The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-20
BA5kETBALL, PETE, SHARE SPOTLIGHT
 AT LI0NS' CLUB

Twenty three guests swelled tho crowd to 82 in the Baranof Colo Room this noon for the Lions Cut weekly luncheon.
 There, the accent was on sports chiefly basketball, but also Peter
 Wood, who pulled a bundy" last week by getting the Lions president Val Poor, off to the district conven- ton just a month early.
 Harry Speriing. chairman of the Lion-sponsored Fourth Gold Meda | Basketball Tournament this week gave a detailed report which in- cluded late changes in plans. Other mmittee members cleaned up" last minute matters and every member of the Juneau ! Lions Club signed up to usher for | at least one of the eight cage battles Art Hedges of the tournament ] committee introduced L. w. "Kinky ] Bayers, Jack c. Gould, Carl D'Epiro and F. M. Tyvoll, four of the five tournament judges. Art Burke was unable to attend.
 With Sperling on the committee are A. B. Morgan, treasurer; Will liam Matheny, secretary; Hedges, Bud Phelps, E1 Chester, Peter Wood, Joe Shofner, Earl Forsythe and Les Avrit.
 A number of visiting coaches, managers and players were intro duced. Among these were Charles Buchart, coach, and Tom Atkin- son, both of Metlakatla VFW; Cor don E. Mason, Wrangell Thunder birds manager; John Hope, Sitka ANB manager and Herbert Didrick- son; Johnny Mills, Ketchikan A. coach; Jim Weber of the Sitka Co., lumbians; James Harrigan, coach for Mt. Edgecumbe Vocational School; Guy Russo. manager, and Mickey Pusich, assistant, for Mikes Night Owls Douglas)
 Other tournament visitors were Al Lawrence and William Peters Of Mt. Edgecumbe; and Morris Grant and William Dugagona of Rake. c. L. Barney" Anderson, former president of the Juneau Lions club and now basketball coach for Skag- way High School, provided an amusing interlude when asked to ex- plain the cage upset Saturday night in which the Juneau Bears really took the visiting Partners, making todays play-off necessary. Using the strategy of "offense is the best defense" Anderson charged Lion Peter Wood with being ahead of the ball." and presented him with sheaf of 1850 calendars. Lion Pete, whose red face" had been carefully hand-tinted in the ! portrait adorning the Cats Meow Gion Club publication got plenty of ribbing.
 He was set, though, for both the written blast and that of hungry, roaring Lions and busily urged par ticipation in the Peter Wood Bundy Fund for the Rehabilitation of the Juneau Lions Club. (Pete is still working on plans to recoup his losses, he having offered to pay expenses of President Val Poor for the mis- timed journey toward Seward)
 President Poor was unable to att tend today-and. indeed why should he? He had already made up one meeting at the Anchorage Lions Club Friday, where he took con- siderable ribbing for Woods faux pas.
 Peter Woods bundy plan is in- tended to include revenue for the convention fund of the Juneau club so that a large delegation can at tend the district convention in Seward March IT and 18. Incident ally, one recommendation Proxy Poor was to make at the conclave was for a later convention date.
 Visiting Lions numbered John Hope, Al Lawrence. William Peters and Herbert Didrickson, all of the Mt. Edgecumbe Lions Club.
 Other guests were Elmer L. Jones Al G. Overholtzer, Bill c. Hill, Ger aid Shaw and John Examiner, all o1 Juneau.
 Vice President Joseph L. Shofnei presided in the absence of the Presi- dent. and Tail Twister J. Geralo Williams was his usual roaring sell having a field day on fines.
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