The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1953, Page 6

Key West Baseball Fans Eagerly Anait Outcome Of Talks Today With the arrival of Joe Ryan, eneral manager of the Miami leach Flamingo Baseball Club in iey West, local baseball fans who rant nothing but the opportunity > watch Florida International yeague baseball here in the com- Mg season are watching the pro- fess of the negotations with bated feath, And local aficionados of the dia- mond sport may well have reason for rejoicing following the talks be- tween Ryan and city officials to- day with the announcement that virtually all of the obstacles re- maining have been wiped out by the city commission. Some of the fans have been complaining that they have been somewhat kicked around due to the frequent breakdown in the parleys to date but with the agreement by the city fathers to go all out in aid- ing the Flamingos in their desire to operate here, they are looking forward to rooting for what has been termed by many to be the best team in the FIL. It will be something new for Key Westers to be backing a winner fol- lowing the abbreviated campaign HE KEY WEST GOLF CLUB RAISED $106.00 for the March of Dimes with the matches held Punday. Here Roy Duke, president of the golf club, presents the amount to Bill Neblett, right, ‘Ehairman of this year’s March Kentucky Sailor Cops M. P. Clark, USN, VX1, and of Murray, Kentucky, made good 96 f 100 free throws in the Key West $0-YMCA Club’s basketball free ow tournament Saturday after- m in the USS. Naval Station lymnasium. R. E. Hitchins, USN, Fleet So- fe School, 553 Able, placed sec- pi with 91 successful tosses in the ~ ai, that is a part of the Armed ; bos Department—YMCA An- ketball Free Throw Tour- cat, .ird place went to C. J. Leff- USN, Fleet Sonar School ‘, with 88 good throws. he scores of these three and the “:< four high scorers will com- {se the local entry in the na- { .) tounsament. The others, with t scores, are D. E. Ellis, USN, ti D. R. Nibbe, USN, 84; E. L. ———— SPORTS MIRROR By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Lloyd Mangrum won the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament with a 72-hole al of 274. ‘FIVE YEARS AGO — Captain Barney McLean topped a team of seven U. S. skiers named for the Ww Olympic Games at St. , Switzerland, ¥ YEARS AGO—Don Hutson, Green Bay Packers sensational @fd, was named the most valuable player in ‘the National Football League for the second straight INTY YEARS AGO — Ells- h Vines was upset by Vivian ath, 16-year-old Australian tensis star, in quarter-finals of the ustralian Championships, we of Dimes drive. Hart, USN, 83, all of the USS Gil- more, and W. I. Reidberger, USN, USS Wilke, 83. The event was open to members of the Armed Forces and was con- ducted in cooperation with the US Naval Base Welfare and Recrea- tion office. Members of the athle- tic officials organization served as judges. Each contestant was al- lowed three tries to sink the most out of each 100 tries. The national tourney will include entries from the permanent bran- ches of the Armed Services De- partment—YMCA and from other USO Clubs operated by the YMCA in this country and abroad. Final results will not be known until after February 15, 1953, after which awards will be made to the two high clubs and the individual members of each team will be rec- BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE Two important celebrities of the entertainment world tried the Key West Golf course yesterday and made a date for a match Wednes- day afternoon with the local pro- fessionals, Harry Link, top music publisher, and Nick Kenny, column- ist for the New York papers, took their muscles and putting strokes for an engagement with Joe Lo- pez, Sr., and Fred Lux. Both men are in town for a three week vacation from the cold north- ern weather and what have you in their business. The Bench did not get a chance to interview either one of them, but it is hoped that it can be done some time this week | This could be a hint to the city {fathers on getting the additional jmine holes. With the tops in all |fields coming to this city, a nine hole course is not sufficient enough to play on. A large crowd was on hand this | afternoon for the clinic and exhi- Freethrow Wit ognized with appropriate awards. The Key West USO-YMCA Club will award individual trophies to Clark, Hitchins and Leffingwell as the top three in the local tourney. The records show that during the afternoon 23 entries made a total of 5,916 attempts from the foul line in actual competition out of which they converted to points 3,974 for a percentage of .672. The team of seven men made a total of 1,949 tries during the event and scored 1,583 points for a per- centage of .812. Of their*%00 best attempts they made good’612 for a percentage of .874. The lowest recorded score for the day was 56 out of a 100 tries; only the best of each contestant’s blocks. of 100 tries were recorded for com- Parison in the contest. crowd watched with inspiration the girl. who has yet to give up in holding all the crowns open for women competition. Joe Lopez announced that Patty Berg will be in Key West Febru- ary 10 and will hold her clinic that day. The March of Dimes Campaign is $70 richer thanks to the golfers who three two bucks in the kitty for the tournament Sunday at the local course. One half of the pro- ceeds went for the worthy cause which is now soliciting funds and the balance for prizes. Top prize of the day went to Clem Pearson with a low net score of 67. Behind him with a 68 was Joe Lopez, Jr. Other winners for the day’s matches were: Class A — Gene Witzel and Humbert Mira (low gross); Joey Jr., Bob Smith and |Humbert Mira (low net). Class B — Clem Pearson and William Solis (low gross), V. Vin- last year which saw them turn out in droves nightly to back the last place Conchs. FIL officials are speculating just what will happen when the Flamingos come to town. Some have predicted a new attend- ance mark for the loop when ‘the umpires call play ball in 1953. There is no doubt about one point—the Conchs will have the best manager in the FIL when the season starts to roll. The ever-pop- ular Pepper Martin has already been signed to his 1953 pact and will be at the helm when spring training starts March 15th, Martin Teceived several offers, one of thern from a Triple A ballclub, but he prefers to stick with his pre- sent employers. Throughout the past season, on his trips to Key Seton Hall Is |Ring Talent Show Is Set Wed. On January 28th national net- work television of boxing bouts comes up witha new and interest- ing twist for the nation’s vast TV Nation’s No. 1 Court Five (Sistine the NEW YORK, (Seton Hiall, | feature two 6-round bouts from the rolling along as the nation’s only | Chicago Stadium instead of the undefeated major college basket-| usual one ten-rounder. The trans- ball team, was vote No. 1 team | fer to this dual-feature-bout format in the nation today for the second | has been called a “new talent ex- straight week, The powerful Pirates, who made Memphis State victim No. 19 during the week, were. voted tops by 44 of the 85 sportswriters and broadcasters in the poll. They piled up 679 ‘votes on the usual basis of 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc. for a comfortable margin over second- place Indiana. The Hoosiers, runner-up for the second straight week, received 12 first-place votes and 595 points, while Washington held third place with a dozen firsts and 545 points. La Salle, which led the poll for the first two weeks only to be supplanted by Kansas State, climbed past the Midwesterners this week. La Salle took over the fourth spot, shoving Kansas State down to fifth, Illinois, still without a first-place vote, held sixth place, but all was confusion below that. Fordham jumped back up to seventh from 10th, moving Oklahoma A&M down a peg. Western Kentucky, which last night walloped Tampa, 117-58, took over the ninth position and De Paul, a 58-47 victor over Oklahoma A&M last week, became No. 10. Out of the select circle were North Carolina State, which lost by 70-69 to North Carolina, and Kansas, 72-68 victim of Colorado. N. C. State is 12th, Kansas 14th. Seton Hall (44) sceseemn679 Washington (12) osssenteaS45 La Salle (4) weet BS Kansas State (1) crevice lino’ srseseee 335 mannan | Oklahoma. A&M (1) erecsseeLTh Seenerpeye De Paul The second 11, Louisiana State (1) cveu95 North Carolina State .cc085 Seattle (2)... correo tS Ki SAS... Eastern Kentucky (1) Navy ; North Carolina (1) Manhattan ... Tulsa Four Minute Mile Seen In Future By WILL GRIMSLEY he’s certain the four-minute mile will be run within the next year or two but he figures a European, and not Australia’s John Landy, will be the one to do it. “The four-minute mile isn’t just a possibility, it’s a certainty,” the slender FBI agent, America’s ace distance runner, said today. “Per- sonally, I think the ultimate human {speed for the distance is not four minutes but around 3:55. “T have always felt that Gundar Haegg (Sweden's world record holder with 4:01.4) or Arne Ander- sson (4:01.6) could have done it long ago if they’d been accustomed to running the mile instead of the international distance of 1,500 met- ers. “TI also have thought Glenn Cun- ningham and Chuck Fenske from our own country could have done it under favorable conditions—that is, if a special effort had been mr“e with proper pacers, and so forth. s for Landy—he’s good, sure. But there are a bunch of Euro- peans who can run with him right now. They haven't been getting the publicity Landy has but they're potential four-minute milers, never- Pedition” by the promoters. The match-makers predict that these relative unknowns — Floyd Pater- son, Chuck Spieser, Tony La Moni- co, Chester Mieszala — will soon become boxing’s top stars. This TV show, like all other Blue Rib- bon Bouts, will be televised by CBS-TV. EEE Sub Bowling Meet Set Here In Feb. West with the Flamingos, Pepper averred “that he could win any- where with the Key West fans.” He has made no secret of the fact that he wans to play ball here. Man for man, the Flamingo ros- ter is the match of any in the Flor- ida International loop. In addition, Ryan has the connections to round up younger talent which will be Floyd Paterson, 1952 Olmpic middleweight champion, has moved into the pro class with astonishing initial success. De- spite his short pro experience, this Brooklyn boy flashes power and ring savvy equal to that of many of the old pros. His op- ponent on the Jan. 28th card will be Chester Miesz: well-liked Chicago slugger who has appear- ed on many Chicago Stadium supporting cards. In the second “new talent” bout, also scheduled for television, Tony La Monico of Detroit will face Chuck Spieser. Spieser, former N.C. A. A. 175 Ib. champion, is a stablemate of the welterweight ti- tle contender, Chuck Davey. Piledriver Goes On Up River After The Atlantic Submarine Force bowling tournament will be run-off here beginning Feb. 2, it was announced today. The star-studded tournament which will last four days, will determine a team to represent the submarine force in the. At- lantic Fleet all Navy finals to oe held in Norfolk, Va., Feb. Eight-man teams from the New London, Conn. shore and afloat divisions, submariners from Norfolk and keglers from Key West-based submarines will compete in the round robin playoffs. Mal Whitfield won the 1952 Olympic 800 meters championship at Helsinki in record time of 1:49.2 which is the ‘identical time he made when he won the Olympic title at London in 1948. - a? : + ’ . The reason for the disappearance of the street sign at the corner of Truman Avenue and Margaret Streets is being speculated upon by residents of that area who sus- pect Republican chicanery. The marker was lifted on the eve of Eisenhower’s inauguration. Per- haps a souvenir hunter, suspecting that the streets might be renamed to keep step with the political times, wanted the sign out of pure nostalgia. It apparently takes a big man in more ways than one to win the Junior Chamber of Commerce Dis- tinguished Service Award as Key West's outstanding young man. Delay At Bridge LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —A tow- ering piledriver aboard a barge is on its way up the Arkansas River after being stymied here for three days by a low railway bridge. Rock Island Railway officials hand-cranked the rotating bridge mechanism yesterday to allow the barge and its 63 foot 8 inch pile- driver to continue upstream to- ward Menifee, Ark., about 40 miles north of here. All previous efforts to rotate the 55-year-old bridge—including elec- tricity, tugs, grease and manual labor—had failed. The bridge is less than 50 feet from the water. The railroad said the bridge hadn’t been turned since 1938 and its power mechanism had rusted. The eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in Italy in 1931 is believ- ed to have killed 18,000 people. Tea Western Kentucky (3) .......129 | (UW VU UUW OVW CUCU TCV VVC V IT UV CVT C TCC C TTT, The Ground By JIM COBB _NEW YORK (Fred Wilt says | aaaasssassseceseeenressas asaerase need for this sort of thing in Key | West to promote winier tourist | | business. Projects of that magnitude seems | always to require more than just one year to get them rolling. It, appears that someone is needed to | spark the project. | eee. ' | Certain members of the city’s |artistic element have been decry- | ing what they term a “whispering campaign” concerning the loyal- | ties of some of the artists who had | | pictures hanging in a recent show | jat the East Martello Gallery. Pro- tests to Artist’s Equity have been jhinted. They claim that unjust in- |ferences concerning possible Com- plenty important what with the advent of the new FIL veteran policy. The Flamingos (or Conchs) are expected to train with the Atlanta Crackers. Spring training gets underway on March 15th, 7 Today's talks are expected to move smoothly along to an agree- ment with Ryan being granted his Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN requests for concession rights and additional box seating at the Wick- ers Field Stadium. The sodding of the Yield revamping of the infield was tion which will be a other clubs in the to play on the hard pa infested diamond. Tuesday, January 27, Maid’s Night Out By RAYMER “THE SAVAGE” at the San Carlos Theatre No one ever dedicated a song called “‘Sweet Sioux” to the fierce nomadic tribe of American Indians who once inhabited the Black Hills of the Dakotas as home base and |i fanned out over the prairie coun- try on scalping forays. However, in this picture, the Sioux tribe is delineated as the most honorable and noble of the Plains Indians. The Crows are made to eat crow as a lesser division. They are the skulkers in the bushes who prey on wagon trains,-and, according to the film, were the cause of the treaty-breaking betwéen advancing whites and the copper-skinned war- riors. The Sioux were keeping their side of the bargain but the treacherous Crows killed settlers, ambushed U. S. Calvary, and the Sioux were blamed. It is true in the turbulent days following the War between the States, and for the next twenty years. after that, all Redmen were tossed into one category under the old Western saying, “The only good Indian is a dead one.” In fact, I saw the old prejudice work in Arizona in 1947, nearly 100 years after Indian raids in which the Apaches took part. But that is an- other tale. This one is hair-raising, literally. tographed in the Black tribal i are authentic you'll see the most magnificent warbonnets since President Calvin Coolridge was given one Great Silent Father. 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