The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1946, Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1946 Ball Players Signing Up; Prexy Holzheimer Pleased With Inierest Being Shown Judge William Holzheimer, prexy of the 1946 Juneau Baseball League, walked into the Empire office yes- terday afternoon, looked at the list of players who had signed up and then said: “That is a good bunch and I know that many players have also handed in their names to the man- agers of the three clubs in the League, so it looks exceedingly promising for a great seascn. “I intend to call a meeting of the managers, possibly for next Sunday, give them the list of play- ers and also tell them they can get ready to organize their teams making their own selections but after May 5, players coming in la- ter will be assigned. We have got to get busy for practice should start the second week in May at the latest. I know boys want to get out and limber up, get the stiff- ness out of their joints, ready for the start of the season. Just when all plavers will be asked to get RAINIERS SHUT OUT BY PADRES (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Pepper Martin’s collection of cast-offs and young hopefuls from the Armed services doing business as the San Diego Padres today cir- culated in the first division high society of the Pacific Coast Base- ball League. The unpredictables popped up from the lower ranks Monday on the five-hit pitching of San Diego's native scn, Al Olson, o shut out seventh-ranking Seattle, 7 to 0. Climbing irto fourth place, the Padres shoved aside the Hollywocd Stars, who were blanked, 6 to 0, by the pennant-defending Portland Beavers. The victory gave Portland a tie with Hollywood for the fifth spot. Both games were rescheduled af- ! fairs rained out last week. RESULTS MONDAY San Diego 7; Seattle 0. Portland 6; Hollywood 0. 1 STANDING OF CLUBS i Pacific Coast League Teams w L Pct . San Francisco 18 6 150 Los Angeles AR e Oakland 14 11 560 San Diego . 1 14 440 Hollywood 10 13 435 Portland 10 13 435 Seattle ... v 16 .333 Sacramento 8 16 .333 American League Teams w L Pet Boston 6 1 857 Detroit 5 1 833 New York . 5 2 114 Cleveland 2 2 500 St. Louis 3 3 500 Philadelphia 2 5 .286 Chicago . 1 5 167 Washington ... 1 6 143 National League ‘Teams w L Pcb St. Louis ] 1 833 Brooklyn 5 3 833 Chicago s 2 600 New York 3 3 Boston . 3 '8 500 Pittsburgh 2 4 333 Cincinnati 2 5 .286 Philadelphia 1 5 167 —————— | LANIR IS (OMING UP - ASHURLER (BY JACK HAND) (Associated Press Sports Writer) Max Lanier, a perennial runrm-' up, is fast becoming the ace of the St. Louis Cardinals’ all-star pitch- ing staff after years of playing second fiddle to such big names as Mort Cooper, Lon Warneke and Curt Davis. 1 The chunky. left-hander from Denton, N. C, back from a tour of army duty,’ has won his first two starts in mest impressive fash-| jon to set thc pace for this high-/ flying Red Birds' five game win- ning streak. | ‘When Lanier first came to the big show in 1938, Davis was one of the fellows who hogged the headlines.| The Warneke regime covered 1940, and 1941 when Ernie White first, rocketed into the picture. Then! c¢ame Cooper who reigned from {1940 | bothered him | Washington | the best pre during 3 ‘}\ e tWo ex-servi er of Gainesville, I ) was third together is indefinite, perhaps it at Jacksonville r second will be May 5 when I call the lotte, an: v of Win- managers to meet. This should hey're not prove to be a rousing meeting. with Harry Cooper “I notice many of those signins Lady the Empire list are members of the | is of Club ACS. That is good for they are of the Border L Okay, permanent and are the kind of lads | what if they do h night who like baseball as a sport, for,is Lady's night? the fun there is and also for the real exercise.” | NO FUNNY BUSINESS While the prexy was talking, a| The wives of two managers of youngster came into the Empire Florida State Leagfle baseball office and announced he wanted to| teams are breaking into the na- sign. He did. His name is Jimjtional pastime this season as busi- Vuille and he announced he would ness managers of the same clubs, . . like to join the American Legion Wys Myril Hoag, wife of the for- squad because he played with ““"X‘nrr big league outfielder who is American Legion team of Los An-!managing Palatka, will lock after geles last seascn that had some | the business affairs of the: club record to be proud of. Vuille is a and Mrs. Bill Steinecke, wife of catcher so here is a tip for the the veteran catcher, has the same AL manager job with the St. Augustine Saints. J y Magorty and Jose R. Cruz have also put their names on the Empire list which makes 13 al- ready signed up in the office. until last spring. Lanier might have made the No. 1 spot last year but arm in the early spring and in May he went into the army he was sold Although he was a holdout this spring, Lanier r rted to the St. Pe camp bright and early| apd has pitched himself into cellent conditien. The lefthande \ first effort was a shutout over Pittsburgh on the second day of the season and yesterday he ed back Cincinnati, 4-1, with hits. Johnny Vander Brocklyn Keeps Despite Lanier's the Cards’ and stent wise e by Brooklyn Dodgers ran their win streak to, shading Boston, 5-4, in 10 New York Giants resumed relations with the Phillies ‘and got ! | | | ! | AP SPORTS ROUNDUP WiITH JURICH, BY HUGH FULLERTON NEW YORK, April 23.—Church- ill Downs officials are worried be- cause the 15,000 tulips in the club- {house gardens bloomed early and may not last until the race meet- ing opens Saturd The same can be said for a lot of Derby candidates but they can’t dig them up and réplant something else . . . to Boston ' trouble | Circuit turn- | six | Meer was the ! fifth straight triumph,|of-seven h they were unable to shake off the'night, who ! i { emblematic back cn the winning side, 7-6, com- | ing from behind to tie the starter Tommy Hughes and blasting Fire- man Hugh Mulcahy for ning margin Detroit found the . excellent /) Trout, White Sox, reason to debut 4-0, with the win- i | rejoice per of Paul gkiing on Douglas Is who blanked Chi-|charged siX yesterday. | | mathematics Freddie Corcoran’s Which only proves that Myril and Bill won't be able to hold ar thing out of their pay checks— and that bal' players are just the same as m cther guys r is the first mo- standard bred the Santa Anita Grand opened. If a few folks come in, it pro- the “super-col- vie h man to e since meet mere flicker will become STAMPEDERS MAKE {T THREE IN ROW . Apr Alta 23.—The 5 mpeders won their mud straight victory in the best- ey ies here last defe .mn'- the Hamilton, Ont,, es the Stampeders a cne-to-go grip on the Allan Cup, of Canadian senior hockey supremacy - HOSPITA[ NOTES .kak' tea several amateur school broke 0 while was dis- Hospital high T who weeks Arlene leg from St. Ann’s Discharged were Bruce String- Floyd Bevens made his first start er and Ervin Hagerup, both medi- a winning one in hurling the New cal patients. York Yankees to a 2-1 (squeeker) | triple in the sixth and scored the winning run on Charley Kellen single a few moment later. Shortstop Eddie Pellagrini, got his chance to play when John-| ny Pesky was hit by a pitched ball in an early inning, won the game| for Boston over Washington, 5-4, with a seventh inning homer. The scores: American League over Philadelphia’s Luther Knerr. ' discharges Joe DiMaggio tied the game with a Hospital 5csleld Who, tury B. C. IHWPHWW%W 001 300 000—4 8 0 Boston 000 211 10x—5 8 1 Hudson and Evans; Harris and| Pytlak. Philadelphia ... 100 000 000—1 7 2| New York 000 002 00x—2 7 2! Kneer and DeSautels; Bevins and Dickey. Detroit 021 001 000—4 7 0, Chicago . . 000 000 000—0 6 1! Trout and Tebbetts; E. Smith, Grove (8) and Tresh. National League New York 000 003 400—7 10 2 Philadelphia 001 200 102—6 15 0| Joyce, Bunnick (9) and Cooper; T. Hughes, Mulcahy (7) and Hems- ley. St. Louis 300 000 010—4 10 1 Cincinnati - 000 000 010—1 6 O Lanier and Rice; Vander Meer, Lamber (9) and Mueller. Boston 100 100 200 0—4 9 1 Brooklyn 100 001 002 1—5 12 1 Wallace Posedel, (9), Williams (9), Hendrickson (9 and Masi; Branca, Behrman (7), Casey (10) and Anderson. —— e OLYMPICS LOSE OUT TO CANUCKS VANCOUVER, B. C. April 23— The Vancouver Canucks defeated ! the Boston Olympics 5 to 3 last |night in the fifth game of the best-of-seven series for the United States Amateur Hockey champion- ships. The teams meet again Wednes- day night for the sixth game with the Olympics leading the series 3-2. h — Greek fire, an incendiary mix- ture of pitch, saltpeter and sul- phur, that burned on water, was used to rout the Saracen fleet at Constantinople in 718 A. D. ————— LISTEN, THE REPUBLICANS SPEAK . Over Radio, KINY, 7 pm. Apf.| o, (250-13) l no no admissions, ument the Gove There were at > o> - Use of chemicals in warfare was 'known as early the fifth when they cuies Megara and Plataca, SR s S BLENDED WH‘ISKE’Y 86 proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits—Schenley International Corporation, Empire State Bldg., New Yorx, u.s.a. cen-| were em-'at 5162 degrees Fahrenheit, more ployed in the siege of the Greek than 2,300 degrees above the m‘-ll— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA be convenieaced in (hmmnvv ' RTIZSIGNS | BOUGLAS i i 0 Gity owns many lots nnd that they i should be on the tax roll rather ) } TWO BUS |floor, by Gordon Gray, that the| | The Doug City Council was | City of Douglas should not main- faced last t with two applica- | tain a High School, both because C l eaRNEers tions for franchise to operate althe Cit; would save money by not | bus service from Do to Ju- | maintaining it and because a high- | |neau. One was a written applica- | er standard of education would be | s 3 (AN FRANOISGO. April 23, |ton from the Royal Blue Cabobtained if students were allowed | All Suits Are Suits e ok R s & q| Company of Juneau, for a fran-|to attend the Juneau High School. of Distinction “‘!‘x~\“‘i m‘(h‘"‘]‘n“m‘ ::{d “]‘:C’k‘ chise, st: they had several good | C stated his own case, that it . A AN S PIOR, 8 5~ | busses anies and e 3 ¢ hard for a Douglas graduate ) =, & 1echa S Juipment s hard for a Douglas graduate ’] +f ‘-‘ i ‘““‘;"I’;rfih"-”‘f,-m"p’ 1‘(‘] ready to take cver within a week’s | to compete with graduates of larg- | If CLEANED and y-round title g ere Jun ol . notice and would give good service. er schools. Councilmen agreed to | ] Mt “”]’,'“"d"" today by promoter piovd Reid who has operated the | take this under advisement. | PRESSED hY us: b . PSR Channel Busses for the past several A circular letter is being printed years, and ignoring a City Fran-| by the Council and sent to all resi- Wi NOW MAVE chise, was present at the meeting, | dents showing the city’s financial | 48-HHOUR SERVICE esnevlt now pleading for a franchise for | obligations and its estimated in- his Company’s Douglas bus which |come as a runner-up to its plan is contemplated being sold to Wil- ' of increasing the tax mills and oth- | liam Dore cn May 1 who was also revenue taking measures. Next To Eng'and Dore plans on purchasing meeting of the Council is Monday C A L L 1 from the Channel night April 29. Residents shoui! b ind operating with the take advantage of these weekly » 8 with one spare vehicle, meetings and attend, so they might or lg 1 would also be at the dis- kncw more of their city affairs| : cf the highway run, inter- and have a voice, and help the e Jm( w City run and the Douglas Council in the many hard and un- NEW YORK, April 23. — Light Mud. pleasant duties that lie ahead of | vyweight champion Gus Les-! The main interest of the City them this year. ! nevich, enroute to England by air|FOthers was not in who gets the i ! fcr his May 14 title fight with!Iranchise, but in which company GUESTS OF LIONS CLUB | Freddie Mills, will watch the Bri-|the Cily could expect the most sat- pouglas Boy Scout Leader, Ro- ! tish champ box a three-round ex-| isfactory service from. But trans- per; wagner and his two patrdl hibition tonight if his plane arrjves! POrtation is a vital interest to the jeaders were guests yesterday of City as almost all its residents are ype Juneau Lions Club at their g off from Labuard- | dependent on it for transportation weeyly luncheon meeting in the I- ud closed that tch with weight ia Leuis and Billy defeats QUIT FLE sion of the Council if the City's ed today that there would be no SHOPS HERALD START share of the budget would be avail- Library tnis evening because of re- ALL MEMBERS OF THE TERRITORIAL able. Councilmen and the Mayor pairs to the building. SIPORTSMAN'S CLUB OF HALIBUT SEASON As Ct ed ling in tin’s Oce (‘" ) \Lyuz-‘m 4 Stralts for a final{ ed that the City organize its ed in Federal Court this morning ‘}‘fl’x_‘l. ’1‘(‘"“ “"x‘: “;]’:;l‘,‘!’fmw stay, | 0w garbage disposal system, both by Judge J. W. Kehoe it 3 ‘vl BT AE 4 from a sanitation standpoint and ‘'iney were as follows: Maxine awaiting ~clutch repalrs, 1s Barl|p, ;.0 approximately $800 yearly Paul Bowling from Cranston A. Torsythe's charter scow, now at the | oo couid be realized. Walters Bowling; Millie Mitchell from Har- Sy et The FONERE *sengey Josed that City owned lots ry Fred Mitchell with restoration arrived from Ketchikan Sunday| .o 'wen 45 private lots be listed by of her former name, Millie M. and will head for Kenal When re- )y, ciiy and advertised for sale, so Brundige; Mary Olive Vaisvila from ReAL otk is oompicted. { that interested home builders would Sdward R. Vaisvila All halibut fishermen are expect- ki 2 S % - ed to leave port by Monday. PRINCESS LOUISE | Ar Kclchlxu(""""“ by, . Reschition hlc-d)k "M_"_'o" bl DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE g i ¥ Ar Whitehart.... P S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . Princess Ln\usc arrived in port from the south just at press time this afterncon. The steamer should have aboard frem the states. steamer about 10 o'clock tonight and The jturgs to Ju | day morning. Sl e PR Tantalum, ing peint of 1annel m feverishly a last-minute prepara= n for opening of the halibub . city would need approximately collecting today. Legislative matters pretaining to futufe activities will be acted eas0n A{fl.\ 1, Capt. Dan Sta-|es000 gqditional revenue, accord- AN 8 ML S upen, various commitices appointed and a Vice-President ri's Gordon D and Capt. JIm o 5 5 statement by the Mayor. DIVORCES GRANTED elected. PAGE THREE than lying as dead property. A suggestion was made frem the! . NEWS APPLICATIONS, The Triangle JUST Lesnevich dis- 10 and from their work which i Gold Rocm of the Baranof Hotel he hoped to land a2l on the Juneau side. Bill Goetz is Patrol Leader of the the winner of the; A committee on Public property Eagles and Ralph Allen is Patrol title bout between Joe' was appointed to look further into Leader of the Raven Patrol, The Conn, June 19, if | both applications and to have a re- Lions program yesterday was in R i Mills as he predicted.! port at next week’s meeting, before line with Boy Scouts interests. P e O R T WA .o ET, BUSY | definite action was taken The Schocl 1946 budge:, was still not approved, pending final deci- NO LIBRARY TONIGHT Librarian Edla Cashen, announc- MPORTANT NOTICE are seeking every possible means of —_— |revenue so that the School budget {can be raised and still meet the cbligations of the city for the next {fiscal year. According to the e !mated City budget for this year, tc requested to attend a meeting to be held in the City Council Chambers Wednesday Evening, April 24th, at 8 This will be the most important club meeting of the year. are urg BREEZE OUT SOON The Gastineau Breeze, Douglas School Paper is to be on the streets y next week. Advertisement solici- from the Senior Class were out ne shops work-! outfitting and over- an Queen today head- Counciiman Clarence Walters, pro- Three divorce decrees were grant- > A. B. CAIN SEATTLE. FAIRBANKS Tanana . Gelena . .« Golena MEMBER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 1945 and 1946 Sessions SERGEANT-AT-ARMS in three sessions and CLERK in one session of House of Representatives REPORTED 1939, 1941 and 1943 sessions of Alaska Legislature for Fishing News, Ketchikan; and other Alaskan papers Ar Ar 11 or 12 days mail Ar .. Moses Point .. sails for Skagway NOME” ... re- neau southbound Fri- a rare metal, melts (Paid Advertisement) iron. FOR SENATOR CURTIS G. 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