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Linda Hill Runs Futurity In 29.2 Seconds At Kennel Club Schooling Races Continue 41 Stock Island Track Linda Hill, owned and: trained by Manuel Foster,! streaked to an impressive win last night in her initial schooling start at the Key West Kennel Club. In gain-' ing the victory, she complet ed the futurity course in a nice 29.2 seconds, just a shade off the track record. The winner had plenty of competition in the race how ever, having to go all out to edge Queen 0 Mine to gain the two length victory. The latter dog took a hefty lead at the post and held it until the stretch when Linda Hill battled edged him. F. B. Stutx’ Forward, a favorite with raeing fans here last year, ran an even third with Tenney C another holdover performer , who won a lot ol races here in the past season, running fourth. In other*- action last night, Mid night Caper, scampered around the $-1$ mile course in just 32 seconds to win going away of over Snow Twinkle and Gnien. Schooling races will continue tonight etarting et 4:30 with more then 20 racee set The rac es will bo hold tomorrow even ing starting at 7 p. m. They will not bo Hold Sunday but will re sume Monday end will be held nightly until the official opening of the track Christmas night. The schooling programs ere free to the public but no minors are admitted. Meanwhile, top flight dogs from the nation's top kennels continue to pur into the Stock Island rac ing plant. Foremost among them are the F. B. Stutx and R. K. Hutchings kennels. Stutz has brought a group of dogs here who were fav orites last year as well as some new faces which will bear watch ing. , Hit Avenger, which captured the fancy of the fans and by setting the track mark early in the sea son leads the kennel. Other holdovers are Forward, Moderator, Pagoda and Wilshire. Notre Dame “Act” Voted Year’s Tops By BEN OLAN NEW YORK UT—Notre Dame’s much-discussed 'injured player” time-out in its Not. 21 deadlock with the lowa Hawkeyes poppet! up again today to be voted college football's "most unusual incident” fa. an Associated Press poll of sportswriters and spcrtscasters. The Irish "inciden,,” which brought forth nationwide expres sion of pros and cons, easily won out over the Duke-Navy ’’short count” and the collapse of Frank Leahy during the Notre Dame- Georgia Tech game. The N.D.-lowa controversy, la beled by some who balloted as the Wow! Start Trolling With Those Rods and Reels We Rented From CLIFF’S YEH! YOU DON’T SEE MANY OF THESE ANYMORE! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 6 Yankee Stadium Sold Thurs. For More Than Six Million Dollars Baker Leading Police Tourney . Patrolmen Harry Leo Baker hat gained the load in the Police Department Pistol Tour nament with a score of 377 out of • possible 450. R. L. James It in second piece with 348. Other top men are M. E. Santana with 354 end F. A Case, 314. These scores were compiled after the second day of shoot ing over the Police Practical Course. Earlier the/ fired the Florida Polka Coursa. Barnes Edges McNulty For [Tennis Crown In the finals of the Key West •Tennis Singles Championship held ■last Saturday at Bayview Park. Lt. (jg) William Barnes defeated John McNulty, MEC, 6-1, 6-3. The match was carefully played by both men, and both sets were close ly contested. Jack Sellers, president of the Key West Tennis Club, umpired and was assisted on the lines by John Sellers and John Taudel. To gain the finals Lt Barnes de feated Lt. Don McOean of SurAs- DevDet in the semi-finals, 6-0, 6-0, [ while McNulty earned his berth! with a win over Lt. Jack Carr of the USS Chivo. Lt. Barnes, of the USS Barb, and Chief McNulty of the OpDev-j Sta, play as a doubles team andi will meet Cmdr. Gene Hemley of. SurAsDevDet and Lt. Cmdr John Antink of NAS in the finals of the Navy doubles championship. Both finalists in Saturday’s match have played a good deal of tennis previously. Lt. Barnes play ed on the varsity squad at the Na-j val Academy, and won the champ ionship of the Submarine Base, New London, while a student at submarine school in 1951. McNulty was a member of the Naval Station team that competed in the Sixth Naval District Champ ionships earlier this year and a member of the doubles team that won last year’s Key West City Championshr. Over 30 entrants played in this year’s Navy Championship. The tournament, held under the guid ance of the Naval Station Recrea tion Office, was open to all Navy personnel in the Key West area. faint” and ‘the dying, swan act,” was one of the most heated in recent seasons, j It was set off by tackle Frank iVarrichione who—with only seconds remaining in the first half, the Irish trailing 7-0 and already hav ing used up its allotment of five time-outs—suddenly clutched at his back and legs and fell to the ground. A time-out was called, fol lowing which quarterback Ralph Guglielmi fired a 12-yard touch- Friday, D*c*mb*r It, 17tS3 NEW YORK l#* The world; champion New York Yankees will play ball next season in a stadium owned by a Chicago real estate firm located on land owned by the Knights of Columbus but it • will still be the "House That Ruth j Built.” Del Webb and Dan Topping, eo owners of the baseball club, sold Yankee Stadium and Blues Sta-, ' dium in Kansas City yesterday for million dollars. j They sold to the Arnold Johnson' jCorp. of Chicago, beaded by Arnold | Johnson. Johnson then sold the land under Yankee Stadium and| the adjacent parking lots—about j ■ four acres of ground—to the Knights of Columbus for 2V* mil lion dollars. ! Next, Johnson rented back the land from the K. of C. and then leased the whole works back to the Yankees. Johnson kept the Kan sas City park. Everybody seemed happy about the tremendous and complicated dal. Webb and Topping, along with Larry McPbail, paid only $2,800,- 000 in 1945 for both ball parks, the Yankee ball club, its players and all equipment, the Kansas City bail clu* and its players and the Newark ball club. In 1947 Webb and Topping bought out McPbail for two million dollars, j Tax experts said that on their profit of some 3Vi million dollars 'Webb and Topping will pay a capital gains tax of about 26 per cent or roughly $900,000. None of the parties would re veal the Yankee rental but most guesses ranged around $150,000. In addition the Yankee ball club will pay the taxes on the stadium. The tax experts said Webb ;and Topping improved their tax posi tion here, too, since they will be able to charge off the rental cost •as expense deductible from gross j income. About the only deductions , thy could claim as owners were upkeep and taxes and they will still get to charge these off also. Johnson’s lease on the land could run as long as 70 years. He also has the privilege of buying back the land after 15 years for three million dollars. The Knights of Columbus get the stadium property when John json’i lease on the land runs out, Webb and Topping said the deal |had nothing to do with their base ball dub. ‘We are merely getting out of the real estate business,” • Topping said. Luke E. Hart, supreme knight of the K. of C. and chairman of the order’s investment committee, said the deal was a ‘long-term income investment” of the order’s insurance funds. The K. of C. has similar property investments in Chicago and elsewhere down pass to end Dan Shannon to tie the score. The Duke-Navy "three downs” affair came in the third quarter of their Nov. 7 game. With the ball on Navy's 16 in Duke’s pos session, the officials inadvertently allowed the Blue Devils only three plays before banding the ball over the Midshipmen. The game ended in a scoreless tie. Leahy’s collapse, later attributed to muscle spasms, occurred during halftime, while the Notre Dame coach was walking into his team’s dressing room. He was taken to a hospital during the third quarter but the Irish went to win 27-14. U.S. Gains Win In Davis Gup Net Action Bv WIL GRIMSLEY 1 BRISBANE, Australia States Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert gambled and won today when be teamed with his young protege, Tony Trabert, and carved out a 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 9-7 victory over Belgium’s Philippe Washer and Jacques Bricbant in the doubles .match of the Davis Cup interxone : finals. i Talbert, old ‘long parfts” of the prewar days, substituted himself for Vic Seixas, his slumping star, and he certainly made the right decision. The 35-year-oki veteran, who has been playing little com petitive tennis, was superb for two sets, then held on for the last two when the pace began to get him. The victory was a must for the American team. Now they need only to split tomorrow's final two singles matches to gain the Chal lenge Round against Australia at th end of the month. Talbert said he would send Seix as back into action against Washer and Trabert against Brichant, a reversal* of the first two singles opponents. It was yesterday that Brichant upset Seixas and had Tal bert worrying over just what course of action to take. Bill used himself reluctantly and only after talking the entire matter over with the players and Dr. S. E. Davenport, manager of the tam and a power in the United States Lawn Tennis Assn. ‘We decided it was the most logical move for today,” Talbert said. “The decision was made with the welfare of the team as a whole in mind and no thought for indi viduals.” But he still is worried about Seixas. ‘There ia nothing we can do about tomorrow,” he said with a frown. He definitely won’t play singles himself. Billy was asked if Seixas had volunteered withdrawing because of bis poor play. “I make the decisions,” Talbrt answered. ‘‘This is a team affair, and we talked it over as a team. If one player isn’t going well, we tell him. Then he may disagree and give his reasons. Then we give our reasons and that is it” Frosh May See Action For Tech ATLANTA IT)—At least two fresh men will see considerable service in the Georgia Tech backfield Jan. 1 when the Engineers meet West Virginia in the Sugar Bowl. Coach Bobby Dodd, who has written off Leon Hardeman, hisi injured halfback ace, as a factor in the New Orleans classic, said yesterday that one of two yearlings would be the No. 2 left halfback behind Charlie Brannon. George Volkert and Paul Rotenberry are the first year men scrapping for the spot. The other freshman back, quar terback Wade Mitchell, is an ac cepted performer who has shared the regular signal - calling berth with senior Pepper Rodgers and junior Bill Brigman. Tech scrimmaged lightly yester day with reserves getting most of the contact work. Boxing Results THURSDAY'S FIGHTS By Thu Associated Press DETROIT —AI Andrews, 152V4, Superior, Wis., outpointed Pat Lowry, 147V4, Toledo, 10. WORCESTER, Mass. - Willie Gray, 150, Boston outpointed Billy Andy, 153 V&, Providence, 10. NEWARK, N.J.—Hurley Sanders, 161, Newark outpoinzed Phil Rizzo, 158, Brooklyn, 8. FALL RIVER, Mass. Willie Johnson, 151, Newark, N.J., knocked out Clarence Williams, 151, Fall River, 1. Two members of the Brooklyn Dodgers hail from Indiana. Pitcher Carl Erskine is from Anderson and First Baseman Gil Hodges from Princeton. ! A1 Baccari of the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League scored the winning goal in three of the first tour victories for his teem this season. .? ? ? ? WHO BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN IN KEY WEST? Answer: LOU SMITH lilt WHITE STREET With the Dependable HESTER Battery With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE Te Keep Prices Down Be Sure Te Buy A HESTER I Irish Gridmen May Be Back In Fold Soon I SOUTH BEND, Ind. ÜB—■Quarter back Ralph Guglielmi and halfback Joe Heap, suspended by Notre Dame for breaking curfew, will be permitted to apply for re-ad mission in February. The two juniors, regulars on the undefeated Irish football team this season, admitted last night they! had been suspended after a tardy, return to the campus following a celebration of Notre Dame’s 40-14 season-ending victory over South ern Methodist Dec. 5. The week end curfew for all students at the university is 12:330 a m. Heap said he and Guglielmi were ‘about 20 minutes late.” The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Notre Dame president, would neith er deny nor confirm the suspen sions. He said the school has a strict policy against public an nouncements of such kind. However, Heap told reporters at Memphis, where he attended a prep football banquet, that “it’s true—Ralph and I violated a minor rule at the university and we have to accept the consequences. "We were a little disappointed, but well take our medicine. Both of us definitely will apply to get back into school when the second semester starts in February.” Guglielmi, attending a Moose club sports celebration in Rock Island, 111., had no comment other than he would apply from read mission. Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy was not available for comment. Both players figure prominently in the plans for the 1954 starting backfield. A school source said the players will miss all final examinations of the current semester but will have a chance to make them up if re admitted without the necessity o summer school courses. They then would be eligible to participate in Gtnuine FORD BATTERIES 12 Mos. $ 8.70 18 Mos. $11.75 24 Mos. $14.00 36 Mos. 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