Arizona's Centennial: Sports and recreation in 1912 in the Copper ...

By John Hernandezid="0">

Arizonans in 1912, like those today, enjoyed a wide variety of leisure activities. In the early 1900s hunting and fishing were popular not just as recreation but many times supplementing the family?s food budget. id="2">

As Arizona became a state new hunting regulations were put in place. Rodeo events and horse races were held among the ranchers. Professional baseball was followed in the newspapers. id="3">

There were 16 Major League teams then, none of them west of St. Louis and none of them with an African American player. The mining camps organized baseball, and other sports teams and would play games against nearby mines. id="4">

There was no NFL but college football was followed and the new universities in Arizona had formed teams. With only a few college teams nearby, the University of Arizona and Tempe Normal would play high school and club teams in the different sports. Football clubs were also formed by some of the engineers at the mines that had played football in college. id="5">

The National Basketball Association was still a long way away. Basketball as a college sport was not popular yet. Colleges would play high school, club, military and Y.M.C.A. teams. Jack Johnson the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World was being pursued around the country by the Federal government for violation of the Mann Act (the transportation of a woman across state lines for immoral purposes). id="6">

Apparently, they didn?t like that Johnson flaunted his white girlfriends in public and spoke his mind freely. At the same time boxing promoters were searching the country for a ?Great White Hope? to dethrone the champ. id="7">

Bisbee Daily Review ? December 12, 1912 id="8">

MISCEGENATION IS ATTACKED IN THE HOUSE id="9">

Denunciation of the legal procedure under which is termed ?a brown hued, black skinned, thick lipped, brutal hearted African can walk into a law office and demand an edict guaranteeing him legal wedlock with a white woman,? was one of the many sentimental features of a speech today by Representative Roddenberry, of Georgia, in favor of a resolution he introduced to prohibit the inter-marriage of whites and negroes. This marriage is the direct result of the recent marriage of Jack Johnson, the Negro pugilist, to a white girl. id="10">

Bisbee Daily Review ? January 19, 1912 id="11">

The schedule of the Y.M.C.A. basketball team is being arranged by Physical Director E.N. Robinson and will be announced at an early date. It is expected that games will be played with Douglas, Tucson, the University of Arizona, Fort Huachuca, and El Paso. id="12">

Bisbee Daily Review ? February 9, 1912 id="13">

Victory over the strong basketball team of the University of Arizona will be an emolument worth striving for and will have an important bearing on the question of the southwestern championship. The varsity team has decisively defeated the Tucson high school team and if the Bisbee Y.M.C.A. defeats the varsity Saturday night, Tucson will have been eliminated from the championship contest in one fell swoop. id="14">

Bisbee Daily Review ? September 9, 1912 id="15">

The first game of the Warren district soccer league will be played at Warren this afternoon between the new Knights of Columbus team and the Lowell team, the team that won the league championship last year. The Knights claim to have a strong team, not withstanding that this is their first year in the organization. Some of the players are recent recruits from the soccer fields of England, the home of the English language and soccer football. id="16">

Bisbee Daily Review ? October 24, 1912 id="17">

Roy Benton of the Bisbee football team of all-stars, yesterday announced that he had concluded arrangements for a game with the team of the Cananea smelter men. The game will be played at Cananea, October 27, and should be one of the fastest games ever played in the southwest. id="18">

The local team is composed of men who have starred on high school teams for several years past and the Cananea team is composed of ex-high school players and several college players including representatives of Harvard and Yale, men of the mining engineering profession who have drifted to this part of the country. The coach of the Cananea team is an ex-Harvard football star. id="19">

Tombstone Epitaph ? February 18, 1912 id="20">

A Mammoth jack rabbit hunt is being organized for Saturday, February 17, on Ash Creek flat, near Safford where these pests are about as numerous as sands on the sea shore. It is expected that this will be a day of great sport. The farmers will give a suitable prize to the side killing the greatest number of rabbits and a cake to the individual that kills the most. id="21">

The Coconino Sun ? October 11, 1912 id="22">

*Tom Wills of Florence, superintendent of the broncho busting contests at the State Fair, has issued the following relative to prizes to be awarded: id="23">

First prize, $150, silver trimmed, silver mounted saddle. id="24">

Second prize, $60 cash. id="25">

Third prize, $30 cash. id="26">

Fourth prize, $10 cash id="27">

* The dollar?s buying power in 1912 was equivalent to approximately $20 today. id="28">

*Historical note ? Tom Wills owned a ranch at Mammoth, Arizona and at one time managed the 7B Ranch there also. He moved to Florence when he was elected to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors but still maintained his ranch. id="29">

Tombstone Epitaph ? November 24, 1912 id="30">

The University football squad is now almost ready for the big Thanksgiving day game with New Mexico. Coach Quigley put his men through three hours practice on the new formation Saturday. id="31">

Arizona Republican ? February 4, 1912 id="32">

Friday evening, the young men of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., met at the office dormitory and made a formal organization of the Hayden Tennis Association. The meeting was largely attended and much enthusiasm manifested. David Cole was chosen President: Frank Poe Treasurer and T.W. White Secretary. The company employees at Ray have already an organization of this nature and active training will follow for a series of games between the two associations for the season?s championship. id="33">

We have recently received a magnificent trophy from Sherwood Aldrich, President of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company in the form of a championship cup for the season of 1912 which, with the elegant prize of the same nature put up by David Cole will make this championship an honor much sought after. id="34">

Tombstone Epitaph ? June 9, 1912 id="35">

At Globe, Reverend Moody of St. John?s Episcopal church says that the members of the churches are urged to meet at St. John?s church to protest against the horse racing scheduled for Sunday evening next, in that city. Addresses will be made by laymen as well as the clergy and resolutions bearing upon the matter will be drawn up and presented to the proper authorities. id="36">

Graham Guardian ? July 19, 1912 id="37">

James J. Kennedy, the well known horseman of Aravaipa, who has been in Globe for the past few weeks during which time he obtained just a little ?change?, when he raced his horses, will leave this morning for Safford. Mr. Kennedy expects to make arrangements to race at that place if negotiations now pending are satisfactory. id="38">

Mohave County Miner ? September 14, 1912 id="39">

HUNTING REGULATIONS id="40">

The right given by this Act to take or kill game or fish is limited to two (2) Male Deer in one season; twenty five (25) Quail in one day; twenty five (25) Ducks in one day; thirty five (35) Doves or White Wings in one day; three (3) turkeys in one day; twenty (20) pounds of Trout, Bass, Crappie, or Catfish, or forty (40) individual fish no shorter than seven inches in length in one day. id="41">

It shall be unlawful to trap, kill, or snare, or in any manner injure or destroy , or have in possession, any Antelope, Elk, Goat or Mountain Sheep, Female Deer, Fawn, Roadrunner, Bob White, Grouse or Pheasant. id="42">

The State Game Wardens and license collectors shall charge the following fees: id="43">

For each general license to residents?.$ .50 id="44">

For each Big Game license non-resident?.$25.00 id="45">

For each Big Game license alien?.$100.00 id="46">

For each bird license non-resident?.$10.00 id="47">

For each bird license alien?.$25.00id="48">

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