The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-28

SllKa ANB won the cnamplO0Snll
 of the 1949 Gold Medal Tournament last Saturday night from the Met lakatla Vets by a score of 55 to 39
 Juneau High School Crimson Bear. defeated the Mt Edgecumbe Grads
 35 to 9 to close in third place ill the tournament. A capacity gym crowd witnessed the two games. SITKA- A-METLAKATLA The first quarter was definitely
 Metlakatla's by the score of 20 to
 IA. J. David of the Vets, put in the first basket of the game and he came back for a hook shot that scored. The Vets were out in front by a score of four to nothing. Metlakatla was breaking fast un- der their basket and had asked that the crowd be cleared from un- der their basket before the game istarted. c. Didrickson missed a long shot from out far. The Vets were ! in for close shooting and making good at it.
 Sitka called time out after almost four minutes of play to talk things over
 hooked in another basket and the Vets score was 10 to nothing. H. Didrickson got the first score for Sitka when he made his free throw This score did not come until after nearly five minutes of play,
 The Vets were playing it tight. Lang of Sitka set one in from the outer rim of the free throw line. M Hudson came back and countered one in for another Vet score.
 Sitlza was covering the Vets good under the basket tut could not en- tilely stop them. Moses Johnson was not able to make any set shots because of close guarding. He missed a close shot back over his head about three-fourths of the way through the quarter.
 The first quarter ended with a fast exchange of passes by both teams and the score was Metlakatla 20, Sitka IA.
 SECOND QUARTER
 H. Didrickson opened the second quarter by an lnterception under the Vets basket but Johnson did not have time to get set for his shot. He missed because Fawcett was guarding him closely.
 H. Didrickson made the first score of the quarter when he dropped one in from under the basket. Johnson missed again because of Fawcett. Ne made his free throw and the Vets poured on the steam again.
 H. Didrickson was finding the range through his attempts at shoot ing and raised the score for Sitka to l9 He intercepted a Vet pass and missed his shot. Johnson came in ! to intercept and missed.
 E. Hudson made a bad pass and the ball went out of tounds. Jchn- son made good on the ball out of bounds play and made his set shot. Sitka was coming up on the Vets. i After M. Hudson's free throw, there was a mad scramble and the Vets had the ball. MAKES HOOK SHOT | The best shot of the game was Johnson's when he jumped in the air and twisted around tc make hook shot back over his head. The half ended soon after a push shot 1 by Didrickson that scored.
 Soon after the second half opened, the Vets could not work into the basket and M. Hudson was missing his shots when they did get in. The Vets were off on their free throws over other games.
 Two interceptions that kept the crowd jerking their heads aln,ost off was when Sitka intercepted a pass and the Vets then intercepted the Sitka pass. Both were like bullets. About half way through the Guar-' ter, Sitka could not get through the Vets defense and were almost thrown off balance by it.
 The Vets defense was tight enough to move Sitka out from the basket al,,,oct to fha cel,ter strip The