Anchorage Elks Face Hotel-Men Here Tonight
PALMER FOUNTAIN STILL BEST MARKSMEN
■ FIRST ROUND OF MERCHANT’S SHOOT
The Calmer Fountain, detencl
ing champions in the second an
Merchant’s Handicap Shoot,
were still champions at the con
clusion of the first round of the
natch last Monday
Six teams were entered in the
competition Monday night. Two
ipanR <365 junior shooters, one of
them an all-girl squad sponsored
1if Che Galley Frontiersman, are
inetudecl in this year’s match. The
Shamrock Bakery is sponsoring a
junior boys’ squad.
Although they wear the first
petticoats to appear in the Mer
chant’s Shoot, the Frontiersman
. mooters were gooa enuugn wp
j their junior male competitors in
! this first round. The Frontiers
' man ladies, in addition to casting
glances at the first-place win
ners’ plaque, also have a special
inducement to score. They’ll win j
a special prize for every round !
that they end up top contestants.
Frontiersman team members are
j Rose Miller, Jean Smith and Bet
i ty Harris. Results of this first
i round of shooting are shown be
I low. The top score in the double
total represents the score with
handicap; the bottom figure is
j the actual score:
Palmer Fountain—1184
Prone Sit ' Kneel Stand
WeStfXttearger .. 99; 100 93 93
Brarik .. 99: 95 89 85
■Fleming . 98 100 95 90
Knob Creek Coal—1171
FL Car roll .97 96 82 77
X Carroll . 100; • 99 85 72
C. Carroll .. 99 100 92 85
Grasser's Hardware—1165
-Anderson . 98 95 90 77
Walker_-.. 93 87 83 80
Slains.. 98 99 86 74
MVFCA—1154
Goodrich 93 79 76 42
W-Smith 100 96 92 87
Xkmdlctson 98 91 83 73
Valley Frontiersman—1109
’IBUpt .. 88 88 83 61
X Smith... 82 78 52 56
Ck Carroll . 84 - S3 53 42
Shamrock Bakery—1087
H. Anderson. 97 86 57 46
CdDins.. 92 62 18 19
J. Smith -. 91 75 66 65
Total
396
380
392
368
396
383
388
352
389
356
394
376
390
360
386
343
389
357
373
290
394
376
387
346
380
320
370
268
359
242
372
286
341
191
374
297
Notice To Travellers
The Alaska Railroad Brill Car Service be
tween Anchorage and Palmer will be dis
continued effective January 30.
Regular coach service is to be provided
however, daily except Sunday on the Anch
aroae-Palmer freight train.
The Alaska Ralroad
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ROCKETS TO MEET
PHS IN PRELIMINARY
CAME AT PALMER GYM
The first basketball game to be
played on Palmer’s Gym floor in
almost two weeks is expected to
draw a capacity crowd tonight.
wh°n the Matanuska Hotel squad
faces the Elks of the Anchorage
City League.
The Elks currently are roosting
in second place in the League,
with seven wins and three losses.
Playing a preliminary to this
evening’s game, the Palmer Rock
ets will battle girls of Palmer
High School at 7:30 p. m. The
starting whistle for the feature
game is scheduled to blow at 8:45 1
The Hotel squad underwent a
reorganization last Monday eve
ning, when manager Dale Roet
man’s vacation Outside left the
five without a coach or manager.
Team members voted to ask Ray
McCartney to act as their coach,
and they elected Johnny “Red
Hamilton as their team captain.
On Tuesday morning, Hamilton
announced that the Hotel five
would schedule weekly games
with some team in the Anchorage
City League, the game to be play
ed on the Palmer floor. Follow
ing tonight’s meeting with the
Elks, the Hotel squad has a tent
ative date With the Alaska Rail
road five next week
Questioned as to whether the
Matanuska Hotel squad and the
Shamrocks would unite to form
one team for City League sched
ules in Anchorage, team captain
Hamilton said that was not the
plan at this time. It is possible
that a future arrangement may
be worked out. In the meantime,
it was assured that all local games
would be played as Matanuska
Hotel games.
PHS GOING TO FBKS
Palmer High School will ven
ture afield next week, to meet
new basketball foes. The squad
leaves Thursday for Fairbanks,
where they will meet the Fair
oanks High School five for the
first time this season. They plan
to play two games there on the
weekend, returning to Palmer
early the following week.
SHS ROLLS OVER
PHS, 54-38
Unused to the “wild cowhand”
brand of basketball dished out by
a rough-riding Seward High
school quintet, Palmer’s Moose
were jarred back hard with a 54
38 loss on the Seward floor last
Friday. Concrete proof of the
game’s character is in part borne
out by the mis-placed nose now
being worn by Gus Klem, and by
the sundry bruises and abrasions
decorating the other members of
the PHS squad.
Completely befuddled by the
Seward brand of ball until the
last quarter, the locals were out
scored all the way until that per
iod, when they managed to gath
er 15 points to Seward’s eight.
George Pederson led Palmer
scorers with eight points, While
Harvey Hiber, Edison Thuma and j
Walter Bendixen shared second- j
place honors with seven points
each.
Seward’s Suydam S. Anderson j
and Steele were the only lads to j
penetrate the Palmer defense for
markers, but they did it often and
successfully. Anderson had 20!
points, Suydam 15 and Steele 15, j
when the final gun sounded. ,
Only one game of the planned
doubleheader was played. The lo
cal squad may return to Seward
in early February for a second
match.
The box score on the game read
this way:
SEWARD—54
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Suydam 8 3
Anderson, S 10 0
Steele .6 3
Diegh . 0 0
Anderson, R.0 0
Cowan .0 0
Sanders .. 0 0
....Erwin .0 0
Van Slyke ..0 0
Lewis .0 0
PALMER—38
pis.
19,
20:
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0
0
0
0
0
0
fg ft
Bendixen. H .2 0
Pederson .4 0
Hiber . 3 1
Thuma..'..2 3
Bendixen, W.3 1
Kiem . -0 0
Cope.—0 0
Caulkins .0 1
Loyer . 2 0
Anderson .0 0
pis.
4
8
7
7
7
0
0
1
4
0
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Pederson, H. Bendixen
Lost To Painter
On Eve Of AHS Came
With George Pederson lost on
an eligibility count and Harold
Bendixen benched with a back in
jury, it will be a badly cripj&ed
Palmer Moose that faces the pow
er dive of the Anchorage Eagles
here Saturday evening. The court
fives met here at the opening of
basketball season in December,
when the locals bowed to Anchor
age by a two-point margin. They
had been hoping for revenge in
this second meeting.
George Pederson will be learn
ing his basketball from the side
lines for at least another six
weeks for his marks failed to
measure up to par for a basketball
player, during the past grade per
iod.
Harold Bendixen injured his
back while working at the £>azy
Mountain Children’s Home, where
he lives. He has not yet returned
to school, so the length of his ab
sence from the basketball line-up
is uncertain. Brother Walter says
it will be “at least two weeks.”
Coach Robert Critefc admits
that the loss of the two boys is a
serious blow, just at this time,
but says he hopes to shuffle a
combination of Gus Klem, Victor
Loyer and Myles Hyland to bal
ance the deficit. Coach Crites had
a particular word of commenda
tion for Gus, who, he says, is
“coming along nicely in practice,
now.”
Saturday’s game opens with a
Jay-Vee encounter at 7:30 p. m.,
with the varsity game following
immediately afterward.
Hotel Wins one
In Cwn Name, Loses
Three For Shamocks
Although the Matanuska Ho
tel squad has won the one game
played under Hotel colors in the
past 10 days, the neighborly
hand they’ve been lending to
their Shamrock cousins ha^p’t
been of much help in City League
play. The Hotel Men met the 57th
Medics on Fort Richardson’s floor
on Jan. 10, and won by a 20-point
margin. The final score was 67-47.
Lee Young and Johnny Hamil
ton were the big guns in the Ho
tel attack that night, scoring 19
and 21 points respectively. The
Hotel-men called on the Sham
rocks to return a favor in that
game, borrowing Ray DePriest
and Bud Billot for the occasion.
Since their win over the Med
ics the Hotelmen have helped the
Shamrocks lose to the Alaska
Railroad, the Elks and Club Es
quire. The Railroad score was not
available at press-time.
Final score in the Elk-Sham
rock mixer was Shamrocks 58
Elks 79. Lee Young, Johnny Ham
ilton and Dale Roetman were the
most help to the Shamrocks in
the scoring column. Young had
14 points and Roetman and Ham
ilton each counted for 13.
In last Saturday night’s game,
Rex Hardage set a season’s record
for himself in scoring, when he
tried to shift the Shamrock lv.-'
by tossing the basketball through
the hoop for 30 points. Th*j
weren’t enough, though, for • II
(Continued on nage J*
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