The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1954, Page 6

Conchs Work On Defense — To Stymie Tech Attack Grim Battle Seen When Conchs Meet Blue Devils By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor The Key West Conchs may be able to stop the Mi- ami Tech ground assault but whether or not they can handle the expected Blue Devil aerial attack is a ques- tion that will be decided sometime after 8 o’clock Friday evening. The Conchs held an extended scrimmage session Tuesday at which time the second string threw a fairly well polished Tech offense against the varsity. The Key West defenders managed to stymie the scrub ground attack — but they seemingly didn’t know what to do when the passes started flying. With Quarterback Paul Higgs calling the turn, the scrubs work- ed Tech’s “hybrid T” offense with frequent shitfs to single - wing plays. They threw long passes, short passes, screen passes and latheral passes. The scrubs completed maybe 50 per cent of their tosses. If the Blue Devils can match that percentage come Friday, it bodes ill for the Conchs. The performance of the Conch forward wall, however, gave those taking a look at the scrimmage, cause for rejoicing. The “Black Bean Brigade” consistently charg- ed through to the second string backfield and to break up their tea party. Wayne Brantley, Julio Henriquez and Ralph Garcia, in particular, showed well. Line backer Johnny DeMerritt also put in a good afternoon's work on defense. Tofay, the Conchs were sche- to hold another extended day- ght workout, their last before the game, They’ll view movies of last year’s Tech game (the Conchs won 2-0) and hear Coach Ed Beckman lecture on their assignments Thurs- day. bd The largest crowd evé? to wit- ness a high school gamethere is expected to turn out for Friday’s battle. According to the high school athletic departm the 4,- 100 paid admissions at St. The- resa game was the secomti highest to date. Last year’s Tampa Jeffer- son clash produced the largest crowd since the revival of high school football four years ago. Basehal! Results NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind New York 95 54.638 Brooklyn Milwaukee Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago. Pittsburgh TU ‘Ss » Brooklyn 2 Chicago 4-3, St. Louis 32 (first game 10 innings: second game called at the end of 6% innings, darkness.) Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 0 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, doubleheader Postponed, rain WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE New York at Brookiyn Cincinnati at Chicago St. Louis at Chicago Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2, twi-night) AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 09 Al 7 New York Chicago Boston Detroit one ‘Washington Baltimore . 53 Philadelphia pas 102.325 TUESDAY'S RESULTS New York 3, Washington 1 Boston 4-4, Philadelphia 3-3 (first game 10 innings.) Chicago 9, Cleveland 7 Baltimore 4, MPetroit Chicago at mi Washington at New York Detroit at Bi e (Only gam TUESDA RESULTS (SA) 4 (Houston ASSOCIATION mbus 2 (Louisville wins NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal postponed (Mon- ‘oronto postponed (Syra- EDNESDAY’S PLAYOFF SCHEDULE By The Associated Press DIX ER Houston (TL) at Atlanta (SA) INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Syracuse at Toronto Rochester at Montreal AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Louisville at Indianapolis. Major League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING~-Mays, New York, .346, RUNS- Musial. St. Louis 119. RI BATTED IN-Kluszewski, Cincin- 5 2, BN ONE RUNS PIC A 778. oweskl, Cit ew 4. 69 York, 21-6, AMERICAN LEAGUEUU BATTING—Avila, Cleveland, .336. RUNS~ Mantle, New ¥: . RUNS BATTED IN~Doby, Cleveland and Berra, New York, 124. HOME RUNS—Doby, Cleveland, 32. coe Chicago, % - 3, .and went back to high school. |night aboard the same plane. Both/ Hurler Makes Pageé THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, September 22, 1954 Giants Have Better Infield Good After 10-Yr. Effort By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer Roosevelt was president and Leo Durocher was managing Brooklyn! when a 15-year-old high school boy from Hamilton, Ohio, took thej mound for the Cincinnati Reds one gray afternoon in June. 1944. The youngster missed the catch- er completely with eight of his first nine pitches and finally stag- gered through one inning with five runs scored against him on five walks and two hits. Ten years later Joe Nuxhall has made the grade in the big time. The lefthander, who was the youngest player ever to wear a major league uniform and proba- bly the wildest, has conquered his control problems and has a tidy 12-4 won-lost record for the fourth- place Redlegs. His 12 victory came yesterday and was the best of the dozen. He gave the Milwaukee Braves only | six hits, struck out six and walked but two in winning his third straight complete game and his first shutout, 5-0. Nuxhall pitched only one other inning in 1944. It was for Birming- ham in the Southern Assn. and it was even worse, five walks and six runs. The youngster dropped to Class D in 1945 then quit for a year | The road back has been a long one — Muncie, Tulsa, Columbia, S.C., Charleston, W.Va., Tulsa again and finally Cincinnati in 1952. In the past two seasons with the Reds he won 10 and lost 15. In the American League yester- day the New York Yankees set a record and the pennant-winning Cleveland Indians didn’t. The Yanks beat Washington 3-1 for their 101st victory, the most games | ever won by a runner-up in the junior circuit. The Indians, need-! ing only one game to tie the all- time mark of 110 victories in the league, lost to Chicago 9-7. Bob Grim, a 24-year-old bar- tender from Brooklyn, became the first Yankee rookie in 34 seasons to win 20 games. He gave up only four hits, all singles, in running his record to 20-6. Grim, unlike Nuxhall, made it in one big jump. He was pitching in the Class A Eastern League when he went into the Marines three years ago. He caught the eye of Pitching Coach Jim Turner during spring training and stayed with the Yanks despite his inex- perience. He is the club’s biggest winner. In other action yesterday the New York Giants continued their winning ways with a 5-2 triumph | at Brooklyn. Chicago took a dou- ble-header from the St. Louis Car- | dinals, 4-3 in 10 innings and 3-2 in| 6%. The Boston Red Sox beat the | Philadelphia Athletics twice by | scores. The first game ran 10 in- nings. | The double loss and a 4-3 Balti- | more victory over Detroit con-| signed the Athletics to the Ameri- can League cellar. | The Philadelphia Phillies and the | Pittsburgh Pirates were rained out. | Bobby Hofman hit’a grand-slam | homer in the first inning for the | Giants and Ruben Gomez and Jim Hearn held the Dodgers to five) hits. | Gene Baker singled home the winning run in the 10th inning of | the first game at Chicago and | Ralph Kiner and Steve Bilko hom-; ered in the darkness-shortened nightcap. zs Jackie Jensen won a popularity contest as the Red Sox’ most val- uable player and celebrated by driving in the winning run in the first game and hitting a 3-run homer in the second against the Athletics. The Indians committed five er- rors as their 11-game winning | streak came to an end. Larry Doby drove in six runs but it was not: enough to overcome the leady de- | fense which allowed three Chicago | runs to score on a wild pick-off | play, a wild pitch and a passed | ball. | Bob Turley drove in one run, | scored one and struck out five as! Baltimore clinched seventh place, one notch higher than the club; finished a year ago when it was) the St. Louis browns. JUST A COINCIDENCE LOS ANGELES (— Adolph, Spreckels II and his sixth wife, | from whom he has a divorce de- cree, left for Mexico City last said it was merely a coincidence. | Spreckels, 42, member of a weal- thy sugar family, obtained a di- vorce from Judith Powell Spreck- els, 22, last March after 34 days of marriage. The decree will not be final for a year. By BEN OLAN NEW YORK ®—The New York Giants, with a solid defensive per- former at each position, will take a smoother-working and healthier infield than Cleveland into the 5ist World Series next week. With Whitey Lockman, Davey Williams, Alvin Dark and Hank Thompson, the newly-crowned Na- tional League champions rate the edge over the Indians’ quartet of Vic Wertz, Bobby Avila, George Strickland and Al Rosen. Only at shortstop where Strickiand is con- sidered a shade the better fielder than Dark does Cleveland shine. That’s defensively. At’ the bat, |the Giants’ infielders cannot match the power of Wertz and Rosen or the consistency of Avila, the Amer- ican League’s leading batter. Whether Rosen physically will be at his peak is questionable. The latest report has Al's fracture healed. But he’s now suffering from multiple ills—a charley horse jin his right thigh, calcium deposits jin his left foot and muscle spasms | in his back. He’ll be ready for the jopener in the Polo Grounds next | Wednesday. But how Teady? Strickland, too, may pose a problem for Manager Al Lopez. Only two weeks recovered from a broken jaw, George has batted .095 since his return to the lineup with only 4 hits in 42 at bats. \. At first base, there’s little to choose between Lockman and Wertz. Both are converted out- fielders, but Whitey made the switch in 1951, the Giants’ last Pennant-winning campaign and Vic shifted in June of this year, short- ly after his acquisition from Balti- more. Wertz is more of a home- Tun threat. Lockman, New York’s leadoff hitter, is more consistent. Avila, with a .336 batting mark to Williams’ .225, is the better hit- |ter by far. Davey’s strength lies in his ground-covering and pivot- | making abilities, no small facor i SSS WINTER COMMERCIAL BOWLERS TO MEET All, commercial films inter- ested in sponsoring teams for the winter Commercial Bowling League are requested to have representatives at the Double “A” bowling lanes on Thursday, September 23, at 7 p. m. Those teams which were in the gue are also request- ed to have their representatives Present. The schedule and date of beginning of the league will be discussed. the Giants’ pennant drive. Avila, too, has improved considerably in the field this season. Dark, with 186 hits and a .295 batting average, presents a hit- and-run threat in the No, 2 spot in New York’s hitting order. Strickland is hitting .215 for the year. Off his most valuable Player per- formance of 1953, Rosen has had a disappointing season. His .300 average sprinkled with 24 home nothing to sneeze at. But last year, he hit .336 with 43 circuit blows and 145 RBI’s. Thompson, the Giants’ third base man, is a first-rate ‘glove man, month and currently shows 26 homers and 86 runs batted in. Both clubs have versatile infield reserves, First Basemen Player, Club G AB RH HR RBI PCT. Wertz, Cle. 120 383 38 99 16 6) .258 Lockman,N.Y. 143 556 72 142 16 60 Second Basemen Avila, Cle. 139 545 109 183 14 65 | Williams,N.Y, 1 9 46 3 69 | Dark, N.Y, Strickland,Cle. 100 3B. Thea % 101 * 119 Shortstops Rosen, Cle. ap onn.Y, Majeski,Cle, Dente, Cle. Regalado,Cie, Glyna, Cle. Cast’man,N.Y. Hofman, N.Y, Gardner, 3 | Amitano,N.Y. Player, PO AE DP PCT. Wertz, Cle. 541 48 53 .988 Lockman, N.Y, 1231 988 Second Basemen ‘341 402 974 336 383 981 Shortstops Dark, N. 283. 477 956 958 957 Avila, Cle. Williams, N.Y. Strickland, ‘Cle. 187 295 Third Basemen 139 123 26; Utility 62 Rosen, Cle. Thompson, N.Y, Majeski, Dente, Cle. Regalado, Glynn, Cle. Castleman, N.Y. Hofman, N.Y. Gardner, N.Y Amalfitano. INDUSTRIAL LOOP ACTION STARTS HERE Action will get underway tonight in the Industrial Bowling League with 16 teams racing for the cham- pionship. 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NAVARRO, INC. 601 Duval Street Telephone 2-7041 runs and 101 runs batted in is| [Navy Golfers In Pensacola Tournament The Naval Base Goif Team has just returned from the Sixth Na- val District Golf Tournament held in Pensacola, Florida with runner- up honors. The tournament was a 72 hole medal play event 13 - 16 Sept. The Key West golfers found the Pensacola Golf Course a real ob- stacle course, with narrow fair- ways, sandy roughs and pitted | greens. The fairways, if you have not played there, are narrow and lined with pine trees. The Pensa- cola Navy players edged Key West 24 strokes with a total of 1261 to take the 6" D rotating team trophy. The Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn. team placed third with a total of 1291. The participants Key West were Gene Witzel SurAsDevDet, Larry Rouse of Hs:, Adam Borylo of HS1, Jimmy Wor- sham of the Naval Station and L. J. Haire of the Naval Station. The field consisted of 59 entries throughout the 6ND. The top six places were captured by the fol- lowing: Champion Andy Petnuch, Pensacola; Runner - up Joe Mac- Donald, Memphis; Third Bill Scar- brough, Memphis; Fourth J. J. Christopherson, Whiting Field; Fif- th Gene Witzel, Key West; Sixth position was tied by Larry Rouse and Adam Borylo of Key West. The highlight of the tournament was on the 378 yard par 4, 12th hole of the second 18 holes when Gene Witzel sank a seven iron shot from 140 yards out from the green for an eagle 2. Strand Defeated The Babe Ruth All-Stars defeat- ed the Strand Theater team, 7 - 5 in the final game o: their series at the Wickers Field | Stadium. Hoppy hurled for the Stars giv- ing up just five hits and fanning 12 batters. Snow hurled for the losers and gave up ten hits. L. Curry hit three singles, Sims and Saunders had doubles and Hop- py a triple for the winners. Casas, Key and Snow paced the losers at the plate. Four errors also hurt the Strand cause. representing | of | basebail | Douglass High Gridders Meet Delray Beach In Opener Sat. Battle Of T’s Looms At H igh School Field The Delray Beach Car- ver Eagles will do battle with the Douglass Tigers Saturday night, and the out- come will be an interesting |one from more than one as- pect. These two teams have a coincidence but both teams run from the “T”. In any case Coach Pompey will when they invade the Island City this week-end. The Carver Coach is recognized as an astute strate- gist by gridiron followers all over the district, and the state for that matter. Coach White and his Tigers are aware of the lightning like charges wheeling of their backs as the Tig- ers took this outfit into camp last season. This game should test the speed of the Tigers as they are certain to meet a bevy of smooth perform- ing, lightning-like backfield men. The Green and White can prove its mettle in stopping these expon- ents of the “T,’” who handle the ball with the finesse of collegians. Coach Charles White has been drilling on pass defense as a means of polishing his Tigers defense for Saturday night. They have shown a need for quite a bit of brushing his boys will not be taken from | Tigerland if the Beach backs are | not forced to keep their attack on terra firma. Douglass has an aerial attack that may not be lethal but might prove its worth because of the harassing effect. Short bullet like | the same size student bodies | }from which to draw their j« teams, and it might be just | of the Carvermen, and the free-| |the air. There’ll be little joy in} | | PHILADELPHIA W—The jrent owners of the fF Athletics called a ser | door “let's maki , u meetings today 4 {ball club will be matter of hours. cur- | be hia pals involved seemed ready concede the A’s would be sold to |e Arnold Johnson of Chi: franchise moved to be The Chicago T: last night it had le: authority the A’s would be sold to | ¢ Johnson within 24 hours. Johnson |r declined to comment on that time! reported | h: have a well dri:led efficient outfit | element but said his previous offer | that at long last thin, |to buy the ball club still stood. |b | Roy and Earle Mack, who own ly over two months to w ing \Deidtan On At Dike Today 1 and Dec terested part 1. That es slight- nd things etween Oct ives any in P. The Associated P; Tess was toid Titatively last n t that sale in’t possibly ed in a matter of hours, t place, Johnson report- ly a verbal offer Pp n writing \ The American League would ave to approve the sale and any from high | transfer of the franchise to another ity. Those little details would equire more than a few hou~ However, there was a feeling gS were realy eginning to jell. | the controlling stock interest in the | A’s along with their fath Connie | Mack Sr., gave indirect credence eee |Joe’s Blacksmith Shop to the general belief sontething was | Outside Welding - Machina Works afoot by scheduling a series of meetings today. { The whole deal showed every sign of still being in the talking | stage but reaching the limit of that ; Phase. A major league rule forbids | the transfer of a franchise except Boxing Resulis | ‘TUESDAY'S FIGHTS NEW ORLEANS — Carlos Chavez, 140%, Los Angeles, outpointed Bobby Woods. | 135M, Spokatie, 10. 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