The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1952, Page 6

Page é THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Key Wesi High Mokes Clean Sweep Of Basketball Trip Beat Seacrest By * Tuesday, Pamacy 15, 1952 [Key West Will Miss Ralph Hartenstine Said To Have Done More For Tennis In Island City Than Anyone Previously (On January 5 The Citizen | | Gene Wiitzeli Wins Low Gress Honors Witis Score Of 70 | Enters Catch In JayCee an- | Fishing Tourmmy | ly and racked up 27 points to! Baker So 1Ty 59-31 Score In Fane amet ase! 0 33 y/mounced that tennis champion The area of the Conchs p, : ; Ralph Hartenstine is returning Detray Beach seemed to be the detiding factor | =°”° ; He : to the Army on Jahuary 21 for Se © as they passed over and around es extended active duty and sum The Key West High court five \¢he taller Seacrest five to score Osterhoudt 0 1-2 1 marized his Key West sports ca- | made it a clean sweep on-their ajimost at will. Jim Baker and Gonzalez 2 2-2 6 reer. Hartenstine’s tennis activi- road-trip- when they chopped an Bob Cooper led the Key West | Henriquez 3 0-0 6 ties, were so manifold, however easy ;win over Seacrest High of | scoring attack with 17 and 10, Norviel 0 0-0 and unfolded so endlessly during | Delray Beach Saturday night.) roints respectively. Armando =: his four years here, that any one | The-score was 59-31. On Friday, Henriquez and Ken Bazo played |. 5);summary is bound to be in:om- the Conchs defeated a strong fne defensive games holding Ss | plete On request of the fans, West Palm Beach club. The Sea-! their men scorcless and snaring SEACREST this continuation is presented.) crest triumph made it five the rebounds to set up the fast) Player— FG. F. TT: In the second half of 1950, the straight wins for the local bas- | break | Costin 4 1 9 champion placed on court sev-| keteers. Tuesday night, Key West will } Remus 1 0 2 eral small boys’ matches between Key West jumped fast into the | journey to South Broward to | Johnson 0 2 2 St. Joseph’s School and Truman lead at the end of the first |seex their sixth straight victory. | Simon a 0 2 Elementary. (After he had quarter and were still leading at|Key West now holds down sec- | Stuart 3 1 7 taught these sprites how to the half by a margin of 31-14./ond piace in the District A race. | Kern 0 1 1 swing without missing.) This was At the start of the second half,! The summaries | owalley 0 1 1 the first official small boys’ ten- Seacrest switched to a zone de- KEY WEST | Leonard 0 1 1 nis ever played here. One of his fense in a vain attempt to slow! Player. F.G. F. T., Milner 2 2 6 rroteges, Bobby May, entered the the game down. However, Coach Cooper 5-0 10; no U.S. L. T. A. tourney in Miami Win Jones’ bows solved it rapid-, Vidal 3.22 8} Beach and stroked his way to SEE ean - |the finals. On this Miami Beach junket Mr. and Mrs. Hartenstine !Chaperoned Eleanor Gato, June Yates, Barbara Twiehaus, Caro. Caruthers, Don Cruz, John Cruz, | and eleven-year-old May in SQUAD SHOWS WELL | IN INITIAL MATCH Girls Triumph: ee Boys Lose In [suits Truck Down The River League Play vie The boys lost both their matches by a 5-2 count. They disappointed Coach Van a great deal with their showing against Edison because aside from Edisons number one player, August Lecann, our play- ers had definitely the best stroking games. However it takes brains experience and a lot of compet! tive play to win matches and it was proved in this match that the best looking player does not always win. Against Edison, June Yates was ME only playervextended fn xifls pl She defeated Una Leroy 6-4, 26, 64 and had to overcome a! 4-2 deficit in the final set. Other girls results against Ed- ison’ were as follows: : Dolotes Villate d. Jackiq, Trrock morton 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Vita Barroso d. Georgianna Doy- fe 6-0, 61, Lynn Séllers d. 6-0. 1 | June Gore 6-2, ley Trudeau d. Billie Latona () Wirephoto Yates-Villate d. Leroy, Latona by sec talking to reporter, took his girl default. Barroso-Sellers d. Doyle 7-5, 6-4. The girls lost their only match MIKE MECHIKOFF (right), friend riding to see the rain swollen Los Angeles River at Los Throckmorton- Angeles. He drove too close and the rushing waters trapped | his truck, in background. His girl friend climbed out and made ' of the trip in Fort Lauderdale as} jt ashore but Mike stuck with his truck. Some five blocks later Lauderd Patty Cobb defeated’ je gecicied to “abandon ship” and was helped ashore by a news Lynn. s 76, 6-4 in a hard foigh photographer who made this picture. Bol Mate was the only other GE Key West girl to lost a set as on \ defe: Goodwin 6-3, 1-6, rd struggle. Its of this match are ‘FOLLOWING THROUGH... By PEDRO AGUILAR a." Pat. Christensen 6-1, 7-5." Vita Barroso d. Sue Sabey 6-3, The second half of the Island with each club having a victory 6-2. City Baseball League race hasjand a defeat. started with a bang and the fans| Claude Valdez, all around Key are being treated to a lot of/West diamond star who is now good baseball. The Brooks’ Stars.|in the U. S. Army. writes me who won their opener from the} that if any Key West boy wants Strand Theater, seem to be wait- {to go to spring training for two ing until the final inning to find | weeks, the manager of his club jout what their fate is. In the! will send a round trip ticket and Shirley Trudeau d. Betty Jane Flood 6-1, 6 Yates-ViSate d. Christensen-Sab- ey 6-2, 6-4 Barrose-Sellers d. Goodwin-Cobb 15, 8-6. Against Edison, the boys bright As the situation now stands Ben- Iny’s now hold the top spot and the Strand nine is in the cellar lw hen they meet tonight. Benny’ players to show -well in losing were Don Cruz who was de- feated by David Schofield 6-4, 97 and Frank Roberts who lost Valdez, president of the City Baseball League and Man- ger of the Strand Theater nine, jtold the writer a week ago that te Jimmy Shaw 10-8, 7-5 in a | will have to win if they want to/the University of Havana “Cari- very long struggle. |remain the leaders for if they /hes" have given them those Other results in this match jlose it will mean a four way tie | gates. 1 wonder who really has John aro Lecann 4. 64, tonal Black d. 62, 6-3. an eo Schofield d. Raberts- Car- Cruz } a those dates. jpreved was that the competition | Tonigh >. ., Peter Knight | s ea pechap ght at 7:45 Benny's and Peter Knight provide by the Harvey Cup matches jtne Strand Theater will cross ise gpa . Benny's are expected to gether a solid, smart playing girls | . ; team, It is the hope of Coach Van | Pitch Kaki Redsigges:: sae heel * Lauderdale, the boys/that a similar series be promoted played much better but could not between the High $ pull out victory in three close mat- and the men play ches. In singles, Tony Dopp, who | A cup donor is being sought at the | took Peter Knights place at moment and it is very probable FEFAUVER TO TALK number five for this match, de- that a series of the best six out} (Continuea from Page One) feated Billy Rodgers 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 of eleven matches will be started | tion. These could be aimed almost in a well played match. Don Cruz | towards tne enc of this month at will in the direction the Presi- a heart-breaker to Richard | And already this week a pract-| dent and his party leaders wanted 16, 97, 6-4, lice match has been planned be-/| to throw support. . spores “a to Raiph Dou- | tween the boys and the men. Peter! Sen. Tobey of New Hampshire, 64, 44, 6 oe defeated John | taking charge of the mens team in! hunting group, said Kefauver 6-2 | the matches to ve p:ayed this Tues- “would make a wonderful Presi- McCully d. Frank Ro- | day and Wednesday night at Bay- | dent.” riquez will receive, Strand will use Viti Vidal in the box and ed i z | teams, Miami and including ‘nal arrangements are now ;made to ‘ing the 1949: |Lt. E. Island ‘which has brought | Buster Roberts behind the plate. | | Varela colorful Key West star is a republican member of the crime | ‘U™® Years, Hartenstine’s insure} what was the first USLTA event entered by Key West youngsters. In 1949, he arranged the firs matches with * outside senior staged both here and in such first rate outfits as Coconut Grove. ! Miami Beach, and Miami’s Jun- ior Davis Cup team. In Septem- ber, 1949 he cut through the ob- stacles to international play and took an Island team to Havana to engage the best varsity Cub, a | could place on courts of Vedado Club. Through his diplomacy fi- being institute twice-a-year matches between Key West and the Cuban capital. Ralph placed the University of Miami on the Conchs’ schedule in 1950, and last April, following the second match in Miami, he brought the et hander, faced Monte Croo' University—then National Inter- collegiate Champions—here _ to the Casa Marina Hotel for a re- turn match. Former national champion Sa- rah Palfrey Cooke came to the Casa Marina as professional dur- son, and Harten- | stine will be remembered for his exhibition matches there with such internationally known players Elwood Coc ydney Wood, Pauline Betz, and Igor Oleg Cassini, and Prince Hohen- lohe. These matches were played s before galleries of around a thousand. High among _ Hartenstin court performances are tories over the finest e nna- aces the Nayy could flace against him in the series of Key West-Navy encounters. These in- cluded such powerful N. aces and Leech Cup performers as Lt Nicholas Smith, Lt. Walter Pate, . Hamblen, and Lt¢ Thomas Tift. It was rumored that the Navy sent Tift to Key West on detached service for the prime purpose of squelching | Hartenstine. st summer, Ralph _ instruct- ed, organized and placed on court the first women's tennis teams seen here when the Navy wives and the Key West women played each other and the Convent girls in a series of matches. The stage is now set for the City’s first Women’s Championships in 1952, In June, 1950, he brought ten- nis to the Convent of Mary Im- spots were Leo Carey in sin. | first start against the Simonton ray all expenses while in train-|maculate, whose girls then had @les and the Cruz boys in the |St- Cafeteria boys it took Rich-| ing. Any young man interested} no competitive sports program. number two doubles. Leo won | ardson’s ninth inning single to) in making the trip can get more |Last September, with the school easily from Jimmy Campbell 6-3, | decide the ball game And __ in| information at 1212 Duval St. {still lacking a tennis coach, he 6-2 as he displayed his fine game {their I st game Sunday against Just read that the University;worked with Athletic Director at its best. In the doubles Cruz- jthe Gulfstream ooys, they went | ¢ pavana is playing a Navy All Wahneta Kovash and the Sister Cruz defeated Black and Kemp, |10 innings before the issue was) star baseball club here on Jan.jSuperior in launching the Con- also by the score of 6-3, 6-2. Other decided, but not in their favor. | 96 anq 27th. Mr. Hamlin and Mr. vent's visiting teacher program, the foremost adult players onto campus to instruct. This gram will continue through present school year. the to he spearheaded the drive for a new Convent court from par- ents’ and church leaders’ con- tributions, and in March of this year, the new court will be Hen- {stalled One of the champion’s methods of mass instruction was his weekly column, “Tennis Vol- leys”, that has appeared so often in The C one stroke or phase of play at a time and broke it down into words that youngsters translate into action: Today’s High School tennis aces may perhaps recall in fu- house- to-house struggle to enough of a pay increase Coach Van to entice him returning to Key West » 62. view Park. Expected to play for | “He’s a high-grade, Christian s the Key Westers made the men besides Peter are Jack | gentleman and a’ great American,” showing. Cruz and | Sellers, Paul Esquinaldo, Chieif Me- j Tobey added. on another match as the | Nulty, Harvey Se-cers and Roberts” The peppery New Englander in- two team as they defeated |Smith. With the South Broward , dicated, however, that he hopes to and 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 and | | mateh opening the South Florida | vote for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Carey played very) | High School Tennis League Mat jas the Republican nominee. they lost to powerful Mc-/ches here in Key West on Fri “There is no doubt that Eisen- Durrill 24-63, 64. [day and Saturday a busy tennis | hower will win the New Hampshire big thing that these matches! week is ahead. ‘ primary,” Tobey said. ve ue tember. This came after Island's | } With Mrs. | ball boys, Fausto Rendueles and Eloina Ga- | in-| jcame en. In these he took | could | lwas for | into | in Sep-| the | coach had publicly announced} his intention of leaving. coach returned in September As Tennis Club secretary, Ralph strove with president Earl Yates to make tennis a full- fledged spectator sport The! and to} give it the pleasing pomp that| THOMAS A. HALLERAN, Gieat Neck, Long Island has ente an Amberjack in the Island ey fishing tour Seen Favored For Tennis Title ORLANDO (®—Tony Vincent Miami, is favored to repeat as champion of the Florida Invita ional Tennis Tournament opening here today. Vincent was given top rar n seedings made Monday. He Rochon, Montreal, Canadian Davis Cup player, was rated second, and Alfredo Miilet, Mexico C.ty Calhoun Dickson, Tampa, th and fourth, Millet and Dickson Rollins College students In today’s matches Rochon, and Jrlando, and Millet met Jianchard, Boston. Vincent ickson were not scheduled Miami Defeats Stetson 88-57 MIAMI (@—Dick Hoffman, Yanuck and Howard Keene !e: University of Miami basketba!! eam to a convineing 88-57 triumph over StetSon’s Hatters in the Col seum Monday night. Hoffman accounted for 23 points Yanuck bagged 22 and Keene 21 n the game that was Miami's from the outset. Stetson stayed within four points of the Hurricanes for a few min utes but in the second period a 28-point Miami spree put the Hur. ricanes far in front to stay. ‘The loss snapped Stetson’s seven same winning streak and gave Mi ami fourth place in the state standings, dropping the Hatters to fifth and Mel the Wyatt Is Named . Flamingo Mer. MIAMI BEACH (#—The Miami Beach Flamingos of the Florida International League came up with a new manager today—Whit low Wyatt, veteran major league pitcher General Manager Joe Ryan of the Flamingos announced that Wyatt, for the past two seasons coach of the Atlanta Crackers in the Southern Association, had signed for his first managerial job. Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dod gers has hit seven homers against | the Pirates this season, All of them | were at Forbes Field. pro-| makes.a sport good to see. Loud- the | speaker, formal introductions referee, score board the attendance of the mayor and city and county dignitaries—all these were utilized to a degrec that bulged the eyes of many a young player, his parents, and his friends. The huge bouquet of |red roses presented to 1951 cham- pion, Marie Rendueles when she off court on July 31 was one of many graceful touches. One of the last two missions of the champion was to seek with Earl Yates, increased lighting i Bayview Park to meet the needs of top-flight night play. This accomplished last week | through the good offices of City | Manager Dave King. The last | grand objective—a tennis grand- stand for the park—alone re. mains unfulfilled. But City Cc missioner Jack Delaney ia: week informed the tennis leaders that he will support City Man- ager Dave King on this matter and will propose that the grand- stand be installed early this spring. When Hartenstine goes to Camp Atterbury on January 21 Key West will miss him and hope for his early return Jeff Brodhead Photo od ament B Leo Scira, Navy Star Tours Course -In Two | Under Par: | Wayne Is Low Net Scorer The Men's Fourball Handicap Golf Tournament held at the Key West Country Club on Sun- day wound up in a two way tie for first place with net scores of 56—16 strokes under par. The team made up of Lenny Milan, Tom Dobson, James Me- Cardle and F. A. Murray and the foursome of L. Lorenz, Cecil Carbonell, Gleason Snow and Bill Cates came in with identical scores. with scores of 58; strokes under par. They were: John Kirschenbaum, » William Plowman and Dr. Ed Gonzal William Saunders, ‘Geo. Carey, Jack Mathews, and ! Humbert Mira; Tom Begin, Tom { Davis, Stretch Searson, and Nor- ~, ton Harris. LSU Whips Mississippi 103-78! Monday | Kansas Barely Squeezes ByNebraska By 69-66 Score; Seton Hall Takes Eastern Kentucky 69-52 NEW. YORK Four of the five major cc basketball teams still sporting an unbeaten season added another victory on the courts Monday night, but for | Kansas it was a tight squeeze, The Jayhawks barely got pas 56. | d lowa, leading the ¢ with four league vi e each racke Bon: as ide Only St ark, w secondperiod ke i over Indiar 78. ni plavers scored 15 1 Kerr had 18 and ‘her g ij for team ranked No. 2 in the AP poll | Towa, with its “pest winning | streak since the 192 season, ran up a 46-34 half lead over Northwestern anne went on for a 78-64 triumph over the Wildcats. Duquesne led all the way to | trounce Westminster, 38-58 Third ranked Kentucky, with Frank Rams‘ oring 24 points, romped to d victory over | Georgia, as the Wildcats rang up jtheir 11th victory in 13-3 Alabama upset Vanderb:t, 63-44, to topple the Commodores from the Southeastern Conference lead. In other SEC games, Mississippi defeated Georgia Tech, 94-64, and LSU routed Mississippi State, 103 78, Kansas State went to town in the final seven minutes to defeat Oklahoma, 65-54, in a Big Seven contest. In other Big 10 Ohio State defeated Purdue, 85 and Minnesota topped Michigan, 70-60. West Virginia made it 10-1 for the season by coasting to a 91-57 Southern Conference victory over | Wake Forest. In a non-conference scrap, Louisville rocked William ; and Mary, 93- 65. North Carolina rallied in the last three minutes to beat Davidson in a conference affair stopped Vi ‘ech, 88-74. Louisiana State whipped Missis. sippi State in a Southeast Confer. ence game, 16 a record score | \for a LSU team Seton Hall rebounded from defeat by Siena, Kentucky, 69-52 In a Pacific ne, Idaho set back State Conference Washington 18-YEAR-OLD IS (Continued From Page One) Grant home after reading about the blast that wrecked the farme dwelling of Hugh Bentley, vice crusader, at Phenix Ala., last week Officers are still investigating the Phenix City blast and Gor Gordon D. Persons said Monday night The word ‘closed’ will never be used on a dynamite case while I am governor Mrs. Grant's husband is serving three years in prison for larceny City Mennonite farmers from cme and Canada have fe oHlowed a mass migration path since the war. -go- ing to the s Dy wilde prness of | the Paragu The poinsettia is one of a group of plants known as short day plants | because they will bloom only in the season of the year with short day- length periods, preferrably 10 hours lor less af the cam: | Washington | its; to whip Eastern! anti- | grand | | Gene Witzell won the low | gross honors with a net 70 which |chopped two strokes from the |par figure. Frank L. Wayne had ithe iow net score with 70-10-64. {Other scores follow: GROSS Gene Witzell—70. James Mira—71. Frank Wayne— ee Joe Lopez, Jr.— Humbert M: Norton Harris: Jack Mathew: —81. Stretch Searson—81 | Geo. Valdez—81. Wm. Plowman—83. Jack Carbonell—84. James McCardle—84. Kermit Loucks—85. Tom Begin—86. V. Vinson—86. F. A. Murr { Leo Scira—86. | Ward Tyson—88. ' Jack Rowan—8 Roy Duke--90. Win. Saunders—90. J. J. Kirschenbaum—90. | Vallbrecht—91. | Bill Halenti —92 Moni Gomez ‘! Lenny Miian—9 3 John Gavilan C. S. Misiey—94 | Cecil Carbonell—95. i J. Ohveros—96. Bill Cates—96. {| Dr. E. Gonzalez—97. Russ Hyman—97 L. Lorenz—98 Tom Dobson—99. G. C. Snow—99. | F. Eibertson—100, Hy Aitman—102 Glynn Archer—102 Aiello—105. Larry Mansfield---108. E. Olson—110. Tom Davis—112. Geo. Carey—Picked up. NET Frank Wayne—64. James McCardle—66. Jack Mathews—68. James Mira—68. Cecil Carbonell—69. Gene Witzell—70. V. Vinson—70. Joe Lopez, Jr.—70. Lenny Milan—11. , Ward Tyson—T71. Stretch Searson—71. Wm. Piowman—71. G. C. Snow—72. | Tom Begin—72. | Leo Scira—73. J. J. Kirschenbaum—73. John Gavilan—73. J. Oliveros—74. F. A. Murray—74 Bill Cates—74. J. Carbonell—74. Wm. Saunders—75. Roy Duke—75. Norton Harris—75. Jack Rowan—%6. Bill Halentic—76. H. Mira L. Mansfield—77. Tom Dobson—77 Geo. Valdez—78. Russ Hyman—78. Moni Gomez—78. K. Loucks—78 | Valibrecht—78. | Dr. E. Gonzalez—79. Tom Davis—79. Aiello—80. Altman—80. | Glynn Archer—81 L. Lorenz—8l. | Olson—-85. | F. S. Elbertson—86. Geo. Carey. When Pete Reiser played third | base for the Pirates recently he be- came the eighth Buc to play that | position this year. We Service All Makes of Cars, ii Specializing in... CHRYSLER PRODUCTS Bill's Southernmost Garage BILL TYLER, Owner 707 Whitehead St., Corner Angela Three teams tied for 2nd place | fourteen | ba family at the Chuck © Res: far expec and most the re Comiske secretary How iC a quest ad be ans Mrs. Ge dent of the « 1 of directors Mrs. meetin Comi 1 The board eral alternai refuse to a It could pr | namesake o! (1° j could increase | r ca | president and sex Ma contractural arr. Forthwith accer ignation would de‘ pr Prepared over r Comiskey, widew of J. Louis Co y,; to Keep the bss Sox. | This plan has | climax the naming of You iskey as president. 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