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

Conch Grid Drills Taper Off On Eve Of Season Opener Fri. With the 1952 gridiron season opener set for tomorrow night against Gesu High of Miami, the Key West High School grid squad will limit today's workout to light signal drils on the Wickers Field Sreensward, Preparations for the opener that promises to be one of the biggest events in Key West sports his- tory are rapidly being completed. Bleachers to accommodate an ex- bectd five-thousand fans have been completed by the Key West quar- terback club and volunteer work- ers, Yesterday, the erection of a newly acquired scoreboard was completed, The team is in top-notch shape with the exception of defensive end Ralph White who incurred a knee injury and will be lost to the team for the opener. Coach Ed Beckman said today that Don Cruz will get the nod for that spot. John Vernet- te a highly rated pass catcher who performed last year for Palo Alto, | California high school will handle the offensive duties at the end posi- tion. Otherwise, the club is in fine fet- tle and a bangup battle should be in the offing when the Conchs tack- le the heavyweight Gesu gridders. New Volcano TOKYO (#—Japan today named the world’s youngest volcano and said the fiery mother may have produced twins. The Myojin Reefs is the name selected by the Hydrographic Di vision of the Japanese Maritime Safety Board. It honors the fishing boat Myojin Maru, whose crew dis- covered the eruption yesterday about 200 miles south of Tokyo. Crew members said the mouth of Es JC’ To Battle Gals In Softball | Game Tonight Tonight is the night! You can’t} imagine what is in store for those who attend the Comic Softball game betwen the Beta Sigma Phi (in shorts) and the Jaycees (in dresses) tonight at 8 p. m., in Bay- ‘view Park. | The Jaycees have several new | and different rules and regulations to be entered in the Rule Book of softball Come out and see them | first hand. | Tonight's game will no doubt go | down in softball history and long | be remembered by those who wit- ness the Comic Softball Game of the year. Tonight’s game will no doubt go| down in softball history and long be remembered by those who wit- | ness the Comic Softball game of the year. | On hand to call the famous deci- | sions will be Umpires Robert Dopp and Earl Adams. If you feel like | killing the ump, perhaps it can be arranged. | Don’t fail to see it. Tonight at 8 p. m., Bayivew Park. Hooked rugs are enjoying a new burst of popularity lately. This is| easy to understand for they seem | to be at home with any type of | decoration, except, perhaps the most extreme modern. | 200 Stay On Wake HONOLULU (#—Some 200 essen- tial workers, housed in tents, stayed on stricken Wake Island to- day to clean up after one of the worst storms in Pacific history. A Military Air Transport plane left for Honolulu last night carry- ing the last group of more than 500 evacuees. Winds of more than 160-mile-an- hour velocity Tuesday flattened nearly every building on the tiny | U. S. coral atoll 2,300 miles west of Hawaii. Only four persons were reported hurt, but unofficial damage esti- mates ran to 10 million dollars. AP correspondent Stan Carter reported from Wake that “only two women are left—a nurse and a doctor’s wife, who are needed to give injections and bandage cuts and bruises.” Carter said it probably would be three or four months before Wake is fully restored as an important stop on the Korean airlift and on commercial trans-Pacific routes, Authorities said the island once more had an adequate food and water supply. _ ABOUT YOUR HOME ested in concerning the care of hooked rugs will be easy to remem- ber and actually are mostly com- mon sense, When moving a rug from one place to another, never drag it— Cotton hooks will not last like; roll it up and carry it. When the wool hooks, however, they are} transporting your rugs, never fold much less expensive—and to many} them—roll them over a tight roll the volcano is clearly visible above | of us—from necessity—this is most; of newspapers with the right side the water and a column of fire can be seen. Also visible is a fairly large island, to the west and a smaller one to the south. important. A “good” cotton hooked | rug, if properly cared for, will give ; Many years of service. A few points you may be inter- to the outside. The reason for this is that as you roll, the loops spread and: give and there is no added strain to the burlap foundation. U. Of Florida Cridders Shine Defensively (Editor’s note This is the last ef four stores appraising the Florida football team. It deals with the defensive backfield.) By F. T. MacFEELY GAINESVILLE (?—When an opponent throws a long pass this season, Florida's hopes of break ing it up will rest on a new set of defensive backs. Top candidategefor the sideback- backs and safety: man Bob Davis, Larry Scott and Dick- ey~All three: payed a li 1951 butenot enough to ea: etter. Dickey, a junior who third string quarterback -behiritt Hay wood Sullivan and’Rick Casares. has blossomed into what looks like enough at 6 foot-2 and fast enuogh with a svelte 175-pound frame to | haul around. And there won't be many oppo- ; nents who will outsmart him. He is a top student scholastically. Davis, also a junior, and Scott, | a sophomore, were defensive backs in 1951, But most of the defending | was done by J. L. (Papa) Hall | and Buford Long who now are | running on offense. | Competing with Dickey for the safety job are Pete Whitehead, 6 foot sophomore, and Harry Wing, | 5-foot-11 freshman. In the picture for sideback posi- tions with Davis and Scott are { Charlie Smith, a senior who let- | tered in 1950; Tommy Ives, a jun- | | ior, Jim Hirsch, a sophomore, and | Hubert Morrow a Freshman. Coach Bob Woodruff concedes | he might have to shift someone | back to defense from the offensive Davey Connects With A Right cK DAVEY m the Ch classed the feroci e aso S wild-s ht), of Detrdit « group but hopes he doesn’t have to. “We are trying to develop young er boys in the secondary to get more depth on the offense,” he explained. Assistant Coach John Mauer, who directs the pass defense,is giving a lot of new men a good looksee, not only at the three deep positions but also at defensive end and linebacker. He and Defensive Line Coach Hobe Hooser share the linebackers and defensive ends. Hooser coaches them against run- ning attacks and Mauer against passing attacks. Leading candidates for lineback ers and defensive ends were taken up in the previous article in this series. the Jaw of Roeky Grariano ous deci terwe Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT GROSSINGER, N. Y. # — “IT guess the thing I’m proudest of about Rocky Marciano,” said Char- j lie Goldman, the little man who trains the challenger, “is the way | he has developed into a great body puncher. “You've got to realize that when I took him over he didn’t know what a body punch was. In the first 10 fights I handled him he didn’t throw a single one—and I mean not a single one. “So I hired a sparring partner \for Rocky, and for weeks I had him go in there and not punch once to the head. The earnest way he went about learning it was what first convinced me, I think, that I had a really great prospect on my hands. “Now body punching is Rocky’s best weapon. It’s how he wears them down and sets them up for the finisher. It’s how he compen- sates for his rather short arms, When he digs into a fighter’s mid- dle it really hurts, though it might not be obvious to the spec- tator. “Another thing Rocky can do now with the best of them is feint. If Walcott tries feinting him next Tuesday night, you will see him get feinted right back. If Joe thinks he’s going to make a sucker out of Rocky with that funny stuff of his, he’s going to get a big surprise, “Rocky right now is a much better boxer than a lot of people think. He’ll never be a classic- looking fighter, but don’t make the mistake of thinking he’s awkward. “Has he faced as good a boxer as Walcott I would say yes, I think that Roland La Stara was as clever as Joe is, and Rocky decisioned him in 10 rounds. Since then he’s made a hospital case of Leg Savold, and don’t think that bird didn’t learn something about boxing in 20 years in the ring. “The big point is that there’s no comparison between the Rocky who licked La Stara and the Rocky who will be in there with Walcott on Tuesday night. He has improved with every fight. Six months from now he will be a better fighter than he is now, be- cause he’s in there thinking every minute and trying to improve himself.” News Briefs Paul Dekker is being counted on | to become Michigan State’s top | Pass receiver during the coming | football season, | ee) | In former times, many African | tribes kept cattle for use as a form | of currency and seldom slaughter- ed them for food. + For a delicious luncheon dish top slices of buttered toast with thick tomato slices and a cheese sauce. Season the sauce with enough | Worcestershire to give it a tang. alll Att <e Re e Associated Press Wirephoto Outboarders To Be Honored At Lions Meet It wil be Key West Outboard Motor Club tonight, at the regu- lar meeting of the Key West Lions Club in’their den on Sem- inary Street. All winners of the recent Labor Day Race will be guests of the Club and receive their respective prizes. The Labor Day races are spon- sored annually by the Key West Lions Club and enjoyed by thou- sands of boat racing enthusiasts. The Outboard Motor Club never fails their followers ,always mak- ing each succeeding race more spectacular than the previous. Winners were: Fisherman's Class: 1st—Bill Bassert. 2nd—Warren Russel!. 3rd—Tico Atwell. Class B— 1st—David Nason. 2nd—Jimmy Wells. 3rd—Cecil Cates. Class C— 1st—Dr. Fred Carbonell. Johnny Busto and Ben Scho- neck tied for second place. Free for all— 1st—Raymond Maloney. 2nd—James Hanson. 3rd—Bascom Grooms. First prize trophies were do- nated by Dan Navarro, Navarro, Inc., Ralph Faraldo, Holsum Ba- kery, Gerald Adams, Adams Dairy, Charles Thompson, of Thompson Enterprizes Hardware. Other prizes were donated by Ray’s auto parts, Bryant's, Bay- view, Southernmost, Gulf Pride, US No. 1 Terminal, Standard service stations and Bill’s South- ernmost Garage. Along with the other sportswrit- ers who witnessed the University of Miami’s first grid contest for 1952 in Miami on Monday night, my outlook for them this coming year will be more losses than wins, if, they can’t find a replacement for Jack Hackett, last year’s quar- terback. In that game, Coach Andy Gustafson used four quarterbacks, two of them were freshman, and mone of them proved that they were freshman, and none of them Proved that they were capable, at Jeast at this time in taking over that slot. When you have backfield men such as Jim Dooley, Frank Smith and Hackett graduated and none in sight to take their place, if you were the coach what would you do? That's the question that Coach Andy must face and is do- ing so with a look to future years instead of this one. The U. of M. offensive team in the first quarter put on an exhibi- tion that made many of the fans sit up and take notice. But after they had scored two TD’s it was just a question of keeping the ball, so they stayed with the basic plays because of the scouts from Alabama, VMI, and Kentucky sit- ting in the press box taking down their notes. In the defensive department, the front eight men look players but the three deep men need more pass defense work. Fact of the matter, Fort Jackson got | their only touchdown by interfer- | ence in the end zone. Heary Mallios was not In condi- on for this tilt due to the fact that e only participated in five prac- JACK K. BURKE like good | UAW Will Ask General Motors For Wage Hike By Glenn Engle DETROIT «—Bound by con- tract until 1955, the CIO United Auto Workers are asking General | Motors to go beyond their historic cost-of-living pact and grant im- | mediate wage and pension benefits. If G. M., the industry’s pattern setter for years, agrees, the union presumably will ask Ford, Chrys- |ler and other auto companies with similar contracts to do likewise. The UAW disclosed yesterday that informal discussions on the subject, as secret at the contract negotiations themselves, have been held recently. But the talks re- |portedly have been brief so far. General Motors declined comment on their nature. The union’s National General Motors Council, representing some 350,000 G. M. workers throughout the country, touched off the drive for contract improvements. Emphasizing that it was-not at- tempting to reopen the non-re- | openable contract, the council said additional benefits were. needed to bring the contract, signed in pre- Korean May, 1950, abreast of cur- rent living conditions. So it adopted a resolution asking the industry’s biggest producer to “implement” the agreement by: 1. Boosting the guaranteed an- nual 4-cent hourly raise — the so- called annual improvement factor — to 5 cents. 2, Adding 21 of the 26 cents an hour gained in cost-of-living ad- justments since the pact was signed to base pay. This would mean that only 5 cents could be taken away if the cost-of-living dives ‘sharply between now and May, 1955. 3. Adjusting pensions of G. M. workers who have. retired under the contract to give them the same purchasing power they had when the agreement was signed. The un- ion did not say how much of a raise would be needed in the current VIEWS y tice sessions because of a bad throat brought on by streptococcus. Bob Schneidenback, quarterback from last year’s squad did most of the passing with the majority of them overshooting his intended re- ceiver. For punting, freshman Frank Grady from Maywood, N. J. put on a demonstration that many are still talking about. His first of the evening stopped dead on the two yard line, while the other trav- eled 56, 54, and 53 yards respec- tvely Ths proves one fact that as far as Coach Andy’s kicking de- partment is concerned, he has nothing to worry about as long as he has Grady. Defensively the man of the night was Rex Shiver a returning letter- man. He figured in at a minimum of 20 tackles for the night. His line backing along with lineman Jim Pressnall, left end Ralph Aguilera, Leo Martin’s replacement, Nick | Chickillio (a rough hard nosed kid, so stated Coach Gustafson), Gene | Buccilli, and Ted Lubas. At the luncheon on Tuesday after the golf tournament, Gustafson sta- | ted that he did not expect too much from these kids this year His out- look was the same as ours and he | also stated that he would be satis- fied with one more win than a loss for without such veterans as he had, it would be hard to face the schedule of Alabama, Marquette, | | Boston College, Kentucky and | | others. | { The University’s first scheduled | game is Friday night September! | 26 in the Orange Bow! at 8:00 p.m | against the Virginia Military Insti- tute. ERT BODY AND FENDE. \ AUTOMOBILE PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN WILSON'S AUTO TRIM G. E. SCHMUTZ, Mgr. Cor, Greene and Simonton Sts Phone 608 Thursday, Sentember 18, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page § GRID SEASON STARTS Sport Shorts Hialeah’s Flamingo Stakes is the oldest stakes race in winter. It was first run at Tampa in 1926 and moved to Hialeah in 1929, Manger Steve O'Neill of the Phillies began his managerial ca- see in 1929 with the Toronto Maple ‘s. One-armed Pete Gray batted .218 for the St. Louis Browns in 1945. The Nanticoke, Pa. native played in 77 American League games. George Mikan, regarded as the most outstanding pro basketball player in history, recently took his Minnesota bar examination. Ray Lee Walls, 19, Pittsburgh rookie outfielder, hit .342 for Mod- esto, Calif. in 135 games last | year. He drove in 109 runs. LeMAY GOES TO KOREA SEOUL, Korea (#—Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the U. S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, arrived today for a brief visit with top Allied ground and air commanders in Korea. maximum of $125 a month, includ- ing social security. General Motors and the UAW first negotiated the now much- used escalator system hitching wages to living costs in 1948. That was a two-year pact. In 1950 they revised it somewhat and extended it for five years. Now virtually all the industry's million workers are covered by cost-of-living agreements, provid- nig a 1 cent pay boost or cut for each 1.14 rise or fall in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumers price index. They also are covered by the 4-cent “improvement” clauses and similar pension ar- rangements. The UAW G. M. Council pointed out that the G. M. eontract had been widely copied in other indus- tries and that in some of them cost-of-living gains had been added to base pay. The council said the 1-cent in- crease in the improvement factor was needed to keep that factor at a ratio of 2 per cent of the! average worker’s pay — which it was in 1950 but is not now that the average has gone up to roughly $2 an hour. For some time now there have been rumors that the UAW would seek to put its pension system on some kind of an escalator. The G. M. request was the first move in that direction. | South: EARLY By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK—® football this week with a speeded-up program that lists a half-dozen conference games and intersectional contests which would have been mid- November attractions five years ago As a result, football forecasters are on the spot at the very start. There is no warmup period of picking breathers. Here’s how the major games should come out this weekend: Southern California over Wash- ington State: State’s surprising sophomores of last year are ex- perienced now and the Trojans have just completed the shift back to the single wing. A weak nod to Southern California in the Friday night affair. Texas Christian over Kansas: This is the game you can see on your TV set Saturday afternoon. The Texans are the defending champions in the Southwest Con- ference and Kansas is rated one of the Big Seven’s best. Maryland over Missouri: The split-T attack was invented by Coach Don Faurot of Missouri. Now his squad will be devoured by the Maryland team. Texas over Louisiana State: The pre-season dope lists Texas among the “haves” and LSU among the “have nots” this year. A Saturday night game. Kentucky over Villanova. A squeaker that could go either way But Kentucky’s sophomores are the pick Saturday night. Duke over Washington and Lee: Duke's roster lists an even two dozen returning lettermen. That's too much experience for the gen- erals. Skipping over the others in a hurry: Friday Night Denver over Colorado College, Alabama over Mississippi South- ern, Furman over Newberry, Saturday East Syracuse over Bolling Air Force Base,Yale over Connecticut, Penn State over Temple. Clemson over Presbyteri- an, Richmond over Randolph-Ma- con, Florida over Stetson, Georgia Tech over The Citadel, Virginia Tech over Davidson, South Caro- lina over Wofford, Virginia Milita over William & Mary. Midwest: Kansas State over Bradley, Boston Unversity over Wichita, Nebraska over South Da- kota,lowa State over South Dakota State Southwest: Arkansas over Okla- homa A & M, Houston over Texas A & M, Baylor over Wake Forest. Far West: California over Col- lege of Pacific, Washington over Idaho, UCLA over Oregon, Utah over Oregon State,Stanford over Santa Clara, Montana over Utah State, Arizona over Hawaii. Before you pack that college trunk, see our hand- some selection of casual shoes for your smart campus wear, All finest quality, mderately priced. 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