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...Williamsport, Pa., the Little League world series went to a band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology-see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits...
Woman's Privilege. In Williamsport, Pa., charged with arson, Howard Krause told police that he had set fire to his newly bought house only because his wife suddenly decided she did not want to live...
...summer long, some 200,000 baseball players have battled each other to get to Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 45,000). Organized in more than 11,000 teams in the U.S. and its territories, Canada, Cuba and the far Pacific, they played under familiar club names-Yankees, Braves, Tigers, most of the big-league roll call. Less than one team out of each thousand finally made it to Williamsport last week. A few days later, after six teams had been eliminated, the two surviving clubs met in a final game for the world championship. Some 8,500 hoarse fans, burning with World...
Like a Flood. In membership, the Little League is the world's biggest baseball organization. It was started in Williamsport in 1939 by Businessman Carl E. Stotz, 43, who decided that organized baseball was just the tonic for lads too small or too young to get into their big brothers' games. Rallying support from local businessmen, Stotz soon had a three-team league-with regulation uniforms, coaches and managers-going full blast...
...shoe (the Little League now gives approval to any manufacturer meeting its specifications), but also to underwrite most of the Little League's central expenses as "enlightened public relations." This year, U.S. Rubber donated about $150,000 toward operating the league's 25-staffer headquarters in Williamsport and footing World Series players' traveling expenses. Other league activities are locally financed, manned by volunteers. Stotz is now commissioner. U.S. Rubber's easygoing Publicity Man Peter J. McGovern, 51, who moved to Williamsport last winter, is the Little League's elected president...