The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-01
A. B. BASKETBALL TEAM

much higher than the mark of the winning team at the Panama Pacific Exposition.
 A regular series of handball games Is conducted every year by the ath- letic management of the Treadwel company and much interest is taken in the series. Another sporting event of Gastineau Channel is the annual smoker given by the Tread well Fir" Department for the enter tainmcnt of their guests. The boys taking part are given several months hard training and are all examined by the company physician as to their fitness to take part in any con- tests. The smokers are conducted under strictly amateur rules and needless to say are looked on as one of the events of the season Last year also one good smoker was put on by the management of the A. B. Club in Juneau and was we'll at tended attraction.
 ! Water sports in the big indoor tanks of the Treadwell Club at Treadwell and the Arctic brother hood Club in Juneau are also becom. ing part of the regular winter pro- gram Of sports. Last year several water carnivals were pulled off on both sides of the Channel, and with suchNw known men, as Abbey of the New York Athletic Club and Winslow. formerly of Yale. in the contests. nothing more need be said about the wealth of good material in that line of sport
 | Football for a time played an i'm pOrtant part in the Athletics of Gas tinCau Channel. but the prospects for a continuation of that sport are poor on account of the lack of in. tercst, tle hard training anu for oth CT reasons. Three championship contests were staged between teams from Juneau and Trcadwell in past years, but it is net likely that any mere win be played. .'s .... Shooting has taken an important part in the sporting life of the Channel, gun clubs being located both at Treadwell and Juneau, and rifle. clubs at Treadwell and Thane The Juneau Gun Club was organ ized about two years ago and has met with a ready response from the trap shooters of Juneau. Regular handicap contests for valuable med. als and prizes are staged. The Tread well Club is younger organization. but Is meeting with flaattering suc- cess, and has a good membership enrolled. Both clubs own trap hous. es where their contests are staged. The Thane Rifle CluD was organ. ized some time ago, but. as yet, has not done much in the way of shooting. The Treadwell Rifle Club Is a younger organization. but has installed rifle range with standard movable targets. and has held sev. eral shooting matches. The Tread. we'll Club has affiliated with the Ma. tional Rifle and Revolver Associa- tion, and has received a full equip. ment of rifles from the United States government.
 Thomas Macdonald, one of the best known athletic directors on the Pacific Coast has been In active icharge of the athletic program Of the Treadwell Company for the past three years. and has done more for the promotion of good clean sport on Gastineau Channel than any oth. CT man. J. Pat Scott, amateur champion of the Pacific Coast and Ia noted athletic director of the Seat. tle Athletic Club and the Elks' Club lof Seattle, has had charge of the Iathietic dcstinles of the Arctic Brotherhood Club, which was organ. ized less than year ago. and a Icorps of young athletes Is being trained from among :he young men of Juneau which might be a credit to any city of far greater population. The Alaska 0astineau Company. through D. L. Thane, as manager. Is encouraging sport among It's em. ployees in every way possible. and with F.. V. Dayeler of Thane, and D. II. NeidiDg, of Perseverance,, in Iactive direction of athletics at those two places. the employees get every chance possible to participate In contes,s of various kinds.
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