The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1950, Page 3

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1950 oz RAINIERS IN SECOND WIN YANKS MAKE GOOD GAINS 4OVER SEALS WESTGAMES By JIM HUBBART (Associated Press Sportswriter) If Roy Welmaker were a right “Break up the Yankees.” hander instead of .a southpaw, Thundering through (By the Associated Press) Any day now you’ll hear the wail: the Hollywood today in the Pacitic |game lead in the American League. Coast League pennant marathon. | Casey Stengel's -surprising New ,A it happened, however, the |Yorkers are doing better than the ollywoods pounced on Mr. Wel- 1949 “miracle team.” A year ago maker 'in the eighth inning last|today they had a 22-10 record. Now night for a five run outburst and |it's 22-8. a T to 4 victory that shaved San And they're doing it without “Old ‘s Jead to two games. All be- | Reliable”—Tommy Welmaker, ace of the Padre d staff, chucks with the wrong Henrich—side- lined by a knee injury. Henrich | played only six innings during the | all-winning tour. High spots of the trip were the three game sweep in Cleveland and yesterday's 6-4 triumph over De- | troit. Yogi Berra was the big wheel at | Detroit. A much improved catcher | and 314 slugger, Berra delivered a | bases-loaded homer for the winning | margin. Berra’s belt came off Art Houtte- man in the fifth inning. It gave Bryne a 6-0 edge that melted under | homers by George Kell and Hoot 1Evers in the eighth. Then Joe Page llywood has lost but one start portsider all season, namely, and’s Clyde Shoun. For seven though, it looked as if Wel- per might change all that. He had a 4 to 2 lead going into eighth, but then the hoodoo, ‘hammy, or whatever you want 11 it, got him, A% Los Angeles, the bold Mexi- . League owlhoot, Lou Klein, a demonstration on baseball ery. His two homers batted in runs and gave the Angels a OFFICIAL RULES = | ARE ADOPTED BY BASEBALL LEAGUE Members of the Gastineau Chan- | nel Baseball League met last night and adopted official rules for the| 1950 season. Announcement was | also made of the first games to be played as follows: Sunday at 2:30| oclock, Elks meet the Moose and | as Tuesday is a holiday, the Monday jat bookmakers today with a night game, for this time only, will| be played instead on Tuesday after- | noon at 2:30 o'clock and will pit| Douglas against the Coast Guard. | Officials rules adopted last night | include the following: | Through the Juneau Volunteer | Fire Department, the officials ot the league are appointed each year, | and shall consist of a President,! Vice President, and Secretary. ‘It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings ot Lhese,‘ three officials, and it is the duty of | the Vice President to take over the | duties of the President in his ab- sence. It is the duty of the Secre- tary to record all action taken at meetings, and to assist the President | at all times. These three officials | shall be known as the Executive Board. | The League shall be governed by Spaulding’s Official Rules insotar | as the game shall be applieable. | The season shall consist of two halves, and the winner of each halt shall play each other at the end ot | the second half to determine the League Championship. All week-day games shall start | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PRE-RACE DATA BANNED IN BLL WASHINGTON, May 26—(®—The Senate Commerce Committee struck bill which would fix criminal penal- ties for sending or receiving pre- race betting data across state lines on horse and dog races. As appreved, the measure place strict bans on certain mation ‘normally printed. in papers and broadcast by before the start of a race. The bill—which limits its restrlc- tions to ho and wog racing— defines as illegal: Information on bets or wagers, scratches, jockey changes, weights probable winners, betting odds; and odds chanzes transmitted before a race has started. Once the race was started, how- ever, all this information could be printed or broadcast without viol- ating the proposed law. Violaticews would ca!l for a $1,000 fine o a oue-year prison sentence —or both. DOUGLAS NEWS DELL FAMILY, VISIT Mr. and Mrs. Elwin B, Dell and three children were Douglas visitors today while the Princess Louise was in port. The family is from Skag- way where Mr. Dell taught school for the past four years. He will be would infor- news- radios promptly at 6:30 p.m., and all Sun- | the Science and Math teacher for day games shall commence promptly | the Douglas Public Schools next at 2:30 pm. All week-day games year. The family includes two girls, shall be of seven innings duration, one, a year and a half and the and all Sunday games shall be of | other seven years old, and a boy 14 9 2 triumph over Portland. first came in the fourth with | aboard. In the seventh, Lou | twe stepped up with the bases loaded, conked one of Jack Creel’s offerings foul against the left field wall,| cussed amiably, and pickled the next one out of the park. | Frankie Baumholtz poked a homer, a double and a single for the Angels. The pink cheeked outfielder now has hit safely in 30 straight came in to stop the Tigers. Nobody has stopped the Yanks since their 9-8 loss to Philadelphia May 14. They’'ve swept 13 of 14 and rolled up an amazing road record of 12 victory and only two defeats. Red Sox Slump On the contrary, the Boston Red Sox, fence-busters at Fenway Park, barely hobbled out of the west with 2 5-5 mark. It took a grand slam homer by nine innings. | years. They are making the south- The Executive Board shall be re-;'bound trip on the Louise, and are sponsible for preparing and pub- |to spend the summer in the States lishing the schedule of games to | for the first visit in four years out- be played, but such schedule shall |side. be approved by the manager of each team. | 0. E. S. All appeals made from a decision| The Douglas Chapter of Eastern of an umpire shall be made in writ- } Star will again contribute cookies ing to the President of the League |for the Rainbow Girls dance to be within 24 hours following the end given in honor of the representa- Walt Dropo, topping a six-run rally |in the eighth inning for the Red |Sox to subdue St. Louis, 15-12. Johnny Pesky helped the cause with games and leads the loop with a 450 batting average. 4 “{®t Sacramento,’ the last place Solons larruped four Oakland fling- ers for 19 blows and a 16 to 3 vic- | five of the 19 hits, tory. Jim Tabor and pitcher Orval| Bob Lemon of Cleveland caught Grove homered for the Sacs. | the Washington Senators by the Seattle edged San Francisco, 2 shirt tails and hauled them back to 1, in what started as a mound‘inco a fourth-place tie with the duel between Harold Brown of the | Tribe. Lemon shut out the Senators Rainiers and Elmer Singleton of | with three hits, 3-0. the Seals. | Homers by Paul Lehner, Sam When Brown’s control went bad Chapman and Pete Suder jerked the in the eighth and he walked two | Philadelphia A’s out of their Iosing ways with a 6-1 victory over Chi- cago. men, Manager Paul Richards pulled a fast one. Out came Brown and igf'went southpaw Jim Davis. | % He tossed one pitch which left- 'hitting Les Fleming fouled to Bill alkeld. Then out came Davis and went Denny Galehouse who fin- isKed out the game. Marv Rackley’s homer with one on in the third accounted for Seat- w~tle's two tallies. Rookies Aid Phils Eddie Sawyer’s Phillies continued to get fine rookie pitching as Bob Miller, up from Terre Haute blanked Pittsburgh, 3-0, with eight | hits. It was the third start and third victory for the 23-year-old | righthander. | Preacher Roe wobbled through | the early innings before settling | iown to make Chicago his fourth victory, 5-4. Gil Hodges drove home Pct | the tie-breaking run in the fifth 621 | with a single. .589 | STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League €sh Diego Hollywood Los Angeles Oakland Portland Sgff Francisco Manager Leo Durocher and his 535 second baseman, Eddie Stanky, 519 were chased long before Leo’s New 491 | York Giangs dropped a 13-inning '491 | to the St. Louis Cards, 7-5. Leo and 382 | Eddie got the thumb for arguing 379 | with umpire Lou Jorda over called strike in the fifth. National League | A walk to Red Schoendienst, Stan Pct | Musial’s ; single, Johnny Lindell’s 645 | double and a single _eu;slaughter broke up the game in 567 | the 13th. 533 Boston and Cincinnati were not 485 | scheduled. 464 385 WIL GAMES Final scores of WIL games last night are: Tacoma 7, Tri-City 6. Wenatchee 12, Salem 3. Yakima 7, Vancouver 2. Victoria 6, Spokane 5. tle SQEramex-{to a “ehances are the San Diego Padres | With eight straight victories, the Would hold a four game bulge on|world champs head east with a 3% I by Enos; l Brooklyn ... Philadelphia St. Louis . Boston Pittsburgh Chicago New York Cincinnati .. American League w 22 17 New York Detroit Boston ‘Washington Cleveland Philadelphia St. Louis " Chicago Sundays shall be the deadline for League Officials. the umpires for each game shall be assigned by the Executive Board. the states Wednesday to join her husband, monies for the entertainment hours Sewing machines for rent at The|at the Pamaray. They are making White Sewing Machine Center. 52-ti | their home at the Gastineau Hotel. of the game involving the decision, by the manager of any team, and appeals and protests not made within this time will be ignored. The Executive Board shall have the| authority to decide all protests, atter | hearing the appeals of all interested parties. The decisions of the Execu- | tive Board shall be final in all| cases. No player may play with any team in this league unless he is officially signed up by a team manager. The roster of each team shall be limited | w 15 players, and this shall in- clude the manager in the event he is active as a player. Each team manager shall be required to fur- nish the League Officials a complete list of his playing roster, and it shall also be his duty to keep this list up-to-date by releasing any player to be dropped from his roster and advising the League Officials ot any player to be added. This shall be done in writing by the team manager. No player officially a member of one team shall be al- lowed to play with another team m' a regularly scheduled game. Any team unable to field a complete team from their own roster may obtain any person as a substitute whose name does not appear on the roster of another team in this| league. Players shall not be traded by managers unless it is satistactory to the League Officials and the players themselves, and also the managers of the teams not involved in the trade. All postponed games shall be played in the same order that they are postponed, regardless of the schedule, The. time of 5 o'clock p.m., on week days and 1 o’clock p.m. on | the postponement of games by| It is understood and agreed that MRS. BOWERS HERE Mrs. Johnnie Bowers arrived from who is master of cere- BIG TENBACK _ FOR ROSE BOWL EVANSTON, Ill, May 26—®— The Big Ten apparently is back in Rose Bowl business for another | five years. | Athletic directors and faculty rep- resentatives of the powertul mid- western leggue yesterday named a | seven-man ‘committee to talk over | a new Pasadena pact of five years | with the Pacific Coast conference. A spokesman said this meant pro- visional approval of a renewed series. FROM TACOMA Martha Bishop of Tacoina, Wash., g ¢t the Baranof Hotel. MOTHE WITH L S Seattle Auto Wrecking Co. 6150-4th Avenue South, Seattle SINCE 1922 AUTO PARTS Used, new and rebuilt Oid and late models and G. L. e ] RS REACH FOR IT CONFIDENCE | tives of the‘General Assembly of Rainbow Girls, on May 31. All those wishing to help should contact Mrs. William Dore or leave their contributions of cookies at the drug store not later than May 31. MOTHER HOME Mrs. Murlen Isaac returned home last Monday after a two year rest cure at the tuberculosis sanitorium in Seattle. Mrs. Isaac will have been from her family without a visit for two years next month, so its a happy home for the family of four this week. MAYOR, ILL Mayor Mike Pusich had another bad spell early this morning at the family home, where he was resting from a stroke the previous morning. According to the family, he is getting along as well as can be expected, and will be entered at St. Anne’s hospital today for observa- tion and medical care. COLLEGE GRADUATE HOME Richard (Dicky) McCormick ar- rived home yesterday on the PAA flight from College, where he grad- uated at the University of Alaska's twenty-eighth Annual Commence- ment on May 19 during morning exercises there. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McCormick of Douglas, and is the first of the four sons to graduate. His grandmother, Mrs. S. H. Pellascio of Valley Ford, Calif., made the trip to Alaska to attend the graduation ceremonies at Col- lege, but due to plane schedules, missed the opportunity. She was at the family home here to welcome his arrival yesterday. Dick is a 1946 graduate of the Douglas High School, and entered the University of Alaska the same fall, During vacations, he has been employed with the Alaska Road Commission, at survey work, in order to continue his education. Graduation for Dick, means he is a qualified applicant for a teach- ing position, as this year’s course included practice teaching at Fair- banks. MUSIC PROGRAM The Douglas Community Metho- dist church has arranged a program of music for Sunday, May 28, at 3| o'clock p.m., to which the public is cordially invited. ‘The program consists of the fol- lowing numbers: the Junior Choir, under direction of Miss Ruth Brooks, will sing two numbers; vocal solos by Mrs. Leigh Grant, Miss Ruth Wilson, Mrs. Ray Rice, Robert Shuff and Rev. J. P. Porter. Joe Tassell will play two violin solos. M Bea Shepperd will ac- ~ompany Mrs. Grant with the flute. The adult choir will simg, “The Legerde” with Misses Louise Grant, Adah Friesen and Ruth Brooks ac- companists. The Church hopes that this will be the first of a serics of programs of good music, produced by the people of Douglas, says the Rev. Porter. LEADERS !N B. B. Leaders in the major baseball leagues through games of yesterday are: National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, Hopp, Pittsburgh, .371. Runs Batted In—Ennis, Philadel- | phia, 27; Sisler and Jones, Phila- delphia, and Westlake, , Pitfsburgh.i 26. Home Runs — Kiner, Pittsburgh, Jones, Philadelphia, Gordon, Bos- ton and Pafko, Chicago, 8. American League Batting — Doby, Cleveland, .418; Lehner, Philadelphia, .398. Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos- ton, 43; Williams, Boston, 38. Home Runs — Williams, Boston, 11; Dropo, Boston, 10. Pitching — Byrne and Reynolds, New York, 4-1, .800. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 26 —P—Three of America’s finest amateur golfers—Frank Stranahan, Jim McHale and Dick Chapman— erowded into the semi-finals of the British Championship today along with Cyril Tolley, 54-year-old vet- eran who won the title 30 years ago. Stranahan, the '48 champion, had the easiest path through the morn- ing’s quarter-final round as he routed A. B. Taylor, a local archi- tect, 5 and 4. Chapman eliminated Donald Cameron of Scotland, 3 and 2, while McHale went to the final green in defeating Percy Tait of Britain, 1 up. > Tolley, once famed as one of the game’s longest hitters, climaxed an amazing comeback by outlasting young Joe Carr of Ireland, 1 up on the 20th green. 448; | FROM PELICAN Ruth Underhill of Pelican is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. K ecpemMontiny] Get empty bottles back to us OP, WE CAN'T GET MILK TO YOU! Return gall milk bottles to your milkman or grocer just as soon as they are emptyl You may not be able to get milk unless you dol The situation is critical! Bottle production is far short of demand. Return all the empties you have foday. It’s the one way to make sure you'll get the, .milk you need for your family. | Wilson, EIGHT TEACHERS RESIGNING HERE; 5 NEW ARE HIRED Eight Juneau school teachers, in- cluding Dade Nickel, coach of two championship high school basket- ball teams, handed In their resigna- tions as the school year ended, Superintendent of Schools Sterling 8. Sears said today. At the same time he announced that five new teachers have been hired for the 1850-51 school year. Coach Nickel, who shaped the basketball squads which took the Southeast Alaska High School champion in 1949 and 1950 and the All-Alaska championship team in 1950, resigned to take a position with the Western Teachers Ex- change of Denver, Colo. Stella Gallo, kindergarten teacher, | resigned to accept a position in | California. She will be replaced by | Ann Gehringer who taught here in | 1949, Alice Strombeck, first grade teacher, resigned to accept a posi- tion ju Ketchikan. Katherine Elle, | who will replace Ruth Johnson as a seventh grade téacher, has taught here in the past, according to Su- perintendent Sears. Virginia Long, vocal music | teacher, taught here this school year | on a leave of absence from a Penn- sylvania school. Bonnie Christen- sen, art instructor, has resigned and will be replacdd by Max Lewis. Joe Shofner, instrumental music director, and Regiha Hauser, home economics Instructor, have also handed ir their resignations. Teachevs who will be on duty; when school re-opens in the fall |are: Ann Gehringer and Mrs. Ger- trude Selby — kindergarten; Avis Aamot, Mrs. Ella Belcher, and Har- riet Berg—first grade; Rose Olive; Druxman, Ethel Murphy, Juanita and Dorothy MecCleod— second grade (Miss McCleod is join- ing the staff next school year; she has served here in the past). Alberta Murphy, Genevieve May- berry, and Mrs. Florence Saunders —third grade (Mrs. Saunders will come here from Ketchikan to join the staff); Mrs. Helen Webster, Marion Williamson, and Frieda Bechtold—fourth grade; Mrs. Mar- garet Berlin, Naomi Nay, and Rosa- lind Hermes—fifth grade. Mrs. Melvina Weldman, and Elma Olson—sixth grade; Ralph Wright, and Katherine Elle—seventh grade; Margaret Mayland and Dwight W. De¢an—eighth grade. High school teachers returning | next fall are: Helen Schaefer, Emily Dean, and Eleanore Sloan—English; A. N. Eide—Science; Mrs. Myrtle Phillips — language and library; Marjorie Tillotson and Henry W. | Lennstrom Mathematics; Mrs. Amanda Cook—commercial courses; G. Despiegelaere—history and girls physical education; and Gunnar Roos—shop. Edna Borigo will return as teacher at Tee Harbor, and Dolores Mattila will be back as school nurse. Sears will remain as school super- intendent, Leslie B. Avrit as high school principal, and Floyd Dryden as grade school principal. i I JuneauDairies,Inc. | — PAGE THRES REV.BOOTH LEAVING| FOR VACATION SOUIHi | The Rev. Willis R. Booth, pastor | of the Northern Light Presbyterian | | Church, leaves tonight on the Prin-| | cess Louise, for a vacation in the| ;smos. He will join Mrs. Booth, who |left Juneau May 5, at Kansas City, | Missouri, and they will visit rela-| | tives in Birmingham, Alabama and | | Mebane, North Carolina. | | From there, they will go to Ocean | | Grove, New Jersey where Mrs.| Booth will attend the qundrcnmal' meeting of the National Council ot ‘Women of the Presbyterian church. While there, she will lead a panel | discussion on the women's work in | | Alaska. After five days in New York and | vicinity, they will return to Chi- | cago where Mrs. Booth will address the Women’s Synodical Meeting of the State of Illinois, in session on the campus of McCormick Theolo- gical Seminary, June 27-29. They 'will then visit in St. Louis, West Plains and Kansas City, Missouri, before returning to Juneau, arriving here on July 22. During his absence, the pulpit of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church will be supplied by Mr. Roland B. Wurster, Dean of Sheldon Jackson Junior College, Sitka. Mr. and Mrs. Wurster and their daugh- ter, Emily Ann, will occupy the manse here. On Sunday, July 9, the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered by Rev. R. Roland Armstrong. B.B.STARS. Stars of games played yesterday in the major baseball leagues are: Batting—Yogi Berra, Yankees— boosted New York to eighth straight win with grand slam homer in 6-4 edge over Detroit. Pitching — Bob Lemon, Indians— shut out Washington with three hits, 3-0. T ST TN ks I L) T NI Mdfl.j_flc T Jill Nicholson Venetians are a joy for everl Not only are (MJ easy o clean (just lift out the slatsl) bul they hang perfectly level, are prace tically light-tight—and operate emoothly. Permanent "built-i quality includes Lorontzen “Lewe glor” brdwere, &-cord comtrve tion, fade:, tape Flexolum o sats. Available i colors to match room satisfiod, gotNich- olion Venetians! _ Walter D. Field Phone 581 P. 0. 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