The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1941, Page 5

| | | | | THE DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG. | YANKS BREAK LOOSE IN13, INNING WIN Dodgers Glfib—Two Rungs‘ Back Up Ladder Affer | Cardinal Defeat | (By ASSOCTATED PRESS) The pent up power of the New York Yankees flowered over the| Detroit Tigers for a doubleheader victory yeste: y, as Charley Keal- ler's 26th homer with two aboard, decided the 13-inning first game Joe DiMaggio his his 25th homer with two on in the second game. | After dropping their seventh | traight to the St. Louis Browns, the Boston Ited Sox rallied behind | rookie Tex Hughson's six-hit pitch- ing yesterday to gain a triumph in the nightcap. | Paced by Benny McCoy's fourth inning homer with the bases load- | ed, the Athletics trounced the Chi- cago White Sox yesterday to re- place the Sox in fourth place. It is the first time in nine years the| Athletics have been in the first| division this late in the season. The Dodgers turned on the power yesterday as Freddy Fitzsimmons, | fat and forty, pitched well in re-} lief to defeat the St. Louis Card-| inals and pull back within .two| games of the leaders. Dolph Camil- 1i smacked his 19th homer of thej season. Lew Riggs followed with | another and Jim Wasdell also hom- ered for the Dodgers. The Giants droppsd their fifth straight and the eighth in nine starts when Chuck Aleno hit aj pinch single with the bases lo:\rl~? ed in the ninth for a Cincinnati] victory. | The Phillies knocked Charley| Root out of the box during a three- run second inning and defeated the Chicago Cubs. o CONE FUNERAL SERVICES Funeral services will be held for George W. Cone, who died recent- ly, in the Charles W. Carter chap- el at 2 oclock Monday afternoon. Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. —————— ‘MRS.-FRANKS RETURNING Mrs. William Franks, who has been south on.a visit, is a return- ing passenger aboard the steamer Aleutian. [ Baseball's ROBINSO N REELS TO ROPES: WINS BOUT Sammy Angott (left), got in a punch that sent Ray Robinson reeling toward the ropes in the fourth round of their non-title bout in Philadelphia. Washington, Pa., lightweight title holder. Robinson came back to win a 10-round decision over the 'BadBoy'ls In Element Boots Poffe—n—t;rger Is Now Confent as Semi-Pro League Pitcher By ROMNEY WHEELER ciation for sounding off on an um»“ pire’s decision and backing it upj| with a fast ball which zcomed off| the arbiter’s chest protector. That | dropped him from Nabhvllle's“ pitching staff for the balance of | the 1941 season and the first 1% days of 1942. But Boots isn’'t looking for any ympathy. The big fellow, whose ccrewball tendencies got him in| lifficulties with Detroit and later with Brooklyn, signed with the Buford semi-pro Shoemakers. And as far‘as he is concerned, just as soon stay here from now n. Here’'s How “How did I get let out roit? Well, I had row by De- a over BUFORD, Ga., Aug. 1.—The way Cletus Poffenberger feels about ii now, it will be all right with hin if he never pitches another gam? in organized baseball. Plain-spoken Mr. Poffenberger nicknamed Boots, is under 90-day suspension in the Southern Asso- Delivery Service Out the Highway Every Day! AN R HAULING OF ALL KINDS! Daily Delivery of the Daily Alaska Empire money with ‘em, just like I did ¢ith Brooklyn. They never did j>ay me what I was worth, and .ney.said I never gave them all T 1ad.' So what. The most I ever got n the how was $500 a month. Chat's for five months. And the sther seven months you don't Iraw a dime.” Poffenberger - thinks the Buford Leam, sponsored by the Bena Al- en Shoe Company, has an ideal set-up. “I'd like to stay here. I'd work n the plant in the off season, and Jlay baseball in the summer. I 1l you, this outfit has a real first- lass team, They treat you right. “What about Nashville? Wel Jashville still holds my contract. don’t know just what I'll do yet. 11 see what Nashville offers next pring. If I can do better over iere, I'd just as soon ask for vol- ntary retirement. My wife likes t here.” Boots won his first start for 3uford, beating a nearby semi-pro extile team 4-1. Boots doesn't care to discuss the| which earned him his eputation as one ~of baseball’s crewballs. His career with De- roit in 1937-38 and Brooklyn in 939 is so much water over the lam. He wound up on the_ sus- «ended list after fumping Brook- yn in mid-1939, was re-instated arough efforts of Larry Gilbért in 1940. L Gooll mecora ¥ 1 He had a good year under Gil- ert, winning 28 and losing 9 to 1elp Nashville win the Southern \ssociation pennant and later the Jixie ' Series. Gilbert, pleased with he reformation, : tried to peddle 1im to a big league club last win- ser, but found no takers. “I don't expect to get back in he big-time,” says Poffenberger, ‘and scapades he'd | 1 sure don't care to kick; Replaces Duff Coopet | Brendan Bracken Succeeding Alfred Duff Cooper. Brendan Bracken has been named to the post of Minister of Informa- tion in the British cabinet. Duft Cooper goes to the Far East as co- ordinator of civil and military au- thorities. Bracken previously served as parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | — twice has won national champion- |pitch in the Denver Post's tour- bench at Houston where his current Southern Leagus suspension bars him. “That suspension’s got me now,” {he says. “But look out next year. {If I stay with Buford I'll really |go to town.” | e s Basketball NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Night outdoor basketball has been inau- gurated at- Mahhattan Beach near here, with weekly games planned. The Ohrbachs, Eastern AAU cham- pions, and the Manhattan Beach AC. composed largely of LIU stars, opened the series. RIS 3y Many instruments used by scien- ships. He thinks he’ll be eligible to nament, but must watch from the and Wichita In_Sllmmer 1941 SERIES GOES T0 OAKLAND _TWOTOONE ES'&ramenlo__SIeals Sched- fiule from Angels in 18-hit Barrage | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sacramento swept a three-game series with Los Angeles by taking | yesterday’s finale as Nubs Kleinke was given a four-run lead in the first inning. ‘He breezed in on an 18-hit attack. | Hollywood overcame Portland in the rubber game of their three- contest series as Hiram Bithorn, | Puerto Rican fireballer, scored his {elghth straight pitching victory. Oakland split a doubléheader ‘wlth Seattle yesterday to take the series. Seattle captured the openei as, young Dewey Soriano gave up IsL‘ hits in the second, but Oak- lahd bunched two safe blows in | each of the first, third and sixth scoring one run in each frame. San Francisco and San Diego | also split a doubleheader. GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League Beattle 6, 2; Oakland 3, 5. d San Diego 7, 3; San Francisco 1, Sacramento 9; Los Angeles 3. Hollywood 7; Portland 6. National League Boston 8; Pittsburgh 9. Philadelphia 7; Chicago 2. New York 5; Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn 5; St. Louis 2. American League St. Louis 16, 1; Boston 4. Seconu game cailed end of eighth, dark- ness. Detroit 3, 0; New Yosk 6, 5. Sec- ond game called end of eighth, darkness. Chicago 2; Philadelphia 9. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League ANy always happy to pe sold in face of r VALUES ‘in cotton and linens. Same lot includes little givls’ slack suitsin a splen- did value. and guaranteed to satis these values and save at BEHRENDS! 1 values. o i Won Lost Pet «Sacramento 6 43 .639 Eeattle 64 51 557 Sgn Diego 65 53 551 Hollywood .87 56 504 Qakland ... WA 7 62 466 Les Angeles ....53° 62 461 '§an, Fepncisco .52 66 441 Portland ... st 1} 2 319 National ‘League Won Lost Pet. St. Louls 62 34 846 Brooklyn 60 36 625 Cifitinnati 52 42 553 Pittsburgh 50 42 543 New York 45 450 500 C_h(cago 44 52 458 Boston .38 56 404 Philddelphia . 25 69 .266 Y American League Won Lost Pct. New York ... 30 .691 Clevéland 42 567 Bosfon ... ; 4% 521 Phflladelphm 47 49 490 Chitago 41 b1 480 St. Louls .. .38 57 400 Washington 31 56 398 Bean Used By Fighfer NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—Psychology works, says Benny Leonard. The former lightweight champion re- called an instance where he won a fight by using it. “I'm fighting Ritchie Mitchell in 1921, and when we are called to the center of the ring for instruc- tions I say to the referee: ‘Do I set this right? When I knock HIM jown, I'M to go to a neutral cor- ner?’ ‘ “The referee says that's right. I 'ook at Mitchell and see beads. of perspiration on his forehead. I inock him out in six rounds.” - e, — ATTENTION TO JUNEAU AIRFIELD WORKERS U. of Alaska Good Enough, Derby Champ Not Harvard, nor Yale, nor Col- umbia nor a crack at UCLA, but a scholarship to the University of Alaska in Pairbanks is' what Jun- eau Soap Box Derby champ Jerry Chapman requested today while fil- ling out a questionaire for the national competition at Akron, Ohijo, Young Chapman, Empire news- boy, who accompanied by Rotary member Don Skuse will leave for the States Tuesday, was writing pertinent details about his winning car and himself for official records when he came across the question of what university he would like to attend if he wins the final con- sets in the' rubber center, “I'm’going to the University of Alaska.” he sald, as he lifted his head from the sheet, “and 1'm go- ing to study engineering”. His head It isn’t often that such v S savings on to their customers. ing prices, so take advantage of this grand money-saving event. ONE LOT OF LADIES' SLACK SUITS Gay colors, tubfast y. Shop Neutral Victims of Nazi CLOSE OUT SALE!?!! GIRLS' and LADIES' SLACK SUITS alues are offered to the public . These slack suits are being and C all 85 fabrics -mep®m Value at Behrends SPECIAL LOT— Most of these Childrens’ Slacks sold for $2.00 and now are being offered for just HALF PRICE of the original price, Good sizes, This price can’t be beat and so Hurr B M Bebrends Ca QUALITY SINCE /887 The men in the lifeboat are sailors from neutral Portugal, but their frei; was sunk, according to the Germans, the submarine which who released the picture. FROM McKINLEY PARK Frank Been, Head Ranger and Supervisor of Mount McKinley Na- tional Park, arrived last night from Seward on the Baranof. While he is in Juneau on official business he will be at the Baranof Hotel, ———————— FLIES FROM SITKA Bill Douglass, Heinz representa- tive for Alaska, flew back from Sitka yesterday and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. ———————— . NOTICE I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anyone unless authorized by me. adv. LES ivm. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | | o WHOM wouLp THIS LETTER HAVE BEEN DELIVERED IN YEARS, 1840 To 1901 7 Fine assoriment of Ladies’ These garments are riced for Quick WAIT! very chic. for yourself as well as outfitting your children. ! HURRY! Submarine did the sinking and which took th .. but BEHRENDS are hildren’s Slack Suits — SO DON'T 2.85 Sanforized that wear well, and look You will want several Price ood ghter was sailing to England, so |: 7 kil of ! ' The photograph was made from the deck survivors More About J.DiMaggio 4 NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Herey something to consider when weiglia ing the American League batting championship question: Pk Willie Kedler won the champforié ship with an average of 432, hits ting in 44 straight games in 1897.. George Sisler set the modern record with 420, hitting in 43 straight games. okt Joe DiMaggio wasn't stopped un= {til he had hit in 66 games Wy, row. | e W .| Highway Delivery PHONE 374-4Juneail At the Empire Printing Contpany H. R. “"SHORTY" WHITFIELD; Owmer | wround: the minor leagues until 'm worn out. I'd just as soon stay ‘ight here with Buford.” Poffenberger now is headed west; Demand for many commodities ic with«the team on a 6,000-mile swing| at record level for this season, the which 15 to include semi-pro tour-: Department of Commerce reports. naments at Denver, Houston, Tex., | ———to——— and. Wichita, Kas., where Buford BUY DEFENSE STAMPS ——— 8 : tists of the Department of Com- merce were developed by them. ——————a—e VICTOR ZUBER carrieD | 'MA(L ON STAR ROUTE FOR 40 YEARS, COLLEGEVILLE, | INDIANA went down, the pencil scribbled, and the ' questionaire requested a scholarship to ‘the University of | Alaska for an Alaskan, boy who| hopes. to trim . contestants from 48| —_——ao——— states and the territories in a home BUY DEFENSE BONDS made soap box car. By GEORGE McMANUS 'VE NEV NOT. Room and board at a fine home in Douglas. Anyone interested call n person on Sundays or phone eve- ungs at ten. Phone Douglas 412 or. P.O. Box 1101, Douglas. adv. ) o == — D The Mew AIRLINES TERMINAL BulLDING INNEW YORK CITY WAS BUILT EXCLUSIVELY FOR AIR PASSENGERS YET THEY DEPART FROM . THE STATION.IN AUTOMOBILES/, 5 Rog. U. 5. Pa. Offico 334-366, May S, 1934, by Natienal Federation of Pusi 't§ T?fic"fl&%%}, '] ?yflfiga:w:f vill dep ‘air términal in"1941. 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