More Portsmouth Sports- Thanks Clay Vice!

Thanks Clay!




Bill Collier was a neighbor who lived at Grant and McConnell, Clay. That was the top of McConnell which ended at Mound Park. The Kegley clan poopulated the lower block of McConnell Ave. I also worked a while with Bill at Williams Shoe Co. He was a really nice, Little- Abner- looking guy. He taught school in Grove City, but I have lost track of him now.



Harvey Walker was a pretty fair plitcher in the late forties district tournaments at the park and my brother, Jim, became friends with him later in life. I watched those games too.





----- Original Message -----

From: Clay Vice

To: Sam "Kat " Kegley

Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 09:39

Subject: Fw: Columbus Dispatch Front Page on Chicago vs. Ports,mouth Spartans 1932 Championship game.





HEY SAM, JUST A LITTLE SIDE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD REMEMBER. IN 1948 THE WAS ANOTHER FOOTBALL LEAGUE STARTED, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LEAGUE. PORTSMOUTH HAD A TEAM IN IT, IT WAS A SEMI PRO LEAGUE AND THEY WENT BY THE NAME OF THE PORTSMOUTH SPARTANS. MY DAD BOUGHT ME A SEASON TICKET AND I REMEMBER GOING TO WATCH THEM PLAY AND TWO OF THE PLAYERS ON THAT TEAM THAT I REMEMBER WERE HARVEY WALKER AND BILL COLLIER, THOSE TWO WERE FROM THE EAST END OF TOWN WHERE I GREW UP, SO THAT HOW I REMEMBER THEM. ALSO THAT SAME YEAR THE CLEVELAND INDIANS WERE PAYING IN THE WORLD SERIES AND LOU BOUDREAU PLAYED SHORTSTOP AND WAS ALSO THE MANAGER.

CLAY VICE

P.S. THE ONLY OTHER TEAM I CAN REMEMBER IN THIS LEAGUE WAS THE IRONTON TANKS.