The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1952, Page 5

The Key West Conch football squad, after a rugged three-hour workout last night, appeared to be playing a somewhat sluggish brand @f football as they prepped for their Friday night battle with the South Broward eleven, The second stringers, who were working from a duplicate of the split T that the Browards will throw at the Conchs, ripped off Plenty of yardage against the first @tring defense. The greens were throwing passes Which clicked for large gains and their ground attack, particularly eff the tackles, seemed to have the Conchs befuddled, It appears at this point that the And the Broward loss last week jonly chance the Conchs have to pull out of the ballgame with a | win will be to get cut on the field and fight in the knock-down drag- out fashion that they have exhi- bited in their successful eampaign up to this point. On “the basis of comparative scores, if they mean anything, the South Broward club will have to rate a 14-point favorite over the Conchs. They hold a six point ver- was much closer than the score indicated, Two bad passes from center resulted in two touchdowns against them but otherwise they Played their regular sharp game of football which has made them the scourge of the state for the season. South Broward has been tallying a steady two or three TD’s per game while their bruising defense has limited the’ opposition to an average of but one socre for the dict over Seacrest who whipped the Conchs by an eight point mar- gin. MISSISSIPPI IS FAVORE By The Associated Press Consigned to the Southeastern Conference cellar by pre-season Piekets, Mississippi State had both sides of its spectacular two-pronged offense well-honed today for its bid to reach the .500 mark in the league standings, If the Maroons can top Louisiana State Saturday—and they’re a six- point favorite—they will be waiting to hear from the red-faced coaches who figured them 12th in the-Dixie Dozen. In yesterday’s scrimmage Joe Fortunato, 220-pound fullback, who at top speed for the first time since injuries slowed him several weeks ago. Thus the big line- cracker joined quarterback Jack Parker, the nation’s leading scorer with 97 points, as a prime weapon in the Maroons’ awesome arsenal. LSU held its final scrimmage and showed enough to extract this praisefrom Coach Gaynell Tinsley: “For the first time in several weeks, I am almost satisfied with a mid-week practice session.” Fullback Chris Clark, a fresh- man, and quarterback Cliff String- field especially impressed Tinsley, Mississippi spent another long afternoon polishing its scoring ma- chinery, The Rebels face mighty Maryland this week and must be razor-sharp to cut any capers with the nation’s top defensive outfit. Reb Coach John Vaught said noth- ing new was planned for the Terra- pins. “Our secret weapons? We have two,” he’ ehuckled. “Blocking and tackling, , . and I hope we’re good enough at both to give Maryland a lot of trouble.” Gen, Bob Neyland, to whom de- fense is football’s iron backbone, continued #9 get his Tennessee Trish Loss Is Seen Saturday By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YOR Ki#—Football selec- tions made on Nov. 13 simply can not be any better’ or any worse than those made on Nov. 31, So here comes this week’s picks: Michigan State over » Notre Dame: A duel that compares with last week’s Notre Dame-Oklahoma affair but this time the Irish ap- pear doomed. Maryland over Mississippi: The Mississippians will work a minor miracle if they get a tie against Jack Scarbath & Company. Georgia Tech over Alabama: Your afternoon TV attraction. ‘Tech’s Turner and Teas are Dixie’s modern Blanchard and Davis, of | Army’s wartime teams. Oklaboma over Missouri: The Sooners to take out their anger on | Missouri for dast Saturday's defeat at Notre Dame. Southern California over Wash- ton: Washington has __ stolen fn the Coast Conference | title race but its exit will be noisy even though Don Heinrich’s passes will annoy the Trojans. Tennessee. over Florida:. The "Gators have primed for this one since the-season started but the odds are against them, Texas over Texas Christian: Texas has in T. Jones the confer- ence’s best passer, in Dick Ochoa the loop’s best ground-gainer, in Gib Dawson the leading scorer and in Tom Stolhandske the leading | pass receiver, That's too much for TCU, Michigan over Purdue: one. Purdue never has beaten Michigan at Ann Arbor and here's a shaky vote the jinx will hold Syracuse over Colgate: Syracuse is bowl hungry, Princeton over Yale: Yale is the surprise team of the East but this time it gets the surprise. Duke over Wa'e Forest: Duke to rebound after a pair of stinging rebukes, GA, MILITARY ACCEPTS BOWL OFFER THURS. MILLE Georgia \ ab ~ meet G Webb Sprin N. C., in the Bowl at Brunswick, con A close | D SAT. team ready for Florida’s Casares. | q, Hall-Long. combine by sending them through a second straight lengthy scrimmage. Florida’s Bob Woodruff, one of the general’s favorite pupils, won- dered aloud to newsmen how you score against a team rated third best in the nation on total defense. “Tennessee is in the national sta- tistics three times and Florida does not appear once,” moaned the Ga- tor coach, who spent a lot of time yesterday trying to improve his team’s passing game. Wally Butts of Georgia, who shuf- fles his Bulldogs like a deck of cards, sent Frank Salerno from guard to tackle in the defensive line and announced that freshman John Campbell would start against Auburn in Salerno’s old spot. Auburn’s last scrimmage before the meeting with Georgia featured bullseye passing accuracy by quar- terback Dudley Spence. Georgia Tech and Alabama held contrasting workouts for their head line meeting which is the TV game of the week. The unbeaten Engi- neers drilled lightly, in secret "Bama had a rough scrimmage highlighted by halfback Corky Tharp’s brilliant runs, Vanderbilt coaches spent another disagreeable afternoon seeking a replacement for Bill Krietemeyer, fabulous freshman quarterback, who is sidelined with an injury. The Commodores’ next opponent is Tulane, Tulane’s snappy scrimmage helped make Coach Ray Wolf less fretful over the. loss of defensive guard Bill Spollen. Spollen, just re- covered from a dislocated shoulder, is expected to miss the Vandy game because of an infected tooth, Hayes Eyes Title After Whipping DeJohn Thursday By HARRY B. STAPLER DETROIT (® —Norman Hayes, who flicked the blood out of his eye and turned an apparent defeat into a technical knockout victory, day-dreamed today of the middle- weight boxing titled. Hayes, 160%. pounds, of Boston, stopped Joey DeJohn, 165, Syra- cuse, at 1:44 minutes of the third round of last night’s nationally- televised fight, scheduled for ten rounds. DeJohn was confidently boring in, trying to widen a bleeding gash over Hayes’ right eye when Hayes floored him with a right to the side of the head. Hayes dropped him twice more and Referee Johnny Weber stopped the fight. Afterwards, Hayes, who has been unsuccessful recently against light- heavyweight, said, “from now on I'm sticking to the middle weights.” Hayes hopes for a chance at the middleweight title should Champion Sugar Ray Robinson retire as ex- pected. “This boy is the best in the middleweight class now,” said Hayes’ manager, Johnny Buckley, “and he’s still a year away from his peak.”* Buckley hopes to take Hayes to paris for a bout with another lead- jing contender, Charley Humez Hayes lost a disputed split decision to Humez some time ago. DeJohn, 24-year-old who knocked out Irish Bob Murphy in Septem- ber, was leading on every score- | card when the end came. ‘Manager Named TIFTON, Ga. (—Ed Hartness former first baseman for the South. ern Association Nashville Vols, will manage the Tifton Blue Sox of the Georgia-Florida baseball league in 1953. President Howard Woodall an- | nounced Hartness has been signed to a one-year contract as player | manager. The new Tifton pilot was given his outright release as manager of the Sally League Macon Peaches -| after Macon finished the 1952 sea son in fourth place. Al Matthews, San Jose State half. back, gained 2,964 yards in two af junior college football at ey, Calif. yea current campaign. The Conchs will be at top strength with the exception of full- NCAA To Step Up Its Cage Program KANSAS CITY. #—The National Collegiate Athletic Association to- lay announced plans to increase the number of teams for its basket- ball tournament and at the same time shorten the season and reduce Post-season competition. The announcement came jointly from Walter Byers, NCAA execu- tive director, and Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, University of Kansas ath- letic director and chairman of the NCAA basketball tournament com- mittee. The plans are dependent upon any recommendations which might come from the NCAA extra events committee, now completing a sur- vey of post-season competition, and subject to any actions which might be taken at the association’s an- nual convention in Washington, D. C., Jan. 8-10, The NCAA, according to the an- nouncement today, would better the administration and conduct of its tournament through the follow- ing devices: “1, Advance the date of the tournament by one week. Regional games for 1953 would be held March 13-14 and the finals March 17-18. . “2, Limit eligibility for the NCAA tournament each year to teams which compete in no other tourna- ment after the Close of their regu- larly scheduled playing season. “3. Increase the numbcr of con- ferences whose champions will automatically qualify for the tourn- ament. This. will have the direct effect of strengthening conference playing leagues and developing more closely-knit and _better-ad- ministrated conferences. < “4, x x x Expand the tournament bracket to enable more member institutions to qualify for the tourn- ament.” Drake Back Tops Pass Catchers NEW YORK (#—Joe McClaren, a six-foot, one-inch junior from Erie, Pa., leads the nation’s major col- lege football players in passes caught, figures released by the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic Bureau revealed today, McClaren is virtually a one-man offense on the Drake team,,He has snatched 42 passes from the team’s tossers, which is just half the com- pleted passes of the eleven. In addition, he has accounted for 57.6 per cent of Drake's aerial yardage. McClaren, leader in this depart- ment since the start of the season, isn’t far ahead of John Ryan of Illinois, who has caught 38, and | George Black of Washington with | 37. Al Ward of Columbia and! Bernie Flowers of Purdue have 3¢ each. All have two games left to | play, so it is highly possible that they will overtake McClaren. Don Koch of Southern California |heads the punting leaders with a 44.7 yards-per-kick average, ‘Clair Bee Will ‘Coach Bullets back Dick Salgado who is suffer- ing from a couple of bruises. Hal Solomon, who has been exhibiting some real football at the fullback slot, will be on tap to handle a large chunk of that assignment however. Key West, who was pushed around by South Broward last year and dropped a 33-2 verdict, is in a fighting mood in. an effort to preserve their outstanding record for the season. One thing is cer- tain, both clubs will be in for a rough night of it, Northern College Has Ten Grid Wins; Only 275 Students PERU, Neb. (#/—The college with the nation’s winningest football team this season has only 275 stu- dents, no jobs or scholarships for athletes and a coach who’s had the job for 15 years and likes it. Peru State Teachers College wound up its season with 10 straight victories» But they’re not packing up the | football duds at the southeast Ne- | ‘braska school just yet. Word around the athletic department is that any day there wil, be a bid for one of the smaller college bowl games. Last September, 60 of Peru’s 174 male students turned out for foot- ball practice. The squad was whit- tled down to 48 by the end of the season. Just the same, it gave Coach Al Wheeler enough men to use a modi- fied platoon system. Some of the linemen see duty on both offense and defense. Wheeler gets a break in fresh- man eligibility for varsity sports. Quarterback Bill Allen, a fresh- man from Chicago, has averaged better than 13 yards per carry as a slippery, pace-changing ball toter. Homer Smith Is Named AP Back Of Week By RIP WATSON NEW YORK #—Homer Smith, Princeton’s old fashioned power- plunging fullback, was named Associated Press “Back of the Week Wed. for his tremendous ability to do the primary thing with a football—namely, run with it, Smith was the top back of last Saturday by simply overpowering Harvard in an awesome display of slam-bang football—a contrast to the slick T-formation quarterbacks and speedy, clever halfbacks who often gain the headlines without being hit hard more than a ‘handful of times in a game. Starting from the first time Princeton got the ball, Smith ripped through the Harvard line for four touchdowns and 273 yards, the greatest running performance by. a, major college back this year. Princeton’s first play from scrim- mage gave an indication of how the game would progress. Smith, lining up in the fullback slot of Princeton’s single- wing offense, took the snap from center, faked a reverse to the circling wingback and was off for the goal 73 yards away. He burst through left tackle, cut back to the right and outran or bowled over anybody who barred his path. That was how it went all after- noon in Princeton’s 41-21 victory —Harvard linemen and backs try- ing in vain to stop No. 33 as he plowed up and down the field. His other touchdowns were on short blasts of eight, ten and four yards, but in between he went 46 yards and 57 yards. The five foot ten, 188-pound full- back wound up with an average of 10.5 yards—equal to a first down— BALTIMORE (#—Clair Bee, for- |mer Long Island University bas- | | ketball coach who has been at the | |helm of three national champion- | ship teams in his 21 years of col- | lege coaching, took over the Balti- | | more Bullets today. | Bee will arrive here on the heels of Baltimore's first National Bas- ketball Association victory. The {hapless Bullets finally found the |net last night after three wobbly ~ | starts and defeated previously un- | | beaten Milwaukee, 107-90. | Bee succeeds Chick Reiser whose release was announced yesterday by General Manager Bob Elmer. Long Island discontinued basket. ball a year ago after some of the school’s players became involved in bribery cases with gamblers. The widely known college mentor remained at the university as comptroller until last summer. Bee and Elmer are scheduled to } meet today in New York, and im- mediately afterward Bee will come to Baltimore to begin his duties. Bee, who becomes the fourth Bul- let coach in two seasons, piled up an impressive record at LIU. His 1939 and 1941 teams won the Na- | tional Invitational Tourney. His 1936 team was unbeaten and LIU had a string of 4 undefeated ‘games at that time. From 1932, for every time he carried the ball. When he wasn’t carrying the ba’ his bruising blocks paved the way for other Princeton runners to accumulate 489 yards from scrmi- mage on rushing. He learned the rock ‘em and sock ‘em football while prepping at Lawrenceville and polished his football education with a year as linebacker on Princeton's defensive platoon last year. Smith, a good-looking, crew-cut youngster frem Omaha, Neb., has been presideat of the class of 1954 for two years. He also won a letter in track last spring. He had to be good last Saturday to overshadow the other stars. These included Billy Vessels of Oklahoma who scored three touch- downs before the eyes of the na- tion's TV fans, and Jack Parker of Mississippi State who had a hand in six touchdowns. when he played for the university, until 1951, LIU won 8 per cent of ts games. The S2-year-cld Roscoe, N. Y. man has an 880 winning percent- age in his years of coaching Bee's enthusiasm for the game carries over into the writing field where he has authored 26 books on spe techniques and juvenile fi when.a real extravaganza has the Cristobal (Panama) eleven ball Classic. Through Pedro Aguilar ater aseDdal its old tricks when e out of six games during the past month. In the last stick work in the hot have been stickman has seven safeties in 13 tries for an average of .538, Al Cabot has hit five for thirteen average including a homer, double and single. In the box, Khaki Rodriguez hurled a great game Sunday against the Gilmore .when he al- lowed but three hits and fanned 10 batters. He walked but one man after a two month layoff. For the service, Brestle hit two safeties, one good for a double and Sanders of the Bushnell hit three safeties in three tries. REMINISCING: On October 10, 1926, the Key West Regulars under the managership of Paul Albury, won over the Monroe baseball nine by a score of 8-0. Carl Lopez pitched and allowed three hits, two by F. Perez and one by Perico Perez. For the Re- gulars, Pazo hit a double and Cre- ey doubled, Oscar Gonzalez trip- The Regulars had C. Cremata in center, Elbertson pn first, Bradley in right field, B. Castillo at setond, |Caporte in left field, C. Lopez in | the box, Pazo at shortstop, Sevilla | the plate. Acevedo played part of the gai..c in left field. For the Monroes, P. Perez play- | ed at third base, G. Garcia was at first base and F. Perez pitched, |P. Garcia caught, J. Fernandez was at second base, Perico Perez played shortstop and A. Perez cen- terfield. L. Gonzalez was in right field and Vidal in left. Martinez Played part of the game in left field and Diaz in right. ip Bill Veeck Scores ‘ e.e 6 Mantle Criticism KIRKSVILLE, Mo. # — Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns baseball club, sharply crit- icized a Missouri congressman yes- jterday for bringing up the draft status of Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee star outfielder. Veeck declared that it was a “cheap way of making headlines. Mantle is ready to serve his coun- try whenever called just as any other patriotic young citizen.” Rep. Thomas P. Curtis (R-Mo.) said Tuesday be wanted an investi- gation to determine the “consist- ency” of the Army's draft methots ‘He listed t-> cases in which be Following at third base and Albury behind | pd i] \ ‘Thursday, November 13, 1952 Citizen Staff Photo MISS MYRNA GOEHRING, Key West High School band per- former, will be leading the pack in the batén twirling depart- ment Friday night when thé Conchs tackle a tough South Broward eleven. Miss Goehring has worked out, several new routines that will make the gala halftime show more elaborate than ever. The comely miss will also appear on November 28th been slated as the Conchs meet in the First Annual Shrine Foot- Key West Bowlers Win Over Miami A team of local Navy wives captained by Cherry McFarlane defeated the highly rated Bruns- wick Bowland womens team from Miami on Sunday November 9, 1952 at the Naval Station Bowling Alleys. The victorious Key West team was composed of Cherry McFarlane, Captain; Winnie Hum- phrey, Ruby Caldwell, Gloria Aren- th and Flo Bustard. A return match will be rolled on the Miamians home alleys on November 30, 1952. On the male side of the double ers rallied-around the superlative performance of Jim Caldwell who rolled an outstanding series of 224, 257, 225 for a 706 total. Team scores were 942, 990, 899. The winning team was composed of Jim Caldwell; J. G. McFarlane; Joe Atzert; Vince Humphrey and “Ollie” Olsen. The Brunswick Bowland team team consisted of: Blanche, Cap- tain; Alice Swanson; Cora Harris; Rose Oretega and Dotty Metzger. | Metzger; George Swanson and Phil Atzert. ‘Vandy Will Test Tulane This Week | NEW ORLEANS (#—Vanderbilt | will try to do something Saturday ‘the Commodores haven't accom- plished since 1928—beat Tulane in a Southeastern Conference football game. | ending the 24-year-old jinx were that their great quarterback Bill Krietemeyer will make the trip. The freshman sensation, who's |completed 65 of 139 passes this season for 922 yards and three touchdowns, has been the victim of a mysterious leg infection. jleg will be sufficiently healed to | allow him to play against the Green | Wave. Passing quarterbacks have led to Tulane’s downfall in three defeats this fall, and the thought of Kriete- meyer in the lineup sends a shiver up Coach Bear Wolf's back. Georgie’s Zeke Bratkowski beat Tulane with his wicked passing, Jimmy Lear gave Mississippi a one-touchdown advantage over Tu lane, and, last week, Kentucky's | Steve Meilinger led the Wildcats te | 27-4 victory over Tulane. | Tulane has won two Southeastern | Conference games this fall and lost four while Vanderbilt defeated Florida 20-13 and tied Mississippi 21-21 But the Green Wave is physically worn down after last week's loss to Kentucky while Vandy should be ready after a refreshing 9-0 victory over Miami. | said the Army had accepted men with serious physical deficiencies. | The congressman added that he | | was not criticizing Mantle person- ally. The Yankee outfielder was re- jected because of a chronic knee injery. Veeck was bere for a luncheon engagement victory - a team of inspired bowl. | Pert. The mens team from Miami con- ; | sisted of ¢ Glass; Ortega; Johnny | | And the Commodores chances of | | brightened today with the word / It’s still uncertain whether his | Rivera Placed On Probation By SHELDON SAKOWITZ NEW YORK #—Baseball Com- missioner Ford Frick used the velvet fist treatment in placing Jim Rivera, Chicago White Sox rookie, on indefinite probation. Baseball's boss could have barred the 29-ycar-old New York- born Puerto Rican from baseball, but instead ‘he «put the outfielder on probation yesterday and warned him that if he failed THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK @ — Indications are that horse racing will become truly international in character within the next few years as a result of the great success of the to “toe the line” he would be ban- | i ished permanently. Rivera was cleared by the Cook County (Ill.) Grand Jury on a rape charge last month, but Frick main- tained the Sox outfielder is guilty “of a certain type of moral delin- quency.” Frick, in handing down his deci- sion said that he “could not place himself in the position of going a the heads of an American The Chicago White Sox will be held responsible for Rivera’s ac- tions on and off the field and will have to submit a report to Frick’s office if the controversial outfielder misbehaves in any way. The commissioner also prohibited the Chicago club from transferring the player’s contract for a period of one year and the only way the White Sox can dispose of him is by voluntary retirement or suspen- sion. te “The commissioner recognizes, as does the Chicago American League club,” Frick said, “that they have an obligation to the pub- lic to maintain the highest possible standards of morality among all men who are connected with the game.” The White Sox player was sen- tenced to prison on a rape charge while he was serving in the Army. Last Sept. 28 he was charged with raping a 22-year-old married wom- an in Chicago. Rivera admitted being intimate with the woman but denied using force. In Chicago, Mrs. Grace Comis- key, president of the White Sox, said she was delighted over the commissioner’s ruling. William Harridge, president of the American League, said he was jin complete accord with Frick’s | decision. SPORTS — MIRROR By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — The Mel Hoderlein to the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Don Len- hardt and righthander Randy Gum- FIVE YEARS AGO—Billy Fox, Philadelphia, scored a technical knockout over Jake -Lamotta of New York in the fourth round of their scheduled 10-rounder at Mad- ison Square Garden. TEN YEARS AGO—Beau Jack, 21-year-old lightweight sensation, stopped Allie Stoltz of New York in the seventh round, due to a bad cut over Stoltz’ eye. TWENTY YEARS AGQ—Colgate remained the only college football team in the nation to be undefeat- ed, untied and unscored upon in eight games. into $6.95 : Congress. sented 455 high score awards dur- Always in the past, foreign which attempted to run on soft dirt or composition were seriously handicapped seldom if ever performed ul j elited aE at some time or other, Ra the beautiful green tracks land and Australia are, taste, a greater pleasure than fhose on our own bling strips, The brave men and women who threw their money into the Dallas Texans and saw it disappear quick- ly, as down a manhole, now know something that many persons learned before them during past quarter-century—that profes- sional football is a cold, merciless sport in which only the few can hope to survive. The new member of the lodge can expect no real help from any- body. He is strictly on his own, Most of the others have had it tough too, and if they finally have attained a condition of fair sta- bility it is because they gamb'od their money, took their losses un- complainingly and e¢ me bork fel Baad i Boston Red Sox traded southpaw | C/@wing. It is no business for the pitcher Chuck Stobbs and infielder Sek of spirit. ‘BOWLING AWARDS (ARE HIGH THIS SEASON MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP)—The | American Bowling. Ci pre ing the 1951-52 season. This was the highest number of awards pre- sented since 1941, The record for one season was set in 1939-40 when ‘543 presentations were made. In the initial season of pre- sentations for men who scered 11 in a row but failed to get 298 or better, there were 344 bowlers honored. They became members of the ABC’s “Eleven-In-A-Row Club” and received sterling silver membership cards. r washable corduroy a soft, luxurious Sportshirt Here's comfort, quality and value all woven into one wonderful, ruggedly constructed sportshirt. 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