The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1952, Page 5

| Navy Downs Marine Overcome Early Leatherneck Lead To Capture Win In Stadium Tilt The situation got out of hand last night for the U.S. Marines when. they marched out on the Wickers Field gridiron and were the victims of a 31-7 trouncing at the hands of the Pensacola Navy Goshawks. But the game was closer than the score would indicate Marines Drive For Beachhead with the Navy having to go all out to gain the win after the Marines , hhad kicked up their heels and jumped into an early lead. The win closed out the Goshawk season with an undefeated record that has seen them taking the measure of some of the top clubs in the state. The game attracted a capacity turnout, the largest on record in Key West. : ‘The Navy, who was working behind some fine blocking through- out the contest, broke for a score in the opening minutes of the ‘game on a pass play, but a forward lateral called the play back and the Marines jumped into the lead a short time later when the Marines’ Andrews intercepted a Navy pass on his own 40 yard line and went all the way down to the Pensacola eleven before being “Ga the very @xt_ play, th ire’ tater torts ied [Paccer Racks Up New Mark back and tossed an aerial into the In Georgia Win end zone near where Len Mackey it in for a Marine TD. intora booted the extra point. ~The Marines continued to pepper the air with passes after their running attack sputtered out in the face of a strong Pensacola de- Throughout the first quarter ‘two clubs jockeyed for posi- tion in a punting duel. But, with moments remaining in the first the Navy came back. to Fg i : Herts Storer, They could not if 3 d to go in the the Navy moved across stripe and Bobby Zas- Z E § Navy drive that threaten- game into a rout. Barly in the second half the Tom Hartley took a pitch- Bobby Zastrow and yards to a touchdown Navy into the lead Navy carried all the way Marine one yard line a short time later but the Leather- necks held fast to prevent further 8. The game ended with _ the Marines taking to the air with a series of desperation passes. GRIDIRON CLEANINGS: The for the game, was by. largest to date at Wickers Field. ‘The standing room only sign was out with the fans congregating ‘round both ends of the field. The polio fund was the real winner last night with a good chunk of money slated to go into their coffers as a result of the Danner tournout, ‘The halftime show was a fine display with the crack U, S. Marine Band, who are real pros at the music business, giving the fans gome thrills. Carley Shewin, 210-pound Marine | tackle, who was rushed to the Naval Hospital with a head inju is reported today to be in “good condition according to officials a the hospital. Goshawk coach Paul King, who | was buried under a deluge of con- @ratulations following the win, which maintained his unbeaten re-| cord, said that he would “love to ome to Key West every year, The fans are tops.” King said he was particularly pleased with the way his gvidders Football Results COLLEGE FOOTBALL By The Associates Press Georgia 35 Miami (Fla.) 13 Gardner Webb 14 Georgia Military @ (Golden Isle Bowl) College of Pacific 49 Hawaii 12. eee In Boston, Mass., Summer Street @uns into Winter Street. | was perfectly legal, but that didn't | make the Crimson feel any better By BEN FUNK MIAMI, Fla., (—Zeke Bratkow- ski hung up an awesome new yardage record for Southeastern Conference passers to shoot at as he piloted Georgia to a 35-13 vic- tory last night over Miami. The Bulldog quarterback hit the bullseye with 16 of 23 shots for 297 yards. This ran his grand to- tal for 11 games this season to 1,824 yards and wiped out, with plenty of ground to spare, the pre- vious record of 1,643 yards estab- lished last year by Kentucky's Babe Parrilli. Bratkowski’s barrage was dead- ly in the first half as Georgia flew into a 28-0 lead. He got an enemy assist on his first six-point throw when Miami's Gordon Malloy de- flected the ball at the 15 into the ayms of Bobby Dellinger to help complete a 32-yard scoring play. In the second quarter, in rapid succession, Dellinger streaked 76 yards for touchdown No. 2, Brat- kowski fired 37 yards to John Car- son for No. 3, and, to prove he ‘|favored no special receiver, the Georgia Slingshot hurled 35 yards to Art DeCarlo for No. 3. Georgia’s Coach Wally Butts said Bratkowski had never done better, ‘unless it was against Geor- gia Tech.” The Bulldogs made Tech, the nation’s No. 2 team, come from behind to beat them last week. The Miami Coach, Andy Gustaf- son, declared “it was a treat to watch Bratkowski pass. His passeg travel faster than any I’ve ever seen, and those fast balls are hard to intercept.” Miami’s Hurricanes, starving for an upset that would have helped heal the wounds of a disastrous season, didn’t have the weapons to swing it, but they gave the 21,557 fans something to cheer about by winning the second half. Don James threw touchdown Passes of 28 yards to Wally Piper and six yards to Bob Nolan as the Hurricanes racked up 13 points in the final half while holding Geor- | gia to seven. Clipping penalities, however, wiped out two thrilling Georgia touchdown plays—a 56-yard pass from Bratkowski to Carson and an 80-yard punt return by Jimmy Campagna—and kept the score from mounting to loftier propor- tions. VSC Is Out After Grid Title Today MIAMI, Fla., (®—Undefeated and untied Virginia State College goes after the national Negro college football championship tonight when it meets the powerful Florida A & M college in the 20th annual Orange Bow! stadium. | newspaper, said it plans to recog- nize the winning team as the Negro national champion. It now rates No. 2 in the nation. Virginia has given up only one {touchdown this season in eight games. The Florida school has scored 247 points in nine contests. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK “W—Having been burned by a gag that backfired, Yale's official football family has been forced, obviously against its will, to exp! in detail the facts | surround “humiliation” of | fair Har week end. Yale sent s flyweight student | manager, Charlie Yeager, to catch }a pass for the final extra point in | its 41-7 drubbing of the Crimson. | Charlie was on the Bulldog eligi- j bility list, all right, and the play about a move aimed # came plain ney considered was ing them. I* be- Telations between “Orange Blossom Classic” in the The Pittsburgh Courier, Negro} Virginia No. 1 and Florida A & M | sFriint Citizen Staff Photo THE MIAMI MARINE’S ARENTS, carries the mail for some badly needed yardage in the first quarter of last night’s tilt with the Pensacola Navy team at the Wickers Siadium. Marines lost verdict in 31-7 ball game. SUGAR RAY. WANTS TO BATTLE WITH ‘TURPIN By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK # — Middleweight Champion Ray Robinson says he wants to fight Randy Turpin for the third time this June. If Sugar Ray signs for the rubber match real quick most everyone will be happy including the New York State Athletic Commission. The only unhappy souls will be either British promoter Jack Sol- omons, or Jim Norris, the presi- dent of the International Boxing Club. Both want the iucrative fight, Solomons for London or Dub- lin, Norris for New York. Norris says he has Robinson un- der contract. Solomons has the pa- pers with Turpin. There’s going to be plenty of complications and confusion before the match is made. Although George Gainford, Rob- inson’s manager, said the fight will be held under Solomons’ promotion overseas, and Solomons agreed whole-heartedly, the IBC raised an objection. “We have a contract with Rob- inson,” said Harry Markson, man- aging director of the IBC. “We can better any proposition Solo- mons makes. The last fight be- tween Robinson and Turpi. here did $776,000, and I'm sure we can approximate that sum even in- doors. I think Robinson will prefer to fight for Jim Norris.” As far as the state commission is concerned, it demands a ‘‘bind- ing agreement” before it will re- store Robinson's title recognition in the Empire State. The commis- sion started all the fuss over Sugar Ray’s future when it vacated Rob- inson’s title in New York at 12:01) a. m. Friday morning. The commission stripped Ray of | his crown in his home state be- cause he hadn’t signed for a title defense within the -required six- months period plus an extension granted him. New York’s action wasn’t followed by the National Boxing Association which includes all states but New York. The NBA granted Robinson an Jextension beyond the six-months period to give him time to re- |ecuperate from the effects of heat | prostration suffered in his fight | with Light Heavyweight Champion | Joey Maxim on June 25. Robinson’s defense against Tur- | | pin in*London next June “is good | enough for the National Boxing | | Association,” said George Barton, | president of the NBA. Barton, however, that the NBA will expect proof from Gainford that that Rob- inson-Turpin fight is something definite. That was the point Bob Christen- berry stressed. The New York box- ing commission head said he want- | ed “concrete evidence” that Rob- | inson was going to fight Turpin. Gainford told Christenberry by telephone from Boston, where Rob- inson is appearing in a night club, that “the deal for a fight with Turpin has been closed except for time and place.” However, the manager wired the NBA that Robinson would defend against Turpin on ‘coronation eve’”’ in London. That would be June 1. But in London, Solomons said he had received a cable from Gain- ford which read: ‘This confirms our conversation—Robinson to de- fend his title against Turpin on date agreed.” Solomons said the date would be June 9, 1953. Robinson and Turpin are all square in their two fights. Turpin accomplished « one of boxing’s greatest upsets when he won the crown by decision from Robinson in London, July 10, 1951, Exactly 64 days later, Robinson regained the crown by knocking out Randy in Minneapolis, addedin the 10th round in New York. GAINESVILLE, Fla., ® — The Florida Gators came up to their last football game of 1952 today face to face with a Kentucky outfit teams. Florida, which has a date with Tulsa in Jacksonville’s Gator Bowl New Year's Day, is favored by a touchdown, des pite Kentucky's brilliance since midseason. The Wildcats won only one of their first five. games, then got a new quarterback, won four straight and tied Tennessee. Besides Tennessee, which is go- ing to the Cotton Bow!, Kentucky also has held Sugar Bowl-bound Mississippi to a tie. that has been specializing in blot- | ting the records of bowl-bound | Steve Meilinger is credited large- ly with Kentuc midseason about-face. He mi to quarter- | back after Bunky Gruner was dis- | missed from the squad, and Ken- | tucky got going. The versatile Meilinger also plays Jefensive end and linebacker | and is equally at home passing or | receiving. He made the All-South- eastern Conference team as an | end Florida’s Charlie LaPradd will make his first appearance today since being named a defensive tackle on the Associated Press All- South teams. Other newly crowned Gator stars going on display include defensive guard Joe D'Agostino, fullback s GATORS POINT FOR WIN Rick Casares, linebackers Bubba Ware and Arlen Jumper, and half- back Buford Long. D'Agostino is on the All-Confer- ence and All-South teams and made honorable mention All - America. | ares made second team All- Yonference and honorable mention All-America. Ware is on the All Conference second team and Long and Jumper on the third team. Florida takes a 6-3 the game and Kentuc makr. The Wildcats are the last team to defeat Florida on the Gators’ hor winning 14-6 here last . All of Florida's lickings this season, to Ge Tech, Tenn e and Vanderbilt, have been on the road. a 5-3-2 the two old rivals would remain strained unless Yale could think of something funny and get every body laughing again | Well, here it is, and it ain't bad. |The whole thing was a great big joke on Yeager, the 138-pound, 5- foot-4 bundle of energy who had dreamed all his life of playing in | a football game for Yale. It started out strictly as a gag, see, but it gathered momentum during the season and, in the end, Coach | Jordan Olivar simply proved him- self a fine sport. } Before the opening game, when | Yeager and the Eli coaches were } making out the eligibility list, one of Olivar’s assistants jokingly told jthe little manager be had better jput his own name down. Later, j when they saw Yeager wa taking jthe thing pretty seriously, they |dreamed up a special pass-for- poiat play just for him and bim they would use it in either Princeton or Harvard ¢ that he could get his e little guy what a great receiver he was and how adept he was becoming in faking the defense out of position Everybody had a lot of fun Finally, with the Harvard coming up, Oliver told his eager | beaver to draw bi a unif and they say that the big 99 his back reached clear down to his belt. On Sa ores cor reached M half, he told Yeag: for his football after the next |} It didn't look t ger, and he wave Yeager caught Mc kept run he end zone. They game Following Through Pedro Aguilar In Thanksgiving day basebal! action 1 re, the Strand Theater nine’ captured a hardfought, ll} inning verdict over the USS Bush- nell baseballers by a 4-3 score to continue their current series of meetings that is producing some; fine baseball for the benefit of local fandom, On the local baseball scene dur- ing the past year, three exhibition games have been played with clubs from outside. the city. The first meeting, with the Big Springs, Texas nine, a Class B club, saw the locals go dewn to defeat by a 7-4 margin due to a series of costly errors. Roberts hit | a homer and Brown a triple in this contest. On May 17th the locals tangled with a Navy All-Star club and the Navy emerged triumphant, 6-2. The ; Navy used five pitchers and the locals two. Dziki and Burnes were the best hitters for the Navy and Dean and D. Roberts each hit two safely for the locals. On September 7 they played their | Bratton. He learned his well. Today he held an upset vic- | jaturday, December 6, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ardfought Battle, 31-7 Bratton Beaten By|Navy Net Tourney Ex-Sparring Mate | Action Set Today NEW YORK (#—Almost a year | ago Ralph (Tiger) Jones worked as a sparring partner for Johnny lessons | Bayview Park tennis courts will | be the setting of the Navy tennis singles tournament semi-final tory over the former NBA welter- | weight king and was in line for some good pay days. Bratton couldn't hold the Tiger last night. The 4 to 1 and more underdog poured the pace on the clouting Chicagoan and romped off with an impressive, unanimous 10- | round decision in a bristling punch- fest in Madison Square Garden. | Sturdy, muscular and well con- | ditioned at 154 pounds .ones fought Vying for a spot in Sunday's | finals are Commander Joe Watson, | Helicopter Squadron One and Aim |man J, L. Webb, Fawtulant, Chief Bob Robinson, USS Gilmore, and Chief John McNulty of the Ope+ | Dev Station. All semi-finalists were seeded players with Robinson, Watson and MeNulty heading the tournaments roster. Webb, seeded eighth, play- led in the semi-finals by virtue of {an almost perfect fight against the | an upset over Lt. j.g. W. H. Barnes 148-pound Johnny. | in a hardfought quarterfinal match Not only did he belt Bratton al- | last week. most at will but he took Bratton’s | Many tennis enthusiasts will re- Sunday punches without flinching | member the thrilling match be- and traded any time the favorite : tween Watson and Ralph Hartens- so desired. And Bratton chose to | tine for the 1950 Key West cham- fight and slug, too. So it was a} pionship which Hartenstine won thriller all the way that had the |in three sets. Tomorrow’s Webb- small crowd of 3,614 (gross gate | Watson bout should be a repeat $10,227) yelling and cheering right | thriller. | Bratton was cut on the right eye: through. scrap via national te! There were no kr but downs lid. last exhibition game with the Key West Conchs of the Florida Inter- national league, Vidal handled the hurling for the All-Stars and fan- ned three while giving up five safeties --- three of them by the Conch’s crack centerfielder Sever- ino Mendez. DelMonte and Haack twirled for the pros. Santana hit three safely, two of them triples. Brown hit three singles and Ster- ling a double, ‘ The final tabulations showed. th Key Westers planting five runs on 14 hits and three errors while the Conchs scored two runs on but five hits and a single miscue. Last Sunday, the Strand baseball nine romped all over the Bushnell by a one-sided 13-2 score. Lefty Schinkle evidently was not in top form when the movie boys climbed jall over him. DeWitt Roberts was |the big gun in the Strand assault when he poked out four hits in \five trips plateward, he poled out a long drive to rightfield that the | Bushnell gardener had to climb up | the wall to nail in his single hitless | effort at bat. A double and three | singles were included in Robert’s bag for the day. He also scored two and drove home five markers. Claude Valdez also had a banner | day at the plate when he scored | three runs, banged out two base hits and stole two bases. Al Cabot hit two safely as well. For the Navy boys, Halcomb, their big first baseman, poled out three base hits. Moss had a triple for the sub tenders. REMINISCING: On December 11, 1926, the Arroyo Naranjo base- ball elub from Havana started a {four game series with the locals jand lost the first game to the |Monrges by a 6-3 score. Friskie ecord into | hurled for the home team }and @llowed but six hits --- three } m by Alpizar. A. Marrero | for the visitors and allow- jed 14 hits, two of them triples by |pitch@r Perez. | Th@ lineup for the Monroe in- | cluded: P. Perez, third base; J. | Ferngndez, second base; F. Pervz, | pitch@r; Carl Lopez, shortstop; G. | Gare§a, first base; A. P, Garcia, ; A. Perez, center field; Gonzalez, left field and G. DiazJ right field. | Onf December 12, the visitors won overgthe Regulars by a 10-1 score. Action Resumes In Navy Wives Loop By TRUDY COCHRAN After a week’s vacation the girls were at it again. Honors for the | high single game this week was taken by Marilyn Hanson of the | USS Cero team with a score of | 179, In there for a close second | was June Camfield with a 172. The | third game of 164 was bowled by | Flo Bustard. | Flo is one. of the three new girls | on the USO NCCS team. Ruby Caldwell was very coisistent and therefore snared the high triple with her set of 447, The high seratch rnament manager Lt. Dan mg and assistant manager Chambers both of the Fleet onar School, will referee Satur& day’s and Sunday’s matches. The public is invited to attend. Vandy End Asked To All-Star Tilt MOBILE, Ala., @% — A second Vanderbilt player, end Ben Roder- ick, accepted an invitation today ‘o play with the South in the Jan. 3 enior Bowl football game here. Roderick, a pass receiving spe- ialist, joins Vandy halfback Mick- y Lakos on the South squad. Another new addition to the South team is Bill Athey, Baylor guard. Schwinn team game this week went to USO | NCCS. Their score was 668. The OpDev- | ‘Sta CPO team cut the pins down for a total of 1912 to take the high scratch team set. ~ BICYCLES iN | TEAM STANDINGS | WL, Pts. | USONCCS .._-.26aead (34) OpDevSta CPO 220" 16 30 / USS Ceto 18 17 27 | | USO-YMCA eae | Naval Air Station —. 14 22 | NavSta CPO - .12 24 pupae e Sports Mirror By The Associated Press OUR PRICES Cook'was named coach of the New | Bicycles $42.95 and up Zork, Rangers, succeeding Neil Tricycles $3.95 and up |Wagons $2.25 and up series, 15 COME IN AND LOOK AROUND .... COMPARE | | | FIVE YEARS AGO — Notre Dame handed Southern California its first defeat of the season, 38-7. | Tractors $19:50 and up RS aco — ‘Harold |Fire Trucks, Station won the Miami) Wagons and Cars | RS AGO — Glenn $14.50 and up } (Pop) Warner resigned after nine | e pe jyears as football coach of Stanford | A small deposit will hold to accept a five-year coaching job anything in our store as ratleranaoshes s \a lay-away for Christmas, P. Ruiz pitched for the Cubans and; WE TAKE IN YOUR OLD BIKE allowed six hits while Quentin | ON TRADE Lopez, performed for the locals} allowing four hits in the first four | OVERSEAS innings good for a like number of } tallies, Cremata hit a double in for the Key Westers. For the visi- | jtors Montiel hit four safeties in 1030 EATON STREET | five tries. PHONE 1380 “CHUCK” YOUR TROUBLES AWAY WITH CHUCK WAGON STEAKS (BREADE D BEEF TENDERS WITH ONIONS) COVERED LIKE A WAGON WITH % Crispy Golden French Fries — * Juicy Tender Cole THEN — Slaw — * Hot Toasted Roll JUST OOZE AROUND WITH A HOT FUDGE SUNDAE Made Iv ON SIGSBEE ROA SIGSB with That Good Sealtest Ice Cream ADDS UP 70 APPETIZING FUN ) — RIGHT BESIDE GULFSTREAM MARKET OPEN 7 A.M. TO 11 P. EE SNACKERY NOW OPEN