The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 23, 1953, Page 6

Barefoot Football Game And Circus Are Slated At Wickers Field Stadium Half Hour Show Set By Key West _ High School Band A barefoot foothall game, featuring Conch stars of the future and a half hour circus, staged by the Key West for attention of the fans to- night at the Wickers Field Stadium. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 23, 1953) me ; Light Line Mississippi Battles Crimson | worries Tech Tide In SEC Game Saturday Coaching Staff By MERCER BAILEY |son Tide is ready to turn loose an \all-out offensive. Kentucky proved that State and quarterback Jack Parker are not invincible. By MERCER BAILEY ATLANTA (®—Georgia Tech's menus of the season will be served light line and defensive backfield/ up tomorrow,, with the ‘Tech-Notre Dame clash as the The game is slated to get | ba underway at 8 p. m. with|the Irish, the nation’s top-ranked the Blue Devils and oe rake farts tee ts, Rams * th ‘ ther top- oo one time thn eae drawer attractions rare SEC A hot bit of football action| “Since tech and Mississippi, run- is in the offing with the|ning one-two in the conference title race, are playing outsiders, they can’t be knocked out of position. first meeting and the second/spot if they whip Florida and M 5 start resulted in a scoreless! Seon hee ee ee | close and picking the winners is tough, but here’s a dive in that ction: GEORGIA TECH over Notre .|but somehow an upset seems. en- tirely possible. Notre Dame’s line is heavier but Tech’s is faster. is in|Several Tech backs have the speed to gain outside if the Jackets are stymied up the middle. And Tech’s passing is improved. 5 ALABAMA over Mississippi! AUBURN over Tulane: The Plainsmen bounce back after their loss to Tech. They’li have to out- jscore a fine Greenie backfield and overcome a habit of losing in Mobile, but Coach Ralph Jordan’s crew is ready. LSU over Florida: Statistics show the Tigers are stronger on both offense and defense. GEORGIA over North Carolina: Zeke Bratkowski’s passes to John {Carson make the difference. Caro- lina is still searching for an effec- tive quarterback to give the Tar- ‘Heels the offensive punch. MISSISSIPPI over Arkansas: ‘The Rebels unleashed a convincing show of power against Tulane and appear to have hit their sugar bowl team form. KENTUCKY over Villanova: The myth that Villanova has a power- house has been shattered. VANDERBILT over Virginia: Coach Art Guepe gets his first victory of the season at the ex- Pense of the school he coached last season. TENNESSEE over Louisville: Florida State beat Louisville 59-0. State: After its usual cautious game against Tennessee, the Crim- NEW YORK w—If Coach Earl (Red) Blaik of the Army football team had not previously been rec- jognized as a man of rare distinc- tion, there would be no denying him the accolade now. Within minutes after his reviv- ling Cadets had upset the Duke Pos Blue Devils at the Polo Grounds last Saturday, the master was on T the phone to tell a scmewhat star- tled Associated Press reporter that Che still didn’t like it—that is, one- Platoon football. One can only be mre now that Red really means given an air of authenticity with clowns cavorting among the audi- The man who perhaps did more HB|than any other coach to make: the two-platoon game fashionable said that his boys were worn to a fraz- zle, especially those among them who had battled the invaders for the full hour without relief. He hated to think how the losers must have felt. His voice was. filled with | Pos. compassion. | Blaik, as it happens, is a sin- jcere man. He feels that the new! \rule is a bad one and he will be}. \fighting it the next time you hear from him, whether in victory or defeat. One reason. those Army) Rafael Bancells |Players who reached the Point} HB Of exhaustion Saturday afternoon) Paul Higgs ... FB/ Were back on the job at 5:15 a.m, Harold Cates. ........ ...QB| Monday, just when most of our Richard Scott TB Stidiron heroes were turning over Donald Cole Sub)‘ get their beauty sleep. Ernest Knowles .... Sub Robert McKinney ................Sub} Charles Walston ...........SUbHB| Z BSHESBBSSL aS ean SZ 9 Robert Carnival .....cccccnenG Our favorite line of football BSSseeeeutersecee Top Cagers Meet Boxing Results: THURSDAY'S FIGHTS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YOUNGSTOWN, Ohic — Chubby Wright, 188%, Reading, Pa., out- rg Rocky Jones, 176, New fork, 10, FALL RIVER, Mass.—Jose Mo- Tell, 136, New York, stopped Bobby English, 138, Fall River, 7. NEWARK, N. J.—Dick Cannady, 152, Newark, outpointed Andy De- Paul, 161, Cliffside Park, 8. WORCESTER, Mass. — Jackie Wilson, 159, Quincy, Mass., out- inted Bob Bolton, 159, Quonset int, R. I., 8. Fisher, Duck-less Duck Season lich.—Lester Felton, 148, Detroit, outpointed Lu- ther Rawlings, 148, Chicago, 10. KANSAS CITY—Dave “Sonny” Shade, 137, Charleston, W. Va., gutpointed Bob Bick:e, 135, Topeka, 10. ” Higher Post For Meyer ST. LOUIS W—Richard A. Mey- er, who has been secretary of the St." Louis Cardinals since last March, is the new vice president nd general manager of the club. He was appointed by August A. Busch Jr., president of the club. Meyer will take over immediately. CHICAGO w — A handpicked Tennessee ought to be able to do play were two major worries of| Trucks Named (TECH, NOTRE DAME TILT TOPS SLATE Comeback Kid Of The Year By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (#—Virgil Trucks, who was tagged with 19 defeats in 1952 despite hurling two no-hitters, was voted today as the American ‘League’s Comeback Kid of 1953.) The 34-year-old right - hander, lwho began the season with the: lowly St. Louis Browns but was: sold to the Chicago White Sox in June, edged out the great Ted’ Williams for the honor on the strength of his 20 victories, 15 of) them compiled with the White Sox. Trucks received 55 votes to 50; for Williams. Mickey Vernon, Washington's brilliant first base- By ED CORRIGAN |Miami at Miami. This figures to NEW YORK — Notre Dame be nothng more than a brisk work- Georgia Tech, mightiest of the/out for the terrors of the Atlantic’ mighty, meet tomorrow in the No,'Coast Conference. 1 game of the campaign as the, Georgia Tech's coach, Bobby college football season rushes to-|Dodd, thinks he has his boys “up” ward a climax. winds up in a dead-|thinks it can win, but he has his these behemoths will problems. He knows that if Notre, the turf at South/Dame beats his outfit, it probably Tech, unbeat-'will be through the light line. This, mes, has come|makes the Engineers rather easy shaky start.'to score on. year,| Leon Hardeman is the Tech high’ im in)scorer and unless Notre Dame can) stop him and his running mate, . |Glenn Turner, the Engineers will cause trouble. the Yellow Jacket coaches on the;man and the junior circuit's bat-| the Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy ‘eve of their game witb the fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Tech’s line averages only 191 pounds, giving the Irish a consider- able edge in heft. “A big line doesn’t bother us if it is slow,” said Line Coach Ray Graves, “The Notre Dame line, though, is big and agile. It may be just about as fast as ours. “The game will give us a chance to see how a good small lineman stacks up against a good big line- man.” Only three of Tech’s scheduled starters weigh more than 188, Cen- iter Larry Morris is the heavy-! weight at 205, tackle Ed Gossage! scales 200 and tackie Bob Sherman 192, The Irish have such hefty boys as tackles Art Hunter, 226, and Frank Varrichione, 205; center Jim Schrader, 210; and guard Menil Mavraides, 205. Coach Bobby Dodd also finds its discomforting that three of his first-string backs are not yet ex- perts at defensive play. Quarter- Leon Hardeman and” Blly’ Tess an and Billy Teas need more polish on defense. Full- just as well, Roundup By Gayle Talbot weekend came from the free- wheeling typewriter of Skipper Pat. tick, a noted expert on affairs of! ithe Big Seven Conference, He re- ferred casually to the Kansas State Wildcats as*“until this. season the worst team in major college foot- ball for a decade.” % It’s when a football writer begins making such irresponsible state- ments as that that he finds him- self in trouble. Patrick is in the position of not being able-to prove his assertion. The chances are he hasn’t personally witnessed an Eastern college game in the past) 10 years, so how can he be so dogmatic on a touchy subject? Without going back through the entire decade in debate, we have nevertheless looked up the Wild- cats’ record for the past two sea- sons and note that in each of them they did score one victory, Last year, for instance, they won their opener from Bradiey by 21-7. They must have played some pretty good football in that one. If he insists upon making an issue of it, Patrick will find that we Eastern experts are a proud people. Our worst teams don’t even hold spring practice, which is bound to give them a big advan- tage over an upstart from the Midwest. Furillo Made The Comeback Of Year group of 14 college graduates, re- garded as among the best basket- |ball Players ever assembled in thi \J4-year series, will meet the M eae Lakers in the annual a! Newswriters Say a “| NEW YORK ®—Carl Furillo to- coe at Chicago Stadium to- day boasted another laurel for 1953 The collegians, coached by John/t0 go with his National League (Honey) Russell of Seton Hall, will|batting crown. For increasing his) try to square the rivalry against/hitting average nearly 100 points the pros after losing seven and|the Brooklyn Dodger outfielder was winning six of the previous all-star|named the player making the best contests. comeback of the year in the Na- Despite the array of college tal- tional League. | ent, many Serie pablicrrges vic-|_Furillo edged teammate Gil) tory for the Lakers uf the National Hodges for the accolade with 179) |Basketball Assn. members of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America casting a vote in| The Associated Press’ annual poll. The rifle-armed Pennsylvanian re- ceived 66 votes while 55 selected CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. w— |Hodges, |Missouri’s duck-hunting season started today but one thing seems! Twenty National League players to be missing—the qucks. |were mentioned in the I. T. Bode, director of the State|Monte Irvin of the Giants was Conservation Commission, said |third with 21 -votes, followed by yesterday he hadn't heard any re- \Cincinnati’s Gus Beil with 11 and ports of ducks in this drought-|Milwaukee’s Warren Spahn with seared state. {seven. aa os He said some geese were spotted; A year ago ‘iio, hampered on federal refuyes but they ap-|bY eye trouble, finished the season Peared to be staying close to the |in dismal fashion, batting only .247. weren't likely to {'y withi \the winter and when spring trai- of hunters. —_ men rolled around the 30-year-old ————____ {defensive stalwart showed that he In compiling 60 wins against 17 had regained his batting eye. losses at Ebbets Field in 1953, the| Furillo hit consistently all season refuges where they are fed and|He underwent an operation during]; back Glenn Turner has turned into a very effective linebacker, and is a tough up-the-middle run- ner, Tech’s backs can hold their own offensively with just about any team in the country, Notre Dame included. But if the game turns into a defensive ‘battle, freshman, may see more share of duty, The Jackets were scheduled to fly to South Bend today, work out the afternoon and move over to Elkhart for the night. Dodd planned to take about.40 players. Tech coaches refrained a victory favored by from 7 But the players weré for the game, were sical shape, and were quick to say they believed they could knock the ame is rai jo. 1 nationally, Tech No. 4. ‘ ‘ Notre Dame holds a 14-2 edge in the series. Marks Fall On Homers In Majors NEW YORK #—One major lea- gue record and « national league mark were tied as a result of bases-filled home runs during the 1953 season. Ray Boone, by walloping four grand-slams, equalled the major league standard held by nine other players, among them Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The Cubs’ Ralph Kiner drove out the 12th bases-loaded homer of his career, on June 14 off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine, and now shares Na- ‘tional League honors with Rogers Hornsby in that department. In all, 46 grand slams were hit, in the American, Associated Press statistics showed today. Despite ithe record-breaking number of major league home runs (2,076), the bases-loaded total in °53 was under that of 1952 when 55 were hit. Football Results HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Miami Edison 26, Miami Jackson 19 Coral Gables 27, South Broward 21 Lake Worth 41, Stuart 0 Palatka 12, Gainesville Yonge 12 ‘Starke 44, Jacksonville Tech 6 Miami Beach 27, Jacksonville Bol- Daytona Beach Mainland 24, Lake City 13 eae Tampa Jefferson 13, Miami Tech 0 Largo 20, Wimauma 0 Inverness 47, Ocaia B 0 Cross City 40, Trenton 6 Reddick 6, Jasper 6 (tie) Newberry 21, Brantord 14 Macclenny 37, Batdwin 0 Sarasota B 20, Venice-Nokomis 6 | Lt. Col. James T. Schwenk, gra- \duate manager of athletics at West |Point, was captain and full back of the 1938 Army grid team. Syracuse University’s Dodgers equaled the home gamejand capped his eighth campaign record set ay the Cardinals 4m 2342.'with Brooklyn by winning the bat- id ‘ jager Leo r 26 in the National League and 20) ting king, drew 29 votes to place third. Jimmy Piersall, sensational Boston Red Sox outfielder, was fourth with 22 votes, A total of 179 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America participated in the Asso- ciated Press’ annual poll. They gave six votes each to pitchers Ellis Kinder of Boston and Bob Porterfield of Washington, four to infielder Ray Boone of Detroit, two to southpaw Eddie Lopat of the New York Yankees and one each to Al Rosen of Cleveland, Bob EI-| liott of the White Sox and Irv Nor-| en of the Yankees. The 50 ballots cast for Williams| was a tremendous tribute to the Red Sox slugger who turned in a spectacular .407 batting mark in 37 games in August and September following his return from Korea, The comeback of Trucks is an amazing story of a different kind. The fireballer was absolutely use- Jess in 1949. A mysterious shoulder! aid him low for practically the entire season. His arm regained some of its strength the following] year, But in 1951, Trucks, then with the Detroit Tigers, spent a miserable year. Despite his two no-hitters, he won only five of his 24 decisions for the worst record of any American League hurler. He was traded to the Browns the| following winter. Under Paul Richards, he reeled 10 straight triumphs for Chi- and worked his way to the| tay of the staff with his first ‘game season. He took part in’ 4 games, pitched 264 innings, 17 jeomplete games and 5 shutouts. He’ fanned 148 batters and turned in an earned run average of 2.93, second best in the league, ated Here On Sunday A baseball game pitting the Homestead Greys and the Blue Heaven Eagles has been set for! Sunday at 3 p. m. in Ocean View Park, . The Homesteaders will be sek- ing to avenge a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the locals there recently. Roosevelt Carey will hurl for the Eagles with Joe Carey receiving. Bobo Is Worn Out SAN FRANCISCO — World middleweight champion Carl (Bo- bo) Olson arrived home yesterday, too weary to participate in a Planned civic reception. “Any other time, if they want to,” he said. A representative of Mayor El- mer Robinson said a reception def- initely will be held—‘“how exten- sive depends largely on Olson’s own desires.” jland, the third-ranked team in the’ for this nationally televised bout. jis his usual pessimistic self. For) one thing, he can’t understand why his club has been named No. 1. He also pointed out that the South! Benders have had all the best of the breaks, “Maybe we won't be so lucky Austin. And on the Pacific Coast,|one of these days,” he said darkly. California will try to get back in|“Maybe Tech won't make any) the cace by beating Southern Cali- ebay and then where'll we Tonight, the big one pits Mary-| Johnny Lattner’s strained heel muscle has come around and \Dame one-two punch, are set and learin’.to go. | Michigan State, No, 2 in the a2 tional rankings, figures to strength en its Big Ten stock when it plays ‘Purdue, an outfit without much ‘punch—at least in the Spartans | While Texas and Rice are claw ing at each other Baylor, the sixth ranked school and slight favorit: for the Southwest Conference for the Irish—and the team itself)jeague. 1 I idate tary Institute, Colorado and Penp. Navy, which even Coach Eddir Erdelatz (like Leahy a charter member of the pessimists club admits is “probably” the best Mi¢ die eleven since the end of Work’ War IJ, could run into trouble country, against the University of|Ralph Guglielmi, the fierce Notre Langlois, Panter {42,000 Expected Bout Set Tonight |For Hurricane, Maryland Clash MIAMI, Fia. About 42,000 fans are expected to turn out to- night to see Miami’s Hurricanes in| action against Maryland—a team considered almost a sure choice to come back next New Year's Day and play in the Orange Bowl game. Maryland is a 16-point favorite and Miami, no pushover in any- body’s league, must be at its best ito keep the score that close. Coach Jim Tatym’s Terrapins have never been extended in knocking over Missouri, Washing- ton and Lee, Clemson, Georgia and ‘North Carolina. Miami defeated Clemson and Floride State and lost to Baylor and Nebraska, By JACK HAND NEW YORK #—Pierre Langlois of France and Garth Panter of Salt Lake City, a pair of lively middleweights, keep the 160-pound class busy tonight with a 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden. Although the big town is middle- weight-minded after Bobo Olson’s victory over Randy Turpin before a sellout crowd, there probably won’t be more than 5,000 on hand It will be carried on ABC radio and NBC TV at 10 p.m., EST. Langlois forced his way into the middleweight elimination tourna- ment, set up after Sugar Ray Rob- inson’s retirement, when he upset Rocky Castellani in the Garden Feb. 6. He subsequently was from consideration after he to Joe Rindone and dropped a split decision to Castellani in a Cleveland rematch. A busy fighter, a la Olson, Lang- ois has a 59-124 record for 75 | fights with 12 knockouts. The 27- | year-old Frenchman has been twice by Bill Gleeson in Australia in 1949 and by Johnny Bratton at Montreal last year. He wades in, throwing light cuffing | punches to the body. Panter, 23, walks in, wide open, | anxious, to trade punches Son of | a former middleweight boxer, he | has a 49-12-2 career record for bouts, stopping 35 opponents He | never has been knocked out. This | is a first chance to top a Garden grab. Gramigna Is Penn Captain PHILADELPHIA (®—Penn quar- 'terback Ed Gramigna, whose play a year ago against Navy won him the starting role in that position for the 1953 season, has been named as acting czptain ‘inst the midshipmen for S; game at Franklin Field. The 170-pound, Audubon, N. J., | plyer started preseason training | as No. 3 quarterback. But injuries to quarterbacks Jim Kopenhav: and Ed Surmiak just before th opener against Vanderbi't pushed | Checked and C. PARK . 328 SIMONTON STREET y's Citizen Ads Bring Results| him back into the No 1 spot. 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