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The Fan's Corner
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This weeks games will mark
the end of the first half of the
baseball series. Perhaps it would
be well at this time to explain
just what is meant by that “half”
business.
This year the baseball series is
to be run in two halves. The
team winning the most of the
first three games merely earns
the right to play the winner of
the last three. In other words,
while a team may not have won
any of the first three games,
they may recover in the last
three and still have a chance
to play off for the trophy. Brief
ly. it gives the underdog a break
and this column is all for it.
It is with a great deal of tem
erity, even humility, that the
Old Fan touches upon this next
subject. That is the singing out j
of Balls and Strikes, Safe and1
Out, Fair and Foul, that emanat
es from the bleachers. It isn’t j
what it does to the umpires who
are by the way, legitimate prey
at anybody’s ball game, it is the
fact that it confuses the players,
the spectators and the issue that
makes it a poor practice.
Now far be it from me to cen
sure or to measure the degree of
a fan’s rabidness or violence. ;
Having been bitten early in life
by the baseball bug, I am no [
judge; yet in the interest of good 1
games and good sportsmanship
may we not refrain from the,
above particular phase of our
rooting?
Now a word to the umpires:
Won’t you, in the case of a strike.1
throw' your right arm out smart
ly and a ball, your left? Do both
smartly. It will help. Your Safe
and Out signals are understood
by all, but make them quickly!
and decisively.
For fair batted balls, throw up j
your right arm, for those batttd j
foul, your left. If you will do j
all those things the players, the’
spectators, and your umpiring ■
colleague will know what is
w'hat.
Now to avoid seeming an “Old
Scold” let’s go down there next
Wednesday night and give ’em
All the well-known Razzberry!!
The Old Fan
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Mirow Air Service
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Activities
Pilot Sasseen left for Anchor
age in the Model A Stinson and
will return tomorrow with a load
of passengers.
Pilot Jefford left for Teller this
afternoon with the Reindeer par
ty and expects to return some
time tomorrow.
Pilot Chambers landed at Nu
lato on account of weather and
will resume the mail run as soon
as conditions permit.
A trip is scheduled for St. Law
rence Island as soon as Pilot Sas
seen arrives from Anchorage.
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Lew
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle. Washington
Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Store
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win*
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Meets first and third Mondays
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
Pioneer Water Co.
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NEWS ITEMS
Frank Whaley with a Wein Air
lines plane made a flight to Tay
lor and Cocee Creek with Pete
Satterlee as a passenger for Tay
lor. ... .
The PAA mail plane for today
for Nome cancelled out today at
Nulato.
News of Reindeer
Acquisition Unit
Party Activities
J Sidney Rood, Acting General
Reindeer Supervisor of the Rein
derr Service and Charles G Bur
dick Special Representative of
the Secretary of the Interior on
reindeer acquisition work return
ed Friday evening in the Mirow
Air Service tri motor Stinson, J
piloted by Jack Jefford from a
general trip in the southern por
tion of the ranges where non
native owned reindeer are being
purchased. Stops were made at
Unalakleet, St. Michael, Akulu
rak, Nunivak Island, Akiak and
Bethel.
The non-native owners of rein
deer on the south side of the Kus
kokwim are now engaged in ani
extensive round-up and expect to ]
start tallying reindeer in the;
Akolokutak corral by February !
10. Both Burdick and Rood plan
to return for that handling. A
herd of approximately 10,000
deer is geing corralled at St.
Michael for tallying purposes.
This herd will contain a great
number of deer owned by Frank
Williams.
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Glenn Briggs, Unit Manager of
the Reindeer Service at Teller,
returned from a vacation trip in;
the States arriving from Anchor
age Saturday morning with the
Mirow Air Service. He was ac
companied by his wife and her
mother Mrs. Vernon. Mr. Briggs
expects to leave for his head-1
quarters at Teller February 5, i
where he will be in charge of
roundups on the western portion I
of the Seward Peninsula in de-1
termining the numbers of non- *
Native owned reindeer for ac
quisition purposes.
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William Hemsing former Unit
Manager of the Reindeer Service;
at Kotzebue has been detailed to:
the Reindeer Acquisition Pro
gram from his school at Metlak-1
atla in southeastern Alaska.
Mr. Hemsing expects to leave
Nome February 5 for his head
quarters at Kotzebue. He will be
in charge of roundups through- j
out the Kotzebue, Buckland, and 1
Deoring areas to determine the:
number of non-native owned;
reindeer.
Mr. Hemsing’s detail to the
Reindeer Acquisition Unit will
b,e of about sixty days duration,
at which time he wil return to
his duties at Metlakatla.
COL. JOHNSON HOPES
VISIT ALASKA SOON
Col. Louis Johnson, assistant
| secretary of war may visit Fair
banks again this coming sum
■ mer. Word to this effect came in
1 a letter to the News-Miner, ack
' nowledging receipt of copies of
recent issues of the paper. In a
postcript he says:
“Hope to see you again next
summer. As you know we are
doing everything we can to give
th proper defense to Alaska, and
we are happy to have the fine
support which you are giving to
our efforts."
Col. Johnson was a visitor in
Fairbanks in August, 1938 when
he flew there in an army bomb
er accompanied by Col. Monroe
Johnson, assistant secretary of
commerce and members of the
Air Corps personnel. On the trip
they inspected a portion of the
proposed International Highway
route and prospective air defense
i gases at Fairbanks, Juneau and
! other places.
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FEBRUARY 14
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