The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1956 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, February 23, 1956
THE BAY CITY NEWS
Page 3
BIRDS ARE FAVORED IN CLASSY FIELD OF 37 HERE
BAY CITY HAS SEVEN LETTERMEN
BACK FOR 1956 BASEBALL SEASON
Training Starts After Grid WorkOuts;
Local Nine Plays Lamar First April 3
It may still be winter but Bay
City baseball fans are already look-
ing forward to the national
pastime.
Black Cat baseball parctice will
begin in about two weeks at the
conclusion of football training.
Coach Don Haley said that he
was too wrapped up in spring
training to even think about base-
ball, but added that he would have
seven lettermen back.
And, 'for a change, the coach
has plenty of pitchers on tap—
four of them. . . however they
are all of the "chunker" variety.
Lettermen are Hootie Estlin-
baum, Ben Muniz, David Kristy-
nik,, Mike Williamson, Larry Huitt,
Jessie Ramirez, and William Town-
send.
Pitchers Named
Prospective pitchers are Wil-
liamson, Raymond Hernandez,
Huitt, and Ramirez.
The Blues will play the Golds in
an intesquad game here March 3.
It is hoped that an opponent can
• 1956 POLITICS
This is the year for politics.
Candidates are up to the
same old tricks.
"Howdy son, you're looking
fine!"
Every two years it's the
same old line!
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BAY CITY
be secured for a March 13 game
here.
Bay City and Freeport will swap
out games March 20-21, Freeport
playing host March 20 and Bay
City welcoming the visitors on
the latter date.
The Black Cats will participate
in the El Campo tournament March
29.
District competition will begin
April 3 with the locals invading
Lamar Consolidated at 4 o'clock.
Official games will consist of
seven innings, and four innings
will constitute a game if play is
terminated by unseen circumstan-
ces.
Day games will start at 4
o'clock and night-time affairs will
begin at 7:30 o'clock.
Rules Interpreted
The championship of District
25-AA will be decided on a per-
centage basis as in basketball.
In case of a tie for the crown,
the teams will be co-champions
with each team getting a trophy.
A play-off willbe held to decide
which team will represent the dis-
trict.
The complete district schedule:
April 6, Boling here, 7:30 o'clock;
April 10, El Campo there, 7:30
o'clock; April 20, 'West Columbia
here, 7:30 o'clock; April 24, Whar-
ton here, 7:30 o'clock.
April 27, Lamar Consolidated
here, 7:30 o'clock; May 1, Boling
there, 4 o'clock; May 4, El Campo
here, 7:30 o'clock; May 8, West Co
lumbia there, 7:30 o'clock; May 11,
Wharton there 4 o'clock.
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Bob Zogg Is Due
To Defend His
Old Ocean Title
Word is that Bob Zogg, classy
Houston golfer, will defend his
championship title at the Old j
Ocean Recreational Club's Annual
Golf Tournament May 5-6.
Entries are now being received I
by Bill McDowell, club president.
STAR RICE ATHLETE TO PLAY HERE—Rice Institute's fabulous athlete, King
Hill of Freeport, will play in the Bay City Country Club's Fifth Annual Invitational
Golf Tournament March 17-18, Coach Jess Neely has notified Tourney Chairman Dick
Dawdy. It seems King Hill can do just about everything in the field of sports—and
very well. Here he's shown in a recent Rice Owl basketball game, leaping for the
basket. Last fall he stood out at the quarterback position for the Houston school's
football team, and they say he can run track and play baseball! Tourney fans here
are already looking forward to the visit by King Hill, one of the outstanding all-
around athletes of modern time.—jPhoto by Houston Chronicle.
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BAY CITY MEET ENTRY
HOLDS ANGLETGN TITLE
Williard Wood of Clute, who is
entered in the Bay City Country
Club's classy field of 120 for the
fi'fth annual invitational golf
tourney March 17-18, is recognized
by members of the new Meadow-
lake Country Club at Angleton as
club champion.
Wood won the title in a recent
tourney among the members.
He is also entered in Meadow-
lake's First Annual Amateur In-
vitational Match Play Gqlf Tour-
nament April 6-7-8 and is one of
the meet favorites. He holds the
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course record of 65 for 18 holes.
Only the lowest 96 players will
be allowed to take part in the
play, and out-of-town golfers may
enter by sending $10 along with
their attested' score card to Bob
Campbell, Club Pro, Meadowlake
Country Club, Route 1, Angleton,
Texas.
Members of the tournament com-
mittee include Kenneth Willen-
berg, Bob LaFleur, J. T. Vick, Dr.
Marvin Russell, Raymond Walker,
Jack Taylor, Horace Owings, Ar-
den Delaney, Neal Giesecke, Dick
Riley, and Kirby Fontonot.
Riley, who lives in Lake Jack-
son, is president of Meadowlake,
which has approximately 200 mem-
bers.
Meadowlake, like the Bay City
course, has good water traps and
is in good shape. In two years of
play on Meadowlake, three holes-
in-one have been made, all on No.
8, a 165-yard par three hole.
The lucky golfers are Gene New-
man of Lake Jackson, Bill Correll
Women's Golf
Club To Elect
Officers March 6
Officers of the Bay City Coun-
try Club Women's G'olf Associa-
tion will be elected at a business
meeting March 6 at the country
club here.
Also at this meeting, names of
women planning to attend the
Meadowlake golf tourney in An-
gleton March 8 will be released.
Mrs. Joe Allison placed in the
Gulf Coast Women's Golf Associa-
tion play Friday in Wharton, Mrs.
Albert Wacfsworth, vice-president
of the Bay City golf group, told
THE NEWS. Mrs. Allison's scores
are not available.
Attending the Wharton meet
from Bay City were Mrs. Allison,
Mrs. E. M. Landrum, Mrs. Melvin
Blum, Miss Jerry Poe, Mrs. Ran-
dall Clark, Mrs. Ben Morris, and
Mrs. Wadsworth.
Officers of the Gulf Coast Wo-
men's Golf Association were elect-
ed after the tournament with no
Bay C'ty women being given posts.
Mrs. Ben Elam was retiring
vice-president and in line for the
presidency but has moved away
from Bay City.
My 1 Black Cat
Holds Record In
Bay City Relays
Black Cat Relays' records for the
past four years show that Anthony
Acosta is the only Bay City lad
holding a record.
Anthony is still in school but is
ineligible for competition this
spring. His brother, Gilbert, how-
ever, is looking good in the sprints.
Anthony's mark came last year
when he dashed the 220 yards in
21.9 seconds.
Complete list of records:
McBride, Refugio, 120-yard high
hurdles, 15.4 seconds in 1953;
Watkins, Port Lavaca, 100-yard
dash, 9.9:5 seconds in 1955.
Rowel], Industrial, 880-yard run,
2 minutes 5.8 seconds in 1955;
Peters, Brenham, 440-yard dash,
52 seconds in 1953; Boling, 440-
yard relay, 44.6 seconds in 1955.
Jaso, Refugio, mile run, 4 min-
utes 47 seconds in 1955; Schanen,
Robstown, 180-yard low hurdles,
20.8 seconds 1955; Boling, 880-
yard relay, 1 minute 35.3 seconds
in 1955.
Robstown, 3 minutes 36 seconds
in 1955; McBride, Pole vault, 12
feet 4Vi inches in 1953; Craig, El
Campo, broad jump, 21 feet *A-
inch in 1955.
Somers, Boling, discus, 147 feet
in 1955; Somei-s, Boling, shot put,
51 feet 4% inches in 1955; Shivers,
Angleton, high jump, 6 feet in
1952.
ANNUAL BLACK CAT RELAYS'
FINALS FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH (6
Carl Townsend Looking Up In Work-Outs;
Richers, Acosta, Draper, Riggs Nab Wins
Invitations to 37 schools have been sent out by Track
Coach Joe Rogers for the annual Black Cat Relays March 16
in Bay City Memorial Stadium.
Invitations were sent out last week and Coach Rogers
said that replies would begin coming in about a week before
the meet.
It's still El Campo all the way as far as the Bay City
track mentor
I of Freeport, and Dr. Jack Taylor
| of Angleton.
can see.
When asked if the resignation
of Coach Floyd Elkins would ef-
fect the Rice Bird track team,
Coach Rogers replied that he
didn't think it would.
They have such tremendous na-
tural ability they practically don't
need a coach, he said.
"Somebody is sure going to in-
herit a nice track team," Rogers
commented.
The mentor has been slightly
disappointed in the Black Cat
thinly clads so far. "But they will
do better," he said.
In a practice meet with Victoria
last week the locals won four first
places in 12 events.
Four Win Events
Turning the trick were Charlie
Richers with a 52.6 for the quarter,
Gilbert Acosta with a 15.5 in the
150-yard dash, Lon Draper with a
shot put of 43 feet 11 inches, and
Billy Riggs with a discus throw of
129 feet, 4 inches.
All these boys except Draper
have done better than in the Vic-
toria session. Draper's best form-
er effort was a shot put of 37
feet.
Carl Townsend, a senior sprint-
er who has never lettered, is look-
ing good in woi*k-outs.
Although his best time in the
100-yard dash is only 10.7 seconds,
he is improving rapidly and may
help the team before the season is
over. He's a hard-working boy who
will make the grade if persistence
pays.
James Kinard, a letterman at
quarter, is also showing increas-
ing speed in the sprints. He is
tabbed for big things if he can cut
just a few more seconds off his
runs.
Relay Is Added
Back to the Black Cat Relays, a
relay has been added this year
and the 180-yard low hurdles has
been dropped. The added relay
will be a two-mile relay consist-
ing of four 880-yard runs.
Preliminaries will begin Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, and finals
will begin at 7 that night.
The time schedule will be fol-
lowed as closely as possible, and
interscholastic league rules will
govern all entries and events.
Entry blanks should be in by
Monday, March 12.
The schedule of events:
Pole vault, discus, high jump,
and broad jump—2 o'clock; shot
put, finals in shot put, discus,
broad jump—immediately follow-
ing the preliminaries.
The high jump and pole vault
will be run off straight through.
In track events, the 120-yard
high hurdles will i>e at 2 o'clock,
100-yard dash semifinals at 2:15
o'clock, 440-yard relay at 2:30
o'clock.
Schedule Given
The 140-yard dash at 2:45 o'clock,
semifinals in the 100-yard dash
at 3 o'clock, and the 220-yard dash
at 3:30 o'clock.
In the finals, warmups will be-
gin at 7 o'clock, two-mile relay
at 7:30 o'clock, 120-yard high
hurdles at 7:45 o'clock, 100-yard
dash at 7:50 o'clock.
The 440-yard dash at 7:55
o'clock, 440-yard relay at 8:05
o'clock, 880-yard run at 8:15, 880-
yard relay (against time) at 8:30
o'clock, mile run at 8:45 o'clock,
220-yard dash at 9 o'clock, and the
mile relay at 9:15 o'clock.
Teams invited to the relays are
Alvin, Angleton, Boling, Bloom-
ington, Cuero, East Bernard, El
Campo, Ganado, Industrial, Katy,
Lamar Consolidated, LaMarque.
Liberty, Navasota, Needville, Pa-
lacios, Sealy, Spring Branch, Su-
gar Land, Tidehaven, Webster,
Van Vleck, West Columbia.
Wharton, Sweeny, Pearland, Co-
lumbus, Barbers Hill, Schulenburg,
Louise, Crescent, LaGrange, Tom-
ball, Brenham, Lockhart, LaPorte,
and Victoria.
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Stewart, Bob. The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1956, newspaper, February 23, 1956; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428516/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.