The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-15

The Gastineau Channel City League wound up with bang last night as the Juneau High School Crimson Bears romped to 48 to 25 victory over the never-say- die Huskies from Douglas and the Ju- neau Moose, decided underdog in all pre-game predictions, eked out a 56 to 53 victory over the Imps.
 Douglas High School's fighting Huskies bowed to the supremacy of Juneau's weight, height and ex- perience. The Bears were off to a fast start with Sperling dropping in duo of one handlers and Itch" Hansen performing his fancy work on the boards. J-Hi sprang to 26 to lead at the half.
 Tn the third quarters, the scoring went even with the local boys and the islanders each garnering ten points. Miles of Douglas turned in the best performance of the game. His defensive work, breaking, pass ing and getting in the Bears hair in general were fine examples of what a player can do. when he really wants to win, even though he is 100 to l underdog. For the Huskies, Miles carried the brunt Of the scoring with ten; for Juneau, Ninnis with fourteen. Final score J-Hi 43, D-Hi 25.
 Second Game
 In the second game, which fea- tured the highly favored Juneau Imperials against an up and down Moose sponsored team, was one of the thrillers of the season as the rampaging Moosemen led by Auto matic" Dud Smithberg, roared off to a 12 to 3 lead and finished up the quarter on the long end of IS to score.
 The second quarter again was all Moose and Srnithberg. Dud fed by careful, calculated passes from Aase and Kelly and set up by protective screens from Pegues, tossed in a bevy of push and set shots which amounted to nine points.
 Newcomer Easy Ed" Gallagher turned in a superb job on the back boards and at the half the score board read: Lodgemen 34, Imperials IT.
 Third Quarter
 The third quarter saw the awak- ening of revitalized Imperial squad and for the Moose. it seemed to be a case of "Wha Hoppen?" Scott and Pasquan, Imperial scoring dynamos, erupted and drove the Moose wild with their long, driving lay-ups and breaks The boys in red, hampered by the loss of their ace scorer, Dud Smithberg, who collected five fouls early in the period. counld't find the ball and didn't know what to do with it when they did have it.
 Scott, Pasquan, and Nielsen hog ged the maple to the tune of 13 points and with Jim Sonny" Vuille sucking in all of the loose rebounds there wasn't much that the Moose could do. The period ended with the Lodgemen leading 44-32.
 Fourth Quarter
 The fourth quarter saw the Moose put on some spectacular ball hand ling which was necessitated by the loss of their rebound stalwart, Denny Gallagher, who retired via the foul route. Aase, Kelly, and Pegues set up weave and stall and to this simple fundamental of basketball must go much of the credit for the victory in last nights fracas. Pas quan and Scott intercepted and drove in time and time again for lay-ups but it wasn't enough, for after the scoring, the Moose would recover and set up their stall which though usually unsuccessful for more than 15 or 20 seconds, con- tributed overwhelmingly toward the final score
 And still the Imperials, hanging on, scrapping and driving, managed in the last minute to pull within one point of fast dying Moose quintet