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ws /SEPTEMBER 26, 1988, THe KEY WEST CITIZEN a A CARDS DEFEAT BUCS TO NEAR THIRD P POSITION ST. LOUIS POUNDS THREE) PITCHERS FOR FOURTEEN | HITS; BROOKLYN DODGERS BEAT PHILLIES (Special to The Citizen) ST, LOUIS, Sept. 26.—The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 to 3. Cards, by their victory, increased their chances of landing in third place in the National league, The St. Louis players pounded three pitchers for fourteen hits. The ; & ‘PARK SLOPPIES DOWN PELICANS , DIAMONDBALL GAME YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON RESULTS IN SCORE OF 10-9 ‘ The Park Sloppies defeated the! Pelicans yesterday afternoon at! the City Park in the opening game | of a doubleheader of diamondball. It was a poor exhibition when! it started, but it ended in a pitch-| s’ battle. The Birds scored all of their runs in the first five frames and then they. ¢ouldn’t touch the plate thereafter. The Sloppies pushed eight runs aver the pan in the thirg and went into the lead. The Pelicans tied Behind the effective pitching of Walter Beck, the Brooklyn Dodg- ers won their fifth straight game, defeating the Phillies, 7 to 2, ii oe third game of their final se- en, The Dodgers hammered. Snipe Hansen and Cy Moore for six- teen hits, with Glenn Wright, Hack Wilson and Linus Frey lead-| defeated the strong Park Greasies. |¢inch the game. ing the attack. There were no games scheduled |two attempts and B. Garcia slug-| Fenix played bang-up hall, hold- ¢ in the American League. The summaries: Motional League At St. Lous R. H. 310 0 it in the’ fourth and gained the lead in the fifth inning. In the seventh frame, the Sloppies once more tied the count and won out in the eighth. Goffer hit three wafeties in four tries, and “Two-by-Four Higgs” played a very good game in cen- ter. In the second game the Pelicans’ G. Garcia hit two safe swats in’ géd out a home run and a double. Sweeting hit a triple, also. In the! field, Kelly, Sterling, for the . B.{ Greasies, and C. Garcia and Ogden! ¢xPerienced catcher, Joe Medina, for the Pelicans, starred, The Pelicans will cross bats with | |LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME VIC?) | TORIOUS IN GAME Last} ' NIGHT AT BAYVIEW PARK | thing was over the opposition had ;that he never jteague pitcher | (Ny Associated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 26- —rty| |€obb, when he was managing De-| troit, sent Carl Hubbell back to the tall timber with the warning would be a big if he insisted upon ‘STERLING'S WILD PITCHING BEATS — FENIX PLAYERS : BY SCORE OF 7 TO1 (By JOVE) Six bases on balls, 3 wild pitch! and five errors in the first inning gave the Lopez Funeral Home a 7-1 victory over the El Fenix in} last night's diamondbail contest. | Clayton Sterling, Fenix cet ‘pitcher, started off very wild and | couldn’t find the plate. He walk-} ed four of the first five men to| face him, then two more during the first round. Succeeding to put it over to five of the twelve men ‘who faged him in the first round his teammates failed to give him any support and when the whole scored enough runs during the : wildness of the pitcher and the sfielding of the players to After the opening inning El !ing the Funeral lads to one clean hit by Seott Sawyer and no runs. Sterling, after working with an ; snapped out of the fog and hurled ‘Class A ball. Had it not been for French, Smith andjthe Army ten this afternoon at ‘hat first stanza there certainly teri Grace; Walker and ang: O'Farrell, ant Philadelphia. R. H. FB. ‘ooklyn 716 2 a5 % 2 Batteries: Beck and Lopez; _ Hansen and Davis. American League No games @cheduled, ‘AMERICAN LEAGUE chb— lL. Washington . 51 New York . 56 Philadelphia 68 4 We 83 85 94 Pet. 655 611 531 -503 +480 +439) 414 869 _ NATIONAL LEAGUE Club — L. New York . 58 Pittsburgh 67 Chicago . 61 St. Louis 69 Boston. ... 70 Brooklyn 84 Essent 90... Vet. 603 -559 556) 543 482 388 92° 387 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at New York. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. (Only games scheduled.) AMERICAN LEAGUE Ne games scheduled. There will be a meeting of the| diamendball club managers — to- night at 8 o'clock at The Citizen office, All managers are requested to |]boy tipping the scales at 137. | the Army grounds, will’ start at 5 o’clock. Seore by innings in yesterday’s contest follows: First Game The game R. H. Pelicans 223 110 000— 9 11 Sloppies 008 000 11x—10 11 Batteries: Tynes, Leon and! Bazo; Albury, Castro, L. ened and Beceaise. 8, Second one Pelicans .. 100 050 3— 9 11 1° Greasies . 003 000 2— 5 9 2) Batteries: Leon and B. Bazo; J.| Walker and Sweeting. BOBBY WAUGH WINS BOUT BY KNOCKOUT WELL-KNOWN FIGHTER GAINS DECISION IN FIGHT WITH COLORED SCRAPER R. H. E.j Bobby Waugh, Key West fight-} er now in Green. Cove prin, writes “Dad” Russell of a scrap’ ‘he had a few nights ago in Green! 590) Cove Springs which he won by @ the Reds, but Bill threw a mild kneckout, Bobby says the promoter asked him if he would fight a colored lad. Bobby said he would. When, he @utered the ring he saw that his opponent was much heavier| than he. ‘They went on the scales: and Bobliy was 22 pounds lighter,' weighing 115 pounds, the colored | - Rather a heavy advantage to! give an opponent, Bobby writes, but the crowd wanted the scrap, so he agreed.. It was a fast me- lee, but from the second to the fourth Bobby felt confident and in the fourth landed a “beautiful” punch, knocking out the colored! boy. In his letter, Waugh asks that The Citizen publish the news of the scrap and extend best wishes} to all of his many friends. PIRATES TO PLAY i COAST GUARDSMEN : The Pirates will cross t next Thursday afternoon at the Navy be present, so that the league can! get under way. nel again. DIAMONDBALL TILT; WEDNESDAY NIGHT, dia-! night! two} There will be a game of mondball played tomorrow at Bayview Park between picked teams, the players to be selected from various clubs. The proposed game is schedul- ed to start at 8 o'clock, put Field with the strang Picked team eg the Coast Guard unit now } port. The Pirates will u he old re liable, Joe (House) Casa, in box and the great C. Griffin be hind the plate. Griffin has hit a home, run each of his last three game The contest Thursday afternoon will get underway at 3 o'clock. in in and his dog ‘appeared at the dog license bureau Pine Bluff, Ark., and applied for a tag on the installment plan. tHe got it. | pecially on a team out in front, haven't had much would have been a different tale ;to tell. We have our own jdea | that had Medina started aff cateh- , ing instead of Park that first in- | ning wouldn’t have proven so easy for the Lopez Funeral Home. ‘How ’bout it, Sterling? Although El Fenix hit Lunn ‘hard the team was only able to make on score off eight hits. The score by innings: R. H. E. Fenix .. 000 000 100— 1 8 5 L. F. H. 700 000°000— 7 1 1 Batteries: Sterling and Park, Medina; Lunn and Ingraham. i (hy Asnociated Presa) The. superstitution which rounds big league baseball, sur- es- was manifested by Bill Terry man- ager of the New York Giants, in the club’s last swing around the} western circuit. The Giants were eight games in front while in Cincinnati, fortify-) ing themselves at the expense of} | fit when he spotted a loeal dele- gation bringing in a flock of ban- ners to hang in a hotel lpbby. The banners were highly landa- tory and congratylatery, so phras- ‘ed that there was‘no room for doubt their sponsors considered the | Giants as good as “in”, and desir- ed to give the New Yorkers a send- off on pehalf of the league’s an- jcient stronghol “That wi close call,” breath- ed Terry. ‘hey would have put the jinx onus sure if I hadn’t | stopped them from putting those} signs up. I offered to pay all} the expense of making them, per-| sonally, Just to get them away! from sight.” Terry doesn’t like to talk about; the forthcoming world series with-| jout crosing his fingers or throw-} ing salt over his left shoulder. | “Baseball's too uneertain,” he; commented, “It looks like we are! ; OK. But we want to keep on win- { ning those ball games unfil there's And that is: what} no doubt left.” a telling I sleep said. don’t mind you some hts lately,” he turned the corner up in Boston, I - it’s been hard going.! but My only hope is that if we win} an do it soon enough to give | cit thers a rest before the big Boy, they will need it Trouble For Senators series. Baseball experts with the Giants! think Car} Hubbell, the celebrated paw, and Freddy o he nervous, fat knuckle-ball twirler, will give the Washington Sen. — plenty of trouble. ell, of course, is the stand-/ He has |. That same and reticient. |survey shows. he Giants did. j Fitzsim-| fooling with hi: “serew is the most dreaded de the National league. .Upon it hinge most of the hopes of the Giants in ‘their approaching World Series with Washington's slugging Senators. If the Senators’ bats can be si-| lenced, the tall, slender lefthand- er from Oklahoma is the man whoj will do it. He is certain to start twa games in the big series and| might appear as many times more in relief holes. | One Of The Greatest | Pitching records have fallen) like duck pins before Hubbel’s a: sault this summer. Ten of his first 20 victories were shutouts.) Any day he allowed more than | one run his mates began looking! around for a doctor. The man| must be sick! In addition to the many com- plete games he has hurled, Cari| has been the most active relief pit- cher on Bill Terry's s looks a little frail, but it’s tical illusion, He has miraculo central for a southpaw. In fact, Terry doesn’t regard him as a! left hander in the true sense of} the word. 5 i “He’s just a great pitcher,” de- glares Bill. “He’s equally ef-) fective against left and right hand| Pitching for Beaumont of the Tex- batters, I’m‘ glad we haven’t|#S league in 1928. had to hit against him this year.”' The Gjants gr: Barn at Carthage, Mo., 30 years reported price of $40,000 and he ago, Hubbell kicked around in the, won for McGraw from the start. minors and majors, up and down, |He pitched the only no-hit, no-run for five seasons before he finally game of the 1929 major league mastered his “screw ball’ while season. ‘SIDNEY CATTS REGAINS SIGHT AFTER 5 YEARS CARL HUBBELL bbed him for a} wwaasereos Notice To Subscribers | | Please be prompt in paying | the carrier who delivers your | He pays The Citizen | | | | | | { Paper. 15 cents a week for the pa- per and sells it to you for 20 cents. His profit for delives- ing is 5 cents weekly on each bscriber. If he is not paid HE loses. Not The Citizen, \Lahenthnheatndeadade FORMER GOVERNOR OF FLOR. IDA HAD BEEN UNDER- .GOING TREATMENT AT HOS.- PITAL IN NEW ORLEANS | Today’s Horoscope} am ° aepeenore | The mind of the person born today is active and inquiring, very sympathetie, but too self-centered The native should not take life according to in-!og ood man cried, VI ean se dividual views and beliefs, byt| oy eT iat knew sou ene ne should seek to broaden the field|*°" | A WA rye aN arenes of thought and thus avoid possible ai hae A didn’t remember; eee trate teciie’ and! now-white head bowed for friends. (Copyrighted); H t in prayer. It h been NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 26. —Black bandages were slowly re- moved from the of Rev. Sid- ney Johnston Catts, former gover- nor of Florida, at Baptist Hospital. Why, . my d hter,” the s since the Rev. Catts, lone of the most colorful figures ‘in Florida history—country prech- er, cowboy, rural mail carrier, lfarmer and governor, had lost his eyesight. Mrs. Elizabeth C, Padrick. first ‘time in five s he said it was the biggest thrill he ever had, And his life had been full of He went to Florida’a poor st- preacher, with $500 and a wife-and seven children. In four ‘years and two months he was gov- fernor ef the state. That was in Agnes: The day after ] was and thought I h $40 a month, I g me that the mi further mone 4a door— With bombs on the wings and ‘a! soldier inside, Puffy and Fluff start their per- ilous ride, “This gives me the jitters!” Fluffy, “Oh gee! They'll shoot at the soldier surely hit me!” married ing tter telling m board had no my sal ¥ at morn- king on says s for and | in sulted in my tract t ry t “How did 1 hapm hoy? Well river to g mother. for me. I went earned to Altk Six counties in Kentucky rank jabeve the average in the United States in literacy, a governmental past few weeks, especially, the much “ft-hander has stepped in to bra jhis faltering mates with the mo {brilliant and effective sort work. He has done his share relief duty, too. Hubbell A ‘Team’ Man “Here’s the kind of a guy that each day Hubbell is,” remarked Ter — sees Herman Bell bit, ys to and seen for H cares ays the NRA is im for it. is weakening a /'Y" and a fert so he leans over to me and " “Bill, want me to do down “Meaning the bull-pen. I nod- ' |ded and asked him to do so if he all right. He warmed up leasily and when I gave him the signal in a pinch he sauntered out ‘and stopped the Reds. Hubbell and Fitz are entirely ' different types. The southpaw is jas cool as the proverbial cucum lbet. He does little or no talking iHe takes the breaks for or against {him calmly. Fitz, on the other) hand, is a nervous and fidgety worker. He fights hard for every Carre spillway, Orleans from Missisrip- flood danger. Key West's First Funeral Home Key West's First Ambulagee Service PRITCHARD Phone 548 Never Sleeps When he saw her for the; lungs. | | Fruits And Vegetables i | } { long! 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