The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 3, 1954, Page 6

Battle For Backfield Slot Looms By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor After losing two days of prac- tice. due to the considerable a- mount of rainfall of late, the Key West Conchs pranced through a two hour, full-scale scrimmage ses- sion yesterday afternoon on their soggy practice field. ‘The Conchs all saw a bit of ac- tion, and after.a sluggish and ra- ed start, began to show the mec varsity ‘next an Sy preparation for their opening tilt, just two weeks hence. Most significant development to arise in yesterday’s session was a duel being waged between a pair country ballplayers for the handled that- assignment yester- day, and although they made a few mistakes, they showed that they have learned their football lessons fairly well. Defensively, the Conchs appear to be Py giclee The Conchs ‘Black Bean ade” including beefy Julio Henriquez, Wayne Brantley and Lew McLain, consis- tently foiled the offensive team’s efforts, John Carbonell displayed his us- ual-defensive competéncy at one of the ends, wrapping ais hanimy hands around the ball carrier. At this writing, it appears that Beckman has a single wing ball- club — and nothing else. He has a few big strong ends and plenty of beef in the line. He has a couple of competent tailbacks in Stickney and Haney and a few other boys who like to hit hard. He has no T quarterback. Hence, it appears that he will stick with his single wing, power football attack that has given the Conchs an outstanding record in the past. In an effort to recoup the time lost due to this week’s rain, Beck- man: has scheduled drill sessions for Saturday and the Monday La- bor Day holiday. The Conchs will. be. hampered somewhat next week due to’ the fact that they will have to take time out to prepare for the Miami Herald football clinic, a week from tonight. Comiskey Denies. White Sox May Lose Richards CHICAGO ® — Vice President Chuck Comiskey professes not to be worried by rumors the Chicago White Sox may have difficulty re- taining Paul Richards as their manager. Comiskey said he probably will talk contract with Richards today when ‘the Sox return home to open Page 6 THE KEY. WEST CITI? Friday, September 3, 1954 Indians Confident Of Winning Flag, Want Revenge On Yanks By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK # — Manager Al Lopez and his band of league- leading Indians left for Chicago to- day still confident of winning the American League pennant and itching to “get even” with the New York Yankees in Cleveland. The two successive lickings by the Yankees sliced their once 5%4- game margin to 3% after they cap- tured the first of .the three-game series. But this did not ‘seem to disturb Lopez too much. At least, not outwardly. “T still feel we can hold the lead,” he said after yesterday’s 3-2 defeat. “I said after our Tues- day night’s victory, they can hurt us now but they can’t kill us.” Reminded that the tough White Sox will furnish the opposition in six of Cleveland’s remaining * 21 games, Lopez said grimly: “‘What’s the difference whom we play? At this stage of the ra they’re all tough. We've just to keep on winning, that’s all. “And about, the Yankees?’ asked. “They've got to games than we do. And don't get this either. They've still two against us.” “That's right,” chimed in Avila, the team’s fine second ba: man and leading hitter. “Wait un- til we get them in Cleveland next time. It will be different there. We'll get even with them over there.” Casey Stengel, Yankees mana- lt jit ul ft feed ul oF a three-game series with the Amer- |" ‘can League-leading Cleveland indians, but he added: “I don’t think there is any ques- tion about where Paul will be next year, It'll be with the White Sox.” There has been talk that Richards is entertaining a tempt- ing offer to become general man- ager of the Baltimore Orioles. and that he will demand both a raise and a three-year contract to stay with the Sox. Mrs. Grace Comiskey, Sox presi- dent, and other club officials are | reported to be against more than | a two-vear pact. | General Manager Frank Lane has been quoted as saving Rich-| ards’ pay as a baseball pilot is/ second only to that of the Yankees’ Casey Stengel and that any. new contract surely would provide an increase. Richards’ salary is esti- mated at $30,000 a year plus a ponus of a nickel a head on at- tendance over one million. With 13 home dates remaining, the Sox at- tendance is 1,032,297. ger, had little to say about the Pennant race. “We're. back in business, we’re back in business,” he told inter- viewers. ‘‘But we got to keep win- ning to stay in business.” Midget League Practice Slated All boys between the ages of 7 and 9 years old, who signed up some weeks ago to join the Midget League and who are not now mem- bers of a Midget Team, are re- quested to come to Bayview Park between the hours of 4:00 to 7:00 p. m. each afternoon, Paul G. Al- bury, City Recreation Director an- nounced teday. This program for the little fry was interrupted due to the sum- mer recreation’ program, Albury said,-but he is now preparing to have it in full swing within the weeks with an estimated 8 are now organized in uniforms ‘and playing. All teams will be properly supervised. 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Ecua- dor, along with Peru and Chile, All-Star Games Slated Tonight ‘The Coral Gables All Star Baseball teams will meet two Key West All Ster teams to- night in Wickers Stadium in the first ef twe week-end double- headers. The first game at 7:00 p. m. brings together the Little L gue All Stars from both cities. Bill Solomon, who defeated the Miami All Stars last week, will probebly start pitching for Key Wesi. In the night cap, Bill Cates Junior will play the ‘al Ga- bles Juniors. Paul Higgs will probably draw the pitching as- signment in this game. Higgs, although only 14, has done some very effective pitching in the mens city league. The same teams will meet Saturday night. Baseball Resalis SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. Behind 1 38 Sil contend these extend 200 miles in | Chattancogs the Pacific. “Units of the navy and planes gone out to prevent clandestine fishing and enforce respect for the national sovereignty,” Araujo said. He gave no further details. Onassis’ fleet, which flies the Panamanian flag, cleared the Pan- ama Canal last week to hunt for whales in the South Pacific, Peru, Ecuador’s southern neighbor, ze- portedly already has warships pa- trolling her waters to keep the for- eign ships out. Many international law authori- ties contend that sovereignty ends 12 miles from a country’s coast Borkowski won eight football, baseball and tennis while at Dayton, Ohio, Kiser High School. Twice this season the New York Giants have hit six home runs in one game, once against Brooklyn and once against Pittsburgh. i if He & £ | F . 3 F l t ! i Fz FE Ry F Et ' aiafe rH EN i B f Ia Nh | id i ry ‘ ly Mf fi i | z Ks | Te ire t E Hy i bt i ; f tot Ee Reg i £ #8 : the ! i i {t by ] Seacteot hewee & ® v f Fi “i fe ES i a] il thst i if é ft I lt ia 3 iu LE; t dl i te t l F y fi THURSDAY'S RESULTS Atlanta 4, New Orleans 0 5, Chattanooga 4 (10 innings) 12, Bi m 7 Little Rock 11, Nashville 10 FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE AGUE Lost Pet, Behind “a2 61 THURSDAY'S RESU! New York 3, Cleveland 2 ia Washington 16, Detroit 6 FRIDAY's ‘SCHEDULE THURSDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus 9, Louisville 4 St. Paul 12, Kansas City 4 at Toledo "postponed, storm and power failure INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 6, Syracuse 4 Ottawa 4, Buffalo 3 (11 innings) Rochester 3, Toronto 1 Havana 7, 2 ALABAMA-FLORIDA PLAYOFF Dothan 8, Graceville 6 (series tied 3-3) TEXAS LEAGUE Houston 7; Shreveport 4 Tulsa 4, Dallas 2 Fort Worth 3, Oklahoma City 1 yaumont 5, Antonio PACIFIC BASE! SCHEDULE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE at Montreal STANDINGS ‘TIONAL a il 2 "| 3 ig 7 iH if 2 sebeeueet i | Hy 5 seasszesy” senzinze} sasszesee* aszazee i | beeBEEE: Series Today IsA Toss-Up NEW YORK # — The Brooklyn Dodgers open a three-game series against the first-place New York Giants at the Polo Grounds tonight and the word around town is that this is “it” the team that sweeps this series wins all the marbles. Although the Giants lead by only three games, they can’t lose first Place in this series. A Brooklyn sweep would leave the Dodgers two percentage points behind. But the experts point out that the Giants don’t seem to have much bounce to the ounce left after a grueling season. They’ve slipped back three times since zooming into the lead with six straight over the Dodgers in mid- June. Twice the Giants’ edge shrank to two games and the last dip left the New Yorkers only half a game in front of the Dodgers. Each time the Giants have pulled back. It has been tougher each time, though, and might have been impossible had not Brooklyn often helped with a time- ly loss or two. The idea now seems to be that if the Dodgers sweep this set they will pick up enough momentum to overhaul the Giants for keeps before the end of the season. The Giants hold a 9-7 edge over Brooklyn with one more three- game series to play after this one — the final week of the season in Ebbets Field. New York hasn’t beaten Brook- lyn since early July. The Dodgers won a single game in late July and three in a row last month. vate hex on the Dodgers but who has failed in his last two starts against them, draws the starting assignment tonight against either Billy Loes or Carl Erskine. US. Nears Curtis Cup Victory By RALPH BERNSTEIN ARDMORE, Pa. (#—America’s finest amateur women golfers, de- cisive winners over the cream of Britain’s women golfers, need only two victories today to bring the Curtis Cup back to Uncle Sam. The American Curtis Cup squad took a 30 lead in the eighth bi- ennial international miatches yes- terday over the tough 6,163-yard Merion Golf Club course. It was the first time since 1932, first year of the cup competition, that the American girls won all three Scotch foursome matches. ~ Scotch foursome play in which partners take alternate strokes at the same ball is a popular game in the British Isles. Mrs, Harrison Flippin, nonplaying American Cap- tain, said she was surprised at her team’s sweep of this type of com- petition “because our gir's play Scotch foursomes about four- or five times a year.” Mrs. John B. Beck, a former Irish champion and captain of the = invading British squad, also was startled by her team’s ineptness at its own game. “Our chipping and putting was .|terrible, especially our putting,” — she said. Mary Lena Faulk, national ama- teur champion of Thomasville, Ga., tamed with Polly Riley, the little Fort Worth, Tex., girl, to win 6 and 4 over two-time British cham- pion Francis Stephens and Eliza- beth Price whose final match victory in 1952 won the cup for Britain. Claire Doran, Cleveland, a mem- ber of the losing 1952 team, and Pat Lesser, a newcomer to Curtis Cup play from Seattle, Wash., crushed Mrs. George Valentine and Philomena Garvey, 6 and 5. The same score was recorded by Dorothy Kirby, Atlanta, Ga. and over the British duo of Mrs. M: jorie Peel and Jeannette Robertson. Attention today centered on the meeting in one of the six singles matches of Miss Stephens and Miss Faulk, British and American champions respectively. LIVER TROUBLE. OF it... |BIKINI OBSERVERS coach, was a pros- |peetor for gold in Alaska after from college, . ar TO BE CHECKED TOKYO ™ — Seven crewmen from a ship which surveyed radio- activity. in the Bikini area for 51 days this summer have com- plained of liver trouble since their return, Kyodo news service said today. ¢ The crewmen will be examined at the Tokyo University Hospital to determine whether their ill- Messes are the result of atomic contamination. Their condition is \ ind: Dodger Sal Maglie, who once had a pri-| Dodgers Open Three-Game Series With | Giants Today By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer The Brooklyn Dodgers are learn- in April counts just as much to- September stretch drive. The Dodgers open a three-game set with the first-place New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, but even if they win these three they'll ward the pennant as one in the_| still be two percentage points short of the lead Things would be considerably different if the Dodgers could |reach back into the past and re- |verse the results of two games |played in mid-April. Brooklyn jand New York were scheduled for four games against each other in jthe first six days of the season. | Rain washed out one and the Giants took two of the other three. | By the margin of those two |games the Giants lead the Dod- | gers 9-7 in the season’s series with six to play. The last three come in the final week at Brooklyn. Only four games were played in the majors yesterday but two of them figured prominently in the flag chases. The New York Yan- kees edged the Cleveland Indians |3-2, cutting a full game off |the Indians’ margin. Brooklyn trounced the Chicago Cubs 10-2, | moving within three games of the idle Giants. i The Philadelphia Phillies shaded St. Louis 5-4 and Washington swamped Detroit 16-6. In beating the Indians for the second time in three days, the Yankees packed all their scoring into the sixth inning. Mickey Man- tle slammed the first pitch into the seats for one run. A second scored on Andy Carey’s sharp sin- gle after a two-base error by Vic Wertz and an intentional walk to Irv Noren. And the third run came home on another error by Wertz, who knocked down Eddie Robin- son’s hot grounder but couldn’t find the ball in time to make a play. The Indians collected only three hits off Whitey Ford —‘homers by Sam Dente and Larry Doby and a single by Bobby Avila. The loss broke an 11-game winning streak for 20-game winner Bob Lemon. Seven runs in the fourth inning helped Brooklyn end Chicago’s seven-game winning streak. Dur- ing the flurry Gil Hodges hit his 36th homer, with one aboard. Russ Meyer was the winner. In Washington, Mickey Vernon added three hits to his previous lifetime total of 1,999 and became the third active player to pass 2,000. The others are Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter. Included in the hits was his 19th homer. Roy Sievers broke the elub’s all-time home run record with his 23rd. He drove in seven runs in the slugfest. Robin Roberts won his 19th game for the Phils as Harvey Haddix failed for the seventh time since July 30 to win his 16th. Stan Lo- pat’s three-run homer helped Haddix to an early shower. Joe’s Blacksmith Shop Outside Welding - Machine Works We Build All Type Tanks REBUILD GEARS PHONE 2-5656 — 614 Front Street SUN., SEPT. 12 Boca Chica Beach Race Course Time Trials 1 P.M. ADMISSION —___ $1.25 Children Under 12 FREE 10,000 MILE | Guaranty on USED CARS A with NAVARRO, Inc. 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