The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1949, Page 3

““the“eighth after Andy Pafko wal-|orized by me. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9,"1949 i SACRAMENTO Brookiyn, MOVES INTO (Cardinals IND PLACE Stay Tied (By the Associatcd Press) By JOE REICHLER | Jim Tabor's big bat today had AP Sports Writer slammed the Sacramento €olons| Enos (Country) Slaughter, the into undisputed second place in|St. Louis Cardinals’ “Ball Player’s the Pacific Coast league. Ball Player,” is a living proof that | Tabor poled two homers Monday | taseball experts are a funny race.| night to drive in seven runs and| In pre-season polls, the majority | lead his mates to a 14 to 2 win over ' of scribes ignoreq St. Louis as a the lowly Los Angeles Angels. I!|pennant threat because the Cards was the league's only game. ere too old,” thus, without say: g so, they pointed the finger | Slaughter, who at 33, was the oldest | regular on the club. Today, these same experts pre- dict that the Cards will wih the | National League flag. Why? Be-| cause of the presence of this same | Enos Slaughter. | Slaughter’s current batting aver age of 331 is exceeded only by Jackie Robinsoen’s .364. | Enos enjoyed one of his bigge w? { “days” last night when he walloped | two home runs and drove in six, runs to lead the Cards to a 9-3| victory over the Cincinnati Reds. ! The Redbirds needed the triumph | By winning, the Solons moved to a half-game ahead of Oakland. The Hollywood Stars’ league lead was sliced to five and a half games. WIL BASEBALL Games last night: Vancouver 4, Wenatchee 3. Victoria 6, Spokane 5 (11 nings) . Only games scheduled. in- STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS RIAN Pt “Ecvg“cL pet ] to maintain® their first place tie| Shoonivh o 39 o1 | With Brooklyn, as the Dodgers ai- | 8t. Louis 64 39 521:(;::‘3{“ h;ill nipped the New Yuxk]‘ s v 18 4 3 | l;m; ok Z:; g(z) “205 Those were the only games| ;’5.;10:‘1 hi 53 52 ',‘95.| played in the majors. 1 i:.;flbc o :6 56 ‘451| Slaughter's one-man foray en-| c“ o ‘"g:‘_ e 48 S0 41| abled Howle Pollet to register his | piskins: % 6 gyp|lsth victory although he was s <" touchea up for a dozen hits. | Jackie Robinson was the big gun| IRS—— L;‘;g"eL pey L for the Dodgers. He slashed his | o~ | 13th homer in the second and set| !élew lYox;lk LT 2: 3; 'ggz‘()-c stage for the winning run in| Boutai W '57'3|m(- eighth with a single that sent| Philadelphia 58 47 ‘5501 Car Furillo to third. ‘ Detroit ... s 57 49 .538i | Chicago 44 60 423 i ‘Washington .37 64 365 wllI‘IAMS TIED | St. Louis 34 70 327 | GER | Pacific Coast League u W L Pct R i Hollywood ........... 18 50 569 I“ lEAGUE B ATS Sacramento ¥ 72 64 529 Oakland 65 526 69 66 511 | z::“]l::ego i g 68 ;04 CHICAGO, Aug. 9—®— Ted Portland %61 69 493 | Williams of Boston has caught up San Francisco 62 74 456|With Bob Dillinger of St. Louis.| Los Angeles 57 81 413|Theyre tied for the Am(‘rn,um“ League batting lead at .345 each. Williams gained four points and Dillinger fell one during the last| week. Dom DiMaggio of Boston held third place with 343, a one-} point gain. Last week he was sec- | ond. | Following them in games through | Sunday were George Kell, Detroit, | 339; Dale Mitchell, Cleveland, and Roy Sievers, St. Louis, .322 each; | Cass Michaels, Chicago, .313; Luke Appling, Chicago, .310; Vern Steph- | ens, Boston, .307; and Don Kollo- way, Detroit, .305. Stephens, Red Sox shortstop, led | Louis,|in runs batted in with 112. He| was tied with Williams in homers | with 27 each. ‘ Williams had scored the mosi| runs, 104. He had the most doub- | lles, 31. Dom DiMaggio had the| most hits, 134, Mitchell led in LEADERS IN B. B. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting — Robinson, Brooklyn, .364; Slaughter, St. Louis, .331. Runs Batted In — Robinson, Brooklyn, 89; Hodges, Brooklyn, 83. Home Runs— Kiner, Pittsburgh 29; Gordon, New York and Sauer, Chicago, 24. Pitching—Newcombe, 11-3, Branca, Brooklyn, 12-4, .750. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting — Dillinger, St. 3450; Williams, Boston, .3447. Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos- ton, 112; Williams, Boston, 109. Home Runs—Stephens and Wil- liams, Boston, 27. Pitching — Reynolds, New York, .786; 11-2, .846; Kuzava, Chicago, T7-2, triples with 15. Dillinger was high | #778. in stolen bases with 10. | 7 2 TR TR P | Allie Reynolds of New York top- iper the pitchers with an 846 av- | erage for 11 wins and 2 losses.| ;B. B. S‘IARS Mel Parnell had the most wins, 16. Batting—Enos Slaughter, Cardi- | nals—Haminered two ~home runs and drove in six runs as the Cardi- nals walloped the Reds, 9-3. Pitching—Don Newcombe, Dod- gers—Pitched a four-hitter for his 11th victory as the Dodgers nipped the Giants, 2-1. Japanese Swimmers ToCompetein U. S. ARU Championships TOKYO, Aug. 9—(P—Six free- style swimmers leave tomorrow for the United States to put Japan back into international competition for the first time since the war. They expect to do all right in the AAU championships. Hironoshin Furuhashi & Co. think they'll come out of the Los| Robinson, who went into his lltht Angeles meet Aug. 17-19 with three [ consecutive week in the top spot, wins—maybe more. Furuhashi, the;dropped a couple of points bm.‘] Japanese ace, will swim in the 400|still managed to maintain a 33-| and 1,500 meter events and the|point edge over Enos Slaughter, an-| 800 meter Telay. So will Shiro|other Cardinal flychaser. Slaugh-| Hashizume, the no. 2 man. ter's runnerup figure was .329. | One thing is sure—all six Japan- Still another Redbird, Al (Red) | ese will go all out’ to win. Schoendlienst, rested in fourth | GAMES TODAY s i e THREE CARDS IN 1STFOURSPOTS IN NATIONALLEAGUE NEW YORK, Aug. 9—(A®—The odds are better than 100 to 1 ageinst him, but at long last Stan Musial is making his belated bid to re- tain his National League batting crown, The slashing St. Louis Cardinal| outfielder for the first time this| season has made his way into the| top ten hitters. Including games of | Sunday, Aug. 7, Musial owned a‘l 313 mark. While it was good for| seventh place, it still left him| exactly 49 points behind Jackie Robinson’s league leading .362. back of the .322 figure posted by| Willard Marshall of the New York Giants, { ‘The Giants’ Whitey Lockman CHICAGO, Aug. 9—(®—The{and Bobby Thompson held fifth| Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the|and sixth places, respectively, wnhj Chicago Cubs, 8 to 3, today before a crowd of 11313 as Cliff Cham- bers, despite failure to finish, vic- timized his former mates for his seventh vietory. He was lifted in marks of 317 and .316. | NOTICE | After this date I will not be re- sponsible for any debts unless auth-: Porferio Tabein- | 67 2t | loped is 16th homer, illa. |Mangrum Leads inder Sam the year's leading | mission. money winn with $23,560, faded An emphatic triumph over the to a two-over-par 74 for a total former light heavyweight title- 1209 after being only one .,,-nk,.lh(v]drr from Cliffside Park, N.J.| Lehind Mangrum at the halfway might change some minds. mark. Charles is a 5 to 18 favorite fiam Samel, J. O. McLeod, Phil,der, Doris Efler, Alex Young, Pvt.] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE GUS LESNEVICH EZZARD CHARLES AGE 34 WEIGHT 180 HEIGHT ~ 59%2" NECK 167 REACH 72 BICEPS 16" FIST WRIST CHEST CHEST (exp) VZAIST Gl CALF ANKLE ~ICHARLES MEETS GUS LESNEVICH | TOMORROW NIGHT In Final Round At Tam O'Shanter By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN | CHICAGO, Aug. 9— (P —Lloyd| | Mangrum went after the $3,333| By JACK HAND ] top Tam O'Shanter All-American| NEW YORK, Aug. 9—(P—Ezzard 20lf prize today with a 1,“"._5.“,“9}clmrlm‘. heavyweight champion in lead over the field. | 47 of the 48 states, will try to win Most of promoter George S. May’s | Over a skeptical New York in his | 1z money was on Mangrum in | first NBA title defense tomorrow | against battle-scarred Gus sett today’s final round, anq it looked | hight 1 if he had jackpot. Lesnevich at Yankee Stadium. 1 Mangrum blazed through the| This is the big one for the lean humid 65 degree heat and some | Negro from Cincinnati, who hasn't 3,000 followers for a 37-33—70 third | been overly impressive in his show- round yesterday and a three- | ings here and who still is denied quarters mark of 204, twelve strokes | récognition by Col. Edward Eagan and his New York Athletic Com- P S O TSN over battle-scarred Gus, the former ' light heavyweight champ. Lesnevich | jis bordering on 35. He ha$ L‘cumi fighting for pay since 1934 and has been stopped three times by | pASSENGERS Mo“ Freddie Steele, Lee Oma and ® | Woodcock. S | Fifty-three ' passengers were | aboard Pan American flights yes- N | terday as follows 4 \ From Whitehorse: John Pelle, Leggo, Miss Ermie Boardman, Mr.! and Mrs. J. G. Ferguson, Mrs. Bz | arah Shomate. Pacific Northern Airlines carried | To Ketchikan: C. H. Keil, Don{21 passengers yesterday with 8 Scott, Bert Davey. To tle: Mr. and Mrs. D. Nel son, Tom Martin, Mabel Richey, Edwina Beyer, Minnie Fassmenn B. E. Thompson, Darlene Becker, Mrs. Mike Pusich, Ann and Louis arriving and 13 departing as fol- ows: ! From Anchorage: Mrs. D. Fergu- | sen and infant, Mrs. Bell, R. Leach, | Mable Webb, S. C. Clatheroe. ® From Cordova: Norman Wigitof!, | Pusich, M. R. Marker, Ethel Col-| g, L. Anderson. 1 vin, Phyllis Smothers and infant; { Martha, Raymond Rice, Donald| From Yakutat: R. N. Schoffner. Graze, Jack Thompson, Fred| To Yakutat: Peter Harry, Violet Daugherty, Juanita Rutherford, Mr. Sensmeir and infant, Harriet Mil- andr Mrs. R. Hall, F. Noreen, L.|ton. Phelps, Harold F« W. L. Altmil-; To Anchorage: Governor Gruen-| ler, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Prehl, Wil- | ing, Gene and Marie Weschentel- | Buster Young, Elmer Peterson, W. T. Reagon, Neil C. Hanson, John Rothschild Jr. Bertholl, Mike Mathison, Clav Fir- kenstad, Alf Jacobson, Krist Peder- son, Carl Redman, Hannis Aad- lund, Eva Congdon, Mrs. Teresa Howson, Mrs, R. I. Congdon, Mike 1 JUNEAU, ALASKA § [FISHING EVENT T0PS IN NORTH ~ SAY SPORTSMEN Chas. G. Burdick, President of | the Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., an- nounces that in his opinion the | thirq Golden North Salmon Derby held July 29, 30 ahd 31 was the | cutstanding sporting event so far !ht‘lu in the north. There were more | entries, more interest and more good, clean competition for the many prizes' offered than in any other event of record Final rapulations shows {entry tickets were sold for a gr {of $6300.00. Expenses including the | Ford Sedan awarded as first prize {and the canning of three thousand pounds of salmon entered for | prizes totalled $3,250.00. This net, together with the balance of $1,300 {in the Sportsmen’s treasury prior ito the Der gives them a work- {inz fund toward the primary pur- Ipose of the organization: to in- | crease the amount of fish and | game ble to the sportsmen in the vicinity, Plans are being |m‘.h1v for a fish planting program - oo - lin cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest (ORSAIR MAKES RIP s Burdick states that if more oi the sportsmen in this vicinity were members of the assoclation that wch more could be done. There are a numter of men and women here who are not members but who should be affiliated with the asso- ciation. Anyone wishing to join can send their 1949 dues to Mr. Burdick, Box 761, Juneau, Dues are $6.00 per year for a single mem- bership or $750 for man and wife. INTO TRACY ARM MON. The luxury cruiser S.8. Corsai docked yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and sailed for Skagway last night at 11:30 o'clock. Master ot the ship is Capt. H. Nedden. Yesterday morning the 343 1oo0* cruiser sailed into Tracy Arm at a minus three tide. Drawing 21 feet, the had 16 feet of water In reporting on the third Golden under keel. This was the first North Salmon Derby Burdick stated known time that a ship as large as | that the only reason it wa the Corcair had entered these ccssful was the excellent organi- waters. Because of the larg zational work of the co-chairmen: amount of ice floating in the bay, | Keith Wildes and Sim MacKinnon the ship was able to approach to| —ond the hard work of the chair- within only three miles of Sawyer |Men 8nd members of the various Glacier, committees plus the fine support of the local papers and the dons tion of the worthwhile prizes the merchants. The space for dis. | playing prizes in the According to Capt. Nedden, the glacier was a sight worth seeing and was more beautiful than Gla- cier Bay. When the cruiser left|Alaska Electric Light and Power Tracy Arm, the buoy n ing the | Co. added materially to the in- channel was bobbing because of the | terest in the Derby. The stores strong tide running. selling entry tickets added a big suc- | PAGE THREE ( mite. was a slight mixing of signals in | The highly efficient chairmen of | the play Sunday which allowed a ‘i he various committees were: Dean | little rain to creep through the iron Williams, Rules; Alva Blackerby, | curtain they put up. | Publicity; Dr. Whitehead, Prizes;| . Burdick states that he bes Ed Peyton Keeper of the Prizes:|jjeyes the whole community joins ‘w. A. Chipperfield, Judge, Weig him in an expression of appreci- and Entries; Irvin Curtis, Finance | ation to the many people who all | Bob. Boochever, Boats; and Ralph generously gave of their time, Wright, Reservations. without payment, to make this derby the best in the Territory and the best, even if not the biggest, on the West Coast. ard added their i ety in a hazardous the e Coast Gu promoting s game, The ccoperation of Weather Bureau was splendid. They |not only turned out a high grade lof weather but also reported it to | the Derby judges frequently. There The bow and arrow was used by anecient men on every continent except Australia. f OUT OF THE PAST... FREDDIE GROWS UP: Freddie Steele, Tacoma welterweight who has grown up 1o the middleweight ranks, defeated Al Rossl, highly touted middieweight from Newark, N. J., by @ ko, in the second of @ scheduled 10-round fight in Se- attle. Rossi was saved by the bell in the first round when he was flat on his back at the end of the round. | ! —1935— ONE FOR BOOK: Tommy Bridges, pitching for the Detroit Tigers, allowed a home run, a triple, a double and a single in one inning and then struck | out the side. 4 | ROSS RECOVERS: Barney Ross de- | feated Jimmy Mclarnin fo r his ol welterweight title. Barney won by a NOT QUITE: The U. of W., after decision in 15 rounds and the verdict | i o ke Frosh and J. V. was so close that Pop Foster, Mclarnin's |- o "0 "2 bt ‘Poughkeepsie Re- manager, appealed to the boxing com- | .45 failed to sweep the river | mission for a reversal :I the decision. | oy they p'lce_d !hl:rll in the The appeel wes tumed down. Varsity race. California was first by an_oar's length over Cornell and Washington was third after leading up to the three-mile mark. —1948— ITEMS INVITED: If you are familior with Sport Short you weuld like to see included in this series please send it, together with your autherity, te 2120 So. “C" Street, Tacoma, Wash. BABE QUITS: Babe Ruth quits Boston after 3 months due to a tift with Fuchs, president of the | Boston Club. Ruth is looking for a berth with another club but | none of the Major League clubs | seem interested in the Babe at | the present tim;. | DARK HORSE WINS: Samuel Parks, Jr., youthful Pittsburgh professional and comparatively unknown in golfing circles, won | the U. S. Open with a 299, This | is the first time Parks has ever | won a major tournament. | | © COLUMBIA BREWERIES, INC. TACOMA. WASHINGTON window of the | Eva and Marylee Congdon, June| HOSPiTAL NOTE® Ehman, Neil Mill. Y DA Thomas Newell was admitted to MAKE plANS FOR St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. h | Discharged from St. Ann's were S(HOOI_ OPENINP Mrs. E. Bryant, Jimmie Davis, Shir- ley Mae Long, Leonard Johns, June s Sensmeier, George Burnett and Lee Plans for opening Juneau Public Schools in September will be on Charles. the agenda when board members Lena Tom of Angoon was admlt-i ted to the Government Hospital. of the Independent School District board meet tonight in the offices Discharged from the Government Hospital were Rachel Kanosh of of Superintendent of Schools Ster- ling Sears. Angoon, Harriet Milton of Yakutat, | Robert Donnely of+ Klukwan, and | Newly appointed superintendent Sears will be meeting for the first Frederick George of Ketchikan. time with the board. SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN'S REMEMBER DEAR! TOMORROW NIGHT IS “Ladies’ Night” ¥ at BAILEY’S BAR COME ON OVER— JOIN THE GANG! 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