The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1954, Page 6

Ly Conéhs Taper Off Drills ‘For Miami Beach Battle Red And White For Crucial Tilt In Top Shape By JIM BB Citizen Editor The Key West. Conchs will taper off today in their preparations for a battle Saturday night with the Mi- ami Beach Typhoons. The Conchs worked for three hours yesterday on every phase of their offen- ‘sive and defensive program including an extensive ses- sion of hard hitting scrim- mage work, 2 ote They worked on pass defense, in particular, a department in which Rey neve Shown weakness in the past. ; (Also in for considerable polish a few of the offensive fillips it the Conchs have not needed thus far in the season. Their * tricky stuff worked with surprising $ ess against a Conch Jay- « Vee squad yesterday. * The Conchs, however, will at- to control the ball, just as have in their five wins ear- this season. For example, in | the Curley game, they were forced fo punt just once once — and it ) a 6-0 game. el “ape hope we play one of our r games,” said Coach Ed an today. € THe brushed Laide reports that the Gonchs have been installed as 12 Point favorites in the clash when said that “the game is even — can believe that.” + Physically, the Conchs are as strong as they have been all sea- oree comparative weights of the two clubs may show that the Ty- Bhoons have a slight edge. * But the Conchs will be on their best behavior when they march out on the field before an estimated hometown fans who are flock- to Miami Beach for the clash. First contingent left this morn- ng to witness tonight’s Miami - fordham tilt in the Orange Bowl. One side of the Beach Stadium ae ma reserved for Key West Alabama Is Favored By Two TDs Sat. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. () — Ala- ‘bama is @ firm two-touchdown favorite over the Georgia Bulldogs in a Southeastern Conference foot- ball game ‘here Saturday which may have a direct bearing on the SEC chai ‘Alabama's status is greatly in- creased with the return of Bart Starr, who has been out of action most of thé season because of an injured back. Coach Harold Drew calls Starr the best passer in Alabama histo- ry, and considering such throwers as Dixie Howell and Harry Gilmer, that’s quite a compliment. Starr’s absence has been made less painful by the swift develop- ment of quarterback Albert El- more as @ passer and punter. El- more has thrown seven touchdown Two More May Be Eliminated From SEC Race By MERCER BAILEY Associated Press Sports Writer Mississippi vs. Louisiana State... Florida vs Mississippi tate... Georgia vs. Alabama...Those three weekend football games could eliminate two more teams from the Southeastern Conference cham- pionship race. Georgia is undefeated in confer- ence play; the others have lost one SEC game. Since the confer- ence started operations in 1933, no team with two defeats has won the title. Georgia, Mississippi State and LSU are going up against teams which suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of underdogs last week. That figures to make "Bama, Florida and Ole Miss even tougher than usual. One other SEC game, Tulane vs. SAphee was picked for a low spot in the SEC’s second division . alge: guesses, but the Bull- currently are leading the league with two victories in as many starts, “We've beaten the two teams picked to finish below us in the SEC,” said Coach Wally Butts of Georgia. “You can’t expect us to do much against a team like Alabama.” Butts has been using mostly br in what he calls a ding program. “Ser Says Elmore probably will start against Georgia. Alabama fans are not discussing it much, but the Crimson Tide can take the SEC title again by win- ning this one and subsequent games with Tulane, Georgia Tech and Auburn, N ° Tuna Cruise PASCAGOULA, Miss. W— The bk Fish and Wildlife exploratory vessel Oregon left Thursday for its fifth yt tuna cruise in the Gulf a Mexico since June. he — Pots -line stations will ma the Mississippi ip and the Florida ca = te maintain a seasonal chec! the distribution of yellowfins. “prom Nov. 2s the Oregon, will US. underwater observations of experimenta: trawls in action off @e southeast coast of Florida. Auburn in Mobile, is on tap. The others are non-conference affairs; Georgia Tech at Duke, North Caro- lina at Tennessee, Vanderbilt at Rice and Villanova at Kentucky. The Ole Miss-LSU scrap, a Satur- day night game in Baton Rouge, rates top billing. After their 6-0 upset loss:to Arkansas last week, the Rebels can’t afford another loss if they hope to win the SEC crown and a Sugar Bowl bid. On paper, Johnny Vaught’s Rebs seem to have an edge, but LSU's Tigers have pulled upsets two weeks in a row—once over Texas Tech and again over Florida— and would like nothing better than to beat their ancient rival. Ole Miss is favored by two touchdowns. Duke and Florida are touchdown favorites over Tech and ae pi State. Tennessee, Alabama, Au- burn and Rice are given a two- ‘touchdown edge over North Caro- lina, Georgia, Tulane and Vandy. Kentucky is rated four touch- downs better than Villanova by the oddsmakers. How they stack up from here: DUKE over Georgia Tech: One of the keenest inter-conference ri- valries in the country. Duke gets the nod because Tech will miss the defensive talents of injured all-America center Larry Morris and the running of suspended half- back Billy Teas. MISSISSIPPI STATE over Flor- ida: The Maroons have been hard at work whetting their offense to razor sharpness. MISSISSIPPI over LSU: The Rebels will be on a rampage and three upsets in succession is asking too much of LSU. ALABAMA over Georgia: Geor- gia has yet to show the type of offense that can puncture ’Bama’s defenses, in the conference statistically. id Bart Starr is available if the Tide needs him. AUBURN over Tulane: Last week’s runaway vietory over FSU gave Auburn a much-needed shot in the arm and Tulane must suffer the consequences. TENNESSEE over North Caro- lina: The Vols won’t be at full strength so the Tar Heels may prove pesky. RICE over Vandy: Too much tn Dickie Moegle and not enough Charley Horton. The Vandy ace still is handicapped by injuries. KENTUCKY over Villanova: It’s hard to see how even a compla- cent Kentucky team could lose to the winless Philadelphians. Junior Conchs Down Bushnell The Junior Conchs continued in their winning ways in the Island City Winter Baseball League Thurs- day when they defeated the USS Bushnell, 10 - 0. Righthander George Lastres hurled his best ballgame in many a moon when he fanned 16 batters and gave up just five hits. The Conchs put the ballgame on ice in the third and the sixth when they scored three unearned runs. First earned run of the game came in the seventh. The Bush- nell muffed a chance to score in the ninth. Coto, Lyons and Postol played wonderful ball for the losers while Diaz, E. Rodriguez and Hopey paced the winners. Action in the league will resume Sunday afternoon in a double head- er pitting the Poinciana Giants and the Junior Conchs in the first game and the Cuban Club and the Bush- nell in the second. First game is set for 1 p. m. A dozen albino catfish in the Department of Commerce aquarium in Washington have skins 80 elear that their bones are visible. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 29, 1954 Sports NEW YORK (#—An event which the future of horse racing in this is expected to profoundly affect the future of horse racing in this country is scheduled to take place Monday night at Keeneland, when 20 of the finest brood mares from the fabulous stable of the Aga Khan, al! but one of them in foal, will be sold at auction to American bidders. The 77-year-old religious leader, grown old and ailing, is making a Start toward reducing his vast raeing establishment, which is con- sidered to be the world’s great- est, and this is his first big shot lines direction. We have it on the word of Maj. Cyril Hall, who is manager of the stable’s five stud farms in Ireland and is here to superintend the sale, that there has never been anything in all the history of racing that remotely compares to Monday’s event. “TI can put it this way,” he said. “In the 30 years he has been in racing, the Aga Khan before this has sold only three brood mares, and none of those as outstanding as the members of this lot. He has sold many great stallions, such as Bahram, Mahmoud, Alibhai and Nasrullah, to name only a few, but he always has clung to his mares. “These not only represent the cream of our farms, but they are It’s A Tough Year For The Rule Breakers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ° College football players, head- line stars and scrubs, have learned the hard way this season that training rules are a lot like a woman’s birthday—none of the principals look forward to them, a just try and overlook ’em are ‘total of 18 players, at four different big time football schools, have been dropped from rosters this seastm because of training violations, Veteran y Dodd, Georgia Tech’s lemanly coach who usually has been lenient toward players with regard to training Tules, put his foot down yesterday and suspended five,—including his ace offensive threat, Billy Teas. Announcements of this sort al- ways come as a surprise, but Dodd’s action is a real jolt, espe- cially to his Tech squad. Teas, needing just three yards to set a mew career record \at the school, was Tech’s big hope against Duke Saturday. Dropped from the\ squad with Teas were guatd-tackle Jakie Shoemaker, halfback Larry Ruf- guard Harvey Brown and tack- le John Lasch. Brown is a sopho- more and Lasch a freshman, The other three are seniors. Dodd . said “These boys were guilty of breaking our (11 p.m.) curfew, but were not guilty of breaking any other training regu- lations. I consider this offense ‘| grave enough to drop them from our team. I am very disappointed that this thing happened.” Teas, married and the father of a girl, said he and Ruffin had been studying and that he drove Ruffin to his dormitory after the curfew. Teas added “since I live at home, I wae even later getting in.” Dodd said: “It didn’t make any difference if they were 30 minutes or two hours late. They were late for curfew.” It was the first such disciplinary action by Dodd, whose team has a 42 reeord this season, since 1951 when he dismissed end John Weigle, a sensation as a sopho- more, for the same reason. Dodd, however, hasn’t been the only coach to crack down this sea- son. Ed Price of Texas and Pitts- burgh’s Tom Hamilton took sim- ilar action earlier this week. Nine Texas players were dis- ciplined for breaking i None was dropped from the squad, although all nine were ejected from their athletic dormitory and two who were first string linemen were demoted. Pitt’s troubled trio missed a couple of’ practice sessions and were cut from the roster. All three were juniors, including a first- ae Taian One of the three, halfback Gene Steratore, explained that someone failed to wake them from an aft- ernoon nap. # Roundup By Gayle Talbot in foal to some of the world’s greatest stallions. He was asked what he expected the mares to fetch, on an average, “He impossible to even make a guess,” the major said, “because there’s no precedent to go by, no precedent at all. I don’t think it impossible some of them might be bid up to $100,000 of more. It would only take two bidders’ who badly want the same mare. How big a dent, Major Hall was ree ony this sale Per into the a Khan’s supply of thorough- bred mothers? “Not much of one,” he said, rue- fully. “‘Let’s see, when we have sold this 20 and another 15 of not quite as high quality at Newmarket (England) we will have 112 brood mares left. Disposing of them is | going to be a slow process. The racing world can assimilate only sd many such valuable animals at a time. The Aga Khan intends to retain quite a few of them and to remain in racing, but he feels the time has come for him to re- duce stock.” Top Money Race Set In Jersey For Saturday By JOHN CHANDLER CAMDEN, N.J. —Horsemen fo- day must spend money to make money, and about 12 owners are expected to plank down one-half of the necessary $2,000 that will give them a shot at some $155,000 2 the racing world’s richest gal- op. The objective is the $100,000-add- ed Garden State. Stakes over the mile and one sixteenth distance tomorrow, and the total jackpot may hit around $270,000. The horse liked most is Mrs. Russell A. Firestones Summer Tan, one of the classiest juvenile colts of the season. Given the best chance of beating Summer Tan is the Cain Hoy Stable entry of Fly- ing Fury and Racing Fool. Other names expected to be dropped into the entry box include Only 10 Major College Teams American League Forces The Are Uiacaten Moving Of A’s To Kansas City By HAROLD CLAASSEN The Associated Press College football blithely enters its seventh weekend of the season today with only 10 major teams unbeaten and untied and with ev- ery indication most of them will be happy—and luecky—if they still re- tain their spotless records come Sunday. The shooting at the unsullied be- gins tonight when Miami, a sur- prising contender for national ho-- ors, takes om Fordham under a | Florida moon, The Miamians, al- ready pointing for their game next season with Notre Dame, are young and potent, having whipped Maryland in their most recent out- ing. The Hurricanes have won five straight this season. But the firing becomes really in- tense Saturday. Then Ohio State, currently the No. 1 team with five straight suceesses, meets North- western, which hasn’t won. It is the ideal spot for one of 1954’s many upsets, but the Buckeyes have Hop- along Cassady. Oklahoma and UCLA, also un- beaten, make up the top trio of college footballers at present with Ohio State and they face opposition of a rugged type. The Oklahomans are at Colorado where they were tied two years ago. The mile high altitude and Colorado’s ground at- tack may combine to trouble the Sooners. UCLA, with a prolific scoring machine that has counted 265 points in six victories slays Califor- nia, a team which still lists Paul Woody Stephens’ Brother Tex, Pine Oak Farm’s Roman Patra the Rokeby Stable entry of Man and:Golden Land, Mrs. E. Pershall Belz’s Simmy, C. V. ney’s Pyrenees, the Duntreath Farm’s Fleet Path, Tallman ner and Jack Welch’s Money ther, James Patton’s Riches, Darby Dan Farm’s Windsor Owners must hand over $1, to pass the entry box today, ai another $1,000 to start tomorrow the race to be televised natis by CBS 4-4:30 p.m., EST. The winner gets about $154, with approximately $50,000 for ond, $35,000 for third and $15, for fourth place. Speak-Easy Is Rapped In Moscow MOSCOW (#—A basement spelk- easy is doing a roaring busintss with the full connivance of ldal authorities in Moscow’s Kiroviky district, according to the new: Per Soviet Trade. The paper p! ed the full address of the ground establishment. Such speak-easies are appeai here and there throughout the since many “drink and run” and other drinking establish were closed because of the antialcohol campaign. Soviet Trade said the s easy was formerly a good dining om A few months igo, however, it “closed for reps" and when it reopened took to fell- ing only liquor. Soviet Trade faid this was because “the head§ of the trust for running public hoes in the Kirovsky region wat to make more profits.” LIONS COME TO WOMAN HUNTER BISBEE, Ariz. — Mrs. %hn Healy may be the nation’s successful woman lion hu! and she just sits at home ‘em. i Mrs. Healy, who lives at Canyon near Bisbee, shot a mountain lion in her yard Wi day. It brought her lifetime to 18, Washing of sand for uf de. Picted on Egyptian monutients which have been dated 2, Larsen among its star players and which last Saturday gave Southern California a rugged afternoon. Arkansas, another surprise name among the unbeaten, treks to Col- lege Station, for a night tussle with ‘the cadets of Texas A & M. The Porkers have won five, but the Cadets are dangerous despite only one victory in six starts. West Virginia, already boasting of four triumphs, faces a solid task in repulsing a Pittsburgh team that dropped three and then won two. Virginia Tech, Boston College, Cincinnati and Montana State are the other major unbeatens. Tech travels to William & Mary, Cincin- nati takes its unblemished record all the way to the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif., Boston College is host to Xavier of Ohio aml Montana State is host to Idaho State. That leaves many top teams who have suffered a defeat along the way. Among ‘them is Notre‘Dame, a one-time loser, meeting Navy, with a similar record, at Bal- timore, Army, a cropper in its opener with South Carolina, has a below-par Virginia team as its op- ponent. Purdue and Wisconsin, among the country’s best, are occupied with strictly family affairs. The Badgers, bounced out of the Big ‘Ten Jead a week ago, play Iowa and the Boilermakers engage an Illinois team that has speed but little defense. Penn and Penn State occupy the TV screens. The Quakers have yet to win for their new coach, Steve Sebo, while the Nittany Lions, who started the season as though head- ed for the promised land, have dropped their last two. Other games on the Saturday docket are: * East—Cornell-Columbia, Dart- mouth-Yale, Holy Cross-Syracuse, Colgate-Princeton, Ohio University- Harvard, Brown-Lehigh and Buck- nell-Boston University. SOUTH—Maryland-South Caro- lina, Georgia-Alabama, Tulane-Au- burn, Mississippi-Louisiana State, Tech-Duke, North Carolina-Tennes- see, Clemson-Wake Forest, Fur- man-North Carolina State and Vil- | lanova-Kentucky. Midwest — Indiana-Michigan, Michigan State-Minnesota, Missou- ri-Nebraska, Kansas-Kansas State, Drake-lowa State, Houston-Wichita and College of Pacific-Cincinnati. Southwest—Baylor-Texas Chris - .|tian, Southern Methodist-Texas, Vanderbilt-Rice, Oklahoma A&M- Tulsa and Texas Tech-Arizona. Far West — Oregon State-South- g | ern California, Oregon-Washington, Washington State-Stanford, Idaho- | Utah, Montana-Colorado A & M, Brigham Young - Utah State. »-| Hot Race On In *:| Navy Wives Loop Three bowlers staged a hot race this week for high series honors in the Navy Wives Bowling Lea- gue. They were: Frances Dowling, of the Singer Sewing Machine Cen- ter (472), Betty Ward, NCCS (471) and Dorothy Williams, Kotton King (470). | High team series was rolled by the Kotton King with 2106. The standings: nd | Kotton King Sewing Machine Center Sigsbee Snackery Maury’s Luggage A and B Storage Fausto’s Food Palace Coca Cola Migrating Pacific Golden Plov- ‘ers travel 2,400 miles from Alaska , .C. | to Hawaii entirely over water. - A By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK W—The American League apparently has forced the Philadelphia Athletics into Kansas City. Blocked in its efforts to sell the club to a Philadelphia lara the Mack family was expected to- day to resume negotiations for the sale of its stock to Arnold John- son and the transfer of the Phila- | delphia franchise to the Missouri city. In a special meeting yesterday, the American League voted to re- ject the bid by an eight-man Phila- delphia group to buy the Athletics and keep the club in Philadelphia. The vote, according to an Ameri- can League executive, was 4-4. Six affirmative votes are needed to approve any owner. No reason was given for the turndown of the syndicate. How- ever, the opposition appeared to stem from a desire to get the league out of Philadelphia. League publie relations direetor Earl Hilligan, who made the an- nouncement at the eonclusion of the six-hour meeting, ‘simply said: “The transaction presented to- day by the Philadelphia group failed to receive a vote of ap- proval. The meeting was ad- journed to permit the Macks to return to Philadelphia to to work out their problems.” Hilligan did not amplify the! statement, but several club own- ers indicated they were not satis- fied with the ‘divergence of opin- ion” im the Mack family on how, or to whom the stock should be sold. “It seems to me,” said Charles Comiskey, vice president of the Chicago White Sox, “that the Macks can’t get together on what they want to do. One wants one thing and another wants some thing else. “I will not egme back to any more meetings until the Macks (91-year-old Connie and his two sons, Roy and Earle) have set- tled their own affairs among them- selves. There are others who feel the same way.” Will Harridge, president of the American League, said no further meetings were planned, and it now was up to the Macks to set- tle their own affairs. “As far as the league is con- cerned,” he said, “the Macks have the ball club. They own the stock. 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