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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1955
Page
9
A Baytown father lectures his 13 year old son about tobacco during a Teen-Age baseball game. The boy, who mocks the idea, chews real tobacco and promptly hits a double and a single in four trips to the plate, claiming he is now a confirmed chewer.
A Baytown sports reminiscence recalls 18 year old Steve McWilliams chewing Brown Mule with Fats Brown's Brown Bombers. He spit at the plate like Ty Cobb, fell violently ill, and the team won 1-2. Also noted is Lea La Borde's resignation as Robert E. Lee tennis coach and interest in replacing him, plus Baytown sports figures tied to Goos e Creek and local junior league nostalgia.
STUTTGART Germany UP Sgt Elmore L Hobbs Paxico Missouri returning to his barracks after umpiring a baseball game saw a car in the river with its driver struggling in the water He inflated his rubberized chest protector used in ballgames and tossed it to the man who seized it and reached shore safely Concord New Hampshire UP There were 20542 motorboats on New Hampshire inland waters last year about one boat for every 25 residents
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