The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 16, 1939, Page 5

TUESDAZ, FERRE AND. MURPHY -TAME ATHLETICS; SSTERMUEL- LER SCATTERS SENATORS’ EIGHT BINGLES (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK. May 16.—Larry French held his former team, mates, Pittsburgh Pirates, to six hits as the Chicago Cubs pound- ed a trio of Buc moundsmen for an even dozer of safeties to win, 5 to 2. From te fourth inning on French blanked the Pirates. The day before the Bucs downed fo.are in third»place: in.the Négtiortal League race. Wes Fetrell:held Philadelphia Athletics in check during his tenure on the mound before giv- ing way to Murphy because of a sore elbow, and his predecessor did just as good. Between. them they allowed the A’s only five safe blows. Meanwhile. New York Yzenkees were collecting nine hits off Ross and! Dean, and so the world’s champions won, 3 to 0. Oster mueller scattered Washing- ton Senators’ eight hits yesterday afternoon. as the Boston Red Sox went to victory. 9 to 2. Four hurl- ers worked for the Nats, giving up 10 bingles. The Nationals miscued three times. The first night ball game to be played in the American League will take place in Philadelphia tonight. The occasion calls for much pomp and ceremony. A number of high officials of base- ball are expected to be present. Clevelari Indians will be the op- porients. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE Aj Pittsburgh R. H. E. Chitago 612 0 Pittskurgh French and Mancuso; Sewell, Brown, Bauers and Berres. Only game scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washington R. HE. Boston 910 2 Washington 28 3 Ostermueller and Desautels; Thomsa, Chase, Appleton, Mas- terson and Giuliana.‘ At Philadelphia New York 3 9 Philacelphia 0 5 Ferrell, Murphy and Dickey; Ross, Dean and Hayes. Only games. schedulde. GALAN, CUBS, JUMPS TO FOURTH POSITION AS- BIG. SIX HITTER — {Special to Tre Citizen) NEW YORK. May 16.—Galan, Chicago Cub- outfielder, jurhped from last place in the Big Six to fourth position. Officially going to bat three times yesterday he hit safely all three times to carry his average up from 375 to .407. Standings: Player— Mazzera, Browns 48 14 23 Kuhel. White Sox 66 15 28 Weatherly, Tribe 58 6 24 Galan, Cubs 59 12 24 Arnovich, Phillies 85 12 34 Medwick, Cards — 80 12 30 R. H. E. AB R. H. Ave. A479 424 414 407 400 375 Home run standings remained the same yestercay: American League Greenberg, Tigers — 4 a akin Selkirk, Yankees — Gehringer. Tigers Williams, Red Sox -_... National League Camilli, Dodgers -_.--. Mize, Cardinals IjQ_ 2x1. Ott, Giants eis iiss McCormick. Redblo_.2as. Berger, Reds Nate Selkirk, Yankees, joined the leading runs-batted-in players yy as he rose to a total Stardings. American 4 4 of 21. Greneberg, Tigers __.. Walker, White Sox a | 26 11 Se Eaten @eeccccce OBSERVATIONS FROM MAJOR BASEBALL .& THE “BLEACHERS 4 LEAGUES’ STANDINGS 4, 4 sah By O. L; MILIAN® w eee Club— Ww. L. FIGHT. ARGUMENTS, DiIS-;St: Louis 12° 8 AGREEMENTS, iNSINUATIONS Boston 12 9 direct and indirect, freé-for-allf Cincinnati . 1210 that’s what kills basbeall. It kill- Chicago 12 11 ed the national pastime 10 years Brooklyn 10 11 ago. It spelled finish to the ever Pittsburgh 9 12 popular diamondbaH several New York 9 12 years ago. Andi it will do it Philadcipi..a 811 again. Now, when, baseball is at its height once again, it will not succeed if something isn’t done to prevent similar incidents. NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— W. L. New York es id eee Sees meter oe 5 IN THE YEAR 1931 THROUGH Cilicago eee TO 1933, when night ball became ¢{°y°/2n4 a a reality in this city, thousands of ! washington 812 enthusiasts turned out each night setroit 915 to watch the softball contests. Philadelphia 614 meame the old existing te et ween The Key’ Del. Monte. tea Hacn Selves dnmdthey2wege tied. up in ‘won firstplabe 4n ¢ach 2 Clinelpiwhen players: ftom both ie hali.,Cafhe time: to ais- teams took them apaxtii Then: the, pute the city cnampiénshipyin a free+fordell.startedsofPhere, was a seven-game series, | Newspaper scramble at firsi vase, : pitcHet's lads were leading, the score 5 to ox anc’ on the whole field every- 4, in the third game of the se- body semed to be mixing it up. ries. Up came Vet Monte boys Umpires orcered players to the in tne jast-half of the seventh, ’ench and this left tne teams three men were on base. Arman- crippled and it was necessary to- do Acevedo, heavy-hitting in- C@ll off the game and rule it no fielder of the Saunders Grocers, contest. The ruling was an- “cracked a tremendous grass-cut-.nOwnced by Laine Dobbs, presi- ter to. shortstop, Norman Artman, cent of the Monroe County Base- playing that position for the ball Commissioners. Dobbs told _newsies, fielding the ball and was the writer, “You may say that the. about to make a fast triple play : when Perez, Del Monte baseman, 2nd the Pirates are champions. moving on from second, inten- They are both champions. The uocally or unintentionally, inter-'£¢ries is off and will not be play- ferred with the infielder’s throw 4 out”. ;and both players went down to aes pare ‘the ground in what restilted in a: ARMANDO ACEVEDQ, best fist fight and a free-for-all scram. !l-around player in the city and ble whieh outside interference al- | Conch Shortstop, has , turned, i jso took part. And that was cur- his. uniform... “{W! ign. ba ball. tains for diamondball. goes this far I'am out”, the blonde infielder {is ‘quoted ‘as, saying. TWENTY YEARS AGO the Acevedo is one of the’ Strongest, same rivelry existed. In those‘ /' i € ae Habel Key West Regulars ‘without his performance his club against All-Stars.’ Many a good! Will, be. crippled ‘more , than, 75 ball garne was called on account : Percent. \ of fist fights. ~ we Pet. -750 -706 -591 524 409 400 375 Tiv- _—_ ahi 4 ae A.LARGE NUMBER OF FANS | IN 1929 it was the Pirates ana “interested in seéihg’ the "series Sluggers. . They played godd. ball played out are getting up'a peti- | until one of.the players of either tion to take before the league's’ team would try to spike the op-’next meeting, requesting _ the} posing players in order to: get on championship series be finished. base saely. Then the trouble ‘ would start and the end of the most popular of all sports would be reaching its final stage. THIS IS A COINCIDENCE! | Armando Acevedo, whose base-| _Shop”, won the batting champion- | FOR OVER A YEAR more than ship in the series and was pre- 75 local ambitious youngsters sented with a bat offered by Ber- ‘have been’ laboring and striving lin Sawyer since the beginning of to bring baseball back to its nor- the series some eight weeks ago. mal standing. They succeeded. Then what? It all goes to pieces in a montent. LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON more than 1000 enthusiastic fans jammed their way through the Trumbo Field and crowded the bleachers and grandstands to capacity to see the final game of! a post championship.. series be- ‘ twébn® the? Conchs‘ ‘and: ‘Pirates. Fans saw one of the most excitin; | and’ thrilling: contests ‘of the= ries. For eight full innings every- thing went along smoothly; then | lcame the laf half 6f the ninth} stanza. Conchs were leading 3 to 1. Joe House, first batter to; lface Lucilo, flied out to Bethel. | |D. Lopez, hitting for Malgrat, struck out. Castro beat out a grounder to shortstop for a_ hit. Torres doubled to right center. Barcelo grounded to third base and was safe as Pena dropped the throw to first, Castro scoring om the error. Hernandez poled a two-bagger to left center and Torres and Barcelo scampered over the plate with the ticing tallies. With the bases still crowded, Izzy Rodriguez popped out to Albury with the -count three balls and one strike. “FIRST! ‘seatda ~<A andalonglistofother notable contribu: tions to better refrig- eration at less cost. Now this 1939 blue-ribbon Riti- Unpleasant-Words:Jamong © them-. Git ‘mittee has’ the right to reject un- player Subtracts twice his handi- g6 holes to obtain. his net score. Key West Conchs are champions. .Kirchheiner, 24; Charlie Ketch- ' Taylor, 28. WM. | deedcoecetucccencccsoesos ‘drawing cards of the game and’ Sate a ee ball shirt reads “Sawyer’s Barber | (3-1) vs. Rich (2-1). Selective. Air Conditions - (THE KEY WEST cITiZeNn } { (CONTEST FOR ARTMAN CUP IS ARRANGED PLAY WILL B= RESUMED ON | SATURDAY: WILL TERMIN- ATE ON THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK Play for the Artman Cup will be resumed Saturday and_ will} terminate the. following Thurs-! day. May 25. A dinner match will be held om the latter date, with the usual dinner and the pre- - sentation of the cup on the fol- lowing night, May 26. Joe Lopez won the cup in the first contest, while Melvin Rus- sell is the present holder. Rus- sell is shooting the best golf of his career, but the tournament committee has reduced his hand-. icap from 20 to 10, so it is ex- .pected that a new name will ap- pear or) the cup next week. Sam Goldsmith. Clem Price, Curry Harris and Bascom Grooms seem to have the edge on the rest of the field in this present competition, but no one has the’ cup won until the final hole has been played. This is a handicap lournament and the usual rules will govern this play—each play- er must declare himself to the caddy-master, before starting and must turn in two signed cards (36 holes). The tournament com- signed or undeclared cards. Each cap from his gross score for the ow net wins the cup. Handicaps assigned for this play are as follows: Joe Lopez, 3; Sam Anderson, 3; Bob Spottswood, 7; Melvin Rus- sell, 10; Sam Goldsmith, 11; Al-, ton Parks, 11; Clem Price, 11; Curry Harris, 13; Eddie Strunk, 15; Willie Kemp, 15; Sam Har-| ris, 15; Willie Watkins. 15; Lio- nel Plummer, 16; John Kirschen- baum, 16; Bill Fripp, 18; Louie Pierce, 18; Paul Mesa, 20; Horace O’Bryant, 20; John Pinder, 20; Atwood Sands, 20; Bascom Grooms, 22; Tom Cooper, 22; Otto um, 26; Bob Stowers, 26, and Pete MAJOR LEAGUES’ ‘GAMES TODAY Pe eornrarccccepocar--seoe NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at “Chicago—Hamlin (8-2) vs. Page (2-0). ‘ Boston at Cincinnati—Turrer {1-2) vs.’ Grissom (1-1). 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