The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-09
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 ball pa..,, while the remaining water sports were taking place on the water front. Winners in the water sports were: Women's Boat Race Polly Jackson and Madeline Buch- anan, first, $20 Eva Mcdonald and Ruth Hodges, second, $l5; Audrey French and Carmena French, third, $l0; Evelyn Camerson and Florence Thompson, fourth, $5; Lottie James and Alice James; Esther Kitka and Esther Andrews.
 Log rolling resulted in Ray Tudor, first, $l5. Jack Ballinger, second, S10; Lloyd Tilson, third. $5 and a thorough soaking for everyone. In the children's events, Bunny Donnelly made record by winning in four events and Betty Jo Yaw maintained her record by winning in five. The races were run so fast that the judges had some difficulty in keeping record of the winners.
 In the women's events. winners in the nail driving contest were :: Mrs. George Fitzgerald. Mrs. Ed Baldwin and Mrs. Art Gillis. In the second nail driving winners were Mrs. Al Richter, Mrs Max Lurz and Margaret Dennaenzo. Women's pie eating contest win ners were Mrs. George Henderson, Mrs. Harold Donnelly and Berna- dine McGraw.
 At l o'clock the ball games were started by the Coast Guard against a town team, resulting in a score of 9-2 in favor of the Coast Guard. l Then came the high point of the day-the game between Rotary and Peta Sigma Phi. Rotary paraded ] onto the diamond first, wierd col- lection of female costumes, led by Giipatrick in a wheelchair, carrying crutch, two canes and a stretcher, and wearing a decollete gown with very brief skirt and straw hat with four ostrich plumes. Other out standing costumes were Wynn God dards wine colored gown and blond wig; Charlie Whittimore's coiffure and pink silk undies; Tee Coles bright yellow gown and stockings; Lo,iis Scharpenberg's shoulder length bright orange bob Tom Til- sens scalloped bloomers; Al Dietz's open front skirt; Jack Calvins slip ping chest; the fit of Art Franklin's ensemble; and Les Yaw's chi-chi hat. After parading round the park the Rotarians retired to watch the Bctas parade.
 Led by drum majorette Myll Hen messy in a fetching yellow and black ensemble and waving yellow screamered plumbers friend baton, the Betas wore red tights, rolled up slacks, artistic patches, tea parons and hats designed by Carmen Mir anda and Salvador Dali. Water girl Billy Jean Cook carried a make up kit and interrupted the game 1 frequently to freshen up the girls. Mascot was a big fat red hen which got bored early and kept trying to get back to the coop.
 The resulting fast, hard fought game kept the referees completely confused, with Rotarians being car- ried off the diamond in stretcher, Betas disputing all close decisions. hair-pulling matches going on be- tween the two teams, and Gilpat- rich doing strip tease.
 | A decision on the, final outcome was never made, so the prize money of $50 was split, Rotary donating theirs to the playground fund. 1 The final ball game was between the Elks and Moose, ending in a score of 8-7 in favor of the. Elks. Some Moose members question the judgment of the umpire and con- tend the game ended in tie and should be played over, but if they succeed in getting a reversal of opinion another game will have to be postponed until some of the play CTS recover from injuries.
 Bob Gaylord is receiving medical treatment for pulled fragments and muscles in his left arm, and Stan Totten is laid up with sprained and badly twollen ankle while many other players are tenderly nursing