dr Squad* Go To Valdez For Court Series
S. Anderson Gambles, SHS Wins
By 40-39 Score In Wednesday Game
Stanley Anderson engraved h*S
name on the basketball book of
fame of Seward High School last
Wednesday evening, when he
breathed a prayer and hurled a
basketball at the backboard in
the dying seconds of the Seward
Palmer game. That basket was
good and it gave Seward a 40-39
victory over Palmer. And it
came so close to the end of the
game that the timer’s signal
sounded before the basketball
had dropped from the bottom of
the net to the floor. .; i *'
The two teams had taken
turns, throughout th4 game, irt
holding the basketball limelight:
The first half was all SewarcJ’s
and they left the floor at half
time holding a comfortable 28-17
lead. Up to that time, the .big
port city team had experienced
almost no difficulty. i
The Seward big three, Stanley
Anderson, Suydam and Steele,
were shooting for, and making,
baskets whenever the idea ot->
curred to them. The Palmer de
fense was nil, particularly in the
second quarter, and if hadn’t
been for Harvey Hiber’s five
field goals, the offensive punch
wouldn’t have amounted to much,,
either.
However it was an entirely re
juvenated five that came out
raring to go at the beginning of
the second half. Coach Robert
Crites replaced Jim Caulkins in
the line-up, sending in Harold
Bendixen at forward and moving
.Hal’vfey Hiber from that spot to
.his^more familiar center position.
That switch was all Edison
Thuma needed to make him de
cide to go out and play himself a
. basketball game. He sparked a
. third quarter rally with eight
l points, and imbued his team
. mates with so much court en
• thusiasm that they had pulled up
lo within five points of Seward
‘/as’ the third quarter ended.
'A ;Sev/ard’s big guns, muzzled
;:v^ifh just five points among the
[*<hree of; them, started that fourth
‘quarter knowing they had a ball
■;gaine ahead. They attempted to
|’play it cautiously, moving the
|;bnli slowly and shooting only
r when opportunities were golden
iest. But Palmer players wouldn’t
[• be. denied, and when. Seward
► showed too much caution in ball
[handling, the Moose simply went
i-out .and took it away from them.
\ The score was knotted by
1 Georgie Pederson’s field goal,
••which came with a little more
• than, a minute of play remaining.
Basketball turned into football in
those dying moments, when both
Seward and Palmer missed sev
eral times at the free throw line.
As was fitting, because of the
outstanding game he played Wed
nesday night, it was Edison Thu
ma who ringed the free throw
that PHS ahead 39-38. He did
it as PHS front row rooters knelt
with their backs to the court and
their eyes covered, waiting in a
perfect agony of hope. There
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hotel and Elks To Meet
in Palmer Tuesday
The Malanuska Hotel five
and Anchorage's Elks will
meet again in Palmer next
Tuesday at 6 o'clock, team
captain Rex Hardage, an
j nounced today. There will be
no preliminary game that
evening.
I ntheir first appearance)
i here, the Elks barely got past
the Hotel five, winning 64-61.
i However the Hotel men ap
pear to be slipping badly, if
their form in their last two
games is proper evidence, and
the Anchorage quintet may
have little trouble this time.
Valley court fans again can
expect to see "Poe" .Johnson.)
.Elka basket artist, in action in
this game. ~ J *
were oiiiy 25 seconds pf play re
maining, and Tt seemed that
Palmer couldn’t lose,”
Then Stanley Anderson gam
bled on a lucky shot and won.
The crowd was stunned, and even
the players froze on the spot on
the court* as the timer’s bell end
ed them game. It was rough,
tough basketball—a hard game
to lose anu a nice one to win, and
with nobody asking for their
money back at the gate.
The box score on the game:
SEWARD—40
fg
Anderson, S.4
Suydam .3
Steele .7
Anderson, R.0
Deigh .2
Lewis .0
it tp
3 11
2 8
1 15
1 1
1 5
0 0
16 8 40
PALMER—39
*g
Hiber .6
Thuma .4
Cauikins .0
r'eaerson .3
Bendixen, W. .0
Bendixen, H.2
Kxem .0
Hyland .0
Lacher .0
*P
13
13
2
6
15
i
39
ELKS BEAT SHAMROCKS
IN OWN HOME TOWN
The Anchorage Elks toyed
with the Palmer Shamrocks in
their court encounter here last
week, to walk home with an easy
79-49 victory. The Elks second
stringers spent so much time on
the floor that their long-shot ace,
“Doc" Johnson, wasn’t even high
man on the scoring totem pole.
Elk center Perrin led all players
with 15 points.
Although the Shamrock line
up was so thoroughly bolstered
that the visitors weren’t sure at
the game’s end, whether they had
played the Shamrocks or a re
turn engagement with, the Mata
nuska Hotel, there was never any
concern over the final outcome of
the game.
The Hotel five gave the Elks
sa run for their money in their
first meeting. They had their
.isitors gnawing fingernails and
cultivating gray; hair on several
occasions in that game, but Tues
! day’s meeting was di&erent—-it
; was just one more chance to.
hang up another win at the ex
pense of the Shamrocks.
Both Hotel and Shamrock
players gave a thorough demon
stration of the fact that practice
sessions hadn’t amounted to much
for either squad of late. Passes
were wild, floor work was slop
py, and baskets were few and far
between.
The box score on the game:
ELKS—79
*9
Ellison .2
Berg .6
Perrin .7
Johnson . 7
Murray .2
Ross ..3
McNevin .2
Dale .2
Tompkins .5
Yagei .0
36
SHAMROCKS—49
*9
Billot .1
Moran .6
Hardage .3
Young .2
Waldal .0
Sandvik .1
Bouwens .*...0
Hamilton .2
DePriest .3
18
It
3
2
1
3
1
0
1
0
2
13
*P
4
14
15
14
4
8i
41
4
12
0
79
*P
5
14
7
7
lj
2
1
4
8
49
Frontiersmen Marks women Jump
| To Third In Merchant's Shoot
The ability to handle a shoot
ing iron isn’t confined to the men
who live in this Valley—the Val
ley Frontiersman-sponsored la
dies in the Merchants’ Handicap
Shoot proved that conclusively
last Monday. The girls turned in
their best mark of the current
shoot, when they recorded a team
score of 1173. That was a full 100
points better than the Shamrock
Bakery, second juvenile team in
the shoot
The Bakery kids were crowding
the leaders last week, but twice
in the four rounds shot in this
match the Frontiersman trio has
bested them.
Marksmen of the MVFCA
pushed the Carroll family of
Knob Creek Coal out of top
place, while the Co-Op Fountain,
last year’s winner of the plaque,
still tagged along in second place.
Complete scores on Monday’s
round are as follows:
I
MVFCA—1181
Score H/c H/cj
R. Goodrich .355 53 408
, V. Donaldson .. .361 33 394
W. Smith .365 24 389
CO-Ot* FOUNTAIN—1176
R. Brock .358 27 385
D. Fleming .376 17 383
Westenbarger ....388 10 398
V. FRONTIERSMAN—1173
R. Miller .307 63 388
Jean Smith .313 90 403
G. Carroll .288 114 402
KNOB CREEK COAL CO—1170
J. Carroll .365 27 392
E. Carroll .366 28 394
C. Carroll.363 21 384
GRASSER HARDWARE—1168
R. Harris .381 22 403
R. Walker .,.342 41 383
*M. Anderson ....357 25 382
SHAMROCK BAKERY—1073
Jerry Smith .317 64 379
H. Anderson ... 282 72 354
*C. Collins .233 117 340
(*) Not shot.
CORDOVA WILL ALSO
PARTICIPATE IN
TRI-CITY MEET
A tri-city basketball jamboree
gets under way at Valdez tonight,
when Palmer’s Rockets and
Shamrocks open a double-header
at that city. Cordova teams also
are to participate in the tourney.
At press-time, basketball coach
es Clair Stock and Bernie Bou
wens were not certain whether
Valdez would enter teams in the
weekend basketball games. It
is possible that only Cordova and
Palmer will meet on the Valdez
floor.
The basketball weekend has
been planned through the eo-op
eration of six Valdez organiza
tions: Valdez Chamber of Com
merce, Canteen ball club, Valdez
Women’s Civic Club, American
Legion, Fraternal Order of
Eagles and the trade unions of
Valdez. f .
Following tomorrow night’s
concluding basketball games, the
players are invited to be guests
»t a Valentine’s dance in Valdez’
Eagles Hall. This dance will end
the weekend of fun.
A general invitation to attend
the games has been extended to
all Valley residents by the Val
dez sponsors. Planned in part to
celebrate the first year-round
operation of the Richardson
Highway, the Valdez invitation
asks that Valley residents make
the trip to test the road, which
they report in excellent condi
tion
Valdez businessmen hope that
the basketball jamboree will be
come an annual affair, and Jhat
it will help to sponsor good*will
(and, incidentally, boost freight
shipments through the port of
Valdez) between the participat
ing towns.
The Palmer basketball delega
tion left this morning by truck
on their long ride to Valdez. A
van operated by Carl Meier was
converted to a passenger vehicle
for the occasion. The two teams
began their trip from the Palmer
Fountain at 4 o’clock this morn
ing.
Rocket team members making
the trip included:
Vi Stacey, Marian Barry, Bar
bara Hecker, Helen Stenvall,
Irene Vasanoja, Bonnie Bettine,
Lucille France, Barbara Meier,
Jean Smith, Elsie Corey, Dorothy
Sands, Jeanette Parcells, and
coach Clair Stock.
The Shamrock roster included:
Don DeLand, Emil Waldal, Bud
Billot, Don Parks, Rex Hardage,
Ray DePriest, Jimmy Gleason,
Wayne Bouwens, Ben Hermon
and coach Bernie Bouwens.
The jaunting court squads are
expected back in Palmer late
Sunday afternoon.
Sportsmen Nome Smith,
Carroll and Graham
As 1950 Officers
The new board of directors ol
the Matanuska Valley Sportsmer
met hurriedly last Friday eve
ning to fill the offices of the or
ganization. Bill Smith will heac
the Sportsmen this year, the bal
lots revealed. Claud Carroll i:
/ice-president and Bruce Grahan
retains his secretary-treasurer re
sponsibilities.
No other business was conduct
?d at the Friday meeting.
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