The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1948, Page 3

THE DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAD PAGE THRE STANDING ur CLUBS National League w L 44 Pet. 573 545 545 525 510 476 433 Team: Roston Brétkiyn St. Louis New York Pittsburgh . Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago REDSOX |Babe Ruih NOSEOUT - ; In Serious YANKEES Conditi American Leagde w 61 L 40 43 44 43 53 61 60 69 Pet. 604 598 581 578 Team: Cleveland Philadelphia Boston New York | Detr 3 413 400 Chicago 337 .398 T SOMBOKCHAMP Th:)ele Ul;‘S. i ' ARRIVES AKRON; ymp | SET FOR FINALS ~ Winners Basketball Teams, Boxers; Move Up - Canoe Team Wins LONDON, Augv.lr-—lflfl-—The Uni- ted States basketball team defeated | Mexico, 71 to 4, to enter the firal | | The Empire received a wire lndn)‘] ing that Justin Ripley, Soap Box| arrived in Akron yesterds having flown a little more than| 24 Hours and was all set for the big race to be held Sunday. Blanton said the tiring elements of Ripley's trip were complately ! forgotten when the police escort with sirens wailing brought him through town from the airport. Thrilled by his reception at Akron By JOE REICHLER | Nine teams are still in the run- ing for the Major League flags today as the greatest of all baseball cam- NEW YORE, Aug. 11.—(»—Babe | Ruth, baseball’s ailing homerun King, was reported in critical con- dition today at Memorial Hospital. The hospital said Ruth had de- Pacific Coast League round of the Olympic tourney to- land very enthusiastic about the PRINCESS NORAH INLAST NIGHT; 17 JUNEAU BOUND. The Princess Norah, Canadian Pa- from Dr. Willlam P. Blanton stat- cific passenger vessel skippered by | Capt. Fred McGraw, arrived in Ju- chafnp from Sitka and Juneau, had peau at 7 o'cleok last night with 17| after | for here and sailed for Haines and | Skagway about four hours later. 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The seven-foot Bob Kurland, who played only part of the last half | forthcoming race, Justin seems de- | férninéd to do his best. paigns roars past the two-thirds | Los Angeles .. mark. | veloped a higher temperature and | San Diego The lst includes Cleveland, Phil- | that: there were pulmonary compli- | Seattle adelphia, Boston and New York in catlons. Portland the American League and Boston,| On Monday he was reported 88§ pollywoed St. Louis, New York and Pittsburgh | having a cold. Yesterday the,gacramento in the National. hospital said his condition seemed) Only two and a half games seps-;impwved and the temperature had rate the first four clubs in the Amer- | gone down. Teatn: w ican, while six and a half games) The hospital bulletin said: Bremerfox\ W separate the first five teams in the! “Babe Ruth’s temperature again TeoMin 1 senfor circuit. has risen. There are pulmonary Spolmnev pod At the moment, the Indians and complicaticns. = Condition critical.” Victaria @ Braves are on top, but neither posi-| Ruth has been - undergoing 8} v st tion is secure. -« | series of treatments in the hospnnl.gw'mc"u;" Yo 55 By splitting a twilight night doub- | ——————— 1 enatchee 52 le-header with Washington while the | i Salem ,r;:: Tigers were defeating the Indians,, gYakiml 7-3, in Detroit, the A’s tied Cleve-| ( land for first in the games won and | 1 ‘ lost. However, since they've played| Team: six more games and could do no bet- ! P Moose .. ter than get an even break in them, | the A’s trafl the Tribe by six per-| | Elks 9 centage points. After the Semnors\ 68 69 K} 4 80 504 485 466 456 398 Western International League Pct, 619 564 550 549 401 444 438 345 Channel League W L .13 3 *Pet. 813 529 500 176 8 8 Douglas .. ¢ 8 4 came tack to win, 11-2. S F SEAlS sl n the pace, by downing the Yankees, | . { 3 half games behind the leaders. |the Coast League pennant to san! Final scores in base ball games of their pursuers when they were| W . iy A i Oakland, opening a key mies( Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2. Legion . 8 won yesterday's opener, 8-2, the A’ | . The Red Sox moved past New| ‘ York into third place, two games off ) . 9-6, in New York. The New Yorkers By BILL BECKER ‘ \ropped into fourth place, two and | Some folks may have conceded i E: in the National League today are: The Braves lost ground to each |Francisco. But not Casey Sten-} o A mfik 5 ¥ | gel’'s Oaks! H i Leaten by the Giants in Boston, 6-5.\ Th e Dod; {mith the . league-leading Seals,| Fittsburgh 4; Chicago 2. K'y Uiy oy 4 i Eraas 7 % ! In the American Ieague, Boston for the Americans was ordered out of the ball game in the closing minutes because the referees thought he deliberately threw a hip into George Gudino Goya. Aaska Magneic Disturbance Delays [ACS Communications | HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England, | Aug. 11—P—The United States team, in a homemade canoe, won the 10,000-meter (six miles, 376 yards) Canadian pairs race in the SEATTLE, Aug. 11 -‘lM—Mag-’ netic disturbances have interfered with radiotelegraph and radiotele- | phone communications between Se- Olympic canoeing competition today |attle and Alaska during the last| by a margin of a city block. two days, the Alaska Communica- | Tt was the first time America had|tion System reported yesterday. i ever scored in Olvmpic canoeing. Col. T. J. Tully, commanding offi- | Sweden won the 10,000-meter (6icer of ACS, said the disturbances | miles, 376 yards) Olympic kayak have been so severe at times as pairs Olympic canoeing race n 46!ty completely halt overseas radio minutes, 9.4 seconds. iphone circuits from Seattle to such | The United States team finished | widespread points as Ketchikan, | 13th in 50 minutes, 6.5 vsconds. Addk and Kodiak. i Submarine cable, landline cir- WEMBLEY, England, Aug. 1l1.—|cuits and other alternate routes M — Welterweight Horace Herring | have been used to keep messages of St. Petersburg, Fla., joined three|going. Col. Tully said forecasts of American teammates today in thethe disturbances, received from third round of the Olympic boXiNg | washington, D. C. indicated they | tournament. . are at their peak, and that radio| Herring, the U. 8. Navy’s 147-|congitions should return to nmmal“ pound champion, smashed out a de- | g0 | cision over Peter Fordn of Erie. R | —————— — CUTTER VS. JUNEAU BASEBALL TONIGHT' | | | i ELKS ATTENTION { | Regular Lodge meeting tonight. | i p ALOE L i I ¢ | | ADA THOMAS, WATCHMAKER | phid Phillfes, 5-2, in Brooklyn to take second place from the idle Cardinals | racked up a 5-3 victory last night.: That narrowed the gap between | he cross-bay rivals to two games. walioped New York, 5 to 2. P SHNET SRR The scheduled baseball game be- tween the Juneau All-Stars and a team from the Cutter Wachusett, At Forget-Me-Nov @ifts offers| | expert repairing at reasonable A longtimer with CPR, Capt. Me- |Graw has formerly made ‘the Alas- ka run as first mate. | Madsen Cycle and Fishing Supply Opp. Ball Park Phone 914 Demand pre-war quality. Insist on Philadelphia, the superb blend that’s backed by yast reserves. Philadelphi BLENDED WHISKY PA 6.8 PROOF » 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS » CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA, - — a5 BESRRS) by a fraction of a point. They als | shaved Boston's margin to three; Charley Ceysaway Nft-handed) Radio disturbances occur when games. The fourth place Giants are the Seals into submission, Withithe jonosphere or radio reflecting five games behind and the fifth help on the last two batters from region 50 to 250 miles above the place Pirates, who trounced Chica- Ralph Buxton. Gassaway, Win-learth is disrupted by the incoming go, 5-1, in Pittsburgh, are six and a |ning his 11th against six setbacks, streams of particles from the sun. half games off the pace. |had a four-hit shutout until Ray! In the only other game yesterday,|Orteig hit a three-run homer in! the St. Louis Browns advanced with- | the ninth. | in a game of sixth place by vanquish-{ It was Oakland's 13th victory in ing the last place Chicago White 22 starts against the Seals. i Sox, 3-1. Portland’s Beavers—building up Bobby Feller, trying for his 12th | steam for the stretch run—threw victory, went down to his 13th de-|righthander. Don Jehnson, just in feat instead when he was clubbed|from Kansas City, at the San Die- for eight hits and five runs in the go Padres. Johnson responded six innings he worked. Pat Mullin’s| with a 6-1 victory. I 15th home run in the fifth produced| It brought the Beavers’ record three runs and pinoed the .loss since July 11 to 21 wins in 33 cn Feller. games, a pace which only San A crowd of 67,691 saw the Red Sox | Francisco has equalled. come from behind with five runs in Dewey Adkins of Los the eighth to defeat the Yankees. turned in the night's flossiest Vern Stephens’ double off Vic Ras-|pitching stint in setting down chi with the Lases loaded was the| Hollywced’s hard-hitting Stars with big blow. __|three bingles. The Angels won Pee Wee Reese's home run with 9.1 as Eddie Sauer batted in four two mates aboard in the first inn-| yns with a homer and a long ing was all the Dodgers needed to fly Adkins fanned eight in notch- defeat the Phillies as Rex Barney ing hig 1ith win. permitted only five hits for hls’ Seattlo's Guy Fletcher posted his 10th victory. 12th victory with an 8-4 decision | Ralph Kiner banged a UWO-TUN oyer Sacramento. He walked eight! homer in the first inning, his 20th, | 5,4 gave up eight hits, but pitch- to get the Pirates off to a good start.| o4 pig way out of se'veral Jams. The Cardinals and Cincinnati Hillis Layne’s three singles paced Reds were nt scheduled. | the 11-hit Ratnier attack. FIGHT DOPE | LEADERS INB.B. | (By The Associated Press) | National League This is the one with travel magic i Los Angeles Maxie Docpsen, 132%,, Batting—Musial, St. Louis .383; ¥ q i New Orleans, stopped Mario Trigo, | Dark, Boston .341. . L & flowmg all through 1t. " was postponed last night due to DTt 958 5t the muddy condition of the field/ Lut it is planned to -play the game © |at 6:30 o'clock tonight weather | } permitting. 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