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By MATT ZABITKA, Times StaffHnMmiwiiMeMdCHARLIE (COUGAR) JOHNSON, former Si. James and Chester Teener baseball flash, is in Thomasville, Ga.( training with the Appleton, Wise., team of the Class B Three Eye i League in the Baltimore ' Orioles' mass mirror leagues training camp ... In His last phone call to his mom in .Chester, COUGAR said, “I have no idea where I will. wind up. I expect to hit the road this coming weekend. Will call you before I leave.” . . . JIM CATANIA, manager of the Suburban TV softball team of the newly-formed Chester M ajor League, must be really loaded with talent ... No manager could be as happy as Jim at this stage.ate league win, a three-hit. 12-slrikcout, 6-1 stint over Columbia .. . During one period he retired 17 Lion batters in a row . . . KEWLEY, who is 21 and propped at Valley Forge Military Academy before going to Army, struck out every Columbia player at least once, except DICK RUSSANO, who bad one of the Lions’ three hits . . . KEWLEY has pitched in three of Army’s five straight wins this season, winning two and saving another.TIlia(Be‘’hespeTlionlhisGOOD NEWS for Sun Village teams . . . The baseball field in that neck of the woods is getting Us face lifted and is expected to be in A-l condition in a few weeks . . . JACK HOLSTEIN, an 11th grader atCHESTER'S RON HENRY, who was at one time hailed as one of Milwaukee’s brightest catching prospects, was used almost exclusively at first base by the Braves in spring training . . . Tiiere’s a heavyweight boxer on die West Coast by the name of JIM Me CARTE It, who has been knocking out opponents with monotonous regularity . . It’s possible that this McCARTER could be the very same one who starred as a gridder at Chester High ami then went out to the West Coast to attend college . , . JIM, who was a crackerjack ring battler as an amateur, informed this writer that he had every intention of turning pro as soon as he completed his college education . . . Efforts are now being made to trace the origin of the current West Coast heavy sensation to see if he is Chester’s one and nnlv.asmsgetionoutIciaamofJa:ImimHrCOUGAR JOHNSONHe’s In GeorgiaCtilton Heights High School, who has been doing such a good job publicizing his school’s athletic activities, had his appendix yanked Iasi Tuesday at Delaware County Hospital . , EDDIE GOTTLIEB, boss man of the Philadelphia Warriors, has stated that he’ll get together with WILT CHAMBERLAIN to talk contract terms when the seven-footer returns from a European jaunt with the Harlem Globies . . . Odd thing about that statement is that GOTTY will be traveling with the Gtobies and CHAMBIE during the summer overseas tour ... So what’s to stop them from getting together “over there” . . . Or is Europe out of bounds for • NBA talkED LEWIS, former outstanding Upland baseball player who is now getting most of his competition playing shuffleboard with the Upland Sit and Spit-ters, opines that Lioyd AC’s EDDIE (PICKLES) CARR is just about the best shuffleboard player he’s ever gone up against . . . Incidentally, the Sit and Spilters are trying to recruit L. GORDON (DICK) MacDONALD, father of the Chester Old Timers, for their team . . . WES COVINGTON and HANK AARON were scheduled to put in a personal appearance at an Eddyslone auto agency last Thursday afternoon but never showed up . . . Chester Police Officers JAMES JAR DINE and LLOYD GAR MAN are making pians for Iheir annual pilgrimmage to Indianapolis on Memorial Day to ringside at the 500-mile race, which is to racing what the World’s Scries is to baseball.BOB KEWLEY of 652 14th Ave., Prospect Park, formerBRANDYWINE RACEWAY’S 40-night harness meet will he ushered in July 30 to mark its eighth season of pari mutuel operation ... . The nearby track is America’ third leading under the lights next to Yonkers and Roosevelt in wagering, attendance and caliber of horses . . . Two well-known local sportsmen, who have done many goodsports standout at Interboro High deeds throughout the years infrom where he graduated in June of 1956, is attracting a lot of attention with his right-handed slants at West Point . . . Last Thursday, KEWLEY, a second classman, pitched Army to its first Eastern InlcrcollegL-the interest of promoting sports hereabouts, will be honored at Marcus Hook’s third Old Timers’ fete on April 30 Theidentity of the award recipients will remain a secret until the night of the affair.
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Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Apr 16, 1960
Page 19
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