The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-31
.ELk5 ARE
 WALL0pED BY MOOSE
tong Seven Inning Game Played that Sees Home
 Runs and Everything
Yesterdays Results Elks 5, Moose l6
SCORE BY INNINGS

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 Moose ........................0 3 2 0 O-lt Elks .........................,-2 2 0 1 00- Flying cleats, swinging bats, mix ed up well with home runs, doubles Isingles and triples, stirred together for 2 hours and 10 minutes, proved to be the correct recipe for "roya shellackirrg" which was poured un-
 mercifully on the hapless Elks base ball team last night at Fireman's park by the brawny arms of the I Moose nine. When the smoke cleared away the Moose had beaten the Pur- pie Sox to the tune of 16 to 5, be- sides pleasing a large, but tiret group of fans, glad that the long |hitfest was at an end.
 The seven inning game was the longest seen here this year, and the f16 runs scored by the Moose bats ithe lsroest score for any one team : so far this season
 f Eiks Started We'll
 I The Elks started the contest in good order with Sammy" Taguchi on the hill, leading 2 to 0 at the end of the first canto and to at the end of the second inning, but then the fireworks broke loose and a rnerry-go-round of hits started parade of new chuckers for the Elks until the fatal contest was ended where manager "1havey" sKcskey was forced to pitch him. self, although suffering with a bad ly lacerated finger. The Moose men swung with everything but the wat CT bucket-and connected.
 How It All Started
 f At the end of the second inning the Elks were leading 4 to 3, and ir their half of the third inning they failed to score-t h e n the Moose started dancing. Freddie Schmitz first up. hit to centerfield; Kerr tthen flied out to Iverson at third Joe Snow walked. Then up comes MT. Joe Bird who clanked long I fly into right field where a MT ! Moore not only let it fall in hi nit. but let it fall again, and ir 1.-the meantime Snow and Schmiti lFcored. while the Elks went up in the fprcverbial balloon. Bird went tc 4 second. The inning would have gone longer but Bird pulled boner wher he tried to go to third on a ground. \ CT. Maxie Lewis faked a throw tt |. first to catch Grummett but in. stead caught Bird at the hot cor. ! ner. Fatal 4th and 9th
 \ In the fourth, the Elks denteo \ the home platter for the last time I when Taguchi slammed beautiful single over third scoring Moore.
 The Moose half of this inning wa. not so short though Jack Schmitz first up, lined a hit past 3rd. Neilser
 fumbled it in left field and Schmit, ended on second. Sturrock hit ovel second and Schmitz scored after h, !; ran over catcher Ellenberg, Joe Guy
 then hit to right field and Sturrocl ,, scored by beating the throw in iron . Moore. Fred Schmitz then was ou ]. by grounder to Taguchi, but Gu, \ went to second on the play. .T Kern. Moose pitcher, came to ba ) and slammed it over the center fiele ] wall a mile. scoring Guy ahead o ! him. Then to make matters worst Joe Snow and his mighty bat lam. med a line drive over the center field wall again. That was the enc l, of Taguchi.
 Ivers7n In and Out
 tss1verson replaced Taguchi fro n J third base and ended the Moose bis II guns momentarily after Bird ane N Grummett flied out ending the in. l ming with the count 10 to 5. In theil ] lhalf of the fifth the Elks did noth. ing. e
 II The fifth innirg was possibly tn.
 longest of the game, and packed
 more entertainment besides base ], ball when two young Indian lads en. ! gagged in a fist fight in the righ field side lines and entertained tn,
 crowd so vigorously the game wa ,5 stopped to wat, the battle. ant
 then, Chief of Prlice Dan Ra.sto, stopped the fight md t.r run. I'm | crowd gave Marty .rr, the bron, } cheer for chasing t,-s dark-haire,
 gladiatorS off the field.
 Back to Baseball
 Slagle started the long fifth witt a walk. Then Jack Schmitz hit {. double, pu tting Slagle on third 2 Sttrrock then got a screaming hi
 to center field, scoring Slagle. bu Numbering Jack was caught at tn plate by a beautiful throw from cen ! terfield by Jack McDaniels. Joe Gu then hit to right field and Sturrocl went to third. Freddie Schmitz thel struck out.
 With Two Away-Thcn
 With two out the Moose kept run
 ming and scoring. Slugger Kern thel
 came up and hit screaming doubl
 scoring Sturrock and Joe Guy. H
 went to third on A paSsed hall Snoy