The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1954, Page 12

Cates, Stickney Pace Attack Behind Superb Line Here Friday By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor The Key West High School juggernaut roared to life last night and pinned a stinging 12-0 defeat on the Miami Tech Blue Devils in a bruising gridiron contest fought be- fore some 3,900 fans. THE YARDSTICK Key West 8 288 Miami Tech 3 17 _ FIRST DOWNS ° YARDS GAINED RUSHING PASSES ATTEMPTED ' PASSES COMPLETED YARDS GAINED PASSING FUMBLES OWN FUMBLES RECOVERED PENALTIES 4 10 15 ~ Led by full back Mike Cates, and aided considerably half back Red Stickney, the Conchs dominated the ball game and rolled up an impressive 288 yards on the ground while a rockbound Key West defense was hold- ing the Techmen to but three first downs. But a series of costly fumbles at crucial points cost the locals a larger 43 g i : if ‘i 5 3 ti ay [ point, picking up 30 yards on just five running plays, mostly around the ends. But a 15 yard penalty set the lo- cals back to their own 40 and Stickney was smeared on a pass try from a kick formation. Higgs punted down to the Tech 40 and the end of the quarter saw the Conchs in possession after Frank Hood had recovered a Tech fum- injur- | ble. The two teams battled even |, it the second quarter and the first Key West score came with just 25 seconds remaining in the half. It started on the 32 yard line - | after Everett Atwell had carried a quarter when receive. their own ates line, a- 'g pass try, ito the Miami ied his way nowhere, to the Key received it back to the Sticfney on the immage, pick- at six yards — and the pigskin, a develop- ent that nearly gave the: Tech- men a TD. The visitors went into a tricky ad at this point but two ground jays were foiled by the hard-dig- ging Key West forward wall and & pass was batted down by de- fensive halfbacks Joe Russo. But a fivé yard penalty against gave the visitors the on the six and things looked chs, at this point, buck- and drove the Blue De- ck five yards. A five yard Penalty aided the Conchs they took over on their own ard line. ickney started to move at this g 45.68 g fe z 2 : : i z Z ie z Fs om ae 5 gee gs H REREESE# 3 fot punt from the 50. . Haney then clicked with a pass to. John Carbonell — good for 21 yards to the Tech 12 yard line — one of the two aerials that Key West completed last night. Key West worked through the middle of the line but. they could go nowhere. But a Tech penalty put the ball on the one yard line from where Cates plunged over. Haney’s kick was wide and .the score was 6-0. Key West's second . touchdowa came as the.climax of an 8 yard march on just nine plays. Mike Cates and Stickney provid- ed the drive behind fine blocking, paruealey . from quarterback George Reese. The scofe came from the 14 yard line, when Cates went through cen- ter and found a hole goalward. The kick was again wide. The Conchs then ran out the with a series of running plays. GRIDIRON GLEANINGS: If ere- dit is due to any one man for last night’s victory, it-is Coach Harold Allen, The hours of hard work he has put in on the practice field meant the difference, His lineman were shapr. George Reese’ blocking was a thing of beauty. He continually took out the flankers n a highly successful series of end sweeps throughout the evening. Tech went om the move in the third quarter when they switched their attack to a series of inside reverses that required several plays for the Conchs to solve. The cowd was considerably thin- ner than the opener — probably be- cause of lot of fans were expect- ing rain. It didn’t come, though. A boy named Dempsey Riggs got Complete TV Service * SALES: 1955 Zenith, RCA, Motorola * ANTENNA INSTALLATIONS, featuring the FINCO 400SA, CHANNEL 4 YAGI and CHANNEL MASTER CHAMPION * COMPLETE, GUARANTEED TV SERVICE... 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Carbonell Brantley Henriquez DeMeritt Garcia Hood Kerr Reese Stickney LE LT LG c RG RT RE QB LHB Knight Talles Pike Hoffman Hempen De Francisco Moriris Grice Karanikas RHB Lounders z FB Howard Key West Substitutions Backs: Higgs, Russon, Yates, Atwell. Ends: Favors, Puig, McMahon, Parks. Guards: vedo. Center: Curry. Miami Tech Substitutions Backs: Sierra, Boyd, Roberts, Monteagudo, Finney. Ends: Hartman, Teal. Guards: Reid. sage Hrychowian, Groni- in, Bazo, Albury, Ace- Football Scores Wright Jr. College 25, Northern Mitinois Jayvees | 12 ‘Thiel 19, St. Vincent (Pa.) 6 Miami 51, Furman 13 heap ge eca) Towa) 20, Central Denver 33, Drake 13 Richmond 40, Hampden-Sydney @ Southeastern St. 38, Ouachita Coll. 4 Doane 21, Midland 6 Carthage (Il.) 15 Augustana (Il.) 18, Central (Okia.) State "33, Northwestern Okla.) State Colles ge of Emporia (Kan.) 49, Baker (Kan.) 6 — Valley 6, Northeast Missouri Kansas Wesleyan 21, Bethany (Kan.) 0 Eastern New Mexico 14, Southwestern Arizona State (Tempe) 28, Brighai ‘Young 19 3 . Kid Gavilan needed 7 years, 11 months and 88 fights to win the welterweight fight title. Orioles End With A Surplus By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer The Baltimore Orioles end their first Season of operations today with a surplus of managers, a shortage of playing talent, a sev- enth-place finish and more than a million customers through the turn- stiles. For their final two games against the Chicago White Sox, the Orioles had four, that’s right four, man- agers—Rogers Hornsby, who hasn’t been near the club in two seasons, Marty Marion, who also runs the White Sox, Jimmy Dykes and Paul Richards. As of Sunday it will be Richards all alone. Hornsby has had his last payment on a 3-year contract with the old St. Louis Browns and Marion, fired last season, has fin- ished his contract. Dykes, working on a l-year deal, has been re- placed by Richards. The seventh-place finish is one notch higher than the club finished a year ago when it operated in St. Louis. But the won and lost record will be exactly the same unless the Orioles win today. The crowd total of 1,046,155/ through last night is 333,237 above | the all-time St. Louis record. | Richards sat in the press box last night as his new team beat his old team 2-1 on a five-hitter by bonus | rookie Billy O'Dell, his first major league victory. The new manager said he fig- ures he can make the Orioles a first division contender next sea- son. Dykes said the same thing at the start-of the year. Marion was fired because he said the club looked like a seventh place team to him. “If you could just put a couple of good hitters in the lineup you’d see quite a @ifjgpames,” Richards de- clared. A WORD OF ADVICE—Key West guard Nilo Acevedo gets last second advice from line coach Harold Allen during dark moment of last night's clash. Acevedo Dick Kerr with his back to the camera. shone on spot defense. That's DRESSEN SUGGESTED WASHINGTON (®—Chuck Dres- sen, a managerial type unknown to Washington baseball fans, was re- ported today in line to manage the Senators, but a club official said Dressen “has not yet signed.” READ THE CITIZEN DAILY) Baltimore and the White Sox, like the other 14 major league teams, were scheduled to end their seasons Sunday but the game was moved up to free the park for a football game. Elsewhere in the majors yester- day the Detroit Tigers whipped the pennaat-winning Cleveland Indians 6-4. Philadelphia surprised the New York Yankees 5-1. Washington won twice at Boston, 1-0 in 11 innings and 6-4. Milwaukee finished out its protested game with Cincinnati and won 4-3, then defeated St. Louis 4-2 in the first three-team doublehead- er in baseball history. Brooklyn shaded Pittsburgh 6-5 and the champion New York Giants split at Philadelphia, winning 1-0 and losing 4-2. Cleveland’s loss left the Indians only two games in which to break the all-time winning record of 110 games in the American League. Ted Gray held them to two hits in the first eight innings and a ninth- inning rally fell short. Arnold Portocarrero of the Ath- letics, one of the only bright spots in the Philadelphia picture, held the Yankees to five hits while Jack Littrell and Lou Limmer hit home runs. Chuck Stobbs of the Senators beat his old Boston mates for the fourth time this year as he went | all the way in the 11-inning vic-| tory. Two 3-run Washington rallies pinned the seventh loss of the sea-| son on Mel Parnell in the nightcap. | The double defeat dropped the Red Sox into a fourth-place tie with De- troit and left Washington only a game away from first division. The protested game at Milwau- kee originally ended Wednesday with the Braves beating Cincinnati 3-1. But Manager Birdie Tebbetts | of the Redlegs won a reversal of| an interference ruling in the ninth jand when play resumed yesterday a single by Johnny Temple and an error brought home the tieing runs. Milwaukee won it anyway with a run in the last of the ninth and wrapped up the St. Louis victory with three runs in the first two| innings. | Cincinnati had no regular game | scheduled yesterday and made the round trip from Chicago, where they play today, to play what amounted to 2-3 of an inning. Gil Hodges hit a 3-run homer and Duke Snider hit over the fence | with one aboard in Brooklyn’s | victory. Don Liddle checked the Phils on five hits in the Giants’ victory but Philadelphia jumped on Windy Mc- Call and George Spencer for four runs in the second inning of the | second game on two singles, three walks and an error. BE SAFE— Buy Your Paints from Monroe Specialty Co, 1930 FLAGLER AVE. Printing... Embossing Engraving ... Rubber Stamps The Ariman Press Phone Greene Street 2-5661 Douglass Tigers Meet Delray Beach Tonight Wide-Open Tilt Seen For Local Debut For Tigers The Green and White will defend its lair against the talons of the Eagles of Delray Beach tonight at 8:00 p. m. at the Key West Athle- tie Field. First game jitters are evident with some members of the squad. However, there are enough battle tried vets to quiet the ‘‘nerves” of rookies. In a workout under the lights the Tigers showed promise in the right departments. Big Edward “Turk” Clarke showed well with his bull like rushes. Joe Kee and Donald Carey were efficient in the pitch out plays. In the forward wall Theo- dore Suarez was a standout on de- fense and offense. The Tigers must operate tonight as a well knit unit because of the number on the squad. This factor will stare them in the face right down to the final whistle of the final game. F Delray Beach will offer its us- ual bag of tricks. These tricks can begin at the kickoff as was evi- denced here several years. ago. | The Eagles had a kickoff forma- tion that really set up the opposi- tion for the kill. Tonight will be no exception for the Delray Beach boys as they are out to avenge the defeat of last season at the hands of the Tigers. Injuries have been few in the Tigers’ lair, and fortunately so be- cause of the limited squad. Billy Pittman and Clarke are off the in- jured list. Alfred Curry and James | Leland are the two Douglass quar- terbacks for this game. Both of these boys ‘should see plenty of ac- tion. Terminal positions are handled by two sure fingered boys | Wardell Hanna and William Pitt-| man. The lineups: Carver High . Tucker . Gadson Patrick Thompson Spells Monroe Allen Norfus . Mitchell . Evans A. Johnson Douglass W. Pittman J. Carey C. Fisher N. Bennett R. Whyms W. Hanna J. Kee E. Clarke D. Carey Curry ZhROzSSme a 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 We Close the 27th T. Suarez | Page 12 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, September 25, 1954 Geo. Mikan Retires From Cage By JIM KLOBUCHAR MINNEAPOLIS Proud George Mikan, acclaimed the greatest basketball player of the half-century, refused to let ad- vancing years blemish a magnifi- cent career today and retired from the game. Around the 6-10 Minneapolis Laker superstar swirled rumors that he might be enticed back by a more attractive salary offer. But Mikan, selected by the Asso- ciated Press in 1950 as baskethall’s all-time Sreat, denied that his de- cision was provoked by a salary squabble, or that he would re- consider. He said he was quitting to devote full time to his law Practice, and that at 30, he had few starring years left. “I’m human, I want to quit at the peak of my career, while Mikan is still Mikan,” the fabled “Big 99” said, adding: “I don’t see how anything could Persuade me to change my mind.” years with the impetus of Mikan’s the decision. If Mikan is in earnest, it means Laker officials, whose teams had | won six championships in seven | record scoring, were startled by) Game To Resume Law Practice the end of a career which more than any other, left an extraordi- nary personal imprint on the game, Star From Start From the years when he carried DePaul University to national championships in the early '40s, Mikan has raised the so-called “Big Goon” to fespectability in basketball. 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