The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-06
MOOSE REPEAT WIN OF JULY 4
 MONEY SERIES
Elks Defeat Douglas, GA, in Opening Wet Clash,
 But Drop Finale to Paps

The ElkS proved CnemSelVeS con- sistent six-run mudders yesterday, but, though their half-dozen tally total was good enough to overcome the Islanders in the first game of the July Fourth series, the fore noon clash in Douglas, that total fell one run shy of keeping them in the ballgame with the Moose in the ten inning afternoon mix at Firemens Park on the Juneau s.de of the Channel.
 Swimming events were not on the program for this Fourth, but the baSeballers made up that deficiency, cavorting midst the raindropS in the finals and bucking high wind and rain for four things in Doug las. As their share of the pot for winning their second consecutive money series, the Moose team col lected $75, while the Purples gar nered S60 at Douglas in the fore noon and $50 additional as their end of the Juneau prize. The Is lenders were enriched $40 from the Douglas bankroll and cut into the Juneau allotment for S25 more.
 Final Game
 Two twirlers, Lefty Smith and Clancy Converse worked for the Moose winners in the finale, allow ing nine hits between them, while Nick Johnson went the route for the Elks and dished out ten hits to the Pap clouters. Joe Werner and Fritz Schmitz got the lions share of the Moose bingles, both connecting three times in five trips. Big Mac" MacSpadden and Ralph Moreau each got two for four, to lead the Elks.
 Two Double Plays
 Hurler Johnson came near win ming his own ball game with clout in the seventh frame that rattled off the end house, over the left field fence, that drove Dick Mo- l5Onald m ahead of him to score the Elks' fifth and sixth chuckers. The Moose accounted for two dou- ble plays during the game. Three base blows were divided, Big Mac" rapping one out for the Elks in the fourth inning, to drive one run across.
 The pressure was on the Moose right up to the last minute, when, with two men away in the last of the tenth, men on second and third, and the score tied at Gall, Big Mac" dropped the game into the Paps' laps by muffing Fritz Schmitzs easy pop fly to let Joe Warner romp home from third
 SCORE BY INNINGS
 Batteries = Elks: Johnson, p; Blake c. Moose: Smith, Converse, D.; Hawkins, c.
 Umpires-Shaw, McVey, Herman.
 DOUGLAS GAME
 12 5 67 9 10-R H E Elks . o 0 2 002 200 0-6 9 6 Moose. 3 0 O 1902 0 1-1 10 2
 Due to downpour in which the game got under way. the clash at Douglas which opened the Fourth money series. was limited to seven innings, which was six more than the Elks needed to win. The Pur- ples made all their markers in the fourth frame, when they combined singles by Blake, Orme and Good, with Moreau's walk, Hagerups dou- ble and errors by Manning and McCay to push across runs.
 The Elks threatened to add more counters in the fifth, when Eos ters double was followed by Orme's single, but fast fielding held Foster at third, where Claude Erskine, with half his face well battered from his collision with a pole in Sundays game, relieved Mark Jen-I sen for the final putout of the contest.
 Despite protracted stretches of wildness that opened the way for most of the Douglas scoring, Bud Foster, Purple twirler, had a fairly easy time of it with the Islanders, when he allowed only five hits, while chalking up ten whiffs.
 Mark Jensen paced the Douglas batters. with two singles in four tries, while Jim Orme, with three out of four, and Kelly Blake, who drove out singles on half of his four trips, were tops for the Elks.
 Fifth-Big Inning
 Douglass big inning was the fifth, when they brought their count from two to four on Gray's walk, fol- lowed by a passed ball and steal