The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1952, Page 5

Conchs In Good Shape For Friday Titt ‘The Key West High School foot- all squad, which reported for this tills on Monday in good shape iter their gruelling. 20-7 victory ter a tough Lake Worth eleven on friday night is © holding frenous drills in an effort to sharp- . up their defénse. And judging by the way the boys te hitting these days, they really ‘ean business. They meet a top- ated St. Mary’s of Miami eleven we on Friday night in quest of reg fourth straight win of the sea- Conchs Hit Hard Coach Ed Beckman has been | pushing his boys defensively, par- j ticularly on the ground since the ; bulk of the Lake Worth yardage | was picked up that way. Fundamentals, including block- ing and tackling, have also come in for extensive attention by the Beckmanites. Assistant coach Paul Davis has drilled the second stringers to a point where they can offer a fair | imitation of the sort of T formation that the Irish are going to throw a- gainst the Conchs on Friday night and the defensive eleven has been working up something of a sweat in an attempt to devise a suitable defense against it. The squad will end their contact work today and light signal drills have teen set for Thursday. The lone question mark among the Key West starting eleven seems to be the condition of John Cruz. The shifty wingback, who has been plagued by injuries throughout the campaign, is favoring an injured ankle and may be lost to the Conchs for the upcoming game. Otherwise, the frist string back- field is in fine shape and should give the Irish a real battle. . Halfback Bill Roine of St. Mary’s, who last year led all Miami scores is expected to be the factor that may swing the balance in favor of St. Mary’s. Roine last year a 135 pound seatback is said to have pick- ed up a lot of weight over the sum- mer and is harder than ever to stop. Key West and Miami fans are turning out to the game en masse. A special bus has been chartered for Miami rooters of the visitors and a jam of 5,000 fans is antici- pated at the meeting of the two} ‘ clubs. Browns, Bucs Will Rebuild For 53 Race By RALPH RODEN NEW YORK (#—The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Browns, confronted with a gigantic rebuild- ing job, are wasting no time in getting their reconstruction pro- gram rolling. Pittsburgh, a sorry last this sea- son, and St. Louis, marooned in seventh place, highlighted a busy major league bartering session yesterday which chiefly involved minor league clubs. The Pirates pulled off the only “real” trade of the day. The Bucs shipped Gus Bell, 23-year-old long- ball-hitting outfielder to the Cin- einnati Reds for three players. Bill Veeck, major domo of the Browns, lured shortstop Bill Hun- ter, hailed as one of the best pros- pects in the minors, from the Brooklyn Dodger organization in what he called a $150,000 deal. The Browns turned over a bundle of eash and three vary. The St. Louis Ca: , Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians brought up a number of players from their minor league affiliates in “paper” transactions while the Philadelphia Athletics purchased inder John Mackinson, a for- mer New York Yankee farmhand, from Birmingham of the Southern Association. Bell, reportedly in the doghouse with the powers that be at Pitts- burgh for lack of hustle, batted only .246 for the Pirates in 131 games. To get Bell, the Reds shipped eatcher Joe Rossi; a .221 hitter, and outfielders Cal Abrams and Gail Henley to the Pirates. Henley was obtained by the Reds Monday from the New York Giants for ‘| pitcher Frank Hiller. Abrams, who : & Citizen Staff Photo ONE OF THE CHIEF REASONS for the success of the Conch footballers this season is the fact that they have been rocking their opponents. with bruising blocking and tackling. A pair of Conch mainstays, linemen Tommy West (left) and Wayne Brantley, hit the dummy with a vengeance during a practice session. 4 Carter Meets Sls. Tonight By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO ®—Jimmy Carter, ightning-fisted New York Negro, topes to repeat the feat of another ightweight of a dozen years ago ind recapture the 135-pound crown tom Lauro Salas tonight. Carter will try to emulate Lou Ambers; who lost the title to Henry irmstrong in 1938 and won it back he next year. No other lightweight has ever fone it. The scrap promises to sizzle from start to finish and run a full 15 sounds. Only 5,000 or so customers are expected at ringside, which would te the smallest turnout for a title jout ever promoted by the Inter- tational Boxing Club. The Chicago Kadium attraction will be televised ind broadcast nationally starting it 10 p.m., EST. Each fighter will receives nearly 10,000 as his share of television teceipts. This sum should far over- thadow their 30-30 split of a gate tot expected to exceed $25,000. A big Latin following will be on tand to cheer the 24-year-old cham- fon. The confident little mauler fom Los Angeles’ via Monterrey § boxing’s first bona fide Mexican itle-holder. While compiling a record of 45 fletories, 20 losses and six draws, las has never been knocked out sually a slow starter, he opens tp with explosive flurries at the flose of each round. He is a hard- @ooter, somewhat wild, and has feored 18 knockouts. Carter, the more polished, clever . Ughter, likes to mix it up. This is tis third meeting with Salas. The Mexico hero was beaten in the Srst battle although dropping Car- fer in the 15th round by catching little Negro off balance rather in with a staggering blow. Carter rules a 21 favori = kayoed 21 foes in wi ts, losing 13 and dra Like Salas, he has neve: fened. He has fought ftince losing his crown tas kept busy scoring vie Dries, each by a knockout within five rounds, ‘There is wo rematch cisuse heir contract for toni: x @ Salas loses, there are rts he will go after the feather-weight Sule. He has done daigning in weigth in at sbo ess than the jacked by Carter, ia that ‘Semi-Finals Of |Navy Golf | Tournament The semi-finals of the Third Ann- ual Navy Golf Tournament are be- ing held this week and all players are once again reminded that their matches must be played before Sunday evening. Several partic- ipants were eliminated from the {tournament because they failed to play their match off at the time allowed, Pairing for this week are: CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT Witzel vs Searson, Wayne vs Myers FIRST FLIGHT Tisley vs Pearson Davidson vs Ebey SECOND FLIGHT Dover vs Brown Will meets the winner of the above match for the title. THIRD FLIGHT vs Merwin Walker e winner of the above match for the title FORTH FLIGHT vs Cambron vs Smith FIFTH FLIGHT Schade Evans Burke Wilburn Cochran Tor for vs meets the above winner the title. SIXTH FLIGHT Holt, H. C. de d Keehan, K. E and is the winner of this flight. Miami Will Get Legion Tourney MIAMT. @~—The 1953 American Legion junior baseball champion- ships will be played in Miami. administrator of mg baseball pro- napolis that Mi- ed but official would await siga- acts with Frank Imad, of the Harvey W. Miami, which bid for er Seeds Post the event pi hotel man @ offics: d the coo id te signed and re » Miller immediately after received calls for a guar the Legion's Amencansm Commitice From The Press Box By OSCAR MILLIAN } Chalk up another one for the | CONCHS. That grand and glorious | Maryland Works Hard On Defense COLLEGE PARK, Md. ‘#—One thing Coach Jim Tatum believes he'll learn from the Navy game Saturday is just how good his Maryland offensive line is. This may sound odd after the batted .278 while Henley hit .273 for the Reds’ Tulsa club of the Texas League. The Pirates also added two play- ers from the minors and dropped two. Catcher Bill Hall was called up from Pittsburgh’s Charleston elub of the South Atlantic League and Charley Sipple, once with the Philadelphia Phillies, was procured from Indianapolis of the American Association. Pittsburgh disposed of two pitch- ers, itching righthander Don Sathana Charleston and lefthan- der Len Yochim to New Orleans of the Southern Association. Hunter, voted the Texas League's most valuable player, batted .290 for Ft, Worth and led the loop in fielding and stolen bases. He was moved to the Dodgers’ St. Paul club after the season to protect him from the draft. The Browns turned over outfield- er Ray Coleman, pitcher Bob Ma- honey and Stan Rojek, a former a shortstop prospect, to St. Paul. Gators Plagued ee By Injuries GAINESVILLE (®— Injuries suf- fered in the Cle game last week may cut i strength the University of Florida Gators need for their clash with the Van- derbilt Commodores Saturday. Buford Long, Southeastern Con- ference top scorer with 42 points, has a bruised hip and may not be able to get into the battle. Also on the doubtful list is Joe D’Agos- tino, defensive guard who has a bad leg. a Expecting a rough time with Vanderbilt's passing attack built around Bill Krietemeyer, Florida’s pass dedfenders worked long and hard Tuesday. The leading men in the Gators’ aerial defense have been All-America tackle prospect Charlie LaPradd and D’Agostino. Safety man Jack Nichols, Half- backs Bob Davis and Larry Scott and Linebackers Arlen Jumper and Bubba Ware, Florida's most experienced defense men, will be called on to help stop the Vandy attack, Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—There is a pos- sibility that the most interesting college football result of the season up to this time—Army 37, Dart- mouth 7—was widely overlooked by fans absorbed in the prodigious feats of such gridiron goliaths as Michigan State and Maryland. Off this one victory the Cadets do not, of course, leap back to their long-accustomed place among na- tion’s elite, but it would seem to indicate that Coach Earl Blaik is far ahead of schedule in rebuilding his wrecked forces. Those who fig- ured it would require three or four years for the military academy to | recover from the ravages of its started tthe season with Brooklyn, } wholesale expulsion in tthe summer of ’51 vastly underrated the red- head's coaching ability. Dartmouth is no football power, true, yet on the Saturday before playing Army the Big Green dis- played a defense staunch enough to hold Penn to 30 yards by rush- ing, and the Quakers since have snapped Princeton’s long winning streak. Before the whistle blew at West Point, the game was consid- ered a tossup. What the Cadets, led by a year- | ling named Pete Vann from Ham- burg, N. Y., did to the Greenies in a wild first half has been duly re- corded, but it might bear brief re- peating. Five of the first seven times that Blaik’s amazing young- sters got the ball they whirled down the field for touchdowns. The sixth sustained march ended in a fumble at the goal line, but pro- duced a safety against Dartmouth. This all happened in the first 25 minutes of the contest and turned it into a 37-0 rout. “Actually, we're not nearly that good,” Blaik insisted by phone from the Point. “Dartmouth made a lot of mistakes to let my boys | victory over Lake Worth sent hun- | 37-0 trouncing his Marylanders, dreds of Key West fans home in a | ranked second this week in the hoarse condition, At least this | Associated Press poll, handed Geor- | column know of several gridiron | gia last Saturday and in the wake | fanatics whose voices are still in a} of victories over three other foes. SPORTS MIRROR By The Associated Press get started. I'll have to admit that once they started they went like a prairie fire. But don’t let it fool rou. “Naturally, I'm mighty pleased } weak condition among whom are | |Jack Larson, David Foster, Dick | | Carpenter and a great many, in| fact too many to mention in this | | limited space, Some one said that the shouting could be heard in downtown Duval | } Street, frankly speaking and with- | | out exaggeration there's no doubt} in my mind the uproar that came {from the fans in the first quarter jas the result of John Cruz’ long | pass that was received by Lucy Gonzalez could have been heard many miles , This was ope of the {| many outstanding performances of | the inexperienced young Key West | club who so far this season re- | main undefeated, There was one young lady in the | stands who almost went head over j heels during one of the scrambies | in which Joe Pineda made out with the pigskin under arm, but unfor- tunately it was short lived. The kid | | was tackled before he could make 115 steps, j | Down at Bayyiew Park where the | Coca Cola and General Electric are | battling it out for the City's softball | } championship, exist quite a few j sh-sh-sh gossips, Some G. E. fans | are under the impression that the game scheduled for Monday night | was cancelled without any reason |for the benefit of the drink boys. | Where they get the idea from, | “Well,” said one of the fans who claims be has attended all the | games this season “DeWitt Roberts | who in the first game of the series shut out the highly touted coke lads is on duty every Tuesday and Thursday nights and it looks migh ty fumay to me for the sudden change in dates.” Heretofore th. games according to this particular which assumes @xpenses of bring- ing the four finalist teams to Mi- ami. The tournament. which could go seven games, will be held at M ami Staciem, the new ene million dear baseball park, _— But the Maryland coach says: “Our offense just hasn’t had to block anybody yet. By that, I mean, no good line such as navy’s has ever squared off with us. The others have been stunting their de- fenses so much that I’m not sure how good our blocking is.” Coach Tatum at the start of the season tabbed offensive blocking as the No, 1 question of his 1952 team. He rated last year’s team, | which brought Maryland an un- TODAY A YEAR AGO — Cali- fornia was ranked first in The Associated Press’ weekly football Prive YEARS AGO — Grooms and exercise boys went out on Strike at Jamaica Race Track but Vthe racing schedule went on despite | 20 withdrawals. TEN YEARS AGO — The Na- | tional Boxing Association reitera- ted its policy of “freezing” titles heid by men in the armed ser- | defeated season and a Sugar Bowl | Vices. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Pitts- victory over Tennessee, the best _—— TT he'd handled. Most of the key | burgh defeated Army, 18-13, on a ee RL players, end Paul Lindsay, All- | 54-yard run by Warren Heller. America guard Bob — | tackle Joe Moss, have depa i One of the most satisfactory re- Sport Shorts placements so far is Tom Breu- }nich, a 215-pound tackle from Pel- |ham, N. Y. Tatum, in going over} DELAND W#—Faced with the |a movie of the Georgia game, re- | prospect of sending his offensive | peatedly chortled over Breunich’s | line averaging 188 pounds against | blocking. a Tampa defensive line averaging Still, Tatum recalled that last | 215, Stetson Coach Jay Pattee de- \year the Navy line was rated by | cided to make up for it with hard himself and the Maryland players | work to get ready for Saturday's the best they had faced. That was| game at Tampa. a Navy team which won only two| He put the Hatters through a games and succumbed to Mary- | rough scrimmage Tuesday and land, 35-21. This year, the Middies | more of the same today are undefeated in three games and | and Thursday. One phase thtat got have one of the best overall de-| full attention was pass defense, fensive records in the nation. i most of the ground gained — | by Stetson’s first three foes was | spectator were scheduled for Mon-/ in the day and Wednesdays. Umpires are pitiful people. Rocky | canes | Gugtiemo who was almost razred | consistent” in tout of the ball park at Wicker's Stadium during the FIL, season on fa play at third base during a) | Miami Sen Sex-Key West series, | was again booed at last Saturday's softball contest at Bayview Park} where the General Electric lost to Tavernier twice. Qne Tevernier player was telling Dick Carpenter) | that the emp was doing sii right: for “us.” “We don't have te hit the) ball to get on” be said. “If we con stand there and wait for the pitch wel get om because de cells ‘om od ta with them at the moment. This will make them a better team and I | thi our game with — might be a great one. "t go picking us to win, though, on tthe strength of that one outburst. Very well, we won't, but the fact remains that this sounds suspi- ciously like those Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, and later, | which made a practice of paralyz- | ing the opposition in the first half- | dozen plays. It is a sort of Biaik trademark, this pouring it on at the outset of a ga TONIGHT LAURO SALAS World’s Lightweight Champion JIMMY ‘CARTER CBS. MONROE BEER ISTRIBUTORS, INC yy, Cetpber 15,1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pages ‘ Stock Market NEW YORK —For the second straight day the stock market head- ed lower today. No single major group was a focal point of weakness. In fact almost every group had a smatter- ing of plus signs to help bolster the list. Price changes either way. were usually small but losses extended on out to around a point while the best gains seldom got to the major fraction stage. American Cyanamid was under some early pressure and lost | around a peint. Dow Chemical also was a downside feature. The com- Pany announced a price of. $31 a share on the issuance of 625,000 shares of common to employes and stockholders. Lower stocks included Youngs- town Sheet & Tube, General Mo tors, Santa Fe, American Smelt- ing, Sears Roebuck, Philip Morris, American Can, and Radio Corp. Florida Crop - Estimates Up ORLANDO (*—Good weather im- proved Florida crop prospects in September, the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economies here said Tuesday. Daily showers near the ‘end of the month brought ample soil moisture for planting fall oats, lupine and rye. Harvesting of corn, cotten and peanuts was virtually complete by Oct. 1. The cotton crop is forecast at 27,000 bales. 16 per cent under 1951, Corn is expected to reach 9,236,000° bushels, just slightly un- der last year. Peanut prospects are for 51,150,000 pounds, 18 per cent less than 1951. 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