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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 281.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,1925. PRICE TEN CENTS
PITTSBURGH PIRATES WIN SERIES BY SCORE 9 TO 7
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PITTSBURGH WINS WORLD’S SERIES
AFTER HARD-FOUGHT BATTLE IN
DRIVING RAIN-GAME CLOSE TO END
SCORE TIED IN SEVENTH INNING—PIRATES WIN
THIRD SUCCESSIVE GAME, SETTING NEW
RECORD IN CHAMPIONSHIP BALL
FORBES Fl£LD, Oct. 15. —Forty thousand persons
thronged the great stands of Forbes Field today awaiting
the opening of the deciding game of the series. The 1 am
-topned ten minutes before the contest, the band playing.
:Tt Ain’t Goin’ to Rain No More.” 1 .., .,
In a dark and murky setting Johnson and Aldridge
started their duel of unbeaten righthanders to determine
the championship and individual supremacy of the dia
mond. Sawdust was spread over the mucky stretches m
front of the dugouts leading to the plate.
Rain began at eleven o’clock after a thiee noui let
vmp, prospects for the game being poor. A blanket of mist
covered the field, with the mud deep around the dugouts
Workers toiled steadily trying to get the field in condition.
Oil was burned on the worst spots in an effort to diy them.
First Inning
Washington opened the first inning
scoring four runs on two hits, three
walks and an error on the part of the
t pirates. Interference by the Pitts
burgh catcher'of a Washington man,
allowed him to take a base.
Rice singled, Stan. Harris flied out,
i Gioslin, Joe Harris and Judge walked,
forcing in Rice. Bluuege singled,
scoring Goslin. Morrison replaced
Aldridge for the Pirates in the box.
Peck got his base on interference
forcing in Joe Harris. Judge scoied
when Moore juggled Ruel’s grounder,
Huel going safely to first. Johnson
up, fanned out. and Rice, on his sec
ond time at bat flied out.
Third Inning
The Pirates came within one of ty
ing the score in the third inning, get
ting into Johnson for three runs, foui
4j(its. Morrison singled and scored on
Moore’s double. Moore scored on
Carey’s single. The crowd went wild
cheering for their home team. Peck
threw out Cuvier, Carey going to sec
ond. Carey stole third, catching Ruel
asleep. Carey scored on Barnhart’s
Texas leaguer. Traynor forced Barn
hart and Wright popped to Stan Har
ris.
Fourth Inning
Washington scored twm more in the
fourth making the score six to three.
' it was sprinkling a little this inning,
making it a little hard to follow the
course of the ball.
Johnson flied to Carey; Rice singled
and Stan Harris fanned. Goslin, the
star hitter in the previous games, hit ]
out a long single. Rice raced to third. |
On the throw to third Goslin went to
second. Rice and Goslin scored on
£ Joe Harris’ double. Judge flied to
Fifth Inning.
Grantham batted for Morrison in the*
fourth inning and Kremer replaced
Morrison in the opening of the fifth.
The Pirates in their half of this in
ning renewed the onslaught on John
son’s fast ball. Carey doubled on the
first ball pitched; Cuyler doubled,
scoring Carey. Barnhart fanned, Tray
nor fouled Ruel. Wright popped to
Stan Harris. Score at the end of the
sixth inning, Washington 6, Pittsburg
4.
Seventh Inning
During the seventh the rain in
creased, some of the spectators put up
4 umbrellas and some covering them
selves with newspapers.
Moore reached second this inning;
Peck dropped an easy fly; Carey trip
led scoring Moore; Cuyler sacrificed
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LEADER OK LOSING
SENATORS
Stanley Harris, better known as
‘•Bucky” to millions of baseball fans
throughout the country, leader of the
pennant winners in the American
League. “Bucky” came into promi
nence la-st year as the result of his
skill in leading the hitherto second di
vision senators to a world’s champion
ship.
and Traynor tripled, scoring Carey,
and was out at the plate. It was sc
dark during this inning the fielders
could scarcely see the ball.
Peck, was the second man up foi
Washington in the eighth and homered
the ball clearing the barrier in front
of the score board in the left field
making the score Washington 7, Pitts
burgh 6.
Eighth lining
The Pirates took the lead in the last
half of the eighth inning. After Wright
fouled out, Melnnis flied to Rice. Smith
doubled, Yde running for him. Big
bee batted for Kremer and doubled
scoring Yde. Moore walked, Carej
reached first safely on Peck’s error
filling the bases. Cuyler doubled
scoring Bigbee and Moore. The ground
rules disallowed the homer. Barnhart
flied to Stkn Harris. Score: Wash
ington 7, Pittsburg 9.
It was raining hard by now and the
batters wiped off their bats as thej
went to the plate. The game was de
layed a few minutes while sawdust
was carried to the slippery box.
Ninth Inning
In the ninth Oldham went on the
mound for Pittsburg, fanning Rice and
Goslin, and making Stan Harris fly
to Moore.
SHORT SCORE—Washington, seven
runs, seven hits, two errors.
Pittsburg—Nine runs, fifteen hits,
and one error.
Johnson and Ruel were the batteries
for Washington, while for Pittsburg,
Aldridge, Morrison, Kremer, Oldham,
and Smith and Gooch took the box.
Pittsburg took the world’s cham
pionship from Washington battering
the veteran Walter Johnson, scoring
the third straight victory by a score
of nine to seven. The furious battle
was fought in a drizzling rain on a
soggy field.
Aldridge Successful Pitcher
Vic Aldridge, a big righthander, has
been a successful pitcher throughout
his major league career. In three
years with the Chicago Cub3 he won
47 games and lost 36. He had a trial
in 1917 and 19ltf*with the same club,
winning six and losing the same in
the first year and losing one in his
second season before being sent to
Los Angeles.
The Pirates obtained him in the
great trade of last November and his
percentage of victory this year is .667.
In only one year of his baseball car
eer has Aldridge failed to show more
victories than defeats. He was born
in Indian Springs, Ind., Oct. 25. 1894.
In the off season he is a school-teach
er. ,
RAILROAD BOARD
WILL MEET N. Y.
EARLY IN SPRING
NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (£>)—'The New
York advisory board of the Pacific
Northwest Commercial and Industrial
Exposition, to be held in New York
early next year, has selected five rail
road presidents and Governor Parks
of Alaska as honorary officers.
Louis W. Hill, of the Great North
ern Railroad system has been named
as honorary president; Parks as hon
orary Vice-President. Governors of
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon,
have been named vice president and
! O. M. Launstrum of Helena, president.
FAILS KILL HUBBY
WIFE NOW SUES
FOR A DIVORCE
TACOMA, Oct. 15. (#>)—Asserting
since she shot her husband in June
he has contributed nothing toward her
support, Mrs. Milliam Jones filed suit
for divorce today, asking five hun
dred dollars, the award to be used for
her defense on the charge of first de
gree assault. Jones was shot in the
juglar vein, and for several days his
life was despaired of. He finally re
covered.
LARGE NUMBER FURS BE
SOLD SEATTLE AUCTION
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (fP)—The fur
auction next Wednesday includes the
following: three thousand white fox,
2,137 red fox, 30 blue fox, 268 cross,
and 79 silver. Twenty-five thousand
muskrat skins will be on sale as will
r thirty polar bear hides.
RUSSIAN CHURCH
BUILT CORDOVA
BY NATIVES
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DEDICATION OF CORNERSTONE
TAKES PLACE WITH OLD
\ TIME POMP
CORDOVA, Oct. 15, (£>)—Father
Tikhon Lavrischeff, wearing the vest
ments dating from Baranoff’s reign,
today conducted the dedication of the
cornerstone for St. Michael’s Russian
Greek church.
This is the first ceremony of its
kind held here in twenty-five years.
The service included a procession of
natives carrying Ikons, and images,
blessing the cross and the stone with
holy water, and pouring oil on the
stone.
One part of the ceremony consist
ed of the priest hitting each side of
the foundation with a hatchet, saying
a prayerl meanwhile.
The natives are building the church
themselves with furnishings brought
from a ruined temple in an abandoned
village at Nuchek, Baranoff’s trading
center at the beginning of the nine
teenth century.
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Charles Avery, well known local
man, returned last night after spend
ing the past few months working on
a road crew.
FUTURE FOR GOLD
MINING BRIGHT
_ SAYS T. M’GRATH
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (JP)—The next
five years will see greater results from
gold production in Washington, con
sidering the money spent, than in Ar
izona, Nevada, Alaska, or any place
on the globe, T. O McGrath, of the
gold mining clijb, a creation of the
State Bureau of Mining, said. Wilt
Shaw, Seattle mining engineer, and W.
P. Elmeendorf, returning from a tour
of Alaska, said: “Alaskans face the
future with a better feeling than for
years past.”
Encouraging results are reported,
especially in the Prince Edward Is
land district. The club adopted a ,
resolution opposing the curtailment of
Alaska’s mail service.
TORNADO KILLS FAMILY
BATON ROGUE, Oct. 14. (JP)—X
man, wife and t\^o daughters were
killed, and a baby injured, during a
freakish tornado which destroyed their
home yesterday.
MACNIDER ASST. SECY. WAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14. (JP)—
Hanford Macnid*r, of Mason City, la.,
has been appointed Assistant Secre
tary of War.
Samuel M. Ralston,. Senator From Indiana,
Died Last Night After Lingering Illness
Senator’s Death Followed Long Illness from Kidney Di
sease—Died in Hoosier Home in Outskirts of
Indianapolis—Refused Run for President
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INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15, (JP)—Samuel M. Ralston, Senator from Indiana,
died last night at his country home near here,.^ Ralston’s death followed a
long illness from kidney disease. He died in the place he loved best, liis
Hoosier home on the outskirts of the cit^r. “God is good, ^ ant his child.” the
dying Senator wrote to a friend shortly before he passed away.
Honored by th£ highest offices within the gift of the people of his own
state, governor and senator, Samuel Moffett Ralston steadfastly refused to
accept the call of his party to seek the greatest of ajl places America can be
stow, upon her sons.
Twice during the memorable deadlock between William G. McA'doo and
Governor Alfred E. Smith at the New York Convention in 1924, the party
cnieitams lurueu 10 oeuamr ricusLuuH
to lead the way out but, at first firm
ly, and then ii’revocably, he declined to
become the Democratic standard bear
er.
With the characteristic modesty that
had endeared him to his Hoosier
neighbors, Senator Ralston had made
his resolution long before the strife
and turmoil of those sweltering July
days in Madison Square Garden had
so completely recast the complexion
of the political horizon. f His decision
was communicated early to his inti
mate friends, and he remained adam
ant to all their pleadings.
The time came during the early sum
mer of 1924 when he might with mod
esty have made a public declaration.
Speaking to the Indiana State conven
tion which desired to instruct the state
delegation for him, he said:
“There is something about the great
ness of this exalted position that ad
monishes me against wanting to un
dertake the execution of its grave an
solemn duties.”
The convention bowed to his wish
es, but his friends refused to give up
hope, believing that if he were draft
ed he could not refuse to serve. And
so under the leadership of Thomas
Taggart, Indiana’s astute political gen
eral, there centered around his name
one of the most dramatic “dark
horse” maneuvers ever attempted in
a national political convention, a ma
neuver blocked at last by the princi
pal when apparently on the high road
to success.
A lawyer by profession and a farmer
by inclination, Mr. Ralston never cared
for political office. He preferred the
battles of the law, tempered by the
quiet and peace of the rolling acres
of his Indiana farm. He had an abid
ing interest in politics, however, and
was a firm believer in the bed rock
principles of democracy.
Until he swept into the governor’s
chair in 1912, Mr. Ralston had sought
public office only twice, and each time
was defeated. After his four years’
term as chief executive, he retired to
his farm near Indianapolis and con
fided to his friends that he was thru
with politics.
The record he had made as governor
and his campaigning ability, however,
drew the political leaders again and
again to his doorstep. In 1920 his
party pleaded with him to enter again
the race for governor, but he refused.
It was not for long, however, for he
was persuaded, two years later to
become a candidate for. the Senate
against Albert J. Beveridge and was
elected.
Senator Ralston stood out as a man
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