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8—Stephenville Empire-Tribune
Friday. Dec. 28, 1951
AUSSIES HAVE
EDGE IN PLAY
FOR DAVIS CUP
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•SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 27.
•S-A crushing, straight-set de-
feat at the hands of Australia
■tars Frank Sedgman and Ken
McGregor in double put the Unit-
ed States in a desperate situa-
tion today in the final round of
_Davis Cup tennis play.
Sedgman and McGregor, gen-
erally rated the world’s top dou-
bles team, easily blasted the U.
S. team of Ted Schroeder and
Tony Trabert at White City Sta-
dium today, 6-2, 9-7, 6-3, to give
the Aussies a 2-1 lead in the best
three-out-of-five series.
U. S. Must Sweep Singles
Now the Americans must win
both of the singles matches that
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remain to be played tomorrow if
they are going to take the cup
back with them across the ocean,
In those matches, Scroeder will
oppose Mervyn rose and Vic Seix-
as of the U. S. will play Sedgman.
The experts think the final
score will be 3-2 for Australia,
with Schroeder winning and Seixas
losing to the world’s No. 1 ama-
teur—Sedgman. In the opening
day’s singles play, Schroeder lost
to Sedgman, while Seixas whip-
ped Rose in straight sets.
HALFBACK HURT
HOUSTON, Dec. 27. UPV—Jackie
Golden, University of Houston
left halfback, was in a serious con-
dition at St. Joseph’s Infirmary
today from an injury suffered
in yesterday's scrimmage session.
Hospital attendants said that
Golden was still unconscious to-
day, although his condition ap-
peared somewhat improved over
last night.
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fjeupi Senate!* Pad
. . . many observers believe that because of
the enormous number of people on the govern-
ment pay-roljot will be difficult for another
party to unseat the present administration . . .
with approximately one out of every five per-
sons receiving some compensation or pay from
a federal source, it would seem that a majority
of the voters would feel obligaJefl to those in
power today . . . however, this is not true . . .
not only has the Truman administration weak-
ened our government and produced a national
debt that will have to be paid by generations
to come, but the actions of those in high of-
fices have reflected to the very roots of our
government . . . from the highest to the lowest
federal office, government employes are begin-
ning to feel the reaction to the scandals and
corruption found in the present administration
. . . innocent people are being subjected to severe
criticism and harsh treatment merely because
they are on the government pay-roll . . . even
their children have felt the sting of sarcasm
and false accusation . . . the majority of our
government employes are honest and conscient-
ious . . . they too, will remember the indigna-
tions that have been heaped upon them by the
present officials ...
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 19,51
TODAY’S SPORTS PARADE
By OSCAR FRALEY, United Pres« Sports Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. IW—Look
back over your shoulder today and
you’ll see that sports had many
big moments in 1951—and here
are some of the best and worst.
Biggest upset — When Randy
Turpin dethroned Sugar Ray Rob-
inson as middleweight champion.
Greatest comeback—Jersey Joe
Walcott winning the world heavy-
weight title at 38, or is it 41?
Most thrilling moments—Bobby
Thomson’s pennant-winning home
run and Ben Hogan’s birdie on
the final hole to win the Nation-
al Open after being* five strokes
back of Bobby Locke with 18 holes
to play.
Saddest moment — Joe Louis
flat on the canvas after being
kayoed by young Rocky Marciano.
Funniest moment—When Bill
Veeck’s midget strode to the plate
as leadoff man against Detroit.
Goast of the year—Ralph Bran-
ca, whose two home-run pitches
to Bobby Thomson lost two Na-
tional League playoff games.
Disappointment of the year—
Those Dodgers, who blew a_J3%
game lead to lose the flag they
had virtually wrapped up.
Biggest surprise—The Giants,
as they never gave up and wrote
baseball history with the great-
est comeback in the annals of the
game.
Best Loser—Ted Collins, whose
New York Yank pro grid team
dropped $90,000, but who announc-
ed that he’ll he hack at the same
old stand in 1952.
Blackest incident—The collegi-
ate basketball scandal.
Rookie of the year—Kansas
Charley Burr who, as a 17-year-
old apprentice rider, became the
sevcntlh jockey in racing history to
pilot 300 winners.
Most courageous performance—
By Irish Boh Murphy as he kept
boring in against Joey Maxim even
though the light heavyweight
champion was cutting him to rib-
bons.
Best bet to attain greatness—
Maureen Connolly, who at
Keller, wbat he would do after
being released by Detroit, and
finding out he didn’t even know
he had been fired.
Yep, it was quite a year, and
the little feller marching front
and center will find it rough liv-
ing up to the old gent who is join-
ing history.
BASKETBALL
RESULTS
Br UNITED PRESS
East
St. Francis (N. Y.) 64, Ford-
ham 52. o
Midwest
St. Louis 63, Dartmouth 45.
South
Kentucky 84, U. C. L. A. 53.
Big Seven Tournament
Kansas 76, Colorado 56. (Quar-
ter-final round).
Oklahoma 77, Stanford 71.
(Quarter-final round).
Cotton Bowl Tournament
Texds A. and M. 49, Arkansas
46. (Quarter-final round).
Texas 58, S. M. U. 42. (Quarter,
final round).
Terre Haute, Indiana Tournament
Ottawa 72, Indiana tournament
Ottawa 72, Wabash 70. (Quar-
ter-final round).
Indiana Central 78, Muskingum
72. (Quarter-final round).
FIGHT RESULT
Bj UNITED PRESS
NEW YORK, (IP—(St. Nicho-
las Arena)—Roger Donoghue,
153, Yonkers, N. Y., stopped
Vinnie lV^ndrco, 148Va, New
York. (2).
Light Keeeper Quits
“Little Alcatraz”
EAST PROVIDENCE, R. I., UP
—After 14 years at what he calls
his “Little Alcatras,’’ William J.
Howard, 60, has retired.
Howard has been lighthouse
keeper at Pomham Rocks Light,
not 100 yards from shore in the
TOURNEY PLAY
TO SHOOT THE
WORKS TONIGHT
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (IP—
Christmas week tournament bas-
ketball starts hitting on seven
cylinders tonight with first-round
play ’'‘scheduled in exactly that
many court carnivals.
Two of the tourneys—the Big
Seven at Kansas City and the Cot-
ton Bowl at Dallas played half
of their opening round schedule
last night and continue it tonight.
Ot’.iers Open First Rounds
The others—Dixie Classic at
Raleigh, N. C., All-College at Ok-
lahoma City, the Gator Bowl at
Jacksonvile, Fla., a round-robin at
Pittsburgh, and the Midwest tour-
nament at Terre Haute, Ind.—
•re alated to play their complete
first rounds tonight.
At Kansas City, the Kansas
Jayhawks, ranked as the nation's
third best team, started the Big
Seven tourney in high style by
drubbing Colorado, 76-56, last
night. Clyde Lovellette hooped 23
points and Bob Kenney 21 as the
Jayhawks hit on 59 percent of
their shots.
In the semi-finals tomorrow
night, Kansas will meet the winner
of tonight’s game between Kansas
State, the nation's No. 6 team, and
Nebraska.
Oklahoma Ousts Stanford
In the other Big 8even first-
round game last night, Oklahoma
ousted Stanford, the "guest" team,
77-71. Sherman Norton of the
Sooners set a new tourney record
by sinking 39' points. The score
was tied with 23 seconds to go
when Norton sank his last basket
and two more quick by the Soon-
ers produced the upset.
Oklahoma's semi-final opponent
will be the winner of tonight's
game between Iowa State and
Missouri.
Texas Trounces SMU
In the opening Cotton Bowl
ganv^s last night, Texas trounced
Southern Methodist, 58-42, and the
Texas Aggies shaded Arkansas,
49-46. They will meet in the semi-
finals tomorrow. Texas was led
by Jim Dowies with 17 points and
Ted Price with 16. The Aggies won
by freezing the ball with a three-
point lead and three minutes to
go.
Tonight's Cotton Bowl games
send Vanderbilt, the tournament
favorite, against Baylor, and
Texas Christian against Rice.
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Microscopic Bugs
Appear On TV
NEW YORK, (IP—Thousands of
New Yorkers are watching with
great delight the antics of some
microscopic animals called para-
mecia as they cavort on televi-
sion.
They are magnified 2,000 times
to a length of three inches and
appear on two big video screens
at the RCA exhibition hall.
The bugs, too small to be seen
by the naked eye, perform on
the stage of an instrument called
a television microscope. The de-
vice operates by means of a small
television camera placed over the
microscope eyepiece.
whose firm installed the Servel
“air year” equipment in St. Ladisr
laus, waa inspired to do some
missionary work of his own. Mon-
di has set his goat on having
New Brunswick known as the
"City of Air-C onditioned
Churches.”
Already the St. Ladislaus in-
stallation has Seen followed by a
similar program in the Episcopal
Church of St. John the Evange-
list. More of the city’i churches
are considering the year-round
equipment.
“There's good reason for air
conditioning in churches,” Father
Body said. “Our church is full at
all five masses on Sunday, but
sometimes in the past it has been
uncomfortably cold in the winter
and so warm in the summer as to
cause women to faint.”
BEES ALL WET
LINCON, Neb. (IP—Wet weath-
er this year In Nebraska has been
rough on bees. The weather pre-
vented the bees from working, ac-
cording to the state-federal div-
ision of agricultural statistics,
causing a 19 per cent drop in the
estimated 1951 Nebraska honey
production.
Churches Install
Air Conditioning
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.-
The pastor of a Catholic church
here asked himafilf. one day: “If
the movies can have air condi-
tioning, why can't we ?”
The Rev. John C. Body could
find no objections and, as a re-
sult, 46-year-old St. Ladislaus
Church became the first in the
east to install year-round air con-
ditioning for the benefit of par-,
ishioners.
At that point, Don P. Mondi,
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STEPHENVILLE PRODUCE CO.
16 J<:ast Providence River but almost
equalled Helen Wills Moody’s feat -inaccessible because of river cur-
of winning the national tennis title.
Most tragic event—The West
Point cribbing scandal, which put
a black mark on the record of
nearly 100 fine boys.
Most startling moment—When
young Mickey Mantle dropped to
the outfield turf during the World
Scries as if shot through the head
and lay there motionless as 70,-
000 puzzled fans held their col-
lective breath.
Most changed personality—Leo
(The Silent) Durocher,
Most disgraceful incident—Ok-
lahoma A. & M.'s deliberate slug-
ging of Drake's Johnny Bright.
Saddest farewell—Seeing Joe
DiMaggio call it quits.
Most embarrassing moment—
Asking an old favorite, Charley
rent*.
He says there are three reasons
he’s glad to leave. When the light-
house was established 80 years
ago it had no electricity, running
water or bathtub. It still doesn’t.
ALL YALE MEN
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (W—The
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Leon-
ard Bacon delivered the ole on
Yale’s 250th anniversary party.
The poet’s father, grandfather and
great-grandfather were Eli men
and when Bacon entered Yale in
1905, five of his uncles were or
the faculty.
Tom Thumb (Charles Snerwood
Stratton) was born in 1838 at
Bridgeport, Conn. He died in 1883.
CONGRATULATIONS
We wish to extend our Sincere Congratu-
lations and Best Wishes to our good
friends at the Farmers-First National
Bank as they celebrate the formal open-
ing of their magnificent new banking
quarters.
May your bank continue
to grow in the future as
it has for the past 45
years, through friendly
competent service.
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Today’s Sportrait
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. W—Bluff,
broad-shouldered Howard (JakoF
Cann stands as the "HouBini’,*“b#
the current basketball season as
he sends his unbeaten New York
Untversity team after its 12th
tsraight win tonight against Ari-
zona.
No other team in the nation has
rolled unscathed through so man^
games—and so N. Y. U. is really
the surprise package of the court
campaign. ,
When the season began, Cann’s
Violets were overlooked even by
their neighbors, for interest cen-
tered on the departure of City
College and Long Island U. from
the big-time because of the brib-
ing scandal. When anybody got
around to predicting because of
the coming season, St. John's wax
tabbed as easily the best local
team.
But St. John’s went skidding
down the' ladder when it was
trounced by Kentucky, 81-40.
And Cann’s not-at-all shrinking
Violets kept winning and winning,
so that now they rank seventh in
the nation, according to the United
Press Board of Coaches.
The man who has surprised the
natihn with this team is a six-
foot, four-inch ex-football, basket-
ball, and track star who, even in
his 29th year at N. Y. U. coach,
surprises folks with his frank can-
dor, ,
"Did I think my team would be
this good?” Cann repeated after
a questioner. “Yes, I did. I knew
it would be very good. And it will
be better as we get experience.”
That violates just about every
rule in the crying coaches hand-
book, but it's just routine for the
amiable, cigar-smoking Cann. But
big "Jake” has been making his
own rules pretty much since he
was himself perhaps the greatest
all-around athlete in N. Y',. U.’s
history.
How's this for an undergradu-
ate record? He was captain of
trnth the basketball and football
teams. On the court, he was a
high-scoring forward, his 32 field
goals in the 1920 National A.A.U.
Tournament at Atlanta, Ga., win-
ning him the Atlanta Constitu-
tion’s trophy as the “greatest bas-
ketball player in the world." On
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and fullback and was ranked as
one of the top kickers in the
country. f,
Oh top of all that, he repre-
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1920 Olympics as a shot-putter.
His coaching career has been
equally distinguished—going Into
'tonight’s fray at Madison Squ-
are Garden, his Violet teams have
won 364 and lost 161*—a winning
average of .693.
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