SPORTS NEWS. - by 1st .Lieutenant W.R.McMaster, 7th* Infantry. '
The Post bowling team met defeat at SKagway last Saturday evening at the
hands of the Ska away. team, <by a margin n f 60 joints.
• LINE UP AND SCORES;
Skagway:. • Total POST: iotal
Cole 178 - 158- - 180 - 516 Stevenson 138 - 133 - 134 - 405
Gyer 115 - 121 - 154 - 390 Powell 169 - 189 - 150 - 508
Mulvihill 153 -180 - 163 - 496 Beit'ongor 133 - 96 - 125 - 354
Gutfeldt 141 - 104 - 138 - *88 •. Barry . 167 - 150 - 144 - 461
Selmer 142 - 157 - 169 - 468 ' McKenzie 207 - 137 - 121 - 465_
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. WHITEHORSE DEFEATS SKA GRAY I 1.
In the first hockey game of the season last Saturday afternoon the White
horse team emerged victorious over Skagway with a* score of 4 to 1. The game was
hotly contested from start to finish, and at the end of the third quarter White
horse broke loose and scored three times.
The Presidents cup, emblematical of ihe.^enlisted men’s interservice
football championship of the U.S.-was won last in Washington, D*C. for the Army
vihen the Infantry School enlisted men’s team trounced the Atlantic Scouting Fleei
team by a score of 12 to "6*'
George Herman Ruth led the American League in hatting in 1924 with a per
centage of *378. In 1923 Harry Heilman led +he League with .403 and Ruth was
runner up with *393. Babe scored 143 runs as against 151 in. the previous season but
he increased his home run total by five Eddie Collins,.again led the League in
stolen bases. Ty Cobb'had a good year and for the nineteenth, consecutive season
batted better than 300.
NOTES FROM POST QUARTERMASTER.
The basic allowance of standard fuel for cooking,' preparinr food and
heating barracks and quarters at Chilkoot Earracks, Alaska, is that of a Bn. Post
of the Arctic Zone, aggregating a total of 25.000 tons. The present allowance
is governed, however,by the actual number of buildings occupied by officers and
non-commissioned officers above the fourth grade, each building carrying a specific
allowance and xx* organization or company buildings also carry a specific allowance
each, the quantities of all buildings varying from month to month v/ith climatic
conditions» Authority for consumption of fuel without charge, including the light
ing of buildings is received from the War Department. Owing to the extreme cold
weather and many hours of darkness prevailing in Alaska, this authority provides
for consumption of fuel and limits in excess of the quantities used at similar
posts in the U.S. Tabulation of allowances of various buildings will appear in a
following issue.
HAINES. JTEM3.
w T. . school children will present their customary Christmas tableau in
ST , , f6r ^ 7:30 r0dne9day '*ioh present a furnished^ -rent,
and local lodges will be distribute*. ' . y enT-'
i..„. An epidemic of sickness has broken out among the children jf the Mission
but Z are affeCtRd: tW° o* ™*-*"" have been dilnoLd as chicked po’x
but the others have as yet developed no symptoms;
Mr .Ed Fhy returned from the Fost Hospital Saturday. •
the the tSaT?6 *U *** night to raise funds for
The Native Christmas exercises will be hold at 7:30 Wednesdat night in the
Presbyterian church. Natives will observe New /„ar Eve with a suooer Tnd s “+!h
service at the Presbyterian church beginning at S:00 P .M, Dec ember ^’st
There is good skating on the Chilli Pjvar near Gante^kkki/" ‘
HEARD BY RADIO. '
Mr Ring has been elected success^/ to th« n _
of the A.F. of L. ,, • .. . . . T0 tno late Samuel Gomoers as President
President iL feTr^te" °af oilV“* ■
Secretarysof Far, Navy, Interior and Labor for the uJrposfif o0^T °f V
on Government oil reserves. Three persons froze to'death