Grants Pass Mayor OKs Game Bet

From Lane Co Oregon

Possibly Register-Guard

Grants Pass Mayor OKs Game Bet

Somebody has a long walk coming up after Springfield meets Grants Pass in a state A-1 high school football tournament game Friday night.

Springfield Mayor John McCulley has issued a challenge to his Grants Pass counterpart, D.W. Gillespie, that the loser walk down the winner's Main Street carrying a sign around his neck with the game score on it.

Springfield's street is eight miles long, while Grants Pass main street is six miles.

Each mayor is confident that he will get to watch the other walk. "We've got a good team, I think we'll do it," McCulley said.

Gillespie was even more emphatic. "I'd be glad to accept any reasonable challenge the mayor wants to make," he said. "We've even had other mayors in jail here on football bets."