The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 28, 1954, Page 6

| Conchs Face Miami High Courtmen In Road Tilt Defending State Champs Seeking 34th Victory The Key West high school basketball team left at noon today for Miami where they will face the de- fending state champion Mi- ami high school Stingarees in their first road tilt of the current season. And the Conchs, boasting of a 1-1 reeord (ineluding.a crucial Gold Coast Conference win), will have their hands full when the Stings yo out after their 34th consecutive vic- tory over a two year period. The Conchs, oddly enough, were the only team in the state last year to come anywhere close to beating the Stings. They dropped a four point decision in Key West to the Miamians. “We're going to try to keep it close,” was the only comment to- day of Coach Win Jones. He added that foul shooting, a department in which his Conchs have been found lacking in earlier starts, has been getting considerable emphasis in ag this week, is vastly improv- “If we can shoot in a game like we did in practice, it won't hurt us a bit,” said Jones. The size of the Miami court is expected to be a major handicap to the Conchs. Aecustomed to play- ing in their band-box layout, the Conchs may well feel ill at ease when they march out on the barn- like Miami hardwood. Their big task of the evening will be stopping big Jim Miller, the Stings leading point maker. Hard- driving Wafie Henriquez has been handed that ambitious assignment. Meanwhile, Jones has announced several other lineup changes. For example, Red Stickeny has been given a starting forward as- signment to replace Bill Haney, who was lost to the squad when he moved to California. Hard-fighting John Carbonell will be the Conchs’s starting center with Julio Santana and Tony Hop- ey, & pair of sophomores at the starting guard positions, Other boys who will see action in the tilt are Fred and Ed Curry, Stu Yates, Norman Allen and Gene Favors. The game will be preceded by @ B team clash. Baylor, Auburn Have Troubles In Gator Bowl By F. T. MACFEELY JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —Major problems still confront Baylor Coach George Sauer and Auburn Coach Ralph Jorden only three days before their football teams meet in the Gator Bowl game. Shortly after the Baylor Bears arrived yesterday, Sauer was asked how much his team would be hurt by the dropping of two regulars, Jimmy Taylor and Dan Miller, because they violated train- ing rules. “We don’t know,” Sauer replied, He said Bill Glass and Henry Rutherford, who moved up to first string at center and right guard, had played about as much as Taylor and Miller in late season. But the lack of experience behind them causes concern. The problem before Jordan as his Auburn Tigers come here today by plane is how long Jim Pyburn’s injured knee will hold up in action, The All-Southeastern Conference end was hurt about two weeks ago, apparently when he twisted his leg while running for a pass in prac- tice for the Gator Bow] game. “We'd thought the injury would come on around,” Jordan said, “but Kenny Howard (the trainer) was very much disturbed about it yesterday morning. And, it goes without saying, so are the rest of us. While Auburn spent part of the day traveling, Baylor was sched- uled for double workouts at its oceanfront training site. After yesterday's arrival, the Bears had time only for a light drill. “This Florida air must be good for our kickers,” Coach Sauer ob- served when Del Shofner and L. G. Dupre got off several long, high ones> But tinued to concern him. “As I said at the start of the geascn, we didn’t have enough depth to substitute by teams,” Sauer said. “We had some boys who played most of every game. “Tm sure we'll have to keep our better boys in there most of the time against a team as good as auburn.” ‘ bstitytion problem con- | him. Pageé THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, December 28, 1954! Sports e By MURRAY ROSE (For Gayle Talbot) NEW YORK ® — They once culled him Oakland Billy Smith, then it became Disappearing Billy, and now, close to the top in the third phase of his career, he’s Boardwalk Billy Smith. The Oakland and Boardwalk nicknames are easy to understand. He once fought out of the Cali-; fornia city and now he’s domiciled in Atlantie City. As for the “Disappearing” mon- icker, Billy would just as soon for-| get about it, At 33, he is in top| shape and clamoring for a title shot at light heavyweight cham- pion Archie Moore, who beat him | three times. The last of those fights earned Smith the “Disap- pearing” monicker. Smith takes on tall, power-punch- ing Paul Andrews in Miami to- morrow night and the winner has been promised a February shot at Moore in Madison Square Garden. “I’m looking forward to meet- ing Archie again,” said Billy be- fore he departed for the South- land. “This time I figure I’m going to take him. It would be a great fight for about six rounds. Then his age (Moore is 38) is gonna catch up on him.” Billy started messing with Moore back in 1946 when he held Archie to a 12-round draw. In two fights. in 1948 with Moore, Billy Roundup By Gayle Talbot lost a 10-round decision, then was kayoed in four rounds. That led up to their last meet- ing in Portland, Ore., Jan. 2, 1951. The fight was slow and about even until the sixth, when Billy pounded Moore around the ring, then decked him with a right for an eight count. Billy tried to fin- ish him off but couldn’t. In the seventh Smith was on the run. Midway in the eighth Smith dropped his hands to listen to some shouting from his seconds in the corner. Archie took advantage to drop him with a haymaker right. Billy got up at nine and went on his bicycle. Archie caught up with | him, however, and draped him over the ropes with a right. Then, to the amazement of the crowd, Billy just parted the ropes, climbed through and fled to his dressing room. Billy said afterwards that he thought Moore was good and tired and he planned to coast along and catch Archie later. He said his cornermen and the referee kept yelling at him to fight. “I finally just got disgusted with the whole thing,” said Billy then. What are his reactions to the episode now? “IT guess he was giving me too much trouble,” replied Billy. “I’m 2 different person now.” That peculiar loss to Moore was Smith’s last defeat. Since then ‘Gators, Bama Lead SEC Cage Race So Far By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Florida and Alabama added luster to their glittering early sea- son basketball records in tourna- ments yesterday but Georgia and Mississippi were victimized by non-conference opponents. These four teams were the only Southeastern Conference members in action as a big tournament- studded week began throughout the nation. Georgia Tech was due for competition tonight at Buffalo in the Queen City Invitational meet while Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi were to continue in their tourneys. Florida upset Florida State 82-79 | and moved into the finals of the Gator Bowl tournament at Jack- sonville. The unbeaten Gators, now sporting a 6-0 record, face Spring Hill, Ala., for the Gator Bowl title. Spring Hill ousted de- fending champion Georgia 78-69. Georgia and Florida State play to- night in the consolation round. Alabama made its record 6-1 with a come-from-behind 70-67 ver dict over Baylor in the opening round of the Southwest Conference tournament at Houston, Tex. Ala in the tourney, Mississippi fell in the first round of the All-America City tournament at Owensboro, Ky. The Rebels lost 78-70 to powerful Cincinnati. Dennis O’Shea, Alabama’s lead- ing scorer with 17 points, scored three in the last 90 seconds for the Tide’s margin over Baylor in he’s had seven fights and won them all, six by knockouts. Brion Wins, Has Contender’s Role Smith-Andrews Bout Is TV Feature Wed. The Blue Ribbon Bouts TV fight Program rings out the old year on December 29 by airing a battle be- tween top light-heavyweight ring- men Billy Smith and Paul Andrews. On the same evening Cocoanut Grove, Florida, site of the contest, becomes the 24th city to join the chain of origination points from which Pabst has telecast the fights. The 10-round contest will be tele- vised from the Dinner Key Audi- torium over a CBS network of more than 100 stations. Beginning at 10 p. m. Eastern Sandard Time, sta- ie WIV, will be the local out- Smith, known to the trade as| Broadwalk Billy, hails from Oak- land, Calif, but now makes his heme in Atlantic City, N. J. An} astounding second round kayo up- set over Harold Johnson catapult- | ed Billy into the number one spot in his division. A deputy sheriff in Atlantic City, Smith entered the pro ranks in Oakland in 1941. In two years, after maintaining a better than average record, Billy went on the inactive list in 1943, but resumed his ca- Teer on the West Coast in mid- July of 1944. He set a fast pace for himself until 1950, then began fighting only two or three bouts a year, In 1954 he leaped into promin- ence with sensational wins, cul- minating in his kayo victory over Johson. The tough to scrap braw- ler is an aggressor all the way and tees off on an opponent with aban- don hoping to land his Sunday Punch, In 81 starts Smith won 58, 33 by kayo, lost 20 and drew in three. ws, fifth ranked light -| heavy, is a good puncher and hits | hard with either his left or right. | In his 33 bout career he won 29! and lost four. More than half of Paul's victories were knock-outs. Paul’s last defeat occurred in Nov- ember on a Blue Ribbon Bout tele- cast when Joey Maxim outboxed The 24-year-old Andrews began fighting in the Army and turned ero in 1950. A lanky, stand-up type boxer, Andrews has an excellent | left hood and his knock-out poten- tial is tremendous. A comparison of his record a- gainst Harold Johnson indicates that Paul will have to employ his most damaging punches and defen- NEW YORK (#—The state of boxing at the close of 1954 can be summed up in one short sentence. —win two and you’re a’contender, Cesar Brion, an oft-beaten heavy; weight giant from Argentina, and Bill McNeece, a rough-and-ready crowd pleaser from Central Islip, N.Y., with only 15 pro fights, are the latest examples. Both Brion and MecNeece threaten to crack the top 10 after Monday night’s victories, both split decisions at that. Brion barely out- pointed Dan Bucceroni of Phila- delphia at St. Nicholas Arena. Mc- Neece made his aggressive tactics pay off against experienced Bobby Dykes of Miami at Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway. “We want Charley Norkus,” choruesed Brion and Hymie Wall- man, his manager. Norkus, recent winner over Charley Powell and Roland LaStarza after many dis- couraging setbacks, is another who was rescued off the fistic scrap head to become the No. 1 heavy- weight. Way back in 1950, Brion stopped Norkus. On Sept. 3, Norkus de- feated Brion. Give Brion credit for one thing. He didn’t start hollering “We want Marciano.” But just give him time, and one more vic- tory. Brion, 203, kept on top of hard- hitting Bucceroni, 195%, to earn the votes of Judge Jack Gordon (7-2-1) and Judge Nick Gamboli (8-2). Referee Barney Felix called it for Bucceroni 5-4-1. The AP card was 5-5. In Brooklyn, McNeece, 165, forced all the fighting against back-pedaling Dykes, 161%. But many of his punches landed on gloves and arms. Dykes was sharper when he chose to stand and fight which wasn’t often. There were no knockdowns in either televised match although Dykes slipped to the floor as he tried to back away too fast after landing a punch. Teddy Brenner, Eestern Park- way matchmaker, hopes to bring} back McNeece Jan. 17 against | Paddy Young, his most important | test. There are no definite plans | for Brion, who was a 13-5 under-| dog. THEY'LL CLIMB AGAIN COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. # —Eight members of the Colorado Springs Ad-A-mAn Club and 13 guests plan to climb Pike’s Peak and weleome the new year with | fireworks. The club, organized in 1922, has made 32 of the climbs in| all kinds of weather. New mem- bers are limited to one a year. sive skill to stop Smith, for John- son decisioned Andrews while Smith kayoed Harold in two rounds. » a surprisingly close game. Ala- bama meets Arkansas in the sec- ond round tonight. Jerry Harper, usually Alabama’s most prolific pointmaker, was closely guarded but made 15 and was runnerup to O'Shea. Jack Twyman poured in 30 points for Cincinnati. The Bearcats, who had averaged 95 points a game, were hard-pressed by the alert Mississippians and could not pull away until late in the game. The Rebels hit 40 per cent of their field goals in the first half. Mississippi’s Denver Brackeen matched the spectacular Twyman with 30 points. He led a closing Rebel rally that pulled the SEC school to within four points of Cincinnati | Before the Bearcats could pull away again. ‘Murphy McManus, playmaking | Georgia guard, was high scorer in| the Bulldog loss to Spring Hill. McManus fired nine conseetuve free throws and had an aggregate of 25 points. Bob Emrick’s pivot shooting brought Florida back from a 12- point deficit to victory over Florida | State. The lanky Gator had 27 points for high-scoring honors, Six SEC teams remain idle all week. Only Vanderbilt and Ken- tucky join the four tournament Participants in action. Vandy | meets Stanford Wednesday night | and Kentucky, rated No. 1 nation. | ally in the Associated Press poil, is host to arch-rival St, Louis Thursday night. Willie Garcia To Face Tennis Test JACKSONVILLE (#—Willie Gar, cia of Rollins College meets his first real competition in the Florida State Public Courts Tennis Tourna- Florida State University star, in the quarterfinals. No. 1, easily disposed of Vernon McDaniel of Jacksonville Beach 6-2, 6-1 yesterday. Schaus won over E. L. Lloyd of Jacksonville 4-6, 6-2, 60. Other results included: Men’s singles, first round Jervey Gantt, Ocala, defeated | Jimmy Griffin, Jacksonville, 63, |6-1. John Hires, U of Florida, de- feated Dick Moffatt, St. Petersburg |7-5, 6-1. 4 Second round Bill Hutcherson, U of Florida, defeated Jack Candland, Jackson- ville Navy, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. “John Hires, U of Florida, de |feated Jervey Gantt, Ocala, 6-0, 64. Tound Beecher Clarkson, Ocala, de- feated Bobby Johnson, Jackson- ville, 63, 46, 63. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS bama is the only non-SWC team | Junior boys’ singles, second | US. Gains Davis Cup In Finals Monday | SYDNEY, austraiit @ — Vic) | Seixas and Tony Trakert broaght international tennis supremacy to) the United States today with a masterful doubles exhibition which clinched the 1954 Davis Cup Chal-} | lenge Round a day ahead of sched- | ule, | It was the darkest day of Aus- | |tralian tennis since 1949, but one| | which finished in a never-say-die | | defeat for the Sydney twins—Lewis | Hoad and Ken Rosewall, who went | down fighting 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8. | The plucky Australians, down |4-5, and love-40 on Rosewall’s | (service in the 10th game of the | |final set, fought off four match points with some brilliant volley- ing to carry it into an exciting | jovertime which kept a crowd of | 25,578 at White City in an uproar. | But it was only postponing the jinevitable because in the 18th) }game the Americans slammed to| | advantage again on little Rose-| wall’s service and clinched the) jmatch and the cup on a brilliant! jforehand shot by Trabert down the | sideline. | | Trabert threw his racquet in the | |air and leaped from the ground} | with a wild whoop. He threw his | arms around Seixas and went over to shake hands with the crestfallen | Australians, then accepted the con-| gratulations of Captain Bill Tal- | bert. | Harry Hopman, the little Aus- | tralian captain who led the suc- cessful campaign to bring the cup | from U.S. shores and who has} been the mentor in all subsequent defenses, was a forlorn figure on| the sideline as he watched his ten-| nis castle crumble. But he grabbed his two young) proteges around the shoulders and accompanied them to the dressing room. Thus the Challenge Round} which experts predicted would be | perhaps the closest in history be-| came a complete rout with th Americans leading 3-0 in the best- of-five series. Talbert announced that he would ask Hopman for permission to sub- stitute Hamilton Richardson Jr., the Rhodes scholar from Baton Rouge, La., for Trabert in tomor- row’s meaningless final singles | matches. He explained that Tony has blisters on his racquet hand. Originally, he intended to rest Seixas. Talbert said the conquest was the result of a full year’s plan- ning. And, he added: “I must give full credit to the) boys. They had a pattern cut out| for them and they followed it to! the letter. | “I am naturally very proud of| both Vie and Tony and I am proud | which worked and fought so hard | to achieve this end.” Richardson is scheduled to play Rosewall in the first match of the final day, with Seixas meeting Hoad in the second, if the switch is approved. THIEF LEAVES NAME NEW YORK #—Pablo E, Quiles, 18, liked one of the suits he found in an apartment so well that he put it on and left his own suit behind. In a pocket was a wallet | containing his name, address and photograph. Police traced him in less than an hour and arrested him on a charge of stealing $700 | worth of clothing. Records indicate that the Norse- | men first sighted the coast of | Greenland in 877 A. D. { | | | i} | | | | | | \ ment today, taking on Hal Schaus, }] Garcia, from Chile and seeded STOCK-UP TODA Ha «smoother tasting Blue Ribbon Beer FOR COMPLETE FIGHT MIGHT ENJOYMENT || 2267 Blue Ribhon PRESENTS Billy Smith Paul Andrews Monroe Beer Distributors, Inc. 23 Races Set Daily At SI Racing Plant An enthusiastic band of dog racing fans turned out Monday for the start of of- ficial box schooling races at the Key West Kennel Club. A slate of 23 races was run off Monday under state supervision. The schooling was scheduled to continue today and Wednesday ‘Kennel Club Schooling Races Producing Hot Track Action Niagara Is Only Top Ranked College Cage Team To Lose By SHELDON SAKOWITZ | } The Asscciated Press | The nation’s top-ranking collegi- | jate basketball teams were off to | good starts in the merry holiday | {tournament whirl with only two/| court powers suffering reversals in| | first-round games. | Among the first 10 in the weekly | Associated Press poll, only 10th- | iked Niagara lost yesterday. Missouri (No, 11) beat Nebraska 75-58 in the Big Seven Tournament at Kansas. Alabama (No. 12) edged Eaylor 70-67 in the Southwest Con- ference Tournament at Houston, Louisville (No, 13) crushed Mure ray State 108-83 in the Kentucky Invitational at Louisville. Duke (No. 18) defending tourna- ment champion, posted a 92-79 suc= cess over West Virginia in the Dix- getting under way at 3p. m. Then, |The lone casualty in the second je Classic to boost its record to at 7:30 until the officia ing © the track, Jan, 7. poreninias The races are free to the public, but minors are excluded } That some of the top dog flesh in the sport are among the 387 canines registered with the kennel | club, was evidenced Mon times the pups racked up first schooling start Clear Moon, a frisky pup run ning from the number one box was the first to claim a schooling vic- tory when he circled the Duval Course in just 30.1 seconds to edge Ranch Style and Randy Jack, a Pair of popular performers here during the last season of racing. Meanwhile, track officials head ed by general ma er Louis Car bonell, have spared no cost in put- ting the plush ‘Stock Island racing Plant in top condition for the 30 day racing meet. The track has been completely renovated Probably the biggest improve- ment is a complete resurfacing job on the running track, which has resulted in a speedier and safer surface for the pups. The new sur- ‘ace has eliminated the tendency of by the in their | the pups to spill at the first turn. Plans are underway, according | to Carbonell, to arrange a gala | Opening night program here Ohio State Favored In Rose Bow! Tilt PASADENA, Calif. (® — Ohio State’s football team continues to fill the role of favorite in the Rose Bowl game New Year’s Day, but Southern California does hold a psychological edge, for what it may be worth. Jess Hill, USC coach, nursed this belief Tuesday and the Buck- eye mentor, Woody Hayes, in ef- fect, agreed. Hayes said there is no question to have been a part of this team| but that a team rated on top of|ed, “there is no question but we | the heap, such as Ohio State was | voted, is a sitting target for the opposition. . A team had better watch out, he said, if it starts getting im- pressed with its press notices. Hayes admitted that he was “‘ter- ribly” concerned when Ohio State reached the top of the list in the AP poll after the Wisconsin game. Hill, somewhat humorously, jon Thursday evening, official night | 10 was Southern California, ay | Schooling races will be held nightly | No. ‘14. | Niagara (62) bowed to UCLA | }(7-1) in the third annual ECAC | Festival at New York’s Madison |Square Garden 88-86 in the only game that involved two of the top 20 court titans. Southern Califor- nia (6-3) was upset by North; Carolina 67-58 in the Dixie Classic | jat Raleig North Carolina State (No. 2), shooting for its fifth Dixie Classic | title, extended its unbeaten string to 10 in a row with a 95-61 victory | over Cornell. alle (No. 3) crushed Syracuse all-time col-} high at Madi- e Garden. Undefeated Dayton (No. 4) won its seventh} straight with a 70-56 triumph over | St. John’s of Brooklyn. Both games were part of New York’s festival tourney. ; Duquesne (No. 8) also captured | its opening-round Garden contest, | turning back Villanova 87-68. Si} 'Green scored 38 points—30 in the |sceond half, a Garden record. le ‘Fight Results MONDAY NIGHT’S FIGHTS | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK—Cesar Brion, 203, r. ntina, outpointed Dan Buccer- oni, 195%4, Philadelphia, 10. BROOKLYN — Billy MeNeece, | 165, Central Islip, N.Y., outpointed | Bobby Dykes, 161%, Miami, 10. MONTREAL—Bobby Courchesne 128'2, Holyoke, Mass., outpointed Charlie McGarrity, 128%, Rahway, |N.J., 10. | PROVIDENCE, R.I. Curley Monr 139, Worcester, outpointed | Kocky Sullivan, 136%, Boston, 10. LOS ANGELES—Jesse Mongia, | 123%, outpointed Gil Velarade, 127%4, Los Angeles, 10. noted: ‘‘We don’t have to worry | about our press notices,” and add- | are the underdogs. However, this | may be something in our favor.” | Hayes said the Buckeyes will be at full strength, and even strong- er than during some stages of their uninterrupted march through | the Big Ten ranks. j A preliminary poll of football writers read like this: 39 picked | Ohio State, 19 chose USC and one | predicted a tie. 6-1. Something New! OUTDOOR SHOE SKATES For Children! See Them At The Skating Rink 420 Southard 2-9161 BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— §8.95 Exch Lou Smith, 1116 White The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER Lounge - Bar Package Store 7 AM. - 1 A.M. Daily 513% Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE Ott 1c Starting Thu: rsday, Dec. 30, 7:30 P.M. NO MINORS Free Parking 10 RACES NIGHTLY Beautiful New Grandstand STOCK ISLAND