The Alaska daily empire., 1922-01-23
"Hilltoppers'' Lose in Hard fought Battle Some
 Chance for Series.

Juneau High School ), Douglas High School IS.
 Although that tells the score at the end of one of the hardest fought games of basketball staged on the Channel this year, it by no means tells the whole story of the game played between the two schools last Saturday evening at the local High School gymnasium.
 Douglas High has a real basketball team and it added to it's laurels by winning Saturdays game. The "Hilltoppers" are almost if, in fact, not equally as good as the Islanders. The latter outplayed the local lads, but the margin of difference was not as wide as the score would indicate. It took a sure enough team to beat the "Hilltoppers" and Douglas fur nished it.
 Make Poor Start
 The "Hilltoppers," although trying hard, were unable to stop the Island CTS in the first period and it looked like the latter would pile up a much larger score than the final score shows. In a scrimmage staged jus- after play started, Barragar suffered an injured eye which forced a call of time out for repairs. After pldy was resumed, for several minutes Barragar was handicapped at guard by obscured vision which cut down his passing and his effectiveness on the defensive. Holmquist was not equal to the pace set by either his teammates or Douglas and was the outstanding weak spot on the local team during the first half. He was replaced by Ellengen in the second. The latter showed up well and broke up the Islanders plays time after time before they were fairly started. For Juneau, Case and Barragar were the outstanding figures with Britt almost as good White played a good passing game but as usual did no basket shooting Cases work shows in the fact that Wiitanen, counted as one of the Islanders leading scorers, failed to shoot single bas- ket, resulting largely from the for mer's effective guarding. Garn, 1 Douglas other forward. scored two | field goals, both in the first half, but was shut off entirely in the last period.
 Douglas Team Work Wins While the Islanders man for man are as good players as the "Hiil, 1 toppers." they did not play as in. dividuals. They were out for bas. kets, if one player couldn't get a shot, he passed along to someone else. The Islanders have developed team play that is as good as any seen here this season, probably bet. ! ter. Garn and Galwas, if there were any choosing. probably led their teammates a little Saturday night 1 but any edge they had was slight Tn point of actual scoring from scrim. mage. Nelson, at center, led his team getting two field goals in the first period and one in the second. Garn is credited with the highest indi- vidual score, getting two field goals and four from foul throws, giving him a total of eight points. Galwas scored two field goals, one in each half Neither Manley nor Wiitanen were able to score. Nelson's game was excellent despite the fact that he is recovering from an injured leg which handicaps him some. Manley at guard broke up many plays for Juneau.
 Has Chance for Series
 The first half ended with the scorC standing 12 to ? in favor of the Islanders. In the second half tht "Hilltoppers." with Ellengen replac ing Holmquist. took a brace and held the Islanders on virtually even terms the latter scoring two field goals and two fouls, Juneau scoring one each.
 The showing of the "Hilltoppers' In the last period indicated that