The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1954, Page 6

Illinois, George Washington Downed In Major Cage Upsets Kentucky Nips LaSalle To Hold Top Spot By JOHN CHANDLER The Associated Press Kentucky was ready to celebrate but Several other top-ranked teams, Christmas in peace today, including Illinois and George Wash- ington, can’t say the same after another wave of major upsets on the college basketball courts. Coach Adolph Rupp’s Kentuck- ians bolstered their claims to the No. 1 ranking last night by easily defeating LaSalle 63-45 in the final of the Kentucky Invitational Tour- nament. It was the 30th straight victory, and 128 in a row on the home court at Lexington, for the * Rupp men. LaSalle Coach Ken Loeffler said the Wildcats were better than the unbeaten Kentucky club which won 25 games last season. San Francisco’s surprising Dons rocked George Washington 73-57 in the finals of the All-College Tourney at Oklahoma City, and highly touted Illinois of the Big Ten was blasted 72-66 by Loyola of New Orleans. In the consolation game at Lexington, Southern Cali- fornia upset Utah 54-52, after the Utes once led by 15 points. The results were rough on the top-ranked teams, for the AP poll this week had Utah No. 2, Illinois No. 3, LaSalle No. 4 and George Washington No. 8. This was the second year in a row that Kentucky has beaten La- Salle in the Lexington tournament — last year it was by 73-60. Last night Kentucky went ahead at once to a 20-5 lead, and there was never much doubt about the outcome. | Billy Evans got 20 points and Bob} Burrow 18 for Kentucky, while LaSalle’s Tom Gola tabbed 20. Bill Russell, outstanding player in the Oklahoma City tournament, again was the San Francisco star with 23 points. After a close first half, the Dons ran up a 55-30 lead and coasted the final 10 minutes. Basketball takes a breather with scattered games tonight, then a rest until after Christmas when a heavy schedule of tournaments will run into the new year. Bradley beat Southern Methodist 82-73. as Marvey Babetch of the Braves set a school home scoring record of 31 points. Other Big Ten teams also found it tough sledding. Brigham Young upset Michigan 70-60, Btler downed Northwestern 83-62, DePaul edged Michigan State 76-75 and California took Ohio State 54-50 for the second night in a row. St.Louis, beaten Tuesday night by the University of Washington, came back to whip the Huskies 73-64, Nebraska in another intersectional fray 86-79. UCLA walloped New Mexico 106-41. WE WILL BE CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY, DEC. 25 OPEN REGULAR HOURS CHRISTMAS EVE AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26 and Memphis State upset | WILLIE MAYS By BEN PHLEGAR AP Newsfeatures The Yankees lost the pennant, the Giants won the World Series, major league baseball came back to Baltimore after an absence of 50 years, and the Philadelphia Athletics headed for Kansas City. All this happened in 1954. The Cleveland Indians parlayed hitting strength, brilliant pitching and an uncanny ability to beat sec- ond division clubs into 111 victories, an American League record. But in the World Series the In- dians played dead before the New York Giants and_ fell in four straight games, The Giants had grabbed the National League lead in late June and hung on against repeated assaults by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Miwaukee Bra- ves. The Giants hailed their triumphs |as a team effort although any dis- cussion of the Polo Grounds cham- pions was bound to center on the exploits of Johnny Antonelli and Willie Mays. Antonelli came to the Giants from Milwaukee during an off- season trade that was to deter- |mine the pennant race. Bobby | Thompson went from the Giants to the Braves. Antonelli won 21 games and was the leader in earned run averages. Thompson broke his an- kle in spring training and was use- less until late August. The amazing Mays, playing his | first full season in the majors, |came out of the Army and went on a homer binge. For a while he threatened Babe Ruth’s record. He hit 41 homers and settled for the | league’s hitting title with .345. His fielding, spectacular during Closing for Christmas i Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, December 23, 1954| JOHNNY: ANTONELL! the regular season, was emphasiz- ed in the eighth inning of the first World Series game when he raced to the Polo Grounds bleachers for a 450-foot drive by Vic Wertz. In robbing the Cleveland slugger of what would have been’a home run in almost any other major league park, Mays on the spot determined the outcome of the series. Cleveland could do fiothing right. The Giants could do nothing wrong. And the Giants had Dusty Rhodes. A potent pinch hitter much of the season, Rhodes slashed a three-run pinch homer in the 10th inning of the first series game, delivered a pinch single and a homer in the second game and a bases - loaded single in the third game. The Gi- ants won all four, 5-2, 3-1, 6-2, 7-4. Age, infield troubles and pitch ing caught up with Casey Stengel’s bid to win a sixth straight pennant with the Yankees, Brooklyn, oper- ating under soft - spoken Walt Als- ton for the first time, was beset by injuries, the most serious of whih was a broken bone in Roy Cam- panella’s hand, Bobby Avila, Cleveland second baseman, won the American Lea- gue batting crown with .341, some 20 points better than runnerup Min- nie Minoso of the Chicago White Sox. The Indians also had the Am- erican League’s leading home run hitter, Larry Doby with 32. Big Ted Kluszewski of Cincin- nati finished strong in winnng the Natonal League home 7un champ- ionship with 49. The American League won the All-Star game, 11-9, at Cleveland with Al Rosen hitting two home runs, The Philadelphia Phillies, filled with dissension, fired Manager Steve O'Neil in mid-season and re- placed him with Terry Moore. Moore, in turn, was fired when the season ended and the job for 1955 went to Mayo Smith. Seven other managerial changes were made. Stan Hack replaced Phil Cavarretta at the helm of the Chicago Cubs as the team headed home from spring training. The others came at the season’s end — Paul Richards for Jimmie Dykes at Baltimore, Marty Marion for Richards at Chicago, Bucky Har- ris for Fred Hutchinson at Detroit, Charlie Dressen for Harris Washington, Pinky Higgins for |Lou Boudreau at Boston and Bou- letics. Baltimore opened the seaon as the new members of the American League. In early August Arnold Johnson of Chicago sought to buy | the Philadelphia Athletics and move | them to Kansas City. This deal fin- ally was completed Nov. 8 after 'weeks of bitter wranging. Outfielder Wally Moon on the St. |Louis Cardinals and Bob Grim, New York Yankee pitcher, were at} dreau for Eddie Joost on the Ath- | Baylor Backs Tagged “Best” Ever By Coach By AL LANIER AUBURN, Ala. (#—Jacksonville and the Baylor Bears will see Auburn’s greatest backfield Dec. 31 in the Gator Bowl Football Football Game. The “greatest” label is tacked on by proud Coach Shug Jordan, and statistics seem to back him up. The combination of quarterback Bobby Freeman, left half Fob James, right half Dave Middleton and fullback Joe Childress is the finest he’s seen in 25 years in the Southeastern Conference as coach and player, Jordan says with con- viction. “This combination is Auburn’s greatest, and that includes the 1932 unit of Ripper Williams, Sterling DuPree, Jimgny Hitchcock and Firpo Phipps,’ he continued. He also rates the 1954 Auburn Backfield over the great 1946 Georgia backfield consisting of Charlie Trippi, Johnny Rach, Dick McPhee and Rabbit Smith, which he helped coach. “Freeman and Childress and James and Middleton have the speed, the blocking ability, and the defensive ability plus the fact’ that they’re wonderful competi- tors,” Jordan claims. “They have inside running abil- ity, outside running ability, and they can move the ball in the air. What more do you need?” Jordan is not just talking through his record book. Childress was the conference rushing leader with 836 yards, aside from being high scorer with 65 points. Middleton was fifth in the con- ference with 482 yards rushing and James was seventh with 443. “James can kick it and throw it; Middleton has tremendous speed and drive, is an excellent pass receiver and a great defen- sive back. Childress has the speed, power and determination. “Freeman? There’s the best all- round back in our league or most anybody’s league. ° “Put those four together and you’ve certainly got something,” Jordan remarked with a gleam in his eye. “T might not coach long enough ever to see that good a backfield again,” is his only lament. Connie Mack Marks His 92nd Birthday FORT MYERS (#—Connie Mack, the grand old man of baseball, is observing his 92nd birthday with a quiet family dinner party today. | Actually he was 92 yesterday. | At the request of old friends he decided to celebrate this year on |the date he thought for so long was his birthday. | The tong time Philadelphia Ath- letics’ manager was born near midnight. Until two years ago he thought he arrived just after mid- night on Dec. 23. Then an old family friend dis- closed the birth was just before midnight Dec. 22. He observed that birthday in 1952 and 1953. | eee |SHIVERS TIES RECORD AUSTIN, Tex (?—AHlan Shivers |today tied the record for length |of service as governor of Texas, |Shivers matched Coke Stevenson’s record-breaking term of 5 years, 5 months and 13 days as governor. And the 47-year-old governor has | another full two-year elective term —his third—starting Jan. 18, NFL Tilt Means Lot Of Things Giants Scalp Tribe To Lot Of People, AP Reveals CLEVELAND (#—The National game here next Sunday means a lot of things to a lot of people. To most, of course, it’s the test that will prove for another season which pro team is the best in the land—the defending champion De- troit Lions or the challenging Cleveland Browns. To one player, the contest will be an end to a highly successful | career in the play-for-pzy loop. To another, perhaps also playing his last game, it will be a chance to break and claim for his own one of the most respected records in the football business. Les Bingaman, the 315-pound guard for the Detroit Lions, is the man who says he definitely will be playing his swan song next week against the Browns. Bingaman plans to become a brewery representative. He joined the Lions in 1948 and has played seven seasons. Otto Graham, who has indicated this may be his last season, has! a coveted individual record almost within his grasp. It is the mark of 22,085 yards-gained-passing now held by Slingin’ Sammy Baugh. Graham, said by some to be the greatest: quarterback of all time, is just 222 yards short of that record. If he can pitch Sunday with some of the consistent accuracy he has displayed on occasion, he might break it with ease. The Lions’ coach, Buddy Park- er, says his charges are in the best physical shape of the season. He’s especially happy about the return of Dick Stanfel, whom he calls the “greatest offensive guard in football.” Stanfel hurt his back against the Green Bay Packers Nov. 21, and has been sidelined since then. On the Browns side of the in- jury list were fullback Maurice Bassett, nursing a sore thigh which could slow him Sunday and Billy Reynolds, ailing with a sprained ankle. Johnson Mauls Marshall In Dull Battle DETROIT — Philadelphia's Harold Johnson, in a lack-luster display of jabbing and clinching, punched Marty Marshall, of De- troit, back to obscurity last night in their 10-round nationally tele- vised fight. Marshall, weighing 179, made his short-lived debut to big-time boxing in the first major Detroit fight in over six months. He had been fighting in obscurity for eight years and appears prone to return to the small-time-ranks. Johnson, 174%, made a_ poor showing in his effort to secure an- other title bout with light heavy- weight champion Archie Moore. Moore has beat Johnson four of five times—once for the title. Referee Lou Handler scored the bout 96-82 for Johnson, Judge Joe Lenahan had it 98-82 and Judge Bill Appleton scored 85-82. While Handler prodded the two on for eight rounds, both seemed | confused by each other’s odd style and hugged countless times. John- son had little trouble dodging Marshall’s erratic swinging while Marshall received only slight taps from Johnson before the two would embrace. Previous to the fight, promoter | Nick Londes of the International Boxing Club said if the fighters looked good he would attempt ‘o get a title fight with Moore for the winner. After the fight there was | no such talk. When two tones of different pitch are sounded, you may hear both the tones and also two other tones —a low tone, equal to the differ- ence in frequency of the first two and a high tone equal to the sum of the two tones. Ameche To Spark So. Attack; Yankee Passes Seen In Classic South Civen 7-Point Edge In Shrine Tilt MIAMI, Fla. & — College foot- ball’s greatest gainer, fullback Alan Ameche of Wisconsin, wil spearhead the North ground attack in the North-South All-Star game here Christmas night, but the Yankees’ hopes may ride with their passers. North coach Ivy Williamson of Wisconsin says he expects Ameche to gain plenty of yardage, but he adds: “I think our chances will depend mostly on how well our throwers click.” | Florian Helinski of Indiana, Dun- {can McDonald of Michigan and |the Yankees in the week’s work- | Heydenfeldt of UCLA on the re- | ceiving end, all three looked great. | The South was established yes- terday as a seven-point favorite and Williamson said that “by tra- | dition, I suppose the South should be favored.” But he hastened to |remark, “I think we can stand | toe to toe with them.” Dixie has dominated the seven- | game all-star series, winning five games and tying one. In the past, the games have been wide-open | aerial battles, but South coach Andy Gustafson says the Rebel of- fense this year will be based on running. “We don’t expect to hold Ameche,” Gustafson said. “He'll score a couple. But we will out- scote ’em—three touchdowns to) two,” Ohio State Star Leads Cage Scoring NEW YORK (#—Off to a faster start than any other major college scorer since the National Collegi- ate Athletic Bureau has been re- cording statistics, Ohio State’s “tiny” Robin Freeman today led the big college basketball marks- men with a terrific 40.3 average. The 5-10 Buckeye junior boost- ed his pace-setting game average 1.3 points over the week for a total of 161 points for four games. The figures, released Thursday, include games through Dec. 18, Freeman is only the second major college sharpshooter io average 40 points or better at this stage. Furman’s mighty Frank Selvy, now a pro star, was the first and only until the Buckeyes’ little man opened up with his scorching pace. Darrell Floyd, trying to fill Selvy’s shoes at Furman, moved up from fourth to second with 31.5 | average for four games. North| ;Carolina State’s towering Lennie Rosenbluth, second a week ago} with a 35.3 mark, fell to sixth with | 30.3. Johnny Mahoney of William | and Mary, eighth last week, took over third with 31.2. | Art Quimby, Connecticut’s ver- satile star, was the No. 1 rebound- | er with an average of 27.8 a game. | Richmond’s dead-eye Dicks held the team-offensive lead with aj tremendous 99-point average for | seven games. Connecticut was sec- | | ond with 98 for six. Southern Cali- | fornia was the hardest team to} score on. The Trojans have yielded | only 49.4 points per game in seven contests. San Francisco was sec-| }ond with 50.1 for seven games, | | Anniversary To Be Interrupted rymore Jr. interrupts celebration | jo |for a Municipal Court appearance | | today on a reckless driving charge. | | Barrymore, 22, was arrested yes- | terday by officers who said he! | Was lane-changing dangerously in| heavy traffic. He was jailed for | about three hours until he ob- tained $300 bail. } He and his wife, the former | Cara Williams, said they are in |Las Vegas for the anniversary of | their marriage here two years ago today. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (®—John Bar- | f his second wedding anniversary | 'Braves Shift Started Trend To West By Baseball Clubs By HUGH FULLERTON JR The Associated Press When Lou Perini picked up the} unprofitable Braves in Boston and dropped them in the fertile new territory of Milwaukee, he started ene of the most significant trends in recent sports history | Following the Braves West, the Athletics were sold and shifted from Philadelphia to Kansas City after the 1954 season while the| Si. Louis Browns moved East into | Baltimore, which had not had} major league baseball since 1902. | These three changes, the first in the major league setup in 50 years, were just the fore-runners of other shifts in the opinion of the nation’s sports writers and broadcasters. In the near future, possibly in 1955, the majors will move on to the Pacific Coast, the experts say. In the annual Associated Press| year-end poll, the writers and/| broadcasters were asked: “What was the outstanding trend, charac- teristic or development in sports in 1954?” A similar question was asked about what is to be expected in 1955. The answer to both was virtually the same. For 1954 it was the shifting of major league franchises into new territory and the conse- quent deterioration of the minor leagues. For 1955 it will be further expansion, either by new moves to the West or by taking in new clubs to form 10-team leagues. Orange Bowl Net Seedings Released MIAMI BEACH Dick Ras- kind of Yale and Johann Kupfer- burger of South Africa are top seeded in the eighth annual Or- ange Bowl Junior Tennis tourney to begin Sunday. Top seeded college women are Suzanne Herr of Miami and Mon- iea Adler of Venezuela. Seeded players in the junior boys division are Allen Quay of St. Pe- tersburg, David Harum of Coral Gables, Crawford Henry of Atlanta and Ron Holmberg of New York. Pat Shaffer of St. Petersburg is seeded first among junior girls, followed by Lorraine Schneider, Fort Pierce; Marilyn Stock, Coral Gables; and Joyce Pniewski, Ham- tramck, Mich. Sandra Lewis of St. Petersburg, heads the girls’ division followed by Elaine Hixon of Tampa. Finals are scheduled for Dec. 31. The skin of a hippopotamus can be as much as two inches. thick. Gala Christmas Party On Skates Prizes - Fun For All Saturday, December 25 Skating Rink 420 SOUTHARD STREET DIAL 2-9161 Out of about 100 experts who replied to these two questions, 25 saw this realignment as the prin- cipal development during the past year and more than 35 foresaw further realignment as the big Movement to come in 1955. A good n.any predicted that the jump to |the West Coast will be made dur- ing the coming year. About a dozen saw the decline of minor league basehall, the drop in attendance and the financial failure of many clubs and leagues as being more significant than the territorial changes of the majors and virtually all of them expected this decline to continue through 1955. Just one expressed the opin- ion that the minors may do better next year because the big leagues realize the damage that is being done. Other 1954 trends recognized by considerable groups of voters in- cluded a leveling-off of strength in college football, improved perform- ances and record-breaking in track, greater interest in sports created by television, the emer- gence of the National League as superior to the American and “the decline of boxing as a reputa- ble sport.” The last, incidentally, was the gentlest way boxing was men- tioned. It also was described as “sickening garbage” and ‘“‘a dis- honest, fraudulent form of tele- vised vaudeville.” A few writers looked for improved conditions in boxing next year. 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