SPORTING - NEWS.
BASEBALL PRACTICE UNDER WAY:
In spite of the winter weather that prevails hereabouts the
Pest baseball team has begun it's practice for the season. A
squad of about fifteen ren, most of them vets, have reported to
the coach, and started to cavort around the diamond at Fort
Seward Park . Of course it's too early yet to do any picking,
but each position seems to be well fortified, and it should not
be hard, later on, to select a gocod team to represent the Post*
Nimitz, the old standby, is again contracting to care for
the backstop position, while Lt. Sebree, Southpaw Jones, Finance
Ward, and a couple of other possibilities furnish the foundation
for a pretty good pitching staff. ’'Andy” capers around first
station in Hal Chase form, while "Bee" Brewick and '’Tiny'* Max
well promise a snappy "second to short" combination. Mook has
the call for the "hot corner", but a newcomer, Beckley of the
Signal Corps, may have the infielders S.O.S.'ing before long,
as he is touted as a hustler.
The gardens, which shaped up like a hard proposition to
handle in the beginning, present a happier outlook since "Limey"
Ford, Jordan, Petitti, and Connely have started the fly-chasing.
Every one of these boys have their eye on the old apple, and
have been clouting it to the far corners. It may be a job to
pick among them when the final cut comes. Indications point to
a mighty good team as the season progresses and as the sun warms
up the stiff soupers of the twirlers it can safely be said that
a very snappy brand of ball will be seen on the hilltop.
Sgt. Papke, with assistance, is to put a clay topping on
the infield on Tuesday of the coming week, and extensive repairs
are to.be made on.the stands within a very few days. Then the
diamond artists will be reader to show their goods to the admir
ing public, any afternoon, and they hope to be in the pink of
shape for the Whitehorse game on May 27th.
BOXING:
De Armond, heavily outweighed, was defeated in Juneau*last
Saturday night. He is being transferred to the States, and
leaves Sunday, tfe expect to hear from him there, as we know he
can use his mitts. Mien you box with him, watch out, for some
times it appears to you as if you had left your hands elsewhere.
Xhe class in Boxing, held daily under Lieut. Sebree, with
S^t. Howell and Pfc. iVillioughby as instructors, will probably
not develop many World's Champions, but is learning us all
that cur dukes are useful adjuncts in a scrap.
Trips to the Katsehin River, Dyea Sanke’, and the Chilcoot
are in order for the wee&lend, but are depending more or less,
mostly more,on the brand of weather issued to us for Saturday
afternoon and Sunday.