Buffalo RocketCOMMUNITY NEWS Distributing to North Buffalo, West Side and Riverside • Established in 1969 www.buffalorocket.com Publishers of North Buffalo Rocket, West Side Times & Riverside Times Vol. XLVIII ISSUE No. 32 • Thursday, August 10, 2017 Festival of the Arts College To Host Eclipse View and Do Event On Monday, August 21st ipation of the Great American from 12:30 pm until 4 pm, Eclipse. Like the majority of Buffalo State College will host the United States, Buffalo will an Eclipse View and Do event experience a partial eclipse. on campus to safely view the From our vantage point, about eclipse and take part in activ- three quarters of the sun‘s disk ities for all ages. Telescopes will be blackened out by the with solar fi lters will be pro- moon. Even with the moon‘s vided and free eclipse glasses partial coverage, all solar will be handed out. There will eclipses need to be viewed be Astronomy activities and safely so you do not damage food trucks present too. your eyes. To see a total eclipse, you This event is free and open would have to travel to the path to the public. Attendees may of totality. The path for this park in the R-14 Lot on Rock- year‘s Eclipse runs from Ore- well Road near Grant Street. gon to South Carolina. Some For more information you hotels along this path have may visit http://www.fergu- been booked for years in antic- sonplanetarium.net. Festival of the Arts will transform Elmwood Avenue into a vibrant artistic crossroads, celebrat- ing our community’s creativity. On August 26th and 27th of the Arts will transform El- our community’s creativity. the Eighteenth Annual Pop mwood Avenue into a vibrant This family-oriented event, Up Elmwood Avenue Festival artistic crossroads, celebrating Continued on page four. A Royal Dynasty By Bill Snyder The Royals won the Cham- pionship in the Rookie boys di- Solar Eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21st. vision of the Hertel North Park Youth Baseball League, their third title in as many years. Candidates Meet & Greet They defeated the Indians, 14-11 last Thursday night July at Community Center 27th, ending a season fi t for a A community Meet & ed to tell their vision for the king. They won 12 consecutive Greet with the candidates city of Buffalo and to listen games in a row during the reg- for Buffalo‘s 2017‘s May- to the concerns of you, the ular season before just one loss. oral Campaign will voters. Then, in the playoffs, the 13 be held Tuesday, This event is free boys dressed in blue and white August 15th, 12:30 and all residents of jerseys quickly got by the Mar- - 2:30 pm at the Buffalo, especially Rookie League Kansas City Royals (6&7 year old age group). iners and Red Sox before two Northwest Buffalo those in the North Front Row (L-R): Stewart Calderon, Liam Nieves, Alex Van- meetings with a tough Indians Community Cen- Buffalo, West Side Cott, Parker Kresse, Eli Kresse, Elliott Embow, Angelo Mi- team, their closest competitor. ter, 155 Lawn Ave., and the Delaware/ litelo. Middle Row (L-R): Sawyer Shepherd, KingRoss God- With eight players return- Buffalo. Candidates who Elmwood areas are encour- fry, Christian Arzola, Ricky Panowicz, Gavin Springer, Dylan ing from last years squad, the have qualifi ed to run in the aged to attend this extremely Lovullo. Back Row (L-R): Bill Kresse (Head Coach), Rick team took on nine other teams Democratic Primary which important community meet- Nieves, Rick Panowicz, Modesto Arzola, Bryan Lovullo, Paul in a competitive division. A 9-6 will be held Tuesday, Sep- ing. Light refreshments will Springer (Assistant Coaches) Not pictured- Bart Kresse, loss to the Rays in early July tember 12th, have been invit- be served. asst. coach. Continued on page fi ve. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 MONDAY, AUGUST 14 TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16 Partly Cloudy Thunderstorms Thunderstorms Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy PM Showers Showers High 84° High 78° High 76° High 75° High 76° High 76° High 73° Low 66° Low 65° Low 63° Low 60° Low 61° Low 61° Low 60° PAGE 2 BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 32 WEEK OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017 shows the team was having a THE KENMORE CLUB Sabres Hockey hard time scheduling oppo- 1530 Kenmore Avenue • 875-5780 nents. The NFL raised its fran- chise fee from $50 to $1,000 Party & Banquet Rooms for 1922 making it diffi cult Full Catering Service Available SPORTS for Tonawanda to continue. Ironically the Buffalo football BOWLING ALLEYS AVAILABLE by George Kuhn Bisons fi nished tied for the FOR LEAGUES & PARTIES league lead and lost a claim to the league title when the com- Cocktail Lounge Open Daily at 1 pm Tonawanda’s Forgotten NFL Team missioner ruled them as the With Buffalo Bills training planned to play as a touring 3rd place team. Buffalo sports Knights of Columbus camp underway, enthusiasm is team with all road games. They teams were getting the shaft PROGRESSIVE building for the coming sea- wanted to play in the bigger even back then. Played every son. Fans of a certain age as- cities with bigger crowds so The Tonawanda Kardex Wednesday at 1:00 pm sociate the Bills as a former they could make more money. with an 0-1 record had the Friday at 7:00 pm AFL franchise founded in 1960 The league was then know as shortest history of any NFL Sunday at 7:30 pm who joined the NFL in the the APFA for American Pro- team. Two players went on to 1970 AFL-NFL merger. Those fessional Football Association longer NFL careers including same people look at you like and changed it’s name to the Tam Rose who later taught you have three eyes if you tell National Football League the physical education at Tonawa- them the Buffalo Bills played next season in 1922. Tonawa- nda High School. There is a from 1947-49 in the All Amer- nda began the season with a fi le of old news clippings at the ica Football Conference with 0-0 tie against the independent Tonawanda Historical Society. the Baltimore Colts, Cleve- Syracuse Pros and a 9-7 victory There are no team photos or land Browns and San Francis- over another independent team pictures of what the uniforms co 49’ers. Even more obscure the Cleveland Panthers. Then looked like. That didn’t stop is Tonawanda’s forgotten NFL they played their fi rst league NFL properties from fi led a team, the Kardex. game and were throttled by the trademark application for the There had been a histo- Rochester Jeffersons 45-0. Kardex name in 1990, reserv- ry of professional football in Tonawanda had beaten ing the right to make apparel the City of Tonawanda as far Rochester twice and Syracuse including jerseys. back as 1913. In 1916 and once rather easily the previous Most NFL teams from that 1917 the team was known as season so these disappointing 1921 season didn’t last much the Tonawanda All Stars. The results forced the team to ac- longer than the Kardex. Only name became the Tonawan- cept that they were now unable the Chicago Bears, Green Bay da Lumberjacks for 1918 and to compete at the top level and Packers and Arizona Cardinals 1919. In 1920 the Tonawanda the franchise folded. Evidence survive today. FREE CLASSIFIED Kardex, named after their spon- FOR SALE ITEMS UNDER $99.00 sor American Kardex, a North If you have an item that you’d like to sell, you can run a FREE classified Tonawanda furniture compa- ad in the Buffalo Rocket if your item is priced less than $99. ny, had a 9-1 record playing To advertise your item under $99.00 for FREE, fill out the form below against independent teams and (your address will not be published) and mail it to: Buffalo Rocket/Free Classified two APFA teams (the predeces- PO Box 271, Buffalo, NY 14207 sor of the NFL). They played their home games at Tonawa- Buffalo Rocket FREE CLASSIFIED AD nda High School and drew up – YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED – Name: _______________________________________________ to 3,500 fans at games. 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