The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1952, Page 5

SEC Official Wants Regional TV Control { By MERCER BAILEY ATLANTA (#—A top Southeast- ern Conference official said today he would like to see football-tele- vision problems handled on a re- ional basis instead of the present system of national control by the NCAA. “The National Collegiate Athletic Association has eight regions with good men in each region,” said Dr. J. H. Miller, president of the University of Florida and _ vice president of the SEC. “TI think it would be adyisable to let each region handle its own TV program,” he said as the an- nual SEC meeting opened. “The regions are more familiar with the particular problems in- volved in televising football games in their areas. It’s a ticklish matter that will require a lot of study, but I don’t think a nationally con- trolled program by the NCAA is the best answer. Maybe the region- al method wouldn’t be ideal either, but it seems to me it would be better.” Television is one of the major items up for discussion at the conference meeting, which runs through Saturday. The Big Ten Conference already has recom- mended that some regional plaa be worked out to replace the NCAA’s TV game-of-the-week sys- tem of the past season, Any SEC action would take the form of a Tecommendation to the NCAA. Dr. Miller said the matter of freshman eligibility also will re- quire a lot of study and discussion. “Just what the effect of drafting 19-year-olds will have on college athletic programs must be con- sidered,” he added. ‘There is a lot of sentiment for and against playing freshmen on the varsity. And it’s too early to try to predict what the conference will do.” Freshman | eligibility was ap- proved for one year at the 1951 meeting at the urging of athletic directors and coaches. Indications ‘were that the 12 college presidents, who have final authority, will not extended it another year. . Dr. Miller agreed with Coach Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech that any SEC action to require teams to share their bowl receipts with other members would not apply until 1954. Both Dodd and Miller indicated some share - the - bowl - wealth plan probably will be voted, effective next season. |, Five SEC teams —Tech, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Ala- bama--will appear in New Year's Day games and will receive a total of almost $00,000 for the engage- ments. One-fourth of the receipts will go to the Conference for gen- eral expenses and the individual bowl teams pocket what is left after expenses are met. A share-the-wealth plan probably ‘would continue the 25 per cent cut to the Conference, place a limit on the amount a bowl team could keep, and divide the remainder of the. money among other SEC members. Miami Open Golf Tourney Started MIAMI, Fla. (®—The wide open scramble for the $10,000 Miami Open golf championship begins to- day over the 7,01@yard Miami Springs course with 145 pros and 21 amateurs competing. With defending champion Sam Snead in California making a mo- tion picture, together with National Open champion Julius Boros, there is no outstanding favorite. Snead, five times winner of this medal play event, took last year’s top money of $2,000 with his 268 for the 72 holes. The record of 264 was set in 1949 by Fred Haas Jr. of New Orleans, and Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind. Haas won the playoff. The low. scorer among qualifiers ‘was Andy Gaspar, pro from Pitts- burgh, Pa., with a five under par 65. e Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Joe} DiMaggio, the New York Yankees’ | brilliant center fielder, announced | his retirement after 16 years in baseball, except for three years spent in military service. FIVE YEARS AGO — Welter- ‘weight Champion Ray Robinson scored a technical knockoutover Billy Nixon of Philadelphia in 2:10 of the sixth round of a 10-round nontitle bout at Elizabeth, N. J.} TEN YEARS AGO—The Brook- | lyn Dodgers acquired pitcher Rube | Melton from the Philadelphia Phils | for pitcher Johnny Allen and! $30,000. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Craig | ‘Wood defeated Al Espinosa, 2 and! 1, in the final of the San Francisco | Open Match Play Golf Tourna ment. ‘The trainers a the Detroit Red Wings in the Na 1 Hockey League serve tea the players between periods. . Passers Lead In National Grid Scoring NEW YORK (#—If you want to lead the country’s major college football players in total offense, don’t tuck the pigskin under the arm and run-throw the ball. That, at least, is the lesson taught by Ted Marchibroda of De- troit, who won the honor this fall with 1,813 yards, 1,637 by passing. Furthermore, final statistics of the NCAA Service Bureau disclosed today that all of the top 10 places, and 17 of the first 20, went to aerial specialists. Nothing like it has happened before. The best the passers ever had done before was half the top 10 in recent years, and until 1948 they never placed more than two among the leaders. Marchibroda is only the second T-quarterback to win the title. The only passing specialist to finish first in the past was Nevada’s Stan Heath in 1948. Marchibroda, in fact, was the leading runner of the top 10 with 176 yards rushing. As a group the 10 netted only 355 yards out of a total of 16,247, or a mere 2.2 per cent. The top 10 in 1951 ran for 4,715 yards. ; : Behind the Detroit senior were Zeke Bratkowski, Georgia, 1,774 yards; Tommy O'Connell, Illinois, 1,724; and Don Heinrich, Washing- ton, 1,652. Carrying the ball, Bratkowski wound up with 50 yards minus, while O’Connell had a minus 37 yards. In touchdown responsibility -- those scored plus those run for-- Mississippi State’s Jack Parker was tops with 24. He made 16 himself and passed for eight more. Sports Roundup (Editors Note: Gayle Talbot, As- sociated Press sports writer who is considered one of the real author- ities on the game of tennis, is in Australia to cover the Davis Cup matches. This is his first column from “down under.” By GAYLE TALBOT SYDNEY, Australia (®—The en- tire Davis Cup picture has taken on a decidedly different hue since Vic Seixas’ resounding victories over both Ken McGregor and Frank ~-dgman in the Victorian Championships at Melbourne. Members of the American team, including Seixas, were brimming with confidence as they got to- gether for the first time today in a lengthy practice session at the White City courts here. They now consider they have a much better than even chance, of defeating the Aussies in the Chal- lenge Round at Adelaide the end of this month. The Australians, on the other hand, appear to have awakened suddenly to the realiza- tion that they will have a fight on their hands to retain the trophy. One of this country’s leading ten- nis figures told us today he feared the worst had happened and that both Sedgman and McGregor were developing the “money jumps.” This is a malady whieh afflicts leading amateur players between the.time they decide to turn pro and the official announcements ‘of their intentions, Aussie officials are resignea to losing both their top men to promoter Jack Kramer immediately after the Challenge round. While the two Aussies are be- ing subjected to this form of tor- ture, the Americans are carefree as angels. Seixas has maintained ever since his appointment as playing captain that we have a 50-50 chance of winning the cup. ‘Now he has been joined-by a husky young sailor named Tony Trabert, who is so jubilan. at being out of uni- form for a month that he almost feels he could win the thing single- handed. California Town Fears Disaster As Tank Car Crashes TRUCKEE, Calif., &~-The men- ace of a conflagration kept this mountain town in fearful suspense early today after 7,000 gallons of gasoline spilled down a quarter mile of the main street. All traffic on U. S. Highway 40 was stopped for two hours for fear a match or cigarette from a car might touch off a terrible fire. A large eastbound tanker truck overturned shortly before midnight and spilled its inflammable cargo. | The driver had swerved to avoid a collision with another tanker. The U. S. Forest Service, Cali fornia Highway Patrol and Truckee fire department teamed to wash the gasoline off the street. Truckee--population 1,025 - is at | the foor of Donner, Pass, about | 35 miles west of Reno. The surface waters of the Per. sian Gulf sometimes reach a tem- perature of 96 degrees Fahrenheit. | A high proportion of af Scot i i ciety. ! Davey TKO’s Pruden In Third Round Wednesday €LEVELAND \#—Chuck Davey, who fights like a champion and talks like the teacher he used to be, pronounced himself fit and ready today for his welterweight title bout. The Michigan State graduate went through a mild preparatory workout last night in scoring a third round technical knockout over hopelessly outclassed Fitzie Pruden of Paterson, N. J. As the blonde - haired Lansing, Mich., fighter carefully knotted his tie after the fight-no sport shirts for this fellow--a reporter asked him if he was hit even once in the bout. “Oh, yes,” the gentleman of the ring replied. “He’s a tough kid. I stayed ahead of his right. He jabbed me a few times and landed a few left hooks.” Davey, who holds a master’s de- gree from Michigan State and is on leave of absence from the col- lege’s English department, is ten- tatively set for a February title bout against welterweight cham- pion Kid Gavilan in Chicago. Georgia Football Captain Is Named ATHENS, Ga. — Quarterback Zeke Bratkowski, who posted the nation’s highest passing yardage total this year, has been named captain of the 1953 University of Georgia football team. Offensive center and defensive inebacker Derwent Langley of Augusta was elected alternate captain. The St. Louis Cardinals came up with four fine rookie pitchers last season in Stu Miller, Ed Yuhas, Harvey Haddix and Wilmer Mizell. ockey Faces Suspension At Miami Track MIAMI —Jockey Tony Despir- ito will know today whether he is to be susperded or if he can con- tinue his sensational drive to tie or break the American record of 388 winners in a year. Tropical Park stewards, who dis- qualified Despirito’s mount for im- peding another horse in yester- day’s fourth race, will decide at a meeting whether or not to suspend the lanky 17-year-old Lawrence, Mass., rider. The stewards--Marshall Cassidy, Harold O. Vosburgh and Francis G. Wilson-did not indicate what their decision might be and Despir- ito remained on the anxious seat. A suspension would just about wipe out any chances he might have of bringing in 388 winners to tie the mark set by Walter Miller in 1906 and equalled by Joe Culmone and Willie Shoemaker in 1950. Despirito has 370 winners. Despirito was accused of im- peding the chances of Prairie Kid, a 126-1 shot, when Braseda lunged in twice on the outside during the running of the six furlong fourth for two-year-olds. Braseda took the leag turning for home and won by two lengths, with Barths-Belle second and Pra- rie Kid third. After viewing movies of the race stewards moved Braseda to third, putting Barths-Belle first and Prai- rie Kid second. Freddie Ryan, aboard Prairie Kid, lodged the claim of foul. Mt. Everest is called “Chomo- lungma” (Goddess Mother of the World) by Tibetans, = SPORTS = Tops Crowd Mark At Home ATLANTA (#—That Georgia Tech far outdistanced other Southeastern Conference schools in regular sea- son football attendance is no sur- prise. But who would have picked Louisiana State to rol up the high- est average for home games? Tech’s Engineers played eight home games--more than any other SEC team--and drew a total of 262,- 000 fans. That’s an average of 32,500 per game for the conference champion. But L. S. U. sold 169,000 seats for five home engagements, an av- erage of 33,800 for a team which finished 10th in the SEC standings. Playing one of the toughest schedules in the country - not a breather all season -- undoubtedly had a lot to do with the Tigers’ fine showing at the gate. And al- though L. S. U. won only three games while losing seven, the scores show the Tigers gave the fans some good football. After losing to Texas 35-14, the Tigers held Alabama to a 21-20 margin. Next came two victories, over Rice and Kentucky, then a defeat by Georgia, 27-24. Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee and Missis- sippi State all whipped L. S. U. handily--as was expected--but the Tigers ended the season in style, upsetting Tulane 16-0. Attendance for the Conference as a whole totalled 1,823,305 for 67 home games. This was an increase of about 10.5 per cent over 1951, when 72 home games drew only 1,782,304 fans. For the nation as a whole, football attendance at major schools dropped about 1.49 per cent. Second to Tech in total attend- eighth, with 208,616 admissions to seven games. Georgia, which like Stock up ~ for the Holidays; “Cobe” @ registered trade-mark. Foreign Tars To Be Queried On Arrival WASHINGTON, “#—The govern- ment has started work on a new immigration policy under which the crewmen of foreign ships docking in this country must answer ques- tions about their political leaning before they can be permitted to go ashore. The McCarran-Walter immigra- tion law, which goes into effect | Dec. 24, requires foreign seamen | to say that they have never be- longed to a political party which advocates forcible overthrow of the American government. Commun- ists are automatically barred. The British are repcrted con- cerned about the new rules, fear- | ing that the screening may cause } major delays in the sailing sched- ules of their big liners. The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth carry 2,000-man crews. As a step to prevent delays, the Justice Department said, special immigration inspectors will be placed aboard some of the big pas- senger ships to screen crewmen during the crossings. The first immigration inspector assigned to work on the new pro- gram left New York Tuesday a- board the French liner Liberte to | begin the questioning. Crewmen cleared in the screen- ing will be permitted to go ashore | as in the past, but the steamship companies employing them will be held responsible for any illegal acts they may commit, | When Northwestern beat Illinois recently by 28-26 the Wildcats took a 22-21 lead in the football series, Three games ended in ties. L. S. U. played a rough schedule, had the second best average -- 33,333 for each of its three home games, 258. ED} oes, | )Bidle. Miss Arana’s grandfather Thursday, December 11, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page § DUKE SCION TO .WED HIGH-BORN SPANIARD MEXICO CITY (#—Angier Biddle uke, America’s youngest ambas- sador and an heir to one of the country’s great fortunes, will mar- ry the’ dark-eyed granddaughter of a Spanish nobleman here today. The 37-year-old envoy to El Sal- vador flew in from New York yes- terday with his fiancee, Maria Luisa de Arana, 29, and a wedding party. Duke, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., will inherit a tobacco fortune and is an heir also of banke> Nicholas | is the 10th Marques de Camp Real of Bilbao, } JAP SHIPPING SLOWED BY STRIKE TOKYO — Virtually all Japa- nese shipping in home waters felt the paralyzing coal miners’ strike today. : A 120-hour strike of electric: workers cut down tke depleted power supply further and cai brownouts in Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Trains ran late a! many runs were dropped. The 263,000 miners seek higher wages and year end bonuses. Sniffing, or rubbing noses, is a form of polite greeting among many peoples from the Tropics to the Arctic. Clearance Sale TENNIS, BASKETBALL and GYM SHOES © $3.95 VALUE ON SALE $400 PAIR EVANS SPORT STORE Next to Bus Station Dial 2-3314 The Holidays mean extra company... extra entertaining. 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