The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1953, Page 5

W High School Cagers To Face Pompano Tonight Conchs Seek Second Win Of Season Over Upstate Club The Key West High School cage squad will attempt to bounce back into the win column tonight after a two week layoff when they journey |’ to Pompano to do battle with that team. The Conchs, who have a record of-one win and a loss in action to date will be dis- tinct underdogs when they go up against an undefeated Pom- pano five which boasts of plenty of height and experi- ‘Earlier, the Conchs took the) measure of Redlands in the season's opener by a four point margin and then fell to the Homestead courtmen on De- sember 19th, Pompano is coasting along with an undefeated record, owning a trio of decisions over some top @lubs in the upstate cage picture. The club took off by bus this morning for the long jaunt to the upstate city. They will arrive scarcely in time for the pre-game warmup. Again, it will be the Conch shoot- ing eyes, which have shown spot- ty in the past, which will determine just how they will make out. If the Conchs can get their de- fense in operation and hit the basket consistently they will have a chance at weathering the storm and coming up with a win in the opinion of Coach Win Jones. In drilis throughout the Christ- mas vacation, the Conch cagers have been working hard in an effort at getting their shooting eyes in condition and they have The Pompano club will give the Conehs trouble in the form of a of boys who have a wealth experience as well as plenty of and handling exper- ‘and forward be the sure the ‘Conchs while Stu Julio Hen- r will make team. ’ Vidal, White; Dick Salgado and will LOS ANGELES (#—Well-versed took opposing views on the future but this much was certain. today: Australia’s tennis cham- pion Frank Sedgman was off to a start as a professional 25-year-old artist made his debut a triumphant one last it when he upset California’s er, ruling king of the y boys, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. was Sedgman’s until last week, co- ustralian Davis Cup leGregor. In his bow the two-handed at- Segura of Ecuador, zi ae : iP ie E. man and McGregor teamed defeat Kramer and Segura, 11-9, 6-3, in doubles. 5 The Aussies’ American pro debut, was staged a near capacity crowd of about 7,000 fans in Pan- Pacific Auditorium. Tt was the first of a 90-match schedule for 1953's new tennis a tour that Sedgman play for a guatantee of McGregor $25,000. show goes on again here TUBSDAY'S Wednesday, January 7, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —: SPORTS :— FROM THE Tonight is a crucial one for local baseball fans when the city com- mission will meet with Paul Rust and Joe Ryan of the Miami Beach Flamingo baseball club of the Florida International Baseball loop who are contemplating making Key West their home port this season. Of course, there are several ob- stacles which must be overcome, the chief being the status of the refreshments concession now leas- ed by Armando Acevedo, former baseball star of the Florida East Coast League. Whether or not we will have baseball in Key West this’ season depends very much on the meet- ing tonight. Local fans remember well the past season, Key West’s first in pro ball, when we had the weak- est club in the circuit and still outdrew cities like Tampa, Lake- land, Miami Beach and Havana. The initial Havana Cuban-Key West series drew a total of 3,148 spectators, an average of 1,574 fans per game. The series was split with each of the clubs taking a game, The poorest attendance for one night at Wickers Stadium last sea- son was 741, It was on July 27th, when the Conchs met the St. Peters burg Saints in the last of a three game series. They had previously packed in 1063 fans in the first game and 1174 in the second. The Havana Juvenile baseball champions ara touring the state the Key West All-Stars. The series Medico Warns On Platoon System Danger WASHINGTON (#—Although 1952 was football’s second-best year in regards to safety, Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Los Angeles State Col- lege Tues. warned the nation's foot- ball coaches that the platoon sys- fatality rate unless they devise some means of keeping the players warmed up between mass substi- tutions. This warning was contained in Eastwood’s annual report to the convention of the American Foot- ball Coaches Association. He is chairman of the Association’s com- mittee on injuries and fatalities, which has compiled and studied records of football deaths for 21 years. The accumulated evidence since 1935 reveals that injuries and fa- talities occur more frequently soon after an individual enters a game or starts a practice period, East- wood pointed out. And with the growth of the platoon system there are more occasions when a player is likely to be sent into a game without an adequate warmup. Eastwood’s survey showed six deaths due directly to football and four indirect fatalities, just half the 1951 total. This was the best record since 1945, when six direct and three indirect fatalities were the best since the committee has kept records. Five direct and two indirect fa | talities were charged to high school | football; one of each to sandlot football and one indirect death to college football. The college player was Demetre S. Homer, Yale freshman who died of cerebral hemorrhage and a sus- pected ruptured intercranial aneu- | rysm the day after he had taken - |part in a few plays of a freshman Joey Greco, 15344, Jersey City, 8. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.: Bobby Lioyd, 147%, New York, outpointed Miguel Mendivil, hope Meee 8. HUNTINGTON, Harold “Baby Face” ean: Detroit out- pointed Basil Marie, Charleston, W. Va., 10, (lightweights). Los "ANGELES: Abel Fernan- dez, 195, Los Angeles, outpointed | Sonny Andrews, 179, Los Angéles, |N game. In spite of the good record for j 1952, Eastwood warned coaches, trainers and team physicians to exercise special care next year, Pointing out that the low of 1945 was followed by 21 direct fatalities }im 1948. | He offered three other recom- | mendations: _ That the A. F.C. A. and the | National Collegiate A. A .immed- iately should initiate impartial re- search on materials and construe- * jtion of the football helmet. A horse stabled at Hialeah this winter is named Broken Lens. The horse has had impaired vision in one eye since birth. ‘That before each game the head | Suspensions of helmets should be after their abbreviated series with reported, and, except for that year, | PRESS BOX By OSCAR MILIAN understandings that cut it down to three. “I am under the impression that the folks in Key West would have seen some mighty fine baseball among the kids if the series had been played as planned,” said one member of the board of directors of the San Carlos Institute. “But, Senor Director, Eduardo Gonzalez flatly refused to perform with the overage lads and his decision was isa, ”’ concluded Julio Puig of San arlos. Jorge Torres, 13 year old hurler with the Havana Juveniles is known as the Julio Moreno of the little league in Cuba and catcher Al Gonzalez is nicknamed Mike Guer- ra. The kids performed in big league manner in the first game which they lost to the locals 5-4 on Julio Santana’s three run homer and Jerry Pita’s relief hurling. The youthful battery even called time for a conference in the box when Santana took his position at the plate with two men down and two men on base in the fifth inn- ing. The idea apparently was to walk the hardhitting Conch who had previously banged a two bag- ger but it failed as Santana con- nected with a slow breaking curve which sailed over the head of cen- terfielder Miguel Salas to break up the game as well as the series. The Cuban players made quite a hit with local fans. Their team- work was magnificent as was their sportsmanship. They made a lot of friends in the city and the base- ball going public manifested their would have run five games had it | regret that the games could not not been for a series of minor !be played as scheduled, BASKETBALL RESULTS By The Associated Prees Georgia 70 Georgia Tech 37 Geo. Washington 98 Va. Military a New Orleans Loyola n Florida State 66 Tennessee 81 Mississippi 71 North Carolina 79 East Carolina tem may bring an increase in the | 66 Navy 77 Johns 3 N. C. State 105 Davidson 71 Auburn 84 Birmingham-Southern 39 St. Bernard (Ala) 122 Jackson- ville (Ala) 111 Clark (Ga) 59 Fisk 38 Wofford 88 Erskine 70 Floride High Schoo! Basketball Miami Jackson 48 Miami Tech 45 St. Petersburg 50 Tampa Plant 49 Miami Edison 51 Miami Beach 33 Miami High 68 Homestead 46 Winter Haven 71 Plant City 40 Orlando Boone 62 Kentucky Mili- tary 47 Coral Gables 57 South Broward 53 Bartow 51 Frostproof 32 Oviedo 38. Boone Jayvees 35 Tampa Jesuit 59 Tampa Hillsbor- ough 56 Miami St. Mary’s 42 Miami Gesu bY Winter Park 60 Winter Garden Lakeview 43 Mount. Dora 42 Groveland 39 Miami St. Patrick’s 42 Miami St. Peter Paul 29 Baldwin 39 Macclenny 32 | Ocala 69 Landon 57 illiard 39 Jacksonville Catholic 28 | Crescent City 69 Hastings 18 Fernandina Beach 75 St. Augus- tine St. Joseph's 57 Jacksonville Beach Fletcher 48 Jacksonville DuPont 27 Gainesville P. K. Yonge 47 St. Au- gustine Ketterlinus 41 Daytona Beach Mainland 64 De- Land 31 Hernandon Brooksville 46 Inver- ness 19 Largo 43 Olph 38 Lake Placid 70 Moore Haven 22 Brandon 58 St. Petersburg St. Hi 36 33 Titusville 48 Melbourne 46 Mayo 46 Lake Butler 43 | mies should be devised which | simulate game situations. inspected and any headgear dis- |32.98 per cent of the fat carded if the head suspension can- not keep the head from coming into contact with the crown occurred to a player making 2 tackle and 11.93 per cent to a play- | er being tackled or blocked while ‘| That biocking and tackling dum- | carrying the bail. Notre Dame, Penn Ask Unrestricted Grid TV | Sports Mirror By WILL GRIMSLEY WASHINGTON \7—Notre Dame and the University of Pennsyl vania brought their fight for un- restricted football television to the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation convention today, but ap- pore they faced another losing The NCAA’s TV Committee is prepared to propose a program just as strict, if not stricter, than last year’s and a sampling of opin- ion among the some 400 member colleges show a big majority be- hind it. be In 1952 the NCAA permitted one nationally televised game a week permitted a few regional telecasts in sellout circumstances. Ed (Moose) Krause, athletic di- rector of Notre Dame, and Fran- cis Murray, who holds the same position at Penn, were scheduled to arrive today with individual plans for wide-open television. Krause, who will appear before the TV Committee as a consultant, will present a 10-point program calling for the lifting of all bar- riers. Murray has a different proposal calling for unrestricted television with one-third of the proceeds go- ing into a special fund, supervised by a board, for setting up scholar- ships. Neither has much chance of pass- ing. Neither does the plan, offered by the strong Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference, to take the matter out of the NCAA’s hands and put the controls up to regional bodies, The convention voted, 163-8, for limited television a year ago and backed the 1952 game-a-week plan by 185-13 in a mail referendum. Most colleges are in favor of | ditching TV altogether. The NCAA TV Committee, headed by Athletic Director Robert Hall of Yale Uni- versity, considers some form of | TV necessary. The group, which has been por- ing over surveys for the last two days, is to submit its report to- morrow for convention action Sat- urday. The contents of the report and the recommendations have been a guarded secret. They are expected to show that gate receipts gener- ally were hit by the restricted plan and that any loosening would create even greater problems. The television question overshad- ows all the others in the 47th*an- nual convention, attended by some 1,400 representatives of 400 insti- tutions. However, these other important developments took place in the preliminary sessions yesterday: 1, The Football Coaches Rules Committee recommended tighten- ing the rule governing false starts to discourage the “sucker shift,” employed especially by Notre Dame. 2. Baseball coaches proposed a draft plan, similar to that in pro- fessional football and basketball, and laid plans to create the posi- tion of a national commissioner. 3. The NCAA Membership Com- mittee, enforcement arm of the | governing body, announced that 10 institutions are in “hot water” af- ter being accused of rules viola- | tions and face possible disciplinary action. These are in addition to Kentucky, Bradley and Midwest- ern, already punished, None was named. When Al Sharkey won the 1952 | American Bowling Congress singles title he never sat down be- tween shots. The Chicagoan said that he never sits down when he is bowling good. ss sa termes THREE HOTELS IN REASONABLE RATES Hotel 132 _E. Flagler St. 102 Rooms Elevator Solarium By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Mau- reen Connolly, national tennis champion, was named “Woman Athlete of the Year’’ in the Asso- ciated Press annual year-end poll. FIVE YEARS AGO — Joe Di- Maggio signed his 1948 contract with the New York Yankees at a reported salary of $65,000. TEN YEARS AGO — Jimmy Bivins, 174, of Cleveland, won a 10-round decision cver Ezzard Charles, 165, of Cincinnati. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Wash- ington traded catcher Roy Spencer to Cleveland for catcher Luke Sewell and an undisclosed amount of cash. 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