The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1962 Page: 11 of 24
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Rock Is Texas Relays Honorary Referee
By JIMMIE WOODS In Austin Friday and Saturday, |At the same time, he’s won II of But Uttle of the conversation tor buying things that strike his 1937, enlisting in the U.S. Army strong competition and adheres to best records in the rational in ders added a sixth straight title tf
Sun Sport* Editor Rockhold will desert hi* special 121 Lee crowns on the same basis, about Rockhold has to do with his fancy. is a private In August, 1942, and an old honor. .... recogmied events, and 19 Rock- Freeport this Mason.
.. .. „ .. . 1Q.., seat just above the start of Me-1 He built the tot banked track days as an athlete, though he "He bought a lamp in Uredo," emerging as a captain in 1916. When scyen teams withdrew hold-coached relay teams have Out of this enormous history.
enormous history,
[ four national and
__ an athlete, —
basketball and rantracl:
Spring as a schoolboy and
. He built the tot banked track
on the Gulf Coast, and it was at
his suggestion that the Memorial
Stadium track was built to those
specifications, a rarity here.
A GIFTED MAN
“Rockhold is the world's best ta-
ble tennis player," another pro-
‘— Barry Nettles, begins a 30-
' Me is a tre-
For the first time since 1936,
they’re going to take that gray-
haired gent with the twinkling
eyes away from his lonely perch
in a deserted expanre of stadium
bleachers and put him on a win-
ner’s pedestal.
For 21 sweaty but glorious sea-
sons now, Beverly Rockhold has
been that solitary figure in a red
windbreaker and straw hat or
parka who sat half way up in an
empty bleacher section with a
stop watch in his hand while
crowds cheered the heroics of high
school track meets from Austin
to Luredo.
too, have come four national and.
three state records. All throe Tex-
as records came in the mile relay
and the last, the 3:17.9 established
in 1986. fell only last year. •-
Rockhold’* team* set national
mile relay records in 1964 (3:19.9)
and in 1965 (3:17.9). and sprint
medley records in 1967 (3:32.0)
and 1969 (3:31.5). His 1961 mile
relay team missed a fourth U.S.
record by 1.2 seconds with a 3:16.6
at the Texas Relays.
Friday, Texas and a smattering
of national track powers pay hom-
Ile spent those (our years setting from the Gulf Coast Relays re-
up recreation and physical train- ccntly because Baytown was en-
big programs all over the U.S. tered, Ruckhoid called H. E. Hop-
and also served as a judo instruc- per, Brazosport athletic director,
* ttctt.MIM* SJWUJfcSrWE
Though this is Pock's iirst na- situation,
tlonal recognition since he be- Hopper, an old friend, turned
came a coach, his teams have him down. "It you don't mind run-
written the name of Goose Creek ning against just Brazosport,
and Baytown in bold letters across come on." he said.
Texas and national track annals. REASON TO BE WARY
The name Baytown is enough Area teams have reason to be
to send somdarea teums scamp- wary of Baytown, for since 1950,
cring for otlwg meets when they Rockhold has produced a National
know Rockhold has a leant en-Honor Roil place every season.______________________w____________ ,
tered, but Rockhold seeks out The National Honor Roll lists the Lee and Houston relays. The Gan- town has been doing it for yetrs.
played baseball with a refinery
team. They tell instead of his
In a sense, it will be a similar
to one of his last appearances on
a winner’s stand.
A PENN RECORD
That was at the Herat Relays in
1936 when he, H. V.'Reeves, Tiny
Gruneisen and Chink Wallender
stood there with a record 41.1
sprint relay clocking behind them.
"They said we had a blind v„„„
man's pass and ran like a bunch fessionally." As a matter of fact,
tege Barry Nettles begins a 30- meticulous care ot his hununf
Xte mlrfogue. "lie i“a tZ ^ "b^ent, hi. pen,
mendously gifted man who will m
beat you at tennis or tmdminton StjM
or handball without ever working JN|
up a sweat mid then laugh. 'MPifa'-g
"He could have played golf pro-
fessionally." As a matter ot fact,
tit,
a year after aeeeptmg a scholar- VHHf
ship to play b.tsehali at Texas.
Also, as a matter of fact, Rock • Jl
never made a baseltali practice |
after getting to the University. He i
stopped to watch a track workout M / !r fiaL
enroute to the baseball field and
wound tip as a sprinter for Clyde - • • -
Littlefield.
"Tile track." Rockhold laughs
today, "was closer than the base- $
ball field." 'JK
A PERSONALITY A™
With H1 "k-
hold saw many ot the ti.ua .and jJiMi
N’!d ■.peals 01 li:a! d.n — . , -sc I ~
Dhcm- ini' inslance. tin- day he
set bis broad jump record. And he
learned a lot from Littlefield, who
still oversees the Texas program. BgVERLY ROCKHOLD
tions of hoys for his famous relay
teams, the long hours he puts into
planning his season or a partic-
ular meet, his strenuous workout
off defeat and return next season.
"He lost the state meet by
three-fourths of a point in 1953'“'
Nettles recalls, "and all he did
was put his stop watch in his
pocket and say, ’Well, maybe
we’ll win it next year' ”
After his finest riffle relay com-
bo in 21 seasons failed to break
the national record last spring be-
cause of late season injuries,
Rockhold sat down with a couple
of sportswriters in a cafeteria and
calmly analyzed the situation.
STARTS EARLY
He is not, as many of his mod-
ern contemporaries, a big mouth.
When Lamar's Bill McGee
snapped vindictively at him after
The honor this weekend is some-
thing more than recognition of a
Colts Lash LA 20-5 -
Broglta's Stock
Rises In 7-5 Win
Texas Ex who made good. Hon-
orary referees are chosen from
among outstanding personalities
who have made great contribu-
Bugs away...join today!
It will be the first spotlight for
Rockhold since he stepped (rom
his sprinter's spikes into the rela-
tive obscurity of a coaching job
in Goose Creek in 1937.
Though he treasures a certain
amount of obscurity and tries to
fade into the background at meets
— his captains generally accept
meet trophies — Rock is very
nearly legend at home and aloftg
the Gulf Coast.
WEEK
APRIL 2nd-8th, 1962
stopped Washington 2-0 on two
hits at Fort Myers.
Meanwhile, the hitters lashed
By MIKE R ATH FT
Associated Tress Snorts Writer
Ernie Broglio, plagued by arm
trouble last year after winning 21
games in the .I960 baseball cam-
fa&i, lal^yfcefr’tte-st. Louie
Cardinals' rising pennant stock
up .mother couple of points with
his strongest pitching perform-
ance of the exhibition season.
Hie 26-year-old right-hander,
taking a giant step along the
comeback trail, fired ’em up
Wednesday, flashing his 1960 form
as he went seven innings and
scattered six hits in the Cardinals
7-5 victory over Philadelphia at
Clearwater.
Accorded National League soph-
omore of thn. year honors two
years ago after compiling a 21-9
record with a 2.75 earned run av-
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Record Field Of 110--
Pdlmer 3-1 Pick
In Third Masters
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out as Houston thumped the Los
Angeles Angels 20-5 at El Paso
and San Kraneiseo walloped
Cleveland 18-17 in 11 innings at
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Phoenix for an amazing total of
00 runs and 74 hits in the two
games.
Elsewhere, the New York Yan-
kees edged Detroit 2-1 at Lake-
land, Milwaukee defeated Boston
9-2 at Scottsdale, the Chicago
Relays in the winter, at least
three months before the meet is
run, and he goes to great lengths
In Baytown Your
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conditions for athletes
utuiqun a yvai u^u, myiviu: ui-
rector Dan Stajlworth introduced
sand trap blast that carried
across the green and cost him a
double-bogey six. A par would
have won it, a bogey would have
forced a playoff with Player.
An Augusta oddsmaker has in-
stalled Palmer as a 3-1 favorite,
quite a tribute to the strongman
from Latrpbe, Pa., for even In
his heyday the odds on Ben Ho-
gan seldom were shorter than 6-1.
Although the once-feared Texas
hawk will be 50 in August, Hogan
is rated a respectable 10-1 for this
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)-Hie larg-
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Cubs nipped the Los Angeles
Dodgers 6-5 at Mesa and the New
York Mets beat the Chicago White
Sox 6-4 at St. Petersburg.
Rakow checked the Reds on
eight hits while batterymate Hay-
wood Sullivan gave the A’s the
runs they needed with a two-run
homer of Joey Jay. Hie Twins
used five walks, a two-run double
hv Rnh Allison nnri .Tim RnuHoi-'*
now txying to set up a Polaroid
photo-finish arrangement to solve
close calls at the wire. He has
sought shredded rubber for his
est field in history—and one of
the strongest—sets out today over
the beautiful but deceptive Au-
mmtn klntionnl fWlfcn in
gusta National Golf course in
quest of the 1962 Masters golf
championship.
Almost everyone who is anyone
in the game of golf, headed by
golden boy Arnold Palmer, is
among the record 110 competi-
tors. Hie pairings include such
current stars as:
Gary Player, the defending
jumping and vaulting pits or uses
sawdust instead of the easily
packed sand most meets use.
WORKOUTS LEGEND
His workout schedules are leg-
end around area high schools. One
former 12-4A athlete was stunned
when he read a normal workout
routine after entering Lee College
here.
“That’s three times the work
we did,” he told Lee PE instruc-
tor Benny Moskowitz.
But work has been part of Rock-
hold's life and it would be in-
congrous if his athletes were
asked to do less.
“If there is anything I can’t
stand,’’ Rockhold has told his
squads, "it's to see boys hanging
on the rail or being carried, limp,
of! the track alter a race. Those
things just mean they haven't
worked properly and are not in
condition to run the races they i
are supposedly trained to run."
TRAINER, COACH, PE «
Though he came to Baytown as ;
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several meets — to favor his
teams, and he lost the Lee title
this year because of the schedule.
by Bob Allison and Jim Snyder’s
two-run single for five in the
eighth off Jim Lehew after the
Orioles’ Steve Barber had hurled
four-hit bah tor seven innings.
Bill Mazeroski's homer and
Larry Elliot’s third hit accounted
lor the Pirates’ runs in their vic-
tory over the Nats. Roman Me-
jias, 3-for-3, slammed two homers
and Hal Smith, Norm Larker and
pitcher Dick Giusti each connect-
ed for ohe In the Colts' 21-hit at-
tack. Giusti and Dean Stone lim-
ited the Angels to eight hits.
Home runs by Willie Mays, Or-
lando Cepeda, Bob Perry, Manuel
Mota and Jim Davenport paced
the Giants’ 25-hit outburst but it
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In other fine pitching efforts,
Ed Rakow went me distance for
Kansas City to beat Cincinnati 3-1
at Tampa, Minnesota’s Jack Kra-
lick and Dick Stigman shut out
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White Kirkland hit two homers
m the Indians 20-hit offensive.
Home nuts by Tom Tresh and
Elston Howard off the Tigers’
PM got the job done tor
The Braves, leading 3-2 on Del
Crandall's two-run single, jut jt
away against the Red Sox^vtth
a six-run spree in the fifth as
Lee Ma.ve and Ed Mathews pow-
ered homers. Hie Cubs won It
with a 4-run ninth, capped when
NEW YORK (AP) - National
League expansion to 10 teams
and Log Angeles’ move to a home
park more suited to its talents
should combine to bring < pennurt
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National League race,
Mtt at tcaat.foor dubs harttng
St. Louis the straight pitching
ha* won this tournament twice
and twice missed by iw total of
last year, only to lose it with a
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'SIKICT FACTOSY SOUND DHIMUTOT
Baytown Is Host
ToUMaique B
Rain Washes Out
Track, Baseball
Baytown led Texas City 5 - 3
hen rain washed out the sebed-
led B squad game after three
Milwaukee the best infield and
Cincinnati the confidence of a de-
fmutinn obumni/M
to the whole system next fall.
Rockhold and 14 football players
sfefii
reptitiously removing a huge old
hajRpg champion.
dtsaratswat
They can’t match the power of
their rivals, excepting St. Louis,
but they have better overall per-
Rain Wednesday afternoon wash-
ed nut. the first round of the
District 12-3A track and field meet
at La Porte and a District 12-4A
baseball game at Smiley.
Preliminaries and a few finals
in the 12-3A track meet have been
re-set tot 5 p.tn, Thursday. Pre
lims and finals in the shot put,
pole vault and discus open at 5
p.m. with prelims in the running
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Baytown hosts LaMarque’s var
sity here Thursday in a 7 p.m.
clash at the REL diamond. .La-
tree that was deemed necessary
to the general landscaping.
JS-erNH) AN hour
‘The boys used hoes and rankes
and shovels,” Rockhold recalls
i When croia couBto began
lake it
fast, Persawal loMSenke*
w ateSng at 6:30 p m
Gail and
iSHlfH
Minnie Minoso to supply mud
the power, appear slated to ba
it out tor fourth place.
Pittsburgh, stm uncertain of
avafiability of -sore-armed V
Law, their former piUMHt*
oi me secona division, a k
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and finest spun anywbw*
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 158, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1962, newspaper, April 5, 1962; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1058004/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.