The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1946, Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 13, 1946 Baseball Season Opens in Juneau for 1946; Elks Win Over Moose; Good Game SCORE BY INNINGS 6 7 6 2 8 x —ttl —12 —18 ‘Team Moose 4 0 Elks 1 1 2 2 Despite the fact that the Juneau High Schoel band that was to give the musical inspiration, got lost somewhere between the school and Triange Place yesterday, Juneau welcomed in the 1946 baseball sea- son with a bang. Not the least bit stopped by the showers through the afternoon a near capacity crowd turned out to see Joe Thibo- deau throw the first pitch to catch- er Ellis Reynolds. G. E. Almquist, watching the pitcher with a steady eye, waited for the right ball, and by a tricky bit of footplay made a single, Ail this under the watchful eye of umpire Waino Hendrickson. This ceremony over, the crowd settled down to watch one of the finest clubfests Juneau - has seen for years. When the smoke cleared away the Elks were found to have en eight point lead due to the four baggers by Joe Snow, Jim Moscrip, and Bill Ash. Juneau’s younger ball players, in the persons of Eddie Krause, Jerry Magerty and Bruce Gleason, show- ed great promise, Eddie turning in the outstanding game getting two at four times at bat and scoring three runs. Play By Innings Following is the lay by p all innings in which scores made. Starting off the game Evert Wiis- anen’ and Vern Metcalfe koth drew free passes. Wiisanen then scored when Major Holman singled into left field. Griffin fan- ned, and Manager Mike Haas sin- gled to score Metcalfe. A few min- utes later in a ute at the plate, Mike let his Manager's blood run away with him and stalked in to argue with umpire “Glassy” Rowe. Joe Snow tagged him out in the middle of his argument. Bob Cun- ningham struck out to retire the side. Two hits, two runs, and no Elk errors. First Homer In their first half of the Bill Dillhoeffer drew a p: and rode hcme on Jim Moscrip’s four bagger over the center field fence. Two hits, two runs, and no Moose errors. In the second half of the second inning Bill Davis made first on the shortstop’s error and was the sec- ond Elk in as many innings, to ride arcund cn a home run, this time off the bat of William Ash, Elk's leadoff man. Diilhoefer drew a walk and scored when big Jim Moscrip singled deep in right field. Two hits, three runs, and two Moose errors. Elk’s Inning The third was another big in- ning for the Elks. With two out Barney Pemberton singled into cen- ter field and was caught on a force play at second, pitcher William Davis going down to first. Young Eddie Krause got a Texas Leaguer advancing Davis to third. Slow fielding of Bill Ash's single scored Davis and Krause, Ash going to second cn the play. Bill Dillhoef- fer singled, putting men on first and third. Jim Moscrip proved again to be the big boy with the bat, hit a long double scoring Ash and Dillhoefer. Moscrip scored on a long single by Joe Snow and Killa- wich went out, pitcher to first to retire the side. Seven hits, five runs, one Moose error. o were first, Moose Rally After holding the Elks scoreless in the fourth, the Moose rallied dgain in the fifth when Truitt and Wiisanen drew walks and scored off a double by Vern Metcalfe. Ma- jor Holman got his second single of ithe ball game, Metcalfe going to third. Then pitcher Davis cracked down retiring the next three men. Two hits, two runs, no EIK’s errors. Mocce Show Them | The sixth turned out to be the big inning of the game, McIntyre| and Truitt both geiting on base| via the free pass route. Wiisanen fouled out. Jim Moscrip, now pitch- | ing, attempted to catch Truitt on first and MecIntyre scored on the atbempt. Metcalfe earned a free pass and Holman singled filling the bases. Bill Griffin hitting a well placed double drove in all three men. Vacura singled sending Griffin to third and stole second, putting men on second and third. Cunningham fouled out to the sec- ond baseman and Melntyre and Truitt again walked scoring Grif- fin and Vacura. Evert Wiisanen struck out to end the inning. Three hits six suns, one Elk erdor. Elks’ Big Inning In their half of the sixth, the Elks turned on the heat when Krause, first man up of the in-| ning, singled. Barney Pemberton smgled to advance to Krause to! third and pitcher Davis hit u long l right field Krause and Pemberton. William Ash next man up, singled, Davis geing home and Ash advancing to seccnd on the play at home. Mos- ip grounded out to first base and Jce Snow planted the third ball of the day in Gold Creek scoring Ash and himself. Killawich singled and Jchn Raumberg was safe on first on a drepped third called strike Krause hit to the second baseman and was safe, the play for third keing too late. The bases were loaded. Krause was forced out at seccnd on Pemberton’s hit into the infield and pitcher Bill Davis for the seccnd time in this inning singled against the right field fence scoring Killawich and Raumber Dillhoefer flied out to right field to end the inning. Seven hits, eiggt runs, and one Elk error. Making their last bid in the sev- enth inning with two away, Grif- fin doubled to center field. Va- cura was safe on an over-throw by the third baseman Griffin scoring cn the play. Cunningham repeated, Griffin scoring. Miller grounded out pitcher to first~to end the ball game. One hit, two runs, two Elk errors. ball to deep scoring Game Tomorrew next game will be at 6 c'elcck Tuesday evening and wiil give local baseball enthus chance tc size up the American Le- gicn who will be making their de- but against today’s winners. Box Score The o) o CHBm~COOON MY Mocse Wiisanen 2b, Metcalfe ss, Haas 3b, Cunningham If, Miller rf, Mclntyre p, Mag c, *Vacura 3b, *Truitt c, Moo~ OCcOoOoOMm D 0 3012 81810 7 Replaced Haas in the third in- ninz. Replaced Magorty in the third inning. Elks Ash 2b, Dillhoefer- ss, Mcserip 3b, p, Sncw 1b, p, Killawich c, Raumberg, cf, Cruz f, Pemberton rf, Davis p, 3b, 1b, * Krause If, ** Gleason rf, AB H E 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 [ o 0 C W O et T 4420191812 3 * Replaced Cruz in the second inning. ** Replaced Pemberton sixth inning. in the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA BY SID FEDER BALTIMORE, May 13.—~The= “let's gue | &chanz, Humphries (D, P X ' EA( N‘ 1 (M, Chapman (7), and Seminic | | Berton 210 001 000 2—6 16 ! Joyce, Trinkle (10) and Lom | end Warren; Wright and Hoferth I Cincinnati 000 100 100 2—4 12 1 -Boost Themselves |m0 Hfig Ra(e | 16); Brecheen, Martin (10) an R | C'Dea. T )t question today whath-| Blackwell and Lammano; Ba er collapse of the St. Louis Card- Clcksca (5), Krist 6), Do star catcher sold to the New York O 010 020 00%—3 SHadts. . op return of = pre-war intzelman, ~ Gionfridco, Ger secret now that (1) the Redbird pitching staff is not all it's cracked championship as predicted origin- ally er cheen (14-4) and Charlic 000 000 103— 4 10 | Lombarg 4 And n. bardi; Lee and Masi. | Bosten 200 010 04x—7 7 O St. Louis 000 100 100 0—2 6 BY JOE REICHLER Cincinnati 000,050 000—5 inal pitching staff is dus chiefly|(®) afd Rice, Kluttz ®). ars to tke Big Leagues. hauser and Zak; Passeau and Liv up to be; (2) the Cards will not With one month of the 1946 cam- Barret (3-12)—have wone | ’ ] Philadelphia | § ] | Brooklyn 170 011 30x—13 13 {New York .. 300 10 000 1—5 8 New ¥ 000 000 1012 9 - Koslo, Budnick (6), Fischer Detroit Tigers Get Together Walters and Lamanno, Mueller SPORTS WRI |&t. Louis 000 001 000—1 to the absence of Walker Cooper burgh 000 100 000—1 Whatever the reason, it is no Ings walk into the National League paign gone, St. Louis’ two top hurl-! game between them its regula 1t apart ng to find the Tex: Preaknes an extrs st winr fun tzar- clacs: , bhu rs found (1) that beaten few (Red) | marching \club held but ons meeting today to pick A and discovered that tryi | thing wrong with Terror of the Derby ai is liks fretting hill /freckle on a b Each he club has rt the winne out this time ev the all the fraternity brott Cubs. to complain about wi the Lord Boswell might have 1 Assault if they had to go a one- mor> jumps Pimlico Eaturday N and (2) that the Chocelate chaxm neck decision was sccred in pr , meantime, were the re- tically milk-wegen time of 2:01 of m2 masterful hurl-! The ved to the “heef” jing by Bucky Walters and Fresh- that the distance was advertis {man Ewell Blackwell. Each gained gs a mils and three-sixtzentt his first triumph, Walters holding jt's too bad if Lord B didn't 1 the Cards to six - scattered hits in the book in adv: he 10-inning cpener and Blackwell, wWhen Jocke: permitting only three safeties, while hustled Assault across striking out 10 in the nightcap. Saturday it gave Assault | pay check out of the of gold ever put up > $139,620 gros - GLEN BARTLtIT i§ ON VACATION HERE Glenn Bartlett, one of the best known hctel managers of the Pac- Northwes on 1 of on a vacation visit to hi unts in Juneau. Bartlett, for Trout's of the years manager of the Gastineau Var eae the exvense of 45. Fotel and one of the live wires of |year-old T=d Lyons, who was pitch- the city, has not been in Juneau ing his 27th consecutive complet2 r«:?' over seven years, too busy oper- game for the Sox over a three-year &ting hotels in cattle. ki | During the war, Bartlett icharge of cight hotels and kel Scx Kczp Winning ‘a vacation was coming to him The League leading Red Sox re- took it. Up to noon today I sumed their winning ways by de- his hand was almost c feating the New York Yankeecs 3-1 ing greetad by oldtimers. in the rubber game of their thrc2'is a guest at ths Baranof game series before a tremendous Ll liiigiy o turnout of 68,193, second highest - 4 !single game crowd in baceball his- HOSPHM. HOTEJ tory { St. Aua's Hospital admitted the | Yesterday's game was a pitching following patients over the week- duel between Boston's Mickey Har- end: Saturday, Mrs. Peter Gilmor !ris and New York’s Spud Chandler,!fcr curgery and Mrs. James De- with Chandler going down tc de- Mers and Mrs. Kila Hall for medi- {feat mainly becausz of his own cal attention; Sunday, Lionel Bach |wildness and faulty fielding by and Mrs. L. G. Tillotson, both for his mates. {medical care. | Homers and Dodgers Discharged Saturday were Robert Twin Games By Reds had almost two full weeks jof rest when tcok ‘the {egainst Cincinpati yesterd failed to last and the Re a double bill 4-2 and 5-1 linto a third place tie with |Bosten Braves and Chicago The “double defeat tumbled Cards from first to second place the National League, one and half games behind the Broo! Dodger: The R cipients Both i Mehrtens the wir a $99,120- biggest pot for a ke val en Tigers Start Agoing Scmewhat overshadowed Bosten Red Sox winning streak, |which ended at 15 Saturday, the |Detroit ‘Tigers have gone quietly about putting together a streak of {their own to boest themselves back i /into the American League chase. D by the flag i Trout pitched the Bengais h st ht yeste: ven-hit perform: Chicago White Sox befor with a 4- over the 43,760 p: be- Bartlett last year—Harry (The Cat) Bre-chop up the champ” chowder #nd | Summary—Two base hits, Grif-| Brocklyn ran its unktcaten vie- fin 2; Metcalfe; three base hits, [tory string at home to eight by Mcserip; home runs, Moscrip, Snow |Pummeling the Philadelphia Phils, case, and M. E. Gagan, 4 Johnson, a surgical Hollenbeck and John beth medical patients. and Ash; walked by Davis 4: by Mcscrip by McIntyre 5; strike cuts by Davis 8; by Moscrip 1; by MciIntyre 4. Umpires plate “Glas: Rowe; bases, Stan Grummett; Scorer, Merritt Monagle. Time of game 2 hours 15 minutes. COMMENT Baseball fans are” going to see some good baseball just as soon as the players get really warmed up. Yesterday's starter of the season revealed many new players, who are going to make a decided im- ipressicn cn the fans, as they have the stuff and with a warm sun or warm evening, to get them warmed up, hard ball is going to come back in Juneau. Fans should turn out at all games to help boost the game and remember the players are out there for the sport of it, after they get through a hard day’'s work. - — WINNING STREAK, RED SOX SNAPPED NEW YORK, May 13.—The Bos- ton Red Sox's spectacular winning streak was snapped at 15 Satur- day when Ernis Bonham handcuff- ed them with two hits in pitching! the New York Yankees to a 2-0 shutout victory before a crowd of more than 45,000. Rightficlder Tom- my Henrich drive in both Yankee runs with a two-base hit and home run. Boston 000 000 000—0 2 O New York 001 001 00x—2 6 0 Hughson, Ferriss (8), and Wag- ner; Benham and Robinson, Dickey 2). DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON Optometrist is now in Juneau at her office in the Blomgren Build- ing to examine eyes and fit glasses. Phone 636 for appointment. , (264-t0) |13-4. Southpaw Vie Lombardi| |notched his fourth vietery aided by ihomers by Ed Stevens and Augie Galan, | The Boston Braves slapped down | |the New York Giants twice 6-5 and |7-2 to drop the Ottmen into thLe second division. The Cubs whipped to Seventi: |place Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 behind | |Claude Passeau’s seven-hit pitching | and moved within thres games of | {the top. The Government Hospital admi'- ted Esthér Howard, Juneau, and !Georgs Mercer, Hconah, and dis- charged Mary John cf Angoon — The veins are blood ve: return the blood from the capi ies toward the heart. Feller Fans i With Stan Spence,taking over the | siege role, Washington's Senators | ;gnined an even break with tke {Philadelphia Athletics, winning the {nightcap 3-1 after dropping the op- ener, 6-4. ‘The St. Lois Browns extended Bobby Feller to 10 innings before! succumbing to Cleveland 4-3 in the opener, then came -back to scalp the Indians 9-3. Feller fanned 12 to raise his season’s strikeout total to 71 and give the Tribe their first home triumph of the season. Short scores follow: American League Chicago 001 000 000—1 7 1 Detroit . 003 100 00x—4 8 0 Lyons and Tresh; Trout and Teb- bette. Ecston 100 €20 000—3 3 1 | New York 000 001 000—1 3 2 Harris and H. Wagner; Chandler, Russi (9) and Dickey. Washington ... 110 000 0204 9 1 Philadelphia ... 010 002'30x—6 11 1 Haefner, Hudson (7) and Evans; Fowler and Rosar. : Washington ... 101 100 000—3 10 1 Philadelphia ... 100 000 000—1 4 0 Niggeling and Guerra; Savage, Harris (5) and Rosar. St. Louis 000 600 003 3—3 9 1 Cleveland ... 002 000 010 14 8 0 Kramer, Fannin «8), Zoldak (9) and Mancuso, Helf (9). Feller and Hayes. St. Louis 000 062 100—9 12 1 Cleveland . 001 000 020—3 9 2 Shirley and Helx; Reynolds, Klie- man (5), Black (6), Lemon (7) and Lollar, » TOUGH TIMC | 63 PASSENGERS " AREFLOWN WEST ALASKA AIRLINES | ing Circuit Leaders Are fo Meet Angels in Race for Top Spot, P. C. League BY TME ASSOCIATED PRESS) thin margin which last arated San Francisco eles in the tight race Coast Baseball League ance was even thinner tod e circuit leading Seals this face the Angels in a return wgement which could easily re- the game and a hall differ- nee to nothing. Two weeks juad beséed ic southern four azo n the Francisco Francisco did manage to weep a doubleheader with Sacra- mento yesterday, 8-5 and 4-3, but Angeles duplicated the feat st Po nd, 7-6 and 1-0. lywocd also swept its twin h San Diego, 8-6 and 4-3 attle and Oakland split, the ining the opener 6-5 with eight Seattle the nightcap, @ SUNDAY SCORES American League Philadelphia 6 Cleveland 4-3; . Louis 3-9. Beston 3; New York 1 Detreit 4; Chicago 1. National League Cincinnati 5; St. Louis Boston 6 w York 5-2. Brocklyn . Philadelphia 4. “hic: Pittsburgh 1. G OF CLUBS Coast Leag w 30 28 2-1. 3; Pacitic Teams Franc L isco 15 Hollywood n Diego 27 27 Pcrtland 8 American League w 29 &ms L sten York Detroit ¥ hingten 16 14 10 E Louis 10 Chicazo K Cleveland k§ Philadclphia 7 League Nailonal 478 429 Philadelphia 250 - The Egyptian king Rames2s II was the first to excavate a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. 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