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Football in Review
Walcott Finally Hits the Jackpot
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It was a different Jersey Joe Walcott the night he fought
heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles for a third time. Here
Walcott forces Charles to cringe in their title bout in Pitts-
burg. Walcott won the crown with a seventh round knockout.
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WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS
AUSTRALIA WINS DAVIS CUP DOUBLES—The power-
ful stroking duo of Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor (upper
court), sent their team into a 2-1 lead in the Davis Cup com-
petition at Sydney, Australia, with a 6-2, 9-7, 6-3 doubles vic-
tory over Ted Schroeder and Tony Trabert of the United States.
McGregor is shown making a desperate but futile lunge for the
ball off Trabert’s racket (right foreground), in one of the typ-
ical rallies in the big match. Sedgman at top baseline, Schroe-
er center foreground. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Australia)
The wildest, most unpredictable football season of them all will
struggle to a belated conclusion Tuesday afternoon when most of the
major bowl struggles will be unreeled. Of course there will be the
pro bowl and senior bowl later in the month, but the public’s in-
terest in the current season will fade after the New Years Day af-
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Dutch Meyer Not
To Exchange Films
With Kentucky
FORT WORTH, Dec. 28 (A) —
One reason Coach Dutch Meyer
of Texas Christian declined to ex-
change films with Coach Bear
Bryant c.f Kentucky was defense.
ring when Gavilan was awarded
a split decision over Billy Gra-
B
ing America’s Davis cup team
today.
With issue still in balance in
the fifth and deciding match of
the challenge round, the young
Aussie ace sliced Vic Seixas into
ribbons, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, to retain
the coveted cup for his country,
three matches to two.
far with 22 points.
Little Johnny Ethridge was the
difference in Texas Christian’s
victory over the fast moving Owls.
Rice couldn’t handle the 5-foot-
8 speeder who weaved in and
out of the tall Owls for lay-up
after lay-up and wound up with
19 points.
Vanderbilt had the height and
got enough shots to have trounc-
18, was that it was arranged as
a charity spectacle. It drew 28,-
272 fans who paid $245,004. The
Dapper Dan club of Pittsburgh
received 10 per cent.
In signing for the bout, Wal-
cott had agreed, in the event he
won, to defend within 90 days
against Charles. But when Jersey
Joe thought it over and recalled
all the poverty he had faced in
his 21 years of professional fight-
DALLAS, Dec. 28 (A)— Texas
Christian meets Vanderbilt and
Texas clashes with Texas A&M
tonight in semi-finals of the
Southwest conference basketball
tournament—and TCU and Tex-
as are light favorites to push
through to the final game.
The Christians hit on 41.3 per
cent of their shots last night to
COWBOY STUFF — Momentum carried Stanford forward
Bill Stevenson onto the back of Oklahoma’s Sterling Jones in
the first quarter of the Big Seven preseason tournament game
in Kansas City. It was anybody’s ball at this stage of the game
but Stevenson got the free ride. Oklahoma won 77-71.
(AP Wirephoto)
while Vanderbilt had
Australian Retains
Davis Cup by Great Play
SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 28
(AP)— In one of the most magni-
ficent exhibitions of tennis ever
seen in any country, Frank Sedg-
man completed his job of crush-
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Turpin, a British Negro, came to
America.
In line with the sport’s sur-
prises, an unheralded New York
Negro, James Carter, gave Ike
Williams a solid thumping to
take the lightweight title. It was
Williams’ first title defense in 17
months.
The surprise to end surprises,
however, was Walcott’s victory
over Charles. Walcott, in his fifth
try for the title, was accorded
little chance, being a 6 to 1 un-
derdog in the betting. He had
been beaten by Joe Louis on a
questionable decision and then
knocked out by the Bomber. And
i he had lost to Charles in Chi-
cago in 1949 and again to Ezzard
earlier this year in Detroit.
But in Pittsburgh the old man
of the ring came to life. With a
terrific left hook to the jaw he
put Charles down for the count
in 55 seconds of the seventh
round. In the emotional reaction
to his amazing success, Walcott
nearly fainted.
Ironic part of the bout, held
outdoors in Forbes field on July
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Braves Have Youth
Movement Under Way
BOSTON, Dec. 28 (A) — After
encountering a “sit tight” front
office order against the trading of
veterans, manager Tommy Hol-
mes had a youth movement
underway today to bolster his
1952 Boston Braves.
Holmes, about to start his first
full term as tribal pilot, named
off 10 prize products of the club’s
farm system for immediate de-
velopment after president Lou
Perini reported rival clubs’ re-
jections of player deals described
as “over generous” on his part.
“We have some of the most
promising youngsters in baseball
and I am going to concentrate on
10 of them to strengthen our
weak spots,” Holmes explained.
Holmes has ordered such rook-
ies as George Crowe, Ed
Mathews, Jack Cusick, ‘ Harry .
Hanebrink, Pete Whisenant, Bill
Klaus, Jack Dittmer, Billy Reed,
Bill Burton and Jim Solt to re-
port at the Bradenton, Fla.,
training camp on Feb. 21, along
with the club’s pitching and
catching candidates.
until the stretch in licking lowly
Baylor 60-53. Vandy was badly
off at the basket, cashing in on
only 25 of 74 shots for an aver-
age of 33.8.
8CU has the height and the
speed but Vandy is a fine floor
team.
Texas and A&M won their
first round games Wednesday
night, the Longhorns strapping
Southern Methodist 58-42 while
A&M was beating Arkansas 49-
46. The main obstacle for Texas
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
AP Newsfeatures
FORT WORTH, Tex. — Few
suspected it would happen but
Texas Christian is going to play
Kentucky in the Cotton Bowl.
The Horned Frogs, No. 1 foot-
ball team in the Southwest, are
made up of a bunch of opportun-
ists who play best when the go-
ing gets rough.
The Frogs won six games in a
ten-game schedule but three lick-
ings were outside the conference.
They gave Baylor its only de-
feat. Baylor has the best season
record but TCU has the champ-
ionship.
Only one TCU player is among
the individual leaders for the
season and he ranks third. Ray
McKnown, the defensive back
who was enrolled for offense
when injuries took out the regu-
lars, doesn’t look like a football
player but he gets results. Mc-
Kown completed 61 passes out
of 120 for 860 yards — but 14 of
his throws brought touchdowns.
McKown gained only 388 yards
rushing, but scored six touch-
downs.
McKown lacks grace as a punt-
er — you think he’s going to fall
each time he boots the ball —
but he averaged 38.2 yards on 39
kicks.
Rangy Ray was third among
the passers and also third in
total offense with 1,248 yards on
242 plays. That meant he aver-
aged 5.2 yards each time he
handled the ball.
McKown’s passing targets are
Bob Blair and Teddy Vaught,
who ranked sixth and eighth re-
spectively in the conference in
pass-receiving. Marshall Robin-
son. the little safety man, ranked
sixth in punt returns, running
back 18 for 245 yards.
The Christians have a tough
line. Herb Zimmerman, a raging
guard, leads the defense.
Leader of the secondary de-
fense is Keith Flowers, also
quite a kick-off, extra-point and
field goal specialist.
The fullback is a tough cus-
tomer named Bobby Jack Floyd,
who scored seven touchdowns. He
was the busiest fullback in the
league, carrying 134 times for 444
yards.
The Meyer Spread, a formation
devised by Coach Dutch Meyer,
moved devastatingly for touch-
downs and huge chunks of yard-
age. This spread has the ends 15
yards out with a halfback on each
side between the end and tackle
and the fullback on one side of
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is big Walt Davis, the high-
jumping center of the Aggies
who did just about everything
to Arkansas. He is the leading
scorer of the tournament thus
By FRANK ECK
AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor
NEW YORK — Boxing cham-
pionships in 1951 changed hands
faster than a plugged nickel at
a carnival. There were three dif-
ferent rulers in both the middle-
weight and welterweight divi-
sions.
Ezzard Charles, considered the
classiest of the current heavy-
weights, lost his crown when he
put it on the line once too often
against that creaking veteran,
Jersey Joe Walcott, who admits
to 37 years.
Ray Robinson, the fightingest
champion of all, was forced to
give up his welterweight crown
because of the weight problem
and because he ended Jake La
Motta’s reign as middleweight
king. Then Robinson lost the 165-
pound crown to Randy Turpin in
London but regained it when
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Russia and U. S.
Move Nearer to
Olympics Matches
By TED SMITS
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (A) —
Russia and the United States
moved closer today to their first
major encounter in sports, but
whether it would occur in the
winter Olympic games in Oslo or
not until the summer games at
Helsinki was open to doubt.
Many world records have been
claimed in Moscow but few ath-
letes from behind the Iron Cur-
tain have competed in the free
world.
Russia has never competed in
the Olympics, but it took another
step in that direction when the
Soviet Olympics committee de-
cided in Moscow to inform Fin-
land that a “preliminary agree-
ment” had been reached to parti-
cipate at Helsinki July 19-Aug. 3.
The Norwegians are generally
convinced the Russians will show
up for the games at Oslo Feb. 14-
25. The United States is sending
a team of 79 competitors to Oslo,
and the usual full Olympic team
to Helsinki, probably about 450.
Except for weight-lifting (in
which the U. S. won the honors)
and minor competition, Russia
and America have never met
head-on in athletics. Neither is
rated with the Scandinavians in
winter sports, but the United
States has always dominated the
summer games. Russia is strong
in many branches of summer
' sports, such as women’s track and
field, sprints and distance run-
ning, wrestling, weight-lifting,
boxing, and possibly swimming.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 28 (P)— Coach
Paul Bryant of Kentucky worried
today over the illness of seven of
his players as the Wildcats held
final practice here before going
to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl.
The seven, three of them prob-
able starters in the game with
Texas Christian Jan. 1, were
stricken with a virus infection.
Bryant said that although the
illness was not serious, the boys
couldn’t practice and if they are
able to play won’t be up to par.
Among those who are ill are
Pete Kirk and Jim Proffitt, ends,
and Harold Gruner, halfback,
who have been starting players.
Others on the sick list are John
Griggs, center; Calvin Smith,
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If the post season games follow the trend current during
the regular season, one choice would be as logical as another
with the favorites due for a rough afternoon. Ase we have
nothing to lose as a prognosticator at this late stage, we hesi-
tantly hazzard the following guesses:
TEXAS CHRISTIAN OVER KENTUCKY in the Cotton Bowl.
Though neither team will enter the game with an imposing record,
this could well be the most spine-tingling game of the day if fair
weather prevails giving the Wildcat’s Babe Parilli and the TCU hull-
ing corps an opportunity to tess the pigskin in the manner favored
by both teams. Anyway you figure it the game looks close, but we
like the Frogs by a touchdown.
BAYLOR OVER GEORGIA TECH in Miami s Orange Bowl.
The engineers will probably rate as a solid favorite on the basis
of their well-balanced attack and great season’s record, but Larry
Isbell made a believer of us a long time ago. This too should be a
fine game with our nod going to the SWC Bears because of the pre-
sence of the aforementioned Isbell, one of the nation s greatest quar-
terbAFSNFORD TO EDGE ILLINOIS in the Rose Bowl classic. The
Palo Alto Indians haven’t smelled the Pasadena Roses since the days
of Clark Shaughnessy and are ready and eager to. end the unbroken
winning streak of the Big Ten entry in the oldest of the
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surmounted obstacles all season to reach their present pinnacle
TENESSEE OVER MARYLAND in the Sugar Bowl. Ca86Y
Bob Neyland and his crew are veterans of the bowl wars and the
current band c.f Volunteers is one of the best evertoemerge from
the Knoxville hills. The brash young Maryland Terrapins are
rugged and full of fight, but they haven t played a team this year of
the caliber of the Vols. .
Other selections: The West to defeat the East in the hrine
classic at San Francisco Saturday, the South to roll over the
North in the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery, Ala., Saurday,
Texas Tech to edge College of the Pacific in El Paso’s Sun Bowl,
Houston over Dayton in the Salad Bowl and Clemson over
Miami in the Gator Bowl.
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ball in there. Vandy came from
behind to hold a 45-40 lead vo-
ing into the fourth period and
at one time was 10 points ahead.
Al Weiss and Jack Heldman each
laid in 15 points to pace Vandy’s
last quarter scoring splurge.
Vanderbilt and Texas Chris-
tian have lost only one game
each this season. Vandy has a
7-1 record and TCU 8-1.
Texas has 6-3 and A&M 2-5.
Play in the consolation or los-
er’s bracket starts this afternoon
with Southern Methodist meet-
ing Arkansas and Baylor tack-
ling Rice.
The tournament is going to be
a financial success. Already
there have been 5,677 paid ad-
missions and tonight’s crowd is
expected to be the largest yet.
Only about 2,000 more are need-
ed for the tournament to pay for
itself.
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Bowl foe to know how he man-
aged to stop the T formation so
well that he won the Southwest
conference championship.
“We were scouted, to be sure,”
said Meyer, “but you can’t really
pick out the details of a team’s
defense unless you see it in a
picture.”
Texas Christian had a tough
defense for Baylor—the game
that really won TCU the title.
The Bears were held to 245
yards and had five passes inter-
cepted. Then came Rice, another
T team which was fighting for
the title. TCU had to turn the
Owls back to win it. The Frogs
gave Rice just 212 yards and in-
tercepted three passes.
Kentucky has higher powered
offense than Texas Christian,
averaging 357.1 yards per game
in 11 outings compared to 291.4
for TCU in 10. Kentucky also
has a better defensive record,
giving up 205.8 compared to 287.6
for the Frogs.
But in the games where the
chips were really on the line, the
Frogs had the defense.
Another reason Meyer wouldn’t
exchange films was because he
has an offense different from anv
other in college football. It all
runs from a spread formation.
The TCU coach didn’t want Ken-
tucky to have the inside on that
either.
Mever looks for “lots of scor-
ing” in the Cotton Bowl game hn-
cause both teams have strong of-
fenses and neither knows much
about the other. “We’re going to
do some scoring,” he said, “but
the ■ question will be whether
Kentucky scores more.”
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title defense, or even a non-title
showing. Chances are he will
fight Charles outdoors next sum-
mer, if he fights at all. He has
been idle since last July, pre-
ferring to cash in on personal ap-
pearances.
Next in the line of surprises
was Robinson’s setback at the
hands of little known Randy
Turpin. It was called boxing’s
biggest upset in a quarter of a
century when Turpin won in
London. It was Robinson’s sec-
ond defeat in his career.
Two weeks previous in Ber-
lin, Robinson had ducked under
the ring to avoid being hit by
bottles and other missiles tossed
by irate German fans after a
referee disqualified Robby for
hitting Gerhard Hecht in the
kidneys. The bout was called “no
decision.” ~
The return Robinson - Turpin
bout had more fan reaction than
any bout Since 1938 when 70,000
saw Louis knock out Max Schmel-
ing in a return meeting. Robin-
son-Turpin fought in the Polo
Grounds before 61,370 fans who
paid $767,626. Plus $250,000 for
motion pictures and theatre-tele-
vision, the bout went down in
ring annals as the ninth million-
dollar fistic attraction.
Robinson, fighting savagely to
regain the title, stopped Turpin
in two minutes and 52 seconds
of the 10th round.
After Robinson quit the 147-
pound class, Johnny Bratton of
Chicago was named NBA welter-
weight champion. The New York
boxing board concurred when
Bratton gained a split decision
over Charley Fusari in Chicago.
Bratton, however, held the
crown for only two months. In
May he lost a unanimous but dull
15-round decision to Kid Gavilan
of Cuba in Madison Square Gar-
den. They met again in Chicago
in November in a 10-round non-
title bout and Bratton, though
outclassed, gained the benefit of
home town crowd reaction and
got a draw. The fans thought
Bratton had won but the experts
were unanimously for Gavilan.
Gavilan’s lone title defense
met with stormy protest. In Au-
gust, 8,137 fans (a TV bout)
threw debris into the Garden
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Flores did five days later.
Carter’s lone lightweight de-
fense resulted in a one-sided de-
cision over Art Aragon in a Los
Angeles bout held at 7 o’clock
(PST) for the benefit of TV
viewers in the east.
In the light heavyweight divi-
sion, Joey Maxim retained his
title by beating Bob Murphy
rather handily. However, when
Maxim sought to take the heavy-
weight crown in Chicago, the
Clevelander lost to Charles for
the fourth time.
The year saw the rise of Rocky
Marciano of Brockton, Mass., as
a legitimate heavyweight con-
tender and the fall of Joe Louis.
Marciano flattened Louise inside
of eight rounds in the Garden
and all but forced Louis’ retire-
ment for a second time. As a mat-
ter of fact; the Illinois Athletic
commission has barred Louis
from its rings for his personal
well being. The Marciano knock-
out was the second in Louis’ long
career.
Among the lighter boys, Sandy
Saddler made his only feather-
weight defense against Willie
Pep. The latter, quit after nine
rounds in one of the roughest
fights ever witnessed. As a re-
sult of foul tactics, on the part
of both boxers, the New York
State Athletic commission re-
voked Pep’s license indefinitely
and Saddler was fined $100 and
suspended for 30 days. The fans
enjoyed this one, but it was any-
thing but boxing.
The punishment was meted out
by Robert K. Christenberry, a
hotel man, who in September
had replaced Eddie Eagan as
chairman of the New York com-
mission. With the appointment
by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey came
a directive to clean up boxing.
Washington, too, put its finger
in the ring. The Justice depart-
ment’s anti-trust division check-
ed complaints that the Interna-
tional Boxing club, sponsor of
bouts in the Garden, Chicago and
Detroit, was a monopoly.
Vic Toweel of South Africa
put his bantam title on the line
once and beat Spain’s Luis Ro-
mero in Johannesburg, while
Dado Marino, a 112-pound grand-
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