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IHj_BAYtOWN SUH Sunday, FA Man Who KnowsWhen Clark Neal on discusses sports, he’s a man who knows ■ what he’s talking about.*,f^ess *’ve heen interested and involved in sports all my , life. Nealon sard on a recent trip to Baytown. He was on his way to speak to a group here on the subject he talks about with great i authority. lt;Most folks know Clark Nealon now for his work as sports dir- \ ector of the Houston Post, and for the long career that preceded his final tour as one of the top sportswriters in Texas. ‘He s retired now, and says he’s ’winding clown pretty well. But I 1 still get the itch to write every once in a while, and i guess ] that’ll always be the case. £It all started for Clark Nealon in San Antonio. And the first t sport he became acquainted with was horseracing. ft's held his interest to this day.’ t,‘j had an uncle who owned several horses, and when 1 was j nearly still in arms he would talk to me about some of the great -horses of that time, Nealon said. “He had beer, up in a sulky j when I was no older than 10, and I worked those horses with him 1 nearly every day, listening to stories about ail the places he had been to race his horses. iClark comes close to having the build for a jockey, but that J particular sport was just one of many Nealon interests.His dad was a conductor for a railroad line that ran from San r Antonio to Waco, and he had a pass that was good all the way to St. Louis, Mo.Clark and his dad would hop the train to Waco early in the ■ morning and go to the Katy ballpark there to watch some top : flight minor league baseball, plus an occasional exhibition game -by the New York Yanks with Ruth, Gehrig, et al. ,And every year either Clark by himself or with his dad would use that rail pass to go to St. Louis for a week of baseball, watch' i ing and listening and learning as much as possible about the sport he would one day write about with such authority.They would also make it a point to see some of those famous ; Paul Tyson football teams at Waco High, like the 192? bunch that j many people still call the finest high school football team ever in Texas. •‘T guess you could say I'm somewhat of a rarity, also, since i've f seen Baylor’s last three championship teams of 1922, 1924 and j 1974.' Nealon said. \
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Baytown Sun
Baytown, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 02, 1975
Page 6
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