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Miami High Edges Key West Cagers In Thrilier Here Tuesday, 47*44
Archer , Logun
Pace Conchs In
Loss To Miamians 1
The Miami High School
basketball team went home
today, a much chastened
group of athletes after they
copped a victory over the
Key West Concha by a slim
47-44 margin, last night in
the local battle pit.
They are co-favorites to
win the Class AA state cham
pionship this year, but that
fact didn’t bother the Conchs
who went to work on them
in their usual fiery fashion
and managed to pile up an
8-4 lead in the first quarter
and they never fell more
than eix points behind
throughout the contest.
It wa a huge edge in height
that gave the margin to the Mia
mians and it was a pair of ball
players, Glynn Archer and Stu
Logun, who kept the locals in the
ballgame. Logun went the distance
and dumped in 12 points while Ar
cher with his peppery fighting tac
tics, kept the Stingarees off bal
ance throughout the evening. He
matched Logun’s scoring with an
other 12 points.
Archer sank the first goal of
the evening after the Conchs had
taken the tipoff and Logun cam#
back with another field marker
seconds lator. John Carbonoll and
Jim Solomon also scorod while
Miami’s Don Millor bucketed
field goals in tha first quarter.
Unlike the Cotal Gables tilt,
when the Conchs pressed from the
start, Key West played a cool and
cautious game in the early stages
of the tilt and their strategy ap
parenUy paid off they out-pass
ed and out-manuevered the visitors.
But Miami came to life in the
second quarter to when they filt
ered through Key West’s man-to
man defense for layup shots and
with Pike and Williams leading the
way.
Their height and tight defense
kept the Conchs working from out
side. Logun was particularly dan
pf >u> to the Stingarees at this
poi’d when he hit set shots.
The end of the half saw Miami
with a 25-20 lead.
Bat the game erupted Into a fast
paced bitter battle for the edge in
Ihe second half with Key West
drawing to within two points of the
v -itor midway in the third per
iod.
Miami dominated the back
wards, but the ball-stealing tac
tics of John Carboneil and Gibby
Gates kept Miami wishing they had
scheduled an easier game for
their opener.
Miami had a 34-31 lead at the
end of the third quarter as the
pace of the game quickened.
With only three minutes to go in
the game, Miami held a 45-39 lead
but Archer and Logun each sank
field goals to bring the Conchs to
within two points of Miami.
Charlie Pike then hit with / set
of shots to widen the edge for the
Stringarees.
With less than a minute to go
Archer sank a foul shot but Miami
gained possession of the ball and
froze it until the final whistle.
It was a pair of All-State perfor
mers, Charlie Pike and Ed Hoban
who paced the Miamians although
Don MOler led their scoring with
13 points.
The summary:
KEY WEST (44)
Player— FG F TP
Archer ___________ 5 2 12
Henriquez 2 0 4
Gates _ , 4 10
Carboneil _________ 113
Logun 6 0 12
Solomon - 10 2
Totals— 20 4 44
MIAMI HIGH (47)
FG. F TP
Hoban 4 3 11
Miller 6 1 13
Williams 4 10
Pike 4 0 8
Farberman 10 2
Bushong . 2 0 4
Totals— 21 5 47
HOWELL IS NAMED
GIANT GRID COACH
NEW YORK Iff! A man who
learned all he knows about football
from S*eve Owen today holds the
coaching reins of the New York
Giants professional football team.
The appointment of Jim Lee
Howell as Giant head man filled
the gap when Owen retired from
•be coaching position he had held
dnee 1928 to head the organiza
tion’s scouting system.
HoweJ, an end for the Univer
sity of Arkansas, served at that
position for the New Yorkers from
1137 through 1947 with the excep
tion of three years in the Marines.
He had been an end coach and
assistant to Owen since that time.
Howell said after he was named
•o succeed Owen. “Steve taught
me everything I know about the
fame.**
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Roban in last night’s Key West-Miami cage clash here. Miami won close verdict over Key
West, 47-44.—Citizen Staff Photo.
Charles-Wallace Bout Affects Title Picture
Page 6
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Ed Barrow, The Man Who Made
Babe Ruth, Dies In New York
PORT CHESTER, N. Y. (JV-Ed
Barrow, the man who discovered
Honus Wagner, changed Babe Ruth
into an outfielder and developed
the New York Yankees into the
most feared team in baseball, died
of cancer last night. He was 85.
In July he entered Port Chester
United Hospital and his close
friends knew his death was only
a question of time.
le remained cheerful. His mind
was clear and he continued to re
ceive visitors. His physical con
dition continued to decline and
early in November he lapsed into
a coma for 36 hours. Then he ral
lied, began eating again and
seemed improved until a relapse
Sunday.
Twenty-four hours before his
death, his personal physician, Dr.
Curlin Craven, said: “He has put
up a marvelous battle. He is going
to die. It might be tomorrow or
next week. Then again, it may
be much longer.”
Barrow retired in 1947, selling
his stock in the Yankees for $300,-
000. He had been with the club
for 26 years.
Born Edward Grant Barrow in
Springfield, 111., May 10, 1868, he
was city editor of the Des Moines
Leader when he first got into base
ball as a semipro manager. He
moved into organized ball at
Wheeling, W. Va., in the old Inter
state League, and then to Pater
son, N. J., Detroit, Indianapolis
and Toronto.
He quit baseball in 1908 to run
a Toronto hotel but came back
to the sport in 1910 as a manager
at Montreal. He was president of
the International League for seven
years before moving to Boston as
manager of the Boston Red Sox.
Here he met Ruth, a left-handed
pitcher, and changed him into an
outfielder.
“It was the biggest gamble
I ever took in my life,” Barrow
admitted later, “but 1 never had
reason to regret it.”
Ruth w as sold to the Yankees in
1920 and Barrow soon followed as
business manager and secretary
of club. Col. Jake Ruppert was
the president but everybody knew
it was “Cousin Ed” who ran the
club. Barrow took over as presi
dent when Ruppert died. In 1946
he became chairman of the Board
of Directors when a syndicate
headed by Larry McPhad bought
the team.
Wagner, a bow-legged Dutch
man, was Barrow’s pride and joy.
He found him in Carnegie. Pa.,
throwing rocks and later sold him
to Louisville as a shortstop. He
admired many of the present-day
plave-s including Phil of
Wodncsdoy, Decomber 16, 1953
the Yanks, but he maintained
Wagner was the greatest.
“I always thought he was a won
derful man,” Wagner said when
he learned of Barrow’s death. “He
did everything he could for the
players. He was a great baseball
man.”
Wagner was one of many leading
baseball figures who paid tribute
to Barrow.
“I think Ed Barrow was really
the greatest baseball man—every
thing considered—in my time,”
said Branch Rickey, general man
ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ford Frick, commissioner of
baseball, called Barrow one of
“the greatest baseball men 1 ever
knew.”
Grid Season
Surprised
The Experts
By HUGH FULLERTON JR.
NEW YORK tfL-If you see a
man walking around with a
strange light in his eyes, clutch
ing a typewriter and looking as if
he had mislaid his overcoat (which
he probably has) don't call the
cops. He’s just a football expert
who hasn’t recovered from the sur
prises and upsets of the 1953 sea
son.
The nation’s sports wTiters and
broadcasters, asked to name the
Surprise Team of the Year in the
Associated Press postseason poll,
cime up with 54 different names.
And they listed 42 separate games
under the heading of Outstanding
I Upsets.
The final count of ballots gave
| Illinois the call as the No.l sur
prise team with Stanford, lowa,
: Auburn and Army close behind.
i The greatest upset, by a consider
jable margin, was Purdue's 6-0 de
cision over the 1952 national cham
pion, Michigan State, late in Oc
tober.
Very little had been expected of
the untried Illinois team before the
season started. But a couple of
sophomores, J. C. Caroline and
i Mickey Bates, came along to turn
it into one of the nation’s outstand
ing teams and co-champion of the
Big Ten. With Caroline smashing
the Big Ten rushing record, set
by Red Grange, the Illini won sev
e*‘ straight games before they were
stopped, 34-7, by Wisconsin.
That game, incidentally , was
ranked No. 5 among the season's
upsets by the voters.
Sixty of 279 voters listed T>' ;
By RUSS NEWLAND
SAN FRANCISCO <J) -Heavy
weight title contenders Ezzard
Charles and Coley Wallace battle
it out here tonight in a 10-round
fight, the outcome of which carries
important implications.
Former champion Charles can
strengthen his claims for another
crack at the crown he won in 1949
and lost in 1951 to Jersey Joe Wal
cott He failed to regain it from
Walcott and has been on the chal
lenge-fringe since If he doesn’t
win tonight he’s “dundee,” in the
parlance of the fight mob.
This is a nationally televised en
counter, starting at 10 p. m., EST,
in Civic Auditorium.
Wallace, 25, younger and with
the burning ambition to fill the
shoes of his idol, ex-champ Joe
Louis, is ready to try to obliterate
the 32-year-old Charles.
A special reason for Coley’s am
bition is the fact he played the
part of Louis in the recently re
leased movie depicting the life of
the great former champion.
The experts, unswayed by senti
ment, think Charles is a certain
winner. The New Yorker will have
a weight advantage of 205 pounds
to 187.
Charles, ringwise, lean and tough
has trained impressively. Co-man
agers Tom Tannas and Jake Mintz
describe him as “mean.”
“Our man realizes what this
fight means to him,” Mintz said.
“Ezzard doesn’t even expect a
title shot if he beats Wallace. He
wants to wipe out that loss to Nino
Valdes first. And if Harold Johnson
wants another go, he will be ac
commodated. We admit Valdes
beat Charles last August but
we’re hollering plenty about that
decision they gave to Johnson a
month later in Philadelphia.”
The two defeats jolted Charles
iOut of the No. 1 contenders’ posi
tion. In his only two bouts this
year, Wallace decisioned Sandy
McPherson and stopped Bill Gil
liam, neither ranked among the
first 10.
as the No. 1 surprise team, 39
more put the Illini second and 20
third.
| On the usual 3-2-1 scoring basis,
( that counted up to 278 points. Stan
ford. which just missed out on the
Pacific Coast Conference title and
the Rose Bowl assignment after
beating the eventual winner, UCLA
collected 38 first-place votes and
163 points for second place. Then
came lowa with 154 points, Auburn
with 148 and Army with 105.
All these were teams which fin
ished strongly and with good sea
son records after being overlooked
in the preseason calculations. lowa
tied mighty Notre Dame after wal
loping Purdue and Minnesota; Au-
Iburn, at the bottom of the South-;
eastern Conefrence standings a.
year ago. finished close to the top
this year, and Army won the un
eial Eastern title.
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KEY WEST GUARD STU LOGUN splits the meshes with a two-pointer in third quarter of
last night's cage action. John Carbonell (14) looks on. Slow second quarter hurt Conchs in
close loss.—Citizen Staff Photo.
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TUESDAY'S FIGHTS
By The AtMdiM Proas
MIAMI BEACH. Ha. Willi*
Pep. 129. Hartford. Conn., out
pointed Tony Lon go, 130, Balti
morc. 10.
! CHICAGO —Bob Satterfield. 184,
iChicago, knocked out Ray Augus
tus, 176. Topeka, 8.
LOS ANGELES—Cisco Andrade,
133, Los Angeles .outpointed Bobby
Woods. 134. Spokane, 10.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Chari,*
••Doc" Williams. 193, Jacksonville,
stopped Lou Brown, 182, New
York. 3.
TOLEDO. Ohio—Pedro Goruales,
164, Puuburgh, outpointed King
Solomon, 164. Chicago, 10.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex -Biily Lau
derdale. 147, Miami, outpointed Al
Jergcns. 147, San Antonio, 10.
PHOENIX, Arix.—Jimmy Mar
tinex, 157, outpointed Ttmy Mascia
relli. 162. New York. 10.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Art Ara
gon, 147, Los Angeles knocked out
Art Soto, 147, Oakland, Calif., 10
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