The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1950, Page 3

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950 | BASEBALL BALK RULE | NOT FATAL TO BLIND TOMS THIS SEASO This past baseball season’s crown- ing incitement to mass murder—the death of a single umpire. This seems 'incrcdible Records fail to show that {any umpire, in the professional Igame at least, has ever been slain in line of duty. ARMY NOW (HUSKIES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | The sports pages were full of the | balk rule for several weeks. It in- furiated pitchers, managers, public t{ —and umpires alike. But as timc passed it became less comroversml Pitchers had learned their lesson | |and umpires eased up somewhat in| |its application, Though an umpire is supposed to‘ new “balk” rule—did not cause t.he never call a play wrong, there are| 1B: somc umpires who will privately ad- BOWLING The Monday Night Ladies’ Bowl- lks Alley with T. Riendeau grab- high series ' game with 454, h single game was rolled by J. [ Merritt with a 193 score. ng League rolled last night on the | PAGE THREE e e T L S S5 ST BEARS, ROMNS 10wy nL1s A MEET ON SATURDAY | pAILY TRIPS JUNII!AII} mli}grgifinsu IN BIG GflD GAME via Petersburg and Wrangell With eonnections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg 1 A Convenient afternoon deps u‘turem at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 LOS ANGELES, Oct. With no injured players on the first -NUMBER 1, GRID POLL NEW YORK, Oct. 10—®—The) Midwest’s post-war stranglehold was broken today and a wide open battle shaped up for national college foot- ball honors. Four-time champion Notre Dame plummeted to tenth place in the weekly Associated Press poll while Army took over the No. 1 team in the country. ‘The Midlands, which have fur- nished the mythical titleholder nine of the 15 times since 1936 and con- tinuously since the last war, were out of contention. Their best showing in the top ten was No. 9, held down by the Purdue team that splintered Notre Dame’s reign with a 28-14 victory last Sat- urday at South Bend. The stoutest challenge to Army’s position came from the Southwest, which put three unbeaten Titans— Southern Methodist, Oklahoma and Texas—on the Cadets’ heels. Here’s the latest rundown of gridiron might, with every section represented. Army, SMU, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Stanford, California, Maryland, Purdue and Notre Dame ‘The University of Washington, with 444 votes, was 11th. The standings are bound to get another good shaking as the result of the big doubleheader show in Dallas. Oklahoma, No. 3, and Texas, No.| 4, collide in a Saturday afternoon game in the Cotton Bowl, while SMU, No. 2, entertains unbeaten but once-tied Oklahoma A. and M. that night. HOCKEY GAMES | VICTORIA, B.C. Oct. lO—‘M—! The Pacific Coast Hockey League had two firsts last night—Seattle’s first win and Victoria’s first loss. The Ironmen skated all over thef Cougars for a 5-2 win before a Ca- nadian Thanksgiving holiday crowd of 4,500 fans. Freddie Weaver and Joe Bell scored in the first period to give Seattle a lead it never relinquished. Doug Lewis and Pete Trachuk added | two more in the second canto '\nd' Lewis added another in the final; period. IN NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, Oct. 10—®—The National Hockey League opens its 1950-51 season tomorrow night—the earliest inaugural in history—and Detroit’s talent-rich Red Wings once again are expected to clean up in championship style. The Red Wings will begin at home against the New York Rangers, the team they beat in the Stanley Cup finals last April. Another opener is carded for 1 Thursday at Chicago, where Ebbie Goodfellow unveils his revitalized Black Hawks against the Montreal Canadians. Then all six clubs will see action over thp weekend. Polls close at 8 tonight. Vote. October Day R 11 — 6:5¢ am. to 5:04 pm. 12 — 6:56 am. to 5:02 p.m. 13 — 6:59 am. to 4:59 p.m. 14 — 7:01 am. to 4:56 p.m. 15 — 7:04 am. to 4:53 pm. 16 — 7:06 am. to 4:51 p.m. 17 — 7:08 am. to 4:48 pm. 18 — T:10 am. to 4:45 p.m. 19 — 7:13 am. to 4:43 pm. 20 — T7:15 am. to 4:40 p.n. 21 — 7:17 am. to 4:37 pm. 22 — 7:19 am. to 4:35 pm. 23 — 7:22 am. to 4:32 pm. 24 — T:24 am. to 4:30 pm. 25 — 7:26 am. to 4:27 p.m. 26 — 7:30 am. to 4:24 pm. 27 — 7:31 am. to 4:22 pm. 28 — 7:3¢ am. to 4:19 pm. 29 — 7:37 am. to 4:16 pm. 30 — 7:39 am. to 4:14 pm. 31 — 7:41 am. to 4:11 pm. November 1 — 7:44 am. to 4:09 pm. 2 — 7:46 am. to 4:06 p.m. 3 — 7:48 am. to 4:04 pm. 4 — T:51 am. to 4:02 pm. 5 — 7:53 am. to 4:00 p.m. 6 — 7:55 am. to 3:57 pm. 7 — 7:58 am. to 3:55 p.m. 8 — 8:00 am. to 3:53 pm. 9 — 8:02 am. to 3:51 pm. 10 — 8:05 am. to 3:49 pm. 11 — 8:07 am. to' 3:47 pm. 12 — 8:09 am. to 3:45 p.m. 13 — 8:12 am. to 3:42 pm. 14 — 8:14 am. to 3:41 pm. 15 — 8:16 am. to 3:39 pm. 16 — 8: . to 3:37 p.m. 17 — . to 3:35 p.m. 18 — . to 3:33 pm. 19 — to 3:31 p.m. 20 — to 3:29 p.m. 21 — to 3:28 pm. 2 - to 3:26 pm. 23 — to 3:24 pm. 24 — to 3:23 pm. FAVORED SATURDAY SEATTLE, Oct. 10—(®—The bet- ting gentry have made the Uni- versity of Washington football squad a 14-point favorite in its game with Oregon State Beavers Saturday and Coach Howie Odell doesn’t like it. Odell warned his undefeated Hus- kies yesterday that the twice-beaten Staters are a serious threat to any !'ball club—then pointed knowingly at last year’s upset they ‘handed Washington. You remember the score? It was O.S.C. 7, Washington 3. CHARLES TO BE CHAMP; FIGHT PLANS NEW YORK, Oct. 10—{®—Ezzard Charles is going to be a “fighting champion, just like Joe Louis was.” So said the heavyweight cham- pion’s co-manager, Jake Mintz, as he discussed Charles’ future plans today. “We would like to have him fight once a month, if possible,” said Mintz. “We are still dickering for another fight with Freddie Beshore in Cincinnati late in November.” '(LUB MANAGER OF CHICAGO SOX NOW KEPT BIG SECRET| CHICAGO, Oct. 10—®—The Chi. cago White Sox front office still is keeping the identity of the club’s! 1951 manager a secret. {he has started—has Umpires have been knocked out with impromptu projectiles, throt- tled, slung to earth and pummeled. Glass bottles at baseball parks have long since taken on secondary characteristics as missles against umpires. Cordons of police many a time have had to escort the other men in blue through enraged mobs. Umpires are Ishmaels by voca- tion. No man alive ever slapped one on the back and shouted, “What a dazzling decision! Allow me to offer you a quart of champagne!” All this is very unfair. Without them there could be no national game. Baseball would be an anarchy, not a sport. Each play would turn into a filibuster, each pitch an in- citement to chaos. Baseball with- out umpires is exactly unthinkable. The umpire formally starts the play, conducts it as quickly and neatly as possible to its normal -lose or, if necessary, halts it as he pleases. His judgment of plays can never be effectively questioned by anybody. The only protests admiss- able on an umpire’s decision are on grounds of technical interpreta- tion of the rules of baseball. These rules are spread over many finely printed pages. Any phrase ir them may be critical. They are re- markably detailed, even in specify- ing such minute points as the lega! space between thumb and fore- finger of a fielder’s glove. Games pennants, the annual world series and great investments hinge on the umpire’s split-second verdicts of these rules. A new rule on an old fault—e “balk” by a pitcher—focused public attention this past season more than usual on umpires. The now famous regulation is embraced in the code in the thirteenth—and only new— definition of a balk. It appears as Rule 805 (m) and reads: “It is & balk when the pitcher delivers the pitch from ‘set position’ without coming to a stop of one full second.” A balk—that is, the failure of & pitcher to complete a motion which always been illegal. With a runner on base, for a pitcher to be able suddenly to switch his throw to a bag after ;mrm\g an ostensible one to the General Manager Frank Lane and | plate would give him too great a Vice President Chuck Comiskey, who { jump in catching a runner off base. have been given the green light by | The new rule merely pins down the the board of directors for straight- ] fair time interval before the pitcher, ening out managerial problems, plan , having finished his wind-up or | an announcement “within 48 hours.” ' stretch, can throw to either base or There was plenty of unofficial word that the Sox next pilot will be Paul Richards, former big league catcher and manager of the Seattle club in the Pacific Coast League. Richards almost had the job a year ago after Jack Onslow was fired. plate. The penalty for violation of any balk rule is an advance of one base for each runner. At the season’s opening, Rule 8.05 (m) made a shattering debut. Play began in the Pacific Coast | League—whose caliber is about as ling from last year’s setback. FIGHT DOPE | Here are results or fights pulled off last night: At Providence, R.I. | Georgie | The Princess Louise, due here at 8 tonight will dock at the City dock because both the Baranof and| Araujo, 130%, Providence, outpointed | Fabela Chavez, 127%, Los Lunas,| NEW YORK, Oct. 10—(P—Ed GENUINE NM. (10). | Ford, rookie lefthander who won OLD STYLE At Baltimore — Sonny Boy West, | the World Series-clinching game SOUR ROOI(IE ¥ ORD IS EXAMINED;MAY GO T0 ARMY SERVICE 138, Washington, outpointed Charlie |for the New York Yankees last Sat- MASH | Salas, 147, Phoenix, (10). urday, underwent a physical exami- At Chicago—Tommy Baker, 125, | nation today for Army service. Newark, outpointed Spider Thomas, The 21-year-old New Yorker had KENTUCKY 120, Louisville (10). |been examined in September but STRAIGHT was deferred temporarily because BOURBON PRINCESS LOUISE WILL doctors found a trace of some tropi- ‘.N(;"I‘S;Ei; DOCK AT CITY DOCK |cal-germ In his system. 100 PROOF P. 0. Box 2511 In the meantime, John (Red) |close to the majors as any mlnornMaskg will be at the Alaska Steam- | Corriden is still the skipper and the | ‘ league can be—a week earlier than ship dock. Sox front office will not confirm |in the big loops. That week was al _— whether he will be out or in. Icaxxnon No less than 49 balks were| Vote for James Nolan for Sen- — — | called during it by the umpires.|ator. Polls will be open until 8 Baseball was at a boil. The major | o'clock tonight.—adv. e leagues’. initial weeks brought a _— | Polls close at 8 tonight, Vote.|similar ridiculous rush of penalties.| Polls close at 8 tonight. Vote. 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Polls will be open until 8| =% Juneau, . Alaska o'clock tonight.—adv. STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY o MWE‘ ore of these than any other style cotton reinforced with nylon heel # “TrimTop" dnklets: mit that they are infallible. No um- | Malfunctions of the setting mech- | three teams, the defending cham- | 2= e e e e pire will admit that he doesn’t “call | anism on the alleys used by the|pion California Bears will be in the - them all” as he sees them every| Needlecraft and Sweeney's Sham- | pegt shape of the season Saturday time. Irocks teams caused postponement|when they meet USC's Trojans in| V' He had better because organized |of their games until Sunday. Memorial Coliseum. V7] Dasbbell s ok Jenlesugmamh Dia| Othet GOREC e That was the advice given b('fmr‘ RIM OP ) et lfallure S0 e 4 IRetes the Southern California Football | player substitution at the time it is | Handicap 3 3 3— 9 Writers meeting yesterday by pub- ! » G made in a game is punished by a|T. Riendeau ... 169 146, 140— 45 licist .Norrio Wc;tb Cal's emissary fhe "”fi‘ Clnklef §3b fine-ihe OBy BEBly t0 ‘an|B. Petgreanl L ) for the Pacific (‘:U‘fl\l (‘m\f(‘l'(‘n(‘u".s umpire cited in the rules. 1. Rollison 121 129 143— 303 No. 1 attraction this week ¢ 3 One phase of the umpire’s per- | A. Neilson 130 121 113— 364 e 2 = g that's a,ways formance is sometimes ignored — L. Museth 133 133 133— 399 West's exultation © was cx:mdml‘ they must be showmen. They must Totals 637 626 616—1879 only by the discomfort u'fiusc Coach hustle, show they are hustling, and ST Jeff Cravath. Even if his boys, "EA "' keep the game hustling. Crowds L. Blanton 135 126 130— 391 | Weren't bunged up, Cravath la-| . frequently get as much delight from | A Johnson 117 140 100— 357 nented, and many of them are, USC the arbiter's gestures and shouts L. Shattuck 97 126 110— 33° | Would probably lose anyway. | as from the play he is judging. Even ' B. Smith 155 142 113— 41C A!}kod if _ho (-.ullld 'slfl'.) the ex- the rhubarbs are part of the game J. Scott 139 113 123— 37¢ | plosive Cuh?orm:\ pitchout play, 40( spectacle. Totals 643 647 576—186¢ Vu}\ Monachino .tn Johnny Olzew- What makes an umpire? This Gus Ceorge kl.ICrm‘fllh' rvpll:‘d: iy probably can bhest he answered in Estes 150 142 114— 400 “I can stop it easy—i appy | :hat. ufyler all, you cun’t keat the P. Moore 142 146 124— 417 ‘))Vnldo}'{;{xwfixnison not to come down | A PAR s 15 o 135 9 ggr | ‘he middle! | e G I 1;:,:?” 1,1,: 132' };74 gfl Washington State came “down the | - D. Oldham 162 146 133— 441 middle” and every place else, too, | M (HiGAN 'lo IRY Totala 668 TIL €20_199¢ | A5t Saturday, but the Trojans | L escaped with a 20-20 standoff. Other | Snow White jomments at the luncheon: i Io GEI ARMY lN \n.mdimp 18 18 18— b5 Doug Mills, athletic director, Uni- | 'E. Wilson ... 128 107 145— 3ec | versity of Iillinois—"it’s nice to be | GAME SAI“RDAY P. Wood . 86 154 119— 35¢ | 2laying UCLA out here again, par- | C. Bucey 96 113 126 33 | icularly since we're welcome this | 1a. Marsh . 127 146 133— 4or | ime.” The Illini’s last appearance ANN ARBOR, ‘Mich., Oct. 10— |5 Hudson ... 141 166 118— 42: | 1ere was in the 1947 Rose Bowl — Michigan’s Wolverines have a Totals 506 1704 650—195( | JAmMe. for which public fentnnem score to settle with Army in the| Pan American trongly favored Army. Illinois and | game at Yankee Stadium Saturday. |G vyille ... 135 137 130— 40: JCLA clash Friday night. | ‘They m;ez decerminei t,owbreal: ihe | M. Hedges ... 114 89 84— 28 IZJCL,?l vg::.ffl‘ ;;;:,; “L R:d ;“i‘m:;_ { - n - string o pers — - X R 2 mdtet:s Arxg:;l espouirl‘ede : their owfi S: ;b::r?:: 5 1?3 :g: lg;: :?' fense, but whether its line can hold | No wonder “Trimtop” is the most acclaimed anklet in America.. Streak of victories here last year. |) Faulkner ... 167 134 132 43: | uP or not, I don’t know. 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