Forum Flashbacks: Aug. 22-28
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, AUG. 22, 1974
50 YEARS AGO: Sunday a Tough Day for Banksters
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 27, 1999
Let it be known henceforth, that the first victory for the Maryville Spoofhound softball team occurred Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999. The first victim — the Northeast Nodaway Blue Jays. The final score — 6-2.
While the above paragraph will be what will be in the record books, no statistic could describe the excitement surrounding this game on the side of the Spoofhounds.
“Oh my gosh, I was so nervous,” senior pitcher Lindsey Hill said. “I’m so happy we won. I’m so relieved. It’s awesome.”
Hill herself was one of the stars of the game, pitching all seven innings, giving up three hits, striking out 15 and walking one. She gave up only one earned run.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 22, 1974
Sunday was a tough day for 19 area young women. But when it was over, they came away as the fourth best girls fast pitch softball team in the nation.
Representing Missouri as state champions, a title earned earlier this month, the team, Citizens State Banksters, played four games Sunday, three of them straight without rest, in the final day of competition at the national tournament at Wyandotte County Sports Complex, Wyco Field, Kansas City, Kan. After a five-minute rest, the team failed to rally for the last game and lost to Shawnee Mission (Kan.) Rotary Metro Champions, 9-3.
In addition to pulling in a tie for fourth place in the nation, the women set a new national scoring record for girls fast pitch softball when they whalloped Utah 27-9 Saturday morning. “Utah was the easiest,” they all agreed. Their game with Tennessee, though they said it was a more difficult game, came near the scoring record — they defeated the team 25-7.
The women played a total of six games at the national tournament and won four of them. The only two teams which beat them, Shawnee Mission and the Oklahoma City Metro Champions, placed first and second in the tournament. …
“The girls played their best games down there,” said Phil Tobin, who with Mr. and Mrs. George Gumm, coaches the team. “And they were all playing different positions because our catcher was hurt.”
Following their defeat Sunday, the girls watched the championship playoff. But it was another story earlier in the month after they had gone undefeated to cop the state title at Lebanon.
“We threw the coaches and the parents in the motel pool and then jumped in after them with our team suits on,” said one of the young women. …
The team members are Peggy Berg, Parnell; Mary Mattson, Conception Jct.; Sherry Meyer, Clyde; Diane Knorr, Pickering; Debbie Sederburg and Donna Sederburg, both of Burlington Jct.; and Linda Luke, Teresa Gumm, Sheila Luke, Debbie Powers, Rhonda Driskell, Diane Frueh, Dee Ann Tobin, Leesa Tobin, Traci Hays, Tarci Slaybaugh, Karen Gard, Sally Seipel, and Cindy Kackley, all of Maryville.
Five women could not compete in the tournament because they were past the age of 15 — Cindy Schieber, Leisa Reed, Cindy Zech, Debbie Wasem and Carla Frueh. Mrs. Phil Tobin keeps score for them and nurses traveling with them are Mrs. Charlotte Knorr and Mrs. Jim Wasem.
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Aug. 27, 1924
13 YEARS WITHOUT A PUNCTURE
Thirteen years without a puncture. This is the envious record that David Spuhler of Skidmore sets forth for his Sears automobile that he drove into Maryville this morning. But his car isn’t equipped with balloons — quite the contrary — for they are of the rubber-tired buggy variety.
Mr. Spuhler parked his high wheeler in front of the Maryville Public Library and it proved quite an attraction as an oddity, in comparison with the pullmanlike enclosed cars that drifted past.
The Sears is a two cylinder, air-cooler, propelled motor, placed under the single seat. The automobile body is modeled after the style of the buckboards, seen in use about a generation ago.
The number of miles his car has traveled is beyond estimate, as there is no means of keeping a tally. However, Mr. Spuhler uses his car every year. Asked how many miles to the gallon he got from the car the owner said it took about a gallon from here to Skidmore. With good roads he can travel close to twenty-five miles an hour. The Sears, one of the first models of the Sears-Roebuck, is in a remarkable state of preservation.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, AUG. 22, 1999
25 YEARS AGO: Getting Ready for the Big Day – LeAnne Carmichael, left, her daughter Amanda Sevits and son Dakota Carmichael check out the kindergarten room that Dakota will be going to at Eugene Field Elementary School Monday. The kindergarten teacher Marty Poynter talks to them about school.
