The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1949, Page 3

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1949 HOT RACE KEEPS UP, NATIONAL By JOE REICHLER This tightest of all National League pennant race has every- Lody going around in circles. Here it is in June, with one third of the season almost out of the way, and a mere halt game separates the first four clubs. At the moment, Brooklyn and the New York Giants share first place. St. Louis and Boston are only a half game behind, with the Cards holding third place by .002 percentage points cver the Braves. The Giants and Cardinals tangle with each other in the Polo Grounds under the lights. The loser could drop into fourth place. Brooklyn takes on seventh place Chicazo, and Boston meets sixth place Cincinnati. TOP PLACE DEADLOCK ! The Dcdgers took advantage of defeats by New York and Boston yesterday with a 5-1 night game: triumph over Pittsburgh to dead- | lock the Giants for the top rung. Don Newcombe, recently ‘:rought} up from their Montreal farm,: pitched the Brocks into the tie. The Giant Negro righthander, hurled a four-hitter against the Bucs. He struck out 11, high for the league this season. A wild pitch in the eighth ccst him a shutout. Howie Fox pitched and batted the Reds to a 4-3 victory over the G.ants. He not only scattered eight hits for his second triumph over the New Yorkers, but singled inl what proved to be the winning run in the sixth. | CARDS GET 5 STRAIGHT Tne high flying Cardinals made it five victories in their last road games and 12 out of their last 14 starts by thumping thc Braves, 7-3. Two three-run innings ; —the sixth and the ninth—did the | trick. Enos Slaughter’s sixth home run Lkelped. Red Munger, who needed help from Ted Wilks in the eighth, was credted with his third victory. Th= loss was charged t¢ Warren Spahn. Tac two scheduled games in“the Amcrican Leeue resulted in De- treit losing ite undicputed posses- sion of cnd place, ar Cleve- land moving past Caicazo into sixth place. ‘The Tigers were noced out, 10-9, by the Boston Red Sox, who over- came a 5-2 deficit with flurries of thre2 runs in the sevenia and five | in the cizhth. ZTEPHENS' 14TH HOMER Vern Stephens’ 14th home run of the seascn, tying him with team- mate Ted Williams for the league lead, was the big blow for the winners. Taz Indians, with Manajer Lou Boudreau playinz third base for the first t'me since his minor league days, exploded for nine runs in the eighth innnz to come from Lehing and defeat the Philadeiphia ! Athletics, "11-5. Mike Garcia, who pitched shut- out ball after replacing starter Steve Gromek in the fifth, was| ved t~d with his fourth victory.! Joe Coleman was the loser. All other clubs were unscheduled. | FIGHT DOPE There were no knockouts in Mon- lay night fights which resulted as follows: At New Haven, Conn—Wille Pep, 131, Hartford, Cecnn., out- pcinted Luls Ramos, 128, Puerto Ricc, (10). At New York—Paddy De Marco, 136%, Brooklyn, outpointed Clem Custer, 137, Detroit. (8). | At Philadelphia—Lew Jenkins, 138, Sweetwater, Tex. outpointed | Jimmy Collins, 131%, Philadelptia ®). At Allentown, Pa—Verncn Wil- liams, 173, Atlantic City, N.J., out- | pointed Billy Fox, 173, Philadelphia 10). At Newark, N.J.—Freddie Daw- ¢cn, 143, Chicago, outpointed | Charley Williams, 148, Newark (10).; At Chicago—Jimmy Shecrer, 149, Milwaukee, outpcinted Lester Fel- W L Pet. Hollywood 47 25 Seattle 39 38 542 San Diego 37 33 529 San Francisco 35 36 493 Cakland 3% 38 403 facramento 33 3 485 Los Angeles 30 40 429 Portland 25 43 368 National League W L Pet New York 26 20 565 Brcoklyn 26 20 565 St. Louis 24 19 558 Boston 25 20 556 Fhiladelphia 23 23 .500 Cincinnati 2 24 478 Chicago 1726 395 Pittsburgh 17 28 378 American League W L Pet. New York 30 13 .698 1 Detroit 25 21 543 Washinzton 25 21 543 Boston 23 20 535 Fhiladelphia 24 23 511 Cleveland 20 22 476 Chicags 21 24 467 St. Louis 35 233 {on, 146, Chicago (10). WIL RASEBALL Scores of rames played iast nigh in the lezouc are: Vancouver 8, Salem 6. Victoria 16, Yakima 10. | (Only games scheduled.) ‘ NOTICE | The rooms previously known as | 1he Maurstad Rooms are under new management as of May 22, 1949. Ir. and Mrs. John Maurstad 14 3t | Wastern International STARS,PADRES START SERIES; SEVEN GAMES (By the Associated Press) Hollywood's smart ball club opens a seven game series with San Diego's slugging Padres tonight in what may well turn out to be a boxoffice bonanza. The Stars—eizht full games in Iront of the Pacific Coast League— provide a box-office lure from that angle. The Padres’ lures are Luke Easter and Max West who top the league in homers, and runs batted in, West has hit 21 roundtr'ppers while the giant Negro first baze- man has belted 19. In other series openers around the loor, Lcs Angeles plays at Seattle, San Francisco at Portland and Sacramento at Oakland. All are night games. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League LEADERS IN B. 2. L-aders in the vwo majcr base- sall leagucs, throu Monday, & NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting Marshall, New York, 362; K'ner, Pittsburgh, .358. Run: Batted In Robinson, Biooklyn, 41; Reese, Brooklyn, Gor- ¢on, New York, Kiner, Pittd:urgh, Ennic, Philade’phia, 33. Home Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh, 13; Mize and Gerdon, New Yo 1C pitching—Branca, Brooklyn, 7-1 75; Bickford, Boston, 6-2, .730. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Z2rnial, Chicazo, .355; Kell, Detrot, .342. Runs Batited In—Williams, Bos- on, 49; Stephens, Bostcn, 46. Home Runs—Williams and Step- aens, Bostcn, 14. itching—Lopat, New Ycrk, 5-0, 1.000; Raschi, New York, 8-1, 889. Toothricks of gold and silver were widely used by the Romans, who also rushed their teeth with a substance known as “denti- fricium”. Zernial Now High Bater, Amer. Leag. CHICAGO, June 7—(®—With! I {bigh on a 16-game hitting streak, Gus Zernial shelved for at least two months with a broken collar bone, Detroit’s veteran third sacker, George Kell, is making a bid for the American League batting lead. Kell has- notched 341 in 185 times at bat. Zernial, the Chicago rookie, injured at Cleveland 10 days ago, has. 355 in 138 trips. Zernial is not expected to return to action until late July. The other leaders: Dom DiMa gio of Boston with .339; Cas Michaels, Chicago, .327; Eddie Rokinson, Washington, .325; Dick Kryhoski, New York, .323; Eddie Joost, Philadelphia, .322; Gene Weodling, New York, .321; Ted Williams, Bosten, 317 and another THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JU KINER NO. 1 BATSMAN IN " NAT. LEAGUE NEW YORK, June 7—(®—Riding | Pittskurgh's Ralph Kiner was the |No. 1 batsman in the National | League today with a mark of 386 | The home run slugger, who had |had only one .300 season in his | three years in the [:ig leagues, has been cracking out gles and |a this season in what is easily his kest ever. Kiner had collected 59 hits in 61 times at Lat to take a tfour- roint lead over Willard Marshall The New York Giants' outfielder was hitting .362. Eddie Kazak, rcokie iniieider of the St. Louis Cardinals, was right ibles in addition to four-baggers | Through games of Sunday, Junej |PEP, COMPO T0 MEET - FOR TITLE ON JULY 12 tmates al.oard to lead Cincinnati to sion. Yankee, Tommy Henrich, .315. Williams continued as the oniy double leader of the specialized department with 14 homers and 48 runs driven in. Lefty Ed Lopat of New York| held the best pitching mark wlthi five wins and no defeats. Detroit’s | Hal Newhouser, also a southpaw.’ was the strikeout leader with 51. | on the heels of the top two with a 360 percentage. Other Redbirds in the top ten included Red Schoen- dienst, .355, for 'sixth place, and Enos Slaughter, whose .333 tie the Giants’ Sid Gordon for seventh. Brooklyn's Jackie Robdinson, tied with Bobby Thomson of the Giants for the most hits in the league, 63, ranked fourth with 332, In fifth place was the surprising Emil Verkan of the Chicago Cubs. The ¢AU, ALASKA veteran infielder has a lifetime mark of only 273. ) Thomson's 318 was good énough for ninth place, two points better than the .316 figure compiled by | Ted Kluszewski of the Cimcinnati | Reds. | e g L "KEWPIE” BARRETT IS RELEASED BY RAINIERS TTLE, June 7.—(#—"Kewpie" k. Barrett, veteran pitcher for Seattle Rainiers of the Pa- ast league, was granted an release today at his own | request | Barrctt declared a number of sther coast league clubs “have assured me a chance to pitch.” He did not identify them, | NEW YORK, June 6—P—Pitcher Muncrief was sold today by Pittsburgh Pirates tc the Chi- rcago Cubs for the $10,000 waiver | price. |EDNA CARD NAMED SENIOR REGENT OF WOMEN OF MOOSE At the last meeting of the Women of the Moose Edna Card s elected Senior Regent. Other officers chesen were Junior Grad- uate Regent May Larcon, Junior Regent Lucile Ladely, Chaplain len Jackscn, Recorder Gertie gren, Treasurer Idabell Bryson officers w.l be installed at a special meeting Saturday, June " ON FOR VISITORS AT The regular monthiy meeting 01,) the National Federation of Federal | uGlE RNER (AMP}Empln_w‘r.; will be held Wednesday | © Phone Red 575. noon in the Gold Room. To be shown at the meeting is the film | day at the Eagle River Scout Camp| The Doctor Speaks His Minds,” | was the campfire program by o | discussing the importance of ea l Scouts and their leaders. The pm_hmmnmn to cancer signs. gram was presided over by Scout| Executive Maurice Powers. Staff members and patrol lead- The highlight of visitor's Sun-| | The film is issued by the Ameri- | | can Cancer Society and will be pre- | ented by Rev. H. E. Beyer, execu- ers were introduced to more than | ive secretary cof the Alaska Di- 100 Juneau and Douglas Visitors.| yision of the American Cancer So- Songs were led by Doremus Scud- | jety. der, Alaska Council Field Execu- ot tive from Kptchikan., Several | clever and amusing stunts were ™ T R put on by the boys with the out- | BEN BASS* standing one being the “Zulu War- | ’ | rior” in which all of the Scouts participated. Cheechako, Scout | Camper, and Sourdough emblems were awarded to first, second, and third year campers by K. 3. Clem, Gastineau District Vice-Chairman. Clem was assisted by Scoutmasters Chester Zenger, Charles Buttrey, | and Wallace Volz. It was announced that the! campers would return to Juneau | | Dancing, Boys’ -within easy r 4-engine Clipper PAGE THREE DANCING CLASSES Now enrolling, Tap, Baton, Twirl- ng, Acrobatic, Eccentric, Soecial Acrobatie < .oup, Working Girls’ Relaration Classes. 98 20t SEATTLE by fast Fly in swift cnn:l'on -I.m:r: e big, 4-mile-a-min! ‘(,“‘Iippcrll ... serving Alaska on frequent schedules. Enroute, settle back in your comfortable lounge and enjoy & world- seat Saturday afternoon, June 11. They are to be at the end of the road at 3:30 oclock with each trocp| own transportation | arranging its into town. SQUARE DANCE CLUB MEETS ON FRIDAY The Square Dance Club wiil meet at 8 oclock Friday night in the | CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey | | High School gymnasium, according | —86.8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits. ' | to announcement made today. WATERBURY, Conn., June T—| (# — World’s Flyweight Champion | Willie Pep of Hartford will meet Eddie Compo of New Haven in a 18-rcund metch for the titie here| July 12, promoter Rocco Mara an- nounced today. B.B.STARS | baseball | Stars of zames were: Batting—Johnny Wyrostek, Reds| —slammed a home run with two! | yesterday's a 4-3 triumph over the New York Giant.: Pitching—Ellis Kinder, Red Sox relieved Tex Hughson in the ninth with the tyinz and w.nning runs on second and third and cut, and retired the side with a further score to pre:erve Boston's 10-9 lea cver the Detroit Tigers. WSCS PLANS MEETING TOMORROW AFTERNOON The afternoon circle Woman's Scciety of Zervice of the Methodist Church will meet Wazdnesday, Junc 8, 2 pm. at tha hcme of Mrs. A. B.| Morgan on Fritz Cove Rcad. Cars will leave from' the parsonage at 1:30. All wemen who plan going| are requested to contact Mrs. Turner at 304 so that adcquatai transportation may be provided. | The study, The Bible and Human | | i } of the Christian Rights, will be continued, with| Mrs. Mcrgan leading the discus-| sicn. MRS. ELVA CHAPPEL AT CONFERENCE AS NURSE Mrs, Elva Chappel is one of those | who left last week to attend the Presbyterian Ccnference at the Sheldon Jackson School in Eitka. She is employed by the government hospital as the nurse for the ses- | 20 years. He says: The ITr worry ; of kn tent cleaning the other end L] Cleaners A Day in June .. ... Joy of living; of having friends . . . freedom from Try TRIANGLE and see! For better Appcaranqe CALL s iangle owing compe- service is at of your phone. 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