The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1946, Page 3

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25,. jose the Reiders in the Winter | wehbe League. In the first Ba: Cruz, p tT ¢ New. Pilots Give Baseball Its Biggest Shakeup Since 1939 By FRANK ECK . AP Newsteatures Sports Editor YORK.—When the 16 major league teams take the field HE KY WEST CITIZEN - | was appointed manager of the} Browns after the season closed:| BISHOP'S STORTFORD, Eng. N for the 1947 pennant fights five of the clubs will be piloted by }7 1. Sewell had resigned a/—(AP)—One hundred and twen. managers who last spring held other baseball jobs. This is baseball's biggest brain trust shakeup since 1939 when } six clubs started out under new leaders. In that year the National League race opened with new managers in Brooklyn (Leo Du- rocher), St. Louis (Ray Blades), Philadelphia (Doc Prothro) and Chicago (Gabby Hartnett). All but Prothro finished in the first divi- sion that season. | In the American League in °39, ‘month before the finish, Ruel|ty Czéehs, aged 16 to 20; are now caught 149 games for Washington | well into the first course at Czech when Harris led the Senators: to} College’ in the country mansion the 1924 American League fiag|of Hassoubury Park. and world’s championship. Hey ee, Sages ae Wile g i: t e Lyons is a Chicago favorite tober and will continue until from way back. His entire ca- next August. i ized. by the Workers’ reer as a pitcher covers 21 years. - all with the White Sox. He took} Academy. of Prague, financed by t—_____—. | Neun’s only big league piloting !experience came his way when | Dickey resigned from the Yankee! j job with three weks of the 1946 jseason remaining. However, Neun, } j who has been connected with the | | Yank organization since 1932, has managed four of their farm teams. _.. \Balt Field Given Pace ___iCity Clerk’s Working 6 to Pat <6 a solitary figure could be: tering the Municipal ‘not to emerge until. close te two hours later, If the people who saw this individual go into the bal! park, had been inquisitive enough they could’ have followed him and witnessed a strange sight for that hour of the morn- ing. They would have seen. a com- paratively little man working feverishly at great piles of clay dumped on the playing field. With pick and shovel and other implements he tore at the stub- Czechoslovak ‘government| born substance and _ distributed — the i Sex edged out| Totals— 5 | Del Baker led the Detroit Tigers } ~y ; to 4, to earn a tie Aj to fifth place and the St. Louis} é. Place with the Pi-'Valdez, ss - 3.1 0 0 0| Browns finished last under Fred J, Navarro. 4 1-012 1|Haney. Of the six men, only Du- ou came from behind in ie igi 3 1 1 4 ojrocher still manages in the ma- tame ok Pron to score five la. Acevedo, 3b 4 0 3 2 6f{iors. The way things shape up ry * ts, an error and Rueda, If 3 1 2 1 Ojhe’ll be with Brooklyn a long pe. vities. They didn't score Davila, rf 7 9 1 1 gi time, — _ bow renwal oo sre rd 3 3 40 0 1 0! Probably the toughest job for “on ice” by ni > scopy -$20 et 2 0 0 0 Ol the new pilots is the one facing = scoring | Higgenbotham, p.1 0 0 0 2 ‘mes on six hite,@ walle and an | C Albury, p20 001 Stanley (Bucky) Harris, who are ra Be ee started out this year as general ob oe ery Se Totals— ==: 28 4 7 21 12! manager of Buffalo in the Inter- aoa tev tee Raiders woth bs a ee by innings: R. H. E.| national League and wound up as , ' ; Blue Sox ..... 300 102 0—6 5 field boss of the New York Yan-; herged with the loss. He was Trojans 100 ‘ viet of the Pirates’ on-| Errors: Albio Mom bares. totem the fifth inning. Pan-'Armando Acevedo, Dukes: runs- fen Salinero pitehed steady ball, batted in: E. Acevedo, Lopez 2, te Bucs, annexing hig first: Fernandez, G. Vidal 2, Armando! £777" wm of the season. Acevedo 2, Rueda; three-base , — Scored Pirst hit:. Berg; stolen bases: M. Ace- tet Headers drow first blood vedo, Abreu; sacrifice: Abreu; the third inning on Julius double plays: Lopez to A. Ace- Dudu Villaveal's double, an in- vedo to Vidal, Navarro to Duke wt, and Baker's squeeze Davila to Navarro; left on base: They added two more in Blue Sox 4, Trojans 7; bases on « foeeth on DeWitt Guster) balls: off Cruz 4, off: Higgen-| Hobert’ single, Mario Hernandez’ botham 3, off C. Albury 2; struck | § we ond William (Butch) Cates’; out: by Cruz 3; by Piaeermomiam || iB: kees. Less than an hour after Larry im) quecre bunt 1, by C. Albury 3; hits: off Hig- Pirates then tallied five runs in genbotham 3 for 4 runs in 4 ie pes te om an error, singles by ‘nings, off C. Albury 2 for 2 runs| ey | Alonzo ond Garcia, and-in 3 innitigs; wild pitches: Hi by Salinero, Lastres and. genbotham 2, Cruz 1 pane ball wer. They added six more Berg; winning pitcher: Cruz; los- © the mnth to secure the ball’ing pitcher: C. Albury; umpire:! gate : Bethel; scorer: Castaneda; time tendo Redriguez, Pirate back-) of game: 2.00. top. led the Bues’ attack with a hewhie and two singles in five Marto Hernandez, Raider BUCKY HARRIS N. Y. Yankees new pilot, there was some off-the- SECOND GAME }—Akron, O., Norfolk, Va., New- j ark, N. J., and Kansas City. He is ; 46 and writes soccer in baseball's | off season for the Baltimore Sun. { Neun replaces Bill McKechnie ; who resigned at Cincinnati to ac- ;cept a job as coach and No. 1 | ‘aide to Manager Lou Boudreau in Cleveland. i Ruel, who was special assistant } , to Commissioner Happy Chandler, £ MacPhail announced Harris as his: { BILLY HERMA! Pittsburgh Pirates MUDDY RUEL St. Louis’ Browns { These men will lead. major league baseball teams in spring training drills next year for the first time. ever as boss man of the pale hose late in May after Jimmy Dykes ‘resigned. Herman, a favorite in Chicago. and Brooklyn, finished the season! playing first base for the Boston Braves. He. was traded to Pitts- burgh for Bob Eltiot so that he could aecept the job as manager of the Pirates. He succeeds Fran kie Frisch who resigned. r. ocr and aided. by Britain, the courses will be. held every ten months. Births Gain 16,000 In Month In Japan TOKYO. —(AP)-— Living is precarious in Japan and yet the population grows. There were 193,526 births and 117,513 deaths in September. Noting that September’s births served:, “This is an ir phenomenon in these days, when birth’ control is supposed to be popular.” TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Congresswoman Helen G. Doug- ton, N. J., 46 years ago. Laurence Stallings, playwris author, born in Macon, Ga., years ago. Prof. Bliss Perry, lish, born in Williamstown, Mas. 86 years ago. Roy A. Roberts of Kansas Cit JOHNNY NEUN Cincinnati Reds bern at Muskotah, Kans., years ago. Capi. Georg onetime. governor of Guam, bor in. Youngstown, Ohio, 57 yea at e J. McMillin, USN, n go. Charles Francis Coe of Palm Beach, Fla., novelist-lawyer, born in Buffalo, N. Y., 56 years ago. Promotion At a Texas army camp, a long- eared, sad-eyed-mule named Brad had done his work well and faith~ fully. Just’ before the outfit TED LYONS Chicago White Sox of promotions for the enlisted personnel was placed on the bul- letin board. Beneath it, the.men tacked on = (Ca i e e | 3rd Tilt Tonight | The third game of the benefit! iseries between the American Le-. ps, Legion Play |School Cage Loop a resolution: “Whereas, the mule, Brad, has performed acts beyond the call of duty, and, whereas, he has gained the respect and admiration of this company, be it resolved that, henceforward, he shall be ad- dressed by the more digniti To Start Tonight The first practice games of the newly-organized High School were 16;000 more than August’s,| the newspaper Jiji Shimpo ob-) las of Los Angeles, born Boon-} Harvard's | i famed professor emeritus of Eng-) Mo., newspaper publisher-editor, | shipped fo roverseas, a long list | it aroud the base paths. Gradually the playing field took on a new appearance, The clay,, a special type brought in from Miami, gave a good, solid surface to the baselines. The outfield was planted with grass and will be carefully reared to provide a smooth green car- pe All in all, the Municipal | Stadium has had its face lifted. Credit for this. achievement | goes to Roy Hamlin, president of i the Stadium Committee, whose lloused hands are deep in his at the City Hall as City H from 9 to 5 daily. Hamlin jis the man who has been getting jup before 5:30, rushing out to the | ball park at 6 o'clock and work- jing by the sweat of his brow un ul 7:45 xen he goes home, take ja sho , and goes to the City | Hall. ; A result of this one man’s j work the ball diamond has been ed with 100 cubic yards lly hard-paeking clay, i from the Greenberg aping Company of Miami. amlin had the dump trucks of e-H. C. Sennett Trucking firm vernier dump each of seven | truckloads at a certain spot on | the diamond, and then he spread {it around, tamped it down and worked it over with the care of !an artist working on a canvas | Roy will smile at this descrip- | tion, but the fact is the city in gene and ball players in par Merrill C. Meigs of Chicago, | ticu jar owe a lot to this Hamlin newspaper publisher, born at; SUY for what he has done for Maicolm, Iowa, 63 years ago. | baseball in the city. Many will (not forget that it was he who | sp ked the move which turned city dump into the municipal adium. And if some Northern {ball club selects Key West as its | spring training site, hand the or- | chids to Roy. His work on the field just dur- ting the past three weeks would j have cost a couple of hundred | dollars. The material and truck ‘ing alone cost $500. Roy explains | his indefatigable energy and con- cern for the Stadium like this: | Some guys have the golf bug Some take to drink, bridge ot | poker. Personally, my weaknes ‘is baseball.” Fortunately for Key | West, it might be added te hurd seeker, topped the losers Paes - ‘ * PO A! record speculation that Bucky Blue Sex Scored Early are 4 3 2 2 ‘ 4 tract. That’s because MacPhail in the first game, the Blue Sox: Rodriguez, Ree ReGen eG had three Yankee managers this umped on the Trojans’ new 16 Albury, 3b Cn ie a oni a a year—Joe McCarthy, Bill Dickey yeor-old piteher, Paul Higgen-'¢, Hernandez, ib. 5 1 116 0 and Johnny Neun. All three a Bag ‘Go ponies nig ee ise = 129) 05 08 a he other four new mentors will v r v ntor: v te take an early lead. A walle (gence : 3 A 5 #ilesa major league teams in spring od singles by Villareal, Albio is Zi — — — — —{ftraining for the first time next + ay ~- Tonga Lopez netted them, 6tais— 38 11 12 27 15|™ 2 . anak erence ce ry * ‘ nati Reds; Ted Lyons, icago Trojans came back in their half, aS te ia a White Sox: Billy’Herman, Pitts- f the first to tally a lone run Ont Adanao, vt #0210 burgh Pirates and Harold (Mud- om error and A. Acevedo's single. (Boyer. pce 2 0 0 1 3/.4¥) Ruel, St. Louis Browns. Sex edded another run in the + Sterling, ty a OA 0 fourth ining without the aid of; ¥ nies y MI}. iia: « aafe blow. M. Acevedo Walked ee ee andaay os ‘ : 2 . Slevveyevererrerr ey Wee seerificed to second, went to" ” ‘ feed om a passed ball and scored Sarmone’ ad : : ‘ 4 3 : FOLLOWING men infield out. ae 4 Trojans crossed the plate once oer It =f : ‘ : THROUGH ein in thelr half of the fourth »~P pas “ m songies by Rueda and Davila, oa Pepe AS a y y waih and a fieldet’s choice. | 20M te tT El PEDRO AGUILAR 7 tied the score in the 000 050 006—11 12 — Pirates Gf) on two walks, a fielder’s i . © Raiders _. 001 200 000— 3 8 3 z oa -s ia le Sipe Errors: Salinero, Roberts, Cates, EEE etch melted. tlicms Wok ree ee oar cae Las tres 2, Garcia 2, Santana, Rod- riguez 2, Albury, C. Hernandez 2, Salinero, Baker, M. Hernandez, Sex then took the lead once atssasesseseeeeea@ gion and Bottie Cap Inn will be Basketball League will be play- Tuesday night when Arthurj played at 8 o'clock tonight ated tonight in the High School (Ah! Ah!) Lunn relieved Clar-| Bayview Park. The Bottlers oe eee cach The eerie game + Vi a i et under way at 7 p.m. ence (Cigarette Willie) Gates in. the opening game, 6 to 1, and the ee ee 3 : 4 he 5 | The games slated for tonight: the sixth, he pitched like he did, Legion took the second, 5 to 2.| be 8 First team to win four games _ Wolverines vs. Catholic Youth | His curves were | rf . Center; Wildcats vs. Porter-Allen | takes the series. here in 1935. Co. (8 p.m.) and Raiders vs. the hi orse.”” Likes Him It was the first day of a new] te term and the teacher small girl, a new pupil, what her | _-_--_—__~ name of Bradford, and that he is} hereby promoted to the rank of | ¢,, | th asked Tree nd of his first term F George Washington w drawn by $1,042.69-—and left at the end of his second 1 without drawing $3,908 that ng tot } dent fic aj was c¢ egein in their half of the sixth on « single by Fernandes, an error, an outfield fly and Man- Cates; two-base hits: D. Lastres, Rodriguez, Salinero, J. Villareal; three-base hits: M. Hernandez 2; breaking and he demonstrated he stili has “the stuff’. Lunn al- ‘lowed five hits in four innings he Hancock is slated to pitch for | Conchs (9 p.m.). ;the Bottlers and Rosam or Tynes a i for the Legion. Proceeds go ‘ol Officials for the games will be: father’s name was “Daddy,” replied the child. A SS OLS A ELISA EIR APS | Your Grocer SELLS That GOOD ele Acevedo's theft of home, netting them two runs. Aibio Acevedo led the . Blue Sox ot bat with One (hit in‘ two ttieval wily "to the plate. Ar-ts Req Raiders 6; bases on balls: meando Acevedo led the losers’ at-} o¢¢ Baker 2, off Meador 2, off tack by collecting three singles in Salinero 1; struck out: by Baker w official trips to the plate. 2, by Meador 3, by Salinero 5; hits: off Baker 6 for 5 runs in 5 inings, off Meador 6 for 6 runs LEAGUE STANDINGS in 4 innings; winning pitcher: stolen base: D. Lastres; sacrifices: | Machin, Baker 2, Carbonell, €ateg; double play: D. Lastres to Hernhndez; left on bases: Pirates Salinero; losing pitcher: Baker; (Including Game of a ee umpires: Malgrat and Bethel; 8 . "1 , i 3 1.750. Scorer: Castaneda; time of game: Pirate 2 2 500,215. Biue S 2 2 500 = 5 - : 1 3 .250) Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) 1758—John Armstrong, Revolu- f! tionary soldier, U.S. senator, sec- retary of war, author of historic “Newburgh Letters”, seeking jus- | 2W the Sugar Bowl seat) tice for Revolutionary veterans, | sly gil 75,000 seiple? born at Carlisle, Pa. Died April) ; Leo Durocher offered) 1, 1843. | the managership of the Yankees?| 1816—Lewis M. Rutherford, | 4 What was the score of the, famed physicist of his genera- Army-Navy game last year? | tion, born at Morrisania, N. Y. * Did Ulinois beat Indiana this} Died May 30, 1892. 1835—Andrew Carnegie, famed One-Minute Sports Quiz | What was the number 0 fest downs for both teams in the} Army-Ivish clash? - steel maker, who tried to give THE ANSWER: away most of his wealth for pub- 1. 11 for the Irish, 9 for the lic good, born in Scotland. Died | Army Aug. 11, 1919. | 1846—(100 years ago) Carry} Amelia M. Nation, militant Kan- | 4. Reports say that he was. sas prohibitionist, hatchet-famed | 4. 32 to 13, Army. ; wrecker of saloons, a 6 feet tall,| 5 No, Indiana beat Tinois by | 175 pounds woman, often clubbed | vue ‘and shot at, born in Garrand Co., “aaa i 9, 1911. hance {Ky. Died June 9, ; It see a. sir, but I’ 1869—Benjamin (Ben) B. Lind- sow very little about getting: sey, juvenile court system pio- “ born in Jackson, Tenn. Died —" nan. , ner, . Sw Bg a iii gia's' in Los Angeles, March 26, 1943. ; po es wendfather, “don’t let anything ; a tainaa Eines you—the family has plan- Mount Vernon is maintain i +t by the Mount Vernon Ladies’; ned every aetuil since the first DY n sight you rang the bell hese.” ‘ Association of the Union, 2 Yes, with extra seats, almost @ hundred thousand seven points, worked on the mound and one! «Radio” Carey, Bottler leftfielder | SCOverS: Billy Albury and Robert) «yes, I know,” said the teacher. | run, He struck out two. In the who broke his leg in a recent! ete eee Gude ae: | “But what does your mother cull | STAR * BRAND eighth he came up after Hancock | game. | Bate, (Gio ME “Cassidy, “rereveee: | jimer 4 ; | AMERICAN had singled and he doubled to} : | Gaiey:Sweeting, Bernie Papy and)" “agp doesn’t call him any-| and CUBAN COFFEE ° te ! Charley Perez. Kimber Winner | Of Blind Bogie, left. Philip Baker then walked} and an error scored’ Hancock and} Lunn scored on a single by Cates. | That was the winning margin.} Sterling poled a homer ito score! three more for good measure. | BASKETBALL High School Gym Week of Nov. 25 Blind Bogie first prize winner; Lunn got credit for winning the of $9.00 at the Key West Golf, TONIGHT— game after 11 years without. Gjyh yesterday was Bobbie Kim-| 7:00 P,M.—Wolverines vs. Cath- pitching on this diamond. ‘ber. Second prize of $5.00 went | olic Youth Club, a __ | to Leno Castro with Moreno Wal-| 8:00 P.M.—Wildcats vs. Porter- The Bottle Cap Inn (Machin- Jace taking the third prize of| Allen. ists) not only won the first- | $3.00. | _9:00 P.M.—Raiders vs. Conchs. half of the City Softball League | Low medalist was Harry} TUESDAY— 7:15 PM.—Lions Girls vs. Cath- | schedule but the second-half olic Youth Club Girls. and city championship for the | Knight with a 76, with Humbert 'Mira close behind with a 77 and! second straight year under the , Dr. Jack Hayes carded an 80 to} 8:15 P.M.—Coca-Cola vs. Ra-| able leadership of “Dutch” | take third place. t z= dio. Goehring. ‘They played 40 i 9:15 P.M.—USS Wilkie vs. Key | league games, winning 34 and , McCarthy 4, Kerr 3 and Lewis 3. | West Transit Co. ii | WEDNESDAY— 7:15 P.M.—PAL Girls vs. High | School Girls. | losing seven. They won 10 ex- | The infieid handled 18 putouts:| hibition games and lost one to | Sterling 7, Cates 4, Carbonell 3,/ the Pan American Airways, | Baker 2, Roberts 1 and Hancock! 2 ee champions of Miami. So in all 1. Legion had eight putouts in Brit ce temouctia Neer bee the Bottle Cap Inn has won 44 the Wau with Jack Vilareal; so lectric. Serv- i games and lost eight for a per- | handling three, Griffen three and | oe ¥ z ee ! centage of .846. Not bad! | Garcia two. The three caught by! oy ee a | Griffen were hit by Baker in his| soa ceacrar In the three-game series be-| first three trips to the plate. Le- | 2 | tween the Bottle Cappers and, gion infielders handled 19 put- Your Horoscope | the Jewelers, Douglas McCarthy: outs, Valdez nine, Santana two, i was a busy man. H handled 14 Castro three, Gomez four and! MONDAY, flies in centerfield, 10 in the last! Rosam two. Hopkins made four! 1946—Today gives a feminine na- game. Navarro handled 10 put- | assists, Santana three, Garcia one, ; outs, five assists with only one} Rosam three and Valdez one; errot. Baker, five putouts, six} Baker two, Carbonell four. Cates | assists, one error; Cates, put-| two, and Hancock one. outs, four assists, one error; Ster-| McCarthy committed the only ling, 21 putouts, four assists, one; error for the Bottlers when he error; Abreu, in two games, two} dropped a fly ball after a hard, or through social life. Friends putouts, five assists, one error. ‘ try. Gomez, Valdez and J. Vil-; will be numerous and faithful and | lareal each had an error for Le- | the life should be a happy one. Vi by the associates. It is a grand NOVEMBER 23, : ture, very sympathetic, humane, ; full of good works and beloved ; | character for a nurse, though its | action should be spread over a! wider sphere, through literature } Notes on the first Legion-Ma-! gion. Baker drove home a run! Sn chinist game Thursday night:|}and McCarthy sent home two, | Most of the birds that migrate The Machinist outfielders had aj Two runs were scored on wild'to and from Canada travel at busy night, handling ning flies: | pitches and one on an error. pnight. kes him.” is Guaranteed PURE thing,” was the quick reply. “Sh« | Try A Pound Today!! Place Your Refrigeration on a REAL ICE BASIS and You Will Get GUARANTEED Reirigeration Service PHONE NO. 8 REAL ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc. | (ICE DIVISION) It Is PURE Healthy and Safe | is More Economical! i | | KEY WEST, FLA. }