The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1950, Page 3

i w! g > TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950 et Television Is Hitfing P(__I:eague By JIM HUBBART (Associated Press Sportswriter) Pacific Coast League clubowners have some new and lethal ammuni- tion today in their battle to exter- | minate what they call the No. 1| crowd killer, television. | ‘The first available 1950 figures on baggball video audiences were released yesterday, and the report is amazing. In many respects it's frightening—unless you're in the television business. | For example: the Los Angeles-San | Diego series at ‘Wrigley Field April | 4-8 drew 102,057 week-day onlookers, only 4.6 percent of whom were ac- tually at the ballpark. ' | The figures are the current tele- que report on the Los Angeles tele- vision audience, published by Cot- | fin, Cooper and Clay, Inc. It is| compiled in much the same way as radio’s Hooper Rating. A Sunday doubleheader between Portland and Hollywood April 2 ap- peared on about 173,300 TV sets. The crowd at Gilmore Field num- bered 9269 paid. The April 8 twin bill between the Angels and Padres lured only 2083 through the turnstiles. PCL clubs resume hostilities to- night, meeting, by decree of an oddly concocted schedule, the same foes they met two weeks ago. San Diego, the league leader, plays at Seattle. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League L Pet San Diego .. 14 659 Hollywood . 15 615 Los Angeles ... 19 548 San Francisco .. 20 512 Oakland 19 500 Portland 19 500 Sacramento 26 366 Seattle 27 .289 National League L Pct Brooklyn ... 6 647 Philadelphia 8 600 St. Louis 8 556 Boston 9 526 Pittsburgh 9 500 Chicago 6 500 New York 8 385 Cincinnati 13 235 American League w L Pet Detroit £ - 10 4 J14 Boston i3 1 650 New York . 9 17 563 ‘Washington 8 1 533 Cleyeland 6 8 429 Philadelphia 6 10 375 Chicago 4 8 333 St. Louis 4 9 308 B.B.STARS Stars of games played yesterday in the major baseball leagues are: Batting—Tommy Glaviano, Card- inals — had a perfect night at the plate with four for four, tive runs batted in and three scored as the Cards whipped the Braves, 10-3. Pitching—Art Houtteman, Tigers —stopped the Yankees with eight hits, yielding lone run in the ninth as Detroit defeated the world cham- pions, 7-1. FIGHT DOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- laws: At Philadelphia—George (Sugar) Cpstner, 149%, Camden, N.J, out- pointed Kid Gavilan, 149%, Cuba, 19). At Providence, R.I. — Beau Jack, 142, Georgia, TKO’d Jackie Weber, 135%, Pawtucket, RI, (10). At New Orleans—Carmen Basilio, 144%, Syracuse, N.Y., knocked out Gab Ferland, 145%, Montreal, (10). NEW BOX SEATS, ' GRIFT'S STADIUM, ARE TORN DOWN WASHINGTON, May 9 — (® — Clark Griffith decided today he’d rather win baseball games with his ‘Washington Nats than pick up a little extra cash. The result is that the Griffith Stadium’s new 854 left field box seats will be torn down be- fore the Chicago game tonight. “If. they had stayed up they'd kill us,” Manager Busky Harris observed after Cleveland walloped three homers into the temporary seats Sunday. In 11 games here this season, the opposition has hit five homers into | outfielder-first baseman, who hopes r," fra Kk — e G w— - MUSIAL IS LEADINGIN HITTING 'EM NEW YORK, May 9—#—Stan Musial is off to a fast start in his bid for a fourth batting crown. The classy St. Louisy Cardinal to become the first National Leaguer since Bill Terry to hit .400 or bet- ter, currently is 53 points above the magic figure. Including games of Sunday, May 8, Stan is banging away at a .453 lip. In 14 games, he has collected 24 hits in 53 times at bat. Terry batted .401 for the New York Giants in 1930. Close on Musials’ heels is Andy | Pafko, Chicago’s hard-hitting out- tielder. Pafko has collected 18 hits in 41 times at bat for a 439 nigure. Wes Westrum, sophomore catcher >f the Giants is third with .389, three ' points higher than the figure of, Philadelphia’s Dick Sisler. Catcher | Joe Garagiola of the Cards is fifth with .378. {0BATTERS AT TOP IN AMERICAN CHICAGO, May 9—®—The top ten batters in the American League are clicking at .366 or better—a fast pace led by Cliff (Tarzan) Mapes, New York Yankee outfielder, an:d catcher Jim Hegan of Cleveland. In statistics officially computed ) through Sunday’s games, Mapes had authored 406 with 13 blows in 32 times at bat. The were followed by Dom Di- Maggio of Boston with .389; Larry Doby, Cleveland, .386; Paul Leh- ner, Philadelphia, .382; Tommy Henrich, New York, .379; Phil Riz- zuto, New York, .375; Al Zarilla, Boston, .370; Gerry Coleman, New York, 367; and Ed Stewart, Wash- ington, .366. WIL GAMES Scores of games in the WIL yes- terday are: Tri-City 6, Victoria 4. San Diego 8, Tacoma 6 (exhibi- tion). LEADERS IN B. B. Here are the leaders in baseball through games of Monday: American League Batting — Hegan, Cleveland, 415; Mapes, New York, and DiMaggio, Boston, .389. Runs Batted In — Stephens, Bos- ton, 25; Williams, Boston, 21. Home Runs — Williams, Boston, 7; Wood, St. Louis, 5. Pitching—Stobbs, Boston, Trucks, Detroit; Hooper, Philadelphia, and Ostrowski, St. Louis, 2-0—1.000. National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .446; Pafko, Chicago, .439. ‘Runs Batted In — Ennis, and Jones, Philadelphia, 18. Home Runs — Jones, Philadel- phia, 6; Gordon, and Elliott, Boston and Kiner, Pittsburgh, 5 each. Pitching — Roy, Boston; Bank- head, Brooklyn; Rush, Chicago; Werle, Pittsburgh and Johnson and Miller, Philadelphia, 2-0—1.000. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | ] Jubilanf Harmony S e L A group of well wishers gathered around the piano with Connie Mack to join the 87-year-old leader of the Athletics in a little close harmony. The occasion_was a $50 a plate civic dinner honoring Mr. Mack, and held at Philadelphia. From left to right are Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler, President Will Harridge of the American League, Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators and Tom Connolly, veteran American League umpire. (P Wirephoto. DETROITIS [ COMING UP, FLAG RACE defeating the and Martha O’'Shea; from Angoon: Ed League leadership, Pirates in Pittsburgh, 7-5. The Pir- Percy Hunter; from Fish Bay: ates staged a belated ninth inning | Vogel and Walt Gardner; rally, routing starter Bud Podbielan Porpoise Island: W. Klinefelter; with a two-run attack. Philadelphia’s Phillies remained a}mt Nelson, and Erland Feldseth. half game behind the Brooks, edg- ing out the Reds in a Cincinnati | night game, 6-5. | Ted Kluszewski’s three-run homer | in the sixth had put Cincinnati in | front, 5-4, until the Phils’ two-run rally in the seventh. (By the Associated Press) Rival big league managers are beginning to talk about Red Rolfe’s hustling Detroit Tigers with a great deal of respect. Baseball men who previously had regarded the Tigers as “just another first division club,” are openly giv- Louis. The hustling infielder had a | Doerr perfect night at the plate, four hits| Trucks was the losing pitcher. and a walk. He drove in five runs| and scored three. His base knocks games. included a double and home run. | ing the Bengals a good chance to All other teams were not sched- | win the American League flag. | uled. Casey Stengel, skipper of the! New York Yankees is the latest to BRING 26; TAKE 4 ’ pects to give him his toughest tight. climb aboard the. Detroit band- “Detroit is the best looking club ~ Alaska Coastal Airlines flights | 6-0, as Chicago took the series fi- | pitcher “Sheldon erful Red Sox as the teams he ex- :sevcnt.h inning argument. no others scheduled. from and from Tulsequah: Peter Payne, BOSTON, May 9—(®—Mel Par- nell pitched the Boston Red Sox Little Tommy Glaviano was the into a first place tie with Detroit big man in the Cardinals’ 10-3 vic- | today by whipping the Tigers 6-1, tory over the Boston Braves in St.; With the help of homers by Bobby J. Falkner and Walt, Dropo. Virgili e Three night American League CHICAGO, May 9 — (M — Lefty]J. Estes | Johnny Schmitz stopped the New | Handicap | York Giants with three hits today, nale. Manager Leo Durocher, sec-} Store your furs with Charles Gold- ond baseman Eddie Stanky andl stein and Company, Phong 102, Jones ~were | thumbed out of the game’during a ‘Two night National League games ' PAGE THRES PRICE UP ON LARGE - HALIBUT; MEDIUMS SHOW NO INCREASE Prices for medium halibut held at yesterday's level as 91,500 pounds of the flat fish went to market at | the Juneau Cold Storage Company this morning. | While medium halibut, sold fur‘ 117.90 cents per pound, large halibut | brought more than they did yes- | terday. Price paid for the large 'fish was 16.75 cents. Chickens ag- lain sold for 14 cents. It was the largest amount of fish to be sold at the Juneau Cold 1 Storage Company this season. | High boat for the day was the | Solar, commanded by Dan Twiet, which brought a 40,000-pound load of fish to Juneau. The Emma, skippered by Tom Ness, was next with 17,000 pounds. Fish were also unloaded from the { Vigilant, Charlie Jim skipper; the Norma, Ed Welle skipper; the Julia D., ke Puustinen skipper; the Ev- alution, Jimmie Marks skipper; the Water Fall; and the Hi. It was the second return trip since the beginning of the season for the Hi, commanded by E. Kohl- hase of Juneau. The vessel brought its first load of fish to Juneau a few days after the season opened. MONDAY NIGHTERS DOUBLES TOURNEY On the Elks alleys last night the Monday Nighters rolled their doubles tournament and it ended with Gladys Vuille and Millie Harshburger taking first place. Individual scores are as follows: DR. ROBERT SIMPSON DR. TED OBERMAN Optometrists Phone 266 for appt. ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. 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But he now rates the Tigers even with Boston's pow- | we've faced thus far,” he said yes- yesterday brought 26 persons to terday following the Tigers’ 7-1;Juneau and carried 44 from here triumph over his World Champions. | to points in Southeast Alaska. | Will Be Tough ‘ To Haines: Edythe Walker and “They’re going to be tough, youas N. McAdams; to Skagway: Mr. can bet on that. Especially whenSawyer, C. J. Roehr, and Anita (Hal) Newhouser comes around. Roehr; to Petersburg: Mr. and “That (Art) Houtteman looked Mrs. Eldor Lee, G. M. Lowery, w. like the best pitcher in the league A. Wood, and C. M. Armstrong; to out there today.” Ketchikan: Brooks Hanford. ! sutteman, 22-year-old right- To Sitka R. Rotluff, Jeanne hander blanked the Yanks for eight Carter, Mrs. Charles Wortman, Mrs. innings, but let up in the ninth atter Nan Peterson, Pay Moy, J. M. Wan- | his mates had given him a 7-0 berg, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Russo,’ lead. It was his fourth triumph | William R. Mesland, Ernestine Veach, Val Zitz, Alfred Gray, M. against only one loss. The Tigers today were leading the league although tied with Boston in games won and lost, the Tigers lead the Red Sox by 64 percentage points. They've won 10 of 14 starlsl while the Sox have won 13 of 20. The two clubs meet in the first of an important three-game series at Fenway Park today. Detroit’s George Kell, Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers were the big guns in yesterday's triumph. K.ell hit a Anselm, A. M. Anderson, Nancy Welcorre, Elsie Eliason, Annabelle ! Appling, Mrs. D. R. McGraw, H. Hope, Tony Schwamm, and O. Pax- ton. To Hood Bay: Linus Carlson, R. Hudson, and Bob Sutter; to Todd: P. Fyker; to Tenakee: Carl Engstrom, and Mickey Hasser; and to Tulsequah: G. Klucheski, Har-| old E. Trudell, George Robertson,| | Ernest H. Beckman, Louis J. Ber- {mel, and Harry Smith. | Brown; | single, double and triple and scored Lhrie times. i i From Ketchikan: B. D. it L from Wrangell: M. Custard; from! Feligr | Sitka: Tom Morgan, Conrad, Washington’s surprising Senators | prantz, Emily Marks, Norman Ar-| handed Bobby Feller his second|nold, Dorothy Arnold and infant,| straight defeat as Sid Hudson|{gthel Campbell, Clifford Lewis,| pitched them to a 4-2 triumph over, Henry Moy, Jack Fetter, Vienna Cleveland under the Washington Rhoades, Iris A. Jette, H. A. Smith, | lights. He spaced 10 hits for his Carol Breiding, . and - Teny Sch- third triumph. wamm. Brooklyn retained its National‘ From Tenakee: Mrs. Ole Land [ N AND ssf# ; YoV Imperial is made by Hiram Walker. Blended whiskey. 86 r0of. the seats against one for the Wash- ington Nats. Alaska Distributors HOLME “Efiw“ S You wegon'r 8€ A ° gCRET CLUE — 70% grain neutral spirits. Hitam Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, THE MELLOW Tagrg o ow—flMERs KNeyy & FOR wHiskey W THAT W P JUNEATY inois. !:omp-ny. 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