The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 20, 1954, Page 6

Bill Barnes Gains City Tennis Title |#=: Ray Nesbitt Bows In Match Here Sunday Navy Lt. Bill Barnes cap- tured his second consecutive Key West tennis champion- ship Sunday when he defeat- ed Ray Nesbitt, 6-0, 6-2, on the Bayview Park courts. The 30-year-old former Naval Academy net playing in his last Key West tourney (he’s resigning from the Navy shortly) had little trouble in winning Sunday’s match when he capitalized on Nesbitt’s erratcie back- hand to score easily. Barnes, who has hit his strike again after a stretch of Korean duty, took advantage of Nesbitt’s anxiety to trade booming drives and merely returning a long series of teasing softballs and spinballs to draw his opponent out of position. Barnes clearly demonstrated that he was the master of the situa- tion. Nesbitt had reached the fin- als in the tourney wih a default star win over Cmdr. Joe Antink, who suffered a leg injury in a quarter- Cuban Club, Junior Conchs Gain Victories The Cuban Club and the Junior Conchs gained victories Sunday in an Island City Winter baseball lea- gue doubletteader in the Wickers Field Stadium, ‘The Cuban Club defeated the USS Bushnell in the opener, 4-3 in a pitchers duel which saw Joe Lewis best the Navy’ssGene Nash, largely on a series of good breaks. The Cubans won the game in the third inning on four hits and two errors. Valdez, Rodriguez, Lastres and Santana paced the Cubans while Coto was best for the losers. In the nightcap, Rod Rodriguez hurled three hit ball as the. Junior Conchs dowmed the Poinciana Gi- ants, 7-1. Southard and Davis gar- nered the Giant hits while Diaz, Bean and Salgado paced the win- ners. Action will resume Tuesday when the Junior Conchs and the Cuban Club clash at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, the Giants and the Bushnell will play at 7:30 p, m. in | the Wickers Fied Stdium, Lions Down aah ak sia Utah’s Win Over LaSalle Gives Them Nation’s Top Rankin Utes Battle Kentucky In Tues. Game By ED WILKS The Associated Press If there are any better outfits than Utah in the college basket- ball ranks at present, they better stand up and be counted. The Utes brought a so-so 6-0 mark into Madison Square Garden Saturday night and to everyone’s surprisé proceeded to score a 79-69 | victory over LaSalle, erstwhile NCAA champion and tae nation’s No. 1 team in last week’s Asso- ciated Press poll. | Utah showed a relaxed, confident mand for the greater share of the intermission. Sp NEW YORK (® — Men who, a{ month ago, were convinced that! Paul Richards had squandered! what little talent the seventh-place | Baltimore Orioles possessed are be-| against Georgia Tech on New |ginning to concede now that the| Year’s Day. There would be more, | brooding genius from Waxahachie | might have reassembled a pretty | fair ball club — a sounder one, at; least, than he started with. This shift in sentiment bas been} team, well coached and unawed by pronounced since Richards, with-!season’s game with SMU, which the Explorers. They were in com- | out giving up anything except mon- ' saw them meet their first defeat. ey, latched on to the two Brooklyn final half after trailing 41-38 at the |veterans Preacher Roe and Billy! OL ER Orange Fiesia, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Minimum 2 days. Preetrrrret tite | Hester Battery | i} || STARTS 809 TIMES | After Only | 5 Minutes Rest | In a recent test, a stock Hes- |] ter Battery was deliberately | discharged by engaging |] starter on a car, with the switch off, until the battery refused to turn the engine over. The bat- tery was allowed to rest 5 min- utes, the car was then started and the engine stopped immed- iately. This operation -was re peated 809 times tery failed. FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS LOU SMITH 1116 WHITE STREET orts fore the bat- Roundup By Gayle Talbot Close to 25,000 Arkansas fans are reported preparing to move on the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, in which! their Razorbacks will be pitted NOW OPEN The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER Lounge - Bar they say, if tickets were available. | The figure, we imagine, repre- sents a record football migration. ! The Razorbacks had never in their history drawn that many specta- | tors at Fayetteville before this ;Cox. The feeling now is that if! The Utes, though expertly/one or two highly valued rookies | Package Store 7 A.M. - 1 A.M. Daily 51342 Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE SKATING MON., WED., THURS., FRI. and SAT. 420 Southard Street coached by Jack Gardner, the for-|cyme through for him the Orioles | mer Kansas State mentor, were} could well move up a notch next by no means a great team against|season. Maybe éven a counle of LaSalle. But they’ll dovuntil a bet-| notches. ter one comes along. | With Cox on third and Willie CITY CHAMP—Navy Lt. Bill Barnes, left, who successfully de- * fended his Key West tennis championship Sunday, is congrat- ulated by the other finalist, Ray Nesbitt. It will be the final Key West tourney for Barnes, a former Naval Academy net star, who is resigning from the Navy. Members of the crew of his final match with Charley Lott. .In city doubles championshp ac- tion Sunday, third seeded Henry Cleare and Johnny Sellers were up- set in a terrific battle at the Sea- Browns In Blizzard Sun. plane Base by E. Hemley and John McLean 10 - 8, 11 - 13, 6 - 4 and Will Pearce and Pete Varela down- ed 13-year-old Dick Collins and Fred Fishel, 6 - 0, 6 - 1: In action slated for today, the team of Bill Barnes and Charley tt will battle it out with Hem- y and McLean in a quarterfinal match at 2:30 p, m. and Leo Carey and. Peter Knight will play Jack and Harvey Sellers at 7:30 p. m. Meanwhile, there have been four entries in a tourney being held for tennis Players 13 years old and under. They are Dick Collins, Dick Senderling, Bill Bolins and Harold man. Page 6 By JOE REICHLER Cates. Entries for the tourney cost one dolar. OUTBOARD ROUNDUP By DAVID NASON The Key West Outboard Club held their annual election of officers to serve though 1955 at the regular Friday night meeting. This election was more spirited than any in the past. The member- ship turned out almost 100 per cent Genial Bill Porter was re- élected to the Commodore post. Bob Schnoneck won the Vice Com- | modore seat. David Nason fell heir to the Rear Commodore spot. Waldo Collins was re-elected as secretary (also known as the hot seat). Jerry Schnaedelbach gained the treasurer’s seat. Would like to give both Bill Por- ter and Waldo Collins a pat on the back, personally, I think both did credit to the club in the past year and truly earned their re-election. The Club house, Saturday night, was the scene of Children’s Xmas Party and later in the evening tak- en over by the adults. The small Ted Williams, who may not come back to baseball any more, was ed today as having made the greatest comeback of the 1954 sea- son, The mighty slugger’ of*the Bos- ton Red Sox, generally recognised as one of the greatest of all hit- ters, gained the nod over another of the all-time greats, Bobby Fel- ler, veteran right-handed pitcher of the Cleveland Indians, The 422 sports writers and sports- casters who participated in the an- nual Associated Press poll spread their votes over 43 players. Williams received 84 votes to Feller’s 70. Vic Wertz, who did so well for Cleveland after the Indi- ans had acquired him from Ba!ti- more last June, was third with 52 votes. Joe Coleman, veteran Balti- more right-hander, was fourth with 39, and Sal Maglie, clutch right- hander of the New York Giants, was fifth with 29. Maglie led al! National Leaguers on the come- back path. The rest of the top 10 included Ed Furgol Sweeps Havana Open building was bulging at the seams, which means an addition to th building will have to get underway Pigeon Brings News To Radio BOWLING Green, Ohio & — Radio station WWBG goes on the air today—with news delivered by carrier pigeon. A dispute with the Northern Ohio Telephone Co. left Howard R. Ward, head of the newly con- structed station, temporarily witn- out lines to bring in Associated Press service. Ward’s FCC con- struction permit says he has to be on the air by tomorrow. So he arranged to have his AP teletype machines installed in a department store at Toledo, some 20 air miles distant, and got the loan of about 30 pigeons from the American Homing and Racing Pig- eon Union. GRAND PIANO PROVES TOO HEAVY FOR STAIRS GLASGOW, Scotland w—Archie Logan got eight friends to help him carry a grand piano he had bought his family for Christmas up to his | third-floor apartment. Just below the third landing the stairs collapsed. Two men jumped clear. Logan, the other six men and 500-pound piano plunged 49 feet. Four of the seven men were trapped under the piano. Falling masonry hit the other three. All but one were in the hospital in serious condition, ‘é Despite Injured HAVANA » — Ed Furgol was off for a Florida rest cure for his ailing right arm today, packing along a $2,000 first prize check from the Havana Invitation Golf| Tournament and his first victory since he won the National Open last June, The Clayton, Mo., splinter, who} ‘has carried a withered left arm} since a childhood accident, didn’t seem to notice the injured right | “SHOWUP” FOR FALCON | OWNER TODAY SALT LAKE CITY ® — Police captured a red-tailed faleon which had somehow flown in‘o the psy- | | chiatry ward of the Salt Lake Gen- | eral Hospital. It was placed in the) local zoo for safekeeping. Yesterday, Zoo Director Robert | H. Mattlin said a local newspaper | story on the falcon had turned up \five men who claimed to be its | jowners. He said he planned a |“showup” today. |HE PASSES DRUNK TEST BY WRITING HEREFORD, England #—Police charged Charles Finlayson Hunter, | 74, with drunken driving. To sup- |port their case in Magistrates Court last week, they submitted results of a handwriting test on \the retired Army colonel and a doctor's certificate that Hunter was incapable of driving. The mag- istrates decided Hunter’s writing ship, the USS Trumpetfish, presented him with a briefcase and a desk pen set today as a going away present.—Photo by Spill- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Ted Williams Made Greatest Comeback, According To Poll Monday, December 20, 1954 Johnny Antonelli, Giants, 22; Lar- ry Doby, Indians, 15; Marv Gris- som, Giants, 13; Steve Gromek, Detroit Tigers, 11; and Jim Wilson, Milwaukee Braves, 8. Those who voted for Williams, obviously regarded the 36-year-old outfielder as still on the come- back trail although he returned from~his second hitch with \the Marines in August 1953. He went on a batting rampage in the clos- ing months of the ’53 season, hit- ting a blistering .407 in 37 games followed that up with a spectacu- Jar .345 campaign in ’54. The slender slugged hammered 29 homers and drove in 89 runs although a fractured collarbone and an attack of penumonia kept him inactive for six weeks. Feller made a remarkable come- back ‘ast year, posting a 13-3°won- lost record following two ordinary years in which his combined to- tal was 19 victories and 20 de- feats. The 36-year-old former fire- baller had an impressive 3.09 earned run average and numbered a two-hitter and four-hitter among his performances. Right Arm arm in the tourney windup yester- day. He shot a 67 over the par-72 Havana Country Club course, a 6,- 377-yard layout, for a 72-hole total of 273—15 strokes under par. By FRITZ HOWELL CLEVELAND (®—Buddy Park- er's Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns for the seventh time in eight tries yesterday, and after the blizzard-swept game the rival coaches said: Paul E. Brown — “We'd have liked a victory in that one, but we didn’t get it.” Parker — “I wish that were the score of nest Sunday’s game.” The score was 14-10, and the Lions hit the airways for the come- from-behind touchdown in the last 50 seconds after it appeared the Browns had it wrapped up. The game, except for the pres- tige involved, meant nothing, since each team had already clinched its division championship. It was a makeup tilt, postponed from Oct. 3, and served as a practice swing for next Sunday’s clash between the same clubs for the world cham- pionship. Most astounding thing about the game, played in deep snow which fell for hours before and during the game, was that Cleveland’s vaunted passing attack, its most dangerous weapon, gained only four yards. Otto Graham eom- pleted only one of six tries. But Detroit’s Bobby Layne con- nected on 18 of 37 for 183 yards and both touchdowns. The first came on a 26-yarder to end Dorne Dibble to deadlock the game at 7-7 in the third quarter. Then Layne completed six of seven tries —four to Jug Girard for 56 yards —in the eight-play, 74-yard drive which won in the final mirette, The payoff was an 1l-yarder to Girard. The Browns had the ball in Lion territory only twice, and they scored both times. The first time came in the opening minutes when fullback Bill Boman fumbled later Graham sneaked for the counter. In the third period, after Detroit had tied it, Cleveland moved from the 20 to Detroit’s 37. As the drive stalled, golden-toed Lou Groza backed up to the 43 and kicked his 16th field goal in 24 tries to put the Browns ahead 10-7, It wasn’t the best round of the tourney for Furgol (he shot a 66 | | for runner-up honors opening day), but it brought him up from the field for a one-stroke edge over| Walt Burkemo, Franklin, Mich. | Burkemo had putter trouble on} the final green and watched a six- foeter go astray. It gave him a 68 and $1,400. | Furgol never led in the four-day | Joyous Holiday Planned For Pups PINELLAS PARK, Fla. m— A dog’s life around here is a pup’s idea of paradise—this week any- way. Three women are out rounding up all the stray dogs in this com- Admittedly, LaSalle, with stand- | out Tom Gola netting only 19/ points, might have experienced an| off night. But it’s doubtful that even a tip-top LaSalle club could/| have restrained the Utes. The Utes were sd superior the result can’t even be termed an upset, except by way of excuse among the ex- perts who delegated Utah to no)! better than the No. 15 spot in the | rankings. | Whether Utah is actually as good as it looked should show up to- morrow night at Lexington, Ky., when Utah runs up against Ken- tucky, No. 2 in the nation, in the first found of the Kentucky Invita- tional Tournament. By coincidence, LaSalle is in the same get-together, opposing South- ern California in the first round. Kentucky stayed among the un- beaten last week with a 79-61 lac- ing of Temple, the club that up- ended St. John’s of Brooklyn last week. It was the Wildcats’ 28th consecutive victory. Southern Cal won its fifth deci- sion in six over the weekend, maul- ing New Mexico 103-39. Another of the holiday tourna- ments gets under way today at Oklahoma City with Oklahoma A&M, George Washington, Wyo- ming, Houstormy Tulsa, San Fran- cisco, Wichitajand host Oklahoma City competing in the All-Coilege shindig. George Washington, unbeaten conqueror of highly rated Du- quesne for the Steel Bowl title; Wichita, among the Missouri Val- ley Conference favorites; San Francisco, a 56-44 winner over Previously unbeaten and eighth- ranked UCLA Saturday; and Wyo- ming, a possible sleeper that de- feated St.Louis 74-68 -over the weekend are the teams to watch. One other top-ranked team fol- lowed the pattern of LaSalle and UCLA over the weekend as Indi- | terday | ished with a 70, while Bolt, of Hous- | event until the final round and was| ™unity, collecting dog good for playing despite intense pain in his | Christmas Week feasts and for the right arm, injured during an Aus-| Weeks to come. ‘ tralian tour two months ago. But} Peggy Davis, policewoman here, he licked his wobbly putting yes-| 4nd Mrs. George England and Mrs. and. displayed what he | Joe Borders even plan a Christ- termed his best form of the year, Mas tree for homeless pups and Al Besselink, who had a three-|if they are real good, like young- stroke lead going into the final; Sters should be at this time of the round, and Shelley Mayfield, the | Year, the dogs will be put up for first-round leader with Tommy | #doption. Bolt on a 65, tied for third with a }275 total. Besselink, Grossingers, N. Y., played his best since in-| juring his right hand in a charity mn event a year ago. but blew up with a 73 on the final round. } Mayfield, of Chicopee, Mass., fin- | ton, Tex., came home with a 71; for fourth place on a 276 total. Doug Ford, Kiamesha Lake, N. Y., was fifth with 277 while Harmon | Barron, White Plains, N. Y., had to match Furgol’s 67 to finish sixth at 278. YOUR was better than the doctor's. Case \ dismissed. Bob Toski. the defending champ, was tied for last. i 4 703 DUVAL STREET ana (No, 7) looked anything but a repeater in the Big Ten in a 97-65 loss to Cincinnati. It was the Hoosiers’ third setback. With only sixth-ranked Missouri idle, the rest of the top 10 sur- vived the weekend. Illinois (No. 3) added further proof that this isn’t Notre Dame’s year with its fourth straight victory, 66-57; North Caro- lina State (No. 4) made it 8-0 with an 85-74 whipping of Texas Tech; Dayton (No. 5) handed College of Pacific its third defeat on an East- ern tour, 73-66; and Niagara (No. 10) bopped Toledo 80-61. Duquesne, rated No. 9, smothered the Peoria Cats, NAAU champs and world amateur titlists, 82-63 in an exhibition. Says Ike Will Run OYSTER BAY, N.Y, “®—Leonard | W. Hall, Republican national chair- | man, “flatly” predicts that Presi- | dent Eisenhower will run for re- | election in 1956. | “MAC” LOAN $25" to %300” 1S THE BEST WAY TO SOLVE MONEY PROBLEM — Save by Paying Cash—See “MAC” M.A.C. 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Wally Moon Named Rookie Of The Year NEW YORK (#—Wally Moon, | the kid who filled a man’s job for the St. Louis Cardinals, is the Na-| tional League Rookie of the Year. | The 24-year-old outfielder was put on the spot from the start by the Cards, who two days before the season opened decided the time had come to replace their long-|| time right fielder, Enos Slaugh-| ter. Moon was the lad they picked to take over. He rose to the occasion from the | start, slamming a home run as! leadoff man in the opening game. | He kept up that kind of perform- ance all season, finishing with 293 | hits, scoring 106 runs and batting | a respectable .304. \ He collected 17 of 24 first-place votes in the balloting by the Base- ball Writers’ Assn. of America. The other seven votes were dis-| tributed among three other yearl- ings with Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs’ shortstop, the runner-up with four of them. 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