16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, Sept. 6, 1962 'Bud Irving Retires, Had Colorful Career Ww GOS er baat ee sgn ae GRR for af Official to De away rromjproresmonai game, 1 rememper home several days at a time.|we were in old Osborne Stad. End Of Road "But he's still doing a fine|ium in Winnipeg. Just before! job as.referee-in-chief in Mani-jthe game Bill Nairn tossed me oba."" his whistle and said, 'This is Bud started officiating be.|YOUr game." cause, after he finished playing he "wanted to keep working LEAFS SIGN PITCHER TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto's was.among the players cutjelevaor accident. Agajanian,|SOCCER PRESIDENT QUITS Tuesday as the National anc however, never gave up. MONTREAL (OP)--Pat No. American Football Leagues} A cobble: made hi; speci For Kicking Ace reached their mandatory player|shoe to lalate the. pala snd ion of native Nas gc limits, he began to soak his foot in|President of the Quebec Prov. Ben Agajanian with the kids." He handled jun- g J quired the oldest active pre The amazing ancient wa |>rine to toughen it. Several|itce Football Association, a pro- trimmed by the NFL champior| 'etirements and hundreds ofjvincial soccer body, it was an Green Bay Packers, who ac | successful conversions late r,/nounced Wednesday, Business ior and intermediate games|baseball Maple Leafs of the In-| NEW YORK (AP)--At 43, Ben] football pl throughout Manitoba as well as|ternational League announced|Agajanian may have stuck his of the Pr a tigen Dae _ the Western junfor finals twice|Wednesday signing of pitcher| kicking foot in brine for the last Agajanian has had a varie Agajanian was still able to smile about the accident that|P?essure was the reason. almost finished his career. Asked by a football player's|along with seven-year veteran By GRAHAM COX the Baers Saness Gna a to see him go. He could havejin Saskatoon and the Canadian|Rolf Scheel of Toronto, Scheel, |time. career. It "ended" in 1941 whe: WINNIPEG (CP) -- One not. cen thee! a cet bar te t/Oeen one of the very best in his}junior championships in Mont-|who bats and throws right, was| The veteran kicking specialist.|the onetime New Mexico Un' able retirement of the 1962 pe rage ey ¢ ge @ NeXt itine, but sometimes business real, Toronto and Winnipeg. |born in Yokohoma, Japan, in| whose kicking foot is toeless andj versity star lost all but the litt? Waser ang pall bie yas "They 'sure took care of me."|Pressures build up and a man The first time I refereed a| 1932. toughened by soaking in brine,|toe on his right foot in a freigh. the eulogies attendant on a|_Bud's first season netted him|™Ust 2 ty it ef lly difficult score of departures. $50. His last season he drew| 'It Sling ln Weetera Cat It was actually the second re-|$2000 as the highest-paid Ca- with vty re fn '% dist baie tirement from the WFC for 36.|22dian lineman on the team. . |@da where the great distances g sometimes make it necessary 'ather how to make a place-|L. G. Dupre, quarterback I. 'decker out of his son, Agajanian Grosscup and Ray Norton sr] 'nswered: "Cut off his toes."/Ted Woods, in the NFL cut- Now he's out of a job again,|down. , ' ce Harold K. (Bud) Irv. g. ; His first was at the end of the 1950 séason when he called it quits after six years as a ' gtandout running guard for Win- nipeg Blue Bombers. The second was after 10 ' years as an official, serving as No. 2 referee behind Paul Do- jack of Regina in the later sea- sons. Both football careers for the Winnipeg civil lawyer started out by accident, neither in- ful as they became, After he paced Winnipeg's Kelvin High School to the 1944 provincial championship, he and other youngsters went out "just for fun" to practise with the Bombers. TOOK A BEATING "I was one of the lucky ones who stuck, along with Harry Hood who later played with Cal- gary Stampeders. "T played at 176 pounds and took a hell of a beating. "I was between Jack Man. ners and Mel Wilson in the line and the first thing the opposi- tion lineman did was haul off and sock you. "So when we went back into His four Grey Cup appear._| ances, 1945, '46, '47 and '50, and three years as an all-star, the first team in 1948 and the| second team in '47 and '49, served him well when he started officiating. 'EXCELLENT REFEREE' "He was an excellent ref- eree," says G. Sydney Halter, Canadian Football League com. missioner. "Exactly the right temperament, conscientious and hard working. 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