The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 5, 1953, Page 10

, Leathernecks Down G Missed Placement Provides Edge In Thrilling Battle At Wickers Field A placement kick for an extra point that went awry for the Pensacola Goshawks last night, gave the Camp Lejeune Leathernecks a hardfought 13-12 win in the second annual Conch Bow! football clash. It was the \End Of The Line | | j | The 1953-'54 edition of the Key West High School team will launch its season here inext Saturday night against} Coral Gables and in the words of Coach Win Jones, oshawks In 13-12 Thriller In Conch Bowi T:'t Friday Conch Cage Squad Drills For Opene: Against Coral Gables Here Dec. 12 Top Cage Tilts Slated As New Season Starts By BEN PHLEGAR . NEW YORK National cham.| Page 1 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saterday, homer 5, 1953 pion Indiana and Kentucky, which! a greatest athletic event in the city’s history. But that’s only half the story —the ballgame had everything in the way of football thrills to keep more than 6,000 fans on the edge of their seats at Wickers Field Stadium. It could have gone either way. But, in addition to the football game, the Miami Se- nior High School’s “Millior Dollar Band” staged a half time show the likes of whick Key Westers have never seen on their home grounds. And any doubt that service ball teams don’t have that old college try was dispelled last night when| the two clubs fought like demons to come up with a win. Their ef- forts had all the fire of the college version of the gridiron pastime and fineness of the play-for-pay Although the Marines dominated the first quarter with an impres-| sive running game, featuring the antics of one Jimmy Lee, a rub- bery-legged halfback who proved to be mucho hard to stop. A Navy punt from their own first quarter | geve the Mari the break they Needed to score. On the first play of the secohd the Marines capitalized on} of fortune when Ronnie Bill Hawkins with a pass) end zone. Fouts’ try for the point failed to make it a 6-0 game. But, the Navy came back with a spirited push from their split T for- THE NAVY'S FRANK GRAVES is brought to earth by a Marine tackler in second quarter of last night’s Conch Bowl action, Marines’ Mei Yeshnik (26) looks on, More than 6,000 fans clash.—Citizen Staff Photo, Start Of A 20-Yard Gain eastern Conference barred the hopes to: sncened . the: Heetiors, Wildcats for a season for over- open their campaigns tonight in emphasizing basketball. the first big Saturday of the 1953-54) Nine of the 10 Big Ten teams college basketball scason. will be in action with only Wis- : | The round balls wili be bouncing consin, whch opened last night year as a result of their new-|,, gyms from coast to coast with|With a 6456 victory over Mar- ly awarded Double A rating more than 100 games listed. quette, idle. Illinois invades Okla- and their entry into the Gold) indiana, minus oaiy one regular'braska in two of the top contests. jCoast Conference. from last seasda’s NCAA titlists,| Duquesne, a club which on pa- | They'll go back into action Tues-jentertaims Cincinnati at Bloom- per ranks with the best anywhere, |“Prospects are not too good” 'for a banner season. | The Conchs will be facing} high-grade competition this) homa and Minnesota visits Ne- day, December 15 against Miami|ington in a warmup for a Monday |is a top-heavy favorite against lit-) High and on January 8 will meet engagement with Kansas State tle Geneva College in ics first their arch enemies, South Brow- one of three teams to beat the game. Wake Forest and Duke, ard. A total of 11 home games|champs last year. two teams which are expected to have been scheduled this season. ee c Jones has a veteran squad, with Petition against Temple after a'supremacy in the new Atlantic eight holdover lettermen to work| Year of forced idleness, The South-|Coast Conference, both have tough Kentucky comes back to com-|challenge North Caroiina State for entertains with plus a sprinkling of new tal-/ ones Duke ent. He predicts a big improve-! mation that put them back in the ballgame for real. It was Ray Vohden, their fire- brand quarterback, who supplied the punch that enabled the Navy to knot the score with just three minutes rema in the half. Vehden faded fo pass on his own 30 yard fine, and when he couldn't find 9 receiver, de- cided te run. run he did— tight through the entire Marine defense. At the end of his 70 yerd TO vy score was all tled up at 6-6, attempted Na- vy field goa’ vw the half ended ment over last year’s 8-7 season. | He'll build his club around these veterans: forwards, Glynn Archer, Julio Henriquez, Gibby Gates and Biff Salgado; guards Stu Logun, Ralph White, and Jim Solomor and center John Carbonell. Three new faces will also appear on the Conch varsity including a pair of seniors, Joe Carbonell, who comes up from the Jayvees and Johnny Keyser, who went out for the team for the first time this year. A sophomore, Gene Favors, is a Possible starter this season after performing impressively in drills, Jones said. The squad has been working out for the past week in prepa tion for their grueiling season. Since most of the squad alse performed on the high school’s unbeaten football squad, they been spending most of their working out the kinks in their muscles. They'll face the acid test in their first three meetings. Coral Gables is always a tough competi- ‘tor while Miami High was runner- up in the Class AA State tourney last season. Meetings with Miami Beach, Miami Tech, South Dade, and Bis- hop Curley of the Gold Conference are also set. Giambra KOs Jim Herring In Garden Lions Can Cain Tie In Pro League NEW YORK @—All the Detroit Lions have to do tomorrow is de- feat the Chicago Bears and they'll Western Conference of the National Football League, If the Lions, the defending champions, beat the Bears and the Green Bay Packers upset the San Francisco 49ers, it’s all over and the Lions can start preparing for Cleveland Browns, who already’ have won the Eastern title, Should the Lions win both their remaining games—the other is with the New York Giants—they’ll take the championship even if the 49ers win both their games against the Packers and the Baltimore Colts. televised to 51 cities starting at 2 p.m. (EST), Detroit has won be assured of at least a tie in the! another playoff game against the! The Lions-Bears game will be| tonight. Tennessee and Wake Forest is host to Maryland in a conference game. |N. C. State has another breather in Davidson. Wake Forest out- classed Davidson last night 88-46. Fordham and Niagara, both jcounted among the top few in the |East, clash at Buffalo. Kansas State opens against Denver. The tallest man ever used in college basketball played his first game last night for Oregon State. Wade (Swede) Halbrook, who measures 7 feet 3 inches, scored }20 points as the Beavers Hawaii 73-54. The University of Washington, jranked fourth in the country in jthe final Associated Press poll jlast spring, was upset 66-51 by jhome loss in 23 games. from litte Rio Grande College looked considerabiy better than they did the night before as they bowed to Villanova 93-92 in over- time. Francis scored 39 points. |Mary Milligan’s field goal with 10 seconds to play won it for Villa- \nova. |_ Seton Hall's National Invitation | Tournament champions won their beat! Stanford. It was the Huskies’ first Bevo Francis and his colleagues 44th consecutive home game, eras ing Scranton University 80-54. In intersectional games in the South, Mississippi Southern won its fourth straight, beating Ham- line of St. Paul, Minn., 77-68; Texas Tech tripped Sewanee 76-47, and Western Kentucky coasted past Gustavus Adoiphus 90-73, St. Louis University beat Ft. Leonard Wood 82-64 after the sol- diers had won seven in a row. DePaul of Chicago won its third straight at the expense of Mil- waukee State 102-47. Southern California spoiled Jack Gardner's coaching debut at Utah with a 54-48 decision. Gardner switched this season from Kansas State. In other Western games Brig- ham Young defeated Idaho State 70-59, Washington State brushed aside Montana 67-55, Wyoming swamped Montana State 80-47, Oregon beat San Jose State 75-63, and Seattle evened a two-game set with Wichita 89-77. $$ $$ SAVE $838 \For QUALITY USED CARS and Genera! 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With Vohden and his understudy, Mitch Price doing the throwing, the Na- vy moved downfield late in the third quarter only to be thrown back when Price was smothered by inspired defensive work by Glen Graham and Bill Stovall, WILLIAM HAYES (39), Marine fullback, cuts back on an off-tackle play to pick for Camp Lejeune. In this second suarter gain the Marines, Fred Lippard, the interference. up 20 yards for tackle, leads Commissioners’ Dispute With. Mass. Linksman (Leads In Havana Th Philadelphia Eagles and the NEW YORK —Joe Giambra is| Washington Redskins, battling for the oddity among the middleweight) second place in the Eastern Con- contenders today. He’s in no hurry |ference, also have a date. If the for a title crack at Champion)Eagles win, they’ll sew up the Bobo Olson, runner-up spot, but if the ‘Skins’ “Ten more fights and then I’ll'triumph, the teams will be dead- want Olson,” said the 22-year-old| locked. Buffalo Adonis after he had! The Pittsburgh Steelers and the knocked out Jimmy Herring of | Chicago Cardinals play in Chicago. Races, 2 P.M. Boca Chica Beach Road Selection for Christmas OVERSEAS CYCLE STORE Payne Marines again hit pay dirt the third period when halfback Ray Smith sneaked over from the By 208 ‘REICHLER one yard line to climax a 62 yard) ATLANTA —Rumblings of a march featuring the slippery run- Players’ fraternity were heard to ning of that boy Lee and Bill Haw-\day as the last of the major kins. % {leaguers quit the minor league con- Howie Hosteler kicked the eru-|vention for the New York meet- cial extra point to put them into ajings to wrangle over baseball's 13-6 lead. {newest hot potato, the pension plan It was an 80 yard jaunt by Ray, The most startling development Smith that put the Navy back into at.the annual winter sessions here the all game in the third period.|Was the dispute between the play- Smith took a punt off the toe of ers and the commissioner of base- Lee on his own 20 and before the ball. Marines could lay a hand on him| It began with the players walking he was in the end zone. out on Commissioner Ford Frick But, Ken Coston’s kick was low because their lawyer, J. Norman and to the left and the Marines Lewis, couldn’t attend. Frick coun- maintained a slim one point lead, |tered with the news that the big The final period, produced the league club owners were consider- * finest action of the evening with|ing terminating the pension plan the Marines fighting to increase) Prior to that, Ralph Kiner and their shaky lead and the Navy Allie Reynolds, player representa- going all out to make up that one tives of the National and American point. leagues respectively, and an- It was an aerial geme for both nounced the official retention of sides marked by frequent inter- Lewis and disclosed that elections ceptions. The Navy began to click for player representatives would with three minutes to go but a last be held every other year. minute pass intereception by the, Reports that the players had de- Marines spoiled their bid. They |Cided to pay annual dues for the ran the clock out and won the ver- attorney's fees could not be con- dict — the second loss for the Gos- firmed. Other than to say “how we hawks this year, Baseball Game Slated Sunday ‘The Key West All-Stars will bat- P fle the Subron 12 baseball team fratern ted seven years, from Sunday afternoon at the Navy's /1912 through 1918, and was headed Walker Field. The game is sche- by Dave Fultz, a former star out- duled to get underway at 2 p. m. fielder of Tt will be the latest of a long who had to the practic Series of meetings between the law. An eleeted plavers’ comm! two teams with the Navy having h es and en won the last five and tied one. e {business,” neither Kiner nor Rey- {nolds commented | A veteran base that means the pl to obtain a ct corporated, whi: 1 official said Ballplayers Has Reprecussions | fers and the owners, By the end of World War 1 the fraternity was dissolved, Back in 1945, Robert Mu Boston lawyer, unsucces: tempted to unionize the players but it helped lead to changes in the player contracts and concessions by the owners. ~ High on t league mee day will be p! include requests minimum salar) $7,200; elimination of the felease clause: a minim per day meaj money on elimina spring days, tain ba Most imy demand for Payments from $50 $80 for five-year m $100 to $150 per month men. The players the ag to 45 prem The begin Mon nds, These se in 5,000 to for in will pay the attorney is our own g HAVANA (®—Bob Toski of North- hampton, Mass., carried a slim one-stroke lead into the third round of the Havana Country Club in. for the dark-haired fighter and his| vitation golf tournament today, Toski, who has been playing golf since he was five years of age, added a 67 yesterday te his open- ing round 65 for a 36-hole total of 132, Close behind were Walter Burkemo of Franklin, Mich., and Art Wall of Pocono Manor, Pa., both with 133, Gardner Dicki i Fia., Bracketed ‘ol of Lem of White Pi. Bolt of Mapl nson of Panama fourth witn a 136. were Marty Fur- Herman Baron y., and Tommy s what a paid hy, farm director of the Red Sox, who along with inced the player od for the play- rick with telegrams g that the pension be contin- with several player delegates, “jeopardizing” |New York in 2:25 of the fourth round at Madison Square Garden last night. It was the 10th victory in a row 35th win against two losses. He is ranked as the No. 5 contender, Herring argued bitterly that he had received a “quick count” from Referee Ray Miller and he may have been right. But most ringside observers believed that if Miller had permitted the 21-year- old Herring to continue he would have been knocked out by Giam- bra’s next punch and worse yet, might have taken a bad battering. A crackling right to the chin in the fourth sent Herring flat on his back. He got to one knee at the count of eight, started to rise at nine and seemed to have made it a fraction of a second before the referee counted ten. Miller hes- itated for a moment, and then waved his hands to signify a knock- out. “I beat the count,” said Herring who was leading 2-1 in rounds up up to the knockout. “My head was clear, I was counting with Miller while I was waiting to get up, I got hit with a sneak right hand but I was okay. I could have won, I was going good.” “I don’t know whether he beat the count or not,” said Giambra, “But I know I would have knocked him out with the next punch if > Miller let it go on. He had his right hand down and I would have : flattened him with a left hook.” adio money from the World A crowd of 3,233 paid $8,560. It might have been more if it wasn’t for the newspaper strike. The bout was broadcast and telecast over coast to coast networks. Herring suffered his seventh kayo in 70 pro fights. He has won s. |The Steelers are favored. | The only game today pits the Rams against the Baltimore Colts at Los Angeles, Admission . . $1.25 A.M.A, Sanctioned 1030 Eaton Street TEL. 2-6016