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

| | /TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1948 ~ | LAST TIMES T d 4 His steel struck sp:'is that fired women's hearts! Swo ONIGHT!? Gicg; TURE LARRY PARKS Ve | rdsmanj ELLEN DREW + EDGAR BUCHANAN ORGE MACREADY RAY COLLINS - MARC PLATT “SKI BELLES” m=e= PASSING PARADE CARTOON—LATE NEWS FEATURE STARTS AT 8:10—10:10 WEDNESDAY — THURSDAY WITH WHOM DID HE SPEND HIS HONEYMOON? Eogle-Lian Films presents FRANCHOT | ithree hits and drove in five runs.| "SWORDSMAN' IS ENDING TONIGHT, CAPITOL THEATRE Columbia’s exciting romantic dra- ma, “The Swordsman,” the new Lar- [ry Parks' Technicolor starrer, will end its successful run at the Capi- tol Theatre tonight. Ellen Drew plays the leading sup- porting role. Other featured players are George Macready, Edgar Buch- (anan, Ray Collins and Marc Platt. Coming tomorrow at the Capitol ‘Lost Honeymoon” starring Fran- {chot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Con- way and Francis Rafferty. The film is said to be a riotous comedy, ‘full of laughs and racy dialogue. The gags, it is said, fly thick and last. 3 TEAMS EDGING |"up ON BRAVES IN NATIONAL LEAGU By JOE REICHLER Major League baseball fans, gog- gle-eyed over the closest race in American League history, finally have begun to realize that the Na- tional is having a whizzer of its own. Slowly but surely, the New York ! iGlants, St. Louis Cardinals and iBrooklyn Dodgers are creeping up| jon the pace-setting Boston Braves. | Braves were sailing serenely along (on an eight-game spread, today their margin is only five games. Yesterday it was the Cardinals’ IWhereas only two weeks ago the | turn to gain ground on the leaders. | 1 Enjoying their biggest batting day {of the year, the Redbirds teed off on five New York pitchers for 20 hits to humiliate the Giants 21-5. The victory enabled the Cards to virtually tie for third place with the losing Dodgers, who own a slim Ione percentage point bulge over i the Redbirds. Both are only a game ibehind the Giants and six off the i pace. Del Wilber and Enos Slaughter led the Cards’ assault. Wilber collected Slaughter, who ‘got on base in his ‘nm five times at bat, also collected three hits. ‘The lowly Cincinnati Reds handed MOOSE SMOTHERS ' LEGION CHANCES | 16 TO4 LAST NIGHT {Phelps Connects for Lone Homer in Heavy Game -Game Tonight Inning: 123456717 Tot. Moose 5512003 16 Legion 0000004 4 With the top half of the score- board looking much like a Califor- nia license plate, the Moose last night got off to a quick start to wade, through the error-happy Le- gion in a 16-4 game, if the mean- }ing of the word can be stretched |to include last night's marathon \of base running. . ! Vuille was the first man up and !made base on a walk, Lawrensen jthen made it on an error, and | Phelps, the third man to take the fplnle. drove out his ' first homer “ot the season to put the Moose jout in front 3-0. Selmer and Sim- {mons scored two mere runs in the first to put the Legion five runs | behind before taking a bat in hand. And a bat in hand is all they took for the first six innings, being { held to one hit (which was a fluke) and no runs. Five runs not being a convinc- ing lead, the Moose racked in the |same number in the second inn- |ing on two hits and four errors. | The Legion was especially gratiutous to Jim Vuiile, catching for the | Moose, who walked to first and ymade home by the same method when Bell made a bum throw to third. | Hurlers Changed | the Legion, was replaced by Niel- isen in the first of the second inn- {ing. but the Moose onslaught con- itinued. After being pulled from {the mound, Notar was shifted to third and then to left field, but 5ms barrage of costly errors con- i tinued. Being unable to pull his { throws out of the air, Notar would | have done more damage to passing {aircraft than to Moose runners Itrying to make first. | Not having displayed a spark of Eme in the first two innings, the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, .| which was only a few feet short Rudy Notar, starting hurler for | 1 plenty of time tosspare. Forsythe |y caught on for his first hit of the | lHAI WAY WIIH evening and Selmer then took the | w E"" FE ‘I' hurler, then climaxed the show by rapping out a single and brtngmg“ Tiring in the last of the seventh, and Sydney Greenstreet, which will Phelps began bowling them in and |be the new screen otfering tonight | In the new Warner Bros.' attrac- | and young Bill Orme came up(per(ormaflces are likely to add many third to swat out a double into more devotees to their already vast' counter in four tries and was familiarly sinister villainy for his | brought in by Notar's deep clout Portrayal of J. P. Alden, a jovial mil- | yJim Nielsen had fanned, for the Phelps let down in the last of thel : Ho ] seventh to rob himself of a one-| Ins |vlng { hit game and a shutout. And the # | badly pounded ball for a two-| base ride which brought in both | AT 20TH CENTURY| in the third and last run. | ! “That Way With Women" star- Legion Gets Busy | the Legion was quick to catch on. ‘nt the 20th. Century Theatre prom- Metcalf, the first man up, pounded | ises something special in the way of of being fish food; Bell stood at |tion dynamic Dane Clark and viva- | the plate for the four necessary |cious Martha Vickers make their de- right field and bring in the Le- |legions of fans. | {g‘on's first run. To round out the complement of | into center field. Cope, who had lionaire auto manufacturer. walker to first, was caught mak- | o 1second out. [ Pitching an exceptionally good lone hit had been a bunt which | Phelps and Tyvol had stood pat- UNEAU, ALASKA basemen. Joe Guy, former Elks/ ring Dane Clark, Martha Vickers |out a single deep into right field, |light comedy-romance. tosses and took base on a walk, but as a romantic team and their | Nielsen then singled for his first stars, Sydney Greenstreet sheds his ing third for the retiring out after B runeffe, 23, game for the first six lnnings.; |ienuy over, waiting for it to roll { over the four line . . . it didn't. | H BOX SCORE | ey Moose: AB R H PO A E: OLYMPIC POOL, WEMBLEY, | Vuille, ¢ 4 3 0 7 1 0 England, Aug. 3—P—Mrs. Victoria | Lawrensen, rf 3 3 1 0, 0 0.Manalo Draves, 23-year-old brunette | Phelps, p 4 3 .3 1 3 0 beauty from Pgsadena, Calif, won Forsythe 4 0 1 8 1 0the Womens Olympic Springboard Selmer, ss 4 3 1 1 1 1 Diving Championship today for the | |Guy, 2b .. 5 0 1 2 2 0 United States, | Simmons, 3b 5 2 3 1 0 0 Seventeen-year-old Zoe Ann Ol- Magorty, If .. 4 0 0 0 0 0 sen, American Springboard Cham- Mays, cf 4 1 0 1 0 1 pion and high school senior from Total 37 16 10 21 8 2 Oakland, Calif, was runnerup in| = the event. # Legion: AB R H PO A E Patricia Ann Elsener of San Fran- E.Nielsen, ss 4 1 1 0 2 {0 cisoplaced third to give Uncle Sam’s | Notar, p 4 0 0 0 0 4 nieces a sweep in the specialty just Cope, ct 220 0 1 0 0 as America’s men divers earlier had Brown, If .. 3 0 0 1 0 2 achieved. | J. Nielsen, 203 0 1 2 2 1 The United States basketball team Tyvol, 3k 4 0 0 4 1 1 wasforced to stage a last half rally Metcalfe, 1b 2 1 1 5 1 1 toturnbacka tough Argentine club Bell, ¢ . 2 1 0 8 0 2 in the Olympic preliminaries today, | Orme, B, rf 3 1 1 0 0 0,59 to5T% . bus Total . 27 4 4 21 6 12/ The Argentines led, 33 to 26, at {intermission and Uncle Sam'’s boys | Summary: Home runs: { | three base hits, 0; two base hits: had to uncork a fire-truck finish i Phelps 1, Selmer 1, Orme 1; doublei“’ keep their record clean. | {plays: 0; struck out by: Nielsen 7, It was the third victory for the| Phelps 8, Notar 0; walked by: | Americans in the group “C" elimina- Phelps; (20 renruRy SHOWS at 7 TON ldG HT WEDNESDAY :25 — 9:30 A TREAT 0 SweEP yov LX) = (4 SYONEY GREENSTREET - KLAN ACE wrn CRAIG STEVENS* oinecreo sy FREDERICK de CORDOVA L e R P R T 1Y FOR YOUR ADDED ENJOYMENT ‘Remember When?' ‘Have You Any Castles’ Latest World Wide NEWS EVENTS team was eliminated from the Olym- pic tournament by Sweden, which scored a 7-0 victory in a second match. The brawhy Turks supplanted the United States today for free style! wrestling honors in the Olympic games, | Only two Americans, Glenn Brand of Clarion, Towa, and Henry Witten- Lerg, New York's grappling police- man, could boast gold medals in the mat game after the Turks got through. Sweden's W. O. G. Grut virtually COCKROACHES]| Hore's a quick SAFE odorless way to help you teop your home free from these pests — simply " BUHACH across their tioils and in and erevices. HACH — knows for ever 75 yoars — one of ihe beat protections against these masty losthiome te. T2 Wandy Sitter Cans 30¢ wp 306090 the Braves their third loss in their | third inning got underway with last four games, 3-1, as Southpaw|COPe of the Legion making a beau- | Johnny Wander Meer bested rookie | tiful stop of Jim Vuille's hard- righthander Vern Bickford in a’dnven fly into center field. pitching duel under the lights in/ In the first of the seventh, the Boston. Moose once more opened up with Nielsen 6, Phelps 4, Notar 1; hit; batted: Nielsen 1, Phelps 2, Notar 1; runs batted in: Phelps 3, Selmer 4, Forsythe 1, Lawrensen 1, Vuille; 1, Guy 1, Orme 1, Nielsen (E.) 1.: BunacH INSECT POWDER Juneau Drug Comblny Harry Race Drug Company Warfield Drug® Company tions and the first setback for the Argentines. A Chile clinched ‘a berti in the championship finals: by easily ie-i feating the Philippines, 68 to 39. The United States water polo of the modern in the Olympic games by capturing the fourth event in the program-swimming. The 34-year-old artillery captain assured himself pentathlon title swam the 300-meter (327 yards) test in four minutes, 27 seconds. FROM OKLAHOMA Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Sellers of Oklahoma City are new arrivals at the Baranof Hotel. i CHATHAM VISITOR R. M. Tucker of Chatham is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Johnny Schmitz outpitched four| the heavy batteries when the flrsllNIO“" 1; umpires, Erbland at the Brooklyn hurlers to give the Chicago|four men up tagged Nielsen for|Plate and Lowe on base. Cubs an 11-inning 4-2 victory over four hits and three runs. Phelps S the Dodgers. % it | was the first' to bat and swauedloawel“h" permlttmg,edthe Moose- | The Phillies and Pirates enjoyed |out his third hit of the day ini DOUETIS Bame Doston A ity a day of rest. {four trips to the plate. Although |18 Wi played tonight begin- ning at 6:30 o'clock. S. S. George Washington PASSENGER—FREIGHT—REFRIGERATION Enreute, settle back in RIBBONS of long-life . 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