The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-03
BASEBALL RAGE
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 SUNDAY,MAY 15
Horsehide Chiefs Settle Problems in Amicable
 Meeting Last Night

Unmarked by the fierce dlScord of past years was last evening s meeting at the Elks Hall of Cas- tineau Channel Baseball League of ficialS and team heads.
 Sitting down to business, William A. Holzheimer, President, Frank Henke, president, and V. w Mulvihill, league secretary, first went about the business of naming the Moose, the Elks and the Doug las Bremen, last years participants, as the competing teams in the league again this year. AS the next order of business, w K Clark, of The Daily Alaska Empire staff, was reelected official scorer of the league.
 Players Allotted
 The meeting was then thrown open to settling of player prob lens and determining the skeleton team rosters made up from known diamond artists, and to which new coming horsehiders will be added to fill out the three squads. Repre- senting the teams were: Art Mo Kinnon and Stan Grummett, mana ger and captain-assistant manager Of the champion Moose; A. E. Goetz, manager of the runner-up Douglas Islanders; Manager Howard Sim mons. Assistant Manager Carey Tubbs and Everett Novel;, utility man and coach, of the ElkS.
 On the lists of hold-over players turned in to the officials by the three managers were the following players:
 Moose Fritz Schmitz, Jack Schmitz, Bill Schmitz Tom Martin, Hiding Haglund. Bob Kimball, Joe Snow, Johnny Smith, Clarence Con- verse, Joe Werner, and Captain Stan Grummett.
 Douglas-Eddie Roller, Mark Jen- sen, Claude Erskine, Johnny Niemi, George Stragier, Sammy Nelson, Andy Balog, Bob Bonner, Jimmy Manning, and Captain Walt An drews.
 Elks = Molly MacSpadden, Bud Foster Erwin Hagerup, Dick Mc- Donald, and Everett Novel;.
 Catchers Are Swapped
 Then, in a private deal, the Moose traded their last years re- serve catcher, Orin Addleman, to the Elks in exchange for Catcher Kelly Blake. The next move was to settle the distribution of free-lance players of already known ability; among them several league stars of former years who have returned to Juneau since last season.
 In an effort to bolster last sea- sons cellarites, Pitcher Ward Mc- Alister and infielders Earl Forsythe, Eddie Lawson and Don Bradley, all former Channel Leaguers, were add ed to the Elks squad. The Elks also drew a ncy-appearing new player in SouthpaW Harold Abramson Bat tery stars of three seasons back, Bob Boyd and Dave Turner, both of whom are to return to Juneau soon. were allotted to Douglas along with Hurler Elmer Lindstrom and Catcher Rex Pinckley.' The only new name to be added to the Moose squad was Bert Beck, newcomer who is touted as sparkling in fielder.
 Newcomers to Register
 The diamond chiefs then ruled that all other Gastineau Channel residents who wish to play ball in the league this coming season should sign their intention, their names, positions, addresses and past ex- perience, with scorer Clark at the office of The Daily Alaska Empire within the next week.
 After slight discussion it was agreed that the official season should, as in the past, consist of thirty-six games, divided into two halves of eighteen games each. The two half winners will meet at the Cll0 O4 NAAC OCdoOAA HI talC AlOJtC World Series" play-offs for the championship Seven inning games are to be played on Tuesday and Friday evening of each week dur ing the season; games to commence at 6 80 o'clock, and nine inning con- tests will be played each Sunday, beginning at 530 o'clock
 Opening May 15
 Sunday. May Is, less than two weeks away, was named as the opening date of the local season with the Champion Moose and their old rivals, Douglas, meeting in the first tussle It was further agreed that two games each half will be played on the Douglas diamond, the
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