EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July 14,
1960 Vol. C785
LOCAL
NEWS
5TH ANNUAL SAILBOAT
RACE IS THE BEST YET
East
Farewell – A beautiful July afternoon made the perfect backdrop for the 5th Annual
Lake Charles Sailboat Race. The race has become a major event for the
summer residents and is much anticipated and very well received. The 25 entrant
spaces were filled as soon as the list was opened back in May and many of the
contestants were returning racers. Last year’s winner and race co-founder, Ward
James, was joined in front of the Fun Pier temporary dock floated as the
start-finish line by the other co-founder Earl Dornan. The two are longtime
rivals, sometime friends and all-times sailors. Even though Ward won last
year’s race Dornan won the second race back in 1957. Surprisingly, an uninvited entry, Jake Smart,
won the very first, grudge match race between James and Dornan. The race was an
instant success and grew to the current 25 entrants and became one of the
biggest attractions of the summer.
James and Dornan were quickly
followed by the rest of the pack; the others were familiar faces, Smart and his
son, Charles, Winnie Baylor, Kathy O’Malley, David Wells, Arthur Dolan, Billy
Green, Charles Scott, Sanford Chase, Sammy Post, Chris Craft, Charles Hertz and
Walter Scott. The course was basically the same as every other race and the
pitfalls of the course were well known be almost every contestant. The infamous
lull around Dunn’s Cove was mostly bypassed by swinging more towards the center
of the lake and the boat-beaching sandbar near Raleigh Beach was mostly avoided
thanks to some buoys put up by Frank Logan and N.U.D.E. (Nothing Until
Democracy Evolves). N.U.D.E. owns Raleigh Beach and the members use it
constantly. Most of the sailors were somewhat chagrined to see the large number
of al-fresco bathers on the beach waving merrily to the passing boats. Only one
boat got stuck on the sandbar, suspiciously it was a couple of 19 year old
recent graduates from Regional High, Donny Carson
and Larry Grant, and enlisted the help of Raleigh Beach members to help
them get back afloat. “We kind of missed the buoys, I thought we should stay
starboard but Larry took us port and Wham! Lucky for us there were some folks
on the beach that swam out to help us,” laughed Carson after the race.
The race was judged the best yet by
the spectators on Lakefront Beach and most of the party goers on the numerous
lakefront docks that hosted parties. This was mainly due to the contestants all
dressing up their boats a sails with fancy designs and frills. The race became
a showy spectacle of beautiful, sleek boats slicing through the calm water and slipping
across the lake in quite grace. The winner this was an old time entrant and the
first female winner, Cindy Taylor. She has been in the race for the last three
years and came in second two years ago and third last year. This year she
showed she had learned the course well from all her earlier experience and
after a slow start was able to pass everyone else by the third lap and cruse to
a three boat length win. Billy Green came in second, Walter Scott came in third
and Sammy Post came in fourth. For the first time ever both of the race
originators did not finish in the top four, both James and Dornan finished well
back in the pack. It was rumored that they both had made stops at different
docks along the way and enjoyed the company of some of the lakefront revilers
more than the competition of the race. After the race all the contestants
gathered on Lakefront Plaza and the trophy was awarded the Taylor who was both
grateful and relieved. “I have been trying for this for many years now and I
have worked really hard to learn how to sail on this lake. There were a ton of
very good sailors in this race and to come out on top is a very special
achievement for me,” she said upon receiving the trophy.
The Lakefront Plaza was filled until
late Saturday night with both racers and spectators all dining, drinking, sing
and socializing in the warm summer night. The “Lake Charles Navy” met at one of
the central tables and started to plan for next year.
Cindy Taylor takes the lead
for good in the 1960 Sailboat Race
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CAVE-IN MINERS HOPES FOR A SWEEP
East Farewell- The Travelers were faced with their
first non-sellout of the season on Saturday when the played the Slate Mountain
Miners. This unusual event was due to the 5th Annual Sailboat Race that took
place on the same afternoon. Many people went down to the Lakefront beach or
attended one of the numerous dock parties that were held around the lake. While
the game was not well attended it was most certainly heard by East Farewell
loyal fans on the radio because it is routinely broadcast on radio station, WEFR,
which transmits the game over the air. So while the stands were not full almost
every dock around the lake had game tuned in.
Another
reason for the low turnout may have been that Slate Mountain did not play their
biggest draw, ace pitcher, Tony “Michael” Angelo. The East Farewell fans have a
long history and have come to begrudgingly admire Angelo. He has beaten the
Travelers 80% of the times he has faced them. This week, though, he was not
scheduled to pitch and some of the fans found the dockside party too much of an
offering to resist.
The
Travelers were able to take advantage of Angelo’s absence and dominate the
Miners 6-2. The Travelers gave the ball to Buzz “the Burner” Barnett, who was
on top of his game. He fanned the first four batters and did not let a runner
get on base until the third inning. The Miners were able to get an early lead
in the third with three hits, scoring one. That was the shakiest Barnett was
throughout the game. He did finally allow an eighth inning homer by Miners
slugger, Joe DiBella, but by then it was too little too late. The Travelers
jumped on Miners pitcher, Al Munoz, in the fourth scoring three runs off five
hits. They added two runs in the sixth and “Big Bob” Tilman slammed his 10th
homer in the seventh. The Travelers looked much more confident even though they
did not have the usual hometown boost. “It was kind of strange, not have people
hanging over the rails, but we felt good against those guys and we are feeling
much better about ourselves,” said Barnett after the game.
The
Travelers are in the midst of an extended home stand that will last for the
next three weeks. Next week they host the Riverview Anglers at night and hope
to extend their two game winning streak. The game begins at 7:05PM in the
Travelers Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OPENS IN LA - JOHNSON
TAKES A DIG AT KENNEDY PREDICTS SECOND ROUND WIN – KENNEDY CAMPAIGN ACCUSES
HOFFA OF “CRUDE EFFORT” TO INJECT HIMSELF INTO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL RACE –
TSHOMBE ANNOUNCES SECESSION FROM CONGO IN AFRICA
Democratic
convention opens in LA. Arriving at Los Angeles airport for the Democratic
convention, Sen. Johnson of Texas takes a dig at John Kennedy - “I’m not
against young people, I’m for them - for Vice President.” “If you find a man
better than I, you ought to vote for him. But you ought not to vote for him
because some pollster said he’s got a bandwagon. Some of these bandwagons in
July turn out to be surreys in November"
Sen.
Johnson of Texas, scoffing mounting support for Sen. Kennedy, predicted
defeat for Kennedy after the second ballot this week. Johnson is a distant
second to Kennedy as far as committed delegates. Kennedy has 688 (he says he
has 761 lined-up, a cinch to win the first time) and Johnson has 304.
Sen.
Kennedy’s campaign team accuses teamster president James (Jimmy) Hoffa, for
“just another crude effort” to inject himself into the Democratic Presidential
nomination race by allegedly trying to pack an airport demonstration for Sen.
Johnson. Robert F. Kennedy said in a release “It has come to our attention
that every Teamster local in the Los Angeles area has in the past 72 hours,
received a telegram signed by Sid Zagri, director of political action for the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, urging these locals to send
representatives to Los Angeles airport to meet Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson.”
Apparently
the ruse didn’t work. Several hundred persons met the Texas candidate and there
were no signs of Teamster backing or ballyhoo.
Premier Moise
Tshombe of the rich uranium province of Katanga announces that his vast
inland area has seceded from the chaotic, faltering 11-day-old Congo. He
charges the central government was using the “disorganizing tactics of
communism”
Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this
section of the East Farewell News.
