The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-14
DOUGLAS E
 WINNER OF
 FIRST HALF
Islanders Take Game Last Niqht from EIks-New
 Schedule Sunday
Score Last Night Douglas II; Elks ?.


 The visiting Douglas Red Coats closed up the first half of the Gasti- neau Channel League schedule tight er than a defense strike last night as they whipped the cellar-dwelling Elks in a seven inning fray that saw the Islanders hit Koski for total of IA hits as he sent them down the groove.
 The victory was the fourth con- secutive win for the Island nine and the one game necessary to cancel the two remaining rained-out Fforays in the first half, and start the sec. ond slate clean, but with the Red Goats holding the plaque for winning the schedule so far.
 Sunday the second period of the League schedule will start with the Moose meeting the Elks at 6 o'clock on the Firemen's Ball park.
 Elks Swamped at Start
 The Islanders played not at the first part of the fray as they stepped to the plate to take three hits and three runs, from Koski in the first half of the first frame. Culbertson took first on a single, Erskine was walked and they came up Rusty Rustad. Rustad connected with double and in came Culbertson. Jen- sen stepped up for single to bring in Erskine and then Rusty, himself, made the tour for the third run while Andy Andrews was being put out.
 Until the sixth the Elks had only one man to make first base that be- ing Lewis who made it on Douglas error No more than three Elks had been to bat in any inning, no hits had they taken from Jensen.
 But the Douglas were adamant in their scoring, taking breather be- tween innings where they showed up markers. Again, in the third, as in the first, the Red Coats piled up three runs as Erskine smashed out enc of the longest hits of the sea- son and one which ground rules called homer when the ball whis- tied over the cars in left field and struck the fence behind Rustad took walk and came in on Andy Andrews single. Jensen made the third score for the canto after talk ing a one-base hit from Koski and coming in on Andy's single.
 Jensen Over Fence
 Second homer of the game was ripped out of the park as Mark Jen- sen stepped up to the plate to send hot one over the fence into center field. Andrews took first on walk and made run when Niemi dou- bled. Then Niemi added to the score by taking his run when Stragier connected with a hard hit double. Stragier brought in the fourth run of the frame on Willeys single, making the canto record stand at four hits and four runs from Koski two doubles, one homer and one single.
 Mark Jensen was holding the Elk men down and the batters couldn't tell if the balls were coming up or going down, until Shavey Kcski stepped up to the plate in the sixth to take the first hit from Jensen and start hitting, scoring spree that ended soon enough, but piled up three hits and two runs against the otherwise faultless record of the Douglas hurler.
 i Sun Blinds Culbertson i Then KQski was on first and Ta- guchi stepped up for his turn. Jen- sen floated in slow one, but Ta- guchi measured. connected for a high. lazy fly into right field, where Steele Culbertson maneuvered un- der 1t but missed the catch in a blinding sun. KGmasaka grabbed on- to a bat, slashed one out to 3rd baseman Stragier who shared the grounder and then stood deep in profound thought weighing the prob lem while K ski came in for a run and Kumasaka, running like a deer