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PAGE TWO SOLONS ARE BIG GAMES AT TOP IN PC LEAGUE Associated Press The Sacramento Solons have a couple of jackpots, thanks to ager Joe Gordon and the loyal ital city fans, First the Sacs, den’s hitting; broke a first place in the Pacific Coast League climbed into*the lead with a game cushion over Portland Second, the Solens were eheered by the annowncement last night that the we { By | i powered by G and i two- all-time *rccord for baseball. While Portland was drop) ends of a (win bill to Oak - terday, the Sacramento club took| Hollywood 4-3 and 2-1. The victory in the opener came on Gordar 17th homer of the season. And in the second game Gordon drove two runs in the eighth, witl gle, to nip the Star | Oakland, b ubduing th land Beaver 3 and 8-6 tc the third spot in tand Los Angele Los Angele: plit a double with Seattle. The Rainier the first 13-7 and the Angels the second 9-4. At San Diego the Padr beat San Francisco 6-2 in the open-} Seals took the second | | In the Los Angeles-Seattle affair the Rain! Marv Grissom, the league pitcher with the most coasted te his ninth win of the son in the first game i Saturday Results Seattle 8, Los Angeles 4 Oakland 12, Portland 10 San Diego 15, San Francisc (Only games schedule PACIFIC COAST LEAGUY | SUNDAY BY BIG CLUBS By Associated Press Whew, That was a spectacular sabbatical spree major league base- ball staged yesterda Double figure scores, 1op- wit cuts, overflowing € hitting, streak hurli T hitting pitcher, another [¢ two glunes in one day. Near'y every thing happened on this tracition ¢ { rest Whew ! Here is what happeaed 2 a na! ) shell 1. 'The Phil "phia Phi1 e Pirates in a doubl r 17 nd 12-4 as the ceasc hore re crowd of 36.166 Pittsburgh patrcn moaned and aned. The Phils’ Richie Ashbr enlincted cight hits in the doubleheader. 2. Brooklyn ronied the Reds in both ends of a d-hlekrador 19-2 and 14-4 hefor cinnati L 3. The Cardinals rallied for five runs af the fir o batters were retired in .the seyenth inn‘ra te come from hehind and pin the Nev York Giants, 8-7. helor 2285¢ reaming St. Louisians. 4. Dick Fowler won hi« first 7ame. iimost a year. extending Cleve-. losinz sireak fo with a 2-1 triumnh for Philadelphia. The Tndians. however. won the second came of the twin bill, 5-3. 5. 4l-year-old Emil (Dutch) Leo- 5. nard was credited with both wins as thip, Cubs came from behind to whip Roston’s Braves twice, 4-3 and 5-4, | to the delight of 42,088 cheering Chi- cagoans. 6. Undefeated Ed Lopat pitched his seventh consecutive victory for the Yankees with a 7-3 triumph wer the St. Louis Browns before 29,427 chilled and dampened New Boston 6, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 6, Brooklyn 4 New York 3, Cincinnati 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 9, Cleveland 4 All other games postponed, rain l | Spoflgriels Berkeley, Calif. — Herb Flam de- b | feated Nationgl Champion Art Lar- | sen, 6-3, 8-6, 6-2, to win the Cali- IST BASEBA[I_ GAME | fornia state championship. | CA"(EllED BY RAINI | Los Angeles AC threw the javelin 7 | 241 feet 11 inches, second best ever NEXT GAME TUESDAY | by an American. Dick Attlesey of the LAAC ran the 120-yard high hur- dles in 13.6 seconds at Modesto re=- The opening game of the Gasti- neau Channel Baseball League, in lays. spite of completed final field prep- | Columbia, Mo. — Bill McGuire set irations preceding the game, was|? Big ngen x_mle record of 4:11.8 t.o’ cancelled Sunday because of rai | help Missouri win Big Seven out~ Modesto, Calif. — Cy ¥Young of the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Baseball Still Favorile oi( ! sprays of white flowers and white | satin streamers. Best man for the groom was a fellow Coast Guardsman, Mr. Louis Gianaro. Ushers were also members of the Coast Guard, Messrs. Jesse Zambrano and Adam Karnes. Following the marriage ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Atkinson on Dixon aven- ue. The house was decorated with| Laskets of pink and white snap- dragons and thes bride’s table was ceniered with the traditional tiered wedding cake. The guest book was in charge of Mrs. Beyt Linne and pouring were Mrs. Waino Hendrickson ‘and | Mrs. Lester Linehan. Many friends of the young couple ! Ray G. Day, league president, | door track title with 120% points. during the morning had studied | weather charts for the day to find that steady rain would not fall until | late afternoon. Point Arden, the in- | fallible sign of no rain when not| fogged in, was open and then sud- denly closed in with rain falling steadily locally at 1:45 yesterday afternoon. It wasn’t until 2.30 p.m that the game was called because of rain, Art McKinnon was on the field in l the morning dragging it in readiness | for the first game of the season.| Players were on the diamond warm- ing up a good full hour before game ! time. League officials waited until | the final moment before calling ofl'; he game. This first cancelled game | will be made up the first open Sun- | day. ‘The game is called for Tuesday evening | ‘1t 6:30 between ‘the Moose and Caast | Guard. | next regularly scheduled | | | | | i | the near-capacity crowd at Crosley Field Sunday while a casual-ap- pearing Jackie Robinson played | standout ball for the Brooklyn| Dodgers. 1 The detectives were there because | Robinson’s life had been threatened. | But there were no incidents against the Negro athlete. Robinson knew about the threats on his life 'before he entered the doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds: But you could never tell it| from his actions. Jackie hammered in four runs in that first game, in- cluding his sixth homer. \ ‘There were at least three menac- | mg letters mailed in Cincinnati, about a week ago — one to the Cin- cinnati Enquirer, one to the police | department and gne to the Cincin- nati Reds ball club. Managing Editor Everett reported that the letter the Enquir- er received warned that the senders were going to kill Robinson with an air rifle. | Boyd | FROM PELICAN Walter W. Shukam of Pelican is | at the Baranof. : W. Pet. | Sacramento Solons 31 Yorkers. He also hammered his third | Portland Beaver: 29 home run of the season. Rain forced ) Oakland Acorns 29 71 the postponement of the scheduled | Los Angele 21 52 ) second game, Seattle Rainiers 28 519{ 7. Hal Newhouser became the| Hollywood Stars 24 5| third visiting southvaw to go the| San Diego 22 44¢ | route and win in Fenway Park as San Francisco 19 36: | Detroit defeated the Red Sox, 8-4 s before 30320 blue Bostonians. NATIONAL LE 8. Chitagé’s: surprising WHité } Sox, made it four in a row on their Brooklyn 581 | traditiong] ; tough eastern’ swing, Chicago shadig the Senators, 5-4°to the dis- St. Louis may of 11,773 Washington well- Boston s wishers. Philatelphia 5 When the smoke cleared ‘AHd lall New York 471 | the 137 runs were in, Brooklyn had Pittsburgh . strengthened it first place hold in Cincinnaji the National League to one game. MRS Chicago had moved into second and AMERICAN LEAGUE Joston had dropped from second to W. .t | fourth. New York 20 soc | - No ehange took place in the Amer- Chicago 16 ;4¢ | ican League race as the Yankees re- Detroit 16 10 .61f§tained their two-game lead over the Washington 15 12 55(| White Sox with the Tigers another Boston 14 13 1alf length in the rear. Cleveland 13 15 . .46 Saturday. Results Philadelphia 9 21 30 NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 8 22 267 Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1. T T MILLIONS HAVE MADE THIS TEST 2 We spend bouquet. sparkle an We pay premium prices for America’s 5 ferment it « « - Drink Budweiser for five days. On the sixth day, drink another brand of the distinctive taste of Budweiser thereafter, . Budweiser beer. 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Our label is your warranty against short cuts or substitutes. taste of Budweiser are fousd in mo | | | a million a year extra to add | d creamy, snowy foam. | not once, but twice. .. age bouquet and distinctive ® < e . | on the course, scrambling from one V1§ |—— Pullman, Wash., — Washington State won northern division track championship third time in four years. Indianapolis won Indianapolis leg of Weather- vane cross-country women’s golf with 36-hole total of 146 and also to | take lead, 450 to 452 over Patty Berg, || in the 144-hole competition. Princeton, N. J. — Yale won east- ern college sprint championship, beating Harvard by a hdt Iength on Lake Carnegie. 3 Baltimore — Brookmeade ‘Stable’s Bold easily won the Preakness stakes at Pimlico by seven lengths over Counterpoint to give jockey Eddit Arcaro his fourth Preakness winner. Bold paid $10.20. WILG v st Here are final scores of WIL games: during the weekend: Yesterday's Results Tacoma 8-7, Wenatchee 5-8. Spokane 7-4, Tri-City 2-2. Yakima 7-2, Salem 3-6. (Only games scheduled) Saturday Results Vancouver 11-22, Victoria 9-7. Yakima 3, Salem 1. Tacoma 3, Wenatchee 0. Tri-City 11, Spokane 10. B.B.STARS Stars of Sunday games in the ma- Jjor leagues are: Batting — Eddie Robinson, White Sox — batted in three runs with a two-run homer in fifth and double in the ninth to beat Washington Senators, 5-4. 1 Pitching — Ed Lopat, Yankees— paced eight hits for his seventh traight victory as Yankees defeated the Browns,, 7-3. BOB HOPE LOSES 15T ROUND, GOLF PORTHCAWL, Wales, May 21 — (—Bob Hope, the Hollywood com- edian, fell a first round victim of Christopher Fox, a tall, pipe-smok- ing Englishman, in the British ama- teur golf championships today, but he gave his gallery of about 1,000 a good time while it lasted. He lost 2 and 1. Bob visited about half the traps | 1 ! h side of the fairway to the other. “A great game, isn’t it?” he asked a spectator at the fifth hole. “Yes,” was the prompt reply, “What game’are you playing?” Hope’s first tee shot trickled only about 100 yards into the rough. af — Babe Zaharias ) nt. let called during the evening to wish| them happiness. Mrs. Walley was raised in Juneau and Mr. Walley| s the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur| Walley of Tomah, Wisconsin. His father is connected with the Veter| ans Administration in that city. | First home of the young couple will be made in Juneau in an apart.- ment at the Atkinson house. ; Sue McMullen Is Hostess in Although living the life of a country squire on ‘his secluded estate at Atherton, Calif, Ty Cobb (above), 64, still finds baseball his favorite topie and expresses his opinions of present day players. He thinks Ted Williams, star of the Boston Red Sox has “fine ability but he cannot be classed a truly great hitter.” His boxer dog “Chud” . is his constant ocmpanion. (#) Wirephoto. Miss Atkinson RADLEY * ; - Becomes Bride IS AGAIN o Loyal Walley {ning at 8:30 Margaret Atkinson became the " |bride of Mr. Loyal Walley, radio " |man stationed on the U. S. Coast to ha"‘flSS}Guard vessel Storis. (Continued from Page One* troops from Formosa China. “Well,” Bradley replied, “from the military point of view there is no objection, as I see it, to removing any restrictions on his (Chiang’s) «doing these things, provided he does not get mixed up in such a way as to involve our own forces.” | Large baskets of pink and white | snapdragons banked the altar rail where the young couple stood to | pronounce their vows. The Rev. { Robert Whelan officiated. EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Becond and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Juneau MIDGET CAR DRIVER - FOR AUTO CLASSIC INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 —®— Rodger Ward, Los Angeles midget race car driver, qualified the Deck Manufacturing Co. Special for the 500-mile Memorial Day Race at 134.867 miles an hour yesterday. Only five cars have ever qualified here at faster speeds on the 10-mile route. Only seven of the 33 positions re- main to be filled. It will be Ward’s first race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but he’s no stranger to speed. He flew ¢ B-38 fighter plane in Alaska in the last war. He drives in cowboy boots white pants, red shirt and red hel- met. Dr. Fred L. Coddington of Mt Edgecumbe is at the Baranof hotel NO, WE DON‘'T WASH BABY BUT- we will wash everything else from baby’s eloflns‘lo pop’s shirts. ND— o'clock awhen Miss| |of Secattle, arrived here yesterday ‘Irom Cordova. He is at the Baranof Honor of Cousin. Honoring her cousin, Rosemary Theile, Suzanne McMullen, daugh- ter of Mrs. Rose McMullen, was hostess at a supper party on Fri- day evéhing, May 18, at her home in the Triangle Apartments. Seven | senior classmates were invited tol jo in the occasion, where music; and a discussion of future careers; occupied the evening. Rosemary, daughter of Mrs. Karl| Theile, is a member of the 1951: High School Garduating Class. Both young women plan on enter- ing college in the States next fall.| GRAVEL MAN HERE H George Vollen, representative of | i the Pioneer Sand and Gravel Co.! Hotel. Preceding the ceremony, Mrs. | Lillian Uggen played several num- He added, however, that if the|bers on fi"vne arghn, BEECOS Lhem“‘ “At Nationalists took such losses both| Dawning,” “I Love Thee,” and “Just in men and equipment that thep|f Song. At Tellight. ; Jjeopardized security of Formosa tlm; The bride entered the church military thinking might be (hfiferAi(m the arm of her father, Mr. Lee Atkinson, to the strains of the | Wedding March from Les Hugue- inots. She was preceded down the CARSON OFFICE OPEN | aisle by her matron-of-honor, Mrs. Tiag Carson Canst.rucLion‘(‘.D’].‘ &a;ilccl;flrlll:’-s;l;:proéfwg; ‘wo'z:“:t: v:::; opened its local office on ird | leng n Street across from the Commun-|lace top, and a small matching hat. ity Building with E. F. Ha\:lgcn inii!l::‘ c():}rx';;i]ka:ngldv;;:;::isg:d t:?;x: charge. W. A. Carson, president of | t se 5. the dompany is here for a few days| The bride was lovely in a ballet- in connection with the demolinon‘lcngth dress of white lace over work on the AB and City Halls. It | satin. The neckline was of deep is expected that the razing of the | scallops with net insert and she buildings will be completed by the wore a string of pearls, gift from end gof this week in order that ex- her mother. Her finger-tip veil was cavation may begin for the new attached to a becoming small cap Alaska Office Building there. “ol lace and she wore long white —_— lace gloves. She carried a white —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— 'praycr book decorated with small oty ber Welders. | Storage - Crating because we want to merit the faith ou put in us we give you the finest undering you can buy, Try usl Juneau Alaska ALASKA LAUNDRY, Inc. Since 1895 We have a fine Annuals and Perennials JUNEAU FLORISTS 311 Seward Street NICHOL ———— OPEN EVENINGS Ionn. Ball Park————Fnone 914 MOVING DAY Monday, May 21st, in our new office at 246 Marine Way, next ' 10 West Coast, Grocery, in the building * formerly used as the shop of the 0. K. 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