The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1952, Page 5

Cristobal Eleven Arrives i “This one belongs to me,” was | the greeting Luke Palambo, Coach of the Cristoba: Tigers, had ror Ed Beckman. Conch gridiron coch, when the two old football rivals | greeted each other yesterday after- noon at Wickers Stadium. Today, the 28 boys and their coaches, who arrived here yester- day afternoon from the Canal Zone, sat down to turkey dinner in the homes of the boys who will be their foes or the sod Friday night. “We are going to fatten you for the kill,” the Conchs joked with their friendly opponents in the half hour of re-union the buys and coaches held at the Stadium yes- terday afternoon, Wearing tropical straw hats the Tigers, coaches, cheer leaders and 28 followers lande. at Boca Chica Field shortly after 4 p. m. ering of football - enthusiasts, among which were members of the Key West Shrine club, spon- soring or! ion of the Friday night classic. From the landing field the tors were taken to the Stadium. There they wei ssigned to the homes, where will be guests during their three days st All arrangements for the enter- taining of the boys had been com- pleted by the Halfback club, un- der direction of its president, Mrs. Piedad Archer. is Throughout today the visitors had open house at any theater in town. Tonight they meet Key West High School in the opening basketball game of the season at the High School gymnasium. to be greeted by a large gath- | game. Palambo announced that his | win-.n Cristobal last year against | squad would be intact for the | game. the Tiger Cvach said. “We are un- defeated this season. What about | the Conchs? How good arc they?” he wanted to know, Capt. Vernon Bryant, who will \be playing his last game of High | school football, said the boys want {to win this one for their coach. |Lucy Gonzalez, who will be seen |in action for the last time as a | member of the Conch squad, have | been named as co-captains of the Conchs for the tilt, and the boys are going tc try to wrap this one up as a special gift for that trio. | All in all the football game pro- | {mises to be a close one. The Tommy West, Peter Knight and | ere Wed. |the same squad. As for the pre-game and inter- “We have a mighty good team,” | mission shows, Fernando Camus, j chairman of the committee, and |his committee men, marked out the field today for the bands. The snappy United States Marine color guard will participate in the | flag raising ceremonies, Th’: Holly- | wood Shrine club Oriental band and two well known oriental dances will present a half hour show. Prof. Harold Casterton and Joe |} Cornell are promising something xtra” from the High school band. | ‘“‘We will surpass our rresentation | of Stardust last Friday night,” Cor- {nell said. | The pre-game show will start at 7:30 p. m. Ticket booths will be set up at both gates. Kick off So, back now to the football |Conchs barely eked out a 3 to 0/ time is 8:15 p. m. ARMY PLACES HOPES Pennsylvania ‘Odum Clears ON PASSING ARM OF QUARTERBACK VENN NAVY GOES INTO GAME AS A SE POINT FAVORITE By WILL GRIMSLEY WEST POINT, N. Y. ® — Al quarterback who was third-string at the start of the season and a halfback who hadn’t played foot- ball before this year carry Army’s | main offensive hopes against Navy | in the star-spangled service classic | Saturday at Philadelphia. | The quarterback is Peter Vann, | a stringy, 19-year-old yearling } from Hamburg, N. Y. The half- back is Bill Purdue, a 20-year-old Army brat who is the son of a two-star general stationed at An- chorage, Alaska. Vann is Army’s ace passer—‘He has a natural arm,” says Coach Red Blaik—but it took a cribbing seandal and injury to the No. 1 and No. 2 field generals to give him his chance. He came to West Point from a little upstate high school. He never figured to be more than a fill-in or perhaps a jayvee on the Army squad, But ‘aturday before a sellout crowd of 102,000, including Presi- dent Truman and other dignitaries, this gangling 170-pounder will di- reet, the Army attack against heavily favored Navy in one of sport's bre “ot sr Purdue, of Brig. i ner P. Purdue, entered the Point as a track man, a crack hurdler with no gridiron experience. Some coaches just happened to see him playing a game of “catch” with a football and invited him out for the He started on the junior varsity, get a oe ec" giate start against Columbia Oct. 25 and two weeks ago scored the last-minute touchdown which upset Penn, | 14-13. Fastest man on the squad, he is scheduled to start at right halfbs * “Last year when Navy beat us 4 we had a conglomeration of plebes and jayvees,”” Blaik said “We weren't organized. We have pretty much the same personnel today as we kad then, But we have SEC Slacks Off Heavy Contact Work By The Associated Press Most teams in the Southeastern Conference slacked off from heavy contact work and tarned to a pol- ishing up program for Saturday’s games with intra-state rivals. Only Mississippi and Louisiana State held scrimmages. The LSU Tigers had to find a starting half- back in place of junior Willard Rachal. A top ground gainer this season, Rachal left the campus for a final visit home tefore being in- ducted into the Army Monday. Tuesday’s bad weather had post- poned Mississippi’s final scrim-- mage which Coach Johnny Vaught insisted upon before meeting Mis- sissippi State. Both Tennessee and Georgia Tech underwent extra long ses- sions. The Vols meet Vanderbilt Saturday while “ech facer Geor- gia. Both Tennessee and the Engi- neers are hei.vy favorites. Tech Coach Bobby Dodd again has changed his mind about start- ing halfback Leon Hardeman against the Bulldogs, saying he will see only limited, action. Georgia’s tra..er Sam Richwine said Vernon Griffith, guard, will be ready to play Saturday. He has been out with a broken hand since early October. But Jack Roberts; senior halfback, wi miss the Sare due t. a leg injury. Mississippi Sta‘: coach Murray Warm. declared the Maroons are in good shape for their clash with Ole Miss, There will be no changes in the starting lineup. Light workouts at Vanderbilt al- most lost Coach Bill Edward the services of fre ‘hn defensive halfback Paul Goad because of a knee injury Will Battle Cornell Today NEW YORK (#—Both the Ivy jhave crucial games on tap today !and when the firing is over both | the championships probably will be settled, will be decided when Penn plays Cornell in a traditional game at Philadelphia. Penn is unbeaten in the league, but has suffered three straight setbacks to outside oppo- sition. 13% point favorites -- they'll take |the title with four wins and no losses. If they lose, Princeton, which has wound up its campaign, will take the crown for the third straight year. Utah must whip an underdog | Utah State if it is to pick up the marbles. If State wins and New Mexico beats the same state outfit a week hence, Utah wiil drop into second place. At Austin, Texas, already the winner of the Southwest Confer- ence championship and host team in the Cotton Bowl, tangles with the Texas Aggies, one of the weak sisters of the loop. The Aggies have won only one league game. The post-season rush of bowl games also breaks out in Johnson City, Tenn., when East Tennessee State College, a local, school, enter- tains Emory and Henry in the Burley Bowl. The visitors from Emory, Va., are one-touchdown favorites. Other games on the thin pro- gram include Colgate at Brown, Santa Clara at San Jose State, Wyoming at Denver, Virginia Poly at Virginia Military Institute and Miami (0.) at Cincinnati. Stabled at Hialeah this season | will be 70 horses that won stake | races during 1952. pected tu be ready to play Sat- urday. Kentucky and Florida | week, get back to work their clash next weekend Most SEC elevens will hold a | brief limbering up session Thurs. day ) ning before settling down Me this nday for The Ivy League crown definitely | If the Quakers win it--they’re | ‘Questions On ‘Young Drivers TALLAHASSEE (#—Parents of League and Skyline Conference | 16-year-old children who have un- | |restricted driving licenses need have no fear of prosecution if the | youngsters drive alone, an assist- | ant attorney general said here. | fication of a ruling released by |the attorney general Tuesday that | adults who allow unauthorized mi- |nors to operate autos alone may {be charged with contributing to | delinquency of a child. The ruling was given in response |to a question by Polk County Ju- |venile Judge G. Bowdon Hunt. The juvenile delinquency law ap- | Plies to all girls and boys below the age of 17. a delinquent child under the law is any child who violates the law, jan adult who permits him to vio- jlate the driving laws could be charged with contributing to his delinquency. However, the state driver li- cense law permits issuance of un- | restricted licenses to youths 16 years old. Children between the age of 14 and 16 may get learner licenses which require that they be accompanied at all times by an | adult. Even youths 16 years old may have restricted licenses. Adults re- sponsible for them could be pros- ecuted for permitting them to vio- late the restrictions, Veeck Attempts To Land Doby Hot Stove League Baseball NEW YORK, (#—Bill Veeck, ac- ; cording to his own admission, has | made a half dozen different offers for Cleveland’s Larry Doby with- out success but insists he hasn’t given up trying to land the star outfielder, Did - you - know -that- depart- ment--Roy Hughes of the Cleveland Indians had .the best. fielding per- | centage of a:] second basemen and the worst of all third basemen in owever, he is ex-|to a big Thanksgiving Day dinner. | the American League, in 1935, He Ralph E. Odum made the clari- | The attorney general said since | > ‘So. California Will Try For An Unbeaten Record LoS ANGELES, (—The un- beaten football squad of Southern | California flies east today to battle a traditional foe, N tre Dame, and one of the most victory-minded men on the team is Elmer Will- jhoite, distinguished as the Associ- ated Press “Lineman of the Week.” Elmer’s newest laurel cxme off his f--"orm.n-- ._-inst UCLA last Saturday, so the Irish present another problem i -he. week. Added to Elmer’s honor today went still another -- the almost ur. ximous v te »s defensiv: -uard on the Associated Press All-Pacific Coast Confereace team. | willhoite’s biggest exploit last week, of course, was his intercep- jtion of a pass and runback of 72 yards to the UCLA eight - yard | mark. | The crashing gallop set up what proved to be the vinnin. tvuch- | down. Elmer is not interested in pro- | fessional football, +’ says he may |take a hand at pro boxing. Critics j who have seen him work with the |gloves say he shows marked | promise, | Other outstanding “Linemen of jthe Week” included Donn Moo- maw, Chuck Doud and Jack El- lena of UCLA; “Blind Bill” Turn- beaugh, Auburn; Ed Meadows, | Duke; John Griggs, Kentucky, and {P, C, Andrews, Hardin-Simmons. ANTI-CANCER BOMB NEW YORK (#—The Montifiore Hospital has obtained an $86,000 anticancer bomb reportedly capa- ble of producing the same “kick” as 30 million dollars worth of radium. The bomb, properly known as a cobalt teletherapy unit, was brought by truck yesterday to the Bronx institution from the Canadi- an atomic energy plant at Chalk River, Ont. made only three errors in 232 chances at second in 40 games and in- one game at third base, equalled a major league mark by committing four miscues, Today’s puzzler--who was the first player to wear two uniforms in one day? Answer--Harry Davis, later the great first baseman of Connie Mack’s world champion Philadel- phia . Athletics of 1910-11, played the first game of a Giant-Pitts- burgh doubleheader in 1896 with the New York Giants, was traded to Pittsburgh during intermission and played the second game with the Pirates, The St. Louis Cardinals have ordered southpaw Harvey Haddix, their rookie pitching star, to quit playing winter baseball by Dec. 1. Haddix, released from military service last August, has been burning up the Puerto Rican league, winning his first six starts with the San Juan club. Haddix al- | lowed only two earned runs in his first five games and fanned 38 bat- jters in 49 innings, —: SPORTS — Charles Wins Decision F ji Bi e By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO #® — Jimmy Bivins admits that Ezzard Charles hits hard, but he says he’s not the sharp puncher he used to be. Charles, former heavyweight champion, tried to display his so- called new butchering style last night but had a hard time catch- ing up with old Jim after the first round, Boos frequently echoed through vast Chicago Stadium from the 2,799 fans who contributed to a gate of $7,371. At times, someone out there among the customers shouted: “Takes two to tango!” Charles, who expects to get an- other crack at the heavyweight title in June after Champion Rocky Marciano has a rematch with Jer- sey Joe Walcott, slugged Bivins with a right to the jaw at the out- set of the first round. It was the only big thrill rationed! out to a national TV audience during the dull 10-round bout. e 33-year-old Cleveland Negro went down to one knee in the corner. Bivins blinked his eyes and took a mandatory eight count be- £59ut. “E zstill hits hard but he isn’t the sharpshooter he used to be,” observed Bivins, who lost three of four previous bouts with the Cin- cinnati Tiger. “He hit me on the back, on top of my head but he didn’t punch sharp. A sharp punch will numb you and stick with you. You can shake off the hard hits.” Charles was not too happy about it all. “Bivins kept out of my reach,” he said. “He ran away. I need a guy who will fight back, then I can show my best. I think I’m getting sharper all the time.” As for that blow that sent Bivins down in the first, Ez clinched his left fist and held it up. “I hit him with my right,” he explained. Referee Johnny Behr and the two judges each scored their cards 58-42 for Charles, who weighed 185 pounds to Bivins’ 183. Charles’ next fight is earmarked for Boston on Dec. 15 against Frank Buford of California. , November 27, 1952 Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK ® — The hottest topic of conversation among this towa’s football fans in recent days is the manner in which Freddie Benners, the former Southern Methodist passing ace, has sudden- ly lifted the New York Giants up by the slack of their pants and pitched them into the thick of the Tace for the professional champion- ship. _The tall, rangy rookie had been sitting on the bench and picking up nothing but hip bunions during the Giants’ first eight games, in which they had posted the not impressive won-lost record of 5-3. After a fine start, the club’s reg- ular quarterback and Passer, Charlie Conerly, had lost the knack of hitting his receivers. As far as three games back, the cry had gone up for Coach Steve Owen to forget his loyalty to Conerly and at least give Ben- ners a shot at the job. “Do you want me to shoot Con- erly just because he has a bad game or two” Owen demanded. “Anyway, Benners is too fine a Prospect to be thrown in there and Tuined before he has learned the T-formation thoroughly. He never worked from anything but the spread formation in college. I won’t put him on such a spot until I know he’s ready.” And that was how matters stood when Sunday’s game began against the Redskins. It was taken for granted that if the Polo rounders lost that one they would be. out of the running for the title in their division. There was Con- erly still crouched behind center, and the discontent amon g the Harlem alumni was vast. The end of the first period marked the seventh straight in which the Giants under Conerly’s direction had not ‘scored a touch- down. About midway of the second quarter, Owen finally made up his mind that Conerly hed a sore arm and flagged Benners in. The reaction of the Giants was somewhat electrifying. The kid looked as though he had been | weaned on the T-formation. In 11 Plays, mixing his tactics skilifully, he drove his club 77 yards to a touchdown, then he went 48 yards | in seven plays for the winner. ‘An- other long march in the fourth period was broken up by a fumble near the goal line. In the course of turning an apparent rout into a vital 14-10 victory, Benners hit on eight of 13 passes for 113 yards, BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE A DAY OF THANKS With today being Thanksgiving, the sporting fans of Key West! should bow their heads in thanks for the boys, girls, men and wo- gridiron; now they want to see how this team has carried un their ground work. Some that will not be here are Ralph Placencia who recently was | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Ole Miss Meets Rebels Saturday OXFORD, Miss. (?—Mississippl, a team that grabbed national law- rels and a Sugar Bowl date by dumping football - famous Mary- land, will find Mississippi State eager to gair some lustre for itself when it tangles with the Rebels here Saturday. Two short weeks ago, ewice-tied Mississippi was a football nobody drooling for a big kill when mighty Maryland came down this way. Solely on the strength of the 21-14 upset, Mississippi catapulted into sixth place in the nation and a coveted bid to play in New Orleans Jan. 1 against Georgia Tech. But next Saturday, Mississippi scarcely used to its new glory, finds itself in Maryland’s shoes and facing carefree Mii State, its traditional rival. Both schools have enough punch to make it a free-for-all. Both teams have plenty of ef- fense. State quarterback Jack Parker was for a time the nation’s leading scorer and still hovers around that mark. He can pass, too. Big “Ironman” Joe Fortunate at fullback and Zerk Wilson, half. back, are strong on the State of- fensive lineup. Mississippi has quarterback Jim- my Lear, a wizard passer and smooth signal man and a stall full |of fast runners like fullback Harol Lofton, halfbacks Dick Westerman and Wilson Dillard in the scoring department. Jerry May, Mississippi left guard, is the only pp ao on either squad who will definitely be benched for the game, May was hurt in the Maryland fray. Otherwise everything is ready for the 2 p. m. (CST) kickoff, —E—_—Ezaaa Parade Set F riday A gala parade has been set for Friday afternoon on Duval Street in connection with the Key West | High Scheol-Cristobal football en- counter. The Key West High School ‘band and floats entered from every activity of the high school will be in the line of march, The parade will get underway at 1:00 p. m. Subscribe to The Citizen HAGGAR IMPERIAL SLACKS in luxurious all-wool flannels , : | ’ now fused a football team—still short on manpower, but a team, nevertheless.” injured at a California Air Base | and Morton Hall who's studying | to become an Air Force pilot in| men that give up so much for this world of ours to remain free. It’s not only people in the field Van Fleets Look Over Seoul Home we : - Vann got his opportunity after | Freddie Meyers, the No. 1 tail-| back, broke his leg in the spring | and Dick Boyle, his understudy, | uffered a leg injury just before at the dinner table tonight let’s | subject. the season siarted. Meyers was give a prayer of thanks for them.| Next season one of the last | ‘ost to the team for good but PASSING THOUGHTS games should be set aside as Boyle returned to find himself In tomorrow night’s game be-| “Homecoming.” This would give second-string to Vann. The regular Army center, Good- | win Ordway, linebacker John Kro- } hock and tackle Ronald Lincoln were all converted from ends. The other linebacker, Jerry Lodge, was | an offensive guard last year | Navy goes into the game a seven-point favorite but Army is} keyed for what should be its best | game of the year. “We are ap | prehensive but hopeful.” said | Rlaik. | The Army coach said he figures the team which gets an early jump will take the victory oy of sports that have devoted their lives to a just cause they believed in, but people in other fields have done likewise. Before we sit down tween Cristobal and Key West take a look around the stands for some familiar faces. They will belong to Billy Osterhoudt, John Curry, James Baker, Bobby Cooper, Book- ie Henriquez and other boys of last year’s Conch team. They came home to see their families | and friends over the holiday plus | witnessing this years’ team inj} action. Last year they were on the | Sport Shorts Texas. These boys gave all of us en- joyment last year by their playing so here is my thought on this all of the players besides other students a chance to get together | with their friends and talk over old times. Many of the players from the "52 team will be going to college next summer so let's start making plans now This is just a thought and some one may see an idea, I hope so. Don't eat too much turkey!” leagues for the 1952 season. One of the brightest of their farmboys If th was Jim (Juniro) Gilliam, the “If they get two quick touch » downs on us.” he said, “I'm ofraid By JOE REICHLER switeh-hitting second baseman who they'll be inspired to pour it on.” NEW YORK —Bill Veeck, ac-|¥@% named to the International SPORTS MIRROR cording to his own admission, | made a half-dozen different offers | for Cleveland's Larry Doby without | success but has | he insists he hasn't given up trying to land the star League All-Star Team and voted the most valuable player Gilliam, advertised as the fellow who will eventually make Jackie Robinson move back tc first base. 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