The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1947, Page 3

aj 22 tie ae, Baseball Statistics (By Aapeécinted Press) York Giants jumped ‘back _ undisputed possession of place in the National League lastnight by clipping the second- place Chicago Cubs, 8 to 3, ut the Polo Grounds. Walker Coop- , er and Dick Marshall hit hom- ers in the fifth inning, thé lat- ter’s with one man on, as Dave Koslo held the Cubs to six scat- tered hits. The other New York entries did pretty well, too, the Yankees : having shut out Detroit, 3 to- 0, | in the afternoon at Detroit, be.! hind the five-hit pitching of! Frank Shea, cutting the Tigers league lead to two games. Brooklyn climbed into a virtual | tie for third place by sweeping two games from ‘the Pittsburgh Pivates, 11-6, and 8-7 at Ebbetts Field with 14 hits in the open- er and 11 in the second game. Rex Barney . gained creait for Loth victories, starting the first and giving way to a pinch-hitter 12 the sixth, and blanking the Yirates the last four inmuings in the second game. The fourth-place Boston Braves were shut out, 3 to 0, by Ray Munger, of the St. Louis Cards, who scored all their runs in the fifth inning, two of them on Stan Musial’s homer, in a night game at Boston. Eddie Miller of the Cincinnati Reds continued his home run slugging with a circuit blow in the seventh with none on, al- though the Philadelphia Phillies won the game, 4 to 1,. behind Schoolboy Rowe, at Philadelphia under the lights. Three Washington home runs cartied Buck Newsom to.a. 6-5 ever Cleveland in a -night-. game at Cleveland. Buddy Lewis homered with one on in the fifth, Stan Spence in the same inning with nore on and Gerald Priddy Lin the ninth with none on. Bill Papish shut out the Phila- delphia Athletics for the Chicago White Sox at Chicago in a night gume, allowing three hits, and St. Louis won, 4 to 3, from the Bos- _ ton,Red Sox with two runs in the ninth although“ Tex Hughson yielded the winners only five hits. —: Results: NATIONAL LEAGUE ' Night Garhe § | At New York R. H. E. _..8 10 1 Lade, Lee and McCullough; Koslo and Cooper. Night Game At Philadelphia Cincinnati Philadelphia —_.............. Erautt, Lively, Shoun and La- manno; Rowe and Seminick. Night Game At Boston St. Louis Munger and Wilber; Spahn Masi. At Brooklyn Pittsburgh Higbe, Behrman, Strincevich, Bagby and Kluttz, Sullivan; Bar- ney, Casey and Edwards. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit R. New: York Shea and Houk; Newho White and Wagner, Swift. Night Game. At Cleveland R. H. E. Washington —.____._.. 611 0: fa Sd GOAN _ 610 1 Cleveland Newsom and Evans; Klieman and Hegan. Night Game At Chicago , Philadelphia —-_._._ Cicage Coleman, Scheib and R Papish and Dickey. Night Game At St. Louis Embree, 4 | COSCVUVU VV Tr CV OVTVTUVUTY | @TRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE: By The Associated Press Club— + WL, Pet. Havana —. 43 7. Miami Beach 2... 28 22 iami ‘ West Palm Beach Lakeland St. Petersburg Fort Lauderdale Cleveland. Boston Philadelphia Washington Chicago St. Louis ——- National Leagu Club— W. L. New York Chicago -........: Brooklyn Boston -_..----1-- Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati —... 18 24 St. Louis 16 24 GAME RESULTS American League (Tuesday’s Scores) New York 3, Detroit 0. Washington 6, Cleveland. 5, night game. Chicago 3, Philadelphia 0, night game. St.: Louis 4, Boston 3, game. "421 night National League (Tuesday’s Scores) New York 8, Chicago 3, night game. Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 1, night game. ; St. Louis 3, Boston 0, night gaitie.’ ~* 7° : Brooklyn::11-8,- Pittsburgh 6.7. , ‘TODAY'S GAMES ~ - Florida-nternational League Miami at Miami Beach. , Fort Lauderdale at West Palm Beach. : Tampa at Havana. “ Lakeland’ :at ‘St. Petersburg. Chicago at New. York—Borowy | aay: or Lade (3-1) vs. Kennedy Cincinnati. at Philadelphia — Blackwell (6-2) vs. Leonard (6-2). Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, night game—Ostermueller (4-1) or Sin- gleton. (1-0)..vs.-Branea-(5*4).~ St. Louis. at Boston, night game | —Dickson (0-6) or Brazle (3-2) vs. Barrett (2-3). ‘ American League New York at Detroit, two’ games—Bevens (3-5) and Johnson | (2-2) vs. Trout (5-3) and Benton » | (3-0). Washington at Cleevland, night rr ema no me co ee: .860/ . | PICNICKING—Tables eee Ve j eas * 4 ” cb ; . ed Bs . a ae s > | ooh ; ‘ ath aia ote lng i ‘a ae . RECREATION | eee Beach, vend of Duval Street. « Sunday afternoon, at Munici- pal Stadium, Duck Avenue and 14th Street. 4 GOLF—Municipal Golf Course, TENNIS—Bayview Park on Di- vision Street (day and nigh facilities). BSASKETBALL—Outdoor courts at South Beach and Bayview Park. ° HANDBALL—Bayview Park. 1| SHUFFLEBOARD — Bayview Park and South Beach. at Bay- ‘ view Park. ‘ CHILDREN'S, PLAYGROUND sic : couront STATIONS-—Bayview Softball Games . BAYVIEW PARK NIGHT GAMES THURSDAY— 7:30—American V.F.W. 9:15—Adams Dairy vs. Jerry’s Half-Acre. FRIDAY— 7:30—USS. Gilmore vs. Bob’s Sports Shop. 9:15—Key West Merchants vs. * Naval Hospital. Legion vs. Dr. James P. Leake of the U.S. Public’ Health Service, Washing- ton, born at Sedalia, Mo., 66 years ago. © game—Scarborough (0-1) Wynn (4-4) vs. Feller (5-5). Philadelphia at Chicago—Fowl- er (2-5) -vs.~ Grove -{3-2)..---»-3--. or Boston.at_St,Louis—Parnell (1-2) vs. Muncrief (4-4)... - BROADWAY | oe Duval Street ... ss Se: NS “BASEBA SCORES POPULAR BRANDS of Cigars and Cold Soft Drinks ee ¥ THE KEY WEST GAS Co. Announces ‘* Gas Sales and Revenues Gained in First Quarter of 1947 Total revenues from sales of gas by utilities for the first quarter of 1947 were per cent over the same quarter Gas Association reported today. gas sales gained 19.9 per cent: were up 15.3 per cent, and industrial gas sales about $429,800,000, an increase of 15.5 a year ago. the American Revenues from commercial residential gas sales revenues revenues in- creased 12.7 per cent over the like period last year. The gas utility industry served 21,000,000 customers dur. ing the quarter, parable quarter a year ago. three customer classifications. an increase of 2.9 per cent over the com- Increases were recorded in all In the twelve months period ending March 31, 1947, total revenues of the gas utility industry amounted to $1,269,200.000, representing a gain of 9.7 per cent over revenues of $1,157.- 000,000 in the comparable period a year earlier. Sales of natural gas during the first quarter of 1947 in- creased 14.3 per cent, from 637,500,000 M.c.f. to 728,400,000 HUTOUT M.c.f. Commercial gas sales were up 24.2 per cent and resi- dential and industrial natural gas sales gained 18.7 ver cent and 15.0 per cent respectively. Total revenues from sales of natural gas in the quarter amounted to $270,600.000, a rise of 18.0 per cent. Natural gas consumers numbered about 9,700... 000 or 6.4 per cent higher than the previous year. For twelve months ending March 31, 1947, total natural gas revenues were $683,600,000, up 8.7 per cent and sales totaled 2,273,100,000 M.c.f. an increase of 6.6 per cent. Revenues from manufactured gas sales in the first quarter of 1947 aggregated $119,100,000, an increase of 9.3 per cent. Sales of manufactured gas for the quarter amounted to 137,- 400,000 M.c.f.. a gain of 11.2 per cent. Consumers in this group totaled 8,794,800, an increase of 0.1 per cent in the quarter. For the twelve months ending with the first quarter of 1947 manufactured gas revenues rose 10.6 per cent to total $403,400,000. Total mixed gas revenues in the quarter amounted to $40,100,000, an increase of 18.1 per cent. Mixed gas sales were up 26.9 per cent for the three months and customers aggregated 2,428,800, a slight increase over the first quarter of 1946. On a twelve months basis ending March 31, 1947, mixed gas revenues totaled $115,900,000, an increase of 6.6 per cent over the previous year. Mixed gas sales for the twelve months aggregated 161,100,000 M.c.f., representing a rise of - 11.6 per cent over a year ago. PO TEE He TAO LTE OE EE AT IETS. STE TT | «