The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 14, 1954, Page 6

- Braves Will Have Last - Shot At Pennant Tonite Quarterback Club Fetes Team In Kickoff Dinner Giants Hold 4-Game Edge Over Rivals By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press sap bheid ity knocl ight for Pgeced for the Milwaukee Braves. The injury-riddled third-place club limps into the Polo Grounds for its last three games with the league-leading New York Giants, knowing that it’s win or else. There will be no more chances if the Braves blow any one of these. The New York experts to a man doubt Milwaukee has enough mo- mentum left from its great late season surge to sweep by the ‘Giants now. New York holds a four-game edge over both second-place Brooklyn and the Braves in the vital “games lost” column, By now this column tells the story more accurately than. do “games behind” figures since the contenders each have played a different number of games. ‘The Giants would have to lose 4 of their remaining 12 contests to be caught by either team and would need to drop 5 to be passed. Even if the Braves and Dodgers ‘won everything from now until the end of the season. The Giants’ front office flaunted its confidence by opening public sale of world series tickets today, although the club has three games left with Brooklyn as well as the current set with Milwaukee. The Braves move into New York after winning two out of three in Philadelphia. They took last night’s game 7-4. The Giants edged the Cardinals 1-0 in an afternoon con- test and Brooklyn wasn’t sched- uled. Pittsburgh shaded Cincinnati 6-5 in the only other major league action. First baseman Joe Adcock and Grid Coaches Tell Hopes For Coming Season By BILL SPILLMAN Over two hundred mem- bers and guests of the local Quarterback Club jam-pack- ed the dining room of the Casa Marina last night to attend the kick off dinner for the 1954 Conch football season. The Key West High School team and cheer lead- ers were guests of honor for the meeting. The club presented Coach Ed Beckman with a baby’s high chair and a large white towel. Master of ceremonies Earl Adams, told Beck- man that the towel was to wipe away the tears. He said that last year, Beckman cried and cried, but this year, he was expected to do all of his crying at the meet- ing. He cried for end coaches, Adams stated and he cried for line coach- es. This year, he has his coaches. Team Introduced The meeting was turned over to coach Beckman who introduced the outfielder Hank Aaron definitely are out of the New York series. Two other Milwaukee regulars, third baseman Eddie Mathews and pitcher Gene Conley have been be- low par physically. Adcock suffered a ruptured blood vessel in his wrist wheh he was hit by @ pitch in Brogklyn Satur- day. Aaron broke his fl@g a week ago. Mathews has a ankle and Conley, due to start ight, is re- covering from a bad bgck. Catcher Del Crandal},moved into the cleanup spot at Philadelphia last night and delivered three hits, two of them doubles, in five trips. Ahead by only one run, the Braves wrapped it up with four tallies in the eighth. . Crandall opened with a double and was safe when Curt Simmons’ throw to third ‘on Andy Pafko’s sacrifice was late. Simmons then walked Johnny Lo- gan, hit Jack Dittmer and walked Roy Smalley for two. runs, Steve Ridzik came in to get pitcher Dave Jolly on strikes but Bill Bruton singled over second and two more Tuns came in, Johnny Antonelli was in superb form ‘with his five-hit shutout of the Cardinals. All of the hits against him were singles and he retired 14 men in order until Stan Musial walked in the ninth. The Giants couldn’t do much against rookie Gordon Jones but the one run they put together in the ninth on a double by Willie Mays and a single by Dusty Rhodes was enough. The victory was No. 21 for the lefthander who came to the Giants from the Braves, last winter. The Pirates’ pitching staff which gave up 24 rus to Cincinnati in Sunday’s doubleheader, achieved some revenge when pitcher Dick Littlefield singled home the win- ning run against the Reds last night. Ted Kluszewski’s homer spree was stopped but he singled twice in four appearances, TODAY'S STOCK MARKFT NEW YORK, (®—Steels declined in early trading today while the rest of the stock market was irre- gular. Volume was moderate. Trading began at a slow and selective pace and continued that way through the morning, Blocks were relatively scarce and changes were generally small fractions. On the rise were Chrysler, Pack- ard, Goodyear, Goodrich, United Aircraft, Radio Corp., American Smelting, Dupont, American To- bacco, Westinghouse, Santa Fe, Sin- clair Oil and Virginia - Carolina Chemical. Losing ground were U.S. Republic Steel, U.S.Rubber, Gen- eral .Motors, Montgomery Ward, Boeing, Schenley, Anaconda Cop- per, General Electric, New York Central and Illinois Central. Billy Joe Patton, a top star of USGA amateur golf tournaments, a Morganton, N. C., lumberman, team individually. Beckman gave the short history and capabilities of each player he introduced. At ‘one point, when he became pessi- mistic in his talk, Adams hand- ed him the towel. Beckman: in his talk, told a foot- ball joke about once when North Carolina was defeated by Notre Dame by several touchdowns. Members of the North Carolina squad said after the game that they would not have lost if their star player, Choo-Choo Justice, had not hurt his ankle before the game. The members of the Notre Dame team retorted that even their “‘Pro- testant” team -could have beaten them. While Beckman was speaking, a waiter dropped a stack of dishes. Beckman quickly ad-libbed, “Tat’s a fumble if I ever saw one.” Beckman had high praise for Dr. HL C.’Campbell, principal of the high school “He al- ways carried the ball for us when we need him,” Beckman said. Other Coaches Also honored at the meeting were coaches Harold Allen, line; Walter Chwalik, end; and Harold Haskins, Junior Varsity. During the meeting, Adams re- quested Earl Yates, William Ar- nold and Glynn Archer to come to the speaker’s stand. He announced that they were members of the first Key West High School team. The men described how they used to play on a field down by Army Barracks. They stated that 400 to 500 people used to attend. They said that there were no Heachers and the families used to follow the teams up and down the field. When someone would make a touchdown or an_ outstanding play, the father of the player would yell, ‘“‘That’s my boy.” One of the men said that they did not have so many coaches. “We only had one coach and when I see all these coaches today, I have to admire our coach.” 9 To 0 Game They also told of a game in which they played St. Petersburg years ago. The score was considered to be quite significant, 99 to 0, they reluctantly told. In speaking to the Conch foot- ball squad, Adams told them that the Quarterback club would always be behind them. “Ali we ask you to do is go out on the field on Fri- day night and do your best,” Ad- ams said. Father John Armfield gave the invocation. After the meeting, a movie of the game played by the Conchs a- gainst Tampa Jefferson was shown. As to the forthcoming game with St. Theresa, Beckman said that he Steel, | talked with their coach and he said that they are coming down this year, “but it will not be like last year.” Unfversity basketball star, went on a Florida vacation “to get away from it all.” He took a brand new basketball with him. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZ EN Tuesday, September 14, 1954 AT THE KICKOFF DINNER—Coach Ed Beckman, left, intro- duced members of the 1954 Conch football squad at last night's kickoff dinner held by the Quarterback Club at the Casa Marina. Earl Adams, right, served as master of ceremonies for the af- fair—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. #—One of the manifestations of nature pecu- liar to the American scene is the football luncheon club, whose spav- ined and windblown members gath- er once each week during the open season on football coaches to diag- nose the previous Saturday’s game and permit their captive mentor to try to explain why his ends didn’t get down the field under punts. Normally such clubs, composed of bankers and wet wash tycoons for the most part, are based in cities which are the sites of major football factories. The president of the school in question might feel that his par- ticular coach is slightly sub-human and long desperately to dispense with his services, but he will in all probability keep it to himself. But once let that local “first down” club decide that it has a clinker on its hands and you're looking at a coach who’s in trouble. Coach- es who have undergone the treat- ment and given up the profession in favor of something less wear- ing, have written of their experi- ences in bitter detail. And so, it is with the keen emo- tion of an explorer who has just dug up a pharoah’s pleasure yacht that we can report the discovery of a football eating and oratorical club which doesn’t even have a coach to gnaw on, but which gath- ers itself together just for the pure hell of it, and because it loves football. This organization is the San An- tonio Quarterback Club. It has more than 400 members, with a waiting list. Each member pays in advance, in a lump sum, for the ‘privilege of sitting down once a week for 15 weeks each fall and wondering what he is going to see and hear. All he knows for certain | is that it will have to do with foot- ball, and he is happy. There is no major football school closer than the University of Tex- as, and that is more than 80 miles away. The club’s nominal toast- master and guiding spirit is Har- old Scherwitz, who for going on 38 years has been the sports editor of the San Antonio Light. the Quarterback Club, which now is in its seventh lively year, is the fact that, under the Scherwitz in- fluence, it has proved that football can be fun. That was, of course, the original purpose of the game, but few are old enough to recall it. They say that scarcely a fan leaves a quarterback luncheon with the heartburn, no matter how his own The principal characteristic of} Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot particular Southwest Conference team came out the previous Satur- day. Mostly the club features one of the seven conference coaches at its weekly meeting. They are happy to answer a Scherwitz summons, we hear, because there are 17 high schools within the city and its en- virons, and all of them turn out football players who might prove useful. On the Monday after the con- ference race closed last year, all seven head coaches showed up at the Quarterback Club at one time. Each was given a gift watch, a seat and a personal microphone, and then was encouraged by the toastmaster to say anything that came into his mind about his six fellow coaches and the race just ended. “IT only wish you could have heard it,’” says Scherwitz, happily. Kluszewski May Be Nat'l Home Run Champion By JOE BRADIS PITTSBURGH «—Every time big Ted Kluszewski, the muscle man of the Cincinnati Redlegs, bangs out a home run the fans in the Ohio Valley scream with joy. tional League in roundtrippers with 48 and ai the rate he’s going they might have to make room in the record books. The 24-year-old mark for Nation- al League home run sluggers is {held by Hack Wilson of the Chi- cago Cubs. Wilson belted 56 in 1990. Wilson walloped his 48th in the 139th game. Klu’s got 48 in 143 games. He’s also behind Babe Ruth’s record of 60. The Bambino blasted his 48th in the Yankees 134th contest in 1927. If Kluszewski wins the National League home run crown, he'll be the first Cincinnati player to do it |since 1905. That year outfielder Fred Odwell hit a total of nine. Klu’s hit 10 alone against the Pittsburgh Pirates. While blasting away, big Klu is clicking with a .333 batting aver- age, fourth best in the League. he’s driven in 132 runs, tops for the circuit. j Heavyweight |Short, Explosive Battle Seen In Title Bout Tomorrow Night Title Bout To Be Aired ‘The eagerly awaited rematch for the heavyweight championship of the world between Rocky Marciano and Easard Charles wili be aired tomorrow by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer over a network of 235 CBS stations starting at 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The title contest, the 18th in the Blue Ribbon Bout series, will not be telecast due to a TV time pre- emption. The blow by blow de- scription from Yankee Stadium, N. Y., will also be beamed to stations in Alaska and Hawaii as well as overseas. Millions of fight fans recall the first Marciano-Charles encounter. It was a bruising brawl, with Marciano retaining his title only after a savage spurt in the final rounds. In spite of his defeat Charles emerged a hero, overcoming a be- lief held by fight fans and writers that he is a timid fighter. The former champion displayed raw courage, stamina and will to car- ry on in spite of overwhelming odds against him. Marciano, of Brockton, Mass., is undefeated as a professional heavyweight having won all 46 of his fights. Forty of his victories were by knockout. The 5 foot 11 inch champion of the world won the title by a 13 round kayo over Jersey Joe Wal- cott in September of 1952. In a return -title contest in May 1953, Marciano scored a rapid and impressive first round kayo over Walcott. The 184 pound heavy- weight king again proved his right to the crown a year ago by knock- ing out Roland La Starza. Marciano’s greatest assets in the are his strength, endurance and battering-ram punches. These physical qualities enabled Rocky to outlast Charles after a furious- paced and lusty-slugging contest. Not a boxer, the famed block- buster often appears clumsy and inapt in the ring but his crushing blows either knock an opponent out or wear him down so that eventually the 30-year-old champ- ion lands one of his power-laden- ed blows to end the fight. A master boxer, Charles gained the heavyweight crown in a tele- vised Blue Ribbon Bout four years ago, when he defeated Joe Louise in a one-sided championship fight. Walcott regained the title by scor- ing_a seven round knockout over Ezzard in July 1951. Since then, Charles has tried twice to recapture the crown, los- ing to Walcott and Marciano in close contests. In this his third try to become the only heavy- weight to regain a lost title, Charles’ driving ambition will force him to make a supreme effort. Charles plans to heed the advice of his handlers and use his ex- cellent boxing ability throughout the fight to outlast Marciano’s two-fisted attack, Few men in the ring today can match the record established by Ezzard in his climb to the heavyweight title. The 32-year-old boxer-fighter was a threat in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions and was actually a lighheavy when he won the heavyweight crown in 1950. Charles understands science of boxing thoroughly and his punches while not paralyzing, are packed with punishing effect- iveness. Baseball Resalis TUESDAY'S BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet Behind 04 40722 ai it Detroit. Philadelphia at Chicago (N) Boston at Baltimore (N). NATIONAL LEAGUE Kluszewski, former Indiana Uni- | Cineinna versity football star, leads the Na-|i Milwaukee 7, Philadelphia 4 (Only games scheduled). TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE Cincinnati at Brooklyn Milwaukee at New York st. is at Philadelphia k Chicago at Pittsburgh (2-twi-night). MONDAY'S RESULTS Havana at Syracuse, ppd. rain. (playott cuse, , ral tor fourth place). GEORGIA-FLORIDA LEAGUE PLAYOFF Fitegerald at Brunswick, |. rain. GEORGIA STATE LEAGUE PLAYOFF ‘Vidalia 1. Douglas ; (V! wins final SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF — 3 2 (Atlanta wins series New Orleans 6, Birmingham 2 (New Or- Jeans wins series 42). TUESDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE — ‘AesocsaTion PLAYOFF Columbus at Louisville. ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF And | ae Havana at Syracuse. GEORGIA-FLORIDA LEAGUE PLAYOFF wrald at Brunswick (Fitzgerald leads TEXAS LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Worth Houston. the | ° Following By Pedro Aguilar We have had a great year in sports in Key West, and the Little League, Softball League, Baseball League and Babe Ruth Baseball League, all have had a successful season. The Little League, after a great season, went to the district tourna- ment, and they made a great show- ing. best they had to offer in this city and won all. games. At the state tournament, they failed when they had to play clubs that have pros ou their roster. The baseball League had a suc- cessful season, and have played Tampa and Miami here. They lost two games — one to Tampa, and won one and lost one to Miami. ‘Then the Babe Ruth League has had a great season, having won four straight games — two over Miami and two over Coral Gables. | We have also the Jr. Conehs who have won six games over Key West opponents and two over the Miami Stars last week. We must not fail to mention the great year the Key West High School baseball nine had. They were so good, their star pitchers, George Lastres and Don Cruz were signed by pro clubs and have made good in pro baseball, Watch the High School next year, with such coming stars as Roger Bean, J. Santana, T. Hoppe, L. Knowles, E. Rodriguez, J. Tynes, F. Curry, P. Higgs L. Sims and others. The Conchs always do. The Little League played four games against the Miami and the Coral Gables nines. They split with the Miami Little Leaguers but woe both games over Coral Gab- es. In the first game against Miami Little Leagues, Billy Solomon fan- ned ten and allowed two hits. In the second game, Perk of Miami allowed the locals two hits and one run and he fanned 14. R. Valdez was the losing pitcher. In the first game against the Coral Gables nine, Billy Solomon fanned 14 and allowed the visitors but one hit, and in the last game Estenoz fanned 13 Coral Gables batters, allowing six hits. In the Babe Ruth series, P. Higgs fanned 13 in the first game to beat Miami by a 5 to 2 score. In the {second game, Kerr and Higgs | pitched for the locals and allowed, 3 runs and the locals scored 8. In the first game against Coral Gables, the locals used Kerr in the | i} two hits, fanned 13. In the second and last game the locals used S. | snow, who allowed the visitors one |run and five hits, to make a clean sweep of the series. Servicemen Give ‘Hopital Beds PUSAN, Korea (#—U.S. service- men in this area have contributed more than $160,000 to provide 460 additional hospital beds for Ko- reans. Money raised during the five- month drive will build, enlarge or equip seven hospitals, the Army said today. Pusan, a city of more than one million, has only 16 beds in gener- al civilian hospitals. In addition there are 45 beds for children and 30 maternity cases, the Army said. Blue whales can swim as fai 20 knots for brief intervals. Cc box and he allowed one run and| “Home PI By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK #—Boxing insiders 5 gathered here from near and far for the Rocky Marciano-Ezzard Charles heavyweight title fight to- morrow night at Yankee Stadium envision a short and explosive battle. The general viewpoint of boxers, managers, trainers, and promoters was more or less summed up by| Charley’ Johnston, manager of champions Archie Moore and San- dy Saddler. - “I think Charles will tear out and try for a quick knockout,” said Johnston. “He'll probably shoot the works in an effort to cut Rocky’s eye like he did in the first fight nd try to put him away. You re- The Softball champs played the |Member, he did jar Marciano al couple of times early in the fight. “Tf he doesn’t get Rocky in six, he’s going to get flattened him- self,” said Johnston. The majority opinion, too, was that if there was going to be any flattening, Rocky would be the guy to do it. Charles himself has indicated from time to time during his train- ing that he planned to go right after the champion. Others have said that and done things a lot differently when the bell rang. “I’m going to try and make those combinations work,” said Charles after finishing -his train- ing yesterday. “I know I’ve got to put some punches together and use more power. I had him hurt in the early rounds and I know I should have thrown more artillery at If Charles gets off fast, Marci- ano plans to be ready. “T’ve got a good 15-round fight under my belt now,” said the 30- year old champion. “I think my timing is much better now than the | last time. I want to get off faster because I know he might try something early.” Rocky contented himself with some light exercise and road work yesterday. Both left their Catskill Mountain training camps today and went into seclusion in New York. With the fight close at hand, there was a reported spurt in | betting, mostly on a knockout. The odds are 5-12 that Rocky stops the 33-year-old ex-champion. There will be no home television of the fight. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING — Avila, » 340. 1 RUNS BATTED IN-Berra, New York, HOME RUNS-Doby, Cleveland, 30 PITCHING — Fm Ang pt a NATIONAL LEAGU! ‘York, 31-5, Menbership Is U.N. Problem UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. W—A special U.N. Committee on Admis- sions says it sees no way out of the Soviet-Western impasse barring 21 applicants for membership in the international organization. The negative report to the Gen- eral Assembly by the three-mem- ber Good Offices Committee was made public last night. The Assem- bly had set up the group in 1953. A Soviet veto in the Security Council has blocked 14 of the ap- Pplicants. The others have failed to win the necessary seven votes in the 11-member council. New mem- bers must be recommended by the Security Council before the 60-na- tion Assembly can pass on them. Read The Citizen Daily DIAL 2-303] » | leans, Fighting Irish — Named No. 1 In AP Poll By JOHN CHANDLER { NEW YORK @®— Just like last \fall when Notre Dame squeezed out a close decision over Oklahoma in their opening football battle, the Fighting Irish were voted the No. 1 college football team of 1954 in the annual pre-season Associated Press poll today. largest number of first place votes, 14 to 52 for Notre Dame, but the Irish got 18 more points. On the |basis of 10- points for first, 9 for |seeond, 8 for third, etc. Notre ame received 1,449 int: Oklahoma 1,431. cana: <5 | A total of 171 sports writers and |Sportscasters voted in the nation- jwide poll, which will be followed iby the weekly AP poll after the Pigskin season opens Saturday. Maryland, voted the No. 1 team at the end of the 1953 season only to be shut out 7-0 by Oklahoma in the Miami Orange Bowl, ranked No. 3 in the pre-season cal- culations. The Terrapins got 13 firsts and 910 Points to beat out Texas, with 10 firsts and 834 Points. The ratings will get a quick test, Notre Dame opens its season Sept. 25 with Texas, while two weeks later Okluhoma and Texas | dobattle. | Maryland opens with Kentucky Saturday, then meets U.C.L.A. Oct, 1. Oklahoma also invades the West Coast to play California, ranked No. 12 in the pre-season dope, this Saturday. The top 10 teams, with first Place votes in parentheses, and total Points, based on 10 for first, 9 for second, 8 for third, ete: |1. Notre Dame (52) .. 2. Oklahoma (74) 3. Maryland (13) 4. Texas (10 .. 5. Illinois (2) 6. Michigan State (7) 7. Georgia Tech (5) 8 U.C.L.A. (1) 9. Wisconsin (1). 10. Mississippi (2) Second Ten ll. Towa (1) . 12. California 12. California 13. Army . . Alabama . Duke (2) . Rice - U.S.C. . Oregon - . Texas Tech 20. Ohio State (11) Boxing Results MONDAY NIGHT'S FIGHTS Brooklyn—Frankie Ryff, 13/44, New York, gutpointed Ralph Dupas. 13714, New Or: NEW YORK-Bobby Jones, 156, Calif., outpointed: Jimmy Martines, is2% Glendale, Ariz., 10. LOS ANGELES-Lauro Salas, 130, Mexi €0, stopped Alex Fimbres, 126%, Phoenix, . | Ariz, 2 Autumn brings change of colors. So the Yale football squad will wear gold pants instead of the usual white this season. BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery ‘That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 = Lou Smith, 1116 White NOTICE ALL RESIDENTS BETWEEN NAVY HOSPITAL AND FIRST STREET || Sewer Line Has Now Been Released and Is Ready | for Connections In This Area. MIKE THE PLUMBER FOR FREE ESTIMATE AND FAST, RELIABLE SERVICE New Address: 1103 Whitehead Street Oklahoma’s Sooners received the * was