Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 07, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1959 Page: 4 of 4
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The Riggers ran up a 51-38
score over the Oilers last Tues-
day night to regain the lead in
the hot waler league basketball
race.
Playing the first game of the
weekly doubleheader, the red
hot Rigger team jumped to a
10-point lead in the first quarter,
and held it all through the con-
test until the final period of play
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shipyard. All of his previous
boats were sold soon after con-
struction, or were built on as-,
signment for someone else. He ;
plans to keep this one, however,
to keep him occupied since his
retirement from the company
last August. It will also keep
him in contact with his former
fellow employees, many of whom
are avid fishermen.
Although recent rains have
slowed construction of the big
when a few more points were
added to cinch first place for
them. This win gave them a
4 and 1 record for the season,
and pushed the Oilers back into
a lie for second place. They
share this spol with the Hot
Rods, another high temperature
team, who look the second game
of the night by beating Engi-
neers 61-29.
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When Annuitant W. A.
(Bill) Lovett started building
a big boat in his front yard
on Park street here in Bay-
town, he didn’t have the same
project in mind that Noah had
when he built his ark. But a
near record rainfall this month
has helped make the boat a re-
minder of this Biblical account
to many people passing that
way, and these particular
weather conditions certainly
makes this present day project
seem most appropriate in spite
of the unusual location for con-
struction of such a large craft.
Lovett’s boat will not con-
tain quite as many cubits as that
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Baseball Pros To
Hold Clinic Here
With a place to play not yet
assured, the Optimist sponsored
Teen-age baseball leagues move
into the activities of the new sea-
son on March 28, when a Youth
Baseball Clinic will be held at
the Humble Community Build-
ing.
The program will be under the
direction of Cal Hartrick, and
will be a one day affair featur-
ing members of the Houston
professional baseball organiza-
tion. Eddie Knoblock, president
of the professional group, will
bring Rip Van Winkle, Harry
Gumbert, and Gus Mancuso lo
the Community Building for a 10
a.m. session of films and discus-
sion. They will be guests of the
Optimist Club for lunch, and in
the afternoon will demonstrate
double plays and other phases of
the game.
All Baytown youth interested
in playing baseball are invited
lo attend both sessions of the
program. “It will be lo the bene-
fit of every boy to lake advan-
tage of this professional advice,
and should help us get our sea-
son off to a good start," said
Lester Alford, public relations
director of the Optimist Club.
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as it is afloat, he will be ready .
to start taking passengers aboard
—in pairs or otherwise—for fish-
ing trips out in the bay. But he
will not be competing for Noahs
record, because 24 is all the
Coast Guard will allow Lovell
to carry at one time.
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built by Noah, however. It is 48
feel long, and has a beam of 16
and a half feel. Neither will
Bill’s boat carry as many pas-
sengers—or the same kind—as
ihe ark. Its specifications have
been documented by the Coast
Guard for 24 passengers who
will be fishermen carried by Bill
on chartered trips out in Gal-
veston Bay. It will operate from
Seabrook which will be the
“Mount Ararat” it returns to
after each trip.
This is not Lovett’s first at-
tempt at building big boals. He
has built a total of 17 in all,
and this will be the third one he
has built in his front yard. The
other Iwo were smaller, but both
were in the 32-foot class. His
largest was a 65-foot shrimper
which he built at a Seabrook
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Wife Hangs Record Head
Sometimes heads arc hung in shame or sorrow, but George Spang-
ler’s wife, Wanda, has just hung one proudly on the wall of her home.
Not her own personal head, of course, but the mounted one of an
antelope she shot last season while hunting with George in Wyoming.
Wanda has good reason to be admiring it in the picture above. She
has been notified by the Boone and Crockett Club that the head has
qualified as a record trophy, and has been registered as such. The
minimum requirements for an antelope arc 75 points, and Wanda’s
had 77 and a quarter. She is the first woman from Texas to get a
trophy that qualifies for the Boone and Crockett Club.
George also got a good antelope head on the hunt but did not
enter it for qualification. In the picture he just scratches his own head
in a perplexed pose that seems to say, “How come women are always
beating men at their own games?”
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