FORT Sii/ARB WINS AT WHITEHORSE;
Bound for Whitehorse,Y.T.-a large crov/d went up on
the "Romance" on last Friday night at 6#00 o*clock#Haines
and the Post furnishing 72,by exact count# They arrived in
Skagway in time to attend the "Alpine Club Vodvil",at the
Elks* Hall# The entertainment was much enjoyed by everybody,
Blanchard and Ask,in "The Sheik Dance",-Vic Sparks,in "Stage
Cartooning",and the "Follies of 1776" Cabaret scene being
especially good# Mrs*Lampert,of Fort Seward,appeared in a
fine exhibition of classjc toe-dancing,-her grace and ex- -
cellent rythm eliciting much applause and favorable comment
from the spectators# After the "Vodvil" dancing was enjoyed
until an early hour Saturdayc
At 6*00 A *M .Saturday the excursionists,-from Fort
Seward,Haines,Juneau,Douglas,and Skagway,-left for Whitehorse,
and arrived in the northern town at 11«30 A.M# The"Mountie"
Band was out to meet the train,and a great crowd of celebrators
made all visitors welcome# After a hasty lunch the Baseball
Park was the* Mecca of the ;day,Skagway and Whitehorse clashing
in the first game of the .series .at 1#O0 P#M* The game was an
easy victory for Skagway.although Y/hitehorse,with 5 runs in
the 5th frame,gave the Soapy Smith gang quite a scare. The
game ended 8 to 5 in favor of the visiting team,but had Wilson,
the Whitehorse twirler,been given any support,the result might
have been much different#
At 3.00 P.M# Douglas and Port Seward met in the sec
ond preliminary .This game was a pippin, easily the best of the
series .Martini and Coughlan were in the points for Douglas, and
Lt.Sebree and Niinitz for the Post .The Douglas hurler had plenty
of stuff #but Fort Seward could hit when hits counted,and while
Sebree turned back the batsmen from down the Channel with un
failing regularity,allowing only about 2 safe clouts,Andrus
kiewicz,Nimitz,.Sheldon,and Mook proceeded toMhit ’em where no
body was”,so that the game was finally tucked away on the safe
side of the Post book,-4 to 3.
After'about 15 minutes rest the two winners,-Skagway
and the Fort,ir^t fcj. the pennant and the purse# Howard started
for Skagway,but lasted only one inning,when he was invited to
try the showers,after 6 runs had been garnered off his delivery#
Ask,who had pitched his team-mates to a win over the "Mounties"
was recalled to the mound,but fared little better,as Andy,"Tex”
Nimitz,and "BeeMBrewick proceeded to clean up on him with a few
long homers,and everybody else fattened their batting averages
at Cleon’s expense# When 7 runs ha'd crossed the pan,in the 5th,
Ask gently oozed out Of the box in favor of Rapuzzi,the Crab
Catcher,who tried to pitch#That’s all he did-try. The soldiers
nicked him for 4 counters,and called it a day.
For the Post,Lucius Jones essayed to hang up a win
over the Soapy Smith gang,but errors behind him put him in a
hole in the 3rd,and he could not climb butJones was then
sent in to head off the Skagvayans,-but couldn’t locate
a home plate anywhere on the ball field,so LttSebree was again
hustled to the rubber,and saved the day by continuing his mas
terful hurling of the Douglas game# The batting of the Post team
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