The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1954, Page 6

Range Twilight Equals Track Record In Gaining Kennel Club Win Sat. Win ln Kennel Club Foateres | Key West Kennel Club Results Win In Kennel Club Feature Claude Betterson’s Range Twilight, a heavy fay- a ee ms SBN. Neer Out—Paty Down 10.40 Quiniglp (1-3) 100.20 orite at the betting windows, equaled Gomstock’s track SECOND RACE : Winner—Point Breeze Kennels, Inc.’s Red B., February, 1952. Bill’s Find— aie Monecan record Saturday night when he circled the 5/16 mile Ba Robe Tne Mobe SWEET distance in just 30.3 seconds to gain a triumph in the z | feature race of the evening. ‘The win immediately started speculation as to the Range Twilight and Comstock performance of who will meet Wednesday evening in the first half of the Evans Enterprises Medley race. They will be opposed by six oth- if Quiniela (1-2) 10.00 . ers of the top greyhounds at the track. In wii Saturday night’s race, Range Twilight took an early lead and held 1 for a win by a length and a half over Smart Design. Irene Hill ran third. Lanna, « °m and 4.40, Smai 5.40 and 3.80 while Irene worth 4.80, 7, Se. nil © was Saturday night’s daily double, ay a when Miss came in winners. ee Bates In another Grade One start Sat. urday, R. K. Hutching’s Let's Gob: saved ground to edge Legal Fel and pay a neat 21.00, 33.90 and 5.80. | In tonight's feature gen. | comparative Deena to Jack Ortner’s Tack Qut, after his second win of straig ve tory over the 5-16 mile @istance.| Ar That puppy won easily in bis last outing over I Lady and Brae} a teks bape eg Ferreil’s Glen as EN, My The program will wind up with another Grade One race, the tenth, Entries in that race include Raz- or’s Rocket, My Bitsy, Happy Wo- map, Trade In, Easy Whirl, Final Reward, Ordinary and All Style. The program will get underway at 8:15'p. m. with the first half of the daily double, TONIGHT’S ENTRIES FIRST RACE — $16 mile Rollaway Margie Sooner Shindig Melody Hill SECOND macs — $16 mile Grade 5 Misty Magee Silky Blend Molly Gua | Boots-N-Saddle ma } Budapest Ginger Hil THIRD RACE — 516 mle ri overs RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 4 Blue Manikin ‘Taran Scrabbel Tangiers ~« uy Hollie <a IF THO es — & mite + rade 4 Whitey’s Son Focus Soi Bonita Initial Restore Forever Pal ! Fair Monatch Tackler SIXTH RACE — 5-16 mile Grade 3 Sam Parker Three Dots } event eh RACE — 5.16 ye 2 mie Moderator + Malahide Sleigh Bell City Scout Micky W. Vaulta Lady Portis Ladyish IGHTH RACE — Grade 2 " Bugs Lass Rock Of Plymouth 516 mile 4s «: Ladies Match ‘Play Golf = Matches Start The first round of the Ladies Han | eA match play tourney was play- ed Thursday over the cold, wind- iswept Key West Golf Club course. ith the low handicap players giv- sttokes to their « , the go| tourney ‘is anyone's itch. pect os Ritter defeated Piedad in a match that went the | B holes. Nell Lopez and Peggy M were tied at 18 holes to play sudden death with Santing up the winner on the es West A aie te over Hl gig he aon en ts ie straight schooling i mn ane include Mo Baxendale’ ae suraaatre tl ae, the first flight. Losers of fhe steed tected Bog champion- bavi flight will ries a consolation flight. Pairings in the champion- ship flight are: Ritter vs. Lopez; West vs. Kossert; Taylor vs. Foulk; and Faraldo ys. Reid. Finals in all flights will be play Tuesday. Trophies and awards w! be presented ‘to winners on March 16 at a luncheon. Evans Medley Starts Wed, At Kennel Club The top event of the current Key West Kennel Club race meeting— the Evans Enterprises Medley— will get underway Wednesday eve- e medley, consi: of two s with the same ‘in partici- will =, vy on the point pat ee eA the a ae Evans trophy, the largest ever given for a dog ad half of the race will race e, Wednesday, will be run over the 5-16 ie'dikarce and the second half will be run over the '% mile marathon distance. Highlight of the race Wednesday, will be the return to the track of Manuel Foster’s Comstock, holder lof the track record over the 5-16 mile distance and the winner of 10 races thus far in the season. He has been out of action for more than two weeks, but no dog at the track thas heen able to equal his win re- Tae b: of the field will con- sist of these top greyhounds: Range Twilight, Black Ceaser, Gay Skip- per, Judy Doll, Ingrid, Noir, Sir McKay. me dog e: the most points ‘in the two races eit gain perman- Possession of the beautiful tro- Gil Turner, another middle- weight ler, mixes with Bob by Jones, and, Calif., eveteran, at the Philadelphia ‘Arena Wednes- day night. The 10-rounder will be telecast by CBS starting at 10 p.m., EST, Modest Blond Matthew Hill New: Jes) s Carrier Spring Bunny Trade Secret —Ed — Souza’s Black B., "Aig ae SCRANoEL Winger Oversees MAD) CHOICE Pause cape - Brindle D. salam June, 1952. Kennel’s Dark Brindle 4.40 5.80 a | ro . Tegtree. Imp—Paper Doll Quiniela (6-7) 97.90 Rural Strepk— Quiniela (5-7) 33.20 SIXTH BACE Winner— sping sme ie 3952. Some Guy MISS G' WES HARDIN A-HEAD S' iY BUG CAPRICORN CARLITA ROCKET JET Abilene UEGAL LodreR JSUDY'D LAST LADY Beli wonder if there is any real basis. and TAMPA (Successive visits to the camps of the champion New! York Yankees and the Chicago| White Sox brings one a striking] sense of the futility of ‘trying to} stop Casey Stengel’s club short; of its sixth straight American League flag. I the Yankees are to be finally ‘halted and the younger league saved from slow disintegration, the White Sox either will have to] all; win the race themselves or give Cleveland a powerful lot of help. you look at the two teams as y gird for the battle and you) for comparison. The difference is that when the Yankee regulars take the field you} are ‘looking at a standout ball- Player in nearly every position. When you look at the White Sox team you see, outside the pitching) box, only one outstanding star who| would be sure to break into the champions’ lineup and stay there —outfielder Orestes Minosos. Seldom on a contending elub— as the Sox were for much of last Season—has there heen such a tremendous disparity betwen one man and the rest of the team as there was between the Cuban bril- fiant and his teammates. One {wonders how General Manager Frank Lane even talked about getting tough with Minnie during) their brief ‘salary dispute. Minoso led the Sox in batting Douglas Picks By MAX B. SKELTON HOUSTON (7 — Dave Douglas) Chicopee, hadn’t won g dime this year until! yy he plucked a big one, the Houston Open’s $6,000 top prize, and now is) winter golf’s second leading money ‘winner, The slender Grossinger, N.Y., ' Ipto won the winter tour’s tichest tournament yesterday by turning) in his fourth day of subpar golf, His 72-hole 277 was 11 below par and placed him two strokes in front of Memphis’ Cary Middle- coff the defending champion and Pretournament favorite, Middlecoff’s $3,200 TUnRET A New Money boosted his hud year to $6,780.56 for first rank-| Douglas clinched top money in: Miami the $30,000 tournam: with final-round, 5-under-par 67% took most of the record B Ry of | from 12,000 to 15,000 by ‘surprise. | Douglas, 36, had gone practical-| ty unnoticed with early rounds’ of ORIGINAL ete ainee WES ANT Bi SUPER’S MEMORY Winner—Don Branson’s Brindle D., March, 1950. Style King—Miss Johnny J. 340 4.60 400 RANGE |GHT SMART DESIGN IRENE HILL Winner—Point Breeze Kennels, a, alan es ie 19.40 8.00 5.00 29.20 10.00 ‘ 3.60 SEVENTH RACE 807. iy th NINTH RACE 7.00 4.60 a a ge? Mack 9 10.90" ie | with an average of .313. The club's next best was catcher Sherman in 113) Minoso |knocked across 104 runs to Sam| Mele’s next best 8. His total bases, 259, compared to Jim Riv- His 15 home rups led The club got rid of bs anna te the winter, incident- |Lollar at .287—compiled games to Minoso’s 151, Mele’s 12. Outside of that, all Minoso did was lead the American League with 2 stolen bases, get hit by \pitched balls an amazing 17 times for another league mark, and lead his own team in rung scored and) | slugging percentage. few things he failed ‘to lead in were not important. In view of these facts and fig- ures, the obvious concl; that Richards did a very |the fop. Where the Sox would have finished without Minoso ong can imagine. The only serious weakness of the’ Cuban speedster is that he can’ play only one Position at a time. |Richards would like very much to) jemploy him at third base as well talent at the far corner 8S Cass Michaels, obtained ay. aaleet winter from the Philadelphia Ath- Hetics, produces at an unexpected}¢ rate. 70 and 71 for the 1,200-yard, par 72 Memorial Park course, A third round 69 pulled him to 210, just one stroke behind New) Orleans’ Freddie Haas, the leader after 26 and $4 holes. But most Ne be Ser on oar a rome tieh “Eis ae Mass. ariel arieid eatered the sy po Deagit, Middlecoff and fie each had 32s on the Rine. Haas dropped out « te lead with a 35. “the back nine, heme missed an eagle on 13th hole, settled for a “indie came home in 3%. @ Dar 36, May! Haas and Ma: ‘place at tet with Ed Oliver, P: if, Ted for gon | Handsome Le Bykes, i eight contender, is Fens bone Peat ting |. in a 10 at totter Eat Parkway Arena tonight Du telecasts the 10 p.m., EST) page ero | Mont Mise ob| in managing his one-man club inte, |third place, only 11% games off jas in left -field, being short of and ad! Livig the | headling Quiniela (4-5) 165.20 Quiniela (6-8) 39.60 Winner—F. B. Stutz’ Red Fawn pio FAT cor’ "s Edge—All Over Town Quiniela (2-8) 18.60 Winner—R. K. Hutchings’ Brindle D., June, 1951. Mixed Harmony—Miss Quiniela (4-5) 36.20 RA‘ Wingge Claude Betterson’s Blue Brindle D., July, 1981. Mixed Harmony— Quiniela (1-3) 22.20 +9 Py 1990. Cameron—Jarube Quiniela (5-8) 18.00 STOCK CAR [ROUNDUP The Sunday afternoon Stock Car |waces at Boca Chica track remind- ed everyone ‘of the old wild west Rodeos motorized. There seemed to be an epidemic of spins and ‘jerashes. The cars were well-match- Sled and each race a thriller. Several merchants of Key West awarded extra prizes for each Face, |which encouraged the drivers |mix it up. The first elimination heat was jtaken by Jimmy Garnder in car} no. 9. Bob Turner placed second, Frenchy Larue third. Sond eli- mination went to Jerry Hinde ie ing car no. 11. Second to Bu Gee of Miami, third to Christopher. The first semi-final was taken by Bob Turner this was a thriller all the way, with Paul Toppino setting the pace most of the way, and relinquishing the lead only in the last few feet. Frenchy Larue| was third. Second Semi-final was taken by Rip Ault, known ground the track as the “speed merchant.” Smiley’ Richardson, second, and Kulbe third. The consolation was another thriller, with a five car pile on the north turn, which Cohen’s junk yard. They and those. with their wheels 1 |went right on and made it a ae which was won by Jolting ie ioe ve rez, Rip Ault took the three \trophy dash, heating Paul ‘Topnina tht back Pei ba Ne Sais. right back a Prov at tance is no problem to him bs no. 40, in the fifteen lap main event he moved up from far hack 'in the field to take first place from his staunchest rival, Bob Turner ‘who saved second. Paul Toppino third and fourth place went to Jim- my Gardner. Richard Helwick, of the USS Wilke, was the winner of| Bi era ==|for a couple of weeks while Range| tis nie CONCH BACKSTOPPERS—Jullo Henriquez, left, and Sidney Kerr, will be on tap Thursday eve- ning when the Key West High School baseball team goes into action against the undefeated Miam! Beach nine. Henriquez, a member of last year’s state championship team, will handle the lar catching duties. He is a hard hitter, batting from the tight side of the platter.—Citizen Staff Pl Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CHARLEY Concu’s SELECTIONS A lot of interest is centering on Other selections: Wednesday night’s first half of the) First Race: Sooner Shindig, | Evans iar eeaatt | | Taffy Hill and Roll Lassie. (1- 26) | The question most frequently as! e: Ginger Hill, Moll ed is: Cag Rapge Twilight unseat Prange "palate Toes. (3-1-7) " Comstock gs the unofficial track; qyirq Race: Patty Wheeler, champion? Comstock has been out of action} (8-7-2) Fourth Race: Tangiers, Twilight has been right in there land Guy Holly. (1-3-2) with the best of them. Fifth Race: Tackler, Fair Mon- Tonight, there'll be a lot of action|arch and Restore. (2-1-7) at the track and in the feature. | Sixth Race: Licorina, Al Mello Charley Conch will go along with a and Caswell. (2-4-8) newcomer to the track, Texas Seventh Race: City Scout, Sleigh He looks like a winner in,Bell and Ladyish. (1-6-7) ninth race. | Eighth Race: Modest Blond, the gate prize, Two Fried Chicken \Di ents of Jimmy’s Drive-In, EEE Ring Roundup By MURRAY ROSE | a, “we Leche jfinal 2 aalae it ioe Gee Se at The Cuban Flash faces veteran ee ot in a a |10 in Boston. Gavvy outpointed the nin in Gleveland 11 months | ago. Two 6-foot-3 hea Nino, Valdes of Cuba po ames &. Parker of Toronto, collide in the 10 at Madison Square | Friday night. Valdes, the} tender, is after it win. Parker—big chin—has copped 1 a TOW. “ABC will broadcast a NBC will telecast the 10 p.m., Gasten seventh jamie ie Buses Every 20 Minutes 10 RACES NIGHTLY Beautiful New Grandstand Adm, 25¢ PARI-MUTUEL State Supervised Peck’s Pear and Queen’s Mark. Prem | \ Monday, March 8, 1954|Rock of Plymouth and Shining Sue, (3-2-5) Ninth Race: (Texas Speed, Bogo- ta and Tack Out. (6-2-8) Tenth Race: My Bitsy, Trade In and Allstyle. (2-4-8) The human eye is much more sensitive to green than to red. 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