The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1946, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1946 Rookle (amers Is Tilfing Niches Of Older ldol Prewar Stars of Diamond Must Look to Laurels in Comeback Tries By Jerry CHICAGO — Ted Williams, Di Maggio, Dick Wakefield, Jc Gordon and the rest of the Ame can League'’s pre-war pippins be ter be good in their comeba campaigns next season, because a flock of rookies appear primed to steal the spotlight. | A survey of Junior Circuit rosters reveals that every club has at least one newcomer who may grab the headlines if established stars find their rows hard to hoe after war- | caused layoffs. ¢ Liska Joe | FINAL SCORES AT BASKETBALL The follov.mg are final scores of basketball games played last Satur- day night: Manhattan 57; Villanova 47 Holy Cross 36; Coast Guard Aca- demy 31. Massachusetts State 58; Hamilton 417. Yale 57; Brown 45, Cornell 77; Princeton 34, Colgate 67; Penn State 51. Bowling Green 49; Ohio Univer sity 41, St. John's 80; Niagara 37. Dartmouth 55; Army 53. Syracuse 53; Temple 52. West Virginia 62; Carnegie Tech Navy 53; George Washington 42. Oklahoma A & M 64; Fort Riley, Kas. 43. South Dakota State 60; Creigh ton 49. Lake Forest 25; Elmhurst 24 Minnesota 64; Great Lakes 49. Detroit 43; Marquette 36. Illinois 70; Chicago 29. Indiana 44; Ohio State 39. | CAGE CROWN CONTENDERS | MATCHED U Four of Nation’s Top Quins, Paired Off in Clashes This Week (By Joe Reichler) NEW YORK, Jan. 21 Four teams gunning for National Col- lege basketball honors headline thi ! week's cage card, with unbeaten Notre Dame meeting Kentucky and | Wyoming matching shots lwlrv with Oklahema A. & M | The South Bend Irish, currently enjoying the number one rating by | virtue of their 10-0 record against | some of the country's strongest ag- gregations, meet their stiffest test of the season Suturday ‘in the once-beaten Wildcats. The Ken- tuckians have won 12, including a | 50-32 trouncing of Tennessee Sat- | urday. | Notre Dame tunes | Kentucky encounter by meeting | Marquette Tuesday, while the | Wildcats travel to Atlanta to op- pose Georgia Tech in a Southeast- | ern conference ccatest The Wyoming-Oklahoma Aggies up for | the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | top as Ohio State was upset by In- | diana 44-39. Big Six—Kangas, by virtue of a 53-52 win against Oklahoma, on ‘ top with 4-0. Big Seven—Colorado Aggies first ‘\uth 2-0, after upsetting Colorado buuthem — Duke, unbeaten in 1m<’ht league games, still onh top. North Carolina is seecond. Southeastern — Louisiana | still ahead with 3-0. Southwestern — Baylor and Ar- kansas tled for first with 3-1. Pacific Coast (Northern Division) —Oregon State split its two games with Oregon to remain on top with <-1, Washington second with; 3-2. Pacific Coast (Southern Division) —California and Southern Califor- nia remained tied for first as a re- sult of splitting their eries. Each hss a 5-1 record: Sporls Shorts RICHMOND, Cslif.. Jan. 21— Little Toney Penna, colorful Day- ton, O., professional golfer and the winner of the Richmond Open, pock~ eted $2,000 in Victory bonds ‘today and headed for Phoenix, next stop on the winter tournament circuit. ‘The final round here Sunday pro- ducted a thrilling climax when Pen- na, needing a birdie 4 to win, rolled in a putt of about six feet. He was the last to finish among those with State ,a chance to win top money. Three stars, Sam Byrd, Detroit, two-game Xluhé 220-pound this city tomor: Johnny night PORTLAND, Ore 1846 National PGA g will be hald in Por to 25. Robert A £ays PGA Presid the Por only PGA schedulad for year Byren Nelson, the 1945 champion automatically qualifies as defendi champion *“ CARNEGIE IN ONLY JUNEAU BOWLING WIN Ketchikan Elks Miss Sweep of Inter-Lodge Alley- ing by Pair of Pins Two pins ail that stood yes- terday between Ketchikan Elk bowlers and a_clean sweep of their inter-city matches against Juneaa lodgemen and ladies. Claude Car- negie, Juneau captain, salvaged the ey August Hudson nt K { tournament will be the ponsored tournament northwest - this - > NEGRO CIRCUITS AFTER PLACE IN ORGANIZED BAL! DALLAS, Texas mlmm.vr A. B. (Happy) Chandler all baseball, including even the emateurs, should be under on= head. He also reveals that Negro Diamond Leaders have. disc the question of reorganizing the leagues on a basis that would pe mit their entry into organized base- hall Here to are Jan. 21.—Com- speak at Achievement banquet, the Com- missioner at a press conference, disclosed that the presidents of the | two Negro Leagues had conferred with him, President Ford Frick of the National League and President ' Will Harridge of the American | League. a Sports | ide the Ketchikan only victory for his After capturing team matches more Juneau hut lost the single 5-gam tool Men Singles by Carnegie took opening game, 213 to 140 for Ma but slowed down to finish ou 169 and 175. Maloca cam to count a 192 then a 224 with a 557 loca, with back to finish Carnegie's Earlier in the day, Doubles: Bd Radde and Bob Hen ping, for Juneau, rolled 542 493 against First City counts 477 and 632 by Halm réspectively, out Count Ketchikan woman woh both Singles and Doubles. in the solo event were Ketchikan, 492 420. In Doubles Juneau If you don’t know (and a good A toddy’s made with whiskey :alps in the Doubles pin in a hairbreadth contest between Carnegie and Jack Maloca. a big lead in their 556 total against in the Men's and of and Howard, in Pedersen, | Lavenik, Junedu,: 1* war contract schemcs, ana using Davlin, PAGE THREE 449, Hulmqum 413; Ketchikan— Oaksmith 493, Bailey 403. In the five-man team rolling, Ketchikan was victorious by a mar- gin of 741 pins, chalking up a match total of 13,144 pins in’the five rounds against the 420-Men’s 12,403, In Saturday night's. final round, Kgtchikan ran wild and t | knocked over 2,770 compared With ®| 2441 for Juneau x| a In the Ladies’ Team division, Ketchikan rolled a match total of 10,640 against 10,386 for an edge of 254 pins over Juneau's feminine brigade - WASHINGTON—James M. Cur- ley, 71, four times mayor of Beston, fourth term Congressman ahd ex- 5 | Governor of Massachusetts, has been found guilty ot taking part the mails to defrauc. host oughter) and water. 4 little sugar plus a lemon twist— Makes a compliment fine they can’t vesist. James B. Wilson Iows 49; Purdue &3: Mark PFry, Oakland, Calif.,, and Ben Hogan, Hershey, Pa., were deadlock- ed with a chance for first at 281 when 38-year-old Penna dropped his winning putt for a 280 iotal. Chandler said these conference: were at the request of the ¢ League Presidents and his revela tion came in reply to a question re- garding the signing of Jackie Rob- inson, a Negro, to @ ternational League, cont Chandler said he w asked if he also would be Commissioner for the Negro Leagues. “I told them to get their house in order then come to baseball with a petition for re- cognition,” Chandler declared I see no reason why the Neg Leagues cannot become a part ¢ organized baseball with the Com- missioner serving them as he does other leagues.” - A Carolina wren once constructed | its nest largely of hairpins Most highly touted of the bud- | ding hot-shots are outfielders Gil-| UCLA 41; Stanford 29 bert Coan of Washington and Wal- Southern California ter (Hoot) Evers of Detroit and fornia 51 catcher Sherman Lollar of Cleve- Oregon State 59; Oregon 45. Rl S Arizona $9; Bl Toro Marines 38, | Deen beaten once in 11 engage- Owner Clark Griffith of the Sen-| Washington 67; Idaho 55. | ments while the Cowboys have lost ators says Coan, with only two Celorado A & M 50; Colorado 46. | f’""' ”‘l g ‘Th: far .W‘;;t“""*” years of professional ball behind ~Wyoming 63; Utah 43. [{Swantped. DIgh GA-AS |88 UHANE Him, will start in Centerfield, Denver 43; Utah State 37. lf T Hah: o Major, HhdeiANaH flafiked by veterans Stan Spence. Nprth Caroling 53; South Garo- {leams, already narfowed five, and ex-Clevelander Jeff Heath. lina 31 lmayl recelve, furthet pruning S« Coan, a left-handed hitter, fleet Vanderbilt 39; Mississippi 31. BNy (4-0, \dhngles. wih - Lirake and husky, led one Sbithern Asso- THkaq §7; Texss Obrisian 4z, /Spuyiertl Oomierercs leacer, SALM:- ciation in seven different depart- Baylor 43; Rice 35. | day.” Holy Cross (7-0), is host to ments last year at Chattanooga, Kentucky 50; Tennessee 32. | powerful - Rhode s e s b topped by a lusty 372 batting aver- Georgia Tech 36; Alabama 30. | Thursday and meets Tufts Satur- 5 Duke 42: Clemson 29. ;da,\ West Virginia (11-0), takes on o A i I i o Alderson-Broaddus Saturday, while He elted L pits. or 8 tos, o | Gettysburg (7-0), tackles LaFayette 345 bases; led in stolen bases with the EhiE Huy. gzly::.m;gt:rdzvaa:“;pll%;,];:j bll}:(“kfl\i The Major Conference standings soclation in doubles, with 40, and at & glance: ~ that Bivens wants a crack at the s Big Ten—Minnesota, unbeaten in winner, too, but he'd like to meet h“fi:‘wz:;:; L‘,immmm il o three league games, moved to the ‘the loser first. Bivins is here . to pect great things from Evers, who was a team-mate of Bengal Star Wakefield at Beaumont, Tex., in 1942. While Wakefield copped the Texas League batting title that yvear with .345, Evers was runner- up with 322 and was much more adroit defensively than Dick. Lollar, who led the International League in hitting with 367 last year, is rated the best catching prospect the Baltimore Orioles have sent to the Big Leagues in a de- cade. He was purchased by the Tribe for $10,000 under a working sgreement, strictly a bargain grab for the Tribe. | Ashion Derby Will Be Run | battles Friday and Saturday bring | together two of the foremost fives |in the nation, The Aggies, winners I of the NCAA title last year have The. touch-of-quality is definitely upon Old Thompson because it's blended inKentucky by Glenmore. Glenmore Distilleries Co., Incorporated Louisville, Kentucky. OLD HOMPSOX Blondid Whkiskhey W0 86.8 proof—65% grain meutral spirits, B ETTER 55; Cali- LONDON, Jan. 21.—Henry Cotton, fcrmer British Open golf champion, said today he had learned “on good authority” that Byron Nelson would take part in the British Open on July 1, after Nelson completes a South Africa tour. ; LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21.—Cleve- land’s classy negro heavyweight — Jimmy Bivins—is passing the word around that he wants to meet the loser of the Joe Louis-Billy Conn title fight next June. Bevin's man- ager—Claude Shane—hastily adds BLE*N D F O-R Before Pearl Harbor, American re- fineries were producing about 40,000 barrels of 100 octane gasoline daily; during the war they turned out more than half a million. ASHTON, Idaho, jan. 21.—Seven- teen dogsled teams have entered the Ashton Derby which will be | run off here Feb. 2 for the first | time in four years. | Everett Hessman of. Ashton, wh> ( “mushed” home his team of cros:- | ed, Hounds and Irish Setters i3 championship in the last three years before the wartime halt, will| defend his title. The sleds will circle a two-mile | course nine times in two separate ! heats—racer dogs and worker dogs. | Derby Chairman A. R. Clouse said .the Mason Kennels of Los Anegeles would be represented. ; Other events of the day will in- clude horesdrawn cutter races, snowplane races and horse-ski driv- ing races. Formerly WOODLEY PIONEER AIRLINE of AIRWAYS ALASKA Ixey’xe still coming back by the thousands—those fighting men from éverseas. America’s railroads are doing. their part to get them home as rapidl'and comfortably as possible. But civilian travel conditions will improve. Before very long you can take that trip East, to Colorado, or other of the many scenic areas served by Union Pacific, Travel in comfort over one of the nation’s smoothest roadbeds. 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