The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1954, Page 7

Ring King Is Entered In Preakness Saturday. . Offense Replaces Defenge In.” Key Pacific Island Positions By GOERGE BOWEN BALTIMORE ” — Ring King, a Raggedy Ann little colt even to the trainer who made him what- ever racehorse he is, typifies en- tries being made today for Satur- day’s Preakness in the face of knowledge, that the formidable Correlation and. Hasty Road al- ready are down to start. Trainer Tommy Kelly is full of;mac Farm’s Hasseyampa, Wood- doubt that Ring King belongs in; ;Brown’s Gigantic and maybe T. A. such @ high-caliber race as the $100,000_middle leg of the triple crown. But there’s only one way to find out for certain and that’s to try,-he. admits. The is the first time in Serer hist sof the Preakness a norte tate! been see before “he regular opening of the entry yox on the day before the race. seratch time for the.race is 5 p.m. Friday. Friday, May 24, 1954 Wes Santee To Try For Mile Record Sat. ‘BOULDER, Colo. (?—The spot- light is focused on miler Wes es of Kansas in'the Big Seven ack and Field Championships hére tomorrow and Saturday but several other: top-flight athletes lay set new conference records. ‘Competitors in tiie meet at: mile- high Folsom Field have equaled oF surpassed this season seven of the records on the conference yooks. Only marks made in the ‘eague meet are accepted as con- igrence records. antee, fastest miler in v. Ss. tory, has registered. better-than- r@ time in the 880-yard run, the mile and two-mile. But track experts figure the rarefied air will, keep him from setting conference rgcords in the mile and two-mile runs. ‘Santee’s. ‘hest, chance, veteran egaches say, is in the 880-yard run, It is in the longer races that i 1s, to. tell. Glenn sr great Kansas » holds the Big of '1;52.2,. Santee m this season in ‘official $80-ren and “1:48,3/as part of a Neville Price, Oklahoma’s senior hrowdjumper “from East London, South Africa, who will be defend- ng his 1953 championship when ‘ye set a record of 24 feet 11% tiches. He’s jumped 25 feet 2‘inch- eg this season. } ‘Harry Lee of Oklahoma, who’s heen clocked in 48 seconds* flat ‘dr the 440-yard dash this ‘year. That is the same as the reccrd set in 1942 by Bill Lyda of Okta- homa. The discus record of 160 feet 5% inches by Edsel Wibbels of Tebraska in 1940 is also threat- bo Bob Van Dee, Oklahoma’s jphomore sensation from Aca, Okla., has bettered that mark, by 4*inches. ‘The pole vault mark of 14 feet inch is only three fourths of an tich better than Frank Dickey of fissouri registered indoors last winter. REPORT ON REDS IN KOREA DENIED LONDON \ — Moscow’s Pravda today denounced “pure inven- ion and the imagination of a prim- itive mind” U.S. assertions that $000 to 12,000 Russians took part . in the Communist ‘war effort in Korea. ‘The information was made pub- lic by the Pentagon in Washington Saturday. It was attributed to in- telligence data and analysis of formation from other sources. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Robert S. Lytle, owner of Cor- relation, and Allie Reubens, owner of Hasty Road entered their fa- vorites yesterday. So did Howard A. Jones with For Free and Sunny Blue Farm’s Admiral Porter. Still expected to dare to come in besides Ring King are Maine Chance Farm’s Jet Acticn, Wala- vale Farm’s Goyamo, Joe Sears’ Nirgal Lad and E. M. O’Brien’s Galdar. Some of the enticement is that after the first prize of around $90,000 there is $25,000 for second, $15,000 for third and $7,500 for fourth. ‘Mrs. Ada L. Rice put up the equivalent of fourth prize mon- ey just to make Ring King eligi ble and pays another $1,000 to en- ‘ter and start. - Page 7 BASEBALL NOTES NEW YORK ® (#— New owners of the Baltimore Orioles .might make note of the fact that the Mil- waukee Braves are running about 30,000 behind their 1953 attendance. The Braves hope to make it up, however, since two big games with the Brooklyn Dodgers were post- poned. Baltimore has been pack- ing them in, but most observers around the American League shud- der when they think of the future if the Orioles don’t develop into a pennant threat. Pittsburgh third baseman Sid Gordon; whose right leg has been ailing, says, “It’s nice to be on a club where the fellows are so in- terested iri me. Makes you feel good when they keep asking how you feel. It will be nice when I can help them score some runs.” Ray Boone, who only a year ago ‘was an unnerved young man try- ing to play shortstop for Cleve- land Indians, has been batting third and fourth for the Detroit Tigers. The year has made a great deal of difference. “I knew every- body was watching me all the time in Cleveland,” he explains. “I couldn’t help ‘but feel the pressure. It means a lot to have the fans on your side.” If you want to shove sentiment aside, the St. Louis Cardinals seem justified in dealing away Enos Slaughter. Since young Wal- ly Moon has been in their employ he has ‘stayed around 350 mark. Baltimore’s new scoreboard is valued at $172,000, Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg wants every American League club to play a home-and-home series with every National League club during the regular season, the re- sults to count in the standings. He'll make the proposal at the major league meeting before the All-Star Game. Aid To Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (%) — The United States has agreed to give military assistance to Hon- duras as part of the program for the defense of the Western Hem- isphere, ‘A military agreement was signed yesterday by Dr. J. Edgardo Val- enzuela, foreign minister of Hon- duras; and U.S. Ambassador W. A. Willauer. A similar agreement was signed recently by the United States and Nicaragua. Both Honduras and Nicaragua are between Red-tinged Guatemala and the Panama Canal. It all seemed worthwhile after trainer Kelly suddenly began making Ring King tick. Last year, Ring King failed to race because he had a funny leg action that sug- gested knee trouble. . Kelly, a 35-year-old native of Pikesville, Md., became trainér for the’ Rices last November. In Jan- uary, they sent him Ring King in W.|Florida and: told him, “Either make him run or break him down.” “I did what the boss told me,” relates . “I made him run. Every time the colt went on the; racé track I had the exércise boy, carry a stick.” At first nothing appeared to re- . Ring King ran three times and failed to win. Then he came north to Laurel and. won three straight, including two: stakes, the Cherry Blossom and Chesapeake. He ran for the first time since March 27 in the Preakness Prep on Monday and finished third be- hind Correlation and Hasty Road. Ring King still throws his legs around instead of striding forward straight so ‘‘that he looks like he’s crippled,” Kelly ‘said. “I never saw a horse like him.” by WILLIAM J. WAUGH PEARL HARBOR (# — Western Pacific islands form America’s front-line defense against commu- nism in the Pacific today but the only guns you find thete are the rusted relics left by a beaten Japan. The reason is the old military dictum that the best defense is a good offense. Millions of dollars are being poured into key islands but it isn’t being spent on shore defenses or combat troops. In nearly a month of travel from the Marshalls north to the Bonin Islands I didn’t see one shore- based fighter plane or infantry unit. These islands once bristled with shore guns of an imperialistic Japan. America uses them today as military transport airports and supply depots. On Kwajalein, for instance, the 6,500-foot airstrip on the 2%-mile- long island is a major link in our military global air route. 'n event of war it and the strip on Roi Island, 60 miles to the north, could in a matter of days be operating bases for bomber and fighter craft. The only planes operating from Kwajalein today are patrol craft. The only guns are small arms. Guam, obviously the key island in the central Paeific defenses, has many shore guns — but alt rusting weapons put there by the Japanese during World War II. Only two of Guam’s airfields— Anderson Air Force Base and Agana — are operational. Orote, Northwest and Harmon fields have been abandoned but the strips are usable. Supply and ammunition areas on Guam cover miles and miles. The island is capable of supplying and servicing all types of ships and aircraft. Tinian, with its two huge air- ports, is virtually unmanned from a military standpoint. Two enlisted men are there. But those airports — one with 10,000-foot runways from which Baseball Crowds Greater Than’ In Past Years \y gue, over last season with nine clubs of the three senior loop clubs rua NEW YORK ® — Major lea; baseball attendance, after hitting the skids the past few years, is tak- ing a turn for the better this season. An Associated Press survey dis- closed today that the 1954 turn- stile count is up more than 400,000 en Rel bombs were flown — are immedi- ately usable. Saipan has only a about 100 men. eee Iwo Jima is manned by the Air Force. But the force, except for one plane used in air-sea rescue work, is entirely maintenrnce. Military planes use it as a stopping place on: transocean flights. Japan built its strongest island fortress in the Bonin Islands. Chi- chi Jima, main island in the group, was not invaded. Today amid the shambles of the once powerful Japanese outpost the Navy keeps a small unit of three officers and 14 enlisted men. As long as there’s peace in the Pacific no larger weapons are needed. If war should come, the United States plans to be swinging so hard and so fast it won’t have the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-|to worry about island invaders. benefiting. Major league teams have played before an over-all total of 2,001,324 fans as compared to 2,589,235 in a like number of home games a year ago. Thanks to its new Raltimore en- try, which already has surpassed the total paid admissions for the St. Louis Browns in 1953, the American League shows a gain of more than 350,000. The Orioles, with a draw of 318,679 at home, are running 216,524 customers ahead of the defunct Brownies. The National League’s gain is negligible — 57,439 — but five of its teams are on the upgrade. They are St. Louis, 54,479, Brooklyn, 45,210, New York, 25,213, Cincin- nati, 7,327 and Chicago ‘2,696. Surprisingly, Milwaukee, which established a National League at- tendance record last season, is one BILL'S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 711 Duval Street , oF ning behind its 1953 figures. The Braves show a deficit of 11,21% The Phillies and Pirates also are under their ’53 gate totals. The spirited play of the Detroit Tigers is reflected in an almost 150,000 improvement in atten- dance over last: season. Chicago (45,022) and Philadelphia (17,301) also have attracted more Ameri- can League fans at home. The Red Sox, Indians, Senators and Yankees all are trailing, with the ‘Yankees the biggest losers, 31,872. In some places earthworms grow to a length of four feet. CIFELLI'S 2's TV Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. 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