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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-17
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Champion, Boxes
 SeatiIe

SEATTLE, June IT. tR--Joe Louis. who probably could and would take them both on at once, steps through the ropes tonight to go four rounds at the Civic Ice Arena against Tiges Jack Fox of Spokane and Bill Peterson of Chicago and Seattie-one at time.
 The boxing card, with a couple of eight rounders in the preclimax spot, starts at 8:30 and ends when MT. Louis closes out his tea party with the local opposition around 10 o'clock. give or take a few minutes.
 Joe got in shape for the evening by playing 36 hcles of golf yester- day. Peterson took a light workout in the gym and Tiger Jack won a clean cut decision over a plate of pork chops. The training notes from the Louis camp said his put ting was much improved.
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SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES

Although Ike Williams is recog- nized in most States as light weight champion and Tippy Larkin is recognized in some as junior well ter champion, they're fighting Fri day in New York, where they'll be recognized by the color of their tights
 The fight that really is stirring interest among the pros this week is Willie Pep vs. Victor Flores to- night. Every manager who owns a featherweight vii be on hand to see how the champions injured leg stands up
 Hugh Stewart, national junior doubles tennis champ, is expected to fly in from Korea for the Army Navy tourney. He's due for his Army discharge at the end of July.
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OSBORNE BROTHERS BUILDING TR0LLERS

The Osborne brothers, Tom and Orville, are nearing the completion Of their trollers, the Pinta and Orion. They purchased two 38 foot hulls from the U. s. Navy last fall in Kodiak The ships were originally used for harbor craft The broth CTS then had them shipped to Ju- neau for extensive work.
 The brothers have been working on the ships since last winter and hope to be out by the end of this week. A Universal engine with no horsepower has been installed and the two are now working on the rigging. They plan to fish off Cape Cross for this season.
 LUTHERAN Rummage Sale, June 18. 10 am. 607-t2
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All TICKETS VALID FOR QUEEN CONTEST;
 "L0Y" ONES FOUND

Alls wei that ends well, and too many cocks spoil the broth. plus a few mere well-worn sayings apply to the case of the lost" tickets for the Fourth of July Queen contest, which, as it turns cut, were never lost at all but ar in the hands Of one of the contestants.
 The erroneous report to the Elm pire concerning the missing tickets all came about because a certain wellknCwn and very busy man did net find the note on his desk which tcld him the tickets had been turn cd ever to the candidate Instead of kicking uE a fuss around the of flee when he missed the five books, he assumed he must have misplaced them himself, and so notified mem- bers of the Fourth of July commit tee and the Empire
 The whole thing was cleared up alter the report came out in the paper, and the rest of the office fierce began comparing notes, and es we said at the beginning, "all's well that ends well"
 All tickets have been accounted for, and declared valid by the com mittee. and it is sincerely hoped no harm was done by the mixup.
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J0-J0 WHITE T0p5LEAGUE
 IN BATTING
Seattle Manager Isn 'tWor- rying About His Team
 Keeps Swdiiinq
By BILL BECKER Associated Press Sports Writer

The Seattle RainierS may be down in the Coast League standings, but Manager Jo-Jo White isn't letting that bring him down.
 The colorful, ever hustling pilot outfielder is topping the circuit in batting with a fat 360 average for 42 games Jo-Jo hasn't been playing as regularly as some. but the former Detroit player is doing much better than the day some unkind Tiger following scribe wrote.
 "Jo-Jo runs like rabbit, but un- fortunately hits like one. too"
 White can still scamper with the cottontails, but his batting now puts him at least in the gazelle class.
 And says Lou Novikoff, the man who does most of the Rainiers' slug ging, Whites the best manager l ever played for"
 The big Russian, hitting .330, has slammed out II homers and driven i'll AS runs to rank among the lead CTS. And he's grateful to Jo-Jo.
 White, Novikoff and Co.,, will try to hoist themselves out of the cellar this week at home at the expense of the seventh-place Hollywood Stars, who are not too steady on the road.
 Other PCL engagements put San Diegos fast-traveling Padres, who have won seven of their last nine games. at Los Angeles; San Francisco at Sacramento, where the scouts are buzzing like bees about the sweet catching prospect, Eddie Fitzgerald currently batting .347: and Port land at Oakland. where the Oaks hope to increase their one game league lead,
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BIG LEAGUE ATTENDANCE
 KEEPING Up
Baseball Fans Crowd Parks fo See Sport Three
 Monday Games
By JOE REICHLER

Associated Press Sports Writer
 Those who have been predicting that Major League baseball attend ance never again would approach the altitudinous figures reached last season may be forced to eat the.r words.
 Including games played last night, the two leagues have drawn a total of 6,798,795 fans, only 101, 1850 cash customers behind the corresponding period year ago on games through June Is. However they have utiliz- ed only 355 playing dates as com pared to 363 playing dates last year.
 A night game Yankee Stadium crowd of 52,633 fans saw their fa- vorites trail for seven innings, then come through with two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth to give the New York Yankees a 4-3 vic tory over the Chicago White Sox. The triumph increased the Yan- kees' first place lead in the Ameri- can League to game and a half over Detroit and Boston, deadlocked for second place.
 With 20,C97 locking on in Chicago, the Brooklyn Dodgers, taking ad- vantage of two errors by first base man Ed Waitkus, scored two un- earned runs to eke out a 2-l deci- sion over the Cubs.
 In the only other game played in the Majors, the rejuvenated St. Louis Cardinals eked cut 4-3 vic- tory over the Philadelphia Phillies in St. Louis
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SMALL BOYS START
 FIRE; DEPT. CALLED

Two unidentified small boys were responsible for the calling out of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart ment last evening at 6.05 o'clock for a Az alarm. The youngsters built a small campfire under the concrete sidewalk on Calhoun Av- enue in frcnt oi the Seaview Apart ments.
 No damage was done, but large crowd witnessed plenty of smoke before the City Bremen could crawl into the marrow passage under the sidewalk in order to quench the flames.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-17
BAIT FOR IUMMy

Frank Lawrence, Portsmouth Cubs boss who was honored yesterday on the anniversary of his 40 years in banking and baseball, says he got into the latter business because he could earn $5 a week when the local newspaper wouldn't raise him from the $3.50 weekly l.e was getting as a sports write You should hear the needing job the toastmaster, Tommy Richardson, Eastern League President, did with those figures
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H0SpiTAL NOTES

Yesterdays admittances at St Ann's Hospital were J. B. Caro, fer surgery; Mrs. Joe Reid, and Mrs. Lee Smith for medical Dis charged were Mike Gavril, medical, Ernest Andersen, medical, Mrs. Paul A. Sharnbroich and baby daughter, Phyllis Long. medical and R. E. Sharnbroich, surgery.
 The Government Hospital had no admittances or discharges yester- day.
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Ap SPORTS
 ROUNDUP
By HUGH FULLERTON ,JR.

PORTSMOUTH, Va, June17.-R
 Favorite topic of conversation in this part of the country today is what happened to Sammy Snead on the 72nd hole at St. Louis and is Samm getting temperamental . Lew Worsham is a Virginia boy, too, but that fact is recognized only casu- ally since he has spent more time around Washington. D. G..
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JOE LOUIS
 I5 OFFERED
 ALASkAGO
Anchorage Promoter Ready with S10,00O for
 Champ s Show in July

SEATTLE, June 17-lR-Freddie Sommers, booking agent for Joe Louis current exhibition boxing tour, said today he had received long distance telephone call from Anchorage, Alaska, offering S10,00o and cut of the gate for an ex- hibition appearance there in July.
 Included in the offer, made by Ernie Stolen of the Alaska city, were five plane tickets from Chicago to Anchorage. Sommers said Joe would give the offer every con- sideration.
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16 SADDLE H0RSES ARE
 ON ALEUTiAN FOR WEST

Aboard the steamer Aleutian, in port last night bound west, are Is Washington bred saddle horses. Their owner, Lew Anderson, Alas kan guide, is on the steamer with the horses
 Anderson purchased the horses for two hunting parties organized by doctors of St. Paul and Chicago to be used during the next couple of weeks to the westward.
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TRAFFIC WARNING
 ESSUED BY LYBE(k

Street Superintendent Bert Ly- beck today asks that motorists go slow on lower Franklin Street at certain location. Lybeck has a crew employed on sewer work near the sawmill and cautions drivers of cars and trucks to ease up when passing the work job.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-17
HERE FROM SEATTLE

The following persons from Se- attle arrived yesterday and are re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel: w. L. Schatterly. Arthur Anderson, Dr. Richard Peterson, Larry Hagen, William Warner, Fred c. Canine and Fred Linden.
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in well chosen investments, ALAS KA FINAN CORPORATION, Cooper Building, 4th and Main.
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PLAN -D spend your July 4th holiday at Taku Ledge. Contact Mary Joyce at the Baranof Hotel for reservations. -adv-605-t1
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FROM PELICAN CITY

Clara Broone of Pelican City ar rived yesterday and is staying at the Gastinesu Hotel
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SITKA MAN HERE

George Dick of Sitka is in town and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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rAKU LODGE

Call Mary Joyce at the Baranof for reservations and transportation arrangements. adv. 604-tf
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NOTICE

I will net be responsible for any bills made by the Northwest Dairy Carvica
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TIDE TABLE

Sell it With an Empire Want-ad!
Evening star., 1947-06-19
|BroWneH Is Favored
As State Tile Coli
Opens al Columbia

Bobby Brownen. triple title holder
from Chevy Chase, appeared to be
the one to beat as q Held of 88
golfers teed on today IN the 23d an
nual Maryland State Amateur golf
tournament at Columbia Country
Club.
Ideal playing conditions were
promised for the qualifying test that
will send one flight of 80 contestants
into the title scramble. Two rounds
of match play are scheduled tomor-
row and two Saturday, with the
championship final Sunday.
BroWnell. however, expected stif1
competition from the field, partic-
ularly from Clubmate Ralph Bogart
and Volney Burnett OF Indian
Spring. District of Columbia and
Middle Atlantic champ. in addition
to holding the Kenwood invitational
crown, Brownelps consistent swing
ing rated an edge over both, but
dopesters conceded that either could
spring an upset If he got hot.
The race is wide open this year
as Otto Greiner of Baltimore, last
years victor, has since turned pro-
feSsional and is in Detroit striving
for the PGA crown.
Tomorrow's test viii consist OF two
rounds OF is holes each, with an
encore Saturday. The f1nalists will
battle 36 holes for the crown.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
| Worshom to Get
| New Automobile
| At Testimonial

A royal welcome home for Ma
tional Open Goh Champion Lew
Worsham, climaxed by testimonial
dinner next Thursday night at Con-
gressional Golf and Country Club.
was being planned today, with civic
and sports leaders joining forces to
honor the new titleholder.
Wash B. williams, chairman Of
the General Committee that met
yesterday at the Touchdown Club,
said Worsham would receive new
Cadillac as token Of Washington s
esteem. A parade down Pennsyl-
yania avenue and a visit to the
White House, where Worsham will
shake hands with President Thu
man, also is planned.
Some 1000 guests are expected to
attend the dinner, at $3.50 q plate,
and scrolls to be signed by persons
donating to the celebration will be
available at all golf courses and
sporting goods stores. Any money
above the amount required TO meet
expenses will be given to the fund
to curb juvenile delinquency.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Big Name Pilots Enter i
Midget Auto Race
Field tomorrow

Midget auto racing fans are hop
ing to get q glimpse Of the new
Curtis Offenhauser cars tomorrow
night at the scheduled opening Of
wice-postponed competition at the
West Lanham tMd.) speedway. Rae
ing is slated to start at $50.
Tony Bonadies, Dutch Schaefer,
Chet Gibbons. Jeep Colkitt, Al Kel-
Ter and Johnny Ritter, all big names
in the field, have forwarded their
entries to General Manager Howard
Livingston and will be behind the
wheels of their new speedsters.
Charley Breslin, George Mulhol-
land, Charley Miller, Johnny Jars,
Hap Pierson, Mike Joseph, Hawley
Right and Vic Sloan are other pop
ular pilots who will compete In the
Lanham inaugural.
A new service will be introduced
tomorrow night, with chartered
buses carrying patrons directly to
the track. Buses start from Alb
Eleventh street NV. at tbs pm.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Bike Riders Had Speed to Burn, Vet Recalls
6Yeurod Speaker Rode Everything Including Roce Horses

and ride the back wheel you
know, like these fellows you see
in the circus. Lots of those boys
went on the stage later, but rae
ing was our big interest at that
time =
Speaker viii not soon forget
one of his earliest rides on q
motorcycle. The McGraw brothers
OF Jacksonville had q hrand-new
"souped up Thor they wanted
tested.
.sYou take her down on the
beach and turn her loose. they
told him. Open 1t up wide and
you can have the machine
He got q running start at
Atlantic Beach, about 5 miles
above Peoblo Beach, and gave it
the gun. They had no electrical
timing devices, of course, and
when he passed Peoblo all the
sponsors saw was a blur of sand
and smoke. But the machine had
cone bearings. brass fitting
inside steel. not the ball bearings
we have today, and the front
wheel locked on him.
TT threw me and then that
thing roared around on the beach
like wild dog. The last / saw Of
the beautiful machine that was
mine for riding it, it was dis
appearing in the ocean"
Speaker was badly injured in
that spill and still refuses to talk
about 1t.
Il should have known better
than to trust those cone-bear-
ings," he said. But come around
sometime and TIL tell you about
the time I gave Sloane a bloody
nose. Sure, he gave me one, too,
but 1t was q lot of fun"
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Mrs. Rex Howard Winner
In kenwood Golf Tourney

Posting low figures in both handi-
cap and gross columns, Mrs. Rex j.
Howard marched of with the
George Diffenbaugh Golf Trophy
In yesterdays tournament at Ken
wood Club. Her card read, 3D.
6-78, and she elected to take the
handicap award. giving the gross
prize to Mrs. Betty Meckley, who
turned in an 81.
Mrs. E. r. Gerguson's @-17-7s
was second best handicap score,
with Mrs. Edward Widmayer's 93-
1870, third low.
Mrs. E. G. Atwood took low net
award in class B with 97-1s-7s,
while Mrs. j. .. Morgan's 102 was
good for gross honors.
Mrs. Petty Wire, who turned In
a 119-19-100, won the best sport"
prize.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Reuqh Will Defend Junior Title
InGof Meet Opening Tuesday

Chase IS, Md. All entries must be
accompanied by a fee of 81 and
play is restricted to boys who have
not reached their 10th birthday.
Tournament champion will have
his name and that of the club he
represents inscribed on the Albert
R. Mckenzie junior championship
trophy. He also will be awarded
a gold medal, while the runner-up
will receive silver medal.
The tourney is under the direc-
ton of the Executive Committee,
headed by Chairman Leo v. Freud
berg and including Steinem, Martin
F. Mccarthy, william M. Briggs,
Donald F. Mackenzie. Harry Pitt,
Herbert M. Jones, Francis E. Me-
Ardle. G. M. Thompson and Ever
EFT H. Johnson.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Richmond Delegation at PGA
Expecting to Get '48 Tourney

used to caddie for Walter Hagen,
from whom he probably got some
pretty good tips on how to shoot
q Ct. The most pitiful figure
among the big name pros is Craig
Wood, who admittedly has the
putting "yips" and stabs at each
putt with a jerky stroke. His tee
to green golf In the Open was
excellent, but he picked up
finally and here he started with
rs, after going out in 40.
Locke will play an exhibition
match in Baltimore, probably
with Byron Nelson as a partner.
:. The opening day attend
ance of $500 was the largest
first-day crowd In PGA history.
The Plum Hollow course is
odd in that it has five par 3s
and five par SIS. -. With Locke,
Johnny Bulla and Vic Ghezzi
all on hand, it appears that the
British Open will be all for the
English pros. =. Worsham's
Open triumph assured him OF a
place on the Ryder Cup team
for the matches this fall.
M. w. N.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
By Lewis T. Atchison

~speed?" the old gentleman
echoed. You should have been
around ct the start Of the speed
age and you would have seen
some excitement. We rode BIZ
cycles first, later motorcycles and
racing cars. even rode horses
rode against Tod Sloane lots OF
times, but bikes were the i'm
portant thing when ] started"
Sixty -eight-year-old Vent w.
Speakers eyes lighted with
competitive fire as his mind
drifted back over the years to
long miles Of unpayed roads,
dusty tracks and putting squads
Of muscular young men hunched
over the handlebars OF two
wheeler. The only motive power
then was in q mans legs and q
bike champ stacked up favorably
with the great John L. Sullivan
and giants in other fields OF sport.
Speaker, now manager OF the
trophy department for a Wash
ington jewelry firm, still chuckles
about the time he, a 17-year-
old novice, received a 12-minute
handicap in q 25-mile grind at
Birmingham. The race was over
the old "loop," down Eighth
avenue, over the road to Besse-
mer a piece and back again.
With q 12-minute start I had
q good chance of winning even
though I was riding against the
top men and / planned a care
full race" he said. We'll, sir, I
no sooner got to the edge OF
town than freight train came
along and blocked the road. 1t
Evening star., 1947-06-19
BY Staff Correspondent Of IL. Ssar

DETROIT, June 19.-The
Richmond (Va.) delegation is on
hand, expectantly waiting for
the awarding of the 1948 tour
nament site to the Hermitage
Club. >. Lew Worsham has not
made any commitments since
winning the National Open, but
will await conference with off,
cials of Oakmont Club, where he
is slated to take over as pro.
Worsham wants to play tourna-
ment and exhibition golf.
His sporting goods sponsors re-
warded him with q check for
$4,000, which matched first prize
in the Open.
Jimmy Nichols, the one-armed
golfer who qualified in Massa-
chusetts, had an 81 In yesterdays
first round. Bobby Locke,
unlike most of the American
pros who wear themselves out
on the practice tee, hits only
dozen or SO shots before each
round. He is q putting green
fiend, however. :. Clarence
Doser, the first day medalist,
Evening star., 1947-06-19

took exactly II minutes to pass,
using up my entire handicap,
and I finished third. The win-
nerss time was 40 minutes and
80 seconds. I'll never forget 1t
Is long as I live
The contestants were elegantly
costumed for racing. Speaker re-
calls, wearing full-length, form
fitting tights, skull caps, or
'1ouse" caps as they called them.
topped by tassles and bows. and
special bike-pedailing shoes.
The League OF American
Wheelmen awarded gold pins Tor
10O-mile road runs. Speaker re-
called, "and when finally quit
had a chestful of them. They
hung like these sharpshootfng
badges Marines wear, you know.
and were real mark of distinc-
tion. We got racing shoes and
equipment for racing prizes In
amateur events and worked our
hearts out for them.
Ped Hickman. Bob Stubbs, Joe
Smith, Fletcher Sommers and
Shep Owens were a few OF the
cyclists who travelled all over the
South for bike races. Most OF
them later graduated to motor
cycles and autos. The circuit
included Birmingham, New Or
leans, Mobile, Atlanta, Savan-
nah and Memphis and you made
it at your own expense. There
was no trading in prizes Tor cash
In those days, chiefly because
they had little trade-in value.
"The boys did a lot Of trick rid
ing. too.' Speaker said. "Dickie
Yates and Owens were best at it.
I've seen 'em take a bicycle apart
Evening star., 1947-06-19

With Eddie Reagh Of Manor back
to defend his crown and plenty of
enthusiastic youngsters willing to
take 1t away from him, the District
Golf Associations annual Junior
championship gets under way next
Tuesday at Columbia Country Club.
The associations Junior champion
will have plenty of competition from
a number of talented golfers includ-
ing Manor's Dick Sturges, Lew
Swarthout of Washington and Jay
Wolfe of Indian Spring.
Entries for the tourney, which
Is restricted to members and sons
of members of association clubs,
close at pm. Sunday and must be
sent to Albert E. Steinem, secre-
tary, District Golf Association,
Columbia Country Club, Chevy
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Fans Storm RassIer
After He KOS Rival
Nv III. A,soeiatsd Press

MINNEAPOLIS, June 19.-Wrest-
ler Sander Szabo slammed his op-
ponent unconscious with a vigorous
hackdrop in match here and then
had to spend three minutes defend
ing himself against irate fans who
stormed the ring.
The match had gone A minutes
when Cliff Gustafson Of Gonvick,
Mimi, went down and out. Gustaf-
sons brother, Hiram, leaped into
the ring and began swinging
punches at Szabo.
Several other spectators Joined
the fracas Szabo was reluctant to
punch back, but finally began to
throw haymakers until the police
reached the ring.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Silver Spring GiZI Converts
Stable Pony Into q Winner

$3.50 and Judy was intrigued with
the fact that her pony now was
8 money winner, though she
thought the pay-off price on him
was ridiculous.
Reno Sam now is more than
ever Judy's pet. Entered in an
other hurdle race-about a mile
and half-Sam finished in front
by s lengths, taking the measure
of such favorites as Bomint and
Manola in a six-horse field. He
paid $500 to win and where, a
week before, Sam was only
stable pony, now he can be
described as q horse which never
has run out of the money.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Boys Club Track Meet
To Attract 300 Youths

More than 800 youngsters, rang
ing in age from 7 to 18, will compete
in the Metropolitan Police Boys
Clubs annual track and field meet
Saturday at Central High Schools s
Stadium.
The meet, moved up from last
Saturday because Of rain, includes
81 events, beginning at 10 am.
Police Boys Clubs Nos. 4, S, 10, II
and IL will be represented.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
II Champs Defend
NCAAMeet Titles
sy ne As,e<;ossS pssss

SALT LAKE CITY, June 1e.
There win be m eye-catching
array Of defending champions In
the finals Of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association track
and field meet Saturday night
II they get safely past tomorrow
nights preliminaries.
Champions from the 1916 meet
came here to defend their titles
in IL of the Il NCAA events.
Only In the broad jump, Emile
race and the high Jump are
championships vacant. Seventy
nine colleges have dispatched $40
athletes to the 4,366-foot altitude
OF Salt Lake City. More than Z
third of them will be closed out In
the preliminarfeS.