The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-07
BIB.
 TEAM ARRIVES
 BY SHIP, PLANE
Local Leaders Name Lineup to Oppose First City Nine
 in Opener This Evening

By sea and air, Ketchikan ball players were descending on Juneau today, to join their advance guard of three already in the city, pre- pared to lay siege to Firemen's Park and its score of Gastineau Channel League defenders, in a three -joust campaign.
 A half-dozen of the Ketchikan in- vaders were to arrive here late this afternoon with Pilot Munter in his intercoastal Airways Reliance sea- plane, while the remainder of the attacking contingent was to lead a throng of supporters, including First City Shotgunners, north aboard the steamer Mount Mckinley.
 First Game Tonight
 Although denied by rainfall, last evening, their proposed warm-up Channel League contest, the defend- CTS are set for the first clash of the series this evening at 5 o'clock. Emerging from the conference room managers of the Gastineau Chan nel squad gave out that the local lineup for the first game of the tri- |ple bouts will probably include: Claude Erskine, pitcher; Red Gray. catcher; Walt Andrews, first base; Fritz Schmidt, second base; Joe werner, third base; Jack Schmitz or Eddie Roller, short stop; Tom Martin left field; Hild- ling Haglund, center field; and Johnny Niemi, right field. |
 The powerful Ketchikan squad includes, besides the three players who arrived here earlier in the week, Art Liljestrand, Verne Smith, and Ted Yates, the following, who ar- rived today aboard the Mount Mo- Ted Yates, the rest of the First City players.
 Ready for "Play RalP'
 Eleven were in the Ketchikan baseball party that arrived here this afternoon on the Mount Mo- Kinley, including: Vern Hoban, ! manager; Earl Enochs, Bill East , ham, Vern Stedman, Mickey Isaac, Joe Spindor, Vern Jones, Gay Hell land, Eddie Hume, Phil Elliot, and Ray Roady.
 Probable lineup for the Ketchi- kan team in tonights game, which will be played in any weather short of a steady downpour, is: Enochs, catcher; Eastman, pitcher; Lilje- strand, first base; Stedman, second base; Isaac, third base; Yates, shortstop; Spindor, center field; Smith, left field; Jones, right field Holland and Hume are spare ptich- CTS, while Elliot and Roady fill utility posts.
 A group of six Ketchikan fans is due to arrive here late this evening or tomorrow by plane, with Pilot Herb Munter. Six of the ball squad will head back to Ketchikan Sunday evening with Munter, fol- lowing the final game of the series, while six others will fly south with Alex Holden Monday morning, the remainder of the squad returning to Ketchikan by boat.
 Sunday Games
 With the first battle out of the | way tonight, the Ketchikan and Juneau teams will take the field tomorrow at 1 o'clock to complete the series in a doubleheader, un- less semi-flood conditions prevail. { On the way north to Juneau, the invaders showed themselves to be a versatile group, not only do they makeup a menacing diamond ag- gregation, but, on shipboard they i proved their worth in amateur the atrics, one of their number pre- senting a finished tap dance, an- other coming through with piano solos and the whole contingent joining in the rendering of that fine old ballad, Take Me Out of the Ball Game"