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Gold Coast Crown Is At Stake In Crucial South Broward Clash Tonight . ee | p Conchs Face Kentucky Declines Invitation (No More Cheap} miami Beach To National Intercollegiate Home Runs In | There Saturday iy an exact science and the com- Bevo F cis Tops petition so close that a single ran stroke may normally be worth sev. College Cagers eral thousand dollars in the big yew yORK Remember when money events, there has been 20 i ca slackening in the stern and ancient Point-a-minute” mean! Sports e | | Key West's chances of gaining code aes eaves so mueh to luck scoring beahethall tam? ‘ale Sets > ing hi ~B Ball k ir second Gold Coast rence There should be. son a lot of s I By RIP WATSON : (canes ph pope ae ‘ ucs par hewaad : aap oe to- ou n u We have, for example, many average that much using only ws NEW YORK #—The National year career a 097, | championship at stake Ties areciten qlasarsraeed thas) payers/sadiioa vind the other thre Invitation Tournament, competing, Francis didn’t play last night, By SEN OLAN night when oy ong faeetre rok decieaieaaad Laptadacei am a shots with the National Collegiate Bas-|but his 48.9 points per game aver-| F . d ketball Chiiatinadiive — Sor the'age dominates the small college, NEW YORK w#—The Pittsburgh/South Broward cagers in Ft. Lav: Pirates have given up on Green-| ie. | NEW YORK In no other,the round and a total five shots! icely while his rival’ 1d pl vera, 20 points or best college teams, has lost twovfield just as Selvy’s 37.6 mark 4. | P z up nicely while his rival's would players a’ ging battles but it may win the war : \berg Gardens, their shortened left! The tit will mark the first of a * A C . | c oh isport is the competitor so com- behind Middlecoff and Ed Furgol,|be deeply imbedded in a heel'more in games through Feb. 6 yet by capturing the nation’s high. !OWers palied ee ae ee see rpc exe comp oe iene carmen oes ering, whicd Om |pleiaty at the whim of the fates who played off the tie last week. (print left by a spectator. It never Bevo Francis, of course, stone est scorers, | Little Ric shai epaned igo i acy celiks urics' aa ctie Sead|Conche’ They ‘meet Miami Beach 28 be is in golf. We have long) Our feeling is, after having wit-/has seemed to make much sense the list with a orp ter es sare MIT Hopes of tending Kentucky, niclities barring 0 fm vet taltels season pe) pgp odo Zame tomorrow felt that the rules of the game, nessed scores of fairly strane jia is daze! devoted epeisvariiyite papa ean reg pry entire the nation’s top-ranked team and! Hs é po ag A | confere scarcely changed since the days cidents in many years of follow- skill. s one of the two undefeated teams, |Play_ in snag eras Colne ee by — bese yeas fay “op coraaetly waits cual the gutta percha ball, were ing championship play, that there} We saw Lloyd Mangrum blown with 31.5 and carencasiee < rece erage’ Seek mast when | Crathern Conference fournament| runs,” he said aay, rest oad Fl first pecs mate onfer-\downright stupid in some cases. is no earthly reason why the golf-|right out - an Open mae at ~ bg necrey arn satis 20.7 and Southeastern Conference to waive|Ut they d have to vat seunicoenee rg hey wig too gre ig single eas tee mag (Tama, a youthful dark horse from/the players an even shake. In such/blew a bug of his ball on the green, With 29.5 are very much in the its rule against NIT competition, |Permission ees oe a bid ali Field will heise: probe ron eee of) in as Tulsa, Okla., who quite probably an instance, why should the young-| Scarecely a summer passes that battle for the runner-up spot. At about the same time |b ale rs Iplatg fils season Prspotners sar raisaby trails by a half game|W&S beaten out of first prize money|ster not have been permitted a pens Panen: player i ee ETP T EE aaa open y wae poe “ys ee <a ee re raga A Asap ia aga oer, with ts aah mpi srs Tech BAS eae a pei eaear aap hate 5 nt eer Apepsaied ask|he s aS canine "ow pal fee but that makes no dif- 4 , esterday when ayton, wil a e, may lose Oo or ree won two a e number ry tat ‘ as real “4 7 O a enen, the comeiies ae ek record in tough competition, homers. But most of my longicontests while Miami Beach has|bis ago ae ae was esvene (aims tos surrenders sDiy a Dorsee club beyond the bag limit. Hejference. pe as an outstanding local at-|; cepted a bid. Duquesne, ranked/drives cleared the small fence andiyet to win a game in five starts. : ‘as leading ‘his| : tie tatraael traction. Manhattan’s record is)” ; 5 -llanded i Carri r 5 At one time, he was leading his paper to blow. Out on the fairway| now 11-8 while NYU is 7-7 and|JUst, behind Kentucky as the na- landed in real home run*territory| Chief problem tonight for the closest rival, Cary Middlecoff, by|it would have been different, for St.John’s of Brooklyn only 7-8 even|tion’s only other undefeated team,|anyway,” Gordon explained. Conehs is to keep from being lost)) ee ee te holes to” eo dl plaSaruaaturslls] Wiewar nnd fter nipping Ri ae d “o-50 last|a"d Western Kentucky came in to| Gordon, who was traded to Pitts-lon the Bulldog’s huge Olympic |eretled. by the paper, blown from for stray dogs and other possible bi pe eee the fold previously. |burgh last December for Danny/size court. They earlier took the) : ked |di : bef } h ni j South Broward here |? nearbyetable, Inman shanked/distractions efore starting pny ares vis " “ore into a grove of trees. He took a 7\swing. He has a right to feel he, By Gayle Talbot lsand trap, maybe only feet apart. Statistics released today by the |Yet one would find his ball lying NCAA Service Bureau ghow 60 Friday, February 12, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page? ed In other games on last night’s|O’Connell in a six-player deal Lacking a strong local team as eae schedule, Wake|strictly an outfielder with Mil an attraction, the NIT could solve extremely light | schedule, wane y ben gnomes a : r on the hole and, thoroughly shaken can relax from the tee spi . 7 Forest walloped North Carolina in| kee last season. But he hopes Man-| Coach Win Jones will stand pat " i e Sohal sabre pli are hers the Atlantic Coast Conference|ager Fred Haney will give him ala his starting lineup with Gibby by then, wound up with a 77 for| Though golf has become so near: (oss ta raat will|76-82; Maryland’s Gene Shue chance to play third base. |Gates and Stu Logun at the hold just about every collegiate | Drought his own school season; The Cincinnati Redlegs became guards, John Carbonell at center) scoring record by tournament|S¢TD8 record to 452 by making|the first major league club to sign /and Julio Henriquez and Glynn Ar- time next month. |26 points in the Terrapins’ 76-43|its entire 1954 roster by coming|cher in the forward slots. Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service ints|TOUt_of Washington & Lee; and|to terms with pitchers Frank Smith| Jones explained today that he'll KEY WEST Selvy last night scored 51 points| i) penaventure> beats and] ; ; hikesie sa 5 pped Siena and Clyde King. General Manager/instruct his boys to play a con- SUPPLY fm Furman’s 114-67 romp over 87-64, Gabe Paul said this was the earli-|: play e trolled type of ballgame — in an| MIAMI and KEY WEST est the club ever had brought every| attempt to stymie the Broward a club Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS ; player in line. Bulldogs have been | WHATEVER Your Negps | WANTS GOLF DATE Otliecs ito calpacwere saboctton|t arie, a hat brand -) basketball Between Miami and Key West IN THE LINE OF TOKYO @®—Ambassador Sadao|George Strickland pitcher Davelin winning six straight clashes be- | HARDWARE ———— Iguichi, who leaves for his new/Hoskins of the Clevelagd Indians,|fore bowing by a six point mar- by pe Pere) Post in Washington in about a infielder Pete Suder of the Phila-| i i Hi Child. NS week, laid bare a fond hope today. eo ean ae. (No Steps En Route) ‘ LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT \delphia Athletics, catcher Stan Lo-| If the Conchs can control the “I would like very much to play|pata of the Philadelphia Phillies, /ball and slow the Bulldogs down, T re) Y & golf with President Eisenhower,” |infielder Jerry Coleman of the SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at |he told the Japan-America Society.|New York Yankees, Miami at 12:00 o'clock Midnight. they'll rate as slim favorites. outfielder} But they’ ve to hold down : LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o’clock Midnight — FITTINGS Paint, Hardware, Plumbing Supplies WANT TO 1 SUPPOSE ig | OME TO TH LS Nee RAD George Shuba and catcher Rubo core Bill Gordon, w coms e | The Unitea States stopped mint- personas ss set and arrives at Key West at 6:00 e’elock ke € |Walker of Brooklyn, infielders Bob/dropped in 15 counters for the Bro-| TROPICAL TRADER ‘ing silver dollars in 1935, although A.M, scclithe ‘carthbsels toy ie ee Ss of|wards in the last outing and Tony NB Duval $. Dial 2-6262 i n t ithe New York Giants, outfielder|Rossi. circulation were minted between/Harry Elliott of the St. Louis Car- After tomorrow night's battle) LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A.M. (Stops 1921 and 1927, dinals and rookie pitcher Pauljwith Beach, the Conchs will have] Menking of the Chicago Cubs. a two week layoff before journey-| at All Intermediate Points) and arrives arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock In other baseball news, Milwau- ing to Miami for the District Four |Kee southpaw Chet Nichols was|Class AA cage tourney Feb. 24. | mustered out of the Army and will! The winner and runnerup in th report to the club in Bradenton,|competition, will compete in the Fla., at the end of the month;/State Class AA tourney in Gains- the New York Giants revealed that} yj |infielder Daryl Spencer will be in- ducted into the Army at Wichita, e Kan., Feb. 15; and veteran catcher G amb T |Steve Lembo announced his re- it r a 0 jtirement from organized baseball “THRE HOTELS IN. MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES Located in the Heart of the City REASONABLE WRITE or WIRE RATES ROOMS for RESERVATIONS . with BATH and TELEPHONE Ritz Pershing Miller P.M. at Miami at 4:00 o’clock P.M. SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M., and LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT HOTEL HOTEL HOTEL KEY WEST SUPPLY ge pecsctetereeoe ig ie sont “ — ee Cs POWER TOOL RENTALS MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Franels Sts. ssepsanad Elevator Rooms Scortichini Phone 2:3123 219 Simonton St. Sees Solarium Heated Elevator _ | 1 Ho ie ee : 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION | NEW YORK Joey Giambr ’t taking Italo Scortichini lightly en if he is a 3-1 favorite to win the telecast Madison Square Garden 10-rounder tonight. The handsome, 22-year-old Buf- falo, N. Y., middleweight contend- er thought he was in for an easy / evening when he went down to Miami to box Bobby Dykes a month ago. What happened still has Co-manager Tex Sullivan pull- a ing hair from his thinning crop. UT} Dykes outpointed Giambra and be YP snapped Joey's 11-fight, 16-month OME winning streak, The loss dropped said the former, shoeshine boy from | fifth to eighth in the rankings and a” |cost him a lucrative shot with tawasnwertiod yebeutSilis Joey Giardello, the current No. 2 myself until | learned about | contender, ‘ CITY*LOAN €O.1”” “T'll be out to win ‘em one by one from now on,” said G: . “Scortichini HEAR EVANGELIST John French OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK. In A Series of Gospel Meetings KEY WEST Church of Christ 1700 Von Phister, Cor. of Ashby | Scortichini claims that he has | just become accustomed to the | American way of fighting after a year of campaigning here. The 24- year-old Italian, an aggressive \fighter, made his best showing when he fought Basilio, No. 1 wel- terweight contender, to a draw in Miami Jan. 16. = Italo’s record in the United States of 7:30 Each Evening, | is 441, He deleated Joey Greco Beaty ta helt hel Stee eden, Wh seme ret sated = ° | Harold Drucker, Gerry Dreyer ani Feb. 5 thru Feb. 14 Inclusive | Willie Pastrano and lost to Chico Vejar, Joe Juliano, welterweight New style... New power...New economy ...and yet NO COLLECTIONS WILL BE MADE $24 Southard St. |/ctampion Kid Gavilan and middle ' |weight contender Gil Turner. His over-all record is 23-11-4. eo ( @ @ Ona — Cason the fac ieee Se ys armed Giambra should poke holes How Will You Bet? in the swarming Scortichini. 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