The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1941, Page 3

LY, JULY ‘15, 1941 i i ie CHISOX. STOP Softhall Chics oo ic orn YANKEES AT Fifth; Lone Tally Un- 1 eatned {DIMAG GETS ANOTHER HIT;| DODGERS ADD GAME TO} N. L. LEAD: CARDS BOW TO) PHILS Pepper’s City Champion Plumb- ! ers, trimmed by a 5-1 score in: their first tilt with the diamond- | ball All-Stars last week, came! back with a Vengeahce last night | to wallop the Prima Donnas 10 to | 1 in a free-hitting exhibition at | (Spee''! to whe Citizen) Bayview Park. | NEW YORK, July Clarence (Cigarette . Willie) Chicago White Sox stopped the! Gates, who was wrecked by poor New York Yankeés yésterday— sppert Gs we first game, -had that is, all the Yanks But Joe Di- Bee iets ee une St Mamaia: Registaing his seyenth night in setting down the. Stars with two hits. |Win of the year-and holding the Gates fanned six of the Stars, ‘New Yorkers to veight walked thrée, and. would have John Rigney anid’ his Sox team. scored a shutout but for a balk mat, 1 in the ninth inning and a wild igh ag lilac tae pitch from the outfiei'@ which permitted the lone tally. thus snapping the Yanks’ victory | run at 14 straight games. The Plumbers, meanwhile, DiMagagio, going hitless in his hamméred two Stars pitchers for first two appearances at the | 15 hits, driving Howard Burke, plate, bunted dowh the third’ iain sone baba Aagaiye ae base line for an infield hit in his iinning under a seven-hit barrage next try. He has now hit safely that netted three runs. im 54 games in a row. Early of Army took over from, Bob Feller scattered five hits there for the Stars, permitting i? his chore against the Boston only two more runs. Plumbers Red Sox to claim his 18th win/ had got to Burke for five mark- °f the season. The Indians, who! ers before the fifth. defeated the Boston nine 4-1, Julius (DoDo) Villareal, Ever- | Pulled up to within four games of ett (Two-By-Four) Higgs, and the Yanks. Jeff Heath, who Kermit (Monk) Kerr each bang- singled home two runs in the sec- | ed out triples for the Plumbers, | ond, was passed in four other! with Higgs leading the hitters trips to the plate. by virtue of three bingles in four. Tommy — Bridges’ — five-hitter times at bat. He did not take paced the Detroit Tigers to a 4-2: part in the first clash last week, triumph of the Philadelphia Ath- Gates was the only member letics, and George McQuinn’: of the Plumber squad who fail-/ 10th homer aided the St. Louis} ed to get at least one hit, and’ Browns to down the Washing- Domingo (Mickéy) Ubiéta, Villa- ton Senators, 6-4. real,, Douglas McCarthy and Jack } (Wanna) Carbonell each netted decided a pitching duel between two. Kirby Higbe of Brooklyn and The score by innings: Vern Olsen of Chicago in favor All-Stars 000000 001 1 2 2 of the Dodgers, 1-0. Olsen, who]! Plumbers 113 031 01x—10 15 1 held the Flatbush nine to eight hits, lost the game when mana- 3 »\ger Leo Durocher beat out a hit &, seoring Ducky Wucky Medwick. SPORTS CALENDAI serial handcuffed the Cubs with} 1 two-hitter. « Brooklyn increased its lead to twice on a single by Bobby 'Bragan to clinch the fracas. New York Giants, putting to- gether three singles and a triple in the ninth, edged the Pittsburgh New York at Chicago. Philadedphia at Detroit. Boston at Cleveland. Only games scheduled. National Chicago at Brooklyn two Pirates, 3-2. Previously the games. {Giants had been held to two hits Cincinnati at in eight pronet St. Louisa e in the 13th “(43 Innings) L. Moore, Turner and R. West; | ganized Western baseball league, ¢ also managed its last club in poi Tohinecs, Latiana, 1932. Earley and Masi. ee rg | At Philadelphia R. HE} YOUR SPORTEST |St, Louis pa ap 4 i 1 Answers Elsewhere On This Page Philadelphia 1. Pat Canning of California; Krist, Nahem and Padgett; hopes to win the national wom-/| Johnson and Warren. en’s singles tennis crown this year. Can you name two other} “! New York : A . California girls who will be con-| Pittsburgh tenders? New York . 3 62 2. A youngster from Los An- Sewell and Lopez; Hubbell and | geles’ Little Mexico sector re- O'Dea. cently won the National Boxing | Association's featherweight) At Brooklyn 5 5 z| championship. Who was he and Chicago : ae who did-he kayo? Brooklyn Olsen and McCullough; Higbe | runner 13. What record did the and Owen. qi Klemmer break _ in A.W... track © championships hh) jladelphia? Joe’ DiMaggio recently’ es- At Detroit lished a‘ new major league | sy ail consecutive hitting record. Who roit - formerly held the American| _Marcheldon, Hadley and Ha league record? The major league Bridges and Sullivan. record? — AMERICAN LEAGUE 5, What golfer holds the Na- _ At Chicago RHE tional Open scoring record? Pavia : : i Cire resem 20 pont tr eck SS canes a ted a Mog a seal| At Cleveland RHE yaa dienaeenngd 5 ree on Wilson, Potter and Peacock;! 14 STRAIGHT 13.—The | bingles, ; A squeeze play in the ninth} four games aver St. Louis when BASEBALL the Cardinals fell victims to a (MAJOB-LEAGUES) \jast-minute Philadelphia Philly | TODAY rally. Going irito the eighth with American the count 3-all, the Phils scored Williams, Hitting Over .400, . Eyes Triple Batting Crown | Chief Atbition | Is To Cor- | ner Batting, Homer And_ Runs - Batted - In Honors Same Year By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, July 15.—The lbeanpole who leads American league batters was burning. “That dumb scorer”, said Ted Williams, “he gave me an e ‘ yesterday. Didja see the gam | Well, a guy hits one out my way and I come. in fast to trap the {bali on the bounce. The durn thing takes a bad hop and kicks me in the shoulder. “And Irget an error. Me, who {mever. touched the ball. Am I Sore! That scorer, he don’t know a hit from a lilypad “Oh, hell", he said, with a ; shrug. “I don't give a damn about fielding anyway. They say I'm a bonehead fielder and Maybe they're right. But, Bud”. he said, Aggressively. “Tm a hitter. I can bust ‘em. And Ted Williams of the Bos- ton Red Sox outfield can. He can blast a ball a country le. He was pacing the league at a { better-than-.400° clip in early ' July. Ted can’t explain his high aver- age. “Luck, I gw > he said. “Aw, it’s not all luck, y'know, you gotta be swinging good. But I'm hitting the ball just like I did last year, same grip, same jstance, same swing. More of ‘em are falling safe. ‘Cours lafter a couple of years in league I know the pitchers bet- ter and I guess that helps. “But, shucks, a fellow can be hitting the bal! fine and lose 20 points in his average in a week or so. It's just a matter of hitting ‘em where they | ain't”. Williams thinks. the odds are all against his finishing the year with an average above .400. “Say, Tall Ted led the league in runs | batted in—the real payoff on a hitter’s value—in his first year, 1939, with 145. He said that dur- ing his career he'd like to be top man at least once in every de- partment of hitting. His chief ambition is to win triple hitting honors—batting, homers, and runs-batted-in—the same year. | “But that’s sorta hard to do. I'm leading in batting now and am well up in homers and RBI. I’ve got a chance this year”. he said. | Ted is hitting third in the Bos- says | that a handicap in knocking in ¢ounters. “It’s better to be hit-| ting fourth or fifth”, he declares, “You've generally got more men | on base”. Ted thiaks Joe DiMaggio is a) great hitter but he believes Jim- jmy Foxx is the hardest hitting |right hander he ever saw. “Some- | times I can’t figure how a ball lean go as far as he hits it. Looks |like his blasts would tear the! cover off the ball”. Ted savs he isn’t superstitious, | but—“T don’t like black cats any | too well”. | ta | Feller and Desautels. At St. Louis RHE | Washington 48 0 ;St. Louis 6 4 2 1 Chase, Kennedy and Early | Niggeling and Ferrell. | | | Hot Off the Wire! iT Seewign Innimg By Inning, First Time in Key West | HORSESHOE CAFE 602 Duval Street Schultz & Riggs Returns Direct From the Ball Park | Chicago it’s been 18 years since an Amer- poe “ait _ coups a See Us For A ican leaguer hit over .400 and | SteePlechase riders, 1s 6: eid LETE LINE {we've had some pretty fair punch- Steeplechase riding again this “QRADEMARRED ers up there during that time. I hp for one reason. Pete gives LUMBER guess the odds ought to be about |" : Priced To Meet Competi- 25 to 1 against me, mebbe 50” The thing that decided me to pete ira ih ne By THE KEY WEST CITIZEN: Cleveland Detroit Philadelphia | Washington St Louis i Club— { | Brooklyn ....54 26 675) i St. Louis 30> .630 i New York 34 .553 | Cincinnati 38» 825 | Pittsburgh 37 493 i Chicago 45 444 j Boston 45 408 j Philadelphia 58° (266 — SPORTEST ANSWERS Questions Elsewhere On This Page 1. Helen Jacobs, Pauline Betz, Dorothy Bundy, Virginia Wolfen- SEABOARD RAILWAY Fares epi Tickets SIMONE? 3 TOURS 508 Duval Street Phone 298 Between Office Hours, Phone 762-J Next To Kress den and Louise Brough are among the best known girls from California who, will challenge for the title. 2. Richard Lemos knocked out Petey Scazlo. | all 3. The 400-meters. He ran it in 46 seconds for a new world record SURANCE | From Any 4. 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