The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1953, Page 9

Zaharias, great woman athlete whose current illness apparently will end her ath- letic career, flashes a familiar victory smile in Beaumont, Tex., , April 5 after winning Babe Zaharias Open, a golf tourney held in her honor. Specialists at the Beaumont hospital in which she has been undergoing tests announced on April 11 that she has a malig- nant condition that calls for a major operation. Babe got her start in athletics in Beaumont. Sports World Finds It Hard To Believe Babe Is Finished Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK ®—With a notable absence of fanfare, Rocky Mar- ciano, the heavyweight champion, wings his way back west today to resume training for his return title fight with Jersey Joe Walcott, now scheduled to take piace on May 15 in Chicago Stadium. Since April 2, when a roomful of specialists discovered two. small but free-flowng cuts mside his nose has been taking things easy at his Massachusetts home. doing only a spell of roadwork each early morn- ing. He expects to vegin sparring again the, end,of the week at his Holland, Mich., camp.” In a departing statement the chimpion’s manager, Al Weill, as- sured your correspondent that Rocky's nose’ feels much better ts he can't wait to get out there and start busting the heavy bag again, He doesn't expect the much discussed nose to give any mote trouble, “T had a real cutiterizing job | done on it—one that ought to last,” Weill said briskly. “When he starts boxing again we won't use any special nose guard but only the headgear we always use. It has things that stick out over the cheekbones and protect that part of the face.” fe Asked if, in deference to a ticket sale which had heen vone too good up to the postponement, he might move Rocky's training quarters into Chicago aweek or so before the new date, Al svid positively not. He is releating, however, to the extent of laying over in Chi- cago a couple of days at this time. “I don’t know anything about the ticket sales,” Al said. “All Fm interested wn is getting Rocky in shape to whip Waicott, and Hol- land is a swell piace for it. Every- Dody who sees the jwint loves it, You don't hear ae hollering about money. This training must have stood me $5,000, anyway, up to now.” Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—The De troit Red Wings defeated the Mont- real » 0, to become the - first team ever to win the Stanley ; Or ve te games without defeat. { TEARS AGO—Jobn Mi- @helosen was apvointed head — ag coach of the Pittsburgh Steel Tek YEARS AGO--Transporta- ‘tion difficulties forced Delaware Park: to abandon the 143 racing season. 1. TWENTY YEARS AGO—The By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK ‘?-.-It’s hard for the sports world to conceive that Babe Didrikson Zaharias may never wham another golf ball or may never compete in another athletic event. » The supple, sinewy daughter of a Norwegian immigrant, now seri- ously ill in Beaumont, Tex., has become the national symbol of male athletic excellence— claimed the greatest woman ath- lete who ever lived. When in February, 1950, the na- tion’s sports writers were polled by the Associated Press on the athletes of the century, the women’s division was a run- away for tke fabulous Texan. “Like port wine the older I get the better I get,” jokingly re- marked Mrs. Zaharias at the time, warning she also planned to be the best athlete of the second half- century. She is now 39, Not even irom men’s ranks has anyone risen to chalienge the Babe for the diversity of her achieve- ments. As a tall, raw-boned girl of 19, she set world’s records in the jave- lin and 80-meter hurdles m the 1932 Olympies at Los Angles. She also won the high jump with a record leap but was disqualified for diving head-first over the bar. A three-event limit kept her out of the sprints and broad jump. She was twice All-America as a basketball forward, star of the na- tional champion Dalias team, and jWwas a home run slugger on a women’s amateur baseball nine. In a tournament at Jersey City in 1930 she rifled a baseball 296 feet while fans gaped. She ence seored 106 points in a basketball game. She took the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals in an exhibition game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. She donned a football suit and worked out with Southern Methodist University at Dallas, im- pressing onlookers with her left- footed kicking. Possessed of remarkable muscu- lar coordination, the Texas pheno- meon also. shone in swimming, diving, bowling, fencing, lacrosse, billiards and even ‘boxing before turning full time to. golf. In 1931 a sensationalist arranged @ boxing bovt between the Babe and the late Young Stribling’s Iomega but the match never came “Fve decided to give up boxing,” Miss Didrikson said at the time. “Pm going to be a lady now. I'm 18, you know." The five-foot-six, powerfully built Babe shot a 95 ‘ne first round of ‘golf she ever played. She was in the low 80's within a month. In | her first tournament she won med- alist honors with a 77, That was 1994. : Able t6 outhit her women rivals 100 to 150 yards off the tee, she swept through 17 straight tourna- ments in 1946, In 1847 she became the first American to win the Brit- ish Amateur wornen's title. Key West Kennel Club Result Charts—Tuesday, April 14th . { ’ ' Winner—Mts. 0, Date of Last Race La Dene 54 Modern, Age 67 Singing Kid 64 Storm Bugler 65 Gentee! 57 Carbondale 53% Sable Prince _ . K. Hutchings’ Dark Bimonmatimen 8 AGE SINGING KID Date of Last Race Novella Stop Over Wild North Sutiny Dell 36 Fair Hope 5e Jack Mc 64 Eascote 69 Vicente 614 Winner—Williams and Fagg’s Bri NOVELLA STOP OVER WILD NORTH Bs ee Biro acre mo om » 8 dl BNOMM RAINED FIRST RACE—5-16 MILE- a praia te ores bo 4 5 3 7 2 8 6 indl ae 83 6.20 480 Quiniela (1-3) 16.80 Out SECOND RACE—S-16 MILE % Wr cour na mares Ps Rrosouwmnn 2.40 ” 2.60 Quiniela (3-6) 9.20 5.60 Daily Double—La Dene and Novella paid 8.40 Date of Last Race Bonnie Acre Telecast Damocles Eager Miss Doctor Dodd Divine Devil Inkey Racer Slick Miss AH RAIN OD 36 Winner—Cliff Waller’s Fawn B., Nov., CRE 8.40 Date of Last Race T. V. Star Silque Blind Alley My Charlotte Jacoba Lucky Par Impending Lennox Winner—Williams and Fags! . Re T. V, STAR faz Fs FIFTH RACE—5-16 MILE Date-of Last Race Ozona 55 Joe Dale 73 Little Dusty 53 Staver 67 Foolish Jill 50 Thunderette 48 Zavalla 67% 2° Predominate es Bo 00 On 09 09 No BV anmnmenne THIRD RACE—S-16 MILE Time—31. abe ges . : sr a 11.40 ** Tired badl 35.00 *4 Faded ba Scratched +, 1951. Real Huntsman—Little Acre 420° 4.60 6.00 - 9.80 Quiniela (6-8) 14.20 5.00 FOURTH RACE—5-16 MILE Cy S Perera Myegegn Buowols “sesesees an 3° Page s38n re) ; a 5 63% 4 8 8 Winner Willen and Fagg’s Black B., August, 1950. Black Bustler—Kitty Kallen INA Date of Last Race Idol Red 71 Mill Town 65 Laurel Wood 54 Honest Fax 57% Good And Glad 65% Top Bracket 62% Cameron Hilander 60 Razor's Rocket PIM ON tom Queen Elaine IDOL RED 8. MILL. TOWN LAUREL WOOD Date of Last Race 410° Traveling Bug 3 4-10° Wise Mike 2 4-10" Gay Farewell 4 4-10" Payette 1 410° Run Mike Run $ 4-10" Erosion 4 7 410° Flashy Reward 6 4-9* Authentic 8 a 55% Winner—Mrs. 0. Z. Ferrell's Blac! Jangle Jewell E) GAY FAREWELL Date of Last Race 410" Last Summer 63 4 6 Date Line St 410° Beach Tramp 68 4-10 Katy S 58 4- 9 Jet Roll 64 4 ¢° Big Pay Off 69 Timber Jack ig 410" Bee's Trouble Winner—Fred Whitehead’s Black —Kansas Girl LAST SUMMER DATE LINE BEACH TRAMP 00 MAN wmwe Ferman etm 40 EIGHTH RACE—5S-16 MILE 4.60 3.00 30.60 hing Quiniela (2-6) 73.00 SIXTH RACE—S-16 MILE a3? a? 2 3 ae 5 e= ay pBanbuaw pe ora 6642 8 Z. Ferrell's Red D., April, 1951, Tol. Bright, Imp.— .20 280 863.00 3.80 2 Quiniela (1-3) 30.00 SEVENTH RACE—5-16 MILE 1 8 Outrun » July, 1950, Tumble Bug, Imp.— 9.20 47.00 11.80 Out —Quiniela (2-3) 92.20 24.40 s 3 ‘rong finish : ’ host far back 4 6 1 2 8 . Mar Date of Last Race Obedience Candalon 411" Showmenow 411" Hazy Moon #11" Tenny C <2 Maveare - 8° Colette ta Speedy Girl Winner—Williams and Fagg’ OBEDIENC CAND. geseenea * 4 Fon unm ce a wo Be awn marae NINTH RACE—5S-16 MILE Gave way , Faded back Pescuieeus TENTH RACE—3-8 Mi LRSSS4Ee ” 4 BE ee rem uns Time—31.3 Wednesday, Aprit 15, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN HAL BO’ NEW YORK #—Anybody today who manages even to pay his rent regularly has some kind of a for- mula to explain his success. +I like Peggy Lee’s formula: “Never let go of a dream. Some- times you don’t know yourself when you think you're josing, a jewel is falling into your lap.” Peggy, now one of the nation’s her present $250,000-a-year income. But she never lost faith in her- Page 9 LE SAYS carly age T'was going to go to all those places, too. She never cae taken a profes- sional singing lesson. But along “}with her dream, she had a giant faith in herself—and a stubborn Norwegian-Swedish belief that work. will get you what you want. Peggy did all kinds of work from baby sitting to hash-slinging and cooking for harvest hands. Once she doubled as a waitress in a ho-| tel where she also sang as an en- r. “T’'ve had a good hasic education in. living,” she said. ‘There isn't | any type of Person i can’t under- Stand, and that is a big help in Peggy. pawned her high school graduation watch to make her first trip to. ..For a time she got by on 25 cents a day for food. She had to brrow. a dress from a beauty shop operator for her first night club engagement. “But I was too young, too shy to speak up for myself then,” she said. Rebuffed in Hollywood she came back to North Dakota broke | —but with her dream still undent- ed. She did some more hash-: -sling- ing, perfected her singing style in radio work, finally started her real climb to fame as the songbird with Benny Goodman's band. Today Peggy is a juke box queen, has a movie contract, and is one of the highest paid singers on the supper club cireut, She has written some 25 song tyrics, including a number of hits. She likes to relax by writing poetry—usually at dawn, after fin- ishing a night club singing job— and is also. working on a movie script. “It may be turned down,” she said matter-of-factly. “But. that won’t hurt me. U think that if you believe in something, and don't limit yourself, you can do it. “Eventually I want to’ become a writer. I've met sp many won- jderful people in my life, P'd like ‘to put them down iu a way to keep their memory ailve. “You know, people don't realize jthey can say something to you when you are 10 years old, and m: 15 years later it will, pop up in your mind and pull you out of a tight spot. “I was -very young when someée- one told me, “You never kiow when you start winning, and that one remark has guided my life ever since.” Peggy lugged her own. suitcase {on her first trip «0 Hollywood. The last time she went out to make a film she had two wardrobe trunks }and 32 pieces of hand baggage. James A. “Buck’’ Freeman, as- sistant. basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, is fa former head coach at Scranton 'U. Now that you've caught your glimpse of the first robin, there's nothing to hold you back. And that’s as it should be. Just remember, as you slide behind the wheel of your car—bad accidents as itis in good weather, too! . So... the life you save may be your own! ees |RELAY LEA FATHER AVENGES American Leacue umpire BM} |ANNIVERSARY LOSS BY SON McGowan is starting his 2ith/ spe tias appeal ita aula a ' reuit, atruck a blow for the elder geners- — of the 100,000 amateurs as its| JET PLANE members. The league regards itex as|PACTORY PLANNED WEST HARTFORD, Conn. # — spokesman for amateurs in this i Radio Relay | country, cee “strict nization of - of, and ts & tion as well as winning the regional] Shumate the next day rome yeni get = penne AAU, handball title at the Campbell in stra: rsa og years old next year. The /hokders. Members of the league YMCA, + 22-35, famed inventor, the late Hirman jare owners of the om [nett company and set up a_ 8 Spomored in the interest of your iofety by rootwicssces, Lbe Key West Citizen After his son, Buzz Shumate, 19,' Shumate says he Maximum was founder and of its monthly magazine. plant im Brasil. had lost a three-set match to De! his son oat of nd first president. 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