The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1947, Page 5

SATURDAY, JULY 12 BROOKLYN WIDENS NATIONAL POSITION; YANKEES INCREASE LEAD AS GIANTS AND CARDS DIVIDE TWIN BILL Giants Make Six Home Key ‘West Merchants Winners Game, Winning By 10 10 9 Score (Ry The Amocinted Preany NEW YORK, July 12.—Brook- tym witened its National League Position yesterday by defeating Chieego by a score of 5 to 0, while Beston was succumbing to the Cimeinnati Reds by a score 6 to 10 In the American League tre! New York Yankees the low- ly Browns by a sco 3 to 1, amt thereby furtable margin ee inest 26 losses with 49 wins ‘The Giants and the Cardinals | opin « dowbleheader. The Cards wen the first game, 4 to 8, but ! the Gients came back with a bene im the second game and wen easily, 17 to 9 In all the Otents had six homers in the eocand game ach by Billy Migney and Sid Gordon and one cach by Chat Hartung and Wil- tard Marshall Meanwhile, Boston and Detroit ooin « «doubleheader, the Red Seu taking the first, 4 to 3, and the Tigers the second, 3 to 0. The epit beft the teams virtually mereased its cam- 1947 ¢ | TEAM pionship series opener last night, jthe Key West Merchants emerg- ec the winner over Bob's Sports |Shop by a score of 16 to 6. Bob's Shoppers drew _ first biood in the initial inning. Baker |was given a ‘flied out. Villareal stole second, and came home on Kerr's single, after Sterling popped out. In the second the scored one. Alonzo bunted safe- ly, Brost lined out to short who threw wild to first, Alonzo going {te third on the play. The ball got a from Arnold, and Alonzo scored ‘Over Bob’s Sports Shop Nine In 1 st-Half Champ Series Opener: 'ALONZO HIT THREE, CA-*————— DO AND VIDAL TWO EACH FOR WINNING free pass. Roberts | Merchants | LEAGUE | wild pitches and three runs! crossed the plate. i In their half the Sports Shop | boys scored two} and went into | the lead. Kerr was hit by and Gonzalez singled to center, | Kerr scored and McCarthy was | out at the plate, right fielder to , catcher. Arnold doubled and Gon- | « zalez scored. | In the seventh, two bunts andy ;ane error filled the bases of the | Merchants. Parks was sent to the | |showers and Roberts went in to! Pitch. First man bunted safely, ia couple of wild pitches and! {passed balls and four runs scored. | \In the ninth four hit batsmen, 3 | ; walks and three errors and one! |lone hit gave the Merchants 8; , runs. | The Sports Shoppers scored |their last run in the eighth.| {James Ogden walked. and singles THE KEY WEST CITIZEN In the softball first-half cham- {Pitched ball, McCarthy walked |tato crops. Bob’s Sports Shop— 200 120 010— 6 10 5 Sue Griffen and Brost; Parks, Roberts and Roberts, Kerr. Two-base hits: Arnold 2. Ster- ling, Vidal, Casado, C. Garcia; stolen bases: Casado 2, Brost, Sterling 2 Baker, Ville old, Kerr, Roberts S. Griffen; Roberts double play: s out: by Griffen 5, by Parks 6, by ted for second place in the, iby Roberts and Sterling put him | Roberts 4; bases on balls: off Grif- gumevtenn Leagut |, In the teenth Arnold doubled, Faeroe fen 8, off Parks ot Boer a) Cireinnati walked away from |Fatks fanned, and Baker walked,| At bat Sterling hit three safe- "me Of game: 1.00; umpires: ©. Boston in the National, 10 to 6, ;% Passed ball and a fly to center, iI) and Arnold hit three for the widiae ineng pitcher Parke Placed af the most out. |A™old scored. losers. For the winners, Alonzo, “Standings of the Class A and Wanding rookies of the year, had| In the fifth the Merchants jhit three, Casado two and Vidal Class B first-half softball cham- © teweh time finishing ahead of Scored three runs and went into two. pionship s the Firaves. but weathered the ‘the lead. With two outs, R. Gar-/ In the field, Rodriguez, C.' Club— W.L. Pet. storm. although taking a shel <i@ and Rodriguez walked, Ca-|Garcia and Vidal were the best Key West Merchanis 1 0 1.000 hector » the tume of I! hits, |8edo doubled. There were two for the Merchants, and Roberts, 'Bob’s Sports Shop 0 1 .000 Homers were rather plentiful r * ¥ z amen y Besides the six hom- by the Giants, Rice ere pound FIASCO? —-- OR “FIGHT OF THE YEAR?” of & Louts National had one in the fifth with two on; Robinson, Cleveland. im the second with ” none on Binks, of Philadelphia | iT MAY Americans in the third with no tedy on. Northey, Cards. in the «venth with none on; Wagaer, trot, in the seventh with none om Kiner, Pittsburgh. © im the fourth; Ennes. t Philadel vhie Nationals, in the fourth with { nome om Seminick of the Phila ietphte Nationals, in the fourth | Ah meme on He aatts WATIONAL LEAGUE | First Game H At Mew York RAE « lew 473 New York 380 Heathe. Bernhardt and Garagio- | Janeen, Trinkle, Koslo, Beggs | ad W Coop RHE e910 1] 17:15 1] Hearn, Staley Kennedy, Har- | Lawnbardi ] achetphia RHE ‘1 260 Sehrdt and Klutz Sehusr, Donnelly and A) Hrookivn RHE . o4t sil 0 ' . 7 Wye end McCullough with one; | yee 32 BE SLUGFEST OR B GRAZIANO ‘ 25 ‘s8u" j ' : Norma! IRE VAgg Expanded 40%" FORE ARM [aka FIST WAIST Sry WEIGHT 21%" Baile SLOW WALTZ oe {to gas underground to av | ' Lesnbards and Rdward | | CALF At Reston RHE! ie CQarenet 1013 2] Raton 61 6) ANKLE Biackwet! and Lamanno; Sain. | ee Sena Karl and} Mo By JIM BECKER Se AP Newsfeatures Sports Writer ils Ses, =e: AMERICAN LEAGUE EW YORK.—Gore may gush profusely in Chicago on July 16 in|Teny’s jaw for five rounds. Zale First Game | 946’a fight of the year between Tony Zafe and did go down, too, but not to stay. | At Detroit Ue ee rer eee ee Nera ee eran iarea) Tel dazed. champion | climbed Rastew 4 7 Rocky Graziano—or the drowsy customers may wander home bore Fa eeinE icon avenihercdenvicl® | te " $8 O' by it all F : fous beating, and then decked Hughson and Tebbetts; Trout | ngle between Zale, king of the middleweights, and The Gio jiang ter keeps. od Swi Rov enger-in-exile, is the most eagerly awaited by ring fans |“ 7)” since the ill-fated Joe Louis-Billy Conn rematch in 1946. Es ; : Second Game |Graziano lost h ark when the At Detroit Highly touted remakes of crowd pleasing fights, as in ichampion took his best shots and ee the Louis-Conn affair, often degenerate into fistic waltzing {came bi to win. They si = Ssusphey | matches, but the nation’s fight fandom is hopeful that this Jost his zest for his wor' Bag von wel omt Wagner ' one will be a repeat of the first, the fiercest brawl of the longer the carefree conqueror. * decade. ! Rocky did cancel his next At Clevetand RHE y fight, then was barred from Piiviadetpt 492 Odds this trip are likely to favor Zale, who took a terrific bat-|fighting in New York state for Cleveland : 2 4 Oo eving in Yankee Stadium from the East Side youngster, but got off not reporting an alleged brige of- Marehildon, Sevage Citron, the floor to stiffen Graziano in the sixth round. The fight is sched- fer. <r uled for 15 rounds, but probably & | Should the tousled Dead- aan Tagen |no one expecis it to go that far. | owing in the process. No clev- | Ender bring the crown back RHE. Vital statisucs on the two fight. | with him from Chicago, the o 741 » that th in| & boxer, Rocky possesses a | ™? ight divisi tarone n “a 7% ie demonstrate tha! ere will} J urderous right hand and the | middleweig! ivision 7 8 9 2 be no advantage to either except ad the ocupancy of which was . experts, noting that hard-hit. \ Ferrick and Evans, ,» the biggest department of all— ting Zale was no fancy Dan | hopelessly muddled from 1910 Caldwell and Dickey, ayy Zale is 33, Graziano just] gither, said on the eve of the | Until Zale won a 1941 elimina- eer Bn. u. & turned & first fight: tion tourney, will again be con- At 7, aed ‘Va It was the age bulge that led ‘Wale's ouay tobi andi when | fused. ie - 1 6 2 fistic observers to establish the Seskc 4 ek hae oo deen | But this time the experts are > meee cplorful end violent Rock as zl vas | piling their chips on the cham- ~~ pine grain har- the favorite in the first fight. | for good. | lon (iialiock evacyiting Gre: Migrant combine | Eevpout |. Grezieno had belted over some | The prediction was right—to a| ziano could throw and then vestere travel annually “\ntonio, of the best in the welterweight |certain point. Zale was easy to belted him out. Why shouldn't ee i ety area in divison in a meteoric rise and hit and The Rock bounced hay-| he do it again?” is the reason- b~ owt oo guined a tremedous fan fol- {makers from deep right field off jing. anada ‘ - ° | Board of directors of the Base- | Navy q i rent ball League will hold a meeting! Louis Eisner, president of PAL, | tomorrow at 3:30 p. m., at Wick- ' said today that organization has | ers Field, Roy Hamlin, secretary jreceived the following equip- | of the league, announced today. | ment from the Navy: | Directors who will attend the; One hundred sets of boxing | meeting will be Edward Ribas, B. ; gloves, two medicine balls, 30! ;|Gehering, S. Sorsky, Enrique |pieces of headgear for boxing, | iEsquinaldo, Jr., G. Sweeting and two heavy ?;Louis Maloney. punching bags and | five baskets for basketball. i Eisner said that lumber to build ; a boxing ring, next to the Parish | Considerable business of im-! portance is to be transacted and ali members of the board are Hall, is now on the grounds. He; asked to be on hand for the added that 12 Navy men will in- } meeting. Struct local boys in boxing. ' Einstein’s theory of relativity holds that light beams coming; A company in Alabama is perimeting with convertii cost of mining and handling solid coal. near the sun on their earth. from stars are bent as they pass 'late in } way to the Dakotas in August: the Can- ‘adian harvest is later. . PAGE THREE ' - ' { } \ ~ + uJ Softball Games Recreation Dept. "“**"ee#ee. 9° oo Sub Base To Play H : BAYVIEW PARK Will Hold Swim (Four Teams To "yy tme anecsarm Balboa Tomorrow NIGHT @ Wim ‘Play Sunday At |__™*wwwiemm _ Ba << | MeetOn July 18 wichers Field seca mano 8:00—Bob’s Sports Shop vs.) J y Wickers’ Field i STANDINGS All-Star by Key West Merchants : 1 | fl Key West Submarine Base will (second game of play-off The City Recreation Depart- j There will be two baseball | cyyb— W.L. Pet play a team representative af series), jment is planning a swimming games in the Island City Havana 68°18 .791, Balboa, Paname Canal Zone, far TUESDAY— jmeet on Friday, July 18, from 9° Baseball League tomorrow Tam; 62 26 705 the district softball championship | 8:00—Bob’s Sports Shop vs.jt¢ 11 a m., at the Naval Air) 2+ wickers Field. Rie some 48.37 565 2 Bayview Park tomorrow at Key West Merchants Station (Seaplane Base), with the} “ane gest game will start | Mimi Beee! i MS 2:30 p. m. (third game of play-off Permission of Capt. H.M.Cooper,; 44 1:99 p, m with the Pi- West Palm Beach 39 43 476, ""n,0 seneral public, as well as series, if required). ‘commanding officer. |. reek ane she aA, Maids | OO 38 ind - all Naval personnel, is invited te THURSDAY— | Classes have been held at the, tangling. For the Pirates the |puj emcee ™® at ae ‘gaz see the game, which will be « 7:15—Key West Merchants vs. Air Station pool on Mondays and; battery will be Salinero and |Fort Lauderdale 21 62 253 Tunmer-up for the All-Nevy VFW (exhibition game). | Fridays since early in June under | Rodriguez, for the Red Raid- | ~~ championships to be held later at 9:15—American ee hi the direction .of Miss Jane Hop-| ers Meadows and Roberts | Mattenel Lengne Jacksonville. Jemy’s Halt Acre (exhi-'kins, Recreation Supervisor. Both | will ocoupy the'key posis. Ces pga — —— aig jclasses will be combined for the; 1% she secpnd game, start: ‘Goethe ti ss ssa’, 18 the middle of the = ren 7:15—Bob's Sports Shop vs.|™meet on Friday when relay’ io¢ ot 3:99 p.m. the teams New York 30 33 542 tury. Robert Fortune, so Raa Adams Dairy (exhibition|!®¢es, Taces, games and progress} Janae the Blue Sox and Sen St. Louis 40.36 52g Paturalist, ¢ isguised as r game). : jot swimming performance will | Carlos. Far the Blue Sox Ci seraei 39 39 500 entered certral China and 9:15—Naval Hospital vs. USS.'be demonstrated to the parents. | 0 racking ‘and catching | Chicago 96 30 490 tained secrets of tea-growing Gilmore (exhibition con-; AN parents of the children in|" win be by Mauldin and Al- Philadelphia 32 45 416 Which he passed on to India. test). jthe classes are invited to attend! ig Acevedo, while the bat. (Pittsburgh 0% WR: -—~—-—-————-.coeee So ee |the meet, but it is required that | tery for the Sen Carlos | American League _ 8TRONG ARM BRAND Improved insecticides may lead ithe names and addresses of those, team consists ef Garcia and ; Club— W.L. Pet. a ‘to production of even greater Po- 'desirmg to attend be given to} Menendez. iNew York 49.26 653, TRIUMPH ‘Miss Hopkins by Wednesday. Bex - e i COFFEE tiene - Boston _. . “ Kerr, McCarthy and Gonzalez for 'Le Directors | GOILD II IIIA icphia 3333 30 — the losers. | ! Cleveland 33 34 498 Score by inninks: R. H. EB} ague ‘Local P AL Gets | Washington 33 38 465 All Greeere |Merchants— | Meet T = | Chicago 35 42 455 wwwewwees owewrwrws 010 030 408-16 9 2) omorrow | a Uatadig 25 45 357 naan Florida-Internatist: .eegue (Friday’s Scores ) No games scheduled. National (Friday's Scores) St. Louis 4.9, New York 3-17 Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 5, Chicago 0. Cincinnati 10, Boston 6. 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