The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1941, Page 3

TUESDAY, AUGUST '5, 1941 Sh eh a ee ee The i tes re as stiles BATTER AT 40 SPORTS CALENDAR Old-Time ~ Pitehing Ace | center- fielder but has also improved so / much around the plate that he - has been bidding for the cir- cuit’s batting championship with } an average around .320. At pres- | ent he is within reach of Pete | Reiser, the , Dodgers’ sensational rookie, and the Cardinals’ mighty | Johnny Mize, who are running | Boston at Philadelphia. New York-Brooklyn, not szhed- | uled. { | : organized Becomes Modern | baseball, Clayton Stérlin; i ig and e eS | DODGERS BUNCH RUNS 70) william Cates, members of the lugger | WALLOP GIANTs; cincy! DeLand Red Hats, accomplished ; BASEB ALL | in recent Nee digg an } | REDS BOW TO es ursday, July 21 a He i (MAJOR LEAGUES) ABR HPOAESH Fe, a BOSOX DOWN A'S y TODAY | ‘Sterling, lb 4.0112 011 i Cates, 3b .4 1°1 1 600 BI * American } Two. it: ho . . New York at Washington. | (Special to The citizen) goles na | ; i Philadelphia “at | NEW YORK, ue : Hy govaluéd. at $75,000 | ~yerbeLamrege = i RK, Aug. 5.—Except | DeLand 020 030 100—6 | “$s a sduthpawlpitcher ‘Today Le at St. Louis, night/|for momentary weakness in the | Ocala -- 000 000 020-2! the Braves’ wtiers prize Cooney, Detroi {fourth inning, the Chi¢ago Cubs The standings: | ts r 40-year- -old outfielder, just’ ame at _. Cleveland, night | lyésterday afternoon were com- i Be ha . sf oe gr s highly. J ae . St. Augustine __ ‘ { And for good reasons. Johnny | Pi National : jertoy Vina ook by the St. 9" DeLand 61 33 1649} hot only ranks as the Nationt! | ‘ittsburgh at Cincinnati. | Louis Cardinals’ sensational | a | Yellgue's best’ defensive St. Louis at Chicago, |tookie southpaw, Ernie White. | Friday. July 22 | | | | SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, 8:00 p.m.) TOMORROW NIGHT First Game—Red Raiders vs. one-two for those slugging hon- NavSta. 4 Ors. | Second Game—Navy vs. Pep- The affable Cooney denies | pers. FRIDAY NIGHT First Game—Thurston vs. Red there has been anything miracu- | lous in his change from pitching | ace to outfield star, ; Raiders. “I was an outfielder when 1 | « Second £ Game—Peppers ¢ pevng Playing semi-pro ball NavSta. vs. eet World Wer", he | —o ee fo gad} esa od | SERVICE on er LEAGUE ~pecied i (3:30 p, m.) Playing for a Providence team, | TOMORROW I was ordered to come in from | the outfield and relieve our pitcher whose name, oddly enough, also was John Cooney, not related”. “I must have had some stuff, for I was used as a pitcher there- | after and the Braves signed me} Guard at as such after I had worked against | Field. them in an exhibition game that’ Sub Chaser Division vs. Army Same season”. at Army Barracks Field. Excessive curveballing and a! Submarine Division vs. De- habit of coming to a full stop /Stroyer Division at Fort Taylor after a strenuous windup took its | Field. toll from the Cooney salary whip! after several successful years. | The Braves sold him to Toledo, at Atmy Barracks Field. then managed by Casey Stengel,; Sub Chaser Division vs. De- his old-time Boston teammate. |stroyer Division at Fort Taylor | Cooney had submitted to three Field. Naval Air Station vs. Marines at Fort Taylor Field. Naval Station vs. | Army Barracks. SATURDAY Naval Air Station vs. Naval Coast SUNDAY operations from 1927 to 1931.| Marines vs. Submarine Di- Surgeons removed nine bone'vision at Naval Air Station chips after the last one. | Field. Stengel, after a year, conclud-) TUESDAY, AUG, 12 Army at} Air Station} SOUTHPAW WHITE | WON AGAIN; YANKS | White, who has won six games |in 17 days, gave up a pair of runs in that round but otherwise |stopped the Bruins in their jtracks. From the fourth on, nary ja Cub reached second base as {the portsider turned in a seven- jhit job, struck out eight and won | the game, 4-2. Erickson toiled jon the hill for the Bruins, fan- bning ten and allowing just nine | safeties, An unexpected change in the {lineup was made by both clubs, | Eddie Lake, a utility infielder, | took over second base for the |Cards after Frank Crespi was jhit in the face by a batted ball joff the bat of Lon Warneke dur- | jing pre-game practice. Augie! Galan went in centerfield for |the Cubs, replacing Charley Gil- | bert, who collapsed in the club- |house just befote the contest got under way. Crespi suffered. a painful bruise under his left eye, and Gilbert labored under a com- bination of heat and nervous exhaustion. | New York Giants got the jump |on the Brooklyn Dodgers early in Naval Station vs. Coast Guard | their fight but the Daffy boys writer, born in Indianapolis, 65 |soon caught up with them and | went far out in front. Brooklyn |took the game, 11-6, their fifth ‘straight triumph, and the Giants |suffered their 12th loss in the |past 14 duels. After New York had gained the lead with a brace of markers, DEFEAT SENATORS: THESKEY WEST CfTIZEN- AND THE HATTERS| Here’s what Key West's’ two representatives in Sterling, lb 3 0 015 00 0 Cates, 3b 4000100 The score: Gainesville __.. 000 000 100—1 DeLand _...... 100 020 00x—3 The standings: Club— Ww. L. Pet, | i 1. St. Augustine _ 65 30.684) 2. DeLand 62 33.653 Today’s Birthdaya | Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the Marine | Corps, born in New Castle, Del., 62 years ago. | {2 | 1 | Revelle W. Brown, new presi- dent of the Lehigh Valley Rail- {way, born in Carlyle, Ii, 58 years ago. Robert Taylor, screen star, born | in Filley, Nebr., 30 years ago. | Gen. APE S. Johnson, col-} umnist, author, ex-N.R.A. head, | soldier, born in Ft. Scott, Kans,, 59 years ago. | Mary R. (Mrs. Charles) Beard | of New Milford, Conn., noted years ago. Prof. Ruth Wheeler of Vassar College, nutrition authority, born in Plains, Va., 64 years ago. Bruce Barton of New York, advertising company head, au- POPPE IPI PPO OPP PEE ed that his old pal was all wash-, Sub Chaser Division vs. Ma-/|the Dodgers knotted the count thor of noted books, ex-congress- | ed up as a pitcher. He sold the, rinés at Army Barracks Field. | 31-year-old Johnny to Inglapans |r eet nena pista ee | | STANDINGS “IL was sure, though, that I | olis in 1932 f6r ong. could return to the majors as | MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES “I knew then I was through | an outfielder, for I had always | been around .300 as a right- | American i handed batter. But I had to _ Club— w. L. Pet. | Prove it and I set out todo so. New York 70 32 .686! “The operations on my left el- | Cleveland 57 43 .570 bow had made that arm shorter Boston — aie E48; 5151 than the other and it was almost | Chicago 49 52 .485 impossible to straighten it out. Philadelphia 48 52 .480 To get real power behind a Detroit 47 55 .461/ swing, a batter must follow | St. Louis 40 59 404; through with the arm nee raanineton iS ...38' 59 .392 the pitcher, the left in my case. National Because I couldn’t unlock my left | Club— WwW. L. Pet. arm fully and lash out hard 'St. Louis 66 35 .653) enough to get all of my weight | Brooklyn 64 36 640 | into‘my cut, I had been getting | Pittsburgh 54 43 557 | scratch hits. | Cincinnati 53 46 535) “[ had to try for a more open New York - 46 49 .484) stance, with my feet turned more |Chicago 44 46 440) to left field to pull the ball bet-|Boston - eee ak OF ¢ AIG ter and get more heft into my Philadelphia 26 72 .265 swing. It wasn’t as easily done as said, but I had to master that new | style or get out of baseball”. When Stengel sold Cooney to; Today’ S) Horoscope Indianapolis, Johnny WAS OO vw .269 hitter. Four years later, as} < Today's. ature is warm-heart- Brooklyn manager, Stengel paid | jed but shy; freeminded but too dearly for Johnny, who had! ccncitive, The character is stead- stepped up his batting to a 371 | fast and rather independent, and average, and: the PIner Hatt oe |if this latter trait is not accen- sociation championship. 'tuated too freely, there are in- Under Stengel in Brooklyn, ications that promise a quiet, Cooney was one eof the Dodgers’ | successful life, after some storms | leading sluggers, up around .300.' oF jjiness or fate have passed | But then Stengel gave way tO) Qvor, Burleigh Grimes and Grimes, evidently convinced that a 37- year-older was a poor risk for| the future, passed Cooney on to) Helen Rains and Gloria Callen the St. Louis, Cardinals. Grimes’ lof New York took turns in break- action set the stage for his own! ing several swimming records in| dismis for Leo Duorcher, the|the eighth annual amateur meet Dodgers’ current pilot, came from | recently. the Cards in that deal. Cooney’s age also was against him in St. Louis and he was cast adrift as a free agent aft- er a brief tryout. But Stengel, then managing the Braves, jumped at the oppottunity to grab uv his old friend. That friendship is a Y eg divi- RECORD-BREAKERS | were made in rather rapid suc-| cession in the Polo Grounds two | | seasons ago, when he had all but }abandoned hope of ever getting} one. It is likely that Cooney inténds \spangles, seven or eight years hence, at the rate he’s going. dends. t ‘ Cooney’s sitndicg, " ‘21-year Since he is well fixed financially, | major league career surprises he volunteered to take over a everyone but Cooney. He has an large block of stock recently unusual baseball background.; when Bob Quinn afd his syndi-| His father played for Cap An- cate purchased the Braves from son’s famous White Stockings!C. F. Adams, jenth with the bases loaded, tied 'terday, bowing to the Pittsburgh | Pirates, jquered by the three-hit pitching |the pan twice in the very first| At vee |Athletics had gained with their | 2 i | White and Mancuso; Errickson | 4 y Iti and. McCullough. \ BA to wind up in his famtiliar Braves | Be ti | and three older brothers, Jimmy, once with the Red Sox, Harry and Frank, were also active base- Quinn was eager to have him ballers. | generous offer was Like most baseball patriarchs, | rejected when Ford Frick, Cooney is eager to talk hours at a stretch. But he is si- led against an active player in- lént on the subject of home runs.’ vesting in his own club. Cooney In almost 1,000 major league|then agreed to wait until his games he has hit only two. Both | playing days wete over. -regretfully i the | it for| National league president, advis- | |New York ~ as a stockholder, along with the | | delighted Stengel. But Johnny’s in the fifth and went four-up in man, born in Robbins, Tenn., 55 jthe sixth. Still fighting, the!years ago. | Giants, ons the strength of Ken} —— O’Dea’s pinch homer in the sev-| Gen. Malin Craig, U.S.A. re- | tired, born in St. Joseph, Mo., 88, years ago. the score again. Not to be out-| done, Brooklyn rallied in its half of the seventh, scored five runs | and put the game“ on ice”, The hapless Cincinnati dropped another decision Conrad P. Aiken, noted poet, | born in Savannah, Ga., 52 years ago. FI AZ Reds yes- See Herbert Hoover, J¥., of Passa- dena, Cal. engineer, born in England, 38 years ago. 4-1. Reds were con- M. Harris, Ryba, Hughson and Pytlak. Their Ione they have Bues put crossing of Johnny Lanning. run was the second scored in four games. the game away early, New York Washington Peek, Murphy inning. Philadelphia and Boston were not scheduled. American League Bouncing back from their dou- ble defeat at the hands of the lowly Brownies the day before, the New York Yankees yester-! day thumped the Washington Senators, 7-5. New York scored : ; 4 : » RESTAURANT © all its runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh when it put to- 909 Fleming Street gether eight hits, four good for| BREAKFAST __ triples. The victory, while the| LUNCH _ Cleveland Indians were resting, DINNER ~ gave the Yanks a full 12-game ————————— lead in the American league pen- nant chase. Jimmy Foxx returned to the Boston Red Sox lineup yester- ahd Chase, Masterson and Early. Praear Rosar; Only gathes scheduled. en anaainanen The BETTY RAYMOND -«. 25e 85c TRIUMPH day and celebrated the occasion | with a game-winning circuit COFFEE ih) clout in the ninth. Bosox nosed MILLS & the A’s, 7-6, in the only other ALL game played in the junior «cir- abs & cuit. Boston rallied in late in-| eeeee erccovccsotes nings to erase the advantage the od five-run spurt sin the second) frame. Taking his turn at the plate in the ninth, Foxx lifted Bump Hadley’s first pitch for his 16th homer of the year. ! PM 4 Results: | NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago R. H. E. 4; Lonis. $9 50 | Chicago ma ee At Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cineinnati } Lanning and Lopez; - Thomp: son, Moore and Lombardi. First Time in Key West At New York R.| New Yo a9 HORSESHOE CAFE Philadelphia-Boston, not sched- os iled. a AMERICAN ICAN LEAGUE | At Boston L. 8. | Philadelphia Boston i C. 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