The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1953, Page 8

500 Fans Expected At Commission Meeting CITY FATHERS WILL MEET WITH STADIUM ADVISORS AT 8 P.M. IN THE CITY HALL Key West baseball lov- ers are expected to flock to the City Hall, 500 strong, tonight to beat the drum for organized __ baseball here when the city eom- mission meets with the members of the Wickers Field Stadium advisory board and with Armando Acevedo, holder of the con- cessions at that ball park, .in an effort to arrive at an agreement to encourage the Miami Beach Flamingos to come to Key West to set up shop. bonell, who has been championing the cause of baseball in the city called the special meeting when last week the commissioners met with Paul Rust and Joe Ryan of the Flamingos and were unable to arrive at an agreement. With the time running out and the Flamingos being wooed by the Ft. Lauderdale fans, local in- terested parties are working frantically in an- effort to get matters straightened out to ar- range for the move here. The Flamingo brass was unable to arrive at an agreement with Acevedo for the transfer of the concessions as well. They have said that they need the concessions to keep their heads above water. -The commissioners are also ex- pected to vote on a motion which Carbonell attempted to introduce last week granting the Flamingos all that they had asked for in- cluding a lease on the ballpark and the concession’ rights. Changes in the ball park, including reserved seats are also expected to be made. Meanwhile interest is at a high point with baseball fans through- out the city indicating that they will be on tap for tonight’s meet- ing to show that they want base- ball in Key West. Sports Mirror By The Associated: Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Lowell (Red) Dawson, assistant coach at Michigan State, was named head football coach at Pittsburgh. FIVE YEARS AGO — Mrs. Mil- dred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias was voted ‘Woman Athlete of the Year” in the annual Associated Press year-end poll. TEN YEARS AGO — Earl (Red) Blaik, Army football coach,- re- turned to active duty as Lt. Colonel in the cavalry. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Paul Enos Slaughter NCAA To Rule On 2 Platoon System Today By BEN FUNK ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (®—The football rules commitiee of the National Collegiate athletic Asso- ciation will decide today whether to clamp restriciions on the two- platoon system. The controversial free substitu- tion rule, which revolutionized col- lege football in 1941, was the sub- ject of vigorous discussions in the closed-door committee meetings Monday and Tuesday, Secretary R. E. Wieman, Univer- sity of Denver athletic director, said “we reached a tentative so- lution” but he declined to elabo- rate pending a final vote today. Chairman Fritz Crisler, Michi- gan Athletic Director, and other committee members also refused to say whether in reaching a ‘‘solu- tion” they had decided to make important changes in the rules. College football coaches voted by a wide majority in favorof retaining the current rule, which permits unlimited substitutions any time the clock is stopped. Many college presidents and ad- ministrators think, however, that the cost of maintaining the present big squads and coaching staffs is too high. They would like to go back to the old system, when a player removed from the game could not be sent back into action until the next quarter. At last week’s meetings in Wash- ington, the NCAA council recom- mended killing the two-platoon sys- sive specialists. Comment at that time by mem- bers of the rules committee indi- cated, however, that no sudden, drastic action should be taken. Crisler told newsmen that if col- leges want to abolish free substi- tutions they should do it by a gradual method rather than by reverting immediately to the old era of the “iron man” performer. The committee also will vote today on whether to take steps to end the so called “sucker shift”— a play designed to draw the oppo- sition offside in scoring territory where the five-yard penalty can have a disastrous effect. Pat Harder’s record of 11 field goals during the 1952 NFL season established a new Detroit Lion mark. Doak Walker set the old record of eight in 1950. perlite Sc. Lane Of the 15 players on the Florida State basketball roster, only three eome from the state of Florida. Runyan of White Plains, N. Y., won the $7,500 Agua Caliente Open Golf Tournament with a 72-hole score of 287. Made Comeback Of Year According To AP Poll NEW YORK (#—Enos Slaughter, the St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder who was supposed to be through after a dismal 1951 season, made the greatest sports comeback of 1952--but not without a tough bat- tle of ballots with the Notre Dame football team. The 36-year-old Slaughter got the nod over Notre Dame by the mar- gin of a slim three points in the annual year-end poll of the Asso- ciated Press, in one of the closest vote finishes since the poll began in 1931, Actually, Notre Dame had the most first place votes, 24 to 23, but the Cardinals’ rightfielder picked up enough second and third votes to shove him past the Fight- ing Irish, 103 to 100. In 1951, Slaughter was benched for weak hitting, played only 123 games instead of the usual full schedule of 154, and hit but .281. He hit only four home runs, batted in but 64 runs instead of the usual 90 to 100, It was his worst year in the majors. : Old age was creeping up, and it wouldn't be long, they were say- ing. But Country Slaughter refused to roll over and play dead He started 1952 more like the Slaughter of old, and by the first part of July was slamming the ball at a .315 clip. The fans voted him on the National League's team for the annual all-star game. | Slaughter skidded to the high in August, but finished the season with a bang, his average an even 300, It was his second best season in the big time, and in 140 games Enos-whe owns a jewelry store in Belleville, Il.-hit 17 doubles, 12 triples, 11 home runs, and drove in 101 runs. At the biggest comeback in the ap poll The nation's sports writers and end of the season he/ was selected as making baseball's } sportscasters, with 154 ballots, named two score teams and indi- viduals in the comeback of the year poll, Notre Dame, usually dominant in college football, finished the 1952 season with the same won- loss-tied record as 1951, 7-2-1. Opening the 1952 season, Coach Frank Leahy’s Fighting Irish were held to a 7-7 tie by Pennsylvania. Then. Notre Dame defeated Texas, 143. But, just when it seemed better days were coming, the Pitt Panthers cooled off the South Bend outfit, 22-19. From then on, however, Notre Dame lost only to Michigan State, the nation’s No. 1 college team, 21-3. Notre Dame downed Purdue, 26-14;.North Carolina, 34-14; Navy, 17-6; Oklahoma, 27-21, Iowa, 27-0, and wound up by polishing off! Rose Bowl bound Southern Cali- fornia, 9-0. The Los Angeles Rams, 1951 Na- tional League football champions, | who got off to a poor start in the 1952 season only to fight back and force a playoff in the league’s jmational division, gained place with 59 points. } Fourth with 49 points went to} |Johnny Mize, ‘the 39-year-old New York Yankee veteren, who stepped in when Joe Collins went into a {hitting slump in the World Series. Mize had sat on the of the season, fealled upon in the Brooklyn, be was mers and a d javetage His bat ; spark that helped the {down Brooklyn in seven games Tony DeSpirito, the young ap prentice jockey whe a new riding record by in 3 | winners “31 points tem with its offensive and defen- third | Boxing Resulés " TUESDAY'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla.—Kid Gavilan, 150, Havana, outpointed Aman Peck, 151, Tampa, 10, (Non-title), TOLEDO, Ohin — Chuck Davey, 149, East Lansing, Mich. -knocked out Johnny Williams, 1432, New York, 7. LOS ANGELES—Billy Peacock, 118, Philadelphia, outpointed Tom- my Umeda, 120, Honolulu, 10. WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥. — Earl Hilton, 127, Philadelphia, outpoint- ed Bill Bossio, 127, Pittsburgh, 8. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—James J. Parker, 207, Toronto, stopped Os- ear Pharo, 185%, Birmingham, Ala. 4, SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Chato Hernandez, 138, Durango, Mexico, outpointed Eddie Berolino, 136, Galveston, 10. SPOKANE, Wash. — Ted Lowry, 182, New Bedford, Mass. stopped Joe Kahut, 185, Portland, Ore. 5. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Frank Favaro, 172%, Akron, stopped Chuck Spieser, 17814, Detroit, 2. HASTINGS, Neb. — Billy Noble, 179, Omaha, stopped George Black- stone, 176, Omaha, 7. NEWARK, N. J.—Willie Sydnor, 146%, New York, outpointed Mon- roe Kurtz, 147, Newark, 6. The World Today By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON \P—If the new attorney general, Herbert Brow- nell Jr., yells “Ouch” when he steps into office next week, it may be from the hot foot his prede- cessor gave him. In fact the retiring attorney gen- eral, James P. McGranery, in an interesting burst of energy, has set the whole Justice Department ablaze with a big and brand new batch of investigations and legal actions. For a man in his job only about eight months, McGranery may have established a record for get- ting things started. But, since he won’t be around after next Tues- day’s inauguration, it will be Brow- nell’s job to finish what McGranery began. At least McGranery can al- ways say, if only to himself, “Well, I guess I showed them.” His ac- tivity had been contrary the predictions of some congressional critics of the Truman administra- tion. They expected, out loud, that Me- Granery would just rock along till election anyway. But he started off like a man who expected the Democrats to win the election. When they lost, he kept right on going, as if they had won. McGranery, who gave up a life- time federal judgeship to take over the Justice Department last spring, began by accepting the resigna- tions of some of the highest de- partment officials. Then he went on to investiga- tions, antitrust suits, indictments against some former top internal revenue officials and actions to de- naturalize more than 100 under- world aliens, The McGranery energy was a contrast to the regime of the man he followed, J. Howard McGrath, whom Truman fired last April. Under McGrath the Justice De- partment had become a shooting gallery for Truman critics who wanted to know why the attorney general wasn’t a little busier look- ing for corruption in government. McGrath called in a New York lawyer, Newbold Morris, as a spe- cial investigator. Not the most tactful of men, Morris began his brief Washing- ton career by announcing he would investigate the Justice Department first. He followed this with an at- tempt to make Justice Department lawyers reveal the sources of their jincome, outside their government salary. McGrath immediately fired him, That was when Truman fired McGrath and called in McGranery McGranery took care of the problem of outside income, or at least tired. He put a flat ban on outside law practice ‘by depart- ment attorneys. TWELVE CREWMEN ARE KILLED IN CRASH OROVILLE, Calif. W—An Air Force B50 on a training flight crashed yesterday in a rice field, killing all 12 crewmen. {the crash on mechanical trouble. Flying conditions were good. The crash scene was west of Gridley at a point about 60 miles north of Sacramento. Officials withheld names. crewmen’s ‘Schultz Has Double | Trouble In Hollywood bench most | LOS ANGELES #—Double trou confronts Norman D. Schuitz film studio technic and Karen and Sharoa, | months, ring 1952. was fifth with | During the 1952 se: - 1S § slam homers were hit mate lesgues. The League 3 of them. | Bob Christenberry, =O Pte, Pat akc eae BOXING BOARD OF REVIEW WILL DISCUSS | By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK, #—Boxing’s new Board of Review gets as its first case one of the oldest problems in boxing: where to have the The days-old board, set up by the New York State Athletic Commis- sion and the National Boxing Association, will attempt to settle a disagreement which threatens to block plans for heavyweight Cham- pion Rocky Marciano’s April 10 return bout with former Champ Jersey Joe Walcott. Promoter Jim Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, wants the fight in Chieago. No Chicago, no fight, is the way he put it. But Felix Bocchicchio, Walcott’s manager, insisted that the serap be in Atlantic City’s Convention Hall, (46,000 Miami Orange Bowl (75,000). He contended the Chicago Stadium’s 26,000 seats were uot enough. When the argument reached this point, the New York-NBA board took over and called for Norris and Bocchicchio to produce contracts at a Friday morning meeting here. “We want to take a look at the contracts and see if we can’t straighten this matter out,” said George Barton, president of the NBA. He forms the board with chairman of the New York commission, and seating capacity) or the | Commissioner Abe Greene of the NBA, Norris was nettled over the stumbling block. He had expected to announce yesterday that the heavyweight championship. bout. ‘fight was all set. “If Felix wants the fight indoors, it will have to be in Chicago,” said Norris. “He had it all his wey for the fight in Philadelphia. He put the bull on me then. Now it’s my turn.” “We're agreed on all terms ex- cept for the site,” the promoter added. “Al Weill (manager of Marciano) has agreed to Chicago. We can gross $860,000 there with an extra’ $250,000 to $300,000 for television. We could block out Chicago and Milwaukee. Where can we do any better financially?“ Asked what he thought the out- come would be, Norris said, “I believe Felix is bluffing. He'll go to Chicago.” That was the general opinion of most observers. Bocchicchio is fully aware that he no longer has the champion and that he no longer can dictate terms. Don Edwards, forward on the San Jose State basketball team, works as a tree surgeon during summer vacations. Dick Groat’s highest scoring game at Duke came in his final home game when he scored 48 points against North Carolina. The Air Force tentatively blamed | A NEW INSPIRATION SITE FOR MARCIANO-WALCOTT TITLE BOUT Page 8 Sports Roundup By MURRAY ROSE (For GAYLE TALBOT) NEW YORK (#—Abe Saperstein was asked how his Harlem Globe- trotters became such a spectacular attraction. “I don’t know exactly,” said the owner of the fabulous traveling Negro basketball team, “‘but you can go along with a show for 20 years and nothing outstanding will happen, and then...boom, you're a hit. After that you’re in. “That’s the way it was with us. All of a sudden we caught on with the public and pack them in wherever we go.” The Trotters have been globe girdling for nearly -three years now without a letup, and selling out everywhere, whether it’s the Chicago Stadium, Luna Park in Buenos Aires or Wembley Stadium in London. “Since we started our latest tour in October, we've sold out in 68 out of 72 engagements,” said the little round promoter. “That must be a record.” The Trotters, featuring the un- canny dribbling of Marquess THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — Wednesday, January 14, 1953 Haynes and the comical antics of loose-limbed, long-armed Goose Tatum, lured 201,755 customers in 16 games in 15 days on their coast- to-coast trip last year. This year they'll play 19 games between March 29 and April 16 and undoubtedly will better last year’s figures by far. The smallest arena they'll play in this year, the Kansas City Auditorium, seats 9,800. Last year they played to 6,142 in El Paso, Tex. Asked how he paid off his trot- ters, Abe replied without hesita- tion. “We start some ot our rookies off with $400 a month plus ex- penses. From then it goes all the way up to what the Goose makes, I won’t tell you what he gets but, on a 10-month basis, it’s twice what George Mikan makes.” Big George, the highest paid star in pro basketball, reputedly collects $20,000 a year. During the 1952 season, attend ance at National League games was down 11.7 per cent from 1951. In the American League it dropped 6.6 per cent. Saturnino Escalera, listed on the Cincinnati Red roster as an out- fielder, hails from Santurce, Puerto Rico. ON DISPLAY TOMORROW - THE 1953 When om Fain of the Ath- letics won the 1952 American League batting crown it marked the fourth consecutive year that an infielder the perigee ay champion. TONIGHT WES BASCON HEAVYWEIGHT EZZARD CHARLES EX-HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION SPONSORED BY 10 P.M. CBS. 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