The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1941, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1941 Plumbers Favored To Snare Diamondball Crown Tonight — And End Weird Half Season: Plumbers Wined Out RECORD-BREAKING NavSta Advantage In Present Series; Season Confused Winners in the first two games of their championship _ series, Pepper's Plumbers tonight will wade into the NavStas at Bay- view Park in a game almost cer- tain to bring the first-half dia-: mondball season to an end. The NavStas, weakened b; the transfer of some of their players to night duty at the sta- tion, illness and injury to others, stdggered into two decisive beatings in the first games of the series Friday and Monday. Tonight, with the Plumbers heavily favored and needing only the one game to take the first- half crown, the Stas are given little chance to turn the tide and get back into the running. NavStas Slipped At the start of the series last week, the NavStas, who had racked up into the running in the closing days of the regular season, held a top-heavy ad- vantage over the Plumbers. f The naval employes then were in a triple tie with the Plumb-! ers and Barbers, who later with- drew, but their record against the Pipefitters showed a_ three- to-one advantage. H In the regular season games the Stas had run up the follow- ing advantage in four tilts: | Club— R. H. E. NavStas 27 31 12 Plumbers 23 24 11 ~—In the two series games, the | Plumbers trounced NavSta for a} total of: Club— Plumbers — - NavStas MBA ENPRAS «Be Combining regular season | games and the first two of the! series, the Plumbers now hold) an advantage of: } Club— R. HEL! Plumbers NavStas anne 988 43 204 Lino Castro, star NavSta toss- er, had beaten the Plumbers in| the three games he opposed them | before the series started, but he has lost both of the last two games, while “Cigarette Willie” Gates of the Plumbers now has evened things up by beating the Stas three times against three defeats. Season Was Confused After opening the playing sea-' son April 7, the diamondballers had to take out 10 games be- cause of illness in the vicinity of the park, rain and the Ameri- can Legion convention. The bottom end of the “ribbon- | cutting” doubleheader was post- | poned because of a misunder- standing. The Marines, who had made a whirlwind start, dropped back into fourth place, floundered for a time and then withdrew from the league. Reason given was that some of their players had been transferred and others had been put on guard duty and could not take part. Sawyer’s Barbers, who quit the league last year in a dispute, walked out of a game with the Marines in the season because of a dark-colored-shirt-for-pitch- er argument, walked out again in a dispute with the Plumbers, agreed to come back to play in a roundrobin for the title, then quit the league again. Hamlin Resigned, Returned Roy Hamlin, Plumber mana- ger, gave up his post before the present series started in protest Against direction of the team by Captain Jackie Carbonell. Later, Hamlin agreed to re- turn and the NavStas welcomed him back by slaughtering his team, 9-0, with Lino Castro toss- ing one-hit ball, Marvin Lewis, defense-recrea tion coordinator, launched the “league this year and directed its activities until he left WPA a month ago to accept private em- ployment in Jacksonville, Cap- tain Arthur Sheppard, WPA navy Técreation director, and League Président Mamuel Varela were left in charge. For the first time in several years, extra lights were install. ed at the field, with Barber Manager Theodore Albury and Bob Reid, NavSta manager, hand p job. Money was r throug’ ations by league teams Albury, although an nouncing his retirement from ali Key We sports, says he'll in- stall another floodlight purchas- ed by the league as soon as all donations have been collected The season opened with wierd. lopsided affairs and ended with the three civilian teams in a deadlock for first place. Service R. HE} 27 22 8 sed ;regardless of his condition, suf- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “MANAGERS RECALL MANY TEAMS FASTER THAN 1941. CARDINALS (Associated Press Feature Service) ST. LOUIS, June 25.—The St.;out club in speed”, McKechnie Louis Cardinals are called the says. “Carey and Cuyler each \fastest team in the National ;stole more than 40 bases”. league now but several managers Manager Bill Terry of the New jean recall clubs they think were | York Giants sides with the cur- | faster. rent Cardinals over the 1925 Pi- Billy Southworth, Cardinal | rates. ‘manager, says his Rochester,;, “The Cardinals seem to have International jeague team, of) the fastest clubs, in the league | 1930 was ‘the fastest he’s ever|year in and year out”, he says. | | { _ YANKS WITHIN ON | GAME OF INDIAN: | ae ‘seen. “This. one seems to have more “That club really was swift |Speed than any of ‘the others, 1 WALLOPED BROWNS 9-1 AS|.ith Pepper Martin, George To- although it is difficult to select | TRIBE FELL BEFORE 13-2 porcer, Rip Collins, Ed Delker, | it over the 1925 Pirates. i {Ray Pepper, Joe Brown, Red| “The way I see it, the Cards BOSOX ONSLAUGHT: RED- | Worthington and myself’, hej have at least one more hard run- BIRDS AND DODGERS WON | said. ner than the old Pirates. But on Manager Bill McKechnie of the | average speed for the whole line- Cincinnati Reds favors his 1925/|up, with Mize playing, I imagine | OY Pittsburgh Pirates, with George |the decision would be very close. | en Come Thane 25. —-New (Grantham, Ed Moore, Glenn, “Don’t forget the Giants of York Yanked, once more record | Wright and Pie Traynor in the | 1924, for a good second vote. breakers, climbed to within aj infield, and Max Carey, Kiki Cuy- Billy Southworth, Ross Young, | lone game of the American | Jer and Clyde Barnhart in the Irish Meusel, Travis Jackson, | league leading Cleveland Indian: outfield. Fred Lindstrom, Frankie Frisch | yesterday afternoon. Shoved ou I believe they were a stand- jand I could all move in a hurry”. front by Red Rolfe two-run hom- | er, the Yanks went on to wal- ‘omen iat rection Se STANDINGS SPORTS CALENDAR Indians bowed to the Boston poe \MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES | BASEBALL | Joe DiMaggio hit safely in his | ‘Renichen, 36th straight game and now is wo. (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODAY just five contests behind the all-|_Club— time record established by |Cleveland —.40_ 26 f American Cleveland at Boston. New York TIGERS 2-1 OVER A’S | Boston othe St. Louis at New York, Detroit at Philadelphia. IN NOCTURNAL GAME | Detroit —. 3 Chicago 32 30 28 34 Chicago at Washington. National Philadelphia ; Washington - 23 39 21 38 Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at St. Louis. |St. Louis — | National w. L. 44 21 23 21 New York at Chicago. 532{ Philadelphia at Cincinnati, | 50g | two games. -469 | 33 29 436 386 | { | | i { | Pet, | 606 597 567 | 523 | 516 452 371 -356 (Spe-'o! to ‘The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 25.—A ninth-inning run, produced by singles off the bats of York arid Campbell and a sac- tifice fly by Higgins, gave the Detroit Tigers a close 2-1 de- cision over the Philadelphia Athletics in a nocturnal game last night. A’s had knotted the count in the eighth on a single by Moses and a triple by Johnson. Pet. | 877 672! | Club—. St. Louis | Brooklyn |New York Cincinnati | Chicago | Pittsburgh | Boston —____. Philadelphia | George Sisler. Rofle’s circuit) ISLAND CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE clout extended to 19 consecutive . TONIGHT games in which New York has/| First-Half Championship Series Club— W.L. Pct.| First Game—U.S, Army vs. collected one or more homers. Pepper’s Plumbers 2 0 1.000) U.S. Navy. Cracking a trio of four-baggers ; and collecting a total of 19 safe- | NavStas 0 2 .000!° Second Game—N&yStas | Pepper’s Plumbers. ties, the Bosox hammered the 2 Tribe for a 13-2 victory. First-Game Exhibitions FRIDAY NIGHT Washington Senators rose out} Club— W. L. Pct. . (if Necessary) of the cellar with a 6-3 triumph | U:S. Army - ---. 2 1 .667| First Game—U.S. Navy vs. of the Chicago White Sox. U.S. Navy 1.1 2 .333/U.S. Army. St. Louis Cardinals and Brook- | oe RES GREE Second Game—Pepper’s Plumb- lyn Dodgers racked up easy vic-| ers vs. NavStas. tories yesterday. Pounding Boston Brave pitch-/| ing for 14 hits, including a-three- run homer by Johnny Hopp, the} Cards galloped home on the long | end of a 13-1 score. Braves’! Here's how Key West’s two| Today gives strong passions; | lone marker was a circuit clout representatives in organized |so strong that much effort will | by Max West. \baseball, Clayton Sterling and | be needed to control them. There Brooklyn overwhelmed the | william Cates, members of the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-0, for the) DeLand Red Hats, came out at second day in a row.. Curt Da-| the plate in recent performances: vis limited the Bucs to five hits, Sunday, June 22 while Camilli and Medwick were ABR HPOAESH doing heavy stickwork, driving sterling, 1b 3 1 2 4 11 1 home three runs each. Cates, 3b (Not in Lineup) Blanked by Bucky Walters un-| Runs batted in: Sterling 3; til the ninth, the Philadelphia | two-base hit: Sterling; home run: Phillies bowed to the Cincinnati | Sterling. Reds, 1-5. The score: R Cliff Melton, turning in a six- | pneLand 000 211 000—4 hit performagee that kept the| Daytona Beach —. 000 000 200—2 Chicago Cubs under control for} Standings: the New York Giants, 3-1, “bean-| ~ Ciub— ed” Hank Leiber in the eighth!) st Augustine inning. Leiber, who must re-|2 DeLand main in a hospital for a few days} 32 31 30 34 24 31 22 35 18 44 SOFTBALL : (Bayview Park, 7:30 p.m.) | First ‘290 named clubs “visiting”, last named. “home”) vs. en STERLING, CATES AND THE HATTERS) Today’s Horoscope is indication of a very successful | life, some accumulation of} wealth and considerable notorie- ty. If of the female sex, the for- tunes will be better; but men | will do well to exercise extreme | restraint in their dealings with | the opposite sex, Subscribe to The Citizen. 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