The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-09
INTER-CITY BB
 SERIES WINDS
 UP WITH DRAW
Ketchikan Wins First Tus- sle, Juneau Stages Come
 back, Third Battle Even

For the second successive year, Stalemate resulted from m e t i n g of Ketchikan and Gastineau Chan mel League hines in the battle of the year of Southeastern Alaska baseball. Duplicating the Juneau Douglas invasion of the First City last year, Ketchikan came to Ju- neau by sea and air to overcome the local defenses in the first en- gagement of the series, only to be repulsed in the next encounter, while approaching nightfall brought suspension of hostilities before the wand of victory had been tilted in what was to have been the deciding clash.
 Opening Clash
 The might of the bat made itself manifest in the opening struggle on Saturday evening, though shack led at the outset. After pitcher Eastman for the invaders, and Frs kine, for the homeguards, had held sway for a scoreless half game, the hitters commenced their march to the fore in the home half of the fifth inning, blinked the glare of the unheralded sun from their eyes and made double and a single and a Ketchikan error good for the first drop of blood.
 The lead swung to Ketchikan though, in the first of the sixth, McIsaac lacing screaming homer to the fire hydrant over the street and beyond left field, to balance the books, then blundering garden ing gave Vern Smith three bases on a fly to right and he crossed the plate on a bona fide triple by En- ochS. But the last of that inning the lead switched hands once more, the Juneau Douglas aggregation putting across their two final runs on doubles by Fritz Schmitz and Joe Snow, Erskine's single and walks by Andrews and Grummett.
 EFSk1ne fOun0ed
 From there on though, it was a breeZer for the invaders, Ketchikan hitters punishing Erskines fast ball for four more markers on four solid blows and blooper into right field that pasture-tender Grummett lost in the bullrushes, half the local fire iaa hna La !, while McIsaac, the h tier, circled the bases for his second homer of the contest.
 Tine Gastineau Channel repre- ssntatives were not far behind ket- chikan in bludgeoning Saturday ev- oning, rolling up total of eight safe blows, but did not collect the extra bases that meant capital for the First City.
 First Game Sunday
 The second game of the series was Juneaus turn to collect the lions share of bingles, the local squad garnering ten while Bud Foster, settled down from spell of preliminary wildness to limit the invaders to four connections. Foster himself led the batting parade with a circuit smash far down the cen ter field road, plus a pair of sin gles, while Hiding Haglund aided him with a brace of doubles and Snow and Jensen abetted with two hits each.
 Gay Holland started on the mound for Ketchikan to open the rainy Sunday double-header, but his fu- ture was soon dark, so Billy Boy Eastman essayed the iron man role, mounting the hill to finish out the two Sunday melees, hurling all but one and two-thirds innings of the whole series for Ketchikan.
 Southpaws do Battle
 Though Eastham's southward flip was not quite good enough to throt- tie the Juneau hitters in the second game, it was sufficient to turn them back in the five-inning nightcap WlCn only two SmaSneS ana no runs. Johnny Smith matched Easthams left wing for those five blank in- nings, holding Ketchikan to four scattered singles.
 Both teams had their big moment in the finale, KetcfnKan almost put ting over the glory run in the first of the fourth, when they filled third with only one out, but Smith took no chances, handled the next two fielding chances himself and ex- ploded the menace. The locals used the last of that fourth to make their bid Foster started off with a double and went to third on Frs kine's grounder. Snow then walked and stole and Juneau had second