“The Sports Corner
Dodgers Set For
Final Home Games
LOS ANGELES — With
words of warning from Manager
Walt Alston that they still have
to win the National League pen
nant, the Los Angeles Dodgers
buckled down u their final home
stand tonight.
They send b*g Don Drysdale
against the Pittsburgh Pirates in
the first of three games. Drysdale
will bo looking lor his lP.th vic
tory and his opponent, Don Card
well, » eks his 14th.
Johnny Podres and Sandy Kou
fax wil! be the Dodgers pitchers
Saturday and Sunday.
The series opened on a happy
note forLDanny Murt augh, who was
reappointed manager of the eighth
place Pirates, whom he has served
since 1937.
There will be three games next
week against the New York Mets,
and the season closes with three
against Ft iladelphia
Salmon Pack Higher
JUNEAU <ffi — Alaska’s 1963
sa mon pact* edged slightly higher
during the v/eek ending Sept. 15,
reaching 2.B52.852 cases as the
seaion’s fishing neared a close.
The total pack through last
Sunday compared with a pack of
3.403,206 casts packed in the state
through Sept. 16 of last year.
Of the total state pack through
Sept."J5 of this/year, 1,191,597 cases
were packed in Central Alaska,
1,170.608 cases were packed in
Southeast Alaska, and 290,647
cases were packed in 'Western
Alaska.
Tulsa Takes 1’exas Trophy
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to beat San Antonip 4-1 and win
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6Watch Out for
Openers’ In Start
Of Grid Season
By JIM BECKER
Associated Press Sports Writer
The grand old custom of open
ing with a breather has long since
been discarded, with the result
that a number of college football
teams may have their seasons
wrecked this weekend before Au
tumn even dawns officially.
The first full weeks of the sea
son has some tough scraps sched
uled three of them tonight.
Then on Saturday, nine of the
11 teams in the AP’s pre-season
Big Ten — there was a tie for the
last spot — get under way. There
will be some shattered dreams by
midnight. And fall doesn’t even
start officially until Monday.
UCLA and Pitt are on the slate
tonight, with Pitt favored and
UCLA upset-minded.
The Orange Bowl will have an
other tough night game, Miami
and Florida State. Miami has
George Mira and some fancy so
phomores. State has its own pro
type passer in Steve Tensi. State
Coach Bill Peterson predicts vic
tory.
Tulane, wiriless last year, and
No. 5 Texas, unbeaten in regular
play, meet in the other major
clash tonight.
On Saturday, No. 1 Southern
California opens defense of its na
tional crown against Colorado and
No. 2 Mississippi should romp
against Memphis State ih a night
game.
From there on it gets tougher.
No. 3 Alabama meets Georgia. No.
4 Oklahoma gets Clernson, no soft
touch. No. 6 Northwestern meets
Missouri. Northwestern, with Tom
Myers throwing, is a touchdown
favorite.
No. 7 Wisconsin, the Big Ten
champion, meets Western Michi
gan, and No. 8 Arkansas gets Okla
hom State, at night.
Navy, No. 9 and blessed with a
schedule that would make the
Green Bay Packers shudder, meets
upset-minded West Virginia.
Washington, tied with Ohio State
for the No. 10 spot, gets a test
from Air Force, in the national
television game. Ohio State is idle.
NEW ORLEANS itl — Tulane
decked itself out with a new coach
and new uniforms last year and
dubbed its team the “New Look.”
It lost all ten games.
This season, which opens here
tonight with rugged Texas, Tu
lane has dropped the label.
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Example/ Says
JUNEAU UP — Fairbanks’ an
nual Midnight Sun baseball series
will be featured in the National
Baseball Congress' 1964 official
baseball annual. NBC President
Raymond Dumont said today.
In a letter to Gov. William A.
Egan, Dumont said the annual’s
special on the Midnight Sun series
will also “bring out the merits of
the fine Alaska Goldpanners anJ
their outstanding manager.’’
The Goldpanners, from Fair
banks, took third place in the
NBC national tournament at Wi
chita, Kans., this year, after a
second-place finish in 1962.
Dumont said the Goldpanners.
who qualified automatically for
the 1964 tournament on the
strength of the third place finish
this year, have placed Alaska “on
a competitive basis with the other
states in baseball.
“There is no doubt that the fine
publicity that the Goldpanners
have given your state throughout
the nation has added prestige to
the 49th State and no doubt will
indirectly aid in more persons
wanting to visit your state than
ever before,” Dumont told Egan.
“The Goldpanners not only
showed plenty of hustle and spar
kling baseball, but were fine
sportsmen and certainly repre
sented Alaska capably in the re
cent national tournament.
“In Red Boucher, the Alaska
team undoubtedly has one of the
most outstanding managers in
baseball and that goes also for the
ones in the professional ranks.”
Runt Grizzly Bagged;
Had Mauled Hunter
KAMLOOPS, B. C. M — A dan
gerous runt of a grizzly bear that
mauled moose hunter Robert Mc
Kelvie two weeks ago has been
shot by Doug Robertson, a profes
sional guide.
Robertson and conservation of
ficer Ray Seredick went into the
Turn Turn Lake area north of here
this week and the bear was
brought to Kamloops Thursday.
Robertson said they were
startled to find the bear weighed
only 200 pounds although it had
the head of a full-size grizzly in
the half-ton weight range.
The animal was described as a
runt or a freak by Game Biologist
Ralph Ritcey.
McKelvie, meanwhile, is re
ported to be in much improved
condition in hospital here. He
suffered severe head and scalp
lacerations in the bear’s attack.
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Alaska Iliintin"—Wolf, Wolverine, Seal
For Bounty or Blame — All Depends ...
JUNEAU UFi — Killing a wolf in
Alaska can bring you a bounty of
$50 or trouble; a coyote $35 or
ditto.
The wolverine is a pest worth
$15 in bounty money in the sum
mer but becomes a fur animal
with a hide you can sell for $17.50
or more in the winter.
You can cut off the nose of a
hair seal for a $3 bounty but if
you abandon the rest of the beast
you will be very unpopular with
Alaska’s Indians and Eskimos.
The wolf, a vicious killer in
the legends and beliefs of most of
the world, has state protection in
parts of Alaska. So does the coyote,
and for the same reason.
Caribou in the Neclhina area
south of Fairbanks number about
70,000. Although their range cov
ers about 10,000 square miles, the
natural increase in caribou could
overpopulate the area, taking the
food supply. Malnutrition in the
herds makes them more suscep
tible to disease, say the State Fish
and Game Department biologists.
Human hunters are permitted
to kill three caribou each from the
herd in a season, but the hunter
has two faults. He doesn’t kill
enough to match the natural in
crease and those he kills are the
biggest and healthiest.
The wolf and coyote pull down
the weak, the laggards and the ill,
helping keep the heard popula
tion level and healthy. So in the
Nelchina area the caribou is fair
game but the wolf and coyote are
taboo targets.
Wolverines are trap robbers and
vicious predators, hunted the year
around. The fur is prized for trim
ming parkas, so there is a trapping
season on wolverine. Out of season
the sly killer can be hunted for
bounty. Cunning and powerful,
this member of the weasel family
is a match for hunter or trapper.
Few bounties are paid and fur
riers say only a few hundred pelts
reach the market each season.
Hair seals, fond of fish, are con
sidered predators on coastal Alas
ka, where the salmon fishery is
a major industry. To the Alaska
native, who may have been the
true originator of the “waste not,
want not" adage, the hair seal is
a valuable souce of food and cloth
ing.
Told that a German firm has de
veloped a lucrative trade in mak
ing parkas of hair seal pelts for
the ski fashion market, one native
PITTSBURGH <tf^-Danny Mur
taugh, who managed the Pitts
burgh Pirates to a world cham
pionship in 1960 but to an eighth
place finish this season, was re
hired yesterday for his seventh
consecutive year.
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said: “Huh; we’ve been using the
skins for parkas for centuries.’’
Natives don't object when boun
ty hunters cut off seal noses if the
kill is reported so the rest of the
animal can be salvaged.
Any needless killing irks the
natives, who are not without voice
in state government. State Sen.
Eben Hobson, an Eskimo from
Point Barrow, introduced a bill in
the 1962 Legislature to boost the
hunting permit price on polar bear
from $150 to $1,500 each.
“My people were finding too
many polar bears washing up on
shore, punctured with bullet holes.
We could only surmise that hunt
ers were shooting first and inves
tigating later to see if they had a
trophy bear. If not. they aban
doned the carcass and saved their
permit for a bigger animal,’’ said
Hobson.
“The bill created a stir and I
withdrew it before it went to the
House of Representatives, knowing
it had accomplished its purpose of
bringing the problem to public at
tention.
“This winter we found no bul
let-punctured polar bears awash
in the Arctic.”
‘There’s A Moose On Me!'
FAIRBANKS UP>—Mr. and Mrs.
Haddon Davis of Fairbanks came
back from a recent hunting trip
with two moose — one with a
record-book rack — and five
broken ribs.
Davis suffered the injury. This
is the way he said it happened:
Mrs. Davis shot a moose with a
rack of considerable size.
Davis watched it through the
scope of his rifle.
Suddenly, the scope blacked out
as a moose stood up in front of
Davis.
“Without even thinking,” he re
called, *‘I reached over with my
left hand and put it on the moose’s
shoulder and pushed him away
from me.
“Then I swung my rifle over my
left shoulder and fired.
“The bullet went right through
the moose’s ear. His eyes popped
out. And he fell down.
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