The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-18
MOOSE CLIMB OVER ELKS ID
 LEAD CIRCUIT
Paps Bunch Drives in Ring ing Up 9 to 6 Win
 Over Purples


 themselves. plus four more runs donated to them by the Elks, en- abled the Moose baseballers to come through their nine-inning tussle yesterday with three-run margin and take over first place in the Gastineau Channel League stand ings for the second half.
 Joe Shows third home run of the season opened the scoring m the first inning and accounted for ,wo tallies that sent the Moose ott with a lead which was never headed. Bob Kimball who started the game in the garden and finished on the mound for the Black Sox crossed the plate ahead of Snow, having reached second when Red Gray muffed his drive down the leIt field line.
 Two walks handed out by Elk hurler Poster, plus McVey's error and a passed ball on sub-catcher MacSpadden gave the winners an- other pair of runs in the second and a third was counted in the next session when Snow led off with single. moved to second when Nc Nance walked, to third on a passed ball and home on Converse hit.
 ElkS Runs
 The Elks had put over their first counter in the last of the second, Forsythe doubling, stealing third and spiking the plate on Bradley's s single. In the final half of the fourth inning they added a second run. Abramson opened with a sim gle. went to third on MacSpadden's hit and home on wild heave by McNamee.
 The fifth was the big inning, all around, the Moose salting the game away with four markers in their half and the Elks keeping up the fight by adding three during their turn. sEsa
 Opening the inning for the Moose, Haglund singled and was sent to third by Kimball's double, when Snow came up with single that pounded both runners across. Snow went on to second on the throw in to the plate and finished his trip around the paths on a pair Of passed balls. McNamee, meanwhile, followed Snow with walk, after which he stole second and counted on Jack Schmitz' single.
 Center-gardener Russell, who nit three times in three trips during the game, opened for the Elks and got in the way of a pitch for a free trip to first. McVey hit into likely-appearing double-murder, out Converse juggled McNamee' slightly wide throw and both run ners were safe. Lawson then came up with single that put Russell across and McVey tallied after the catch on Fosters fly to deep right, Lawson going on to third. Abram- son followed with another fly for the second out, but Forsythe rapped his second double into the grand stand to score Lawson.
 More Runs
 Singles by Russell and Addle- man with two out in the sixth, were combined with a Moose error to send Russell across with the final Elk run, Addleman being stranded when Lawson rolled out.
 With Addleman in the game from the seventh inning on and Mac Spadden back in his normal spot at first base, the Elks settled down and gave the Moose no more op- portunities the rest of the game while Kimball moved in from the outfield to relive the tiring Smith for the Moose and had a minimum of trouble from the Elks.
 A total of g safe blows was con- piled by the matters of the two teams in Sundays affair, and the cleanup swatters of both squads proved their rights to the post by garnering three hits in five times up. Snow, batting fourth for the Moose, added two timely singles to his homer, while Forsythe figured in the Elks scoring with two doubles and a single.
 Bud Foster, though he went the whole route for the Purples, again found his fast one being tagged for far places by the bevy of Moose clouters, and, though the Elks were not able to get Johnny Smiths left side twisters for many extra bases they were able to send them where the fielders were not, more tre-