PHS-AHS Track Meetls Scheduled Here Sat.
‘Jackie’ Smith Is
Queen Candidate
Of Valley Sportsmen
Miss Margaret “Jackie” Smith
is the first candidate to toss her
pretty hat into the ring in the
hope of exchanging it for a
queen’s crown at the Matanuska
Valley Fair this fail. “Jackie”
was chosen by the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen as club repre
sentative in the fall contest.
The Sportsmen’s candidate is
truly a Valley girl. She has spent
15 of her 20 years of life in the
Matanuska Valley. She is a grad
uate of the class of 1947 of Pal
mer High School.
Jackie has two brothers and
sisters. She has lived at home
since graduating from high
school. She says she has no spe
cial interests and hobbies “other
than shooting — that’s why the
Sportsmen picked me—because I
like to shoot.” N
The Sportsmen’s pretty bru
nette candidate has grey eyes,
dark hair and a ready smile. Any
one who doesn’t know her, and
IS
Palmer Nine Loses
Season’s Opener
To Anchorage, 5-4
A slight case of jitters on the
oart of pitcher Victor Lover, play
ing his first baseball game, prob
ably defeated the Palmer High
School nine in the opening game
of the 1950 season at Anchorage
last Friday. Not that Victor
hadn’t a pretty good reason for
jitters — after whiffing two An
chorage batters in the first inning
of play, catcher Leonard Krise
dropped the ball on both third
strikes and both runners reached
base. The next Anchorage batter
doubled.
Palmer eventually lost the
game, called because of rain at
the end of the fifth inning, by a
score of 5-4. However coach Rob
ert Crites feels that the game
experience his squad needed will
be sufficient for them to register
a win, when the teams meet
again today and tomorrow.
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PHS Rifle Squad Downs Cordova
And Anchorage in Tri-School Meet
Two members of the Valley#
Frontiersman rifle squad, in last
winter’s Handicap Shoot, teamed
with a pair of Palmer High School
boys last week, to best Anchorage
and Cordova marksmen in a
three-way shoot at Anchorage.
The two ex-Frontiersman squad
women were Jean Smith and
Rose Miller. They were the only
ladies in the tri-school shoot, and
they gave an excellent account of
their marksmanship.
The Palmer squad included
Jerry Smith and Henry Anderson,
in addition to the Misses Smith
and Miller.
The match took place on the
range of the Anchorage Club at
ten o’clock last Saturday morn
ing. It was a four-position shoot
—prone, sitting, kneeling and off
hand. A score of 1,600 was per
fection for a team and 400 was
the best score possible for an in
dividual.
Palmer barely squeezed by Cor
dova riflemen, holding only a
two-point advantage when scores
were totalled. Anchorage trailed
well back of the other squads.
Individual scores for the shoo*
were:
PALMER—1300
Jean Smith .
Rose Miller .
Jerry Smith.
Henry Anderson .
CORDOVA—1298
George Olson .
Jim Foode ..
324
315
331
311
314
344
Valley Riflemen Best
Anchorage Again
It’s getting to be a habit—Pal
mer’s spanking of Anchorage
riflemen by increasingly larger
scores at the weekly home-and
home shoots on the clubs’ indoor
ranges. Palmer marksmen did it
again Friday night, downing the
Anchorage club by a score of 1837
to 1820.
The lads will be trying again on
the local range tonight, for An
chorage still hasn’t given up the
hope of an ultimate and decisive
victory.
PALMER—1837
K. Westenbarger . 377
Rip Harris . 370
Vern Donaldson . 365
Roy Brock . 363
J. Carroll . 362
ANCHORAGE—1820
Collins . 372
Wessman . 367
Mellberg . 366
Sherwood . 363
Buck Harris. 352
Jim Webber. 318
Larry Clark . 341
ANCHORAGE—1248
LeRoy Showers . 363
Roy Augustin . 343
Ed' FrostaJ . 274
Dick Sharood . 268
Palmer and Anchorage are
planning another match, to be
shot at the local range beneath
the Rec Hall tomorrow.
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'Nine Events Are
Included on Day’s
Track Program
The first, and probably the only
track meet of the 1950 season will
get under way at the Palmer
field on the fair grounds at 10
o’clock tomorrow morning, Coach
Robert Crites announced today.
Nine track and field events are
planned for the meet, which will
be between Anchorage and Pal
mer track teams.
Following the track and field
events, scheduled to end in the
early afternoon, there will be a
baseball game between the two
schools on the local diamond.
Events planned for tomorrow
include: 100- and 220-yard dashes,
440 and 880 races, 440 relay, high
lump, broad jump, discus throw
and shot put.
Palmer’s miler, Johnny Alex,
has been disappointed to learn
that Anchorage cannot field an
entry in this event.
Coach Crites, summing up his
chances in tomorrow’s meet, said
he is depending heavily on E*;tz
Caulkins in the dashes and the
440. His time in the latter event,
against competition, has been 55
seconds this year. Gus Klem is
expected to come through with a
high jump of five feet, three or
four inches, which should be good
enough to take that event, Mr.
Crites thinks.
Victor Loyer already has tossed
the discus a good four feet far
ther than the winning throw of
last year’s Palmer - Anchorage
meet. Bill Wade is also recording
some good throws in this event,
in practice sessions.
Possible Contenders in tomor
row’s events were listed as fol*
lows:
Dashes and 440—Richard Gei
witz, Edison Thuma and Fritz
Caulkins.
880—Bill Wade, John Alex and
Gus Klem.
Broad jump—Myles Hyland.
Shot put—Myles Hyland and
Henry Anderson.
Relay—Palmer has two teams
ready to contend in this event.
Coach Crites’ first choice lies
with Richard Geiwitz, Edison
Thuma, Myles Hyland and Fritz
Caulkins, anchor. The number
two squad includes Harvey Coop
er, Paul Barnhardt, Leonard Kr^e
and Henry Anderson, anchor.
The exact schedule of events
for the meet was not .fixed at
press-time. Mr. Crites hopes to
alternate jumps and races, be
cause some boys are participating
in both the track and field events.
Geo. Gilson Goes to Seattle
George Gilson left Valdez on a
quick business trip to Seattle on
May 2. He expected to be gone
for about two weeks.
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