The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-05-04
Sports Roundup
BY GAYLE tai BOT

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ships on Monday. Wilderspin, a
newcomer of %, upset Hoad in
the Aussie national championships
last January.
1t is plain that the Australian
Davis Cup Committee intends to
play its two wonder kids, Rosewall
and Hoad, both in singles and
doubles in next winters challenge
round at Melbourne. The team of
Rose and DON Candy, which de-
feated Frank Sedgman and Ken
McGregor In last years New South
Wales title meet, has been broken
up and Rose commanded to pair
himself with some other member
of the touring squad.
Can't say that this materially
improves our chances of winning
the big mug back. Those juveniles
play doubles about as well as they
do singles, and they can play a
very long time without firing.
Bill S u m m r S, the veteran
American League umpire, says
that battle royal between the
Yankees and the Browns at st.
Louis the other day was the worst
he has seen in his 20 years in the
, majors.
"More real hard punches were
thrown and landed on both sides
than / ever saw before" Bill
commented. "There was one real
good fight going on that hardly
anybody noticed in the confusion"
The simple truth is that most
ball players are poor with their
fists. Perhaps a hundred times we
have seen a couple of them rush
! toward each other, believing and
kicking up dust, but we cannot
recall ever having seen a player
land a good, clean blow before
the wrestling began.
The only players we know of
| today who is a trained, scientific
middleweight IN college down
| South. He challenged a loud
mouthed fan in Tucson this spring,
but the fellow was smart.
Bill Dickey, the old Yankee
catcher, had a distressing exper-
fence back in the 30's when he
suddenly swung in a fit of. temper
and broke the jaw of Carl Rey-
nolds, a Washington outfielder.
Dickey, ordinarily the mildest of
men, was given a terrible roasting
and felt worse about it than Rey-
nolds did, if possible.
The oldtimers say that Ty Cobb
wasn't particularly gifted with his
/, fists in his numerous off-the-field
bouts, but that he was an aw-
fully tough man to tangle with, just
the same. ETY. made up his own
rules one of them told us in
painful Renaissance.
NEW YORK LA--It is heart
warming to learn that our favorite
baseball player, Clinton D. Court
ney of Coushatta, La. hasn't gone
soft and begun treating the YAM
KEGS with a sort OF reverent re-
spect, as SO many other players
do after a season or two in the
American League.
A little over year ago, when
we first heard the Brownies
rookie catcher refer to the cham
pions as them rich blankety-
blanks" and tell In glowing terms
what he intended to do to them
at every opportunity, we put it
down as temporary peeve and
inwardly doubted the feeling would
last. It shows low wrong a man
can be when he tries.
Clint plainly is ballplayer Of
character. When he said he hated
the Yankees insides for having
sold him down the river when he
was, after all, a better catcher
than Yogi Berra, he meant exact.
iy what he said. He outhit Yogi
by Is points last year, by the way.
That the Yankees feel the same
way about their former teammate
is obvious. The feud between the
ornery, bespecta lied fireplug and
the usually staid money counters
of the Bronx famed steadily all
last year, and it was no accident
when Gil McDougaid ploughed into
the squat catcher al the plate IN
ST. Louis the other day.
Neither was it by chance that
Courtney, in the next inning. did
job of hemstitching Of little Phil
Rizzuto at second base and set off
the first full-blown team fight Of
the season. The Yanks should have
noted that Clint hadn't said word
after McDouglad busted him UP
and knocked the bali from his
hand. Such silence in our man is
ominous. He might not be as fast
as 1y Cobb was. but he's as good
hater for our mercy.
First thing he said this spring
was Who do you thinks gonna
win IT." When we ventnred that
the Yanks might be fsyoriies
Clint said with s3me emotion that
Il guess you've 80. to pick the
thus and SOS, hvt III tell you this
much: They ain, gonna win il BIS
beatin' u.s." Looking back, ii is