The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-25
BEARS KNOCK
 OVER KAYHI;
 W|NpENNANT
Juneau Cops Southeast AL asla Basketball Tourna-
 ment in Second Game
SCORE LAST NIGHT IuJ-oau High 35; Ketchikan High q

The Juneau High Crimson Bears won the Southeast Alaska Basket ball tournament last night in the Juneau High gym in the second game of the two-out-of-thre series IS tAey wore and pounded down the Ketchikan High School Kayhis to an ignominous defeat. The Ket- chikan visitors were beaten more badly than the score showed.
 For, tired from playing l2 games in IA days and touring from Ket- chikan in small boat, the Ketchi- kan five was out-played, out-passed and out-classed by the tireleSs Crim- son Bears
 Four Times for Juneau
 Last nights win for the J-Hi stuck another feather in it's cap and made the fourth time that Juneau has won the tournament in the last 20 years. The last time Juneau had the pennant was in l937 K9tchikan has won seven times; Petersburg, four times Douglas. four times; Juneau, four times, and Wrangell, once.
 A packed house of avid hoop fans squeezed themselves into the balcony and bleachers of the gym nasium until the overflowing point was reached, to see the two de- termined teams throw caution to the wind to start the whirlwind first half that had the teams tied four times. and ended with the Crimson Bears holding a mere one point lead
 Toss-Up
 The game was anyone's for the first frame with the score teeter- ing back and forth, but the Kay his were already being outplayed. And it was the remarkable con- ditioning of the Crimson Bear quint that won them the game. Only tco obviously can the local boys run up and down the maple court by the hour.
 Sober faced Donald Murphy, the lad who never fails, pulled down IA points for his five with Miller holding 10 to tie high-point man Ellis of the kayhis.
 Fast and hot, the fight was the cleanest ever played by the Grim son Bears who apparently have turned over a new leaf and have lost their bites, kicks, hacking and slugginB tactics .. {. at least to l great extent When Bear was hacked before he would merely slug 'em back. but now he cries to the referee. It Is scientific ball they're playing and it's winning them games. Only eight fouls were called on the local five during the game in comparison with twelve on Ketchikan
 Second Half
 The second half started with the fans on edge, this could be any, one's ball game, Juneau had a ona- point lead and a lot of fight :. that was all. And even if the local talent did build up a. larger advan- tage it seemed almost useless. Six points was no lead in that game, 1t could be wiped away by a few quick shots under the basket.
 But the Bears kept building un- til the board showed 25 to 20 for Juneau and the third frame ended. The fourth opened up and the fans went wild. This was the canto that could win or lose tourna- ment, eight minutes of play that could determine the outcome of the whole season. But the visitors were playing ragged ball by now and the only Kayhi player who had any noticeable fight fight left was Math- isen, who is quite noted for having that quality
 And still Juneau kept plugging away, working under the basket and breaking fast to score and score again. The visitors got the ball for several minute period and massed under the local basket to shoot again and again but to no avail, Lady Luck was against them. The ball circled the hoop a nd dropped everywhere but through it.
 During the last few minutes of the game the Kayhis, realizing that they must fight now if never again, put on squirt that did not waste minutes and gave the fans more than their moneys worth, but