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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 27. 1953 a cd 5 Sports Memories Charts at Tropical oio" Inquirer Tennis PanchostoPlay rrrifht 1953 Trlaagle PabHeaUaew. tee.

(Moewlag JMejrrafc TmoriCAL PARK. DEC. 26 vtEATHEE. CLEAR. TKACK FAST FUST RACE Six furlonfs; chute: three-rr-oll nd up.

Puiw S2000. Met 11350. S325. 1225. S100.

CUimiM. S3C00- Winner B. (.. 5, by CoUUlremm- Red Smith VIEWS OF SPORT Penn Helped Evidna. Owner Mrs.

L. Luve. Tmner W. O. Hirt.

Jin. Jockey Win Plat Show OWJ SUrter Wt, P.P. St. str. 3 Ch'eh 510 380 jOi? Shallow Brook 120 7 6 r.

Smith 21-10 a 30 Corolla Rose Bowl Rise 3 60 Tj Fortun 107 Rcacmert Chick -115 Traveler 1 1 8 4 35 1 li 4 61 6S 7l 8l 9 In Classic Here 1 By JOHN" DELL Triotraph 115 5 1 3 2l 8' 10' 6-4 4" 7l 9 11 Whirl Awhile 110 1 4 SSi 10 l- 81 9'i 11 4 2 6 5 11 12 10 3 Rod raes Mayer Fisher floor Johnson Rott Stev'son 21 9' 10l 8l FROM the Helms Athletic Foundation in Los Angeles has come an unusual sports calendar for 1954, on which each ae is identified as an anniversary of some sort. It is noted, for example, that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis be Darbj Creek 113 Good Est 118 Se Bob 110 620 38 55 -rt 15.90 I 1.f? 137 80 By JOHN DELL 10' Ripplinc Hero 115 "POWL game days are upon us Fortune Little Bullet 113 Continued from First Sports Page 12 Huiaacei 12 12 12 1 come oaseDau commissioner on Jan. 12, 1921; that April 22 Winning Prince-1 16 ii ia Ktrt wf frnm aate. won orrrlni. Dlac tame.

Scratched: Poeium. Swatch. Rapid Robert. Tim. Roll.

Handle: $45,802, $62,062 No. 2. Linda Farm: 3, J- Gaylord; 4, Holoway 5. W. A.

ViaanfcjjSj w. Stribllng; 7, E. T. Garcia; 8. M.

U. LuU; 9, Gold Star Stable; 10. I- 8- Green, beat Little Pancho, 6-2, 6-3, in the final. Gonzales also will have to play Frank Sedgman, the ace of Au 11. Victory Stable: 12.

M. Meoee. SHALLOW BROOK steadily lmpnwed hit position and under strong pressure i movmri mmh tbivvi vK intn riefpat tA attain a dear XJ again. This is a traditional! state of conditions, as much a part of Mew Year's Day as the Philadelphia Mummers or the morning-ftfter feeling. The growth of the bowl tradition, aided by press and radio and catapulted recently by television, hasn't been painless and it still hasn't reached that Utopian state.

All sports fans are interested in stralia's three most recent Davis on the turn and weakened in the final atafea. KObEMERK CHICK was not foodfuputa I itKnil unnv ffrniinii Ihrmiffhmit. I Li Cup triumphs, and Don Budge, the SECOND RACE 81 furlongs: chute: three-year-olds and up. Purse $2000- Net Jjmlattf S1350. S325.

Z25. 10O- Claiming, sjoog. winner man no one less than the late Big Bill TUden called the "perfect" Iarrate. Trainer J. T-iDarl.

ton Candy. Owner F. Place Show Oddr Starters Wt. P.P. St.

str. Fin. Jockey Win 914 1 "Mayer 4.60 player after he achieved the leat, 3 20 2 79- JO Sand Fly 115 4 9 A 1 it Madden 820 unmatched before or since, of winning all four of the world's big will be the 51st anniversary ol JacK 'Root's victory over Kid McCoy for the newly created light heavyweight championship, and so on. This is a step toward calendar reform, but only a step. When the proper sportswriter's calendar is designed it will deal not with the year that is to come but with the year that is gone and it won't bother with dull details like months or weeks.

It will concern itself only with remembered moments, and, of course, it will be drawn differently for every individual. This 1953 would begin, for one sportswriter, with the moment a 12-pound rainbow trout breaks the wrinkled surface of Laguna Del Maule; a great, cold lake a mile and a half high among volcanic peaks on the Chilean-Argentine border. The beast takes one look, filled with the actual games played annually in some of the Nation's warmer cities. Heavy thinkers on the post 5 30 ivry 1370 86 95 .320 05 1 3 7 2 6 9 8 31 3 31 Mann 41 51 41- 4' Rot 6 5 5 Layton 9 8" 7 6' Stey'son 2' 4'i 6'i 7' Gonzales 5'4 7 8l 8 Cook Watch Union 115 Ann's Sultan 115 Brother March. -105 DoUanofast 115 Gem State 115 SUtier Homo 115 John Alden 115 Jxuta Reward 103 amateur titles (American, British, Australian and French) in a single year.

season spectacles are of two schools: One holds the games are Sao. 8 9 9 9 P. Smith 5 Time- 1-14 9.R. Post? o-fti. off: 9.02.

Start aood from aate. won driving, place Hell have to meet them all, and scandalous commercialization with fame. Scratched: Eagle Eye, Howard Dear, San-Jo. Twintone, Screaming Mimi. possibly Jack King, six-time underpaid (or, excuse it, unpaid) Innisfree.

Handle: $87,427. Owners: No. z. Lua-sel etaoie; 3. L.

Murray: aars. r. Christopher; 5. A. R.

Benton; 8, Mrs. P. Robinson; 7. M. Berk; 8.

Triple Stable; 9, SL Lyon. professional king, since every player meets every other one in athletes toiling through the Christ SAND rux Droae tarany. improved ma posinoa oerween norm rmriy in ow nwij. thM, rirnv thmtfh tha inurift to wear down WATCH UNION. The latter attained mas holidays for the profit of their the tournament.

a commanding lead on the turn, but was unable to resist the winner. ANN'S BULTAM schools and promoters; the other says they are the climax each sea raced evenly. DAILY DOUBLE SHALLOW BROOK AND SAND FLY PAID $1440 FOE $200 Navy Lt. Ken Wiesner, holder of world indoor record, again will compete in. high jump Jan.

22 in 10th annual Inquirer Games. Former Marquette star won event last winter at then-record height of 6 912 ins. He's stationed at Great Lakes. Wiesner After New Mark In Inquirer Track Classic By ART MORROW Lt. Ken Wiesner, The Man Who Came Back, will return to Philadelphia the evening of Friday, Jan.

22, and defy gravity again at Convention Hall in the 10th annual Inquirer Games. It was here that the elongated Navy dentist first inscribed his name in the record books, and now he has demonstrated son of a great American game. THIBD RACE Six furlongs: chute: three-year-olds. Purse $2000- Net values which in turn is, of course, the rep- $325. $225.

$100. Claiming, $3750. Winner Br. 3. by cassia-nrc buccj- uwnex U-esentation of the full flowers of 5.

moss. iTainer r. ti. aaerriii, jr. Place Show Odds str.

Starters Wt. P.P. 6t. 4 50 3 20 Beebeedashea 113 2 11 450 3 30 360 Gin Champ 116 3 40 490T American youth, or something. BUT when they talk about cutting out the games, nobody WON PRO TOURNEY Gonzales figures he's ready to resume swapping shots in such company.

He stayed in shape by playing steadily during his off year. He even won the U. S. pro tournament at Cleveland. There's no end in sight for Gonzales.

He's only 25, at his physical peak. He still has his wide assortment of shots, including a backhand compared to the great one possessed by Budge and the jet Mighty Koan 119 Fenity 110 Turf Bull 115 Coletown Pilot -113 Jockey Win sen 7 60 Church Gcdkins -Catalans Barrett! Stev'son W. Wll's Rod'gues Wilson Peruginl 'Cook Tin. 1 2 3" 4. 5l 6 7" 8" 9' 10 11 2l4 2 V1 1 4 3'i 11 6l 64 7 5' 4 10H 10 9H 8' 3 51 8'4 9l 12 11l 31.

14 5' 12 8 6 9 7" 2M 10 1 11. 12 6 5 10 9 4 11 1 3 8 Birmooda 109 7 85, 8 63 if. r.Cl.10 66 45 15.40 Tt8 Correct 113 takes them too seriously. The bowl games have been going on yearly since 1916, when the directors of the New Year's celebration in a Aquamarine 108 Jack Jay 10Z Big Oee Ray 110 Canaan Pass 105 Rots 12 7" 1Z 7 44 that it can be done, he has de HAL SCHUMACHER loathing, upon a caner irom trie united States, curses horribly, and dives for the weeds. For contrast there would be another fishing scene, two guys In a boat off Key Largo, blinding sun and preposterously blue water, and a bonefish stripping line from the reel in an indescribably swift dash for the coral flats inshore.

This calendar would be mostly pictures: nodding palms and hurrying horse players at Hialeah, and Con McCreary chatting with Ted Atkinson about the news from California, where Eddie Arcaro had won the Santa Anita Derby aboard Correspondent with three horses almost level on the post. "How about that finish at Santa Anita?" says Atkinson. "Three noses." "Yeah," says McCreary, "and you know whose nose is the biggest." Hal Schumacher, the bat salesman who used to pitch for the Giants, watching; a spring training game in Clearwater, between the Phillies and Reds and stiffening to attention from aut Start good tor all but FENITY. Time: 1:11 2-5. Post: 2 33- Off: 2:33 "i small California town decided to make a fixture of a scheme they Inquirer Track won driving, place same.

Scratched: Coonamassett, Gay Spree. Handle: $117,332. Owners No. 2. P.

C. Taylor: 3. Rarco Stable; 4. A. P.

Flock; 5. J. H- Francis: 6. Mra. Stella Let.

like service that was electronically worked 14 years earlier. It is still tl; 7. L. C. Groves: B.

o- Messana; 9, a- o. ueuuan; iu, oucpara, i. r. a. miw.

12, M. L. Stuckler. RrmnrniKHF hroka tardilr. was rushed into contention and.

after sarins; fTCTrna clocked by Franklin. Institute scientists at 112.88 miles an hour. That's the greatest accurately signs on his new world record of 6 feet, 10 inches In the high-jump feature next month. UNFORGETABLE PICTURE The 10,000 who saw him clear 6-93 last January were left with going on, -just as it has through two World Wars, under the name on the turn. remained along the inside to wear down GIN CHAMP.

The latter set the Mail Orders Being Accepted of the Rose Bowl. pace into the stretch and. while arming out, gave way wun i kum ncacn wukku. rally. measured speed of a tennis ball on The Rose is the grandfather of all record.

Net values $1400. by Nirgal-6unueg FOURTH RACE Six furlongs; chute: two-year-olds. Purse $2100. $350. $250.

$100. Claiming, $5500- Winner Dk. b. 2, bowls. The second oldest, the Gonzales attended school, more Time.

Owner S. Rich. Trainer D. Emery. Place Show' Odd East-West Shrine game, didn't Fin.

Jockey 4 Str. Starters Wt. P.P. St an unforgettable picture. LaSalle's Jim Webb and Shanahan's Penn or less irregularly, through the Win 880 4 50 3 30 3 40 Lonely Winter 110 12 2 start until 1925.

The Sugar and Boul's 2' Church 600 10th grade. When he was old Perman 110 Spring King 114 enough to make it legal, he quit. Orange Bowls came along 10 years later, the Sun rose in 1936 and the Gaddy B. 110 440 COO 360 335 429 7800 800 15 20 MAIL orders are now being ac-! cepted for the 10th annual Inquirer Games, sponsored by Philadelphia Inquirer Charities, at Convention Hall on Friday night, Jan." 22. Net proceeds from the meet will be donated to St.

Edmond's Home for Crippled Children. Prices, taxes included: State alumnus Vic Fritts stayed with the Olympic runner-up as high as 6-6, but from there on Pancho then devoted himself to Cotton in 1937. The 'Gator was 2" 1" 12 3 11tt 43 10' 6' 94 3 1'a 5' 4' 4' 5 24 3i 12 8l 1" 2H 7' 6" 8 71 9li 9' 6l 10 10 12 im 11 11 4 8 5 3 1 7 9 10 2 tennis with a singleness of purpose 3 Burr 4 Martin 5' Cook 6b Madden 7 BatchelT Gonzales 9' Nelson 10" Rots 11 'i Knapp first played in 1946. Others, such Valentinou 104 Lil's Joy 112 Candlemas 109 Warm Ace 106 Great Night 109 March Deb 105 Blond Tigress 111 rare a boy so young. Wiesner was on his own.

He asked officials to jump the bar a notch, as the Cigar, Pineapple, Tangerine He won a few junior tourna and Salad, are even younger, a quarter of an inch over the in ments before enlisting in the war 91.35 12 God kins 8J Yock Jim 107 6 The Tournament of Roses at door record established in 1937 by time Navy. In 1947, after he got Start good from gate, won cleverly, piaee Time: 1:14 2-5. Pest: 3:02. Off: 3 03' Pasadena was 11 years old when another Marquette University March Time. Zaggity.

Handle: Own. rfrlvlnr RrratrhMl- Allan Barboursville. Ml Barboursville. $3.00 $2.25 $1.50 out, he borrowed an entry blank r- Nn 9 Seinfeld! 3. Mrs.

Z. Cohen: 4. Venuti: 5. Laughter Stable: 6. R.

football was added to the act. berg; 7, Mrs. P. E. Sims: 8.

Putnam Stable; 9, W. McDade; 10. E. K. Armstrnna 19 fiavnv Rtahle.

Address, The Philadelphia In Fielding H. (Hurry Up) Yost's LONELY WINTER was with the pace witnout being numed. crew ciear wnen roesea for the Southwest Pacific Tournament and got it accepted because of his service record. He reached the finals before being put out by jumper, Ed Burke. "The bar now is set at 6-9 announcer Pinky Sober intoned, straining to cover the excitement he felt.

Tf Wiesner makes it, it quirer Charities, 400 N. Broad Phila. 1, and add 35 cents in early stretch and wen cleverly. PERMAN was forced to delay his bid while behind the leaders, then was unable to menace the winners. SPRING KING, too, was behind horses and in need of racing room in early stretcn.

per order for postage and insur ance. Ted Schroeder. FIFTH RACE Five and one-half furlongs: ohute; four-year-dda and up. Purse $2100- will be a new world's record." A year later ne won the National Net values $1400, $350. Z50.

10O. Claiming. VMJU winner ur. gy 4, voy Starters Wt. Riddleton 115 singles title.

He did it again the next year by blasting Schroeder off the courts. "point-a-minute" Michigan team defeated Stanford, 49-0, before 8000. A $4000 profit was made on the game on seats sold for $.50 and $1, with an additional $1 charged those who wanted to park wagons on the grounds. The next year the Tournament of Roses returned to chariot races and other afternoon diversions after its impressive morning parade. Great Admiral -103 Broad Cross 113 Vare Scion, 13, First Heir 118 Nineteen forty-nine also was the 2 90 2 80 6 40 16 50 3 SO 4.60 1f5 2370 -r 11-70 10 35 1375 1950 6t.

ty Str. Fin. Jockey Win Place 5 6'1 6 3'i 1" Rots 760 4.40 3 13 1' 1 23 6mith 12-10 4 2i 2' Zakoor 14' 61 54 4H Barrow 7 5h 4 41 5 Gonzales 6 7" 7'i 71 61 Williams 2 3 31" 6'i 7' Jchnson 8 8' 14 8 8 Burr 9 9 9lH 9J 9lH Bierman 10 10 10 10 10 Stev'son 6 1 4 8 3 2 5 9 10 Tint Straw 112 Dasb-O-Light 115 War Lover 115 Printers DevU 112 Athletes jogging around the track, coaches bustling to get their men in line, officials headed for the referee's table, even small fry hustling for the hot-dog stands-all were frozen in their tracks. MISSED 1ST TRY In this tableau the clatter of the cross-bar sounded like the roof falling in and the oh's and ah's of disappointment indicated that the spectators regarded it as Kills First Deer Marie-Gilbert 111 Ned's Polly 109 year Gonzales won the U. S.

indoor championship and helped win the Davis Cup. He beat Sedgman, 8-6, 6-4, 9-7, and Billy Sidwell, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, as Australia was defeated, 4-1. BZ75 7 Time: 2-5. Post: 3:32. Off: 8'art good from gate, won driving, place fame.

OUT the chariot races lost their Handle: Owners: No. 2. Triple Stable; 3. G. Zakoor: 4.

M. L. Stucker; 5. E. Siravo; 6, Mrs.

C. Silvers; 7, F. H. Merrill, 8- P- M. Ptucelet; 9.

E. Zantker; Hart man. riddleTON. slow to settle into best ttr.ae. moved boldly wnen straightened iot tne This will be the first time since FORT PIERCE, Dec.

26. luster by 1916 ano somebody remembered the 1902 football game drive and wore down GREAT ADMIRAL. The tatter set the pace without serious opposi Veteran hunters seldom have the then he'll be meeting Sedgman, as a Cincinnati rookie walks to the plate. "Who's he?" Schumacher asks, "Stands up there like a hitter." "Kid catcher out of Strawberry Plains, Hal is told, and he nods and watches the boy smash three home runs and two doubles into a stubborn wind. When the year is gone the kid's name eludes memory but the thrill of discovery remains, the sense of sitting in at the start of what may become a memorable career.

Native Dancer sleeping away the morning of Derby Day in his stall at Churchill Downs while his owner, trainer and. the man who raised him on the farm Alfred Vanderbilt, Bill Winfrey and Ralph" Kercheval pose for a snapshot, laughing. "Do you want a glum one, too, in case we lose?" Vanderbilt asks the photographer "Want a tip oh the Derby?" a small boy asks Winfrey an hour before post time. "Dark Star." He's a young boy, by the calendar and right one, by inches. Bill Veeck in the Tampa Terrace Hotel, surrounded by newspapermen like a defeated fighter in his dressing room.

They're asking about his plans for the St. Louis Browns now that the American League has rejected his application to move to Baltimore, and he hasn't any plans because they've just been clumped into the wastebaskets. And now they're playing for keeps in the big leagues and the whole country chatters of the Milwaukee Braves, who moved when the Browns couldn't. John Partridge's promise before Jamie jthe colt he trains for Jim Norris, ties into Native Dancer, in the Preakness: "He'll measure his horses." Then Jamie K. charges at Native Dancer in the stretch, missing by inches and in the Belmont, Native Dancer charges at Jamie K.

and makes it by inches. The Yankees are flying and then they're floundering and everybody's asking what's the trouble with them. "I don't know," says Marty Marion, manager of the Browns, "but I'd like to have the same troubles." Moonlight on the lake at Saratoga, steaks on the grill outside Con Mccreary's cottage, and truth lying mangled in the sand as laughter wings through the soft night. The World Serles-and Casey Stengel Bobo Olson hanging Randy Turpin up on the ropes to dry Kid GaVilan unexpectedly, incredibly, floored by Carmen Basilio in Syracuse Gavilan savaging Johnny Bratton in Chicago Unforgettable spectacle of J. J.

Walcott sitting out his dance with Rocky Marciano The beaten Roland La Starza jabbering at his conqueror as though Marciano's bludgeoning fists had sprung a leak in his larynx. Football players with names instead of numbers: Johnny Lattner at Notre Dame, Harvard's Dick Clasby, Wisconsin's Alan Ameche, Pete Vann, of West Point. New Managers for old in baseball, old Browns posing as new Orioles in Baltimore The sound and fury of the player pension wrangles Christmas, at long last and brief quiet beside the "fireplace. Copyright, 1953 tion and weakened only slightly in the tlnal sixteenth. BROAD CROSS held a menacing position but lacked the needed late rally.

success enjoyed by a 13-year-old Washington State was matched with Brown. The trip was a glor who took over the world's amateur rule when Gonzales turned pro. SIXTH RACE Six furlongs: chute: two-year-olds: allowance. Purse 12400 Net values equally tragic! Wiesner had missed. But, if possible, the tension was Fort Pierce lad recently on his firs deer hunt.

81550. $475. iZTb. $100. winner c.

oy urana Admiral-Tedious Miss. ious excursion for the Brown play Sedgman has improved tremen- Owner o. cicaiese. iramer 0. i.

emun. even greater as the long, lank 6tr. Fin. Jockey Win Place Show Odds Wt. P.P.

Et. Starters O. L. (Sonny) Peacock, duosly since then, many think Mid-Westerner prepared for his 116 2 3 Trailm aster ers, who as representatives of the East, football's citadel, didn't take the Westerners seriously. So grandson of the late William enougn to oeat uonzaies, winner Old- Baasket 110 Helfast 114 second effort.

And this time approach, take-off and spring proved Vare, U. S. Senator from Pennsyl of Inquirer events in 1950 and 1952 4'H 7 8 5 1 2 5' 6 3l. 4' 7 1 2 3Vi 5 4 6 7 1 Burr 9 70 5 90 4 60 3 85 2" Lester 7 50 5 10 50 3'H James 6 20 9 SO 4' "1 Madden 8 75 5 Church 1.40 6' Cook 385 74 Williams $5 60 Rosemary B. 115 Washington State took Brown, GUN NO CONV1NCER Post Prandial 113 Jimmy Mann 113 perfect and so did the landing on 14-0.

vania, leveled the sights of a rifle on a bounding six-point buck deer and brought him down with a single shot at a distance of 360 Two-Gun-John -109 feriarvwiiie 117 That, of course, must be proven The next year the Tournament's the canvas matting beyond the standards. 8 6" 8 Lasswell 25-60 8 at the Palestra on Jan. 5-6-7. Some operators pulled a master stroke by When the sprawling Wiesner think the only sure way to stop getting Penn to go West. The Quakers had won seven, lost two yards on his father's ranch in St.

Lucie county. looked up, an unspoken prayer on Gonzales is to shoot him. But even Time: VIZ Z-5- rest: on: ui- otan gooa irom gate, won easily, place driving. Scratched: War Tune. Handle: 132.368.

Owners: No. 2. S. Messana: 3. Jaclyn SUljiei 4.

W. L. Huntley: 5. Mrs. L.

Lazare: 6. Mra. L. Wolf; 7. H.

G. Jones; 8. Cedar Farm. TRAILM ASTER rapidly established a clear lead and waa not threatened while wfti ning with speed in reserve. OLD.

BAASKET moved through along the inside attain prominence but failed to menace the winner. HELFAST dropped lar out of contention immediately alter the start and raced well when settled Into stride. Lhis lips, the cross-bar was not even that's been tried without success. And all this happened before the and tied one. Coach Bob Fblwell had four Ail-Americans end UU1VC11X1K.

In 1951, as Gonzales and two It was the second indoor criterion lens of a television camera. The TV cameraman' happened to be companions were leaving a cafe, Henry Miller, fullback J. Howard SEVENTH RACE Six furlongs: chute; three-year-olds and up. Puree $7500 added. Jlet values (Gross $8550) S5825.

$1500. $750, $375. Winner B. (. by Hypnotist to be shattered in the course of they were confronted by a revol Berry, guard Charley Henning and tackle Lou Little.

They were 5-3 the evening. The amazing Hani Jockey Win Place Show Odds Starters ver-wielding gentleman, less than Niels 10-20 440 350 4.10 Hyphasis along on the trip, taking film for a Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) station which is running a series of such movies. Wt. P.P. Et.

i-, Str. Fin. 120 1 5 31 1hd 1 1 115 7 1 2'-i 3 3' 2 110 6 3 4 4" 5 3' a month out of San Quentin. Des Boultis 5 50 3 90 415 favorites over Oregon, coached by i Sagittarius son Dillard already had taken the 50-yard high hurdles to six sec cnurcn 4 TTncrn ueiiuno pite authority-backing requests, Wall Jimminy Baxter -110 2 6 S'i 4- 4" acritj TT Tl 1 T. 1 In addition to the TV camera Algasir 119 4 4 6 5 Madden Gonzales ji ulf cuiieu ins piayeis uvcr-1 Over- onds flat.

Announcement from the Great Lakes Naval Station yesterday that Wiesner will defend 1 50 40 15 ti pa En neur rjo a i i o- man, Charles Ralston, other wit Heart Flash 110 5 2 1 ZM Zxh 7 Jesscp Time- 1:19 Prst: 4:30. Off: 4:31. Etart good from gate, won easily, place driving. nesses included the boyjs father grown nigh school boys and Hid them from view. In contrast, Fol-well welcomed everybody to Perm's Inquirer laurels Jan.

22 meant Gonzales refused to comply. The gunman pressed the trigger of his weapon twice. It failed to fire. Which proved what tennis players knew all along. You can't blast through Gonzales defense that both record-smashers will be ana rancn foremen Kiroy Morgan and Harry Kelly.

The entire incident was captured on film to con here again. Handle: $142,566. Owners: No. 2, Winding Way Farm: 3. C.

T. Chenery; 4. Woodvale Farm; 5, H. A. Kimball: 6.

J. H. Nail. 7. Mrs.

D. L. MacLachlan. HYPHASIS displayed good speed from the outlet, wrested command after a half mile and drew clear to win with speed to spare. SAGITTARIUS was a factor from the start, loomed a definite threat nearing the stretch but was no match for the winner.

BELLUNO easily outfinished the others. EIGHTH RACE Six furlongs: chute: three-yew-olds and up. Purse $2300. Net values $1500. $425, $275.

$100- Claiming. $-5C0. Winner B. 6. by Lochlnvar- They are among a contingent of vince any doubters.

drills, even Bezdek. Bert Bell, then the Red and Blue quarterback, remembers Bezdek's visit: "Bezdek asked Folwell if he five U. S. Olympic stars thus far 'and watch out for his return fire! The buck weighed about 125 pounds and dressed down to 90 Battle omoae. Owner xv.

w. ruiqiicr. it auirr n. r. otonrDriase.

enrolled for the banked-board carnival. The others, of course, are the Rev. Bob Richards, the world's Str. Fin. Jockey Win Place Show Odds Wt.

P.P. St. Starters pounds. would show him our reverse-pass 3 70 2 70-1 95 -112 1 3 Peacock has been teaching his 450 112 4 6 It's No Use Tamale 1 Mann 5.90 2 Lasswell 3' Boul'tis 4 Martin S'-M Zakoor 6 Wall son to handle guns since he was 7 ranking pole valuter; Lindy Remi-gino, the 100-meter champion, and 111 5 7 107 6 2 2" 1 14 6 3h 3 7 5'4 4' 1k' 2' 2" 4-i 7 5 8 8 8 3h4 41 fi 280 5.35 260 1 40 11,90 23 75 Espedeco years old, but this was the first Rosen Tops AL Sluggers; Doby Clips Strikeout Mark Browning Ross, the Penn AC's ex- play. Folwell told me to run It.

Reluctantly I complied. Imagine what we thought, and said, when Oregon scored its first touchdown on our own play." Yardmaster 113 2 4 Perfect Power 110 7 8 Mighty Quest 106 3 5 7 Smith time he had been taken on a deer hunt. He shot the animal just be Villanovan who competes in the 18-95 1235 511 Broke down Mayer Brave Spirit -108 8 1 Heliowise Wins Coast Inaugural ARCADIA, Dec. 26 (UP) Lawson Robertson Memorial Two Time: 1:12 3-5. Post: 4:59.

Off: Start good from gate, won easily, place driving. fore it bounded into the brush. Mile Run. Handle- S124 SS0. Owners: No.

2. Hampton stable; 3. D. O. Arnsteln; 4, H.

Lar kin; 5, Funk- 6 Linda Farm; 7. Winding Way Farm: 8. M. J. Kaplan.

PUFF saved ground while racing ESPEDECO into defeat, drew clear entering -the stretch and won easily. ITS NO USE was unable to get within striking distance of the r)ENN threatened throughout the The weapon used was a Winchester Model 93, a rather rare Dillard's hurdles record stood up J7 first half. Then Oregon droves NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP) smashing of a 39-year-old strike through the winter's assault, but ond in the slugging derby with winner while rallying, mmni-r. mma.

Wiesner was not content to let mat out mark by Larry Doby, Cleve .559. Yogi Berra, Yankees, was NINTH RACE About one and one-quarter m'les: Coray Way course: chute; four-year-ald model, which the boy had taken care of for his father for some years. So delighted was Peacock ters rest in the high jump. The Heliowise, a field horse and land, and an additional batting and up. rurse jiuu- cie iiu ao-ev, aiuu.

viaimmg, ajuuu- Winner Blk. 7, by Kings Daisy. Owner Ft. L. Costellc.

Trainer 1944-45-46 National Collegiate AA third at .523 followed by Ray Boone, who played with Cleveland with his son feat that he pre H. Jacobson. titlist used the mark he set here P.P. St. Starters Wt.

lightweight of 16 entries, today honor for teammate Al Rosen scored a nose victory in the highlighted the American League's 200 Palos Verdes Handicap, open- final statistical release for 1953 Place 8hew't6! 550 4 20 -180 sented him with the rifle on the 4 2 3 Bl 4c Blue-111 as a springboard to greater heights. and Detroit, .519, and Vernon, 518 1s 30 46 25 Stan's Helen-110 spot. ,90 1145 He enjoyed the most successful today. i S'r. Fin.

Jocker Win 3'Vi 21 2M 1" Perug'i 960 1 1 I'i 2- Schmidl 51 3 3 3zVx Smith 7 64 4 Ryan 8 7" 5' 5 Mayer 4 5 64 6 Johnson 2 4 7 7l Boaftls 1 6' 8 8 8 Martin Rob Crusoe 111 Excise Tax 116 Wee Raider -108 1 5 7 8 3 4 campaign of his career. Although 7 8 6" 2S WILLIAMS SLUGS .901 Ted Williams, Boston, who ap W. Chester Players These official averages show that Doby fanned 121 times, breaking Lee Baby 1 15 345 6.35 180 51 OO Boomer no peared in only 37 games, slugged 6 Thos. Edw'd-108 the old mark by one. It was 6et Star in Soccer Victory Start good from gate, won driving, place Time: 2 07 3-5.

Post: 5 27- OS: 5.27H a torrid SOI. by Gus Williams, St. Louis Browns, ing day's feature of the 50-day Santa Anita winter meeting. Claimed less than two months ago for $10,000, Heliowise ran like a stakes horse today under a good ride by Jockey Pete Moreno as he 1 fought it out in the stretch with Cyclotron and outgamed that renowned campaigner as well as such cmt.kMi. wnaarf-n i n.rj.

no. s. juft: aa. iyu SARASOTA, Dec. 26 (AP).

4. E. Towell; 5. Arrow SWble: 6. S.

S. Ross: 7. L. Schlosse; 8, Beauridge Stable-. in 1914.

Doby and Mickey Mantle, Slugging averages are computed by dividing the total bases on all New York Yankees, tied for this PLACK. AflU ailOVU r. diiiuc, mtttu (I 1U WI111B UK WIR into contention and was up In the final stride over STAN 8 HELEN. The Utter set the pace under rating and Just missed. ROB CRUSOE moved well from the outside to ithe stretch and lacked further rally.

70 yards for a touchdown. Shy Huntingdon threw 15 yards on Penn's reverse-play for the TD. In the fourth quarter, Oregon's Johnny Parsons went 42 yards on a twisting run to Penn's one before being nailed by Berry. Huntingdon scored around end and later stopped Penn's last threat with an interception that ended a 79-yard Quaker march. Penn's only Rose Bowl trip ended in a 14-0 defeat, but the Quakers helped put the game on a sound footing.

The 1916 revival had lost $11,000 and the 1917 game would have been the last if Penn easily the biggest "name" school to appear in the Bowl up to that time hadn't lured a profitable crowd. All of the 25.000 seats in Tournament Park, forerunner of the present 100.000-seat stadium, were taken. The Rose Bowl was made and so was a New Year's tradition. An all-star team made up of star players from Eastern colleges today defeated the Uni dubious honor in 1952 at 111 strike hits by the times at bat. outs.

tied by Drake's Olympian Arnold Betton in the Massachusetts K. of C. meet, by Texas' Olympic champion Walter (Buddy) Davis in The Washington Star Games and by Florida's J. Lewis (Poppa) Hall in the Millrose Games, Wiesner had to settle for second place only once in 10 major appearances. He has competed 30 times since he hit the comeback trail, and in a highly specialized event not usually associated with consistency he has not placed lower than TOTAL HANDLE: $1,074,721 ATTENDANCE: 14,803 Eddie Yost, who led in bases on versity of Florida soccer club, 3-1.

famed turf stars as Mark-Ye-Well, balls in 1952, walked off again Mike Roman, West Chester (Pa.) with that honor this time with Teachers, got the all-stars off to an early lead with a goal to the 123. Minnie Minoso, Chicago White Sox, was hit most often by pitched CLIMAXES BANNER YEAR Rosen, the league's most valuable player, compiled the highest slugging average, .613. The third baseman had 367 total bases in 599 times at bat. His extra-base output included 27 doubles, five first quarter. Hill Gail and Indian Hemp, among others.

The veteran Phil D. was third, while the three-year-old Imbros was fourth in the six-furlong race. RETURN'S $38.50 Despite being coupled with two balls, 17 times, and grounded into Tony Puglisi, also West Chester Fair Grounds Results IgT SI 500. elmg. 3 vrs.

up 6 f. Teddy Toy (Keener $32.40 $10 20 $8 40 Tordar fBaileyl 20 3 00 f-Fourteen Grand (Vandenborre) 4.00 Time 1:13 3-5. Dq-Tinaja finished second but was disqualified and placed last. f-Field. Scratched: Btrolling Moon.

Speedy. Hilka, Senator C. Vlnmar, Mibelaire. the most double plays, 23. Teachers, scored the second all The Yankees drew the most stars' goal in the third and still fourth rarely that far back.

Hell be thinking in terms of vic another West Chester player, triples and 43 home runs. walks, 656, and drove in the most runs, 762, while Cleveland fanned Santa Anita Park Results 1ST $4000. cimg. 3 yrs- up. 8 f.

Tiger lay (Blum) $26.40 $9.30 $5 90 Too Turrett (Shoemaker) 3.80 -3 OO Sky Rings (TreJosJ 17.50 Time 1:10 3-5. Scratched: Blase Face. Reminder. 61Uer Junon. Pancho Supreme.

2D $5000. up. Shsdy Boots I Moreno. 40 $26 00 50 Take Regards (Balaskil 14.40 $00 Hatchet Man (Westrope) 7p Time 1:23 1-5. Scratched Platitude, Scotch Port, HI Chief.

Olympic Star. 3D $5000. opt. 3-y -o. up.

4 Robert W. (Blum) $10.40 $6 20 $4 40 Ritrv (Glisson) 8 60 6 40 Hadlyme (Summers) 8 10 Time 1:09 4-5. Scratched Ktnc i Moll. Sir Abbey. Torn De Oro.

Joe Benjamin. TH $5000opfl cimg, 3 4s up. I'i m. tory at Convention Hall the Henry McQuiston. put on the By winning the slugging title, rime.

8 f. the most times, 683. evening of Friday, Jan. 22. finishing touches with a third goal.

Rosen climaxed a banner year. He ffcourt Trad (Gorman) 6 80 $3.40 $3 20 also led In home runs, total bases and runs batted in (145). He fin ished one point behind Washing ton's Mickey Vernon, the league's 50th Banquet. Jan. 25 Sporfs Writers to Honor AH-Phila.

Baseball Team other horses, Heliowise, carrying 107 pounds, returned $38.50, 12.40 and 6.80; Cyclotron $7.30 and 4.90, and Phil D. $7.20 to show. The race was run in the blazing fast time of 1.09-25 as the track turned out unusually fast for the opening day with several cheap horses running in under 1.10 for the distance. Heliowise earned $14,950. A crowd of 62.000, third largest opening day at Santa Anita, saw leading batter.

Gus Zernial, Athletics, was sec Empilchada (8hoemaker $8.20 $3 70 $2 $0 Cyclone Long den 3.30 2.70 3 30 nsioiio (Peterson) Time: 2:29 3-5 Glflon IBalleyi jou J.iu Burnt Lips iWickel) 8 60 Time 1:14 1-5. Scratched: Patty Lou. Mike Battle Boat, Dandy Risk, Lou Adams, Owaissee. DAILY DOUBLE PAID 16I.M. 3D $1800.

mds. 6 f. f-Arabian Queen (Mill! $31.80 $11.40 $11.60 Babble Brook Armstrong 23.60 12 60 1-Noblese Oblige (Vandenborre) 11.60 Tune f-Field. Scratched: Cafe An Lait. Marilu Dorsett.

Tweety Twom, Beloyal. Carl's Abbe. Carolina Moon. 4TH $1700. 3 up.

Tankee Midas (Armstrong $8.80 $4 80 $3.20 Moseid (Hansman) 3.80 2 BO Dark Pigeon (Headley) 3.20 Time: 1:14. Ko scratches. stu kiooo. 2-v -o 8 f. (new track record i.

Scratched: Billetudo, Mr. Fli.ta Ttl British Soccer (Home Turn Listed Ftnt) DAVID JAMES BANCROFT, company. Rated the greatest cen born April 20, 1892, at Sfoux City, covered short for the Phillies' FIRST DIVISION ter fielder of all time, he played so close to second that almost Mm Tills 1 Watverhamptan 2 BY ART MORROW Now let the arguments begin: Who are the greatest living ball players who wore Philadelphia uniforms within the past 50 years? The Philadelphia Sports Writers, 1915 NL champions, stayed here Arsenal 2 Charlton 1 the favored entry of Mark-e-Well and Hill Gail finish seventh and eleventh, respectively. Custom Made. Larregene.

5TH $10,000. allow 6 -a-TTavertine (Blum) $70.10 $18 40 $6 20 Determine (Longden) $.20 2 50 Mr. Mustard (Harmatz) 2 90 Time 1 :09 2-5. a-Dormar Stable eatry. Wo scratches.

TH $7500. Opt. op. My Chief (Longden) $6.60 $4 50 $3.30 Mcbv Dick (York I 17.70 9 50 Readpark (Shoemaker) 371) Time 1 :09 3-5. Scratched 6klppy Tdubo.

Jet Set. Informer. 7TH $20,000. 4c ap. Palo "Verdes until 1920 and later managed the Cardiff nothing ever dropped in front of him for a hit, and he was fast enought to get back in time to had a big league career average of .320.

ROBERT MOSES GROVE, born March 6. 1900, at Lonaconing, was Cochrane 's great battery mate. Owning an unbelievable fast ball, he once spoiled an experiment with a new patented type of glass, shattering the pane. Lefty is the last Sunderland I Blackpool 2 Boltaa 3 Iheliea 2 Huddcnfirld Liverpool Maarhestcr City 2 Newcastle 1 West Bromwirh Sheffield tailed 1 Talman (Baldwin) $3.80 $2 80 $2 40 SHOEMAKER WINS 477TII spear the long ones. Middlesbrough 3 Bright Penny (Keene 4.40 3 OO Mifs Joliet (Clinch) 3.40 Tottenham 1 The program also marked the; rrrst.

2 Barn Icy Time: 1:13. Scratched: Skitty Bay. CTH elm fena (i 9 1.: Sheffield Wednesday Manchester I sited 1 Boston Braves. A switch-hitter who threw right, Bancroft's nickname reflected his ability in the field "Beauty." JOHN FRANKLIN BAKER, born March 13, 1886, at Trappe, hit homers to win two games for the A's in the 1911 World Series. planning their golden anniversary banquet for the Broadwood Hotel Monday, Jan.

25, have designated 10 eight former Athletics, two f-Heliowlse (Moreno) inaugural of Santa Anita mile and three-auarter erass course. Victoria Cross (TJssery) $18 40 $7 40 $4 20 Philadelphia pitcher to win 30 SECOND DIVISION $38.50 $12 40 $6 811 7.30 491 7.20 Scratched Aegean. Cyclothron (Risley I Phil IVolzke) Time 1:08 2-5. "Spoke" managed Cleveland to the 1920 world" championship and is now a prominent citizen of that city. His lifetime average .344.

TYRUS RAYMOND COBB, born Dec. 18, 188G, at Narrows. had Burv 1 games in a season, taking 31 in Hardhack (Bailey) 3.oo Almenow (Keenei 3 20 Time 1:12 3-5. No scratches. Blarkbura f-Field.

Lincoln 1931, is the last major leaguer to erstwhile Phils and the debate is 8TH $6000. 3-y -o. or) I Notts Forest 2 I 7TH $5000. 3 up. 1 1-18 win 300 games in a career.

west Ham i bound to be great. The first race over grass, a S5000, claimer, was captured by Haii 3 a seven-year-old gray mare from South America, Empilchada. by three Cyclone was second pirmomh and Pistollo third in the mile 1 Futuresque (Ussery) ss.oo eo m.to Pioe of Peace (Heekmann) S.20 5. BO He led the AL four times in homers Birmingham 1 Free Soul (Shoemaker) $8.00 $4 SO $3 10 Galgo (Phtlllppi) 9 60a 6 70 Tex (York) As 20 Time: 1:36 2-3. Scratched: Bull Rampant, Peranne, Whang Bang.

Sun JAMES EMORY FOXX, born Hiram. Jr. (Baldwin) e.o a lifetime average of .367, highest in history. The game's greatest once with a total of eight! In the era of the dead ball he Brentford Falbam 2 Leicester 1 btafces 2 They nominated Mickey Cochrane as their catcher. Lefty Grove as pitcher, Jimmy Foxx at first, Larry Laiorie at second, Davey Oct.

22 1907, at Sudlersville. Md began his major league career with the A's in "25 and finished with the Phils in '45. In three World Series he hit .344, walloped four homers THIRD DIVISION SOUTH Walsall JfTJonrrnft of. nhnrt. TTnma 'Rnlrpr had a lifetime average of .308 and was proficient afield.

In 1915, after most of the other Mack stars had been sold or traded. Baker refused Newport Time: 1:46 3-3. no acratcnea. 8TH $5800. 1 1-16 m.r Culture (Keene) $18.20 $6.00 $4 00 Began (Adams) 4.20 3 80 Hi Suranne (O'Neill 7.20 Time: 1:49 1-5.

Scratched: Taunting. TH $1700 3-y -o. up. 1 1-18 By Gone "Days (Keene) $16.20 $7.60 Cherry Prince (Ussery) 8-60 5.6 From Afar (Jenkins) 4.20 Time 1:48 3-5. Scratched Flicker Light.

Pictorie. Tripping, La Breeze, Sweet Sigcid, Phae later. Aldenhot 3 Today's Sports SCHOOL BAMXETBALL West Catholic at Reading Central Alumni at 6t. John's. ICE FOLLIES At the Arena, 45ta and Market aU 2:30 and 8:30 P.

rm6 FOOTBALL i Cleveland Browns-Detroit Lions Championship Playoff at Detroit (on TV). a half race. The time was 2.29 3-5. The mutuel handle for the eight races was a whopping $2,453,858. Famed jockey Willie Shoemaker, Tiding his first race over a grass course, was up on the winner.

He again was up on Free Soul, which won the eighth, giving him a total of 478 winners for the year ia his at mird ana ai bimmons, ins Speaker, Ty Cobb and Chuck Klein, outfielders. Let's look 'em over: to report, went to the Yankees in miff player closed his career with the A's, hitting .357 in 1927 and .323 in 1928, his 24th AL season. Fiercely competitive, he was incensed one day when C. Mack mentioned the possibility of using a pinch-hitter. "A pinch hitter for me?" he flared.

"Give me that bat," He doubled to right. nngniea a Bristol City 3 lifter 1 Ipswich 4 Levtan Orient 2 Millwall 3 Narwica 2 Qureaa rrk Bangers Shrewsbury 1 Soathanptoe 2 Soaibead 3 Isre.aay 2 uiu. Caventry 1 Kerthamptoa Gillinrhaaa I Crystal Palae I Clcli enter Swindoa BerBTBemeuta I Watfard ALOYSITJS HARRY SIMMONS. GORDON STANLEY COCH and drove in 11 runs. Now living in St.

Petersburg,) Fla, he slammed 20 or more homers for 12 consecutive years for a total of 534, the highest ever amassed by a righthand swinger. Hit 58 homers in 1932. NAPOLEON LAJOIE, born Sept. born May 22, 1903, at Milwaukee, had a batting stance so wide and Beading 2 RANE, born April 6, 1903, at Bridgewater, came here THIRD DIVISION wnBTn all-time record breaking season A 19-year-old apprentice from n.rmie. 2 t25 CHARLES HERBERT KLEIN, after Connie Mack had purchased the whole Portland (Pacific Coast League) club to make sure of his Rarhdale f.mi it Brooklyn.

Walter Blum, captured 4 5. 1875, at Woonsocket, R. and now living in retirement in Florida, open that he was said to have "his foot in the bucket." Jibes by veterans sent him to Mr. Mack in "24, his first year here, with a question about changing his style. "Never mind what they say, AL" acquisition.

born Oct. 7, 1905, at Indianapolis, came to the Phils from Fort Wayne 1928 and was an immediate and flamboyant success. He led the NL; was a leading figure in the famous Pennsylvania Supreme Court Deci Chester Port Vale Chesterfield 4 Starkaart Crewe 0 Mansfield Darttnttaa 3 Srantharp. Hartlepool! 2 TraBmere 2 Griabr VYreihara I Barraw SCOTTISH LEACIU DIVISION A Aaerdeea Stirling Irdo 1 4itie Falkirk 4 Alrdria Ramilten 8L Mirrra Hearts fartlrk tnree 01 tne iirst live races, lnciua-ing a $70.10 winner in the fifth race, Travertime. Blum is under contract to trainer Hirsch Jacobs and was the leading apprentice of the New York season.

Oregon State Wins sion of 1902. He had quit the Phils to go with the A's; the Court issued an injunction which prevented him i He was worth it. He joined the A's in 1925, and they were in that pennant race. "How it is we're going so hot this year, Mr. Mack, when we didn't do nearly so well last year?" Simmons asked Baseball's Oldest Inhabitant.

"There's the difference," Mr. Mack replied, nodding toward Cochrane. Cochrane remained here through 1933. guided Detroit to pennants in 1934-35, served as coach and Uneent at the Seeth 5 East Fife four times in homers, twice in RBIs. He served as Phils' coach from 1942 through '45.

Chuck lived for years in north-' east Philadelphia as a popular fig-'; ure but ailing health forced him to return to his native city So there it is Philadelphia's All-Star baseball team of the past 50 years, all but three in the! Mr. Mack said. "I'm satisfied. Simmons, who played with the White Sox, Tigers, Senators, Reds and Red Sox before winding up his playing career with the A's in '44, had a lifetime major league average of 334. TRISTRAM E.

SPEAKER, born April 4, 1883, at Hubbard City, Tex, COLUMBUS, O- Dec. 26 (AP). R.nh i The famous DE LUXE Supports for reducible rupture are demonstrated and expertly fitted at the W. S. Rice Fitting and Service Offices, 1218 Chestnut St.

Building, Suite 801. Priced $10.00 up emd sold on 30-day wearing trial with Binding Money Back Guarantee. Office hours 9:00 to 5:00 daily. Ask for Mr. Wilkins of our men's department.

Phone PE 5-5899." Stop in for your fret demonstration and private trial fitting. IluHrfe center Oregon State's towering frpm playing for any team in Pennsylvania save the Phils, and for many years, even as manager of the Cleveland club (called the he had to by-pass Phila delphia. wade (Swede) naiorooic scorea 4 Dbtua 24 points tonight to lead Oregon 2 State to a 62-60 basketball victory p4e. raited i steaha.se.atr Dunfermline St. oh as tana Over ObiO State before 8702 tO- Farf ar Third Lanark Vtaa 5 Cowdenbeath XUBni.

Park 1 Kilmaraeck Old-timers insist he was the played only one season with the game's Hall of Fame. The mana-' rrer nf rnnrcp ic Pinnio Ifarfr 1 general manager here in '50. He most graceful of infield ers. A's 1928 but belongs in all-star bW, "A WV. WU..

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