The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1954, Page 10

First Key West Bowling Clinic Scheduled Monday Public Invited To Session At Rollaway Lanes Key West’s first bowling clinic will be held Monday *at the Rollaway Lanes, 1028 “Truman Avenue. * Slated to start at 2:30, the “clinic is open to all interest- ed in bowling. Prospective Smembers of the newly form- ed teenage bowling league are particularly invited to attend. The clinic will be under ‘the direction of Chief C. H. Lewis, of the USS Wilkie ‘and will cover organization ‘and administration of league bowling as well as courtesy “pnd respect and play on the alleys. Members of the following teenage teams will attend: | SVFW, St. Josephs School, ‘Lions, K of C, Kiwanis and Rotary. Bowling in Key West, which has been in progress for only about a year is fast becoming one of the Island City’s most popular sports. Drills Slated For Miami All-Star Came MIAMI (#—Football talent from all parts of the country continued to pour into Miami today to begin for the Shrine’s i s night college all star football game. Coach Andy Gustafson of Miami, in charge of the South squad,called for a practice session at 2:30 p. m. North Head Coach Ivy Williamson of Wisconsin said he would hold an afternoon workout if enough of his players were on hand. Wiltiamson arrived last night and his assistant for the annual charity game, Bernie Crimmins of Indiana, was expected today, Jim Tatum of Maryland, who will assist Gustaf- son, also arrived last night. Both coaches have 25-man squads, Gustafson, whose South team won last year, said this year’s edition is the best ever. “We plan little scrimmage if any,” he said. “You need little time to prepare a team with the caliber of players we have. All of the boys seem to be in good physi- cal shape. They’re the best bunch of football players we have had on the South team since the game was inaugurated.” Stars on the South team include two All-Americas, center Kurt Burris of Oklahoma and end Frank McDonald of Miami. All-America fullback Alan (The Horse) Ameche of Wisconsin heads the North ros- ter. © i Howe, Gallatin, Yost Display Pluck In Iron Man Activity [Baker Wants EDDIE YOST There are innumerable 40-min- ute basketball players, 60-minute goal tenders in hockey and several big leaguers who during a given season play every game. But the real hardy perennials, competing season after season and compiling a consecutive game streak, are ‘the true iron men in sports. Harry (The Horse) Gallatin in basketball, Gordie Howe in hockey and Eddie Yost in baseball fit the iron man category. Gallatin, 27, and the 6 foot 6 re- bound star of the New York Knick- erbockers in the National Basket- ball Assn., began the current cam- paign with 447 consecutive games. He has played every Knick game since he turned pro at the start of the 1948-49 season. Along about February the former Northeast Missouri State College athlete from Wood River, Ml., will have played 500 straight games. That’s one of the goals for which he’s shooting. Last season he made 1,089 rebounds for 72 games, a new pro record. In his past six seasons with the Knicks he has scored 4,- 637 points. Howe, 26 and a native of Floral, Sask., began the current National Hockey League season with the Detriot Red Wings with a 372-game streak. However, a Nov. 3 shoulder injury in Toronto forced him to miss a game after having played 382 straight league .tests. Howe, leading NHL point scorer the last four seasons, began his streak in Toronto, Jan. 23, 1949. Yost, by sheer determination, kept his streak going last fall after suffering a slight concussion in his 804th consecutive American League game as third baseman for the Open Evenings ‘til 9 P.M. for Your Convenience Until Christmas NEED CASH CHRISTMAS? “We Like To Make Loans” PHONE FIRST...... IF YOU LIKE...... YOU CAN GET UP TO $300. CASH QUICKLY Furniture Auto - Signature Shop for a Merry Christmas with ease and repay us with our new easy payment plan 705% DUVAL ST. Key West, Fla, PHONE Alan D. Saver Manager 2-3574 OUR 24th YEAR OF PUBLIC SERVICE HARRY: GALLATIN Washington Senators. In a_ night game on Sept. 17, an errant pitch by Boston’s Russ Kemmerer hit him over the ear. With the consent of his manager, then Bucky Har- ris, in Washington’s remaining games by playing half innings at third base and then being replaced in the lineup. Page 10 By JACK STEVENSON LOS ANGELES (#—Leo Duro- cher of baseball’s world champion New York Giants, named mana- ger of the year in a landslide vote, said today: “The players ought to get that award. I don’t know how you can arrange to give it to all the fellows on my club but that’s where it belongs. I didn’t get a hit or field a ball all summer.” Durocher climaxed a_ brilliant year by leading the Giants to a four-game sweep over the Cleve- land Indians in the World Series. He received 316 of the 426 votes cast by sports writers and sports- casters throughout the nation in the annual Associated Press poll. Al Lopez of Cleveland was sec- ond with 32 votes, followed in order by Birdie Tebbetts of Cincinnati, Charlie Grimm of Milwaukee and Paul Richards of the Chicago White Sox. Casey Stengel of the 1 pilot four of the previous five years, was first on only seven ballots. NEW YORK (#—Unless early re- turns are misleading, a throwback to ol? Jay Hanna (Dizzy) Dean is about to burst upon the baseball scene in the person of Karl Spoon- er, the left-handed young extro- vert who reports to the Brooklyn Dodgers next March 1. The kid | seems to believe in himself the | way the great man did when he | joined the St. Louis Cardinals 22 years ago, Spoone? is the “ew York state pheerom who in nis first big league | start last Sept. 22 struck out 15 Gi- | ants and practically paralyzed the newly crowned National League champions 3-0. A few days later, to prove it was no accident, he | whiffed an even dozen Pittsburgh | Pirates. They were a couple of | such strutting, overwhelming per- formances as ol’ Diz loved to put on for his public. And now the newcomer with the jumping fast ball is oiling up his tonsils and even talking like his illustrious predecessor. Recovering THE KEY WEST CITIZEN New York Yankees, chosen the No. | 4 GORDIE HOWE Yost, 28, and a Brooklyn native, will start the 1955 season with 813 straight games. He is one of the few major. leaguers who never played in the minors. Yost may never come close to Lou Gehrig’s 2,130 straight games with the Yankees but the Senator is intent on giving it a good try. Saturday, December 18, 1954 Durocher Named Manager Of Year Durocher feels the job will be tougher next year. “We've got to fight twice as hard. This one is in the record books. It’s all over. Now everyone will be shooting at us. We've got to try, work and play harder.” He wouldn’t make a prediction on the 1955 race other than to say he thinks Milwaukee will be tough and Brooklyn is always that way. The Giants’ series sweep showed the 48-year-old skipper as a master strategist as he won his first world championship in 15 years of man- aging. Against Cleveland his choice of pinch hitters and relief pitchers was phenomenally successful. “Sure,” he says. “I tap a fellow on the shoulder and tell him, ‘go up there and hit.’ But it was the players who got the hits. I didn’t. If they’d struck out where would I have been? “You know,” Leo concluded, | ‘I’ve never had a finer vacation players made that possible.” Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot from a knee operaton which he figures should increase his effec- tiveness about 50 per cent, he says he doesn’t expect to have any trouble at all with Willie Mays of the Giants, who has just been ap- pointed the league’s Most Valuable Player. He says he has Willie’s number. Even in his greatest year, 1934, | when he was winning 30 and losing only 7, Dean never stuck his neck out farther. It is on the record, of | course, that when Diz announced he was going to cool off a batter, er any number of batters, he al- most invariably did so, and laughed at his victims in the pro- cess. It remains to be seen wheth- er Spooner can similarly back up his words with deeds. On the day the kid set a new record for strikeouts in a pitcher's | first big league game, he faced the mighty Willie only twice. He whiffed Willie the first time; but on the second go-round the Negro star popped a single into right field—one of the three hits the Gi- | than I've had this winter. And the | Baseball Set A doubleheader has been scheduled Sunday in the Island City Winter Baseball League at the Wickers Field Stadi In the first game starting at 1 o'clock, the Cuban Club will meet the USS Bushnell. Joe Lewis will hurl for the Cubans while the Navy will come back with Nash. At 3 o’clock, the Junor Conchs will meet the Poinciana Giants. Bob Lastres will hur! for the ¢unior Conchs while Paul Davis is slated to take the hill for the Giants. Bout With Nino Valdes By JACK HAND NEW YORK ®—Big Bob Baker | is a generous soul. He wants to| Pennsylvania Cagers Outstrip Penn, Temple | Win In Friday | Court Action By JOHN CHANDLER The Associated Press College football teams in Phila- delphia probably had their worst season on record this year, but the alumni can’t complain today about the prowess of the Pennsylvania and Temple basketball teams to date. Pennsylvania, tabbed along with | the Princeton and Cornell as the! three schools to fight it out for the | Ivy League title, staged a big upset last night at Philadelphia by knock- ing off Iowa 87-75. Iowa had been give Nino Valdes a chance to “redeem Himseif” for the figat he lost to him 16 months ago. After whipping Coley Wallace | for the third time (once, in the) amateurs and iwice as a pro),| wants to move up in his class. Baker rates No. 4 among Rocky Marciano’s contenders. Directly ahead are Nino Valdes, No. 1, Don Cockell, No. 2, and Ezzard Charles, No. 3. Perhaps the order is scrambled in some ratings but that’s the usual rotation. Because he holds a decision over Valdes May 18, 1953, the Cuban's last defeat, Bakers wants him} first. He knows he has little chance of coaxing Ccckell over from London because the British heavy reportedly has the inside track to a title match next June. “TI goofed a couple of times when IT should have stopped him,” said Baker last night after his unani-)| mous decision in a Madison Square Garden 10-rounder. ‘“‘He hurt me} with a couple of good chops. He tries to kill you with that right.” | Wallace was a weary, well-| battered man at the finish. For a| time, in the fourth round, he} seemed on the verge of flooring | Baker. From the fifth on, he was | no menace, strictly a left jabber trying to go the route. Wallace was down to 201% pounds and Baker hit’211 for this bout. ° Referee Harry Kessler and Judge Harold Barnes scored it 8-2 and Judge Bert Grant 7-2-1, all for Baker. The AP card also was 8-2. Tampa Wins Cigar Bowl | kingpin of the Big Ten. !(5) entertains College of Pacific, Tilt Friday TAMPA, Fla. ) — An alert, powerful University of Tampa foot- ball team, a 21-0 victor over Mor- ris Harvey Friday night, is the Cigar Bowl football champion for the second time in three years. About 6,500 persons saw the game, played annually for the ben- efit of the Shrine Crippled Chil- dren’s Hospital. The lighter West Virginia team played Tampa on almost even terms in the first half, with the help of Tampa fumbles and a touchdown nullified by a penalty. In the second half Morris Har- vey fumbles gave Tampa two op- portunities the Spartans were | quick to capitalize on for the de- | cisive touchdowns. The passing of quarterback Bull Minahan, the pass catching of | halfback Don Herndon and the run- ning of fullback Al Leathers were the chief Tampa weapons, Morris Harvey’s chief threat was halfback Jim Carr, the night’s leading ground gainer with 103 | yards in 12 carries, including a | 48-yard run. | Leathers topped Tampa with 92 | yards in 14 plays and was out- | standing on defense. In the 1952 Cigar Bowl game Tampa defeated Lenoir Rhyne 21- 12, U.S. post offices handle about 54! billion items a year, or enough to ; equal 20 pieces of mail for every | person on earth. | ants collected off the freshman| wonder. After that, Willie retired for the day. In fact, to put Spooner’s dazziing | feat into proper perspective, it | probably should be noted that only a handful of Giant regulars went | all the way that day. They were only 48 hours past their victory | | celebration, and some of them were not feeling too sporty. Man- ager Leo Durocher being the kind- ly, considerate fellow that he is, used his second string freely. Billy Gardner, stiff from months on the | bench, struck out three times, for example. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at | ALL GROCERS beaten only by Missouri in five games, and is being touted to take over from Indiana this year as Iowa led at halftime 38-35 as Bill Logan sparked the attack, but the Quakers unlimbered their big | guns in a blistering second half drive. Joe Sturgis got 33 points, Lou Bayne 23 and Bart Leach 21 fo Penn, now unbeaten in five games. Iowa was rated 13th na- tionally this week. Tonight Iowa meets Princeton, in one of several big games on the college court program that in- cludes a New York Garden meet- ing between two unbeaten Giants, LaSalle and Utah, and a battle at Lexington, Ky., between Kentucky and Temple. Temple (5-1) handed St.John’s (Brooklyn) its first deeat Thursday. In fact, eight of the top 10 in this week’s AP poll will see action. In addition to LaSalle (No. 1) and Kentucky (No. 2), Illinois (3) plays Notre Dame, North Carolina State (4) meets Texas Tech, Dayton Indiana (7) plays Cincinnati, UCLA (8) plays San Francisco, and Niagara (10) is at Toledo. In addition to a heavy schedule of regular: games last night, the first two of a score of major Christ- mas tournaments got under way. West Virginia defeated favored Wake Forest 86-82 and Alabama drubbed Texas 89-54 in the Birm- ingham (Ala.) classic. The winners meet tonight for the title. Wake Forest’s Dick Hemric tallied 43 points in a losing cause. At Montgomery, Ala., in the | Blue-Gray tourney, Tennessee won | over Miami (Fla.) 89-80 and Au-| burn led throughout to clip Wash- ington and Lee 91-81. The winners play tonight in the finals, Sports Results By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cigar Bowl Football, Tampa University of Tampa 21 Mortis Harvey 0 BASKETBALL Blue-Gray Tournament, Montgom- ery, Ala. 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Yonge 46 St. Augustine Ket- | terlinus 39 Starke 58 Baldwin 52 | Jacksonville Bishop Kenny 47 Lake City 45 Fort Lauderdale 40 South Broward | 32 Miami Jackson “B” 60 Hialeah 51 | Pompano 38 Central Catholic 30 Coral Gables 43 West Palm Beach | 32 | Lake Worth 41 Vero Beach 39 Miami High 61 Miami Beach 42 Constance 34 South Dade 24 Fort Pierce 68 Pahokee 64 ~ Theresa 44 Archbishop Curley | 1 SEER O | | | | | MON., WED., THURS., FRI. and SAT. 420 Southard Street Football Teams After Upsets United States Routs Sweden In Davis Cup Tennis Action By WILL GRIMSLEY BRISBANE, Australia “—The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Sweden in the interzone final of the Davis Cup competition today behind the booming racquets of Tony Trabert and Hamilton Rich- ardson. Trabert, the Cincinnati blaster whose game had been far off be- fore the start of the round two days ago, crushed Lennart Ber- gelin, 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Richardson, substituting for Vic Seixas who was given the day off by Captain Billy Talbert, rushed past Sven Davidson, 6-0, 6-3, 6-3. Thus the final score came out 5-0, just as Talbert had predicted. Numerous experts here down un- der thought the Swedes had a good chance of upsetting the Yanks and advancing to the chaiienge round against the Aussies on Dec. 27- 28-29. But there was no stopping Tal- bert’s finely trained crew. The big Georgia Tech Grid Schedule Released ATLANTA (#—Georgia Tech will play home football games with Miami, Southern Methodist, An- burn, Florida State, Duke and Georgia next season, Four games—Florida, Louisiana State, Tennessee and Alabama— are slated for distant fields as part of a 10-game schedule. The schedule: Sept. 17—Miami in Atlanta. Sept. 25—Florida at Gainesville. Oct. 1—Southern Methodist in At- Janta. Oct. 8—Louisiana State at Baton Rouge. Oct. 15—Auburn in Atlanta. Oct. 22—Florida State in Atlanta. Oct. 29—Duke in Atlanta, Nov. 5—Tennessee at Knoxville. Nov. 12—Alabama at Birmingham. Nov. 19—Open. Nov. 26—Georgia in Atlants. The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER Lounge - Bar Package Store 7 AM. -1 A.M. Daily 513% Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE surprise was the sterling perform- {ance turned in by young Richard- json, the national intercollegiate jchampion from Tulane University. | He was nothing short of superb in downing Davidson, who earlier this year won the American indoor championship in New York. Sven, a fellow who seems to dis- charge too easily, broke through Richardson's service just twice. Richardson seemed determined to show Talbert that he should get a singles berth in the challenge round. It’s something the captain will have to mull over because Ham never looked better. Trabert’s match provided him { with a good opportunity to work on his service. Tony’s delivery is one of the strongest points in his game, }and without it, he is vulnerable to someone like Lew Hoad, the Aus- jsie lad. Trabert really gave it his all, jand one would have though he were playing the deciding match {cf the challenge round the way he whipped around the court. The sellout crowd of 7,000 that | jammed the Milton courts reserved a loud cheer for Bergelin every time he got in a good shot. And when he won the third set, the crowd went wild. Trabert isa favorite down here, but like the Americans, the Aussies like to cheer on the underdog, and there was no doubt that Bergelin was the underdog in this case. “It was a good win,” said Cap- tain Talbert after the match. “TI was completely pleased with the way Tony played,” he said, “T like the way he is hitting the ball and I like the way he reacted to the crowd demonstrations which failed to faze him xt all.” ——____. 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