Photo by SANDI FAHY
(from left) Honored guests Betty Steinfeldt and Beatrice Steinfeldt are pictured with two-time world horseshoe pitching champion Mark Seibold, tournament director Jim Hess and Clearwater Horseshoe Club president Ron Deckard at the Carl Steinfeldt Memorial Horseshoe Pitching Tournament at Ed Wright Park in Clearwater on November 4. The tourney was a Florida State Horseshoe Pitchers Association-sanctioned event. Betty and Beatrice Steinfeldt, are the daughter and widow, respectively, of the late Carl Steinfeldt, who passed away not long ago at the age of 88. Steinfeldt was a five-time world horseshoe pitching champion. The Rochester, New York, native, who moved to this area in 1978, won 22 New York state championship titles and 14 Florida state titles. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association in 1972, the New York State Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame in 1974 and the Florida Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame in 1988. Seibold, who hails from Indiana and has been pitching horseshoes for some 40 years, played against Steinfeldt in many of those tournaments. Carol Simpson of Clinton, Maine, was winner in the championship class at Saturday's event. First place winners in their respective classes were Jim Hayden of Dunedin, Archie Bunting of Largo, Richard Kosko of Rochester, NY, Andy Whitchurch of Dunedin and Patricia Callis of Clearwater.
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