The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1952, Page 5

Gonzalez Named Most Valuable Player Couch Gridders Honored -|improved Conch footballer. 4\ members. Beckman» in his first Citizen Statf Photc AFTER A HIGHLY SUCGRSSFUL SEASON on the gridiron, the Key West High School football squad was honored last night at a dianer by the Key West Quarterback Club. Coach Ed Beck- man (above), was speaker at the event. The popular mentor awarded 26 letters to his gridders who compiled an enviable recard in their second season of football in many years. Guard Peter Knight (right, lower photo), is shown as he receives the Frank Carbonell Memorial Trophy from City Commissioner John Carbonell, brother of the all-time great Key West athlete for whom the trophy is named. . Knight was awarded the cup on the basis of his all-around play and sportsmanship. He was also named co-captain of the team. ¥ allace-Dunlap cide its champion. It gives more points for beating +|Tommy West were also named as ;|teammates. West was the winner ‘\of the Carbonell trophy last year. After a highly successful grid- iron season, the Key West High School football squad was honored last night by the Key West Quarter- back Club at a dinner in the La Concha hotel to wind up the current campaign with the kudos flying thick and fast. Featured at the dinner was the giving of awards and presentations with just about every member of the squad getting recognition for their efforts in gaining seven wins, as against two losses and a tie. Lucy Gonzalez and Peter Knight were singled out as the top per- formers in a year that surprised the experts in that the Conchs started winning and never slowed up until they had nailed down a {record that is the envy of a lot jof Florida high school football | | teams. Halfback Lucy Gonzalez was } singled out for the “‘Most Valuable Player” award while Knight was named the recipient of the Frank Carbonell Memorial Trophy. Also featured at the dinner was the awarding of some 26 letters and gold footballs to the high school gridders. Gonzalez received his award in a contest sponsored by the Pol- | lock’s Jewelry Store in which Key |West Football fans balloted for | their choice. | The Carbonell Trophy, which is | given annually by the family of | the late Frank Carbonell, who was one of Key West’s all-time foot- ball greats, was presented to Knight on the basis of his all- around play and sportsmanship | throughout the season at left guard. Knight was also singled out as the most dependable player and its best tackler. He and right guard co-captains of the year by their Tony Dopp was named the team’s best blocker by his co-|} | workers, Joe Pineda the test all- | jaround player and Don Cruz re-/| | ceived credit for being the most | Coach Ed Beckman also came in for a bit of well earned the dinner from the ic team and fan club year as Coach at the high school in its second season of football in many years “has compiled a record which is its own tribut | attorney W. Curry Harris said in | introducing Beckman who award- | ed letters to his gridders. } In a short talk to the Quarter- | backers, Beckman gave the cre- dit to his gridders for the success- | full campaign. Beckman pointed | out the respect that the West grid aggregation has ed among their opponents. Sea- rest High, he pointed: out, did not win another game after their bruising battle with the Conch: and when St. Peter and Paul of Miami managed to pull out with @ one touchdown win over Key West, the school officials prompt- ly gave the entire student body a holiday. Beckman was given a standing | ovation by those present at the dinner. Following the presentation of | gold footballs by jeweler Paul Sher, Coach Beckman awarded | | system the conference use to de-| letters to the following players: |recognition in the form of consi- Ralph White, John Carbonell, Jr., Jim Solomon, John Vermette, Don ‘attle Set Wed la team that is in the first division, | Cruz, Stu Logun, Wayne Brantley, ‘ 5 | For that reason, Jax Jackson is Julio Henriquez, Jim Dixoa, Tom- The Pabst Blie Ribbon — cBs | listed on top now even with its|my West, Peter Knight, Ronnie | dio microphones returns to the | " stroit Olympia December 3rd to ‘seribe the action of tha: night's | ature bout, leavyweights Coley | ollace.and Bob Duidlap in 1 | vnds. This natio tt will ‘be av teners over st 2 at 10 p,m me, Bob Dunlap, of Oakland, Calif the latest. in the string of Cali- Vans who have moved east rd to appear in the IBC’s main- ents, Dunlap has previously con ved his ing to the Los Angles- 1 Francisco-Salt Lake C + unanimous over on at San Francisco was the ort that earned him the chance Detroit's b res D ded 16 KO's imhis fi establish himself as ¢ sst's top shuggers oley Wall form ves champion, is no boxing fans despite rvice of three ye His appe: ents’ began ptism as a pro in 1950. Eastern Standard win outs ¢ of the Golden weomer short $ the pro sho hiy-rated Ji suffered a nin Miami Jackson Is ‘avored Vs. Tampa ACKSONVILLE of | Cesar loss to Miami Edison. The Miami Jackson-Hillsborough | Merrit, Glynn Archer, George Has- {the school. | game is the only one scheduled this week The New York Giants and the lly broadcast Cleveland” Indians played before Niles and Aldo Vidal. ble to local | 263,888 fans.in 16 games last spring, | ion CBS begin- |&8 part of their annual spring! yesterday exhibition tour. Pinder, Harvey Orapeza, John De- kins, Joe Pineda, Tony Dopp, Dick | Salgado, Hal Solomon, Mario Ro- }que, Lucy Gonzalez, Gibby Gates, } John Cruz, and managers Tony | The Conch footballers huddled to choose an all-op- | ponent squad which was announced | jtucky football | area from the Caspian Sea ey ‘Dodgers Work } Worth). | Kentucky Will Test Florida GAINESVILLE # — The Ken- team, which has fought two bowl teams to tier this year, comes to town Saturday to see if it can do that much—or worse—to Florida. A whipping would be highly em- barrassing to Florida coming on the heels of its invitation to Jack- sonville’s Gator Bowl. Coach Bob Woodruff recognizes that fact. He told his squad to forget all about the New Year’s Day game with Tulsa and bear down on the more urgent business at hand. “Kentucky,” he lectured, “is one of the really big assignments of the year for us. “Tt’s going to take a lot of get- ting ready to be set for the team that came from two touchdowns | behind to tie Tennessee.” The Kentucky Wildcats held Cot- ton Bowl-bound Tennessee to a 14- 14 tie Nov. 22. That was the same Tennessee that took Florida, 26-12, a week earlier. Before the Tennessee draw, Ken- | tucky had a four-game winning streak, elbowing aside Cincinnati, Miami, Tulane and Clemson. Dur- | ing a shaky early season start | when they dropped three contests, | the Wildcats managed a 13-13 tie ippi, one of the Sugar | | Steve Meilinger, an All-SEC end | last year-and one of the country’s | most versatile players, is the back- | bone of the Kentucky offense. | So far this year, he has received | 16 passes for 326 yards and six | touchdowns, completed four of 15 | passes for one touchdown, and | gained 272 yards and two touch- | downs rushing. } Besides offensive end, he also quarterbacks and plays defensive | safety. His 6 feet 3 inches and 234} Goshawk Passing Ace pounds figure to be a mighty test # for Florida’s excellent defense. | Florida’s backfield of Doug Dick- | ey, Buford Long, Papa Hall and} Rick Casares will have to pound to | go places against the Wildcats’ | stout defense which has yielded an average of only 140 yards a game this fall. Neither Florida nor Kentucky had a game last Saturday. Both teams had three days off for) Thanksgiving. The pheasant is native to the; Sotitheastern Europe. at the meeting. It includes: ends, Phillips (Belle Glade) and Salter (Cristobal); tackles, Kimberly (Lake Worth).and Galbraith (South Broward); guards, Reid Cristobal) and Daddio (St. Mary’s); center, Barber (Belle Glade); quarterback, Topley (St. Mary's); fullback, Man-; ning (Seacrest); halfbacks, Swilley (Seacrest) and Jenniches (Lake Big Jim Barber, Belle Glade center, was named the standout performer to face the Conchs this season by the players. Key West’s four seniors, who | played their last game of football | in the Cristobal win, have received | deration for scholarships at up- state colleges it has been learned. The quartet, Harvey Orapeza, Tom- { my West, Peter Knight and Lucy | Gonzalez have been interviewed | and have filed applications with | Last night’s event marked the final Quarterback Club dinner meeting of the season. The mem- ' bership will meet on Monday night at the County Courthouse to elect officers for the coming year, Pre- | sident Glynn Archer presided at the session, | Huge Crowd Seen For Navy-Mari Grid Classic Here On Friday Night When the Pensacola Naval Air Station football squad comes to town tu do battle with the Miami Marine eleven at Wickers Field on day night, they will have a ntie rooting section comprised of just about every Navy man on the Key West } tion judg- g by the advance sale of tickets at has been reported by the i cl who is spons.ring the Over a thousand ducats don't in- depart: | will tween the ice ¢ One thing is certain, however, Key West football lovers wil! be treated to the best football ever te be played in the island City. Both of the teams are studded with ex-college performers whe love te ploy football and have two s bs held their own with some of the top college teams in the nation. A gi football carnival is being planned by the Lions Club Football Committee featuring the Presence of top officialdem in the government and the Naval and Marine Corps services. Senator Ge.rge Smathers will lead the parade of brass who will pour into Key West for the his- toric clash. An ex-Marine, who still holds a reserve Major's com- mission, Smathers is making no bones about who he will be root- ing for om Saturday night. dom ine! Heimburg, Command, Atlantic Fleet miral Irving T. Duke. Comman Officer of the Key West tion, and Mrs. Duk to support the Navy at downing the M over at the halftime while the high school unit will provide pre- game entertainment. The three bands will mass at game time to offer the national anthem The busses carrying the Marine gridders and band will be met on Thursday afternoon at Boca Chica by a police motorcycle es- cort and a parade has been ten- tatively set for the same evening to give Key Westers a look at the crack unit, They are schedul- ed to lead the nationally famed Orange Bow! Parade in Miami on New Year's Eve. General L. M. Cooley, Com- manding officer of the Miami Marine Air Station will arrive in Key West on Friday aleng with bis staff and their wives. are he i wil ' : BOB ZASTROIN, crack quarterback of the Pensacola NAS Gos- hawks will be on tap Friday to of trouble when they do battle at the Wickers Field battle pit. Game is being sponsored by the Key West Lions Club for the benefit of the Polio Fund. On Deal For Braves’ Spahn By JOE REICHLER PHOENIX, Ariz. The Brooklyn Dodgers have prepared a Pair of 3-for-2 package deals in- volving top-flight player. in an ef- | fort to wrangle either Warren | Spahn of the Boston Braves or Curt | Simmons of the Philadelphia Phils, it was learned today. Recognizing the need of a start- | ing southpaw pitcher to go along | with the aging Preacher Roe in de- fense of their National championship, the Dodgers are | quite willing to give up regular players for either of the pitchers, generally recognized as the best left-handers in the circuit. The Brooks, who sat by quietly yesterday as three of their better minor league farmhands were plucked in the annual major league draft that opened the annue!l con- vention, have these package deals to offer: 1. Ovtfielders Car] Furillo, Andy Pafko and third basemen Billy Cox, all regulars, to the Braves for Spahn and outfielder Sid Gordon | or: 2. First baseman Gil Hodges, Furillo and Cox to the Phillies for Simmons and outfielder Del Ennis. Gordon and Ennis are right-hand- | ed power hitters. The Brooklyn- born Braves’ left-fielder batted | only .289 last season but hammered 25 home runs, a goodly number at Ebbets Field, where he was moved into the majors in 1942. He | is 34 Ennis rapped 20 homers and | drove in 106 runs on a .291 batting | mark. He is only 27. | The Dedgers were more hopeful of a trade with Boston, the picion prevailing that the Br: are in a mood to part with Sp in order to augment their r handed hitting strength as wel! as f the defense in the infield Should the trade be consummated. Cox would be installed as Boston's regular shortstop. hn is the man the Dodgers the most despite his com tively poor 1449 won and rd last season. The 30-year. uthpaw, a victim of weak h and a mediocre defense behind him, failed to notch 20 o: more ries for the first time in four s in 1951. He topped the circuit s for the third suc with 182 Simm 2. posted a 148 record in six vod pesk ay a big joyed a succ { covet pa shutouts League |- Tuesday, December 2, 1952 CONCHS CAGE P Coach Win Jones, who will }guide the destiny of the Key | | | ee Ofticial U.S. Navy Photo give the Miami eleven plenty son with ~ .287 batting mark that} included 19 home runs and 85 RBIs. He will be 32 in February, a year older that Furillo, whose bat- ting. mark dropped to .247. Carl, however, is regarded as one of the best defensive flychasers in the league and is possessor of the most accurate arm in the majors, Glowing reports on Don Hoak, a kid third baseman brought up from Montreal for next season, make Cox dispensable, Hodges, Brooklyn's leading slug- | ger the past three years, has been mentioned. in every trade rumor | involving the Dodgers. The slug- | ging first baseman walloped 32) West High School basketball team sounded the call today for the first official drill session for his charges to ready them for a grueling schedule which will see them facing the best in area schoolboy competition. Fifteen cagers answered the call and began practice in earnest in an effort to gain starting positions on the club, which Jones indicated were “wide open.” The Conch men- tor would not venture to pre- dict what kind of a season his charges would have, although he did say, “We are going to improve as we go along. We have a couple of tough openers (Redlands and Homestead) next next week and if we can get by them, we have a chance of a winning season.” The Conchs face their tradi- tional rivals in Redlands next Tuesday night to get the 1952- $3 season underway. A week later, they journey to Home- stead to do battle with that team. A meeting with the Kentucky Military Academy of Lyndon, Kentucky in Key West on Feb- '|ruary 13th will be the high point in the current campaign. The balance of the schedule is as follows: Jan. 7 — Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Teb. Feb. . Redlands Open —-. Redlands - St. Peter and Paul* . St. Theresa* 13 ____. Kentucky Military* 20 South Broward - Miami Tech* --.. Homestead* Homestead* (* Home games) Jones is faced with the pros- Pect of completely rebuilding his club following the loss of Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—Charles Humez, European welterweight champion, outpointed Bobby Daw- son of New York in a 10-round bout in Lille, France. FIVE YEARS AGO — The 1947 Associated Press All-America Foot- ball Team had a backfield of Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame; Bob Chappuis, Michigan; Ray Evans, Kansas, and Doak Walker, SMU. TEN YEARS AGO — John A. Quinn resigned as an American League baseball umpire. TWENTY YEARS'AGO — Pitts- burgh was chosen to play USC in the Rose Bowl football classic in Pasadena, Calif., on New Year's Day. 27 his 102 RBIs but slumped in the final month of the campaign and was handcuffed without a hii in the World Series. His batting mark was .254. As a fielder, he is seeond home runs and ranked fourth with KENUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON as xarexe ovrenven 26 PROOF + ECHO SPRING DIST LING COMPANY. LOUitY to none. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN wenTUceY START RACTICE ; nine regulars who performed ~ with the Conchs throughout the last campaign. Only three cag- ers who saw action last year have returned for this season, They include Bob Sawyer, sec- ond string center last year, Stu Logun and Lucy Gonzalez. While this trio will see plenty of action, they will have a stiff fight on their hands for start- ing spots on the club. Jones has scheduled loosening up drills, foul shooting and work on the fast break with a goodly number of his squad feeling the effects of “football muscles” after a hard fought gridiron came paign. Foul shooting will be more im- portant than ever following the adoption of a new rule which gives the shooter another crack if he misses on his first try. An indication of what can happen was pointed up in the Thanks- giving practice tilt against Cris- tobal when the Conchs outscored the visitors from the field bya 21-14 margin but last the game by one point when the Tigers netted 15 points from the foul line. [Sa Football Friday Nite, Dec. 5 Lions Club Presents Miami Marines “BARRACUDAS” vs. Pensacola Navy “GOSHAWES" Kick Off 8:15 P.M. WICKER STADIUM Come early see the famous United States Marine Band, U. S, Navy Band and Key West High School Band, The biggest half-time show ever staged in Key West. Tickets Now On Sale LOU’S RADIO & APPLIANCE 622 Duval Street PAUL J. 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