The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1954, Page 6

gE Bill Barnes | Cops Casa Marina| Singles Tennis Championship) Harvey Sellers Bows In Finals Of Tournament The finals of the Casa Marina Fall Tennis Tourna- ment were held Sunday af- ternoon in perfect tennis weather at the Casa Marina -Courts, Lt. Bill Barnes -con- inlted his winning ways by beating Harvey Sellers in the singles final by the scores of 6-1, 6-2. The doub- les.crown went to Lt. Barnes and Charlie Lott who de- ‘eated Jack and Harvey Sel- ithusiasts who es included Mr. x¢ hotel, and Mr. Emmett Con- the manager. They saw Lt. win the first set of the sin- short order. The sec- Harvey Sellers find the best tennis of k piace in the first the second.set. With ed at 2-2, Lt. Barnes AUeREGR Peat Fase _ Bee Pee ere ad eee iF SESE Ta y sponsoring the tournaments on 1¢ beautiful Casa Marina courts. Many layed arter finals, Nesbitt fights f every point and will be a tough in future matches. , outstanding young default due to ill- ro the tournament of to be a crucial match. s matches, form held finals, but Barnes who were playing to- first time, had trou- ‘leisubduing Don McClean and. ) owWillis in a quarter final match a went to 6-1, 11-9. ‘xe City Championships which will 2 held early in December, and hich features the singles compe- Xing Roundup By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on iss se ag and Sac- a "s Joey » two fast oung lightweights, meet tonight :1@ television: 10-rounder at New ad if he can get by the flashy irooklynite,~ he'll be in line for leaty of action on network shows. The other Monday night network lout, from ’s. Eastern ‘arkway Arena, will cates a pair «& punching middleweights, veter- : @ Gil Turner of Philadelphia and ,oung Ray Drake of New York. Drake beat Floyd Patterson wice in the amateurs but hasn’t eveloped as fast as Patterson in ae pros, Drake's record. is 16-3, Turner ‘as won 46 of his 52 scraps. ABC will telecast at 10 p.m., .CASA MARINA TOURNEY—Pictured at the net following the finals of the Casa Marina Fall Tennis Tournament are, from the left: Jack Sellers, doubles runner-up; singles champ Bill Barnes, who also was a member of the winning doubles team; Harvey Sellers, singles and doubles run- ner-up, and Charlie Lott, of the winning doubles team.—Photo by Spillman. NEW YORK, @—Riding race horses in this day when any event grossing less than $100,000 scarcely rates mention on the sports pages must be one of the nicest lines of work a young man can get into. The hours are right, the surround-’ ings pleasant and the pay terrific. Take Eric Guerin, who had the forethought to. ride the winning horse in three 100-grand-plus events | ta: this summer — the Belmont Stakes, Hawthorne Gold Cup and Garden State Stakes — which netted ‘his employers a total of $301,645 in purses. Working on a straight 10 per cent basis, as jockeys custom- arily do, the little guy from Mar- ingouin, La., earned himself more pe $30,000 for the three quick Ss. Roundup By Gayle Talbot Three other riders, Willie Shoe- maker, Ray York and Johnny Long- den, also plucked three major prizes each from the list of 27 events grossing more than 100 grand apiece. Shoemaker’s trio of firsts earned him $29,190, York’s three (including the Kentucky Derby) were good for $25,995, and Longden took home $22,410 before xes. It occasions some surprise to note that the old master Eddie Arcaro was hunched over the win- ner in only two of the loadéd ¢las- sics, the Arlington and Belmont fu- turities. All the two jobs paid him was $18,136. The decision of the sponsors of the annual football tussle between former Maryland Col- named head tennis profes- Casa Marina Hotel. Mrs. holder of the Whitman Cup in 1949 and 1950, has played exhibition matches with such tennis greats as Alice Marble and Katherine Winthrop. She has taught the game at Winchester, Mass.; Honolulu, and Key West. Immediately after the announcement of Mrs..McKenna‘s signing she revealed that the Casa Marina courts would be made available to local tennis | the professional champions and the | college all-stars at Chicago to have a pro coach tutor the collegians next year strikes us as a wise move, especially afte? the distress- ing exhibition put on by the all- stars in the most recent contest. } It had become apparent that a | college coach, not having played | against the professionals or per- in action, was gravely handicapped in attempting on short notice to knit a defense capable of solving |the intricate attack of the money | clubs. The pro mentor will be vast- ly better qualified to give the col- | lege heroes a chance for their lives and the public an exhjbition worth watching. ‘Shifts Aired Minor League Meeting Today By JOE REICHLER HOUSTON (®#—The New York Yankees’ efforts to place ‘their homeless Kansas City American League franchise in Denver and the St. Louis Cardinals’ plan to shift their Columbus club to Oma- ha reached the “showdown” stage today as the minor leagues pre- pared to open their annual con- vention. With the Dec. 1 deadline for any franchise shift only 48 hours away, officials of the clubs and leagues involved were kneedeep in spe- cial sessions and private caucuses hoping to bring baseball’s newest and biggest headache to some sort of solution. The American Assn. and the Western League scheduled sepa- rate meetings before tangling in a joint session later in the day. In the meantime, officials of the Yankees, Cardinals, Denver and Omaha clubs were engaged in pri- vate conferences. Realizing that the ultimate de- cision reached at these meetings and conferences could lead to baseball’s greatest realignment of teams, other leagues held off their meetings until the picture cleared. This much was known. The Yankees want to move their Kansas City AA franchise to Den- ver, currently in the Class A West- ern League. The Cardinals are ready to vacate Columbus and switch that AA franchise to Oma- ha, also in the Western. The Cardi- nals, incidentally, also own the Omaha franchise. The independ- ently owned Denver club is op- erated by Bob Howsam. The Yankees reportedly have of- fered $50,000 for the Denver fran- chise. This has been refused. Western League directors have re- fushed to’ set any price and have challenged the American Assn. to initiate draft for its territory pro- cedures as permitted under the rules. The Yankees prefer negotiation to draft for two reasons. First, they would like to settle the mat- ter peaceably. Second, a draft vic- tory would still leave them with- out a ball park, which they would be forced to either rent or pur- chase from Howsam. The Yankees don’t want to buy the Denver park and Howsam doesn’t want to lease it. The Cardinals-Omaha situation is not so involved. Draft is out of the question there since Omaha is Cardinal owned. Besides, only one city from a league can be drafted, according to baseball law. |haps not even having seen them: ; Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, November 29, 1954 Bow! Rimes Set As Season Ends By JOHN CHANDLER 1 The Associated Press Eight college football teams led by such. postseason veterans as| Southern California 2nd Georgia} Tech made up the cast today for} the Rose, Sugar, Orange and Cotion Bowls — the four major New| Year’s Day grid attractions. Duke, champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, rounded out the | group when the league athletic di-| rectors chose it to play in Miami’s | Orange Bowl against Nebraska of the Big Seven. Duke ended its regu- Jar season with a 47-12 thumping of North Carolina. ‘ One more bowl announcement is expected sometime later today when the Gator Bowl selection committee picks two teams to play in the Dec. 31 affair at Jackson- ville, Fla. This is the lineup’ for the Big Four on Jan. 1: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif. — Ohio State (9-0) vs. Southern Cali- fornia (8-3), Sugar. Bowl, New Orleans—Navy (1-2) vs, Mississippi (9-1). Orange Bowl, Miami — Duke (7-2-1) vs. Nebraska (6-4). Cotton Bowl, Dallas — Arkansas (8-2) vs. Georgia Tech (7-3). The Sugar Bowl grabbed Navy and Mississippi late Saturday with- in minutes after the teams had scored victories in their season’s final games. Navy accepted a bid to New Orleans after rocking Army 27-20 in the annual service clash before more than 100,000 specta- tors at Philadelphia. Mississippi blanked arch rival) Mississippi State 14-0 to capture the Southeastern Conference cham- Browns, Lions Pionship and earn an invitation to the Sugar Bowl. Although the Cotton Bowl has had Arkansas, the Southwest Confer- ence champs, for a week, the other half of the Dallas classic had to wait until Georgia Tech whipped Georgia 7-3. Arkansas wound up with a 19-0 win over Houston. Southern California and Ohio State ended their conference sched- ule a week: ago. But the Trojans lost 23-17 to Notre Dame Saturday. Nebraska, assured of the Orange Bowl for a week, wound up its sea- son Friday night in Honolulu by belting Hawaii 50-0. A scattering of games headed by the Notre Dame-Southern Metho- dist nationally televised game from Dallas winds up the regular season this Saturday. ' Southern Methodist defeated Tex- as Christian Saturday 21-6. Okla- hema defeated Oklahoma A&M 21-0 to wind up its season with a 10-0 record. Miami defeated Florida 14-0, Au- burn shut out Alabama 28-0, Van-| derbilt blanked Tennessee 25-0, Clemson thumped The Citadel 59-0, | Louisiana State edged Tulane: 14-13, | and West Virginia defeated Virgin- ia 14-10 in the main Southern tilts. In the East Villanova won its first game of the season by club- bing Fordham 41-0, and Boston Col- lege whipped an old rival, Holy Cross, 31-13, Rice defeated Baylor 20-14 and knocked the bears out of a chance to tie Arkansas for the Southwest Conference crown. Arizona defeat- ed Wyoming 42-40, Texas Tech downed Hardin-Simmons 61-19, and San Jose State defeated New Mex- ico 26-14. “No Exeuses” By BEN OLAN = The Associated Press. The Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions had the conference titles in the National Football League all but mathematically wrapped up today following a hec- tic Thanksgiving weekend that saw several of the contenders “gobbled up” in the shambles. Barring miracles in the form of sharp reversals of form, it appeats that the Browns and Lions, titans of the pro game, will meet for the championship next month for the third straight time. While Cleveland moved closer to the clincher by handing its closest pursuers, the New York Giants, a 16-7 setback, the idle Lions saw the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers drop out of con- tention, leaving only the Chicago Bears in the race. The best the Bears can do is tie Detroit for the Western Conference lead. They can do that only if the Lions lose all of their three re- maining games and the Bears win the pair they have left. Cleveland can nail down its fifth Eastern Conference crown by win- ning two of:three, no matter what the Giants and Philadelphia Ea- gles, in a second-place deadlock, do. The Browns’ important. triumph over New York highlighted yes- terday’s action. In other games, the Bears downed Los Angeles 2i- 13, Baltimore dumped San Fran- cisco 17-13, Philadelphia whipped Washington 41-33 and Pittsburgh nipped the Chicago Cardinals 20-17. Detroit, 28-24 victors over Green Bay Thanksgiving day, had the day off. Cleveland’s impregnable defense For Beaten Army Gridders | By ORLO’ ROBERTSON PHILADELPHIA, W—Army of- fered no alibis for its 27-20 defeat by a fired-up Navy football team Saturday but there are many who questioned, the Cadets’ kickoff strategy and the calling for a pass for what could have bezn the tying touchdown when they had been rip- ping the Middies’ line asunder, Fired with the knowledge Sugar Bowl assignment awaited them should they win or even tie, the Middies lacked only a few yards of matching the Cadets in yards gained on the ground and made three of their five completed Passes good for touchdowns, Army gained 265 yards rushing to Navy’s 259 and picked up 98 in the air to the Midshipmen’s 75. Each completed five passes. In the second period Army re- covered a fumble on the 3-yard line. The recovery led to the first of two touchdowns that Army scored within a minute of each other late in that period, giving them the only lead, 20-14, they en- joyed all day, After the Army had gone ahead on Pete Vann’s 42-yard pass to Bob Kyasky, the Cadets came up with one of their questionable kickoffs. is one was an onside kick that went only to the Navy 47. Army thought it could fool the alert Mid- dies and get another quick TD. But short kickoffs were common for the Cadets,even though Head Coach Earl Blaik said it wasn’t planned that way. In addition to the onside kick, kickoffs by Army’s Ralph Chesnauskas were so short that Navy was able to put the ball in play on its 38, 41, 38 and 42. The Middies marched to touch- again played a vital role in its game with the Giants. So stalwart were the Browns’ defenders that New York gained a net of only four yards rushing and their passes picked up only 64 more yards. The Giants defense did right well too, but it was unable to stop Otto Graham, who completed 16 aerials and bucked over for Cleveland’s lone touchdown, Lou Groza, as usual, chipped in—this time with three field goals. Herb Johnson ran back a Browns punt 48 yards for the only New York TD. MANY MOURNERS WATERVILLE, Vt. — Mrs, Evalyn Burns Tanner died yes- terday at 106, leaving 3 sons, 3 daughters, 36 grandchildren and some 150 descendants in the fourth, fifth and sixth generations. K downs after two of the kicks, in- cluding the one that gave them a 21-20 halftime lead. ‘In the fourth quarter came Vann’s questionable call of a pass Play after an intercepted pass had | stopped the Middies three yards short of a touchdown. Pat Uebel PENSACOLA STALWART—Halfback Ted Martin, national ¢ol- legiate rushing champ in 1953, is an example of the sort of football talent the Pensacola Goshawks will bring to Key West Friday for their Conch Bowl game with the Shaw Air Force Base eleven. 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