The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 15, 1952, Page 5

EY WEST WITHDRAWS FROM FIL SUND. —: SPORTS :-— Archie Moore Will Get Crack At Maxim’s Toga, Thanks To TV MI AMI BEACH MOVE TC ) KEY WEST IS H {NTED AFTER LOOP Y IEETING ON SUNDAY 1 (he Key West Baseball C¥ ub, in the face of almost *€ srtain ouster from the F lorida International Base- } jall League, withdrew their franchise Sunday at a spe- cial meeting in Miami of that group. President Louis Carbonell of the local or- ganization, made that move after the Lakeland Club had withdrawn when financial difficulties had made their operation im- possible and it became ne- cessary for the league to cut its roster to but six teams. In effect, Key West is without a professional base- ball franchise — and it will remain that way unless one of the remaining six teams decides to move their opera- tions to the southernmost city. Miami Beach has_ been mentioned as “interested in operating in Key West.” But president Carbonell said to- day that there are several ob- stacles that must be removed be- fore the Beach club would consi- der moving to this city. Following a conference with own- er Paul Rust and General Mana- ser Joe Ryan of the Flamingoes in Miami Sunday, Carbonel! re- ported that the Beach owners have received a particularly attractive offer from Fort Lauderdale, whose defunct franchise, Key West took over midway in the past season. Carbonell said that new back- ers in that city have agreed to encourage the Beach Club to the extent that they are bi ing a new stadium and have arranged an attractive concession deal for the club if they will move to *that city. However, Carbonell and the club owners in Key West, who stand to drop a sizeable sum of money due to the loss of their franchise, are countering with a ilar proposition. The club pri sident said that he will meet with the city commission soon in an effort to iron out details of a dea! that might interest Rust and Ryan-who will come to Key West to talk over the situation in the near future. ‘arbonell withdrew after Tam- pa owner Tom Spicola moved vat Key West be ousted from the league to pare it down to six clubs. Joe Ryan held the key vote und refused to change it until Carbonell, after he saw that the s tuation was hopeless, asked him to change it. Bolivar ‘Castillo, a native Key Wester, representing the Ha m then made a speech saying that “it is a shame that Key West, one of the best baseball towns in the state should be deprived of the Tampa Polishes Record With Cigar Bowl Win TAMPA (#®—The University of Tampa wound up its football for the year with a Cigar Bowl vic- tory and the best grid record in the school’s history. The Tampans brushed off pre- viously undefeated and untied Len- oir Rhyne 21-12 in the Cigar Bowl Saturday. That brought Tampa’s total football wins this season to eight to three losses and a tie. The passing of quarterback Bill Minahan and the stout line play were the big factors in the ball game. Minahan passed for two touchdowns and set up another. Coach Marcelino Huerta, ending his first year as head coach of the Tampans, put most of the praise on Minahan; linemen Tom Mahin, Danny Scaringi and Nick Wayto- vich; and backs Al Leathers and Tom Spack. However, Huerta. was gleeful about the way the entire team played. The way he put it was “Those boys played their hearts out, just as they did in the Flor- ida State game.” Lenoir Rhyne was set back early in the game when Steve Trudnak, the Little All-America fullback, suffered a cheek injury. Despite his injury and a doc- tor’s warning not to continue play, Trudnak went back into the game in the second half as a decoy on spinner plays. The volume of the planet Saturn is about 750 times that of the earth, but its mass is only about 95 times that of the earth. AGED DENTIST DIES FROM HOME FALL FREDERICK, Md. (® — Dr. Thomas S. Eader, the 92-year-old dentist who missed only two days at his office through illness in 70 years, is dead. He died yesterday from a fall last week that fractured his right hip when he slipped on a small rug at the home of a daughter. He never fully recovered from the shock. Dr, Eader was believed to have been the nation’s oldest practicing dentist. grame.”” Slight hope for the retention of the ballclub was offered when it was learned that a group of Lake- land promoters are still working in an effort to retain that fran- chise. Small chance of success was indicated, however. The owners of the local club find themselves in the unenviable position of owning a group of ball- players whom they are going to find it tough to peddle due to the {adoption of the eight veteran rule |by the league last month. The directors of the local group will meet this week to decide what course of action they will take In other action at yesterday's meeting, Phil O’Connell was named president of the league to succeed Henry S. Baynard, who resigned |last_ month, * PRO BROWNS TO VIE FOR TITLE By ORLO ROBERTSON NEW YORK \®—The Cleveland Browns, a girdiron power since their organization in 1946, will play in their third straight National Football League championship game Dec. 28 but whether their opponent will be Los Angeles or Detroit is a matter that will be decided next Sunday. The Browns, four times winner the defunct All-America Con- ence crown before joining the backed into the American Conference yesterday. They dropped a 3 York Giants while the Philadelphia S, needing a victory for a so fell before the Washington title tles’ Rams needed a win Detroit's in the N tie ce and they over the tempera- ictory over Dallas but the R eceasion as Uh th suc aerial = wit Brocklin. The National Conferer will be decided xt Detroit 34 decision to the New | Angeles’ | for a season in which at one time }seven of the 12 teams were dead- | jlocked for first place — four in jthe National Conference and three jin the American, Gordon Saltau of the San Fran- |cisco 49ers picked up 6 points via |a field goal and three conversions jin the 24-14 victory over Green | Bay to win league scoring honors | with 94 points. The Rams’ Dan Towler succeed ed the Giants’ Eddie Price as the [circuit's top ground gainer with 894 yards in 156 carries, Charley Conerly, showing no ‘signs of an arm injury received | two weeks ago, was the chief troublemaker for the Browns. The veteran quarterback threw four |touchdown passes before a chilled Polo Grounds crowd of 41.610 as the New Yorkers whipped Cleve land for the second time this season, h the first half, the 13 stalemate wit and Conerly wn passes ams Onte ew York tally Conerly threw three scoring ves in the third period, which h Jim Poole’s 15-yard fou sarter field goal was en Sttave off the last-period rally of the Browns the other league game the Bears edged the Chicago Ls, 107, on George 10-yard field gos! and seven - down pass Chuck 4 STRAND The Strand Theater baseball nine captured a hard-fought win over the USS Bushnell yesterday afternoon on the Oceanview Park diamond by a score of 5-2, The Bushnell went down to defeat de- spite the fine twirling of Yurko- vitch who gave the movie boys just six hits. The Strand jumped into the lead in the ball game when Cabot poled a tremendous home run over the head of Coto in left field in the first frame. The Navy came back with two runs in the third frame when Schulte walked and stole second. He went to third on a fielders choice and scored when Didio tripled deep into left field. Didio then romped home on Robinson’s WHIPS BUSHNELL SUN: In the sixth inning, the Strand came back with two runs when G. Lastres walked and Esquinaldo sacrificed him to second. P. Rodri- guez singled to center field to send Lastres to third. Pazo then dou-' bled to right field to plate Lastres and Rodriguez followed him across moments later on a fielders choice. Gizzi, playing at shortstop for the Navy, starred when he handled two outs and seven assists. He started a classy double play in the fourth. Pedro “Lefty” Rodriguez hurled. for the locals, giving up but three hits — a triple and single by Didio and a single by Halcomb. In the field, Cabot, Roberts and Esquinaldo for the strand, and Didio, Doolady and Gizzi set the long fly. Big Ten Foots Mogul Tab For Rose Bow] Trek By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO (#—Disclosure that the Big Ten is willing to pick up a tab of at least $10,800 to send its presidents and other officials on a free trip to the Rose Bowl game has heightened speculation today the pact with the Pacific Coast Conference will be renewed. Authorization for the expenses- paid trip by the conference from proceeds of the Wisconsin-Southern California Rose Bowl contest Jan. 1 was revealed by the Associated Press yesterday. A reliable source said the Big Ten’s presidents, faculty represen- tatives and athletic directors are offered the free trip ‘‘so they can evaluate the Rose Bowl at first hand and then form their own con- clusions.”” The current three-year pact be- tween the Big Ten and Pacific Coast Conference expires with the 1954 game at Pasadena. Last week the PCC officially invited the Big Ten to renew the series. A meeting between presidents of both conferences is scheduled Jan. 4 at Berkeley, Calif. A confidential Associated Press poll of Big Ten presidents and other officials indicates that a vote for renewal of the Rose Bowl con- tract possibly would carry by a 6-4 margin at this time. Many presidents polled by the Associated Press indicated they were unaware that their faculty- men had voted free-trip authoriza- tion in a secret session at the winter Big Ten meeting 10 days ago. The official transcribed min- utes of the meeting will be sent to them this week, it was learned. Big Ten headquarters in Chicago would neither deny nor confirm that such Rose Bowl expenses had been authorized, Three Cage Teams To Lose Tonight MIAMI —One of three teams | undefeated in state competition | this fall will lose that distinction | tonight when the University of Florida meets the defending state | ketball champions, the Univer- | sity of Miami. Florida has won over Florida |Southern and Stetson while Miami | jhas beaten Florida Southern in its only state competition so far. Florida rules a slight favorite ment, to go with four returning veterans while Miami still feels {the loss of Sy Chadroff, a 20.9 average point maker last season. | World Bank Has | Vast Reserves ANNAPOLIS, Md. & World Bank” has loaned 1% The dil 100 million in reserve received, the bank's top of said here last night pres: F dent of He told a St. Johns Cc um audience that the bank rm a profit of between 15 and 20 mil- ion dollars a year. The loans, to war-torn and un- developed areas of the world have been made to mee electric grain storage, farr tion projects, he sa: Scorps from | s pace, Burke Captur Miami Open Golf Tournament Sun. MIAMI (#—Jack Burke, hand~ some young ex-marine from Hous- ton, Tex., won the $10,000 Miami, Open golf tournament in a “sud-i den death” playoff Sunday to finish; th3 1952 circuit with the third bi gest bankroll among the touring; professionals. Burke’s pressune-packed win ov-| er Dick Mayer af St. Petersburg, Fla., one of the youngest and most, promising of the golf pros, earned, him a first prize of $2,000 an@ boosted his winnings for the yeal: to $21,003. The tight spot in which Burke found himself as he ended the 72-hole route in a deadlock with Mayer at 273, seven under par, was no new experience for the 29-year-old Texan who shot a round, of 69 at the tender age of 12 years. He lost the Las Angeles Open early this year in a playoff with Tommy Bolt, Maplewood, N. J. He beat Bolt in a playoff at the Baton Rouge Open and lost to Cary Mid- dlecoff, Memphis, ou extra holes. at the Kansas City Open. His victory over Mayer came with a birdie four on the fifth, extra hole. They had squared the first four with pars. The playoff battle climaxed an exciting last-day scramble during which Doug Ford of Harrison, N. Y., the leader for three days, wilt- ed to close in a fourth-place tie with Bolt at 275. Jim Ferrier, San Francisco, fired a 67 to grab third place at 274. National Open champion Julius Boros, who did not compete in the Miami Open because of a movie- making date in Hollywood, ended the year as No. 1 money-maker with $37,032. In second place with $30,884 was Middlecoff, who closed the 1952 tour on a sour note by finishing out of the money in the Miami tournament. Outboard Club To Elect Officers Otis Carey and Bill Porter were nominated Friday night, for the post of Commodore of the Key West Outboard Club at their regular meeting on Friday night. At the same time, Bob Schoneck, | Gene Skaggs and Bill Porter were nominated for the position of Vice | Commodore. lla Several nominees were selected for the secretary’s post with Bill Porter, Cliff Shumacher, Johniy Kerr, Bob Reid and Bill Bossert being named for that position. Bob Reid, Jimmy Wells and Job , Kerr are being considered for ¥ oe Treasurer's post in the organ? 74. tion. The election is scheduled to take place Friday evening, Dee ember 19. Final arrangements for * putting a basketball team in the & ty league drew top support from ai] mem- bers The group then dre w names for OS of Christmas to be helc on ecember 20. The members are in- d ate Berrett put on blue ‘sown and walked calmly down Y 4 marble steps into a pool of pals blue water. Ta Rev. George . the min of Bethesda Bap Church. ipped her backwards and nder water for a moment irs 19, I had + Mrs By MURRAY ROSE ST. LOUIS —Don’t knock tele- vision when you talk to Archie Moore, TV money and some long over- due action by the boxing commis- sions are the reasons why the pe- rennial contender finally is getting a crack at Joey Maxim’s light heavyweight championship here this Wednesday, Light heavyweight kings have ducked the husky, hard - hitting “gypsy” of the ring for almost a decade with the lame excuse “‘he won't draw at the gate.” Commissioners said Archie de- served the chance but they stood passively by while lesser worthies, guys like Blackjack Billy Fox (and what’s happened to him?), moved ahead of the Toledo Terror, Being ranked the No. 1 contender and being hailed as the ‘“uncrowned champion” wasn’t helping Archie cash any big checks. There weren’t too many of the other 175-pound contenders or even heavyweight challengers willing to F'SL Names New Prexy At Meet JACKSONVILLE BEACH i) — John Krider, Sanford, received the required majority of five votes on the first ballot Sunday and was dent of the Class D Florida State League. At the regular winter meeting in Orlando Nov. 30, he was unable to muster more than four votes and the election of all officers was deferred until Sunday. Peter Schaal, Silver Springs, was re-elected secretary-treasurer and statistigian; and R. L. (Babe) Weaver, laytona Beach, was named vice president succeeding Jack Dempsey, St. Augustine. Krider, who serves without pay, was given a present of $500 by the directors. The president said he will gall another meeting after Jan. % to consider the situation at De.and where the ball park’s gran‘4stand burned last summer. No steps have been take to re- build the grandstand. Krigjer said “The Red Hats can’t operate with- out stands.” After the ‘Arst of the year, he cgntinued ‘/We should know what DeLand is going to do.” Reports were circu fated that De- Land may drop out of the league. The club did not ‘send a repre- sentative tq the m geting, but gave its proxy to Palz ka. Lakeland, whieh recently with- drew frofa the; Florida Interna- tional Lea gue; and Gainesville had delegatiofis syeeking franchises. Gainesville, vshich dropped out of the league fast year, has been promisefi th first franchise avail- able. The Wyla ws were changed to pro- vide tH at any player becoming the take on the formidable boxer - puncher. So Archie journeyed from coast to coast, to Australia and to South America to ply his trade. But finally, the NBA at its Mon- treal eonvention Sept. 9, told Maxim and his manager, Jack (Doc) Kearns “Moore next or else.” The New York commission told them the same thing, Kearns has been around too long to permit his man to risk his pre- cious crown without a fat guaran- tee for insurance and that’s where TV came in. The sponsor (Pabst) of the International Boxing Club’s Wednesday night broadcasts and telecasts offered enough cash for the air rights so that Pal Joey will get at least $75,000 no matter what the gate is at the arena. The IBC says $54,000 already is in the till and the 15-rounder may gross better than $80,000. The bout will be broadcast and telecast coast to coast but the St. Louis area will be blacked out of both. Maxim is down to receive 45 per cent of the net gate and Moore 15 per cent, North-South Squads Nearing Top Strength MIAMI, Fla. #—The North team to compete in the Christmas night college all-star football game is | complete and the South needs only one more player to bring its squad to 25, sponsors reported today. Mahi Shrine Temple, sponsors of the eharity game to be played in the Orange Bowl, said Coach Stu Halcomb of Purdue is en route here by automobile to begin train- ing his North squad Thursday. An assistant, Coach Wesley Fesler of Minnesota, is expected to arrive today. Game Chairman Harry Ebright said final three players added to the North squad were Indiana's iron man tackles, Pete Russo and Joe Roth, along with Holy Cross’ captain and center, Joe Gleason. Miami’s Andy Gustafson, coach of the South team, boosted his ros- ter to 24 men when he picked two Duke linemen, Ray Green and Jim Lawrence. Both are offensive tack- les, The North team includes two All- America players in Donn Moomaw, UCLA linebacker, and Frank Kush, Michigan State guard. Jack Scarbath, Maryland’s quar- | terback, is an All-America on the South team. LSU And Auburn | Pace SEC Cagers By The Associated Press | Property of the league cannot be sold qut of the circuit by the club buyiryz ‘his contract without first Sivi; the other teams a chance to bray? him for $100. La f season Leesburg sold pitch er Fred Montsecoa to St. Peters- bw -g of the Florié International ague after he had been acquired ‘om the league following the sur- cender of the Gainesville franchise. Clubs represented at the meet- jing were Palatka, Jacksonville Beach, Orlando, Leesburg. Day- tona Beach, Sanford and Cocoa. f Sports Mirror | By The Assocated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO Kid Gavian 151, rallied to stop Walter Cartir, 159%, in the 10th round at Madison Square Garden FIVE YEARS AGO—Penn State was named the outstanding defen. | sive footbaN team in the country, limiting opponents to an all-time | low of 76.8 yards per game | TEN YEARS AGO — Frankie }Sinkwich, Georgia gridiron star. | was voted top athlete of the year. | TWENTY YEARS AGO—The St Louis Cardinals traded outfielders Goose Goslin and Fred Schuete along with pitcher Walter Stewart to Washington for pitcher Li syd Brown and outfielders Sam West and Case Reynolds. The Senators sent Fred Marberry to Detroit for Earl Whitehill. FIRST SNOW OF SEASON LONDON # — The season's first ai snow fell over London this cning fhe fall measured 1 to 3 Louisiana State and Auburn, | jeach «with four victories and no |defeats, are setting the pace for | Southeastern Conference basketball |teams in early season play. Auburn, paced by center Bob |Fenn, is the only SEC team with |a victory over another conference | outfit. The Tigers downed Georgia | Tech 71-61 on Dec. 10. The game} goes into the record books as a non-conference game, however, be- | ‘cause the two can have only one game count in conference standi: Monday, December 15, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZE Y Page & COLLEGE CAGE SEASON MOUNTS By SHELDON SAKOWITZ NEW YORK (® — The collegiate busketball season gains momen- tum this week with a host of games sprinkled around the coun- try that should determine the rela- tive strengths of many teams. It's westward ho for highly tout- ed La Salle of Philadelphia, last year’s National Invitation cham- pions, as the Explorers continue a cross-country tour, The classy Pennsylvanians made their first stop at Daytor. last night and posted their fifth straight tory by polishing off the Fly 73-64, in overtime. The teams were finalists in the National In- vitation Tourney last spring. On Tuesday La Salle visits Ari- zona. Friday the Explorers go to} San Francisco to meet Santa Clara. They play Stanford Satur- day. Another Eastern independent Powerhouse, Seton Hall of South Orange, N. J., also has a busy week ahead. The Setonians, who recorded their fifth triumph in a row Saturday by thrashing Kings (Pa.), 97-51, participate in three intersectional frays. The Pirates play host to Louis- ville tonight and John Carroll Tues- day night and then clash with Western Kentucky Thursday at Madison Square Garden. North Carolina State gets an op- portunity to enhance its Southern Conference stature Thursday when the Wolfpack takes to the road against George Washington. They return home Saturday for an in- tersectional skirmish against Texas Tech. The defending titlists are 3-1 in the league standings and have cap- tured five out of six in overall competiton. Last Saturday, they tripped previou: unbeaten East- ern Kentucky, 88-75. Louisiana State University, picked to replace idle Kentucky as the Southeastern Conference lead- er, opens its league schedule Wednesday at Alabama, With pro- lifie-scoring Bob Pettit paving the way, LSU has amassed four suc- cessive victories over non-loop foes. Illinois, rated as one of the na- tion’s top-ranking quintets, launches defense of its Big Tem crown tonight against Michigan. Minnesota, also a formidable {contender for Big Ten supremacy, has taken three in a row, and is + | resting until Dec. 23 when it meets Illinois. The Gophers turned back Nebraska, 71-62, Saturday. Another Midwest Kingpin, un- beaten Kansas State, favored in the Big Seven race, engages in three intersectional tussles this week. The Wildcats, with a pair of close victories over Drake and In- |diana, are at home with San Fran- | cisco tonight. They travel to East Lansing, Mich., Friday to meet | Notre Dame and then face Michi- gan State the next night. Kansas, the NCAA Tourney champion, aims to get back on the victory trail at the expense o SMU Friday and Saturday nights at Lawrence. The Jayhawks won their opener rather handily from Tulane, but were rudely jolted Saturday by Rice, 54-51, Teams in the Southwest Confer- ence concluded their first week of activity with Rice, Texas Christian and Texas emerging unscathed, Arkansas, the preseason favorite, was stung by Tulsa, but bounced back Saturday to erush Mississippi State, 102-71. On the Pacifie Coast, California has an unblemished slate in four nonconference games, while de- fending Champion UCLA and Washington boast 3-1 records. California is at Washington Friday and Saturday nights, Mulloy May Be No. 1 Netter NEW YORK —The oldest play- er in at least four decades to reach | the finals of the National Men’s Championships and one of the youngest women ever accorded national honor~ have been tenta- tively ranked first mn the 1952 rat- ings of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, But there prvbably will be con- siderable argument before 38-year- old Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., is approved as the No. 1 male player at the associa- tion's annual meeting Jan. 1 There’s little likelihood, however of a change in the Ranking Com- mittee’s selection of teen-aged Maureen Connolly of San Diego, Calif., as the country’s foremost } woman player. She has won the national crown two straight years and the 1952 All-England title at Wimbledon én completely outclass- | ing her rivals In announcing the men’s rank ings, the committee cautioned that its selection merely were recom mendations and that some of them agenda. Tulane t New Orleans; against Texas in sissippi meets Arkansas at Little Rock, and Mississippi State plays Florida State in Tallahassee. |this season. They meet again Jan j i. Louisiana State’s Bengals, paced by center Bob Pettit, scored 122 f | {points in defeating Southwestern of | |Memphis. LSU is considered on of the tougher teams in the lea Two other teams - Florida and Mississippi State-- are feated. However, neither has been given a real test. Florida has twe wins and Mississippi State ¢ Five conference games and s non-conference contests are or t week's schedule Mississippi meets Florence Teachers at Florence, Ala, and Florida takes on Miami at Miami tonight. No games are Tuesday. Alabama faces Tuscaloosa Wednesday anessee plays Texas in Knox ville and Tulane rmeys to Hous. ton for a meeting Rice Thurs day. Friday night four confe teams go into action at Birm bam. Georgia Tech and Alab: meet in one game, and Ache plays Georgia m the oth J scheduled for Friday is the F Mississippi State affair in € ville, i Four — ere om Saturday's for at scheduled LS z might be changed-at the annual meeting. The committee placed the Davis Cup captain, Vie Seixas, in the No. 2 spot. And he’s playing in the Davis Cup matches in Australia, where a good showing might pos- sibly vault him past the veteran Mulloy. Mulloy was ranked with Bill Tal- bert of New York as the No. 1 doubles team for the second straight year. Below Mulloy and Seixas in the men’s singles, the committee ranked Dick Savitt, Orange, N. J.; Herb Flam, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Talbert; Hamilton Richardson, Baton Rouge, La.; Tom Brown, San Francisco; Noel Brown, the former professional from Los An- geles, and Harry Likas Jr., San Francisco, | JESSEL IS IMPROVING HOLLYWOOD &# — Comedian George Jessel is convalescing to- |day from an emergency gall blad- der operation. Dr. Marcus H. Rabwin per- \formed the surgery yesterday. Jes- seb had been in the hospital several (days. | Subseribe to The Citizen MOVING YOUR Aes Temer cna Tealliaion a _ PA ae oe Phone 64-2661 , One Ton or 100 Tons...Leonard Bros? +1 Specialists can do it... Safer... Quicker. . More Economically ! TRANSFER 2595 n,m 20msT..MIAMI,FLA,