The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-06
SCORE BY INNINGS

 Elks ....-..-...- 0 0 0 0 Moose ... -.........- l 0 0 ? X : In the final game of the regular
 scheduled 1947 season of Gastineau Channel Baseball League the Elks, who had already cinched their pen
 nant, lost in to 0 shutout to the second-place Moose last night. Dean, hurhng for the Moose, al lowed the Elks only three hits dur ing the game. He struck out six and walked four. Cantillion, Elks pitcher. did a good job, too. He struck out seven batters, and walk
 ed only two; but he allowed eight
 hits.
 In the first inning. with the
 Elks as home team, Houston led off with walk, Werner flied out to Magorty in left field. Hager- up walked. Houston and Hagerup
 stole a hase each.
 With Houston on third, Cantil lion hit to shortstop for a field CTS choice, which Forsythe played
 to the plate to force Houston com Ing in. Grear walked, but B. Palmer hit to short for another fielder's choice, played to second
 to force Grear and retire the side.
 Moose Score
 The Moose got two hits and one run in the bottom of the first. Floberg bunted out, Metcalf got
 single into center field, Pas quan struck out, Forsythe singled
 into left, advancing Metcalf to second.
 Metcalf stole third, and Houston
 threw wild from the plate, the 1. Eall going over Hagerup's head
 and into the field, bringing Met !, calfe in to score. Forsythe was left on base when Haas flied \ out to third.
 In the second, the Elks got a i hit, but left two men on bases. Wood struck out, E. Palmer knock . ed one into the ground and went
 out, pitcher to first. Smithberg connected with long one into
 center field for single, then
 Houston walked. Werner lined out
 to center, and that was the end
 of Elks scoring hopes for the in-
 ming.
 Dean got to first on a Texas
 leaguer for the Moose in the bot
 tom of the second, then went down ! to third as Houston made bad l peg from the plate to first. He ! stayed there, however, as Magorty struck out; Rose flied to third, and Puetzel famed
 Hagerup got to first on an error by Forsythe in the top of the third. Then Cantillion hit an in \ field fly, which Houston fumbled.
 He picked it up and threw to sec ond, forcing Hagerup, who thought ! Cantillion had been an automatic : out and had stayed on first. Automatic Out Cantillion, who should have been safe on first, according to the rules, thought he was an auto matic out, too; and he was after he left the field and walked to the dugout, So, as fans and Elks hurled imprecations at Base Umpire DeBarra, it was ruled a double
 out.
 Grear came up and singled past third tase, but B. Palmer follow ed with fly to left field, and that was all the hits for the Elks until their final inning.
 The Moose ran into a double play
 in the bottom of the third Flo-
 berg made first as Smithberg
 fumbled his grounder. Then Met
 calfe lined out to Werner, who Z tossed to Smithberg on first to 1, force F1oberg Pasquan struck out. Down 1-23 The Elks went down one, two, three, and Forsythe led off at bat for the Moose in the bottom of the fourth inning. He walked, then stole second
 Haas flied to second for the first out. Dean fouled out to Hagerup
 behind the dugout on the third base side Magorty singled to right field, scoring Forsy..i4e from sv second; but he was left standing on first as Rose bunted out to Cantillion on the mound.