The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1954, Page 6

is officer. A nice mess was caught by| Prot h Lonc x kk Ten Golden Gloves Boxing Bouts Set Here At Wickers Field On Marc kk & ‘State Champs To Tackle Miami Beach Nine Here . The 1954 edition of the) : Key West High School base-| | . ball team, will go into action here March 11 and 12 a- -gainst the Miami Beach nine at the Wickers Field Stadi- ‘"um, it was announced today. -The Conchs have a stiff 22- game schedule to cope with) — this year. Coach Paul Davis hasten returning lettermen to aid him in defending the state Class AA championship. In addition, there are seven promising youngsters to give the: Conchs a good chance! of repeating last year’s per- formance, Holdovers include eight first string members of last year’s championship combin- ation which went all the way to the finals in the South- eastern tourney in Selma, Alabama. Pitcher George Lastres and his battery-mate,’ hard hitting Julio’ Henriquez, are among them. Chief loss this year is Bob Las- tres who held down the first base position. Dick Salgado is heralded as a good prospect to fill his shoes; although, Fred Curry, a junior, will give him a fight for the posi- tion. Other returnees include third « sacker Eloy Rodriguez, second baseman Vince Catala, shortstop Don Cruz and outfielders Harold Solomon, Gibby Gates and Jerry ita. ae roster also includes infielder Julio Santana and outfielders Ro- ger Bean and Jimmy Tybes. Stuart Yates and Leeburg Know- les will bolster the pitching staff and Sidney Kerr is available for| | ! | i backstopping duty. : This year’s schedule includes fourcGold Coast Conference games. | Keyi West will play only five of] theie games on the road. i The complete schedule: March! 11,:12, Miami Beach, here; March | 19,-West Palm Beach, here; March; ** 28, 26, Coral Gables, here; March 30,South Dade, away; April 5, 6, Fort Lauderdale, here; April 9, West Palm Beach, away; April 15, Miami Tech, away; April 17, Fort Lauderdale, away; April 19, Con-! stdhice, away; April 23, 24, Miami lh, home; April 29, 30, Miami Jabkson, home; Mary 7, 8, South! Broward, home; Mary 14, 15, Mia- mi Edison, home and May 21, 22, Miami Tech, home. | e Navy Gives Sea Scouts Fishing Tri 1S 4 rip Grunt fishing was the order of! the day Saturday for Sea Scouts) of Scout Ship No. 250 of Key West.| The Scouts fished all day on} board a fifty foot motor launch of the USS Bushnell, provided through| the courtesy of the commanding; the boys. Fishing was at Sand Key) end near the Main Ship Channel. This trip is one of many events planned in local sea scouting circles} @ils year. The boys all enjoyed the trip and returned pleasantly @red. and sunburnt. Scouts attending were Crew Lea- Ger Charles Bonovitch, Assistant! Crew Leader Lawrence Bailey; Scouts Jimmy Harper, Anthony Hopey, John Reuthur, Robert Kelly, Mike Whitley, Wayne Carey and Kenneth Bishop. Officer in charge was Mate Harry M. Williams Jr,| Algo attending were committee- men J. K. Gobor and Robert Clem. The Sea Scout ship is sponsored y the Key West Fleet Reservejthe name of some for several] The 1953 starters are halfbacks| jweeks yet. That severely compli- Bob Davis and Larry Scott; full-| Association, Branch 56, Boxing Results Baseball. MUTILATED alm . xk kk » & ®& Golde n Glover To Box Here — PUNCHING RO tes - “ Sa oe ai HARD-’ BERT MOROL of the Biscayne Boxing at Wickers Field. Morol won the South Florida Golden Gloves Miami. Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot TAMPA, Fla. %) — Certain big]we get pitching we could climb. league baseball players, for no If Saul Rogovin’s arm is all right reason you can lay a finger on, | again that could be very important. are earmarked during their play-;We just got him from the Chicago ing days as future managers. It| White Sox. Our power is all right does not always work out that way,|for where we are now, in the sec- but it does in a surprising per-jond division, but when we get up centage of such cases. jin the first division »f course we Birdie Tebbetts was one of these/will need more.” through his long career as a big] It’s the first time we ever heard league catcher, and so it seems;a manager put things just that perfectly natural to find him here;way, but the reasoning makes getting his feet on the ground as/sense when you think of it. Birdie the new directing genius of the|was reminded that he had five Cincinnati Redlegs. Birdie always! pretty tough clubs above him in has been a smarter cookie than|the National League, and that the average, and the odds are that)first one he would have to climb he will make a good manager. over would be the New York Gabe Paul, the youthful general Giants. manager of the club, has no doubt. “I don’t give a damn what team thet he has acquired a gem. In)we climb over,” he snapped, “‘just appearance Gabe is the same efl-jso we climb. And we will.” eonversaton 0 Gators Start Spring Grid takes only a stort conversation to! Practice Today learn that the experience aged him' considerably. It comes out in his) estimate of Tebbetts. | GAINESVILLE (#—Coach Bob Woodruff, beginning his fifth year |with the University of Florida, “He’s a planner,” he says, “‘and) he’s flexible. He doesn’t make a decision today, and that’s it for-| ever. Birdie is a man who can} be reasoned with and who can} change his mind as developments! warrant. He’s a thinker, and he’s going to be a great manager.” You will note that Gabe did not mention Hornsby’s name. He isn't looked Pee ated 70 pronvec for knocking the old diamond im-| the 1954 Gator football team today mortal whom he let out late last #5 SPring practice got under way. season, He’s just saying that now) Four drills a week over a five- he has a manager who is willing) Week period are planned to comply to talk with him now and again, with a Southeastern Conference and that it’s a fine feeling. jrule allowing | a iaaximum of 20 Having finisLed sixth so many drills in a period of 30 school,days. years that it begins to look per-. Woodruff will build the team earnestly to do something about/entire starting backfield from the their fortunes. They have an awful) 1953 team which had a 3-5-2 record. lot of players in camp, so manyjOnly three starting linemen are that Tebbetts won’t properly know|back, however. cates the task of a n man-|back Mal Hammack; quarterback ager. \Harry Speers; center Steve DeLa- “Tt isn’t a bad lookmg team atiTorre; tackle Buster Hill and all,” Birdie insisted. ““We’re pretty captain-left end Jerry Bilyk. MONDAY’S FIGHTS By The Associatec Press BROOKLYN - Tommy (Hurri- @ene) Jackson, 194%. Beach, N.Y., decisioned Clarence >: @lenry,: 182, Los Angeles, 10. BOSTON—George Araujo, 139%, | iChicago, stopped Chuck Russel, 16134, Detroit 2 ‘ oo. RL, stopped Curley , 137%, Worcester, Mass., 6.| DETROIT — King Solomon, 165, well set at every positiop, and if Several players will pass up some or all of the workouts be- Cause of competition i other fighters to be seen in action during the amateur boxing show scheduled for Friday, March 12, will meet the only opponent to hold a win over him, Andy Kostopolous, of the University. of manent, the Redlegs are trying around 25 lettermen, including the | . Rockaway | HOLYOKE, Mass.—Art Mullen, j12334, Philadelphia, decisioned |Johnny O’Brien, 128, Boston, 8. | SAN FRANCISCO—Jesse Flores, {1374%, San Francisco, decisioned |Tommy Planaois, 135, Philippines, 10. sports. These include Bilyk, regu- lar catcher on the baseball team; \Dick Massey and end Charlie Manning, also out foi baseball; fullback Joe Brodsky, Ray Brown, Bumper Watson, Bob Percival, Gene Purcell and Tom Lassiter, | ‘on the track team. Carbonell Books Miami Pugilists | For Local Fistic | Revival Program | | | Eight South Florida Gold- jen Gloves titleholders will |display their championship |form before Key West box- jing fans at Wickers Field] |March 16 at 8:30 p. m., it} ;was announced today by |Louis Carbonell, who is pro- moting the show. The ten-bout card will end a four year blight which | has blanketed the local box- jing picture. Carbonell, in cooperation | with Dick Lee, a former pro- jfessional pugilist now con- nected with the City of Mi- jami Recreation Department has arranged to have the card put together with par-| ticipants in the recent South! Florida Golden Gloves tour- ney in Miami. “We can promise local fans a lot of action and if we are success-| ful, we'll run shows every two weeks and later maybe stage} wrestling shows,” commented Car- bonell. The city is presently constructing ja ring which will be placed at home plate at the stadium. There| will be 200 ringside seats and a-| bout 2,000 grandstand seats avail-| jable Wednesday at Lou’s Radio| jand Appliance Store, 522 Duval| \Street, the Broadway Cigar Store, | 610 Duval Street and Evans Sport; Shop, 509 Southard Street. Carbonell emphasized that erec- jtion of ring at the stadium will gir , the card was slated to} be held March 12, but the Key} {West High School baseball team has slated a game for that night. Boxers from the City of Miami) Recreation Department, the Hia-| leah Athletic Club, the Magic City| A. C., the 5th Street A. C.,and the Biscayne Boxing Club, will par- ticipate. In the future it is, planned to use local Navy talent which scored NEW YORK (#—Ezzard Charles triumphs re Miami’s |has replaced Cuba’s Nino Valdes!South Florida tourney on the local as the No. 1 heavyweight contend-|cards, jer, Willie Pep has dropped to the} |bottom of the featherweight rank-|he adhered to, Carbonell said. jings, and Eddie Chavez has taken, Carbonell said that he was of jover the No. 1 position among the the opinion that Key West sport lightweights. |fans are willing to support his pro- These were among the major|ject and promised to give them jchanges made in the March Ring|the best entertainment he can find. magazine ratings, released today __ jby editor Nat Fleischer. Valdes lost his top-ranking be- jcause of his very close decision over unranked Archie McBride in Mickey Vernon a Havana bout. The. big i“«," Agreement Seen jdropped to second behind the for- i jmer heavyweight ctampion who| ORLANDO, Fla. (—There were jgets another crack at the heavy-|signs today—if ever so slight—of |weight crown June 17 when he/an easing in the financial war be- jmeets Rocky Marciano. tween the. Washington Senator | Pep, twice-holder of the feather-|bosses and their prize holdout, | weight crown, fell all the way from{|Mickey Vernon |the No. 1 ranking to tenth as a| The first base star, who drew jresult of being stopped in two/down $19,000 last year and won the rounds by 20-year old Lulu Perez.|American League batting crown, The young Brooklyn boxer-puncher|now says he’ll settle for $35,000 advanced from iifth to third among|this season instead of the $40,000 the 126-pounders. jhe’s been asking. Wallace (Bud) Smith, the Cin-| Vice President Calvin Griffith in cinnati clouter who was the No. 1|turn has withdrawn an earlier “fi- lightweight challenger, fell to third/nal” offer of $25,000. With Vernon ‘ Ch lub will be one of the top championship in his class and Top Heavyweight Contender Monday | | terweight Joe Miceli. Chavez, ofjare reports Griffith might boost San Jose, took over first and|the ante to $27,500 or possibly Cuba’s Orlando Zulueta moved up|$30,000. from third to second. | Johnny Bratton also got the axe.| Marvin Grissom, pitcher for the |The Chicago welterweight, drubbed |New York Giants, won seven gam- |by Johnny Saxton, plummetedjes on the team’s good will tour of from third to tenth among the 147-\the Orient. Two were shutouts. |pounders. | | Nate Brooks, the newly crowned : I |. The National AAU Women’s Bas- |champion, vaulted into a No. 4)ketball championship tournament jranking as the result of his title|will be held in St. Joseph, Mo., |victory over Billy Peacock. |March 21-27. ATTENTION K. W. Pepsi-Cola Co. K. W. Coca-Cola Co. Saunders Wholesale Valladares & Son K. W. Provisions American Bakeries Co. American News Co. H. W. Ley & Co. Sordon Potato Chips A million thanks to you and your personnel for the many courtesies extended to us during our business relationship the past year. Home Milk Holsum Bread National Biscuit Co. H. Ramos Lopez Wholesale Until we meet again... LOU and JERRY TUCKER. recent| Standard AAU scoring rules will| following his knockout loss to wel-|tough to trade off at age 35, there| Keke o& SS SS SS Little League Meet Set Wed. All Managers and officials of both the American and Nation- al Little Baseball Leagues will hold a meeting Wednesday eve- ning at 8 p. m. in the office of County Clerk Earl Adams. At that time, Managers will bid on players who participated in “spring training’ recently. They will also set the date for the start of the season and arrange their schedule. Sites for practice fields will also be decided on Wednesday. City Manager ‘Victor Lang has as- sured the league officials that the city will set up these fields as soon as the sites are selected. West Palm Signs Torres WEST PALM BEACH (#—The West Palm Beach Indians have signed Gilberto Torres, veteran in- fielder and pitcher, 2s manager for the 1954 season. Paschal C. Reese, president of the Florida International League club, said Torres would also be a Part-time pitcher anc utility in- fielder. He was an infielder with the Washington Senators during his major league career ‘and later; played with Havana and Miami. concentrating on pitching. He man-' aged Valdosta of the Georgia- Florida League during the latter Part of last season. s First Tilt March 1 ke Ke xX ky & ht Page 6 The Independents handed the Grace Lutherans a 29-23 setback in the first game of a basketball doubleheader at the high school gym last night. The win kept the Independents in third place. A full game ahead of fourth place Evans. The Independents jumped off to an 8-6 lead in the first quarter and although it was a closely matched game all the way. Grace Luthera the game in the fourth period, but the Independents put on a_ last minute rally to take the win. Don Walston was high man for jthe Independents with eight points. Bruce Weinman and Tom Murphy each had 7 points to lead the Grace ‘Lutherans offense. Score: Grace Lutherans 6377 2B Independents 8 6 5 10 29 In the nightcap, the VX-1 Flyers pushed the Jaycees deeper into the cellar with a 76-24 bombardment. The Flyers used the two-platoon system as they racked up their thirteenth win of the season and increased their league lead to three full games. The Flyers jumped to a 20-2 lea in the first quarter and increase it to 35-10 at halftime. In the th peri ed 1 ) 56-14 end ron tinued to pour it on in the final quarter. Breward Miller led the Flyers attack with 16 points followed by R. Phelps with 14. George Las- d ‘d od, Flyers’ 20 points increas- Department Store. We want to take this mea Post 10 Adm. 25c PARI-MUTUEL BETTING . State Supervised 8:15 P.M. 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