anaheim-gazette 1951-08-02

Anaheim vs. Hemet Sunday at 7 P.M. Anaheim's American Legion baseball team will battle Hemet of the Riverside County League Sunday at 7 p.m., in the opening round of play for the 6th Annual Legion tournament at La Palma park. There will be five games played Sunday and the first one will start at noon and will be followed with games at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., and the final at 9 p.m. The official ceremonies opening the tournament will be held prior to the Anaheim-Hemet game, featuring the Arthur L. Peterson Post Auxiliary Rythmettes, who will perform with some unusual entertainment. Other county teams in the first round of competition will be the Orange Nine in the 4 p.m., game on Sunday, with the powerful Merchant Marine; Fullerton against Altadena at 9 p.m., on Monday; Newport against El Sereno, a seeded team at 7 p.m., on Tuesday; Santa Ana at 7 p.m., Wednesday against East Pasadena; Huntington at 7 p.m., against Pasadena on Thursday and Laguna Beach against San Berdoo at 9 p.m., on Friday evening. Wipe up spilled food in a refrigerator right away, because food acids may damage the fin- Arnett Doubles For Merchant Win Merchants held on to first place as they downed Grace Lutheran last night 4 to 1. In the second game at the City park, The Merchants scored one run in the first, on doubles by Jack Arnett and Frank Perez. In the sixth, they scored three runs on a double by Paul Bruce, an error, single by Stan Comstock and another error. Grace Lutheran had tied up the game in the bottom of the fourth, on singles by Art Altheide and Paul Altheide. Art Altheide got 12 strike outs in the 6 innings. Merchants—AB RH Arnett, cf 1 1 Brown, cf 3 0 1 Maxza, 2b 4 0 0 Perez, p 2 0 2 Thompson, If 3 0 0 Muckenthaler, ss 3 0 0 Punner, 3b 3 1 2 Jacobs, rf 1 0 0 Bruce, rf 1 1 0 Comstock, c 2 1 1 Hoag, lb 2 0 1 Totals—28 4 8 Grace Lutheran—30 0 0 Michel, ss 30 0 0 Martens, 3b 30 0 0 Geiger, 1b 30 0 0 A. Altheide, p 31 1 1 Escalante, if 30 0 0 Hein, 2b 30 0 0 H. Altheide, cf 20 0 1 Hedrick, rf 20 0 1 Westerhold, c 20 0 0 Totals—23 1 4 After you add boiling water to instant coffee, stir the brew to make sure the coffee will be of even strength. If You Drive! Don't Drink "Bogie—bearing 285°—elevation 5°—estimated speed 300—closing—fire when ready!" In a matter of seconds this alert, crack gun crew has flashed into action! Locating, identifying, tracking, and ready to fire on any enemy plane that threatens their fast moving U.S. Navy Carrier. Precision teamwork like this makes your U.S. Navy the mightiest in the world. 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The new American Legion Junior baseball program's stated aim was to keep decent youngsters out of mischief and to help boys develop as citizens. Last year, as usual, Legion Junior baseball was bigger than ever, and is again this year. As early as 1929, 100,000 boys were playing on Legion Post teams across the country. In 1947, 11,701 teams registered with national headquarters. Last year, 1950, an all-time high of 16,456 boy teams competed in Legion baseball. Last Labor Day week end, 34,775 paying customers viewed the Legion's annual Little World Series in Omaha, Nebr., where survivors of the season's tournaments played to determine the national Junior Baseball championship for 1950. Winner, for the second successive year, Oakland, Calif. Today, after 25 years, Legion Junior baseball is an acknowledged cradle of major league stars. In 1928, then Baseball Czar Kensaw Mountain Landis okeyed many century. The early years of Junior baseball were not always easy. After its start in 1926, Junior baseball nearly died in 1927. That year there was no Little World Series, and the "first annual" series of the previous season threatened to be the last. But major league backing in 1928, inspired by then Legion Americanism Director Dan Sowers, saved the day. Yet, nationally, Junior baseball continued to have trouble feeling its early way. It remained spotty, waxed and waned in some areas, during much of its first 15 years. As late as 1948, Junior baseball in Texas had dwindled to just one team. Baseball had, in fact, disappeared from Texas high schools. By 1948 there were 145 Lone Star teams playing Legion summer ball. This year over 700 Texas high schools had spring baseball teams. Pitchers Having Tough Time of Going 9 Frames (By The Associated Press) Pity the poor pitcher, caught in the steaming heat and double-header jam of the steaming four-club American League race. Even the best are crumbling under the strain. Allie Reynolds, no-hit ace of the Yankees surge, lasted only one inning yesterday against Detroit as New York lost a 9-8 first game. Things were so tough that Casey Stengel brought him back to rescue Tom Morgan and save the Yanks' two-game lead with a 10-6 edge in the second. Cleveland's Bob Lemon was bombed in the sixth at Washington where overworked Mike Garcia, a 13-game winner, had to help save an 8-6 first game. Early Wynn failed to last in the second game, fading for a pinch hitter in Washington's 4-3 victory. Only one Boston Red Sox pitcher has gone the route in the last seven games with the club home at Fenway park where it is supposed to be invincible. Instead of gaining ground, the Sox Today, after 25 years, Legion Junior baseball is an acknowledged cradle of major league stars. In 1928, then Baseball Czar Kene-saw Mountain Landis okeyed major league underwriting of the Legion's big sectional and national tournaments, to the tune of $50,000 guarantee against loss per loss. 30 In World Series Altogether, last year, 270 ex-Juniors decorated major league rosters and 30 of the 50 men certified to play in last October's Yank-Philly World Series had sprung from Legion Junior ball. There were, in all organized major and minor league professional baseball, 4,620 one-time Legion Juniors. Legion ball is not a piece of national masterminding. Legion posts do or don't sponsor Junior teams—as they please. Posts are neither pushed into taking on a team if they are unwilling, nor held back from sponsoring a dozen. Several thousand posts have no team at all. Yet the national average is only slightly less than one team for each of more than 17,000 Legion posts. Posts also sponsor hundreds of unofficial, sub-junior and midget teams that are not counted officially at all. Lawyers, doctors, engineers, businessmen, executives and manufacturers have graduated from Junior Baseball ranks. Regardless of race, creed, or family politics, whether poor or well-to-do, the youths have pulled together for 20 years. Junior ball does its best job "keeping good kids good and making them better, simply by offering them an activity where they can all pull together for a wholesome cause." Say some of the coaches: "Most boys are good at heart, want to be good, and are good, unless something or someone steers them wrong. We hold our players to account for their behavior, but we don't give them preachments, we give them baseball. The worst tournament we can dish out is yet to come." Yet, nationally, Junior baseball continued to have trouble feeling its early way. It remained spotty, waxed and waned in some areas, during much of its first 15 years. As late as 1948, Junior baseball in Texas had dwindled to just one team. Baseball had, in fact, disappeared from Texas high schools. By 1948 there were 145 Lone Star teams playing Legion summer ball. This year over 700 Texas high schools had spring baseball teams. Nationally, after World War II, Junior ball came on with a rush. The growing pains were definitely over. Since 1940, non-Legion groups and interests have sat up and paid more attention. This coming Sept. 4, the Little World Series moves into Briggs Stadium—home of the Detroit Tigers. And somewhere in the country is a boy whose name, come fall, will be enshrined on a plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. I., as American Legion Junior baseball Player of the Year. He will be one of more than three hundred thousand boys to train with a Legion team this summer. Louis Bangs Out Decision over Argentine Boxer SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Old Joe Louis, decisive winner over Cesar Brion of the Argentine in a furious 10-round battle last night, expressed keen disappointment today over circumstances which may keep him from a title fight for possibly a year. Title holder Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles have postponed their championship rematch until next year. Louis and Marshall Miles, his maanger, will confer with Jim Norris, president of the International Boxing club in New York tomorrow. The ex-champ files to Chicago today to visit his children, then to New York. Approximately 12,000 fans paid $66,525 to see Louis batter Brion in the closing rounds. Louis, slow-footed but still packing much of the wallop that enabled him to rule the heaviest weight put in on the sixth at Washington where overworked Mike Garcia, a 13-game winner, had to help save an 8-6 first game. Early Wynn failed to last in the second game, fading for a pinch hitter in Washington's 4-3 victory. Only one Boston Red Sox pitcher has gone the route in the last seven games with the club home at Fenway park where it is supposed to be invincible. Instead of gaining ground, the Sox have dropped ½ behind the Yanks. Ellis Kinder made his fifth appearance in a week yesterday after Willard Nixon pulled a tendon in his thigh sliding into a base. Nixon, inconsistent all season with only two complete games, was pitching two-hit ball for seven innings when hurt. Walt Masterson and Kinder nailed down his 5-1 edge over St. Louis. For a change Chicago got a full nine-inning job as Billy Pierce whipped Philadelphia, 4-3, to remain seven games off the pace. But White Sox pitchers have been showing the strain during the eastern swing. Howie Judson and Joe Dobson, in particular. Brooklyn's pitching also had a rough time at Pittsburgh where the Pirates knocked out Ralph Branca and roughed up loser Clyde King to win 12-9. Ralph Kiner hit his 27th homer for the Bucs and Gil Hodges No. 31 for Brooklyn in the loosely played struggle. The loss cut the Brooks' lead to nine games because New York split a pair with Chicago, losing 3-2 to Cal McLish and winning 2-0 on rookie A1 Corwin's seven-hit shutout for his first big league victory. Despite a 1-0 blanking at the hands of Cincinnati's Kenny Raffensberger, the Phillies held tight to third place because St. Louis lost. The Cardinals were edged out by Boston, 2-1, dropping into a fourth-place tie with the Braves. Warren Spahn won his 12th on a five-hitter. Sam Jethrope sped home from first on an infield out and wild throw by Stan Musial to win the game in the seventh, nullifying 6% innings of hitless relief pitching by Al Brazele. August means go Santa Ana Junior Commerce has again through Aug. 30 as the qualifying round fifth Annual Santa An Championships. The dates will give days to qualify for event including two week-ends. The site will be the Willowick Public on West Fifth street Ana and the flights wiped for both low and cap players. The championship flies played over the Labor day with the remaining flights set for one week at the Santa Ana public golfer is eligible as Marine Navy and sonnel. ing them better, simply by offering them an activity where they can all pull together for a wholesome cause." Say some of the coaches: "Most boys are good at heart, want to be good, and are good, unless something or someone steers them wrong. We hold our players to account for their behavior, but we don't give them preachments, we give them baseball. The worst punishment we can dish out is to kick a boy off the team. That that is dire punishment in the boy's eyes proved the value of Junior baseball above all else. Bigger and Better Tomorrow As Junior baseball passed its quarter-century mark, youth-conscious FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover spoke up for it in Washington. D.C. Said Hoover: "A younger concentrating on getting in that winning run of putting the ball across the plate for the third strike has no time for idle mischief. Any form of athletics, organized and operated effectively, provides a wholesome outlet for the surge of adolescent energy and imagination. Whatever can be done to direct the energies of youth along constructive paths is a contribution to their future—a deposit in the account of America's continued greatness." All over the country this year Legion Junior baseball men looked forward to bigger and better things during the next quarter- Louis and Marshall Miles, his maanger, will confer with Jim Norris, president of the International Boxing club in New York tomorrow. The ex-champ files to Chicago today to visit his children, then to New York. Approximately 12,000 fans paid $66,525 to see Louis batter Brion in the closing rounds. Louis, slow-footed but still packing much of the wallop that enabled him to rule the heavyweight ranks for 11 years, took pot shots at his younger opponent in the early rounds. In the seventh round, Louis caught up with his man. He batted Brion with lefts and rights to the head and drove in body blows that had the latter groggy. He pounded Brion steadily in the eighth, ninth and tenth. But he couldn't connect for the knock-out smash. He tried desperately to land. Louis was unmarked except for a slight swelling from a blow on the nose. The decision was unanimous. It was Louis' seventh win in his comeback campaign since he lost to then-champion Ezzard Charles. Juvenile League RESULTS "A" League Softball R H E Cone Bros. 130 000 0-4 8 4 Cotlers 400 600 x-10 5 2 Football Cone Bros. 6 Brown and Haskins 20 "B" League Softball Gazette 501 400 0-8 8 4 Ehlore Luke 400 610 x-11 10 8 R H E Posters 110 100/1-4 1 4 Schaefflers 001 720 x-11 7 2 Football Gazette 14, Kauibars 20. "C" League Softball R H E Williams 202 42-11 14 4 Lakes Wear 502 00-7 8 6 Guadan Homers For Magnolia Magnolia Stars defeated Joe's Service last night in the first game at the City park, behind the two hit pitching of Pete Guadan. The Stars scored one run in the first, on a double by Romero and a single by T. Jacques. In the second they scored one more run on three walks and an infield out. In the fourth, they scored two runs on a double by Gonzales and two errors. In the sixth, they added two more runs on an error and a home run by Guadan. Joe's Service scored their lone run in the fourth on an error, a walk and a single by Jamie Lopez. Joe's Service—AB R H Angels f Angels f Hamirres cf Kalasar ss Lopes, lb Revelles, wf Pullares, 2b Kaparaa, c Sanches, p Totals Magellia Stars—J. Hammer, hf T. Jacques, hl Barnes, ff J. Jacques, rf Ostwell ss J. Hivern, lb Moran, $b Gonzales, cf Torres, c T. Hivern, c Guadan, p Totals Mrs. Bob Williams And Bill Cook Receive Invites Mrs. Bob Williams, director of junior tennis activities on the City park courts in the summer recreation program, and Bill Cook, Anaheim high school tennis coach, were this week extended one of the very-hard-to-get invitations to play in the Second Annual Balboa Bay Club Invitational Tennis championships which were to start this morning. Mrs. Williams, who has entered in the singles division, faces a field which includes some of the top-ranking Southern California women players, Mary Arnold Brenttias, Mrs. Dorothy Bundy Cheney, Barbara Green, and Mrs. Patricia Henry Ypemans. In the afternoon program Mrs. Williams and Mr. Cook will team together in an opening round mixed doubles event. Competition in the mens singles division is so keen that Glenn Bassett, last year's winner was able to get only a fourth seeding, while National Public Parks champion Clyde Hippenstiel, was unable to get a seeding of any kind and was put in on the general draw. BASEBALL STANDINGS COAST LEAGUE W 51 GB Seattle 71 628 Hollywood 71 57 655 Los Angeles 64 64 590 13 Oakland 63 66 458 14½ Sacramento 63 67 477 18 Portland 61 68 473 18½ San Diego 59 68 465 17½ San Francisco 57 442 20½ Don Dawson Falls to Lillywhite In Junior Tennis Singles Match Jay Lillywhite provided the news in the Anaheim Junior Tennis Singles Championships in Wednesday's play when he defeated second seeded Don Dawson in a well-played 6-4 set. This put Jay in the quarter final round opposing George Legg who had advanced on a default, with the winner to play Don Kohlenberger who was the first to reach the round of four. Barry Ryan was the second player to get into the semi-final bracket with a 6-3 win over Merle Meyer, Barry and Merle by previous agreement played off a two set match with the first set which Barry won 6-4 giving him Merle's number one spot on the singles ladder, and the second set, also a victory for Barry, being the one to count in the elimination tournament. The feature match in the girls' singles matches was the hear defeat of fourth seeded Anne Williams who barely squeezed by Margaret Rodin in a record-breaking 12-10 set in which each girl went the limit to out-maneuver her opponent. Anne plays her sister, Jean, in the semi-finals for the right to face Karen Lenain, seeded number one, who was first to get into the final round with a 6-3 win over third seeded Carol Swank. Preliminary matches for these young players have been one set in length but the finals will feature a regulation two out of three set contest. Lou Mahoney Triples Joan Alsup of the Buena Park Lynx pitched a three-hitter last night at the Phoenix Ramblers to chalk up her first victory in many a try. Final score was 7-2, but the Ramblers still held the series edge, 2-1. The Lynx scored five runs in the fifth inning and the big stick in the inning was Lou Mahoney who tripled with the bases loaded. The Lynx play Phoenix Saturday night at Buena Park. Sport Calendar THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 Softball—Church League 7:15-Bethel Baptist vs St. Boniface 8:30-Zion Lutheran vs Presbyterian at City park. 7:15-Mamerson vs Grace Lutheran. 8:30-White Temple vs Church of Christ at La Palma park. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 Softball—"A" League 9:30-20-30 vs Cone Bros. 10:45-Optimist vs Brown and Haskins at City Park. FOX LOOKING FOR THE FUTURE DOORS OPEN 6:45 P.M. Don't Miss This Show! "THE FROGMEN" Richard Wildmark Dana Andrews SECOND TERRIFIC FEATURE "MASK OF THE AVENGER" John Derek BASEBALL STANDINGS COAST LEAGUE Seattle 77 51 .602 Hollywood 71 57 .655 Los Angeles 64 64 .500 Oakland 63 66 .488 Sacramento 61 67 .477 Portland 61 68 .473 San Diego 69 68 .462 San Francisco 57 72 .442 Last Night's Results Seattle 4. Sacramento 0. San Diego 8. Portland 4. San Francisco 5. Hollywood 2. Oakland 6. Los Angeles 5. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pot GB Brooklyn 81 23 .656 New York 57 25 .559 Philadelphia 49 50 .495 St. Louis 46 49 .484 Boston 46 49 .484 Cincinnati 45 51 .484 Chicago 40 52 .435 Pittsburgh 40 57 .412 Yesterday's Results Chicago 0. New York -2. Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 0. Pittsburgh 13. Brooklyn 9. Boston 2. St. Louis 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pot GB New York 60 36 .628 Cleveland 59 29 .602 Boston 58 24 .608 Chicago 55 24 .608 Detroit 44 51 .603 Washington 44 54 .491 Philadelphia 39 61 .390 St. Louis 31 65 .223 Santa Ana City Golf Qualifying Rounds Aug. 18 August means golf and the Santa Ana Junior Chamber of Commerce has again set Aug. 18 through Aug. 30 as the dates for the qualifying rounds of their fifth Annual Santa Ana City Golf championships. The dates will give swingers 13 days to qualify for the annual event including two complete week-ends. The site will again be the Willowick Public Golf Corse on West Fifth street in Santa Ana and the flights will be paired for both low and high handicap players. The championship flight will be played over the Labor Day holiday with the remaining handicap flights, set for one match each week at the Santa Ana links. Any public golfer is eligible as well as Marine, Navy and Army personnel. To make a seat relish to serve went the limit to out-manchever her opponent. Anne plays her sister, Jean, in the semi-finals for the right to face Karen Lenain, seeded number one, who was first to get into the final round with a 6-3 win over third seeded Carol Swank. Preliminary matches for these young players have been one set in length but the finals will feature a regulation two out of three set contest. Karen and her partner Merle Meyer moved one step nearer the championships in the round robin mixed doubles tournament when they defeated Carol and Ronnie Swank 6-2. Round robin doubles matches are to be completed by this Saturday in order to make way for next week's trophy championships for the three doubles events. Players who have not yet signed for this doubles tournament are reminded that Saturday morning has been set as the deadline for entries. Any player eighth grade or under is welcome to play with gold tennis statuettes going to each of the partners in each event to take the finals, with a medal for each of the runners-up. On the tennis ladders Pat Schneider continued his steady climb to the top by taking Leo Risner's eighth position. Dennis Fitzpatrick added another victim with a love set win over David Evans, but beginner Joe Goodner's challenge was turned back by George Legg 6-0. Crazy Legs Reports REDLANDS (EP)—A little late but in fine shape, Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch reported to the Los Angeles Ram training camp today to get ready for the national football league season. Hirsch was given permission to report late. He has been studying at Baldwin Wallace college. Proficient at either end or half-back, Hirsch may compete at San Diego Friday night when the Rams meet three navy and marine teams. Big Red Wins Own Game over G.G., 16-6 Anaheim Juniors won a league game from Garden Grove on the losers field yesterday afternoon. Ana and the flights will be paired for both low and high handicap players. The championship flight will be played over the Labor Day holiday with the remaining handicap flights set for one match each week at the Santa Ana links. Any public golfer is eligible as well as Marine, Navy and Army personnel. To make a zesty relish to serve with frankfurters mix one part of prepared mustard with two parts of catsup. California Fruit is Good for You Big Red Wins Own Game over G.G., 16-6 Anaheim Juniors won a league game from Garden Grove on the losers field yesterday afternoon. Duane Masterson pitched and hit to the victory by getting a double and two singles in three trips to the plate. 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