The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 26, 1953, Page 8

ousands Jam Kennel Club For Opener “Range Twilight Easy Winner “An Key West Inaugural Race ohm West's greatest racing crowd.ever, jammed the Key West Kennel Club track last night for the aye @penirig of the 1953-54 racing meet—the second since the ¢stablishment of the Stock Island oval. «And fans were treated to a full program of racing, PageS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, December 26, 1953 K.W. Kennel Club Entries POST POSITIONS |FIRST RACE — 5-16 mile | Memory Time Sooner Shindig Tabcin Spidell Wicked Amber West Before World War If automoB®Ug were danned in Bermuda. } Seventeen College Basketball Tournaments By ORLO ROBERTSON Slated To Get Undr Way In The Nation Today Western Kentucky's Hilltoppers'brings together Maryland, South NEW YORK w—Three of the|(6), also undefeated, figure to be|Carolina, Arizona State, Evans 17 holiday basketball tournaments, th? team to beat in the Louisville ville, Tennessee, Denver, St.Fran BATTERY With Its Self-Charging Feature WE BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN Guruen Border Bo Son of Burt bringing together 112 hand-picked college teams on courts from New Invitational which opens Monday. cis (N_Y.) and Kentucky Wesleyan North Carolina State (9) is one of! You Help By Buying A HESTER BATTERY | | whieh had everything in the way of thrills. | eee rae RESULTS |FIRIST RACE Matthew Hill—11.00 4.60 4.80 How Many—8.60 3.60 Purtinent Speed In Review Shiver SECOND RACE —5-16 mile Fran's Wish All Trump Irish Blend Linda North Amoral Restore Josie’s Pal SEVENTH RACE — 5-16 mile Sweetie Mohegan Sea Devil Poinciana Blonde Sparkle Miss Sparkle Fabulous Flight Peack’s Pearl Weheat EIGHTH RACE — 5-16 mile Even Key Miss Anne Murphy All of the Southwest Conference York to Portales, N.M., get under the choices for the Dixie ey with Alabama as the way today. with action in New/@t Raleigh, Dec. 28-30. And Ford-| ; 7 5 ‘ham (7) and Holy Cross (10) are 20¥i guest take part in the boar ~_ —_ Hen the Sugar Bowl Tournament. een jamboree. Top ranked Indiana and second, Duquesne meets New York Uni-|— rated Kentucky, winner of its own versity (4-1) in the first round at} tournament earlier in the week, the Garden tonight. La Salle (6-2), will sit out the holiday court featuring All-America Tom Goda. carnivals but six members of the goes against a crippled St.Louis top 10 add flavor fo five of the|team in the nightcap. tourneys. | Before they take the floor at LOU SMITH 1116 White Street NOW IN KEY WEST Quiniela: (2-5) 20.00 THIRD RACE Last Lady—32.80 9.20 3.40 Rural Cousin—2.80 2.60 R. 0's Moonbeam—5.00 Quiniela: (1-2) 30.60 FOURTH RACE Bigh Leg:on—10.00 4.80 4.20 Migrator—6.80 3.60 Blue Manikin—4.00 Quiniela: (2-8) 54.60 |FIFTH RACE Mighty Moon—23.80 11.60 60.00 Gay Kay—9.20 10.20 Bunny—5.60 Quiniela: (1-4) 162.40 SIXTH RACE Tow-EE—23.60 13.40 7.20 Sleeping Troubles—7:40 4.20 ‘The evening's program will also @ race for maidens, the ‘will get underway at 8:15 Quinielas and pari- _ mm Wagering on all races. Steel Band—4.00 Quiniela: (1-6) 87.40 SEVENTK RACE Lady Russet—6.00 4.00 3.00 Shining Sue—4,00 3.80 South Boston—4.00 Quiniela: (2-5) 16.80 EIGHTH RACE Flakes of Fire—5.00 4.40 4.40 b sien Val—14.00 21.60 a 20 ulta—4. Quiniela: (3-5) 43.00 NINTH RACE : Comstock=4.00 2.20 2.20 Burning Bright—3.20 2.60 Mischief Girl—3.20 Quitiela: (1-7) 6.80 TENTH RACE Range Twilight—3.20 3.20 3.00 Miss Nocturne—10.80 3.00 Just A Bomb—4.30 Quiniela: (4-8) 45.40 ELEVENTH RACE Happy Woman—14.40 9.80 4.80 Embraceable—21.60 7.20 Mohammedan—3.00 Quiniela: (5-8) 73.00 US. Davis Cup Net Team By. WILL GRIMSLEY MELBOURNE — The United States received a break coday in thé draw for the Davis Cup chal- Vround which opens here The first singles match will pit Champion Vie Seixas of. phia against Australia’s Lewis Hoad. U. S. Champion Tony ‘Trabert: of Cincinnati will meet Rosewall in the second singles »$We-couldn't have had a better draw if we had arranged four matches to one.” had been hoping the ‘of the draw would pair Sexias Hoad since the Philadel- Bas beaten Hoad in their “dix ‘meetings, four this year. power is figured su Forest: Hills this past summer Penn won the U.S. cham- ‘will be playing in their first Davis Cup* matches. : “ThesDavis Cup is not like an tennis tournament,” Tal- out. “You're playing country instead of your-/Thomson, one of the league's, it will be tough on) the Kids and I think our boys, their third challenge |nominal van rise to the occasion. r ) ‘meiden try back in 1953? That's way it is.” “<The first match of the three-day hallenge round starts at 1:15 p.m. {20:15 p.m. Sunday EST rs ed Grounds. He's loaded with | which he handled well for the Sen- a sellou ‘United States) crowd of 17,500. Seixas and trabert were nomin- ated for the doubles on Tuesday against Rosewall and Hoad al- ‘Trabert’s tol. Cut own little Rosewall just’ as in how Mervyn Rose| lost his matches in played Wednesday with Hoad op- posing Tradert and Seixas play- ing Rosewall in the last match of the five-match round, Hopman said he was not dis- pleased with the draw although it is known that he preferred Hoad to meet America’s big seige gun, Trabert,on the opening day. This would have paired Seixas with Rosewall, who has trimmed the Wimbiedon titleholder in the last six meetings. The draw was held in the Koo- yong Stadium under a bright sun. With both teams standing in a .|single line and with a gleaming Davis Cup as a backdrop names ‘were pulled from a bowl by Amos 'Peasley, U. S. ambassador to Aus- tralia, and Sir Dallas Brooks, gov- ernor. of Victoria. Sir Norman Brookes, president of the LTAA, presided. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK #—It’s too late for Christmas now, but the New York Giants still would like to get that {top pitcher they need if they are’ to figure in the next’ National League flag race. They don’t want him exactly as ja gift, either. In return they are willing to come through with Bobby class outfielders, who becomes ex- pendable with the return of phe- | young Willy Mays from the Army next spring. Milwaukee has let it be known that Warren Spahn, the league’s jearned-run king, isn’t available at any price, but there is a strong feeling that one of Charlie Grimm's other pitchers will wind up at the good righthanders. |Jensén from Washington, Manager i Blissful Innocence A-Head Ferless Warrior Dian Hill Rock of Plymouth NINTH RACE — 5-16 mile Saginaw Bay Glory Hill Little Dusty Single Bingle Doublin Gal Capheart Midnight Caper Beckey’s Miss TENTH RACE — 5-16 mile | Quarter Roll Short Bid Carlita Honest Buddy Pagoda Robert T. Y. Lady Andover Mickey W. ELEVENTH RACE — 3-8 mile Ramadan Rollaway Margie Final .Reward Break The Bank Lodi Reno Mary Allstyle Shorty Mohegan Charley Conch’s Selections Well, what d’ya know about|win ticket, And, as the best bet of that! Charley Conch started the|the evening, we named Range Key West Kennel Club season off, TWilight—he won easily. | right with a winner in the first Ten other Charley Conch selec-| race of this years’ meeting. le acpi Aiea @ A glance at Thursday’s Citizen) Tonight's. Best Bet: Honest will confirm the fact that we had) Buddy in the tenth race. (He's Matthew Hill picked to win in the a veteran.) first race. He did, in a classy weap Other selections: ner, paying a nice 11.00 First Race: Amber West, Border} Two other Charley Conch selec-|Bo and Pertinent. tions came in — Lady Russett in) Second Race: Linda North, Fr- the seventh race, worth 6.00 for a/an’s Wish and Amoral. Third Race: Over My Shoulder, Fibertex and R. 0.’s Rube. | Fourth Race: Carelton, Perfidia| Chorus Delayed Jand Fair Monarch. NEW. YORK If the “Miser-| Fifth Race: Salter Path, Prin- are” chorus in the last act of “I1/¢ess Flax and Snow Twinkle. Travatore” didn’t have its usual! Sixth Race: Tabcin, Memory) robust volume at the Metropolitan) Time and Red Carpet. Opera House last night, blame it| Seventh Race: Wheat, Peck’s, on a backstage elevator. Pearl und Miss Guy. | The lift stalled between the sec-| Eighth Race: Innocence, Dian) ond and third floors with half of|Hill and Rock of Fire. | the 46 chofal members inside. Aft-| Ninth Race: Midnight Caper,| er a brief delay, the available 23/Capehart and Saginaw Bay. ‘voices proceeded with the number.| Tenth Race: Honest Buddy, Pa-| Shortly thereafter, an emergency |goda and Lady Andover. jack boosted the elevator so the) Eleventh Race: Shorty Mohegan, | trapped singers could crawl un-;Ramadan and Camalinda, Amazing Offer THIRD RACE — 5-16 mile Viking Sis Ideal Pathfinder Judy Doll Fibertex Lekko R. K. O's Rube Over My Shoulder Ginger Hill FOURTH RACE —5-16 mile Mer-Shack City Scout Silver Bar Fair Monarch Gipsy D. Diehard Carleton Perfidia FIFTH RACE —5-16 mile Salter Path Patty Wheeler Snow Twinkle Porky Paul Beau Getter Princess Flax } Sir McKay | Tom Mohegan | SIXTH RACE — 5-16 ole | * Red Carpet | Ramadon Another Reggie Unbeaten Duquesne (3) is the favorite for the second annual cage festival opening at Madison Square Garden today. The Oklahoma Ag-| gies (5) are the choice in the All- night, Brigham Young (7-0) meets Manhattan (3-3) and Niagara (5-1) plays St.John’s cf Brooklyn (3-2). Kansas State is the choice in| thé Big Seven affair, which brings On New 1954 Models CARLIFE GUARANTY ON FINE College event starting ih Oklahoma City Monday. Doby Sets New trikeout Mark By BEN OLAN NEW YORK W—The smashing jtogether all members of the con- ference plus the University of Washington. Kansas meets Colo- rado and Missouri goes against Towa State in today’s play. The tournament at Hofstra in Hempstead brings into action sev- eral of the East’s top small col- jleges. The field includes favored USED CARS 10,000 Mile OR 25,000 Mile or 2 Years of a 39-year-old strikeout mark by Larry Doby of Cleveland and an |Cortland Teachers, American Uni-| additional batting honor for team- mate Al Rosen highlighted the|ner, Lehigh and Wesleyan. | American League's final statistical | Lafayette, defending champions versity, Hofstra,” Delaware, Wag- (Whichever Comes Firsf) The Dixie Classic shapes up as release for 1953 today. ‘one of the best of the holiday | These official averages show | season. In addition to North Caro- | that Doby fanned 121 times, break-|lina State, the field includes Ore- | ing the old mark by one. It was\gon State, recent conqueror of set by Gus Williams of the St.Louis |Indiana, Navy, North Carolina, | |Brazil; Oct. 8 1952, 112 Harrow, Browns in 1914. Doby and Mickey! Mantle of the New York Yankees | tied for this dubious honor last} season at 111 strikeouts. | Rosen, the league’s most valu-| able player, compiled the highest slugging average, .613. The hard- hitting third baseman had 367) total bases in 599 times at bat.| His extra-base output included 27) doubles, 5 triples and 43 home runs, By winning the slugging: title, Rosen climaxed a banner year. He also led in home runs, total bases, runs batted in (145) and finished one point behind Washing: | ton’s Mickey Vernon, the league’s | leading batter. | Gus Zernial of the Philadelphia | Athletics was second in the slug- ging derby with a .559 mark. Yogi | Berra of the Yankees was third at | -52 3followed by Ray Boone, who| played with Cleveland and De-| troit, .519 and Vernon .518. Slugging averages are computed by dividing the total bases on all hits by the times at bat. Eddie Yost, who led in bases on bails in 1952, walked off again with that honor—this time with 123. 20th. Century Train Wrecks By THE ASOCIATED PRESS Here are the train wrecks in- volving 100 or more fatalities this century with date, toll, Place: 1917, 600, French Alps; July 9,! 1918, 101, Nashville, Tenn; Dec. 24 1933, 160, France; May 29 1948, | 173 Formosa; Sept. 15, 1948 100 Pukow, China; Oct. 22, 1949, 200. Nowy Dwor, Poland; April 6, 1950, 100, Brazil; April 24, 1951 104, Yo- kohama, Japan; March 4, 1952, 102, England; June 24, 1953, 100, Indo- china, harmed through an eseape hatch to the third floor. . SNOW IN FLORIDA snow flurry was reported here last jnight by Police Chief Claude Layo. {Thé temperature was about 40 de- |grees when a few small flakes fell. Longwood is in central Florida. catcher Clint Courtney from the Baltimore Orioles. The badgered G.M. has at least held on to his sense of humor {through it all. His Christmas card shows q big Indian changing an intimate garment on a very little Indian with the legend “Time for a change!” MIAMI and Between Miami (Ne Steps With the acquisition of Jackie ‘Lou Boudreau of the Boston Red {Sox claims he has much the best jbalanced club he has been able to field since he went to the Hub City two seasons ago. “With Jensen batting four be- hind Ted Williams,” he explains, “opposing pitchers will do a lot 6f thinking before they hand out Passes so freely to Ted .. .” The expectation is that Jim Pier- sall, the team’s fabulous young fly catcher, will be shifted to center- \field and Jensen installed in right, LEAVES MIAMI AM, LEAVES MIAMI at Miami at 4:00 ators. P.M, Nowe ta snee Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between Alse Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Express Schedule LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Midnight. 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