Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Mrs. J.E. Angle, 23, heard a burglar cutting a window screen. She grabbed her automatic revolver and fired three shots through the window. She saw the man fall and then get up and run.

She tried to shoot again, but the revolver jammed. So she grabbed another automatic revolver and emptied it at the man as he fled through a neighbor’s yard.

“I wasn’t scared until the whole affair was over …” Angle said. “I only wish that gun had not jammed. Those bullet holes are but a sample of the marksmanship taught me by my husband when on vacation in mining camps. I don’t believe I’ll ever be bothered with that particular burglar again.”

From the track and field beat: Evan Pearson of North Central High School and Carl Johnson of Lewis and Clark High School “wrote the name of Spokane in big red letters” at the all-American high school track meet in Chicago.

Pearson won the 100-yard dash and finished second in the furlong and quarter-mile runs. He tied for the meet’s high individual honors with Sol Butler, “a Negro runner from Rock Island.” 

Johnson won the running broad jump and set a new record for the meet at 23 feet, 4 ½ inches. Johnson also finished second in the 220 hurdles and fourth in the high jump.

The story, by a Chicago sports editor, called them “iron men from the far Northwest.”