The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 12, 1954, Page 6

vonchs Seek To Widen ~ Gold Coast Leadershi will attempt to strengthen Ftadecohip in the Gold do battle with the Arch- bishop Curley eleven here Friday in what promises to be their toughest contest to ‘The Conchs are co-leaders fn conference play by vir- } of a victory over Miami “Tech in their only loop start to date. Only other undefeat- ed team in Gold Coast play is Miami Beach which owns yictories. over Curley and Constance, , Only Constance, with three losses t victories, appears to be out by conferetce championship victories over Dade and is at to gain their their marks: Broward (1-1), full-scale M work with them today on their individual offensive assign- ments. “Curley will come down here pre- pared to wage a defensive battle and play for the breaks — We've got to figure some sort of an of- fense to whip them,” said Beck- ma. Kansas City Has Huge Ticket Order i z z£ baseball season, contingent on the Philadelphia Athletics coming h ; ‘The penoeinces, iat taking advance requests last Wednesday in af effort t show the city's inter. est. The requests are not binding but those making them will have first chance at the best seats if the Attention All Bowlers | TONIGHT Winter League Action Tonight Action in the Island City Win- ter Baseball League will get underway tonight with a tilt between the Poinciana Giants and the Cuban Club at 7:30 o'clock in Wickers Field. Joe Lewis will start for the Cubans with DeWitt Roberts re- ceiving his tosses. Howard will hurl for the Giants with Sims catching. Thursday night, the Junior Conchs and the USS Bushnell will tangle in a league game. There is no admission to the games but donations will be accepted, League president is Tony Arango. Other officers are Mrs, Helen Cates, treasurer; Pedro Aguilar, secretary and . A. Lastres, chief umpire. A’s Deal Is Seen Shortly; Cash Needed "By JOE MOOSHIL CHICAGO #—Who will gain con- trol of the Philadelphia Athletics and where will they play in 1955 were the big questions American League club owners hope to de- cide at a meeting today. That the debt-ridden Macks will lose control of the franchise which has been in their family for 54 years appeared a virtual certainty some ‘‘angel” pops up with needed cash. Re At a league meeting in New York two weeks ago, Roy Mack was giv- en 14 days to raise $750,000 to buy control of the team from his father Connie and brother Earle. Roy, fighting grimly to keep the A’s in Philadelphia, hasn’t come up with the money. 3 Arnold Johnson, Chicago busi- ness executive, seems to be top man with his $3,375,000 offer to buy the team and move the fran- chise to Kansas City. Connie Mack and Earle are in favor of selling to Johnson but Roy has opposed. Millionaire building contractor John McShain, believed to be Roy’s last hope to get the money, said in Philadelphia he has lost interest in backing Roy financially. Two other offers besides John- gon’s have reportedly been made but American League President Will Harridge said yesterday “the only bona fide offer we know about thus far for the Athletics has been made by Johnson,” However, Tommy Richardson, president of. the Eastern League and one of the Athletics’ directors maintains he has $3,375,000 in cash to match Johnson’s offer. Richardson said he’ll be in Chi- cago to ask for the right to buy the franchise. Another offer was made in Wash- ington, D.C:, yesterday. Leo de Orsey, prominent attor- ney, and Joe Tucci, retired plumb- ing contractor, said they want to buy the team and keep it in Phila- delphia. De Orsey and Tucci said they have made an offer of $2,856,000 which will be submitted at today’s meeting by Calvin Griffith, execu- tive director of the Washington Senators. Athletics move here, the associa- tion said. There were 811,109 reserve seat requests and more than 300,000 un- Teservea seat requests. They will be presented to club owners in Chicago today. AT 9 P.M. at the DOUBLE A ALLEYS Nailing ceremony of Charter of the Key West Bowling Association. All members of the industrial, commercial, civic and Naval Leagues are invited to attened. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, October 12, 1954 Invitations Out For San Juan Fishing Tournament Oct. 12th i Higgins Saved For Red Sox Organization By BOB HOOBING BOSTON —The Boston Red/| Sex, jolted into action by rumors that other major league teams were after the services of Frank '(Pinky) Higgins, have signed their Louisville farm club ace and for- mer local favorite to a two-year managerial contract. Higgins’ appointment to succeed | Lou Boudreau, whose second two- | year pact with the Sox had a sea- son td run, was made yesterday | by General Manager Joe Crenin at a hastily-called press confer- ence. ' Cronin was asked why Higgins, | groomed in the Red Sox minor league chain for eight years, wasn’t called up next year when Boudreau’s contract ran out. “It wasn’t so much getting rid of Boudreau as it was saving Hig- gins for the organization,” Cronin answered. ‘‘He had three offers to manage other teams—two of them very definite, one in each league— and it wouldn’t have been fair for us to stand in his way for ad- vancement.”” Those definite offers are be- lieved to have come from the} Baltimore Orioles, where. in his | present status Paul Richards is both general and field manager, j and the Philadelphia Phillies. The decision to bring up the 45- year-old Higgins was made in a long distance telephone conversa- tion Sunday night between Cronin and Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey —some 24 hours after Pinky’s Louisville team of the American [aisceiation won the Little World Series from Syracuse of the Inter- national loop. Higgins and Boudreau were in- formed by phone just prior to the press conference. nis i Pinky, a third baseman, wert, to the Philadelphia Athleties right out of the University of Texas. in 1930. Crosley Field Is Favorite Homer Park NEW YORK (®—Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati Redlegs and a relatively new member of the “shortened foul lines” club, re- placed Brooklyn's Ebbets Field in 1954 as the favorite target of major | league home run hitters, A total of 199 homers were hit in Cincinnati. Ebbets Field was the scene of 193 home runs and New York’s Polo Grounds 187, fig- ures compiled by The Associated Press disclosed today. The Brooklyn ball park topped both leagues in 1953 with 192 fol- lowed by 190 for the Giants’ park. But jt was Crosley Field which showed the biggest gain—86 to 185 —after the distance from home plate to the right field wall was sliced from 366 to 342 feet. ; Actually, the reduced footage in | Cincinnati worked against the Red- ‘legs last’ season. They slammed 94 homeys at home and the ‘visiting teams hit 105. ‘Fenway park, den of the Boston Red Sox, headed the American} League in number of home runs with 139 to 137 for Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium. | |: American League batters found} |Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium the toughest. Only 42 Homers were | walloped there. Washington’s Griffith Stadium } relinquished its ‘least homered in” | title with an aggregate of 52. The distance from home plate to left} ‘field was cut down almost 20 feet last August and. the management has indicated it will make further | reductions in 1955. Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field} slumped in number of home runs {from 141 in 53 to 64 last season} with the removal of “Greenberg Gardens” responsible for much of jthe decrease. The “Gardens’” de- mise moved back the left field bar- \Tier from 335 to 365 feet. San Juan, Puerto Rico — Follow- jing its acceptance of a challenge issued by a fifteen - man team of Puerto Rico anglers to compete in the first International Puerto ico Game - Fish Tournament, the Tropical Fishing Club of New York today announced the names of members who have been invited to participate. The tournament, fish- ing for white and blue marlin and Allison tuna, will be held in the waters adjacent to San Juan har- bor, from October 12 - 16. Those expected to compete for} the Schaefer Cup, to be awarded annually by sportsman R. J. Scha- jefer, president of The F. and M. Bert Cowan, Brooklyn, N. Y., who has competed in a number of the other tournaments the club has con- ducted annually since its formation over five years ago; Frank Doher- \ty, Clifton, N. J.; Bob Felfon, Lar- chmont, N. Y., formerly an active West Coast tournament angler; Ar- cher Krieger, Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the few New Yorkers to hold Palm Beach gold billfish buttons; Joe Lohrer, Brooklyn, N. Y., owner of the Sunshine Laundries for ten years a big - game fisherman in southern water; Mike Merrill, Lyn- brook, N. Y.; Al Mettler, Brooklyn N. Y., winner of many game-fish meets, who recently caught the first marlin in Cuba's first Inter- national Marlin Tournament; Ed Muller, Elizabeth, N. J.; Jack Ru- dolph, Forest Hills, N. ¥.; Charles Wexler, Brooklyn, N. Y., an active yachtsman in a number of clubs; John Witte, Staten Island, N. Y.; and Cuban sportsmen Mario Gon- zalez, Gullermo Suero, Rena de Vil- legas and Ramon Collado. From Nassau, British West Indies, the club has invited Rod and Reel Club record - holder Stafford Sands, and Bob Symonette, and active angler and one of the world’s ranking yachtsman, A number of associate club mem- bers have also been ased to par- ticipate, among them being Maur- ice Meyers, N. Y.; recently return- ed from a fishing trip to Capa Blan- co, Peru; George Bass, Birming- ham, Mich., holder of IGFA world .records; Bob Kleiser, West Palm Beach, Fla., sporting goods dealer Casey Stengel | Wary Of Yanks: For 55 Season GLENDALE, Calif. ® — Casey Stengel has told some of his friends in his home town that he isn’t sure yet whether his Yankees will climb back into first place in the Ameri- can League next year. It all depends upon what kind of deals the club is able to make dur- ing the winter months. “We were ail set to talk turkey with some of the clubs during the World Series,” said Case, “but the thing was over before we could get down to business, so George Weiss (general manager) is -getting out letters to the other clubs, and if anything pops up he'll call me and we'll decide what to do.” The Yanks are looking for pitch- ing talent to back up youngsters Whitey Ford and Bob Grim. Sten- gel says he has several players “who can run and throw real good,” and he’ll trade any or all to help the club. Bill Skowron is one who is going to be kept, Stengel says. He wasn’t even a member of the Yankee roster last spring, but Stengel says “we'll teach him some finesse at spring training and he should be an outstanding first baseman.” Concerning the World Series, Casey said he thought Leo Duro- cher “managed very well in those four games,” but that he still can’t understand how Cleveland ‘showed up so tired or crippled or whatever it was.” Casey had a word of advice, too, for the five persistent “also rans” in the American League, viz.: ‘In- stead of.worrying about their own business they keep thinking what to do to the Yankees. They’d better put first things first and get some rebuilding programs going.” But Casey still wouldn’t go so far as to say the National is a stronger league. “You know who won five straight World Series, don’t you?” Light Workouts On Tap InSEC By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Light workouts and reflections on last Saturday’s conflicts were the order of the day for most Southeastern Conference football camps Monday. Tennessee’s day was brightened by the return of ace tailback Jimmy Wade, absent for two weeks with a knee injury. Trainer Mickey O’Briden said he should be able to tell in a day or two whether Wade will be ready to go against Alabama Saturday in Knoxville. Auburn’s X and Y teams read- ‘Poses Some Tou land Indian manager Al Lopez, the New York Giants. have met when it counts—in four straight games to win the named manager of the year. By FRANK 'ECK AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor Willie Mays or Duke Snider? Here’s one way to settle the ques- tion — and it’s not the easy way out. In answering The Sporting News ballot we named Mays as the Na- tional League’s Most Valuable Player and Snider as center field- er on the All-Star team. Both had great seasons. Mays was the bellwether as the Giants won the pennant. He ‘‘made’’ the Giants. His return from the Army enabled the Giants to trade Bobby Thompson to Milwaukee for John- ny Antonelli. The fact that Thomp-} REPEAT—This was a familiar picture last spring for Cleve- They saw their teams clash 21 times be- fore the season began. The Giants held a;13+8 edge. Now they left, and Leo Durocher, pilot of the World’ Series. Giants took championship. Either could be second, Pee, Wee Reese on short and Al Rosen on third. The out- | fielder is Stan Musial, liams and Snider with Yogi Berra Ted Wil-| Oklahoma Tops AP Poll As Top Grid Combination In Nation Naming An All-Star Teale ch Problems Wisconsin 2nd After Victory Over Rice Sat. By HUGH FULLERTON JR. The Associated Press Oklahoma’s one-touchdown vies tory over Texas last Saturday re- leased a landslide of votes today that swept Bud Wilkinson's Soon- far in front in the weekly Asso- d Press rankings of college | football teams. Out of a total of 201 sports writ- ers and broadeasters, no fewer 118 picked Oklahoma first. And not one failed to put the Soon- ers somewhere in the first 10. As a result, Oklahoma collected 197 points on the usual basis of than than 10 for a first-place ballot, 9 for econd, ete. A week ago, when they d won only two games, the Soon- ers polled 77 firsts and 1,369 points. Wisconsin, a 13-7 winner over Rice in a nationally televised strug- gle between nationally ranked teams, moved into second place in the rankings ahead of UCLA, which barely pulled out a 21-20 |decision over Washington. And | Ohio State, a convincing 40-7 win- |ner over Illinois, climbed all the ‘way from 10th place to fourth on {the strength of that victory, | After these four, all of which received more than 1,000 points in |the balloting, came Purdue, Duke, Mississippi, Notre Dame and then Penn State and Navy tied for 10th, This tie and the fact that Missis« sippi edged out Notre Dame for seventh by a single point, 730 to 729, brings out the closeness and the uncertainty of the rankings af- ter the few leaders. catching, For manager of the year, Char- lie Grimm of Milwaukee was the first to come to mind. But the nod must go;,to, Cleveland's Al Lopez for the way.he handled the Indians For top. rookies we lean to Bob Grim, young Yankee pitcher, and Wally Moon, center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. Incidentally, | anager Eddie Stanky said in St. | Petersburg, Fla., last Spring: “Moon could be the rookie of the We go to Avila, Rosen and Berra | Towa .and Southern California, | two of the upset victims, lost their places in the first 10. Iowa gar nered only enough points for 13th | place after its 14-13 loss to Michi- | gan, while USC, upset 20-7 by Tex- as Christian, didn't even appear in the first 20. The leaders (first-place votes in parentheges): | 1. Oklahoma (118) . Wisconsin (21) . UCLA (10) .... who has served as an Official of |ied for Georgia Tech. Coach Ralph a number of leading ‘tourneys;| Jordan said the Tigers’ offense Fred Schock, N. Y., who won a|has been as good as predicted, recent U. S. Atlantic Tuna Tourna- | While defense has been a disap- ment for the Brielle Marlin and | Pointment. Tuna Club single - handed; and} Coach Bob Woodruff began re- Happy Felton, of Brooklyn Dodger | 8Touping his Florida team and re- TW fame, who is active in game-| Placing injured players. The game fish circles from Nova Scotia to| With Clemson caused injuries to Cuba. several key men. Fullback Mal- Leading the group will be Pre-|¢olm Hammack, quarterback Bob- sident W. J. ‘Jim’ Hausman, who|by Lance and guard Hubert Mar- has been identified with many tour-| tin were listed as doubtful starters neys up and dow the East Coast | against Kentucky. : and is holder of several Rod and| The Gators had a light drill Reel Club of Miami Beach records. | during a drizzling rain. In addition to his other activities,| Kentucky emphasized kicking Mr. Hausman, a Garden City, N.|and the first string worked on Y., resident, is’ Director of Fishing | Punt coverage and protection. Activities for The F. and M. Schae-| The Wildcats had a punting av- fer Brewing Co. erage of only 14.3 yards against sen laet week. Two of the ( hristenberry “a Pans Giardello- Olson Title Bout Wally Butts, happy with his team’s victory over North Carolina last Georgia’s usually glum Coach| son was dealt off shows how highly | as most valuable in the American | the Giants regard Mays, League and Lemon, Early Wynn| However, despite this, Snider) and Grim as most valuable pitch- rates as top center fielder on ex-|ers. In the National League we perience. The fact that the Dodg-jrate Antonelli, relief artist Hoyt} ers lost the pennant should not/ Wilhelm and Milwaukee’s Warren! penalize Snider. In fact it was his} Spahn as most valuable. We omit | play that kept the Bums in the | Roberts from this category because race so long. }even his great efforts could not Our ballot also shows Gil Hodg-)| help the Phillies get into the pen- es on first base, Bobby Avila on nant fight, | 5 Venerable Cards d pgptoericene “xe On Waiver List rrr | sr. LOviS Relief pitcher Al NEW YORK (P—Lou Boudreau Brazle Ynd' outfielder-pinch hitter was down in the basememt of his | Harry (Peanuts) Lowrey, the two Illinois home bailing flood waters | oldest players on the St. Louis Car- when the phone rang upstairs and dinals, were put onthe waiver he learned shortly from i an block yesterday. i in, that he} e acerca Papp as field} A club spokesman said the ac- 2 f the Boston Red Sox. |tion, for the unconditional release Ge reaching the point where a; f the two veterans, was taken now baseball manager, especially the | to give them me. to seek other American League kind, can’t af. | jobs. pe are 10-year men in the ford to pick up a phone or read} ™4J0r ae will 4 Kk. a newspaper. Bucky Harris, for achat he 40 sis — example, read recently in the bat aries a 1 aad lie print that he had “resigned” | s ab = eae Sena-| ing 33 of them. The southpaw hurl- | a with the Washington Sena) had a 54 recond imvelighstilte 6 « .. |year and won 97 and lost 64 in his |} Bucky since has landed a simi-| 1, i5, league career which dates lar post with the Detroit Tigers. |} ook to 1943 | A friend of mine with a grim sense | “7 owrey, who came to the Birds, of humor insists that President ¢.4m Cincinnati late in the 1950, POIRARwN . Ohio State (14) . . Purdue (3) .. Duke (7) ..... . Mississippi (11) .. Notre Dame (2) .-10.(tie)Penn State Navy (11) ... Second 10: 11, Minnesota (2) . Arkansas (1) .. 13. Iowa West Virginia (6) . Rice . Virginia Tech 7. Colorado (1) Army . Georgia Tech Pf . Texas Tech ... Georgia Tech, hoping to be at top strength for Auburn, allowed the first stringers to take it easy. NEW YORK (®—The Bobo Olson- Joey Giardello middleweight title match, announced for San Fran- cisco Dec. “15, has drawn sharp criticism from Bob Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. “Ridiculous,” said Christenberry last night at St. Nicholas Arena. week, pronounced the Bulldogs the best defensively since 1950. They will have their first Southeastern Conference game Saturday against Vanderbilt. Butts said quarterback Dick | Young, who plays behind Jimmy | Harper, will be seeing more ac- {tion on the strength of his per- the greatest quote of the firing- and-hiring season when the told a press conference that “Harris comes to us highly recommended,” At any rate, Boudreau knows now that no manager can ever af- ford to let down from his peak performance. The Red Sox obvious- Spike Briggs of Detroit club made ; season on waivers, smacked out seven straight pinch hits to set aj major league mark*in 1952. The} |36-year-old Peanuts had 21 pinch | |hits in 1953, falling one short ot | the record set in 1932 by Sam Les- lie of the New York Giants, He hit .115 for St. Louis this year, “They made a match with-a man|{rmance against the Tar Heels. (Giardello) in the hospital, 1 will| Alabama avoided rough work have more to say about recognition |WOTK but took a close look at of the bout when the world cham-|the freshman team’s version of pionship committee meets in Lon- Tennessee's offense. Quarterback don next month.” |Bart Starr was in sweat clothes. Christenberry obviously referred | T@ckle Ed Culpepper, fullback |to pictures in the morning paper Jerry Chiapparelli and Starr are showing Giardello in a wheel Mt expected to go against the chair after an operation to remove a torn cartilage in his left knee | Coach Gus Tinsley of Louisiana at Philadelphia. His surgeons, how- State made a key change. He| ever, said he should be able to shifted, John Wood, tn: starting em start roadwork in a month. end, moving Sammy Murphy: Bae : if to the second string. Boxing Results |e. hc r whic! ‘oac! aught said OxIng esu is was disappointing against Vander- By The Associated Press | bilt. Downfield blocking was em- NEW YORK—Floyd Patterson, | phasized. 16914, Brooklyn, outpointed Esau| Getting set for Miamf with no Ferdinand, 166%, San Francisco, 8. | injuries standing in the way, Mis-| BROOKLYN — Bobby Dykes, |sissippi State had light contact 159%, Miami, Fla., outpointed Ted | practice. Olla, 161, Milwaukee, 10. | Tulane workd hard and long. HOLYOKE, Mass.—Bill Bossio,| Tony Sardisco, Tommy Warner 131, Pittsburgh, outpointed Harry | and Ronald Senac, all injured in (Whitey) Smith, 135, Brooklyn, 8.|the 14-0 loss to Mississippi State, ly hired Lou three years ago to do the kind of managerial job that he had done for Cleveland in 1948, and the handsome young man sim- ply did not deliver. There is no place for half-effort in the big time. In his fabulous year, when he was really bearing down, the for- mer Illini star played some of the greatest shortstop anyone ever saw, hit .355 for the season and was voted the league’s Most Valuable Player. He personally attended to out-thinking and out-hitting Joe Mc- Carthy, the then Red Sox pilot, in a one-game playoff for the pen- nant. He led the Indians to the world title. In his three campaigns at the Red Sox helm, Lou has never ap- proached that performance. For the pastotwo seasons, in fact, he hasn’t gone off the bench except to yank a pitcher, which was often. If Window Cleaning Is Your Problem You're Invited? 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