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

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941 PLUMBERS DEFEAT NAVSTAS FOR Speared Third Straight. Series Win; Nine Runs | In 2nd Proved Clincher BAKER ‘WALKED’ OFF HILL; NAVS MAULED, 14 70 4 Chatlie Sands Allowed All Pepper Hits After Relieving Starter Second Round In Pepper's Plumbers, after a couple of false starts; clinbéd on the throne of the city diamondball league last night, conquerors of the’ fading NavStas ‘in ‘three straight games and winners of the loap crown for the second time in as Many seasons. Plumbers heed only to cop the second-half titlé to automatically MEETING TONIGHT Plans for the second-half dia- | mondball race, tentatively scheduled to start Friday. will be worked out tonight at a meeting of managers and play- ers at city hall. President Manuel Varela called the meeting for @ o’cloek. a become city champions. for the second consecutive season. Storing nine runs in the see: nell, who tufhed up dt the field |hits meant runs, the Philadel-| Gincinnati ond inning on an assortment of free base trips, the Plumbers walloped the Stas, 14 to 4, for their third stfaight win in a three- out-of-five series, Like the Barbers, who had faded out of the picture them, thé NavStas beat selvés last night. They Plumber tosser rapped less than the Pipefitters against two pitchers, luge of walks handed out their “mound staff”. Caste Not In Gartie Lino Castro, who handcuffed the Plumbers during the regular Season in three games, refused to take the mound fort the Stas last FANS TO SELECT STARS by Key West fans will select an All-Star diamondball team to play the champion Plumbers as baw! of the Fourth of July brati6zi here, it was an- nounced last night by Paul Al- | bury, chaifman of the city- | coutity fetreation committee. Ballots will be distributed among the fans Friday night and théeit selections returned either that night or Monday, players tallying the highest votes going to make up the star squad. —_——— nel night,/after being beaten in two series matches, Castro’s team- matés said he had turned in, bis suit before the game. Phillip (Cheta) Baker, NavSta | captain and shortstop, Statted the ball rolling by handing out six walks in the second inning, and Charlie Sands, who relieved him, kept the Plumbers’ home fires burning by walking one more and giving up three hits, includ- ing a triple that cleared the bis- es. The Plumbers scoted another in the third, three in the fifth and one in the sixth, but after the second stanza they didn't heed to bother. Stas In Early Lead Three singles in the first half of the second inning had put the Stas on top 2-0 when the Plumb- ers came te bat for their big in- ning. Armando Gutiefrez singling be hind him. Then Clarence Alls- Rouse rapped out ahother sin- ®le, scoring both men. Baker, who had slipped through the first inning’s mound ditty Unseatited, let Maitland Arias Pop out as the Plumbets opened their half of the mound, then walked Gent ‘Torres, Aurelio Lastfes ari Gates, ldading the bases. He passed Airman Ben- nett, forcing home Torres ed Leo Stanley to force La Lastres, and handed a free pass to Mickey Ubieta, bringing in Gates. Sands Takes Over Sands, taking over the mound job, walked Jackie Carbonell, forcing home Bennett. then saw Julius (DeDo) Villareal slam out @ triple that cleared the bases. Gabriel Lastres singled to cen- before | them- | Plumbers “Cigarette Wil-| lie’ Gates for 10 hits, ohly one} play and the title series’ (seven F tallied | gani@s), herée’s how they ¢6mpare: the Nats on six hits. but they} Club— had nd defense against the de- | Plumbers Safhds had singléd, with . walk- |, 'LOWE’S VETS VS. | ARMY JULY 4TH | Gefald Lowe, an oldtime Key West ball player, has rounded up} ‘a team of veterans for a game | against a Soldier nine at Barracks on the afternoon July Fourth. Arrangements for the game were completed at a meeting last !night with the athletic officer of | the Army post herfe. Lowe, a veteran eateher, will} manage the qidtimers and prom- | ises an exciting and interesting | fight. The ‘veterans will be put! through practice sessions ‘be-| tween now and the Fourth and it is safe in predicting that they will make a good showing, de- | spite their long layoff. of ter, scoring Villareal. Arias, first [YANKS DISPLACE [sreeuine, cares i | baseball, Clayton Stétliig™ and Army |league since April 26, yesterday point lead over the Tribe. | hit safely and was the 20th game Hl THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LD : SMIOTIIOTIO SS OO OOM, INDIANS ON TOP | ano THE HaTTERs OF JUNIOR LOOP, Here’s ae Key Waits fil feprésenttatives ih ~ dfganized CLUB BROWNS, 7-5, WHILE|Witjiam’ Cates, membets of the |DeLard Red Hats, cathe out at! TRIBE LOST TO RED SOX. the plate in recent performances: | 2-7; CARDS AND DODGERS Monday, June 23 REMAIN “HOT” | ABR HPOAESH Sterling, Ib 6 1 1-10 Cates. 3b 6 00°2 The score: (Spesial to The Citizen) | Daytona Beaeh - 000 100 011— NEW YORK, June 26.—Cleve-! neLand 022 220 35x—1) !land Indians, who have hoggedj Sfandiiigs: first place. in the American Ciub— 1. St. Augustine 2. DeLand COPS AND ROBBERS 00 21 0 40°21 .656 | afternoon packed up and moved down a notch to make way for | the ascension of the New York Yankees. (BY Aswocintéd Preah) Joe DiMaggio kept himself and; TULSA, Okla.. June 26—The the Yanks hitting consecutively | Tylsa’ police depattmetit’s base- |g with a two-run homer in the) ball team is booked té play the| fourth that helped crush the St. | state penitentiary nine in an In- Louis Browns, 7-5. Indians suf- \dependence Day athlétic feature. | fered a 2-7 shellacking at the} : hands ofthe Boston Red Sox. | oer — - New York now. holds a_ five-/| STANDINGS : DiMaggio’s circuit clout was — the 37th game in which he has MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American in a row the Yanks have collect- | 4 Club— ed one or more round-trippers. |New York Wet Li. Pet, j 38 -602 | imian up in the inning, came back to belt one to the third baseman, | | who tossed out Lastfes at sec- | ond. Torres singled to center, with Aurelio Lastres singling to, left to drive home Arias. Gates} flied out to left field to end the | inning. Leftfielder Everett Higgs, of |the Plumbers, who hit five for five and knocked home seven! runs Monday night, was kept out | ‘of the lineup by illness. Carbo- \in stfeet clothes, rushéd into his uniform when he saw the Plum-; ber lineup Was short a man. Standings of the Plumbers and | | NavStas in the three-game title | | series follows: Clitb= R. HE 41 33 11 522 9| season | | NavStas ee Including the regular ‘boy Rowe in the fourth. Boston Pi The Indians, who can’t do very much without Bob Feller on ‘the |Gleveland Boston mound, were mastered by Robert |, - Chicago Moses (Lefty) Grove. Grove 5, ; so, . «,_ Detroit limited the Tribe to seven hits) ,). ; ® 1S | Philadelphia and chalked up his 298th vic- | Washi i “ 5 ‘ashington tory of his career. His record | ce 5 ; St. Louis for this season shows five wins | and two losses. Red Sox are only two games behind the Yan- Be ee kees, | mt | Brooklyn Getting to four pitchers when | ney york 40 597 | 35 574 | 33 524 | 34 515 | 29 460 | 23 365 | 21 .350 National Pet. 682 | 677 540 523 462.) 429 | .379 | 281 | 44 phia Athletics downed the De- | Chicago troit Tigers, 5-3, chasing School- Pittsburgh A 0-0 ball game was broken} hiladelphia up in the thirteenth inning when | the Chicago White Sox scored; |gLAND CITY SOFTBALL twice to nose the Washington LEAGUE Senators, 2-0. Florida’s Sid} Fiyst-tHalt Championship Series | Hudson lost the duel despite the! “¢yyb— W.L. Pet! fact he gave up only five safe- | pepper’s Plumbers 3 0 1.000 R. H. Ey 68 64 23 NavStas 38 46 20 Box score: Plumbers 14) Player— AB RH PO AE; | Ubieta, ss-3b 2 1} Carbonell, ss . 2 1 Villareal, If 0) G. Las’es, 3b-2b : { Arias, 2b-cf 0 Torres, ¢ A. Lastres, 1b Gates, p |Bennett, rf |Stanley, sf co 0} 0} bo co tO bp Co co 26 14 11 21 12 3{ NavStas (4) { Player— ABRH POAE Allshouse, c 3 Garcia, sf - H Baker, p-ss 3 } Barcelo, 1b | Delaney, If | Soldano, 2b Wells, cf 0 |Sands, ss-p |M. Acevedo, 3b 0; Gutierrez, rf 3 0 Totals— Totals— Score by innings: | NavStas 021 001 0— 4 | Plumbers 091 031 x—14 ; Three-base hits: Wells, Villa-| }real; sacrifice hit: Villareal; stol- } jen bases: Villareal, Ubieta, Car-! bohell; bases on balls: off Baker 7, off Sahds 7, off Gates 5; struck out: by Gates 4; hits: off Baker ® ih 1 1-3 innings, off Sands 11 in 4 2-3 innings; runs: off Baker 6 in 1 1-3 innings (one out and three on in second ining); um- pires: Cleare and Almeda. In the opener last night, Navy whipped Army by a 6-3 scote to tie up and end theif éxhibition ties, two games apiece. } Southpaw Cohil allowed Army only three hits, one each by out- fielders Dugger, Coleman and McArdle. Two of the bits came in the fourth when Army scored twiee and the other in thé sixth when one scored. Coh had held Army hitless unti] the fourth inning Hunning. | catching for Navy last night, hit two safely, c a dotitile. Lee utfielder who hit 8 in each the first and second games of the series, two in the third, rapped out two more in last night's serap. Cohil also hit two singles ahd Cham- bers rapped a triple. The score byinnings R| Atmy 000 201 6—3 Navy 210 030 x—6 Simmons, Early and Cehil aad Henning. jcago Cubs, 4-1. 1 9 Cincinnati 5 ties. Johnny Rigney blanked | NayStas 0 3 .000| ; BD a St. Louis Cardinals doggedly | First-Game Exhibitions held on to their slim half-game| Ciyb— W. L. Pet, } National league lead by pounding | U.S. Army _2 2 500 out a 6-2 victory over the Bos-/1.S, Navy .2 2 500 : SPORTS CALENDAR Dodgers edged the Pittsburgh Pi- | BASEBALL rates, 5-4. Brooklyn was forced to stage a two-run rally in the (MAJOR LEAGUES) TODAY eighth to win its game. Cincinnati Reds bumped the} Philadelphia Phillies twice, 8-3 and 5-1, and the New York Giants, behind Bob Carpenter’s eight-hitter, shellacked the Chi- American Detroit at Philadelphia. St. Louis at New York. Cleveland at Boston. R. H. E.|. Chicago at Washington. Philadelphia 311 1 National Cifeinnati 813 0, Boston at Podgajny, Johnson, Melton and | game Livingston; Riddle and Lom-| Only game scheduled. bardi. —— MEETINGS TONIGHT SOFTBALL LEAGUE ‘offjcials “ and managers meet 8:00 o'clock Grissom, Harmon and Warren; jn City Hall to perfect plans for Pearson and J. Riddle. | second-half schedule. R. H. E. Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game At Cincinnati FTIFPTLAILLAZLAAPAZILILLIZZLILOLZIPPLPL PPE PP Brooklyn, | night | (SOP PPIMAEAMAEEE So IIPILZAITAIAZAL A DP Second Game At Cincinnati R. Philadelphia E 2 1 At Pittsburgh Brooklyn § 9 1 Pittsburgh 410 1 Casey, Higbe and Owen; Heint- zelman and Lopez. 2 At Chicago New York Chicago Carpenter and Danning; Page and McCullough. At St. Louis Boston St. Louis Hutchings, Johnson and White and Padgett. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston R.E Cleveland Boston A Bagby, Brown and Hi Greve and Peacock At New York RHE St. Louis $11 1 New York » a Se Galehouse, Allen and Ferrell Chandler, Murphy and Dickey At Philadelphia REE Detroit 490 Philadeiphia 570 Rowe, Giebel, Thomas, New- houser and Tebbetts; Knott, Fer- rick and Hayes. Hot Off the Wire! Service Inning By Inning, First Time in Key West At Washington Chicago Washington Rigney and and Early, Turner TRADE AT HOME AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE. 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