The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941. Iice skating one night about two| | years ago,” she explained, “and [found a hockcy game at. the rink. ded g0 to the roller unk and 1 put on the skates for| | the Hxst time. I loved it. Now I go FANCY-SKATING CUTIES POPULARIZE ROLLERS 515 5 w’Fuugan 21, is the only person| '»\ukh whom she ever dance-skates. . But she never dates him | Ice and roller routines are so| | similar that the same officlals| | judge both sports by the same | rules, gauging ability by grace| and control of inner and outer edges or wheels, whichever the case may be. Speed champions in| one sport frequently shine in the| other, Ken Bartholomew, 21, of Minne- | apolis, stars at both. He holds ice speed titles in the United States and North Araerican = divisions, |and his brother, Earl, plays ice ‘hocl'ey for the Cleveland barons. BASEBALLDAD STARTS 2 SONS ONRIGHTTRAC AP Feature Seryice ISLAND NINE STRAPS ELKS ON SAND LOT Juneau Team Tumbles as Doualas Sluggers Hit Two Pitchers SCORE LAST NIGHT Douglas 10; Elks 6 Elks Douglas Scoring ten runs in three innings and playing on its own sand lot, the Douglas nine yesterday strapped the Elks to climb another step from out of the cellar in a fray that saw the Elks hurl two men, giving a total of nine hits. Pitcher Mark Jensen of the Islanders pitched only fair ball for FORT PIERCE, Fla, July 21 — his men, giving nine hits and taking | Organized baseball's only active fa- only one hit toward fattening his | | ther-and-two-son . combination is average. Little Sammy Taguchi hit TROUNCE SENATORS ‘Seafile, SanT)iego Divide' Sunday Twin Confest~ | Long Games { i (By Associated Press) | The Portland Beavers took both | |ends of a doubleheader from the | Sacramento Senators Sunday. Ad Liska gave up six hits in the first game and Earl Reid scattered seven hits in the night cap. | Seattle and San Diego divided a | twin contest Sunday giving the San | Diego Padres a 3 to 2 serles victory, | Lee Stine blanked San Francisco in 13 innings Sunday, the Angels scoring their lone run of the game in that frame, The Angels dropped the nighctap but won the series 5 to 2. | Oakland ended a 4-game Holly- | wood winning streak with a double- header win. The first game went 11 innings. i Brig. Gen. Carl Spaatz Brig. Gen. Carl Spaatz, above, 48 the chiet of the air staff of the newly established ‘“Headquarters of the Army Air Forces.” He will be under the command of Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold. | | DOLLY DURKIN AND GORDON FINIGAN IN ACTION By DOUGLAS DIES AP Feature Service Irene and Gilbert won the -first prize in the. New Jersey junior| dance contest_for 1941, and Herzog . has won the Utah Senior men's er skating has gone up andio oG championship for n and.up faster than an ex= the: last, thbee. years, press elevator. Right now roller - skating is up} Between these age extremes on the top floor. flashes a beaming collection of In the last few years the pasnme‘ speed-demon ‘men and caper-cut- | ged forward in a revival| ting “lovelies” ints the vogue of the Gny\ Melva Block, who out-graced a sickly mauve, according two fellow Detroiters to win the to old timers who cut “Jackson| senior ladies' figure skating cham- Haines' brackets” in 1900. ‘pinn.&hips. quit high school so she| Today there are 3,500 rinks scat-| could devote all her afternoons to tered across the nation, and 5,000,- practicing spread-eagle and sal- 000 regu ink patrons out of an chow jumps, fancy spins and turns. 0,000,000 roller enthu- Miss Block stands five feet three, weighs 120 pounds, has jet hair, dark eyes, and is Irish-American. Dolly Durkin, 23-year-old secre- tary from Long Island, N. Y. who has an imposing list of state and national titles in the senior dance division, rejects modeling offers for fear they might jeopardize her amateur standing. “My fiance and I started to go CLEVELAND—The popularity of Nineties | the U. S. Amateur held here recent- the six-year-old Entries in Championships, ly ranged from junior partners, Irene Botnar and Gilbert R. White, from Union, N. J.. to Raymond Herzog, 36, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Prize Winners, too were not freak These entries. DPelivery Service Out the Highway Every Day! helping Fort Pierce set a swift pace in the Class D Florida East Coast League. Manager Jim Poole 8r., who “ad- | mits to 40 years” and says no more first | | base and adds punch to the Bomb- about his age, holds down |ers with a 333 batting average. Jim Poole Jr., 22, fields bril- liantly at shertstop or second base, while 17-year-old Phil won the first three complete games he was called upon to pitch. In some 25 years of ball play- ‘sng. Poole has seen service in the American, Southern Pacific leagues. Coast and He stuck with | the Philadelphia Athletics for three years. Playing with Nashville ‘n 1929, he set the Southern Associa- tion home run record at 30 for the' season. His ambitions sons. now are for his “When I can get them . in there regularly, able to keep the pace,” he explains, “then I may hang up the old glove. That's why I'm sticking in there, at my age—tryin to get them started right.” Both youths are being brought along slowly. “Phil’s a little young yet for steady pitching,” his father says, “and he has a lot to learn.” But | observers around the - circuit - are | predicting a real future for the |lithe right-hander with the easy pitching motion. Ya Goffa et Hifs DETROIT — No major league baseball player of note has ever made more runs than hits in a season, Babe Ruth, John McGraw, Billy Hamilton, Mike Kelly and George Gore came close. Two western league players ac- complished the feat in 1894. Buly Crooks of Minneapolis scored 199 cuns and made 177 hits and Bob Wheelock of Grand Rapids scored 137 runs and made 124 hits, Made Record HAULING 0!' ALL KINDS! Daily Delivery of the Daily Alaska Empire Highway Delivery PHONE 374---Juneau CHICAGO—Wee Wfllle KGEIAr the best place hitter of all time, didn’t produce many long wallops. When he won the 1898 batting hampionship with a 379 average, all but 16, of his 214 hits were sin- gles. He plnyed until ;mid-August before a pitcher. struck ‘him out. He. batted - 432 in 1897, only six points below Hugh Duffey’s all- time high. ' ———ee—— At the Empire Printing Company H. R./'SHORTY" WHITFIELD, Owner BOTHE! IN AN TALK TO YOUR AUNTIE - SHE'S FIXING The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska _newspaper. With quless Jensen on the first pitched ball, taking the only double of the game. The EIK third baseman took the only hit of the frame and the rest of the inning was over. Five-Run Inning It was a different tale when the Red Coats took their turn at the plate. Willey struck out, leaving the | bases open for Stewart to be walked. Erskine took first on a futile play | for Stewart at second. Rustad walk- ed, then Jensen, with a batting aver- age second only to Joe Snow stepped | up with the hickory. Useless was his | swing as he grounded out, but Stew- | art brought in the first run during the play. Then Andrews singles to bring in Erskine and Rustad. Neimi made first on Ramsey’s error and | trotted in after Andrews when Stragier took a hard hit single from Lewis. In the second frame the Islanders | did themselves more good as Willey, } Erskine and- Rustad chalked up three more runs, with the Elk side of the scoreboard standing stark ! naked for figures. In the third the 1 Elks pulled out of -the hole to ap- | proach. a tie as Lewis, Converse and | Taguchi came through for scores as YANKS FIGHT lstaged a nightmare of errors to lose | GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 7, 1; San Diego 2, 3. Portland 7, 8; Sacramento 1, 2. Los Angeles 1, 5; San Francisco i | | | Oaklund 5, 5; Mollywood 4, 2. l National League Pittsburgh 1, 5; Brooklyn 5, 1. i Chicago 5, 7; New York 7, 4. Cincinnati 7, 3; Philadelphia 1, 2. St. Louis 4, 7; Boston 2, 3. h 17 INNINGS WITH TIGERS &=z innings. ‘Washington 8, 1; Cleveland 4, 5. Philadelphia 1, 4; Chicago 2 ,1. Boston 3, 0; St. Louis 6, 10. Gastineau Channel League Elks 6; Douglas 10. Errors Spa;flVashinglon and Cleveland in Twin Games GAMES SATURDAY Pacific Coast League San Francisco 7; Los Angeles 1. Seattle 5; San Diego 1. Hollywood 11; Oakland 1. Sacramento 4, 2; Portland 0, 3. National League 8t. Louis 6; Boston 10. American League New York 9, 6; Detroit 3, 2. (By Associated Press) Washington went on a h\mnu, spree Sunday to defeat Cleveland in | the opener of a doubleheader, then[ the second. “The Chicago White Sox defeated the Athletics in the first half of a | |John Skok and Eddy Neilsen took +hits fram Jensen. Ramsey’s Record Wrecked In the third frame the Elkmen pulled Lewis from the box, sending in Big Bill Ramsey, rapidly piling up a record for consecutive shut-out innings. But Ramsey lost his chance to extend his newly started run from 25 frames as Willey and Stewart pulled into home on Rustad’s single. Scoring twice in the sixth, the Elks made motion of starting a rally | that might bring them back to a jchance with the cellared Islanders, |but after Jim Neilsen and Maxy , Lewis made the tour, starting on an {error and a single respectively, the | boys settled down for & rest and ac- { complished nothing more, The remainder of the game ran through with Mttle action, both teams and pitchers playing close | ball, The box score follows: DOUGLAS i Player ‘Willey, c Stewart, rf. Jensen, p. .. | Andrews, 1b. Neimi, ef. . ‘Strlzter. 2b. Johnson, 1f . Sloommonnnny ol cvowmromry ol cococormrnorn Totals ..... Player | Nellsen, Jim, rt Ramsey, 1b. p. Lewis, p., 3b. ol mvoncomary clvvoornrnwory wlworcocococem Summary Stolen bases: Willey 2, Stewsrt, Andrews, Neimi, Skok, E. Neilsen 2, J. Neilsen, Lewis, Converse; two- base hit: Taguchi, E. Nellsen; hit by ! pitched = ball: Andml, bases on ball: off Lewis 3, off Ramsey 5, off Jensen 8; struck out: by Lewis 1, by Ramsey 5, by Jensen 5; passed balls: by. Skok 1; double play: Rustad, Stragier, Andrews; umplres: Drux- man ‘at the plate, Shaw on the bases; scorer: Hill; time of game: |Boston as pitchers Bob Muncrief and | doubleheader, but lost the 13-lnnlngi nightcap. | A double victory gave the St. Louis (Brown the sweep of the series over Philadelphia 2, 3; Chicago 4, 1. Boston 3; St. Louis 9. Cleveland 9; Washington 8. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Paelfic Coast League Lost 40 41 L 52 65 59 | wohn Niggerling hurled effective ! ball: In the longest game played in the. majors this season, the Yankees ex- Sacramento ploded with six runs on two homers, San Diego three. doubles and & single in the Seattle seventeenth inning to defeat the Hollywood Tigers. Charley Keller and Tom LS Angeles .. Henrich hit out the homers. |San Franclsco . ¥ Brookiyn split s doubléheader 'Oakland with Pittsburgh yesterday while the Portiand second _place Cardinals topk . both DSl ends. of their twin bill with the Bos- ton Braves to close the gap to ene apd one-half games, John Lanning held ithe Dodgers. to sever hits’ in the nightcap. Fhe Chicago Cubs fell on Hal Schumacher for five runs in the sixth inning of a nightcap to beat the Glants after New York had taken the first. game. Pet, 633 565 552 495 476 454 434 387 8t. Louls .. New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago ' Baston ........ Phlladelphll American WI' Won sge38y H !'E'i’_s'{ E'§§5'§‘:’§§3’_ EsakrEis New York ... | Cleveland Boston . | Chicago Detroit .. Philadelphia 8t. Louls .. Wnshn!gwn Gastineau Channel League Won Lost .6 2 : 4 2 5 ——————— £mpire Classifieds Pay! 2 hours, 10 minutes. GAME TONIGHT 'Tonight the Douglas nine will meet the Moose in Juneau on the | Piremen’s ball park for a game orig- inally scheduled for Sunday, June 29, "and ‘rained out on that date, that is weather permitting. Starting at 6:30 o'clock, the contest will run seven innings, - e —— S2ANRBEN Elks ... tast Douglas Class One railrpads in the Unit- ed States had 1,080,000 employees in . mid-April of this year. "How I Pitch My Here's the inside story on the unusual pitches in the major leagues, Carl Hubbell leads off a series tomorrow (Tuesday) with &' by-lined, illustrated piece on his “screwball” pitch. - Five other pitchers follow him with' exact information on hew each throws his favorite ball. Watch for the others after you read Hubbell’s tomorrow on the Sporting Page, Page 5. BY GEORGE McMANUS "% m \\\ Ny \\\\ /Ac I// RIS MAN PREDENT v TOCONGRESS oday by Mayor Barry I. Lucas, Fl(’d T. Evans, Assistant Reglonal Director of the Public Works Ad- ministration, will arrive in Junéau today or tomorrow. TP Nothing was revealed as to Evans’ (Conunuea trom Page One) |puginess in Juneau, but it was & thought he might be coming,in connection with the recent appro- priation for the Territory, month limitation was placed cn the one-year service for se- lectees, . National Guardsmen und reservists. The Presidint said: “Today it is_imperative T should offici- ally report to Congress, what Congress undmlbl.edly knows, Court OK’s Hollywood Adoption that the situation is not less grave, but far more grave than one year ago,” D Trv a classified ad in The Empire, Billy Gilbert, rotund film comedian, and his wife, the former E McKenzie, actress, are shown with their eleven-year-old adopted Barry, as Los Angeles court made them his legal parents, He had boql living in th- Gflbert home for a year. Stéer Is Vlctor in Rodeo P.mng in his attempts to throw a Brahma steer during a rodoo Redwood City, Cal., Charles Lorimer, 81, San Francisco cowhoy, fal beneath the sharp lwrnl and flailing hoovel of the enraged l Suffering from serious internal Ir&nflu, Lorimer was nmond Palo Alto Hocnlul after the steer was beaten ofl | When Good Fellers Get Togeth [ Presented a phquc b’ tho Cleveland ‘American Boy, pmudlyllwwn d'Vnnllfldrh lhn-wunbl!ohl