The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1953, Page 6

Conch Cagers Face Miami Coral Gables Stages Late Rally To Edge Hot Cage Action ae SE &E ti sretier gave the Gables something of a scare when they started the ball- game wide open and piled up a ua won in the opening omit and outplayed them up unt ee | minutes before the whistle. Forward Glynn Archer, playing | his third year of varsity ball, sup- plied the offensive spark for the| Conchs. He dumped in 2 points) gor the evening but that’s | the story — in the first he) sank five of six tries including! fouls and in the second half, he! missed but three tries sinking nine of 12 attempts. A Key West zone defense that) effectively throughout the first! quatter, enabied the Conchs to pile; up a comfortable 20-4 lead. And at) High Here Tuesday A | 3 r Close Loss TO’ Gablés Ring Roundup Nation's Three Top Cage Teams Face Action By ED CORRIGAN | NEW YORK Although there = Sy aack — have been numerous upsets and | cag a das a ee disappointments during the ovug poy chee his eo young basketball season, Indiana, } ° ’ , \Kentueky and Duquesne, the three |straight victory tonight at Brook- ‘teams rated at the top of the heap jlyn’s Eastern Parkway with Dick inetore operations began, have jWagner of Toppenish, Wash. — shown no cause for concern j Wagner, a rough body-thumper,’ tye three have won nine games | gave the former Olympic 165-pound among them, and all swing back jchampion, his toughest fight April into action tonight. j13 at the same arenz. Patterson je 2 i |won the decision after a grueling) Indiana, with three straight ah jbattle. It was one of the two pro|umphs, stems to be in the most |fights in which Patterson has'danger. The Hoosiers, defending failed to knock out his man. ‘NCAA champions, play Notre Because Patterson is only 19, the ‘| fight is limited to eight rounds. 1t/D&™¢- #hich has looked good in will be seen on television (Duj‘#ree encounters so far. They also |Mont) in some sections of the|Play Montana during the week jcountry. Kentucky, back in action after a year’s layoff, has won its only Ezzard Charles and Coley Wal-|two starts, and plays Wake Forest, lace meet in THE bout of the week;an outfit that created all sorts of Wednesday night at San Francisco, |Surprises in the Southern Confer- Charles is No. 3 challenger to/¢nce last yéar. But unless there is Rocky Marciano and Wallace is|@ major uj in the making, Ad- No. 6. It will be telecast by CBS. /0lph Rupp’s team should win as Still aiming for a title bout with i pleases. i Marciano, ex-champ Charles can’t) Duquesne, the pride of the East, afford another setback after his)Shows a record of four victories defeats by Nino Valdes and Har- Its opponent is Carnegie Tech, a ‘old Johnson |team that even Coach Dudley Wallace, who played the title role| Moore admits his charges should in “The Joe ole Story” for the beat. On Thursday, though, the the half, the Conchs were coasting al On a 34-25 advantage. J Carbonell and Stu Logun were the defensive big guns for the Conehs and they had their hands full in stopping Bob Mayuiers afd Bod Steiner, who paced the Cava- lier attack. Coral Gables managed to tie the score with the start of the final petiod but the Conchs, with Arch- er and Carbonell shining, stayed in the ballgame right down to the wire, With just three minutés re. maining, Ronnie Mayuiers dropped) in a foul shot and Steiner and Herb Gonzalez dropped in field goals to give the Gables the win. Stu Logun showed well offensive-| ly for the evening with 12 points and Julio Henriques dumped in nine, It was shoddy foul shooting that might have given the win to the visitors — the Conchs missed more than 50 per cent of their charity tosses, enough to win the ballgame, in the second half. The Conchs were in command of the situation throughout the battle — with the exception of the final three minutes — and even then it was hardly a rupaway, bay 3 1 9 0 oO 24 212 0 0 44 $ 32 Mayuiers Langer .. Anderson Steiner By BEN FUNK MIAMI, Fla. —Now they'll quit calling the Miami Open “Sam Snead’s golf tournament.” ‘That designation will sound sort of silly after the way youthful Doug Ford gave the veteran Snead a sound .beating as they battled for the $2,000 first prize in yester- day's final eg parent Fah Spotting Snead a one-stroke lea e@s they started the last round, Ford caught him with a birdie on * the first hole, worked up a two-| Cut-rate football did so. well the|four times as many as ever be- stroke margin, then lowered the boom by sinking an 80-yard shot out of the trees for an eagle 3 at the 1th, The 3l-year-old Yonkers, N. Y., pro wound up with a 3-under-par @7 for a 72-hole total of 272 to, SleeuBeaale * | Saturday night. Julio Henriquez, Key West defender, makes a Coral Gables’ Bill Anderson (12) and Key West's John Carbonell and Glynn Archer look on.— Citizen Staff Photo, Coral Gables Bucket 4 ; “ 9 ‘ ¢ CORAL GABLES’ Bob Steiner (15), six-foot, five watches as one of his lay-up shots rolls in du z night’s cage action at the Key West High School. Coral Gables’ Fred Langer (4) looks on as Conchs’ John Carbonell (14) makes futile effort to spoil score.—Citizen Staff Photo. ‘School Lauds Cut-Rate Football Plan BOWLING Green, Ky, & — A) Bowling Green High sold 1 a boom basis at Bowling Green /$2.50 for reserved seats. High School. | Approximately 2,500 were sold, |Past sezson that the school has fore in the school’s 30-year foot- decided to extend its experiment ball history. to basketball. Receipts totaled $4,900 com- Receipts dropped a little under pared with the average $5,500 in the plan of selling season footb: tickets for depression era pric’ but the fans turned out in record RONNIE MAYUIER, Coral Gables forward, sinks another two-pointer for their winning cause || NEW YORK w—Only the de-'dico, *\fending champion Detroit Lions} its leaf borrowed from the lean de-|five-game season football tickets Srapipa fs pression years has put athletics|for $1 for unreserved seats and|‘%¢ Chicago Bears 24-17 to rack movies, stopped Billy Gilliam in| his last outing, Sept. 28, For a change there will be an all-Irish main event in Madison| Square Garden Friday when Pad-| dy Young and Billy Graham bat-! tle in a 10-rounder. Young, hoping | to get a return bout with Bobo! Olson, who beat him for the Amer- ican middleweight crown in the summer, stopped Sammy Giuliani on his first comeback bout. Gra- ham, twice loser to kid in welter championship fights, hasn't been in action since July, when he drew with Carmen Bas- ilio at Syracuse, N. Y. % .- futile attempt at blocking shot, Bobby Gleason, just back from | Europe with his Cuban heavy- weight Nino Valdes, who flattened Heinz Neuhaus, has posted a $5,000 check with the New York State Athletic Commission as a chal- enge to Marciano. Gleason hopes he can mov Valdes into a title shot at Mar- ciano in Miami next February al- though Marciano’s manager, Al Weill, would prefer Danny Nar- Lions, Browns To Meet For Gridiron Toga | By BEN OLAN and the not-so-invincible Cleveland | Browns have any say left in the rest of the National Football League doings for 1953, For the jother 10 clubs it is a case of wait till next year, { The Lions and Browns will meet | for the championship Dec, 27 in! |Detroit. The game will be renewal of last year's*title tilt, which De- | |troit won 17-7, | Detroit clinched the Western | Division crown yesterday by whip-- ping the New York Giants 27-16 as Steve Owen bowed out as the Mew York head coach after 23 years, He resigned last Thursday, but will remain with the team in a scouting capacity, The Giants went all out to win one for their departing mentor and jeame within half a yard of tying the score late in the game, But |Detroit’s Gene Gedman deliberate- ly gave the Giants a safety and jthen as time ran out, he cracked over from the 5 for the clincher. Cleveland, after 11 straight with- out a loss, fell victim to the aerial artistry of Philadelphia's Bobby Thomason, The Eagles triumphed 42-27 as Thomason pitched for three touch ns and completed 23 of 3 sses for 331 yards The San Francisco 49ers, who until yesterday had a chance of jdeadlocking Detroit for the lead, |routed the Baltimore Colts 45-14. Quarterback Y. A. Tittle threw four touchdown passes and fullback Joe Perry scored three times | The 49ers ended the season with a 9-3 record. Detroit had 10-2. The Chicago Cardinals outscored RAYON Flannel jup their first victory of the year and the Pittsburgh Steelers edged the Washington Redskins 14-13. The Los Angeles Rams ended their season Saturday night by trouncing the Green Bay Packers 33-17. SLACKS $8.98 CREASE and SPOT RESISTANT Long Sleeve SPORT SHIRTS rx $950 579 $3 $$ Save $538 For QUALITY USED CARS and Genera! Auto Repairs TWINS GARAGE 1130 DUVAL sT. DIAL 2.2401 4$ $$ SAVE $3535 1 dae ome fay: WHO BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN IN KEY WEST? Answer: LOU SMITH 1116 WHITE STREET With the Dependable HESTER Battery With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE To Keep Prices Down Be Sure To Buy A HESTER! tron Dukes play St. Louis, whieh} Actually, the Big Ten seems to could cause them more than a be showing the way this season, workout. Only two of its members—Iowa In fact, with the season berely and Northwestern—have been beat- under way, Duquesne already en. Indiana, the favorite to win won a tournament. Moore's outfit its second straight title, clubbed captured the Steel Bowl cham- Butler 76-57 Saturday. pionship by beating Pitt fm the Tllinois, which the experts see as final Saturday night 7943—and the main threat to Indiana’s throne holding the Paifthers to just three also looked impressive in thrash- points in the final period. ing Alabama 17.34. “I never saw anything like i The Southwest conference also is Moore said, “I was absolutely en-/having its troubles in intersectional tertained.” competition, and only Rice, which The teams ranked right below/has played all its games at home, the top three in the Associated/remains in the undefeated class. Press preseason poll, however, are. On the West Coast, California having their troubles. Oklahoma upped its stock considerably Sat- A&M, No. 4, has won four and urday by turning back Santa Clare, lost one, and tonight it must play/|one of the better Coast teams, 260 a return date with Colorado, which) while UCLA whipped Arizona 0448 it defeated 58-55 Saturday after/and Oregon State turned Back coming from behind in the final | Portland 84-45. period. With La Salle’s 76-46 defeat at Kansas, No. 5, has lost its first|the hands of Niagara, Fordham two contests, The Jayhawks return loops as Duquesne’s main threat home this week, however, and play |to Eastern supremacy. The Rams Tulsa Wednesday, vanquished Princeton 74-41, Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Menday, December 14, 1953 BASKETBALL TOMORROW TUES. 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Worsbam’s total ofjonly can see our games, but have $34,008 Included the $25,000 he won enough money left over for pop- at the Tam O’Shaater in Chicago, |corn.” Worsham won only $195 in the} Miami Open as he finished -in a for 276 and second place. He fin- Mth place tie at 282. ished a stroke ahead of Marty Snead, fading under the last-!Furgol, Lemont, Ill found pressure by Ford, took a 12 Harmon, Maxgeconeck, N. 7, droves. And that where the school counted its profit “A large and enthusiastic crowd helps our team immensely.” Prin cipal H. B. Gray said today. “We are hopeful that once new fans and Claude rival Franklin-Simpson been suspended two weeks The attendance of th games played about 500. Prices will remain the sa season although Bowling Gr six home games, meaning seas ticket holders will pay 16 c a game for unreserved seats. 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