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inre£h*$oay, July 26, 1961 THE PRESS Art Fowler Thomas, M cBride, Hunt Top Fireman The baseball takes funny bounces and no player in the game is better qualified to Eye Rookie Awards talk about bouncing than Art Fowler of the Los Angeles Angels. The relief ace of the Angels, Embryonic LA Club who is now established as one of the top firemen in baseball, Deluxe Silvertown has done the entire diamond circuit. He has run the gamul Hopeful in 1st Season of minor league ball and has Most, experts now agree that for a eluh which wasn't pitched successfully in major supposed to do anything in its maiden season in the Amer-j leagues. ican League, the LOK Angeles Angels have done quite well Since returning to the for themselvest majors with the Angels on In fact, they not only have performed better on thei May 27th, Art has established himself as a solid pitcher. "1 field than they thought originally, hut the experts agree can work every day, if neces I hat General Manager Fred Haney and Manager Bill Rigney sary." And he virtually has have whipped together a club which has a fine future, worked daily. NEW TREADS boasting a host of outstanding youngsters. F'owler is one of the most Messrs. Ham»y and Rigney., respected bull pen artists reali/ed early in the cam- and now has won four in the league. A 39-year old straight. native of Converse, S.C. (he 'paign that their hopes for Perhaps Ken's top clutch eventualV {"Tlll/UCll success0 U V*V-1 OC> inIll»vlH-^»lliv,.j| the Amer- « _ A* still resides there). Art has ran League lied not o n 1 y %?<™?™ C*™ ™ "* been well-nigh unbeatable. with the talented youngsters night of July 7th at Detroit, In one spell this year en they drafted from the A.L. where the Angels were try compassing 16 games, Art has « Iubs last December in Bos- ing to extend their longest given just one earned run in iton. but also with any pros- winning streak to seven 21-2/3 innings. That one run Ipects they might, acquire via straight, lie was hooked up was a ninth-inning homer by Hade and the waiver route in the tight pitcher's duel the Yankees' Bill Skowron is the season progressed. until the eighth inning when which beat the Angels. Their plan of attack has Steve Bilko home red. Ken For Fowler, this return to proven to be right-as-right- hung in there and extricated the major leagues is some c.m-be. Such youngsters as himself from an eighth-inn thing he never thought would < ;<-orge Thomas. (23), I.; e o n ing jam and went on to vic happen. At 39, few players \ agner (27), Jim Donohue tory. He has been that tyfl^of ever come back but he has ,i«i2), Ron Moeller (22). Eli pitcher all-season, * and in a big way. Grha (26) and Albie Pearson Five of his wins have come A veteran of 17 years in against clubs rated as pen professional baseball, Fowler LEE THOMAS (2H) form the nucleus of an Angel team which has caused nant-contenders two over is thought of by the opposi Detroit, two over Chicago and tion as a junkball pitcher. and will continue to cause the shutout over Cleveland. plenty of trouble in the Amer There is nothingfurther from Need a Haircut, He beat Detroit earlier this truth. He has a "hummer," ican League this year. season. 1.0-1. This was one of However, three of the- which has surprised most of Pardner? the two games he was nsked the Angels' opponents no end. i jyoung aces who have zoomed to "pinch-pitch" because of j into prominence this year Art says that "my fast ball THEN GET ailments to other members of is as good now as it has ever |are a pair of Kens McBride the Angel staff. Incidentally, IT IN THE and Hunt both of whom are been." He is such a master Ken also won the other at his trade that he sets up for only original members of the first "pinch" game. NEWEST, edition of the Angels and Lee a batter as pretty as anyone. Hunt, in-and-out of 1he Just when the batter leasts CLEANEST SHOP Thomas, acquired from the lineup earlier this year, has Yankees on May 8th. expects it, in comes "The IN TOWN taken over the Angels center- Hummer." Their performances this field job although he intends Art was the eighth deal year have been most satisfy to keep it for many years. swung by General Manager ing to the Angel brass. Mc- His home runs have been Fred Haney. It is one of his JACK'S Bride's tremendous pitching timely and the remarkable best. For Fowler not only has earned for him a berth on the part «about his first If) round- All Types been virtually unscored-upon American League All-Star trippers is the fact that only as a reliever, but he is un of Haircuts '1.50 team at San Francisco. Hunt's four of them have come off beatable. Both of his losses timely home run hitting has southpaws. In addition to came in starting roles, soon Under $ put. him in a position to tie leading the club in homers, after joining t,os Angeles. 12 »1.25 or possibly break the A.L.'s he's also the HBI, doubles 31-homer rookie mark set bv and total base leader. 6.70-15oR 7.50-14 Ted Williams in 193!). The 27-vear old Hunt, tout- H CM ring OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK i Thomas, for whom a great fu- ed tjy his former manager, Aid* APPLIED ON SOUND iture is predicted by many Casey Stengel, as a fine pros Jack's Barber Shop I experts, has proven that he pect, boasts a strong throw A mazing IT '^SINGS-DISCONTINUED ! "can swing a bat." He has an ing arm and is fleet of foot. Prir«4 4803 Torronce Blvd. Torrance jcasy, fluid motion and since His defensive play has im TREAD DESIGN NEAR ANZA AVENUE, 4 DOORS PROM THE '• p 1 a y i n g regularly with the proved to where he has be M««i* v.ith trO'f "Quiet Rubber." NEW TIFF'S RESTAURANT Angels, Lee has proven that come a steady and ofttimes Mofflti M|ue«li, grip* the re««l better, leit* he is a definite star of the fu sensational centerfieldcr. longer, stops foster. ture and one of this year's Lee Thomas has p I a y e d leading rookies. right field in the main for the Deluxe Silvertown New Tread Prices Deluxe Silvertown Hew Tread Prices FLAMINGO THANK All three Angels are out Angels, but lately has been standing candidates for seen in left field also. Bill Hig- CLOSE-OUT TWO TIRES ri ocf OUT TWO TIRIS 2 HOUR SIZE CLOSE-OUT "Rookie of the Year" honors ney has toyed with the idea PRICE SIZE CLOSE-OUT CLEANERS YOU in 1961. The American League of possibly shifting him to PRICI PRICI has come up with one of its first base. This would not be 6.70-15 $ 8.88 $17.76 7.50-14 > 8.88 $17.76 finest rookie crops in recent a strange position to the 25- MR. JULIUS KRAVITZ 7.10-15 9.88 19.76 8.00-14 9.88 19.76 for the Tremendous seasons hut McBride, Hunt year old slugger, as he played Consultant and I^e Thomas rank right the initial there with Bing- 7.60-15 10.88 21.76 8.50-14 10.88 21.76 up near the top. hamton in the Eastern League 8.00-15 11.88 23.76 9.00-14 11.88 23.76 Response to Our Grand for 120 games. New! Their competition for 8.20-15 12.88 25.76 9.50-14 12.88 25.76 While thfc voting for raring Plus t«K and r«tr*adabl* tire or add $3.00 rookie hqnors will probably "Rookie of the YeasT honors ; us t«x and r*tr*ad«bl« fir* »r add $t. Opening Last Week Whluwallt $1.00 xtra. Whit*w«lls $1.00 xtra. come from D e t r o i t's fine is a couple of months away, Slimmest, and with more young infielders, Steve Boros it can be said that the Angels economy of operation THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL and Jake Wood, Kansas City's i , ,., season has been most than any previous Silver- short stop Dirk Mowser, New in the development hone Hearing Aid Glasses. York right hander K o 1 a n d youngsters as Lee and 29 S h P 1 d o n. Washington's Kd Thomas, and the two Pensioners! Se« Us! SLACKS Hobaugh and Joe McClain, On* W**k Only With $2 00 Ordtr Boston's Don Schwall and McBride and Hunt Jtaltmor, several others. who loom to be among the and nvrvic* ffir n&trly MONEY in the American NO McBride. 25-year old right- top rookies nil hander, has been among the League this season. *»>*«. FLAMINGO Major League leaders in ERA Army Pvt. Timothy S. Fre* hcnrmfr 1***- .ill season, being under 3.00. Wayt, 18. son of Mr. and Mrs. roosHliation in prvacy 2-HR. CLEANERS He has hurled one three-hit Newell E. Wayt, 813 Arling of your home or o«r air (I ter (a 9-0 shutout over Cleve ton, Torrance, recently ar con<titkmed office.