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Undefeated Conchs Test Rugged Sanford Clash May Draw 5,000 Fans; Conchs Lose Kerr, Acevedo By JIM COBB Citizen Sport* Editor The Key West Conchs, undefeated since November 21, 1952, will lay their record on the line tonight when they-run up against a rough and tough Sanford celeryfed eleven at 8 o'clock in the high school stadium. Upwards of five thousand fans are expected to wit ness the duel between the two clubs competently schooled in single wing football. “They'll be tougher than Miami Tech it won’t be easy," commented Coach Ed Beckman today. He expressed considerable doubt over the mental atti tude of his charges. “That layoff hurt us," he comment ed. The big factor in tonight’s tilt is the question of whether or not line coach Harold Allen’s defenders can come through with the same kind of performance that marked the two victories of the Conchs to date this season. Key West is unscored on thanks to at least three goal line stands. Key West will be hampered to night by the loss of Nilo Acevedo, m pound guard, who has proved very valuable on spot defense as signments this .year. He’ll miss the ilt due to a pulled muscle. And starting end Dick Kerr will ’je among the missing due to an iggravated knee injury while Nor nan Allen is still having trouble vith a knee hurt that has kept him >ut of the action all season. But Lew McLain, a 210 pound sophomore tackle will be on tap onight for the first time this year, lis cracked rib well mended. He pent the week chewing up the op >osition in drill sessions and should .;ee a lot of action tonight. The balance of the Key West for ward wall is in top condition and hereon lies the hopes of the Con chs. The backfield will show break away runner Red Stickney and >asser Bill tianey at the halfbacks, ’ependable George Reese in the locking back slot with Mike Cates ~t fullback. In Sanford, the Conchs will be 'acing a club that has won two of heir three starts this year aggainst ome of the best prep combinations i north Florida. They dropped heir opener with Apopka by a lose 7 - 6 margin and came back 5 defeat Eustis, 19 -6, and Lees urg, 25 - 0. They stress the single ving brand of football with fre 4uent shifts to the T and Winged T. Sanford boasts of a very dan gerous quarterback in Jimmy lawkins, who is being boosted for U-state honors. Hawkins, a good unner and passer has clicked with wo touchdowns passes thus far in he season. He has ran for five aore TDs. Left halfback Johnny Jones .oper ates from the tailback slot on the ingle wing and is a fair passer, le also handles the punting and uns hard. Tackle Larry Bates is an out tanding lineman who played a ter ific defensive game against Lees.- urg. The team captain, he's rough uid aggressive and may give the Conchs considerable grief. End Grady Johnson and tackle iene Bass will also bear watching onight. Tonight’s program will also fea ure a halftime performance of the vev West High School band. I * *■' The lineups: ~C#y West Pos. Sanford "Jene Favors LE H. Pate f. Hood LT L. Bates I. Henriquez LG D. Galloway f. DeMerritt C R. Carter Garcia RG Bud Davis N. Brantley RT G. Bass 1. Carbonell RE G. Johnson 3. Reese QB J. Hawkings 3 .Stickney LH J. Jones 3ill Haney RH A. Maffett Mike Cates FB R. Flowers Record Series Cut Given To Giants NEW YORK (J*— Both the New York Giants and the Cleveland Illinois cut up record World Series shares this year. Twenty-eight Giants, plus their trainer and club house attendant, received $11,147.- 10 each, while each Indian col lected $6,712.50. Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick announced the breakdown \esterday. The full Giants’ share was $2,867.22 more than the pre vious record of the New York Yan kees of 1953. The Indians, who distributed 35Vi shares, also set a record for a loser. The players’ share of the re ceipts came to $885,763.72. a rec u-d high. Included was $83,000 for i pre-game World Series TV pro ram. The>players get 60 per cent ~f the receipts for the first four mes with 70 per cent going to tin- competing teams. Tropical Fishing Tourney Slated In San Juan SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO A team of fifteen sports fishermen all members of the -Tropical Fishing Club of New York from points as distant as Canada and Cu ba has formally accepted the chal lenge issued by a fifteen man team of anglers from Puerto Rico to compete in the first International Puerto Rico Game-Fish Tourna ment in the waters adjacent to San Juan harbor. The four day tourney is scheduled to get under way Octo ber 12, according to the Puerto Rico Visitor’s Bureau, which will direct the match. Present plans are to feature tropical game-fish, es pecially white and blue marlin, sailfish and Allison tuna. Team competition will be for a mammoth Schaefer Cup, to be a warded annually by R. J* Schae fer, well-known sportsman and pre sident of The F and M. Schaefer Brewing Cos. Additional trophies are to be presented for prize catch es, including a Flying Fisherman Trophy presented by Eastern Air lines for the largest Allison tuna caught. Preliminary plans call for the Tropical Fishing Club members to leave New York via Eastern Air lines on October 10. A tournament briefing session is scheduled in San Juan at the Club Nautico on Octo ber 11, with Captain Art Wills, ve teran Florida and Puerto Rico skip per, serving as President of the Judges Committee. Fishing schedules, beginning Col umbus Day, October 12, call for each boat carrying a member of each team to be ready to drop lines at 9:00 a. m. every morning, with 5:00 p. m. the deadline for daily compettion. Glading’s “Done gal” lines will be used by the in ternational teams. Weighing - in is scheduled between 6 and 7:00 p. m. each evening at the Club Nautico headquarters. Presentation of the trophies will take place at a farewell party at the club on Saturday evening, Oct ober 16. Composition of the two teams is to be announced as final acceptance are received in New York and San Juan. Sports Shorts / KNOXVILLE, Tenn. UP—More than 100 boats already have ar rived for the world outboard speed boat championships, open-t through Monday on Fort Loudoun Lake near here. Scores of drivers are at work testing toe one-mile oval course on the Tennessee Valley Authority Lake. Officials of the National Out board Assn., sponsoring the races, said they expect nearly 400 pro fessional racing pilots from all 48 states and Canada for the races. NEW YORK o*— Jockey Eddie Arcaro brought in both ends of the 11-5 daily double at Belmont Park yesterday. He scored with Pogo G. ($7.80) in the first race and Direct North ($7.30) in toe second for a $33.30 DD return. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. <f*-Indi ana University halfback Milt Campbell of Plainfield. N.J., suf fering from a pulled knee liga ment may be on the bench during tomrrow’s game with Michigan State, Coach Bemie Crimmins said yesterday. Campbell, toe former decathalon champion, was injured last week against the College of the Pacific but continued to play. SAN BRUNO, Calif. in-Willie Shoemaker, who just keeps on rid ing and winning brought home four consecutive winners at Tanforan race track yesterday. He boosted his total for the year to 308. He’s had 55 in 22 days here. Football Scores HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jacksonville Jackson 26 Knoxville Tenn. Powell 0 Miami Jackson 26 Orlando Edge water 0 Miami Tech 19 South Dade 12 .Tampa Middleton 15 Lake Wales Roosevelt 7 Largo 32 OLPH 0 Boca Ceiga (St. Petersburg) M Northeast (SL Petersburg) 7 Page 6 THI KEY WEST CITIZEN NEW YORK WP)—Whatever hap pened to the football coach who was moaning only a year ago that the college game had gone to the dogs with abolishment of the two platoon system? Does he still feel that way after having “given the game back to the boys” through one full campaign and part of a second? The answer is that he’s still throbbing like an inflamed tooth, but has become more or less re signed to playing with a single unit. He knows now that it’s here to stay. Here’s what one of them said privately a few days back: “We’re not playing anywhere near as good football, but at least we’re equally bad and I doubt that the spectators notice any big dif ference. You are seeing more so called upsets and high, crazy scores than you did when we could throw in a fresh, strong defensive unit and rest up our ball carriers. “There just isn’t enough time to teach defense. We’ve got to bear down on the offense and hope that the boys were taught how to tackle somewhere back in their youth and Moegle-Ameche Battle Looms In TV Feature MADISON, Wis. 09)—The inter sectional nationally televised foot ball game here tomorrow after noon boils down to a dual attrac tion: Rice vs. Wisconsin and Moe gle vs. Ameche. The Owls from Houston and the Badgers, both unbeaten, will clash before a sellout crowd of 52,819 at Camp Randall Stadium. Wisconsin is rated third in this week’s AP poll of the nation’s teams. Rice 11th. Most promising are the expected performances of two of the na tion’s topbacks—Rice’s high flying dervish Dicky Moegle, who has ex ploded for five touchdowns on 220 yards in only 16 carries, playing less than half the time, and Wis consin’s mighty Alan Ameche, the slashing, battering “Horse.” who has ground out 234 yards in 35 attempts, scoring two touchdowns in the process. Ameche ranks 10th in toe nation in rushing, Moegle 15th. The Bad ger fullback is famed for his re lentless power while toe Owl de 'pendable is remarkably shifty and fast. Badger Coach Ivy Williamson commented: . “We have every reason to fear Rice. The Owls are unusually fast, deceptive and well coached. The Rice line will outweigh ours but isn't as deep in reserves.” The early season score sheet shows Rice victories over Florida spanked Marquette and Michigan State. The invaders, Southwestern Conference champions last fall, won the Cotton Bowl show last New Year’s Day. The Badgers fin ished third in the Big Ten race a year ago. When the two schools met in, their only previous encounter, in 1952, Wisconsin won 21 7. “OUKid^ - In The Clink NORMAN, Okla. UP)—lf Willough by, the genuine “OU Kid.” gets to see the Oklahoma Texas foot ball game at Dallas tomorrow, someone will have to bail him out of the clink. The clink happens to be a dog pound. The impounded Willoughby happens to be a goat. Willoughby, a fierce looking ani mal with flowing white beard and curved horns 15 inches long, w.is arrested by Norman policemen earlier this week after he violated University of Oklahoma curfew laws and made a midnight pasture out of the Sooner campus. Some guys from another fratern ity kept turning him loose after he was put to bed and Norman Police Chief Albert Dodd said his officers had chased him three dif ferent nights before making the capture. Sam H. Harris, successful Broad way theatrical producer, began as manager of prizefighters. One of his most successful charges was Terry McGovern who won both the bantamweight and feath erweight titles. Subscribe J# r (jhp Friday, October I, 1954 Sports Roundup By Gayle Talbot that they have enough stamina to hold up when the other side gets rolling. It might be a long time before you see another major team go through an undefeated season.” Charlie Dressen, who is about to learn a whole lot about how the other manager lives when he takes over the Washington Senators, was amused at reports that the Cleve land Indians were surprised at the brilliant fielding of Hank Thomp son on third base. “That guy always was a great third baseman,” Charlie said. “One of the few mistakes Leo (Duro cher) ever made was when he kept trying to’ make a right fielder of him. I remember telling my Dodg ers for a couple of years that as long as Leo kept fooling around like that they didn’t have anything to worry about.” There is no question that Dressen believes he could have won an other flag at Brooklyn, but he re fused to find fault with the man who succeeded him, Walt Alston. He said it could have happened to anybody. Sugar Ray Needs Sugar, May oox NEW YORK MP) Dancing man Ray Robinson, pressed for money to finance a big show, may return to the ring from which he retired in 1952 Sugar Ray, who once held the world welterweight and middle weight championships, has started training at Greenwood Lake, N.J., starting next Monday. Nothing is definite, his manager, George Gainford, said today. “Only a lot of work in the camp will show if Sugar has it,” he said. “If he doesn’t, the whole idea is off. If we are convinced he can still fight, he will return to toe ring.” Robinson has been in show busi ness since he retired and Gainford said the pair want to make a tour of the world with their own show. “But,” he said, “we figure it will cost a quarter of a million dollars I to arrange that hiring singers, j dancers and an orchestra. We don’t | have that kind of money and we don’t want to go into debt for it. “There is only one way to get the cash and that is for Sugar to fight again. The same guys he licked when he was active in the ring are still fighting. He can whip them again.” Baker Rolls A Strike In Civic Opener The Civic Bowling League got off to a good start for their Winter sea son, which will last for 28 weeks at the Double “A” Bowling Lanes, on Tuesday evening. Jack Baker, Exalted Ruler of Elks Lodge 551 rolled the first ball to start the league off. Rolling down alley 4 the ball neatly pulled into toe 1 2 pocket for a perfect strike. Prior to the beginning of the ac tual bowling a meeting was called between the various team captains of the Summer season to discuss plans for the banquet slated for 7 p. m. Saturday evening at the V. F. W. Post 3911 Post Home on Eli zabeth Street. Those teams in the summer lea gue were: VFW, American Legion, Knights of Columbus, Elks and Jaycees. Members of those teams plus their wives are cordailly in vited to attend the banquet and en joy a pleasant evening. Those with out wives may bring their girl friends. After the first three games of the Winter season were over, the I teams stacked up as follows: V. F. W. 4 0 Shubif 3 1 ! Elks 3 1 ! Kiw&nis 2 2 Base Holy Name Society 2 2 Cavo Hueso Grotto 1 J American Legion 1 3 K of C 04 High Team Single game was roil ed by the VFW with a 807. Hijfn team series also by VFW with a 2311. High individual game went to Kelley (Kiwanis) with 202, Gilmore (VFW) with a 196 and Copesky (Base Holy Name) with 528. Bar ber (VFW) with 526 and Gilmore (VFW) with 526. Copesky, Barber and Gilmore lead with 176. 175 and 174 averages in order. Upsets Seen In SEC Slate On Saturday By MERCER BAILEY Associated Pros* Sports Writer Since upsets almost have become i the rule rather than the exception this season in Southeastern Con ference football, a logical question for today is, “Which favorite gets bumped off this weekend?” There are three major candi dates. Auburn, Georgia Tech and Mississippi are favorites who go j against teams capable of rising high enough to make monkeys of them. Auburn, whipped last week Florida, goes to Lexington for a night game with Kentucky, winner by one point over Louisiana State. Tech is host to LSU, whose big line is expected to crimp the Yel- j low Jackets’ running game. Ole Miss has a night game at Vander-1 bilt, a team which put up terrific battles against Baylor and Ala bama. Another upset possibility is Tu lane ov£r Mississippi State. Al though the Greenies have yet to win a game. They lost to Tech and tied Memphis State and North Carolina. Other SEC teams meet non-con ference teams and three should spend fairly comfortable after noons. Alabama and Tennessee, both pointing to their Oct. 16 clash, are heavy favorites over Tulsa and Chattanooga, respect ively. Florida ought to find Clem son relatively tame after Rice, Tech and Auburn. Georgia’s tilt with North Carolina in Chapel Hill is regarded a tossup. Sizing ’em up: MISSISSIPPI over Vanderbilt: | Ole Miss has an edge in manpower but Vandy may make it close. AUBURN over Kentucky: This may be the make or break stage for both teams—and Auburn with its X and Y units has more depth and drive. But Kentucky could make it a close one. GEORGIA TECH over LSU: LSU has a big line but Tech speed and air power should make the differ ence. MISSISSIPPI STATE over Tu lane: The Greenies are improving but they can’t yet match the of fense art of Art Davis, top S£C ground gainer, and other Maroon backs. * FLORIDA over Clemson: The Gators should be able to make it a lop-sided victory if they haven’t suffered a slump after their Tech and Auburn triumphs. ALABAMA over Tulsa: The Tide i seems to have shaken off the ef- { fects of its loss to Mississippi Southern and even without Bart Starr should roll up a big score. TENNESSEE over Chattanooga: A team that can whip Mississippi State and hold Duke to a one point victory has too much power for Chattanooga. NORTH CAROLINA over Geor gia: Coach Wally Butts of Geor gia is still searching for a potent offense. North Carolina is not a powerhouse but if the Tar Heels can score twice they should have it in the bag. Hal Johnson Bids For Title Bout With Moore PHILADELPHIA OF— Haroid Johnson, bidding for his seventh shot at lightheavyweight champion Archie Moore, and “Boardwalk Billy” Smith, seeking his fifth bout with the elderly champ, meet to night for toe first time in a 10- round fight at the arena. Johnson, rated No. 1 contender for Moore’s title, is quoted as a 14-5 favorite here in his home town. His last outing was in a cham pionshipscrap Aug. 11 when, with victory within his reach, he was knocked out by Moore. That snapped a 12 bout winning streak for Johnson, whose record is now 48 wins and 6 defeats. Five of the defeats were at Moore s hands and the other was a knock out loss to former heavyweight champiin Jersey Joe Walcott. Johnson will have the advantage of age—he’s 26 and Smith is 33- speed and skill. Both boys have good punching power. Johnson has knocked cut 22. And Smith has KO’d 30 in winning 56. losing 20 and fighting 4 draws. In four boms with Moore, he lost three and drew one. Smith is rated No. 4 in the light heavyweight division and is un defeated since coming East from Oakland. Calif., where he fought as Oakland Billy Smith. Tonight’s bout will be televised and broadcast by NBC at 10 p.m., EST. Jim Hill, returning to pro foot ball as halfback with the Cleve land Browns, was nicknamed ' “Iron Claw” in his college days j because he was almost infallible 1 as a pass receiver. Southern Cal Risks Unbeaten Mark With Texas Christian By HUGH FULLERTON JR. - By The Associated Press Southern California, which may' be one of the nation’s best college i football teams, risks its unbeaten record against a youthful and un-; predictable Texas Christian team j tonight (Friday), but whatever the talented Trojans do is likely to be | forgotten once the rush of Satur-1 day’s big games gets underway.; So far this season. Southern 1 California has crushed Washington j State and Pittsburgh and barely squeaked past Northwestern —a three-game record that hasn’t im pressed the experts enough to earn the Trojans a top rating. The TCU youngsters were fast and fiery enough to throw a scare-into Okla homa. now the No. 1 team in the weekly Associated Press poll, but they followed that by dropping a . close decision to Arkansas. This game tops a slender Friday j night card that also includes Mi ami (Fla.) vs. Holy Cross, Denver vs. Montana and Davidson vs. Presbyterian. Then on Saturday come such games as Oklahoma vs. Texas at Dallas, Wisconsin vs. Rice (the televised Game of the Week) Pur due vs. Duke and Stanford vs. Navy. Oklahoma moved to the front in while refraining from competition in anticipation of . the Texas game while other leaders were being en gulfed in a wave of upsets. With Gene Calame. their star quarter ! back, still out of action and soph omore Jim Harris taking his place, the Sooners may be in for a bad time this week. Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson admits he has a better than*fair | team and he thinks Harris can do [the job. But Texas beaten by No ! tre Dame two weeks ago, looks on [ j this game as an opportunity to re-1 ! instate the idea that it is by far the best team in the Southwest. The Rice-Wisconsin me e in g brings together two of the season’s most talented and colorful backs on any major teams. It’s Rice’s Dicky Moegle. a speedy, elusive runner against Wisconsin’s Alan (The Horse) Ameche, a mobile mountain who crushes opposing tacklers. Wisconsin is the No. 3 team in this week’s AP poll behind Oklahoma and UCLA. Purdue, which had its day of glory in beating Notre Dame, runs into a well-balanced, experienced Duke team that has a wealth of good backs. They’re fifth and sixth, respectively, in the weekly ratings. Stanford, a lightly regarded team until it whipped Illinois be fore the TV spectators last week, can establish itself more strongly by beating a high-scoring Navy team in the day’s top game on the . Pacific Coast. Second - ranked UCLA has a comparatively soft Tone against Washington. Douglass Forms Quarterback Club A Quarterback Club has been formed to support and promote the popularity of the Douglass High ; School football team, i Earl Adams., president of the Quarterback Club which backs Key West High School, met with organi zers of the group Tuesday night to outline for them the operation of such a club. The new club will have its first dinner meeting next Tuesday night with the Douglass' varsity team ! and coach as guests. Adams will I be guest of honor at the dinner. Football lesson: Charles (Bud) Wilkinson, University of Oklahoma coach, says a quarterback must use both faking and footwork, use short steps when he hides the ball below his knees. first i* f F<rstw Ser^ M ** .* 7l* SmotUy , NEW CARS. LOW RATES | IMMEDIATE DEI!VERY jjfct 2j744^ KEY WEST AIRPORT MEACHAM FIELD Dog Leads Search Party To Lad ZANESVILLE. Ohio ifr —A shep herd dog named Lucky last night led searchers to a missing 3-j ear old boy. Volunteer firemen spot'ed Lucky circling a hollow tree stump and looked inside. Sitting there, in his blue jeans and tee shirt, was lit tle Donnie Hutchison. The youngster offered no com ment on his 5*4-hour adventure. Monkey Talk Solves Problem CLEVELAND. Oct. 8 up A Cleveland restaurant owner glanced into his car yesterday. Then he took another look. Nonchalantly unwrapping tissue from new knives, forks and spoons and throwing the silverware about the car, was a monkey. The mon key quickly turned its attention to the car owner, Phil di Nuoscio, and jumped at him, hoping for a bite. Just about this time, Patrolman Joseph B. Rooe happened to stroll up. Rose Teamed about monkeys while with the Coast Guard in Brazil and now has one of his own. He talked a little monkey talk and pretty soon had the 22-pound fellow' sitting in his arms. The Animal Protective League to day was looking for the animal’s owner. LOUD SINGING GETS PRISONERS IN TROUBLE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -Off key singing proved no key to free dom yesterday for three prisoners attempting a break from the Kent County Jail. Sheriff Arnold Pigorsh, dis turbed by loud singing from a ceil block, investigated and found the trio attempting to saw their way through cell bars w r ith hacksaw blades. When Paavo Nurmi, four-time winner of Olympic Games medals, began to lose races he had a simple explanation. “Too much competition,” he said. Joe's Blacksmith Shop Outside Welding • Machine Works We’re Specialists in Trailer Hitches and Shrimp Doors PHONE 2-5658 - 614 Front Street Hester Battery STARTS 809 TIMES After Only 5 Minutes Rest In a recent test, a stock Hes ter Battery was deliberately discharged by engaging the starter on a car, with the switch off, until the battery refused to turn the engine over. The bat tery was allowed to rest 5 min utes, the car was then started and the engine stopped immed iately. 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