The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 6, 1952, Page 5

Grid Prognosticator Claims Picking Winners Is Tougher |Has Hard Luck Than Apples; Sees Spartan Win| With Injuries By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK ®—Who says that Picking football winners is as easy as picking apples? Not this fore- caster, who had only 36 correct selections in 49 decisions last Sat- urday. That’s an average of .735. Last Saturday’s debacle dragged the seasonal mark down to .771 on figures of 229 won, 68 lost. Here are the uninsured winners of this week end’s games: Michigan State over Indiana: NCAA statistics show that Michi- gan State has the most fearsome attack in the land. The statistics Bay nothing about Indiana’s de- fense. Oklahoma over Notre Dame: Wuarterback Crowder and center | Catlin, Oklahoma’s C-C boys, to} turn the tide even though the game is played in South Bend. The game 4s your TV morsel Saturday after- Boon. It should be just about the kest game you'll get to see in your | Hiving room all season. Georgia Tech over Army: Two teams of whirlwind speed. In addi- tion to all that speed Georgia Tech has an awesome backfield trio in Turner, Teas and Hardiman. UCLA over Oregon State: Should be easy unless UCLA relaxes too much, Southern California over Stan- ‘ord: Too much Trojan defense. Kansas over Nebraska: The in- ry lists are about of equal length ut Kansas is superior in most other respects. Tennessee over Louisiana State: Since that 7-0 setback by Duke, Tennessee has developed into a bowl-bound football team. Purdue over Minnesota: There Is at least one upset in the Big 10 but this doesn’t appear to be the place for it. Purdue on its way to the Rose Bowl. * Duke over Navy: A squeaker. Texas over Baylor: Arkansas beat Baylor, Texas crushed Ar- kansas. Off comparative scores. Penn over Georgia: Some day those Quakers will break loose and this could be the Saturday. Princeton over Harvard: The -wenerable Big Three series is re- sumed and for the first time in a decade all have fashionable rec- ords. Princeton, however, has met the stauncher opponents. Finishing the rest in a hurry: Friday night Detroit over Boston College, Bucknell over George Washington, Miami of Ohio over Marquette, Vanderbilt over Miami of Florida. 4. % jturday East: ity over Amherst, Fordham over Clemson, Connecti- cut over Brown, Columbia over Dartmouth, Holy Cross over Col- gate, Rutgers over Lafayette, Maine over Bowdoin, Syracuse over Penn State, Coast Guard over RPI, Temple over Boston University, Wesleyan over Wil- liams, iidwest: Toledo over Bradley, | Mi nm over Cornell, Colorado » Missouri, Iowa State over | Drake, Mlinois over Iowa, Wiscon- in over Northwestern, Ohio State r Pitt, Villanova over Tulsa, Wyoming over Kansas State. South: Alabama over Chatta- nooga, Kentucky over Tulane, Au- burn over Mississippi State, Wash- ington & Lee over North Carolina State, Furman over Presbyterian, Davidson over Richmond, South Carolina over The Citadel, Vir- ginia over North Carolina, West Virginia over VMI, William and Mary over VPI. Southwest: Mississippi over Houston, Rice over Arkansas, Southern Methodist over Texas | A & M, Texas Christian over Wake Forest. Far West: Washington over Cali- fornia, Idaho over Montana, New Mexico over Denver, Colorado A and M over Utah, Washington State ‘over Oregon. SPORTS MIRROR By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Col. Humberto Mariles of Mexico won his fifth major victory, individual championship challenge, at the |Madison Square Garden horse show. | FIVE YEARS AGO — Fifty-three !Eastern colleges formed a new |Eastern College Athletic Confer- | ence. TEN YEARS AGO — Commis- |sioner K. M. Landis fined Frank Crosetti and Joe Gordon $250 each |for a run in with umpires in the third game of the World Series. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Col- gate was the only undefeated and |untied team in the nation which | did not have a point scored against | it, | Sport Notes: Did-You-Know-That Department —On June 27, 1912, five straight Boston batters reached base against Brooklyn on four hits and a walk, in the ninth inning, but the Braves failed to score. Brooklyn won, 9-8. Here is how it happened. McDonald, first up, went out. Campbell singled and was caught off first, Rucker to Daubert. Sweeney and Kirke singled. Titus walked, Houser was credited with a single when his bounder hit Titus on the baselines. No runs, four | hits, one walk, three left. Today's Puzzler: 1, What player did not hit into a single double play in an. entire season but did so in his first time at bat the following year? 2. What regular went through an entire season without hitting a home run but rapped a four-bagger his first time up the following year? Answers: 1. Augie Galan, Chicago Cubs, 1935-1936. 2. Dick Porter, Cleveland In- dians, 1933-1934. The first heavyweight champion- ship fight to be broadcast was the Dempsey-Carpentier battle on July 2, 1921, from Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, N. J, 46M37 KHARAPLEECE CARDIGAN — Jantren’s handsome coat- cut cardigan, action-teilored Kharafleece . . . wonder febrie thet looks refuses te wrinkle, washes well reinforced .. . of rich sof Jentren-exelusive rich as cashmere, . dries fast. Knit berder is ribbon- cuffs are ribbed to stay snug. Two handy pockets and smart leather buttons. 34-46 14.95 KANTOR'S Mens Shop Tulane Mentor By The Assoctated Press Easy - going Raymond (Bear) Wolf, whose infectious good humor belies his nickname, could easily be pardoned if he became a snarl- ing, truculent boor. Before the season began, the Tulane coach lost his top halfback, Ronnie Kent, who suffered a frac- tured knee and was declared out for the season. And yesterday Wolf ruefully announced that his next-best halfback, Les Kennedy, would be lost for the rest of the season because of a broken bone in his left wrist. Kennedy was dis- abled in the Missssippi State game last week, So Wolf sighed, moved Jim Part- ridge to the left-half slot and hoped for the best. Tulane faces rebound- ing Kentucky this week. At Lexington, the Southeastern Conference’s other ‘‘Bear”--Bryant of Kentucky--reported he was sat- isfied with his Wildcats after a light scrimmage. Bryant said there would be no more contact work for his squad before the Tulane game. Murray Warmath eancelled a scheduled scrimmage for his Mis- sissippi State warriors to avoid adding to a rather formidable in- jury list. Maroon quarterback Jack Park- er, the country’s leading scorer, and fullback Joe Fortunato--both hurt in the Tulane game last week-- participated in a_ signal drill. Warmath hopes they will be ready for Auburn. And Auburn hopes it will be ready for Parker. Coach Ralph Jor- dan devoted most of a lung work- out to defensive measures designed to harass the Mississippi State jack-rabbit. Offensively, halfback Charles Littles stood out for the Plainsmen, racing to two scrimmage touch- downs and setting up another with a 30-yard scamper. Louisiana State is revamping its offense after last week’s 28-0 past- ing by Mississippi. Coach Gaynell Tinsley shifted Jerry Marchand to halfback to make room for Leroy Labat at fullback. Labat, the bril- liant “black stallion” of 1951, has been hampered by injuries this season. He looked good in yester- day’s workout. LSU meets power- ful Tennessee this week. Tennessee gave its defensive line a rough scrimmage, and tackle Doug Atkins joyfully broke up play after play. The offensive unit prac- ticed passing and kicking. Jimmy Wade looked good passing and Pat Oleksiak topped the punters, Georgia Tech, earliest Sugar Bowl nominee in history, took its usual light mid-week workout. The Engineers set up defensive patterns against Army plays and polished their vaunted running game. Alabama’s injury list swelled to 12 when halfback J. D. Roddam and guard Jeff Moorer were felled by flu. Clell Hobson, the Tide’s No. 1 quarterback, also missed the light "Bama drill because of a cold. Six Alabama ends are on the ailing list. Georgia drilled against Pennsyl- vania’s single-wing attack. The Bulldogs leave today for Philadel- phia and their first look at the single-wing system this year. | Mississippi emphasized offense. | The Rebs. meet Houston Saturday night. | Florida, with no opponent this week, continued to look ahead to Tennessee. The Gators travel to ' Knoxville next week, well aware that an upset victory over the Vols could insure a bow! bid. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK —The last snowy day we drove away from Larry MacPhail’s 800-acre truck garden down in Maryland the distinguished | redhead was in retirement and up |to his hips in heavy, underslung | black cattle which were beginning to win blue ribbons in nearby cow competitions. Having laid down the heavy bur- den of running the New York Yan- kees and banked the check for one million dollars, MacPhail was a happy, contented man. His charm- ing wife Jean was happy too to see the old restlessness finally gone from her husband. His only inter- ests were the bovines and the Pleasant life about him. There was one old stone struc- ture on the grounds, nothing like ‘the fancy quarters provided for the cattle, and we recall dimly that a number of lonesome look- ing Mares were staring out from their stalls MacPhail said they didn’t Signify anything. Either he was just giving the animals house Toom as 2 favor to Alf Vanderbilt or he had bought them cheaply from the young sportsman, we don know which. At any rate, be hac no intention of getting serious abou‘ race horses. Larry was throug! with sports in all its branches. Well, it just goes to show. That was something less than five win- ters ago, and friends insist this is the same MacPhail whe sold $135,200 werth of colts and fillies at the last Saratoga auction, and $116,200 worth at the one before hat, + We alec le the same MacPhal. Following Pedro Aguilar The Strand Theater club has scheduled two the coming weekend. On Saturday afternoon, they will cross bats with the highly touted USS Bushnell nine. The Navy squad ffias been drilling regularly and are going to be tough to beat. The movie boys, with Macias in the box and Roberts behind the plate will field a team that has beaten just about the best that they have come up against, baseball games for Then, on Sunday afternoon the Strand will tackle the USS Gilmore nine in what promises to be an- other tough test. In past contests between these two clubs, the action has been hot and heavy with the won-lost record just about even. The game is scheduled to get un- derway at 1:00 p. m. Khaki Rodriguez is expected to handle the hurling for the Strand with Roberts again getting the back stopping assignment. For the Gilmore it will be Lefty O’Rourke on the mound with Mace catching. Both of the games will be played on the Naval Station diamond. According to reports from the Cuban sporting scene, the govern- ment there has placed $43,000 in a fund for a four club baseball lea- gue which will go into action Nov- ember 17th at the Tropical Sta- dium in Havana. The league will be made up of strictly Cuban players and all action will be slated in the after- noon to avoid conflict with the “Winter League” which plays at night in the Grand Stadium, Key Westers will be interested to hear that Nap Reyes, who per- formed at third base for the Key West Conchs throughout the past season has been signed to manage one of the four clubs in the loop. And Pollo Rodriguez, who played here for the Strand Theater nine, will manage another. Tony Zardon will also pilot a team in the newly formed league. Rene Solis, Severino Mendez and | Arturo Bosch, all of whom saw! action here last year will perform | in the new combination. , The league will schedule con- tests four times a week. Play dur- ing the winter months will enable | the players to keep in shape for the FIL and other leagues in the states, with which they perform. In the Cuban Professional League which is well into their race to decide the Cuban championship, quite a few players familiar to Key West fans are seeing action, Yiqui DeSouza, who shortstopped for the Conchs and was later re- called to Tampa for the playoffs, is with the Marianao team and Fermin Guerra who backstopped and managed for the Havana is managing that club. He has several players who were with him in the FIL including Silvio Garcia, at third base, Raul Sanchez and Mike Fornielles both of whom went to the Senators la- ter, on his hurling staff. Guerra also has “Hooks” Jott on his Pitching staff. Ioott had a very | good season with the St. Peters- | burg Saints, including a July no- | hitter. Oscar Sirera and Billy Harris | of the Miami Sun Sox are cam- paigning with the Cienfuegos team in the same loop. Shortstop Hum- berto Fernandez is also with Cien- fuegos. | Gil Torres is up to his old tricks, winning all of his games for the ehampion Havana Reds. Scramble For NEW YORK ® — The scramble for teams for the Jan. 1 football bowl spectacles was on today with New Orleans’ Sugar Bowl out in front of the pack, Georgia Tech, unbeaten, untied and unsurpassed at the moment as a bowl attraction, agreed to Play in the Sugar Bowl yesterday, thus becoming one of the earliest bowl-bound teams since the New Year’s Day classics were started. Who the powerful Engineers, third- ranked in the Associated Press poll, will meet is anybody’s guess. The Rose Bowl at Pasadena, grand-daddy of the January spec- tacles, will, of course, match the Pacific Coast Conference and Big Ten champions. Dallas’ Cotton Bowl will have the Southwest Con- ference winner as host team, But the three conference races are far from settled, and nobody can say for sure at this date who'll be de- fending conference honors Jan. 1. The Miami Orange Bowl, fourth of the big four bowls, will hold a committee meeting this week end, and members declined to dis- cuss any possible teams until then. spokesman commented, how- ever, that “November is an im- portant month in football and we want to pick the best teams.” A rundown of the top 10 teams shows that only one other team, eighth-ranked Tennessee, is eligi- ble for a bowl bid. The Volunteers, who have appeared in many bowl games in past years, are still try- ing to live down an early season loss to Duke, which was whomped, 28-7, by Georgia Tech last Satur- lay. Michigan State, No. 1, is a mem- ber of the Big Ten, although not eligible for conference football competition until next year. Mary- land, No. 2, is barred by a Southern Conference ruling against bowl games. Oklahoma, No. 4, and Kansas, No. 7, are members of the Big Seven, which frowns on bowls, while UCLA, No. 5 will meet sixth- ranked Southern California Nov. 15 in the battle for Pacific Coast honors. Purdue, No. 9, is the current favorite to meet the UCLA-USC winner in the Rose Bowl, and Notre Dame, No. 10, does not go in for bowl games. Ike Will Be Most Sports Minded Chief Executive By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK # — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the . President- elect, is perhaps the most sports minded chief executive in our na- tion’s history. He was a football player at West Point, proud of the fact he once taekled the great Jim Thorpe. He took a brief fling at baseball in the Central League. Today — still at his old playing weight of 173 pounds—he shoots a bangup game of golf. When A. B. (Happy) Chandler was dismissed as commissioner of baseball more than a year ago, Eisenhower was among those con- sidered for the post. But his duties as NATO chief in Europe were too important. Ike is an avid sports fan. “Football is a tremendous spec- | tacle,” he says. “Remember I saw | my first game from the sidelines with Gus Dorais (Notre Dame) | throwing passes to the Rock | (Knute Rockne).” He told a group of sports figures OUR LOCAL BOYS: Our own Eggy Kerr has reached Seattle and will be home real soon. We are looking forward to seeing Eggy and we hope that in the near fu- | ture all of the boys will be home safe and sound. On the other hand we hear that Moe Henriquez has been accepted for Army service and will have to do his two year stretch----unless the conflict in.Korea ends before that | time and we certainly hope that | it does, | | | they say, who is president of Bowie | Race Track and who is putting in something like 14 hours a day getting the rebuilt plant ready for its fall meeting, which opens on Nov. 17, Under the driving force of the man who retired, the old Maryland track is preparing to put on two $50,000 added races, the Maryland Gold Cup for 2-year-olds Nov, 22 and the President's Plate Handicap Dec. 6. This is twice the figure Bowie ever put up for a race before Bowie has an entirely new track. It has new seven-furiong and mile and-a-quarter chutes and has been orettied up by two artificial lakes n its infield. j MacPhail’s New York backers originally thought of spending something like $700.00 on improve- ments as a Starter, but they should have known Larry better than that At last report he was estimated to have used wp sdout i% mil joe dollars and was showing bo lion dollars and 8! Showing Bo ‘There were about 3) million stu- dents of all types @ the United States in 1951, - | at a New York tete-a-tete recently: “Today I can go to a major league baseball game and come away a raving maniac.” Golf is the President - elect’s game today and he’s threatened to go away and play 10 days of golf as relaxation after the strenuous campaign. One of his regular playing part- ners in recent weeks has been Cliff Roberts of Augusta, and New York, who hosts the famous Masters Tournament in Georgia “Tke hits a long ball off the tee,” Roberts said. “He’s a very good golfer, regularly in the 80s." Eisenhower is more modest. He says his figure is 90 and up but acknowledged he fired a 79 two years ago at Blind Brook in Port Chester, N. Y., and recently had an 82. Roberts was with him when he shot the 82. “He had a birdie on the par four 14th,” Roberts said. “He had two good hits and sank a 12-foot putt.” Eisenhower carries in his bag a putter used by Jack Westland in the latter’s surprising triumph in the National Amateur Golf Cham- pionship at Seattle last summer. Westland, 47, ran for Congress from Washington. Ike wasn't an outstanding grid- iron star at the Point. He played fullbatk, did plunging duties and becked ap the line He recalled the game he played against Carlisle Indians. “It was 2 pleasure to see a guy like Thorpe running by.” he said. it was against Tufts in 1913 that Eisenhower suffered a torn carth lage im his knee, cutting short his athletic career. “It took five days ite straighten out the leg,” be said. ‘Thursday, November 6, 1952. TH! E KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 8 Bowl Bids Is |Newspapers Made Better Showing Than Pro Underway Now(Pollsters On Predicting Ike Victory, But No One Foresaw Actual Landslide NEW YORK wW—Several news- Paper surveys outdid the profes- sional pollsters this-year on the presidential election. However, no- body’s ear caught the rumble of the advancing Eisenhower land- slide. The Gallup, Roper and Crossley Polls all seemed to give Dwight D. Eisenhower an edge during the hours before Tuesday’s election. But none flatly picked him. The only professional. poll that did was Kenneth Fink’s Princeton Research Service. But his margin was far short of the actual one. An Associated Press survey of editors across the nation showed Eisenhower the probable winner in 20 states, and with an edge in eight, with a total of 327 electoral votes. He actually carried all 28 states, Samuel Lubell, who surveyed pre-election sentiment for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, said in advance that Eisenhower “should win.” Lubell terms him- self a reporter and not a pollster, and he said he rang doorbells in strategic communities. He found a definite switch from those who voted for President Truman in 1948 to Eisenhower in 1952. “There never was any doubt in my mind about Eisenhower,” he said after the election gave the general 39 states and 442 electoral votes. Democrat Adlai E. Steven- son got nine states and 89 electoral votes. Another newsman, David Law. rence, . Washington correspondent, surveyed editors of daily news- papers in every state. In his daily. column syndicated by the New York Herald Tribune on Nov. 3, he gave 357 electoral votes to Ei- senhower and 149 to Stevenson. The New York Times published a state-by-state survey the same day and found 23 states with 256 electoral votes favoring or leaning toward Eisenhower. Stevenson was ahead or favored in 16 states with 165 votes. Nine states with 110 votes were listed as doubtful. The final story of the Associated Press survey, appearing in Sunday newspapers, Oct. 26, started this way: “Newsmen over the nation be- lieve 1952 would go down as a Re- publican year with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower the probable. winner over Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, if the presidentiat election had been held in mid-October. “Newspaper editors and political correspondents who made two po- litical surveys for the Associated Press clocked Eisenhower as lead- ing the presidential sweepstakes around Labor Day. They estimate he has picked up strength since then in 30 of 48 states.” In 11 states, the AP survey showed newsmen picking Steven- son the probable winner. These in- cluded Alabama, Arkansas, Geor- gia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia, which Stevenson did win. Also Missouri, Arizona and Okla- homa, which went to Eisenhower. Five states—Massachusetts, Ten- nessee, Utah, Virginia and Wash- ington—were classified in AP sur- veys as doubtful with an edge to Stevenson, All were taken by Eisenhower. There were four tossups in the AP survey tabulation. Eisenhower took three of them—Florida, Rhode Island and Tex: Stevenson got the other—Louisiana. Among professional _ pollsters, Fink gave Eisenhower a little over 50 per cent of the popular vote and Stevenson a little over 48 per cent. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opin- ion, presented pre-election figures which gave Eisenhower a 7 per cent edge on Stevenson but listed 13 per cent of the electorate as un- decided. Gallup admitted afterwards he underestimated the Republican victory, but said his poll ‘‘stayed within its normal margin of error.” Archibald M. Crossley, director of the Crossley Poll, said a few hours before the election that it “can still go either way.” However, his figures gave Eisen- hower about a 5 per cent edge over Stevenson with 9.9 per cent undecided. He said afterwards the big Re- publican effort to get out the vote apparently. turned the trick. Elmo Roper, head of the Roper Poll, did not try to break down the pre-election findings into per- centages. He said, instead, “‘There ought to be enough people still undecided to throw: this election either way.” He conceded after the election he was “open to the charge of being overly cautious this year.” “I made no prediction,” he add- ed, ‘and I don’t ever intend to make a prediction until those un- decided people tell us what they intend to do.” 16-YEAR OLD SETS CASTING RECORD SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Fred- die Mathis, 16-year old flyrod won- der from the Pasadena Rod and Gun Club, scored perfect 100s in both the dry and wet fly accuraty competitions at the National oe standing performance of the entire ny otpuiantion history of the national cast- ing A number of casters have scored perfects in the wet fly division. But‘in the last 28 years only four ve «made periects in the fly accuracy competi- ly Freddie, who still casts as jor, has ever been able to put wo events together for a per- 200 in the accuracy division. Lets get 352-14 LAGER BEER Fishing Rights Cause Quarrel ISTANBUL W — Turkey an@ Greece — close military partners in NATO — are trying to patch jup a neighborly quarrel over fishe ing richts in the historic Acgeag Sea. Every now and then the Turkish coast guard fires on and captures a Greek fishing trawler on charges of poaching in Turkish coastal waters. Sometimes a fisherman is wounded. Small fines or @ month’s imprisonment may. follow. The bickering goes on despite a recently signed agreement between the two countries regulating fishe ing off the Turkish coast. Neither the Turkish nor Greek parliament has ratified this as yet, and it's | likely to be revised at futher talks, It’s not openly admitted by either side but in the background is @ | Turkish attempt to control wide. spread smuggling including drag traffic, carried on by well-organia- ed groups. The smugglers, infag- matts say, use high-speed fishing trawlers. 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