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F*0*B* T S*E*V*A*R* D N*E*V7*S
VOL. 1
Friday» Ducombor 23rd. 1921
No# 5
The "News" takes this occasion to wish all it»s
readers the host of appetites, ;nd the dinners to satisfy
them, the nearest of expectations, and their utmost fulfillment
in Christmas ^ifts,~ The Happiest :>f Holidays, and it* s full
enjoyment- in short words.- A Very Merry Christmas",
THE JDSTWJ TRIP:
Thu 1 ong-talked-of trip of the past Basketball Team
to Juneau and Douglas has oome and gone* The players on the Post
Team would prefer not t) talk about it but the truth must be to..'."
They were simply snowea under both in the City of Bains, and
in Douglas* The first g; me was played in the bis •»&« B. Hall
in Juneau, against the Juneau City Team* Tae score,- Juneau 38, port
Seward,11* The ne::t afternoon, (Tuesday), the post tackled the
Juneau High outfit,- the scare;- Juneau High, 17, Fort Seward, 11
The Post v/aS aut to establish a record of some sort, however, and so
went up against the Douglas team Tuesday nignt,- tneir third game
on two days. The sore, Douglas, 40, Fort Sew.: rd, 10* The con
clusion to be drawn fr m the disastrous results of the games on
the trip seems to be that the Post Team should never go up against
tny club that can score more than 11 points in a game. But while
we lost,- we are not alibiing, and admit freely th t we were up
against teams dawn the Cannal th t completely outslessed us, Juneau and
and Douglas have some mighty fine basketball taesers, *nd we con
sider it no disgrace at all to have been beaten by such aggrega
tions. Let some of the otner Alaskan hoopers go up against the
same outfits.- and Watch the results. We venture to assert that
Fort Seward made as many points againsttne Channal Teams as any
other ambitious ^laskans could pile up ,
But while we were beaten, end badly, \/e have much to
be proud of. The Fort Team was declared by the sporting writers
and tne fans if bith Juneau and Douglas to be the cleanest, hardest
playing outfit th t has ever shown in tha Channen cities* That
is laterally true, for the boys f ought h. rd every minute that they
were on the floor. Tney were straggling for every p>int just as
hard when the final whistle blew a sc )re of 38 t o 11, >r' 40 to 10
against them as when they started the game, it when the score was
still 0 to 0. And th_t is mightily to their credit, fir the winn
ing or losing if a gc.no d oosn* t moan a hundredth as much as the
showing of a game, fighting, sporting spirit. And the Fort showed
that-to h finish.