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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

The traffic death rate in the United States last year was 129 for every 10O,00O,OO0 vehicle miles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
SENATOR, Ex-MISSI0NARY,
 DECLARES CIVILIZATION IS
 NOW AT STAKE IN CHINA
By SENATOR HILBERT D. THOMAS
 Democrat, Utah Pinch hitting for Preston Grover
 on vacation.)

WASHINGTON, July 26.-In 1854 Japan was opened to world trade Persons of the west therefore as-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

McNUTT WON'T TALK
 As for McNutt himself, he says it ought to be plain he's not going around discussing these things.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

NEW LAW OF WAR
 Her actions seem crude to us for two reasons: First, her imitation is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

tcontlnued on Page Two)
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Patient Mentor
Makes Star Of
bosox Rook
Williams Wrist Snup
At Bot, Flash AfieId
Developed by burst
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE pre-
diction that Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox will be the rookie
Of the year" brings a rousing paean
OF approval from Stuart N. Lake of
San Diego, Calf, along with some
new and important information on
the gangling youngster.
Lake, who back before the war
covered baseball for the old New
York Herald, has followed Williams
career intimately, and what he
doesn't know about Ted isn't worth
the telling. Attend:
He got his start here in San Diego
High School, and American Legion
teams, then to the San Diego Coast
League club, where he learned about
all he knows about baseball under
the able tutelage of Cedric burst,
the old big league outfielder.
Ted started as pitcher, and
saw him turn in some really great
jobs as an amateur: & good, heady
kid with a fast one and excellent
control.
burst Great Tutor for Ted.
But he was a natural hitter, too
valuable as such to be wasted. He
knew no more about defensive play
than a jackrabbit, had the i'm
preston that all he had to do was
step up and swat Hustling in the
outfleld was beyond his comprehen-
sion, and as baserunner he was
| more so.
ut was burst who taught him to
field and who had him take course
Of training under a track coach to
improve his getaway and to speed
him up on the bases. More impor-
tant, it was Cedric who gave him
that smooth, effortless swing, with
| that wrist-snap at the crucial in
slant Of impact-almost a golfers
swing.
Notice the kid. He doesn't hit
the ball; he doesn't hit at it. He
swings clean through it. He's close
to being and may we'll be before
he's Through the wrist-hitter par
excellence.
Joe Cronin and the Red Sox can
thank burst for that. If you don't
think it took kindness, patience,
flrmness and downright ability to
make that kid learn anything you
might ask DOME Bush, who man
aged him last year at Minneapolis
Salvation Army Product.
Ted Williams ought to pull 'em
through the turnstiles from another
source. Literally the drums ought
to beat up following for him. Far
as I know. he is the only Salvation
Army product in organized baseball.
His mother is May Williams, per-
haps the best-known Salvation
Army lassie in San Diego. Since
the war and until a few months ago
she shook tambourine on the To-
cal streets and sold profitable War
Cry. She has ideas both about base
ball and about her boy.
There's a good story in Nanny
Salvo, too. I have a hunch he'll
stick with the Giants and beat
young Fred Hutchinson's showing
with Detroit. But don't worry about
Hutch saw him work quite a
lot last season, and the boys who
hit against him on a half dozen
clubs know we'll. Half of them
have been in the big show them
selves, and they don't think Detroit
got stuck.
I'm fact Seattle was the sucker
in that deal. They should have kept
him another year, for the sake of
the club and the gate, not to men,
ton the better deal that might have
been possible"
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Rice to Have Hot Eleven if Profs Let Talent Alone
nswn and Fighting Fox Greet Racing

looks dandy and will win any
time they ask him to Ditto,
Fighting Fox A good one to
watch is sleeper at Bowie
named Woodsia.
Washington sports writer's say
the Senators are two years
away-that it will take them
that long to stagger in via Cuba
and Venezuela DR.. Eddie
Anderson has put an entirely
new spirit into the Iowa grid
camp But don't look for any
miracles this year, as he has to
collide with Indiana, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Purdue,
Minnesota and Northwestern In
that order.
New Orleans promoters. are
trying to talk Jack Torrance, the
well-known Baton Rouge cop,
into trying . ring comeback .
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Odds Boosting Mats Over 1898
Ignored by Bosses; De Shong
Bids for Slab in Opener

Arnold Anderson and Joe Haynes
against the Bees today.
In the Capital tomorrow Ken
Chase and Rene Monteagudo prob
ably will work. Chief interest to
Washington fans will be the unveil-
ing of Roberto Ortiz and Alexandra
Carrasquel. the Cuban speedballer
and first Venezuelan in the majors,
respectively. They will hurl either
against the Bees on Thursday or
against the Baltimore Orioles on
Saturday. Next Sunday the Mats
will play their last exhibition against
Baltimore in the Monumental City
and then open the season against
the Yankees on Monday.
Masterson Proves Impressive.
There were indications that Har-
ris' confidence was not misplayed
when he branded the 18-year-old
Masterson as Washington's most
promising rookie hurler. for. after
De Shong had limited the Bees to
three hits in a six-inning stretch,
Walter stepped to the mound and
pitched no-hit, no-run ball for three
innings.
A trio of successive singles and a
sacrifice fly by Al Simmons &C
counted for the Bees runs In the
fourth, but the Mats reduced that to
81 in the fifth when Charley Gel
bert singled. Jimmy Wasdell doubled
and Pitcher Johnny Pezzulo Wild
pitched Colbert across.
Wasdell responded with single
with the bases full in the seventh,
scoring Sammy West, and two more
runs trickled over when Third Base
man Johnny Hill muffed Angelo
Giuliani's grounder and Arthur Doll,
Boston catcher, committed two
passed balls.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
P|aySoConnp|ex
Teams Require
Long Tuning
Out-of-Seuson Tits
Are Spurned Only
By Ivy League
BY DREW MIDDLETON,
Associsted Press SPORTS Writer.


NEW YORK, April 11.-Any lin
gering idea that football is q fall
sport will be dissipated by q visit to
any of the more advanced football
founts. The big-shoulder guys are
at it hot and heavy and the at
mosphere is the real Mccoy, games
n everything.
Practice games with other colleges
have become recognized part OF the
spring athletic program. Once
coaches merely subjected their meal
tickets to bruising. but unproductive
intrasquad scrimmages. Nowadays
1t isn't surprising to see team travel
200 miles or so for practice" game,
played before respectable crowd
with cheer leaders and all the fix.
ings.
It's all very easy to explain.
A coach says: I'VE have to do It.
Modern football is so complex it
can't be taught in a short time.
Proper timing and play execution
can't be perfected unless we have
long spring drills and scrimmage
under game conditions. Squads are
SO large it takes more time to choose
the players"
Opposed Only in Ivy League.
Graduate managers, always alive
to publicity, think the games needle
up enthusiasm for the fall season.
Coaches like to play outside opposi-
ton for three reasons: Cd 1t gives
the squad an incentive; CD their
own second-stringers used in intra.
squad trays are thoroughly familiar
with the first team formations; 90
freshmen. who may make the team
as sophomores in the fall, get a
chance to show their stuff or lack Of
it in tough competition.
While here and there an educator
has raised his hands in horror at
| spring footballs growth, the only
real opposition of any strength is in
the Ivy League of the East. But
with teams like Michigan, Stanford,
Army and Navy on Ivy schedules,
there seems little chance the opposi-
ton will amount to much.
You do not, however, hear any
echoing cheers from the spring
sports coaches. Instead you hear.
yep. young Smith would make a
fine second baseman-or quarter
miller or stroke oar-but he's fine
quarterback, too
Squads Are Promising.
One of the more philosophical
master-minds was easier. I'VE can't
kick" he said. Football pays the
bills for u.s.
Outside of the Ivy League, where
spring practice is short, but not
noticeably sweet, the boys have been
doing fine. On the reports of scouts
and fanatics we can announce that:
Duke, Clemson and Mississippi
have been performing heroically in
the South and Alabama is back, big
and tough.
Fordham, barring accidents Of
scholastic or physical nature. will be
tops in the East with Jim Blumen-
stock and Len Eshmont, two of the
East's best halfbacks. ready, willing
and able. Army. Cornell and Syra-
cuse loom as minor powers.
Out West, Michigan and Mime
sofa awed onlookers, and Notre
Dame is down to its last $50 players.
Oh, yes. The Horned Frogs Of
Texas Christian will be better than
fair.
Evening star., 1939-04-11

Correction: Umpire Bed New
man (he's the one who can't
hear what you call him) will be
In the Southeastern, not the East
Texas League this season.
Today's guest star. Sammy
Cohen, Meriden (Conn.) Journal:
Henry Armstrong is writing his
autobiography under the title,
The Glory Road We sug-
gest the tome be called The
Cory Road"
One shrewd follower of the
bangtails has his Derby dough
riding as follows 10000
on Xalapa Clown Gin the future
books at $3.50 $50 on Ell
Chico at 5 to-1 Also a 10
spot on Buffalo Bill at 100 to l,
just for the fun of 1t.
Old Lefty Grove probably win
80 down In baseball - the only
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Gets Only Honorable
Mention for Losinq
10Games in Row
Sucrumento's Sad Sturt
Recalls Favored Seals
Big Flop in 1912
BY tie Associated Press,

by tre Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April Ii
Baseball experts, thumbing through
Pacific Coast League history, de-
cided today the Sacramento Sem
ators had reached honorable men
ton status if they had not speared
a new record by losing their first 10
games of the season. That's all that
have been played.
Available files and the memories
of the older baseball roofing division
fail to disclose a longer losing streak
beginning with the opening game.
The Senators needn't feel so badly
about it, however. in view of the case
of the 1912 San Francisco Seals.
That club, before the season
opened, had a Coast League rating
comparable to the present-day rank
ing of the New York Yankees in all
baseball. The Seals manager, the
late Danny Long, was so impressed
with his talent he telegraphed every
club in the Southern League offer
ing held at any position.
Thought Team Too Good.
"Take some of these players of
my hands or we'll make such a run
away of the race it will be illegal
was the gist of his messages to man
ager-friends in the other league.
The big story of the 1912 coast loop
pennant chase was this: The highly
favored Seals won their first game
in 13 innings, then lost 13 successive
contests and finished the season in
last place. And Manager Long
hadn't sent a player away.
Ten years or so before the Oak
land club of the California State
League, which preceded the coast
circuit, lost 26 games in row.
Have Reasons for Hopes.
Although the losing streak
was unexpected, Sacramento fans
haven't lost hope because they re-
call the club of three years ago
seemed as weak as boarding house
coffee in the early part of the race,
vet came back to finish first in the
regular schedule.
Besides, First-string Catcher
Brusie Ogrodowski is incapacitated
with a cracked finger, and Outf1eld-
ers Lou Vezelich and Max Marshall
and Shortstop Pat Ankenman are IN
untimely slumps.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
e. a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

CHARLOTTE. N. c.. April IL
As the Nationals reached this final
Southern port of call today there
was reason to mediate upon the
vagaries of baseball. With the open
ing of the American League season
less than a week off, they found
themselves admittedly weaker than
a year ago, at least for the start
of the campaign, and yet given three
times as much chance of winning
the pennant by the country's fore
most bookmaker.
For Jack Doyle, the Broadway
betting czar, has established the
Mats as only 10-to-1 shots to beat
out the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers,
Indians and the other three clubs.
Last year, with Zeke Bonura prom
ising to hit $50 and Al Simmons
as a serious run-producer, they
were 30 to /.
Doyle's current odds quote the
Griffman as to l to finish second
and even money to place third In
the race. It must be that Mr.. Doyle,
from afar, admires such local head
aches as the outfield, first base and
pitching problems.
De Shong Bids for First Game.
From what has been squeezed
from Manager Bucky Harris and
President Clark Griffith so far, no
such confidence is placed in the
Washington club. Harris thinks it
will be an interesting club, but he
frankly figures on fifth place, quail
flying with:
IF any of the leaders-New York,
Boston. Detroit or Cleveland-slips,
We'll sneak into the first division" /"
! Prior to the Mats two straight
victories over the Boston Bees,
Griffith still was confessing that
his firm might get worse before
it gets better" The Old Fox is con-
vinced that he is on the right track
in rebuilding his club, but it isn't
likely that he will snap up those
10-to-1 odds. Grif1 can get a longer
price.
Speaking Of. baseballs vagaries,
Jimmy DeShong is confounding
everybody. Jimmy emerged as the
hero of the Mats 4-to-2 victory over
the Bees yesterday in Savannah,
a game in which Jimmy and Young
Walter Masterson held the enemy
to three hits.
Before he went into this game
Jimmy seriously was being consid-
cred by Harris and Griffith as the
opening game pitcher. His showing
did nothing to disturb the belief
that he will give q good account
of himself If chosen. De Shong
always has been effective against
his old mates, the Yankees, and
this fact may be the point which
will sway Harris to his side.
Latins to Be Unveiled.
DE Shong reported to the Wash
ington camp in Orlando on March
l as a question. mark. He was q
terrific disappointment last year.
Harris gave up on him as q starter
and even used him as sparingly as
possible in relief roles. When he
came South this year James Brook
lyn was on the fence. There were
times when Bucky sounded as II he
was in favor Of giving Jimmy the
old heave-ho. But today De Shong
ranks well up among the throwers
of the squad, possibly as the ace.
The Mats were here today again
to play the Bees and tomorrow
morning early they will arrive In
the Capital to open q 2-game series
at Griffith Stadium with the Ma
tional Leaguers.
With IN eye on the gate here,
Harris viii pitch BucN Jacobs,
Evening star., 1939-04-11
BY EDDIE BRETT,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

NEW YORK, April 11.-Rice
Institute is getting ready to show
you one of the hottest football
clubs in the country if the pro-
fessors don't ask three of Jimmy
Kits star linemen too many
embarrassing questions Right
quick, now and before reaching
for the records, who played right
Held for the Yanks before Babe
Ruth? Ut was a chap named
Gilhooley) Nova and Baer
are due this week to start get
ting ready for each other
Tip: If Freddie Hutchinson
hops as q pitcher Detroit might
stick him behind the plate. He
was q catcher In high school and
could hit like fool.
Il Veed Box spec4als-Johnstown
Evening star., 1939-04-11
National CiyLeague
Will Present Two
Strong Sections
Games for Older SundIot
Players Scheduled to
Stort at II A.M.

One Of the strongest and appar-
emily best balanced fields ever to
seek Sunday sandlot baseball honors
in the city will face the barrier May
7 when the National City League
inaugurates its annual campaign.
All eight franchises have been
awarded in section B, and President
Vic Gauzza expects to dispose of
the two remaining berths in section
A before the week ends.
A new feature of section B this
season will be the starting time of
II am, previously a cordially dis
liked and widely stunned hour.
The old and popular theory was that
only younger teams, preferably
midgets and insects, should play in
the mornings, but the older boys are
taking over the hour this year with
the idea of getting to the beach or
major league game in the after
noon. Section A, however, will be-
gin its games at the customary 3
pm.
Reads Nine Moves Up.
Reeds Pharmacy, champion of B
section last year. has moved up into
section A this season, and will battle
Tex Tavern, Klein's Tavern, Frank
Small Motors, D. G. S. and Cameo
Furniture for honors. Buffers Fed
erals have applied for a franchise,
but no definite action has been
taken in the matter. Gauzza is re-
ceiving applications for the berths
at Atlas Sport Shop.
Opening day games in section B
will find Wakefield Dairy opposing
Arcade Market, Arcade Pontiac VS..
Wade Auto Service, Ross Jewellers
VS.. j. E. Dyer Co. and Southwest
Market VS.. Service Battery, 26Oth
Coast Artillery. Frank Milan, one
time member of the Chicago Cubs,
will be at the Arcade Market helm.
Masterminding against him will be
1t. H. G. Steele, Service Battery,
who also intends to lend hand
with the pitching chores on his
club: Bob Dunigan of Dyer Co., Gus
Leone, Arcade Pontiac: H. G. Lump
kin, Wade's; Ed Cooper, Ross Jewel
ers; the veteran Bill McCrea, South
west Market, and Jack Bendure,
Wakefield.
Bendures Rival Managers.
Young Bendure, incidentally, will
encounter family opposition if his
club manages to gain the play-off
for city honors, for Small Motors
will be piloted by his father, Ed
Bendure.
In section A Bill Greene will
manage Tex Tavern, Dutch" Ger
hardt will direct Klein's Tavern, Sam
Cole is at the Cameo helm, and
Charley Read will have charge OF the
Pharmacy nine. Charley Dean is
handling Buffers Federals, but that
teams league future is a bit hay
at this time.
Each time will meet its opponents
twice, with winners to be declared
at the end of each half. A three
game series for the title will be
played in each league after the
regularly scheduled games, If neces-
sary, and If time permits, the two
section winners will be matched for
the city crown.
Evening star., 1939-04-11

guy for whom two other guys
paid 100 grand and both got their
moneys worth The latest
from Hub is that his shoulder
is o. K, but his arm still is
'half dead"
Bronko getting tough. Bronko
Nagurski has given up trying to
reform wrestling He now Is
featuring as varied an assort-
ment of strangle holds, incor-
rigible knees, rabbit punches and
free-style use of either FORE
finger for gouging purposes as
any grappler in the business.
Latest blurb from the Jack
Roper camp carries a picture Of
Dick Donald, captioned Mana
ger Of the Next World Cham
pion" Also 1t predicts Roper
win kayo Louis IN four heats.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Night Softies to Bond

The Commercial Twilight Softball
League will hold an organization
meeting at tonight in Joe Judges
Tavern. Teams desiring franchises
are requested TO be represented.
Evening star., 1939-04-11

Five years Chicago Black
hawks won Stanley Cup by de-
feating Detroit Red Wings, 10,
In second overtime period to take
final hockey playof series, 81.
Evening star., 1939-04-11

Three years ago-Maj. Austin
c. Taylor's Indian Broom broke
world record for mile and fur
long winning the 10000 March,
bank Handicap In 1:l7x.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Il Was All Umpire Hubbord's Fault

We asked him. when he checked into the hotel how his
t the moment Oh SWELL answered joe Heck didn't
any batters his
batters The walks and wild pitches book
Joe was ptfu looking pitcher He
sorted to pushing the ball the Usually
bases were well filled He getting his regularly
year ago almost to the day the Mats
play the Boston Bees One last chance
Bees notably htters lambased
tan the
and collected II bases
When was the players climbed weary
OF tem like Buddy Myer shook their heads sadly
the legged boy the ugly duckng the pitching That
game cinched his fate It the minors
Kakaukas said nothing Tght-pped,
there until
bard sat in the front Is that
kauskas spoke In fact, he screamed:
Mice going Hubbard You wouldn't give
How anybody pitch good ball break behind
the plate in a whle?"
SO that
He thought he was good then and he now.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Baseball
BY the Associated Press

Games Today.
Washington (A.) VS.. Boston N).
New York !N) VS.. Cleveland (A).
st. Louis (A.l VS.. Chicago tN).
Cincinnati tN) VS.. Boston lA).
Pittsburgh tND VS.. Chicago (A),
BROOKLYN tND vs. New York fA).
st Louis (N) vs.. Knoxville tS Az.
Detroit tAD VS.. Atlanta Is. A..
Philadelphia (N0 VS.. Gadsden IS. E).
Phi1adelphia Ph tN.} seconds vs.: Talladega.
Philsdelphia (Ao seconds vs.. Macon
u. A. L..
Results Yesterday.
WASHINGTON a.; I; Boston ~. 2.
Chicago (N), 10; st. Louis (A), 2.
boston nina.I |Ao' 4; Cincinnati tNo. 8 40
Pittsburgh (N). Z: CHICAGO (A). 3.
Brooklyn (N0. 13; New York (A.), s.
Philadelphia N). 8: Bkmingham 10.
Al. l.
Philsdslphis - rs. Ais:'i5 is: Duke Uni.
versity. 2.
Phhadelphia (A.). seconds. IL; colum-
bus (S A. L., 8.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Griff Says Joe Was the Worst

Fortunately for Mr. Krakauska the of the Old
than his bite Gf uniform drilled him until
Der and the winter Washington could
spite his knoy muscles And Grf likes throw
But he the worst recalls Gf alongside him.
kid Ortiz artist regular pitching artist
really bushwhacker himself Why Krakauskas wrists thick
he couldn't twist them much throw
knew where going Sometimes still think
AS said in the beginning lot of people believe
will pitch the opening against the Yankees
pappy Grs bad For the entire training period he has
of the best pitcher club
noorousy improved
sort of workman.
I'll tell how much improved he isl Gritth
better that only
handler in the American League Right Lefty Gomez
Hes still fellow but when Gomez
be through He pitches funny He
he a-buit like Krakauskas"
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Grid Game With All Trimmings Now Regular Part Of College Spring Program
Win, Lose or Draw
Modem Version Of the Ugly DuckIinq
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star Staf1 Correspondent.

CHARLOTTE c. April 1One of the veler speculative topics
Nationals
didn't make difference
to be named Butch the astonishing thing
wide mediocity
hope, if only in small doses.
Next after James Brooklyn De shong.
Impressive form in the AZ subugation National
League representatives Savannah yesterday the odds
seem to favor bandylegged Lithuanian Joseph
Victor Lawrence Krakauskas despite
the Bees in the farewell Orlando Sunday He thandd
member in bad standing of the staff
bad he dismissed trying
strike that Krakauska make big pitcher
for nearly everybody
will orget?" asked Clark Griffith the that
big buhwhack looked when he first Washington the
worst I'd He terrible hopeless, impossible"
Mr. Griffith referring to the fall of 1885
bria Wadded
do?" asked MI. Griffith dubousy
Mr. Cambria promptly point Crf said
dunno what he football
madam kind OF footbrugby something But look his muscles
Mr. Griffith studied Krakauskas muscles unmpressed
They're too big and knot
been good pitcher yet with big
Evening star., 1939-04-11

PaciflcACoast LeaEue.
No games scheduled.
Evening star., 1939-04-11
Joe Never Lost His Confidence

Its all the wrist
hips the ball of The
That's why he'll last long time"
Even to the ayman
that Krakauskas
who h brought to training
nr and only time Krakky batting
practice. He warmed toed the rubber fly
Red
ball. travelling at terrific speed him
anatomy which is standing
enough said Manager Bucky
fore ne kills somebody Krakauskas the training period
chasing drives in the outheld during practice.
thing above
speed That his confidence shipped
1886 the Canadian
main baseball In 1887
the Mats were hard for pitchers Cambria
fned the club Philadelphia
Evening star., 1939-04-11
johnson Wasn't q Real Pitcher

Many baseball people will tell they would rather sit
talk with Griffith than anybody the
something like lam session. terbugs
the quickly pitching
himself pitcher couldn't
but he 80
There kinds of pitchers"
pitched alus ousmaed EN- threw when
pecing fast one AS the Griffith bushes
of
The fellows who batters amt pitchers
They just throwers Walter johnson
great he the greatest fact
Grove So Newsom them
But they're good to have they have power"
Joseph Victor Lawrence Krakauskas
hrower He stands feet
would
soc uatty His not in proportion
Short like Heinie Mnushs How
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