SPORTS.
The Chilkoot Barracks basketball team went to Skagway last
Saturday night accompanied by many supporters and rooters from
the Post and swamped the Skagway team. Although it was our first
game with Skagway the team did good work and looked excellent.
The pass-work was good and wi 11 improve as time rolls along.
The score does not indicate the game that we played for our
players missed several baskets, on account of the new floor and
bad baskets.
The line up and points made by our team is as follows:
Forwards: It. Rcckaxellow 6; Horak,Co. "S" 6; Henderson, Co."FM
6; Roat, Co."E" 2; Kirchknopf, Co."3"
Centers: Wiseman, Co,”E” 8; Spratlin,KC. and Bliss, Co.”LM.
Guards: LacKinsie, Co."F” 2; killiwich, Co.”F"; Bo ve, Co.”F”;
Hoffman, Co.”F", and Herschberger, Co. "F”.
The .Post team will play the Haines High School team next Sat
urday night# This game promises to be a real one as the H. C.team
will probably pick one or two of the Hative stars to play with
them. However we expect our team to come through as it has the
combined strength of the three teams in the Post League.
We have been practicing hard for the Juneau games and xnow what
we are up against by the fact that the Sitka team was swamped by
all the t hre e t e ams down t he re *'
Tyrus R. Cobb, the Georgia peach, holder of more baseball records
than any man in the game, added further distinction by the greatest
individual batting performance in the American League during the
season of 1925, official statistics reveal. The fiery Detroit lead
er had his "field day" in a contest between the Tigers and Browns
in St. Louis, on lay 5. Cobb went to the bat six times on that
date and smashed out three home runs, a double and two singles, for
a total of sixteen bases. During this performance he was credited
with being responsible for eignt of the fourteen runs scored by his
club.
It is rumored in big boxing circles that negotiations are
nearly completed for the Dempsey - Tunny match to take place at
Boyles' Thirty Acres, the Jersey City Arena, controlled oy Tex
Rickard, on July 4th. Dempsey.has given his verbal promise to Layor
Hague of Jersey City and Tex Rickard over the long distance tele
phone after previously talking with Billy Gibson and Gene Tunny at
Li ami , Fla.
Two picked teams of American amateur "boxers will visit Europe
ans South America in the spring, if recommendations offered by
William Cuddy, Chairman of the boxing committee of the A. A.U. are
approved. The plans as outlined by Cuddy calls for winners of the
national boxing championships and the Canadian title holders to be
sent to Buebcs Aires for a big international show. The runners-up
in the national championships-would be sent to Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Germany and England.
George Wilson’s Tigers defeated Red Grange’s Bears in a foot
ball game in San Francisco last week by a score of 14 to 0.
Wilson outplayed his rival in every department until he was
injured and carried from the field in the fourth quarter.
Red Grange’s stock is on the wane and he v/ill soon be a "has
been” like many other meteoric stars of the past, it is predicted.