The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1941, Page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NawStas Ready To Open These Pitchers Almost Had No-Hitters healer nna ho eer mane ak The first one-hit game in the major leagues this year was. pitch- i& e B | back to the minors. National league flingers hurled the first four. | 1t amoers onig t Rookie Tom Hughes of the Phillies produced the second, while the | —_—_——_—— | oo AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE : ‘ ‘ others were by Johnny Vander Meer of the Reds (remember his | 1938 double no-hit feat?) and Lon Warneke of the Cardinals.. The These merchants have qualified as leaders in their divisions ... each deserves your wholehearted support. i} | Phillies were involved in each game. |NAVSTAS HOLD 3-1 —But These Batters Spoiled Them queror Of Defending; *f£)GE OVER RIVALS | Rookic STAN ..BENJAMIN. of Rookie DAN LITWHILER of | : i the Phillies singled in the sixth|the Phils singled in the second ; . Titleholders, Will Face qj inning to shatter Henry Gor-|inning. And no one else could | “Cigarette” Gates Lino Castro, Thrice Con- Here’s how the NavStas an Plumbers have come out in pre- | vious games this season: | April 11 nicki’s ‘dreams’ of a no-hitter. }touch Vander Meer’s offerings. | Rookie Tom Hughes got a little' EMMETT MUELLER of the |further. It wasn’t until the Phils, first man up, singled off} R. H. E. | eighth that Rookie LOU NOVI- Lon Warneke. Cardinal ace re- | a 4 3 | Kore of the Cubs singled. tired every other batter. I OS te re et ee ee ee ae, ” a train SEABOARD RAILWAY A 1 Clayton Sterling, Key West ; CRU 1$ E § youth who is putting in his RATES) first season in organized baseball as first baseman for the DeLand Red Hats, was mentioned by Stanley Culp, DeLand Sun News. sports writer, in a feature story listing possibilities for the league's all-star team. Players.who make up the star team will be seléeted by fans in voting handled by newspapers in league towns. Picking Tiemann, St. Aug- tine, or Leonhardt, of Ocala, | as best choices for the star first-sacker post, Culp men- tioned Sterling and added: “Some may laugh at the suggestion Sterling be rank- ed among the best. The big Fares - Schedules . Tickets —Apply— ‘ SIMONE’S TOURS 508 Duval Street Next to Kress From Any ‘NEW DELUXE: | Electrical Current DAYTON WATER’ INSURANCE . re RUNNING WATER 1. Cracking out two homers” un- der their total of the previous day, the Indians got to Athletic | pitching for 19 safe blows, three | jof which went for the circuit. | OFFICE: 319 Duval Street SOE SE Lino Castro, winner over the NavStas _.. Plumbers in eacn of the three, pjymbers games where they have faced him) pitchers: Lino Castro vs. Clar- acme a ae : this season, leads his high-flying ence Gates. ! NavStas to Bayview Park to-; April 18 ‘INDIANS AND night in the first game of a se- . awl |STERLING MENTIONED ries which will decide the city pjymbers - 1412 2 | | diamondball league's first-half NavStas 258 YANKS HOMER |FOR SPOT ON ALL-STAR champion. Pitchers: Gates vs. Day. | NINE OF STATE LEAGUE | Players and managers on the June 13 T0 VICTORY | field tonight will decide wheth- RHE } er the series is to be three-out- pjymbers Mer ae | j of-five games, as originally NavStas 5 7 1 CARDS RALLY TO TIE eat, planned, or if the crown will be Pitchers: Gates vs. Castro. irded to the winner of a two- June 16 AND THEN NOSE THEM IN| out-of-three-game series. R.H.E.. 11TH: DODGERS DEFEATED | Castro, who has allowed only NavStas Z 971 | 12 hits and nine runs in his three Pjymbers Rectan 0 1 6 CUBS i Plumber victories, gave up only: Pitchers: Castro vs., Gates, ‘ { a single bingle and no runs in peailindaiels | his latest exploit Monday night: Total runs, hits and. errors .in {Special to The Citizen) | when the NavStas trampled the the four games: ‘i NEW YORK, - June 20:—Con-; one-time ‘loop leaders by-a 9-0; Club— R. H, Ei tinuing. their heavy hitting, the count, NavStas _..27 31 12|Cleyeland Indians yesterday aft-j Army, Navy Improve Plumbers 23°94 11,ernoon handed the Philadelphia Army and Navy, getting better |Athletics another shellacking, | by the game after a disastrous = season for both of them, tangle SWITCH HITTER in the first game of | tonight's -) doubleheader. Navy, victorious over Army in CULLENBINE IS an exceptionally wild 16-15 af-! fair Monday, trimmed diers once during the regular season, lost one, tied one and had another postponed. The clashes between the service teams now are only preliminaries to the title scrap. Hamlins Offers No Alibis | Roy Hamlin, Plumber mana- ger, admitted his team fell to| game with} pieces in Monday’s NavSta, but predicted the pipe- fitters would stage a battle for the crown now that the chips are down in a series. Harry Wickers, ger of the Trojan baseball nine, but who is unknown as a dia-!one comes along wha Cah blast‘ defeat the Sox. drunk, Keller caught hold of one Chicago New York mondball player, will be added to the Plumber lineup tonight, and Hamlin declared his the sol-! exhibition RULE EXCEPTIO ST. LOUIS BROWN OUTFIELD. | ER PROVES TURN-ABOUT BATTER CAN PLACE AMONG LEADING SWATTERS (ny Assocrated Press) ST. LOUIS, June 20.—Switch hitters are rare in the major leagues. And they generally pitcher-mana-'aren’t any great shucks at the plate. But every now~ and then the ball. Right now a switche#) Roy Cul- Lou Boudreau, who poled a four- | bagger Tuesday with one on in| the second, yesterday slammed j a roundtripper with two mates, on base. Ken Keltner, socker of a homer Tuesday with one on in the sixth, lifted another yester- day with nobody on in the sixth. Jeff Heat poled the first home \run yesterday, cracking his in the fifth with one aboard. New York Yankees also called on long distance clouting to wal- lop the Chicago White Sox 7-2, after suffering a pair of one-run losses. Charley Keller’s smash {in the fourth proved enough to With the bases for the circuit, his third in as team ‘lenbine of the St. Louis Browns, | many days and twelfth of the will. play better ball than that)is in the thick of the American season. Joe DiMaggio, who now | of Monday’s game. league batting race. The out- ‘has hit safely in 32 games in a} NavStas, composed of civilian! fielder who came to the Browns row, blasted his fourteenth hom- | employes will use the same lineup. Won't Use Barbers i Managers and league officials! short spurt for he’s never hit so|in consecutive games, agreed yesterday to use none of the players from the Sawyer’s Barbers, who quit the Monday. — “Cigarette Willie’ Gates, star Plumber tosser, is expected to take the mound tonight, while Castro will piteh for the Nav- Stas. In previous games with the Stas, Gates has allowed 31 hits league ' as the season woved into June. He may be just enjoying a well before. Last season Roy’s ; average was a meager .230. Few switchers have ever been | good hitters. Most of them be- come switchers because of dis- satisfaction with results from their natural batting side. A large pereentage of switchers are ‘pitchers, who can’t hit anyway. Perhaps the best switcher of all time was Frankie Frisch. He was of the Naval Station,' from Brooklyn was hitting .363!er of the year, besides collecting two singles and a walk. Yanks. | now a record for clouting homers remain three duels behind the Tribe. | The New Yorkers have produced roundtrippers in fifteen straight | games, just two away from the jleague record established by De- | troit last year. Dutch Leonard’s three-hit per- |formance against the St. Louis Browns and a 17-hit attack | against a trio of moundsmen gave ithe Washington Senators and 27 runs for a 7.8 average on! great hitter and had a 19-year | overwhelming 12-0 shutout. hits per game and a 68 average on runs. Castro has allowed javerage of .316. | The hardest hitting switcher of Boston Red Sox split the four- game series with the Detroit Ti- only 12 hits and.nine runs—three jact year. was Outfielder Jim|gers by winning yesterday, 6-4. | Tuns per game and four hits a Gjeeson of the Chicago Cubs, who/ The victory was the sixth of the | game. Plumbers are defending city champions. MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American Club-- W. L. Pet, Cleveland 39 23 = .629 New York 34 24 «586 Boston 31/24 564 Chicago 31 27 .534 Detroit 32 29 625 Philadelphia 26 32 4.448 St. Louis 19 35 =.352 Washington 20 38 «4.345 National Club-— W. L. Pet. St. Louis 42 18 = .700 Brooklyn 38 655 New York 29 518 Cincinnati 30 517 Chicago 23 3 483 Pittsburgh 21 4 Boston 19 33 365 Philadelphia Vv 298 Island City Softball League First-Half Club WwW. Pepper’s Plumbers 13 4 Sawyer'’s Barbers 134 NavStas 3 4 U.S. Army 313 .188 U.S. Navy 115 063 oO Fitst-Game Exhibitions Club. W. L. Pet U Navy 1 6 1.000 U Army 0 1 000 BREAKS OWN BICYCLE SPEED MARK: 108 M.P.H. Alfred Leteurner, bicycle rac er, attained 108 an hour at Bakersfield, Calif miles fast- er than the previous record set by himself. He was paced @n automobile equipped to shield him from the wind. ‘hit .313. Gleeson, now with Cin- jcinnati, is hitting less .200. | There are less than 20 switch hitters in the majors now, in- cluding Jimmy Bréwn, ‘Emmett STANDINGS | ;Mueller, Johnny .Vander ec, Augie Galan, Larry: French, Lucadello, Ken” Silvestri, Lyons, Edgar Smith, Archie Mc- Kain, Steve Sundra, Rip Collins, Georgé Dickey, Steve Peek, Bith Crouch and Lee Grissom. —EE=_E BASEBALL (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODAY American Cleveland at Washington. Detroit at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Chicago - Philadelphia, not scheduled. National New York at St. Louis, night game Brooklyn at Cincinnati Boston at Chicago. Philadeiphia at Pittsburgh SOFTBALL (Bayview Park. 7:90 p.m) (Firs ed clubs “visiting”, med, “home”) TONIGHT Gome—U.S. Army vs. First Game—U,S. Navy vs. US. Army Second Game—NavStas ¥s. Pepper's Plumbers Y NIGHT US. Army vs Second Game ers va. NawStas. Pepper's Plumb. for rookie Heber New-| season some. St. Louis Cardinals came from béhind‘to knot the count in the ninth and then edge the Phila- deipliia) "Phillies 7-6 in. the $eleventh. ONeéw York Giants; scoring ate, +wiped-out-an- early. -Pittsburgh Pirate lead to down the Bucs, 9-6. | y. Brooklyn,-Dodgers. kept. pace with the Cards by thumping the Chicago Cubs, 9-4, despite a pair of homers by Babe Dahlgren, the former Yankee first baseman. Kirby Higbe conquered the Bruins for his eighth win of the year. Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh R. 1. E New York 912 1 Pititsburgh 611 3 Schumacher, Bowman, Brown and Danning; Lanning, Heintzel- man, Klinger and Lopez At Chicago Brooklyn Chicago Higbe and Owen: Page and McCullough. At St. Louis Philadelphia 1 St Louis . I “(iY Innings) 3 Johnson, Crouch. Hoerkt Hughes and Warren: Gumbert. Krist, Hutchinson, Nahem and Mancuso. Only games scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philadelphia RHE Cleveland 12 19 2 Philadelphia 161 Bagby and Hemsiey: Beckman. Hadley, Harris and Wagner. 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