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Show Theater Manager Travels From Alaska to See Series I ' over the background at Yank stadium. . . . They say th gaudy billboards mak it hard for left-handed left-handed bitters to see th balL . . . A left-hander named Gehrig never has kicked, however. By HENRY 81 PER i ! United Press H porta Writer J NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UP) World series notes: Two fans who get the prise for coming th great j est distance for tha series are I Lawrence Kubley, a theater man-j man-j agar of Ketchikan, Alaska, and I Stan Moran, cafe owner of Prince Rupert, B. C. . . . Moran saw tha Boston Red Sox beat the Brook- lyn Dodgers In 1914, . . . When th Giants first played the Yankees Yan-kees in a world aeries. Herbert I Hoover was ths up and coming I secretary of commerce. Statistical not: Each bag of ) peanuts sold at tha stadium con- 1 tains U nuts. . . . That's 6.S nuts for a cent- . . . Fiv Yankees and ssven Gianta will be in their first world series when the game starts. . , . Mickey Cochrane, back from a European tour, picks th Yankees Yan-kees In six games. . . . Two former Brooklyn managers ar in town-Max town-Max Carey and Caaey Stengel. . . . Carey Is through with baseball. . . . H owns a lima larm in Florida. Flor-ida. . . . Stengel has been Idle, living on th "alimony" th Dodgers Dodg-ers have paid him since h waa bounced. A Wichita, Kan, fan will givs i a set of automobil tlrea to ths ' playsr hitting th first homer ... If the player owns an auto. Will Harridge, American league president, has a parlay bet . . . the Yanks to taks ths Giants and ths White Sox to beat th Chicago Cub In th Intracity aerlea. . Bob Shawkey, Yankee manager before Joe McCarthy, arrived in town from Snawkey, Que. . . . Bob brought along a gold nugget to prove that he owns a real gold mine. . . . McCarthy also has soms nuggets . . . named Gehrig, Dl-Maggio Dl-Maggio and Gomez. The Giants still aren't happy |