METLAKATLA ONLY
UNDEFEATED ilAM j
LEFT IN TOUXNEYj
Winners in the fifth session of
Gold Medal Tournament play last
night were Sitka over Wrangell 70
to 49, Juneau Imperials narrowing j
out Ketchikan 50 to 46, and Metla- j
katla topping Petersburg 79 to 64.
Metlakatla remains as the on y j
undefeated team in the tournament,
with Sitka. Petersburg and Juneau j
Imperials all having one. mere |
chance to go into final playoff Sat- i
urday night. Wrangell and Ketcl\i- :
kan were eliminated last night.
A single game, No. 16, plays th
afternoon at 3 putting Sitka against ,
the Imperials. Loser of this game
will h' -ui, of the tournament.
Game No. 17 startihg at 8 will see
Wrangell and Ketchikan play ins
the preliminary game. This game
has no bearing on tournament play
as both teams are eliminated in
two losses.
The second game tonight sched
ules Petersburg against the winner '<
of the Sitka and Imperial game t
see who goes into champion, hip,
play against Metlakatla in game 20
Saturday night. The second game
tonight is No. 18 on the score card.
Game 19 played as the first game
Saturday night at 8 decides third j
place and will be played between |
the loser.; of games 16 and 18.
Wrangell—Sitka
The first game last night played
between Wrangell Thunderbirds and j
Sitka ANB was a slow moving af- j
fair. Wrangell, behind in the sec- \
end quarter, drew even and then j
passed Sitka before the end of the j
third frame. Sitka got three point: !
in the last 30 seconds of the period !
to never lose the lead for the rest
of the .game. Wrangell missed get
ting its own rebounds in the third
quarter and lost the game In the
last quarter by not making the set
shots.
Summary
Sitka— pf fg ft tp
Williams, M. .. 1 7 2 1C
Johnson, M.ti 4 1 9
. Lang, Ii. .—.. 1 2 * 1 f
Kerr, C. 17 0 1:
Truitt, J. ,. 2 4 0 £
• Tang, H. . 4 8 2 1£
Perkins. A. 3 0 0 C
Ssmuelson, G. .... .0 0 0 C
Kasskon, N. 1 0 0 C
James, D.1 0 0 C
Total . 7C
Wrangell— pf fg ft tr
Ford, L. 2 6 1 IE
Taylor, L. .. 1 8 2 If.
Rinehart, L.3 0 1 11
Bradley, A.. 1 0 0 (
Rinehart, R.3 2 1 C
McCullough, S. 10 0 0
Stokes, R. 0 10 2
Thomas, H. 0 0 0 C
Dailey. A. . 0 0 0 C
Byrd, L. 0 0 0 1
Total .
Imperials—Ketchikan
The Imperials, ending the first
and second quarters behind Ketch
ikan, held the Rockets scoreie
during the first six minute.) of the
third to move ahead ending the
third o.uarter four points in the
lead. Both teams totaled 10 point
in the last period. Intercepting
Ketchikan passes and working thru
to the basket in the third period,
the Imperials used the advantage
for victory. The game had started
with the Rockets putting up a tight
defense holding the Imperials out
from close range.
Summary
Impcria's— pf fg ft to
Pasquan, J. 4 5 6 10
Hansen, R. ........ 4 7 7 21
Rohrbcrg, R. 2 1 0 2
Hpgiiic, I.. 5 10 2
Neilsen, J. . 3 11'
Ihle, J. 0 0 0 0
Weed, H. 0 0 0 C
Vuille, J. 0 0 0 0
Kearney, K. 13 0 6
Pogues, T.. 0 0 0 0
Total . 50
Ketchikan— pf fg ft tp
Brewer, J. 3 11
Johansen, H. 13 17
Fisher, C. . 3 2 2 6
Christopher, J. 1 3 1 7
Erickson, L. 5 6 1 13
Lewis, J. 1 0 0 0
Manzoni, C. 0 0 0 C
Christopher, B. 0 0 0 C
Olsen, N..3 0 2 2
Christensen, B. 3 2 4 8
Total ...'.». 46
Vets — Merchants
Close guarding on the part of
Metlakatla and fast work bv Jef!
David and Dundee Atkinson, Met
lakatla forwards, won the game foi
the Vets over the Petersburg Mer
chants. David was 8 points under
his 44 for the most points made by
CONNIE MACK IS
STILL ATTRACTION
' WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb
23 —(J1)—* Jimmy Dykes is the boss
alright, but Connie Mack is still the
main attraction around any Phila
delphia Athletics training camp.
Visitors swarm around him as they
always have done.
one player during one game in the
tournament. He totaled 15 basket
and 6 free throws in last night’s
game. Petersburg was not makin
the long shots-until the last hall
of the fourth period. Guarding b'
Metlakatla under the basket helt
Petersburg down during the res,
of the game.
Summary
Metlakatla— pf fg ft t
David, J. 1 15 6 3
Booth. J. 3 3 1'
Lensk, I. 4 2 0 '
Atkinson, D. .. 5 2 2 (
Booth, M. 10 0(
Atkinson, K. 2 2 0 4
Booth. Mel 0 0 0 C
Bolton. D. . 5 5 0 1C
Atkinson, T. 3 6 0 U
Total . 7E
Petersburg— pf fg ft t;
Wanberg, T. 16 11;
Peterson. P. . 3 0 0 C
Thompson, T. 2 6 9 21
Swanson, L. 3 4 1 f
Richmond, F. 3 4 6 14
Kito, D. 2 1 0 2
Clemons, E. 0 0 0 (
Otnes, N.3 2 11
Total . 6
Casler’s five, last night on the
Elks alleys, won two games fron
3v.feeney’s Bar to move up to -.a top
pot tie with Alaska Coastal whe
clowned the Pacific Northern lean:
three points.
Alaska Light Co. also came out
on top of three points over Juneau
Drug. Former top running Care
Transfer lost two points to the
high flying but low place team of
Pan American. High game of 230
was rolled by Bill Kivland of
Sweeney’s team. It was also the only
200 or over game of the evening. Bill
also tied with Ike Cahail for high
series of 526. Other high series was
Ed Johnson, 519.
Team Standings
XV. L
Casler’s . .13 C
Alaska Coastal . 13 C
Caro Transfer . 12 9
Sweeney’s Bar . 12 9
Alaska Electric 10 11
Juneau Drug . 9 12
Pacific Northern . 9 12
Pan American . 6 ID
Team and individual scoring fol
lows:
Casler’s
3. Taylor . 168 146 136 450
3. Arnold . 136 136 136 '403
L. West . 144 144 144 432
J. Estes . 152 135 1C8 455
J. Wilber . 171 169 131 471
Totals . 771 730 715 2216
Sweeney's Bar
S. Sheldon . 125 145 120 39C
P. Schneider .... 155 149 109 413
B. Kivland . 156 130 140 523
B. Sweeney . 139 149 112 40C
E. Johnson 179 150 190 51S
Totals . 767 836 684 2281
Alaska Light
W. Hell an . 173 141 140 454
D. Moore . 144 134 137 41c
S. Taylor . 140 161 118 41i
E. Peyton . 129 129 129 381
J. Eollisqn . 119 146 151 41c
Totals . 705 711 675 2091
Juneau Drug
W. Moore ... 159 73 123 35c
3. Page . 113 132 135 38C
M. Holm .. 101 152 114 367
A. Hedges . 156 156 156 45
C. Jones . 104 156 123 38
Totals . 634 670 652 195'
caro Transfer
B. Davis . 119 133 115 37(
P. Hawkins .... 136 108 141 385
C. Oldham . 152 152 152 45'
L. Tibbitts ...... 148 158 138 44
I I. Cahail . 160 189 177 S2‘
Totals . 715 743 723 2181
Pan American
J. Wood . 141 92 141 37‘
B. Said . 129 99 179 40
K. Morgan . 168 131 103 40.
J. Winther 138 100 112 38(
M. Gormley .... 137 164 161 461
Totals 732 605 745 2982
Alaska Coastal
C. Bloomquist.. 166 164 135 46.'
G. Straiger 146 159 121 42i
J. Leighton .... 123 110 134 36’
M. Fenster . 177 143 145 48c
B. Brown . 141 189 172 502
Totals . 753 765 707 2225
P. N. A.
R. Krsul . 138 149 115 402
W. Llidtke . 163 174 107 444
Ft. Pheasant .... Ill 125 114 35C
K. Loken . 155 132 150 437
0. Porter . 161 lr5 146 432
Totals . 735 71:» 639 208t
NO BOWLING rCNIGHT
FOR FRIDAY LEAGUE
Due to the Gold Medal basketball
playoffs tonight there will be no
bowling of the Friday League. Bowl
ing will resume the following week
with tonight’s scheduled games.
FROM HOONAH
Lynn Lubra and Georgia Munger
cf Hoonah are in Juneau lor a few
days on business. They are at the
Baranof Hotel.
White Sox "Brains"
New Manager Paul Richards of the Chir.\?o White >. t ■,(lines his {:•; i’ting routine . the ! !>'-• ea.’ . ’ ■
as the Soy began preliminary trebling drills a1 Fain Stiriiiss, Calif. I.rft to 'i'.ht ; re: Richards, v h >
managed Seattle in the Coast League la.'t yea’” ,T i an a; Adair, with Dallas I t sear; Ray lit. ns. a Sov
coach last season, and Doc Cramer, the old Athletic ' outfielder who was r ite. Richards at Seattte.
(ff) Wire photo.
Shorts Briefs
In the Pacific < least Hockey
League last night Tacoma defeated
Portland 7-2.
Toledo — Bob Snyder quit ns
coach at Toledo University and
.vas succeeded by Don Greenwood.
Houston — Jimmy Clark, Laguna
Beach. Calif., shot eight-under-par
54 to take first round lead in Hous
ton open.
New York — Eddie Shore, owner
of Springfield American League
hockey team was fined $500 for
instigating riotous incident in Feb.
15 Springfield-Buffalo game.
Chicago — Joe Chamaco, Mexico
City, retained National Three
Cushion Billiard title with 14-inn
I ing 50-32 victory over Pvt. Harold
j Worst, Camp Atterbury. Joe Can
I ton, Waterville, N. Y., won Nn
1 tional Pocket Billiard title by bcat
■ ing Irving Crane, Binghamton, 150
l 25 in 15 innings.
i ___
J06 RACES START,
i HAULED m SK9Wr
i FIRST HEATS m
i _
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 23
I UPI— An overnight Chinook on thi
! eve of this city’s top winter event—
1 the S6.000 all-Alaska 100-mile dog
j< led race — bared Anchorage streets
land snow had to be hauled yester
I day to get the event under way.
j The temperature rose to 42 de
grees above zero fit was 42 below
not so long ago) and the record
field of 23 entries found the trail
slushy, watery and hard on the
dogs. They run their best in much
colder weather.
Howard Luke, veteran Fairbanks
musher, won the first 25-mile heat.
He covered the rough course in one
hour, 57 minutes, 2' , seconds, just
26seconds ahead of Joe Carter
of Kotzebue.
Other leaders were Raymond
Paul, Galena, third, 1:59.57: Gare h
Wright, Fairbanks, last year’s win
ner, fourth, 2:00.8: Dan Snyder,
Ncorvik, fifth, 2:02.20, and Earl
Norris, Anchorage, sixth, 2:04.32.
The dog sled race, feature event
of the annual Fur Rendezvous, will
ontinue daily through Sunday. The
best total elapsed time for the
four days will determine the winner.
KORB or
mmm
Here are final scores of leadln;
basketball games played last night:
Sitka 70, Wrangell 49.
Imperials 50. Ketchikan 46.
Metlakatla 79, Petersburg 64.
Wake Forest 77, Buffalo 53.
Trinity 75, Tufts 70.
CCNY 67, Lafayette 48.
Syracuse 71 Canisius 59.
Princeton 57, Yale 41.
Columbia 61, Army 47.
Tampa 66. Florida Southern 46.
■
ROSE BOWL
CONTINUES
AS CLASSIC
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 23 —UP)-*-*
The Pacific Coast Conference effec
tively killed talk about cle-emphasis
of athletics by voting to continue
with the Annual Rose Bowl football
classic.
Thr decision of the faculty repre
sentatives of the nine PCC members
to go ahead with the 31-year-old
daddy of all the bowls was unani
mous.
Preceding, it were rumors that
the PCC college presidents had de
termined to take the pressure off
intercollegiate athletics and that
the Rose Bowl would be fi: ;t to go.
But the presidents talked it over
and passed the decision to the fac
ulty representatives.
The decision was announced at
the end of yesterday’s meetings by
Prof. H. P. Everest of the Uni
versity cf Washington, chninwwwXjf
| the Faculty Representatives’ Press
I Committee.
Everest also announced that tire
conference would seek a new Rose
Bowl agreement with the Big Ten.
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WESTERN CA6ERS
BAITtE TO MEET •
| m CHAMPIONS1.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 23—
(jp)— Anchorage and Nome, Class A .
and R titlists, respectively, of the -
! Fur Rendezvous high school bas- i
j ketball tournament, clash tonight in '
! he opening game of a two-out-of-,
! three series to determine the Weat
■ era Alaska champion.
• The winner will represent West
ern Ale ska in an all-Alaska series
with the Southeast champion.
Nome and Anchorage won their j
titles here Wedn day night. J-Toip J
was unbeaten in the 3 tourney..
Anchorage lost once to Seward in
a competition. Double elimination ■
rules were used for both events.
The 'econd /.nchcrage-Noip
clash 1. . heduled for Sunday 91 tor
noon.
wm.mm
MEETiS TONIGHT ;
in 24AHE SERIES!
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 — If)—
The University of California at Lor,
Angeles Bruins, shooting at the pace
setting Southern California Trojan'
in the hot Southern Division bas
ketball race of the Pacific Coa6t
conference, engage their bitter
rivals from Berkeley in the first
of a two-game series tonight at the
Westwood campus.
UCLA is one game behind the
Trojans and will be seeking its llth
straight win on its home court to
night.
“The thinleintf fellow
Calls a YELLOW”
rfttqUmt
%
PHONE Si» 011 14: EOU A
YELLOW CAB
LOUIS TRIES
COMEBACK IN
WALKER BCHJT
SAN FRANCISCO, Fcf>. 23 — !.F,—
Joe Louis, fighting his way alcn
the comeback I rail to another crack
nt the title he held nearly 12 year •,
squares off tonight against tough
Andy Walker in a 10-round bout r.i
the Cow Palace.
The fight starts about 10 p.n
(PST).
Louis, still the greatest fistic at
traction of them all, is almost solely
responsible for drawing a capacity
crowd to the huge pavilion.
Walker tates among ring “un
knowns.” But he holds the Cali
fornia heavyweight crown end has
never been knocked out, except for
technical kayoes due to eye outs.
He is 28 years old, while Louis Will
be 27 next May.
FROM SITKA
E. Phillies ” 'of Sitka is at the
Baranof Hotel.
HODGINS HERE
Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Hedging of
Sitka are staying at the Earanof
Hotel.
MOOSE LODGE
Square Dance Saturday, February
24. Moese Members come and enjey
the fun. Goo.l music and Cal'.eis.
741-It
HUSKIES MEET
WEBFOTOS m
TITLE SERIES
*
By Associated Tress
The Oregon Webfoot • rated be
fore the season opened a-; the team |
that would go nowhere in the North- j
cm Division Pacific Coast Confer:
ence basketball race, and the Wash-1
ington Huskies, pre-season favor-!
,tes to replace Washington State a |
the division champion .clash tc-1
night and tomorrow night in a I
crucial series at Eugene.
The prize: First place in the
Northern Division. ,
Washington and Oregon enter
the series with a conference record
if eight wins and four defeats)
apiece.
Meanwhile, Washington State
he only team with a bare outside
chance cf overtaking the leader,
i ill entertain fourth place Idaho at
Pullman. They complete their ser
ies tomorrow night at Moscow.
mm 'cowboys'
LASSO COW MOOSE
SHIP'S DECS
CONNER HKOOK, Newfrund
llr.niS! Feb. 23 —'PI— Up in these
I northern parts they use ship and
■ 'aria’t to get n moose.
A crew member of the motor ves.
' cl Traps ssey• spotted a 400-poundcr
' .loundering In thin ice in Humber
I Arm Channel. The ship's captain
' brought his ship alongside and one
swing of the lariat bagged her.
The moose rode here in the Tre
passey’s hold, was transferred to a
truck, and turned loose a few miles
inland.
Nationwide R. R.
! Strike Threat Is
! Snded in Britain
_'
LONDON, Feb. 23.—(/P! -rThreat of
a nation-wide strike on Britain's
. into.-owned railways.ended tonight
i when 600,000 railvvaymen won wage
* ••v.vjefffi-- -Wf'Tttyfca vpwt-'w.
hah per cent.
FROM KETCHIKAN
H. E. 11furt of Ketchikan is ,le
istered at tha Karaudf lintel.
j | Seattle Auto Wrecking Co. 1
i G150-4Ui Avemn*EuUth, Seattle
J SINCE 1922
AITTO PARTS
I I Used new and rebuilt
1 | Old nrd ate models and G. I.
RHODE TO MEET
FWS DIRECTOR OH
ALASKA PROGRAM
Prcdato. '-introl problems anti the
aircraft mai enance pres ram c. j
he Ft. h ant Wildlife Service vl" j
cccnpy Clare/ ce Rhode. Regior.«
Director, for tnc next week ir An
chorage. He planned to leave Ju
neau today or Saturday for the
westward.
In Anchorage Rhode will meet
Dr. Clarence Ccttani, Assistant Di
rector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service to confer with him on tie
FWS work in Alaska. Cuttam Is re
turning to Anchorage this week
from Fairbanks where he visited
the Cooperative Wildlife Unit at
the University of Alaska and dis
cussed problems of wildlife man
agement in the interior with agents
and citizens.
Cottam came to Juneau io attend
the Alaska Game Commission and
FWS agents sossions and is now
making a trip to the Ulterior and
westward to familiarize himself with
the FWS program in the Territory.
It is his first visit to Alaska. From
An’Ir.r .i’p Cottam will so by plane
directly to Washington, D. C„ his
headquarters.
FROM Pf. I> itSiJVRO
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Nickol
son of Petersburg are roistered it
the Baranof Hotc'.
I.UiHlf HERE
James Lavery of Fairbanks Is
topping at the Baranof Hotel.
SEATTLE VISITOR
C. C. Cadwell Cf Seattle Is ro
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
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