The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1941, Page 3

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1941 THE KE¥ WEST CITIZEN Baseball Managers Appoint LEADERS CLAIM Committee To Learn Status SOFTBALL TWIN Of Unfinished Trumbo Field BILL LAST NIGHT Team Heads Stress hm SEE SAW NATIONAL anes _— > RACE PUTS CARDS To Play Here NAVY IN AFTERPIECE REGAINED LEAD BY DOWN: |. the hard-pressing Sawyer’s ING GIANTS WHILE DODG-| Barbers, last night smothered 3 the softball dou- EHS BOWED TO REDS; LEE|A™™Y 15-3 in the GRISSOM HIT BY LINER Roy Hamlin, manager of the Key West Conchs. and Mario Sanchez, manager of the Pirates, | last night were appointed by a! delegation of baséball managers to invsetigate the failure of the eity-county recreation committee to complete work on the Trumbo Island diamond. ‘ Park. (Special to 'The Citizen) bill, aftermath : __| NEW YORK, June 10—The/snared by the Barbers, 6-4, from Hamlin and Sanchez, taking Navy. part in a managers’ conference % Scoring in every inning, the at city hall, were instructed to the St. Louis Cardinals back °n | jeague-leading Plumbers lost no arrange for a joint meeting with top yesterday afternoon. Behind: time in running’ up a command- the recreation group this week. Harry Gumbert’s four-hit pitch- | ing lead. They pierced the Army They will report their findings j,4 coupled with run-producing | defense for three runs in the at another meeting of managers >|initial frame, four in the second next Monday night. SEEK WORKERS see-saw National league race put hits and the Brooklyn Dodgers’ loss, the Redbirds bumped the New York Giants, 5-2, slipped back into the ship. Gumbert, a former Giant, held and three in the third. Held to a single marker in the fourth, and the Pipefitters tallied three leader-' the fifth and counted |lone run in the sixth. Meanwhile, the Soldiers’ trio : of scores were spaced over six the New Yorkers to one hit the/ {Ue Raiting to do anything first five innings. He stopped) mych with the offerings of Mait- them from scoring in the fifth|land Arias, who turned in a six- after they had loaded the bases! hitter, Army scored once in the on walks and an error. Ott’s hom- ey skipped NOR ie a si tallied once in the fifth, passed | Ls hae the seep with Rarte) be another frame and crossed home base provided the Giant runs. | Diate once again in the seventh. | Sards jumped out in front on Ma- |" gportfielder Douglas McCar- tion's circuit clout with a mate’ thy and leftfielder Everett Higgs on base in the second. | sparked the Plumbers’ batting | Winning their eighth out of | attack. McCarthy, who. fattened | ty recreation committee to- the last ten games, Cincinnati| his average with a perfect score night at city hall to discuss Reds scored late to down the plans for completion bi es Dodgers, 9-7. Blanked for, mya tlie Sinninee innings with only one hit, Paul Albury, city-county Reds staged rallies in the recreation chairman who has (three rounds to overcome given much time to further- Brooklyn iead. ance of sports activities here. | Old Charlie Root rode to vic-) sparkled afield with four putouts ‘eturned today from a business ‘4.1 on the crest of a 2i-hit at- “beeen visit in: Jacksonville. t and three assists without an er- SS ener ack by his Chicago Cub team-/ror. He turned in a number. of ity council an ie of mates against four Boston Brave | difficult catches. county commissioners each ap- hurlers, With every Bruin hit-| ‘Third sacker Assaf led the. propriated $150 for the job early ‘ting safely at least once, the} Army at bat, two for two. Bos- in May. Committee Chairman Cubs jumped over the Braves, | well, who played a bangup game Paul Albury was granted $150 | 13-6, on the field, caught a fly ball by city council May 1, and on} Gaining a split of a four-game that had bounced out of fellow | the following Thursday, when ‘series, the Pittsburgh Pirates| outfielder’s hand to stop more his committee received a like'spytout the Philadelphia Phillies, | rans from scoring, sum fron the county, he told the /§.0, with the aid of a six-hit job' ‘Phe 15-3 score was identical | commissioners work on the dia-} py Aldon Wilkie, Phils suffered |to the drubbing administered mond would be completed within the loss of their ace moundgman, | the Soldiers by the NavStas last! a week, Since then a series of Lee Grissom, who was hit by a) week. | setbacks developed, including a line drive off the bat of Van-Ro-| shortage of labor and lack of} bay in the fourth. proper equipment for putting the finished the game. field in first-class shape. The American league was in- Pointing to the importance of | active. the field’s completion as a source _ Results: of recreation both for service NATIONAL LEAGUE { men. and civilians, Hamlin said/ At Brooklyn last night he had learned im Cincinnati Tampa, recently that an All-Star | Brooklyn 7 12 1/|week, were extended to the clos- team of the Tampa social league, Thompson, Moore, Beggs, Rid-|ing innings in nosing the hust- | is anxious to come to Key West | die and Lombardi; Casey, Davis, |ling Sailors, 6-4, in the second in September for a series of | Swift, Higbe and Phelps. game last night. games. or bring a local elub to os Howard Burke, who claims to that city. At Boston R. H. E.jhave won four and lost one in W. E. Lowe, athletic officer of | Chicago 13 21 tthe Miami civie league this sea- the coast guard cutter Pandora | Boston 6 14 l}son, made his debut on the mound and manager of the ship's team, told the managers a team com- | mana, Tobin, Sullivan and Masi. | cutters last night at the invita- posed of army bomber squadron — tion of manager Theodore Al- memibers in Miami also wants to| At New York R. H. E.| bury, Burke held the play a game here. St. Louis 5 12 3| white to seven hits, displayed The team members would fly New York 2 4 0! good control but fed a number of here aboard one of the army's Gumbert and Mancuso; Car-| balls to the liking of the Sailors. big bombers, leaving Miami in| penter, W. Brown and Hartnett. Burke struck out four and the morning and returning there _—_—_— | walked three. His opponent on on the same day, after the game.! At Philadelphia R. H. E. | the hill, Cohill, passed a like num- Lowe said the Pandora team Pittsburgh 5 % ©) ber but fanned only two. The would be the toughest in the pro- | Philadelphia 0 6 2/Navy tosser held the heavy-hit- posed city league here. Ball, Wilkie and Lopez; Grissom,|ting Barbers to eight players enlisting in the coast) Crouch, Hoerst and Warren, j blanking them in four innings. guard customarily ask for trans- ci fer to Key West in order to be- come members of the Pandora} team, he said, and two star play-| ers are scheduled to come here soon, a shortstop from New York and a first baseman from Con- neeticut Members of the group also heard that plans are underway for a baseball field at the Trum- bo air base, where local teams will be invited to compete with the airmen. Hamlin announced that his team tentatively woulki be made up of doe (House) Casa, Robert Bethel and Airman Bennett, pitehers; Philip (Cheta) Baker and Jackie Carbonell, pitcher infielders, Lucile Gonzalez, pitch er-outfielder; Cyril (Belis) Grif- s; fin, catcher; Gene Torres, in- | Brookivn 3 16 fielder and understudy to Grif- New York fin; Domingo (Mickey). Ubieta, Cinci 3 3 Chino Hernandez and Armando Chicago 22 25 Acevedo, infielders, and Julio Pittsburgh a Barcelo and Julius (Dedo) Villa te 29 real, outfielders, va Score by 32338 4 Two other clubs SRT aber <a ayn Batti wi Navy 010 201 0—4 Bers were not present, Island City Softball League Burke and Hopkins: Cohil plate enter First-Half Hunning are the ‘Trojans Pet Shee IE Se ON Harry (Bubber) Wi 857 NOVEL PUNISHMENT the city’s leading 800 Bimini Sons of 1 714, It is said that when Columba managed 400 baseball plavers break training city jectr 234) rules they are punished by being Sawy 063. made to lace their shoes while league standing up. Marvin Lewis, who will re- sign this week as defense-rec- reation coordinator here, and Roy Hamlin, member of a manager committee investigat- ing the reason for delay in completion of the Trumbo Is- land baseball diamond. this aft- ermoon were scouring Key West in search of workmen who would help to complete the job. Lewis, who returned here to- day from Jacksonville, will meet with Hamlin’s committee and members of the city-coun- and a like number, of singles, | the | two mates on base in the fifth. | Gabriel Lastres, rookie recent- | ly added to the Pepper roster, | Score by innings: R. 3. E | Bill Crouch | Army 010 010 1— 3 6 2 |Plumbers —. 343 131 x—15 13 3 Early, Simmons and Nodine; | | Arias and Bennett. ; Sporting new caps and a brand | R. H. E.! new pitcher, the Barbers, dupli- 810 1)cating a fight with Navy last AMERICAN LEAGUE —_[paseman-captain of the No games scheduled. _ STANDINGS | four of the six runs his team reg- | istered, and tallied once himself. | Marine lieutenant Lewis, sec- jond basing for Navy, had a per- three, ineluding a double. An amusing incident oceurred 2, the sixth with Navy at hat. Lewis, who smashed his double im the frame, landed on third \but was soon joined by Kiems. who believed the bag empty. The MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American Club— Cleveland Bosten Chicago New York Detroit Philadelphia St. Louis Washington Pe w. 34 26 28 28 2 lly forgot about Kiems, who div- Pet. ed safely for third. Kermit Kerr, 686 first baseman who had come over te help in the attempt to trap Kiems, ran down Lewis and tagged him out. Kerr and Navy L 20 20 2 22 = 28 32 M L Club— 4 Louis 6 first for a sacker two innings RHE whose mana contem Chub— epper's Plumbers wyer's Barbers Stas nusshnme baseball, Clayton PACESETTING PLUMBERS) witiam’ Cates, THUMPED ARMY IN OPEN-|DeLard Red Hats, came out at} | the plate in recent performapces: | ER AND BARBERS NOSED | | Sterling, Ib 4 0° 113 10 |Cates, 3b 4 1 1 Pepper’s Plumbers, fighting to| ‘hold their slim nalf-game margin ; bleheader opener at Bayview One of the largest crowds of | the season turned out for the twin | of which wasj{ in | another at bat, blasted a pair of triples | et@bly last week, six/ driving home four rins and scor- | ‘turn to DeLand this week when the| ing two himself, Higgs poled a the Hatters tackle Ocala under | last | homer to deep left center with | the floodlights. game. Root and Schefing; Earley, La-j|against Navy. Joining the Hair- | men inj bingles, | Esmond (Tarzan) Albury, third | victors, | | drove out two triples that scored | fect night at bat, poling three for lh hhh hh Ahh LOSI ITI IDIII II | TRADE AT HOME Zan\ Here’s how Key West’s two | representatives in -onganized} Sterling. and! members of the Thursday, June 5 ! AB RH POAE SH} 0 0.20 0 Run batted in: Sterling; The score: Ocala DeLand Standings: Club— R| 000 000 100 1—2/ 000 000 100 0—1} W! L. Pet. 1. St. Augustine 35.15 .700 2, DeLand 32 18 .640 Friday. June 6 ABR HPOA Sterling, lb 3 1 Cates, 3b 4000 4 The score: Gainesville DeLand Standings: Club— 1, St. Augustine 2. DeLand SH} 33:18 .647) CONCHS REMAIN BELOW .200| Slumping along with the rest | of the DeLand Red Hats, Sterling j and Cates continue to hit below | .300, averages including games | last week reveal. Sterling, who | sank below that mark the week | previous for the first time this| season, notched .289 in the latest | tabulation, Cates averaged .265. The team.as a whole dropped nine points in hitting but con- tinued to top the league with its .313, mark... Only four regulars are batting over .300, paced by the .363 of centerfielder Walt Harrington, who slumped consid- | FI AIIZSTIZAIPPZLLZLLLLLL LA La FIPAPFILAZSLLALLAZLLALLLLLBAZLLLELLALELLELLAAZLEL ILE DLO 7 Saturday night games will re-; SPORTS CALENDAR BASEBALL (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODA¥ American, New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis,**night Philadelphia at Detroit, Washington: at Cleveland; National Chicago at New York. Cincinnati at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—NavSta vs, Army (postponed game). Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- | ers vs. Sawyer’s Barbers. i FRIDAY NIGHT Game—U.S. Army vs.| Barbers (postponed | U.S. First Sawyer's game). Second Game—NavSta vs. Pepper’s Plumbers (postponed game). 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