The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 25, 1952, Page 7

Conch Gridmen Go Do Key West High School Footballers * Lose Heartbreaker To End Streak By JIM COBB, Citizen Sports Editor The Key West Conchs covered themselves with glory last night. While they of a 28-20 score in a bruising football battle with the Seacrest Seahawks, they lost not one whit of prestige in so doing. The loss, a heartbreaker and their first in five starts, gave them absolu of-—rather they should be proud of the way they stood up and fought with the odds came out on the short end tely nothing to be ashamed against them. They match- ed the home club, point for point throughout the con- test until the final moments of the game. The ball game had everything in the way of gridiron thrills, the greatest of which was the way the Key Westers dug in and fought against overwhelming odds. The Conchs walked off the field ®- with more shiners than they would have received at a shrimper’s clambake after playing in a foot- ball contest that most certainly could have gone elther way. If anything, the Conchs will be | @ wigher rated baliclub after. the stirring display of (if you'll pardon the expression), guts for the bene- fit of some 2500 upstate fans. After Seacrest had jumped into a 14 point lead in the opening quarter and the majority of the fans had considered it a foregone corclusion that the Seahawks had the contest in their back pockets, the Conchs came to life and show- ed that Key West football squads are something to reckon with, when they pushed across two tallies in the second quarter to pull within one point of the lead at the half- time. Early in the third period Sea- crest drove to another score and once more the spectators — all ex- cept some 500 Key West rooters, that is--thought that the Conchs were finished for sure, but they came back again with a touch- down to make the score 21-20. This wasn't enough however when another fourth period tally for Seacrest gave them the ball- | game. Lucy Gonzalez was the man of the hour for the Conchs. He was up to his old tricks, con- founding a savvy Seacrest de- fense with a spectacular display of running magic when he man- aged to pick up close to 100 yards ‘on the ground as well as being on the receiving end of three forward passes good for a total of 57 yer one of them for a badly needed TD. Dick Salgado played his heart out and turned in @ sterli formance for the Conchs while Joe Pineda and a quintet of line- men including Peter Knight, Wayne Brantley, Tommy West, Stu Logun and Johnny DeMerrit with their rugged play came close to upsetting a very tough | Seacrest eleven, | Things looked dark indeed for} the Conchs in the first quarter} when the Seahawks pushed across | a pair of tallies, the first coming | as a result of a blocked Conch punt which Lou Manning covered on the Key West 45-yard line, After the Seahawks had picked up but seven yards on three run- ning plays, a five yard offside pen- alty on Key West gave them a | across the goal line as the Key marker and lef fly with the leather. Sticky-fingered John Ver- mette gathered it in and stepped West rooters cut loose with a lusty ri } Salgado’s try for the crucial ex- tra point missed by inches. | The Seahawks drove to a score early in the third quarter after tak- ing the kickoff when Zwilley romp-| ed over from the three yard mark- er, Again they converted to make it 21-13. But the diehard Conchs showed that they didn’t know the mean- ing of the word “quit”, when Joe Pineda promptly came through with a thrilling 45-yard touchdown | pass to Gonzalez in the end zone. After the two clubs battled tooth and nail throughout the final stan- za, Seacrest finally managed to push across a score in the waning moments of the game after a pass | interception and a series of run- | ning plays. | The final whistle saw the Conchs | in possession of the pigskin on} their own two yard fine after aj tremendous goal line stand and a | fumble on the part of the Sea- hawks. GRIDIRON GLEANINGS: Last night’s contest, tough but cleanly fought, was a classic in high school grid action, Either team might have come through with the ver- dict. The statistics (to be publish- | ed Monday). show that the Conchs outplayed the Seahawks in several departments but the home club did | the scoring when it counted. As | Coach Ed Beckman told his de- jected gridders in the dressing room after the game: “I still think ; you are the best ang sis Kicking. might well have the marae of victory last night | when the Seahawks showed two | of the finest high school kicking | artists the writer has had the opportunity of observing, in Lou Manning and Delma Zwilley. Manning consistentiy got off punts averaging 40 to 50 yards-- | one of them from his own 42, ‘| to the Conch one-yard marker while Zwilley, with his educated toe, split the uprights with four straight place kicks for the ex- tra point. Thirty-seven rabid Conch fans braved the ravages (?) of Hurri- cane Fox, and journeyed up the state for the contest. The trip was Nn Gonzalez Makes It Look Easy HALFBACK Seacrest tit for ball game. a Cinch seore, Nat'l Grid Leaders Are Elusive By ORLO ROBERTSON NEW YORK #—A football is an CY: GOLZAT TZ takes Joe Pine a's toxc Pros Defeat All Stars In Cage Go CHICAGO \® — The Minneapoli | continued professional basketball's recent domination of the annual | all-star game with a fancy 80-69 victory last night It was the pros’ fourth victory in! a row over the collegians and came | elusive object that can bounce in | despite a sub-par effort by the nlown: pass in the eri@ zong of Jastibight’s fr z sparked the elub in a fight. that neafly | ~ Citizen Staff Photo | ve h the SPORTS MIRROR | By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — South Carolina defeated Clemson, 20-0, | in. the 49th annual State Fair game | | held at Columbus, S.C. | FIVE YEARS AGO — Columbia } upset Army, 21-20, to end the lat: | ter’s win streak at 38 straight | High Spot In College Gridiron Season Saturday, October 25, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page? Figliting, 28-20, AtSeacrest Is ; Set Today As Top Elevens Set Encounters By RALPH RODEN NEW YORK (® —Thanksgiving Day. is a little more ‘than a month away but as far as college football fans are concerned today’s grid program contains the turkey and all the trimmings. High spots on today’s attractive menu include: Appetizer — Purdue at Illinois (nationally televised game) Main course three games matching members of the nation’s top 10 (order by number please) 1. UCLA at Wisconsin (possible Rose Bow! preview) 2. California vs Southern Cal at Los Angeles (both unbeaten) 3. Duke vs Virginia at Char- lottesville, Va. (another battle be- tween two unscarred elevens) 4. Michigan State, top ranked, vs unbeaten but once tied Penn State at East Lansing, Mich. Dessert—Minnesota vs Michigan at Ann Arbor in their traditional “Little Brown Jug” game. Some 52,000 fans are expected to turn up at Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., for the battle be- tween 10th-ranked Wisconsin and the UCLA’s eighth-ranked and un- beaten Bruins. Both teams are in the running for the coveted Rose Bowl. Wis- consin has won two games and dropped one in the Big 10. race. Sport Shorts DELAND (#—The Stetson Hat- ters, their defensive lineup weak- ended by injuries, tonight take on the Parris Island Marines, favor- ed to win by two touchdowns or more. Coach Jay Pattee will attempt to match Parris Island’s backfield, featuring former college and pro- | fessional players, with a running unit containing two freshmen — fullback Harold Knowles and half- back Billy Odom. The marines have on hand for running and pass- ing Billy Mixon, Leo Elter, Bill | | Hayes and Sam Vacanti. Willi Han and Dave Laude, Stetson’s regular linebackers, wont | get to play because of injuries. St. Petersburg M—~ Sed Rubinoff, Miami Beach seeded No. 1 for boys 18 and under, swept his two ‘| tratcies* in the opening: the annual Florida Junior tennis championships. Going down before him were Jerry Griffin, Bolles Jacksonville, 6-1, 6-1; and Allan Quay, Tampa, 6-4, 6-3. Other favorites also did as ex- pected. Mike Green, MIami Beach, No. Billy Heyck, Tampa, 6-2, 6-0. Raul Roque, Tampa, No, 1 for boys 13 and under, ousted Bob | | Wright, Palm Beach, 6-0, 6-1. Fageros, | In girl's play, Karol Miami, the only defending cham pion present, defeated Tanya Jills, Academy, | ,; The Bruins are warming up for ; two important Pacific Coast Con- ference games. Coach Red San- ders’ mighty crew tackles Cali- | fornia next Saturday and Southern Cal the following week. The clash between California and Southern Cal is expected to lure upwards of 100,000 fans to Los Angeles’ Memorial Stadium. Southern Cal, seventh in the rat- ings, boasts one of the best de- |fenses in the nation. California, fourth in the rankings, is one of the country’s top offensive units. Sharing the limelight with the big game on the coast will be the Duke-Virginia encounter at Char- | lottesville, Va. Duke’s Blue Devils have won | five starts including victories over |SMU and Tennessee. Virgini |playing an easier schedule, has |won four games. Duke is sixth |and Virginia ninth nationally. | _ Michigan State figures to lap up Penn State at East Lansing, The | Spartans have romped to four | straight triumphs while the invad- |ers have won four games and tied | Purdue. The remaining teams. among | the elite in The Associated Press’ | weekly ratings figure to keep their | places as members in good stand- } ing. Maryland, No. 2, entertains hot Charles Sets Busy Schedule NEW YORK (®—A busy fight- a-month campaign was being mapped out today for Ezzard | Charles following the former heavyweight champion’s decisive triumph over game Cesar Brion of Argentina. Determined to fight his way into another title shot, Ezzy will come back late next month against either | Jimmy Bivins, Brion, or “anyone else we can get.” The last quote came from Co- Manager Tom Tannas. “We've got offers to put Ezzy in next month against Bivins in St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cin- cinnati and San Francisco,” said Tannas. “If not Bivins,*we'd like }to get Danny Bucceroni, Rexe else that 1 Ye ‘ Charles was eager to keep in | action. He ‘was disappointed that | he didn’t knock out or floor Brion although he handed the husky in- vader an artistic shellacking. No- | body ever has put the 25-year-old Ia for boys 15 and under, licked | Brion down for keeps. Eight-ounce | gloves were used for the first time. | If six ouncers were used, Charles might have scored his knockout. Swinging for a kayo from ‘the opening bell, Charles opened a cut and cold Louisiana State. Okla- homa, No. 3, meets weak Kansas State and Georgia Tech, No. 5, tangles with improved Vanderbilt. The “Little Brown Jug” battle between Minnesota and Michigan should help clear up the picture in the Big 10 race, Both teams along with Purdue are unbeaten in con- ference play. The Boiler Makers have defeated Ohio State and Iows while their Hlinois opponents have lost two league games. The Illini are the defending champions and ineligible to return to. the Rose Bowl. Other Big 10 games pit Ohio State against Iowa and In- diana against Northwestern. VMI striking from behind in the last three minutes for a 20-20 tie with George Washington. Jimmy Kane tossed touchdown heaves to Joe Johnson and Mike Mikulies that made up for Boston College miscues in a 14-13 victory over Fordham. Art Knust’s 85-yard touchdown run through the mud after inter- cepting a pass highlighted Miami's 20-6 triumph over Marquette. And a 45-yard gallop by fullback George Chumbley enabled VMI to tie George Washington, Football Results By The Associated Press Lakeland 14 Boone (Orlando) 38 Mt. Dora 40 Ttitusville 18 Apopka 19 Winter Park @ Groveland 22 Umatilla 6 St. Petersburg 41 Plant of Tampa 6 Jacksonville Jackson 25 Landon a title shot, He's going to keep | 414 | hilarious, to say the least, Senor | Robert Dopp was the organizer for | the cavalcade, which included such |fanaticos as Sid (What game?) | Matthews, Sam B. Curry and Lou- ‘is Carbonell. games. TEN YEARS AGO — Minne- sota upset Michigan, 16-14, to knock Michigan out of the top 10! and place themselves as the 10th | team in the country. TWENTY YEARS AGO — A sur- al Gables, 6-1, 64 the 1g | Tight combination to the head in por gt a pose niad wee: | the same frame, and staggered his Pat Shaffer, St. Petersburg, | 62, 196 %-pound rival with a jar- first seeded for giris 15 and under, | Ting left hook to the jaw in the won two matches, defeating Pris- | Second. cilla White, Miami Beach, 6-2, 6-2,| Brion's best rounds were the fy: i | third and fourth. He came back in we of college football injuries mi ad Sidner, Miami beach, | the third and leaned over the 186¥- found that football deaths were re- | | pound Charles, scoring with body | duced to one, presumably due to ta i ‘blows and light head punches, In « i WEST PALM BEACH ‘#—The | the new safety code put into effect | -.Tiven Air Force Base Bombers | the fourth. be foreed the pecs and si jof Fort Worth, 1951 National Ser- |) 5° oo. oir vesdeenren, tas a i 7 . | vice football champions, play the |" “™ are "ange - a by TULA AND AUBURN | University of Miami Junior Varsity | dues - " a ohia TRY FOR COMEBACKS | team here it. ¥ MOBILE, Ala, @—Tulane and Auburn, two evenly matched Proceeds of the game will go | “baries hit low with @ left | teams both better than their rec ords, met in comeback bids toda into the Cooley Stadium expansion | in the nationally telecast bout. The _— | Cincinnath Negro had promised to ¥- | pore se sho w to become A stronger showing against mu- | DAYTONA BEACH #—Bethune- |r as ee bid of Brion. tual opponents and a steadier | Cookman College will award a0 | But pce ype his bus- scoring attack made Tulane a six-| honorary Doctor of Humamities |.» sive) several times thereafter point favorite, jdegree Nov. 1 to Branch Rickey and hit tis hing rival with The Green Wave counted mainly | Sr. who brought the Negro into | booming barrages he couldn't bring on a tested backfield in the South | major league baseball. eastern Conference clash. Coach| Dr. Richard V. Moore, president | Ralph Jordan rejuggied his backs | of Bethune-Cookman, a negro col- jin a bid for more touchdown | lege here, made the announcement punch. | Friday Auburn's victory hopes rode with; Moore said Rickey will receive halfbacks Jimmy Fullington and} the degree during ceremonies at} Charles Littles, fallback Herman football game with Florida A. & Howard, and quarterbacks Dudiey M_. College. Spence or Vince Dooley. Rickey was general manager of ¥ Both teams were in the confer. the Brooklyn Dodgers when he lence cellar because of 1-3 records employed Jackie Robinson, the first ! the season. Negro in modern major league The kickoff was scheduled for 1 baseball. Rickey is now executive p. m. (CST), ivice president and general man j | ager of the Pittaburgh Pirates. ALABAMA TO COUNT poe nnn coe Se ee Se TUSCALOOSA, Ala, @ — Ala- | sprained his ankle while State was beating Kentucky last week, and ma counted on @ refurbished bad been on the doubtfvi list ‘ ng attack te tring vic Alabama rated a touchdowns fs- on roi over Foy tea State | VOrite partly became of Marcon c weakness at reserves The Tide, by ns Southeastern coBLeTeSCe!Decer hadn't recovered from’ COLLEGE PARK. Md. # —/ coming classic. ite pounding by Tennessee, and had | Louisiana State got im the way of sperters of the waderdeg Ma hist wae were heartened by news tat " hex pule-drving tailback, Joe For (CST). | any direction, and often does, but | Lakers’ great George Mikan and if it acts in line with past perform- | 50me sparkling play by a couple of is i the collegians, notably Dick Groat. | ances there will be no change | Mikan, the towering lawyer who among the leaders in the National | was voted the first half century’s | Football League tomorrow. | greatest cager, was held to nine | That means the unbeaten San | Points—three baskets and three Francisco 49ers will still be on top | {ree throws — by Long Island Uni- lof the National Conference with | V¢Tsity’s Ray Felix |five victories and the American | Th S-feet 10-inch Felix was all Conference will remain in a three- | °V¢? Mi nd in reture collected way deadlock among the Cleveland s to account for first down, Manning and Delma Zwilley then alternated to pick up six more in three plays from scrimmage and a 15-yard penalty was called against the Conchs to carry the Seahawks down to the i nine yard line, from where Man-| ge @ane sc fiend me heap ning streaked over to score. The | cose tabs on Fox, but it preved first of four perfect place kicks | te be-6 Megaioan. Sci han oe Demee made it 14 | it wouldn't give out with the dope The second Seacrest TD came| jy; was g foe ing for Mrs. in the same period when they} “ ar Sree et ee started a drive from the Key West | 20%, Carbonell when her son, | Siesas Gorainuts 4 GEA Bile Wi cacere. sin ie Hal joined her at the game and | browns, © icago Cardinals and the Teter wiek Eedlldy drove over thal Murmeres. back te Key West. |New York Giants. Each bas po y er the) was Hal's first look at brother | dropped one game. | But, a€ this point the Conchs {2°02 (who played a whale of a| The surprising 49ers, sparked by Beyer to roll when Gibty Gates | fais ut, whe'le stationed’ ie the | point favorites to whip the winless 3 tibby G ‘ , vorites ip the winless took the kickoff on the 25 ahd ran | sel. Hal, who is stationed jm the | Din Uarexans at Sax Franci se “ Army at Fort Jackson, S$. C., has it back to the 33 yard line as the | oon plenty of warfare-where they |The Browns are the 14\2 W poi choice over Washington at Cleve- quarter ended. | play for keeps--in a. Snake-hipped Lucy Gonzater then | Pi The Pee as: ncaa in- Itand as are the Giants over the Pulled off one of his gems, prob- | cided Miss Alice Acevede and | Philadelphia Eagles at New York ably the finest of a series of spec- | Gioria Russell, sisters of Conch | And the Cardinals figure to win by facular running performances in | gridder “Sleepy” Nele Acevede. |12 points from the Pittsburgh the current season, when he Like true Conchs, the fans took | Steelers, who have dropped all scompered 35 yards through the | the loss in stride and are looking | four of their starts by a total of entire Seahawk defense before he to next week's meeting with Pom- | only 16 points. ‘was downed with « desperate tac- pano here. | The other two games send De kle from behind. Lucy faked just At the risk ef being accused troit against Green Bay and pit gbout every member of the of being an “alibi arti wt | the Chicago Bears against the Los Seacrest eleven at least | seemed te us thet the officials Angeles Rams, defending cham ence as he wove his way down were just « mite whistle happy pions who have lost their winning field after threading right through | in the opening querter when Key | touch. The Bears, Lions and Pack the center of a befuddied Sea- West was penalized three times. ers are tied for runner-up honors hawk line. it seemed for @ while that the in the 49ers’ division. Each has After a five yard penalty) referee theught the fans came | broken even in four games. had set the Conchs back om) eut there te see him perform. | So even if the Texans should their heels, Dick S. o began to} One more point—-we wonder why | come through with the surprise of elick and ripped ov the goal it is that the S00 Key West fans the year, San Francisco would re from the 4 yard line for the initial | managed to drown out 2000 Sea-/ main the undisputed leader of the Key West touchdown | crest rooters, National Conference. Pineda ran the extra point San Francisco is the real sur- Key West scored for the second | prise of the league this year. The time, shortly. wt 49ers were right be session of the pigsk in the four-year hi Salgado, Pineds teamed in a st funning, te ca twenty as th out fer the half With seconds remaining. Pine t mte de faded back te his 25 yerd json, capable on the basket He led a fourth quarter t gave the pr nigh | | Cesar down. Brion, strong and} other Laker: angles. Led by V points, the ¥ after a touch a never was beh game as a bull from the Pampas of his pative land, just wouldn't | surrender, The unanimous verdict had Gold- stein scoring it 7-2-1 and the two judges, Harold Barnes and Joe Ag- neilo, woting 73 each. The AP ed wasn't too satisfied,” said | Charles. “I was trying to finish bim | with one right but be was crouching | down and I couldn't get it in ; “T felt good. though It 2) co Sra vind ty ine ter tor S| FOOTBALL afraid to lose &. Now [ve got nothing te lose. But I that ‘wo | MAYS NIGH. GOULDS, FLA. wy “. wast tithe back and I feel I've got strikes on me. 1 might as well for the home rus sow." Louisiana Falls To Marviand Steamroller one-point to e to get against ‘The New York Giants and Brook- — i Kk pos: lyn Dodgers were tied four times for the lead im the 1952 Nationa’ Lesgue peonant race, Fred Wyant, West V ' uarterback CANCELLED BECAUSE OF tt beaten the ree games in 18% ts merged. 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