The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1992 Page: 9 of 24
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Thursday, July 1ft, 1992
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Sports
Women now welcome
Course hit with discrimination charge
By Elian Moore
Sports Editor
Charges of sex discrimination
startled Lost Pines Golf Course
personnel and board members
last Thursday when officials from
the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department told course officials
the time had come to open the
traditionally all-male Thursday
golf tournament to women and
make it an integrated affair.
As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July
17, women will be welcome to
play the tournament, Lost Pines
professional Kevin Adare said.
Adare, who became the club
pro in 1989, inherited the tourna-
ment which has its roots lost in
time. As Adare, Bastrop High
School golf coach and Lost Pines
board vice-president Marcus
Evans, and Lost Pines board
president Gilbert Cervantes all
agree, the tournament began
years back among a group of
friends, all male, who wanted to
set aside Thursday afternoon for
a friendly tournament.
As years went by, the group
grew in number, and under golf
pro Rudy Belmares’ term, they
asked him to help organize the
tournament “so they could get on
and off the course’’ in an expe-
dient manner, all three recall.
“It’s a popular tournament,”
Adare said Monday. “You could
go through the phone book and
just about every man in the book
has played it one time or
another,” he said. “It’s certainly
not for members only but it has
been traditionally for men only.”
Through the years there has on-
ly been one request for a woman
to play, board vice president
Evans said. He recalled that
several years ago a woman who
played the Pine Forest course
asked to play. The men golfers,
who do not have a formal
organization, discussed it and
“decided they’d rather keep it for
men,” Evans said. That was the
end of the incident then.
The latest incident stemmed
from an anonymous complaint
received by the Parks and
Wildlife Department on June 25 of
this year. A woman reportedly
said she’d tried to play in the tour-
nament and been turned away.
“We remember someone who
signed up to play who had a name
that could have been a man’s or
woman’s,” Adare said. “When she
came in to pay she was told men
normally are the only ones to play
on Thursdays. We told her about
the ladies tournament Monday
afternoons and Tuesday morn-
ings. She said okay and left.
“Between then and now the
state sent people out here to see
for themselves and I understand
one called to see if he could bring
his girlfriend,” Adare added.
Adare, Evans and Cervantes all
expressed disappointment that
the woman did not press the mat-
ter locally, instead of going to the
state parks department. All felt
the woman was not local
“because we could have worked
it out.”
Dale Stroud, regional director,
public lands, for the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department return-
ed a phone call Tuesday evening
to the Advertiser.
“We received a complaint and
felt obligited to follow it up,” he
said. “As of now I don’t know who
the woman is.”
He pointed out that very few
golf courses are on state land and
added, “We don’t try to run
everything. But we felt obligated
to follow it up and saw there was
a problem. It is a public course
and it is open to the public.
Everyone must be given equal op-
portunity to play.”
Stroud said that he had been
“back and forth on phone and in
person” with Cervantes, Evans
and Adare and added, “We need
a better reading” on how the
course can be used and by whom.
He said, “That’s where attornies
come into play.”
Evans indicated he had talked
with Stroud by phone but express-
ed disappointment the group had
not had a chance to sit down
together and iron out problems
regarding who could play on the
course.
Evans added that the Bastrop
group had received a hand-
delivered letter which stated that
they must not deny access of the
course to anyone “on the basis of
sex, race, color creed or national
origin.”
“I’m sorry they (the person
who filed the complaint) didn’t
come talk to me,” Cervantes said
Monday. “I’m sure it wasn’t so-
meone local because we could
have sat down and solved it. But
nobody came to us. They simply
went to the top of the ladder. If
there had been serious com-
plaints from our ladies, we would
have heard.”
He added, “I’m certainly not a
chauvinist. I’ve got three girls
and a wife.”
Adare had much the same sen-
timents. “I’ve never turned
anyone away,” he said. “This
men’s group formed before my
day. But I helped the ladies start
their organization and I’ve pro-
bably worked more with the girls’
Bravenec and Brister win
senior center’s championship
Bill Bravenec and Andy Brister
were the Champion “42” players
at the Senior Center tournament
on July 11.
Second place winners were
Raymond Haecker and Everette
Owens.
These four received trophies
which were donated by the Miller
beer people.
Ben Hennecke and Marvin Eg-
ger came in third and won a set
of dominoes given by the Rockne
VFW. These dominoes actually
went home with Mr. Hennecke
who won the toss.
Thirty-two players participated
in the third annual domino tour-
nament, which according to
Robert Tubb, center member,
“will likely be an annual event.”
Mr. Tubb added that 60 to 70 peo-
ple were at the tournament as on
lookers.
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golf team than the boys. I’ve got
a three-year-old daughter and a
wife and a mother and I get along
with them fine. He added,
“Though there are times I like to
play with men and there are
times women like to go shopp-
ing.”
On a more serious note Adare
said the tournament can only
handle 48 players and so far only
10 golfers have signed up for
Thursday play. “We haven’t had
any women (sign up) yet, but
they’re welcome.”
Coach Evans suggested that
the men might look into a formal
organization as one way to solve
the problem.
“The only thing we’re guilty of
is allowing a group of men to pla-
ly. We allow the high school girls
to play the third Tuesday of
March. We allow the high school
boys to play the first Saturday in
February. We allow the senior
citizens to play Wednesday mor-
nings and we allow the ladies to
playi Monday afternoons. That’s
what we’re guilty of,” he said.
Evans added that as of now just
who can and cannot play is still
up in the air, and repeated, “We
still haven’t sat down and talked
it out.
“We allow the American Legion
to use the course. We let family
reunions have tournaments. We
let the LCRA play tournaments,”
Evans continued. “Unfortunate-
ly this isn’t the end of it. One thing
we might do is ask the state if we
can shut down the course at 5:30
p.m. once a week.”
“We have agreed to work
together,” Stroud said Tuesday
night. Stroud offered to appear
when the Bastrop group next
meets and added, “And if
Shinkawa (Paul Shinkawa,
general counsel for the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department)
is available I would get him to
come along.
“I’ve gotten to know those folks
out there,” he added, “and I
wouldn’t want to leave things up
in the air.”
“We’ll take immediate action to
solve the problems,” Cervantes
said when reached at home
following Stroud’s phone call.
“We want to correct any problem
that may have caused any in-
convenience to ladies. The park’s
there for public use and we must
allow everybody equal opportuni-
ty.”
Cervantes concluded, “I think
any activity sponsored by the golf
course should be open to anyone.
The problem we have has been
corrected.”
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All-Stars fall short in post-season
By Joseph L. Duarte
Sports Writer
After an opening round win
over the Round Rock All-Stars
10-3 on Tuesday, July 7, the
Bastrop Senior League All-Stars
bowed out of post-season play
with consecutive losses to Elgin
and Rockdale.
In the Round Rock game,
Bastrop pitcher JJ. Castilleja had
an impressive outing, going the
distance in the 10-3 win.
Castilleja received offensive
help from Gilbert Martinez, who
went two for three, and from Mar-
co Palaqios, who had a ground
rule double.
Nathan Mican, Zach Kweder
and Robert Justice all had hits in
the contest.
After their opening win, it was
downhill for the senior leaguers
as they lost a squeaker to cross-
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level; black bass are fair to 4 lh
pounds on topwaters early; crap-
pie are fair at night on live min-
nows ; catfish are fair to 3 pounds
on Bill’s Sponge Baits and punch
baits.
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county rival Elgin, 7-6.
Going into the decisive final in-
ning the score was tied 6-6. But
Elgin used timely hitting to score
the go-ahead run and take a 7-6
lead into the bottom of the
seventh inning.
Bastrop was able to load the
bases in their final at bat only to
see their rally shut down on a
game-ending grounder to first.
Pitching for Bastrop in the
Elgin loss were Scott Pearcy and
Zach Kweder.
In Bastrop’ final game against
Rockdale the local All-Stars en-
dured another one-run contest
and the results were not any
better.
After allowing a run to score in
the top of the first inning, the
Bastrop All-Stars settled down
and scored on a Marco Palacios
double late in the game. After
Palacios’ double, pinch runner
Charles Hodge stole third and
eventually scored Bastrop’s only
run.
Going into the eighth inning,
Bastrop’s strong defensive game
fell apart as Rockdale was able to
score two runs in the top of the
eighth. That proved to be enough
as a strong Rockdale pitching
staff shut down Bastrop in the
bottom half of the eighth for the
3-1 Win.
This year’s Senior League All-
Star team included JJ. Castille-
ja, Charles Hodge, Brandon Hoff-
man, Robert Justice, Zach
Kweder, Billy McFarland, Gilbert
Martinez, Nathan Mican, Trey
Mullen, Domonic Ochoa, Marco
Palacios, Scott Pearcy, Pat
Vardell and Eric Watson. Alter-
nates were Jacob Alexander, Bo
Higgs, Rocky Farmer, Chris
Frierson and Daniel Hunt.
Four qualify for scramble
Sixty golfers f rom all over Cen-
tral Texas, including some twen-
ty or so golfers from Bastrop,
turned out for the fifth annual
Oldsmobile Scramble held at
Pine Forest Golf Course in
Bastrop on Sunday, July 12.
The tournament started at 1
p.m.
Four golfers from Bastrop are
the local qualifiers and will ad-
vance to a sectional round on
August 10, at Fair Oaks Golf
Course in Boerne, Texas.
“The Oldsmobile Scramble is
without a doubt the most popular
national Pro-Am event,” head golf
pro Dana Rush said.
The Bastrop winning foursome
of Jim Mills, D. Childress, Terry
Small and Herb Boon won the
tournament with an 18 hole total
of 13-under-par 59.
“That’s a really good score for
18 holes,” Rush said.
The Oldsmobile Scramble, a
national Pro-Am event, showcas-
ed 15 four-man teams.
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