The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1941, Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1941 Dykes’ Eye For Waiver List Prizes Gives Chisox Surprising Ball Clu Canniest Trader Builds BAKER CONTINUES CARDS DEFEAT Contender With Qut- casts, Leftovers And Discards By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, May 26.—Jimmy Dykes, the squatty squire behind the stogie, has shown that you don’t need a hunk of dough to build a baseball club if you've got a discerning eye for ivory. At the end of the first five s of the American league 1, Dykes had skippered his Chicago White Sox, a gang with- out a single high-priced perform- er, into second place. Besides being a cleyer mana- ger, the best of the dugout joc- keys, and a loquacious umpire dresser-down, Dykes is just about the canniest trader around the diamond. He’s foxier than the Old Fox, TO LEAD HITTERS OF SOFTBALL. LOOP NAVSTA CAPTAIN CLIPPING BALL AT .526 PACE; BAR- BERS’ ALBURY JUST THREE POINTS BEHIND Philip “Cheta” Baker, NavSta captain-third baseman who Fri- day night played his first game in two weeks, continues to top the Big Ten Hitters of Softball despite a loss of .062 points. Making two official appear- ances at the plate Friday night, Baker failed to connect safely, dropping his average from .588 to 526. The week previous, while on vacation, he slipped on "PIRATES TWICE, INCREASE LEAD | TRIBE BLANKS BROWNS; CHI- | SOX WHIP TIGERS: DODG- ERS WALLOP PHILS WITH BIG FIVE-RUN INNING square the aftermath. rejuvenated Naval took a place by and the Barbe (Special to The Citizen) | NEW YORK, May 26.—The ‘youthful St. Louis Cardinals added a half-game to their Na- tional League lead by sweeping a doubleheader with the Pitts- | burg Pirates, while the Brooklyn | Dodgers were winning a_ single | game. | Quthit 10-15 in the first end of the twin bill, the Redbirds outscored the Bues, 6-4, and eked Clark Griffith. And he has out- top with his 588 mark when all ;0Ut a 4-3 verdict in the after- foxed Griffith several times. Jimmy’s ey: are weary from scanning the major league waiv- er lists for broken-down ath- letes who might be rejuvenated He’s acauired fallen arches from tramping from one baseball bar- gain counter to another in search for grey-beards or sore-arms who just possibly might have another good year in them. But he's built a contending club out of these outcasts, left-overs and discards Can’t Understand It “Hell”, he observes, “on paper we don’t belong in the same league with Cleveland, but we, ain't a fur piece behind ‘em now “We're just playing winning | ball, I can’t explain why, if I look ; at the averages. Because we ain't } hitting—we're last in the league, | we're no fielding geniuses, and | we ain’t knocking in many runs. | But we are getting good pitch- | ing. “Don’t know how long it'll keep up”, he commented, taking a long, black cigar from his kiss- er and delicately knocking off the ashes. “The White Sox ain't spent any real cabbage for a ball play- er since they bought me”, he said. Then he laughed. He likes to explain that he and Mule Haas were tossed in as ballast when the Sox bought Al Simmons from the Athletics back in 1932 for $150,000. “They didn't do so bad, at that”, he said. “They got them- selves a manager—me—and a coach—Myle—and they sold Sim- mons for $75,000” The entire White Sox squad cost less than the Ch go Cubs paid for their latest coach, J Herman Dean. Old Diz cost the Cubs $185,000 and several play- ers when he was purchased sev- eral years ago as a pitcher. Appling Expensive Luke Appling, shortstop and top hitter, was bought for ap- proximately $25,000 in cash and players. But Dykes hurries to explaif that that extravagant flourishing of greenbacks oc- curred in 1930, before he came to the Windy City. No one élse eost near that much. Dykes’ latest acquisitions, Pitcher’ Lee Ross from the A’s and Outfielder Myril Hoag from the Browns, came at the $7,500 waiver price. Taft Wright, the club’s top hit ting outfielder last year (337) and Pete Anpleton, relief pitcher. came from Washington in a swap for Gee Walker. Walker hadn't cost great deal, either, for h and Mike Tresh, a youngster who developed into a good catch reached the Sox in a six-player deol with the Tigers Thornton Lee, the No, 2 hurl er. was botained in a barter for Jchn Salveson, a hurler who didn’t last long in the majors Second Baseman Bill Knicker. r came from the Yankees wap for a substitute catct Ken Silvestri, Julius or fain from th Browr Fancy Dealing We 3B gag Smith came tafhed from W Bem wh sor majors. ( sdht Kerec SPS er: J other players suffered a loss of points. E ond Albury, the heavy- hitting Barber third baseman, also continues as second best, §23, just .003 points behind the leading NavSta. Poret, the only consistent Navy hitter, rose into third, .488, replacing Douglas McCarthy, Plumber outfielder, who dropped compietely out of the Big Ten Members of the Big Ten, com- osed of players who have batted 5 or more times, follow: Player— AB R H Ave." 10 Baker, NS 19 11 526 Albury, SB 2t° 11. 2523 Poret, N 37 15 18 .488 Rosam, PP 25 7 12 A81 Hopkins, SB 34.16 16 470 Higgs, PP 15 16 7 .466 Delaney, NS 21 10 9 .450 Villareal, PP 29 15 12 444 Stanley, SB BG 4s Tynes, SB 30 10 13 .433 Rhoden, A a. S28 Thompson, M . 37 19 16 .429 Qther heayy-hiters: Rhoden, Army, and Kiems, » Navy, 1428 each; Johnson, Navy, and Thompson, Barbers, 406) each; McCarthy and Gates, Plumbers, 400 each. OTHER LEADERS Most hits—Poret (Navy), 18. Most doubles—Thompson (Ma- rines), 6. Most triples—Johnson (Navy), 6. Most homers—Poret (Navy), 3. Most stolen bases—Chambers (Marines), 7. Most times struck out—John- son (Uavy), 7. Most times walked—Chambers (Marines), 13. who have not struck iggs (Plumbers), Delaney (NavSta), Kiems (Navy), Nelson (Arr Thompson (Marines), Chambers (Marines), Stanley (Barbers), and Arnold (Barbers). STANDINGS SGRNS cnaikinnte 29 rk MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American Club— W. L... Pet, Cleveland 28 12 700 Chicago 21 14 600 New York 20 18 526 Boston 16 16 500 Detroit 18 19 486 Philadelphia 17 19 72 Ww ashipgton 14 (24 368 St. Louis 11 23 324 National WwW. L. Pet 26 6«°@98 743 24 12 667 18 14 563 Chicago 16 17 485 Cincinnat 16 20 444 Pi'tsburgh 12 19 $71 Baston 12 20 375 Philadelphia 10 23 303 Island City Softball League First-Half L. Pet t *Lumbers 8 1 689 rs Barbers t 808 600 455 333 091 math. Cards now hold a margin jof two-and-a-half games over the | ' Dodgers. | Brooklyn staged a five-run uprising in the sixth inning to ‘wallop the Philadelphia Phillies, 8 to 4. Reiser, centerfielder, knocked home four Flatbush runs with a homer that scored three mates ahead of him. Boston Braves, using 22 play- | ers, bowed to the New York] Giants, 6-2. New York clinched | the game with three runs in the { third. Chicago Cubs’ veteran Charley ‘Root outpitched the youthful ‘Paul Derringer in a 3-2 mound ‘duel. For eight innings they ‘fought on practically even terms. In the ninth, a double, a sacrifice and a single scored the ‘winning ‘marker for the Bruins. 4 | Bob Feller, annexing his tenth victory of the season, blanked the St. Louis Browns, 6-0, for ithe American league pacesetting ‘Cleveland Indians. Feller struck {out 13 Brownies as the Tribe ;swept the three-game series. |. An uprising in the seventh in which the Chicago White Sox |scored all their runs downed the | Tigers, 7-3. Ruddy York and | Croucher poled homers for the Bengals. | Robert Moses (Lefty) Grove | pitched his 296th lifetime victory {in a 8-10 triumph of the New | York Yankees. All of the Yank |runs were unearned, while the Boston Red Sox pounded a trio of moundsmen for 14 hits in pro- | ducing their markers. Philadelphia's Athletics ended a 3-8 tie in the eighth with a | five-run splurge to sweep the | four-game series with the Wash- ington Senators. The big eighth gave the A’s a 7-3 decision in the {fourth game yesterday. Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston . A. New York 1 Boston Melton, Lohrman and Danning: Javery, Sullivan, Erickson, /John- so, Posedel and Berres At Chieago R. W. E | Cincinnati 29 0| Chicago -. 3 6 0 Derringer and Lombardi; Root | and George. At Brooklyn R. 0 Philadelphia 410 | Braoklyn 8 5 0 Grissom, Pearson and Warren; Wyatt, Swift and Owen. Pirst Game At St. Louis Pittsburgh St. Louis Wilkie, Sewell and Gumbert, Lanier, Hutchinson White and Mancuso. Second Game At St. Leuis RHE Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philadelphia RHE Washington 310 ¢ Philadelphia 715 1 Leonard, Carasque! and Eariy Babich, Ferrick and Hayes At Cleveland St. Louis Cleveland Niggeliny. Allen and Fe and Degautels. At New York Bostor New ¥ Grove Stanceu, Bonh At Detroit Chicag THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NAVSTAS TACKLE fp SOLDIERS TONIGHT BARBERS AND PLUMBERS MEET AGAIN THIS > second meet- the Barbers and Plumb- ers, bitter rivals for league lead- ership, the softball schedule this week duplicates curtain on the doubleheaders, and and scissors men) will will ring up the first of three rolled over Navy 23-0 in the first shutout game of the shown improv ent before meet- | stage a closer usual, the Sailo battling regardless of come. Wednesday n take another rines, jate-inning rallies last week, and up additional bulbs will give a will be in there against the hapless Navy, 3-9 | victim of the Pipe-Fitters in the last out. Highlighting the week's sched- ule is the “dog-eat-dog” fight between the Barbers and Plumb- ers, closing end of the twin bill Friday night. The Hamlin gang knocked the Albury boys off the top last week with a thumping 13-4 decision, and the Hair-Cut- ters will be out for revenge. The leadership scrap was closer than the score would indicate and kept fans on edge. until the 'seventh, when the Plumbers put together seven runs. Marines and’ NavStas are slated to cross bats in the opener Friday. Last week, the Stas edged the Sea Sol- jdiers to exchange third place ; with them for fourth position. MORE LIGHTS | THIS WEEK Softball heads last week work-! ed out plans for improvement and enlargement of the floodlight ! system at Bayview Park and ex- pect to complete the program the middle of this week. Ata meeting in City Hall Thursday night, the managers agreed to assess each team five dollars for purchase of three new 1500-watt bulbs and to pay ,expenses of installation. In collaboration with Bob Reid, manager of NavSta, city electrician Theodore Albury will select the poles on which the IN EMERALD BASEBALL (Major Leagues) TODAY American Detroit at Cleveland. Only game scheduled. Naiional Chicago at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Boston-New York, not sched- uled. greater light coverage Of the field. At the same time, Albury, manager of the Barbers, will re- focus the present lights. One of the main faults of the present system is the shadow cast across home plate when ei- ther a left- or right-hand batter is in the box. Umpires complain this defect causes a hardship in calling pitches that.cut the cor- ners, and players and mounds- men claim they are robbed of a ball or strike} as the case may be. This fault will be corrected when the lights are refocused. Albury and Reid, who have re- paired and painted reflectors for the additional lights, formulated plans for improvement of the system. The present faulty sys- tem caused much discussion in the past but nothing construc- tive had been accomplished un- til last week. PAGE THREE —EE eee SOFTBALL {Bayview Park. 7:30 p.m.) TONIGHT | First Game—U.S. Army ; NavSta. Here’s how Key West's two; Second Game—U.S. Navy representatives in organized ‘| Sawyer’s Barbers. {baseball, Clayton Sterling and WEDNESDAY NIGHT William Cates, members of the| First Game—U.S. Army vs. DeLand Red Hats, came out at! U.S. Marines. the plate in recent performances: Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- Wednesday. May 21 ers vs. U.S. Navy. 1s ; hee HPOAESH FRIDAY NIGHT erling, § 1°34, 30484 i ii Cee ob Herurieber ae Biden Game—U.S. Marines ys. Run batted in: Sterling; two-; Second Game—Sawyer’s Bar- base hit: Sterling, bers vs. Pepper's Plumbers. The score: Orlando 205 000 000—7 | DeLand 006 000 11x—8 The standings: Club— W. L. Pet. | 1. DeLand ~-25 11 .694! 2. 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