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Clint Warren's Drive Gives GE Win Over VX-1 In Island City League Cttat Warren's ton* fi v ; Bunsy Villareal trm third and fare General Electric ai. . lory over VX-1 m the ope. the Island City Winter * League. b the nightcap, fleet So* Bar School defeat*. Hr Queen, 4*l behind Harvey Geise fear-hit oitchinx. General Electric took a 6*o lead when they came op with six runs In the first inning on three hits, three walla and two errors, but VX-1 taught bade to pick up two tons In the second* a walk, two hits, an error, end a wild pitch. They added two more In the third an an error, a walk and three hits. A hit, two stolen bases, and an in field out netted VX-1 a single tally la the fourth, and they took the lead In the fifth on a walk and Vie Boutot’a homer. frank Sands, General Electric catcher, started the winning rally In the seventh by singling to left. After Villareal lived on an error, Mickey Wert* tied the score with a line shat double hi right. Maho ney, next up, walked to fill the bases. Santana then popped out to short lor tbs first out but Warren came through with his long fly to score Villareal easily from third. la the nightcap, fleet Sonar School’s Harvey Geise bested the Dairy Qneen’a DeWitt Roberts in • tight pitching dual to take the win. Each pitcher allowed four hits, but the Sonar boys came! through in the dutches. The Sonarmen picked up two runs the first inning on a walk, an arm, a passed ball and two sin gles. They added another In the third on a hit batsman, a wild pitch and Lanaban’s second hit. An arm and three walks produced the tally. Sonar School cams right back and added an insurance run In their half of the sixth on a walk, a wild pitch, Lanaban’s third kit —a double to left. Lanahan, who was Robert’s chief fermenter, had a perfect night col lecting a double and two singles In three trips to the plate. Wednesday night the Fleet Sonar School will tangle with General Electric in the first game while VX-1 takas on file Dairy Queen in the night cap. The first game will get underway at 7:30 p. m. Scores: first Geme Club— R. H. E. VX-1 022 120 o—7 7 3 G.E. 600 000 2—B 8 2 Gamble and Fink; Warren, Val des (&) and Sands. Second Game Club— R. H. E. Dairy Queen 000 001 O-l 4 1 Sonar School 201 001 x—4 4 1 Roberta and Lewis; Geise and v Roland. Baseball Series Is Slated Here • The San Carlos institute is spon soring a three game series between Mike's Plumbers, baseball champ ions sf Key West and the USS Bushoell, one of the top teams in the area. The games will be played Oct. 10 and U at the Navy's Walker field as a part of the celebration of Cuban Independence Day. Game time is I p. m. Mike's will field a strong pitch ing staff in Pedro "Lefty” Rodri gues, Gibby Gates, and manager Armando Quesada. Joe Mira, Island City League batting champ will be at first base, A1 Acevedo will cover second. Bob Santana will handle the hot corner with Julio Santana at short. Lewis, Rodrigues and Lastres will be in the garden. The Bushnell nine has just re turned from a three month cruise through the Canobcau where they played in Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, without losing a game. Orange Bowl Talks Slated MIAMI lit—'The Orange Bowl Committee meets today to con sider a possible agreement be tween the Big Seven and the At lantic Coast Conferences to send their champion football team here New Year's Day The Big Seven includes Okla homa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kan sas. Kansas State, Colorado and lowa State. The Atlantic Coast Conference split off from the Southern Con ference last spring end is made op of Maryland, Duke North Caro lina, North Carolina State, Clem aon. South Carolina and Wake Forest FIRST ACI WAS TRICKY CASSADAGA, N. Y. (I) - After # years, a hole in one has been •cored on the Cassadaga Country dub course. William S. Suggs, of Waterford, Pa., did the trick re cently with a seven iron on the 112- yaitl six til bote Hit tee shot took a freak back bounee after hitting a retaining hank and landed to the cup. Stan Sherman, operator of the Conchs Give Pointers i 1 ioMrrtr siHl a ] t* * ptt xj y -V* * K EttL ***K~lt. i ■ VS* .- 4 ‘mfSf ..... . ". .. .' •* . CONCH VARSITY CENTER GLYNN ARCHER and Quarterback Tony Dopp give some pointers to linemen from Blue Devils Barefoot football loop team. Sponsored by the Quarterback Club, the barefooters promise to be a popular attraction in Key West. They’ll play a pre liminary game before the Key West-SL Pat’s clash Friday night—Citizen Staff Photo. Johnny Mize Says That He Will Retire By JOE REICMLER j NEW YORK - Big Johnny Mize reiterated today his intention to end his active career in base-j ball and Allie Reynolds may join! him in retirement. Reynolds, the New York Yank ees great right-hander told news-! paper reporters after the first World Series game he would quit) if his back failed to improve over the winter. "My back has been bothering me ever since I hurt it in that bus accident last July,” he said. “I've had muscular spasms, on and off, ever since. For a time, I couldn’t even run, let alone pitch. ‘‘My back improved somewhat! in the hot weather but I rein-] jured it again pitching the World Series opener. I was greatly upset then because the muscular spasms 1 returned. However, it wasn’t as bad as I thought and I was able to pitch again although I knew I’d never be able to start another series game.” ' Allie, a wealthy oil man who last spring entertained thoughts of 'retiring at the end of the 1953 season, said he planned to rest all winter. I “I'm going to give the back a good chance to heal,” he said. “If I’m physically fit and feel I can help the club next year. I’ll return for another season. But if my back does not come around. I'll hang up my glove. I’ve had too nice a career in baseball to kill it by merely hanging on.” Reynolds, naturally, was jubi lant over his triumph in the final game. He relieved Whitey Ford in the eighth, and although he served the home run to Carl Furillo in jthe ninth that tied the score, he was declared the winner when the Yankees won the game 4-3 in the last half of the ninth. It was his seventh World Series triumph, equaling the record held by Red Ruffing of another Yankee era. “It’s not the way I like to get it,” he said, “but I’m glad to take it anyway." Mize, who will be 41 in January, left no doubt about his intentions. I “I know I can still help the club, especially as a pinch hitter,” .he said. “But I don’t think it will ‘be worth it. I’ve got two offers now, both of which will pay me more than I'd make playing with the Yankees next year. One is an [all-year-round job, the other for five months.” i Mize, who appeared only as a pinch hitter during the series and j failed to land a safety, declined to identify the offers but said they i would be in baseball. Tampa Drills TAMPA ÜB—The Tampa Spar tans were promised a long, hard workout today to help them get set for a visit from Jacksonville Navy Saturday night Although no one was banged np seriously in the 42-6 drubbing at the hands of Mississippi Southern Saturday, several regulars were allowed to rest their bruises Mon day. | course since it was opened in 1930, said it was the first tA Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Auburn, Mississippi State Tilt To Top SEC Conference Action By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Most Southeastern Conference! football squads shook out the week- j end kinks yesterday, went through light signal drills and then got a look at the stuff their Saturday foe is expected to throw at them. I Four conference games are on. this week’s menu, two SEC outfits take part in intersectional battles, and the other two have what look! like breathers. Auburn journeys to State College to meet Mississippi State in a bat tle of the unbeaten-untied teams. Georgia Tech takes on Tulane at New Orleans. Louisiana State plays host to Kentucky in a night game. Vanderbilt faces University of Mis sissippi at Oxford. Georgia meets Maryland in Col lege Park, Md., and Alabama plays [host to Tulsa. 1 Tennessee plays Chattanooga at Knoxville, and Florida meets Stet son in a night game at Gainesville. Coach Ralph Jordan’s Auburn squad worked out in shorts. Half back Charlie Littles returned to duty after missing last week’s game with a leg injury. Jordan told his Tigers, “you can’t beat Mississippi State without stopping Jackie Parker." ! Parker, top quarterback for the Maroons and SEC scoring leader, was working with some new first team backs. Coach Murray War math had senior Zerk Wilson and sophomore Lou Venier at the half backs slots in yesterday’s light drills In place of injured regulars Don Morris and Arthur Davis. Georgia Tech’s Coach Bobby Dodd held a short workout and spent most of the time giving his ■ squad a talk on its poor play Former Subs Are Named To AP List ATLANTA Oto - Thirteen backs! and fifteen linemen were named today to The Associated Press' weekly Southeastern Conference checklist. Several of those singled out by, sports writers for sparkling play in Saturday's games were second | stringers or former substitutes. This group included backs Jim my Wade of Tennessee, Ray Weid enbacher of Tulane, Bobby Free man of Auburn, Floyd Teas of Vanderbilt, Joe Hall of Georgia Tech, Bill Dealing of Florida, and Tommy Davis of Louisiana State; end Curtis Lynch of Alabama; guards Frank Jernigan of Missis sippi cud Don Shea of Georgia; and center Lamar Leachman of Tennessee. Other players making the check list, which will serve as a basis for selection of the All-star team: | Backs: Jack Parker, Mississippi :State; Vince Dooley, Auburn; Fob James Jr., Auburn; Steve Meilin ger, Kentucky: A1 Doggett, LSU:j 'AND Bart Starr, Alabama. Tuesday, October 4,1953 I against Southern Methodist Dodd said the Engineers would be an! [air-minded team the rest of the way. j Coach Ray Wolf had his Tulane' squad in the darkroom for a re-; I view of the Michigan game movies and scout reports on Tech. Wolf said guard A1 Robelot fractured a [finger against Michigan and prob ably won’t play this week. | Louisiana State had 45 minutes! of signal drills and calesthenics. Bear Bryant let his regulars off with signal drills, but put the re serves through a short scrimmage. The squad got past Florida without a major injury. Mississippi’s regulars had a light offensive drill. Coach John Vaught told the team it must “smarten up, sharpen up" before the Vander bilt game. Alabama worked on defenses It will spring against Tulsa, and Red Drew announced a scrimmage for today. Reserve quarterback Buster Hill broke an arm yesterday and will be out for several weeks. Regular tackle Francis Malinow ski will miss the Maryland game because of a broken cheekbone, but the rest of the Georgia regulars should be ready. Tennessee’s Vols reviewed block ing assignments and other offen sive phases in a light drill. Coach Bob Woodruff gave his Florida 'Gators a review of past mistakes by showing them movies of the Rice and Kentucky games. Vanderbilt Coach Art Guepe cautioned the Commodores they would face another aerial on slaught when they meet (He Miss. A leaky pass defense was a major factor in both Vandy defeats. | Ends: Bud Willis, Alabama and Bob Adams, Mississippi. Tackles: Dick Weiss, Mississippi; Buck Watson, Vanderbilt; and Charles Coates, Tulane. Guards: Ray Correll, Kentucky; Bobby Goodall, Vanderbilt; Frank Brooks, Georgia Tech; and Sam iMrvos, Georgia. I Centers: Larry Morris, Georgia .Tech, and Steve Delatorre, Florida. Soph Lauded DAYTONA BEACH Knowles, Stetson sophomore, and Ernest Tobey, Miami junior, are back and lineman of the week among Florida colleges. ! Knowles, whose borne is Green Cove Springs, led Stetson’s 18-7 j victory over Western Kentucky. He gained 127 yards and scored the decisive touchdown. Tobey, center and linebacker from Coral Gables, made t tackles and 12 assists in Miami’s 21-13 'loss to Baylor. Barefooters Will Play Friday Night The Blue Devils and the Golden Rams will dash again on Friday evening at Wicker* Field Stadium as a prelimin ary to the Key West*st. Pat rick's dash in a barefoot league encounter, it has been announced. The teams battled it out to a 44 tie Saturday afternoon. There will be ne increase In admission charge far the added tilt. Indications are that Bare foot League games will con tinue to be played prior to the Key West varsity games. City Commissioner John Car* bonell last night sponsored a resolution before the City Cam* mission asking that the city furnish the lights far the geme at ne cast. The Quarterback Club is sponsoring the Bare foot League, made up ef play ers from Hie 7th and tth grades at the high school. They have dug down and purchased regu lation uniforms for the grid dors. Billy Martin rr 1 m lagged lop Series Player By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK (#i—Superlatives of the 1953 Golden Jubilee World Se ries: Outstanding individual player— Billy Martin, Yankees’ second > baseman. Tied the series record for most hits, 12; led hitting with; .500; accounted for a total of 23 bases; stole one base; failed to make an error. His ’’dutch” single won the deciding game. Best pitching performance—Carl Erskine, Dodgers, who struck out 14 Yankees for an all-time World Series record in winning the third game 3-2. Best fielding play—Billy Cox, Dodgers, with his spectacular stab ber in the sixth inning of the fifth game. With bases full, he made a leaping stop of the ball, picked it up in time to force Gene Woodiing and retire the side. Best outfield catch—Duke Snider, Dodgers, who raced to the auxil iary scoreboard in right center field at Yankee Stadium to make a leaping, one-handed catch of Joe Collins’ blow in the fifth inning of [opening game. j Best outfield throw—Gene Wood ling, Yankees, in the second inning iof the fifth game at Ebbets Field. He cut down Gil Hodges at the plate with a no-bounce “strike” af ter Billy Cox bad lined to medium left field. ! Greatest comeback—Gil Hodges, Dodgers, “goat” of the 1952 series with no hits in 21 appearances, led Dodger regulars in hitting with eight hits and .364 average. Biggest blunder—Yankees’ at tempt to send Martin home in {ninth inning of the fourth game [with the Dodgers leading 7-3 and New York in the midst of a rally. Martin was cut down at the plate for the final out. Third base coach Frank Crosetti took full blame. Biggest single hit—Mickey Man tle, Yankees, with his bases-loaded blast in third inning of fifth game. ! Toughest break—Pitched ball In {first game which hit Campanella’t [right hand, handicapping the Dodg ers’ hard-hitting catcher. Best quote—Preacher Roe, Dodg ers’ pitcher, who described one of the home run balls he threw in the second game as "the greatest mis take since they invented butter milk.” Irish Retain Top Grid Spot NEW YORK (H—Notre Dame, fresh from its second smashing triumph, remains the popular choice as the best college football team In the country while three Big Ten schools have enhanced their top 10 ratings. The Fighting Irish, who enjoy an open date Saturday after wear ing down Oklahoma and trampling on Purdue in their first outings, received 84 of 129 first-place votes cast and 1,190 points in the second weekly Associated Press poll. Michigan State, with two con secutive Big Ten victories under its defending national champion ship belt, remains in second {dace with 15 firsts and 1,022 points. Ohio State jumped from sixth to third on the strength of its im pressive 33-19 triumph over Cali fornia in the national television contest while Michigan fell a notch to fifth despite a 26-7 victory over Tulane. The Buckeyes scored 789 points to 636 for Michigan. Maryland, dropped from third to fourth, received 733 points. UCLA followed with 430 points Southern California 424, Duke 311, Baylor 288 and Georgia Tech 227 to round out the top 10. Duke is the new entry on the list. The Blue Devils advanced from 12th to eighth following a 21-7 victory over Tennessee. Okla home. eighth a week ago, tumbled to 16th due to its 7-7 tie with Pitt. TWAS ONLY FITTIN' THAT BILLY DID IT By GAYLB TALBOT NEW YORK - It was right and proper that the player whom Casey Stengel loves above ell his other Yankees should have stroked the ninth-inning sirgle which won the deciding game of the 1953 World Series -and made the Old Professor the only manager in the history of the game to win five straight world championships. If the grizzled strategist could have picked his man to lace the one-out drive into center field that gave the Bombers their thrilling 4-3 victory and crushed the re surgent Brooklyn Dodgers, you may be certain his choice would have been Billy Martin, the hard bitten little scrapper he managed at Oakland and whom he sooner or later brings into almost every conversation. Even Chuck Dresscn of the Dodg ers might have had slightly mixed feelings when he ,aw Martin lay into Clem Labinc’s second pitch and watched Hank Bauer heading for home with hu ground-eating strides. Dressen also holds a soft feeling for the kid who buried his hopes. By one of baseball’s choice coincidences, he managed the boy he refers to as “that tough little monkey” the year before Casey did at Oakland. Only three nights ago. after Mar tin had made himself something of a goat by attempting to score a run that wouldn’t have meant anything and getting thrown out at home to end the fourth game, Chuck sat long in his private dress ing room at Ebbets Field and talked about the battler from the Coast. His words were all in ad miration, even when he told of [having had to slap a stiff fine on [Billy for swearing at him. The ‘s2oo jolt was rescinded after Mar tin apologized, somewhat reluct antly. It should not be assumed from any of this that everybody loves the series hero, whose nose is ri valed in grandeur only by those of such noted figures as Eddie Arcaro and Jimmy Durante. The Brooklyn players, themselves, hold the young man in very low es teem. He is, in fact, their unfavor ite Yankee because they consider him a popoff and all-around smart alec. After what must have been seen yesterday by many millions, in cluding 62,370 who paid to be frozen blue in a sudden change of weather, it can only be accepted that the Yankees are supposed to Barefoot League Performers rsailkflw **7"FTr’.iSZsWr f***4 -* ■ THE GOLDEN RAMS, coached by Don Walston, am currently pacing the Barefoot fbotb; <. league after fighting to a 6-6 tie with the Blue Devil* Saturday. The line, fh>m the left: B Camalier, Hal Cates, George Roberts, John Bigler, Dick Sawyer and Red Case. The backfielc * includes Dick Scott Buddy Owen, Paul Higgs and Robert McKinley,—Citizen Staff Photo. 13 Is Lucky Yank Number By SHELDON SAKOWITZ NEW YORK IP) Coaches Bill Dickey and Frank Crosetti of the Yankees consider the number “13" as lucky. The 1953 World Series marked the 13th appearance in the series for both Yankee veterans. Dickey played in eight and has coached in the last five series, while Crosetti took part in seven series as a player and has served as a coach for six. Guy Lombardo’s orchestra, en tertaining before the game, gave! the fans an indication of what was 1 to come yesterday by dedicating its opening number to the Dodg ers. The tune—"lt’s Later Than You Think." The bandbox in Ebbets Field was supposed to be a home run haven for the long ball swingers, but It didn’t exactly turn out that way. The three games at Ebbets Field produced nine homers, just one more than was hit at the more spacious Yankee Stadium in three games. The strapping right - hander, wearing No. 13 and pitching bat ting practice for the Dodgers, was Pfc. Don Newcombe of the U. S. Army. Newcombe will be dis charged to a few months. Call Erskine would have liked to celebrate his sixth wedding an niversary yesterday with a vic tory, but the Yanks apparently •ranted a party of their own. A win World Series and that the! present Brooklyn team, however good, is destined to wind up with, the losers’ share. While the Brooks went down in! six games this tine instead of the seven they normally insist upon.; they were by no means outclassed nor brought disgrace to the Na tional League. Their lack of pitch-; ;ing depth finally told on them, as it figured to do, but they proved themselves the stout hit ters that their averages promised and they never quit punching. I Few who saw it will forget the heart-stopping home run that Carl Furillo dropped into the right comer with one down in the top of the ninth to score Duke Snider ahead of him and tie the score at 3-3. There have been few more dramatic wallops, considering all of the circumstances, and it was no fault of the National League's batting champion that he didn’t emerge the gams’s big figure in stead of Martin. Consider the buildup to Furillo’s blow. The Yanks had been lead ing, apparently by a safe margin, from the game’s opening minutes. They were in front by 3-0 after two innings, and the Dodgers fi nally had scored a loner off young Whitey Ford in the sixth only be cause Jackie Robinson took charge with a double, stole third without drawing a throw and meed in on an infield out. That was all the Dodgers had managed going into their last time at bat under the lights. Their chances looked even slimmer when Stengel, playing strictly a hunch, brought Aliie Reynolds in to relieve Ford to start the eighth. Junior Gilliam, first Dodger to face the Chief, nearly knocked one into the right field seats and, after two were down, Robinson pumped a single to left. That brought up the dangerous Roy Campanella, whom Reynolds had hit on his throwing hand in the first game, and the air became electric. But Reynolds breezed a third strike past the Brook catcher, letter high, to end the inning. So the Yanks felt cozy going into the ninth—more so after Gil Hodges flied out to short center. Then Snider worked Reynolds for a pass, which was botly disputed by Yahoo’s battery mate Yogi Berra. That brought up Furillo, who previously had hit Ford for a double and a single. The man from Pennsylvania’s coal region first brought the crowd up yelling year ago yesterday Erskine was the winning pitcher as the Dodg ers edged the Yanks 6-5 in 11 ’ innings Wonder of all wonders) Casey Stengel used the same starting lineup two games in a row—some thing he rarely did all season. Only one elub, the 1937 Yanks who beat Giants four out of five, ever went through a series without making an error. This year the ’Yankees committed only one error, ;Phil Rizruto s miscue in the fifth game, to tie a series record for the least errors made in r six game series. The 1953 series marked the 50th anniversary of the World Series play. The American League has won 33 times and the National League 17 times. The Yanks now have competed in 20 World Series, winning 16 and losing 4. Their series games won lost record is 71-85. The Detroit Lions have two Ba nonis boys—brothers Vince and Vic. They have two Barts, Leon and Gcrfld, who are not related and two Spencers, Oliver and Lar ry, also not related. Duke University quarterbacks Lutz and Jerry Barger, battling for the first string job to the Blue Devil backfield, are cousins. with a punch down the right line which barely blew foul, and then, with the count 3 and 2, he socked the next one in them. I When the din (toady died down nd the Dodgers quit hugging one 'another. Reynolds struck out Billy Cox and Labine in fast succession [to close the inning. Baseball scien tists might find fault with Dressen for having let Lab.ne bat where a pinch hitter could have been useful, but the right-hander had checked the Yanks for two innings jof relief at that point and, be sides. Chuck was running short ot pitchers. His guess, at any rate, proved a bad one. Clem walked Bauer, thi first man to face him in the Yan ee half. Berra lined one into fun - lo’s hands close to the right bar rier. Mickey Mantle barely got b ; bat on • pitch and popped a drib, bier to the left side of the dia mond which Billy Cox got his glo l > on but couldn't handle, Bauer ra • ing to second. And there was Martin, the hr;' The first pitch he let go past f a called strike, which he did • t like. The next one he belted squai • ly just to the left of second hi into center field. Snider came te *• ing in to take it on the hop, t didn’t even bother to try a thr to the plate. Bauer, one of t fastest base runners in the gar couldn't have been tagged with , rocket gun. The Dodgers all just trudged ’ slowly toward their dugout. < • jected and weary, while the Ya ' ees caught Martin out near f : base and gave him a Mm air * ing. Reynolds, having permittad i tying run on Furilio’s Mast, gai 1 credit for his seventh Worid 5 • ies victory when Billy took )./ off the hook. That ties the C with a Yankee right-hander lef . him, Red Ruffing. The sad figure of the cm’ was Carl Erskine, the trim Dod* i right-hander who fanned am 14 Yankees in the third game. . didn’t hive the same ftuf! a * only two days’ rest, and t. Bombers got to him in a hur: - didn’t have the same stuff a only two days’ rest, and t • Bombers got to him in a bar; not really bard, but good ear in view of his uick of control - some poor Dodger fielding. \ Erskine gave way to a pinch 1 • in the fifth be had yielded I ■ runs and six hits. His failure t < it again doomed the Dodger. Boxing Results MONDAY NIGHT'S FIGH 1 By The Associated Frest BROOKLYN - Jimmy He. ’ * 16144, New York, outpointed I via Edelman, 161V*, Pbiladc 10. NEW ORLEANS—WiIIie P rl no, 15444, New Orleans, outp- ! 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