The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1940, Page 3

BOSOX’ HOMERS BLAST TRIBE 16: 7 ViLLAKEAL TOPPED \GRIFFIN LEADS SOFTBALL WATTERS OPENER’S HITTERS: SEVEN SOX ERRORS | sahil Aiki. 4 AND MERCHANTS | ENGAGED itt WiLD SECOND | Game: LATTER TEN won| CONTEST g | Pepper’s Pliimbers continued © their domineering playing ovet the Blue Sox in National Sdft- ball Ledgtie play last night at Bayview Park. Pounding Ovear | Ward for 11 safe blows, the! Plumbers smashed their way to a 12-1 victory over the hapless cellar-occupants of the circuit. | Last week the Phiribers swamp- ed the Sox, 11-2. DoDo Villareal’s hitting led for’ the victors. His big bat blasted | out three safeties in four tries. Higgs, each connected safely twice. Mc- Carthy’s hits, which included 4 triple, drove home five team-' mates. He scored a run himself. Ward and Goss were the out- standing batters for the losefs, poling two sdfe blows each. M., Arias smasHed a three-bagger and walked once. Hancock, who started on the mound for the Plumbers, held the opposition to one run and seven hits in six innings. Clar- ence Gates hutleit the final in- ning, two playets rollitig out to him and one striking out. Baker arid F. Lopez executed several sensational catches, and’ Villareal brought the fans their feét with a great stop of a hard-hit ball. Although the Pltimbers secur- ed only 11 hits in their heavy scoring; they wete aided by sev- en Sox errors. Score by innings: RHE 000 100 0— 1 7 7 . 023 115 x—12 11 0 Han- Sox Plumbets _. Ward ahd M. Acevedo; cock, Gates and Ingraham. MERRY-GO-ROUND IN SECOND came! Although many rans were scored in the nighttap.by the U. | S. Marites apd the Merchants, the game was intefesting from | start to finish. Merchants finally | won the contest in the sixth frame with a four-run blast. Gutierrez’ three safeties sent home five runs for the victors, and he crossed the plate once himself. Malgrat poled two, hits. : Sirfimons, Yelotchan and Con-; nors were outstanding With the! stick for the Marines. i Connors, Malgrat and Gutier- | rez blasted triples, and Mortor! accounted for a two-bagger. Score by innings: Marines Merchants Spakes and YelocHan; J. Ogden and J. Soldano. Pet. 548 Chie New Washitigton St. Louis Phitatfelptiia Th 518 405 | 391 & easserees ip a 4 id Cirltinhati Brodklyh Net York St. Léuis Chicago Pittsburgh ton. Philadelphia - 591 523 505 500 495; 400 rese2ee9 aseseees “352 3 Pepper's Plumbers — Sawyer’s Barbers (Key West Softball) | Chib— Key West Conehs Merchant USS. Noa NavSta _ U_ S. Marines ce - ‘286 000 Presidents. James Monroe and Idhn Tyler both Wert Waried at| Chee Sat dia Richménd; Va. McCarthy and Barcelo U. | Connor, M... FIVE PITCHERS HAVE PERFECT RECORDS sca KITCHINGS SECOND’ niu |thashich Gait GATES PARTICI-' ascents Me tHiter| PLAYERS BATTING sto, sr AVERAGE: Aitb Six. :sd0 Marvin Griffin, outfielder of ‘the Pépper’s Plumbets, is leading the Hitters 6f the Nutiorial and ' Arheritan Sdttbait Ledges of the city With ah average of .714. A hitting streak that developed | in the last two ames in which he appeared kept him ahead of | ;the pack atid at the saihe time! boosted his mark. He trotted to! {the plate seven times in ali and} icame up with five safe blows. He; has scored two fits: In second plate is dri Americari | - League batter, Kitchings, of the! S. Marines. Taking three! titnes aS tHahy charites Bs Griffin, | ;the Leatherneck came, through | with flying colors 13 times to| average 614. Kitchings scored | 11 runs. Three other members of the 3d- | ‘called weaker softball circuit df; Key West are tied with a .600 average each. Next highest hit- ter is also an American Leaguet, | J. Aritas, of the Key West Conchs, .523. Four players . of this circuit and two in the Na- tional- League possess averages of -500. Players AB. R. H. M. Griffin, PP... .7 2 5 i Big Twelve follows: | ; | Kitchings, M. i | = ; Wenzel, USN. Kelly, USN... \J. Aritas, KWo. 'Kesser, CCC. Albury, NS. Luman, USN, Ridgeway, USN. M. Arias, BS, — 'B. Baker, BS. 600 | -600 | B00 | 523 | “300 ‘500 | be diate ee Oo NI Sr RIBS BS.60 He oN 69.09.00-63 500 ‘MAJOR LEAGUE —— GAMES _TODAY' AMERICAN TEAGUE =| Detroit at. New York, two} | games. Cleveland at Boston. { Chicago at Philadelphia, two gimes. St. Louis at Washington. j NATIONAL LEAGUE i New York at Cincinhati. j Boston at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at St. Louis, gemes. Philadelphia at Chicago. ————— | U. 5. WEATHER two! Observation taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (city office) Tethperatares Highest: last 24 houts __.. Lowest last. night ours eri Reinfall, 24. houts & 7:30 a. m., ineHes - 07 | Total rainfall since Aug. 1s intthes Total taitifall since Jan: 2, | inchés ___. 19.05 Deficiency since “January 1, 1 inches _ — 0.86 | Wind Direction and Weldtity NE—4 miiles per hour ‘Hélative Humidity 87% | Barometer at 7-30 a. m. today | Tomorrow's A | 8:09 a. m. Bagg . m. Stinfise Sunset - Moonrise Moonset, ‘Téthotréw's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 1487 5:19 Hie 5: cl day; Bentle to moderate varial winds. Florida: Partly cloudy with a: W. L. Pct. }féi scattered thundetshowers in| 5 0 1.000 north portion this afteFnttn or |they say —— is just 667 | jearly tonight ahd in south Hor- | for their sins, ‘511 |tion tonight 6r Wedhesiigy; slight- 500 \ly cooler in eXtreme north por- | tion tonight. Wits weal @ aig taker you do there, play bridge? _|TWO OTHER AMERICAN! 500 | | Brooklyn PATED IN MOST G&iéES,| LEAGUES NOT SCHEDULED | SIX WON, ONE LOST: KEINE | NEXT WITH 667 Five pitchers, four in the Am-! erican Softball League and orie in| the National League, possess per- | fect percentages. Two have won) ithree games, one captured two! and the others annexed 4 contest | | eath: | Claretice Gates, Hee hurler of | the Pepper’s Plumbers, partici-| pated in the miost games, seven in alli—winning six of them arid | {dropping one for a petcetitdge of | | Leading Motindsmen — in both | leagues follow: j Pet. Eatly, KWC. 1.000; 'albtat; Merts. 1.000 | | Hitnicock, PP. 1.000} |Plobd, KWC. 1.000 | 3 Roberts, kWwe. 1.000; Gates, PP. - 857 | Riink, USN. ‘67’ ; LEAGUERS AT TOP: MIZE LEADING In HOMERS ispectal to THe Citizen) | NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—S' | Louis Browis’ Radcliff is topping | all othér hitters in the thajor | leagues with his 362 dvertige, 18! points ahead of his nearest rival, | White} Appling, of- the Chicago | Sox, ,344. In thitd place is andther Ainer-| ican Leaguer, Détroit Tigers’ Mec-; Cosky, 341. The best, of the Na- tional League is Walker of odgers, bringing up fourth position with .327. Statistics follow: . Playér— ABR, H. Ave.! Radcliff, Bwns. .. 426 60 154 362 Appling, WS 401 67 138 .344 McCosky, T 449 92 153 .341 Walker, D 397 55 130 .327 Danning, G ___ 392 54 128 .326, Rowell, Bets __. 319 34 104 .326 Jimmy Foxx has top honors in the honle-ran-depattment cf the; younger , circuit, blasting out 33.) He is followed by DiMaggio, 25,! arid Gretnberg, 24. National League leader—and Nibst df foorth; fiir. {high man of both lodps—is John- 'ny Mize with 34. Rizzo and) (choles are tied at 19 each. Tite tivo softball leagues of the | city will méet in regular session tétiorrow night at the City Hall, beginning at 8:00 o'clock. Prsideht Varela lids issued a Gopineuiest for all managers to be, 574! Excess sitite Aug. 1, ihehes 145{ present for a disctssion of im- portant matters. ' yesterday after their double loss | 'Bees sedred all their runs in the ‘third frame. OR GAMES WERE RAINED | our (Special te The Citizen) NEW YORK, Aug. 20:—Pfoiir jhome runs in a 14-hit attack on !three Cleveland Indian mounds- |Men aided the Boston Red Sox in |their overwhelming victory lagainst the ‘Tribe yesterGay. | Store Was 16 to 7. Sox’ sdféties | were good for 27 bases. Every tember of the team, except ; Crammer, secured at least one safe blow. Foxx poled his 30th eenid clout. in the fourth inning ard Taber blasted his 20th in the Saifie canito. Williams corinécted ; for his 18th in the sevetith and Doerr hit his 16th in the eighth. | | Three indians:also connected for round-trippers. No other games were played in | | the American. League. . Cincinnati Reds dropped their) third game in a row as they. fellj }victims to the revived. New York Giants, who snapped?back | {to the Philadelphia Phillies =e 'day before. Idle Brooklyn Dod-j gers are how just four games| |away from top position. King Carl Hubbell’s seven- hitter and a revised Giant ray sent the fading Reds dowt {9-2 defeat. The victory bell’s third of the year. A four-! run blast in the very first in-| riing, with Paul Derringer on the! mound for the Cincy boys, set-| tled the issue early. Dick Errickson balanced his} won and lost percentage yester- | [day at the expense of the Pitts-; burgh Pirates—and it was a shut-/ ‘out victory at that. The Boston! Bees’ Pitcher has now won nine | \ dnd lost nine. And the opposing hdtlers. dllowed nine hits ‘each. Ertickson Kept his so well! scattered thit the Burs jitst! vouldn’t do anything with them. | Restilts of the games follow: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston R. HE. Clevelarid 748 2 Boston 16 14 1 Dobson, Hiimpkities, Dorsett “Ha Heitisley, Pytlak; Heving| tla Foxx. Detroit at New York, called, | Chicago at Philadelphia, poned, rain. { St. Louis-Washington, i schediled. not; NATIONAL LEAGUE . At Cineiinati E New York hii. Cifteinnati 2 Hubbell and Danning; Derri ér, Riddle, Shoffrier,. Hatch: and Lombardf, Wilson. At poms cha Pittsburgh Etrickson and ‘Berres; 1 (and Fernandes. OWN | GROVE, You might think that of Seek | body you know, the Secrétary. of | ped Sea level, 29.94 (1013.9 miillibars)|the Commercial Club is sitting ;the prettiest. A 6 bit lunch; levery day—and speéches, he! never has to listen to them, he’ }makes ‘em. But. thinking it is all |clover with a Secretdry is may- be O.K. for $ yéars, but on the ltenth—which is census year— P.M. |brother, that is something else. 11:59 And the latest I been readirig ;about the census and the drops in , too, about gains, 2 in| éther places, but they went! Brooklyn - Chicago, Philadel- phia-St. Louis, not scheduled. Ao RRR SOFTBALL 8C SCHEDULE | possi mar ares Ee érs vs. Sawyer’s Barbers (Na- tiorial Léague). _ FaiDAY NiGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers use Noa (American League). Re thes en Se nee Slogan. Wi Tacortia Gtow— jthat was it But the census ‘turned out vite versa. ‘ se et ee Mount Rainier and yee ied to Tm ;Tacoma. And other towns near. jby, they say Tacoma foozled the soup by getting into the ‘power | jbusiness and people )away, for fear of more social- ism. And so she goes. Census year ‘tMercial club Secretary. 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