The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-30
TWO GAMES WON BY SOLDIERS BY
 L0PSIDED SCORE
Channel Team in Second
 Place - Whitehorse Ex- cursionists Return Today.

of the most largely attended in re-
 cent years, is reported by excursion,
 ists who returned to town early this
 morning from the annual Whitehorse
 excursion put on by Glen Bartlet. The soldier team from Ft. William II. Seward won first money and the | Gastineau Channel team took second | place in the ball tournament held
 Saturday afternoon.
 Three games were played to- de
 eide the winner. By lot, Whiteh6rse and Fort Seward played the first game, the soldiers winning by a
 score of IA to 2. The Gastineau
 Channel team then played Skagway
 winning by score of to 3. The
 third game then was between Fort
 Seward and the Channel team, the
 formeG winning by a score of 12 to
 Lottsfelt of Juneau pitched both games and in the first game twirled air tight ball. In the second he was hit quite freely and also got poor support, but demonstrated that he |
 stop. The trip was a hard one for the ball players as they got no rest from the time of leaving here Fri day morning until after the games were played. After the first game all the men were tired out.
 Have Good Time
 The excursionists leaving Juneau on the Alma early Friday morning, arrived at Skagway at p. m., hay
 ing put in at Haines for brief stop. They were entertained by the Skagwayans at dance, music being furnished by the orchestra taken from Juneau. Dancing continued un
 til the early morning hours. At s . m. Saturday, with 322 passengers
 aboard, the largest number ever han
 dled by the White Pass on such an excursion, a special train left Skag-
 way for Whitehorse, arriving shortly
 after noon. +..r.
 The children's sports and other
 events of the Whitehorse celebration were held during the forenoon so
 that the afternoon could be given to
 the ball games. During the. evening
 the visitors were guests at big
 dance The excursionsts left early
 Sunday morning for Skagway and
 got away on the Alma for Juneau
 at 4:3O D. m, arriving here, at a. m. today. The, weather on the
 return trip was somewhat rough, a
 number aboard the Alma being sea
 sick. The boat put in at Haines where it picked up one passenger for Juneau. ,g., l: Juneau For Fourth l: Fort Seward wants to come to Juneau for the celebration on July f." said Mr. Bartlett today, "The soldiers have good baseball team and will put up a good showing here. They are anxious to meet the Juneau and Douglas teams. Others at the army post are anxious to come here for the Fourth celebration if suitable transportation can be ar ranged.
 "If the Whitehorse people could get excursion rates for the trip com
 
 : there, I am assured that they would : bring a big crowd down for tho : July celebration he said. He said : also that there seemed to be little chance for such rate as the celebra : tion falls during the rush season oi !: the White Pass and boat transpOr !: tation is difficult to arrange whicf |: will probably prevent an excursion !: from Whitehorse. Many Aboard Alma
 Those making the trip were B. F Fitch, B. Bradford, A. N. Nelson : Miss Olive billy, Mir. and Mrs. K R. Jaeger, Miss Hazel Jaeger, Mrs B. J. Burke, Oliver Anderson. James Ba"ragar, Jr.. Gabriel M. Parama koff, Miss Frances McConaghy, Der 2 Burford, Wayne Summers, B. J. Sur 2 ratt, J. H. Fellen, Winifred Fair : man, Laura McCloskey, MT. and Mrs Ell. H. Drake. Lydia Korhonen, B 2 Benson, Jim McNaughton, Miss Caro 2 Webster, Mrs R. c. Hurley, Mis- : Harriet Sey, Miss Doris M. Olson : John Ludden, Mrs. Ray Glass, Mis- 2 Ada Smith. R. L. Douglas, Howar' l.. Case, Frank Coggins, J. B. Fit7 gerald. Miss Bland, MT. and Mrs Leo Higley, Albert l.. Anderson, D. Van Alta. J. Kokhash. C. Lofts feldt, Frank Bach Jr., Bill Raines Bill Shirran. Joe Garn, F.. Beaudir Jack Kelly. D. J. Oliver, Robaf 5 Coughlin, Alex Sey. Mrs. E. McDor 2 aid, Mrs. R. Brown, Mrs, Roper Cragg. The boat, returning .adde Col Steese from Haines, NJ. Silly 2 and Mrs. Lawrence and E. Cbeste Roberts from Skagway.
 Suratt Makes Movies
 R. J. Suratt, field man for tn 2 Pathe and Fox Weeklies, 'shot" val 5 ious events at the cfelebration. i' cluding the parade,( ball game 2 other sports, points of historic T terest and general scenes aroun Whitehorse md vicinity. MT. Sl = att's offer of sl00 for anyone -wh would shoot the Whitehorse Rapid = could not be accepted as the wat'