The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-06-14
ISLAND TEAM
 DEFEATS ELK
 GUESTS, i RUN
Douglas Team Proves Mud- ding Ability Last Evening
 Paps Play Tonight

Deluged with rain and base hits, the Juneau Elks' ball team slipped still further from leadership in the Gastineau Channel League last eve ming, when the Purples journeyed to Douglas to receive a 5 to re- pulse by the Islanders.
 Rain commenced to fall immed- lately after the game got under way and fell the rest of the con- test, but, miserable as was the weather, the red-clad Island nine wiped off their bats and landed on the offerings of the starting El,.s' hurler Ward McAlister. Me Alister, unable to control the wet ball. yielded up six hits for four runs in the second inning, before turning over the mound chores to Harold Abramson.
 The lanky new portsider for the Purples then did magnificent Joo of chucking through the rest of his hill debut to hold the Islanders to one additional score and but four more hits. Meanwhile, his Elk team mates began to find the soft pitch es of three Douglas mound-work- CTS to give the batch Of Island rooters who braved the rain, good cause for worry.
 One run was counted for the Elks in the first of the third when Forsythe walked and Addleman touched Jensen for tWo-bagger. A squeeze try failed and Forsythe was nipped, but Addleman was worked to third on the play and came home on a passed ball.
 More Markers
 Two more Purple markers rolled across in the fifth frame, when McAlister's single was followed by singles by MacSpadden and Law son. Forsythe connected for his third hit in three trips in the sixth inning, a double A passed ball then let him reach third, from where he scored the fourth and final Elk run on Andrews huff of a throw to first. Claude Erskine, who replaced Jensen for the sixth inning, was himself pulled out for Turner, as pitcher in the first of the seventh. Turner turned the Elks back one, two, three in their final chance to tie the score.
 Short rightfield doubles by Grant and Andrews opened the Douglas scoring in the second inning. Then, after fly-out, the Islanders land ed on McAlister's chucking for three singles in row before the second out was shadowed by fourth single to aggregate four tallies.
 Winning Run
 What proved to be the winning run was added to the Douglas total in the last of the fourth, when Turner singled, Roller walked and Manning arrived with a double.
 Considering the difficulties of the field and the wet ball, fielding per- formances of both squads were ex- cellent, while good hurling jobs were turned in by Abramson, Jen- sen and Turner.
 Forsythe, with his three hits, was the top clouter, but was forced by three Douglas sluggers, Man ming, Grant and Turner, each of whom connected twice. Bill Rob- ertson, league star of two seasons back, who returned to Juneau this weekend broke back into local ball play as centerfielder for the Elks last night. At bat he showed his former remarkable ability for drawing walks.
 Game Tonight
 The Islanders will re m ain on their home diamond for the sched- uled contest this evening, when they will entertain a Moose squad made more powerful by the arrival today of Hiding Haglund, fleet center gardener, who has been do- ing his baseball bit for Whitman College.
 Tonight's battle will be another seven-inning affair, due to get under way on the Douglas field at 6:30 o'clock, weather permitting Either Erskine or Turner is ready to hurl for the league leading home team, while Bob Kimball's number is up to pitcher for the cellarite Moose.
 The Moose have chartered a special bus, for the players and wives, which will leave the bus station at o'clock tonight for Douglas, if the weather permits of game.