The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 2, 1954, Page 6

Miami Sixth In AP Voting They'll Need Impressive Win Saturday To Climb Further By HUGH FULLERTON JR The Associated Press The growing idea that a football team has to “win big” every Saturday to maintain a high na- tional ranking will come in for a serious test next weekend. Although the educators deplore the thought of running up big) scores to impress the voters, the success of such high-scoring teams as UCLA and Miami has been re- flected consistently in the ballot- ing of the sports writers and broad- casters participating in the weekly Associated Press ranking poll. It’s UCLA on top this week, the third leader in as many weeks. Led by flashy Primo Villaneuva, UCLA rolled over California 27-6 after beating Stanford 720 and Oregon 61-0 on the two previous Saturdays. Those three straight displays of brutal power, combined with Ohio State’s 14-7 squeaker over Northwestern, put Red San- ders’ Uclans ahead by the narrow margin of 28 points. Ohio State had taken the lead) from Oklahoma the week before when Bud Wilkinson’s unbeaten Okiahomans won by a small mar- gin. When the same thing hap- pened again, Oklahoma winning by oly 136 from stubborn Colorado, the Sooners dropped lower in the point scoring although they «man- aged to hold third place by a com- fortable margin over Arkansas. Scoring is on the basis of 10 points for each first-place vote, 9 for second, etc. UCLA, corraling 72 of the 281 first-place votes, piled up 1,931 points. Ohio State had 69 firsts and 1,903 points, Oklahoma 42 and 1,666 and Arkansas 16 and 14%. Completing the first 10 were Dame, Miami (Fla.), Army, Pur- due, Mississippi and Southern Cal- ifornia, Miami, another high-scoring team, moved into the top 10 a week ago, after a 9-7 upset over Maryland, Then it whizzed past | Fordham 75-7 last Friday and jumped to sixth in the rankings. Virtually all the top 10 teams figure to win from this Saturday's opponents, so it comes down to the question of whether just win- ning is enough, Army won from Virginia, 21-20, last Saturday but dropped two notches in the rank- ings The leading teams, with first- place votes in parentheses: . UCLA (72) . Ohio State (69) Notre Dame (4) . Miami (Fla.) (14) . . Army (1) . Purdue . Mississippi (2) usc pas (Second 10); Duke ... . Iowa Cincinnati Minnesota Rice Wisconsin " . West Virginia (1) Virginia Tech . Navy (tie) Nebraska Pittsburgh | STOCK-UP TODA with smoother tasting Cubans, Bushnell To Battle Tonight The Cuban Club and the USS Bushnell will cross bats tonight in an Island City Winter Base- ball League encounter in the Wickers Field Stadium at 7:20. The two clubs are evenly matched and « hot baligame is in the offing. The Cubans are currently in second place in the league standings while the Bush- nell is im the third position. Manger Perry of the Bush- nell, will start his fireball hurl- er, Nash, with Cote as his bat- tery mate. Manger Valdez, of the Cu- bans, will start Joe Lewis with Roberts behind the plate. Olson, Panter Bout Is TV Feature Wed. On November 3 the Blue Ribbon Bout television cameras travel to Richmond, Calif., to air the Carl “Bobo” Olson — Garth Panter mid- dleweight contest at the Memorial Auditorium, The 10-round non-title fight will be a warm-up bout for Olson's Dec- ember 15 championship defense a- gainst Joey Giardello. Panter, a knock-out minded fighter, seeks to upset the 160-pound champion and move up into the ranks of the elite. Over 100 CBS-TV stations will carry the action from coast to coast with station WTVJ. Sarting time is 10 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. Olson, from Honolulu, won the world middleweight title in Octo- ber of 1953 when in a nationally televised Blue Ribbon Bout he de- cisively beat Randy Turpin, Euro- pean middleweight king. Bob won the American championship by de- cisioning Paddy Young in June 1943. Since winning the crown the 26 year-old title-holder scored victor- ies over Kid Gavilan and Rocky Castellani in title bouts. Taught the rudiments of fighting by engaging in street battles as a youth in Hono- lulu, Olson entered the pro ranks in 1945, In 1952, Bobo met Ray Robinsin in his first middleweight title try and was defeated after closely fought contest. A firm believer that superb con- ditioning is a determining factor in winning bouts, Carl trains con- sistently and easnestly. In 64 starts the champion has won 58 and lost six. Twenty-five of his victories were by kayo, a tribute to his pow- er packed punching ability. Strong and compactly built, .the tough title-holder is calm and effi- cient in the ring, winning many of his bouts by sheer stamina and fighting courage. Plater, from Salt Lake City, Utah, made his Blue Ribbon Bout debut on December 2, 1953, when he scored a unanimous 10-round de- cision over Norman Hayes. The 24- year-old battler comes from a fam- ily of fighters. His brother, father {and uncle were prominent boxers in the West. He started fighting in high school and won the state scholastic title before going ing the Army. An action fighter, Panter established an excellent record in the West a | before moving to the East Coast. In his first New York fight the heavy hitter from Utah lost a close decision to Kid Portuguez after leading most of the way. Garth re- deemed himself when he upset Pi- erre Longlois, number nine middie- weight, a few months later. An agressive, two-fisted fighter, Pan- |ter has won 57 out of 75 fights, yhile losing 16 and drawing in two. In scoring 40 kayoes he holds one of the best knockout records for his division. On November 10, the Blue Rib- bon Bouts telecast will not be air- ed due to a time preemption. The Page $6 © THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, November 2, 1954 ‘Johnson Says Conch Forward Wall To Get Heavy Work For Jackson The Key West High School football team got down to intensive work Monday in preparation for their battle with the Jackson, Tenn., gridders hese Friday night. The forward wall, which was outplayed by a hard-fighting Miami Beach line Saturday, will come in for some heavy work in this week's drills. : An indication of their malfunctioning may be had from the fact that Beach managed to block three Key West punts — and that’s more kicks than the Conchs have had blocked in three years of foot- ball. In addition, the Conch linebackers were making the lion’s share of the tackles. Boys like Stuart Yates, Gene Favors, Joe Russo and Red Stickpey (before he was hurt), were bearing the brunt of the defensive work and then taking a Meanwhile, the Conchs are dril | Red Stickney and Bill Haney. Stic while Haney has a bruised should Stuart Yates. plenty of work to his reserve backs including Norman beating on offense. ling without two of their key backs, kney is soffering from a stiff neck er. Coach Ed Beckman is giving Allen and In commenting on the Conchs’ chances against Jackson, Beckman was noncommittal. “I would say that football is 85 per cent ‘desire to win’ and 15 per cent skill,” said Beckman, “1 t is up to the boys.” SEC Conference By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern Conference coaches are watching anxiously to see whether some of their key players will recover from injuries in time to help in the season’s home stretch. Tennessee’s ace tailback, Jimmy Wade, put on a uniform Monday for the first time since the Vols’ opener. Wade has been out with a knee injury, and he still is re- garded as a doubtful starter against Georgia Tech Saturday. Sophomore John Majors is likely to be at tailback if Wade is unable to play. Majors also is recovering from a knee injury. Coach Bobby Dodd of Georgia |} Tech has reason to feel better ter Larry Morris, who missed the Duke game last week because of a knee ailment, is expected to be back in the lineup against Ten- nessee. Vanderbilt squad a rugged scrim- mage, said he hopes halfback Charlie Horton will be back in har- ness for Kentucky, Horton, who was Vandy’s best runner earlier in the season, has been out with a leg injury for several weeks. | Fullback Bobby Walker, who was sidelined two weeks ago with a virus condition, rejoined the Ken- tucky squad for a light workout. about his defense. All-America cen-| Coach Art Guepe. who gave his | While some of the other confer-! Jence teams were still groggy from the week before, Alabama went |through a light scrimmage and | looked forward to being at the sea- ;son’s peak condition for the Sat- |urday game with Tulane. tkie Ed Culpepper are expected \to perform against the Greenies, and if they make .it the whole | squad will be ready. There were only minor injuries in the Georgia game last week. Also in good shape, most of Au- |burn’s Plainsmen had a full day watching the freshmen run Mi- jami’s defensive and offensive | plays. The top 20 players observed while other varsity members whipped the frosh 18-6 in a scrim- mage. Louisiana State’s first two teams drilled briefly while the third and fourth strings scrimmaged until dark. Coach Gaynell Tinsley said the squad will work hard all week in preparation for Chattanooga. Tulane’s emphasis was on of- fense. The Tigers have scored only |27 points this year, |_ The conference-leading Georgia | Bulldogs took a holiday. At Gainesville, Coach Bob Wood- |ruff announced that Florida will | work behind closed gates this week in anticipation of a hard game against Georgia. | Mississippi had a light drill that ; Pointed to Memphis State’s single wing offense. | NEW YORK, (#—The most time- ly reading of the week in sports circles comes in the form of a | pamphlet mailed to each of the | stockholders of the Baltimore Base- ball Club, Inc., disclosing that the }dom from St. Louis have earned | a tidy net profit of $942,153.29 after estimated taxes. Now, there is a nice, fat figure which the presidents of seven other American League clubs sbould be able to read and assimilate with- | out any great mental strain as they |mull over their final decision on |the landing place of the Philadel- | phia Athletics. | It’s as simple as that. A club Orioles in their first season of free- | Roundup By Gayle Talbot Eastern centers of its origin. Mil- waukee has for the second straight season demonstrated that a head count into the millions is not neces- sary if you give the fans a club they can root for. Baltimore didn’t have even that. The Orioles were only a little less | jdeplorable than the Athletics, and yet they pulled a total of 1,060,917 paying customers at the gate, or an average of about 15,800 per home contest. 'RECORD PRICE PAID |FOR 9-YEAR-OLD MARE | LEXINGTON, Ky. (®—A record following week, November 17, the | which had lost $707,000 operating | Price of $105,000 was paid last night 20th world championship title bout|as the St. Louis Browns the pre- for the 9-year-old stakes-winning | in the Blue Ribbon Bout series will be carried nationally when Paddy Ryff Explains | views year was poured into new uniforms and moved into a new city | On the face of it. there appears to be no sound reason why the A’s|Previous record of $85,000 a year) | could not be expected to do some-/ ago today, again acted as an agent. thing comparable in Kansas City, even though the population of the Masaka, one of 20 broodmares con- signed to the Keeneland sales by | De Marco defennds his lightweight and came near making a million | the Aga Khan, who is reducing his | crown against Jimmy Carter in| dollars after paying all expenses the Cow Palace, San Francisco fabulous racing establishment A. B. Hancock Jr., who bid the Ralph Starkey, right tackle for Fullback Jerry Chiapparelli an| He'll Spend Million On A’s CHICAGO #—Industrialist Arn-| old Johnson thinks his chances of buying the Philadelphia Athletics | and moving them to Kansas City are so good that he’s ready to pump | a million dollars into the player er. Johnson offered $3,375,000 for the | Athletics last summer and yester-| day said the offer still stands. market to build a pennant contend- | J “The deal just has to jell a little while,” he said. “But I believe my | chances are excellent.” | Less than a month ago Johnson | not only had Roy Mack's promise that he would buy the A’s but he also received approval from Amer- | ican League owners. Since then the following events | took place: | 1. The team was sold to a Phila | delphia syndicate. | 2. Johnson threatened a suit for “substantial damages” against the syndicate, contending Roy had giv- en his word he would sell to him. | 3. The American League turn-| ed down the syndicate’s bid for the club. Speaking about the A’s, Johnson said, “I realize that we do not have too much trade making ma- terial. I am ready to pour another | million dollars into the A’s at Kan- | {sas City for players in the next 2 or 24% years.” | Yesterday, Johnson for the first | time disclosed the names of his | | partners. They are Nathaniel Ley- erone, J. Patrick Lannan and Jo-| sep H. Briggs—Chicago business tycoon. Minor League Owner To Sue WASHINGTON (#—The owner of | a minor league baseball club is ex- | pected to file an estimated 50-mil- | lion-dollar suit tomorrow against | baseball’s major leagues. | The suit was to have been filed | yesterday but James P. McGran- ery, former U.S. attorney general and lawyer for club owner Frank Lawrence, was out of the city. His office said he would return tomor- Tow and presumably file the suit then. 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