The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
HIGH SCHOOL,
 TOUGH HURDLE
 FOR ALL-STARS
Bremen Win 38 to 3l Vic- tory Over Pickup
 Elk Squad

Threatening to carry through the biggest upset of the basketball sea son, Juneau High Schools Crimson Bears drove to the edge of an his toric victory last night. but lost by narrow five point margin as the Anchorage bound AI-Stars rowed their boat from a perilous fourth quarter tie to bring the final score, 40 to 35 in their favor.
 Inspired to play game they fail ed ever before to approach, the Crimson Bears tore through confi- dent AllStar set-ups with speed and disregard of a Taku wind, and held their stellar opponents to a neck to neck battle.
 Both teams played a strong of | fensive Both checked, shot, and passed with whirlwind speed, as the seasons largest crowd of spectators |, cheered from the packed high school gymnasium bleachers and galleries
 The Uiu oprit
 1 Bucking up against the full force ! of that good old high school "en- thooziasm" the All-Star team found iself facing the traditional all-star question of the individual over the team" Rusty on team combina- tions which they have had little time to practice, the All Stars were forc- ' ed to tighten up on cooperation as the high school battlers held each man under check.
 Roy Smih picked last night as one of his "not-up-to- the-S Smith" form evenings, but the All-Stars found an infallible marksman in FL mer Lindstrom whose 20 points came in at critical points of play. Smitty was well-covered last night, after giving up his accustomed spot under the basket to Lindstrom, he managed, never-the-le to be a leader in the final All-Star victory Good Checking
 Claude Erskine played heavy duty checking game for the All Stars with Bob Davlin (who, incl dentally, is to make the Anchorage trip instead of Kinky Bayers) help ing to stop threatening high school advances.
 For Juneau High, Gil DeVault up- set record number of All-Star set ups, playing an outstanding check ing game along with Buddy Brown, who, still, however, seems to prefer passing to shooting. Varsity man Powers was a new checking threat, and the man who tossed in the most baskets (though his first-half game hit off-form was Harold Hansen.
 Cheers from the High School bleachers came loud at the end of the first quarter, when the score stood 13 to in favor of the Bears. The half saw the score stand g to 20 in the All-Stars' favor, and the third quarter kept the same mar gin at 29 to 27.
 Theopening minute in the fourth quarter brought the score to a tie as DeVault sank his first field goal, but despite two wildly -cheered shots from Hansen and another from Gil, the game ended as an All-Star vic tory
 Opening Clash Wilson Bud" Foster, temporary reformed referee, led a conglom- crate Elks squad in valiant but truitless attempt to dampen the Firemens rush in the curtain-raiser tilt. Foster and his cohorts con- sisted of Douglas trio, Mills, Ed wards and Stragier, DeMolay guard Pinkley, and what was left of the regular Elks quint after the All Stars had been subtracted. Be- cause of the depleted Elk ranks, League President Jack Fowler an- nounced that the game would not be officially counted.
 Even though the Bremen were also minus a luminary in guard Sturrock, they were able to pile up a 38 to 31 edge on the scrambled Elks, and that without too much difficulty. Teamwork was the Smoke Eaters big weapon, backed up by the long distance sniping of Jim Orme.
 The only combination work the Elks were able to put on the floor was displayed by the three Island CTS, who found old ties hard to break whenever they were on the court together.
 Break Loose
 Grabbing a four-point lead at the gun, the Bremen were headed for while as Foster and Edwards broke loose to finish the quarter with the Elks in front, but that rush