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Race Results Fishing-Boating Chip Shots MmMi. DiilLY INEWi Stanley Woodward Morris McLemore Red Smith Grantland Rice SECTION SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1953 THE AL ROSEN STORY: 15-PART BIOGRAPHY STARTS TODAY SPORTS Handicaps Gaineo eighl Rosen has nearly conquered this asthmatic condition, even as he has overcome nearly every serious problem in baseball. was to do years later in baseball. It wasn't surprising that Hose Levine thought' he was the answer. In the early years of the marriage things went reasonably well.

Their first son was born on Mar. 1, 1925. They named him first ever chosen unanimously. Within another year he could be the most valuable in both major leagues. Rosen admits he wasn't a "natural born" ball player," which is probably why his rise to the peak of his profession surprised manv wro were involved in it.

It Flip Started Early "Funny thing now is that it doesn't bother me during Alber Leonard and family legend has it that he was able to throw probably came as an even greater the season and hasn't this fall in Cleveland. Only attacks:" iUIC When Albert was IS months old his father decided a move I have suffered in recent years always followed my return to Miami for the winter." of psychosomatic medicine, who hold asthma to be the result of an emotional Droblem. may find this interesting. Rosen TodayH the Miami Daily News presents the first chapter of a 15-part biography of Al "Flip" Rosen, who rose from a Miami Softball league to become the major league's first unanimous choice for most valuable player honors. Frank Gibbons, Cleveland Press sports writer who has covered every American League game the Cleveland Indians' third baseman has played, spent many weeks doing research for "The Al Rosen Story." In addition to personal interviews with Rosen, who now resides in Cleveland during the off-season.

Gibbons spent part of November in Miami where, aided by the Miami Daily News sports staff, he collected detailed information about Rosen's boyhood and school days here. A chapter of "The Al Rosen Story," shared exclusively with the Miami Daily News, will appear each day for the next two weeks in the Miami Daily News sports section. to Miami might better the family fortunes, and his mother readily agreed. She hoped it also might improve the health of her child. A surprise to the folks who lived in close proximity to 624 S.

W. 10th Miami about 25 years ago. THEY KNEW AL ROSEN ASA rather frail little boy who suffered from asthma and often filled their nights with piteous sound. isn't inclined to buy this theory, ven though his boyhood in Miami i ij -f contained a variety of problems. NO tamily CVCf VYOS ClOSCr "I DON'T BELIEVE I WAS MUCH more than a year old when Rosen Sr.

was a salesman, although he did not find V. the condition became serious," he reasons. "That's pretty young this occupation as diverting as the violin. "I must have grated on their ears worse than I ever have on any -umpire," Rosen admits today. "I 4 was all right during the day hen my mother turned me loose in the a 1:4.1 1 I for an emotional problem.

Let's face it," Rosen says today. "Things became Several years before, his mother definitely developed an pretty rough, as they always do when there isn't enough I emotional problem. She fell in love with Louis Rosen in Spartan-, money." burg, S. C. The romance between the beautiful daughter of Abra-j About a year after the move to Miami, a second son was born.

ham Levine, a prosperous merchant, and the dashing Rosen name(J hjm and hg waj nealthierand stronger ia in- noi sun weaiuig uiue muie iiittii S- "i CHAPTER 1 By FRANK GIBBONS, Cleveland Press Staff Writer Al Rosen's first baseball manager told him to go home buy a lunch bucket, and forget about making a living in the srame. to marriage. fancy than Albert had been. shorts. at mgnt gave tnero a hard time.

MY MOTHER FREQUENTLY i LOUIS ROSEN WAS A NATIVE OF MACON, GA. Handsome, A few more years rolled past the brick bungalow on Miami's AL KOSEN he also had a talent for the violin and the dance floor. He cut southwest Fide after Jerry entered the Lneup. Then the depression a figure in Spartanburg society almost as important as his son it didn't help matters in any way. Today the 28-year-old slugger of the Indians is the had to carry me piggy back those Most Valuable Player in the American League.

He is the fights. It made breathing easier." M.O. Finishes On defeated, Rosen was still finding out who the tough boys were at Riverside Elementary School when the crisis was reached at home. He came home from school to discover his father didn't live there any more. There was to be a divorce.

"It's one of those things that happens when you're so young you don't know just what you felt," Rosen recalls. "You knew a big thing had happened and things weren't going to be the same." First thought of Rosen's mother following the separation was for the security of her sons. Her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Levine, and younger sister, Sara, rallied to the cause. Now the Rosen household was composed of three women, tw small boys and very little money.

Grandfather Abraham had died and a small legacy had been swallowed up in a number of ways. "My mother went to work as a saleslady in a Miami dress shop," Rosen remembers. "My aunt wotked in an office. We got along." There was always enough for a sack of candy, birthday parties, and occasional picnics on Miami Beach. "I don't any family ever was closer," says Rosen.

"Iff no different today." See ROSEN: Page 2D, Cel. 4 i 'ft it 1 if Associated Press South Bend, Dec. 5 With Notre Dame cheering section screaming "We're No. 1, hey," the Fighting Irish closed out their first unbeaten season in four years today by mercilessly battering Southern Meth odist, 40-14. Harmonizing their attack with nn A -27 I.

spectacular lateral-passing plays, the Irish struck with apparent intent to show a national television audience their disregard of being rated the Njo. 2 team in the country. Undefeated Maryland edged Notre Dame for the mythical national championship in the final Associated Press poll this week. The Irish, with ailing Coach Frank Leahy on the sidelines to direct his team to a final season record of nine victories and one tie (14-14 with Iowa), sprung fullback Neil Worden loose for three touchdowns and All-America Johnny Lattner for two. The Notre Dame faithful, pointing their arms skyward and shouting that their team was No.

1 to them, at least, mobbed the made by Payton. He bucked over on the end of a 43-yard march. I then took a pass from Brackins 3 Late A And Rally Fails, Texans Take Negro Title By STANLEY WOODWARD, Miami Daily News Sports Editor Prairie View A. and M. College of Texas won the National Negro football championship by the skin of its teeth last night in the wildest game ever played in players at the final gun and nearly mowed down the goal Orange Bowl.

At the finish the new champions were 4 posts as they surged to the fields on the ropes, the Rattlers of Florida A. and M. were fighting the clock for victory and the score was 33 to 27. in the end zone. The Rattler surge began with the fourth period.

On the third play. the line moved in and smothered Price for a safety ia the end zone. Following the Texas kick from the 20-yard line, Elvin "Dizzy" Dean of Miami fired a beautiful pass to Ralph Anthony on the 12-yard line. The ball carried 28 yards in the air. Anthony caught it without slackening stride and scored unopposed.

Panthers Get Shakes The Panthers were badly rattled by this time. Payton fumbled the next kickoff and Cal Gladden recovered on the 28.. The Rattlers moved to a touchdown, though they needed an interference penalty on the three to make it. Dean sneaked over. Florida A.

and M. got the ball again soon following a weak exit. With Lattner proving his tremendous value that won him the Heisman and Maxwell Awards Going into the fourth period, the Tallahassee forces were be- for the season, the Irish scored 33 to 7and it seemed like- SPECTACULAR IRISH LATERAL GAINS 72 YARDS blast in the third for a 40-7 lead so much action was jammed. The noise was deafening as the fans screamed approval of the Rattlers' courageous, if abortive, effort. The factual chronical of what happened can't reproduce the thrill of the game, but after all, it is necessary.

First Texas Score than that. But Jake Gaithers boys found themselves at the finish. In 12 minutes of the fourth period, they scored a safety and three touchdowns. The game finally hung on a long pass which John The Irish romped 302 yards through and around the SMU defenses and passed for 178 more game here. WTorden, reaching for the ball, grabbed it and went on for a 12-yard gain.

At right is Ralph Guglielmi (3), Irish quarterback. Others in the picture are Jim Smith (57), SMU guard; Ed Ber-net (89), SMU end; Ray Lemek (72), Irish end; and Art Hunter (80), Irish tackle. TP Wirephoto. South Bend, Dec. 5 Johnny Lattner (14), Notre Dame halfback, was hit by two.SMU men as he reached the line of scrimmage, but the play didn't stop there.

Lattner lateraled to Neil Worden, (4S) Irish fullback, in the first quarter of today's Charles Haywood, Panther end, scored the first touchdown on a Panther punt and traveled 30 yards for a fourth touchdown. SWOR SWIFT REPEAT SCORES in one of their greatest displays of overall gaining this season. They corraled the Mustang sfor 73 rushing yards, but the Texans, losing for the fourth time in the intermittent five-game series, picked up 202 through the air, most of this in the last quarter. Worden Sets Record Worden, by piling up 11 touchdowns for the season boosted his three-year total to 29 for a scoring high in 65 years of Notre Dame football. Both he and Lattner, as well as 13 other seniors, ended their collegiate careers as a hy shoved 35 players into the contest.

The second time the Irish had the ball at the start of the first Payton of Prairie view intercepted out of the arms of a leaping Rattler on the Panther 12-yard line. Grateful for this respite, the war-weary Texans killed the game's remaining minute by running three line plays. Then they straggled to the sidelines and wearily lifted their Billy Micks, to their shoulders. Earlier in the game, it seemed the occasion would be saved for Florida and a record crowd of 41,313 only by the show in which the 132-piece'A. and M.

band ga've its greatest performance. But the hell-for-leather fourth quarter gave athleticism a unanimous decision over art. Never has a Miami crowd seen BETTING, ATTENDANCE ARE OFF AT TROPICAL Unofficial tallies of betting and attendance for the first eight days of the current Tropical Park meeting reveal a decline of 16. 187c in betting and 15To in, attendance when compared to last season's totals. Thus far this season $4,239,309 has been bet by 65,551 speculators.

Last year's totals for the first eight days were $5,057,509 and 77.085. A deficiency of $318,200 in betting and 11,532 in attendance is noted. long pass from Choo-Choo Brack-ins, the first of three scoring tosses thrown by the big Prairie View quarterback. Before the teams changed goals, John Price made it 13-0, scoring on a play following a Rattler fumble. Early in the second period, Brackins passed to Haywood for a third Prairie View touchdown.

At this point, the Rattlers started to move. They got the ball on their 12 by intercepting a pass and went all the way. Willie Galimore scored the touchdown on a nine-yard run off left tackle. The Panthers came back with two in the third period, both Joe Lee scored it, catchieg Dean's pass in the end zone. With three minutes remaining, the Rattlers got possession again on the enemy 37, but one long pass was incomplete and Payton.

intercepted a second, killing the rally. It was the first time in three years the Tallahassee team has failed to win the championship. The band made up for this failure by putting on a show to end all shows before the game and between the halves. The Rattler toot ensemble played everything from Sibelius to bogie and got a tremendous See RATTLERS: Page 4-B, Col. 4 10,134 speculators.

These totals again reflected a downward trend when compared to last year's totals of $820,731 and 11,379. Although the track officially was labeled slow for the entire program, it appeared good for the first four races and cer- Page 5-B, Col. 8 1 See TROPICAL: Page 7-B, Col. 7 See IRISH: 15 minutes of football in which MORRIS McLEMORE By JOE TANENBAUM Miami Daily News Racing Writer Putnam Stable's Swift Sword, running the fastest 5 2 furlongs of the meeting, scored his second straight victory and clinched two-thirds of the Tropical Park two-year-old crown by winning the $7,500 DeSoto Handicap yesterday. The frontrunning son of Blenheim 2nd and Bell Song raced the sprint in 1:04 while outrunning Bill's Captain, owned by Bill Huntley, of Miami, in handy fashion.

Mrs. C. H. Johannsen's Wise Alerted Hep, Trainer Pants 1 1 f- jPop was three lengths behind i Bill's Captain and two and a half lengths ahead of Inchin, representing Mrs. Charles Silvers of Miami Beach.

Ran Front Race Swift Sword, the $3.80 favorite off his impressive tally in the $7,500 Gainesville Handicap last Saturday, now has only the Coral Gables Handicap Dec. 12 separating him from undisputed claim to the Tropical two-year old championship. Sam Boulmetis hustled Swift Sword away from the starting gate and the responsive colt moved to the front immediately. At an early hour this morning, Mr. Ray DeStefano was to have a workout on the racing strip at Hialeah.

From what I can learn of his previous outs, Mr. DeStefano shows early foot but lugs out and usually winds up in the hedge, with palpitations. Incidentally, Mr. De Stefano is not a horse. He is a horse trainer with a horse of such completely good sense that he the horse can see no percentage whatever in running his fittings loose when there's no gold or glory at the finish.

This animal, Alerted, is a five-year-old of handsome countenance and financial means. He does not take to dallying around at first light, or even high noon, unless there's something in it for him. Thus far, his record indicates that Alerted or DeStefano or someone around Frank Stout's Hampton Stables is a pretty shrewd operator, for the total winnings of the horse run to $435,585 and he has the distinction of being one of the few critters Ben Jones misjudged. Stout bought Alerted. from Calumet Farm for $10,000 and Ber's eyes have been watering ever since.

However, DeStefano is becoming wreck. The only way Alerted will work now is for DeStefano to fit him out with a halter and shank a leather strap and personally lead Alerted through his drills. Since DeStefano is as wind-broken as any other fortieish citizen, this exercise rapidly ia wearing the trainer to a nub. Yesterday, DeStefano swore off. He declared for independence, planned this morning's workout for Alerted as he would plan for that of the merest colt in his stable If Alerted won't hit a See McLemore Page 5-B, Col.

6 He held a three-length lead on the stretch turn as Bill's Captain and Wise Pop were the closest pursuers. Swift Sword continued his fast pace to the finish line while being mildly roused by Boulmetis. Bill's Captain bested Wise Pop but could not trim the winner's margin. Inchin closed gamely but his rallv came too late. The DeSoto was worth $6,325 to Swift Sword and boosted his earnings to $27,425.

He has registered four firsts, four seconds and fourth thirds in 19 starts. A total of $707,322 was bet on the nine-race program by -the SAL GAITOR SCORES FIKST TOUCHDOWN FOR FLORIDA A. AND M. IN ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC Rattler Halfback Races Seven Yards To Score- In Second Quarter John Bellinger (2) flakes A Futile Effort To Stop Him.