| Show race In fact will line up seven men from the Mayfield squad in front of you You may pick any one of those seven men and he will beat the best man in Gunnison This infuriated Gunnison It was like wayingred flag in front ofbull They chose Heber Clinger who was reallyfine athlete almost and he turned Besides won into the the race The ensuing uproar fight Que Whitlock family which moved to Axtell to take up some land there were other fine athletes The Hans Bogh family had boys who were very good athletes Order as did several Hansen They boys lived on who were On the south or Skinnygite side of were LaMar Anderson Reed Willardson The good town there and several others when they who were hard to beat incontest Onwarm spring day or an idle afternoon the Orderites and the Skinnygites got together would start bantering each other and soon contest would standing start broadjump There would contests arm be footraces wrestles or some other game of skill They all liked to show off and it madefine show Basketball was another game in which Mayfield excelled forfew years When the M-Men leagues started boys up who Bogh in the made Orin D fine Whitlock Church record Earl in we the had several sport Michaelson Cleo Blaine Anderson and others always put on quiteshow The Mayfield Ward would win the local league and then come out with wins in the regional meets In two years they were included in the AllChurch final tournaments should turn back the pages of memorylittle because of several things whicham sure were important in the lives of the people Whenwas in my early school years it was interesting to stand around the post office just after mail was distributed Then when the newspapers and magazines came out Arthur Campbell Chris Pamburg Fred Julius Nels Joe and others would start to interpret the headline news Arthur Campbell 32 |
