The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 21, 1954, Page 6

Conchs Wed. Drills Stresses Trick Stuff, Kicking By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor An expected 5500 foot- ball fans may get the sur- prise of their lives Friday night when the Key West Conchs do battle with Con- stance of Miami in a Gold Coast Conference football encounter. Probable reason for their amaze- . meént will be the fact that the Conchs may play an/entirely dif- ferent type of football than fans have become accustomed to in the past, Coach Ed Beckman, in the face of scouting reports that the Constance squad, man for man, outweighs the Curley club that gave the Conchs a physical beat- ing last week, had his gridders wotking yesterday on deception in contrast to the straight bread-and- season. The Conchs have actually used s than one-third of the 45 plays have under their belt in gain- vietories over St, Theresa, Miami Tech, Curley ard Sanford. Yesterday, Beckman had them pre sprinkling of play’ = age $ Tun from spread formations; pitthouts and handoffs. He also experimented with a re- vised backfield lineup, with Red Ae fastest man to wear the white in recent years. If the Conchs can succeed in shaking him loose on a punt return, it is doubt- Zz All in ali, Friday’s game — even though the Conchs are rated as favorites, shapes up as one of the most interesting of the season. For one reason, the Conchs have been so well scouted that they may have trouble working through the middle and off the tackles and may have to resort to some of the tricky stuff local fans have never seen, ° Another factor is the feeling that has been built up between’ the teams, even though they have nev- er faced each other on a football field. When Constance declined to fulfill an engagement here last year, after an earlier date had been postponed because of the city’s polio situation, some quar- ters tossed a few taunts in the di- rection of the Miamians and the result was a modicum of badfeel- ing. Constance ‘will come down loaded and ready to win a ball- game. They have the largest en- Tollment of any school in the Mia- mi area, after only two years of existence. Badgers Seek To Break The Jinx In Buckeye Game MADISON, Wis. (#—Ohio State, in the opinion of Wisconsin Coach Ivy Williamson, ‘‘will do things” to the Badget football team in their key Big Ten game Saturday. The “things” the No. 4 ranked Buckeyes will do to Wisconsin's No, 2 club include the scoring of touchdowns. “We've got to hold them to two, maybe three, to have any kind of a chance,” says Williamson. “And if we can’t do things ourselves, we're . licked. “We think we can. We've played SEC Steps Up Their Workouts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Long, hard workouts were the Tule Wednesday as Southeastern Conference coaches prepared their teams for Saturday’s games. The top contest still appeared to be the Mississippi - Arkansas match at Little Rock. Mississippi drilled on defense against’ the Arkansas single wing attack. Coach John Vaught also ordered some work on offense to give more power and precision to the ground game. Quarterbacks Eagle, Day Houston Patton were outstanding in a long punting drill. Alabama’s Crimson Tide also concentrated on defense, with the freshman running Mississippi State Plays. Trainer Fred Posey said injured tackle Ed Culpepper and fullbacks Jim Ward and Jerry Chiapparelli would not be able to play Saturday. lay Play Wide Open Football Friday | Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, October 21, 1954 Johrison Says He'll Sue A’s By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN CHICAGO (®—The stock-buying syndicate of the Philadelphia Ath- letics, sweating out word of an American League blessing that would make their deal official to keep the club in Philadelphia, to- day was threatened with a big damage suit by Arnold Johnson, The Chicago industrialist de- elared he felt “wronged by the Philadelphia group who so sudden- ly appeared on the scene,” and has placed the matter in the hands of a Philadelphia law firm to study the advisability of filing suit. “In view of the indicated ad- vance ticket sale (in Kansas City) of almost two million dollars, the measure of my damages should be substantial,” Johnson said. ‘The suit would be not only for the gash Mississippi State went through a rough 45 - minute scrimmage — working on punts ahd kick- The Florida Gators scrimmaged for an hour and a half in the afternoon and then worked under the lights at night “just to get used to catching and handling the ball,” said. Coach Bob Woodruff. Fullback Malcolm Hammack was back in uniform for the first time since the Clemson game. Wood- ruff said he still had a limp but just might be in shape for Louis- iana State University. Bale Louisiana State in turn was’en- couraged by fullback Lou Deutsch- Mann’s performance in a full Offensive scrimmage. He al- ternated with Win Turner and vuning|urricanes Handed Stiff «oazee| Blow By NCAA Decision Wilcox, and Otis Gil- Bob Saia made backfield. Georgia Bulldogs went through a vigorous drill and Coach Wallace Butts said sophomores in the defensive line were the real Opponents scored only 43 so far this season. He i the work of ends Roy Wil- kins and eair Roberts, tackles Pud Mosteller, John Luck and Jimmy Brown, and guards Wayne Dye and Tony Cushenberry. the Georgia Tech -game. Georgia Tech’s first, second and third stringers worked on offen-; sive and defensive assignments in dummy scrimmage in preparation for Kentucky. Auburn held what Coach Ralph Jordan said was one of the best workouts of the season. Fob James ran especially well in the left half position. Jordan said tackles James Warren and Paul Terry probably would see a “good amount of ac- tion” against Florida State Satur- day. The Tennessee Vols’ emphasized passing, pass protection, downfield blocking and running in a speedy scrimmage prepping for Dayton (Ohio). pretty good when it was good. They'll have their troubles too. At least we hope they will.” Wisconsin will match the batter- ing of its All-America candidate, fullback Alan (The Horse) Ame- che, against the slashes of Ohio State’s Howard (Hopalong) Cassa- dy and Bobby Watkins, and the passing of quarterbacks Jim Mill- er and Jim Haluska against that of Dave Leggett. In addition, Williamson -will al- .|and Western Illinois State College damages sustained by me, but al- so on the grounds that this group joined together to induce a breach oz the contradt which I made in good faith for the purchase of the A's.” In a Chicago meeting nine days ago, Amefican League club own- ers voted to shift the A’s fran- chise from Philadelphia to Kansas City. “Roy .Mack at that time agreed without equivocation:,to sell the team to me for transfer to Kansas City,” Johnson said in a statement. “It never was contemplated that Mr. Mack. would be given an op- Portunity to look for other pur-| chasers,-or to do anything except to talk to his family. “It seems unbelievable to me | ‘NEW ORLEANS, (#—The ambi- tious University of Miami (Fla.), rising to national football promi- nence in the past few years, today faced the possibility of going through the season undefeated and sitting out New Year’s day without an invitation to a bowl game. The National Collegiate Athletic Asn, handed Miami. and City Col- lege of New York one-year proba- tions yesterday for alleged infrac- tions of NCAA regulations. The 18-member executive coun- cil of the NCAA also reprimanded the University of Portland (Ore.) at Macomb for reported violations of other NCAA rules, The committee on rules infrac- tions reported Portland violated NCAA regulations by conducting tryouts for 11 prospective basket- ball players last April while West- ern Illinois State participated in the Corn Bowl football game at Bloom- ington, Ill., last Nov. 26. Tae Cofn Bowl is not recognized by the NCAA. The council also announced at its final session that Michigan State College, placed on probation in August, 1953, for conducting foot- ball tryouts, had been restored to all “rights and privileges of an NCAA member.” - The probationary period handed CCNY bans the New York school’s basketball team from playing in |“And it is clear from his trans- the NCAA National Championship routnament at Kansas City in 1955. The council’s move was the fitst eee Poinciana Giants Meet USS Bushnell The Poinciana Giants will seek to end their losing streak tonight in an encounter with ternate two lines against the Buck- eyes as he did in winning from Marquette, Michigan State, Rice and Purdue. The system has been effective, with none of the four victims able to score in the sec- ond half. Ohio State’s line has been equally strong, giving up only one touchdown on the ground in -vic- tories over Indiana, California, Il- linois and Iowa. Se Ge Williamson discounts the idea that Ohio State holds a jinx over his teams, despite the fact he has yet to win from a Buckeye team in five tries. His 1951 team gained @ 66 tie, but the Badgers lost the other four, including’ a 20 - 19 thriller last fall in which Ohio pretty good football in spots this | Stai year, but always consistent, but ite scored twice in the fourth the USS Bushnell in an Island City Winter Baseball League game in the Wickers Field Sta- dium at 7:30 p. m. The Bushnell will be attempt- ing to gain their first league victory in the tilt. Michaels or Yorkvich will start on the hill for the Giants with Kocher catching. Manag- er Perry of the Bushnell will probably give the nod to Work- man for the hurling assign- ment with either Coto or Nash behind the plate. The Cuban Club will meet the Junior Conchs Sunday at 2 Pp. m. in the Wickers Field Sta- dium in anéther league encoun- ter. heesions AP Chooses Maryland Over Miami NEW YORK ™ — Hurricane Hazel smashed. our crystal bowl and this week’s football selections are made by sticking an old-fash- ioned hat pin into tomorrow's pa- per. that the agreement with me made in good faith ... has now been violated.” At the Chicago meeting, Roy Mack was given until last Monday to sell his stock to Johnson and thus complete a deal of nearly four miflion dollars that would wipe out the Athletics’ indebted- ness and send them to an en- thusiastic Kansas City. Roy’s brother Earle and father Connie long had pressed for the sale to Johnson. Before last Monday’s deadline, a group of eight Philadelphia men bought the stock from the Macks and announced they had saved the A’s for their own city, where the club has been for 54, years. Johnson was left holding the bag. But the American League vote needed to approve the sale to the Philadelphia syndicate , has not ween forthcoming thus far. League President Will Harridge has had only one comment: “There will be no statement until the final papers have been signed for the purchase of the Philadelphia Ath- letics.” Art Gallagher, a member of the syndicate, said in Philadelphia that he considers Johnson’s statement “entirely unwarranted.” “As I recall it the last thing Roy said before he left Chicago was that his final decision de- pended upon what, his family want- ed him to do,” said Gallagher. action with our group that his family prevailed upon him to keep the A’s in Philadelphia, where they belong.” 3 action taken against CCNY since the school’s basketball scandals of 1950 resulted in a complete over- | hauling of the college’s athletic setup. The couneil’s report said that the “high school records of 14 or more athletes admitted to City College of New York duting the years 1945 to 1951 were si and fraudent- ly changed to establish eligibility for admission to the college.” The ruling affects only CCNY’s basketball team with respect to NCAA-sponsored or approved tour- naments or post-season events. All of Miami’s teams, on the oth- er hand,’ are barred from compet- ing in any NCAA-approved post- season game or tournament. The ruling dealt a stiff blow to| Miami’s football team which is un-| defeated in four games this season. Miami has bruised past Furman, Holy Cross, Baylor and Mississippi State and has been mentioned prominently for a berth in a Post- season bowl game. Miami drew the probationary pe- Tiod, the council said, because the school violated NCAA regulations by providing “transportation costs of prospective athletes to visit the campus during at least the past four years” and for conducting “tryouts for prospective football players.” Byers said the ruling has no ef-|* fect on Miami’s regularly sched- uled games during the 1954 or 1955 seasons, Roy Campanella’s | Shape In Doubt | NEW YORK ® — Whether an| able-bodied Roy Campanella will | be behind the plate for the Brook- lyn Dodgers next season won’t be known for another four or six six weeks at least. jover “Indiana, “Marquette ing, it should be an improvement over last week’s efforts. when there were 17 misses in 48 picks for a puny .646 average. That low- ered the seasonal mark to .728 with 166 correct and 63 wrong. This week’s forecast: Oklahoma over Kansas State: Here’s wishing the entire list could be as easy. Ohio State over Wisconsin: The Ohio State line, the game's big question mark, to get inspiration from the Buckeye fans. But it will be bruising task to keep Alan Ameche, Jim Miller and Jim Ha- luska in check. UCLA over Oregon State: Jack Ellena, UCLA tackle, one of best in country, and all his mates are above average. - Mississippi over Arkansas: A contest featuring two of the coun- try’s unbeaten elevens. Statistics show that Mississippi has the strongest offense, the best passing and is the nation’s stingiest when it comes to yielding yardage. That’s a rugged combination. Minnegota over Michigan: The McNamara brothers make the dif- ference. . Army over Columbia: To win this one, Columbia needs 11 Claude Benhams and has only one. The others without comment: THURSDAY South Carolina over Clemson FRIDAY NIGHT Furman over Davidson, Wichita over Denver, Detroit over Tulsa, George Washington over William & Mary, Maryland over Miami SATURDAY: EAST: Boston College over Springfield, Brown over Temple, Delaware over Connecticut, Har- vatd over Dartmouth, Boston Uni- versity over Holy Cross, Rutgers over Lehigh, Navy over Penn, Pittsburgh over Northwestern, Princeton over Cornell, Yale over Colgate. SOUTH: West Virginia over VMI, Alabama over Mississippi State, The Citadel over Presby- terian, Florida over Louisiana State, Duke over North Carolina State, Wake Forest over North Carolina, Georgia over Tulane, Virginia Tech oyer Virginia, Geor- gia ae Kentucky. : Colorado over Ne- braska, Michigan State over Pur- ¢ », Hlinois over Syracuse, Iowa over Fordham, Missouri ‘over Iowa State. SOUTHWEST: Baylor over Tex- jas A&M, Oklahoma A&M over Hardin Simmons, Rice over Tex- as, Texas Christian over Penn State, SMU. over Kansas. FAR WEST: Arizona State over West Texas State, Montana over Brigham Young, Arizona over New Mexico, Oregon over San Jose, Texas Tech over College of Pa- cific, Southern California over Cal- ifornia, Washington over Stanford, No matter what method of pick-j Utah State over Colorado A&M, Washington State over Idaho, Wy- oming over Utah. BOYS CONFESS ARSON TO COVER THEFT PORT HURON, Mich. (#—Two 10-year-old boys set fire to a house in Port Huron to destroy evidence they had ransacked it, police re- ported yesterday. Police quoted the boys as say- ing they defaced the interior Tues- day and then returned and set it afire after remembering they had: written their names on pieces of paper left in the house. The boys were released to cus- tody of their parents, It will be that long before doc- tors can test the results of the | Second operation in six months on | the veteran catcher’s left hand. After the four-hour operation yesterday, it was announced there was an “excellent chance”—but no out-and-out guarantee — Campy’s hand would return to normal. Dr. Samuel Schenkman, a neuro- surgeon who performed the oper- | ation, and Dr. Lyndon Hill, who assisted, offered this appraisal but | added: “No more will be known | for from four to six weeks, when | further tests will be made.” The first operation, in May, re- moved a bone chip. The surgery sidelined Campanella for four weeks and left the hand partially Paralyzed, Electro - impulse tests showed the Paralysis was caused by ad- on the ulnar nerve. ‘Gavilan Camp Cries “Robbers” As Saxton Gains Championship “Tt Steenks,” Says Gavilan After Battle By MURRAY ROSE PHILADELPHIA ‘® — Johnny Saxton won the welterweight title from Kid Gavilan last night. Today, with cries of “robbers” from the Gavilan camp echoing around him, Saxton went into court to face a possible 15-day sentence. He is charged with 12 traffic violations. “I hope the judge will give me a break,” said the 24-year-old New Yorker. Gavilan insisted he got no breaks last night when a highly controversial unanimous 15-round decision relieved him of the 147- pound crown he had worn for 3% years. While the referee and two judges were in accord and had Saxton the champion by the 12th round barring a knockout, 20 of 22 box- ing writers at the ringside had Gavilan the winner in what had to be the worse fight of his career. Gavilan, alternately crying and screaming and alternately retiring and unretiring, sobbed after the fight: “People don’t talk for*nothing. I know from the first round on that I cannot win. The referee he gives Saxton everything his way, I no want to fight no more. I give my left hand—I give my right hand to the Pennsylvania commis- sion. Everything steenk.” “The Keed, he is robbed,” screamed his manager, Angel Lo- pez. “The Keed, he is robbed. I know he have to win big but after he take last three rounds I figure for sure they must give him the decision. I say to the Keed, ‘They cannot take it away from you.’ I am wrong. I give you the Penn- sylvania commission,. They can mE the championship and keep | it’ “It was a lousy, stinking fight,” said Chairman Frank Wiener of the Pennsylvania Athletic Com- mission. “If Gavilan fought like T’ve seen him in the past, Saxton wouldn’t have won.” He made that statement to Frank (Blinky) Palermo, manager of the champion, and Jim Norris, president of the International Box- ing Club in the Saxton’s dressing room. Later, Wiener said, “If Gavi- lan’s handlers are still erying rob- bers, crooks and fix after they have had time to cool off, it will cost them. Both Gavilan and Sax- | ton stunk out the house. Let Sax-| ton take his title to Syracuse and figh Carmen Basilio, and let Gavi- lan fight anywhere but in Philadel- phia.” There was more action and con- fusion in Gavilan’s dressing room, including a fist fight, than there | was in the “fight.” | Wiener frowns on.return bout contracts and there was none re corded with the commission, How- ever, Lopez, in between saying | the Keed was through fighting and then maybe not, insisted he had an ironclad contract for a return bout in New York City within 90 days, Palermo, who had told re- porters that Lopez was correct, re- versed his field. He said Saxton might face Basilio, the No. 1 con- tender, first, with the winner to meet Gavilan. Then he said it’s up to Norris. Norris said, “We'll see what hap- | pens. I think Gavilan should fight as a middleweight.” Meanwhile, Saxton, bewildered but happy, said, “I fought the figat j like I planned—to win. I had him | puzzled,” What Wiener said about the dull, listless, clinch - filled fiasco un- doubtedly goes double for the inno- cent 7,909 fans who shelled out NEW YORK (#—The sports fans of Philadelphia still are capable of cracking weak jokes, which is admirable under the circum- stances. They say that if the citi- zens of Kansas City feel let down over not getting the Athletics, they would be happy to ship them out a football team and call it square, They'll even give them a choice among Penn, Villanova and Tem- ple, three gridiron teams of na- tional repute. It’s only a gag, of course, point- ing up the fact that things are bad all over in the Quaker City. The three football teams, all. of which have at one time or an- other been renowned in their re- spective classes, have yet to win a game this season. They have lost 11, and the point score against them going into Saturday’s con- tests stands at 366 to 82. The sus- Picion is that this constitutes a record for a three-team city. There is no indication that the | end is in sight. Penn is a strong favorite to keep its winless streak unsullied against Navy this week, while Villanova and ‘Temple sim- ilarly are expected to submit to Houston and Brown, respectively. If. ever a team was caught in the switches, it is Penn’s once- mighty Quakers, who made the) sad mistake of joining up with the newly formed Ivy League and em- (ella is Sel. “iste aera through most of the activity. This observer had Gavilan in front, 8-4-3. The officials voted for Saxton this way: Referee Pete Panteleo, 9-6; Judge Jimmy Mina, 7-62, and Judge Nat Lopinson, 8- 6-1. They all gave Gavilan the last three rounds. When they didn’t pose and wait for the other to lead, the boxers | huffed and puffed at close range. There were no knockdowns, nat- urally, and few solid blows were landed. Gavilan weighed 145%, Saxton Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot ) bracing all its “amateur” rules, including the abolition of spring practice, while it still was com- mitted to playing out a big-time schedule which runs through the 1955 season. Already whomped by Duke, Wil- liam and Mary, Princeton and George Washington, the Quakers now must face Navy, Penn State, Notre Dame and Army on suc- cessive Saturday before they play a team of their own size and per- suasion, Cornell, in their final game. Of the nine teams on this year’s Penn schedule, only the two other Ivy members, Princeton and Cornell, did not have the invatu- able benefit of spring practice. ‘To make matters even worse, ‘the Quakers have a new coach, Steve Sebo, who was one of Big- gie Munn’s numerous and talented assistants at Michigan State last season. Coming in cold this fall, with only a necessarily scanty knowledge of his material and with only a few weeks in which to whip a team together, Sebo probab:y has done as well as could have been expected. 146%. TOMORROW NIGHT Constance High School OF MIAMI —vs.— $57,121. The customers booed Key West H.S. Kickoff: 8P.M, NEW HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FIELD GOLD COAST CONFERENCE GAME $1.00 Gen. Adm. Seats on Sale at PAUL J. SHER’S and K, W. HIGH SCHOOL ALL USED CAR PRICES SLASHED $100 to *2 TO MAKE ROOM FOR 1955 MODELS STUDEBAKER TRADE-INS ‘51 Fords—‘S0 and 53 Chryslers — ‘49 Cadillacs ‘41 and ‘31 Mercurys TWINS GARAGE, I Phone i 1 1130 Du Key West val St