The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-30
'FORSYTHE HuRLS
 ELKS TO VICTORY OVER ISLANDERS
Errorless Ball Features Douglas Mines First
 Home Defeat

Errorless fielding and super hurl- ing combined last evening to mark up for the Elks the first defeat ever handed the Douglas Islands in league play on their own lot, and to present Gastineau Channel ball fans with the fastest tightest duel of the year.
 One disputed run sneaker across by the Elks in the last half of the second inning proved enough mar gin to enable the Purples to fight through to their win. Their decisive tally followed the first hits of the game, two singles with which For sythe and Abramson opened the second inning Forsythe was trap ped after reaching third, but Abram- son worked his way to second dur ing the play on Forsythe, moved to third on a fields choice, and came in with the run that really counted while Eddie Lawson. who had reached base on a fielders choice, was being run down on the way to second for the third out.
 Umpire's Ruling
 Umpire Shaw ruled that Abram- son had scored before the tag was put on Lawson, but Douglas backed by Manager Walt Andrews in his claim that Lawson had run out of the base line for an automatic out, to keep from being tagged which should have retired the side before the run was in.
 The Elks managed to get three more singles off Douglas hurler Jensen before the route was fin ished. but could not turn them into scores; Addleman being nipped try ing to steal after his hit in the fourth and Ellensberg dying on third and on first after their use less hits in the sixth and seventh frames, respectively.
 Despite the run and the five hits he allowed, Jensen's mound work was one of the best performances of the season In four of the seven innings, only three batters opposed him and in one of those frames, the third, he set back the three opposing hitters on strikeoutS. Not one man did he walk during the entire game.
 Forsythe Spectacular
 But, fine though Jensen's hurling performance was, it was thrown in shadow by the spectacular way in which Forsythe, doing the slab work for the Elks, scored his shutout over the Islanders. For the first four times the Douglas nine was at bat, Forsythe turned the Islanders back to the bench, one-two- three, with nary hitter reaching base and only one of them able to poke the ball beyond the infield for a fly.
 In the fifth, Forsythe saw his chances for no-hitter blown up, when Erskine drew a walk which Jensen followed with double. But, with the chips down, men on third and second, Forsythe came through with two whiffs to stop the rally.
 Hits-NO Good
 The last of the sixth saw the home guard obtain the last pair of it's three hits, but, the two singles, coming with two already away, did no good as Turner flied for the third out. Not hits, but two walks, put Forsythe into slight bit of trouble on the Islanders last time at bat and led to his turning the mound over to Abramson to score the final out.
 With one away, in the last of the seventh, and the Islanders need ing at least one run that inning to stay in the ball game, Manager Andrews sent Harry Palmer in to pinch hit for Rodgers. Palmer came through with a walk, which Jensen duplicated a moment later to fill the first two stations.
 Manager Andrews then took it upon himself to bat his Island team into the front and went to the plate in place of Bob Bonner For sythe, however, after looking the situation over, signalled to Harold Abramson to come in from center field and match his left flapper agaist the left-side hitting of An- drews. The Elk strategy locked to be going wary for while, as Abramson, not warmed up, was a bit wild and forced passed ball that let Palmer go to third. Then, a bit later, with two strikes and two balls on Andrews at the plate, another sligthly wide pitch went through Addleman for another pass ed ball, and Palmer headed for the