The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1947, Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1947 RAINED OUT, Meeting Today | BIG LEAGUES For First Time < Atrocious We;fher Has Hit: Baseball Managers | Between Eyes | By JOE REICHLER (Associated Press Sports Writer) Ii it doesn’t stop raining soon those deep turrows on the forc- heads of the baseball magnates are likely to become permanent This is the time of the year wh hepe springs eternal with the f Even though their favorite teams may be in the second division there isn't tco much of a gap be- tween last place and the select first | division. Thus 0 | the custcmers are ready and eager to keat. a fast pace to the ball parks. Larse Sum: Lost Rains which washed out the cn- tire Giants’ series with the Pitts- burgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds is estimated to have cost the club arcund $150,000. is figured that at least 120,000 ns, excited by the Giants sweep of a three-game set with the world champion St. Louis Cardinals would have witnessed the games The White Sox, suddenly finding Ives enjoying the luxury of placs outfit, were hit hard e postponement of four games at Comiskey Park. The 1 of a Sunday date especially hit them right between their eyes. In all therc have been 48 post- ponements— 27 washouts in the Ni gue and 21 in the ‘Ame ican. It has been years and years since the Majors have seen such atrccious weather. Pestponement Welcomed The entire card was drowned out yesterday including the scheduled night game between the Cards and Braves at Boston. About the conly teams that ccmed the postponements were the and Yankees. '] s, still reeling over their nine straight defeats which finally ended Sunday, prcbably could use those cif days to get themselv straightened cut. The Yankeesdon't mind the period because it willl allow their star slugger, Joe Di- Maggio, more ne in which to rest his ailing heel. . | Weather permitting, 14 clubs will attempt to play today. Cleveland and Washington are not scheduled. B - AP SPORTS ROUNDUP By HUGH FULLERTON NEW YORK, May 6.—//— Doc White, the old-time pitcher whose consecutive shutout record Bob Feller didn't beat, figures that B cculd have made it if he had been tossing the same dead ball the old timers used. Eddie Dyer still are the team have to beat. figures the Dodgers the Cards will “Their catcher (Bruce Edwards) is the best in the league except when Walker Cocper is having a good day,” Dyer maintains. “Eddie Stanky is up in the lead-off spot on my all-star team and Peewee Reese is the best shortstop in the league.” Improvement note: Last season’ Ted Williams made only two home runs off Yankee pitching, the first on August 10. This season Ted's first hit against the ¥Yanks in their first clash of the year was a ho- mer. ROUGH STUFF Two Oklahcma high schools re- cently were placed on probation for | a year for “unsportsmanlike con- duct!” during the basketball sea-, son. The principal charge against the Fanshawe High was that mem- bers of the girls basketball team let the air out of an official’s tires . and in New England an um- pire called a school ball game in' the sixth inning because the Kids who had been pelting him with pebbles switched to larger ones after being warned to stop. ONE-MINUTE SPORT PAGE | A Midwestern tip is that Notre: Dame’s Frank Leathy likely will surprise a few football opponents when he turns loose a koy named Bill Smith. “The kid can get up and go like .Glen Davis,” says our, informant. Bob Feller’s autobiography, ghost-, ed by Frank Gibbons, goes on sale today and -advance orders have been terrific. It's good reading. So is Al Hirshberg’s “The Red Sox, the Bean and the Cod,” one of ther most entertaining baseball tomes; produced in a long time. I I — Read the want-ads for bar 15! By BILL BECKER (Azcociated Press Sports Writer) The Pacifiz Coast League's civil on again. That = of course those crosstown the Los Angeles Angcls and the Hollywood Stars | wiil go at each other this week for ! the first time in the 1947 The A s are flying hi in first place, ond the Stars are Jloundering in seventh. But position it a factor when they meet each | oth L vear Angels eked out a 15-13 edge over the Sta but finished fourth, a notch of their rivals Pitching has been the Ar strong point, and they were ex-! pected to lead with their ace, big, southpaw CLff Chambers of Bel- lingham who has breezed through his first five straight In an efiort to bolster their somewhat spctty chucking,, the: Stars yesterday = obtained right- hander Hugh Orphan (4-2) from Sacramento in a straight trade fo veteran righihander (1-4), who had started. Orphan i tehee of the Wes! League Another hot series this week San Francisco, only a game beh the Ar 2 second place, at S Dieg slipped to fourt trouble up from getting A {lying ope after ng. The balance of the sched puts Seattle at Onkland and Sacramento at Port- lan STANDING Or CLUBS Pacit.e Coast weague w L Pet Les Angeles 21 14 600 San Francisco 20 15 5 Sacramento 19 16 San Diego 17 15 Portland 16 17 Oakland 16 19 Hollywood 15 19 441 Seattle 13 22 371 National League w L Brooklyn 9 3 Pittsburgh 8 5 Boston 8 6 Chicago 8 6 4 Philadelphia 8 8 500 New York 5 : 4 417 Cincinnati 7 10 412 St. Louis 3 11 214 American League w L Chicago 10 5 Detroit 8 6 Cleveland 7 6 New York 8 7 Beston 8 8 Washington 6 6 St. Louis 6 9 Philadelphia 4 10 et MOOSE TEAM TOWORKOUT THIS NIGHT Players of the Moose the Gastineau Channel Baseball League will have their first big workcut tonight at Firemen's Park and Manager Mike Haas wants all to show up and get in scme good licks before the sun goes down. Tomorrow night, the Legion team will have the park for prac- tice. Manager Art McKinnon had his Elks bunch on the diamond last team of night and there was a good work- | out. President William Holzheimer, of the League, again reminds all .own- ers of autos, where possible, to show up next Sunday afternoon at Triangle place - about 3:15 c'clock to take players to the Park and make a good auto par- ade. The band will play several numbers on Triangle Place, then get aboard trucks for the park and play for several innings dur- ing the game. The Sunday game is scheduled to start right on time: 3:45 o'clock. Frankie Dasso | Wen- ern International | { | | | who last week dealt out five players | bgg & S THE FINISH OF THE Jet Pilct (No. 11, first with a Kuprion camera (Internat win the neck c Trade Deals In Basebali Are in Air By HERB ALTSCHULL PHILADELPHT May 6.—P—It likely to that those trade winds kicking up the diamond dus be whipped into a gale in the next 10 days. A radio arnouncer joined the Ltun by popping up last night with a report that the S Cardin- als had traded Mar on and George Kurowski to the Chicago Cubs ‘This brought hundreds of telephone queries and fren: cussion before Cubs’ ager Jimmy Gallagher and Card owner Sam Breadon turned off the tap by denying it. Rumc of the Cards’ ed dis- general man- parceling off Mr. Shortstop Marion and long- ' hitting Whitey Kurowski, a third baseman, & nothing new. The Phillies were reported to he oi- fered $250,000 and players for the two last wiater. i Slice Club Rosters i The uproar caused by the rumor was pretty clear indication of the state cf baseball affairs as the Major Leagues neared the May 15 deadline for slicing club rosters to! 25 players. 2 Most of the trade talk involves Branch Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers to the Pittsburgh Pirates for some | $200,600 cash and reserve outrielder Al Gionfriddo. | But the Dodgers still have about 30 players in camp and they must - WELL BABY CONFERENCE THURSDAY CALLED OFF| The weekly ence will not be held at the Ju- neau Public Health Center this Thursday, May 8, due to the Public Health Nurses’ Institute now in session. - >>e - SPRING: Caavons NOW ENROLLING Well Baby Confer- | All forms of dancing and ball-' room for beginners. Phone Red 575. Peter Wallace* has switched to Calvert because Calvert is pre-war quality. ¥of 1574 West Street, Utiea, N. Y. CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey -86.8 Proof -65% Grain Neutral Spirits. Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE R ——————— o - g a Tom abeth Arden _JUNEAU, ALASKA Jef Pi!fi, Winner of Henlucky Derby ® N—————— SR s showing (lower) Phcto f » Kentucky second (Uppe h laken onal Soundphoto) d the Derby at sama > thed in smil 1tucky f trim anc Smith, Jet wam. (Internat ,get rid of iive cr so more by a POLICE COURT DOINGS y SRR R n 2 7 Ernie Rios of Los Angeles in a!l week, fgm Heah Tovs o convincing manner. The referee avai able Likely Club Trade: Juneau City Puiice @ y = ¢ ' i 'l_ l.',‘d“ : ¢ o ; H_ i awarded McSwain a ninth round; ' tha most likely to he nd arresting persons who ap- & ’ technical knock-out after -the traded are first baseman Howie I taken cne drink too o, . g f | - ultz and shortstop Ed Mi Four persons, who forfeited o dioyh. hynchBavy. e IBHES S el wokiaie! i o L e being book. €0 Rios with a serles of lefts and| J t v isappointed at $25 bail yesterday alter being book- . i . : 000 Tookie Earl | ed 4 drunk, were: Levi Duckwoyth, TSt (0 the jan. i| 2SI And Delivery Will Start Torgeson of Snchon 1 are defin- Carl ndquy James A. Beach sthail l(-nm‘, and Carl Peterson. d William like to have Miksis or Stan Rojek, bail of $25 the market for Schul h the Cubs and Phillies w Gilmore also forteited PAGE THREE |Seattle area in September training o eu |for its September 25th game with the University of California at its to England, France and the low countries. The trip, which must be taken at the individual's expense, ; Berkeley. ~ The Annapolis coach, is worthwhile, Burdick said, to any Tom Hamilton, made the an- member of the Scout movement. s e e nouncement in Seattle last night. He said that special low rates for The present plans call for bas- tne trip are now being worked out. ing the Cadets during the train- s & o jing perlod at either the Sand Three out oi five fata lautomo- CHICAGO, May 6.—®— The point Naval Air Station or the pi. gecident oceur at nizht Dick Mez-Fred Corcoran feud had Whidby Island station ¢ officially ended today after - > Lignite, a form cf coal, crumbles f'::l":;;"'l;“"‘:';‘C'“"“"*(‘."’l’\l"“‘l‘:"‘ AU SCOUTS HAVE TIME TO when exposed to the atmosphere. SIGN UP FOR JAMBOREE \ of the Professional Golfers' Asso-| ks ; ciation of America had been cli- S e LB G Al e . =1 Charles G. Burdick, President of > Things for Your Office [Pidxeq Py hancannRe i the Alaska Councll of the Boys Wik i Ed Dudley, PGA Preside l,, ‘,1 gy =S <L Scouts of America, says that Scouts. two clasped hands following clasped ~hands following Gy 1o participate in the seout | CHARLES R. GRIFFIN Co. L closed session of Professional £ AVE - SEATILE 4 -l 5439 1 ! X ML world - Jamb in Europe this [ 1005 SECOND AV : Golfs’ governing body yesterday R o iy o °. year, can still register. He said that s The hearing was called at Metz' {0 oo s g AlnskaErche request after Cory neRsgarted R, ©T 3 arnboree hiiD. SIL Y e ing Alaska Exclusively < golfer hit him four months ago without even yelling “fore Metz. i B i i it s $ S B S SR ‘-u of the country's top-ranking golfers, said he did not strike down lxl:v PGA tournament manager with 1 tloul blow and esked for the | bearing to have the facts straight- {ened out | What went on at the hearing {was kept a family secret by the 1|PG.‘\. In addition to announcing that " |the two “shook hands” Dudley Jetmore: aid Corcoran will ume new g T { duties as publicity dire for all Corduroy T""”P"" [activities of the association. and Creepers | Ot s P67 e ‘ 1 | . Also by Jetmore: Sports Briefs \ Sizes 1 to 3 Overalls and ! One Suits of Twill of the Seattle sluggers is leading the Pacific Coast pack in Sizes 2 to 6 batting. Rainier infielder Tony York has collected 14 hits in 30 8% times at bat for a fat 467 aver- Number two man in the batting brigade it cutfielder Tut Stainback of the league-leading Los Angeles Ar Stainback’s current aver- age is 431 for 22 hits in 51 times at Lat. Infielder Larry Lee of San Diego is in in third place with .407. These three men are the only 400 Latters in the league in ast Spckane retained the lead Western International League right with a sparkling 7 to 2 v tory over second place Vancouver In the or other W-I-L contest, Wenatchee trimmed Victoria 8 tc 5 PO SRS R AR A, 7 - § oF Pl S SRS SR PSR SRPSUs S S R Angeles Welterweizht Doyle made another Lig night toward a May 30th title kout with champion Ray Sugar Robinsen. Doyle soundly 2 trouncad George Bradford Smith z o in a main event at Scranton, Pa. = 7 ‘The Los Angeles fighter had the New Yorker helpless on the ropes when Referee Jack Walton stop- pad the fight in the cixth round. Doyle dropped his oppenent in the third and fifth rounds—and again in the sixth to clearly prove his superiority. Los my last Jim- step In a San Francisco fight, Jerry McSwain of San Diego whipped again Tre Naval Acaden:; I three TOY - vithin a FEW MINUTES the may spend we in nd paid for damages 5 % T 9 i RO R SO et oottty oot s aainat bin SO A in the Brocklyn infield. But neither the Cubs nor Phils > satisiied with the terms Rickey destroying City Ma heimer f} pers il straie WIL i Lona property. Brown $25 ed. One Dodger offer which being drunk when she was brought presumably included either Rojck into court or Miksis ed that the Phils part Mons Anderson, arrested for be- with Del Ennis, the 1946 rookie of ing intoxicated and for operating a - P ALL THOSE TAXABLE UNDER THE LAW > of intoxicating liquor, was fined Russia began coining platinum $100 and his driver's license taken moeney in 1828. away for 60 days. The Triangle Cleaners Flower Fresh Nothing makes you fcel more fit than :potless, well-pressed clothes. Our modern cleaning metheds insure finest results. WE CLOSE AF1 WE NOW HAVE 48-HOUR SERVICE JUST CALL am A. Holz- for IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 38, SESSION LAWS OF ALASKA, 1943, NOTICE AND DEMAND TO PAY SCHOOL TAX FOR 1947 IS HEREBY GIVEN TO WHO MUST PAY §CHOOL TAX: All male and fomale persons over 21 and under 55 years of jge must pay the school tax ($5.00 for each person); a female person who is unemployed and who depends for her support entirelv on her hushand is not required to pay the tax; persons in the active military or naval ¢ of the United States, paupers, insane perscns and those cared for by the Territory or who are permanently injured, infirm, maimed or crippled are also exempt. WHEN PAYABLE: The tax is payable after the first of January in each year. It must be paid to the Tax Cemmissioner upon demand. If no demand is made for pay- ment, it must, nevertheless be paid to the Tax Commissioner or his authorized deputy within the time prescribed by law. Please remember that no demand or notice is re- quired to be made or given; but, as indicated, if sych’demand is made, the tax must I paid immediately. A penalty of 507 will attach if the tax is not paid within the . allotted time. s EMPLOYER MUST FURNISH LIST OF EMPLOYEES AND PAY TAX. Whenev.r requested by the Tax Commissioner or his authorized deputy any employer who has people working for him who are subject to the payment of the tax, must furnish a list of his or its employees together with the age cf each of them to the collector, and must pay the tax due from each of them. When such payment is made by the employer, the col- lector must give him a School Tax receipt for each tax paid and the amount thereof may be deducted from the employee's wages. DOUBLE PAYMENT OR PAYMENT BY MISTAKE: Any person who pays the tax when he or she is not liable therefor, or if it is pald by an employer for his employee when such employee is not subject thercto, has the right to claim refund of the amount paid; such person should first request the school tax collector to make such refund and if this cannot be done, he should forward such request to the Tax Commissioner at Juneau, giving his receipt number. Upon receipt of such request the Tax Commissioner will investigate and if he finds that the tax was paid by mistake, he will make the refund immediately. Remember that request for refund must be made not later than ninety days after the end of the calendar year during which the tax was paid. NON-RESIDENTS SUBJECT TO TAX. The Tax is payable by non-residents as well as residents. If the non-resident is merely a sight-seer or tourist, he or she is not required to pay the tax; but if he or she comes to the Territory for the purpose of en- gaging in business or employment and actually does so, though not a resident, he or she becomes liable for the payment of the tax PURPOSE FOR WHICH TAX IS LE education of the children of Alaska. MAIL YOUR REMITTANCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION, Box 651, Juneau, Alaska DO IT NOW AND AVOID PENALTIES DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION Box 651 Juneau, Alaska .M. P. MULLANEY, Tax Commissioner. 0000000000000 T IED: This tax is collected to assist in the r— O A S v