'Connie Mack' Tops Summer Sports Red Devils Give Bullets Trouble This Is Thr Seventh in a Scrips of Articlrs Nn Youth Baseball in Torranre
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RED DEVILS 2 BULLETS 1 'Connie Mack' Tops Summer Sports Red Devils Give Bullets Trouble This Is thr seventh in a scrips of articlrs nn youth baseball in Torranre. Featured Is the South Ray Connie Mark Leaf lie. By HENRY BURKE Press-Herald Sports Editor Around the Fourth of July the Red Devils of the South Bay Connie Mack League are hotter than fire-! crackers. Saturday they popped Hawthorne. 6-4. and; Monday they blistered the league-leading Tordena Bul lets. 2-1. Dick White, a South High! first baseman playing in the; outfield for the Red Devils, exploded a two-run home run in the sixth inning for lets.the 2-1 conquest of the Bul ' Torrance High pitcher | Steve Kealey turned away: 16 Mullets on strikeouts and i gave up four walks and five hits, going the 9-inning! route for the victory. , Kealey's 3-0 win over the Bullets to open the Connie i ATTRACTING LARGE CROWDS ... At the Connie l.aRorhe of the Bullets plows into third base is third Mack season is Tordena's' Mack League baseball games are the Torranre Red baaeman Dennis Timpc and Pitrhrr Steve Kcalr> only other loss of the sea-! Devils and Tordena Bullets of the South Bay League. •wait throw from right field in Monday night'* gantr. Team managers are Bo Palica (left) of (he Red Devils The R«d Devil* won, 2-1, before overflow rrowd at son. The Bullets have a 7-2 and Bob Pryor of th» Ballets. In photo at right Davo DICK WHITE record. Beach Cities is sec Torrance Park. (Prr«-tierald Photo) ond with 6-2. and Torrance's Red Devils have closed to gap in third place with a 6-3 record. West Los Angeles Tappa Kegs is also 6-3. The four other teams in the league are Hawthorne. Long Beach, San Pedro and Westchester. but about the Stars only challenge for them now is to spoil the bids of the|¥ iT^¥7aai»f IIVIA frontrunners and entertain the big league scouts in their talent search. Tappa Keggas returns to The Red Devils and Bullets, which draw players from West Coast League slo-pltch most high schools In Torrance. have had Larry Brad- action with a pair of home shaw. Al Deravin. John Marsden, Ty Goodman, Al 8»mes »««inst El Segundo Frl- Thompson and Al Van Lue signed professional contractsi day. night al Torr"nc« p»rk Diving since last season, and Steve Sogge enrolled at USC for WinnerP m of the first half of SPORTS football and baseball. the• •*«, season•^•awii withwiin a• 9-3w record.i Wl/l u, MM V 1 Championships Set C-5 After becoming heroes In Little League. Pony League, Tappa Keggas Is current 3-1.' ^1./' Three of thr United States' ful of being selected to the Babe Ruth League, Junior Legion and high school base-; tied with L0* Angeles in sec top ranked hrea.ststroke,!' S Team competing In the bail, players in Connie Mack Ix-aRue build quite a fo|.'j£j Pj"ce' 0«'me blck of Keil swimmers will meet in the! World Student Games at lowing. This wai particularly noticeable Monday when Redondo travels to San rp Recreation 7th annual Los Angeles In- (Budapest. Hungary this Au- vitational the Red Devils and Bullets met each other for the fourth Pedro for a twin-bill Friday. 1 0 Swimming and Div- gust. log Championships Friday. In addition to the men's Ume this season and a crowd spilled over the bleachers! while !<oi Angelei playi it r* S>! I ball Saturday and .Sunday at Los and encircled the backstop beyond both dug-outs. S«B|« Ana. Gardena meets i breaststroke dual at 3:30 p.m. JT flUS FRIDAY ILO-PITCH Angelei Swim Stadium. on Friday, a fierce 100 me y, ^.. .>.. i Long Beach. v Kn«m-r. 001 inn 0~l ? • n . .. " . " _ " . ,. , . „ A Sundav evening all-star; Angel star Ken McBridc wn.»l KKIrri University of Southern ter freestyle race Is expected Outstanding players in Connie Mack ball are to serjcx Mvnn' T,ppa Kcggasjwill greet his fans at Great rnMi\J California's 7th place Olympic between the American record close to the "bonus" stage in baseball that team mana-jand the West Coast All-Stars Western Savings1 Soulh Bay finisher, Wayne Anderson, holder and silver Olympic gers have little trouble acquiring playing talent. [almost stole the show irom| his tcammat* and Olympic medal winner in the 100 me office ,17400 Hawthorne Blvd Onnliii and Muni*: Johnaon ter freestyle, Sharon Bo Palica. manager of ,.| H_ Cllaroml gold-medal winner for breast- Stouder, the Red Devils, played pro| flrework» display at Rowley Artesia) Saturday, from! stroke in the medley relay. and Canadian Olympian and ball several years in the Pacific Coast League and brief -' P"*n ™ 11:30 to 2 p.m. A° Mad'*" After the two team* went Bill Cralg. and the 1965 Nat- 4th place finisher at the ly with Baltimore of the American League. McBride will pose for I'atan an lonal AAU Indoor 100 and T&kyo Olympics. Marion Lay. 111 innings in the first game, SrhiiTa id «nd Id hula Ora> l«i After leaving pro ball. Bo joined his son, Irv. in Tor- the nightcap had to be called photos with local fans who IIR-lldllt (Tomcat.) 200 yard breaststroke cham Miss Ijy has already done bring their cameras and will CHURCH LIAOUI pion. Ken Merten. are the ranee American Little League in 1955. then went through!after the ninth, tied at 4-4, Lawndal* f'hun h 1:03. and Miss Stouder, who I.I . .410 100 0 -« t < latest entries in this swim has been suffering from back tb« ranks of Babe Ruth League and finally organized his f° m»k« W|X for the 'Pirk' >w fhurrh of leu pictures of himself or any n- MO 1 in n—S 7 S ming and diving classic. injury, while not in her best own Connie Mack squad six years ago. Angel player, said branch Hlnn and Knau-i. MrOirlaln shape, will still be favored Torrance Tappa Keggas II) and Mnrrnn Merten. a Junior at South Bo said. "I heard several people talk about starting! won^n;7pWr 8-8 on a two- manager Dennis Chojnacki. l.ulliTmi .in* M...JB IS I em Methodist University and .. Gardma Rlbl* .. .13001—4 a Connie Mack League, but wound up doing it myself."!run homer by Andy Meyer Also making a guest ap John««n and MrN**ii a native of Pacoima. Cralg| f°rmance. Her Olympian pearance (41: nr*»Mrro. I'hrtXrn 14) and from Glendale. and Andenon teammate from City of Com- The team has been sponsored by Red Devil Fireworks over the 210-foot fence with will be KMPC per Ward from whom the team name is derived. Jim Reynolds on base. sonality Fred Hessler. IlK-Piup I from Santa Clara art hope- merce. Jeanne Hallock, has nnl Churrli of Na lortoll also entered along with Erlka The Bullets, organised a year later by Bob Pryor, The all-stars committed •4 lo r«l»«ry AJ«imblr a RodoiMlo nr»t lUpiini torfiltxl to Bricker. another Olympic three errors In the game, all North Hcdonda Proctor Topg Babe Ruth League manager and Torrance baseball com in the third Inning, and Bob Fishing Report team member. From Arizona missioner, got their name from the sponsoring Torrance Ry»n . Chuck Schotndlenst. First sportfishing catch of,long - range i comes Claudia Clark who re Police Association. and Ed Williams got singles albocore was made last week (join in the Heinis Dumps Stock Drivers cently won the IJnwood In longfin fun. vitational. Pete White, owner of Torrance Electric Shop, was In the rally for a five-run but the longfin turned out A battle for the 1905 super- Instrumental in getting both teams to b« a misguided soul swim- "coastal ranch," things llornaclay In the women's 3 meter off the ground fi- Ke,M"J|p!"r8" stock car racing champion diving competition, Olympian Watt of the all-stars ming with a school of bonltoJreally humming. ship will highlight Sunday if i slammed out a pair of home! Fish and Came verified the: l-ast week the barracuda Marvin Heinis of North Sue COMIC-k from Wcstlake The Bullets are the defending national Connie Mack'runs.one in the fourth with \Q JD, fish, however, as a run was slow, but this week Hollywood is the new I'RAl'j v<*n! Club, will face form league champions, having defeated l-ouisville, Kentucky, none on and another in the rfa| albacore. It was caught jit is back in high gear There 100-lap champion at Saugus 1 *!•«• idable opposition from Patti for the championship Ave Sims from City of Commerce at Springfield, 111, last summer. ; sixth with two aboard. ^ off Huntington Flats, Instead are "solid" logs al) the wav Stadium after Ron with' On the way to winning the national title the Bullets! The Stars' of in deep, warm, blue water,from Salt Cree"k down to The:fiwled in the "Firecracker and Shirley Teeples. The lat where it belonged Barn. And they are weighing 100' super stock car classic ns it I p.m ter s two have placed in the defeated the Red Devils twice in sectional tournament f^.'^," hit l«ss than 25 points sep * ^^ , . ...... t»P I IMaC nil ••• »«*tj bttom——-. — — Art's landing in Balboa Is in to 10 Ibs. Saturday night. play. This was done despite the Red Devils' champion- Of the regulation seventh in- In constant touch Halibut Heinis, 1961 Pacific Racing arate the two top drivers in meter springboard event.