The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-07-07

We had mild suspicion when Judge William A. Holzhemer slipped few baseball tickets in his vest picked up his travelling bag and departed for the seat of Democratic festivities Philadelphia that they going to hear about this Gastineau Channel Baseball League. And they heard about it in Philadelphia with a six-column spread in the Evening Bulletin, of that cy's largest aewspa- pers and incidentally, the home of two major league baseball teams.
 It was Cy Peterman, sports writer for the Bulle- tin, that tracked the Judge to his lair the conven- tion hall and later to his hotel and heard the full story of baseball it is played in the north. In the recesses of the Judges famous travelling bag, too was found picture of two Juneau teams the field at Firemans Park. The Bulletin reproduced it in a four column cut with the following information:
 Gold miners in the daytime and ball players at night in Juneau, Alaska, land of the midnight sun. Regular schedules, with playoff and czar-like su- pervison of U s. Attorney for the District former Judge Bill Holzhemer the Alaskan "Landis"
 Then Sports Writer Peterman sat down to his typewriter and gave his readers the following infor nation baseball here revealed in his interview with the Judge
 The Delegate from Alaska was full of his subject and the subject consisted of base ball It's hobby amounting to passion with Judge William A. Holz- hemer, and he submits it for your approval during this Democratic Convention.
 The Judge, you see, is down from Juneau, and while the business of renomnating Franklin D. Roose welt must lperforce first, the matter of telling the world about AlaSka's endorsement of night base ball is certainly next his docket Judge Holz- hemer is U. s. Attorney for the First Alaska district with headquarters in the capital city of neau Under the late Woodrow Wilson's admins tration he was Federal Judge at remote Nome.
 He wasn't in Philadelphia 24 hours before word got around about the Gastineau Channel base ball league
 The Gastineau Channel, to keep the geographic record straight is strip of water separating Juneau from its twin city Douglas but a bridge links them both The base ball league is confined entirely to the two cities three teams in Juneau and the other the water
 "Its what you might call a night league" the Judge began when discovered, with his conferees on the Convention floor T can't tell you about it in all this noise, but come at the hotel" I did
 There, backed by innumerable clippings and pie lures. l learned the story of base ball in Alaska, from the local press reports major and Double games (daily published in that far away land) to the dongs of the boys along the Gastneau.
 We can play ball the year round" Judge Holz- heimer began but we don't. Basket ball and some lesser games occupy the young in winter, all though the weathers not much different from spring and fall. We have nothing of your winter cold CThe Japan stream, I recalled the south coast of Alaska)
 So start about the first week in May, having then completed practice games and what you'd call spring training down here"
 Juneau, population about 1000 largest city in Alaska IS primarily gold mining town. From the works of the Alaska-Juneau mine dug into the side Of huge mountain that towers the ball yard come good many of the athletes Others are em- ployed in stores shops, other industries They