East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1959-06-04
Sports
By Bob keefer

months, more than 500 Eas
Cleveland boys will be concer
rating their efforts on anothe
Iery interesting course-base
)all.
Team rosters have final
)een established in the fou
eagues sponsored by the Eas
Cleveland Leagues, Inc, an
competition for league title
will begin in earnest next weel
Wet grounds forced the post
)onement of the initial actio
in the Pony League on Monda
night but last nights schedule
pair of contests were not al
fected.
Two more Pony League cor
tests are slated for tonight whe
Kenedy's Mems Shop, the 1875
champs, faces Hamilton Insur
ance at Forest Hills and Paul
Restaurant tangles with tn
Flynn-Froelk Funeral Home a
Pattison Field.
Little League teams are il
the midst of a brief round o
practice games prior to th'
championship schedule which
opens next Thursday. Last sea
sons league finalists made
successful debuts in practic'
games this week. Nelson Jew
elers gave evidence of another
strong team as they defeated
the Police & Associates nine
7-3 at Shaw Field on Monday
Keneddy's Mems Shop, wht
won the Little League cham
in both 1857 and 1858
found the going a bit rough il
squeezing past an improved
Koenig Sports Good team, 4-3
at Superior Hill on Tuesday
In other Little League action
Diamonds Mems Shop BLASTED
Don Fisher Furnaces, 1914, a
Shaw Field.
The four-team Colt League
made up almost exclusively o.
boys who have moved W
through Little and Pom!
League ranks, opens it's 1876!
next Tuesday. Merle
Owen Funeral Home, which ha:
won the league title for the
past two seasons under the
sponsorship of Honnegger Cat.
ering, will open against the G.E
Lite Sox at Pattison Field. Ir
the other contest, the Kiwanis
Club collides with the Nels
Florist entry at Forest Hills.
Several changes have beer
made in the managing person
mel of the three ECLLI leagues
for the 1859 season and all OF
,he managers and their coaches
are optimistic about the pros
poets for tn cir respective
,eams. These men, who donate
heir time and talent in guild
ing the baseball destinies OF
our local youths, are to be com
for their community in.
terest. The 1859 rosters OF
managers and coaches are as
follows:
Little League-(Shaw Field
Oivision): Diamonds Mems
Shop, Joe Sauto, mgr; Harry
Ball & Tom Evans, coaches
Don Fisher Furnaces, Tom Os-
rom, mgr; John Carke e. Fred
ropi, coaches: Nelson jewelers.,
Sam Balio, mgr; John Frame
Z Tom Litwiller, coaches
Stonebraker Drugs, Nick
mgr. Superior Hill Di-
,ision): E. Cleve. Fire Dept,
Bob Keefer, mgr; Ron Weber
Z Dave Fraser, coaches: Ken
ledy's Mems Shop, Milford
Myles, mgr; Bill Welty,
Maurice Sayre and Art Mori-
ION, coaches: Koenig Sport
Goods, John Kott, mgr; Jerry
dullen, coach: Police & Asso-
.iates, Frank Davis, mgr.
Gordon White & Carl Diehl,
coaches
Pony League East End
Nash, Larry Lineman, mgr;
Ray Lam & Harry Ball, coach
IS: Edwards Funeral Home,
Bob Boothe, mgr; Jim Gray,
coach: Flynn Froelk Insur-
.nce, Tom Hamilton, mgr;
Bud Bucar & Ernie Bezdek,
coaches: Kennedy's Mems Shop,
Stan Marshaus, mgr; Don Ger
,me & AL Walker, coaches
oaurs Restaurant, Joe Dwyer,
mgr; Tom Griffith & Roger
Musk, coaches.
Colt League-G. E. Lite Sox,
I'd Vaugha an, mgr; Dick
Vaughn & Don Newt o n
coaches: Merle Owen Funeral
Home, Jim Strachen, mgr;
Chuck Barley & Ralph Hewitt,
coaches: Nela Florist, Ralph
Davies, mgr; Joe Colo & Erwin
Davies, coaches: Kiwanis Club,
Bernie Davis, mgr; Bob Bort
Ter, Don Ohlinger & Tom
each, coaches.
An opening currently exists
or a coach in the Little
league. Manager Nick Vladic
f the Stonebraker Drug team
$ looking for at least one
Qualified assistant. A Anyon e
Who is interested in helping
dr Vladic is asked to contact