The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1954, Page 6

° Kennel Club Schooling Races Start Wednesday Preparations Pushed For Third Racing Meeting Here Unofficial hand schooling races will start Wednes- day at 4:30 p. m. at the Key West Kennel Club, it was announced by General Manager Louis Carbonell. The races, first step in the preparation of the dogs for the third kennel club meeting, wi!! be open to the pub- lic at no charge. The races are held to get a line on the dogs to be pitted in the regular meeting. The unofficial box schooling will start December 27 and will continue three days. At the same time, Carbon- ell announced that 16 of the nation’s top dog kennels have arrived to start work- outs for the official race meeting slated to start Jan- uary 7. Carbonell added that official schooling races will be held at 7:30 nightly on Dec. 30 and continue through January 5. All dogs must participate in at least three schooling races before being entered in an official race. Schooling races will be held over the 5-16, 3-8 and futurity courses. There will be about 20 races each evening, according to Carbonell. The names of the officials for the 1955 race meeting were also re> leased by Carbonell. Bill More, one of the top dog racing officials in the nation, will again serve as presiding judge and head of the racing department. Returning as racing secretary and associate judge is L. L. Grif- fin. Other officials named include George Hosbach, mutuels manager; Jack Kruse, paddock judge; W. W. Green, chart and program mana- ger; Ed Lownsdale, lure operator; Paul Sisk, starter and track sup- erintendent; Dr. Paul Landrum, ve- terinarian; J. V. McDonough, pub- lic relations and Robert Youmans, announcer. Meanwhile, preparations are pro- eeeding at a brisk pace for the opening of the track with a huge opening night program. The plush Stock Island racing plant has been completely refurbished, including | the installation of a completely new running surface and decorating job. The third running of the Key West Inaugural will be a feature of the opening night program. The sport of dog racing, fast growing in popularity since it was introduced here three years ago, is expected to have its biggest sea- son yet. Kennels participating in this year’s meeting include: Joe Balik, Jess Bingham, Claude Betterson, Crosby Kennel, Carlton Cole, Fleet- | wing Kennels, Manuel Foster, Alex Haberman, R. K. Hutchings, Wal- ter Owen, Point Breeze Kennels, F. B. Stutz, Sawbuck Kennels, Fred Whitehead, Williams and Fagg and | Hodges - Life. WASN’T WORTH IT CHICAGO (#—James Morris, 10, dropped.a dime on the floor of! his bedroom yesterday. He lit a| match to look for the coin. The re-| sulting fire caused an estimated $1,000 damage. Page 6 ELECTRIC FREIGHT Medeled efier “Union Pacific” freight tein. 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Full wooden body rail) Available in ossorted colors. swore | $4.98 UP G@OODYEAR VALUE Wednesday TV Bout Matches Light-Heavies Harold Johnson, number three ranked light - heavyweight conten- der, fights Marty Marshall, rated tenth in the 175 class, at the De- troit Olympia Stadium on Decem- ber 22 in the Blue Ribbon Bout of the week. Johnson, former chal- lenger, was displaced from his top spot when halted in 14th round by champion Archie Moore in a | title match. Harold seeks to regain a cham- | pionship bout by pitting his fistic ablites aganst the fast - rsing Marshall, who currently possesses | a winning streak of 12 straight vic- torids. The Blue Ribbon Bout web of over 100 CBS-TV stations will car- |ry the 10-round bout nationally, with station WTVJ, the local out- let. Starting time is 10 p. m. East- ern Standard Time. Born in Philadelphia on August 9, 1928, Johnson comes from a fam- ily of fighters. His father was a good heavyweight and two uncles also made fistic progress. Harold enlisted in the Navy when he was 15, and it was while in service that he started to fight. He turned professional after his discharge in 1946 and defeated some of the best heavyweights and light - heavyweights, including Ni- no Valdes, Ezzard Charles, Jimmy Salde and Paul Andrews. In four close non-title bouts against Moore, the Philadelphian won one and lost three, For. two years he dared Moore to put his title on the line and on August 11, 1954, Moore accepted the challenge. The championsip contest was na- tionally telecast with the 37-year- old title - holder proving his super- jority by knocking out the challen- ger in the 14th round. In 56 stars, Johnson won 49 and lost 7. He has scored 21 kayoes.* Marshall, a hard hitting Detroit- er, opened his professional cam- paign in 1950. In the 18th bout of his brief career he met Bob Satter- field, rated contender and noted kayo slugger. Although a 4 to 1 underdog. Mar- shall unleashed a vicious attack against the veteran, sending the Chicagoan to the canvas four times. The toll of ten sounded over Bel- tin’ Bob midway in the second round as the stunned crowd of on- | lookers cheered the fury of Mar- | shall’s attack. Possessor of victories over Wes Bascom and Sonny Liston, two, ex- Golden Gloves champions, the lan- ky 24-year-old boxer is an unortho- dox, clowning sort of battler. His left-right combinations, solid and strong, are his offensive wea- pons. In his 18 pro starts, Marty won 15, lost 2 and drew in one. His kayoes number six. B. Grim Named American Loop Rookie Of Year By JACK HAND The Associated Press Bob Grim, a 24-year-old ex-Ma- rine who never pitched higher than Class A before he made the grade with the New York Yankees last spring, today was named American League Rookie of the Year for 1954 by the Baseball Writers Assn. of America. Grim outdistanced the opposition in the vote of the 24-man writers’ committee. The right-handed pitch- er, who finished with a 20-6 record, received 15 first-place votes. Run- ner-up Jim Finigan, the fine third baseman who came out of the Yankee chain to star at Philadel- phia (now Kansas City), polled eight votes. The other ballot went to Al Kaline, Detroit's fleet out- fielder. Grim was the second Yankee to win the rookie award, which dates back to 1947.. Gil McDougald grabbed the honors in 1951. Last year’s winner was Detroit’s bril- | liant shortstop Harvey Kuenn. It had been a foregone conclu- sion since midsummer that the American League rookie race was between Grim and Finigan, al- Lopez Gets Florida Golf Tourney Honor Joe Lopez Sr., gold pro for the Key West course, was honored for making the best showing of any resident Pro in South Florida in the ‘Miami Open” held recently. The compliments were bestowed by W. Curry Harris at a meeting of the Key West Golf Club mem- bers held on December 14, 1954. During the meeting, Charles E. Smith was elected president of the club for 1955. Other officers elected to serve with Smith were: John Yates, Ist vice president in charge of tourna- ments; C. R. (Lefty) Reagan, 2nd vice president in charge of greens; James McCardle, 3rd vice presi- dent in charge of entertainment; Ward Tyson, 4th vice president in. charge of membership; Harry Harry Knight, Secretary - Treasur- er; and Fred Mathews, George Carey, directors at large. Harris will round out the board as immediate past president, Wildeats Ist In Weekly AP Cage Ratings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kentucky was ranked as the No. 1 basketball team in the nation today in. the weekly Associated Press poll and if the Wildcats can get past this week’s action, they’ll be hard to displace. Adolph Rupp’s team boasts a 3-0 record and hasn’t been beaten since the last game of the 1951-52 season. The Wildcats didn’t field a team the following year and they were undefeated for 1953-54. They’re running their own tour- nament this week and they go into action against three pretenders to their lofty perch—Utah, ranked No. 2; La Salle, which was in first place in the first poll last week; and Southern California, possibly the class of the Pacific Coast Con- ference, Of the 69 sports writers and sportscasters who voted in the poll, 21 put the Wildcats in first place. All told, they drew a total of 527 points based on the standard pro- cedure of 10 for a first-place vote, nine for second, etc. ; Utah, another of the rapidly dwindling list of undefeateds, cor- nered 15 firsts and 427 points— just 100 behind Kentucky. Utah sports a 7-0 record. Next was Il- linois, one of the favorites in the Big Ten, with 419 points. LaSalle, voted in the preseason poll the potential national cham- pion, tumbled to fourth following its defeat at the hands of Utah at Madison Square Garden last Saturday. North Carolina State, with the longest winning streak among the top colleges — eight games — rounded out the top five. Others in the first 10, in order, were Dayton, Missouri, George though Kaline, despite playing 30/ sames in 1953, attracted plenty of! Washington, Duquesne and Niag- ara. The leaders with first-place votes in parentheses: . Kentucky (21). Utah (15)... Illinois (7). . LaBalle Missouri (1 . G. Washington . Duquesne (2), . Niagara (1). - Ohio State (1). . West Virginia (1). . Pennsylvania 17. San Francisco. UCLA (tie 19, Alabama 20, Iowa... LT) eee Ganders help their femaies raise the young, but drakes do not. The New KEY WEST Kentucky Faces Utah Courtmen By JOHN CHANOLER The Asseciatéd Press Headed by a near-championship duel between Kentucky and Utsh, the No. 1 and 2 teams in the coun- try, 7 of the top 10 college basket- ball teams are seheduled for ae- tion on a widespread front tonight. ao of the attention will be riv- et on Legington, Ky., where Kentucky and Uteh, both unde- feated, meet in the second annual University of Kentucky Invitation- al Tournament. Other fireworks will be forthcoming from Okla- homa City, scene of the 19th an- nual All-College Tournament, which opened yesterday, and at Houston, Tex., New York City and Dayton, Ohio. In the Lexington affair, LaSalle, No. 1 until beaten by Utah last week, plays Southern California, ranked No. 13 nationally, in the opener. LaSalle dropped to No. 4 this week. Kentucky, with a 3-0 record, and Utah, 7-0, meet in the headliner. The winners play tomor- row night for the title. Other top games tonight inelude Dlinois (No. 3) vs. Rice at Hou- ston, North Carolina State (No. 5) against St. John’s of Brooklyn at Madison Square Garden, Oregon at Dayton (No. 6) and George Washington (No. 8) against Tulsa in the Oklahoma City tourney. The first of the major Christmas week tournaments, at Oklahoma City, saw George Washington an easy 56-46 winner over Oklahoma A&M, the défending champions and 11 times winner of the tour- ney. Tulsa edged Wyoming 69-64 after the lead changed 22 times. Highpowered San Francisco, which ypset UCLA last week, hand- ed Wichita its first defeat of the season 94-75. Oklahoma City’s all- sophomore starting team pulled away in the last half to beat Hou- Ston 72-65. In the other semifinal tonight, San Francisco meets Okla- homa City. Duquesne, ranked No. 9, made its record 4-1 by easily defeating St. Francis of Pennsylvania 71-58. The Iron Dukes won at the foul line, eonverting 25 of 30 free throws. . Pitt led Duke at Ialftime 37-35, but the Blue Devils made it a run-| away in the final half and romped | to a 90-68 victory. Tulane took the lead five min- utes from the end to defeat Wis- consin in a 69-66 thriller after the score had been tied 15 times. Frank Ehmann’s 30 points sparked Northwestern to an 83-66 victory over Louisiana State, and Bradley came from behind in the final minutes to defeat Wayne of Detroit 72-68. Cineinnati thumped %K company doesn't just happen to five for 75 years. Usually some one factor, ‘snore than others, makes it possible. In the case of Southern Bell, the magic ingredient has been the public's acceptance ef good and growing telephone service furnished at the lowest possible cost. \ {Chartered on December 20, 1879, with 1,248 telephones, Southern Bell was formed by mon of foresight, with faith in the South's future. 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