The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 21, 1954, Page 6

I Giants Whipped Tribe In Grapefruit League Lopez Seeks Alltime Win Record Now By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer | The Cleveland Indians and New York Giants open the World Series | in the Polo Grounds a week from tomorrow and the flags in Florida | probably are flying at half mast. ' For the first time since’ baseball magnates became convinced their, athletes would be better condi-| tioned for the 154-game grind with the help of warm sua and palm | trees in the early spring, Florida doesn’t have a World Series entry. The Indians and Giants shunned the orange juice circuit for the sands and sun of Arizona. With only the Chicago Cubs and Balti- more Orioles around for major league companions, the two clubs played each other often enough to know the players by heart. On their barnstorming tour back to the majors the Giants whipped the Indians 13 times in 21 games, often by such scores as 20-14 or 13-9. Al Lopez flatly predicted a pen. nant for his Indians and made good as of last Saturday. Now he’s after a new all-time high in vic- tories. Leo Durocher said he never made predictions, then quickly added his Giants, with the return of Willie Mays, “will be a lot stronger.” “Brooklyn is the team to beat,” Leo said in April. He followed his own advice. He beat them opening day with Willie Mays hitting a 425 foot home run and last night in Ebbets Field, home of the Dodgers, Durocher’s men clinched the pennant with a 7-1 victory. Appropriately Willie Mays picked the occasion to take over the Na- tional League batting lead with three hits. The “Say Hay” kid, released from the Army just in time to reach training camp, is battering the ball at a .344 clip. Sal “The Barber” Maglie was razor sharp as he scattered five hits. The only Brooklyn run came in the third when Maglie’s control deserted him momentarily and he liked Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider with two out. Gil Hodges followed with what started out to be a routine fly, then it sank rapid- ly in the murky night and fell just. in front of Mays, who made a belly slide on the slick turf. The Giants jumped off to a two run lead in the first inning on a walk to Whitey Lockman, Al Dark’s single followed by a sacri- fice and singles by Mays and Hank Thompson. Don Mueller’s single and doubles by Thompson and Monte Irvin pro- duced two more in the sixth and wrapped up the flag for sure. Durocher called his team a bet- ter outfit than the 1951 pennant winners who caught Brooklyn and won in a playoff after being far behind in mid-August. Walt Alston, freshman manager of the losing Dodgers, congratulated Leo and said: “There is a lot of difference between those two teams, mine and his. I only hope he can go out now and beat Cleveland.” While the Giants were clinching their flag, the Indians won their ith straight and ran their victory total to 109, only one short of the American League record set by the 1927 Yankees. Bobby Feller pitched the Indians to a 7-4 triumph over the Chicago White Sox with the help of home, runs by Larry Doby and Vie Wertz. | Cleveland has five more games to play. The battles for fourth place, and its share of the rich World Series loot, tightened in both Leacues. Cincinnati split with Milwaukee, winning 3-1 after losing 6-2, and holds a two game lead over St. Louis. The Cardinals ciefeated Chi- cago 7-2 with five runs in the 10th inning. The idle Philadephia Phil- lies are less than half a percentage point behind the Cardinals. Boston held fourth in the Ameri- | can League with a 5-2 triumph over the Athletics. Detroit, half a} game back of the Red Sox, de- feated Baltimore 4-3 and Washing- | ton, another half game behind, shaded the Yanks 3-2. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING ~Avila, Cleveland, .337. RUNS~Mantle, New York, 122. anos BATTED IN-Berra, New York, HOME RUNS~Doby, Clevet a Consuegra R Rati, | 139. HOME "RUNS — Kluszewski, Cincinnati, | ing prowess occurred EITCHING—Antonelli, New York, 21-6, si ta sil WARMUP SESSION—Kiwanis Club member Norton Harris takes a hefty cut at the ball in prac- tice session for softball game Saturday night with local Key Club. Prdceeds of Bayview Park tilt will go to charity.—Photo by Spillman. ‘ Wed. TV Bout Change Made At 11th Hour A slam-bang lightweight match is scheduled for a nationally tele- vised Blue Ribbon Bout airing on September 22 when Jimmy Carter, top challenger for Paddy De Mar- co’s crown, clashes with Freddy “Babe” Herman at the Cow Pal- ace, San Francisco. ces a ring-wise veteran who in 1952 fought a draw contest with him. Herman, who has had his ups and downs in his nine-year istic ca- reer, will be out to bettér his pre- vious performance against Carter and gain greater ring recognition. The 10-round bout will be aired from coast to coast over a 101-Sta- tion CBS-TV netword at 10 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time with station WTVJ, channel 4, carrying the ac- tion locally. A ring warrior for eight years, Carter scored a 14-round knockout against Ike Williams and won the lightweight title in 1951. ‘In two fol- lowing championships bouts he de- feated Art Aragon and Lauro Sa- las before losing to Salas in a re- turn match in 1952. Jimmy recap- tured the crown from Salas five months later. The 30-year-old New Yorker then kayoed three challen- gers, Tommy Collins in four Tounds, George Araujo in 13, and Armand Savoie in five. In regaining the championship from Salas, Carter joined hands with Lou Ambers as the only light- weight to recatpure the title from the fighter who had taken it from him. A calm and confident ring- man, the compact, five-foot six- inch former title holder possesss- es superior skill and punching pow- er."He is an excellent combination puncher, a good hooker and a,solid smasher with either hand. 3 Carter paces himself “‘well throughout a fight and has pleniy to spare when final round efforts are made. In his professional ca- reer Jimmy fought a total of 93 fights, winning 68, losing 17 and drawing eight. Among other vic- tims, Jimmy knocked out Enrique Bolanos, Del Flanagan, Ronnie Harper and Carlos Chavez, won and lost to Percy Bassett and de- cisioned Wallace Smith, Glen Fia- nagan and Luther Rawlins, A quiet person when outside the ring, Jimmy lives with his wife and two children in South Ozone | Park, Long Island. Herman, from Los Angeles, Calif. turned pro in 1946 and ran up an impressive record while a youngs- ter. A fast, hard fighter, Freddy almost upset Carter in 1852 when he battled the ex-champion to a 10- round draw. In 1953, the 25-year-old veteran also drew with previously unbeat- ed Glen Flanagan. In the same year, using strong right-hand sma- shes, Herman punched Mario Tri- go all over the ring and consis- tently outpointed the California to gain a unanimous decision. Against Art Aragon, Herman re- , lied upon his power-packed blows and was beating the rated boxer until a cut eye in the tenth forced the referee to stop the fight. Fur- ‘| ther evidence of Freddy’s punch- when he knocked out Brian Kelly, conquer- or of fleet-fisted Ralph Dupas. Carter, a former title holder, fa- | 5 Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, September 21, 1954 Beckman Tells Quarterback Club Conchs May Improve Key West High School football coach Ed Beckman abandoned his perennial air of pessimism last night to tell members of the Quarterback Club that “if we can iron out some kinks, we'll have a better team than last year.” Speaking at the first of the club’s weekly dinner meetings, Beck- man said that in last Friday’s 25-0 win over St. Theresa “the boys made some mistakes, probably because they were nervous.” Scouting Report He also reported on a scouting trip he and line coach Harold Allen made last week to Belle Glade to witness Miami Tech in ac- tion. Their line will outweigh Key West’s by a considerable mar- gin, said Beckma-..%7> ~ * * out that quarterback Mario Lounders will give the Conchs trouble. “We can’t mase @.,2. «Tiday night — if we do, it'll be just too bad,” commented: Beckman. Reserved Seats Dr. Harold Campbell, high school principal, also told the Quarte:- | back Club membership that collapsible gates will be erected as the reserved seats at the new football stadium. Dr. Campbell said that he had recéived several reports that reserved ticket holders were unable to obtain seats because people with general admission tickets | were appropriating them. The membership enjoyed a delicious ham dinner at the meeting. Sooners Rank As Top U.S. Gridders By ED CORRIGAN NEW YORK (®—The University of Oklahoma, ranked right behind 'Notre Dame in pre-season fore- casts, reigned today as the No, 1 Miami Slates ITV Bouts For Winter Season MIAMI, FLA. — Plans for three nationally - televised boxing bouts | jover the American Broadcasting Company’s network this fall and} college football team in the coun- try pending returns from all the precincts. Sad Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners, who crushed California 27-13 in their opener, were all alone at the top of the first weekly Associated Press poll of the season, The na- tion’s sports writers and sports- casters gave them 56 first-place votes, good for 789 points. Notre Dame, which will get its baptism of fire under Terry Bren- nan against Texas Saturday, was ranked second with 613 points. The Irish were followed, in order, by Maryland, Texas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Michigan State, UCLA mississippi, Baylor and Wisconsin —the latter two tied for tenth. “We Didnt | Reese, the team captain, sat quiet- en Cisco, Andrade and highly rat-| 5 | have guaranteed to run motion pic- | |ture film of Miami, prior to the} winter, emanating from here, were ner, city publicity director. First of the series over Satur- day Night Fights, Jack Gregson, will be held Nov- ember 20 in Bayfront Park Audi- | | torium. | The second show will be staged January 8 in the same _ building with the final contest set for Jan-| uary 15 in Dinner Key Exposition | Hall. |. Arrangements for the seriés of bouts were made over the week- end by Kepner in conferences with A. Burke Crotty, executive produc- | jer of the Saturday night Fights York producer of the show. ly help to defray cable coasts of these fights,” Kepner said, ium for publicizing the city. “Under this arrangement,” Kep- ner added, “Saturday Night Fights main bout, with emphasis on the city’s resort facilities.” The program is carried in 264 cities throughout the United States with a vigwing audience of about 30,000,000 people. Completion of this series of bouts will mark six nationally - televis- ed boxing shows which originated from Miami during the past 12 months. Six additional TV sho’ mi Beach during the last year. e disclosed Monday by Woody Kep- | narrated by| Georgia Tech, which was sixth } in the pre-season poll moved past Illinois, which hasn’t played yet, on the basis of its crushing 26-6 | only change of any importance | over the pre-season poll. | The top 10 teams with first place votes in parentheses and total | points, based on 10-9-8-8-6-5-4-3- 2-1 basis. - Oklahoma (56) ... . Notre Dame (11) . Maryland (9) TV program and Ray Arcel, New! “The City of Miami will partial-| “be. | cause we consider it a good med-| . Texas (3) Georgia Tech (2) . Tlinois . Michigan State . UCLA (2) Mississippi (1) . (tie) Baylor }. (tie) Wisconsin Second ten . Iowa i ee eee . Texas Tech (1) . Southern California . Oregon + California . Texas Tech (1) - Southern California . Oregon .... . California . (tie? Army . (tie) Duke . Texas Christi 541 | 375 273 237 232 152 142 | 142 | | SSeanguewpm 118 85 Del Miller, a top bowler in the | Detroit alleys, was preparing for \his honeymoon. He rolled a 300 for his honeymoon, victory over Tulane. That was the [ | The Junior Conchs may play in Play Good Ball”—-Alston By JOE REICHLER BROOKLYN (—It was all over, even the shouting. The victorious Giants, a jubilant gang of merrymakers, had long since departed after celebrating their pennant victory in ‘rue style, complete with champagne and} more sober refreshments. There was not much life in the Brooklyn clubhouse either, al- though a group of Dodgers were still sitting around, trying to put the pieces together. It was so quiet Walter Alston, the freshman manager, sat silently in a chair, dejected and still bewildered. A fellow said he had been sitting there for nearly an hour. As if suddenly aware that he was expected to say something, Alston looked around and began to talk. “It wasn’t just one thing,” he murmured. “It was a combination of things. It wasn’t Campanella alone. We might have won despite Roy’s bad hand. But gFurillo didn’t start to hit until mid-season. New- combe never did get started. Er- skine failed to take up the slack. Oh, so many things. We just didn’t play good ball.” In another corner, Pee Wee ly, smoking a cigarette. He was still in his baseball uniform. “They’re a fine ball club,” he said in his usual generous way. “They deserved to win. We gave it all we had but it wasn’t enough.” Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges and one or two others of the ex-champi- ons echoed Reese’s sentiments but one who refused to console himself was Roy Campanella. “Nobody hurt the team more than I did,” he growled. “Imagine hitting .200, I should have done better even with one hand.” Earlier, President Walter J. O’Malley had gathered the players together and told them “this has been a rugged season.” “I feel sorry for you and sorry for the fans,” he said, “particu- larly because it was the Giants who beat us, and sorry for Alston, I don’t feel the team did as well as it should have done—but let’s wrap it up and get ready for next year. Go home and have a good winter.” O'Malley, accompanied by Als- ton, had been among the first to congratulate Leo Durocher and his Giants. “You got a good manager,” Du- rocher had told O'Malley, “It was not his fault that Campanella got hurt and his pitching went sour. He did a fine job under the cir- cumstances.” Concerning his own club, Leo said he never felt at ease about it until the pennant was clinched. “Not when you have to beat a club like Brooklyn,” he said. “But my guys were great, all of them. I first began to get real enthusi- astic about our pennant chances when they bounced back after los- ing three straight to the Dodgers and had their lead cut to a half) game. They went right out and} won six straight after that. They convinced me they were a real good team. They came close to us several times after that but my guys only played harder. They played best when they had their backs against the wall.” Following Through Pedro Aguilar The Miami amateur baseball champs, even with the great Chet | Covington at the helm, had consi- ‘derable trouble with the Junior Conchs here last weekend The best they could do was split the two game series. They had a lot of trouble win- ning the second game, a 12 inning affair. They finally copped the verdict on a pair of Conch errors. In the first game, hurler George Lastres was, as the Cubans say | “Intransible.” He fanned 13 bat- ters in all including Malvestudo jand Langer — top Brooklyn pros- pects. In the second game, the great | Covington, himself, had to come to | the rescue of the visitors. Miami next weekend. Tonight, the Strand Theater will | play the last of a five game series with the Babe Ruth Leagues Ail- Stars. A good game is in the off. ing with both managers reportin, that their clubs at full strength. The Strand is expected to start | their ace hurler, Sidney Kerr with Joe Diaz catching. The All-Stars will use Tony Hoppy with Leon | Sims on the receiving end, PIN BALL GAME POPULAR IN JAPAN TOKYO — Pachinko, a Japa- nese vertical pin ball game named more business in Japan than the ‘Casa Marina Tennis Tourney Winner Receive Awards Here City Tourney Set For Nov. At Bayview Pk. The winners and runners-up in the Casa Marina Labor Day tennis tournament for doubles teams, were presented with their trophies at a dinner’ dance at Fort Taylor Officers Club on Saturday evening, September 18. Making the presen- you could hear the pennant drop. { tations was Emmet Conniff, man- ager of the resort hotel. The tournament was won by the team of Ledr. Joe Antik and Lt. Bill Barnes, and their runner-ups were Jack Sellers and Harvey Sel- lers. The finals match was one of some time, as the Sellers com- bination jumped off to an early lead by playing flawless tennis in | the first set to win it 6-2. The Navy duo of Antink and Barnes forced back strongly to run out the final two sets at 6-0, 6-1, to capture the match. The dinner dance at Fort Tay- lor signalled the culmination of a very successful summer season for local tennis enthusiasts. Mr. Con- niff early in the year graciously offered the fine tennis facilities of the Casa Marina to the tennis peo- ple in town, and sponsored two ex- cellent tournaments, a singles event over the Fourth of July, and the Doubles event over the Labor Day weekend. The singles event was won by Ledr. Joe Antink who defeated Lt. Lyn Rhinehart in the finals. Since Lt. Bill Barnes, local Navy and City Champion was on cruise in the USS Trumpetfish at the time of the Fourth of July singles tour- ney, an exhibition match was ar- ranged between Barnes and Antink in August. A great deal of interest | was evidenced in this match and it proved a good one. Barnes won 7-5, 3-2, default, in a grueling match. Barnes’ ability to counter long drives with accurate drop shots was the deciding factor in the match. On Saturday the 18th of Septem- ber a Navy vs. City match was atranged as a prelude to the eve- ning event. This was held in a| setting of mirth, as it was agreed that the losers should wait on the} ‘Multi-Million | Dollar Track Plan Advanced By ORLO ROBERTSON NEW YORK #—A plan designed to rehabilitate New at the cost of some 18 million dol lars through the merger of the four New York racing associations and the doing away of all private York tracks | Baseball Resalis, AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Bebin 98 100 DAY'S RESULTS Chicago 4 New York 8 Boston 5 TUESDAY'S sc HEDULE A Cleveland (N) Chicac v NATIONAL LEAGUE | Profits was under considera | day. the best seen in the area in quite! ion to- Won Lost Pet. Behind 94 635 New York = Brooklyn The plan, drawa up by a special frohearg committee representing The Jock- + ey Club calls for the probable con- | S 6 ae ‘ 60 centration of all racing in the met- Topolitan area at a re-b ments to the ancient track at upstate Saratoga Springs. Under the plan, The Jockey Club would take over the stock of the four present racing associations for an estimated $26,500,000, then operate the sport on a non-profit basis. Belmont Park, the newest and most modern of the New York racing plants, would be recon- structed at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Another $3,000,000 would be spent in modernizing Sar- atoga, which operates during Au- gust. Jamaica would be torn down and the land sold. Aqueduct would be retained as it is, at least until work on Bel- need is apparent, a new track would be built in the reasonable future at a cost of between $35,- 000,000 and $40,000,000. To finance the project, The Jock- long term borrowing. Ashley T. Cole, chairman of the State Racing Commission, already has advanced to the extent that The Jockey Club has options on 80 per cent of the stock of the Westchester Racing Assn., which operates Belmont Park. Presidents of the other three as-| sociations said they would discuss | the proposal with their boards of directors before making any an- nouncement. | winners at dinner that night. The} City players beat their Navy counterparts 4 matches to 3, as Charley Lott, an outstanding ten-| nis veteran came through to pin| down the deciding match. The results “er Singles: 1 Barnes -(N), efpat. ed John Sellers (KW) 6-1, Joe An- tink (N) defeated Harvey: Sellers (KW) 6-1, Bill Pearce *(KW). de? feated Lyn Rhinehart * (KW) 6-3,' Dr. Shepherd (KW) defeated George Hamilton (N) 6-3, Charléy | Lott (KW) defeated Rob Verfiil| (N) 6-0. : Doubles: Joe Antink-Bill Barnes (N) defeated Jack and Harvey Sellers (KW) 7-5, Henry Cleare- John Sellers (KW) defeated G. | Hamilton-Lyn Rhinehart (N) 6-0. The summer season was an ex- cellent one for tennis in the Key West area. The above mentioned | tournaments, the use of the Casa Marina Courts, and the renewed | interest in the game all hi make a great season. Key West,! because of its fine year round play-! ing conditions should produce some of the best young players in the country, and it is hoped that this cause will be advanced by the players, the City and the Navy. Plan’ are already underway to elect officers for the Key West Tennis Club on September 25. At this time arrangements will be made for the annual City Tourna- ment which is held at Bayview Park. It is scheduled for Novem- ult Bel- | mont Park and extensive improve- | mont has been complete. If the | ey Club would raise funds through | The plan, presented yesterday to | 48 6 4 403, Pittsburgh 53 1 MONDAY’S ork 7, Brool 7. Chicago 2 6-1, Cincinne nes scheduled) RESULTS 1 23 TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE New York a‘ Brooklyn Cincinnati at Milwaukee St. Louis at Chicago (2) | Monpay's PLAYOF INTERNATIONAL RESULTS LEAGUE Montreal 3, Rochester 2 (Montreal leads 3 Syracuse 1, Toronto @ (Syracuse leads 2 CAN ASSOCIATION AMERI s 9, Minneapolis 5 (Indiana- 42) s at Liowigville postponed (series H | INTE! nta (Southern) —E PLAYOFFS Ri | Syra | AM Indianapolis at Minneapolis ‘Boxing Resulis MONDAY NIGHT'S FIGHTS YORK Luther Rawlings, 148, stopped Frankie Fernandez, 144%, | NEW | Chi Honolul. 2 BROOKLYN — Hector Constance, 147%, ‘outpointed Chico Varona, 130, Ray Famechon, 125%, France, neyers. 4, Belgium, 3 featherweight title). Pierre Cosseymyns, Belgium. outpointed Bobby Sinn, | Australia, 12 LOS ANGELES — Don_ Jordan, Los Angeles, st Long Beach, | Trinidad Cuba, 10 PARIS stopped (for F | SYDNEY iT, ‘oped Billy Hartman, 137M World's Largest Pest Control Co. all 2-3254 C A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery ‘That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 Exch. Lou Smith, 1116 White | jumped into the top brackets this | season; Lt. George Hamilton, who | little in the way of equipment, | for the sound of the ball, does} STOCK-UP TODA with smoother tasting Pabit Blue Ribbon Beer FOR COMPLETE FIGHT NIGHT ENJOYMENT Febe¢t Blue Ribkon PRESENTS Jimmy Carter —vs.— Freddy Herman “BABE” Monroe Beer Distributors, Ine. ber and will consist of singles and doubles championships. Lt. Bill Barnes will be defending singles champ, and he was also a member of last year’s winning doubles team. John McNulty the other member of last year’s doubles championship team has left the area due to Navy orders. Among the players who were impressive this past season were John Sellers, an outstanding young player who will develop into one of the finest players that the city has seen; Bill Pearce who has Looking for... after only eight months of tennis is already worrying the better players; and Charley Lott, the real veteran of the courts here, who seems to get better with age. Tennis is a sport that requires | can be played at almost any age, | and affords great benefits in health | and mental keenness. It is hoped that the game will continue to flourish in its natural setting in the Southernmost City. Mussels are becoming more and more popular as both bait and food in this country. GI’s learned the food and bait value of mussels when they were doing Army duty in France during World War Two. af department stores. originated from neighboring Mia-| game, won $300 in prizes. 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