The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 30, 1951, Page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1951 - £ra: ot RAINIERS KEEP ON. WINNING By Associated Press With the Pacific Coast League’s halfway. point only five days away the Seattle Rainiers are looking like a convincing animation of ancient baseball saying which prophesies: The team that leads the league on the Fourth of July will win the pen- nant. The Rainiers rang up their fourth straight triumph last night, beating Oakland, 3-2, quicker than you could say Al Lyons. Lyons, in fact, did the job almost single handedly. He drave in all three runs, the last one vay of a bases loaded single in the ninth inning. Los Aungeles slumped to sixth place by losing both ends of a night dou- ble header at Portlund, 3-2 and 6-1. Hollywood, meanwhile, remained in second place, three games behind, by polishing off Sacramento, 7-2, be- hind Johnny Lindell's five-hit pitch- ing and {Be batwork of Outfielder Dino Restelli. San Diego took a 6-4 triumph over San Francisco in the battle for last place. PAC] COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Seattle R@gihiers ... 5 40 579 Hollywoolt ‘Stars 52 43 547 Sacramepto Solons 51 45 531 Oakland"Ae€orns ... 50 45 .526 PortlandiBeavers 48 48 .500 Los An, : 44 49 4T3 San Dix?p: 40 52 435 San Frafcisco ... 38 56 404 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct Brooklyn . 41 25 .621 New York " 38 31 .551 St. Louis ... 33 32 .508 Philadelphia ¢ 33 33 .600 l Cincinnati .32 33 492 Boston .30 34 469 Chicago e 28 33 459 Pittsburgh . 5 25 39 331 AMERICAN LEAGUE Ve W. L. Pct Chicago . 43 23 652 New York . i 23 646 Boston ... 39 27 Cleveland .35 30 538 Detroit 31 .50¢ ‘Washington 39 391 Philadelphia 3% St. Louis 202 LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the major leagues thru Friday games are: American League Batting (based on 150 times at bat) — Minoso, Chicago, .367; Fain, Philadelphia, .351. % Hits — DiMaggio, Boston, 93; Fox, Chicago, 91. -~ Home runs — Zernial, Philadel- phia, 17; Robinson, Chicago, 16. Pitching (based on five decisions) Gumpert, Chicago, 7-1, 875; Feller, Cleveland, 10-2, .833; Dobson, Chi- cago and Nixon, Boston, 5-1, .833. National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .370; Robinson, Brooklyn, .358. Hits — Ashburn, Philadelphia, 96; Dark, New York, 92. Home runs — Hodges, Brooklyn, 24; Kiner, Pittsburgh and Westlake, 8t. Louis, 17. Pitching — Brecheen, St. Louis, 5-0, 1.000; Roe, Brooklyn, 10-1, .909. Oakmont, Pa. — Chandler Harper, the defending champion, was elimi- nated in the PGA championship. Reading, Pa. — Betty Jameson of San Antenio shot a 32-38—170 tc take first round lead in the eastern women's open. ‘Wimbledon, England — American champion Art Larsen of San Le- andro, Calif., advanced to the quar- ter-finals of the Wimbledon cham- pionships. Philadelphia — The Justice De- partment told the University of Pennsylvania it had ordered an in- vestigatiorf - of televising colleze football games. WIL GAMES Scores of WIL games played Fri- day are: Wenatchee 12, Spokane 8. Salem 5, Tacoma 3. Victoria 14, Yakima 2. Vancouver 5, Tri-City 4. JACK ALLMAN BETTER Friends of Jack Allman will be glad to know that he is rapidly recoveringffom a serious oper-|Baltimore, outpointed Gene Burton, 153, New York 10. ation at St. An's Hospital here. i “'rates was charged off as one of | ) e R v, —— o A i w—— " iy & PLAYERS PICKED IN JULY FOURTH BASEBALL SERIES Three big baseball games — & special Fourth of July series — will get fans out for the Sunday, Mon- day and July 4 schedule. The players, picked from the three Gastineau Channel League * bal teams, are the best and pr.:misel . keen competition. Ray G. Day, league manager, an nounced today that all season tickets will be honored for the Fourth of July baseball series. Tentative lineup of the picked teams follows: COAST GUARD ALL-STARS Cole Houston Elkins Cope Logan Kendig Arnold Taguchi Dorris Notar Wilber Sanford Morrison Snow Morris Smithberg Greeney Nielsen Kane Mweller Petersen Soley Allerdice McClellan Floberg Magorty Scott Moesh Fitzpatrick Pidgeon McNeil Schmitz DODGERS LOSING GROUND By Associated Press Who stole the music to the Dodger Pennant, Waltz? The Ebbets Field nrgan has been hitting clinkers lately. : A week ago the Brooks breezec! vong with a 6'.-game lead. They ! ould be no wrong. Then came “ittsburgh. Even a double loss Sunday to the hose things. But you couldn’t laugh )ff losing two of three to the New York Giants. Last night’s 3-2 de- feat by the Phillies sounded the alarin bell. Drop Five of Six Panic is not the word for a club with a 4':-game lead. But by drop-] ping five of their last six, thej Dodgers let the pack close in. The runnerup Giants, rained out of a night game at Boston, picked up a. half game when the Phils knocked off the Brooks behind Robin Roberts’ five-hit pitching. Six-Six Game St. Louis and Chicago strugglec through nine innings for a 6-6 tie in a game called to let the Cubs catch 1 train for Cincinnati. Because they played the full nine innings, this is not a “suspended game” but will be completely replayed at a later date. The Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game was postponed because of wet grounds. White Sox Win They all played in the American with the Chicago White Sox pro- tecting their precious half-game lead by bumping St. Louis 10-3, for the Browns’ ninth straight loss. Vic Raschi kept New York right on Chicago’s neck by disposing of Boston with three hits, 2-1, in a night game won by Joe DiMaggio’s eighth-inning double. It was Raschi’s 12th win, high in the American league. - ed o, Senators Dumped “Philadelphia, just escaped from @seellar two weeks ago, moved within a half game of six-place Washington by dumping the Sen- ators in both ends of a twilight- night doubleheader, 3-2 and 11-5. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Jake Looks Like a Loser Blood oozes from cuts around both eyes and in his mouth as Jake LaMotta, Brony, N.Y., light heavyweight, tries to ward off punishing blows of Irish Bob Murphy of § if., in fifth round of their scheduled 12-rounder at ¥ lium, N.Y. Murphy won on a technical knockout when New York State Athletic Commission doctor halted the bout between seventh and eighth rounds because of Jake’s battered condition. # Wirephoto. SHAKE DOWN CRUISE — Ketch Argosy makes trial run on Hudson River, N, Y., for 80,000-mile global expedition over course taken by 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin. SERVICE FOR ONE G1AN T—Gargantus, seven- foot, seven-inch giant and German wrestling champion, accepts cup of tea in London hotel after his arrival in Britain for bouts. Bob Lemon pitched Cleveland to a 4-1 edge over Detroit with a six- hitter. B.B.STARS Batting — Ralph Caballero, Phil- lies — tripled home Willie Jones in ninth with deciding run in Philadel- phia’s 3-2 victory over Brooklyn. Pitching, Vic Raschi, Yankee: pitched New ¥York to 2-1 three-hil victory over Boston for his 12tk victory. FIGHT DOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: Boise, Idaho — Harry “Kid” Mat- thews, 177, Seattle, knocked out Bill Petersen, 209, Chicago, 4. Hollywood, Calif. — Lauro Salas, 126, Monterrey, Mexico, and Fabela Chavez, 125, Los Angeles drew, 12. Richmond, Va. — Bobby Lee, 149, [ e, A SIS 05 A0, PV SO SRS S ot S5~ PRSI S0 . R L LD L tive buyers wait at a newly-completed house in war-devastated Munich, Germany, to view cooperative apartments offered for sale. i | time. Elks Hall. Y 3rd 10 p.m.—CORONATION BALL. Admission adults $1.00, children under 12 years of age 25 cents. Queen and King crowned at 11:59 p.m. Here's Your Program JU 2 p.m.—Fun Zone.at National Guard Headquarters, Open until coronation JULY 4th 10:30 am. GRAND PARADE. \ Line of March will assemble opposite Alaska Steamship Dock on Marine Way. Parade should be in position no later ‘than 10:20 o'clock. Parade will start promptly at 10:30, proceeding up Ad- miral Way, turn left on Franklin to Front Street. Turn left on Front Street to Cowlings, then left to Alaska Coastal. At Coastal parade will turn left on Willoughby and répeat circle as above parading up Marine Way, Admiral Way, Franklin Street, Front and on redching Willoughby turn right and proceed on Willoughby to 10 Street. (past ball park), turn right and proceed up 10th Street to C Street, turn right agaih and proceed directly into ball park. PARADE PRIZE LIST-—(No float can recelve more than one - ‘prize. Most Beautiful Float Most Patriotic Float k Most Attractive Commercial Float Most Original Float . v Second Most Beautiful Float. A Second Most Original Float...... Most Comical Float Best Decorated Car Second Best Decorated Car...... Rt A BB Most appropriate 4th of July costume, Adults..... -.$250.00 200.00 Most appropriate 4th of July costume, Boys. Most appropriate 4th of July costume, Girls. Best sustained character, Boys. ¢ Best sustained character, Girls . Bset Decorated Bicycle, Boys.... Best Decorated Bicycle Girls... Best Decorated dolls buggy, Girls. Best Decorated wagon, scooter, or tricyle, Boys. Best Marching turnout, Boys organization.. Best Marching turnout, Girls organization 10.00 Boys and girls organization must have st least 8 marchers in line of march to be considered for prize money. SPORT CARNIVAL—Ball Park Boys' 20 yard dash—4 yrs. and younger...... $1.00 50 25 Girls’ 20 yard dash—4 yrs. and younger... 1.00 50 25 Boys’ 20 yard dash—5 and 6 yrs........ e b .50 25 Girls’ 20 yard dash— 5 and 6 yrs. 50 25 Boys' 30 yard dash—7 and 8 yrs. 50 25 Girls’ 30 yard dash—7 and 8 yrs. Boys’ 40 yard dash—9 and 10 yrs..... Girls’ 40 yard dash—9 and 10 yrs...... Boys’ 50 yard dash—I11 and 12 yrs. 10. Girls’ 50 yard dash—11 and 12 yrs.. 11. Boys’ 50 yard dash—13 and 14 yrs. 12. Girls’ 50 yard dash—13 and 14 yrs.. 13. Boys’ 75 yard dash—15 and 16 yrs. 14. Girls’ 75 yard dash—15 and 18 yrs. 15. Boys' 100 yard dash—17 to 18 yrs. 16. Girls’ 100 yard dash—17 to 18 yrs...... 17. “Mens’ 100 yard dash—free for all...... 18. Fat man’s race—200 Ibs. or over, 715 yards...10.00 5.00 19. Womens' race—over 18 years...... ...10.00 5.00 BOYS SACK RACES (Furnish own sacks) 100 50 25 0100 6O 25 100 5 25 PP IST pw EEguszrsaas 8 1. ‘W, ysrds—7 years and YOUDGET............l.. 2. 20 yards—9 years and younger.. 3. 25 yards—11 years and younger.. Fun Zone Open 4, 25 yards—13 years and younger. 5. 30 yards—15 years and younger. -v“mwmw s o B o 1:30 pm. 3:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m. Boys—12 years and younger—1.lap. Boys—13 to 16—3 laps.. Girls—12 years and under—1 lap. Girls—13 to 16—2 laps 1:00 pm. 1.00 1.50 150 150 Fun zone at National Guard Headquarters opens and continues in operation until midnight. Baseball Game—Final play-off—$25.00 . prize. Boat races and water sports. Prizes to be announced later. or earlier—immediately after compietion of ball games. merchandise Tennis finals—4 cups to be awarded and prizes. g Pinn Horse and ple eating: contést--prizes. Squate dancing in the fun zone—a real demonstration. Presentation of car at fun zone, National Guard Head- quarters. Remember that the crowned Queen will be present at all functions beginning with the coronation dance and continuing through, the entire day and night of July 4. Afternoon and Evening JULY ‘3rd and 4th %%