FIRST WINNERS NAMED
IN SCHOOL TOURNEY
Six games in the 21-game dou
ble elimination basketball tour
nament between classes of the
Palmer junior and senior high
school had been played by press
time today.
Because of the number of
games needed to determine bas
ketball champion of the Palmer
school, tournament plans have
been changed. A basketball game
is played each afternoon, begin
ning at 2:30, in the Palmer gym
nasium.
Tournament results, in these
six games, were reported as fol
lows:
In the tournament opener on
Monday, a junior squad made up
of Marsh, Chambers, Geiwitz,
Sandvik, Bouwens and Hermon,
defeated the freshman team of
Thuma, Hiber, Smith, Sandvik,
M^Gibbonay and Gooch by a
score of 24-15.
Two sophomore fives compet
ed in the next game. The team
of Lamp, Hodson, Lucus, Cope,
Gaylord, Anderson and Hyland
downed their brother hoopsters
by a score of 16-13. Pederson,
Cooper, Carroll, Bouwens, Barn
hart and Woods played for the
losers.
Two senior fives were pitted i
in the third tournament game.
Stevens, Parks, Huntley, Lucus,
Miller and Onkka topped their
opponents of Billot, Plumley,
Davis, Graham and Hoffman by
a count of 29-16.
Juniors met juniors in another
initial play-off. End of play
found the two squads dead
locked with an 18-all score. Play
ers Bouwens, Rempel, Chambers,
Geiwitz and Marsh locked horns
with McAllister, Sandvik, Hutch
inson, Hermon and Kircher in
this encounter.
Freshman vied with freshman
again in the fifth game of the
tournament. Messrs. Smith,
Thuma, H. Bendixen, Goodrich
and Sandvik downed Frosh
Johnson, O. Peterson, Loyer,
Caulkins, W. Bendixen and
Hiber by one point. The final
score in that game was 10-9.
Wednesday’s game in which
the freshmen downed their arch
rivals, the sophomores, by 12-10,
was played by Thuma, H. Ben
dixen, Sandvik, Goodrich and
Smith for the winners. The
sophomore battle was fought by
Lamp, Hodson, Lucus, Henry,
Hyland and Cope.
One girls’ game also was
played off this week. The girls
are playing an independent
ournament. Their games are
SUNDBORG COMING
George Sundborg, former
manager of the Alaska Develop
ment Board and now a member
of the staff of Governor Ernest
Gruening, has indicated that he
plans to spend all day next Mon
day in the Valley. Mr. Sundborg
will discuss development plans
for the Valley with a number of
local residents.
scheduled during physical educa
tion class.
The senior girls downed the
juniors by a score of 14 to 8.
Playing for the winners were
Alice Ray, Sophie Vanderpool,
Hilda Stenvall, Babe Larsh,
Georgia Small, Evelyn Foster,
Peggy Yohn, Katherine Pederson
and Nancy Smith. The junior
losers included Dorothy Plum
ley, Mary Ann Michalek, Babe
Meiers, Marianne Bryant, Joanne
Frank, Leann Wade and Gayle
Eckert.
Welcome, Bill
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guests of the
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