The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3l, l946

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 Sports Briefs
 The University of Nevada one of the stronger football teams of the West--is going to get more help. Len Marmoor, a speedy back who played with the l944 Nevada squad. has returned from the Ar my and Coach Jim Aiken says Marmoor probably will see action Saturday against Montana State.
 Football season has just about reached the halfway mark and bowl talk is rampant The Menlo Jun for College football team has tossed it's helmet into the ring for an invitation to the Little Rose Bowl game scheduled December 7th at the Pasadena Bowl between the two top junior college elevens ia California. Student President Bill Sales outlined Menlo's record: four games won, one tied and l23 points to 12 for their opponents
 Former Lightweight Champion of Mexico, Enrique Bolanos, didn't let his boosters down last night. He stopped the Filipino titleholder, Star Misamis of Manila. in the second round of their scheduled ten round bout in Oakland A left heck dropped the Filipino for the count. Bolanos was a five to one favorite.
 Ray (Sugar) Robinson who meets Tommy Bell in New York on December 20th for recognition as Welterweight Champion = has agreed to fight the winner of Fri day nights bout at Chicago be- tween Casey Jones and Joe Red dick. Promoter Ben Zenoff said the proposed bout will be held at eisher the Chicago Coliseum or the International Amphitheater on No vemfer 18th.
 Chicagos 19-year-old Lightweight, Johnny Bratton, is setting his sights for the big time. Bratton will engage the veteran Willie Joyce of Gary IndiaEc, tonight in the Chicago Stadium. Bratton has scored four knockouts in six bouts within the past year.
 Robert Burton of Pittsburgh died last night in a Providence, Rhode Island, ring after he had been knocked down by his opponent, a l Providence fighter also named Rob- ert Burton. The 24-year-old Ne ero-tather of two children-was tlocred by right to the body in l the fifth round. Efforts of a State Boxing Commission doctor and police inhalator squad to revive Burton were unsuccessful.
 Baseball's mystery of the year will be solved next Tuesday. Larry MacPhail has promised to disclose Tuesday afternoon the name of the man selected to manage the New York Yankees during the 1947 sea son.
 The Yankee President is bucking lot of competition for space in the newspapers and on the news casts in announcing his selection on Tuesday-that's election day you knoW-but MacPhail figures fan interest is so high that his an- nouncement will get it's just share of publicity.
 Thsre are at least one thousand baseball biggies who have been mentioned as possibilities, but the top candidates appear to be Char lie Dressen, Bucky Harris, Frankie F1isch and Leo Durocher, despite 1 the Lips avowal that he'll stay in Brooklyn until he dies.
 Warren Giles is sure of his job as a General Manager of the Gin cinnati Reds for another tive years Giles-Who has run the Red-Legs since 1886 signed a new five-year pact last night It replaced a three-year contract which was signed only year ago. Club President Powel Crosley didn't dis close the salary terms but he said that we wanted to make his fu- ture here so attractive he could not be lured away from Cincinnati