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Football Forecass: FRANK PICKS GOPHERS AS WINNER BIG 10 TITLE ALF BAUMAN: By GEORGE “SONNY” FRANCK Minnes: MINNEAPOLIS — Midwest foot- ball will have its great teams in 1941, despite the loss of a few ars by the draft Big Ten itself, Bernie Gophers seem ready to he tide again. Captain Bruce th will be one of the season’s really great backs and a sophomore om Montana, Herman will do all right at right half when Smith moves over to be jack of all trades. Two giant tack Odson and Wildung, will be line mainstays. It won't be easy sledding for Minnesota, though. Michigan wiil be in the midst of the battle as us The Wolverines lose Har- mon and HBvashevski but West- fall will be there and he is one of the midwest's best fullbacksand tough no matter who is in the backfield. He is undoubtedly the best spinning fullback in the coun- try. Their line is led by Wistert, equally as good as his famous brother was a few years back. Then there's Northwestern, ¢ tough in anybody's leagu= Waldorf and Ingwersen will no doubt put together a good team. They ‘will thave a goed line; with tackle Alf Bauman, and so many good backs it is useless to try to name them. Of course, there is their captain, Paul Soper, Bill De- Correvont and Clawson to men- tion a few. A change in the coaching staff at Ohio State may be the spark that will bring out a great Buckeye squad. . Their al- Taking time out from their five-day conference somewhere along the Eastern Front, Hitler and Mussolini inspectéd a war-torn Russian village and are shown as thev paused to look at a captured Soviet tank. 'I.;;" BRINGING UP FATHER He'll be a big may’ come booming back | that change in coaching Certainly never count out |the Irish. Their leader will be Juzwich, a back with All-America | class. They have the material and their new coach, Leahy, likes to win and needs to win to mak~ good at Notre Dame. Dame .um‘r | staffs. his debnt | foothalier Franck is making as a professional this fall with the New York Giants. .. S.E ALASKA FAIR SET FOR NEXT WEEKEND Farm and Home Displays- Big Stage Show Next Friday and Saturday Plans are being rushed thi week for the staging of the an- nual Southeast Alaska Fair on -4 | Friday and Saturday of next part of Northwestern line. week, September 26 and 27, it was |announced today by R. B. Martin, | Fair Manager. The fair will be open on Fri- day afternoon, continuing at night, and Saturday afternoon and eve- | ning, Martin declared. stars may be some fellows you and I never heard of. Yet there are some veteran men no coach could afford to leave off his squad. To me, Ohio State is the dark horse of the Western con- | Fair premium books, offering ference. | prizes for the best displays of ag- 1Ir a will be stronger. Illinois, | Ticultural products, home craft, with internal trouble finally set-|floral display and other depart- tled, will start to move up soon— |ments are due to be issued the lat- but not this year unless Zuppke er Part of this week. finds a couple of Red Granges. His The Ladies Auxiliary Department line is tough and Il bet that he|Will be in charge of Mrs. Ray G. will give Minnesota a good battle.| Day. Bread and cakes will be ex- Certainly they will point for this|hibited Friday afternoon and pies game. Remember what they did|and cakes on Saturday, with the to Michigan in 1939? Saturday displays under supervis- Towa and Purdue will ride the|ion of Mrs. C. C. Collen. The home lower end of the scale again, but|canning department will be cuder this league doesn’t have any weak |Mrs. Walter P. Scott; arts and sisters and any of the lower raters|amateur photography under Mrs may sock any of the top notchers|Laurel McKechnie and Mrs. W. E and run away with the champion- {Cahill; floral display under Mrs ship. The Big Ten's just like that.|C. B. Holland; native arts under And there’s Wisconsin about due|Mrs. James Hobgood and Miss under Harry Stuldreher. After a |Bessie Miller. bad start last year, he got a bunch Entertainment 1 Entertainment at the fair will] and of sophomores together for a fast; finish. | consist. of a band concert Now those fellows all have a |a 90-minute vaudeville show of| year's experience and they wiil |local talent, under direction of be mighty tough if that quar- |Mrs. Lillian Uggen. Mrs. Uggen's terback problem can be | orchestra will aiso play for the straightened out. They have an |evenings of free dancing. A com- exceptionally fine end in plete program of the fair enter . Schriner. They have a group - |tainment will later be published in| of good backs that might blos- som into greatness. They lose a good guard, Embich, and a great back in Paskvian. But those who are back will lct you know you have been in a ball game and the squad as a whole is one of the hardest hitting cutfits in the loop. The Empire. | Advance sale of admission tick-| |ets for the fair will start the lat- ter part of this week, Martin stat-| ed. Based on this ticket sale a| number of awards will be madc.! headed by a grand award of an| expensive diamond ring. Other awards will be a General Electric. Elsewhere in the Midwest, Notr. | radio and record player, donated Fair Association. “Hitler and Mussolini Inspect Captured Red Tank | | | Bison moundsman credited with 26 | Left to right, Hitler, Fiels THREE GRADES, ONE Mass., who made three grades in her first year of school. She likes billiards, arithmetic and dolls. cago yesterday. The Cubs used four DETROIT HUNTER GOES T0 YAKUTAT FORBEAR SEASON Loaded for bear, George R. O'-| Neill, wealthy Detroiter who has| jone much to spread the fame of Alaska in his home city, visited| sriefly in Juneau last night while he steamer Alaska of the Alnsku\ Steamship Company was in port. | O'Neill has made numerous trips| to Southeast Alaska in search of| big game. This trip he hopes to| get his bear in the Yakutat re-| gion. | Besids making service club talks| about his Alaskan trips, O'Neill| also has been the subject of s?v»} eral articles featured in sporting| magazin | by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company; a $50 merchan- dise credit from the B. M. Beh- rends store; a full set of dishes| from the Juneau-Young Hardware Store; a $35 suit of clothes from | the H. 8. Graves Clothing Store; | a $35 top coat from the Charles| Sabin Slothing Store; a Mixmaster from the Thomas - Hardware Sto a genuine Wheary over-night bag from the Hennings Men's Shop. Altogether, awards will reach a total value of more than $600, Mar- | tin - said. | Dezlay in holding the fair until a later date than usual is duc] to the use of the fair building by the Alaska National Guard, in- ducted into active duty early this week, it was pointed out by the naawpnoto d Marshal Keitel, Mussolini and Field Marshal Von Kluge. Moscow reports that heavy rains and fierce countere Hukhinson, | ~Bison Star, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1941. Y E A R—Fourth grade comes next for Elaine Hamilt, 7, of Revere, | SEATTLE IN LEAD NOW, TWO GAMES Sacramento Is in Second% Place, San Diego in Third Spot Defroit in Winfrom Waillinglon Chet Laabs Two Homers Gets Victory for Browns Over Mack's Athletics (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) Detroit utilized five hits yesterday | San Diego is in third place in the; to win from the Washington Sen- Pacific Coast League pennant race ators with eight hits, Schoolboy |by losing a doubleheader with Hol- Rowe was relieved in the eighth in- [lywood last night, the nightcap go- | ning by Buck Newsome but Rowe |ing eight innings. is credited with the victory. Seattle is now two games in the Chet Laabs’ homer in the twelfth } lead by defeating Los Angeles last inning yesterday gave St. Louis a;m;h'. Kewpie Dick Barrett pitch- win over Philadelphia. Laabs also |ing a four-hitter. homered in the second inning and | Sacramento remains in the second drove in a total of five runs. |spot by taking a game from Oak- UN e lland and is now two games behind | Seattle. Sacramento made three | runs in the first inning. San Francjsco defeated Portland | last night in a hitting spree, lhcf }Sl‘( 1s getting 16 hits and the Bcaven‘ 15 hits. GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 2; Los Angeles 1. Hollywood 8, 6; San Diego 2, 4. Oakland 2; Sacramento 4. £an Francisco 11; Portland 6. National League | Boston 8; Chicago 5. | Brooklyn' 3; Cincinnati 4, eleven | innings. | New York 1; St. Louis 1. Gets Honors| Former Seattle Player ls| Credited as "Most Val- uable Player” | Game | tie, called in tenth inning on ac- | {count of darkness. | American League St. Louis 9; Philadephia 8. Detroit 4; Washington 2. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 17 Freddy Hutchinson, ace Buffalo| victories this season, has been STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS named the International League’s| Pacific Coast League “most valuable player” in a poll| Won Lost Pet. |of baseball writers sponsored by | Seattle 98 68 .590 |the Rochester Democrat and Sacramento 98 2 576 | Chronicle. i{San Diego 95 74 .562 | Hutch polled 44 votes to nine for | Hollywood o T 4 | Newark’s Francis Kelleher, n'Ls‘Oakl“"_d 8 92 459 nearest competitor. Kelleher is the i:" :“‘“lc"fm 1802 459 =lc{mdjr}\g home-run slugger of lherpof,ufl:“g!_es ;g g’:’ :% [ Streytt, : | National League Hutchison is a former player | Won Lost Pet. 1\vuh the Seattle Rainiers of the|g,ooklyn 92 51 643 | Pacific Coast League. | St. Louis 89 51 636 ! A A A ; Cincinnati i 64 546 I . Pittsburgh ... ey i 4 65 542 Superintendent of |xo o o % i i Chicago 65 K 455 ! | Boston 59 82 Al . Hoonah Plant Here -, % = : Frank Wright, Jr., Manager and American League |Superintendent of the Icy Straits| Won Lost Pet. ,Sfllml)n Company at Hoonah, ar«_‘New York 96 49 662 |rived in Juneau last night on the Boston 8 66 542 |steamer Columbia after a business|Chicago 3 3 500 |trip to the States. He is a guest Cleveland 70 3 499 |nt the Baranof Hotel. | Detroit 0 75 5483 | e S A | St. Louis ....... .85 11 458 | STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE | washington 82 80 437 | IS NAMED FOR YUKON TER. philadelphia 62 83 428 | Controller G. A. Jeckell, Dawson.{ .- — |has recelved official information | from the Department of Mines and| NOTICE TO PUBLIC Resources, Ottawa, that J. E. Gib-| Motorists or bicyclists are warned ibm has been appointed Stipend- | not to«follow fire trucks as provid- |iary Magistrate for the Yukon Ter- ed by city ordinance. | ritory with headquarters at Dawson. KENNETH JUNGE, {Mr. Gibben is expected to arrive Chief of Police. !within the next few weeks and take Subscribe for The Empire. | adv. YOoul FINANCIAL AF:AU?QS WITH YOU — SURE- ThTeA i EI%G = 'M OUT TO HIM= IN OTHER , WORDS -ITS A TOUCH=- attacks have halted the Nazi invaders. HE STOPPED RINGIN'.SO HE TO SURE -V'LL over his official duties. By GEORGE McMANUS | | with the AModern’ LEAD OF BROOKLYN CUT DOWN Dodgers Lost in Battle of Pitchers - New York, St. Louis Play Tie Ry 1T TOPS . M ALL Jfor Quality, Flavor and Value!" Associated Press) Brooklyn lost to Cineinnati yes- terday aftérhoon in an eleven-inning game. Werber singled to drive in the winniny rn and incidentally Werber, drove in all of Cincinnati's scores. Darkness stopped the New York- €t. Louis game in the tenth innieg with the score tied at 1-1 The Brooklyn-Cincinnati game was a magnificent pitching duel be- tween Ernie White and Hal Schu- macher, By the loss, Brooklyn's lead in the National League race wees cut to one und one-half games. Boston hit 15 times to beat Chi- pitchers. Al Javery allowed only 12 scattered blows . Girl; “P.I;‘y Trick at | Soft Ball PHOENIX, Ariz, Sept. 17 They're tricky, those igirl soft- ballers. ! Two teams National Distillers Products Corp. New York Distributed by National Grocery Co., were hard at it here score 2-2, a baserunner on seccnd, when the batter belted one to the outfield. The play was| made at first base, with the other | runner going ‘to third | Seattle, Wash. STEW! RT RETURNING While the dust settled around ~B- D. Stewart, femitonal Com- firsk, everybody_ peiaxed. NDbOdy'day on the Pan American Airlines noticed the girl walking from|; \gestar ‘from Fairbanks, it was third toward home plate, 1dlY|gnnounced in the Bureau of Mines swinging a bat. The pitcher must|office. .Stewart will fly here from have thought it was another bat- | pairbanks following several weeks ter coming up, for the baserunner|in the Westward investigating min- ambled home unmolested. ing activities there. It was the winning run, too, .- DR L ITOE ; DUFRESNES TO ENTERTAIN OF PRINCIPLE | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dufresne will !entertain Dr. Ira Gabrielson, dir- WEST POINT, Miss, Sept. 16— ector of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- There’s one West Point grocer $0 vice, tonight at the Dufresne sum- consclentious that he refuses t0. mer home at Lena Beach. sell raw cucumbers to his customers. | The grocer contends that green cu- | cumbers are hard to digest. | MATTER ———————— KANE IN TOWN B. P. Kane, sales representative RO e 4% a7 258 b | known throughout the Territory, is Subscribe to the Dally Alaska a guest at the Baranof Hotel. He Empire—the paper with the largest plans to remain in Juneau approx- imately a week. Litfle Owlet” Likes His Piute Cradle paid circulation. Baby Jeffrey Cushing goes for a walk like this. His mother says he's been in the cradle board half a day without fretting. great advantage of the cradle board is that it causes the child to grow up with a straight back. You sel- SAN FRANCISCO—Parents dis-|dom see a stoop-shouldered Piute. tracted by fretful infants may find | they point out. relief in an old Piute Indian cus-| This cradle boatd, made for tomi—that of strapping the baby to|them by an 87-year-old ‘warrior at & primitive “cradle board.” Wadsworth, Nev, consists of a Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cushing | willow frame covered with elkhidg. By SAM JACKSON AP Feature Service Writer ' did that with son Jeffrey just u!'l‘he child is wrapped in a blan~ soon as they took him from the ket, then strapped down flat witn hospita} at. the age of two weeks. | thongs. A rush sunshade protecs Six weeks later they declarcd his head. It is decorated with ar~ ¥ the experiment an- unqualified suc- | rows. For a girl a diamond pnuh cess. ' | would be used. The cost wasalout The believe ~that a | 88, 4 Cushings

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