The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1952, Page 5

5 Key West Whips Cuban Champs | In Opener Here Monday, 5-4 Julio Santana’s Homer Supplies Clincher In Hardfought Victory | Tuesday, December 30, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page S By OSCAR MILIAN Julio Santana’s long three-run smash to center field in the fourth inning gave the Key West All-Stars a 5-4 victory in the opening contest of a five game series with the Havana Juvenile champions at the Wickers Field Stadium last night. Santana’s homer came after Danny Oropeza flied out to center and Jose Diaz rolled out to shortstop, Tony Hoppy sent a sizzling single to left field and Jerry Pita folowed with a sizzing two-bagger to right center. The score before the round tripper by Santana was 4-2 in U.S. Davis Cup favor of the visitors. While Havana hurler Jorge Tor- Tes was holding the locals down to a single safety and no runs in the first three innings, the Cubans had managed to put over three runs in the second stanza on two free passes to first base, a fielders choice and singles by Alberto Gon- zalez, Adolfo Fijoo and Jorge Tor- res. In the fourth inning the Hava- nans added another run when Fijoo beat out a slow roller between Sid Kerr and James Mira, stole sec- ond and crossed the platter on Eloy Rodriguez’ sharp liner over second base. ~ The Key West boys picked up two markers in the bottom half of the fourth as Jerry singled to. center and Julio Santana walked on four called balls, Leeburg Knowles’ drive to center went for a safe hit and Jerry crossed the plate as third baseman Pe- dro Cano muffed center fielder Manuel Salas’ throw in an at- tempt fo cut off the runner. Ju- lio Santana reached third on the play and he scored on Dan Oro- peza‘s roller to second base. Luis Liamas was called on to relieve Torres and he stopped the charges of the locals tem- porarity as Tony Herce and Sid Kerr went down in order. Jerry Pita took the mound for the Key Westers in the fifth inning and held the visitors to one lone hit and no runs in two innings. Jerry Pita, Leeburg Knowles and Julio Santana were the Kings of swat for the locals and for the Cuban Champs, Adolfo Fijoo was the man of the hour with the stick, The teams will play again to- night at 7:30, sharp, . The Box Score: HAVANA Players A Rodrigueg, 2b Salas, cf .. Gonzalez, ¢ Collazo, ‘ss Cano, 3b .. Ortega, rf ... Morffi, lf Fijoo, 1b Pp Liamas, p Renn eaawanwiy CrNnKroooooom Pe wmeororonm ssusceucue’ omoooHHoouwD conrocconooom Total 3 . ~ & o an >= cd a NReweneUunuae yD Hoppy, Pita, 3b, p Santana, ss Knowles, 1b Oropeza, If Herece, cf Kerr, ¢ Mira, p Haskins, 3b ee ecoooontmret ee re Hmonocoonor> eocooocoroonm Total 27 Score by innings: Havana Key West Runs batted in: Torres, Gonza- lez 2, Rodriguez, Knowles, Santa- na 3; 2b — Santana, Pita; HR — Santana; SB — Rodriguez, Fijoo, Santana, Knowles 2; BB — Tor- res 1, Mira 3, Llamas 1; SO — Torres 3, Mira 4, Pita 3; HO — Torres 2 in 3 innings; Mira § in five innings; Llamas 5 in two in- nings, Pita 1 in 1 inning; losing, Llamas; winning — Pita; Left — Havana 8, Key West 7; U Gates, Mira, Esquinaldo; Time — 2:05. Boxing Results FIGHTS MONDAY NIGHT By The Associated Press BROOKLYN — Floyd Patterson. 1672, Brooklyn, knocked out Lalu Sabotin, 175, Warren, 0., (5) MILWAUKEE — Johnny Saxton, 146, New York, outpointed Danny WOMBLER, Chicago, (10) TRENTON, N. J.—George John- son, 154%, Trenton, N. J., out- pointed Sam Walker, 159, Spring- field, Mass., (8). CHICAGO—Nate Huskey, 152, De- troit, and Enos’ Solomon, 158, Chi- cago, drew, (8), The sun does not rotate as a rigid body, moving faster at the} equator than toward its Team Collapses By GAYLE TALBOT ADELAIDE, Australia (}—Amer- ica’s Davis Cup debacle became complete today when Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert collapsed under the fierce pressure applied by Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman and lost the deciding doubles match by scores of 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. The blistering defeat will go down as one of the most onesided in cup history. Numerous times in the past teams have dropped the first three matches in the Challenge Round but research fails to uncover when one side was able to win only one set in two days. Seixas and Trabert really never had a chance against the brilliant Aussie pair today. From the mo- ment Trabert dropped his opening service to give the Aussies a 3-0 jump it was completely obvious to the capacity crowd of over 15,000 that they were sitting in on a slaughter, For the second straight day Mc- Gregor played probably the most brilliant tennis of his career. He ; so dominated the court that there was no place for the Americans to go but out. The losers managed to break Sedgman’s service twice during their one brief victory in the third set but then never got to his long- legged partner. ; The Americans were wild as hares at the start and by the time they” settled down to something approaching their normal games it was too late. In the first set Trabert was net- ting the ball and Seixas was kaock- ing it out. In the second set, they reversed the procedure with the same sad results. In those two sets Sedgman and McGregor scored clean winners— the majority of them on McGreg- or’s volleys. In these two sets, the Americans scored only nine place- ments—six of them by Seixas. Trabert’s erratic form might be largely attributed to the exhaus- tion he suffered in losing his sin- gles duel with McGregor in Yes- terday’s killing heat. The weather today was almost cool by comparison but the change came too late to do Tony, the sailor boy from Cincinnati, any good. Seixas said he would make up his mind later whether he and Trabert would play in tomorrow’s | concluding singles or perhaps turn one match over to Ham Richard- son, the youngster from Baton Rouge, La. Orange Bowl Teams Slate > ° Light Drills MIAMI #—Coach Harold (Red) | Drew, whose Alabama team meets Syracuse in the Orange Bowl New Year's day, believes his team will | be in tip-top mental condition by | game time. i “I think we've regained our speed,” Drew said Monday after | a 90-minute workout which includ- ed a 40-minute scrimmage but no tackling in 70-degree weather. “OX | course, you can't tell. It was pret- | ty cool out there and it may be 90 degrees in the game.” As to his team's mental attitude, Drew observed, “they're not too} geared up and that’s just the way/ I want them.’ } Coach Ben Schwartzwalder of Syracuse wis happy about the cool weather and wished for more of the same. Most of the Syracuse contingent seems to believe a below-average maxinum on New Year’s day would be te the Orange team's advantage over ts Alabama rivals. Syracuse went through a light ‘90-minute workout. A dummy sis- nal drill sharpened the offensive attack at the finish Both teams plan light workouts temoerature poles. | today. Kansas State Tops AP Cage Poll NEW YORK ™ — Kansas State took over first place in the Asso- ciated Press basketball poll today as La Salle of Philadelphia, upset by DePaul, skidded to third. Seton Hall moved up a notch to second. The top 10 generally underwent a good shaking up but there were only two new faces in the group— Tulsa, No. 8, and Minnesota, No. 9, who moved in to oust Louisiana State and North Carolina State. LSU_was soundly thrashed by Tulsa last week, 84-58, while N. C. State took an unexpected lacing from St. John’s of Brooklyn, 67-56. Minnesota beat second-ranking Ili- nois, 77-73. Kansas State’s chief exploit of the week was a 93-69 triumph over Oklahoma. One hundred and one sportswriters and broadcasters, participating in the poll, were suf- ficiently impressed to move the Wildcats from fifth to first place and give them 512 points. Seton Hall had 507 points and La Salle 381. Here’s how the new top 10 stacks up: Kansas State, Seton Hall, La Salle, Illinois, Washington, Holy Cross, Oklahoma A&M, Tulsa, Min- nesota and Western Kentucky. Illinois fell from second to fourth as a result of its defeat by Minne- sota. Washington, twice winner St. Louis, climbed from seventh to fifth. Idle Holy Cross dropped two notches to sixth, The rankings are based on games through last Saturday night and do not include last night’s con- tests. Kansas State won its sixth game jin seven starts by trimming Yale, 79-70, in the Big Seven Tournament at Kansas City last night. The leaders with points based on 10 for a first-place vote, 9 for second, etc: (First-place votes in Parentheses): . Kansas State (11) . Seton Hall. (13) . La Salle (10) . Illinois (4) ... . Washington (6) . Holy Cross (8) . Oklahoma A&M (6) . 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