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Miami Rated 16th In AP W eekly Gridiron V oting Sooners Keep Lead In Poll; Notre Dame 6th B f THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oklahoma continued to ride out the Storm of upsets and hold down its perch as the No. 1 coUege foot ball team in the country today. The mighty Sooners, who tram pled Kansas 65 0 last week, polled 1,891 points in The Associated Press’ weekly poll of sports writers and sportscastersv They captured 115 first-place votes of the 212 cast. The next three teams — Wiscon lin, UCLA and Ohio State — also gtayed in the same positions as a week ago. They all polled more than 1,000 votes on the basis of 10 for first, 9 for second and so on down this line. Wisconsin had 42 firsts and 1,732 points; UCLA, 23 first and 1,590 points; and Ohio State, 8 firsts, good for 1,387 points. Wisconsin and Ohio State collide at Colum bus this week. The rest of the top 10 was well scrambled from a week ago. There are four new members— Arkansas, Minnesota, Army and West Virginia. All recorded upset victories, and now are Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, respectively. Purdue, Duke, Penn State and Navy all dropped out of the top 10 on the basis of defeats. Duke took the longest slide from No. 6 to No. 19, as a result of its 2814 loss to Army. Conversely, the Ca dets gained the most ground, going from No. 18 to No. 9. Notre Dame, still striving for national honors, jumped from eighth to sixth after whipping Michigan State -20-19, and Miss issippi advanced from seventh to fifth as a result of its 34-7 victory over Tulane. The leading teams with first place votes in parentheses: 1. Oklahoma (115) -.1,891 2. Wisconsin (42) 1,732 3. UCLA (23)... 1,590 4. Ohio State (8).—«——«1,387 5. Mississippi (9) - 903 e. Notre Dame.—....—.— 787 7. Arkansas (4) 706 8. Minnesota 658 9. Army * 487 10. West Virginia (9)....— 350 SECOND 10: 11. Colorado (2) — 213 12. Alabama — 156 13. Purdue 134 14. Virginia Tech — 102 15. Georgia Tech— — 84 16. Miami (Fla.) 79 17. Southern Cal.— — 88 18. Florida — — 47 19. Duke — 24 20. Texas Christian.— Tr - 25 Willie Mays Is Mugging Champion NEW YORK, —Willie Mays, the New York Giants’ sensational outfielder, captured the National League slugging title for 1954 in a close competition with Duke Snider of Brooklyn and Cincinr nati’s Ted Kluszewski. Slugging averages — based on total base and times at bat — compiled by the Associated Press showed today that Mays produced 177 total bases in 565 at bats for a .667 mark. Willie cracked out 33 doubles, 13 triples and 41 homers among 19S hits. Snider, last year’s pace-setter, piled up 378 total bases, the most in the majors, in 584 tries for a .647 average. Klusxewski ' was third with .639 on 366 total bases in 573 at bats. Included among Snider’s 199 safeties were 39 doubles, 10 triples and 41 home runs. Kluszewski col lected 187 hits while pacing the major leagues in homers with 49. Ted also had 26 doubles and 3 triples. Minnie Minoso of the Chicago White Sox took American League slugging honors with a .535 aver age. The speedy outfielder-third baseman compiled 304 total bases in 568 at bats. Minnie slammed 20 doubles, 18 triples and 19 circuit blows among 182 hits. Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankees’ switch-hitting outfielder, was runner-up to Minoso with a .523 mark. He had 163 hits and ly doubles, 12 triples and 27 hom ers in his extra-base output Stan Musial of the St Louis Cardinals finished fourth in the National League with .607, result ing; from 359 total bases in 591 tries. Stan had 41 doubles, 9 triples and 35 home runs. Musial also boosted his lifetime slugging average two points to .584 — a National League record tor 10-year men. A1 Rosen of Cleveland, the American League leader In ltffe Golliday Now Flashes Speed For Army Gridmen In Germany By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN AP Newsfeatures BERLIN One of the world's fastest sprinters is flashing his speed this fall in the backfield of a U. S. Army football team here. But he hasn’t made the first team yet. Track star James (Jet Jim) Gol liday, a private first class in the Berlin command, sees action at right halfback for the Sixth Infan try Regiment’s Berlin Bears. The thing that keeps the fleet footed Negro out of the starting lineup is a potentially costly ten dency to fumble. “If he could hang on to the ball,’’ says Coach John Serafin, “Jim would see a lot more action.” The Bears are playing a nine game schedule this fall against other Army teams in northern Ger many. Serafin, a first lieutenant from St. Albans, N. Y., who played foot ball at Syracuse University, says: “We’re using Golliday in spots where we think his speed will pay off. That’s' mostly on wide end sweeps.” Golliday isn’t worrying about the possibility that a football injury might ruin his chances for the 1956 Olympic track team. He figures football will help keep him in condition and says with a grin: “I’ve been hurt before.” Golliday presently weighs 170 pounds, some five more than he considers his best weight for track. Gavilan, Saxton TV Title Match Set Wednesday The 19th world championship li-- tle contest in the Blue Ribbon Bout series will be nationally televised on October 20 when welterweight champion Kid Gaviian meets John ny Saxton in Convention Hall, Phi ladelphia. The bout, originally slated to be fought in early September, was postponed when Gaviian was tier ed by a case of mumps. An emi mated 40 million TV gight fans will view this welterweight title bout over a coast - to - coast chain of 100 CBS-TV stations. One of the most colorful of all fighters,' Gaviian makes the sev enth defense of his crown against challenger Saxton. He will also make his 117th ring appearance and seeks his 100th victory. In 1951, the Cuban Hawk defeated Bil ly Graham in 15 rounds to become the first representative of his coun try to hold a world title. Currently rated the best active boxer, Gaviian is considered by many to be the greatest welter weight champion. The 28-year-oid champion began fighting when he was 12. A master boxer, Gavilan’s ability to take a punch is awe some. In his career, which includes more than 250 amateur and professional contests, Gaviian has been floored only twice and has never been knocked out. Possessed with amaz ing speed, the Cuban Hawk punch es extremely well and is noted for his bombastic balo punch. Actually, this exaggerated punch does little damage — the Kid wins his battles with accurate left hooks and straight rights. In his 116 fights the champion has won 99, lost 14 drew S and scored 27 kayo vic tories. Like Gaviian, Saxton is a ring perfectionist. His long amateur training has helped the 24 -year-old fighter as he climbed up the wel terweight Udder. With his perfect left jab, a good hook and expert combinations, Saxton gets his big chance In his first title match. As a pro, Johnny ran up a string of 40 consecutive wins before los ing to Gil Turner, on a split de cision. The Newark - born, Brook lyn-raised youngster does his best fighting in close where his power ful body blows slow down his op ponents. A hard puncher with tremendous speed, Saxton boasts a record cf 43 victories in 47 fights. He has won 19 starts by knockout. wound up third this time at .506. Washington's Mickey Vernon was fourth with .492. Rosen piled up 236 total bases, Vernon 294. The slugging championship cli rowed a big year for Mays, his first full one with the Giants. Wil lie, in service during part of 1952 and all of 1953, also won his tague’s batting crown with a .345 JIM GOLLIDAY, of Chicago, one of the world's best sprinters, has turned to GI ■football. Golliday. a right halfback with a U.S. Army team in Berlin, ia shown carrying the balL At right he is shown aa a runner while at Northwestern. Before entering the Army, Golli day won*all but five of 357 races. He arrived in Berlin early this year and was assigned as a sup ply clerk in a battalion headquar ters of the Sixth Infantry Regi ment, the American garrison here. Golliday, who comes from Chi cato, is rated by many track ex- Grid Roundup NEW YORK, W—With the foot ball season turning into the second and most important half for the ambitious clubs, a conference title, a trip to a bowl and national rank ing can be lost by a missed signal, an offside, a turned ankle or a bad bounce in the open. It is therefore refreshing as well as entertaining to read what George Mason, Alabama tackle, engineering student and young fa ther, has to say: “Nothing worries me and when it does I don’t think about it.” A philosopher of the same mould is West Virginia Coach Art (Pappy) Lewis. His Mountaineers are unbeaten and he was asked if he thought the club could make it through the season without a de feat. “Honest,” he said, “I’m not wor ried about anything right now ex cept VMI for next Saturday and the grocery bill.” Georgia Tech Coach Bobby Dodd explains the many football upsets this season, saying: “Constant ex change of game motion pictures makes scouting thorough and cuts down tremendously on the sur prise element.” This figures because Stanford’s Chuck Taylor explained his 0-72 de feat to UCLA with the remark. “They did what we expected them to do but they did it better—and more often.” Notre Dame Coach Terry Bren nan may not have realized it but he hung a big funeral wreath about the neck of two-platoon football when he explained why she of his regular muscle-guys played 60 min utes against Michigan State in Saturday’s 20-19 victory. Said Terry: “We had to go with men who had the most experience and once we were functioning as a unit I didn’t want to change.” Not speciolists, just rugged block ers and runners won for Notre Dame. Seventeen men did all the work. GOOD OLD OATMEAL GETS THE CREDIT JBUTLER, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris held a double cele bration yesterday. It was not only Mr. Morris’ 100th birthday anniversary but the 60th anniversary of his wedding. His wife, who is 82, gave this reason for her husband’s longevity: “It’s because he eats oatmeal for breakfast every morning.” Go TODAY to have your blood typed. Then when there is a need you will be ready, as a Walking JBaod Bank” donor, to fill the bilL perts as one of the fastest sprint ers,if not the fastest, in the world today. His best time for the 100 - meter dash is 10.3 seconds or just one tenth of a second off the world re cord. His best clocking for 100 yards is 9.5, compared with the world mark of 9.3. New York May Put End To Knockdown Rule NEW YORK, UR— Boxing’s three knockdown rule which, except for championship’ bouts, automatically ends a bout after a fighter has hit the deck three times in one round, appeared doomed today—at least in New York State. “The automatic three-knockdown rule must go,” thundered Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commis sion, “knockouts must be left to the discretion of the referee. I be lieve it is difficult to differentiate between a knockdown and a half push.” Christenberry found himsdf in volved in a comic opera situation after last night’s scheduled 10 - round welterweight scrap at St. Nicholas Arena between Gerald Dreyer of South Africa and Ra mon Tiscareno of Los Angeles. Dreyer was declared winner on TKO when Tiscareno went down for the third time as the bell ended the first round. Then things hap pened fast. Before quiet was re stored, Dreyer’s manager and sec onds were suspended, Referee Petey Scalzo pleaded “don’t put me on the spot,” and the 1,000 or so spectators, along with the tele vision audience, weren’t quite sure exactly what had happened. The best explanation is that Scal zo caused the confusion himself. He properly declared Dreyer the winner under the rule stopping a fight when one fighter is knocked down three times in one round. Instead of leaving well enough alone, Scalzo glanced toward Christenberry, who was at ring side. The spectators immediately be gan shouting their disapproval, so Scalzo went to Dreyer’s corner and told Manager Willie Ketchum and second Ted Bentham: “I think you'll have to continue.” This set off Ketchum, who be gan! screaming at Scalzo and rac ing around the ring loking for Christenberry. Meanwhile, Ben tham had taken off Dreyer’s right glove. For that he and Ketchum were suspended and ordered to ap pear before Christenberry Friday. At that Christenberry said he will also take up the three-knockdown rule. Someday you might be the only person in Monroe County who could save a life. If you have a rare type of blood you should sign up with the “Walking Blood Bank” both for your own sake and the sake of others. Citizen Ads Bring Results Bill Terry New Prexy Of Sally League AUGUSTA, Ga., WL-The South Atlantic League, sometimes called the “Grandmother of the Minors,” called Bill Terry to become ;ts president and he accepted prompt ly. League directors yesterday voted unanimously for the man who won a place in baseball's Hall of Fame for his career with the New York Giants. Big Bill made himself immortal as first baseman for the Giants, and then succeeded the late John -McGraw as their manager. Retired from baseball for the past 13 years, Terry is an auto mobile dealer in Jacksonville, Fla. He will take office about Nov. 1. He succeeds Dick Butier as pres ident of the Class A Sally. Butler resigned recently to become pres- League. Terry is 56 years old. He was bom in Atlanta Oct. 30, 1898, and got his first job in baseball as a pitcher for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of 16. He played with Shreveport, To ledo, and other minor league clubs before joining the New York Giants in 1923. He won the National League batting championship In 1930 with a .401 average. No Na tional League player has hit .400 6ince then. Terry became manager of the Giants when McGraw became ill in June, 1932. The next year the Giants won the National League pennant and also the world cham pionship by defeating Washington in the World Series. Terry led the Giants to league pennants in 1936 and 1937 but lost the World Series to the New York Yankees both times. Sports writers elected him to baseball’s Hall of Fame last sum mer. Terry said he will move the Sally League offices from Colum bia, S.C., to Jacksonville so he can give “as much time as possible to the job.” Sally directors also voted to ex periment with the Shaughnessy playoffs, and approved a 140-game schedule opening April 12 and clos ing Aug. 31. The experiment with the Shaugh nessy playoffs calls for the semi final playoff series to be cut to one game, with the pennant winner playing the third place club and the runnerup playing the fourth place team. The playoff finals will be for the best two of three games instead of the customary four of seven games. The directors approved an All- Star game but left details to be worked out when they convene again at the minor league meeting in Houston, Tex. Sam Wolfson of Jacksonville was elected vice president of the Sally and J. P. Friend was reappointed official statistician. Halas Booms For “Balanced Attack” Today CHICAGO UR —Professional foot ball teams have become pass crazy in the last decade, but there is nothing like a balanced attack, says George Halas, owner-coach of the Chicago Bears. Halas should know. He saw his Bears shackle San Francisco for 30 minutes Sunday only to fold un der tue 49ers’ devastating ground game. ‘ Are the pros returning to run ning? “They neyer left it,” said Halas in an interview. “Any team that has a good ground game will util ize it and San Francisco has a great running game.” “But remember, they’ve got some pretty good passing. We had them bottled up Sunday but they’ve got balance and it paid off.” The Bears stymied San Fran cisco’s passing attack in the first half and walked off the field with a 17-14 lead. The 49ers, although outplayed, had scored once on an intercepted pass and again when Hugh McElhenny broke loose for a long touchdown run. Other than those two plays, it was strictly Chicago’s game. Y. A. Tittle’s passes weren’t clicking and it looked like a bad afternoon for the Californians. Then San Francisco, with rookie Maurie Duncan leading, pounded the left side of the Bear line mer cilessly and scored a quick 17 points in the third quarter to ice the contest. And they did it by running. McElhenny, John Henry Johnson and Jet Joe Perry left the sedtS who cry “You can’t run in pro football” with their jaws hanging. Not since the days of George Mc- Afee, Hugh Gallarnau and Norm Standlee had Bear fans witnessed such running power. Before the nightmarish quarter had even ended, Bear rooters want ed to know why their team wasn’t running. Aside from the fact that he has no McElhennys, Johnsons or Per rys, Halas said, “We’ve got a good SEC Teams Hold Light Drills In Preparation For Saturday Crucial Tilts This Weekend In Conference By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Southeastern Conference football coaches put their squads through light drills Monday and examined injured players to see if they would be in shape for Saturday's con tests. The Florida Gators, unbeaten in SEC play, held a short signal drill and a passing and kicking session to get* ready for Louisiana State University. Coach Bob Woodruff said, “We came through the Kentucky game in good shape physically. Bob Viser is the only man in doubt for this week’s game, and we won’t know about him until later.” Louisiana State officials aid starting left tackle Gary Dildy will be out about three weeks. He broke a hand against Texas Tech Satur day. The Alabama squad took a look at Mississippi State plays run by the freshmen. Quarterback Bart Starr worked out in pads and Coach Red Drew said he might see gome action Saturday. Full backs Jerry Chiapparelli and Jim Ward remained on the injured list. Buster Hill was shifted from quarterback to fullback. Kentucky concentrated on offen sive and defensive play for the game with Georgia Tech. The play ers studied movies of the 21-7 loss to Florida and Coach Blanton Col lier said the squad was not in top physical shape. The Georgia Tech varsity was given a holiday. Tulane Coach Andy Pilney told the squad they would have plenty of tackling drills during the week. He said tackling was their chief shortcoming in last weekend's 34-7 loss to Mississippi, and they’d have to do a lot better to beat Georgia. Georgia in turn worked out light ly for the Tulane meeting. But Coach Wallace Butts said there• would be plenty of heayy work later in the week. The Bulldogs! only casualty in the 16-14 victory ! over Vanderbilt was junior half back Jimmy Williams. He suffered a dislocated knee and is out of action indefinitely. At Auburn, Coach Ralph Jordan checked the Georgia Tech movies and praised the work of guard Bob Scarbrough, tackle Frank D’Agostino, fullback Joe Childres and halfback Bob James. Auburn plays Florida State this weekend. Tennesee trainer Mickey O’Brien reported Capt. Carris Mc- Cord, 225-pound tackle, suffered a knee injury in the Alabama game and will not be able to play against , Dayton (Ohio) Saturday. Vanderbilt Coach Art Guepe gave his squad a long workout on punt protection, sending from seven to nine men plunging against punt formations in an attempt to block kicks. The team has lost two games this year because of blocked punts. Saxton Will Cos To Jail After Gavilan Bout PLEASANT V’ILLE, N.J. W - Johnny Saxton has a date to serve 15 days in jail starting Thursday morning for traffic violations but he says he’s going to take some thing with him to keep him warm—Kid Gavilan’s welterweight crown. “What you’ve got to do, you’ve got to do,” said the 24-year-old New Yorker. “I’ve got to pay that penalty in New York and got to get it over with.” Asked whether the impending term affected him mentally, the strong, muscular youngster re plied: "No. I’ve been training for four months for Gavilan. Tliose two postponements were annoying but I’ve set my mind on beating the Kid and nothing is going to stand in my way Wednesday night, in Convention Hall (Philadelphia)”. Gavilan. the 28-year-old cham pion. not only was confident of victory but said, “I’m going to surprise the whole world.” That could only mean he ex pected to knock out the cocky chal lenger who never has been stopped. “Maybe he give me trouble for five rounds,” said Gavilan. “I want to know what he can do. After five rounds I find out. Then it will be like Johnny Bratton at Chicago (Gavilan drubbed Bratton). Maybe he go to hospital before he go to jail.” passing team and we’ve done well with passing.” The Bears have two victories in four games and unquestionably wUI improve last year’s record of three triumphs in 11 games. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Haney May Be On Tap When Conchs Battle Constance The hopes of the Key West High School football team of gaining a victory Friday night in their don nybrook with Constance of Miami, took a jump today when it was learned that halfback Bill Haney is in good shape and will probably see considerable action in the tilt. Haney, the Conchs top passer, suffered a shoulder separation in last week’s Curley game and was a doubtful starter Friday. But he showed up at yesterday’s practice session and pronounced himself fit as a fiddle. jkc -Md l JP|K Roundup By Gayle Talbot NEW YORK (D—Seven rival American League clubs have J awakened to learn that, after all. they are doomed still to play 77 games against the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack Stadium | next season. This means that, in I most cases, they will come away j dragging a deficit for the trip, and it accounts for the pronounced ab sence of jubilation around the league. The visiting club in the Ameri can League is paid off at the rate of approximately 29 cents for each ticket sold. The lusterless Athletics in the campaign recently closed enticed a total of only 323.000 fans through their home turnstiles, and it requires only a little simple arithmetic to show why the popu lar cry was “On to Kansas City!" Breaking down the total, we find that an average of only 4.200 fans per game watched the A’s battle their way into the league cellar, and that the visiting club collected only $1,218 for each nine-inning ef fort. A league executive who has had NCAA Council Report Due NEW ORLEANS ttf—A National Collegiate Athletic Assn, commit tee was expected to disclose today or tomorrow whether any mem ber school is under investigation for breaking NCAA rules. The report of the Committee on Rules Infractions will highlight the three day meeting here of the 18- member NCAA Council. Most of Fight Results MONDAY'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Don Grant, 166, Los Angeles, outpointed Char ley Green, 161*a, Los Angeles, 10. SALT LAKE CITY—Rex Layne, 206, Salt Lake City, outpointed Wil lie Bean. 218. Los Angeles, 10. BROOKLYN (Eastern Parkway) —Paddy Young. 165. New York, outpointed Jesse Turner, 15844, St. Louis. 10. NEW YORK (St. Nicholas Arena) —Gerald Drever, 149 Vj f South Af rica. stopped Ramon Tiscareno, 145*4, Los Angeles, 1. MONTREAL-Bobby Courchesne 131, Holyoke, Mass., outpointed Dexter Connors, 138. Halifax, 8. SYDNEY—BiIIy Peacock, 118V4, Philadelphia, outpointed Pierre Cossemyns, 118*4, Sydney, 12. JBHOmCIAMm [Fire Protection Service I 1 I Unbiased Recommendations on, Your fhre Protection Problems I HI TYPES FIRE EXTINSIISRERS SHI ni SEIVKEI No on# •itingvifkor U boil lor N typos of Grot...wo coo J .& I li FmA V I I B & B CYCLE SHOP I Ml FLEMING STREET TEL. 2-7511 f_JC\ •qvipm.nt, COj ho,. OUffPHI try. tntfihrttOM. tmmkipalitie,. . Tuesday, October 19, 1954 Meanwhile, the Conchs will bear down this afternoon in a drill ses sion calculated to sharpen up their passing offense in preparation for Friday’s Gold Coast clash. One of ~ e six major unbeaten prep teams in the state, the Conchs are out to preserve that record. Last week, they could complete not a single pass. It will b the first meeting between the two tiubs. While Constance has a sin gularly unimpressive record, they are capable of giving the Conchs plenty of trouble. great experience in transporting and feeding athletes estimates that it takes about *2,200 to carry the usual baseball party of 31 or 32 from New York to Philadelphia and to support it there during a three-game series. This doesn’t count getting it out of Philadelphia again. At the end of a typical three game session in the Quaker City then, the visiting club’s road sec retary carried off a check for *3,654 during the past season. That is, he toted that amount away from the park. After he had bailed his little group out of the hotel he had only *1.454 to show for three days of sweat and tears. This doesn’t sound too bad until you stop to consider that player salaries go right on even when a club is only beating the A’s. As no team makes its payroll public, there is no way of computing ac curately what the tab for a long weekend in Philadelphia comes to. but you wouldlrt want to pick it up. yesterday’s opening session was devoted to routine business. falter Byers, NCAA executive secretary, said be did not believe the council would recommend any major rule changes to the annual convention in New York Jan. 5. He also announced the Sugar Bowl, Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference and Drake Relays had agreed to bar violators of'NCAA regulations. BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Sell Charging FEATURE A 515.58 Battery That Fits Moat Can —ONLY— SB*9S Lon Smith, 1116 White