Tom Reck
Special to the Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE —
This week is a good one for those folks who enjoy watching horses instead of cars race on tracks.
Three days of Illinois harness racing begin today at the Martinsville Agricultural Fair. The Great Midwest Trot and Great Midwest Pace both are on Thursday’s card.
Thoroughbred racing is on Friday’s schedule highlighted by the Old National Road Derby.
Post time is 1 p.m. CDT daily at the fair.
Harness races also are scheduled next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Edgar County Fair at Paris. Post time also is 1 p.m. CDT for those programs.
Saturday is the first day of thoroughbred racing at Ellis Park at Henderson, Ky., with the season trimmed to 27 days.
Starting next week, races will be run Friday, Saturday and Sunday and continue until Labor Day, the final day of the season. Post time is 12:50 p.m. CDT.
Fans will be able to sit in the grandstand free of charge and make 50-cent bets on Pick Four wagers.
• On the course — There’s a full schedule of golf in the next two weeks, especially for juniors.
A junior scramble is slated today at Rea Park and the Clay County Optimist Club junior event is Thursday at Forest Park in Brazil.
The Terre Haute city junior tourney is next week with play set for Rea Park on Tuesday and Thursday and at Hulman Links on Wednesday.
Forty teams took part in Tim Mundy’s Firecracker Shootout that ended Monday at Hulman Links. Many of the same players and others will be in the Terre Haute Mini-City that will be played Saturday at Rea Park and end on Sunday at Hulman Links.
• More Disch — We noted last week that Terre Haute native Terry Dischinger will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team. We reported that he earned all-Big Ten honors all three years that he played at Purdue — freshmen were not eligible for the varsity in those days.
One of Dischinger’s fans pointed out that Dischinger not only earned Big Ten honors all three years but was on All-America teams all three of those years, being on the second team his sophomore year and a consensus first-team choice the last two seasons.
That’s quite an honor that has not been duplicated by many players in the country before or since.
• Tom-Cattin’ It — Sullivan High School graduate Trent Rinard has been named to the Indiana high school rodeo team that will compete in the nationals this month in Wyoming.
• Two running backs who rushed for nearly 2,000 yards in Evansville high school football games will be playing college football.
Josh Pendleton netted 1,631 yards and 20 touchdowns for Bosse and will be a preferred walk-on at Indiana State.
Jaleel Fox gained 1,303 yards for Central and is going to Iowa Central Community College.
• Shawn Nugent is the new boys basketball coach at Paris in Illinois. He formerly was the coach at Chrisman.
• The Indianapolis Star reports that Carmel will lose its big man in basketball, reporting that 6-foot-11 A..J. Hammons, who will be a junior, plans to enroll at Oak Hill Academy.
He averaged 8.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.8 blocked shots last year for the Greyhounds.
• Don Coryell died last week at the age of 85.
He was one of the innovators of the passing game in the National Football League, coaching the St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Chargers. He was 111-83-1 in the regular seasons with the two teams.
We recall his postgame interviews when we covered some of the games in St. Louis, where Jim Hart was his quarterback.
Tom Reck may be contacted by telephone at (812) 232-3231, by email at tm_reck@yahoo.com or by mail at 4284 South 5th Street, Apt. 3, Terrre Haute, IN 47802.
