The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 27, 1952, Page 5

Saturday, September 27. 1992 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Conchs Trample Pahckee, 26-7 The Key West High Conchs, com- bined a classy passing attack with a bruising ground game to produce scores in every period last night as they clobbered the Pahokee Blue Devils 26-7. The win marked the second straight Key West victory in the infant 1952 season. The victory was even more dec- isive than the score indicated, with the Conchs completely domin- ating the ballgame. Joe Pineda, Lucy Gonzalez and Johnny Cruz teamed up in an offensive display that completely befuddled Pahokee. Again, the hard hitting locals cap- italized on their opponents mis- takes when they recovered a fum- ble on the Pahokee 43 yard line early in the opening period and moments later, Johnny Cruz swept around end for 20 yards and the touchdown. A plunge for the extra Point was stopped. In the second stanza, Key West took a Pahokee punt on their own 20-yard line and they needed only eight plays to carry them 84 yards for another score. Joe Pineda’s 29 yard aerial, to halfback Lucy Gonzalez paved the way for the second touchdown. Gonzalez then racked up the six- Pointer when he sliced through left guard for the final four yards, Har- old Solomon missed the try for the conversion. ‘ Following the kickoff for the sec- ond half the Conchs launchec a 68- yard drive which brought them their third counter. The Conchs took to the air for the score when Joe Pineda conn- ected with a 23-yard touchdown heave to Gonzalez who latched on to the pigskin on the two yard marker and trotted over the line. Harold Solomon bucked through the line for the extra point. Pahokee saved themselves from a shutout when they crossed the line on the opening play of the for- th quarter. Pahokee’s Jimmy Hople rerover- ed a Conch fumble on the Key West 25-yard stripe as the whistle ae for the end of the third per- Bill Hatten plowed over on the next play and repeated the pro- cess for the extra point. Key West, climaxed a 65-yard scoring drive when Joe Pineda stepped into payoff dirt on a quart- erback sneak from the two-yard a seconds before the final whist- New Members Join Outboard Club Friday At the regular Friday night meet- ing of the Outboard Club, several new members were welcomed. Discussion of the winter Lea- gue basketball occupied a good por- tion of the time. It seems that plans by the City Recreation for winter basketball haven't arrived at any definite decision as yet. The Outboard Club voted that if a League is formed they will spon- sor a team, and hope that other Organizations and Merchants will consider sponsoring a goodly num- ber of teams and make it a strong League. The Outboard Club as a whole, are rabid basketball¥fans. They cheered their team right in to the final play offs and copped the City Championship in the 1950 . 51 sea- son. Key West has an abundance of good basketball talent and plenty of fans to back them up, so the Outboard Boys are hoping for a Red Hot League this winter, Arctic ice moves clockwise around the North Pole, pushed by prevailing winds and currents. * — S DIVOT DIGGINGS Some 20 members of the Key West Golf Club enjoyed a crawfish dinner last night at the clubhouse, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lopez, Sr. Along with this wonderful dish (my first) rice, cub- an bread, pie and coffee were ser- ved. According to the Club President Roy Duke, this affair will be 2 mon- thly event and in the future, one will be for the wives also. After the dinner, the Board of Directors held a meeting to decide the dates of the coming events that are being planned. Next Sunday, October 5, the Jam- boree will be held. Following that a four ball tournament. On the Jamboree, the rules and ~ COM. CARBONELL (Continued From Page One) opposition to the dog track is for economic reasons. I beg you not to take the chance. “They tell us that you can vote it out, but have you seen the law? Get a lawyer to show it to you, and you will see how much red tape is necessary te wade through to secure a referendum, it’s next to impossible, folks! “I urge everyone of you to vote no against the dog track Tuesday, September 30.” Stone, who came to Key West to lift it out of the depression in 1934 as FERA, later WPA admin- istrator said: “TI stopped carnivals in Key West back in those days when I was ad- miristrator. I oppose the dog track coming here for the same reason. Though the ulation “-s grown from 12,000 then to 30,000 now the ratio of money drained by the dog track would be the same as the carnival took from Key West in 1933.”” Sheriff-Elect John Spottswood said that one of his first acts when takes office will be to stop carn. coming to Key West for the same reason that Stone opposes the dog track. Monte Carlo, an other Island, had a population of 21,000 in 1948 though the gambling center of France bans residents of Monte Carlo or Mon- aco, the principality in which Mon- te Carlo is located from gambling in the world famous casinos. They are forbidden from even walking in the door. You have to show your Passport to preve you are not a resident of Monaco to gamble there. Why? Because the Prince of Mon- aco is responsible for the prosper- ity and welfare of his people and he realizes that they would become impoverished at the cambling cas- inos. The situation in the Island of Key West is the same, said Stone. “The State of Florida recognizes the drain of dog racing on a com- munity and permits it only 90 days during the height of the tourist sea- son. “Dog racing would be like putting a vacuum cleaner in the Key West pocket book” said the attorney. PORTS = BENCH VIEWS JACK K. BURKE regulation will be put in this col- umn. Joe Lopez, Sr., stated that some of the holes will have to be Played differently as he did not want the greens marked with lime. You can’t blame him, for the up- keep of the greens is a tedious job and expensive. Those who are planning to play in the Big League Sunday are ask- ed to call the clubhouse and give Joe your name so that the pair- ings can be made up before hand and not at the last minute, as in the past. November 2nd, Homestead Golf Club, if the plans are completed, will play a club match with the locals in Key West. More details on this affair wil Ibe posted at a later date, “The proposed track provides no dividend income to Key Westers, because there seems to be no offer of local participation, or even in the direction of the track. As far as I know there is no renresc “‘a- tion of Key West on the board of directors.” As far as gambling in Key West, Stone said: “T've lived here long enough to know that you won’t stop gambling. But at least it’s now done by all local people. The dog track on the contrary will siphon money out of Key West except for employees.” Once the track is voted in, it is impossible for the voters to get rid of it Stone said. “A high proportion of the regist- ered voters, 20 percent, is neccess- ary even to obtain a petition for recall, that would be about 2400 voters. No other community in Florida has ever been able to rid itself of a track once it was voted in. The argument that dog racing would bring more tourists here does not impress Stone, he said. “If we had lots of empty motels and hotels, I'd be in favor of it. But we need three times as many tourists rooms as we have now. At least three times as many people come in on the highway as there are rooms for now. We have only 2.000 rental rooms in the city, way to ofew to put up our current win- ter visitors, The attorney asked: “Why should Key West even take a chance that it may suffer econ- omically from a track? You don't do it in business why do it by vot- ing in the track?” Meanwhile Key West Liquor deal- ers launched a busy weekeend of ringing doorbells to get out the vote against the track, President Riley Carbonell said. The Assoc- iation has been conducting a wide- spread campaign in the news- papers and radio agaainst the Stock Island track. They will carry | voters to the polls on Tuesday. Church leaders are preaching the Tuesday election, They too will Provide transportation for voters, Ole Miss Looks To Winning Season In °53 By STERLING SLAPPEY Associated Press Sports Writer Mississippi's brand of football isn't nationally advertised with long winning streaks, glamour Bow! games on Now Year's Day and by tremendous crowds beg- ging to snap up that last 100,000 tickets at $5 a throw. For seasons on end, with a few interruptions, the Rebels played well, won a majority of their games but did little of the spec- tacular. This season, however, if all goes well, Mississippi should collect some clippings and spend some pleasant Saturday afternoons This Saturday afternoon most likely will be one of the most pleasant. Mississippi will be in Lexington to play Kentucky and prospects of a Rebel victory are at least 2.1, probably 31. Break that down in scoring punches and Mississippi is about a two-touch down favorite in a game with a The split T formation gives most of the reason for those odds. Both teams use the divided line, a roam- ing quarterback, a lot of pitchouts and laterals and optional plays where the quarterback can either |run, throw or pitchout. But, Mis- sissippi looks better at the routine | than Kentucky. | Three other Southeastern games will be going on Saturday after- | noon while the battle of Lexington | is in progress and this is how they look: | Georgia Tech over Florida but j not by the three touchdowns a lot jof Tech men are quoting. Both teams are good defensively and neither has completely reliable quarterbacking. Atlanta is the site. Tennessee over Mississippi State in Memphis unless State is bitten by the victory bug. Auburn was bitten by that bug last year, Fior- da had it in 1950. Without the bug ennessee is the pick by three 4 Georga overs Tulane wah bow passes. Tulane’s new deep wing Bives Pete Clement time to wind up and let fly. Georgia's Zeke Bratkowski throws long or short, Preferably to Harry Babcock a long way off. Georgia should win nd four touchdowns to two or ree. The interconference program is Charlottesville, Maryland is a three-touchdown favorite, but Auburn speed and running should get a touchdown or two. Maryland’s 13-10 squeek ly burt Auburn chances for an wp- | set this week, Vanderbilt over Auburn is the Upset pick of the day. The weeks program ends Sat- urday night B Rouge be tween Alabama LSU. The | game should be close with LSU a | POW of two w frost teams scoring and plenty of long | ‘Sub Softball good with Maryland in Birming | ham against ambitious Auburn. | Vanderbilt and Virginia play in| last week over Missouri most like | For Second Straight Victory Yankees And Dodgers To Be Well Rested By RALPH RODEN 7 Associated Press Sports Writer The N. Y. Yanks and D ~ World Series foes, for the first | time in five years, will be well rested when the 1952 classic opens in Brooklyn next Wednes- day. The New York Yankees made that certain last night when they defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 in 11 innings to clinch their fourth straight American League flag and their 19th in the last 32 | years. The Dodgers have been tak- ing things easy since Tuesday when they nailed down the Na- tional League pennant. Not since 1947 when the Yanks and Dodgers breezed home have pennant races in both leagues been decided before the final bell. Last year the Dodgers and New York Giants wound up the regular season tied for top honors and the miracle Giants went on to cop a best out of three playoff series | to win the pennant. In 1950 Phila- delphia clinched the National League pennant on the final day of the season. In 1949 both the Yanks and Dod- gers won their pennants on the final day of the season. In 1948 Cleveland captured the American League pennant by beating Boston in a one game “sudden death” playoff for the title. 2 The Yanks tied a rare record in bagging their fourth straight championship. Only other teams to win four consecutive champion- ships were John McGraw’s Giants of 1921-24 and Joe McCarthy's Yanks of 1936-1939. Billy Martin was the man of the hour for the Yanks. The scrappy infielder singled with the bases loaded and two out in the 11th to break a 2-2 tie that enabled the Yanks to take the marbles. A third run scored on an error. The triumph gave the Yanks a three-game lead over the runner- up Indians and made it impossible for the Tribe to overhaul the Bombers as both teams have only two games left to play. Home runs accounted for the | game’s other runs. Irv Noren and Mickey Mantle connected for the Yanks off Harry Byrd, the A’s strong-armed rookie righthander. Gus Zernial drove in both Phila- delphia runs with a four-bagger off | Ed Lopat in the sixth inning. Lopat was in hot water through- out the game, yielding 11 hits un- til he was relieved by Johnny Sain | with two out in the ninth. Bril- liant fielding, especially by Phil Rizzuto and Noren, saved Lopat’s hide. In the only other American League games rookie Freeman pitched the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 victory over Washing- | ton and Saul Rogovin hurled the Chicago White Sox to a 6-2, two-hit | triumph over St. Louis. The Dodgers tuned up for the | series by beating the Boston Braves, 8-4. The Brooks used most of their scrubs but the lone regular who played the entire game, Billy Cox, had a big hand in the victory Hershel | Page 5} Cox knocked in three runs on ay homer and single. In other National League games. the Giants trounced Philadelphia, 8-0, Cincinnati downed Pittsburgh 5-0, and St. Louis swamped Chica go, 10-3. Sal Maglie gained his 18th vic- tory for the Giants, although he was relieved by Hoyt Wilhelm in the eighth. Home runs by Al Dark, | Don Mueller and Whitey Lockman featured the Giant attack. Gerry Staley breezed to his 17th victory as the Cards clinched third | place. Stan Musial belted a homer | Sermons against the track, and urg- | jing their congregations to vote in and single and increased his bat- ting lead to seven points over the Cubs’ Frank Baumholtz. Baum haultz collected one hit in four trips, Gilmore Extends Win Streak In In two days of Submarine soft ball play, the Gilmore continued on a Winning spree slugging the Balao 15-7 or Thursday and troune- ing the Bluefish, 17-6, last night. The two wins put them in fourth place, within a game and a half of the first place Chivo. Other games included the Cero topping the winless Petrel, 70 on Thursday and in yesterday's game the Trumpe’fish trimmed the | Bushnell, 5-2 and the Seacat out scored the Archerfish, 13-12 Today's gar finds the first place Chivo against the Bulzo ot versus the Bh Bar aying the Cero and the Petre! win number ope against mullop tons of coal a + —— FS TE CITIZENS OF KEY WEST: We need and want the cooperation of you, the people who live here. Even though a great proportion of our prospective business will come from the Tourists during our limited 90-day winter season, without your approval and consent, we are bound to fail. Even though we are most anxious to come here, we do not want anyone who is opposed to us on grounds of con- scientious principle, to violate the same. As to those people, we have a healthy respect for them, and we trust they vote NO. BUT there is a group who refuse to identify them- selves, do not sign any literature, do not sign any ad- vertisements. We have given you facts, figures and in- formation and have signed our names to all literature and to all advertisements. Yesterday this group insert- ed a mis-leading advertisement in The Key West Citi- zen. We have stated that by law we are required to re- turn to the public 83% of the dollar. We reaffirm and re-assert this as a truth. We stand four-square upon it. This group of opponents take us to task for this state- ment. They charge that if you bet $10,000, by the end of the first race there will only be $8,300 left and if con- tinued to be bet by the end of the tenth race there will only be $1,869 remaining. They ask the question “Who gets the difference?” This is preposterous logic. This disregards the fact that there will be winners (amongst whom the 83% is distributed) and that winners do not bet their entire winnings on the next race. It disregards the fact that the same players do not always play the same amounts. It disregards the fact that new players will be entering into the grounds, at subsequent times and af- ter different races. The logic is on the same par with the statement that a child weighing twenty pounds at the end of one year will weigh two hundred pounds at the end of ten years. We state unequivocably that at the end of any day, the law requires that the total percentage of all the play shall only be 17 percent for any and all pur- poses, including the 5% state tax. The same $10,000 re- ferred to in the group’s advertisement bet during any day, irrespective of any number of persons, or any amount bet in any race will only have 17% deducted, and 83% returned to the public. If any one doubts this statement, wire the state racing commission for in- formation. Beware of other misleading statements which may be published by groups who are not willing to give their names in connection with any advertise- ments. Respectfully submitted, ABE ARONOVITZ, President Key West Kennel Club. VOTE YES FOR APPROVAL OF DOG TRACK PERMIT ON SEPT. 30TH ANY MONROE COUNTY VOTER WHO REGISTERED PRIOR TO AUG. 31, 1952, CAN VOTE! KEY WEST KENNEL CLUB