The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-25
4 TEAMS WILL
PLAY BALL ON
CAST. CHANNEL
Admit Douglas to League
Al. Out Players,
Practice Dates

WdS dulllllttu ifiJO tllS 1dStllledu
Channel Baseball League at last
nights meeting Three teams from
Jtineau, the Legion, Elks and Moose
squads. and the Douglas team will
fight it out for the 1886 pennant
President William A. Holzheimer
and the other league officials voted
franchise to the island city after
the Alaska Juneau employees had
withdrawn their application because
conflicting shifts of their players
made the arrangement of practice
sessions difficult A list of 30-odd
IA. j. men who wished to play
baseball turned in to the league
officials offered enough additional
men to complete the fourth team
Is ne Douglas Squad d Disg
In order that the Douglas squad
might be composed of as many
Douglas residents as possible, six
men who last year played with
Juneau league teams, w. Andrews
and c. Erskine OF the Moose, d,
LIVE, E. Roller and u. ANiemi of
! the legion, and Mark Jensen of
the Elks' team, were reassigned to
the Island line up Assignments to
teams were made for all the new
men and a schedule of practice
days to commence next Monday was
drawn Hsa'i'' Neft 80 sS4s8NeH 's''
as, Players Must nepOrt s.i
1t is urged that all players, re-
port Immediately to their respective
team managers so that arrange
lments for next weeks practice ses7
sions may be completed and no
more time lost in lining up the
teams for the season opening on
May TO- Men assigned to the Le-
gion will see George tRedJ Henry
at the Imperial, Moosemen should
get in touch with Art McKinnon
at the Reliable Transfer office and
Elks players are to report to Bob
Jernberg iii the U. s. Marshal's
office. Those assigned to the Doug
LAS team can telephone Mark Jen-
sen at the F'eusi and Jensen Hard
ware store in Douglas
On Douglas Diamond
The Douglas squad will do its
practicing ON the Douglas diamond
which is fast rounding into top
shape under the intensive work
that has been done on it the past
few weeks BY the time regular play
starts it should be as fine as any
ball grounds in Alaska and Several
games will be scheduled for the
Island city this season. lsst1s
The Moose team will open prac-
tice on the juneau diamond next
Monday evening, April 81, and the
Juneau squad will have their even
ings on the field in the following
order: ~ 'aes e'"' rs
:" Practice Days Ae
Tuesday, April 28AElks. ~
Wednesday, April 29-Legion.
i Thursday, April 3O-Moose.v
Friday, May 1-Elks.
Monday, May 4-Legion.
Tuesday, May 5-Moose.
Wednesday, May 6AElks.
Thursday, May LEGION.
Saturdays and Sundays the field
will be open to all players.
Legion Lineup
The team rosters, as revised are:
Legion-George Henry, Manager;
j. Snow, lib; K. Junge, p: w. Nc
Alister, p; e. Novel;, f; j. Nc
Laughlin, f; w. Rodenburg. f.; G.
Lowe, +; E. Hagerup, f; "A. Bloom
quist, +; B. Foster, 3b; r. Gray, G.;
H. Bellinger, p; E. Krause, f; s.
Roberts, 2b; D. Nixon. f; J. Gam
bic, f; B. Strange, f; L. Ellsworth,
C; J. Briggs, p; B. Kolander, f.;
H. Gulbranson, 2b; C. Strobe, IS,
j. Clingbeil. f; X. Willard, +; L.
Gilt, c. - F*as,f -
Elks Team
Elks-C. H. MacSpadden, Man
ager; K. Blake C; S. Koski,& D.;
R. Jernberg, f; T. Adams, IS; B.
lDuckworth, 2b; P. Sternig, 3b; p.
Schmitz, f; L. Baldwin, +; B. Hulk,
3b; E. Kenyon, C; T. Price, p; B.
Rowe, 2b; j. Elliott, f; H. Thibeau,
lib; r. Bardi, f; G. Benson, f;
F, Ross, f; E. Butler, lib; T. Chopp,
C; E. Perks, c; B. Martin, p; G.
Hall, f; B. Bale, SIS; j. Beaver, f;
v. Farrell, lb; NJ Ekre, IS.
Moose Players
Moose-A. McKinnon, Manager
F. Schmitz, 2b; ]. Schmitz, +; E
Lindstrom, p: c. Converse, f; r
Stevenson. 3b; J. Ramsay, +; K
Movall, c; F. Thompson, p; J. E
Smith, p; M. Bagby, lib; E. forge
son, 2b; B. Jarvis. f; L. jameson
3b; J. Egan, 1b; B. Trumbun, c;
R. White, C; B. Bryan, f; M. Nc
Donell, f; r. Graft, f; r. Wells
+; A. Butcher, f; E. Bonkoski, f
H. Button, 3b.
Douglas Team
Douglas-W. Andrews, Manage
and Id; c. Erskine, p; E. Roller, IS
T. Niemi, f; ]. Nierni. f; A. Balog
3b; M. Peterson, c; D. Kilburn, f
R. Bonner. 3b: L. Guerin, f; A
Gair, f; A. Lundstrom, f; X. Jones
f; M. Jensen, D. D. LIVE. C: r