The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1953, Page 6

Miami High Edges K Archer, Logun Pace Conchs In Loss To Miamians The Miami High School basketball team went home today, a much chastened group of athletes after they copped a victory over the Key West Conchs by a slim| 47-44 margin, last night in the local battle pit. They are co-favorites to win the Class AA state cham- pionship this year, but that fact didn’t bother the Conchs who went to work on them in their usual fiery fashion and managed to pile up an 8-4 lead in the first quarter and they never fell more than six points behind throughout the contest. It was a huge edge in height that gave the margin to the Mia- mians and it was a pair of ball- players, Glynn Archer and Stu Logun, who kept the locals in the ballgame. Logun went the distance and dumped in 12 points while Ar- cher with his peppery fighting tac- tics, kept the Stingarees off bal- ance throughout the evening. He matched Logun’s scoring with an- other 12 points, Archer sank the first goal of the evening after the Conchs had taken the tipoff and Logun came back with another field marker seconds later. John Carbonell and Jim Solomon also scored while Miami's Don Miller bucketed field goals in the first quarter. Unlike the Coral Gables tilt, when the Conchs pressed from the start, Key West played a cool and cautious game in the early stages of the tilt and their strategy ap- parently paid off — they out-pass- ed ard out-manuevered the visitors, But Miami came to life in the second quarter to when they filt- ered through Key West's man-to- man defense for layup shots .and with Pike and Williams leading the way. Their height and tight defense kept the Conchs working from out- side, Logun was particularly dan- to the Stingarees at this) point when he hit set shots. » end of the half saw Miami a 25. it the game erupted into a fast- ! bitter battle for the edge in nd half with Key West ing to within two points of the ors midway in the third per- 5-20 lead. Miami dominated the back- Oards, but the ball-stealing tac- tics of Johr Carbonell and Gibby Gates kept Miami wishing they had scheduled an) easier game for their opener. Miami had a 34-31 lead at the end of the third quarter as the pace of the game quickened, With only three minutes to go in the game, Miami held a 45-39 lead but Archer and Logun each sank) field goals to bring the Conchs to within two points of Miami. Charlie Pike then hit with a set of shots to widen the edge for the Stringarees. With less than a minute to go Archer sank a foul shot but Miami| gained possession of the ball and froze it until the final whistle. Tt was a pair of All-State perfor- mers, Charlie Pike and Ed Hoban who paced the Miamians although Don Miller led their scoring with 13 points, The summary: KEY WEST (44 Player— Archer Henriquez ——__. Gates Carbonell Logun SOOO erties Salgado one mns cnt Dobe ong, A eae eee Farberman ——____ Bushong vanong alocommedt al ocoommon 3 ey Totals— FOWELL IS NAMED GIANT GRID COACH ra cry Hot Cage Action | ge 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 16, 1953 KEY WEST'S GLYNN ARCHER goes high in the air to steal ball from Miami High’s Dick Roban in last night’s Key West-Miami cage clash here. West, 47-44.—Citizen Staff Photo. Charles-Wallace Bout Affects Title Picture Miami PORT CHESTER, N. Y. @—Ed |Barrow, the man who discovered Honus Wagner, changed Babe Ruth |into an outfielder and developed the New York Yankees into the }most feared team in baseball, died jof cancer last night. He was 85. In July he entered Port Chester United Hospital and his close jfriends knew his death was only a question of time. te remained cheerful, His mind was clear and he continued to re- ceive visitors. His physical con- dition continued to decline and jearly in November he lapsed into |a coma for 36 hours. Then he ral- lied, began eating again and jseemed improved until a relapse Sunday. | Twenty-four hours before his jdeath, his personal physician, Dr. | Curlin Craven, said: “He has put up a marvelous battle. He is going to die. It might be tomorrow or next week, Then again, it may be much longer.” Barrow retired in 1947, selling his stock in the Yankees for $300,- 000. He had been with the club for 26 years. Born Edward Grant Barrow in Springfield, I)., May 10, 1868, he was city editor of the Des Moines Leader when he first got into base- ball as a semipro manager. He moved into organized ball at Wheeling, W, Va., in the old Inter- state League, and then to Pater- TP! son, N. J., Detroit, Indianapolis and Toronto. He quit baseball in 1908 to run }a Toronto hotel but came back 8\to the sport in 1910 as a manager at Montreal. He was president of |the International League for seven | manager of the Boston Red Sox. Here he met Ruth, a left-handed Pitcher, and changed him into an outfielder. “It was the biggest gamble Ed Barrow, The Man Who Made Babe Ruth, Dies In New York jthe Yanks, but he maintained) Wagner was the greatest. “I always thought he was a won- derful man,” Wagner said when he learned of Barrow’s death. “He did everything he could for the players. He was a great baseball man.” Wagner was one of many leading baseball figures who paid tribute to Barrow. “I think Ed Barrow was really the greatest baseball man—every- thing considered—in my time,” said Branch Rickey, general man- ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. | Ford Frick, commissioner of |baseball, called Barrow one of |“‘the greatest baseball men I ever knew.” Grid Season Surprised The Experts jlenge-fringe since ey West Cagers In Thriller Key West Two-Pointer won close verdict over Key By RUSS NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO &) —Heavy— weight title contenders Ezzard Charles and Coley Wallace battle it out here tonight in a 10-round fight, the outcome of which carries important implications. strengthen his claims for another crack at the crown he won in 1949 and lost in 1951 to Jersey Joe Wal- cott. He failed to regain it from Walcott and has been on the chal- If he doesn’t win tonight he’s “dundee,” in the parlance of the fight mob. This is a nationally televised en- counter, starting at 10 p, m., EST, in Civic Auditorium. Wallace, 25, younger and with the burning ambition to fill the | shoes of his idol, ex-champ Joe Louis, is ready to try to obliterate the 32-year-old Charles. A special reason for Coley’s am- bition is the fact he played the part of Louis in the recently re- leased movie depicting the life of | the great former champion. | The experts, unswayed by senti- | ment, think Charles is a certain winner. The New Yorker will have a weight advantage of 205 pounds to 187. Charles, ringwise, lean and tough has trained impressively. Co-man- agers Tom Tannas and Jake Mintz describe him as “mean.” By HUGH FULLERTON JR. NEW YORK (P—If you see a {man walking around with jstrange light in his eyes, clutch-| ing a typewriter and looking as if! |he had mislaid his overcoat (which {he probably has) don’t call the cops. He’s just a football expert} who hasn’t recovered from the sur-/ prises and upsets of the 1953 sea-| son. The nation’s sports writers and jbroadcasters, asked to name the Surprise Team of the Year in the Associated Press postseason poll, }eime up with 54 different names. 7,\ Yeats before moving to Boston as/ And they listed 42 separate games junder Upsets. The final count of ballots gave} Illinois the call as the No.1 sur- prise team with Stanford, Iowa, the heading of Outstanding | fight means to him,” Mintz said. “Our man realizes what this “Ezzard doesn’t even expect a title shot if he beats Wallace. He wants to wipe out that loss to Nino} Valdes first. And if Harold Johnson wants another go, he will be ac-} commodated. We admit Valdes} beat Charles last August but} we're hollering plenty abou decision they gave to Jo! month later in Philadelphia.” The two defeats jolted Charles out of the No. 1 contenders’ posi-| tion. In his only two bouts this year, Wallace decisioned Sandy} McPherson and stopped Bill Gil-| liam, neither ranked among the! first 10. | as the No. 1 surprise team, 39/ more put the Illini second and 20} |a department store had a run on READ THE CITIZEN DAILY! $33 Former champion Charles ean}. U ere Tuesday, 47-44 | TUESDAY'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fila. — Willie Pep, 129, Hartford, .Conn., out- pointed Tony Longo, 130, Balti- more, 10. CHICAGO —Bob Satterfield, 184, h knocked out Ray Augus- “Doc” Williams, 193, Jacksonville, stopped Lou Brown, 182, New York, 3 outpointed King Ir chicago, 10, SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Billy Lau- erdale, 147, Miami, outpointed Al San Antonio, 10, x, Ariz—Jimmy Mar tinez, 157, outpointed Tony Mascia- relli, 162, New York, 10, SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Art Ara- gon, 147, Los Angeles knocked out Art Soto, 147, Oakland, Calif., 10 WHO BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN IN KEY WEST? 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Inc. aa SAVE $$$ $) : If you like beer youll ove Schlitz Its dryandimellowwith no harsh. bitterness,and. only:the kiss of the-hops, NEW YORK @ — A man who'l ever took in my life,” Barrow|Auburn and Army close behind. third. Nearned all he knows about football| admitted later, “but I never had| The greatest upset, by a consider-| On the usual 3-2-1 scoring bas’ from Steve Owen today holds the reason to regret it.” able margin, was Purdue's 6-0 de-|that counted up to 278 points, Stan- eoaching reins of the New York} Ruth was sold to the Yankees in cision over the 1952 national cham-| ford, which just missed out on the Giants professional football team./1920 and Barrow soon followed as|pion, Michigan State, late in Oc-| Pacific Coast Conference title and The appointment of Jim Lee business manager and secretary tober, the Rose Bowl assignment after Very little had been expected of| beating the eventual winner, UCLA Bowell as Giant head man filled/of club. Col. Jake Ruppert was/ fhe gap when Owen retired from the president but everybody knew the untried Illinois team before the! collected 38 first-place votes and] the coaching position he had held/it was “Cousin Ed” who ran the/season started. But a couple of|163 points for second place. Then gince 1928 to head the organiza-|club. Barrow took over as presi- sophomores, J. C. Caroline and/came Iowa with 154 points, Auburn| — ee system. Be dent when Ruppert died. In 1946 Mickey Bates, came along to turn!with 148 and Army with 105. ott sah . = end for the Univer- he became chairman of the Board it into one of the nation’s outstand-| All these were teams which fin- Ae oh the ne served at thatiof Directors when a syndicate|ing teams and co-champion of the ished strongly and with good sea- - ae ay fe New Yorkers from headed by Larry McPhail bought|Big Ten. With Caroline smashing |son records after being overlooked tion of See = isin ee excep-|the team, ithe Big Ten rushing record, set/in the preseason calculations. lowa He hac been ay a . aoe Wagner, a bow-legged Dutch-/by Red Grange, the Ilini won sev-|tied mighty Notre Dame after wal- beatae caer end coach and/man, was Barrow’s pride and joy. ev straight games before they were.loping Purdue and Minnesota; Au- Howell said sie that me, |He found him in Carnegie, Pa.,jstopped, 34-7, by Wisconsin. {burn, at the bottom of the South-; succeed Deer be, Was named /throwing rocks and later sold him| That game, incidentally , wasleastern Conefrence standings a Steve taught|to Louisville as a shortstop. He ranked No. 5 among the season's year ago, finished close to the top © succeed Owen, me everything I know about the admired Y of the present-day upsets by the voters. this year Army won the un- jing Phil “czuto of Sixty of 279 voters listed 1! cial Eastern ti ' game. Players in :