The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-21
JUNEAU HIGH WINS FIRST GAME FROM
 SiTKA LAST NIGHT

 Sitka. Hi Wolves in the first ot a three-game series last night with the final score t3ard reading 42 to 21. The Bears were red hot and from the opening whistle were hoop happy to the point where they could not miss. It was the Bears that set the pace in the fast moving game, and the Sitka Wolves had a d fficult time following along.
 FIRST HALF
 L anky Bill Lawrence of the Wolves made the first score of the game, spectacular backhand shot that fell into the hoop. Bill Graves, smooth-moving center for the Bears passed long shot to Sperling, who was unguarded at the easket, and the score was tied-the first and last tie of the game. Nickel hit it lucky on a long one, Graves picked the ball off the blackboard, dropped a short one and from then cn, the Bears had the game the way they wanted it. At the end of the quarter the score was 12 to 4
 Hanson of the Bears hit a SCOT ing spurt in the second quarter and logged up six points in the first five minutes of play In the sec ond quarter, the Wolves shifted from zone offense to man-to-man but they couldn't stop the Bears, who were playing faster and sound- CT ball.
 Graves and Adams were quick on retrieving the ball from their op- ponents' blackboard, and chalked up many points by successful flool passes to their men stationed un- der their basket at the other end of the floor. Score at the half was 9 to 27
 LAST HALF
 In the third quarter, the Wolves started to feed the ball to Big Bill Lawrence. Plenty of LaWrence's bas- kct losses would have hit home ex- cept fer Gus Adams, who was in there checking Lawrence every time The Wolves held scoring down in th2 third, by a tight man-to-man defense but had a hard t'me work iny the ball into scoring position and had to bank on long shots. Avrit, captain of the Wolves, hit the hoop with a long one and logged up two points to bring the score at the end O. the quarter up to II for the Wolves while the Bears ran their score up to 36.s
 Jim Rusch of the Wolves went on a scoring spree at the beginning of the fourth for two baskets, while Al Gray hit che. The Wolves jitters at the free throwing line vanished and Gray, Jack Lawrence, Avrit and Didriekeon all hit the hoop for one roint. Pegues and Sperling chalked up two more for the Bears and the final score was AZ to 21.
 PRELIMINARY GAME
 The Juneau Grade School down. cd the Douglas Grade School by a score of 26 to 21. The youngsters showed plenty of scrappy playing and the boys looked like they would really show the big boys how to play in a couple of years.
 
 An interesting fact from the line ups of the two teams is that many of the boys are second-generation members of famous basketball play ing families on the Channel Ju- neau grade lineup included Graves, Crme, and Engstrom On the Doug last lineup second-generation boys included Cashen, Fleek, Bennett, and Isaak
 High point man for the game was Billie Orme who logged ten points. Billy is the son of Fred Crme and the nephew of Jim Orme. who were wellknown basketball play CTS decade ago. Isaak and John son on the Douglas Grade squad split for high man honors With seven DO nts apiece.
 BAND PERFORMS
 The Juneau High School tand