The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 26, 1939, Page 3

as SEPTEMBER 26, Bele j he ies Thrills S FHE BLEACHERS The Cofichs have Jost nine om ew For Six Yankees ites cheat eececees ast two months and we think / ‘i 1 Down at. Russell’s Cigar Store| *"* team-neéeds a little ent rest on Duval street, where you get| bak i del a \the news hot off the wire—be it! Last_minute cancellation of we war, sports or WPA paaeaael be A2Tampa team which was| comes. the rumor that Earl jto have played two local = Adams, manager of the Trojan | Jast Sunday shauld serve as a! “Red Devils”, and William lesson to local promoters a '“Butch” Cates, Conch erack in-| ae mcr yl _ ages Helder, are pl ees DN eae ae On me the visiting club put. up some Dade County All-Stars in the kind of bond or. guarantee which near future. No doubt these| would be forfeited in the even boys have the qualifications of the club making the trip fails to’ picking such a club but still fans'live up to its agreement. cannot see where a more defen- ——— ‘sive and offensive nine could be Although Ralph Arnold went. selected than that now Possessed hitless in his first Monroe Coun-}| by the Conchs, ty League game, the flyweight| —_—_—— shortstopman, fielded brilliantly, | Starting from the pitching spot, handling eight hard chances with- | | the Hamlin bombers have Lefty out a miscue. The kid is a comer. Covington, according to Manager — { Roy Hamlin. Coyington is still) Another promising youngster is! a member of the Key West team. Charles Albury a rookie pitcher | Then there are “Bullet Joe” Casa who did a mighty fine job for and Robert Bethel. Cyril “Beliss” Izzy Rodriguez and his Pirates ; | Griffin covers number two posi- last Sunday. | tion, although young Joe Navar- _—_—_—— | ro, an up-and-coming catcher of, Yep! Lionel Plummer is back) the Trojans, offers much com- from his vacation as is Bill Bates | petition. The Conchs’ backstop'and the voices of the pair of | has the experience and _ hitting! baseball enthusiasts are heard al! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN -OBSERY. “ATIONS FROM. sco a Seow base tke a PEFR ERE RG ‘YO ge By The AP Feature Service YORK, Sept. 26.—There first basemen in the majors but} players on the Yankee!doesn’t boast a batting average vho’ve never participated|of Yankee standard. However, brid series and two of his hits have been timely, as his utfieider Charles Keller runs batted in figure of around st 'daseman Babe Dahl-|85 proves. ire important cogs in the | The chances of Manager ir machine. Joe McCarthy using the oth- vsthers are Pitchers Oral ers are slight. Rosar hardly and, Marius Russo, Atley| will get into the conflict un- and Catcher Warren Ro-| less Bill Dickey is injured or the Nationals get so far ahead in one game that Marse Joe figures it is beyond recall. He's an able replacement, however, and a crack hitter. Donald and Russo came up from’ Newark, Donald in the spring and Russo in June. Don- ald set a freshman record by ; winning 12 straight games, Russo, a southpaw, had won seven, in-! ren got his chance when (cluding six straight, on Septem- hrig stepped down last'ber 21, Hildebrand, a veteran, He's one of the best fielding came from the St Louis Browns, Here's 4 Raggesentatize Liat of Way. West Merchants that S@lh Practically Everything of Interest to the Average Family or Businessman. 18 OF. INTRA 0 HOME VieToRS AND Merchants Represented Here Have Been Carefully Selected ang Dealings with Them will be Satisfactory. in Beery Way, lier, a former Interna- league batting cham- «ame up last spring mn Newark. He got into lineup in early August as | gular and has been bang- the ball hard ever since. ler’s average is around Only DiMaggio’s is bet- WORLD SERIES DEMOLAY, CHEELY TODAY WITH WIN AT BOWLING SS SS ee PIPL LOL LL K. W..HAVANA LOSES TO FORMER: PHONES TO LATTER AMES IN CINCY §RDINALS CONFIDENT OF WERTAKING REDS IN SE- ability of the veteran that he is, | over the field and by the way we however. Mario Pena has no may have peanuts next week! rival a first base, but the fielding Ask Louie the pie man. of Tony Castellano, Blue Sox, is very much compared with that of RIES OF FOUR GAMES; RED- | LEGS FAVORED (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The world series may be all import-} baseball world when, fant in the it opens next week—but there’s | @ little difference that’s going to be settled today, tomorrow and Thursday at Cincinnati which has the eyes of all baseball fans, Jeven more so than the big, an- nual clas: It’s the long-herald- ed “cru ’ series, which is go- ing to definitely settle the cham-| Pionship of the senior circuit. St. Louis Cards arrived on the! scene of battle this morning, all primed to “knock the stuffing” out of the present three and one- half game leaders in four straight | games. Cardinals against them have all the for the Redlegs need only \to win two of their re- maining seven games to Cinch the flag, while the Redbirds have to win all of their seven contests still scheduled. Both teams are “hot”—and, all in all, it looks like there'll be plenty of excitement in good, old Cincinnati today. A doubleheader starts out fes- tivities this afternoon, followed by single games tomorrow and Thursday Only two games were played yesterday—one in each league. Chicago White Sox dug further into third place by defeating St. Louis Browns, 4 to 3. It was the fourteenth win of the season for veteran Ted Lyons. New York | Giants rallied in the ninth inning to defeat Boston |Bees, 6 to 5. with a three-hit, three-run at- tack. Scores of the games follow: NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York DeMolay bowlers, re-vitalized by the return of Howard Pinder, | bowled home ahead of Key West- |Havana Cigars last night by a score of 1131 to 987, the latter be- ing in a temporary slump. The second match, en two leading teams, Cheely Lum- ber No. 1 and the Telephones, was the first of several scheduled this week to show comparative strength of the leaders. Cheely is in third position, the Tele- phones in fifth and that’s about how they finished last night aft- jer three close games: Cheely |1144, Telephones 1101. “Two-Two” Kelly. At the key- stone bag we find William Cates, who has no runner-up. for that | position where hitting power is ;concerned; of course, one could) bring out the faet that Alberto Acevedo, Pirate second baseman, leagers a lot of territory. Mario “Mallito” Hernandez may be said to be as good a fielding third | baseman as Esmond “Tarzan” Al- bury, but then Albury has the hitting quality the Bucs’ hot cor- CEASSIFIED COLUMN PERSONAL OLD AT 40! GET PEP. New Ostrex Tonic Tab- Iéts contain raw oyster invigo- rators and other stimulants. | One dose starts new pep. Value $1.00; Special price 89c. Call, | write Gardner’s Pharmacy. ner patrolman lacks. At short- 'stop, Armando Acevedo would still be the selection of the ma- jority for his experience. Ace- vedo has a pair of rivals for that post and they are Fidel Lopez of the Pirates and John Navarro LOST LOST—Ladies’ White Purse, con- | taining ‘valuable papers. Re-! turn io Edna Dennison, Keys | Guest House, Simonton street. | odds | of the Trojans. In all, the Conchs’ DeMolays infielding cannot be improved in 122 111 111— 344/any manner or form, 177 95 124— 396 on . 101 163 127— 391| In _the outfield we may find | ____ the Conchs a little weak. At left 1131 | there’s Julee Barcelo, a .300 hit-| (ter, in the first-half of the Mon- roe County League schedule, but! who is now in a batting slump. Evelio “Skippy” Rueda, Trojans, | can be used as a_ substitute in this position. In the center gar- den will be’ found Julius “Do-Do” | Villareal, the kid wonder, who is breaking all local batting records. At rightfield, the right man for that post will be Clayton Serling, a member of Adams’ Trojans. ; Scores tollow: Mathews | Pinder Lewin Total Ss Key West- Havana Cigars Raul 77 98 T7— 252 Palenzuela - 145 113 107— 365 Mongo 141 136 93— 370 Total Cheely No. 1 152 133 114 109 167— 390 100 126 145— 371 1144 Roberts Orlando Clawson Total s Telephone ‘Company 114 139 94— 347 89 115 138— 342 160 141 111— 412 In selecting an All-Star team, the pitching staff is one of the important points and in this case we could not leave the name of | Harry “Swifty” Wickers out of i101 | the list. Butler Sawyer Overlin . | aptake seen such slick runners like Pad- | jdy Doran and Panther Pent trapped between third and home and still manage to slip away! LAYER CAKES AT MALONEY BROS. safely from a half-dozen players Two delicious layer cakes are | present-day fans saw something featured for the first part of this in last Sunday’s exhibition game week at Maloney Bros, Bakery, | between the two mixed teams 812 Fleming street, as advertised |that they had not seen before in | TARPAULINS LOST FROM)! In old-time baseball we have | , Reward. sept23-3tx | | | TRUCK a week: ago last Fri-| day on Highway from Key! West to Miami. Finder please! return to Cabrera Wholesale Grocery and receive reward. | sept23-3t | FOR RENT. FURNYTSHED DOWNSTAIRS} APARTMENT, two bedrooms.:| All modern conveniences. 1500} § Seminary street. sept19-2wks | STORE FOR RENT, also, 7-room | Apartment. 602 Duval street. | Apply J. G. 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AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Washington— Potter (8-12) vs. Thuman (0-0). Detroit at St. Louis—Two games—Hutchinson (3-5) and Rowe (9-12) vs. Kramer (9-15) and Bildilli (0-0). New York at Boston—Two games—Donald (13-3) and Ruff- ing (21-7) vs. Auker (9-10) and Bagby (5-4). Clevelard-Chicago, uled. not sched-} 9 | Chocolate Layer Cake and Lady Baltimore Layer Cake—both sell- 33c. Orders may be phoned in for \delivery whenever wanted by HE fealling 818. MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES’ STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE Club— Ww. L. Cincinnati = 93 54 St. Louis 89 57 Brooklyn ~....... 78 66 Chicago moray tan} New. York ......... 13 72 Pittsburgh - 67 81 Boston Seid ee O48. Philadelphia 34 101 Pet. 633 610 542 537 -503 453 AlT 303 AMERICAN MEASUE Club— L. 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