The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1949, Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 24,1942 BEAVERS ARE BIG THREAT, P. (. LEAGUE (By the Associated Pre | time and pl fa d a seven game series Htllywood Tuesday night. | Ordinarily, the league-leading Stars would welcome the ¢ 2 1ce of the lowly Beay around the Pacific Coast leagu that Bill Sweeney’s club has with Brovia to the lineup. The Be clean sweep of & Sunday double- header - with Oakland accented talk. In other se Sacramento goes to Oakland. The slugging Pad- res are only three games behind the Stars and the rest of the clubs are all d ite pennant threats, ready to explode at ti All ‘clubs were idle Monday. | STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS ! Pacific Coast League w 34 30 28 28 27 Hellywood San Diego Ozaklang San Fra eattle Sacramento Los Angeles Portland 25 20 National Lea 20 19 Boston v York Ercoklyn 17 Cincinnati 16 Philadelphi 15 Pittsburg 14 Loui 12 10 American Les v York hiladelphia FIGHT DOPE Here is what happened in fis circles last ni; At Cincinna Cleveland, vich, 174%, Cli At Newark—Johnny Fazio, 137! Gilberto Gomez, Mexico (8). t - Chicago—John Labroi, Gary Ind., and-Joe Brown, New Orleans, drew (8). At Los Angeles—James Ca 134, New Yo stopped Mario Tr 8). (15). Red” De| nted mpico, 43, 1 137 er, Leaders the m through games of yest iollows: AMERICAN L] Batting—2Zernial, Chicazo, Sievers, St. Louis, .368. Runs Batted In—Williams Stephens, Boston, 32. Home Runs—Stephens, Williaras, Bosten angd FPhiladelphia, 8. Pitching—Lopat, New York, 4 1.00C. { NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting — Marshall, New Ym-k.{ .371; Kiner, Pittsburgh and Kazak, St. Louis; .356. | Runs Batted and Boston, Joost, | In Rocinson, | Brecklyn, 28; Mize, New York, 27. |’ Home Runs—Mize, New York. 9; | Kiner, Pittsburgh, 8. Pitching—Branca, Brooklyn, 6-0, 1.000. | (WITCHED TO CALVERT | FOR BETTER TASTE Carl D. Peerson,” store manager, has found Calvert Reserve always makes a tastier drink. #of San Antonio, Texas Bz aiA M8 CALVERT RESERVE Blonded Whiskey ~86.8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits. Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City }STEPHENS, Status of | DiMaggio Uncertai NEW YORK - today s ever. just when et the''New [ k Yankees will be alle to p! en Joe refuses to hazard a One thing is certain—he is nc ady right now even for inch purposes. 3 * donned a 1 the first t ers Make Good When Hiis Are Needed REICHLER Undoubtedly two of “money players” in Vern Stephens of |Red Scx and Tommy he ‘New York Yankees. Stephen hitting only 470 ut leads the majors [home runs and runs batted Henrich, whose nine-year is only 282, gets when they count. 320 now, By JOE The , 2 £ all the of (Joe base wcertain are Henrich of is he Not average his hits hitting ns runs batt most slug day for ince h2 re-injure last April alf hour's batting practice Then he st The net heel responsible ior half dozdn tories for his |Stephens has 11 home runs | four of them troke up ball ¢ | Henrich " has eizht round trip| {and half of those decided Three times this year | batted in five runs in a Both Stephens mers yesterday Because of that he will not v hitting i hi take is S to help to th lding practice Williams on { Detroit. It came in ning with two out HERNICH'S BLAST base to Marvin Rickert, run, double in five runs , with two mates 7 the Yankees to overcome ficit. The Yankees went re to win over the wns, 10-3. Boston Braves ingle and drc lead the 4 victory Pitching x—pitched a ton Red Sox Tigers 4-0. five-hitte shut out the De- The took Le Ch onal gue "HWINN BIKES at MAD: It Geffing fo bs in Habit 11-4. (left), San Diego third baseman, is teammate, Luke Easter who had just hit his fourteenth hemer of the season in a game with the' San Francisco Seals at San The Padres sted the Seals 5-3 for their escond straight win of the series. ® Wirephoto. Might be what Harvey Story thinking as he welcomes home Francisco. The friangle Cleaners Memorial Day . . . . In honor to the memory of all who gave their li to their country, TRIANGLE . will remain closed May 30. Open Tuesday, May 31st. For better Appearance CALL 3 L1 7 SR G AR Giwaleds today Boston 1 ot around in in batting [ He's is second in home | and up among the leaders in al club. | and | nd Henrich hit | their teams win. Vern cracked his 11th right field bullpen with| pave the | 's 4-0 triumph over the third in-| _ blast came in the first aboard to! a on St undis- | puted possession of first place in he Ni by defeating was v ¢ 'I'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HEINRICH SWING UP |Red Sox and Yaiikee Play- | A brown and white mongrel was a quict spectator all during a high school track meet at St. Paul, Minn,, until the gun sounded for the 440. Then he leaped into the act. For a while he led the field. But twice he brcke the stride of Gene McDermott (right) by run- ning between his legs, costing Gene a likely meet record. The finish, as shown, was McDermott, tirst; Fido, second, and Don Speiser (left), third. #® Wirephoto. 'ibe only game in the Nationali League. The victory opened a .m\U‘PURDuE UNWERS"V ame spread between the BI;(\)I:’:‘; ASKS RADIO S(RIP‘S and the ~ runner-up New i | Tae . FOR ALASKA SERIES Vern Bickford allowed 10 hits but went all the way for the Braves - s tc register his sixth victory agalnst} Scarcely a day goes by but what two defeats. Marv Rickert paced' the Alaska Development Board statf the Braves at bat with a home tun, receives a request thab practically single and double and drove in five | amounts to a writing assignment. Juns. Walt Dubiel was the loser. | Along with some 200 general re- INDIANS BEAT ATHLETICS quests for informaticn that came in With President Bill Veeck look- | OVer the weekend, there was.a “big ing on, the world champion Cleve-|ovder” from Indiana. land Indlans broke.out. of a losinig) Radio Station WBAA, slump to defeat the Athletics in’ afOf Purdue” (University) at [ night game in Philadelphia, 7-3 ette, Indlang, asks:lot, 8 jserieh ol | Eally Wynn, o-tained from | cripts on the geography, history, ' y : commerce, customs, etc., of Alaska. Washing a winter trade, went WESHINBLED ULl WAEY o They are intended for use in the the route for his first triumph w! the Indians. He allowed six hits. A |five-run fourth against relief pitcher Charlie Harris put ke rame on ice for Cleveland, | HAPPY; BOARD WALK the voice ign for bettering national under- stending. Ch o White Sox whipped the Nats, 3-1 | gingles rookies Gus Zernial and Jerry Scala brought in the| winning runs. The triumph put :nM‘ White % into third place, a game! behind the Ly Everyone in the town of Baranof is happy over their new boardwalk, eccording to reports reaching Ad- miralty Division offices of the U.S. - Forest Service. William Fremholz was superin- tendent, with Jack Mills foreman for the crew which built the new Foardwalk through the town. As W the circumstance Athletics. Final scores of Western Interna- ticnal League games lzst night were: for lem 16, Spokane 14. 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For reservations and ratesy consult Pan American . . ¢ BARANOF HOTEL ! Phone 106 lv pu Aty of heTog Clpper be awarded 9 0060 0 0 0 L a0 TIDE TADB LE MAY 25 A Hioh t'de, 0:62 am, 16.0 ft. bow tia: 6.31 am, 00! ft. High tide, 12:49 p.m,, 140 ft. Low tide, 18: TN - > . > 9 > o | Now is the tims 0 put your tur - coats in storage. We have the only Approximately 27,000 pounds of |cold fur vault in Junéau, Come n aluminum go into the making or‘,m our office, Chas. Qoldstei a B-29. and Cn o COMING A Special Announcement For Fishermen Picnicers - Vacationers | PORTMARNOCK, Ircland, May TH“BSDAY 24 (M—Willie Turnesa, American Amateur Golf Champion, reached | 3 i the third round of the British Amateur Championship today by defeating D. P. Choyce of London, 1 and 3. | Francis Ouimet, 56-year-old former American champion from Boston, was eliminated in the sec- ond round by B. Scannell of Ireland, 3 and 1. LESNEVICH stfmzmw BD 1Tl 1E bACR | el e / — within easy rea in the Public Roads Administration [office for work on 8.8 miles of the | through Fort Richardson. | 4.e|| ine aippef By FRITZ HOWELL | In a combined estimate two | o | Ceaftle firms, 8. Birch and Sons CINCINNATI, May 24 : endy | the sum beinz $385,857. drop of water will wear away the| ‘The only other bid was su.mit hardest stone. | MeLaughlin, Inc, of G maxim last night. Joe Maxim of [ H. A. Stoddart, PR.A. Division | Cleveland parlayed 1obust youth|lngineer, is récommending fo the and the drop of water—a flicking | Alaska Road Commission that the Heavyweight Champlonship of | tcntract. i America, The work on this section will Joey, one of the lightest hitters| ¢mplete improvement of the high- |like left to spear a decision in 15| 'almer. rounds over 34-year-old Gus Les- nevich of Cliliside, N.J.,, who last| die Mills in England. | Only 6931 fans braved the rain to pay a gross gate of $56,151.50, | promoter Sam Becker some $45,000 ‘m the hole, after paying the fight-| , ers and other expenses. plon. He was unmarked, except for a slizht bruise beside his left eye. He sald he had no alibi, and that his face away trom Maxim's flick- ing left. ich swarined all _ over £0 mile. But he had dropped the six right ahead of it as his 34- year-old legs failed to keep up with Maxim, also unmatked, said he was stunned a couple of times by Lesnevich’s winging rights in the which really hurt were lefts to his midsection, | Becker said the fighters had| cinnati ball park this summer in| case Lesnevich lost, and that a| meeting on that angle would te| TR ] f Bids were opened this morning ! i by fast Slenn Highway where it goes | as —|and Morrison-Knudsen, bid low There’s an old maxim that a ¢ And a Maxim proved that old|!"alls, Mont, for $521942, left hand-—-into the NBA Light| cattle Lidders the | in the business, used his rapier-| ‘ay between Anchorage and July 26 lost his world's title to Fred- and a net of $40,429.08. 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