Girls of summer

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May, 2002

Byline: Looking back by The Register-Guard

In 1937, Bim and Betty Johnson, owners of the Heilig Theatre, sponsored an all-Eugene girls softball team that won the Valley championship, thus qualifying them to play the perennial state champions from Portland, Lind-Pomroy. The Eugene team lost the state championship game, 1-0, at the Willamette University field.

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LOOKING BACK -- In 1937, Bim and Betty Johnson, owners of the Heilig Theatre, sponsored an all-Eugene girls softball team that won the Valley championship, thus qualifying them to play the perennial state...