The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 7, 1941, Page 3

homer each in the first tilt. 'MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES American whe L. Pet, 649 548 514} 494 Philadelphia 459 St. Louis __. 375} ee Washington 356 (Special to The Citiven) National j 4 NEW YORK, July 7—New Clab— W. L. Pet.! -York Yankees, riding the waves Brooklyn 50 24 .676 “of Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak |St- Louis ..48 28 632 4 3 New York 39 32 = «549 and their own’ recently-broken | Cincinnati 39 35 527 home run splurge, ‘yesterday Pittsburgh 33 35 «485 battled their way to a comfort- State z a4 ts ae on ame i able three-and-a-half-game lead Philadelphia 20 54 270 in the American league. Sweeping a twin bill from the and Masi; Casey, Wickers and Philadelphia Athletics, 8-4 and ?t@nks. * 3-1, New York increased its mar- | Racoon gin over the fading Cleveland! First Game Indians when the Tribe suc-| At Pittsburgh RHE cumbed to the Chicago White Chicago iat -1 4 @! eh Pitta burg, 0 ee Sox, 4-9. DiMaggio extended his per- sonal streak to 48 games. He | collected four hits in the first | : Passeau and McCullough; Sew- ell and Lopez. game against the A’s and pound- | ‘ " * ed out two in the nightcap. Bill ee negenyes . - * A 2 aiChicago —“! Dickey and Red Rolfe clouted a Pittsburgh 41315 1 Root, Page, Scheff- Dedication services to Lou'. Gehrig, their former first base- 591! iy ing; Buteher, Lanning and Lo-| (BASEBALL'S STARS' (CLASH IN ‘DREAM CAME? TOMORRO { | AMERICAN LEAGUERS IN RE- | | VENGEFUL MOOD; FELLER | WILL PROBABLY OPPOSE WALTERS ON MOUND i (Special to Tne Citizen) DETROIT, July 7.—Top names {of big league baseball and train- ‘loads of the faithful today were ‘pouring into this maddest of ‘baseball-mad cities for the ninth annual “dream game” tomorrow at Briggs Stadium. League officials predicted a ‘Tecord crowd (for Detroit) of “some 57,000 fans, and the Ameri- lean leaugers seemed likely to go ‘on the field tomorrow in the role jof at least 5-4 favorites. | Beaten in last year’s star game, 4-0, and with a National league team in the role of World Cham- |pions after the Tigers’ world series defeat a year ago, the American leaguers are out to javenge both trimmings in one | swoop tomorrow. Bob Feller, Cleveland’s con- tribution to the all-time pitch- img greats, is expected to take the mound for the American leaguers, with either Bucky Wal- | ters of Cincininati or Whitlow Wyatt of Brooklyn for the Na- | tionals, A possible lineup for the Na- man iggy aba recently of a tional League would be John strange ise, were participat- | wae |Mize of the Cardinals at first ed in by the Yankees, Nae Gree a * E | base, Billy Herman of the Chicago lost no time in get- 6: cinnati ~ 3 9 0 Dodgers at second; Arky Vaugh- ting the jump on the Indians, 0 Sai "Krist Gumbert and | 29» Pittsburgh, shortstop; Stan banging Al Milnar’s slants for p94 ett: Riddle and Lombardi, | Hack, Chicago, third; Joe Med- four runs in tne opening round. ; es lwick of the Dudgers, Terry The veteran Ted Lyons went the: First Game | Moore of the Cards and Mel Ott distance for the Chisox, annex- At Philadelphia RHE! lof the Giants in the outfield, ing his 241st victory of his long | New York 19 q\and Harry Danning of the Giants | career. Philadelphia oo 6 A pair of rookie pitchers mas- | tered the Washington Senators in both ends of a doubleheader, , 62 and 4-3, for the Boston Red |Yohnson. Melton and Warren Sox. Their Bosox teammates (Called, end of ninth, rain) Second Game gave them excellent support Postponed, rain. afield and produced runs at op- tea portune moments. AMERICAN LEAGUE A six-run rally in the fifth in-| First Game ning of a twin bill curtain-rais-' at New York R. H. E. er gave the Detroit Tigers a 7-5 | philadelphia 47 0! triumph over .the St. Louis’ New York _. ofr 1! Browns, but the lowly Brownies’. Babich, Hadley and Wagner; bounced back to claim the after-| |Donald, Bonham and’ Dickey. Hubbell and Danning; Benton, | The American league is ex- pected to start Rudy York of Detroit ‘at first, Joe Gordon of the Yankees, second; Luke Ap- pling, Chicago, shortstop; Ken |Keltner, Cleveland, third, and Joe DiMaggio of New York, {Jeff Heath of the Indians and \Ted Williams of Boston in the toutfield, with Bill Dickey of the , | Yanks catching. FANS FAVOR § FAVOR STARS War Causes Boom In Sporting Goods By ‘NED NORDNESS ta. average sport participant was ; under the draft age. corabs sesiguee | It wasn’t until, these dealers ST. LOUIS, July 7—Because |. ccived their regular early spring Uncle Sam believes his soldier$ | pysiness that they rushed through should play as well as work, their orders, Production in some} sporting goods manufacturers are companies already had been cut’ flooded with orders for athletie down 2 SY eee the eqroment. Army got around to thinking of And these same manufacturers the recreational aspect of a se- already are doing a landslide jeetee's life. business on regular civilian or-' “You see”, said one manufac- ders. Such was the unanimous con- of sports equipment is 21 years firmation by officials of various and under, Thus the boys in the companies doing business in St. Army really are. new customers Louis. for us and do not detract from It looked bad last winter. our civilian business. In fact, Manufacturers couldn't con-' civilian business is even heavier vince dealers that there would than before the draft”. be the same number of persons’ The new civilian recruits for indulging in sports. They used | sporting goods equipment come up reams of copy explaining that from the institutions of higher’ RT Sa A MMR the ; turer, “we figure the average user ; | education, he said. He received results of a survey made by Ma-| jor John Griffith, Big Ten com- mission, to support his conten- | tion. According to Major Griffith, | who spent some time in checking | the colleges of the country, in-! tramural sports are being devel- oped as never before, to help fit the student physically for better service to his country when his| turn in the Army comes. As a. result, colleges and uni-| versities are buying more ath- ‘letic equipment than ae be- fore. The net result, of course, is 'boom business, more employ- ;ment and more participants in recreational pursuits—and sport- | jing goods manufacturers hope they are lasting, i the THURSTON EMPLOYES (arora. SITTTTTTTTTSOTOTTOS TOMO TMEEEEEEE, TONIGHT PREPARE FOR © | BOWLING i TOURNAMENT With the “sound of. the city’s | jelock striking 8:00 o'clock to- | night, members of the aceounting | and administration force of the | W. P. Thurston Company and | job timekeepers will start their | warm-up: for the first game om Thutséo Bowling Tourna-! ment. Bowlers ‘for the warm-up game | are: A. & A.”"—MeCrea, Giles, | Sheldon, Korach, Hunt, Gwynn | (captain), Reeves, Baxter andi Moore. Timekeepers—Mansfield (cap-| tain), Milian, Perez, Tilton, } Sscarborough, Morgan, Boza, | Du Puech and Harrison. First game of the night's play | will be an elimination affair | whereby the starting lineups for the competitive games will be} | determined. The five highest scorers on each team will make up the | starting tournament lineups. Aft- | er each game the two lowset scorers will drop down, with the | next two highest scoring reserves | moving up into active positions. | This is done not only to make play more competitive but to en- able all members to have a chance to move their team into | winning positions. DeLAND RED HATS DOWNED ALL-STARS Uric Sterling, Key West, was a spectator at DeLand Friday} night when the Red Hats, for! whom his son, Clayton, plays | first base, walloped the Florida State League’s All-Star nine to | the tune of 7-3. The Red Hats, at the first half mark in the sea- son, tallied 12 hits against the tars’ 10 in winning the ball game. Sterling, the when first-half season ended Friday, was second | high in the league for the most two-base hits tallied up to then. | His teammate, Holsing, topped the league with 21, while Ster- | ling had hit 19. ee STERLING, CATES incinnati Reds _shutou' e| Second Gar Game ‘AGAINST | P PEPPERS, slipping St. Louis Cardinals, 3-0,) At New York RHE! AND THE HATTERS behind the three-hit pitching of Philadelphia ...-.... 1 5 Elmer Riddle. The victory was'New York _3 9 the ninth straight for the Geor-; Knott, Ferrick and 2 tame OF CITY CHAMPS) tere's how Key West's two | gia rookie. Breuer and Rosar. | ANNOUNCED FOR GAME representatives in organized | Hanging up his 11th win of! See $ car baseball, Clayton Sterling and the season, Kirby Higbe handcuff- First Game } 8:00 TO! William Cates, members of the | ed the Boston Braves with five; At Boston RHE] | DeLand Red Hats, came out at bingles_as his Brooklyn Dodger Washington ag Bh the plate in recent performances: teammates marched to a 5-2 tri-| Boston 2 6 7 0| Star performers of Key West Friday, July 4 umph and continued domination’ Chase, Kennedy and Evans; diamondball tonight get their ; ABR HPOAESH of the National league. Pete Newsome and Pytlak. postponed crack at the City Sterling, 1b 5 1 211 00 0 | Raiser homered in the fifth. a ;Champion Pepper's Plumbers in | Cate 5 112 500 Rain stopped the afterpiece in} Second Game |a game expected to draw the| Run batted in: Cates. the seventh with the count knot-| At Boston R. HE! season’s greatest crowd to Bay-) The score: R| ted at 4-all. Washington _2 § 1{view Park DeLand ¢ 051 304 000—13 | Rain also halted the New York | Boston 4 7 0: Local fans, who picked the/Daytona Beach 100 001 010— 3 Giant-Philadelphia Philly twin, Zuber, Sundra and Early; | Stars in ballotting staged at a The standings: bill opener in the ninth but not: Hughson and Peacock. jgame a week ago, are favoring Club— W. L. Pet. | before the Giants, aided by King — itheir ten to end the Plumbers 1, DeLand j - 48 24 .667 | Carl Hubbel!’s six-hitter, had First Game | domination of the league in to-,2. St. Augustine run up a 7-3 score in their favor. At St. Louis R. H. E_| night's tilt. The nightcap was postponed. Detroit 7 9 0} Stars who won out in ballotting se IT Chicago Cubs suffered a dou-|St. Louis 5 12 0 among the city’s diamondball fans | SPORTS CALEN ¢ ALENDAR AR ble loss at the hands of the! Newsome, Rowe, Benton and are Julio Barcelo, Philip Baker, | Pittsburgh Pirates, 1-2 and 4-13. | Sullivan; Sores Be - ied peri ATenete Woh ade Sunday blue law ended the aft- Caster, Trotter and Ferre’ elly, les s Hons at the beginning of the! —-- }Garcia and*glino<y@astro, Nav- BASEBALL ninth, Second Game | Sta; Esmond Albury, Ralph Arn-| (MAJOR LEAGUES) Results: At St. Louis R. H. E./old, Arthur Thompson, Neno Cas- NATIONAL LEAGUE Detroit - minghce, Bir. 2) tro, .. DeWitt... Roberts, ... Melvin! TODAY First Game St. Louis —. : 5 6 0/Tynes-and Howard Burke, ex-| American At Brooklyn R. H. E. Trout, Newsome and ‘Tebbetts; Barbers; Saunders, Assaf, Alme-! No games scheduled (All-Star Boston : 2 5 O Muncrief, Harris and Swift. !da, Early and Walker, Army;}game tomorrow). Brooklyn 5 8 2 ee |Guy Johnson, Navy. National Errickson, Lamana and Masi;' At Chicago R. H. E.; Plumbers will probably use| No games scheduled (All-Star Higbe and Franks. Cleveland 4 9 2/the following players, in batting | game tomorrow). —— Chicago 913 2 ‘order: Juanie Navarro, shortstop; | ngs jecond Game Milmar, Heving, Harder, A.{Domingo Ubieta, third base;) SORT At acre R_ Smith and Hemsley; Lyons andj|Jackie Carbonell, second base; SOFT BALL ‘ Boston _4 9 2 Tresh. |Everett Higgs, leftfield; Douglas) (Bayview Park, 7:30 p. m.) Brooklyn 450 McCarthy, centerfield; Julius TONIGHT (Called end seveneth, rain) Incendiary bombs usually | Villareal, apg a Kermit; j)-Stars vs. City Champion Johnson, Lamana, Hutchings weigh less than 100 pounds. | Kerr, first base; “Kiki” Hopkins, Pepper's Plumbers. | catcher; W. O. Bennett, right- field; Clarence Gates, pitcher; Leo Stanley, Maitland Arias and | Aurelio Lastres, subs. The game is scheduled for 8:00 o'clock. | BASEBALL RETURNS Hot Off the Wire! 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