The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1954, Page 6

° “ Record Crowd Seen For Conch-Curley Tilt Haney, Reese Respond To Treatment; May Start The largest crowd ever to wit- ness a high school football game here is expected to turn out tonight when the Key West High School gridiron combination tangles with the Archibishop Curley elven of Miami, Kickoff time is 8:15 p. m. It promises to be the first bona- » fide battle the Conchs have on their schedule this year with the locals out to avenge a scoreless tie played with the Curleymen in 1953. Always dangerous, the Miamians are primed to go home with a vie tor for the same reason. “ ‘The Conchs will be out- after their 14th victory without a loss. And their hopes took a slight rise with news that both Bill Haney and George Reese may see some action tonight. They were injured in practice session this week and considered doubtful starters, up un- til today. Haney, the Conchs passing star, dislocated a shoulder and missed practice all week. But he was ovt yesterday and after throwing a few passes, reported “‘no pain.” An x- ray examination had revealed that there is no injury to the shoulder. “He'll be the: judge — if he feels like playing we'll let him in there,” said Coach Ed: Beckman. And Reese, who suffered an in- fection in a bone bruise will be and ready to go. The in- has been localized with fre- shots of penicilin. those two performers, along back Mike Cates and break rt Red Stickney, the have a good chance their unbeaten record hard - fighting for- ready to go: It’ll show and John Carbonell Wayne Brantley and at the tackles, Ralph Julio Henriquez at the Johnny DeMerritt over Pretty confident after week’s game, but all those in- juries during the week spoiled our = it can go either way to- it,” said Coach Beckman in commenting on the Conchs. chanc- es, The Conchs will be faced with stopping the running of Charley Di- amond, 210 pound fullback, and the passing of diminutive quarter- back Fran Curci. The latter performer could prove be the most dangerous, since rfid HE by ct a sieeerl Way aE ae ‘ a3 sty i = 8 gl § pay SHESRSaSORSEY ‘Trabert Sees US. In Davis Cup Win MEXICO CITY w — Tony Tra- bert, newly crowned Pan-American singles tennis champion, expressed NEW YORK Baseball history , record that late this past Tues- night the publicity director of American League, Earl J. Hilli- gan, emerged bleary-eyed from a ‘long and exhausting meeting in icago and announced to assem- will day the sas City. Frank Lane, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, added the surprising information that the ‘vote approving the sale of the A’s had been unanimous. The only thing that kept them from ringing church bells in Kansas City was the lateness of the hour. But hold, and let us not be hasty, Anyone who knows even three big Junior Conchs Down Bushnell In Winter Loop The Junior Conchs defeated the USS Bushnell last night in an Is- land City Winter Baseball League encounter, 13 - 4, It was pitcher's battle between the Conch’s George Lastres and the Navy’s Workman for the first five frames, Up until then, each of them had allowed but one hit. But in the last of the fifth, the bottom dropped out for the Na- vy when Workman walked Gibby Gates and Rodriguez singled +0 send him to the showers. His re- lief, Floor, walked four batters and Hopey’s double and Fernandez tri- ple accounted for six runs. Lastres fanned 15 batters in eight innings. Gates went in to hurl the last frame, Rodriguez led the hitters with a triple and a single and Arango had two singles. Coto led the Navy at the plate. The Junior Conchs will meet the Poinciana Giants in a league tilt Sunday at 2 p..m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. The’ standings: Cuban Club Junior Conchs Poinciana Giants USS Bushnell Oregon’s Chances Hurt By Tragedy PORTLAND, Ore. (#—Oregon’s hopes of getting back in the Rose Bowl race through a Saturday vic- tory in the NCAA-TV “Game of the Week”, slumped today after star guard Jack Patera accidentai- ly killed a friend on a hunting 000 000 000 -000 Patera was grief-stricken, and went under a doctor’s care follow- ing the death of Ken Sweitzer, a standout guard on last year’s Ore- gon team and a friend of many on this year’s squad. The rest of the squad, stunned at first by the news, seemed ‘o recover morale in a workout yes- terday, but it was doubtful that spirits would be high in the cru- cial game against Southern Ca‘if- ornia here tomorrow. Patera and Sweitzer went hunt- ing near Eugene early yesterday, hoping to return to the Oregon campus at Eugene with a deer before classes started. Patera said he fired at what he thought was a deer in the brush. Swietzer cried out, and slumpd to the ground. He died within an hour. , confidence today that the United States will beat Sweden and chal- lenge Australia for the Davis Cup although Vic Seixas has not been playing up to form. “Vie has had a rough season and was tired,” Trabert said after beating Mexican champion Mario Llamas 2-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 in the finals yesterday. Seixas’ was elim- inated earlier in the tourney by Llamas. The American team showed its superiority over the Swedes in the doubles finals when Trabert and Seixas defeated Sven Davidson and Lennart Bergelin 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Roundup By Gayle Talbot He would know instinctively that no whole roomful of them ever could get together and unanimous- ly approve anything as sensible as severing a knot that was stran- gling everybody to death. The strange and unnatural situa- tion existed, as it turned out, only 80 long as it took Calvin Griffith, vice president of the Washington Senators, to return to his home base and oil up his tonsils. “A vote was taken,” Calvin con- ceded, “but the Washington club and others do not consider it final. It was misleading to announce that Kansas City was favored by a unanimous 7-0 vote. The Washing- ton, Boston and Detroit votes are enough to stop any move to Kansas City, and that may still be done.” league baseball magnates intimate- ly woud realize in a h oly minute @at something fishy was going on. Now, that sounds a god deal More like a baseball meeting, es- pecially the part about a 7-0 vote being “misleading.” Page 6 THIS ONE DIDN’T GET AWAY from M/Sgt. Howard Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cook of Key West, when it went for | & broke-back dotter plug in the Canoochie River on the Camp | Stewart, Georgia, reservation. Sergeant Cook's eight-pound catch is admired by Col. James F. Eason, president of the Camp Stewart Fish and Wildlife Asso- ciation. Sergeant Cook is currently attached to the 13th AAA Group at Camp Stewart. Wisconsin Is Favored Over Purdue Land By WILL GRIMSLEY The Associated Press The line-splitting rushes of Alan (The Horse) Ameche will be matched with the deadly pitching arm of Lenny Dawson tomorrow when Wisconsin and Purdue clash at Lafayette, Ind., in the battle of second and fifth ranked football powers, Behind Ameche’s powerful run- ning, Wisconsin has swept through its first three games without a defeat. Dawson pitched Purdue to victory over Missouri and Notre Dame before being shackled last week in a 13-13 tie with Duke. Wisconsin is a seven-point favorite. Duke, also unbeaten and pos- sessing what may be the strongest team in all Dixie, will have its own hands full at Durham, N.C., where it meets a swift-hitting Army team which has scored one- sided victories over Michigan and Dartmouth. The televised Game of the Week pits Southern California against Oregon at 4:15 p.m., EST. Holding prime regional. interest are such games as West Virginia at Penn State, pitting two unbeaten elevens of- the East; Michigan Stete at Notre Dame; Alabama at Tennessee; and Arkansas at Texas. Oklahoma, which catapulted into the No. 1 position in the Associated Press poll on convincing victories over California, Texas Christian and Texas, moves into its own league—the Big Seven—where the dangers aren’t so grave. The Sooners play. Kansas and they rule a three-touchdown favorite. UCLA, third ranked behind Oklahoma and Wisconsin, has a héme date with up-and-down Stan- ford and the experts figure the Uclans, the last Rose Bowl repre- sentatives, have enough single- wing power to win by 13 points, Ohio State, also unbeaten, is host to the Iowa team which knocked off Michigan State in the first game of the season. Minnesota, the surprise of the Big Ten with three straight triumphs, takes on an Illinois team which hasn’t got moving. Ohio State is fourth ranked nationally while Minnesota is No. 11. Both are favored. Orioles. Announce Retention Of Coach Brecheen BALTIMORE (#—The Baltimore Orioles announced today a player shuffle involving 10 farmhands and the retention of Pitching Coach Harry Brecheen. Brecheen became the first mem- ber of Jimmy Dykes’ 1954 mana- gerial staff to be signed for 1955 under the new regime of General and Field Manager Paul Richards. The player shuffle brought the Orioles player roster to 41. Four of these are recently returned ser- vicemen and therefore not included in the league limit of 40 players not subject to the winter draitt. Brought up from San Antonio of the Class AA Texas League were pitchers Bob Harrison and Lloyd Gosney, outfielder Charles Oertel Shortstop Patricio Witii Quintana. Pitcher Bill Diemer came up from Wichita of the Class A Western League and outfielder Carl Powis from Anderson, S.C., of the Class B Tri-State. Outfielders Bobby Balcena and Karol Kwak and infielder Bob Caf- fery were sold outright to San An- tonio and outfielder Bob Masser was sent to Wichita. Balcena was with Kansas City of the American Assn. last season, Kwak with San Antonio, Caffery with Richmond of the International League and Mas- ser with Wichita, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 15, 1954 The largest fish of the season, |Auburn Meets Managers Open Season On Major Loop By BEN PHLEGAR The Associated Press The major league managerial merry-go-round is spinning at the fastest clip in history with a chance that two more baseba’l bosses may -be taken for a ride in the near future, Since the 1953 World Series, 10 of the 16 clubs have changed man- agers, two of them twice. The latest switch came sudden- ly in Philadelphia yesterday where the Phillies named Mayo Smith, a greying stranger from the New York Yankees minor league farm system, to replace Terry Moore. Moore had been around only since July 15, when he took over from Steve O'Neill. Cincinnati started the dizzy whirl a year ago in September by pick- ing Birdie Tebbets to succeed Rog- ers Hornsby. Then.came Eddie Joost for Jimmy Dykes on the Philadelphia Athletics, Dykes for Marty Marion at Baltimore and Walt Alston for Charlie Dressen Georgia Tech In Atlanta ATLANTA (#—A vengeance-bent band of Auburn Plainsmen, smart- ing from two consecutive upsets, tangle with Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets tomorrow in one of the South’s oldest football rivalries. Both teams were reported in good physical shape for the 57th battle in a series which started in 1892, Tech was favored by a touchdown to win its 13th straight from the Plainsmen. So far this season, Auburn has not lived up to its supporters’ ex- pectations—losing to Florida and Kentucky after beating Chat- tanooga—but Coach Ralph Jordan said his boys will be gunning for Tech. “As usual,”. Jordan said, “we go to Atlanta as the underdog. But despite two straight losses, we be- lieve we have a better chance to beat Tech this year than we have had in many years. “We are not in the best physi- cal shape we’ve been in this sea- son—several of our X unit boys got bruised up a bit in the Ken- tucky game—but we'll be all right. We don’t have anyone who won't be able to play because of injuries. Our Y team is in top shape.” Auburn’s Y unit, which will start the game, has Bobby Freeman at quarterback and Jim Pyburn at end, one of the most dangerous passing combinations in the South- eastern Conference, Halfbacks Bill Teas of Tech and | Dave Midd-eton of Auburn are two jof the fastest ball carriers in the conference, Each is capable of go- ing all the way if the line springs | him loose, Auburn’s offensive and defensive records, yardage-wise, are better than Tech’s but the Yellow Jackets have shown more ability in the clutch. If his foot injury prevents Paul Rotenberry from starting, Johnny Menger wil! take over the left halfback post. Menger, in addition to being a good runner and passer, is a fine punter and defensive back. |Rees Phenix will get the starting call if tackle Ormand Anderson can’t make it because of a nose injury. Tech holds a 29-24-3 edge in the series, Miami May Stay On Ground Tonite MIAMI ® — Unbeaten Miami meets Mississippi State here to- night in a football game that could develop into an old-fashioned -run- ning power for their touchdowns. Miami is a one-touchdown favor- ite to win its fourth straight game. | Miami’s rushing attack has net- ted 292 yards a game. Neither | team has been able to frighten | the opposition with passes. Miami has moved only 163 yards through |the air in three games and Mis- jsissippi State only 252 yards in four games. | There are two reasons to expect, however, that Mississippi State | may throw plenty of passes. | The first is that Miami's ground defense rates second in the nation. The second is that the Hurricanes |have been vulnerable to a good passing attack. PROTESTS SENT SANTIAGO, Chile # — The United States, Sweden, Norway and England have sent protests to Chile, Ecuador and Peru over their recent joint Cierra eons ing soverei: over waters with- in 20 areg fn their coats, the Foreign Office reported today. at Brooklyn. Action lulled until late March, when the Chicago Cubs replaced Phil Cavarretta with Stan Hack. O'Neill was fired in mid-July. Bal- timore lured Paul Richards away from the Chicago White Sox in mid-September and Marion re- pla¢ed him. As the season ended Washington fired Bucky Harris and brought Dressen back to the ma- jors. Harris was jobless only a week before being hired to replace Fred- die Hutchinson at Detroit. Then the Boston Red Sox switched from Lou Boudreau to Pinky Higgins. Still on the hot seat are Alston at Brooklyn and Joost with the Ath- letics. Joost is sure to go if the A’s switch to Kansas City becomes official. Alston’s fate will be de- cided on or before Nov. 29, the Brooklyn management has an- nounced. The 10 teams which have joined the whirl so far top by two the previous high for a single year. The appointment of Smith, the newest new man, came as a to- tal surprise in Philadelphia al- though Moore’s personal future had been uncertain. The 39-year-old mild-mannered Southerner man- aged Birmingham to third place in the Southern Assn. the past sea- son. * His major league experience con- sists of 73 games as an outfielder for the Athletics. in 1945. General Manager Roy Hamey said Moore was dropped because he lacked experience as a manager and for no other reason, Reports persisted, however, that the for- mer St. Louis outfielder’s chances of continuing with the Phils suf- fered a major setback when he had Granny Hamner last August. Tampa Slight Favorite Tonight TAMPA (#—Tampa was a sligat favorite over Stetson for their 16th football contest here tonight, chief- ly on the basis of Stetson injuries, Stetson has lost two starting line- men and its No. 1 quarterback and is reported planning to use a team studded. with sophomores and freshmen. Added to that Tampa has an advantage of 19 pounds a man in the line and 14 in the backfield, although a weight advantage isn't necessarily a sign of superior foot- ball ability. Both coaches are pessimistic, as usual. Herb McQuillan of Stetson says “we will be lucky to be defeated by four touchdowns.” “I don’t see how anybody can make either team a favorite,” said Marcelino Huerta of Tampa. The Tampa Spartans are in top shape. The line averages 202, the backfield 179, - Stetson is planning to open with a line averaging 183 and backs averaging 165. Battery with a 6-Year BONDED GUARANTEE eVastly more power, quicker starts! eBounces back fo life after being completely run down! 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Crisconi met with Mack yesterday but those “‘in the know” insist he like the other two | syndicates, failed to come up with sufficient cash. Roy tossed a bombsell into the works yesterday by announcing he had not—contrary to the generatly accepted belief—agreed to sell his interest in the club when he at- tended an American League meet- ing in Chicago last Tuesday. That statement surprised, among others, Johnson, the only individual thus far to put cash on the line for the franchise. Johnson said he was under the definite impression the sale of the A’s to him for trans- fer to Kansas City was practically | an accomplished fact. “T have not sold my stock,” said Roy. “The last thing I said be-| fore leaving the meeting in Chica- go was, ‘I am in a Closely knit family and I want the chance to! talk it over with them.’ And I’m still struggling.” | The other members of the “close- | ly knit” family are Roy’s brother Earle and their father Connie Sr, the man who first brought the American League franchise into being here and who guided the team’s destinies for half a century. Earle has been willing to sell out his share of A’s stock for some | time. So has his father, while Roy | has spearheaded the thus far un- successful movement: to keep the | club in Philadelphia. | Will Harridge, American League | president, commented yesterday: | “We took up and disposed of the matter of gelling to Johnson and | the transfer to Kansas City at, Roy | Mack’s request. 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