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CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

PAGE SIX CORAL GABLES Riviera Times FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1947

SCORE CARD By DON CUDDY

By DON CUDDY. Ernie Seiler and the Orange Bowl will have to go some to out do the Mahi Shrine Temple spectacle presented at the stadium last night. Yesterday someone in the office wanted to know where to get tickets and I gave 'em what information I had but remarked that probably the only seats left would be in the end zone. "Well," came the retort, "you can see the pageant just about as good from there." Which speaks highly of the entertainment factor in local football. National Pros on Spot Commissioner Jonas Ingram of the All-America pro football conference must be chortling over the exasperation of Bert Bell of the rival National League. Bell has been needled and challenger ever since the junior circuit was created to allow the champions of both camps to meet. Just about the time he manages to get things quieted down, the Cleveland Browns accept Mitchell Wolfson's offer on behalf of the Heart Fund of the Variety Club to settle the young "Cold War" and that sort of leaves the nationals hanging if they refuse a charity-game bid. It will be worth having the grid season lap over into the middle of next month for that meeting of the titans. And the show ought to be a lulu ... Penn Alumni Plan Gathering Here's a note to be shared by the society and sports desk ... the Miami Chapter of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association is going to have a luncheon for the Quaker cagers at the Antilla Hotel on January 2. Returnees Make Good on Boxing Team Coach Billy Regan of the Hurricane boxing team passed the word this morning that at least four divisions are taken care of for the locals meeting with Syracuse next Tuesday night, which isn't surprising because Jimmy Demon, Don Gerritts, Sal Villante and Art "The Champ" Saey have all returned after a good showing last year to take up the gauntlet for the 135, 145, middleweight and heavy artillery classes. Newcomers Herb Allen and Andy Spano are having a duel for the 130 pound nod, Spano is the rough, tough kid and Allen a boxer ... so there's some choice for the nod of who will meet the Orange's Walt Bowe. The Orange Bowl committee will award gold buckles to the members of the winning team and silver replicas to the losers. This Should Be a Splash Finish Fact Finder and Judge Davey, rated the best swimmers among Gulfstream Park's equine colony, are to be matched in the nearby Atlantic Ocean over a furlong distance sometime during the coming week, with a sack of oats at stake, winner take all. Fact Finder, trained by Joe Camac, is outswimming anything in the barn while Judge Davey, who escaped from his handlers recently and set out with bold strokes for Europe, is rated by trainer J. J. Halley as a one-to-two shot. If you're a cautious bettor you at least get a 50-50 chance with your two bobs on this contest. ... Did you know that Frank Christiane of the Elks, swam from Catalina to San Pedro, Long Beach (that's out on the dismal coast) in 1922, and missed his mark by nine miles after being in the water for 18 hours? Biltmore Swim Shows Off Again And while we're talking swimming ... we hear that Bill Duffy has had to retrench on his Sunday swim carnivals at the Biltmore Pool, for the benefit of the American Legion Building Fund. VA officials have been getting requests from Pete Desjardins and the Todds, so they had to turn down all bids. Bill might try the Venetian, but in the next breath mentions taking the shows to St. Petersburg.

No Changes In U-M Five For Pitt Tilt

Coach Hart Morris will stand pat on his starting lineup of last week when he sends his University of Miami basketball Hurricanes into action against University of Pitts-burgh in the Coral Gables Coliseum tonight. Although Tony Ferrera, Ervin Ibach and Jerry Weinstein have stepped up their play considerably, Hart will start with Starting Line-ups PITT MIAMI (21) Casterline | F | (21) Friedman (35) Harris | F | (17) Campbell (44) Lerner | C | (26) Yovicsin (c) (33) David | G | (20) Cobe (34) Latagliata | G | (28) Carroll Abe Friedman and Bob Campbell at forward, Capt. Tony Yovicsin at center and Bob Carroll and Don Cobb at the guards. Campbell, Freidman, Cobb and Carroll are the team's four leading scorers while Yovicsin is only two points behind Ferrera. The emphasis on offense will please Miami fans who have shown they get a big kick out of the slam bang affairs which have featured the last three Hurricane starts. The Panthers of Pittsburgh opened in Miami Wednesday after dropping a 39-29 battle to the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Coach H. C. Carlson of Pitt is satisfied with the way his team has performed on defense but is striving to step up the offense which has been below expectations. He figures his men are just about due and sees in Miami a chance to get going. The varsity clash will be part of a double header which includes a 7 p.m. duel between Miami Beach High School and the University of Miami freshmen.

Andy Varipapa, 'Doddering' Bowler, Still the Game's Match Champion By OSCAR FRALEY UP Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Yesterday was a day for children—and today is a pretty good time to take cognizance of a "doddering" bowler named Andy Varipapa who at the bewhiskered age of 53 has retained the national all-star individual match game championship. A burly, swarthy man who is plenty good—and admits it—Andy contends that bowling is the only competitive sport in which oldtimers can com-pete on a par with youngsters. He proved it, too, in Chicago when he stormed from behind on the final two games of the 64-game round robin tournament to beat out gum-chewing Joe Wilman, the home town favorite, by a meager 1788. Andy, the one-time immigrant boy who tried his hand at baseball, boxing and the butcher business, finally turned to bowling in 1927. And ever since he averaged 209 in a seven game match against a Philadelphia team in 1929, Andy admits that he has been "sensational." The bombastic bowler who made 12 alley shorts for the movies bills himself as "The Great Varipapa." He isn't just whistling "Dixie." During his ten pin career he has rolled 65 perfect games of 300; posted the highest all-time average in ABC history and rolled to dozens of records and championships. But none of those 300 games were worthy of note. In one he first rolled eight successive strikes, was kidded into throwing a ball left handed and made his (Please Turn to Page Seven)

FRALEY Freshman Morton Lerner beat out a couple of Panther veterans for the starting pivot assignment with the University of Pittsburgh basketball team, and has held on to his assignment as a regular. Captain Tony Yovicsin of the Hurricanes will be tagging along behind him when the two teams meet at the Coliseum tonight.

McKeesport Outclassed by Stings, 34-14

The chilliest football night of the year didn't hinder the enthusiasm of two colorful Christmas pageants or the fire-power of Miami High's mighty Stingarees as they blasted the McKeesport (Pa.) Tigers, 34-14, before 26,430 spectators Thursday night in the second annual Shrine Crippled Children's show. A second-quarter display of the best prep school football power seen this year parleyed the Stingaree's earlier Made-By-John Koesy touchdown into a 27-0 intermission advantage. Field general Koesy, as well as dumbfounding the Tiger line by his brilliant running, kept the visitor's secondary in an uproar with perfectly-executed short reverses and pass plays that drove the red-jeaned Keystoners back across their own goal line anywhere from 27 to 60 yards out. Wingback Jim Dooley and fullback Jack Schneider had feature roles in the goam along with Koesy, with Dooley accounting for three T.D.'s and Schneider tallying once. Koesy missed just one conversion (the first) in five attempts, but the Stingarees could afford that one. McKeesport's line was out-played throughout the entire first half, and except for several scattered forays, most of the game. Jack Hackett, the All-Pennsylvania threat was the only offensive threat the Tigers seemed to own and he was handcuffed by the Stingaree line until early in the final chapter when receiver Flea Tremont snagged aerials good for 31, 19 and 19 yards to give the visitors the ball on the two. Then an adept in-and-outer play with fullback Jack Berman flipping the ball off to end John Yamnicky registered, and Hackett collected the bonus on a fake kick. McKeesport's other tally was one of those flukes that happen to the best of backs, and in this case it was Miami's Don Perry, who otherwise played a great understudy part. George Mrkonic punted from deep in his own territory and the ball bounced off Perry's chest into the eager but somewhat surprised arms of Berman, who just kept tarveling 55 yards to the double stripes.

BISCAYNE ENTRIES

Blind Bogies

Blind bogies were slated at both the Coral Gables Biltmore Golf Course and Riviera Country Club by respective pros Wilbur "Umps" Clark and Leonard Ott for weekend golfers, and the Blue Road links will feature a "Get Acquainted" tournament, urging members to wind up the year's activity by pairing with other players whom they have not previously made the rounds with.

Dine, Drink and Dance ... On The Trail at The Ate Pee

EXCELLENT SERVICE SENSIBLE PRICES DELICIOUS FOOD TAMIAMI ROAD NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT NO COVER - NO MINIMUM Air Conditioned On the Trail at 57th Ave. Phone 4-9258

TENNIS SHOES TAYLORS Sport Shop

2710 PONCE DE LEON BLVD.

"THE INN"

LOCATED AT CORAL GABLES INN - 303 MINORCA AVE. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST • LUNCHEON • DINNER -Featuring- Just Good Home-Cooked Food- Under Personal Supervision of HANS R. FREYER RESERVATIONS DIAL: 48-2625

GABLES THEATRE

New Year's Eve Midnight Show DENNIS MORGAN ANDREA KING "MY WILD IRISH ROSE" in TECHNICOLOR TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE

Indians Field Smooth Combine, But Lowly A's Rate A. L. Honors By MILTON RICHMAN UP Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Despite the fact that the Cleveland Indians exhibited the smoothest fielding array in American League history, the Philadelphia Athletics won individual honors by placing three men on the 1947 all-star defensive team, the official averages revealed today. Top Philadelphia players in their "field" were second baseman Pete (Pecky) Suder, third baseman Henry (Heenie) Majeski and pitcher Warren (Buddy) Rosar. The Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox each supplied two leaders, the New York Yankees one, and the Chicago White Sox one. The American League's 1947 all-star fielding team: First base—Rudy York, Chicago, .225. Second base—Suder, .986. Third base—Majeski, .988. Shortstop — Lou Boudreau, Cleveland, .982. Out field—Joe DiMaggio, New York, .997; Sam Mele, Boston, .989, and Hank Edwards, Cleveland, .990. Catcher—Rosar, .996. Pitcher—Joe Dobson, Boston, 1.000. Cleveland, which created a new major league fielding record with a .983 percentage, had chiefly its playing-manager Boudreau to thank. The slender short-fielder cracked his own major league record of .978 by posting a .982 average. He erred only 14 times in 794 chances and was leader in double-plays with 120. Majeski also broke the major league record for third sackers with his .988 percentage. The mark erased the .984 standard registered by Willis Kamm of Cleveland in 1933. Majeski committed only five errors in 428 chances. DiMaggio's Rate Nod Joe DiMaggio tied an American League record with his percent-age of .997 in 139 games, while brother Dominic of the Red Sox led the loop's outfielders in assists with 19. All told, the American League tied or broke 16 different fielding marks during the past season in which the emphasis was on field-ing and hitting rather than pitch-ing.

Paramount Theatres In Coral Gables Gables Signet

Paramount Theatres In Coral Gables Gables 2311 Ponce de Leon Blvd. • Ph. 4-1221 Open Monday Thru Monday Open 1:45 BOB HOPE SIGN OF THE RAM "Where There's Life" Signet 2315 Ponce de Leon Blvd. • Ph. 4-4472 Last Day Open 1:05 ROBERT YOUNG ROBERT MITCHUM JANE GREER "CROSSFIRE"

Frank White's HAPPY HOUR Tavern

AIR CONDITIONED "Where MIAMI MEETS THE GABLES 3680 CORAL WAY MIAMI HAIG & HAIG Pinch | 60c J. Walker BLACK | 60c Martin's 12 Yr. Old | 60c CANADIAN CLUB | 55c OLD GRAND-DAD | 55c OLD TAYLOR | 55c OLD FITZGERALD | 55c We use a full 1-oz. whiskey glass. Open 8 a.m. to 7 a.m. Sat. till 2 a.m. Sun. 1 to 7 p.m. THE FAMOUS JUMBO Hot Roast Beef Sandwich 50c served from 11 a.m. to 12 Midnight

Jack Moore Brings You SAVINGS ENTERTAINING GIFT GIVING

Jack Moore Brings You SAVINGS that will make your Holiday ENTERTAINING GIFT GIVING . . more delightful . . more economical! RUM 5-YEAR-OLD RON RICO DE LUXE Fifth! $4.95 Value $3.75 At JACK MOORE'S YOU GET THE BEST IN ... Liquors, Wines, Cordials, Rums, Gin ... Imported and Domestic Champagne ... Cocktails of all kinds—Daiquiri, Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Martini, Sidecar. The Best In IMPORTED and DOMESTIC ★ BOURBONS ★ SCOTCH ★ BRANDIES OVERBROOK Premium Old Fashioned EGG NOG $2.79 5th PUERTO RICAN RUM $2.49 4/5 RON KOFRESI RUM $2.69 Fifth BETTER HOLIDAY BEVERAGES Italian Swiss Colony WINES 90c 5th Port . . . Muscatel . . . Sherry BERRYCUP BLACKBERRY 5th 84c IMPORTED 1 Sweet and 1 Dry DOMESTIC WINES OF ALL KINDS In Pints, Fifths, 1/2-Gallons and Gallons BEER AND ALE IN CANS AND BOTTLES JACK MOORE WINE and LIQUOR STORE 1612 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-9415

Today at Nearby WOMETCO THEATRES TOWER PARKWAY GROVE

Today at Nearby WOMETCO THEATRES TOWER FREE PARKING Thru Tuesday JOHN GARFIELD LILLI PALMER "BODY and SOUL" S. W. 8th ST. at 15th PARKWAY AMPLE PARKING Thru Saturday ROBERT PAIGE • NOREEN NASH "RED STALLION" Natural Color! CORAL WAY at 12th GROVE FREE PARKING Thru Monday GINGER ROGERS CORNEL WILDE "IT HAD TO BE YOU" COCONUT GROVE W. DIXIE at 27th

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 Specializing In Delicious STEAKS • CHOPS SEA FOODS COCKTAIL HOURS FROM 12 TO 12 BONDED BOURBONS, IMPORTED SCOTCHES AND COCKTAILS AT 45c to 55c PLATE DINNERS As Low As 65c SPECIAL LUNCHEONS From 60c A Real Meal AND A TASTY TREAT! Our Fried JUMBO SHRIMP Served with French Fried Potatoes and Cole Slaw. 95c 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

ANTILLA HOTEL DINING ROOM SAM POLO

ANTILLA HOTEL DINING ROOM 1108 PONCE DE LEON BOULEVARD CORAL GABLES • PHONE 48-1714 SAM POLO MANAGER Formerly of Miami Beach AMERICAN-ITALIAN DINNERS Steaks . . Chops . . Sea Food . . Maine Lobsters . . Spaghetti . . Ravioli . . Lasagna . . Veal Cuttleto a la Parmigina . . Lobster Fra Diavolo . . Cacciatore a la Cacciatore . . Braciola . . Pastry Baked on Premises . . Bread Sticks. Catering to . . . Banquets . . Parties . . Bridge Luncheons . . Weddings WINE AND BEER OPEN DAILY 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. TODAY'S SPECIAL $1.25 Choice of Appetizer Shrimp Cocktail, Chicken Soup with Rice, Tomato Juice Cocktail or Fruit Cocktail Choice of Entree Pickled Roast Stuffed Capon or Fried Filet of Sole Shrimp Tartar Sauce, Broiled Chicken with Drawn Butter, French Fried Potatoes, Asparagus with Drawn Butter Choice of Salad SHREDDED LETTUCE OR SLICED TOMATO WITH CHOICE OF DRESSING VEGETABLE - BAKED PORK CHOP SPAGHETTI WITH TOMATO SAUCE DESSERT - COFFEE or TEA 75c BREAKFAST LUNCHEON Make Reservations Now for Christmas Dinner - New Year's Eve Party - New Year's Dinner

Robert's Club 77

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 GALA FLOOR SHOW NEW YEAR'S EVE $5 Per Person SPECIAL ATTRACTION LITA ROZA AND GUS FIELDS PHONE 4-9385 MIXED DRINKS OUR SPECIALTY All popular brands NO SUBSTITUTES