The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-15

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Eugene B. Garden, ST. put a $3.50 slug into a huge black
bear the other day in the Brinnon country. Hood canal.
He took the animal TO William weibel. Tacoma taNider-
mist, who in preparing 10 mount the head found il the
me hide alone 3 we : ffe sss%ated en-. 70 la coma, -. 81 D..,..
He explained he hadn't put 1t o scales but said. 4 can ten by the
way i handles 1t viii weigh that much Yes. Sr. that was a mighty
black bear
The bears carcass weighed 500 pounds which rav the ANNA,
when It was in fun dress quite a BIT Of poandage.
However 1t wasn't exactly the killing Of the bear o its SIZE that
Mrs Garden brought in the Information and wondered II a story
could be written o that her son. Gene. j- In Australia, with Uncle
Sans fighting forces, could read a cop, Of his dads achievement.
Soldier boy Garden is an ardent follower OF athletics and Of the
field and stream.
abe was born and reared in Tacoma. was a member Of the so-Year
club and finds pleasure in meeting other pioneers and sOins back over
Yes, I was born in the West End she .aa, mot IA from Hood
lum lake, near the Franklin school"
We'll. sir. that a enough. Your reporter and tens of thousands
other Old-timers swan In HoOdlum lake. many of them having gone
It was the summer meeting place of Tacoma boyhood. The kids
sresmed from every section of the city. They came by bike or on
foot.
Gas wasn't thought of other than to III what va known as
naptha launches, and then it wasn't gas as we know 1t today
There, boys met, played. fought arranged athletic games, played
mumbepeg. wrestled, rolled their own, wore no bathing suits unless
the law got tough and in that as would cut a flour sack in
two and snip off the corners of the bottom, and presto bathing trunks.
Many fine college and professional athletes took their youthful
hours of pleasure in old HOodium lake. o but a flat, barren looking
little mud hole. 1t was fairly good sized In those long gone days
Mrs. Garden was a member of the Bright family. her brothers
It's pleasant indeed to fall back o n memory for a draught from the
cup of the happy days of yesteryear. Try it right now, any OF you.
because you all had your HoOdlum lake, no matter where your home
Listen -.
San Francisco scribes who went hook, line and sinker
for the Cal Bears, are in a lather now that the Bears have
turned Teddy Bears with no bite -. Well. well, look who's
coming around the corner. MIR. Basketball. Coach Hec
Edmundson at u. of w. has called his thigh-exposed string
beans to action Talk continues that California plans
a sixcub Coast Baseball league and that Portland and Seattle
will join a Northwest circuit. Things like that could happen,
especially with the Northwest enjoying terrible growing pains
Men like Mike Jacobs. Julian Black and John Roxborough might for
get Joe Louis and give their full effort to Uncle Sam, like Joe Is
doing s. honorably Frank Londos, former stadiumite, failed to
become a Washington State grid standout with his power and great
physical strength. But now rises Unexpectedly TO the hmehght
through his kicking foot Turf followers ire talking n thing
Asab, the mighty one. What a horse! Football, as a whole,
Is not drawing "A the crowds expected. The public min Is o the
war, Of course Probably the greatest upset In Coast football
history that of Nevada " n Of the greatest of ST. Maryis
teams back in 1884. Score, 0 to l. Betting odds were 1000 to /.
Make 1t 1000 to 1 More than 1000 fans re expected to zee the
sixIman football game at Portland Avenue payfed Sunday afternoon
at Z. Price of admission, a piece of scrap iron or rubber Why
not something like that for u stadium when Tacoma gets into Its
scrap drive? Johnny Cark, u Of w first string guard, turns
In his purple and gold uniform for the champions uniform In khaki.
Good luck be with you, Johnny There are no greater fighters IN
earth than Americas boys from Dixie. Daring, extremely able and
patriotic With sports attendance what IL Is now, think of what
1t will be when the gas rationing goes into actual effect? said
q hunter to Mickey Sherman: Does a guy have to have a tag like
n deer to get a bear !" and Mickey answered; NO more than a guy
has to have a stamp like a duck to get a pigeon"