The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1946, Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1946 SEALSLEADING COAST LEAGUE Angels Entertain Seattle as First Full Week Gets Underway (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Pacific Coast baseball leagt opens its first full week of play in the 1946 season today This afternoon Los Angsles will play Lost to Seattle. The other thrce centests are night and will pit*San Francisco against San Die- go, Portland against Oak and Hollywood at Sacramento. In last week's abbreviated op schedule, San Seattle three times to top th2 league standings. Los Ang:zles is in second spot with two wins and a single less in three games with Sacramento. Oak- land and San Diego are tizd for third after their four game series Each won two. Portland and Hollywood are tied for iifth, cach having won a game from the othcr. — e SEATS FOR BiG MIX TAGGED AT CENTURY LEVEL - BY MEIER NEW YORK, April 2.—TF hoo wheels ted revolving in cornest today for the most fabulcu fight in hoxin ncavyweighl champicn Joc at the Y: Cheller Dindy, loo pe 2 pounds, was schedul>d to shove off tc his permanent training quarters at Greenwood Lakes, N. J., 24 hours after Promoter Mike Jaco lixed a top price of 8100 for side seats, the highzst ever ed offi for a fight. This is 800 percent the 825 tep for th first Cean: shindiz at Polo Groun in 1941 and 100 percent more than the $50 top charged for Tex Rick- ard's tamous fights invelving Jack Dempsey in the “Golden Twenties” era. Announczment of the at - which Jacobs pre sly hinted, plus a scale of $5), $30, $20 and $10 for less advantageous seats in the 100,00C-capacity stadium, as- sured a record gross gate of $3,000, 000 or better for the lonz on'l pated return go. The present gate record $2,658,660 paid by 104,943 spoctators for the second Dempsey-G s 8 ney scrap in Chicago in Sept:mber, 1927, when the still debated “lon-- count” occurrsd. Rickard clfrgod een and Biily C is the d an official $40 top for this one, but unofficially was reported to have sold the first thres rinsside rows at $100 a seat. Conn, knocked out in the round in his first chance at the tillc will merely strike a few poses for newspaper photographers when he arrives at Gresnwcod Lakes today. He plans to start serious training tomorrow. ' “I'll win the title this timz for sure,” he said. Louis, meantime, is working out at West Baden, Indiana. OWEN LATEST SIGNER WITH MEXICO LOOP Dodgers” Star Cafcher fo Be South of Border Player-Manager L MEXICO CITY, April League President Jorge Lelizves he has another lif shell in the making for t Leagues. Quite pleased over s acquisition ens in the past few days, Laseball magnate declared “two or three other soon will ka2 playing e dapper sterday big lea- in his He declined to them, but said they should be here next week Meanwhile, it is reported that idy Ker infielder of the “ork Giants, has tw down offer from the Mexican name Buddy revealed that he rejected a bid of $55,000 for three seasons of play in Mexico. Buddy was the first- string shortstop for the New York- r, but may lose the post this spring d to a five contr with and ge the Terreron, Mexico, team Branch Rickey, President of the seid at Dayto Owen wrote him he cash bonus of $12 his five-year contract - i BEACH, gona to Fla. With the Mexico t members gers is tk hizited by alling right pitched @ er in se 35 ye: nst Jersey City's Gian 21 batters a anned sever Pete Reiser, Lavagetto, an and Dixie two- day , faced T Billy Don Poget, Walker. HOUSTON, Texas—Having wal- loped their Beaumont, Texas Leaguc farm club 17-9 yestorday, the New York Yankeses hope tc flash some of the same hitting power against the Houston Buffs, another Texas League squad, today. Charley Kell- er and Joe DiMaggio gave the Wil fans at Beaumont an eyeful of clouting prowe: Keller pcled two homers and dreve in sevin runs while DiMaggio connect- ond four singles in five trips to the plate. or o homer SAN FRANCISCO — When the San Francisco Seats mads a movie of Manager Lefty O'Doul’s hitting classes, Sal Teormina was picksd as an example of a batsman Wwith a ktad “bitch”. So all Sal did was lead the club in training in virtu- ally every hitting department. ‘NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION I | | | | Beach, .4, THE DAILY ALASKA EMBIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA 1 SHIPPING BILL - WINNING SKI J UM P_—waiter Biettla of Ishpeming, Mich., sears through the air to win the Eastern amateur ski jump- ing championship on Torger Tokle hill at Laconia, N, H. 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