The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1948, Page 3

TIGHT RACE FOR TOPPERS D. €. LEAGUE (By The Associated Press) The Coast League's big three — San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland—looked with new respect today at a fourth contender, up ! and coming Hcllywood. ! Jimmy Dyke's Stars, finally hit- | ting the stride expected by many two-timed Portland yester- 2 and 4-3, to make it a six- eries over the Beavers. San Francisco managed to retain its slim hold on first place by walloping San Diego 8-2 after los- ing by the same score; Los Angeles i lcsing to Sacramento 3-2 winning 16-2 The other Sabbath twin bill was divided: Seattle 5-1, Oakland 1-2. Big Jack Graham, hit his 15th homer. At Oakland, the third-place Oaks | and Seattle wound up even-steven at three games apiece. Herman Besse won the opener for the Rain- iers as his catcher, Mickey Grasso, hemered San Diego, - o B.B.STARS batting in the stars of big leagues Pitching and Sunday games are as follows: Naticnal Batting—Gustine, Pittsburgh, and Edwards, Brooklyn, 423. Runs batted in—Cooper, New York, and Sauer, Cincinnati, 15 Home runs—Sauer, Cincinnati, 6, and Cooer, New York, 4. Pitching—Palice, Brooklyn, Jones, New York; Voiselle, Bostcn; Se ell, Pittsburg, Riddle, Pittsburgh, and Brecheen, St. Lo 2-0, 1.000. American League Batting— Boudreau, Cleveland, 485, and Zarilla, St. Louis, .441 Runs batted in—Williams, Boston, 14; DiMaggio, New York, and Ev- ens, Detroit, 11. Home runs—Kegtner, 5, and Vicon, Detroit Boton. Pitching—Reynolds, 3-0, 1.000 and Trucks, 0, 1.000. BOWLING DETROIT, Muay 3—(—Chicago's Kathryns, world match game champicns, occupied ninth place in the American Bowling Congress tourney today and Buddy Bomar felt particularly gocd over it. The Kathryns rolled into the first ten last night with 2953 as Bomar responded to some cool fan treatment by pounding the maples for 671, high individual game. League Cleveland, Williams, New Yor Detyoit DALLAS, Texas, May 3.—®— Only two changes were recorded in the Women’s International Con- gress standings over the end, one in the regular and the other in singles. The Czech Lodge team of Chica- go took over fourth place with 2,709 and Laura Stellmacher of Chicago climbed into a tie for seccnd place in singles with a 666. - - JUNEAU WOMAN'S CLUB Regular monthly business meet- ing and luncheon will be held Wed- nesday May 5 at noon in Terrace Rocm cf the Baranof. division after | { 444 Home Runs - Swatted in | Bigkeagues' This may be a new kaseball sea- son, but Major League pitchers are finding out, much to their sorrow, that Ralph Kiner, Johnny Mize and Ted Williams pack that old |home run wallop. | "Each of the three home r' . kings of 1947 crashed importan® fonr-bag- gers yesterday still | Kinger, whose 51 homers tied Mize |for the National League champion- ship, cracked two to pace the sur- prizing Pirates to 6-4' win over the Cincinnati Re in Pittsburgh. Mize slammed a home run with one mate akoard to break a 1-1 tie and inaugurate a four-run sixth in- ning as the Giants defeated the Boston Braves, 5-1, in New York was the slugging first baseman’s third home run of the year. Williams was the whele works in the 7-1 Red Sox triumph over the New York Yankees in Boston Thumpin’ Ted tripled in the first inning off righthander Karl Drew 0 drive in two runs. He banged hi fourth home run of the season with |two mates aboard | The rebounding Detroit Tigers ihanded the Indians their second straizht defeat before 57,450 fans in Cleveland 4-2. The Philadelphia Athletics whip- ped the Washington Senators for the thir ight time in the Capitol | City, 4-3 Lefty Ken Heintzelman pitched a four-hit 2-0 shutout for Philadelphia in the National League against Breoklyn. After Brooklyn won 9-6 in the first game. The Chicg Cardinals unde Lou Cubs buried the a 13-4 score in St. | - - Sporis Briefs LOUISVILLE, ~Citation (2.- 80) won the 74th running of Ken tucky Derby by 3 lengths over Calumet Farm stablemate Coaltown, ier. My Request was length If behind in third place. e and quarter time was 2:05 (wo s. Crowd: 90,000; Handle: $3,- ‘03],779 NEW YORK—Miss Disco ($34.30) won $20,000 added Interborough Handicap at Jamaica in 1:12 on fifth for six furlongs. Crowd 44,570; Han- '2€0'280°'e$ 9IP DERBY, Conn—Unbeaten Navy, 1947 Poughkeepsie champion, defeat- ed Yale by half a length in two mile sprint on Housatonic River, in 9:54.2. Yale Jayvees and third var- sity won, while Navy Frosh were| victors, MINNEAPOLIS—Fortune Gordien of Minnesota bettered American | College discus record against Illi- nois with 175 feet, 7% inch toss. Old mark was 174 8 % by Archie Harris, Indiana, 1941. > - week- o @ o ¢ o @ C o 0 0 © o . TIDE TABLE MAY 4 Low tide, 5:16 a.m, 44 ft. High tide, 11:09 a.m., 13.0 ft. Low tide, 17:19 p.m., 2.6 ft. High tide, 23:39 p.m., 14.9 ft. e . . . |o . ® e 00000 00 0 00 - 1 buildin One moder: in San's, ®la Dutchman LA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA LOOKING FOR A H AP SPORTS " ROUNDUP By HUGH FULLERTON | STATE COLLEGE, Pa. | |(®—The expe already are picking {Penn State as the East's leading {football power of 1948 and Coach| Bo: Higgins is trying to cry like a man about it true to the tra-| ditions of his trade, Bob shakes his head sadly when you mention his team's prospects and moans, “I ;(!m; have any tackles.” . | AAU Olympic gymnastics | meet here Saturday drew capacity | crowds of around 6,000 for Loth afternoon and evening sessions gest gather- et the JR. as The | cuat probably was the lar ing ever to c£eée a gym I | United Stdtes ! {he Pirates' expen- | r, is due to make his" first major league start some | {time this week. .the B;lli;w,«; | Mont., Pioneer League Club is slated | to open its home seasont tomorrow | |with Bing Crosby, Barbara Stan-| vyck and Robert Taylor in atten- [dance. They are all stockholders in| |the club onder who'll get !the top billing? | DU S — [ |GLDEST PRACTICIXG . JOCKEY CREDITS IS SPAN TO SOBRIETY i BRUSSELS—(®—Julien {small, almost toothless, claims th at the age of 83 he is the oldest| |practicing jockey in the world. H i Swijsen, whose home is at Tour- {nai, a historic town on the Belgi {French bord: disputes claims that ithe world’s oldest jock ill riding | is in the United States. 1turf annuals, he say: s recorded an| 180-year old jockey riding in Ameri-! |ca. Swijsen, emphasing he has just {renewed his license, says: “I shall| certainly not retire this year.” He recalls he started riding at {the age of three “when, as an or- phan, I was picked up by a horse-| (trader.” Since then his life has been :spent with horses. His greatest suc* cess on the turt was with Apollon, ich he bought “for a song” from “For years Apollon | won victory after victory, on the |turf in Belgium, France,” England and Holland,” he says. Swijsen at- trizuts his fitness to the 40-mile {bieycle rides he takes regularly and | wh X ‘}lo the fact he “loves his work and . keeps sober.” R LENOIR IN PORT | | The ACs cable Ship, B. O. Len- For reser- capital of Yemen, is a radio tower.|oir, arrived here this morning, and vation call Green 779 or Red 632. The tower and its radio station were|will work in this area for several 878 2t a gift of the United States. weeks. | cause | ; son, lare in Juneau and staying at the | Baranof Hotel | P OME — A German pointer and her pups await adoption at an 'IMPORANT LECTURE|WRITERS ALSO HAD 'TUESDAY EVENINGBY TOUGH TIME WHEN DR. H. SCHUMACHER Affair Sponsored by P-TA —Subject Menfal Hygiene —Public Is Invited Parents of the Juneau School Children will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the Grade School Auditorium to head Dr. Henry C. Schumacher, Mental Hygiene Con- sultant for the U. S. Public Health Service in San Francisco. Mental Hygiene is a subject that is ¢f vital interest to everyone. Be~ the P-TA believes that good mental hygiene is an essential element in the complete education |and development of school children it is pleased to have tunity to sponsor Dr. r's address. The public is invited io attend. - the oppor- Schumach- HERE FROM HAINES Minnie Nelson and Isabel btoth from Haines, are visiting in Juneau and staying at the Gastineau Hotel. - FROM OREGON James F. Doyle and Elwin Nel both from Beaverton, Ore., > HERE FROM SEATTLE E. G. Easterly, H. K/ Johnson, Peggly Mitchell, L. W. Roehm, A. Wolf, W. H. Sharpe, Earl Cox, J. Norris, B. P. Falkenberg and F. M. Caldwell, all from Seattle, are| the Baranof Hotel. - FROM PORTLAND, OREGON Morris Hansen, from Portland, Ore,, is in Juneau and is at the Baranof Hotel. - ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA Mr. and Mrs, John N. Ball, from Arlington, Va., are staying at the Baranof Hotel. visiting at TO THE VOTERS OF FIRST DIVISION— Deepest thanks and app animal rescue shelter at Minneapolis. They were picked up without licenses. ' B. B. REPORTING ‘ AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor By FRANK ECK NEW YORK People who believe | baseball writers covering the Florida | training list of 1948. It appears that more ceribes were injured than tallplayers. After a week of covering the Cin- cinnati Reds in Tampa, Tom Swope of the Cincinnati Post decided to take an afternoon off. He went fishing. Not only was he shut out but a rain m came up forcing Swope to seek Iter on a porch. Swope noticed « dog on the porcn and because, as he puts it, “the dog seemed lonely,” he tried to pet him. | The mongrel chewed Swope t hand and it took four days to tind the dog and test him |fsr rabies. Swope has changed his mind akout dogs | At Clearwater, wnere the Phiia- delphia Phillies trained, thieves \broke into several automobiles and |Frank Yeutter of the Philadelphia | Bulletin lost a new typewriter. But that was nothing to what happened to Yeutter a few weeks later. Walking {into a restaurant with Phillie Pres- ident Bob Carpenter, Yeutter slipped and his right leg went from under his 228-pound frame, He cracked his kneecap in several places. Stan Baumgartner, ex-Southpaw pitcher who writes for the Phila- delphia. Inquirer, had a big scare his second night in Clearwater. A lumber yard adjacent to his cottage ceught fire at midnight and he car- vied his three children to safety. Arthur (Red) Patterson, New | York Yankee public relations man, was playing in the annual writers’ game under floodlights in Tampa. Sliding into second base he spiked himself. From now on spikes will Le ruled out of this game, espically since Patterson, being with a major league team, was the only player in la position to torrow spik treining camps is such a soft touch, THE reciation to the loyal friends and sup- porters who worked for my nomination to the Senate and expressed their confidence by a favorable vote at the polls in the primary election. MRS. ELTON ENGSTROM camps had a life of ease should lcok at the spring casualty up be careful not to mention it to the { writers. | PRy | sports books appear to be a dime ! dozen these day Among those reaching sperts desks this spring are: “The Babe Ruth Story” with Bob Considine (Dutton); Jackie Robinson’s “My Own Story” (Green- berg); John Durant's “The Dod- gers” (Hastings House) ; Lee Allen's “@incinnati Reds” (Putnam); “Wal- ter Johnson” bv R L. Treat (Messner), and “Outstanding Mod- ern Quarter Horse Sires” by Nelson C. Nye (Morrow) ‘The Babe Ruth book is a must, for it's on the greatest figure ba Lall has ever known. Robinson's opus is well done tut it fails to give proper credit to the Kansas City Monarchs who never once sought to block his entrance into organized ball. The Monar however, still are seeking to collect from Branch Rickey who lifted Robinson off thelr team without payment a Three new harness racing tracks located near large cities will make debuts this year. They are Fair- mount Park, across the river from St. Louis and Laurel Raceway and Ocean Downs, both in the Baltimore <Washington, D. C. area “harles (Red) Embree, New York Yankee hurler, comes from a pitch- ing family. His father was a star at Monrovi: Calif., high, and older turned down several pro gister toured the Orient with a team of softball players and a younger brother, Earl, plays with Yankee-owned Augusta in the Sally league. R BPW INSTALLATION MONDAY EVENING AT 7:30, MIKE'S PLACE Installation of the new officers of the Business and Professional Wo- men’s Club will be held Monday eve- « PAGE THREE ning, May 3, at 7:30 o'clock at Mike’s Place in Douglas. Mrs. Betty McCormick will be the installing officer and it will be & forma! affair. Transportation will be arranged from the Baranof Hotel ty the Yel- low Cab Co., and for reservations contact Mrs. Lucille Johnson at 833 or Mrs. Bonnie Jo Gronroos at 883. All BPW members and, guests are urged to have reservations in by Monday noon, May 3. R e JERRY GUCKER GETS SKI AWARD, GONZALES Jerry Gucker, of Juneau, first ycar letter man at Gonzaga Uni- versity, Spokane, Wash,, is among nine to be given varsity athletic awards. Gucker was a member of the university ski squad and made good in all events in the 1947~ 1948 season. He is a son of J. W. Gucker ~Are People Really SW itch NE to Calvert? 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