The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1951, Page 3

ESDAY, JUNE 26, 1951 TARS WILL TRY FOR 151 SPOT IN PCL By Associated Press They didn't do so well on their| hst road junket, but the Hollywood | tars are still a tough ball club to eat at home. They've won 13 of heir last 15 games at Gilmore Field, nd because of that they're within grasp of first place in the Pacific oast League standings. Fred Haney's club could get a t'e r first place with Seattle tonight | it dumps San Diego and Los Ane- les beats the Seattle Rainiers. It's that simple, but likewise dif- icult. San Diego is far from the lub it was last year, but Rogers ornsby’s Seattle outfit looks like is in the race to stay. San Diego Manager Del Baker opes to have Walt Dropo in the ineup tonight against Holiywood. | he freshman sensation of the Red Box last year, Dropo was sent to he Padres on a 24-hour option yes- erday, because his batting average lipped from the 1950 mark of 322 0 .251° this season. Rogers Hornsby has nominated arl Johnson (0-0) to face the An- bels’ Warreri Hacker (3-7). PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE : ; W. L. Pct Seattle Rpiniers 51 40 560 [Hollywood Stars 50 41 519 [sacramento Solons 50 42 543 Oakland Acorns ... 49 42 538 [Los Angeles 44 44 500 [Portland Beavers 44 47 4% [San Diego ... e 37 5L 1420 [San Francisco 36 54 .400! NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct Brooklyn 40 22 645 New York .." 36 30 545 St. Louis ... 32 30 516 Cincinnati ..131 81 .500 Boston .. . 30 32 484 Philadelphia 30 33 476 Chicago e 25 32 448 Pittsburgh ... ... 23 38 377 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Chicago New York . Boston 3% 26 587 Cleveland 32 30 516 30 29 .508 24 35 407 ... 24 39 381 .19 43 .308 FIGHTDOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: St. Louis — Charley Riley, 129, St Louis, TKO'd Percy Bassett, 125 Philadelphia, 2. Philadelphia — Paddy Demarco 137, Brooklyn, outpointed Arthur King, 136, Philadelphia, 10. New Orleans — Maxie Docu: 132, New Orleans, outpointed Le: Hiroshi Horiguchi, 117, Japan, 8. WIL GAMES Two games were played Monday in the WIL and scores are as fol- lows: Vancouver 8, Yakima 6. Victoria 2] Tri-City 0. (Onlysgames scheduled). ‘WHITAKER For Queen. | like to see the Sox in the lead July WHITE SOX TO WIN RAG, CLAIM NOW CHICAGO, June 26 M— Man- ager Paul Richards assured Chica- go's pennant-starved White Sox fans today that his American leaguc leaders will never quit — and by that he means there is no bubbl that's going to break. With the midway mark in the season approaching, Richards woulc 4, that traditional date on whick the top club theoretically become the one to beat for the pennant. Returning home with an even break in 16 road games, the White Sox ‘have not fully been accepted in that category -— opposing man- agers just can't believe they're that good. They have held the lead since|Sunday games. He has won every May 28, but now are only one game | 23M€ Which he has twirled in front whereas they were 2': be- fore starting east two weeks ago. Seattle — This city has been se- Upwards of 40,000 customers | \ccted as the site of the 1952 Na- given warmer weather, are expecied tional Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion basketball finals, Madison to pile into Comiskey Park tonight as the Sox open a nine-game home stand against western clubs. “If there is one thing of which I am certain,” says Richards, “the White Sox don’t know the meaning { the word ‘quit’.” ¥ 26 AIKING CLUB MEMBERS ENJOY ° | Square Garden has been bypassed. The Garden was the site of “fixed” zames in recent seasons. ! San Francisco — For the third consecutive week, ttle Rainier Outfielder Walt Judnich is the No. 1 batter in the Pacific Coast League. Judnich averaged for 73 games, through last Sunc /imbleden, Eight Amer- TAKU WEEKE“D icen men won first round matches in all-England tennis championships They were Gardn: Mulloy, Art By way of announcing the com- | Larsen, Budge Patty, Dick Savitt, irg marriage of Carolyn Hoff and | ferb Flam, Hamilton Richardson, Carl Jensen, Royal O'Reilly invited the couple to take over the Honey- 3l Bl moon Cottage at Taku Lodge on their next trip there. jo(KEY K“-I.ED ! The occasion was at dinner at| Y | the Lodge when 26 members of the I Ship, Shank and Shutter Club FREAK A((IDENI ade a weekend trip there Satur-[ day. T Some of the hiking club memhen;l NEW YORK, June 26 - L airived at the Lodge Saturday eve- Harris, a veteran Steeplec jock- ring on the Alaska Coastal planes ¢y, was killed yesterd in a freak accident at Aqueduct race track Harris was schooling a Frenct aight Clark and Gene Garrett. P—Harry that returned the visiting Hawaiian group ‘to Juneau. Some went to the ALL HIS EFFORTS IN VAI tice for soccer zame against England in Lon THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA iy N — Arge BE;ECKE o i e e D TO THE NAILS_Fingern ‘na.‘e by a Parisian jeweler are shaped to wearer's nails and f ure ntine goalie Miguel Rugilo stops a shot in prac- don, but the British wen the Festival match, 2-1. PAGE THREE ail shields brilliant-cut diamonds sprinkied on checkerboard of plai:a Jackie Curley, 19, gets a real THE WHOLE GANG'S HERE — One of 14 children and 13 {imes an' uncle, Cpl. welcome back from Korea at & family gathering in- Loulsville, Kye 'BUSINESS MEETING " ENDS ROTARY YR. -end business occupled the régulat’ Rotary Club ‘meeting at the Baranof Hotel this noon since in- stallation of new officers will take place next Tuesday. jof the ‘past year inclirded a suc- | cessiul Soap,Box, Derby, establis Iment of the'! Sears {fPoundatioli Traveling Library, payment of $530 to complete the $1,000 pledge on |the Juneau Memorial Library, Cub Scout program sponsorship, partic- | |ipating in Fourth of July activities and a baseball game for the benefit of the Salvation Army fund drive. | Since this was Dr. James Ryan’s last meeting here he was called upon for a few words. He said that |he wasn't very good at swan songs {but that he’d enjoyed his affilia- “ 1 ¢, 1}:\ the, .cl‘\rb” + 11 #uf meivers, ohaitthah of the Soap |Box Derby, reported that plans were, | progressing, and that Elton | Engstrom was in charge of adver- | tising: for the Derby. ,| Robert Akervic reported that $3,- | 646 tad’ beén raised’ on the Salva- { tions Army Fund drive, which was ! far short of the goal of $6,000. | Bl Ellis was appointed chairman of the Fourth of July Float com- | | A repiew of the accomplishments | lodge Saturday morning by the river boat Redwing. Saturday eve- ning was given over to music by the O'Reillys and dancing by the import, Montadet, when the mishap teburred. While 19,279 fans looked on, the horse ran into the wing of ia hurdle and Harris’ chest was 843-6t | with three wins, no losses through'liams, Vice Grand. hikers. {crushed and his heart ruptured, On Sunday some went hiking to 4 try out the newly-cut Forest Ser- vice trail parallelling the river and others took a river trip to Louie DeFlorian’s place where the Alaska Department of Fisheries is tagging GUARD I“ I'ASI OF salmon caught by a fish wheel. 3 1 The “Shutter” name in the club’s | HRS]‘ ROUND plAY nomer is not idle. Upon secing two | sticks that seemingly bad a direc- tion agai the current, cameras were alerted. They proved to be|neau Channel League ends tonight! the antlers of a young bull moose | with the meeting the Coast | that swam to shore. Twenty shut-|cuard at 6:30. League play for the ters clicked. For many it was their | cecond round takes 0p on July 10 first moose on film. The Coast Guard has won seven The fishing members of the party | games out of seven starts and the caught several trout and all de-|pys paye won two out of seven, If Alared tbey had a “wonderful time,” | . o mks lose tonight, they will be tied for second place with the Moose | who have won two out of eight. Sporis Briefs | ... .. smocues | First round of play in the Gasti 3 Meeting of the newly formed Boston — Walt Dropo, 1950 Ameri- f yocrerson_Jackson Club Wednesday | can League rookie of the year, has |y ne 97, All repeat all Democrats | been optioned by the Red SoX t0fare jnyited and bring a friend. | San Diego of the Pacific Coast|gocktails 7:30, meeting 8:00. 844-2t | League. ATTENTION REBEKAHS SAN FRANCISCO — Al Lyons. : G hurler, outfielder for Seattle Rain-| Social meéting Wed, ‘night: at /@ iers, tops Coast ~ League pitchers|o'clock in 1.0.O.F. Hall. Edna wuw 844-2t e { FWO-PURPOSE TO PP E R—_Thisnovelty black Sum-- ‘mer hat serves two purposes. Self-sustaining untrimmed crown Jbecomes evening turban-cloche when garlanded brim is removed. | z%YALTY SA LI;’SDUKPM'I;;I ‘ES aceom st . Goo::: .l,l.lk up ’:’:::n l{! rl;y:l barge (Wm visit to London. Moored on left bank is Scott’s Antaretic ship “Discovery.” . mittee. The,annual picnic was announced | again for next Sunday afternoon ‘in the Evergreen Bow! from 1 to 5| FROM MILWAUKEE o'clock. There will be community Gladys I. Shields of Milwaukee singing under the direction of Maj. |is a guest at the Baranof Hotel | Eric Newbould. | A pep talk was given on the | Fourth of July queen contest to |push the club’s candidate, Lois Lawrerice, and tickets were passed | s out. Carson Lawrence reported having seen a former member, Milton Dan- |iels, who now has a nice 100-acre |farm 'and home in the Willamette Valley. . Lee Bettinger, visiting Rotarian from Kodiak, was present. He fis stopping over enroute home after two and one-half months in Wash- ington in the interests of his home town. Claude Carneglé was also a guest. Don Skuse is in charge of . the program for next week. Go by Clipper” " SEATTLE o ©Seattle is only a fow hours away by big fourengine Clip- per. En route you enjoy geod food, relaxing longe seats, traditional Clipper Convenient daily servics to The secong | \It;r city sales tax}§. [Seatle .| . frequent Clippes i ‘payhblé fug’r{ July 1, City Clerkl’gfi /! fights to key cities inside | CITY SALES TAX DUE NEXT MONTH o . C. L. Popejoy reminded Juneau Alaska. For fares and re d merchants today. A month is al- tions, eall Pan = lowed for* the payment of the tax Baranof Hotel which becomes delinquent after Phone 106 July 31. This tax money goes for ® ithe retirement of, bonds. WORSS MOST DPUEWCED ARSINE 9000000000000000000000000000000000000000080000008 ATTENTION ALL DEMOCRATS Meeting of the newly formed Jefferson-Jackson Club Wednesday June 27. All repeat all Democrats iare. invited, and. hring a friend. . Cocktails 7:30, mieetthg 8:00! 8442t | ©Trade Mark, Pon dmarioan Wertd dirouyn. bon Eaiatt BRI Here’s Cbee:rful Refreshment . . . Your fishing trip is a sure success when you bring along a case of Rainier Extra Pale—cans or stubbies. It's the lightest, smoothest, most refreshing beer you've ever tasted. At home or in camp, enjoy the finest. Good old Rainier Beer. A 4 M . 638 B S A A P 3 AR LS4