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LongtimeXoach Of White So£ Has First-Place Team -
Sunday, June I, 1980
Dixie HoweU’s$6Years’ Experience
,xie Howell started managing Little League
baseball 26 with his two sons, he did not have
any idea how long hfs'maaagerial reign wouldlast.
Today, after coaching in the-R^ytown Little Leagues
for parts of three decades. HowelJcan-net seem to find
a place to quit — and he’s glad.
“You have your boys and you keep them foF"
years, if you’re lucky. Then you get ano'ther.set of kids
and watch them develop," sa|s Howell, who now
manages the West Baytown Kiwanis Club White Sox in
the Central League. “I just never have found a stopping
point.
:.......tegtm managing and making ‘(friends 'of kidsn4n 1064 •
by coaching his two sorts, Ken and Mark, in what was
then the Lou Gehrig league. ..
Howell later moved his coaching talents into the
Raytown Little League, which began fn.p>2 — only two
- years before Howell started coaching. ■
Whatever league Howell has coached in, his team has
/always been the White Sox. Some of his White Sox clubs
q have been winners, and some haven’t been'as sue-.
., cessful. ... f ■■■•" ..
-‘ii‘ve had some that haven’t lost and then there have
“You think about quitting, but I’m not going to quit
tttftrutKmrt nf Anrtfl UAUroll iCTOirtftnt 1V TPt 1 TPfi
been softie that hardly ever won,” HowelJ,reniembers
“Probably some of the best teams I had were
everything at once,” he adds. Howell is recently retired
after working 44 years for Exxon'. . •
In Baytown, Howell’s name has become almost as
syrionomous with Little League as baseball itself. In
fact, the Central League diamond in Pelly Park on
South Main i& named Dixie Howell Field in his honor.
•\£- lut of times I’ll be at my workouts and some
grown man will come up to me and say ‘do you
remember me?’ I’ll haye to stare in his face for a while
and then he comes back to me,” Howell says.
“I guess there’s a lot of men driving around* Baytown
that I have coached, but I just rememberone thing my
daddy taught me. and that is if you make the friend of a
TT
I After plaving baseball for Baylor as an outfielder, he
laughing: ‘
1 back in ’63 and ’64. .. .
In those two years, Howell was selected to coach the
league’s all-star team and advanced to the fegional
playoff competition, winning six straight games. '
“We got pretty cjose those years,” Howell recalled.
“The team that beat us went onto win the Little League
World Series. I doubt I’ll ever see that again.”
One of the reasons Howell thinks that he won’t see
any teams like his 1963 all-star squad is because of ex-
pansion in the Baytown program.
This year’s team isn’t had, though. The White Sox are
Currently leading and Central League in a tough fight
with the Harris County Savings Federals and the Texas
Super food Pelicans.
day, there are so many teams that you just take what
you can get. -
-It’s a challenge though,” Howell continued, "It’s
really satisfying to take a kid who throws the ball
•'backwards’ and watch him work hard and develop into .
a ball player. It makes you feel good to see a kid do
that. ’ ' ....... -- - Vj......
One of Howell’s “kids”¥asprogressed to the “real”
major leagues. Howell product Ell Roberson Is current-
ly in the Detroit Tigers organisation with the Class A •
Lakeland, Fla., club.
“He was a realhard-workiqg ball player,” Howell
said. "His parents worked real hard to help him. It’s ,
nice to see him do well." ■/’ ™7. >■'
Aftpr coaching for a quarter century, Howell has
seen many changes take place in Little League.
“One thing you never see anymore is good things
about the parents of the players. If it weren’t for them,
the league wouldn’t be possible. They work hard all ■>
*-----"Howellsaid.
season
Howell also works hard — all year around. ■
In the off-season, Howell still remains close to
baseball by taking care of the Central league field.
“In' the winter. I’ll go out and mow the grass and
everything,” Howeli said. “It just kind-of-keeps'me.
lv *■
there arh k/' he explained “BStf irten.’Vie fcoovu yis&V
Tigers Clinch East League Crown
Dodgers Lose, But Earn Playoff Berth Anyway
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-ip: GIVING A FEW POINTERS
Jeff Leggett gets the word from Coach Dixie Howell
(Sun Sports Photo by Ian Martin)
Sometimes even a” loss
isn’t $0 bad
Such is case with the
Baytown Police Associa-
tion Dodgers’ 5-3 defeat at
the handsof the Whitaker
.and Associates Astros in
JJpytown Little League
play at East League Park
Friday.
T - -- The loss could have
1 boon bad for the Dodgers,
! who'we'rg still • in conten-
tion foriirst place and the
playoffs. .. ■ - , l
As ft stands, though,
another upset in the East
made all that not so bad.
The 1515 Ageney Eagles
dealt the First American
Bank Oilers a 9-1 defeat
that gave the-Dodgers and ' :
Earthman Funer^Hwne 1
Tigers the playoff berths.
The 11-2 Tigers will
enter as champions "June
16 when they .host the
second-place North
League team in the first
round of the playoffs. The
Dodgers, now 9-4, will
visit the Central. League
champs June 17.
The Astros led the en
3. in a key bout.
The triumph put the
Pads all alone in- first-
place with a 9-3-1 record,
a half-game in front of the
9-4 Exxon Chemical
Yankees. The A’s and the
Dittman;s Reds are tied
for third-at
■' Greg Ellis was tagged
with the loss. - '' ' Pelicans’ hopes of Central
The: Reds stayed in League honors a severe
range, with a 9-3 win over - blow,
the Angel’s Self-Service ' The Pelicans fell to 9-4
Julio Torres rapped a
two-run homer to start the
Angels that featured a six-
run first inning.
Winning on the mound
for the: Reds was Mike
Hughes, who struck .out
Padre sc0ng while Ken-
ny Martinez. Julio Torres
and Jacque Torres com-
bined for a three-hitter
and the win: :> ; ,
hits.
The losing pitcher was
Scott Parker
The Peoples State Bank
, Braves slipped by ' the
Texas Super Fodd’
Pelicans;':3-2, to deal- the. run injthe bottom oif. the—League supremacy. maining-with a unbeaten
‘sixth for the 3-2-wm . t’onfiealv struck out recm'd .
Jose Resenda was the nine and allowed only four The winnin8 *Pitcher
.winning hurler, while Ids- ^ jn taking the win and
ing on the mound was had-two hits of his own at
EncKuarma. -“Bar-plate, while Havid
. Winning pitcher- Brian Rob^tson took the los-s
Connealy ripped a two- .*
run homer to lead the ln t.entral Minor
Brown and Root Orioles to League action, the
a 54 victory over the- Baytown. Rental .Owls
B ay sh o re M o t or s defeated the 1515 Agency
with the, loss and two
games to play. The West
Baytown Kiwanis Club
White Sox lead with a 10-2-
l record and two games to
Harris
County Savings Federals
are in second-at-11-3 with
one game left.
, The Braves tallied two
runs in the first inning and
then scored the winning
Yankees in the West
The win kept the Orioles
in line with the Citizens
Bank and Trust Red Sox
in their battle for West
Cougars. 8-6.
The: league champion
Owl's aij r$6w 12-0-2 in
Central fragile standings
and are the only team re-
Giants Win, 3-2 - -
Astros ’Scorning Reports Don ’t Help
was James Schmall and
losing on the mound was
Angel Fernandez
The Dot Construction
Steers won, 15-12, over the
Walker Real Estate
Falcons tn West minor ac-
tion. ....... ........
The Steers tallied eight
runs in the second inning
and added seven in th
fourth.
On the East minor field,
the Nelson’s Sporting
Goods Bobcats slipped by
The Ked Carpet Realtors
Panthers, 15-14
Chris Kirkland scored
the fwin on the mound,
while- Monty Parker was
the losing pitcher.
Mark Ford tallied two
hits in threfe at-bats,.
Texas Tech Paces
AU-SWC Selections
DALLAS (AP) - Texas Tech’s surprising Red
Raiders, who made their first Southwest Con-
ference post-season baseball tournament, landed
three players on The Associated Press all-league
team and Coach Kal Segrist.
season tournament, was picked as Coach of the
Year by his fellow mentors
Red Raiders on the first tejim included short-
stop Brooks Wallace, outfielder Bobby Kohler,
and utility infielder Jimnay Zachry.
r Arkansas’ power hitter outfielder Kevin
McReynoids, who hit .430 with 10 home runs dur-
ing tiie SWC season, was-named Player of the
' Year. ■ -J ■
Pitcher of the Year jwas/a tie between Arkan
sas’ Steve Krueger and Texas’ Keith Creel
scouting report was right
about Vida Blue.
“Fast ball moving away
! -- whoosh! ’-’ said Houston
| right fielder Jeff Leonard,
I describing how Blue's pit-
The Astros; left-tne j cheslooked Friday night,
tire way, opening with The San Francisco left
three runs in the first and ut „;„h
never-looking back.
Jay Allen took the win
as Richard Price was tag-
Th6 Eagles hit a hot
streak in the fourth inn-
ing. scoring eight runs to
lead the way in the upset
of the Oilers, who fell to 7-
.. ft,...' -.....
Scotty Hale scored the
win on the mound, while
the losing pitcher was
---- - Mark Furlong.- -Kyle
K r a me r 1 e d t he
batsmen, going thr-e,e-for-
three.
In the North League ac-
tion, the league-leading
Action -Automotive
Padres ripped the Exxon
Credit Union Athletics, 12-
hander posted hfs sixth
straight victory, making
his record 8-2 with a five-
jutter, as the Giants; won
34'bn Johnnie LeMaster’s
sixth-inning squeeze bunt
which scored Terry Whit
field.
"He did a great job;”
said Blue. "I think my
quick release of the ball
helped, too."'
Giants Manager Dave
Bristol praised Don
McMahon, the team’s pit-
ching coach, saying,
"He’s done a good job
with the pitchers, getting
them to hold rutiners on
better." "
The Astros, who took a
Houston’s scouting
report on Blue’s bat-
terymate, catcher Milt
May. may have to be up-
dated. :
tempts by Blue and Joe
Strain earlier in the
game. Whitfield rapped
his third single of the
game and went to third on
a single by May to set up
the squeeze situation.
Houston pitcher Ken
Forseh, 5-4, threw the ball.
inside to LeMaster, and
the shortstop said later,
:‘If-4-badiv’-t -bunted-the' -
ball, it wouldbave hit me.
It was right at my belly
button.” -
Forseh, agreed, saying,
“I tried to jam him. I wish
it had been up a. little
higher, but he just made a
heck of a bunt. It was
Texas A&M s Robert Slavens, who was 7-0 in
league games, wasjhe Newco.mer of the Year.
■Here is the team: ■ J
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
V.. EAST
Flnrt ba» - Mike Brcslin,
* — DeanDavk
Thittfbaae
-Fritz
renede
mally, Baylor,
St. Louis
Lo’s Angeles
Cincinnati
HOUSTON.
SanDiigd
WEST-*
7.2- - '478--eh
three -game Yvinrting
streak into the*’- game,,
were hitiess Mtjl the
fourth, when they tied the
score as Jose Cruz and
Art Howe homered off
Blue, who had not allowed
a home run since April 21. . . „ .....
The Giants scored two meant to be,
report said he runb in iMt. iutsl vvlth -The Giants snapped a
WillieMcCovevdrivingin three-game losing streak
one run with a’double and by winning in their first
scoring on Darrell Evans’ meeting of the year .with
single - the Astros, who came
LeMaster’s perfect back to Candlestick Park
bunt, down the third base today for the second game
- of a weekend series
San FrancjscuT
Atlanta ' .
Friday’s G?rrT
San Francisco 3. Houston 2
I.osAhgeU
igcles 8, Atlantal
Chicago Hi. Philadelphia 7
. Yor
sNew
ingsrain
Montreal’lQ
Cincinnati^:
>rk p, Pittsburgh 1. 5r_- inn-
St Louis 4
San. Diego 3*
Sunday’s Gam«"
Caliiornia . 18 2;>
Minnesota 28 i1')
’________Eldday’s Games
-:0ostoti 5, Milwaukee :i ' » •
. Seattle 4, Cleveland 3. H» innings •'
, New Yo.rit'6. Toronto (i '
’ v Detroit 12, California 1
Kansas City 9, Chicago 2. •
Balt imore 3. Minnesota 2. ID innings
OalUahdh, Texas 3
- Sunday’s Games
• Califomia^f Detro
TEAM
Tigers,
Dodgers
Oilers,..
Cardinatsr
Gianti
Designatedhttter ~ Hicky Nixon, Texas, 392
Outfield - Kevin McReynoids, Arkansas, 430; Mike Zatopek, Texas,
377. Bobby Kohler, Tegas Tech,: 374, ' /
URlity outfield - SlmOti Glenn, Texas A&M, :«)8 '. ■■
Pitchers “ Steve Krueger, Arkansas, (7-Q); Keith Creel. Texas, tfrli,
and Robert Slavens, Texas AAMI7-0) SWC records only.
Pitcher of the Year- ( tie) Krue|er and Creel
Player of the YMr ^ McReynolA. s
Coach of the Year-Kal Segrist, |Texas Tech TV
Newcomer <rf the Year-tSJavens
>jrr
V
Astros'.
Wolves. :
Panthers.
Mustangs
Bobcats
Vilnor League1
Division!
. 5 i.o,
;„3. io- o
Gaton
Hawki
,JThc
couldn’t-throw,” said
Astros third baseman
Enos Cabell. “He can
throw. He must have had
Houston at San Francisco
. New-York at Pittsburgh
Philadelphia at Chicago
Atlanta at.Los Angejes
Cincinnati at’San Dieg
Milwaukee at Boston ■'
Toronto at New York * - -
. Seattle at'< 'levtsl'and
Baitimore at Minnesota
a sore arm eariy: in the
season.” v v
May, who threw out 0tF~
ly one of the first 26
baserunners who attemp-
ted to steal against him
this year, nailed three of
three Friday night --
Cabell once and Rafael
Landestoy twice. He has
thrown out nine of the last
Monday’s Games
'Houston at San Diego, <n)
d Montreal, (nr
Chicago a!
Philadelpl
Cincinnati at Los Angek
Atlanta at San Francisco. < n i
Colts . .
ms .... • 7
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Lions; . . 1
SportsCalendar
MONDAV, / .
Little League baseball -^East' ma-
jor. Central major Ndrth major. West;
major, East minor. North minor I!
West minor 11 leagues ' ^ ,
Junior Teenage League -baseball •Vi
af Jenkins Memorial Park , 1.
City softball - Men s open, women’s
open and women’s church league at
lytow
and
>wnSi
Baytown Sports Complex.
WEDNESDAY
le League baseball - North ma
jor. East mloor. Central minor, West
mlnorW leagues. /
softball - Men’s oj>en and
open, leagues at Baytown
holex;
jports Complex
TUESDAY
- East ma-
’entral major. West major. East
Central minor.-North 4
City
.wom«HV))H
Sports Complex
THURSDAY
Little League baseball
minor II leagues'
Junior Teenage League baseball
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church and men's church leagues ah. Complex
church and
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Boston at Minnesota
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DALLAS, f AP) - At-
torneys for Toni and
Helga Fritsch gave no
reason why Mrs. Fritsch
dropped a divorce suit she
filed the day after Fritsch
was involved in a fatal car
accident. " • v'r.
“I moved to dismiss the
suit because my client
asked me to,” Clifford
Weinstein, Mrs. Fritsch’s
lawyer, said Friday. He
declined to say more.
Mrs. Fritsch initiated
divorce proceedings on
May 28, asking custody of
the couple’s two children
— Hans Markus, 14, and
Melissa Alexandria, 8 -=
arid $2,000 monthly’child
support and
support payments
On May 27, Fritsch’s
Volkswagon went out of
control on a north Dallas
freeway, jumped the me-
dian and smashed into an
oncoming car. Nelda
Burks, who was the lone
passenger, in the
Volkswagon, was killed.
The divorce petition
alleged that on that day,
the Fritchs ceased to live
together as man and wife.
Mrs. Fritsch dropped
the suit on May 30. Peter
Chantiiis, Fritsch’s at-
torney, 'said it was not at
all unusual for divorce
petitions to be filed and
dropped within two days.
, -The dismissal order,
signed by Judge Annette
Stewart, notes that the ac- j
tion was dismissed
“without prejudice,"
which means that it- can j
be refiled later -, /
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Sun Outdoor Guide
By CHESTER ROGERS
WIND, WATER AND
TIDES — South artd
easterly winds will be 10
to 15 mph. Temperature
range will he from the low
70s to the mid-90s. Tr|nity
and Galveston hays, will
be choppy Offshore wave
temporary' heights will- be three to
five feet Galveston beach
water temperature 82
degrees. Only one
Marshal Deal and Glen
Erwin are still bragging
about the1' eight-pound
speckled trout they
shared.
LAKE LIVINGSTON -
Shad-baited trotlines are
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