The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-10
Some Great Doings in Haines as the Result of the Meeting Between
 the Two Bands.
SOME SPORT PROGRAM
The A. B. Hall Was damned to the Doors with the Crowds That Wanted
 to See the Fun.

(My Mrs. Isabel A. Gillman)
 There was something doing in | Haines last Friday when eleven sled loads of lusty Klukwans descended upon their Chilkat relatives. raided
 the city" and proceeded to estab- | fish their reputation as entertainers | in a whirlwind basketball game and vaudeville show. It was nearing 3 p. m. when the raiders chaperoned | by Miss Shepard, junior instructor at the Government school in Kluk-
 wan, reached the end of their twenty | two mile trail, and at once began to | do things in a style that might have caused surprise to the patrons of | their sires-Dr. Sheldon Jackson.
 Within four hours, by the aid of telephones and other modern con veniences, these adventurous young people had engaged a hall, removed Instructions, wired it's windows and l lighting apparatus erected their own baskets brought with them for the purpose, advertised their show, en- gagged the services of the Native band, refreshed the inner man" and | donned their fighting clothes. It | made no difference to them that Fort Seward was having its regular movie show and Haines was holding a
 billiard tournament. And the opti- | mism of youth was rewarded when | the crowd of admiring and curious | humanity poured through the doors | of the A, B. Hall, jammed the gal lery and filled the side chairs and
 waiting rooms of the lower floor; a | crowd eager to find out how a bas- | ketball game could be played with out opposing teams. But the oppos- ing team was right there, recruited | within the hour from the younger | members of their clan who had been peacably engaged in industrial occu | pations in Haines during the Winter When the band had hastily gotten it.
 self together and played it's opening | piece; and when Corporal Priddy
 had chalked the floor and Sergeant
 Bond had examined his watch, and
 the "City Dads" had slipped into the
 reserved seats, Referee Priddy tossed
 the ball and ten sprightly, if not
 uniformed, Alaskans kept it on the
 move. Of course it was a one-sided
 game all the way through, but in
 terest was just as keen, and it was
 by no means walkover, for Will 1 liam King, who missed his citizen
 ship papers for lack of years, hit the center of the basket enough
 times to make his home team hustle.
 The score stood 26 to six in favor of Haines; Ed. Donelly having land
 ed most of the Klukwan balls.
 | When the music was over and the
 their seats again, the basketball girls
 in navy blue regalia and red neck
 ties and hair ribbons and striped
 hose, appeared upon the floor. They
 were well matched in size and in weight, but the Haines half had one
 raw recruit who had never before touched basketball, and somebody's small brother to complete the nun l Der. The girls were graceful, but they lacked swifteness, and small
 John who darted like a squirrel be
 tween and about them, became the
 center of attraction and applause.
 They put up a good game, all things taken into account. Haines got all
 the cheering. but Klukwan made the
 points, and the score stood 12 to | in favor of the visitors.
 | Basketball fever is catching. By | this time all the matrons present
 were talking at once, demanding a | hall of their own and opportunity for healthful exercise during the long
 winters; and it is quite probable that
 Haines may have a mothers team and a grandmothers' team to oppose the uncles and grandfathers when the next snow season comes around Not even the band could hush their
 conversation, but when the curtains parted and disclosed a hastily pro vised platform and several singing
 "coons" they quieted down to hear "Haines are Dry" to a guitar ac compartment The vaudeville sketch
 es were all good and elicited roars
 of applause, but the male quartette in Negro costume dramatiizing They Go Wild Over Me-" and the Basket
 ball Girls quartette in their song and dance, Eliza Jane," were vo ciferously encored, and were quite
 as excellent as many staged by pro
 fessionals in larger theatres.
 When one takes into consideration
 the fact that all the performers had
 walked upwards of twenty or more
 miles before their evenings labors
 to say nothing of their rushing about
 the town after arrival in preparation for the evening. too much credit
 cannot be given them, and their in defatigable young chaperone and bus ;naco manapor Miss Shepard