Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-11-19

the narrow margin of one point in
a game which held every variety OF
thrill which a football game could
hold.
Just as "Who won the war" will
probably be fought out around fire
places for years to come, "Who won
the game" is one OF those unan-
swerable questions. ?
Did Dom" Provost, who battered
his way through the Medford line
time after time and who caught Bry-
ants long pass and went over for
the score, or Deck" Bryant, who
certainly used the old bean in man
ner which would have done credit
to a veteran college quarterback
and who accurately placed the afore-
said thirty-yard haul, or did Burton
Whine who, with Captain Young,
stopped the plunging Medfordites in
two out of every three plays and who
overcame a handicap of twenty yards
in an eighty yard sprint to catch
o Medford half within six yards of
Ashland's goal? Just as the war
was won by the allies, the game was
won by the Ashland team.
Assuredly the Ashland team got
away for the most sensational play
in football, a beautiful long forward
pass, for their touchdown. That
might be called "luck." But on the
other hand, Medford's touchdown
came after a measurement had shown
them to have made fourth down and
kept possession OF the ball on the
Ashland one-foot line, by margin
of inches. Dom" Provost booted
Ashland's goal, the ball going about
eight inches inside the goal posts
The Medford kicker didn't even come
close.
Probably if a record of yardage
had been kept, Medford would be
found to have carried the ball twice
as far as Ashland The red and
white, on the other hand, worked a
dozen passes to Medford's one and
Bryant outkicked his rival on every
exchange.
The big thrill OF The game came
in the second quarter when a Med
ford half got away from his own
forty-yard line and with excellent
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MONDAYS NEWS
Miss Alta Wineberger is clerking
in the Millitt confectionery on the
Plaza.
Royal Gamblers has gone to Eu-
gene to witness the football game
between the U. of o. and o. A. c. to
be played there this afternoon. From
Eugene he will go on to Coos Bay
where he will have business interests
until Christmas.
Raymond Long, well known
Ashland high school boy who is at
tending Stanford university this year,
has signed with a professional foot
ball team there.
W. l.. Parrish, with his son and
daughter, are spending a few days
in Ashland from Caldwell, Idaho,
looking after business interests here.
They will go from here to some point
in California to locate.
Mark Wright, graduate from
the Ashland high school of the class
of 1911, a son of Chester Wright, has
been in Ashland for the past few
days this week visiting with old
time friends. Mr.. Wright left Ash
land with his parents shortly after
graduating for Cottage Grove from
which he entered the o. A. c. and
graduated in 1917. On the United
States entering the war in 1917 Mr..
Wright enlisted in the first gas reg
iment, but was stricken with pneu-
monia shortly after entering service
and had been an inmate of military
hospital in San Francisco for
lengthy period From here Mr..
Wright left for Eugene to witness
the big ball game, after which he
will go to The Dalles.
Mrs. Susie Allen has made the
sale through her real estate office
of the G. H. Yeo residence on Bush
street to William Wehrli of Condor.
Mr.. Wehrli and family spent last
winter here and after returning to
his home for the summer his health
failed him. He decided that he
would be compelled to leave that
section and his inclinations directed
him Immediately to Ashland so he
came on here and remained until he
could find a home. He will go back
10 Condor in the near future and re-
main there only long enough to close
out his affairs, after which he will
return to Ashland to live permanent
y.
The business block on East Main
street owned by Mrs A. Schuerman
md occupied by Orres tailor shop
md JOrdan's electric store is under
going a new coat of paint on the out
,ide which is vastly improving to that
section.
A troop train containing upwards {
If 400 regular soldiers and equip |
nent passed through Ashland yes {