Show H I I I I 1 t oI H H t. ri ooh ng 1 tw c I By SAM JR oi t. io-t. t H Speaking of the old ball grounds as we were a couple of weeks ago we have at homo home a picture showing part of the tho high board fence that surrounded the park and the score board at the left as one entered Fence and score board however are are but background for chief Interest In the the picture Park City high school football team ot of 1901 The photograph Is 15 rather faded and yellowed as It would be after 42 years but figures and faces still are clear enough When we lettered names on the pic- pic picture picture ture long long ago we neglected to Include first names Probably at time we thought we would nevet forget them But we have forgotten some of them nt at least Neither did we list positions played by the lads on the team except that we took care to Identify as captain and the captain In those days played quarterback This Is the way tho fellows lined up anyway In uniform for the photograph photograph- photographer er Front row seated seated-McClellan Tracy Will WUl Barlow Sutton Jack Thompson George Richardson Robert I. I Bob Watson Austin Kelly Levi Woods Rear row Jack kneeling Tracy Jim Carry Caffy McDonald Bert Pape Leo Durkin standing to give the picture balance Frank Shields and Bert Pussy Tussy Grose I A squad of 15 so we must have had some subs for for replacements and as now we needed them And In front of the pictured group reclining In approved form Is our brother Lee the teams team's mascot holding n a football Inscribed chalk P C. C H H. S. S SOl Ol 01 Believe It or not Lee was a mighty good looking little chap In those days wearing high button shoes long lack black stoCkings tight fitting short pants and sweater He must have been about eight years old then Those were the days of tight fitting football Jackets too shoulder and knee kneepads kneepads pads shin guards and rubber nose nose- guards Whether we ever won a game or not hot Is not recalled but we tried hard and had fun Perhaps some of the drier oldsters who were young fellows on the team then have a copy of the picture and can tell us what has happened to the since our high school days McClellan some hazy recollection per per- persists went east later and made a a name for tor himself In the field or of electrical but maybe we have him confused with someone else Sut- Sut Sutton ton son of the late beloved W. W D. D Sut- Sut Sutton ton has passed on Thompson was the i i son of W. W Th Thompson as we recall who was master mechanic at one of the mines George Richardson son of Jake Richardson early day undertaker In the Park died as we remember along with some somo other good boys In a rescue at- at attempt attempt tempt at the time of the disastrous underground explosion at the Daly West Bob Watson was killed as previously re- re related 0 In a mine explosion In Butte carry Caffy McDonald recalled as an In- In practical Joker and strong as asa a young ox has passed on as has Bert Pape who visited at our home In Port Port- Portland Portland land once a few years pears after the Park City days Prank Frank Shields In Salt Lake City at last report we had of him was for many years one of our very nry favorite fa pals and a partner In various hilarious escapades with our crowd as we grew up I And there was always the Score Club I We must tell you about that later I Were We're a little bit ahead ead ot of our story already but the year following our foot foot- foots s I ball debut we graduated from Park City high school In the 1902 first boy boyto boyto to claim that distinction and In a class with three girls Anna Deason now Mrs P. P J. J Ferguson of Portland Mae Wil- Wil Williams liams who became Mrs J. J Ed Paxton or of Park City and Claire Stevenson now Mrs DeWitt Young of Oakland Califor- Califor California California I nia whom we last saw D rs San Francisco Fran In the early when we were Working on The Examiner there I We had been under the Impression that there was a fourth girl Dority In the class but when we called Mrs Ferguson to check on that detail she me remembered correctly that Bessie Dessle had married John Wyckoff during the Christmas season prior to graduation and had left school Only the files mes of The Record could put us right on the details of the grad grad- graduation graduation program and the names of our principal and teachers We Va remember Martha Leaning Lanning and Lillian Bain and Stella Watson a charming person whom we used to annoy no end and who be- be became became came Mrs Dan B. B Shields It seems that C. C A. A A Blocher was superintendent of schools at that time There Is a story In him too And we believe Dad was wasa a member of the school board boord Maybe that's why we got by Mrs Ferguson InCidentally Is the mother of three girls all married She has two granddaughters Although liv- liv living living ing within a 0 comparatively short dis- dis distance distance tance we have not seen our former class class- classmate mate for yeas years and had to call on Dr Milton Murphy another of our grand old Park City boys to locate her For the past 30 years we have bave had dally daily association on The Journal In Portland with George Georgo Dertz Bertz Our de desks ks almost adjoin each other now a cir clr- worthy ot of a paragraph here bere perhaps because George was born In Park City In 1893 down by the ing works which his father Peter Henry Bertz operated no doubt before took It over The father was killed In a hunting accident in in Park City In 1896 The family then moved Jo to Salt Lake City to California and then to Oregon The mother who woos was Char Char- Charlotte Charlotte lotte Ann RI Richens ens and another son fee re e also born In Park City live In Portland George only three when tho ta family moved a away ar remember anything about Park Park- city naturally We had bad been working tog together for tor some years before we e discovered bu mutual Interest In the old camp started with The Journal Jour Jour- nat nal as un an of Ice bOyt a number or of editor h years has been sports Do any of our read readers ra l the family And so It Is that Fate so frequently human lines life and tangles up crosses nu 1 I James R. R ch the man who Continued on Page Five Looking Backward I Continued from Irom Pace Pac One j started l The Record in 1880 1680 died In Portland last February 28 at the age of 89 Although ho had lived for some years within two or three miles of our home we vc had never met him having Put off oft from time to time a contemplated contemplated contemplated plated visit until It was too late He fight have h ve told us u i If Sf his memory was good of ot the actual birth of or the paper Prom the records available now it seems likely that publication date was set for Saturday February 7 7 1880 that Mr I SChupbach had some soma difficulties which Would have been quite natural and did not actually print until Sunday February ary ry 8 8 Saturday was regular publication day toy for tor many years Tho The Record started as The Park Min Min- MinIng tog lag Record Re ord and was so known for tor four tour Years until the tho issue of ot November 8 8 1884 when taking In news coverage of fields other than mining alone It be became be- be became came tame The Park Record The Tito column call call- calle caned called e ed l Park Float has been running ever since the tho first Issue issue issue-Il a record for a B column of any sort Mr Schupbach who changed his bis name to 10 J J- j R. R R Shepherd many years ago was with The Record only a little over a year Ii If U L. White having having- token taken over In the summer of 1881 when Dad then a Printer on the Salt SnIt Lake Lako Tribune put in hn n a vacation stretch on The Record asI as QS I ho 0 had I done the year before f Pr Mr Schupbach after leaving The Ther TheP r P Record ecord Record a acquired a B fifth firth Interest In The TheT T bune which he sold cold in April 1882 J 0 0 O. J. J Hollister for tor some cash Willam Willamette then moved to the I ette elto Valley Walley where he e purchased Oregon t pur t 6 c. farm Mrs Schupbach was w s Josephine I t- t Ie ley daughter editor of ot otI I of or Fred Fr LL Lockley I 18 e Tribune in the the His ton loon Pied Fred f it and has haa been b crl for tor many years a E. E worker co-worker worker here on The Journal In Portland nd i f I following Harry Whites White's association with th The e Record J. J J. J Jake Buser B became editor and publisher in Novem Novem- November ber 84 and on December 6 of or that year the papers paper's masthead for the first time read Buser Editors and Publishers So that was the real beginning of Dads almost 60 continuous ous years of ot service with The Record and to the community I We Wo know of Schupbach White and Buser only through having heard I father tat her speak of them so many times In connection with the early history of ot The 1 Record The first faces and figures other than Dad we recall around The Record office in boyhood daj da days s were I those of ot 1 I L E E. Camomile who wh became a partner In publication in 1885 and who remained many years E E. E H. H Buck Buchanan and Alfred C. C Reese who became the company In Camomile fc Company Pub Pub- Publishers Publishers Publishers lishers and Proprietors in 1888 Buchanan had been associated with the Park City Call one of ot a number of papers started in competition with The Thet t I Record in early days all of which soon t I folded Reese finally bought The Call plant there plant there probably was not much of It It nt at a creditors creditor's sale moved It to The Record office and became one of the I firm Buck ns ay we recall was killed later in an underground accident In some Tintic property In which he was inter inter- interested ested d. d Al Reese a native of ot Salt Lake City where he was WI born in 1864 later moved to Salt Lake where he became associated ed with the old Herald writing on rail rall- railroad railroad road roid and financial matters and on politics He lIe came to Portland in fn 1005 1905 to work with L. L C. C Kelsey civil engineer who had preceded him from Salt Lake When we vc arrived here in September 1011 on our honeymoon which already has hu lasted more than 32 years years Mr Reese was helpful for tor old times time's sake In getting us acquainted and located I Following his association with Kelsey Mr Reese was vas financial editor of the Portland Telegram When he passed on In 1030 1930 he was Vas In the tho bond business on his own account After his death Mrs Reese brought to us the shears he had first used In his work on the old Herald These shears ea she said were given to Al AI by one of his newspaper friends in the old Salt Lake La q day days Al AI used d them and I know that he lie would want them them passed on to Another another t er newspaperman Stamped Into Info the metal on one blado blade of the shears which we ye still have havo on on our desk our is the inscription Oeo 0 eo M M. Scott Co an old Salt Lake firm And on the other blade imprinted lire fire the words Good Luck |