The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 6, 1953, Page 6

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Sponsored by the Quarterback Club, the barefooters promise to be a popular attraction in Key West. They'll play a pre- liminary game before the Key West-St. Pat’s clash Friday night—Citizen Staff Photo. Johnny Mize Says That He Will Retire Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITI. yi Saeed give some pointers ZEN Tuesday, October 6, 1953 Auburn, Mississippi State Tilt ees great right-hander told news- paper reporters after the first) World Series game he would quit if his back failed to improve over ‘the winter. “My back has been bothering! me ever since I hurt it in that bus accident last July,” he said. “I've had muscular spasms, on) land off, ever since. For a time, I couldn't even run, let alone) pitch. To Top SEC Conference Action By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Most Southeastern Conference football squads shook out the week- lend kinks yesterday, went through light signal drills and then got a look at the stuff their Saturday foe) is expected to throw at them. Four conference games are on, in the hot weather but I rein-jtake part in intersectional battles, jured it again pitching the World)and the other two have what look Series opener. I was greatly upset like breathers. then because the muscular spasms! Auburn journeys to State College returned, However, it wasn’t as to meet Mississippi State in a bat- bad as I thought and I was able'tle of the unbeaten-untied teams. “My back improved somewhat/this week's menu, two SEC outfits) |season, said he planned to rest all) jean help the club next year, Tl) to pitch again although I knew I'd never be able to start another series game.” Allie, a wealthy oil man who) last spring entertained thoughts of retiring at the end of the 1953 winter. “I'm going to give the back a/ good chance to heal,” he said.| “If I’m physically fit and feel I return for another season, But if my back does not come around, Tl hang up my glove. I’ve had) too nice a career in baseball to} kill it by merely hanging on.” Georgia Tech takes on Tulane at ‘New Orleans. Louisiana State plays host to Kentucky in a night game. Vanderbilt faces University of Mis- sissippi at Oxford. Georgia meets Maryland in Col-| lege Park, Md., and Alabama plays} host to Tulsa. Tennessee plays Chattanooga at; Knoxville, and Florida meets Stet- son in a night game at Gainesville. Coach Ralph Jordan’s Auburn) squad worked out in shorts, Half- back Charlie Littles returned to duty after missing last week’s game with a leg injury. Jordan against Southern Methodist. Dodd \Said the Engineers would be an} jair-minded team the rest of the| way. Coach Ray Wolf had his Tulane Squad in the darkroom for a re-j view of the Michigan game movies’. jand scout ceports on Tech. Wolf) said guard Al Robelot fractured a ably won’t play this week. Louisiana State had 45 minutes of signal drills and calesthenics. Bear Bryant let his regulars off with signal drills, but put the re- serves through a short scrimmage. The squad got past Florida without a major injury. ‘offensive drill. Coach John Vaught told the team it must “smarten up, sharpen up” before the Vander- bilt game. Alabama worked on defenses it will spring against Tulsa, and Red Drew announced a scrimmage for ‘today. Reserve quarterback Buster’ ‘Hill broke an arm yesterday and will be out for several weeks, Regular tackle Francis Malinow- ski will miss the Maryland game Barefooters Will Play Friday Night The Bive Devils and the Geiden Rams will clash again on Friday evening at Wickers Field Stadium as a prelimin- ary te the Key West-St. Pat- vick’s clash in a barefoot league encounter, it has been announced. The teams battied it out te a 6-46 tie Saturday afternoon. There will be no increase in admission charge for the added tilt. Indications are that Bare- foot League games will con- tinve to be played prior te the Key West varsity games. City Commissioner John Car- bonell last night sponsored a resolution before the City Com- mission asking that the city furnish the lights for the game at no cost. The Quarterback Club is sponsoring the Bare- foot League, made up of play- ers from the 7th and 8th grades at the high school. They have dug down and purchased regu- lation uniforms for the grid- ders. =|feeling for the kid who buried his Series Player By WILL GRIMSLEY the 1953 Golden Jubilee World Se- ries: Outstanding individual player— second = Billy Martin, Yankees’ baseman. Tied the series record for most hits, 12; led hitting with 500; accounted for a total of 23 bases; stole one base; failed to make an error. His “clutch” single! won the deciding game. Best pitching performance—Carl Erskine, Dodgers, who struck out, 14 Yankees for an all-time World Series record in winning the third game 3-2, Best fielding play—Billy Cox, Dodgers, with his spectacular stab- ber in the sixth inning of the fifth game. With bases full, he made a leaping stop of the ball, picked it lup in time to force Gene Woodling and retire the side. Best outfield catch—Duke Snider, ‘Dodgers, who raced to the auxil- iary scoreboard in right center field at Yankee Stadium te make; a leaping, one-handed catch of Joe ‘Collins’ blow in the fifth inning of opening game. Best outfield throw—Gene Wood- ling, Yankees, in the second inning of the fifth game at Ebbets Field. He cut down Gil Hodges at the plate with a no-bounce “‘strike” af- ter Billy Cox had lined to medium finger against Michigan and prob-jleft field. Greatest comeback—Gil Hodges, Dodgers, ‘“‘goat’”’ of the 1952 series with no hits in 21 appearances, led Dodger regulars in hitting with eight hits ard .364 average. i at- "TWAS ONLY FITTIN’ THAT BILLY DID IT By GAYLE TALBOT |win World Series and that the NEW YORK w — It was right present Brooklyn team, however land proper that the player whom good, is destined to wind up with Casey Stengel loves above all his the losers’ share. other Yankees should have stroked| While the Brooks went down in the ninth-inning sirgle which won |Six games this time instead of the the deciding game of the 1953 seven they normally insist upon, World Series and made the Old they were by no means outclassed Professor the only manager in the Nor brought disgrace to the Na- history of the game to win five|tional League. Their tack of pitch- straight world championships. {ing depth finally told on them, If the grizzled strategist could *S it figured to do, but they) NEW YORK —Super'atives ofjing room at Ebbets Field and have picked his man to lace the lone-out drive into center field that gave the Bombers their thrilling, 4-3 victory and crushed the re-| surgent Brooklyn Dodgers, you may be certain his choice would] have been Billy Martin, the hard- | bitten little scrapper he managed at Oakland and whom he sooner) jor later brings into almost every) conversation. Even Chuck Dressen of the Dodg- | ers might have had slightly mixed feelings when he saw Martin lay) into Clem Labine’s second pitch and watched Hank Bauer heading for home with his ground-eating| strides. Dressen also holds a soft hopes. By one of baseball's choice! coincidences, he managed the boy he refers to as “that tough little monkey” the year before Casey} did at Oakland. Only three nights ago, after Mar- tin had made himself something lof a goat by attempting to score a run that wouldn’t have meant! anything and getting thrown out at home to end the fourth game, Chuck sat long in his private dress- talked about the battler from the Coast. His words were all in ad- miration, even when he told of having had to slap a stiff fine on Billy for swearing at him. The $200 jolt was rescinded after Mar- |tin apologized, somewhat reluct- antly. It should not be assumed from any of this that everybody loves the series hero, whose nose is ri- valed in grandeur only by those! of such noted figures as Eddie Arcaro and Jimmy Durante. The Brooklyn players, themselves, hold the young man in very low es- teem. He is, in fact, their unfavor- lite Yankee because they consider be a popoff and all-around smart lec, After what must have been seen yesterday by many millions, in- cluding ~ 62,370 who paid to be frozen blue in a sudden change of weather, it can only be accepted ‘that the Yankees are supposed to Mississippi's regulars had a light) Biggest blunder—Yankees’ tempt to send Martin ho: in ninth inning of the fourth game with the Dodgers leading 7-3 and |New York in the midst of a rally. |Martin was cut down at the plate for the final out. Third base coach Frank Crosetti took full blame. Biggest single hit—Mickey Man-| \tle, Yankees, with his bases-loaded blast in third inning of fifth game. Toughest break—Pitched ball in| ifirst game which hit Campanella’s right hand, handicapping the Dodg- ers’ hard-hitting catcher, Best quote—Preacher Roe, Dodg-|- told his Tigers, “you can’t beat/because of a broken cheekbone, Reynolds, naturally, was jubi-/Mississippi State without stopping| Bob|lant over his triumph in the final|Jackie Parker,” Santana will handle the hot corner|game. He relieved Whitey Ford in Julio Santana at short. Lewis, Lastres will be in garden. The Bushnell nine has just re- Parker, top quarterback for the! jthe eighth, and although he served|Maroons and SEC scoring leader, the home run to Carl Furillo in|was working with some new first |the ninth that tied the score, hejteam backs. Coach Murray War- |was declared the winner when the/math had senior Zerk Wilson and turned from a three month cruise | Y: Cartobean where they played Rico, Haiti, th Puerto i Virgin Islands, without losing a MIAMI ~The Orange Bowl Committee meets today to con-| cup. tor of the; |Yankees won the game 4-3 in the|sophomore Lou Venier at the half Hlast half of the ninth. It was his/backs slots in yesterday’s light wenth World Series triumph, drills in place of injured regulars’ equaling the record held by Red/Don Morris and Arthur Davis. Ruffing of another Yankee era. | Georgia Tech’s Coach Bobby; “It’s not the way I like to get Dodd held a short workout and jit,” he said Heft.no doubt about his intentions, aes Subs Are Named To AP List ATLANTA ( — Thirteen backs! Ends: Bud Willis, Alabama and) ;set for a visit from Jacksonville been|Navy Saturday night. “but I'm glad to take it anyway.” | Mize, who will be 41 in January, “I know I can still help the club, especially as a pinch hitter,” he said. “But I don’t think it will) jbe worth it. I’ve got two offers! jnow, both of which will par me) more than I'd make playing with) e Yankees next year. One is an! all-year-round job, the other for) five months.” Mize, who appeared only as a} Pinch hitter during the series and! failed to land a safety, declined to! identify the offers but said they would be in baseball. | Tampa Drills TAMPA (#—The Tampa Spar- tans were promised a long, hard workout today to help them get Although no one was banged up seriously in the 42-6 drubbing at! the hands of Mississippi Southern Saturday, several regulars were} allowed to rest their bruises Mon- course since it was opened in 1930, said i was the first azt, ‘AND Bart Starr, spent most of the time giving his' da talk on its poor play|factor in both Vandy defeats. and fifteen linemen were named/ today to The Associated Press’| weekly Southeastern Conference} checklist. Several of those singled out by sportswriters for sparkling play in’ Saturday’s games were second! stringers or former substitutes. This group included backs: Jim- my Wade of Tennessee, Ray Weid- enbacher of Tulane, Bobby Free-| man of Auburn, Floyd Teas of. Vanderbilt, Joe Hall of Georgia Tech, Bill Dearing of Florida, and} ‘Tommy Davis of Louisiana State; end Curtis Lynch of Alabam: guards Frank Jernigan of Missis-' sippi and Don Shea of Georgia;/ and center Lamar Leachman of) Tennessee. _ Other players making the check- list, which will serve as a basis! for selection of the All-star team: Backs: Jack Parker, Mississippi State; Vince Dooley, Auburn; Fob) James Jr., Auburn; Steve Meilin- ger, Kentucky; Al Doggett, LSU: Alabama. | but the rest of the Georgia regulars should be ready. Tennessee’s Vols reviewed block- ‘ing assignments and other offen- sive phases in a light drill. Coach Bob Woodruff gave his Florida ’Gators a review of past mistakes by showing them movies of the Rice and Kentucky games. Vanderbilt Coach Art Guepe' cautioned the Commodores they would face another aerial on- slaught when they meet Ole Miss. |A leaky pass defense was jajor| Bob Adams, Mississippi. Tackles: Dick Weiss, Mississippi; Buck Watson, Vanderbilt; and! Charles Coates, Tulane. Guards: Ray Correll, Kentucky; Bobby Goodall, Vanderbilt; Frank’ Brooks, Georgia Tech; and Sam Mrvos, Georgia. Centers: Larry Morris, Georgia’ Tech, and Steve Delatorre, Florida. h Lauded DAYTONA BEACH @—Harold ‘Knowles, Stetson sophomore, and Ernest Tobey, Miami junior, are back and lineman of the week among Florida colleges. Knowles, whose home is Green Cove Springs, led Stetson’s 18-7 victory over Western Kentucky. He gained 127 yards and scored the decisive touchdown. Tobey, center and linebacker from Coral Gables, made 8 tackles and 12 assists in Miami's 21-13 loss to Baylor, ers’ pitcher, who described one of| the home run balls he threw in the| second game as “the greatest mis-) take since they invented butter- milk.” Irish Retain Top Grid Spot NEW YORK @—Notre Dame, fresh from its second smashing i remains the proved themselves the stout hi ters that their averages promised and they never quit punching. Few who saw it will forget the heart-stopping home run that Carl Furillo dropped into the right corner with one down in the top of the ninth to score Duke Snider ahead of him and tie the score at 3-3. There have been few more dramatic wallops, considering all of the circumstances, and it was no fault of the National League's batting champion that he didn’t emerge the game's big figure in- stead of Martin. Consider the buildup to Furillo’s blow. The Yanks had been lead- ing, apparently by a safe margin, from the game’s opening minutes. They were in front by 3-0 after two innings, and the Dodgers fi- nally had scored a loner off young Whitey Ford in the sixth only be- cause Jackie Robinson took charge with a double, stole third without drawing a throw and raced in on an infield out. That was all the Dodgers had| managed going into their last time at bat under the lights. Their chances looked even slimmer} when Stengel, playing strictly a hunch, brought Allie Reynolds in ‘to relieve Ford to start the eighth. Junior Gilliam, first Dodger to face the Chief, nearly knocked one into the right field seats and, after two were down, Robinson pumped a single to left. That brought up the dangerous -Roy Campanella, whom Reynolds had hit on his throwing hand in the first game, and the air became electric. But Reynolds breezed a third strike! past the Brook catcher, letter high, to end the inning. So the Yanks felt cozy going into the ninth—more so after Gil Hodges flied out to short center. ‘Then Snider worked Reynolds for a pass, which was hotly disputed by. Yahoo’s battery mate Yogi Berra, That brought up Furillo, who previously had hit Ford for| a double and a single, The man from Pennsylvania’s coal region first brought the crowd up yelling +h THE GOLDEN RAMS, coached by Don Walston, are currently pacing the Barefoot footb: :. league after fighting to a 6-6 tie with the Blue Devils Saturday. The line, from the left: B’” Camalier, Hal Cates, George Roberts, John Bigler, Dick Sawyer and Red Case. The backfielc includes Dick Scott, Buddy Owen, Paul Higgs and Robert McKinley—Citizen Staff Photo, 13 Is Lucky Yank Number By SHELDON SAKOWITZ NEW YORK ® — Coaches Bill Dickey and Frank Crosetti of the 'Yankees consider the number “13” as lucky. The 1953 World Series marked the 13th appearance in the’ series for both Yankee veterans, coached in the last five series,| team in the country while three || + hanced|While Crosetti took part in seven Big Ten ls have series as a player and has served their top 10 ratings. as a” cotch fer ‘six, The Fighting Irish, who Sdeneen am open date-Getarday after west-| co) 1 nardo's otchestra, en-| itertaining before the game, ing down Oklahoma and trampling ithe fans an indication of what wa: on Purdue in their ee qutnes, received 84 of 129 first-place vot cast and 1,190 points in the second|to come yesterday by dedicating! weekly Associated Press poll. jits opening number to the Dodg- Michigan State, with two con-|¢rs. The tune—“It's Later Than’ pecetine Big Ten victories under|/You Think.’ defending national mpion-; ea ship belt, remains in second place} The bandbox in Ebbets Field’ with 15 firsts and 1,022 points. {Was supposed to be a home run Ohio State jumped from sixth haven for the long ball swingers, to third on the strength of its im-|but it didn’t exactly turn out that! pressive 33-19 triumph over Cali-|Way. The three games at Ebbets fornia in the national television|Field produced nine homers, just} contest while Michigan fell a notch|one more than was hit at the to fifth despite a 26-7 victory over|more spacious Yankee Stadium in Tulane. The Buckeyes scored 769 games. points to 636 for Michigan. Maryland, dropped from third to fourth, received 733 points. UCLA followed with 430 points California 424, Duke 311, 288 and Georgia Tech 227 to ai 3 i Fe j\from 12th to eighth 21-7 victory over Tennessee. home, eighth a week a; to 16th due to its 7-7 tie choice as the best college football|Dickey played in eight and has li year ago yesterday Erskine was ‘the winning pitcher as the Dodg- ers edged the Yanks 65 in 11 innings. jwith a punch down the right Tine \which barely blew foul, and then, with the count 3 and 2, he socked the next one in there. When the din finady died down jand the Dodgers quit hugging one another, Reynolds struck out Billy \Cox and Labine in fast succession {to close the inning. Baseball scien. tists might find fault with Dressen ifor having let Lab.ne bat where pinch hitter could have been juseful, but the right-hander had \checked the Yanks for two innings of relief at that point and, be. \sides, Chuck was running short of pitchers. His guess, at any rate, proved ‘a bad one. Clem walked Bauer, the first man to face him in the Yan ee half. Berra lined one into Furii- lo's hands close to the right bar- rier, Mickey Mantle barely got b': bat on a pitch and popped a drih. bler to the left side of the di-- mond which Billy Cox got his glo > on but couldn't handle, Bauer ra: - ling to second. And there was Martin, the br:' The first pitch he tet go past { a called strike, which he did+t into center field. Snider came ing in to take it on the < didn’t even bother to try @ thr: ‘to the plate. Bauer, fastest base runners in couldn't have been tagged rocket gun, slowly ‘toward Weir Gugeet wly towa! eir ca jected and weary, while the Ya: ° ees caught Martin out near f ee and gave him a fine me - ig. Reynolds, having permitted t tying run on Furillo’s blast, gai | credit for his seventh World © + ies victory when Billy took )/A off the hook. That ties the 1 ‘with a Yankee right-hander bef... him, Red Ruffing. The sad figure of the con’ was Carl Erskine, the trim Dod- 1 right-hander who fanned a re¢ 14 Yankees in the third game. didn’t have the same 5 Boxing Results MONDAY NIGHT'S FIGH’ © By The Associated Pres: | BROOKLYN — Jimmy He: 161%, New York, outpointed vin Edelman, 161%, Philade 10. NEW ORLEANS—Willie P tan rinsaaseaitie a FOE q : i a % y, a ‘. 4 e, 4 $9553 SAVE $8454 $$$$$ SAVE $§ a