The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1952, Page 4

ae ae Bayview Park | 2-"tand John, tocal high schoo! tennis campaigners pulled | Paged THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CRUZ BOYS; La Semana Alegre’ Tourney Finals Set For Tonight The Cruz brother, Don off a surprise upset victory Over the seasoned net com- | bination of Howard James and Earl Yates 6-4, 2-6 and 6-4. The victory sends the rothers into the finals of | the La Semana Alegre} Dowibles Tournament to- night against Bob Smith- Jack Sellers duo tonight on the Bayview Park courts. Smith and Sellers took the measure of Paul Es- quinaldo and John Me- Nulty in a tense hardfonght Thursday, March 6, 1952 ‘Following Through Menibers of the Tomato League Baseball clubs formed a ball .eam and went to Tampa for a weekend | of fun anti at the same time play-! ed a club in that city managed by | Mario Sanchez, « former resident} of Key West who now resides in! Tampa. | The local boys copped a 10-3 vic- tory over the st coast nine. The boys say that they had a wonderful time and are looking ‘or , a visit from the Tampa boys in July. | The Key West team iook craw-| fish, yellowtail and other kinds of fish with them and after the game } enjoyed a delicious fish iry | In looking over the Island City} Baseball loop records, we see ihat the ifftial tilt in the 2nd half was} ee is last night’s semi- The initial match proved to be the feature of the evening as the younger Cruz boys came battling up from behind to-edge the James-Yates team. James was hitting well at the start of the. coritest and in the second set he and his partner held a 3-0 Jead but James began to. miss- fire and the Cruz boys finished strong to take the verdict. Esquinaldo and MacNulty in the second match had plenty of set, points but could not pull the match out of the fire as the Smith-Sellers combination show- “ed the fans some fine tennis that ate up their opponents. Tonight the Cruz boys will meet Smith-Sellevs in the finals in a match which. has all the earmarks of a thriller, All Tour contestants are playing some, of the best tennis of their career and _a large turnout is expected. Match time is 7:00 p.m. LaMotta Gets Draw With Hairston Jake Says He Is Going To Keep On Fighting; Wants Maxim Bout ’ DETROIT ( —Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion won't have to hang up his boxing ves. The 30-year-old fighter, showing the strain of 12 years campaigning in the professional ring, won a 10- round draw with up-and-coming. Eugene Hairston Wednesday night. : Scme thought the Bronx Bull was pretty lucky ‘at that. On the eve of the bout, LaMotta said he would retire if the’ 28-year- old Hairston beat him decisively. Now LaMotta says he is goihg to keep on fighting. He wants a shot at Joe Maxim’s light heavy- weight title. Hairston Jost no prestige in the bout which he hoped would earn ae a chance at the middleweight tle. LaMotta’s tactic of putting on a dazzling flurry at the end of each reund paid off. Both judges scored it as even 50 points for each boxer. Referee Mortis Shermah yave the verdict margin, Under Michigan boxing rules the majority decision made it a draw, Protesting the decision, Hair- ston’s manager Mike Micle bel- “Hairston forces the fight all the way, LaMotta fights only in spurts at the end of each round. There’s no justice to the way they score here.” LaMotta weighed 168%, a 7'4- pound advantage over Hairston. A ctewd of 10,039 paid a gross gate of $31,457.30, BILLY ROBERTS WINS (Continued From Page One) Hank Day was the official time- keeper, Roberts will represent Monroe County in Miami on March Mth against the Dade County Cham- pion and a win there will send him té the area contest ih Palm Beach. The winner of that com- petition will compete in Tampa or Tallahassee in the Department finals followed by the nationals in Baton Rouge. The winner said, following his victory, that “he was happy and proud for his school and hoped that he would do justice to it in the regional contest.” The son of Will P. Robetts of 529 William Street, Billy will at- tend Florida Southern Unive: ty next year on a scholarship to study for the Episcopalian priest- 1 hood. Roberts Sr. said last night | , that he was “happy for Bill; he worked hard for it.” Young Roberts was coached by to Hairston by a 652-49 Pp; egs Field Stadium. After that 20 games were played in the second | - half of the schedule and to date three games have gone into the books-in the playoffs between the Strand Theatre, first half champ- ions and the Gulfstream nine. In one of two exhibition games, | Chita Baker who hung up his glove | several years ago opposed another | retired hurler. Manolo Acevedo when a picked team of oldtimers } opposed the Strand. Baker held the} movie boys to 8 hits, fanning five and allowed only 4 runs. The Brooks Stars defeated: the Miami Giants 6-2 in the other exhibition start. The Closest to a shutout in this} years campaign came on Jan. 18th| when the Gulfstream won over the | Strand in a 5-1 ballgame. Qn Feb. Sth the longest game of! the year was played between the | Gulfstream and the Brooks with the foddstore boys taking the ver- dict in the 13th inning. Each club scored but one run in 12 frames of play and the Brooks scored one in ght first of the 13th but the Gulf- stream came back with 3 runs in their Half of the inning. ‘It happened this way: Leaddff min Andes coubled and scored af- ter two outs on a single by George Lastres to tie the secre and then John Cruz poled a long homer over the fence to put the ballgame on jee. SPORT | ST. PETERSBURG ® — A field of 181 other golfers began trying today to break the 3-tournament winning streak of handsome Jack Burke Jr. i They began teeing off in the 18th annual St. Petersburg Open at 7 ao im. Burke, the Houston, Tex., pro who has won the Texas Open at San Antonio, the Houston Open and the Batca Rouge Open in a row, is rated as the man to beat. The man iiguréd most likely. to do, it is,Bobby Locke, the portly South Afri¢an who has just. added the Mexican National Open to his many crowns. Others highly regarded. include dim Ferrier, San Francisco, the seed champion; Tommy Bolt, urham, N.-C., winner of the Los Angeles Open and runnerup to Burke at Baton Reuge; Johnny ‘almer, Badin, N. C.; sand John Barnum, Grand Rapids, Mich. Bolt, Palmer and Barnum tied for low, pro honors in a warming-up pro-amateur tourney Wednesday. Each shot 67, five under par for the 6,233-yard Lakewood Ccantry Club course. GAINESVILLE (® — With three new champions already assured, the State High School Basketball Tournaments today finish _first- round action. Jacksonville Jackson, defending Class AA champion, fell before Tampa Jeffersca, 40-37, Wednes- day. Class B and C winners of 1951 did not survive group tourna- {ments this year. | That left only 1951 Class A cham- pion Daytona Beach Seabreeze in | the running for this year's four \titles to be decided Saturday. | Seabreeze tangles with Marian- {na at 7:30 p. m. today. In Class AA action, Ft. Lauderdale meets Tam- pa Hillsborough at 3:30 p. m. and | Pensaccla meets Miami High at }8:15 p.m. | In Class C, Wewahitchka meets Allentown at 4:30 p.m. and Chu- muckla meets Hilliard at 7:15 p.m. St. Petersburg defeated Jackson- | ville Lee, 58-43, to jdin Jefferson jin Class AA semi-finals. |. Jacksonville's Bolles ran up the highest score of opening day games in whipping St. Petersburgh St. Paul's, 67,26, and Gainesville P.K. | Yonge upset Lake Wales, 45,44, in | Class A. Lake Wales was unbeaten in the fegular season with 21 straight. Eustis beat Cross City, 53-45, and Tampa Our Lady of Perpetual { ! Mrs. Marion Stark of the High School faculty. He was the win- ner last year in the “I Speak For Dethocracy” contest. ieee beat Alachua, 47-38, in Class Class C produced a pair of close ones. Groveland won over Jackson- Pedro Aguila a played on January 6th at the Wick-) ; | gore, Atlanta, 5.and 4 Wednesday. | WALTER G. SHANNON, Chief of the St. Louis Cardinal B, C and D farm system (left) spoke Mond: Key West Little League baseballers left, standing) arranged the mi ITH Futire Big-Leagners Hear Cardinal Rxecniive eeting. SO ville St. Joseph's, 58-55, and Cedar Key edged Venice-Nokomis, 41-38. | ST. AUGUSTINE (® — Medalist | Marjorie. Lindsay .and- defending | Champion Mary Lena Faulk tangle | today in the feature quarter-final | match of the Flcrida East Coast | Woman's Golf Tournament. Miss | Lindsay, Curtis Cup Golfer from Decatur, Ill., defeated Barbara Kil- | Miss Faulk, ‘Thomasville, Ga., | eliminated Mrs. S. A. Emerson, | Dayton, 0., 5 and +3. Another important match today was. between Bonnie Randolph, Columbus, O., atid Polly Riley, Ft. Worth, Tex. Miss Riley, twice champion here, won over Marian McFarland; Orlando, 8 and 7. Miss Randolph beat/Mrs. Maurice Glick, Baltimore, 2 and 1. Other quarter: - finals matched Barbara Romack, Sacramento, Calif., with Ellen Gery, Barrington, R and Kathy McKinnon, Lake Ww , with Bea McWane, Bir- mingham,: Ala. | Miss Romack beat Mary Gibson | Hume, Owensboro, Ky., 9 and 7; Miss Gery defeated Marnie Polk, | Chattanooga, 5 and 3; Miss Mc- | Kinnon turned. back Frances. Rich, Bainbridge, Ga., 3 and 2; and Miss McWane ousted Mary Ann Downey Baltimore, 2 and 1. CLEARWATER (®—Ted Wells, the aeronaliti¢al: engineer from Wichita, Kas., is at his usual place in the lead of the annual Midwinter Snipe Championships here. The defending champion won two heats Wednesday to“ amass 4,569 peints. - Owen Duffy, Chattgy came in seeon aiid fourth to bring | hig total to 4,982" points. In third ‘pidge is a hometown skipper, Francis Seavy, with 4,194. Sea inished fourth and sixth Wednesday. —_— TAMPA (The University of Tampa's néw head coach is Mar- celino Huerta, line coach under Frank SinkWieh here the past two years. Sinkwieh, former Georgia All- America halftack, resigned March | 1 to go ifto business. Dr. E, C. Nance, president of | the university, announced Huerta’s elevation. Huerth was a football star at Hillsborough High School here and at the University of Flor- ida, playing guard. tanocga, Tenn., ST. PETERSBURG — (#—Ken Recker, Winter Haven, ousthot the nation’s best to win the Randle Trophy Match :n the annual Mid- winter Small Bore Rifle Matches here Wednesday. Recker shot 400 by 28X, getting all 40 shots in the bull's eye and 28 of them in the little “X” circle in the heart cf the bull’s eye. In this match the contestants fired a 100 yards with any sight. PALM BEACH #—Four former champions started play in the | South Florida Golf Championship | Monday but only one was left whn the semi-finals came up today. W. A. (Dub) Pagan, West Palm Beach Greman who wen the tour- nament in 1941 and 1947, scored a 6 and 4 victory over George Rsa- mussen, Palm Seach, to reach the semi-finals and will play Robert E. Jones, Baltimore, today Jones won over W. B. Merry, West Palm Beach, 4 and 3, Wednesday. Merry won the tour. nament in 1945. J. Wolcott Brown, Manasquan, N. J., defeated Harry McCready, Virginia Beach, Va., 1-up, and will | play John Péel, Palm Beach, in the other semifinals match. Peel trimmed Tim Holland, Rockville Center, N.-¥., 3 and 1. Holland was co-meédatist with a 69. NEW YORK (®—For the 1ith- time in 12 weeks Clyde Lovellette, Kansas’ big All-America, holds the point-scc-ing leadership of major college bsaketball players, aceerd- ing to figures released today ty | the National Collegiate Athletic | Bureau. | But he’s just two-fifths of a point ahead of Dick Groat of ‘Duke, an- | cher -All-Ame . Lovellette has scored 580 points in 22 games for. an average of 26.4. Groat ha$ hit average of 26, The only time all season Lovel- lette has not: been at.the head cz the class was three weeks ago when both Mark Workman’ of West Virginia and Bobby Pettit of Louisiana State squeezed ahead of him by one-halt of one point per game. - Pettit. and .Chuek Darling ci Towa are tied for third'place with a 25.5 averagé. Frank Slevy of Furman is fifth with 245. CHICAGO (M—Young, Charles’ A. Comiskey II Stalked out of his family’s White Sox baseball orgar- ization Wednesday night and said he might be gone a “lifetime.” He got a job with the Liberty, Breadeasting System, which fe-| cently filed court suit against most of the major league baseball clubs for .12. million. dollars. Comiskey said he would be a vice president in charge cf all sports coverage. His salary wasn’t disclosed but it was reported close to $20,000 a year. The handsome 26-year-old de- scendant of the late famed “Old | thé Be Roman,” for whom he was named, resigned as Sox vice president al- most two months ago. He siad he wanted more money than he was getting ($10,000 a year) and some sort of definite contract. Some radio tubes are so small that workers must use microscopes td assemble them. Some of the latest walkie-talkie radios that both send and receive ure about the size of a loaf of CAMP _. NOTES —_ Whitey PHOENIX, Ariz. (» Lockmian, the new No, 1 hitter jfor 701 points in 27 starts for an}the New-York Giants, is perfectly happy being assighed ti the top the batting order. “Tthink my hitting No. 1 is going to improve my average,” cc. mented the first baseman. ‘‘Most lof the time I’m going to be up there on my, own and won't required to pyish anyone around.” Lockman hit .282 last year and drove in 73. runs. VERO BEACH — Newest the phenoms ‘in the Brooklyn Dod- ger camp is Johnny’ Podres, teen-age pitcher. * Johnny, who has had only Class D &xperience, has hurled six score- less innings in intra-squad games, and ‘has nét given up, a. Walk. Yatikees pitching ‘staff. Hogue, a ‘reliever who throws variet} itig trouble ° sticking. BRADENTON (® goitig to bunt in every game. Swift Sain tunted safely and alsc a triple in a practice con- test Wednesday and Manage- Tom- my Holmes said Jethroe’s bunting might be the answer to the Tribe’s bread and weigh about six and a half pounds, including batteries. bar" one-run losses. a year ago. “He's going to hunt at least once ST; P RSBURG Ww —“Junk- ri ae Hogue, the only un- itcher in the majors last meas to have to fight for a spot on the’ 1952 New York Of ‘stuff with fo outstand- itch—hence the name “Junk- ade nine appearances for Be.nbérs in ’51 ahd didn't give tip a rif, Bat there’s so much mound talent aroufid, he niay have National League infielders ‘better be on their toes ‘this séasbn against fleet Sam Jethroe of the, Boston. Brayes—te's oa ~ Citizen Staff Photo lay to the above group of at the Bayview Park diamond. City Recreation Director Paul Albury (second from in ‘every. game for us,” said Holmes. “I tirix he’s learned he niust }do it: mere offén to make himself a better bail player.” “Jethroe’s battign mark in 1951 -280. was Trout cut the palm of his pitching hand Wednesday while trying to load, the Detroit Tigers’ pitching on | Machine while it was in totion. ner Jack Home! said the injury of | WS. not serious TUCSON, Ariz. ® — In the highly Competitive contest for -n- | Cleveland’s right field position, this point. “Harry Simpson hasn't looked ” said Indian Manager oz. “But Kennedy has. If 1 had tc pick the right fielder right now it would be Kennedy.” be : ST. PETERSBURG (® — Red ® | Schoendienst worked out at second since joining the St. ‘is Cardi- ters. Schoendienst, the Cards’ veteran second baseman, had played first base thus far in practice with Man- ager Eddie Stanky doing the work at_second. Stanky, who hopes to be a play- ing manager, indicated, however, that the change isn’t permanent. a By JOE REICHLER CLEARWATER (®—Three years age he was a minor league man- | ager, his Lrief and profitless major league. career .apparently, behind him, Today Delbert Wilber is the | first-string éateber: for the Phila- staff, believed by miany to’ be the | vest in baseball. That's the Horatio Alger story of this resolite -receiver who re-'| fused to heed the advice of the | St. Louis Cardinal front office when it told him to forsake the playing end for a career as a pilot. This is the same person who returned | unheralded from the mintrs las: year and proceeded to win the No. 1 catching job wvay from Andy | Sominick; long a fixture with the ar Litthe Indien Dearne Hoes lesson on 4 batter at spring training camp at Phoenix, Ariz, His pupil is six-year-old Paul Gachuvin, a Jemez Indian from New Mexico. ; (®) Wirephoto | PITCHER JIM HEARN of the New. York Gidnts gives a in how to put the “Indian sign” Phils. ~ you'll never be anything tut a | LAKELAND \® — Pitcher Dizzy | Bob Kennedy is far in front at ! base for the first time Wednesday | nals at their spring training’ quar- | delphia Phillies’ knee-deep pitching ' -SELLERS VIE TONIGHT: ‘Lee Wins GG Heavyweight Championship Knocks Out Oliver | Walker Of Ft. Pierce And Then Seores Win Over Harold Johnson NEW YORK ® — From Fly: | weight Jackie Spurgeon to Heavy weight Norvel Lee, the Bast has assembled team of golden gloves mpions it figures will rip the to ribbons in the annual inter s here Mareh 24. squad are veterans Oi the compe | tition, | Heavyweight Champion Lee, iwo. ‘time winner of the National AAU, j has won his last two inter-city | bouts—as a champioa in 1950 and an alternate last year, ; Floyd Patterson, the 175-pound titlist, was Eastern middleweight king a year ag. ‘The rest of the squad, determined in a 24-bout program Wednesday night at the Garden, is made up of a group of :.ard-hitting, poised youngsters who Should heii their }own in any company. New York furnished fcur, or half, ‘of the Eastern champions—Patter- son; Ernest Anthony, 147; Tommy | Roberts, 135; and, Spurgeon; 112. No other city got more, than one crown out of the big slugfest. ! Lee was Washil "s only win- | ner. The middleweight is Neal Riv- | ers, a hard-hitting schoolboy from | Niagara Falls, N. Y,. The feather- weight is Daniel Joseph, Lowell, | Mass. The bantamweight is Ronald | Woodland, a Philadelphia — Air | Force corpcral. stationed at Samp: son (N. ¥.) AFB. The 27-year-old Lee maintained his national heavyweight suprem- he was optioned to Rochester where he caught nearly every | game, batted over .300 and was |named to the International, Leag- ue’s all-star team. The Cards at- tempted to recall him in September but all four options had bee ex- hausted and Del was drafted by the Phillies. | Deep Sea and Sport Fishing LEGION CAPTAIN JAKIE KEY Night Tarpon Fishing Telephone 9176 and 1962-3 2320 PATTERSON AVE. MEMBER CHARTER BOATMEN'S ASSoc. Two Motors REEF AND DEEP SEA FISHING Charter Boat Docks apt. Roy Potter (U, $. 1) 1208 Newton St. Phone 410-W KEY WEST ,FLORIDA C Roosevelt Bivd. | ‘Two members of the East's hew | | Shakespe Conch Net Squad Takes To Road The Key West High Scho! Tennis team takes to the read teday when they go te Sovih | Broward ior a big weekend of tennis action againsi that scheoi. The focals will with fhe same South Broward team who earlier | in the season inflicted a 4-3 loss | on the Canchs in a match play ed here. The giris squad which has won 9 out of it’s 12 starts to $ distinct favorite over the upstate netters. Diana “‘Poochie’ Fern. . andez is expected to held down the number one spot for the gitls _ with Doleres Villate, June Yaies, , Vita Borroso, Lynn Sellers snd Shirley Trudeau foliowing in that ~ order. , : The beys will have their work cut-out for them when they tackle | two giants of the schoolboy fen. | nis world in the persons of Jim . Shakespeare and Dave Horton, | both of whom won easy victory . victories in their early season , starts against the Key Westers. who is ranked fiith . in the state, will probably be _ opposed by Frank Roberts. Hor- ton, last years State Hardcourt, Champion also figures to give , hardtime. 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