The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 17, 1952, Page 5

Detober 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN * Here Tonight snes wets e 5 e The Wickers’ Field Stadium will resound tonight Aukern Rack. (eee seer - won to the thunder of pounding cleats when the amazing : urn ac Key West Conch footballers take the field for a shot a . C at gaining their fourth gridiron win of the season | | eading SE straight pennant and world cham- In Passing Conch Gridmen Seek 4th Straight Win Aiaun(nniaitarrocncs CONCH'S RESERVE STRENGTH As Tossup; Cruz, West Lost To Conchs: | 5,000 Fans Expected To See Locals Risk Undefeated Record Tonight Pionship, tying a record by Joe McCarthy, another manager, when they tackle a tough St. Mary’s of Miami eleven | in a game that promises to be the battle of, the season to date. The contest is scheduled to get underway at 8:15 p.m. A crowd of 5000 local football addicts are ex- | pected to flock to the stadium to see if Coach Ed Beck- , man’s charges can succeed in running their win skein to four consecutive contests. They are undefeated to | date. * What will happen when the Conchs run into the Fighting Irish tonight is anybody’s guess. It is kind of a “you pays your money and you takes your cheer” propo- ition----they are that evenly match | the point where both are faced with the loss of their top running aces. St. Mary’s is bemoaning the fact that ‘shifty Bill Roine is nursing a bruised rib while the Conchs an- nounce that John Cruz, one of their | leading ground gainers up to theis point, is suffering a badly sprained ankle. Bother are expected to sit out the game on the bench. Tom West, whom the Key West- ers were depending on to handle a good share of the ground work is also on the injured list with leg trouble. For the fourth straight encounter this season, Key West will be fac- ing an attack that springs from a T formation. Saint Mary’s version is tricky, according to the Conch scouts; since they play it both wide and tight. They are said to have one of the most polished teams in the crack Miami Catholic Confer- ence. Key West will rely on the point when the whistle blows. Julio Hen- | riquez will be at left tackle with rugged Jimmy DeMerrit over the ball. Harvey Orapeza is a possible starter at right guard with Wayne Brantley slated to handle the tackle spot. John Carbonell will be at right end, Coach Ed Sullivan of the Irish will start Don Collins, one of the leading pass catchers in the Catho- lic Conference at left end. Hard blocking Clair McCormick will per- | form at left tackle and Ray Bia- giotti is scheduled to work at cen- ter. 3 Randy Thorsen, Jimmy Enrico | and Johnny Sabol will make up the heavy right side of the line. Hard running Ken Bender is ex- pected to Yill the shoes of the injur- ed Roine at one of the halfback spots. Mike Gerrits will flank him. | Quarterback Jack Topley will call the signals with brawny Jim Rickie | in the fullbar* position. | Mentally both clubs are in top shape with the Conchs anxious to continue their winning ways and the Irish with blood in their eyes in an effort to avenge last year’s 19-6 defeat at the hands of Key West. j making combination halfbacks of Joe Pineda and Lucy Gonzalez Joe Pineda and Lucy Gonzale: for their offensive game. Pineda has shown some good pass throw- ing ability thus far in the cam- paign while Gonzalez has been on the receiving end on many occa- sions as well ag being the leading ® 67 yard touchdown run in the Conch’s 20-7 win over Lake Worth & week ago. Pineda also connect- ed for several long aerials in the game. End John Vermette, who latched Ongto a 59 yard touehdown pass in the Lake Worth tilt, also teams up | with Pineda in this department. | Tony Dopp has taken over the | signal calling assignment for the | Conehs with Harold Solomon in the ! fullback spot... Solomon will also | handle the kicking. } Ralph White will be at left end | Card’s Slaughter Whatever the outcome, Key West- | | ers should witness some of the best | |football of the year. | $$$ Bench Views By : JACK K. BURKE | Tonight at Wicker Stadium, the Conchs will tangle with St. Mary’s of Miami at 8:15 in what promises |to be the acid test. Since winning three straight a certain feeling has crept over some of the players. It seems that all they have to do is to step on the field and the game is won, j With that type of thinking, no | team or player in any sport has | ever came, out on top. Just peek at the record books and read be- | tween the lines and you will take | notice of what the Bench is trying | to put over to you. Last Monday morning the Sports | | Department received some 18 tele- Makes Comeback | phone calls on why th. name of By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (®—Enos (Country) Slaughter, veteran outfield star of the St. Louis Cardinals, was se lected today as the player who made the greatest comeback of the 1952 baseball season. « j matter The slugging country boy from North Carolina, gener y regard ed as one of the game's. fiercest competitors, captured the Associ: ated Press “Comeback - of - the Year’ award handily, receiving 26 of the 61 votes cast by members of the Baseball Writers Associa tion of America... Thirteen other candidates were nominated but none proved any serious threat to the rollic Redbird. Luke Easter of Cleve! ,came second with v It's Casy to see why th voted for Slaughter, the perpetual motion kid, who nev walks when he can run to the nearest exit, or base. The balding flychaser was aidered all washed up last after hitting a lowly games in 1951, B the critics by r an even 300 clip, THAT WAS NOT ALL. The husky Ca n ill be 37 next Ap runs and swatted 40 ¢ who layed ¢! a the seo wrincipally b hot bat that pi and seven home previews Durable E nal back in iss tar ever since, Ok the major leagues, s s the take charge gu ‘tis spirit, always fix e has oo s 15 vears * the big leagues, a this or that player was not mention- jed in the newspaper’s account of the Lake Worth-Key West game. To keep them on the right track and also others who might think in this trend, I will attempt to point out to you how a sports writer, of fact, any writer, jots down the highlights of what sport or event they are covering. In the field of sports, the majori- ty of writers keep a running ac count of the game. When it is over and they get back to their office or where they write their story, they glance over their account and notes and write the story. Many times, little Incidents are overlooked, not intentional, but like everything else it just one of those things. If every story writ ten had every little detail in it, the reader would throw the paper away in disgust. You may say why, The reason is ; read an brings back happened then you have ant facts and maybe color added ree each f. ° ay that did not re No player an account of s covered for u read a story Boosie been 2 5 © and may get a re re | SPORTS | MIRROR By The Associated Press | TODAY A YEAR AGO — Harold | (Muddy) Ruel was named farm | | director of the Detroit Tigers | | FIVE YEARS AGO — Racing | was suspended at Jamaica be- jcause of a strike of grooms and | | exercise boys. | TEN YEARS AGO — Penn and | Princeton battled tu a 6-6 tie. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Dan Hickey, 56, former associate of | | Bob Fitzsimmons, died in New | York. stocks of beautiful hardwoods for} Oak Philippine Mahogany Central American Mahogany Ash Magnolia Black Walnut Also complete stocks of | cypress, pine and fir in’ conventional sizes far) building and repeir work. | Phome 86 128 SIMONTON STREET es AT RAMEE EI RESOLUT pe BIRMINGHAM, Ala . (®—Quar- terback Dudley Spence’s feat of completing 11 consecutive aerials against Wofford makes him the most accurate passer in the South. eastern Conference. The SEC statistical bureaw today said the Auburn back was leading the league with 25 completions in 35 attempts for a .717 percentage. Nearest to him is Norm Stevens of Louisiana State, with 32 connec- tions in 62 tosses for .528. Georgia Tech’s Buck Martin is the leading SEC receiver, hanging on to six passes against Tulane Saturday that netted 114 yards. He took over the No. 1 spot from Harry Babcock of Georgia, whose Satur- day record wasn’t available. Martin has caught 15 passes thfs season for a total of 255 yards. His closest rival is Ben Roderick of Vanderbilt, favorite target of freshman ace Bill Krietemeyer. Roderick has taken in 14 aerials for 186 yards. Leon Hardeman of Georgia Tech is the top SEC ground-gainer. The 114 yards he picked up in 20 at- tempts against Tulane gave him a tally of 426 yards in 71 carries. He now haes a six-yard average per try on the ground. Alabama backs hold down both the second and third places in rushing performances, Bobby Mar- low haes gained 328 yards in 68 rushing attempts. Sophomore Corky Tharp has driven for 284 yards in 35 tries. Rick Casares of Florida has punted only six times, but leads Conference kickers with an aver- age of 47.3 yards per boot. Max McGee of Tulane dropped into second place Saturday when his seven kicks against the En- gineers averaged only 41.6 yards. He has a season average of 44.6 yards per kick. Stengel Rated Tops By Writers NEW YORK (#—Charles Dillon Stengel has been honored for the (miracle everybody figured’ he | would: pull off but weren't quite | sure-about-by being named: Mana- | ger of the Year for the second | | time. | The “Old Perfesser” was named on 37 of the 72 ballots cast by base- _ | ball writers in the Associated Press poll. The honor climaxed a season squad home third in the Nation: League race. As it was, Stanky just nosed out Jimmy Dykes of the Philadelphia Athletics, who surprised by parlay- ing Bobby Shantz and Ferris Fain into a fourth-place finish for his team. It was only the second time in 19 years that an American League Philadelphia entry has fin- ished in the first division. Coming Soonf Americas > $Q75