The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-16

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 Following their unsuccessful thrust in the sixth, the Islanders were tame as canaries the rest of the way. going down e-two-three in each of their three remaining times at bat.
 From all appearances at the out set of the battle, Erskine had the Moose hitters well in hand. two whiffs and roller to first being the best the Pap lead-off trio could do as the. curtain ascended. In the second Erskine knocked down hot wallop of Shows for the first out, then after giving Grummett trip 10 first on a beanball, the Red-Clad smoke -baller forced Hawkins to hit into double-play that closed the second. In the third it took only five of Erskine's pitches to suffice for the Moose
 Break for Black Sox
 It was in the first of the fourth that the Black Sox got their big break. Action was delayed then, also. Fritz Schmit2 going down for the first out when he lambasted one to the hill that Erskine had to stop in self defense Haglund hit only ozone on his turn at the plate, and two were away. Converse, however, came up, with the first hit of the ball game. Then. with Snow at bat, Converse broke for second to get in position to score should the big cleanup hitter do his stuff. Throw ing to head off the pilferer at sec ond. catcher Gray plunged the pellet between Converse shoulders, from where 1t carromed crazily into left center field and rolled to the fence, with the Douglas outfield in pur- suit, while Converse headed for home under full steam, to break up the row of doughnuts on the score board. s,
 Starting the fourth, Hawkins found a hole between short and third to reach first, but there he died when strikeout, a fly, and roller accounted for the three outs. The other Moose marker resulted from another of Dame Fortunes smiles their way in the first of the sixth.
 {. Over the Fence
 Fritz schnlits was the first hitter and dropped one over the short left field fence for. two bases. Fol- lowing Haglund's fly, Schmitz went to third when Converse grounded out to short. Two strikes were on Snow. and 1t looked as though Schmitz had reached the end of his road when Erskine's' next pitch headed for the stratosphere, Schmitz counting before Gray could retrieve the wild heaves er-'re--
 Snow grounded out and the game was really wrapped up and put away, though the Moose did try again in the seventh; Grufrmett leading off with walk and Hawkins singiing him to second Neither. runner got any further. In the first of the eighth, Haslund reached first on scratch single. in front of the plate and Snow walked, but again nothing more happened, Then in the ninth, Hawkins picked another hole for his third single in four trips, mak- Ing him head man among the hits men =, Jack Sehmitz, however forced Hawkins and himself, met slow de- mise on first. to bring up the Ts- flanders for their last three outs. iErskine famed g batters and Smith six during their display of mound prowess. Smith allowed three hits and Erskine six.
 The full-sized turnout of fans on hand to see the opening of Juneau's Little World Series" saw ball game that would rank with the fin