Basketball, Pastoors vs. Arkansas Travelers
Action shot of game; Women athletes; Women basketball players. Bob Schichtel, local sports researcher, further describes the photograph: Hazel Walker's Arkansas Travelers Women's Basketball Team was a barnstorming team that traveled the country for about twenty years in the forties thru the mid sixties, They played an unbelievable 220 games a year. In this game at Burton Gym, Pastoor Auto #66 Al Bielema gains the tip against Arkansas Travelers Mary Alice "Peachie" Hatcher as Pastoors Auto Marve Bylsma carefully jockeys for position with an unidentified Traveler. Other players in the shot include PA #77 Stan Olszewski, PA #22 Russ DeVette, and AT Allegra "Stubby" Winter (center back). Pastoors won 73-63. It should be noted that the game was played with the men's rules.