The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1950, Page 3

[ | | | | TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1950 AR ._.__—-—— —— > —— ELKS WITH WILL BATTLE e S S UU O ——— “Making it two wins in a row afcer | (By the Associated Press) an early season bad start, the Moose | The San Diego Padres and'the took a 12-7 thriller from the Elks | HOlyWood Stars climb back aboard the Pacific Coast League teeter- Club nine last night. Playing betore a crowd in the stands, the teams totter tonight for another ot ‘those enjoyed sunny baseball weather tor | Picturesque frolics designed to dump the game. somebody on his reputation. Moose pitcher Magorty went lhe Much has transpired since these Imuu %6 hold the Eiks to five hits, | tWO behemoths first assaulted each Smithberg for the Elks needed help | °ther May 23. The Padres were atop the pack by three games then. To- day, the clubs are virtually tied for the lead, with Hollywood ahead by two scant percentage points. {from Palmer with the two of them giving up 12 hits to the Moose. 'Palmer is charged with the loss. Moose players Phelps and Neilson o y swatted two-baggers with Houstor:| L1ere’s a sleeper in the race, koo etting the only Elks extra bagger, | _he Oakland Acorns. They're in Scoring runs for the Elks in the | | third place, only three games off first inning were Houston, Forsythe, | ;he pace, having whipped San Diegc and Snow. In the third Forsythe, | ive games to three last week. And now and Day camie home with | | the Oaks open tonight against last lace Sacramento. ‘Houston making the final Elks mlly | P n the sixth inning.’ Hollywood will pitch Ken Lehman For the Moose, Rollison scored in ;:H) in f;"‘ligfh"s ;perlx(er. ?ed'" the the first with Holloway scormg:m'y;a:o ‘e Ly W oth m;_c : et gain in the third inning. In the/|Uh® Padres tWice in the first serie: e at San Diego. fourth inning Rollison, Holloway, | " Phelps, Vuille, Shepard and Ma- | Although the pennant marathon has four months to go, events this ort} ed. In the fifth, Rollison, | L2 olliws:;r Ph:lps 9 a‘n a Pas:fil‘;n | week might well decide the ultimate scored for their team’s final tallies, | Championship. It is generally con- ceded that Hollywood and Sar Moose Summr:b R Diego will be closgly embroiled right llison, 1b . 5 3 g o down to the finish, and the odc Hollowa.y. ¢ 5 3 g ofsame in 1hils geriez might look im- g g | posing on closing day. :‘l;f‘lifii' 2;1,' ) ; f é i There is also a chance that some xDaugk;erty B 1 o o o lurking enemy—Oakland, specific- % et y 4 o0 1 ¢ Ally—might slip in while the giants \xShepard, rf 5 1 2 o Aarekilling each other off. ~ RsHaen 1f ... "4 o o o Fourth place Portland entertains Mngoru; p' 3 1 1 o Sixth place Los Angeles, and two xFuqua;x 1 1 o o) Other second division squads, San <Neilson "4 o g o Francisco and Seattle, hook up in ¥xSanford o0 Oese 0 the other series openers. t Totals 39 12 12 3 Elks ab r h e STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Houston, ¢ 8 . 5% Pacific Coast League 'Trump, ss . S TR ol @ L Pet Forsythe, 2b . .4 2 1 oHollywood 28 5881 Snow, 3b oS50 9 4S8 Diego 29 L Cope, cf A3 G0 ¢ ‘ijOuneER . 30 545 ay, 3b 3 1 ¢ ofPortland 32 515 ¥xKristan, rf 29770 0 o|Ban/Raiseo . 35 485 Logan, 1f .4 0 0 o Los Angeles ... 37 .47 i;xsmchberg, p 2 0 1 1|Beatlls 38 433 0gg 1 0 o0 o Sacramento . 44 3m xPalmer 120 0 0 i TOBIRB i BB Tt 5 8 National League Two-base hits: Houston, Phelps, W L Pet eilson; left on bases: Elks 7, Moose A Brooklyn 15 625 %o, first on balls: off Smithberg 1, Philadelphia 16 610 #Palmer 3, Magorty 6; struck out: by St. Louis 16 600 Smithberg 1, Palmer 6, Magorty 8; | 3oston 18 550 hit by pitcher: Smithberg 1. Um- Chicago 19 500 pires: Wilber and Wilber. Time 2:05, | New York 21 432 Score by Innings | Pittsburgh 27 386 oose 101 6 4 00— 12| Cincinnati 28 300 Elks 3030010— 7 American League BASEBALL THURSDAY W L Pet The Moose and Coast Guard nines | New York 30 12 14 ngle Thursday night at 6:30 in Detroit 12 602 he sixth game of the league sched- | Boston 18 ule at Firemen’s Park. In view of | Cleveland 20 512 the two straight wins by the re- | Washington 19 22 463 amped Moose team that should be | Philadelphia 15 28 349 n interesting game. Chicago 14 28 333 St. Louis ... 26 316 BOAT TOWED IN LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the two major baseball leagues through games of Monday et The trolling boat Laura was towed into Ketchikan from the south tip of Gravina Island, 16 |miles south of Ketchikan, last night American League Batting — Doby, Oleveland and ell, Detroit, .388. Runs Batted In — Stephens, Bos- ton, 53; Williams, Boston, 48. ” Home Runs — Williams, Boston, 3; Dropo, Stephens, Boston and n, Cleveland, 11. | Pitching — Byrne, New York, 5-1, | 3. | National League | Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .393; | binson, Brooklyn, .354. ‘Runs Batted In — Sauer, Chicago, 7; Elliott, Boston, 36. %' Home Runs — Gorddh, Boston, %n Kiner, Pittsburgh, 10. after being disabled by engine trouble. Pitching — Bankhead, Brooklyn, | 2." (1] = e L= -O < M e Fistic encounters last night turned out as follows: At Philadelphia — Ray Robinson, ,155 New York, outpointed Robert Villemain, 159'2, France (15). At Brooklyn — Paddy De Marco, #136%2, Brooklyn, outpointed Ruben Davis, 132, Fall River, Mass. (8). g At Providence — Rorky Marciano, | %, Brockton, knocked out Eld- ridge Eatman, 206%, Norfolk, Conn | WIL GAMES ‘There was only one game played ‘last night in the WI League and the ore was: Tacoma 10, Spokane 4. < el S n— ‘ree Fur Storage on repairs brought in this month—Martin Victor Furs 16-10t | | MOOSE IAI(E \PADRES,SIARSI 12-7 SCORE FOR POSITION ‘586 | explain l by a 50-foot Coast Guard cutter} THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Three-a-Day Brand Duke Snider (right), Brooklyn Dml;ers centerfielder, and Vlamzer Burt Shetton wear big smiles in the dressing room after Snider drove out three successive hemers in an afternoon tilt (May 31) with the Phillies at TIGERS NEAR T0P SPOT IN AMER. LEAG. (By the Associated Press) Detroit owns one of the most beautiful baseball parks in the country but the Tigers would just as soon play elsewhere. The reas The Tigers have beer almost unbeatable on foreign tields In contrast they've played under 500 ball in Briggs Stadium. Manager Red Rolfe is at a loss tc the surprising turn ot events but as long the Bengals keep winning away from home, he doesn’t care. The red-thatched pilot s confident his charges will tind the winning combination on home soil before long. The Tigers wnipped tne Senators in Washington, 7-4, last night for their 19th triumph in 22 games away from home. That’s an amaz- ing .864 percentage and far better than the front running New York Yankees’ fine record of 14-4 on the road. At home Detroit has won only eight while losing nine. Yesterday'’s triumph coupled with} New York’s 3-2 defeat by Cleveland pushed the runner-up Tigers up within a game and a half of the Yankees. Boston’s third place Red Sox bur- ied the Chicago White Sox under a 609‘120 shellacking to climb within four games of the top. Dodgers Keep Top Bmoklun Dodgers gained undis- puted possession of first place in the National League vanquishing the Chicago Cubs, 13-1, in the only afternoon game while the Phila- delphia Phils shaded the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5. In the only other league game, the New York Giants edged out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4 in 10 innings. The Dodgers now enjoy a half game edge on the Phils who swept past the Cards by a half length on + Cbbets Field Brooklyn. # Wirephoto. the strength of their victory. Outstanding in yesterday's doing: was the batting of George Kell and Hoot Evers of the Tigers; Verr Stephens and Ted Willian Rea Sox; Bob Kennedy, Indians; De Innis, Phillies; Bob Morgan, Dod- gers and Sam Calderone, Giants. Good Pitching Other _noteworthy achievements were the pitching of Cleveland’s Bobby Feller, Boston’s Maury Mc- Dermott, Brooklyn's Preacher Roe. Philadelphia’s Robin Roberts and the New ¥ork Giants’ Andy Han- ork. | the Olympics will include dashes, Kell, American League’s cham- pion batter last season, moved into a tie with Cleveland's Larry Doby for the batting leadership at .388| by batting four straight singles. Evers made only two hits but onej was a homer and the other a tr'vle to drive in five runs. Dizzy Trout went the distance for his third triumph without a loss and the Tigers’ sixth in succession. The defeat was Washington’s sixth straight. 51 Runs, 57 Hits Stephens ciouted nis 11th homer and a double to drive in four runs as the Red Sox rang up a four-day total of 51 runs on 57 hits against SAVOLD WINS TWO TITLES IN W00DCOCK 60 WHITE CITY STADIUM, Lon- don, June 6—M—Lee Savold won | the British and European versions | of the world heavyweight title to- night beating Bruce Woodcock, who retired the end of the fourth I i with a badly cut eye. A it crowd of 50,000 watched the American boxer from Engle- wood, N.J., finish off the British fighter With a devastating* attack in the fourth. Savold, strong and rugged, fol-| lowved a fighting plan whieh sur- | prised the crowd. Right from the start he Sl:\lkv(!i the .British champion around the ring nd took a lot of right hand punches in a bid to get in close and jab and hook with both hands. | EVERGREEN BOWL NOW | OPEN; THINCLADS PREP | FOR JULY ""OLYMPICS"” Juneau thinclads, eyeing the Evergreen Olympics which will be| held next month, are practicing in; Evergreen Bowl, Bill Dean, park| instructor, said today. Dean is on duty at the recreation area from 9 am. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and in his charge is | the track and field equipment with which the trackmen practice, as| well as equipment for games played at the bowl. | The Evergreen Olympics will in-| clude swimming. The pool at the! bowl is open from 1 to 4 p.m., with Dick Forrest on duty as life guard, Dean said. cilities available at the area include piceni grounds, courts, volleyball courts, and soft- ball fields. In addition to swimming races, quarter-mile races, hurdles, and shotputting, Dean said. No age limit will be set, but com-~ petitiors will be classified according to how old they are, he declared. NEW RECORD SET FOR LIGHT PLANE, | NON-STOP FLIGHT| NEW YORK, June 6—#—Charles W. Soderstrom landed his Beech- craft Bonanza plane at LaGuardia Field at 12:05:30 p.m. (EST) today jumps 18 pitchers. They've won all four. Williams collected two hits for a four game total of nine in 18 times at bat since the Red Sox returned nome McDermott, who replaced starter Ellis Kinder with one out and two on in the first inning when Kmufll complained of a kink in his lelt shoulder, yielded only four hits in getting credit for the shutout. It was his fourth triumph against one loss. Kennedy scored two of Cleveland’s | three runs against thrower Allie Reynolds and reliefer Joe Page via a first inning single and a sixth in- ning home run. Feller allowed five hits in registering his fourth triumph. The former strikeout king had a three-hit shutout going into the ninth. Sewing machines for rent at The White Sewing Machine Center. 52-ti Store your furs with Charles Gold- stein and Company. B ok WANT THE 6000 © SE 600p FELLOWS Y 3 reom Imperial is made by Hiram Walker. Blended whiskey. 86 proof. 70% grain neutral spirits. Hirsm Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, Illinois. Alaska Distributors Cmnpllm “Seattle-Anchorage, Exclusive Alaska Distributors Phone 102. SCHWI\N BlKEs AT MADSE S -FASHIONED FLayop & soNs.INC. oS Vot s g 95 9% after a non-stop flight from San Pedro, Calif. He made the cross country flight in 16 hours and 10 minutes. Soder- strom, 37, said that as far as he knew the flight in the single-engine plane was the “first transcontinen- | tal non-stop flight by a plane of this cla: The San Pedro businessman said he used approximately 175 gallons of gasoline. He estimated his aver-; age speed was 160 miles an hour, | although at times he reached 175/ miles. 5 Soderstrom’s mother, Mrs. Clare E. Soderstrom, of San Pedro, was| at the field to meet her son. She arrived a few hours earlier on a commercial plane. AT BARANOF Clara Dilg and Joan Granell of Anchorage are registered at the Baranof Hotel. 0 T0 PRAISE 7 | Torgeson’s loaded was the big blow as the Bos- tennis But the lanky Sugar from New York’s Harlem definitely would !like the other 47 parts—even to ito say in his dressing room: Bobby Thompson blasted two home BOSTON, June 6—M—Five ot Chicago’s runs came on four homers today as the White Sox ended ¢ losing string of four by thumping Boston’s Red Sox 8-4. Pitcher Ken | Holcombe won his first game of the season as Boston's lefty nell failed for the third consecutive time to go the route. Mel Par- NEW YORK, June 6- Easter cracked two singles, {M—Luke the Cleveland Indians humbled the New York Yankees 16-2. Mike Garcia, Cleveland’s husky Mexican righthander, pickec up his second victory of the season and first since May 15. today as CINCINNATI, June 6 triple with M—Ear. the base: ton Braves scored five runs in the ninth inning today to whip Cincin- nati’s cellar-dwelling Reds, 8 to 3. Ewell Blackwell, Cincinnati right- hander, was knocked from the box in the ninth and took his sixth de- feat of the season as against three victories. Vern Bickford was the winning hurler. ROBINSON HITS HARD; | WINS BOUT PHILADELPHIA, June 6— (#— Sugar Ray Robinson, the master' craftsman of the ring, has a ore- forty eighth interest in the middle- weight crown today after doing a workmanlike job on stocky Rub--n' Villemain of France. the extent of giving up his welter- weight title—before retiring in two years, Robinson won the Pennsylvania versiun of the 160-pound champion- ship last night before a disappoint- ing : crowd « of .'22,004 whieh/ ipaid $119,007.49 to see the fight., He dis- played a variety of blows that, while not able to knockout . the squat Frenchman, caused Villenian “He's a real champion. He hus: harder than any man I ever met.”| a double and triple to pace a 22-hit attack GAMES TODAY ™00 00t PITTSBURGH, June 6 — @ ——‘ Two halibut boats runs and a triple, driving home|total of 61500 pounds at the Ju- &by Titte. to SAALANE Naw Y“rk(nmm Cold Storage Company whiidt Giants to a 10 to 4 victory over the today, and buyers pushed the price Pittsburgh Pirates today. Jack \::W Xl;v:ly\(lln\ ”[‘41 ‘ .15 (.(.:“\ per Kramer went the distance for the [P PUOE 18 'l-\;:m\!\\.\l\m;“»\ln\-1;“ Giants, handing Pittsburgh its 13th et andec loss in 14 games. IMuguus Hanson, brought the larg- | & i est load in, putting ashore 34,000 pounds. 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