The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1952, Page 3

‘fthe contest as*they- itt Navy Cham Adds Toga To Laurels; Norton Harris Is Second Gene Witzel, smooth straking local Navy shot. | maker was crowned the as he captured a two strok vietory in the annual City | Championship Golf Tourn: ament at the Key West Golf Club yesterday, Pared down trom a starting field of over fifty golfers, eight finalists vied yesterday over the sun baked Stock Island links yesterday to decide .the championship. Witzel, going into yes- terday’s play with a four stroke advantage over his closest competitors, fired a 77 to capture the toga. At the end of yesterday’s regu- lation 18 hole defehing Gham. pion Nortom Harrjg was ti the runnerup spot wit Heer Mira. Hayris, defeated , Mira on, the cond hole of ‘a sudden death plavbtt for <secbnd! rae : honors. It was pitching:.and. putting that did the, trick , for,the new titleholder as he needed but 12 putts on the first nine holes of yesterday’s round. * Witzel also credited a prayerful wife with the victory. The final scores: Gene Witzel 150 77 227 Norton Harris 156 73 229 H, Mira 15475 = 229 J. Mira 156 42 pu. W. Carlton 158 83 241 Joe Lopez, Jr. 4161 87 248 G. Valdez 164 picked up H. Knight 165 picked up Redlands Nips Key West In Tourney Finals Cooper, Bazo And Henriquez Named To All-Tournament Five At Lake Worth The Redlands high school bas- ketball squad captured the Dis- trict 7 court toga Saturday night when they dumped the Key West courtmen in a 58-43 ball game on the Lake Werth Court. The Conchs, definitely off form, went down to defeat at the hands of the upstaters after they had earlier gained two impres- | sive victories play Tt was Redland guard, Charley Williams who stepped into the role of pointmaker to drop in 20 counters to personally assure, a Redlands victory. Williams was equally at home under the hoop and further out when he dump- ed in some fancy set shot work. Fireball Billy DaterheNe Ar- mando Honslgisy AP job er were lost le‘ Conch cal during the cruéiti orn te in tournament of on fouls. i Redlands, wis bi *seant’ 6 int lead at the~" ic! they inéretista with rey ta Splurge in the final half, Bob Cooper, Ken Bazo and-Ar- mando Henriquez were named to the All-Tournament + team = at Lake Worth in recognition of their yeoman service in getting the Key West five into the finals. Jim Baker, with 14 points led the Conchs in the scoring de- partment while Bob Cooper dumped in 8 counters in the losing Key West cause: j REDLAND FG F TP Friar, f 3.2.8 Sanders, f 3.3 59 B. Mosley, f aCe oe | Under'od, ¢ 40 8 Aldridge, @ ae GR C. Mosley, g Wie HERE Williams, g 8 4 2 ' FE sats Tetals- 22 14.58 KEY WEST FG F TP Baker, f 621 Vidal, f oo 6 Longs, f $4.04 Cooper, f 2.434 Bazo, c 03.3 Henpiquez, ¢ 3.0 26 Noryiel, g Ll. & Osterat, g Q-4-4 Logan, ¢ oo 0 Gongalez, ¢ 1o 2 neuen Totals— 16 11 43 feree, Cagni; Umpire, Kur- made Cetre Bolivar, Venezuela’s moun- tainjof iron, is expected to yield 10 m tons of ore a year to U.S. ate mills before 1960. City Golf Champion’, **—. proud wife, Mrs. Gene Witzel. WITZEL NEW CITY Monday, fiarch 3, 1952 GOLF CH Newly Crowned City Golfing King GENE WITZEL, (second from right) was crowned City Golf Champion yesterday aGolf Club following his two stroke victory in. the annual City Toyrnament. are, from the left; Mrs. Norton Harris, wife of the defending Champion; Norton Ha: lantic Golf Tournament here Sun- Citizen Staff, Photo at the Key West own with him is; Witzel and St. Louis Farm Club | Head And Son Hold | | Workouts At Wickers | Field Stadium Daily | | Bv-JIM COBB (Citizen Sports: Editor) The St. Louis Cardinals are ; headed for one of their big sea- | sons, according to Walter G. Shannon, Cardinal farm execu- tive who is in Key West for a sre-season vacation. Shannon, wha is director of the B, C and D'clubs in the far flung ‘Redbird’ minor league | holdings said that he had con- | ferred Saturday with St. Louis manager Eddie Stanky and that jthe fiery pilot reported the en- tire Card'nal roster signed and | rapidly rounding into shape. The current vacation is serv- | \ing a twofold purpose in getting Shannon's son Walter, 19 year, old St. Louis prospect in shape | for his second season of profes- | sional ball. The younger Walter campaigned last season with the Hamilton, Ontario club in New York State’s PONY League and as a left hande@ hitting second baseman hit a sizzling 323 in 81 ball games. A 1951 graduate of Cleveland High School in St. Louis, young Shannon was nam- ed all-district 2nd sacker in that city. He is scheduled to report to the Fullerton, Cal. training camp of the Fresno team in the Class C California loop on March 25th. | The father and son have been holding daily) | workouts) | at the | Wickers Field Stadium in pre- | paration for this year’s cam- | paign.. Shannon is high in his praise, of the local stadium and when queried about the possibi- | lity of obtaining its use as a ma- | jor league training camp, he said | that he “had already discussed | the possibility with men high in| the game.” Key West weather | jcame in for a bit of enthusiastic | jeomment by Shannon along with | Conch hospitality. He said that | he and his son had planned on | jonly a couple of days here but it jhas stretched out into a week. | |Both commented on the fine 1 Work at the stadium by grounds- | | keeper Arthur Baeza. They are | scheduled to leave on the 7th/ |when they will go to Dayto | Columbus training camps and on| |the 25th to Albany, Georgia when the Cardinal Class B | spring sessions get underway. _ Shannon broke into baseball | as a player, campaigning for 12) years pricr to joining the Cardi- | nal organization 17. years. i a scout. He has” ‘his | position with the lub si i Under his direct supervision are the Lynchburg, Va. Allentown, | Pa., Winston Salem, N. C. Ham- | ilton, Ont., Albany, Ga., Johnson City, Tenn., Goldsborough, N. C., | Hazelhurst, Ga. and Paducah, ! Ky. ball clubs. City Recreation Director Paul Albury has arranged for the Shannons to talk to the local Little League baseballer; this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at the Wickers Field Selec and on Thursday Shannon will address the Key West Lions Club. Jupiter is a mean distance of 483,900,000 miles away from the sun. een Cardinals Headed For Big Year Says Redbird Exec. In Key West For Vacation” eas weg ! « GAINESVILLE | basketball Zasketball Pairings Told (®— Pairings for the annual Florida high school tourraments opening here Wednesday were announced Sunday by a Elorida High School Activities Association committee. Thirty - two teams will compete in Class AA, A, B, and C — eight teams in each class. Nc: secdings | were made by the committee and pairings were by draw. Although 15 of the 32 teams re- turn for the second straight year, |only two defending champions — Seabreeze, Daytona Beach, in class A, and Andrew Jackson, Jackson. ivitta, in Cjass AA — will partici- | pate. 1ne tournaments this year starts a day earlier tian iast year. After- noon and night sessions were scheduled, rather than mc-ning and afternoon play. The championship games Satur- day are Class C, 3:30 p. m.; Class B, 4:30 P, M.; Class A, 7:15; and Class AA, 8:15. Officials named by the commit- tee were Irvin Asobrook, Jackson- | ville; Ed Boell, Punta Gorda; Bo’ Blari, Ocala; Harold Cowan and Joe Mason, Miami; Jc‘in Kaufman, Tampa; Floyd Lay, Lakeland, and Tom Love, Chipley. The schedule: Wednesday: 3:30 p. m. ss A St. Paul's, St. ‘'g vs the Bolles School, Jacksor- ville; Class!\C, St. Joseph's. Jack- sonville vs Groveland. 4:30 p. m.,Class B, Cross City | vs Eustis; Class AA, Lee vs St Petersburg; 7:15 p. m., Class B Olph vs Alachua;. Class AA, Jack- son vs Jefferson; 8:15 p. m., Class C, Venice - Ncomis vs Cedar Key; Class A, Lake Wales ys P. K. Yonge. Thursday 3:30 p. m., Class B, Malohe vs | St. Anthony, Ft. Lauderdale; Class AA, Ft. Lauderdale vs Hillsbor- ough; 4:30 p. m., Class C. Wewa- hitchka vs Allentown ; Class A, Redlands vs Mulberry; 7:15 p. m., | Class C, Chumuckla vs Hilliard; | lass A, Seabreeze vs Marianna; 8:15 p. m., Class B, Paxton vs Miami Gesu; Class AA , Miami Senior vs Pensacola. ' Beach, site of the Rochester and! Semifinals will be played Friday | at 3:30, 4:30, 7:15 and 8:15 p. m. New Factories Started In Sicily ROME.—(?).—Ninety new fac- ries have been started in Sicily since last fall backed by the government, to increase industrialization of the | heavily populated island. The government is granting special tax concessions to new tries starting there. The new factories include 20 for food and sweets. processing, 10 chemical and pharmaceutical factories, 12 for building ma- terials, nine mechanical indus- tries, eight wine-processing plants, five textile ‘mills, five paper mills, four small oil re- finery establishments, ‘and others engaged in glassware, shoes and leather goods, and electro-me- chanical production. = Peters: | in a campaign. | indus- | SPORT SHORTS SARASOTA (?—Eignteen - year- old Marlene “Bauer won $350 and set a new woman's record of 71 ‘ when she won her first prc’essional ‘golf tourney, the Sarasota Open, \here Sunday. | Miss Bauer, playing her home j course at the Sarasota Bay Coun- | try Club, scored 35-36, eight under | women’s par and one under men’s par. Tampa’s Babe Zaharias; Louise Suggs, Carrolton, Ga. Betsy ' Rawls, San Antonic, Tex.; and Bet- ‘ty Bush, Hammond, Ind., tied in |second place with 73’s and won $156.25 each, | ST. AUGUSTINE (®—A record | 1,600 spectators Sunday watched two unseeded tenni§ players defeat Bobby Riggs, New, York, and Ee- uador’s Francisco (Pancho) Segu- ra for the doubles crown ¢: the | National Professional Clay Courts Tennis Tournament. Jimmy Evert, Ft. Lauderdale, | and Joe Fishbach, New York, won jthe title 6-2, 6-2, 0-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a | match that was carried over from | Saturday after the third set when | Evert collapsed of a stcmach up- set. ‘ Riggs and Segura were declared |the winner ky default Saturday | when Evert was unab‘s to continue | play, but they turned down the itie and insisted on continuing the match Sunday, Before the doubles final, Segura defeated Riggs 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 for the |pro clay courts singles crown. | .ORMOND BEACH (®—Winner oi: THIS WEEK ONLY! 1IG-ZAG & j j } ! » On the 36th hole Miss Re-nack ov- the 23rd annual wemen’s South At- ' dreds of years old. With the Purchase of Your Machine—- ALL-PURPOSE SEWING ATTACHMENT WITH IT YOU CAN MAKE STITCHES Saves you time and money, too. Make sturdy Zig-Zeg stitch- es that last years and years longer. ONHOLES day was 19 - year - old Barbara Romack, Sacramento, Calif. She defeated Edean Anderson Helena, Mont., i-up in the 36-20'e finals. Miss Romack was 1-up at the end of the first 18 holes, lost it on the 26th but regained it on the 27th. Cardinal Fxecutive Here . ershot the green and two-putted ‘for a five. Miss Anderson needed {to sink a three-foot putt to win | | the hole and even the match, but she missed tt. _ Miss Anderson was runner - up jin last year’s South Atlantic tour. ney. MIAMI (Pw. A. (Dub) Pagan lis the new Dixie amateur’ golf | champion. The West Palm Beach fireman | won the 29th anrual event Sunday | ie tke Miami Country Club course | vith a brilliant 8 and 6 victory over Joe Brooke, University o! | Miami junior from Philade!phia. FORT LAUDERDAL™ w— sic | ® | Street, Kansas City, Mo.. set > | jTace record ¢” 3 minutes 17 sec- | ‘onds Sunday in winring the Gov- jernor’s Cup Race, feature even‘ jof thé fifth annual Fort Lauder- dale Powerboat Regatta. | Street defeated Ray Gassner, St | Petersburg, and defending cham- |pion Thom Cooper, St. Lovis. *t¥ also won be-h heats in the 135 | jeubic inch hydroplane class, | | PALM BEACH (The 45th nual South Florida champio' | golf tournament for amateur | opens here today with 47 player: | | entered. | An 18 - hole qualifying round wil! be played today, follc.ved by match play running through Friday. an out yesterday at the C and D farm club o club, iollowing Wickers’ tions. Field Stadium. Shannon is the ¢ The a hot freshman season in pro ball last year. TAMPA (®#—The annual 18-ho'¢ golf tournament for base'sall writ- ers covering spring training camps will be held here Tuesday an< | Wednesday. | Lou Smith of the Cincinrati ;quirer is the defending champion. Coneh Tennis Squad Bows To Crack Coral Gables Netmen in Mlorida Net Play | If only 15,000 attend today’s pro- * D Sellers gram, total attendance will exceed Ly ma a Hic And the 768,403 recora set in 1946. Wag- Carey-Reberts Duo ering this year will exceed 60 mil- Capture Only Key lion, dollars, by far the best in) ‘Wiasen\id opincdoes Florida histcry. faleah had two two - million-§ The Conch te |dollar days for’ the first time this Leame the 29th. st , Season and also wrote new records |. for the. value of purses on one ;day’s program ($125,000 for nine |paeés Saturday), the daily double | | pool ($168,502) and total handle for Jone race ($333,879), | TALLAHASSEE (® — Florida |State University’s Dwight (Bud) | Marsee wasn't even in the running | Sunday when the 36 - hole finals lof the George Washington Birth- |day Tournament got underway, but he ended the match with the iitle and @ medal score c! 292. Marsee was nine strokes behind Bill (Dynamite) Goodloe, Valdosta, Ga., when the finals began. Good- loe took an 80-76 to slip to a third place 298 tie with Tampa’s Dick Montney. an. MIAMI (#—Hialeah race cours closes its most successful seasor in 25 years c* operation today and @ | Florida’s racing program moves to In Sf Gulfstream Park for the final 41 ff 0u days. Lynn must be given | amount of credit. She has: bee: | plugging away all year with ane ) discouragement after another put | she never gave up. squad be- week she defeated Shirley Tru- ht victim of *¢22U in a ladder match for the . irst time jin the last four meet Coral Gables net) ings and earned a spot against team which is unoffi Y €On-|the Gables. And against the idered the iorem high school | Gables she really played. In her team in the country. It was in-|! finest exhibition of all around deed a delight to watch these/tennis she defeated Carol Loe high ranking stars in action and! pig 6-2, 6-4, “At last everything ; it brought to view top-flight ten-| worked at once and Lynn walk nis to many in Key West for the | ed off the court a very proud and first time. Although they were | happy girl. beaten v hancily as was to be| “Garey and expected : ful alhare to finally defeat the very) jteam, the Conchs were not by| steady team of Bob Roche ‘and |any means humiliated. Both the| Bob Bayly. They emerged vic- | boys team and the girls went | torious by the scores of 2-6, 6-4, | down 6-1 and it is an honor that) 6.9, ‘ | | they were able to escape without) Against the top stars there was being shutout. In all the sets the | nothing that could be done. Na- local players pulled off fine shots|tional Indoor Champ Dave and kept the high flying Gables| Harum, Canadian Boys Champ wizards on their toes. | Jeff Arnold, Orange Bowl Chamy Winners for Key West were| Karol Fageros and the other top Lower California is rich in min | Lynn Sellers for the girls and | stars were just a little too much, erals and some workings are hun- | the doubles team of Leo Carey} !t was really an honor to see) and Frank Roberts for the boys, them. and play against them, the powerful Roberts fough Gentiemen: | would NAME —— ‘ ADDRESS - * NEW MOTOR « NEW SEW LIGHT © NEW CARRYING CASE * NEW 5-SPEED FOOT CONTROL = city —— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN AMPION younger Walter will campaign Finally last! CAL eee ee 2S eS © atlas Sew-Vac Stores, Inc. 2 209 S. MIAMI AVE., MIAMI irector of the St. Louis Class B, with the Other results? BOYS Jeff Arnold d. Don Cruz 6-0.°" 6-1 Howard Rosen d. Frank Rob- erts 6-0, 6-4 (these are the first games that Howard has lost in H. 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