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Birth:          19 Mar 1915 Ojus, Fla.
Death:          16 May 1981 New York, N.Y.
Cause of Death: heart attack

Notes
1981 book:
	Tex, as Hamilton is more popularly known, was raised in Texas. He played 
football at St. Mary's in Texas, was a merchant seaman during World War II, and a 
trapeze artist with Barnum & Bailey. He was publicity director for the Los Angeles 
Rams from 1949 through 1951. He was a columnist with the Dallas Morning News from 
1976 through 1979.
	Tex is a well-known author, editor, and sportswriter. He has been editor for 
Sports Illustrated and Sport Magazine, and recently was featured in the 1981 Super 
Bowl official program. He covered professional football for Sports Illustrated from 1956 
until 1975; he also covered boxing, horseracing, and baseball.
	Among Tex's 31 books are "Jeremy Todd, A Novel" (1959), "The Pros" 
(1960), "Footsteps" (1961), "The Rookie" (1962), "Beatty of the Yankees, A Novel" 
(1963), "Championship Quarterback, A Novel" (1963), "The Game, the Official Picture 
History of the National Football League" (1963), "The Game, the Official Picture 
History of the American [??? or National????] Football League" (1964), "The Last 
Out, A Novel" (1964), "The Linebacker, A Novel of Professional Football" (1965), 
"The Running Back, A Novel of Professional Football" (1966), "The Cornerback, A 
Novel of Professional Football" (1967), "The Game, the Official Picture History of the 
NFL and AFL" (1967), "The Players" (1967), "The Receiver" (1968), "Rub-A-Dub-Dub, 
A Novel" (1968), "The Pro Season" (1970), "Running Scarred, the Odyssey of a Heart 
Attack Victim's Jogging Back to Health" (1972), which is autobiographical, and "Bart 
Starr, Professional Quarterback" (1973).
	Tex and Anne were divorced.
	Tex and Anne were divorced in 1958.
	Tex and Dorothy have no children.
	In 1981, Tex and Dorothy lived at 25 Sutton Place South, New York, N.Y. 
10022. In 1981, Anne Brewster Maule lived at 15 Harbor Court Box 576, Normandy 
Beach, N.J. 08739.
Source: "Running Scarred"; Maule v. Conduit & Foundation Corp.; Who's Who; Maule 
v. Kaufman, 341 N.Y.S.2d 749, rev. 304 N.E.2d 234; N.Y. Times, May 18, 1981, Sec. 
D, p. 13, col. 2; Mildred Biesele (1E543653)
1920 in San Antonio, Tex.
1930 in San Antonio, Tex. with grandmother Zillah Bee
spent much of his youth in Texas. Played college football at St. Mary's, later a 
merchant seaman in WW2, followed by a stint as a trapeze artist with Barnum and 
Bailey Circus.
Publicity director for the Los Angeles Rams from 1949-1951, a job he turned over to 
Pete Rozelle. Was a columnist for the Dallas Morning News and wrote for Classic from 
1976-1979
Wrote 31 books, including "Running Scarred" an account of jogging back to health 
after a heart attack in 1966.
letters from Mildred Biesele and Bob Maule of Hawaii
covered professional football for Sports Illustrated from 1956 through 1975. Also 
covered boxing, horse racing, and baseball.
Widely respected sports commentator
Source: NY Times 18 May 1981
funeral: Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan
20 Feb 1952 Dallas Morning News: named publicity director for Dallas Texans, had 
held that position for Los Angeles Rams. Has photo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Maule has this:
Hamilton Prieleaux Bee Maule, commonly known as Tex Maule (May 19, 1915 in Ojus, 
Florida — May 16, 1981) was the lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated in 
the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. After playing football (end) at St Marys in college and 
serving in World War II, he joined the NFL's Los Angeles Rams front office, where he 
worked with Pro Football Hall of Famers Pete Rozelle and Tex Schramm.

Later, in 1956, Maule was hired by Sports Illustrated, where he covered football for 19 
years. When the upstart American Football League (AFL) began play in 1960, Maule 
did not conceal his loyalty to, nor his preference for, Rozelle and the NFL. For years 
he ridiculed and made light of the rival AFL. For example, in a September 30, 1968 SI 
piece entitled The Young Generals (referenced below), supposedly about Pro 
Football's best young quartebacks, he praised such mediocre NFL signal-callers as 
Gary Cuozzo, Randy Johnson and Kent Nix, and never even mentioned Daryle 
Lamonica, Bob Griese, or Joe Namath. His contempt for the AFL was mimicked by 
other writers who wrote derivatory columns, fostering the myth that the AFL was 
inferior to the NFL.

Maule gained such notoriety for his bias that it was well known to his media 
contemporaries. During the broadcast of the AFL's New York Jets' defeat of the NFL 
champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, announcer Curt Gowdy asked (off-air): "I 
wonder if that (S.O.B.) Tex Maule is watching?" The comment can be heard on 
existing videos of the NBC-TV network feed of the game.

Maule also was a prolific author during the late 1950s and early 1960s. One book he 
wrote was The Rookie (1961, David McKay Company, NY) which is about professional 
football. From Sports Illustrated, Maule moved to The Dallas Morning News for three 
years. From Dallas, he returned to New York to write on a freelance basis. It was there 
he died in 1981. He was famed for saying, "It was a wonderful demonstration of 
boxing skill and a barbarous display of cruelty" in regards to the treatment which 
Muhammed Ali gave Ernie Terrell.

In 1972 he wrote a book, Running Scarred [Pelham Books 1972], about his 
experience having a heart attack and taking up running afterwards .
Note: books may be published under the name Hamilton Maule or Tex Maule

The Rookie - 1961 
The Quarterback - 1962 
The Shortstop - 1962 
Beatty of the Yankees - 1963 
The Last Out - 1964 
Championship Quarterback - 1963 
The Linebacker - 1965 
The Running Back - 1966 
The Corner Back - 1967 
The Players - 1967 
The Receiver - 1968 
Bart Starr - 1973 
The Running Back - 1971 
Running Scarred - 1972 
From http://ny.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%5CSAC%5CNY
%5C1981%5C19811015_0045072.NY.htm/qx (Dorothy Maule, as Executrix of Hamilton 
(Tex) Maule, Deceased, Appellant v. NYM Corporation et al, Respondents, Oct 15, 
1981:
"The trial court refused defendant's request to rule that plaintiff was a public figure. 
We agree with the Appellate Division that this was error and that, as a matter of law, 
plaintiff was a public figure.*fn* The critical consideration in this case is whether the 
evidence demonstrates that plaintiff had taken affirmative steps to attract personal 
attention or had strived to achieve a measure of public acclaim (James v Gannett Co., 
40 N.Y.2d 415, 422). Plaintiff's candid admissions, briefly summarized, are telling. By 
his own estimation he was one of the best known writers at Sports Illustrated because 
he wrote about professional football, which he classified the most widely read feature 
of the magazine. He had been in the writing field since 1937, and had been a sports 
writer for Sports Illustrated from 1956 until 1975 -- during which time he continuously 
had a by-line for his articles. He covered professional and college football, basketball, 
track and field, the Olympics and championship boxing. In 1959, 1963 and 1972 
certain of his articles were republished in the compendium "Best Sports Stories of the 
Year". He authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including three editions 
of the history of professional football, a biography of former Green Bay Packer 
quarterback Bart Starr, and 10 novels for teen-agers about football and baseball. He 
testified that, all together, he has produced 28 books, one of which was selected for 
distribution by the Junior Literary Guild and another by the Reader's Digest Condensed 
Book Club. He acknowledged that he was listed in both Who's Who in the East and 
Who's Who in America and that he had been a member of the Authors Guild and the 
Writer's Guild of America. He stated that he had made numerous public appearances 
to speak on sports and had appeared many times on television, including the Today 
Show and half-time programs at football games. And he had received a number of 
awards for his books and stories. All of this came from plaintiff's own lips.

On this evidence, the credibility of which plaintiff cannot claim is in issue, we 
conclude that the standard of James was met as a matter of law. The product of 
plaintiff's craft -- his books, articles and personal appearances -- were obviously 
designed to project his name and personality before millions of readers of nationally 
distributed magazines and millions of television's viewers and to establish his 
reputation as a leading authority on professional football. In short, plaintiff not only 
welcomed but actively sought publicity for his views and professional writing and by 
his own purposeful activities thrust himself into the public eye. He had become a 
public personality."
Ala Div Idx on ancestry

Parents
MAULE Claude Wendell ("Wendell") (24 May 1889 - 4 Nov 1918)
BEE Zelita (1893 - 6 Dec 1986)

Siblings
MAULE Evert Wendell (6 Apr 1913 - Oct 1914)
MAULE Hamilton Prieleaux Bee ("Tex") (19 Mar 1915 - 16 May 1981)
MAULE Mildred Zelita (21 May 1916 - 24 Mar 2000)

Marriage To ELLIS ----- ()
    m. 1936 

Notes


Marriage To BREWSTER Ann (2 Feb 1923 - 1 Jun 2003)
    m. 1947 

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Children by BREWSTER Ann 2 Feb 1923 - 1 Jun 2003
MAULE Hamilton Prieleaux Bee (1 May 1948 - 31 Aug 1971)
MAULE Halsey Coykendall Brewster ("Chip") ()

Marriage To HUGHES Edith Mayann ()
    m.  

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Children by HUGHES Edith Mayann 
MAULE Robin Hamilton Hughes ()

Marriage To MOORE Ann H. ()
    m. 1953 dv. Feb 1959 

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Children by MOORE Ann H. 
MAULE Jerry Mack ()

Marriage To LEVINS Dorothy (2 Feb 1922 - 9 Nov 2004)
    m. 1959 

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Parents
LEVINS Benjamin ()
----- Anna ()

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