The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 12, 1954, Page 6

r a eH: the current meeting bane vs - ara . A Bomb, owned by Fred White- _third, women “Just A Bomb Wins Feature Thurs. Night F. B. Stutz’ Bogota and R. K. Hutching’s Capehart will go to the post tonight in the feature race at the Key West * Kennel Club, Both of the dogs will be out to boost their season re- cords to the point where they will be competing in the upper half of the Grade One! challenge ladder. With five wins in ten! starts, Bogota looms as a slight favorite to cop to- night’s race, but he’ll have plenty of trouble from a} closely matched field. Capehart who has been a big money winner through-| should also get a lot of at-| tention from the fans. He} won his last outing over the) Mischief Girl and has seldom | been out of the money, s« The balance of the field will be! composed of Gay Skipper, owned! by M. W. Fagg, Point Breeze Ken- nel’s Tissort, E. F. Snipes Over) My Shoulder, Fred Whitehead’s Carib, Manuel Foster’s Robert T.' Y. and Royal Seymour’s R. O. ‘S Moonbeam. Tonight's eleven race weekend program will also feature two 3-8 mile marathon starts, the fifth and eleventh races. fifth will feature a top field of routers including Crystal Hil, | Viking Love, Buzz A Bit, Beauty's; Gift, Carlton, Sod Buster, Bob Stack and Red Secret. *: The eleventh will show dogs like Wanda Choice, Peck’s Pearl, Trade Io, Westrock, Moderator, Ginger Hill, Viberation and Gallant Brae. Tonight’s program will get under- Way at 8:15 p. m. with the first ‘half of the daily double. Service- ‘men are admitted to the track free of charge. In last night’s feature race, Just head, captured a win by a head over Trade Secret, Capricorn ran The winner used a tremendous stretch drive to gain the victory after running second thrbughout the race. The winner paid 24.20, 6.20 and 3.20. Trade Secret returned 4.40 and 2.80 while a two dollar ticket: “on Capricorn was good for 4.60. Confusion Over = Racing Schooner rt Mounts Today MEXICO CITY (#—Considerable; confusion today surrounded the 60-| foot Florida racing schooner Dirigo! Il, missing since Monday after be- | badly damaged by a storm in 1 American waters, ‘ Key West Kennel Club Results Winner—Velma Merriam’s Black D., June, 1952. Tumble Bug, Imp.— Fair Mark CLOWNER SILENT PROFIT SILKY BLEND 6.60 2.60 2.80 5.00 3.60 1.80 SECOND RACE Sailing Club Slates Valentine Day Races Off North Shore Of Sigsbee The Key West Sailing Club will some way the ladies play an im- jstage a special race in honor of St. portant part in the race, but some Quiniela (6-8) 12.20 Winner—E. F. ae Black B,, June, 1952. Grove Park—Viking Miss | 6.80 4.00 2.40 VIKING PANTHE SLEIGH BELL MER-SHACK Daily Double—Clowner and Viking Panther paid 32.00 | Winner—Samuel Baxendale’s Black B., April, 1952. Quick Victory—Razor’s Beauty CLAIRE BEE SOI BONITA 0. J. 'S OUTSIDE Winner—Samuel Baxendale’s Brindle D., June, 1952. Tumble Bug, Imp. Fair Mark RECONDITIONED SIR OMAR CHICO SPIDER Winner—F. B. Stutz’ Light Brindle B., Sept., amaL eohamer net Trumpet ° YARDLEY PREM LAST LADY Winner—Jesse Willia PAMADON WHEAT PAINTER PETE 6.00 2.40 2.60 THIRD RACE 11.20 12.00 3.00 6.60 3.20 2.40 FOURTH RACE 3.00 240 2.80 5.60 4.00 4.20 FIFTH RACE 19.80 9.20 11.00 4.80 4.40 SIXTH RACE ms’ Brindle B., August, ary Cameron—Tearful Tike 31.20 © 20.60 8.20 19. * 4.60 9.00 Quiniela (6-7) 23.80 Quiniela (1-7) 40.40 Quiniela (5-6) 18.20 Quiniela (6-8) 58.40 Quiniela (3-4) 67.40 SEVENTH RACE lare on the Starter, he gives them! bee Park. | The race committee has refused to give out any details as to just what to expect and the skippers are nervousiy waiting to see just One spy has reported, that in The eight teams remaining in the ComFairJax Basketball Tourna- ment will battle it out at NAS Jacksonville today for the four semi-final tourney berths Six games were played yester- day at the “Mainside gym,” in- cluding one overtime fray. | A clear cut favorite in the tour- hey now as a result of their 78-61 victory over an impressive USS Monterey Penscaola five is the USS Lake Champlain Jacksonville. Former Stetson ace Fred Stones hooped 38 counters for the victors to overshadow a 34 point perfor- LADY PORTIS 48.40 12.00 5.80 LITTLE TROUPER 12.00 7.00 Quiniela (2-4) 92.00 BRAVE PAL 5.20 EIGHTH RACE Winner—Samuel * 2’s Dark Brindle B., June, 1951. Beach Comber— Biffemma ; SHORT BID 9.80 7.20 4.40 BOYEE 10.20 4.80 Quiniela (6-8) 36.80 MEADOW CRAFT . 440 NINTH RACE 3 Winner—Fred Whitehead’s Jaen JUST A BOMB TRADE SECRET CAPRICORN Winner—Joe Balik’s LADY CRYSTAL FAIR MONARCH LITTLE DUSTY STOCK CAR 440 2.80 460 TENTH RACE le D., July, 1951. Portis Bomb—Just Becky 20 6.20 3.20 Quiniela (2-7) 24.60 Light Fawn B., June, 1952. Secret Cache—Fiction Lady 7.60 3.80 3.00 620 5.20 : 3.40 Quiniela (3-7) 22.60 TONIGHT'S ENTRIES FIRST RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 4 Initial Pakistan Capricious Lady ROUNDUP Black Caeser Black Bomb By DAVID NASON ee Modern Age SECOND RACE — ] Sunday afternoon will find the Grade 5 516 mils Stock Car Race boys congregated! Miss Guy at the Boca Chica Race Track for ay pacees their { class of the se2son. te Hare Each driver will confidentially) anons, Flight | tell you this is his day. Then comes) Sijyer Bar the call to the track. The Starter,) Toast Of The Town flags them to circle one time! La Crosse around, box in close and watch | for the Green flag and as all eyes! the flag. They are off with a roar,| some to victory, others to disap-| pointment, butsnever despair. ced WaeweRort officials at Acapulco said come right back for more. = te € Phe" boat had been found and was ene towed to port, but the U. S. There will be a good” field of} cars this Sunday as there will be THIRD RACE — 5-16 mile Grade M Jill’s Lady Jacqueline C, R. O. ‘S Hesitation Fla. Turnpike Melba Ree Saddle Burn Sam Parker Root Beer Guard at Long Beach, Calif.'two new Kes West boys in for the| FOURTH RACE — 5-16 mile and the American Rescue Coordi- first time and their hopes are high.|Grade 4 nation Center in the Panama Canal! Yore had no such word and were continuing their search. ‘The Dirigo II, manned by owner “Games W. Crawford of Sarasota and Bradenton, Fla., and a crew of| three, sailed from Acapulco last week for Florida. Winds of near hurricane force hit the Monday, of gasoline on deck and causing! severe damage. The boat sent out! at SOS from 315 miles southeast ‘of Acapulco, then her radio failed.| The Acapulco officials said she was sighted by a Swedish ship and then a plane from Panama and) that an unidentified Canadian ship hd taken the damged boat in tow to bring her here. The report from Acapulco said the boat’s crew was safe and well, Basketball Results By THE ASSOCIATED Press COLLEGE Btetson 108 Miami 56 Florida A & M 69 Alabama A&M 54 eee La SCHOOL | ral Florida Conferen | Oviedo 52 Clermont 41 | Titusville 51 Umatilla 3g mines Ae Tavares 37 fount Dora 45 Grovelan St. Johns Cakcanne "5 (Northern Division) | Hilliard 48 Macclenny 43 Callahan 47 Baldwin 46 ! St. Johns (Southern Division) ses 31 St. Augustine St. Joseph Bunnell 69 Crescent City 60 Suwannee Conference City 48 High Spri 21 Branford 48 Jasper ri ie Trenton 69 Newberry 26 Lake Butler 52 Williston 48 Apalachicola Valley Conference | Chattahoochee 71 Sopchoppy 59 | Bristol 51 Apalachicola 4a re nition School aytona Beach Seabre, 3 er eze 52 San: Jimmy Stribling will be driving) a newly modified car, owned by) Walt Cooper, and Sam Bass. The} other new car driven by Jerry Hinde, owner is Norman Harris.| A Tampa driver will also invade Key West for a try at the Money.| He is Charles Perez. ! Special. He has promised the boys Plenty of trouble this trip. The three Toppino brothers will fur- nish the main competition as they are among the top drivers. The two mad men of the course, Bob; Turner and Rip Ault have been; pitted in a two car match race,| this should be a close one. .Bob, Turner is high point driver for the! season here. Lloyd Christopher will be out} with his Home Milk Special and) knows all the tricks of this game.| There is Jolting Joe Perez. Al-| though he has only one hand he; ‘doesn’t consider it a handicap and) neither will you, once you see him) in action, Out of the four meets! he has two wins and numerous 2nd) and 3rd spots to his credit. | Smiley Richardson, who was the} surprise winner of the last meet’s main event will drive the blue and white Pure Oil Special. H Frenchy Larue, who treated the; crowd to a double roll at last meet, will be on tap. | Tommy Gardner, Reese Thomp- son, and Bil] Kulbe are also en- tries The management has invited a grou» of no: cenfined patients at the Navy Hospital to be their guests for the races, so long as a Ne + vehicle is used fe~ their transportation. Mr. L. N Dodd, who promotes Stock Car Races in Broward Coun- ty, has made five hundred bleach- er seats available for this track, which will be brought down a the: learliest oggostunity. Migrator €.0:°D, Betty Jan Little Darlin Yellow Sady Slick Miss Portis Boy Kenya Colony r Schooner! Bud McGee, of Miami, will also FIFTH RACE — 3.8 mile tearing loose large drums pe there with his Forest Motors Grade S$ Bob Stack Crystal Hill Beauty's Gift Sod Buster Carlton Viking Love Red Secret Buzz A Bit SIXTH RACE — 5.16 mile Grade 3 Slam Boogie Lustre Gal Hartagon Dublin Gal Summer Gal Gatling Salter Path Fame-N-Fortune |SEVENTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 3 Captain Chi A-Head 2 Budapest Jo Go Stylish Blond Gray Horn Clayton Ward Bramble’ EIGHTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 2 Spring Bunny Just Sable South Boston Canunculus Lightning Rodney Bug Lass Embers Sophino NINTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 2 Micky W. Mischief Girl Even Key Miss Ann Murphy Ingrid Matthew Hill Rocket Jet Ramadan TENTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 1 R, 0. ‘S Moonbeam Over My Shoulder Robert T. Y. Babbling Bess Carib Tissort Capehart Bogota ELEVENTH RACE — 38 mile Grade S Peck’s Pearl Wanda’s Choice Ginger Hill Viberation Westrock Gallant Brae Trade In Moderator South Korea Offers To Send Troops To Indochina Conflict By RELMAN MORIN SEOUL —South Korea has of- fered to send a full army division to help the French fight the Com- munist-led Vietminh in Indochina, Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said today, Pyun said in an interview with! this correspondent “it is quite prob-' that Red China might real-| able” iate by sending one or more of its div: The foreign minister said Presi- dent Syngnran Rhee wrote of his proposed offer to Gen. John E. Eas Far East commander,, intestines of sheep)/ ull went to Washi j ey sna 0 Washington a/made from the | NAVARRO, Inc. few days ago, | The Suggestion has been dis- ussed with South Korean army isions tu help the Reds there. | commanders, Pyun said. He add- ed: “We are surprised and disap- |pointed that the news leaked out before a formal reply came back to President Rhee.” Diplomatic sources in Washington said Rhee ‘offered one and possibly two di- visions. OKs had not of- Hull said ‘ fered two d.. .ops, but he de- clined further comment. No direct approach has been made to the Indochinese or French | sovernments. a In preparing of ¢atgut (usually it has been found that lean and lill-fed animals usually produce the ibest material. SEOUL — American soldiers still are dying in Korea—some 180 since the armistice was signed seven months ago. The U.S. 8th Army reported today that this toll resulted from shootings, narcotics, drown- ing, traffic and plane accidents and—despite its safety campaigns-- carelessness around Korea’s haz- ardous roads, shaky buildings, dud amunition arfd mines, Officers at headquarters did not consider the figure alarming, since the 8th has some 250,006 men. LONDON (® — Prime Minister Churchill’s Conservative Party re- tained two Parliament seats con- tested in special elections yester- day. Voters of the Haltemprice dis- trict of the City of Hull chose Con- servative R, K. Law, former ma- jrine officer, to represent them in ithe House of Commons. | At Harwich the Conservative jeandidate, J. B. Ridsdale, won over the Laborite, Shirley Catlin, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina W#— 'The Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin reported today that crooner Dick |Haymes will return soon to his native Argentina to live. It said |there was no indication whether his wife, movie star Rita Hay- worth, would accompany him, Quoting relatives of Haymes, Clarin said the singer was tired of legal difficulties which have plagued him in the United States. facing a U. S. deportation action. VATICAN CITY (P—Pope Pius, apparently definitely recovering from three weeks of dangerous ill- ness that gravely weakened him, {today continued his improvement of the past several days. rested well last night and that his improvement continues, POCATELLA, Idaho (@—Glen H. Taylor, Idaho senator who was vice presi- dential candidate in 1948 on the nounced he will seek the Senate seat now held by Republican Henry 'C. Dworshak, The 49-year-old former entertain- ocratic primary this summer, SANTA MONICA, Calif. (—Lin- set to music by composer Ferde its premiere Sunday by the Santa Monica symphony orchestra, The words will be sung by Rich- \characterizations of Lincoln on the jstage, if 10,000 MILE | Guaranty an | USED CARS with gry, E Warlife 3) ‘B Guaranty Fp '601 Duval St. Tel. 2-7041 \Valentine’s Day, Sunday afternoon say this is only intelligent guess- |at 1:30 off the north shore of Sigs-| ing based on the fact, that the event comes off on St. Valen- tine’s Day. If the wind and weather cooper- ate, the races will be staged as near the shore as possible, for what they are to be subjected to. the ben-fit of family and specta-/47¢ three extra good tors. VX-1 Gains Overtime Win In Jacksonville Cage Tourney mance by the Monterey’s All-Navy footbali player Sam Williams. Winner in the first game of the day was VJ42 Sanford. Jim Ma- roney with 26 and Joe Merslich with 22 led the scoring in the 80- VC-62 Jacksonville bounced slightly favored VC-9 Sanford in the second game 70-64 after trail- ing a good bit of the time. Team play and a determined aggressive- “Bogota And Capehart To Clash Tonight In Kennel Club Feature Race ! | Page 6 Charley Conch figures that t night’s eleven race pro | In the first marathon - race — he figures Sod Bus winner and then in the eleve another 3-8 mile distance sta Moderator should come in. | The feature of the evening is so jevenly matched that Charle: < to dust off his Magic Conch to come up with the winner He says it will be F. B, Stutz’ - Bogota; from the number seven box Other selections: First Race: Black Bomb, Tack- ler and Black Caeser. (2-3-7) |54 victory over VA-45 Jacksonville., Second Race: La Crosse, Silver |Bar and Fabulous Flight. (6-8-3) | | a | ‘Boxing Results THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ness proved the determining factor! for the local club. | Fasron Jacksonville 6 encounter-| ; ee 1 The 34-year-old night club star is; The Vatican press office said he} guitar-strumming former} Progressive Party ticket, has an-| er said he will enter the Dem-| coln’s Gettysburg Address has been! Grofe and the number will be given, \ard Hale, an actor noted for his) 64. Bill Bailey had 25 to pace the winners. Dick Offringa slipped in 30 for the losers and did a fine job of taking the ball off the boards. VX-1 of Key West, last year’s winner, spurted to a first half lead against VF-13 but was tied*at the games end by a 46-46 count. A freeze by VF-13 Jacksonville for a last second try at a counter failed dramatically when the ball rim- med and spun out. VX-1 Howie Weems and Hoyt Kirk for a 57-50 overtime win. George Bas- sett, Jack Green and Jack Har- rington split 46 points for the losers. In the wrap-up game yesterday ithe USS Hornet bounced a hustling |CAG-4 Jacksonville team by an 84-69 count. Hal Payne made 26 counters in three quarters to lead |the carrier five. George Dasher flipped in 25 and Merle Adams put away 19 for the losers Todays first quarterfinal game is slated to begin at 2 p. m. The others will follow in rapid order at 4, 6, and 8. ZX-11 of Key West and VC-5 of, Sanford drew first round byes. broke through behind | | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ed unexpected opposition from VF-| SAN FRANCISCO—Bill Gilliam, | 101 Jacksonville before winning 81-| 999. Orange, N.J., outpointed Leon-| ard Morrow, 192, Oakland, Calif., 10, | NEWARK, N.J.—Augie Salazar, 136, Hayward, Calif., outpointed |Bob Fenty, 132, New York, 8. | PHILADELPHIA — Jimmy Soo, i134, Philadelphia, stopped Bobby \Glory, 129, Peekskill, N.Y., 4. | WICHITA, Kan. — Bobby Bickle, (137, Topeka, stopped Benney So- |bell, 145, Detroit, 3, Now On Display 1954 NEW GENERAL | STREAMLITE, LUXOR, VAN DALE, SMOKER |RAWLINGS TRAILER SALES at | JOE'S AUTO SALES Next to P.O., Marathon, Fla, | ALL FINANCING AT 6% | MOBILE HOME | Also Friday, February 12, 1954 CHARLEY Conch’s SeLections inth Race: Ing and Mischief Girl | Tenth Race: Bogota, Gay Skipper. (7 cleventh Race: Moderator, Gal- lant Brae and Peck’s Pearl, (5-8-2) id, Even Key Carib and Sold at Track Only GREEN SHEET Greyhound Selections WINNERS — QUINIELAS No Bunk - No Holdouts Just Honest Information —_—_—<—<—$— = \For QUALITY USED CARS and General Auto Repairs TWINS GARAGE Your STUDEBAKER Dealer 1130 DUVAL ST. DIAL 2.2401 Ge P72? 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