The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1946, Page 3

MAY 7, 1946 TUESDAY, RED SOX IN TOP SPOTIN AMER. LEAGUE (BY JACK HAND) (Associated Press Sports Write#) Joe Crenin’s critics must be hard up for ammunition today with the Boston Red Sox winging away to an 11 game winning streak and topping the American League by three lengths. Cronin's gang is the hottest thing in baseball this springtime seascn with the sluggers beating out a 316 team average during the vic- tory spree and 10 of 11 starting pitchers going the route. Tex Hughson, Dave Ferriss and Mickey Harris were supposed to carry the pitching load but an ex- GI named Joe Dobson, generally overicoked in the early calculations, has -been taking the bows with Harris on a perfect 4-0 win record. % Dobson Wins Again It was Dobson who handed Newhouser his first loss of the season last week and it was the same 29-year-old righthander from Durant, Okla, who kept the win streak alive by winning yesterday's 5-4 second game from St. Louis after Ferris had taken the opener, 7-5. Left fielder Ted Williams has been living up to all expectations with a 411 mark (480 during the win streak), and shortstop Johnny Pesky leads the league with a gaudy .430. Gain On Yanks Boston gained a full game and a half on the New York Yankees who fell before Chicago’s Thornton Lee, 2-1. Lee, a 38-year-old left-hander, came up with his first decision of the year on an eight-hit eifort against Floyd Bevens, winning his own game with a two-run single. Steve O'Neill of Detroit could find encouraging signs in Virgil Trucks’ six-hit, 3-1 decision against Philadelphia. Walt Masterson’s relief chucking cnabled Washington to make ¢ it two straight over Cleveland, 7-4, despite homers by Hank Edwards and Ken Keltner. Jeff Heath hit a two-run homer for the Nats in the fourth off loser Steve Gromek. The scores: American 110 100 010—4 7 0 010 204 00x—7 10 2 Gromek, Johnson (6), | Ferrick (6), Black (7) and Hayes; Scar- borough, Masterson (2) and Evans. (First Game) St. Louis .. 301 000 001—5 11 1 Boston 101 050 00x—7 14 0 Galehouse, Shierley (5), Milnar, (6) and Mancuso; Ferriss and Me- Gah. Cleveland Washington (Second) St. Louis 102 001 000—4 9 1 Boston 130 000 001—5 11 2 Miller, Ferens (3) and Mancuso; Dobson and H. Wagner. Detroit .. 001 000 110—3 10 2 Philadelphia .. 001 000 000—1 6 0 Trucks and Richards; Marchil- don, Knott (9) and Rosar. Chicago ... 020 000 000—2 11 0O New York ... 000 000 100—1 8 1 Lee and Tresh; Bevens and Dickey. No games were played in the Pacific Coast League or National League yesterday. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast Leaguc Teams w San Francisco ... 25 0s Angeles . .22 . 22 18 17 16 Pet 658 595 579 474 472 421 405 389 Pet -850 700 474 444 313 Rhiladelphia .263 National . Teams grcoklyn el t. Louis hicago Pct 825 625 Al PITCHERS' L0OP HAS DEVELOPED, COAST LEAGUE (BY THE ASSOCIATED' PRESS) The Pacific Coast baseball 1*ague clubs had one of their greatest per- connel shake-ups this season, and as a result' the two teams which dominated the wind-up last year are the low men on the ladder to- day. Defending the pennant, the Port- land Beavers, who got less out of the reshuffle than most of the rest of the clubs, have been dra into the cellar with 22 los of 36 starts. Just ahead of them with the same number of losses and 15 wins are the Seattle Rainiers, who fin-| ished second last year. i The League has developed into| a much better pitcl loop than during the war years, and the two northern teams can blame much of their trouble on failurs to keep| the pace in that department. i |’ In pewer at the plate, the Rain- have kept up, and today have batting average second only Headliners for the Rainiers include Harold Sueme, ;with an average of 370 in 19 games up to Friday; Bill Ramsey, with 348 in 34 games, and Ted Norbert, with 317 in 18. The Beavers stand sixth in team’ batting average, with ghe best in- dividual performance zo far turn- €d in by Herman Reich, hitting 315 in 29 games. i |to Hollywood. BOXING MANAGER " JOHNSTON PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY NEW YORK, May 7.—James J. Johnsten, manager, known through- out the boxing world, died sudden- ly today at his home of a heart attack. He was 70. 1 i Johnston, father of 12 children,! attended the fights in St. Nicl night and a little later com-| plained to ns that “I'm tired. Take s0 I can get a good night's sleep. i | He arcse this morning and col-| lapsed while dressing. During his career he managed or | was interested in the affairs of| Inine world champions, including! Jack Sharkey of Boston, who held| the world heavyweight crown for| a time. | Others on his list of champions were Harry Greb, Ted (Kid) Lewis, ! | Vince Dundee, Pete Latzo and Mike McTigue. | He was to have returned to lhei promotional field on June 5, hav-| ing signed for the use of Ebkets {Fisld in Brooklyn only last month.‘ {At that time he remarked “that I, am old in this game but still have| plenty to learn.” 1 | | 1 The following are the batting and| pitching leaders in the two Major leagues: Batting—Musial, St. Louis, .416; Herman, Brooklyn, .395. | Pitching—Lanier, St. Louis, 4-0; 'Kush, Chicago, and Heintzelman, | Pittsburgh, 3-0. American League Batting—Pesky, Boston, .430; Wil-i liams, Boston, 411. | | Pitching—Chandler, New York; Harris, and Dobson, Boston, 4-0. | | National League ! | AP SPORTS ~ ROUNDUP | i BY HUGH FULLERTON | CINCINNATI, May 7.—From the i viewpoint of an interested outsider, it seems that baseball's current | plagues—the Mexican jumpers and |the Players Guild—offer Commis- isioner A. B. Chandler a grand op-/ | portunity to show that he's the ireal foreman of the baseball ranch If Chandler can work out some plan of vigorous action to cope with these two problems and This is a part of the estimated 100,000-plus crowd w to see the 72nd running cf the Kentucky Derby. Assault Ciosses FinishLinein Derby Assault crosses the finish line first Leuisville, Ky, Spy Song was seccn them ns, ignor- Mexican organized for ‘We could have helped gat crganized,” Happy maint; ing the fact that the League has been | years. FEDERAL AID AIRPORT BILL 1S UP TO TRUMAN A total of $10,000,000 for 0 be spent over a seven Alaska airports in the Territory. The authorization bill, 8. 2, has gone to the President following| the recent action by the and House in accepting favorably the conference report on the mea- sure. ‘The total authorized appropria- {tion for the territories is $20,000,- 000, 50 percent to be made available in grants to Alaska, 25 percent to! Hawaii and 25 percent to Puerto Rico. ~ f A special provision allows the Federal Government tQ share up to 75 percent of the total cost| of airport projects in Alaska while | Federal contributions throughout | the United States, Hawaii and Puer- | to Rico: cannot exceed 50 percent.' It is expected passage of a defic- | iency bill will. be sought at an' early date to provide planning! funds to initiate the program au-! thorized by S. 2 as soon as it is signed by the President. Appropria- tions to carry out the full program will undoubtedly be requested! through further deficiency bills. t BOY SCOUT TROOP WILL HIKE SUNDAY | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU, to win the 72nd ranning cf the d and Hampden third., (AP Wire AMERICAN LEGION 'PLANS MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE = i Mike Pusich was last night en the American Legion Ice CI award, with appropriate congratu- lations held in the Dugout During the business session, year ferest was centered arcund plans |period has been authorized by both for the Memorial Day Observance, ->-ee & I.E ERS {houses of Congress as Federal aid &nd Commander : lin the development, construction, named the following committee to imprcvement and repair cf public! T Joe in- Thibodeau " U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU ALASKA h is jammed inte Churchill Downs, Louisville, Fifth race is just being finiched. (AP Wirephoto) p | vears. entucky Derby at ‘Churchill Downs, hoto) make all arrangements: Leo Jewett, Bert Lybeck, and Elliott Robertson, - > P. FREIGHT AGENT ALASKA SURVEY TRIP E. M. Stevenson, foreign ireight sent for the Northern Pacific Railway Seattle office, was a Ju- neau visitor this week on a survey trip of Alaska cities for his com- pany. He flew to Sitka today, and plans to visit Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan, if possible, before returning south, Y JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN' Max. temp. | last 24 hrs* | 46 17 30 48 55 Station Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Juneau 4 Juneau Airport Ketchikan Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petershurg _(Portland Prince George Prince Rupert San Francisco Seattle Sitka . Whitehorse Yakutat | Lowest 4:30am. 24 hrs, temp. Senate pATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME TODAY Weather at 4:30 am. Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy temp. 36 14 19 36 Precip. 0 Trace Trace 01 0 0 31 14 23 3 34 32 28 33 37 40 31 40 Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Ciear Clear Clear Clear Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Clear Pt. Cloudy Smoky Fog Clear Clear Clear Clear Pt. Cloudy 0 . 8 Trace 0 0 0 0 3 0 A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 ‘al 33 37 Trace 0 Trace *--(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) WEATHER S YNOPSIS: A trough of low pressure extends from the | lower Colorado River Valley northeastward to Southeast Alaska with ‘The regularVMonday meeting of | @ ridge of high pressure extending from a high center about 800 miles 'Suiput it into effect, with or wit,hout,Boy Scout Troop 612 was held in|o0ff U 2 . 500 {he co-operation of the club own-|the basement of the Narthern Light Alaska. Temperatures were slightly b he coast of Oregon to a second I nigh pressure center over western clow freezing over the interior of yesterday with the highest tem- ALASKA RAILROAD | NEVER BUILY FOR SPEED IN TRAFFIC (Continued jrom Page One) lccomotives are very severe on the { track on curves where the jars con- SEATILE tinually knock a rail out of Mine 1 Kotchikan (420233 and the rail is continually creep-i fhon ling.” L ¢ i { Johnscn said he planned to give a one-da ervice from the ports to Fairbanks in the Interior be- ) 2ause high service now offers 1 cne-d rvice and he felt thej s must meet that competi-! | i i A L Ar Ly Al Ly Ar uneay . uneau Whitehorse Whitehorse FAIRBANKS. . + FAIRBANKS Tanana Galena ona Moses Point E Sympatnetic Cunsideration NOMI { The Committee said that after | discussing the question of diesel leccomotives with ‘him' previously it | | had asked the War Department to !give the Alaska Railroad 10 diesel | motives. Johnson said he was led | believe the request would re- ve sympathetic consideration but had no assurance the road get the locomotives. * “I can crganize this railroad, set- | tp all of the cperating and main- | tenance facilities whereby they will {operate just as efficiently as any |railroad can operate,” Johnson, who took over the management in | January, said, “but due to the in- \crease in salaries, and possibly re- [duction in some freight rates and {due to the lack of tonnage to be {moved by wolume, and the lack of | ice to BOX 2652 | eraticn of the railroad to keep it cut of the red s questionable.” Members of the committee had ! peinted out the road first began to show a profit during the last few JUNEAU, ALASKA or having your building repaired? Bl o I WILL BE GLAD TO SERVE YO The regular meeting of the bk 3 zlits of Columbus will be held at 8 o'clock in the Parish nd there will be special fea- | | tures of entertainment and refresh- | ments, it has been announced. { All visiting brothers are cordially } | invited to attend. e i | . MEETING TONIGHT ; 1 Newspaper Advertising! e b et Buy a Ticket and Help Us First Award . . . AFrigidaire Second Award . . . A Washing Machine AWARDING AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE MAY 15 This Is a Worthy Cause and Your Support Is Greatly Appreciated TICKETS FOR SALE AT: The Sewing Basket, Home Grocery, Butler, Mauro Drug Co., Hotel Juneau ||IIllIIIIII|||IIII||IIIII|II||I||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!IIIIIIIlIIIIIllI!I_IIIIIflIIIIII_lllllll!!lllllllllfllllllllflfllll A OO AR O The HIGHWAY DELIVERY FOR YOUR DAILY DELIVERY OF THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Or for any delivery on the highway PHONE 374 Kow PHONE 204 ¥ $ox | s e A o | R. W. 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(Sea Condition) Park superintendent, is looking for which the players might regard }(‘;uurd Island Clear w Zero ind and third base from a park| Chandler won't even say “Mex-|to the Westward since Sunday. | Entrance to Yakutat—variable winds \mde;, 15 miles per hour. New members taken into Troop tered snow flurries were reported over the west coast of Alaska. | yanks and Dedgers with injunc-|612 were Willard Prouty, Pal Mon- MARINE \'VEA'“_]ER BULLETIN tion proceedings, and Clark Grif-|{agle and John Thly, Dr. Smith,| Reports from Marine Stations at 12:30 P, M Todgy; SIolEN BASES i fith with his unfortunate remarks|Committee Chairman of Troop 612, WIND Height of Waves ¢ ’ —_— This might even be the time to de-|day to the Eagle River Scout camp.|Cape Decision w 15 1 foot | CLEV. ND, O., May 1,—Like“vise a new form of baseball con-| Before adjourning the Scouts wentICape Spencer s8wW 8 Calm many 2 ‘big league baseball man-‘,tracz which would lessen the “evils”|to Evergreen Bowl and played soft;Eldred Rock Calm Zero *er, Fred Miller, Woodland Hills the Guild complains about and|ball, | Pive Finger Light NNE Calm meone who is expert at steal- with more respect — even in the GOVERNOR TRAVELS | Lincoln Rock Clear w Zero g bases. = |face of $100,000 offers. Gov. Ernest Gruening is expect- | Point Retreat Clear w 4 Zero > ' Specifically, Miller is searching ed to rkturn to Juneau this after-| MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING WEDNESDAY EVE- Y & r the person who stole first, sec- noon from ‘Anchorage. He has been | NING: Protected waters of Southeast Alaska and outside waters, Dixon T b re-room. ico” out loud, but ke points out ————— Low pressure center—29.85 inches—51 degrees north and 154 degrees 5 p % L e Foos woa s, 3 v T the situation might have been dif-| Disracli, best known as a states-| west filling and moving slowly northeastward. Low pressure center—29.80 Gastineau Hoie! Phone 379 . F, (_Jln) c‘qm’w* North and South Carolina were|ferent if “those people” had ap- man, wrote a sucoessful - novel inches—42 degrees north, 165 degree: West deepening and moving slowly 2 PR, Sl separated in 1729, proached ofganized baseball . . . Iwhen he was 21, |northeastward ol oy R