The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 19, 1943, Page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1943, ——. MAJOR BASEBALL SERIES TO START TUESDAY WITH CEREMONIAL OPENER BY SENATORS AND All Teams Of Both Cir- cuits Scheduled To} Swing Into Action Wed-| nesday iuenos +) ‘Speelal to The, Citizen) NEW. YORK, April 19.—The two major baseball leagues are all set for the opening of the| 1943 war-studded season. The first game is slated ati Washington tomorrow when the; Senators of that American loop, city entertain the Philadelphia | Athletics at Griffith Stadium in| their customary ceremonial open- On Wednesday a full set of games is scheduled for the’ bgt og ‘both deagues as fol-! lo oso apn a a ; Amaijeah-fWashitigton me e York, Ape fon, at Philadelphia, | Detroit “Ad Gievélarta;\ Uthieago | at St. BGbis. GUUIOT A ¥ | National—St. { Louis,,.at Cin-| ‘einnati, New York at Brooklyn, | Philadelphia at Boston, Pitts- burgh at Chicago. Every club will take the field | minus one or more stars of last year because of the draft or war industries call for men or, because the piayers volunteered | for services in the armed forces of the United States, It is ‘not certain whether the majors will operate a full sea-j LORS REGAIN SERVICE LEAGUE SECOND PLACE TROUNCED BOCA CHICA AG-| GREGATION SATURDAY, 10 TO 1; LOSERS HELD TO, Two HITS | The baseball contingent of the} Naval Operating Base regained| undisputed possession of second | place in the American division of | the Island Service Men’s League} Saturday when it took the méas-| ure of Boca Chica 10-1. The victors jumped on three soldier hurlers for 11 hits. Two Were homers, one triple and aj double. A circuit blow for the; losers was one of their two bingles | for the day. ( The NOB started with a bang in! the initial frame when Art Meska, third baseman, connected for a round-tripper. They got two more in the second when Mickey Shovel, centerfielder, lived on an error, Robinson, leftfielder, and Dixon, second . baseman, , singled and came in ona hit by Wolfe, pitcher. 5 Three more Were’ Tetti'ded ink the third. Meska lived on a .misy, plhy, Red Bogart, shortstop, tripled and Schovel, glimaxed, proceedings, with a homer. In the Boca Chica half of the fous amamnetnests rst” bast man, hit a circuit blow for team’s lone score. This was fol- lowed by a single by Timko, the only other bingle for the losers all afternoon. The NOB kept firing when Cor- nelius, rightfielder, walked and with one out, three — succ ve hits rattled off the winners’ bats. | Stone, first baseman, singled, Meska doubled and Bogart sin-| gled for a trio of scores. Their last one came in the sixth. Stone singled again ‘and with two away he came in on a hit by Ralph Bar- bary, catcher. Stone, Meska and Bogart each| had two hits in four trips for the Naval Operating Base Borie at 5:30 the Sound School | is*blated to oppose the’ Marines. Tomorrow legy will meet NOB and Wednes- d@ Boca Chica will face the un | Key West since the late 1880's. |of the Key West Municipal Sta- { over the-winning tally. Poeccccccccccovcccccccoce By JOHN SELBY AP Features Writer MUNCIE, Ind., April 19.-This then, will be about Middletown in} the war. | It will be a different Middle- town from the one Robert and By |Helen Lynd saw in the middle ‘twenties when they assembled PEDRO AGUILAR | their famous study, “Middletown,” Sw or ten years later when they did Here's another column. in our) “Middletown jn Transition.” Haw of Basebait’ activities in] Then the Lynds used a quota- rey tion from Tawney to picture the attitude of Middletown in the de- | pression years: “... They walked reluctantly backwards into the fu- | ture, lest a worse thing should be- i 1 | fall them.” dium Committee to construct a modern sports palace on city | That superb line was written property in Flagler Avenue. Tt| about Europe's ruling class after was announced last week that the| the French revolution. Through first game at the new stad’um will) industrial ownership = two or aig Jayed in the near futwe. j three families “control” much of Gar asin has covered hap-| Middletown, but the quotation penings ini the national pastime | WS not meant by the patie to 4 3 the late 1880's up to apply strictly to these families here from 939. | Middletown’s population is 92 per mid-November of 1930. activi. | Cent native white — it is this ele- besinn stato cee ater |ment that will control, whichever ties on November 19, 9. | way it faces. . . . The Southwestern Limited is an hour late, running with s' ned bes over the strong Key bibs etal | windows through a_ snow storm. in a thritting the lead swayed The train is fu11 of soldiers and ‘rumbo Field. ie lea VERT cilors: 6 virls from one team tothe other Uatll Storm. the steps. Their arms are the final inning when the Sox put. fyi) of sandwiches and fruit for 1.4; / Soldiers and sailors. But the con- » Eloy. n herd peat in. ie auctor is a meanie and won't hold round,,and bio Acevedo singled | the train. to end. the game. | j MACK’S ATHLETICS FOLLOWING THROUGH This review started early last year, was prompted by the effurts On that date, the Blue Sox won Taxis Save Gas Armando Acevedo, a2 A boy says “Help you with your ‘ortstop, poled three safely, aS’ bag, Mister?” You are glad he did Eloy Acevedo and Gabriel| does — there is no ta “Naw,” Garcia for the victors. says the boy, “they won't come to Albio Acevedo, Gabriel.and Je-| the depot without they have two sus Garcia for the Sox, Baker, ‘or three fares. Saves gas.” Armando Acevedo and Jackie; Slipping and sliding, we reach | Carbonell for the Conchs were| the Roberts Hotel. The lobby is; outstanding on the field. ' deserted, it being Sunday, except core: R. H. E.| for six handsome gi in long} Conchs 001 120 000—4 8 1) white gowns who seem to have} Sox 001 100 111—5 12 3! been flung over the sofas, waiting Baker and C. Griffin; Gates and! for a magician’s word to come to} G. Garcia. | life. aes Two-base hits: Villareal, E. Ace-| “Sorority initiation,” explains vedo, J. Garcia, E, Garcia, Pie} the clerk, and the spell is flicked raynor; three-base hits: E. Al-| away. si une E. Acevedo; stolen bases: E.| Room. 426 is so hot I open the | Albury, Torres; umpires; Griffin] window and turn on the electric | MIDDLETOWN AMERICA—1943 and Sevilla. é 000 € In a second game that afternoon, the Trojans downed the ‘Pirates, 15 to 4. In this contest, Johnny Nevarr: hit four safely. Williant, Cates, Anthony Kelly and Izzy Rodriguez each poled two. hee Johnny Navatro Wahéier’*éigit chances at short without an er- } ror. R. H. E. 004 200 306—15° TS" "5 000 000 022— 410 5 Mal- Score: Trojans Pirates _ Wickers and Rodriguez; grat, Salinero and Ogden. H off: Malgrat.6 in 3 innings; two-base hits: Cates, Wickers, E. Garcia, F.. Lopez 2;.umpifes: Geo. Acevédo and Sevilla. Qo0 Standings. in the: Monroe Coun- ty Baseball League after the above games: Club— Trojans | Pirates Conchs Blue Sox » 2 Det. 667 444 444 -222 On November 26 of 1939, An- i thony Kelly’s bat and the pitching jof Dickey Navarro gave the Tro- jans a victory over the Blue Sox, |7to 1. It was the sixth straight triumph for the Trojans. The second game of the after- noon w the Key West Conchs and Pirates battle to a 1-1 tie. Both, the,Conchs and Bucs scor- ed a run in the opening round but m there on out, Joe (House) ‘and Salinero ‘staged apitch- battle that was long remem- irst of the tenth, when the aggregations claimed rules and regulations were being violated, the opposing players put every- thing they had in the game to pre- vent either from scoring. After the charges and ‘counter-charges of breaking rules and regula- no contest” but later shouted “Play Ball” following his decision | to resume action. Then it was too a number of the players | ad left the field. The game re- mained for league officials to de- cide its outcome. Sevillathad been umpire-in-chief until the/ninith when a foul tip off the 60th Coast Artil+ | the Bat 6f Rene Machin hit him inj | the shoulde®!“Hé'suffered a brok- en. oti boas “Hemty. Mayg made eated Coast Guard, & Modern Youth Visitor—I suppose, Joany, that | you are expecting Santa Claus to fill your stockings with all sorts| of nice presents? (The boy was from Boston) Joany (age six)—Assuredly not. | > a Claus myth in- to the discard years ago, Ihave no| sympathy with those, either young | or old, who are obsessed by such an antiquated and obsolete com- plex. Cripps fears totalitarian vival even in defeat of foe. sur-| a collectipft. ig the spectato: R. H. E. expenses foi oe 100 000 000-1 7 2 100 000 000—1 7 3 and C. Griffin; Salinero, and M. Acevedo. ase hits: Lopez, Al. Ace- J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET Conchs Pirate C Malgrat Two-| tions were made, umpire-in-chief | | TRIUMPH fan. I’m tougher than I think after | weeks of a thermostat set at 60| degrees, No shortage of heat here | the hotel is on’ city steam. No} before dinner drink, either. In- diana is sober on Sunday, and the; drys aré fighting in‘ the legislature | ‘for local option once more, i For dinner no beef—chicken, The dining'room is , quiet, thick- | carpeted, comfortable, and warm. ‘The war is suggested only by a tactful. reminder that the manage- ment will. keep a sugar-bowl on the'table just as'long as the guests use it patriotically. 3 After dinner, church — and on ithe way the city’s first war cas- lualty in business, an empty piano f store. f Church Reminds Of Taxes Dr. J. Marion Smith’s first} Baptist Church is Indiana Gothic outside and in. You get a hand-} shake in the vestibule, and an in- | | vitation to go further front from | /the pulpit. Dr. Smith is a pally man with a beautiful voice. He | an expounder of the Scripture, out | H i | | —| vedo, Villareal; stolen bases: Bak- er, A. Acevedo, MaBchin and Lo- | | pez; umpires: J. Griffin, Sevilla} jand Geo. Acevedo. | O00 Score of the first game: R. H Trojans 000 202 210—7 11 Sox. . 000 010 000—1 6 D. Navarro.and ; Joe Navarro; | Diaz and’G: Garcia. “Two-base hits: | Alonzo; stolen bai Pie Traynor, | | Alonzo, Kelly, E. Acevedo; um-| pires? Sevilla and Griffin. | | E. 4 2 Kelly, Cates, | On December 1, averages of leading ‘players on teams’ in the Monroe County ; | Baseball League were announced | las follows: Conchs—M. Griffin, .416; Villa- real, .456; A. Acevedo, .339; E. A bury, .319; Cyril Griffin, Barcelo, .420; J. Carbonell, k | Trojans—Cates, .38! Sterling, 359; Davila, .333; Navarro, -303; I. Rodriguez, .303. Pirates—Al. Acevedo, .285; P. Carbonell, .275; E. Ogden, .282; M. Hernandez, .247; M. Acevedo, 240. Blue Sox—G. Garcia, .262; J. Garcia. ,280; H. Gates, .285: Alvio Acevedo, .285; Eloy Acevedo, Castellano, .224; Molina, .217; P. | ter Castro, .233. | 1939, batting TO BE CONTINUED STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE COFFEE ta | | SUMMER SESSIONS | Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. | | and Sat., 2:30 - 4:30 | | very Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m | SKATE for HEALTH’S SAKE Phone $11¢ IIPIPIPAAPIIIIPIPIPSIIILSAAPATTATIFSTVIACALLLILLZALLALAZLALLALLLLLBZELLZLLLLELLLLZBZLLELLLALLELLLLAL LL 7 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SCoceccccccccccoccccecoce of patience with ministers who re- |View books in the pulpit. When the collection is taken he makes remark about giving while it's still possible, meaning taxes will get you if you don’t watch out. He! pronounced the benediction, and I went to a movie. The church was a quarter full. The movie was five-quarters full, And hot. The news reel was: ig- nored for the most part. New con- gressmen were not applauded. Af- rican war scenes were taken in comparative silence. Clare Booth Luce got a whistle from | with one foot braced against the sliding, «Buck brought cheers, not all juve- | had conversation with a short or-} n urchin | blowing on hands and lis- | back of my neck and Donald|tening to hundreds of civilians, | nile. }der man, was accosted once, and} They all liked the feature pic-| passed two sailors and four sol-! ture, which showed Charles! diers. Both sailors and two of the Laughton, Brian Donlevy and Rob- | soldiers had girls. ert Taylor running a section of| Muncie-Middletown just hasn't the N, in about that order of) gone to war, I thought as I opened proficiency. Then I took a walk. | my window to let the heat out. Lights Aglow | On the Atlantic seaboard we The streets were about as popu-| have war once removed; here it is lated as Fifth Avenu on a winter| war at two removes. There was week night. Neon signs blossom: East Adams street, packed with! in Muncie-Middletown, traffic cars for blocks at 5 of the after-| lights are full and round instead | noon. There was the woman on the of frail crosses of red and green. ; street who had said to another wo- Houses blaze with lights and the, man, “No, dear. Indianapolis is no smell of soft coal blisfully burn- drive at all+we’'ll be there in an ing hangs over the city. , hour and a half.” In 30-odd blocks of walking, | But I was wrong. War has hit POINCIANA BOY SCOUT TROOP HOLDS SESSION By DALE ELLIS The Boy Scout Troop No. $i, meets at Poinciana Place, held its regular session on Tuesday nigth. The meeting was opened 7:30 o'clock by the Scoutma and the a tant scoutmaster, wi the reciting of the Scout Oat and Scout Laws. 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