The cheers of their home city rang in the ears of three of St. Mary’s Galloping Gales Friday as Dick Sperbeck, Emory Rubel and Charles Baird were made the guest of honor at a reception at Hotel Marysville.
Music by the Marysville municipal band, applause of their townspeople and a luncheon by the Exchange club marked the homecoming of the three football stars.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSperbeck, Rubel and Baird came to Marysville to spend a few days, fresh from two important gridiron victories. They had helped St. Mary’s two weeks ago to score a sensational victory over the Fordham Rams in New York.
Then on Thanksgiving day they had figured in another St. Mary’s triumph, that over Oregon State at Kezar stadium in San Francisco.
Rubel and Baird had arrived in Marysville Thursday night. Sperbeck arrived at 11:30 a.m. Friday. About noon Friday, the three football players met Councilman Dan Bryant and Leo Smith at Bryant Bros. store. The five men rode in Bryant’s automobile to Hotel Marysville.
As the automobile arrived at the hotel the band, standing in front of the building, began to play. Cheers and applause greeted Sperbeck, Rubel and Baird as they left the automobile wearing the derby hats in which the triumphant Gaels had returned from the east.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe three boys, their parents and other relatives were guests of honor of the Marysville Exchange club at noon, with the Marysville Merchants’ association, the Yuba county chamber of commerce and representatives of various service clubs participating.
The banquet room of Hotel Marysville was crowded, extra tables being set up hurriedly to accommodate the throng.
Addresses of welcome were made by Dan E. Bryant, acting mayor on behalf of the city, who finished by reading a telegram that had just arrived expressing a million cheers for Dick Sperbeck, and signed by an Oakland girl.
Baird remarked that of the 33 men on the Gaels squad, four were from San Francisco and three from Marysville.
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