The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-05
ISLANDERS
WIN FOURTH
BALL MONEY

.Juneau's baseball fans crowded
Fjreynen'sa Park Monday ana yester-
dav to see i've doubleheaders OF
baseball IN which, briefly, Douglas
won, the Fourth Of July 500 prize
game over the Elks. who had beaten
the Moose in elimination Monday,
and the snappy ball players from
Chilgoot Barracks took the Haida
and the Juneau All-Stars handlly
into camp.
Yesterday. in the game between
Douglas and the Elks, the lodgemen
started off in great style with two
runs. neatly gotten as Koshak
singled, Foster tripled to score
Fashak. and came home himself
when McSpadden laid down a neat
sacrifice bunt. y
But for the Elks, that was the
end of the big money. From there
on to the end of the game, Erskine
held the Elks scoreless.
Score Tied
In the fourth inning. Turner. first
man up. doubled to center field and
Erskine slammed a homer over
centerfield fence to tie the score.
In the sixth inning, Turner past
ed a homer over the fence for an
other run. Turner, incidentally hit
four of five, with double, two
singles. and the homer
Then in the seventh inning, with
Foster hurting for Koski, things
happened. Jensen got aboard with
an error at second base. Niemi was
hit by a pitched ball, and Manning
following him. moved both runners
up with a sacrifice bunt
Grant walked, filling the bases.
Turner singled. scoring Jensen. Err
skine walked. forcing Niemi home.
Then Big Andy Andrews hit Chin
csc bingle past third base to score
Grant and Turner
Army Beats Juneau
To cap a cannonading victory
over the Haida on Monday, the
Chilkoot Barracks Army team
whipped an aggregation Of All-Stars
of Gastineau Chnanel after the
Elks- Douglas game yesterday, to
2.
The soldiers had a real ball club
and put on a fine show for still
crowded grandstand.
Don Bell, new chucker from South
Dakota, in an Elks uniform, made
his debut in Juneau balloon, but
couldn't find the plate and walked
seven men in five innings before get
ting relief from Dave Turner, COM
ing in from center field Bell, how
ever, showed a lot of stuff and hit
two for three aos
Moose Lose .att
Monday night, in the elimination
PANE between the Moose and the
Elks, the purple sox had better luck
winning five, to three from thu
Paps a4s@t p ~
Red Gray pitched this contest fol-
the Elks until the last of the sew
enth inning, giving over to Foster,
land Converse pitched for the Moose
The Elks scored two runs in the
second inning after the Moose had
taken one in the first. In the fourth
the Elks stretched it to three runs
while the Moose did not score again
until the sixth frame.
With the score three to two. the
Elks came up in their half of the
seventh and Koshak drove a hnmel
over right field fence to score Gray
who had singled and put the score
at five-two, which lead the Moose
could only white down one rur
with Schmitz scoring after Mar
quardt's single and Orme's dribble
down to second base.
Haida Loses
Monday afternoon, Army beat the
cutter Haida in a wild sluggine
spree, battering Haida pitchers
heavily to VIM 10 to 4.
Chilkoot's veteran hurler Nc
Closkey who has seen 26 years OF
service in the U. S. Army, had nc
trouble with the Coast Guard bats
men and set them down with few
scattered hits.