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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
LeBoron, Williams Rank High
Among Rockies at Season S End

It was an explosive season in
the National Football League,
what with the three top teams
losing a total of 10 games, but ii
had its high spots thanks largely
to the brilliant work of some out
standing rockies. Official statistics
point up the individual high lights
OF grinding, wearing season.
The Redskins had a couple OF
rockies among the leaders in Eddie
LeBaron, the sixth best passer
and eighth top punter, and in
Johnny Williams, the fourth best
punt returner. The Washington
eleven also had a top flight end in
Bones Taylor, who was the 10th
ranking pass receiver and fin
ished eighth in scoring.
Nineteen field goals by Lou
Groza of Cleveland, IA pass inter-
ceptions by Might Train" Lane
Of Los Angeles, and a 97-yard
touchdown run with an intercepted
pass by Herb Rich, of the same
team. were the only new records
put in the book. But at times
action flared to a near-brilliant
peak.
Deacon Dan Towler's 1874 yards
rushing was good enough to take
the crown in that department, but
didn't come up to the 1851 per.
formances of either Eddie Price
OF New YORK. who finished second
this year, or Rob Goode of the
Redskins. now in the Marines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Fielding Memorial Relay Race
In Star Games to Pack Glass

One of the feature events in The
Evening Star Games January 10 al
the Armory will be the James
Fielding Memorial Emile relay
race. Quite a number of schools
are coming up with good 2-mile
baton teams this winter and the
best five or six will be invited fol-
the Fielding Memorial race.
! The event is sponsored by the
Georgetown University &c" Club
IN honor Of a former Hoya track
star, and a Georgetown team will
be entered.
Georgetown's quartet of half
milers was the most consistent
winner on the winter circuit last
season, and although only half Of
its famous lineup is back in schoo,
the Hoyas again promise to be
tough. They won last year;
Fielding race in 7:49.3.
Running again for Georgetown
will be Carl Joyce and Joe La
Pierre. Coach Frank Sevigne has
a number of promising men to
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CIV
Continued from Page C-1.)

\SotAe4AlNCO 11OIll age Wiz
from New York, spanked CIV to q
1910 flrst-quarter lead. Karver.
Ken Hirschfield, another New
Yorker; Devlin and the two Hol-
|ups hit in the second quarter. So
did Ed Catino, who threw in a
two-hander from midcourt at the
buzzer to give the Colonials a
1929 half time lead.
CIV Threatens Runaway.
CIV scored nine straight points
in the third quarter and threat
ened to make runaway of it. But
then, Thompson, Speight and
Kukoy, who weren't living up to
their regulations at all up to that
point, finally caught fire and GW's
lead went up in smoke.
Speight was high scorer with
11-1-23, while Thompson had 4-8
lie; Kukoy, 4-4-l2; Dave Got
kin, 4-2-10; Danny Knapp,
1-5-7; Tyler. Herb Applebaum
and Ed Morris, each 0-2-2, and
Bernice Yurin, Oil.
Four Colonials hit for double
figures. Joe Holup had 6-6-18;
karver, 5-3-13; John Holup and
Devlin, each 5-2-12. Others scor-
ing were Larry Silverman, 2-O-4;
Hirshfleld, 1-1-3; Catino and
Buzz Cirello, each l-0-2, and Don
DeMonge, o..
The victory gave State a Al
conference record, while CIV now
is 3-2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Boiling in Better Trim
Than San Diego for
Title Game Tomorrow
BY q Special Correspondent Of The stoI

BY Special Correspondent Of The Stor
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 1e.-
Boiling Air Base will hold light
workout today in Balboa Stadium,
scene of it's Poinsettia Bowl battle
tomorrow with San Diego Naval
Training Center for the service
football championship.
(The game will be on tele-
vision in Washington tomorrow
over WNBW starting at PM
The Boiling squad is in top
condition, but not San Diego.
Center Mickey Ada and Tackle
Don Greenhalgh definitely will
not play. Ada has a broken bone
in his left hand and Greenhalgh
re-injured knee in practice.
The Generals began tapering
off yesterday with a light AFTER
noon drill. The morning was
spent visiting an aircraft carrier
in San Diego Bay and then max
ing quick tour of the city.
Coach Roger Antaya of Boiling
and Coach Ray Brown of San
Diego have been attempting all
week to make each other the IA
vorite. Verl Lillywhite, one of the
top San Diego backs, crossed up
his coach during a television in
terview last night. The former
Southern California and San
Francisco Forty Miners star pre-
dicted We'll beat that Air Force
club by two or three touchdowns.
Brown was quick to make up
for Lillywhite's tactical error.
Remember those are his senti-
ments and certainly not NINE"
Brown said. II still regard Boil
ling as the Nations No. / service
football team. but I am very glad
Verl feels that way about the
game"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

Hugh McElhenny of San Fran
cisco, the early pace-setter, turned
in an 89-yard run against Dallas
that stood up as the years best
from Scrimmage.
Passing figures require an Off
cial Interpretation, but seem to be
on par with if not slightly better
than those of last year. Norm
Van Brocklin's No. / ranking, with
an average gain of 8.47 on 1873
competitions in 205 attempts, was
announced earlier in the week. Of
to Graham again was the work.
horse in sthis department, tossing
1854 passes. But Babe Parilli of
Green Bay, one of the seasons
Outstanding rockies. completed a
9O-yard scoring pass against both
the Redskins and San Francisco
Another first year man, Billie
Howton, was on the receiving end
of both.
Ollie Matson, the Chicago Car
dinals' sensational draftee, ran 100
yards with a kickoff to score
against the Bears. and McElhenny
carried a punt 81 yards for six
points, also against the Bears.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Iurner's Continue
To Put Sports First,
New Managers Say
By Brian Bell. Jr.

Sports will come first at Turner's
Arena, according to Vince Nc
Mahon, head of the syndicate
which will take over the manage
ment of the arena January /.
1--WE will continue boxing
wrestling, basketball and maybe
add tennis matches" Mcmahon
said yesterday at the official an
Inouncement of the transfer at a
press luncheon. "Other events
such as dances, band concerts and
rallies will be secondary"
Mcmahon heads the group
which has taken over Turner's
Arena from Mrs. Florence Turner
Menendez. Others in the syndi-
cate are Frank Proctor, a Treas
ury Department employe; Charles
IO'Connell, Washington insurance
salesman, who has supervised the
concessions at Turner's since il
opened in 1885, and Phil Gray
Maryland real estate owner and
hotelman.
Mcmahon Veteran Promoter.
A veteran promoter in this
AREA, Mcmahon is the son of Jess
Mcmahon, who was matchmaker
for Tex Richard at Madison
Square Garden during the 1920s.
Mcmahon made it clear yester-
day the arena, at Fourteenth and
w streets NV, would not be
turned into a dance hall.
Gabe Menendez, matchmaker
at Turner's for many years, is
not planning to retire. Gabe will
be an independent promoter and
is arranging to handle boxing
shows to be televised nationally
by the American Broadcasting
Co. from Washington approx
mately every five weeks next year.
"ABC is planning to start tele-
vising boxing every Saturday be-
ginning Jasuary "a from Boston, ;"
Menendez said. II have almost
worked out arrangements to
handle the Washington shows
with the first one to be February
Z over national hookup.
Fighters Guaranteed $500.
We'll guarantee the fighters
81, 500 plus a cut of gate receipts
in addition to their television take.
When the show is held here,
Washington will be BACKED out
over television so they should draw
well. They'll be at Turner's with
the main bout to start at 8 pm.
Turner's has a regular Satur-
day night square dance that draws
well but on fight nights they'll
give us the earlier time and run
the dance from midnight to 8
am. The show will move around
the country but the local match
maker will decide what bout will
be staged in his city. I'm going to
New York next week to try and
line up some good fighters for the
first Washington show Febru-
airy T."
The Monday night boxing bouts
at Turner's are a thing of the
past-put in mothballs by tele-
vision-but sports, including box
ing, will occupy a good part of
Turner's bill of fare if the new
management has its way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

about to blow up he knocks in a
couple of goals. What are you 60
ing to do? He makes the goals so
1 keep playing him."
O'Hearn leads the Washington
team with 80 points made on ID
goals and 81 assists. He's fifth
among the Eastern Leagues lead
ing scorers and will be the man
the Troy Trojans will be trying
to stop when they meet the Lions
in Uline Arena tonight at $50.
Skinner knows all about
O'Hearn's style of play. He
coached him at New Haven last
year where Bibber alternately was
his joy and despair. He wound up
as New Ravens top point-getter
and fifth in the league with 38
goals and rs points.
Last season it was the same
story. He looked terrible out there
on the ice and yet he scored goals.
I stuck him on the bench hoping
he'd hustle more. but it didn't do
any good. We weren't making any
goals so I put him in again and
we started scoring-rather Bibber
did-but he didn't exert himself
any more"
OHearn got off to a good start
in the Eastern League after play
ing in his home town of st. Cath
crimes, Ont. He pulled the hat
trick"-knocking in three goals
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
7 onight
In Battle With Eastern Hiuh

Westinghouse High Schoo.
will dedicate its new gymnasium
tonight when the Generals enter
tain Eastern High in a basketball
game starting at 8 pm.
In addition to the ceremonies
officially opening the $1,000
capacity WI gym, the evening
should provide some of the best
scholastic court action to date
The Generals are labelled one of
the better teams in the area,
while Eastern may be an Inter-
high contender.
WI will be led by Jack Schil-
ling and Bernie Dean. Red Carr,
Walt Ryland, Chris Plains and
Tommy Hockersmith make up the
other boys on whom Coach John
|Rothrock will depend. Eastern's
brightest stars are the DAM
brosio brothers, Joe and Gino.
Two other top games are Con-
SASeA az <AAAoNO0t1d az O.CO dIlu
Coolidge against st. Johns at
American University at 8. Ana
costa is expected to be the team
to beat in the Interhigh race and
Gonzaga should provide fast
competition for the Indians. St.
Johns again is strong in the
Catholic League, but not much is
known about Coolidge except that
Ardie Baker. its star, always
scores heavily.
Other games are George Wash
ington at Bethesda-Ch Chase,
Northwestern at Montgomery
Blair, Mount Vernon at Bladens-
burg and Western at Frederick, 8;
Laurel at Sherwood. 7; Arm
strong against Brown Prep at
Spingarn, st. Anthonys VS.. Alumni
at DeMatha, John Carroll at
Priory and st. Pauls at Surratts-
vile, 7.
Armstrong High also will dedi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

replace the two graduated stars
Tom Voorhees, and Dave Boland
Charlie Capozzoli may be added
to the lineup for some meets, al
though present plans are for him
ito concentrate on the individual
2-mile race, an event he will enter
in The Star Games.
Already invited for the Field
ing Memorial is Michigan, which
twice defeated Georgetown last
year. Reports are that the VOL
verineS are even faster this sea-
son.
Also under consideration are
Seton Hall and Penn State, which
finished second and third, respec-
lively. last year; North Carolina
and Boston University. The exact
lineup isn't definite because sew
eral other schools report strong
2-mile teams in the making, and
Star Games officials are planning
the best available field for this
feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Robinson
CONTINUED From Page CID

put a lot of pressure on me to 60
through with the Turpin match"
Robinson said. But felt I should
have made this announcement
long before. Finally I made up my
mind all of a sudden. I don't want
to be like a lot of others who didn't
retire in time"
Robinson said he was retiring
because "at this stage of my career
I don't feel I can give my followers
the best have. 1 don't want to
let them down." In his last fight,
June 25, he collapsed in the 103-
degree heat, a 14th round TKO
victim of joey Maxim, light
heavyweight champion, in a bid
for a third title.
RoblnSon'S future is set. He
owns a beer and ale distributing
agency, a bar and grille, a lin
gerie shop, a barber shop, clean
ing establishment and a real es-
tate Office in Harlem. He started
a career as a nightclub entertainer
November 8 and is booked for q
long tour that will take him to
Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and
Miami Beach after the holidays.
Lost Only Three Fights.
One of the all-time greats OF
the sport. the 32-year-old former
welterweight and middleweight
king lost only three of 1877 pre-
fights.
The three losses were to Jake La
Motta in 1943 Cakes only win In
their six-bout series), to Turpin in
London in 1851 and to Maxim
The Maxim fight was the only one
Robinson failed to finish. He
scored SO knockouts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

in two periods before injuring a
wrist and leaving the game. The
21-year-old Bibber hasn't quit
scoring yet, although he leaves
much to be desired in other de-
partmentS.
The Lions, strengthened by the
addition of Pierre Cadieux, new
French-Canadian center, can take
over third place in the Eastern
league from New Haven by beat
ing Troy tonight. Boys and girls
under Is will be admitted for the
tax payment only tonight if &C
companied by a parent.-BELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Boys Club Going in Style
To Santa Claus Bowl Games

The Washington Boys Club ALL
Star football team will go to Lake
land, Fla. for the Santa Claus
Bowl December 27-29 in style.
The team, which will leave
Washington Christmas night, now
has enough money backing it to
take care of all expenses. A total
Iof $3.50 or $50 over the goal has
been raised from SO individuals
and organizations, Sportscaster
Bob Wolff has announced.
Wolff. a member of the game
committee, will give a play-by-
play broadcast of the final game
over a coast-to-coast Mutual net
work at 9 pm. December 20. The
game will be heard here over Sta
ton WWDC.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Virginia 10 Meet Duke
In Norfolk S Oyster Bowl
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. 19-Vir-
GINA and Duke, two of the South's
top football powers, have been
signed to meet in Norfolk's annual
Oyster Bowl game next year.
The Cavaliers and the Blue
Devils will clash on October 81 in
the contest sponsored yearly by
Shriners of the Khedive Temple
for the benefit of their crippled
childrens' hospitals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Christensen Will Head
Bourd at Kenwood

M. M. Christensen is the chair
man Of the board of Kenwood
Country Club.
Christensen was elected to the
post yesterday, while Paul King
was named vice chairman and
y. G. Somes secretary-treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

cate a new gym tonight. Arm
strong's new gym, which seat:
1900, will be dedicated at 7 O'Clock
with Armstrong meeting Spingarr
High.
st. Johns, considered one oil
the stronger high school basket
ball teams in the area, stepped out
of its class last night in a game
scheduled only the night before.
The Johnnies lost. 67-46, to the
George Washington University
freshmen in a preliminary to the
GW-North Carolina State. game
at Uline Arena. The Johnnies
agreed to play the game to fill in
the date for the Colonials. Joe
Petcavich scored % points and Jay
Manning. 10, to lead the Colonials
while Frank Harding, with 13
points, and Bob Rusevlyan, with
10, topped the Johnnies.
George Washington High stop
ped Bladensburg. 59-47, last night
at CIV. Les MacMenamin was
high for the Presidents with Is
points, while Elmer Eggeling scored
10 for the Blades. It was the first
defeat for the Blades in four
games.
Lackey remains unbeaten after
turning back Frederick Sasscer,
1894, at Lackey. Ray Pierce led
Lackey to its fourth victory with
II points.
Chamberlain has three-game
winning streak. The Volts. who
lost their first four, defeated
Suitland, 59-51, at Suitland be-
hind Bill Rice's 10 points.
Paul Gibson's free throw in the
final seconds gave Marshall a
44-43 victory over George Mason
at George Mason, while st.
Stephens Of Alexandria defeated
Quantico High, 1927, behind Bill
Holcombe'S "a points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
18-Year-0Id Hoad Named
To Aussies' Cup Team
BY the Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 49,
Australia's Davis Cup solicitors
sprung a surprise today by NAM
ing 18-year-old Lewis Hoad as
the fourth member of their team
that will defend the Davis Cup
against the United States at
Adelaide 10 days from now.
The other three players are the
same as last year, Frank Sedg-
man, Ken McGregor and Mervyn
Rose. Ian Ayre was the fourth
player a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Cuqer Scores IS in Come

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 10 R.-
Don Summers scored IS points in
a muny basketball league game
last night as his team, the Buffalo
All-Stars. overwhelmed the Jay
Hawks, 141-35. He tossed in Al
field goals and Is free throws in
the 32-minute game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19

ne didn't score
so many goals
which, a f t er
all, win hockey
games.
" S ON etimes
Bibber drive s
me crazy" Skin
ner says. HE
never seems to
be in shape,
lOafS a lot OF
the time, does
MT back check,
won't pass when
he should and
iI1ct nuhnra I'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Ralph ZonneIIi Quits Rinq

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Dec. 10 (P).
Zannelli. 81. New England
middleweight champion, retired
yesterday from the fight game
after 81. years in the ring. Fan
nelli fought 800 bouts as an anna
teur and $50 after turning pro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
CYO Cage Event Opens
At St. Johns Next Week

The fifth annual Catholic Youth
Organization basketball tourna-
ment will be held December 27-3(
at st. Johns High School, 1925
Vermont avenue NV.
Brother Andrew, athletic direc.
tor of st. Johns, is receiving en-.
tries by phone or mail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
'Bibber O'Heorn Scores Heavily,
But Drives Lions Coach Cray

AL (Bibber) O'Hearn, Lions
right-winger, causes Coach Ducky
Skinner much worry. In fact,
Bibber would ride the bench if
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
Robinson's Retirement
Points Up Garden Bout

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (R.-
Sugar Ray Robinson's retirement
points up tonight's Billy Graham
joey Giardello fight at Madison
Square Garden as a part of the
general middleweight picture.
Graham, beaten twice in weiter
title bids, wants to mingle with
the middleS although he only
weighs 148 pounds. Giardello. the
Philadelphia speedster, is legiti-
mate ninth-ranked middleweight.
The Garden hereunder, sched-
uled for 10 pm, will be carried
on network radio (ABC) and tele-
vision (NBC).
(The fight will be on television
in Washington over WNBW and
on radio over WMAL starting at
10 PM
Graham badly needs a victory to
regain prestige lost when he was
upset by Giardello at the Eastern
Parkway in Brooklyn August and
soundly whipped by Kid Gavilan
in a Havana title bout October 5.
For Giardello this is a chance
to crack the bigtime. He has been
winning in the smaller clubs.
Boosting five in a row until beaten
by Joe Giambra in a Buffalo re-
match. and is ripe for any title
tournament.
Graham. now 80, is a veteran of
us pro fights with only 9 defeats.
They called him the "uncrowned
champ" after he dropped a split
decision to Gavilan August 20,
1851. Mixing with middles, he
fought a 10-round draw with
Rocky Castellani last May 16.
In the first Graham Giardello
fight at Brooklyn, Graham cap
tured the vote of Judge Sam Rob-
inson. but Judge Harold Barnes
and Referee Barney Felix gave it
to Giardello. Graham's manager
screamed long and loud, threat
ened to go to the commission, but
finally cooled off.
Giardello, %, has won 80 of So
fights with 8 losses and 5 draws.
He hold a win Ger high-ranked
Ernie Durando, mentioned in all
title tournament plans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-12-19
|Seixas and Traberf /.
IVORY Aussies With,
|Crusher on Italians !
.
BY the Associated Press

SYDNEY. Australia, Dec. 49,
Considering they were playing to-
Igether for the first time. Vic Seixas
of Philadelphia and Tony Trabert
Iof Cincinnati looked like a remark
ably promising doubles team today
lin crushing the veteran Italian
pair of Gianni Cucelli and Mar
cello Del Bello in clinching victory
for the United States in the Davis
Cup interzone final.
AS the scores of Ga, 6-3, 60
indicate, the green American team
got progressively sharper. Their
teamwork was poor in the opening
lset. but towards the last they were
sweeping their befuddled op-
|ponents off the court.
Such knowing Australian critic
as Jack Crawford, who once was
one of the worlds greatest dou-
bles stars. commented afterwards
that the new American combina-
ton looked good enough to give
the Aussies plenty of trouble in
the challenge round at Adelaide
10 days hence.
SeixaS' Ankle Swollen.
Seixas played on a sore, slightly
swollen right ankle which he hurt
when he fell in yesterdays singles
match against Fausto Gardini. To
spare the ankle, he served at halt
speed and suffered the only Amer
lean service break in the opening
set.
Trabert's booming first serve
was going in and he won five of
his seven services at love.
The two Italians, who proved
themselves mighty trenchermen
during their visit to Australia, put
considerable fire into their play
in the first set and had the crowd
cheering as they broke Seixas'
delivery to square it at "A.
! But at that point they began
to run out of gas, whereas their
tall, young rivals stepped up the
pace and it rapidly became no
contest.
Surprise Americans.
In the first set the Italians won
eight clean points merely by
knocking the ball between the
Americans, who stood staring
stupidity at each other.
Tony and Vic must have rugged
up some signals after that be-
cause they didn't let it happen
Iagain in the last two sets. They
broke Del Bello's service twice to
win the second set and gave Gu
celli the same medicine in the
third.
Watching the Americans volley
smash in the final set, another
Australian doubles great, Adrian
Quist. commented: 1--WE are not
going to have any cakewalk at
Adelaide"
Seixas, the United States team
captain. expressed great satisfac-
ton with the showing he and
Trabert made their first time out.
UNLESS something happens" he
said, they will undoubtedly pair
against the Aussies.
Can Practice at Adelaide.
"Of course" he added, "We need
"a lot more practice together, but
we have time to get that starting
Monday in Adelaide"
With the interzone final already
decided, Seixas said he would stay
out of tomorrow's concluding
singles and let Ham Richardson
of Baton Rouge. La. take his place
against Del Bello, who will sub
Stitute for Cucelli.
There was a prospect of a big
turnout for the other singles which
will match Trabert against young
Gardini.