The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-01

we'll Mines, a challenge was issued and accepted for series of three games for the championship of the Channel.
 | A team picked from the five Tread we'll teams was sent to Juneau and was defeated. The second game re- suited in a victory for Treadwell by n large score. but the third game was lost to Juneau. The Sitka High School team also visited Juneau for series of games with the Juneau High School, which resulted in two straight victories for the Juneau az gregation.
 The prospects for the basketball season of the coming winter are very bright, with the probable entry of a team from Thane, which will make three regular teams. Most of the material for the winning 4. B. team last winter was drawn from among the Thane employees and three first class teams should be en- tered in the coming championship 1 fight.
 Bowling takes it's place as a regu- lar winter sport on the Channel. An International Telegraph series be- tween five teams is part of the reg ular winter program. and also ser hood and Treadwell Club teams. The ! International contestants are between teams from Dawson and White | Horse. on the Canadian side of the line. and Skagway. Elks Club of Ju- neau and Treadwell Club of Tread we'll. The contest in the winter of 1914 resulted in a victory for the Trea1well Club team, but they af- terward lost the championship of the Channel to the Elks' Club, of ! Juneau in special series. During the winter of 1915 a three cornered contest between the Arctic Brother hood and Elks Club teams of Jul neau, and the Treadwell Club team resulted in a victory for the Elks' team. with the Arctic Brotherhood team a close second
 During the past summer tennis has come to the front in a gratifying way among the residents of Douglas Island. The Island Tennis Club was 1 organized last spring, and several series of elimination contests were ! staged among the players during no team was also picked and sent to WhitehCrse to compete for a silver cup offered there on Dominion Day, but they were defeated by the White Horse aggregation. An effort is be- ing made to organize a tennis club in Juneau, and the promoters of the project are meeting with very gratl- flying success.
 ! Also during the summer months, field sports are indulged In to some extent. The sports of that class, in the past, have been handled strictly by the management of the mining companies for their employees, and several contests not usually staged on field day are worked in. First Aid work among the miners Is one of the important events, as is also a hose racing contest between the com. pany teams of their fire departments. An annual field day at both Thane and Treadwell is part of the athlet- ic program of the management of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com, pany. The Treadwell Company also provides for an annual field day which is held on the Fourth of July and Is part of the celebration of that day. There is strong talk of work. ing up field day next summer to be participated fin by teams from Thane, TreadwelI, Perseverance and Juneau.
 II During the Panama Pacific Expo sitIon at San Francisco, a first aid team from the Troadwell mine made the trip to San Francisco as the guests of tho Treadwell manage. ment, and tied for fourth place. competing against teams from all parts of the United States. In the toss off the Treadwell team won fifth place. At that time first aid
 work had been part of the Tread
 we'll program for less than six
 months. and the team made a won. derfui record.
 During the first aid contests held al TreadweI on July 4th. 1916. e
 team entered from tho Alaska