The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1954, Page 6

Nesbitt, Antink, Barnes Win In City Tennis Semi-Finals Slated Sat. In Tourney Some hot tennis action was the order of the after- noon Wednesday when the quarterfinal matches in the city tennis tournament were played at Bayview Park. When the smoke of battle thad cleared, Ray Nesbitt, Joe Antink and defending champion Bill Barnes had won their matches and mov- ed into the semi-finals to be played Saturday at 2 p. m. A fourth quarter - final match will be played this afternoon when Harvey Sellers and Les Rhinehart clash. Nesbit, gained his win when he weathered a later rally staged by 16-year-old Henry Cleare, who came within two points of upsetting his older and more experienced op- ponent. Both exhibited a coura- geous’ brand of tennis and played better when they were trailing. Antink had a lot of trouble hand- ling the serves of Charlet Lott, but finaliy defeated him, 7-5, 6-1. Veteran Johnny Sellers gave de- fending champ Bill Barnes another hard time before succumbing, 6-2, 63. Barnes will face the winner of the Sellers - Rhinehart match in Saturday's semi-finals and Antink and Nesbitt will clash in the lower bracket.: Finals were set for 2 p. m. Sun- day. « Meanwhile, the team of Barnes and Johnny Romero has entered the doubles tourney. Entries are also being accepted for the wom- en’s singles title play starting next week. “Also Rans” To Meet Friday In Carden Battle NEW YORK (#—Five years ago Bob Baker was the Golden Glove champion and Rocky Marciano was an obscure kid from Brock- ton, Mass., who had lost to Coley Wallace in an early elimination. Now Marciano. rules the roost and Baker and Wallace are in the also-ran class. What happened? For want of a better word, let’s use “desire.” Rocky had it. Noth- ing in the world could stop him whether it was Jersey Joe Wal- cott’s left hook, a cut on the head, a cut eye or a bashed nose. Neither Baker nor Wallace ever did show that overpowering will to succeed, Baker couldn't bother to train properly. He let himself get fat and adopted the “I don’t care” attitude while the money train passed him by. Wallace became preoccupied with a movie career, posing as a Joe Louis stand-in, instead of con- centrating on becoming a good fighter. Although he’s been boxing pro since 1950, he’s had only 24 fights, just two this year. Time is fast running out for both these prize prospects of 1949. They met professionally for the first time in Cleveland Oct, 1 (Baker beat Wallace in the 49 Golden Gloves) and Baker gave Wallace a sound beating. The pair meet again Friday night at Madison Square Garden. Baker is a 3-1 favorite. Baker claims he is serious now and his recent record of five Straight victories backs him up. Since he was stopped by Archie Moore March 9, he has whipped Joe Baksi, Embrel Davidson, Tox- ie Hall, Wallace and Jimmy Slade. New Golf Tourney Plans Announced NEW YORK (# — A new open tournament, to be known as the Cavaleade of Golf and aimed at replacing George S. May’s Tam 0’ Shanter festival as the sport's rich- est event, will be staged next September at Shackamaxon Coun- try Club in Scotch Plains N.J. The tourney, with $50,000 in prizes, including a $15,000 first prize, will be sponsored by a group CONCH TWO-POINTER—Big Julio Henriquez goes up in the air Tuesday to rack up two-pointer for shining Conch cause in South Dade battle. Don Pinder. LARAMIE, Wyo. — Wyoming University’s drive to regain the Skyline Conference basketball championshipship it has held sev- en of the last 11 seasons may de- pend upon the success of co-captain Harry Jorgensen, a 6 foot 6 senior forward. A trick knee troubled Jorgensen last season but an operation last spring is believed to have eliminat- ed that problem. Jorgensen is a 198 pounder who stands out in battling under the basket for rebounds and excels at close-in shooting. Although he miss- ed 10 Cowboy games last season because of the knee injury he scor- ed 243 points in 18 games to lead Wyoming point makers with an average of 13.5 points per game. Jorgensen, 21-year-old senior from Brighton, Colo., has won two previous letters but Coach Ev Shel- |ton expects Jorgensen’s play this season to rate him considera- | tion for All America. | Shelton describes Jorgensen ‘‘as | good an all-around big man as we've had here in the past 10, years.” That is high praise in view | of Wyoming’s record. Since 1943 (excluding 1945 when} the war cancelled out basketball) | the Cowboys have held the Sykline | championship seven times. Brig-| ham Young University held it three | times and Colorado A&M, for the first time last year, cracked the| stranglehold Wyoming and BYU} had on the Skyline crown. | Jorgensen is one of four seniors forming the backbone of Wyo-! ming’s team. Two-year lettermen with him are guards Nick Eliopulos, | Pete Fowler and Bob Moore. Algo | back as a junior is Ed Huse, a 6| foot 8, 230 pounder who plays cen-/ ter is sophomore Dave Bradley. —AP Newsfeatures iTrainmen Take Santa To Tots | ALBANY, Wyo. W—For months Mark and Sharon Patterson, 2- year-old twins, waved to the crew | of a Wnion Pacifie train which passed their isolated ranch home daily Tuesday the train halted at the} Looking on is Red Stickney.—Citizen Staff Photo, Cowboy Ride With Jo HARRY JORGENSEN Page 6 NEW YORK (#—The player rep resentatives of 16 big are scheduled to meet here Satu day, and we have a feeling one of the delegates, Ralph Kiner, will be smart if he throws his ) the room first to gauge the temper of his associates. There are strong indications the home run hitter :s in bad odor. What Ralphie did, as you might have read, was break the very first rule in the players’ code. He upped to his new ar bosom Hank Greenberg. general mana of the Clevel India at Hank cut season from to $40,000. Hank recovered in time ; te comply While called ori headed by Tim Holland. Long Is-| ranch, Conductor Earl L. Stark, | other than land amateur champion. Sam | wearing red suit and whiskers, | doing bus Snead is chairman of the tourna- climbed down and said: “My rein- | lows will g ment board. deer are tired so I came by train. in a hurry In announcing the new tourna-| He gave the twins a gaily | their lav ment, set at the elite, 50-year-old wrapped package and then asks them to course near Plainfield the group c'imbed aboard as the train pulled Ralph will be today said it hopes to develop the | off. The package contained an|With a censure. event into the richest in the nation while striving for “the re-estab- lishment of the East as a major | golf center.” jelectric train, | |. Elks are increasing so rapidly | | im some parts of Northwestern Uni- It took the game’s hired hand: a long time az push throu: which say the rule their sala No specific date has been set/ ted States that the herds have be-| be cut more than 25 p for the new tourney. {come too large for available feed. | single year. Before that, we hay ¢ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN pal} can fla Roundup By Gayle Talbot been told, it was not unusual for a player who had had a poor year, | or one who had been traded to a second-division club, to find his pay slashed in half, or worse. It is, therefore, a rule very dear to the hearts of the men it wa; designed to protect against greedy owners and we doubt very much they will take Kiner’s case sitting down. Our expectation is they will carry their protest to Commission- er Ford Frick and he will refuse to approve the contract, even though the American League is prepared to let it ride. Kiner pleads his is a special case. He had a mediocre season with the Chicago Cubs, and he felt ne of his teammates resented whopping salary he was draw- He believes he will have a ter chance of fitting in with the ans and making a comeback Pay more closely compares with that of his new teammates. HE WON'T SALUTE EDGEWOOD, Md. ‘®—The Army has charged Pvt. Bruce A. Wallace, 24. of Ridgewood, N. J., a draftee with ref to salute the Ameri- A court-martial has been recommended by the 2nd Army. he Army announcement no Teason was given for the refusal, Thursday, December 16, 1954 | Olson Stops Langlois In 11th Round By BOB MYERS | SAN FRANCISCO (# — Screams of anguish echoed from one sec- tor of the French boxing front to- day but the fact remains that America’s Carl (Bobo) Olson still holds a firm grip on the world middleweight championship. Olson, 26, always a cruel but seldom a killing puncher, stopped Pierre Langlois, 29 of France last night after 58 seconds of the 11th! round. | Slated for 15 rounds the nationa‘- | ly televised attraction was halted by Referee Ray Flores because of the unsightly condition of Pierre’s left brow and eyelid. A noisy crowd of 16,543 a the Cow Palace paid a gross of $107,660 which returned a net of $93,369, aft- | er taxes, | O‘son first ripped open the brow in the best round of the fight the sixth, and gave it an unmerciful lashing in the torrid 10th. _ Langlois, his chance of overtak ing the front-punching Olson fast disappearing, came out for the 11th | with the cut temporarily mended by his handlers. It took Olson but a few seconds | to start the blood pouring again, | and that’s when Flores stepped in, ined the cut and advised that risk serious eye injury. There were some boos from the gallery, mainly because they hated to see a fight stopped. Langlois’ manager Jean Breton and his voluble American rep- resentative George Kanter of New York were fuming. Barely in the dressing said in plain English: “The public was cheated. “Langlois was coasting in the 10th and 11th rounds in order to finish strong. “The doctors and referees in California are lousy. In New York they are okay.” Langlois, nursing a cut two inch- | es long and a quarter inch wide, | said nothing. Kanter said Olson butted Pierre in the 10th round. Informed of this, Olson retorted, “If anybody butted in the 10th round, it was Langlois when he weaved and shook his head in the corner.” Olson, shuffling, chopping in one round, standing off and slashing away from long range in another, was far in front at the finish. Flores and Judge Jack Downey had him in front under Cali- fornia’s 11-point-per-round scoring system, 5914-50%. Judge Vern By- bee scored it 59-51. The Associ- ated Press card read 5914-50!2. Fordham Drops Football After | Heavy Losses NEW YORK For the fifth | time: in its 71-year history—speck- | led with great teams and brilliant | players—Fordham University has | decided to drop football, this time perhaps for good. On the four other occasions it | discontinued the sport various reas- | j}ons were at hand. This time it’s the “continued financial loss” the | | university has suffered through re- cent years, with no hope of im-| provement in the future. The Rey. Laurence J. McGinley, | president of the university, nailed the cause in a letter to alumni | which was released with the an-| nouncement of the end of football | at Fordham yesterday. “Friends and alumni,” he wrote, “like to read about (our football) ; |in the Sunday papers. The trouble! simply is that so few want to. atch it on Saturday—and the) |tickets are sold for Saturday.” | The end of Fordham football, an- |nounced by Jack Coffey, graduate manager of athletics, came after a horrible 1954 season for the |Rams. They won only one game |and tied one while losing seven. 'They also lost Coach Ed Danow- ski, an all-time Fordham great and head coach since 1946, who resigned after the past season. The decision to drop football was | judged essential to the university’s best interests. In his letter to alumni, McGinley wrote “No part of Fordham 1s conduct- ed for profit. Fordham has a great task to do in preparing its 100,000 students of today intellectually and |spiritually to be citizens of tomor- lrow . Among intercollegiate sports football has a special place in American tradition as a means of heightening student spirit and increasing alumni solidarty . . . The unfortunate fact remans that, four years of cooperative endeav-| ors, we have run out of money for football and must balance our) books.” By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK —Willie Howard Mays, spectacular center fielder of the world champion New York Giants, was voted today the Most Valuable Player in the National League for 1954 by the Baseball Writers’ Assn. of America. The young outfielder. whose amazing exploits at bat and in the field were prime factors ia the Giants’ pennant and World Series |suecess, was the overwhelming choice of the 24-man committee, receiving 283 points as compared | to 217 for runner-up Ted Kluszew- ski of Cincinnati. The 23-year-old wonder boy was named on every bauot. He re ceived 16 first-place votes, 2 for day room, | Kanter, who speaks good French, | Appeal Backfires For Three “Punks” BOSTON (#—An appeal from lower court sentence for assault on two naval officers proved to. to be an unwise move for three young men. Each was_ sentenced to six months at the lower court pro-| Dr. Robert Laddon, State Ath. ceedings, They appealed to Supe- tetic Commission physician, exam-| "10" Court, where Judge Edmund | R. Dewing yesterday termed them let Langlois continue would be to| °Wardly young punks” and hand- | ed out the following stiffer sen-| tences: Vincent Flemmi, 22, a house of correction term of 2% years; Vin-| cent J. Fricia, 27, 18 months; and| | Salvatore J. Balliro 18, an in- definite term in Concord Reforma- tory. HALF-WAY CHANGE OKLAHOMA CITY — Yasushi Sekiguchi, Tokyo newspaperman jworking for the Oklahoma - City | Times under State Department ‘sponsorship, says he has become at least half Americanized in his |five weeks here. He said he had a dream “half in English, half in Japanese.” NOW OPEN The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER Lounge - Bar Package Store 7 AM. ~1 A.M. Daily 313% Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE second, 3 for third and 1 each for fourth, fifth and seventh, Kluszew- | ski, the Redlegs’ slugging first baseman, received 7 first-place votes, 6 for second, 2 for third 5 for fourth and 1 each for fifht sixth and eighth. Pitcher Johnny Antonelli of the Giants finished third in the voting with 154 points; outfielder Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers, |fourth, 135; and shortstop Al Dark of the Giants, fifth, with 110, Dark | received the other first-place vote Stan Musial of the St.Louis Car- |dinals was sixth with 97 votes fol-| \lowed by Robin Roberts of the | Mays Named Most Valuable Player By Sportswriters His sensational ru to-the-plate catch of Vic 450-foot drive to deepest which saved the opening the recent World Serie ed as one of made in any fall classic. ROLLE SKATING MON., WED., THURS., FRI. and SAT. 420 Sout back- Wertz’s center an Philadelphia Phils with 70. Then | — came Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee |Braves with 60, Pee Wee Reese! lof Brooklyn, 53, and Gil Hodges, | also of the Dodgers 40. | Playing his first full season in |the majors Mays captured the | National League batting champion- ! | ship with .345, led the circuit with ; | 13 triples and also won the slugging ;, | title with an impressive .667 per- centage. His extra-base output | included 33 doubles, 13 triples and 41 homers. He also was up among the leaders with 110 runs batted | jin. | The lithe, 5-foot-102 native of Fairfield, Ala., was just as spec-| tacular in the field. His amazing jeatches and throws had veteran observers comparing him to such former center field standouts as | Tris Speaker, Joe DiMaggio, Terry Moore and Max Carey. A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 «. 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