anaheim-gazette 1952-07-15

Challenge: Is Anaheim the World Capital of All Amateur Baseball? Anaheim is the world capital of amateur, organized baseball. Do you doubt it? Then look at the facts that Don Derr, Anaheim recreation director, can point out. This summer there are at least 1000 young people and adults actively participating in 13 baseball leagues . . . members of 61 different teams. This city's population is roughly 17,000 . . . that means, at least theoretically, that one in every 10 of the city's men, women and children plays organized, supervised baseball. And that 1000 only includes registered, active players' . . . doesn't even take into account the sandlot, picnic-variety, and side-street-workup games found any hour of the day around the city . . . nor the normal full schedule of high school and elementary seasonal ball . . . or the professional ball players who work out for several weeks each spring at La Palma park . . . No, there can't be much doubt. No city (we'll include New York, Brooklyn and Moscow) can boast as much baseball per square foot . . . yard . . . and mile as Anaheim. Two major divisions claim the greater share of the city's hickory-stickers . . . the midget (6-to-12 year) league and the adult leagues. The midgetmen; garbed in colorful caps and T-shirts by local merchants, alone make up 24 teams and three leagues. Currently playing daily at City park, the three leagues are the A (11 and 12 years) under direction of Rel Schmidt, the B (9 to 11) under direction of John Cyprien, and the C (6-9) under direction of Lloyd Trapp. Don Liebhart is in general charge. The adult division . . . amazingly active . . has 30 teams in five different leagues . . . the Industrial league, A and B Church league and A and B City league. Playing both at City park and La Palma almost nightly, the teams have been under the direction of Jim Wright. playing daily at City park, the three leagues are the A (11 and 12 years) under direction of Rel Schmidt, the B (9 to 11) under direction of John Cyprien, and the C (6-9) under direction of Lloyd Trapp. Don Liebhart is in general charge. The adult division . . . amazingly active . . . has 30 teams in five different leagues . . . the Industrial league, A and B Church league and A and B City league. Playing both at City park and La Palma almost nightly, the teams have been under the direction of Jim Wright. All there's still more. Four junior teams play regularly, competing among themselves and two out-of-town leagues, the Orange county softball league and the Valley Youth league. Jim Heffernan and Clare Van Hoorebeke guide these gangs. A junior girls' team, the Bloomers, also competes regularly in an out-of-town league under direction of Lois Alderson. And Van Hoorebeke supervises the oldest teen-age team . . . the American Legion ball club. Of course, perhaps the baseball air (it peculiarly grows built-in baseball mitts on many local children) is aided by the spring visitation of the Hollywood Stars to beautiful La Palma park and the proximity of the Los Angeles Angels (who train in a town just north of here), the professional girls softball teams at Orange and Buena Park . . . but, be what it may, Don Derr, his assistants and all of Anaheim has a right to be pretty proud of the whole picture. as we said before . . . Anaheim is the amateur organized baseball capital of the world. Jr. Girls' Tennis To Host Arcadia Team Tomorrow Anaheim's junior girls' tennis team plays hostess to the Arcadia girls' team tomorrow evening on the city park courts at 6 p.m. in the final match of the first match of the first half of a four team round robin schedule, in which the local netters have yet to lose a match. Next week the four teams, Anaheim, Monrovia, Whittier, and Arcadia, repeat the early schedule with home teams being reversed. Arcadia which boasts one of the strongest teams in the league, may upset Anaheim winning streak for the first time. Jean Williams, Judy Lamori, and Alice Weaver and hold down the singles assignments, with Mary Flynn and Karen Lenain teaming in the first doubles spot, and Joanne Kellogg and Judy DeRolph. Six Runs on One Lynx 9-4 Victory All kinds of fireworks broke loose in the first inning of the titanic between the Buena Park Lynx and the Peoria Dieselettes last night at Buena Park. The highly touted Illinois team, fresh off a 5-1 win over the Orange Lionettes Sunday, cracked out four runs on four hits, but the biggest surprise came as the Lynx brought in six runs during the same frame—all on one lonesome single. The unique one hit parlay started as Waido singled. Doris Ray and Annabelle Lockabey then drew walks to load the bases. Then Carolyn Broaday and Bobie McDaniel walked to force in two runs. The Dieselttes pulled pitcher Bonali and substituted Nelson but the scoreboard kept right on flipping up runs for the Lynx as Ruby Moore walked to force a third run and Lou-Mahoney sacrificed to score a fourth. Tommie Slappey then roared into first on an error and scored McDaniels and Moore. Then with a permanent lead clinched, the Lynx iceed their win by allowing the hapless Dieselttes no more runs and fattening their margin with one more run in the second on one hit and two runs in the third on another hit. Battery for the Lynx was Slappey (2), Meissen (2) and Rudolph. Tonight the Lynx travel to Monterey Park to meet the Lionettes at Buena Park. The cross-county rivals currently hold a 3-3 tieup for the season. Brea Snaps Local Midgets 5-Game Winning Streak Faulty playing afield and an inability to hit with men on base cost the Anaheim Midgets a 2-0 SLICE OF HAM THERE GOES OUR COAT HANGER! Brea Snaps Local Midgets 5-Game Winning Streak Faulty playing afield and an inability to hit with men on base cost the Anaheim Midgets a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Costa Mesa there yesterday in a Valley League game. This was the first whitewash win of the season and it also marked the end of a five-game Anaheim winning streak, which had carried them into a first place tie with Fullerton. Tomorrow afternoon Fullerton places its lofty perch on the block and also give Anaheim a chance to regain their position at the head of the southern division. NEW YORK UP—Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn's all-star second baseman, left the club in St. Louis last night to join his wife, who undergoes an operation today. CONQUER YOUR CONSTIPATION A remarkable medical discovery is offered in McCoy's Norm Tabs. You can quickly conquer your constipation and restore regularity. No violent purging—no muss—no fuss—nothing to mix. McCoy's Norm Tabs create a soft gel bulk and give you comfortable bowel movements. They are harmless to take over any length of time and the dose never has to be increased. Easily carried in your purse. 21 Tabs 25s. 90 Tabs $1.00. 100 Tabs $2.00. On sale at McCoy's Drug Store, 100 W. Center, Anaheim. (adv.) OLYMPIC FLAME FROM MID-SUN—Pekka Niemi holds aloft one Olympic flames, after it was kindled right of the Midnight Sun in a tiny Finnish Lapland. Niemi later ran with the flame to the Swedish-Finnish border where it was joined with an Olympic torch, lighted in Greece. Both were enroute to Helsinki for the opening of the 15th Olympiad. Runs on One Single Highlight 9-4 Victory Over Peoria Team Soviet Athletes In First Olympic Test Tonight HELSIINKI. CP — Soviet Russia enters Olympic competition Nazarene State Edges Church Last night in a Church twinbill, Nazarene nipped of Christ, 12-11, to stay of the league. In the other First Baptist edged Zion lan 5-2. In the first game, Naz scored 11 runs in the first innings and one in the fifth big 11 runs came in the first hits but extreme wildness in Church of Christ pitcher's walks and two hit batsmen. Wagoner led Nazarene batting the first two innings with singles. Their final run came a walk to Dave who scored Harold Bonner's long single right field. Church of Christ seemed tined to be trounced by the men of Nazarene" in the couple of innings, scoring one run in the first on an on the shortstop and a single Dick Carroll. CC was no score again until the fourth ning when they rallied with runs on six hits. In that Jack Pickard who had been lieved by Lloyd Lichtenwalp pitcher aided the cause w Runs on One Single Highlight 19-4 Victory Over Peoria Team American League Titans to Clash Head On Tonight Cleveland and New York, the two titans of the American league, clash head-on at Yankee stadium tonight in the first of a vital five-game series with first place at stake. The Indians, pre-season penant favorites, can wrest the top rung from the Yankees, but they must win all five games. They trailed Casey Stengel's crew by 3½ games on the eve of the important series. At the same time, Chicago's third place White Sox and Boston's fourth place Red Sox meet in the first of a three game series at Fenway park. All four contenders suffered surprising defeats by second division clubs yesterday. The Yankees bowed to Detroit's tail-end Tigers, 8-2 Washington whipped the Indians, 15-4; the St. Louis Browns thrashed the Red Sox, 7-5, and the Philadelphia Athletics edged out the White Sox, 2-1, in 10 innings. In the curtailed National league activity, Brooklyn maintained its 5½ game advantage over New York with a 6-0 triumph in St. Louis after the Giants had vanquished the Reds, 6-2, in Cincinnati. Rain postponed the scheduled Philadelphia Phillies-Cubs' game in Chicago. Boston and Pittsburgh were not scheduled. Cleveland had lined up Early Wynn, Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia and Steve Gromex for the single game tonight and doubleheaders tomorrow and Thursday against the Yanks. The Soviet Athletes In First Olympic Test Tonight HELSIINKI (P) — Soviet Russia enters Olympic competition tonight for the first time in history. On the soccer field at Kotka, a bare 32 miles from the Russian border, the big, husky all-star team from Moscow will meet their friendly neighbors from Bulgaria. The match is one of nine preliminaries to the genuine Olympic soccer competition, which begins Saturday. The game probably will be a good one, even though the Soviets make a habit of mopping up on their eastern European allies in sports. The Russians are a prime favorite to win the Olympic soccer event. Bulgaria, however, played this same team to a 1-1 draw in a recent practice game in Moscow. THE RUSSIAN show will steal the Olympic spotlight from Helsinki even though fullscale Olympic competition opens in field hockey in this clean, modern city this evening. Field hockey is the only Olympic sport in which the United States is not represented. The preliminary basketball competition, designed to chop an original entry of 23 down to 16 by the time the games open, runs into its second day of double elimination. The United States, Soviet Russia and eight other teams were given free passes through these warmups. Yesterday's winners were Cuba, Egypt, Hungary, Canada, Bulgaria, and the Philippines. They beat, in order: Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and Israel. RAIN, THE FIRST in Helsinki in more than two weeks, threw a kink into outdoor train-tined to be trounced by the men of Nazarene" in the couple of innings, scoring one run in the first on an on the shortstop and a single Dick Carroll. CC was no score again until the fourth ning when they rallied with runs on six hits. In that Jack Pickard who had been lieved by Lloyd Lichtenwalldifcher aided the cause with single and a triple. A six ning rally failed to push at the necessary amount of runs only two runs came across. Leading hitters for Nazarew Dave and Howard Warwith two hits apiece. For losing Church of Christ me Mills and Dick Carroll lead three for four. Jack Pickard also up there with two hits IN THE SECOND game tween First Baptist and Lutheran, Baptist nipped Zika a good ball game, 5-2. For the Baptist runs came in second inning on consec singles by John Steinbauer Al Albarian, each of them ing on errors. Gene Bear was then hit by a pitched and Don Curtis was safe if fielder's choice. Both scores the side was retired. The Baptist run came in the fifth a single by Bill Koch, who vanced to third on an error a flyball, then scored on a ball. Zions' two runs came in sixth inning on two walks a triple by Minard Duncan. pitchers threw beautiful game with John Herrera pitching three hitter for Baptist and M Dick chucking a four hitter Zion. Bill Koch led the win Baptists with two hits in a trips to the plate. Canada Wins 2nd Straight Olympic Basketball Test HELSINKI (P) — Canada its second straight game todaythe pre-Olympic basketball trie defeating Romania, 72-51. With two victories, Can 14 Strikeouts by Holve, Bloomer’s Hits Net 20-1 Win Anaheim Bloomers trampled over the Huntington Beach Cubs yesterday with a score of 20-1. The merry-go-round was played on the Huntington Beach field last night. Doris Holve proved to be tops again by striking out 14 batters. The team backed her up and kept the runs down to one. The Cubs only had three hits through the entire seven innings. Huntington Beach scored their run in the first inning, while Anaheim’s score jumped up to 10 in the third inning. The seventh brought forth six runs, making the entire score 20-1. Jo Ann Clark blasted out two homeruns while Doris Holve came forth with one homer. The leading hitters of the evening were Alice Weaver with four for five and Mona Carner with two, for two. Anaheim plays their next game next Saturday at City park, when they meet Tustin. RAIN, THE FIRST in Helsinki in more than two weeks, threw a kink into outdoor training plans both Sunday and yesterday and most of the athletes were itching for a return of the perfect weather. The moisture was welcomed by the groundkeepers, however, since the turf in the 70,000-seat main stadium and on the adjacent soccer fields was beginning to turn yellow. The first drawings for track events put Americans into shoulder to shoulder competition with the Russians in the 400-meter hurdle heats and in one 800-meter heat. There will be no American-Russian meetings in the first round of the 100-meter dash. The games will open officially Saturday, will run through Aug. 3. Grasshoppers Cost More Than Steak (Per Lb. That is) Grasshoppers are now worth more a pound than beefsteak! That’s right, or at least according to a circular currently being sent out by the Day Bait company of Port Huron, Mich. The bait firm is offering a dollar a pound for preserved grasshoppers and needs between 5600 and 6000 pounds for fishing bait. Small crickets are worth 70 cents a pound. Gazette SPORTS Nazarene Stays Atop Church Loop; Edges Church of Christ 12 to 11 Last night in a Church league. In bill, Nazarene nipped Church Christ, 12-11, to stay on top of the league. In the other game, Baptist edged Zion Luther-5-2. On the first game, Nazarene scored 11 runs in the first two innings and one in the fifth. Their 11 runs came in the first two but extreme wildness by the church of Christ pitcher aided Nazarene cause with seven kicks and two hit batsmen. Dave Gogner led Nazarene batting in the first two innings with two balls. Their final run came on walk to Dave who scored out Hold Bonner's long single to get field. Church of Christ seemed deserved to be trounced by the "Blue Nazarene" in the first hole of innings, scoring only one run in the first on an error the shortstop and a single by Carroll. CC was not to be again until the fourth inning when they rallied with eight runs on six hits. In that inning Pickard who had been rebounded by Lloyd Lichtenwalter as another aided the cause with a standings By The Associated Press Pacific Coast League W L Pet GBL Oakland 60 42 .588 San Diego 61 43 .592 Hollywood 60 44 .577 Seattle 50 48 .510 Los Angeles 53 51 .509 Portland 44 55 .444 Sacramento 42 63 .400 San Francisco 40 64 .355 21 Yesterday's Results No games played. Games Today Oakland (Gettel 11-6) at Seattle (Kindsfather 11-7). Los Angeles (Dubiel 6-4 and Hatten 6-0) at Portland (Linde 8-8 and Ward 4-5). San Diego (Henry 1-0) at Hollywood (Pettit 9-4). Sacramento (Flores 5-12) at San Francisco (Singleton 5-10). American League W L Pet GBL New York 49 51 .613 Cleveland 46 35 .568 Chicago 47 38 .553 Boston 44 27 .543 Washington 42 38 .525 Philadelphia 34 40' .459 St. Louis 34 49 .410 16' Detroit 26 54 .325 23 Yesterday's Results Detroit, 8 New York 2. Washington, 11 Cleveland 4. St. Louis, 7 Boston 5. Philadelphia, 2 Chicago, 1 (10 inn.). Games Today Cleveland (Wynn 9-8) at New York (Kumava, 5-3) night. Chicago (Rogovin, 6-6) at Boston (Brodowski, 3-2) night. St. Louis (Fllette, 6-7 and Cain, 6-4) at Philadelphia (Fowler, 0-1 or Scheib, 4-3 and Newsom L-2). Detroit (Johnson, 0-0 and Gray, 8-9) at Washington (Masterson, 2-3 and Porterfield, 6-9). Oakland Acorns Root for Padre-Star Even Draw By The Associated Press Mel Ott's Oakland Acorns take their paper thin Pacific Coast League lead into a series starting at Seattle tonight while hoping the San Diego Padres and Hollywood Stars can knock each other off in their eight-game set. The Oaks hold a one percentage point lead over the Padres and one game over the Stars. Ott named Al Gettel, a right-hander with an 11-6 record, to go against the Seattle Rainiers' Vern Kindsfather, 11-7. Seattle, after a miserable start, has been improving and is tied with Los Angeles in fourth place—eight games off the pace. At Hollywood, Paul Pettit, the young lefthander, again seeks the elusive win number 10 when he hooks up against Bill Henry, a newcomer to San Diego with a 1-0 record. Pettit twice has failed to notch the 10th victory after leading the league with nine wins and two defeats. Most of the teams will make up postponed games this week. THE SECOND game began First Baptist and Zionerman, Baptist nipped Zion in good ball game, 5-2. Four of Baptist runs came in, the last inning on consecutive ties by John Steinborn and Albarian, each of them scoring errors. Gene Beardsley then hit by a pitched ball Don Curtis was safe on a pitch choice. Both scored as side was retired. The last run came in the fifth on single by Bill Koch, who added to third on an error and ball, then scored on a flyball. Softball Tonight Church League (City Park) 7:15—Cypress Baptist vs Grace Lutheran 8:30—EUB vs White Temple. Rod Brandon Bows Out in La Jolla Tourney Finals Ron Brandon of Anaheim made good use of his annual vacation period when he teamed with Fred Rose of Los Angeles to go into the finals of the senior veterans' doubles division in the 36th annual La Jolla tennis championships, before losing to Joe Ciano of Los Angeles and Al Zerbe of Balboa, 6-2, 6-2. In one of the oldest continuous tournaments in Southern California, where more events are staged than in two or three normal tournaments, a trip to the finals is a real challenge. At Hollywood, Paul Pettit, the young lefthander, again seeks the elusive win number 10 when he hooks up against Bill Henry, a newcomer to San Diego with a 1-0 record. Pettit twice has failed to notch the 10th victory after leading the league with nine wins and two defeats. Most of the teams will make up postponed games this week. The first such doubleheader is scheduled tonight with Portland hosting Los Angeles. Walt Dubiel and Joe Hatten will toss for the Angels against Lyman Linde and Larry Ward. In the other game the tailenders clash—Sacramento at San Francisco with Jesse Flores slated to toss for the Solons and Elmer Singleton for the Seals. Los Angeles Rams Get New Lineman CHICAGO (UP)—The Chicago Cardinals today announced the trade of guard John Hock to the Los Angeles Rams for fullback Gordon Polofsky of Tennessee and guard Jerrell Price of Texas tech. Canada Wins 2nd Straight Olympic basketball Test LISKI (UP) — Canada won second straight game today in the Olympic basketball trials, winning Romania, 72-51. Two victories, Canada Canada Wins 2nd Straight Olympic Basketball Test SINKI (P) — Canada won second straight game today in the Olympic basketball trials, ending Romania, 72-51. In two victories, Canada sure of one of the six left open in the 16-team tournament, starting at 4. In one of the oldest continuous tournaments in Southern California, where more events are staged than in two or three normal tournaments, a trip to the finals is a real tribute to a player. Brandon has made participation in this event a part of his regular summer vacation with a good record of accomplishments. 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