2 ROOKIES
SPARK UP
IN MAJORS
By Associated Press
The success of rookies Tom Mor
gan and Mickey Mantle for the New
York Yankees highlighted the
Grapefruit league that ended yester
day.
A year ago Mantle was playing
Class C ball with Joplin (Mo) in
the Western Association and Mor
gan was with Binghampton (NY) ii)
the Class A Eastern League. Today,
both will be in the starting lineup
for the world champion Yankees
performing before President Tru
man and a distinguished audience
In Washington's Griffith Stadium.
Mantle demonstrated the form
that has made him the rookie sen
sation of the year a* Ebbets Field
yesterday. Although the Yanks lost
to Brooklyn, 7 to 6, Mickey con
nected for four straight hits, batting
right and left against three pitchers,
climaxing his day with an eighth
inning homer. He played right field.
Picked by many to take the
American League pennant the Bos
ton Red Sox finished the Grape
fruit League season by taking the
Braves, 6 to 3, for their 11th straight
victory. The New York Giants again
walloped the Cleveland Indians, 9
to 1, and the National League
champion Phillies dumped the Ath
letics, 8 to 3.
The Chicago Cubs whipped the
Chicago White Sox, 4 to 2, in the
battle between the two Grapefruit
League leaders to win the city series
three games to two and the St.
Louis Brownies downed the Card
inals, 9 to 6.
HOCKEY GAMES
In the hockey final playoffs Sat
urday in the National League Mon
treal won from Toronto by 3-2 over
time period. The best of 7 series is
now tied at 1-1.
SALES TAX DUE
City sales taxes are due this
month, L. C. Popejoy, city clerk
reminded merchants today. Taxes
will be delinquent after April 30.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Mac A. Emerson of Anchorage
returned here yesterday from An
nette. He is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
Sports Briefs
DALLAS — Babe Didrickson Za
harias, defending champion, won
first leg of 144-hole cross country
weathervane tourney with a blazing
66 for 36-hole total of 149.
HOUSTON, Tex. — Pat Keller
McCormick, Los Angeles, won three
meter diving title at National AAU
Women's meet to become the first
to hold all five indoor and outdoor
titles at same time.
DERBY, Conn. — Cambridge Uni
versity beat Yale by four lengths in
first international collegiate rowing
race held in U. S.
NEW YORK — Sonic, $28.80, beat
Jumbo, 80 to 1 shot, by half length
in experimental handicap No. 2 at
Jamaica as Uncle Miltie, 1-3 favor
ite, ran eighth in 10-horse field.
GLOBE TROTTERS IN . baz
ST. LOUIS, April 16 — (At— The
Harlem Globetrotters romped to
their tenth victory last night in the
cross-country series with the College
All-Stars.
The score was 70-61.
The Collegians have four victories
in the series.
WASHINGTON AND
IDAHO POST WINS
ON TRACK SATURDAY
By Associated Press
Washington and Idaho posted
•.vlns Saturday over Oregon and Ore
gon State, respectively, In dual
meets opening the 1951 Northern
Division Pacific Coast conference
track season.
Oregon, last year's Northern Di
vision champ, went into the meet
at Seattle a slight favorite over
Washington. And the Ducks lived
up to advance billing — until the
12ih event, the two mile.
Washington made clean sweeps of
this event and the low hurdles to
pile up points that beat the Ducks
74 to 57.
Oregon State met a similar fate
at Moscow, Idaho.
The Beavers led by two points be
fore the mile relay, the final event.
Idaho picked up five points in the
relay to edge OSC 67 to 64.
GIL RICH HERE
Gil Rich of the Black Manufac
uring Co. of Seattle is in Juneau
an his annual spring trip. He is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
45 RUNS ON
66 HITS IN
TWIN GAME
Acorns, Angels Slam Out
Homers, Too-Rainiers
Win Double Game
By Associated Press
Oakland’s Acorns and the Los
Angeles Angels are resting today.
But not on their Pacific Coast
League laurels.
The lads and 8,841 hardy fans got
a workout yesterday (Sunday) at
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. There
was more than five hours of base
ball, or a reasonable facsimile there
of, during which were born 45 runs
on 66 hits, including 11 homers.
And when it was all over, each
won one game of the hit-happy twin
bill. After trailing, 10-4, the Acorns
turned on their marksmanship and
finally won the curtain-raiser 17-14.
Iii. the last four frames, the Acorns
scored 13 times on 14 safeties. Oak
land’s slamming shortstop, Bill Jen
nings, plastered out three homers
in succession, good for six runs.
The Angels came back in the
seven-inning finale, which they
won 8-6.
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the day in the finale of the Holly
wood-San Francisco twin bill, the
Stars winning 8-0, seven of the eight
runs coming on circuit smashes.
Frank Kelleher, who also homered
in the opener — which the Seals
won 5-2 — hammered a two-run
roundtripper in the finale.
The league-leading Portland Bea
vers beat Sacramento 7-4 in the
opener. But the Solons won the
nightcap 8-1. It was the first Solon
victory over the Beavers in eight
tries this season.
Seattle moundsmen Marv Gris
som and Charley Schanz tamed San
Diego 11-3 and 2-1 to square their
short series at two wins each.
Saturday Scores
S. n Francisco 5. Hollywood 4.
Los Angeles 16, Oakland 4.
Portland 11, Sacramento 8.
San Diego 6, Seattle 2.
COAST LEAGUE STANDINGS
W. L. Pet.
Portland . 15 6 .714
San Diego . 11 8 .579
Los Angeles . 11 9 -550
Hollywood . 10 10 .500
Oakland . 10 10 .500
t Seattle .v. 9 11 .450
I Sacramento . 9 12 ‘ .429
i San Francisco . 6 15 .266
AT THE GASTINEAU
H. B. Crewson of Seattle is at
the Gastineau Hotel.
This April, one hundred and seventy-six
years after the original Minute Men fought
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CHEERLESS CHEERLEADERS - These weeping
cheerleaders of Cuba. Ky., High School, found nothing cheerful
when their basketball team lost to Clark in the final round of the
state tournament at University of Kentucky Memorial Coliseum.
THREE CLUB RACES
PREDICTED, EACH
LEAGUE^ IN 1951
NEW YORK, April 16 —UP)— Big
league managers expect three-club
races in each league this summer
with Boston, Cleveland and New
York battling in the American and
New York, Philadelphia and Brook
lyn in the National.
Chuck Dressen, new Dodger man
ager, put himself on the spot by
picking Brooklyn to win the pen
nant. Casey Stengel, boss of the
world champion New York Yankees, I
also said he expected to win again.
Paul Richards, taking over as
Chicago White Sox manager would
not pick anybody to beat his club
which finished sixth last year. And
Luke SewelJ of Cincinnati also shied
from predictions.
Bucky Harris of Washington and
Stengel leaned toward Cleveland as
■‘the team to beat" but A1 Lopez,
new Cleveland boss, thought he |
would have to beat the Yanks to
win.
Frankie Frisch of the Chicago
Cubs and Billy Southworth of the
Boston Braves figured the National
a five-club scramble with St. Louis
and Boston also involved. Most of
the others predicted a Phil-Dodger
Giant struggle.
COLD IN CINCY,
GAME IS PLAYED
CINCINNATI, April 16 — UP)—Clad
hi overcoats and wrapped in blan
kets, Cincinnatians ignored the
weather today to turn out in full
force as their Reds and the Pitts
burgh Pirates opened the 27th Na
tional League baseball season. The
temperature was around 45 but
cloudy skies and a brisk wind made
it seem much colder.
All of the more than 30,000 tickets
had been sold.
A poultry producer at Petaluma,
Calif, has developed an egg clean
ing machine that washes and drie^
2,700 eggs per hour with less break
age than hand cleaning methods.
The Mississippi Delta is advan
sing into the Gulf of Mexico at
the rate of 260 feet a year.
Big Leagues
Begin 1951
B.B. Season
Truman to Pitch First Ball
in Washington on
Opening Day
By Associated Press
"S. Truman, a veteran lefthanded
pitcher with a fair fast ball, ar
ranged to make the first pitch today
and star', the 1951 baseball season
on its way.
Shortly after the presidential
pitch (at 12 noon PST) the world
champion New York Yankees meet
the Washington Senators at Wash
ington.
In the day’s other major league
game, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh,
two teams that are getting a bit
tired of waiting for pennant light
ning to strike them, opened the
National league's 75th anniversary
season 5t Cincinnati.
Manager Casey Stengel picked a
surprise mound starter, Rookie Tom
Morgan. He officially became r
member of the Yankees only yes
terday with the formal transfer o!
his contract from Kansas City. Mor
gan won 17 and lost eight for
Binghamton in the Eastern League
last year. He Is a righthander.
Manpger Bucky Harris chose Bob
Kuzava, lefthander who won eight
games and lost seven for the fifth
place Senators after coming here
from the Chicago White Sox.
The weather outlook: Cloudy and
cold, with a high of about 55 de
grees, and possible rain. But all re
serve and box seats were sold weeks
ago.
Opening day always is a colorful
affair in Washington, with bands,
bunting and big shots.
The Senate took the day off; the
House scheduled only a routine ses
sion.
As for the two teams, they look
pretty much as they did last year.
In other words, the Yanks look good,
and the Senators are simply look
ing.
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CENTENARIAN—
1 Henry B. Little, president of the
Newburyport, Mass., Institution
of Savings, applies himself to
business as usual as he works
on books on his 108th birthday.
RAIN-NO GAME
WASHINGTON, April 16 — UP)—
Rain washed out today’s American
League baseball opener between the
New York Yankees and Washington.
The game and ceremonies, including
the visit by President Truman, were
postponed until Friday at 2:00 p.m.
EST. The clubs also will play a
night game Friday.
The Yankees open their home
season tomorrow against Boston
while Washington plays a night
game opener at Philadelphia.
5 BUNCHES LOST KEYS
ARE AT POLICE STATION
There are still five bunches of
lost keys at the Juneau Police sta
tion which the owners may have by
identifying them, Police said today.
Post office keys have been re
moved and turned into the post of
fice. Other keys are mainly car
and house keys.
The word ‘tumbler" for a drink
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early glasses had round or pointed
bottoms which co'Ud net stand on
a table.
The word duet was first applied
to the great .u'vl mounds along
the seacoast. of northern France,
Holland and Denmark.
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