The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1954, Page 10

* Coral Gables Shades Conchs Friday, 41-34 | Key West Shaves ‘Cavalier Lead Bat Drops Tilt The Coral Gables high school basketball team forg- ed to a second quarter lead and weathered a late rally staged by the Key West Conchs to gain a 41-34 vic- tory last night before a cap- acity crowd in the high school gymnasium, To say that the game ‘was a rough and tumble con- test would be something of an understatement. Close checking was the order of the evening, a piece of strat- egy whicl resulted in a full evening of thrills and chills _ for the spectators. The contest proved one thing — once he gets his boys working smoothly, ‘Coach Win Jones may i of Gene Favors and Carbonell also aided the , cause considerably. Johnny Ken Henderson teamed points. each to pace Gables. quintet. as Key West coach Win predicted in a pre-game » the tilt .was won from . Both teams clicked i i. é int wile Seis : ables cagers capitalized on close checking and dumped in ent but the ball - hawk- |» from the field. But | Hoy 11 points from the foul line as com- pared with the Conchs’ four, And that was the difference in the ballgame. : a bay os took a 7-5 advan- age in the ope: juarter but they stret@hed peng lead to a 21- 9 edge at the half, The Cavaliers exhibited smoothly functioning plan of attack and backed it up with an effective zone defense that wouldn’t let the Conchs get under the basket, The locals had little success from the outside, The only factor that kept them in the ballgame was the ag- gressiveness that enabled them to take advantage of every mistake on the part of the visitors, The Conchs’ managed to battle it out on even terms with the Ca- valiers in the third quarter largely through the efforts. of Henriquez, who began to’hit the layups. But the locals really went to work in the fourth quarter and only a lack of time seemingly kept them from overtaking the Gables, The Conchs pulled to within ‘six Points of the lead with three min- utes to play but a pair of costly fouls hurt them. The ballgame ended as Haney dumped in a. set short. from the foul circle, It wasn’t enough, The game is the only tuneup for the Conchs who. start Gold Coast Conference competition Tuesday a- gainst their perennial rivals in South Dade. CORAL GABLES FG F TP Hl woudeeneu El uwelootwcd 15 KEY WEST Player— Henriquez ..... g QQ wl coocnoon4 TP ‘© 8 » : Bleocwon El comoann Page 10 =THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = Saturday, December 11, 1954 now at 16 Netters StartBattle For City Tennis Championship Barnes Defends Title Against A’Strong Field Sixteen local tennis play- ers started.a quest today for the city tennis champion-| ship. The first match, slated to be played at'1 p. m. today, pitted Don McLean and Joe Dominick on the Bayview Park Courts. The winner of that meeting faces trouble, however — he’ll face de- fending champion Bil 1 Barnes. Four other first round «matches were set for today. They include; Tom Barnes vs. Johnny Sellers, Harvey Sellers vs. Jack Sellers, Len Rhinehart vs. Bob Piarrot and Pete Varela vs. Charley Lott: Tomorrow’s action will pit veter- an Earl Yates and Charley Lott, Ry Nesbitt and Fred Fischel and Will Pearce and Henry Cleare. The matches are slated to get. underway at 1 p. m. on the Bay-| view Park courts. £ According to Les Jahn, city ten- nis professional and director of the tourney, the title may go to anyone of the competitors — they are that closely matched. ot Baseball Set At Wickers Stadium A doubleheader has been set * Sunday in the Island City Win- ter Baseball League. The first game will pit ‘the Poinciana Giants and the USS Bushnell and the Junior Con- chs will meet the Cuban, Club in the ightcap. 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Full-size screen 10-inch rs Built- HE al eg $299.52 ‘Mshogony color BIG TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE COME IN TODAY! EASY CAGE ACTION—Key West's Julio Henriquez (No. 24) hits the trail after sinking a layup in last night’s Coral Gables clash here. Red Stickney (No. 13) is shown in background ,along with Cavaliers’ Wiliams and Scherer.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. ANOTHER CONCH SCORE—Burly Julio Henriquez dumps in another two-pointer in losing Conch cause Friday. John Carbonell (No. 14) is shown in rear. Conchs bowed 41-34 in hard-fought contest.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. Conchs’ Indians Cop Lions’ NEW YORK #—The Cleveland Indians set two American League elub-pitching records while captur- ing most of the individual honors during the regular 1954 campaign, Official statistics released Satur- day by the league office showed lthat Mike Garcia, the Big Bear ot the Indians’ pitching staff, was ee cireuit’s earned-run leader with a mark of 2.64. He permitted 76 earned runs in 259 inr.ings. Figures compiled by ‘he Asso- ciated Press and released last Sept. 28 also listed Garcia as the earned run leader with 2.64. Early Wynn, Garcia’s teammate, topped the league’s hurlers in most innings pitched, 71, most games started, 26,-and with Bob Lemon, Share Of Records | another Indians’ mound stalwart, | produced the most victories, each had 23, | Fight Results | | By. -"Th® Associated Press NEW YORK (Madison Spuare | Garden) — Vince Martinez, 150, | Paterson, N.J., outpointed Al An-| drews, 154, Superior, Wis., 10. | SPOCANE — Sandy Saddler, 129%, New. York, outpointed Bobby Woods, 434% Spokane, 10 (non- title)” : | MANCHESTER, England—John- | mY Williams, 195, , stopped Francis Coueret, 181%, France, 4. MELBOURNE — Mario Dagata, 199, Italy, ‘outpointed Billy Pea- cock, 117%, Philadelphia, 12. 50,000 Seen For Jr. Rose Bowl PASADENA, Calif. 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