The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1941, Page 5

SEATTLE IS LOSER OF 2, SUNDAY PLAY Porfland Splifs with San' Diego-Seals Win One Game in Ninth Inning (By Associated Press) Sec nento dumped Eeattle in the Pacific Coast League play Sunday by taking a doubleheader and hold- ing a s Seatfle threatened several times in | | | | | | ven-game lead in the leazue. | the nishtcap but lacked the scoring punch Portland divided a twin contest Sunday with San Diego and setting k the Padre’s pennant hopes. s Angeles and Oakland split a t Sunday. d, in a story book win in the opener, lost the nightcap with cisco. The Seals put over nning run in the first of the ninth inning. SUNDAY Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 6, 2; Oakland 3, 4. San Franci Seattle 1, 3 Pertland Sacramento 2, 4. an Diego 8, 2. League Brooklyn 3, 3 ¥ 6; New York 9, 4. Chicago 5, 6; Philadelphia 8, 7. Pittsburgh 3, 7; Boston 4, 3. American League New -York 5, 8; Chicago 1, 5. Boston 3, 2; Cleveland 4, 5. Washington 3; St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 4; Detroit 7. GAMES SATURDAY Pacific Coast League Oakland 2; Los Angeles 0. Portland 2; San Diego 0. San Francisco 5; Hollywood 4 Seattle-Sacramento did hot play. National League Pittsburgh 3, 4; New York 5, 3. Chicago 7; Brooklyn 1. A'S ‘COACH AND FOUR’—Mana, St. Louis 2; Philadelphia 4. Cincinnati 4; Boston 2. American League New York 7; Cleveland 2. Boston 0; Chicago 3. Washington 5; Detroit 6, ten in- nings. Philadelphia 1; St. Louis 6. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost 89 56 80 63 81 62 72 63 64 64 61 League Lost 43 44 50 Pet. 614 559 556 .503 447 Sacramento San Diego Seattle Hollywood Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland Portland | ‘National | Won Brooklyn 8 St. Louis 6 Cincinnati 68 441 427 Pct. 645 633 576 441 ’ Pittsburgh . 64 55 .538 Nat. Defense " ToBe Aided | By?gsebal ‘Professionals, Majors and Minors fo Contribute to | Cause on Thursday } WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — Pro- fessional baseball’ will make its "contribution to National Defense with special exercises in all ball parks of both major and\ minor leagués on Thursday, August. 28,/ ger Connie Mack of the A’s credits the team’s valiant climb from cellar to Earle Brucker (right), who spends hours coaching young moundsmen. Busy with & hurling lesson are, left to right: Relief Pitcher Tom Ferrick; Luman Harris, rovkie who comes from | Birmingham, Ala.: Phil Marchildon, the Pennetang, Ontario, rookie. YANKSWIN - BY SPURTS ON SUNDAY | | | i {Cleveland in Third Place |~ Now-Browns Jump . | ; from Cellar (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The New York Yankees took bo'h ends of a doubleheader Bunday from the Chicago White Sox inj| the American League in late in-' ning spurts. The first game was !tled one-all in the ninth ifning jand the second game was decided with a five-run rally in the eighth’ inning, | { The Cleveland Indians climbed (past the Boston Red Sox to third |p!qcr Sunday by taking a double {contest while St. Louis Browns |Jutaped from the cellar to sixth, |place in a tenth inning rally and' | victory over the Washington Sena- |tors. Rain washed out the second |game | | Betroit beat Philadelphia Sun-| }day on the eight-hitter pitched by { Al Benton. | 'MOST WESTERLY | erege S ThER - WEATHER STATION Dodgers in - WILL BE SET UP, Close R j Juneau Man fo Install Ob- 05€ Kace, ; servation Equipment | Nal_ leaglle‘ |- atAfulsland ! 2 | } The most westerly Weather Bu-~ Cin(i"na" Sweeps Doub|e_ header from Giants— | Phillies Take Two |reau observation station in North America will be put in operation (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Whitlow Wyatt drove. in the win- Rex Rhoten, Junior Meteorolo- gist 'in" the Weather Bureau sta-; f tion here, will leave on the Coast t A truly amazing new stock of fall’'s most striking wool- ens. The largest ever to be shown in Alask All advance sale prices, we con- tracted for this stock befare price increases. You'll save handsomely now. @ 54" wide @ 100% All Wool @ Dress Weights @ Suitings @ Coat Fabrics @ Plaids @ Checks @ Herring Bones @ Tweeds @ Flannel @ Covert @ Diagonals @ 75 Colors at Perfect fabrics for dresses coats, suits, slack, suit: casual clothes, or school types, and a gorgeous se- lection of colors and fabrics. Shop early for best selec- Guard cutter Hermes late today, or tomorrow, to install the: equipment | within the next month, it was learned _today. ning run Sunday, enabling Brook- lyn to take the nightcap in a dou- tions, and save during our 61 70 483 426 New York 57 Chicago 52 Boston .48 n Philadelphia . 35 84 American League Won Lost 84 43 66 59 63 57 Secretary Morgenthau announces. |in the station at Attu Island, away 403 Arrangements for this nationwide out on. the-westernmost tip -of thc ' Baseball Defense Bond Day pro-|Aleutian chain. i 5 394 gram were made by the Treasury| The ‘station will be tended by i‘:"t;‘:“:\,:" ,f‘;::l‘“L::‘:u: r:::’ ’,;;: ot.| Department - with - the cooperation Charles: F. Jones, {vhu with his Oardthils Amde’ & desen: -Kite 661, Of baseball officials. Ceremonies will wife will teach at the Bureau of the fitst. game and drove: Kirby 528 be held in 135 minor league parks Indian Affairs school on Attu.The Higbe from the mound in two In-| ‘so5.and at the seven games scheduled Joneses arrived at.the isolated lt- o0 | ble. bill with St. Louls, splitting advance showing. (the games and allowing Brooklyu ‘Rcai LoveAAct In Juneau It's Behrends fdr Values! P New York Chicago Cleveland Frank Kovacs and bride Marriage of Frank Kovacs and Virginia Wolfenden, California tennis stars, July 14, in Indianap- olis has been revealed. The two are shown at Rye, N. Y. where both competed in the grass court tennis championshins. L 63 61 .58 . 66 - 53 - 68 S ] 69 51 68 Boston Detroit St. Louis:“: Philadelphia Washington c e IPLENTY O DOES " BUT CANT KILL | Does so plentiful that they re- ;rused to rise when stumbled over by hunters, and others so tame |they would almdst eat out of one’s {hand, but no bucks is the report ‘brcusht back by four hunters. | The four hunters, Minard Mill, |Harry 1. Lucas, Joe Thomas and {James Orme, went to Youngs Bay |last Saturday afternoon for deer. :They returned deerless. 434 429 — e | RAIN AN FROST | Tarana had 25 days of rein dur- ling July and to top that off had !a frost on the last day of the 'month. :sm H COOKE ,wg;rur that day in major league parks: | tle 468 ,Am‘pnrucipatwn by mayors, postmas- Rhoten will instruct Jones in the Program arrangements call for ters, officials of the Defense Sav- ings staff, American Legion bands and bugle and drum corps and dis- tribution of ‘literature by the Boy Scouts of America. | A special feature of the obsery- |ance in each park will be a brief retording to be played over pub- lc address systems. This includes selections from *“Any Bonds To- day?”, the Defense Savings Pro- gram's theme song which Irving | Berlin wrote for the Treasury De- {partment, and a short talk by the Secretary of the Treasury. Secre- tary Morgenthau will be introduced on the recording by Commissioner Landis, — e WARNING Portland Island is a Fox Ranch and being operated. Shooting at or on this island by hunters is strict- ly forbidden. adv. FORREST R. BATES. TUNES UP ¥ isle yesterday, according lo ch i ¢ | ' sCincinnati swept a .doubleheader wireless information received here,l’m“l {-4he, Glants Sunday, -Herry | weather observation work while he'z:“mm:a"filzo Ty W {is at the island. 4 | ¥ * | Rhoten will also, visit other' t::" w:‘“;;t"l‘:o":l &:‘lg‘;:";;;’g;b: X](‘:::::;so:fi;v:t“; s;:t.x‘x(lm:n:;‘ ‘::f Sunday. by stealing six bases in the . 4 .. |opener and hitting three homers ‘?‘:;flk&“zmfi::; tth;:m:fheer:pe:z d in-the nighteap and driving Char- % e lie 'Root from the mound in the to me to Juneau in about six | nd _game. Moo Bob Klinger won his eighth con- secutive victory Sunday for Pitts- PLANE CRASHES AT ATLIN iburgh in the nightcap Bunday after Pllot F. J. Baker and his brother Boston took a 12-inning game in {A. W. Baker, flying from Portland, the opener. Oregon, to Fairbanks recently es—i - caped injury at Atlin when their| RBIGGEST BUCK TO DATE Culver monoplane crashed during |a takeoff at the air port. The plane | was completery wrecked. e —— Largest deer reported this sea- son was brought in from Admiralty Island several days ago by BiH HIS NAME IS MUDD Byington who knocked over a four- Dr. James L. Mudd, promlnenl[pomt buck the first day of hunt- physician of St. Louis,” Mo., is 2 ing season and returned to Juneau round trip passenger on the Prince o Thursday. George booked for Skagway and ~Weight of the return. known, g not deer was KHAND FOR NATIONAL T | | B M Behrends QUALITY SINCE /88T Senale’s .BiggesleebaIé- : 0f Season Is One Made on Exfending Seledive Service (Cuntinued from Page One) man Senators never make a ma- ot Jor speecn auring the first year.) and the Senators I talked with| Although reading his speech and couldn't remember any other who|never making one gesture, the Sen- had so quickly broken the prece-[ator from Texas convinced every dent of long silence. Some fresh- one that he's no amateur at get- ENNIS TOURNEY ting ' his ideas: over verbally. His voice, without * sttaining, carridd right up into the spider-web tem= porary steel crossbeams holding up the sagging roof. After spending 20-odd minutes explaining that he intended to sup- port the President in all his cons stitutional duties; that' he was "(}{ !defense and the destruction of di tetorship even if it means g to war, and thus warming 4 hearts of administration supports ers, Senator O'Daniel turned the | opposition’s frowns to grins wit ia two-minute statement that would not support extension | selective service training. | The new Senator didn't ry there at breaking precedents eith The next day, he introduced an a \endment to the bill' under dig- {cussion. It had ' to do with Ial ion defense contracts. By Senator |O’Daniel's own description, t hig 'amendment ‘“breezed through t! Senate faster than Hitler w through Holland.” | The Senator had his lmendmfl“ reconsidered. It. “breezed through” just as fast again. That was alme the end of business for the :g —a practically jammed first w {for a freshman Senator. | — WHEN IS A QUORUM? Sen. Bennett Champ Clark | Missouri interfupting the proceeds |ings for some minutes. to deplol the fact.that “with only seven s | elght members.on the floor, as any» i body could easily see by the |eye (there-are such times), when & quorum” cAll, is denied . on the igmun_d that a quorum. was comé clusively. presumed tobe P ! —because no actual business had been transacted since the last |quorum call. 3 Senator Clark’s complaint lou’; little favor at the moment, but will be of interest to all gall visitors who find it a much I |tedious job to count Senators th empty chairs, On the other side the explanation that if con H | | | | | » and stamina to contend with the Miss Jacobs, slthough an attack men sat in their seats all day ' nament. 7 DILLON GRAHAM its Editor, AP Feature Service FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Aug. 25. —1If ‘Alice - Marble could designate her successor as queen of the courts there's no doubt but that she'd se- lect pretty little Sarah Palfrey Cooke. Sarab (has been /her close com- panion and doubles partner for years. The pair ‘won ghe Ux S. doubles champiohship in 1937-38- 89-40, And, -although Alice can't tap her choice, most tennis enthusiasts figure that Sarah is as good a bet as any of the other contenders in the mational singles tournament starting here August 30. Sarah’s ' chief ‘rivals—as usual-- will . be a pair of Californians: - 1.—The veteran Helen Jacobs, who beat her'in the 1934 and 1935 finals, and’ who held the title ‘from has already won. the national ifA- door and clay court championships. Peak in '34-'35 From a singles 'competitive standpoint Sarah reached her peak when she drove into the final round in 1934 and 1935. But many experts insist she is playing better tennis now than ever before. They attribute her new-found ‘success to changes she has made. in her game. 2—Pauline Bets, a comparative youngster -in top flight tennis whe drop shot and increased confidence and aggressiveness. | Her husband of a few .months, the former amateur ace Elwood Cooke, has helped strengthen her game with ‘hours of tutoring this summer. She won three big invitation tournaments in a row this year, beating ' Helen - Jacobs in the finals .pf: one, bpt. lgst her first These_ inplude ;¢ . new . forehand | contest.: with , Pauline . Bels, Miss| writers grip:imore, mfid.’n(nu op-| &hlflyg Der in;the title round | the ‘veteran Miss Jacobs has'paksed | so0-called -newcomers: She may have spin; & “hetier "supyice; 1 piverack | of? thie “BAGYrn Girass' ‘Court, tours|ner prime and hasn't the speed too much power snd stathina for | askn - newspaper, ! Still Going Strong younger crop. But she has coun- Sarah has authored one of the|founded them by “eliminating one |finest records in women’s tennis. youthful threat after another to wight times in 11 years she has|reach the finals in 1939 and 1940. been doubles champion, once with|So, despite the fact that she has seuy Nuthall, threé times with been a top flighter for a decade Helen Jacobs and four ' times wlt,h:lnd @ half, she may well stroke her Alice Marble. And she has won| Way to the crown now that the championships, abroad, too. |lvp‘rpntly unbeatable Miss Marble For several years now sports I8 out. I 8 have been saying that| Miss Betz sppears best:among the concentrated on her none-too- strong forehand might upset her, These three appear to be the best bets, although a surprise win- ner might come from among Helen | Bernhard, Virginia Wolfenden Ko- vacs, Pat Canning, Dorothy May! Bundy or Louise Brough. — . — mmmmnmmm| largest paid cireulstion. of any ‘Al | J would get precious little done, |cluding preparation of speec] for the debate on extension & selective service. - ee——— . Magnesium is the lightest tural metal commercially able. ¥ " | - - et —— Emopire Clussifieda Pay! —————— BUY DEFENSE FT. 2 " 3