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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1934)
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF The answer to: take the selling price UNDER THE BLEACHERS of a new gun of the same make and My Mark Seeley Pats Collier, I. Robison, Ernest figure the barrel as costing just a Despite a tie game, torrents of rain Krewson and several others have . third the price of the gun and you which had made Golden Field a promised to give me something for . will have close to the amount of the sandy quagmire, and a brilliant sec this column, but to date nothing to , cost of a new barrel. This rule ap ond half offensive by the Marshfield forthcoming. I’m going to, chuck plies to most guns on the market to Pirates, Bandon rode the crest to ttie some big logs on the old campfire and day and to a good thing to remember. Coos county football championship A certain fisherman tells a story have a regular meeting one of these last Saturday as the Tigers met the times and the stories and dope I’ll on himself. He was fishing with a Pirates on even terms, 6 to 6. gather will furnish entertainment for fly rod for salmon trout and was » Bandon was twice denied scores in my readers for many moons to come. catching some large ones. They put the first half when touchdowns wcfe But at the present time I am on my up quite a fight on the light rod. apparently 'within reach, but a second own to entertain you and as duck sea Presently he hooked a mighty fish. half drive could not be halted and son to still on I will relate an amus Hto compnion shouted, “You’ve got a the Tigers counted • the six points, ing little scene that was enacted down salmon!” So the fisherman played the which gave them a clear bill for the [ salmon with all the cunning that he in the marsh a couple of weeks ago. bunting. A kicking advantage was’ Two duck hunters from the Bay possessed For minutes the battle indirectly responsible . for the Ben- ! arrived before daylight In a box raged. The fish staid deep and gave gals* score as their fullback, Young, j they had two live decoys, in a gunny occasional strong spurts. Gradually repeatedly drove the opposition away sack a dozen wooden ones and in ad it was reeled to the surface and from midfield with his long punts. ' proved to be a long fir limb. dition to this they carried a collapsi The spectators were given a thrill' There are many peculiar accidents, ble blind. Yep! A blind that to when the Bandon safety, Boak. took s built out of grasses and folds up is well as tragic ones, which occur Ferris’ kick from his own 40-yard Pretty slick, eh? You can carry this n the shooting game. I have yet to line to the Marshfield 35. From punt blind right along with you and erect »ear of a duck hunter being mistaken formation, Young, the back man, or a duck by a fellow shooter and It In any field, by simply sticking gained four yards Boak bucked the four sharp rods down into the ground ret each winter throughout the Unit line frqm punt formation again for a 'd States reports reach us, of acci- that are fastened to the rig. Well, first down. Line plunges and off- anyway these hunters toted their iental shootings in the marshes, tackle drives put the bail on the five- hrough carelessness. An eastern outfit for half a mile and by the time yard line with four plays in which to shooting time arrived the blind was friend relates how two friends of try for the pay dirt. Three were nec erected, the wooden decoys bobbed hto were accidentally shot by another essary and Young crashed over. The about upon the water and the live hunter firing at a bird that was di ill-important try for point was missed decoys chattered away happily to rectly in line with the hunters. One on an incomplete pass. each other. Expectantly, the hunt hunter w,as struck in the face by sév Marshfield was repulsed once in the ers awaited the arrival of the first is» pellets and both hto eyes were third period, but came through with blinded for life. The other hunter flight. In fact all of us did that an 85-yard march in the fourth quar morning. I was about three hundred received 27 pellets, buried deep in hto ter which ended with the score being ace, but his eyes escaped iniui^, yards down marsh from the men in knotted. Apparently driven back by Mpny years ago, just at dayPRak, the blind. Another hunter was be punt exchanges, the purple and gold Eyestrain is a very real danger, side a fence about a hundred yards on a local marsh, two gunners opened forces were sparkled by a break .on a from them and still another hunter fire on a duck flying low across the pass play when a Pirate back grabbed us realize that we pay dearly had a stand about a hundred yards marsh. I was standing close to thé the pigskin, after it bounced from the willows unobserved by either hunter hour we strain our eyes. The from the last mentioned gunner. hands of a Bandon defender, and and not over forty yards from them. A high sprig came by. I took a that we seldom know that we raced past the midfield stripe to the One charge of shot cut the tender chance and brought him down and a forty-yard line. Crunching line plays using our eyes. Attempting to sprouts of willows just bove my head few moments later, a mallard slant with the brunt being, born by Bill while the other charge struck the ing down, went the same route as the Ring, culminated in the touchdown Or broad band of my sou-wester and sprig. High overhead the ducks flew which evenpd the score. Ring des cause of most eyestrain. Often the penalty knocked it completely around on my but none within range. '*■' An hour perately tried to plunge over for the head but none of the pellets happen for eyestrain is not paid until later slipped by and I was the only one who winning point but his attempt failed. ed to strike me. At another time a had fired a shot. And then, from A break almost led to another Then it is too late. The two or three pen- hunter fired at a duck flying in line down marsh came a little green Marshfield touchdown late in the nies a day saved on your light bill isn’t and only a short distance from me. I game A Pirate lineman grabbed a winged teal. He swept along and as ducked my head at the flash of the worth the risk of impaired vision. See this free ball and raced twenty-five yards he did so the live decoys began to gun. The charge struck me with the call all sorts of invitations in duck to the Bandon 30-yard line. The bay new type lamp (recently designed to help force of a small hurricane and the team immediately started to pound at language to him. He set his wings shot penetrated a heavy double- correct the evils of improper home light the doors, but the game ended as the and came in beautifully. He hung breated flanned shirt and lodged poised above the decoys, only about ball rested on the ten-yard marker. ing) at your dealers. against my cartridge vest with sting 20 yards from the blind. “Just plain ing impact. Ceos County League Standing murder,” I thought aloud and pity W. T. I have Ralph Southstone to thank 3 3 welled up in my heart for the help for the following contribution con Bandon North Bend less little fellow. 3 0 cerning the death of the only talking Sb- 1 . 2 The two men arose in the blind of dog ever known to exist. Here it to; Marshfield Myrtle Point 2 a one accord. Bang! The teal climbed Waterville, Maine: Princess Jac 0 o into the air frantically! Bang! z\nd queline, the pedigreed French bull Coquille 'One more game remains the away he sailed untouched But dog which liked nothing better than straight toward the gunner in the to sit down and have a good, long league schedule, the Marshfield- fence corner he flew. Up came the chat, to dead. Believed to be the only I North Bend fray on Thanksgiving | Day. -Tomorrow Coquille meets gunner. Bang! Bang! Bang! And talking dog in the world, she sue- 1 three more shots were fired at that cumbed to pneumonia at the age of Reedsport on the Coquille Athletic them. full; Boak and Chambers, halfbacks; year ago.” little comet of the skies, but onward ten at the home of her mistress, Mrs. Field. Saturday the Trojans were as good and Wagner, quarter. Young to far, Mrs. Hartwell adds; '.The Seattle he went. And now the third gunner Mabel A. Robinson. Princess as Stanford. They will beat Wash and away the county’s leading full- Fur Exchange has done more for came to his feet as the teal passed Jacqueline was reputed to have a vo- The final act for Coquille High’s ington and Notre Dame. Cotton back, while Boak. who turned out to I Coos county’s new industry than any within range. Now was the chance cabularly of more than 20 words and I performance along football lines to Warburton and Howard Jones have be the most elusive safety man, to other marketing concern in the Unit to show up that bunch of bum shots. to have used them all correctly. Dr. scheduled for tomorrow afternoon found themselves and here are the among the top halfbacks. Zentner, ed States. They have co-operated Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four Knight Dunlap of John Hopkins Uni ■ when the red and white youngsters reasons. Jones has at last gotten an end, Albertson, tackle, and Bow and assisted at our annual Fox shots more and still untouched, the versity once said she possessed a encounter Reedsport in a non-league the boys together, and before the man, a guard, stood out in the Ban Breeders’ Summer Schools held in little bird hurtled onward. Straight double voice capacity unique among ; fray. The game, unimportant as it game last Saturday they had a good don line. Coquille each year, by sending a del toward me he came. And now was canines of the world. The John Hop to, may give Coach Wilson's forces all around cry, repenting the fact that Of the Coos Bay players Marsh egate to the sessions to Inform the my opportunity to give that bunch of kins examiners discovered the dog ! a chance to wipe away some of the there had been dissension within field has the midget, Schnick, half breeders of the proper manner in bum shots the horse laugh. My gun possessed vocal cords similar to those stains of an unsuccessful season by their ranks. Jones all week had back, as a star performer. G. Ferris which to pelt and prepare their furs, flew to my shoulder. I took the prop of humans. Her first vocal effort administering a whipping to the foot- concentrated on hto famous “panther and Ring also are capable backs in so as to be able to obtain the highest er lead. My favorite shot, too, right was a terse request to be permitted to balists from Douglas county. The prowl” system after experimenting the fullback and halfback posts, and market prices for their product. They over my head. It to seldom that a go “out.” Her first complete sen victory would gain nothing more all season like a true experimenter, in the line Baer to outstanding at have also advised them as to the best bird escapes at that range. What a tence was, “I will,” but occasionally than the satisfaction of a win, but and hto team became stabilized at center. Holland at guard and Conrad types to be marketed for certain pur beautiful shot he presented I could In perverse moods she said, “I won’t.” that sometimes means a lot to an once. Jones’ guards, endowed with at tackle. North Bend was led in poses or uses by the fur trade. And see the sun reflected upon his green Possessed of highly cultivated social Eleven that has tasted nothing but the spirit, suddenly developed, doing «very fray by her dynamic quarter lately they have given up-to-the- little head os he beat the air with his nstincts, she invariably greeted vis the bitterness of defeat in every pre away with the team’s biggest weak back, Smith. He was ably aasisted minute information regarding the fur by Kudruna, half, and Lind, full, and I trade, which was of national and in tiny wing in his daring race for itors with demure “Hello” and sped vious attempt. ness. freedom. I lowered my gun. After hem on their way with “Good-by" Reedsport, the opponent, has been In all, then, the Trojans were Tro by Watson, end, Taft, enter, Stam-' ternational importance. all, a mere teal wouldn’t fatten the >r “Come again.” beaten by every Coos team met this ians in true sense of the word. Ore sos, guard, and Armstrong, taekle. __ last “In addition to all thia, for the bag so much at that. I sought to tell Thanks, Ralph, come again. ( fall, the list of opposition including gon has a great team, one that would Here in Coquille one player stood two consecutive years the Seattle myself this, but down deep in my Just saw a hawk sail by—a Cooper all of the other schools except Marsh give Stanford a fearful battle, and out like a sore thumb, this performer Fur Exchange has donated beautiful heart there was admiration for that a wk—and he evidently has hto eye field. In the 1933 season, white un without that nasty complex, Satur being Jess Barton, who, though an silver trophies, which were presented game little feathered comet who had an the chickens so I must go out and der the guidance of Coach Red day’s game would have been a dog end, punted and ran the ball Iron, to the grand show champion foxag at cheated death in the face of four guns do my stuff with the old shot gun. Bailey, the Portians were highly suc and cat fight. But that “panttoer punt formation. The Bobcats of the fox shows in conjunction with and far be it from me to stop his Next issue I’ll tell you about this cessful. but this year Coach Vic prowl” is a real corker. We saw it. Myrtle Point presented Young at the Coquille Com Show." flight to freedom. After all, there to winged death of the skies that strikes Wetzel was faced with a gloomy out in 1931 when U. S. C. beat th/ Bears fullback. Carver at center. Weekly a lot a fellow can get out of a hunt so swiftly that he captures swift look, the loss of almost every letter - of California, 8 to 0. Then the mar-' at tackle, and Mast at halfback, besides the kill. Perhaps when a winged birds in flight. man depleting the ranks. Of late, gin of victory would have been more --------- Already Coach Henry Hartley has fellow gets so chicken-hearted it to though. Reedsport has bean showing if the Bears had not been blessed about time to hang the old gun up. Governor’s Mansion Impossible much improvement. with two star performers, “Rusty” started preliminary basketball prac But that to out of the question. Se The game will be the last for a Gill and a player named Smith, who tice. It likely makes Hartley feel Any attempt to provide a mansion number of the Coquille Red Devil quick-kicked the Trojans almost good again tn hold the reins. long as there is a spot left to hunt in and so long as my tegs will carry me lor Oregon’s governor at this time regulars. Faced with a job of de nutty. ■ Finding that some of his old pals there, I shall no doubt, haunt the would be most inopportune in the veloping a green team. Coach Wilson are members of the Portland hockey marshlands. Perhaps if there wasn’t opinion of officials who are familiar has encountered tots of difficulty. His There is a story of interest behind teem, Bill Fortier to already planning even a duck In them and I knew it with the state’s financial condition own newness to his task, injuries, and the feat which the Bandon Tigers on witnessing a game or two of the to be a fact. But it to something that and the needs of its many institu the desire of players to enjoy outside performed in winning the county (ice «port this winter. Bill will prob- gets in your blood. The sound of the tions. With many of the institutions life as well as football have been football championship, It’» some- I ably do business concerning hto 1938 wind, the splash of the water about overcrowded the state will be hard anti-contributing factors. This to a thing like the tale of David, the baseball club while there. your boots, the stirring of awaken put to provide new buildings for chance for the boys to stage a re Giant Kilter. Outweighed something ing marshlife as the dawn cracks the which there is an imperative need at demption act. like ten pounds to the man. the Market for Fox Breeders The Coquille starting line-up will Tigers, nevertheless, turned back the sky and a new day to born. The this time without indulging in the ex Named by Seattle Concern sc-nt of the marshlands, the sound of travagance of a governor’s mansion. ! likely be: ends. Barton and Detlef- larger Marshfield team. The score, Mrs Irene G. Hartwell, secretary whistling wings in the semi-darkness, So far as can be learned here there to sen; tackles, Clinton and Arrell; of course, was even, but most every the sight of decoys bobbing out there little or no sentiment favorable to guards, Cary and Mast; center, Mc- dopster had figured the Pirates to win of the Coos County Fox Breeders As sociation. sends the Sentinel a por Clellan; quarter, Stevens: halfbacks, handily. in front of you. It to all there—the such a move among Hatcher and Briggs; fullback. Law- > Again it must be considered that tion of a letter she has just received magic touch of dawn, unfolding old forthcoming session. from the Seattle Fur Exchange which wonders, yet always new befor a huge Bandon squad of sixteen men is of interest to all fox breeders and eyes. Yes, as long as I am was on hand to meet Marshfield. which reads as follows shall spend dawns upon the marsn- For satisfactory scrimmage Coach “In their letter just at hand, lands Somehow such things become French had to use graduates as op state that they now have an a part of a hunter’s life. And the position for his varsity. Bandon did ment with the Purina Milli man who is looked upon as a crazy a real job in winning the bunting Louis, Mo., whereby they take galobt who arises long before the Her season’s record to: of the fox feed bills to the mills, out dawn and hastens to the marshlands Bandon - 19 Coquille of the proceeds of silver fox shipped - is really getting a lot out of life after Bandon - 13 Coquille to them, and gold at their monthly all. There to beauty in most anything Bandon - 0 Myrtle Point public auctions, or their special sales. Bandon - 6 Myrtle Point if viewed with the proper eyes and “Besides their regular monthly personally I can see plenty of beauty Bandon - 2 North Bend public auction sales, they are now in a fog-shrouded, or rain-drenched Bandon - 8 Marshfield holding two or even three times' a Bandon - 32 Reedsport - marsh, in howling winds that bend the week, special floor sales, thus en tops of the willows, in leaden skies abling the breeder to obtain prompt the birth of a new day and the sound cash. It also enables him to take of whistling wings. advantage of the momentarily strong A question to asked, “How much demand. Prices realized at their will a new barrel cost me tor my public auction of Nov 14th were Remington pump gun?" trow 10 to 18 per cent higher than • By Lans Leneve FOR vomiYFS FURNITURE DEALERS MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY J. A. LAMB CO.
