anaheim-bulletin 1953-09-01

Hal Thomas Today's column might be construed as something in the nature of a sermon; depending entirely upon the readers age-bracket, or how much of life's trials and tribulations the reader has endured. In this day of war-harassed existence, age is all too often no yardstick for experience; as witness the eternity of immobility suffered by many fine young lads; athletes, with once-strong bodies, now lying in baskets in service hospitals, or, forever condemned to life in a wheel-chair. THEY'VE REALLY LIVED. There was no course of action left open to them; no mapping of their own destinies, except to try for their own selection of "service branch" in which they would prefer to die. I can in no way find it in my heart, to castigate a young high school lad of the last decade, for allowing his perspective toward education to become obscured. The only "sure thing" they could anticipate was a youthful career in the art of "bullet dodging", so, in their small way, they lived for the fun at immediate hand; not an unnatural reaction, but, still a handicap in a highly competitive work-a-day sense. So, to the young man in high school today, may I paint a success story of a local AUHS "grade" that "played the game" first, and let the "chips fall where they may" in the class-room? It best be done as you go rather than gamble, as did our subject for today. Don Liechhart couldn't be sure of the motivating factor, in his all-important decision to go on to a college, to "get learnin'." Perhaps it was a "spongy knee", picked up in a football game; or maybe it was upon the advice of a good friend and counselor. The reason is secondary but the decision was right, as my story will unfold. "Lidos" Defeat Allison's 49-28, Win "A" League Allison's Market was downed by Richard's Market, last night, in the sudden-death playoff for first place in the Summer 'A' league, 49 to 28. Bill Keltner again paced the "Lidos," with 16 points, while Bill Wetzel hit for 12. Mike Beach was off his usual form but still paced Allison's with 11 points. Richard's dominated both backboards and by half-time the outcome was aftergone conclusion. Ballman's TVers took second place on a flip of the coin. Playoff schedule: Tuesday night: "A" League 7:00 p.m. Richard's vs Orange 8:15 p.m. Alison's vs Schafer Tool Wednesday night: "A" League 7:00 p.m. Ballman's TVers vs Bob's Sports 8:30 p.m. Carter Mercury vs Al's Sports Thursday night: "A" League 7:30 pm. Loser vs Loser (Tuesday) 8:45 p.m.—Winner vs Winner (Tuesday) Friday night: "A" League 7:00 p.m. Loser vs Loser (Wednesday) 8:30 p.m. Winner vs Winner (Wednesday) ALISON'S MKT. PG F TP Beach 5 1 11 Wada 1 1 2 Cone 0 0 0 Iabell 1 2 4 Pinkataff 1 -1 3 Adams 0 0 0 French 3 2 9 Philpott 0 0 0 International record trials scheduled September 8-11 at the Bonneville, Utah, salt beds will mark the first mass assault by this country's backyard mechanics on international automotive speed records. Speed experts around the world expect more international records to fall than in any previous... on future week of speed sport. The reason is that America's much maligned but always resourceful hot "chips fall where they may" in the class-room? It best be done as you go rather than gamble, as did our subject for today. Don Liebhart couldn't be sure of the motivating factor, in his all-important decision to go on to a college, to "get learnin'." Perhaps it was a "spongy knee," picked up in a football game; or maybe it was upon the advice of a good friend and counselor. The reason is secondary but the decision was right, as my story will unfold. To say that Don was destined to become an all-time great in professional athletics, may or not be accurate, but it IS a fact that he played the game with a seal which embodied potential greatness. While he was at AUHS, Don lettered in basketball, football, and baseball, but his grades were a trifle "gimpy". He graduated with the class of '46. After a long period of indecision he enrolled at Fullerton J. C. There he won a letter in football, and wrecked a knee in the process. Basketball was good for two more letters and a first year rating of "All J. C. Southern California Forward", and was in the '48 graduating class. By this time, our "Athlete" had become "student" as well, and he enrolled at Pepperdine. Lettered in basketball in '48-'49, was basketball team manager in '49-'50, got the knee repaired in the interim and lettered again in basketball in '50-'51. After graduation, he stayed on at Pepperdine as assistant varsity basketball coach for two years, and as head coach of the J.V.'s. His JV's won 36 and lost 8 in the two seasons play. In 1943, Don started to work during summer vacations for the City, as a recreation leader and is now completing his 11th year in that capacity. November of 1952 was the start of a "new life" for young Liebhart, as he took unto himself a bride, Miss Suzanne Duke of Santa Ana, and a few days ago Suzann presented Don with their first herress, Shari Katheen. As if this recent chain of happy events were not enough, the Liebharts only a few days ago learned that "Papa" Liebhart had received a one-year appointment, effective this coming semester, to Santa Ana High school, as Varsity basketball and tennis coach, and will teach classes in U. S. History, and typing. It's trite to quote the moral of a story. If I haven't made it obvious in this one, please forgive me. There's No Substitute for Paid Circulation. Friday night: "A" League 7:00 p.m. Loser vs Loser (Wednesday) 8:30 p.m. Winner vs Winner (Wednesday) ALLISON'S MKT. FG F TP Beach 5 1 11 Wada 5 1 11 Conde 0 0 0 Bell 0 0 0 Pinkataff 1 2 4 Adams 0 0 0 French 3 2 0 Philipott 0 0 0 RICHARD'S MKT. PG F TP Nesbitt 2 0 4 Kelter 5 6 16 Inloes 3 0 6 Wetzel 5 2 12 Martines 0 1 1 Schuitt 1 3 4 Neumann 2 1 8 Lorentzen 0 1 1 Gene Baker "Sold" To Chicago Cubs LOS ANGELES (UP) — Three players today were on their way to report to the Chicago Cubs following announcement of their sale by the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. The sale becomes effective at the close of the season Sept. 13, but shortstop Gene Baker, pitcher Bill Moissan and centerfielder Bob Talbot will report to the Cubs immediately, permitting them to get in two weeks of play with the National League team. Baker, chosen the Angels' most valuable player, is batting .269 and leads the club with 96 runs batted in. He has been with Los Angeles since 1951 and appeared in 420 consecutive games. Molsan has a 10 and 9 record and a .292 earned run average. His batting average as a pinch-hitters is .347. He came here in 1951 from Springfield of the International League, along with Talbot who has a .285 batting average. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. American League W L Pct. GB New York 86 43 .657 — Chicago 78 52 .600 8½ Cleveland 76 54 .585 10½ Boston 72 60 .545 18½ Washington 66 57 .496 22 Philadelphia 52 79 .397 35 Detroit 48 83 .366 39 St. Louis 46 86 .348 41½ Monday's results Boston 6 Cleveland 4 Washington 4 St. Louis 3 Detroit 9-4 Philadelphia 7-10 At Utah Salt Flats International record trials scheduled September 8-11 at the Bonneville, Utah, salt beds will mark the first mass assault by this country's backyard mechanics on international automotive speed records. Speed experts around the world expect more international records to fall than in any previous ... on future week of speed sport. The reason is that America's much maligned but always resourceful hot rodders have for the first time gained group recognition as contenders for international speed records. Ten hand-constructed, streamlined cars are being selected by the National Hot Rod Association to run through the American Automobile Association time traps on the Bonneville salt beds in attempts to break several dozen speed records now held by the greatest names in international racing. The speed runs are under the sanction and supervision of the Contest Board of the A.A.A., only American organization authorized by the F.I.A.A., Paris, to time and supervise official international record attempts. Records under fire will range from those for small displacement automotive engines, comparable to those in the very lightest American cars, to powerplants combining the power output of two large passenger car engines. Most of the record-seeking cars will use highly modified American passenger car engines, employing special carburetion and fuel, but using stock automotive lubricants. Contestants and their cars represent the most skilled and responsible elements in hot rodding. The cars were constructed for use only on the salt beds speedway, and competition rules place safety of spectators and drivers well ahead of the desire to mark new records. The cars were constructed in back yards or home garages of the contestants, or in small automotive shops in West Coast cities are towns. Car builders and drivers are motivated by the sport and honor of possible achievement. There are no cash prizes for breaking records. PCL Standings W L Pct. GI Hollywood 101 63 .616 — Seattle 90 72 .556 10 Los Angeles 84 79 .515 16 San Francisco 80 83 .491 20 Portland 79 82 .491 20 San Diego 78 84 .481 22 Sacramento 69 92 .429 30 Oakland 69 95 .421 32 Monday's results Portland 11 San Diego 8 (Only game scheduled.) THE LONG DEAL IS BACK AGAIN! Now it's easier than ever to own a big, beautiful, powerful Pontiac. Pontiac sales are at an all-time high—and we mean to keep them there by offering the best deals in town. Come in soon—see how littl!: it costs to own the new Pontiac—a General Motors Masterpiece. '53 PONTIAC CASEY-BECKHAM PONTIAC Anaheim, Calif. 336 S. Los Angeles Street Phone 4012 SPORTS HAL THOMAS. EDITOR "Bums" Outclass Both Leagues NEW YORK (UP)—Brooklyn dynamo Dodgers hit the September stretch today with an outside chance to wind up with the best winning record of any National League team in 44 years. If they play at about the pace they have set since the All-Star game, the Brooks can finish up with 110 victories and only 44 defeats, surpassing all other National League winners since the 1900 P.Rates had that mark. Brooklyn's 6-3 triumph last night over the Cardinals in which Dudley Hodges got one, was the 10th straight at Ebbets field over Louis this year. Roy Campanella set a National League mark for catchers when he drove in two runs with a double give him a total of 124. The mark of 122 was held jointly by Walker Cooper of the 1947 Gladiand Gabby Harnett of the 1950 Cubs. The runner up Braves was led and dropped 10½ games behind. Cincinnati twice utilized big shots in innings to defeat the Phi 12-6 and 7-5 while the Giants played seven runs in the fourth take a 18-4 win over the Cubs. In the American League, ol' Bo Newsom won his 200th game 10-4 over Detroit, after the Tigers topped the Athletics 9-7. Boston defeated Cleveland 6-4 as Williams hit his seventh home since returning from Korea and Washington edged St. Louis 4-3. There were no other games scheduled. Fat and Foxy Newsom, pitching mainly from memory, won his historic game by scattering 11 hits and keeping the A's bull pen busy waiting to relieve the fat and forty old bob. But he stuck it out to pitch first complete game of the year as the A's cushioned him nine runs in the first four innings. Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK (UP)—Strapping Eddie's Mathews won't break Babe Ruth's magic home run record of 60 round trippers this season but the mauler from Milwaukee already has proved beyond doubt that here at long last is the man who may better the Bambino's mark. As of the moment," handsome Eddie has 43 home runs in 133 games. Discounting the date and all the other camouflage, he is all the other camouflage, he is four behind the Babe's record pac eof 1927 in the matter of games played, for the Babe had 47 in 133 games. There is one gimmick that favors Eddie—the Braves have played two ties, so he gets 156 games against Ruth's season total of 154. Just Beginning Nobody is going to surpass the Bambino's record smashing September restretch run of 17 homers by much. Certainly Mathews can't be expected to get 17 he needs for a tie, or the 18 he needs for baseball's biggest record in he mere 23 games he has left. But Eddie is just getting under way in this baseball business sand every sign points toward his eventually surpassing the immortal slugger's greatest mark. Consider first, that last season as a freshman he hit 25 homers. BY UNITED PRESS BERKELEY (UP)—Coach Lynn Waldorf looked over a crop of 77 candidates for his 1958 University of California football team today and announced the first light scrimmage for the Bears will be held Saturday. STANFORD (UP)—The "Big Red" football machine of Stanford University was getting in gear today after 65 men, including 22 lettermen, reported for fall training. LOS ANGELES (UP)—UCLA, favored to win the Pacific Coast Conference title and go to the Rose Bowl, started 1953 football practice yesterday with 50 players reporting. LOS ANGELES (UP)—Most of Coach Jesse Hill's 1952 Rose Bowl championship Southern California football team reported for football practice yesterday, 72 men in all. SEATTLE (UP)—Johnny Cherberg, new head football coach at University of Washington, had 63 Huskies under his wing today as fall practice got underway. CORVALLIS (UP)—Coach Kip Taylor had 48 candidates, including 15 returning lettermen, to work with today as he started to mold his 1963 Oregon State College football squad. EUGENE (UP)—Len Casanova said today he was satisfied with the general condition of the 40 men who reported for fall training in his University of Oregon football camp. PULLMAN, Wash. (UP)—Candidates for Washington State College's football team, many of them hardened by a summer of work in Alaska, today were ready for orders from Coach Al Kirchner: Fifty two men, including 17 lettermen, reported for the first drill yesterday. National League W L Pct. GB Brooklyn 90 40 .692 Milwaukee 80 51 .611 10½ Philadelphia 73 59 .553 18 St. Louis 70 58 .547 19 New York 62 68 .477 28 Cincinnati 58 73 .443 32½ Chicago 50 80 .385 40 Pittsburgh 41 95 .301 53 Monday's results New York 13 Chicago 4 Brooklyn 6 St. Louis 3 Cincinnati 12-7 Philadelphia 6-5 FOR HAPPIER DAYS BEDDING, Calif. (U) — A new $750,000 fish hatchery is under construction at Darrah Springs near here which will add thousands of Nobody is going to surpass the Bambino's record smashing September's rstretch run of 17 homers by much. Certainly Mathews can't be expected to get 17 he needs for a tie, or the 18 he needs for baseball's biggest record in he mere 23 games he has left. But Eddie is just getting under way in this baseball business sand every sign points toward his eventually surpassing the immortal slugger's greatest mark. Consider first, that last season as a freshman he hit 25 homers. Ralph Kiner, whose seven-year reign Mathews is ending, hit only 23 to win the title as a rookie. Then, too, Kiner at that time was 24 year old, but Eddie is only 21. Got Everything Mechanically, and physically, Mathews has all the necessary qualifications. He is big and strong, six feet, one inch and 200 pounds, has a perfect swing and lightning reflexes. Kiner had those attributes, too, but lacked the power hitter behind him. Milwaukee will see that Eddie gets such support. The rave for Mathews came from the rival Brooklyn Dodgers to compliment the swing and reflexes which will keep Mathews front and center as a home run swinger for the ages. "You think you've got the ball past him," says pitcher Carl Erkine, "and then he seems to hit it right out of the catcher's glove." "He has a fine, level swing," adds manager Chuck Dressen, "and he is one of the few lefthanded batters who don't seem to be bothered by lefthanded pitchers." Frederick Three-Time Winner in Jalopy Races Jalopy races at Huntington Beach stadium, Saturday night uncovered a skillful young driver in Bob Frederick, winner of one heatrace, the Trophy dash, and the semi-main event. Bob was driving Glen Sharp's "OO." Bob Clegg won the main event, with Leo Breithaupt taking the Helmet Dash. FIRE LASSIES SOITUATE, R. I. (U) — The Potterville fire department consists of one truck and three women volunteers. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING PHILADELPHIA 73 59 .553 18 St. Louis 70 58 .547 19 New York 62 68 .477 28 Cincinnati 58 73 .443 32½ Chicago 50 80 .385 40 Pittsburgh 41 95 .301 52 Monday's results New York 13 Chicago 4 Brooklyn 6 St. Louis 3 Cincinnati 12-7 Philadelphia 6-5 FOR HAPPIER DAYS BEDDING, Calif. — A new $780,000 fish hatchery is under construction at Darrah Springs near here which will add thousands of fish annually to California streams for the pleasure of fishermen from all over the United States. If It's News You'll See It In The Bulletin Try our station ... for convenient ONE-STOP SERVICE One stop at our station gets you either Sky Chief, the premium gasoline with a punch ... or Fire-Chief, the emergency power gasoline that sells at regular price ... Custom-Made Havoline Motor Oil, Marfak chassis lubrication and a thorough servicing of tires, battery, spark plugs and other vital spots. 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