The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-13
Top-Notch Sports Program
Planned For Celebration
Warren Smith, General
Manager, Goes to Miami
Tomorrow to Make Pre-
l;minary Arrangements

Sports program for the high
way celebration was well shaped
up last night at a meeting of the
athletic committee with Warren
Smith. director. and John Costar.
general chairman of the Celebra-
ton Committee.
The sports program. Smith
said. will include high class
boxing bill. with such outstand-
ing fighters as Ben Brown. south
ern middleweight champion: Yu-
catan Kid. Baby Miller. Chino AL
varez. Bobby Britton and other
top notchers. who will be contact
ed in an effort TO lineup an all
star ring card.
Baseball games will bring out
standing state and Cuban teams to
this city. Tentative plans call for
Miami VS. Cuban Navy July 2 in
the opener and Key West VS. Mi
ami in the nightcap. The follow
ing day, Tampa and Cuban Navy
will open the fireworks, Key West
and Miami filling in the double
header. Monday, July 4, Key
West will play the Cuban Navy
nine and Tampa will play Miami
in the windup.
A wrestling show will include
a wrestle royal and wrestling in
the mud, the mat games newest
novelty.
An aquatic show will be staged,
Smith said, if enough outstand-
ing swimmers and divers are
available. He will attempt to Sc
cure Katherine Rawls, among
others. Golf tournament and a
motorboat regatta are also includ-
ed in the plans.
Permanent athletic committee
appointed last night was;
Roy Hamlin, general chairman;
Aquatic show, Mrs. De Poo, Gene
Hardin, Emmerson BeccaiSe;
Track meet, Prof. Huddleston,
Victor Larsen, j. A. Boza, A.
jerks; Baseball, Amanda Ace
vedo, Alberto Rodriguez, William
Gates; Diamondball, Earl Ingra-
ham. Frank Caraballo, Gene
Roberts; Boxing, Major w. V. AL
bury, John Delgado, Bob Schultz.
Warren Smith, general mana
ger of the Overseas Highway
Celebration, will go to Miami to-
morrow to open a Dade County
headquarters and to make pre-
liminary arrangements for a por-
ton of the entertainment program
which requires advance booking,
following the naming of gen
eral sports committee last night.
Miami headquarters, Smith an
nounced, would be located at the
Chamber of Commerce. Later
Tampa headquarters will be
opened.
Smith will confer with both
Jack Bell, sports editor of the
Daily News, and Everett Clay.
sports editor of the Miami Herald,
relative to the sports program
here July "a
Captain Peoples. well-known
Miami boxing promoter, will
probably be engaged to stage the
boxing bouts, Smith indicated.
Arrangements which are al
ready going forward to provide
facilities for staging the various
events. call for the erection of
covered circus seats around the
present baseball diamond at the
Navy Field.
Smith, who has had consider
able experience promoting and
refereeing fights. appreciates that
poor or mediocre boxing card
would be an imposition ON both
local fight fans as well as visitors.
and be decidedly detrimental to
the sport here and prove black
eye TO the city.
The bouts win be held under
the auspices Of one of the Veter-
ans organizations" Smith stated.
and ] NAV ask the City Council
% appoint me chairman of box
ing commission for the duration
Of the celebration so that / can
guarantee the fans that they'll get
what they pay for--or the fight
ers won't get paid for what they
offer II necessary I'll even ref
cree. too"
Sport lovers agree with Smith
that an off-color boxing program
during the celebration IS the last
thing 10 De- desired.