The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 15, 1954, Page 6

| Conch Cagers Defeat South Dade, 35-27 Henriquez Paces Locals To Gold Coast Victory The Key West high school basketball team forg- ed into the lead in the Gold} Coast Conference last night with a 35-27 victory over the South Dade cagers but they’ll have their troubles later in the season when they lose two of their key performers due to mid-year graduation. Coach Win Jones, who express- ed considerable satisfaction with the performance turned in by his fast-improving quintet last night, may well lose a little more hair near the end of January when bur- | ly Julio Henriquez and hard - fight- ing John Carbonell turn in their suits and an end illustrious athle- | tie careers for the Red and White. Henriquez, with 17 points, and Carbonell, with some highly valu- able rebound work, played key roles in last night’s victory — which was more impressive than the score would indicate. As if that weren’t enough, Jones received word last night that Bill Haney, a starting guard who cer- tainly would have been of value in the Gold Coast race, is leaving for California. His father, a Navy man, has been transferred and he turned in his last game for the Conchs Tuesday. Being groomed to replace Hen- Tiquez and Carbonell are a pair of Jayvee performers, Paul Higgs and Chuck Bonovitch. Last night’s ballgame, a defen- sive victory for the Conchs, saw them go into an early lead and hold it to the finish. The halftime score showed a 19- 4 edge. Henriquez led the scoring with 11 points — to give him an aver- age of 18.5 for the Conchs first two starts. Rangy Gene Favors had 10 counters for the Conchs while Car- bonell and Yates starred defensive- ly. Blossoming out with a hybrd de- fense showing four of the Conchs checking man-to-man and the fifth operating in a zone, the locals held the Rebels down to just 27 points. They were paced by Kenny An- drews, with 10 points. The fast - improving Conch Jay- vees last night dropped a 43 - 26 decision to the South Dade B squad. Bonovitch and Higgs dumped in 10 points each for the Conchs. KEY WEST Player— Henriquez Stickney Favors .. Carbonell Haney . Yates Hoppy Santana Sileseoneaes wloosscoconnm Burkett Tyre . Beard Booth Eaker Kufelot Bl ronowmonoa® wl eccconcconm Totals— Cuban Club Downs Poinciana Giants In Winter League The Cuban Club gained a 16 - 4 victory Tuesday over the Poincia- na Giants in an Island City Win- ter Baseball League game in the Wickers Field Stadium. Bunzy Villareal hurjed for the Cubans and allowed but five hits.. Southard allowed ten hits for the losers. In the field, Lewis, Lastres and Leon starred for the winners while Jones and Arrenson shone for the losers. Nilimo pos aceon CAGE MELEE—The Conchs’ John Carbonell (No, 14) and Julio Henriquez (No. 24) exhibit some of the rebound work that played a big part in their 35-27 victory over South Dade last night in Gold Coast conference start. Stu Yates (No. 3) looks on.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. NEW YORK (1%—Just as every- one has foreseen for several weeks’ the Cleveland Browns and the De- troit Lions of the National Football League are going to meet at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland | next Sunday in what might easily | qualify as the most meaningless contest in the history of the sport. No effort will be made here to! stop them, or even to seek a} change of venue at this late date. All we intend to say is that those big fellows are going to look a little silly out there, not knowing just what they are supposed to do or why they should have gotten caught in such a comedy. In the event you missed the first act, the game originally was} scheduled for Oct. 3 in the Cleve- land arena, it not having occurred | to anyone in the pro football | Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 15, 1954] \£ Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot didn’t play much, as a matter of fact, but sufficient to knock out the football game. So they set the contest up to Dec. 19, which is the coming Sun- day, and hoped against hope that it still might have a bearing on the outcome of the race at this late date. It will not, of course, because each team already has clinched the title in its division and now is all set for the cham- pionship playoff at Cleveland a week from Sunday. Even so, the league could have salvaged much from the mess if it had listened to a proposal to transfer the “preview” game to Detroit. As that city’s fans will not get to see the two big teams play even once this season, they might have picked Briggs Stadium. But the league said no, that the league that the Cleveland baseball tickets already had been printed,| _ * techack, dinished Ah club might be playing in a World|or something equally inane, and) @U@ttetback, finished the season Series on that date. The Indians | so here we go. IOWA CITY—If Carl Cain con-; tinues to utilize his shooting and} rebounding ability he can be onc| of the best players in Iowa history. That’s how Coach Frank (Bucky) O'Connor rates his 6 foot 3 sharp shooting forward. “Cool Carl,” a title tagged on the imperturbable athlete by Big Ten sportswriters, was only a sopho- more last spring when the 20-year-| old native of Freeport, Ill., was] chosen the team’s top player by| his Hawkeye teammates. | A jump shot specialist, Cain net- ted 283 points for a 12.9 average. He had a shooting percentage of -427 while starring for a sophomore aggregation that finished in the Big Ten runnerup spot with a 17-5) record, | Tt was Cain’s versatility that! caused O'Connor to say: “I am constantly being surprised at Cain’s amazing reactions. He comes from nowhere to intercept a pass, and his rebounding is amazing as he outleaps much taller men.” Cain is one half of the Hawkeyes’ Freeport combination which got its basketball start with a tennis ball and an oatmeal box in high school. Putting tennis balls into the small | box sharpened the accuracy of | Cain and McKinley (Deacon) Dav- {is, who has held down an Towa! | starting spot the last two seasons. ‘lowa Coach Sees For Cain CARL CAIN OLSON TAKES ON League action will resume Sun-| Both were all-staters at Freeport LANGLOIS TONIGHT day with a doubleheader. In the first game, starting at 1 p. m., the USS Bushnell will tackle the Cu- ban Club and in the nightcap, the Junior Conchs and the Poinciana Giants will cross bats. The standings: Cuban Club USS Bushnell Junior Conchs Poinciana Giants TOO GENEROUS SAVANNAH, Ga. “#—Police said that after snatching a woman’s purse, Willie Haynes, 31, paused | while fleeing to hand 24 cents to a beggar on the street. He was captured shortly afterwards. jand members of the 1951 Illinois | | state championship team. Cain was | |a reserve until his senior year| | when he replaced Davis as center. | He scored 560 points that season. A head injury to Davis las cember gave Cain his chance on| | the varsity. Cain again measured | jup asa repecemient, finishing sec-| ond to Bill Logan as Iowa's lead- ing point getter. | In addition to team honors, Cain | made The Associated Press Big} Ten second team. | Coach O'Connor describes Cain} as a level-headed athlete, very| | easy to teach. In early efforts this season O'Connor is even more im- pressed since Cain is learning to do things smoothly and almost ef- fortlessly—AP Newsfeatures SAN. FRANCISCO .® — World middleweight champion Carl (Bo bo) Olson of San Francisco amkes the third defense of the crown he won 14 months ago when he meets t De-| pierre Langlois of France over the} 15-round route tonight. The smart boys of boxing firmly believe that 26-year-old Bobo, a product of rough-and-tumble alley fighting in his native Honolulu, wi turn back the challenge of the 29- year-old Frenchman. THEY DIDN'T LEARN MIAMI, Fla. uw — Robert M Stahl, 16, suffered a possible skull fracture last it when two cars returning from a Safe Driving Day rally collided. | Pay Cut In ‘49ers’ Perry Wins Ground Gaining Title PHILADELPHIA (®—Joe Perry | |of the San Francisco 49ers today | | clinched, unofficially, the National | Football League’s ground-gaining | title. He gained 1,049 yards in 12 games. | The season officially doesn’t end | until next Sunday when Cleveland plays Detroit at Cleveland, but Perry is far in front. In fact, his | ball-carrying mark is the second | best in league history, behind the 1,146-yard mark set by Philadel- phia’s Steve Van Buren. Thus Perry retained the title he {won last year with 1,018 yards. |This year he carried the ball 173 ‘times for an average 6.1 yards |per try. Second and far behind Perry, was another 49er, John Henry | Johnson, with 681 yards. Los An- | geles’ Paul Younger finished third | with 610, barely ahead of team- ;mate Dan Towler with 599. New York’s Eddie Price was fifth with 555. Norm Van Brocklin, Los Angeles with | by | ter the highest average gained assing—10.14 yards. He at- 260 passes, completed 129 \ for yards and 13 touchdowns. Otto aham, Cleveland Browns, was second with an 8.88 yard aver- age; Ed _ Bratkowski Chicago Bears, third, 8.36; and Bobby | Layne, Detroit, fourth 7.79, ‘Kiner Reques a) Indian Contract By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three of baseball’s brtghtest stars were signed to 1955 contracts today and one of them — former. National League home run king | Ralph Kiner—in an unprecedented move asked for and received a j} pay cut he said amounted to bout 40 per cent.” Kiner, who was bought from the Chicago Cubs by the Cleveland |Indians last month, will receive | about $40,000 from the American League champions next season. The New York Yankees an- nounced the signing of Jerry Cole- man, veteran infielder, while the |New York Giants got the name cf third baseman Hank Thompson on the dotted line. It was estimated that Thompson signed for $20,000 and Coleman for about $16,000, “IT want my salary in the future to be determined by my per- } formance,” said Kiner, in announc- | ing his startling decision. The Cubs reportedly paid Kiner about $60,000 - $65.000 in 1954, and under baseball rules he was protected | ; against a slash of more than 25 per cent. “L was afraid that some other s would think I was setting ad precedent, but I don’t feel that way. This is a personal thing | for me,” explained Kiner, who was Player ‘representative in the National League “When I went from Pittsburgh to Chicago (in June, 1953) I felt there was some animosity—not among the players, but generally. |T want to avoid that sert of thing. |I think I have four or five good | years left, and I want to get off to a fresh start in the American League.” \of Ohio might cause some trouble | | against third rate Illinois. jone of the South’s terrors, plays \Mamie Honored By JOHN CHANDLER The Associated Press | High-ranking college basketball | teams headed by LaSalle, Illinois, | Dayton and Missouri spotlight -|| fairly heavy court program To-| night with old man upset lurking | in the background. | Two undefeated teams, Dayton! (4-0) and Louisville (6-0) meet in what may be the top tilt of the| evening at Dayton. Dayton is: ranked No. & and Louisville No. | 12 in this week’s AP poll. LaSalle, No. 1, should have noj trouble at Lafayette, while Miami North Carolina State, No. 4 and | at South Carolina, Arkansas in- vades Missouri (No. 6); Duquesne (No. 9) entertains College of Pa- cific at Pittsburgh; and Notre Dame (No. 20), travels to Purdue. Last night N.C. State’s Wolfpack made it six straight without defeat! FT. MEADE, Md. (#—A woman who spent four years as an Army wife here more than 30 years ago| returned yesterday as the First Lady of the land. Mrs. Dwight D.: Eisenhower vis- ited the post for a luncheon given! for her by the Ft. Meade Officrs’| Wives Club. | Sh also won the gratitude of an| unidentified airman whose car had run out of gas on the Baltimore- | Washington Expressway She gave him a ride,in her chauffeur-driven sedan as she was en pute to Meade. jte Wake Forest {by trouncing Clemson 112-72 in an, fray. After running up a 58-28 halftime Atlantic Coast Conference lead, North Carolina state reserves took charge. Niagara’s 10th ranked Purple Eagles outlasted Cornell 71-65 aft- er a see-saw second half duel. -Ed Fleming got 20 points as Niagara made it 4-1 for the season. George Washington, No. 11, gained revenge over Wake Forest 94-82 as GW’s Corky Devlin potted 37 points. George Washington has 2 3-1 record—the only loss being in the season opener, 107-86. Wake Forest was tied for 17th Place in the poll with Wichita this week, and Wichita kept its record unblemished (3-0) by downing Re- | gis 80-53. Kansas ran its home court vic- tory string to 31 straight by down. ing Tulsa 73-66. Tulsa had been unbeaten in four games. Top-Rated LaSalle Cagers Play Lafayette In Court Headliner Colgate, also games up to last r by Pitt 80-67 jtucky defeated ( Washington drew defeat 64-55, Baylor s in dominat be over Oklahoma Detroit won its f defeating Buff 61, while Southern California made 4-0 by downing the University of Ha- waii for the second night in a row, 74-54. 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