The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1954, Page 12

bg ok ayvees Will Seek Second Win Against Miami “Beach ‘Squad T. onight i. zee se Haney Throws Four Passes For Same Number Of Touchdowns By JIM COBB , Citizen Sports Editor The Key West Conchs rolled up their biggest score \ gince the revival of the gridiron sport here four years ~ ago when they clobbered the Sanford Celery Feds, 52-12, Smith Wins On KO Over Johnson By RALPH BERNSTEIN Smith, 173%2, caught the No. 4 PHILADELPHIA (®—Boardwalk |light heavyweight title contender Billy Smith bombed his way into| with a right hand on the side of Conchs Make the forefront of the light heavy- | his face that pitched 26-year-old Second Start weight ranks here last night with | Harold to the deck as if he’d been one solid punch. | pole-axed. The 174-pound Philadel- . ik’s |. Th 33-year-old transplanted Cal-|phia lurched forward, then stag- Coach Walter Chwalik’s | tornian—he now makes his home|gered backward and’ finally sat Junior Conchs will be out! in Atlantic City, N. J., knocked | down on his haunches. out Harold Johnson in 1:22 of the| : THE YARDSTICK “YARDS GAINED RUSHING YARDS GAINED PASSING FIRST DOWNS PASSES ATTEMPTED PASSES COMPLETED PASSES INTERCEPTED FUMBLES Key West Sanford 373 180 137 13 OWN FUMBLES RECOVERED PENALTIES 10! Re se eR gS RE a TE in a ballgame that had the fans yawning before the first half whistle had blown. Sanford hardly belonge: d on the same ballfield with the Conchs as they came to life offensively and scored almost at will. Only a pair of defensive lapses, the first when they were’ coasting along on a comfortable 19-0 lead, al- lowed ‘the visitors to score their two touchdowns. Brighest Spot of the even- ing was the revelation that the Conchs have an aerial attack of no mean stature. It was Bill Haney, who throws the ball with ease and accuracy, who supplied the aerial work. He connect- ed for touchdowns on each of the four times he threw the ball last night. With the Celery Feds playing a close- in tight defense, it seemed at one point that Key West could score all the TDs they wanted simply by throwing the ball. The success of the passing assault was due in no small measure to the per-. formance of ends John Car- bonell and Gene Favors, who showed that-they have enough speed and deception to get behind those half- backs. The game also produced some other fine performances, notably the running of Mike Cates and Red Stickney and the defensive play of boys like Julio Henriquez, Wayne Brantley, Frank Hood, Ralph Gar- cia, John Demerritt and Sam Cur- ry. George Reese turned in his usual fine job of work at the blocking black assignment. Tt was a rash of first quarter fumbles by Sanford that started the rout. They elected to receive and on the very first play from scrimmage their Jim Hawkins bobbled the ba!l and Joe Russo covered on the San- ford 11. Just three plays later, the Conchs had a score when Mike Cates bulled over from the nine yard line. That was a portent of things to come. It was another fumble, this time recovered by burly Julio Henri- quez on the Sanford 37 that set the stage for the second Key West score with just 4:10 of the ball- game by the boards. Cates drove through the middle down to the 31, Then Haney pulled off the first of his picture book passes for the second Key West score. An extremely cool ballplayer, Haney dropped back to the 35 and surveyed the situation, He spotted John Carbonell weaving and dodg- ing past the Sanford secondary and threw a beauty. Carbonell gather- ed it.in on the dead run on: the 11 yard line and romped across untouched. The try for the point was no good and the score stood 12-0. It.was a bruising tackle by Way- ne Brantley and Frank Hood that jarred the ball from the arms of halfback Johnny Jones that set up the third Conch TD. The Conchs took over on the 27 yard line and Haney and Stickney sneaked the ball down to the 30. But a 15 yard clipping penalty set them back to the 45. On successive plays, Stickney picked up five yards around end and then was dumped for a three yard loss. Haney did it again. He pitched one to Carbonell, a- . GOALWARD—The Conchs Mike Cates threads his way through a maze of Celery Fed tacklers e Favors for A 4 is kick and passed to Gen from Sanford on a seven-yard jaunt at the new ‘High School Stadium last night. Conchs won, §2-12,—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. the extra point. After Sanford had quick-kicked out of danger to the Conch 32, Key West started a sustained march’ that netted them a TD on just seven plays. Cates and Stickney alternated to carry the ball down to the three yard line from where Haney dove over the line after just 1:05 of the second period had elapsed. The conversion try, Ha- ney’s kick, was not good. Coach Ed Beckman emptied his bench at @is point and threw in the reserves — and Sanford scor- ed. It was Johnny Jones, a very hard man to hit, who pulled the trick. It was a “keep” play with Jones faking: to two of his mates and slicing off right tackle to score at the en* of a 52 yard jaunt, That development had a sober- ing effect on the-Conchs and they proceeded to chew up Sanford like a stalk of celery. Favors took the kickoff and scampered up to the Conch 40 be- fore he was dumped. Haney, who blossomed forth as something of a runner last night, moved the ball down to the Sanford 48 behind fine blocking. Then he did it again. He tossed a touchdown pass that Favors ga- thered in, on the dead run, on the 25 yard line and drove for a score. It made the score 32 -°6 after De- merritt had kicked the point. The half ended shortly, a deve- lopment that met with enthusias- tic response from Sanford. They retired to their dressing room -and the expected tongue lashing from their coach. When they tramped back on the field for the second half, their spot- ter announced that they were go- ing to make a battle of it, and for awhile, it appeared that they w2re. Just for a little while that is. The Conchs took the kickoff en their own ten and moved the ball up to the 50 from where they were forced to punt — the first time during the evening that they had the ball and failed to score. Stickney was rushed and his punt was short and wobbly. Sanford’s Jim Hawkins took it on his 17 and elected to hand off to Jones, who ghosted down the sidelines on an 83 yard scoring jaunt before the be- fuddled Conchs could catch on. Frank Hood broke through and blocked their kick for the extra point. But that was all for the Celery Feds. Hampered by 45 yards in penal- ties, the Conchs drove 90 yards to their seventh touchdown in 12 plays. -Red Stickney pulled off his run- ning gem of the evening to put the Conchs deep in scoring territory when he went off tackle on an in- side reverse from his 33 down to the 11 yard line. Cates bulled down to the two yard marker. On the next play, Cates faked a handoff to Stickney and spun over standing up. Haney’s kick split the uprights to make the score 39 - 12. A pass interception by pint-sized Everett Atwell on the Conch 45 gave the Conchs the ball late in the third quarter and they made the Most of it. Haney carried the bail to the 42 from where the drive was climaxed by another of his passes, this time down the middle | to Red Stickney on the 25 ~ H ney took off to the left and elud- | ed a lackadaisacal Sanfora se... dary to score easily. Haney’s kick was not good and the score stood 45 - 12, Only Conchs’ score in the final Period, came when the Conchs for- ward wall smothered the visitors gain on the dead run; the fleet end @pered. Haney faked a place and forced them to punt down to |the a0 yard marker. Demerritt, jand never ran the T before this who alternated at center anf full- back, was driven back to the 27. And at this point, Atwell, who weighed 125-pounds soaking wet, pulled off the outstanding run cf the evening. He sliced off tackle, stumbled, played ring - arouad - the - rosy with a host of Sanford defenders and went all the way -- 73 yards, Atwell ran the point to put the clincher on the ballgame. The end of the game found the Celery Feds deep in Conch terri- tory, but the situation was under control. GRIDIRON GLEANINGS: Won- dering why they call Sanford the Celery Feds? It’s because Sanford is the celery capital of the world. They are fed lots of celery. Get it?.... .End Coch Walt Chwalik glee- fully reported after John Carbonell had made the first of two magnifi- cent pass catches: “TI told that boy he would score tonight.”. . .Viec Vacearo, former University of Flo- rida and Pittsburgh Steeler great says “watch that Curley club next week.” Vaccaro was here to scout for his Miami Beach eleven. He forgot to tell the Conchs to watch for the Typhoons. . .George Reese never played a game of football before this year. But watch that boy block. A little guy, he was tak- ing them on two at a time last night . . . Sanford’s Coach Walt Ganas, has this to say after: the one-sided defeat: “We've never been beat that badly before. We aren’t that bad.” The Celery Feds, who showed fair deception at times, even pulled off the time hon- ored “Stature of Liberty” play. . . It didn’t work on the savvy Conchs : » «The Conchs will have “count- ing drill” next week, Ed Beckman Promised. On more than one oc-; casion, they had but ten men on the field. . Bulletin: Miami High School will definitely be on the} schedule next year. Date to be an-| nounced . . . Richard “Biff” Salga- do, Miami University freshman performer was in the stands last; night. He suffered a shoulder in-| jury and has seen little work at| Miami. He'll be in their next week, | however .. . And word from North Carolina has it that Joe Pineda) was ‘responsible for two TDs| when his North Carolina State! gridders defeated Wake Forest, 13 - | 6. One of his passes was intercept-| ed and he rang the bell with two more. Not bad for a boy who has | played football for but three years, | year. 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PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, The National Business and Professional Women's Club have proven their capabilities and pioneer qualities in helping to build an ever progressing, ever im- Proving country, and WHEREAS, the work of this organization is vitally needed if America is to continue as a great, free, and democratic country; and WHEREAS, they have selected “A Better Business Woman for a Better Business World” as their theme for the week of October 10, 1954, and are working toward this end, NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power vested in me as Mayor of the City of Key West, Florida, I, C. B. Harvey, do hereby proclaim the WEEK OF OCTOBER 10, 1954, as NATIONAL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S WEEK and urge everyone to pledge themselves to give their full cooperation to this splendid civic organization in every possible way. Witness my hand and the official seal of the City of Key West, Florida, this oth day of October, A.D. 1954. (sd) C. B. HARVEY, Attest: VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. Mayor. EE | Scores. after their second victory of the season tonight at 8 o’- clock when they meet the Miami Beach JayVees at the high school field. Fresh from a 19-0 victory over Hialeah, the JVs are.in prime shape for another win. They had plenty of work this week in drill sessions against the varsity. Exact lineup tonight was deter- mined by the amount of action some members of the Jayvees saw last night in the Sanford-Key West game. Under state athletic associa- tion rules, if a player participates | in a varsity game, he is ineligible! for jayvee football until the follow- ing week. The Conchs showed that they have some fire last week when they humbled a sophomore-studded Hialeah varsity. Showing little stage fright they started three sus- tained marches that resulted in The score might have been great- er had not a rash of fumbles hamp- ered the Conchs, Little Johnny Williams, who weighs little more than a bantam rooster, but who performed admir- ably for Key West last week should see a lot of action tonight along with Doug Allen, Danny Oropeza, Ed Washburn and Paul Higgs. i Linemen slated to get consider- able work tonight are Wayne Al-| bury, Earl Weech, Dan Cates, Mar-| tin Frantz and Bill Rojas. Johnson tried to get up but he second round. It took 175-pound | couldn’t move. He said in his dress- champion Archie Moore 14 rounds |ing room, “the punch really hurt. to accomplish the same feat | ast| I tried to get up but I was stunned. August. I'm still dazed.” Page 12 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, October 9, 1954 Tonight Miami Beach JV's 7 —vs.— Key West JV’s Kickoff: 8 P.M. NEW HIGH SCHOOL . ATHLETIC FIELD SEASON TICKETS NOT) . GOOD FOR J.V. GAMES Mrs. Sigsburger, the Twins, Junior Sundae, Mr. Royal Banana and all the rest of the Snackery family are here to greet the doors! you. They just can't wait to open