Palmer Teams To Go To Valdez Feb. 10, 11
ELKS’ JOHNSON IGNORES HOTEL DEFENSE,
GETS 31 POINTS AS TEAM WINS. 64-61
Every Valley resident who ever
was a member of the Elks Lodge
came to Palmer Gymnasium last
Thursday to see a basketball five
sponsored by the Anchorage or
ganization thrash the local Mata
nuska Hotel five—and they stay
ed to cheer the efforts of the
hometown boys, who narrowly
missed trimming their visitors.
The final score was Elks 64, Hotel
61, and there wasn’t a spectator
last Thursday who didn’t feel
that the locals might have won,
except for some unwise substitu
ting.
“Doc” Johnson, a deadeye-Dick
on long shots for the visitors,
stole the phow for the'* evening,
as far as basketball went. He
rolled up an amazing total of 31;
points, 23 of them racked up in
the final-two quarters of play. He
was the darling of the crowd as
he calmly aimed, fired and count
ed repeatedly from almost mid
court distance.
Except for the Elks’ chunky
little sharpshooter, the teams
were evenly matched. Pat Mo
ran, starting at guard for the Ho
tel, was a tower of strength in a
needy hour for the home team.
Time after time he saved what
appeared to be a wild pass, and
his work at the backboards was
outstanding. He was no slouch
in the scoring column, either,
.counting fojv 17 points for Palm
er.
The Elks trailed badly for the
first half, while they fought to
shorten their stride and adjust
their eye to the margins of the
diminutive floor of the Palmer
Gym. The first quarter found
them with only a single field goal
to their credit, and they trailed
29-20 at the half. Ellison, with
less than two minutes left in the
third quarter, put the Elks ahead
for the first time in the game.
The entire fourth quarter was
a seesaw affair, with neither team
ever able to grab much of an ad
vantage. The tight game kept
every spectator glued to the spot
until the final whistle, for the!
Hotel men showed evidence, on
more than one occasion, of an
ability to snatch the game from
the Anchorage City League front
runners.
Last Thursday’s feature game
was preceded by a Palmer High
School-Rocket encounter, which
the Rockets tucked away with no
difficulty at all- The town wom
en led 4-0 at the first quarter, 9-4
at the half, 16-5 at the third quar
ter and won 25-7. Irene Vasano
ja was top scorer with 12 points
for the Rockets.
The box score on the Elks-Ho
tel game:
Elks—64
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Ellison . 2 0 4
Murray . 5 0 10
Perrin . 4 2 10
Johnson .15 1 31
Berg .. 10 2
Nelson ., 0 0 0
Looper . 1 0 2
Ross . 2 1 5
Malanuska Hotel—61
fg ft ' lp
Young . 4 5 13
Hermon, J. .. 5 2 12
Hardage . 4 19
Gleason . 4 0 8
Moran . 6 5 17
Sandvik . 0 0 0
Meehan . 0 0 0
Hermon, G. 0 0 0
Hamilton . 10 2
Shamrock Juniors
Best Their Elders
In Merchants’ Shoot
Marksmen of the Shamrock
Bakery rifle team, Henry Ander
son. Charles Collins and Jerry
Smith, rudely bounced the de- j
fending champions of Palmer
Fountain right of first place
in the second round of the 1850
Merchants’ Shoot this week. The
Shamrock shooters are one of the
pair of junior squads entered in
this year’s competition.
This same team was bested, in
last week’s round, by a junior
ladies’ team who shoot for the
Valley Frontiersman. The lasses
had a bad night at the range last
Monday, and finished up sixth in
the six-team field. But they’re
encouraged by the fact that they
were good enough to beat the
team that was good enough to
beat last year’s best, and they’re;
already sharpening their shooting
eye for next week’s round.
Complete team scores for Mon
day were:
SHAMROCK BAKERY—1197
Score
With
Score H/c H/c \
H. Anderson .337 66 403 i
Collins .295 117 412!
J. Smith ..310 72 3821
PALMER FOUNTAIN—1184 j
Westenbarger ... 387 10 396 I
Brock .370 23 392 j
Fleming .383 12 396!
MVFCA—1182
Walker .353 39 392
W. Smith .365 22 387
Donaldson .372 31 403
GRASSER HARDWARE—1182
M. Anderson .374 25 399
Walker .... 353 39 392
Harris .375 26 401
KNOB CREEK COAL CO.—1177
E. Carroll .370 29 399
J. Carroll .369 23 392
C. Carroll .374 19 393
V. FRONTIERSMAN—1085
Miller .326 58 384
Jean Smith .233 114 347
G. Carroll .231 123 354
(It is regretted that space limi- (
tations will not permit publish
ing the complete score for each
shooter.)
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Palmer Tried and Tried
Bnt Anchorage Won, 41-39
HOTEL MEETS ARR
HERE TOHHSHT
The Matanuska Hotel five will
don its basketball togs and per
form for local spectators again
this evening. The Hotelmen are
scheduled to go against an Alas
ka Railroad five at 0:15 tonight
The game will be preceded by a
game between the Rockets and
the Palmer High School girls at
7:30.
Next Tuesday evening, the Ho
tel five is inviting Valley basket
ball fans to be guest9 at a game
with the AACS five from Fort
Richardson. There will be no
charge for this game, which is
scheduled to start at 8 p. m.
For the opponents’ spot on next
Thursday’s home game schedule,
the Hotel men are hoping to re
schedule a game with the An
chorage Elks, who walked off
with a 64-61 win last week. That
game is still only tentatively
scheduled. If played, it will be
preceded by a women’s game.
The Shamrocks, Palmer’s con
tenders in the Anchorage City
League, will meet the VFW at 8
o’clock tomorrow in Anchorage,
and will go against the Alaska
Railroad at 8 o’clock on Saturday.
WASILLA LIBRARY NAMES
NEW OFFICERS
WASILLA—The Wasilla Li
brary Club met last Monday for
its regular annual meeting. New
officers elected were:
Ernest Line, president; Mrs.
Ola Grafton, vice president, and
Wayne Hunter, secretary-treasur
er.
Hears of Mother's Death
Clarence Moore of the Agricul
tural Research Administration,
who returned to the Valley just
a few days ago, was saddened to
hear of his mother’s death last!
Saturday. Mr. Moore was call
ed Outside recently because of
her illness, and had been at her
side for some time.
Try their darndest though they
may, the court squad of Palmer
High School still can’t eliminate
that two-point margin of superi
ority that Anchorage High School
holds over them this season.
Again the Moose lost to Anchor
age last Friday by a score of 39
41.
For a time the game promised
to be a regular Rover Boy epic,
with the underdog’s bravery and
sheer tenacity winning out in the
end. Anchorage grabbed the ad
vantage in the opening minutes,
only to see that lead steadily
overcome, with the entry of Har
old Bendixen into the game- His
support seemed to be all that the
Palmer five needed, for Harold
was far from his best in the scor
ing column on Friday. However,
his teammates went out and got
baskets for him, and Harold con
tented himself mostly with or
ganizing the defense that stopped
Anchorage from adding to its
score.
The advantage was Palmer’s all
through the third quarter, and
until Ray Leonard dropped in the
shot that tied the score with only
three minutes left in the game, it
seemed certain that this was the
game Anchorage was going to
lose to Palmer. Leonard it was,
too, who dropped in that decisive
bucket that pushed the score to
41 for the winners, so even the
Anchorage end of the story had a
Rover Boy cast to it, as the home
town lad snatched the game from
almost a certain loss in the dying
seconds of play.
The game was as rough as a
basketball game can get, and still
stay basketball. Four Palmer
players, Edison Thuma, Harvey
Hiber, Victor Loyer and Walter
Bendixen, were benched with
five fouls and Anchorage lost
their freshman Kahler, starting
at center, in the same manner.
Referees Huntley and McCart
ney called a total of 49 fouls dur
ing the 32 minutes of play.
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PALMER TEAMS
TO PLAY CORDOVA
At VALDEZ
A Palmer men’s and women’s
basketball team will meet two
! Cordova teams in Valdez on JPeb.
10 and 11, Clair Stock announced
today. The Valdez wire of noti
| fication came late yesterday af
ternoon, and trip details still were
not worked out by press-time.
Tentatiye plans are that the
teams will drive from Palmer to
Valdez, probably leaving here
early Friday morning in order to
reach Valdez in time for a game
that evening. Mr. Stock was not
sure whether the trip would be
| made by chartered bus or by pri
i vate automobiles.
| The Valdez wire requested that
! Palmer include a trio of musi
cians on their trip roster, in ad
dition to 10 players apiece on the
men’s and women’s court s^Uads.
Mr. Stock was quietly sleuthing
for a piano player, a horn blower
and a guitarist, late yesterday
evening.
Members of the Rockets squad,
who have been turning out regu
larly for practice, will have prior
ity on the trip roster.
Which men’s team will accom
pany the Rockets also was still
an uncertainty at press-time. The
Shamrocks have a City League
date on the evning of the 11th,
and they must decide whether
they will forfeit that game or the
Valdez trip.
Mr. Stock promised more4 defi
nite details on the game plans
would be available next week.
SHAMROCKS LOSE TO RAMS
Palmer’s Shamrocks lost their
one encounter in Anchorage City
League play last week, when they
were defeated by the Rams 65-52.
The team was particularly short
handed because Pat Moran, Pat
Carney and Ray DePriest, whose
heights were sorely missed, all
were snowed in at Independence
Mine and couldn’t get to the
game.
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