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| MONDAY, JUNE 7, “WIN AND CUBS , 1948 : FOURTEENTH INNING. ATOS ‘The Citizen) NEW vox June 7.—The Brooklyn Dodgers | defeated the ‘Chicago ‘an 11-inning game by a score of 4 to 3 in the | Opening contest’ of a double bill. game: was attended by more _ than 30,000 fans. The Cubs took the nightcap, 11 to 5. é ae Janette home run in the if of the ninth inning by Mccormick, »frineipnall ras cae play rk hangs ofa Vay rag sunday before the Reds won, 4 t The | eland Indians and the Philadelphia. Athletics divided poe lea ina double bill, the Phila- jians taking the first game, awe to 5, with the Indians shutting out the letics in the second game, 5 to 0, The results of the games fol-} Na ‘ At Cincinnati R. m 3 Beeps ae 4 Aa § Becond game—Boston at Cin- ¢innati, postponed. * First Game At Pittsburgh INew York ittsburgh Melton, Trinkle, Adams, Coombs and Lombardi; Klinger and Lo- pez. Second Game At Pittsburgh lew York Brooklyn .. ago... Wyatt, Macon and Owen; au and Hernandez. Baas SO Second Game At Chicago Brooklyn Chicago ' Davis and Moore; Todd. ‘ R. H. E. 0 aoe Bithorn and ‘ First Game At St. Louis Philadelphia P St. Louis pai ae Gs (Called, end of fifth) Johnson and Livingston; Bree- chen, Dickson and O’Dea. N R. H. EL hts Be. Second Game—Philadelphia at St. Louis, postponed. At ‘ior ga imal R. H. E. Cleveland 200 | Philadelphia 12 13 0 Salveson and Desautels; Wolff, Burrows and Swift, Wagner. Second Game At Philadelphia Cleveland - Philadelphia 041 Reynolds, Dean, Heving and Rosar; Christopher, Fagan, Black; and Swift, Wagner. First Game At Boston Chicago .310 0 Boston + 4B 2) Grove, Haynes and Tresh; Judd! and Partee. i Second Game At Boston Chicago Boston Wade, Maltzberger and Terry, Karl and Monroy. First Game At Washington Detroit . Washington Trout, White, Richards, Parsons; f quel and Early. Second Game At Washington Detroit 91 Washington .812 2 Overmire, Trucks and Parsons; Candini, Mertz and Giuliani, Early. R. H. E. 5 eer 270 381 TT ‘urner; Henshaw and Pyle, Carras- R. H. E. 4 First Game At New *York St. Louis 161 New York 2 OES penal and oe Doh- R. HE. »|nounced Pedro Aguilar, writer, had selected the leading| c PEDRO ‘Rabi kh a —— Heres’ another chapter of gt ur late gt ae present review of the national pastime in Key West. Inspired last year by the renew- ed efforts of the Municipal Sta- dium Committee to construct a modern sports palace on city-own- ed property in Flagler Avenue, this review has covered all activi- ties from the late 1880’s up to De- cember of 1940. Today We continue With the 21st day of that month. On December 21, 1940, Jesse Sollenbarger, ace Marine Corps moundsmen, set a high mark for Key West pitchers during 1940, it was announced: Sdllenbarger, a nifty basketball player also, struck out 73 batters | base. in forty innings, an average of al-} most two an inning. The nearest record ‘to Sollen- barger’s was that of Robert Beth-} | struck. out 32 batters and walked nine in 34 innings. Other records of pitchers in the| county league were: Malgrat, 40 so’s in 42 innings; 20. bb's. Baker, D} Bb's. ae “Casa, 11 so’s in 13 innings, “bbs. sete Butler, 15 so’s in 18 innings, 4 16 so’s in 20 innings, 8! Wickers, 14 so’s in 12 innings, 4 bb's. bb's. C. Albury, 12 so’s in 20 innings, 10 bb's. ; H. Gates, 8 so’s in 16 innings, 8 bb's. ‘ Kitchin, 8 so’s in 20 innings, 10 + | bb’s. J. Carbonell, 4 so’s in 8 innings, | 2 bb's. salinery: 11 so’s in 12 innings, 4 Da 10 so’s in 10 innings, 2 , Molina, 12 so’s in 12 innings, 4 bb's. 000 Other records: Baker stole 12 bases, Acevedo | 11, Cates 10. Barcelo, Ward and Sterling each | hit two home runs. Acevedo, Cates and Villareal, one each. Cates» and Acevedo each. hit eight sacrifices. Cates poled the most two-bag- bers, 6; A. Acevedo 5, Baker, J. Navarro, Sollenbarger and Carbonell, 4 each. A. Acevedo hit the most triples, | 6; Baker and Cates, 5 each; E. Al- bury, C. Griffin, Barcelo, Sterling and Villareal, 3 each. 000 Cates won batting average hon- ors for the year, .425. Other bat- ters claimed high averages but} did not appear at bat as many; - | times as Cates. Averages: Player— | E, Albury jAlonzo _. J. Navarro Wickers _ C. Garcia - Wm. Cates A. Acevedo - jSterling — Villareal - J. Carbonell Lucilo Gonzalez Sollenbarger - M. Acevedo _ }Al. Rodriguez - jeer Barcelo _ |M. Hernandez - C. Garcia - A. Kelly E. Rueda J. Torres - Al. Acevedo *|C. Griffin J. Garcia — On January 1, 1941, Eee PRORONESIVOMSwW Sb Bs. peace Se o Be aon Bren SSS oven on _ — SSSS.aBaRnrsssss bes AWRARH NR OOD A wees. { it was an- sports | baseball players. in Key West dur- fn 1940 on an All-Star team: Joe Navarro, Coast Guards, catcher. Sollenbarger, Marines, pitcher. Julio Barcelo, Corichs, first base. | Wm. Cates, Conchs, second base. Esmond Albury, Trojans, third ! ald and Hemsley. Second Game At New York Ist. Louis |New York 3 6 Sundra, Potter and Ferrell:| Borowy and Sears. _—__ TWO HOTELS IN LOCATED IN HEART OF CITY " Rates ROOMS Write or Wire for Reservations WITH BATH AND TELEPHONE FORD HOTEL ie a eon Br N.E. Ist Avenue 00 Rooms - Elevator Heated 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION FouowiNG THROUGH | Washington - el, Key West Conch hurler, who | bb's. | \ McKay, 10 so’s in 9 innings, 2| Morter, 8 so’s in 9 innings, 4 bb's.) Zr | Revels and McCrawley, psi SRRSSSREF Philadelphia ._ New York Chicago BESS Club— New York - Detroit Chicago . Philadelphia Cleveland - Boston St. Louis +382 ‘Armando ” Acevedo, Conchs, shortstop. Julius Villareal, | field. Lucilo Gonzalez, Conchs, center field. Philip Baker, Conchs, rightfield. Utility—Cyril Griffin, Conchs, eateher and outfielder. Robert Bethel, Conchs; McKay, Coast |Guards; ‘Wickers, Trojans, and Revels, Coast Guard, pitchers. Clayton Sterling, young Trojan, | was second best..for first base. | Jackie Carbonell, Al. Acevedo and P. Baker were selected to fill in ‘at second, Mario Hernandez at 'third.. Juani Navarro was picked for understudy to A. Acevedo at) short. In the gardens, IIVTIFTIAOLLLLLLL LL Conchs, left- Ernest | Ogden, with some of the other players already mentioned. The second club was made UP | of Cyril Griffin behind the plate, Robert Bethel and McKay in the; box, C. Sterling at first, Al. Ace-} vedo at second, M. Hernandez at} third, Juani Navarro at short, E. Ogden, Evelio Rueda and J. To! |res for outfield duty. 4! | On January 13, 1941, many soft jand hard ball players left with? the local National Guard unit for | Galveston, Tex., called to the col- ors by. President Roosevelt. The Key Westers were stationed at Ft. Crokett, Tex. Among the diamond players were Sgts. Oscar Wood, Clyde | Stickney, B. J. Weite and Mathews Zacal; Corporals Blondel Han- cock, Andrew Navarro and Floyd Viljareal; Private First. Class Charles (Flesh) Mendoza and Ern- est Ogden; Privates Eloy Ace- vedo, Frank Aritas and Jesus Garcia. On January 13, 1941, it was an-} nounted that Pedro Aguilar, sports writer, planned sporting bah a for January 30 to raise funds for the fight against infantile paraly- sis. H On February 23, 1941, the Coast Guard Cutter Pandora Bears de- feated a baseball club off the | U.S.S. Dickerson, 5 to 1. of the Bears, held the destroyer boys to a lone hit, while the Bears got to Reese and Morgan for.six safe blows. McKay of the Guards hit @ Single and double to lead his ites. Revels struck out eight batters in three innings. McCrawley whiffed 16 in the last six frames. Joe Navarro, Key West sailor yond the plate for the Bears, credited with 24 putouts. R. H. E.} . 500 000 000—5 6 5 erson .. 000 100 000—1 1 1 els, MicCawley and Joe Na- varro; Reese, Morgan and De-| Naples, \ as ees ae TO BE CONTINUED STATE FLOWER | CHICAGO.—The mountain lau- rel is the state flower of Connecti- cut. — WV VV Ver wer rrrwe Your Grocer Sells THAT GOOD STAR * BRAND _|HASTY MOVES BY WAR MAN-! THE KEY WEST “JOB FREEZE” STIRS CONGRESS | the edict. Organized labor was sharply critical of the jeye on its method. There were | bor groups and the solons were POWER COMMISSION |set to take some lusty punches at | the order when WMC announced STARTS ARGUMENT its ae revision to allow lo- jeal U. |fices to certify “separations” from By JOHN GROVER obs. (Ry Associated Press) moves by the War Manpower com-| ovement to draft industrial la- bor. (Recent polls indicate the mission to modify the “job Freeze” |majority of U. S. citizens believe! order affecting 27,000,000 Amer-' some form of labor draft inevit-} ieans in essential industry mir-j able), Sen. Austin was the first | rored mushrooming criticism of! to.comment on the WMC freeze! that this authority, order. ; Senator Austin said the order order’s content.} simply emphasized the need for} was intended to curb i | Congress looked with a, jaundiced | national service legislation to be| was not specifically | passed by Congress. The WMC or-} step in the right direction, emas- culated in effectiveness by no | clear authority. In later amplification of his! S. Employment Service of-| comment, Senator Austin pointed | fices, which McNutt j out that Manpower Commission- \er McNutt drew his authority at Senator Austin (R-Vt.) is one|third hand from the War Powers} servers predict the WASHINGTON, June 7.—Hasty j of the leaders of a Congressional} Act, under which President Roose-j uation will last just velt delegated his grant of pow- er by Congress to “assistant pres- ident” James Byrnes, who in turn passed it on to McNutt. | It is widely said in Congress | was valid only indi the Congressional gra hand ¢ awr toc jcontrol the movement labor | rumblitigs that indicated the la-| der he held to be merely half a| groups. The “modification” of the job freeze order 48 hours after its is- suance, in effect, nullifies much of the original order. If USES a junderstaffed, are to the freeze ukase, Capitol H prcexl job sit- about as rated by p: ice cube j under the heat ge: sure groups as an jfrying pan. 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