The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 28, 1953, Page 6

Unbeaten Conchs To Start Drills For St. Theresa's Clash Here On Friday and unsecored will see a week as iy night's 's of Con m4 i - to fighting for the absorbed s 4 bands Ann's virtue Conch's two win St. Ann's in night's im; ‘iami Tech, favorites In National By GEN PHLEGAR Football Loo i ars rr | | Baseball 1953 produced « pair | ‘of short-priced pennant winners By ED CORRIGAN and a host of long-shot individual NEW YORK, #—Last year at champions The New York Yankees and me 40 etn Gene eee Brooklyn Dodgers so clearly out- classed their opposition that a 16 year-old child who couldn't pick the winners by eariy June should crept into the have been chastised. at was as {85 The Yanks, winning ® record as any expert would commit DIM- breaking fifth straight crown, led seit for all but nine days of the season Things today. They finished 8% ay ones” and they'll have to the St. Ann's clash and apparently of Glynn Archer at center coupled “ea op cong sight if they were gunning for Red Stickney, with the defensive work of Joha wi keep ir record intact " ‘The Censhe eve ently sharing who ran St. Ann's ragged. But DeMerritt gave him reason for re- Gold Coast Conference lead Pineda jumped into the breach joicing And when these boys are Miami Beach who trampled and gained a goodly percentage of fanked by a group of diggers like High 307 Saturday the 281 yards the Conchs rolled up Stu Logun, Ronnie Pinder, Julie words “dark horse” 3 on the ground for the evening. Henrique: and Wayne Brantley conversation, but th West will meet Constance Dick Salgado, hard bulling full- they are dangerous indeed October 23 in their next corference back also showed well in the win. The Conch gridders will go back start. B Beckman emphasized that to work today. The chances are Coach Beckman had little to it was blocking that did the trick. pretty good that they will find the complain about Friday night when Tony Dopp, who operates from the time to add a few gems to their his footballers ran roughshod over quarterback slot consistently fur- bag of tricks with two wins under Miami Tech One of the brightest nished the downfield blocking that their belts. They have been hamp- this developments in the tilt was the showed the Conch ballearriers the ered in early season drills by the tunning of Joe Pineda. The Tech way. necessity of spending almost a full the Conchs have o reputa- high command had the Conchs well And Beckman also learned that week preparing for a football letting up against the scouted - they even had movies of he has depth in the line. The play clinic. Monday, September 28, 1953 the Detroit Lions’ chances of win ging the National Football League championship. Here and there, the are different son opened yesterday, were tabbed as the choices to win cess) . unique in Dodger his. the Western Conference file and to; on Sept. 12, earliest date in #© on to battle Cleveland, the per- league history. The Dodgers ended ennial Eastern Conference leader james in front of the surprising for the crown. Milwaukee Braves The Lions have been coming But the individual winners, par- “= —_———————— nee jglong slowly over a period of four|ticularly the batting champions, ye and now seem to have rarely figured in preseason calcu- Teached their peak. They opened lations. with a convincing 38-21 victory over, Carl Furillo of the Brooklyn the Pittsburgh Steelers, as tough a pene 8 _ > winter By GAYLE TALBOT Why people should be surprised bunch uf blokes as there are in gam major league career NEW YORK '® — So you never by the southerners vault into na- te league, ona datante eye — — heard of Mssissippi Southern Col- 1.041 prominence is more thas| Th Steelers figure to wind up prove vision, won eeck Bitter Over League’s lege, whose football team whomped second in the Eastern section, but League batting title with an ex. Refusal To OK Browns’ Move Alabama, 25 to 19, on the Crimson *9yone in Hattiesburg can under they were no match for the pass. cellent 344 average. A year ago ha sO8 REICHLER {@o," Veeck said immediately fol. Tide's own field Friday night. All stand. Last year their football ing of Bobby Layne and the gen- be hit a weak .243. lowing the meeting | Mississippi Southern only hap- Alabama. Their baseball club won passed for two touchdowns and set Mickey Vernon of Washington, clinched its second suc Pegeé §=THE KEY WEST CITIZEN last year's top strikeout victim, clouted 47 home runs for the Na tional League title No other sec ond year man ever hit as many Rosen won both the homer and runs-Datted-ia crowns in the Amer. ican League. He hit 43 home runs. 1S more thas last year, and drove home 145 runs. His desperate try to add the batting title failed by a single step. Noeding one more hit to win, be apparently beat out an infield bit in bis last time at bat. But his last-second jump missed first base and he was out Roy Campanella of the Dodgers hroke almost every record avail able for a catcher, both offensively and defensively His 142 runs bat ted in gave him the National League title. In the pitching department the most impressive winners were Warren Spahn of the Braves, who won 23 while losing only 7, and Bob Porterfield of Washington with @ 22-10 record. Robin Roberts won more than 20 games for the fourth Straight year, finishing with a 23-16 mark after s rough final six weeks Carl Erskine of Brooklyn and rook ie Harvey Haddix of St. Louis were jwe can say is, it's your loss, bub. team won 10 of 11, losing only to eralship of Doak Walker. Layne| And in the American League the National League's other 2-8 $ § § 20-game winners. In the American, Lions Favored FURILLO BOOSTS HIS AVERAGE (100 POINTS TO TAKE CROWN [Bleck of Brooklyn, the National League star rookie, also found ® rough. He won six and lost three but never approached the effective. ness he showed @ rear e@o. Major league attendance fell off almost a quarter of a million from 1952. The drop would have bees much more serious except for the tremendous given major league ball in Milwaukee. The Braves set a tianal League ree- ord by drawing 1 $26.397 fans. The only other club to gain was Brook- lyn The total was 14,380,165 for both leagues An 82 finalday triumph over Philadelphia enabled the Dodgers to break an all-time Brooklyn club record with 105 victories. The Yankees, who had figured to win 100, missed by one when they bowed 2:1 to Boston. A scheduled second game was canceled because of darkness In other lastday games Detroit beat Cleveland 7-3, Chicago edged the St. Louis Browns 21 in 11 innings and Philacelphia whipped the Senators 92. Ip the National League Milwaukee defeated Cin- cinnati 6-2. Chicago shaded the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 and Pittsburgh whipped the Giants 64. save $8685 For QUALITY USED CARS Latee, after he had discussed the pens, by its own admission, to be 10 of 11, also, and their basket- up two others while Walker scored Whose 1946 batting crown was Bob Lemon of Cleveland, Virgil matter with his associates, Veeck the independent football king of the balers 27 out of 35, reaching thejonce, hit for five conversions and Viewed by many as more luck than Trucks of Chicago and Mel Par.’ ‘appeared even more bitter than entire South. It would have been quarter-final of the NAIA cham- a field goal. \skill, jumped from .251 last season nell aap hit the 20-game cir jsorely disappoimed if its boys pionships. | In the other games, Cleveland ‘ 337, one ahead of Al Rosen ‘cle. Lemon won 21. is personal,” he said. b#dn't cut down Alabama, which What it comes to is that Coach defeated the Green Bay Packers Clevela ges the first time| It was a poor year for last year’s © squeeze me out ¥** Fated fifth among the nation’s Thad Vann was situng on a whale 27.0; Los Angeles whipped the New my 1946 that Vernon has hit over “ena -sergllleeegy he te Ae! "Tl decide what to do|POwerhouses in @ recent Asso- of a football team, and knew it. York Giants 21-7; Baltimore odged| "2a. wsamews of the Broves, Flare y fii a I rning. 1 may do “ted Press pre-season poll. So did everybody else in southerM the Chicago Bears 13-9; Washing- Player in the American League, t could be called re-| 1” the words of its free-wheeling Mississippi. Only the so-called na-\ton turned back the Chicago Car- publicity director, Jimmie MeDow- tional experts were in the dark'dinals 24-13, and the San Francisco! ty disclose his Cl, “Mississippi Southern is the about it. It is extremely likely now 49ers slugged the Philadelphia Ea- general MeCoy, ” Its athletic staff that the southerners will 8° gles 31-21. ‘said; |'8 Composed of “all southern gen- through undefeated, as their only!” otto Graham, as expected, led) a law “emen of the old school.” its 190- remaining major opponent is Geor-\cieveland to its triumph over the million Piece marching band is “the best gia Nov. 21. Packers by completing 18 of 24 for band what am—the pride of the Possibly they have opened & passes. Baltimore beat the Bears ribed South.” |trend which will become clearly!i, their first league game since nd| it isn’t however, until he gets apparent as the football season a¢-\taking over the Dallas franchise on the subject uf halfback Hugh vances—that a team with compara-|st the end of last season. Bert Rookie of 1952, was the circuit's | a end fullback Bucky McEl- tively limited resources ca playiRechinchar, on his first field goal| Representatives from Jefferson, only 20-game loser this season. Joe | May.|Foy, who between them scored the big fellows on even terms sinc® attempt in the league, set @ rec-|Plant and Hillsborough of Tampa.| This delegation three times against ‘Bama, that abolishment of the two-platoon 5Y*-\ord of 56 yards. He also scored st, and Boca Ciega of 2% million (t8¢ Hattiesburg Homer really lets tem. That is, so long as the little la touchdown. se. and Plant City are franchise and said|bimself go. |suy can field one eleven which) Washington scored 17 points in'to meet in St. Petersburg. tomor- the last quarter to lick the Car-\row night to discuss the i i id i | i ! Hi 2& jt F ted asfe "i Bf 3 i i 1 i E 25 E § high may break away from the Big Ten '¢0. and South Florida conferences to| Ha; form a more compact athletic con- ference in West Central Florida. il vr in ak z 3 H z iT al th eS sit ; | | SE i i i | i! i | rr i gift i 4 ef Fi i ; i i “This is'not a personal ambition. am not thinking of myself or the . I have the best interests an League at heart. i i fi Bf E ; i z gF : i : YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Brookiyn §, Philadel Pittsburen New York Milwaukee §, Cincinnati Chicago 3. St. Lous 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE The Associated Press FINAL STANDINGS Won Pet For Home or Commercial Use... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clean, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE By F. T. MACPEELY isezsenet 4 78 S00 cd ” 3) The Cleveland Indians’ slugging third baseman, league leader in YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 1 homers and runs-batied-in, came to weet Florida is due to come up) 2 ‘second with its first football victory of ithe 1953 season. The Gators opened with two toughies and did well to come out ‘with a@ four-point loss to Rice, ,champion-designate ct the South-| ,|west Conference; end « scoreless |, tie with Georgia Tech, defending nd Coun- Southeastern Confererce champion) "*™*Ssigmc only|and the nation’s No 3 team in! Toledo #, Kansas City 3 (Kansas City Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West 2 ze Ne Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT didildi Located in the Heer? of the Cry marr for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE = tae ime Hotel 8 a. Plaster 8 Eleveter LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT AM, QUNDAYS) ot £100 acto, ae (Steps < | could be raised) Fi can never, never,” declares is —_ Pager a si e on a rising note, “there, Thou student body numbers aingls, The Chicago outfit dug its) Micah Ruggles, president of major league |tever was & one-two punch like only 2,000-odd, Mississippi Southern oo, grave by permitting the Red-\Plant high, said’ other possible to st Coast is inevi-| McElroy and Pepper — the most obviously can do that. A great ma-('V'0 810 "hicy’ up two fumbles and members include Lakeland, Sa ,” Webb said. “I am a West-/Senuinely magnificent pair of jority of its players come right convert them into touchdowns. |eota, Clearwater, Manatee (B. 1 know better STound gaining backs you are like- from Mississippi, a scattered few |The tight defense of Steve Owen's denton) and Boone and Edgewater | 1y to see for the rest of your life!" |from adjoining states. |New York outfit held the Rams’ to of Orlando. a 7@ halftime lead. But in the| If a new loop is formed, it prob- NEW YORK uw" — Well, we all 1.4: half, Norm Van Brocklin fired ably would not begin operating| Baseball Results know a little more about Rocky| #*) ihr touchdown passes to Until 1955 because of schedule com- Marciano than we did, and it will break the game open. mitments. ' NATIONAL LEAGUE be some time before sev cucmst| For real action, the San Fran-| Supporters of the change said By The Associated Press screws up the nerve to pick against cisco-Philadelphia game was the it would save traveling costs and FINAL STANDINGS the world’s heavyweight cham-|oo "to see. A tree-for-all started|time away from school. The Big) : . S » im the last quarter and it took » Ten takes in all Florida and the me are saying that job squad of cops to restore order, No/SFC stretches more than 125 miles, Met histeand LaStarza while ore knew how the fight started, but|#erth and south and about 50 scoring his Gth straight victory when it was over Charley Powell Miles east and west. e jand his sth knockout does not yet | Tie nd Bob Walston of the! ‘mentioned in the tame bresth wits | Eagles were tossed out. Y. §. Title Rosen’s Glad Um the great masters of the ak. — passes and P Wonder how they know for sure. ° 4 It was, im this book, a superb | — Made Night Call demonstration of seer fistic > Reva Calls For | —— LaStarta w ind is, a} CLEVELAND ‘#® — Al Rosen rugged and very courageous young | ° missed the American League's tri. fighting man, aimost surely the Churchill To \ole batting crown by literally « poe in fogs today. | couple of inches. But, he said, he's i yet, try as with every M4 Bs (tearm n pssssen be cod et Act Or Resign ay survive against the steady on-| ; jslaught of the champion. MARGATE, England u—Aneurin Whether Marriane is, as his peyan, fiery leader of the opposi- manager, Al Weill, insists, the tion Labor party's left wing, wants Greatest one-punch fighter the recently ae game has seen is, ef course, open Churchill to a great deal <f argument. He Inc. ‘ove not stop LaStarza with a ‘om > low or even seriously hurt BiM reached a truce for the present| Rosen fouled off four pitches by ivision leads vex With one wallop, but the cumula- with his more moderate isberte Detroit's Al Aber before rapping (Ice Di ) {tive effect of the scores. of hooks colleagues, trained his guns on the @ slow grounder which Jerry Prid- rain /and full swings that thudded off ageing Conservative Prime Minis-|dy fielded deep at third. Rosen oe head and body a5 ter as the Labor party opened its lengthened his stride, ee oa + jadly. nu: nce be would touch 5 the Associated Press pre-season **** * “ a | ‘The truth is that the one-punch |” ccc semi took an on hohet te an het a prs ype. poll. A sopats pLavor® scuebuLe Knockout is a pretty mythical forced rest from his official duties short. By the time his other Next come the Kentucky Wild- By The Associated Prose |thing. If a fighter is in shape and on doctors’ orders. He is currently |punched the sack in « - eats who have lost to Texas A & Saat - oe fairly evenly matched and not com- vacationing on the French Riviera |step, the first baseman had M, an also ran in the Southwest; INTERNATION AL LEAGUE pletely tired out, it invariably will ster having taken up the reins of throw. and Mississippi, in the top bracket| tmmica® AssOCtATION take a series of blows to starch government again. He is expected| Most of the 9,579 fans thought ‘of the SEC Tetete et Naneee CRP him. Joe Louis, m his prime per to return to London Wednesday. |Rosen was safe, but Soar waved! While Florida's defense looks to a haps as lethal a puncher as the as 3.000 Labor delegates cheered, him out, ending ibe comnig along in good shape, IT; To Drill Rock, scored his knockouts with @ Bevan at a party meeting yester.| “I missed the bag.” Rosen said. .|the offense is still far short of I AMPA flurry of lefts and nights day paid homage to Churchill's eall “I had to take one extra step, and | White of Birming- last year \ A select few of the ringside crit- last May for high level Big Three that did it, mong pro-| Rick Casares, the big bull fll Flop Tou Hh Start [ice said tne Rock used dirty t2e- talks ith Rune ten aaa Is of back who fa a Mae ar M tics against LaStarza, butting him. «we think it . prize next month, ga only ¢ | hitting low and hitting efter the i wouldn't night all} yards in nine carries against Tech| TAMPA «—There was no MOD- break They exaggerated both the on cen tanned up. gg pees wt it aoe ban here Saturday. day letup for University of Tampa intent and the effect Marciano did that the future of the human race True, he was running on a slop-'football team today. ‘none of these things on purpose cannot be jeopardized because the) py field in the rain and high winds| Coach Marcelino Huerta planned .54 it isn't in his nature. La- British Prime Minister is sick and! joff the edge of Hurricane Flor- a rugged session to get the Spar cisrss gid not suggest that OY that if Churchill is unable to do Feetbell Resvits lence which hit the Florida coast tans ready for what figures to be 9°. mishaps contributed to his his duty, he should resign ASSOCIATED PRESS [west of here earlier that day their toughest game all s€880n. detest The Bronx boy made & “We say, therefore, to the Con- ‘i Georgia Tech © (tie)! But so was Georgia Tech Full-'Saturday night at Hattiesburg they oo, coful loser servative party that if you cannot about t M 33, Texas College © pack Glenn Turner, and be made play Lag eg ro eg What they will de for another yet leaders who are capable of ninth-inning 104 of Tech's 222-yard tota’ jbeat Tampa 52- “ \challenger is almost beyond guess- ading try ir counsels have av: 33722 Vernon’ 38, Landon of Jack-| Tech's touted halfbacks, Leon upset Alabama ‘wo weeks @£0. Jing if it proves to be Ezard m= the cose pgp vd py Itinal Som " Hardeman and Billy Teas, weren't’ Huerta was well pleased with Cyiries next February, as is be- @@ Orlando 18, Kissim-'able to do much and Hardeman his squad's defensive work in the ing hinted, they better had bold fumbled three times to stop Tech 334 victory over South Georgia i 9, Constance 7 larivee Saturday night, especially that Of wnere The bull fiddle player is a Edgewa-| But Florida's halfbacks were guard Nick Waytovich. back number in these parts. It even less effective The best Gator| He thought the downfield block- would almost be better to give 32, Mainland of Day- runner was Larry Scott with 36 ing was ragged although end Frank poison another going-over. yards. y big reason was that Stef: poy es “agi tatt-| Tech held the ball most of the) Huerta sai fanning "Copter Aids Rese time, executing 80 running or pass-/back Tom Spack and halfback Al _ ing plays (not counting kicks and Leathers was the best of any of HOLLYWOOD w — A Coast Players named Walsh penalties) to Florida's 26 ithe flock of backs he used. Guard helicopter hovered over a im the major ae Florida concentrated on the one! 7 down a G7ity farmer and his son in the department in which it excelled—|Once they had a first * ‘Everglades yesterday until a Civ- H . line coach at kicking. Ca: and Harry Speers |¥2P@ from the goal and four plays iy aio Patrol plane could reach the punted 12 times, three times on later lost the bail at the 5. |spot and direct air boats to their Il player first down, and averaged 40 yards,| 5° against Kentucky at Lexing- . | University in 1935. And one of Speers for 58 yards |t0® Saturday Florida is pretty “pin Goolsby, 36, and his son, was called back by 4 penalty, likely to hit the victory trail fisccivin, 12, had been stranded in | -| Im defense, Florida was tough|it ¢am get together more offen-| Everg! miles northwest of Hcllywood since | Friday when their new air 6 @ where it counted. The line denied S¥¢ push (moved inamfe the 20 five times.’ Citizen Ads Bring Resultsran out of {uel oo a trial run. 226 0.8. let Ave, «229 0.8. et Ave, 108 Reems J Heated Eleveter Solarium 19%. He has coached the Middie Tech a score after the Jackets 3 BLOCKS FROM TELAPHONS BFR Junior varsity squad since 1935.