The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1950, Page 3

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950 BRADLEY UIS NUMBER ONE CAGE SQUAD By JOHN CHANDLER NEW YORK, March 7—(®—The Braves of Bradley University were an overwhelming choice today as the nation’s No. 1 college basketball team in the final Associated Press poll of the season. Now all the classy club from Peoria, Ill, has to do is show the basketball public that the natiol sports writers and broadeasters were right in hoisting them to the pinnacle via the ballot. . Bradley, with a 27-3 record, gets its chance to do just that in the Na- tional Invitation tournament be- ginning Saturday at Madison Square Garden. With a total of 206 votes cast— largest number of the season in the | weekly AP poll—Bradley copped 90 first place ballots and a total of 1,802 votes. Ohio State, which captured the| Big Ten crown and wound up with a 19-3 record, remained in second place with 1435 points. Kentucky, moving fast now atter | a shaky start this year, moved into| third place in the final poll. Ken-| tucky was fourth last week, and in | a close point battle with Holy Cross, | dumped the Crusaders from third to | fourth. Kentucky (24-5) and win- | ner of the Southeastern Conference tourney last week, received 1294 points. North Carolina State, which| blasted through to its fourth| straight Southern Conference tour- | nament championship last week, moved from eightlr in last week’s balloting to fifth. Duquesne (22-3) fell from tifth| to sixth; U.C.L.A,, (22-5) which split with Southern California last| week, dropped from sixth to sev-| enth; Western Kentucky, (24-5), went down a notch from seventh to| eighth. St. John’s of Brooklyn | (22-4) took ninth spot, trading places with LaSalle of Philadelphia, (20-3). ‘Washington State’s northern di- vision Pacific Coast conference champiéns wobund up the year in 18th place nationally. Three other western quintets preceded them in| ten—San Francisco, | the second 12th; Arizona, 15th; and San Jose State, 17th. JUNEAU BOWLERS DOUBLE WIN OVER SITKA ON SUNDAY In the Sunday telegraphic bowl- ing between the Juneau Eiks and the Sitka Elks, the locals won the and second teams. Work headed the Juneau bowlers with 614 and Calvin of Sitka was second with 591. Ketchikan Elks, also in the tour- ney, failed to send in scores. Team and individuals scores of third match from Sitka, both first |’ Juneau and Sitka teams follows: Juneau First Team Hagerup Snow McKinnon Scott Mork i Total ... 575 511 489 519 Sitka First Team Calvin Eliason Cushing L. Sarvella Hodgins Total Juneau Second Team Smithberg A Day ... Blanton Estepp .. King = Total . Sitka Second Team McDonald McClain (TRAININ Rottluf Appling W. Sarvella ... Total SMALL COLLEGE CAGE TCURNEY BEING PLAYED TACOMA, Wash., March 7—/P— | Upset followed upset as College of | Puget Sound and Central Washing- ton College basketball quintets came through with victories last night iin the state’s small college cage | tourney, The two fives will meet tonight the state crown and the right to enter the National Association ot | Intercollegiate basketball tourna- | ment in Kansas City March 13-18. Central, defending state cham- pion, rolled to an easy 44-30 victory over Gonzaga in last night’s tour- nament opener, and Puget Sound followed with an equally surprising | 56-53 win over Eastern Washington. MONDAY NIGHTERS plAY' ELKS AllEYSl Both east side teams were weak- The Monday Night' League took | over the Elks alleys last night and Peggy Lee bowled high individual | Results of fistic encounters last | hight are as follows:: game with 181 and Barbara Mill was high individual for series with At Philadelphia — Kid Gavilan, 148%, Cuba, outpointed Otis Gra- 462. Team and individual scores were as follows: ham, 149%:, Philadelphia (10). At Miami, Fla.—Rocky Graziano, 1624, New York, knocked out Joe Curcio, 153, Jersey City, N.J. (1). At Newark, N.J—Steve Belloise, 163, New York, outpointed Ger- maine Cabouche, 168%, France (8). Famed Quarterback Sully’s Bakery . Hudson - 115 155 . Hixson - 118 106 . Lawrence ... 100 117 . Carroll . 129 112 Totals . 462 490 Gus George - 111 141 . 117 126 132 127 132 526 128— 398 88— 312 86— 303 106— 347 408—1360 Cahail .. . Estes . Brust .. . Oldham . 111— 363 135— 378 114— 373 146— 435 506—1549 Ludwig Nelson . Faulkner ... 135 135 . Harshberger 140 120 158 134 139 111 572 500 Sugar Bowl 147 132 131 131 116 135— 405 102— 362 138— 430 135— 385 510—1582 ANNYPOLIS, Md., March 7T—(P— Frankie Albert, famed quarterback | for the San Francisco 49%ers of the | National Football league, will tutor Navy quarterbacks for two weeks of spring practice. Captain Howard Caldwell, direc- tor of Naval Academy athletics, said the former Stanford great will | spend two weeks with the quarter- . Applegate Totals .. 142— 421 131— 393 116— 348 128— 315 Baxter Rollison Stragier . Garrison O o Will Coach Navy backs beginning March 20. Totals 517—1477 THE DAILY ALASKA I} RESTLING BOUT UNUSUAL PHOTOGRAPH STOI'S \\‘K;l TLER in mid-air as he lands two-footed drop kick on nozsin of Joe Bennicassa, Stockton, Cal. Larry Moguin, Montreal, won San Francisco bout when Ben- (International} nicassa took count immediately after the photo. 6 NEWS, PCL LOS Having enjoyed Hollywood niver bas ANGEL March a day of rest, the| will tangle with Southern Califor- team in an exhibi- 7— { I the Hollywood B Team California Institute for Men, 11 to Calif. — (® — The Los Angeles Angels go after their tifth ve exhibition victory | here tod ng again with the Sacramento Solons. i The Seraphs collected hits in the right places yesterday and beat | Sacramento, 3 to 1, at Anaheim.)| Catcher Nelson Burbrink drove in | wo of the runs with a pinch sffigle. ! SPRINGS, Calif.—{h— Paul Richards, manager of t Eeattle Rainiers, is on the casualty list today, his nose having lost an! argument with a pitched ball. Richards w demonstrating bunting technique when the ball bounced up off his bat and bloodied { his beak. Two teeth were also; loosened. Seattle plays the San Francisco Seals here again today in the third exhibition in their series of eight. FULLERTO! PALM RIVERSIDE, Calif. — (# — Red Lynn, Vince Dibiasi and Jack Creel are scheduled to take the mound for| Portland today in an exhibition} game with the San Diego Pad Creel, a 16-game winner for Hous- ton last season, is a newcomer to, the club. | ONTARIOA, Calif. — (A — Man- | r Del Baker of the San Diego; Padres will start southpaw Roy! Welmaker against the Portland Beavers tomorrow in the game at’ Riverside. ¢ i HAINES VOTES FOR SALES TAX; IS FOR | UTILITY PROJECTS, HAINES, Alaska, March 7—(Spec-! ial to the Empire)—The proposed, city sales tax passed at the recent| special election by a vote of 07] to T. The sales tax is effective as of | financing for the propesed water and sewer project under the PWA rlanning. Mayor Leonard King was pleased with the fine cooperation of mer- chants and consumers to gain needed public utilities, 132— 422 139— 446 112 405 142— 418 525—1691 Biggs . . Blonton . Wilson Johnson Totals >HEZ 102— 100— 152— 397 140— 420 494—1426 321 282 | Petersen Johnson ‘Winther >zZu Ix 141— 431 123— 357 128— 396 112 336 504—1520 gemw 148— 462 105— 309 134— 366 122— 372 509—1509 HHaw . Forsythe Totals Four persons have been Kkilled in the crash of a Royal Australian Air Force bomber in Southeast Queensland, DEEP SEA FISHERMEN'S UNION MEETING Tuesday, March7at 7 P. M. General Ballet-Important Ao Joint Meeting with Vessel Owners 8:30 P. M. Same Evening Everyone Urged to Aitend OMEBACK FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER Jersey Joc Walcott car- ries dynamite in fists as he scores TKO win over Cuban opponent, Omelio Agramonte, at Madison Square Garden. Here is first round knockdown. Fight ended in Tth round. (International Soundphoto) CANADIAN PATROL ROAD BN 'PENGUINS'="“‘11 way 115 miles, | hundred feet further on they ra | they edged forward slowly, thei | whe encumbered with ice an snow blinding them constantly. into a heavy snow slide. After short delay, they edged up to i |and stopped. —JUNEAU, ALASKA and a few PAGE THREB SEATTLE | - within easy by fast 4-engine Clipper RENNEDY KiDS OF SEATTLE WINNERS INLONDON EVENT N Dozen Teams Selected for (age Tourney (By the Associated Press) The National Invitation Basket- tournament had its round dozen s today — an imposing array t includes six of the nation’s top 1 nine of the m's? uvu\ntt.. g ce-year bid for the world - by d;l‘;:‘m:“‘ 1( ¢ | oairs title with brilliant success over s preliminary requir s lef tar-studdeA FHalA gy bt ad | ey r the big dribble derby opening| ). oo e aygg on frequent schedul 4 )6.07 points out of a possible 108 | e back in Saturday afternoon at Madison ; , % P | Enroute, settle 3 m a panel of nine judges with | ble lounge uare Garden. ) iful displays of rhythmic|} , yous eomforta '. el e Invitation completed its star- ;5 turns, twists and glides seat and enjoy udded lineup by lassoing a couple Aniothér AWAIRAR" . Diak: Bubtot { teams from around home-—up- f Fnglewood, NJ., appeared a e Niagara and CONY—and ... to win the men's crown. i the way across the »ontinent for Arizona, ranked 15t! nationally. Already in the fold were Bradley No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll; Kentucky, No. 3; Duquesne, No. 6; Western Kentucky, No. 8 | St. John's of Brooklyn, No. 9; ana | Lasalle, No. 10. | From the second ten in the n tional rankings were plucked Francisco, defending champion a 12th, and Long Island University No. 13, to go along with Arizona The remaining contender is Lew Andreas’ “Silver Anniverss quin- tet from Syracuse University. The fast NCAA championship | tournament, beginning March 23 also is drawing heavily from the select bracket. Although the eight-team field is not nearly complete, second-ranked Ohio State, fourth-placed Holy {Cross and No. 5 North Carolina | State already are chosen — and UCLA, No. 7, is a good possibility. | LONDON, h 7-—(®—The Americans do ted the opening session of the three-day world fig- re championships yesterday, win- ning one title and gaining strong cads in two others. The Kennedy kids of Harol Seattle, and 21- o gt Fly in swift comfort aboard the big, 4-mile-a-minute Clippers . . . serving Peter en "BARANOF HOTEL Phone 106 FIRE ALARM A four-nine alarm was sounded it 2:30 pm, today when a small coof fire was discovered on a house »n Capital Avenue. Damage was light, firemen said, and all clear was sounded at 2:45 p.m. Bader Accounling Service Monthly Accounts, Systems, Secretarial Service Tax Returns Prepared Room 3, Valentine Bldg. Phone 919 Whiskey prices got you hanging on the ropes?. Get hep to CORBY'S 'APARTMENT BUILDER 70 BE GRANTED PERMIT City officials were today prepar- ling a statement for Martin Ander- {son, sponsor of the 1l-story apart- |ment to be constructed at Fourth land Franklin Streets, The statement includes assurancc |that the city will grant Anderson |2 building permit, that there is ade- |auate sewer lines, and that con- | struction of the apartment building |will not violate any existing city | 7oning ordinances. Anderson requested the statement {as final arrangements were be- | ing made for Federal Housing Au- j'hnril.y-ins\u'ed loan. The apartment project is one of the $30 million worth of apartment | building projects in the Territory on which loan insurance has been committed by FHA since its Alaska office was opened here September Available in: "PINTS | % PINTS ! QUARTS 4/5 QUART % GALLONS MINIATURES r d 8 “i The total -number of units on a| Which loan insurance was commit- t, | ted iz 2425. This includes the nine apartment building projects for Made famous by millions of folks who HAINES, Alaska, March 7—(Spe- ial to the Empire)—Pushing their | tr h 12-foot snow drifts {and “rolling on tiptoe” over dangerous slide area, seven Canad- n army men arrived here last evening after a three-day trek over the 160-mile Haines Highway. The men, riding in two “per snowmobiles, reported “extre hard going” near the summit e pass, with ice forming in wheel sprockets, but wormed their vay through to be first this spring to negotiate the cutoff road into this Lynn Canal poxt. They reported the road complete= ly open from the Canadian border to here, with comparatively casy going encountered, Guided by David Hume @ y Capt. J. G. MacMurdo, the o] t out from the Alaska H way at 10:35 a.m., March aveled without difficulty t {irst day southward. Behind penguins fhey hauled two loads of food and supplies. After 50 miles, they encountered heavy snow and cloudy weather, and as they neared the pass decid- hefr o 1 led it h- and eir efr |date March 1 and is part of theied to spend the night, )| the dangerous Two men donned snowshoes and | began a toilsome trek to Mile 42| | to obtain a caterpillar tractor locat- led at Mile 42, three miles away.! After waiting three hours, and no | tractor, they decided to chance the washout area, and attempt to make passage. After one | hour’s tedious work, they succeed- ed. At this point the snow was four feet deep, drifting to seven! feet in spots. Nex day they rolled linto Haines with no more diffi- culties. Personnel of the army snow pat-] rol who went along on the trek were Cpl, W. R. Shires, Pfc. R. H.| Wells, Pfc. A. C. Burgbidge, and| Pfc. R. 1. Woods. | Pic. R. A. Lawm of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry,! and Pfc. J. W. Boyes of the Royal Canadian Army Motor Corps, op-| erated the snowmobiles. | An attempt will ke made to upen‘l the road to traffic early this spring.i Last year it was June 9 before| | regular traffic was able to negotiate | the vital cutoff. H TG L I SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S Alr express means Immediate dellvery to youl Simply write or wire your faverite shop or your business house, requesting that your Express, and Alaska Coastal speeds It to you In a matter of hours! Dependable serv- ke at lowest rates by Alr Express. fllflSK%%: A ewing Southeasteri merchandise be shipped by Al BynEs which loan insurance was commit- ted by FHA during the last days before Title 608 of the Federal Housing Act—providing for loan insurance on apartment building projects—expired March 1. In addition to this, loan insur- ance has been committed on 240 single family dwellings throughout the Territory. SITKAN HERI H. R. 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