The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1954, Page 6

St. Teresa’s Has Vastly Improved Football Team Coral Gables Gridders Are Primed For Friday Tilt It will be a vastly improved foot- ball team that St. Teresa coach Tom Moore will bring to town Fri- day to do battle with the Key West Conchs in their opening game of the 1954 gridiron campaign. The Coral Gables gridmen will be out to avenge last year’s 380 shellacking at the hands of the Conchs and in tne words of Coach Moore “we may do just that.” Moore’s optimism stems from the fact that his light but shifty baliclub is studded with veter?ns. “And this year it will be the opening game for both of us — last year the Conchs had a game under their belt and that means a lot,” Moore addéd. Moore has been drilling some new plays into his boys and has spiced up his split T offense to the point where it may be extremely difficult for the Conchs to solve. Their defense is built around a trio of senior lettermen, halfbacks Joe Russelo and Tommy South ard, and fullback Bob Christie. While: these boys are light, they showed in drills this week that they can all make that long scoring run. While quarterback Everett Lee is playing his first year of football, he is a sure starter in that posi- tion. Up front, Moore is also set pret- ty well. His line is light, but they make up for it in savvy. Bob Ley, a 150 pounder who proved to be a thorn in the Conchs side last year, and Roger Peter. son, 175 pounds, will be at the end positions. Neil Schunderwood and Dick Wassenburg, will be at the tack- les with Bob Gleason and Vic Puig at the guards. Lou Horking is slat- ed for the starting center assign- ment, One thing is certain — Moore has a fighting ballclub. “We like to go to Kegs West,” said one enthusiastic gridder, “and we want to win a ballgame down there.” Meanwhile, Key West’s hopes took a sharp dip at the conclusion of @ 3% hour practice @ssion un- der the lights last nigh{%when in- juries to four key performers were reported by Coach Ed Beckman, The sick list reads @his way: End John Carbonell, a twisted knee and a toothache; genter John DeMeritt, a twisted knee; wing- back Norman Allen, sprained. an- kle (he’s sure to miss tomorrow’s game), and quarterback Joe Rus- 80, who aggravated an old ankle jury. A sellout crowd for the game is in the offing. High School Ath- letic Director Winston Jones said that there are just 45 season tick- ets left on the block. They are a- vailable at Evans Sport Shop, Southard St., Pau: Sher’s Jewelry Store, Duval St., and the high school office. Baseball Resalts AMERICAN LEAGUE Miami’s New Look Is Flashy By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editer “Who's got the ding dong, who’s got the ball? That may well have. been the question being asked by a frantic group of Stetson University foot- ball players Monday afternoon when they ran headon into Hurri- cane Gustafson in a practice game with the University of Miami eleven, Occasion for the tilt was the an- nual gathering of Florida sports- writers. They took time off from the sirloin and seltzer water cir- cuit to witness the game arranged solely for their benefit. Coach Andy Gustafson arranged Following Through Pedro Aguilar The Dade Gas Co.’s Baseball club will play here on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The games will be played at Wickers Field. On Saturday night the game will be called at 8 p. m. and the dou-| ble header Sunday will be played as follows — first game at 1 p. m. and the second game at 3 p. m. I gave the fans a little sketch on the manager of the visiting Dade Gas Co. nine, Chester Covington. Now I will give a short review of the local players. Mgr. Bill Cates does not need any introduction to local fans. We all know his records. The Jr. Conchs will use Moe Henriquez, brother of Wafie, the regular catcher, who is now play- ing football for the high . school eleven and cannot play in the base- ball game. Moe played ball around this city for years. He played Am- erican Legion and high school ball and in the Island City league. His last games were with Bennie's Ca- feteria. Then he spent two yeazs in the Army after playing class B ball with Harrisburg, Pa. In the box the first game will be George Lastres, who played sen- sational ball with the high school. He also played with*the American Legion and Island City Baseball league. Tony Hoppe will be on first. He won the batting crown for the Babe Ruth League, is a good first- baseman, and is also a pitcher. On the keystone bag will be Lee- burg Knowles who started in the little league and has played great ball in the high school and with the Jr. Conchs. On third will be Don Cruz, who played third and pitched for the high school when they were dis- trict champs and state’ champs, and also. one of their leading pitch- ers. He played this year in the state league and did a swell job. At short will be Julio Santana, that sensational fielder, hitter and runner. ‘Nuf sed. In the gardens, Roger Bean, an up and coming ball player will be in left. He can catch, and play the infield, and he sure can hit that apple. In cente rwill be Gibby Gates, another member of the state 4% | champs. He has also played Le- 1: 2, Boston 1, New York at Detroit. ppd., rain, Only games scheduled). THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE New York at Detroit. (Only game scheduled). NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind ew York 9 53 629 = Brooklyn Milwaukee Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis ‘Chicago Pittsburgh WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Brooklyn 10, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 1, (Only games scheduled) “ 2 67 60 1 THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Milwaukee at New York (2) Cincinnati at WEDNESDAY'S LL RESULTS SOUTHERN ASSN. PLAYOFF New Orleans 4, Atlanta 0 (New Orleans leads 1-0). INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFF Phan 5, Rochester 0 (semifinal series ied 1-1). Syracuse at Toronto postponed, rain. TEXAS LEAGUE PLAYOFF Fort Worth 7, Houston 1 (final series tied 1-1). PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE PLAYOFF Oakland 7, San Diego 3-(11 innings— Orkland witis best of three series, 2.0) gd, Rranelsco 7, Hollywood 0 (oeries ed 1-1). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF oe, 10, Low'evine 7 cio int = Ge THURSDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULES SOUTHERN ASSN. PLAYOFFS New Orleans at Atlanta. TEXAS LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Houston at Fort Worth. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS FS at Toronto e scheduled). PLAYOFFS napolis. bus, gion ball and Island City league ball. He is also a great pitcher and fast on the bases. In the right will be Eloy Rodri- guez, another member of the high school nine, who can catch, pitch, play infield and outfield, and gets hits when they are needed. Sidney Kerr will be in reserve — a good pitcher and catcher. Paul Higgs, the boy who made a record in the Babe Ruth league when he fanned 74 batters in 44 innings he 12 | pitched will be on hand too. Kerr also made a record when jhe allowed but two earned runs in 35 innings, Both are Jr. Conchs in age, and have several years of high school and Jr. baseball left in them. The Key West All-Stars will have players like Dewitt Roberts catch. Roberts has been in base- ball, basketball, softball, and other sports. He played in the Florida State League until a leg injury made him return to Key West. He can pitch, play infield and outfield. Tn the box will be Joe Lewis, the little keg of dynamite who when in shape is hard to beat. He also has Played baseball, basketball and softball. At first will be Leon, a sckool boy with lots of promise. Al Pazo will be at second. He has been one of the leading infielders in the city for many years. At third will be Robert Santana. He also has played soft ball. He is a great batter and fielder, and dangerous on the bases. Danny Lastres will be shortstop. He has played class B ball, has a to! the show to give the scribes a look-see at his new offense — a system of burying the opposition with a combination of tactics bor- rowed from all the best gridiron aggregations Gustafson knows about. The fact that the Hurricanes’ new look is effective was evidenced by the score — 38-0 in two and a half quarters of play. The tilt was shortened by a tropical downpour. Stetson, according to most pre- sent, was hardly a fair test for the loaded U-M lads, but others hold that even clubs like Maryland and Alabama, are going to have a _ time if they can’t find the Sons Drub Dads In Baseball Tilt The Fathers took a drubbing | at the hands of their sons last And a quarterback known as Mario Bonofiglio is going to do his utmost to ‘hide that pigskin. An accomplished faker, he handles the ball with authority as well as maintaining a good control over his baliclub. He can run, too. Gustafson’s biggest qause for chortling in the backfield is a lad known as Don Bosseler, a fullback who, when he gets up steam, is about as easy to stop as a freight train. And end Tom Pepsin’ is going to get some press raves this year, along with his flanker, Frank-Mac Donald, a lad mentioned to All- American honors this year. Top Sports Activity Set night in a baseball game in the Wickers Field cr The score was 8 - 7. “But we are definitely not go- ing te let them get away with it — we want a return game,” @ spokesman for the fathers said. és Bill Cates was the umpire for fhe game, sponsored by the newly formed Sigsbee Park Community Council: Durocher Faced With Shortage Of Mound Talent NEW YORK w#—Manager Leo Durocher of the New York Giants, faced with an acute pitching short- age for the final stretch drive, dug ‘down into his bullpen today for a fourth starting pitcher. Dissatisfied with the recent hurl- ing of righthander Jim Hearn and Southpaws Don Liddle and John (Windy) McCall, Durocher named Marv Grissom, the veteran relief star, to pitch the second game of today’s important doubleheader against the Milwaukee Braves. tIdle yesterday, the Giants’ lead was cut to three games by Brook- lyn’s 10-4 victory over Cincinnati. Grissom, 36, has appeared in 52 games this year, 50 of them in relief. He has not started a game since May 1 when the Chicago Cubs knocked him out of the box. “Griss is my man,” said Duroch- er. “He hasn’t pitched for a full week and he should be well rest- ed. I'll let him go as far as he can. If he can go until the sixth or seventh, that’s all I want. I’ll have (Hoyt) Wilhelm finish up.” Ruben Gomez, who was to have pitched yesterday’s washed - out game, was to hurl the opener. Warren Spahn, gunning for his 20th victory, and Lew Burdette, were Milwaukee Manager Charlie Grimm’s choices. Grissom prefers bullpen duty to | starting assignments. Besides post- ing a 10-7 won and lost record, the Square-jawed Californian has saved some 15 games with superb fireman roles, Informed he was a starter again, the taciturn Grissom merely shrugged his shoulders and said: “I'm ready.” The New York Giants are do- ing okay at the box office, as well as on the field of play. On Sept. 4 they passed the million mark in home attendance, the first time since 1951. gteat arm and is a fast runner, and he’ has been hitting lately. Cat Catala, utility, is another high school boy. He played with the state champs, and in the last two games against Miami he hit -500 in two games. In the outfield will be Kaki Rod- riguez, a star pitcher for many years in the Island City league. He also can play infield and catch. Also in the outfield will be Claude For This Week By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK This is sports salad week with a heavyweight title fight, a national golf tourna- ment, numerous horse races, a torrid baseball scramble in the Na- tional: League and a flock-of college football games making up the dish. Here are gilt-edged winners of the weekend’s football games: Oklahoma over California: A football morsel that should have been saved for mid-season. But you will see it on your TV screen Saturday. Oklahoma has two out- standing ends in Max Boydston strong point is Matt Haseltine, a defensive genius at center. Maryland over Kentucky: Mary- land is carrying on from last year while Kentucky is rebuilding. Dick Bielski of the Marylanders, moves into his own. Texas over Louisiana State; everything always is colossal in Texas but the 1954 Longhorn team is rated super-colossal. That should make it good enough to beat LSU, rated no better +than average. Georgia Tech over Tulane: Grad- uation took many of Tech’s bevy of backs but Larry Morris, All- America center, is hale, hearty and eligible for another season. . Southern California over Wash- ington State: Too early in the year for Washington State’s sophomore crew. Southern California has a gee-whiz sophomore in Jon Arnett. Rice over Florida: This could go to Florida very easily but believe Rice, defending Southwest Confer- ence champions, have just enough left to win. Baylor over Houston: Baylor is No. 2 team in Texas and Houston lacks tackles. Oklahoma A&M over Wyoming: A meeting involving prospective champions of the Missouri Valley and Skyline Eight loops. Kansas over Texas Christian: Had to flip a Lincoln penny to de- cide this one. Alabama over Mississippi South- ern: The Southerners threw a road- block into Alabama's path last fall but the Tide swears it will get revenge Friday night. Mississippi over North Texas State: The Rebels are rated one of the hottest teams in the South. The others, without comment: East—None. Midwest—Colorado over Drake, Towa State over South Dakota a Kansas State over Colorado South — Georgia over Florida State, Mississippi.State over Mem- Phis State, Clemson over Presby- terian, Virginia Tech over North Carolina State, Richmond: over Randolph Macon, Virginia Military over Davidson, Texas A&M over Texas Tech. ‘ Far West—Oregon over Idaho, Stanford over College of Pacific, UCLA over San Diego Navy, Wash- ington over Utah, Denver over Col- orado College, -Montana over Fort Lewi s,New Mexico over Brigham Young, San Jose State over Utah A&M Valdes, that little package of poi- son. He is dangerous on the bases and a sure-fly hawk. Others on the roster are Tito An- guiera, a great fielder; E. Fer- nandez, a catcher and outfielder; trades. Bunzy can catch, pitch, or. play any position on the field. He also plays basketball and softball. ‘We have this to say — it will be a great series, and we will see two equally matched clubs in ac- tion. George Lastres will pitch the first game, Don Cruz if in shape the second, and Joe Lewis the third game. Now remember, fans, I do not favor the locals, but I think we are | going to sweep the series — three out of three... and Bunzy Villareal, jack of all| us. AMERICAN 0 TTING~ Avila, Gewante ns RUNS-Mantie, Now Yorn iat BATTED IN-Berre, New York, HOME RUNS- ‘Saar RATIONAL LEAGUE, ~ BORE Sider Brookiyn and Sustel, st. a PUNS BATTED IN—Kiusewski, Ctncte- HOME RUNS-— Cincinnati, sQiTCHING™. New York, ai; Les Binga guard, 3 now He hegre’ was a Gary, ing BA’ Title Bout Is Postponed Again NEW YORK (#4). — The Rocky Marciano - Ezzard Charles heavyweight title fight today was postponed until tomorrow night because of rain. Originally scheduled for last night, the return bout ‘was postponed yesterday be- cause of rain. If another postponement is . the bout would be rescheduled for Saturday night. The fight is scheduled to go om as soon as the Firday night radio-TV fight from we is over. Navy Slates Varsity Swim Meet Wed. © The 1954 Varsity Swimming Meet will be held this year at the. Seaplane Base Swimming Pool on Wednesday, September 22. All Naval Base Units desiring to enter this swimmizg meet will notify the Special Services Officer at Building 178 on the Naval Station prior to 4:00 p.m. on Sep-| tember 21. | E. K. Halpin, CSC, will act| as chairman of the program. Trial | heats will be held at 10 a.m. on| September 22 in the following] events: | Free Style—One (1) length of| the pool; Breast Stroke—One (i) length of the pool; Back Stroke— One length of the pool; Medlay Relay—One (1) length of the pool each, back stroke, breast stroke | and free «style; 400 yard Free | Style Relay—Each man will swim two (2) lengths of the pool. Each unit must enter each of the five (5) scheduled events. Units can not enter more than one (1) team in the meet. Units | will provide one additional man to assist in judging and starting. The first three places from each | of the trial heats will participate in the finals at 3 p.m. at the Sea- plane Base Pool on September 22, and the unit scoring the highest number of points will be the win-| ner of the meet. Points will be awarded as fol- lows: Trial Heat Points: first place— 6 points; second place—5 points; | |Phillies ‘Are Wet Weather Redlegs Protest That The Game Be Postponed By BEN PHLEGAR | AP Sports Writer They may be dead ducks by next | week, but as of today the Brooklyn Dodgers are aquatic kings of the National League. At least four of their victories are thoroughly waterlogged and if they try to play any more games under conditions such as prevailed yesterday, the front office better consider equipping the club with fur-lined swimming suits. The defending champs have dis- coveréd, some amazing ways to lose games this season, but when the rains come they are unbeat- able. 3 Back in May they beat the Phil- lies 3-0 in six innings in Philadel- phia when rain brought a halt. Then in June they skidded to a 7-6}. victory at Milwaukee in five in- |nings, scoring five runs in the fifth. i Last week, they repeated over |the Braves, 2-1 in five rain-soaked innings just before Hurricane Edna hit Flatbush. Yesterday, the bad weather brought a 10-4 triumph over the Cincinnati Redlegs with the Reds screaming that both clubs should have stood in bed. At the Polo Grounds, some 15 air miles from Ebbets Field, the first-place New York Giants and the third-place Milwaukee Braves never left the clubhouse. The tem- water stood in puddles over the covered infield. In both cases the decision to play or not was in the hands of the um- pires. They came close to calling time at Brooklyn with the score tied at 2-2 after four innings. But the players back on the field and they sloshed to a finish. Only two other games were} played. The St. Louis Cardinals de- feated Philadelphia 3-1 and Balti- | more moved out of the American League cellar with a 2-1 squeaker | over Boston. The Dodgers moved within three games of the Giants and have nine to play. The Giants have 11 left in-} third place—4 points; fourth place —3 points; fifth place—2 points; and sixth place—i point. | Final Points: first place—¢) points; second place—5 points; | third place—4 points; fourth place | —3 points; fifth place—2 points; | and sixth place—1 point. Tiger Stitched Up After Zoo Fight With Lion cluding a doubleheader today! against the Braves who trail by | 5% lengths. Gil Hodges put the Dodgers on the victory trail against the Reds with his 40th Home run in the sixth inning. Three singles, a walk, a) bases-loaded double by Pee Wee; Reese and an error added five! more runs before the inning was | over. Don Newcombe, with help from Jim Hughes in the eighth, regis- tered his ninth victory. Bud Pod- bielan, who left shortly after Hodges’ homer, was the victim. The magic number remained after a brief huddle the umps sent | y BALTIMORE (®#—The year-old | eight for the Giants. Any combina- Sumatra tiger at the Baltimore |tion of eight New York victories Zoo has been put under anesthesia |and Brooklyn defeats will clinch following a between-the-bars fight!the pennant for Leo Durocher’s with a neighboring lion. | men. The season ends a week from Fifty stitches. were taken in the | Sunday. | tiger’s foreleg and the zoo’s veter-| A pair of run-producing doubles | inarian said his condition was sat-| by Stan Musial and Red Schoen- isfactory. |dienst gave the Cards their margin Yesterday the wounded warrior|of victory over the Phils and was given penicillin and medicine | brought Tom Poholsky his fourth tq help counteract the anesthetic.|win. The loss shoved the Phils He has been asleep more than | back into fifth place, a half game 24 hours. Arthur R. Watson, zoo director, for a long wiile, so the leg would behind the Reds. The Cards are in sixth, a game behind the Phillies. A pinch single by Jim Fridley Champs; Orioles Triumph Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, September 16, 1954 Sport Shorts The co-captains of the 1954 Michigan State football: team are Leroy Bolden, from Flint, Mich., and Don Kanuth, of Paducah, Ky. John and Ellen Tworzydlo won a husband-wife bowling tournament in Detroit. They spent their $1,000 prize nioney as first payment on a new house. Oklahoma’s two new fishing res- ervoirs in the Ozarks, at Fort Gib- son and Tenkiller, are turning up fabulous catches of channel cats and bass. -. James D. Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, owns the Spring Hill Racing Farm Stable at Paris, Ky. * Casey Stengel, the New York Yankees’ manager, thinks that drag bunts are as important as home runs to win games. Fishermen in Florida’s Big Cy- press Swamp have more than fish to eat. They can find in the swamp more than 27 wild fruits, vegetables and nuts for their menus. peratures hovered in the 50s andi d .| switchboards are Series Fever Hits Arizona PHOENIX, Ariz. (®—Folks out in Arizona are burning up with fever—pennant fever, that is. They're rootin’ the Phoenix Gi- ants and the Tucsor Indians into jthe World Seies. Elsewhere, these major leaders are known, o jthe New York Giants | Cleveland Indiar But out here in the cactus coun- jtry, the Giants and the Indians are considered just a bunch of home boys. “The Giants have been doing ther | spring training in Phoenix and the Indians in Tucson sice 1947 Fans who flock to Municipal Stadium in Phoenix and Hi Cor- jbett Field in Tucson for spring training games are just as loyal to the clubs’ as those who crowd the Polo Grounds and Cleveland Stadium duting the regular sea- | Son. And now with the Giants and the Indians at the top of the heap, crowds jam around radio sets in Phoenix and Tucson, newspaper swamped with calls for results, and everybody is talking of “‘an all-Arizona World Series.” league course, as and the BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 «a Lou Smith, 1116 White Tomorrow Night ST. THERESA HLS. CORAL GABLES —vs.— Key West H. S. Kickoff 8 P.M. Student 50c Adults $1.00 Gen. Adm. Seats on Sale at State, Arizona over New Mexico : ' said he wanted the tiger to Biber | be less painful when he became, with the bases loaded and two out conscious. The less pain, he said,|their victory over Boston. Lou the less chance there is that the | Kretlow gave up only five hits and tiger will tear his bandages or rip | blanked Ted Williams who was up out his stitches. | four times. PAUL J. SHER’S and K. W. HIGH SCHOOL NEW HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FIELD THESE CARS MUST BE SOLD BEFORE SEP TEMBER 30 STUDEBAKER COMMANDER HARDTOP CONVERTIBLE STUDEBAKER COMMANDER STATION WAGON STUDEBAKER CHAMPION — STUDEBAKER CHAMPION 4DO00R STATION WAGON TO GET THE BEST DEAL OF YOUR LIFE SEE TONY OR TWINS GA Phone 2-2401 1130 Du PETER NOW! RAGE > wae: T OER CCAR R AEBS REETDS TH