BOXING CARD IS
BIG FAIR FEATURE
On Labor Day over three hun
dred fans crowded the Communi
ty Hall and howled themselves
hoarse in apreeiation of eight of
the fastest bouts Alaska has seen
in many a day. The card, spon
sored by the Colonial Volunteer
Fire Department, was followed by
motion pictures of the Schmeling
Louis championship bout.
Anchorage wasn’t slow in an
swering the challenges thrown
down by our local fisticuffers, but
they gathered few honors; be
cause, so it was stated by visiting
fans, the Anchorage boys under
estimated the talent here and had
not trained for the fights. A
knock-out and a technical KO
coupled with two draws and four
decisions in favor of the local lads
made it a real Palmer day. Action
was the key-note of every bout
and some of the boys were sur
prisingly fast.
For the curtain raiser Oscar
Powell of Palmer and Stanley
Bailey of Anchorage, both 148
pounders, mixed three fast rounds
to a draw. Verne Johnson of An
chorage wras referee. Frank Al
len and Frang King acted as
judges and Billy Murry was
timekeeper.
The second set-to was between
the 140 pounders Jack Kneebone
cf Palmer and Leonard Winchell
of Anchorage. Three rounds with
a decision for Kneebone. Jack Rose
refereed this one and from here
on he and Johnson alternated
bouts.
Walter Jackinsky of Palmer and
Al Pierce of Anchorage, both in
the middleweight division, mixed
it for three rounis wTh the deci
sion going to Ja :kinsky.
Number four bout stopped the
show when Ted MacRoberts and :
his brother, Mike, flashed through ;
four rounds to a draw. Brothers ;
or not, no punches were pulled!
and claret flowed between knock- j
downs on both sides.
Earl Middleton of Palmer and
Charles Paddock of Anchorage,
170 pounders, stood toe to toe and
exchanged blows that shook the
house. Earl slagged his way to
honors in the first two rounds and
then Paddock’s seconds saved1
their man from further punish
ment by tossing the towel into
the ling.
John Walsh of Palmer and
Lawrence Snodgrass of Anchor
age milled through four rounds
in fast style to a decision for the
Palmer boy. They weighed in at
1G0.
The 7th bout was hotly contest
ed between George Canney of Pal
mer and Racehorse Bobby Hynes
of Anchorage. Canney took the
honors by a decision.
The main event, between the
175 pounders Ed Borders of Pal
mer and Jack Tapper of Anchor
age, was a swell exhibition of
flashy steam hammer blows. Both
are hard hitters and both were
taking punishment like nobody’s
business when a ton and a half
upper-cut broke through Tapper’s
guard and dropped him. He failed
to regain his feet at the end of
the count and the fight was over.
Much credit is due “Tee-bone
Jack Rose and Hank Wedding for
Continued on page 6
TESTS ON LOCAL
PEAS CONCLUDED
This year the Agricultural Ex.
periment Division of the Univer
sity of Alaska for the first time
employed a chemist to assist in
determining the variety of garden
peas best adapted for cultivation
by future canners in Alaska.
Six acres, divided into ninety
six plots, were planted at the
Matanuska Experiment Station.
Each variety tested was planted
in eight separate plots, half with
and half without phosphate fer
tilizer added to the soil. The twelve
varieties sown were Carter’s 8
Weeks, Blue Bantam, Canner’s
Gem, Alaska, 20th Century, Grad
us, Laxton’s Progress, Little Mar
vel, Pioneer, Premium Gem, Wis
consin Early Gem and Suprise.
Samples from each of the 96
plots were tested in the laboratory
to determine moisture content, ash,
calcium, alcohol insoluble, sugar,
starch and total nitrogen. High
sugar content with low starch is
sought for in canning peas. The I
sugar content of peas begins to
decrease soon after picking so
that close cooperation between the
'collector of samples and the an
analyst was necessary.
The analyses were performed by
Alfred W. Bastress, Professor of
Chemistry, University of Alaska,
and the field work was under the
direction of Don L. Irwin, in
charge of the Matanuska Station.
George W. Gasser is director of
the Matanuska and College Agri
cultural Experiment Stations o.
the University.
ifetermination of the variety
best adapted for use in .Alaska can
only be made by a careful study
of the results of chemical analysis
and the data obtained in the field
during the growing season.
The findings of these tests will
be contained in the next Agricul
tural Report.
Sourdough Sam watched a large :
flock of geese wing Southward.
“They ain’t so damned crazy as j
people think,’’ he remarked.
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