{"id":2747,"date":"2017-08-03T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2017-08-03T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:35:54","slug":"outtakes-no-i-getting-autographs-getting-some-revenge-and-blowing-the-whistle-on-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Outtakes NO. I: Getting autographs, getting some revenge and blowing the whistle on the boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

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BILL BUMERTON<\/p>\n

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OUTTAKES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>These are things that slip through the cracks when writing stories and I and my friend Bill Bumerton felt it would be great for others to see what they miss. Of course, Bumerton has missed a lot while he was away serving the military as a jet fighter pilot. Now Bumerton is back, bumming around town in his 1954 Hudson Hornet seeing what trouble he can get into. So these outtakes are dedicated to the original bum.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0J<\/em>oe Perdue graduated from West Bremerton High School in 1978 (the last West High class because West and East Bremerton merged into Bremerton High in the fall of 1978) and was fortunate enough to be the son of a man, Ed Perdue, who was a longtime sportswriter and avid golfer.<\/p>\n

That genetic connection has led Perdue on some great adventures that his peer group might not have had.\u00a0 For example, Perdue remembers attending Sonics\u2019 games with his dad and getting many autographs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went to most home games at the old (Seattle) Coliseum and we would sit behind the Sonics\u2019 bench,\u201d says Perdue. \u201cI almost got killed one time. He would go into the lockerroom and interview the guys and I would hang outside and get autographs. Wilt Chamberlain was playing and he wasn\u2019t signing autographs that night.\u201d<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t deter Perdue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him and he said, \u2018Kid, get away from me,\u2019\u201d Perdue said. \u201cI turned around and looked at my dad and I said, \u2018Chamberlain is a bum.\u2019 My dad looked around like, \u2018He\u2019s not my kid.\u2019<\/p>\n

But Perdue managed to score over time autographs from Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Dick Snyder and Barry Clemens among many others, including Spencer Haywood.<\/p>\n

Haywood was a special signee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was asked so much that he began using a rubber stamp to sign,\u201d says Perdue.<\/p>\n

Perdue, who became golf pro while working local golf courses, including 13 years at Gold Mountain, remembers the night that he left the pro shop very late and as he was walking to the parking lot saw that there was one car that was still there.<\/p>\n

That panicked him because unless the driver had too much to drink and got a ride home with somebody else, the driver had to be still around somewhere. So Perdue called the police and they looked up the owner of the car through the license plate number and his wife reported that he had not come home yet.<\/p>\n

So Perdue along with the police and fire department people combed through the course to see if they could find him. After some time, they found him in the woods. He had died.<\/p>\n

Another story about Perdue has a perfect ending, for him. He was being recruited out of high school for the golf team at the University of Idaho, which he was excited about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coach had me fill out a form, did a phone interview and told me he would follow up and then I never heard back from him,\u201d says Perdue.<\/p>\n

Perdue wound up going to Central Washington and as luck would have it the Wildcats played in the Idaho College Invitation that the University of Idaho golf team hosted.<\/p>\n

You know the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey might say, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

Yes, Central won the tournament and Perdue was medalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took great personal satisfaction when the University of Idaho coach handed me the medalist trophy and I introduced myself to him,\u201d Perdue said, laughing at the memory.<\/p>\n

There is also a basketball story involving Perdue. He was a refereed for almost 20 years with the Peninsula Basketball Officials Association and did most of the Bremerton City League games at Sheridan Park Gym.<\/p>\n

That led to a problem. His boss \u2013 Scott Alexander at Golf Mountain Golf Complex \u2013 was a good basketball player and competed in the city league for years. So they had to come to some understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning of the basketball season, I\u2019d told Scott that I wanted to get through an entire season without calling a technical foul, something that I could be a little quick with sometimes,\u201d Perdue recalled. \u201cSo when I ended up with Scott\u2019s game, he did everything he could to get me to call a \u201cT\u201d on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe game got a little competitive, Scott got a little competitive, and instead of giving Scott the technical foul that he wanted (and deserved), I called a couple of really cheap fouls on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt ended up not being a shining moment for either of us. We went for about two weeks without speaking to each other at the golf course. It wouldn\u2019t have been so bad if it were the middle of summer and we were busy, but his was in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we had snow on the ground, and we\u2019d be lucky to see 10 people all day. The entire staff was walking on egg shells around us, and it was really quiet and uncomfortable. We finally said enough was enough, talked it out and to this day we laugh like hell about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n

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