The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1943, Page 3

.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 Pececccecocccoooce FOLLOWING eo eeccscccedeosceoees HROUGH BY AGUILAR Here’s another chapter in our review of baseball in Key West, dating back to the late 1880's. We have now come to the month of June in the year 1939. Today we start with the 12th of that month. On Sunday, June 12, 1939, the Key West Conchs took both ends of a doubleheader from a team representing Venice, Fla. In the first game, Joe (House) Casa struck out 17 visiting bats- men and shut them out 6 to 0. The Venice players got only one hit off the slants of Casa. Score: R. H. E. Venice 000 000 000—0 1 3 Conchs 100 201 11x—6 12 Surls and Duchneall; Casa and Griffin. 000 !shot. Frank played for those ‘clubs for many years. | ASS | On Sunday June 18, 1939, Joe Casa blanked the Trojans for the Conchs, while the Blue Sox wal- jloped the Pirates in a twin bill jat Trumbo Field. Casa pitched his second straight jshutout.© The previous Sunday ihe blanked the Venice, Fla., nine jon one hit. Joe allowed only three Trojans to reach first base. William Cates, Esmond Albury and Julius Villareal each hit two safely for the victors. The hitting streaks of two oth- , jer Conchs, Armando Acevedo and 'Leo Gonzalez, came to an end. They had hit safely in 15 pre- vious contests. | Wickers and Domenech each ‘got a single for the losers. Ace- jvedo, Cates and Griffin starred In the second game the locals|in the field for the losers. Casa won 9 to 6, Robert Bethel pitched shutout | ball for four frames but two er-| rors and a hit gave the visitors | their first run in the fourth. An| error by Machin gave them their } second run and a comedy and} four rookies gave them four in| the ninth. Score: R. H. E. Venice 000 101 004—6 4 6) Conchs 022 020 30x—9 10 4; Wiggins, Surls and Duckwall; | Bethel and Griffin. O00 At Fort Myers ,on the same} day, the Blue x won over the Fort Myers’ baseball nine by a 5 to 4 score. i Pete Wells, third baseman of Fort Myers, starred with four putouts and four assists. Williams| hit two out of four. Peter Castro and Gabriel Gar-! cia led at bat for the locals, get-| ting two out of four each as did Molina. Harry (Bubber) Wickers poled | a triple. Al. Acevedo and Fidel ved in the field. | R. H. E.| Key West .. 030 000 020-5 10 5) Ft {Myers 110200 000—4 6 0° Diaz Gates and Gabriel Garcia; ; Maddox and Cook. | > making the trip to eo G. Diaz, H, Gates, Cas-} tellano, Al. Acevedo, Pie Tray- nor, Peter Castro, F. Lopez, J. Garcia, E. Ogden, M. Acevedo, O..Molina, Manager Frank Cara- ballo, Coach Miguel , Medina, Scerér Pedro Aguilar, Manguito an@ Mangue. | @n June 16, ‘1939, it. was an- nounced that Frank Guerra, for- mer player on the Young Slug- |had 11 assists in the box. R. H. E. 000 300 100—4 10 0 Trojans 000 000 000—0 2 2 Casa and Griffin; Wickers, Salinero and J. Navarro, Score: Conchs In the second, game, Guiro Diaz pitched a good game _ while his teammates pounded the ball all over the: lot. F. Lopez and Howard Gates each hit three safely: Diaz got two. For the Pirates, Puby and Freddie Carbonell each hit two safely. Howard Gates drove home five runs and scored two himself. Rodriguez and Pie Traynor starred in the field for the vic- tors and Geo. Acevedo for ‘the losers. Score: R. H. E. Blue Sox ~ 020 002 040-8 11 2 Pirates Diaz and Al. Rodriguez; Mal- grat and D. Lopez. On June 20, it was announced that William (Butch) Cates, ace of the Key West Canchs, had been named coach of the Amer- ican Legion Junior Baseball nine and that he had selected a team to practice in preparation for the state tournament. Members of the AL junior club ‘included: John Menendez, catcher; Vargas and Blanco, pitchers; Alonzo, first base; Arthur Thompson, second base; Ormond Cordova, third base; Ralph Arnold, shortstop; Lefty Aritas, Archer and Las- es, outfielders; M. Roberts, Pita, and J. Ogden, reserves. tr r. Canalejo gets and Regulars, was . fatally PATRIOTIC PHILS By ROBERT H. LANE Ap Features. | PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.—The |g Phils, who for many years have been wanting to claim something with more distinction than the cel- lar berth in the National league, | do not hesitate to point out that) they the league’s most pa- triotie club, having 17 players in the armed forces. { actor deserves consid. ise patriotism is prob- | ably the only thing that pry; the Phils out of eighth place this year. 21-Man Squad In assuming the annual posi-| tion behind the eight ball as manager of the Phils, 61-year-old | Hans Lobert has fallen heir to a| 21-man squad — and that’s count- | ing heads, not talent. The biggest problem confront- ing Lobert at present is finding a pitching corps. Only John Padganjy, Si Johnson and Wal- ter Beck remain from last year’s mound crew. Five other hurlers, Johnny Al- len, obtained from Brooklyn, And Lapihuska and George Hennes- sey from Trenton, Allen Gettel from the Yankees, and Hilly Flit- craft complete the present staff;! Lapihus! 20, and Fliteraft, 19,' are both in the draft and will} probably be called soon. | Podganjy, Allen and Johnson may form the * e” of the; bullpen artists. y is ay question mark while Beck parti- | cipated in 26 games last season ; without his name finding its way! into the “winning pitcher” column, i All five are currently 3-A. Losses To Army | almost roll down Hans} 's cheeks when he recalls} that such Phil moundsmen as} Tommy Hughes, Frank (Lefty) | Hoerst. Lee Grissom, Ike Pearson, | Sam Nahem, Hugh Mulcahy and Al Hodkey are in the service. But | he adds, ‘T'll string along with} Uncle Sam r dless of what hap- | pens to the ball club.” When the Phils take a bus ride} to their spring training headquar- ters, at Swarthmore College, Man- | i | | | | | the year” award. TO BE CONTINUED HAVE 21 HEAD ager Lobert will Mickey Livingston and Bob Bra- gan, the ex-shortstop, available. A cent addition is 23-year-old Bill e, who played in 1941 with 3-A. Three of the five infielders cur- rently available bear familiar _ 000 100 010— 2 7 7} have . catchers + rren, Ohio. He is untried, butiy.¥¢ suspended THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BRAVES STILL OPTIMISTIC FACE COMING MAJOR LOOP | SEASON WITH ABOUT SAME OUTLOOK AS PAST YEAR Chapter 45 Tables Turned + "VE got to stop him,” Joyce said. “We'll stop him,” Murdock |started for the door and terror struck at Joyce again and she ran after him, seizing his atm. “Oh, please,” she ‘whispered. “He’s got a gun..He must have. ‘The way he sat there on the sofa all that time without moving. | Don’t you remember how his; | arms were crossed with his hands }out of sight? It must be some- thing like that or Ward wouldn’t have said those things. It’s Delia he’s afraid for.” “Thorndike, huh?” Fenner said. ‘The whole thing was an act.” Murdock’s face was sombre and taut. “We've got to get in but— if we knock—” “We can get in,” Joyce saia. “I fixed the lock. When I came out I pressed the button that regulates it. AP Features. BOSTON, Feb. 5.—With only 11} of their 1942 players missing, in- cluding the unconditionally releas- ed Johnny Cooney'and Paul Wa- ner, the Boston Braves face their second wartime Nationz! league season with about the same slight degree of optimism they did a year | ago. 4 Just now Manager Casey Sten- | gel can count upon only 20 player: when he starts spring training at The Choate School in Walling- ford, Conn., late in March. ‘But most lik@ly, Owner Bob Quinn will | cull many of the most promising | Prospects on his farm teams to} give Stengel the player strength | , Kent had turned. He gave her aj he desires. aa ES opti Four Young Outfielde: pas ard look, and without) ae ay warning, took her face in his e She heard Fenner grunt; then While veterans Cooney and Wa-) hands. He kissed her roughly, his ner are ‘Suspected of having good lips bruising hers, and just as| outfielding left in their aging | suddenly released her. systems, Quinn, despite present! “Good girl,” he said. conditions which put a high pre-| Fenner blocked him off. “This is| mium on.experience,.has.decided, for me,” he said. “Watch your- to depend upon four young 3-A| self!” And then he was at the draft card holders, Chet,’ Ross, | door. Manny Fertiandez, Maxie West and | | Joyce stood where she was, un- i ‘< fly-chas- | able to move, able even to Tommy Holmes, for his fly chas: | jreathe. She saw the detective’s| ing. Only the latter has displayed | hand come away from his coat, any kind of batting prowess in a/ the snub-nosed gun gleam darkly} Boston uniform. in his grasp. Somehow she was aware that Hestor had not gone but had come up behind her. She did not see her; she saw nothing but Fenner’s left hand reaching | for the knob. She watched, fascinated and) immobile as the detective palmed the doorknob. She could see him| pull it towards him, watched his | wrist turn. She listened, every | muscle tense. There was _no| sound; it did not seem possible | that silence could be so absolute and yet— The wrist stopped turning. It} began to push f¢"“=-d. The door opened a crack, widening slowly until, all at once the panel was back and Fenner was moving for- ward and saying: “Drop it! Drop it!” Stengel also should have a | feirly tight infield with Johnny | McCarthy, a Giant castoff, on | fitst base, Whitey Wietelman on | second, Eddie Joost, who came ffom Cincinnati in the Eddie | Miller deal, at short. and the aged Tony Cuccinello on third. | That quartet should. be fairly | stylish afield, but few have any sound reason to expect much from them around the plate. About the only consistent hit- | ting Stengel has a right to expect | would come from his No. 1 back- stop, Big Ernie Lombardi, the league’s .330 btting champion. Lom, naturally, can not catch ev- ery day and his offensive punch will be lacking whenever Phil} Masi or Clyde Kluttz spell him. At least that’s what happened Ist season. Dent In Huriing Corps |. The armed forces did put a rath- | er ‘deep dent in the Braves’ pitch- ing corps but Stengel still has} such capable draft-exempt chuck- ers as Jim Tobin, Lefty Willard ; Donovan, Lou Tost, Al Javery and Frank Lamanna. Southpaw War- ren, recalled from Hartford last season, is the only A-ler on the Braves’ list and, as such, he ex- pects to be inducted long befor: spring training starts. , Since Pearl Harbor, the Braves have contributed 12 players to the armed services. The first to go were Sailor Bill Posedel, "Bama t Rowell and Bob Williams, a left-| handed pitching rookie, before the | opening of the 1942 season. Since | it closed, Buddy Gremp and John- ny Sain, now taking naval avia-| Moving Up ENT was at the detective’s heels, and she had to go too. She could not see the whole room but between the heads of the two ahead of her she saw enough. i Delia and Ward Allen stood be- fore the little sofa, staring first at Dean Thorndike and then. at the door. Ward’s arm was about her waist and in that first instant Thorndike was facing them. Joyce could not see his gun, but knew somehow that it was there. She saw his head jerk round and then his body. She saw his startled stare, the recoil of his facial muscles; then the mouth drew back and there was an ex- plosion of sound and Fenner was | moving up. | _Kent was at his shoulder and she could see better now and took a step, and someone was crowding her from behind. Something thudded to the floor and with the sound Thorndike had wheeled and was diving for a gun that had dropped from his fingers, stooping, reaching desper- ately with his left hand. Fenner’s voice hit hard and hot. “Don’t touch it! Let it lay!” MRS. MURDOCK Pager TAKES A CASE | waist. Harmon Coxe swept up the gun and turned, his face twisted and stiff. Then, once agen there came that explosion of sound and this time the room seemed to rock under Joyce and her ears rang with its fury. down hard; then the room was very quiet. . Fenner moved slowly up_ to him. The ‘fallen gun was but inches from his hand and the de- tective kicked it to one side with his toe and picked it up. “That’s what you get,” he said, speaking to no one in particular, “for trying to do a killer a favor. You plug him in the arm and then you have to cool him off anyway. I should’ve known better.” He glanced about, putting his gun away, and went over to the telephone, Joyce heard him talking but for another second or two she coul not take her eyes from Thorndike. His face was no longer twisted and stiff. There was a curious look of surprise in his eyes and the muscles of his jaw were slack. He glanced down at his right hand. There was a trickle of blood on the back of it, but though he tried he could not raise it; after that he put his left hand inside his coat and sat like that, holding his chest. Just Nerves OYCE shuddered as reaction shook her. Weakness: was eat- ing her strength, and while she fought for control of her senses she heard Delia. “Oh, it’s so horrible,” she sob- bed, “so horrible—” Ward turned her quickly away and his arms went about her. Joyce saw her slump and for a moment thought she had fainted. Then the sobbing quieted and her hands came. up and _ crushed Ward’s lapels and he bent his head. He began to talk, his lips close to her ear and his voice soft and husky and unintelligible to anyone but Delia. Kent's arm slid around Joyce’s Suddenly she became aware of his strength and put her arms about his neck because she | could not stop her trembling. He pressed her tight and she felt his hand stroke .er hair. “Steady,” he said. She held to him for long sec- onds and then released her arms and looked up, aware now that her eyes were brimming and his image blurred. “I'm. sorry,” “Just nerves.” | “You were magnificent.” He | smiled. “I’m sort of proud of she said. you. Ward Allen was talking louder. “Won’t' you go in and lie down awhile, darling?” Delia shook her head. “I'd rather not, really. I'll be all right.” 2 “Tll_get a touch of brandy, then.” He took her hands from his lapels and looked for a place where he could seat her. “Tll get it,” Joyce said. “You stay with her.” She went to the kitchen and found the brandy. She put a lit- tle in a glass and added water. When she returned to the living room Hestor was ‘sitting on the edge of the love seat., Her face seemed older now, the make-up sania against the pallor of her skin, “I wondered about you, Dean,” she was saying. “You were so; curious about my giving that | hundred thousand to Perry. I| wondered if you were so atten- | tive because you wanted to} Thorndike ‘staggered and sat | id | pair. ‘in the deep outskirts. | chores’as usual without Pesky in | whose 1942 efforts consisted of |Sockers probably have as much PAGE THREB are Ken Chase, Tex Hughson,| MANY POTATOES YEARLY | Dick Newsome, Mike Ryba, Yank | : PE i Eel \Terry, Joe Dobson and Oscar | | Judd. The catching department, as in| annually in 1942, should be .properly cared |HOWEVER. MANAGER COL. for by the seasoned Johnny 4 i ‘ock and Bill Conroy. infielders Eddie Pellag' ind LINS, SAYS CLUB ‘STILL Amene the others to be repre-' Aj Flair, cuiicidecs eek am IN’ JUNIOR LEAGUE jsented on the Red Sox’ service |bell and Andy Gilbert, who serv- \flag are pitchers Charley Wag- yed on.Red Sox farms for five or jner, Larry Powell, Earl Johnson, |six years without being given a |Mickey Harris and Bill Butland,|tryout by the parent club CHICAGO.—More than 3,000,+ 000 acres of potatoes are planted the United States, , Yielding 400,000,000 bushels. AP Features BOSTON, Feb. 5.—About _ all |General Manager Eddie Collins jof the Boston’ Red Sox will ad- mit nowadays, with mighty Ted |Williams, Dom DiMaggio and ‘Johnny Pesky off to the wats, | and Lou Finney “frozen” on his Alabama farm for the duration, is that the club still is in the American League. The departure of that quartet appears to have ruined both the outfield and infield beyond re-| The only experienced out- er gardener available is the light- | hitting Pete Fox. Man For Every Position The Sockers have - called up} such outfielders as Tom Mc-| Bride from Little Rock, Ford Garrison from Fort Worth, and John Lazor from Louisville which | means that, come what may, they will be able to man every position | Notice To Property Owners Important New Law Relating to Tangible Personal Property Taxes In Florida CAUTION: Under Chapter 20723, Laws of Fk of 1941, it is MANDATORY that every pers firm, cerpora- tion, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or other fiduciary owning or having control, management or custody of taxable personal property in the State of Florida, file an- nually a sworn Tangible Personal Property Tax Return with BS cas of the County in which such property is sit- uated. MERCHANTS—File returns on all equipment and inventories, etc. BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL MEN—File returns all furniture, fixtures, professional equipment and libra HOTEL and APARTMENT OWNERS—File returns on all furniture, fixtures and equipment. Name of lessees of concessions should be given on returns. LANDLORDS—File returns on value of furnishings in rental houses and show name of lessee on January 1, 1943 TENANTS—File returns on all household goods and per- sonal effects, claiming constitutional exemption, if eligible. To be eligible for exemption, applicant must be a citizen of Florida and head of a family. HOME OWNERS—File returns on all household goods and personal effects of family, claiming any exemption for which eligible. ACCOUNTANTS and ATTORNEYS—See that fiduciary returns, or other returns for your clients, are filed promptly. SECTION 34, Provides that “Any person who fails to make a tax return, as required by this Act, shall pay as a PENALTY, in addition to and as part of the tax, a sum equal to 10% of the tax found to be due.” The date of assessment is January 1, 1943. da, Acts furniture, fixtures, Such dependabes as Tony Lupien, Bobby Doerr and Jim Tabor have been classified in 3A groups .but they can not be ex-} pected to perform their infield the shortstop berth. Eddie Lake. a little ex-Car- | dinal farmhand from Sacra- | mento, has been obtained as Pesky’s replacement. But Lake cannot be expected to take up | the slack left by the .331-hit- | ting Pesky. now taking naval aviation training with Slugger Williams. Manager Joe Cronin probably will be forced to re- turn to his old shortstop berth, every now and then, to give his forces some extra punch, Utility infielder Tommy Carey, only one successful pinch-hitting | appearance, is married, but child- | less, and club officials do not ex- pect to have him long. Experienced Pitchers | As far as pitching goes, the} ___It is my sincere wish that we will not be forced to add a single penalty for failure to file returns. If returns are not filed, however, it is mandatory that the penalty be added. es Penalty is also added for property omitted from the re- urns. If you need a return form, phone 621, or send us a post- card and one will be mailed promptly. Forms available at office from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. INTANGIBLES—Must be returned between January Ist and April 1st, including equitable, beneficial and life interests in non-resident trusts and estates, annuities, royalties, stecks, bonds, mortgages, receiyables, bank accounts, cash on hand any other intangible =~ id owned. If not reported, 10% penalty is MANDATORY. ‘ All returns and applications for exemption must be filed by April Ist. Court House, Key West, Florida. experienced talent available as any of their American League rivals. Mace and Norman Brown | are expected to check into the Tufts College cage for spring training late in March. And so J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET | CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO. Monroe County Tax Assessor. Thorndike never stopped. one continuous movement tion training with Red.Socke aa Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky | _ their baseball | careers for the duration. i And so have Jim Wallace, Bob Detweilee, Sebby Sisti, Al Rob-| CONFINED TO TEMPLES | NEW YORK.—Up to the 15th handle the rest of my money.” To be continued BUILT IN 1816 | CHICAGO.—The first American) s. They are Al Glossop, 2b;! erage, Tommy Earley, Frank Mc- | century woodcarving in the Ori-| yacht to make a_ foreign cruise} anny Murtaugh, ss, and Merrill: |May, 3b. They are all 3-A’s. The all of whom saw conside others are first sackers Eddie Murphy from Trenton, and Levy who played with Kansas City. The Phils got Levy and ‘pitcher Gettel in a trade for First man Nick Etten. Outfield’s A Different Story But all cannot be hopeless, even with the Phils. Faces burdened} with gloom Jight up in the club's} front office at the slightest men-j tion of the outfield. Answering “here” when the roll is called are Danny Litwhiler, lf; Ear! Naylor, cf; Chuck Klein, and Roberto Or- | tiz, the Phil's candidate “rookie of | | Ortiz, a Cuban, is not subject to the draft and that doesn’t | make Gerry Nugent one bit unhappy. The 24-year-old cen- ter fielder played in 95 games / with Chattanooga in the South- ern Association last year and batted a mean .357 to lead the league, 5 Nugent said that he ex, take a squad of “about. spring training. He addé hopes to acquire about n tional players through “swaps” and direct purchase from other leagues. WRONG LINE FALL RIVER. — Getting into a line in order to buy a ticket to a movie, a man was surprised when the line led to a grocery store which had butter. He bought a half pound. | ONE OUT OF SEVEN BALTIMORE, — In South Af- rica one white man out of every seven is in the armed f Johnson, | ent was confined to the decoration | ‘lyea d Art (Lefts ives vend re Cely) able ser; | Of temples. vice with the Braves last season. —— | NAME APPLIED | | WASHINGTON, — Woodbine |a name applied in England to the i | honeysuckle and in America to = | the Virginia creeper. a Observation taken at 8:30 a. EW.T. (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours .- Lowest last night - Mean Normal -. eee Precipitation Rainfall 24 hours ending 8:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Feb. 1, inches Deficiency inches _. Total rainfall ' in-| r.! | Internal revenue collections 81 !crease 77 per cent for fiseal y 74] 78 | 10) = =] Ss 2 =) Ss since Feb. 1, ® 2 2 be} | since Jan. 1, > & Moonset * __ Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 12:10 a.m. 5:46 am. 12:06 p.m. 5:28 p.m. FORECAST Key West and Vicinity: Con tinued warm this afternoon and tonight. Florida: Continued warm this afternoon and tonight; showers extreme north portion. Hatteras, N. C., to Apalachi- cola, Fla: No small craft or! storm warnings have been is Phone No. 8 was built in 1816 and named Cleopatra’s Barge. u GREATEST BEFORE AR ¢ " NEW YORK.—Before the War} Germany was the greatest potato- raising country in the world, pro- ducing almost two billion bushels annuall, Subscrive to The Citizen. REAL ICE ASSURES USERS OF NAP man, W. A. M. Goode, climbed aboard ‘Admiral Sampson's flagship, The New York, off Key, West on April 20, 1898 and was greeted gruffly by the Admiral: “So you want to come aboard and get your head blown off! 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