EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
14, 1958 Vol. C685
LOCAL
NEWS
HOT DOG EATING CONTEST
CANCELLED
East Farewell – The summer event that had almost become a
tradition has been cancelled this year. The nearly famous summer event that
drew many fans and a whole lot of flies and ants, the hot dog eating contest,
has been cancelled this year due to lack of sponsorship. Local meat packer, L.
Myers and Sons and Nathan’s from New York City have sponsored the event for the
past three years but this year Myers and Sons is experiencing some business
setbacks and Nathan’s has decided to pull out and move their sponsorship to a
contest that is starting in its hometown of Coney Island, New York. There had
been some rumors that the Coney Island contest got the idea from the East
Farewell event when they saw the huge success that was generated by the contest
and decided to bring it back to Coney Island. There is little doubt that it
will be a huge success there.
Unfortunately
for East Farewell, the pull out of Nathan’s and the financial woes of Myers
spelled the end of a fun and unique summer event that had grown more in legend
than in reality. Tales of the first three events are still being told around
the local taverns and dinner tables. It seems the stories far exaggerate the
real truths of the event. The crowds’ size has doubled and the number of
entrants has blossomed from the 30 that was the cap for the last two years to
50 or more in some tales. The total amount of hotdogs consumed also grew, last
year’s winner, Dave O’Hara ate 50 and the Bernie Wilson, 1955’s
winner held the record at 51. Different accounts have the total at 75 and 85.
Everyone has their own version, but the winners have repeatedly set the records
straight.
Town Council
president, Tom Conally, made an announcement on Tuesday after the cancellation
saying that there would be an effort to bring the contest back next summer but
would not elaborate. Many townspeople had different suggestions on how to bring
the contest back ranging from the town sponsoring the event to trying to find a
new supplier of hot dogs. There is no consensus and for now the event will
remain a happy footnote in the town’s history.
Dave O’Hara
winning the 1956 contest
SPORTS
TRAVELERS WINNING STREAK INTACT
East Farewell – The Travelers were able to extend their winning
streak with a solid win over the surging Monticello Vikings on Saturday, 6-2.
The Vikings had been on their own winning streak up until last Saturday, they
had won four in a row and nine out of their last ten games. They were holding
onto a very respectable third place in the league. This is an enormous
improvement over their disastrous inaugural season going an abysmal 13 – 47.
The Travelers
were able to get off to another great start, a common beginning throughout
their current streak, by scoring 3 runs in the first and two in the third.
Singles were the hit of choice for the Travelers in this game racking up eleven
in the first six innings. The entire lineup joined in the fun with pitcher
Danny Lane getting two singles, one in the second and one in the fifth, and
driving in two runs. The other runs were all scored by singles working the base
runners around. A rare statistic was achieved by the Travelers on Saturday, every
member of the starting lineup had a hit and almost all were singles, very rare
indeed.
The Vikings
were frustrated by an excellent performance by Lane. Allowing only seven hits
and four walks he was able tame the big hitting Vikings and keep them to two
runs both scored in the sixth. It was an unusual slump for the team that has
been riding high scoring at least seven runs in the last ten games. “We
couldn’t get started today. Lane had our number but we are not going to let
this stop us, we are going to come back strong next week,” said Vikings manager
Dave Murry after the game.
The Travelers
take to the road next week to start an extended road trip, harkening back to
the early days of the team when they did not have a home stadium and played
most of their games on the road (hence their name, Travelers). They will visit Albany
and spend the next six weeks on the road. The game next week will be in the
Senators Stadium beginning at 1:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
US MOON ROCKET EXPLODES, BRITS LAUGH – RACIAL
INTEGRATION BACK ON AT LITTLE ROCK – NEW ATOMIC SUB “TRITON” LAUNCHED
Months of secret preparation reach a climax as America’s moon
probe rocket appears ready for blast off on an unprecedented 220,000-mile
journey through space… But wait, America’s first moon rocket explodes 77
seconds after blast off from Cape Canaveral. One British newspaper featured a
beaming man on the moon with the caption: “Missed me! – by 222,190 miles 2800
feet”
The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a District Court
judge and orders resumption of racial integration at Central High School in
Little Rock. The decision comes just 16 days before the scheduled
re-opening of the school where integration was troop- enforced last year.
Later, President Eisenhower said he would enforce the new integration order.
The Navy launches atomic powered submarine Triton at
Groton. It’s the mightiest submarine ever built. The
Navy says the sub will roam “the distant corners of the earth.” She will be “a
nuclear propelled, invisible, electronic brain hundreds of miles in advance of
our atomic strike fleet always ready to guide and direct its atomic delivery
forces
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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