The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 12, 1952, Page 5

i Webb-Robinson To Battle in Finals Of Navy Tennis Tournament Here Tuesday The finals of the Navy Tennis Tournament will be run off on Tuesday, December 16 at 4:00 p. m, on the Bayview Park courts, officials announced today. Chief Bob Robison of the USS Gilmore will meet airman J. L.} Webb of the Fleet All Weather Training Unit in a match for the title which promises to be a red- hot, hard fought tussle. ‘Webb had earlier vanquish- @d Commander Joe Watson, Helicopter Squadron One, 6-0, 6-2 in the semi-final round. The Sportswriters || TALY WALLOPS Say 2 Platoon || NDIAN NETTERS System Is Bad By HUGH FULLERTON JR. NEW YORK ® — When the Na- tional Football Rules Committee meets next month it should: 1. Rule out the two-platoon sys- tem, 2. Allow unlimited substitution. 3. Clarify the pass interference tule so as to (A) inflict fewer penalties on doubtful interference and (B) protect the receiver from roughness because interference isn’t called. 4. Do away with the so-called “sucker shift.” 5. Eliminate the dangerous “‘hel- met block.” 6. Return the goal posts to the goal line. 7. Permit running with recov- ered fumbles. 8. Do away with fumbles en- tirely. 9. Require a fifth official to watch for downfield infractions. 10. Eliminate a couple of the of- ficials who keep getting in the way or at least take their whistles away, It’s all very simple, All the rules-makers have to do is figure out the wording of new rules to bring about all these things and a few more, Actually these 10 points take in the most frequent suggestions of- fered by sports writers and broad- casters replying to the Associated Press post-season questionnaire. There were many others and a solid bloc who voted “leave the rules alone.” . ,. By far the greatest number of proposals concerned substitution and opinion was almost equally di- vided as to whether the rules should be tightened to end the platoon system or should provide for unlimited substitution as in pro football. The publicity given this sea- son to shifts which tend to draw the opposition offside and which, according to some coaches, are designed to do just that, brousht a demand for a clearer definition of the illegal shift. And a good many experts agreed that pass in- terference is the hardest penalty to call and resulted in more Rhu- barbs. One school held that the defenders are ‘“‘clobbering” re- - ceivers and getting away with it while another insisted that inter- ference is called too often in ques- tionable circumstances, The rash of “‘fumblitis” during the past season brought fresh de- mands that players be allowed to run with the bal after recovering fulmbles and for other changes. One proposal was to rule out fumbles entirely, “A team would tetain possession at the point of the fumble,” he wrote. “The rough- est play in football comes when a team tries to steal the ball. And, after all, what's the point of the game—finesse in offense and de- fense, or how rough can we get?” The replies showed increasing concern over unnecessary rough- ness and the frequent Lrawis dur- ing games, There was a strong demand, mostly fro mthe South- west, for abolition of the “helmet block"”’—when a blocker lowers his head and rams his hard plastic helmet into a would-be tackler’s | face. Roughing kickers and passers and changing the fair catch rule airman’s brand of tennis left little to be desired: his serve, backhand and net game were all superb. Peter Varela, Key West's net champion watched the match and queried, “How long is Webb going to be in town?” Varela will probably face Webb in the next Navy-Key West net match held every two or three weeks. Both groups have one win each in the series. The second semi-final match saw Bob Robison edging John By GAYLE TALBOT BRISBANE, Australia WW — Italy’s veteran Davis Cup pair of Gianni Cucelli and Marcello del Bello rallied from the brink of defeat today to defeat India’s stub- born combination of Sumant Misra and Naresh Kumar in a five-setter and give their country a 2-1 lead in the interzone semi-final. The score of the match, played under a blazing sun, was 1-6, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, 13-11. All the thrills were packed into the final set which required 50 minutes to play compared to only 24 minutes for the first two sets. The Indians reached match point three times in the 14th, 16th and 20th games, but couldn’t get the winning point when they needed it, Italy now will need to win only one of Saturday's concluding sin- gles to qualify for the interzone final against the United States next week at Sydney. Misra is sched- uled to meet Fausto Gardini in the first singles while Kumar and Roberto del Bello finish it off. It was learned after today’s match that Misra suffered either a hernia or rupture in the closing stages and probably will be unable to play Saturday. In that case his place will be taken by George Basant who originally was brought along as manager, Misra was taken to a hospital. Seldom is such a radical reversal of form seen in first class tennis as befell each pair in turn in the first four sets today, NEW YORK # — Undefeatec Johnny Saxton faces Cuba’s Ravi Perez at Madison Square Garden tonight in a welterweight ten rounder, The 22-year-old Brooklyn Negro Suit Dismisse Against Paper In Oklahoma TULSA, Okla “#—Ruling that a newspaper has the right to refuse to publish any item, District Judge E' Adams Wednesday dismiss- ed an Oklahoma county judge's $10- 000 suit against the Tulsa Daily World because it did not print his letter to the editor. But the plaintiff, Judge Baker Wall of Sallisaw, declared he would appeal to Oklahoma’s Supreme} Court and “fight for this principle to the highest court.” He had claimed ‘deep humilia- tion” because the World did not carry prior to last Oct. 23 a letter he had addressed to its “Voice of a Free People” column, support- ing Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for president, and de-| fending President Truman's Poli- | cies. Wall explained he was “hurt” by | the omission of his letter because | he had told friends and neighbors to look dor it in the paper. The World, which backed the to provide better protection for punt receivers also were brought } in. One writer proposed banning the use of forearms and elbows in blocking, returning to the old shoul- der block. Others thought the rule limiting the use of forearms wasn’t being enforced strictiy enough while several said tha: mandatory expulsion from the game was too severe a penalty for legal use of the arm But more than half of the ques tionnaires either said “no clLange”’ or left the space blank. UNION DONATE BLOOD PHILADELPHIA & — Delegates to the eighth biennial CIO Trans. port Workers Union ¢ ntion sus pended for a half day yesterday to give blood to the Red Cross. sessions Subscribe to The Citizen Republican national ticket during the campaign, printed Wall's letter on that date in its story about the | judge’s suit. It explained it did not | purposely fail to print Wall’s letter, {that it had received mary and had | |to make selections Adams ruled the only issue in | the case was whether a newspaper could be forced to print anything, then commented “E don't believe in any form of regulation of the press, whether they agree with me or not. “I think they followed their own fideas of fairness. Your ideas } Judge Wall, in the heat of a polit: ical campaign, might be entire!y different. But if someone is to de- cide what is and is not fair, that could be done only by a dictator, and we don’t have dictators in this country.”” Some 30 to 35 Navy Chaplains are oo duty with the U. S. Marines in Korea i J. Saxton Faces Cuban Boxer’ McNulty in a rugged duel, 7-9, 6-1 and 8-6. Robison, dropping the first set, shifted to McNulty’s style of play and took the second neatly. Third set was even all the way. In one of the final games of the set McNulty won five straight points after being down 40-love which in any match is a momentary psychological advan- tage to the leader. Robison weathered the storm however, and went on to win the final set, 8-6. ‘Webb has been the surprise of the tourney in licking two top The Italians couldn’t play a lick at the outset and were two sets down before they knew what had hit them. Then they started play- ing and the Indians couldn’t do anything right. It was pretty atrocious tennis and no one could have foreseen, at that stage, the dramatics in store for the crowd of 1,500 in the final set. Unexpectedly all four players found their games at once and for 50 minutes, until Kumar netted the decisive point, it was as thrill- ing as anyone would want to see. It looked as though the Italians meant to finish it in a hurry when they broke Kumar’s weak serv- ice and took a 3a1 lead, but with defeat staring them in the face, the Indians broke Del Bello back in the 10th game to deuce it at 5-5. Del Bello fell heavily going for a drop shot at the net in the 11th game. He limped badly on his right leg for several games while Cucelli carried the burden. With Del Bello serving in the 14th game the Indians reached match point at 30-40 only to. miss their chance as the towering Misra netted an easy shot. Two games later they had Cucelli in the same‘ predicament, but the stocky Italian. brought off a beauti- ful volley that clipped the side- line to save it. The Indians had their last big chance in the 20th game when they again took Cucelli to 30-40. This time an error by Kumar broke off a long rally at the net. Ss a 4 to 1 favorite to win the} aationally telecast scrap. | Saxton has won 15 of his fights by knockouts. The 26 - year - old Perez has a 31-5-2 record. PITT LINEBACKER TO PLAY WITH NORTH IN SHRINE BOWL BATTLE MIAMI (#—Pittsburgh’s stellar line backer, Al Schmidt, will play for the North in the annual North- South Mahi Shrine All Star charity football game in the Orange Bowl Christmas night. Schmidt will team with UCLA’s Don Moomaw in backing up the line for the North. Cocapt. Joe Gratson of Penn State will join them in five-man line situations. The University of Kentucky will supply the South with a pair of 220- | pound tackles, Capt. Bob Fry and | Frank Fuller. The South team now needs only three more men to complete its roster of 25 while the North must sign seven, seeded players after being seeded eighth. Second seeded Joe Wat- son and Lt. W. H. Barnes, who was-fourth seeded, both fell to Webb’s onslaught in early tourna- ment action, Webb was one of the better tennis performers at Dennison College in Pennsyl- vania before entering the service. Robison is the former 12th Naval District tennis champion. The public is invited to attend the matches in the tourney which promise to produce some of the best tennis seen in this area to date this year. College Group To Crack Down On Athletic Violators By JERRY LISKA CHICAGO (#—The North Central Association of Colleges and Secon- dary Schools, powerful 19-state ac- crediting agency, soon plans to crack down on violators of its athletic de-emphasis program. Norman Burns, secretary of the group’s Commission on Colleges and Universities, said today “vig- orous action” was planned shortly in “one or two cases” which he declined to identify. The association’s membership of 368 coleges and universities covers Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Illi- nois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Mich- igan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebras- ka, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyo- ming. Burns said the commission, en- forcement body of the association, was “surprised” that the Univers- ity of Oklahoma was reported this week to be looking for an escape from the North Central’s ban on subsidizing athletes. It was rumored the Sooner school may quit the Big Seven and join the Southwest Conference which operates under a different accrediting association, although Sooner President Dr. George L. Cross has said the school would remain in the North Central re- gardless of athletic affiliation. Dr. Cross yesterday said it was “utterly out of the question” for the Sooners to bolt the Big Seven. Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson commented that “we'll just have to wait for the conference (Big Seven) to-confer with North Central.” This gave significance to Burns’ remark that: “Something may be going on in the Big Seven in way of talking compliance with our code on a conference level, although we have had no official word on the mat- ter.” Burns admitted that the North Central has been slow gaining mo- mentum in enforcing new and stringent , regulations governing athletics which became effective Sept. 1. One plank “strongly disap- proves” athletic scholarships and “free rides’ through college. The association has a convincing enforcement weapon in its accred- iting power. An institution dropped from its accredited list virtually becomes an academic “outlaw,” with enrollment suffering heavily. THURSDAY NIGHT'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass.: Tippy Lar- kin, 145, Garfield, N. J., outpointed Maurice Jenkins, 150, New York, 8. NEW YORK (Sunnyside Gar- dens): Vinnie D'Andrea, 156, New York, outpoined Tony Amato, 160, Hoboken, N. J., 8 Clearance Sale TENNI 2 and BASKETBALL GYM SHOES BELOW T — $ 00 COST PAIR EVANS SPORT STORE Next to Bus Station Dial 2-3314 Tampa Coach Is Worried About Over-Confidence TAMPA ® — Coach Marcelino Huerta is showing signs of worry- ing about over-confidence when his University of Tampa football team plays Lenoir Rhyne in the Cigar Bowl here Saturday night. After_a snappy dummy secrim- mage Thursday Huerta said: “The boys are physically fit and now the big job is getting them mentally right.” The Spartans have been really up in the air since they walloped their old rival, Florida State Uni- versity, 39-6 Saturday. They also might be tempted to regard Lenoir Rhyne too lightly because they are the only team to beat the Bears in two seasons (they did it 27-14 in 1951) and they won handily this season from two other members of North Carolina’s North State Conference. Tampa beat Appalachian 19-0 while Lenoir Rhyne eked out a 14-12 victory over that club. Both Tampa and Lenoir won decisively from Catawba. Huerta said his squad is in fine physical condition except for Joe Zalupski, star guard who has a leg injury that’s slow healing. Zalup- ski will see some action Saturday anyway. Cage Clinic Set For High School Saturday Night Two top performers will put on a basketball clinic Saturday night at the Key West High School Gym. They are Ed Springs and Bill Watley of Miami, both members of the South Florida Basketball Officias!’ Association. Mr. Springs, former naval officer during World War II, serv- ed at the Miami Sub Chasers Training Center and was Special Services Officer at the Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif. The clinic will get underway at 7 o'clock Saturday night at the high school gym. All officials and members of the Naval Base basketball league are urged to attend. All others interested in the court sport are more than welcome. This is sponsored by the Naval Base. Trainer Willie Molter is seeking his fourth championship as the nation’s leading trainer. He won the honor three straight years be- ginning with 1957, Al Ciarrochu, Miami freshman fullback, carried the football only three times against Stetson but scored two touchdowns. Actor Reveals Marriage To Girl He Aided LONDON #—An American actor has disclosed his marriage a year and a half ago to a British girl who fell off a cliff at his feet on Southern England’s invasion beaches in 1944, Sam Byrd, 44, Charleston, S. C., said he was married to Patricia Ann Bolam, 18, in May, 1951, at Carlisle, Cumberland, Eng. Byrd, as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was beachmaster when American forces were practicing invasion tactics near Plymouth in 1944, Pat, then 10 years old, was watching from a low cliff. A noise startled her and she fell at Byrd’s feet. He stopped the practice and took care of Pat who suffered a sprained wrist. Byrd met the girl’s family and became her unofficial guardian. Byrd took Pat to the U. S. in 1947 to have her finish her educa- tion there. . He said the marriage was kept secret to permit Pat to complete her education and get a foothold in the theatrical business. Byrd is to play a leading role here in “Stalag 17.” He has achieved distinction in the plays “Tobacco Road” and “Of Mice and Men.” Byrd lived in Sanford Fla., for a while and worked on the Sanford Herald. He left in the 30s for New York and later wrote a book “Small Town South,” an informal book of life in and around Sanford. Permanent Christmas Tree In Christmas CHRISTMAS, Fla.° ~The 200 or so persons in this little commu- nity are out to make every day Christmas Day. As a step in this direction they planted a permanent Christmas tree recently. Weatherproof ornaments were substituted for th eusual fragile tinsel. Any day you drive through Christmas you'll see a full-blown Christmas tree. In addition to planting and deco- rating the new tree, the residents have been busy with the usual flood of Christmas mail. Mrs. Juanita Tucker, the post- master who inherited the job from her mother-in-law in 1932, handled about 300,000 pieces of mail last Christmas — with the help of 12 other women. Mrs. Tucker says she expects even more mail this year. Central Florida residents and lots of tour- ists as well drive to the town so that their cards and presents will have the added touch of a “Christ- mas” postmark. Ten members of Army’s 1952 football team are New. York State residents. Two of them ~ Jam. Ryan and Joe Lapchich, Jr, come from Yonkers, N. Y. ns prc EST RE TST THREE HOTELS IN MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES Located in the Heart of the City REASONABLE RATES WRITE or WIRE for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE Ritz Pershing Hotel 226 N.E. 100 Rooms Elevator Heated Hotel 132_E. 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