The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1951, Page 3

| ! WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1 fra: Louis, Argentinan | Having Second Go in San Francisco .« SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1—P— (Aging Joe Louis, whose great am- bition is to become the first ever to win back the heavyweight cham- _pionship, battles it out tonight with "Argentina’s best prospect of 25 years — Cesar Brion. . Their 10-round fight at the Cow Palace is expected to return’better ‘than $50,000 in gate receipts. . Louis beat Brion for a 10-round “decision last November in Chicago but the 24-year-old contender from the Argentine has improved greatly (pince then. d Louis s been established a 4-1 favorite to defeat the South Ameri- can champion in their second meet- {ng. EADERS IN B. B. 1 L ¥ By the Associated Press 9 AMERICAN LEAGUE . Batting (based on 250 times at bat)—Minoso, Chicago, .342; Coan, ¢ ‘Washington, .337. y Runs Batted In — Williams, Bos- ton, 90; Zernial, Philadelphia, 82. 1 Home Runs — Zernial, Philadel- phig, 23; Williams, Boston, 21. v Pitching (based on five decisions) i ~Morgan, New York, 6-1, .857; Fel- r‘;fl"w der, Cleveland, 16-4, .800. I NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .373; Robinson, Brooklyn, .361. Runs Batted In—Irvin, New York, @12; Snider, Brooklyn and Kiner, Pittsburgh, 71. Home Runs'— Hodges, Brooklyn, 30; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 26. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 15-2, 882; Branca, Brooklyn, 8-2, .800. Sports Briels By the Associated Press GENERAL Washington — Ford Frick, Na- tional League President, told House ‘Judiciary committee investigating ‘baseball that formation of third major league on the Pacific Coast was up to western owners. Cowes, Isle of ‘Wight — Llanoria, Goose and Firecracker, three U.S. yachts, finished in that order to tie [ r ¢ British-American Cup series at three victories each. TENNIS ' South Orange, N.J. — Sidney KSchwartz, of Brooklyn, upset Earl Cochell, San Francisco, seventh %eeded, in second round of Eastern ‘Grass Court championships, 3-6,| 6-1, 8-6. Featured in [ H . Publication 3 The first Alaska Pan American Airways sales conference which was | bheld here last May was featured this month in Traffic and Sales Clipper, PAA New York publication. . The “Welcome PAA” signs found | in Juneau store windows was promi- | nently mentioned in the article to- gether with a picture of the Alaska, | Seattle, Portland and San Francisco epresentatives attending. One of the unusual features of e conference was the tape re- cording of all discussions and pre- | gentations, which have been re-| | played for various traffic personnel | §ho did not attend the Juneau | 1peeting. | i 4 The air trips to Taku Lodge and | Southeast Alaska towns via Alaska | Goastal Airlines and Ellis Airlines ‘were mentioned. | B. F. Dunn, Juneau traffic and | sales manager, made conference | arrangements, 951 Yankee Scalp Looks Lucious To Indians ' Red Sox Lose Garter | Belt; Leader’s Pate | Endangered by Cleveland - — Schmee's the Boy for Stars; S'ars Un_slump‘ By the Associated Press Cleveland's onrushing Indians | 100med today as the chief threat to| By the Associated Press | New York's hopes of retaining the Pacific Coast League clubs wind | American League crown now that| up another series tonight, and |Boston's Red Sox are showing signs Hollywood fans will be paying par- |of losing their magic touch at Fen- ticular attention to the activities | way k. of outfielder George Schmees. Continuing to rebound from two The Hollywoods, who play lowly |straight lickings at Yankee Stadium, San Francisco once more at home | the Indians last night made it four before resuming the hostilities Fri- | yictories in their last five games by | day at Seals Stadium, are back in | conquering the Senators in Wash- .\r,xlndf after v.l]\eir slump last week— | jngton, 5-3. all due mainly to Mr. Schmees. $ i Big: George: leads the- clib. inivir= | gint S Auph Eave the Tribe un- tually every department you can e it iy AM - J | place, two games behind the idle think of—hits, home runs, triples, | L atte (WO BHIEE elind i ot ike doubles, runs batted in, and stolen third place Red Sox. bases. H i The Red Sox, in absorbing a The sa ar | e saying around Gilmore Field | shocking 8-6 setback at the hands of the lowly St. Louis Browns, now have lost four out of seven since [ | | | this week has been “Let George do " Last night, George certainly did. He drove in six runs, boosting : his season RBI total to 85, as the | "CtUrning to Fenway Park. Twinks dispatched San Francisco,j Chicago’s first half season 12-2. jcontinued to plunge downward, dropping a 4-2 decision to the Phila- | delphia Athletics. The defeat, the 10th in their last 11 games, dropped | the fourth place White Sox a dis- | couraging seven and a half games | behind the idle Yankees! | The arrival of August finds the Brooklyn Dodgers safling alone serenely with a nine and a half game advantage in what is laugh- ingly called the National League Pennant race. The = runaway Dodgers ran their victory skein to 10 in a row with an 8-3 win in Pitisburgh. New York's runner-up Giants kept pace with a 4-3 victory in Chicago. Philadelphia’s defending champion Phillies swept past St. Louis into third place with a 7-5 triumph in | Cincinnati while the Boston Braves | { were shutting out the Cardinals, 6-0 | Bob Feller, baseball’s biggest win- iner, notched his 16th triumph as | the Indians rallied for three runs Seven of the runs came in the second frame, Hollywood's fattest single inning this year. The victory brought the Stafs no closer to first place, however, be- Seattle dusted off Sacramento behind Skinny Brown’s five hit pitching. Joe Gordon, Sacra- mento’s manager, walloped his 35th homer of the campaign to spoil Brown’s shutout in the eighth. Brown retired 17 Solons in order between the first and seventh in. nings as the Rainiers maintained | their five game hold on first place. | The defeat, combined with Oak- land’s 2-1 triumph over Los An-! geles, dropped Sacramento into fifth place. Al Olsen southpawed a nifty four hitter as San Diego shut out Port- land, 2-0. | NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. | the top of the ninth to overcome ;BrO_flklyn 63 32 663,39 Wn?hinglnn lead. Ne“'Yorkb 56 44 560 | 5im Hegan doubled, Barney Mc- Philadelphia 49 49 500 ooy walked and Dale Mitchell tied St. Louis 46 48 489 4o Seore with a single to center. Boston 45 49 49| gopny Avila then drove in McCosky Cincinnati 4 ol and Mitchell with another single. Chicago 39 51 433,15 als0 drove in Cleveland’s first Pittshurgh 39 57 4064y, runs with a fifth inning one- AMERICAN LEAGUE i & | Two big innings — a three-run W L Petifitth and a four-run Seventh — New York 59 35 628 |peipeq the Browns to victory over Cleveland 58 38 604 he Red Sox. Bostol 594 ChiZurglo ZZ :g .245 Ned Garver, Brownie ace, ap- % iy 3 50 62| Peared on the way to his l4th Washington 43 53 448 victory but was forced to leave in Wil 39 6o 394, the fifth inning atter pulling a i e .326| muscle in his left leg. Satchell d | Paige, who took over, picked up the victcry although he was shel- PACIFIC COAST led in a three-m: eighth. w Pet-| Hank Majeski, obtained from Seattle 76 51 59| Ghicago in a mid-season deal, paced Hollywood T 56 559 the Athletics to their win over. the Los Angeles 64 63 504 ywhite Sox. The slugging third base- Oakland 62 66 484 | man made three of Philadelphia’s Sacramento 61 66 480 oiont hits, scored three runs and gom[a)x_xd g; g; :;’; homered against his former mates. s?:: F‘;E:mm 56 72 .43g] Don Newcombe hurled' his 15th ALASKA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU Baseball Men at Hearing d Frick (left), president of the National League, and Ty Cobb (right) one of the game's great players, talk with Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY) as a congressional hearing gets underway in Washington. A House judiciary subcommittee headed by Celler wants to know whether organized baseball is operating within the anti-trust laws or whether the game should be exempted from monopoly curbs by special Igislation. Frick and Cobb are witn'esses. # Wirephoto. i sensational Harry (Kid) Matthews,| who has been unable to line up a shot at the light heavyweight or —EMFIRE WANT ADS PAY— For o!d\—fime Hiram Walker quality —- JUST TELL THE MAN YOU WANT IMPERIAL! Blended whiskey. 86 proof. 70% grain neutral spirits. Hiram Walker& Sons Inc., Peoria, IIL win for Brooklyn. B.B. STARS By the Associated Press Batting—Bobby Thomson, Giants —Drove in all Giants’ runs with a pair of home runs as New York nipped Chicago’s Cubs, 4-3. Pitching — Chet Nichols, Braves —Limited the Cards to four singles as the Braves shut out St. Louis, 6-0. WIL Games By the Associated Press ‘Vancouver 1-1, Yakima 0-0. Cot T —~EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— Salem 6-0, Tacoma 1-1. Wenatchee 14, Spokane 9. Tri-City 9, Victoria 6. ANNOU New Sales Repres Box 1898 Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. PA At ihis time, we are featuring aSPECIAL SALE in LADIES' HOSIERY PAY John G. Olson Phone Green 490 NCING entative for Real - Sweaters === Nylon, also Wool Tailored Casual b i in Gabardines, Jerseys, Rayons ton Plaids and Checks . .. Tailored Nylons. . . Rayon Checks - - - . heavyweight crowns, will meet Jose Ha"y 'he Kld io Basora of New York here August 21. Matthews, boasting a string of six Meei New Yorker straight kayoes, has appeared in Portland three times previously, 4 | knocking out Frank Buford, Ron PORTLAND, Aug. 1—P—Seattle’s| w10 4 Duteh Culbertson. PAGE THREE f Shaffer’s AB-Phone-1:3 SANIT, MEAT CO. Meat at Its Best === At .o WC > IPrices Hormel HAM Half or thlempound Cheoice--Grade A Pot Roast Pound—% 4 ¢ Hormel’s Pure LARD 2 Pounds 1] A5¢ Choice Grade A Beef Short Ribs Pound — 3%« PICNIC HAMS ~ Pound— 5% ROASTING CHICKEKS — YOUNG PULLETS New York Dressed — Pound 5%«