The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-12
TO
 HONOR 1941 BALL TEAMS
Players Will Get Prizes df Traditional Affair
 This Evening

In a parting gesture to one of the best diamond seasons the Gastineau Channel Baseball League has seen, players, officials and record keepers will be feted this evening at the annual banquet rendered by the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department.
 The traditional season's-end cele- bration, slated for 6:30 o'clock at Percy's Cafe, will be highlighted by the awarding of prizes for the out standing plays, both good and bad, which the Elks, Moose and Douglas teams staged during the season.
 Honor guests, of course, will be the champion Moose nine, which walloped the Islanders in the seven tn game of the Little World Series.
 These To Be Chosen
 To be chosen at the banquet are the most popular player, who will receive a prize from the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company; the player or players responsible for the biggest bonehead play" of the season, who will be awarded significant picnic ham, donated by the Sanitary Meat Market; the outstanding outfielder, gallon of wine, Juneau Liquor Store; out standing infielder, suit clean and pressed Valet Shop; the biggest "crab" in the league, picnic ham. Alaska Meat Market; player who spent most time on bench, two cans of beans, 20 Century Grocery; and to the most popular umpire, a free burial guaranteed by Charles Carter
 Players Awarded
 Players who will be awarded prizes for their seasons work in clude the following:
 Jack Schmitz, shortstop with most put-outs, quart of whiskey, White Spot Liqucr Store; Stanley Grummett and Hub Sturrock, tied for greatest number of strikeouts at bat, carton of cigarets, Garnick's Grocery; Claude Erskine, pitcher with most strikeouts to credit, base ball glove, Juneau Young Hard ware; Fritz Schmitz, player with most errCrs, shave and haircut, Brownies Barber Shop.
 
 More Awards
 Red Shaw, most sacrifice hits, jar of pears, Gastineau Grocery; Joe snow, best batting average, Schaef- fer pen, Ludwig Nelson; Schmitz, second baseman with most putouts, case of beer, Brunswick Bowling Alleys; Grummett, catcher with n05t assists, case of canned goods, West Grocery; Hallie Rice, best in field fielding average, framed pie .ure, Snap Shoppe.
 Joe Guy, fifth best hitter, dozen pencils, J. B. Burford; Snow, Nor nan Rustad and Grummett, tied or most bases on balls, $200 mer- ;handise certificate, Case Lot Gro- ,ery; Willie Radenberg, most out field errors, $500 merchandise cer- tificate, San Francisco Bakery: John Skok, catcher with fewest passed balls, carton of cigarets, Bills Parcel Delivery.
 Ham For Joe
 Joe Snow, most hits, one ham, John Hermle; Andy Andrews, in- fielder with fewest errors, photo album, Ordway's; J. Steele Culbert- son, mans travel kit, Guys Drug Store; Mark Jensen and Rustad, jed for third best batting average, 3ase Of beer, Ken Edwards; most outouts, Schaffer pencil, Butler- Mauro Drug Company; Bill Ramsey, Sammy Taguchi, Skok and Rabbit 1llenberg, tied for most three-bas aits, slab of bacon, 20th Century Meat Market; Fritz Schmitz, most wo-base hits, shirt and tie, Sabin's.
 Willey's Theft
 Rustad and Jensen, tied for great sst number of runs scored, dress 'hirt, O. J. Anderson; George Will ley, most stolen bases, pair of shoes, H. s. Graves; Hallie Rice, est second base fielding average, ,arton of cigarets, New York Tav- srn;
 Ham Kumasaka and Snow, tied Tor second place in base stealing, 3ne bacon, California Grocery; Wax Lewis, best shortstop fielding average, gold stickpin, Paul Bloed- lorn; Taguchi, best third base field ng average, carton of cigarets, Tri- ingle Inn; Ernie Stewart, best first ,ase fielding average, first base nitt, Thomas Hardware.
 Lefty Smith, pitchers best field ing average, framed picture, Winter and Pond; Jack McDaniel, out