The Alaska daily empire., 1923-08-09
ELKS AND MOOSE BATTLE T07-7
 TIE; DARKNESS ENDS GOOD GAME

Darkness last night ended one of the classiest games of ball seen on the local diamond this season in which the Moose and Elks fought |pne another to standstill, the ecore being tied at Tall when the lust settled. It was a tussle between McCloskey and Williams, the for mer setting new strikeout record Tor the league and the latter yield ing the fewer hits.
 It was one of those games which fans go home and fight out at the breakfast table and that causes .bleacherites to hurl popbottles at
 he umpire for stopping. The Moose led all the way up to the seventh, the Elks tying in that inning. In he eighth the Moose again stepped put in front with enough runs to | win some ball games but for the Eecond time the Bills pulled up pm even terms and it ended in a logfall. 5&Gs
 Garn Comes to Life.
 Young Abby Garn was the Elk with the brasstopped antlers. Up Do last nights game Abbys' batting average looked like the alcoholic tontent of Dolly Gray's ginger ale. Up to the seventh inning he hadn't got hit all season. In that frame he smacked one of McCloskey s curves on the beak scoring one run hnd if the ball hadn't hit a tele- phone pole back of extreme left field, it would have been an easy homer. As it was Abby perched on third and came home a minute later with the tying run.
 Again in the eighth, Abby was
 he fairhaired lad with the copper bn through an error and stole sec |pnd, was driven home by him on a |tlean single to left field, tying the Fcore a second time.
 McCloskey Whiffs Sixteen.
 Jimmy McCloskeys slants were breaking in great shape most of the Lime. Sixteen of the Bills breeze1 hnd went back and sat down, an average of two strikeouts for each lnning of the game. In no inning bid Jimmy give up more than two hits and the best the Elks could register was hits.
 Williams, while not whiting as many men as usual, kept the hits |even lower than his opponent. The Moose got to him for six safeties, finding him in three innings, two in the first, one in the sixth and three
 n the eighth.
 Moose Get Big Lead
 The Moose started off like they |were going to make a runaway game out of it. Williams was wild 'bt the start walking the first two |men, Mossersehmidt and Bothello. Henry grounded to Fry who ran back to the bag and forced lIeinie but but his throw was too late to catch Henry. Gamara singled to left. Garn had a chance to catch |Bothello at third but threw low, the ball going into the crowd and 'Bothello scored, Henry going to third and Gamara to second. F.. McCloskey singled scoring both men 'hnd took second on the. throwin. He stole third and came home when Bobby Coughlin let high pitch carrom eff his glove. Williams set- tled down then. striking out Jimmy McCloskey and forcing Pat Davis to ground out, Henning, to Gallwas. Not another run and only one hit was Ecored off Williams until the eighth. Henry doubled in the seventh, took third on a wild pitch but was head led home when Galwas fielded Ga mara's hot grounder near first and begged perfectly to Coughlin This |was the only chance the Moose had Ito score until the eighth.
 Elks Climb Uphill.
 The Elks had a long uphill climb Ito overtake the four run lead. In the first Jack Davis led off with q |single and stole second. He went Ito third when Fry missed a low lone for the third strike and Gamara had to throw him out at first. Davis scored minute later on a wild pitch. Gallwas was out Beaudin tc Henry and Coughlin famed.
 McCloskey retired the Elks on |strikeouts in the second. In the third after he had whiffed Garn land Williams, making it six in a row. Davis worked him for pass