Races, Donkey Baseball Top Fair Sports Plans
6 ENTRIES ALREADY
FOR HORSE RACES
PLANNED FOR FAIR
Six horses already have been
entered in the Sept. 3 horse races,
to be a feature attraction at the
Matanuska Valley Fair this year,
it was announced today by Al
Hagen, fair board secretary. A
five-horse entry was listed by Sgt.
B. Parris of the Arctic Riding
Academy in Anchorage. Victor
Falk of Palmer also has entered
a horse in the scheduled races.
The fair board last week an
nounced the scheduling of horse
races on Sunday and Monday at
this year’s fair. An entry fee of
$5 is charged for each horse. The
day’s race card will be made up
after the entry lists are closed.
Others wishing to list a horse
for the fair races may do so by
getting in touch with Mr. Hagen,
or with Robert Crites, fair man
ager, and posting the entry fee.
Moose Challenge Kiwanis
To Donkey Baseball
First challenge for a donkey
baseball contest at the Matanuska
Valley Fair was issued by mem
bers of the Loyal Order of Moose,
of Palmer, through the Valley
Frontiersman this week. The
Moose have challenged members
of the Palmer Kiwanis club to a
game, to be held on Sunday, Sept.
3.
Starring in the Moose line-up
that Sunday will be such local
baseball luminaries are Leo Lu
cas, Bill Lentz, John Reed, Ralph
Moore, Marty Sherman, Don In
galls, Jack Leek and Al Hagen.
Still others are expected to be
signed by the Moose before the
Sept. 3 play date.
Donkey baseball will be a fea
tured attraction during three
fair-day afternoons. To date the
Moose is the only organization to
issue a challenge. However a re
port circulating along Valley
Street today rumors that there
may be an engagement among
the Palmer women. It’s whispered
that the town’s business women
may challenge a nine of “govern
ment girls” to a game one fair
afternoon.
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OF FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
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KODIAK CASE PACK
IS UP OVER 1949
ON ALL SALMON
Case pack on all five species
of salmon caught in the Kodiak
District—reds, kings, pinks, chums
and cohoes—was higher in 1950
than in 1949, Fish and Wildlife
Service officials announced last
week. This year’s total commer
cial pack in the Kodiak district
was 439,852 cases, a gain of al
most 100,000 cases over last year.
Final recapitulation of pack
figures may boost the figure
somewhat higher yet, the FWS
spokesman said.
Both catch and escapement
were higher at Karluk and at Red
River than they were last year.
Both were lower at Alitak.
Fisheries Head Suggests
Transplanting Pinks
To Step Up S. E. Runs
C. L. Anderson, director of
Alaskan fisheries, has suggested
that transplanting young pink
salmon from streams with early
runs, to streams from which the
early runs have disappeared,
might solve the fishing problems
of southeastern Alaska. Pink
salmon are becoming increasingly
scarce in that area.
Mr. Anderson said the plan
would be successful, only if the
scarcity of salmon is due to over
fishing. There are two schools of
thought on the matter — some
claim that over-fishing is causing
the disappearance of fish; others
believe that natural conditions of
low streams and cold winters are
the cause.
The fisheries director thinks
both schools of thought are partly
right.
i Alaskan wolves are going to
find the winter of 1950 and 1951
even rougher going than they did
in the past year, Maurice Kelly of
the Fish and Wildlife Service an
nounced last week. Predator con
trol agents took more than double
the number of wolves last year
than they did the previous winter,
Mr. Kelly said.
There are to be four principal
areas of control. Palmer’s Bob
Burkholder, in company with
David Harris and Mr. Kelly, will
concentrate on the Nelchina and
Wrangell mountains district. Their
object is to save the Nelchina car
ibou herd and the sheep in the
Wrangell mountains. Last year,
their work was so thorough that
they accounted for 54 wolves that
had been preying on the Nelchina
caribou.
Other control areas will be at
Kotzebue, where predators have
been whittling down the caribou
and reindeer herds, at Dillingham,
and at Fairbanks.
Housewife Wins
Juneau Fish Derby
For the second time in a year,
a woman took top honors in the
annual Golden North salmon
derby sponsored by the Territori
al Sportsmen, Inc., at Juneau.
Mrs. A. W. Boddy, a Juneau
housewife, won this year’s first
prize with a 36-pound, three
ounce king salmon, caught in
Auk Bay.
There were 41 fish, which
weighed 20 pounds or more,
hooked in the three-day derby.
President Jack O’Connor of the
Juneau sportsmen’s club said the
derby, “the best so far,” grossed
more than $8,000 this year. The
money is earmarked for stocking
of Juneau lakes and streams and
for feeding deer in southeastern
Alaska, during the winter months.
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Wasilla, Palmer Juniors
To End Baseball Season
With Fair Engagement
The last in the current junior
baseball series between Wasilla
and Palmer young fry will be
played at fair-time, it was an
nounced today by A1 Hagen, the
Fair’s secretary. The Moose-spon
sored Palmer five and the VFW
backed Wasilla-ites have beer
meeting in a month-long series
at the local ball diamond.
Mr. Hagen said exact time oi
the baseball finale had not beer
fixed. It will be scheduled for
some time early Sunday, Sept. 3
Following the game, team spon
sors will serve refreshments t(
the diamond warriors.
CORDOVA PLANS
SALMON DERBY
ON LABOR WEEKEND
Plans were announced in Cor
dova last week for that city’s firs
annual silver salmon derby, spon
sored by the local chapter of th<
Izaak Walton League. The derbj
will be held on Sept. 3 and 4, th<
committee in charge announced
Junior fishermen will compet<
on Sunday, Sept. 3, with an en
trance fee fixed at one dollar
Juniors will fish from 10 a.m. t<
3 p.m. in an attempt to hook th<
derby prizewinner. Senior fisher
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Sportsmen Will Hold
September Meeting
On August 30
Because of the opening of hunt
ing season on Sept. 1, the regular
monthly meeting of the Mata
uska Valley Sportsman has been
advanced to Wednesday, Aug. 30,
club president Bill Smith an
; nounced this week.
At that meeting, members hops
to make final plans for the
1 Sportsmen’s exhibit for next
week’s Matanuska Valley Fair.
Meanwhile, Mr. Smith asks that
• any Valley residents with trophies
1 for exhibition get in touch with
some member of the display com
mittee. Members of that commit
tee include Vern Donaldson, Mr.
Smith, Bob Burkholder, Clair
Stock and Roy Brock.
Of particular interest in this
year’s exhibit, is the planned dis
■ play of live fish taken from near
t by lakes and streams.
; men, age 16 and above, will com
r pete on Monday. Their entrance
; fee is fixed at $2.50.
Any profits resulting from the
; derby will be used to further the
■ Cordova chapter’s restocking and
. planting program. Fish unclaimed
> by derby contestants will be
; canned and given to Cordova in
- stitutions.
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