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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939 ALLSTARS RALLY BUT CONCHS WIN | MEMORIAL DAY BASEBALL CONTEST Trailing 3-9 Going Into Seventh, Losers Scored Five! Runs In That Frame To Throw Scare In Victors’ Ranks; Bethel To Rescue By O. L. MILIAN Rebert Bethel, tall blonde-headed veteran pitcher of the Key West Conchs came to the rescue in the seventh inning to relieve Joe (House) Casa and checked the hard-hitting All-Stars’ rally in this; stanza as they went on a batting rampage and fell short one run of Sieing the copes at: vine-al,: 19° sive Hamlin’s crew a 10-8 deci- | sion over the picked team, com- ‘BOXING BOUTS BY posed of players from the Pirates | | = - PATROL ME The game was piayed yester- | ; day afternoon as a Memorial Day; i feature. A challenge had been! | moe Pad Conchs at Trumbo|MATCHES HELD IN AvprTo-| ield Sunday to play the All-' players shared a gross receipt of | $55 after the contest. The total| oreo ! amount mentioned is not official. | ———— | [BRUINS BLANK — REDS TWICE TO CUT THEIR LEAD LARGE CROWDS WITNESS MEMORIAL DAY DOUBLE- HEADERS IN BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, May 31,—Surprise of the baseball world yesterday was the double shutout victory of Chicago Cubs over Cincinnati Reds, 6 to 0 and 2 to 0, which cut a full game off the Redlegs’ lead in the National League. A total of 40,619 fans saw Larry French scatter eight hits in the opener as his teammates poled \nine off four Red hurlers. In the nightcap, rookie Page and Bucky Walters hooked up in a pitchers’ Air-tight support behind the| , ‘ ' stellar pitching of Bethel and Joe|_ T#tfie Officers Basil Tynes House, combined with timely-hit- and Myrtland Cates are still, ting from their teammates, gave bringing together in the squared. the Conchs their victory over the | circle members of the different! tom selected by George Malexsh, | Junior Patrols, The last meeting| r. j Hamlin’s boys opened the game} hea bene Monday afternogn al with 2 two-ron lead, which they |t2© auditorium of Division Street | never lost. Trailing behind a 9/ School with nine pairs of youth- to 3 score the picked team, with | ful combatants. | a never-say-die spirit, came back} The scrappers were matched as| strong and put across five mark-/foliows: Junior Gates and Jack: ers in a rally started by a sharp'. - iF single to center by Rueda in the | Niles, which: wags draw, Albert’ ‘duel, the former allowing five saféties and the latter four. One of the Cubs’ four safeties was a home run. The other marker came in as Hartnett ran from second to home on wild pitches. St. Louis Cardinals caught up a game on the Reds by splitting a twin bill with Pittsburgh Pi- rates, 7 to 2 win in the opener and 14 to 8 loss in the second con- test. Lon Warneke limited the !Bucs to five bingles in the cur- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Cecccecovecevecoosenecos SOCOOOSSSOPOSOHOS9O929C0 Temperatures” Highest Lowest Mean _. Normal Mean Yesterday’s Precipitation .90 Ins. Normal Precipitation .13 Ins. *Thin reéerd covers 24-hour period ending at “@’elock thin morning. Te ‘s Almanac 5:37 a. m. 7:12 p. m.| Full moon, June 1 10:11 p.m. Tomorrow's Tides | AM, P.M. 8:46 10:12} 2:08 3:33 a.m. today | 86 Sea level, 29.93. N Expert operators to serve your every Key West's most modern shop. 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Whole, Halves or Quarters, are the real aristocrats. G. C. ROBERTS General Merchandise y I j Husbands ‘Had to Wash! husband usually gets what - he wants if it means a saving man and O'Dea. Wholesale and Retail Ne seventh inning. Wickers follow-|Hall and Woodrow Niles, with; Bucs t¢ : ed with pea SE single to right|Niles the winner. Tomasito Ban- | is eighth, Pci pres scoring Rueda, who had stolen to'tana and Frank Sands, and the! gon in this game. Cards had a second. Carbonell sent a hard jater was declared winner. Law-!Jead of 7-1 in the nightcap but liner to center for a base hit.| -once Padron and Manuel Castil-| blew up as the Pirates began hit- Buttermilk Soy Acidolphilus Light Cream in time or labor. If husbands had First Game the fi At St. Louis Pittsburgh St. Louis - Galvanized Roofings Ship Chandlery Carey Cement R. am a@ moh Hernandez drew a base on balls, | % AED | filling the bags. With the count|!9, Castillo winning. Bobby 3 and 1 on Anthony Kelly; the|Gwynn and Dan Gates, fought to/ All-Stars’ infielder drew back,!a draw. Harry Roberts and James took a healthy swing at Casa’s | Larsen, araw. Vance Gomez and! next piteh and sent the ball into) Jack Holsenback, Gomez the vic-| deep centerfield, scoring three , atte ee asieA penne ‘at {tor Manuel Gonzalez and Man- | third for a three-base hit. This; uel Alayon, draw, . : was the most exciting part of| einige | the game and hundreds of fans! e wesc: applauded the second baseman’s hit. This spelled curtains for Casa and Bethel came to the res- cue, retiring the side, Joe Navarro, promising catch- ° er of the Trojans, and brother, NEW YORK, May 31.—The | John, at shortstop, did good ve | following aye the leaders of base-| “—— pe “— ytd Receye| ball, statistics including all dou-| stopper Joe should have scored pearaur: yesterday; i two field home runs if his two- esevcal ABR. H-Ave.| base and three-base blows would peer pa have been hit off another pitch- 102 26 37 "363 | er’s deliveries. 127 35 45 354) Mario (George Kelly) Pena con- 128 25 45 352 nected safely twice out of three 108 12 38 "352 trips to the pan and each time 91 21 32 353 with men on bases. Pena was a easily the star on the field for the | victers, while the big guns of William Cates and Armando Ace- vedo sounded loud and effective- ly. Box score: Key W Player— Machin, lf - Acevedo, ss Cates, 2b° Albury, 3b Griffin, ¢ - Pena, 1b Leo Gon’lez, cf Casa, p Bethel, p Baker, cf Villareal, rf Major Leagues’ Big Six | | (Special to Tre Citizen) | Player— Arnovich, Phils Foxx, Red Sox Dickey, Yanks Bonura, Giants Hassett, Bees J. Martin, Cards Leading runs-batted-in play- ers: National League Goodman, Reds McCormick, Reds |Camilli, Dodgers — E| American League 0 Williams, Red Sox Wright, Senators 1 Selkirk, Yanks 0, Hoag, Browns 36 32 31 z Cone! z HOOP EN Ee Rw 34] 32] 32] Leading home run producers: National League Camilli, Dodgers - 0 | McCormick, Reds 0 Mize, Cardinals — American League Greenberg, Tigers - 1 Selkirk, Yankees Williams, Red Sox 0 0} 0 Hem ewmewranrar BP SOM OA Wines CoB ee HOCH RHEE ee 27 14 we -} ° Totals— 1 E & a MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES’ STANDINGS woccccccccesoococsocoees NATIONAL LEAGUE | Club— 1\Cincinnati — 658 0'St. Louis - 611) 0 | Pittsburgh 514) 1 Chicago — 526 0| Brooklyn ~ 471) |New York - 459 | Totals— 39 8 13 27 21 5 Boston — 417 Score by innings: R | Philadelphia 343 Canchs 212 130 010—10) —_———_ All-Stars — 101 100 500— 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Runs-batted-in: Pena 2, Machin; Club— 3, Cates, Acevedo, Griffin, Joe|New York - Navarro 2, John Navarro, Car-| Boston —.. bonell, Kelly 3; two-base hits: Al- Cleveland bury, Machni, Cates, Joe Navar-} Chicago ro, Wickers; three-base hits: Joe | Detroit _ Navarro, Kelly; stolen bases: | Washington = Acevedo, Cates, Torres 2, John|Philadelphia 13 22 . Navarro, J. Carbonell, Hernan- | St. Louis — ~ 11 26 dez, Rueda; double play: Baker to) = Cates; bases on balls: off Casa 2,| Wickers; passed bail: Griffin 1; off Salinero 2, off Wickers 2;|time of game: 3:01; umpires, struck out: by Casa 6, by Bethel | Griffin at the plate, Fernandez at Player— John Nav’ro; ss J. Carbonell, ss 2 Sterling, 1b 5 Hernandez, 3b- 4 Kelly, 2b 4 Joe Navarro, c 5 Alonzo, cf -—. Domenech, cf . Rueda, lf Salinero, p - Wickers, p —— apr wo PONS MH HORNE & oor NoUNNBooN ting the ball to all corners. Rizzo, | Buc outfielder, accounted for nine |’ of the Pirates’ runs. He got five hits in six trips to the plate, two of which were homers. Over 14,- 000 fans saw the twin bill. Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants divided a double- header. Giants edged out the Dodgers 5-4 in the opener, but dropped the nightcap 3-1 as Ca- sey kept the New Yorkers’ eight safeties well scattered. The larg- est crowd of the Memorial Day «| twin bills witnessed this double- | barrell affair—58,296. Boston Bees and Philadelphia Phillies also split a two-ply affair before 19,263 fans. In a slugfest, the Bees took the first game, 9 to 7. Both teams secured eight hits in the final fracas but the Phils scored five runs to the Bees’ three. Boston Red Sox ended New York Yankees’ latest winning streak as they downed the world’s champions 8 to 4 in the opening contest of their twin bill before 35,000 spectators. Yanks came back in the nightcap with an old- time slugfest and walloped the Bosox, 17 to 9. Red Ruffing was shelled from the mound in the curtain-raiser.. ¢ i ee Another split doubleheader was. recorded as Philadelphia Athletics ‘trounced Washington Senators 3 to 1 in the opener.and then ‘dropped’ the, final fracas, 8 jto 4.. A’s were held to four hits by Carrascuel in the initial con- test but scored a trio of runs. A | total of 16,000 baseball enthusiasts saw the games. Still another divided double- header was that between Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox. |Chisox took the curtain-raiser, |6 to 2, and succumbed 8 to 3 in the final game. Thirty-five thou- sand fans were in attendance. Cleveland Indians downed'-St. Lduis Browns twice, 7 to 2 and 3 to 2, Bob Feler annexed his eighth victory of the season in the opener while 26,504 fans were looking on. A total of 132,356 fans saw the doubleheaders in the National can League—in all, 244,860. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE 1, by Salinero 2, by Wickers 4;/ first, Dobbs at second, Lastres at hit by pitehed ball: Pena by | third. League and 112,504 in the Ameri- | Chicago H. 5 13 errs Tobin, Heintzman and B Warneke and Owen. o a Second Game At St. Louis Pittsburgh St. Louis - Bauers, _ Shoun, Cooper, Davis, and Owen. Bowman | Philadelphia Turner, Sullivan and Lopez; | Mulcahy, Beck, Butcher and Da- | vis. | 1| 4 i} Second Game At Philadelphia Boston - Philadelphia * Posedel. and Masi; and Davis. 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