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

Exra! Jimmy Joh Talks Out; Gives His List 0I Qreglgsl Heavies : rare picture—Jimmy Johnston, hd not talking. Jack Johnson, Johnston’s fighter, Abe Simon, some point ers on ring craft. » \ g AP Feature Service Sports Writer NEW YORK.—“Ya probably think 1 don’t wanna talk about anybody but my Simon and Pastor. I'll fool ya Jimmy be Johnston, the boxing . as usual was out a half d of the nearest conver- jonalist. He likes to get the ap on a guy—like that sign on door: “Thirtieth Century, Inc.” Mike Jacobs' door says “Twentieth Century Club.” Jimmy's 10 centu- ries ahead Nobody had mentioned a possible for discussion but Jimmy rounding the first suk i’ was already turn: “Let's talk abou weight champior Somecne in the group loung about his office tried to say “oka and was choked off at “o-". former heavy- ‘eah, T've seen ’em all since Sul an. Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jefiries, Johnson—on down the line. But you couldn’t find one in the bunch could take a punch better than that big Abe mon of mine that's gonna fight Buddy Baer Aug- ust 21 in Madison Square Gar- den. We was gonna have the fight cutdoors but rainy sea- son and all il probably be betier to have it inside. . . " Jimmy gasped for air and took quick glance around the room fto. the reaction to his subtle a catch plug. “The greatest? Well, I'd say Jack Johnson, Gene Tunney, and Joe Louis. Johnson and Tunney were really pretty much alike. with other persons in his presence, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 18, ’a bag, shake up and take your choice. son “Oh, yeah, almost forgot. About that Baer-Simon fight. That's gonna be the damndest thing ever scen in a ring. Quar- | ter of a ton of fightin' men in | that ring at one time. My boy 2060, Baer about 240. both been Both put up great battles | agamst Louis. Abe's a. mortal {cinch to knoek him out if he gets ancther k at him. Oh, hell [inish within 10 rounds. He had bum right hand against Louis, know that? Chipped bone on the thumb joint. All ready to| g0 now, though. Gotta great l<-.'r}‘ Jjab. | | “Gotta go, | again some | like talkin’. | Abe Simon. - | “And they've going ! | great [o%: Baer a huh? Well, drop in time when you feel Wanna tell ya about He's fightin’ Buddy Baer August 21 in the Garden. | They fought back in 1937, Buddy |won on a TKO in the third but | Abe shoulda had him. . . Lucky Ninth Takes Pair | For Yankees “one of. the three greatest,” gives Exceedingly clever in the ring, paired with those two, he makes League Second SDO' with Double Win up in his punch. Gotta group | | ‘ \ , | those three at the top. | “1 put Dempsey a notch low- | er. He was a great fighter,sav- | |5 ave. and & s¥lller — ut ‘ne | couldn’t match the other three | in all-around ring effective- | ness The New York Yankees won a pair | of close games from the Philadel- | | phia Athletics with each tie-break- | |ing run coming in the ninth inning. | |Joe DiMaggio brought in the win- | |ning run in the first game and Joe —— Gordon contributed in the second “Next, Corbett. He was a fancy |contest with a homer. H dan’ who' ¥tiew - his /businéés, bet-| Wasbington reached Herber New- | ) d he Some for nine hits yesterday, defeat- ter and faster than Conn an { ing the Boston Red Sox. could take a punch. Jim Jeffrles| “mpe Gpicago White Sox climied I'd put right behind .Corbt‘tt_ He '{nto second place yesterday over {was the John L. Sullivan type, % Cleveland by sweeping a double- | | big tough bullish kind of guy. I nheader with the Indians. The night- saw Jim lick Corbett. Fought hir: cap, going ten innings, was won by for 23 rounds without ever hit- Julius Solter's scratch hit. | ting him. Twenty-third round The St. Louis Browns dropped to started the same way, Jeffries tie for last place yesterday, splitting | started out with those left hooks a bill with Detroit. George Caster | —about 20 a round he'd throw— | allowed only three hits in the night- {and bang, one to the belly con-|cap, a shut-out spoiled by Mike nected, he followed it with one|Higgins score in the eighth on a to the chin and the fight was over. fI¥- | 'BACKATTOP OFNATIONAL Aug. 21 in the Garden is a lot like Jeffries. Pastor, I'd say, is Cards Drop Half Game Be- ' low Dodgers After “Now after Jeffries I'd list Fitz- simmons, a freak of a middle- weight—only weighed 158-60 pounds —who won almost all his fights | after he'd kissed the canvas twice. ‘Sullivan I'd put next. | “Braddock was a game battler. | Baer, Schmeling, Sharkey, Car- nera and the rest you can put ‘n Sheep-Shea more like Tunney. Baer? Oh, Split Twin Bill he’s the Willard type. (By Associated Press) The Brooklyn Dodgers regained the National League lead yesterday, | sweeping a twin bill before the Bos- ton Braves. Kirby Higbe allowed ' only four hits in the opener, and ' | Whitlow Wyatt hurled a near shut- | |out with a lone safe hit in the | nighteap. The league trailing Philadelphia nige trounced the New York Giants in a doubleheader yesterday, win- Ining the second game with the larg- est National League score of the season. Charlie Root won his 199th major | league victory yesterday, taming the | Cincinnati Reds after Chicago lost | the opener. The 8t. Louis Cardinals split a doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Pirates, dropping a half game behind Brooklyn with Mort Cooper winning the first for the Cards and Rip Camall ~naily Hhmatttinn = Louis in the nightcap-with-tive-hita; -Jill il — ———- CALL FOR BIDS Bids will be received by the Supt. |many many, years. Irane came on COCHRANE TRIUMPH WAS | A CLEAN VICTORY FOR REDHEADS, NEW JERSEY Red was hero-host in a post-fight celebration at his pub. i Faces Court Martial ELTZABETH, N. J—Box‘ne has, ace C its first red-headed champion in AP FEATURE SERVICE He's Freddie Cochrane, who out- | twice on Sunday. 1941. SEATTLE IN TWO WINS ON SUNDAY Solons Keemad inP. C. League by Twice Beating Seals (By Associated Press) The Sacramento Solons retained |the Pacific Coast League lead by edging out the San Francisco Seals Don Gutteridge scored the lone run in the opener in the ninth on a triple by Gene Hand- ley. £an Diego swept a doubleheader Suncay with Los Angeles, pitcher Wocdy Rich allowing the Angels only four hits in the opener. Seattle took a twin bill from Hol- lywood on Sunday. Seattle got 24 hits in the opener and Kewpie Dick Barrett shut out the Hollywood bunch with three hits in the night- cap. Portland walked off with two games with Oakland Sunday and taking the series, eight games to one. Seattle and San Diego are now tied for second spot. GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League Portland 4, 9; Oakland 3. 4. 1. inted Fritzie Zivic the other night in Newark to win the woria welter- weight crown and the adulation of this whole section of New Jersey. The story has gotten around that carrot-toped lads are pretty handy with their dukes Ytut this Lelief hasn't been upheld in the ring. For Mike Donovan and Bob % i Fitzsimmons are the only other | reds who have won championships. i . | Cochrane won his the hard way. e | He was stopped five times by Tippy i s | Larkin, another Jersey pride. That 3 | was enough to sidetrack a fellow from title compe:ition. But Coch- He said re could beat Zivic if he ever got the cham- | pion in the ring—and he did. i It was one of the biggist sur- | prises of the year, more shocking | than Richard Lemos’ title win over | featherweight king Pete Scalzo a few weeks ago in California. Like another Jersey Jabber who contended for the heavyweight crown — Tony Galento — Freddie owns a pub. From his pub and ring profits Freddie has helped cend older brother Bill to medical Sir Herbert P. Latham | Maj. Sir Herbert Paul Latham, 36, | Conservative member of Parliament | and officer in the Royal Engineers, | has been detained for court martial | | for “offenses against the military | | » | school. He also has a younger| law, il:t :;l:h:nnounceed i::r:“\?:“& | brother, Ned, who was given the | .n;c"'_ His mn‘rriagg :o Lady P“’”‘ ploves Cochrane used to beat Zivie. | ¢isia Doreen Moore was dissolved | Cochrane’s sister Is red-haired, too.| {g'the United States last May Freddie's father works ir a fac-| - -G e St tory at Elizabethport and while ! o ! limbing up the ring ladder, Red| who never takes a backward step. iy 4 el His early hero was Mickey u’:;’li:d a5 machinht A ere Walker. Cochrane was born in a § t d here Cochrane has been fighting nine‘m\i:iy"u]‘;t]e;xggcmo?;s ;;:';n <! | years, seven as a pro. He has| meqgie has agreed to give Zivic 1 | e ng mett oo hS pehe | eturn bout for the title within | 0 dnys. “I beat him once and I outs and losing a decision to Nor- " e man Rublo of Albany, N. Y. He can do it again,” the red-head says. beat Rubio in a later maich, U Cochrane, 26, is a plodding fighter Emvire Clussifieds Pay! | i ef Schools for washing the exterior of all windows on ‘both Public, School Buildings. ANl broken glass! to be replaced and new putty where ' “Weolies” get a haircut by Heien Maudlin in preparation for various “farm entertainment” features scheduled for the annual Humboldt County Fair at Ferndale, Cal. Sheep-shearin; is to be one of these features, along with displays of livestock, poultry, home eccnomics necessary. Bids will be opened Tues- day, August 19th, and job must be' completed August 30. All equipment | including falls, will be furnished by | and agriculture, together with a spectacular Flower Show and daily program of horse races in which leading rage track horses of the Red- wood Empire will perform. . BRINGING UP FATHER YWE GOT A GOOD IDEA -ILL GIVE MAGGIE TH IDEA s TANT THAY 1 GIT BACK TO BUSINESS - DADDY-! WISH WE E BACK HOME-! the owners. JUNEAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS, adv. By A. B. Phillips, Supt. WHAT 1S IT 2 SPEAK VERY BUSY WITH M George Vanderbilt, soefalite sportsman, is shown with a coati-mundi from Panama, a relation of the American racoon, which he brought back to Los Angeles after a South Pacific cruise aboard the schooner- yacht Pionéer. Vanderbilt, who was accompanied by his wife, also | bagged a pumber of other rare animals and birds during the voysge. | MAGGIE-ME M SORRY — SHOLILD GET CK BAC AND ATFEND B’i’ACOKBUSNESS - COLLEEN- LP-IM BLIT WE THE T | Pittsburgh . San Diego 9, 4; Los Angeles 3, 2. Seattle 17, 3; Hollywood 3, 0. Sacramento 1, 3; San Francisco 0, 2. National League Brooklyn 5, 3; Boston 1, 2. Chicago 3; Cincinnati 6. St. Louis 7, 2; Pittsburgh 1, 8. New York 2, 2; Philadelphia 6, 18. American League Philadelphia 1, 3; New York 2, 4. Cleveland 2, 3; Chicago 8, 4. Boston 2; Washington 6. Detroit 8, 1; St. Louis 1, 6. GAMES SATURDAY Pacific Coast League San Francisco 2; Sacramento 1. Los Angeles 14; San Diego 1. Portland 6; Oakland 3. Seattle 7; Hollywood 3. National League St. Louis 2; Pittsburgh 4. Chicago 1; Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 1; Boston 4. New York 4; Philadelphia 1. American League Boston 8; Washington 6. Detroit 2; St. Louls 3, Cleveland 0; Chicago 1. Philadelphia New York 4, STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 86 52 1 59 ol | 59 .66 68 60 3 60 6 60 d 57 (] League Won Lost .12 40 .12 41 60 49 60 49 54 55 49 65 Boston 46 66 Philadelphia .........31 ” American League Lost 39 55 54 55 63 63 65 65 Pct. 623 566 566 493 451 441 438 411 Sacramento San Diego Seattle Hollywood Los Angeles Oakland ... San Francisco Portland National Pect. 643 637 1550 550 495 430 411 282 Pet. Brooklyn .. St. Louis ........ Cincinnati . New York Chicago New York Chicago Cleveland Boston .. Detroit ... Philadelphia ‘Washington St. Louis ... 530 522 622 447 420 Hank Greenberg (left), former their first basemar. homer, twe doubles and a single his own team from Fort Custer, training in the army. Detroit Tiger slugger, chats with Warden: Harry Jackson (center), of Michigan's Southern State Prison, and Leslie Kefgen, of State Correction Commission, at a game played in Jackson, Mich., where he cheered the prison nine by playing as Wearing prison baseball uniform, Hank hit a as the priseners won, 10 to 2, over Mich., where Greenberg has been That Is Wri ‘Continuea Page One) noint of continuous service. On the - House side were additional eams of lurid description intro- fuced hy a slim, short-statured ongressman from Pickett County, Tenn. He was addressed then as ep. Cordell Hull. Heving seen the picture and |,.ead the Record, I can ‘vouch fot ance that the ord proved a Congressional Rec- thoroughly ade- juate scenario. As a matter of fact there was one place where the Record was so vivid that the It had to do with the number of Germans Sergeant York picked off, According to the Record, the gaunt, .deliberate York (he was then a corporal, left in charge of a geven-man squad because all other officers and men had been killed or wounded) fired his rifle until it was burning hot and when 90 Germans marched down the hill "to surrender (42 more were pickéd up later), it was because néarly 30 of their comrades had fallen under the deadly fire of this ong-man blitzkrieg from the Tennessee uplands. The Holly- wood scripters must have decided Jthat was a little too much killing for the second elder of the Church of Christ. They cut the number in half, CALLED IT “NATURAL” Otherwise they followed the Can- SAM BARRY IS SUCCESSOR T0 HOWARD JONES Is Named Coach at USC- Will Remain Head of Basketba_l[;}aseball LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 18— Sam Barry has been appointed to succeed the late Howard Jones as It is sald the football system will | be plotted along the Jones' lines. Barry was Jones’ assistant since 1929. ‘ Barry will continue as coach of basketball and baseball too. NY DEAR-PERISH HOUGHT =1 = HAVE AT TENDED TO THAT-| WIRED "Sergéanl York” Is Movie From Congressional script writers had to tone it down. So the Boss HeW Them tten Enfirely Record SRUBTLRRIN 1 gressional Record . , . and appar- ently close enough to suit the Ser- geant, When he saw the picture for the first time, his ‘first and only comment was: “It shore was nf- tural.” The big, gangling, kinldy Ser- geant was in town recently and found the front door of the White House as wide open to him as that of his house on* the farm i “the hill country. There is at least one other door in Washington that is even wider open any time Sgt. Alvin C. York wants to walk up to it. It's the one over at the War De- partment. There isn't a man live ing (and few dead from the Rey- olution on) who is a better ad for the U. S. Army. A rip-roaring, hell- raising hill man who got religion and had to wrestle with his con- science before patriotism overcame his objections to war, York is the kind of hero that the propagan- dists dream about. And the seript writers, too. Imagine having to do nothing more than sticking to the letter of the Congressional Record to get a movie! i e - WOOLEN MAN HERE Wayne L. Bowen of the Utah ‘Woolen Mills arrived on the north- bound steamer Denali Saturday and Is staying ab the Gastineau Ho@:l. S 5 BUY DEFENSE STAMPS . Pleketing the New Era Engriving' codipany plant tn brickeeie 2 : mah, predident i - These