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BUD GRACE, who gained lasting fame in this area as a member of the legendary Bald Headed Nine, has been dead for five years but his many friends at Sun Oil and in Buckman Village and Village Green will be pleased to learn that his son, Robert S. Grace, has become engag ed to Miss Mary Elise Kaekel of Holmes Beach, Fla. Young Grace is a graduate of Flori da State U. from where he was graduated in 1985. Of 1, 224 seniors he was one of only 35,who graduated “with hon ors. He received a National Sciene Foundation in Physics and is continuing his studies at FSU ... The late Bud Grace is remembered as one of the roughest, toughest men ever to play on local gridirons. He not only never wore a hel met, but he always played the entire season in soccer pants . Bud's nephew is Hugh L. (Rip) Flood, the construction tycoon who played his ‘foot ball under Babe Buono at Ches ter High away back in the Forties . NEENIE CAMPBELL, the veteran McKeesport High Coach, sent a very nice letter to this department about Hen ry Rodney, the former Sears’ executive now in South Philly. Neenie says that 10 years af ter he left, McKeesport still loved Rodney . .. Gus Groov ‘ery solicitor for the West End Boat Club, has quite a record “going for him. Since he's been the club’s legal eagle, not a single member has been sent for the chair for murder... Notice how quiet the city of Chester has been since former Mayo Plumbing standout To ry (Fosdick) Polites joined the police force? . . . Timmy Gill, who along with Vaughn eealan coached the Chester Central League to the world championship a couple years ago, says the current club representing Chester is the finest in city history . . . ex boxing great Johnny Traub, who keeps affairs in order at the local tax office, drove through all that fog last Fri day to Reading to renew ac quaintances with an old army buddy, Baliet, who served with Traubie in Australia. Unfor tunately, Baliet wasn’t home. A RECURRING back ail ment has forced Al Bradson, the former Chester High court great, to hang ‘em up perman ently. In recent years, Al was one of the area's finer control pitch chuckers. Al's Dad, Al Sr., never’ played much ball but he still’ holds the North American record for consum ing crabs... Herb Davis, one of the area's most eligible bachelors who will be remem bered as a topflight lineman at Eddystone High some years back, goes off the single stand ard next month. He's marry ing a foreign girl (Well, she's from Delaware, isn’t she?) . Angelo Tiburzi, the veteran baseball slugger, is moving up the officiating ladder in a hur ry. Seems like only last week he passed his test and he al ready has worked college var sity games this season _ . Nate Warren, whose boozer ball started a whole new trend in control-pitch hurling, says his mind is made up. He definitely will pass up softball this year to concentrate on bowling. Move over, Dick Weber. You've got company . The surefire promotion scheme adopted by Tony Vet tese has made Conchester bowlers the most popular bowling center in this end of the county. DAVE LABOSKY, former Springfield High sports star, is off to a great start at the University of Pennsylvania. He starred on the Quakers’ freshman football team last fall and this winter he com piled a 5-0 record as a 191- pounder on the yearling wrest ling team. His mat victories in cluded two pins and three shutouts, the final one in the heavyweight class. Coach Don Frey feels Labosky, a regional wrestling champ while at Springfield, has the Potential to be one of the fin est Penn mat men in years... David Kennard, Darby - Col wyn grad who glittered for Cheyney State against LSU in the small college tourna ment, has been rewarded by a berth on the All- Tourna ment team along with Al bright'’s Mike Klahr and three LSU stars — MVP Barry Leib owitz, Albie Frant and Larry Newbold . . . Kennard has a remarkable record for the last 102 games he’s played. His teams were 50-0 his last two years at Darby - Colwyn and he's 50-2 in two years on the Cheyney varsity.
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Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Mar 14, 1966
Page 8
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