has had comparatively little trou- ble with players or managers. And here, he says, is why: “I calls ‘em quick and then walk away wid me arms bow-legged, tough like.” - The Netherlands East Indies pro- luce 95 percent of the quinine used in the world. —————————— E£mpire Classifieds Pay! in baseball are lined all Orzaniza BRINGING UP 1 TOLD JIGES TO GET RID OF ALL HIS CARD TRICKS e e FATHER HUSBANDS HAD A Ford Frick, president of AH-MRS. JIGGS -] DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE YOLI AT HOME -THIS IS A TREAT- | WAS UPR IN YOUR ROOM WENVE CHAT FOR ABOLS AN HOUR OR | in Game to Honor } Lou Gehrig | (By Associated Press) A crowd of 32,000 largest crowd | of the season at Ebbett’s Field in! Brooklyn, saw the Dodgers widen | their lead over the St. Louis Card- | inals to three games by defeating ! the Boston Braves in the first game | | of a doubleheader yesterday. The second contest was called in the sev- | enth because of rain. Kirby Sigbe | pitched five-hit ball. | Elmer Riddle kept his place atop, National League pitching yesterday | by blanking the Cardinals to win his ninth straight game for the Cin- | cinnati Reds. Pittsburgh combined solid slug- ging with effective pitching yester- | day to sweep a doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs as both Johnny Rucker and Joe Moore drove in six runs. With Carl Hubbell pitching six- | hit ball for his first straight:win, | the Giants defeated the Phillies yesterday. The Yanks defeated the Athletics twice vesterday in front of 6,000 fans | Seattle . who turned out in Yankee Stadium San L.ego St. Louis 0; Cincinnati 3. Chicago 1, 4; Pittsburgh 2, 13. New York 7; Philadelphia 3. American League New York 17, 3; Philadelphia 4, 1. Chicago 9; Cleveland 4. Boston 6, 4, Washington 2, 3. Detroit 7, 3; St. Louis 5, 5. Gastineau Chanhel League Moose 8; Douglas 3. GAMLS SATURDAY Pacific Coast League Sacramento 8; Portland 0. San Diego 1; Seattle 0. Hollywood 4; San Prancisco 2. Oakland 7; Los Angeles 2. National League Boston 1; Brooklyn 2. Chicago 6; Pittsburgh 9. ts¢.“touis 1; Cincinnati 2. American League ‘Washington 0; Boston 5. Philadelphia 5; New York 10. Cleveland 5; Chicago 3. Detroit 3, 1; St. Louls 9, 10. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League ‘Won Lost | Sacramento 30 41 43 48 41 50 | 52 Traveling man George Lockman iPortl‘lnd Ni ' o and made the hit good. and wife arrived in Juneau on the | ational "'"Lm Po Douglas went out 1-2-3 in the last southbound Denali Saturday and are | N ot the ninth, as Powers hit into a stopping at the Baranof Hotel. The B s 2 476 double play, taking Stewart with Lockmans have been in Skagway |St. Louts . » =y him, and Niemi flied out to Guy. calling on trade. New York g :;: ‘The box score: —_———————— i BUY DEFENSE BONDS oo Popmes e 4 AB R H E 42 408 ' Guy, p. 5 0 2 0 - 54 210 p. Schmitz, 2b. .4 1 3 0 American League Shaw, If. . e e Won Lost Pet.ignow, 1b. Che New York .48 26 649 sturrock, 3b. 5 2 10 | Cleeviand 46 81 97 Grummett, c. POy R | Boston 40 33 548 ' 5. gchmitz, ss. o et 8 Chicago 38 36 514 | Chapados, cf. 5§ 1.1 0 Detroff ..... 39 40 494 Rodenberg, rf. 5 0 1 0 Philadelphia 4 4 459 | Al St. Louis .. 21 45 31| 3 e A Totals .... 8 14 4 Gastineau Channel League AB R HE | Waon Lost Pt wiey, c. 3 00 0 | Moose . 667 | Balog, 2b. 4 0 0 0 Elks 500 Erskine, p. 4 2 1 0 | Douglas . 250 R W e | Stragier, 3b. 3 01 0 i | Graham, If. 3.0 0 0 | Stewart, 1b. 3 0 0 1 G-Men Swoop Down 5=, e | Niemi, ef. 4 0 0 0 On Sellers of Songs rove-. s 2000 | e AL G Totals .. e ok 29 3 3 2 aren't too busy with spies to take| giolen pases, Guy, Snow, Rustad; care of other little matters. two-base hits, Grummett 2, Guy, F. For one thing, they swooped|gchmitz; home runs, J. Schmitz, | down on 11 men selling s0ng Rustad, Erskine; hit by pitched ball, up | sheets on Times BSquare. It Was Grummett by Erskine; double play, alleged the sheets contained copy- Guy to F. Schhmitz to Snow; bases righted songs. £ E Fh Pet. 677 544 538 to honor the late Lou Gelirlg. 1::;1 fAngelon :Z; he connected with a three-run hom- ey 1San5!‘um:quivcn ‘463 ©r to bring in Snow and Sturrock IN FROM SKAGWAY :Ofl"hd B :‘” | before him. Grummett did His share the sixth to give five hits and allow | three runs. Two outs were chalked | up when Pritz Schmitz took his first | |of three hits in the game. Shaw | | singled too, but was put out on third | ! after Snow took the third consecu- | | tive hit from Erskine and made first. | Three runs came in over the plate | as Fritz Schmitz, Joe Snow and Hub Sturrock all made their singles into | scores. In the Red Coats' turd with the hickory, Erskine brought in a run on Stragier’'s single as he took first on a fielder's choice. In the eighth, both nines scored again as Chap- ados of the Moose and Erskine brought in two more markers. Ers- | kine clipped out an over-the-fence ,ball with the sacks empty, appar- | ently. chosing the wrong time for the smashing blow. | No Rally, Massacre With the score standing at 4 to 3 for the Moose, the game ran into the ninth with the Islanders still standing a chance to revive and sur- vive. But the bats took a beating as again and again they hit Erskine’s 1‘luulely changing balls and three hits were chalked up against the Douglas pitcher. Jack Schmitz, sel- dom hitting in the league so far this season, pulled himself an upset as when he connected with a double on balls, off Guy 2, off Erskine all the snooty and high-priced dogs in town, only Caruse's was in exactly the righ pitch. Steiner and Actress Joan Leslie listen to the dog in rehearsal. struck out, by Guy 8, by Erskine 7; passed bals, Grummett 2, Willey 2; umpires, Ellenberg at the plate, Davenport on the bases; scorer, Hill; time of game, 1 hour, 55 minutes, . ————— McCANN MIGHT 'GETBOUT WITH FRITZIE ZIVIC Tifle Holder of Territory Sails for South and Fights in East Armed with the middleweight and heavyweight . championships of the Territory .and with a bid from Doc Avery, Boston, Massachusetts, fight promoter, young Billy McCann sail- ed from Alaska on the southbound steamer Denali Saturday night. Although McCann's plans were not definite when he left, he sald two options were open to him. One is to stop in the Middle West and be handled by Mike Gibbons, former “Phantom of the Ring,” and one of the best handlers in the country; the' other to continue immediately to the East where Avery is trying to sign him for a bout with welter- weight Pritz Zivic. gl S There are over 2500 Kinds of mammals in North America. e ,——— The distance from New York to Suez is 5,193 miles. ‘The Dally Aiaska Empire has the | argest paid circulation of any Al- ka8 newspaper | CORDOVA LAD ON COMEBACK AFTER BOUT George Anderson Gets K0 After Grude Fight on Dock CORDOVA, July 7. — Georgle Anderson, fistic terror of Westward Alaska tundra as well as Outside ring veteran, kayoed Phil Beck at 158 pounds in a holiday bout-in the tirst minute of the third. The battle was a grudge fight after a dockside prelim three weeks ago. Anderson, on a comeback trail after a brilliant career a few years ago, challenges Alaskan light- heavies and middleweights. He Js especially eager for a go with young Johnny Cornwall. The card here was marked by excessive enthusiasm over Anderson’s comeback. B . ROCKING CHAIR GARDENER GRANDFIELD, Okla., July 7 — John Lawson had a fine Bermuda grass lawn but in the midst of one of the wettest spells this region has experienced he found the grass was growing too fast for him. So he plowed it all under and sowed blackeyed peas. Now he leans back in an easy chair watching his crop mature while the neighbors strug- gle with lawn mowers. 1 BUY DEFENSE BONDS Cadet Wins Wings in U.S. William Hume, 24, of Scotland, first RAF eadet to solo after U. 8. training, Watson. Hume, receives congratulations from RAF Flight Lieut, W. W. who had never been in a plane until he arrived at Lakeland, Fla., training school, had received only seven hours’ Bllxbl instruction before his hop. Looking on (left to right) are Capt. Copeland, school director; Albert 1. Lodwick, co-owner of the and Lieut. Maurice R. lamonhl‘l. 8. Air Corps officer in command =05