The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1949, Page 6

PAGE, WILKS LOOM UP AS KEY PLAYERS By JACK HAND Joe Page and Ted Wilks, base- ball's celebrated firemen, loom as| key men in the stretch drive of the favored New York Yankees and St. Louis Cards. The team standings and schedule give the Yanks and Cards the edge but only as long as®age and Wilks continue to produce. Each has ap- peared in 51 games. As the Yanks and Cards move into the final three weeks of the season with the opening today of the last intersectional series, the relief aces figure to tell the story. New York, out front by three; full games after Sunday win while Boston was dropping two, used Page in five of its 11 Septem- | ber games, three times he helped Tommy Byrne out of ‘rcucle. He| saved Allie Reynolds and Fred San- ford once each. Return of Yogi Berra to home run hitting was a tremendous boost to Yank morale. They got an- other lift from Tommy Henrich, in- jured first baseman-outfielder, who again is taking batting practice and | insists he’s “ready.” But most important is Page who saved three big games in the last five days. | While the Yanks pluy a pair wm\\l the Brownies, the desperate Bos- | ton Red Sox must take on the steaming Detroit club. Winner of 10 straight and 18 of their last 20,! WILLIAMS STILL | MAINTAINS LEAD | STARS, OAKS INRACEIN P. (. LEAGUE (By the Associated Press) Hollywood can play .500 (all in AT BAT, AMERCAN Ted Williams maintained lead in the American League batting race today with .352 and monopolized four special depart- ments of play. Two newcomers to the big 10 were Boston's Bobby Doerr, who returned to the list with 305 to tie Johnny Pesky of Boston for seventh, and Hoot Evers of Detroit who notched 297 to tie St. Louis’ Roy Sievers tor 1th. Williams had the most runs, 136; most hits, 182; most doubles, 38; double , and most homers 37. Allie Reynolds of New York re- gained percentage pitching honors with a 16-4 record for .800, but Boston’s Mel Parnell had the most wins, 22, and the most complete games, 24. Virgil Trucks of Detroit boosted his strikeout tally to 141. JACKIE ROBINSON LEADS IN BATFING, NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, Sept. 13—(P— Jackie Robinson of Brooklyn takes an eight-point lead into the final three weeks of the National League the Tigers invade the east for thebatting title race with Enos Slaugh- last time, intent on becoming a pen- nant factor. Time is fast running out on all Yankee chasers but par- | ticularly for Detroit which has only 14 to play and trails by 5% games. They are eight back on the im- portant losing side. In the National the slugging oi Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter and the efficient relief work of} Wilks (11-3) have given the Cards; a 1'% game edge over the Dodgers. Wilks has been bumped in his last few outings but the St. Louis ! staff required his strong right arml in four of its last nine games. The Cards, like all 16 major league teams had an open date yes- terday, ltut they're looking ahead; to the big three-game series at| Sportsman’s Park with second-place Brooklyn Sept. 21-22. Those games probably will decide the pennant: race. | Here are the leaders in the major leagues: NATIONAL LEAGUE | Batting — Robinson, Brooklyn, .347; Slaughter, £t. Louis, .339. Runs Batted In — Robinson, Brooklyn, 115; Kiner, Pittsburgh, | 108. Home Runs — Kiner, Pittsburgh,, 46; Musial, St. Louis, 32. Pitching—Wilks, St. Louis, 11-3, .786; Newcombe, Brooklyn. 15-6, .714. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Williams, Boston, .352; Kell, Detroit, .339. H Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos-!| ton, 146; Williams, Boston, 144." Home Runs — Williams, Boston.‘g 37; Stephens, Boston, 36. Pitching — Reynolds, New York, 16-4, .800; Kinder, Boston, 19-5, 192, MA VISITORS Mrs. Inez Crosby and Mrs. J. W. McDonald of Camden, Maine, are registered at the Baranof. H FROM LOS ANGELES Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Pond of Los Angeles are at the Baranof. | FROM PORTLAND lity. ter and Stan Musial of St. Louis closing fast. Rokinson’s .347 is hardly safe with Slaughter batting .339 and Musial boosting his average another five points to .331. FOOTBALL BATILE ON COAST STARTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. 13—(P— With the opening conference game nly five nights away, Coach Kip Taylor admitted today he was pleased with the prospects of his Oregon State College Beavers. Passing and punting drew special attention in yesterday’s final pre- game scrimmage session. The Beavers will board a plane in Eugene Thursday morning for Fri- day night’s with UCLA in the Los Angeles Coliseum. COMMUNITY CENTER NIGHTS RESUMED AT TEEN AGE CLUB The first “Community.. Center Night” of the autumn is to be en- joyed by the adults tonight at the local Teen Age Club on South Sew- ard Street, beginning at 8 o'clock. Every Tuesday the teen agers are planning to turn over their club- house for the enjoyment of all the adults. The boys and girls pay the bills for rent, light and heat; and their parents and other grown-ups have all the fun. There'll be pool and ping-pong, card-playing and dancing to the juke box, and, start- ing at 8:30 o'clock, there will be square dancing. A special invitation is extended to all adults who may have only recently arrived in the commun- These affairs afford an excel- lent chance for new-comers in Ju- neau and Douglas to establish friendships. FROM SITKA Fred Moe and Henry F. Cleavey of Portland are registered at the Ernest Parry of Sitka are guests at Baranof. Joe Trutti, Fred Simpson and the Gastineau. Your Deposits ARE BUY and HOLD UNITED SAVINGS BONDS THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition the bank is a mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation, which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to a maximum of $5,000. SAFE STATES ot DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK - ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA MEMBER FEDERAL DEFOSIT “— 1nsURANCE CORPORATION CHICAGO, Sept. 13—(#—Boston’s a wide also |its remaining 14 games and still |retain a fair chance of copping the Pacific Coast League pennant. The Stars are four games ahead of the challenging Oakland Oaks who also have 14 games left. If the Stars merely break even in their 14, the Oaks would have to capture His 352 was a one point drop|11 of their 14 in order to catch up. from a week ago. Second place| The Stars, however, have won 14! | George Kell of Detroit lost two of their last 18 games and, figure points for 339 but was 20 points|to play better than .500 ball from ahead of third place Bob Dillinger | ROW on. of St. Louis. | Portland, San Francisco and Los | Angeles are mathemutically out of | the race and a full-fledged miracle would be needed for Seattle, Sacra- mento or San Diego to win. All teams were idle Monday and no games were played in the major leagues. BORDER CUSTOMS TRIED TO COLLECT WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—(®— United States Customs Officials tried to collect ‘tariff duties from Canadian troops headed to fight the Japanese in the Aleutians in 11943, Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, told of the incident yesterday. He said it occurted when a Cana- dian expedition prepared to cross the Alaska border to join American forces in ejecting the Japanese from the island of Kiska. Club that U. S. Border Customs Officials ruled that the Canadians could not enter Alaska unless they paid duty on their new ritles and other military equipment. John D. Hickerson, now Assistant Secretary of State, solved the dif- ficulty, Pearson said. Hickerson arranged with the White House to declare the Canadians “distinguished foreign visitors.” withdrew voluntarily from Kiska. Pearson is former Ambassador to Washington and is a memier of the Canadian delegation to the three-power conference on the | British financial situation. | IN OPENER ON SAT. SEATTLE, Sept. 13— (®—The University of Washington Huskies went through one of the toughest sessions of the practice campaign yesterday as Coach Howie Odell polished every phase of their at- tack. defense, the Huskies' old In scrimmage, one team was set up to run T-formation plays pected in Saturday’s opener here was undecided upon starters in any position. FROM KETCHIKAN Charles Potter and M. R. Waters of Ketchikan are registered at the Gastineau. [Dulv FROM IRoopS'fomia Football Writers Association/ Pearson told the National Press| Meanwhile, he said, the Japanese | HUSKIES PLAY UTAH | Odell took special pains with passi thorn. i ex- | against Utah. The coach said he;Juneau before heading back to Se-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA THREE SLUGGERS OF OAKLAND LEAD INP. C. L. BATTING SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13—(P— Three Oakland sluggers, led by shortstop Artie Wilson, topped Pa- cific Coast League batting averages through games of Sept. 11. Wilson was clubizing the ball at a .352 clip for 151 games. Earl Rapp, outfielder was two points behind with .350 and first 1 cacker Dick Kryhoski rounded out the leading trio with .338. Big Max West, San Diego out- fielder, continued to set the pace in home runs with 44 and in runs batted in with 153. 'SOUTHERN CAL IS ' ALREADY SLATED By RUSS NEWLAND SAN FRANCIECO, Sept. 13—(P— The University of Southern Cali-| i fornia Trojans are odds-on favorites in this section to win the 1949 Pacific Coast Conference footbali| championship. This means, too,| they are the choice to go to the Rose Bowl, Jan. 2, 1950. | Members of the Northern Cali-| GAMES TODAY BOSTON, Sept. 13.—(P—Boston’s runnerup Red Sox gained a half game on the American League's leading New York Yankees today by overcoming the surging Detroit Tigers T-4 before 10,229 chilled spectators. | The victory eased the Sox with- in 2% games of the Yankees, snap- ped a Detroit string of ten games and dropped the Tigers into fourth TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1949 WIL BASEBALL (By the Associated Press) The Vancouver Capilanos served notice on the Yakima Bears that: they mean fusiness last night by: whipping the pennant - winning | Bears 14 to 5 in the opening game of a final Western International, League baseball series. i Although three costly Vancouver: errors put the Yaks ahead 5 to 4 in the fourth inning, the Capilanos | from Sept. 13 to 16. Phone Cather- | ine Holder at 373. 297 3t | MONTE caRLO $11.95 ewitcheraft...in SUEDE 3 by Red (Gold) Cross came back to clinch the contest scoring twice in each of the last five innings. The game was at Yakima. place. American League St. Louis at New York (2) rain, two games tOMOITOW. Cleveland at Philadelphia, playoff Wednesday night. | One night game. ROBERT EUGENE IN PORT ¥ Fred Dahl’s freighter Robert Eu- | gene tied up this morning at the| City Dock from Seattle. General National League i A S cargo is being discharged. A cargo Boston at Chicago, wet grounds.| . fiy will be loaded for the voy- Three nigh iree | HiguMEERE ' age to Prince Rupert on Thursday. rain, PRS0 5 S O H | you into Get your Christmas present now Smart suedes that charm y —your favorite dog done in pastel Restyling and complete fur ser- vice right here in Juneau. Finest workmanship. Martin Victor Furs, inc. 207 1t looking your very prettiest. They’re the very essence of autumn’s new | clegance. And the way they keep your step so young is ncar-magic! *Red Cross Shoes - America’s unchallenged shoe value Plumbing ® Heafing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nights—Hed 730 and guest coaches put Coach Jeft Cravath and his many Trojans on| the spot in the opening fall meeting | of the organization. | On a point scoring basis, ‘the| teams were picked to finish as fol-| lows: | 1—Southern California 215; 2—| California 179; 3—Stanford 178;} 4—Oregon 162; 5—Washington 150; | 6—U.CL.A. 112; 7— Washington | State 100; 8—Oregon State 80; 9— Idaho 44; 10—Montana 23. By an even more substantial count, University of Santa Clara was picked as the strongest of the coast’s independent colleges. | FIGHT DOPE | Fights last right turned out as follows: | At Houston, Tex. — Sugar Ray! Robinson, 152, New York, knocked | out Charlie Dotson, 156, Chicago, 3. (non-title). At San Francisco—Jesse ' Flores, 138%, Stockton, Calif.,, outpointed | Lem Thomas, 139, Chicago, 10. At New Orleans—Maxie Docusen, | 135, New Orleans, outpointed Joey ‘Ban\um. 138, Los Angeles, 10. | DEERLEAP ARRIVES SUN. | ENROUTE FROM SEATTLE The pleasure cruiser owned by Campbell Church, Jr., of Seattle tied up Sunday in the small boat harbor so that Miss Peggy Ann Church, daughter of Mr. Church, could take the Pan Ameri- can flight to Seattle yesterday where she attends the University of Washington. The cruiser had come in from Gambier Bay. On September 5, a cruise of Southeast Alaska wat-| ers was started by the Churchs. The Deerleap, carrying Vancouver registry, will be in and out of attle on about September 27. The twin screw cruiser is pow-| lered by two Vivian diesel 120 hp imotors and has an overall length of 105 feet. Skipper is Glenn | Propst, who has a crew of three| under him. | | | — 1900 — CHESTY CHESSERS: The Tacoma Whist and Chess Club defeats a British team in a cable match by the score of 6-4. Winners were Barry, Voight, Hodges, and Dalmar. Pillsbury and Sho- walter gained draws. HORSE WINS ON K. O.: Emil Schock focal Tacoma fighter who K.O.'ed “Killer"” Wright in the 7th on April 14th, was K. O."ed himself for the first time when he rode his bike into a Quote the horse, “it was o didn’t lay, a hand on -—1926 — N STATE CHAMP: Bronson R. Stein defeated Lee Steil, 2 and 1, over the new Inglewood Golf Course in Seattle to win the Washing- ton State Amateur Title for the fourth time, SAME ONE: The U. of W. announces the appointment of Al Ulbrickson [pres- ont ::u:hl as frosh crew coach. Ulbrick- son is @ former stroke for the U. crews and great things are expected of this former crewman, © COLUMBIA BREWERIES, INC. 13-4 TACOMA, wASHINGTON Shett; OUT OF THE PAST... Alt Heidelberq MASTER MASTERED: George Von Elm of California defeated Bobby Jones for the U. S. Ama- teur Golf Title, 2 and 1. Jones was after the title for the 3rd time when defeated. —1935 — FOXY FOX: In a Fox Hunt in Hame mertown, N. 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