PALMER BEATS SEWARD TO SPLIT SERIES HERE
Maybe Kiwanis Club Will Sponsor
March Basketball Tournament Here
A tentative basketball tourna
ment is tentatively scheduled for
the first week in March, a Kiwan
is Club spokesman announced
this week. About the only con
crete facts known thus far con
cerning the tournament is that
proceeds, if any, will be used to
purchase an electric clock and
scoreboard for use in the Palmer
Gymnasium.
Three Teams Shoot
Identical Score
In Fifth Round
„ j
With only one round to go in j
the Second Annual Merchants’ j
Handicap Shoot, three squads tied j
in Monday’s competition, with a!
team score of 1165.
The Valley Frontiersman
markswomen still were a few
points behind the leaders, but
they were still sturdily maintain
ing their shooting superiority
over the Shamrock Bakery trio,
only other junior squad in- the
meet.
Standings, in this next to last!
round of the meet, ranked teams j
this way after Monday’s shoot-!
ing:
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As planned at present, it would
be an eight-team tournament,
with five Army quintets and
three local fives participating. It
is not known if a round robin or
douhle elimination tournament
will be run.
Games probably will start j
either March 1 or 2, and will con
tinue through the weekend.
PALMER TEAM LOSES
TO ANCHOR'GE BABIES
The basketball team of the An
chorage junior high school met;
a seventh and eighth grade com
bination five in the local Gym
nasium last Tuesday afternoon.
The visitors defeated the local
boys by a score of 20 to 29.
A return game is to be played
on the Anchorage floor next
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
CO-OP FOUNTAIN—1165 j
Score |
with;
Score H/c H/c
K. Westenbarger....387 • 10 397
R. Brock ......353 29 382
*D. Fleming .368 18 386
MVFCA—116$
V. Donaldson .357 32 389
R. Goodrich .... 340 51 391
W. Smith ....359 26 385
GRASSER HARDWARE—1165
R. Harris .........376 21 397
R. Walker .......338 43 381
VI. Anderson .358 29 3871
KNOB CREEK COAL CO—1159
r. Carroll .354 29 383 j ,
3. Carroll .357 29 386
3. Carroll .368 22 390
V. FRONTIERSMAN—1124 I ,
Jean Smith ..270 92 362!
5. Carroll .268 111 379 j
l. Miller .321 62 383 1
SHAMROCK BAKERY—1089
erry Smith .304 65 369 ' ‘
H. Anderson .294 74 368
C. Collins .230 122 352 v
(*)—Not shot. i j
(The asterisk beside a team! r
member’s name indicates that he j.
?as absent at Monday’s round, j ^
he shooter is given a score, j ^
ased on his average minus a 10 ^
aint penalty for non-appearance q
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HARVEY HIBER PLAYS
INSPIRED DAME
TO SPARK FIRST WIN
The Palmer High School bas
ketball team is spelling its name
a new way ever since last Fri
day’s game with Seward—‘just
write it Harvey Hiber now,’ they
say. And after that 44-38 vic
tory, we’d say that was a pretty
good way to spell Palmer, too.
The tall, loose-jointed center
could do little that was wrong on
Friday, but the ball lessons he’d
learned were something to write
home about. If anyone were
looking for the flaw that made
him human, they could have
criticized his early tendency to
fire court-long passes down un
der his basket. The receiver in
variably found them too hot to
handle. However, as soon as
Harvey found that his teammates
hadn’t quite caught his spirit of
super-basketball yet (there’s no
doubt but that he’d have been
catching those passes and count
ing with them, had positions been
reversed) he shortened his passes
and took a few more seconds to
reel up the Palmer total score.
Although starring on defense,
too, the scoring column is where
Harvey really went berserk. He
tossed in 30 points for Palmer
during the game for a near ap
proach to the school record. That
record is 32 points, and is held by
Miles France, who still dons a
Shamrock uniform occasionally.
Harvey had dumped in three
field goals in the first three min
ites of play, and that three min
utes time was enough to con
vince every spectator present that
;his was Palmer’s night to win.
rhere was little of the suspense
)f the first game, lost by two
joints in the final seconds of play
—that game was anybody’s ball
fame, the fans knew; Friday’s
fame was Palmer’s, and the fans
mew that, too.
■ Quarter by quarter, Harvey’s '
core looked like this: 9, 11, 23!'
ind 30.
Seward fought a determined
•attle, but they, too, soon seemed
o know that this was Palmer’s
light. The Seahawks suffered a
ad break when Don Steele was
enched by fouls early in the
oird quarter, and Antril Suydam
jllowed him early in the fourth,
uydam apparently got a bad
reak on the scoring there—
iree unofficial scorers had chalk
d up only four personals for
im, but the official book showed
ve and the* hard-working for
rard was waved' from the floor.
Friday’s box score read as fol
iws:
■ PALMER—44
fg
.. 1
lem, G.
huma, E.
iber, H.
yland, M. ..
endixen, W.
endixen, H.
aulkins, J. ..
ederson, G.
oyer, V. :.
. 3
.11
. 0
. 1
. 0
. 0
0
0
tp
2
7
30
1
4
0
0
0
0
TOTAL.16 12
SEWARD—38
44
nderson, S.
uydam, A.
;eele, B.
nderson, R.
eigh .
Hinders .
swis ..
8!
8
11 !
2!
5i
0!
4
TOTAL..11 16 38
Wasilla and the Palmer Jay
TEN TEAMS TO COMPETE
IN RENDEZVOUS TOURNEY
The annual Fur Rendezvous
basketball tournament opens on
Feb. 22 this year and will run
through Sunday, Feb. 25, it was
announced this week. Four
teams, Palmer, Fairbanks, Se
ward and Anchorage, will com
.pete in the Class A division, and
six, Nome, Wasilla, Valdez, Cor
dova, Kodiak Navy and Kodiak
City, *will meet in the Class B di
vision.
A double elimination tourna
ment, which requires that a team
lose two games to be eliminated,
will be run. Games will be play
ed in the Anchorage Gymnasium
beginning at 2:30 p. m. If trans
portation permits the prompt ar
rival of all teams, it is hoped that
most of the Class B games can be
scheduled in the afternoon and
Class A teams will play in the
evening.
At press-time it was not known
when Palmer’s first game will be
played. There was to be no
drawing for position in the tour
nament until late Tuesday after
noon, when most of the teams
and coaches are due to have ar
rived in Anchorage.
For the first time in Rendez
vous tournaments, the Rendez
vous committee is guaranteeing
transportation costs to partici
pating teams. If basketball gate
receipts do not provide funds
enough, then the balance of travel
expense will be taken from Ren
dezvous funds.
CHUCK COLLINS TOPS
ALL JUNIOR SHOOTERS
Chuck Collins of the Palmer
High School Rifle Club is way
out in front with awards and
medals earned in club shooting
competitions, Albert Rivers, club
sponsor, said this week. To date
Chuck is leading his closest rival
for shooting honors by three
medals. Second handiest with a j
gun in the club is Paul Barn-1
hardt. .
Mr. Rivers said, postal matches:
with other schools had ‘not yet]
begun- The Palmer club is still!
awaiting the arrival of its charter j
from the National Rifle Associa- j
tion, and probably will not enter
into this inter-school competition
.intil it is received.
Already matches have been
scheduled with Seward and An
chorage. Palmer expects to com
pete, by mail, with every school
n the territory that has an or
ganized club, and to enter some
competition with states schools.
Zees met in the Friday prelimi- j
lary game. The Jay-Vees fi
lally edged their Valley neigh-1
tors by a 28-20 count.
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Two-Game Series
WHh Fairbanks
Opens Here Tonight
Palmer High School basketeers
go looking for league wins num
ber two and three, when they
meet Fairbanks in a two-game
series on the local court tonight
and tomorrow night. Preliminary
games to both contests begin at
7:30 p.m.
Fairbanks comes to Palmer
straight from a two-game series
with Seward, played on the floor
of the Anchorage Gymnasium.
Seward won the first game of
the series easily, downing Fair
banks 47-36. Earlier in the week
Seward split a series with An
chorage High School, winning
one and losing one.
Shamrocks vs. Elks
Again Tuesday
Palmer's Shamrocks and
Rockets have a tentative bas
ketball date next Tuesday eve
ning. At press-time, the Sham
locks were unofficially sched
uled to meet the Anchorage
Elks on the local floor at 8:30
p.m. Tuesday. The game will
be preceded by a Rocket-PHS
game at 7:30.