TORR/ Torrance '9' Cinches Legion Lefties Twirl Crucial Wins i TornmcT's Post 170 American Legion loan) ." a I'd1 r clinching (he May League's championship with a; weekend sweep of rival South Torranco and Loinila in the (.•my confine's of Torrance Park socks to asserl itself this JULY 14, 1960 weekend by going on the "road" for two games to wrap 20 up tin- regular season before ------; CONNIE MACK LEAGUE entering the District 19 play- singles by Carrico and winn- ..' offs in Long Beach. ing Ray Wilson for ' The Sluggers ex-baseball four runs. Red Devils Bomb San Pedro, 15-0; players from North High and Wehrhan twirled a two-. Torrance Hiijh Schools nip- 1-0 shutout against Torrance " ed South !! (> Saturday in a in the teams' first meet ing for , Set Sights on Key Weekend Games crucial then walked away with the champs' only setback of Still licking their chops after on first place in the Connie the title Sunday with a !> (> tri­ I he season, last month. ,,; 15-0 snow Job over San Ped­ Mack Baseball League. umph over Lomita while Re- Wilson who was the los- ro Sunday, Torrance's Red The Red Devils host West- dondo was dealing a 12-9 jok­ ing pitcher in the 1-0 durl -*- Devils are setting themselves Chester Saturday afternoon at er to South. scattered six hits and surviv' '• for two important weekend 3 before taking on unbeaten ed a hectic ninth inning to." games at Torrance Park in an league-leader Culver City (8-0) SLICK SOUTHPAW Tom win the important, title clinch-" effort to pick up some ground Sunday in a do-or-die match. my Richardson fashioned r ing contest. Bo Palica's charges three-hit shut-out on the Sab­ SOUTH LOADED the bases ' made a double sweep last bath as Torrance endorsed a in the 9th and had the danger- _ weekend of Westchester, 6-1, check for this city's first Le­ ous Joe Austin at the plate « Runyan Second and San Pedro in boosting gion baseball crown. with two outs. However, he " their season record to 5-3 and BROTHERS FOl'R . . . Quartet of Harlley brothers In helping team to title. Big brother Mike, 15, Is an all- Richardson fanned 10 hit­ drilled a 3-2 pitch right vaulting in a two-team tie for central Torrance get early morning workout with crisp star shortstop from the Elks in the Babe Ruth League. ters to raise his total second baseman Terry Gi Top Scorer in second place withWestchester. pepper game in preparation for day's bnscballing along Jim is also an all-star player, as a pitcher and shortstop. to Rl for 55 innings and boost­ son who threw him out. second place with Westchester. Torrances Little League and Habe Ruth League Baseball Four Hartleys pictured have two younger brothers and ed his record to 6-0 for the end the game. j righthander Dennis Hogue, fronts. Hartley's are well represented on pennant winn­ are sons of Mr. and Mrs. VVm. Hartley of 1747 Hickory season. South narrowed a 7-3 deficit » Summer League who pitched the Sunday ing Yankees in the Central Little League with 12-year-old Ave. (Herald photo) Leadoff batter Jim Carrico in the 7th with 3 runs the big '* whitewash job and went 4-5 Jim (batting ball) Tom, 11, and lefthandcd Steve, 10, who starred during the high blow being a Wehrhan homer * Coach George Stanich's Ba­ besides, will start Saturday's school season as a third base- after an error and a base hit con Ford (El Camino College) tussle with Kenny Ellsworth man for North High's co- put two runners on. - basketball team won a forfeit available for bullpen duty. championship club hit the Torrance windsup the lea- - game from plater Co. (USC) That means thai Billy Mor­ Palica, Weaver Named to first pitch of the first inning gue season this Sunday at 1 :30T ffonday in the Alhambra Sum­ ris, who went all the way for over the leftfield barrier for mer League. End TV Itrouth against defending Bay Lea- ~ the 6-1 victory, will hurl Sun- home and Manager Oz- gue champion El Segundo at '| The Bacon quint (2-2) goes clay's contest against unbeaten zie Grimes' aggregation was against league-leading Art Manage Babe Ruth All-Stars For iinseimll Recreation Park after travel- Culver. off and winging. ing to Hawthorne Saturday .^ Frost (4-0) Monday at Alliam- The Red Devils banged 17 Two returning all-stars from | Roberts. Oaks Joe O'Neill, Mike Cic- The three-game series be­ bra's Alamansar Gym. Ex-Cali­ hits including three triples j last year's Southern California Weaver will have four re chini, Robert Battaglia. for a 1'30 tilt. ; fornia stars Earl Schultz and againsl 'Pedro. Meanwhile \ championship Babe Rulh Lea- turning all-stars to build hi tween the San Francisco Giants CARRICO also delivered an South (7-4) plays its finale ; team around, Dennis Welch and the Los Angeles Dodgers RBI double in the 7th. Elea- Sunday at Hawthorne. Don Mclntosh lead the Frost Hogue was sailing through a ! gue team and a brother com­ all-stars team. two-liitter with eight strike-, bination head a tentative 20- Mike Hartley, John Cambon will be televised live from Can­ zar Ybarra, with two timely The District playoffs begin ' hits, had three runs batted in STANDINGS outs. player list to represent the and Jon Beck, dlestick Park in San Francisco, a week from Saturday at Blair . AHT FROST 4 Torrance American League di- Botli divisions will cut their Beavers Erv Palica, Carey starting Friday evening, July and Jack Golphenee drove in Field in Long Beach. The lo- .: OALEBHEAST 3 Steve Ramirez (2-3), Buck Hubert, Dale Yeskin, Bruce two with a couple of bingles. STARK MARKET S Cookus (2-6), Billy Williams vision readying for 1960 all- squads down from 20 to 1 15 at 8 p.m. over Channel 11. cals will play either the cliam- - 1LLIG AND SON 3 players before the first all-star Wolfe, Tim Marquard. Against South Saturday Tor­ pions from the Rio Hondo Lea- BACON FORD ' 2 (2-5), Bob Hoppes (3-4), Steve star competition. Vince Scully and Jerry MrDONALD CONST. 1 McGuire (2-6), Lenny Ramirez competition, July 23 at West Dons Les Stanton. rance protected its precarious gue or the Harbor League, ac­ PRE PAB. PROD. 1 Erv Palica and Carey Hu­ Doggett will call the play-by­ game over their intra-city SLATER CO. 1 (2-2) and Hogue's (4-5) were bert were members of the Tor-. Chester and El Sogundo. Mounties Mike Morris, cording to Grimes. FIIELPS-TEKKEL, 0 Larry Stevenson, Mike Stilts- play. foes by stinging the Southern­ Torrance, 8-6 " 1SLANDEKS 0 the big guns in the 15-run ranee Babe Ruth League's 1059 i ,. , , , j i A ers with a nine-hit assault off mm (MO 001 201 8 fl 2 ,t Scoring team which went all the way to | TORRANCE'S Plaza del Amo worth, Clyde Taylor, Sieve Tid- Channel 11 baseball cover­ riiri-imcv t<><> 200 300 B (i 4 (Three Games) stomp. two hurlers. illson mid: Whehrlian, Tliomu Bill Leodon. llllpr anil Son Red Devils, 6-1 Stockton before being elimin- "°"»e field will host the Sec. land. age will continue with the sec­ unit Czurokc. t Jnck Hunyan. Bucon Ford tional finals Aug. 6th and 7th Seals Robert Sonju, Jim The champions got rid of Tom Dose. Gnlobroust 000 IWO 001 1 5 3 ated from the playoffs. ond Dodger-Giant game set for Torrance, 9-0 Harry WnncI, Baron Ford itch >sler all-stars are; Coffman, Bill Coffman, Jim pitcher Bob Wehrhan in a hur­ ilta (M 000 000 0 » 4 - Pete Hillman. Phelps-Torkcl Jim and Bill Coffman, from Saturday, July 16. ry, knocking the tough right- ttiict 120 200 40x 9 111 ' Ray Islamic Red' Devils, *15-0 the Seals, make up the brother Padres Dennis Welch, Fred Goree. Red Dovlls 232 212 3 IS 17 2 Briscoe, Bill Armstrong, Jim Dodgers Dexter Patrick, Sunday's (17) Dodger-Giant Redondo, 12-9 Pivlio 000 000 0 027 combination. omlo 1020170 Henderson. Mike Venable, Gene Luevona, game will start at 1:15. 2nd inning when they put to­ S. TorrancB 020 020 041 gether a , a field­ Smith and Proctor) Monga, Mew. Elks Mike Hartley, Jon Ernie Clayton, Art White. born (fi), Gomel (6), Andrew (7) & BO PALICA returns to man­ Beck, Gerald Colen, Sidney ers' choice, a hit batsman and ^-.iko, Berry. age the American League di­ Horton. vision all-star squad, and he'll Solons Steve Donahue, be assisted by Bob Prior. Palica Richard Woodward, Dan Car- had the reins last year too. rasco, Norm Casson, Steve John Weaver will be manag­ Waters. er of the National League di­ Angels John Cambon, Gar­ vision of the 10-team league land Roberts, Gary Haworth, and his assistant will be Al Harry Brown. There's notMng out of style about saving BIG- $162,100 RACE SATURDAY on a brand new FORD TRUCK Unsung Dotted Swiss Darkhorse Favorite in Hollywood Gold Cup Hollywood Park's mile and a King Ara 107 and Royal Clove quarter classic for the handicap 106. stars, the $162,100 Hollywood * * * ANYTHING GOES! Gold Cup, looms as a wide-open IF RALPH LOWE'S New Pol. race as it takes the nation's icy attempts to duplicate Round turf spotlight on Saturday. Table's 1957 feat of winning In this twenty-first running the Hollywood Gold Cup as a 01 me Hollywood uoia uup, tiiree-year-oiu, ne will oner an which in the past has been won other serious threat. Ho recent by such famous thoroughbreds ly set a Hollywood Park track as Seabiscuit, Challedon, Noor, record for a mile and one Citation, Two Lea, Swaps, eight of 1:46 3/5, just a fifth Round Table, Gallant Man and off the world's mark, in win Hillsdale, thoroughbreds of the ning the Cinema Handicap. "dark horse" variety are con­ After his tremendous race In BIG THREAT . . . When the west's top gas-dragster dri­ ceded an excellent chance for Hollywood Park's recent Corttsi vers clash at Lions Assocatcd Drag Strip, Long Heath, in the first prize money of $102,- Handicap, when he shoulderec the meet Saturday Alien (Lefty) Mudcrsbach hopes to 100. 124 pounds and ran the mile upset Leonard Harris and regain world speed record he * * i and one-quarter in 1:39 4/5 held for a brief two weeks. Mudersbach will race this THE TRIO favored to give with a final quarter in 24 sec two-engine speedster. liigh-weiglited Bagdad his chief onds flat, Dotted Swiss, a vir competition for the rich prize tual unknown until this ac consists of a horse unheard of complishmcnt, may wind up as Mudersbach to Challenge in stakes competition until two the favorite for the Gold Cup weeks ago C. V. Whitney's A NON-STARTER at two be­ Harris at Lions Saturday Dotted Swiss and two thoro- cause hew as leggy and grow breds who came to their own­ thy, Dotted Swiss is by Coun­ In preparation for the annual Diego; Glcnn Slokey, Redondo ers through the claiming ranks terpart, "Horse of the Year' Mid-summer Championships, on Beach; Jack Chrisman, Comp- ?rizo Host and Twentyone in 1951, and Swistar. He has July 30, one of the season's top lon; Tom Koulan of San Fer­ Guns. been brought along carefully fields of gas-dragsters will tan­ nando and Tom McEwen, Long Howard Keck and Claibornc and Trainer Bob Wheeler pur­ gle Saturday evening at Lions Beach. McEwen has barely lost Farm's Bagdad will pack 122 posely kept him out of the Associated Drag Strip, Long out to Harris three times in rounds, while Twentyone Guns, $54,200 American Handicap, Beach. final top eliminator duels over ^rize Host and Dotted Swiss, the last major stepping stone At least 12 of the hottest, in­ the popular 223rd St. blacktop. lightly weighted because they to the Gold Cup, to every­ cluding Dobe Martin with the did not appear to be dangerous thing for the big one. fast Dragmasler of Occanside, Lola Burns Raps contenders when the Gold Cup will also try to break the vie Homer, Two Triples imposts were assigned May 1)1, John Guzik in Ram Save like '60 ', that is! lory chain of Leonard Harris For Seven RBIs jet into the big race with 113, ivilh the Albertson blown Olds The Southwest Park team .09 and 107 pounds, respective­ Fold for 1960-61 of Culver City, It now .stands took quite a beating Tuesday ly. Linebacker John Guzik has If 8 just like old times talking trade on a brand it six straight, and a $175 Sav night in tho Girls Softball Lea­ Stretch running E d d 1 e returned signed contracts to new Ford truck. Once a year, we bring back thow» ings Bond will go to anyone gue. The Chargers defeated the Schmidt will carry 112, while the Los Angeles Rams for the ivlio stops Harris. scrappy team 17-0. After hold­ oilier possible tsarters are Sea- 1900 and 1901 .seasons, it was old-fashioned savings that you thought were gone ftnrrMu Others in the afternoon-eve­ ing them scoreless in the first neen 114, Find 111, Ying and announced today by general Unloading that ancient profit-eater is just good ning sprint races will be such inning, the Southwest Park Yang 10!t, New Policy 1011, manager KIroy Hirsch. is Alien (Lefty) Miulerbach, pitcher proceeded to give up 12 FOBD business while anything goes! We'll allow you Pico Riviera; Lee Drake, San hits and 10 runs in the second. extra trading dollars that will trim your The Chargers "hit parade" TRUCKS truck costo to the bone. There never wu« a Destruction Derby was led by catcher Lola Burns, NU-PIKE PLUNGE truck! At Sougus Saturday who collected two triples and better time to buy a new Ford a lo account for sev- -- OPEN -- Returning to Suugus Stu- sn runs. The Charger pilcliw, COST LESS lium for their ninth racing iaynell McGce allowed no hits irogram of the season, the a i id no runs in the four innings II A.M. TO.IO P.M. DAILY 'acific Racing Association she worked. itock cars vie in a ton event It II K MODERN FACILITIES FRESH WATER irogram Saturday night, will) 'Charger. 0 K! I 0 0 17 K> D All Type* of Swim Instruction VEL'S FORD SALES COMPANY destruction derby to be pre- SW Park 0 o 0 o o~ 0 1 :t Large Sun Deck with Snack Stand icnted as an added attraction McGce and luirn.s; Salby and FAirfax 8-5014 201 W. 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