The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1953, Page 6

Spittin’ Image Wins Photo At Key West Kennel Club ‘Seton Hall Voted By Associated Press As Top Cage .. Ageregation Finals Are Set'OKLAHOMA AGGIES TOP In Pog Meeting MISSOURI VALIEY LOOP EDGES REALLY TRUE IN FEATURE RACE HERE LAST NIGHT BY JIM COBB CITIZEN SPORTS EDITOR Spittin’ Image triumphed last night in a photo finish over Really True in the feature race at the second night of the inaugural meet- ing at the Key West Kennel Club. The winner copped the win by a head in a thriller in the credit- able time of 32.3 seconds over the 5-16 mile course. Katy S, ran third, three lengths off the pace. The winner paid $10.20, $3.60 and $2.80 while Really True returned $9.60 and $10.20, Katy S. paid $4.60 to show. The Daily Double, Honest Honey and Captain Rebel, paid $54.40. The canines will go to the post ain tonight at 8:00 p. m. in the third outing of the current season. In the feature race, tonight, May- snard, a white fawn pup, owned by F. B. Stutz who is one of the top dog handlers in the business, should win. Maynard has run with “the best of them and should top “the field if she doesn’t get in a sjam. 2 Whispering Charlie will also be *a threat in this race. Trained by Wilbur McCombs, who has handled «many a top greyhound, this dog «has beaten the best of them at the Havana racing oval. = Other entries include Cameron “owned by Mrs. H. E. Russell who posses a lot of speed: My Bitsey “who should give a good account of “herself; Claro a pup with a habit of coming from behind; Lost Trail; SAll Time (plenty of speed and a {ast finisher), and Bright Idol. MONDAY’S COMPLETE 3 RESULTS: © First Race “Honest Honey -—16.20 “Laurel Wood g Flight ent 8.00 6.80 4.00 4.20 3.60 2.40 3.20 2.60 } Race “Captain ‘Rebel _. 8.60 Blue Tinsel ~ =Broady.._.____.. “Third Race Sandy Mix . @Careful Sir. - Jan-Jan -.. 6.00 3.40 4.20 12.60 * Fourth Race =Bill Proverb Foot Hill «Aloof * 3.00 2.40 4.80 18.00 Fifth Race »@Lucky Teter SNick Lutz Taxes Me 2.20 2.40 2.60 Sixth Race Luck Divine Devil Wonderful Time ~ % Seventh Race Sshowmenow *Globe Trotter .. Black Connie s + 3.60 4.70 3.40 3.80 3.80 4.40 20.00 Eighth Race Julienne * Hymor * Reckoning 9.40 3.00 S Ninth Race *Spittin’ Image Really True — “Kuty S. 10.20 Tenth Race *Tenny C, Moveable . 5.20 3.80 11.60 Ole Miss Cops Two Point Win Over Georgia By MERCER BAILEY Associated Press Sports Writer Precedent is bound to take a licking some times, and it certainly got kicked around in Mississippi’s 71-75 basketball victory over Geor- gia last aight. Prior to last night’s victory, (1) Mississippi hadn’t been able to win a Southeastern Conference game all season; (2) Georgia hadn’t lost to Ole Miss on its home court since 1928, and (3) Georgia’s Zippy Morocco hadn’t peen outscored on his home floor this season. Cob Jarvis, Mississippi’s free - wheeling forward, gave Morocco his come-uppance, outscoring the scrappy guard, 23 points to 19. The loss left Georgia the sole occupant of the Conference cellar with a record of seven defeats and no victories. It was Ole Miss’ first Conference triumph after five de- feats. In other games Alabama whipped Mississippi State 70-58, and Florida trounced Miami 78-56. Alabama’s victory moved the Crimson Tide into sole possession of the No. 4 spot in the standings, ending a six-way tie for that post. Mississippi State dropped to ninth. Much of the credit for the Tide’s triumph goes to Jerry Harper, a 6-foot-7 freshman center. Harper hit 11 baskets and four foul shots for 26 points. He also played an excellent game under the back- boards, pulling in 28 rebounds. Guard Gerald Caveness was high man for state with 21 points. Football star Rick Casares and Curt Cunkle led Florida to its vic- tory, which avenged one of the two defeats the Gators have suffered ‘this season, Miami beat Florida 75-73 in an early-season game. Casares collected 19 points and Cunkle got 17. Top man for Miami was Howard Keene with 14. The game did not affect Florida’s hold on second place in the SEC title race. , Louisiana State is first in the Conference standings, Tulane is third, and Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Auburn and Georgia Tech are tied for fifth. No games are scheduled tonight, but tomorrow night Florida plays at Auburn and Georgia journeys to Georgia Tech. Giardello Whips Green On Decision BROOKLYN # — A strong de- fense, combined with a jolting left jab, gave Joey Giardello of Philadelphia, a lopsided 10-round decision over Harold (Red) Green at the Eastern Parkway Arena last night. Referee Petey Scalzo and Judge Bert Gran scored it 9-1 for Gair- dello, while Judge Charley Shortell gave all 10 rounds to the Philadel- phia belter. It evened an old score for Giar- dello, whose only knockout loss came to Green in 1950. Giardello weighed 155% to Green's 161 for the bout which was televised (Dumont) in some sections of the country. speci einncinnntei Summer Special TONIGHT’S ENTRIES: GFirst Race — 5-16 mile Bill Piper Teacher's Choice Brave Bender Britannia Mim = Authentic “Flashy Makeup Fancy Times «Second Race — 5-16 mile Justa Harmony Iva Leone kie Ward Mil Town Cover Dust Kentucky Tavern “rystal Ghost Wynelle «Third Race — 5-16 mite Reolly Rare eve Me Frosion Matt Wynn Vandal rg Sue ty Girt Fourth Race — 5-16 mile Whistling Lad Lone Andy Martha Jo Nice Try Harvest Call Geuteel Sunny Dell Virgo Fifth Race — 5-16 mile Raven Beauty Turning Point Carbondale Doc Keefe Sky Fighter We're Telling You Clever Guy Silver Comrade Sixth Race — 5-16 mile Peck Miss Intellect Mohammedan Glen Page Instantly Lucky Par Calloway Charlie Bender Seventh Race — 5-16 mile Router Another Fain Tasol Dian Hill Adjust lanocence Little Lake Angus | Bighth Race — 5-16 mite | High Blow | Eascote | Brave Burton | Bizarre Brash Bill Moore Breezy Ed Al's Boy |Ninth Race — 5.16 mile | Cameron Highlander My Bitsey Mynard taro All Time Whispering Charlie Tops Poll For 3rd Straight Week With Undefeated Record NEW YORK ™® — Seton Hall’s perfect record convinced the na- tion’s basketball experts again this week that the South Orange, N. J., Pirates are the best college team in the country. It was the third straight week in the top spot of the Associated Press poll for Coach Honey Rus- sell’s club, equaling Kansas State’s first-place run earlier in the sea- son. La Salle led in the first two polls, The sportswriters and broadcast- ers kept a pat hand right through the first six places after a week in which form prevailed. Indiana, though idle, finished second, fol- lowed by Washington, La Salle, Kansas State and Illinois. Four-time loser De Paul jumped from 10th to seventh after an im- pressive Saturday night decision over Notre Dame. Western Ken- tucky moved up from ninth to eighth, swapping places with Okla- homa A & M. Louisiana State, a mewcomer with an impressive 14-1 record in- cluding the Sugar Bowl Tourna- ment title, filled out the top 10. Fordham tumbled from seventh to 13th after losing to St. John’s of Brooklyn. The Ram swere the only member of last week’s top 10 to lose a game during the week. Four of the top 10 were in action last night and they made the ex- perts look good. Indiana rolled up a new scoring record for ‘the Hoosier fieldhouse in smothering Butler, 105-70. Illinois found the going even easier against De Pauw, winning 93-50. Western Ken- tucky opened a busy week by downing Bowling Green, 71-60, and the Oklahoma Aggies whipped De- troit, 67-58. Seton Hall, with 21 straight vic- tories, doesn’t see action again until Thursday night against St. Bonaventure in Madison Square Garden. The Pirates received 654 points in the poll, which counts 10 points for a first-place ballot, 9 for second place and so on down the line, The leaders (first-place votes in parentheses): 1. Seton Hall (338, 2.. Indiana (9) . Washington (10 Kansas State (1) .. Illinois (1) De Paul .. Western Kentucky (4) Oklahoma A&M (1) Louisiana State (2) .. Second 10: - Seattle (4) ..... . North Carolina (1) 13. Fordham Seenauays .» N. C. State (1) .. . Oklahorha City (1) .... 1. Holy Cross son Bobby Shantz Inks Phillie Pact Mon. NEW YORK #—Bobby Shantz, most valuable player in the Ameri- can League last season, topped a list of 15 players who signed 1953 major league contracts yesterday. The Philadelphia southpaw agreed to a two-year deal with the Athletics whieh will pay him more than $50,000. His salary will be the most ever paid to a pitcher by the A's. The Athletics also signed out- fielder-third baseman Allie Clark land released Sam Zoldak, veteran {relief hurler. The Chicago White Sox came to }terms with pitcher Saul Rogovin. The other dozen signings were by | National League clubs. | The New York Giants gathered five men into the fold--pitchers |Jack Harshman and Bill Connelly, | joutfielder Clint Hartung and in- |fielders Bill Rigney and Bob Hof- man. Veteran pitcher Joe Hatten signed with the Chicago Cubs. The Philadelphia Phillies added pitcher | Jack Sanford, infielder Dick Young Jand outfielder Joe Tesauro and the Brooklyn Dodgers signed three rookie outfielders--Carmen Mauro, Bill Antonello and Gino Cimoii, d six dif- second basemen during 1952 Catcher Bruce Edwards who played in one game at that spot. {_ Bright Idol Tenth Race — 5-16 mile Gail Lee Lady Lancer H | Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—In line with its Policy of taking over anything that begins to look good, the U. S. Golf Association has absorbed the ‘now and will conduct this year’s event at Rochester, N. Y., June 25-27. We mean no disrespect to the ing out that it has permitted var- ious men of imagination to do its spadework in recent years. Its willingness to go along with. the times has given us a National Junior Championship since the Junior Chamber of Commerce thought up the idea in 1946, and it has faced the facts squarely in the present instance. The:women’s amateur was a sick Women’s Open Tournament as of | nation’s ruling golf body in point-) COURTLAND, Ala. — Four more dogs today bid for cham- pionship honors in the National Field Trial Club’s free-for-all-stake in three-hour finals heats. Commander’s High Tone Beau, national amateur cuail champion and the only setter of the four- some, was braced with Tyfame in the morning heat. Beau is owned by C. E. Duffield and Mrs. Archie Taylor of Tyler, Tex., and is handled by Duffield. Tyfame is owned by R. P. Countz- ler of Greenville, Ky., and is hand- led by John Gardner of Lexington, Miss. The afternoon bracemates, Hall’s Stonecraft Babe, a female, and Ranger’s Spunky’ Pete, : won ‘their duck. We venture to say that the average sports fan could not, with- out advance preparation, name three of the nation’s leading wom- en amateur golfers. Because of the inroads made by Freddie Corcoran’s professional troupe within the past four or five years, the amateur ranks have been stripped down to the bone. Interest in the women’s amateur has been at an all-time low. There have been no “name” players te attract potential sponsors. If the USGA needed to be shocked into doing something to save the situation, it probably had that experience when our best gal amateurs went over to England last summer and took a >eating in the Curtis Cup Matches. That just isn’t supposed to happen. While this was going on, the golf- ing fathers needed only to pick up almost any edition of any paper to appreciate that the women pros, brought along smoothly by Corcor- an, had become a national insti- tution. Their names — Louise Suggs, Babe Zaharias, Patty Berg Bettie Jamieson, Betty Rawls, the Bauer sisters — were known to every golf bug in the land. Up to this time the Women’s Open has not, properly speaking, been a major sports event, despite the excellence of the competition. It has not attracted a representa- tive field of amateurs. And the average fan probably has drawn little distinction between it and the other tournaments played by the women pros on their cross- country tours. Official recognition by the USGA will make all the difference. All the top amateurs will regard the action as an invitation to match their skill against the money gals once a year, and the result should provide the finest fields ever seen in women’s golf. It is a safe guess that our cities in short order will be battling one another earnestly for the privilege of staging the event, Davey To Seek Gavilan Crown CHICAGO ™# — Will Charles Pierce Davey, B. A. M. A., be- come the next welterweight boxing champion of the world? To most of the younger set-the campus group and the kid at the corner of Main Street--he will. To them he reflects the all-America boy invincibility. To many of the chastised, the sharpies who follow the boxing business closely, he won't. The undefeated southpaw chal lenger, who has captured the \imagination of the pure fan as |no fighter has done in years, will settle the question Feb. 11. Some- |thing akin to a knight charging out | to try to slay the dragon, scholarly |Davey will go after welterweight |champion Kid Gavilan’s crown. | A Chicago Stadium throng of ;more than 20,000-man of them }from the hinterlands, the Main | Street rooters from country towns- will be at ringside. Millions of jother fans will watch on television j A group of old-timers recently | gathered to watch Davey in action jat bis plush Tam O'Shanter Coun- jtry Club training camp. Nearly {300 persons were jammed into the jclub’s converted cocktail lounge. it was a sight made incongruous | by a dozen or so little girls looking up into the ring with lollipops in jone hand and autograph books in places with <terling performances in the last Of the one-hour qualify- ing heats yesterday. Both found one .covey each, Babe is entered by Mrs. A. Acton Hall of Cincinnati, 0. Pete is owned by Dr. W. H. Wallingford of Prince- ton, W. Va., and handled by Her- man Smith of Hatchechubbee, Ala. Two pointers were put down in the first finals heat yesterday aft- ernoon but neither impressed the gallery as champions. The well-regarded Furlow, owned by F. A. Mallery of Chattanooga, Tenn., and handled by Clyde Mor- ton of Alberta, Ala., ran a good grounds race and had three con- tacts with game. He pointed too close on his first covey, however, and flushed .the birds. He divided his second find with Armed and his third point was backed by his bracemate. Armed, owned by Lambert Horn of Birmingham, ranged wide to find two other coveys but was out of judgment for the final hour of his heat. The judges can’ call back other dogs from the qualifying heats if they so desire. The defending champion, Warhoop Jake, didn’t make the grade on the first call. Charles Faces Harrison Wed. Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Mich. igan, will be the site for the Feb- ruary 4th Blue Ribbon Bout, with Ezzard Charles and Tommy Harri- son facing the television ca-neras. Charles, the former heavyweight king, has been showing his recent opponents plenty of fireworks. In his January 14 appearance before Blue Ribbon televiewers, he ex- ploded, and exhibited his slugging abilities by putting away a tired and punch-pounded light heavy- weight, Wes Bascom. Charles has Proved that he is on the comeback trail and a definite threat to the heavyweight throne. ' A Los Angeles light heavy, Tom- my Harrison has done most of his fighting on the West Coast. His professional ring record is brief, By JOE FALLS NEW YORK #—The Oklahoma Aggies don’t own the Missouri Val- ley Basketball Conference. It just seems that way. Hank Iba’s lads have won or shared 12 Mo. Valley titles since 1936, and it looks as though lucky 13 is coming up. The precision - minded Aggies, ninth-ranked nationally, ran their league record to 4-0 last night by | whipping Detroit, 67-58, at Still-| water. That gave them a one-game lead | over Tulsa and St. Louis, tied for | second place with 3-2 records. | In winning their 15th game in 18 | starts, the Aggies had to overcome a terrific two-man shcw by De-} troit’s Norm Swanson and Guy Sparrow. These sharpshooters com- bined for 46 of Detroit's 58 points, Swanson netting 26 and Sparrow 20. It was a good night for members of the top 10 last night. In addition to A&M, three of the select group played and all racked up impres- sive victories. Second - ranked Indiana, paced by Don Schlundt’s 33 points, re- turned from a: two-week vacation and slaughtered Butler, 105-70. Schlundt, a 6-9 gunner, hit nine field goals and 15 of 16 free tosses. Sixth - ranked Illinois: also hung up a lopsided win, blasting De- Pauw, 93-50, And eighth - ranked Western Kentucky survived a slow- style attack to defeat Bowing Green, 71-60. However, Oklahoma, the Big Seven leader, didn’t have it so| good. The Sooners, patsies in non- league play but sheer murder in conference play, finally dropped a league game. After three straight league wins, Oklalioma fell before Iowa State, 13-69. This was the upset of the night but the Svoners still clung to the Big Seven lead, with a 3-1! record. Several good _intersectional gameswere played, In these, Pitts- burgh rallied in the last 18 seconds to defeat Houston, 65-62, with su- perior foul shooting, and Dayton | trimmed Loyola »f New Orleans, 79-65, as Jim Paxton scored 19) points. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, February 3, 1953 Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — New York Yankee pitcher Allie Rey- nolds -received a trophy at the New York Baseball Writers Dinner as the most valuable local player. FIVE YEARS AGO — Sweden scored victories in skiing and skat- ing to take the lead over Norway for Winter Olympie honors at St. | Moritz, Switzerland, 50-48%. TEN YEARS AGO—NYU rallied lead unbeaten Rio Grande to a 97-62 victory ever. Pikeville, Ky. Bevo now has 1,402 points in 28 games. to defeat St. Francis (Brooklyn) 45-44 for its 12th straight win and= Western kentucky trounced CCNY, 69-49, in a college basketball doubleheader at Madison Square Garden. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Tony Canzoneri knocked out Billy- Town- send, 141, in 1:05 of the first round at Madison Square Garden. 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Down South, Alabama defeated | Mississippi State, 70-58; Mississippi | turned back Georgia, 77-75; South Carolina topped Clemson, 71-67, and in one of Dixie’s hettest rivalries, Florida ran over Miami, 78-56 In the Southwest Conference, Texas Christian moved into second Place with a 49-46 squeak over Arkansas. the other. i “Davey has never gone more jthao W rounds,” observed Sam | Pian, who guided Tony Zale to |the middleweight title. “Can he go j15? I mean, can he go that far against a guy of Gavilen’s ex- | perience, and speed-a guy who knows how to pace himself?” Davey should be a 101 under. said another observer, ser. sousiy, after watching sparmate} dog dating back to 1951 and shows he is better balanced in the win col- umn than most youngsters. An un- Johnny Brown give Davey a good! “No, don’t underrate that Dav- ey,” his friend replied. “Gavilan will win all right, but he shouldn’t be favored more than 4-1.” known to television’s vast fight conducted by the promoters. 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