Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times PAGE SIX MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1947

SPORTS

CORAL GABLES SCORE CARD CALLING ORANGE BLOSSOM

By DON CUDDY Most of the 26-odd thousand fans who watched the Orange Blossom Festival football classic between Florida A. and M. and Virginia Union at the Orange Bowl Saturday night agree that an annual helping of that brand of foot-ball should be a permanent fixture in the local sports scene. The Rattlers won the game 7-0, and the Virginia team was only able to generate a real scoring threat once—but that came in the final minutes of the game and kept the crowd in their seats until the chance of a phot-finish passed . . . something that doesn't happen often in regular-season play. Just hope that the Kansas-Georgia Tech game is as good and it will be worth the stress and strain you probably went through to get the necessary ducats. Pass Play Was a Paragon That James Williams to Tarx Powell pass that covered 79 yards for the T. D. was the most spectacular play seen in the Bowl this year. Powell, a Miami All-American, speared the bullet pass with-out so much as breaking his stride and rocketed all the way to glory. If there was ever a perferably executed play, that was it: Powell had three blockers who slowed up Rudolph Cooke just long enough for the registration. Rattler's Coaching Praiseworthy And if you like your football on the scientific side, a lot can be said for A. S. Jake Gaithers' coaching of the Rattlers. The game was a tremendous display of savage tackling and blocking. The University of Miami ticket office, incidentally, handled the gate for the game without charge. That, plus the spirit of the crowd, the tempo of the game, and the tribute the offi-cials of the Negro schools paid all concerned makes for a great deal of satisfaction. Jack Price Puts On Good Show Ponce de Leon students got a big kick out of watching Jack Price of the Cleveland Indians give a demonstration of trick base-ball antics. Price made a Pete Smith Specialty movie that played around the neighborhood recently, and seeing the real thing in person was fun. He has a trick way of throwing three baseballs accurately to three persons standing seperately to get the audience warmed up. Then he hangs by his feet from the goal posts and wallops thrown balls out of the park. Borrowing Jean Hunt's jeep, Smith got the machine rolling, stood on his head on the flat hood and caught thrown balls. Conservation Talk For Students Dr. I. N. Kennedy, administrator of public relations for the State Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, will be guest speak-er at Ponce de Leon High School on December 11. During his ap-pearance, Dr. Kennedy will stress the growing need for wildlife conservation, a subject with which he has been closely affiliated for the last 20 years. The former state legislature speaks at an opportune moment, what with the opening of the Everglades National Park and all, but his message, like those delivered for many years, may be lost on the people it asks for assistance. Too many of us think of conservation as building huge dams and fighting forest fires be-cause it's easier to pick up the details of positive action. The real job of conservation lies in treaeting natural resources as you would irreplaceable and beautiful private property—which it is. A Champion Doesn't Strategically Withdraw The plot of the Joe Louis—Joe Wolcott fight when it comes off in June at the Yankee Stadium will read like something out of a dime novel (with all the more supporise to the Louis side of the argument that a champion should not win running away. That probably won't effect the balance in the Brown Bomber's favor much because the last five or six years has influenced American's way of thinking to the line that the guy who gets there fastest with the mostest is the logical victor, regardless of how the battle goes. O. K. in Football, Basketball In football it's considered "smart" to run line plunges when you're ahead and time is running out . . . and in basketball the strategy is always "freeze" the ball to keep the other fellow from getting a chance to score. But the fascinating thing about sports is the combatative element—which is still (to borrow an epigram from the stage) "the thing" in racing and boxing. Let's keep it that way. It will be a crying shame if any commission or mob takes the crown from the head of Joe Louis—a truly great champion—without giving him a fighting chance. Anyway, as it stands right now, this corner joins with the many other writers who have said that this controversy will help boxing out of the disrepute which some elements have hung on it. The movies of the fights will be shown tonight at the Gables theatre and there's an opportunity for you to make up your mind on the matter.

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SPORTS PARADE

By Oscar Fraley UP Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (UP)—Jersey Joe Walcott clinches the unofficial heavyweight champion-ship of the world today and if you dare to disagree you not only are a heretic and an outcast but more than likely are taking your life in your hands. With awe approaching that of a holy crusade, Jersey Joe's entour-age will invade the sanctum sanc-torum of the New York Boxing Commission and demand reversal of the split decision by which Joe Louis retained the crown Friday night. There isn't a chance in the world that the commission will meet these demands. But chair-man Eddie Eagan had best tread softly and diplomatically and be-stow on the ambassadors his most engaging smile. The American public is up in arms over the greatest sports con-troversy since that debated shoot-ing match at Lexington. By com-parison the claims of the Concord Club were minute. There are more men involved in this one, thanks to radio and television. Blame it on that strange Ameri-can complex of loving an under-dog even more than a winner or a six horse parlay. Simply being a long shot wins a certain per-centage of the population but when the outsider comes close enough to holler "we wuz robbed" (Please turn to Page Eight)

BOWLING RESULTS

Jimmy Corbett of Coral Gables is now the new city kegling cham-pion, winning from Jimmie Barrie by 52 pins at the Playdium lanes last night. In the match last night, Corbett averaged over 191 pins per game. Mixed doubles: Sparks-Blan-chett, 3 — Davis - Sherman, 0; Brewers, 3—Cramers, 0; P. and A. Lutich, 3—Alfonsi-Pixley, 0; M. Patrick-S. Little, 2—Schlos-sers, 1; Cavins, 2—Moore-Mob-ley, 1; Mondous, 2—Blackman, 1; Fishers, 2—Nowels, 1; Gant-Dariago, 2—M. and B. Lutich, 1. High Women's Game: Gert Chavin, 169; high women's set: Marie Sparks, 464. High Men's game: Darago, 225; high men's set: G. Brewer, 592, and W. Fisher, 592. Slossers are still leading with 35 wins and 18 losses; the Cavins and Fishers are tied for second place with 31 wins and 20 losses.

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FRANCIS McCRINK, twice a Golden Gloves featherweight cham-pion, will move up a notch to the 118-pound class when he enters the Coliseum ring tomorrow night representing the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center in the South Florida A.A.U. tournament.

Douglas Becomes Dark Horse In Orlando Open

ORLANDO, Dec. 8 (UP)—Dave Douglas, a little-known pro from Wilmington, Del., joined national-ly-famed Jimmy Demaret and Herman Keiser in a three-way 18-hole playoff for top money in the $10,000 Orlando open today. It was no surprise when Dem-aret, of Ojai, Cal., and Keiser, of Akron, O., posted identical 274's yesterday at the end of 72 holes for a deadlock. But when Douglas came roar-ing in with his second five-under-par 66 of the week to match the two name linksmen, the tournament had its dark-horse sensation. Demaret and Keiser both card-ed 69s yesterday. Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. C., the nation's sec-ond-ranking money winner, was tied with Demaret and Keiser at the end of the third round Sat-urday, but his 71 yesterday left him out of the playoff. He finished in a tie for fourth with Porky Oliver of Wilmington, (Please turn to Page Eight)

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Gables LAST DAY Opens 1:45 ALAN LADD DOROTHY LAMOUR "WILD HARVEST" 2112 Ponce de Leon Blvd. • Ph. 4-1221 Coral LAST DAY! Opens 1:15 CROSBY and HOPE plus 10 Paramount Stars "VARIETY GIRL" 2315 Ponce de Leon Blvd. • Ph. 4-4422 GABLES THEATRE ONLY FIRST BLOW-BY-BLOW FILMS Louis vs. Walcott CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY

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Russell Makes Twin-killing o Riviera Events

Holley Russell held a double tri-umph over the other Riviera Country Club week-end golfers when he won the Riviera Derby on Saturday and, abetted by son Henry, finished first in the Father and Sons Tournament ahead of a field of ten yesterday. The only sad part of the two-day Russell spree was that the son carded a 72 to his pop's 87 for the latter event, which was all right since it was kept in the family. The Father and Sons tourna-ment was divided into two classes with a total of 10 teams entered. In the under-18 year-old field, O. J. Jorgeson had a 94 while young Otto came home with a 93 to win the lower bracket play. Russell won the derby handi-cap Saturday with 73-172 to stop Tom Shelley, who had 77-472, Herb Jones and Jack Kehoe tied for third place.

Lyle Roberts Wins Place In MGA Finals

It will be Lyle Roberts vs. A. C. Randolph, jr. for the champion-ship of the Mens Golf Association of the Country Club of Coral Ga-bles this week on the Granada links, Wilbur "Umps" Clark an-nounced with Roberts entering the final round yesterday after easing past Harry Wheeler, 4-3. The consolation finalist, who will meet Wheeler for that class prize, was still unknown after Frank Howard and Bob Searle came home even in their match played yesterday. Howard had a comfortable mar-gin teeing off for the final hole, but Searles knocked in a birdie three on the 446 yard green to necessitate a nine-hole playoff this week.

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Close Field For Biscayne Feature

Running Hudson, Thunderbird and Flying Gold, on the basis of recent speed tests from this dis-tance, are favored in the featur-ed ninth race at Biscayne Kennel Club tonight. F. Elgin Bayless, president of the Southeastern Association of State Highway officials, who are honored guests for tonight's races, will present a special award for the winning effort. More than a dozen of the sea-sonal first starters, young dogs and former favorites, are entered in the first seven races, while again the fifth and tenth will be over the Biscayne Derby course. These marathon events are prepping and qualifying racers for the juvenile championship competitions.

Neff, Robinson Place 9th, 11th In FECPL Match

Floyd J. Neff, Coral Gables fireman and Lewis W. Robinson, superintendent of public works, placed ninth and 11th respectively in a field of 48 entries for the Florida East Coast Pistol League's registered Class C matches at the Palmetto Pistol and Rifle club Sunday, A. T. Kelly, secretary of the league an-nounced this morning. Unable to match his world's record, but notching top honors for first place was Jerry Fon-tanella, Miami Beach fireman. He was closely followed by an-other Miami Beach city em-ployee, policeman George Gor-ham. Top shooter among the 22 Cuban entries in the event was Humberto Medrana, who captured third place. Virginia L. Fontanella was high shooter for the women en-tries with 1567, good enough to capture tenth place in the meet. Fontaneela had a grand aggre-gate of 1670x1800: Gorham regis-tered 1652, Medrana had 1624. Fontanella won the expert gun

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