Coral Gables Riviera-Times

PAGE SIX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1947 CORAL GABLES Riviera-Times

SCORE CARD By DON CUDDY

Too bad W. H. Peeples can't rearrange the Coliseum seating to get more fight fans into the Douglas Road arena for the Herbie Kronowitz-Pete Mead rubber match here on Jan. 13. The two middleweights first fought in a semi-windup at Ebbetts Field (Kronowitz's stamping grounds, since he hails from Brooklyn) and the Flatbush middleweight won a 10-round decision. The fight was good enough for a return match at Madison Square Garden as a main event, and that time Mead (from Grand Rapids, Mich.) won the nod according to reports from New York, they're both up and coming scrappers, and the fight already has the unofficial blessing of the Coral Gables Athletic Commission. First Fight Lost Money Uncle Dundee lost money on the Shapiro vs. Gioss show which opened the Coliseum for boxing four weeks ago. But he and promoter Art Lewis are optimistic; in the fight game these days it doesn't pay to be anything else except just that. They still wish more people, particularly $1.50 fans, could find a place to sit down in the arena. There doesn't seem to be much hope for it, because more permanent stands cannot be added without junking the set-up for basketball, which is darn good. Basketball Is Growing Up A lot of people agree that the smash finish of the Miami-Pittsburgh game last Friday night "made" basketball in this area. Actually it wasn't even the best game played there this year, but the last few minutes of play couldn't have been much more dramatic without a few girders tumbling down. Iowa will be the real test for the Hurricanes this Friday, climaxing a tremendous sports week. The Quakers are always rated very high in the East, which is still the mecca of great basketball even if the spot-life has focused in recent years further west where the tall timber grows. Karl Schmitz Football 'Old'-Timer ... We still have many "old time" football fans in the Gables, and one who ranks pretty high in the charmed circle of those who have seen the Hurricanes play for 20 years is Karl Schmitz. At Orange Bowl time every year he recalls the forerunners of the extravaganza, the Miami-Manhattan game at Moore Park in 1934, called the "Palm Festival." That was followed the next New Year's by Duquesne and then Bucknell when there were wooden bleachers on the present site of Burdine Stadium. Karl has only missed one University of Miami home game in those two decades, and that was the 1932 opener against Wake Forest when the Deacons walloped the locals 33-0. He missed his plane in New York that day, felt a little responsible for that black page in Hurricane football history. Rated the greatest game in Karl's book was the 1945 battle with Georgia . . . and the biggest thrill came in 1938 when the Hurricanes emerged as a football power by dumping Florida and Georgia.

U. S. Reigns Supreme In 1947 Tennis World

NEW YORK (UP) — American tennis continued to dominate the tennis world in 1947 with a clean sweep of all titles but the future was in doubt in the men's division as Big Jake Kramer, king of the amateur courts, turned professional. The United States swept the works. Kramer and Mrs. Margaret Osborne DuPont carried off the loot at Wimbledon; Kramer and Louise Brough won the U. S. championships, and the United States retained both the Davis and Wightman cups. Kramer's loss was a terrific blow to America's hitherto continued domination of the world courts. Regarded as one of the finest players ever produced by California's incubator, Big Jake now will try to supplant little Bobby Riggs as pro champion. Turning to the case game with him was Dinny Pails, one of Australia's top ranking stars, and Francisco (Pancho) Segura. Davis Cup Fireworks The Davis Cup challenge round against Australia produced most of the year's fireworks. Kramer beat Pails, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 in the first match as Ted Schroeder conquered John Bromwich, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Schroeder developed a hand cramp and used a masseur in violation of Davis Cup regulations. When the Aussies rebounded to win the doubles, New York lookeed more and more important. Bromwich teamed with Colin Long to down Kramer and Schroeder, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Leading by a slim 2-1 in a match reminiscent of the 1939 defeats when Australia took the cup Down Under for the duration, the Americans came roaring back to victory. Schroeder Defeats Pails Schroeder, playing alternately in tennis shoes, socks, bare feet and finally spikes, won a three-hour duel against Pails, 6-3, 8-6, 4-6, 9-11, 10-8, to clinch the 1947 mug. Kramer then dusted off Bromwich in an anticlimatic finish, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Kramer apparently was off form in the nationals and, in the finals against Frankie Parker, dropped the first two sets to his pro styled dwindled. But the defendin champion roared back against the 31-year-old two-time champ to retain his laurels, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. Miss Brough scored easily over the ten-seeded Mrs. DuPont in the women's finals, beating her close chem, 8-6, 4-6, 6-1. Miss Brough then teamed with Bromwich to take the mixed doubles,

Furman Rolls Riddle, 69-55 At Edison

Riddle College, bent on avenging a two-point previous setback at the hands of Furman University, did little but turn the other cheek last night at Miami Edison High School in bowing to the Purple Hurricanes, 69-55, the worst defeat in ten starts for the local quintet. Blew 16-Point Lead The Riddlers piled up a 16-point advantage early in the game, but couldn't keep the visitors from roaring back and tieing the score at 20-all. Scoring in spurts, Riddle picked up a 28-26 half-time lead. Then Furman had to fight uphill to catch the locals at 38-all, and once over the hump found the range to run up a 14-point margin at the end. Bill Godwin, flashy forward for the Riddle quintet, paced the field with seven field goals and three free throws, but none of his mates could support his efforts by breaking into the double-digit scoring while Effie Evington collected 16 and Bob Stowe and Milton Bell pulled in 14 counters each. FURMAN — fg ft tp Stewart, f | 3 2 8 Spiller, f | 1 1 3 Bell, f | 7 0 14 Elder, f | 2 3 7 Crawford, c | 4 0 8 Evington, c | 7 2 16 Stowe, g | 5 4 14 Rogers, g | 0 1 1 Phillips, g | 0 0 0 Kerr, g | 0 0 0 | Totals | 29 11 69 RIDDLE — fg ft tp Sherer, f | 3 1 7 Benjamin, f | 1 0 2 Godwin, f | 7 3 17 Walker, f | 0 1 1 MacDonald, c | 3 2 8 Shine, c | 0 0 0 Zimmerman, g | 2 1 5 Neeley, g | 0 0 0 Smith, g | 4 1 9 Nichols, g | 0 0 0 Bryan, g | 4 1 9 | Totals | 22 11 55 Halftime score, 28-26, Riddle. Referee, Williams; umpire, Boell.

Cav Varsity Edges Alumni Cagers, 36-34

Ponce de Leon High School School alumni basketball players gave the varsity a narrow squeak before bowing to the Cavalier regulars, 36-34 at the Ponce gymnasium last night. The lead, seldom favoring either team by more than a few points, was held by the alumni at halftime, 15-14, but the varsity edged into the driver's seat early in the third period and clung to it on the strength of Bill Ward's point-making. High individual effort for the losers was turned in by Jack Mueller with five scrimmage shots while Bill Ward tallied 14 points for the undefeated Cavaliers. ALUMNI — fg ft tp | PONCE — fg ft tp Mueller, f | 5 0 10 | Ward, f | 5 4 14 Graftey, f | 0 2 2 | Edwards, f | 1 2 4 Graftey, g | 0 0 0 | [?] [?], f | 0 0 0 Miller, f | 1 0 2 | [?], c | 0 0 0 Rader | 3 0 6 | Edwards, c | 4 0 8 Smith, c | 3 0 6 | [?], g | 0 1 1 Butter, g | 2 0 4 | Cason, g | 0 0 0 Smailes, g | 0 0 0 | [?] | 2 0 4 Bryan, g | 1 0 2 | [?], g | 2 0 4 McDonald | 1 0 2 | Johnson, g | 1 0 2 McDonald | 0 0 0 | | Totals | 16 2 34 | Totals | 17 2 36 Halftime score: 15-14, Alumni.

Faultless Looks Good

Calumet Farm's Faultless—1946 Flamingo and Preakness winner—is back in training at Hialeah for the winter stakes. Faultless was shelved after his dull performance in the Belmont Stakes. His Hialeah works indicate that he is rounding to top form.

Walcott 'Logical' Contender for Heavy Crown

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (UP)—The National Boxing Association, in final ratings for 1947, warned boxers Willie Pep and Gus Lesnevich today to make "long overdue" defenses of their titles and at the same time declared Jersey Joe Walcott as the "logical contender" for the heavyweight crown held for 10 years by Joe Louis. Abe J. Greene of Paterson, N.J., the president of the N.B.A., said that both Pep, the featherweight champion and Lesnevich, the lightweight titleholder had been dilatory about arranging defenses. Walcott was given the nod as the lone top challenger in the heavyweight division because of his great fight against Louis early this month in which he nearly dethroned the champion in a 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden. In the middleweight division, the N.B.A. placed Marcel Cerdan of France ahead of former middleweight champion Tony Zale, among the aspirants for Rocky Graziano's crown. Graziano won the title from Zale last summer in the "bout of the year" at Chicago. The N.B.A. apparently figured that Zale, who has slowed up considerably, was not as formidable a challenger as Cerdan

U-M Fights In Coliseum vs. Syracuse

The University of Miami box team will face Syracuse University in the Coral Gables Coliseum tonight in what is billed as an Orange Bowl preview to decide the mythical runner-up honors for the national intercollegiate boxinh championship. Both squads were undefeated last season except for identical losses to the University of Wisconsin. The Hub City octet is in tact except in the heavyweight division — Miami's strongest class with NCAA champ Art Saey on deck—and boasts bantamweight title-holder Gerald AuClair. Captain Jimmy Demos of the Hurricanes will take a long step toward a coveted berth on the Olympic team if he can defeat the New Yorker in the opening bout on the eight-fight card, starting at 8:30 p. m. Except for Demos, Saey and hard-hitting 135-pounder Don Gerrits, the aggregation coached by Billy Regan is expected to be in much better shape to make a bid for the national championsnip this year, numbering Syracuse, South Carolina, Virginia, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Catholic and (Please turn to Page Seven)

OLD HAND in the 125-pound division for the Hurricane ring team is Jimmy Demos, representing the University for the third year in his division and starting his second year as Captain of the squad. He will have the assignment of dethroning NCAA champion Gerald AuClair to open the card.

Golf Hits Pre-War Peak As U. S. Sweeps Big Meets Abroad By STEVE SNIDER UP Sports Writer

NEW YORK (UP)—American golf regained its pre-war peak in 1947, resulting in a boom year at home and an unprecedented series of victories abroad. As international competition returned on a full-scale footing for the first time since the European war began, the United States stripped Great Britain's precious trophy case of four major prizes and came within one shot of winning the fifth. The only real dent in America's golf reputation was produced by Bobby Locke of South Africa, whose summer invasion developed into an amazingly profitable venture as he bagged $24,327.50 in the brief span of 23 tournaments. Locke also romped off with the $10,000 Goodall Round Robin in competition with a hand-picked field of America's best professionals. Locke Fails in Open Locke failed, however, to win the U.S. Open championship and the year ended with all but one of the world's major golf trophy's in the hands of Americans. The rout of the British was the top news of 1947: 1. U.S. Amateurs won the Walker Cup, 8 to 4. 2. U.S. Professionals won the Ryder Cup, 11 to 1. 3. Willie Turnesa of Elmsford, N.Y., won the British amateur championship by defeating a fellow American, Dick Chapman of Pinehurst, N.C., in the finals, 3 and 2. 4. Mrs. Babe Didrickson Zaharias, supreme in the U.S., became the first American ever to win the Women's British amateur crown. With all fields conquered, the Babe then turned pro. Snead Fails to Defend Sam Snead, the 1946 British Open champion, failed to defend his title, but amateur Frank Stranahan of Toledo, pulling off one of the great golf shots of all time, came within a stroke of tying Fred Daly of Ireland, the eventual champion. Daly had finished with 293, easily surpassing the efforts of Johnny Bulla and Vic Ghezzi, who had been regarded as the chief American threats, Stranahan, however, climbed into contention in the last two rounds. Missing one opportunity to gain a stroke at the 71st hole, Stranahan stood 135 yards from the 72nd hole facing the impossible task of sinking that shot to tie Daly. The blond Ohio giant rifled a deadly approach that went straight for the cup—and (Please turn to Page Seven)

Fearless Fraley Picks the Bowl Winners By OSCAR FRALEY UP Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 30. (UP)—About this time in that 1947 edition of Fraley's Follies—or how to get flat with Fearless on the New Year's Day Bowl Games. Rose Bowl Michigan over Southern California—If you can see it any other way you're clairvoyant. The only question seems to be by how much. The wizards of odds make it the Wolverines by 14 1/2. But it seems hardly that "tired" feeling and — and wants to top that 38-7 Notre Dame score. Cotton Bowl Penn State over Southern Methodist—State is an eight point underdog and Coach Bob Higgins complains his team need Scotch weather. When the man at the helm has to look that far for his crying material it portends a rough afternoon. Remember, too, that the Nittany Lions were the national defensive leaders. Smoo is great but you can't win if you can't get the mos. points. Sugar Bowl Alabama over Texas—Another underdog, by 6 1/2 points, but the Crimson Tide was cooking with jet power down the stretch. The breaks should decide much of this one with the squad on whether Bama's Harry Gilmer or Texas' Bobby Layne is hottest that particular P.M. The spot seems a good one. Orange Bowl Georgia Tech over Kansas—Buy if you take the 10-point spot the books are handing out you've got a good thing going. It will take a lot of football to stop the jarring Jayhawks, who make a forte of recovering rival fumbles. And the Engineers have been known to blow a few when they were smacked down with enthusiasm. Shrine Bowl East over West—That 7 1/2 point spot looks about right. The shame of the game is that they won't be able to get more people into San Francisco's Kezar Stadium. For of all the games, the shrine production is the most worthy with the proceeds to crippled children. Gator Bowl Georgia over Maryland—In the name of eternity it's by seven points but I've got a better reason. Wally Butts is complaining that the Bulldogs are ragged. 'Nuff said. Delta Bowl Mississippi over Texas Christian—Waving a tattered crying towel, Johnny Vaught is raging thatOle Miss is "overrated." Fore fella. He'll probably win by even more than the seven points they're giving him. Bowling Along Sun Bowl—Miami, Ohio, over Texas Tech: Close as a dead heat. Raisin Bowl—COP over Wichita (Please turn to Page Seven)

Biscayne Salutes Bowl Squads

A double feature 10-race schedule saluting the football squads and supporters of the University of Kansas and Georgia that clash here in the Orange Bowl classic on New Year's afternoon, will be offered tonight at the Biscayne Kennel Club with the running of the eighth and ninth races. In the ninth race, the Georgia Tech Salute, it will be eight of the track's more prominent older dog stars of the meeting to date. The pack will be paced by Beachcomber, the Paul Sutherland star out for his tenth victory since Nov. 15. He definitely will rule the favorite as he now boasts six straight victories.

COLLEGE BOXING TONIGHT! U. of MIAMI (Hurricanes) VS. SYRACUSE U. — IN — Coral Gables Coliseum

8:30 P. M. TICKETS ON SALE TODAY at U. of Miami ticket office in Miami at 340 S. E. 1st St.; at Farr's Tours at Miami Beach and at Taylor's Sports Shop in Coral Gables. NOTE — (You may also purchase tickets at the above places for the U. of Miami-Pennsylvania basketball game slated Jan. 2 at the Coliseum.)

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FOX'S COCKTAIL BAR NEW YEAR'S EVE Supper

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