The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 8, 1941, Page 3

Kirby itigbe First N tional League Pitcher | To Hang Up ‘Twentieth Victory (Special to The Citizer! NEW YORK. Bent. 8 the | baseball-mad citizenry of Fiat- bush was cotinting its . belived | Dodgers already in today after! yesterday's double triumph over | the New_York Giants, grea which lifted the Brooklyn, bo: three gamés ahead of the fiding, St. Louis Cardinals. No games are scheduled in} either league today, giving every-| one a chance for a breath of air! before diving back into one of. the hottest of the hot ot loop finishes, | The Dodgers, who whippe New York yesterday by scores of 13-1 and 4-3, haye 19 more gameS to play, while the Cards, | who split with the Cincinnati Reds, have 21 more. Kirby Higbe won his twentieth | game of the season in a walk} yesterday in the Dodgers’ initial} victory ovér the Giants as Dolph Camilli, Dueky. Medwick and Petet Reiser led a thunderous} 14-hit assault on three Giant! pitchers. In the nightcap, however, the Dodgers had to send in Htigh Casey to relieve Whiety Wyatt in the seventh, barely ekeing out their victory with 4 rui ih the ninth inning. } For a moment yesterday the} Cards looked like their oid | | ‘ selves as they jumped the Reds|_ in ‘the opener for an 11-to-7 win, forging ahead after Cintinnati had knotted the score at six-all in the seventh. Phe Reds bounced back im the nighteap -before darkness: blotted out the game in the eighth and gut the game at the end of eight innings, winning their 5-2 vic-| tory with two runs in the first inning and three more in the fifth. | Bucs Ahead For Season The Chitago Ciibs, swept to a 3-1 vittory yesterday afternoon! by the hitting of Babe Dahlgren! and thé pitching of rookie Vallie} Eaves, came out on the short end} of the season’s battles with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yesterday was the last meet-! ing of the year for the clubs. During the campaign they played 22 games against each other. | Pittsburgh claimed 13 of the con- tests and the Cubs nine. { Pounding Philadelphia Philly | pitching unmercifully, the Bos- ton Braves overwhelmed the Phillies twice, 17-6 and 10-1. Braves collected a total of 20 safe blows in the first game ofthe twin bill and: amassed «45 in the second fray. Among the’ hits Wete honiets off the bats of; Ray Bertes,Carvell Rowell and) Max West. ‘Tommy Bridges Day’ “ot ° Detroit my Bridges Day” yéstetday |! a in appreciation Tommy went | out on the mound and twitled the Tigers to a 4-1 tritimph of! the Cleveland Indians. Sponsored by the Detroit Free Press, the occasion proved valu- able to Bridges. Approximately 25,000 dimés were giveh hit, collected ovet the past séveral| wéeks by the Press. Helping Bridges ¢elebrate his. Day’, Bruce double and single. Only a half- game in back of the fousth-; -place Indians, the Tigers. clai 1 of the battles in the” Be Guise | series with the Tribe. A.4-1 ball game was:broken up| in.the ninth. inning when...the | lowly. St. Louis Browns. pumped two runs across the plate to,whip. the -Chicago White. Sox;. 3:)- The-Joss held. Chicago -3 :half- game behind Boston in the fight} i ‘American ‘League ;seeond-| ‘The veteran Ted Lyons was; on the mound for the Chisox, | Bowing to Dennis Galehouse of the Brownies. Yanks Blast Bosox New York Yankees may have; the A. L. flag in their pockets | but no ore would fealize it the) way they went after the Boston Red Sox yesterday. With Vernon (Lefty) Gomez doing the| pitching, the Yanks took no chances of losing the game. They | opened up their heavy artillery | ahd pounded. a. trio. of Bosox lift both halves of & twin bill, 3-2 Campbell Knocked | in all the Bengal fins with @| ree Full Games William A. Greefe hit what he bounds tee shot the other day— and scored the oné of the year. His errant drive on pole, bounced onto the and rolléd into the cup. green, Sodi’s good luck. Playing his fitst rduhd at the Plandome, L. I, Golf Glub, Sodi took an dozen blows on the first hole and 13 on the second. Then his ficiais will meet Wednesday | iron shot on the third hole roll-| be ‘dibs ed into the cup for an ace. That 3 bg was the seediid time in three champions of Key West and | vears that a begiviner_ had aced at bg & Je60S- ‘that hole. Incidentally, Plan- world Sete {62 ei j dome may be the phly course in few pets 7 i pd which a. hole-in-one has been | Bias TOF 13 "ete That was. enough to give Gorhez dn 8-5 victory. One of the si was a round-tripper by Joe Gordon, his 23rd of the year. The win [was Gomez’ 34th of the present campaign. ‘FWice coming from behind, the mediocre Washington’ Senators fibsed thé PRfiadélptiia Athletics TROJANS NOSED CONCHS 3-2 IN BASEBALL NIGHT- CAP YESTERDAY Pounding three Regular pitch- ers for 12 hits, the Red Raiders yesterday aftefnoon marched to a 17-3 victory in the first game of 4 ddiiblehedder at Trumbo Is- Tand (Price) Field, which opened play in the newly-formed Island City baseball leagtie. The Trojans outstepped the Conchs in the second game by a 3-2 score. and 4-2 Last-minute rallies, with defeat staring them in the faté, timed the fick for the Wats in both garriés. *ihinloha tiavs HE. The scores: by 10 4 First Game 30 0 R. HE capa Grissom, Jones, Mas- ze Raiders 17 12 3 ti arren, Hi egulars us 344 Set: a eer atest Fetnandez and Roberts; Cuder, pete onl Perret Garcia, Wedo_ and Molina. Second Game At Boston RHE RHE Philadelphia 64 — _ as : Ht | Bost aes 10 15 2} Tro; =f Carbotiall and Griffin: Wick: Podgajny, Hoerst, Hughes and | Livingston; Early and Montgom- jery. and Navarro. At Brooklyn iNew York - Brooklyn Hubbell, BASEBALL | Darining; Higbe and. Franks. (Major Leagues) Second Game TODAY At Brooklyn American eee - i No games scheduled. Brooklyn _. Melton and Hartnett; Wyatt, No games paige Oy | Allen, Casey and Owen. hd First Game SUMDAY Ai & tous Prite Fiéid (Trumbo Island) Cincinnati - South Dade All-Stars vs. Key} ee PSO ‘West Corictis. Beggs and. Lombardi; Krist, FTBALL Gumbert and Mancuso. SO) (Bayview: Park, 8:00 p. m;) Second Game TONIG At St. Louis wir @ sig ee ‘el Cincinnati - aes soil E St. Louis — avy. E Riddle and eet Game—NavSta_ vs. | ‘Phurston. oe Gumbert ai WEDNESDAY NIGHT = First Gamé—Plumbers vs. ‘ Navy. alt Pittsburgh Second Game—NavSta vs. Rea! x Pi roe p a Raiders. FRIDAY NIGHT First Gartie—NavSta vs. Plumb- Baves and Schéeving | Klinger and Baker. Game Second Game—Red Raiders vs. Thurston. SATURDAY NIGHT F aan Memorial (Miami Gold Star Tourney Champs’ vs. Pep- per’s Plumbers (City Champs). fashington — | philadelphia ‘ Wynn and Evans; | Wagner. |. At Ghicago (St. Louis L 46 6 \Chi eS ai t 0 igo 67 psn ieee and Ferrell; Lyons| Cleveland 6 ‘and Tresh. Detroit - 9 ‘ | mt New York Rt #. ® |Bostoy -— a: e+ New York - 8 12 a | Wilson, Ryba, Johnson a & Peacock; Gomez, Murphy - Dickey | 4 At Detroit a | Cleveland * pis tua nnn 2 Detroit ____-_. ic 8 r Deah afd z {and Tebhetts, thought was probably an out-of-| the 340-/ yard eleventh hole at a Rye,/ N. Y., course struck a telephone! It is doubtful that any other! béginner this season Had Carl even} REGULARS 17 TO 3, ‘Out OF Bounde? Shot Scored Longest Ace OF Year aoe >| HERE ARE SOME RECORDS TO SHOOT AT By DILLON GRAHAM. AP Feature Séfvice Sports Editor NEW YORK; Sept. 8—Golfer | made on each of the four par-3 holes this year. While Greene's longest of the season, it is ak longest hole-in- | most 100 yards short of one fired | by George W. Cardwell of Win- Ston-Salem, N. C., in April, 1939. Cardwell's was made on the ' 425-yard ninth hole at the Hill- | ctest Golf club. It is the long- | @st ever recorded. The ninth is a dogleg to the right and the faitway begins sloping Some 200 yards from the tée Catdwell had a strong wind behind him. A 314#yard ace was 1932 by Frank Mellus on the se ond hole of the L Angeles’ South course. And Lloyd Bazzill rolled one in gne thé 71-yard sixth hole at Fairview course in St. Joseph’s, Missouri. T. Fred Goldsmith got a 365- yarder on the Stamford . co: in the Catskills. George Kir! has credit for a 340-yard ace on the ninth vhole at Stoneham, Southampton, England Long-driving Jimmy Thom- son’s came on a 68-yard hole at Lakeside, Los Angeles. Jimmy hit it from the ladies’ tee while giving a lesson. The oldest acer probably was +John G. Sutton of San Fran- ¢i8eo, who got hiS several y ago at Ménio golf club. He 74 years old and he shot a 75 for the round. An ace helped Mrs. O. S. Hill in made of Kansas City produce a sensa-j| tional round of 66 at Indian Hills country club, And Jonas Weiss tallied a 63 at. Pasadena course, St. Petersburg, Fla. with an ace on the sixth. The negro caddies drank cham- pagne after Gene Tunney. holed a 179-yard tee shot at Pinehurst, N.C. Gene Grabensiatter. eieieee Falls, shot a double eagle and stuck the ball into his bag as a souvenir. A year later. he ran out of balls, hauled out the lucky one and holed a 153-yard ace at Cherry Hill: But a machine has all the hi man hole-in-oners lickéd for di tance. A driving contraption in ers | 1937 drove one 428 yards into a cup at Columbus, O. Hot Off the Wire! 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