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ui dec its, los.t pace 29 1 Dukes1 Green vs. Ft. Delvoir's Groat? rees: Ag Both Are Great Paul G. Sullivan by Aussie's Captain Says Vic Seixas Sugar Bowl Contest To Feature Fullbacks Is This Basketball? Better Than Trabert Only OPINION ONE MAN'S Si Clutch Goal Wins Thrilling 72-70 Contest By GEORGE KISEDA The 4,160 jurors at the Pitt Field House last night and the thousands who saw it all on television didn't have to be polled for a verdict on the case of Duquesne' Si Green vs. Ft.

Belvoir's Dick Groat. Quotes allegedly from Harry Hopman, non-playing captain of the Australian team that will attempt to retain the Davis Cup in the Challenge Round at Melbourne two weeks hence, indicate the opinion that Vic Seixas, rather than Tony Trabert, rates No. 1 billing on the United States squad, heavy favorite to Hair-Raiser! -mr 1 ffr )j hi" i come through the impending Inter-Zone Final with Belgium, Hopman, of courts, has a right to hit opinion, just at Americans have a right to theirs as to Hopman'i taste in making a statement on matter that obviously is none of his business- a statement, indeed, construable as tending to engender discord between Uncle Sam's two head-liners. Especially at a time when they have traveled thousands of miles Down Under with the very legitimate hope of retrieving the Cup for the nation whence it originated more than a half-century ago. TONY TKABERT A K.

it .3 TO- v. Af JK7 UBM WIS ii Allman and Turner Voted Best In Conferences MORGANTO WN, W. Dec. 16. Fullbacks rated at probably the most valuable players on their respective squads, Tommy Allman, of West Virginia, and Glen Turner, of Georgia Tech, will clash in the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, Jan.

1. Oddly, the two finest players on either team will oppose each other at the same position. The fight at center brings together a pair of allamerica centers. Tech's Larry Morris and West Virginia's Bob Orders, who, incidentally, yesterday was named the State's Amateur Athlete of the Year by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. Both fullbacks Allman and Turner won the awards as best blocker in the Southern and Southeastern conferences, respectively.

Allman is considered by his coach, Art Lewis, "The greatest blocking fullback I nave even seen, either in professional or college ball." Against Pitt, for example, AUman's blocking enabled West Virginia halfbacks to gain nearly 200 yards on the piichout play alone. GREAT RUSHER The six-foot, 200-pound Charleston senior also led his team in rushing gained, 478 yards In nine games, the greatest total accumulated by a Mountaineer baok since Harry (Flash) Clarke in 1937. Whats more, Allman is a ler-rific linebacker, a position he played exclusively during the last half of the 1952 season. Turner, voted the best blocking 'backtleld man as well as the best faker in the Southeastern circuit, was third in ground-gaining for the rambling wreck with 342 yards in 11 games. He, like Allman, also made his all-conference team.

The individual battles expect ed between fullbacks Allman and Turner and centers Morris and Orders should highlight the New Year's contest, which will be seen bv 83,000 fans and un counted millions more on Television (ABC). DRILLS ON FUNDAMENTALS The West Virginia squad continues to drill only on fundamentals and signals this week, although Lewis and his aides have been exacting in these departments, Any scrimmaging to be done will take place next week at Blloxi, where the Mountaineers will train beginning on Monday. They will be quartered at the swank Buena Vista Hotel, overlooking the Gulf, and stage practice sessions at the Biloxi High School field. Lewis yesterday announced that practices would be held twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 3 p.

m. from Monday through Thursday, with sessions at 9:30 a. m. thereafter until the team moves into New Orleans on Dee. 31.

West Names Pro Bowl Team LOS ANGELES. Dec. 16. (INS.) Seven members of the division champion Detroit Lions and a like number from the runner up San Francisco 49ers were named today to the West team for the fourth annual Pro Bowl football game at Memorial Coliseum Jan. 17.

The West will be coached by Detroit headman Buddy Parker and will oppose Paul Brown and his Eastern All-Stars In the annual charity contest. Lions named are tackle Lou Creekmur; guards Dick Stanfel and Les Bingaman, and backs Bobby Layne, Doak Walker, Jack Christiansen and Yale Larry, The 49ers selected are end Gordy Soltau; Tackle Leo No-mellini; guard Art Michalik; center Bill Johnson, and backs Y. A. Tittle, Hugh McElhenny and Joe Perry. With Norm Van Brocklln, of the Rams, and Layne and Tittle, the Western Stars have three ace quarterbacks to throw against Paul Brown's Otto Graham.

Suu-Ttlf graph rbulo by Cbatto Bruwtk bines a ballet step and juggling at the Field House last night. Dick Groat, erstwhile Pirate, who plays for Fort Bel-voir, watches his mate. Dukes found foe surprising, but won by 72-70 score. WHA Have gym-nasties and vaudeville entered the basketball picture? It would appear so as Dukes' Dick Ricketts does a push-up and Fort Belvoir's Don Solinsky com- Covies' Have Blair The Interesting, new quasi-official net magazine, "World Tennis," otters an intriguing collection of expert sentiments on International racquet rankings, most -of which disagree with the conclusions of Hopman. For example, Edward C.

Potter, who rounded up the data and wrote the accompanying commentary, places Trabert at the head of the world list, with Australia's Ken Rosewall second, Seixas third, the cosmopolitan Jaroslav Drobny fourth, and 18-year-old Aussie ace Lewis Hoad fifth. Muffoy Sirinss Along Wth Potter Stringing along with Putter in planting Trabert at the top are Gardnar Mulloy, co-editor of "World Tennis," United States Davis Cup team captain Billy Talbert; Cup squad member Hamilton Richardson, Chicago star Grant Golden, and Lance Tingay, critic on the staff of the London Daily Telegraph. Hal Borrows, the Virginia luminary, picks Seixas over Trabert, while Noel Brown, an eminent authority for many years, Koowali, Seixas, and -Trabert in that order. It is significant that Brown hases his choice on the victories of Rosewall in the Australian and French championships and the triumph of Seixas at Wimbledon. Hopman, too, is inclined to fluil off Trabert because Tony isn't listed among the captors of tho chief foreign titles.

All Trabert did was bag the American crown, seemingly a minor achievement, although the field included Seixas, Rosewall, Hoad, pretty nearly everyone else worth mentioning. But for present, practical purposes the heavy logic in slating Trabert at A lies In his decisive dominance In most' recent competition, After all. It is nearly a year since the Australian championships and about six months since the French event and Wimbledon. In other words, Trabert's successes definitely are on (he up hel, Aniacs Take Their Sport Seriously Hopman's gratuitous advice to the United States may be overlooked, perhaps, if one considers charitably the hysterical condition into which Davis Cup play projects the Australian citizenry as the fateful dates of contention approach. The continental commonwealth has two consuming devotions in sport tennis and horse-racing and, where the Davis Cup is directly involved, the greater of these is tennis.

It is by no accident that Australia, with only a fraction of the population of other countries high in the racquet realm, is consistently at or near the apex and has been in that rarefied, altitudinous area for fully 40 years with an unceasing flow of talent. Consider, for example, Norman Brookes, Anthony Wild log, Gerald Patterson, O. Anderson, fat O'Hara Wood, Hawkes, Vivian McGrath, Jack Crawford, Adrian CJulsl, Bromwieh, Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor, and now Rosewall, Hoad, and Mervyn Rose, It may be ventured that there are as many persons playing tennis seriously in Australia as there are in the United States. And it must be admitted that, on the score of high-powered junior development, the advantage is strictly with the Aussics. Instructed in 'Down Under' Schools As kids go for baseball, football, and basketball In this country, in Australia they tie into tennis.

Courts are standard equipment at community centers, schools, and even churches and every organization has its program of instruction and competition at the various grades from novice to topilighter. There have been limes, especially in the recent past, when the zeal of the Australian public and press for the home cause has extended to American Cup-seekers something less than the irial in Southern Hemisphere hospitality. However, it appears unlikely that any untoward contretemps of the past will be repeated In the '53 challenge meeting. Assuming that they hack their way past Belgium this week-end, Trabert and Seixas, mentored by the urbane and generally popular Talbert, should set up no diplomatic shock-waves likely to menace the solidarity of the Southwest Pacific mutual security group, At least Trabert is an easy-going operative. Seixas, more tautly strung, is still a veteran campaigner who should manage to shake off a fair batch of hooting and cat-calling with the stakes what they are.

In fact, under (he goad of raucously unfriendly galleries, Tony and Vic may be Just tough enough to demonstrate paradoxically that, when the mixture is right, It's possible for a couple of usually temperate young men lo produce their best under the stimulus of boos. Anybody who was there, either in Derson or via the cathode ray, would have to agree: Green and Groat are both fabulous, that is, if there is anything fabulous about a game that can be played by kids as well as grownups. Anyway, unbeaten Duquesne won, 72-70, in a TV drama that neither Montgomery Presents nor Studio One is likely to equal for action, emotion and suspense, Green and Groat played the leads. SOME EXHIBITION! Green won the game in the last ten seconds with a clutch jump shot that was part of a plan decided on by Coach Dudey Moore when the Dukes took a time-out with the score tied and 1:40 to play. Groat confirmed his All-America billing with a display of shotmaking and give-and-take dribbling that was a source of entertainment to the crowd, a source of distraction to the Dukes.

It was only an exhibition game, but it seems almost indecent to brand it as such, It was lied 16 times the first at 4-4, the last at 70-70 and there were 20 exchanges of the lead. It, was a good one for the Dukes to win because they were not up to their usual standard and still managed to get by. In addition, they had come from behind (as much as seven points) late in the game, a new experience for them. Their shooting was subpar, they threw tho bull away and had it taken away too many times and they frequently got the ball off the backboards and ihen had it swiped from 1heir grasp by the smaller opponents. PRACTICE TODAY All of which prompted Moore to order a good workout for today even though the Dukes' game at home with Texas tomorrow is their fifth in seven nights.

Where did Moore rate Groat on bis all-time list? He replied: "He's as good a shot as I've ever seen. I never saw any-j body who could get his shot I r.ff iUi lift drives, stops and jumps-it's a physical impossiDimy ior one man to stop him." Even with Green guarding him most of the game, Groat finished with 25 points, high for the night. He hit on eight of 27 shots, most of them jump shots from outside. Johnny O'Brien, of the twin O'Briens, looked good in the pivot and had 12 points, the same as rebounding ace Don Byrd, for the losers, IEZZI COM EH THROI GH Dick Ricket's had 16 for Duquesne, Jim Tucker and Lou Iezzi 13 each and Green 14. It was Iezzi who kept the Dukes alive in the third quarter, but it was Green wlw saved everything.

The Dukes had the ball with 100 seconds to go and the score was tied when Green called time. It was decided to hold the ball for one last shot, which either would win the game or send it into overtime. A signal system was Set up. Green was to drive into the middle in the hope of getting a foul if he didn't get his shot. He got his shot! While Ft.

Belvoir lay back, Duquesne held the ball near mid-court. With about 15 seconds to go, Green looked over his shoulder to the bench. He was given the go-ahead, so he drove to the comer of the foul line, stopped short when his defender sagged and threw an overhead jump shot that went cleanly through the basket. Duquesne's freshmen defeated iho Pittsburgh Pirates, 02-52, in the preliminary. College Floor Card GAMES TONIGHT Pllt At Geneva, BurhneJl at Juniata.

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Jail Lgu Altuuna. outibtm at WaaU-Jcff. Pitt in First Hmd Game With Geneva Geneva, the best of the Beaver Falls tonight in the top ketball schedule. Pitt, playing its first game away from home, has a chance to square its season record. The Panthers have won one and lost two.

Both of the defeats, however, were inflicted by teams which still are unbeaten Michigan and DukM i.ret-n.f HscicetU.f Tiicattr.e Win frrtri.t If? ii aiiuu.l O. f. Ft. BrliMf 0. 4 6 14: Croal I 6 4 16: 1 3 Hi Byrne 4 2 i rnn-ily 1 15 fr.iinuy 4 31 1 1 4 1 3 4 0 A 4 13 1 1 1 Brten.r 4 0 Raiim OBrlen 0 3 Total! 2S 31 Tota 14 31 7 S.ur by oaartfn: DL'KKS 17 3J 1J 73 ft.

BoitOir 18 21 31 12 TO Mined fr thrui: Dnkea (7) Green. TiKaer, 4. Johriaun. Beivfiir IS' Clroal, 3. Bjrd 3.

Brian 1, u-aliaw, P-raonat foutr Doitea (201 Tucker i Creen 4, Rirketu 3, Wuwrrad 4, nut, Juiuiaon, fallon a. Fort Belvoir (32 -S-llnky 6, (iruat 4. Did-lle, Dunnelll 4 J. OBrien Lar.riaw S. Hehm i.

oiiitiala btvmt Manao and San Hecltea. Tough Bears Next Foe For Hornets By PAl'L G. SCIXIVAX Pittsburgh's Hornets, thumped 7-2, at Cleveland last night, are en route to Hershey, where' this evening they hope to forget it ail and tame Murray Henderson's usually obstreperous Bears. In copping their fifth straight victory, their eighth in nine starts, and their fourth in five tests with the Hornets, the Clevelanders advanced to within two standing points of first place Buffalo. Buckeye defenseman Tommy Williams looped a weird, lofty twister that somehow found a spot in the Yellow Jacket cage for the first goal of the game.

Larry Cahan was in the cooler at the time. In the second frame, with Cahan again In the cooler, Cal Stearns registered Cleveland's second at 6:09 and, 48 seconds later, with the Horents back at full strength, Jackie Cordon tallied. ruvmxD 7 0 Pram ii. ReJ iHerd, t-i'- O.irdm, Sturm. S'one.

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Mtcdatald, Ballour, fcald.urtn. Bsrt) llcLelian. Kelerje Bin Ciiauwick. Uneuneii Bdbtij Carat and VreA Tliurlar, SCORINO First period 1 Cleveland Wllllaim tunautstrdi 8:311. Pm.iln.' Rfitli.v n.

ne Steauii ilwldmsi 0:35, Lumaden (IBlir- leiicei 4 56, Calian i interference I 3i, Sloddard I Interference I 12: 50. Shero llisr' (triiiflmi Second Period 2 Cleveland, stetnu, (He; tit. Willuuiii 6 US 3 Oordon lOboi). Clover! 6 57. 4 Pituburah Haaiard iBaltoun 9 01.

5 Cleveland, tjiovex I Gordon, Kralt-cheiki 13:15 Js -Cleveland, Stoddard (Roal, Karrjll Penalties stearin ihonklne" 1 04. Cahan itripplnil 4 28, Calian and Stoddard roughing i 10:57 Tiled Period 7 Cleveland: Stoddard IRoaa, Karrysi. 1S 34. 8 Pituburin. lewlckl (MatDontid.

Barbel. 16 54. CUselaud: Gordon i Olson, Sneroi, 17:10. Penalties Olover Itripplni. 3 35: Balle? 3 33: Sonmor islasnwif, tketa Itrlpplnf i.

IS 01. (,041.11 STOPa Francis II I Maver 13 17 II mfl 10 GAMES TONIGHT AMLKICAN Lilt. It, Providence at BuIIalo. PITTSBURGH at Hershej. Cleveland at Syracuse.

fiATIONAf, 1.EAGIE Boston at Neve York. INTERNATIONAL UAGl Milwaukee at Cincinnati. STANDING OF THE CLUBS AMLRICAN Act Ii T. Pts. CP.

GA. 4 38 111 75 34 108 93 3 30 104 f0 BuIIalo Cleveland HTshey PITTSBURGH Providence 111 9 17 It 14 11 38 81 Be, 1 1 1 33 78 114 Syracuae 10 1 31 (4 119 NAI10VU LCAUIE W. L. T. Pts.

CP, CA. 11 3 40 80 67 Montreal Detroit Toronto Bafn Hw York Clilcano Itt 7 it a a 13 10 5 7 lit 8 5 33 5 38 88 3 tl 43 39 63 71 30 60 88 IS 60 101 RESISTS LAST NIGHT AMt.Ull A.M ll tlill Cleveland 7 iMTTSBlTtGH 1 INTERNATIONAL LaiAOt Grand Kapioa tt L.uiivi!l 3 5 Milwaukee 3 Jolumown 8 Marlon 3 Born Turns Ankle LAWRENCE, Dec. 16. lAP.) B. H.

Born, big Kansas University basketball center, turned an ankle in practice and may not be available for tonight's eale Tulsa. it noor SIVINTY PHCINT CIAIN NEUMAl SMITI Duquesne. Geneva, loser only to Du quesne, has won five games, four in a row. Moreover, the Covies have the district's lead- ing scorer in sophomore Hill Blair, who has a six game total of 160 points, Quantico Five Loaded Incidentally, tonight's game is the last for Pitt's Dick Dei-trick a while. He leaves Saturday to play in the Blue-Gray football game in Montgomery, Ala.

Only other district games tonight are Otterbein at Wash-Jeff and St. Francis vs. Quantico Marines at the Jaffa Mosque, Altoona. Quantico, which -von at home Charles 2-1 Over Wallace By ST. AMANT SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

16, (INS.) Former champion Ezzard Charles part-time actor Coley Wallace risk their futures as heavyweight title contenders tonight in a televised bout at the civic auditorium. The winner will be in line for a i early shot at Rocky Mar-ciano's crown. The loser will slip down the listing of contenders. The 32-year-old Charles has lost his last two fights to Nino Baldes and Harold Johnson. A third straight loss could end his career.

Nevertheless, Charles Is rated a 2-1 favorite. Wallace, who played the part of Joe Louis in the movie, "The Joe Louis Story," gets his first crack at the top ranks of the heavyweight division. He has to win to get close to a bout with Mareiano, the man he once beat when both were amateurs. Fight Results MIAMI BEACH Willi Pep, 129, Hartford. outpuinU4 Tony Longo, 130.

10. CUICAfiO Bob SittfrlWd, U4. Clllci0, knocked out Ray Ausuatui, 176, Topckl, 8. LOS ANCEI.E.1 Cisco Andrad. 13S.

lot AriHeirs, outluiuted Booby Wuudl, 1343, Siioaaue, 10. JACKSONVILLE Charier (Doc I Will-lartiA, HH, Jacksonville, aloyucd Lou Bruwu, ISA New York, 3. TOLEDO Pedro Oomales. 164, i.ulooUiUd Kiitl Solomon, 164, Ctll-ca-u. 10.

SAM ANTONIO Billy l.audrdl. 147. Miaria, At JerKeiu. 147, bail Autunlu, 1 0. PHOENIX Jimmy U7, outlined Tuny Masciareill, 161, New Xoik, BUTTE Bobby BkkW, 1.17.

Ti.rifk. and Knntlago 137 Va. Lo Angelci, drew, 10. SACRAMENTO Art Aranori. 147, Anneieii.

knocked out Ail 147, Oakland, 10, area's minors, is host to Pitt at game on a light college bas-! fact, it has only one junior Ed. Pavlik. a Junior who didn't play enough last season to win a letter, is Pitt's leading scorer wnn poinis in mree games. Here neia Mouse Kecora Pitt's Steel Bowl tournament last week set Field House attendance records for college games but didn't come close to the largest crowd ever put in the Field for the WPIAL Class A championship game between Farrell and Washington high schools in 1952 Duquesne publicity man Jim Snyder takes over the front page of the Weekly Basketball Record for Dec. 13 with a story on the Dukes.

ftganlV CoACfl iWantd WUCIWII NEW YORK, Dec. 16. (INS.) Jim Lee Howell, former statH senator in Arkansas and a standout end in the National Football League for eight years, has signed a two-year contract as head coach of the New York Giants. Howell, 39. succeeds Steve Owen who resigned last week after coaching the Giants for 23 years.

Owen moves to a job in the front office. The six-foot-four Howell played under Owen from 1937 through and in 19-16 and '47. Ho has been an assistant coach with the team since 1918. over St. Francis earlier in the).

ii Vi season, has one of the country's rfQWCll NdrHCu ton service mams. The Marines i are loaded with ex-collegians and pros, including Paul Arizin, Kichie Regan, Tom Holt, Jim Mooney and John Silk. Ifeor'i Best Preliminary The Gardens has its best prelim of the season tomorrow night the Pitt Frosh vs. the Duquesne Frosh. Starting time is 7:30 Jesse Arnelle, as usual, is Penn State's leading scorer.

He has 41 points in two games The Nittany Lions a''e on the road this week. They play American U. at Washing-Ion Friday and North Carolina State at Raleigh, N. Saturday. Edinboro doesn't have a senior on its basketball roster.

In Harfack Rides Four Winners CHARLES TOWN', W. Dec. Hartaek rode four winners at Charles Town race track for third time in a week yesterday, giving the nation's second leading jockey 345 for the year. The 22-year-old saddle artist Is from Johnstown, Pa. Harness Racing Revolt Denied COLUMBUS, O.

Dec. 1G. (INS,) Operators of more than half the 15 large pari-mutual harness racing tracks In five states have denied they are trying to break away from the U.S. Trotting Association. The reported move to break away was believed fostered by New York tracks, which have been Involved in labor racketeering and extortion troubles.

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