The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-28
AWARDS ARE MADE. TO PARTICIPANTS IN. COL D MEDAL PLAY.


 The presentation of trophies and awards for the Lions Club sponsor ed Gold Medal Tournament for l949 was made immediately follow ing the championship game Satur- day night.
 To the Sitka ANB team went the winners trophy with gold basket balls to the individual players. The Metlakatla Vets received the second ploce trophy with silver basketball awarded to the individual players. A silver basketball went to each of the Juneau High Crimson Bears as third place winners. Awards to the fourth place takers, Mt. Edgecumbe grads, were individual bronze med alS.
 A merit team was chosen from the first round losers. They were Larry Taylor and Sydney McCul- tough of the Wrangell Town Team, Archie Cavanaugh and Jeff James of the Rake Black Cats, and Tom my Williams of the Haines Town Team. Each received bronze med al.
 The sportsmanship team cnosen from all the teams of the tourna- ment included Alfred Perkins of Sitka ANB, Ed Hagerman and Ken Drahos of the Petersburg Mer- chants, Bud Brown of Columbia Lumber and Howard Bremner of Mount Edgecumbe. They received medals.
 Three All-Tourney Teams
 There were three all-tourney teams chosen from all teams enter ed. On the first all-tourney team were Herbie Didrickson and Moses Johnson of Sitka ANB. Louie Bon-. nett of Mikes Night Owls, Jeff David of Metlakatla Vets, and Tom my Thompson of Petersburg Mer- chants.
 Second all-tourney: Romey Atkin- son and Bert Leask of Metlakatla Vets, Bill Sperling of Juneau High Crimson Bears, Tommy Powers of Columbia Lumber, and Richard Stitt of Mt. Edgecumbe Grads.
 Third all-tourney: Milton Schultz of Juneau High Crimson Bears, Bill Schmitz of Columbia Lumber, Tom my Atkinson and Everett Hudson of the Metlakatla Vets, and Ernest Enge of Petersburg Merchants.
 The three all-tourney teams were awarded medals with gold ones for the first team, silver for the sec ond team, and bronze to the third team.
 Dead Shot Medal
 Dick Hansen of the Juneau High Crimson Bears was awarded the dead shot medal by making 53 per cent of all his shots which in- cluded his free throws and goals. Tn the Juneau High-Kake game, Hansen had 100 per cent average when he made his six attempts at goals.
 The man receiving the highest number of individual awards for the tournament was Moses Johnson of Sitka ANB when he was award ed medals for being the coolest under fire. highest scorer for any game, and highest scorer in the tournament. Johnson made IA points or an average of 19 per game. He tallied B points when Sitka played Wrangell on Tuesday afternoon. All of Johnson's shots were right-handed push shots, whether they were goals or free throws.
 The All-America award went to Jeff David of the Metlakatla Vets. The first all-star player was Herbie Didrickson of Sitka ANB, second all-star player was Tommy Thomp- son of Petersburg Merchants, and third all-star player was Louie Bennett of Mikes Night Owls.
 Harry Sperling, chairman of the tournament, said just before he awarded the trophies and awards, he hoped that in a few years Ju- neau could have hall big enough to properly play off the tourna- ment. He thanked all teams for their sportsmanship and coopera- fioy,