Palmer High Leads Bailbelt Conference
V
Championship to Be
Decided in Last Two
Games Held at Seward
Railbelt Conference Standings
W. L.
Palmer . 8 2
Anchorage . 9 3
Seward . 5 5
Fairbanks . 0 12
The Palmer High School bas
ketball team left by train this
morning for Seward where they
will play what is expected to be
two of the most hotly-contested
games of the Railbelt Conference
this year. Palmer will be fighting
for the Railbelt Conference cham
pionship with Seward determined
to chalk up two more games to
their credit. The Palmer Moose
and the Seward Seahawks will
meet tomorrow night and Monday
night in the two games that will
wind up the conference this year.
Palmer now leads the Confer
ence with an average of .800. This
is the first time that Palmer has
ever held this standing, never
having won more than three
games in the Railbelt Conference.
Ed Thuma has recovered from
his bout with the flu and will be
back in the game tonight, Coach
Robert Crites said yesterday.
Harvey Hiber’s finger, dislocated
in practice last week, is now all
right and “everybody else is all
.ready to go,” Coach Crites added.
“Seward will be a real menace,”
he also said, what with Dick Day
back^ on the team and the Sea
hawks playing on their own fa
miliar courts. Day was out be
cause of illness at the time Sew
ard played here. He is one of the
best players on the team.
Anchorage, which has led the
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Conference, dropped to second
place when Seward defeated the
Eagles 39-34 Monday of this week.
Anchorage played their last two
games of the Conference last
Saturday and Monday at Seward.
The Eagles took the first game
on Saturday with a score of 29-22.
Last Friday night the Palmer
Moose tied for first place stand
ing in the Conference when they
downed the Fairbanks Malemutes
46-19. It was Palmer’s eighth win
of the season, which tied them
with Anchorage with eight games
lost and two won. The game com
pleted Palmers conference sched
ule with Fairbanks.
Gus Klem paced the winners in
the Friday night game with 12
points. Bob Harris made his
start of the season in the game
and scored 10 points. Doug Hud
son chalked up eight points as
high man on the Malemute team.
Coach Crites sent in all of his
second stringers giving each man
who will be on next year’s team
a chance to play in the second
half of Friday’s game.
On Saturday night a non-con
ference exhibition game was also
played between Palmer and Fair
banks with Palmer taking the
game with a final score of 41-33.
In preliminary games both Fri
day and Saturday the Wasilla
Jayvees defeated Palmer. On Fri
day the visitors defeated Palmer
with 35-32. On Saturday night
Wasilla raced forward in the last
four minutes of play to chalk up
10 points and take the game with
a score of 33-17.
Following the Palmer High
School team’s return here Tues
day they will go into practice im
mediately for the Fur Rendezvous
games scheduled to start Febru
ary 16, at Anchorage. The teams
to compete in the Fur Rendezvous
Basketball Tournament have not
yet drawn for the order in which
they will play.
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Cordova Basketball
Teams Scheduled to
Arrive Here Today
The welcoming mat was being
readied today by Palmer for Cor
dova men and women’s basket
ball teams and their Cordovan
rooters. Two planes carrying 40
visitors from the southeastern
town were scheduled to arrive
today according to a wire re
ceived by Claire Stock Wednes
day afternoon. Mr. Stock is man
ager of the Rockets, girls team
here which will meet the Cordova
Imperials. The Moose team from
Cordova will play the Matanuska
hotel team. Games are scheduled
for tonight and tomorrow night
at the gym, both to start at 8
p.m.
Two big DC-3 planes flying
the Cordovans here are to land
on the Palmer airport today,
according to word given by
Pacific Northern Airlines yes
terday to Clair Stock when he
called the company to check
arrival time. The first plane is
due to land here at 12:30 p.m.,
with the second to arrive at
3:30 p.m:.
Entertainment for the visitors
has also been arranged. The visit
ing teams and Cordovans will be
guests of the Moose tonight at a
party in their honor at the Moose
Hut.
Tomorrow night a banquet in
their honor will be held at the
Co-Op clubroom immediately
following the game. The various
sponsors of the Rockets and Mata
nuska hotel team will act as
hosts. Mr. Stock said that there
were approximately 16 business
men and merchants here who are
sponsors of the local Rockets
team. Matanuska Valley products
will be featured on the menu
Saturday night.
Next week end the Rockets and
hotel team will travel to Valdez
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where they will play February 16
and 17. Tentative dates for games
at Fairbanks on March 9 and 10
have also been set. Games with
Seward and Fairbanks girls teams
to be brought here about the first
of April are also in the planning
! state, Mr. Stock said. It is pos
sible that at that time a girls
basketball tournament could also
be arranged with Wasilla includ
ed to make a four-team tourney,
the manager addded.
Mrs. Vi Stacey is coach for the
Rockets here. Dale Roetman is
manager and coach of the hotel
team.
Moose Lodge to Host
Party for Cordovans
After Gome Tonight
The Moose Lodge will host a
party in honor of visiting Cor
dova basketball teams and Cor
dovans accompanying their teams
on the trip here, it was announced
today. The party will be held to
night at the Moose hut immedi
ately after the game.
All members of the Moose
Lodge and Women of the Moos6
are invited to attend the party
and get acquainted with Palmer’s
neighbors from southeastern
Alaska.
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