The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1949, Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949 I CLEVELAND TAKES PAIR; YANKS LOSE By JACK HAND AP Sports Writer Cleveland’s flair for winning extra inning games may mean the difference in the American League pennant race. While the leading New York Yankees have blown eight of 11 overtime decisions, the 1948 world champions have copped 12 of 13. As a result the Indians today are only 2! games out of first place. Not since mid-May have the Yanks faced such a direct threat as both Cleveland and Boston now present. The Red Sox, winning nine of 11 since returning to Fenway Park, now are only five games be- hind New York. That old extra inning trouble felled the Yanks again yesterday when they Jdost to Detroit in 11 innings, 3-2. Pat Mullin, who mur- ders New York pitching, broke up the game with his fourth single of the day, scoring Eddie Lake. Cleveland pulled another long game out of the fire, trimming Washington, 6-3, in 12 innings to take the first of their twilight- night doubleheader. Gambling all the way, Manager Lou Boudreau used Bob Lemon, his pitching ace, in relief and Lemon picked up his 13th win on a three- run splurge in the 12th. Then the Indians proceeded to humble the Senators, 14-1, for a clean sweep on Bobby Feller's six hitter. The slugging Boston Red Sox didn't have to go overtime, smoth- ering the St. Louis Browns, 12-2, with 14 hits. Dom DiMaggio, still on a consecutive game hitting spree that has reached 31 contests, took over the league batting lead at .347 with two hits. A scheduled Chicago-Philadelphia | night game was postponed on ac- count of rain. Both the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers went on double- figure batting sprees to keep step in the National League race where the Cards still hold a half game margin, St. Louis routed Boston, 10-2, to make it three out of four over the defending champs. Home runs by Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Tommy Brown led Brooklyn’s 14-hit attack in an 11-3¢ romp over Pittsburgh. Don New- combe, although tagged for 11 hits, hung up win No. 10. Chicago Johnny Schmitz ended two streaks, the New York Giants’ six-game winning string and the Cubs’ eight-game losing slump, with a 1-0 shutout victory. Cincinnati made it four in a row, a new high for the Reds this sea- son, by taking a pair from the sinking Phillies, 8-5 and 9-1. With the season two thirds gone, three players—Hank Sauer of Chi- cago, Duke Snider of Brooklyn and Ed Robinson of Washington—have hit home runs in all eight parks in which they've played. Four others—Ralph Kiner, Bill Nicholson, Vern Stephens and Clyde Vollmer—need only a homer in one more park to complete the cycle. Sauer, clouting outfielder of the Cubs, became the first to accom- plish the feat when he cleared the ! wall in Philadelphia’s Shibe Park on July 20. Robinson completed the circuit four days later with a drive over the right field fence in Cleve- land. Snider made the rounds in Pittsburgh Aug. 1. During the past 15 years only 36 players in both leagues have been akle to clear the wall in all parks in a single season. Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Jimmy Foxx, former Philadelphia and Boston slugger, have done it the most times, four. uAimgs_m B.B. | AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—DiMaggio, Boston, .345; Dillinger, St. Louis, .343. X Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos- ton, 108; Williams, Boston, 107. Home Runs — Williams, Boston, 26; Stephens, Boston, 25. | Pitching — Reynolds, New York, 11-2, .846; Wynn, Cleveland, 9-2,| 818. NATIONAL LEAGUE | Batting — Robinson, , Brooklyn, 362; Slaughter, St. Louis, 331 | Runs Batted In — Robinson, Brooklyn, 84; Hodges, Brooklyn, 82.| Home Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh, 27; Gordon, New York, 23. | Pitching—Sewell, Pittsburgh, 5-1,1 .833; Branca, Brooklyn, 12-3, 800. At Syracuse, N.Y.—Nick Barone,} 173, Syracuse, outpointed Tommy Yarosz, 172%, Monaca, Pa. 10. At Vancouver, B.C.—Dado Ma- rino, Honolulu, outpointed Jackie| ‘Turner, Vancouver, 10. Both fly- weights, |tween center and right field. Pas- itie up the game. Cantillon bingled STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS National League w 61 60 52 52 50 45 42 37 i Pel St. Louis Brooklyn New York Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago American League w 61 59 57 55 56 o, - ¢ 36 34 L 37 40 43 46 41 59 61 66 New York Cleveland Boston Philadelphia Detroit Chicago Washington St. Louis Pacific Coast League W, L 55 61 62 66 68 67 3 6 Hollywood Sacramento Oakland San Diego ... Seattle Portland San Francisco Los Angeles ELK-LEGICN PLAY TIE GAME AT 5-ALL, CALLED IN EIGHTH SCORE BY 1 3 Legion 0 1 Elks 3 0 The first game this season to go more than the scheduled number of innings to be played, to end in a tie, and to be called because of darkness saw the Elks and Legion end the game last night at the end of the eighth with the score at 5-all. The Legion went by scoreless for the first two innings with the Elks to come up in the first with three scores. Lead off man Palmer struck out and Selmer got on with a grounder to shortstop. Cantillon followed with a single to third Snow’s walk loaded the Lases. A fielder's choice put Hazlett on and Selmer scored when Metcalf overthrew to Cope. Pidgeon’s single to center field allowed Cantillon and €now to come home. The next three innings were scoreless for the Elks. In the Legion share of the third inning, Krause double bagged be- quan’s bounder to shortstop ad- vanced Krause to third. Fumbling Kristan’s grounder, Hazlett let in Krause from third and Kristan was safe at first. Four more scores were made by the Legion in the fifth. Metcalfe hit a two bagger to right field and Cope walked. Metcalfe scored on the throw in from Pasquan’s single. Kristan’s only hit of the evening scored Cope from second and Kris- tan went to second on the throw in. Craig's only hit of the game was a two bagger and good for two scores with Pasquan coming from third and Kristan from second. The Elks came back in their; share of the fifth with two runs to over shortstop and went to second on a passed ball with Snow at bat. | Snow’s double tagger brought Can- | tillon home. With Schy at bat Snow stole third and was brought in on Schy’s single over second. BOX SCORE Legion *Krause, p Nielsen, 3b Metcalfe, ss .. Cope, ¢ ... Pasquan, 2b . Kristan, cf Haen, rf Orme, 1f coocoonmMmy ccococorontl Totals *Krause to third and Nielsen as pitcher in the second. Elks ABRHPOAE Palmer, cf . 4 03 Selmer, ¢ Cantillon, p Snow, 1b .. Hazlett, 3b Schy, ss Pidgeon, 2b Hagerup, If .. Bryant, rf ... HHORRa0O0 Totals ¥ SUMMARY — Two base hits: Krause, Metcalfe, Craig, Snow. Bryant; left on bases: Legion 6, Elks 17; passed balls, Legion 1; first on errors: Legion 1, Elks 2; first on balls, off Krause 1, off Cantillon 3; struck out, ty Krause by Nielsen 3, by Cantillon 12; Grummett. umpires: Parmenter, WIL BASEBALL Games last night: ‘Yakima 9, Vancouver 1. Spokane 6-6, Bremerton 5-7. ‘Tacoma 13, Wenatchee 3. .| Gene Handley who singled in two| | cantillen, | off. | latest victim. Victoria 5, Salem 4. SACS 2ND; OAKS BACK T0 THIRD By JIM BACON _ AP Sports Writer Thursday night was explosion night in the Pacific Coast league. When the smoke cleared, Holly- wood was still out in front by seven games, Sacramento was back in second place and Oakland back in third. i The Portland Beavers exploded | for nine runs in the sixth inning | against Oakland, allowing pitcher | Vince Di Biasi to coast to a 10 to 1 win, | Last-place Los little blas | | | Angeles did a ing in the eighth inning against San Diego. The Angels| poured across six unearned runs| in that stanza to win 7 to 2 At Seattle, Frank Kelleher of | the Stars slammed an eighth in- ning homer to tie the score at 3-3.| Then Hollywood erupted for ro\lr! runs in the tenth to win 7 to 3. Herb Gorman, who tripled, and runs, were the Stars’ big guns in| the final inning. Sacramento’s Ken Holcombe gave | but four hits in blanking San Fran- | cisco 6 to 0. TWO GAMES SUN. BETWEEN SITKA, JUNEAU ALL-STARS A double-header Laseball bill i scheduled for Sunday afternoon be- tween the Sitka team and the Ju-| neau All-Stars with the first game | scheduled fer 1 o'clock. Both games | will be seven innings. Roster for the All-Star Nielsen, McClellan, Phelps, Snow, Cope, Metcalfe, Rolli- | son, Magorty, Guy, Walker, Selmer, | and Palmer. Coach for the team is Stan Grummett. A three team playoff for thej championship of Southeast Alaska | between Ketchikan, Sitka and Ju-| neau was suggested in a recent letter to Juneau City League offi- cials by Cecil C. McClain, secre: tary of the Sitka team. This pro- posal is being considered at the present time by the local teams with the possibility later on of an announcement concerning the play- team is U. S. TRACK STARS - WIN OVER SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5—®—Tour- ing American athletes have racked up another track victory over Scan- | dinavian opponents. Sweden is the Not only did the U. €. track and| field stars overwhelm the Swedes | last night by capturing nine of 11| events, but one of the American | aces also won a bicycle. Bob Richards of Champaign, TI1,! after accounting for the pole vault by leaping 14 feet, 4 inches, re- ceived the bicycle as a prize. While 18,000 spectators applauded, Bob | rode his new possession around the stadium. | (OLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALLERS GET SET FOR PRO GAME EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 5—(®—The College All Stars settled down to the routine of daily football drills today after being feted yesterday at a luncheon attended by 1,000 guests. Bud Wilkerson, All Star head coach, planned to stress defense again as his charges continued their preparation for the meeting with the Philadelphia Eagles in Chicago’s Soldier Field the night of Aug. 12. It will be the 16th annual All Star attraction. 'B.B.STARS Batting — Pat Mullin, Tigers, troke up game with 11th inning single, his fourth hit, for 3-2 edge over Yankees. Pitching—Johnny Schmitz, Cubs, shut out Giants with three hits, 1-0, snapping six-game win streak; hurled no-hit ball until eighth in- ning. NEW YORK BOXERS T0 BE INSURED NEW YORK, Aug. 5—®—Col Eddie Eagan, chairman of New York’s State Athletic Commission, announced that after Sept. 1, all professional boxers competing in N.Y. state will be protected by ac- cident insurance. Animal hoofs, whether one-toed as in the horse, two-toed as in cows, pigs and sheep, or four-toed as in the hippopotamus, are mod- ifications of a five-toed arrange- ment, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA NEW YORK BEA a8 AFTER CROWNING HER SUCCESSOR, Loreen Osgood (left), 24, as ams of competing in Miss America ¢ Regulations forbid an entrant in Atlantic C Collins (right) weeps as her dr: refused to release her from con under contract to any individual. Disappointed entrant is a model. UTY QUE tract. WO0DCOCK AND | SAVOLD BOUT I POSTPONED Heavyweight Title Match. Delayed by Auto Ac- cident to Woodcock LONDON, Aug. 5—(®-—The Bruce Woodcock-Lee Savold fight Sept. ¢ for the British version of the world | heavyweight boxing title was post- poned today. Injuries Woodcock suffered yes- terday when his truck hit a tree near Doncaster were given as the reason A new date for the fight will be announced Monday. ‘ The British héavyweight cham pion received a severely bruised houlder, but no broken bones or internal injuries. $66,200 Golf Tourney | Gets Starled Today ; CHICAGO, Aug. 5—P—George S. May’s $66,200 golfing marathon left the post today with halt a STATESMA N ber of the Diet, and minis -5A ter B. P. 0. ELK DELEGATE RETURNS FROM TRIP | three-in-one tourney field of 400 flailing Tam O'Shanter’s profitatle pastures, For the next five days, May will conduct the 72-hole All-American Championship, a combination of a $20,000 professional, men’s amateur and women’s open showdown. Then, next Thursday, May offers his super-duper “World Champion- ship of Golf,” a 72-hole, four- tourneys-in-one affair which car- ries a $35200 men's professional purse, including $10,000 for the win- ner. Women pros and amateurs will compete separately in this one. (OWBOY KILLS TWO MEN BEFORE RODEO CROWD YESTERDAY BIG SPRING, Tex., Aug. 5—®— Shots rang out and two men fell dead in a real western drama be- fore 2,500 rodeo fans here lagt night. One of the show's judges and a cowboy college student were killed from a six-shooter fired by an in- furiated brahma bull rider. Henry Preston (Buck) Jones, 45, the judge and intended target, died on the spot, two .38 caliber bullets in his body. Carl C. Myers, 23, an innocent onlcoker, fell into the arms of a girl, struck by a stray bullet. Herb Frizzell, 34, was Overpow- ered and jailed after he fired four shots at Jones from short range. Sheriff Bob Wolf and County Attorney Elton Gilliland said Friz- fell told them the trouble started over an insulting remark he said Jones made Lefore Frizzell's niece. The two had had a fist fight. GAMES TODAY AMERICAN — New York 10; St. Louis 1 )first game. Three night games. NATIONAL — Chicago 8; Boston | 3. Three night games. 10 OHIO CONVENTION the Nation- Cleveland, Dewey Bak- Wednesday Juneau's delegate to al Elks Convention Ohio, Exalted Ruler F. er, returned by plane after a full month of sight-seeing, traveling and greeting former Al-| askan residents in all parts of the countr; Baker was accompanied by his wife. Their son, Bill, spent the month with his grandparents,, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Baker at Sea- side, Ore, For both Mr. and Mrs. Baker, the Elks cenvention was & real thrill Special gre gs from Jim Farley were brought by the delegate from the convention for Junecauites James J. Connor, ccllector of cus- toms, and U. S. Marshal Willlam Mahoney. The Bakers made the trip across country in a special Elks train fill- @ ed with West Coast delegates leav- ing Tacoma July ‘The conven- tion lasted for four days, July 10- 14. They tock oif cn their own after the big Elks conclave, trav- eling to New York City for two days where they met former A askan Mrs. Malcolm Mitchell, saw all the sights and watched the Brooklyn Dodgers play at Ebbetts Field. Two days were spent in Washington, D. C., where they visited Delegate Bob Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson and Se- ton Thompson, formerly with the; Fish and Wildlife Service here, and | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Redman, former Federal Housing Authority personnel here. On their cross-country trip they stepped in Denver, Colo, to seej former Juneauit Mr. and Mrs. | Lee Pratt. He was with the Forest Service here. g in Sanj| Francisco for a day they happen-i| ed to meet Mr. Mrs. Art Hed- | ges and son Gary on vacation in the states. In Portland, they saw former Alaskans, Mr. and Mrs, Irv-{ ing Ail Ste Beer was brewed by most of the| monasteiies of the Dark and Mid- | dle Ages. The development of the brewer’s art owes much to the su- perior cléanliness of the monks. ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU T0 KETCHIKAN via Petershurg With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenjent afternoon depatrtures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 ‘and Wrangell EN RETIRES IN TE LESMAN — Ichiro Honda, mem: « girls in the store he operates ARS ntest are ended. Her agent ity contest to be (International Soundphoto) : hout portfolio, sells candy to school 1 Tokyo between state duties, SLAER OF FUTURE MOTHER-IN-LAW 15 CONVICTED IN CAL REDWOOD CITY, Calif, Aug. b ~(P—A jury early teday convicted Kermit O. zier of second degree murder for ying the mother of the girl he wanted to marry. ‘The 34-year old former Awr Force noon. e shot and killed Mrs. Mary L. Thompscn in her nearby Atherton home last March. He wounded her twin daughters, Doris, whom he loved, and Sharle, 29. The jury of six men and women also convicted the former North Carolinian of felonious assault in wounding the twins. Under California law, the penalty fcr second degree murder is five years to life. Frazier, who wept frequently during the trial, testified he “loved Doris more than life.” The defense argued he intended to kill himself last March and shot the Thompsons when his mind went, blank. The St. Joe River in Idaho is the highest navigable river in the world, | six | LOCAL WEATHER FOR JULY WAS ABOUT AVERAGE Juneau's weather last month was normal according to the monthly climatological - report for July just issued by the Juneau office of the U. 8. Weather Bureau. | | Precipitation was recorded on 26 days of the month during July, but rainfall was not heavy, and | the total precipitation was neav normal for the month. Skies were quite cloudy, and temperatures were lower than is normal for July. The average temperature at Loth the airport and the city was two degrees below normal, On July 3 the temperature at the airport dropped to a record low for July, 38 degrees. The prevailing wind | for the month was northerly, and | velocities were generally light. \ Airport data: Highest temperature: 82 in 1947; Lowest temperature: this July 38. Mean | maximum temperature: Average 1620; this July 61 Mean mini- | mum temperature: Average 47.2;[ | this July 45.6. Mean monthly tem- | perature: Normal 55.5; this July 153.3. Total precipitation: Normal |422; this July 397. Maximum }\vlnd: Highest SE 28 mph in 1945; | this July SE 22 mph. Average | cloudiness: Average 84 percent; this | July 87 percent. Percentage of pos- | sible sunshine: Average 21 percent; | this July 22 percent. City data: Highest temperature: 77. Lowest temperature: 44, Mean maximum temperature: 60.5. Mean minimum | | temperature: 49.0. Mean monthly | temperature: 54.8. Total precipita- | tion: 529 inches | | \ Y | i | about this July 75. 139 in 1047; Sudden Closing of Farragut College . |Upsets Many Plans ; | FARRAGUT, Ida, Aug. 5—(MP—| !The sudden closing of ~Farragut | | College and Technical Institute, a| | school built on the site of the sec- | ond largest wartime Naval base,| | has left many students with broken | plans, Financial difficulties prompted | the board of directors’ decision. | ‘Euzhl_v students had remained on the campus in this Northern Idaho | community this summer. | Wocdrow J. Welling, Petersburz,i | Alaska, said “Farragut has spolled‘l | us for other schools, and now we have 30 days to get out when the other schools are filled already.” He has tried to register at the | University of Idaho, he said. He | [ was told he was the 200th applicnmr‘ ' for 87 available housing units. 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