The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 16, 1954, Page 6

if } hattanooga Gridders Out-Weigh Cond 4 # Beckman Releases Starting -Line-ups; Lauds Tenn. Team The Key West Conchs will be out-weighed at near- ly. every position Friday night when they go against the big, rugged Chattanooga High School team. Conch Coach Ed Beckman said he had received Chattanooga High’s starting line-up, He also released his starting line-up for Friday night, ; Here are the two teams that will start: KEY WEST POS. CHATTANOOGA FAVORS, 155 STONE, 185. HOOD, 175 O’NEIL, -180 LE LT | HENRIQUEZ, 200 DEMERITT, 175 GARCIA, 160 | BRANTLEY, 200 ‘CARBONELL, 175 REESE, 145 STICKNEY, 170 HANEY, 160 CATES, 160 ‘Old KC. Blues ‘Stadium Set Up For Athletics KANSAS CITY —Arnold John- ston today stepped up his giant- sized task of readying a major Teague baseball club and stadium for the new Kansas City Ath-etics by season opening next April. Heavy construction equipment into old Blues Stadium. The remodeling is being handled by a company organized specifically tc handle, this one rush-order job. Johnson, who only last week ac- quired the Athletics from. the Con- _ nie Mack family, yesterday named Parke Caroll, general manager of the Kansas City Blues since 1951, as a vice president and business manager of the club for three years. “We hope to have our field man- ager selected by-tomorrow,” John- son said, Speculation here ig that the skip- per will be Lou Boudieau, recent- ly fired as manager “f te Boston Red Sox. Johnson would neither, confirm Ror deny it. r “Several men are under consid- eration,” he said. ‘No, Eddie Joost isn’t out of the picture.” Shrine Re 7 & : LG Cc RG RT RE QB LH RH FB PLEDGER, 195 HENDERSON, 190 MEYERS, 190 BUTLER, 218 McKINNEY, 180 RHODEN, 160 WILLIAMS, 155 BARNES, 182 RICHARDSON, 185 The Chattanooga line averages about 191 pounds to the Canchs’ 177. Chattanooga runs from a single! wing similar to the Conchs and also ; uses a T formation. Beckman said Chattanooga is “definitely better than Jackson, Tenn.,” which Key West beat 20 to 0. Chattanooga is rated higher than Jackson, Tenn., the third lar- gest senior high in.the state. Chattanooga High is the only high school in Chattanooga. Chattanooga Central is the county high school. For comparison, Central beat Miami High 19 to 14 on Oct. 9. Central tied Bradley High of Cleve- land 13 to 13 and the Chattanooga High, the team the Conchs meet Friday, walloped Bradley 26 to 0. Chattanooga High also beat Bay- lor Prep of Chattanooga 7 to 0 and Baylor Prep shut out Miami High 16 to 0. Wyatt Considers Contract-Offer ATLANTA, (# — Whittow Wyatt, manager of the Atlanta Crackers, says he’ll decide by Sunday wheth- er to accept an unprecedented three-year contract offered by Earl Mann, president of the club. The former. pitching star | Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, November 16, 1954 Bushnell baseball club will cross bats tonight with the Jr. Conchs at Wickers Field. Game time is 7:30 p. m. Both clubs are in tip top. form and both pitchers are ready for action. Geo. Lastres is leading the league. in strike outs, and York- vich has done very good in his last times on the mound. Leading hitters in‘ the league are: E. Rodriguez, Conchs, 548; Ar- ango, Conchs — 500; D. Lastres, Cubans — 473; G. Gates, Conchs — 500; D. Cruz, Conchs: 409; | J. Fernandez, Conchs — 423; K. | Rodriguez, Cubans — 400; D. Rob- jerts, Cubans — 375; Postol, Bush- nell — 333; Arrenson, Giants — 333; Santana, Giants — 333; Ray, Giants Avoided ‘Sunday Game BATON ROUGE, La. (#—A smil- ing Alvin Dark last night told a church meeting that the New York Giants took the World Series in four games “so we wouldn’t have to play on Sunday.” As a youngster playing football, the major league baseball star also related, he believed “you nad to pray to win.” “But if you had 11 good Chris- tians on one side and 11 good Christians on the other, what would you do? « “I decided to pray that nobody would get hurt and let God take care of the; one who wins,” Dark said. The Giants’ captain and short- stop spoke to 1,200 persons attend- ing the Baptist Brotherhood Con- vention of Louisiana here. rates, the Philadelphia Phils and iklyn Dodger|one unnamed major league club ined he was| for a position as coach and needed dickering with ‘the Pittsburgh Pi-|time to reach a decision. Slates November 26 Gridiron Batile For Key Ba West To Meet Jr. Conchs Tonight Giants — 300; Schutte, Bushnell — 307; Zacharies — 300. J. Diaz, Conchs — 333; G. Lastres — 333; Little — 333. | Leading pitchers: G. Gates won |4; G. Lastres — 3; K. Rodriguez — one; Shaw — 1; Nash — 1, lost none; R. Lastres — 1, lost 1; J. Lewis — 1, lost2. Other records: G. Lastres has fanned 48; Gates, 35; Lewis, 32. Walks — Miches, 31; Lastres 79; Gates, 28; Lewis, 11. Innings pitched: Lastres, 22; Gates, 28; Lewis, 24; Yorkvich, 27; Michels, 26;*Shaw, 15. = Bruins Will Seek To Regain No. 1 Spot Against So. Cal. LOS ANGELES (# — Coach Red Sanders of UCLA is taking no chances on his undefeated and un- tied Bruins underestimating the Southern California Trojans when the two meet for the Pacific Coast Conference championship Satur- day. “The Trojans have perhaps the fastest set of backs that has ever been in football and an under- rated line,” Sanders said yester- day of the team which has sur- prised everyone, including its own coach. This is the ninth and final game of- 1954 for the Bruins and their only chance of regaining the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press poll ‘they relinquished this week to Ohio State. The Bruins were idle last Satur- \day and dropped into the No. 2 spot by a marrow margin as the | Buckeyes of Ohio topped Purdue. | “This is the best Southern Ca:- ifornia team I have seen,” Sanders \told the Southern California Foet- ball Writers Assn. But he also) ‘rates his Bruins as “the best| team I have ever coached.” Asked whether he thought UCLA } had an edge over USC, he told| the group: “I don’t believe I’ve seen a line any better than ours on any collegiate team.’ Coach Jess Hill of underdog Southern California answered “yes” when somebody wanted to know if he was surprised at the showing of his Trojans, who were generally overlooked in preseason BOSGEEGlG 15544, West Jordan, Utah, autpointed Mueller, 155%, Germany, 10. “ PROVIDENCE, R. 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