Congratulations
to Alan Francis
1962 World Championship in Greenville, Ohio
on his record breaking
11th
World Horseshoe Pitching Championship title
1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005
July 1997 picture
of Curt Day with Alan Francis and Jim McCombs, club President
Darke Co. Horseshoe Club, Greenville
(Lately, not
as many people are calling the reverse 3/4 turn an "off turn"
thanks to the horseshoe pitching of Curt Day and Alan
Francis)
Curt Day & Ed Sharp in 1954
Curt Day won his first Indiana State Championship in
1953 pitching 77.1%
& Ed Sharp was Indiana State Champion in 1958 pitching
75.5%
Fernando Isais & Curt Day in Murray, Utah - (1956?)
Isais at this time was a 7 times World Champion (8th
title won in 1958)
& if it was 1956, Curt Day finished 4th in his first
World Championship pitching 77.0%
Ted Allen, Harold Reno, Paul Focht, Curt Day & Elmer
Hohl - 1962 Greenville, Ohio
(one of the old guard, two of the present guards, and
two of the future guards of the title)
1st Paul Focht Ohio 32-3 81.86%
2nd Curt Day Indiana 31-4 81.71%
3rd Elmer Hohl Ontario, Canada 30-5 83.09%
4th Harold Reno Ohio 30-5 81.76%
5th Ted Allen Colorado 30-5 80.52%
The 6th place finisher (not pictured above) was Ralph
Maddox of West Virginia, 29-6, who also pitched 80.52%. Six pitchers
averaging over 80% in the 1962 World Championship.
The 5 years from 1960 thru 1964 crowned 4 new champions in Don Titcomb (1960), Harold Reno (1961 & 1964), Paul Focht (1962) and John Monasmith (1963). From 1965 thru 1975, Elmer Hohl would win the title 5 times, Curt Day would be champion 3 times and Dan Kuchcinski would grab the title 3 times in 4 years from 1967 thru 1970. Carl Steinfeldt won the title in 1976 and Elmer Hohl came back to win his 6th and last World Champion title in 1977.
From 1978 up to the present time, the World Champions have been (in the order of their first title): Walter Ray Williams, Jr. (6 titles), Mark Seibold (2 titles), Dale Lipovsky (3 titles), Jim Knisley (3 titles), Alan Francis (15 titles), Kevin Cone (1 title), and Brian Simmons (2 titles).
Elmer Hohl & Curt Day in January 1972
Both two-times World Champions at this point in time
and locking horns (or horseshoes) for a picture
Murray, Utah was home of the World Championship in 1947 and 1949 thru 1959; then again in 1966 when Curt Day won his first title pitching a record 86.6% average in the Championship finals and finishing 16-1 in the finals. Curt pitched 86.2% and finished 10-1 in the preliminaries 12 men group.
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