The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 19, 1939, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1939. KEY. WEST NINES PREPARING. FOR BUSY BASEBALL WEEK; ~__JUNOOR TEAMS PLAY TODAY’ ‘YANKS WIN TWO wikis. “Nediaiaien Con- tesis; Conchs To bag pa; Sox To Ft. Migmi Wildcats By ©. L. MILIAN © Key West nines are preparing for a véry busy week ahead. Biggest. baseball week Key} West has had in. years began this .afternoan at 3:30. o’elock when the Pt; Lauderdale Ameri- can Legion Juniors. clashed with the local aggregation represent- ing the Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 in a scheduled district cham- pionship elimination tournament, This. contest opened a five-day} atraction of the national pastime, which will run through Sunday afternoon when local teams will playat.Cuseaden Park at Tampa, Fla.;' Terry Park at Ft, Myers,/ DOWN GIANTS; RED SOX SPLIT WITH CHISOX (Speeiat to Phe Citizen) NEW YORK, July 19,—-New York Yankees bumped St. Levis Browns twice yesterday after- Red Sox took the first. game from Chieago: White Sox, 18 to 10, but lost the second, § to 8. Washing-! ton Senators: walloped Detrait Ti-; gers, 10 to2. | Cincinnati Reds easily downed Boston Bees, ‘12° to 3. St. Louis Cardinals again whipped New ¥ork Giants, this time 5° to 3. Chicago Cubs -took Brooklyn Dodgers into camp, 4 to 2, be- and at Lake Worth,jand a Miami! cduse Clyde’ Passeau srtuek out outfit comes here Sunday afternoon at Field with Trojans. West Palm Beach Juniors, lead-| ing the district championship tournament, will. clash . against a game} Trumbo the strong Key West nine tomor- | row afternoon at Trumbo Field,! This will be the second meeting of these clubs. The locals took a 3 to 2 decision over the Beach | kids on July 11 in West Palm Beach in their first encounter, However, because of a_ special agreement between American Le- gion officers, this contest was not official since nine full innings were not concjuded as the game had to be halted in the first-half of the ninth because of rain. At that time Key West was at bat, one man was on first and there was one out. Under the present regulations, nine innings must be completed before the game will be official. - Tomorrow’s West Palm Beach-Key West conflict; will open with one man on first | base and one down to complete the contest that was called sev- eral days ago. Then a full nine- inning game .will_be.played_....— Friday, July 21, the Junior Conchs will journey.to Ft. Pierce for a scheduled game in that city and will then return to Key West where the Lake Worth nine’ is| slated to play the local Juniors Saturday afternoon. | In the meantime, Roy Hamlin and his fence-busting Conchs will travel to Tampa and Cuscaden Park, whree the local champions | will meet a strong Ybor City all-| star aggregation in a three-game} series in that city July 22 and 23. | Frank Caraballo has accepted | terms from Ft. Myers .and will take his Blue Sox to the West Coast city for a game on Sunday, July 23, against the Caloosas. At Trumbo Field, the Trojans will cross bats with the Wild| Cats, a strong ball club leading! the South Miami League, This ¢ontest is scheduled for Sunday afternoon; July 23. Armando Fernandez and Albert | Rodriguez have decided to make | Blue Sox.' The pair of infielders to accompany; the team on its first trip to theisWest Coast city several Conehs will regular lineup with ie players’ Krakauskas and Ferrell; Bridg- from any other oe the Mon- | es, Coffman, and Fen and Teb- Mario San- | petts. lo have ob- tained written releases from their respective team and have signed with the Key West outfit. They will, therefore, play in Tampa. Sanchez, a tantalizing eurve ball Sunday. Joe Casa, who man- handled the Yhor City: boys dur- ing the series here July 3 and 4, will again open the series for the | locals on the firing line, Robert Bethel scheduled to pitch | the third and final confest. Heartbreaking news came late yesterday that Armando -Ace-| vedo, flashy shortstop, will not make the trip with® the, Conchs friday morning. The bionde-| haired infielder cannot get off from his job yntil Saturdex: noon at 5 o'clock, at maha prrangements have been made @eeoeroccoesoasonvesooor the trip to Ft. Myers. with the | twirler, may get the pitching as- | signment in the morning game) ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS Open ‘The Year Around the last three men’ to face him in the ninth with the tying runs on base. ' Philadelphia Phillies de- feated Pittsburgh Pirates, 8 to 3. Results of the games follow: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston ‘RH BY} Cincinnati 12 19 0 Ba tee ee dd TB} Derringer. and Herberger; Earley, rankhouse, - Lanning, Fette and Lopez. ——— At New York R. H. E. St. Louis 511 0 New. York ... 3-10 0 McGee, Weiland, Cooper and Glenn; Hubbell and 0’Dea. At Brooklyn R. H. EB. {Chicago - 410 1) Brooklyn 2.9 <1} Passeau and Hartnett; Hamlin, Casey, Mungo and Phelps. R. HE. At Philadelphia Pittsburgh 383 hiladelphia 813 0! Swift, Sewell, Heintzelman and Berres; Johnson and Davis. At St Louis New York = St..Loyis — Donahi an ‘Game Hildebrand, Murphy Dickey; Kramer, Whitehead and Glenn. At Chicago Bogton ... Chicago - Auker, Dickman, Heving and Peatock; Dietrich, Smith, Brown LEAGUES’ STANDINGS with | St. | Pittsburgh | Bgston | Philadelphia += Strictly 1 FROM BROWNS RLS a noon, 9td O-and 4 to 3, Boston |« AMERICAN LEAGUE |{Pierce, Palm Beach, ‘Miami and “1 Back "to" good old Cayo “Htueso. | berlin and Spindel, -- | TEN MOWING ‘EM DOWN \ ~ Second Game | The Pinellas Lumber-Company | At St. Louis. R. H. E.|softhall ten from St.’ Pete is; New York 4 13° 2/cleaning up everything on the St. Louis _. 3 3 1)West Coast of Florida and have and/won seven straight games, due .to E.)by the no-hit route. gecogeneaPencenanese SeRESPET: CUBAN BATS BRING LUCK LAST Mi the writer sent to Cuba for three bats made of Cuban mahogany woped. They were received recently and two sent to Point Pleasant, N. J., for| Norman Artman, son of the pub- lisher of The Citizen. The other baseball stick was presented to Manager Nash Diaz, of the Ft. | Myers Caloosas, when that team | played in Key West a while back. | Mgr. Diaz took the bat with him |to the West Coast city and his) club has. won three straight games since then, | In one game, Ft. Myers,+beat the Everglades nine 23 to 1. . wall on aecqunt of that bat (2). Word has just. been received inj |Key West from New Jersey that! Norman Artman had the follow-| hi ing to say: “Bats arrived and on | the first trip to the plate with one| of the Cuban bats I knocked a homer over the leftfield fence, and-beyond the cars standing in the raliroad yards, for one of the | longest hits ever made at Clayton| Field”. He.adds that the play-| ers up there would all like to; have one of the Cuban bats. In the communieation was a ¢iipping | |from the Point Pleasant commenting about that | and the quality of the pats The writer has informed those | jinterested in Point Pleasant that he can get the bats for them. \'They are guaranteed not to break. omer | \CONCHS TO MAKE SWING OF STATE) | Carl Lopez, former player of} the Island City and who was al | good pitcher, first baseman, third | baseman, secand baseman’ and | shortstopman and who also play-/| ed the outfield for different |clubs in the city, is now an. um- |pire in ‘the Orange Belt League. | | Ft. Meade; Bartow, . Wauchulla, | Arcadia, Sebring and Sarasota lare in that. circuit. Practically lall of the teams representing | those cities will meet the Conchs| when the Key West nine makes a two wekes' tour of the state in} September...'Conchs expect to} jleave on a Friday, play Saturday and Sunday in and around Mi- ami, then! on to Sarasota, Bra- } 'denton, Tampa, St. Pete, Bartow, | Ft. Meade, Orlando, Jacksonville, | Daytona Beach, Vero Beach, Ft. | | 'Dates of the games will be pub- lished when everything is signed on the dotted’ line. |PINELLAS LUMBER CO, i the good pitching of Ray Mc- Donald, who has won five straight contests, all by the shutout route.. Speed Tillete won a game. Tony Cos- tello, Cuco Castlilo to us, is the shortstopman for the club andj |his great playing has done won- ders for the team. He has been TR + On \eui jare.the Blue Sox, with .183. vader |<. TEAM BATTING AVERAGE Or 440 AND FIELDING PER- CENTAGE OF .942 SETTING PACE = By O. L. MILIAN ‘team batting average of .340 is Setting the pace in the Monroe County Baseball. League, This. gra is field by Key West Conths, champions of the city an Trojans are second with an avetage of*.297.' A poor fourth. In the fielding department, the Conchs are also ahead, having a | pereentage point of .942. Pirates| areSsecond. with ,932. . 212 24 63 19 5 - 161 20 38 11 7 Blue Sox . 181 18 33 6 8 . ~“Team Fielding Records Club— * po ae dp . 186 11018 4 § -1200 414.0 § . 142 85 21 2 - 162 105 87 5 4 MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY COSHH SHOHESSSOOEOSOOOHEE AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at. Cleveland. Washington at Detroit, New York at St. Louis, Boston at Chicago, i NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Baston. Cincinnati at Brooklyn, night. Pittsburgh at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia, night. jenter the state tournament. next month. STARS IN THE MAKING The writer has watched the, American Legion junior nine play. there and predicts that most. of, ithe hoys will take the place of, Bill Cates, Mario Pena, Armando, | Acevedo, Fidel Lopez, Garcia, Puby Carbonell, M. and | Al. Acevedo, the Navarro broth~ ers, Sterling and others one of these days. among, those boys. 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