Palmer Takes Three Straight Conference Games
Moose Meet Eagles
Here Tomorrow for 4th
Play With Strong Rivals
Railbell Conference Standings
W. L.
Anchorage 6 1
Palmer 6 2
Seward . 2 4
Fairbanks . 0 7
Palmer completely outclassed
Fairbanks last night in its third
Railbelt Conference game with
the northern team for a final
score of 51-37 in favor of the Pal
mer High School Moose. The
Moose’s victory last night put
Palmer within one game of tying
with Anchorage for first place in
the Conference standings with
the Moose winning six games and
losing two. Anchorage leads the
Conference with six wins and
one game lost this season. In Pal
mer’s two other encounters with
the Malemutes, Fairbanks went
dc3*wn in a two-game series on
their own courts.
Palmer will face the formidable
Eagles tomorrow night here on
the Moose’s court. It will be the
fourth Railbelt Conference game
to be played here within a week
and promises to be a thriller when
the traditional rivals meet.
The game last night was the
seventh straight defeat for Fair
banks. Seventeen of the total 37
points for Fairbanks were made
on free throws. In the second
quarter Hudson made four
straight free throws. He was also
high man for the Malemutes with
a score of 13 points.
Hiber led the Moose with a
score of 14 points. Lacher was
next with 13 with both of the
players credited with six baskets
each during the game.
The first quarter ended with
11-7 in favor of Palmer and at the
beginning of the second quarter
Palmer made seven points in the
first two minutes of play. By the
£nd of the half Palmer had
chalked up 18 points to take com
mand of the game with the score
standing at 29-14. Fairbanks
picked up 14 points in the third
quarter.
The Malemutes left Palmer this
morning for Anchorage where
they will go on to Seward and
play tomorrow night. They will
return here next week to play a
Railbelt Conference game here
with Palmer on Friday night. On
Saturday night they will play an
exhibition game as they will have
to stay over and the teams felt
that as long as the Malemutes
were here they might as well
play the extra game. Two games
were scheduled this week for the
teams but Fairbanks arrived here
Thursday too late and too tired
to play.
The Palmer Jay-Vees also pro
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Palmer
vided some excitement for basket
ball fans last week end, when
they met Wasilla on Friday and
Saturday nights. They preceded
the Conference games on both
cards with Palmer taking Friday’s
game 31-30. On Saturday both
the Jay-Vees gave a thrilling ex
hibition of good basketball and
good sportsmanship with the score
standing at 37-37 for almost the
entire last quarter. In the last one
and one-half minutes of play
Monte Larsh scored a basket for
a Palmer win of 39-37.
PHS Takes Two Games
Palmer took its second game of
a two-game series from Seward
Satui’day night to place the Moose
within one game of first place
last week end in the Railbelt
Confeience when the Seahawks
were defeated here, 35-32.
The game got off to a fast start
with Palmer scoring first with
two quick baskets and placeing the
Moose in command of the game.
Palmer led at the half lb-12. Dur
ing the third quarter the Sea
hawks rallied, gaining nine points,
holding the Moose down to three.
Harvey led the Valley quintet
with 11 points with Edison scoring
10. Erwin on the Seahawks’ team
was high-point man with 8 points.
The Seward team showed good
spoi'tsmanship although Palmer
had to put up a real fight to take
the game. For the Seahawks the
two games they lost here meant
three defeats in a row as the An
chorage Eagles had downed them
before they came on here on their
road trip last week.
Palmer Wins 49-36
The game Friday night was
fast and aggressive with both
teams verj’ well matched during
the first half. The score was tied
9-9 in the first quarter. In the
second quarter Palmer made 9
points to Seward’s five to end the
first half 18-14 and Palmer lead
ing by 4 points.
In the fourth quarter the teams
got down to good basketball and
in the groove with both the Moose
and the Seahawks pulling most
all their tricks out of the bag.
Palmer surged way out in the
lead with 17 points to wind up
! the game for a final score of 49
136. ’
Both Hiber and Thuma fouled
! out in the fourth quarter. As for
I individual playing it was one of.
! the best team-played games that
I Palmer has put on this season.
| The team work was evidenced by
the scoring with 10 points for
Thuma, 10 for Burr, 10 points for
; Milles and 9 for Hiber, accounting
| for 39 of the total 49.
Seward also showed good team
work with Lewis high man for a
score of 9. Seward Coach Don
Dalberg’s comment on the Sea
hawk’s game was that it was the
“poorest game they played all
year.”
MRS. SULLIVAN PLANS
THREE WEEK TRIP OUTSIDE
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sullivan
are scheduled to leave the Valley
this week end on a three weeks’
visit to the states. They plan to
leave Anchorage by plane Sunday
on their way to Detroit where
they will pick up a new Cadillac
car. They then plan to drive to
CORDOVA TEAMS
: SCHEDULE GAMES
HERE FEB. 9. 10
i Arrangements are now under
| way for local basketball teams to
[ meet both women and men’s
I teams from Cordova here in Feb
: ruary, Clair Stock, manager of
j the girls’ Rockets here has an
| nounced.
A wire was received from Cor
dova yesterday, Mr. Stock said,
stating that the Imperial Girls’
team and the Moose men’s teams
j would come here for games on
| February 9 and 10. Other plans
! are also being made for local
! teams to meet Fairb- nks, Seward
| and Valdez, Mr. Stock said.
| Beaumont, Texas, where they
; will visit with her mother. On
| their return trip to Alaska, the
; Sullivans will drive to Seattle
; where they will ship the car on to
; Valdez by boat. They will fly back
here, picking the car up later at
Valdez on its arrival there.
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