Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 06, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1958 Page: 8 of 8
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Rain Fails To Completely
Stop Humble Day Sports
Bert Allman To Head New
Teen-Age Baseball League
matches between members of the
Baytown Humble Club team and
the Houston Office team that
started the activities of the day,
managed to complete eight sin-
gles before being forced from
the courts by the drizzle. At this
point, Baytown netters were lead-
ing 5 to 3, but the rain had
begun to fall faster than it could
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Highlands Reservoir will be
reopened May 30 to Southeast
Texas bass and crappie fisher-
men, according to Courtney
Curry, general manager of the
San Jacinto River Authority.
The 1000-acre reservoir, lo-
cated north of the Wallisville
Road two miles east of High-
lands, has been closed to fisher-
men since the fall of 1956. At
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“Bet you didn’t know that,” says Bert Allman after picking up
some new pointers on baseball from a guide book on the game.
Allman, well-known Baytown sports fan, has just been made presi-
dent of a new Teen-Age baseball league for 13 and 14- year olds.
With the aid of a magnifying glass, he is even getting pointers from
the fine print in preparation for this latest addition to the Optimist
Club’s Teen-Age baseball program.
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Caterers didn’t do all the serv- )
ing at the Humble Day picnic
last Saturday. Here, Ovide Web-
ber, Engineering, serves a hot
tennis ball to his Houston Office
opponent in one of the eight sin-
gles matches that were played
before rain stopped them.
PRETTY PAIR OF SPECKS
C. R. Garrett, Humble Production, made speckled trout
fishermen perk up and get that gleam in their eyes when they
saw these big specks he brought in last week from Half Moon
Reef near Texas City. His total catch was five, but these two
were the largest. One tipped the scales to six and a half
pounds and the other weighed six pounds even. Garrett was
using shrimp for bait to make the fish grab his hook
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The Optimist Teen-Age base-
ball program has made another
contribution to community rec-
reation by forming a new 13-14
year old league that will open
additional opportunities for Bay-
town youngsters to play baseball
this summer.
The new league, which will
be known as the Grocer League,
will be made up of three teams,
each backed by a local grocery
store. These,sponsors are Holla-
way’s Super Market, Hathaway’s
Food Market and O’Brien’s Food
Market.
Bert Allman, night supervisor
in Operations General, has been
named president of the new
league. Managers of the three
teams will be Gerald Griffin,
Process; R. A. Brame, Humble
be swept from the courts, so
the remaining matches were
called off. Baytown winners were
George Shepherd, Joe Montgom-
ery, Dave Walker, Benny Beck,
and Ovide Webber.
Baseball was the big attrac-
tion in sports at the Refinery
Club’s annual picnic at Camp
Reber last Saturday. The rainfall
was lighter in this area, and both
Teen-Age baseball games that
had been scheduled for the day
were completed. In the first
game, the Baytown Hawks, man-
aged by G. Phillips, Labor,
played a 6-6 tie with a Crosby
team managed by C. Gladney,
Garage. A six inning time limit
prevented the tie from being
played off. In the second game,
a Dayton team, managed by L.
St. Julian, Labor, pounded out
an 8-1 win over the Galena Park
Dodgers managed by Clarence ))
Lemon, Labor.
The outstanding feature in
Humble Day sports this year was
that not a player was sent to
the showers. The showers came
to them.
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annuitant; and Joe McShan, lo-
cal barber.
Games will be played on
Monday and Thursday evenings
at 5 p.m. on the Robert E. Lee
High School diamond. All con-
tests will be played under recog-
nized Teen-Age baseball rules,
except six inning games will be
played under a one hour and
thirty minute time limit. Also,
since these are daylight games
that must be completed before
dark, no inning will start after
6:30 p.m.
Tryouts for the league will be
held at 9 a.m. tomorrow morn-
ing, May 24, at the REL dia-
mond. On Monday night, May
26, the player selection drawing
will be held at the Optimist
Club’s regular meeting.
that time the State Game and
Fish Commission and the Au-
thority cleared the lake of carp,
gar, shad, and other trash fish to
improve the water for industrial
use. Later it was completely re-
stocked with bass, crappie, cat-
fish, and sunfish, but has been
kept closed until now to give
these fingerlings a chance to
grow up.
B. D. Cooper of the Commis-
sion said sample nettings re-
cently show the reservoir is now
ready for sportsmen.
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Although spectator enthu-
siasm might have been damp-
ened somewhat by rain, Hum-
ble Day sports were far from
being a complete washout last
Saturday. Like other entertain-
ment plans, they were just weak-
ened by the waler.
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Refinery Club members didn’t let showers stop the show at their annual picnic last Saturday They
shared shelter of umbrella (far right) or got soaked while two Teen-Age baseball games were played.
In the picture, a Crosby player gets set to “soak” the ball with a bat in a game with the Baytown
Hawks. This turned out to be a “half-dozen” game. The six inning limit ended in a 6-6 tie.
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