The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 4 Senators ‘And Yankees ‘At Least 18 Rookies Will THE KRY WEST CITIZEN Ring Up Curtain Of ’41 Make Major League Grade \ Baseball Season fi case Regular one Schedul- Reds Favored In National, ed Tomorrow; Indians In American (By Associased Prensa) WASHINGTON, April The Senators, rated close to zero in the American league show, and the Yankees, whose rating is sec- ond only to the champion Detroit Tigers, open the 1941 season for organized, baseball here this aft- erncon with President Roosevelt tossing the first ball, The for tomorrow, include: National League New York at Brooklyn. St. Louis at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Boston at Philadelphia. American League Chicago at Cleveland. Philadelphia at New York. Detroit at St. Louis. 14.— regular openers, scheduled | Perhaps : ROARING LIONS HERE'S SURE WAY FVENED EASTER. Become President Of U.S.’ TO TOSS FIRST BALL as (Asnociated Press Feature Service) Fourth ates Barrage WASHINGTON, April 14.—The : only wild pitcher in baseball who, QO€ Field Goals Sent Alpha Sigma Cagers always gets a coveted opening Down In Defeat day starting assignment tosses; for the Senators. He lives in an. old house at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. The name: President. FDR is all warmed up and ready to throw. Barring sud- den international developments requiring his attention, he'll flip out the ball starting base- ball’s 1941 season here today. His throws generally are wild. he’s just fooling the The last-minute scoring spree At any rate, he looks to- that ended in an hard-earned 42- | A determined group of Lions Saturday night snapped out of their prolonged lethargy to smother the Alpha Sigma cagers boys. ward home plate but his tosses'34 victory for the locals evened cL EYELAND — The Indians are | land somewhere near first base. the abbreviated Easter series be- While his 1941 lob is in the air tween the clubs and rung down there’ll be a scramble among ‘the curtain on a lengthy season. Senator and Yankee players,, Massing full strength for then some obscure athlete named | “farewell” game, the Lions stag- pepTROIT—The Tigers ‘Joe will grab the agate and Mr, ed a colorful fight that was con- BASKET SERIES of Southern College under a bar- ST. LOUIS—Walker Cooper will rage of fourth quarter field goals. | the | By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, April 14—| |It’s a bit early to venture a guess as to which rookie pitchers will make the major baseball league | grade but you can put your fin-} ger on a dozen and a half recruit | infielders, outfielders. and catch- ers Who are fairly certain to! ispend this summer in the big show. Let’s look at them by clubs: BROOKLYN—Hal Reiser from) Elmira, who played a third of | last year with the Dodgers, is a good outfield bet. CINCINNATI—Dick West, up ' from Indianapolis, will do part | of the Reds’ backstopping. ! PHILADELPHIA — Hard-hitting Nick Etten is set at first base, with Dan Litwhiler and Stan Benjamin likely to be among the flychase! do major share of the catching, with Steve Mesner at third base and Harry Walker in left field. holding Murray Howell, Inter- : national league batting cham- | pion, for pinch-hitting purposes and Jim Hegan likely will be} kept as catching insurance. plan to} use Ed Parsons as No. 3 catcher | and Robert N. Harris, who hit (oS SRSOMAESMEEE EF RADE AT HO PAGE THRER MEI These merehants have qualified as leaders in their divisions _- each deserves your wholehearted support. FOR QUALITY PRINTING Call 51 THE ARTMAN PRESS The Citizen Building UNIVERSAL VACUUM “CLEANERS and EASY WASHERS 1212 Varela Street Phone 278 From Any Electrical: Cur rent —Dncton watea PUMP. RUNNING se tems’ operate rent, 89 if you he no matter where you ie READ AS A REMINDER— Look Your Best! Come to us with your BEAUTY NEEDS. . .we specialize in all branches of BEAUTY CULTURE. La Concha Beauty Salon Phone 128 GC, ROBERTS nodes Wholesale and Retail <SUMT Sees Washington at Boston. | Will Harridges men-in-blue will spicuously lacking in their 38-25 More than 200,000 fans are ex- | ltake charge and the campaign pected to be on hand for the eu be under way. regular openers tomorrow if wea- Z ther is good in all the big league | hi assets sri vs dust cities where games are sched- ow it started, this custom, of uled, the President lending his offi- The world champion Reds are - Loqecnieate tothe annual fayored again to take the Nation- oe is bye) Hownst ae ta al league pennant, while Cleye- pony eae crak is viel ane land ranks a heavy favorite to; Two years later Clark Griffith | grab the American league bunt- came to Washington. He rec6g- ing, now that internal dissention nized the value to the game of the President’s participation and the Chief Executive has worked every opener since. Roosevelt the precedent-break- er will break another as a tosser- coter. This will be his eighth ap-| pearance. No other President ever | jperformed the chore more than} seven times. Roosevelt made the worst pitch * ,of his opening day career last} CROSS BATS IN AFT- year, A cop finally recovered ERPIECE the ball and the President auto- graphed it for him. | is eliminated. NAVSTA MEETS NAVY TONIGHT BARBERS AND SOLDIERS’ The rejuvenated NavSta ten, | S=—eeeeen epee | sitting on top of the softball | league with a pair of successive | SPORTS CALEND/ CALENDAR | triumphs, meets U.S. Navy to-' = night in the opening doublehead- er of a week's schedule that dup- licates games played last week. Sailors suffered a one-sided de- BASKETBALL (High School Gymnasium) feat in the first clash of the clubs and will probably take it on the chin again this evening. They march on the field at Bayview Park in the closing end of the | old, twin bill. Second-Half of Junior High Tournament TOMORROW First Game—McCown vs. Arn- Second Game—Menendez vs. Sawyer’s Barbers and U.S. |Cordova. Army are matched for the open- | ing fracas at 7:30 o'clock. The teams were scheduled to part in the two-ply “ribbon cut- ting” understanding caused postpone- ment of the game. Soldiers’ first | WEDNESDAY First Game—Hamlin ys. Bar- take | ber. Second Game—Colgate vs. Arn- affair last week but a mis- old. THURSDAY First Game—McCown vs. Cor- appearance of the s@ason Wed- ‘dova. nesday night against Pepper's Second Game—Menendez Plumbers was a disastrous one, ;McMahon. while the Barbers were handed re SOFTBALL their first game on a silver-plat- ter borne by the Marines, whose (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) TONIGHT errors allowed allt of the Sawyer runs. Doughboys are expected First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers ys, U.S. Army. to redeem themselyes tonight. Admittance to the grandstands at the park field is free. Lights g.eéna° Game—U.S. Navy vs. go on at 7:00 o'clock. NavSta. ea WEDNESDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Navy vs. U.S. Marines. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- fers. vs, U.S.“Army. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—NavStas vs. Pep- s Plumbers. Second Game—Sawyer’s 500 bers vs. U.S. Marines, 500 a BASEBALL (Major Leagues) .000 TODAY American New York at Washington. No other games scheduled vs. STAN DINGS SOFTBALL LEAGUE Club. W. L. NavSta Q Sawyer’s Barbers 0 Bar- Pepper's Plumbers 1 U.S. Marines 1 US, Army 1 U.S. "Navy 2 JUNIOR YIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Second: Half Club Wile Colgate 1 National ' : No games scheduled ; TOMORROW e American 0 Chicago at Cleveland 6 Philadelphia at New York 9 Detroit at St. Louis 0 Washington at Bostor t) ‘ First-Half MEETINGS Cordova Softball managers and officials Barber 6 3 meet in Citv Hall, 7:00 o'clock. Hamlin norrow night. .' final game of the series. drubbing the previous night. The RETURN. TO COLLEGE Complying with instructions \ | iene by the president of Flor- thern College, the bas- | | perl players and rooters rep- senting Alpha Sigma ifra- ic ity in a two-game Easter | ies here, returned to Lake- | land par morning. The col- legians shared honors with the local Lions Club five, each ng a victory, A third meeting of the teams origin- ally scheduled for tonight was cancelled by an order requir- ing “students to resume classes tomorrow morning. | group, was headed by | Charles Ketchum, Jr., of Key West, who acted as manager and coach, Young Ketchum, business manager of the team, arranged the series, The invading players were guests of the Ketchum family | during theis three-day visit. Entertainment included sight- | seeing. fishing and swimming. former city “champions were strengthened by the return of their All-Star forward, Joe Pin- der, unavoidably absent from the lopener Friday. The Easter rivals fought on practically even terms for three rounds. Trailing by the slim margin of two points in the first quarter, the awakened Civic courtmen went one-up at half- time and fought the invaders to a standstill in the third period. A whirlwind closing round, in which only one member failed to score, jdefinitely decided the issue in \their favor. | Floyd Lay and John Young, the fraternity sharpshooters who defeated the Lions Friday night, again claimed scoring honors {with 15 points each. They re- iceived little assistance from their teammates and that from only ‘one, Duanne Deen, the speedy ‘center, who contributed the other jfour markers. More accurate | shooting by Lay, who was off- form Saturday night, would have wrote a different ending to the Out of 31 ‘goal attempts, the captain of Southern varsity team the past season sank only six. Young net- ted a like number in 19 tries. Pinder, who wrinkled the five times in 19 field goal at- tempts, sparked the Lions with 12 points, followed by Charlie Smith, another All-Star forward. Smith made the most tries for baskets of his teammates, 24 in net all, sinking just five for a total ne of ten points. Waldo, the f ing center of the Lions, re the lowest average, one percentaged 22. for the loci hind in foul Box score: Liens Club (42) Player— FG FT PFT C. Smith, f -24 Knowles, f 1 Saunders, c Pinder, ¢ Waldo, g B. Smith. g oting, 42.1 to 61.5 Totals— Alpha Sigma (34) Player— FG FT PFT TP Berkstresser, f 0-0 Young. { - Deen. c Lay, ¢ .312 for Beaumont, may hang) on as an outfielder. WASHINGTON—George Richia,| the best fielding first baseman in the Pacific Coast league, apparently has cinched the post with the Senators. NEW YORK—It’s sort of strange to find a flock of rookies listed as possible regulars with the | high-flying Yankees. But Joe | McCarthy is doing an over- | hauling job this spring. Phil | Rizzuto, shortstop (unless he's | drafted), and Gerald Priddy. | second base, are slated to be infield _ starters. Tommy! Holmes, who hit .317 for New- ark, will be one of the outfield- ers and may be the regular left | fielder. Infielder Lou Blair from Newark and first _base- man John Sturm from Kansas City are likely to be carried as | utility performers, - since Me- |; Carthy doesn’t know whether | Red Rolfe will rgeain his old! form at third base or whether | Gordon will be a success at} first. ‘SOFTBALL BALL MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT, } i WPA recreation | director, announced today that a} meeting of all softball managers and officials will be held 7:00 o'clock tomorrow night in City | Hall. The group will continue its dis- | cussion of plans for betterment of the sport and improvement of the field at Bayview Park. Other important matters may be up for decision. Marvin Lewis, Tarkington, g . 0- 3 Ketchum, g 0-0 Totals— 13-57 Score by quarters: Lions Club Alpha Sigma Anthony McM Conchs defeated the pers of Robert Hamlin, 27-19, in a preliminary game. The scrap was the second contest of the Junior High School Tournament’s | closing half schedule and sent the Cone! for first-place with the Hot s of Harry Col-j scoring by diminu-j| tive Costar, who split the hoop} with a number of long tosses, kept the Babies out in front. He pile up a total of 16 points, nin ahead of the seven netted by run-} r- up Joe Roberts. Ladd, sev- d Everett Rosam. the Snappers highest average three out of six f for the} eight Used agg Fixtures oratories, fittings, dhome water ectric motors, etc. t stock in Florida Fishery, Ojus d 15 years) 7 Biotks North of Ojus Depot off Dixie on Harper St. Phone Golden Beach 2561 pe eeeetaedwienaoae IPPPLAAILLLALLLLLLEALALALLLL AL 2 TILL LS 2 Galvanized Roofings Carey Cement Roofing HB. Davis’ 100 Per Cent Paints & Oils William and Caroline Streets Wi a DAYTON, you can hayes, ba water anywhere in your J the tura of a faucet The Citizen Office PIERCE BROS, * Fleming and Elizabeth Sts.. 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