The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1954, Page 6

lahoma Victory Seen Over Texas Saturday Duke Favored . , By AP. To Defeat Purdue By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK (#—Last week's rec- ord of only 38 correct guesses in chances suggests the possibility at maybe Dusty Rhodes should sent in to pinch-hit for the reg forecaster. But a bat, ex- Page 6 = =THE KEY WEST CITI: _ ' NEW YORK (®—In all the thous- week's puny. success |ands of sports page symphonies the year’s*average to .761| which have been composed in re- selec. | Cent days to immortalize the feats : of the New York Giants, not one Okighoma over Texas: The Soon-| we have seen mentioned the man weeks to get ready for | who probably had more to do with fashioning the four-game victory Purdue: Even when | over Cleveland than any other. Fel- Notre Dame, as Pur-|low name of Carl Hubbell. last week, you aren’t quite, The -great southpaw who 20 the following w: |. | years ago this summer struck out California over Texas|Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy : Jon Arnett gets better| Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin better as the season goes/in succession in an All-Star Game along. A Friday night contest. has since 1944 been the quiet di- isconsin over Rice: This could | rector of the Giants’ farm system. be as Ameche vs. Moegle and the, With scarce exceptions, it was a the same. Hubbell-built team that scored one jan: Michigan|of the astonishing triumphs of World Series history. Navy Back Pittsburgh: over Virginia: Le- Virginia and oe ne over others without ) FRIDAY NIGHT ‘ D over Presbyterian, Denver over Montana, Miami (Fla) over Holy Cross. ~ SATURDAY ': Army over Dartmouth, College over Miii- Chicagoan Says Time Is Short On A’s Offer By CHARLES CHAMBER‘AIN mple "ov laware, Ni ines Jat “pen Eiidosthe CHICAGO (®—Araold Johnson, over Penn. wealthy Chicago business exec- Uni- Colgate éver Rutgers, Yale over utgers, le over Columbia, Cotnell SOUTH: Florida over Clemson, Maryland over Wake Forest, Ala- bama over ae , Richmond over anova over over Vaaterbit Carolina over Furman, Tech over Louisiana State, over Kentucky, yi issee over State over ier George oe & Mary over : Ohio State over Tlli- over Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Kansas State, Okla- over Wichita, Michi- over Indiana, Kansas Towa State. SOUTHWEST: Baylor over Ar- rseer a - i ty i Arizona, fornia over Oregon, W: nom over gon, Wyoming over Colorado utive, says time is running out on his offer to buy the Philadelphia Athletics and indicates his patience is doing likewise. Johnson has offered to buy the Athletics for a reported $3,375,000. He wants to move the franchise to Kansas City. - “T am getting together a report from my architect, engineers and even iron and steel contractors to determine how long it will take to make the Kansas City park into a big league stadium,” said John- ZEN Thursday, October 7, 1954 Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot Of the nine players—excepting the pitchers—who struck down the Tribe, only one, shortstop Alvin Dark, was not a product of the old “Meal Ticke' that stretches down through the minors. And Dark was obtained in trade for players who did go through the Giants school. Branch Rickey, the man who invented the farm system, must never have done much better than that. The six pitchers who combined to nail down the world champion- ship did not bear quite the same Hubbell stamp. Those who wrestle with such abstract problems might know why a Hall of Fame pitcher would have more success turning out infielders than men who can throw curves, but we don’t get paid for that kind of work. Is Shifted To End . ANNAPOLIS, Md. — History may be repeating itself at the Naval Academy this year where a sophomore quarterback converted to end has fought his way into the starting football lineup. He is William Earle (Bill) Smith of Mobile, Ala., who took over the No. 1 right-terminal spot this week from junior Jim. Owen. Coach Ed- die Erdelatz promoted him after sparkling performances in the Wil- lam and Mary and Dartmouth games and tabbed him a definite starter against Stanford Saturday. Smith, big and fast at 6 feet 1 and 185 pounds, is the only sopho- more to crack the first two teams. Followers of Navy football alread; see in his story a striking parall to that of Dick Duden, who made All-America at Navy in 1945 after he was moved to end from blocking hack. It was at the suggestion of Du- den, now an assistant coach at Navy, that Erdelatz several weeks ago switched Smith from quarter- back where the talent was already gon. “‘At first they told me work | deep. would have to start Sept. 15 to 20 if remodeling is to be completed before the 1955 season opens next April. “That means the deadline has come and gone. They are poised to start work the minute the sigual is given. I will have their latest report by this weekend. If they tell me there is not enough time, I'll withdraw my offer.” . Will Harridge, American League president, has asked Johnson to A&M, Navy over Stan- ford, Washington State over Oregon, hold open his offer and has sched- : ule a meeting of: club owners Tuesday in Chicago to determine the Athletics’ future status. The meeting comes two weeks after a New York session of club owners resulted in granting Roy Mack 14 days to raise $750,000 to buy control of the Athletics. He has bitterly opposed the wishes cf ver owell his father Connie and his brother mee to sell the debt-ridden club By RUSS NEWLAND to the highest rr "PRANCISCO W@—Charley| Clark Griffith of Washington and Norkus, with a seventh-round|Spike Briggs of Detroit have ex- technical knockout over Califor-|Pressed opposition to the A’s move Norkus Gains TKO Victory nia’s latest heavyweight sensation, |t© Kansas City. Mrs, Grace Com- Charlie Powell, figured today he|iskey of the Chicago White Sox had earned a place in the back row] #80 has indicated she would op- ef contenders for the title. pose the shift if Griffith did. Ap- ‘The Port Washington, N.Y., spoil-|PTOval by six of the eight clubs er put the erusher on Powell’s ring| WOuld be needed for the action. aspirations when he battered him in a wild seventh round last night ‘at Civic Auditorium. Colorado Is Only Norkus weighed 193; Powell, of | San Diego 22 Unscored-On Team Norkus had scored an eight-count 2 knockdown before the bout was) NEWYORK, —The University halted in 2:10 of the seventh. | of Colorado stood alone today as Ringsiders first thought Referee ;the only major college football Frankie Carter called it a knock-jteam in the land with an un- out. Carter, however, said after-|crossed goal-line—and the season wards he ruled it a TKO. He said/is still in its infancy. he had not finished the full count] The Buffaloes have blanked “and stopped the fight when Powell ; Drake, Colorado A & M. and Kan- started to crawl up from the can-|sas, and are the eighth-ranking vas. team in total yardage yielded, ac- Powell shot over. short right to| cording to statics released the jaw in the first round that put | Thursday by the National Colle- Norkus on the canvas. There was | giate Athletic Bureau. it was not a byt a slip.| Richmond leads in total defense In his dressing room after the | despite giving up 233 yards to VMI battle, Norkus said: “Certainly I/ last week. Syracuse heads the pass was ersero er It was. a sas oe list. stiff it and I went down from ississippi heads the country in it.” jefense along the ground, having Powell, former San Franeisce | given up only 18 yards to Villanova 4er football ‘star, engaging in his | last week for an average of 44.7 18th fight, hurt his right hand in| per game. e >cond-revnd. Dr. Don Las- “He was too good a player to keep on thé bench, so we made the switch,” Erdelatz said. “It’s work- ing out fine.” The Navy head coach calls Smith a natural ball player and the 20- year-old Alabaman, who was a high school All-American at Univer- sity Military School, probably came by his football instincts nat- urally. His father, Earle Sr., was a star end and fullback for Wallace Wade at Alabama from 1926 through 1928 and played on Wade’s first Rose Bowl team. The elder Smith joined his son in. work-outs at Mo- bile last summer to get him in shape for the football season. Baseball Set Here Sunday The Poinciana Giants will crogs bats with the Cuban Club in an exhibition baseball game Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. by tig Howard and Jones will be th battery for the Giants with Lewis and Roberts going for the Cuban Club. Both of the teams have entered the newly formed Winter League. Woodruff Moans After Gator Drill GAINESVILLE (#—Florida foot- ball Coach Bob Woodruff made it plain after yesterday’s practice that the Gators would need to look better against Clemson Saturday than in scrimmage. “They looked terrible today,” he said. “It looks as though we will have to call another scrimmage | session.” The workout emphasized de- fense. Freshmen and reserves made-several sizable gains through the air and that's where Clemson is strong. : : Quarterback Don King, injured since the season rary es enough to play a half game aga VPI last ants and ‘during that tim completed 12 passes. The Gators as a whole are in good physical condition. Bob Gantt was leading scorer football team in 13 touchdown. He wt |trounced Nebraska and Pittsburgh Survey Shows New Coaches Fare Badly NEW YORK #—Most of the sev- enteen colleges that made changes in “their football coaching ranks after last season are finding that a new head coach is not always the answer to a successful season. A check today shows that the 17 new coaches, nine of them in their first year as head man, have won only nine games, They have lost assembly line | 35, Only Murray Warmath, who re- placed Wes Fesler at Minnesota, and Darrell Royal of Mississippi State have winning records after the early weeks of the football campaign. Warmath’s Gophers ‘have while Royal, who took over War- math’s old job at Mississippi State, defeated Memphis State, lost to Tennessee and then overwhelmd Arkansas State for a 2-1 perform- ance, Terry Brennan, 26-year-old coach who replaced Frank Leahy at No- tre Dame, started off on the right foot with a victory over Texas. But then the Irish were upset last Sat- urday by Purdue. The football situation at Pennsyl- vania is a very grim one for Head Coach Steve Sebo. Sebo was ap- pointed last winter after serving as an assistant to Ciarence (Big- gie) Munn at Michigan State. He has tasted defeat in his first two games. Sebo’s troubles began with a trouncing by the powerful Duke Blue Devils and last week the Quakers were outmanned by Wil- liam and Mary. He brought his Michigan State’s multiple-offense to Penn but nothing seems to be working right. At Michigan State, Hugh (Duff) Daugherty was promoted from an assistant to head coach when Munn advanced to the athletic director- ship. His club, last year’s Big Ten Rose Bowl winners, lost its first two games to powerful Iowa and Wisconsin. Earl Edwards, another ex-Michi- gan State assistant moved to North Carolina State, where he’s seen his team defeated three times. State, a member of the powerful Atlantic Conference, has scored only 12 points while its opponents have compiled 67. Charles V. Mather, who didn’t even apply for the job, was hired by Kansas to succeed Jules V. Sikes. Mather in his first year as a head coach has seen his Jay- hawkers trounced in their first three games. The Jayhawkers lost to Texas Christian, UCLA and Colorado, For his first year as a head coach, Blanton Collier, former Cleveland Brown assistant, took over for Paul Bryant at Kentucky while Bryant moved over to Texas A&M. Collier’s inexperienced Wildcats have one victory against two losses. Bryant’s Aggies also have one victory and two setbacks. Towa State, coached by Vince di Francesca, and Detroit’s Wallace Fromhart eaeh has one victory compared with two defeats. Three other coaches lost their first two games. They were Fran- cis X. Regan at Villanova, Tulane’s Andy Pilney and F. L. Ferzacca at Marquette. It’s the first year as a head coach for Regan and Pilney. Out in the Far West Neil Stahley, Roy (Robbie) Robertson and Joe Lindahl have found tough going. Stahley’s Idaho eleven has dropped three games. Robertson’s club at Colorado College and Lindahl’s team at Colorado State also have lost the same number without a victory. Lopez Is Feted In Tampa Wed. TAMPA (—It’s back to the TAMPA it’s back to the domino table and the golf course for Al Lopez who can have any- thing he wants in this hero-wor-| shipping city. a His hometown went on a big spree for him yesterday, staging a parade and street dance and showering him with al] sorts of | flowery words. People forgot all about the Cleve- land Indians, which Lopez manag- es, dropping four straight games | to the New York Giants in the world series. | Shouts of “We'll get them next year” greeted Lopez along the pa- rad route. Lopez plans a quiet time here where he grew. up and played sand lot baseball before getting started in pro ball. Much of his idle time is spent playing dominoes with old cronies. Subscribe To The Citizen Challenge Out For Softball Contest The Key West Independents have. issued @ formal challenge to the Dairy Queen softball team to play a five game ser- jes for the city championship. The Dairy Queen won the first half championship in the Island City Softball League and the Independents were far ahead in the second. half when the league disbanded. The Independents played un- der the name of Howard John- sons before they went on their own, Manager Bobby Brown, of the Independents, claims he has the top team in the city. “Let's hear from you Dairy Queens,” says he. Sacrifice Fly | Rule Aided 7 Major Leaguers NEW YORK, (#—Seven major league players, headed by Brook- lyn’s Gil Hodges, have the sacri- fice fly to thank for their .300 or better batting averages in 1954. Figures compiled by the Associa- ted Press reveal that Hodges wound up the season with 19 sacri- fice flies—most in the majors. The Dodgers’ first baseman batted -304. Counting the sacrifice flies | as times at bat, as was done in 1953, his average would have been 294. The others to hit .300 or better because of the rule change were Sid Gerdon of the Pirates, who hit .305 instead of .298; Andy Carey of the Yankees, .301 instead of .297; Bill Sarni of the Cards and Al Rosen of the Indians, both .300 in- stead of .294 and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Jim Finigan of the A’s, both .300 instead of .298. The rule, adopted at the start of the season, nullifies a time at bat for a batter who scores a run- ner from third base on a fair fly ball. Included in the playing rules from 1908 until 1931, the sacrifice fly was abolished after the rule had been changed in 1926 to give credit anytime a runner advanced a base on a fly ball. The original rule was restored in 1939, but dropped again after one year. Players in\ both major leagues produced 778 sacrifice flies and as a result, the total batting average increased 2.4 points. The teams accumulated an overall .2609 bat- ting average. If Ithe sacrifice fly was not in effect, the clubs would have only a .2585 mark. Despite the genera} increase of batting averages, the number of SEC Teams Work Overtime To Polish Offense For Sat. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern Conference football teams polished up ground and passing attacks Wednesday in prep- aration for Saturday’s games. Tulane, still looking for its first victory of the season, worked over- time on a passing attack designed to beat Mississippi State. Coach Andy Pilney let Fred Wilcox, Earl Hubley and Johnny Caruso take turns in the quarterback spot Mississippi State practiced 90 minutes in a drizzling rain. The first and second teams were given heavy contact work. At Lexington, Coach Blanton Collier sent his Kentucky squad through a tough drill and ended the session with a full - length scrimmage. The varsity worked against freshmen imitating the publicized X and Y teams on Auburn, Kentucky’s SEC foe Sat- urday night. Auburn in turn scrimmaged long and hard. The freshmen, using Kentucky plays, ran over the var- sity for three touchdowns in five minutes of play. “Watching this gives us plenty to work on,” said Coach Ralph Jordan. Coach John Vaught used three teams in polishing Mississippi's ground attack for the meeting with Vanderbilt at Nashville Sat- urday night. The teams ran ground plays until dark with Houston Pat- ton, Eagle Day and John Blalock alternating at quarterback. At Nashville, Coach Art Guepe sent his Vanderbilt reserves against the freshmen in the hope of spotting additional strength to! hurl against Mississippi. ‘We're going to need all the men we can get,” Guepe said. The Louisiana State University | squad concentrated on passing for the Georgia Tech contest. Coach Gaynell Tinsley said the passing | was better than at any time in recent weeks and he expected the team to make a favorable show- ing Saturday. Georgia Tech Coach Bobby Dodd shifted Ken Thrash from end to tackle during a -‘polishing up” scrimmage for the game with Louisiana State. Thrash broke a bone in his foot this summer and has never fully recovered his speed. ! ‘Tatum Defends Football In Magazine Story NEW YORK, (#®—Coach Jim Ta- tum of Maryland, who never | ducked a controversy, has turned author to enter a ringing defense jof college football | The sport comes in for too much {undeserved abuse, the jowly Ter. |Tapin tutor says, and so it’s time somebody wrote what is “right” | with the campus sport. He does {so in the latest Parade Magazine, | Here’s how Tatum answers par. |ticular criticisms: | Football regiments players too | much: “Discipline and training |are necessary for any sport, but i nobody forces a boy to practice or Jeven go out for the squad.” | Coaches place too much empha- |sis on winning: “What's wrong jwith trying to win? There’s no ibetter way to train a man for life’s competition than to teach him to win in sports.” Football is too much of a busi- ness: “Actually the big business | part of football is only in the gate }receipts. Once a team starts | winning, and making money, it gets into hot water.” Too many players get hurt: “More young players get hurt in auto accidents than in running for touchdowns.” Football doesn’t leave a player time to study: “Players spend a total of 480 hours on football. Stu- |dents who work in campus dining ale for room and board spend |7 Football helps the wrong boys | fairest criticism of all. Why pena- |lize a boy who plays fotball if he |has academic admission require- | ments?” | Players are paid fantastic wages and drive big cars: “With rare exceptions, players get their tui- — | Sports Shorts MIAMI #—Three Unive Miami football players wey st dress for the game tomorrow gigat against Holy Cross and two otlers May not play | Among spectators will be Tym | Pepsin, senior left end; Ed Olive, pac right halfback, ad Merrill Erickson, reserve halfback. — | Ernest Tobey, first string com jter, and Norman French, alter j Rate guard and tackle, are nurg ing injuries and won't play un- jless the Hurricanes get inte serle ous trouble. DELAND ®—Frank G Starting quarterback with Stet- Son Hatters in the upset jover Troy State last week, is slat ed to head a backfield including |Art Park and Gene at |halfbacks and Stan Marks at full- |back against Tampa Oct. 15 at | Tampa. Coach Herb McQuillan began | Pointing for the football game yer | terday after two days of fant prae- jtice. Stetson is idle this week. |, MIAMI W\—John C. Clark, | ident of Hialeah Race Courses hes announced appointment of Mar- shall Cassidy as steward for the 1955 season, Cassidy, executive secretary of the Jockey Club, had served ¢ Hialeah from 1932 through 1941, Be succeeds the late John _. | bell, who died last summer . through college: “Perhaps the un- | {tion, room and board. That’s all.” | Although a lawyer, Cloyce Box | Pe ; | spends his off seasons from play-| The University of Florida Gators | ing end for the Detroi i went through what they fuoegiit | gattieg automobiles. oe P| Lou Smith, 1116, was the last scrimmage of the she week. Coach Bob Woodruff said| the “varsity looked terrible” and ordered another scrimmage Thurs- | day in preparation for Saturday’s meeting with Clemson. The Tennessee Vols spent a long session on defense in preparation for Chattanooga. Coach Wally Butts put his Geor- gia Bulldogs through a relatively light workout for the approaching -300 hitters as compared to 1953}North Carolina game. He praised remained the same. A year ago 28\the work of. William Albert Saye regulars hit .300 or over in both}of Athens, now the first string leagues, without the benefit of the’ center. sacrifice fly, The 1954 season also listed 28 players in the .300 class. Tampa Lineup Is Uncertain TAMPA &—University of Tam- Pa’s reserves have shown up so good this week that only three varsity football players are cer- tain of starting positions Saturday against South Georgia Teachers. Coach Marcelino Huerta named them as center Ted Greene, tackle Reggi Co!vard and guard Joe Za- lupski.. Yesterday the reserves had a little trouble while playing on the offense but when they switched to the defense they swamped quar- terback Bill Minahan, the team’s ace passer, so that most of his throws went far wide, Alabama’s Crimson Tide worked primarily on defense as they pre- pared to meet Tulsa. Louisville Has Lead In Series | SYRACUSE, N.Y. (#—The Little | World Series shifts to this Inter-| national league city tonight with) the hometown Chiefs counting on familiar surroundings to help them | pull even with Louisville. | The Chiefs trail the American Association Colonels two games to one in the best-of-seven play. The | remaining games in the series will be played here. | Th Colonels walloped the Chiefs in the first game, 91, and the | second, 3 - 1. The International | Leaguers rebounded Tuesday night | j With a 6-3 victory. | THE NEW Tomorrow Night SANFORD —vs.— . Key West H. S. Kickoff: 8 P.M. 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