The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1954, Page 6

Kentucky Downs Utah In Tourney By JOHN CHANDLER The Associated Press Adolph Rupp’s University of Kentucky Wildcats, safely over one big hurdle in their scramble for a top place among the nation’s college basketball bigwigs, have another toughie tonight against La- Salle in the Kentucky Invitational Tournament finals. Kentucky overcame Utah last night in the final minutes to pull out a 70-65 thriller at Lexington, Ky. There were some other terrific games, with such powers as IIli- nois, LaSalle, North Carolina State, Dayton and George Washington teams in the country in the latest AP poll, and the Wildcats stacked up their 29th consecutive victory in impressive fashion. Further- more, it was Coach Rupp’s 500th victory at Kentucky, and the 127th straight for the Wildcats on their home floor, where they haven’t lost in 12 years. Fourth-ranked LaSalle, trailing by as much as 11 points in the first half, rallied for a 49-38 vic- tory over Southern California in the other semifinal of the Kentucky tournament. All America Tom Gola led the second-half assault against the Trojans and finished the night half and seemed due for another stunner until Kentucky’s Bob Bur- row came to the rescue. Utah led 63-56 when Burrow connected for three field goals, then added a fourth after Utah’s Gary Bergen made two free throws. Linville Puckett of Kentucky hit a free throw to tie it at 65-all, and verted a pair of foul tosses to put the Wildcats in front for keeps. Other teams in this week’s top 10 came through as expected, but North Carolina State (No. 5) had a close call before edging St. John’s of Brooklyn 76-75 in over- Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 22, 1954 Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot U. S. Davis Cup Team Captain War Of Nerves Says They'll Shut Out Aussies NEW YORK #—When Avery;lished in Switzerland, Brundage Brundage, president of the Inter-|says that in two long conferences national Olympic Committee, re-}] Romanov emphasized to him that Continues As with 1:20 to go Billy Evans con-| jturned from his tour of Russia jthe past summer, he said firmly that he had seen nothing whatso- ver which would lead him to be- jleve that the Soviet Union was doing any bigger job of subsidizing iis athletes than has long been | done in other countries which sub- | Scribe to the amateur code. As there has been a widespread jimpression for several years that |the Soviets were turning out ath- jletes practically on an assembly line basis, the more skeptical of the principal objective of his pro- gram is the health and well-being Matches Near of the Russian people, with com- petitive sport only incidental. He} SYDNEY, Australia We—The war | quotes Romanov as saying: | of nerves between rival Davis Cup | “We know, believe in, and re-| captains Billy Talbert of the United | TE ee it ma profes- | States and Harry Hopman of Aus- sional athletes in the U. S, R. R. | ‘Talia continued unabated today. “We operate no special training | This time it was Talbert’s turn to i take the offensive. | ca a eee Uiletes en they “TI think we will shut them out i igh a |5-0,” cheerfully opined Billy. | “We give no special induce-| “ke : | ments, cash prizes or other ma-| Talbert, himself an ex-cupper, | | should go to God and my doctors.” ‘Babe Gives Credit For Award To “God And Her Doctors” TAMPA, Fla. ® — “It rea jas is pitching right in with the workmen—“‘trying to save all the Zaharias | money I can. I'll do anything, ears ty nails, carry boards, mix mor« tar. “T guess I'm just like any other woman—I want it to be just like |I've always dreamed it would be.” Fast-talking Babe slowed down when she came to those words after being told that for the sixth time she had won the Female Athlete of Year award in the annual Associated Press poll. The Babe was proué of her ath- letic achievements during 1954 but she’s prouder still that she was able to win five major golf tour- naments while still shaking off the | During violent exercise your heart can pump three times as much blood as when you are at Test. with 24 points. time. Illinois (No. 3) polished off| our critics did not take the presi-| terial rewards to our athletes, | ™de his ambitious forecast just | hanging up victories. 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LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT Rice 86-54, Dayton (No. 6) downed Oregon 71-55, and George Washing- ton (No. 8) beat down a late Tulsa surge to win 66-61 and gain the finals of the 19th All-College Tour- nament at Oklahoma City. GW meets San Francisco, a 75-51 win- jner over Oklahoma City, in to- night’s final. Wyoming beat Oklahoma A&M 52-50 and Wichita defeated Houston 91-87 to gain the consolation finals. Ohio State, ranked No. 11, was knocked off by California 74-65, cent’s words too seriously. They jfigured that he simply hadn’t | looked in the right places. Possibly aware that his words kad not been swallowed whole, | Brundage now backs them up with |a_straight-talking statement from | Nicolai Romanov, head of Soviet’s Department of Physical Culture, |which leaves no room for misin- |terpretation. So far as we are jaware, this is the first time that a responsible figure in the Russian sports scene has laid it on the while UCLA overcame a 10-point | line, made an official effort to still deficit in the second half to edge | ll subsidization rumors for good. Indiana again found the Big Seven teams tough as Kansas State whipped the Hoosiers 91-74. Min- nesota thumped Southern Method- ist 89-72, Purdue won its fifth straight by defeating Washington of St.Louis 72-44, and Marquette made it six straight by beating South Dakota State 89-67. Lastres Hurls No-Hitter In 38-Degree Cold George Lastres, Key West's gift Junior Conch baseballers captured a 3-1 victory over the Cuban Club jin an Island City Winter Baseball League encounter. It wasn’t an ordinary no-hitter, j though, because it was hurled in a 58-degree temperature. | their only run in the fifth on an error by Diaz. The Junior Conchs won the game on Don Cruz’ triple in the sixth. Cruz, Johnson, Bean and Santa- nz paced the winners while J. Rod- riguez, Little and Bazo paced the losers. League action will resume to- \the Wickers Field Stadium. The Standings: WL. save. -750 -750 -333 -000 Cuban Club Junior Conchs USS Bushnell 3 3 1 Poinciana Giants 0 Johnson In TV Battle Tonight |mewest member of the “I Knocked Out Bob Satterfield Club,” gets his big chance tonight. The 29-year-old Detroiter, a nine years, meets Harold Johnson, {of Philadelphia, in a nationally \televised 10-rounder in Olympia Stadium. Johnson ranks second | among the light heavyweights | Marshall earned his first TV shot by knocking out. glass-chinned | Satterfield in the second round last | month, causing a mild stir in some | boxing circles. | However, in Johnson, he'll be meeting a charter member of the IKOBS Club. The Philadelphian | knocked out Satterfield more than two years ago—Oct. 6, 1952, to be | exact. Johnson, a firm favorite to spoil | Marshall’s television debut, is seek- ing to rebound from last sum- Colorado 65-62, | |to professional baseball hurled a| no-hit ballgame last night as his| The Cubans managed to score | night at 7:30 when the USS Bush- | rell meets the Poinciana Giants in| Marshall Meets DETROIT «® — Marty Marshall, | struggling small club fighter for | Writing in the current issue of i the 10C’s Bulletin, which is Tart By HAROLD V. STREETER | EUREKA, Calif. — The 40,000) people of this redwood logging | country waited today in fear of expected aftershocks from yester- day’s teeth-rattling earthquake which killed one man, injured 50 and caused an estimated two mil- lion dollars property damage. A geology professor, H. D. Mac- Ginitie of Humboldt State College, predicted the aftershocks but said they should be less violent than yesterday’s rolling quake which twisted foundations and cracked walls across a 35-mile coastal area centering on Eureka, One slight aftershock came at |; 8:58 p.m, last night but did no} damage. ‘ The big quake hit at 11:57 a.m. j yesterday and lasted two minutes, | During this time, from Blue Lake, |15 miles to the north, to Ferndale, |20 miles to the south, chimneys toppled or cracked, the earth | cracked open in small fissures and | movable objects jin houses were | jumbled. Injuries, however, were | minor. Specifically, the quake: Pitched Carl Wilkerson, 42, to his | jdeath in a lumber mill pond. He | struck his head on a log andj drowned, | Hurled a woman across the hos-| pital delivery room on an oper- | ating table while her new-born son went the other way in his bas- | sinette. | Shook a car off a grease rack, | Toppled a statue of St. Anthony | and the Christ Child in a Roman | Catholic church, Flung Mrs. Fred Hess down the | steps of her home at Scotia, break- ing both her ankles. Sprang a major leak in the city’s | water supply and left its pipeline closed with only a week’s supply | of water in local tanks. Shook stores so violently in a six- | block area in downtown Eureka that bottled and canned goods were | spilled about in costly confusion. | Buildings were so weakened that the area was closed. Toppled a storage tank at Fern- | Calif. Area Fearfully Awaits Aftershocks From Tues. Quake |town was damaged, but due to “We believe champion athletes have moral and social responsi- | bilities as well, that they should keep up with their work and stud- ies first, and that they should set a good example for the youth of the country. “We do not believe in mixing sport and international politics.” What Brundage succeeded in do- ing, obviously, was to get the Rus- sians flatly on the record. From| here on, and if and when any arguments arise as to that na- tion’s attitude toward the Olympic | jrules, there can be no question that it fully understands its obli- gations. That’s making progress. dale, narrowly missing an office | full of workers. | Pacific Gas and Electric Co. re-| Ported last night it had restored | electric service to all areas and gas service to all but two. small areas after al eectric service had been cut off and gas mains dam- aged in several places. Twelve small fires started by short circuits were quickly extin- guished. Nearly every building in| wooden construction the loss was | much smaller than it would other- wise have been. The stone and brick City Hall and the Humboldt | County Courthouse were so cracked that they were evacuated andj closed. | The quake was the worst here in 25 years and was the second heaviest of a series of temblors which have shaken California and Nevada recently. The heart of a mouse beats from | 500 to 1,000 times a minute. 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I guess I really | long-time jinx against Ken Rose-| have a lot of friends among sports wall.” | writers.” | The dark-haired little Aussie ace} When she was reminded that has beaten Seixas eight times in| sympathy played no part in selec-! Babe fashion NOW OPEN The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER eBounces back to life after being completely run down! Lasts years longer. ONE PRICE FOR ALL CARS $29.95 (6-Volt) NAVARRO, INC. 601 Duval St. Tele. 2-7041 SAVE! HOLIDAY SPECI fa and for all intents and purposes ‘owns” Vic. This will be a big| ychological advantage for Rose- wall. “We know how many times Rose- wall has beaten Seixas,” Talbert | said. “But we also think we have | found a flaw in Ken’s armor. I} am sure that Vic has found the answer to the problem this week. « “Our surest point is in the dou- bles. We have the greatest dou- bles team in the world.” Aussie leader Hopman is on rec- ord as predicting a 4-1 victory for his team. He has given Trabert } a chance to win one singles and} concedes America an equal chance in the doubles. FISH NOISES ARE RECORDED FOR NAVY WASHINGTON (#—Tape record-| ings of noises made by almost 200 species of fish have been gath- ered to assist Navy men who make underwater soundings in dis- tinguishing such noises from the sounds created by vessels. The re- | search was conducted by Dr. Ma- rie Poland Fish, of the University or Rhode Island’s Narragansett | Marine Laboratory. i} | golf or about her health. Lounge - Bar Package Store 7 A.M. -1 A.M. Daily 51342 Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE said: “This is a real honor—an honor not to be sneezed at. It’s the big-, gest thrill since winning the Serbin | Open at Miami Beach and will top the Serbin in my book. “You know, it was in the Serbin that I proved to myself I could} play golf again and win.” But the Babe didn’t want to talk She and husband George are | building a new home. 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