The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-02
JUNEAU HIGH TEAM RETURNS
 FROM BATTLE.
Petersburg Hospitality and Playing Applaud
 ed by Squad
I,a,rels of good sportsmanship are


 he possession of Juneau High Schools eight basketball players who returned from their trip to Petersburg aboard the Mount Mc- Kinley last night, armed not with the championship title, but with re- ports of a hard fought, fast played ;eries.
 To Tom Powers and Ed Hildre the trip was of special significance for it marked their first journey out side of Juneau, and the hospitality which Petersburg extended has set their expectations high for all other travel.
 Open house was the order
 throughout the town, Coach Wal .er P. Hauiala remarked, and the minute we arrived in Petersburg we were greeted by the whole student body who kept all of our time well filled with entertainment. The boys found the theatres open to them whenever they wanted to see show, and when the games were finally over and we broke training, pie, cake and whatever was wanted was on the house" all over town.
 Although they didn't win, the Ju- neau players report three excellent games, the final scores of which were CD 32 to 12 in favor of Peters burg; (2) 25 to 19 in favor of Ju- neau; and (3) 32 to g in favor of Petersburg.
 The first game started off with both teams nervous, but with the score at the end of the half stand ing at 12 to II in Petersburg's favor. The second half brought with it realization of handicap with which Juneau was unable to cope. Built over a muskeg, the Petersburg gym nasium floor starts to sweat when large crowd is inside for any length of time. The sweating takes place on one side of the floor only, and it so happened that the side was the one on which Juneaus bas- ket was located for the second half. Most teams competing with Pet arsburg know of this and chose to have the wet floor for the first half of the game, Hautala stated.
 Not a single field goal was made by Juneau for the entire second half, although the boys were in the clear many times. Each chance they had was muffed by slipping.
 For the second game, Juneau chose the bad half of the floor for the first half of the game, but since there was no preliminary game that night the gymnasium was not warn enough to cause sweating. Juneau led by four or five points all through the game.
 The third game, deciding event of the series, went to Petersburg with Juneau gaining scoring oppor- tunities which somehow or other just didn't work out. Petersburg started the game right off with a seven point lead in the first min ute or two of play, and after that, though the half score was brought 20 to 13 against Juneau, the tide continued unfavorable. The third quarter ended with 25 to B in favor of Petersburg, with Juneau just about to shove over for a final drive. But smart stalling by the Peters burg lads throughout the last quar- ter kept Juneau from breaking loose. and the game ended at 32 to 23.
 We had grand time and we lost the series to fine team, one that we are proud to have win, Hautala stated in agreement with Buddy Brown, Gil DeVault, Tom Powers, Harold Hansen, Ed Hildre, Verne Hussey, Grant Ritter, and Henry Behrends, Juneau players, and Harold zenger, team manager.
 A large crowd of Juneau High School students were down to meet the Mount Mckinley when it brought the team members back to Juneau last night. Also making the