Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Riviera Sends 16 to Miami Shores Tournament

PAGE SIX CORAL GABLES Riviera Times FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1947

THE 'SCORE CARD BY DON CUDDY

Unvarnished sportsmen from this area can hardly account for the fact that professional football flunked out of Miami in its freshman year while a comparatively unknown sport like polo succeeded. Yet, the fact remains that the indoor variety of the game . . . usually associated with genteel estates, the younger social set and the gathering of family circles . . . has become not only a financial success but an established spectator sport in the local picture. One reason, perhaps, is that the smaller playing field which necessitates using indoor rules makes the game faster and more exciting. It has even been said that the stands have been generously filled by people seeking relief from the pari-mutuels pressure of the tracks. Very few enthusiasts, in fact, had even seen a polo game before curiosity took them out to the Orange Bowl last winter and the game itself brought them back. That sort of belies the popular notion that baseball is "the national pastime" because it draws its fans from the sandlot players—a rule that has been hung on various other athletic events for sundry reasons. But why attempt to explain the acceptance of the game: It has "arrived" and seems sure of its place under the floodlights, as long as the great team of Mike Phipps, Stu Iglehart and George Oliver care to keep it here. And, the installation of intercollegiate polo at the University of Miami, whose roughneck Hurricanes will entertain Ivy Leaguers in preliminary matches, is a kind of insurance. Polo needs insurance like the man who discovers the Fountain of Youth. Polo was invented by the Indians, imported by the English, taken in by the United States . . . and soon will be the domain of the Miami Adverturers . . . Reacts About Boxing Prospects The Hurricane boxing team is shaping up for its Dec. 30 opener against Syracuse University at the Coliseum as part of the Orange Bowl Festival. Art Saey, heavyweight champ reported "out of shape," according to Coach Billy Regan, after the football campaign, but will be down to 205 in time for the first match. His Orange opponent, Roy Simmons the Syracuse coach reports, also played regular tackle for the Hub City team this season and will come in at 220. Art was bushed the first couple of days of practice, but is now doing a heavy daily stint with "Red" Cameron, and Billy reports that the St. Louis, Mo., Olympic hopeful has solved the problem of being beaten to the punch when leading. Another footballer who looks good in work-outs is Johnny Grappo, the answer to the 155-pound division weakness of the Hurricanes last year. . . . Bill Walsh, the Wisconsin coach, will be down here at the time (after catching the Michigan State, L. S. U. Sugar Bowl matches) and may referee the card here.

Casuals Have Day While Aces Away

Riviera Country Club members who haven't won any prizes this year have their day Sunday as 16 of the premium golfers who usually corner the tournament awards are bidding for honors in the first annual Miami Shores Country Club tournament starting at 9 a. m. Saturday and continuing through Sunday afternoon. The tournament will be a 36-hole combined medal and net play, with several special events added in which to compete for $500 in merchandise prizes. Miami Shores links will be closed to the public until 1:30 both days, and a cocktail party followed by an awards dinner winds up the tournament Sunday afternoon. Trophies will be awarded to the top four makers in both classes, to the members of the winning team, and also to the sponsoring club of the winning team. Special events listed are awards for the longest drives on the first and tenth holes, the most accurate approach on holes three, eleven and seventeen, and each day for the lowest number of putts and best nine and 18-hole gamer. La Gorce, Bay Shore, Miami and Miami Shores Country clubs will compete in the tournament. Riviera entries follow: Henry Russell, Ed Kirkland, R. D. Wright, W. L. Thornquist, (club champion), George Swanson, Jim Lowry, Glen Throne, Jack Baldwin, Dr. Arthur Weiland, Dr. C. Burbacher, Wilbur Jones, C. M. Long, Tommy Thorn, Paul Davis, Claude Corrigan and Tom Shelly.

DEFT DON COBB, the Ocala flash who was the surprise of the Florida Hurricanes football game, will be doing his stuff against the 'Gators on the Coliseum basketball court tonight. Playing his first year of varsity ball, he has assured himself of a starting slot by his adept ball handling and pint-making for the varsity.

U-M Quint Faces Tough Gator Series

University of Miami's basketball team runs into an early season crucial series with the University of Florida Gators starting tonight at 8:30 p. m. in the Coral Gables Coliseum. The second game of the series will be played in the same arena Saturday night. Not only is the series of double importance because of its bearing upon the state championship and as a renewal of the red hot Miami-Florida athletic rivalry, but the series will determine whether or not Coach Hart Morris has been able to make important progress in whipping into shape a team which can approach the class of the late-season 1946-47 squad. Last week's series with Tampa, which brought only an even break to Miami, did serve to uncover deft Don Cobb at forward and Bob Carroll and Tony Ferrera at guard, to help veterans Capt. (Please Turn to Page Seven) Probable Lineups Florida | Pos. | Miami Atkinson | F | Cobb Hamilton | F | Friedman Tarnicer | C | Yovicsin Bunt | G | Carroll Bridges | G | Ferrera

Gables Enter Nine in Bowl Tennis Tourney

Nine entries from Salvadore Park have been entered in the first annual Orange Bowl Junior Boys and Girls Tennis Championships to be played on Miami Beach courts Dec. 26-30, Director Lea Fullwood announced this morning. Billy Merriam, Doug Sandberg, Dick Murphy, Dick Taylor, Paul Setz, Cap Turner, Henry Lyden and Al Harum have been entered representing the Gables so far. Tournament chairman Eddie Herr announced this morning that several other youth centers and recreation department groups had requested entry blanks which, when filed, will probably bring entries for the meet to well over the 150 mark. The tournament, sponsored by the newly organized Miami Beach Tennis Association, is being held in conjunction with the annual Orange Bowl festivities. Top winners in the various brackets will receive tickets to the New Year's Day game in the Orange Bowl. Among the entries, which now represent 12 states, five state title holders and number well over 100, are Gerald Monsalvatge and Tom Blakey, sparks of the Ponce de Leon High tennis team last year.

BISCAYNE ENTRIES

FIRST—5-16 mile: 1 Frosty Silver | 5 Downwind 2 Subzero | 6 Not Castnetop 3 Forevermine | 7 Atomic Energy 4 Copper Lad | 8 Rural Queen SECOND—5-16 mile: 1 Foxever After | 5 M's Eva 2 Miss Nanny B. | 6 Chuckaluck 3 Flash Stake | 7 Babe Z 4 Some Guy | 8 Lucky Pierre THIRD—5-16 mile: 1 Kendorn | 5 Bit of Jim 2 Hutty Hugh | 6 Weatherite 3 Rainey R. | 7 Mild Man 4 Stuped Hetch | 8 Kansas Babe FOURTH—5-16 mile: 1 Rush Herbert | 5 Karlvock 2 Asey Casey | 6 Air Pal 3 Likeable | 7 Goba 4 Winter Song | 8 Consent FIFTH—Biscayne Course: 1 Miracle Dancer | 5 Post Raiser 2 Border C. | 6 Loree's Girl 3 Jerry Hall | 7 Brasshead 4 Cigarette Sally | 8 Vanguard SIXTH—5-16 mile: 1 Meadow Gold | 5 Track Tenor 2 Just Garden | 6 Red Tulip 3 Gator Dan | 7 Red Martin 4 Rural Comrade | 8 Kilroy SEVENTH—5-16 mile: 1 Gallant Charm | 5 Hoosier Hoote 2 Nevera Quem | 6 Born Rich 3 Copper Jade | 7 Rural Roe 4 Gahagan | 8 Memorial Red EIGHTH—5-16 mile: 1 Sea's Safe | 5 Rambling Ron 2 Casanova | 6 Tome Flagler 3 Melana | 7 Kansas Rube 4 Cherokee Blues | 8 My Jill NINTH—5-16 mile: 1 Lucky Dorom | 5 Much Liked 2 Sea Lafe | 6 Mamalon 3 Silver King | 7 Red Cargo 4 Acmeles Missie | 8 Consistent TENTH—Biscayne Course: 1 Reno Kale | 5 Broke Even 2 Ebony Lad | 6 Muggin' Max 3 Gay Mulcahy | 7 Kandy Kane 4 Tit Tok | 8 Otto Lucus

Eliminations Continue at Biscayne

The second-round eliminations of the annual Biscayne Juvenile $5,000 Championship, will be concluded tonight with the running of the final three races for this flight at the Biscayne Kennel club. In each race, the leading four dogs will advance to the succeeding third-round and semi-finals which start Monday night. Flash Stake Public Choice Scheduled as the second, third and fourth events, it lists first-round winners closely matched with money-finishing qualifiers of the first round. In the second, Flash Stake, an offspring of the champion, Flashy Sir, and the pre-elimination favorite although he trailed third in the first-round, probably again will rule the public choice. Chuckaluck, Mix Em, Babe Z and Forever After also figure close in this event. The third race elimination should favor Weatherite, Kansas Babe, Kendern and Mild Man, while in the fourth, the ruling choices should be, Air (Please Turn to Page Seven)

BOWLING RESULTS

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Evans Throws for Keeps

Riflin' Ray Evans' passing record of no-interceptions will be a challenge to Georgia Tech defenders New Year's Day in the Orange Bowl game. The Kansas All-American pitched 60 aerials during 1947 without one being caught by the opposition.

Dart Boards Taylor's Sport Shop

1810 PONCE DE LEON BLVD.

Tech's Starting Pitcher

Georgia Tech's starting football pitcher against Kansas in the 1948 Orange Bowl game will be Jim Still, a sharpshooter who connected with 43 of 75 in 10 regular season games. His tosses were good for 559 yards and six touchdowns.

Curtis Bryan, Granada Pro, Was Leading Amateur in 30's BY ANNE RANDOLPH Riviera-Times Golf Writer

Curtis Bryan, the new teaching pro at the Granada for the season, was this area's leading amateur player from 1933 through 1937. He won that distinction after winning the Miami Biltmore Open Tournament and it's a neat coincidence that the re-opening of the Biltmore brings him back to Coral Gables after nearly seven years in Ohio golf. As teachers go, Curtis has been around golf for a long time. He took up the game at 15 in Jacksonville, and just two years later won the championship of the Municipal Course in that city. Curtis' first trip to Miami came in 1930. He played the area amateur open trophy—but not for long. By 1937 he turned pro and became assistant pro at the Miami Trail. While there he held classes for Miami High students and gave many of our better golfers their first lessons. In 1941 Curtis won the Greater Cincinnati P.G.A. championship and the following year moved to the Kenwood Club in the Queen City as assistant pro, and then saw service for three years in the Naval Cadet Training program at Pensacola. As sales and contact man for Warner Industries Inc., he had Cincinnati as his base again in 1946. Since March 1947 he has been pro at the Piqua Country Club in Pique, Ohio. Curtis is very proud of his brother Harold, who goes to the University of Miami and plays on their team. He made a very nice showing in The Miami Open by finishing 6th among the amateurs. . . . Mayor Keith W. Phillips, playing in a foursome with Frank N. Holley Jr., Dr. E. A. Graves and Ted Semple, teed off at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday to officially open the Coral Gables Biltmore Golf Course. 160 players toured the course the first day and Dr. Selden Rainforth was out bright and early, to be the first off the tee, at 8:00 a.m. John Waingo was the first caddy to report for duty. Mrs. J. E. Williams, a very nice golfer and member of The Miami Women's Golf Association, is cashier in the Pro Shop and the 19th hole is operated under the capable hands of Mr. "Shucks" Merritt and his wife. Breakfast, lunch, sandwiches, soft drinks and coffee will be served and a nickelodeon will furnish after golfing entertainment. Daily green fees are $2.50. "Umps" Clark was very pleased over the lovely turnout of flowers The Miami Women's Golf Association sent to him in honor of the formal opening. Tom Watson down from Ventnor, New Jersey is playing Granada for the third winter and Dr. T. H. Platt of Beach Haven Terrace, New Jersey, recently arrived for his third winter and is enjoying our local courses again.

SAM BAILEY BOOT SHOP

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Paramount Theatres In Coral Gables

Gables TODAY Opens 1:45 SHIRLEY TEMPLE "BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER" 2112 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Ph. 4-1221 Coral Last Day Opens 1:45 DICK POWELL in "FUN ON A WEEK-END" 2315 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Ph. 4-6422

Kansas Band to Miami

The University of Kansas band will accompany the Jayhawks to Miami for the New Year's Orange Bowl game with Georgia Tech.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL U. of Florida VS. U. of Miami

FRIDAY SATURDAY 8:30 P. M. CORAL GABLES COLISEUM PRELIMINARY GAME 7 P. M. EACH NIGHT U. of Miami Freshmen vs. Opa-locka Naval Air Station Reserved Seats and Boxes Now At U. of Miami Ticket Office, 305 S. E. First St., Miami Farr Tours, 134-17 Wisconsin and 2315 Collins, Miami Beach Taylor Sport Shop, 1810 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables SEATS AVAILABLE FOR Pittsburgh Game Dec. 26 and Pennsylvania Game of Jan. 2

The Inn

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HOWARD JOHNSON'S

To All Our Friends and Patrons MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR NOTICE We will be closed all day Christmas to enable our employees to spend that day with their families. HOWARD JOHNSON'S 37th Ave. & S. W. 8th St. • ED HASSEN, Owner • Phone 48-2541 11 A.M. to 1:30 A.M. Daily 11 A.M. to 2:30 A.M. Saturday COCKTAIL HOURS FROM 12 TO 2 BONDED BOURBONS, IMPORTED SCOTCHES and COCKTAILS at 45c to 55c Specializing In Delicious STEAKS • CHOPS SEA FOODS PLATE As Low As DINNERS 65c A Real Meal AND A TASTY TREAT! Our Fried JUMBO SHRIMP Served with French Fried Potatoes and Cole Slaw. 95c SPECIAL Luncheons FROM 60c DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY All Menu orders put up in specially prepared boxes on a minute's notice to take out. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK —TAKE HOME SOME OF— Howard Johnson's Delicious Ice Cream

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LOPEZ Restaurant

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Robert's RESTAURANT

3604 S. W. 8th St. . . . on the Trail OPEN UNTIL 5 A. M. Your Host Robert Minervini Presents Music By Herman Wood and His Orchestra SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION BILLIE and Her Hawaiian Serenaders MIXED DRINKS OUR SPECIALTY PHONE 4-9385 All popular brands NO SUBSTITUTES Operating Under New Management — Offering Friendliness, Courtesy, The Best In Service.

There's RACING Today at Beautiful GULFSTREAM PARK

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