The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1954, Page 8

Second Annual Free Football Clinic Set Tonj 1954 Conchs Make Their First Public Appearance By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor It’s a good bet that a large segment of Key West’s fast-growing legion of foot- bal}-fans will have a much etter knowledge of the in- ner workings of the gridiron pastime at the conclusion of the Second Annual Miami Herald Free Football Clin- ic slated to be unveiled at the new High School Athlet- ic Field tonight at 8 o’clock. It will be the premier perform- ance for the bigger and better 1954 version of the clinic which has soared to popularity after several annual performances in Miami's Orange Bowl. It was slated to be presented there earlier this week, but the vagaries of Hurricane Ca- rol forced its postponement. Hence, Key Westers are getting the first look at the new and improved show. Tonight’s presentation will be the only one outside of Miami. T-Formation Luther Voltz, in overall com- mand of the show has announced that the offensive football demon- strations — both in slow. and ra- pid motion — will be concentrated on the ramifications of the T-for- mation, due to its increased em- | ot phasis on that style of play on the nation’s gridiron, Also slated for plenty of atten- tion, is the new 5-4-2 defense used last year by both Oklahoma and Maryland in the Orange Bowl, and again by Detroit Lions in their | Ghariesto: classic battle with the College All- Stars this year. Other details of the game to he covered include football fundamen- tals, defensive strategy, touch plays, a demonstration of “how a play is built,” kick returns and of- ficials signals. Wilbert Bach, an- nouncer for the Orange Bowl gam- es will handle the commentary for tonight’s event. Local Performers Fans will get an idea of the com- parative speed of this year’s Conch performers when they stage shut- tle races, The affair will be wound up with a 20-minute game scrimmage with the squad split right down the mid- dle. It'll be the first chance for lo- cal fans to have a look at the squad in action. But it won't be just football to- night. The Key West High School Band, under the directon of Harold “Doc” Casterton, will be on hand to stage a halftime show special- jy prepared for tonight’s affair, And the entire program is free to the public — including parking and programs. Game Commission Has Its First Woman Member - TALLAHASSEE ®—The Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Com- mission met here today for the second time this week with pros- pects for more activity than took Place on Tuesday. Membership was swelled to four yesterday with the appointment by Acting. Gov. Johns of Mrs. Dana Boose, St. Petersburg sportswom- an and outdoor writer, succeeding A. Sterling Hall of Bradenton, Mrs. Boose. is the first woman member of the commission. Earlier in the week Johns had appointed L. G. Morris, Monticello automobile dealer, to succeed E. W. Hinson of Quincy. Johns. suspended Hinson and Hall Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, September 10, 1954 Odds With Tribe To Cop Pennant Baseball Resalis THURSDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE PLAYOFF Savannah 4, Jacksonville 1 (best of 7 series tied 2-2) SOWTHERN ASSOCIATION ‘PLAYOFFS: snetis 4, Memphis 3 (best of 7 series -1 Birmingham 9, New Orleans 3 (best of 7 series tied 1-1) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo 5, Charleston 4 Minneapolis 5, St. Paul 2 (Only games ‘scheduled) INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Syraguse 5, Ottawa 0 * Rochester 1, Montreal 0 (Only games scheduled) TEXAS LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Shreveport 7, Fort Worth 1 (best of 7 series tied 1-1) Houston 5, Oklahoma City 4 (best of 7 series tied 1-1) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE San Diego 3, Los Angeles 2 Sacramento 9, Oakland 2 Portland 6, Hollywood 1 San Francisco 6, Se: FRIDAY’S BA: SCHEDUI INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Buffalo at Montreal Syracuse at Ottawa (2) Richmond at Toronto Havana at Rochester AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo at Charleston (2) Columbus at ‘Louisville Minneapolis at Kansas City Indianapolis at St. Paul BASEBALL STANDINGS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. a keeeeese eedsuzas}” sesaase eobeeeae? Sacramento Portland seesnssay BeRSSEEES Cleveland New York Chicago. Boston Detroit Washingtor Philadelphia Baltimore T Cleveland 5, Philadelphia 4 (11 innings) Baltimore 1, New York 0 Washington ‘2, Chicago 0 Boston 8, Detroit @ FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE New York at Chicago Philadelphia at Detroit Boston at Cleveland Washington at Baltimore NATIONAL LEAGUE New York Milwaukee Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh ‘THI New York 7-0, Chicago 6-3 Brooklyn 10, St. Louis 1 FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Milwaukee at Brooklyn Cincinnati at New York Chicago at Philadelphia St. Louis at Pittsburgh Segeey JAX NAS GIVES UP OUTSIDE FOOTBALL JACKSONVILLE (® — Jackson- ville Naval Air Station has aban- doned interstation football because of its cost. An announcement yes- terday said the station will give greater emphasis to intramural athletics. Bill Marker, West Virginia end missed the College All-Star Foot- ball game last season because he had a date with his girl. Friday on. grounds they failed to choose a qualified man as director. Commissioner Henry Jernigan of Fort Pierce then resigned in pro- test. No move to oust Director Charles W. Pace developed at Tuesday’s brief. meeting. That session was attended by only three members, a bare quorum. USE THE BEST PHILCO VISIT OUR NEW DISPLAY ROOM AT 826 DUVAL STREET + ++ See the Really Fine Improvements In Our Latest Model Table and Console PHILCO TELEVISION SETS Standard and De Luxe PHILCO ELECTRIC RANGES Assorted Sizes PHILCO REFRIGERATORS ——S WE'RE SPECIALISTS IN RADIO and TV REPAIRS, TV ANTENNA INSTALLATIONS and PARTS Key West Radio & TV Service 826 DUVAL STREET PHONE 2-8512 Will Julius (U.S.N., Retired), Owner By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer The time has come to start meas- uring the flag pole in the Cleve- land Municipal Stadium for the 1954 American League pennant. First Pro Coaching Post Doesn’t Scare Blackbourn It may be a few days too soon | to enlarge the press box for the world series, or begin printing pro- grams. But with a 5% game lead and only 14 games left the Indians certainly are justified in showing some signs of optimism. Among other things, history is on their side. No American League team ever blew so large a lead this late in the season. Much big- ger margins have been shaved, but never erased completely. Collapses in the National League are a different matter. Brooklyn in 1951, Pittsburgh in 1938 and New York in 1934 are the most re- cent examples. It was the Pirates who built a press box that went unused. The ’34 Giants lost six of their last seven games and were passed by St. Louis after leading by 7% lengths on Labor Day. But in the American League a 5¥a-game margin in mid-Septem- ber has been like money in the bank. The Indians saw the foldi green stuff come closer yesterday with a 5-4 “Gift” victory over Phil- adelphia with the second-place New York Yankees bowed 1-0 to Baltimore on Joe Coleman’s bril- liant one-hitter. The magic nuniber for the In- dians now is 10. Any combination of 10 Cleveland victories and Yankee defeats will clinch the pen- nant. The earliest possible date is Tuesday. # While the Indians were tidying up their affairs in the American League the New York Giants wasted a chance to gain a more comfortable lead in the National. The Giants broke even in a doubleheader with the seventh- Place Chicago Cubs and were lucky to get the split. It took two late rallies climaxed by a squeeze bunt with two out and the bases loaded in the ninth by Hank Thompson to pull out the first game 7-6. They never had a chance in the second game, getting only five hits while losing 3-0. Clyde McCullough drove in two of the runs, one with a homer. The runner-up’ Milwaukee Braves weren’t scheduled. They trail New York by four games and have 18 left. The Giants have 16 to play and Brooklyn, 5% behind, has 15. It will take a combination of 14 New York victories and Milwau- kee defeats for the Giants to clinch the flag. Brooklyn came out of a pro- longed slump with a 10-1 victory over St. Louis yesterday in the only other National League action. Washington beat Chicago 2-0 and Boston defeated Detroit 8-0 in the American. The winning Cleveland run scored in the 11th inning against the Athletics when Ed Burtschy walked Hal Naragon with the bases loaded. Cleveland had come from behind with two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth to send the game into extra innings. The victory was No. 100 for Cleveland, the most won by any American League team since the 1946 Red Sox. Coleman’s bid for a no-hitter over the Yankees was ruined by a bad bounce single by Enos Slaugh- ter in the eighth inning. The ball was hit to second baseman Bobby Young but it bounced high over his head just when he went to field it. | Nobody else came close to getting a hit off the 32-year-old right- hander. The Chicago-Washington game was the fastest of the season, last- ing only 90 minutes. Each tem got only three hits but two of the Washington blows off Harry Dorish were home runs, by Roy Sievers and Jim Lemon. Chuck Stobbs was the winner. Boston’s victory over Detroit was another well-pitched game as Willard Nixon scattered four sin- gles. Ted Williams, at bat four times, was held hitless for the sec- ond straight game. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (350 at bats)—Avila, Cleve- |iand, 336. RUNS—Mantle, New York, 114. RUNS BATTED IN-Doby, Cleveland, AsO at bats) Sider, ‘Brook RUNS~-Snider, Brooklyn, 115. RUNS BATTED IN~Kluszewski, Cincin- HITS—Mueller, New York, 196. DOCHING (12 seeaerakt: Cincinnati, 6. York, 20-5, 200 “3 cares N. BATTING AP Newsfeatures be a revelation. ne Braves, Bums Start Crucial Two-Game Set By ED CORRIGAN BROOKLYN, (#—The fantastic Milwaukee Braves invaded Ebbets Field tonight for the first of a two game set with the fast-fading Brooklyn Dodgers and the series is of the utmost importance to both teams. If the Braves are to stay in the pennant chase, they must win both games. If the Brooks hope to get second money, they must sweep the . series. At the moment, they’re a game and a half behind the Braves, who, in turn, are four games. behind the New York Giants. ¢ Manager Charley Grimm plans to throw Lew Burdette, an old Dodgers hater, against the Brooks. Flatbush Leader Walt Alston, whose hurling corps has been any- thing but sensational, will counter with Billy Loes, a local boy, in an effort to stop the Braves who carry a 10-game winning streak here. Alston had little to say before the battle, probably because there was little he could say. Five months ago, he might have looked at the schedule and thought: “Well, this might be an important series in my pennant plans.” But it’s for sure that he never thought he'd be fighting for second place. Grimm, in first or last place, was his usual chipper self after getting settled in the big town. He must be taking lessons from Cleveland Manager Al Lopez, who always said he played each game as it came up. The Indians are 5% games ahead, so Grimm prob- ably is reasoning what’s good for Lopez is good for him. “We've got to beat New York and Brooklyn,” he said. “‘Win one game at a time, but win them.” New Flagpole Recrod Claimed DETROIT w — Dixie Blandy, a 5l-year-old professional flagpole stander, slid down from his perch above the Michigan State Fair yes- terday, his angles swolen twice their regular size, and proudly an- nounced he had broken a record. He claimed the 237 hours and 35 minutes he stood on top of the pole was a new world’s record, break- ing his old one of 192 hours set in Milwaukee in 1952. He was paid $1,000 for his ef- forts and departed for a hospital to get treatment for his ankles. ‘YOU can prevent needless forest LISLE BLACKBOURN GREEN BAY, Wis.—The coaching change the Green Bay Packérs | made last winter may soon become evident. ; Liz Blackbourn’s first professional football coaching job could The 54-year-old Blackbourn is a veteran in the coaching field. PSPS aaa acinar, p; him an extra $12,000 this year. He spent 22 years at Washington High in Milwaukee, losing only 30 of 176 games. In four years as head coach at Marquette Univer- sity, Blackbourn’s teams had an 18-17-4 record. Last fall the war- riors—then the Hilltoppers—lost three games by a total of nine points to Wisconsin (13-11), In- diana (14-13) and Michigan State (21-15). Blackbourn for years has known as a stickler for fundamentals. His Marquette teams, always just a bit too thin to cope with major league foes, never were disgraced. When it came to such items as block and tackling, they were well coached. The new Packer pilot is a dis- ciplinarian, too. Either the Pack- ers will do the Blackbourn way what's to be done or they'll play elsewhere. Handling adult ath- letes rather than college boys should make his system more effective. Blackbourn, on paper at least, did himself proud in the National League draft. Art Hunter, 240- pound Notre Dame tackle and No. 1 choice, is in the fold. So are Veryl Switzer, 190-pound Kansas halfback; Tackle Bob Ffleck, a 260-pounder from Syracuse; Max McGee, 203-pound halfback from Tulane; Gene Knutson, 225-pound end from Michigan, and Guard Mike Takacs, from Ohio State, to name a few stars. The 1954 Packers aren’t likely to be championship | contenders, but they won’t look bad losing. Blackbourn will take care of that. Richards May Reveal Future Baseball Plan’ By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO, #~—Paul Richards, manager of the Chicago White Sox, today may reveal his future baseball plans. Rumors that have been kicking around for three weeks reached a climax last night when Baltimore mewsmen all but had Richards packed and waiting for a train to take him to the Orioles. Baltimore reports insisted the taciturn Texan would accept a 3- year contract as general manager and field manager of the Orioles. A salary mentioned was $80,000. Richards denied that he has ar- ranged to sign with Baltimore, the same club that a year ago went after the Sox General Manager Frank Lane. Lane wound up with tract at a substantial pay boost from the White Sox. happy with a 3-year pact with the Comiskeys and will dicker with them on this basis in a meeting scheduled for today. “I'm going to meet with Chuck and the whole thing should be settled then,” Richards said last night. His present 2-year Sox contract paid off at a reported $30,000 to $40,000 annually plus a “nickel a head” bonus on attendance over one million. The bonus should net “We have offered Paul a good contract with a substantial in- | crease in basic salary,” said Com- what amounted to a 7-year con- | ' It is believed Richards would be | Comiskey (vice president) Friday | expires at the end of 1954. It has | ght Action Starts In City Bowling Tourney At Rollaway Lanes George Barbay Has Top 184 Average In Initial Meet The Knights of Columbus spon- sored City Championship bowling Tournament got underway last Tuesday at the Rollaway Bowling center. This is a total pin fall tourna- ment for nine games. Tuesday night’s action saw some of the best bowlers of this area, with George Barbay (VFW) setting the pace with a high average of 184.2. Ken Meyer (Westinghouse) rolled a 212 for a high single game. Al Brat- kovic and Tom Ward of Johnnies Place each had a game over 200, as did Jim Brussow of VFW. High team series went to John- nies Place with a 2406 with the V. F. W. taking the high team game with an 849. Team Standings: Johnnies Place — 2406 V. F.-W. — 2404 Westinghouse — 2269 K of C — 2091 Home Milk — 1991 Individual Averages: G. Barbay —VFW — 184 . Ward — Johnnies — 176 Meyer — Westinghouse — 171 . Gilmore — VFW — 167 Brussow — VFW — 162 . Dennis — Johnnies — 161 Wegrznek — Westinghouse-161 . Bratkovic — Johnnies — 160 . Umble — VFW — 151 . Weaver — Westinghouse —151 Fradette — K of C — 148 Bach — K of C — 147 Fowler — Home Milk — 145 Bilderbach — Johnnies — 144 Santomenno — Home Milk-142 . Superman — Westinghouse-141 Van Eepoel — K of C — 141 . Christopher — H. Milk — 141 Yaccarino — K of C — 138 Myeek — VFW — 135 - Herrick — Westinghouse — 137 + Halpin — K of C — 121 Fuller — Home Milk — 120 . St. Peter —Westinghouse — 117 J. Anderson — Home Milk — 114 The next bowling matches are scheduled to be played on Sept- ember 14, 1954 at the Rollaway Lanes on Truman Ave, 7:30 p, m. The public is cordially invited. Ad- mission is free, Paul Dennis of Johnnies Place is the Tournament Chairman, Red Aim Told BANGKOK @ — A Thailand government spokesman said Wed- nesday he was convinced the Com- munists aim to make “Thais fight Thais” rather than invade with Chinese or other Red troops. Lt. Gen. Momluang Kharb Kun- chorn told a news conference “we know definitely” that former Thai Premier Pridi Phanomyong had been ordered by Peiping to organ- ize the “Free Thai” movement in Yunnan province and prepare the people of Thai stock there for ag- gression. PHONO SOM SPM Special 41-Foot 1954 STREAMLITE 2 Bedrooms — Sleeps 7 (This is a 55 Model with °54 Title) $5395 Discount $700.00 Also, two other new. mobile homes at discount. BANK RATES AT 542% “Always A Better Deal, All Ways” RAWLING TRAILER SALES 1201 SIMONTON STREET DIAL 2-8562 10,000 MILE Guaranty on USED CARS jiskey. “It is for no longer than two years.” Richards said: “I’m giving the new contract offer every consider- ation. I consider it a fair one.” Citizen Ads Bring Results » NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval St. Tel. 2-704 Voltz Tells Rotary Football Clinie Will Help The Ladies The Miami Herald’s Football Cli- nic, which will be presented to- night at the Key West High School Athletic Field under the co-spon- | sorhip of the Key West Quarter- back Club, “is primarily for the women folks,” Luther Voltz, who will direct the Clinic, told Rotar- ians at their noon day luncheon ES Ca eT Basilio Picked 1-3 Over Fiore In Video Bout By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK (®—Carmen Basilio is a 1-3 favorite to beat Carmine Fiore for the second time and keep alive his chances for a welter- weight title shot. The two will meet over 10 rounds in Madison Square Garden start- ing at 9 p.m., EST. NBC will broadcast and telecast the bout coast to coast. Basilio, No. 1 welter contender from Canastatoa, N.Y., has been virtually promised a shot at the winner of the October title fight between champion Kid Gavilan and Johnny Saxton. Among the victories in that string was a ninth-round technical knockout over Fiore, in Syracuse 17 months ago. Fiore, 25, gave the upstater a good battle while it lasted, In the ninth Basilio pinned him to the ropes and whaled away until Referee Al Berl intervened. | Fiore, who packs a lot of dyna- mite in his left hook, won eight in a row after that loss. He had the string snapped by Ramon Fuentes, No. 2 welterweight con- tender, in Los Angeles July 12. Fiore’s overall record is 47-16-5 with 18 knockouts. Scoring will be by rounds. A supplementary point system also is used to help break draws. The winner of each rounds gets from one to four points, the loser none. A referee and two judges will| officiate, —_ All New York fight referees are required to take two official phys- ical examinations a year, ee Taree Horets in MIAMI Fl ta on in La Concha Hotel Thurs- lay. “We know that you men all know the fundamentals and rules of the game,” Voltz said with a smile, “We conduct the clinic in order to teach the fundamentals of the game to your wives so that you will not be bothered by answer rq her questions during the game.” Voltz pointed out that Key West is the only city outside of Miami where the clinic is held and that this year the Clinic is being held in Key West before the Miami Cli- nie. Rotarians discussed for the greater part of their meeting plans for a College Scholarship Fund. 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