The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1941, Page 5

with all their might in the Doug- las gym last night to barely eke out a win from the Eagles in a game scarred with rough, fast, des- perate play, After being led by the Eagles for-most of the fray, the visitors pulled ahead at the last minute and were lucky to be lead- ing the score when the final whis- tle blew. Re-Match - With Firemen Tonight the Hornets will play a return game with the Juneau Fire- men in the Juneau gym after trim- ming them 39 to 34 Wednesday night. Petersburg'’s smoke-eaters was in the Firemen's EAGLESFALL T0 HORNETS AT DOUGLAS Visitors Bafgly_Trim Island Team in Fast, Rough, Desperate Battle win over the| backboard rebounds, but found thnzl they could do little with the ball after they did get it, for they were being checked as close as possible without using a net. The Esgles} were out-playing the Hornets and| running them into the floor, wheni the visitors sent in Tommy Thomp- son, who was on the floor for ex-\ actly two seconds before making| the net swish, and the retaliation was on. | Three minutes before half-time| the Hornets calmed down and/ started to score. The half came! and the score stood 10 to 12 with| the Eagles not having scored a | the Hornets| | single marker and 13th game after 12 straight wins. | starting to build. Tonight's fight will be anyone's| Score Tied win, both teams out for theother's| 1y took just eight seconds for the oy visitors to tie the score when they| Last night's preliminary 8aME trotted back on the floor and then | between the Douglas High and thetne Eagles checked Thompson dowii| Wrangell Institute gave the DOUg-|go hard that he was practically| las High boys their first game in|gyrrounded whenever he received | three weeks with the exception of|the ball and the score swayed back one fray a week ago, and the Is- to an Eagle's lead. | landers played sloppy ball in a wild SCORES LAST NIGHT Wrangell Institute 43; D. High 30 Petersburg Hornets 26; Eagles 23 The Petersburg Hornets fought CENTRAL P Then for the first time in the | game. Final score was Douglas 30; pattle the Hornets took the lead Wrangell Institute 43. and had to fight to keep it. By a| FIRE INSURANCE Main Event narrow margin, often going as lowA‘ as one point, the visitors managed to keep ahead as the Eagles bit- terly battled to regain high score. At the end of the third period the For the first half the Hornets | practically gave the game to tne| | Eagles as they consistently threw away passes with a slow, inaccu- | rate aerial attack, and the Eagles, seore stood 20 to 17 with the Hor- |playing a furious ‘battle, rapidly|nets holding the lead and the "built up a score that led the Visi-| pgojes holding the bag. tors 10 to 4 at the end of the first| Petersburg Pressed COMPANY Baltim?):e, Md. HAROLD H. BATES AGENT—Phone 321 Room 1—Valentine Bldg. -.m~-m;,.<{ BASKETBALL TONIGHT PETERSBURG VS. Juneau Firemen Wrangell Institute VS, Juneau High FIRST GAME AT 7:30 P. M. JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL GYM Admission: 45¢ plus 5¢ tax—Total 50c EMPIRE Printing SAVES You MONEY T STANDS to reason that the men and machines that print a large daily newspaper are well equipped to do almost any kind of printing job. In addition” to this advantage, they are equip- ped to do the job more economic- ally. No matter what your print- ing requirements, THE EMPIRE can fulfill them quickly, inexpen- sively, and well. The Daily Alaska Empire Phone 374 M D R L D L g BRINGING UP FATHER Posters | The Hornets took moaf of the oyt in the fourth period as the! frame. Petersburg called its fifth time| score gradually crept up, with the Hornets' never holding a safe lead. The game was anyone's. Two points would have won the game for the| F | Eagles and the visitors would have lost to a team that had been beat-| |en by a five that they already had! | beaten, Four fouls were called on Jen-| |sen and Hornets took the ball to the side lines rather than shoot the foul. Minutes clicked by, and| | with the fans sitting tensely on |the edges of their seats, the final| | whistle sounded with the Peters- /burg Hornets holding the high end ‘of a score by the skin of their teeth and a whim of Lady Luck. | Tonight's Games Tonight the Hornets will play a re-match with the Firemen in the| |main event of a doubleheader in’ the Juneau gym. The first game will start at 7:30 o'clock and will }be between the Juneau High Crim- son Bears and the Wrangell Insti- tute. Last night's box scores follow: WRANGELL INSTITUTE Player FG FT TP Didrickson ... | Williams Wells Paul [ 0 0 0 1 1 DOUGLAS HI¢ Player Cashen, F. Cashen, H. Kirkham Fleek, R. ... Bavikko Fleek, ‘Wahto Doogan Krsul D. ZlocamornrceR lvanna e | ooecoe—o_:s 8| ccEnchunr Totals PETERSBURG HORNETS Player FG FT T Johnson Mathisen Nygren .. Pederson, L Heimdahl, N. Thompson, Pederson, P. . k) sl mocoromnee Totals ~ PR b e e Player Stragier .. Mills .. ) Nelson, L. B. . Guerin Jensen ... Rustad . Erskine Niem{ Nelson Savikko 'oueuo-—-eweua Elvownmococe locoomomvouocs = eaeocee»—-eos N & ‘Totals =3 . - SIMPSON RETURNING TONIGHT ON PRINCESS Mrs. Robert Simpson is return- ing tonight on the Princess Norah. She * has spent the past several weeks in California with her daughter and son-in-law. ———e———— An airplane has to climb approxi~ mately six miles in the middle lati- MRS, sphere. jomnsArmy,and Hovz! 15 HOLLANDERS ... German Milifary Author- nounced that German Military au-|L. E. Iverson . thorities in The Netherlands have D. Davlin executed 15 persons before firing | Mrs. R, Davlin 119 121 125— 365 squads at Amsterdam. ! on the 15 following conviction of membership in “terror, sabotage and | (Spot) espionage organization’s.” were commuted to life imprison- J. VanderLeest 141 ment at hard labor. | ' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH SKI JUMP CHAMP FETED S Torger Tokle (center), New York, holds the cup he won for his record 288-foot jump at Hyak, Wash., as Alf Engen (right, 1940 champ who placed second in the 1941 national tourney, and Roy Mikkelson, an- champ, hold the new titlist at a banquet. ABSENT TEAM LOSES MATCH ONELKS ALLEYS Columbia Lumber Takes| three from Dodge Deal- | ers-One Match Split | Bowling against a team of keg- lers that was not there, the En- gineers trimmed an absent Snow White team 3 to 1 last night in the Elks alleys as they rolled a| total of 1530 to beat the average of the Laundrymen by 54 points. | The "Golumbia Lumber Company bowlers°took 'a match 3 to 1 from the Dodge Dealers in the second meet of the evening as they rolled totals of 1406 to 1365. H Butler-Mauro split a match with the George Brothers in the last meet of the evening’s pin play, and with the aid of a 29-pin game spot, led the ‘George Brothers in final | totals, ‘1403 to 1387 | Games tonight are Triangle Inn and the California | Grocery, 'at 7 o'clock, the Juneau Drug &nd Henning's at 8:15 o'clock {and Bloedhorns and the Juneau | Medical® Clinic at 9:30 o’clock. Last “ night’s bowling scores fol- low: other Torm between the Jean Greaux Talk about volunteers for U. 8. army service! Jean Greaux, 22- year-old native of the Virgin islands, U. S. A., spent his lifa | savings to make a 4,000-mile Clip- | Metcalf per and train journey to enter the | ginecey) . U. 8. army. He received his uni~ | opstead® form at Camp Robinson, Ark. | Engineers 182 223 166— 571 216 176 147— 539 140 140 140— 420| 538 539 453 1530‘ Snow White | 113 113 113— 323 164 164 164— 492] 69 69 69— 207 146 146 146— 438[ Totals Fran. Riendeau*® Mrs, M. Daniels® M. Daniels* Totals . : _4972 SHOT DOWN BY FIRING SQUADS 492 492—1476 Columbia Lumber Co. John Halm 183 171 181— 535 W. Eveland® 134 134 134— 402 | Mrs. Sperling.. 136 162 171— 469 | 14, 1941. ORIGINALS ByLETTIELEE Which Set the Fashion Picture for SPRING Meet Miss Lettie Lee, spirited young American designer, par excellence! Who has created clothes for the well - dressed woman which speak a simple story A story of unfailing good tastes, distinction and - fashion. The type of clothes which sky- rocket you to success. See our bril- liant collection of LETTIE LEE dresses . . . flawless- ly tailored simple class- ics, enchantingly beauti- ful cape ensembles, striking nauticals and military jacket models . . . They speak volumes for themselves . .. All ORIGINALS and exclusive with B. M. Behrends Co. 19.75and 22.50 “In Juneau — It's BEHRENDS for VALUES!" B. M. BEHRENDS Co. QUALITY SINCE 1887 Yugoslavia Is | Holding Off On NaziDemands Governmenmaders Fail fo Leave Belgrade Today for Talk w@h Hitler BELGRADE, March 14—Despite continuing Axis pressure, Yugosla- via Government leaders failed to leave today for Germany to talk terms with Hitler, as expected. The German Legation officials here said they have no informa- tion as to when the trip will be made. ’ Berlin has refused to even con- sider the formula by which Yugo- slavia thought might enable her to avoid immediate capitulation to the Axis, A MATCH FOR SPR!NG_since fashion has willed that women copy men's attire, or vice versa, iwo New Yorkers the “look-alike” mode. They wear twin wool gzbardine suits in & Aidmond brown shade, plus straws banded in gay prints. ities Announce Mass Ex- i ecufion at Amsterdam | rotass 453 467 4861408 | Dodge Dealers BERLIN, March 14. — It is an- (Spot) 98 Vi 134 203 130— 467 ... 157 167 182— 508 The death sentence was ‘passed| Totals 419 500 446—1365 Py 39 39 39— H. R. VanderL't 183 175 202— 560 99 108— 312 159 114— 414 Sentence of three other Hollanders | M. VanderLeest 105 Carey Tubbs .. 155 162 177— 494/ Totals ........ 406 510 471—1387 “Average seore. Did not bowl. —_— e — MORGANS ARE BACK Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morgan are back in Juneau after a short busi- ness trip to Sitka. Mr. Morgan is with the Columbia Lumber Com- pany here. They returned here on the North Sea, making the round trip. " Giants’ Outfield This Year? ——eeo— The Daily Alaska Empire has the 468 472 463—1403 George Brothers Totals tudes before it reaches the strato-'largest paid circulation of any Al |Tom Hutchings 118 161 '152— 431 Empire—the paper with the largesi aska newspaper. Art Judson ... 133 187 142— 462 e Subscrive > the Dally Alasks paid circulation. By GEOR JARVIS~-GET GE McMANUS | Morrle Arnovich, John Rucker and Mel Ott - You'rs looting at the probable starting lineup of the New 'Yqh’ Giagh in be outfield. Left to right, snapped at Miami, Fla, are Morrie Arnovich, John Rucker and Mel Ott. i e, lac, Woeld sights 2o Sl