The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-29
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Juneau Beats Unalga Balltos.
sers Is to - Heavy
Hitting Is Feature.

The Juneau Fire Department team
yesterday afternoon swamped the
sailor team from the Unalga by a
score of 25 TO / in the opening game
of baseball ON the local diamond this
season The game was featured by
heavy hitting by the locals. who got
% hits, Including four home-runs and
eight two4baggers, while Inc sailors
connected for only three saieties.
Hollis and McCloskey carried away
heavy batting honors, each doing
the Babe" Ruth stunt twe Me-
Closkey also connected foi two
singles Anderson, Mcdonald and
Henry each hit safely for times.
Two of Anderson's were fol two
bases and Mcdonald, Fry. ,fenning,
Woodland, Henry and Koski also nit
twolbaggers Parmakoff, who held
down the hot corner for the first
two frames, was the only juneau
player who failed to break into the
hit column.
Powell and Gill were the only
sailors who hit safeties, the former
getting one and the latter two, one
OF which went for three bases. Pow
ell, batting in second place. connected
brought home on a hit by GILL This
ended the Una1ga boys scoring for
the day.
Juneau tied the score in its half
Of the first. Neither scored in the
second The locals scored two in
the third, four in the fourth. one in
the fifth, 10 in the seventh and seven
IN the eighth.
McCloskey started off on the
mound for the locals and yielded two
hits and one run in five innings.
HenniBg relieved him in the sixth
and he'd the sailors to single hit
and no runs for two innings Fry
ended the game for the locals, hold
ing the sailors hitless and runless in
the eighth and ninth. Reisher's sup
port was ragged, but he was hit hard
and freely He pitched the entire
game for the sailors.
Tha field was in poor condition
for playing Third base was a mud.
hole and the Outfield badly cut I'D
ny wheeled traffic in addition to be-
ing wet and soggy. Despite the con
dition of the field, the locals put
up a good fielding game. Henry's
work at first being especially good.
Only three errors were charged to
the locals, none of them figuring in
the scoring. The sailors made nine
errcrs, five being marked up against
Anderson ON third His showing,
however. was mainly caused by the
condition Of the ground. which made
It virtually impossible to handle
ground balls Powell, at second for
the sailors. showed up well, covering
much territory and nabbing several
short flies back OF the bag which
looked good for hits.
1t is expected that the sailors will
ask for return game when their
ship returns from the South in about
three weeks
The firemcn have material for the
best team they have been able to
turn out for a number OF years. In
Henry. Mcdonald. Koski and Hollis
The infield seems to be we'll taken
care of. while there are outfielders
galore including JIMMY McCloskey,
Wcodard. Anderson Fry, Henning
and Bernhofer arc expected to take
care of most of the hurting this sea-
son. Hopkinson, of tho Unalga.
caught a nice game for the locals
yesterday This is the one position
on the team which has not yet been
filled. Captain Woodland hopes that
Squirting. city basketball man. will
be able TO take care OF the receiving
end. He has been at. Ketchikan for