The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 27, 1954, Page 6

Offensive Drills Slated For Conch Footballers Key West Has Open Date Friday; JayVee Clash Slated Any hope on the part of mem- vers of the Key West High School jJootball team that they might have a respite from their strenuous drill schedule, after knocking off an ex- tremely competent Miami Tech eleven, was dispelled today wher Coach Ed Bekman said he’il have ais boys working today on sharpen- | ng up their offense in preparation ‘or a battle with Sanford here Oct. The varsity has an open date Fri day while the Jayvee squad, coach- ad by Walt Chwalik will do battle ‘with the Hialeah footballers. And the eight practice sessions ‘eft for the Conchs before they tac- | Mle Sanford is little enovgh time — they’ll be tackling the real meat of an extremely rugged schedule ‘hen. Every team they meet from iere on out will be better than the last one. Beckman said that he will pay yarticular attention to the Conch’s offensive game. Their passing will also come in for a lot of attention. “We should have thrown a lot ‘nore passes Friday when Tech oaled up their line,’ commented Seckman, He added that if the Conchs could have worked in more aerial vork “it would haye saved a lot | f wear and tear on the ballplay- | crs.” Key West came through the Tech elash in surprisingly gool physical vondition, considering the bruising | nature of the competition. Red Stickney underwent consid- | table discomfort over the week- | nd as a result of the beating he 90k, He has two black eyes, a cut | over his eye, a lacerated tongue, | plit lip and various and sundry | ther bruises. But he’ll be back} or more this afternoon. And Beckman is not displeased vith the fact that two of his per- ormers on the sicklist last week, | rill probably report for drills this .fternoon. They are scatback No- yan Allen anl tackle Lew Me- ‘ain. Allen has been having tou- | le with his leg while McLain suf- sored a cracked rib. Friday’s victory put the Conchs ito a three-way tie for the lead} 1 the Gold Voast Conference with ‘urley and Miami Beach. Miami, “ech and South Dade are at the “ottom of the standings while South | sroward has yet to make its first | conference start. | Key West and South Broward | re defending co-champions. Major League Leaders FINAL MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING —Avila, Cleveland, .341 RUNS-Mantle, New York, 128 | . RUNS BATTED IN-Doby, Cleveland, | HOME RUNS-~Doby, Cleveland, 32 PITCHING—Consuegra, Chicago, 16-3, NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING-Mays, New York, .345. RUNB- Snider, Brooklyn and Musial, 8t. Touis, 120. RUNS BATTED IN-Kluszewski, Cincin. ati, 141. HOME RUNS — Kluszewski, Cincinnait, 49 qprtCHING Antonelli, New York, 21-7, Joe’s Blacksmith Shop! Outside Welding - Machine Works We Build All Type Tanks REBUILD GEARS PHONE 2-5658 — 614 Front Street |Umble, VFW = | Bratkovic, Johnnies Place | New York | Cincinnati | Pittsburgh | Cleveland Johnnies Place Bowlers Cop City Bowling Championship Johnnies Place, of 520 Grinnell St. took top honors in the first Key West City Bowling Championship Tournament. This Tournament, sponsored by the Knights of Col- umbus, consisted of the top two teams from each of the summer leagues, Civic League, Industrial League and Commercial League. All bowling leagues in the area jhave organized under the Key West Bowlers Association, sanc- tioned by the American Bowling Congress. This year’s winner is not recognized by the ABC, as being the City Championship Team. Com- mencing with the winter bowling tournaments all leagues and bowl- ers must be members of the Am- erican Bowling Congress. The bowl- ing alley’s must also be sanction- ed and approved by the ABC. Player-Team— Borylo, Johnnies Place — Brown, Johnnies Place Barber, VFW Gilmore, VFW _ Ward, Johnnies Place Meyers, Westinghouse Tharp, Johnnies Place — Copesky, Key West Supply Greenwood, Key West Supply Spear, Key’ West Supply —._________.. Brusso, VFW = Wegrzynck, Westinghouse ___ eas Bilderback, Johnnies Place Fradette, K of C ____ Elder, Key West Supply St. Peter, Westinghouse Van Eepoel, K of C . Mycek, VFW ae Santanemmo, Home Milk ._. W. Christopher, Home Milk Fuller, Home Milk .- Yaccarino, K of C Herrick, Westinghouse Weaver, Westinghouse —.. Pride, Home Milk a Brownstein, Key West Supply Stevens, Key West Supply Supermau, Westinghouse Wood, VFW __ | Cruz, VFW Davis, K of C .... Anderson, Home Milk L .Christopher, Home Milk Baseball Resalis FINAL BASEBALL STANDINGS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL Won Lost Pet. Behind Brooklyn Milwaukee Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago RSRBReu! Vester Results New York 3. delphia 2 Brooklyn 1, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago 5, Cincinnati 2 St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 0 AMERICAN Won Lost Pet. Bebied ml 43.721 New York 51 Chicago Boston | Detroit Washington Baltimore __.... Philadelphia Yeste! Results Detroit 8, Cleveland 7 Philadephia 8, New York 6 Boston 11, Washington 2, (Only games scheduled) SUNDAY'S PLAYOF! ‘SULTS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Louisville 3, Indianapolis 1 (Louisville wins best of 7 finals 41) INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Syracuse 3, treal (Best of 7 MONDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Houston (TL) at Atlanta (SA) (Houston leads in best of 7 series 3-3) | NOTICE LIFE-TIME —The Only Battery with a 6-YEAR BOND ED GUARANTEE! v Vastly more power, quicker starts! ¥ Bounces back to life otter being completely run down! ¥ Lasts years longer! One price for all cars: $29.95 (6-volt) MOPAR PARTS DEPT. NAVARRO, INC. 601 Duval Street Telephone 2-7041 Paul Dennis of Johnnies Place was chairman of the Tournament. Final results of the Tournament are as follows: Johnnies Place VFW Key West Supply Westinghouse Home Milk 5923 K of C 5746 High Average — G. Barber-VFW- 85 7444 7114 6735 6728 1 High Single Game — T. Brown- Johnnies Place - 233 High Individual Series — K. Mey- er - Westinghouse - 580 High Team Set — Johnnies Place 893 High Team Series — Johnnies Place - 2525 Final Individual averages: Games Average 2 195 186 185 117 176 175 174 166 166 163 162 158 155 154 154 152 148 148 147 147 145 143 142 138 136 135 135 134 134 133 132 130 128 126 124 119 115, 114 111 WW O92 WD DW OM OOOOOG WSO MDOIOIOWMWEOOMOOA Sports Roundup { By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—This seems a good day to nominate the player who is destined to have the great- est influence on the outcome of the World Series. Our choice for the distinction is Hoyt Wilhelm, the knuckle-balling relief specialist of the Giants, and the reasoning goes like this: If Wilhelm can baffle the Indians for two or three late innings at a stretch the way he has baffled the best hitters in the National league all season, the Giants wi'l in all probability win the set. If he can’t you’ve got to like Cleve- | land’s’ chances. Maybe it’s not quite that simple, but it’s close. There can be little question that “| the righthanded North Carolinian is the greatest game-saver around to- day. If the circumstances are right he will be in there nearly every day the play-off lasts, because he needs no rest between his heroics. In the course of the season just closed Wilhelm strode in from the bullpen in approximately one out of every three Giants games and scored 12 victories against only four defeats, two of the latter at the hands of Pittsburgh, no less. His earned-run average was an ‘amazing 2:15 per game and vir- ‘tually nothing per inning. He has not lost a game since July 23, though he has stuck his neck out :21 times in that period. | There was not quite the usuel |call on Wilhelm’s services during the season, because the veteran Marv Grissom also proved himself a remarkably effective reliever ,than the knuckle-baller normally excels. In the last two months | though, Grissom lost some of his j effectiveness while Wilhelm was be- | coming unbeatable. | The Indians have seen less of | the knuckler than of any other Gi- {ants pitcher. Leo Durocher used |him very sparingly in the spring exhibitions, because he knows what he can do when the proper time comes. Even so, our Cleveland in- formant says the Tribe batters are more jittery at the prospect of facing his butterfly ball than they are about Sal Maglie’s curve or ' Johnny Antonelli’s fast one. | Millions of television fans wiil have a chance to see for them- selves what it means to try to even catch the particular type of knuck- iler that Wilhelm throws, much less. hk it. They will see catcher Wes I World Series To Be Richest On Record By JOE RIECHLER NEW YORK ® — The New York Yankees will be missing from the scene for the first time in six years as the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants come to grips Wednesday in what is almost certain to be the richest of all 51 World Series. With two huge arenas — Cleve- land’s Municipal Stadium seating 86,000 and New York’s Polo Grounds seating 52,000—this could produce a record pool for the play- ers with each winning share total- ing $10,000 and each losing share about $8,000. The players share in | the receipts of the first four games. | Should the series go the full dis- tance of seven games — and many jexperts believe it will — a new attendance mark is certain to be set. The first two games in the best-of-seven will be played at the Polo Grounds, Wednesday and Thursday. All games will begin at 1:00 p.m. (EST), Then, with no interruption for travel, the battleground will shift to Cleveland for games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Should the issue still be undecided, the scene will shift back to New York next Monday and Tuesday. The series should develop into one of the most exciting and close- ly fought in many years, Led by two colorful managers — Al Lopez and Leo Durocher — the Indians and Giants are both op- portunist clubs, featuring standout Pitching, tight defense, clutch hit- ting and ability to come from be- hind with last ditch rallies. The Indians already have been established as 17 to 10 favorites, mainly because the brilliant pitch- ing of their “big eight” that was so instrumental in setting an Amer- ican League record of 111 vie- tories. The American League’s vast su- periority over the National in ser- ies competition probably had much to do with making the Indians such a prohibitive favorite. Thanks largely to 16 Yankee triumphs, the American leads by a margin of 33-17. The last National League victory was by the St. Louis Cardi- nals in 1946. The Indians’ World Series record is spotless — two series, two world | championships. The Giants have | appeared in 13 fall classics and | won four. Durocher has a poor World Ser- jies record. He lost twice to the} Yankees, once with the 1941 Dod- | ers and then with the 1951 Giants. | This will be Lopez’ first World | Series effort. The Giants and Indians are no strangers to each other. Down through the years, they have met | 263 times in spring training games ; with Cleveland winning 132 times | and the Giants 125. Six games end- \ed in ties. Both managers are confident of |victories although neight expects to win easily. Both Lopez and Durocher have been coy about naming their start- ing pitchers. Leo said he won't an- nounce his starter until Tuesday and it is expected that Loper will follow suit. It would surprise no one if the opening mound oppo- nents are the Giants’ Sal Maglie (14-6) and Bob Lemon (23-7). Following a day of rest today, ‘both clubs will work out at the Polo Grounds tomorrow, the Giants in the morning and the Indians, who are scheduled to leave for New York tonight, in the after- | noon. As in recent years, all games| will be broadcast (Mutual) Ae tel | |evised (NBC) over nationwide net- works, _————_—________| Westrum hopping about like a cat on a hot stove, just seeking to jblock the thing. The reserve Gi- ants catchers usually wear a mask |when they warm him up. | | Wilhelm serves his specialty with | | the Same motion and much the! | same speed as his fast ball. Neither | jeacher nor his catcher ever know | which way the i i eas knuckler ie going | |, “It doesn't matter whether you | | hit left or right, or whether Soul [4 good hitter or a Poor one, the | things fools you,” says Stan Musial. | adtilevele hitters off.” | | is fellow who, we say, is more likely than any other player to have a decisive effect on the se- Ties outcome, one way or the other, | also Tepresents the biggest bar- gain on the Giants roster. They picked him up for $2,500 back in| ey drafted him from | |the Braves’ farm at Mooresville, | |N. C. The Giants though so little | of him that they left him open to | | the Irish, lthe draft for several years and ,didn’t bring him in from Minne j aPolis until ’52. Winter Baseball League Planned A meeting to organize a win- ter baseball league has been called for 8 p. m. Wednesday at 1116 Thompson St., the home of William Cates, assistant city recreation director. Team ma- Magers are requested to be pre- sent. The city will meet part of the expenses of the league, C tes said. Last year there we four teams in the twe Navy and two ci Upsets Mark College Grid Slate Saturday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Notre Dame, apparently headed for new glories under young Terry Brennan, may just stand aside and watch other top contenders for na- | tional football honors kill off them- | selves. | With the season only two weeks old, four teams picked to challenge the Irish for the coveted No. 1 role — Texas, Illinois, Michigan State and Georgia Tech — already have been beaten. Another, Oklahoma, has had a} tight squeeze, having to score twice in the fading minutes to beat Tex- as Christian 21-16, and the Sooners may not be as fortunate Oct. 9 against Texas at Dallas. At least one other recognized power, and possibly more, will fall this week-end when action in- creases with an imposing intersec- tional schedule featuring a clash of two Bowl giants — Maryland and UCLA. Maryland, last year’s mythical rated the best on the Pacific Coasi, tangle Friday night at Los Angeles in a game which is bound to throw new light on the national picture. Wisconsin is at Michigan State, Tennessee at Duke and Mississippi at Villanova in other games in- volving teams which have caught the early fancy of those looking for a bandwagon. Notre Dame, meanwhile, appears | a solid bet to survive its own rugged schedule and go through to the honors for which the team | was picked in the pre-season Asso- ciated Press poll. | For those who might have been | skeptical that the 26-year-old Bren- | nan could step into the shoes of Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, the Fighting Irish had the answer Saturday in a 21-0 triumph over a big, strong Texas team which had} been called the best from the Southwest in years. The Irish entertain an old state | rival, Purdue, this week and are | expected to duplicate approximate- ly last year’s 37-7 score. Texas | was good enough to be picked No. 4 in the pre-season AP poll behind | Oklahoma and Mary-/| land. Oklahoma is idle this week. Illinois, the No. 5 team, was stunned by Penn State, 14-12. Mich Rose Bowl champions, fell before | Towa, 14-10. Georgia Tech, the class of Dixie and rated No. 7 be- fore the season began, lost to aroused Florida, 13-12. Tech was rated fifth in the move recent poll based on the first week’s games. Illinois was No. 6 and Michigan State No. 7 in this lineup, which was headed by Ok- lahoma. The Sooners had a tremendous scare in the game with TCU and barely won in the last quarter after , a sophomore Oklahoma sub, Jim Harris, had taken over for the in- jured Gene Calame, who wrenched | his shoulder. An apparent TCU touchdown was nullified when| TCU’s captain, Johnny Courch, | said an end-zone pass touched the ground. Another major upset saw Army, figured to cop Eastern honors this year, fall before an under-rated South Caolina team 34-20 but Na- vy showed unexpected strength in| whipping William & Mary 27-0. Duke emerged as possibly the | South’s best bet for the national crown by crushing Pennsylvania, 52-0, The Blue Devils face a stern test this week in Tennessee, 19-7 | winner over Mississippi Stat. i UCLA lived up to advance no- tices by thrashing Kansas, 32-7, but the Pacifie Coast got a mild sur- prise when Stanford dumped Ore- gon, a team with Rose Bowl as-| pirations, 18-13. H Hester Battery STARTS 809 TIMES After Only 5 Minutes Rest fm a recent test, a stock Hes- ter Battery was deliberately discharged by engaging the starter on a car, with the switch off, until the battery refused to turn the engine over. The bat- tery was allowed to rest 5 min. utes, the car was then started and the engine stopped immed- jately. This operation -was re peated 809 times before the bat- tery failed. POR ALL MAKES OF CARS LOU SMITH 1116 WHITE STREET Willie Mays Captures Nat’ League Bat Crown With Spurt Phils Gain 4th Place In National By JACK HAND AP Sports Writer the two league batting champions will meet in the world series with Willie Mays (.345) of the New York Giants and Bobby Avila (.341) of the Cleveland Indians topping the hit parade. Mays beat out teammate Don Mueller and Brooklyn’s Duke Snid- er with a three-hit outburst on the final day of the season. Willie ripped into Philadelphia pitching yesterday for a triple, double and single and a final .345 average. Mueller wound up at .342 and Snider at .341. Avila’s triumph in the American league is bound to stir up some | off-season talk. Ted Williams ac- tually had a higher average, .345, but he didn’t have the required 400 official at bats. If the statis- ticians gave him 14 hitless trips to boost his 386 at bat total to 400 he would have finished at .333. Since Cleveland clinched the American league pennant a week ago Saturday and New York elim- inated Brooklyn a week ago, the chief interest in Sunday’s final games was. a scrap for fourth place—and a chunk of world series cash—in each league. The Boston Red Sox, helped by Williams’ 29th homer in a five- run seventh, sewed up fourth in the American league by bopping Washington 11-2. Detroit, with a chance at fourth place if Boston had lost, topped Cleveland 8-7 in 13 innings on Fred Hatfield's two- run homer off Ray Narleski. Philadelphia wound up fourth in the National despite a defeat by the New York Giants, 3-2 in 11 innings. Cincinnati, needing a vic- jtory to tie the Phils, lost to Chi- | cago, 5-2. Karl Spooner, Brooklyn’s bril- liant rookie southpaw, proved his 15-strikeout job against the Giants | Wednesday was no flash in the pan. The 23-year-old Fort Worth grad fanned 12 Pittsburgh batters for a new National league record |of 27 in his first two starts. Gil Hodges’ 42nd homer gave Brook- lyn a 1-0 edge. Wally Moon's 400-foot home run For the first time since 1981, | gave the SM. Louis Cardinals a 20 victory over Milwaukee in 11 inn- ings. Casey Stengel popped up with his new “power”’ infield—Yogi Ber- ra at third, Mickey Mantle at short and Bill Skowron at second—only to see the Philadelphia A’s knock off his New York Yankees 8-6. ries teams didn’t prove much, ex- cept that both are ready. The Indians gave Larry Doby the day off but pitched Mike Garcia 12 innings. Manager Al Lopez ap- parently believes in giving his pitchers a thorough warm-up. Bob I | Philadelphia The final games of the two se-/ Lemon. expected to face Sal Mag- lie in the opener Wednesday, went nine Friday Early Wynn Pitched a complete game Satur- day Johnny Antonelli, the Giants’ top winning her, worked only the first two innings of the finale in Ruben and Maglie had brief tune-ups Satur- day night and Gulfstream Park. 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