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6 Section 3 CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1970 Cage League Opens Tonight Prep Athlete Keeps Fit by Working Near Degree Temperatures! 10-minute halves, with intermediates playing 15-minute halves. The list of officials and areas include: Area One White and Marcich; area two Weiler and Gil Marchman; area three Sam Daniels and L. T. Bonner; area four Lepore and Len Terrell; area five-Bowman and Jerry Lyne; area six Hemphill; area seven Forrest Harris; area eight Torterello; area nine-Ron Feiereisel; area 10 Kelly. BILLY'S BIG MATCH Regardless of how well Billy Martin fares on his first invasion of California's tennis world this week, one of the most important matches of his young career will be waiting for him upon his return to the Chicago area.

The match will pit the 13-year-old tennis whiz from River Forest against 16-year-old Grey King of Libertyville. Originally, it was to have been played last weekend in the finals of the Chicago District Tennis Association Center tournament in Arlington Heights. But because Martin, the United States Lawn Tennis Association national champion in the boys' 14 division, was scheduled to be on the West Coast Monday for the start of a series of major junior tournaments, he was given permission to play his title match with King later in the summer. BY JERRY SHNAY The Chicago Neighborhood Basketball League starts tonight. More than 2,400 boys in 40 leagues in 10 city areas will open play in a two-month summer program the first of its kind in Chicago.

Cosponsored by The Chicago Tribune, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago, radio station WVON, WMAQ-TV, and the Chicago Park District, there will be 120 games three games for each league on tonight's docket. And if you listen to Frank Strocchia, Chicago Catholic League commissioner, the best of all possible worlds might be if the games would be as good as the officials who will be working them. Use Top Officials "We're going to have the best officials we can get," said Strocchia, who also works with the park district's summer Reach-Out program and is in a of lining up game officials. "We've got Big Ten officials, we've got some of the best high school officials in the city and all the games will have a certified official on the scene," he said.

That would mean top-rated whistle tooters at 40 different sites in the city. "That's right," and then he explained further, "in some cases, maybe the junior games, we'll see if one official can work all three games in one night. Maybe it will work out, maybe not. If we get some big games coming up, we'll go with two officials. But all this we'll have to play by ear." 4 Leagues to an Area Each of the 10 city areas will have one official in charge.

In some cases, when the areas are far apart, there will be officials in charge of two of the four playing sites in each area. "This is one way we keep on our toes during the summer," said Strocchia. "There will be no beginners on the program." Each of the 10 areas will have ur leagues two Junior loops for boys between the ages of 12 and 14 and two Intermediate divisions for boys from 15 to 17. League play will consist of a double round robin schedule played on outdoor courts. If there is rain, playing sites will be moved to nearby indoor courts.

The top two teams in each of the 40 leagues will advance into playoffs starting the second week in August. The playoffs will end with a city-wide championship round for both juniors and intermediates. Strocchia's list includes officials like Art White, Ed Marcich and Richard Weiler of the Big Ten, and top-ranked high school officials like Cal Lepore, Henry Bowman, Tony Torterello, Malcolm Hemphill and Bud Kelly. Junior games will have er, Mark: "I would too if I had to do your job. I wonder how it feels to work in a pressure cooker eight hours a day.

Think how much heat is generated by temperatures of 3,000 degrees!" observed Mark, properly impressed. Mike grinned tolerantly. "It's not really bad," he explained. "We wear protective equipment, such as heavy gloves, a hard hat, goggles, and a shadelike flap over the goggles to keep the intense heat of the molten steel from damaging your eyes." Mark, a 6-3, 230-pound tackle who just completed his sopho-bore year at Mendel, looked skeptical. "I suppose the next thing you'll tell me is that you work in an air-conditioned plant.

Boy, I certainly don't envy you. Belgian Wins Bike Race on Late Kick BAMIENSJN, France, July 1 Wi Joseph Spruyt of Belgium out-raced Leo Duyndam of Holland today in a final sprint to win the afternoon portion of the fifth leg of the Tour of France bicycle race. Walter Codefroot of Belgium won the morning portion of the day's run, but Italo Zilioli of Italy continued as the overall leader. (TRIBUNE Staff Photos by Ray Gora O'Hare discovers that a shovel is a handy tool to have around a furnace when coke has to be fed into it. All I have to do this summer! is go out to Homewood-Floss-mor High School and work out with the guys there." BY RALPH LEO Red Grange and Mike O'Hare are separated by many years and quite a few changes in everyday living.

But in the eternal desire to excel, the two have much in common. As a highly regarded football player just out of high school and planning to go to college, Grange spent the summer following his graduation from Wheaton High School working. The youthful Grange's summer work consisted of delivering ice. This, naturally, gained the Wheaton football phenom the nickname of the Wheaton Iceman. The desigation melted quickly when Grange, after enrolling at the University of Illinois, started delivering touchdowns on Big Ten gridirons.

His new and legendary nickname then became the Gallopin' Ghost. Eighteen year old Mike O'Hare, who was graduated last month from Mendel High School as senior class president after starring both in football and in the classroom, has been admitted to Harvard, where he hopes to continue to play football while studying law. Meanwhile, the 6-2, 210-pound youngster, who played middle guard on Mendel's Chicago Catholic league powerhouse team, is busy working this summer. But not on an ice truck or in an ice house. Unlike Grange, O'Hare is keeping uncomfortably hot helping to tend an electric furnace in a steel mill where molten steel is shaped into finished billets at temperatures approximating 3,000 degrees.

Inside the steel mill, the temperature often hits the 100-degree mark. Near the electric furnace where young O'Hare works as a laborer, the heat sometimes becomes insufferable. "Sure it gets hot," admits the Mendel scholar-athlete, whose high school achievements include finishing with a 3.4 grade point out of a possible 4.0, winning the Mendel Medal for all-around proficiency and leadership, and winning the Dr. William Osmanski award for scholastic and athletic ability. "But I don't mind.

You get used to it. Besides, it's good conditioning for football. If you can withstand such conditions, I guess you can play football or any other sport you set your mind to." Five days a week O'Hare reports to his job at the Calumet Steel Co. in Chicago Heights, a division of Borg-Warner. This week he is working the midnight to 8 a.m.

shift. "I don't mind working nights," he smiled. "You must remember that jobs are hard to find this summer. And you can't expect to go to college and let your parents do all the worrying financially. I like to do my share." Mike O'Hare's share of financing his college education includes a second job in addition to his steel mill work.

He also works as a weight-lifting instructor in a health club in Glenwood, a small community adjacent to Chicago Heights. "A lot of businessmen come to the club to exercise and lose excess weight," explained Then the younger of the O'Hare brothers became serious. "I'd better be in shape for football if I expect to be as good as you, Mike. That's my goal to be as good as you were the last couple of years." A measure of Mike O'Hare's worth as a football player at Mendel in his junior year is to be found in the fact that he was nominated for Most Valuable Player honors after Mendel's Catholic League championship game. In his senior year, he was named the most valuable lineman on the squad by his Mendel teammates.

That was the year, also, when Mike O'Hare set a school record for most single tackles in one game 12. Mike's record is likely to stand unless his kid brother breaks it in the next year or two. Meanwhile, Harvard bound O'Hare is looking forward to a pleasant four years at the Ivy League school, where his roommate, ironically, will be John Foran of Loyola Academy. Foran was a terror at fullback in Loyola Academy's 8 to 0 victory over Mendel in last year's Chicago Catholic League championship game. "And now we will both play for Harvard!" exulted O'Hare.

O'Hare. "My job is to show them how to handle the weight- lifting equipment and make sure all the machines we have arn in working condition. "Frankly, I get more ex ercise working one day at the steel mill than most of these hp ihhmi BiHHMriHj IMMHMriMifiMaiitl UHMarMM A imm mm 'I men do all week." Joshed Mike's younger broth 15" Jul uu Twitty Wins Northern Illinois Amateur Golf by Two with 288 Rugged 4-ply nylon cord (most sizes) Good Economy prices Exceeds all government requirements for: Strength, Endurance, High Speed Performance 1 0 Federal Sizes Excise Tax Blackwall Whitewall $1.90 $10.95 $13.95 7.75-14 2.17 14.75 17.25 8.25-14 2.33 16.95 19.45 5.60-15 1.58 13.75 16.25 7.75-15 2.19 14.75 17.25 8.25-15 2.36 16.95 8.55-14 2.53 21.25 8.55-15 I 2.57 21.25 made the putts for his pars, while Howard twisted his neck and snorted in the preceding twosome. "Sure, it bugged me," said the construction executive from Chicago, who rallied on the back nine with three birds on the first four holes. "All he had to do was miss one.

Then if I could get another birdie we'd be tied." That wasn't in the cards, however. Both bogeyed the 17th from sand traps and parred in. The victory sends Twitty into next week's prestigious Western Amateur in Wichita, as one of the favorites. Last year, he went all the way to the finals against Steve Melnyk, who eventually became the National Amateur champion. "Here, put this on and see how it fits," Lynch said to Twitty, tossing him a golf cap with the headband grossly extended.

Twitty placed the cap on his head and smiled as it settled over his eyes and ears. size 7.00-13 blackwalt with trade-in, plus federal excise tax of $1.90 per tire BY JOHN HUSAK Playing without a sign of pressure, Howard Twitty cruised to a two-stroke victory in the Northern Illinois Amateur tourney yesterday at Chevy Chase. The Arizona State golf star, who entered the brutal 36-hole test with a one-stroke lead, let his opponents beat themselves in the smothering heat while he shot rounds of 71 and 73 for a four-round total of 288, par for the course. Gene Howard, the defending champion, nearly skidded out of the picture with a morning 74, but recovered with a 71 to take second at 290. George Cascino and John Lynch, both with morning 69s, were tied for third at 292.

Twitty, a 21-year-old senior who won the prestigious Sunnehanna championship last month in Pennsylvania, did what the sponsors hoped by carrying the fledgling title onto the national amateur circuit. Only there can other players of national caliber hear of the tourney and perhaps be encouraged to come here next summer. "As the only principal amateur tourney in this area without restrictions, the Northern Illinois is the only one capable of gaining national prestige," said Jim Cowan, president of the sponsoring organization. Twitty, who spent the week hitting remarkable recovery Scores in Scoreboard on Page 5.7 shots on the sun-baked layout, got into trouble only once. The strapping senior blended "five ugly shots and a tap-in" for a bogey on the second hole of the afternoon round to drop into a brief tie with the surging Lynch, his playing partner and former college teammate.

Both went on to double bogey the next hole, but then Lynch skidded out of sight with three more bogeys before the turn. Now two-over-par for the tourney, Twitty proceeded to rap a 45-foot putt over two mounds and into the cup for a birdie cn the fourth. A 15-footer gave him his eventual margin two holes later. "You've gotta be unconscious to do that," said John Jackson, another Arizona State product, of the 45-footer. "When are you gonna wake up?" Jackson, who will be defending his National Pub-linx title next week, tuned up with a final 71 and 72 and a tie for 14th at 301.

"Only a superman could have beaten this guy today," Lynch said of Twitty. "He's a tremendous putter. All he has to do is get the ball on the green." Indeed, Twitty saved his victory several times by dumping long putts in crucial situations. Twice he toiled from traps to 12 feet and v. USE OUR RAIN CHECK PROGRAM.

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