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Key West Tackles Miami Beach Tomorrow In Gold Coast Cage Opener
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4 Dogs Tie Futurity Marks In Schooling Races At KW Kennel Club
Constance Is
Voted Back In
Prep School
Conference Fru
The Key West High
School basketball team will
open the Gold Coast Confer
once cage race tomorrow
night on the local hardwood
when they tackle the Miami
Beach courtmen. The battle
la slated to get under way at
8 p.m.
The conference title will
be decided on a percentage
basis after each team plays
a home and away series of
eight games. Teams compet
ing are South Broward,
South Dade, Miami Tech,
Miami Beach and Key West.
Constance, which was voted
back into the conference Fri
day, and Curley, also anew
entrant, will not compete for
the toga this year due to
schedule difficulties.
Miami Beach has won both of
their starts this season, boasting
el wins over St. Pats and Const
ance while Key West has lost close
verdicts to Miami High and Coral
Gables—two of the best teams in
the state high school cage picture.
The Concha shewed that they'll
•he threats for the Gold Coast
tit’s In these two starts. Coach
Win Jones revealed today that
hie charges have compiled a M *
per cent shooting record to date.
"And that Is net had," he com*
He Is working the squad hard
this week particularly on tool
shooting which has been a little
spotty.
He also announced that pint-siz
ed forward Gibby Gates may be
a sunwise starter against the
Beach. Gates, who “towers” five
loot, six inches, held All-State for
ward Charlie Pike to three points
in the battle against Miami last
Gates will probably get the as
signment of guarding the Beaches’
Barry Sugarman, their leading
point maker.
The two teams will be Just about
evenly matched in height some
thing new for the Conchs who have
been very much outmanned on
their initial starts.
Key West's reserve strength will
also be used to advantage. In addi
tion to their starting club, they
have some dassy talent in Joe
Carbonell and Don Keyser.
The announcement that Const
ance is back, in the good graces
of the conference, came as some
thing of a surprise to local fandom.
High School principal Dr. Harold
Campbell and grid coach Ed Beck
man attended a meetihg at South
Broward at which time the action
was taken.
Constance had failed to keep a
grid date and did not attend an
earlier organizational meeting of
the league. Due to the fact that
they have not been able to sche
dule enough Gold Coast fives, they
will not be eligible to compete for
the cage title but will be in the
running in the baseball and track
picture.
Ring Roundup !
By MURRAY ROSK
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NEW YORK UR-Bob Baker, the
Mf Pittsburgh heavyweight, is a
surprising 21 favorite to even an
•id score with hard-hitting Clar
ence Henry of Philadelphia at
Eastern Parkway Arena tonight <
Henry, once the world's third- 1
ranking heavyweight, came from
Behind to knock out the 6-foot-4,
120-pound Baker in the eighth
round at Madison Square Garden
Nov. 23, 1951. That was the first
defeat of Baker's pro career. He
Mamed bad hards for the loss.
Baker has been bothered with
swelling hands all through his ca
reer but an operation is supposed
to have made his mitts sound. Hen
ry only recently returned to the
riig after a long layoff caused by
•n eye injury.
The big boys will start swinging
St 10 p.m., EST. *>u Most 'will
telecast the 10-rounder to some
parts of the country.
The International Boxing Club is
passing Its usual Wednesday and
Friday night network television
fights because of the Christmas
week.
The only eoast-to-coast network
TV fight of the week will be
beamed out of Boston’s Mechanics
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Aerial Fireworks Predicted
For North-South Grid Battle
By MERCER BAILEY
MIAMI. Fla. ue—Football fans
who like their games heavily fla
vored with passes should find the
Shrine's annual North-South all
star game Christmas night very
much to their liking.
Both squads are well equipped
with quarterback! who know bow
to throw the ball and backs and
ends who are adept receivers.
South Coach Andy Gustafson of
Miami has one of the most spec
tacular aerial combinations in the
nation in the Georgia battery of
quarterback Zeke Bratkowski and
end John Carson. They were tops
in the Southeastern Conference last
year and high among the national
leaders.
Bratkowski, equally at ease with
long and short throws, bit Carson
and Bob Ondilla of Wake Forest
repeatedly in yesterday’s work
outs.
“I’ve seen a lot of passers in
my time,” said Gustafson, “and
I’d put the Brat up there with the
best of them.”
Will he emphasize a passing
game against Purdue Coach Stu
Holcomb’s North squad?
“With Bratkowski in the quar
terback slot, wbst else can you
expect?” Gustation remarked.
The South coaches didn’t over
look their other signal caller, John
Bordogna of Nebraska, however.
Indiana Cagers Meet Oregon
State In Nation’s Top Game
By RIP WATSON
NEW YORK iiP—Four of the big
gest basketball players in captivity
and • couple of "little” All Ameri
ca players swing into action
in a lively Monday night pro
gram that has six of the top 10
teams on the courts.
The four giants clash bead on,
with the biggest pair on exhibition
at Corvallis, Ore., where top-rated
Indiana meets Oregon State. Don
Schlundt, 6-foot-l0 center who
helped the Hoosiers win the NCAA
title and No. 1 ranking last year,
for a change will look up at his
opponent, Wade (Swede) Halbrook
who measures 7 feet 3.
The other pair will meet at
Champaign, 111., with Oklahoma
A&M’s 6-11 Bob Mattick enjoying
only a slight edge in height over
6-9 Johnny Kerr of Illinois.
The All America stars, Tom
Gola of La Salle and Cliff Hagan
of Kentucky, will play in the Ken
tucky In/Rational Tourney at Lex
ington, first of the season's bump
er crop of holiday basketball tour
naments. They won't oppose each
other tonight La Salle meets
UCLA and Kentucky plays Duke—
but they probably will in the finals
tomorrow.
Oregon State, just outside the
top 10 at No. 11, will be counting
on Halbrook to spring the upset of
the season. The big boy looked
great against Nebraska in State’s
last warmup Saturday, hitting on
10 of 23 field goal attempts and
9 of 11 free throws for 29 points
in an 83-55 romp. That's 107 in
four straight Oregon State victor
ies for Halbrook, but Schlundt
may hold him down.
Kerr dumped in 27 points Satur
day as the Illini, ranked fourth in
the country, won their fifth in a
Mrs. Williams
Tops Navy Wives
Mrs. Dorothy Williams rolled
up a sparkling 211 gam# last
week to load tho Navy Wivos
Bowling league in action last
week. She was follwed closely
j by Mrs. DeMonge with a neat
202 and Mrs. Mason with IPS.
Mrs. Williams also racked up
the high series for the after
noon with 547.
The Home Milk combinetien
rolled high game scratch with
737 and also high series scratch
j with 2639.
Tho Standings:
PH. Won Pts.Lost
MacArthur Dairies 30 10
Homo Milk 29 14
Chuck's _ 20 20
Gulfstream 18 22
MCCS 18 22
’Children's Comer I 32
" Building Saturday night when wel
terweights Livio Minelli of Italy
and Wilbur Wilson of Boston meet
in a 10-rounder. Minelli is sub
bing for Danny (Bang Bang)
Woraber of Chicago. ABC will tele
case starting at 9 p.m.. EST.
Charles W. Comiskey. vice pre-
E- 1 J tt of the New York Athletic
‘s Veteran?; Association, is a
ef Dartmouth quarterback, i
Monday, December 21, US
| “He runs and haa a lot of de
ception," said Missouri Coach Don
Faurot, the father of the split-T
attack the South will use. “Both
these boys have worked out of the
split-T before and are capable bail
handlers.”
Navy’s Eddie Erdelatx, another
of the South coaches, busied him
self with the linemen and was
particularly pleased with Duke
tackle Ed Meadows.
“He’s a big boy (€-3 and 217)
and moves around pretty fast,”
Erdelatx commented. “He could
play on my team any day.”
Over in the North Camp, Hol
comb bad praise for bis squad
after yesterday’s workouts.
“I think we looked much better
today,” he said. “The boys are
showing considerable improve
ment. All our quarterbacks were
throwing good and the receiving
also was good.”
Holcomb and Kansas State
Coach Bill Meek spent a lot of
time with their aerial combina
tions. Quarterbacks Elry Falken
stein of Illinois, Fred Davis of
Butler and Roy Evans of Purdue
hit their receivers regularly with
short passes. Bob Balderston, Kan
sas State fullback, and Dusty Rice,
lowa State halfback, made nu
merous catches.
I row and gnded De Paul's six-game
(winning streak 79-65. He too will
find life more difficult against
Mattick, who has led the Aggies
to a 7-1 record and a No. 7 rank
ing.
Kentucky and La Salle, like In
diana and Oklahoma A&M, were
idle Saturday night. Duke, tuning
up for the tournament, scored 12
straight pointa in the third quarter
and hung on for a 67-64 victory
over West Virginia. UCLA whaled
Denver 66-45, but they’ll still be
underdogs. Kentucky is ranked
second in the country.
Other top 10 teams in action are
Minnesota and Louisiana State,
who met with varying success
Saturday night. Minnesota, No. 6
team, romped to a 74-46 victory
over winless Colorado. But LSU
probably lost the No. 5 spot to
Wisconsin’s pressing defense and
accurate shooting. Big Bob Pettit
scored. 33 for LSU, but Wisconsin
hit on 54 per cent of its shots for
a 82-66 victory. Minnesota plays
at Tulsa tonight and LSU enter
tains Northwestern.
Duquesne, rated third in the
country, can thank its sensational
sophomore, Si Green, that it
escaped Louisiana State’s, fate
against Toledo. With less than
three minutes to play, Duquesne
traded by 3 but Green drove in
for two field goals and Duquesne
won 60-57. •
Western Kentucky, No. 10, had
to spurt at the end to down St
Bonaventure 82-76 behind Art
Spoelstra’s 28-point string, while
Fordham, one notch higher, scored
23 in the last quarter for a 51-24
win over Columbia.
North Carolina State, No. 8,
scored when it had to for an 89-74
victory over Penn State.
Rosen Edged For
Battinf Crown
By One Point
NEW yORK un —Al Rosen, Cleve
land’* slugging third baseman,
may have gotten rite cake, but he
didn’t get the icing to go along
with it.
Rosen, who last month received
the American League’s most valu
able player prize, topped the cir
cuit in almost every offensive de
partment but one, according to> of
ficial statistics released yesterday.
The “one” Was batting, whe¥e
Mickey Vernon of the Washington
Senators took the honors with a
.337 mark, edging Rosen’s .3336.
In winning his second champion
ship (be won with .353 in 1946),
Vernon capped the closest Ameri
i can League batting race since 1949.
That year, George Kell, then with
Detroit, triumphed by two-tenths;
of a per cent over Ted Williams
of the Boston Red Sox.
Rosen, who battled Vernon right
down to the final day of the sea-;
son, led the circuit in home, runs,
43, runs batted in, 145, runs stored,
115 and total bases, 367. ***
Third place in the official statis
tics was shared by Minnie Minoso
of Chicago and Boston’s BiHy
i Goodman, each with 413.
Scores Witness
Practice Races
At Stock Island
Racing Plant Sat.
If Saturday night's school
ing action at the Key West
Kennel Club is any indica
tion, there are going to be a
lot of records broken this
year.
Four greyhound speed
sters cracked the mark for
the futurity distance by a
full second when they
streaked around the oval in
29 seconds flat
Remember Reggie, owned
by the Overseas Kennel and
trained by the veteran Mal
lory Wakefield, was the first
to turn the trick in the 21st
race Saturday night.
He led aL the way and survived
a collision near the wire to edge
Robert T. Y. and the favored Pa
goda.
Irene Hill, owned by the Fleet
wing Kennel, and also trained by
Wakefield, was next to turn the
trick. Starting from the number
five box she picked up speed at
the halfway mark to win going
away. Mickey W. Fought his way
into second place and Fancy Trou
ble ran third.
Mist Nocture* drove in aheed
ef the peck in the 23rd race te
better the record ever Quarter
Roll end Queen ef Mine.
Chart Man Ed Denslow, who
came to Key West fresh from the
meeting at the Black Hills Kennel
Gub, Rapid Gty, South Dakota,
said today that he is of the opin
ion that the record breaking per
formances are due to the top con
dition of the track.
“And we have some pretty good
dogs here too,” he added.
Schooling races will continue to
night at 7 p. m. The public is in
vited. There is no charge or wager
ing. The schooling programs will
continue nightly until Wednesday
and the official racing season will
start Christmas Night.
Red Tide Starts
Practice Drills
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (JR—Alabama
began twice-daily workouts for the
Cotton Bowl today, tuning up its
ground attack for the New Year’s
Day game.
The emphasis on the Crimson
Tide rushing offense followed
week of satisfactory attention to
the passing department.
Coaches’ eyes until Christmas
will be glued to Tide blockers and
the running of halfback Corky
Tharp, fullback Tommy Lewis and
their backfield mates.
Tharp, leading Alabama ground
gainer, appears fully recovered
from a shoulder injury, and had
a good workout Saturday.
Baseball Study
Is Under Way
NEW YORK .(gi A nine-man
committee of major and minor
league executives appointed by
Commissioner Ford Frick will
study the basic structure of base
ball “to see if we are on the proper
ground.”
“If we are not,” Frick said in
announcing the committee, “it is
time to get on it.”
The committee, called to meet
Jan. 7, will go over such problems
as the “reasonable” advancement
of qualified players, unreasonable
concentration of player talent and
high bonus payments to untried
youngsters.
Although Frick did not mention
the Supreme Court decision on
baseball in his announcement, the
meeting date comes almost two
months to the day after the high
court ruled that baseball is not
subject to federal antitrust laws.
Frick commented after the Nov. 9
decision that “it does not mean
that baseball is granted a license
to do as it pleases."
Miami U. Cagers
ITackle Ohio State
MIAMI (A—The University of
Miami basketball team plays Ohio
State tonight in a match expected
to give fans an excellent oppor
tunity to compare the abilities of
Ohio State’s Paul Ebert and Rio
.Grande’s Bevo Francis.
Francis, a 6 foot 9 center, put
jin 48 points Saturday night to give
his little Ohio college team a 98-88
[victory over Miami
Ebert has been averaging just
'under 30 points a game.
Dimy Pails
Joins Aussie
Davis Cuppers
By WILL CRIMSLEY
W MELBOURNE i * - Australian
professional Dinny Pails has been
hired to help sharpen up the Amer
ican Davis Cup tennis team for
the Challenge Round against Aus
tralia here next week.
Bill- Talbert, captain of the U.S.
contingent, said today Pails will
join the Americans tomorrow and
work out twice a day with the
team through Saturday.
The Americans will also have a
chance to work out with Ted
Schroeder, who was a member of
the U.S. team two years ago. He
is here on a writing and radio as
signment for an Australian news
paper and has offered his services.
The Challenge Round draw is
scheduled Saturday. The matches
will be held Dec. 28 through
Dec. 30. •
“We are not getting Pails as a
teacher, although he can help in
that respect,” Talbert said. “Our
purpose in hiring him is to give
the boys some first class competi
tion this week.”
Pails served as a trial horse and
coach for the Belgians last week
and it was mainly through his ef
forts that the Europeans threw a
scare into the Americans in the
interzone finals at Brisbane.
Pails, now a little chubby and
balding, formerly was a member
of the Australian Davis Cup team.
He later turned pro and toured
with Bobby Riggs’ tennis exhibi
tionists, having a long series with
Pancho Segura.
One of the game’s all-time great
stylists, Pails still plays top-flight
tennis and there are reports be
challenged Frank Sedgman to a
winner take-all court duel.
“Pails has wonderful ground
strokes and we thin. he will help
step up the pace of our boys,” Tal
bert said. .“I particularly plan to
have him work a lot with Seixas
so Vic can get back on his game.
Also, Pails is an Australian and!
can give us a different kind o !
competition. He should quicken the
interest among the fellows who!
might tend to get dull playing just
among themselves.”
The American team drilled both
morning and afternoon today at the !
Kooyong courts, where the Chal
lenge Round will be played.
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Sports Roundup
By GAYLE TALBOT
NEW YORK UT-Pro football is
very sick in this town since the
Giants suddenly gave the gate to
Steve Owen, their coach for 23
years, and handed the job to Jim
Lee Howell,, one of Steve’s assist
ants.
It is bard to recall when any
move oi the kind evoked such a
wholehearted roar from the local
press, and it would not be sur
prising if the effects are strongly
felt when next season rolls around,
as it will.
The Giants have been on lean
times lately, but so great was
Owen's personal popularity that
bis team largely escaped the rid
ing its performances merited and
would have received in most cities.
It was known that the veteran
coach did not have the kind of
money to toss around for top
men as some of his rivals had.
Tim Mara, who founded the
Giants and appointed Owen, a bur
ly lineman from Oklahoma, as his
coach, has retired from active
participation in the club's affairs
and turned the reins over to hit
sons, John and Wellington. There
is a feeling that the boys gave
their dad’s old friend a fast shuffle.
They were not present at a testi
monial dinner given Steve by his
.friends of the press the other
night.
Howell is going to find himself
in an unenviable position, even
though no one has anything against
him personally. One of those in
censed by Owen’s firing already
has referred to the former pass
catching end as “Clean Pants"
Howell, explaining that he ac
quired the nickname while playing
for the Giants and not taking his
defensive duties too seriously.
We are advised that the greatest
passer on any college team in the
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Drills Start
BILOXI. Miss, i* - West Vir
ginia. seeking the first major bow!
victory in its football history, opens
practice sessions today for a Sugar
Bowl date against Georgia Tech.
The 41-man squad, accompanied
by members of the coaching staff
and four players' wives, arrived
here by plane from Pittsburgh yes
terday.
Coach Art Lewis said he would
conduct two workouts a day. sched
uling both morning and afternoon
sessions. The schedule will be
maintained for the rest of the week
before the squad begins tapering
off, Lewis said.
Lewis was confident his Moun
taineers, winners in eight of nine
| starts during the regular season,
would make a got* showing
: against Tech, which nas been es
tablished as a heavy favorite.
country this fall played for the
Prairie View (Tex.) eleven which
defeated Florida A&M for the na-j
tional Negro championship in the
Orange Bowl a while back.
“This fellow,” our informant
swears, “has hands so big he can
practically palm a football. He
would run clear back into his own
corner of the field and then throw
one down into the opposite corner—
bulls-eye. You don't have to be
lieve me, but I saw him do H.
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SARASOTA je— The second an*
inual National Soccer Forum and
the third annual National Gym
nastics Clinic opened here today.
A gymnastic exhibition Dec. 38
and an exhibition soccer game
j Dec. 29 will be open to the public.
Members of the U. S. Olympic
teams, All-American players and
coaches will participate in both
exhibitions.
Florida State University has two
brothers on its football team—Carl
and Robert Grenn, halfbacks Iron
Brookhaven. Miss.
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