The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1947, Page 3

MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1947 L ———————— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA LEGION WINS FROM ELKS BY 11704 SCORE Elks By 123 003 Legion 020 club play- newy sat- The American Legion baii once again walloped the Elk ing yesterday afteinoon on @ rolled ball field hardened by urday’s rain. Both Rollison for the Legion and Palmer for the Elks pitched good mes, with Rollison getting eight strikeouts while giving eight hits, and Palmer allowing 12 hits for 10 strikeouts. Both Cope and Micrzejewski of the Legion got four hits for four trips to the plate; while leading the Eiks were Rustad with three for fi and Cantillion with two for four. Frank Cashen s a n man on the Legion lineup yest day, snagging three long flies into his right field spot. Although he didn’t get a hit, Cashen made cne run after reaching first on an ror. In the first inning nobedy scored. Houston, leadoff man for the Elks, was walked. B. Palmer fouled out to Cope at first. Eddie Nielsen led off for the Le- gicn, and went down on strikes, Mierzejewski and McDaniels were both sent to first after being hit by pitched balls. Jensen came up, struck out, and Jim Nielsen fol- lowed to retire the side. Again in the second the Elks failed to score. Cantillion sent a grounder to center field for a single, and Guy walked. Wood's infield 1l was missed by J. Nielsen, but his krcther at short picked it up and tessed it back to force Cantillion at third. Smithberg fouled out to Co) and W. Palmer flied out to Mier zejewski at second. First Scores First man up for the Legion in the bottom ralf of the second was Rollison, whe lined out to Rustad at shcrt. Cope got a single off Guy at third, and Vuille sacrificed to put Cope cn second. Cashen made first as Cantillion dropped a fly into center field, and Cope came i to score the first run as Cashen advanced to second on the threw. Eddie Nielsen singled, and Cash- en scored, with Nielsen going to secend on the throw to home.Mierze- jewski beat out a hit to short,.but Snow at first threw home to catch Nielsen coming in for the final out. Elks Score In the third inning the Elks got three hits and three runs. Houston walked, followed by B. Palmer with a hit to left field. Jensen fumbled the ball in the field and Houston went to third, Palmer to second. Rustad singled to left field scor- ing Houston. Snow flied out to Cashen in right field, but Palmer came in to score. Cantillion singled to left field, and Guy followed him with a fly which landed in Cashen’s glove in right field. Rus- tad came in to score and Cantil- lion moved to third. Wood sent a grounder to Mierzejewski at sec- ond, and was thrown out at first. McDaniels, Jensen and Jim Niel- sen struck out in order for the Le- gion, and for the Elks, Smithberg, W. Palmer and Houston did the same. Up once more for the Legion in the bottom half of the fourth, Rol- lison sent a grounder to short and was out at first, then Cope singled to center field. Vuille attempted to pull a sacvifice bunt once more, but pitcher Palmer caught it and ran Cope out before he could re- turn to first. In Fifth In the first of the fifth, B. Pal- mer went to first on balls. Rustad er- sent a double into left field, and Palmer came all the way to score. Snow went down on strikes, Can- tillion hit into a fielder's choice, with shortstop Eddie Nielsen tag- ging Rustad on the way to third. Guy fouled cut to Cope, who made a good catch Up once again for the Legion, Cashen grounded out to short, and E. Nielsen grounded out to second base. Mierzejewski singled to left, McDaniels singled to left, and Jen- sen singled to right. Mierzejewski came in to score on a wild pitch from Snow i, McDan- iels followed him home. J. Nielsen struck out. In the sixth, Elks got mo- where. Wood was safe on a scratch hit to third; Smithberg and W Palmer struck out, and Houston fouled out to Jim Nielsen Rollison was first up Legion, and was safe on an error by Smithberg, who had traded from second to third base with Guy. Cope knocked a double to center field. Vuille bunted and went out at first, although Umpire Shaw d that he automatically out because he had stepped out of the batter's box to bunt. Rollison scored on it, way. Cashen struck out, and Cope went cut a8 he attempted to ad- vance to third base, retiring the side and bringing up the Elks for the seventh inning for the B. Palmer flied out to snoristop, and Rustad sent a long one into Jel Vs glove in left field. Snow knccked a hot grounder across sec- ond and into center field for a single. Cantiilion flied out to Mier- zejewski. Legion's Big Inning Big inning for she Legion their half of the seventh, with three hits and five runs. E. Niel- sen ran for tirst on the third strike, but was thrown out by catcher Hcuston. Mierzejewski singled into short left field. McDaniels went to first on balls, and Jensen was hit by the pitcher to load the bases. Jim Nielsen also was hit by a pitched ball, forcing in Mierzejewski. Rollison sacrificed to the pitcher, and McDaniels scor- ed Cope singled through second base, and Jensen came in to score, with J. Nielsen hot on his heels. Vuille doubled into deep center field, and Cope scored, then Cashen went down on strikes. The Elks.went down one, (wo, three in the top half of the eighth Guy sent one into right field which Cashen snagged on the run, and Wood and Smithberg were fanned by Rollison was Long Hit With the Legion up once more, Ed Nielsen flied out to W. Palmer in right fie.d. Mierzejewski wallop- ed the longest hit of the game, a triple into the far corner of left {ield; followed by McDaniels, who was safe on first as Cantillion drcpped a fly to center field. Mierzejewski had come in to score on the fumble. Jensen flied out to Snew at first, and Jim Nielsen Spb»rl__lti_rifels The Reno Silver Sox and the On- tario, Califernia, Orioles of the Sun- set League set what may have been a record for organized baseball ye: terday. They cracked out a total of 22 heme runs in a double bill. The University of Illinois will send an eight-man tram to the Compton Calif.. invitational meet next Fri- day. The squad will include Herb McKenley, conference 220 and 440 yard chamnion and 100-yard champ Bill Mathis. Steers of Portland is getting in e for the 1948 Olympics. He holds the world’s high jump record at six fest, 11 inches, and at a meet B |in Portland Salurday he served no- tice he still has plenty of spring in his legs. He won his pet event with a leap of six feet, seven inches. Icnmv to bat, McDaniels was out trying to steal second. In the ninth, W. Palmer flied out to Cope at first, Houston fanned. B. Palmer made first as J. Nielsen flubbed one at third, and Rustad | doubled into right field. Snow came up last, and grounded out to Cope at first to end the ball game. "ORE put | BOX § | | Elks ABR HPOAE Houston, c¢ 3101230 B. Palmer, p &3 1,0 1.0 Rustad, ss I e e Snow, 1b LS e el i | Cantillion, cf 0 3 Yol | Guy, 3b, 2b 8.0 1N Wood, 1f 401000 Smithberg, 2b,3b .4 0 0 1 1 0 | w. Palmer, rf 4:0:.03 00 | Totals 36 4 82410 4 Legion ABR HPOAE E. Nielsen, ss 5y./07 1SR Mierzejewski, 2b .4 3 4 2 2 0 McDaniels, cf R B Jensen, If PR T i 1| J. Nieisen, 3b R 0 e B Rollison, p 310100 Cope, 1b 424810 Vuille, ¢ g 0008 00 F. Cashen, rf i1 0.8 0a Totals 32 11 12 27 Summary — Triple: Mierzejewski. Two base hits: Rustad, 2; Vuille. Double play: Cope. Bases on balls: off Palmer, one; off Rollison, four. Struck out: by Palmer, 10; by Rol- lison, 8. Umpires: Plate, Shaw; Bases, Lowe and Magorty Time of game: two hours cven e New Track Champ for PacificNW SEATTLE, June 2. (M—The Northern Division of the Pacific Coast Conference had a new track champion and a new track dean teday, and both could be trailed to the lair of the University of ‘Washington Huskies. The Huskies smacked down their opposition Saturday and handed Coach Hec Edmunson his 10th di- vision crown in the meet's 21-year tory by grabbing points in every event, The first places were fairly well scattered among the division’s six schools, but when all the places were counted Washington had encugh for 52 points and the title. The division deanship went to Edmunson when the northwest's grand old man of track. Bill Hay- | ward of Oregon, announczd he was retiring after 44 years and this was his last meet. i His Oregon team, handicapped by ! the loss of two men by pre-meet in- juries, tried hard to hand him the division flag as a farewell present but had to settle for third with 33 points. Washington State took sec- ond with 35'. Oregon State, the defending | champion, wound up with 20, Mon- tana had 17! and Idaho 7. S HUSPITAL NOTES St. Ann’s Heopilai admitted Baby ! Sharon Clements on Saturday for | medical attention, and on Sunday, Master Robert Ellis, John Cory and | Master David Fremming of Elfin Cove for surgery. Mrs. Fred Cunningham was ad- ‘mitted early this morning, and at | 6:17 o'clock gave birth to a b‘ahyl girl weighing seven pounds and sev- | en ounces. | ! Discharged from St. Ann’s on! Sunday was Mrs. R. L. Frankfort- er and baby girl. | Government Hospital admitted | Elizabeth Sumdum from Hoonah yesterday. George Manny from Eek stayed overnight Saturday enroute to Mt. Edgecumbe School at Sitka. Discharged on Saturday were Carl | Marvin and Gertrude Lawson from IHoonflh, and Linda Lee Marks of Douglas. { — e ATTENTION MASONS Called Communication Wednes- lda_v at 1:30 p.m. for the purpose of i conducting the funeral service of Bro. Geo. A. Getchell. By Order of the W. M. J W. LEIVERS, Secy. { —ady. 585-t2 Distributed By ©ODOM & CO. DIMAGGIO, OAKS, SEALS Sporf Ifems MIZE ARE TIED ATTOP, Over Weekend SWATTERS New YorkF;r;s_HopeYanks and Giants Will Meet in World Series By JOE RICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Jubilant New Yorks fans, envision- ing the possibility of their first Giant-Yankee subway world ceries since 1937, proudly pointed today to the slugging Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees and Johnny Mize of the Giants as the belting bellwethe: who may lead their respective flocks into the October classic. Big Jawn leads all major league batsmen with a mark of .370, is firs in homers with 14 and trails Boston's Earl Togeson by one with 35 runs “ batted in. Mize's superior slugging is uic number one reason Mel Ott's charges are leading the Chicago Cubs by one-half game, after having bezn al- most unanimously picked to finish in seventh or eighth place’ Bangs Two Homers DiMag banged two round trippers yesterday, one with the bases loac- ed, to lead the Yankees to an 11-9 victory over the Cleveland Indians before 47,132 fans at Municipal Stadium. With the first game of the double header delayed by rain, the second was halted by darknzss Mize contributed five hits in eight times at bat as the Giants came from behind to earn a split over the Cincinnati Reds before 45,795 fans at the Polo Grounds. The Reds, aid- eG by Eddie Miller's 10th home run in the ninth inning with one on won the ovener 5-3, but the Giants slugged out a 13-9 victory in the sightcap. Cubs Beat Phils Clyde McCullough’s triple after Bob Sturgeon had reached first on Jim Tabor's error in the eighth in- ning broke a 3-3 tie and gave the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies before 14,841 | recoters in Philadelphia. The Boston Braves advanced into third place, one game behind the Giants, by sweeping both ends of a deuble header, 2-0 and 8-7, with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Boston. Rookie righthander Harry Taylor came through with another fine pitching peformance, holding the St. Louis Cardinals to five hits in hurling the Brooklyn Dodgers tosa 6-1 win at Ebbets Field. Two Home Swats Home runs by Jeff Heath and Vern Stephens, combined with the six-hit pitching of Jack Kramer, gave the St. Louis Browns an ~asy 7-2 win over the Philadslphia Ath- letics. Rain washed out the second game of the scheduled double head- | er in St. Louis. Rain also caused the postpone- ment of the twin bills between Chicago and Boston and Washing- ton and Detroit in the American League. > SUMMER CLASSES NOW ENROLLING Dorothy Stearns Roff Schoel of Dancing Phone Red 575 —adv. - + Let Empire “wan-tads" run your errands. Cleap and efficlent’ 588-7 NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION RESUMPTION OF P g 5. ALASKA ACQUIRED TO SERVE _ SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA CITIES First Sailings FROM JUNEAU Northbound: Haines, Skagway and Sitka SAT. JUNE 21 Scuthbowmi : TUES. JUNE 24 and every other Tues. 'theréafter . e e NORTHLAN D TRANSPORTATION C0. P. (. LEAGUE By BILL BECKE (Assceiated Press Sports Wriler) San Francisco and Oakland land- ed in a tie for first place in the Pacific Coast League standings af- ter their doubleheaders yesterday The Seals trounced the Angels | twice by scores of 11 to 6 and 6 to 1. The loop’s leading right-hander Bob Chesnes, won the night game |semi-finals of European zone Davis | for the Se: hits. The Si games to three. The Oakland Oaks, meanwhile, split a- twin bill with Hollywood. The Stars won the fi game 7 to 1 behind the five-hit hurling ot Gecerge Wcods. The Oaks came back to take the nightcap 6 t 1 and the by allowing only five s wen the series, five series, six games to two. Sa mento shellacked San Diego wice, 9 to 8 and 5 to 0. Tony Freitas pitched four-hit ball in the righteap. Portland and ttle were rained out. This week Sacramento plays San Francisco, O4kland at Portland, Se- attle at Hollywood and Los Angeles at San Diego. STANDING ur CLUBS Pacitic Tvast vLeague w L Pet. Oakland 36 28 .563 San Francisco 36 28 L33 Los Angeles 35 29 547 Portland 28 29 491 Sacramento 31 33 484 San Diego 28 33 459 | Seattle 27 32 458 Hollywood if 36 429 ~Natwnal League w L Pet. New York 22 15 595 Chicago 22 16 579 Boston 22 17 564 Brooklyn 21 17 533 Pittsburgh 17 19 472 Cincinnati 17 23 425 Philadelphia 17 23 425 St. Louis 15 23 395 American wcague W L Pet Detroit 24 14 631 New York 21 17 533 | Cleveland 16 15 516 Boston 19 19 500 Philadelphia 18 20 474 Washington 16 1 457 Chicago 18 22 450 St. Louis 15 21 417 Gastinean Channel League w L Elks 4 2 667 | Legion 38 3 500 | Moose 1 3 250 - Mrs. Jce Kendler . Gives Tea Honaring " Mrs. Walter Wendi | To meet Mrs. walter Wendt, a |newcomer to the vicinity, Mrs. Joel i{Kendler entertained the ladies of | the Duck Creek area at a tea last | Friday afternoon. { Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wendt and ' r five children, recently ar- rived from Kent, Wash., and are making their home near the Kend- ler place on the highway. Mr. Wenadt, a dairym~n, is now employed at the Alaska Daivv, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kendler. announces the She will make her maiden constitutes the first step our passenger service. We are happy to announce: thnt we have acquired the 366-foot turbo—elec;écss “Alaska” for operation in the Southeastern Alaska route. sailing from Seattl¢, Tuesday, June 17th—and every other Tuesddy thereafter.. In addition to our regular ports of ¢all, service will be extended to include Haines and Skagway. With'a capac- ity of 214 cabin passengers; the S8 “Alaska” ‘ NEW YORK--Phalanx won ihe | rich Belmont Stakes by five lengths cver Tide Rips, with Faultless, the ‘od(l.s on favorite, running fifth. Vic- {tory in the mile and a half grind |in 2:29 2/5 meant $78,900 to Phalanx. Tailspin was the third horse in the race witnessed by 52,344 fans. Pha- | lanx paid $6.60. TENNIS LONDON-—South Africa, 'and Czechoslovakia marched ‘nto |Cup eliminatfon by respective vic- tories over Britain, Monaco and New |Zealand. Yugoslavia led Belgium: 2-1, in other pairing. TRACK PHILADELPHIA New York University dethroned Navy in the IC-4A track and field championships |with 36 voints to 25 for runnerup Michigan State. Two new meet records were set as Army Team ran mile relay in 3:14.3'and Curtis Stene of Penn State covered iwo miles in 9:11.8. CHICAGO — Illinois, paced by Herb McKenley's victorles in the 220 and 440, piled up 691 points to win its third straight Big Nine outdoor track and field title. Wisconsin was second with 30%:. Chuck Fonville of Michigan set new meet record with shetput toss of 54 feet, 1 inch in trials. LOS ANGELES-—Mel Patton Southern California 2qualled world record bv running 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds in the dual meet with UCLA. GOLF NEWTON, Mass.—Bobby Locke of Scuth Africa came from behind o win the $10,000 Goodall round robin | tournament with a plus 37 total. His 20-hole total was a 13-under- par 347, ROWING ITHACA, N. Y.—Navy defeated Cornell br four-foot margin in two- mile race on Cayuga Lake, rowing distance ‘n 10:34.2. OAKLAND, Calif. California varsity crew won over Wisconsin by more than five lengths in three- mile grind. Favoring incoming tides helped Bears turn in time of 15 minutes, 14 seconds. NWA WILL START TRIPS TO ORIENT = - MIDDLE OF JULY SEATTLE, June 2. — (A—North- west Airiines announced over the | weekend that its four-engined DC-4 | lincrs would start' carrying passeng- ers,’ mail and cargo to the Orient via the Great Circle Route July 15, | from, both Minneapolis and the Pa- | cific Northwest. Scheduled time for the Puget Sound-Tokyo flight is 28 hours and 50 minutes. The company said the iflight time will be reduced to about 16 hours with the first of a fleet of Boeing Stratccruisers :ext :ear. The -oute, via Anchorage, Alaska, ihas been flown 10 times by NWA planes in preparation for regular commercial service. The Orient route also includes Shanghai and Manila, with a side link with Seoul, Korea. R e d the want-ads for vargams! R CO. voyage in this service, in the replacement of § | France of | | ( ! | Plastics Expesition in San Franci | dinghy weighing only 80 pounds climatic assault. | in the mainway and gunwale. Three rope holes and four oar loc! | Miss Pamela | with metal inserts. | Beetle PG-9. 'BOMBERS FROM " JAPAN ON FAST FLIGHT T0 TEXAS ;Relum from Orient Affer Thirty Days of Spec- ial Maneuvers FORT WORTH, Tex,, June 2.—(® | —8ix combat and 19 reconnaissance missions were flown on 30 - day maneuvers in Japan by the squadron of B-20s which returned to Fort ‘Worth Army airfield Saturday after a one-stop flight from Tokyo, com- plated in 32 hours and 10 minutes elapsed time. First combat practice of such long range ever staged by the Army Air Forces, the maneuvers were describ- ed by AAF officials as extremely . successful. The flight back to Fort Worth was by the northern route with only one stop at Anchorage, Alaska e e WALTER E. MITCHELL, SEATTLE BANKER, HERE Walter E. Mitchell, Assistant Vice- President and Manager of the Al- aska Department of the National Bank of Commerce at Seattle, ar- All-Plastics Boal Displayed It is also leak-proof. | A ONE-PIECE ALL-PLASTICS BOAT, first of its kind ever moided complately of synthetic material, was cn display at the second annual isco, by General Electric Company. It is a molded glass mat material and plastic resin, the nine-fcot and is immune to salt water or It has tensile and impact strength, durability and is easy to lift. This mcdel carries fiv2 persons Outboard motors may be attached. k sockets are molded into the craft Brown is shown demonstrating the (International) rived in Juneau yes American to call on Alaska bankers and business men, and became bette. acquainted with their problems. In addition to Juneau, cities Mit- chell will visit during the next sev- eral weeks include Ketchikan, Pet- ersburg, Sitka, Skagway, and Wran- gell. He will make Juneau head- quarters on the current trip at the 1Barnnor Hotel. Mitchell, who has a number of friends in the Territory, is making his first visit here since becuming | manager of the bank's Alaska De- | partment. He succeeded Foster L. | (Terry) McGovern, who died sud- | denly last April 23, | Mitchell brings with him not only a rich background of comprehensive anking exverience, but an enviable | store of energy and enthusiasm— | long a “tradz-mark” of his. Starting | /s a messenger, he has been asso- ated with the National Bank of | Commerce since 1916. | et — Empire Want-ads for resuits! ® vou'L Look TTER IN | *But, Mr. Abercrombie, that isw’t what we mean by taking a business trip by Clipper” 1It's really simple, Mr. A. 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