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By Jesse Murphy
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HOLUB WINS DOWNING OF THE ‘DOGS
The Emporia Gazette
Emporian Zach Holub was the
winner Tuesday night of the Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers hot dog eating contest at the
Lyon County Fair. Participants had
a time limit of seven minutes to see
how many hot dogs they could eat.
All received a T-shirt and Freddy’s
coupons.
Zach Holub, stuffing in the dogs, was the winner of the contest by eating 10 hot dogs in seven minutes.
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Operation Purple is in full effect
this week at Camp Wood YMCA, and
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts stopped by to
visit the campers.
The program is sponsored by
the National Military Family Association and gives kids aged seven to
17 a chance to go to summer camps
across the country.
Roberts, a Marine veteran himself, attended the camp as a youth
and scheduled the visit in support of
Operation Purple.
“This is very special for youngsters, sons and daughters of people
in uniform who are protecting our
country,” Roberts said. “This is a
neat program … here you learn to get
along with others, you learn things
that you didn’t think you could do
and it’s an experience where you can
come together in a team effort.”
Roberts took a tour and spoke
with campers, NMFA volunteers and
staff.
Camp Wood Director Ken Wold
said that the visit is good for the kids
and the camp.
“It’s always great to have public
figures show up and bring attention to the camp,” Wold said. “This
summer has been great. We’ve had a
good number of campers and this is
a good way to end it.”
Liz Larsen, Volunteer and Community Manager for NMFA, is a
mother and part of a military family.
She said that Operation Purple
MCBETH SHREDS JONES EAST TO TAKE EARLY WORLDS LEAD
By Steve Hill
Ultiworld Disc Golf
Defending PDGA World
Champion Paul McBeth entered play in Emporia for this
week’s PDGA Professional
Disc Golf World Championships hoping to “quiet the
noise,” as he put it, about his
recent play.
After an incendiary first
round that saw the Huntington Beach, California, native
card consecutive eagles and
play bogey-free golf at Jones
East Park, it’s safe to say the
noise has been quieted.
McBeth’s 15-under par 46
was the highlight of Day One
at Worlds, but Ricky Wysocki’s
14-under par 47 nearly stole
the show and vaulted the
South Carolina product into
second place and onto the
lead card heading into the second round, which will also be
played at Jones East. Nikko
Locastro and Jeremy Koling
fired off 12-under par 49s to
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Paul McBeth
share a tie for third place and
make up the rest of Wednesday’s featured group in the
Open Men’s division, while
Devan Owens’ 11-under par
50 put him in fifth place.
Catrina Allen, who won
the Glass Blown Open on
the same Emporia courses in
April, threw a 5-under par 52
at Peter Pan Park to open up
a two throw lead over defending PDGA Women’s World
Champion Paige Pierce, who
carded a 3-under par 54 on
the day. Sarah Hokom, Valarie
Jenkins, and Jennifer Allen all
tossed 2-under par 55s to tie
for third place, with Jenkins
and Allen getting the nod for
lead card duties Wednesday
due to their lower
PDGA numbers.
M c B e t h ’s
hot round
clocked in
at an unofficially-rated
1082, which
is 28 points
higher than
his
t o u rbest 1054 rating. Wysocki’s
1073-rated Round
One was 25 points above
his own mark.
As impressive as McBeth’s
play was, he admitted that
he left plenty of shots on the
course as he struggled with
accuracy from the tee on a
handful of occasions.
“I had some mistakes out
C O U R T E S Y
there,” McBeth said. “Way
too many OBs, honestly. I had
three OBs.”
McBeth made up for those
errant shots early by carding
an eagle on Hole 5, a 477-footer that he referred to as a
“soft” Par 4. He then pured a
drive beneath the
low ceiling of
Hole 6, another Par 4 measuring 467
feet, leaving himself
fewer than
15 feet from
the basket
for his second easy 2. It
was the first time
a player has eagled
consecutive holes in
a PDGA Major or National
Tour event since Wysocki accomplished the feat during
the second round of the 2015
Ledgestone Open.
Even with the string of
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