anaheim-gazette 1950-05-11

Coach Chet Shirk Drops Athletic Chores for Teaching, Counseling After twelve years of coaching at Anaheim high school, Coach Chet Shirk today announced his retirement from the Colonist physical education department. Shirk, who handled fotoball, baseball, basketball and golf during his athletic stint, will devote full time to counseling and teaching mathematics, as of next September. An added duty will be sponsorship of next year's junior class. The change comes at Shirk's request. Last year he put in for the transfer but no one was available to relieve him of his coaching chores. Shirk's coaching record on the Colonist campus is an admirable one. In eight years of athletic activity he has brought home a total of seven championships in football and basketball and has tutored a number of top-flight golf squads. This year, Colonist golfers have won nine matches and lost two. At CIF team matches at Long Beach last week, the boys in blue and gold wound up fourth in a field of 13. Shirk plans tentatively Head basketball and track coach Sam Keith will assume Shirk's Bee football duties next fall, it was announced this afternoon. Dick Glover, AUHS director of athletics, will take on the Cee and Dee casaba units. to send Colonists Bob Marshall and Loren Herman to the CIF low medal finals when the affair materializes. Last week, Marshall a pair of titles. Under Shirk's guidance, the Bee football squad got one and the Cee basketball another. Cees went on to take first in the Capistrano tournament. In '47-'48, the Cee hoopsters repeated again with a league championship. Last year Shirk got another basketball double when his Cee and Dee teams landed at the top BASEBALL FLASHES NEW YORK (A) — Chicago Mapes eluted a home run with two mates aboard in the fifth inning to lead the New York Yankees to a 5-1 fright over the St. Louis Browns in the first game of a double-header today. BOSTON (A) — The Detroit Tigers broke their first place tie with the Boston Red Sox by pounding out a 13-4 victory today in the first half of a double header. Freddie Hutchinson had a three-hit shutout going until the eighth inning, when Ted Williams lashed his eighth homer of the season with the bases loaded. Hoot Evers holstered for the Tigers with one aboard in the eighth. CHICAGO (A) — Johnny Sain hurried a four hitter today to lead the Boston Braves to a 8-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs that split the two game series. The Braves counted twice in the fifth on singles by Sain and Sam Jethroe, two errors, a wild pitch and a double steal. Gordon walloped his seventh homer in the sixth for the final run off Bill Voloselle. Head basketball and track coach Sam Keith will assume Shirk's Bee football duties next fall, it was announced this afternoon. Dick Glover, AUHS director of athletics, will take on the Cee and Dee casaba units. to send Colonists Bob Marshall and Loren Herman to the CIF low medal finals when the affair materializes. Last week, Marshall carded a 69 to qualify for the Long Beach open. Shirk picked off the first in his string of championships in 1942 when his Dee casabamen completed a perfect season. His Cees fought to a tie for the crown that year. From May 1943 to September 1946 Shirk served as a naval officer. Duties included training, administration and education. He spent one year in the Pacific. The school year 1946-47 netted a pair of titles. Under Shirk's guidance, the Bee football squad got one and the Cee basketball another. Cees went on to take first in the Capistrano tournament. In '47-'48, the Cee hoopsters repeated again with a league championship. Last year Shirk got another basketball double when his Cee and Dee teams landed at the top of the Sunset heap. The past football season rounded out the versatile mentors string of championships as Shirk's Bee squad brought home top honors. CITIES BID FOR AAU BOXING St. Louis has bid for the National AAU Boxing Championships for next year and Seattle has asked for the important tournament for 1952. HENRY DRUG STORE Complete Prescription Department Fountain Service STORE HOURS— Monday-Saturday—8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays—1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. JOHN M. HENRY and EUNICE S. HENRY 136 South Glassell Street Orange, Calif. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT OAKLAND, Calif. — John Davis, 137, Richmond, Calif., pointed Sammy Angott, 14 Washington, Pa., 10. See America's Greatest Truck Values See America's Greatest Truck Values CHEVROLET P.L ADVANCE-DESIGN TRUCKS See these great new truck buys in our showrooms today! 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Oldton walloped his seventh in the sixth for the run off Bill Voselle. Yankees Get Wakefield Back On Bounce CINCINNATI (AP) — Outfielder Dick Wakefield today was declared by Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler to be the property of the New York Yankees. The Yankees sold the temperamental player to the Chicago White Sox last month, but he declined to report unless he was paid more money. Frank Lane, general manager of the Chicago Club, returned him to New York. George Weiss, general manager of the Yanks, protested the deal was made in good faith. The men asked Commissioner Chandler last week to determine the issue. Lane contended the deal—which also involved sale by the Chicago Club of player John Ostrowski by Kansas City—was predicated on Wakefield reporting April 30. Weiss denied it. Chandler found the evidence conflicting. There were no signed contracts. Chandler decreed the only proper thing was to have the standing revert to the situation existing before negotiations began. Robinson Pic Gets Raves From Critics HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Jackie Robinson, generally identified as the efficient second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, may now be styled a movie star. Robinson plays himself in the soon to be released picture, “The Jackie Robinson Story,” and it may be reported that Robinson does not try to act. He merely plays the role of a most unusual athlete named Robinson. As a production, the picture has its shortcomings. This can be explained by the story behind the filming of the story—how 80 people, few of them influential by Hollywood standards, and many small fry employees, pooled resources to produce the picture. Ignoring this phase—the absence of vast sets, extravagant and often unnecessary props and mob scenes—the story is told with an honesty unusual in screen biographies. It tells the story of how Robinson became the first Negro to scale the high walls into organized baseball and events in his youth leading up to this unprecedented phase in American sports. Portlander Wins Mexico Auto Race EL OCOTAL, Mexico (AP) — A driving 2150 miles in six hours Hershel McGriff of Portland, today was $17,381 richer for winning Mexico’s border-to-boston stock car race. The race which began last day in Ciudad Juarez on the border ended here yesterday at Guatemalan frontier. Griff, driving a 1950 Oldsmobile had a winning time of 27 hours 34 minutes and 25 seconds. Winning margin was one minute 16 seconds. Second money of $11,570 went to Tom Deal of El Paso, whose time was 27:35:41. He drew a Cadillac. Ray Pat Connor of Paso was third in a Nash, clocked in 27:50:35. His third prize was $5785. The race was contested on flat, straight desert highway, cutting mountain roads and, in last lap, over washed-out gravel. The event opened Mexico’s strand of the Pan American Highway. McGriff averaged 89 miles per hour. California drivers were listed... Qualify for Swim Finals Diver Leonard Weaver and the varsity four-man relay squad consisting of Orlyn North, Weaver, Dudley Frank and Ken Dymmel will return to Beverly Hills tomorrow for the CIF swim in the finals, Colonist Coach Ralph Kingsbury said today. Coach Kingsbury is looking for his charges to finish up in the first division of the finals as a result of yesterday's activities. QUARTER HORSE SHOW SET FOR POMONA POMONA (AP)—The Sixth Annual Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Association Show opens at the Fairgrounds here May 26 for a three-day run. More than 500 top quarter horses are expected. Judges will include such authorities of the breed as Orville Burkis, Manhattan, Kan., W. G. Schwindt, Saticoy, Calif., and Perry Cotton, Visalia. POET·ATHLETES RECEIVE NUMERALS WHITTIER (AP)—Sixty-five varsity and 48 freshman letters were given out at the Whittier College sports awards banquet last night. Francis (Bud) Hill, baseball and basketball letterman, and Ken Chandler, football and baseball star, were named co-athletes of the college for the year. Baseball Standings Pacific Coast League W L Pet GBL San Diego 28 15.651 — Hollywood 25 16.810 2 Los Angeles 24 20.545 4½ Oakland 20 19.513 6 San Francisco 21 21.500 6½ Portland 20 20.500 6½ Sacramento 16 27.372 12 Seattle 12 28.300 14½ Yesterday's Results Oakland 5, San Francisco 3. Los Angeles 4, Hollywood 2. Portland 5, Sacramento 4. Seattle 4, San Diego 3. Today's Games PAYLOAD LEADERS Cost less to operate per ton per mile! Right from the start, you can figure on more payloads because Chevrolet trucks take less time on the job... cost less to keep up. They reduce total trip time with extra high pulling power over a wide range of usable road speeds. 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Portland 6, Sacramento 4. Seattle 4, San Diego 3. Today's Games Oakland (Forrest Thompson) 0-0) at San Francisco (Harry Feldman) 4-1). Sacramento (Orval Grove) 2-5) at Portland (Red Adams) 2-8). Los Angeles (Cal McLish) 5-1) at Hollywood (Bed Wade) 4-1). San Diego (Roy Welmaker) at Seattle (Guy Fletcher). American League W L Pet GBL Boston ... 14 7.867 — Detroit ... 10 5.667 1 New York ... 10 7.588 2 Washington ... 10 7.588 2 Cleveland ... 7 9.438 4½ Philadelphia ... 7 11.389 5½ Chicago ... 4 10.286 6½ St. Louis ... 4 10.286 6½ Yesterday's Results Washington 7, Chicago 6. Cleveland 6, Philadelphia 4. St. Louis at New York, postponed, rain. Detroit at Boston, postponed, rain. Today's Games St. Louis at New York (2)—Widmar (0-0) and Starr (1-2) vs Reynolds (1-1) and Sanford (1-0). St. Louis at Boston (2)—Hutchinson (1-1) and Gray (1-1) vs. Dobson (3-1) and Kinder (2-2). Cleveland at Philadelphia—Gracia (0-1) vs. Kellner (2-1). Chicago at Washington—Pierce (0-1) vs. Haynes (0-1). National League W L Pet GBL Philadelphia ... 12 8.600 — St. Louis ... 11 8.579 ½ Brooklyn ... 11 8.579 ½ Chicago ... 8 6.571 1 Pittsburgh ... 10 9.526 ½ Toronto ... 10 10.500 2 New York ... 5 10.353 ¼ Cincinnati ... 5 13.278 6 Yesterday's Resulst Chicago 6, Boston 3. St. Louis 5, New York 1. Cincinnati 4, Brooklyn 0. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, postponed, rain. Today's Games Brooklyn at Cincinnati — Hatten (1-1) vs. Buckwell (1-1). Boston at Chicago—Sain (3-2) vs. Voiselle (0-0). Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, (night) —Roberts (3-1) vs. Dickson (2-2). New York at St. Louis, (night) —Koslo (1-2) or Jansen (1-3) vs. Brecheen. A few years ago, a test oil under the great C extends out into the although the well did it started one of the expensive—drilling pr So far, in the search seven drilling platforms similar to the one above offshore and in water deep. They are set on driven 250 feet through tom, for they must be withstand Gulf hurrican The story behind the story of risk...and of everything possible to ing needs of motorists, Each underwater field lars more than any of Colonist Netmen Meet Tigers In CIF Squabble Tomorrow Eight Colonist tennis players, who brought the Sunset League net crown home to roost this year, shove off for Fullerton tomorrow to engage a highly regarded South Pasadena crew in CIF first round competition. Coach Bill Cook's boys have met the Foothill League champs on two occasions this year, emerging with a .500 average. Colonists won the first engagement 6-3. The Crown City netmen took the second 5-4. Coach Cook speaks with respect of a Pasadenan named Cranston who leads the opposition in tomorrow's bout. The local mentor stacks the youngster up alongside the likes of Art Larson, L. A. Municipal champ. Thanks to Cranston and a few like him, the South Pasadena delegation is particularly strong in the singles, Cook indicates. Strong or not, though, they'll run into a bunch of Sunset League kings who blanked all contenders; save one in local net wars. Closes anyone got to the Colonists was Santa Ana who bowed in 6-3 fashion to the Anaheimers. Anaheim singlesmen making tomorrow's trip include Craig Bottger, Louis Middleton, Dub Helsing and Jack Heisel. Doublesmen are Jim Webb, Bob Marshall, Don Sousa and Jim Wright. The Friday fracas is a round-robin affair consisting of four singles matches and a brace of doubles matches. Singles winners get one point for winning efforts and doubles winners collect a digit and a half toward a possible total of 28. No small tribute to their prowess, the Anaheimers still have five sunset league tilts left on the schedule. They were conceded to loop title after whirlwind first-round showing. 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