The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 11, 1954, Page 12

a Conchs Sluggish In 20 Minute Scrimmage Session Thousands Se At New Stadium By JIM CoBB Citizen Sports Editor It may have been the new- ness of their surroundings or the fact that they were appearing before a crowd for the first time this sea- son, but the Key West high school football team didn’t Football Clinic (1953 Major League Stars Fade This Year NEW YORK, Sept. 11 W—With Giles’ Ruling Made Bums Win Over Milwaukee Official Tilt By JOE REICHLER BROOKLYN (# — fhe Brooklyn Dodgers snapped Milwaukee's 10- game winning streak with a 2-1 rain-soaked victory last night, but "Jit was not until today that a ruling z Pe iF 2 Pee teak Tei i z I Resa 35 ita i Hy sz a5 a OF fi s He E4 Li : “Better now than in White Sox vice president, met yes. » terday to talk contract but failed to reach terms. ss att 5 Be y Braves Will Start Streak 9 BROOKLYN (@—Manager Char- lie Grimm shrugged off Milwau- kee’s loss to Brooklyn last night that ended the Braves’ 10-game winning streak and predicted his sizzling second placers would start another one. “We've had three 10-game win-| eveland .|ning streaks this season,” he said | Chicago calmly, “we've still got time for a fourth.” Another manager might have been fussin’ and fumin’ over the 21 defeat in a game halted by Por Helens ai iam Knight, is being mentioned “Horse of the Year” honors for mid-west victories. HE Basilio Seeks New Title Shot By MURRAY ROSE AAG stHitiy Li aR i E F 3 £ i if fF ei PrEtir i 5 saduasee seeeeseat” satazzany” Preeti tr AMERICAN LEAGUE jon Last 2 rey on the verge of becoming history, few, if any, of 1953's offensive leaders are likely to hit the top again. : Most conspicuous by his absence ed be Brooklyn's Roy Campanel- Last year’s National League most valuable player, a distinction he also won in 1951, he was the leader in runs batted in with 142, setting an all-time major league record for catchers in depart- ment, He pounded out 41 home Tuns and had a lusty .912 batting average. But a hand operation in May =. his igi fr aggre “ae once mighty slugger is finding it difficult keeping his av- erage above a kittenish .200. His value to the Dodgers is amply re- slg Brooklyn's dive in the Cleveland’s Al Rosen, the Amer- ican League's 1953 most valuable player, seemed well on the way to repeating until a slow-mending finger injury in June dampened his chances. Last year Rosen swept through the league at a .336 “| clip, second only to Washington's aeRaeEsEt uedeEER? SeRaEETET pS AE RG Lawrence, of Casper, Wyoming, Eads’ Sir Mango, son of| died in an iron lung at Néw Delhi Hospital. Lawrence is a member of the gram staff. Pro- Migkey Vernon with .337. Rosen blasted 43 home runs and chased |. the thrones vacated by Brooklyn's Cari Furillo National League with current race for the title circuit is a melee Snider of Brooklyn, New York and the Musial of the Cardi- Eg ‘circuit sees Cleve- y Avila and the recent- ping Yankees fighting it out. The ¢-veted home run title will also go to new aspirants. It would take a miraculous stretch drive by last year’s leaders, Milwaukee's Eddie Mathews (47) and Rosen to overtake the current leaders. Ted Ey E Of last year’s leaders in a major department, only Karvey Kuenn, Detroit’s star sophomore shortstop, has an outside chance of repeating. Kuenn, who was named rookie of the year, led in hits’ with 209. This year, Chicago’s Nellie Fox is lead- ing with Kuenn second,, Richie Ashburn of the Phillies, who led the National League with 205 hits, is well out of the running. He is far back of the leaders, Snider and Don Mueller of the Giants. Auto Is Used To Ward Off Fierce Bull SALT LAKE CITY w — It was auto against bull yesterday in a fight for the life of 66-year-old George Fuelling. Old Powers To Dominate Grid Scene By BOB HOOBING Aseeciated Press Sports Writer Traditional football powers like Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Texas and defending champion Maryland’ will continue to dominate the national scene despite new faces in the 1954 season which hits full stride this weekend. The new faces belong to some 15 head coaches and a host of play- ers’ waiting in the wings to grab the spotlight following a turnover which left only Georgia Tech cen- ter Larry Morris from the 1953 All-America. Once again the balance of grid power rests in the Midwest which supplied four of the country’s top ten teams in '53. Those four—Notre Dame, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan State—plus Wisconsin are all in the battle for national honors this fall. Barring crippling injuries, here are the teams to watch in other sections of the country: Central Plains—Oklahoma. Southwest—Texas, Rice, Baylor, Texas Tech. Pacific Coast—UCLA, Southern California, California, Oregon. South—Maryland, Georgia Tech, Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Duke. East — Army, Cornell, Penn State. Rocky Mountain—Wyoming. Tradition is the keynote at Notre Dame where 26-year-old Terry Brennan, inheriting the mantle of Frank Leahy, is expected to carry forward the Irish victory banner. Other coaching changes, denot- ing an unusually busy winter, in- clude Duffy Daugherty at Michi- gan State (Biggie Munn becomes athletic director), Steve Sebo at Penn, Frank Reagan at Villanova, Murray Warmath at Minnesota, Frosty Ferzacca at Marquette, Paul Bryant at Texas A & M, Blan- ton Collier at Kentucky, Darrell Royal at Mississippi State, Chuck Mather at Kansas, Earle Edwards at North Carolina State, Vince di Francesca at Iowa State and Skip Stahley at Idaho. Jim Tatum’s Maryland Terra- pins, Bud Wilkinson’s powerful Oklahoma Sooners and Johnny Vaught’s fast-rising band from Mississippi, of the top-rated elev- eng, are in the best position to fin- ish the regular season unscathed from e look at their schedules. But it will be no walts for them either, While Tech, Alabama and Au- burn are potent, Mississippi, paced by fullback Bobby (Slick) McCool, doesn’t meet any of the other lead- ing SEC contenders and has an advantage which may prove in- surmountable to the others. 2 Newcomers Key Players For Hurricanes Coral Gables, Fla. Sept. 10 — One player who has carried the ball only 10 times in official var- sity competition and another who hasn’t played one second of var- sity football for his team are slat- ed to be key performers in the 1954 football setup at the Univer- sity of Miami. Sideliners who have watched the Hurricanes in action say that Ma- rio Bonofiglio, quarterback, and Don Bosseler, fullback, can’t miss. Bosseler is a bruiser at fullback. y-|He not only hits with tremendous power but he can outrun many 2 |. halfback in the open. His defen- suddenly turned and down. The bull kept mauling him and couldn't get up, pws said. sive play is just as devastating. Don, a sophomore from Batavia, N. Y. carried the ball only 10 times in the 1953 campaign but even that short varsity career stamped him as a comer. Against Florida State in the spring game, he gained more ground that he had picked up in his entire freshman season. This fall, in scrimmage, he had been far, far better. Though he hasn’t played in a Miami game, Bonofiglio has had- plenty of time to assimilate ‘the Miami system of play through two spring campaigns and a fall sea- son with the B squad. He has im- Proved tremendously from the ing with his ball handling wizard- ly, his passing and his running. In one two-day period, he completed 14 of 21 passes for 307 yards — and made one 60 yard TD run on a greatness. The two B’s Plenty of Miami's smack. _ Hurricane May Be Deciding Factor In National League Squads Work Out Braves’ String Is Snapped At 10 Games By The Dodgers By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer Hurricane Edna is one big wind | that should fan a lot of fires around the Hot Stove League this winter. This freak of nature, roaring up the Atlantic Coast, has thrown the National League pennant race into a turmoil. Nobody will be able ‘o tell until after the season ends just how the storm affected the out- come. But right now it looks defi- nitely as if Edna's gales will help decide which way the pennant will blow. The deciding point in the race may well turn out to be last night's rain and mud-soaked coprtest in Brooklyn. The Dodgers beat Mil- waukee 2-1 during an evening in which the players spent 1 hour and 27 minutes on the field and 3 hours and 27 minutes waiting in the dug- out for the rain to quit. For the records the teams played 4% innings and Brooklyn had two men on base in the last of the fifth with none out when a halt was cailed for the second time. A pre- vious delay in the fourth lasted more than an hour. The players fumed and fretted and the umpires waited. The 12:50 a.m. curfew came. No further play would have been possible even if the weather had been perfect. But Umpire-in-Chief Larry Goetz put the decision up to League President Warren Giles in Cincin- nati. Should it be a legal game, ended by rain, or a suspended game to be finished today? Giles pondered well into the early hours. It was 2:07 a.m. in Brooklyn before the Dodgers learned officially that they had snapped the Braves 10-game win- ning streak. The decision meant a lot to both clubs since the first-place New York Giants had lost, 8-1, to Cin- cinnati in a day game. The loss left Milwaukee four behind, the Dodgers 4% back. . Chicago lost its last mathemati- cal chance in the American League SEC Grid With Game-Like Scrimmages By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Many of the Southeastern Con- ference football coaches ordered |their teams out for game - like scrimmage sessions today. For some it will be the last rough work prior to opening games just a week away. And several coaches plan to abandon two-a-day workouts starting next week so their boys won’t be fagged out when the kickoff whistle blows. Among the 12 SEC teams schedu- led for scrimmages today were Mississippi State, Louisiana State Georgia Tech, Auburn, Tulane and Georgia. State’s will be a closed affair, getting ready for the Memphis State opener. Maroon Coach Dar- rell Royal planned to scrimmage without three of his injured first teamers — fullback George Suda, guard Scott Suber and end Ronald Bennett. LSU skipped contaet work yes- terday and concentrated on funda- mentals. The Tigers worked on pass offense and defense, punting, Protecting the kicker and signal drills. Coach Gaynell Tinsley said today’s would be the final full- scale scrimmage before the Texas opener. Tulane reported minor injuries to two halfbacks—Pete Morere and Tommy Warner—but they were ex- pected to be ready for Georgia Tech on Sept. 18. The Greenies worked on passing, running and punting protection. Tech ran through a long dummy practice and Coach Boddy Dodd was cheered by news that two top OMAHA ( — Joe Vachal, 17- year-old high school senior who said he robbed a Malmo, Neb., bank of $800 because ne didn’t want his father to have to “pay for my car” awaited arraignment today before a U.S. commissioner by bowing to New York 6-3. Cleve. | here. land won No. 101, a 4-2 triumph over Boston and held its 54 game margin over the Yankees. In other action Baltimore edged Washington 4-3, Philadelphia beat Detroit 6-5 and Pittsburgh s! St. Louis 3-2, all three games being decided in the ninth inning. The rains that preceded Edna w the coast washed out Chicago at Philadelphia in the National League. Billy Loes held the Braves to one hit—Joe Adcock’s home run—in five innings at Brooxiyu. ‘ine .wo The bank was robbed Wednes- day and Sheriff Joe Divis of Wa- hoo, Neb., took Vachal into custody yesterday at the Prague, Neb., High School. was through the car and a distinctive ornament on it that Divis said he found the trail that by Andy Carey and a squeeze bunt by Gil McDougald. Cleveland beat the Red Sox for the 19th time this season with big Mike Garcia winning No. 17. Jim Hegan homered for the pennant- s. Dodger runs came in the first on a | bound double by Pee Wee Reese, a triple by Gil Hodges and Sandy Amoros’ single. The Redlegs won their first game in the Polo Grounds this season with the help of four passed balis in one inning by New York catcher Ray Katt, a National League rec- ord. They also combed six Giant pitchers for nine timely hits while Art Fowler scattered a like num- ber. Rookie Bob Grim and veteran Jim Konstanty tamed the White Sox with the help of a 2-run homer Ninth inning singles drove home the winning runs for the Athletics, the Orioles and the Pirates. At Detroit rookie Jim Finigan singled home two runs with two out in the ninth for Philadelphia. At Baltimore, Frank Kellert, starting his first game since being brought up from San Antonio drove home Joe Durham, another new- comer, with the winning tally. And in Pittsburgh, Dick Cole sin- gled in the deciding run over the Cardinals after St. Louis’ had led a‘most all the way. relief ends can be for the Tulane tilt. Boy Robs Bank To Pay For Car