The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1954, Page 6

Conchs Bow To Miami Cagers, 75-40 © Wafie Henriquez Paces Conchs With 16 Points The Key West Conchs were generally agreed to- day that the Miami High School cage aggregation they met last night in Mi- ami was a hot crew. At the end of a furious hour of action, the Conchs found themselves on the short end of a 75-40 score and the Stingarees were in possession of their 34th con- secutive cage victory. Nothing, it appears, stands in the way of their second straight state basketball championship. The Conchs, sadly, have one more engagement with the Stinga- rees, but it will be played on Key West’s cracker-bux court — a fac- tor which may make the game clo- ser. The Conchs, rusty after a holi- day layoff, could not find the bas- ket early in the game while Miami was hitting the cords steadily to pile up a 45-13 halftime lead. Tom Conrad, who had 24 points, and Don Miller, with 19, paced the Stingaree assault. Key West's Julio Henriquez swell- ed his point total for the season to 53 when he dumped in 16 points last night. The Conch B squad absorbed an uamerciful beating from the Sting aad in a preliminary game, KEY WEST (40) Player— FG FT Favors, g Santana Yates, g .. Totals— RlecuchHounn =] Sleoconmnocoamor MIAMI HI (75) Player— F Conrad, f Leary, f Miller, f . Knezevich, f Rogers, c Clements, Cortina, g .. Graham, g Farberman, g ... Balch, g ..... Q encocccounay 4 Rg rannocosa® Hee NOC OINS ticecuamosnad 102,000 Seen For Rose Bowl PASADENA, Calif. @—The Mid- west caravans of fans started ar- riving today as Ohio State and Southern California gridders ta- ered off for Saturday’s 41st Rose Bowl game. The 140-piece Buckeye band was Gue today. Also two trainloads of CSU alumni and the wives of 12 Ohio football players. Coach Woody Hayes booked his Ohio Staters for a morning prac tice session, and Jess Hill of South- ern Cal had his boys slated for an afternoon workout. A sellout crowd of about 102,000 was assured for the New Year’s Day contest between the Bucks, boasting a nine game winning streak, the Big Ten and national titles, and Southern Cal, winner of 8 of 11 games. Both coaches said they had com- pleted all scrimmages, but that some contact work would be on tap the next two days to keep the lads at top pitch. The Ohioans, in contrast to Mon- day’s rugged workout which re- injured four players, took it fairly easy yesterday and Hayes said no further casualties were incurred in the secret session. Hayes said Howard (Hopalong) Cassady, All America halfback, donned his pads and ran well, showing no effects from an injured rib. Bushnell Seeks Baseball Title The USS Bushnell baseball team kept their second half Island City Winter Baseball League pennant hopes alive last night when they defeated the Poinciana Giants. The Bushnell faces the league- leading Cuban Club tonight in a tilt in which a victory will put them into a tie for the top. Gene Nash will hurl for the Na- vy with Joe Lewis handling the mound duties for the Cubans. The standings: W iL Avg. Cuban Club ‘ Junior Conchs Bushnell | Poinciana Giants Stevenson, g . Totals— Key West Miami High 24 21 14 16-75 Referee: Cagni Umpire: Schwartz SINGLE BREASTED Dinner Crease Resistant Jacket . $27.50 Dress Trousers — Tropical $11.95 Evening Tie and Handkerchief Set $2.00 All Ace Key West’s Sma essories rtest Men’s Shop LAronovily FASHIONS for MEN 620 Duy. al Street Aussies Gain Consolation Victories Tuesday Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 29, 1954 Smith, Andrews Clash In Miami MIAMI, Fla. &—Boardwalk Billy Smith, the Atlantic City ring vet- eran who has risen in a year from obscurity to top ranking among the light heavyweight title contend- ers, meets Paul Andrews tonight. The International Boxing Club has promised the winner a title bout with champion Archie Moore Smith, who has won eight fights in a row, seven by knockouts, 3s a 2-1 favorite tonight. CBS will telecast the 10-rounder at 10 p.m. EST, Andrews had won four straight before clever Joey Maxim former light heavyweight champion, out- boxed him Nov. 24. Andrews js rated fifth among the division con- tenders. The odds favoring Smith prob- NC State Meets Minnesota For Court Crown By ED WILKS The Associated Press It isn’t enough that North Caro- lina State is the No, 2 team in college basketball and has an 11-0 record. They want to score a slew of points too. What’s more, you can bet the tonight when it runs into Minnesota for the Dixie Classic title. State’s preference for high scores popped up yesterday when the Wolfpack had to scramble for a 47-44 edge over North Carolina. The Tarheels just didn’t have the bench to cope with the likes of State, so they shunned a running game and went into a freeze. It almost paid off. State had to overcome a five-point deficit in the second half to win. At one point in the first half, Coach Frank McGuire’s Tarheels held the ball for three minutes without trying a shot. Minnesota moved into the finale —won four times by the Wolfpack —by defeating Duke (No. 18) 79-73. The Gophers and State will have at it tonight after Wake Forest, 96-94 winner over West Virginia, and Southern California (No. 14), | 77-58 victor over Cornell, decide the consolation title. In other tournament play last | night, Louisville (No. 13) won the Kentucky Invitation 93-77 over Eastern Kentucky. Western Ken- tucky defeated Murray 98-89 for third place. Three other tournaments wound up play: Detroit won its own Mo- | tor City Classic, 82-57 over Wayne ledo 71-53 for third place. Spring Hill, a little Catholic school in Mobile, Ala., walked off with the Gator Bowl crown by de- won the consolation honors from Georgia 97-87. Tennessee State topped host Xa- | vier in the New Orleans festival | 86-57. Gramling (La.) beat Dillard (La.) 8273 for third. Most of the topranked teams in | this week’s Associated Press poll were idle, but here’s what hap- | pened to those who saw action: George Washington (No. 9) de- | feated Colgate 92-77 in a first-round game in the Richmond Invitation al; Aalabama (No. 12) followed its favorite role with an 84-64 semi- | finals victory over Arkansas in the | Southwest Conference Tournament, | and Kansas (No. 16) was dumped by unranked Iowa State 82-81 in first round play of the Big Seven | tourney at Kansas City, ‘GI Becomes ‘Good Tailor | FT. KNOX, Ky. ®—A quick man with a needle, Pfe. Donald Langner } has saved his buddies about $2,000 in the past seven months. The private from Park Falls, Wis., took up stitching last July | after a back injury put him on the light-duty list. The company | invested in a sewing machine and | Langner went to work. | Since then, he’s been sewing on buttons, patches and altering cuffs. | He taught himself to design and jean make a suit from his own pattern. Now he likes the work so much he plans to make a career of tailoring after his discharge. He | believes America needs more tailors. | “Nobody, it seems, wants to be- !eome a tailor—except me,” he Says. Feb. 4 in Madison Square Garden. |* Wolfpack will try to do just that | | (Mich.), Penn State defeating To- | feating Florida 66-60. Florida State | ably are based on the showings of fighters this year against Harold Johnson, the No. 3 contender. Smith knocked out Johnson in the second round Oct. 8. Andrews lost a 10-round decision to Johnson March 17. A veteran of 14 years of profes- sional fighting, the 33 - year - old Smith got nowhere until 1952, when he signed Sheriff Jerry Gormley of Atlantic County, N.J., as his man- ager. : Boardwalk’s last beating was by Moore, who chased him out of the ring in the eighth round in 1951, After that poor showing, Smith quit fighting for 18 months, until Gormley took him under his wing. He hasn’t been beaten since. Houston Favored In Kid Football LAKELAND (®—Houston match- es its well rounded attack against the powerful ground game of Lin- coln, Neb., in the Santa Claus Bowl championship for small boy football teams here tonight. Lincoln is the favorite on the basis of a 26-0 victory over Phila- delphia last night. Houston was held to a score- less tie by Atlanta but won by virtue of eight first downs to four for the Georgians. Atlanta and Philadelphia play a consolation game before the title contest. The players must be under 14 years old and under 110 pounds. Quarterbacks Play Key Roles In Sugar Bowl By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW ORLEANS (#/—Both were substitutes when the football sea- son started in September but come Saturday the outcome of the annual Sugar Bowl game may be decided by the play of either Navy quarter- back George Welsh or Eagle Day, the Indian who directs Mississippi. The quarterback job in the grid- iron machine built by Coach Eddie Erdelatz was up for grabs when the Midshipmen started practice in September. John Weaver, a senior, received most attention. Before the sailors had a full head of steam, Welsh was doing the signal calling and Weaver was the regular left halfback. Day, one-fourth Cherokee Indian, still isn’t the starting field general for Coach Johnny Vaught’s South- east Conference champions but he’s the player who gives the team its verve and dash. Erdelatz is satisfied with the 162-pound Welsh and approves the daring shown by the junior from Coaldale, Pa. As an example, he points to a fourth down play in the first period of the Army-Navy game. Navy needed a yard for first down and was on its own 30. Army expected a punt but Welsh squirmed through for two yards and Navy retained possession of the ball. Playing all games except the Stanford contest, missed because of rib injuries, Welsh completed 39 of 81 passes for 527 yards and seven touchdowns. As a runner he has gained 213 yards in 52 tries. Day still shares the Mississippi quarterbacking with Houton Pat- ton but he played enough time to finish second in the Southeastern Conference in total yards gained. He flung 8 passes, of which 40 | reached their target. That meant }879 yards and four touchdowns. Afoot he scampered for 172 yards. | |NOTORIOUS OUTLAW |KILLED IN COLOMBIA CALI, Colombia ‘P—A notorious | Colombian outlaw, blamed for | more than 100 killings, was shot | and killed yesterday in a wild gun battle with a police detachment ed. The 28-year-old outlaw, nick- named ‘‘Pistocho,” had escaped a 5,000peso ($2,000) | alive” reward on his head. | Goats are the most destructive | of all livestock kept by man, says the United Nations Food and Agri- culture Organization. Several of the officers were wound- { from several prisons. There was | “dead or By WILL GRIMSLEY SYDNEY, Australia ® — Re- bounding from three straight de- feats, Australia’s Ken Rosewall and Rex Hartwig whipped Amer- iea’s Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas today in the final two singles of the Davis Cup Challenge Round. But since the United States had already won the cup, symbol of world tennis supremacy, the matches furnished only a measure of consolation to Australia’s pride and made the final score for the record books, United States Australia 2. i Hot Net Action Marks Bayview Park ‘Tourney Two pint-size players [Pete Polumbaum, J. Yates Win In City Tennis Tournament Sp With the pressure off, the little] Stole the show in the 13) southpaw Rosewall crushed Tra- bert 9-7, 7-5, 6-3. Hartwig, playing his first Challenge Round singles, drubbed Seixas 46, 6-3, 62, 63. Hartwig, who recently recovered from an attack of the mumps, was substituted for Lew Hoad, and his brilliant play today started Aus- tralians second-guessing the selec- tors who passed over him in both the opening singles and doubles. “Well, there goes my prediction | of five to nothing,” said U.S. Cap- tain Bill Talbert with a broad | smile, “But we should worry. We | have won the cup, and that’s what matters.” Talbert said both Trabert and | Seixas suffered a physical and mental letdown after reaching their peak to score victories in the first two singles and doubles. Trabert himself said he had little heart for his match because he wanted Hamilton Richardson, his teammate, to be given a chance to play in the round. “T have a pretty mean cut on | my racquet finger and I didn’t | want to play today,” he said. “I thought it would be nice if Ham, who has been out here four times, could get a chance for some Chal- lenge Round experience. “But the officials wanted no sub- stitutions because they feared it would disappoint the sellout crowd. Then we were told today around noon that Australia was substitut- ing for Hoad.” Hoad sprained a groin in his right thigh in the third set of yes- terday’s doubles match, won by; Trabert and Seixas, and the doctor | advised him to lay off tennis for six | weeks, | Hartwig, a 25-year-old country boy whose record over the last six months probably tops that of any amateur gave a slashing ex- hibition against Seixas, who was outsped and outmaneuvered. Only in the opening set did Seixas show superiority. In the last three sets, Hartwig was in| full command all the way. In the | fourth set he ran through the first four games with the loss of only three points. Ex-Army Man Tops Gator Bowl Golf JACKSONVILLE (—The Army’s Pvt. Dan Sikes, ex-captain of the University of Florida golf team | and now of Ft. Meade, Md., led a field of 119 into the second round | of the Gator Bowl Invitation Golf | Tournament today. His four under par 34-34—68 over | the 6,282-yard municipal course yesterday gave him a two-stroke lead in the 54-hole event over his | closest pursuers, Edwin Jenkins | and Fred Mann, both of Jackson- ville. Mann posted a 32-38 and Jen- kins a 34-36. Don Bisplinghoff, Florida ama-| teur champion from Orlando, and Ray Terry of Jacksonville, con- sidered Sikes’ foremost challeng- | ers, had 71s. Jack Collins of Sarasota was the only other player who found the course easy. He matched par 72. Defending champion Larry Mur- phy of Bethesda, Md., and for- merly of Jacksonville Beach, was far down in the field with a 78. There are about 66,825,000 auto rivers in the United States. LIFE-TIME — fhe Only Battery with a 6-Year BONDED GUARANTEE eVasily more power. quicker ONE PRICE FOR ALL CARS $29.95 (6-Volt) NAVARRO, INC. Snow can contain as much as 35 parts of air to one part of ice. 601 Duval St. Tele. 2-7041 and-under tennis tourna- ment at Bayview Park yes- terday when young Peter Polumbaum of New York City met up with wee Willie Collins. Peter finally slugged out to a 6-4, victory over the local youngster. What the boys might have lacked in finesse certainly made up in intensity, as in- deed seemed to be the rule in all the matches of the day. In the City Women’s champion- | ships, FSU’s June Yates was as | 7 was products in her father’s store in disposing of a dangerous slugger | in Audrey McLean, 6-2, 6-1. Dolores Villate, also FSU, beat 15-year old Sheila Johnson, 6-1; 6} 2. Number one seeded Lynn Sel- | lers drew a bye, while second seed- ed Marie Rendueles takes on June Yates today. In other boys’s matches, Harold Cates defeated Pete’s younger bro- ther, Doug Polumbaum, 6-1, 6-0, and number one seeded Richard Collins beat Allan Hyman of New York, 6-1, 6-0. Second seeded Rich- ard Senderling whitewashed Bunny Hyman 6-0, 60. Entries are still being received for the women’s doubles, due to start on Thursday. The tourna- ments are being conducted by City net pro, Les Jahn. They Really Love Their Neighbors DETROIT (# —The Browns just love the Morrisseys. Nine years ago Charles Brown, new 33, married Anna Mae Mor- Tissey, now 30. A year later, George Brown, now 22, married Betty Jean Morrissey, now 26. Yesterday, Lawrence Brown, 23, took out a license to marry Pa- tricia Morriseey. 20. The Browns are brothers. The Morrissey girls are sisters. The two families lived next door to | | | | By JACK HAND (For Gayle Talbot) | NEW YORK (?—If Willie Mays ‘and Roger Bannister will shove lover a bit, we'd like to nominate |Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas for ja share of the Athlete of the Year honors. At a time when sports colum- | nists, even sub columnists, are re cuced to chewing over the dusty memories of the past year or master-minding the bowl games, the U.S. Davis Cup pair came ‘through with an exciting spot news cevelopment. Weary tuakeup men who have been writing heads about the Navy squad’s Christmas dinner and the cool as one of those refrigerating | aching muscles of assorted half- backs have fallen upon the fresh news from Sydney like Jackie Gleason on 11 million dollars. The best part of the Davis Cup, matches in Australia was the tim- ing. Coming in the dead of winter during the holiday week when a baseball player signing his con- tract could command a top head, | the tennis matches became Page 1} stuff in many sections. Although it was comforting to see the old cup come back to the United States, ! Christmas week won't be the same any more without the Challenge | Round Down Under. | Actually, we won't have too much time to gloat over our new possession. In less than eight months, the Aussies (or possibly some other nation) will be storm- | } | i | Kentucky May Have The Secret LOUISVILLE, Ky. (®—If you're seeking the fountain of youth, Ken- tucky may have it. There are at least 17 persons in the state who have passed the 100 | mark and probably others who} have had no publicity The exclusive group got its new- est member today and she got aj letter of congratulation from Pres- | ident Eisenhower. “It tickled me to death,” said Mrs. Mary E. Yount. “I’ve been a Republican all my life.” each other for nine years. Citizen Ads Bring Results | orts Roundup By Gayle Talbot ing these for the '55 matches. When the United States held the cup in the past, the Chal- lenge Round usually was played at Forest Hills in August. It took the United States four years to win it back after the 1950 cefeat and the Aussies have youth on their side in the 20-year-old pair of Ken Rosewall and Lewis Hoad. Seixas is 31 and Trabert 24, al- though Ham Richardson, the third man, is only 21 shores Hester Battery STARTS 809 TIMES After Only 5 Minutes Rest In a recent test, a stock Hes- ter Battery wi deliberately ly. This operation -was re ed 809 times before the bat- tery failed. FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS LOU SMITH 11146 WHITE STREET NOW OPEN The New KEY WEST SPORTS CENTER Lounge - Bar Package Store 7 A.M. -1 A.M. Daily 513% Fleming FREE PARKING IN REAR ENTRANCE Starting Thursday, Dec. 30, 7:30 P.M. NO free 10 Admission Charge MINORS Parking RACES NIGHTLY Beautiful New Grandstand