Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1976 Page: 4 of 20
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BICENTENNIAL TOURNAMENT-Steve Laird, Direct-
or of the Burleson Bicentennial Tennis Tournament,
shows off one of the large trophies which will be given to
winners in the tournament. The one he is holding is for
men's singles. An entry blank can be found in this issue of
the Star.
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Girls Baseball
Draft Saturday
RE-ELECT
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PLACE 7
(PD. POL. ADV. BY CHARLES HERNDON-BURLESON)
Cowtown Rodeo Winners
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Response has been good
from all age youngsters,
BY A officials say, however,
there is still room for addi-
tional players in each league.
More are especially needed
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YOU HELP
YOUR FRIEND
PHD HIS
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HE'S LOOKb
FOR Hii
CLUB!
All ages are as of Sept. 1,
1975.
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Richland Socks Burleson fZ™”!
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their own this weekend.
Thirteen teams are exx
Saturday for the
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stop the offensive attack Betty Millsap 495 - Lynda
Moore 493 - Reda Copeland
469.
Team high games went to
CB’s 701 - DGB’s 691 - Good
Griefs 680. Individual high
Millsap 214 - Reda Copeland
188 - Verdie Collins 184.
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The Elkettes should be
one of the top contenders!
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includes Everman, Brewer;
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Appaloosa stock from Bill-
ings, Montana introduced
the return of the “Wild
Horse Race” to Cowtown
Coliseum, original site of
indoor rodeo, situated in the
heart of the historic Fort
Worth Stockyards.
Bernis Johnson, stock pro-
ducer, imported the wild
Indian ponies last week on
his return trip from having
trucked a load of bucking
stock to Montana. Five three
man teams wrestled the
ponies, and a Fort Worth
steam won the purse.
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in two events for Burleson,
scoring a total of seven and Paschal,
points. In the 80 yard
hurdles, she was one of the Preliminaries are slated to
untouchables in the district get underway at 9 a.m. with]
last year when she had a
time of 11.1. Saturday, her
third place time was
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Karen Blair. Back: Coach George Speer, Teresa
McFarland, Nancy Tremble, Karen Lusk, Donna Acton,
Jerita Eisenbech, Elaine Hamilton and Karen McDonald.
ELKETTE TENNIS TEAM-The combined boys and
girls tennis team at Burleson High School now has a
season record of 7-2-1 and will be going to Weatherford
this weekend for an invitational tournament. Monday, the
netters play Brewer and Tuesday they play Boswell. Both
games are scheduled for Warren Park. Members of the
the big boys and placed
second in the meet with 78
points.
The Elks won first place in
two events and scored points
in 10 of the 14 events that
were run.
Two district champions
from last year had the two
first places for Burleson.
Conway Wheat flung the
discus 142-V4, some seven
feet farther than the second
place finisher to win that
event. Wheat also placed the Elks will again compete
in a predominantly 4A meet
as they go to Fort Worth for
the Recreation Meet.
north of Malakoff on
way 90.
Entry fee is $10 per team
and tournament day is Sun-
day, 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Pot day is Sturday from 6:30
to 3:30 with an entry fee of
?2 per person.
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They didn’t win the South-
western Recreation Track
and Field Meet last weekend ____
but Coach Joan Ferrell’s pected ________„
young track squad made annual running of the Elket-
their presence wellfelt at the te Relays and it’s a good bet
predominantly 4A meet. that they’re all hoping for
The Burleson Elkettes better weather than last
placed fourth in the meet year’s affair. Rain washed'
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in one events. The well-bal-
anced defending 3A-5 cham-
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of the 14 events.
TOURNAMENT EVENTS
MENS 45 SINGLES..........................$4.00
MENS SINGLES.............................$4.00
MENS DOUBLES* ” ” *................. $4.00
BOYS 18 & UNDER SINGLES................$3.50
BOYS 15 & UNDER SINGLES................$2.50
BOYS 12 & UNDER SINGLES-............... $2.50
WQMENS 45 SINGLES........... $4.00
WOMENS SINGLES-........................$4.00
WOMENS DOUBLES’.......................$4.00
GIRLS 18 & UNDER SINGLES-...............$3.50
GIRLS 15 & UNDER SINGLES................$2.50
GIRLS 12 & UNDER SINGLES................$2.50
MIXED DOUBLES-................. $4.00
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of Marti English, Cindy Elkettes in the competitio n
LaTouf, Kelly Martin and
Diane Moore placed third,
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• team with a clocking of 4:14.
The 880 relay team placed
sixth with a time of 1:56.
Mindy Truly was fourth in
the high jump with 4-10; Pat
Royer was sixth in the 220
with a time of 27.6; and
English was sixth in a closely
contested quarter mile that
had but 1.05 second differ-
ence in the first and sixth
place times.
It was the first track meet
of the season for the Elkett-
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The Richland Rebels made batters and hitting the four-
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of Burleson in baseball action
Friday as 1’
Elks 6-5 in an <
squeaker and then bombard"
ed them 11-0 in a
was called after four innings
of play due to the 10 run
limit rule.
Gary Tucker was the
losing pitcher in the first
game of the double header
which went nine innings
after ending up 5-5 at the
Tucker had problems hprl-
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second in the shot put to
score a total of 18 points and
lead the Elks in that cate-
gory. He threw the shot
48-8 V4.
Doug Moore tied the dis-
trict record in the high jump
at the District Meet last
year, but it just took him a
jump of 6-1 to place first
Saturday. Other Elks to
score points in the meet
were Mark Howeth, 3rd in
the high jump; Alan Nelson,
3rd in the 880; Stuart
Beckwith, 3rd in the 440;
Roger White, 3rd in the
mile; Buster Foster, 4th in
the 330 intermediate hurdl-
es; Mike Gollahon, 4th in the
discus; Lee Dennie, 4th in
the shot put; Brian Bewley,
5th in the pole vault; Glen
Wright, 6th in the discus;
and Tom Crites, 6th in the
440.
Both the sprint relay team
and the mile relay team
placed sixth.
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after walking the first three hitting potential
twin killing at the expense th with a wild pitch. His
„_i . pitching improved at that
they defeated the point, though, as he went the
extra-inning entire nine innings only to
. ’-----’----L take the loss after a line
game that ■ drive knocked in the winning
run for the Rebels.
Mark Howeth, the Elks
senior catcher, sent the ball
sailing 340 feet over the left
field fence for a two run
homer that temporarily put
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Girls not present for the
draft will be placed on a
team.
Twice In Diamond Action I
The Burleson Youth As- in the junior girls league.
Goal of the BYA is to sign end of seven innings of play.
who wishes to playj summer ing the
rs ha ve ‘ ;
Cowtown Rodeo also wel- '
corned the youngsters from
Fort Worth’s Indian Guides,
who enjoyed the calf scram-
ble and the opportunity to
participate in the prize
money, presented by Cow-
town Rodeo’s President, Mr.
Steve “Cowboy1
Other rodeo results included
Bareback Riding with David
Houston of Burleson in first
place with a 70. And the
Barrel Race event with
Kathy Peacock of Burleson
in second place with a 13.728. $2
YOUR VOTE AND SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED
The March tournament of
the Burleson Bass Club will
be held Saturday and Sun-
day at Cedar Creek Lake.
Bart Brown is tournament
chairman.
Tournament headquarters
will be at Sunny Glen
Murrin. Campground four miles
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that they’re all hoping for
better weather than last
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with 44 points and took first out the finals at last year’s-
meet and preliminary timesl
were used to determine!
pions scored points in eight places. Burleson placed;
of the 14 events. (’J ' '_______ ...»
Janet Nesmith was tops in seven 4A schools,
the discus, outdistancing her r____ _________
nearest opponent by nearly ____ __ ____ ___________
three feet with a throw of this year in a field that
96-5Vz. The Elkette senior i Z ________ Z_ _
was a regional qualifier last Carroll, Crowley, Duncan’
year. ville, Grand Prairie, Grap^-
Sheryl Sanderson placed vine, Diamond Hill, Littlj-j
Elm, MacArthur, Joshua^,,
and Paschal.
Preliminaries are slated
Team, Place 2nd|
Burleson was the only 3A _____________
squad at the Chap Relays Beckwith, 'Maurice Welch*
Saturday, but the Elks were David Waldrop and Crites,
unawed about running with The 440 relay team is made
up of Moore, Steve Mormon,
Crites and Foster.
No team standings were
kept at the junior varsity
level, but many of the teams
competed in JV events.
Burleson boys winning plac-
es were Greg Wright, 1st in
the 440; Melvey Renfro, 4th
in both the discus and the
shot put; and Robin Wor-
sham, 3rd in the 880.
Tomorrow and Saturday,
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smashed four singles in the
game and Tucker followed
up with three singles.
Coach Gary Whites com-
mented on how the hitting
had vastly improved, “when
we come up with 14 hits in
one game after getting only
5 hits against Crowley, we’re
at least heading in the right
direction,” he said.
In the second game of the
_ . double header the Elks were
the Elks out in front by a 5-3 belted by 11 runs in just four
margin. Howeth continued innings of play,
to show his hitting ability as ’
he hit three sidles along
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Grimes also showd|
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DOUBLING UP. . .
Bathing suits, pretty girls, I
and motorcycles are part
of the scenery at Day-
tona Beach, Florida’s 23-
miles of hard-packed sand.
A bit of all three are pic-
tures as Mandy Lake and
Terry Strickland pose for a
picture.
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girls team are: [1-r] Front: Nona Basket, Pam McFarland,
Wendy Whippo, Elizabeth Cotten, Laurel Foight and
Outstanding scores for the
Wednesday Sunset Mixed
League are: Joyce Purselley
535 - Loree Lewis 532 - Ruth
Martin 526 - Patty Huffman
518 - Rozelle Cavin 504 -
Jeannie Bransom a 205 game
- Holly Martin 201/572 -
Derwood Coggins 569 - Jude
Owens 224/572 - Loyd Wallis
534 - Duane Garrett 528 -
Mar^jjf Kaufman 526 - Lee
Brijjrnan 508 - Roger Lewis
Tom Martin 506 -
man Marbut 505.
Wednesday Nite
Mixed high series went to
t^ams DGB’s 1970 - Ten Pins
dual high
ilk southpaw could do little Cole 546. Ralph Hague 544 -
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Athe Rebels.
The Elks could not man-
; 1 age to get a single hit in the
sociation will hold its draft <
for girls this Saturday, up every child in the area
March 13, and will also ..LL— — j_l
accept late registrations baseball, officers
from any boy or girl who has
not yet registered for the
summer baseball program.
Draft for girls six, seven,
eight and nine years old will
be held between 10-11:30
a.m.; Minor League girls
(ages 10, 11, 12) will be
picked between 11:30-1:00;
and Intermediate Girls will
be drafted between 1-2:30.
said, 'as he
the finals set for 2 p.m.
Junior high girls mee
r____ ______ ____ 10.6. begins at 11:30 a.m. toda
She was sixth in the long with Grapevine, Crowle;.
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Burleson’s mile relay team j°ininS Pauline G. Hugh |
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Bob Sherrill started the
game but could not even
cause of arm trouble. Chig-
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game that was called after
four innings of play.
‘ The Elks will be looking games went to Jack Bunton
for their first win of the 245 - Wade Keller 233 -
season today as they face Ralph Hogue 207 - Betty
Mineral Wells in a home .....
game scheduled for 4 p.m.
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DEADLINE IS MARCH 16,1976
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