The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: <strong>High</strong>light 1956Mallon Plan, Church Growth, Court Decision <strong>High</strong>light 1956<strong>Waggener</strong> also shone in basketball. The school team, paced by the pitching of left-hander Bobby Marr, won all four of itsseason's games. Marr pitched two no-hitters and a one-hitter.Baseball Spotlight: St. Matthews Babe Ruth and Little League baseball were in the spotlight all summer.The Babe Ruth League opened its first year on Memorial Day at the St. Matthews Community Center with eight teams ofboys 13, 14 and 15 years old.The Cubs, managed by George Marr, won the pennant with a 10-4 record.The Cub team was paced by the aforementioned Bobby Marr, 15.Bobby won the league batting title with an average of .406. He was the league’s strikeout king and second-best pitcher,percentage-wise.Danny Carter, of the Indians won the pitching title with a 4-0 record. Marr won five and lost one. He sent 82 men down onstrikes in six games and gave up only 21 walks.Marr in July threw a no-hit game to lead the National All-Stars in a 10-1 victory over Bowling Green in the State tournament.But the local All-Stars were defeated by the South End All-Stars 8-4 in extra innings and eliminated from the tournament.It was an auspicious start for the Babe Ruth League.Another highlight of the season was Charlie Long’s no-hit game June 5 as he led his Giant team to a 2-0 victory over theYankees and struck out 19 men.Little League opened its fourth season in May.Models and Lions: The Models swamped all opposition and easily won the American pennant with 15 victories againstthree looses. The Lions set a new record in winning the National pennant. They won 15 games, lost two, and tied one, thebest record ever <strong>com</strong>piled by a National League team.The two St. Matthews Leagues picked All-Star teams and quickly eliminated all <strong>com</strong>petitor for the area title.Then in the title gave at the St. Matthews park, the Americans lined up behind the two-hit pitching of Jim Shollenberger todefeat the National 7-1. The Americans demonstrated their superior power with an eight-hit, three-homer attack.A few days later, the Americans got their long bats out of the rack again, and gave the Lexington Eastern All-Stars an unmercifulbeating, 11-2 for the District title. The St. Matthew boys got 13 hits.Then they went to Fort Knox for the state tournament. Here they met their downfall, through a <strong>com</strong>bination of mentallapses, the breaks, and dumb luck. They bowed to Paducah 6-4 despite home runs by Wayne Glore and Cappy Hoskins.<strong>High</strong>lights of the season wee Citizens pitcher Tuffy Horne’s no-hitter that defeated the Pryors 4-0 on June 19, and Tuffy’sthree –hitter that snapped the longest wining streak in St. Matthews Little League history.That was July 14 against the Lions, a game the Citizens won 13-0. It was the first defeat of the year for the Lions, who hadwon 12 in a row.Breaking Records: Carl Porter managed the pennant-winning Lions. He had the satisfaction of seeing his boys break thetwo records, the one for consecutive games won and the other for best season’s record.Both these records, had been established by a previous Lions’ team, the one of 1953, couched by Walter Bales. The fourbest pitching records in the League were captured by Lions. They were:Charles Kane and Him Lapsley, 4-0, Tommy Dudgeon, 3-0, and Mike Patrick 4-1. But little Tuffy won the strikeout title.Tuffy in 45 innings fanned 67 men.Davis of the Citizens team won the League bat crown with .452.In the American League, Tommy Pope of the pennant-winning Models was doing some record smashing.The 11-year old hurler won eight victories against only one loss. That was more victories than have ever been turned induring a single season by a pitcher in either league. Tommy was backed by a tremendous squad of hitters.Five Models, led by Wayne Glore with a .524 average, batted better than .340. Another Model, Merle Kruer, batted .472and blasted five home runs.
The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: <strong>High</strong>light 1956Mallon Plan, Church Growth, Court Decision <strong>High</strong>light 1956By the end of the year, St. Matthews Little League had a second diamond. It was built next to the old one on the CommunityCenter grounds. In 1957, if all goes well, there will be a third Little League in St. Matthews.Siegel Retires: In September, the granddaddy of St. Matthews Little League stepped down. Charles Siegel, presidentsince the League was founded in 1953, was succeeded by Harold Hammon.His own son, Freddie, had moved to the older Babe Ruth League, and Mr. Siegel was pretty tired after the work and effortit took to organize the League, build a park, and transform it all into a smooth operation.The St. Matthews Merchants during the summer made a serious bid for the Louisville Amateur Baseball Federation Title.But after gaining a tie for first in mid-July, the Merchants lost a 4-3 game to Club Cuero and that ended their chances ofrepresenting Louisville in a National Baseball tournament.The Merchants during the year added two Negros to their teams.Audubon Country Club demonstrated its superiority over local swimming teams. The youngsters raked up 161 points todefeat seven local <strong>com</strong>petitors in the Big Spring Inter-Club championship August 12.The Richmond Boat Club swimmers, led by Joe Roehrig and Judy Dillon, earlier that month won the River Road Invitationaltournament, racking up 135 points.Owl Creek’s team, coached by Alec Reeves, defeated Richmond 79-72 at the end of July for their 11th victory in a row,spread over there seasons.Trinity’s Surprise: In the fall, Jeep Quire’s Holy Trinity squad was the surprise football team of the County.The shamrocks, playing their first year with seniors, won six games, lost only two, and tied one. Guard Jerry Sheehan wasnamed the most valuable players.Four Trinity players were named to the All-County team. They were halfback Dave Weber, Sheehan, end Bob Kiper, andquarterback Tony FitzgeraldThe eastern Eagles had their worst year, winning only one game.In the St. Matthews Football League. The Eagles won the Senior Division title with seven victories and no defeats. TheBears won the Junior title.And Country Day, a school just a little over five year old, <strong>com</strong>pleted the year as on of the few unbeaten, untied teams in thestate. Coached by Stan Gould, they won six games, raced u 203 points and gave up only 28 points.Three New Cities: The small Cities here continued active and vigorous.Three new sixth-class Cities were organized. Five Cities, including St. Matthews, conducted sustained programs to curbparking, traffic and other law violations.Several Cities, including St. Matthews <strong>com</strong>pleted annexation programs.The newly-elected boards of Trustees were installed in January. Then the boards picked their chairmen, or Mayors.Ken D. Thompson was re-elected Mayor of St. Regis Park, W. T. Porter was elected to his fourth term as Mayor of Bellweood.Woodlawn Park reelected Burns Speer, and Norbourne Estates reelected Earle Otis, who was also chairman of the JeffersonCounty Municipal conference. Brownsboro Village reelected Mortimer Goldsmith.In Cherrywood Village, Robert Love, Jr. was named to succeed Charles Meyer, Jr. Druid Hills named Milton F. Jeffersonto succeed Jack Small.Other Mayors named were Harold B. Williams, Jr. Beechwood Village; Robert Livingston, Springlee, Frank Anderson,Mockingbird Valley; William B. Pirtle, Indian Hills; Richlawn continued with Quincy R. Tyler.The choice in Windy Hills was J. Paul Keith, Jr. who succeeded himself.Police Courts: Taking the lead in curbing traffic violators were St. Matthews, Cherrywood, Bellewood, and BeechwoodVillage.St. Matthews set up a weekly police court, under the direction of Judge Gilbert Flack. The St. Matthews police force wasincreased to seven, and a second patrol car was added. The result was a veritable flood of citations for violators. At onepoint, court was being held three times a week. Judge Flack couldn’t handle it alone. He appointed two police Judges protem,David Proffitt and Thomas W. Speckman.
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