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Conchs Begin Practice Sessions For St. Pat's After Easy Win Over StTheresa's The Key West High School foot*' ball team, which drubbed St. The rett'f Musketeers by the widest margin of any schoolboy eleven in the state Friday night, proved one ttitaf without a doubt - they have reserve strength which is going to; be a big boost when they meet the tough dubs on their schedule. In each of their three games, they have run roughshod over their opponents to compile an unbeaten and unscored on record. They cur rently lead the Gold Coast Confer ence although they have made but DRESSEN SAYS HE'LL SHOOT SERIES WORKS By GAYLK TALBOT NEW YORK Gft—lt’s almost a sure thing these days that the two World Scries teams will play them selves one awful game along about midway, the shortage of really good pitchers being what it is, and the Yankees and Dodgers turned theirs in yesterday. The final score was 11-7 in favor of the Yankees, which meant that the Amercan Leaguers went into totay’s sixth and possibly final game leading by three victories to two. The four-time-straight world champions were back in their own park in the Bronx with their crack young left-hander, Whitey Ford, on the mound. The Dodgers, needing desperately to win this one, were relying on their new World Series strikeout king, Garl Erskine. Considering his brilliant exploit of oily three days ago, when be fanned 14 Yankees and best them by 34, Erskine looked like a very good bet to knot the playoff at 34 and sent it into its binding game tomorrow. But Charlie Dres sen, the Brooklyn manager, was ready to shoot the works. M lf he’s needed, Preacher Roe wfll.M ready to relieve,” he said last night ”1 would like to save him to start the seventh game, hut I won’t be saving anybody when these games are playing out the way they are now. I worked him with only three days rest not long ago, thinking about this, and ttie Preach looked all right.” There was much opinion that the Yanks had more to worry about today than the Dodgers had. Few who watched Erskine throt tle the champs two days ago and who saw what angry, humiliated athletes there were later in the dressing room could imagine that they would give the handsome Fla. Gators Head For Rocky Season With Loss Of Casarcs By F. T. MACFEELY GAINESVILLE (A-It’s a topsy turvy football season and so far the Florida Gators are getting the turvy end of it. They haven’t won any oft heir first three games. Though holding Georgia Tech to a surprise score Island City Bat Champs ■ 1! JOi MIRA, left, won the Island City League batting champion ship with a neat .487 average. Bob Santana trailed him closely wftfc .460 and hit seven doubles and a trip’e. one start in that loop. And, if they continue their winning ways, they should be strong favorites to walk off with the toga. This afternoon, the Conchs will get down to work on their next assignment, a battle with the tough St. Pat’s eleven of Miami. St. Pat’s will bring with them a much larger club than Muske teers fielded. Scouting reports have it that they run from a T with a | host of bruising linemen to show the way. j Coach Ed Beckman said today right-hander trouble. But they| could easily imagine the Brooks’ right-handed power taking great chunks out of Ford again. Ford lasted only one inning when he started the fourth game at Eb bets Field. i Dressen had his right-handed ex- 1 plosives planted again today, with Jackie Robinson hitting third and Roy Campanella fourth. Duke Sni der, left-handed hitter, was down in the sixth slot, below Gil Hodges. Charlie was very confident that his right-hand array would knock Ford loose. Six home runs were hit in all yesterday, but there is some doubt that any one of-them would have been a home run in Yankee Sta dium, where there is room for balls to travel in left field. The guess here is that five would have, been long outs at the Stadium and that Mickey Mantle’s grand slam mer in tiie third inning would have been a triple over Jackie Robin son’s bead. Yesterday’s game was a sloppy! contest. Each club made six earned runs. The Yankees scored five times in the third inning after they should have been out and 1 Johnny Podres, the juvenile who started pitching for the Dodgers, should have been out of trouble. With two Yanks away, Podres got Collins, the first baseman, to slap a ball sharply down the right line. Gil Hodges muffed it beauti fully, letting a run across. Thi% appeared to ruffle the Dodger pit cher. He proceeded to hit the next batter and walk the ba6es full. Dressen replaced him with tem permental Russ Meyer, who had been warming up since the game began. The bases were loaded. There stood Meyer and there stood Mantle, the latter not having been able to hit a baseball with a bass fiddle in his most recent attempts. (less tie, the Gators lost to Rice 20-16 and Kentucky 26-13. And some of the foes yet to come are 'shaping up tougher than indicated 'in preseason dope. There are Louisiana State and •Auburn, disregarded in Southeast ern Conference title speculation that be will stress defense in drill sessions this week. St. Pat’s re-; ported!y run the same sort of of-' fense that the University of Miami sports and at times during the sea son, the Conchs have been some what puzzled by the ramifications of the T. j Beckman said today that he has hopes big Jim Solomon will be on tap Friday night. Solomon, who in jured his ankle in an early season practice session, has not appeared on the Wickers Field gridiron to date. Solomon was slated to handle | Meyer came in overhand with his first pitch. Mantle, who had been hit on his throwing hand and {sorely hurt in pregame batting practice, knocked it far and away into the upper deck in left field. tThat made the score 5-1, and what ever happened after that was pret ty much lost in the shuffle. : By the end of the seventh in ning the Yanks were leading 9-2, partly on the strength of Billy Mar tin’s two-run homer in that chap ter. They were 10-2 by the time the Dodgers finally laid into Jim McDonald for four runs in the last of the eighth, mainly on Billy Cox’s three-run, line-drive homer just over the left barrier. The point had been reached where there waa some surprise that a ball remained inside the bandbox park, j What little drama there was In the one-sided contest was saved for the last of the ninth. Junior Gilliam led it off with another punch over the left railing, leav ing the Dodgers only four runs in I arrears. Peewee Reese followed with a fly out to left, but Snider punched a clean single to right j That brought Casey Stengel bow legging it out from the bench and waving toward the Yankee bull pen. In came Allie Reynolds to pitch to Jackie Robinson, and two more Yank pitchers promptly be ;gan warming up. Nobody knew, 1 actually, whether Allie’s back, bad ly bent in the first game, had re covered sufficiently for him to pitch. | Turned out it had. The Chief missed a couple outside, and then came in with one that Robby {smashed viciously toward Billy IMartin at second. Billy got right {down on the ground to take it, {tossed to Phil Rizzuto to start a double play and the game was {over. but now both unbeaten and very much in the picture. There is Georgia, better balanced than anyone expected. So is Miami. Three of the Gators' experienced veterans are unlikely to play the game because of injuries. Rick Casares, the potential star of this year’s team, may even have ended his college football ca reer. A slight shoulder separation suffered in practice last week proved more troublesome than coaches thought and limited Ca sares to a minor role against Kentucky. He couldn’t block and tackle effectively; so was used only on spot kicking. Steve DeLaTorre. No. 1 line backer, went out early in the Ken tucky game at Lexington Satur day night with a dislocated elbow and halfback Dick Watson was sidelined with a shoulder injury. The whole Florida varsity got a rest from practice today. “They are tired and probably a little overtrained even though it is early in the season," Coach Bob Woodruff said yesterday. He called it the hardest working squad be has ever coached. Recalling his previous state ments that this team lacks the experience of the Gator Bowl champions of a year ago. Wood ruff said; “Our team is going to come along.** He expressed the hope that Flor ida will come up with a game this season like the one Kentucky turned In against them. “They outplayed us badly,” Woodruff admitted. He said loss of key men like Casares and DeLa- LaTorre was damaging and Flor ida didn’t call a good game de fensively. but the big thing that produced the upset was that Ken tucky was red hot. The Wildcats completed 13 of 16 passes, including four for touch downs. Bob Hardy, a sophomore held out last season and playing his first college game, threw two of the scoring passes—one for 20 yards to Ralph Paolone and one for 61 yards to Steve Meilinger. Herb Hunt threw the other two -22 yards to Larry Hennessy and 10 yards to Dick Mitchell. Florida had anew top runner sophomore fullback Bill Hearing who gained 51 yards in 12 carries and scored one touchdown from two yards wit. Sophomore Harry Speers passed 22 yards to Tommv Haddock for the other TD and Speers lacked one conversion. the kicking for the Conchs. Hap-; pily, they have not found them 'selves in a spot where they have redly needed a top-notch punter, but when they meet clubs like' , South Broward, St Peter and Paul and Jefferson of Tampa, it may be different story. Tonight, the Key West Quarter back Club will rehash Friday; .night's clash at their regular din ner meeting at 7:30 p. m. in Ra {monin’s Restaurant. They’ll have the movies of the Miami Tech ball game. Upsets Mark SEC Activity J By MERCER BAILEY ATLANTA, Oct. 5 UR-“It looks like a long winter.” The comment came from Coach Bobby Dodd after his highly fa vored Georgia Tech team was pushed all over the field by sur prisingly strong Southern Metho dist Saturday. Dodd might well have been talk ing for several other of his fellow Southeastern Conference coaches as well as for himself. Tech managed to luck out a 6-4 victory over the SMU Mustangs, so that Dodd fared better than Coaches Harvey Robinson of Ten nessee, Johnny Vaught of Missis sippi and Bob Woodruff of Florida. With Alabama, these were the teams ranked tops in the con ference. All five had successful seasons last year, wound up in a* New Year’s Day bowl game and all five were considered among the best in the conference this season. But all five already have had their records marred, either by defeat or a tie. Mississippi State and Auburn, never seriously rated as champion ship contenders, are the only teams which still boast perfect records. Auburn alone has yet to let an opponent score. The Maroons and the Plainsmen share the SEC lead with Georgia. • Alabama rode the passing of Bart Starr to its first victory of the season, a 21-12 taming of Van derbilt. The crimson Tide climbed to fourth in the standings. Tech, Louisiana State, Missis sippi and Kentucky are £ied for fifth with .500 marks. Next come Florida, then a three-way tie fpr last among Tulane, Vandy and Tennessee, Kentucky used passing to upset Florida, which the week before had held Tech to a scoreless tie. Two quarterbacks accustomed to the bench teamed their passing with Steve Meilinger’s running to beat the Gators 26-13. Bob Hardy and Herbie Hunt threw two touchdown passes each for the Wildcats. Auburn’s fast, spirited Plains men ripped Mississippi 13-0, end ing the Rebels' streak of 13 regu lar season victories. Duke had too much offense for the Vols of Tennessee and won 21-7. The Blue Devils collected three touchdowns within six min utes in the second quarter and from there on it was easy. In other games Saturday, Texas A. & M. beat Georgia 14-12, the Aggies second victory over an SEC team via the conversion route (Kentucky was the first victim); LSU pulverized Boston College 42-6, with reserves seeing a lot of action; Mississippi State dropped North Texas State 21-6; and Mich igan toppled Tulane 26-7. Two top-notch intersectional bat tles and a pair of tough conference games headline the % SEC program for next weekend. Auburn and Mississippi State tangle in Stark ville and Tech goes to New Or leans to play Tulane. Georgia! meets Maryland in College Park and Tulsa comes over for a battle with Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Other games are Stetson at Flor ida, Kentucky at LSU, Vanderbilt at Mississippi and Chattanooga at Tennessee. Undefeated Pro Clubs To Clash , NEW YORK lA—The National Football League’s two undefeated, untied Western Conference teams clash in the No. 1 game of the week this Sunday when the De troit Lions entertain the San Fran cisco 46ers. Both have won two games. The defending champion Lions will be favored, but the 49ers are fresh .from one upset and will be gun ning for another. Yesterday, ’Fris co upended the Los Angeles Rams, 31-30, just six seconds before the end on a field goal by Gordon Soltau. In other league action yesterday, the Cleveland Browns defeated the Chicago Cardinals, 27-7, and the Chicago Bears turned back the Green Bay Packers. 17-13. The powerful Browns sit atop the Eastern Conference with two vic tories and no losses and the Phila delphia Eagles don’t figure to [cause them any worry this 'Saturday. Yanks Show Optimism After Win | BROOKLYN UT-Maybe ft was {because they sensed the extra' cash which goes to the winners but regardless of the reason the New York Yankees were a differ ent ball club after beating the Brooklyn Dodgers U-7 yesterday jand'taking a 3-2 lead in the World Series. j For the first time since the 50th World Series started there was real excitement in the Yankee dressing room. “Pretty good,” Manager Casey Stengel muttered as he wormed through the crowd. Then, a few minutes later, he confessed be felt optimistic about the outcome of the series. “We’re going back to our own park now, and that should be an advantage. Last year we had to play the last two here (Ebbets Field). And we were behind, 3-2, instead of ahead, 3-2, so you’d have to say our chances are bet ter.” But before naming today's pitch er he consulted pitching coach Jim Turner. Finally, after a brief huddle, Casey shouted “Ford.” “First day we’ve hit," he said. “McDonald did a real good job. (Jim McDonald was the Yankee Pitcher most of the way). He fielded his position good, and saved us some trouble. Reynolds (Allie Reynolds got the Dodgers out on; a double play in the ninth) had! good stuff. Maybe he’ll come in handy tomorrow or the next day.” Reynolds, who injured his back in the first game, said, “I can still feel it.” But he added he probably could go a couple of in nings today and tomorrow, if nec essary. Mickey Mantle, whose third-in ning bases-loaded homer broke the game wide open, said he hit “a belt high curve—the same kind of a ball they were throwing me the other day.” He referred to Friday, when he fanned four times on Carl Erskine’s pitches. Over in the Dodgers’ dressing room, Russ Meyer agreed with Mantle as to the kind of pitch 1 the young Yankee center fielder hit. “It was one of my best pitches,” said Meyer. “Erskine had been telling me—and we had been no ticing it. Mantle had been running away from the pitches. So I fed him a low overhead curve—a beau ty, just the kind Carl was gviing him Friday. It was a low one and a good breaker. But this time he stepped into it like he was mad at somebody and murdered it. They knocked the stuffing out of my best pitches. What can you do in a case like that.?” Charlie Dressen didn't hesitate in naming his pitcher for the sixth game. “Our back’s to the wall again and it’s up to Erskine,” he said. “He’s pitched with two days rest before and done okay.” Erskine himself said he wel comed the opportunity to face the {Yanks for the third time but added isoberly: “I haven’t pitched with two days 'rest this year and I don’t know !how good my stuff will be. This is sure. I think I can do as well {in Yankee Stadium as in Ebbets {Field. I don’t think a ball par| means anything to a pitcher.” Sox’ Richards Was Right On Series Homers By JOE REICHLER BROOKLYN <A-Puul Richards' prediction that Brooklyn's Ebbets | field, with its confining back yard fences, would turn on the Dodgers in the World Series has proved to be correct. How much of a sage the Chicago White Sox manager proved to be is attested by the New York Yan kees’ power demonstration yester day. Led by Mickey Mantle’s grand slam homer off reliefer Russ Mey er, the Yankees blasted four cir cuit swats over the short fences to account for eight of their runs in an 11-7 triumph. “Don’t let those Dodger homers fool you,’* Richards had said when someone mentioned that Brook lyn’s fence-busters, paced by Roy Campanella and Duke Snider, had walloped 206 home runs, 112 at Eb bets Field. “Sure they can hit but that ball park is a great help to them. ; “Wait until those Yankees get into that cracker box they call a ball park. Those Yankee right handers, led by Mickey Mantle and Gfl McDougald, will hit those left field seats so hard theyH be pick ing up the splinters on Borough Hall." Gene Woodling opened the game with a home run off starter Johnny Podres. Mantle hit hi* grand slam mer in the third. Billy, Martin [reached the seats with r a mate aboard in the seventh off Meyer !and McDougald closed out the ihomer parade in the ninth off Joe Black. All homers but Woodling’s [were hit Into left field. Press box (observers agreed not one would Island City League Champs JIaMHHH 1 mftiH Wta pHHHj _ Jasj • ftfe- MIKE’S PLUMBERS who captured the 1953 Island City League baseball crown, poet for tha camera man. From the left, standing; Loop president Frank Wayne, Bob Santana, Mundi Beiro, Jo- Mira, Johnny Lewis, A1 Acevedo, and Pedro Aguilar, secretary, treasurer and scorer of tiv league. Front row: Jesus Rodriguez, Julio Santana, Pedro Rodrigues, and manager Papo Quc sado. Golden Rams And Blue # Devils Battle To Tie Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Notre Dame Has Week’s Layoff To Prepare For Pitt Battle By ED CORRIGAN NEW YORK M)—Uneasy ties the head that wears a crown, Shake speare wrote many centuries ago, but he didn’t have the Notre Dame football team in mind. Lachrymose Frank Leahy’s men rule the college football roost to day, and they have no reason to fear anyone. They don’t play this Saturday, so they’ll have two weeks to sharpen their claws for the University of Pittsburgh. It’s been four years since the Irish stood atop the pile. In 1950 they won only four games and Leahy turned out to be right in his pessimistic predictions. The last two seasons they’ve been threatening to come back by scor ing seven triumphs and losing but two each year. Now, with their great backs like Johnny Lattner and Ralph Gug lielmi and Neil Worden tearing the opposition to shreads, the South Benders could go right through, After Pitt, they meet Georgia Tech, which looks to be heading for a fall with its 29-game undefeated skein. After that, it’s Navy, Penn, North Carolina, lowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist. The Irish beat the tar out of Purdue Saturday, 37-7, right on the heels of hanging a 28-21 defeat on Oklahoma. Two weeks don’t make a season, but this looks like the Midwest’s year. The Southern powerhouses of last year seem to have run out of gas. Michigan State,*Onio State and Michigan are roiling right along with Notre Dam?, and it’s a safe bet the experts v. i ' predicted a runaway in the Bit V for the Spar tans are munchin*; their words. The three teams < play each other, so it should ' n out to be a jolly scramble v h could go right down to the f< ame of the season when Ohio S a:e and Michi gan clash. All three looked like worldbeaters on Saturday. The Snartans won their 26th straight game, dubbiig Minnesota, 21-0; Ohio State pol ished off California, 33-16, and Michigan ruined Tulane, 27-7. Just as this looks like the Mid west’s year to shine, the South may not have a really outstanding team for the first time in many a moon—unless Georgia Tech snaps out of the doldrums. The Engi neers, tied by Florida two weeks ago, defeated Southern Methodist! by the incongruous score of on Saturday. Look at last year’s powerhouses from Dixie. Mississippi was shut; out by Auburn, 13-0 after winning its first two from weak foes. Ten-j nessee has yet to score a point' in two losses, the last being 21-0 to Duke. Alabama bas a loss, aj have been a homer had the game! been played at Yankee Stadium. McDougald. in fact, discounted his homer this way: j “Don’t give me any credit for! that one,'*.he said. “Anybody can! hit a home run in this band box.’’ Even Mantle was a mite disap pointed despite his grand slam-! mer. “I should have had more than' just one homer," he said. “A guy should not be satisfied with just one a game in this park.” Maybe it is a blessing in disguise for Brooklyn to have to play the final two games of the Series at Yankee Stadium. Monday, October S, 1953 tie and a 21-12 victory over Van derbilt to show for the year’s work. Right now, Mississippi State, Duke and Maryland loom as the class of the section. State has yielded only 12 points in winning three games. It trounced North Texas State, 21-6 Saturday for No. 3. State will get a pretty stiff test against Auburn this week. Duke and Maryland also have won three each and have given up just six points apiece. The Terps’ Saturday victim was Gem son, 20-6. Duke faces Purdue this week and Maryland goes against Georgia. On the Pacific Coast, the two outfits that fought it out down to the barrier last year, are showing all signs of doing the same again. Southern California, which beat out UCLA for the crown, bas pol ished off one league team and a pair of Big 10 elevens. The Tro jans licked Indiana 27-14 for their third conquest. The Udans made Oregon their third straight victim Saturday, 12-0, and now have permitted only one touchdown in 180 minutes of football. California, usually a PCC power, seems to lack the horses after being routed by Ohio State. Southern Cal and UCLA don’t meet until Nov. 21 and that one could decide the title. In the Southwest, most of the teams'still are waiting for a big test, but Rice and Baylor rule the j choices. Rice made a trip east Saturday and swamped Cornell, 28-7. Auburn Selected SEC Team Of Week ATLANTA (A—Auburn, surprise 13-0 winner over University of Mis sissippi Saturday, has been voted “Team of the Week" by SEC coaches. Eleven votes went to the Tigers in the third week’s poll conducted by the Atlanta Constitution. Coach [Ralph Jordan was the only dis senter. Tbe Auburn mentor gave his vote to Kentucky for its 26-13 romp over Florida. Mississippi, a one touchdown favorite, never got started against the bard-charging Tiger line and alert defensive necks. Auburn held tbe Rebels to 32 yards rushing and 71 yards passing in winning its first SEC victory since beating j Tulane 21-0 in its fifth game of the 1 1651 season. | The club from the east Alabama [plains got 215 yards rushing, 381 [through the air, and held a 16-4 j edge in first downs. | Auburn joins Mississippi State J and Louisiana State as tbe “Team of the Week.” Mississippi State got >tbe vote last week for its 26-0 vic tory over Tennessee. LSU took honors in the first pull with a 20-7 I [win from Texas. [COSTLY LESSON i PINEVILLE, Ky. (A—A young 1 [man paid with his life to'learn ( bis friend’s automobile wouldn’t itake a curve at 90 miles an hour. [ j State police reported Charles •Green, 21, was trying to show J. W. Smith, 19, that Green’s car would make the curve at tbe edge of Pineville at the high speed. Smith was killed and Green in-! ured critically when the vehicle hit! a sign -and concrete post, then., overturned. Barefoot Loop Teams Show We. In Opener Sat. The Golden Rams and Blua l vfls battled down to a 64 tii S. urday afternoon at the Wlckr Field Stadium in tbe opening t in tbe newly formed Barefoot Fo ball League, sponsored by tbe K West Quarterback Club. A fair sprinktliiß ef fan* watt I •and a surprising gridiron dlspU as tha two pint-si sod dubs, made up of members of the 7. and Bth graders at the Key We UUk —A a a.a II In mgn wcnooi vwiifvii if mi •* well-played exhibition on a fie! Quarterback officials, after he ing tbe enthusiastic comments mong the spectators, said that ti expect much larger turnouts in 1 future for the barefoot encounU It was a bardfought battle i urday on a slippery field, 'j teams fought it out at midfield . two full periods with neither tf making much headway until ) in the third quarter when the G< en Rams took possession on th own 32 yard line. A reverse pit ed up ten yards and then ha; driving Paul Higgs took the b on a reverse-lateral play a streaked dowa the sidelines score for the ice-breaker. The I for the extra point failed and ti had a 6-0 lead. It looked like th were going to be the winners. But Dorris Yates went arou his own right end on the same pi with but two minutes remaining the ballgame to score standing to knot the county for the B! Devils. They failed in their try the extra point and the whi* found the clubs fighting it out mid-field. Dicky Scott starred defenslv for the Blue Devils, while D Sawyer and Red Case showed t for the Rams. Don Walston coached the Ra while Conch varsity perform Tony Dopp and Glynn Archer m terminded the Blue Devil attack Coach Archer expressed sa faction with the performance his club. *Td like to work ifl these fellows some more I thfl we can win the championship.” ■ Action in the loop win resufl next Saturday, Color TV Ready NEW YORK (A— The Colural Broadeasting System today I nounced that a low-cost and nl improved color television pietfl tube for home receivers ia ■ ready for mass production. The new tube was described! revolutionary by Bruce A. 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