300 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY several years during and preceding the early years of the World War. A large platform was erected a few feet from the shore which had also a high diving board erected upon it. A miniature board walk fronted the water along the shore line which connected a men's and women's dressing room at either end to which from the roadway along the Pennsylvania railway tracks a winding stone steps led. Roped in also was a wading space for women and children and always in easy reach were several row boats and perhaps a launch that could instantly be used in case of need by a struggling diver. Another outstanding beach was that made under the tall trees along the Jethro shore which contributed shade on the warmest days and an inviting quiet at all times in keeping with the necessities of the moment. Both were largely patronized as has always been the cemented pool at Rock Springs Park, Chester, W. Va., ever in demand during the warm months. Fishing, Gigging and Hunting.—Fishing likewise has always been a river diversion in and about the city. In earlier years fine fish was procured from it for food purposes. For several decades now acid from Pennsylvania manufacturers has destroyed the best species within it. However, each spring, catfish and carp abound and the sunny days of this period finds scores of local Isaac Waltons along its banks making catches that smack of lake and bay trips elsewhere. An equally arresting pastime by many has been the "gigging" done when Beaver Creek at the Pennsylvania line has frozen over with certain sections along the shore of the river. With holes chopped in the ice the dextrous fishermen frequently spear many floaters of the finny tribe as they rise for air. Hunting likewise has its East Liverpool devotees. Each season sees many driving to country sections for rabbit, squirrel, quail and pheasant as the law permits. In earlier days the gun went far in contributing provender at times to the pioneers in and about its confines. Deer and bear then abounded while defence occasionally had to be made from the wild cat. A hunting feature too has always been the nocturnal chase of foxes and treeing of opossum and coon. Even in 1925 persons addicted to this latter pastime drove in motors to sparsely settled sections in distance HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 301 and indulged themselves in the delights of baying hounds and the weird shadows and noises of the night. Early Amateur Baseball.—Baseball was probably introduced into East Liverpool by soldiers who had returned from their various commands in the Civil war in 1865. Previously and subsequently the old game of town ball or "one, two cornered cat," which really was but a modified type of cricket was indulged in by those who hesitated to take to the new arrangement of play. Perhaps the first team ever organized in the city was that known as "The Bon Tons." It was an aggregation of clerks from the various stores and business houses in the community. This club drew the resentment of the working men who formed many other teams. One known as "The Saggermakers" stood out in those days. Then there were the "Common Heights," "The Haymakers," "The Resolutes" and "The Little Champions." This latter was the first team formed by W. A. Calhoun and played first in 1873. Almost every vacant lot in the city was then utilized for the new game and many fine players were soon developed. The first great team of the city was The Crockery City Club which was organized in 1876 by Eugene Bradshaw, who selected the stars of all of the other clubs in the city. It was the first team to really play at the West End park. W. A. Calhoun was the scorer for the club. To combat this team in 1878 the "White Granites" were formed by John Harvey and I. N. Crable, but was signally defeated by the older organization which remained dominant for fourteen years until 1890 when the Eclipse team which was formed from a nucleous of players known as "The Redstockings" were taken over by G. Y. Travis. This aggregation was merged with the Crockery City outfit with Mr. Travis as manager and Mr. Calhoun as president and scorer. For four years theerafter it became the first East Liverpool team and as such played the best independent and professional clubs in the country and always to the financial good of the visitors, so well were the contests patronized. In 1890 the team became a member of the Ohio Valley league which comprised Steubenville, Wellsburg and two teams in Wheeling, W. Va., and the Beaver Grays of Beaver, Pa. Before the season closed the East Liverpool and Wellsburg contingents withdrew to play independent ball because the other clubs were not good drawing cards. W. A. Calhoun was the president of the league. 302 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY The Crockery City Club included the following players : Curtis, James and Willis Welch, Thomas and William Pickall, H. and R. Ashbaugh, Edward and William Smith, John, George and Bazil Rowe, John and George Tomlinson, Jerry and John Derrah, John and Charles Reark, Chal. Stewart, Frank Knowles, William Osteman, Thomas Wildblood, Charles Morrison, Owen Haley, William Russell, J. T. Howarth, Frank Allison, James Logan, William Moore, Richard Deekin, Frank Aul, William Baker, James Johnson, Phillip Hahn, Joseph Hagan, Charles Bean, Abner Lisby, William Bohn, John George, William Pfiel, Edward Sullivan, Daniel Miller, John Orr, Harry Carey, F. VanFossan. The presidents of the club included Thomas Haden, William Manley and W. L. Smith, Sr. James A. Calhoun managed the club in 1879 and 1880 during the absence of W. A. Calhoun in Indiana. Ed Geon, treasurer of the club for a long period, had charge of the team in 1885 when Mr. Calhoun was in Illinois. In 1887 Mr. Calhoun managed for a time the Columbus Association team, but returned in time to put the local club in action at West End park. The Eclipse team had among its leading players: John Daniels, Joseph and George Carey, Robert Cargo, Robert Westlake, C. and J. McShane, William Young, "Monty" Neeves, Charles and John Reark, William Carey, Alfred Shaw, Win Mercer, Charles Albright, William McNutt, John O'Brien and Robert Dunn. The two clubs were merged on Jan. 20, 1891. Thereafter G. Y. Travis was the manager and W. A. Calhoun scorer and publicity aid. Following the activity of the Eclipse team and until the advent of the P. 0. M. league much of the city's prestige on the diamond was looked after by a club that was foundationed by such capable performers as John Godwin, Thomas Cartwright, George McNicol, Harry Barker, Will Powell and others who had been veterans of the previous years of play. Professional Baseball.—East Liverpool had seven years of experience in professional baseball, two of which, 1906 and 1907 in the "class D" Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland league and four, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911 in the "class C" Ohio and Pennsylvania league. Twice, in 1908 and 1909 the Potter outfit representing the city finished in second place. In all other seasons the club concluded in fourth place. Except perhaps in HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 303 1911-12 the team was always a pennant contender until the final contests were played. In 1906 the East Liverpool Exhibition Company of which G. Y. Travis was the president procured a franchise with Uniontown, Washington, Braddock, Pa., Cumberland, Md., Steubenville, 0., and Charleroi, Pa., in the just organized P. 0. M. league which was presided over by Richard Guy, a sporting writer of the Pittsburg Gazzette Times. Joseph Wall, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a famed minor league player of the day was signed as the East Liverpool manager after Harry Tate, of Cumberland, Md., had refused it. The season began on May 15 and ended Sept. 15 of that year. More than fifty players were utilized during the season in an effort to land a winning combination. Wall was supplanted as manager soon after the playing began by Perry Verga. In mid-summer a deal was made with the New Castle 0. & P. league club by which its manager, Percy Steller and the team's captain, Alex. Sweeney, came to East Liverpool along with Kohle Miller, E. Crane and other men. Pat Eastley, a fast pitcher, was procured from Steubenville. Eddie Pleiss, a finished gardener, was also landed. With a pitching staff of Crane, Eastley, "Lefty" Boyle and J. Hilbert the team was among the strongest in the circuit at the finish. Other players utilized during the season were shortstop Zoellers, Verga, Allen, Kilheffer, Burke, Watson, James and Ross. "Dutch" Myers, a local lad, was given an early tryout, but failed. He later played for years with the Brooklyn, St. Louis and Cincinnati National league teams and is now a minor league manager. Will Powell, another local player, who became a member of the Pittsburg World Champions in 1909 and later played with Chicago, Cincinnati and numerous minor league clubs, finished the 1906 season as the first baseman of the East Liverpool team. In mid-year also Thomas H. Stephans succeeded Mr. Travis as president of the clubs. All the games that year were played at West End park. The race in 1906 was decided on the final day of the season, when Washington, playing three games with Charleroi, won all of them and Washington and East Liverpool divided a double header. The results, due to certain protested contests, made a tie at first place for Uniontown and Braddock which President Guy ordered to be decided by a playoff. Uniontown refused to play a post-series and the National Board being 304 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY appealed to decided against the claims of Braddock. Of the 1906 East Liverpool players Otho Kruger was drafted by Kansas City, Eddie Pleiss by Pittsburg and Pat Eastley by Wheeling, W. Va., at the close of the season. The following year the P. O. M. franchise was procured by C. A. Smith, of Chester, W. Va. Accordingly a fine ball park, modern two-story grandstand with bleacher seats along the first base line and back of left field were placed in the northeast section of Rock Springs park then the mecca for thousands of tourists during the summer months. Tom Fleming, a heady minor league outfielder who had a brief service in the majors, was signed as manager. Zanesville was given the Cumberland, Md., franchise in 1907. Charles J. Bippus, a local theatrical man became the club's president and business manager. He had served in the latter capacity at the close of the 1906 season. The club was strong all year. It finally had such pitchers as "Jack" Frill, a southpaw, later long with the New York Americans : "Sunny" Price, the old college star at short ; Farabaugh, a nephew of Charles Schwab in left field, then a law student and later an Indiana judge ; Lord, brother of the Philadelphia American Lord, himself a minor league star second sacker ; Ball, perhaps the speediest man in the league on the bases, who hailed from New England as did Conroy, the slow-moving. but accurate and heavy-hitting stevedore from Maine on first base. The other players on the club included Pitcher Kenworthy, a later Pacific Coast league manager, pitchers Wilhelm, Groomes, Boyle, Rarey ; catcher. Alex Sweeney ; third baseman, "Buzz" Netzell, later with Pittsburg and long a Michigan league manager ; McMahon, Bero, Peartree, L. Willig and outfielder Blake of the 1906 team. Because former Manager Percy Stetter had taken over the direction of the Steubenville club and finally had with him Eddie Pleiss, "Lefty" Boyle and John Godwin, East Liverpool infielder, who had just concluded an engagement on the Boston American league club, the rivalry between the two Ohio river towns was intense. This was accentuated by the signing by Steubenville of "Stony" McGlynn, a pitcher so capable as to serve for a long period thereafter with the St. Louis Nationals. East Liverpool became a member of the O. & P. league in 1908. In the preliminary work thereto Manager Tom Fleming was given the city's P. O. M. franchise by President Richard Guy and by an individual coup HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 305 he was thus given the club rights in the older organization. Later, after a period of negotiations, he transferred his holdings to C. A. Smith, of Chester, W. Va. Mr. Bippus continued for a time in his old role as business manager. Finally Bill Phillips, of Charleroi, Pa., long a pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds and later twirler and assistant director of the New Orleans club of the Southern league, was procured as manager. Manager Phillips finished second, next to Akron, in the race of that year. He had an outstanding aggregation of ball players. His pitchers were himself, his half-brother, Barney Wolfe, formerly of the New York Americans ; Johnny Fisher, of Noblesville, Ind. ; John Nolly, of Alabama ; Catcher Rapp, of Washington, D. C. worked behind the bat with Bob Tarleton, of New Orleans on first, "Scrapiron" Beecher on second, Forbes Alcock at short, Venable at second after Beecher sustained a fractured leg while sliding into second base with Woodruff, Gaston and Manning in the outfield. Kunkle, Mackey, McNeil and Cooper were other men that filled in during a part of the season. Phillips led the league in pitching that year with 22 games won and but four lost. One of the outstanding performances of the season was a 16-inning battle which he won from Pitcher Clyde of the Sharon team on the Rock Springs field. Charles Morton, of Akron, was the president of the league in 1908. Arch Osborne, of Charleroi, Pa., a pitcher, was the team's manager in 1909, Bill Phillips having taken over the direction of the Wheeling, W. Va., club of the Central league. Again East Liverpool finished in second place with Akron under Lee Fohl, winning the honors. The league president was Sam Wright, a newspaper man of Youngstown. Besides himself Osborne had Jerger, Cefalu and McBride as pitchers with Hinton and McGinley doing the catching. John Raley was on first, Lattimore at second, Strood at third and Reagon, a southerner, at short. In the outfield were the hard hitting Curtis, of Wellsburg, W. Va., the youthful Shanks, of Monaca, Pa., who later spent nearly a decade with the Washington Americans and then went to Boston and New York and Hinton and Osborne himself alternating in the right field. Win Kinkaide was the club's business manager. The batting leader of that year was Shotten, of Steubenville, who afterwards went to the St. Louis Americans. Manager Osborne was called to Wheeling to aid that team near the close of the season and John Raley led the Potters in the finish. (20)V1 306 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY The season of 1910 began on May 5 and ended Sept. 5. The Potters were directed by Guy Sample, of Jackson, Miss. Early in the season President Sam Wright passed away. J. H. Maxwell, vice president, headed the league the remainder of the season. On the final day of the season Akron and Canton had two games to play with each a possible winner. The latter won the morning contest giving both a tie standing with each having won 72 and lost 53 contests. Pitcher "Red" Nelson won the second contest for Akron by knocking a home run in the second inning after first bagman Tate had done the same for Canton in the first. The final score was 4 to 1. So closely contested was the race of that year that Erie, finishing in last place, had led the league for two months of the season. East Liverpool won 63 and lost 61 contests that year and made a tie with McKeesport for third place. Manager Sample, John Hinton and Connell were the 1910 catchers with Warrender, who led the league in hitting that year, Ralton and Shanks in the garden positions, John Roley on first, Ralph Lattimore on second, Wright at short and Doran at third. Curt Bales, Byers, Monahan, pitchers. Others were added during the season. Sample was finally supplanted by Ralph Lattimore, who finished the year as the club's pilot. In 1911 the O. & P. league was presided over by George L. Moreland, baseball statistician, of Pittsburg. C. A. Smith gave up the franchise which he held in the organization and a local company, headed by J. C. Sims, newspaper publisher, sponsored the East Liverpool Club which was managed by the veteran catcher, Alex. Sweeney and the games, as in 1906, played in West End park. 'The players of that year included: John A. Aiken, Jesse F. Page, William Taylor, Howard Lewis, George Burns, Prescott C. Negly, Oliver A. Miller, Thomas Silcox, Dan McAleese, Scott Peckwell, Robert Covart, Frank Doyle, W. A. Hooper, Joseph Terson, Max Schubert, John J. Cutter, Abe Kruger, Gray, Wilson, Lentz, Cavanaugh, Thompson, McAvoy and L. Richey, the latter two being East Liverpool natives. Towards the end of the season the club was strong and playing fine ball. East Liverpool had its final professional baseball team in 1912 when the city was a part of the 0. & P. league of that year which failed by a few days to finish the season following the loss of club after club on it. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 307 The league began with McKeesport, Sharon, New Castle and Connellsville, Pa., and East Liverpool, Salem, Alliance and Steubenville, 0., as members. G. Y. Travis, of East Liverpool was president of the organization. An attempt was made to function with a salary limit of $1,200 and the presence of but 12 men on each team. Most of the teams had outside promoters who failed to attract local patronage and eventually they gave up their franchises. East Liverpool formed a local company with Lyman Rinehart as president and John Williams as secretary. Tony Crane, of Scranton, Pa., who had played first base with great ability for the Erie 0. & P. team in former years was procured as manager. Before the season was very old he gave way to Outfielder Donnelly who directed the club until it ended its activities. More than 50 players of all degrees of ability were tried out at the start of the season. These included George Porter, a Lisbon High School lad who played second base for some time for the club ; Pitcher Northup, who later made a great record in the American Association ; Pitcher Leisure, T. Taylor, A. L. Behhyelm, H. L. Pittinger, F. G. Stage, Catcher William Byland, a local lad, Catcher McWilliams and many others. Towards the end of the season the veteran, Percy Rising, Fisher Dedon, Mackert, Goff, Cardinal and others were secured. The season was divided into two halves the first of which Salem won handily. On June 19 New Castle and Connellsville were dropped from the league. In the losses and addition of clubs made of it a four-club circuit with East Liverpool, Sharon, Steubenville and Fairmount, W. Va., as members finished. In the final days of August an attempt was made to transfer the East Liverpool club to Pittsburg, but after playing one game there the players returned to the Pottery City and disbanded. Several of them finally finished the season with other league teams elsewhere. A significant feature of the league activities in East Liverpool was that Mal Myers, of Jethro, joined the final professional club that the city had in its closing days while his brother Harry "Dutch" Myers had been a members of the first professional team that represented the city in 1906 during the early part of that season. During 1909-10 the Tri-State Trolley league composed of teams from Klondyke, Pleasant Heights, Dixonville, Northside, East End of East 308 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Liverpool and Chester, W. Va., functioned. It was made up entirely of amateur players. Industrial League Contests.—Following the close of professional ball in the city was the formation of numerous pottery baseball clubs in and about East Liverpool. An outstanding contest of such clubs was the famous clash of the Knowles, Taylor and Knowles and Homer Laughlin teams in 1915. The series of three games arranged was for a $500 purse and the entire gate receipts. Two were played at Rock Springs park, the first on Wednesday after Labor Day of that year and the second the following Saturday, both being won by the K. T. K. club by the same score, 4 to 2. The first of these stood 1 to 0 in favor of Laughlin until the eighth inning when the score was tied and the contest prolonged to the thirteenth inning. Then Laughlin made three runs in their half and K. T. K. one in their final batting period. Earl Saulsberry and Harry Vincent formed the Laughlin battery while Charles Rigby and John Panavan were at the points for K. T. K. More than 3,000 persons witnessed the final contest. During the same period following the close of league baseball in East Liverpool a club was maintained at West End park to play independent ball for two or three seasons by Rex McConnell. It gave way to the Man-Of-War Club, managed by Edward Mullin which in turn gave way to the Eagles' nine which was directed by J. W. Fowler. In 1921 an industrial department was formed by the Y. M. C. A. of East Liverpool which directed an eight-club circuit of teams made up of players representing various potteries and industrial plants in the city. What approximated a "baby world series" followed the close of all but the first of these seasons which was divided in two halves, the first closing on July 1 approximately and the second on or about Labor Day of each year. The standard of playing increased annually with the development of younger players and the addition of those who had had experience with other clubs. In 1925 the Y. M. C. A. eliminated the industrial arm of its activities and the ball players, thrown on their own resources, formed an organization known as the City Industrial league of which C. C. Cline, a clothing merchant and former player in his Maryland home became president, T. T. Jones, secretary-treasurer and Lee C. Cooper a member of the so- HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 309 called "Board of Strategy" which from time to time aided in the league's doings. Despite a bad start the teams composing it, Homer Laughlin, Chester, W. Va., Wellsville, Knowles, Taylor and Knowles, Babcock and Wilcox and Trotter's Chrevolet, played such a high grade of ball, due to the fact that each aggregation signed its own players from among the best talent available, that what approximated a rennaissance in the diamond game in and about East Liverpool occurred. Attendance was marked at practically all of the contests and on crucial occasions reached figures of more than 5,000 persons. The first half championship was won by the Chester team directed by the mayor of that city, Frank Riley, and the second by the Homer Laughlin Club of Newell, W. Va., managed by Saul McCoy. In the "baby world series" that followed, Chester won four of the five games played with Homer Laughlin, which attracted people for miles around the city. More than 1,000 automobiles surrounded the playing feld in some of these last contests—an unprecedented feature of games previously played in the Pottery City locality. During the Y. M. C. A. period of activity with the Industrial baseball league, W. T. McNutt was the organization's president in 1922-23 and Don Trotter succeeded him in 1924. William Ashbaugh during all these years was the league's secretary and W. J. Scott was th Y. M. C. A. industrial secretary. East Liverpool in Major Leagues.—Curtis Welsh played with the Crockery City team in 1877, '78, '79, '80, '81, '82. Then he was sent by Manager W. J. Calhoun to Toledo where he played two years. He went to St. Louis in 1885 and remained there for three consecutive years as a member of the great St. Louis Browns, owned by the famed Cris Von Der A he and managed by Charles Comiskey. Welch became the "World's Campion Fielder." He was finally sold to the Philadelphia Americans and finished his career with the Cincinnati Nationals. He passed away in East Liverpool in 1896. Of these players George Carey and Alfred Shaw subsequently made the Baltimore teams of the National league and the Boston Red Sox of the American league. Carey was for a year with the Baltimore Orioles managed by Ned Hanlon and on which were Manager Muggsy McGraw of New York, Wilbert Robinson of the Brooklyn club and Hugh Jennings of the Detroit and New York teams. Carey started out with the Altoona, 310 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Pa., and Shaw with the Wilkinsburg, Pa., club. Carey became known as perhaps the best fielding first baseman of his day in the major leagues. Win Mercer, after a start with the Fall River, Mass., team, landed with the Washington Americans where he was a pitcher for many years before going to Detroit which club he had signed to manage in 1904, but he passed away in California the fall previous while directing an All-Star, major league club in a series of barn storming contests at the close of the 1903 season. John "Jack" Darrah had a brief trial with the St. Louis Browns following a previous and subsequent period of outstanding success as player and manager in the minor leagues. He directed teams in Wheeling, W. Va., Springfield, Steubenville, Uhrichsville and Canton, 0., and Portland, Ore., in all of which places he sustained a reputation for aggressiveness that has had few equals in the history of the game. John Goodwin, starting out at Bloomington, Ill., made the Boston Red Sox for a couple of seasons in 1905-06 as third baseman. He later played in several minor league clubs. Harry Barker played for six years as a pitcher on the Bloomington Club. Will Powell, basketball star, also got his baseball start as a pitcher on the Bloomington, Ill., team. He later became a pitcher with the Springfield team of the New England league and was in 1909 a member of the Pittsburg Pirates which season the club won the world's championship from the Detroit Americans. Powell was later with the Chicago and Cincinnati National league clubs and with the Kansas City and Milwaukee teams of the American Association. He also played in the Southern Association. Powell and Welch were the only East Liverpool players to become members of World Champion clubs. Harry "Dutch" Myers became a member of the Brooklyn Nationals for several years and in 1922 the club won the championship but lost the world series honors to the Cleveland Americans. He started out with the East Liverpool P. 0. M. team and later went to the Scottdale team of the P. and W. Va., league from where he went to Sioux City, Iowa. From Brooklyn he was sent to St. Louis in 1924 and then for a period to Cincinnati. He finished the 1925 season as the manager of the Syracuse club of the New York state league. William Mundy, after a period in the Virginia and other minor leagues, became a member of the Boston Red Sox of the American league HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 311 in 1911. He later played with various minor league clubs. Returning to East Liverpool he played much independent ball and managed clubs the Y. M. C. A. Industrial league and played on the City Industrial league clubs. In 1925 following his constantly increasing form as an outfielder in the Y. M. C. A. City Industrial league, Raymond Buzzard, an East Liverpool law student at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, was signed by the Cleveland American league club for a 1926 trial at the conclusion of his school year. West End Park—Patterson Field.—West End Park was first laid out as a ball ground in May of 1876. The Crockery City crack players, managed by Eugene Bradshaw, used it. William Calhoun was the official scorer that year. The next year permission was granted by the owners, Messers Hill, Brunt and Bloor to build a grandstand on the plot. Mr. Calhoun assisted in this undertaking also. In 1882 this was torn down and a large ediface of the same kind placed in its place but this structure was destroyed in the great flood of 1884. In 1887 Mr.. Calhoun having returned from managing the Columbus team of the American Association assisted in the building of still another new stand which stood until about 1904 when the one used at the beginning of the P. 0. M. league in 1906 was erected. This one finally went into decay and was torn down and the present one placed in circular position in 1922. In the fall of 1923 Monroe Patterson purchased West End park and presented it to the East Liverpool High School for undergraduate athletic activities which included baseball, football and track events. Permission was also granted other East- Liverpool aggregations needing it when not in use by the members of the high school with the single stipulation that no admission prices could in any manner be charged on Sunday which requirement has eliminated the playing of Sunday baseball and football within the city limits. For the benefit of football players a dressing room was erected at the East End of the grandstand at Patterson Field in 1924. Immediately after his purchase of and presentation to the high school of the old West End Park Mr. Patterson and the Board of Education began filling the plot so as to place it above a flood stage. In 1925 this work was being continued with much new ground made on the north section of it. 312 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Association Football.—In the Fall of 1906 East Liverpool was a member of the Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio Association Football league. The club president was George Hancock ; vice president, George Townley ; secretary, Edward Parr ; treasurer and trainer, Lafe Harris ; captain, Will Harris. The members of the team included: Samuel Mount-ford, Percy Barker, John Dimmick, A. Townley, John Clark, Fred Smith, William Starkey, George Hall, John Bower, Arthur Williams, A. Carter, Charles Beech, James Wooliscraft, Richard Broomes, James Wines, William Chalmers, Matthew Barlow, Lemuel Turner, Herbert O'Hara and John Raltern, of Wellsville. Joseph Bourne was the official East Liverpool referee. The league functioned also the following year, the game being played decidedly along English lines. The Pottery contingent made a good showing during its entire time in the organization. The World's Greatest Basketball Team.—In the 1906-'07-'08 Central basketball league East Liverpool had the best floor club in all of the world. For two whole seasons the club as arranged was practically unbeatable and had to be disbanded in order to make the contests interesting among the other members of the organization. All of the games were played in the Rock Springs park theatre building at Chester, W. Va., which during the winters was revamped so as to put the cage on the main floor just off the stage while seats were built over the latter. The usual seats in the auditorium were utilized from the entrance to the playing arena. A broad aisle on the west section enabled players to enter their rooms under the stage and the newspaper scribes to reach their box just over the western basket and another on the eastern side permitted a way to the private box of the owner, C. A. Smith, just over the eastern basket. So keen was the interest that this large building was ever crowded and when the local club's hardest adversaries were scheduled to play, Southside of Pittsburg, Greensburg and McKeesport, Pa., the place was jammed to such an extent that the rafters were frequently lined with spectators. Armed with cow bells, whistles and clanging pieces of iron the din during these contests made for an unprecedented bedlam. Perhaps the roughest game ever noted in this pastime was that one on one occasion between the East Liverpool and Southside clubs in which several of the latter's members were badly jostled by the heavier Ohio team's athletes. This game arrested the attention of even Eastern critics. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 313 This outstanding club was brought together by Will Powell, a star amateur basketball player of the city who later became himself the best center in the game. He signed Joe Fogarty, who later became the basketball coach of Yale University, and Eddie Ferat as forwards, took the center position himself and procured Win Kinkaide and Tom Cartwright, of this city as guards. His brother, Earl Powell was utility forward. Soon after the start of the season the two Powells were transferred to Greensburg and Bill Keenan and John Deal obtained for center and forward respectively. John Pennino, an Italian, was procured to assist Cartwright and Kinkaide as guards. Deal could play forward or center with equal facility. All these players save Cartwright, a local boy and Deal of Williamsport, Pa., emanated from Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N. J., where previously they had made reputations in the Eastern Basketball League. They combined weight, skill and proficiency in shooting that won handily the first half of the season which called for each club playing 30 games. Of this number they lost but eight to all of the opposing clubs. Because of the demand for them an added schedule of 20 contests was arranged which Southside, greatly strengthened by new players managed to win, the team winning 16 of 19 and East Liverpool 12 of the same number. It was proposed to play a post season series for the championship of that year for $1,000 a side, but a controversy arose as to the referee, Pittsburg demanding Mr. Rutschman of the Philadelphia league and East Liverpool holding out for local officials. As a result the East Liverpool club made a long barnstorming trip in eastern and New England cities. In the season of the following year East Liverpool won the championship handily. The winners were presented with a silver cup on this occasion. the presentation being made to Captain Kinkaide on March 20, 1908. just before the game with the Southside club by T. T. Jones, sporting editor of the Evening Review in the absence of C. J. Power, president of the league and the sporting editor of the Pittsburg Dispatch. The response was made by Mayor Samuel Crawford of East Liverpool. A feature of this club's playing was the marvelous ease with which it defeated the Buffalo Germans, one of the crack Eastern basketball teams and that representing New York City which was headed by the one time greatest basketball player of the world, "Sandy" Shields. The 314 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY contest so as not to interrupt the regular schedule of the league was played at Rock Springs Park on New Year's morning of 1909. The East Liverpool team had in William Hudson and John Tarr, two most capable trainers. At all contests Will Hardy was the official time keeper and Howard Maxwell, on an upraised dias, kept the score visible to the shouting fans. Mr. Smith gave up his franchise in the league in the fall of 1908 and permitted his star players to go to other teams. Fogarty, Deal and Keenan went to the Johnstown and Kinkaide, Ferat and Pennino to the Uniontown, Pa., clubs. East Liverpool, however, remained in the league, a company being formed with Otto Powell as president and Lyman Rinehart as principal owner and the business manager. "Sandy" Shield, of New York City, was procured as the initial playing manager of the club, but he failed to resume the form that had once been his and quit to become a league referee. The players that year included Thompson, who became the club captain, Liebau, Hahn, Walker, Johnson, Otkens and Mackey. The playing was in direct contrast to that which the fans had been accustomed to in previous seasons and the attendance suffered. Finally several local players were procured to finish the season. These included Arthur Mensforth, Tom Cartwright, Evans and Bourquin. The team accordingly finished in last place. All the games of that year were played in the Sixth Street rink in East Liverpool. An outstanding feature of the Central league activities was the development of Charles "Dim" Zang, of East Liverpool, into the best referee of the entire organization. Re- had previously made a reputation in gymnasium work as a club swinger. The Potters' Polo Club.—Cotemporaneous with the Central Basketball League activities was the placing in the city of a polo club in the fall of 1906, which was a member of the Interstate League along with Youngstown, Akron, Sharon, Niles, Beaver Falls, Canton and New Castle. The local contingent was made up of Jimmy Canavan, former second baseman of the Cincinnati Reds as center and captain ; Hickey, first rush ; Taylor, second rush ; McGrath, half back and Hahn as goal. Another member of the team was Berry. The game being of New England origin the majority of the players came from that locality. The East Liverpool HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 315 franchise was owned by William B. Jones of Youngstown. The games were played in the Sixth Street rink. On Jan. 4, 1907 the club was transferred to the Casino rink in Erie, Pa., where the final games of the season, some 25 in number, were played. The secretary of the league was Ed Bang, sporting editor of the Cleveland News, then of Youngstown. Two of the referees of the organization were Arlie Latham, the famed National league commedian and member of the St. Louis Nationals and Billy Evans, then and later one of the umpires of the American league. Preceding the professional basketball period in East Liverpool the city had an outstanding amateur club which played in the old Y. M. C. A. Building on West Fifth Street. Its strength was such as to defeat the then great Tamaqua, Pa., five and the pick of teams from nearby localities and the east. The team was made up of Will Powell, Frank Allison, William Bloor, William Walkins, Fletcher Chadwick and Richard Rigby. Just 25 years after they began playing together this sextette of the floor game reassembled in East Liverpool in the Spring of 1925 and had their pictures taken together with a ball that they had used a quarter of a century before and which Mr. Allison had during this interim preserved through a relative. When Cricket Flourished.—Back in the early nineties Cricket, the great English pastime, was a game that interested many in East Liverpool. For a time in that period the city was a member of the Cricket league of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio in which were clubs from Homewood, Wilkinsburg, Glenshaw, New Castle and other towns. Among the Pottery City players who were members of teams representing it were Rev. H. Morse, W. Beardmore, Criss Horton, J. Bostock, E. Owen, W. Wase, H. Lewis, H. Bloor, J. Gallimore, T. Robinson, F. Gallimore, Mark Brownlow, Thomas Hancock, Thomas Snape, Frank Knowles, H. Chapman, J. Garner and R. Webb. The Cricket contests made for a strong reminder of early days in England on the part of many players and spectators. A favorite playing spot was just off Thompson Avenue on the hilltop thought most of the matches were played at West End Park. In Squared Arena and on Mat.—For a number of years in the eighties and the nineties prize fighting was an outstanding sport in and about East 316 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Liverpool. Some of the leading devotees of the fistic art visited and trained within the limits of the city. Among these were Australian Billy Murphy, a light weight of that day, "Denver" Ed Smith, Ed Gorman, a light heavyweight ; "Black Frank" and "Klondyke Bill" two heavyweight negroes who tipped the beam at about 190 pounds each ; Ed Welch, another heavyweight ; John Lee, Dominick McCaffery and others of kindred well known calibre and ability. The then road which is now Pennsylvania Avenue along the hills to the state line was utilized for the necessary open air training. Much of the indoor work was done in the old East Liverpool Athletic club on Broadway on the site of the present Harrison Color rooms and offices. Every desired equipment was therein to be had. Because of its hills East Liverpool made an ideal place for physical development and the needed development of wind power. In addition the converging of three state lines made the dodging of the law a matter of considerable ease when officials occasionally elected to stop a reported ring bout. With celerity the principals and spectators, recognizing the residence of the oncoming officers, would step hastily a few rods away into West Virginia, Pennsylvania or Ohio as the case might be and thus be without the jurisdicton of those plannng arrests. For this reason a flat spot at the mouth of Mill Creek across the Ohio River, just above Chester, W. Va., was usually chosen for this purpose. With high hills behind them and the river in front of them descent could be made on but two sides which were ever patrolled so as to give advance warning of the approach of the servants of the law. In addition the place was stragetically situated for the landing of spectators from boats that often brought crowds from Pittsburg and intervening points for these sometimes early morning affairs when a decision was reached and a hurried get-away made for the return trip. A signal battle in which local participant was a factor was that of Elmer Grant, of East Liverpool and Jack Mountford of Louisville, Ky. It was staged in the old Brunt Opera house on the site of the present Betz building. Grant knock his opponent out in the third round. It was the first fight in the city in which gloves were used and many sportsmen were of the opinion that a knockout could not be made under such conditions, they being ever inclined to the retention of bare knuckle fighting. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 317 Headquarters of the fighters in those days were usually the old Lakel House on Second and the Robinson House at Second and Washington streets. In later years the champions of fistinia such as John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons were given great receptions on their visits to East Liverpool. Mr. Corbett came frequently to fill theatrical engagements as did "Ruby Bob." The latter usually prefaced his night appearance by going to blacksmith shops and pounding out a few horseshoes as he did in his Cornish days and then presenting them to his admirers. He was given to relating his ring experiences after the stage work was done to those who would follow him to the hotel. So far as known the champions that came after them, with the exception of Jess Willard who appeared in a circus at West End Park never came to East Liverpool at any time. As a result of the prizefighting and training that went on in the city many of the younger men of that period became adepts at boxing which was indulged in at the East Liverpool Athletic Club. Perhaps the greatest development in this line was made by Will J. George who became a noted American lightweight boxer and fought all over the country as "Billy King." He finally quit this pastime and entered seriously into the manufacture of pottery ware so that before his passing in 1924 he was the owner of a total of 54 kilns in the plants that he had come to own in East Palestine, Ohio, Cannonsburg and Derry, Pa. He enjoyed the reputation of being perhaps the first American who without aid from any other business made a million dollars from the making of ware. William O'Connell was another boxer of note who had the further reputation of being a champion shot putter. Chief of Police Hugh McDermott also became a noted boxer of these days and as such developed thirty-two different moves in bag punching while blindfolded. For a time he went on exhibition in Pennsylvania and Ohio towns with Duncan C. Ross, champion long swordsman of the world and David Muldoon, a wrestler and brother of William Muldoon, famed wrestler and trainer. Other boxers of the city in and about that time were David Reed, a man dubbed "The Famous Pole," Frank Saulsberry, Hugh O'Donnell, Harry Williams and "Jack" Lee. Wrestling also had its lovers which from time to time attracted many of the exponents of the mat to the city. Charles Reineke, of Pittsburg, 318 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY came to East Liverpool frequently to meet those matched against him. The bouts were held at the Sixth Street rink, the old "Mozart" and Turner halls for the most part. Charles Bouldin, the so-called "Cuban Wonder," of Cleveland, was another who had matches in the city as was J. Santelle and "Jim" Parr, the old English wrestler. An outstanding bout was that at this period of "The Cuban Wonder" and one of the several "Terrible Turks" that at intervals came to this country to contest with American wrestlers which was held on the old theatre stage in Rock Spring Park, Chester, W. Va., which the former won. This contest was held following the close of the regular theatrical performance and was witnessed by a good sized crowd. With Ball and Mallet.—Back in the early seventies croquet became popular in East Liverpool. Its interest was so acute for a period as to make almost impossible the supplying of paraphernalia for its playing. Every available spot was utilized for the new departure which appealed to both men and women. Gradually with the introduction of other games the sport gradually waned until by 1925 its utilization is a novelty. Turners Gymnasium.—Between 1890 and 1905 the East Liverpool Turners' Society flourished in its hall on Walnut Street. Gymnasium work was featured by the members to such an extent that many of them were enabled to make visits to other cities as competitors and exhibitors of their prowesses. Among those who were active in this organization were Grant Mylar, William Kaufman, Hertel and others. Football clubs other than the high school eleven have for years been in vogue, games being played at West End and Columbian Park. The East End Marines was a leading club and, made up of husky men, it defeated many contenders. The Phoenix and Belmont Clubs, composed of former college and high school stars, also had some terrific clashes during the days when these two organizations were among the leading social arms of the city. Potters' Sport of Kings.—Horse racing on East Liverpool streets was a feature of the early sporting life of the city. Second Street was thus utilized for many years, the course usually being from the Pennsylvania railway tracks at the foot of Jefferson Street to those at the lower end of Broadway. Spectators would line along the curbstones as the driven or ridden animals trotted, paced or galloped the distance arranged for. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 319 So constant became this practice that the city council had to vote against such use of the streets which led to emphatic protests by a number of the citizens who, to show their contempt for the action taken, paraded the principal streets in a "funeral" procession. However, the law-making body of the town refused to reconsider the action taken. In later years, 1905-'06 and '10 Fifth Street was frequently the mecca of sleigh riders who worked out racing horses, attached to their vehicles, by doing some keen racing from the City Hospital on the west to the Market Street crossing. Racing of horses began at Columbian Park soon after the East End plot was laid out as a half-mile track in the late nineties at a cost of about $15,000, which initially was raised by various lovers of horse flesh contributing $100 each to the fund needed. The moving spirit in the departure was Dr. Fred McFarland, a veterinary surgeon, who had located in East Liverpool. For several years he served as president of the East Liverpool Driving Association of which Blaine Cochran, for a period, was secretary. At the outset the racing done was as a part of the Lake Erie Circuit. Later the local body was a member of the Tri-State Racing Association. In the July meeting of 1906, 121 horses were quartered in the stables built at the west section of the track, just athwart the various entrances into it. For years the veteran driver, Samuel Groves, was in charge of the race track. He arranged for the keeping of the 175 entries on this occasion which was pronounced the best held that year in the Ohio Valley. Bad weather, however, marred the October races of that year for which 117 horses were stabled at the park. Many East Liverpool residents owned and raced their own horses during the early Columbian Park days. Among these were: C. A. Smith and his gray pacer, "Tewksbury," 2 :19 1/4, Damon and others ; William Rowe, "Wire Nail," 2 :17 1/4 ; William Larkins, "Robert L.," 2:19 1/4 George Brunt, "Success," "Redcliffe," "Battle" and many others ; William Davidson, "Maud S. ;" Edwin Davidson, "Pauline ;" Henry Deidrick, "Ikey Boy ;" R. C. Edmundson, "Harry ;" Patrick McNicol, "Moon-Ox" and others ; Harrison Rinehart, "Redman," "Lady Vesla," "La France" and others ; Dr. Fred McFarland, "Balgerine ;" Joseph Cartwright, "Regie ;" D. E. McNicol had several horses during this interim but in 1920 with "Juno" and "J. W. S.," both 2:0214, he won many races on 320 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY the grand circuit and later sold them to European parties ; Jesse Fisher, "Baker Boy," "Walter Sterling," "War Bride," "Brother Direct," "Stone-wood," "Pearl M.," "Peter Mount," "Axie," "Peter Marr," "Kentuck Doun" and many others. Robert Harker also had several good racing horses and shared the ownership of "Walter Sterling" with Jesse Fisher with which they won the Gov. Davis Cup in the Ohio State Fair in 1920 and the Indiana State Fair honors in 1922 and '23. Interest finally began to decline in the sport and the track disintegrated. The plot has recently been sold and eventually will be devoted to the building of homes, though a section of it is still utilized as a baseball diamond and football gridiron. Columbian Park was purchased in April, 1898, by John L. Tayler, Joseph Lee and George L. Smith from George and William C. Thompson, it being forty acres of their father, William Thompson's farm. Gov. and Mrs. McKinley at Cycle Race.—The Ceramic City Cycle Club of which William Taylor was president, held numerous races from Steubenville to this city. The first of these was on Saturday afternoon, June 29, 1895. The starter was W. M. Hill, the referee, W. 0. Hamilton and the timers, W. V. Blake, Edward Wells and F. E. Grosshans. "Tommy" York won over "Billy" Bott by five seconds, the time being one hour, 31 minutes and five seconds. "Ted" McMillian and others were in the race. At the second race on Aug. 10, 1895 the contestants were York, Jewell, Betts, Haltzman, Rex and Laughlin with several others. The spectators at this affair when Fifth Street to Market was lined with people included Gov. and Mrs. William McKinley, who witnessed the great finish from the windows of the home of Dr. and Mrs. William Hobbs. Tennis, Ice Skating and Quoits.—For several seasons after 1906 the Ohio Valley Tennis League was a prominently listed sport with a certain coterie of East Liverpool, Newell and Chester, W. Va., residents. With clubs also in the East and West End of the city and Steubenville, O., games were played the greater portion of each summer. Among those who were adepts at this game were: R. Hall, Sam J. Firth, Lee Owens, A. L. White, Earl and Roy Mayers, Ralph Chambers, Rev. Albert Good, J. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 321 Donald and Malcolm Thompson and Oscar Allison of Chester, W. Va.; Frank Lockett and Everett Hall. During this intrim J. Donald Thompson won the singles and with his brother, Malcolm Thompson, the doubles for the Columbiana County championship honors. Ice skating at frequent intervals was a winter diversion of young folk in 1900. Eugene Bradshaw flooded a space at the old West End Park for this purpose and hundreds availed themselves of the opportunity of thus enjoying themselves. Previous to that he had a similar place in Columbian Park in the East End of the city. In earlier years the river, when it froze sufficiently as it often did was utilized for skating. On occasions also in these earlier period the ice covered river was used for sleighing when coated with a sheet of snow. In 1875 the ice on the Ohio River at East Liverpool was frozen to a thickness of 23 inches. Horseshoes and quoits have ever and anon been among the sports strongly engaged in by the East Liverpool game lovers. Several leagues have through the years been operated by those engaged in this pastime. This sporting activity was particularly active in 1909-'10 and '11. It later was revived when several leagues functioned under the industrial department of the Y. M. C. A. from 1921 to 1925. In 1925 Robert Raffles, Dale Bolton and John Canne made notable horseshoe records. Chess also has had its devotees and several tourneys have been held by those given to the pastime. One held on Feb. 21, 1908, stood out. Among those taking part were H. G. Sanders and M. J. McCullough. High School Meets.—The East Liverpool High School for nearly two decades have annually participated in field meets in which schools throughout the county have been principals. Though the local school has not finished at the top on all occasions it has made signal contributions to the combined results. In recent years due to renewed activity and interest on the part of the school its athletes have shown increased capabilities. With the placing of Boone as physical director and football coach in 1924 and the procuring by the school of West End Park as the result of the gift of Monroe Patterson in 1923, all work has been done on what is now known as Patterson Field in the West End of the city. Previously much of the training for the field meets was performed at (21)V1 322 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Columbian Park in the East End of the city, more than a mile away from the high school building which handicapped the work considerably. Sculling was indulged in during the eighties and nineties at intervals on the Ohio River when one-man long boats or canoes were utilized in races that interested many particularly when street fairs were held in the city. J. Hanlon, Ten Eyk and a Mr. Teemer, the latter of McKeesport, Pa., were the leading "scullers" of that period. In 1886-'87 and '88 pedestrianism was indulged in to a considerable Walking and Running.—In 1886-'87 and '88 pedestrianism was indulged in to a considerable extent. The indoor walking was done in the Fifth Street rink. A feature of this departure was the fact that one of the participants, a Mrs. Zach Robinson, of Pittsburg, was followed here by her husband and on a Saturday night, following her appearance the previous evening and before her final engagement that night, was murdered by him while in her room at the old Grand Hotel at Sixth and Washington streets. Daniel Schwartz and Abraham Burlingame were among those active in distance walking. Running races, particularly for 100 yards, was also a feature of the early athletic activities of the city. Among those who excelled at this departure were: Joseph Gibbons, Robert Maxwell, John Hilbert, Charles Walsh, Richard Deacon, John Earley and George Scott. Long Roller Skating Craze.—Roller skating became a craze in 1883 and continued with undiminished interest until 1890. The Fifth Street and the Jumbo rink on Fourth Street were the scenes of this activity which thousands, old and young, enjoyed during this interim. Races were frequent and several outside skaters were brought into the city to contest with local participants or show their own skill. These included John J. Bell, of Cleveland, William Borst, of New York City, Jesse Birkett, of Bellaire, who later became a famed American league baseball player and John Hankey, of Canton. The East Liverpool star skaters included John Reark, "Billy" Bott, Samuel Wallace, Owen Cannon, Thomas Croxall, William Delaney, Lyman Rinehart, "Fred" Anderson, Horace Woolmaker, Charles Reak and W. A. Calhoun. A feature of these days was the remarkable development as a skater of the then Miss Sadie Worcester, a daughter of Thomas Worcester, a pioneer potter. She showed such adeptness in her work that she was given the same training as that ascribed to the male skaters. Thus it came about that she was never defeated. HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 323 The sport was somewhat revived a quarter of a century later when roller skating was indulged in for a period on the Sixth Street Rink and at Rock Springs Park. Chester, W. Va. With the ending of interest in roller skating began that in the use of bicycles. As a result there were indoor races from 1886 to 1900 in which marked speed was shown. Then long runs were induged in by others. Barney Oldfield, who later became a great automobile racer, was a frequent participant in the bicycle races that were held in Columbian Park in that period. Others who indulged in this pastime were Edward Ball, J. Starbuck, Lester Wilson, Edward Dean, Will Barth. Arthur Bowdler and "Billy" Bott were leading long distance riders. Shooting.—The East Liverpool Gun Club flourished in the early nineties. Much of the shooting was done on the Gardner estate just across the river in Chester, W. Va. Two days were often utilized for shooting when clay birds would be fired upon in the mornings and live ones in the afternoon. On some occasions as many as 800 live birds were procured for this purpose. Another shooting place was the site of the present water works near the state line. Among the leading members of this organization were I. N. Crable, Tony Bartelle, John Rayle, Richard Edmundson, Richard Woodward, George Brunt, Willis Davison and others. In 1926 the East Liverpool Club of the National Rifle Association held regular sessions at the old power house on the Ohio River. Its officers were : president, E. Culter vice president, T. A. Snowden ; secretary-treasurer, W. A. Rymer ; range finder, Harry Stewart. Checkers, Pool and Billiards.—Throughout the years checkers has been a leading diversion of East Liverpool folk. Finally it became necessary to organize leagues in order to register the ability of the several players that stood out in the pastime. The West End Checker Club flourished in 1908. Others equally capable have been formed at intervals. Among those who have made records with the red and black disks have been Sherman Herbert, P. L. Troisieme, Charles Price, O. D. Nice, Al. Obney, Frank Hewitt and Messrs. Baum, Schmelzenbach Amos, Polen Robinson, Sanders, G. Bailey, J. Webb, H. Troisieme and J. McGill. Before them James Johnson and Frederick A. Perry had defeated state checker champions. Along with bowling, pool and billiards have ever been attractions 324 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY for numerous sport-inclined persons in the city. Club rooms and lodge apartments in addition to the public places set out for these games have been patronized greatly by those having a liking in this direction. Christy Stewart, Otto Powell, John Sellers, George Rowe, Bert Ryan, Earl Waggle and B. Crawford and others have made records with the cue in the city. Two State Bowling Champions.—Bowling has been an outstanding sport for many years in East Liverpool. As a result the city has had from six to seven different alleys at times within its limits. All have been liberally patronized during the evening and late afternoon hour;;. In order to develop the capabilities of many of the players leagues have been formed each season. Out of these some exceptionally capable players have sprung. Representatives of local clubs have from time to time attended the sessions of the America Bowling Congress and twice two of them, George Rumberger and Russell Crable, won the Ohio state championship at two of these annual meetings between 1908 and 1911. In addition to Rumberger and Crable such names as "Jack" Williams, Otto Powell, H. D. Clark, Ira Reible, R. C. Barr, William Kearns. T. Nagle, Paul Geer, Albert Schmidt, "Dutch" Cullison, and Charles Buck excelled at ten pins. The outstanding duck pin players included : J. M. Wells, W. S. Chambers, C. G. Patterson, Albert McMillan, Frank Aley, Alfred Wedgewood, E. Wilkinson, Dr. T. J. T. Jackson, James Gollgallon, C. W. Davis and Harry Fleming. The teams that stood out in the playing of both ten and duck pins were called at various intervals : The Outcasts, Brunswicks, Grands, Sleepless, Elites, Ceramics, Nationals, Eclipse, Crable's Tigers, Geon's Mules, Zook's Colts, and other kindred appellations. French Princess Judges Dogs.—East Liverpool residents have ever been lovers of good dogs throughout the years of the city's existence. From time to time exhibitions have been held under auspices of the then existing organization. Perhaps the strongest of these was The East Liverpool Kennel Club, which held its first annual summer show on the week beginning Sept. 25, 1896. During it 251 canines of various grades were entered. They represented owners in Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pa., Indianapolis, Ind., Cincinnati, Ohio, Buffalo, N. Y., Memphis. Tenn., and other metropolitan centers. Ralph Scraggs was president of the club and H. Homer Knowles, HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 325 secretary. E. J. State, W. T. Tebbutts and others were interested in the exhibitions given which were held in turn at Turner's Hall and the Sixth Street Rink. At the club's third annual show on Sept. 16-19, 1908 the affair was graced by the presence of a French princess as one of the judges. She, Madame la Princess de Montglyon, a cousin of Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helle de Sagan, who married Anna Gould, daughter of Jay Gould, being an authority on Collie, Chow Chow and Russian Wolf Hounds, came to East Liverpool from Tappan, N. Y., where each year she visited a kennel she maintained there. Chicken Fighting; Pigeon Racing.—Chicken fighting was still another form of diversion that had its East Liverpool devotees. Contests were frequently held on Line Island and on other spots outside of the vision of the law. On several occasions raids were made on these departures, but for the most part a quick escape was made by those indulging themselves in this kind of sport. In the end, however, it waned and gave way to others in which not so much stealth was necessary to continue them. Pigeon racing of long distance was indulged in for number of years by many East Liverpool residents. Keen interest was maintained in the development of these birds which were taught to carry attached messages and always return to their starting base. Some cross-country runs from Newark and Marysville, Ohio, and Denver, Colo., were made by the members of the East Liverpool Homing Club, which flourished in the years from 1907 to 1911. Perhaps one of the outstanding birds of this kind was "Silver Bill" which was owned by the late William McGonnigal. Other devotees were : J. Riddle, G. Cornell, F. Rowe and T. Shaw. The Yellow Creek Marathon.—Marathon running became a favorite pastime as it did all over the country in the years from 1907 to 1910. Several indoor long distance runs were held in the Sixth Street Rink. These attracted some of the best professionals of the day. Under the auspices of The Evening Review an abbreviated Marathon for amateurs in which boys between 12 and 18 years of age were eligible was run on March 6, 1909 and attracted great attention in East Liverpool, Wellsville, Newell and Chester, W. Va., from where and immediately contingent territory the contestants were entered. The distance 326 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY of the race was eight miles. The starting point was the turn in the roadway just beyond the Children's Home in Jefferson County just beyond Yellow Creek, and the course a direct one along the paved roadways directly through Wellsville and East Liverpool to the then business office of The Review on the first floor in its building on Washington Street. In all there were 125 contestants. Of these 56 finished within the required time of two hours and drew prizes which had been donated by the various business men of the city. The winner of the event was Robert M. Thompson, aged 18, who weighed 123 pounds and was a batter-out at the Smith and Phillips Pottery just west of his home in Smith's Ferry, Pa. Walter Wollam, a 16-year-old Sophomore of the East Liverpool High School, who resided in the Northside of the city. The third man was Allen Culnon, 18, of Wellsville. He was a senior in the High School and had made a record on its track team. The fourth to conclude the run was Clifford McMurray, a Wellsville eleventh grade pupil, and the fifth, Glenn Smith, an East Liverpool Northside lad. All reached their objective within an hour. Thompson overhauled Culnon, who had led from the start all the runners, at the foot of the Jefferson Street Hill. When Fifth Street was turned the two, passing Wollam, ran neck and neck between the curbs that were lined with spectators along its thoroughfare until the Market Street crossing was reached. Then Thompson forged slightly ahead and maintained his place until he won out just 26 seconds ahead of him. Culnon was but 40 seconds behind Wollam, McMurray 15 seconds behind Culnon and Smith 20 seconds in the rear of McMurray. The official time of the men was: Thompson, 53 minutes and 49 seconds; Wollam, 54 minutes and 15 seconds ; Culnon, 54 minutes and 55 seconds ; McMurray, 55 minutes and 10 seconds, and Smith, 55 minutes and 30 seconds. Two lads, Frank and Lyman Graham, scarcely within the age limit doggedly stayed in the long contest despite the fact that they were last all of the way. Though they came in outside of the time limit they were given special prizes for their gameness. The judges of the race were: Joseph Herbert, S. M. Ferguson, G. B. Stephenson, J. Howard Maxwell and Lyman Rinehart ; the starters were: Mayor Samuel Crawford, of East Liverpool ; Mayor Frank G. Chapman, of Chester, W. Va.; Mayor Edward McKenzie, of Wellsville ; Justice Fred E. Owens, of Newell, W. Va., and Justice Walter C. Supplee, of the East End of East Liverpool ; the timers were: William Hocking, of Chester, HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 327 W. Va.; William Hardie and Dr. Fred M. McFarland, of East Liverpool. The medical staff in attendance consisted of Drs. W. R. Clark, F. M. Laughlin, J. Howard Davis, Frank Ikirt, and W. J. Taylor. Thomas O'Brien, another of the contestants who took part in a 26-mile marathon from Rochester to Pittsburg, Pa., on January 30 previously, lost his chance of winning when he stopped to aid a fellow racer who momentarily needed assistance along the way. In the same Pittsburg contest Frank "Stump" Allen, of Newell, W. Va., runing second all of the way and seemingly a sure winner, had to quit on the verge of victory when a shoe became torn and lacerated his foot to such an extent that he was made to quit. Joseph Wells, State Golf Champion.—Activities in golf in and about East Liverpool were begun in 1905 when The Kennilworth Country Club was formed and between 40 and 50 acres of ground, belonging to the North American Manufacturing Company in Newell, W. Va., were utilized as a six-hole course by the members. The leading promoters of the departure were W. E. Wells, Edwin M. Knowles and E. J. State, the two former of Newell, W. Va., and the latter from East Liverpool. The original directors included Mr. Wells, R. T. Hall and Joseph Betz. Edwin M. Knowles, of Newell, W. Va., was president and F. B. Lawrence, of Newell, W. Va., the secretary. This organization continued for seven or eight years when Joseph Betz became president and Walter Durkee, both of East Liverpool, secretary. In the beginning the club used an old wash house that had been a part of the outbuildings on. the farm of William McDonald as headquarters. In 1910 a two-story frame structure was built on the same site and until 1917 was used as a club house by the members. The club until its cessation of activities due to the World War had a membership of about 100 persons. The outstanding players of this early golf period were W. E. Wells, E. J. State, Edwin M. Knowles and W. F. Lewis. Country Club.—Preliminary action towards the organization of the East Liverpool Country Club was taken on Dec. 12, 1919 when the St. Clair Land Company was formed and which a short time afterwards purchased the Fulkman farm of 50 acres just north of the Boulevard and Thompson Park. At this session W. H. Vodrey presided and James Hilbert acted as secretary. 328 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY Early in 1920 work was begun in laying out a nine-hole golf course on the farm plot and the homestead on it was remodeled and added to with a two-story and basement club house with all necessary appointments. The course was opened for play on June 30, 1921. Quick and sustained interest has been manifested in the sport. The club by 1925 has 250 members. So far the organization has had two presidents, C. C. Ashbaugh and G. R. Thomas and three secretaries, George H. Faulk, R. L. E. Chambers and S. S. Groglode. The club has the prestige of having one of its members, Joseph Wells, thrice a winner of the Ohio Amateur Golf Championship, which he accomplished in 1922 and '23 and again in '25. Four of the club members enjoy the distinction of having made four holes in one stroke : Frank Gardner, Robert Harker, Arthur Wells and R. L. E. Chambers. In its membership there are about thirty players who have a mark under 90 while at least five : Joseph, Edwin and Arthur Wells, Robert T. Hall, Jr., and W. A. Betz, who can qualify under 80. Joseph Wells has the course record at 68. Annually a women's tournament is held with the prize a silver trophy contributed by Mrs. Edwin M. Knowles, of Newell, W. Va., which has been permanently won by Mrs. C. G. Metsch for finishing first three consecutive times in 1923-24 and 25. The initial winner of the cup in 1922 was Miss Eleanor Hill. Three professional players have so far played on the course : Robert McAvoy, of New York City ; Thomas Manley, of Beaver, Pa., and Alex. Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio. Annual Poultry Exhibits.—The Tri-State Poultry Association held its third annual exhibit at the Traction Terminal Building, Broadway and Washington streets on Dec. 28, 29, 30 and 31, 1925 and Jan. 1 and 2, 1926. There were forty-one members in the organization whose officers were : president, J. A. McIntosh ; vice president, E. N. Jones ; secretary-treasurer, R. T. McNicol ; superintendent, Samuel Jones. F. H. Ricketts, of Coshocton, Ohio, was the judge and Prof. E. C. Foreman, of Zeeland, Mich., the production class judge. With the president and secretary the Executive Committee consisted of James DeBee, A. G. Kraft, J. Victor Mar- HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 329 tin, George Mautz, Thomas Blackmore, Wayne Kinsey, William I. Hall and William Landfried. Previously similar exhibits have been given under the names of the Tri-State Fanciers' Association and others. For years marked interest has been maintained by citizens in and about East Liverpool in the raising of a superior grade of poultry along the latest and most scientific lines. CHAPTER XXI. NOTABLE MEN WILLIAM M'KINLEY—MARK HANNA—JOHN H. CLARK—THE FIGHTING M'COOKS -CLEMENT L. VALLANDINGHAM—GEN. JAMES W. REILLY—JOHN J. MORGAN -ANDREW CARNEGIE—WILLIAM D. HINKLE—PROF J. M. M'GUFFEY—OTHERS. Columbiana County is rich in the sons it has produced who have become nationally and even internationally famous. Few similar stretches of territory can compare with its galaxy of great men. President William McKinley's parents lived in and about New Lisbon, his mother, Nancy Allison, being for years a resident of the town and her old home there is still in evidence though the logs have been covered with weatherboarding. Their illustrious son was born just without the county lines in Niles, but he ever returned to the scenes of his immediate forbears' early life as congressman of the district, governor of the state and president of the nation. Mark Hanna was born in New Lisbon and lived there until he removed when a young man to Cleveland with his parents. Ex-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, John H. Clarke, was also born in New Lisbon though he later removed to Youngstown and Cleveland. He succeeded Charles Evans Hughes on the bench in 1916 when the latter resigned to oppose Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. The famous Fighting McCooks for the most part were born in and around New Lisbon. Clement Laird Vallandingham, the stormy petrel of the North during the Civil War, whose antagonism of the government led to his being sent over the lines into the South from where he went to Canada and from there ran for the governorship of Ohio only to be defeated by - 330 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 331 John Brough, was the son of the eminent and early Presbyterian minister, Rev. Clement Vallandingham, of New Lisbon, where he was born. Gen. James W. Reilly, of Wellsville, lived for years in Wellsville. Cotemporaneous with him in the law which caused him to be promoted to the bench and to Congress and subsequently a place on the United States Tariff Commission was the Hon. Jacob A. Ambler, of Salem the Hon. Jonathan H. Wallace, of Lisbon became a judge and in 1880 defeated William McKinley for Congress. Fisher A. Blocksom, of New Lisbon, served in public life longer than any other person in the county, his record in various civil and military offices stretching out from 1806 to 1843. He lacked but five years of reaching the age of 100 years. John J. Morgan, of Lisbon, represented the United States in Brazil. Andrew W. Loomis, also of the county seat, became a renowned member of the bar of Western Pennsylvania. E. T. Merrick, of Lisbon, reached the supreme court bench of Louisiana and Gen. Anson G. McCook, with his other honors, served as secretary of the United States Senate. Andrew Carnegie, in his youth, spent considerable time visiting his relatives in East Liverpool, and may have in that interim by seeing some of the iron furnaces then in operation in the locality caught the idea of becoming the great ironmaker of his day later. William M. Thompson, of East Liverpool, became a national figure in the world of music with his composition, numerous songs and of some of the outstanding hymns utilized in the religious world. Columbiana turned out Harvey Firestone and the other members of this family that have made of Akron and the rubber industry almost household words. William D. Henkle of Salem, became secretary of the National Educational Association and author of a number of text books for schools. Dr. Alexander Clark, of Yellow Creek, was the author of "The Old Log School House" as was Rev. Henry C. McCook, of "The Latimers." Thomas C. Mendenhall, a principal of the Salem schools, became professor of physics in the University of Tokio, Japan. Prof. J. M. McGuffey, later president of the University of Virginia, began his career in teaching in a log school house at Calcutta. Sanford C. Hill, of East Liverpool, was for years an international authority on things mathematical and astronomical and his almanac departures are still being imitated to this day. Prof. George J. Luckey, twenty-five years head of the Pittsburg schools, taught in East Liverpool and published a paper there before going to 332 - HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY the Smoky City. Burr McIntosh, well known actor-author-journalist, came from the Scotch Settlement, and Frank T. Arter, wealthy philanthropist of Cleveland, was a member of the family of that name that long lived in Hanoverton. Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's war secretary during the most of the Civil War, though he never resided in the county, maintained a law office in New Lisbon. He was for a time associated in partnership with Judge Jonathan H. Wallace, a courtly gentleman, who was elected to Congress in 1882. Harvey and John Morrison, brothers, were notable lawyers with offices in New Lisbon for more than two decades in the eighties and nineties. In later years W. W. Hale, of Salem, served for a number of years as Common Pleas Judge of the county. He was followed by Judge James Moore, a native of Delaware, who was reared in Salineville before removing to Lisbon to practice his profession. Aside from the various members of the McCook family the county had a number that reached high military rank. Of these Ephraim H. Holloway, of Columbiana, became brevet brigadier general in the Civil War; Judge Peter A. Laubie, of Salem, was a major in that conflict ; S. J. Firestone and W. J. Jordan, of New Lisbon ; Thomas C. Boone, of Salem, W. H. Vodrey of East Liverpool, colonels, and H. R. Hill, of East Liverpool, a lieutenant colonel. From major down there were many officers who did meretorious service in the war of the states. During the World War Major Frederick C. Mountford, of East Liverpool, a graduate of West Point, reached the rank of lieutenant colonel and did effective work as staff officer in Washington for the coast defenses. Malcolm Thompson, a Yale graduate, who had performed military duty before the war declaration, became a major of artillery during the World War and as such was one of the youngest officers in the American Army to reach that position. No less successful have been the accomplishments of Clark B. Firestone, of the well known family of that name who, born in Lisbon and after completing his education, became attached to the New York Mail and New York World as editorial writer. He returned to the county seat for an interval before and during the World War when he rendered great work in the home activities of the struggle ; in this interim he several times was a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Re- HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY - 333 turning to his newspaper activities in New York he finally resigned to become the managing editor of Charles P. Taft's paper, The Cincinnati Times-Star. Many of the "Fighting McCooks" as well as others of that famous family were born or lived in sections of the county. Hon. Robert W. Taylor, though born in Youngstown, Ohio, taught school and practised law in New Lisbon. He was for a time also located in East Liverpool before he went to Congress and to the Federal bench in Cleveland ; P. C. Young was an outstanding orator, lawyer and newspaper man following his residence at the county seat after having been born in Middleton Township ; Hon. John P. Elkin, of Pennsylvania, passed his boyhood in Wellsville where the Hon. William P. Hepburn, who represented an Iowa district in Congress for two decades and became one of its leading members, was born. Stephen G. Porter, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, whose joint resolution with that of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations finally brought about in 1921 a formal peace with Germany and Austria-Hungary, was born in Salem. Charles S. Speaker was long one of the county's leading lawyers and as such was known all over Eastern Ohio. It is significant that both he and Ex-Justice Clark, life-long friends and natives of Lisbon, were bachelors. CHAPTER XXII. COUNTY OFFICIALS. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE-FIRST ELECTION-PRESIDENT JUDGES-ASSOCIATE JUDGES-COMMON PLEAS JUDGES-JUDGES OF PROBATE COURT-CLERKS OF COURT-SHERIFFS-PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS-TREASURERS-AUDITORS -RECORDERS-COUNTY COMMISSIONERS-STATE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. The following is a list of the principal offices of Columbiana County for the first century of its existence. The first county commissioners, appointed by the Common Pleas Court, were George Atterholt, Daniel Harbaugh and Joseph Richardson. The first county election was held in the spring of 1806, George Duck was elected sheriff. The following Justices of the Peace received certificates of election at the polls of 1808: