January 6, 2000
Stephanie Talmage and Alec Overby, East Hampton High School senior athletes with A averages, were recently honored at a Suffolk Zone student awards dinner where they were cited for “excellence in physical education, academics, leadership, and character.”
Talmage has been recognized for scientific work by the Scripps Institute, and has competed in a state track meet and a national lifeguard tournament. She’s lettered in field hockey, winter track, and spring track. Overby, a member of the Athletic Leaders Club and the National Honor Society, and a representative to Boys State, has lettered in soccer, basketball, and spring track.
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On New Year’s Day, a group of about a dozen hardy swimmers met at the ocean in Wainscott for a plunge into the sea. In its second annual outing, members of the Seafood Shop Polar Bear Club jumped in the water at about 1:30 p.m., with approximately 50 supporters urging them on. The bathers had to run a ways out past a false bar to get wet, then splashed around a bit before retreating to the shop for hot clam chowder.
January 13, 2000
Martin Quigley, a St. Louis writer, public relations man, and slow-pitch softball player who, beginning in 1946, spent summers in Springs, and who became a fan of the now-defunct Wolfie’s and Three Mile Harbor Inn Relics, died on Friday at the age of 86.
. . . In 1960, Mr. Quigley co-wrote “Baseball Is a Funny Game” with Joe Garagiola, a book that went on to become one of the best-selling baseball books of all time.
. . . A 6-footer weighing 132 pounds when he played Class D ball in the Northern League, Mr. Quigley was told by his coach, Red Murray, that he should forget a major league career: “Martin, you have major league speed, but you’re not big enough and you don’t have the arm. You can outrun your arm. Go home and get your education.”
He also played semipro football for the Southeast Merchants team in Minneapolis before getting enough money together to attend the University of Minnesota. “I was paid $7 a week. We played with little skull caps, and went both ways. Jeez, it was rough. The water boy would bring out two jugs, one of water and sugar, and another of bootleg booze. That — the booze — kept us going. It was viciously dirty. . . .”
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One thing was made very clear to the Montauk Playhouse Advisory Committee on Monday when it met for the first time with an architect — a daunting task lies ahead.
. . . Also included on the first floor of the conceptual design is an Olympic-sized pool with men’s and women’s locker rooms, a lounge, and a multi-purpose room. Above the pool would be a corridor where one could watch the swimmers. . . .
January 27, 2000
Bill Herzog, East Hampton High’s boys winter track coach, was pleased to note on the verge of the League IV meet that five school-record performances have been turned in recently, namely Ben Turnbull’s 2 minute and 9.9-second time in the 800-meter race and his 2:46.2 in the 1,000; James Keogh’s 55.5 in the 400 and his 1:18.46 in the 600-meter race, and the 8:53.26 run by the 4-by-800 relay team of Turnbull, Sean Myhr, Keogh, and Pete Page.
