LOCAL LITTLE LEAGUERS TO MAKE
BASEBALL BOW IN FAIR CUP TOURNEY
The 18 inch silver loving cup
being offered by the Matanuska j
Valley Fair Association for the
winners of the Little League
Tournament to be played off dur
ing the three days of the Fair is
on display at the Frontiersman
office this week.
Playing in the Little League
Tournament will be the three
top Little League teams from An
chorage and the Palmer team. In
Little Leaguers’ ranks are found
boys from age nine to 12. The
local taem has been sponsored
this year by the Moose organiza
tion. Under the managership of
Jack Leek, the boys have been
practicing every Wednesday ev
ening in the Fairground ball
park. Joe Curtis has been lending
a hand with the coaching also.
Interest in the project initiated
in Palmer only this year has not,
yet reached the fever stage, ac
cording to Manager Leek. The
trouble is that up until this time
the boys have had no competition.
Although Anchorage Little Lea
guers have had several teams with
which to compete locally, there
have never been enough boys
turn out for Palmer practice ses
sions to organize more than one
team. Anchorage teams have also
] layed visiting teams from Fair
banks and other communities.
“Playing with outside teams
involves transportation for the
boys”, Leek said, ‘‘and most of
the men in the Valley have been
too busy this summer to volun
teer it.”
First Game Sept. 1
Saturday, September 1, at 10:30
a. m. the Little Leaguers of Pal
mer will play their first real
game of the season. The tenta
tive team line-up will be an
nounced in next week’s paper.
Two teams will play Saturday,
two Sunday, and the winners will
play in the finals on Monday. The
loving cup will go to the winner^
of the finals. The winning team
will be permitted to keep the cup
until next year. Not until a team
wins the cup three years in suc
cession does it get the cup “for
keeps.”
Duya Diy-iicayuc uaocuaix
Little League Baseball is a na
tional baseball innovation which
has swept the country in the past
year since it was incorporated by
a group of men interested in Jan
uary 1950. Actually, the idea was
originated in 1938 at Williams
port, Pa., by Carl E. Stotz who is
president of the board of directors
and first Commissioner of Little
League Baseball, Inc. The amaz
ing growth of Little League Base
ball with leagues organized in
cities all over the nation and in
Canada, Hawaii, and Cuba, has
been little short of phenomenal.
Little League Series
Although Little League Base
ball has its own world series, it is
significant that it continues
everywhere as a community pro
ject. According to regulations
prescribed, the game is for boys
under the age of 12. Each league
is a unit in itself and consists of
no more than four teams. Teams
consist of 12 uniformed players,
not more than five teams of whom
should be 12-year-old players nor
less than three of whom should
be 10 years old or under. Bases
are 60 feet apart, with the pitch
ing distance 44 feet. The balls are
regulation. Six innings is the
length of a regulation game. All
games are played according to
rules outlined in the Official Lit
tle League Rulebook.
According to Leek, Little
Leaguers outdraw professional
teams in many minor league
towns. Everywhere the project is
conducted as a volunteer commu
nity project. In Palmer, the Moose
are sponsors. Other towns have
Eagles, Elks, the Chamber of
Commerce, the American Legion,
and a host of other service clubs
as sponsors of Little Leaguers.
“Little League is Big League
Baseball adapted to the mental
and physical capacities of the
boys of our nation”, according to
information put out by the na
tional headquarters in Williams
port. ‘‘Wherever there are boys,
there is a place for Little League
with its program of good health,
good sportsmanship and good cit
izenship for the youth of Ameri
ca.”
Disapprove Transfer
Of Fisheries Control
To Territory
“It is not believed that the Ter
ritory of Alaska should be in
vested with the responsibility of
regulating and administering the
fisheries in advance of its admis
sion to statehood," the House
Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries was informed this
week.
The statement was included in
the Department of the Interior’s
report on Delegate Bartlett’s bill
providing for the transfer to the
Territory of the control over the
salmon and other fisheries of Al
aska, except the fur-seal and sea
otter fisheries.
“This Department,” the report
signed by Acting Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior Mastin G.
White declared, “has strongly
urged the enactment of legisla
tion providing for the statehood
of Alaska and it has been my
view that responsibility for man
agement of the fishery resources
ultimately would be assumed by
the State of Alaska, subject to
whatever limitations the national
and international implications of
the Pacific fisheries might im
pose. As there is every likelihood
that the Congress will take favor
able action on the statehood bill,
and in so doing will undoubtedly
provide for the transfer of admin
istration of the fishery resources
to the new State, in my opinion
it would be both unnecessary and
unwise to provide for a transfer
at this time.”
BE IT A MIDGET—be it a whale,
put it in classifieds, under FOR
SALE.
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NIMI NAMED CHIEF
ENGINEER WITH ARC
W. M. Niemi was recently ap
; pointed chief engineer of the
Alaska Road Commission acord
ing to an announcement made by
A. F- Ghiglione, commissioner.
The position of chief of opera
tions which he has been filling
will be given to a replacement
•t the end of the present con
struction period. Niemi will carry
out duties of both positions until
that time.
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