Thursday, December 29, 2011

WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING

MY MOM IS ON THE LEFT circa 1952
NO IT IS NOT A VACCUM CLEANER
THE DO-HICKEY IS AN OXYGEN MACHINE
PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY TO THE TEAM
TO IMPROVE PEAK  PERFORMANCE  AS ATHLETES
AFTER ALL THEY WERE JUMPING AGAINST SOME HIGH ALTITUDE MEN

MADHOUSE ON MADISON

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MY DAD  DEMPSEY SHOWCASED HIS BRAND NEW TEXAS COWGIRLS HERE
EXHIBITION GAME S  AND TRAINING 1949


DEMPSEY HOVLAND,ABE SAPERSTEIN, ART KIM,



           BARNSTORMERS NBA ABL TEAM OWNERS SHARED THE HARDWOOD
  • February 19, 1948 at Chicago Stadium: Globetrotters 61, Lakers 59
  • February 28, 1949 at Chicago Stadium: Globetrotters 49, Lakers 45
  • March 14, 1949 at Minneapolis Auditorium: Lakers 68, Globetrotters 53
  • February 21, 1950 at Chicago Stadium: Lakers 76, Globetrotters 60
  • March 20, 1950 at St. Paul Auditorium: Lakers 69, Globetrotters 54
  • February 23, 1951 at Chicago Stadium: Lakers 72, Globetrotters 68
  • January 2, 1952 at Chicago Stadium: Lakers 84, Globetrotters 60
  • January 3, 1958 at Chicago Stadium: Lakers 111, Globetrotters 100

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BASKETBALL LEAGUECompiled by Robert Bradley, with special thanks to Steve Dimitry, Roger Meyer
and Dick Pfander for their many contributions
The impetus for the American Basketball League occurred during the summer of
1960 when Bob Short moved his National Basketball Association franchise, the
Minneapolis Lakers, to Los Angeles for the 1960-61 season. Abe Saperstein,
owner of the Harlem Globetrotters who 's team had frequently performed as the
opening game for NBA teams to bolster attendance throughout the 1950's, felt
that he had been promised the NBA franchise in Los Angeles, and in response,
announced the formation of a rival league, the American Basketball League in
March of 1961, with the league to begin play in October of 1961 with the
season split into two halves.
The charter eight members of the league included Saperstein's own Chicago
Majors, the Cleveland Pipers, a former Amateur Athletic Union industrial
league club owned by a group of investors headed by a young George
Steinbrenner, Art Kim's Hawaii Chiefs, Ken Krueger's Kansas City Steers,
Len Corbosiero's Los Angeles Jets, Lenny Lipman's Pittsburgh Renaissance
(known simply as the Pittsburgh Rens), George McKeon's San Francisco Saints
and the Washington Tapers (another former industrial league team owned
by the Technical Tape Corporation and Paul Cohen). Saperstein installed
himself as the league's commissioner, setting up a conflict of interests which
would the tarnish the league's leagues credibility, as would his involvement
in the ownership structure of other ABL franchises.
During the season, Washington moved to New York, where they had been located
as an AAU team, and Los Angeles folded during the first half of the season due
to financial problems, with Sharman moving on to Cleveland as coach, filling
the position which had been left vacant when McLendon resigned due to
Steinbrenner's interference.

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Aditional information by Erin Hovland-Moffitt

Art Kim had coached and owned the Honolulu  Surfriders  barnstorm team , Art also served as coach for the University of Hawaii. He renamed the Surfriders 
The Hawaii 5oth Staters. Art, Abe and Dempsey Hovland 
formed  an alliance  taking the country by storm the season before The Lakers  relocated from Minneapolis to L.A.   The Lakers had the narrowest court in NBA auditoriums while in 
Minneapolis. 

The 1958-1959 season  combined the talent of  

Dempsey's Texas CowGirls 
( female team played men's rules 
against men's teams), 

Abe's Harlem Globetrotters 
( African American all male team)

 Art's Hawaii 5oth Staters 
( Pacific Islander all men's team)

on the road  together playing 170 games  from coast to coast and Canada.



WILT CHAMBERLAIN TOURED WITH THE TEXAS COWGIRLS 1958-1959 PLAYING FOR THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS .HE WAS PICKED UP BY THE WARRIORS THE FOLLOWING SEASON  . NATE  SWEETWATER CLIFTON WAS THE FIRST HARLEM GLOBETROTTER TO PLAY FOR THE NBA



TEXAS COWGIRLS ON THE ROAD  IN SAN FRANSICO WITH THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS AND HAWAII 50TH STATERS

Joan Rupp and Al McGuire share basketball stories

THE TEXAS COWGIRL'S  LIKE THE TROTTERS FILLED THE NBA STADIUMS TO CAPACITY PLAYING THE PRELIM GAMES.  THE Lakers and Harlem Globetrotters would face off in a series of games.
OTHER  FEMALE TEAMS WOULD NOT SUCCEED DEMPSEY HOVLANDS BASKETBALL CHAMPS
THE WORLD FAMOUS TEXAS COWGIRLS

Monday, December 26, 2011

READ MORE ABOUT MY DAD


DEMPSEY HOVLANDTHIS IS THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF MY FATHER ' KING OF BARNSTORM SPORTS" AND WORLD RENOWN PROMOTER



http://dempseyhovland.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Tic Tac Toe







a young dempsey hovland


ROCKFORD PEACHES PLAYED BASEBALL AGAINST OTHER WOMENS TEAMS HEY WERE FROM ROCKFORD IL 
Jules Arthur
SATCHEL AND MY DAD DEMPSEY MET IN THE 1930'S 
                                         both athletes on the road. Dempsey would manage Satchel and Satchel would play baseball for Dempsey in the1950's and 1960's



Mayor Richard J. Daley Walking Through the City
CHICAGO'S MAYOR RICHARD J DALEY DEMPSEY'S FRIEND 

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HARLEM GLOBETROTTER S START THEIR OWN TEAM DEMPSEY ADVISES BOOKS AND BECOMES FRIENDS WITH THE TWO HOF ICONS




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3tYKO1ByDw
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ANOTHER DEMPSEY CLIENT


DEMPSEY PLAYED FOR THE HOUSE OF DAVID HIS INDOCTURNATION INTO THE WORLD OF BARNSTORM BUSINESS.






MAINSTAY ON ROCKFORD TV HIS KIDS ON THE ROAD WITH US HIS WIFE WORKED  FOR MY DAD DEMPSEY AND MY MOM FLORENCE

A Little Bit About Myself
PEE WEE KING ON THE ROAD FOR BASKETBALL GAMES PAGEANTS FAIRS AND BIG EVENTS WITH DEMPSEY FROM THE 50'S-70'S

ROCKFORD IL HOME OF THE ROCKFORD PEACHES 5 MILES FROM OUR TOWN

THE FAMOUS WAGON WHEEL RESORT WAS IN OUR LITTLE HOME TOWN THIS IS THE ICE RINK 
FOR PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY GAMES, LOCAL KIDS SKATING LESSONS, OLYMPIC TRAINING. THE OWNER WLT WILLIAMS AND DEMPSEY PALS AND THE MOST  WELL KNOWN MEN IN THE AREA,
DEMPSEYS BASKETBALL TEAM  TEAMED UP TO OPEN NBA GAMES

A TOWN MANY MORE TOWNS CITIES STATE FINALS AND ON TO NATIONAL FINALS EVERY FALL TO CROWN MISS AMERICAN TEENAGER THE BUSINESS DEMPSEY BOUGHT FRANCHISE RIGHTS TO FOR HIS WIFE TO RUN WHEN HE WAS OFF ON THE ROAD WITH BASKETBALL
REF PLAYER PLAYER REF IT WAS ALL IN A DAYS WORK
THE MILLER FAMILY MADE A LIVING AS ARIEL ARTISTS AND SPINNING PLATES 20 AT A TOME ON 12 FEET SPINDLES. THE HUSBAND WIFE KIDS WERE ALL ON THE ROAD WITH US IN THE 70'S

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Dick Haines as Uncle Sam on Stilts
JED BLACK UNCLE SAM ENTERTAINED AT DEMPSEYS BARNSTORM BASEBALL GAMES.HE DROVE A PURPLE VEHICLE WITH THE BIG FINS TO FIT HIS STILTS IN



COUNTY FAIRS FILLED THE SUMMERS DEMPSEY BRINING IN ENTERTAINMENT FROM HEE HAWS WEEPING WILLIE. ROY CLARK, DAVE AND HIS CHIPMUNKS, BEARS RIDING BIKES AND PEE WEE KING


AS A CHILD I WOKE UP O THESE ELLAS AND GALS IN MY FRONT YARD



THE ORIGINAL TEXAS COWGIRL HOG TIE A DEMPSEY ORIGINAL











MRS HANK WILLIAMS SANG AT DEMPSEYS  BARNSTORM BASKETBALL GAMES



HALF TIME ACT HUSBAND AND WIFE
DEMPSEY PLAYED FOR THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND IN LATER YEARS RAN HIS OWN HOD TEAM
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JACK BRICKHOUSE  DEMPSEY WAS A GUEST ON THEIR PROGRAM WHEN HE WAS AVAILABLE IN CHICAGO




BART PLAYED BASKETBALL AGINST DEMPSEYS TEXAS COWGIRLS AFTER THE FOOTBALL SEASON 


FOR MANY SEASONS WITH OTHER PACKERS INCLUDINGFUZZY THURSTON.

Dempsey met Ollie in NY City Ollie traveled in the van with the Texas CowGirls entertaining spectators at halftimes.


Edgar, Bea, Jeannine, Pat & Linda


The Petticaot junction crew was booked by Dempsey for personal appearances and the girls promoted their album and  performed.

; Ernest Woolff built a miniature (rod) puppet opera in the basement of his
; Chicago home, with the help of his mother , Esther. Their invention was
; patented August 17, 1943  Patent #2,327,234. The pictorial diagram is shown
 on page 348 in Paul McPharlin's THE PUPPET THEATRE IN AMERICA, but to get
; the explanatory text, you need to check the rest of the patent.
; Ernest did mini opera for RCA's World Fair exhibit. When he joined the U.S.
; Navy, the puppets were installed at the Kungsholm Restaurant's lovely puppet
 theater where they became a major tourist attraction. Many other puppeteers
; built similar rod puppets for Kungsholm, some with added improvements. Some
 were built in the basement of puppeteer Ruth Hill's family home, where many
; Chicago Puppet Guild meetings and a marionette stage shared space. As a
 visiting puppeteer, I even slept there a few times. Ruth had an act that traveled to entertain  for Dempseys Miss American Teenager pageants and Texas CowGirl and Harlem Quens basketball games. Her mrinettes were 4 ffet tall including Pearl Baily and Carol Channing in a Hello Dolly rendition.






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Cam Fong was judge at Dempseys Teen Pageant in Atlanta, The FBI became involved removing Dempseys daughters to safety from a bus on the way to meet with Hank Arron at an Atlanta Braves Game. His sons got cleared to go.

  
My sister Julie has the photo of her and Tiny Tim and all of us kids and Cam Fong

Tiny Tm was the entertainment in Palisades Park NJ  for Dempseys Miss American Teenager Pageant, Jackie Gleason was one of Dempse';s all time favorite entertianers. Dempsey wanted me to grow up to be a June Taylor Dancer. He had me practice the kolaidiscope rouyine during the Jackie Gleason Show in the 60's.

Tiny Tim


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