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The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

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The Yankees lost the pennant,
the Giants won the World Series,
major league baseball came back
to Baltimore after an absence of
so years, and the Philadelphia
Athletics headed for Kansas City.
All this happened in 1854.
The Cleveland Indians parlayed
hitting strength, brilliant pitching
and an uncanny ability to beat Sec
ond division clubs into Ill victories,
an American League record.
But in the World Series the IL
dians played dead before the New
York Giants and fell in four
straight games. The Giants had
grabbed the National League lead
in late June and hung on against
repeated assaults by the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the Milwaukee Bra
yes.
The Giants hailed their triumphS
as a team effort although any dis
cussion of the Polo Grounds cham
pions was bound to center on the
exploits of Johnny Antonelli and
Willie Mays.
Antonelli came to the Giants
from Milwaukee during an off
season trade that was to deter
mine the pennant race. Bobby
Thompson went from the Giants to
the Braves. Antonelli won 81 games
and was the leader in earned run
averages. Thompson broke his an
kle in spring training and was USE
less until late August.
The amazing Mays. playing his
first full season in the majors,
came out of the Army and went
on a homer binge. For a while he
threatened Babe Ruth's record. He
hit Al homers and settled for the
leagues hitting title with .345.
His fielding, spectacular during
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Connie Mack
Marks His
92nd Birthday

FORT MYERS R-Connie Mack,
the grand old man of baseball. is
observing his 92nd birthday with a
quiet family dinner party today.
Actually he was 80 yesterday.
At the request of old friends ne
decided to celebrate this year on
the date he thought for so long
was his birthday.
The long time Philadelphia Ath-
letics' manager was born near
midnight. Until two years ago he
thought he arrived Just after mid
night on Dec. %.
Then an old family friend dis
closed the birth was just before
midnight Dec. q. He observed
that birthday in 1852 and 1858.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Ameche To Spark So. Attack;
Yankee Passes Seen In Classic
Braves Shift Started Trend
To West By Baseball Clubs

Out of about 100 experts who
replied to these two questions. 25
saw this realignment as the prin-
cipal development during the past
year and more than IS foresaw
further realignment as the big
movement to come in 1855. A good
Many predicted that the jump to
the West Coast will be made dur
ing the coming year.
About a dozen saw the decline
Of minor league baseball, the drop
in attendance and the financial
failure of many clubs and leagues
IS being more significant than the
territorial changes of the majors
and virtually all Of them expected
this decline to continue through
1855. Just one expressed the opin-
ion that the minors may do better
next year because the big leagues
realize the damage that is being
done.
other 1854 trends recognized by
considerable groups of voters in
cluded leveling-off of strength in
college football. improved PERFORM
anceS and recor d-breaking in
track, greater interest in sports
created by televiSion, the emer-
gence of the National League as
superior to the American and
"the decline of boxing as a reputa-
BILE sport"
The last, incidentally, was the
gentlest way boxing was men,
toned. 1t also was described az
"sickening garbage" and "a dis
honest, fraudulent form of tele-
vised vaudeville" A few writer's
looked for improved conditions in
boxing next year.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
CROTH INKS PACT

CHICAGO, R-Outfielder Johnny
Groth, who this year belted across
so runs for his best RBI season
since 1850, Thursday signed for
1855 with the Chicago White Sox
He was the 10th Sox player to
come to terms.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
NFL Tilt Means Lot OF THINGS
To Lot OF People, AP Reveals

= CLEVELAND Rt-The National
game here next Sunday means a
lot of things to lot of people.
To most, of course, it's the test
that will prove for another season
which pro team is the best in the
land-the defending champion De-
troit Lions or the challenging
Cleveland Browns.
To one player, the contest will
be an end to a highly successful
career in the play-for-psy loop.
To another, perhaps also playing
his last game, it will be a chance
to break and claim for his own
one of the most respected records
in the football business.
Les Bingaman, the 315-pound
guard for the Detroit Lions, is the
man who says he definitely will
be playing his swan song next
week against the Browns.
Bingaman plans to become a
brewery representative. He joined
the Lions in 194S and has played
seven seasons.
Otto Graham, who has indicated
this may be his last season, has
a coveted individual record almost
within his grasp. 1t is the mark
of 22,O85 yards-gained-passing now
held by Slingin' Sammy Baugh.
Graham, said by some to be the
greatest quarterback of all time,
is just 222 yards short of that
record.
If he can pitch Sunday with some
of the consistent accuracy he has
displayed on occasion, he might
break it with ease.
The Lions coach, Buddy Park
er, says his charges are in the
best physical shape of the season.
He's especially happy about the
return of Dick Stanfel, whom he
calls the greatest offensive guard
in football" Stanfel hurt his back
against the Green Bay Packers
Nov. Fl, and has been sidelined
since then.
On the Browns side of the in.
jury list were fullback Maurice
Bassett, nursing a sore thigh
which could slow him Sunday and
Billy Reynolds, ailing with a
Sprained ankle.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Johnson Mau]s
|MarshallIn
|DullBattle

DETROIT Up - RPhiladelphia's
Harold Johnson, in a lack-luster
display of jabbing and clinching,
punched Marty Marshall, of De-
troit, back to obscurity last night
in their 10-round nationally tele-
vised fight.
Marshall, weighing 179, made
his short-lived debut to big-time
boxing in the first major Detroit
fight in over six months. He had
been fighting in Obscurity for eight
years and appears prone to return
to the small-time ranks.
Johnson, 17415, made a poor
showing in his effort to secure an
other title bout with light heavy
weight champion Archie Moore.
Moore has beat Johnson four of
five times-once for the title.
Referee Lou Handler scored the
bout 96-S2 for Johnson, Judge Joe
Lenahan had it 1882 and Judge
Bill Appleton scored S5-82.
While Handler prodded the two
on for eight rounds, both seemed
! confused by each others odd style
and hugged countless times. John
son had little trouble lodging
/, Marshall's erratic swinging while
Marshall received only slight taps
from Johnson before the two would
embrace.
Previous to the fight, promoter
Nick Londes of the International
Boxing Club said if the fighters
looked good he would attempt 20
| get a title fight with Moore for the
winner. After the fight there was
no such talk.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

Cage Scoring

NEW YORK R-Off to a faster
start than any other major college
scorer since the National Collegi-
ate Athletic Bureau has been re-
cording statistics, Ohio States
''tiny'' Robin Freeman today led
the big college basketball marks
men with a terrific 40.3 average.
The $40 Buckeye junior boost
ed his pace-Setting game average
1.3 points over the week for a
total of 161 points for four games.
The figures, released Thursday,
include games through Dec. IS.
Freeman is only the second
major college sharpshooter 10
average 40 points or better at this
stage. Furman'S mighty Frank
Selvy, now pro star, was the
first and only until the Buckeyes
little man opened up with his
Scorching pace.
Darrell Floyd, trying to fill
Selvy's shoes at Furman, moved
up from fourth to second with 81
average for four games. North
Carolina States towering Lennie
Rosenbluth, second a week ago
with 35.3 mark, fell to sixth with
3O.3. Johnny Mahoney of William
and Mary, eighth last week, took
over third with 31.2.
Art Quimby, Connecticut's yer.
satile star, was the No. / rebound
er with an average of 27.8 a game.
RichmOnd's dead-eye Dicks held
the team-offensive lead with a
tremendous 99-point average fol
seven games. Connecticut was sec.
ond with 9S for six. Southern Cali
fornia was the hardest team tc
score on. The Trojans have yielded
only 49.4 points per game in seven
contests. San Francisco was sec
ond with SOL for seven games,
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Orange Bowl Net
Seedlings Released

MIAMI BEACH R-Dick Ras-
kind of Yale and Johann Kupfer-
burger of South Africa are top
seeded in the eighth annual Or
ange Bowl Junior Tennis tourney
to begin Sunday.
Top seeded college women are
Suzanne Herr of Miami and Mon
lea Adler of Venezuela.
Seeded players in the junior boys
division are Allen Quay of St. Pc
tersburg, David Harum of Coral
Gables, Crawford Henry of Atlanta
and Ron Holmberg of New York.
Pat Shaffer of st. Petersburg
is seeded first among junior girls,
followed by Lorraine Schneider,
Fort Pierce; Marilyn Stock, Coral
Gables; and Joyce Pniewski, Ham
tramck, Mich.
Sandra Lewis of st. Petersburg,
heads the girls division followed
by Elaine Hixon of Tampa.
Finals are scheduled for Dec. 81.
The skin of hippopotamuS can
be as much as two inches thick.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
BY HUGH FULLERTON JR
The Associated Press

When Lou Perrin picked up the
Improbable Braves in Boston and
dropped them in the fertile new
territory Of Milwaukee. he started
one of the most significant trends
in recent sports history.
Following the Braves West. the
Athletics were sold and shifted
from Philadelphia to Kansas City
after the 1854 season while the
ST.. Louis Browns moved East into
Baltimore, which had not had
major league baseball since 1902.
These three changes, the first in
the major league setup in 50 years,
were just the fore-runners of other
shifts in the opinion Of the nations
sports writer's and broadcasters. In
the near future, possibly in 1855,
the majors will move on to the
Pacific Coast, the experts say.
In the annual Associated Press
year-end poll, the writer's and
broadcasterS were asked: "What
was the outstanding trend, charac-
teristic or development in sports
in 1882" A similar question was
asked about what is to be expected
in 1855.
The answer to both was virtually
the same. For 1854 1t was the
shifting of major league franchises
into new territory and the conse-
quent deterioration of the minor
leagues. For 1855 it will be further
expansion, either by new moves to
the West or by taking In new clubs
to form 10-team leagues.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
BaylorBacks
Tagged Best
.EverByCoach
By Al LANIER

AUBURN, Ala. R-JackSonville
and the Baylor Bears will see
Auburn's greatest backfield Dec
81 in the Gator Bowl Football
Football Game.
The greatest" label is tackled
On by proud Coach Shug Jordan
and statistics seem to back him
up.
The combination of quarterback
Bobby Freeman, left half Fob
James, right half Dave Middleton
and fullback Joe Childress is the
finest he's seen in Is years in the
Southeastern Conference as coach
and player, Jordan says with con
viction.
"This combination is Auburn
greatest, and that includes the 1892
unit of Ripper Williams, Sterling
DuPree, JinVmy Hitchcock and
F'irpo Phipps," he continued.
He also rates the 1854 Auburn
Backfield over the great 1916
Georgia backfield consisting Of
Charlie Trippi, Johnny Rach,
Dick McPhee and Rabbit Smith,
which he helped coach.
Freeman and Childress and
James and Middleton have the
speed, the blocking ability, and
the defensive ability plus the fact
that they're wonderful competi.
tors" Jordan claims.
"They have inside running abil'
ity, outside running ability, and
they can move the ball in the air.
What more do you need?"
Jordan is not just talking
through his record book. Childress
was the conference rushing leader
with 1856 yards, aside from being
high scorer with IS points.
Middleton was fifth in the con.
ference with 4S2 yards rushing and
James was seventh with 443.
"James can kick it and throw
it; Middleton has tremendous
speed and drive. is an excellent
pass receiver and a great defen.
sive back. Childress has the speed,
power and determination.
Freeman? There's the best all
round back in our league or most
anybody's league.
"Put those four together and
you've certainly got something, y
Jordan remarked with a gleam in
his eye.
81 might not coach long enough
ever to see that good a backfield
again." is his only lament.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Anniversary To
Be Interrupted

LAS VEGAS, New. R-John Bar
rymore Jr. interrupts celebration
of his second wedding anniversary
for a Municipal Court appearance
today on a reckless driving charge.
Barrymore, 22, was arrested yes
terday by officers who said he
was lane-changing dangerously in
heavy traffic. He was jailed for
about three hours until he OBJ
tanned $500 bail.
He and his wife, the former
Cara Williams, said they are IN
Las Vegas for the anniversary IF
their marriage here two years ago
today.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

Citizen Ads Bring Results
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

| the regular season, was emphasiZ-
ed in the eighth inning of the first
World Series game when he raced
to the Polo Grounds bleachers for
a 450-foot drive by Vic Wertz. In
robbing the Cleveland slugger OF
what would have been a home run
in almost any other major league
park, Mays on the spot determined
the outcome of the series.
Cleveland could do nothing right.
The Giants could do nothing wrong.
And the Giants had Dusty Rhodes.
A potent pinch hitter much of the
season, Rhodes slashed three-run
pinch homer in the 10th inning OF
the first series game, delivered d
pinch single and a homer in the
second game and a bases loaded
single in the third game. The Gil
ants won all four, So, 81, 6-2, IA.
Age, infield troubles and pitch
ing caught up with Casey Stengel's
bid to win a sixth straight pennant
with the Yankees. Brooklyn, oper.
ating under soft spoken Walt Ais.
ton for the first time, was beset by
injuries, the most serious of with
was a broken bone in Roy Cam
panella's hand.
Bobby Avila, Cleveland second
baseman, won the American Lea
que batting crown with SAL, some
20 points better than runnerup MIN
ME Minoso of the Chicago White
Sox. The Indians also had the Am
erican Leagues leading home run
hitter, Larry Dolby with 81.
Big Ted KluSzewski of Cincin.
natl finished strong in winning the
National League home 1un champ
ionship with 4s.
The American League won the
All-Star game, 11-9, at Cleveland
with Al RoSen hitting two home
runs.
/ The Philadelphia Phillies, filled
with disSension, fired Manager
Steve O'Neil in mid-Season and re
placed him with Terry Moore.
Moore, in turn, was fired wher
the season ended and the job fol
1855 went to Mayo Smith.
Seven other managerial changes
were made. Stan Hack replaced
Phil Cavarretta at the helm of the
Chicago Cubs as the team headed
home from spring training. The
others came at the seasons end =
Paul Richards for Jimmie Dyke:
at Baltimore, Marty Marion fol
Richards at Chicago, Bucky Har
ris for Fred Hutchinson at Detroit
Charlie Dresser for Harris a
Washington. Pinky Higgins foI
Lou BOudreau at Boston and Bou
dreau for Eddie Joost on the Ath
letics.
Baltimore opened the Seaon d!
the new members of the American
League. In early August Arnolc
Johnson of Chicago sought to buy
the Philadelphia Athletics and NOV,
them to Kansas City. This deal fin
ally was completed Nov. s aftel
weeks of bitter wranging.
Outfielder Wally Moon on the st
Louis Cardinals and Bob Grim
| New York Yankee pitcher, were
chosen the rockies of the year.
Jim Wilson of the Braves pitch
ed the only no-hitter. Robin Roo
erts of the PhilS won 20 games fo
the fifth consecutive season an,
pitched two one hitters.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
South Given
7-Point Edge
In Shrine Tilt

MIAMI, Fla. R - College foot
balls greatest gamer, fullback
Alan Ameche of Wisconsin, will
Spearhead the North ground attack
in the North-South All-Star game
here Christmas night, but the
Yankees hopes may ride with
their pasSerS.
North coach Ivy Williamson of
Wisconsin says he expects Ameche
to gain plenty of yardage, but he
adds: 81 think our chances will
depend mostly on how well our
throwerS click"
Florian Helinski of Indiana, Dun
can Mcdonald of Michigan and
the Yankees in the weeks work
Heydenfeldt of UCLA on the re-
ceiving end, all three looked great.
The South was established yes.
terday as seven-point favorite
and Williamson said that "by ira
dition, suppose the South should
be favored" But he fastened to
remark, II think we can stand
toe to toe with them"
Dixie has dominated the seven
game all-star series, winning five
games and tying one. In the past,
the games have been wide-open
aerial battles, but South coach
Andy Gustafson says the Rebel of
fenSe this year will be based on
running.
"We don't expect to hold
Ameche," Gustafson said. "He'll
score a couple. But we will out.
score 'em-three touchdowns to
two"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

The skin of hippopotamus can
be as much as two inches thick.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
SHIVERS TIES RECORD

AUSTIN, Tex R-AHan Shivers
today tied the record for length
of service as governor of Texas.
Shivers matched Coke Stevenson S
record-breaking term of S years,
5 months and 13 days as governor.
And the 47-year-old governor has
another full two-year elective term
his third-starting Jan. IS.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23

When two tones of different pitch
are sounded, you may hear both
the tones and also two other tones
"a low tone, equal to the differ.
ence in frequency of the first two
and a high tone equal to the sum
of the two tones.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-23
Kentucky Nips
LaSalleT To
Hold TopSpot
BY JOHN CHANDLER
The Associated Press

Kentucky was ready to celebrate
Christmas in peace today, but
several other top-ranked teams,
including Illinois and George Wash
ington, can't say the same after
another wave of major upSets on
the college basketball courts.
Coach Adolph Rupp's Kentuck-
ians bolstered their claims to the
No. / ranking last night by easily
defeating LaSalle 63-45 in the final
of the Kentucky Invitational Tour
nament. 1t was the 30th straight
victory, and 128 in row on the
home court at Lexington, for the
Rupp men.
LaSalle Coach Ken Loeffler said
the Wildcats were better than the
unbeaten Kentucky club which won
Is games last season.
San Francisco's surprising DOns
rocked George Washington 1857
in the finals of the All-College
Tourney at Oklahoma City, and
highly touted Illinois of the Big
Ten was blasted 1886 by Loyola
of New Orleans. In the consolation
game at Lexington, Southern Cali
fornia upset Utah 54-52, after the
Utes once led by Is points.
The results were rough on the
top-ranked teams, for the AP poll
this week had Utah No. 2, Illinois
No. 3, LaSalle Nc. 4 and George
Washington No. 8.
This was the second year in a
row that Kentucky has beaten La
Sale in the Lexington tournament
- last year it was by 1850. Last
night Kentucky went ahead at once
to a 2O-5 lead, and there was never
much doubt about the outcome.
Billy Evans got 20 points and Bob
Burrow 18 for Kentucky, while
LaSalle's Tom Cola tabled 20.
Bill Russell, outstanding player
in the Oklahoma City tournament,
again was the San Francisco star
with % points. After a close first
half, the Dons ran up $3.50 lead
and coasted the final 10 minutes.
Basketball takes a breather with
scattered games tonight, then a
rest until after Christmas when a
heavy schedule of tournaments will
run into the new year.
Bradley beat Southern Methodist
s2-73 as Marvey Babetch of the
Braves set a school home scoring
record of 81 points.
Other Big Ten teams also found
it tough Shedding. Brigham Young
upset M ch igan 1880, Btler
downed Northwestern 1852, DePaul
edged Michigan State 1915 and
California took Ohio State $3.50 for
the second night in a row.
St.Louis, beaten Tuesday night
by the University of Washington,
came back to whip the Huskies
1854, and Memphis State upset
Nebraska in another interSectional
fray S6-7s. UCLA walloped New
Mexico 1O6-41.
Evening star., 1954-08-05

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nandale. NO SALES TO DEALERS WE RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES. Produce prices subject
to daily market changes.
Evening star., 1954-05-21
NEW YORK.
BAGDAD-ON-THE-HUDSON

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
You've heard of people figura-
lively falling into a job.
Solly Pernick. business agent
for Local l. IATSE, for the past
IA years and a member Of Dick
Walsh's important union for 38
years. literally fell into showbusi-
ness.
AS a kid, he and his ,chums
were playing baseball at 141st
street and Alexander avenue,
Bronx. Some earlier Ted Will
liams belted a long fly. Pernick,
fielding it. crashed against the
stage door of the Metropolitan
Theater and fell through it.
Dazed, he struggled to his feet
to find a huge carpenter eyeing
him sourly. Foot this piece of
scenery" ordered the carpenter.
I'm in q baseball game" said
Pernick. YEAH" Snarled the
carpenter. Then you'd better
play ball with me, because you've
wrecked that stage door. Put
your foot against the base of that
board. while I lift it up."
The youngster did as in
structed.
But his foot slipped and
plunged through the canvas COW
ering. First the stage door, now
this!" yelled the stage carpen-
ter, making a lunge for him.
Evening star., 1954-05-21
Ed Sullivun's
t!tt!s id NEW YORK

Pernick outSprinted him, lodging
around the stage, calling out
apologies over his shoulder as he
fed.
Out OF that first unhappy
meeting developed a friendship.
The stage crew appointed the kid
to his first theater job. He be-
came "John-no-dollar-a week.
man." running errands, getting
coffee. sometimes footing a piece
of scenery.
Eventually, in 1916, he became
a member of Local 800, the prop
clearer's union, and then trans
ferred in 1918, to Local /.
On q close firSt-name basis
with Broadway producers and
stage stars, the stocky Pernick
might impress you, at first sight,
as a pretty capable welterweight.
The impression wouldn't be far
wrong, as he was a dead game
featherweight. managed by Tom
McArdle, in the Benny Leonard
era at the Fairmount A. C. Leon
ard and Dempsey are his choices
as the greatest fighters he ever
saw.
His greatest thrill in showbusi-
ness?
when I took a leave of
absence, during the war, and
acted as stage manager for
oklahoma in the Pacific tour,
we put on 200 shows, enter
Evening star., 1954-05-21

than normal road war" Chem
ical analysis, spectro-photometry
and radioactivity-d y-detection ap-
paratus were employed in the
tests.
The study showed about one
pock-mark per 5000 to 1000
miles of driving. In general, DR..
Watkins reported. there was a
direct relationship between the
number Of windshield marks
and the car mileage.
Various materials found on
the pocked glass were analyzed
and none of them was radio
active or capable Of causing the
marks.
Rarely were any marks found
Evening star., 1954-05-21
Col. Miiwit to Speuk

Col. Herbert Milwit. command
ing officer of the Engineer Re-
search and Development Labora-
tories at Fort Belvoir. will be
guest speaker at the installation
Of new officers for Corpl. Israel
Kleinman Post No. 676, Jewish
War Veterans, at 7 pm. Sunday
at the Dardanelles Restaurant in
Falls Church.