The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1952, Page 5

Conch Gridmen Face Four Straigiit Tough Tests After Two Easy Staris Coach Ed Beckman of the Key West high school football agrega- tion, pointed out today that the Red and White which is currently rid- ing on the crest of a two game win streak, “‘is over the easy ones” and from now on down to the curtain they will have their work cut out for them, when they face four of their toughest oponents of the cam- paign starting with Lake Worth a week from Friday. “We've got to snap out of it; we’ve met two teams when we had the edge, but if we don’t get down to business, we are going to be plenty surprised some Friday aight,” Beckman added. Besides the fact that his squad fs inexperienced, Beckman has a Psychological problem to cope with after a pair of easy wins in the season's opener. Bake Worth, who held Fort Pierce, one of the heaviest and most experienced schoolboy grid agregations in the state to a draw last week, will have a decided edge over the Conchs. The Lake Worth boys held their own in the contest and when the game ended were threatening from the Ft, Pierce ten yard line. The key to the situation might well be the tilt between Pa- hokee and Lake Worth which is set for this coming Friday. The Conchs captured an easy 26-7 win over the Blue Devils last week. They are said to be the weakest team that the Conchs will neet this season and a decisive victory on the part of Lake Worth could indicate the outcome of their upcoming meeting with the Conchs. Beckman is working his boys nightly on their offensive game and next week will set the second stringers up in a simulated Lake Worth offense, so that the locals will know what to look for come the big night. Lake Worth was well scouted by the Conch high command and ac- cording to those in the know runs their plays from a split T that makes for a wide open game that could be tough for the inexperienc- ed Key Westers to solve. John Cruz is among the missing in the current practice sessions, having twisted his ankle badly in the Pahokee tussle. However the lay of Lucy Gonzalez is giving eckman plenty of cause for re- foicing. ~ And the return of hard digging defensive end Ralph White to the lineup, will be a real help to the West dol me. John Cary is showing nicely in the nightly drills as well. However with Beckman’s policy of “starting from scratch” as the tough ones come up, might produce a few changes in the planned start- ‘ng combination. Sellout Is Seen _ For Havana Bout HAVANA, Cuba —A sell-out was predicted today for the Kid Gavilan-Billy Graham welterweight championship fight here Oct. 4. Dr. Lorenzo Nodarse, govern- Crimson Tide Favored Over Hurricanes MIAMI, Fla. #—The Alabama Tide, with a flashy running attack and an improving defense, rates a slight favorite over tough Uni- versity of Miami in their Friday night meeting. But *Bama Coach Red Drew has a healthy respect for the Hurri- canes, who knocked off V. M. I. 45-0, last week. “Alabama will have to be sharp- er than it was against Louisiana State last Saturday to beat Miami,” Drew says. The Tide just nipped L. S. U., 21-20, on a tremendous fourth quarter thrust through the line by sophomore Back Bobby Luna, who then converted for the winning point. *Bama had beaten Mississippi Southern, 20-6, the week before despite setting a new Southeastern Conference record of 12 fumbles in a game. Miami got off to a flying start’ against V. M. I. with a flock of fancy freshmen and sophomores carrying a lot af the load. Coach Andy Gustafson says his coaching staff is having difficulty agreeing on how to set up defenses against the Tide’s Clell Hobson, Bobby Marlow, Corky Tharp, Luna, Tommy Leais and Bob Conway. The Miami backfield was bol- stered by the return to duty of Harry Mallios, only regular back from the 1951 team. He had been out with a bad throat. Another regular will be missing, however. He is Back Gordon Mal- loy, a transfer from Georgia Tech. The contract between the two schools bars use of transfer stu- dents by Miami. Alabama has several ailing line- men and at least two, Billy Shipp and O. E. hillips, are not ex- pected to see any action at all because of leg injuries. The game, starting at 8:15 p. m. (EST), is expected to draw 50,000 or more. spectators. This would make it the biggest southern crowd of the young football season. ‘The teams have met twice be- fore. Alabama won 21-7 in 1941 and 21-6 in 1947. ment sports director, said “We have more than $40,,000 in cash on hand for tickets already, and it looks as if the 45,000 seats we are planning will not be enough.” He said there will be no tele- vision of the fight in the United States, because “they would have had to station a ship about mid- way to Miami to relay the signal, I was told, and the whole operation would cost about $60,000. Besides, there was a problem of getting time. There may be U. S. radio broadcasting. We are negotiating on that now.” BENCH VIEWS | By JACK K. BURKE All golfers, duffers and Bill Plow- man are invited to enter the Jam- boree this coming Sunday, October Sth, at the Key West Golf Club. The Props have been found, rules have been rewritten, now its up to you, through, it will be your obligation to give them a good argument. 6. Holes will not be marked on the green. Flags will be removed. Do ngt show your opponent where the hole is. 7. If your opponent is not look- Good golf will go unrewarded, Fact | 198 you may pick up his ball and of the matter,.the least you know | Pt it into a sand trap about the game the better off you will be. Entrance fee will be one buck and that will go for prizes | green, use ball provided by Com- | tangle with Cana ORDER OF PLAY No. 1. From tee to green - con: ventional clubs. Upon reaching which will be given for nine-hole | mittee No, 2 With or without shoes — Ole Miss. Win Is Seen Sat. Over Auburn By The Associated Press Those who like to see the fur fly in a football game stand a in the Mississippi-Auburn clash on Saturday. Some of the experts are saying Mississippi is one of the top teams, if not the topmost, in the South- eastern Conference. And they hold steadfast in their belief even though Ole Miss was held to a 13-13 tie hy Kentucky. Auburn's stock soared after the Plainsmen held mighty Maryland to a 13-7 score. Ole Miss has a lot of big tough backs and Auburn has some fur- ripping guys, too--such as Rigas Coptsias, Herman Howard, Charles Hataway and Vince Dooley. Coach Ralph Jordan also has some great reserve strength in rugged: fresh- men. The frosh handled the varsity pretty roughly in yesterday’s prac- tice. “Missed tackles” have plagued L. S. U. in its first two games. So Coach Gaynell Tinsley is jug- gling his offensive and defensive lines in hopes of finding a cure by the time the Tigers go up against Rice Saturday. Coach Bobby Dodd of: Georgia Tech is hoping Fullback Glen Turner from Talladega, Ala., will do a much better job against Southern Methodist Saturday than he did against Florida. If Glen gets loose on his famed runs against S. M. U., Dodd won't have too much to worry about. Georgia’s Coach Wally Butts is tutoring three of his top linemen in the art of defensive play as well as offensive in special prep- aration for North Carolina. Tackles James (Baby) Locke and Jerry Griffin and Guard Bruce Wimberley heretofore have been looked upon largely as offensive Players. Butts ran short of defen- sive linemen in the Tulane game, so he’s teaching the boys to ‘“‘dou- ble in brass.” Gen. Bob Neyland impressed his Tennessee boys with the impor- tance of Saturday’s game by tell- ing them that “Duke has one of the finest teams in the country.” Hopes continue to run high at Vanderbilt with Northwestern just around the corner. Vandy lost its first two games. Coach Murray Warmath of Mis- sissippi State is worrying about over-confidence as his youngsters practice to meet Arkansas State. Rugged contact drill is on the pro- gram for the next day or two. Coach Paul Bryant of Kentucky it to his disappointment formance against Mississippi by benching Tom yesterday. Bryant said he'll play somebody else in place of Tom against Texas A, and M. Florida Gators snapped back into long hard practice yesterday after a day of rest. They're not taking The Citadel for granted. Alabama freshmen halted the varsity on offensive plays yester- day on practice for Friday night's game with Miami. Willie Pep To Hit Comeback Trail Tonight CHICAGO W—Willie Pep, trying to hit the road back to the feather- weight title at the age of 30, wil! "s lightweight |and welterweight champion, Ar- | ond Savoie, tonight at Chicago . longest drive | Stand in tub of water, use a No. 9 | Stadium. with left-handed wood, lowest score | Iron for tee shot. Play to green with | on No. 4 and No. 7, highest num- | No. 3 Iron. Upon reaching green, | greatest boxing records in history, j putt out with ball provided by Com- All kinds of hazards will be erect- | mittee. ber of putts for nine holes, etc. ed and several types of bails are required for play. Some shots will | conventional clubs. Upon reaching | broadcast 10 rounder will start at | No. 3. Stand on one leg and play be on one leg, out of a tub filled | green, use hand Mashie. with springs No. 4, Play with bails provided The many who have been want- | by Committee. ing this tournament now have their | chance and all that want to parti- jby Committee, play conventional | four draws. The 24-year-old Savoie cipate, whether you are a club | clubs to green and putt with elub / is shooting for a lightweight title member or not, call the ciubhouse, | provided by Committee. 9221, and give Joe Lopez or Peter your name. Lets have a large turn- out, The more the merrier RULES FOR JAMBOREE Bach player is obligated to tt; i 4 2 & t i i bi { ijt of t ie have 2 host 4 oa a§ S i ball and the | No. 5. Drive with club provided No, 6. Tee off with club provided by Committee, play conventional clubs to green and putt out with club and ball provided by Com- mittee. his opponents abide by al! | No. 1. Blindfolded tee shot. Balls tollowieg wiles tw play ot | being defeated only five times in | 174 pro bouts since 1940, | The nationally televised and }10 p. m. (EST). In Savoie, Pep will meet a rugged battler who has won % fights, 20 by | knockouts, lost seven and fought | bout with the winner of the Oct. 18 match here between Champion | Lauro Salas and Jimmy Carter, \Softball Action Set For Friday mound for the City League sil while the Navy «ill come back wrth ‘“Homes” Frenhite. pretty good chance of satisfaction | Fiery little Pep owns one of the | Pirates Ask For Bids On Ralph Kiner By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK — Ralph Kiner, seven-time home run king of the | National League, has been placed | on the market to the highest bid- | der, The Associated Press learned | today. It also was learned that the Chi- | cago Cubs and Boston Braves had | | shown interest in the Pittsburgh | | Pirate slugger but were balking at | the ‘“‘skyscraping” figure put on | him by Pittsburgh General Mana- ger Branch Rickey. “Sure, we're interested in Kin- | er,” a Braves official said. “Why | shouldn’t we be? We're not the only club anxious to get him, either.” } A Cub official said practically | the same thing. “We'd like to have Kiner,” the | Chicago representative confessed. | “He always hit well in Wrigley | Field. We’re willing to go pretty | high for him, too. But from what much.” Neither official wished to be identified. Kiner, who wil! be 30 years old Oct. 27, is ranked as one of the greatest sluggers baseball has ever | known. The 6-foot-2 native of New | Mexico has led or tied for the National League lead in home runs ever since he came up to the maj- ors in 1946. Hampered by illness during the first half of the season, Kiner got off to a slow start this year but | closed fast to tie Hank Sauer of | the Cubs for the homer leadership at 37. It was his lowest home run total in six years, but it gave him a lifetime figure of 294 round trippers in seven seasons. He bat- ted only .244, | One drawback to the sale of Kiner is his huge salary. The good- natured outfjelder was paid $75,000 | last year, second in the majors | only to Stan Musial’s $85,000 sal- ary. It was a one-year pact, Yanks Pin Hopes On Mickey Mantle By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK #—Who will be the | outstanding star in the 1953 World Series? Jackie Robinson? Peewee Reese? Joe Black? Phil Rizzuto? Yogi Berra? Allie Reynolds? The writer's selection is Mickey Mantle, the ever-improving New Sport Shorts By ED CORRIGAN BROOKLYN ® — Last-minute quotes from the opposing pitchers in the opener of the World Series teday at Ebbets Field: Joe Black, Brooklyn—The way I feel right now it’s just another ball game. The Yankees don’t awe me at all. After watching them work out, I realized they were just an- other ball club. They're a good ball club, but the Dodgers seem to be a pretty good club, too. Allie Reynolds, New York — I feel okay. I know that the series starts today. I believe we're up for the game. I know I am, and that’s about it. Outfielders Carl Furillo of the Brooks and Gene Woodling of the Yankees, each of whom is nursing a slight injury, are not worrying. Furillo’s left hand is taped. “The only time I fee} my pain is when I swing at one and miss it,” said Carl. ‘But the bandage helps.” Woodling’s groin injury seems to have healed and he said he felt “fine” when he lifted his bat. Commissioner Ford Frick laid down a couple of rules to keep the games going at a brisk pace: 1. No more than four men to gather around the pitchers’ mound when the hurler is in distress, 2. The batter must run toward first base immediately after a dropped third strike. If he doesn’t he’s out. This isn’t like the old days in Brooklyn. Not a parade, nor even a demonstration. When the Brooks won in ’41, you would have thought | the millenium had arrived. Now it’s habit. Even Dodger rooters are getting blase about it. Wisconsin Is Given Edge In Illinois Tilt By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO (®—Squinting into a cloudy crystal, the Ol Swami makes another blind stab: Wisconsin 21 Illinois 13--a_rip- snorter, matching the Big Ten’s two best fullbacks, Bill Tate vs. the Badgers’ Alan Ameche; and the passing wizardry of Illinois’ Tom O'Connell vs. the conference’s newest quarterback star, Jim Haluska ... The big difference -- Illinois cannot match the running of halfbacks Harland Carl, Jerry Witt and Tom Canny. Ohio State 20 Purdue 14--they say that freshman Howard Cassady who barrelled to three Buckeye | touchdowns against Indiana, hasn't cooled off yet ... This, plus the fact that the game is at Ohio State, | may be enough to give Coach Woody Hayes’ split-T terrors their first win over Purdue since 1942. ... Flip a coin on this one | York Yankee sophomore star who | shoes of the great Joe Dimaggio. The Yankees have had a mono- poly on World Series stars during the past few years for obvious reasons. The first is that they've been the American League repre- } sentatives in all but one year since 1947. The other is that they've won | the world championship each time Mantle may become the fourth | straight Yankee to win the Series outstanding honor this year. The Oklahoma strong boy has improved at such a rapid pace during the summer that he developed into one of the most feared batsmen in the American League. During the September stretch drive Mantle was a one-man destruction gang with his dat, clubbing at a 375 pace to bring his batting average up to 311, tops on the Yankee | team. | The fleet-footed youngster paced the Bronx Bombers in hits, tota bases, extra base hits and was second only to Berra in home runs and runs batted in. A switch hit ter, Mickey possesses equal power from both sides of the plate. He |hit 12 homers lefthanded and 11 righthanded during the season | The switcher, as he is called by his teammates, also has developed ITech Coach Says Football Bigtime JACKSONVILLE, Fla # eryone seems to want the te de ~ emphasize football. ssys Georgia Tech Coach Bobby Dodd “But when you fans turn out #00 strong for a game and demand that we win, we coaches simply have t@ go out and try to get the better Speeding to the Jacksonville | Quarterback Club Monday nizht “Frankly, 1 myself coaches with wham I've t know what to do. As {long ag you fans wast « winner ily dort have much choore metter ~ |has done a fine job of filling the | Indiana 14 Iowa 13-A_ sizzling serap between a pair of have-nots and a meeting of the Big Ten’'s two new coaches, Bernie Crimmins of the Hoosiers and Forest Eva- | shevski of the Hawkeyes ... Could go either way California 27 M Waldorf leads Pacific Coast always trou in the Big T Gophers a surprise, 3 gure too close here. 7--Here's it that’s going Look for unce back defeat by nnesota 14-Pappy the pride of the inst a team that nford one Wes to get poll: those Wolverines tc strong after that 2 | Michigan St Texas 14 Irish are thinly but they re Dame 13 -- The ad this season, used to the fter drill. eek Jame too . Unless it loses Lattner Michigan State 27 Oregon State ation’s top - rated team ch trouble here bound to be a t find mu although there i let down after the opner Northwestern The Commod met Marq Looks To Banner Season NEW YORK Tulsa Univer. sity’'s Golden Hurricanes ders im total effensive in college football | 10P.M. last season, have D> right where they left off last fall. The Missouri Valier Conference champions opened their 182 cam- pad 2 0 rushing and eed whipping Har aod year in 11 Tuise rolled up 5.282 yards Johnny | Michigan | | SPORTS — Dominating SEC BIRMINGHAM, Ala, @ — Ala- bama leads al} southeastern states in supplying football players for Southeastern Conference teams,’ a survey showed today. One hundred nineteen Alabamians are listed on varsity squads of the big 12. At least one is on every SEC team except Kentucky. A compilation of official rosters sports writer, shows Georgia is the second most prolific breeder of football players for SEC teams with 88. Tennessee follows with 83, Lou- isiana is fourth with 72, and Florida and Mississippi are tied with 70 each. Kentucky is seventh with 35, but all except two stayed at the University of Kentueky. Florida makes the most use of its home boys, listing 56 om a 1T- man squad. Tennessee has the fewest home - grown lads, 21. Among the other 43 of the Tennes- see varsity, 11 are from Pennsyl- vania and eight list New York state as home. The University of Alabama is second to Florida in using home state players with 48. Auburn is third with 43 from Alabama, and Louisiana State is next with 40 from Louisiana. The rest follow this way in the number of home state players on the squad: Mississippi 38, Georgia Tech 343, Kentucky 33, Tulane 29, Georgia 28, Vanderbilt 25, Missis- sippi State 23, and Tennessee 21. Pennsylvania contributes the largest number of players to the SEC--37--of any state outside the Conference area. Ohio is next with 24, followed by Texas with 21 and New York 19. Tennessee has the largest num- ber from outside the Southeast in 39. Kentucky is next with 27, Van- derbilt has 26, Georgia 19, Tulane 15, Mississippi State and Florida 14 each, Alabama U1, L. S. U. 10, Auburn 9,° Georgia Tech 1, and Mississippi 6. Trumpetfish Nips | Gilmore Mon., The submarine tender Gilmore ;went down to their second \ straight defeat Monday at the | hands of the submarine Trumpet- \fish, 5 to 4, in the only game of the submarine softball league. In the only game this afternoon, the submarine Archerfish will play the submarine Sea Poacher. The standings are as follows: Team— W. L Pct. GB. Chivo 834 Cero - 165 1% Odax 667 3 Sea Dog —— 66 3% Bluefish 650 3 Gilmore ~ 643 Sea Cat 433 Amberjack - 625 Clamagore 621 Chopper 621 Sea Poacher — AGT Guavina 461 Archerfish 429 Baiao ‘375 Manta 353 j Trumpetfish 308 Batfish 17 | Bushnell 184 j Barb “134 - 13 12 10 13 13 ig 11 12 12 3% 3% % 3% 3% 6% 6% 7 6 8% 8% 10. 12 1% RaAwmI4sAwtowNane wOUABRAA@AN Triumph Coffee Mill yeu cnocers | } } | TONIGHT | | WILLIE PEP | j Former Featherweight Champien | | ARMAND SAVOIE | Lightweight Champion of Canada | ow RADIO Blue Ribbon | i i DISTRIBUTORS, INC Wednesday, October 1, 1952 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pages YANKS FAVORED Alabama Gridders | TQ LICK BROOKS By GAYLE TaLBoT BROOKLYN, &—The key game of the 1952 World Series begins at 1 p.m, Eastern Standard Time, today at Ebbets Field, bandbex park of the mm Dodgers, with Joe Black, sensational rookie re- lief artist of the National League champions, giving his all against Allie Reynolds, the kingfish of the @ more appalling burden than that assigned to Black. He knew when he went to the hill that his team’s chances of winning a world championship, or even of giving the famed Bombers a lengthy wrestle, were believed by the experts to rest upon his il to turn back the Yanks to- ~ The consensus of the critics was that the Yankees would win their fourth straight crown in five or six games. Only the possibility that Black, a righthander of impeccable con- trol, might throttle the champions today and perhaps offer valuable assistance later on kept many prophets from picking the Amer- ican Leaguers to wrap & up in four straight. Tt was a throat-eatehing spot for a rookie to find himself in. Only last April, after a series of poor exhibitions, the husky Negro hurl- er was at the absolute bottom of the Brooklyn mound staff and he barely escaped being shipped back to the minors. Manager Chuck Dressen shudders now at the thought. Though he eventually proved his merit in relief roles and estab- lished himself without argument the nost valuable single player in league, the rookie never started a big league game in his life until the fag end of the season. He went the distance easily, sat the Boston Braves down with three hits and won his 15th victory in assuring the Dodgers at least a tie for the flag. In a sueceeding start he was knocked out in the fifth inning. Beyond Black, nobody can pre- diet with any confidence what any Brooklyn thrower will do on a given Sammy Baugh Plays Bangup Game Monday CHICAGO # — The Washington Redskins’ 38-year-old player-coach, Sammy Baugh, was tossed out of the game Mon. night but not before he had completed 11 consecutive passes to inspire his team to a 23-1 National Football League vie- tory over the Chicago Cardinals. day. Dressen sums up his series Pitehing strategy thus: “I'm starting Black, and from ithere on Pll use two er three | pitchers—ar four or five. The re- cord shows we've done pretty good that way.” : The irony of the situation is ob- vieus. Almost as far back as one can remember, it has been axio- ~ matic that the National League goes into the fall play off with the finer pitching, the American | League with the greater power at the plate. Now the National finally comes up with a club which slugs at least on even terms with the Yankees, yet cannot summon three curvers who appear to compare with Reynolds, Vie Rasehi and Eddie Lopat. Outside the pitching, the ex- perts have had much difficulty splitting the two teams apart. Both are solid clubs, loaded with hitting and fielding talent right frem the Plate to the last outfielder. The Yankees are conceded to be slightly the faster team, but the Dedgers pack the greater home run threat. 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