The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-12-08
OPENING HOOP
GAMES WON BY
DEM0LAy, ELKS
Krause and Haida Five De-
feated in Tits Last
Evening

Concreter drive winch orOuBnt tiie
losers to within one point OF a
deadlock with only two minutes OF
play to go, the DeMolay Lodge
quintet opened the City League cage
season last evening with AZ to "a
victory over the Krause five in the
Juneau High School Gym, ,y
The second game of the double
opening saw a smooth working Elks
team swamp the Coast Guard crew
of the Haida.
Towering above their opponents,
the purple-clad eMolays had
things their own way following the
opening gun and closed out the
first half with 19 to 10 lead over
the seemingly demoralized Con-
creters. But the third quarter was
still very young when the DEMO-
LAYS found the course of the game
going awry, as the Krause squad,
led by Ralph Bardi repeatedly work.
ed through and under the Puppies
into the scoring zone.
Though the Krauses kept up an
almost continuous cannonade on the
Lodge goal, from both long and
short range throughout the third
period their gunnery was a bit too
wild to- even the count. KS
Toward the end of the third SEES
sion, the Krause attack slackened
and the DeMolays used the oppof-
tunity to pull once again into
commanding lead The opening of
the final period. however, found the
Concreters again under full power
rs they commenced their final
lrive, this time with their eyes on
the hoop
The Lodge lead, though, was too
much for the Concieters to quite
overcome and a converted foul shot
by DeAiolay guard Byington just
when the score was almost .knotted
cracked the Krause drive wide open.
From there the DeMolays sank, a
string of four more buckets while
the Concreters were able to drop
only single point more before the
final whistle.
B Once they had rounu way to
overcome the extra range Of the
DeMolays, the Krause cagers show
cd themselves to be adept at ball
hawking, and with their eyes once
well sighted on the hoop the midget
combination of Bardi, Mercer and
Rudolph should spread considerable
worry through the City League
ranks.
The DeMolays again this season
have thrown an aggressive. sharp
shooting five on the court, with
Kinky, Bayers, sammy Nelson,
Woodring and Manthey forming
strong offensive line. The De-
Molays this season appear to be
somewhat weaker in the back court
than formerly, however
Referee Bud Foster. working his
first game as official. kept the
play moving at hot pace. but did
not spare the lash. two DeMolay
performers being footed out on fauls,
while a total of eighteen penalties
was counted during the opening
tussle.
Elks Swarm Sailors
Showing a smooth working zone
defense, but little else. the Sailor
five off the Coast Guard cutter
Haida found heavy going against
the surprise court package the Elks
have unwrapped for this season, as
the Antlers put out in front and
consistently built up their lead to
end the battle with SO to 10 win.
For most of the first half the
Guardsmen were able to swarm I'M
der most of the Elk formations,
but were unable to hold onto the
ball once they had it, sloppy passes
nd fumbles letting the Elks in un-
der the basket for set-up shots.
The same failure to hang onto
the leather kept the play almost en-
tirely in the Sailors territory with
practically no opening to do any
shooting of their own Two field
goals and three converted fouls were
all the Sailors scored during the
opening half. while the Elks were
counting two to one.
The Sailors had the same trou-
Bile, only more so, during the third
and fourth quarters, while the Elks
added another notch of speed anc
with the former Juneau High
School flash, Roy Smith, and Center
May doing most. of the beil-ringing
took advantage of nearly every
Haida break to pile up markers.
Several new stars for the City
League came to light in the ELI
lineup, which contained only one
seasoned league performer, BOZ
Davlin. Among the coming lights
in the B.PO,E. ranks are Ginsberg
May and Drulinger. Doing large
share of the work for the Sailor,
were Forward Huffine and Guare
Varness.
SUMMARIES
DEMolay (42) Krause (34)
Nelson "a .-...-.-F. w Rudolph 81
Woodring QD r. ...... Bardi OBJ
Bayers d3) 40. 800, Barrie (0)