STARS SIGN CI6RGE * + .•••••• ^•-—— JHHH VICOTiger Ace ieen to Change To Replace C. Bernier George Vico stepped bark Into City Dump Into Baseball Mecca professional baseball Thursday hen he was signed by the Hol­ lywood Stars of the P a eI f I c Three Fields Const League to replace Oarloa Bernier, tho Stars' hard-hitllng For Baseball utflolder, who wag mispemled for the season Wednesday for To Be Built slapping an umpire. St'cps toward milking Torranco Vlco, who playi-d In the ma- Hravon for small baseball jors with the Detroit Tigers In players were taken Tuesday and '40, had played this n the City Council granted on with the San Francisco Babe Ruth and Little Seals and Sacramento Soloni pies a five year lease of for- mtll an eyo Injury put him out city dump land at Plaza Del >f Bollon. Recently, he lias boon > and Border Ave, for the writing hero for thn Domingup* tola] price of $5. >and and Water Co. and part. Now all that Is needed Is a Imo for q,<*wr Mnpliw leord Agtn- AUG. 16, 1954 TORRANCE HERALD five .vinter of hard work by dads of oy. He was chief Instructor W«d. he young diamond stars, accord- rosday at tho local baseball «h> ng to Ken Roberts, secretary nlo for boys. >f the Llttlo League executive Board. Tim big Hluggmr started hi Marines Aim For Summer Baseball ans call for construction of "ft field Friday for th« Star* Little League fields and one (IT'THM Plloln) It hough ho In a flrst-basemtn. full-size ball diamond for Babe HOMERS ARE EASY . . . Sayo nig Ocorge Vlco, former first hasenmn wit li the Pet roll Tigers, 'Ion cornered muoh n«w«p«p«« Ruth play. nuw with the, Hollywood Stars, to young Toby Vennhle at thn Torn men bnseball cllnlo Pacific Coast League for the rent of the' season Thursday. (retch for low throws that will have to be crated and moved ooked Impouslblu, er tho hapless Walterla secutlve city softball game Thursday Thursday in Park from the present Little League He played with" Portland tq BMC, 13-4. field on Crenshaw Blvd. near h» Coast Leaguo In '48 and '4T And If anyone is going to do It at all, It will have to be Pre-Cast Pacific Coast Hwy. to the new HERE'S THE National Blues Miss Chance and with Seattle for threa years Concrete. The Pre-Cast boys site. Also that materials will ng it up and throwing It in itartlng In 19.W, helping them tangle with the firs t-place Clerks (o be donated to s true vin the pennant In 'SI. He rap- lonlght at Torrarice Park in crtaln direction. They mircu fenc and bleachers am To Tie League With 6-4 Loss i total of 11 times in the fra- led 11 home run* with San the lafrt. game of the season that loi urn of work will hi Fate and » determined City Workers Blue Streak Slo-Pitch iYanolsco last your and knoofe needed t 2vel and clear th< stepped In and out off. the National Supply team's chances for both teams. Pederson's twin doubles led d In 03 runs while toting up A loss would be shrugged oft lump lan of a first place playoff game Thursday. . .281 batting nvoraga. Ha had by the Clerks anyhow they've the Clerk stick parade. The present Little League lay Completely upsetting the dope R nit represents an Investment bucket, the Workers edged lombed four homers this M» already wrapped up tho pen­ Wnltrrla H.MC 04000 10-14, tho Blues 6-4 to explode? their chances of earning a first place tie on. nant, for '54, 'but. a perfect, sea- $7000 in donated labor and r signed up by Friday morn- a Is and has been used foi the league and a shot at fon and 15 straight wins would playoff with the Fire Depart­ econd and third fr m e a and Leech said. He Issued the seasons. The Babe Ruth grimly to the lead. Th no doubt please them. Rue, which used ment B team- the '64 champs. They took tho Waltcrlans Into latlon at the end of the Torrance Blues put everything they h ic Wednesday Park this season, will come Into -Wnllcrln BMC The Blues had to win Thurs­ Standings rump by piling up 10 hits and interested into a last-gasp seventh Inning at youths appeared Thursday and * own next year with a regular day's game to tin the Firemen, will and scoring with leisure In ut somebody Roofed. So thi rally that scored two runs, but Friday to put their names down. line field. it wasn't every frame but the fourth, when Little League spokesmen an- Fire team backed into the pen quite enough. Leigh Harllno May Two Hays GIRLS' SOFTBALL In Blue Streak play elsewhere whiffed the side. :lpate that (here will have to be ,ant and will meet the Amer M«r!n« Clerki Tight 1111 Third The league will play games on three leagues next year which can Legion--winners In the Scr­ Thursday, the Lutheran Men's Club won its third game against It was a 5-4 ballgame going hursday and Friday at the ans building yet another field, ee Club League In a three- WnlliTla IIMC.. Into the third, however. The ark a.t 5 p.m. Leeeh hopes to doubling up on one. I.n r.me city championship series. 11 losses by shaving tho Tor­ Clerks had drawn ... _ rance Oardens team 5-4 and Mid­ first blood >rm a four team loop and JUNIOR SOFTBALL These games will be held at with a vicious hitting attack in lys that it will give local fans 16. Mi.mluy- Torraiice P Torrance Park on Aug. 20, 24 land Rubber forfeited to the SERVICE CLUB Wnllcrlo, Wnltorln l>«rl Walterla Community Methodist the opening stanza. Roy Peder- preview peck at next year'.0 S, Wi'ilni'Hilay Si-nnliK v nd, If necessary, 20. ffin and Andy Anderson slash­ abe Ruth League atars. Venice Enter* noiH, Wolterla Pork. Flln Up Kima Church. Bottom Runes Knotted Wnltcrla 11MC .. ed doubles and Larry ricncdct- RECREATION The City Workers put the stop- notary Club ... Leech emphasized that boys The results of the world-shak- Junior C. of C. . ti and Milcy Cowart added sin­ Tourneji Final* er on IIR Bnortsnwn . ho signed up must appear at the National Supply boys ig evening were that thern Is gles to a four-run rally. 1.30 p.m. Thursday .1-111 In Onthnlati ...... or risk the y piling up five runs In tho aw a two-way tie for fourth But Wnlterla took advantage 'banco of not being assigned to Attain *t Cotton and BLUE STREAK of five bases on balls and sin­ t team. fifth places In tho league gles by Gene Venice, the team that elimin­ nd no tie at all for first. Mid­ Davis and Bob The- High School Sumptcr in tho second to t i c Twl-Llght ated Ton-mice from (lie Little 2ND PLACE Vloose Outrun land and Torranco Gardens are the score. After this frame, Clerk League will begin playing games League plafyoffs, entered the loadlocked for fourth and Wal- n Mondays, Tuesdays flimlx yesterday against fciitcher Marv Gebhard was hook- and Wed- f'olton lerla and tho Workers are knot- csclays from 6 to 7 p.m. In­ with n trip to thn national TEAM TAKES 3y Sportsmen P'd for Jim Jackson, who stifled cd for fifth. Ix>r»l 1131 stead of 4 to 6 p.m. after to­ finals at H'lllliimsport the re- Lutheran th.9 Walterians on no hits and ward for the winner. R H no runs until the seventh, when day, the coach said. They had IT ON CHIN n 15-14 Riot -lly Workrrs . . . .0 J 8 01)0 1 811 been playing only on Monday Venice Tommy Tto singled and Bob edged the local teanf could be ten In tho final games of Service Sumpter doubled. ind Tuesday. 7-ft In the Hcrtloniil finals at ipset, the North Stars the -ItvlUDClub OIO-Slo-Pltch play, thi I 2 0 n 002 0 4 9 Eight Errors Help Win fhit that ball, and did. Each team MAKING MILWAUKEE Ix runners score on two base sprayed a varied assortment of A PENNANT THREAT ills by Joan Thomas and Carol base knocks and the Sportsmen Webb. were ahead when the merry-go- IVrei Bubbles round .stopped. Thier> consecutive errors by They scored the tie-breaker In Flamingo first sacki the last of the sixth and that did little in the way of was the hall game. halting the outburst. In (hi Mmn« Clilh ...... < J J 4 3 0-H d frame, Joan Thomas banged Biuirlamcn ...... 4 6 0 14 l--l.'i home run for the Stars' longest Vrlti and Mnlllsnn. Sk«K«» »nH blast. COMING Making up for butterflngers field, Miss Perez smacked FROM BROOKLYN our master In the second w 1'eeWeen To Play AND CHICAGO ANDY ne girl aboard and Dora Dui IS ONE OF THE belled one In the sixth. Opener Today MOST POPULAR naced 11 hits PLAYERS IN Tanet Seesri but couldn't put Thn Tornineo I'miWnn team em together In long string, n III piny Its first (tame to- MILWAUKEE The eventual league champ iluy In the Sixth Annual South­ II play a team made up of All- ern California PnnWen softbttll ars two from each other tournament In Hellflownr. uad on Aug. 23, according to They will me.-t iris Avis, Cilrls' recreation cll- Tin :tor. nicy Is being held AUK. Hi­ 7 II nt I'-hii S. Sims I'nrk, Ililill i i ['lurk St.. HHIflcmvr. 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