The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1926, Page 3

MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1926. BOSTON DEFEATS DETROIT TEA IN EX- y BASEBALL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS EVENS UP SERIES HIBITION STAGED YESTERDAY FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE Sanford, 2; Lakeland, 1. St. Petersburg, 6-1; Bradenton, 3-2. Others rain. PRESS HBAD- 14. i remain deadlocked é ASSOCIATED QUARTERS, and Cle in their battle to oust Philadelphia from second place in the American | June Chicago Chicago, 3; Washington, 0. Cleveland, 4; Philadelphia, 1, i . New York 6; St. Louis, 5. league after two sensational pitch- Boston, 7; Detroit, 3. ing performances in yesterday’s National I Brooklyn, 6; Chie New York, 10; Cin Only two scheduled. games, George Uhle permitted the Ath- letics only two safe hits, a double und a single, and defeated them vi four to one. At the same TODAY’S GAMES time Tommy Thomas, of Chicago, lim-| ited the Ame n league cham-| pion Washington club to a brace} of singles for a turee to nothing | conquest. But the brilliant western inva-| sion failed to extend to St. Louis, where the Yankees made their! lead over the nearest rivals ten full games by defeating — the Browns, 6 to Boston received effect:ve pitch- ing from Wiltz and evened its ies with Detroit by winning 7, The Bostonians scored three | times in each of the first and seventh. Jess American League Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. Nationa] League Pittsburgh at Biston. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Cincinnati! at New Yor Chicago at Philadelphia. STANDINGS American League We 40 31 30 30 27 27 21 16 L. 15 26 26 26 26 30 35 38 Pet. |New York Petty, Brooklyn _ left- Bo ee relieved Grimes in time to Chicago save the day from the attacking| Cleveland Cubs, 6 to 5. Grimes had been in} Washington much trouble, but managed to sur- Detroit vive unt'l the ninth, ek heres The New York 8, victims! Reston of the St. Louis Cardinals in three stranght games last week, were hearten ssemblage of | ns, and proceed- 536 -509 AT4 375 +296 National League W. 31 28 29 26 L. 22 21 25 | Pet. Ms, and | Cincinnati ed to humble Cincinnati 10 to 3.) pittsburgh Fourteen safeties, —_ including! g¢ Louis triples by Lindstrom, Meusel and| Chicago Kelly told the sto: Meusel, who | Brooklyn was benched last week for failure| Now York to swing his bat opportunely pro-| poston duced the three hits. | Philadelphia 571 537 510 500 481 -429 -380 25 [EXPLOSION IN STEEL MILLS Ce ee | . m BASEBALL GOSSIP . ee ee ee ay The early season go: that | “Babe” Ruth was slipping has now been put away. in moth balls, | PORTED KILLED OR The Waterbury team, | INJURED pions of the Eastern League in 1924 and 1925, is finding the road. to. the top. considerab] rotigher this seadon™ ae i] cham- ST OGHF: Amcocintett Preain CHICAGO, June 14.—A_ num- Unless the pitching staff shows| ber of workmen were reported killed or injured in an explosion an early and marked improvement "i ie ; the Washington Senators soon’ teday in the mills of the Iinois | Steel Company at Gary. will be out of the pennant race | Officials of. the company here ae this year said they had received no details. | One report was to the effect that Charlie Hoff, the famous Nor-| tfty nyen had been killed or in- wegian athlete and holder of the jured world’s, pole vault championship,|” About a hundred men were em- saw his first game of baseball in| ployed at the plant. The force of Jon Angeles recently and declared | the explosion, hurled them against with enthusiasm that it WAS | the walls, breaking arms and legs. some” game. |Reseue was difficult, because the : : , |building was shattered, burying pncorke Davis, the New York /the victims in the debris, Two University baseball star signed by|hours after the blast, rescuers the New York Yankees, has the! still were e wrt reputation of being one of the| best outfielders in college circles and has hit consistently about thi | for other. victims. | The injured were taken to the |steel company’s hospital here, and to the city hospital. Many of Re those injured suffered only minor «(cuts and bruises, THE STARS AND STRIPES * e e ° tteseeveeeeeees/ THE WEATHER . | Stations The American flag is among the| ¢ oldest ‘of national flags. | Abilene (clear) Atlanta (raining) Boston (clear) | Charleston (clear) | Chicago (raining) | Corpus Christi (clear) | Dodge City (clear) | Galveston (pt. cloudy) Hatteras (clear) Huron (cloudy) Jacksonville (pt. cloudy) |KEY WEST (cloudy) The Stars and Stripes was first! ee ne carried around the world by the| yaw Dekdas nts elaudy) ship “Columbia,” of Salem, Mass.,| Now York (pt cloady). ie 1798. | St. Louis (cloudy) } Tampa (clear) | Washington (cloudy) Williston (raining) ee ee ed The Stars and Stripes was per- manently planted in Alaska, at Sitka, Oct. 18, 1867. The Stars and Stripes was first officially saluted by a foreign gov- ernment on Feb, 14, 1778. The Stars and Stripes was first unfurled in battle on the banks of the Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777, The idea of an annual celebra- tion of American Flag Day was originated by Professor George Balch of New York Gity. j The recent tour of Germany bj The Stars and Stripes was first}a team of English women hockey carried the frontier into! players, in which the visitors won Germany by the American Army|all five of the matches played, Nov. 14, 1918, jproved once again chat England is supreme in the field of women’s hockey. of Occupatio The first display of the national flag at a military post was at Fort; Schuyler, on the site of the present | ~ city of Rome, N. Y., on August 3, school in the country to raise the American flag over the house, which it 1861. school May 11 “Old Glory” was first applied to the United States flag in 1831 by William Driver, a sailing cap- tain of Salem, Mass., who died in Nashville, Tenn, in 1886. did on carried into action on a European battlefield by Gunner William H. Clancy, of the Royal Field Artil- lery of Canada, at Vimy Ridge, in 1917. school of New Bed- was the first public The high ford, Mass, | NUMBER OF WORKMEN RE. |! searching the wreckage | joe The largest crowd that ever witnessed a sporting cven' Frank Lockhart, youthful daredevil from Los Angeles, capture f |the annual Speedway classic at Indianapolis on Memorial Day. a substitute driver and entered the race when the scheduled pilot ‘the throngs with his daring driving. jhad been run. Photo shows him i ‘NEW RECORD FOR BASEBALL GAMES (ty ansdeinied | DETROIT, June 1 | sandlot record was 5p Yesterday when St. Anthony, city | amateur club, won a no-hit- no- run, six inning game from the Or- ‘dev of Foresters to 0. : | The winning club made 43 hits. the pitcher |faced only 19 men and struck out 13 of them. The Saints scored 18 runs in the by score of 57 | Kairunas, winning Hrourth inning, 17 in the fifth and j12 in the third, being held to one! |run in the first and only nine in CALENDAR @eescsver-ves OF SPORTS vein: “Mesting “of aQiieens ate \County Jockey Club opens at |Aaveduct. Meeting of Kentucky |Jockey Club,~at Latonia. Meet- ing of Fairmount Jockey Club, at Collinsville. Meeting of Montreal Diiving Club, at Montreal. | Tennis: Paeifie Coast cham- pionship tournament, at Berkeley. ' Middle States championship tourn- ament, at Philadelphia. Maryland |State men’s championship, at Bal- timore. Massachusetts singles ‘championship tournament, at Bos- ton. Golf: Qualifying rounds for United States open champion- hip. Seotch ladies’ champion- hip opens at Cruden Bay. Wo men’s metropolitan championship opens at Westchester. OUT OUR WAY MM GOSH A BIGGER NOTHIN’? The Stars and Stripes was first Gi ns 'AFEL CANT NEVER HAVE NOTHINK ! 1 | FER A SECON 'T' GIT COME BACH AN' FIND MY FROGS ALL LET OvuT! 1 BLEENE SOME PEEPLE DONT LIKE T'SEE ME HAVE SAKES! DOGGuNNIT YS WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY N SPEEDWAY CLAS | sented b | morning in the fifth district “GOLF MATCHES AMATEURS c TLANTA, profe: mashie PAGE THREB He’s Winning Games Now: BEGIN TODAY PROFES-| SIONALS ENTER GAMES AND Ry Associated Press) | 14. The | golfdom, repre- mateur and ‘s of the driver, teed off at} June Dixie's 23 erack wielde: putter, f of and East Lake Country Club here this | 36-| |hole qualifying play for the na-| tween 140,000 and 150,000—saw place and prizes of $40,000 in art, who went to Indianapolis as stricken with illne amazed er 400 of the 500 miles congratulations of his Lockh A downpour of rain ended the race mmediately after the race, receiving the | || tO 4 € 84 268 © a: 8.8 6 * | Last Meal | ss * WEATHER CONDITIONS A disturbance of consider- * * able intensity over the upper * Mis * rains in that section, and in the States, * * and upper Lake region, Chi- * * cago reporting a rainfall of | : 2.32 inches. | ; ae 2 +. 4 |* dences of a slight center of | Pew.) | * disturbance off the middle : Atlantic coast and in additien sippi Valley has caused northern Plains There are evi- | to the rains previously noted ' there were local showers Texas. Temperature is above the % ‘3 - * seasonal _in the Atlantie | # e * States southward to South K Carolina and in the Ohio Val- ley and lower Lake region, * while over the northern * Plains the weather is some- what gpoler than the seasonal average. This morning there is con- siderable cloudiness over ex- treme southern Florida while unsettled weather prevails from the northern Rocky Mountain States eastward over the upper Lakes. Moderate southerly winds will prevail over the Florida Keys tonight and Tuesday. Il. B. BOYER, Official in Charge. in George Hasler Johnston of" Chi- cago is shown eating the last meal he'll, wet. ig see, tia. ly after eating it he started to~ walk from Chicago to New York— nearly 1000 that he had He estimates Immedi-:" miles—vowing he would not eat until reached New York. the hike will take 30 days, and is making it to win a $1000 bet. eeeccecceececevececsoses NOTES OF SPORT Mingeapolis has just completed it CS Se Be Se 6 « 010 and opened its fourth municipal ifie Coast. golf course. i - | : ty Three California women tennis ae : ae : players have won the national Charlie-s Wemer the veteran ingles title three times in succes- Newark heavyweight, is the latest jon, They are Hazel Hotchkiss, j.ceruit to the fistic colony~on the Mary K. Browne and Helen Wills. i y ' Williams LER 1 Go OuT CAN AN' FER GOSH tional ¢ | played July j turning in the lowest medal | will repres |play in the premier golf tourney of the nent, to be} ppen golf tour: | Columbus, 8-10 é ores| nt the d'sirict in match} ci year. Bobby Jones and Watts Gunn, | eu! matical event. The | qualify | Bernbach, Peter A. James, Charles ; | Clark, Daytona Beach, and W. S. | Pearman and Eddie Willims, Mi- | ami. ‘TO CONFER WITH « NEW Rickard Puesda; | cegar: pionshi: Dempsey Septem June 19th marks the eightieth | anniversary game 0 ed by t York ¢ tate in champion and runner-up,| , in the 19% j r tournament, are auto- ly qualified for the open! in . the George Florida ng players rounds are ATHLETIC BOARD iy Auvucinies Press) VY YORK, June 14.—Tex 1 will go before the New O | York state athleti¢ committee on y to inform the officials ng his pians for a cham- p bout . between Jack and Gene Tunney in ber. This ty “Jumbo Jim” Elliott, formerly with the Brooklyn Dodgers, but now pitching for the Seattle Indians in the Pacific Coast League, Biliott, who is one of the game's biggest hurlers (standing 6 feet 4 inches and weighing 242 pounds) is having @ great season. He opened tho apse with nine straight victories. ® Mayhap Lncs Dodgers could find use for = him_now./ of the first match} f baseball, whieh was play- he Knickerbocker and New lubs at Hoboken on that! 1846. | ‘The veteran Bill Clymer,, man- Jager of the Buffalo club, has lived |up to his name and reputation by | boosting the Bisons to the top of jthe heap the International League. in |. Germany has begun the system- atic development of a team of athletes for the Olympic games to be held at Amsterdam in 1928 FILS EE LIMA A HATS OF ALL KINDS CLEANED & BLOCKED and Gentlemen's Hats Made to Order Ladies’ GEORGE’S HAT SHOP 608 DUVAL ST. wero oar aws WIFIILLL LL OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN Broken Lens Duplicated on the Day Received A. L. PRATT. Campbell Bldg. Fleming St Wh hk hd) Louie W. Strum Nominated For Supreme Judge in Recent Primary HERE are scores of buyers all over Key West and along the Florida Keys who are waiting for your advertise- ment to appear in The Citizen. They may not know they are waiting; you may not know it. But put your ad in and see what happens.