The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1941, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, Softball Lasilecs: Ope n 9-Game Round Robin Play Tonight At Park i pote LI BETTING FAVORS n First; NavStas Idle; LOUIS, EXPERTS qed And Navy In saa DECIDE ON CONN hibitions E 18, 1941 BROWN BOMBER FACES TOUGHEST FOE TONIGHT SINCE HE BEAT SCHMELING THREE YEARS AGO Pepper’s Plumbers and Saw- yer’s Barbers, batting in a three- | way tie with the NavyStas -for first place in the city diamond- ball league, clash tonight in the (Special 10. The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 18.— Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh boy whose chellenge is regarded as the most serious Louis has faced since he crushed Max Schmeling three years ago, met briefly at noon. today before weighing in for their 15-round battle tonight at the Polo Grounds. Conn, who will enter the ring on the short end of at least 2-1 odds and spotting the Brown Bomber 20 pounds, was easily confident he will be the one to first game of a round-robin se- ries which will decide the loop’s first-half champion. With the three leaders tied up and a disputed game against the Plumbers threatening to scramble final standings, teams managers last night agreed to disallow the “protest”, end the regular son now and\base the first-half season’s results on the round- robin among the leaders. Tonight’s Barber-Plumber tilt, last end of a doubleheader, will be the first game the two teams have played since the Barbers protested a first inning decision a week ago by walking off the field in the fourth round on the ents yidiicuet sic ug gate will run over $400,000. Army Meets Navy Although the betting favors Army and Navy will meet for Louis, a large number of _fistic the last time in the first-half ;experts predict Conn will defeat season in the opener tonight, the champ on points. while the NavStas rest, but all future games, according to the | decision of the managers last night, will pit the service squads | | only against one of the three leaders. Thus each night’s play will bring together two of the leaders in a second game, with the idle member of the top teams tangling with one of the aegvice | outfits in a first game. Service teams, although their! managers agreed to fill in on the round-robin schedule, will not be| Detoie ati elaons involved in the title race and . " 5 their games will be classed as ex- | Cleveland at Philadelphia. National ons. gece ale Albury, Barber man-' New York at Pittsburgh, night | ager, told league officials last Same. i | night he had been promised a| Brooklyn at Chicago, — replay of the controversial Bar- aa at Cincinnati, ber-Plumber battle, but agreed to e. accept the decision of the ma- Philadelphia at St. Louis. jority ‘that there had been no! basis for an official protest since | the Barbers had continued play | following the first-inning argu- | ment. | (First Seeks Friendly Solution } Admitting no protest had been filed with League President Manuel Varela before play was resumed in the game, Albury said } he could see no reason for stirring | up an argument on the subject and would toss his team into the round-robin, forgetting the game with the Plumbers. Roy Hamlin, who resumed his post as Plumber manager after! resigning two weeks ago, said as far as he knew, no protest had been filed when the argument was Started by a Barber being! called out for leaving third base before the catch of a fly ball, a decision which was not backed up by an umpire, but was ac-! cepted by the Barbers after Plumber Captain Jackie Car- bonell had insisted the man was out. League President Varela said he will attempt to regain the services of Joe Clear, who um- pired all games last year but who has not taken part in the pres-, ent season. | Monday, June 23 May Pay Umpixes First Game—Sawyer'’s Barbers Faced with difficulty in get-| v8 U.S. Army. ting and keping umpires because Second Game—NavStas vs. of the “riding” by fans and play- Pepper's Plumbers. ers, the league officials voted to _ Wednesday, June 25 try taking up collections for the), First Game—NavStas. vs. U.S. arbiters, with the managers to Navy ‘ x ; contribute if a large enough’ Second Game—Sawyer's purse is not collected from the ets v8 Pepper's Plumbers. stands. Friday, June 27 Members of the group also rul-’ First Game—US. Army vs ed that a base umpire must sta- Pepper's Plumbe tion himself behind the infield. | _ Second — Gam ers when men are on bases Sawyer 8 Barbers. In answer to protests _ which Monday, June 39 arose in recent games, the mana- . First Game+U-S. Navy = gers ruled that a runner may S®W¥er’s Barbers. . advance a base on a passed ball, Bgryreie e—Pepper's Plumb- but eannot score from third. A “* VS NayStas runner may advance as far ashe, Wedmesday. July 2 can on an overthrow remaining , F'tst Game—NavStes vs. US in the field, but only one base on an overthrow going out of the field Present at the sea- the championship he lifted from old Jim Braddock. The fight, first Louis ever has fought in a National league ball park, is expected to draw more than 40,000 fans and Promoter Mike Jacobs has predicted the SPORTS C. CALENDAR BASEBALL (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODAY American Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Washington, night game. night SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) named clubs “visiting”, last named, “home”) TONIGHT First Game—U.S. Army vs. \U.S. Navy. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- ers vs. Sawyer’s Barbers. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—U.S. Navy vs. Pepper’s Plumbers. Second Game—Sawyer’s bers vs. NavStas. MONDAY NIGHT First Game—Sawyer’s Barbers vs. U.S. Army. | Second Game—NavStas vs. Pepper’s Plumbers. Bar- named teams “visiting”, last named “home”): Tonight First Game—U.S. US. Navy. Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- bers vs. Sawyer’s Barbers. Friday Night First Game—U.S. Navy vs. Pepper’s Plumbers. Second Game—Sawyer’s bers vs, NavStas. Army vs. Bar- Bar- avStas vs me—Pepper's Plaumb- yer's Barbers. Friday, July 4 Pepper's vy nd Game—Sawyer's vs. NavStas. Monday. July 7 First Game—U.S. Army Sawyer's Barbers. Seconc Game Pepper's Phy meeting were Hamlin, Plumbers; Lieut. Rus- sell Pi . Army; Johnson. Navy; Albury, Barbers; Bob , > Reid, NavSta, and President Va- ~ rela Piumb- Bar- Round Robin Schedule The complete schedule for round-robin play follows (first NavStas abers. |to the } fifth ~ ‘thanks to the wildness of Rip THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘CHISOX STOP YANKS; CARDS, DODGERS WON | JOE DiMAGGIO HITS SAFELY IN 30TH CONSECUTIVE CON- | | | TEST: GIANTS DEFEATED PIRATES (Special to The Citizen) ; NEW YORK, June 18.—In one of the wildest games played this, * |season, the Chicago White Sox snapped back with an 8-7 umph that ended the New Yori Yankees’ winning streak at eight ‘straight. Johnny Rigney, who! INDIANS EDGED A'S 3-2 IN NIGHT GAME (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 17.— Taking advantage of the New York Yankees’ loss to Chicago White Sox in the afternoon, the Cleveland In- dians last night nosed the Philadelphia Athletics 3-2 to increase their American league lead to two games. Hal Trosky homered for the Tribe in the fourth after Johnson had poled one for the A's in the opening frame. break Louis’ seven-year hold on: probably will be inducted into! the Army this Friday, held the Yanks to two runs on three sin- gles for six innings but weaken- | ed in the seventh and then was) sent to the showers in the eighth. In the seventh, New York tallied three times on four hits and in the eighth Charley Keller poled a two-run homer. Keller’s cir- cuit clout was the only extra- base blow of the 20 hits produc- ed by both teams, eleyen by the} Sox. Joe DiMaggio run his string of consecutive games in which he has hit safely to thirty. Both ‘teams used a trio of mounds-| men. Twenty-two thousand fans Boston watched the Red Sox pounded out a 14-6 victory twin bill and then succumb 5-8 Detroit Tigers in the nightcap. Detroit, ers in the aftermath to three for | Boston. tween the St. Louis Browns and! Washington Senators in the na-} tion’s Capitol city. Going the route for the first time in five games, Morton Cooper conquered the Philadel- phia Phillies for the St. Louis Cardinals. Twirling six-hit ball | while his teammates pounded the offerings of three Phil tossers, Cooper rode to a 11-3 victory, his seventh of the year against | three losses. Keeping abreast the Cards, the Brooklyn Dodgers disposed of the | | Chicago Cubs 7-6 in a 10-inning |struggle. Dodgers, who remain two games behind the National) league pacesetters, gained the upperhand when Jim Wasdell ; blasted a homer with two on in the bottom portion of the tenth. | Hank Leiber had put the Cubs ahead in the upper half of the same frame with a four-bag- {ger that scored a runner ahead of him. King Carl Hubbell hung up his triumph of the season, Sewell that allowed the New) York Giants to down the Pitts- burgh Pirates. Combined with hits, walks and long flies, the Giants scored five runs in the first three inning, more than/ enough to win. Hubbell gave up 10 safeties, including a circuit clout off the bat of Elbie Fletch- | er. The Boston Braves bowed to the Cincinnati Reds, 3-5, beaten | by a four-run outburst in the opening round. Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago R. H. E Brooklyn 711 °0 Chicago 612 1 Wyatt, Casey and Owen; Lee, Page and McCullough. At Cincinnati R. HE Boston 310 6 Cincinnati 5.3.0 Johnson, Hutchings .and Masi: Derringer and Lombardi. At Pittsburgh New York Pittsburgh Hubbell and Danning J. Bowman and Lopez. At St. Louis Philadelphia St. Louis Giebel, Thomas. Newhouse a | BAIT-CATCHING tri- = | Cincinnati 30 27 42 | Boston in Trout and Tebbetts; Wagner, Ry- the opening end of a Bunker Hill ba, Fleming and Prien ee By staging tW0 | Chicago four-run rallies, used four pitch- New York | Tresh; Stance Rain postponed the game be-} ang Dickey. be, me (By Associated Presa) SAMBURG, Tenn. 18.—Discovered: a way to get live roaches out of your bait box without having ‘em crawl all over your hands. Fishermen at Reelfoot Lake near here nail a piece of broomhandle upright in the center of the bait-buck- et. The roaches, cirious, crawl to the top ome at a time—and are picked off deftly, thumb and forefin- ger. _ STANDINGS Ky El 8 [ 3 r£ c + @ Club— Cleveland New York Boston Chicago Detroit 31 Philadelphia 26 30 St. Louis 18 34 Washington 19 37 National Club w. L St. Louis 40 18 Brooklyn 87 49 Sees SERER eae: SSee82 [——.~Ct~=<CS~< aS New York 28 37 Chicago ae Pittsburgh 21.27 Boston — 18 33 Philadelphia 17 38 OO Ta Island City Softball League First-Half ee eee W. L. Pet. | 13 4 13 4 13 4 313 - 115 Club— Pepper’s Plumbers Sawyer’s Barbers NavStas U.S. Army U.S. Navy Sullivan; Dobson, Wilson Peacock. Second Game At Boston Detroit conf ost i poh Gorsica, Benton, ~ McKain, | At New York Hallet, Smith Peek, Rigney, Night Game At Philadelphia Cleveland Philadelphia Heving and Hemsley; Matchi ;don and Hayes. St. Louis at Washington, rain. 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