The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1953, Page 5

City Commission OKs Baseball Deal At S | _ “I Don’t Want To Be Calléd Anymore Names,” Says Mayor In OK’ing Miami Beach Agreement ‘The Key West City Commission baseball franchise to this ‘when they met to iron out the situation at the Wickers / foot-stomping, ibid showed up at the meet- Sginized baseball in Key West st sebi ey West al ’s session which resulted the that to work Flamin- , holdér of the to Wickers wa ited to the ight but did not ap- & phone conversa- the commission that was willing icker with the for sale of his i it he could have the e season gee, S8Fereees Ef 35 & pate : = a [= gt ever, gi2zef péedite matters, how- it the city nego- equipment at the ball park and in tutn rent or séll it to the Fle- the he would other on ~ Auburn from a tie w: ” led figures prepared City Finance Director Charles Jim Hearn of the New York Giants handled 71 chances with- out an error to top the 1952 Na- tional League pitchers in the fielding departmen’ Charles Scores TKO Over Bascom ST. LOUIS #—A battering Ez- zard Charles, throwing each punch like a knock on the door of op- portunity, has ended the heavy- weight career of Young Wesbury Bascom, a strong-hearted lad who hopes to do better among the light-heavies, 1 The 23-year-old Bascom reached that decision last night after taking a terrific beating from the ex- heavyweight champion in a sched- uled 10-rounder that ended abrupt- dy when Charles won a ninth-round technical knockout. It was another in a string of comeback victories Charles hopes will lead to another crack at the title. The fight, which was televised nationally from the St. Louis Arena, was stopped by Referee Dick Young after two minutes and 34 seconds of the ninth. The de- feated East St. Louis, Ill., Negro almost continually on the defense, had a bloody face at the end, the victim of jarring, stinging rights and lefts thrown as hooks and up- percuts. The 31-year-old Charles was d on points all the way. scom weighed 178% pounds to s 188 crowd of 3,836 paid a gross gate of $9,672. Charles, who was contracted for 35 per cent of the net, received about $2,600. Bascom picked up about $1,100. LSU Leads Race For SEC Title By The Associated Press Louisiana State’s ‘Tigers were all alone in front of the pack today in the Southeastern Conference title race, thanks to Georgia Tech and a four-year-old jinx. Tech, playing what Coach Whack Hyder called “our best overall game by far,” whipped Auburn 79-61 last night. The defeat dropped i LSU for e to a three-way tie for Aubufn hasn’t been able to beat Tech on the Engineers’ home court in four years,’ but a lot of folks thought last night would bring an end to the jinx. Auburn had com- in previous games, while Tech had won only two games in 10. Tech center Pete Silas took scoring honors with 18 points. Au- "s Jack Turner and Tech’s Howard Snead were next with 16 each. No other SEC team played last night and none is scheduled tonight. Friday night LSU meets Loyola of New Orleans in a game which can’t effect the Conference race, and Florida and Tulane play a game which will break their cur- rent tié for second place in the standings. Sal Maglie pitched 12 complete games in 1952 for the Giants and won all of them. -| have been inflicted with this dread- BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE The Lions Club will present the Annual March of Dimes Campaign with a check amounting to one- half the proceeds received from the Pensacola-Miami football game Dec, Sth. Last Sunday night, Navy teams from Air Development Squadron One and the USS Bushnell played a basketball game in the high school gym which netted the fund $32. Boxing bouts are being planned at Bayview Park and other sport events are in the making to help this most worthy cause. This campaign is one that all sport loving people donate to with- out a grumble. Many sport notables have, in some phase of their life, come across one of these victims which this fund has helped. Matter of fact, some of the stars of today ful infection, and through this fund are now able to perform once again. The world of sports is always ready to step in and give a help- Meeting Wednesday Night If the men and women athletes are willing to donate their time and effort, won’t you donate to the March of Dimes, Awhile back I spoke on the need for a place where small boat own- ers could load and unload their craft at the water’s edge. A member of the Outboard Club notified me that in a recent City Commission, a spit was authorized at Garrison Bight for all small boat owners to put their craft into the water. Marl and other dirt was added and as soon as funds be- come available this spit will be cemented for a much easier un- loading berth. This last is hear-say, but one of the County Commissioners ask- ed for plans to be drawn up for a unloading place near the County Beach for the small craft owners. Diagrams and what have you are in the making and as soon as it becomes a reality, all owners will be notified through this column. If all three of these unload.ng berths are put into effect, all boat ing hand to any cause which helps the needy and distressed. owners should be happy and con- tent. ILLNESS STRIKES CONCH CAGE FIVE A weakened Key West High School basketball squad, which is fighting off the ravages of a serious “flu” epidemic, will meet the St. Mary’s of Miami five here Satur- day night on the high school hard- wood, Coach Win Jones, reported the loss of all but three regulars due to sickness and how many will be available for service on Saturday night is still in question, Jones aid. Heavy use is expected to be made of the Jayvee squad in an effort to lick the tough St. Mary’s club when Jones reported his 13 squad riddled by the flu bug. Glynn Archer, Julio Henriquez, Stu Logun, Dick Salgado, Gibby Gates, and Lucy Gonzalez have all reported sick this week, Carbonell and Salgado are both reported to be recovering and will undoubted. ly see some service on Saturday. Ralph White, Johnny Walston and*Bob Sawyer are the only members of the squad to be spared and Jones is holding his breath on that count. Sawyer was suffering from the malady on last Saturday night when the Conchs took the measure of the Gesu five and saw but limited service. The Conchs captured a 16 point win over St. Mary’s last year and Man Who Once Ducked Police At Boxing Bouts Will Receive Walker Award Tonight MINNEAPOLIS (®—A man who once ducked police at a boxing bout will receive the James J. Walker Award in New York tonight for long and meritorious service to the sport, He is George A. Barton, presi- dent of the National Boxing Asso- ciation, ‘since last September, who has 51 years of varied ring exper- ience as a fighter, referee, teacher, mewspaperman and administrator. His fighting days were from 1902 to 1910, when boxing was illegal and there were no commissions to supervise the Sport, Barton himself “rates develop- ment of the commission form of supervision and the adoption of safety rules as the outstanding achievements in boxing during his long career. * Barton well remembers the pre- commission days when fighters often taped their knuckles with hard materials to add force to their blows. Boxing was elevated when rules were Passed and enforced outlaw- ing such practices. Barton first climbed through the ropes in 1902 in St, Paul, where the professional boxer led a pre- carious existence because prize- fighting was illegal in Minnesota. He recounts an-instance when police broke up a fight at which he was officiating. Barton says he dove through the ropes and headed for the opposite entrance they are bring ing virtually the same team back this season. How- ever, the Conchs were greatly weakened by the loss of several vets by graduation. St. Mary’s has won their first two straights in Miami’s Catholic loop thus far in the campaign. Again it will be Bobby Roine who the Conchs must stop to come up with a win. Roine gave the Conchs plenty of trouble last sea- son as well as being a gridiron threat. He has picked up a lot of weight and savvy and will be clearly the man to watch for the Conchs. Coach Jones has again been stressing defense and foul shoot- ing in drills this week. Era Of Free Football Substitution En¢ By BEN FUNK. cision was reached ‘“‘with the best ; ST. PETERSBURG, Fila. ( —|interests of football in mind.” America’s college football coaches, stunned by the swift, unexpected “I have never known a single topic to be discussed so thorough- death of the two-platoon system, | ly among so many people,” Cri- faced with mixed emotions today | sler said, “We had a free exchange the ssi ti bel sere reorganization September. Job | of views from all sections of the between now |country—from coaches, players, administrators, spectators, officials The fabulous era of free sub-jand the press. ‘ » with its big squads of trained offensive and de-| about those schools that have had | ended. /to abandon football. In the end, Specialists, wi “We were gravely concerned coaches, in the next | after three days of serious, \- it months, lay the task of build- selfish discussion, we decided it With one quick, dramatic blow, the two-platoon system was killed by the Football Rules Committee of the National Colleg- iate Athletic Association. It was no secret that resentment against the system and its fabu- lous costs, which had forced 50 small colleges to abandon football, was building up to a high pitch emong college presidents and ad- ministrators. But the coaches, in a recent poll, (Fritz) Crisler, Michigan athletic ecessary in the interest of football’s future to bring an end to the two-platoon system.” Crisler called it a historical stitutions any time the clack was stopped and single substitutions between plays while the clock was running. Before then, no player removed from a game could be sent back until the following quar- ter. Wednesday’s action struck like thunder in the country’s coaching ranks. Reaction ranged from an- ger and dismay to an occasiona soft voice of approval. Alabama’s Red Drew said it re- turned football overnight to “the horse and buggy days.” Murray Warmath of Mississippi State said it set the game back 15 years. Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson, on the other hand, said he felt the decision was “in the best interests meeting, the most important since 1906, when the committee made drastic rules revisions to cut down injuries to players and end a threat by President Theodore Roosevelt to outlaw football in the | United States. The new regulation, which re. stores the era of the “iron man” footbali performer, states that players removed from a game during the first and third periods last four- | before the half and | the final ; second | lized im 1941, with the adoption of ‘were of the game and I’m highly in fa- {vor of it.” Wilkinson said the two- |Platoon system had made “the big jteams better, the little schools | weaker.” Everybody agreed that coaches must work harder now. “Coaches will have to adjust,” | |said Dartmouth’s D. 0. McLaugh- | ry, a member of the committee. | ‘They can't follow the line of least | Tesistance any more. They'll have to get busy and develop men who | can play it both ways.” I “This is going to mean a great and sudden change im organiza- | tion,” said K. L. (Tug) Wilson, | Big Ten commissioner. j Crisler added that “toaches are @eing to have to start considering now who their best 11 players are.” Almost overlooked in the excite- ment of the new substitution rule’ a sumber of other rule director, said the momentous de-/a rule permitting unlimited sub-jchanges voted by the committee. 4 WORLD. FAMOUS for this | \followed by victor, vanquished and then the police. They ducked into a hotel where they hid until “the heat was off.” His most notable achievement in the ring, a six-round’ decision over former Bantam and Featherweight Champion Terry McGovern in St. Paul in 1904, brought Barton the magnificent sum of $150. There was nothing in those days such as the compulsory eight-count following a knock-down, a rule adopted by the NBA in 1946. Barton regards it as one of the most im- portant safety measures. “Too many fighters have an in- stinctive tendency to get off the canvas before they’ve regained their senses. The mandatory wait- ing period has been a lifesaver,” says Barton. Incidentally, this wel |l-condi- tioned 67-year-old ex-bantamweight helped introduce the idea of the compulsory eight-count to the sport. He rose to sports editor and now is writing boxing news and covering fights for the Minne- apolis Tribune. He refereed over 12,000 bouts in a 35-year period—including fights in which Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Jimmy Braddock, Harry Greb and a score of other world champions participated. He has been Minnesota state athletic com- missioner since 1942. Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—Charles A. Comiskey II, 25, resigned as Chicago White Sox vice president. FIVE YEARS AGO — Barbarq Ann Scott of Canada retained her Thursday, January 15, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WHY GAMBLE?... 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