EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
16, 1956 Vol. C581
LOCAL
NEWS
GOLF TOURNAMENT SET. NOTABLES
TO COMPETE
East Farewell – Reese Farm Links has set the date for the first
East Farewell Classic Invitation Golf Tournament. It will be held August 29th,
30th and 31st. The final round will coincide with the opening of the now famous
Music, Arts & Country Fair scheduled to take place over the Labor Day
weekend. The first tournament to be held on the year old course is quite an
event and has some notable players accepting the invitation. Top on the list
are golf legends Sam Snead and Ben Hogan who visited the course with golf
legend Bobby Jones last year to officially open and name the course. Along with
Snead and Hogan fresh from his second place finish in this year’s Masters
Tournament, Ken Venturi along with other Masters players, Doug Ford and Tommy
Bolt. This impressive roster is rounded out by local pros Art Fox and Will
Heart as well as some local sponsors who have contributed to play with the
greats. The locals include Town Council president, Tom Conally and local
restaurateur, Charles
Wenz. “This is a once in a lifetime experience,” said Wentz, “being able to
play a round with these greats, I would have paid a million bucks!”
“To have all
these notable players accept our invitation was surprising to say the least,”
said Jim Gauge, manager, “but we were able get them all to come. They all must
have been talking to Snead and Hogan about the great time they had here last
year with Mr. Jones. All three of them had a great time and the folks here just
loved them. They treated them like royalty and the feeling s were mutual. This
tournament could really turn into something big. I have a good feeling about
this event.”
The tournament
will be played over three days with all the contestants playing a total of four
rounds on groups of four. The course has been painstaking prepared for the
event and is in fabulous shape according to Gauge and greens keeper Stanley
Pupeck. “We have the greens in top shape and each hole has been strategically
place according to Mr. Jones instruction,” said Mr. Pupeck when asked.
View of Lake
Charles from the 18th green
SPORTS
ONDITA SURPRISES TRAVELERS
East Farewell – The Ondita Cougars came into town on Saturday
and surprised the Travelers with a splendid pitching display by their ace, Sam
‘Cat’ Caterno, 2-0. The Cougars came into town sporting a 3 game winning streak
but before that they had only been playing .500 baseball. They have had three
superior games from their pitchers and have only had to score a total of nine
runs to earn the wins. The pitchers have held the opposing teams to a total on
two runs. The Travelers were unable to
get more than two hits and weren’t able to advance a runner past first. Caterno
sent the first ten Travelers down order and it was only on a walk that was able
to reach first in the third. He was stranded there. The Travelers were only
able to get three scattered hits off a sterling Cateno and no legitimate
threats all game. The Cougars, on the other hand, jumped right on Travelers
starter, Billy Green with a run in the first and then were able add an
insurance run in the eighth.
The Travelers
will regroup visit the Bedford Bears in a night game next Saturday. The Bears
have sat in the middle of the standings for most of the season and the
Travelers beat them earlier in the season but the Bears are starting their ace,
‘Howlin’ Frank Fowler, who is 4 and 1 on the season. The game begins at 7:30 in Bedford.
NATIONAL NEWS
DEMS IN CHICAGO – GOP IN SAN FRANCISCO NEXT
WEEK – TEENS BIG BUSINESS – HORN FEELS THE HEAT
Democrat convention in Chicago -
Presented with a compromise plank on civil rights, the Democratic National Convention turns its back on Harry
Truman and nominates Adlai Stevenson on the first ballot. He tells a cheering
crowd - “this time we are going to win.” Stevenson picked Senator Estes
Kefauver of Tennessee to be his running mate.
Heading into a party impasse, Harry Truman was not helping any by
declaring that Stevenson cannot defeat President Eisenhower.
Later this week - It’s on to San
Francisco and the Republican convention.
There’s just no doubt that it will be Eisenhower and Nixon. In San
Francisco, President Eisenhower calls on the Republican National Convention to
“help make the bright promise of the party’s future more than equal to the
record of its past.” GOP Keynoter Gov
Arthur Longlie of Washington opens the convention
Teens are becoming bigger business especially
with music and now with movies. The film industry is making a concentrated
attempt to build teen type performers for the Coke set (teenagers). The mysterious
aura of adoration that still exists for James Dean and the wild cultist attraction
that surrounds Elvis Presley have played important roles in awakening the film
industry. There’s not a studio around that is not hopeful of coming up with a
successor like Dean. Universal has its hopes on Don Murray. MGM’s contender is John Kerr. RKO’s hopes remain with Eddie Fisher and another one,
James MacArthur, son of Helen Hayes.
Bob Horn, who inaugurated the “Bandstand” program on WFIL-TV parts company with the station. This follows
a long drawn-out hassle stemming from his arrest on drunken driving charges in
June. The circumstances were amplified somewhat because the Philadelphia
Inquirer, owners of WFIL was in the heat of a campaign against tipsy motorists.
The rival Philadelphia Evening Bulletin played up the arrest of one of the
Inquirer’s best known air personalities. Horn is presently conducting his
“Bandstand dances” in Wildwood, NJ.
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