The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1952, Page 5

Conch Cagemen, Alumni Will Vie At High School Tonight The Key West High School bas-——~ ketball squad, season’s opening win over Red-; lands last week, will tackle the | Alumni tonight in a contest which will serve as a tuneup for their erucial meeting with Homestead on Friday. After a week of stiff drills, Coach Win Jones has his cagers | trained down to razor sharpness} and tonight they will have a chance to show the fans just what they have to offer in court magic. They are facing a grueling | schedule with at least one game} facing them each week through- | out the balance of the season. Jones will throw a starting five consisting of Bob Sawyer at cen- ter, Julio Henriquez and Jimmy Solomon at the forward positions and Stu Logun and Lucy Gonza- lez at the guards into the fray but “he is expected to substitute freely to have the benefit of a| look at his bench under game con- ditions. The Alumni will send a group of all-time Key West High School | basketball stars onto the floor in an effort to show the current} edition how they did it. John Cere- zo, Helio Orapeza, Ralph Henri- quez and Ivan Watson will be on tap for the alumni among others. | Jones has been stressing shoot- | ‘ing in his drills of late to try to! sharpen up the Conch attack} which has been spotty in their first start of the season. Some im- provement has been evident thus far in the drills. They have deve- | loped a well oiled offensive machine otherwise with their fast break clicking in fine fashion. In a preliminary game, the Junior Varsity will meet a team of “oldsters” made up of mem- bers of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, The ballgame _ will feature some real father and son rivalry with at least one member of the JC club having a son on the Conch JV team, notably Bob Dopp. Joe Pinder and Everett Sweeting will be huffing and puff- ing for the JCs if their bunions do not give them too much trouble. The preliminary game will get underway at 7:00 p. m. and the main attraction is shceduled for 8:00 p, m. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT SYDNEY; Australia — ‘Ted Schroeder, who is out here this time strictly as a sightseer and newspaper expert on the approach- | | ing Davis Cup Matches, has asked and been granted permission to take a longdistance belt at his old cup teammate Gardnar Mulloy. Incensed at Mulloy’s reported criticism of the makeup of the cufrent American squad, Ted sat down and carefully wroté this out in pencil: “Gardnar might, thankful to the organization which gave him many an_ ungrasped opportunity. Failing in this, he might keep his counsel or possibly even show a little sportsmanship by backing his country’s team while it is competing abroad.” Having got that down on paper, Schroeder enlarged upon it orally, emphasizing his remarks with ges- tures. “What I mean,” he said, ‘“‘is that this guy has had every chance in the world in the biggest events at Wimbledon, Forest Hills and else- where and yet never once in his fresh from their | I think, be Allie Reynolds Is Top ERA Hurler NEW YORK (#—Allie Reynolds, the big chief of the world cham- |pion New York Yankees’ pitching | staff, climaxed a brilliant season | ; League earned run honors, accord- ling to official statistics released today. | The durable 33-year-old. right- \hander, who won 20 games for the first time in his career, gave up 56 earned runs in 244 innings for a league-leading 2.07 mark. It was since 1946 when Detroit’s Hal New- houser posted a 1.94 slate. Unofficial statistics compiled by the Associated Press and released early in October also had Allie the top ERA man at 2.07. | Reynolds, in winning his first earned run championship, became |the fifth New York Yankee hurler \to turn the trick. The others were | |Bob Shawkey, Wilcy Moore, Lefty ;Gomez and Spud Chandler. Reynolds also paced junior cir- | cuit pitchers in strikeouts with 160 | |tossed and six shutouts to share the lead with Mike Cleveland. Little Bobby Shantz, the league’s | most valuable player, won the most |games, 24. The Philadelphia lefty lost only seven games and his .774 winning percentage put him on top in that department. Bobby was third in the earned run listings with 2.48, just behind runner-up Garcia who compiled a 2.37 av- erage. Cleveland’s Bob Lemon, a 22 - game winner, hurled the most com- innings, 310, Early Wynn, another of Cleve- land’s hard-working righthanders, duced the top bases on balls figure, 132, and was tagged for the most home runs, 23. Detroit's Art Houtteman was charged with the most losses, 20. He won eight games. A total of $362,809,265 was wager- ed on harness races during 1952, an increase of 19.34 per cent over the previous high set in 1951, life came through when the chips | were down. quarterfinals and finals but tell | He’s reached the} | me one big match he ever won. | Yet now he has the nerve to criti- cize players who have | Bone out and won the big ones.’ This is as*good a spot as any | in 1952 by capturing American | the lowest earned run average | Garcia of. plete games, 28, and the most! racked up 23 victories but he pro- | Lion-Ram Tilt Is Rated As A Tossup DETROIT #—“You can throw |out the window all that stuff about | us beating the Rams twice before. | That doesn’t mean a thing now. |'They’re just as good as we are.” What Coach Buddy Parker of the | Detroit Lions means is: |champion Los Angeles Rams of the National Footlall League will be near even-choices for their post- season divisional playoff game here Sunday, despite 17-14 and 24- 16 victories the Lions scored over |the Rams earlier. The teams will collide at 1:30 p. m. before a national television audience and a possible sellout | crowd of 56,000 fans to settle the | National Conference championship. | If the score is tied when the game | | ends, they'll play till one team | scores in a sudden death overtime | period, The winner will go on to the NFL ; championship game against the | Cleveland Browns, champions of | the American Conference, in Cleve- land Dec. 28. | It’s too early in the week for the Lions-Rams game. But one bookie said the odds would proba- bly be 6-5 and take your choice, or three points on either team. | The Lions might have gone into the game noticeable underdogs if | quarterback Bobby Layne, leading Passer and second - best ground - gainer, had remained on the in- jured list. Layne, who suffered a stretched \ligament in Saturday’s victory jover Dallas, said yesterday that his left leg felt good and that he would play against the Rams. Layne’s recovery means the Lions will start their first string backfield of Layne, halfbacks Doak Walker and Bob Hoernschemeyer {and fullback Pat Harder for the \first time in 11 weeks. Hoern- schemeyer had missed the last two games but will be ready. | The Brooklyn Dogers averaged five runs a game last season but finished third in the National League in team batting with a .262 mark. ROBES SLIPPERS JEWELRY BUCKLES SHOES | ‘The Lions and theh defending! bookmakers to be quoting odds on | Key West Banned From Suncoast Conference Sat. South Florida’s Suncoast Con- ference, at a special meeting in Belle Glade Saturday, voted un- animously to reject the bid of the Key West High School to join their ranks for the upcoming football season. + The eight members of the con- ference were agreed in their opin- ion that the great sistance that they would have to travel would make such a move undesirable. jAt the same time, they moved to jadmit the Pompano High School |to the conference. At this point, the high school authorities are undecided whether to seek another conference con- nection -- possibly in the newly formed Gulfstream loop or to con- tinue to campaign independently as they have in the past. The Gulfstream Conference con- tains some of the top schoolboy elevens in South Florida including Coral Gables and Miami Beach. Boxing Results FIGHTS MONDAY NIGHT | By The Associated Press BOSTON: Ezzard Charles, 187. Cincinnati, stopped Frankie Bu- |ford, 202, Oakland, Calif., (7). | BROOKLYN: Billy Gilliam, 209% Orange, N. J., outpointed Bob Bak- er, 216, Pittsburgh, (10). CHICAGO: Alan Moody, 147, Rob- ins, Ill, stopped Jimmy Sanders, 155, Pittsburgh, (10). TORONTO: John L. Sullivan, 164%, Preston, Lancashire, Eng land, stopped Gus Rubinici, 161%, Toronto, (6). QUEBEC: Bryan Kelly, 14, Ni agara Falls, Ont., outpointed Marie Terry, 144%, Cuba, (8). DIDN’T PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHED LOS ANGELES — A onetime automobile driving instructor is serving 60 days in jail for failing to practice what he preached. Walter E. McKiernan, 40, was cited yesterday on four bench war- rants accusing him of (1) making a left turn without signaling, (2) failing to make a boulevard stop, (3) making an unsafe change in lanes and (4) illegal parking. These infractions McKiernan ad- mitted to Judge J. C. Kepple, but he said he quit auto instructing and went to work in a plane plant two months before still another |offense, misdemeanor drunk driv- ing, occurred. four counts, sentenced McKiernan on the drunk driving charge. KANTOR’S Gift Headquarters FOR MEN The court suspended the first | BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE First place in Sunday’s Big |financially stronger come the end League went to the foursomes of Joe Lopez, Sr., Tony Demerritt, James McCardle and Ray Fer- nandez; Humbert Mira, George Solis, B. Stallon and Bob Smith. Both came in with a total score of 83 points. The Blind Bogey was split six ways. Winning number was 79. Tomorrow night is the Golf Club election meeting and a large at- tendance is expected. Immediate- ly after, refreshments will be served. Christmas Day a party will be held at the Golf Clubhouse for members and their guest. Each one that is planning to attend will bring a small gift so Santa can distribute them among the gather- ing. The Price of the gift should not exceed buck. Egg Nog will be served. e of the proceedings is 5 p. m. Switching to the baseball scene finds Key West in the dark as far as an entry in the Florida International. League this coming season. The only definite thing to come out of tHe meeting in Miami last Sunday was that the locals were out of the league as far as owning theic own club. President Lou Carbonell still hasn’t given up hope, but the outlook is very dim at this time. Many rumors on Miami Beach coming to Key West also will be squelched within a week or so. Off the record, Fort Lauderdale has already put a proprosition to the owners that will be hard to turn down. The only way Key West can get the Flamingos to come here will be te show them they will be of the season. By this, fans that want to, see an FIL team repre- sent them should band together and go to the Coach owners and show them. A group of men in Fort Lauder- dale have already canvassed some 1500 season tickets if the Beach moves there. This one measure could convince Paul Rust, owner of the Beach, in moving up state. Club President Carbonell is scheduled to appear before the City Commission tonight in hopes that the City Fathers will meet with the Beach owners to map out a way to bring them to this city. Persons interested in this project should attend and give the club some backing. Let’s hope some way can be found. Crimson Tide To Continue Drills TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ala- bama’s Orange Bowl bound squad was scheduled to resume practice today after tacking a respite yes- terday because of cold weather and classroom laboratory work. Coach Red Drew said the team would get down to serious work today in preparation for a full- fledged scrimmage Friday. Freshmen members of the squad will be released for the Christmas holidays Saturday. The varsity will continue daily practice sessions un- til Christmas Day. Srep into America’s all-new Action Car! Discover for yourself the surging V-8 power that masters hill and highway! See how the new Dodge snugs down on curves, takes turns in stride! Test the nimble change of pace that is yours with Gyro-Torque Drive and flash-action “Scat” gear! Here’s a clean-lined, streamlined Power Packed Beauty that you will drive with more pleasure, own with more pride, than Tuesday, December 16, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Bernie Page 8 Navy Net Tourney Finals Set Today The finals in the U. S. Navy tennis Tournament will be run off this afternoon at 4:00 p. m. on the Bayview Park Courts’ with Chief Bob Robinson of the USS Gilmore meeting airman J. L. Webb in a match that promises to be the high point in the tour- ney which has produced plenty of hot net action to date. Web vanquished Commander Joe Watson while Robinson top- pled John McNulty to gain the finals in the competition. The public is invited to attend the matches. Top Rank Cagers Gain Wins Monday NEW YORK — The nation’s four top-ranked teams--La Salle, Kansas State, Hall ~ scored easy victories last night as collegiate basketball be- gan a week of vital basket bomb- ing. La Salle, ranked No. 1 in the first Associated Press poll of the season, won its sixth straight game by defeating Southwest Missouri State, 77-70, at Springfield, Mo. At Manhattan, Kas., Kansas State, ranked No. 2, handed San} Franeisco its fifth straight setback, 81-60. Third-ranked Mlinois also had an easy time, whipping Michigan, 96- 66, in a Big 10 game at Champaign, ml. Unlike the other leaders, Seton Hall, No. 4, had a bit of difficulty before downing Louisville, 77-66, at South Orange, N. J. These were the only games in- volving teams ranked among the first 20 in the land. But there were several other games which rated more than passing attention In these, Wisconsin tripped Iowa, 75-70; Colorado hit 41 per cent of | its shots to rip Washington State, 76-46; and Miami (Fla) edged Florida, 75-73. Nimblest Piece of Live Action on Four Wheels ! Illinois and Seton | Cold Weather Mars Ca. Tech Practice ATLANTA (®—Freezing weather all but stopped Georgia Tech’s foot ball team yesterday from practi¢- ing for its New Year’s day Suga? Bowl game with the University of Mississippi. Coach Bobby Dodd gave his boys a few limbering up exercises and then sent the squad indoors to the gymnasium for more calesthenics, “We hate to lose a day,” back field coach Frank Broyles come mented, “‘but it’s better to lose maybe one day with inside work than take a chance on some of the boys coming down with colds.” Weather permitting, out of doors work was scheduled today. Three of Tech’s top running backs-Leon Hardeman, Larry Ruf- fin, and Dick Pretz—are still limp ing from regular season injuries, And Billy Teas, top right halfback, is out of action altogether. Teas suffered a broken collarbone in the Georgia game. 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