The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-18
DOUGLAS CRABS
CLOSE WIN IN
CASABA TUSSLE
DeMolays and Juneau High
Cagers Put on High
Scoring Exhibit


drawn first blood the Douglas
Eagles came back to grab an early
lead, which, although tied at the
end of the first quarter, they never
relinquished the rest of their City
League game against the Smoke
Eaters last evening, at the Juneau
High School Gym, winning 1870.
It was the second triumph of the
season for the Douglasites and put
them at the top of the league
standings.
Doc Holman dropped foul
shot to open the scoring shortly
after the opening tip-off, but Cor
don Mills put the Islanders ahead
with a pair of nice shots from
under the hoop Holman added
another foul to the Firemens total,
then the Islanders lead mounted
when Rex Fox dropped field goal
and Claude ErSkine successfully
converted two foul tries. Dewey
Baker worked under the basket to
get two through the ring for the
Firemen and put them within two
points of the Douglas SQUAD.
Foul Sn0ts Count
Both outfits counted on foul
shots, then Tauno Niemi came
through with bucket for the
lads from across the Channel, but
two more fouls made good by
Jack Goul and long shot from
the sidelines by Tommy Meyer put
the F'iremen all even with the
Eagles at IL to IL as the first
period ended.
A foul by Erskine and a basket
by Jensen got the Island team
away to a running start again as
the second quarter opened, before
Dutch Behrends connected with a
field shot for the Fire Ladies'.
Then followed several minutes of
leetchlike checking by both outfits,
before Douglas counted again on
a pair of short buckets by Glenn
Edwards to finish the scoring for
the first half, at 10 for the Island
ers and Is for the Juneau Fire
men.
Juneau Gets Busy
Douglas scored first in the second
half, on foul made good by Jen-
sen, but then the Juneau team
began to cut into the Islanders
lead, Tommy Meyer dropping a
brace of nice ones from the field.
Baskets by Fox and Jensen built
up the Douglas margin again be-
fore Doc Holman added two
points more for Juneau. Jensen re-
ceived a cut over the eye in
scramble and left the game, Bobby
Bonner going to center for the
Islanders. Douglas rang up foul
and the Firemen a field shot to
cut the Douglas lead to "a to 81,
then Douglas got two more field
markers and the Firemen one just
before the third quarter ended.
Even Trades
The two teams traded basket for
basket, as the final session got
under way, then Douglas broke the
ice by dropping field shot to
the Firemen's foul, to- give the
Islanders "a to % lead. Douglas
rounded out its score to thirty
seven on basket by Mills and
a foul by Boyer, while Jim Orme
pocketed field shot to bring the
Firemen to 80; where the game
ended.
Erskine, Jensen and Mills formed
a scoring combination for the team
from the other end of the bridge,
that the Firemen's trio of Baker
Holman and Orme, could not
quite keep up with. Besides hold
ing up his end of private feud
with Rex Fox, Tommy Meyer, Fire
men guard, turned in one of the
finest checking performances that
anyone could hope to see, and did
his bit on the scoring end by
hanging up eight markers, to swipe
the spotlight for the game.
Shots Hurried
Holman and B hire n DIS, the
Firemen forwards were somewhat
off on their shooting, but that
could be excused as the Islanders
made them hurry their shots. Cor
don Mills, of Douglas, with IL
points, was high man in a contest
that was marked rather. by de-
fensive play than by heavy attacks.
School VS.. DeM0lays
In the second tilt the purple and
gold proved its power when they
smashed through to win another
fast played game from the tricky
Juneau High School team. Both
teams flashed plenty of speed but