The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1952, Page 6

HOPE REVIVED FOR KEY WEST ENTRY IN FIL Flamingo Prexy To Come To K.W. Shortly To Confer With City Fathers The chances that Key West may have an entry in the Florida International Baseball League when it re- sumes action next May, are improving, according to Lou Carbonell, president of the Key West Baseball Club, which recently lost their franchise as a result of the paring down of the league| from eight to a combination. Carbonell revealed that he has recently conferred with owner Paul Rust and General Manager Joe Ryan of the Miami Beach Flamingos in an effort to induce that team to make Key West their six team baseball home. | And the efforts are bearing fruit, he said, when the baseball executives promised to come to} Key ‘West early in January for a series of conferences with the City | Commissioners, who along with{| several civic groups, have thrown their support four-square behind the efforts to keep Key West in the baseball picture. The Commission at their meet- ing here on Tuesday night prom- ised that they would do anything in their power to keep baseball in Key West. Carbonell had appeared before them asking that they continue | to support the efforts of base- ball promoters to bring the team here. In addition, the Key West Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club have passed reso- lutions indicating their support of the sport in the city. The chief obstacle in the way of bringing the Flamingos to the city is the fact that they would like to have concession rights. Also, a group in Fort Lauderdale is working in an effort to induce the Miami Beach team to move to that city. They have promised to build a new baseball plant and claim that they have sold 1500 season tickets for the coming year. However, those in close touch with the sit- uation say that the Beach high command would rather come to| Key West if they can get the right} deal, They are said to be loathe to move to Fort Lauderdale in view of past experience there. It was the Lauderdale franchise that the Key West Baseball Club picked | up midway in the past season | when they went broke. | Dr. Julio DePoo, a member of} the board of directors of the Conch team said today that the local group was “‘sorry to have lost the franchise but that they hoped that the Flamingos would come down here.” “But I think we would have aj better team if they do,” he added. The local operators stand to loose a considerable sum of cash! due to the loss of the franchise which came about when the Lake-| land operators threw in the sponge | after a losing season. Speculation that the Flamingos will come here started after a meeting last week in Miami, Own- er Rust is said to have been cast- ing around for a new home since} a disastrous season at the gate in| Miami Beach in spite of the fact that he had a second place ball club that fought the Miami Sun Sox right down to the wire. Local fans are of the unanimous opinion that the Flamingos will have the best club in the league this season. Manager Pepper Mar- tin of the Flamingos, has already been signed for the coming sea- son and the Beach aggregation ‘is studded with star ball players. They have a working agreement! with the Class A Atlanta Crackers. | Rust and Ryan are expected to ar. rive here shortly after the New) Year. The city is expected to com-| Plete the sodding of the outfield at Wickers Stadium in a short time. They agreed to finish the job at a meeting two weeks ago. Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Sonya Klopfer and Dick Button were se lected co-captains of the U. S. Olympic figure-skating team FIVE YEARS AGO — Charlie Conacher of Toronto was named e@oach of the Chicago Black Hawks, succeeding Johnny Gottselig, who Chance At Win By GAYLE TALBOT ADELAIDE, Australia - 8 amer- ica’s Davis Cup forces buckled buckled down to hard practice on Adelaide’s Memorial Drive courts today, confident they have a good chance of recapturing the jinternational tennis trophy from the Australians next week. The Challenge Round opens next Monday, and even the staunchest of this continent's net followers are beginning to be concerned about | prospects of keeping the big cup at | home. Vie Seixas, the United States’ captain and No. 1 player, showed no effects of his recent ankle injury in a brisk workout while young Tony Trabert continued his robust stroking. Seixas took a nasty tumble in the fifth set of his match with Italy’s Fausto Gardini last Friday and turned his ankle on the slippery court. He pulled out of the final singles Sunday. Today he said the limb didn’t trouble him at all. He added that the team is reaching peak shape, with Trabert finding his old time form through constant work, and he is sure America will take back the trophy. ? Brown Shift To Milwaukee Now Rumored By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (#—The oft-repeated rumor that Milwaukee will be the next major league city is being bruited about again but this time it is the St. Louis: Browns, and not the Boston Braves, who are supposed to move into that town and its new municipal stadium. “I know that the Braves own the Milwaukee franchise,” an in- formant said, “‘but the Browns will be in there within two or three years. It’s already in the works. Bill Veeck (Browns’ president) cannot go on record for Milwaukee until he is sure he can dispose of his real estate in St. Louis, Sports- man’s Park. But he has been ne- gotiating with certain Milwau- keeans for several months now.” The major leagues, at their meet- ing in Phoenix, Ariz., recently, passed a rule making it relatively easy to switch a major league franchise to another city. Shifting |a team to Milwaukee, however, would require extensive litigation, involving huge payments to the American Association clubs as well as the Braves. One of the reasons the 28-game winning Robin Roberts was able to rack up the most victories by a pitcher in one season since Dizzy Dean won 30 in 1934 was his amaz- ing control. The Philadelphia Phil- lies’ star issued only 45 bases on balls in 330 innings last season, a remarkable average of 1.36 walks per nine inning game. In nine of his 30 complete games, ‘the young righthander did not yield a pass. In 11 others he walked one. Sal Maglie, star righthander of the New York Giants, notifies from his home in Niagara Falls, N. Y., that his back hasn't bothered him at all despite a busy winter that included the building of a rumpus room in his house, sawing, ham- mering and laying asphalt tile Maglie, on the way to duplicating his 1951 23-game winning season, was laid low by a pulled muscle in his back last summer after win- ning his first nine starts. Although caused him to miss several pitch- ing turns, Maglie managed to rack up 18 triumphs against only eight | losses. Jim Toomey, publicist of the St. Louis Cardinals, has submitted a chart to the heads of the two ma- jor leagues in am effort to prove }his contention that the majors should adopt a playing schedule that would enable them to start and finish the season a week later. Toomey has made a thorough sur- vey which shows that playing con- | ditions usually are more favorable jin October than April. For instance, | there were 34 postponements in the | first month in 1952 against five dur- ing the final month. MEMBER OF BANKING CLAN WEDS AGAIN LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y¥. # — suffering considerable pain, which | U.S. Davis Cuppers Drill For Over Australia The U. S. captain threw a scare into the Australians by whipping their ace, Frank Sedgman, for the Victorian championship two weeks ago and Trabert added to this na- tion’s discomfort by the ease with which he trounced Gardini in the windup singles of the inter-zone matches. It now appears that Sedgman will have to win both his singles matches if Australia is to retain the Davis Cup. On their present form, both Seixas and Trabert stand to beat the Aussies’ No. 2 player, whether it’s Ken McGregor or left-handed Mervyn Rose. Australian officials seem doubtful of their lineup at the moment. The draw will be made at the week’s end. Australia’s great doubles combi- nation of Sedgman and McGregor have to be conceded a point in that particular phase of the competition although the new U. S. tandem of Seixas and Trabert looked mighty sharp against the Italians. Trabert, the Cincinnati sailor who is on leave to play in these matches, surprised even the Ameri- can delegation with his play yester- day in beating Italy’s No. 1 player, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3. Giardello’s Loss Will Be Taken To Court In Protest PHILADELPHIA (# — The co- managers of Middleweight Joe Gi- ardello plan to take the decision reversal of the Giardello-Billy Gra- ham bout at Madison Square Gar den last Friday night to court. Carmine Graziano, one of Giar- dello’s handlers, said here yester- day that he and Co-Manager An- thony Ferrante, had decided to test the reversal of the ring deci- sion by Robert K. Christenberry, chairman of the New York Athletic Commission. ‘ Giardello was awarded a split decision over Graham at the New York Boxing Center but Christen- berry later shifted the scoring on one card and gave the verdict to Graham. Graziano said Ferrante and he felt they should test the change ‘‘to uphold the established rules of the game. If we failed to do so,” he added, “‘Christenberry’s procedure might be put into effect by any commissioner in any state who dis- agreed with any verdict.” Ferrante will go to New York, Graziano said, to consult with an attorney over the steps to be taken to put the reversal to the legal test. In New York, Christenberry said consideration is being given to pos- sible changes in the current method of scoring fights. One plan now be- ing examined, he said, would have a third judge at ringside replacing the referee. Under the present set- up, a New York fight is judged by two judges and the referee on a round-by-round basis. The whole problem of officiating will be discussed at an early date special meeting, Christenberry said. North-South Grid Squads Hold Stiff Drills For Clash MONTGOMERY, Ala. («®?—Blue and Gray coaches began putting their charges through the paces bright and early this morning as the campaign for next Saturday's sectional meeting went into the stretch. The two squads took up the bus. iness in earnest yesterday at their second practice session. Passing, punting and a little head-knocking among the linemen were topped off with light scrimmages The three Reb quarterbacks — Chattanooga’s Hal Ledyard, Au |burn’s Dudley Spence and Ray Graves of Texas A. & M.--hit Gray | receivers with precision in the | passing drills. Georgia’s Art Decarlo ranged the linebacker area just as he did while leading the Bulldog defense this season At the rival eamp, Lou D’ Achille of Indiana and Detre Marchibroda had no troub ting aerials where they'll do th most good when the rivalry is re- Long-kicking Gordy Serr of Mich igan State, a tackle, put his toe into several standout punts. Gave Him Edge|Pool Talents ‘Opponent Says |In Shrine Tilt By BEN FUNK By GENE PLOWDEN i ete BEACH, boss cee MIAMI, Fla. «® — The Shrine’s |dropped too many of those ific - ity footb: long putts. We couldn’t stand the oa sues | pace.” . With this brief ‘comment, Cary | Bight developed today into keen Middlecoff, one of the greatest | rivalry among seven coaches pool- | money winners on the golf tourna- ment trail, paid tribute to little |Ted Kroll, whose magic touch on | the greens had just written a story- | book finish to the 1952 golf season. | Kroll carried the load as he and |Lew Worsham, the chunky Oak- |mont, Pa., veteran, defeated Mid- diecoff and Skip Alexander, St. | Petersburg, Fla., 3 and 1, Sunday in a tense duel for the champion- |ship of the $13,000 international |ship of the $13,000 international |four ball tournament. After the early part of the 35-hole |match starting at $:30 a. m. and | winding up finally after sundown, | it was almost a man-to-man battle between Kroll and Middlecoff. The 33 - year - old Kroll, whose hard scrambling on the greens more than made up for occasional wildness off the tee, broke it up with sensational putting in the home stretch, climaxed by a 40- foot bullseye on the 35th green. The victory gave Kroll and Wor- sham a top prize of $3,400. Middle- coff and Alexander split a $2,000 runnerup purse. It was the last golf tournament until the touring pros begin the 1953 season with the Los Angeles open Jan. 3. | Kroll interrupted a promising golf career for the war and was wounded three times in Italy and once in France. Sports Roundup By WILL GRIMSELY NEW YORK Science has not yet discovered perpetual motion but the nearest human equivalent has been found on one of the taller knobs of the Cumberland Moun- tains down in Tennessee. He is Lon Varnell, basketball coach, businessman, retired farm- er, preacher, radio announcer, writer and- after-dinner speaker. They call him ‘High Velocity Var- nell.” Varnell, to his own mind, is a baskebtall coach first — head in- structor of the University of the South team at Sewanee, Tenn.— | and all other things afterwards. He is an automobile dealer in ing their talents for the fifth an- nual all-star clash. The North has won only once-- a 20-14 decision in 1949 -- and is anxious to take this one. But what whetted the rivalry was Miami Coach Andy Gustafson’s decision to use the split T in the South’s attack. He signed Maryland’s Jim Ta- tum and gave him free rein to get the best talent available for a split T offensive team. Tatum brought along his own all America quarterback Jack Scarbath and his fullback, Ed Fullerton. Tatum also invited Missouri’s Jim Hook, Oklahoma’s Buck Mc- Phail, Wake Forest's Joe Koch and Virginia’s Bob Tata. McPhail is a fullback and the others can Pass, run, fake, catch passes- and do just about everything else to make the split T click. Stu Holcomb of Purdue, the North’s head coach, brought in Red Sanders of UCLA to mold a de- fensive team to shackle the split T. Sanders is drilling the defense in a 4-4-3 specially-geared forma- tion. Observers have labelled it the 4-Moomaw-3-3 - meaning that UCLA’s all America Donn Moo maw moves around so fast and so frequently that he constitutes a defense in his own right. The North’s attack is labelled the T but Wesley Fesler of Min- nesota and Buff Donelli of Boston U. are devising some variations designed to befuddle the South’s defense, The North came up with 26 play- ers-one over the agreed limit of 25--when one invitation was delayed in the mails and both the invited and the substitute showed up. But Gustafson put in a hurried call for Randy Broyles, Washington and Lee’s all-Southérr. Conference halfback. Broyles is scheduled to arrive today, Coaching Staff Gives Green Bay Edge In Bowl LAKELAND (— Green Bay, ;two counties — Franklin County, | Wis., is the early favorite in the where the university is located, and | Santa Claus Bowl football games, adjoining Grundy County. He owns |largely because of its talented outlet stores in Sewanee and ano- | coaching staff. other in Ft. Worth, Tex. He has} None of the four midget teams— hardware stores in McKenzie and|Green Bay, Greater New York Greenfield, Tenn. In McKenzie, he | City, Washington and Wilson, N.C also owns an appliance store, @|—has met any common ‘opponent. hotel and cafe. Green Bay has an all profes- He is a’ supply preacher for the | sional coaching staff, all former Holston Conference of the Meth-|stars for the Green Bay Packers odist Church. Any Sunday he is called upon to fill a pulpit, he has to be ready. He delivers a sportseast for a Winchester radio station six nights a week and writes for sports magazines. He regularly serves as an instructor at basketball clinics. He is a widely sought after-din- ner speaker. A friend, not he, kept |tab and figured he has delivered | 67 addresses in the last six months |to civic and religious groups. Just 37, personable, friendly and | the father of four children. Varnell has built a strong basketball team largely with his personality. He thinks nothing, they say, of getting | in a big limousine late at night and roaring 500 miles to chat with a basketball prospect, although Sewanee is a de-emphasized school, athletically They jokingly say the energetic Varnell sells popcorn at his own games. That's not true. He just put up the machine. His boys sell the | popcorn. Soccer Coaches To Meet At Sarasota SARASOTA W—U. S. soccer coaches opened a 10day forum here today to exchange teaching tips and promote the sport in the South The Soccer Coaches Association of America is sponsoring the for- “Vice-president Glenn F. . Soccer coach at the val Academy, in charge. oaches taking part in- liam Jeffrey, Penn State; Groat, North Carolina headed by Ted Fritsch. Fritsch, who also is football coach at Central Catholic High, Green Bay, said of his midgets: “If only my high school teams, or even the Green Bay Packers, could learn as fast as those kids do, we'd never have to worry about getting beat." Assisting Fritsch are Charlie Brock and Charlie Tollefson. The Santa Claus Bowl competi- | tors must not be older than 12 or | weigh more than 110 pounds. The Greater New York team, from the Jamaica section, plays | Wilson in the first game of a dou- bleheader Saturday night. Green| Bay then meets Washington, which | includes boys from such capital | suburbs as Alexandria, Va., Be-| thesda, Md., and Mt. Rainier, Md. | The winners play for the cham- |pionship Monday night, Dec. 29, after a consolation tilt between the | losers. If these teams do as well as the | 1951 contestants they will show | well drilled squads whose block- | ing, tackling and timing rate well | Cage Squads Still Unbeaten By MERCER BAILEY Associated Press Sports Writer Although the basketball season still is young, only two teams in the Southeastern Conference re- main undefeated. Louisiana State and Auburn are pacing the con- ference with five straight victories apiece. Close behind with 3-1 records are Florida, Tennessee and Van- derbilt. Only two of the five lead- ers, however, have tangled with official conference foes. Kentucky, the defending cham- Pion, has been suspended from basketball competition for a year. All of this week’s set games will be played tonight -- Baylor at Vanderbilt, L. S. U. at Tulsa, Mississippi at Arkansas State and Tennessee at Cincinnati. L. S. U. probably will get its greatest test of the young season against Tulsa, rated one of the best quintets in the Missouri Valley Conference. SEC teams won four games and lost four in contests with non - conference members last week. Mississippi beat Florence State Teachers, 111-92; defeated Texas downed Baylor, bilt whipped Te debit column, Miami da, 75-73; Rice beat Tu! Arkansas walloped Mississip; 72, and Florida State trounced | Mississippi State, 82-52. In other games last week Auburn waltzed past Georgia, 71-49, and | Alabama edged Georgia Tech, 60- 57. Those two games were not of- ficial SEC contests and do not count in conference standings. After the holidays the race for the SEC championship will build up steam as official conference game activity increases. This sea- son, under a round-robin schedule in which each SEC team must play all other conference members, the standings will determine the titlist. In the past the mythical championship has been determined in a tournament. Big Races On Tap MIAMI —Tropical Park, en- tering the last half of its 42-day racing program Tuesday, offers two big stakes events this week. The $10,000 added Christmas Handicap at a mile and a furlong will be run Thursday and the $15,- 000 added E. R. Bradley Handi- cap at six furlongs will headline Saturday’s card. The Bradley may match Jet Fleet and Starecase again. Each has won two Tropical stakes. The Christmas stakes attracted 21 nominations and 26 were named for the richer Bradley stakes. Both are for three-year-olds and up- ward. Charlie Burr continues to pace the jockeys with 15 winners, two more than Sammy Boulmetis. Charlie O’Brien, 17-year-old New York apprentice, leads that divi- sion among the riders with 10 win- ners. Tony Despirito, America’s lead- ing jockey with 370 winners, will resume riding Wednesday after a 10-day suspension. It will be his 18th birthday and the Lawrence, Mass., rider still has some hopes of breaking the American record of 388 winners in a year. Despirito plans to fly to Havana Sunday to ride there, giving him eight days of racing before the year ends. | Subseribe to The Citizen Kroll’s Putts |Seven Coaches Only Two SEC Tropical Park Has|Sailing Regatta Underway Today MIAMI ®—The third annual Or ange Bowl regatta begins at dawa Friday with some of the nation’s top boat handlers competing in the four-day event. More than 20 racers will seek to better world’s records at the time trials over the measured mile course Friday. More than 75 boats are entered in the “Round Miami Beach Mar- athon” scheduled for Saturday with slower, smaller boats start- ing first. Outboards take over Saturday afternoon with 14 heats in seven classes over the course at Baker's Haulover. Inboards will compete in 12 heats and six divisions Sunday afternoon. There will be free-for-all contests for both inboards and outboards. The regatta will close with time trials Monday over the Inland Waterway between Hollywood and Dania. Among drivers going after world records will be Sid Street, Kansas City, Mo.; W. Curtis Martens, Hampton, Va.; Sam Griffith, Mi- ami; Joe Palmer, Arlington, Va., and Ray Gassner, St. Petersburg. Outboarders slated to try for records include Tommy Hagood, Orlando; Johnny Ferlita, Tampa; Paul Schindler, New Orleans; Richard Willett, Chicago, and Lew Koehler, Miami. Page 6 THREE HOT"LS IN THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES Monday, December 22, 1952 Lecated in the Heart of the City REASONABLE RATES WRITE or WIRE for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE Ritz Pershing Miller Hotel 132 E. Flagler $t. 226 N.E. 102 Rooms 100 Elevator Solarium Hotel Rooms Elevator Heated Hotel Ist Ave. 229 Meso Ave. Rooms Elevator 8 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION ANTOR’S Headquarters FOR MEN with good high school teams. | [> Roanoke, Va., beat out New Or- leans, Las Vegas, Nev., and Oma- ha, Neb., for the title last year. The tournament is sponsored | jointly by the Pop Warner Foun- jdation and the Lakeland Cham- | ber of Commerce. Swimming Forum | To Attract Many FT. LAUDERDALE #— The 14th annual swimming forum, ex- ROBES SLIPPERS JEWELRY BUCKLES SHOES DRESS and SPORT SHIRTS Exchanges and Refunds Gladly Civen became manager of the Chicago} farm system. —— ee yeeien — TEN YEARS AGO—Chris Cagle, | Miss Jeanne rt, former Brit former All-America football star | actress, were married yere yester- AGREEABLE To AFL at West Point and assistant coach | day. WASHINGTON W — The new at Oklahoma A&M, died at the} Rothschild is a member of the head of the American Fede age of 37. | intermational banking family. His | of Labor says the AFL. TWENTY YEARS AGO — The | first wife died six years ago. long has demanded repea! of World Champien N York Yo Miss Stuart. a divorcee, formerty | Taft-Hartley Act, now kees were \ as married to Sir Bernard Dudley | settle for satisfactory ame team of the year in Frank Docker, one af England's ‘to the labor law Press poll, 7 wealthiest Gnanciers, George Meany, AFL president Pat O'Connor, Carnegie | pected to attract 750 representa- and Bob Dunn, Swarth./|tives from 50 colleges, universi- | ties, athletic clubs and high schoois | ge players will help throughout the country, begins echniques and wij] bere Tuesday. if tar game Dec. 29.| Cosches of the U. 8. Olympic | from Navy, N.C. | swimming sod diving teams will | or Tthaca attend, including Matt Mann. Mich Teach. igan, Dick Papenguth. Purdue Teach Mike Peppe, Ohio State; and Ed Kennedy, Columbia TAFT-HARTLEY CHANGE $ SERVING KEY WEST OVER 35 YEARS KANTOR’S an Asso ‘