The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1954, Page 6

Comstock Equals Track Record In Winning The Key Conch Handicap Race : Key West Kennel Club Results Rock Of Plymouth, Get Huff To Seek Witte. In Tonight's Feature Race Here the hottest thing actor at the Key West Kennel Club, equaled the track rec-| ord Saturday night when he six bési thé. winner. took an early lead and never relin- mouth Comstock in a fine Timber out- i | | i & z : s i I qi f H ‘ | i , e.. Pilgrim's T z fil E e ? ay le ile dis- a5 fe geek ee 2 B i E : i Quiniela (2-5) 26.80 Winner—Overseas Kennel’s Dark Brindle B., June, 1952. Rural Streak— MADELINE'S CHOICE Y FOURTH srake Booeie 2.20 4.20 3.60 Quiniela (2-4) 18.40 Daily Double—Cinbon and Madeline's Choice paid 13.30 RACE THIRD Winner—F. B. Stutz’ Red Brindle D., —_ -_ R. 0.’S MORNING VALKARIA 2.80 3. 7.40 FOURTH RACE" GLORY . Kansan—Fia! mingo Quiniela (3-7) 8.40 pice « Cagsieae 0. Seymour's Red Brindle D., August, 1951. Gun—Make Up Gi EVEN, KEY GATLING RIVERIA 9.20 4.60 11.80 FIFTH ‘RACE 3.80 6.20 4.60 Quiniela (1-3) 19.40 Winner—Fred Whitehead’s Brindle D., December, 1951. No Refund~ Bomber’s Giri HOLIDAY HOUSE SOD BUSTER PERFIDA 460 , 3.00 10.60 SIXTH RACE 2.60 5.40 40 Quiniela (2-8) 27.80 Winner—Walter Owen's Brindle D., March, 1951. Double Call—Miss Sunday FEARLESS WARRIOR 12.40 4.60 7.20 LITTLE DUSTY DUBLIN GAL 780 8 =611.60 6.80 RACE Quiniela (1-5) 87.40 SEVENTH Winen—Mre: O. Z. Ferrell’s Brindle D., May, 1951. Rural Streak —Little TRADE SECRET ROCKET JET PEED IN REVIEW - EIGHTH RACE Williams’ Brindle D., April, 1950. Razor’s Edge—Jest Trouble }OUBLE’S 7.00 4.20 © 4.00 Winner—Jesse SLEEPING TR SHINING SUE THREE DOTS en Foster’s Brindle B., November, 1951. Oklahoman—Bonnie LINDA HILL SAGINAW BAY JUST A BOMB 520 8=2.80 7.20 3.00 3.20 60 13.40 4.00 3.20 NINTH RACE 760 3.20 5.80 RACE 7.00 6.80 80 Quiniela (3-7) 34.80 Quiniela (6-8) 44.40 Quiniela (2-8) 45.00 TENTH Nee Men Foster’s Brindle D., November, 1951. Oklahoman—Bonnie COMSTOCK RANGE TWILIGHT IRENE HILL 340 240 2.60 3.40 a 3.60 ELEVENTH RACE Quiniela (5-6) 18.20 Winner—M. W, Fage’s Brindle D., August, 1951. Dry Lake—Genteel L ong: 8.80 4.40 rd oy GLEN PAGE MOHAMMEDAN EASY WHIRL Quiniela (2-8) 25.00 Wampler Paces |Kentucky Favored As Nation's Only Unbeaten Basketball Club Los Angeles Golf Tourney By JACK STEVENSON By RIP WATSON NEW YORK (#—College basket. ball nears the season’s halfway Point this week with the undefeated left the Pacifie Coast Conference’s Northern Division in a five-way dead heat with all teams at .500. California tops the Southern Divi- LOS ANGELES #—Former in-|big five of Kentucky, Duquesne,|sion after two surprising wins over ter collegiate champion Fred Wampler, a dark horse pacing the .|$20,000 Los Angeles Open. Golf|. estern Kentucky, Holy Cross and George the rest Kentucky, better than ever after Washington towering over|night. of the pack, UCLA, the latest by 73-65 Saturday Kansas, moving up steadily after first two games, won Tournament dominated by other|a year’s enforced absence from the |N®- 6 in a row,, an 86-69 shellacking fortable 5-stroke lead at 206. “fm going to play as well .as I Seymout’s|tittle known pros, led the way into|college cage scene, looks like the Souza’s Queen/the final round today with a com-|best bet go through without a loss. The Wildcats, rated No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll, of Missouri that reminded Jay- hawker fans of Coach Phog Allen’s 1952 and °53 teams. Nebraska, which defeated Oklahoma 76-72, is know how today and see what/flattened Georgia Tech 105-53 Sat.|ti¢d with Kansas for the Big Seven hay Ben Hogan and whose game is -{built along the same lines. Ring Roundup By JACK HAND NEW YORK —While Al Weill tries toy up his mind” about Wampler, from Indianapolis, won’ ithe National Collegiate Athletic’ Assn, title in 1950 at Purdue, where he graduated in business admin- istration, But the 30-year-old for- mer B24 flight engineer immedi- winter .{ately turned to pro golf and yes pee Anal — ,- owrai terday gave an excellent account- Exzzard Charles keeps on fighting. ry of himself with 5-under-par Sasal Wee ate Gaunt wran:| Obuatvert felt, that it he could lace at San Francisco, mixes with |tour the 7,000-yard Fox s Bob Satterfield at Chicago Stadi-|Country Club course in an even um Wednesday (CBS-TV). par 71 for the final 18 he would The “new” Charles, a chance-/¥e a shoo-in for the $4,000 top’ fighter, can’t afford to let/Ptize. Behind him at 211 came Satterfield. get a clean swing at|Jimmy Clark, Laguna Beach, his jaw. The unpredictable Chicago|Calif.; Fred: Hawkins, El Paso, heavy can flatten a man with one|Tx.; and Bill Nary, Tucson, Ariz. punch. Nary led through the first and the conference’s one-year ban was lifted, Western. Ki tacked up victory No. 14 Saturday by turning back Murray (Ky.) Teachers 57-43 in one of the lowest scoring games of the season. Duquesne won No. 13 over St. Francis (Pa.) 94-64. The Dukes lived up to their No. 2 rating with a routine victory. Sub Fletcher Johnson Jed the scoring with 20 points, ; Holy Cross, ranked seventh, and George Washington, like Kentucky, won their ninth game with an impressive display of power, Holy Cross rolled over little St. Anselm’s 102-60, while George Washington solidified its role as-Southern Con- ference kingpin by clouting Vir- ginia Tech 73-40. pens,” said the handsome 150-|urday night for their first South-|°°Mference lead at 2.0. daily|pounder, who physically resembles|eastern Conference victory since is The Southwest Conference also deadlocked, with Southern Meth. odist, surprise conqueror of Rice Friday night, even with Texas at 20. SMU defeated Baylor 84-60 and Texas squeezed past Arkansas Cornell, the touted favorite, won its fourth successive Ivy League game by thrashing Brown 72-54, but defending champion Penn kept its slate clean at 2-0 by trouncinf Yale again 83-48. In the Southeastern Conference, Louisiana State trounced Georgia 100-53, ee Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT @® Sports Writer THIRD RACE — 5-16 mile Grade M * Toast Of The Town Islander Blissful City Scout Blue FIFTH RACE — 5-16 raile y SEVENTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 3° Melody Hill Single Bingle Viking Panther Val Victory Last Lady Delinquent Ramadan Be Final 5 EIGHTH RACE. — 5-16 mile Grade 2 Moderator Lilac Lady Stormy Bug Boyee Lightning Rodney Honor. Guard Alistyle Just Sable NINTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 1 Timber Range Quarter Roll Modest Blond Mischief Girl No Contenders | ———- For Mareiano’s (2X Title Are Seen By HERB ALTSCHULL WASHINGTON W—The National} Boxing Assn.. rates four chal-| lengers as outstanding heavy- weights, but it couldn’t find one logical contender for Rocky Mar-! ciano’s title. The NBA's winter ratings ad-! vanced former champion Ezzard| Charles of Cincinnati to the No. 1) challenger position on the strength | of his knockout of Coley Wallace! last month. Trailing Charles, in order, were Nino Valdez of Cuba, | °™2S: Dan Bucceroni of Philadelphia and} Roland LaStarza of New York. \ Danny Nardico, the fellow who! jat one time was reported to be! Marciano’s next opponent, was rated fifth among the light-heavy-/ weights, There were no major changes in the NBA ratings announced yes- terday. The biggest gain was re- jcorded by Rocky Castellani, the} Pennsylvanian now fighting out of} Ohio, who moved up from sixth to second among the world’s mid- dleweights. The NBA recommended that | Castellani get the next crack at! the ‘title won last fall by Carl (Bobo) Olson of Hawaii. | Randy Turpin, who lost to Olson | in the windup of a round-robin | series to select a successor to the retired Sugar Ray Robinson, was rated just behind Castellani, Both were listed as logical contenders. Kid Gavilan, the welterweight champ, has said he, too, wants to he a shot at Olson’s champion- ip. NBA President Andrew G. Putka said that if Gavilan’ were to fight Olson and beat him, he would sur- It appears that Comstock, who} of the Key West Conch Handicap race will go down in the books as one of the classiest performers at the Kennel Club, along with such! performers as Avenger and Reck- He’s never come close to losing a race thus far in the meeting and) fans are watching him to see if he cam crack the track mark. And there is another pup at the track who will bear watching — E.! F. Snipes’ Gene Huff. Charley ‘Conch figures him to win tonight) in the feature and tags him the revening’s best bet. Other selections: First Race: Silver Bar, Star Dust and i BATTERIES 12 Mos. ___ $ 8.70 18 Mos, ___ $11.75 24 Mos, __ $14.00 36 Mos. ___ $18.00 (With Old Battery) INSTALLE! render his welterweight champion- ship, but that if Gavilan were to lose, he would continue as the titlist of the lower weight division. “In the meantime,” Putka add- ed, “we feel Gavilan should first meet Carmen Basilio in a title bout.”” Basilio, who lost a disputed bout ito Gavilan last year, was all alone as the logical contender in the wel- terweight division, Bill Wamsganss of Cleveland made the only unassisted triple play in World Series history. It occurred in the 1920 Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rock of Plymouth Willshire TENTH RACE — 38 mile Sandy. Saddler, the feather- weight king who is home on leave from «the Army in Germany, boxes for the first time since March 17, 1952, when he goes against Billy Bossio of Hartsdale, N. Y., Friday at St. Nicholas Arena..(ABC-radio, NBC-TV) in a nontitle’ bout. Fight fans will watch Saddler’s * weight with interest for there has been speculation that he might not be able to make the 126-pound feather limit. He expects to come at 130 for the over-the-weight; match, Carmen Basilio may never win o eames ot ay night fights (ABC-TV). The Canas- tota, N. ¥,, welter will be making his seventh appearance on Ray Arcel's series Saturday at Miami against Italo Scortichini of Italy, Al Andrews, the Saginaw,, Mich., boxer who twice beat Chuck Davey ~makes his New York debut tonight! at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway against Joey Klein of New York. The match will be seen on TV! (Da Mont $33 ‘or QUALITY USED CARS and General Auto Re TWINS GARAGE OUVAL ST. $$$ $ Sava ) in some sections of the second rounds but slipped to a 74 yesterday. Hawkins had a 73 and Clark a 67. At 212 came Jerry Barber, La Canada, Calif., who had a 69 yes- terday; Bud Holscher, Santa Moni- ca, Calif., also 69; and the only two well-known pros in the eight who still are ahead of par, Bud Ward of Great Falls, Mont., and Ed Oliver of Palm Springs, Calif., both carding third round 70s. Falling well off the pace were such stars as Lloyd Mangrum, the defending champion, with a 71 and 218, just two strokes inside the qualifying score for the finals. Also down were Cary Middlecoff with Close behind the unbeaten titans ——— eS come a pair of conference pow ers of who've lost only one—Indiana and a eee Oklahoma A&M. Indiana, defend- Olympic champion from Philadel- ing Big Ten and NCAA champions, |Phia, scored an impressive victory Grade S Acro Sooner Shindig Princess Flax Lodi Joe Hare Amazing Offer Linda Hill Gruen doubles placed the prized trophy in seeming jeopardy for a day. The campaign will fail, for an Australian selector lets go of that coveted office only when he is whipped Minnesota 71-63 in what had been billed as a “crucial” test for the champs since Minnesota is ranked sixth nationally. The thitd-ranking Hoosiers looked like champs, too, before a crowd of 18,872 in Minnesota’s field house as play director Bob Leonard fired 20 points to take up the slack caused by Don Schlundt’s low— for him—total of 12. Oklahoma A&M, Missouri Valley champions seven times in the past 216; Lew Worsham, among the leaders for two rounds but now at 216 after a 76; and Peter Thomson, the Australian who was runner-up bes in the British Open, with At even par 213 were Vic Ghezzi, John Serafin, Jack Harden, Art eae Chick Harbert and Jack eck. : Jack Burke Jr. and Jimmy Demaret, among the second-round Teaders, had a bad afternoon. Burke had a 75 and Demaret a 74 to put them at 214 with seven others, including former WU. S. DIAL 224M lof hay until $ $ $ Ghave a qhance to sprout. Open champion Julius Boros, MONROVIA, Calif. —Starving deer in Angeles National Forest, blackened in the recent Mt. Wilson} forest fire, are being fed with bales| decade, took the first step toward another title by whaling Houston . The Aggies, rated fourth, now have a 13-1 over-all record. That’s not quite three 75-65 verdict over Tulsa, but surprising Wheatshockers have yet to play the Aggies and always- dangerous St. Louis. Duke's Blue De hurdled a big obstacle en route| to the first championship of the! Atlantic Coast Conference when | they edged past North Carolina | State 87-85 for a 4-0 league mark. North Carolina has a 3-0 record after nipping Wake Forest 66-65 | on Jerry Vayda’s last-minute | basket. | _ Ninth-place ‘Oklahoma City was | idle Saturday, but Oregon State, | grasses sows by plane INo. 10, avenged a Friday night | upset by defeating Idaho 65-60. Tha vils, No. 8 team, | over Hein Ten Hoff, the big Ger- man, in their Tuesday night heavy- weight fight at Milwaukee, but it is difficult to find a man on the Broadway boxing beat who rates him a real contender for Rocky Marciano’s title. Their typical reaction was about the same as that of Rocky’s man- ager, Al Weill, who shrugged and said “it’s a win.” Despite his rec- ord of 46 victories against only three losses, Bucceroni is not thought to hit hard enough td stem the champion’s relentless attack. A friend reports that the Austral- im press is putting front page, Pressure on its tennis selectors to} Tesign since their memorable de- stilled in death. But it serves to give an idea of the grip the sport has on the nation. The fact that Rosewall, back with his regular ipartner, Lewis Hoad, had just \trounced our doubles pair of Tony Trabert and Vie Seixas in a tour- nament at Adelaide, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, does not promise to lessen the edi- torial heat. It’s been a long haul, but pro- fessional basketball finally has caught on solidly here and is for the first time consistently outdraw- ing the college game at Madison Square Garden. Crowds of .over 12,000 on a heavy schedule in the National Basketball Assn. portend| higher player salaries and growing Was a/cision to play Rex Hartwig instead| prosperity for a sport which once the|of Ken Rosewall in the Davis Cup) was limping badly. I'M SHOUTING GOOD NEWS! SEE PAGE 5 WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13th Key West Citizen 10 Adm. 25c PARI-MUTUEL . ‘ALLED These Batteries Fit Most Cars Monroe Motors, Inc. 1119 White St. RACES NIGHTLY Beautiful Sule supervised New Grandstand Tel. 2-563) | Second Race: Charley Fax, won Saturday night's first running |Right Hand and Yellow Sady. Third Race: Budapest, Pat. J. C. and R. O's Moonbeam Fourth Race : Lekko, Islander and Toast of the Town. Fifth Race: Smart Queen's Mark and Forest Wild. 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