The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 14, 1953, Page 6

Barefoot Tilt Is Scheduled Conchs To Be Outweighed In Curley Clash Here Fri. The Key West High School foot-up, the Conchs as ever set in that ed from last year’s Gesu eleven team will hold a workout to-\department. “We'll need all the|when he bit off large chunks of at the Wicker’s Field Satdium |ballplayers we can find, these boys yardage in a fullback position and Action in the Barefoot Foot- ball league will resume Thurs- day night at 7 p. m. at the Wickers Field Stadium. At that time, the Red Raid- ers will make their first start of the season against the win- mer of the Blue Devil-Golden Rams clash this afternoon, YANKEES SIGN NEGRO BALLPLAYERS TUESDAY By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK \® — The world Pageé THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, October 14, 1953 champion New York Yankees, for the time in their 51-year-old major league history on their roster ¢ The Yankees bh have Negros SEC Clubs Hold Long Offensive Bobo Olson — Won't Pick Th Winning Round By JACK HAND | ASBURY PARK, N, J. W—Bobo Olson is no ordinary “Bobo.” He doesn’t boast how he’s going to win 20 games, like Bobo Newsom used to do. He- doesn't try to pick a round like Rocky Graziano. Ia pach be doesn’t act like a “Bobo” at all. te) than ” Bec! ay - e e tal dell tomorrow evening ia preload. en itaugh, ee ANE MM It Just a8) The tater two teame batied big league club to acyuire a Negro Practice Sessions On Tuesda = © biaat, | aaie . to a 6-6 tie here two weeks ago. player yeste when they an-} paration for their crucial tilt Fri-| And he wasn’t kidding. At least] Just what the Key West eleven J day h Archibist Curley ight of th Curley performers will ow. at the upetaters Fri inclement weather has caused nounced the pu of Vic Power} The Conchs should be pe |were member sof the scrappy St.'night remains to i seen. “We'll, ®, Postponement of a playoff and Elston Howard from their’ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Louisiana State bad a 1% hour |Mary’s and Gesu squads which have to see what they use in the ‘!t: % dann ciub: of the Am-' Southastern Conference coaches, Offensive scrimmage and Coach shape for the tilt, which will mark i Sponsered by the Quarterback erican The pair, together jgave the Conchs plenty of work|way of « defense,” said Beckman “T'll be doing the best I can,” their most ambitious tilt of the season. | list is Dennis David, 215-pound who suf- Chuck Diamond, Jim Enrico, an- fered a twisted knee in the St. other tackle who scales 6 Pat's clash. But Jim Solomon, missed the first three games of the\Randy Thorsen and Don Collins. geason, has been coming along) For the first time this season, stcely and Coach Ed Beckman the Conchs will be outweighed. said today he'll use him on both) More trouble is in the offing from offense and defense. the brothers Garris. Pat, a 155 With Ralph White to back him'pound halfback will be remember-| BAMA VICTORY SEEN ON SAT. By LEROY SIMMS Alabama, a pre-season cholce for BIRMINGHAM (#—Alabama is a|high national honors, dropped an firm two-touchdown favorite over|9Pener to Mississippi Southern 26- twice-beaten Tennessee here Satur-|19; tied powerful Louisiana State day but a look at the past records 7-7; beat Vanderbilt 21-12 and last is enough to chill pre-game cele-/week picked up steam for a 41-12 brations of even the most ardent |conquest of Tulsa. : "Bama fans. Starr is gaining experience for The game, beginning at 2 p.m.|'Bama’s split-T attack, which oc-| CST), will be televised nationally,|Casionally is varied by a shift to ee Harold Drew of Alabama|the old Notre Dame box. says, “We expect our toughest] Starr’s passing has been a potent game of the year.” He can make|'B4ma weapon and his backfield a good argument out of what has|Mates are halfbacks Bobby Luna happened, and frequently, to fa-/294 Corky Tharp, and fullback vored Bama clubs against Tennes-|Tommy Lewis, all major cogs in see in the past 25 years. the 1952 club which was ranked Approximately 40,000 fans are(finth nationally. ; expected to turn out to see whether) Most of last year’s defensive Jine- sophomore Bart Starr can quarter-|men also still are on hand at Ala- back Alabama to its first Tennes-jbama, but the offensive lads are see victory since 1947. For most/gone. of the years since then, "Bama| Tennessee, sticking with the sin- was the pre-game favorite, but|gle wing attack which has been in didn’t win, use there many years, poses tail- There’s nothing in the early sea-|back Jimmy Wade as a principal son results to add much fuel to|threat. Wad rred in last year’s Tennessee victory hopes. 20-0 victory over ‘Bama. Mississippi State humbled the! W: is signals, punts and Vols 26-0 in the opener, and Duke|thraws es in addition to his followed with a 21-7 triumph. Last/ball carrying specialty, week Tennessee came alive in the} The ’Bama-Tennessee series goes final minutes for a respectable 40-7|back to 1901. Alabama has won 17, decision over little Chattanooga. lost 14 and 4 were tied. Earl Sande Won 39 Races In 1923 For His Biggest Year By JOHN CHANDLER but no more than Sande, whose in- last year. Headed by quarterback} Jack Topley, the list includes endjinkling of what they can do in the tackle deception department. They show- Last week, the Conchs gave an 'ed plenty of class with double re- 4 foot 3 verses, end around plays and la- who inches and weighs in at 220 pounds, |terals. | Their T formation needs a little fe — and that is what they have been getting. It might be the trick that can pull them out of a hole if they find themselves on the ishort end one of these nights. | Lindell May — Return To The Outfield | By BEN OLAN NEW YORK (P—Johnny Lindell | jthe big guy who came back to the major leagues as a pitcher, may return to his second love— outfielding—if his batting perform- jance during the 1952 ‘season was jany indication. | The 37-year-old knuckleballer led jall big league pitchers in batting with a .321 average. He cracked out 35 hits in 109 rips, including seven doubles, one triple and four Club, the Barefoot League wears with s from Kan- regulation equipment with the sas and Birmingham, will exception that they make join the parent club at the spring ining camp in Petersburg, next February. A great deal of attention will be placed on the pair, especially Power, who was regarded in some quarters as ready fe the big leagues as far back as 1952. Power, 23, ts a strong right ed hitter who led the ican Assn. in batting t sides hitting 349, the infie der paced the circuit with 217 hits and 324 total bases. Howard, use of tennis shoes rather than cleats. Drilled by Ray Blais of the igh s~hool coaching staff, ms showed that they earned a lot of good foot- ball thus far in the season. The teams are made up of seventh and eighth graders at the high school. The public is invited to at- tend Thursday evening’s game. although not as ro- |bust a batte Power, is regard- apparently worried ever offensive Gaynell Tinsley continued experi- strength of Saturday’s opposition, | menting with various combinations sent their football teams through,in preparation for the Georgia long drills yesterday with emphasis | §ame. on defense and several promised! The Georgia Bulldogs were out more of the same tcday. {for a long workout, but Coach Coach Paul Bryant said he was|Wally Butts held only a 15-minute pleased with Keatucky’s overall Scrimmage session. Five first team performance in yesterday’s scrim-| Bulldogs were on the sidelines with mage but ordered more defensive !nJuries. work in preparation for Saturday's; Auburn's hopes against Georgia contest against Mississippi State./Tech dropped as it was announced Quarterback Dick Shatto and half-|sophomore halfback Fob James back Don Netoskie were singled was sidelined with bronchitis. out for their work in the drill. | Tech worked equally on effense | Coach Murray Warmath ordered and defense in a dummy ecrim- ja long scrimmage tonight for his|/mage. Coach Bobby Dodd moved (Mississippi State gridders. He had three prospects up irom the fresh- ihe said calmly yesterday in his jdressing room at Convention Hall, where he is training for his Oct, 21 world middleweight title date with |Britain’s Randy Turpin at Madison |Square Garden. They say Olson got his nickname ibecause his kid sister tried to say “brother” and it came out “Bobo.” At least it makes a likely story. Sid Flaherty, the manager, is \the “Bobo” of this company, if there is one. “I think is a one-way \fighter,” said Flaherty, meaning |he had only one style. “As I see it, this fight hinges on condition and pace. The first to fold up under jed by several Yankee scouts as the better player. He is an out- fielder, is fast, has a fine arm| ississi | er, , ha | issippi varsity worked a ballhawk. He batted .286 o het eee 3 n defense against the B team in 139 game: | = = Baseball Suit Power's ou land on offense against freshmen | ‘ Arguments u g work in the j, i for Tulane. Coach Are Continuing 2°23 2:22:25% se 2 dann Vaught “Temsated” Archi git aehed 4 last spring. They Shepherd, 210-pound sophomore never ‘had a Negro p-ayer on their guard, who was dropped from the! By HERB ALTSCHULL WASHINGTON (®—The baseball |Wiliams running with the first team yesterday. |roster and rumors spread that the; i i { ‘ Paes Y squad recently for breaking train-} never intended to have one. De-|ing rules. vs spite the pressure to bring up ; case went into another inning be-/power Yank 3 Tulane worked in a _ dummy fore the Supreme Court today with sere we ee General Manager scrimmage against Mississippi ie. y maintained plays and then sharpened its own § Scero was not ready. attack against the reserves. Coach Wwon’t be pressured into bring-/Bear Wolf kept contact work at a § up any player toc soon,” he! minimum in trying to avoid in- said, ‘‘especia'ly a Negro player. | juries The Yankees are eager to have)” Florida had one of its heaviest the future of the hanging in the balance. For more than an hour late yes- terday, the nine justices listened to arguments whether organized baseball is a business within the rye clause the young sophomores Scott Suber and Max|man team to add depth at fullback Pressure will lose. This guy (Ol- son) has never folded up yet.” Flaherty never saw Turpin in the flesh. But he watched carefully the films of his two fights with Sugar Ray Robinson and his last outing against Charles Humes. “In his first fight with Robinson, his most effective punch was she rabbit punch,” Flaherty charged. “T won't stand for any of that. No, I'm not going to ask the commis- sion to watch for it. I’m sure it won't be necessary.” Olson said he considered Turpin an “awkward” fighter and figured Robinson was “better in every way.” He explained Robinson’s de- feat by Turpin in their first fight by saying, “Turpin had the and tackle. Alabama and Tennessee seem to jhave the same idea. The two} ;Squads scrimmaged against each jother’s offense and spent consider- able time working on offense pass patterns. Coach Art Guepe juggled his} Vanderbilt backfield during a de- fensive scrimmage against Baylor plays, and announced substitute Jim Looney would get the starting quarterback job this week. Sopho- more Bill Krietemeyer is being moved to a halfback slot. Prep Schools Form home runs. Johnny, often used as/meaning of the nation’s antitrust a Negro player but they are not scrimmages of the season. Coach a pinch hitter, also drove in 19 runs, figures compiled by The As- sociated Press showed today. | Lindell came up to the New. York Yankees as a pitcher in 1952. He then switched to the outfield| for eight creditable seasons, reach-| ing his high water mark in 1944) with a .300 average in 149 games. In two World Series with the Yankees, 1943 and '47, he clubbed .370. With Hollywood of the Pacific Coast League in 1952, Johnny again| ‘turned to pitching, winning 24) games. He was purchased by the| Pittsburgh Pirates iast fall, only| to be waived to the Philadelphia) Phillies Aug. 31. He finished with) a 6-17 record. Mickey McDermott of the Boston Red Sox was the only other major league pitcher with better than a .300 average. The 27-year-old lefty had 28 hits in 93 at bats for .301.- Harvey Haddix of the St. Louis | Cardinals was second in the Na- tional League with .289 and Max going to bring one up for exploi- New Conference 'Bob Woodruff put three teams strength on him.” Apparently he doesn’t think Tur- laws. Attorneys for minor leaguers |“@U02- ' .__|through the mill on both offense George Toolson ard Walter Ko-|, Wo 2%, not averse to having/and defense. The ’Gators play The walski maintained tnat baseball is|# Nesto Player, but he must be/citadel Saturday. ip Gmcney making dhusnese ihit good enough to win a place on| —— crosses state lines. They held, too, \the Yankees. When the time comes|he devoted most of his time to that the. Sonteaversial reserve tee we feel we aave that kind'left field. Some Yankee scouts, clause giving clubs control of play- of a player, we W' 1 be only too however, insist he should play) itstisenvicaia Uleeal |glad to have him. . _, |first_ base. Others believe he is} Baschall’s altmets” were eal Apparently the Yankees think jat his best at third base. Migaliipicls Reavis: oe esate ole they have that kind of a Player] Power and Howard boost the Ne- precident aie care aie Supreme in Power and Howard They have gro delegation in the majors to 31. Court decision of 1922, written by doubt about Howard's ability|The Chicago Cubs. Philadelphia Tustlee Oliva Wendell Haliies a defensive outfielder. His big | Athletics, Cincinnati Redlegs and Ahatibascball/in a epbct note com. Westion is whether he can hit! Pittsburgh Pirates also have sae enterprise. > big league pitching. |joined the Dodgers, Giants, Braves, Tustice (Stanley Read seemed _ Power, on the other hand, is ajIndians, White Sox and Browns particularly. concerned with the fine hitter, but Manager Casey |in signing Negroes to their rosters. monahels wampects ect the (care Stengel is not certain where he| Only the Red Sox, Tigers, Sena-| Reed aked gach ofthe attorneys will fit in the Yankee scheme of tors, Phillies and Cardinals are Rahither he Anbuche Ent abasehal things. In the minors, Power| without Negroes although the Tig- Ate played at first, third, shortstop|ers, Senators and Cardinals have} fcads;. withicah pinata’ aah: ike and in the outfield. This past year,|Negroes in their farm system. word “reasonable.” | The Sherman and Clayton anti- trust laws permit reasonable re- straint on trade, Atty, Frederic A. Johnson, who| "TAMPA (#—Seven high schools|Pin will “have the strength on in the Tampa area, including|him.” He is not overly impressed three from the Big Ten, have|by the Turpin punch, formed a new athletic conference = with a tinge of football de-empha-| Michigan State’s all-time career sis in favor of a complete pro-|scoring record is held by Lynn gram. (Chandnois who scored 31 touch- The new conference, as yet un-|downs in four seasons of play. named, will begin operation with the 1954-55 school year. school must participate in football, « Members are Jefferson and Plant/basketball, baseball and track and of Tampa, St, Petersburg, Bocajall with facilities should partici- Ceiga of St. Petersburg, Sarasota,|pate in such minor sports as swim- Clearwater and Manatee of Bra-|ming, tennis and golf, denton. Jefferson, Plant and St. Peters- Boone of Orlando was excluded|burg currently are members of when a 75-mile travel limit was|the Big Ten; Sarasota, Manatee adopted. and Clearwater are members of Representatives of the schools the South Florida Conference, and agreed there will be no spring) Boca Ceiga has no conference af- football practice, Each member filiation, ae NEW YORK It was in 1921 when Earl Sande, aiready stamped as one of the greatest jockeys of all time, fell in love with the niece of Mrs. Sam Hildreth, wife of the noted trainer, “We were married that year,” Sande said as ne adjusted his equipment in the jockey’s room at Belmont Park, where at the age of 54 the onetime riding wizard is attempting another comeback. Then followed the greatest of his successes on the nation’s race tracks. In 1923 Sande’s horses won 39 major stakes races, a record that never has been equaled. tegrity had never been questioned. A federal grand jury refused to indict Sande on charges of illegal- ly possessing narcotics. The stew- ards explained the horse probably got the drug accidentally from an ‘old bridle used during a previous workout. But Sande was suspended for 60 days. “ “That killed me—60 days without action. When I got started again, the horses took to coughing, and it broke me,” » He sold all but five horses, has only one left. Now it's back in the saddle in. “I feel great, and this is giving The tow-headed kid from Idaho) me a great lift, I've had more fun had the pick of the horses—he was a hero of the Golden Twenties, along with such as Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Red Grange and Bill Tilden. “My wife died in 1927, a blood clot,” said Sande, lowering his head for a moment. That was the bitterest tragedy of his career. Perhaps the blow made him a bit careless in his riding. He dosn’t like to talk about this, or some unfortunate business re- verses. He was suspended in Mary- land for interfering with another horse in a race. in the last few days than in a long, long time. It will be a happy day when I can pay off some debts to strung along with me.” Sande said he couldn’t ride as many horses a day as he used to, I can give a good account of myself with two or three a day.” He hopes to finish the season here Nov. 14, then go to Florida or some other winter tracks. “I never cared too much about ‘money, and it cares less about me. But, if I can just earn enough to eat—and pay my bi’! o Ill from dieting to hold down his Sande took a trip to Europe. “I thought I couldn't stand for a while. I thought I would go crazy, And then cn that trip I realized that the world was too big for my little troubles.” Back at Belmont and reinstated fm 1930, after an unhappy experi- ence training his own horses, ‘the Handy Guy” got a chance to ride the great Gallant Fox for William Woodward's Belair stud. The Fox of Belair reeled off vic- tory after victory, earned a record of more than $300,000, and Sande was on top of the world again. In 1931 he laid off again—weight troubles. He tried znother come- Big Difference Seen In Football NEW YORK — Statistically speaking, there’s a tremendous dif- ference between 1953 college foot- ball and the 1952 brand. And, whether the sudden switch from two to one-platoon play is respon- sible or whether there are other reasons, competition is a lot closer. Every phase of the National Col- legiate Athletic Bureau's weekly team offense statistics show the same trend. The leaders have low- er yardage totals, the spread be- back in 1932, but was forced to Surkont of the Milwaukee Braves|represented Kowalski, a former was third with .286. Brooklyn farm player, asked that The American League runner-up the reserve clause be declared il- was Skinny Brown of the Red Sox|legal. It is this contract provision with .293, followed by Don Larsen|that binds a player to the club some very good people who have/ of the defunct St. Louis Browns, .288, and Early Wynn of Cleveland, 275, DUKE PLAYER IS NAMED THE BACK-OF-WEEK By HUGH FULLERTON JR. NEW YORK @&—Jerry Barger,| Duke’s regular quarterback as a freshman two years ago and a! bench-warmer since then, shook| Purdue with a brilliant all-around | |performance, | The result was that Barger was mamed today as the Associated Press Back of The Week. In addi-! tion, he appears to have won back | the regular starting position from Worth Lutz, whose injury gave Barger his chance to shine against | Purdue. Barger’s performance, which in- cluded scoring the winning touch-| down with only 39 seconds to play, | gave him a slight edge over Mary-} land’s Bernie Faloney and a pair of Illinois stars, J. C. Caroline and | Mickey Bates in the opinions of! ithe sports writers and broadcasters | Participating in the Associated |Press poll, | Barger, a 174-pound, 5-foot-10 {junior from Salisbury, N.C., figured in all three Duke touchdowns. He Ipassed for one, gaining 124 yards through the air on three comple- tions, set up another and scored the {winner himself after piloting the Blue Devils on a 67-yard drive in jthe waning minutes of the game. jHe also intercepted two Purdue| Passes, knocked down one in the! jend zone, and kicked for a 37 yard ling their living. jcial enterprise, the less co; which owns his services and denies him the right to bargain them to the highest bidder. Norman S. Sterry, who repre- sented the New York Yankees, | said this clause is an integral part of baseball structure and that if the game is to be permitted to If you like beer, exist, it must have its own or- ganizational rules. | If the reserve clause is wiped} out, he said, “a few wealthy teams could get all the piayers.” | And, he said, “‘ycu might find) a team with no shortstops and all} pitchers.” | “Baseball cannot exist in-an ab- solutely free economy,” he said. Johnson and Howard C. Parke,; who represented Toolson, a former New York Yankees’ farm hand, said the reserve clause prevented the two minor leaguers from earn- At one point Sterry said, “There is nothing commercial about the game of baseball. In a commer- peti- tors you have, the better, but if competition were ended in base- ball, you would have no baseball.” Chief Justice Earl Warren ques- tioned Sterry closely on the matter} of radio and television, asking the| attorney if the recent advance in TV had not “changed the local aspect of the game since 1922.” Sterry said no, that ‘television and radio are merely different} methods of reporting the game.” only 37 minutes against Georgia But in that time he completed 7 of 10 passes for 148 yards, including two for touchdowns. He scored twice himself, intercepting one of Zeke Bratkowski’s passes and run- ning it back for the score that} broke the game open He had two youll ove Schlitz ae Its dry and méllow, with no harsh bitterness, and only the kiss of the hops. good runs called back for penalties, | *s javerage in a 60-minute perform- ee aS the! ance. Ga. two and played superlative-/ Faloney, another double-duty| punted 40 yards dead on the | quarterback who followed Jack ly on defense. Scarbath into that position, played, Caroline and Bates divided the Fn ee Peeve. and scaring chores: in victory over Ohio State. The Wlini minois’ upset of Phe eeisy Caro- have averaged 328 yerds per game line gained 192 yards and made, - on the ground to 201.7 for second- +y, Tees ji winning the Santa Anita Derby and| Of the top four in the weekly place West Virginia. bes _— maps Raa a give up because of a bothersome)tables is less and the standings are appendix. That fall he went to/subject to sudden shifts. work for Col. Maxwell Howard, Another noticeable point is that and trained the great Stagehand 'the “powerhouse” teams that draw! and The Chief. In 1938 Stagehand!raves by their winning perform-| scored one of the greatest doubles ances don’t show up well in the at one track in racing history,) statistics. e SCHLITZ ONTH Santa Anita Handicap. rankings—Notre Dame, Michigan} Northwestern, despite a wallo Ten years later Sande’s racing|State, Maryland and UCLA—only jing by Minnesota, retained its place's 5 $6... SAVE. $$ $3 end breeding stable numbered the latter two appear among the/as toval offense Jeader with an s more than 20 horses. Then another statistical leaders. Maryland isaverage of 408.4 yards per game. For QUALITY USED CARS| blow, In 1948 Jamaica stewards|sixth in rushing offense and U said they had found traces of ajis tenth in ing offense. @rug in the saliva test of Sande’s} Mlinois skyrocketed from tenth horse Big Stage. Place to first in rushing The racing world was stunned, (as it ram for 432 yards in its upset jthe 400-mark in that department, | At the same stage of the 1942 sea-! offense son, nine teams had averaged bet- 1130 DUVAL ST. ‘ter than 400 yards. CLA Northwestern is the only team over and General Auto Repairs' TWINS GARAGE DIAL 2.2401 SAVE $$ $ % $$ 33 (© 1953—Jee. Schlitz Brewing Company. Milwackes, Wie, Breweries at Milweukee, Wis. and Brooklyn, N. ¥.,