EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 26,
1960 Vol. C778
LOCAL
NEWS
HORSE SHOW/RODEO SORT OF
East
Farewell – The first East Farewell Horse Show/Rodeo was staged on the
Fairgrounds on Saturday. There are three horse ranches located around the lake.
All three got together and set up the event. The farms board horses and have
many clients from all over the state. They rounded up their clients, so to
speak, and proposed several competitive events, including jumps and barrel
weaves and created a mini-rodeo that had a somewhat subdued bucking bronco and
cattle roping events. They then secured the Fairgrounds and setup a makeshift
arena with help from many students from Regional High. The promotion consisted
of flyers posted around town and a huge word of mouth campaign. On Saturday
morning there were approximately 500 people lined up at the gates. The stands
were full by the 11:00 kickoff event; a jumping contest that had five jumps in
a circular track. There were six entrants and each took two rounds. The total
clear jumps were totaled up and little Annie Doyle, 15, and her horse, Jasper,
won with a near perfect score of 9. Annie is the daughter of Fern and Ann
Doyle, owners of the Horseshoe Ranch. The Doyle’s gained some local notoriety
for safely corralling the loose horses on Lakeview Plaza back in 1958. The
horses had escaped from the Swinging Gate Ranch, another local ranch owned by
Bob and Diane Taylor. The Stallion Ranch, owned by Oliver and Elizabeth Wilson
is the third ranch that took part in the show/rodeo.
After other control events the show
turned toward the rodeo portion of the event. What this turned out to be a
watered down version of the rodeo you would find in Colorado, Wyoming or
Montana it was great fun and for people who had never seen a rodeo it was a
great new experience. The bucking bronco was a horses that was reluctant to
have riders and several young cowboy want-to-Bes from the high school attempted
to ride them. One, Jason Gilbert, was
successful in staying on for 20 seconds and took home the prize. The best thing that can be
said for the rest is there were no injuries. A calf roping contest was also a
big hit. Billy Wilson from the Stallion Ranch took home first place in that
event.
The entire event ended up with a grand parade
around the ring that featured all the horses, a very colorful display of
decorated buggies and what can only be called a controlled stampede made up
some of the calves, a large bull and several semi-wild horses. A wonderful time
was had by all and the organizers said they hoped that this could become a yearly
late spring tradition in town.
1st East Farewell
Rodeo
SPORTS
NAGY BRILLIANT AGAIN
East Farewell – The evening was beautiful and the
crowd who had just come from the rodeo was in a great mood. Joe Nagy showed why
he is one of the premiere pitchers in the league on Saturday by pitching a one
hit gem against the Albany Senators. The Travelers won the game 5-0. Nagy was
in fine form and for the first four innings it looked like he may repeat his career
defining outing that was perfect back in 1956. The possible record was broken
in the fifth when Joe walked a batter but that by no means diminished his
performance. He went on to strike out 10 and only allow one hit and that was a
blooper just over the outstretched glove of Dale Dunham. “I really thought I
had that one,” said Dunham after the game, “but it was just out of my reach. It
would have been nice for Joe to get another no hitter on his record.”
The
offense of the Travelers made sure that Nagy got the win. They took an early
lead in the second with a two run double by Artie Archibald and then in the
sixth Johnny Cloos returned to his blasting ways with a three run smash. There
was never any question of who was in charge of the momentum of the game but the
Senators were surprisingly lackluster. They came into town with a two game
winning streak and they were solidly in the middle of the pack in the league
standings. Perhaps the long road trip they have been on finally caught up with
them. The Travelers say home again next week and face the Bear Creek Cubs. The
Cubs are another middle dwelling team but they have a rising star in Jose
Cortez who has been hitting the hide off the ball, averaging a whopping .425
for the past six games. The game is an afternoon game beginning at 1:30PM at
the Travelers Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
USA PUTS MIDAS II IN ORBIT –PASTERNAK PASSES
– BILLY MARTIN PROMISES REVENGE ON PHILLY PITCHER GENE CONLEY
America
launches “Midas II - the world’s first military “spy-in-the-sky” -
satellite into orbit around the earth. Its mission is to test a
missile-detection system designed to prevent a space age Pearl Harbor.
Boris
Pasternak - noted Russian poet and author of the controversial “Dr.
Zhivago” and winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature. He had been
confined to his bed since May 1 with lung cancer. He passed away at Peredelkino
- a writers’ colony 20 miles from Moscow.
Billy
Martin of the Cincinnati Reds promises he’ll “get revenge” on Gene Conley, the
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher who socked him in the eye during a free-for-all
last Sunday “I’ll fight Conley any time. He’s so big, I might need a stool to
belt him in the face. But I’ll get my opportunity”
Many, many thanks
to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
