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Subscribe to our Free Newsletter. This Week in Sports Reference Find out when we add a feature or make a change. Do you have a sports website? Or write about sports? We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more. As an assistant pitching coach at UTD Jeff helped coach the team to in While at Eastfield Jeff help compile a wins to 53 loses and ranked in the top ten every year.

Currently Jeff coaches select baseball and provides private lessons. Jeff provides instruction for pitching. This is the motto of a man whose baseball career began at the age of 8, with the Forest Hill Youth Association in Fort Worth, Texas; in the city where he was born and raised. Don graduated from O. Wyatt High School; where he lettered in Varsity Baseball his entire tenure.

Since his high school career, Blaylock gained momentum at Ranger College Texas ; where he continued to hone his pitching talents. Mansfield Softball Baseball Instruction. Texas Rangers Ballpark Baseball Instruction. Around the Plate Sports Baseball Instruction.

Stars Academy of Baseball Baseball Instruction. Bloodworth participated. But the hall also hosted outside entertainment. But just three weeks later, on November 6, the new hall was destroyed by a fire. The front-page story mentions two officers of the local Klan: cyclops Julian Hyer and treasurer Howard P.

The cross can be seen in the accompanying photos. Members of the Klan lodge had rehearsed a minstrel show in the hall just hours before the fire. It, too, was destroyed. The main Klan lodge in Fort Worth was Klavern no. Subdivisions apparently were numbered according to the city ward in which they were located. For example, Klan subdivisions no. Subdivision no. And there was a subdivision no.

Regardless, I have found no local reporting about a second Klan hall fire that night. After the main Klan hall burned, J.

Frank Norris of First Baptist Church—himself controversial—agreed to let the Fort Worth Klan stage its minstrel show in the church auditorium. Clip is from the February 13 Star-Telegram. And after Norris killed D. Chipps in , Lloyd P. Hyer and plans to rebuild its burned lodge hall. To mark the celebration, the Klan had a commemorative program printed. The program was dedicated to Hyer, who is pictured on the cover.

Hyer held the highest Klan office in Texas great titan and in the Fort Worth chapter exalted cyclops. The dedication says the Fort Worth lodge had seven thousand members. A quick perusal of Klan members listed elsewhere in the program finds candymaker Hugh Pangburn and J.

Star Williams, who would be county auditor for twenty-eight years. One month after the fire. Klavern no. But by Klan membership was dwindling; the Fort Worth lodge sold its building to the Leonard brothers to use as a warehouse.

In the s couples were still clinching in the old Klan hall—but now the couples were wrestlers. In the building was bought by Ellis Pecan Company.

Today the building, at age ninety-five, has been vacant almost thirty years, its doors padlocked, some windows boarded, others with broken panes.

Some more views of the former home of Ku Klux Klan lodge no. From what he told me Mr. Ellis sold the business when he was old and retiring. The business was bough by another shelling company with poor management and put the business out of operations in the mid-late s. I was able to visit before its closure, he gave me a tour inside of the building, I will say there is unique and impressive architecture inside.

You can see the massive roof beams from inside, the front half is multi story while the rest is a open floorplan. He also said to me that the Klan would parade up Main St. On the coin is a side view of a Klansman on horseback and the burnt hall with smoke on the other.

He had two of the coins but I suspect there are more out there. Hopefully someone will adopt this building and open it to the public.

The announcement in the newspaper that you cite is for Southside Commandery of the Knights Templar.