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...long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey, Dawson & Co. agreed to traffic studies by the Georgia Highway Department, agreed as well to follow...
...Rearing back and firing like a major leaguer, 13-year-old Art Deras (5 ft. 8 in., 136 Ibs.) struck out 14 to lead his team from Hamtramck, Mich, to a 12-0 rout of Auburn, Calif., and the Little League world championship at Williamsport...
...Little Leaguer. Not even the dedicated Ted Williams approaches the game with more diligence-or more confidence -than Rocky Colavito. a man who lives baseball with the intensity of a Little Leaguer. He mumbles over box scores like a scholar spelling out Sanskrit; he shuns movies on the day of a game for fear that they will dull his batting eye; he murmurs a quiet prayer every time he goes to the plate. He can hardly wait to get out to rightfield, where his throwing arm is baseball's strongest; he can hardly wait to get back...
...Demeter, 23, seemed too weak and skinny to be a big leaguer, but the Dodgers signed him for a paltry $800 bonus on the chance he might fill out and develop power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...
...with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business, was scheduled to appear before the McClellan committee. Also, the FBI has arrested several of his friends for bribing the jury that in 1956 failed to find Longie...