The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 13, 1947, Page 3

emai: Wilkie, Raiders Ste Friday For City Cage Title PLAY-OFFS ADVANCED: DUE TO SAILORS’ DE.! PARTURE; PLAN FEM. ININE ‘B° TYFLE TILTS!| Hieh School Gymnasium (Night Games). off arrangements for the ‘y basketball championships in ‘he men's Class A, Class B and| Thursday: 7:15 p,m, U. S Curls Leagues weve announced Marines vs. Red Raiders; today by Dwight Hunter, director 8'15 p. m., Junior Conehs 4 recreation len Oster anmncit anes) The city unlimited title will go 9:15 p.m, Coca Cola vs. ’ Start Play. “theta Baker , ‘League With 365 By NESTOR CASTANEDA | Cheta Baker, dimunitive out- ;fielder for the Red Raiders, col- ected three hits Sunday in the doubleheader played at Municipal Stadium to hike his batting aver- MUNNF| age to .345, one percentage point mando ahead of teammate Ar Acevedo, to take first place {among the Winter League hitters. | Fidel Lopez, Blue Sox third sack- ier, is in third place with a mark fof .327, } Armando Acevedo, the star | Raider infielder, has collected the. {most hits, 21, and has stolen the ;most bases, 11. Teammate Cheta jbe winning their struggle at noon ‘today. It, now seems probable} Behind PCRS 5 BORER MEE eh es » |do: Rodriguez, Hugh A. Crabbe, FO Be guigity Gler S. Buie, Jose Blanco, Jr.,, Plans for publicizing Wi gh Jas. Van Rensselaer, Glenn Har- way No, 1 were: groosit is, Richard Jensen, Kenneth No-! 7,5 night at a meeting ofthe Key : ewe land, Joseph Hurtado, Octavio’ west Chamber of Cammerce di- ; a ~ }Redriguez, Joseph Hacqua, Rob-| sectors by Clem C) Price, ptesi- ta ert Beasley, Paul Gartenmayer,. gon¢ the organization, wha te- Roydon McAvoy, S. J. Andean en attended a meeting of the , Ex-Polio x * a a 4 small group of men’ anxious, to give Key West the priceless publicity of having a professional basebalk club here «for spring training this year appeared -to: Jack Matcovich and Henry Sol-| East Coast Highway Association at >. dano, |” Price told the directors that A. committee was appointed to 1,5! ‘Highway No. i would-be-pub- $ attend the kick-off drive dinner '|jished istribution.. i : “Dimes Dance” | for-the Community Chest to 8 gee wel Pay inaygion aans that the Miami Sunsox will kx * xk * held at the USO, Jackson Square, 'the highway. as. the thost. prefer- come here March 1 with an en-|eo. , if | Monday, 7 pm. ‘able route to the Southland, and tourage of 100 or more persons Victim, Led Drive Tt was stated that the Maine diyecting traffic from. out of the until April 35. i -memorial services will be held’ porth to Key West via, other east ‘Prospects looked - somewhat | IONIAN Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., Maine Plot, coast cities. dim at one point last night at the A shining example of the spirit a aaa efther to the 1946 champion Red _,__USS Wilkie. Reiders, representing Carbonell’s|Ftiday: 7:15 p. m., Catholic Lunecheonette, or tu the USS Will- Youth Club Girls vs. Hgih kee. the destroyer which has been Sehook “B" Girls; 8:15 ehed here all winter. The Willkie holds first place and the Heidiers second place, with no} her team having a mathematical | smee of getting in either one of two top brackets | Vader the league rules the first | smd second place teams must play ' me-game series to determine hempion. The first game; be tomorrow night and the! P. Mg Key West Transit Baker dominates the hitting de- Co., vs. WKWF; 9:15 p. m.,|partment, has scored the most) Red Raiders vs. USS Wil- runs, 16; batted in the most runs, kie. j11, and is tied with teammate |DeWitt Roberts and Albio Ace- VVV VIVE wervewrwwww: vedo of the Blue Sox for the most . F ‘home runs, two teach. Roberts OLLOWING has collected: the most doubles, !four, and Mario Hernandez, Raid- THROUGH ler thirdsacker, leads the league By with the most triples, five. Jack Villareal, Blue Sox out- meeting held in the office of City Clerk Roy Hamlin, chairman of the Municipal Stadium commit- tee, Attending were Glenn Sweeting, Dave McCurdy and Frank Varela of the Stadium committee, City Commissioner Louis. Carbonell, representing the Lions Club; Jack Sellers of the Chamber of Commerce, Wilbur Ward of the Junier Chamber of which made the 1947 March of’ Dimes Drive such a success. was @ young mother, who. was a vic- tim of poliomyelitis along with’ her child during the past year, officers, of the drive declared te- Knight as post adjutant was ac- cepted, A rising vote of thanks were rendered Knight for his’ un~ tiring, efforts during his tenure of office. Post Commander Vance C. Stirrup. rendered@ the oath of day. ‘office to C. B, Harvey, who was Mrs, Paul Mesa, the former! confirmed as the new Post ad- Phyllis Espinosa, in an endeaver \ sutant. to, raise funds for the drive, per-| Delegates to the Tenth District suaded the American Legion to ‘conferenees to be held at Miami resignation of Fred E. officers for the coming year, will ,also he received at that time. | ¢, B, Harvey, Pest. adjutant, gave a, report on the investigation by the Post relative to. the New ‘Homes, Ine. It was: stated the auxiliary unit of the Post will sponser a. dance ‘on Washington's birthday, Febru- ‘ary 22, Perry McCullough: gave am in- teresting veport relative to the d¢ game Tuesday night. A! PEDRO AGUILAR seme, if needed, will be| Beaaaeseeeeseeeseee ed Wednesday night. All BASKETBALL “ € seheduled for the high} gymnasium. It was neces- games immedi- | Th men’s basketball league is about to wind up this week and jthe USS Wilkie, leading by halt play the the Wilkie is r? Pa a Fires ae ,a game, will play out its three re- ithtn enleat case Hei ! maining games. The Wilkies : a8 OFi€-} played the Marines last’ night, Jled as a regular ;Cocea-Cola tonight and Red Raid- managers ers tomorrow night. If they win it a play-off con-| ai} their games they will take the j flag by a full game from the Raid- \emy Defenders, although’ ers but if the Raiders win over he last place Romero! the Wilkes they will be tied for 40 to 21, last night, first place. ' place in Class B] Transit Co. and Coca-Cola fiv: t either the Junior |can place second if the Raiders t oudt’s Wolves!loge two of their remaining con- ‘ » H utle. The Conchs | tests and the Transits and Cokes Wolves bat it out for sec- | win. night It looks as if the game between High School Varsity and | the Raiders and Wilkies tomorrow Y h Council will play{night will decide the league st-of-three game series for Standings. Next week the two ( + League crown,}teams will stage 4 three-game se- nesday night ries to decide city championship. warmed up for the} Im the Class B Men's League: “st night by whipping|Atmy Defenders have about Marines, 35 to 16, and frcenned the flag, unless hy _ 1 yc. |their next two games, anc e Girls swamped CYC) ion Concty and” Oaterboudt Wolves win two straight each, which is just about impossible for the Conchs play the Wolves to- morrow night. Thus, the Defend- ers are “in”. In the Girls’ League: High School Varsity is far ahead of the pack and is definitely city girls champs for 1947. (EDITOR’S NOTE: The above was written before the games last night.) “” but the “ i ake quarters of the first Wilk 12 8 10 5—35 6 2 0 816 Gorman 7, Schmitz \ibers 2, McKeen 2, Hill 1, Fisher Black 1; free McKeen 1; free throy * F k 2. Fisher 2, Bynum Gorman 3, Wise 2, Papich. *¢- | BASEBALL There is a lot of interest at resent in baseball. According to latest reports, we are going to have the Miami Sun Sox train here. Some of our boys will get a tryout with the Miami club. The Pirates will “stir up things” when they play a five-game series with the Key West Cubans. Such players of the caliber of Santana, 2 6 1—14]J. Garcia, Jim Albury, Danny Val-jLastres, Chino Hernandez, Alon- Tal-}zo brothers, Pancho Salinero, Joe Mira and Orlando Rodriguez should not be overlooked just be- cause they had a “falling out” with the league. We hope to see them in action and will let the big league scouts judge the brand third f the impire timer Aguila STANDING LASKETBALL I -* W. 1. Pet-lof ball they perform. . « { = eg | SOFTBALL 5 5 boa Manager Charles Wells of VFW, 2 6 Manager “Dutch” Goehring of the 09 Bottle Cap Inn, Manager George Class “B” Men's League Washington Malgrat of the B-29 Bombers, Manager McCullough of . ss A }the American Legion and Mana- 5 3 5 |ger Villareal of Adams Dairy and W = 5 3 5 the Roy’s Auto Parts club are 1 9 jready to play softball again. - The managers and players* are Gists’ League 4 only waiting for the weather to Ww L. Pet. warm up some and for Recreation . Varsity 7 0 1.000! ri ector Dwight Hunter to give $ 3 Sho {them the green light to go ahead and start the ball a-rolling. All the clubs claim to be the best in the league, so let’s see how they look on the field 05 baal > . > 6! Pere — innon se an Ps an Of the local amateur tennis Housewive |players, we find that Dr. Fred ne *redse Carbonell, I. Carbonell, Carl Saw- Canning Incre lyer, Peter Varela, Robert Smith shoW and a few others are “in the which wusewives Pla mood” and may come out and canning tis play once in a while to get in A last shape. I know John Vosburgh, of sees care | ind caps are The Citizen staff, is alw ready | Weight and measure inspector; | ' pply, in- to play, so it looks like a busy, (3) proposed to eliminate all pub- i zinc caps season. Until we are ready to, licity and radio items and giv ids for Ma- decide the champion tennis play- | $2,500 to eS One eae Ja ,ightning er of 1947, let's put in some prac- (4) suggested $1, und for) ! ana W id ee ee : publishing ordinances, each de-| AMERICAN partment to pay for facturer has in-, The population of France in-: from own contingenci y creased from 35 million to more eM ar, which than 40 million betwen 1840 and portant advantage of 1940. and positively for — p-ece metal “ consists of a the dome is down, the jar is seal- ® and, more ed. It’s as simple as that! whiened removed, Wise housewives will purchase i 4 i. the lid being made a plentiful supplies of their fav- To test orite jars and caps and have them necessary only & t R fielder, has struck out the most jtimes, 17, and teammate Acevedo is tied with Charlie Al- bury, of the Trojans, for the most: walks, nine each. Gabe Lastres, the Blue Sox ace righthander, leads the pitching department with six victories and no defeats, and has struck out the jmost bat | Trojans’ ace hurler, has issued the most walks, 24; allowed the most runs, 37, and pitched the most innings, 62. | BIG SIX HITTERS Player-Team— AB R H Ave. Baker, Raiders 55 16 19 .345 Aceveuo, Raiders 61 12 21 .344 Lopez, Blue Sox ..52 917 .327 Rueda, Trojans 44 714 318 | Roberts, Raiders 61 13 19 .311 | Sterling, Raiders 41 9 12 .293 | Joe Nav’ro, Frojans 41 3 12 .293 LEAGUE STANDINGS Club— W.. 1. Pet, Blue Sox 2 0 1.000 ‘Red Raiders 1 2 .333 H Trojans aires 1 2 333 ATUL AUEUULOPAUUU EARL CARSALES PR, SPORTS and | RECREATION (SOGAMLUELSQUROG NAH SWIMMING—South Beach, south |. end of Duval Streets , DEEPSEA FISHING—Gulf Dock, west Caroline Street; Craig | Dock, north end of Grinnell | Street. BASEBALL—Winter League dou- bleheader every Sunday, 1:00 p.m., at Municipal Stadium, | j Duck Ave. and 14th St. GOLF—Municipal Golf Course, | Stock Island. TENNIS—Bayview Park on Di- vision Street (day and night facilities). 'BASKETBALL—Outdoor courts at South Beach and Bayview Park. HANDBALL—Bayview Park. SHUFFLEBOARD -- Bayview i Park and South Beach. | PICNICKING—Tables | view Park. Albio} 54. Bo Meador, off the Raiders, has allowed the most| he could use the West Poinciana on several occasions. Her hus- hits, 54, and Charlie Albury, the warehouse, used by the PAL or- i at Bay-} | Vosburgh suggested that perhaps |CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND — | Bayview Park. |COMFORT STATIONS—Bayview Park. FEW CITY ACTEVITIES (Continued from Page One} of “miscellaneous” item of $300. Street | 10 laborers at $1 | $5,000 for inaterials and supplies to 47 figure of $8,000; asked what jobs three equipment op- erators will hold for $30 per week each; asked what consti- tutes “whiteway,” for which $8,- 774.20 is to $8,486 last year. Sewer System—Favored $2,400 salary for superintendent in- stead of $2,820, $2,400 for skilled labor ins dad of $2,633.50, and questioned $1,800 item for pur- chase of water. Trash and Garbage Removal— Advocated uniform truck driver salaries; recommended increase of $1.00 in scavanger fee to each 16 each; boost user, and collection of all delin-} . }to allow the Miami club to use | quent accounts. General—(1) Advocated shift- ing all mechanics to the muni- cipal garage: (2) protested set-| tions that the project will be ca { ec) p, ting up a new position of license,} ried through successtully. ent audit; (6) asked, “What hap- pened to monies appropriated tor ‘payment of water bills in pre- vious budget?” Alaska has a blue flag, with sven of its stars arranged so orm the constellation Ursa n the northern sky. approproated, compared | | | Repairs—Would rehire | t } i } vertising| and CUBAN 5) ques-| Try A Pound Today—— tioned use of $1,000 for independ- we ——— most conspicuous constel-} i { league clubs will play the Sun- | the ground with wet packing. a maemeneeel |Your Grocer SELLS That Good Commerce and Jehn Vosburgh,’ sponsor a dance at the American |\Beach, March 15, will be named | Post’s softball team, The Past is city editor of The Citizen. | Legion Home. Despite the fact !at the next regular meeting, Feb-! providing new equipment: for the Hamlin. showed the gathering that only a few days remained, {raary 26, Nominations for the team, a letter from Jay Cone, Miami ‘Mrs, Mesa set about procuring Wake ee manager, specifying the needs of. an orchestra, and had tickets and, the chub if it is to train here. As, posters printed and distributed. announced -previously. in . The Mrs. Mesa, not satisfied with Citizen, George Mills White, di-° this accomplishment, © also spent rector of Key West Housing Au-" volunteer hours in the Iron Lung ' , Ford Owners Motor Exchange thority, had already told Hamlin at the Campaign, Headquarters band also gave many hours of ganization, fer a clubhouse. Ham-. voluntary work at the Headquar- © lin announced last night that ters, t White had also given him the use; Aid on the night of the dance of two apartment buildings for was forthcoming from Anthony housing facilities. Davile, Steward at the Amer- Says $2,000 Needed ican Legion Home, and Albert Nevertheless, Hamlin. explain- DiNegre, Chaplain of the Amer- plained, $2,000 would be needed, i¢@n Legion. to make everything shipshape for * i the Sunsox; $500 to repair the * Stadium fence, $500 to repair the Heidi-He eS In diamond infield; $500 to install e bee i plumbing facilities at: the club- Pair Of Sailfish house and $509 to install plumb-} oy ing and electrical connections in! Capt. Red Maxwell’s “Heidi- _ Ho” brought in. two seilfish in the the apartments. s In toe of the demands being frst two days of this week, each of them just an inch short of sev- made on lecal merchants for oth- on eet ae neue ease a publ On Monday, Mr. and Mrs. : Pigs oN George Noblo and W. R. S, Doug- raised. The little gathering thea las, all of Toronto, Canada, began to look for alternatives, bfought in a sailfish, two group- Carbonell suggested another ‘ey, three bonita, and two large method for having the field re- srberjack. The sailfish, weigh- paired and suggested that per- ing 52 pounds, hee caught by, haps the playets could be quar-. Noblo. Douglas hooked a sailfish ‘ tered at the U. S. Army Bar- with Maxwell a few weeks ago, racks under Lt. Col. Clifford; On the following day, Harold Singleton, commander, Harbor Bryce and S. W. MacDonald, in- Defenses of Key West. ‘dustrial builders, of Detroit; Mrs, Sellers, head of Key West Bernie Sanborn and son, Barney, Transit, offered the use of. buses of Abington, Mass,, brought in a for the club throughout their' sailfish, three barracuda, a dol- stay, not only offering to pick phin and a bonita. The sailfish the team up and take it to the: was hooked and landed by Mrs. field and return three times a:Sanborn. day if necessary, but to turn over v2 a bus to the club throughout the day. Hamlin said that volunteer help would put up the fence, and Sweeting offered to devote his, spare time to this task. Hence, the only expenses remaining would be $450 for the lumber. 2-DAY SERVICE For Price and Appointment CALL VIRGIL SHIVER—PHONE 725 Monroe Motors, Ine. Howard E, Wilson, President 1201 WHITE STREET KEY WEST, FLA. the Miami club might allow 10 per cent of the gate receipts to be used for this purpose and that over a 20-game exhibition slate here, this cost could be defrayed, especially since several major ROEBUCK AND CO. sox here. Singleton Out of Town This morning Carbonell an- nounced that Col. Singleton is out of town but will be here Monday. Earl Adams, president of the Rotary Club, who was ill last night, volunteered to see the Army officer, an old acquaint- ance, and Carbonell said Adams would handle this part. of the negotiations. Carbonell said arrangements have been completed to put the infield in first-class shape in five days. The principal task is dig- ging up the sprinkler system} pipes and placing them back in While much hinges on the de- cision of Col, Singleton whether the vacant barracks here, com- members voiced expect mittee STAR * BRAND COFFEE ML | SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. AR Grocers 1427 Simonton at Fleming Street Phone 360 SDA bb bab bbb bbdbae LLL PERE 2)? )( hee... ~_ an —