While reading the stats from Missoula baseball games from long ago an unfamiliar name jumped out at me: Roman Pfeffer. Several local Missoulian articles in 1948 mentioned his hitting prowess, but his name didn’t ring any bells. You don’t forget a name like that. Gaps in my local knowledge of Read More
Missoula’s Second Golf Club Ready For Season Course Along River West of Business District It may be the “Missoula Amateur Athletic club,” and it may not. That will be decided at next Friday’s meeting, when a formal title will be selected for Missoula’s second golf club. The course of the Read More
Catching Up With Ed Anderson Anderson reflects on UM athletics career By Nick Lockridge of the Missoulian Before his latest trip to Missoula, Ed Anderson sounded nervous about returning to his hometown. The former three-sport standout at the University of Montana was worried about making the right impression, he said. Read More
Robert B Fraser In 1952, Robert Fraser, of Billings, was one of five U of M students who were selected as candidates for a Rhodes Scholarship. A photo of him appeared in The Missoulian, along with Missoulian Wayne Mytty, who was an MCHS graduate. It wouldn’t have been all that Read More
New Champion of Boys Never Took Lesson in Golf Competition “Pretty Stiff” Says Kenneth Willard On Return Competition was “pretty stiff,” said smiling Kenneth Willard after returning from Great Falls, where he took top honors in the Montana Junior golf tournament Sunday, shooting a 78 in 18 holes of medal Read More
Victory Field Goes On Auction Block (1954) Victory Field in southeast Missoula is passing from the city’s athletic picture and entering a new phase of existence which will see it as the site of homes. The Board of County Commissioners will sell the land in the field May 3 at Read More
No “White Hope” Today A recent retelling of the story of the championship fight at Reno on July 4, 1910, takes our memory back to that day in Missoula. The contestants were Jack Johnson, Negro, and Jim Jeffries, who had retired some years before as undefeated champion. Johnson had won Read More
“The Blackfoot Scourge” – ‘Skipper’ Lofting – the E-Bar-L and the Blackfoot River – by Red Smith Red Smith was probably the widest read columnist to ever write about fishing in Montana. According to Wikipedia, by the early 1960’s Smith’s column reached 275 newspapers in the U. S. and about Read More
David Roberts – Cincinnati Enquirer (1990) David Roberts was the son of Frank Allen Roberts, a well-known Missoula attorney. He was born in Ohio in 1897 and came to Missoula in 1910. His father, according to a Missoulian article, was the chief legal representative for several important Missoula businesses, including Read More
Heavyweight Champions – Jeffries v Fitzsimmons A few days prior to Christmas in 1902, two of the world’s most famous heavyweight boxers came to Missoula. Jim Jeffries and Bob Fitzsimmons were at the peak of boxing mania after meeting for the world’s Heavyweight Championship. The Daily Missoulian promoted their “exhibition” Read More