Ahead of the 1939-45 war there have been 4 football teams playing in the Gympie competitors. One particular of these was Valleys, a team as the name suggests chosen from the town ships of the Mary Valley.
My brothers Kev and Bert played, and as properly as getting captain of Valleys, Kev was captain of the Gympie representative team. Roads weren't crash hot back in the 1930's, there was no bitumen on the roads in the Valley and being to the venue exactly where the match was played was pretty a chore.
Website traffic on the road stirred up clouds of dust. It was pretty much not possible to pass a automobile in front, as it was really hard to see for dust, and if you followed also closely, you had been smothered in the stuff.
1 of the players, Frank Jocumsen had a cream run and picked up cream from farmers involving Imbil and Gympie. The cream was delivered to the Gympie Butter factory on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of every single week. His truck was significant for the instances, about seven ton capacity with a canvas hood more than the back to retain the cream cool. It was too a terrific way to transport the team to the playing venue on Sunday.
There was A single snag, the back of the truck got splashed with cream, and by the finish of the week, as may possibly be imagined, was pretty smelly certainly. My function model Kev, volunteered me to clean the back of the truck, and each Saturday for the duration of football season Frank would bring it to the back of our residence to have it cleaned. I was only seven or eight years old when I inherited the job and I can inform you it was no sinecure.
No hoses at the time, just a lot of buckets of water, carried from the tank some distance away, soap and a broom, and some difficult perform. It was too my job to clean Kev's football boots and they weren't regarded clean if you could not see your face in them.
All the Valley towns got behind their team and anticipated them to win each and every game. The interest and work was so fantastic that Jack Lutton who owned the sawmill in Imbil was reputed to have mentioned production at his mill dropped significantly on Mondays and Fridays.
Fridays, mainly because his staff, and there had been a lot of in the team; put in most of the day speaking about how they would play Sunday's game, and immediately after the game on Sunday they have been as well sore to function well on Monday.
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