The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1947, Page 5

TUBSDAY, JULY 15, 1947 ee nae BRAVES, DODGERS LOSE GROUND IN KNOCK SAIN FROM BOX! Lively, Pitching For Cin e————— cinnati, Holds Dodgers To One Hit; Cards Bow To Phils (My Ansoeinted trensy NEW YORK, July 15.—Both | the Boston Braves and the Brook- | lyn Dodgers dropped slightly in | the National League averages | yesterday as result of their | gemes. The Braves lost to the! Cubs, 5-3. while the Dodgers dropped one to the Cincinnati Reds, 9-1 Lively pitching for the Reds eliowed only one hit in nine in- nings Only @ lone single in the fiith prevented him from enter- ing the baseball hall of fame for ' the first time by pitching a no- hitter Jebnny Sein, a 10-game winner with the Braves, knocked out in the sixth with an injured hand Seim was hit on the right hand by « line drive from Andy Pokfo's bat. The Boston hurler tried to remain in the game, but hie control was gone and three Cute came in before he was re- tired e New York Yankees and the Chieago White Sox were rained out, but Boston and Cleveland provided o thriller when the Red Sex won by of 1 to 0. Ferrie of Boston allowed seven a score hits, but had control of th itua- tion all the way. Black, Cleveland piteher, who hurled a no-hit me against the Athletics last week, wes touched for nine hits, only one run, but it was enough. | Results yesterday for the big leagues were | AMERICAN LEAGUE At &. Louis R. H. E. m1 1320 0 Washington | 0) Zoldak and Barly; Wynn, Can.| dim, Cary and Evans. | At Cleveland RHE Poaton 29 Cleveland 0 9 0} Philadelphia at Detroit and New York at Chicago, both post- pened because of rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia R. H. E. mm Lowe 26 2, Phitadetphia 580 Munger. Brazile and Garagiola; and Beminick T Nughe At Brooklyn R. H. E. Cirermmnats 916 0 Brooklyn 2 8 Lavety “i Lamanno; Branca, Lemberdi and Edwards At Bet R. H. E . § 3 32 380 Chipman, Kush and Scheffing; Sein, Wright, 8 Johnson and Ca mei . . RHE 5 16 and W. Cooper; Highe, and Howell, Salkeld. SPORTS and RECREATION empresa nce one TEE SWIMMING —South Beach, south west Caroline Street; Dock, north end of Grinnell Street mes, usually on Sunday afternoon, at Munici- pel Stadium, Duck Avenue ond 14th Street GOLF — Municipal Stock Istand. TENNIS—Deyview Park on Di- vielen Street (day and night facitities) BASKETBALLOutdoor courts et South Beach and Bayview Pork HANDBALL—-Bayview Park. SHUFFLEBOARD — Bayview Pork and South Beach. PICHICKING—Tables at Bay- view Park. YGROUND — Bayview Park COMFORT STATIONS—Bayview Park. SOUND SLEEPERS Golf Course, Les Angeles Setting two ‘ ks, Harry Hughes, 25 ctory worker, settled s nap on the sofa. His urled up on the rug beside o When his wife ¢ home, beth were snoring She found that « window eon had been eut and the house burglarized The loot included the two alarm chock in popular par of a ghost for of the A wraith is, lence. the Ht mean rance the spirit of a living person ° al) NATIONAL; Baseball Statistics By The Associated Press STANDINGS Florida-International League Club— Havana wetareenaen 1G: ne 62 28 .689. Miami Beach . 50 37 575 West Palm Beach ._...39 45 ST Petersburg Miami Lakeland eae 330 Terie through right center, for eponting. and ee more miniature aircraft operators or. FFS0 |& Homer. jnervous tension than anything ganization. Young Grooms holds Fort Lauderdale —---21 63 °250/ tn the third Albury doubled to Fut on celluloid in a long time. the Florida speed record in min a a ere oe left. Then followed two walks| “Slewfoot,” the 650-pound bear jature aircraft. jul + L. Pet.!and an infield out and one run ‘picked for the scene, was a huge,* The PAL committee unani- “sem H a ri seored., hulking animal who supposedly mously adopted a resolution to Rees, i mye tes In this frame Johnny Ogden |wouldn’t jeopardize the human sponsor this organization which St. Sided 503 “42.38 525 |1uled and the umpire held the !actors in the cast—but everyone already has 16 very active Cincinnati piers <0 40 41 "494 ball was not caught, but trapped iknow that anything could hap- Chicago 37 43 463 by the catcher. The Merchants |pen. The story called for Gregory misses when the gun backfires, as Philadelphia 35 47 .427/entered a protest on the play. {Peck, as Pa Baxter, and Claude his hunting dogs attempt a Pittsburgh _30 48 .385 = ae ae oo was made by the |Jarman, Jr., his son, to pursue the death grapple with the animal. A ican League ’s in the fifth and they scored ;bear through the dangerous Flor- No more realistic sequence has Club— W. L. Pet five times. ida scrub forest country. ever been put before the cam- New York 53 26 67. Villareal walked, Sterling was} Peck finally catches up to the ‘eras, in the opinion of crew Detroit ipa “40 34 541 eh pitcher. Kerr safe on error.|/animal and _ fir shot whith workers. i Bost _41 36 .532/Amother error by Alonzo and a | — Sa Cleveland 36 35 .507)Single by Arnold turned the Philadelphia 38 41 .481| trick. Washington 34 41 .453| The Merchants scored two in Chicago 36 44 .450)the fifth. Blanco bunted safely, St. Louis 27 48 .360| Vidal hit a teriffic liner through GAME RESULTS Florida-Internations: ueague (Sunday's Scores) Miami Beach 5-7, West Palm Beach 1-2. Miami 3, Fort Lauderdale 2. St. Petersburg 3, Lakeland 1, 10 innings. Havana 4, Tampa 2. National (Monday's Scores) St. Louis 13, Washington 3. Philadelphia at Detroit post- pone n. New York at Chicago, postpon- ed, rain. Boston 1, Cleveland 0. American League (Monday's Scores) New York 5, Pittsburgh 1. Chicago 5, Boston 3. St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 5. Cincinnati 9, Brooklyn 1. TODAY’S GAMES Florida-International Fort Lauderdale at Miami. Miami Beach at West Palm Beach. Tampa at Havana, St. Petersburg at Lakeland. National League St. Louis at Boston, night game —Hearn (5-3) or Brazle (8-6) vs. Spahn (12-3). : Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, two games—Wolff (0-1) and Bagby (2-3) vs. Taylor (7-3) and Barney (5-2) or Lombardi (3-7). ‘ Chicago at New York, night game—Lade (6-6) vs. Koslo (9-4). Cincinnati * at Philadelphi: night game-—Blackwell (15-2) vs. Schanz (2-3). American League New York at Cleveland, two games (twilight and night)—Bev- ens (3-8) and Johnson (4-2) vs. Feller (11-6) and Stephens: (2-6). Boston at Chicago, night game Zuber (1-0) or Dorish (5-8) vs. Gillespie (5-4) or Gedrian (1-2). Philadelphia at St. Louis, night game—Marchildon (9-5) vs. Kin- der hington at Detroit, _twi- borough (3-2) vs. New- (9-3). Softball Games BAYVIEW PARK TONIGHT— 8:00—Bob's Sports Shop vs Key West Merchants (third game of play-off series, if required). WEDNESDAY— (Afternoon Games) 3:30—Hell Cats vs. Newton St. Gang. 4:30—Conchs vs. PALS. THURSDAY— 7:15—Key West Merchants vs. VFW (exhibition game). American Legion vs. Jerry’s Half-Acre (exhi- bition game). FRIDAY— 7:15--Bob’s Sports Shop vs. Adams Dairy (exhibition 9:15. game). 9:15—Naval Hospital vs. USS. Gilmore (exhibition con- test). | Political Announcement FOR ELECTION OF CITY COMMISSIONERS OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 4, 1947 For City Commissioner ALBERT B. COOPER THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Bob’s Sports Shop Wins Game From EACH TEAM HAS NOW: WON ONE; LAST NIGHT, 17 TO 3; DECISION TONIGHT. Bob’s Sports Shop came! back with a bang last night in ond game of the series, 17 to 3. The Bob's won the game in thrill-packed Technicolor -464|the very first inning. Albury ture now being shown at the Rascom Grooms, 444 walked, Villareal bunted safely, Strand Theatre, took lots of care- Cook, representing the South. .443\then, Sterling hit one out of the ful preparation, intensive care in 6; nmost the box, F. Garcia sacriifced him home and a wild pitch scored Vidal. In the sixth, two walks, a wild pitch and one infield out gave them their Jast run. In the seventh, Arnold was hit by the pitcher and singles by James and Roberts and two wild pitches gave them two runs. In the eighth the Sports Shop- pers scored four runs on one hit, four walks a couple of wild pitches and a single by Roberts. In the ninth Sterling singled; Kerr singled and a wild pitch put Sterling across the plate. At bat the leaders were Rob- erts with three hits, Sterling with two, and Alonzo. with two for the losres. In the field, Ar- nold, Villareal, Sterling and Al- bury. starred for the winners, and R. Garcia, C. Garcia, Vidal and C. Valdez for the losers. Seore by innings: R. H. E. Bob's... 30% 050 441—17 11 1) Merchants 000 021 000— 3 6 2) Roberts and Albury; C. Valdez, S. Griffen and Brost. Home run: Sterling; two-base: hit: Albury; stolen bases: Villa- real, Johnny Ogden, Alonzo; sac-| rifice hit: R. Garcia: struck out:| iby Roberts 12, by Valdez 2; bases jon balls: off Roberts 3, off Valdez 6. off Griffen 5; double play: Vi- dal to Alonzo ;hits: off Valdez 6 in 5 innings; hit by pitcher: Ster- ling by Valdez, Arnold by Grif- fen, R. Garcia by Roberts; losing pitcher: Valdez; time of game: 2.00; umpires: F. Villareal and J. Mira. | Standings: | Club— W. L. Pet. |Key West Merchants 1 1 500 Bob’s Sports Shop 1 1 500 | Club batting: Club— RHE | Merchants 1915 4 Bob's 301 341—17 11 1 | Pitehers’ recor Roberts has won one game. | S. Griffen has won one game. i, C. Valdez has lost one game. ! Parks has lost one game. FOOD FOR CATS Bloomington, Ill—Free lun- ches for the cats of thy coni- munity have been supplied at a raliroad plant here ently. When the doors of an a hop are swung shut at the end of each day, a large covey of spar- rews is trapped inside. When ;@awn comes, the birds find the only exit—small spaces around the rails entering the shop. They wriggle through the opening right into the paws of the wait- ing cats. Under old Roman law, the tes- timony of any person was. not acceptable unless obtained thru torture. BROADWAY CIGAR STORE 610 Duval Street BASEBALL SCORES Cigars and Cold | Soft Drinks || I SCORE|Tense Moments Merchants; Sterling Socks Homer jLeague how to box and wrestle, jof flying model planes. In Taking Film. One of the sequences in “The; | Yearling” that had Director Clar- ! ence Brown and the grew on the film on the verge of a nervous W. L. Pct, |the Softball League to defeat the breakdown was the bear hunt .795|Key West Merchants, in the sec- ‘episode. ¥ This important part of the Tew pic- | Navy To Teach Youngsters |THE LOW DOWN = Boxing, Wrestling, PALs Hear| HICKORY GROVE fs ax The Navy here will teach the members. They are anxious to hu youngsters in the Police Athletic the central committee of the PALs‘ heard at a meeting held last night in Mary’s Parish Hall. Mayor W. Demeritt vice president of the PAL or- ganization, presided. President Louis Eisner report- ed that the Navy had given ad- ditional boxing equipment to help toward outfitting the ring which is being built néxt to St. Mary’s Parish Hall for the use of the PALs. President at the meeting were Jr, and Lt. Sky Slicers Club, a LIFE EXPERTS Also present were representing the colored recrea- jand beach and a children’s play- )8round for the colored people of the community. It is hoped there is a possibility for this in the |near future. Suggestions were given for or- |ganizing a colored center of the |PAL which would be backed by land have representatitation on the PALs. NOT ABSENT IN 12 YEARS Magno, Utah.—Bud Silcox, 18. recently graduated from high school, after twelve years of grade and high school work, with an enviable record. He was not absent once during the en- jtire twelve years. New York City’s Wall Street jowes !vesant, who was governor of the Dutch settlement of New Ams- terdam, ordered a__palisades ‘built. the polar bear. its name to Peter Stuy-/ window preparing to i Things are getting a little bet-! ut still i ter, maybe, in the city— room for improvement. On street car, I asked the conductor if my “token” ticket was good out a raucous “ya,” meaning, I figured, he grabbed the token. I¢ was a municipal-own- | on civil with convenient connections te Hew York, ,on his line. He ripped “ves"—anyway was Been galavantin’ again. Been) | ip to the City. I always come | jteach the children the principles jhome with sore feet and a kink | \in my neck, and glad that I don’t two men ‘have to live amongst the stop found om the east sides ef: and go signals and traffic whis- ; ition interests who are working tles. But when 6 months roll jtoward getting a baseball field 27ound, there I am at the ticket | take-oif again. Something like the farmer , going into town to get “tight” and | claiming “how he did dread it.” + be] » £ i : } 35 g tet business. ; somebody ‘fiee or other—and i i i i service for less, Yours with a8 5? : Squirrel holes frequently i; a ed car—the guy service, it would be difficult to Paladelahia, Mortal, Contestants; fire him. Anybody surmising =_ pei that maybe city or Govt. owner You geteverything when you fy Nationel ship of a community, or brings thing is good for the | speed, ‘comfort, convenience, courteous better service. All recognized air travel cords ‘service, he can try a street car} accepted. See your travel agent ur call (Tide like I am talking about. cerns big busine , business. Susi passed a groce > Bais SURANCE OVE THAT And another thing — it con-j versus little | uof§ 's to me as we} store, look atthe |/% |figs, let's have a few. We dide} i tr ;They were 45 cents a pound. In} ? The principal foe of the walrus the next block at another store were some more figs—same kind FORD TRUCKS LAST 1p fo OR THE first time in his methods used by life insurance com- panies in computing rates ha work in figuring out life-expectancy tables for Ford Trucks. 4,967,000 Trucks Te: Wolfe, Corcoran and Linder. York life insurance actuaries, records of all trucks of the five sales leaders Ug tory, scientific we been put to manufacturer. teucks that last sted wo , leading New assembled the i lasts longer! registered from 1933 through 1941... 4,967,000 truck: truck life-expectancy tables same panies. Ford Trucks On The result? Ford Trucks La 10,19.6% longer than the leaders! 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