anaheim-gazette 1952-03-20

Hollywood Takes Pirate Bees; Stars Face Los Angeles Today The long-profiled look at some big league baseball may have finally materialized for local fans this afternoon as the Hollywood Stars met the Los Angeles Angels in a pitcher game at La Palma park at 3 p.m. The first exhibition this season this morning had not got the thumbs down of the weatherman here, the game featured the traditional cross-town rivalry of the two Coast League teams. Lee Anthony and Harry Fischer, recently acquired from Pittsburgh, were scheduled to do around day today against Stan Junger's arm squad. Yesterday the Stars again got in the win column over the Pittsburgh Pirates in a practice out at La Palma, 7-6. The win tied up the local series between the two squads at two wins apaces, one tie. The talents of three rookies yesterday were credited with bringing home the nation on the Twinks as Dick Wilson, "bonus body" Frank VanBurkeo, and Dan Montgomery came through with the game-winning run in the ninth to break a 8-6 deadlock. Wilson singled to lead off, went all the way to third on VanBurkleo's safety over the second baseman and scored on Montgomery's fly ball into deep left field. Next "big game" for La Palma park is set for March 21 when the Stars meet the Pittsburgh Pirates. ANGELS READY FULLERTON — Their game with the Chicago Cubs is team SPORTS MIRROR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today a Year Ago—North Carolina State, St. John's (BRN), Illinois and Kentucky advanced to the semifinals of the eastern NCAA basketball tourney playoffs. Five Years Ago — Holy Cross defended Navy, 58-47, in the first round of the eastern NCAA basketball tourney playoffs. Ten Years Ago—Ray Robinson, undefated weltweight, stepped Norman Rubio in the seventh round of their bout at New York. Twenty Years Ago—Gene Sarazan won the $10,000 Miami Open Golf tournament with a score of 88. Anaheim Track Squad to Try It Again Friday Anaheim Colonist track and field squad may fidly get its baptism of fire in much postponed league competition tomorrow afternoon as they meet Fullerton, Orange and Huntington on Huntington Beach oval at 3 p.m. As complicated a meet as the batting the BREEZE Manage! Mel Ott has disclosed Oakland Oak training headers that Anaheim's Hal Gthe one-line Brooklyn fireballs. ANGELS READY FULLERTON — Their game with the Chicago Cubs is set for March 24 when the Stars meet the Pittsburgh Pirates. ANGELS READY FULLERTON — Their game with the Chicago Cubs is set for March 24 when the Stars meet the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hermin Hesse, Mike Cardinal and Bob Eck were nominated by Manager Stan Hack for mount duty. The Angels will play the Cub B team here Friday. BISH SCHOOL (COLITAS) TOUCH WILSON, MI. ROBEI Anaheim tion high school gets team heads for its Monte or triangular league opener with Wilson high and El Monte tomorrow afternoon. Dick Olover's divot-diggers who will meet 14 seals in their special CIF league this season, call Yellowwich their home course. Tomorrow's team, captured by Ball Miller, is composed of Clemson, Miller, Talbot, Peterson, Enoc, and Grahene. ANAHEIM TENNIS TEAM MEETS WHITTLE! Bill Cook's undecimated Anaheim Crushist tennis squad meets Whitler high school on the Carlin courts tomorrow afternoon in a practice match. The squad playing their fifth match of the pre-league season, to date boasts an unbroken string of victories. SEALS VS. WEATHER: SIAN FRANCISCO (2) — Palm has forced President Paul Fegui to refreeze from his major league exhibition all-tyler for his old Francisco Seals. He OK'd three Pacer-gain next week with the Sacramento Seals, site not announced, because wet weather has put it. It Again Friday Anaheim Coloast track and field squad may finally gel its baptism of fire in much postponed league competition tomorrow afternoon as they meet Fullerton, Orange and Huntington on Huntington Beach oval at 3 p.m. As complicated a meet as the Sunset League has fostered in many a year, the affair is a triangular meet (from the Anaheim stadpoint) and scoring will be only with Fullerton and Huntington, since the Huntington Beach meet was rained out last week. Orange and Fullerton will fun scores against each other in a dual meet. The Santa Ann-Anaheim meet, rained out two weeks ago for the Colonists, remains indefinitely postponed. Coach Sam Keith was not overly optimistic (only about chances of Anaheim's Hibiscus against Huntington and Fullerton). The Colonists will seriously be handicapped by the absence of Aaron Peralta, see high and low hurdler, who is out with old football injuries. Peralta was regarded as the only real competition available for Fullerton's Sitton in the events. Eli Peralta, a good dash and middle distance man, is also on the injury list and will accordingly confile his efforts tomorrow to the shot put. ANAHEIM'S BEST bets lie with ace dashman Larry Kirchman, expected to annex without difficulty the 100 and 220. Krefman will be closely pushed, however, by Landis Carter of Orange, whose points, happily will not be counted against the Colonists this week. More points for the Colonists may come from Jerry Boren's shot-putting. The big sophomore is shaping up as one of the top league tosters. Anaheim also rates high in the relay despite the absence of Aaron Peralta, with Kirchman, Webber, Davis and Duncan doing the legging. Webber, Flynn and Havis may also glean points in the 440. In the 800 Huntington's Bob Suss appears to have no point. BATTING THE BREEZE Manage Mel Gitt has disclosed Oakland Oak training headers that Anaheim's Hal Ogle the one-time Brooklyn fireball has shown enough return to its camp already this spring indicate that his comeback should be a success this year. It is too bad that spring practice intrasquad games had be a casuality of the superb and phony housecleaning gram the PCC presidents have launched. It means students will re-read to school each fall with little change of how their college team shops up for the coming season. Students are barred from regular practice sessions in recent instances. Many PCC schools have put new policy into effect almost canceled previously-scheduled intrasquad tussles for a spring. If the trend continues and such silly and ineffective measures are adopted, expect college football to be reduced in a few years to something that is played behind locked doors in the prudent offices, on a field the length of the carpet and with the book of trustees as the sole audience. Then good old de-emphasis would be all-triumphant and for ball would be down on the looms of tiddly-winks, where the administrators seem bent on place it. An indication that the heads of the six big league teams now training in Southern California are desperate is shown in their investigations into the possibility of using the mammoth LA Memorial Coliseum as a site for spring training games next year. Supervisor Leonard Roach Los Angeles has been proclaimed for so long that major league baseball would come to Los Angeles "any day now" and that the new LA franchise would plunge into It Again Friday. SCALS VS. WEATHER! SAN FRANCISCO (2) — Ralf has forced President Paul Fugait to retire from his major league college baseball only portly for his old Princeton Seals. He Old'd three pitchers game next week with the Sacramento Shoes, site not announced, because wet weather has put the locals far behind in training. She: Friday Night TU 8 I BELIEVE: The daily "NO PROGRESS" report on Korean Truce Negotiations accurately describes our late Foreign Policy. FRANK M. LINNELL CONGRESS-28th Dist. 2913 Newport Blvd. Nassau Beach, NJ DISTINGCTIVE REDWOOD FENCES AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD! Now you can have an enduring Redwood fence! You save because we're fence specialists dealing in big volume. You get only highest grade redwood and expert installation ... backed by years of endorsed experience. All materials and workmanship guaranteed. "CAPE COD," $1.90 Regular price of the pictured 5-foot-high Cape Cod model is $2.00 per foot. Mentions this ad and get your fence at only $1.53 per foot INSTALLED. Why wait longer? Buy your redwood fence HERE. SAVE NOW: Inquire, The Beaty and Value of your property. Call or write for a free estimate today. COLUMBIA LUMBER CO. Home of Distinctive Redwood Fences 11550 E. FIRESSTONE BLVD., NORWALK PHONE TOREY 4-2743 FOR TITLE MATCH—Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson (right) and Challenger Rocky Graziano (fourth from right) sign middleweight title bout after a turbulentasion at the Illinois State Athletic commission Chicago. Left to right are: Commission Chairman Joe Triner, Commissioner Louis Radzienda, Commissioner Ralph Metcalk, Graziano, George Gainford (rear), Robinson's manager; Irving Cohesa, Graziano's manager and Robinson:—(Associated Press photo) IN THE LAM with Jim Lamhofer SETTING THE BREEZE Mel Ott has disclosed at and Oak training headquarters that Anaheim's Hal Gregg, one-time Brooklyn fireballer, make a baseball park out of a stadium built for football, track, and for other outdoor spectacles in which only seating capacity and not layout of the playing area or design of the stadium is a prime factor. Even if any semblance of a decent-sized playing area and satisfactory seating accommodations could be worked out, consider how a diamond suddenly placed in the Coliseum would suit the SC track team, which practices there daily, and how it could be designed. Battling Bruins At Corvallis Cage Tourney LOS ANGELES — UCLA's battling Bruins really were an embattled lot as, 14 strong, they enplaned for Corvallis, Ore., where they meet Santa Clara tomorrow night in the NCAA regional basketball tourney. ATTING THE BREEZE Mel Ott has disclosed at Oak training headquarter that Anaheim's Hal Gregg, the-time Brooklyn fireballer, known enough return to form him already this spring to note that his comeback should succeed this year. Is too bad that spring grid ice intrasquad games had to sensuality of the superficial phony housecleaning pro-vision the PCC presidents have used. Means students will return pool each fall with little idea for their college's team shapes for the coming season. Speeches are barred from viewing practice sessions in most cities. PCC schools have put the policy into effect already, canceling previously-seeded intrasquad tussles for this trend continues and more likely and ineffective measures opted, expect college foot-ball be reduced in a few years something that is played beocked doors in the presidioffices, on a field the length carpet and with the board dees as the sole audience. Good old de-emphasis on all-triumphant and foot-ball would be down on the level winks, where the ad-attors seem bent-on placing dedication that the heads of big league teams now in Southern California operate is shown in their iniations into the possibilities of the mammoth LA MeColisoum as a site for training games next year.visor Leonard Roach ofcles has been proclaiming long that major league would come to Los Anny day now" and that LA franchise would play Even if any semblance of a decent-sized playing area and satisfactory seating accommodations could be worked out, consider how a diamond suddenly placed in the Coliseum would suit the SC track team, which practices there daily, and how it could be reconciled with the big track meets held in the Coliseum each spring. It would be a three-ring circus yet. If the big league moguls immediately wise up to how screwballish any plans to play exhibitions in the Coliseum would be, the net result of the whole hullabaloo, resulting from the imane PCL ban (against the majors playing each other in PCL parks beginning in 53); may be for the big-time clubs to gradually desert California one by one, thus leaving Big a big void in spring sports schedules in the Southland. First to go may be the New York Giants, whose president Horace Stoneham is particularly infuriated over the PCL move; and Branch Riekey and His Pittsburgh Pirates and the colorful Cleveland Indians might soon follow. Pacific Coast club owners will soon enough learn their tragic mistake—that baseball fans will not pay to see more PCL games when the major leaguers cease to train here, but that their thirst for baseball, whetted by the major loop exhibition skirmishes, will absent itself and Joe Fan will lose all interest in baseball, period. After the boys from the Big Tent move out for good, and baseball interest sites completely on the Western slope, it will be that unfortunate, the same Joseph Q. Fan, in the role of fail guy as usual. Ike Hildebrand of the Cleveland Barons in the American Hockey League is an expert lacrosse player. He played for the Eastern Canada champs in 1951. At Corvallis Cage Tourney LOS ANGELES (P)—UCLA's battling Bruins really were an embattled lot as, 14 strong, they enplained for Corvallis, Ore., where they meet Santa Clara tomorrow night in the NCAA regional basketball tourney. Bruin Coach Johnny Wooden reminded his club that the Santa Clara coach, Bob Feerick, was quoted as saying Washington has a much better team than UCLA and he was thankful his boys were facing the Bruins, rather than the Huskies. UCLA thumped Washington two out of three to win the Pacific Coast Conference title. Wooden soldom had to give his boys a pop talk; in this instance Feerick has done the job. Santa Clara whipped UCLA early in the season, 66 to 59, in San Franisco. The Bruins then were a green team. They came fast in late season, knocked California and Southern California out of the race, and continued at top speed against the favored Washington. Feerick was quoted as saying the Bruins had a 15-point advantage playing at home against Washington. The record shows UCLA won only five of 13 games away from home. But nearly all losses were suffered before Wooden got his team clicking. Tippy Dye, Washington coach, has picked UCLA and Wyoming to enter the finals at Corvallis, and Wyoming to down UCLA in the championship go. Wyoming plays Oklahoma City in the second half of the first round doubleheader. UCLA'S SQUAD is in good condition except for Don Bragg, sensational forward, who has a chipped bone in his right foot. He is expected to play some but will not be in top form. Twelve other squads, including six of the top 10 in the Press poll, will be play other regional tournaments. The six, Kentucky, nois, Big Ten champion 2; Duquesne, No. 4; Missouri Valley champion 5; Kansas, Big Seven and No. 8; and St. John Kentucky, winner of the last four champions of the country's best mini-offensive record and a favorite to repeat. The Friday schedule: At Raleigh—Kentuck Southeastern Conference plon vs Penn State (22-9) Carolina State (22-9) Conference champion v (22-4). At Chicago—Illinois Ten champion vs Day Princeton (18-8) Ivy champion vs Duquesne. At Kansas City—Kansas Big Seven champion, Christian (22-3) Southference champion; New A&M (21-8) Border champion vs St. Louis Missouri Valley Conference plon. At Corvallis—Santa Taichu (9) vs UCLA (19-10) Coast Conference champion offing (29-8). Mountaintake Conference champion,homa City (17-7). FARRELL FIGHTS FOR DOM! HOLLYWOOD BOXER (?) SUES MILLIONAIRE —Errol Flynn (left); American movie peter; holds a brace he claims he wore while recovering from a back injury received while making a movie in France. The brace is now figuring in Flynn's suit against Canadian millionaire Duncan McMartin, for $223,000 in a Nassau, Bahamas court. At right, McMartin, flanked by his lawyers leaves court; Left to Right: If A. P. Adderloy, McMartin, Eugene Dupuis, Leonard Knowles! Flynn charges McMartin struck him in a bar in Nassau last year when was still weaving the brace. Further ill-curred, Flynn charges, caused him to plead guilty assignment—(Associated Press ph This Writer Says Coast Leaguers Are in Great Big Stew with Majors BY GAYLE TAILOT LOS ANGELES — You never in your life meet a group of finer, more intelligent men than the estimable gentleman who run the Pacific Coast League. They dress well, speak intelligently on a wide variety of subjects and know which fork to use at any given time. Their venerated president, Clarence Howland, is one of the best. He enjoyed this big league career as umpire, manager and sage, and there must be very little about baseball that Clarence doesn't know, at least suspect it is altogether fitting that such a man as Howard should wind up a distinguished career as head of an august body, the Pacific Coast League. In only one respect, in fact, can Clarence Howland and the bright young man who surround him be diagnosed as slightly on the eccentric side. They think they are going to be a major league. This very probably is a result of their proximity to California, where things do grow to an alarming degree. WE ALL KNOW, of course, that the Coast League is not going to become a third major league. There are so many reasons, including a shortage of big league players and a constriction of ball parks in this territory. The biggest one is that the men who own the present 16 big league clubs do not desire a third major league. And why should they? Of course, the large leagues do not come right out and tell stories about a step in the right direction and how everybody has to make a start some time. Maybe the Coast Leaguers are not critically faked in by the double talk but, something seems impel them to keep on gaining their brains knuckle out. It was amusing to watch the byplay at the latest meeting in the two factions here. The Big Leaguers are Howland's food and drink his beverages and said joyfully that everything was funny; dory and that the Coast boys were the salt of the earth. If the Coast boys didn't want the big league clubs to play exhibition games against each other in Coast League plants that was just great. "Nobody's mad at anybody," said Frank Lane or the Chicago White Sox, sounding the keynote: "We understand them perfectly and are not looking for a fight." THEN THE BIG SHOTS, loaded with Free Coast League nourishment, repaired to their meeting room and quietly gave the Coast League the business. They made out an exhibition schedule for next spring in which they scrupulously will refrain from playing each other in Coast League parks. Also, as a sort of afterthought, they will almost completely cease to play games against Coast League clubs anywhere. A perusal of this spring's schedules shows the big league teams would have played 85 games against Coast League opposition if it hadn't rained. The schedule for next spring hasn't been completed, but all of the biannuals he understood it. big leaguers will not show at Wrigley Field but it is more than likely they will put on a couple of super-dupers in the football coliseum, which has been made available to them. This will cause the Coasters to think, but there's nothing much they can do about it. In lieu, the may who dream of becoming a third big league now merely have succeeded in cutting themselves off from playing with the major leagues at all, the very last thing in the world they wanted to do. General of their managers expressed worry at the news because such games offer them their only opportunity to show their aspiring athletes how the sport can be played. It seems there was this mistake in an old story, when kept breeding up any taking a run and bangging his head against a tree. A neighbor commented that the brute appeared to be crazy. The owner nope, that it really was a bright mule, but that it just didn't give a dart. Remember Speed Kills! ANAHEIM HERE'S A GOOD DEAL! THRIFT NITE TONIGHT! $1.00 Will Admit the Entire Family ... Mom, Dad & All the Riddles to See "The LIGHT TOUCH" "The Barefoot Mallman" FOX Now—Shows at 7:00 & 9:15 p.m. LAST DAY WE HELD KNOW, of course, that the Coast League is not going to become a third major league. There are so many reasons, including a shortage of big league players and a constriction of ball parks in this territory. The biggest one is that the men who own the present 16 big league clubs do not desire a third major league. And why should they? Of course, the large leagues do not come right out and tell their bemused friends on the coast that there isn't any Santa Claus. They smile behind their hends and utter the usual platitudes. six of the top 10 in the Associated Press poll, will be playing in three other regional tournaments. The six, Kentucky, No. 1, Illinois, Big Ten champion and No. 2; Duquesne, No. 4; St. Louis, Missouri Valley champion and No. 5; Kansas, Big Seven champion and No. 8; and St. John's, No. 10. Kentucky, winner of three of the last four championships, has the country's best major college offensive record and is a heavy favorite to repeat. The Friday schedule: At Raleigh—Kentucky—(27-2), Southeastern Conference champion, vs Penn State (20-4); North Carolina State (22-9), Southern Conference champion, vs St. John's (22-4). At Chicago—Illinois (19-3), Big Ten champion, vs Dayton (24-4); Prinecton (18-8) Ivy League champion, vs Duquesne (22-3). At Kansas City—Kansas (22-2), Big Seven champion, vs Texas Christian (22-3) Southwest Conference champion; New Mexico A&M (21-8) Border Conference champion, vs St. Louis (22-7). Missouri Valley Conference champion. At Corvallis—Santa Clara (15-9) vs UCLA (19-10), Pacific Coast Conference champion; Wyoming (29-8), Mountain States Conference champion, vs Oklahoma City (17-7). FARRELL FIGHTS FOR FREE-DOM! ORANGE DRIVE IN THEATRE ENDS TONITE "RETREAT HELL," and "FORT OSAGE" STARTS TOMORROW ★ OUR BIG SPRING TREAT JAMES STEWART ARTHUR KENNEDY JULIA ADAMS BEND OF THE RIVER and ... EXTRA — ADDED MIDNIGHT LAFF FEATURE FRIDAY NITE ONLY Included at No Increase in Prices At Corvallis—Santa Clara (15-0) vs UCLA (19-10), Pacific Coast Conference champion; Wyoming (29-8), Mountain States Conference champion, vs Oklahoma City (17-7). FARRELL FIGHTS FOR FREE-DOM! and ... 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