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PAGE 5, AUGUST 30, 1973
Banner Specialty Company's Second American Air Hockey Cham-
pionship Tournament was held at the York College gymnasium
in York,Pa. on June 24. It was labeled by Al Rodstein, pres-
ident of Banner Specialty, "An unqualified success." Over
124 champions who had won local tournaments in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland and Washington,D. C.
competed for the title. The tournament last five hours with
a crowd of more than 1 ,000 fans attending pictured on CBS
television cameras.
Larry Friedel of Ocean City,N.J., second from left on the
top picture shown here is the new champion, His thrilling
play right down to the very last second held all present in
suspense. Third from left in this same top picture is Scotty
Wimer of Hellertown,Pa., runner-up. On the far left is Al
Rodstein, Banner's president and on the far right is Arnold
Fogel of Brunswick.
Center picture shows Larry Friedel, champion, being car-
ried out of the York College gymnasium on the shoulders of
his fans. Larry captured a purse of $1 ,500 along with first
place.
Bottom picture is a view of the six tables in constant ac-
and a part of the crowd over on the left that numbered
than 1 ,000 making this championship contest one of the
outstanding in history.
Fish story? C.B. Ross, Wurlitzer's Service Manager, joined
Bill Herbord of Automatic Products and Buzz Heyer of North·
west Sales for a day of fishing in Alaska's backwoods. The
trio claim they actually caught these lake trout "in just
a matter of minutes". Now, there's no doubt that Alaskan
waters are chock full of trout, but, "in just a matter of
minutes"? Of course, no one can contest the facts as they
are pictured here. After all, what the three are holding
look like trout. But "in a matter of minutes"?????