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July I, 1953
CONVAIRIETY
Page 7
Night Games
Now Offered
In Table Tennis
Table-tennis devotees who find
that lunch-time play at the plant
isn’t enough to satisfy their ap-
petites now will have a chance to
play at night, according to John
Rangel, CRA table tennis commis-
sioner.
Beginning Friday night (July
3), matches will be played at 7
p. m. on each Tuesday and Friday
at the Y.M.C.A. All Convair em-
ployees and members of their
families interested are invited to
attend.
In the plant, Rangel estimates
that more than 300 employees are
now playing daily at lunch-time
on 48 table-tennis tables and
equipment supplied by CRA.
“And we need more to satisfy
the demand,” Rangel comments.
Annual CRA Golf Play
Scheduled for Aug. 10
BIG LEAGUE STYLE—Big league rig in almost everything
but cleats, CRA's Little League at FW is really decked out in
style, as demonstrated by these shots at All-Star game June 19.
At left, Fred Rothermal, All-Star pitcher, comes in to base as
Carl Larkin waits for throw. Rothermal made only run of game.
Center, Terry Barber tries a bunt. Robert Praetorius is catcher.
At left, Little Leaguer's foul has catcher in typical "where’d it
go?" stance.
HAT WITH BOY—At Little League All-Star game in FW June
19, this checkered banana hat worn by Fred Praetorius Jr., brother
of one of players, drew almost as much attention as game. In front
of him, left to right, are Frank Lawley, son of Convair's Al K.
Lawley, and Leo Williams Jr., 3305 W. Fifth.
Little League All-Stars
Corner Narrow Victory
The annual CRA championship
golf tournament will be held Au-
gust 10 thru September 12, F. F.
Foster, CRA golf commissioner,
announced this week.
All flights will be match play.
Players will be required to have
played in one or more 1953 CRA-
sponsored sweetstakes, or to carry
an active handicap with a recog-
nized intramural league.
Entry fees of $1.00 each will be
used to make up supplemental
prizes. Registrations may be made
in the CRA office, and must be
made on or before August 5.
Matches will be played at
courses the golfers choose.
Horseshoe Sets
Now Available
Through CRA
One-hundred and ninety-two
horseshoes—or 48 sets of four
each—are now available through
CRA, it was announced this week
by Finn Wahl, horseshoe pitching
commissioner.
Employees needing horseshoes
for replacement, or to start new
games, may apply for shoes by
contacting Wahl at Ext. 3132, or
by contacting the CRA office at
5141.
An estimated 50 games involv-
ing in the neighborhood of 200
employees pitch horseshoes during
lunch periods daily, Wahl said.
Team Four Holds
Lead in Bowling
Team No. 4 remained tops in
the Convair FW mixed Manage-
ment Club bowling league, hold-
ing a good margin over their
closest rival, Team No. 6.
Team Nos. 10 and 9 hold third
and fourth places, respectively.
The league season fill run for
four more weeks.
Convair Employee's
Son Takes Prizes
THE CHAMPION—Ten-year-
old Ronald Scott, son of E. E.
Scott, Dept. 24-1, holds model
airplane that won first prize
trophy. (See story page 4).
The CRA Little League All-
Stars, playing a tight game in
support of Stan Stanridge’s no-
hit no-run hurling, blanked the
River Oaks nine on June 19 for a
1-0 victory.
River Oaks, winner of the first
half in regular league play, went
to its downfall in the fourth in-
ning. Fred Rothermal, who gave
up one hit while pitching for the
All-Stars early in the game, more
than made up for it later.
He slammed a two-bagger
through Pitcher Len Strickland,
then came home on a passed ball
for the only score of the game.
Jtiver Oaks battery was Len
Strickland and B. Barber, pitchers,
and Don Goodwin, catcher. All-
Stars; Fred Rothermal and Stan
Stanridge, pitchers; and R. Cham-
berlin and Robert Praetorious,
catchers.
River Oaks: no runs, 1 hit, 3
errors.
All-Stars: 1 run, 2 hits and 1
error.
In regular league play, four
games of the second half had been
completed at press time with these
results:
Arlington Heights 15, West
Ridglea 7.
River Oaks 3, White Settlement
2.
W.S. 22, W.R. 0.
W.S. 22, A.H. 5.
Standings follow:
W
L Pet.
1. River Oaks ............1
0 .1000
2. White Settlement ..2
1 .666
3. Arlington Heights 1
1 .500
4. West Ridglea ........0
2 .000
Convair Cat Fans
Buy 1800 Tickets
Eighteen hundred bargain rate
tickets to Fort Worth Cat baseball
games have been sold to Convair
FW ^employees through CRA, I.
M. Pemberton, CRA president, re-
ported this week.
These are specially reserved
seats available to employees at 50
cents each. Tickets are on sale in
the CRA office for the three re-
maining games: San Antonio, July
25; Tulsa, Aug. 8; and Houston,
August 30.
Pemberton also reported that
600 consignment tickets have been
sold through CRA at $1 each.
These are available for all home
Cat games.
All seats are in section D at the
Cat baseball field.
Luck and CRA Ticket
Net Employee TV Set
It was a lucky day for G. E.
Lewis, Convair FW division gen-
eral foreman of Dept. 64, when he
bought tickets through CRA for a
Fort Worth Cat baseball game.
In a drawing at the game spon-
sored by the Lions Club as a bene-
fit for the blind, the Lewis family
won a 17-inch television set.
“My wife really won the set,”
Lewis said, “but she lets me
watch.”
Williamson Takes
Top Pistol Honors
Joe Williamson and Carl Cor-
den won top honors in the June
pistol matches staged by the CRA
Pistol Club at Convair SD.
CRA Hornets Win Three as
Competition Enters Second Half
CRA Hornets, first-half Inter-
national softball league victors,
got off to a fair start in second
half play last week as they took
three and dropped two.
Convair’s other first-half win-
ners were not so fortunate.
The East Texas league cham-
pions, CRA Panthers, were strag-
gling with one win and four losses.
CRA Hustlers, who tied for first
place in the Western League, had
a tied score for the second-half of
competition. They have two wins
and two losses.
Fifth place winners in first-half
play, American league Bombers,
rushed off to a promising start
with five wins and no losses.
CRA Major City leaguers who
won fourth place in first half com-
petition, had one win and three
losses.
CRA Convairettes chalked up a
win and five losses to better their
record of eleven straight losses in
first half competition. They held
last place in Girl’s Industrial Lea-
gue.
League play is scheduled to run
through the end of August.
Second half league play in the
city base-ball competition found
CRA’s entry in the Sunday Ameri-
can league with eight wins and
three losses this week.
The Sunday American team won
first place in first half competition.
The Major City league team has
won three and lost no games in the
second section of play.
DIDN'T GET AWAY—Convair
FW division employee, S. A.
Barron, Dept. 6-7, caught this 29
pound Gar in Lake Dallas to win
first prize in the fish rodeo spon-
sored by CRA. Another rodeo
is now under way. For informa-
tion contact Bill Parrish, fishing
commissioner, at ext. 5296.
CRA Teeners Boast
.1000 With Four Wins
CRA Teeners, CRA-sponsored
teen-age hardball nine, boasted a
.1000 record at press time after
winning the first four games in
the city Teener league.
After their 8-4 opener over
Queen City Lodge, the Teeners
plastered St. Paul Methodists 18-
0; then ran 6-4 over the Steelers
and 7-5 over the Optimists.
Next game is at 7:30 p.m. at
Rockwood Park on Saturday, July
4.
T. C. Allen Killed
In Auto Accident
Thomas C. Allen, 40, Convair
FW division aircraft assembler,
was fatally injured June 23 when
the car he was driving overturned
in Paradise, Texas.
Allen, who started working at
FW Convair in 1947,'died in a
Bridgeport hospital. He was
thrown from the car when it failed
to negotiate a curve.
His companion, Mrs. Jenett
Allen Scales, a cousin, died two
days later from injuries suffered
in the accident.
Allen is survived by a father,
three children, two sisters and a
brother.
Convair Employees
Flock to Burger's
Convair FW employees are
beating the heat this summer if
CRA ticket sales for Burger’s
Lake indicate anything.
I. M. Pemberton, CRA president,
reported this week that 15,438
tickets have been purchased by
Convair employees. CRA pays half
the admission price on this ar-
rangement.
These tickets are available for
half the admission price at Bur-
ger’s. Three types of books are on
sale in the CRA office.
A book of twelve tickets that
may be used only on Sundays and
holidays sells for $4.20.
A book of twelve tickets for use
on Mondays through Saturdays
may be purchased for $2.40.
A $4 book of 20 tickets for use
Mondays through Saturdays is al-
so available.
“This is the best bet for fami-
lies,” Pemberton said.
CRA Sunday Hardball
Nine Boasts 8-3 Record
Second half-league play in the
city baseball competition found
CRA’s entry in the Sunday Ameri-
can league with eight wins and
three losses this week.
The Sunday American team won
first place in first half competition.
The Major City league team has
won three and lost no games in the
second section of play.
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