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Bay Cindermen Qualify Tuesday • The North, South Fearless / Spectator Tartars, West Go at Micohi With rain suddenly an added opponent, track teams Months of gruelling work and skin-tight duel meets will By rom Torrance and West will return to Beverly Hills High GREGG PETERSON, Sports Editor APRIL 28, 1963 be put on the line Tuesday by North and South track teams School tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. for the Pioneer League pre- in the B,iy League preliminaries at Mira Costa High School. .Charles McCabe, Esquiri iminaries. The prelims were originally, set for last Friday, Events will begin at 1 p.m. in preparation for Friday night's but rain forced cancellation. Field events will begin at 12:30 1 When the big news of the early baseball season finals on the same oval. p.m. wun running events starl Tartar Nine Out While South has a top won-: is the hipster caterwauling of a long-haired tomcat ing IS minutes later. lost record. North has com named Bo Belinsky. who may or may not marry a super Elawthome Torrance's main strength pleted its finest spike season in annuated blonde starlet, and who may or may not be will come in the varsity dis Of'Show 9 Battle years despite lack of victories. { Grossman able to play baseball, then it's time perhaps to reflect The Spartans have time and tance events. Dennis Dyer, who Unstoppable Culver City Lawndalc on Tuesday at 3 p.m. again come out on the top end | on the role of the nut in the Nat'1 Pastime. Nods SHS snared the league mile cham The game owes an enormous debt to its eccentrics. knocked Torrance out of a pos- in Torrance Park, of close meets while the Sax Tops West pionship last year, has elected sible second place in the Pio- The Cardinals took a 2-1 nod ons have been less fortunate. Nobody remembers who the first guy was who slud 3n Shutout o drop down to the 880 where neer League baseball race, but over Bcverly Hills on Thursday into third, but who can forget the coinage? And the le will battle Aviation's Leroy enhanced its own chances for jn nine innings, but it was only SOUTH COACH Dick Scully In Victory coiner the artistic Dizzy Dean, who has enriched Remaining one game ahead Timm in a scalding duel. possible league crown « their second triumph of the experts his club to make a re It would be hard to say that English almost as much as the Reverend Spooner. n the tight Bay League horse- Thursday. season and left them tied with spectable varsity showing be lide chase. Hawthorne blanked TIMM RAN a 1:57 half last Richard Grossman is not the When Mr. Walter O'Malley is running the First South, 4-0. on Thursday. Culver City, defending its Lcnnox for the cellar. hind easy winner Santa Mon driving force behind West Celestial Bank in Heaven (with his law firm acting as year compared to Dyer's best circuit crown, sewed up its ica, and his undefeated Cec Bill Morris twirled his sec ?f 2:01, but the Aviation ace sixth win in the last seven squad to battle Mira Costa for High's baseball success. legal counsel), the fans below will have forgotten him. ond straight shutout and John lias yet to approach the mark When the senior catcher was Green bashed a pair of doubles starts with eight runs in the! the crown. injured in a home-plate col- hard adobe infield and all but they will still be talk this season. When Dyer was out initial two frames. North mentor Howard Smith as the Cougars boosted their cf condition earlier this year. Four-and-Twenty lision, the Warriors lost all ing about that other banker, Mr. Casey Stengel. record to 10-2. Converted third-baseman Joe may well lower some of his hope of the Pioneer League More than any other sport, baseball seems to at Timm barely edged the Tartar Bogan took care of the Tartar Four- and-Twenty. a leading top variety men down into the Challenging Rcdondo is sec star ina duel meet. championship and went into a tract the deviants, the shortstops and southpaws who ond at 9-3 with Leuzinger third offensive by spinning a neat candidate for such Hollywood Bee division where he would terrible tailspin. Ivor Sampson, who ran away two hitter. field a powerful squad. inarch to the music of a different drummer. at 8-4. Following arc Santa Park classics as the $162.100 Suddenly Grossman it back lonica (7-6), Mira Costa (6-6). from the field in the Bee 1320 in the lineup and once again A connoisseur of the type is Mr. Harold Rosenthal. last year, will take his best of TORRANCE is now 8-5 and Hollywood Gold Cup and the lomingside (5-6). South (5-8). $100.000 added California!!. THE SPARTANS will be West is a diamond terror. a drily witty chap who writes baseball for the New York North (2-9). and Inglewood 4:31.8 into the mile. resting in fourth place while strong in three varsity events. Herald-Tribune. He has put together for Christmas (2-10). he triumph moved Culver into tops a 13-horsc stable which Dave Ledford and Dennis Gar ON THURSDAY. Grossman publication a lively tome entitled, "They Did It Dif JOINING DYER in the half- third with a 7-4 mark. Trainer Vance Longdcn has ner will form the mile entry. personally ripped two home HAWTHORNE managed two mile will be junior Larry Par A pair of doubles and a two- checked in for the meeting Ledford has a best of 4:36.1 runs, accounting for four RBIs ferently." allies in both the second and opening May 9. * * <-< ker, who has a 2:02.8 effort to run single paved the way for while Garner's top is 4:36.7. to pace the Warriors to an 8-6 ourth inning to cinch the con- his credit. THS coach Joe Sar- ive Centaur runs in the ini Four-and-Twenty. Hollywood In the shot put, Marty Baker j triumph over Lcnnox. It deals with the off-oxen of sports. The likes of est and assure Morris of his thou expects both men to snap tial stanza as they quickly Derby winner of two seasons vill take the second-best mark! Before he suffered the con- Hack Wilson. Dizzy Dean, Billy Loes. Bobo Holloman. fifth league win without a loss. the two-minute mark before chased loser Mike Blanken- ago. is joined in the Longdcn n the league into action.' cussion in the Culver City Art Shires, Babe Ruth, Chilly Doyle. Jorge Pasqucl South chucker Phil Voitecky the season is out. ship. Mike Bataglia then came contingent by his Alberta Bakker's top effort is just one I game. Grossman was hitting was absorbing his initial defeat on but Culver hit him for three Ranches stablemate Fluttcrby (the Mexican who almost ruined baseball), Moe Berg of the league campaign against Basketball ace Lynn Archi oot shy of the leading put. 44. but lost his touch upon and Casey Stengel. And others, in and out of baseball. bald will compete in two more tallies in the second and and Mrs. Pat Longdcn's Doug Hall and Steve Donohuc returning and went 0-7 before one win. Voitecky struck out events. Although only out for two more runs in the fourth. Prince's Sis. another pair of make up a potent 880 entry. Thursday. He will also treat of a special, fascinating genre only one and gave up but two approximately half the season. TORRANCE will engage stakes hopefuls. Both half-milcrs arc ready to dames who are impelled to shoot ballplayers. Slugger- walks, allowing seven hits. MORRIS was not much more Archibald has a best of 20-5 in crack two minutes, according NOW PLAYING In the out phobia. I think it's called. sensational, whiffing eight, the broad jump and a top ef to Scully. field so he will stand much One reason the oddballs cling to our memory- like fort of 5-9 in the high jump. less of a chance of suffering walking four and giving up stale bubble gum to a movie seat is the effectiveness seven hits. YMCA Trackmen One of ScuUy's major steps another concussion, Grossman WEST COACH Bob Holtel has been to lower junior was the driving force in West's * of the backdrop against which they operate. Spartan sccond-sacker Ken victory over the cellar-dwelling r" Organized baseball could be called organized "arber was the only man to has elected to put the stress on Bruce Hamilton down to the wsh two safeties off Morris. the Bee and Cee divisions. Set New Records Bee 1320, where he may hit Lancers. hypocrisy. The owners are in it for precisely the same Third bascman Dick Rosato. Hurdler Dave Lee, one of the 3-16 or better. When Lcnnox had moved honorable reason the sausage makers make sausage: outficlders John Mincch. Eric top men in the league will be Sixteen Torrancc YMCA rec Knight of the Diamonds went out to a 2-0 lead. Grossman o To collect pesos and send Bridget to Smith. ipelman, and Ed Adams also the Warriors' sole varsity ords fell last weekend when 3-5 in the high jump for a new NORTH CAN field a strong belted a two-run homer to threat. hundreds of boys and their mark: Tom Bascn went 10-11 Bee sprint force should coach knot the count. Again in the Yet they ain't about to admit it. As gamblers on ill safely. Spelman's double fourth frame, with the Lancers horses claim they want to improve the breed, and as was the only extra-base binglc Ron Pcttigrcw has the best parents came to Narbonne in the broad jump for a new Smith decide to drop down Morris allowed. chance of snaring a first for High for the seventh annual record, and the Mustangs Pcto Molina. Alien Johnson, ahead. 4-2, Grossman dupli lads who kill birds with guns claim to be conserva- West. The sophomore sensation Gra-Y and Jr. HI-Y track meets. clocked 35.6 seconds for the and Brucc Alien. Johnson is cated the feat and sparked a SOUTH WILL take on a dis rally which led to the win. tionists, the baseball owners with rare exceptions appointed Lcuzingcr nine on will take a top time of 3:25.5 Ringing up 34's points, the 220-yard relay for a new considered one of the league's , like to pretend that mony is a dirty, five-letter word. Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the Spar into the Bee 1320. The clocking Jaguars won the championship standard. top sprinters, but Is suffering is the best yet recorded in the for the Y clubs serving boys from an injured hip. JERRY COLEN, Dick Buch- •fr Jf -> tan diamond. Bran, and Dave I-aRoche also league. nine to 12 years old. Next were DOUG KELSEY of the Py The broad jump could also They're in the game, they imply, to save it for the The Olympians dropped a the Vikings with 324 points thons set two new marks in the accounted for West runs. kids of America, and to place before them a gallery of four-hit, 1-0 nod to Rcdondo be a Saxon stronghold since WITH THE third fastest 660 followed by the Big Horns, and Jr. Ili-Y A division, winning Johnson has a best of 20-11. Although he had to have re exemplars who will teach 'em how to go to bed early en Thursday to lose sight of a the Mustangs in the 16 teams the 220 in 26.3 seconds and lief help from LaRoche. Tim possible league championship. time to his credit, Tom Jurco one of the top marks in the Sparks chalked up his first and earn lotsa scratch when they grow up. Rcdondo managed only a sixth- will pose a serious threat in his entered. putting the 10-pound shot 40 league. The Tornados earned 41 feet. mound win of the season for Player-owner labor relations are so primitive in inning score, but it was enough pet event. Jurco has galloped the Warriors in his initial baseball that the American Civil Liberties Union, not to knock Lcuzingcr out of the the distance in 1:30.2. Steve points to win the 12-14-year-old Other A records came in the SOPHOMORE half-milcr Bob McConathy has gone 11-6 in the division. The Dukes were sec century, 12.0 seconds by Bill start. to speak of the district attorney, should have been on title picture. ond with 33'/» points followed Clayton of the Falcons: 210 Hanscn, who Is straining to get WEST WILL tangle with l£UZINGER HAS two key pole vault, which tics for the under the magical two-minute Tues the clubs' backs these past decades. league's top height, and will by the Pythons in third. Just feet in the softball throw by red-hot Culver City on hurlcrs to throw against South. one and one-half points back. Donald Griffcn of the Dukes mark, may bo the class of the day at 3 p.m. on the Warrior But the owners' con Is so formidably convincing Dave Rabusc. also the team's team with Mike McMurray, Bee 880 field. that most people accord them the respect given by a who has gone 11-3. and a second 59-xecond effort diamond. Battling for a second- top hitter, and Ben Warner NEW RECORDS in the in the 440-yard relay by the Varsity pole vaultcr Dorain place finish, the defending ,;' greengrocer to the cop on the beat as he steals an apple. with a 5-2 league mark, pace West will have a powerful Gray-Y A division came from Pythons. Hannah and Gary Barren also league champs have won six of *. (Do cops steal apples anymore?) the Olymps. entry in the century and 220. Gerry Little of the Jaguars. In the B division, Roger stand good chances of qualify their last seven games, includ ;',. But the character is real, from Rube Marquard to South mentor Jerry Mcll- Jim Kclley with a best of 10.4 13-8 seconds for the 100-yard Blackcy of the Pythons won ing for the finals. Hannah has ing an 11-0 rout of Torrance on valne will probably go with his and a furlong best of 23.4 will dash: Chris Wilson of the the 75-yard dash in 10.7 sec cleared 12-6, but Barron ii Thursday. ;:. Bo Belinsky. He's just what he seems to be. Most of ace, the righthandcd Spclman. go with Jurco. who has hit 10.4 consistent around 12 feet. ," them, curiously, have not been notably interested in Jaguars, 13-8 for the broad onds and threw the softbal After a sensational early- Despite a tremendously impres in the century. jump; Jay Cloud of the Jag- 187 feet for another record, Should Smith drop his sprint season beginning, the Redskins -"' money. And nearly all of them liked baseball, or what- sive earncd-run average. Spcl Running in the Cee division uars, 26-1 for the eight-pound Gowdy Mission of the Trojans rrs down, the Saxons will have have slipped to sixth place r ever their game was, for its own sake. man has been unable to com will be Howard McVey and shot put; and Dan Anderson of set a record in the high jump a ton relay team with Johnson, with a 6-6 record. After a mis