The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1941, Page 5

i A3 CONNIE LIKES HIS 1941 A'S--BUT WAIT UNTIL NEXT SEASON Connie gi By DICK CRESAP AP Feature Service PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Rookies helped so much in the Ath- drive toward the American e's top four that Connie Mack is lining up a new crop of young- sters for 1942—and they're coming from the A’s farm clubs. The 78-year-old pilot is enthusi- astic about his current team—the first late season top flighter he’s had in eight years—but he gets more ited about next year's pros- pects. letic: “We nave a 10t of good boys coming up, most of them from cur own clubs or from teams we're working with,” says Con- nie. “I only hope we find a couple good pitchers in the lot.” This might pe cailed the first season in which the Athletics have gone seriously into the farm business. “Father farm never believed in Insured Safety 4 EARNINGS On Savings Accounts ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any time. ® Start an account with $1 or more. Curreni 4% Rale Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Juneaun Phon? 3 e % . some personal attention to Herman Besse. clubs before,” explains Mack, Connie’s son and heir-ap- parent to the Athletics. “Now hes 20. — | convinced you have to have them to get ball players. You can't find them anywhere else.” To that end, the house of Mack took over Newport News in the Virginia League and Federalsburg in the Eastern Shore League last year. The A’s already had Wil- mington of the Interstate circuit and working agreements with‘Tor- onto of the International and Wil- liamsport of the Eastern. “And that’s just the beginning,” says Connie. “If* things keep breaking right for us, we're going to expand that system.” Who are some of these minor leagners the A’s hope to bring up next year? “Well,” reflects Mr. Mack, “we have two pitchers up at Toronto, Herman Besse and Porter Vaughn, who are going good this year. Both of them have been up before but needed a little more experience. ‘There’s another pitcher at Wil- mington who’s shown a lot of stuff. His name’s Freddie Caligiuri and he’s young and fast, just what we need. Jack Wallaesa, a shortstop, and a couple outfielders who can hit, Valo, are down there, too. We have first call on two Williamsport boys, Northey and Richmond. Northey's an outfielder and Richmond plays the infield. There'll be others from Newport News and Federalsburg. “I think we'll have a lot to work with next year.” The rest of the league thinks the Athletics are doing pretty well this year. And if they had better pitching . .. . “Pitchers, of course, are wha{ we need,” says Connié. “We have a good hitting and fielding club. And you have to give plenty of credit to our youngsters like Pete Suder, Al Brancato, Sam Chap- man, Dick Siebert, Benny McCoy and the rest of them. They've helped a lot.” is particularly high on Suder The rookie third baseman is all Connie predicted he'd be at the start of the season when he called him “another Lajoie.” “Our pitching is getting better as it goes along,” says Connie. “Phil Marchildon, Tom Ferrick 'and Lester McCrabb are settling down now and I expect a lot 'from them next year. You have ;to take time with these young- 'stels." Mr. Mack is optimistic then about 1942? “Anything can happen,” says Connie, “but I'm still hoping for another championship—and wbo knows? Next year might be it. I Il'mven't given up yet.” i DAt s gt S i BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Earle Felix Mackiewicz and Elmer | SACRAMENTO 'LEAD HACKED BYSEATTLE Seals Wh ifingels with Two Homers - Each | with Man on Base (BY ASSOCYATED PRESS) The Seattle Rainiers cut Sacra- | mento’s league lead to seven games yesterday, winning after overcom- |ing a six-run lead in the fourth when they scored seven times, driv- |ing George Munger and Bill Cap- linger from the box. Johnny Humphries and Thorn- ton Lee, Portland hurléers, were driven from the box by San Diego }yestcrday. Yank Terry pitched a two-hitter with the Padyes scoring seven in the fifth inning. {in a free hitting affray yesterday with the Seals getting two homers, each with a man’on. ‘Oakland yesterday . to take both iends of a doubleheadep with a thrilling abbreviated nighteap. GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League San Francisco 7; Los Angeles 3. Portland 2; San Diego 9. Hollywood 4, 4; Oakland Seattle 12; Sacramento 7. National League St. Louis at Boston, postponed,' rain, Cincinnati at Philadelphia, post- poned, wet grounds. Pittsburgh 0, 2; Brooklyn 9, 6. 2, 3. Dled Fighting Nazxs( Robert Minnick, Jr. Robert Minnick, Jr., above, 22- year-old native New Yorker who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force last autumn, is reported dead in England after his plane crashed during combat on the east coast, San Francisco took Los. Angeles The Hollywood Stars outbatted | Travis Is Liable fo GetRaise WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. major leaguer who seems pretty certain to win a battle for more salary next season is Cecil Travis, Washington infielder, The' quiet, is having his best year, hitting around .375 and contending with Ted Williams of Boston and Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees for the American League batting champ- jonship. American League | Philadelphia 0, 0; Chicago 4. 1. Washingion 8; Cleveland 6, 12 in- | nings. | New York 3, 8; Detroit 12, 3. Boston 2, 10; St. Louis 3, 7 STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coust League wan Last Pt ramento 86 53 619 n Diezo 78 59 .569 Seattle 8 59 569 Holiywood 68 68 500 Los Angeles 60 4 443 San Francisco 61 ki 442 Oakland 60 8 (3.’1 Portland 57 80 National League | Won Lost Pct, } Brooklyn 5 40 652 | St. Louis 72 41 637 Cincinnati 62 49 559 Pittsburgh 60 52 536 !New York 56 55 505 Chicago 49 67 422 | Boston 46 66 411 Philadelphia 31 81 277, American League Won Lost Pet. |New York 81 410 669 | Chicago 64 55 538 | Boston 61 56 521 Cleveland 59 56 513 Detroit 54 64 458 Philadelphia 51 65 440 Washington 49 6 430 | st. Louis 48 66 421 Piscatorial | p " Patriarch | N i ERWIN, Tenn., Aug. 20. — “Oid |Bill” is a rainbow trout, but like long-time government ‘“em» he has been retired on pension. | “oOld Bill” is the patriarch of the | government fish hatchery here. Too {14 and weighs 13 pounds — “Old | | Bill” still receives careful attention | from tub hatchery attendants, 1 Ere e e | i Imports of Scotch whisky totaled | 2,200,000 gallons in January-April, the Department of Commerce- re-, ports. ""PERFECT SPECIMEN ther Bob Feller of the Cmel-nd Indians was !nnd to be a perfect physical speclmell by two doctors who examined him in Cleveland and may have to stretch hlmsel(; u:‘nt those 28 he promlaed k3 for the selective service board. Here Dr. Joseph C. Placek, Jr., exam- ines the 22-year-old hurier’s teeth. ducted into the army for several months. Feller is not expected to be in- W WELL-V'VE GOT TO GET BACK TOTUWN- B HOW KI e woge IS FARM-LIFE ? ACIOUS-LOOK AT %AT— WHAT IS THAT E -LOOKINI HIDEOUS ANIMAL IN FRON — One easy-going Georgian ! g | decision Julzl for propagation purposes—he's | f = SITKANAVAL BASE HOLDS ~ FIRST FIGHTS | i Soldiers, Sallors Marines | Don Gloves for Han- gar Smoker | Seventeen rounds of slugging, bouncing battles between soldiers, sailors and marines packed the new |hangar at the Naval Air Station lin Sitka last Saturday night, start- ing the first of a series of fight cards to be held in the new air base hangar. In the finals Slugger O'Brien of |the Army held 207 pound Happy Hoeppner to a draw after the four- | round scrap in which the TIrish soldier was outweighed 32 pounds by his buddy. Lucky Lee of the Army took a from Gabby Gallardo, {USA, in a three-round semi-final The Unknown Soldier stayed un- discovered in the fourth bout after Madman Martin of the Marines kayoed him in the first round. Tiger Traylor of the Marines was iven a decision over Slugger | 8mock of the Navy in the first bout and Hard Guy Harmon and Butch Sartina, both of the Army, and Buming Bourassa of the Navyana Co¢ky Cottick of the Marines fought | to draws in the second and third | bouts. Commander J. R. Tate, Mrs. Tate | (and their guests from Sitka sat (at the ringside for the five bouts | Promotors for the first of the |planned smokers were Sergeant Davenport, USA, and Corporal Cox; usMmc. Referee was Verhe McGra\v,‘ | jlidges were Lt. J. J. Flagherty | (DC) USN, and Lt. J. D. Butler, |CA, USA. Timekeeper was C. C. Kimes, CS, USN, and the announc- :er BM 1/c Joyal, USN. ' No date has been announced for the next smoker. ! s s e s | Bob Feller | . InTrouble CLEVELAND, Aug. 20. — Sports writers thought maybe Bob Feller was just being modest a short while 'ago when he said he doubted if a‘'modern pitcher could win more than 28 games a Year. | The way Bob was going, the ex- 'perts figured he was sure for 30, 1or more. But Feller bumped into trouble in late July and August 8UY DEFENSE BONDS (Christian DODGERS UP TWO GAMES INLEAGUE DiMaggio EE;ains Ankle Rounding Second Base | Against Tigers (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Brooklyn Dodgers expanded its National League lead to two full games yesterday, blasting the Pittsburgh Pirates in a double- header, winning the first with a; seven-run first inning and the second with a five-run eighth. Rain kept all other games in the | league from being played. Joe DiMaggio sprained an ankle yesterday as the New York Ym\-l kees divided an American League | doubleheader ~ with the Detroit | ‘Tigers, scoring eight runs in the second inning of the first ‘game and being knocked back in the sec- | ond game. DiMaggio® turned his left | ankle rounding second base in' the fourth. Jimmy Bloodworth homered in the 12th inning, giving Washington | a victory over the slumping Cleve- land Indians. The Boston Red Sox lost a pitch- ing duel with St. Louis yesterday in the opening game of a double- header and won a slugfest night- cap. Ben Williams, Boston slugger, hit three homers during the after- noon. The Chicago White Sox shut out the Philadelphia Athletics in two games, Scienfists Giving Aid War Relief Adivity of O ganizafion Revealed- Suppliesfrom U. S. BOSTON, MASS, Aug. 20—One war relief activity which has been little publicized is The Christain | elence War Relief Committee, with main offices at 237 Huntington Avenue, Boston Massachusetts. Two whousand nine hundred and. ninety- {rine cases—half a million garments —valued at $489,368.23, in the nine (months of the Committee’s exist- ence, is their record up to mree veeks ago. The, work is an activity of 'x‘he |Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and pranch Christain Science churches BEN TO THE CAR READY PID YOU TELL HAVE ALl TO By GEORGE McMANUS LEAVE IMMEDIATELY ? " remritcd 1 They are gladly given to any person in England for quick deliveries. | throughout America. Only new gar- | Fortunately, many hundreds of or those comparable o new are ac-|blankets had been shipped and had cepted by the Committee. These just arrived. are furnished almost entirely by‘ U. 8. Sewing Units members of the Christain Science| Not only are garments mads by corganization. They are shipped to # central Christain Science com- mittee, in London, where they are allocated to different almoners in Fngland and Scotland. The work a War Reilef Fund generously by is in the hands of members of the Christian Scientists. Three motor Christain Science denomination un- | kitchens have been sent and a til the garments are distributed. motor truck or van is maintained sewing units in about thirteen hun- dred places throughout the Unitad States but thousands of new gar- wents are purchased and sent, from regardless of denom:na-| The Committee in Boston is rateful for the record of goods London Store Hous: lsent as well as for the fact that It is the purpose of the Committee b(‘um\e services are so largely vol- iIn the United States to keep its untary, its overhead expense is only depov, in England supplied with an 4.1 per cent. It slso tejoices that Ldoqum.e amount of clothing and | less than one per ~ent of the gopds blankets for emergencies; so, the|shipped is all that has been lost London Committce is becoming by sinkings, known as a storehouse from shich| The main depot for shlppmz 00 emergencies can be met. This was England is located in Boston, but cvidenced by the fact that it was':shipments are als6 made from P crates of clothing from this Com- land, Oregon; New York City, and mittee which first reached Coven- Los Angeles, California try; and when the great fire oc- | e curred in London, The Christain! The Daily Alaska Fmpire has (he ESclence Wartime Committee was largest paid circulation of any A able to meet an appeal for blankets aska newao-xwr in need, Lon. " Lou Nova's little daughter, Hertha Lou, 2, welcomes her bewhijkered daddy to Augusta, Me., as he emerges from backwoods after a six-week conditioning program. Nova is toughening up for his September title bout vnth Joe Louis. He will finish his training i in’ Nav York. = Royal Arrival on the West Point Prince Carl of Sweden (left) ne'plmv of Slfil“ u. S, nbopr G 3 s e ey ister to, Sweden. Ntv rdnég:n t Point. The tés with consular rnlluum for' lllmhx‘ Ml"w o s New dm and M : om Ax,h eountrl-