The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 27, 1954, Page 6

onchs Play Clewiston High Tomorrow Match BASEBALL! Cubans Make Excellent Showing In Pistol To sissies, Baseball Results ee as SOUTH ATLANTIC Top Hurling Star|,,_” ™ “"#sttt"%%.20| From Behind .| To Win Here Page 6 EY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, May 27, 1954 Major League RS e Leaders By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Avila, Cleveland, .378. RUNS — Minoso, Chicago and Avila, For Upstaters : =iig The Key West High School Conchs take on the Clewis- ton Tigers in a two-game se- ries this Friday and Satur- day. The Clewiston nine has ‘a 16-won and 1-loss record and is the district Class A Champions. They are also the Suncoast Conference | Miwauxee Champs and were undefeat- | Brookiya ed in conference play. The games were not orig- inally on the Key West ‘schedule but the Tigers ex- pressed a strong desire to Play the Conchs and the Athletic Association gave permission for the games to be played. Face Tough Pitcher The Conchs will run into a| wei shanded pitcher for the sec- in two weeks when they Bethea. Fee fi Sports Roundup NEW YORK UA — Following one of the coolest receptions in history | Streveort from this country’s boxing frater- nity, Max Schmeling, the former world’s heavyweight champion, is on his way back to Germany. The man who held the big title for. al- most exactly two years, ftom June 12 in 1930 to June 21 in 1992, may never be seen on these shores again. sn 3 423, Me 359 ‘Lost Pet. u Bt SSIS: | BRRERB SEE canbe (6 Be? ‘Beach at ‘Crestview John F. Merry, S01, of SURASDEVDET, triumphed over some of the best pistol shooters from Miami and Havana Sunday in a regis- tered pistol match sponsored by the Key West Gun Club. The contest was extremely close with Merry coming from behind in the last match to win, In compiling his winning score of 1887 out of 1500 possible points, Mer- | ry fired a 275 National Match Course with the .45 cal. pistol, a 554 aggregate in the center fire match and a 558 with the .22 cal. pis- tol. Second place went to M&jor Leon Dediot of the Cuban Army who had 1379 while MSGT Jesse Blanton of the MCAS, Miami was third with 1855. In the Expert class Enrique Bur- bonet of the Cuban Army was first with 1371: “J.D.” Ellis, EMC, USS H. W. Gilmore second, 1308; Jiminez of Cuba third, a. 4@ ONS BATTED IN-Rosen, Cieveland, HITS— Avila, Cleveland, 54. ‘ HOME RUNS<Rosen, Cleveland, 12° 14 enna — Consuegra, Chicago, 4, NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING Jablonski, Si TED SENORITA CONTINUES LONG HORSEBACK RIDE NEW YORK i — Senorita Ana Beker, 36, is. stopping here a few days before continuing her hor: back ride from Buenos Aires te Oc | |tawa, Canada, She arrived yester- Chuck Davey May Quit Ring After Martinez Loss By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO (4).—To all intents and purposes, Chuck Davey ap- pears through as a professional boxer, ending one of television’s first births of a national sports ). | hero. mire, TMC, of the Gilmore and third was C. H, Furneaux, AOl, of FAWTU. Individual match winners were: J. Blanton, USMC, Miami, 267. Expert Class — ist, J. F. Merry, SOL, SADD, 275. Second, D, H. Forsythe, AOC, AUW, 262. Sharpshooter Class — ist, G. Balboa Cantoni, Cuban Army, 269. Second, Robert Radillo, Cuban Ar- my, 247. Redburn, AOC, FAWTU, 252, See AOC, F. > = ond, W. C. Waymire, TMC, Gil- more, . 223, Match No. 2, Center Fire Aggre- gate — Winner, Leon Dediot, Cu- ban Army, 561. Second, E. Bur- bonet, Cuban Army, 551. Expert Class — ist, J. F. Merry, $01, SADD, 554. Second, Luis Jim- inez, Cuban Army, 540. Sharpshooter Class — 1st, G. Bal- boa Cantoni, Cuban Army,. 534. Second, R. R. Hevia, Cuban Army, 523. Marksman Class — ist, B. H. Redburn, AOC, FAWTU, 503. Sec- ond, W. C. Waymire, TMC, Gil- more, 497. Match No. 3, .22 Caliber Aggre- gate — Winner, Leon Dediot, Cuban Davey was more than self-made; he was television made. He advanced undefeated through a series of warmups, backed by the International Boxing Club, un- til he reached the top—a title with welterweight champion Gavilan 15 months ago. His bubble, incubated with pains- taking care with an eye on a na- tional following born from televi- sion, was then burst by Gavilan, who stopped him in the 10th. Vince Martinez last night in the same Chicago Stadium ring showed less mercy than Gavilan, He kept Davey, the ex-Michigan State collegiate champion, off bal- ance with strong left jabs—some- thing unheard of by a right-hander against a southpaw like Chuck. And when he threw his rights, the balding Davey was shaken down to his dancing feet. Davey went down four times—in the first round from a steaming right to the jaw; twice in the third from stiff left hooks, although Referee Frank Sikora ruled a slip on one of them; and again for an eight count in the sixth from a series of rights. . The nationally televised bout drew a ringside crowd ‘of 3,585, who contributed to a gross gate of $10,667. Davey weighed 149 and Martinez 148%, “It’s a rough statement to make that Davey is through,” said his manager, Hec Knowles, after the heartbroken boxer with a masters degree in education had been led to his dressing room. But I will recommend that he quit the ring now. He was 100 per cent in condition coming into this bout. What happened? I don’t know. His legs, he didn’t have it there. I asked that the bout be stopped after the doctor looked at Davey. “Our projected fight with Art Aragon (signed for June 25 in Los Angeles) is now out.the window.” The defeat by 25-year-old Marti- nez, the 8-5 favorite from Pater- son, N.J., and boxing’s Rookie of the Year in 1952, left Davey mak- ing the first plea to the press in his career. “Listen, fellows, give me a break,” he said in his dressing room. “Don’t ask me if I’m going to quit. Let me sleep on it a couple of days. That Martinez has the best single punch of anyone I’ve met. He doesn’t flurry like Gavilan, but that right of his— ouch! I have, no excuses for losing.” _ SPECIAL - STOCK CAR | RACE day. She left Argentina Oct. 1, 1950, and hopes to beat the distance record of an Argentine who rode a horse to New York several years TWO SPECIAL GAMES Clewiston Dist. 6 and Suncoast Conference Winners . 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