SPORTS i
ROUNDUP
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(By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.)
NEW YORK, (/P)—Now that the j
Yankees are “in” and the Dodgers j
are close to clinching the pennant,
baseball experts are beginning to
point out that the “old” Cardinal
machine which won four pennants
in the past five years is beginning
to come apart at the seams. . . .
Perhaps a few stitches are pop
ping, but if the Cards are old,
how do you account for the Yan
kees’ easy triumph? . . . Leaving
% out Joe Garagiola and the late
arriving Nippy Jones, the Cards’
regular lineup averages something
under 30 years in age. The Yan
kees regulars, when Yogi Berra
isn’t in there, average around 31.
... To get an average age on the
Brooklyn team probably would
require the services "'"Of Branch
Rickey’s private statistician. They
have some old guys like Dixie
Walker, Hugh Casey and Eddie
Stanky and an apparently inex
haustible supply of good young
players to put in when they’re
needed.
Joe H. Palmer, New York Her
ald-Tribue: “Kentucky produces
early half the race horses and ex
actly half the high commissioners
of baseball. ... A baseball high
commissioner can make only $50,
000 a year while a good horse can
make $200,000. . . . This seems to
prove that a horse is four times as
good as a high commissioner. . . .
It is, Joe, unless you hold a win
ning ticket on a commissioner.
Sol Strauss, whose one-way
hearing aid (it admits only what
Sol wants to hear) and self-revers
ing contracts are becoming almost
as famous as Mike Jacobs’ china
choppers, was almost gleeful when
he was able to announce a title
fight between Joe Louis and Jer
sey Joe Walcott. . . . Sol, known
generally either as Mike’s stand-in
or Mike’s brother-in-law and for
mally as acting director of the
20th Century Sporting club, evi
dently had been feeling the criti
cism levelled at the fights that
have emptied the Garden this
summer. ... A heavyweight title
fight certainly will fill the arena
—and at least Louis-Walcott is
better than that affair they’re
planning in Los Angeles between
Arturo Godoy and Turkey Thomp
son. . . . “I’m very proud of this,’’
Strauss chuckled. “It took a lot of
work. . . .And what’s more, in an
other week or so I’ll announce a
lightweight title bout for January
and after that another champion
ship. . . . That’s three title fights.’’
. . . Mike might not get three at a
clip, but at least he would have
staged the Louis signing like a
Hollywood super-collossal.
Perry Moss (who moved from
Tulsa U. to quarterback the Illi
nois Rose Bowl grid team): “Why,
down at Tulsa football fans count
forward passes instead of sheep
on sleepless nights.”
O. D. COCHRAN
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
O. D. Cochran, local attorney
ha.% been quite ill for several days
but it reported much improved.
KEVIN WALSH TO MARRY
MISS AGNES MORELLI
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh have
announced the wedding of their
son Kevin to be held here on Sep
tember 27, to Miss Agnes Morelli
of San Francisco. The young
couple are scheduled to arrive here
tomorrow from Anchorage where
Kevin is employed by the Alaska
Airlines and Miss Morelli is a
nurse at the Providence hospital.
SCHOOL NEWS
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FIRST GRADE
The thirty-seven beginners are
making a . drive on the scraps ol
paper around the school building, i
They hope the rest of the grades
will co-operate by refraining from
throwing their gum, candy and
school papers in the school yard.
Ten little animal story books
were bought with their Fair money!
the first grade earned last year.
They are entertaining little books i
and will $oon be sent on to those *
who earned them for the school.
SECOND GRADE
There are now thirty-nine pu
pils in the second grade, and we
are wishing for twice the space
which this room provides.
Our time is being spent review
ing first grade work.
HIGH SCHOOL
Last Friday the ten freshmen
were initiated into the Nome High j
School Student Body by the upper
classmen.
The girls came to school Friday
morning charmingly dressed as
babies in hip boots, hair in curlers
I and bottles with nipples; while the
boys paraded with questionable
i dignity in burlap skirts, floppy
hats, and high heeled slippers.
The initiation climaxed with a
party in the evening at which the
i freshmen were duly punished for
any insubordination. They are
, proud to be welcomed into the
i Student Body.
Pan-Pacific Tours
To Open Branch Office
In Anchorage
Pan-Pacific Good Neighbor!
Tours of Seattle will open a;
branch office in Anchorage, Alas-!
ka, around the first of October, |
according to an announcement by
Alson A. Bristol, president of Pan
Pacific.
The new office, to be managed!
by Lloyd Olsen, with Pan-Pacific
since its formation in 1944, wilL
serve the travel needs of Alaskans;
in addition to acting as a service
office for Pan-Pacific’s Alaskan
tours. Mr. Olsen, who is at present
conducting the third Pan-Pacific
Alaska Highway Tour, will go to
Anchorage about September 15 to
make arrangements on opening
the new office. Mr. Olsen will be
returning home, as he formerly
was a resident of Anchorage and
Palmer.
REV. AND MRS. HUDGINS
MOVE INTO NEW HOME '
Rev. and Mrs. Lewis Hudgins
have moved into their new home
on 3rd avenue adjacent to the
Nazarene church. The solarium on
the second floor, the first of its
kind in Nome, has been cram full
of flowers and edible greens since
early spring and Mr. and Mrs.
Hudgins are making plans for
| early spring planting.
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Foreign Nations
Want U. S. Guns
BOSTON, f/P) — A spokesman
for Johnson Automatics, Inc.,
firearms manufacturers, says
there is a wide demand among
foreign nations for American
made light machine guns and
semi-automatic rifles.
He said Friday night that the
corporation, which has offices in
Boston, and a plant in Providence,
R. I., is negotiating currently in
New York and Washington with
representatives of several foreign
governments concerning the sale
of weapons.
The conferences are approved
by the state department, the
spokesman added, but the identi
fies of the nations involved can
not be disclosed at this time.
LEONARD SMITH ILL IN
SEATTLE HOSPITAL
Leonard Smith, highway engin
eer for the Territory, has been ser
iously ill in the Virginia Mason
hospital in Seattle where he was
j taken from Juneau on Sept. 6. but
| is reported slightly improved.
Mrs. Gene Carr has been in his
: office in Juneau since his depart
j ure has resigned and her duties
> have been taken over by Mrs.
j Leonard Smith, also formerly of
Nome.
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