The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1939, Page 3

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1939 ABOUT DOING A BIG JOB WELL By AP Feature Service CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.—“Bill, McKechnie is the man who DONE it!” “He isn't—a team like that would have won anyway”. “He is so, he’s a baseball gen-| ius. . .” “The heck he is He just got a! fat jcb riding a skyrocket”. That’s the daily argument on Vine street and there are few who don’t give a darn. But all the talk makes a very small dent on the eardrums of William Boyd Mc-! Kechnie, the 52-year-old Scot who guided the Reds to their heights of glory. Children Come First As a matter of fact, what gets the McKech more, excited than anything else is some bit of news| about his four children. The eld- est, William, Jr., is an executive in the Reds" farm organization. His 21-year-old daughter, Beatrice, | sent to manage ‘TROJANS LOSE TO CONCHS; BLUE SOX DEFEAT PERRINE On ke other hand, no piece of brainwork—or bat work, either— CONCHS HAVE BIG FIFTH IN- goes unpraised. McKechnie knows when a word of appreciation from the coaching: bex means a lot. This all comes from long’ ex- perience going back-to 1905, when he played third base for Butler, Pa. Although he admittedly was i no great shakes of a ball player, all in the last of the fourth the fe played for the Reds tack in Biue Sox banged out two dou-! 1916 when Christy Mathewson | bles, two singles and took ad- was manager. vantage of a walk to score five In 1922 he became Pittsburgh runs and sew up the old ball! piri a caanisbuatig a es game against the Perrine nine lesing his job the next year. He TY at Trumbo Pietit errine’s Edwards sauntered to went to the St. Louis Cardinals ; ; the mound for the last four frames and in 1928 led'them to a National | 24. held: the Sox. scoreless while league pennant. For. that he Was Perrine batsmen frantically scor- the Rochester ; ed. two runs, but no more, in at-| Farm team the next year. In 1929 tempting to knot up the’ score. NING TO WIN: SOX’ BIG IN- NING IN FOURTH: LOSERS | LEAD IN EARLY FRAMES With the count knotted at two- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — Th turned Johnny Vander! showing it to everybody just as|;Meer into a seven-day wonder. | any proud father would, That the ;He made Frank McCormick one Reds subsequently won the game | of the league's best first basemen. was no fault of his. He made people speak of center- Nothing much’ else, however, field Harry Craft in tones once | gets his mind off baseball and reserved. for Tris Speaker. i the Reds. He is known far and| Then he pulled some deals, like wide as taciturn, hard to talk to, | bringing Bucky Walters from the slow to predict, unable to boast.| Phillies. That cost but it paid. The legend almost makes him a! One natural result was that the strong, silent man. Yet, when the Reds finished fourth. Another was eceasion demands, he can direct | that the winter book on the 1939 a full range of baseball language |season showed high respect. The at some erring player. It hurts,/third was the 1939 season itself. but the player knows better than | The fourth was a contract running to err that way again. jto 1941. se a tae ee | j | FRISCH WILL BE | wasor pasepaun PIRATE MANAGER | LEAGUES’ STANDINGS | ne apres" yrewnaga (Final) i NATIONAL LEAGUE | Ww. L 97 . 92 ar .. 84 17 68 85, 63 88 45 106 (Final) | PIE TRAYNOR RESIGNED AS) Club— BUCS FINISHED IN \Cincinnati - 57 SIXTH PLACE 61 69 70 74 St. Louis Brooklyn . | Chicago |New York PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2—Presi- paepoureh — dent William E. Benswanger an- | Philadelphia nounced Saturday night Frankie | Frisch will manage the Pittsburgh | AMERICAN LEAG! i Pirates of the National Baseball Ciyb— W. L. Pet. League in 1940 and 1941, succeed- |New York 106 45.702} ing Harold (Pie) Traynor. Boston - 89 62 .589 Although it had been rumored | Cleveland 87 67.565) Chicago ~ 85 552 | here for days that the Fordham) oi poit 81 526 | Flash was to succeed Traynor, | Washington _ 65 “428 | who resigned Thursday, Ben- | Philadelphia 55 362 swanger said the deal was not|St. Louis 43 111.279 closed until noon Saturday by} og "THE WEATHER contract in; , Frisch will sign a New York, probably Tuesday, when he will meet Benswanger| and Traynor at the draft meet-| ; ing oseeditig the opening of the! Observation ta worid series on Wednesday, the! Pirate president added. . \ Highest inane a9! Traynor resigned, he said, be- Lowest last night __ “ 79 | cause of the “low position” of the 84| sixth-place Pirates, a traditional 2 81) first-djvjsion club, which this year | experienced its poorest” sedson pijiyfall, 24 hours entiing since 1917. | 7:30 aim, inches __. Bensweanger said Fresch was his -pota) rainfall since Oct. 1, first choice for the job, but that inches he was unable to disclose “this peficiency since Oct. earlier because he and Frisch. inches could not agree on the length of ota} rainfall since Jai the contract. | 1, inches ah uo é !Deficiency since January 1, “545 | ‘510 Key West, Fla., Oct. 2, 1939. ken at 7:30 a. m. 75th Mer. Time | Mean Normal _... Precipitation: ~ 0.00 | nuary inches aoe se Tomorrow's Almanac *“SATURDAY’S GAME a. ee Sunrise 6:20 (Spectal The Citizen) Sunset 6:12 Seececosoccoseoseoeseesee® Moonrise 9:55 NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Moonset 10:41 St. Louis 7, Chicago 5, first) Tomorrow’s Tides game. Chicago 5, St. Louis 1,! (Naval Base) second game. AM. Boston. 3, New York 2. Low .. 6:36 Brooklyn 14, Philadelphia 5, High - ; first game. Brooklyn 5, Philadel- Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today | phia 1, second game, seven in-|Sea level —_- 29.98 nings. LEAGUE WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p.m., Tuesday) New York 5, Boston 4, first) game. Boston 4, New York 2, Key West and Vicinity: Partly second game, seven innings. cloudy tonight and Tuesday, pos- St. Louis 5, Chicago 1, first/sibly light showers; gentle vari-| game. Chicago 7, St. Louis 5,;able winds, becoming moderate | second game. | northeast and east. | Washington 9, Philadelphia 5. Florida: Partly .cloudy, pos-} ‘sibly light showers . over south) | portion tonight and Tuesday, and, ee jon northeast coast Tuesday, | A comedy entitled, “The New/slightly cooler in central portion | Minister”, will be presented at} tonight. the Sunday School building of; Jacksonville to Florida Straits , the Trinity Presbyterian Church,| Moderate north to northeast} corner of Simonton and Petronia winds over north portion and! streets tonight 8 o'clock. The play gentle variable winds, becoming! will be directed by its author, moderate northeast and east ovey! the wife of the Rev. S. A. Laing, | south portion; partly overcast | Pastor of the church. The public | weather, possibly light showers) is cordially invited to attend. ‘tonight and Tuesday. I 12:59; | TO PRESENT COMEDY ~|a base on balls forcing in Griffin. | Leggett, rf... jtellano, Edwards; sacrifice hits: -|out by Diaz 5, by Molina 2, by/ A. L. Ace’o, 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 Grace, Brown’s leftfielder, - | Swilly 1, by Edwards 1; bases on|E. Acevedo, rf 4 0 0 1 0 0;the score in the ninth inning with | -| balls: off Diaz 2, off Swilly 3;/ . |hits: off Diaz 11 in 6 innings, sa |innings; time of game: 2:00; um-/} Trojans \pires: J. Griffin, P. Castro; scorer: | he went to Boston. The last-place 5 is a junior at Penn State, 15-year-| Reds took him over in 1937. i Slamming out two hits out of old Jimmy is in high school, and At the beginning of the 1938 Carol, 8, brings up the rear. season, McKechnie, asKed for the | One of the local news photog-' customary statement of prospects, raphers took a picture of Carol’ said’ grimly, “We won't finish | with a Red cap on her head this! last”. e year and showed the finished The Reds didn't and for a time print to Bill just before a game, Chicago and Pittsburgh were he wanted very badly. afraid they were going to finish Did Bill talk strategy with the first. There was a lot of raw ma- | boys in the dugout? He did not. | terial on, that last-place 1937 team He walked up and down the dug- | and McKechnie made the most of | out with that picture in his hand,| it. He four trips to the platter each were | the Blue Sox’ guns of Al. Ace-; vedo, Gabriel Garcia and Jesus Garcia. Carrying the torch for the visitors were Campbell with | a double and three singles and/ Simmons and Leggett with two! hits each. | In'a Monroe County League | game, Key West Conchs staged a} five-run rally in the fifth inning | to- overtake a two-run lead and get a 7-3 decision from the sro; jans at Trumbo Field yesterday afternoon in the first’ game. Adams’ Red Devils took an early lead by putting across sin- gle markers in the first, third and | fourth innings. The Conchs were | held to a lone tally and three hits | as Wicxers hurled unbeatable | ball. Then came the fifth stan- za. “Swifty” weakened and be-} came a little wild. Manuel Va-, rela, playing his first game in! several years, singled to right! center. Cheta Baker struck out. Armando Acevedo hit safely | through second, Varela holding | on at the keystone bag. Esmond | Albury drew a free pass to fill the bases. Cyril Griffin then poled a double to deep center, | cleaning the bags. Villareal was | passed. 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Navarro, ss R. Arnold, ss — Al. Rodriguez, c J. Garcia, cf Castellano, 1b — J. Fernandez, 3 Diaz, Pp Molina, p bse] Srarowoocoroy 'O CORNER HENNE & ” COWMCSH NRE AE a 8 pS i] ~ = \Major L ” 1939 Se (Major Leagues’ 1939 Season’ on L. Gonzalez’ sacrifice fly. to e 9 left. Varela’ coming up for the | n Ss it un: ays ames: the rally by flying out to center. | i | Box scores: j (Special to The Citizen) E/ leagues ended up the 1939. season 'Jeague champions only four hits. | yesterday and interest in baseball | Chicago Cubs took a close 2 to 1 Oling, which will be this Wednes- ;&* 5 A { 0\day at the Yankee Stadium when ‘Bill Nicholson drove in both runs O\effort to stop the Yankees from ;coming in the ninth after Johnny 0 winning their fourth world cham- Mize had tied the score in the! Games yesterday effected no| Brooklyn retained’ possession 1| change in the final standings for | of third place with a 3 to 2 win \ished in third place in the major|a schedtiled twin-bill. The sec- 1 circuit, having edged out the|ond contest was rained out when} E | last weekend. Cleveland Indians'been played. Harry Gumbert Olin the junior legaue also came /Sshutout the Boston Bees in the) \possession of third place ahead of ,collecting seven hits off three; 0\Chicago White Sox. Otherwise, !Bees’ pitchers to win 5 to 0. | 0! ger of lose or win, the other;Cleveland Indians took the first 0\ games constituted merely a fin-| game of a twin-bill from Detroit 1|/ games in the American leagu r’s twenty-fourth win of the were wasked out—the rain fallin; ason.. The second game ended jcancel games with Boston, and €athe,swiththesTigers on the Totals— 2/ Washington, respectively. « long end of a 1 to 0 score. Buck Perrine —. 020 002 000— 4 13 header with Pittsburgh to end er. : Blue Sox 002 500 00x— 712 2 the season yesterday, taking the; St. Louis Browns couldn’t do hits: Campbell, G. Garcia, J. Gar-| pre-season series pitching of position, but they did stage an cia; stolen bases: J. Garcia 3, Al.| Bucky. Walters and Thompson.!uprising to beat the fourth-place ) second game, 8 to 0, -as rookie; ten-inning thriller yesterday for Gates, Castellano, Leggett; struck | }the final game of the season. Joe! Villareal scored a moment later | second time in this inning ended Perrine | NEW YORK, Oct. 2—Major;Ken Heintzelman allowed the! 0 | shifted to the World Series’ Open- | fame from St. Louis Cardinals. © Cincinnati Reds will bend every |for the Cubs, the winning marker | pionship in a row. leighth with a home run. 0 the year. Brooklyn Dodgers fin- | over Philadelphia in the first of Chicago Cubs from that ‘postion |two innings without a score had 0} through in final games to retain ‘final game while the Giants were | no other positions being in dan- | In the American league the 0 |ishing of scheduled contests. Two | Tigers, 8 to 3. It was Bob Fel- 1\in New York and Philadelphia to in the fifth inning as darkness Score by innings: . * bees Redlegs split a dou-' Newsom was the winning pitch- Three-base hit: Gates; two-base | first game 9 to 1 behind effective anything about their last-place | Acevedo 2, Navarro, Diaz, Cas-| Pirates shutout the Reds in the|Chicago White Sox, 4 to 3, in a tied | j2 home run, then drove in the! Totals— 32 3 72715 2)winning run in the tenth with a Score by innings: R | single. i Conchs _ 001 050 100— 7) Sceres of the all-final games! 4 101 100 000— 3 | follow: i Runs-batted-in: Kelly, Albury, | NATIONAL LEAGUE Sterling, Wickers, Griffin 3, “L.! First Game |Gonzalez, Machin; two-base hits:| At Pittsburgh R. |Griffin, Rueda, Sterling, Davila;/Cincinnati —__. Se three-base hit: Davila; sacrifice |Pittsburgh —. 2. «1 |hits: Kelly, L. Gonzalez; stolen| . Walters, Thompson and Hersh- double ; berger; Clemenson, Rambert and Swilly 8 in 4 innings, off Molina 2 in 3 innings, off Edwards 4 in 4 Aguilar; winning pitcher: Diaz; losing pitcher: Swilly. Key West Conchs Player— Baker, 2b _ Acevedo, ss 8 CUCOKRMMUHD H. E. 17 0 90 |bases: Baker, Villareal; i | Plays: Baker to Acevedo to Vil- | Schultz. |lareal, J.Navarro to Kelly. to! |Sterling; passed balls: I. mie | Second Game riguez 2; bases on balls: off L.| <1 Pittsburgh |Gonzalez 3, off Wickers 5; struck }Cincinnati —____ out: by L. Gonzalez 3, by Wick-iPittsburgh _..____. 8 1 jers 2; hit by pitched ball: by L.|| Moore, Riddle, Vander Meer, Gonzalez (Davila); wild pitches:' Barrett and West; Heintzelman | | Wickers; left on bases: Conchs 6,'and Susce. i ''Trojans 7; umpires: Castro and! pr |Griffin; timeo f game: 2:09; scor-j First Game ler: Milian. | At Brooklyn | = Philadelphia | { Villareal, Ib - Torres, cf Machin, If __ L. Gonzalez, Varela, rf - 4 ~ mt co 9 BD CoH Co me 4 Q 0! MOM ON WH Hee ococorococooh Totals— as Player— Domenech, cf - J. Navarro, ss Rueda, ¢ —-__ I. Rodriguez, c Sterling, 1b __ Kelly, 2b Davila, lf E 0 1 0 0 1 oO. seeeyn sar CrooeoNoYy HmowoHonm & ttt 00 Bee co Mowcconey Wickers, p ___ FS EE hake dad PERRINE SENDS LARGE) DELEGATION TO GAME’ ccccee-se A group of business men of no score on either side. At Chicago Franks; Passeau, Olsen and Man- cuso, Garback. At Boston New York Boston __. Gumbert and Danning; nicle, Moran, Weir and Masi. Feller and Hemsley; Thomas, Pippen, Giebel, McKain | and York. and Tebbetts. At St. Louis Chicago Pee DEL RAB rsceeoe |St. Louis —__ | Saturday’s Football Games i SOUTH ; MIDWEST | North Carolina _ 36|Notre Dame aa | Wake Forest - Purdue -_— | ichi Stat ‘arvana gee | Hampden Sydney Beloit { Chicago Tulane bi sécoaaeies | Wisconsin ee 26 | Marquette ——- 6/Kansas State 21 Fort Hays State 0} Minnesota Arizona —— 44 | 0 }Ilinois 3 Bradley 0 iSouth Dakota |W. Va. Wesleyan Washington and Lee Sewanee Georgia i The Citadel - O}Washburn __ Emporia State - 0 | Missouri Colorado — ge SEBRING REBT RIS § ase Ot +. 0{Southern Methodist — Oklahoma ies * | Texas Florida /Tulsa. - Wichita Baylor __ Southwestern (Texas) Texas O. and M. Centenary ee Nebraska — Indiana California —_______ College of Pacific ; (First Game) College of Pacific |California ————__________ (Second Game) California - 28 as Oregon - | Southern - o8 | en Idaho Montana State Oregon State on es af as of gs