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I haven't seen a link to area historians, so I'll write this down for whatever value it may have, and maybe it will be recorded somewhere.
Around 1927, Marion Landers came to Albert, called Oney by most locals, as he heard that a barber was needed in this little town with the tough reputation. After he opened his modest little shop, he was told that the town prided itself on its baseball team. It was not big league, but the townspeople got real excited when a team from another town came to play. He pondered the idea that if he got involved with the team, it would do good for his new shop, get him acquainted, and like that. He found out that the most recent team manager had quit for some unknown reason, and so he volunteered for the unpaid job. In actuality, he had never managed a team, but had watched a lot of them back in Missouri where he grew up. Marion was a nice looking 28 year old man whose wife had died some years before, and his little girl was being raised by his dead wife's folks. He didn't find the locals too awful friendly, so
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he was out to prove his value as their manager. This enthusiasm came near to costing him his life, and left him scarred for life, a huge scar running from his right underarm to his lower left chest area.
The team was not faring too well on this hot summer day, and the team from down South was getting hit after hit, and first and third base had
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people on them. Marion decided that the Oney pitcher had taken one too many gulps from his illegal whiskey bottle, and decided to change the pitcher. Well, now, this pitcher Jim was the team's favorite player, was a tough old boy, and had a hand in helping the local boys make a few good dollars in a few not quite legal activities. He and his pals decided to teach this newcomer a good lesson, so they stormed out, and Jim pulled out a sharp nine inch blade and cut Marion across the chest. Bloodied, they left the field and hid out in the nearby hills until things cooled down. Marion was helped into a car by a couple of his friends, and one of them even had to hold him together as the little model A rumbled down the road to Anadarko, as Oney had no Doctor or any kind of medical facility.
Marion was sewed up, bandaged up, and after a long time, healed up. He decided not to go back to Oney, but found work in a barber shop in Anadarko. It was there that he noticed a pretty dark haired girl who worked as a store clerk. He bragged to his fellow barbers
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that that was the girl he was going to marry. In 1928 they married and Marion Landers and Elizabeth Handley were to have seven children, including me. The story of the summer day in Oney was repeated many times. I wrote a letter to a local paper in 1977, and then corresponded with an elderly woman from 'Albert', who saw the whole thing happen, and gave me details I didn't have before.....Walt Landers
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Submitted by Walt Landers..a history
Categories: home, family, man
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