anaheim-gazette 1952-01-04

ON THE LAM ... with Jim Lamhafer Sportdom is now in the throes of that traditional interlude at the end of a year and the start of a new one, a strange little period during which most of the awards to the old year's top competitors are doled out. This time, as usual, most of the awards appear to have been given to very worthy recipients. Dazzling Dick Kazmaier's selection as the top college back and the naming of the amazing Bill McColl as the best college lineman of the past grid season appear typically well-founded, judging by the trail of smashed records and scintillating all-around play the two left behind them. But such quirks in the balloting returns as John Davis finishing ahead of George Yardley in the voting for the Sullivan award, symbolic of the finest amateur athlete of the year, appear more than a little weird to us. Who is Davis? Well, if you had asked us earlier this week before announcement of the voting was made, we would have probably failed in the first 50 guesses to tab the sport in which the guy competes. It seems, and we quote, he is "Olympic, world, and national heavyweight weight-lifting champion." Oh. Perhaps, if we are to keep well-informed enough of the field of sports to be qualified to write a column, we will have to pore through all those horrible and boring so-called health magazines, with their grotesque pictures of muscle-bound monsters! All Yardley was, and this should be old stuff to even a casual follower of sports, the finest AAU basketball player in the nation. The pride of Newport Harbor was voted that honor last spring. He ranked head-and-shoulders above any other man in his field. We guess Davis must have similarly dominated his field of endeavor, and we realize that to achieve his honors also required a great deal of training and a lot of physical talent. But heart? Colonist Cees Explode for 64-30 Victory Exploding for another of famous eruptions the Anaheim Cee basketball team wallows Corona high yesterday in the gym 64-30. It was the final practice game for the Cees and will give the 4 win-loss record of 7-1 to into the league race which stunned Tuesday which will see the loss tangle with Santa Ana. Although the Cee squan raced a high-powered score, they nevertheless left much to be deserved in the way of rebounding, passing to their teammates on the down the court for a possible shot and above all the way they tended to screen off the boards. Corona just didn't have a team to match the superior city of the Cee team and as a result the locals tended to let down in their playing ability. Paul Grover look high praise with 17, but he was ragged on defense and let his mug get away for some easy pot that lie had to leave the game periodically. Anaheim 64 Corona 4 Mata F Franklin 17 Grover F Salgdo 9 Herrera C Tatum 4 Schacht G Rameriz 15 Salaets G Selk Scoring subs: Corona—Reinhardt 2. Anaheim—Louisiana 7. Allen Weaver 2. Sowers 2. STANFORD FAVORED SAN FRANCISCO (UP) — What appears to be the closest Southern Division Pacific Coast Conference basketball race in years begins tonight in Berkeley and Los Angeles. California, with a 6-6 pre-conference record, opens against USC's Trojans while high scoring Stanford invades UCLA at Westwood. The four Southern division coaches, polled informally, recently picked Stanford by a narrow margin, with USC second, UCLA third and California fourth. Stanford, in its first year under Bob Burnett, has the best record—10 victories and only one loss. COUNTERPOINT MISSING ARCADIA (UP) — Counterpoint will be missing. But an array of potential threats for the richest race in the world, the Santa Anita Maturity, will be given a stern test tomorrow in the $25,000 Malibu Seguet Stakes for four-year-olds at Santa Anita. C. V. Whitney's Counterpoint will be held back for a later trip to the post. But other horses which may compete in the Santa Anita Maturity Feb. 2 will doubtless run in the seven furious feature tomorrow. They include Kentucky Derby winner Count Turf, the Brookfield farm's Intent and To Market, Sickle's Image, Rado Kid and Northern Star. WILDCATS CURTAILED LEXINGTON, Ky. (4) — Football recruiting was restricted today at the University of Kentucky to its lowest level of sports, the most AAC basketball player in the nation. The pride of Newport Harbor was voted that honor last spring. He ranked head-and-shoulders above any other man in his field. We guess Davis must have similarly dominated his field of endeavor, and we realize that to achieve his honors also required a great deal of training and a lot of physical talent. But heart? We're willing to be shown where we're wrong, but we have to classify weight-lifters along with horshoe-pitchers and squat players. Sure, there's bound to be a top-notcher in all such mixed sport categories, but one worthy of being ranked ahead of an all-time great in basketball? Would you rank a table-tennis ace ahead of Otto Graham as an athlete just because the former was believed to be even better in his forte? Perhaps these observations and questions only go to prove an admitted fact and yet an ignored one every time sports authorities vote on an award such as the Sullivan Trophy—the greatest of a baseball player or of a track athlete over that of a basketball or football player or golfer cannot any more be determined to the slightest degree than can the superiority of a chess master over that of a bridge expert, or the attainment level of an engineer compared to that of a physician. Each individual in this complex world can only be judged as to success according to the criteria of his particular field of endeavor. And we realize we aren't saying anything particularly startling or new. As far as we can determine, all the awarding of this year's Sullivan trophy possibly went to prove was that the Rev. Bob Richards, the winner, was the best amateur pole vaulter and decathlon participant of 1951. And the statistical columns of track summaries bear this out more positively than the presentation of any loving cup. Richards can't even be called necessarily the best track and basketball player in the nation. The pride of Newport Harbor was voted that honor last spring. He ranked head-and-shoulders above any other man in his field. We guess Davis must have similarly dominated his field of endeavor, and we realize that to achieve his honors also required a great deal of training and a lot of physical talent. But heart? We're willing to be shown where we're wrong, but we have to classify weight-lifters along with horshoe-pitchers and squat players. Sure, there's bound to be a top-notcher in all such mixed sport categories, but one worthy of being ranked ahead of an all-time great in basketball? Would you rank a table-tennis ace ahead of Otto Graham as an athlete just because the former was believed to be even better in his forte? Perhaps these observations and questions only go to prove an admitted fact and yet an ignored one every time sports authorities vote on an award such as the Sullivan Trophy—the greatest of a baseball player or of a track athlete over that of a basketball or football player or golfer cannot any more be determined to the slightest degree than can the superiority of a chess master over that of a bridge expert, or the attainment level of an engineer compared to that of a physician. Each individual in this complex world can only be judged as to success according to the criteria of his particular field of endeavor. And we realize we aren't saying anything particularly startling or new. Low Scoring Contest Held At Fremont Church League basketball co-petition continued last night at the Premont gym between two low scoring teams—Presbyterian and the Grace Lutheran five wives combined score totaling points—22 for the Lutheran guard and 80 for the Presbyterian Half time score was 7-5 favor of the eventual winner and then in the second half players went over board in the scoring. One field goal was made by losing team while the winning combo made a grand total seven field goals. Presbyterian 10 G. Lutheran 4 Paulius F Olsen 5 Weyand F Eberhardt 0 Mack C Stiefel 0 Kohne G Martens 1 Switzler G Liebi Scoring sub: Grace Lutheran Crawford 2. Williams Five Edges Past Collers 58-53 Bob Williams' basketball team played a very fast first half test against City League fc Cotler's last night in the high school gym, then they turned it game into a semi-basketball game. WILDCATS CURTAILED LEXINGTON, KY. — Football recruiting was restricted today at the University of Kentucky to its own back yard. There is still a hearty welcome awaiting any out-of-state player but he must voluntarily apply for a scholarship. The school will make no effort to recruit prospective gridders who live outside the commonwealth. The maximum scholarships to non-Kentuckians will be five a year. Coach Paul Bryant announced the change in the recruiting policy a few minutes after his squad returned from Dallas and its Cotton Bowl victory over Texas Christian. Bryant said the idea was his own: It applied only to football and "we have concluded that the best interest will now be served by a change in this policy." Kentucky in the past has gone far afield in winning up football talent. PLENTY OF SNOW LOS ANGELES (P) — Winter sports enthusiasts will find plenty of snow in Southern California mountain regions this week-end, the weather man promised today. Depths range from 20 to 38 inches, with the weather clear and cold. Another storm, however, is expected Sunday. Roads in Southern California are open, but the chains are necessary. The week-end outlook: Big Bear, excellent skiing with 30 inches of powder snow. Blue Ridge, excellent, 23 inches powder. Green Valley Bowl, 24 inches all the awarding of this year's Sullivan trophy possibly went to prove was that Rev. Bob Richards, the winner, was the best amateur pole vaulter and decatlon participant of 1951. And the statistical columns of track summaries bear this out more positively than the presentation of any loving cup. Richards can't even be called necessarily the best track and field athlete of last year, because how are you going to compare his level of achievement with that of a great middle-distance man like Mal Whitfield? Or a hurdler like Jack Davis? But apparently for lack of anything better to do, the alien experts of the sports world will gather annually and with great flourish, and presentious ceremony, hand out incongruous tributes like the Sullivan award, and thereby agitate idealists like Lamhofer to write columns like this. Do we believe companions are unfair? No, only 95 per cent of the time. POWDER. Holiday Hill, 10 to 12 inches powder over hard pack skiing good. Kratka Ridge, excellent; 8 to 24 inches powder. Movie Slope, fair; 8 inches hard pack; Mt. Baldy, 3 to 10 feet powder. Mt. Waterman, excellent; 28 inches powder. Snow Valley, 18 to 24 inches powder. skiing excellent. Table Mountain, 12 to 24 inches powder, excellent. Idylwild, 6 to 10 inches snow. Arrowhead, 5 to 6 inches ice snow, fath... Colonist Cees Explode for 64-30 Victory Exploding for another of their busier eruptions the Anaheim basketball team walloped na high yesterday in the local 64-30. was the final practice game the Cees and will give them in-loss record of 7-1 to carry the league race which starts day which will see the locals be with Santa Ana. Although the Cee squan ran up high-powered score, they never-save left much to be desired the way of rebounding passing their teammates on the way to the court for a possible score above all the way they tried screen off the boards. Orna just didn't have the ability to match the superior ability of the Cee team and as a result locals tended to let down their playing ability. Al Grover took high points with 17, but he was so used on defense and let his man away for some easy points he had to leave the game dically. Corona 30 Data F Franklin 10 Brover F Salgdo 6 Cerrera C Tatum 6 Chacht G Rameriz 5 Alaets G Self 1 Serving subs: Corona—Reinhold Anaheim—Loustain 7, Allen 4, Herer 2, Sowers 2. Basketball Now Top-Ranking Event With Fans after Starting in YMCA What was to have been only a stop-gap sport—one that would tide athletes over from fall to spring, keeping them in shape for "important" spring, summer and fall sports—has become a monarch—basketball. It is difficult to realize that this relative newcomer to the sports scene has developed since shortly before the turn of the century into a top-ranking spectator event, leading baseball, football and all other major sports. There are a number of reasons, the most outstanding being (1) the larger number of teams participating; (2) the relative inexpensiveness from the standpoint of equipment and facilities; and (3) the speed of the game and the closeness of the spectators to the action. Another factor is the length of the schedule. While the basketball schedule is short compared to baseball, it is much more extensive than the schedules for other major sports. Of course, basketball's popularity as a spectator sport didn't develop overnight. As a condition—and a builder of attendance at the nation's YMCA—it was popular from the beginning. But the fans have made it the big business that it is today in what we might label the "modern" era of the game. Perhaps the best way to divide the game into eras is to refer to those seasons prior to 1937-38 as the "center jump era" and those since that time as the "era after the center jump." While professor of physical education at the University of Kansas in 1937, the late Dr. Naismith told of basketball's origin. A game was sought for indoor play at night during the winter months. Dr. Naismith tried to modify some existing games, but found them unsuitable. Then he came upon the fundamental principle of basketball...to appreciate the fact that football was rough because you had to allow the defense to tackle because the offense ran with the ball. Accordingly, if the offense didn't have an opportunity to run with the ball, there would be no necessity for teaching and we would thus eliminate roughness. A horizontal goal was devised, so that the ball would have to travel in an "arch," and it was placed above the players' heads to minimize congregation around the basket. Basketball was first played with seven men on a side, then nine, then eight, and finally five. A joint committee, representing YMCA's, high schools, colleges and AAU and independents, standardized basketball rules a number of years ago. Today except for a few shadings of interpretation and style, the game is the same in Dallas, Texas, as in New Haven, Conn., the same in Argentina as in Australia. The professional leagues, of course, have made rule changes which apply specifically to their brand of play, but the basic pattern is the same. Anaheim De End Practice Slate in Win Anaheim's De basketball concluded their pre-Sunset competition with a practice in the local gym yesterday noon against Corona and their victory of the season out of games. The lone loss to the Dees at the hands of Whittier carrhee at the season 32-20, but they are for that setback by taking Redbirds again and beating 30-10. Yesterday's victory turned to be a team victory for despite 17 points turned Dick Jepson, the leading maker of the squad. Half time score was 18-0 vor of Anaheim and with Lin Fred Pischle and Bill F turning in some grand floorthe locals never kept the fa doubt as to which team wa better. Ansheim 38 Corona 17 Jepson F Agn 10 Lin F Bp 0 Otte C Rhold 3 Owenby G Chaffa 4 French G Rainloh Scoring subs: Corona—Gl 2, Ortega 2. Anaheim—Habri Fischle 2. New Scoring Contest Held Fremont March League basketball common continued last night in Fremont gym between two scoring teams—Presbyterian the Grace Lutheran five with combined score totaling 32 —22 for the Lutheran quind10 for the Presbyterians. If time score was 7-5 in of the eventual winners then in the second half the team went over board in their field goal was made by the team while the winning made a grand total of field goals. Presbyterian 10 G. Lutheran 22 ulus F Olsen 2 eyand F Eberhard 3 ck C Stief 4 hne G Martens 9 itzler G Liebi 2 ing sub: Grace Lutheran—ord 2. Williams Five ages Past Millers 58-53 Williams' basketball team a very fast first half conagainst City League foos last night in the high gym, then they turned the into a semi-basketball boxlar from the beginning. But the fans have made it the big business that it is today in what we might label the "modern" era of the game. Perhaps the best way to divide the game into eras is to refer to those seasons prior to 1937-38 as the "center jump era" and those since that time as the "era after the center jump." A center jump in midcourt followed each field goal, or successful free throw, during the former. It is the latter period which has produced speedy action, plenty of scoring—and booming attendance. Basketball is the only major sport of purely American origin. It was invented—and there is no dispute concerning the father of basketball—by Dr. James A. Naismith, then physical director of the YMCA in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. The first game was played January 20, 1892. Fullerton Quintet Rolls to Smooth City League Win Continuing undefeated in league competition the Fullerton eagers rolled to a smooth 53-46 City League win last night in the high school gym over El Toro to set up the battle for second spot in the league with Ritz Cleaners. If the Fullerton five win that game they will then play Huntington Beach for the championship of the first round of competition. The Beach five leads the loop with an unbeaten mark and rate the title role with a victory over Ritz. High point honors went to Pate of El Toro with 10, but with three Fullerton hitting for 10 or more points the Northern county team gained their win. Bob Staggs, ex-Fullerton high and Oregon fresh player scored 13 while Dean Erickson pocketed 12 and Jack King of Fullerton junior college 10. Half time score was 29-15 in favor of Fullerton. Defense is your job, too! THIS IS A DAY OF DREAMS COME TRUE...for the returning Korean War veterans pressing against the ship's rail and for their loved ones waiting on the dock. The counted days of waiting are over, the nightmare of war is behind them. These boys have been far across the seas doing a hard, dirty, bloody job...a job of defense—for you. But defense is your job, too. 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Ever, in the second half teams went on a grist ram that saw 17 points being from the gritia line—six by Don Goff, who took high honors with 18 for his team, as edged for game honors after player Mitchell with 20. Graduation Week At Speedway This is graduation week into the big time for two of the Southland's most popular auto race drivers. The event is the re-scheduled AAA Sprint Bowl program Sunday afternoon at Carrell Speedway and the pilots are Allen Heath and Easy Rousell. Both will compete against the nation's top Indianapolis drivers for the famed Italian helmet. Heath makes the switch to the AAA from the URA mighty midget ranks where he rated the top spot for three years. Rousell has operated in 51 budgets and stock cars. The two lads will be dark horses against such Indianapolis favorites as Johnny Parsons, Troy Ruttman and Walt Faulkner. If You Drive! Don't Drink. But defense is your job, too. 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Half time score was 19-0 in favor of Anaheim and with John Fred Pischle and Bill French mining in some grand floor play locals never kept the fans in sight as to which team was the top. First Round Competition Gets Started Today, in LA Golf Open LOS ANGELES, CA — Newcomers to golfing fame may be the players to watch as the nation's leading professionals inaugurate the 1952 tournament season today in the first round of the 26th Annual Los Angeles Open. Such name players as defending champion Lloyd Mangrum, or Cary Middlecoff, Henry Ransom or Ellsworth Vines, figure as the men to beat in the battle for $17,500 prize money. But observers look for a determined challenge by such pros as Fred Hawkins of El Paso; Joe Kirkwood, Jr., of Hollywood; Earl Stewart, Jr., Dallas; Ted Kroll, New Hartford, N.Y.; Bob Toski, North Hampton, Mass., or Jimmy Clark, Huntington Beach. Clear skies and a course fast drying from last week's heavy rains were in prospect at the Riviera County club. 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