Coral Gables Riviera-Times

SCORE CARD By DON CUDDY

Tennis pros disagree vehemently on what exactly will improve the calibre of the game played in South Florida—by the kids, that is—to compare with the best offered in California. They will agree that we are not as far advanced in making sure that our youngsters get every possible chance to develop their game. The net result is that of the last 20 national tennis champions, ten name California as their home state. 'Tennis Factories' Important The Bear State spends more money training promising youngsters (you've all heard of Perry Jones' "tennis factories") and has more courts than they can practice on, but that's only part of the method of developing better tennis, according to some experts. The game is played on five types of courts (we'll start from the ground up) from the time a hopeful father places a racket in his young son's hand 'till the boy enters the national singles tournaments at Forest Hills, Long Island. In this part of the country, as in most, clay and asphalt courts are the most popular. Indoor tennis is played on hardwood and the best game on grass or turf. The poorest excuse for a tennis court is one made of ordinary concrete. 'Pace' Is Much of Game The test of the worthiness of any type of court is the action of the ball as it bounces from the surface, commonly known in tennis circles as "pace." The rebound from wood is too fast for the beginner to have any control over the ball; the same is partially true of asphalt, with the added handicap that natural irregularities make the ball take peculiar bounces. Clay is not only frequently the victim of rains, but it slows the ball down so much that an embryo tennis player's game suffers when he plays on a faster court. Ordinary concrete is least popular. Like wood, it is too fast and like asphalt, too erratic. Also the slab of artificial stone beats the legs to a pulp within two or three sets. Turf Is Ideal Surface Championship tennis is played on turf partly by tradition but mostly because the pace of the ball is considered ideal, and the footing, while slippery, is such that a conditioned tennis player can play almost indefinitely without becoming exhausted. Why isn't this type of court used universally? The answer is that upkeep of such a surface is far too expensive to allow its use by anything but the best. Our Aces Awkward on Grass When our better tennis aces meet Californians in championship tournaments, they are handicapped by the aggressiveness of their opponents. This is because, for the most part, they have trained on clay courts, and unless they pick up several month's practice on turf, they lag helplessly while their opponents are driving the ball to all corners. Californians can't afford lawn tennis any more than we can, but they have developed a type of court that is the nearest thing to turf. The Bear Staters jealously guard the secret of how to make the type of concrete they play on, but several Floridians, led by Gardner Mulloy, are gathering all the information available in order to introduce this super-concrete to their native haunts. This California Concrete Mulloy can tell you this much about California Concrete: half of the secret lies in the process for laying the cement over a specially-prepared bed. It's a technique that takes the roughness out of the surface without leaving it slick and slippery. The other half of the "secret" is in treating the cement with muratic acid. This eats the sand out of the dried concrete and cuts up the surface in a way that gives it a microscopically pin-point texture. When Gardner has the unknown quantities solved and can persuade local officials to experiment with the new type court, he says (Please turn to Page Seven)

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Ike Macy Only Winner At Henderson

Only Ike Macy, Country Club of Coral Gables tennis pro, remained in the running for the National Professional Clay Courts tennis championship today as two other Gableites were eliminated—one by default and the other by the entry who figures to cop the championship. Macy breezed past Bill Harris, tennis writer from Grand View, N. Y., 6-0, 6-0, 6-1 in one of the first matches at 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Howard Defaults John Howard, coach at the University of Miami, was slated to meet another New Yorker, Ed Burke at 2 p.m., but Howard reportedly sprained his ankle before the match and was forced to default. Leo Fullwood, Salvadore Park tennis director, drew top-seeded Frank Kovacs, of Oakland, Calif., and was eliminated by the rangy favorite, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1, in an 8:30 p.m. match. In other matches yesterday, Jack March defeated Ed Sobeck, of Saranac Lake, N. Y., 6-0, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1; Ray White, Miami, defeated Ed Copeland, Rollins College coach from Winter Park, by default; Dick McKee won from Arnaud Pyfrom, Miami Beach, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; and Welby Van Horn won from M. Remington Abbott, of Harrison, Me., 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

BOWLING RESULTS

Moose Sweepstakes: Won by Red Harper, 601; Walt Piper, 595; Roy Werntz, 590. Moose League: Cotton Pharmacy, 3; Buzz Carl Builders, 0. Southland Plumbing No. 2, 3; Barney's No. 1, 0. Riley Real Estate, 2; Miami Tobacco, 1. Barney's No. 2, 2; Apex Pest Control, 1. L & L Men's Shop, 2; Blue Derby, 1. W. T. Wheeler, 2; Southland Plumbing No. 1, 1. Herald Enterprise, 2; Uarco Business, 1. Bob's Auto Service, 2; La Cucaracha, 1. R. Heaton, 1; Barney's No. 2; HIGH GAME, 211; Chuck Saylor, Cotton Pharmacy, HIGH SET, 560; Barney's No. 2, HIGH GAME, 860; Cotton Pharmacy, HIGH SET, 2447. Pan American League: Gablesite, 3; Accounting, 1. Termites, 3; Traffic, 1. Clippers, 3; Metal Chips, 1. S.O.S., 2; Metal Shop, 1. Sand Hogs, 2; Comets, 1. Sand Fleas, 2; Dynamos, 0. Ink Spots, 3; Stores, 0. Hoshers, 3; Accounting, 0. A. Lee, Metal Chips, HIGH GAME, 234; Roger Wilkie, Clippers, HIGH SET, 573; Metal Chips, HIGH GAME, 1095; Clippers, HIGH SET, 2982.

BOXING CORAL GABLES COLISEUM 1500 DOUGLAS ROAD TUESDAY, DEC. 16th 8:45 P. M.

Art Lewis, PROMOTER Madison Square Garden Attraction EDDIE GIOSA Whipped Charlie Fusari who kayoed Chuck Taylor 10 RDS. VS. 10 RDS. MAXIE SHAPIRO Defeated Five World Champions 10 ROUNDS SANDERS COX VS. JACKIE LYONS Prices: $1.50, $3, $5, Incl. Tax TICKETS ON SALE Coliseum 48-0971—4-9171 The Hub Billiard Club 4-1821 Vick's Bar and Restaurant 35 N. E. 2nd Ave. 2-5891 Marc Abbott 345 Coral Way 4-4360 Jack & Todd 423 Lincoln Road 5-1425

Rolling Roy Past Due For Biscayne Feature Win

Rolling Roy, Mulrock Kennel's two-year-old star which won last season's Biscayne Juvenile Championship and the Pensacola Open Championship of the late summer, will have his best opportunity tonight to score his first feature race victory of the current Biscayne Kennel club meeting. Since Nov. 15, the son of the famed former world's champion, Never Roll, has made nine starts and has tallied in only one of them, an eighth effort. In three of the other starts, he has been a strong running second but in the five starts, he has trailed out of the money. Well placed tonight, a full effort by this star or a return to his former top form, should give him a grand chance to score. Chief challengers in this closely matched field loom as Nicolette, Cherokee Blues, Running Hudson and Scotch Fez with Lucky Doreen and Hr. Esquire also capable of annexing the honors. Tonight's 10-races also lists three more of the first-round eliminations in the annual running of the Biscayne Juvenile $5,000 Championship. These will go as the second, third and fourth races, all at 5/16 mile.

SPORTS PARADE By Oscar Fraley

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (UP)—Calumet Farm clinched recognition today as the Royal Family of American Racing when the Turf and Sport Digest named Armed as "Horse of the Year" and showered supporting honors on several of the great gelding's stablemates. Warren Wright's baking powder dynasty continued to rise this season when, as leading money winner in five of the last seven years, it set a record with earnings of more than $1,300,000. It is easy to understand why when you consider the compilation of ballots cast by 173 experts. They voted: Horse of the Lear—Calumet's Armed. Two year old Fillies—Calumet's Bewitch. Two year old Colts and Geldings—Calumet's Citation. Three year olds—C. V. Whitney's Phalanx. Four year olds and up—Calumet's Armed. You can score a celan sweep for the Devil's Red and Blue colors of Calumet if you consider that against Phalanx in the three-year- (Please turn to Page Seven)

Tiny's in Top Loop Clash

Tiny's Snack Shop quintet, who upset high-flying Eastern Air Lines last time out, will try to extend their claim for second place in the Youth Center Municipal Basketball League with a win over up and coming Carl's Liquors in the first game on the slate for the Riddle College gymnasium tonight. In the second game, Friendly Bar figures to out-score St. Mary's and the winless Jaycees aggregation does not have much to look forward to in squaring off with rebounding Eastern Air Lines in the windup. The league-pacing Elks and Tommy Hands are idle tonight.

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Basketball Results MONDAY'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL By United Press

Southern Methodist 55..Texas Wesleyan 44 South Carolina 71..........Newberry 30 Virginia 75........Randolph Macon 41 Boston College 67........St. Anselms 61 Duquesne 50..........Bowling Green 44 Duke 59............Hapden Sydney 45 Oglethorpe 65..........Ft. Benning 63 Lawrence 41..............Carroll 40 Wabash 45..............Anderson 42 George Washington 57......Davidson 40 Westminster 60...Millerville Teachers 55 Youngstown 62............Gannon 45 Catholic U 57......Towson Teachers 55 Purdue 80..............Pittsburgh 37 Detroit Tech 47....St. Mary's (Mich.) 35 Minnesota 46..............DePaul 44 Niagara 83..............Scranton 48 Trinity (Tex.) 53......St. Edwards 35 Washington (Mo.) 54......Marshall 48 Rulane 93..............Springhill 30 Heidelberg 66..............Kenyon 45 St. Cloud Teachers 46.S. Dakota State 41 Paterson Teachers 50..St. Peters (NJ) 40 St. Louis 54..............Missouri 34 Kansas State 61............Indiana 53 Murray Teachers 40...Arkansas State 40 Eastern Illinois 55........Millikin 40 Carthage 50..............Elmhurst 44 St. Marys 57...San Francisco Olympic 33 Pepperdine 54........California Poly 48 Washington State 40........Gonzaga 33 Brigham Young 46.....Arizona State 40

'Cane Cage Plans Hinge On Gate Net

University of Miami's entrance into big-time basketball hinges on the attendance at the next four games slated in the Coral Gables Coliseum — the first tilts being with the University of Pittsburgh Dec. 26 and the University of Pennsylvania January 2. Attendance at the two games with University of Tampa last week end averaged 860 per game but many of those in attendance were students whose presence had little effect upon the till. Unless the Hurricanes can hit an average of close to 1,500 non-students for the $2.50, $1.75 and $1 tickets in the four coming games, the Hurricanes will probably be forced to pull in their horns as far as plans for booking name teams in 1948-49. University officials are optimistic that the interest in basketball in the area will prove sufficient to bring out the crowds needed though they admit that the going may be hard for, because of the small seating capacity of the high school gyms of the area, attendance at basketball games has almost always been limited to students and hence basketball fans, in the sense the term means in the North, just haven't been created. A strong basketball program is one of the things which must be developed at the University of Miami if the Hurricanes ever are to receive a membership invitation from the Southeastern conference—and unless that bid is forthcoming in a few years, the Hurricanes are going to be hard put to build the football schedules they desire. Coach Hart Morris is building a powerful basketball team again one which should be as good as the team a year ago even though a tougher schedule will make it more difficult for the Hurricanes (Please turn to Page Seven)

Giosa-Shapiro Figure to Draw Record Crowd at Coliseum

Before what figures to be one of the largest gatherings of boxing fans ever to sit in on an indoor show in the Greater Miami area, Eddie, Giosa, the Philadelphia welterweight title contender, and Maxie Shapiro, clever New York veteran, will trade leather tonight in the main event of ten rounds at the Coral Gables Coliseum. The fight will mark the initial effort of promoter Art Lewis and matchmaker Chris Dundee locally, and all indications point to a successful start. The fight has been gaining interest steadily since the two northern fighters signed their respective contracts. Giosa, on the grounds of his win over Charlie Fusari, of Irvington, N. J., and Chester Rico, New York, goes to the post in the role of the favorite. He whipped Fusari in one of the major upsets seen this year in Madison Square Garden. When the two principals report for the official weigh-in this afternoon at the Coliseum, Giosa will probably scale 135, while Shapiro figured to hit the 138 mark. Both closed training drills Monday and reported to be in tip-top physical condition. Inasmuch as Shapiro has a record which displays triumphs at the expense of five ex-world's champions, a win for Giosa will carry a long way with the better-known promoters all over the country. The Gotham Jewish belter has defeated ex-champions Leo Rodak, Bob Montgomery, Jackie Callura, Sol Bartola and Phil Terranova. Dundee has lined up an attractive underneath program featuring Sander Cox, of Dallas, Texas, and Jackie Lyons of Jacksonville in a ten-round heavyweight battle. Cox, a former Air Corps pilot, is eager (Please turn to Page Seven)

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"First Lady" of Freedom....

The arrival of the Freedom Train in Miami next Saturday will climax a week-long program of Rededication to the principles and institutions that have made America great. It is fitting that we take this moment to think about these things. Certainly we have tangible evidence that our American system of Free Enterprise, which encourages and rewards progress and improvement, is the best that man has ever devised. No other form of government has ever made possible the attainment of so high a standard of living by its people. Tomorrow has been officially designated as Women's Day in this Week of Rededication. The ladies are having a special program at the Municipal Auditorium in Bayfront Park tomorrow from 10 a. m. to 2:45 p. m. We think it a very good idea for every one who can possibly do so to attend. It is very appropriate that the Goddess of Liberty—symbol of our American Freedom—is a lady. Because the wives and mothers of America will have the greatest part in teaching tomorrow's generations the principles that will keep America great through the ages. FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S JOB Woman's Day BAYFRONT PARK AUDITORIUM Wednesday, December 7 10 A. M. — 2:45 P. M. Sponsored by Dade County Women's Organizations JUDGE DOROTHY KENYON Principal Speaker MUSIC PANEL DISCUSSIONS TABLEAUS BRING YOUR OWN SANDWICH COFFEE SERVED ADMISSION FREE Old Fort Dallas OPEN HOUSE 400 N. W. THIRD STREET (Lummus Park) Saturday, December 20 10 A. M. — 5 P. M. Sponsored by Daughters of the American Revolution Assisted by 50 Patriotic Women's Organizations SEE HISTORIC RELICS AND RARE DOCUMENTS ADMISSION FREE