The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1940, Page 3

er ae AY, SEP oN ela ole nes R25, 1940 Yankees’ Pennant Drive Strengthened By Pair Of Wins; Indians Defeated LOWLY BROWNS DON'T LAUGH AT HITLESS REDS —REMEMBER THE 1933 GIANTS? pasepaLt GAMES DOWNED TRIBE; BENGALS IDLE DODGERS EDGED OUT GIANTS IN NATIONAL LEAGUE'S McKechnie’s Be Boys Aver- age .263; Behind 1939 Mark LONE CONTEST: RAIN POST- ' PONED OTHERS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—New York Yankees’ double victory over the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians’ loss to the St. Louis Browns and Detroit Ti- gers’ idleness threw the Ameri- can League race “hot” three-team affair. World’s champions’ triumphs brought them up to within two- and-a-half games of the leading Bengals and only one game _ be- hind the Indians, who dropped back a game-and-a-half behind the Tigers. Detroit will meet the Chicago White Sox in a doubleheader this afternoon and Cleveland will take on St. Louis m another single affair. Then the two leading clubs will get together in the final series of the schedule, be- ginning Friday. Yankees have three more games to play with each Washington and Philadel- phia. Should Detroit win all its contests, Cleveland and New York will not have a chance of copping the pennant. New York must sweep its remaining games and Detroit lose two for the world’s champiens to gain a tie. Submarine ball pitcher Elden Auker threw a monkey-wrench into the.Indians’ pennant aspira- tions yesterday. Holding the Tribe to six well scattered hits, he aided his own cause by blast- ing out a pair of singles in the attack on three Cleveland moundsmen. Final score was 7-2. All of the Tribe’s markers were accounted for by shortstop Ber- ardino’s two errors. The victory was the Browns’ 10th in their last twelve starts. New York edged out the Sena- tors 6-5 in ten innings of the first game of their twin bill, and blasted the Nats 9-4 in seven frames of the afterpiece. Dark- ness halted the final game after the seventh. Dahlgren and Gor- don homered for the victors in the nightcap. A 23-hit assault in the opening contest of the Boston Red Sox- Philadelphia Athletic double- header overpowered the A’s for the Bosox, 16-8. Boston also an- nexed the second game, 4-3. Six four-baggers were recorded by th Sox in both affairs. In the only game played in the National League, Brooklyn Dodg- ers definitely clinched secon: position by downing the New York Giants, 5-4. An all-time record for the intra-city rivals was set by the Dodgers in defeat- ing the New Yorkers 16 times in the 21 games the two clubs have played each other. Results of the games: AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland RHE Louis 714 3 Cleveland 26 Auker and Swift; Harder. Ei- senstat, Allen and Pytlak, Hems- ley into a St First Game At Philadelphia Boston Philadelphia 8 15 Heving and Peacock; Heusser. Caster, McCrabb and Wagner. R. AE 16 23 1 Second Game . At Philadelphia R. 4 Philadelphia 3 Wilson and Desautels; man and Hayes. H. 9 6 Beck- First Game At York Washington New York (10 Innings) Leonard, Masterson and Fer- rell; Donald, Sundra, Murphy and Dickey. Now R. 5 6 Second Game At New York Washington New York E (Called in Seventh, Darkness) Krakauskas, Haynes, Carras- RHE oe 0 9 6 By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor. AP Feature Service Cincinnati's “hitless wonders’ carry into the World Series one of the poorest club batting aver- ages in modern baseball history. But those wha cast jibes at the punchless Reds might recall that the last. “hitless wonder” club won its series engagement. | The McKechniemen’s squad average is around .263. That's the same mark owned by the New York Giants of seven years ago who whipped Washington — in their fall argument. And, where the Giants had only Bill Terry in the .300 class, the Reds can point to Frank McCormick, Ernie Lom- bardi and Jim Ripple. The Reds’ pitching corps, paced by Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer, rates as better than that of the Giants’ with Carl Hubbell as the “meal ticket” Below 1933 Mark The Reds are hitting some 15 percentage points below their 1939 figure but Deacon McKech- nie says he has 2 better club than a year ago. Hits may not be as frequent but they have been time- ly enough and Cincinnati is win- ning by a bigger margin than in last September. Walters and Derringer haven't won as many games but they're the class of the league with both past the 20 mark. Gene Thomp- son, a rookie in 1939, is more ex- ;perienced this year and has won more games. Jim Turner and John Hutchings are new addi- tions and, most important, there is Joe Beggs. He gives the Reds something they didn’t have a year ago, a relief pitcher who can go in and put out the fire. Jim Wilson, a veteran, and Rookie Bill Baker, along with the regular Schnozzle Lombardi, pro- vide a backstopping group as strong as in 1939. Infield Surer The infield remains the same, but it is a surer fielding unit. Riggs and Joost offer fine insur- ance against injuries. The outfield, although lacking a real punch, is an imprevement over the shaky group of last year which included the injured vet- eran, Wally Berger, and old-tim- er Al Simmons. Mike McCormick, Jim Ripple and Morris Aronovich, along with Harry Craft and Ival Goodman. furnish Bill McKech- nie a stronger picket line PEPPERS BATTLE NAVSTA TONIGHT BARBERS VS. MARINES AT PARK TOMOR- ROW Exhibitions of softball this week, while leagues are being reorganized, will continue tonight at Bayview Park. Pepper's Plumbers, city champions, will take on the Naval Station ten. beginning at 8:00 o'clock. Tomorrow night, Sawyer’s Barbers have scheduled a with the U.S. Marines at the 3 same field NavSta and Barbers will be seen in action again Friday night. this time woe each other. quel and Earley: Chandler, Mur- phy and Rosag, Dickev. eas Chicage atoDetroit, postponed, rain E p NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn New York Brooklyn Lohrman, Dean and O'Dea: Wyatt, Casey and Franks. Ez 0 2 Pittsburgh at j Chicago, poned, rain. post- Cincinnati at St. Louis, two games, postponed, rain. Philadelphia at Boston, played former date. game h ‘SOFTBALLERS ADOPT STRICT REGULATIONS TEN TEAMS ENTERED FOR PLAY, DIVIDED INTO SERV- ICE AND CIVILIAN LOOPS: OFFICERS ELECTED One of the enthusiastic and well attended sports meet- ings ever held in Key West was experienced last night in City Hall at the reorganization of softball leagues. Proceedings con- sumed the greater part of three hours and caused postponement of a baseball session that was to be held at the same time. For the first time in the city’s history, according to old-timers, a constitution and by-laws will Prepared by Wm. these regulations cover all phases of the sport and will insure clean competitive playing. « Several minor changes were made at the meeting last night but on the whole all rules and regulations were adopted as pre- sented. Corrected copies will be available at the session next week. All teams will come under the supervision of the Amateur Soft- ball Association of Key West. Board of managers will control financial matters and rosters. A commission will be formed to handle all grievances. Ten teams were at the meeting. Two leagues were formed, one for service clubs and the other for civilians. Service circuit will include four clubs: Army, CCC, VP53 and Ma- rines. Six teams will be in the civilian loop: Plumbers, Barbers, Merchants, Conchs, NavSta and Bombers, new outfit approved last night. Service teams will play all first games at the Bayview Park field. Time for the beginning of doubleheaders has been moved forward to 17:00 o'clock. Time- limit for the opening contest and also for the second game has been provided for in the regula- tions Rosters of civilian teams must be handed in before the first games Monday night. Service clubs will have no player-limit but must use only legal members of their respective organizations. Civilian limit will be fifteen men. Contracts for signing of players will be available _ tomorrow Managers are reminded that these forms may be secured at the main Naval Station gate any time to- morrow. Election of officers was held immediately after the old leagues were dissolved. J. M. Varela de- clined his renomniation to the presidency. Thompson, of the Air Squadron, was named presi- dent in his place: Lievt. Donohoo. of the Marines, was elected vice- president; William Russell, secre- tarv; Joe Cleare, treasurer. The following will compose the board of managers: Theodore Al- bury, Barbers: Roy Hamlin. Plumbers: Thompson, VP53; For- ythe, CCC; Lastres, Conchs:; Lieut. Pirkle, Army: Lieut. Dono- 00, Marines: Hernandez, Bomb- ers; Malgrat. Merchants, and the pilot of NavSta. Treasurer's report for the old leagues was held in abeyance un- til all bills have been paid at the end of this week. Balance of the funds will be divided among um- pires, scorekeeper, gatekeeper. etc. First games of the new leagues Monday night will bring together Army and Marines in the open- ing contest, Plumbers and Bar- bers in the second fracas. Incident occurring at fourth game of softball champion se- ries last week was brought up for discussion but nothing defin- ite was decided inasmuch as no Tule of the old leagues covered the matter. Further discussion of sched- ules, rules and regulations, ap- pointment of commission and oth- er important items will -be held most Barfie! represented at the meeting next Tuesday eve- ning. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPORTS CALENDAR AND STATISTICS MAJOR LEAGUES’ GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at New York. Boston at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Cleveland. Chicago at Detreit, two games. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at St. Louis. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Philadelphia at Boston. New York at EU BroR yn: (Navy Field, 1:30 p.m.) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 First Game—U.S. Marines vs Second Game—Key West Conchs vs. Pandora. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 First Game—Trojans_ vs. Juniors. Second Game—Pirates vs. Sox. SAL Blue SOFTBALL CAME aS (Bayview Park Field, 7:00 p.m.) MONDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. U.S.! Marines (Service Lea Second Game—Sawy bers vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (Civil- ian League) EXHIBITION SOFTBALL GAMES (Bayview Park Field, 8:00 p.m.) TONIGHT Pepper's Plumbers vs. NavSta. TOMORROW NIGHT Sawyer’s Barbers vs. Marines. FRIDAY NIGHT Sawyer’s Barbers vs. NavSta. LEAGUE MEETINGS BASEBALL - SOFTBALL Officials, managers and players of both sports will meet in City Hall Tuesday evening of next week. Baseball session will con- vene first. 7:30 o'clock. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— iz Detroit 87 62 Cleveland 86 64 New York 84 64 Chicago . 80 69 Boston Ton St. Louis 66 84 Washington 62 86 Philadelphia 59 94 NATIONAL LEAGUE (Major League Baseball) Club— WwW. L. Pet Cincinnati 96 50 .658 Brooklyn 87 584} St. Louis 79 341| Pittsburgh 76 Chicago 73 New York 68 Boston 63 Philadelphia 48 100 Pet. 584 573 568 537 520 440 419 a -463 426 324 ge ISLAND CITY LEAGUE | (Key West Baseball) Club— Fp 0S Key West Conchs Blue Sox *Trojans *Pirates Key West Juniors U.S. Marines C.G.C. Pandora *Tie game. Sounds Fishy, But— Pet 1.000 1000 -000 000 900 000 -008 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 sociated Press) FREDERICK, Md.—Ed Mack- ley’s auto ran over and killed a 4%-pound bass on Dublin Road Yes, you heard us. 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Both were late in arriving at the coveted 20-game mark this season, but with Joe Beggs, relief firemen No. 1, turning in 12 vic- tories nobody knew the ence: the 52 were safe counted for. “There you have the best tw in the business”, commented Mc- Kechnie in that calm, dispa sionate voice that he uses for most everyone but umpires “They're even better in my timation than they were r. They went great when the ks were against u then—but this year too. I've been worried only two times this sea- son, once when Gene Thompson was spiked (in the historic “Bat- tle of Brooklyn’), and then when Willard Hershberger ended his life in Boston. “But Bucky and Paul sh their cee ssion—and have were last differ- and ac- es gu bre been go- ing at a remarkable gait” HAS SPEED, NEEDS SEASONING Some competent servers think that Johnny Hutch- ings, 24-year-old C: cruit from Pen: r gia-Florida league. has speed than Bobby Feller. 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