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"Seixas, Schroeder To Open Davis

- Those i in World - |Of Sports Know There's Santa Claus

BY OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 25—All'may not be peace on earth will toward men may be lacking. But relaxing in these holy hours those of us in sports can

well believe in Santa Claus.

Most of the time you look on the tests of speed, muscle and endurance as a business and in any business there are bound to be dirty dollars.

= Meet Rose,

~ Sedgman in ~ Singles Round

By United Press SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. .5—Challenge round play in| the -Davis Cup matches here starts tomorrow with Philadelphia’s Vic Seixas across “the net from Australia’s Mervyn Rose and Ted Schroeder, from La Crescenta, Cal, against Frank Sedgman, Aussie ace. Drawings were made today by Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Tennis Association, and Donald Smith, of Ander-

son, 8. C., United States Consul reneral here. : s - 8 ROSE WAS picked to open Frilay’s play for Australia against Schroeder, followed by Sedgman and Seixas. >

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U. 8. team, said the draws were “logical” selections.

ever, Shields said, “I put in Seixas because of his wins over Sedgman and Rose, which prove he has developed considerable depth,

“TRABERT, WHILE playing bangup tennis recently, is unaccustomed to the terrific pressure of tennis like this event,” Shields said. Shields told United Presa he would not announce his doubles team until the eonclusion of the first singles matches, However, the U. 8. team’s captain said “it is fairly obvious who my doubles team will be,” apparently indicating that Trabert was being held in reserve for that vital part of the matches. The drawings were made amid a holiday atmosphere in the main

here, with Christmas carols being sung in the background and gay decorations. About a hundred spectators watched the drawing ceremonies. :

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out

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merit? them. There's Ben Hogan, Some sources had ‘looked for one time caddy; Joe DiMaggio, Tony Trabert, of Cincinnati, tobe the fisharman’s son who got a challenge. round choice. How- Seasick on boats; Ted Williams, and Rocky Marciano, a shoemaker’s son who

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ALL IN ALL, sports is a decent business—better than most. In what other line can a kid from the other side of the tracks win fame and fortune strictly on And we have a lot of

nowhere,

traded a boot for a sock.

It’s a business where you have the right to dream bright visions —and get your chance to make them come true. Like old Jersey Joe Walcott, who was well over the hill when he finally caught up to the heavyweight champion-

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time, and get bitter and caustic{SPeakK so vaguely. about the few kids who soil their name and their futuré for the quick payoff. But, no matter what sports page. Propaganda, to sell they say, it is an unusual situation. The really great” majority of our kids are clean and decent youngsters with a love of compe-

tition.

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f the world. = un » FLINCH, from time to

clean ones, too, in sports, even though|Most of them get along without during the occasional scandals and whisperings you may be into forget the good. It's looking at’ the through a dirty window.

our colleges and call them muscle foundries, branding the lot for the transgressions of a few. But here again the great majority, large and small, play At on the square.

overemphasis and sans incidents. But to hear the talk—and much of the writing in our own trade— e|you'd think the schools were dens of inquity. Not SO. ”n WE HAVE once of which to be proud, and for which to be thankful. Stop for a moment and look: at the clean, impartial manner in which we put out our Olympic teams. Here again it is e|Strictly on merit, with a poor boy sharing equal rights on ability alone. And we do not have a greedy government dipping in an oar a la Joe the boss. We don’t have to shout to the world that we're tough, or good. Sure, our kids are as noisy as

the rest. But the real ready gent gets more quiet as he gets tougher. So let our youngsters have their fun, even If it is raucous. They've always been there when we needed ‘em, o » on WE DON'T realize how important is the free press of which we: But over be-| hind the Iron Curtain they even tell them what to put on the

the part of the world sitting on the fence on how big and strong they are. Like the rest of this newspaper, your sports pages are free and undictated. We write em as we see em and let the chips fall where

Dunkel’s Ratings

Los Angeles Open

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 (UP) —Veteran Golfer Jimmy Demaret of Ojai, Cal., will be after a slice of the $17,500 prize money being offered at the 26th annual Los Angeles Open Golf tournament Jan. 4-7. Demaret joined the contestants vesterday along with Manuel de la, Torre, veteran Lew Worsham | and youthful Dick Mayer who are all set to swing their irons at qualifying day Jan. 2. Tournament Chairman Ed

Brown announced that the first-|3

prize money has been boosted to

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TUESDAY, DEC. 25

Utah 67.9 Bradley *65.6 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26 on fe record, win, lose or draw. Kentucky *89.2 UCLA any of us in sports, the HoOhlo State 540 O . : St. Francis, NY Ks 1 Fordham Bans ihe DiMaggios or the Wal.5 Dartmou co ey’ll tell you. Certainl Seton Hall *67.2 Boston College Ys Big Seven Tournament there’s a Santa Claus. {Kansas St. 80.2 Nebraska {Kansas 75.6 Colorado | Stanford 64.0 Oklahoma

59.8 Iowa State Cott Tournament iit 66.3 SMU Texas A&M Rice

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8. E. Louisiana 50.6 THURSDAY, DEC. 27

Connecticut

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Clemson Georgia 43.8 (game. Florida 539 Vr State 371 2 & £2 Denver *38.3 Sania Clara 382 WHETHER it’s the last will Wisconsin 707 Oregon éi.7/depend upon ‘the National ColIDAY, DEC. 28 legiate Athletic Association, which EAST ., Will meet in Cincinnati next Colgat 58.9 *54.1 Connecticut LT P Puerto Rico 3imonth and vote upon a proposal Lafayette 49.1 ai york AC #4p.1/t0 ban Bowl games completely. Penn Sate ro 20 Suds : 40.3 The Mid-Winter Sports AssociaHoly Cross 61.1 Tempe St. s2.4/tion, a non-profit organization, Boston Coll. 83.1 Bucknell 50.3would lose a $1,350,000 investDePaul 168.2 st. Ambrose , 841 ment, much of it still outstandch. ate - Irimo a Notre Dame 7 1 indiana 23 ing In bonds. rinceton Minn ) Princet 23 lulueso 3 The easiest thing the college U.C. L A 7. 0 rhinos *6s.3|presidents can do is stop Bowl Taylor 388 McNeess s509/8ames,” Sugar Bowl General | Yale SUGAR BOWL 1 OnDk MENT *55.6 Manager Fred Digby said. “The | Kentucky 9.2 Villanova eo.s/ hardest thing they can do is Sk Lown rid west” Young ns clean up their own campuses.” Sr Ol I BH er ortia X regon ‘Sta . rsons pouring into Washingt *77.1 Ohio State 54.0 Wisconsin 70.1 California *63.2/ New Orleans by plane, automo-

SATURDAY, DEC. 29

EAST for the Sugar Bowl game. Hotels 2 57. - oleate 389 BE 502 and tourist courts have long Lasalle vs, NY +o Delivare "371 been booked to their linen closets. Siena ‘21 Latavette 49.1)Six thousand visitors will live in Was 557 cenNy Dv te Ties Pullman cars, Parked on sidings. W. Ky. State WoT Bona'ture *69.6 ® Cincinnati 68.8 Xavier, 0. 50.6) FOR MANY, it wil be an op- | amine" 16 Bowling Green 233.5| portunity to celebrate New Year's | Minnesota 89.9 Dartmouth 340 Eve in the unrestrained French Beinceion™* m1 Mich. “state “3 Quarter, away from the Tedtralnts | Toledo “66. . of home. 0 years ago, a wellCLA TSouTH %Sltoddo Nashville, Tenn., contrac|Renneyivanis 638 Miami Fla st. +109 tor, after a night of unrestrained Joa Whetson *43.8| celebrating, was found dead on ! 2% Pepperdine ss6.|the floor of a French Quarter | Sante lara 89 Bian State S *533 night club. | Wash ston (771 Northwestern 113] Two B-girls and the night club

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§58/to nearly a week of sports. Ten51.0/nessee, the nation’s No. 1 team, :2/and Maryland, the No. 4 team, 4 1

59. State 67. Wake Forest 49. AMENT

they may. The President doesn’t have to tell our guys they should do their best in the Olympics. He knows they will—and we'll stand

ifor Shrine

RECORD BREAKER ?—Notre Dame's Leroy Leslie has a good

chance to

eak the Hoosier

Classic's individual point record for six games. The mark, held jointly b Indiana’ s Bill Garrett

and Butler's Ralph

Buckshot)

O'Brien, is 96 points. Leslie enters the fifth annual classic Friday with 70 points to his credit in four games. But Leslie and his perfect record Notre Dame team will be hard pressed. First foe for .the Irish is unbeaten

¢ |Bowl tonight. Some 40,000 fans

§ land the catchers and so has the

Indiana.

s§§ NEW ORLEANS, Dec.

New Orleans All Set For Sports Carnival

6 By United Press

25—The New Grins Mid-

| Winter Sports Association opens a six-day carnival of sports, ranging from a regatta“to the nation’s top extra-

season football game, on Thursday and it could be a noisy| Football Coach Warren Gaer of Drake University got a really de-}.

wake for the Sugar Bowl. . J The Mid-Winter Sports’ Assoctation is the organization that

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operator were tried on a charge of murdering him with knockout drops (chloral hydrate). Two chemists found knockout drops in the body, but a jury, after a long trial, acquitted all three defendants. The Sugar Bowl football game, which about 85,000 persons will attend, has long been a sellout. So is the basketball tournament ot/in New Orleans municipal auditorium, which has a capacity of

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with his Tennessee football team to begin pre-bowl training. The Maryland team will arrive at Biloxi, Miss, about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans, tomorrow to start its training. The Sugar Bowl invitational tennis tournament, in which 16 amateurs are entered, included Tom Brown Jr, Gardnar Mulloy and Eddie Moylan, opens the sports carnival Thursday. The Sugar Bowl boxing tournament between the Louisiana State University and University of Wisconsin teams is scheduled Thursday night. LSU is trying for its fourth Sugar Bowl crown. s The basketball tournament, with Kentucky playing Brigham Young and Villanova playing St. Louis, opens Friday night. The winners will play for the championship next Saturday night. A track and field meet and a regatta are on flexte Sunday's schedule. The track and field meet will include many candidates for the U. 8. Olympic team next year. The feature of the regatta is the “Race of Champions” among 12 champion skippers of Gulf of Mexico yachting clubs.

Bout Postponed

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 25 (UP)— Hollywood Legion Stadium will remain dark on its regular Friday fight night this week, Matchmaker Cal Working announced today. He was forced to postpone the scheduled Bob WhyLauro Salas featherweight match. Salas is suffering from a cold and Working has now rematched the 10-round bout for Jan. 4.

East Shriners Win

SANTA CLARA, Cal. Dec. 25 (UP) — Bill Putich, Michigan quarterback, threw two touchdown passes to pace the East Shrine team to a 28-to-0 scrimmage type victory over the San Jose Brewers, a semipro team, yesterday. The East is preparing for its game against the West Dec. 29.

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Pass Masters Will Hit Air

By United Press

MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 25 (UP)

annual North-South Shrine all-star game in the Orange

may wonder if they're looking at a basketball game without the hoops. “Vanderbilt's Bill Wade, who topped even Kentucky's Babe Parilli as the leading football thrower of the Southeastern €onference this season, will do the tossing for Miami Coach Andy

Gustafson’s ‘rebel” eleven. » » n

John Coatta will offer a double ‘passing threat while quarterbacking the North team under: Yale Coach Herman Hickman. Blajk, son of Army Coach Earl Blaik, hasn't been in a football uniform since leaving West Point during the cribbing scandal. .

Big Ten this year. He and Blaik, now a student at Colorado College, will direct their aerials at Dewey McConnell, Wyoming end rated the leading pass catcher in the nation, and flankmen Hal Faverty of Wisconsin and Tom McCann of Holy Cross. ” »

» “WE’VE GOT both the pitchets

South. That football will probably spend more time in the air than on the ground,” the roly poly Hickman said. Looking at his line that averages 208 pounds, Hickman commented: “Boy, it looks like this is the year for the Yankees.” The South team holds a 2-to-1 edge in the three former charity games sponsored by Miami's Mahi Shrine. On the receiving end of Wade's tosses will be big Bill's favorite target, Ted Kirkland, a six-foot-six end from Vanderbilt, Georgia’s spéedy halfback, Zippy Morocco,

Drake Coach Gets Contract For 3 Years:

—Three pass masters parade| their talents in the fourth|

BOB BLAIK and Wisconsin's

Coatta set seven records in the]

© COLISEUM DOUBLE-HEADER—A professional basketball double-header tomorrow: night in the Coliseum will match the Harlem Globetrotters and the Philadelphia Sphas in the second game after the opener will pair the Boston Whirlwinds and ‘the Toledo Mercurys. The 8:15 p. m. attraction will include Clarence Wilson

Pretty New Pilot To Boss Mantle

ey. Okla., Dec. 25 (UP)-—alely for a “short honeymoon In Mickey Mantle, the boy the New|Hot Springs, Ark, They planned

DiMaggio’s place, was married/the week” to nearby Commerce, here yesterday in his 19-year-old Okla., home of Mickey's parents, -|bride’s home, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Mantle, Baseball's 20-year-old Cinder- Micke —l report ro sprin, ella player and Miss Merlyn Lou- y P pring ise Johnson were married in a|training with the Yankees in

(left) of the Globetrotters and Louis (Red) Klotz (right) of the Sphas. |

| Stoddard Still & Hanging on to | AHL Scoring lead

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec, 25-— Jack

Stoddard of the Providence Reds clung ‘to the American Hockey

League scoring lead today by a single point as his teammate, Ray

ing position. Stoddard, the league's top goal~ getter with a total of 19, also had 26 assists for a total of 45 points. Powell, who -tied with Buddy O'Connor of Cincinnati for playmaking honors with 27 assists, had 17 goals and a total of 44 points, ® x = THE TWO Providence stars had a comfortable lead on the rest of the field. Rookie Real Chevrefils of Hershey was in third place with 40 points, four less than Powell. Ab DeMarco of Buffalo'.and {CIiff Simpson of St. Louis were next with 35 points while three players were tied at 33 and four more at 32. £6 Gordie Henry of Hershey toped Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh for the goal-tending honors by the narrowest margin—an average of 12.448, goals allowed per game to Mayer's 2.452, Pete Durham eof In lis

York Yankees hope will fill Joeto return “about the middle of was tops in penalties with 105

minutes.

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DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 25—

litxe Christmas present today, a new five-year contract. ;

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will become effective on Jan. 1, 1953, when Gaer’'s old contract expires. » 2.2 IN THREE seasons at Drake, Gaer has given the school the best record it has ever established in a three-year period. His teams have won 19. games, lost six, and tied two.

Drake recently pulled out of the

test against the league's failure to take disciplinary action in the slugging of Negro star Johnny Bright by an Oklahoma A&M player and indicated it would shop around for a new conference.

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