Palmer Five Meets Anchorage Saturday On Home Court
Moose Hope to Outbasket Ist-place
Eagles in 3rd try of 1951-52 Series
Still smarting from their double
defeat last week-end the Palmer
Moose will try to regain confer
ence standing in their Saturday
night contest with Anchorage
High School cagers at the local
gymnasium. But the Eagles are
also smarting from a double de
feat last week at the hands of
Fairbanks, and it is expected that
they will be in there battling for
all they’re worth to defend their
first place position in the Rail
belt Conference series. The Satur
day night contest will be the third
between Anchorage and Palmer
this season. Anchorage won the
first two contests.
Qjas Klem and Chuck Millis,
whose private tussles with the flu
bug were largely responsible for
the local team s disappointing
scores last week-end. were back
at school Wednesday but were
still showing signs of their ill
ness. Other men on the team were
also reported ill with the flu.
However, it is hoped that all will
be recovered sufficiently to give
the expert performances that vic
tory over Anchorage will demand
of them.
As usual the doors of the Palm
er School gymnasium will open at
7:15 p. m. Those who wish a seat
are urged to be there early.
People were sitting on the floor
during the January 5 game, local
sport enthusiasts are reminded.
The preliminary contest will be
between the Anchorage JV’s and
the Palmer JVs.
GOL. KORN TO BRING
CORDOVA TEAMS TO
PALMER FEB. I-2
Col. Bob Korn of Cordova has
wired the Matanuska Hotel bas
ketball team that he’s going to
bring his boys and girls over to
Palmer next week Friday, Feb
ruary 1, to wallop the local lads
and lassies on their own court.
And just to show that the Cor
dova teams can beat Palmer any
time, he’s sticking around to give
the Valley teams a second try
on Saturday, February 2.
The Cordovans will have plenty
of support, too. Col. Karn says he
plans to invade Palmer sixty
Cordovans strong-three full plane
loads.
The hotel team and the recently
reorganized independent girl
teams,fresh from their windy ex
perience of last week end. are
confident that they’ll be able to
deal with this new threat from
the southeast. Admittedly, the
girls haven’t practiced much,
but they feel that their newborn
enthusiasm will tell as much ?.s
experience when they meet the
Imperial girls. The hotel team
has been practicing every Tues
day evening and after chalking
up victories against three army
teams and Wasilla. they think
he ■'’hie to pick up the
Cordovan Moose gauntlet with
equanimity.
Members oi the team are vie
Loyer, Lee Young. Orin Tess,
Don Phillips, Jimmy Gleason
Luther Cook, and Dale Roetman.
Roetman acts as team manager.
Even if the local teams succeed
in showing up the idle boasts of
the visiting Cordovans, they’ll
have a hard time approaching
the hospitality shown them by
people of Cordova last Match
when they played there. It is un
fortunate that the Cordovans had
to nick a week end to come to
Palmer when many'local basket
ball enthusiasts will be in An
chorage to see the Palmer-An
chorage game February 2. The
same evening will find a large
share of the local Elk member-!
ship also in Anchorage for a spec- j
ial ovation being given retir
ing secretary Roy Southworth.
However, entertainment plans
are progressing, and Palmer fan-^
hope that the visitors will leave
Palmer with pleasant memories
in spite of their stinging defeats.
The hotel team and the inde
pendent girls team have also been
invited to the Valdez Annual
Jamboree February 14. 15 and 16.
There they will again have a
chance to meet Cordova and will
play the Valdez teams as well.
SLIDE AT HEALY RIVER MINE
Work was stopped at the Healy
River Coal Mine recently as the
result of a landslide. However,
Fairbanks was not without coal
as during the time that it took to
do the repair job, coal was kept
moving to the city from stock
piles.
A haulage trestle was demolish
ed by the slide. There were no
injuries reported.
Seward Seahawks
Score Doable Victory
Over Palmer Moose
The Palmer Moose quintet was
defeated last Friday and Satur
day nights when they met the
Seward Seahawks at the port city
for the two-night stand.
The Palmer team was handi
capped by a sudden attack of the
flu which slowed down star play
ers Gus Klem and Chuck Millis
during the Friday night game and
put them completely out of the
game on the following night. Both
men were in the Friday game for
only minutes at a time. The loss
of their scoring skill showed up
in the final score. 59 to 45 in fa
vor of Seward.
Johnny Brown took IClem s
place as center for Palmer on Fri
day night and came out as high
point man with a score -t>f 1°
points.
In the Saturday night game,
Palmer’s line-up consisted of only
seven players. Brown was again
high point man for Palmer with a
personal score of nine. Although
all the team members and substi
tutes fought to even the two
night decision, they could not out
olay their opponents. The game
ended with a score of 39 to 29.
Personal scores tallied by tne
individual players for both games
were as follows:
FRIDAY NIGHT GAME.
Seward
Denton, f
Boe, f
Sanders, f
Gilliland, f
Lewis, c
Van Ski. f
Barr, g
Stradley, g
Ervins, g
Lindsey, g
Faulkner, g
Total
Palmer
Larsh, f
Milles, f
Ingalls, f
Klem, c
Brown, c
Eckert, g
Colberg, g
McKeehnie, g
Fridley, g
Total
8
0
9
0
3
. 0
0
1
0
28
G
4
1
1
1
7
4
0
3
0
21
F
0
0
1
9
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
3
F
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
3
LUlOl - -
SATURDAY NIGHT GAME
P
14
0
17
0
19
0
6
0
0
3
0
59
P
9
2
2
2
15
9
0
f>
0
45
Seward
[Denton, f
Boe. f
Sanders, f
Boe, f
Lewis, c
Barr, c
/an Ski, g
Lindsey, f
Evins, g
Ealkner, g
Stradley, f
Total
Palmer
Larsh. f
Fridley, f
fngalls. t
Dolberg, f
Brown, e
Eckert, g
McKeehnie, g
Total
G
3
0
11
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
17
G
2
1
0
1
3
1
2
11
F
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
1
0
0
5
F
4
0
0
0
3
0
0
7
P
6
0
22
0
8
0
2
0
1
0
0
39
P
3
2
0
2
9
9
*3
29
Officials for both games were
ockton and Malin.
ONLY 6 NEW MEMBERS
NEEDED TO FORM
ALASKA CHAPTER SAR
Only six new members are
needed to reach the necessary
quota for the formation of an
Alaska Cociety of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Interested men may contact
William W. Elliot of Palmer who
has been asked to act as tempor
ary chairman for the territory by
the National Vice President Gen
eral.
Any male whose forebearers
served in the American Revolu
tion is welcome to join.
The national society Sons of
the American Revolution was
i organized April 30, 1889 and in
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