The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1952, Page 5

Florida Football Coaching Is Panned By STERLING SLAPPEY Associated Press Sports Writer The post war past has produced diverse reasons for football flops at Florida. Some folks blame them on the soft sand littering the state—they say the stuff is so loose and pliable that muscles in the native’s legs won't harden up just right for foot- ball. Some of the others blame the flops on all that cash Florida gets from race tracks littering the state —they say the stuff shouldn’t be used for amateur college athletics. And, before the arrival of Bob (Big Silence) Woodruff, some of the others blamed those flops on what they incorrectly considered “high school coaching in a college league.” ‘This fall those fans may not have to blame anything on any- body. Florida very likely won't flop this year. Head Coach Woodruff, who in an unguarded moment may break- down and tell you the school colors Tampa draft board in the Rick Casares, Florida come up with its best of Casares to the draft, an changes ly tough schedule including eight | Sullivan, i opponents, the necessary of new assistant s fac- | lf E i Ege i : i 5 é Ht [ i [ ; t i ciebe Bete a ne 23 Ei ' i i } i z | ! i : E 3 3 | i : i : i ; ; }» Offensive Gators. i i i 2 | guards, of- fullback quarter- ck. for absence of BE fi i : | | Teasons will be the Conchs Lick Indians Sun. , ‘Mendez Has Perfect Night At Plate In Shutout Win By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor ‘The Key West Conchs,. who have been kicked around from pillar: to post since they became known as such, got mad last night and took the measure of the West Palm Beach Indians in a shutout win, 2-0. Rene Solis hurled flawless five “hit ball to shackle the visitors when the Conchs had _ trouble pushing men around the base- paths. Five of the eight Conchs hits off the slants of the Indians’ Sul- kowski went for extra bases but the locals still had trouble scor- ing. They plated their initial coun- ter in the fifth frame when Sul- kowski suffered a control lapse. | ¢n, After walking Severino Mendez, Frank a Ei on : misene by sacker Weiss an successive passes to Harig and. Reyes gave the Conchs their first |. score, Their next came in the eighth inning w! eh Nap Reyes led off with a screaming two bagger. Barney Lutz pushed ‘him around ‘to third base with a Sacrifice binglé ‘and Carlos De- Souza poled , out a long fly to score “Nimble Nap” for insur- ance, Willie Felder came to the plate and knocked a double into right field but died on second base when Sulkowski forced Bosch to fly out. Solis, in twirling his five hit effort, fanned nine and walked four. The Indians threatened only in the sixth when Lowing and Weiss singled. Lowing, how- ever, was erased, going into third base when Solis made a sharp play of Menards’ grovid ball. He then fanned Montalbano to get out of trouble. Severino Mendez and Willie Felder were the big guns for the Conchs, lez had a perfect night at the platter with a pair of hard hit doubles and a brace of free passes ‘while Felder with a double and single showed signs a convincing 2-1 victory over the Miami Sun Sox. Sox. © contests, the Havana Cubans forfeited the first game of a doubleheader with the St. Peters- burg Saints and then took the night- = $4. Lakeland beat Tampa, A capacity crowd of 2,300 ‘watched Miam! Beach pitcher Walt Nothe chalk up his 12th victory against eight losses at the expense | of Miami. The Beach clinched the | ame in the sixth when Whitey centage bxecause the rained out games should have been made up| in Havana. They were ordered’ .. | Montalbano, ss 1 Knight Defeats On Rene Solis 5 Hitter Witzel In K. W. Golf Club Semi-Finals MATCH FORCED TO GO 19-HOLES By JACK K. BURKE (Sports Feature Writer) Harry Knight bidding for his third straight) Key West Golf Club Championship, hung a stunning defeat on the highly talented Gere Witzel yesterday, at the club, l-up on the 19th hole. Both players were off their usual par form and the small gallery which braved the heat of the sun were amazed at the ac- curacy that;both men showed. Gene had; Harry 1-down on the front nine and on, into*the back nine up to the 15th hole, then on the 16th. Harty pulled even due to Gene three-putting e green. ‘ Harry took the 17th to go 1-up but Gene came back on the 18th to tie the match up forcing Harry to play sudden death. _ It was the 19th that Knight won the Harris for the club title by .par- ing the hole while Gene missed trip, Key West goes up against the Indians tonight in a single game set for 8:15 p. m. Tom McCall, who was given his release by the Conch manage- ment Saturday, was immediately signed by St, Petersburg. He will report to them tomorrow at Lake- land. Nap Reyes, who claims that he is more interested in his RBI record than his batting average, seems to be making a bid fora reputation in the stolen base de- partment..He showed that he has considerable steam last night’ when he came home on De- Souza’s loft to left field. The Donnybrook that has grown out of Billy Harris’ alleg- ed no-hitter against the Conchs last week, is assuming comic proportions following a picture of a “wounded” Miami Sports Writer in a Miami Daily, Sunday. They even accused this writer of “changing his opinion to agree with the official scorer.” As a matter of fact, he is partially right. We felt when we saw Dun- laps’ drive, although our view was partially obscured by a spectator, that it should have been scored as an error. But, our “opinion,” has nothing to do with what goes into the books offi- cially. If the scorer made it a hit—a hit it is, as far as we are concerned. We are under the im- ression that an account of a baseball game should be factual and if this fellow. Kleinberg de- cided to overrule the officials, it is his responsibility. We think it made him look a little foolish, though, Quien sabe? Box Scores: Lowing, If 4 Weiss, 3b Menard, ¢ _ evonound aHoonuey ~leocooroccoom \ Glunt, rt Sulkowski, p Brewer, a Totals— a—Rolled out f wl corcowromne - Blew Bl eewwuw el 2 g 8 ht to meet Norton] Caml a three-foot put, thus. giving him ‘a bogey score. The final match between Harry and Norton will be 72-hole match play and will be ‘pla: when Knight returns from his two- week vacation. Either one of these golfers are capable ‘of’ shooting alow score and the outcome of this match will be very hard to determine. In the Sunday Big League, the foursome of Joe Lopez, Jr., George Carey, Hy Altman, and James McCardle took the top the day with 103 points. Blind P ‘were Mc- Cardle, Altman and Knight. McCardle surprised many in the club house by posting a 40-41 for 26 points in the fourth man slot. The members. .who_ have not signed up “forthe” Miami Shores tournament are reminded that the.deadline is drawing near. possible so that the matches can be made up. 0 0 1 0 Team— ‘West Palm Beach 000 000 000—0 Key West ____ 000 010 O1x—2 RBI— Reyes, DeSouza; 2B— 2 2, Solis, Reyes, Felder; Menatd, Montalbano); kowski 4 (Lutz 2, Felder, Solis), Solis 9 (Brgag, Vukmire 3, Low- ing, Weiss, Montalbano 2, Sul- kowski 1; Left—-West Palm Beach 10, Key West 10; Winning —Solis, Losing—Sulkowski; U— Taylor and Elder; T—1:56 A—750, scorer—Milian, Palatka Whips DeLand Sunday By NEIL GILBRIDE Press Staff Writer Cecil Hut- in the ninth State and | ? E 3 I if he ack it Eee at de- | junior college transfer. { your name “fn as soon~as| St. Louis switch of Casares, loss of Jim| Reeves, Carroll McDonald, Bill Reddell, Floyd Huggins, Jack Pap- pas, Jim French, Don Brown and ill Mitchum. Their numerical replacements generally will come from five, freshmen, six former ‘‘B” teamers and .a junior collegé man. The are Linebackers Steve de la ; Tackle Bob Kennedy; Half Dick Albrecht and John Bur. , and End Ray Brown. “B” mers are Bob Meuth, fullback; Davis, halfback; Curt Hay guard; Dick Watson, half ck; Fred Robinson, quarterback and End Charles Manning. Howard Chapman, defensive tackle, is the a Along with Casares, Florida’s top star is Defensive Tackle Charles LaPradd, All-Soph in 1950 and sec- ond string All-SEC last year. Two tackle, and Sonny May, offensive Flowers, Knight, the ' guard, developed rapidly last No- | Fred Robinson has played none.” —: SPORTS — BASEBALL | By The Associated Press American League New York 3 Boston 2 Cleveland 6-2 Boston 2 Washington 7-5 Philadelphia 2-12 St. Louis 4-2 Detroit 2-4 National League Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 1 Boston 7-2 New York 3-4 (second game 7 % inning, darkness) St. Louis 2 Cincinnati 1 Chicago 5-2 Pittsburgh 2-5 Florida International League Miami Beach 2 Miami 1 : St. Petersburg 9-4 Havana 0-5 (first game forfeit) Lakeland 3 Tampa 2 Key West 2 West Palm Beach 0 Florida State League Palatka 5 DeLand 4 Cocoa 2 Sanford 1 Orlando 3 Leesburg 0 Beach 5 Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Lost ¥ Jacksonville z ss Won National League Brooklyn 3 New York 66 67 61 57 49 ELE P’delphia Chicago Boston C’cinnati 49 P’burgh 35, American League New York C'land % BREE PY BBERES Florida International M. Beach Miami Havana St. P’burg 3 Seeeeee BEBRERRR Jvile Bch Sanford Orlando Leesburg Cocoa BSSBBRa RSaB2eeersesess RALESSES Pp ERBSRS 4 Jockey Wins 189th Race SALEM, N. H. #—Wiry, little Anthony Dispirito — who swapped an uncertain future in a textile mill for the glamor of thorough- bred horse racing — ranks today as the nation’s winningest jockey of 1952. The 17 - year - old Lawrence, } 466 | West Palm Beach at Key West vember and during the spring. They may be, along with Meuth, Florida’s_ big and pleasant sur. prises this fall. Back Buford Long is better than ever and that’s very good. When (and if) Woodruff talks for publication about his team, he dwells long on his rough schedule and the loss of Sullivan, who ac- tually was a disappointment last fall compared with a great 1950. Says Woodruff: “The loss of Sul- livan makes it difficult for us to estimate Florida’s chances. That was a blow from which we will be a long time recovering and, in fact, about which we can do abso- lutely nothing until we get the boys back on the practice field again. “We don’t have a single quarter- back of experience ready to take those others, Dewayne Douglas, offensive over. Doug Dickey has played only 14 minutes of varsity football and MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .326; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, .315; Lock- man, New York, .311; Robinson, Brooklyn, .308; Slaughter, — St. Louis; .304. - Runs batted in — Sauer, Chi- cago, 99; Hodges, Brooklyn, 80; Thomson, New York, 78; Ennis, Philadelphia, 77; Slaughter, St. Louis, 74. Hits — Adams, Cincinnati, 143; Schoendienst, St. Louis, 142; Mu- sial, St. Louis, 141; Lockman, New York, 136; Hamner, Philadelphia, 121. Home runs I— Sauer, Chicago, 31; Hodges, Brooklyn and Kiner, Pittsburgh, 26; Gordon, Boston, 19; Mathews, Boston, 18. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 8-1, 889; Wilhelm, New York, 10-2, 833; Black, Brooklyn, ‘9-2, .818; Yuhas, St. Louis, 8-2, .800 Rob- erts, Philadelphia, 19-6, .760. American League Batting — Fain, Philadelphia, .333; . Mitchell, Cleveland, .325; Woodling, New York, .321; Kell, Boston, .313; Mantle, New York, 307, Runs batted in — Doby, Cleve- land, 83; Robinson, Chicago, 79; Zernial, Philadelphia, 77; Berra, New York, 76; Dropo, Detroit, 74. |, Hits — Fox, Chicago, 149; Rob- inson, Chicago, 138; Jensen, Wash- ington, 136; Fain, Philadelphia, 133; Avila, Cleveland, 132. Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, 26; Berra, New York, 24; Zernial, Philadelphia, 22; Rosen, Cleveland, 20. Pitching — Consuegra, Washing- ton, 6-0, 1.000; Shantz, Philadel- phia, 21-4, .840; Raschi, New York, 13-3, .813; Gorman, New York 4-1 800; Bearden, St. Louis, 7-2, . Today's Games By The Associated Press American League New York at Boston (Only game scheduled) Florida International League Havana at St. Petersburg Lakeland at Tampa Miami at Miami Beach . Florida State League DeLand at Palatka Jacksonville Beach at Daytona Beach a Orlando at Leesburg Cocoa at Sanford Sport Shoris SEATTLE .®— The United States Golf Association lifts the curtains on its 52nd annual Nation- al Amateur golf show today, with a cast of 200 selected performers ready to begin the week long com- petition for the championship. Veteran observers think the title fight is wide open, and few expect the defending champion, young Bil- ly Maxwell, Odessa, Tex., to hang on to the crown he won at Bethle- hem, Pa., a year ago. No champion has scored twice in succession since Lawson Little subdued the field in 1934-35. Seventy - two matches were on today’s. schedule, and 56 players.’ lrew byes. i Oldest ex - champion on deck is the famed Charles (Chick) Evans Jr., who won the amateur in 1916 and again in 1920. Youngest entry is a lad of 16, John Berry, Talla. hassee, Fla. PHILADELPHIA (®— A crown resting uneasy on his brow, age- less Jersey Joe Walcott will put his world heavyweight champion- ship on the line here Sept. 23 against undefeated Rocky Mar- ciano, a swarming, club - fisted puncher from Brockton, Mass. This marks only the second time in more than a year that the 38- year-old Cinderella man of boxing from Camden, N. J.. ventures to place at stake the title he wrested from Ezzard Charles with a sev- enth - round knockout in Pittsburgh last year. Marciano, undefeated in 41 bouts, appears confident he'll succeed where Charles failed last June to knock the teetering royal head- piece of boxing from Walcott’s time - weathered brow. And indi- cations are the New England club- ber would go into the ring at vast Municipal Stadium an approxi- mate 2 to 1 favorite. By GENE Miami Beach pitcher Dick Mc- Millan showed up at the stadium Saturday night wearing civies and a patch over his lacerated left eyebrow. Dick was emphatic in his praise of treatment given him at the local hospital. The Flamingo twirler doesn’t expect to return to action for about two weeks due to the fact that he is now on an 8-day non-pro- tein diet. The diet was prescribed to avoid reactions from the drugs he was given at the hospital. Without meat, eggs and milk a fellow can’t store up enough energy to chuck a baseball game. We queried McMillan on his version of what caused his col- lision with George Vidal at first base Friday night. Dick said he was trying to “get thar furst’est with the moést’est . . . saw Vidal coming, but assumed George would either slide of remain on the inside of the bag. In the last second he shifted his eyes and concentrated on touching the base then... wham! Don't be surprised if pitcher Tom McCall finishes out the season with Miami Beach. Mc- Call was hired by ‘he Conchs in one of those end-of-the-season bonus deals but was released re- cently in one of those local- economy-moves. Tom wants to return to Carolina to coach high school football but is thinking over possibilities of a job with the Flamingoes who could use his services during the stretch drive. Conch catcher Frank Dunlap added 66 points to his batting average by clouting 15 hits in 35 times at bat the past two weeks. Dunlap’s average soared from 246 to 312 over the past dozen games or so. Nap Reyes added six points during the same period and continued to show his value at the plate by swelling his “Chopper” Clinches Title In With a week still to go, it’s all i i I four winners in eight races at, <_< ~~ the trophy-giving for the . turda: avy ives summer rey ole a oi a ee aoe . year- | eq their lead Thursday when they This puts him five up on Howard. took all 4 points from USO-NCCS, | Craig, ridifg at Detroit, and nine {to go way out in front with 26 ahead of Harold (Red) Keene, the | points. Nor can the second-place | LOWELL, Mass., veteran cam- | USO-NCCS close their spot, which i, is secured by a_17 to 11 point lead over the NS CPO. Pitch and came home with Cocoa’s| The only issue remaining in winning run on Thurman's long fly. ‘doubt is whether SubRon Wives Daytona Beach came up with can regain their third position i h which they lost Thursday, when inning to beat Jacksonville Beach's they gave the CPOs 3 points. It Sea - Birds. Winner was Bill Mil- isn’t very likely they can pick up ler, ex - University of Alabama now, since they face the team Pitcher, for his ninth victory next week — the “Chopper” gainst two losses this year. Two from whom they have yet to win a double plays and five Jacksonville ; Beach errors helped him. Cant bos i F BS ef [ ; : § Hy iy i i [ I Hy : i 2 5 mM fini : 5 il : : 4 i » Se: Ps ee z fe if was in “ bowling; [Navy Wives Bowling Tourney her high game of 202 and triple of 541. Charlyne Roberts, bowling for the CPOs, was at least a threat to Vi this week, when she had a close 191. Ann Gravel had the second highest game, 183, and Vi Donlan again came up with a high game | of 182 and the high set for the day j of 512. | With the end of this summer league so c! | planning f | league, which ber and run through May. ; their hope to form | five girls, and with already evidenced, peter Me ee Monday, August 18, 1952 ~~ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN. => Page 8 YANKS NIP RED | SOX SUN.; 3-2 By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Cleveland’s Indians and New York’s Giants continued to apply the pressure on the league leaders but the spotlight was lifted off the ; Pennant races and shifted to the | first two St. Louis clubs Sunday. In the Mound City, rookie Stu | Miller was deprived of a chance ‘to join seven other rookies who have hurled a pair of shutouts in| their first two major league starts. Shortstop Solly Hemus made a dou- ble error, with two out in the ninth , inning to let in the lone Cincinnati ‘run in the Cardinals’ 2-1 triumph. The Columbus, Ohio, grad pitched a 1-0 shutout win over the Chicago Cubs in his first start last week. {In Detroit, the Tigers and Browns got standoff in their big “Waiver” swap of a week ago. Ned Garver pitched Detroit to a 4-2 victory over his old Brownie mates after outfielder Vic Wertz had whipped ‘his ex - Tiger mates with a two- run homer for a 4-2 triumph in the first game. Wertz also homered and hit two singles in the second game. Cleveland closed to within a game and a half of the American League - leading New York Yan- | kees, sweeping a pair from Chi- cago’s White Sox, 6-2 and 2-1, be. tind Bob Feller and Mike Garcia. Hank Simpson’s three - run homer settled the opener. The Yanks, meanwhile, the Red Sox in Boston, 3-2, Berra’s double and Gene ling’s single in the The Giants missed } tunity to cut deep into - place lead in i on Yt re it i He : : fourth place. in the American, dividing a pai with Philadelphia. Bob Porterfield won his 10th with a 7-2 first-game triumph for the Nats but the Ath- letics overcame a 5-0 deficit to take the second, 12-5. his 26th homer to lead the Pirates® to 5-2 nightcap win. That was the~ score of the Cubs’ first game tri- umph as Bob Rush drove in three « runs and pitched his 12th triumph; ~ Texan Wins Nat'l Pistol Title “PITCH AND CATCH" GRAHAM | Florida Girls Cop Net Wins BALTIMORE (® — Floridians won two events inethe 1952 Middle Atlantic Girls Grass Courts Tennis Championships. ‘*. Little Pat Shaffer, St. Petersburg two-head, took the singles event Sunday in the under-15 division, downing Carol McCord, Washing- ton, 6-3, 7-5. The under-14 doubles went to Miss Shaffer and Jean Teslof, Mi- ami Beach, who defeated Miss Mc- cord and Mary Kuhn, Washington, 10-8, 6-4, RBI total to 45 in the short time he has been with the club. Hitting and pitching averages are as follows. (Includes games through August 16th): Player: AB H R RBI HR Pct. Dunlap 96 3019 14 3 Reyes \. 275 75 20 45. 27. Lutz 475 127 60 43 .267 Jiminez 15 4 1 267 Mendez 443 908 64 246 Harig 469 114 54 DeSouza 443 105 57 Solis .. 118 28 10 Vidal . 217 46 14 Bosch _ 94 19 8 Felder . 174 31 11 Sails _ 41 6 3 0 (Pitching Averages) Pitcher: IP H BBSOWL McCall _. 35 33 22 8 Vidal . 165 152 122 85 DelMonte 189 198 85 68 Haack . 172 179 87 88 Solis .. 159 146 72 47 Zielinski 28 30 3011 Jiminez 2.20541 CHocoHomHonus 237 MIAMI AND JACKSONVILLE #—William T. Toney Jr., U. S, Border Patrol agent from El Paso, Tex., outshot for the past 11 years, . Benner was second with 2,601 and Reeves sixth with 2,593. Third was Lt. Col. Walter Walsh, lington, Va., with 2,595, and tied for fourth place with 2,504 were Lt. T. C. Mitchell, Camp Lejeune, and Lt. Col. Thomas Sharpe, Ft. Sill, Okla. rie Hulseman, had 2,444 points win the national women’s title. Sec- ond with 2,440 was Mrs. Jerry Fon- tanella, Miami Beach, and third with 2,400-Mrs, Lucille Chamblis, Winter Haven. 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