anaheim-gazette 1952-06-17

Move Over Brooklyn! Polo Grounds New Capital of Wierd Goings-On By JOE REICHLER Who said everything happens in Brooklyn? How about the Polo Grounds? Ever since Bobby Thomson cracked that pennant-winning home run in the final 1951 playoff game, the weirdest things have been occurring in the home of the New York Giants as ever went on in Brooklyn's Ebbets field. Look at what happened in the Polo Grounds last Sunday, for instance. The Giants were rolling along enjoying an 11-0 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals when suddenly the roof caved in on them. Before they realized what had happened the Cards had won 14-12. Yesterday, just 24 hours later, the Cards were leading 7-4 when the Giants came to bat. Two walks, a single, an out and boom. Thomson practically duplicated his 51 lead of hitting a grand slam homer to beat the Redbirds, 8-7. That's not all. Look at this believable or-not situation. Willard Schmidt, who tossed up that gopher ball to Bobby, made only one pitch—and he was charged with the defeat. The rookie right-hander had been summoned to relieve Will Werle. In contrast, the victory went to George Spencer, fourth Giant pitcher. He too, made only one pitch. That was a double play delivery to Del Rie in end the top he was charged with the walk to Hack, who scored the run that put the Cubs in front. Preacher Roe with Pittsburgh and Eddie Rommel of the Athletics were among those who won games with one pitched ball. Jack Quinn, while with Brooklyn and Woody Martin with the Cubs were among those who lost games with one pitched ball. Ironically, Thomson's game-winning homer yesterday came after the Giant third baseman had gone to bat 17 straight times without a hit. Eddie Yuhas, second St. Louis pitcher, set the stage when he walked Hank Thompson to start the last half of the ninth. Pinch hitter George Wilson lined to Red Schoendienst and Thompson moved to second when Schoendienst threw wild to first in a double play attempt. Davey Williams singled to send Thompson to third. Lefty Werle relieved Yuhas and walked Whitey Lockman to load the bases. Schmidt, a fast balling righthander, took over. Thomson's belt went clear over the left field roof just inside the foul line. The homer cut the Dodgers' first place lead to three games, crased what looked like certain defeat for Sal Maglie and overshadowed homers by Wes Westrum, Al Dark and Williams for the Giants. Summer Basketball To Roll at AUHS Tonight at the high school girls gym summertime basketball for all boys in the Anaheim Union High school district go underway. There will be two leagues, "A League" for all boys with and B exponents and a "C League" for all boys of C and D exponents. League games will be held Tuesday and Thursday each week. Sign ups will take place at 7:00 with games following. The leagues are for boys in high school and those entering high school next year. Teams will be made up during the week. A short instructional period will start each evening covering some fundamental part to the game. Juvenile Ball Leagues Lure More Than 200 The summer Juvenile league opened yesterday morning at City park, with over 200 sign-ups, the largest first day sign up that has ever taken place in the Recreation department's summer program. There is still room for any boy 13 years old and under. They may sign up at the City park between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Any boy who is in the morning Bible School may sign up in the afternoon, and places will be held on the team for him. Cubs' Hank Sauer Leads Majors with Surprising .645 By BEN OLAN NEW YORK. (A)—Hank Sauer, the power hitter deluxe of the Chicago Cubs and Al Rosen, Cleveland third baseman, boast the highest slugging percentages in the major leagues today. Slugging averages compiled by the Associated Press through yesterday's games disclosed that Sauer, with 142 total bases in 220 times at bat, heads the National league with a .645 mark. The husky outfielder has pounded out 18 home runs; tops in the National league, 12 doubles and three triples among his 70 hits. Rosen's aggregate of 116 total bases in 200 trips gives him the American league lead at .580. The Indian slugger's record reveals 66 safeties, with 11 doubles, three triples and 11 homers, Rosen is tied for the round tripper leadership with Detroit's Walt Dropo and Vie Wertz. Wes Westrum, whose long distance hitting efforts have sparked the New York Giants recently, is a surprising runner up to Sauer with .544. Westrum has 12 home runs and seven two-baggers. Stan Musial, the National league's leading batter, is third at .512. The St. Louis Cardinals' outfielder, holds the NL lifetime slugging record of .584. The hero of yesterday's thrilling 8-7 victory over St. Louis Bobby Thomson, is fourth with .502, and Ralph Kiner, the NL slugging leader in 1951, is fifth at .494. New York's Hank Bauer, finally nailing down the right field Schmidt, a fast balling righthander, took over. Thomson's belt went clear over the left field roof just inside the foul line. The homer cut the Dodgers' first place lead to three games, erased what looked like certain defeat for Sal Maglie and overshadowed homers by Wes Westrum, Al Dark and Williams for the Giants. STANDINGS By The Associated Press Pacific Coast League W L Pet GBL San Diego 47 30 .610 Hollywood 44 31 .587 Oakland 39 35 .537 Los Angeles 38 37 .507 Seattle 36 35 .507 San Francisco 33 43 .440 Portland 29 41 .414 Sacramento 31 45 .408 Yesterday's Results No game scheduled. Games Today Seattle (Hall 5-5) at Oakland (Bowman 9-0 or Bamberger 9-0). Sap Francisco (Bradford 6-7) at Sacramento (Florea 4-3). Hollywood (Woods 5-4) at San Diego (Fletcher 8-6). Portland (Dubel 3-2) at Los Angeles (Lindle 5-5). Yesterday's Results No games scheduled. Games Today New York (Morgan 2-3) at Detroit (Wight 2-2) night. Washington (Porterfield 5-5) at Cleveland (Feller 6-4) night. Boston (McDermott 4-3) at St. Louis (Cain 4-1) night. Only games scheduled. Tomorrow's Games Washington at Cleveland (night). Boston at St. Louis (night). Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at Detroit. National League W L Pet GBL Brooklyn 37 15 .712 New York 34 18 .654 Chicago 34 21 .618 St. Louis 28 29 .491 Philadelphia 22 30 .423 Boston 22 31 .415 Yesterday's Results New York 8, St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 4. Only games scheduled. Games Today Chicago (Lown 3-2) at Brooklyn (Roose 5-0) night. Pittsburgh (Main 6-5) at New York (Gregg 0-0). St. Louis (Mizell 1-5 and Brazile 5-1 or Schmidt 2-2) at Philadelphia (Roberta 7-4 and Simmons 4-2). Cincinnati (Perkoski 5-3 and Hiller 4-5 or Faffnberger 7-4) at Boston (Bickford 1-2 and Bundette 2-1). Tomorrow's Games Cincinnati at Boston (night). St. Louis at Philadelphia (night). Pittsburgh at New York. Chicago at Brooklyn. Ends Tonite "CARBINE WILLIAMS" With James Stewart—and OUTCASTS OF POKERFLAT" Starts Tomorrow Alm LADD Lizbeth SCOTT RED MOUNTAIN THE BY TECHNICOLOR TEMBO Bank Musical, the National league's leading batter, is third at 512. The St. Louis Cardinals' outfielder, holds the NL lifetime slugging record of .584. The hero of yesterday's thrilling 8-7 victory over St. Louis Bobby Thomson, is fourth with .502, and Ralph Kiner, this NL slugging leader in 1951, is fifth at .494. New York's Hank Bauer, finally nailing down the rightfield berth, has a .520 for third. Hitting the long ball despite his lowly .233 batting average, Vic Wertz is fourth at .516. The Detroit Tiger outfielder has compiled 82 total bases in 159 times rt bat. Walt Dropo, also of the Bengals, follows with .503, a result of 94 total bases in 187 tries. 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Softball Tonight Industrial League (La Palma Park) 7:15—Chikasan vs Real Gold. 8:20—P & L Transmission vs Robertshaw-Fulton. Church League (City Park) 7:15—White Temple vs Stanton Community. 8:30—Grace Lutheran vs EUB. Juvenile League Schedule TOMORROW A League Cotlers vs Junior Chamber of Commerce. Anaheim Gazette vs Schaeffler's Paint Foster Prezez vs Junior Chamber of Commerce. B League Kaulbars vs Orvala Hike Shop. Jankees vs Dodgers. C League Larson Service vs Crowell Motors. Cubs vs Bob Williams. Dip your headlight beam for approaching cars, urges the National Automobile club. Summer Basketball Roll at AUHS night at the high school in gym summertime basketall boys in the Anaheim High school district gets day. will be two leagues, an league" for all boys with A exponents and a "C League" boys of C and D exponents. the games will be held on and Thursday each week. will take place at 7:00, games following. These are for boys in high school ose entering high school ear. Teams will be made ag the week. instructional period will each evening covering some mental part to the game. Tenile Ball Leagues Lure More Than 200 summer Juvenile league westerday morning at City with over 200 sign-ups, the first day sign up that has place in the Recreation vent's summer program. is still room for any boy old and under. They may at the City park between and 5 p.m. Any boy who morning Bible School up in the afternoon, and will be held on the teams WINS U.S. OPEN GOLF—Julius Boros, a comparative newcomer among the professionals, listens to questions from the newsmen crowded around him after he turned in a 281 that clinched the 1952 U. S. Open Golf championship at Northwood club in Dallas, Tex. The Southern Pines, N.C. pro turned in a 71 on the last round while Ben Hogan faltered badly. PGA Gives Nod to Julius Boros To Compete in Championships Oaks Get Noble In Part Payments For Hal Gregg OAKLAND UP—The Oaks of the Pacific Coawill receive catcher Rae on option as part paythe deal that sent the pitcher Hal Gregg to York Giants. Brick Laws, Oak pr said Noble is due to either Thursday or Friday. Two other players in Oakland in the deal, Rogman and George Baboth pitchers, were slated rive here today. Noble, a big Negro froplayed with Oakland and last year went up Giants. With the Newclub, he batted .234 in 5 and hit five home runs. Baptists, Zion Teams Continue To Pace Lease Zion Lutheran and/First kept up their league lead as both came through worties over St. Boniface Church of Chirst 15-8 resin in the Church League night at City park. In the first game, Zioeran, although being outfi-ed the initial runs of t when Minard Duncan hit run homer into left field Lutheran scored all six runs on St. Boniface c e the first two innings. PGA Gives Nod to Julius Boros To Compete in Championships Lynx, Lionettes Square off at Orange Tonight In an effort to even up a lopsided one win-two loss record for the season, the Buena Park Lynx tangle with their cross-county rivals, the Orange Lionettes, tonight on the Orange diamond at 8:30. Standing in league third place at the weekend, the Lynx will probably start hurler Bev Meissen on the mound tonight. Bev put together the Lynx' sole victory over the Lionettes this season. Against her the Lionettes will start veteran Bertha Ragan. Over the weekend, the Lynx traveled to Fresno and dropped two weekend games, 2-0 and 7-5. In the first game, with Tommie Slappy tossing, the Lynx let Fresno have only three hits, two in the first canto and one in the eighth, but failure for their own hitting power to click spelled a defeat, nevertheless. Fresno broke out in a rash of hitting Sunday in the second game to blast out 12 hits off the chucking of Joanie Alsup. Four runs crossed the plate in the first inning and although the Lynx batters rallied strongly to push across five more runs, the Fresno girls worked in three more to preserve their lead. Over the weekend the Lionettes played a series with Phoenix in the desert city. LOUISVILLE UP—The golf pros are giving Julius Boros a chance to show whether he is a "fluke" winner of the National Open or a golfer who'll turn out to be a real champion. Boros, a big, rather silent young man, won't be eligible for PGA membership for three years. But the PGA executive committee, in a surprising reversal of policies, voted him a special invitation to compete in the PGA championship, which starts tomorrow. The by-laws limit entries to PGA members and certain invited foreign stars. Boros has been making the tournament tour two years without winning a major event up to the Open last week. He's liked by the other players. "He's a real sweet swinger and should do well as champion," said big Clayton Heafner. He told how Boros stepped up to the ball and hit his shots without hesitation in the last round of the Open. "That's how you tell when a man has a good swing. He had me worried on the 15th where there was a tree branch in his way, but he faded in there with as pretty a shot as you ever saw." While the invitation to Boros added sparkle, the tournament already had about as strong a field as the Open. Ben Hogan won't be there, but runner-up Ed Oliver, fourth place Johnny Bulla and most of the other top stars are among the 144 starters. Although he didn't fare well in the Open and still is growling about his putting, Sammy Snead will be shooting for his fourth PGA title. Snead won in 1942, 1943 and 1951. Only one player, Walter Hagen, has won more than three PGA titles; he took five. Gay Van Beckler homed the fourth inning with two empty. His single in the scoring three runs was big inning for the Boniface First Baptist, current leaders, led by Bil Koch homer of the season. Church of Christ by 10 to Baptist scored in every three in the first, three in second, three in third, fourth, and one each in the maining innings, making runs. Church of Christ runs one in the third, two fourth, three in the fifth in the sixth. Koch came in with five, batting 1000 for the along with Al Albarian we came in with 1000 with three. Monday Fight BY THE ASSOCIATED PRO BROOKLYN — Robert main, 168¾, France, our Jose Basora, 171, Puerto Rico, BALTIMORE — Johnny 153, Toronto, outpined tiz, 144½, Puerto Rico, 10¹ SALT LAKE CITY — Nuttall, 138, Brigham City and Bobcat Torrance, 135 Angeles, drew, 10. FRESNO — Tony Bosnich San Francisco, and Jack N 183, Los Angeles, drew, 10¹ RECORDS TUMBLE AT LONG BEACH MEET LONG BEACH (UP) — Two American records were shattered in a track and field meet between an all-Armed Forces team and the Los Angeles Athletic club. An Armed Forces relay team composed of Dick Attlesey, Walt Ashbough, Art Barnard and Billy Anderson set a new record of 57.9 seconds for the 480 yard shuttle-hurdle relay Saturday. The former record, 58.0, was set in 1940 by the University of Texas. Mal Whitfield of the U.S. Air Force set a 600-yard run mark. His time was 1:17.3. The old record was 1:18.9 by Stanford's Johnny Fulton set in 1941. Unofficially, George Rhoden in 1951 ran 1:18.5. SEDGMEN SEEDED NO. 1 IN BRITISH MATCHES LONDON (A) — Australia's Frank Sedgman was seeded No. 1 today for the men's singles in the all-England lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon starting next week. Sedgman never has won the title although he topped the seeded list three straight years. Defending champion Dick Savitt of Orange, N.J., was seeded fourth in the championships that open Monday for a two-week run. VIC SEIXAS MOVES UP IN LAWN TENNIS TOURNEY LONDON (A) — Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, America's No. 1 player, eliminated Peter Cawthorn of Australia, 6-2, 6-2, today in the second round of the London Lawn Tennis championships. Australia's highly-ranked Ken McGregor had a tough time squeezing past Grant Golden of Wilmette, Ill., 6-4, 6-4. Straight Clark of Pasadena, Calif., was beaten in another second-round match by Vladyslaw Skonecki, a self-exiled Polish Davis Cup player, 6-4, 7-5. If You Drive! Don't Drink Oaks Get Noble In Part Payment For Hal Gregg OAKLAND UP—The Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast league will receive catcher Ray Noble on option as part payment in the deal that sent Anaheim pitcher Hal Gregg to the New York Giants. Brick Laws, Oak president, said Noble is due to report either Thursday or Friday. Two other players sent to Oakland in the deal, Roger Bowman and George Bamberger, both pitchers, were slated to arrive here today. Noble, a big Negro from Cuba, played with Oakland in 1950 and last year went up to the Giants. With the New York club, he batted .234 in 55 games and hit five home runs. Baptists, Zion Teams Continue To Pace League Zion Lutheran and First Baptist kept up their league leading pace as both came through with victories over St. Boniface 6-5 and Church of Chirst 15-8 respectively in the Church League play last night at City park. In the first game, Zion Lutheran, although being outhit, scored the initial runs of the game when Minard Duncan hit a three run homer into left field. Zion Lutheran scored all six of their runs on St. Boniface errors, in the first two innings. Hack Happy as Soaring Seraphs Open Series with Cellar-Dwellers CYPRESS TEAMS COLLECT WINS Cypress teams dominated the City League softball play in both games last night at La Palma park as the Cypress VFW won out in a close game over Stanton, 6-5. The Cypress Merchants overran the Northrop nine, 7-0, behind the 1-hit pitching of Eddie Arbiso. In the opener Ralph Alvarado pitched four hit ball to gain his fourth victory of the year. Camillo Velarde connected for two of these Stanton hits, driving in three of Stanton's five runs. Ray Valencia hit a bases-empty homer in the top half of the fourth for Cypress' big blow. Eddie Arbiso ran unmercilessly over Northrop as he pitched to only 22 Northrop batters and didn't allow runners on first until the fifth inning. Bill Clay, singled for Northrop's first hit with one away in the top of the seventh, but died there as Floyd Spangler hit into a double play. Arbiso hit a three run homer in the bottom half of the sixth to wrap up the ball game. Herb Hamilton and John Bingston were on base at the time. Manager Dick Guhan homered in the fourth with none aboard for Cypress. Eddie Arbiso, Cypress' regular manager Stan Hack of the Los Angeles Angels is a happy man. His unpredictable club looked like the best in the Pacific Coast league in its last five games. And tonight the Hack-men begin a seven-game series against Portland, for the last five weeks the worst in the league. As a result of capturing five of seven from third place Oakland, the Angels have climbed into a fourth place tie with Seattle, only a game and a half behind the Oaks. After dropping the first two, Los Angeles shut out the Acorns twice and rolled on to win five in a row. Hack isn't making any predictions about the Portland series, even though the Beavers lost three out of four to Seattle last week and dropped the four preceding series. Hack remembers but too well what happened the last time his club was strongly favored. That was against Sacramento, and the Solons trounced the Angels. The main event this week is at San Diego, where the loop leading Padres take on second place Hollywood. With the Stars only two games off the pace, it shapes up as one of the season's top series. Elsewhere it's Seattle at Oakland and San Francisco at Sacramento. In the first game, Zion Lutheran, although being outhit, scored the initial runs of the game when Minard Duncan hit a three run homer into left field. Zion Lutheran scored all six of their runs on St. Boniface errors in the first two innings. Gay Van Beckler homered in the fourth inning with the bases empty. His single in the seventh, scoring three runs was the only big inning for the Boniface men. First Baptist, current league leaders, led by Bill Koch's sixthomer of the season out hit church of Christ by 10 to 4. First baptist scored in every inning, three in first, three in second, three in third, four in the fourth, and one each in the two remaining innings, making it 15 runs. Church of Christ got their runs one in the third, two in the fourth, three in the fifth and two in the sixth. Koch came in with five for five, batting 1000 for the evening long with Al Albarian who also came in with 1000 with three for free. Monday Fights By The Associated Press BROOKLYN — Robert Villeain, 168%, France, outpointedase Basora, 171, Puerto Rico, 10. BALTIMORE — Johnny Greco, 3, Toronto, outpoined Luis Ortega, 144%. Puerto Rico, 10. SALT LAKE CITY — Keithuttall, 138, Brigham City, Utah, and Bobcat Torrance, 139%. Los Angeles, drew, 10. FRESNO—Tony Bosnich, 194½., San Francisco, and Jack McFalls, 3., Los Angeles, drew, 10. Stars' Shepard, Padres' Flowers Tied in Hurling SAN FRANCISCO UP—Right handers Bennett Flowers of the league leading San Diego Padres and Larry Shepard of second place Hollywood are deadlocked for first place pitching honors in the Pacific Coast League through Sunday. Each had four wins and no defeats. Shepard had participated in 15 contests and Flowers in four. Big Hal Gregg at Oakland is the circuit's most winning hurler with 11 against two losses. Johnny Lindell of Hollywood took the strikeout lead with 73 victims in 121 innings. The leaders: Shepard, Hwd. 15 54 30 19 4 0 1.000 Flowers, SD ... 4 33 13 20 4 0 1.000 Dollaghan, SD ... 15 40 16 10 1 0 1.000 Watkins, LA ... 12 30 12 15 1 0 1.000 Benton, SD ... 19 51 15 27 6 1 .857 Gregg, Oak ... 18100 44 61 11 2 .846 Moisan, LA ... 13102 43 29 8 2 .800 Anthony, Hwd. 18 59 21 19 4 1 .800 Pettis, Hwd. 13 72 29 28 7 2 .778 Lindell, Hwd. 16121 45 73 10 3 .769 Muncrif, SF ... 20 46 22 12 4 2 .667 Salveson, SD ... 14105 23 53 9 5 .643 Luna, SD ... 16110 37 52 7 4 .636 Eat California fruit for health! Shop Friday Night Till LOOK AT THESE LOWER PRICES FOR OLD Sunny Brook BRAND WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING KENTUCKY WHISKEY" OTH 86 PROOF • OLD SUNNY BROOK BRAND KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 2% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS • THE OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KY.