MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNT3, MEDFOIU), OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933.
PAGE TWO
First Basketball Games
Were Stirring Events in
Towns Athletic History
(By Eva Nealon Hamilton)
Back In the days of 1901 and 1903
Jacfcson county waa divided and
Jackson county waa lighting but by
and for her basketball, football ana
baseball teams. Medford was the cen
ter ol the conflict and politics dldnt
rate at all. Bloody noses were gained
on the field or the sidelines, accord
ing to H. N. "Doc" Butler, Medford's
first coach, and there were plenty
of them.
Seated on a bench In the Colonial
garage yesterday afternoon, "Doc",
also heralded as the first man In Med
ford to don puttees, carried a small
audience far from worries of ballot
filching and protest demonstrations,
back to the nights when "Shorty
Miles msde the baskets."
From the ranks of the volunteer
firemen. Medford made up her first
basketball teams, and they played
each other for their hottest combats,
Mr. Butler explained. The first games
were played In the Angle opera bouse,
"the only place In town big enough."
On the main string were Shorty
Miles and "Doo" Butler as forwards.
Charley King, center, Basil Gregory
and Charley Boussom. guards.
In 1903 or 1903, "Doo" wasn't sure
which yesterday,. the team played the
champs of the United States, "The
Red Wings of Minnesota." The team
stopped here on tour to rest and swell
Its purse, so took on the locala for
a gnme.
In order to keep the onlookors
thrilled, Mr. Butler stated, the Red
Wings maintained Just a minor lead
on the Medford firemen throughout
' the game. . And at Its olose, the local
fana were boasting of the second best
team in the nation.
Ashland and Grants Pass also had
town teams In those days and so did
Jacksonville and some of the bloodiest
battles were waged with the Pioneers.
The partisanship evolving from the
teams spread throughout the county,
"Doc" explained yeaterday, and it
wasn't confined to the masculine
ranks. A women's team was organ
ized and halrpulltng became a com
mon pastime oa the basketball floor.
Daisy Bodge was one of the star play
ers and Mabel Wilson a close second
Judge Crowell, then mayor of the
town, never missed a game, accord-
In to Mr. Butler. The ball waa packed
for each event arid city business was
of minor Importance when Medford's
te.m was scheduled to meet
enemy.
Colonel E. e. Kelly was also a de
voted fan and frequently engaged In
a minor attraction on the sidelines.
Football waa played on "the com
mons" west of the railroad tracks,
where a few houses dotted the land
scape. There weren't any bleachers.
"Doc" said yesterday. "The teams Just
went out and fought. The crowd
gathered around, also fought a bit,
and a good time was bad by all."
Mr. Butler couldn't remember the
names of all the players yesterday,
but some of the stars were Roy
Mickey, Claude Hoover, Everett Bee-
son, Tom Carney and "Pansy" Ander.
son.
In one of the liveliest games "Bee-
son licked a couple of guys from Ash
land and broke bis knuckles." but
the next game, scheduled with Eagle
Point, where the von der Hellene
starred, was not called off. Broken
knuckles or none, Beeson played.
All the teams were coached by
"Doc" and when the townspeople
couldn't find anything else to fight
about, he stated yesterday, they chose
the "S" on his sweater as subject of
combat.
Coming .here from Still college of
osteopathy, where he was a prominent
athlete, "Doc" brought with him his
college sweater. In spite of all his
reports to the contrary, many of his
admirers maintained that the "S'
stood for Stanford and the man who
said It didn't, frequently got a shiner
hung on for his trouble.
While Mr. Butler was In Olarlnda,
Iowa, the town had nine baseball
teams. He hsd played football for
four years and so arrived In Medford
rather "team-minded" and still la.
TRACK AND FIELD
STARSWAIT TEST
NEW YORK,. -Feb. SH. (IP) Tho
cream of Amerioa'a Indoor track and
field athletes put In their final
training licks today. In preparation
for the National A. A. U. ohamplon
ships In Madison Square Garden to
morrow night,
Through such engagement as the
MlUrose A. A., New York A. C, Bos
ton A. A., and Prout Memorial
games, they have gradually rounded
into top form, for, tho all-important
nationals. ' ; ,
. In the field of 278 competitors will
be nine defending champions Em
mett Topptno, New Orleans, In the
sprint; Dale Letts, Illinois A. C., 1000
meters; George Lermond, New York
A. O 0000 meters; Gene Veneke,
Penn, 1500 meters; Joe MoOluskey,
Fordhsm, 3000 meter steeplechase;
Percy Beard, New York A. O., high
hurdles; George Spitz, New York uni
versity, high Jump; Everett Utter
back, University of Pittsburgh, run
ning broad Jump, and Leo 8exton,
New York A. 6.. SB-pound weight
throw.
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MUNCIE, Ind.. Feb. 34. (flV-Dr.
Ralph Wilson, physician and profes
sional wrestler, was reported "greatly
Improved" at Ball Memorial hospital
today from an Intra-cranlal hemor
rhage and concussion he suffered .n
a match with Wee Willie Davles last
night.
' Dr. R. A. Beeson said the hemor
rhage was "slight" and that "we ex
pect recovery." He said Wilson, for
mer 175-pound champion of the
western conference, was "fairly dear
mentally,
Referee Walter Fisher, teammate of
Dr, Wilson at Indiana unlvuretty In
1924, awarded the bout to him on a
foul, after fans clambered Into the
ring, protesting the tactics of Davles,
a Virginian. Fisher, rlngxldeni eald,
knocked Davles down when the Vir
ginia grappler placed Wilson head In
a sort of noose he made by oroealng
the upper and lower ring ropes, and
applied pressure to the ropes.
HE
CUSHJTONIGHT
Two Big Teams to Play To
night and Saturday -in
Ashland High Scoring
Games Sure, Is Prediction
Jocklech
B. Jones.
o..
, Kaiser
Hartley
'HAD CONSTIPATION
SINCE BIRTH OF
MY FIRST CHILD"
Then Mrs. King Discovered
All-Bean
We quote from her voluntary
tetter;
"I have suffered from terrible
constipation since the birth of my
first child 9 years ago! I have
tried everything and nothing bad
any lasting results. Very relucv
SALEM, Feb. 34. (AP) The rangy
Willamette Bearcat worked out in
Roseburg last night and will be In
good condition for their basketball t.iu t tried vour 'All-Bban' with
games with Southern Oregon Normal no faith in it at all. Much to my
at Ashland tonight and Saturday j surprise, I have not had to take
night. any medicine since starting to use
A one-polnt defeat by Whitman 1 AlvBbaN, 4 months ago." Mrs,
was the only conference loss for Doris Eyre King, 16 Abbey Road,
Coach "Spec" .-tone's championship , Oxford. England.
LONE BRITON LEFT
IN GOLF TOURNEY
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Feb. 34.
(AP) The British Invasion of the
South Atlantlo woman's golf tourna
ment waa reduced to a single repre
senatlva today as Diana Ftshwlck and
three Americans entered the semi
finals.
Miss Flshwlck stayed In competi
tion by virtue of a 8 and 9 victory
over Mrs. Robert Mauet of New York
Frances Williams of DeLeon Springs,
defending champion, eliminated one
English contender, Barbara Pyman,
a and 9.
Mrs. Estelle Drennan of Tulsa,
Okla., defeated Kathleen Oarnham of
England, one up. Mrs. Stewart Han
ley of Detroit eliminated the other
British Invader, Owen Hartropp, 6
and 4.
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SEATTLE, Fob. 34 (fP) 14 by
Captain Roberta, htgh -flooring cen
ter, the Unlverfllty of Oregon Web
feet Invade Seattle today for a two
gnme series with the University of
Washington, to close the Huskies'
basketball schedule near the end nl
their own disastrous season.
After winning only one game of 12,
the Web feet ;ac the second -pi ace
Washington team tonight and tomor
row t?i$nt( and then play two games
with the league-leading Oregon State
five next week. Roberts la In second
place In the scoring standings in
northern division, with 03 points.
Coach Heo Edmundson said he ex
pected to start the same lineup which
faced Idaho the first of the week.
team. Bud Rleke who Is a straight
"A" student In school, has controlled
the tip-off consistently In all games
this year and Kloostra who plays
either forward or center Is almost as
tall.
Coach Keene could place on the
floor a team averaging six-feet three,
but will probably start Kloostra and
Lemon forwards, Rleke center,' and
Kaiser and Hartley guards. . Lemon
and Hartley are the small men, the
others being well over the six-foot
mark. Reserves Include Burdette,
Frants, Connors and Griffith. Ous
Moore was also with the squad.
The Sons attack will be particular
ly directed at the Willamette offen
sive and will Include a new type of
defense. Willamette this year has
averaged between 40 and AO points
per game and Is the highest scoring
team In the northwest. It will be
all the Sons Giants can do to hold
the score down, but with such de
fensive players as Jocklscb, B. Jones
and Howell, In the lineup, they
should be able to hold their own.
It Is certain that the games this week
end will be high scoring, spectacular i
ball games between two big, fast
teams, and should furnish the best
basketball exhibition ever seen In
southern Oregon. t
The Sons also boast an unusual
record, having met and defeated
some of the best qulntetd la the
northwest this season.
Tonight's and Saturday's games I
will both be played In the Ashland I
junior high school, starting at 8:18
tonight and at 0:10 Saturday.
Reserved seats may be obtained at
The Toggery In Medford.
Probable lineups are:
Sons. Willamette
W.- Jones. F.MM Kloostra
Yandle F.. g ,i- Lemon
Howell - i- " . . .-.l.'i Relke l
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Certainly this Is more natural
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advance guard ot the Olants vent
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tn on a later train and explained the
first official workout was not sched
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