The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 19, 1952, Page 6

CONCH CAGERS FACE HOMESTEAD TONIGHT — Key West High School Courtmen Point For Second Straight Win The Key West High School basketball squad will be seeking its second win of the season tonight when they journey to Homestead to ta which promises to be packed with action. The Conchs, who captured a 37-34 win over Red- lands in their season’s opene’ slight underdogs against Ho: take the District 7 Championship this year. The Conchs, have always had a great deal of trouble beating Homestead who is rated as their traditional court rival. Homestead is off te a good start this season having run up an un- beaten record in four starts to date including wins over Vero Beach, St. Annes, Gesu and North Miami High. Coach Win Jones today predicted “a close game if our shovting is right.” If the Conchs can weather the first half without being snowed under they might have a chance, he continued. The only bright spot in the Conch picture is the fact that the boys are getting their shoot- Ing eyes in shape and the spotty shotmaking that has plagued addition, their foul shooting is looking up---they made eight of fourteen foul shots attempted in.. Tuesday night outing with the Alumni. ckle that team in a game r last week, will be rated as mestead who is favored to Sports Roundup By WILL GRIMSLEY (For Gayle Talbot) ; NEW YORK # —Throw the! | ladies out of the Olympic Games? | “Never,” boomed Daniel J. Fer- lris, militant secretary-treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union, taking sharp issue with Avery Brundage, new president of the International j Olympic Committee. “I «see Avery would like to streamline the Olympics by hang- {ing up a ‘For men only’ sign on the games,” the squat, snow- | haired AAU executive added. “I! | think it would be a grave mistake. | Furthermore, I don’t think it will ever come to pass.” Ferris long has been an out- | spoken advocate of more and bet- ter female athletes in the United Navy Tennis Trophy Awarded sn Citizen Staff Photo CPO’s Top Navy Wives Bowling By TRUDY COCHRAN Most of the weekly high scores and honors went to the CPO Op-| DevSta team. Their own Edith Holt pushed her league average to a 141 plus by rolling a_ sizzling high triple of 516. Her games were 142, 190 and 184. The last two were also the first and second high single games and Ruby Caldwell’s 178 came in for third place. OpDevSta rolled the high scratch team game 782 and the high scratch team set of 2154. TEAM STANDINGS Teams— | USO - NCCS , OPDevSta CP USS Cero ..... 22 20 31 USO - YMCA 20 22 25 NAS. ........ 17 24 20 NavSta CPO 14 28 18 “Average Fan” Takes Helm Of Indians Thurs. CLEVELAND (#—Myron H. Wil- son, an ‘‘average fan” with a few shares of baseball stock but no management experience in profes- sional sports, took over today as L. Pts. 13 40 19 34 Ww. 29 23 Page 6 U.S. Doubles THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Squad Looks Good Friday, December 19, 1958 In Davis Cup Action Thursday By GAYLE TALBOT SYDNEY, Australia « — Con- sidering they were playing together for the first time, Vic Seixas of Philadelphia and Tony Trabert of Cincinnati looked. like a remark- ably promising doubles team today in crushing the veteran Italian pair of Gianni Cucelli and Marcello del Bello in clinching victory for the U? S. in the Davis Cup tennis interzone final. The scores of 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 indicate the green American team got pro- gressively sharper as the match went on. Their teamwork was poor in the opening set, but towards the last they were sweeping their be- fuddled opponents off the court. Such a knowing Australian critic as Jack Crawford, who once was one of the world’s greatest doubles stars, commented afterwards that the new American combination looked good enough to give the Aussies plenty of trouble in the challenge round at Adelaide 10 days hence. Seixas played on a sore, slightly swollen right ankle which he hurt when he fell in yesterday’s singles match against Fausto Gardini. To spare the ankle he mainly served only at halfspeed and suffered the only American service break in the opening set. Trabert’s booming first serve themselves mighty trenchermen during their visit to Australia, put considerable fire into their play in the first set and had the crowd cheering them as they broke Seixe as’ delivery to square it at 44. But at that point they began to run out of gas whereas their tall, young rivals stepped up the pace and it rapidly became no contest, In the first set the Italians wom eight clean points merely by knocke ing the ball between the Americans who stood staring stupidly at each other. Tony and Vic must have rigged up some signals after that because they didn’t let it happen again in the last two sets. They broke Del Bello's service twice to win the second set and gave Cucelli the same medicine in the third set. Seixas, the U. S. team captain, expressed great satisfaction with the showing he and Trabert made their first time out. “Unless some- thing happens,” he said, they will undoubtedly pair against the Aus- sies. “Of course,” he added, “‘we need a lot more practice together but we have time to get that starting Mon- day in Adelaide,” With the interzone final already decided, Seixas said he would stay out of tomorrow’s concluding singles and let Ham Richardson ADMIRAL IRVING T. DUKE (center), commanding officer of the Key West Naval Station is Homestead will give the Conchs | States and the Brundage pro- president of the Cleveland InJivns. a lot of trouble in the form of a club that is studded with veterans A goodly portion of the Homestead roster has seen four years of action in the court pastime. Jack Ennis, a rangy forward has dropped in over 20 points in starts twice this season. In addition, all district forward Bill Norwood, who led the scoring parade last year and is a classy playmaker as well will offer the Conchs trouble. The long and narrow Homestead court will also be something new to the Key Westers since they have but one member who cam- paigned with the squad in last year’s campaign. Coacl. Jones will be shooting the works in an effort to lick the Homestead club. Center Bob Saw- yer and forward Jimmy Solomon are the only sure starters, he in- dicated today. The balance of the starting lineup will be made up of Lucy Gonzalez, Stu Logun, Julio Henriquez and Glynn Archer. John Carbonell and Ralph White have also shown promise in prac- tice sessions and are expected to see action in the clash. Aldo Vidal, who has been switched to a for- ward position will also be on tap. Biff Salgado and Gibby Gates are also performing in fine fashion. A large contingent of Key West cage fans will make the trip with the club. The B squad will clash with the Homestead JV’ in a pre- liminary game. Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Hunk Anderson, former Notre Dame football coach and a professional coach since 1939, resigned from the Chicago Bears to go into bus- iness. FIVE YEARS AGO — Ray Rob- inson, defending champ, scoreda TKO in 2:07 of a welterweight title fight with Chuck Taylor at Detroit, Mich. TEN YEARS AGO —Greg Rice | was named the Metropolitan AAU’s | outstanding athlete of the year TWENTY YEARS AGO — Gene | Sarazen, United States and Brit- | ish Open golf champion, was | named outstanding American ath- lete of the year by The Associated | Press. | ———— | BURGLARS T ODD ASSORTMENT OF LOOT HOLLYWOOD «® — Burglars. apparently intent on starting a jungle, broke into the Hollywood Aquarium, stole a six-foot Ana conda water boa snake, an eight foot indigo snake, a six-foot indigo snake, two five-foot boa constric tors and a rare Siamese gekko lizard. | The gekko, said owner Sylvester Chichester Lloyd, will be | recognize, because it's the only one in captivity here “It has big feet.’ Lloyd ex- plained to a puzzled police ser geant. “Its underside is like a venetian blind and it up and down walls like a ver blind. In Southeast Asia the is kept in hotel rooms to eat the Toaches. He runs around the room all night making a noise that sounds like “gekko, gekko STEALS COP PICTURES LOS ANGELES & — The who stole Cal Carey's camera als local peace Among those the police ehief and district attor neg. i officers Shrine |nouncement last week in Chicago | pulled the rug from under aneAAU |campaign to improve feminine track and field forces. | “Avery said we could well dis- | pense with the ladies’ competition |because the ancient Greeks didn’t {let the girls in the games and |didn’t even let them watch the events from behind their dark veils,” Ferris continued. “But this is a new age and I | think the 1952 Olympics at Hel- sinki showed us that there is wide international interest in women’s track and field. We must revamp our thinking to keep pace.’’ | The AAU executive said Ameri- |can strength in women’s track and field has reached a low ebb be- cause of the modesty of the U. S. female and also because of her |fear that she might develop into ja mannish, muscular Amazon. “I think both premises are wrong and we must wage a cam- paign to convince the girls that |competition will enhance their beauty ai strength and make them bette mothers,” Ferris said. “Sometimes I suspect our girls are timid about running around in public in shorts although they seem to have no qualms about appearing in a tight, revealing bathing suit. “You need only to look at some of our swimmers and divers to realize that athletic competition doesn’t hurt a lady’s beaut: “I was surprised in Helsinki this summer to find so many beauti- ful, feminine women competing. The Australian girls, who were the best in the games, were particu- larly attractive. “I remember asking an Austral- ian official how they got their girls interested in track. He replied the girls were treated just like the boys—when there was a track meet both took part. We have only about six meets a year for girls.’ Ferris said a special committee may be formed to study the prob- lem next year and try to generate shown as he awards the Navy Tennis Singles championship trophy to Chief Redburn of the Fleet All Weather Training Unit who represented Jack Webb, Navy title winner who is home on leave. Others in the photo include runners up Joe Watson, Bob Robison and John McNulty. PICARD, REVOLTA TOP MIAMI GOLF TOURNEY By BEN FUNK MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (#?—Two | old-time golf stars-Henry Picard | and John Revolta--and 51-year-old | Miami Beach club pro, Willie Klein, oldest golfer in the tour- as the $13,000 International Four- | Ball tournament entered the sec- | ond round. nament, teamed up with New) York’s Al Brosch in Thursday's opening round to score a_ sensa- tional 3 and 2 victory over Sam Snead, the West Virginia Slammer, and the big Australian, Jim Fer- rier. Picard and Revolta, who won! the tournament three years in a row back in the ’30s, racked up a 4 and 3 first-round victory over two Charlotte, N. C., tournament vet-| Jerans, Johnny Palmer and Clay-}The Kroll-Hartford team downed ton Heafner. The graying Klein, with no | greater claim to golf fame than|1, in the opening test. his victories in the Miami Open in 1926 and 1936, and Brosch amazed the gallery by beating |Snead and Ferrier on the greens |Cooper, White Plains, N. Y., and Klein, oldest golfer in the tour |on the back nine of the 6,657yard |Claude Harmon, Mamaroneck, N. Normandy Isle course. Klein id Brosch were paired in today’s second round with Fred Haas, New Orleans, and Marty Furgol, Lemont, Ill. Haas and Furgol came through ‘Thursday with a 3 and 2 decision over Bob Hamilton, Evansville, Ind., and Dutch Harrison, Ardmore, Pa, Picard and Revolta will meet Ted Kroll, New Hartford, N. Y., and Lew Worsham, Oakmont, Pa. TV Hurts Boxing Gate, Eyperts Say NEW YORK (#—What effect has | television on boxing? Here it is in black and white | The average 1952 show at Madi-| son Square Garden, once boxin, No. 1 showcase, drew only 4 fans and $15,116. Gate receipt dipped roughly 50 per cent below last year’s sub-normal figures For 27 Garden shows, through the Dec. 12 card. the paid attend ance was 117,923 and the gate | White $408,130. Last year for 31 shows | set } 1948 }star not only has to be mighty | asy to {I lit easy with others in Vanderbilt new interest among the girls. Bus- iness institutions may be asked to form teams. “We have the talent, plenty of it,” Ferris said NEW YORK \® — Native Dancer. is the undefeated 2-year-old cham- pion, but he’s got to be one whale of a racehorse to earn more money in one year than Citation, which | the record with $709,470 in| Alfred Vanderbilt's grey juvenile good, but he must remain sound and have a lot of racing luck. Native Dancer in winning nine races this year earned $230,495, | most ever stacked up by a 2-year- old. Citation won eight of nine in his 1947 juvenile year, and $155,- | 680. Trainer Bill Winfrey has Native neer in California, just taking stable. Native Dancer probably won't begin his 3-year-old cam- paign until April in New York. | He wasn’t nominated for the $100,- } 000 Santa Anita Derby | In Citation’s biggest year, as a/| 3-year-old, Ben Jones and son Jim- | my of the Calumet Farm started | their star early, at Hialeah Park j Feb. 2. Citation raced six times | before heading into Kentucky and | the Derby j He earned, in those six races, $84,225, including victories in the ago and Chesapeake Stakes. ues that Native Dancer's schedule calls for the $25,000 Ex-| perimental Handicap and the s10y,- x0 Wood Memorial at Jamaica efore the Derby, the Vanderbilt ss n about ewen terms with Citation m the bankroll bate the receipts were $907,512. Back in the boom days of 1945, they took in $2,263,259 for 43 shows Television, of course, isn’t the only answer. They had TV last year, too, when much la crowds turned out. Main b like last week's Johnny Saxton Raul Perez debacle must shoulder responsibility with TV. And TV adds a reported $27,500 Friday that is not included in announced receipts. But the evidence seems quite clear on the TV angle. Two out door shows, with no home tele vision, did good business. Best of all in New York was the crowd of 47,983 and gate of $421,698 for the Joey Maxim- ach the Son go at Yankee Stadium 2. They had only theater-TV that one. When Rocky Marciano burst the Harry Matthews bubble at the stadium, there was no radio, tele vision or theater TV. The gate was 31,188 paid and $215,707 The night Rocky Marci won the heavyweight title from Jersey Joe Walcott at Philadelphia had to buy theater-TV attend the boxing st movies did a tremendous bus and the fight attracted 40.3 $504,645. REACHES FILM HEIGHTS HOLLYWOOD # — Two Oscar and 3 starring $ t movie debut, cement in the fore man’s Chinese 7 together wr se greats of today and yesteryear {and we're not too proud to borrow White Sox To Hold Spring ‘Training Plan By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK ® — The Chicago Sox is the latest club to start a special spring training school for their farmhands and rookies. The Yankees and Red Sox have good success with this idea ,”’ said manager Paul Richards. “After finishing fourth and third he last two years, the ‘first divi- no longer can be our goal. 2 are now shooting for the pen- nant and nothing less. Since we an't reach out and get a 20- winner or a power hitter siving away Comiskey will concentrate on pol- up the players we now opez. manager of the Cleve- | as predicts that his big ly Wynn, Bob Lemon relia again will win at ext season. The lost 34 last season. Kiner, the majors’ home has been paid over a i dollars for each homer | nce he came up to/| in 1946. In his} th Pittsburgh, Kiner | aries totaling $325,- | $46,428 per sea- e period, he has {| Tuns, an average | Toney Penna, Cincinnati, and Bob Toski, Northampton, Mass., 2 and The first-round upset started in the initial match of the day, when the defending champions -- Pete Y.-were bumped out by Herman Barron, White Plains, and Glenn Teal, Buffalo, N. Y., 1-up. It was a tough day for all the stars. Julius Boros, 1952 golf mon- ey-winning champion from Mid Pines, N. C.,and his teammate, Doug Ford, Harrison, N. Y., need- ed to go to the 19th hole to down Henry Williams, Pittsburgh, and Milton Marusic, Herkimer, N. Y., Lup. 4 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO CANADA ESKIMOS WHEELING, W. Va. (#—Radio station WWVA will have a special | Christmas greeting Saturday for the 7,000 Eskimos who live around Hudson Bay. The word ‘here is that practically all the 7,000 will be listening at missions and trading posts. The Eskimos, it turns out, love mountain music and have been regular fans of WWVA musical programs. Hearing of its special fans more than 2,000 miles away, asked Bishop Scheffer of Mortreal to prepare the Christmas message. A priest, Father Thibert, who has served in the missions maintained by the Oblates of Mary Immacu- late in the barren land, translated the message into Eskimo talk and recorded it in Montreal for the broadcast Saturday night. OPERA RETAINS BING NEW YORK i# — Rudolf Bing, | who modernized and streamlined Metropolitan Opera productions, has been hired for another three- year term as general manager. WWVA haps another starting pitcher, we | could be a big threat to the Yan- | kees and Indians for the American League pennant.” Now that they've got the left- handed pitcher they've been striv- | ing for with the acquisition of | Chuck Stobbs from the Chicago | White Sox, the Washington Sena- tors will make a determined effort to snare catcher Myron (Joe) Ginsberg from the Detroit Tigers. | Ellis Ryan quit the job 1:-er | fire yesterday and Wilson's first act as new chief was to strensthen the hand of Hank Greenberg by expressing “utmost confidence” in the general manager. Wilson, saying he would continue his insurance business, indicated a freer hand for Greenberg by pointing out he would not make the presidency a: full-time job. “I don’t know much about pick- ing ball players or, even trading them,” he added. That’s Hank’s department.” Greenberg's differences with Ryan on operational policies had been a factor in the dispute leading to Ryan’s departure, although the former home run slugger never took part in the front - office squabble. Wilson--who is 65 years old--has never met Tribe field boss Al Lopez and describes himself as just a “‘little stockholder begging for tickets to come and see a game.” Although among the anti-Ryan group in the present controversy, Wilson was a friend of Ryan’s and was in the syndicate fronted by Ryan which bought the club from Bill Veeck three years ago. Ryan sold out his insurance busi- ness then. The dispute leading to Wilson's election broke into the open two weeks ago at the major league meeting at Phoenix, Ariz. Details never have been made public but Ryan was criticized for advocating purchase of the Indianapolis team in the American Association. In- dianapolis lost money last year. Ryan, admitting the squabble, decided to make a fight of it. But yesterday he could win no more than a temporary stalemate at a special stockholders’ meeting and resigned. Graham To Bid For Middleweight Title Tonight NEW YORK #—Sugar Ray Rob- inson’s retirement points up to- night’s Billy Graham-Joey Giar- dello fight at Madison Square Garden as a part of the general middleweight picture. Graham, beaten twice in welter title bids, wants to mingle with the middies although he only weighs 148 pounds. Giardello, the Philadelphia speedster. is a legiti- mate ninth-ranked middleweight. The garden 10-rounder, sched- uled for 10:00 p. m. (EST) will be carried on network radio (ABC) and television (NBC). Graham badiy needs a win to regain prestige lost when he was upset by Giardello Aug. r and soundly whipped by Gavilan in a Havana title bout, Oct. 5. For Giardello this is a chance to crack the big time. He has been was going in and he won five of his seven services at love. The two Italians, who proved of Baton Rouge, La., take his place against Del Bello who will ubstitute for Cucelli, BENCH VIEWS By - JACK K. BURKE Other matters brought to the at- tention of the members of the Key West Golf Club besides élection of officers the other evening were the planting of the sod for the putting green and the improvement of the fairways. On the putting green question, many agreed that this was the wrong time of the year for the grass to be laid, so there- fore it will be delayed. Top soil and sod will be added to the fair- ways as soon as it is available. The membership chairman Rus- sel Hyman reported that Wilson Walker had been accepted as a new member and also that Jack Carbonell and Aurelio Rodgers had Treasurer Horace O’Bryant re- ported that the financial condition was on a sound basis at the pre- New Leaders Favor Cutback In Aid Funds WASHINGTON (#—A reduction in United States foreign aid funds is favored by 9 out of 10 incoming congressmen willing to take a stand in an Associated Press sur- ve ey Some of this 90 per cent pro- tested hotly what they called waste and poor results in the 87 billion dollars America has sent its al- \lies during the past 12 years. | Others, among the 10 per cent, |defended the program as provid. ling the most defense per dollar. Thirty-one senators called for foreign aid cuts in their replies, |while Sen. Langer (R-ND) flatly, “‘Nothing for foreign aid.” | Six House members urged no |new foreign assistance appropria- tions and 143 proposed cuts, using | words like “severely” and “dras- | tically.” Four senators, some with reser- | vations, opposed reductions, while |replies from 22 senators showed |no pronounced leanings now. Only |16 representatives—13 Democrats and three Republicans—indicated ound tripper.|At the Phoenix meeting, manager | winning in the smaller clubs, boast- | support for anything like the pres- Marion of the|a swap involving Ginsberg for | Joe Giambra in a Buffalo rematch, |‘2¢¥¢* Bucky Harris offered the Tigers | ing five in a row until beaten whose club has | Mickey Grasso, but, was turned and is ripe for any title tourna- than 27 changes | Dasemas asd per- down. mium this season. Manager Eddie Stanky of the St. Louis Cardinals is seeking to lure either Ed Fitz gerald from Pittsburgh or Sal Yvars from the Giants to spell Dei Rice New York. in turn. is eveing Joe Garagiola of the Pirates and Jimm> Dyk the Philad pha Athietes « ke Sherman Loilard of the White Sex ’ ment. defeats Giardello, 22. has wom 39 of 52 fights with eight losses and five draws Whes primitive people make pottery. the work usually is done b en when he « net used and by men when the wheel is used. ent program. Forty-two represen- made noncommittal re- plies. Suggestions included | Graham, now 30, is a veteran; 1. A complete new study of the | Catchers seem to be at a pre- (of 115 pro fights with only nine | whole program. 2. Making loans instead of out- right grants 3. Shifting emphasis from Eu rope to the Middle and Far East | 4 Ending ecusomic aid grants but keeping military ssistance and the Point Four program of technical heip | Subscribe te The Citizen said | sent time. All members voted to give the employees of the club a Christ- vac bonus for their work, ae ‘ony itt was appoint as official eae Jestér. The question of the Monroe Gen- eral Hospital was discussed and the officials decided that the clos- ing of the front driving tee on No, 5 would settle the problem for now. An official complaint from the hospital had never been re- ceived by the Golf Club, but the directors agreed to pacify them. Eddy Strunk has offered ti hospital screen for their windows if they would put it up. Other locals have stated they would help in any way, It’s hoped the situation will be cleared up soon. Practice Tennis Matches Sat. A practice tennis match will be played between the Navy and Key West clubs at Bayview Park Sat urday at 2:30 p. m. Key West manager Jack Sellers and Navy manager Lt. Dan Zwill- ing decided on this practice match instead of a reguiar revent be- cause of the absence of some of the regualr players. Match singles line-ups aret P. Varela vs. Bob Robison’ H. Sellers, vs. J. McNulty; F. Roberts vs. D. Zwilling; R. Smith vs. J, Chambers; and J. Sellers avs, Capt. H. Payson. Doubles lineups: Robison and MeNulty vs. Varela and J. Sellers; Zwilling and Chambers ys. C, Lott and H. Sellers. BANDITS FORGET GUN IN ATTEMPTED THEFT OKLAHOMA CITY # — Two lady bandits, probably trying their | first stickup, forgot one little item: The gun! | “When one of them opened the jeash register and reached for the jmoney, i slapped it out of her jhand,” said William Brown Jr., ja@ service station ettendant who | was being “held up.” | One woman suddenly remember- ted she had forgotten the gun ran jto her car and came back bran- dishing a revolver. That. confided | Brown, made him angry. He punched the woman and took her gun away “They begged me back Br t, them I » and they left. They 1 couldn't believe give it vwn $2 t to do homage © a human lord