MOTEL MEN’S COURT EXPERIENCE
BESTS HIGH SCHOOL FIVE, 38-26
When irresistible force (the
Matanuska Hotel) met an immov
able object (Palmer High School)
on the local basketball floor last
Friday, the immovable object
sagged enough to let the Hotel
men through for a 38-26 win. It
was a bitter loss for the high
school, which wanted badly to
win, but it would have been as
nasty a pill for the Hotel men to
down, had the game gone the
other way.
Both teams fought savagely,
and sometimes snappishly, from
start to finish. The game was
close throughout, with the Hotel
men ahead by a point at the first
quarter, leading by four points at
the half and by five points going
into the fourth quarter.
The high school suffered most
by the effective handcuffing of
center Harvey Hiber, who had
one Hotel defender on his heels
and another on his toes through
out the entire game. When Har
vey did shake them long enough
for a shot, he was hurried in the
effort and he muffed most of his
too-few opportunities. However,
he was still highest in PHS scor
ing with a pair of free throws
and three field goals.
Friday’s game was a spur of
the moment affair, scheduled
when the 887th Anti-Aircraft out
fit failed to appear for their en
gagement with the high school.
Only three Hotel players, Lee
Young, “Red” Hamilton and cap
tain Dale Roetman were present
for starting whistle. However,
they borrowed Harvey Coop
er, Lewis Geiwitz and Edward
Cope from the PHS seconds and
started play with the prayer that
the word would get to their own
squad soon.
By the second quarter it was
an all-Hotel five on the floor, and
their attack, began to penetrate
ine aeiense. j_.ee Young was
a perpetual headache to the high
schoolers with h i s constant
snitching of passes from the
guards. Meanwhile amilton, nev
er a particular threat in Hotel
scoring before, began pouring
points through the hoop. And
when the going was roughest and
the game closest, some Hotel
player always popped up with
a basket or two to ease the pres
sure.
The box score on the Friday
game reads this way:
Maianuska Hotel—38
Young .. ..
Hamilton
Roetman
Cooper .
Geiwitz ..
Meehan ..
Cope .. ..
Gleason ..
Sandvik ..
Hardage .
0
.4
.6
.0
.0
.0
.0
.3
.1
.2
PHS—26
10
13
1
0
1
0
0
6
3
4
Bendixen, H.1 2 4
Pederson .3 1 7
Hiber.3 2 8
Loyer.0 1 1
Bendixen, W.1 2 4
Thuma.1 0 2
Hyland.0 0 0
Fans of the two local squads
are looking forward to another
engagement between the teams.
Friday’s game caught most of the
spectator regulars beside their
firesides, with the thermometer
diving deep as the evening wore
on.
Much talk of a possible Valley
and Army hoop tournament is
also finding favor with fans. No
one in authority has given confir
mation to the talk yet, but rumor
has it that all three Palmer teams,
the Wasilla five, and an as yet
undetermined Arm yteam or
two, may engage in a solid week
end of basketball soon.
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PHS Meets AHS
In Anchorage Friday
Court performers of Anchorage
High School have a two-game en
gagement with Anchorage on the
neighboring school’s floor tomor
row evening, superintendent Wil
liam T. Zahradnicek announced
today.
The second meeting of the
teams this season, and first on
the Anchorage floor, the local
lads are hoping mightily for a
victory to revenge their defeat
here early in December.
The students will travel by bus,
leaving here tomorrow afternoon.
The Jay-Vee engagement begins
at 7:30, with the second game fol
lowing immediately thereafter.
The game will be broadcast over
Station KENI.
City League Schedule
Makers Pour It On
For Shamrocks
Beginning next Saturday,
Palmer’s Shamrocks will meet a
Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Sat
urday and Sunday engagement
on the court of Anchorage High
School in Anchorage City League
play. Only the first two weeks
of play of second round basket
ball have been announced to
date.
Playing the opener in every
City league schedule next week,
the Shamrocks lead off on Sat
urday- against the VFW- In
quick succession, they’ll meet the
Rams on Sunday, the Alaska
Railroad on Tuesday, the Club
Esquire on Saturday and the Elks
the following Sunday.
After that gentle initiation into
second half play, the Shamrocks
r
Hotel Squad Meets
Another Army Five,
Challenges Anchorage
The Matanuska Hotel and In*
dependent basketball squads of
Palmer have scheduled another
basketball double-header for this
evening, it was announced today
by Dale Roetman, team manager
and captain.
Play begins at 7:30 in the
Palmer Gym, when the Indepen
dents face what was at press-time
still an unidentified Army five.
Immediately after that game ends
the Matanuska Hotel squad will
take on the court unit of the 64th
Fighter Wing from Fort Richard
son.
The Hotel squad had tentative
plans for a game next Tuesday,
but had made no definite an
nouncement yet today^ Through
sports writer and managing edi
tor Bernie Kosinski, of the An
chorage Times, the Hotel men
have issued an open challenge to
any and all fives npw playing in
the Anchorage City League. Mr.
Roetman hopes to have a taker
for that challenge for either Tues
day or Thursday play dates next
week, or perhaps for both.
He asks that Hotel fans watch
for window posters for further
announcement of future games
undoubtedly will fill out the sea
son by playing both halves of a
double bill on the Anchorage
court. In their moments of re
laxation, they’ll entertain barn
storming visitors and any willing
Army fives on the Palmer court.
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