Palmer Riflewomen,
Junior Grade, Also
Best Anchorage Shooters
Deciding that if petticoats are
what it takes to win a rifle match,
then petticoats they’d have, the
Anchorage High School marks
men added a pair of the lingerie
wearers to its squad for last
weekend’s match in Palmer. An
all-boy team had been defeated
in Anchorage the previous week
by the Palmer squad which de
pends heavily on the marksman
ship of Rose Miller and Jean
Smith.
But last Saturday’s story was
no different than the previous
week, except that Anchorage lost
by a larger margin. Indeed, Rose
Miller badly frightened Leroy
Showers, top marksmen in the
tri-school meet at Anchorage, by
trailing a bare five points behind
him in match honors.
Saturday’s individual scores
were:
PALMER—1619
H. Anderson .345
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Statistics Show
How Palmer Won
Meet with Anchorage
Statistics on the Palmer - An
chorage High School track meet
of last Saturday, which was won
by Palmer by a one-point mar
gin, show that all the edge in
field events, as well as distance
races, went to Anchorage first
placers, although Palmer runners
and jumpers consistently piled up
points by getting there second
and third.
At least one new record, the
discus throw, was set at the meet
ing. Martin Fowles of Anchorage
tossed the platter 111 feet inch
in that event.
Dick “Fritz” Caulkins was the
outstanding man in the meet,
winning the 440, 100- and 220
yard dashes, and running anchor
position on the winning relay
team. Fritz piled up 16% points
*Jean Smith .324
Jerry Smith .325
*G. Carroll .275
*R. Miller .350
ANCHORAGE—1409
R. Augustin .319
L. Showers .355
*P. Newsom .270
*E. Peterson .266
L. Seeley .199
*Girl team members.
for the meet. Brown and Corde
man of Anchorage tied for sec
ond-place meet honors with 10
points each. Ed Thuma of Palmer
was third with 6% points.
The complete record on the
track and field events is as fol
lows:
High jump—(1) Brown (A), (2)
Klem (P), (3) Thuma (P) and
Pienshaw (A) tied.
Discus—(1) Fowles (A) 111 ft.
Vs in., (2) Leonard (A) 105 ft. 9%
in., (3) Loyer (P) 91 ft. 9 in.
Shotput—(1) Johnson (A) 38 ft.
11 Vs in, (2) Anderson (P) 36 ft.
Vs in., (3) Hyland (P) 36 ft. % in.
440—(1) Caulkins (P) 55:6, (2)
Thuma (P) 62:2, (3) Leonard (A)
63:7.
Broad Jump—(1) Brown (A)
16 ft. 10 Vs in., (2) Cooper (P) 16 ft.
3 Vs in., (3) Thuma (P) 16 ft. 2 Vs
in.
880—(1) Cordeman (A) 2:26, (2)
Wade (P) 2.32, (3) Skinner (A)
2:34.
100—(1) Caulkins (P) 11:1, (2)
Akey (A) 11:2, (3) Giewitz (P)
11:3.
Mile—(1) Cordeman (A) 5:13.2,
(2) Wade (P) 5:28, (3) Fritz (A).
220—(1) Caulkins (P) 26.5, (2)
Brown (A) 27.9, (3) Thuma (P). j
Quarter-mile relay — Thuma,
Geiwitz, Hyland, Caulkins (6),
51.3.
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YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE ME,
BUT S' HELP ME, IT'S TRUE
Horatio Alger never thought of j
a better one than this.
Here’s the plot, and believe it
or not, it actually happened. Giv
en: One small high school (Pal
mer) consistently batted round by
its big city opponent (Anchorage)
in various fields of athletics for!
the past several years. The small
school has as consistently shown
improvement, particularly on the
basketball court, but just can’t
make the grade for a win, espe
cially when the chips are down.
Then, almost with no fanfare
at all, the two schools get to
gether for a friendly little track
meet one spring, with the big
school (Anchorage) set to add still
another portion of scalp to its belt
at the expense of the little school
(Palmer).
Only this time, it was a little
different. The big school walked
off with field and distance races,
but the little school uncorked a
sprint ace and middle distance
runner (Dick “Fritz” Caulkins)
who set them back on their heels
considerably. The going got
tougher as the meet progressed,
until the last event of the day
came up. With the 220-yard dash
to be run, both coaches figured
their chances. Both knew that
the meet victory would depend
on the third-place runner in this
event. The little school (Palmer)
could count on its ace (Caulkins)
for a first, and the big school
(Anchorage) could count on
Brown for second. But neither
school could count very heavily
on anybody for third.
So the big school s coach played
it carefully. He threw a handful
of runners into the race, and three
of the handful carefully boxed
Dick Geiwitz, as the finish line
neared, so that he stood no
chaance of moving up for a place.
The big school apparently had
the coveted third-place and the
track meet cinched, when up pops
the Horatio Alger element.
Ray Leonard, former court ace ~
for Anchorage, was running in a
comfortable third spot, with Edi
son Thuma a stride or two in the
rear. The two had met before on
the maple floors, in past winters,
and it was always the big school’s
Ray Leonard who finished up on
the winning team, with all the
glory that goes with winning
coming his way.
Leonard wanted desperately to
win. He tried harder and harder
as the finish line neared, leaned
forward in his anxiety to cross
that line with the point that was
needed to win the meet. Then,
just a measured 10 feet frorh the
tape, the gods of sporting events,
Lady Luck, or a Leonard gremlin
took a hand. For with victory in
his grasp, the Anchorage runner
fell flat, to let Thuma come
through with the meet-winning
third place. Final result—Little
school (Palmer) 43^ points; big
school (Anchorage) 42 la points.
And it really happened, right
here in Palmer last Saturday af
ternoon. Shades of Horatio Alger!
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