The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-02
KRAUSES WIN FIRST GAME
 THIS SEASON
Elks Take Basketball Vic tory from Douglas Eagles
 in Gym Last Evening
Krauses wonl

Krauses wcnl
 i Taking the Bremen basketball battle into newly capable hands, the Krause Concreters last nght gave up their title as all-star losers lin the City League tournament to 1 trounce their half-hearted, over confident opponents by score of 48 to 4l, in a dramatically climaxed game in the high school gymnas- lium
 Before a fair-sized crowd of en- thusiastic rooters, the opening game of the evening drew unexpected applause as the under-dog team maintained a steady lead through to the final whistle, contested only in ithe fourth quarter when the sleep ! ing Bremen woke up to look at the score board
 1 The second game of the evening saw the Elks win a well-earned 60 to A victory over the Douglas Eagles, pushing the Islanders one notch below them in the City League standings.
 Krause Surprise 1 Promising to be q threat to nlgh- bidders in the League tourney, the 1 Ireorganized Krause quintet. played smooth, cooperative game. The contest opened with slow play and continued to be overstudied until ' the second half when the Bremen found a spaiG 0f the. old fire and developed it into a rcel blaze for the final fourth-ouarter attempt. An opening lead of four points dwindled to a 10 to score for Krause at the end of the first quarter, but the second period saw the Concreters chalk up nine bas- kets to the Firemen's one field goal and one free shot,
 Doc Hoilmann High
 Starting the third quarter with the score 28 to 12 in their favorX the Concreters continued their cross stitch play across the court by which they had gained so many bas- kets in the opening hall Follow ing up their trials at the basket with quick second shots. they came through with five more goals in the last quarter. But the Fire men batted through for six goals and left the score at 27 to 37 in , their opponents favor as the quar- ter ended
 Led by Doc Hollmann who came through with Is final points, the Bremen got in there and fought" bringing the margin 40 to A as the two minute light of the last quarter went on Another basket by Woody Wilson and the final goal by Bardi ended the story. however, while an- other Fireman free shot made the score 46 to A.
 Bud Lindstrom scored points for the Bremen while the expected high point men. Dutch Behrends and Joe Snow, slumped to and l points respectively, Joe paying a number of score penalties by wild passing and poor receiving.
 Bardi was high point man for Krause, with IT, seconded by Woody Wilson Is, and Byington 12.
 Elks in Form A fast moving game, the Elks- Douglas Eagles battle was marked by smooth Elk teamwork, surpass- ing in speed the set-up of the Is land quintet Roy Smith came through with 24 points for the Pur- pie squad, while Dale Druliner chalked up 10 and Dick May, g.
 Douglas moving with less drive
 than usually characterizes the Is- : land battles, cared out several ef- fectively planned plays but too of ten found Roy Smith smashing into the middle of them. Jensen was up to top-man form again, totaling 16 points, with Mills steady eye ac- , counting for II points. Claude Frs kine, back on the team again with , bandaged shoulder, vas off his i, usual shooting standard, which helped account for the Purple ad- vance.
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