The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1950, Page 3

DETROIT IS AT D-DAY IN YANK SERIES (By .Associated rress) Today could be described as D- Day in the life and times of the turbulent Detroit Tigers. Another loss on top of yesterday's 13-6-beating by the New York Yanks might mark the beginning of the end of Detroit’s pennant dream. Also the outlook for the third and last of the three-game set at Yankee Stad- jum Thursday is far from bright. Then comes Boston. Red Wolfe is banking on his ace, Act Houtteman today. The young right-hander and veteran Dizzy Trout are all that's left of the once-mighty Tiger pitching crew. Newhouser and f£red Hutchinson have been in and out all year. Virgil Trucks and Ted Gray are laid up with sore arms. Hal White was pounded black and blue yesterday and Trout worked the day before. So eéverything is up to Houtteman. Houtteman (16-9) has beaten the Yanks four times in six outings. Veteran Vic Raschi (15-8), his op- ponent, owns a 1-2 season record against the Tigers. Rolfe recognizes that the flag can be won or lost at the Stadium. “I'm not trying to belittle the chances of the Indians or Red Sox,” Red said before yesterday’s game, “put the Yankees are the team to beat for the flag. I think it will be between us and New York. The Yankees were simply merci- less on three Tiger pitchers yester- day. Led by catcher Yogi Berra, they clubbed out 14 hits, including two doubles, a triple and three home PADRES ARE CLOSING GAP WITH OAKS | | (By Associated Press) | | Look out for San Diego wm;ngJ up on the outside. That's the cry today from the! railbirds who only two weeks ago| were touting Oakland as a shoo-in in the Pacific Coast League derby. Del Baker’s red-hit Padres nar-| jrowed the Oaks’ margin to 4% games | 3 by edging Sacramenta, 5-4, last night 188 the leaders bowed to Los Angeles, | 14-1. It was San Diego’s 14th win in | the last 15 games. Two weeks ago the border boys were 10': games behind. i Elsewhere on the PLC rialto, | Hollywood skinned past San Fran- | cisco, 4-3, and Seattle at Portland was rained out. The Padres had to hustle to beat the tail-end Solons, and didn’t manage it until the ninth when singles by Al Smith and Orestes Min- | 0so and Jack Graham's fly broke a 4-4 tie. That gave reliefer Al Jur- isich, who had taken over for Red | Embrea in the sixth, the win over Ken Gables, third Solon hurler. | Biggest blow, however, was struck | by Harry Simpson who, nursing a chest injury, came off the bench to pinch-hit a triple, driving in two runs in the Padres’ three-run| splurge in the sixth. H Steve Souchock hit his 23rd homer | for the losers. | The Oaks ran into southpaw Her- | man Besse at his best. The Angel | flinger gave up only five hits, in-| cluding homers by Noble and Bob Hofman. Frank Baumholtz homered for the Angels, who sewed it up EET MIDDIE TWO SWIMMERS BREAK 24-YEAR CHANNEL RECORD Nine Persons Cross English| Channel in a Single Day Marathon DOVER, Eng., Aug. 23—(M®—Nine persons, two of them women, one a 118-pounder, swam the English Channel yesterday in a dizzy mara- thon that began with 24 hopefuls. Two of them, an Egyptian and a Frenchman, broke the Channel swimming record mark. The 118-ppund woman, Eileen Fenton, an English school teacher, made it across in 16 hours, 31 min- utes—not even close to the woman's record. But she was the first woman THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA S—West Pointers leave to board & transport (background) in Hédson River for a jo operation with Naval Academy middies in Che t ampiibious apeake Euv | ! A final meeting of the Tuesday Night Major League captains was | held last night at the Elks Club to ! finish outstanding business before 19. Otto Smithberg, to replace him. tournament was held and John Scott | ! of the Triangle Club team won first prize with a 561 series, Art Burke of | the Juneau Florist team was second, ( with a 540 series and Bob Haag of the Standard Aviation team was third with a 530 series. Any Elk or Elks lady who is not bowling on Mondays, Tuesdays ar BOSTON—B0SWi & tended their winning streak to nine | or y L«w*&‘,..x % R e A PINCHIES OFF ON CHAMPIONSH IP TES T T—Against background of the Long Beach, Cal, skyline, dinghy competitors get off in a race for the 1950 championship. GAMES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug.'%3+{®+The the league starts rolling' September | New York Yankees chopped De- | troit’s American League lead to 1': Because Walt McKinnon is work- | Bames today by downing the ‘Tigers | ing Tuesday nights, he will be un-for the second straight day, 7-5. able to bowl this season and it was |Once again Yogi Berra and Johnny voted by the team captaihs th take 'Mize ‘paced New York's assault. the next highest averagé man from' Mize clouted a two run double in last year's Tuesday ' Night League, the Yanks' four-run fifth: inning, |and Berra hit a two-run homer in After the meeting, a Pot of Silver the sixth. =ed Sox ex-| games today when they thumped the St. Louis Browns 9-5. The home {forces built up a four run cushion in the second on a pair of hits, three Brownie errors and a walk by starting and losing Starr. Big Walt Dropo belted his 28th homer of the year for '.hei Sox in the eighth and Les Moss rap- | ped his seventh for the losers in the sixth, CHICAGO—The New York Gi-| ants won their 16th game from the Chicago Cubs today against only three losses for the season, by a seore of 5 to 4. Bill Serena made It close for Chicago with a three- run homer in the eighth. Bobby, Thomson and Monte Irvin clouted home runs for New York. | I Visitors may climb down into an ancient Indian ceremonial chamber, “kiva”, at the Coronado State Monument, 20 miles north of Albu- querque, New Mexico. Weird pic- tures on the wall held particular significance for the tribesmen who | worshipped pagan gods here hun- { DERBY PRIZES 10 BE | AWARDED BY mmsml‘ Chamber of Commerce Trout Derby prizes will be awarded when the Chamber holds its regular meet- | ing tomorrow noon in.the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotgl. | Pefe Warner, chairman, of the derby committee, will make ;he‘i awards, yotpaf E. Glen Wilder, director of the Alaska Housing Authority, will speak : on the work of the organization, ! PAGw Tflnni ts Car Fish Get Away Eon - @RIGAGO—P—Somebody stole Detectivg ‘Raymond J. Walsh’s car, and with At thé . bubdie of herring; sardines, tuna and shrimp that lay in _the’ back, seat. The officer re- covered e two days later. Th &Ew“y. Protect it l F A BLOW comes, you will be glad you have Windstorm Insurance . .. You won’t have to pay hundreds of dollars out of your own pocket to re- store your property if you have your fire insur- ance policy extended to cover windstorm dam- age. Ask this Hartford agency about it ¢ Shattneck Ageney JUNEAU DR. TED OBERMAN Optometrist EYES EXAMINED VIBUAL TRAININ® TeLEPHONE 366 SIMPBON BLDW. JUNEBAU runs, Berra batted in six runs with pitcher Dick dreds of years ago. his homer, triple and two singles. Thursday nights and wants to bowl | Rtk i with three in the sixth, Rube Nov- | should sign up for the Friday Night | o T 1 B eI e e e e e e s otney’s double accounting for two to make it in yesterday's race, and for that the London Daily Mail, 1t was a disastrous day all around for the Tigers as the Indians and Red Sox also won. The Tribe W] ped Washington, 5-1, to cut Detroit’s margin to three and a half games. The Red Sox walloped St. Louis’s Browns, 9-5, to climb /to, within five and a half games of the top. Philadelphia’s furious Phillies re- tain their five and a half game marglh 0 the ~Natiorial League, edging the Reds in Cincinnati, 4-3. Brooklyn’s Dodgers outslugged the Pirates in Pittsburgh, 10-8, and Bos- ton’s Braves took third place from the Cardinals with a 5-1 triumph in St. Louis. by The New Yopk Giants made 1] 16 wins in 48.games with the Cubs winning inf€Heago, 6-5, in the Na- tional’s only afternoon contest. Phil- adelphia and Chicago in the Ameri- can League were idled by rain. Bob Feller pitched six-hit ball to record his 12th win for the In- dians. Del Ennis’ ninth-inning single drove in Richie Ashburn with the run that gave the Phillies’ Robin Roberts thév.edge in the pitching duel with Cincinnati’s veteran Ken Raffensberger. It was Roberts’ 17th WORLD RECORDS BETTERED. [AST- NIGHT IN MEET ESKILSTUNA, Sweden—{®—Geo. Rhoden of Morgan State and Jim Fuchs of Yale bettered world re- cords in a track meet last night. Rhoden ran the 400 meters in 45.8 seconds, one-tenth second below Herb McKeneley’s mark. Fuchs tos- sed the shot 58 feet 10 23-32 inches, well beyond the record of 58 feet % inch held by Charles Fonville of Michigan. MAXIM, WALCOTT MEET OCTOBER 16 CINCINNATI , Aug. 23— w — Match-maker Sam Becker said last night he is about to complete nego- tiations for an over-the weight bout between light heavyweight champion Joe Maxim and heavyweight Jersey Joe Wolcott. The bont would be held Oct. 10 at Cincinnati Garden, Beck- er added. LEADERS IN B. B. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Musial, St. Louis, .358; Hopp, Pittsburgh, ;346. Runs batted in—Ennis, Philadelphia, 101; Kinar, Pittsburgh, 97. Home runs—Kinar, Pittsburgh, 37; Pafko, Chicago, 30. Pitching—Hiller, Chicago, 9-2, 818. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Goodman, Boston, .361; Kell, Detroit, 351. Runs batted in— Stephens, Boston, 120; Dropo, Bos- ton, 113. Home runs—Rosen, Cleve- land, 33; Stephens and Dropo, Bos- top, 27. Pitching—Trout, Detroit, npa, e S SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S victory, tops in the Njtional League igt‘;:l:nd Seattle and Portland will make up their rained out game with a double- header tomorrow night. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS I Pacific Coast League il 3 w L 90 85 Pet 600 570 540 510 490 446 446 Oakland San Diego Hollywood . ... Seattle ... San Francisco Portland | Los Angeles + Sacramento .. National League i 5 . Philadelphia Brooklyn Boston - 8t. Louis .. | New York .. { Chicago ....... Cincinnati ... Pittsburgh American League ; w L Pet | 73 40 646! T2 44 62| 72 46 610 70 48 593 50 62 446 46 T 393 39 T4 345 90 T ll Detroit ..... { New York ‘Washington .. Chicago 8t. Louis ‘Philadelphia GRAND, PETIT JURORS | NAMES ARE DRAWN FOR | KETCHIKAN COURT TERM | jsion were drawn yesterday for grand and petit jury duties Yo be- gin when the Ketchikan term of court opens Sept. 26. J. S. MacKinnon, jyry commis- sioner, and J. W. Leivers, clerk of the court, made the drawing. Lei- vers' staff is now compiling the names. All are from Wrangell and southward. 4 Grand jury names numbered 45, and petit jurors numbered 75. Those persons drawn for the grand jury are required to report to the court in the First City at 2 p.m. Sept. 26; for the petit jury at 10 am. Oct. 4. ) Whing Ding Vows Floor Shows on Time After First Night Jinx It seems there was a mix-up ahout hours, and it take a long time for make-up when you are to be revealed in scanty costume under strong spotlights. Besides, there is a special jinx that hangs around opening night performances. In any case, Sally Christy’s first floor shaw at Whing Ding’s, on the Douglas Highway, got off to a late start Saturday night. Wilbur (Whing Ding) Irving vows that entertainment will be on schedule from now on—at 11:30 p.am. every night but Monday, the late show booked for 2:30 am. Miss Christy, exotic dancer, & $6,000-wardrobe, says Whing Di. as | the race, for finishing fi The names of 120 voters in the & southern section of the First Div-} sponsor of the event, awarded her $2,800, the same as went to the Egyptian record-breaker. Latest to get across were Jason . Zirganos of Greece, Antonio Albert- ondo of Argentina ,and Jennie Kam- mersgaard, a Danish dress designer. Plowing through rain and choppy seas in a mass race sponsored by a London newspaper, Hassan Abd-El Rehim, 41, of Egypt, and Roger Le Morvan, 26, of France, broke the 24-year-old reccrd of 11 hours and five minutes set by another French- ! man, George Michel. Rehim’s official time was 10 hours and 53 minutes. Morvan was 10 min- utes behind Rehim, finishing the 19-mile course in 11 hours and three minutes. Hehim won $2,800 from the London Daily Mail, sponsor of t. It was his third successful channel swim. | As he emerged from the water, the big six-footer declared: “I feel very good. I'm not tired at all. I'm ready to swim back.” Third to finish was Mareeh Has- san Hamad, 33, also of Egypt. His time was 12 hours and 16 minutes. B.B. STARS Batting: Yogi Berra, Yankees— hit two singles, triple and home run, driving in six runs, to lead New Yorkers to a 13-6 romp over Detroit. Pitching: Vern Bickford. Braves— hurled Braves into third place with a six-hit, 5-1 victory over Cardinals. e 5 i If you have fore 5 p. m. Route 1 Route Route Route Route Route Route Route Route Route Notice fo Subscribers paper, please phone your- newsboy. If you do.net know your newsboy's ’ name, call the office be- . Les Sturm. . 2A Bob Murray 2B Dick Allen - . . 2C Robert Brown . 3A Bruce Casperson . 3B Fred Ross . . 4 Sam Howard . 5A Lee Webber 5B John Vavalis . . 6 Denny Ryan . League immediately at the EIks| bowling alleys. Additional informa- tion on the bulletin board. 1 The alleys will be closed for re- ! i pairs and touching up on August | 28 and open again on the 1st day of | September. | The following is a list of the | sponsors, captains and members of | the Tuesday Night Major League; | THOMAS HARDWARE—/J. Snow, captain; Alexander, Baxter, Ripke and H. Sturrock. TRIANGLE CLUB—J. Scott, Capt. Blanton, Day, Lincoln and Waddell. | JUNEAU - FLORISTS8—A Burke, Capt., Bavard, Ray, Houston and Ja- | Joie. | PARSONS ELECTRIC—E. Hag- | erup, Capt. Lavenick, Bothello, Par- sons and Phelps. | SICKS RAINER—O. Smithberg, | ! Capt., Gormley, Holmquist, King, and Hendricksen, DON ABEL—B. Mork, Capt., Es- tepp, Saddler, Shattuck and Hoyez. | HENNINGS—A. Stewart, Capt., | Davlin, Henning, Matheny and | Smith. | | i STD. AVIATION—A. Sturrock, Capt., Baker, Barrager, Haag and McCarthy. Arthur Johnson of. Tacoma. 13, res gistered at the Barapof Hotel. DEFEAT FOR THE BUFF BANGKOK—#—Enithusiastic on- lookers at Bangkok fires’ per fire | fighters to. such™ afi" éxtent that .authori decided to .imppse 35 missed your ) 3 Phone 317 Blue 140 Green 730 Green 393 Red 160 Green 915 Green 879 . 924 Red 539 Black 245 DONWHITEHEAD Korea STANLEY RICH Hong Kong ME HAL BOYLE Korea 5 i 'lm‘\gmo ASSOCIATED RRESS. 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