The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 17, 1947, Page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 194 —— YANKS SETTING HOT PACE IN AMERICAN; Yankees Win By Score 8 to 2 Over Cubs; Red Sox Defeated Chicago’s| White Sox (RP Associated Press) j weW YORK, July 17.—stin weeping wp their torrid pace in the American League, the New York Vonkees yesterday again showed its heels to the Cleveland indians by @ score of 6 to 2. That the management of the Yauks did not- intend to let the game go te seen in the fact that « wed Wensloff, Drews, and Page to stave off a late Indian deige. In all, these three pitchers eave the Indians only six hits. ‘The Yanks gathered 14. While Detroit and Washington amd the Philadelphia Athietics onl the St. Louis Browns were | doubleheaders, Gale- neue of the Boston Red Sox was naling the Chicago White Sox in theck to gain its fourth vic? since going to the Red Sox. Williams seems at last to. be getting his batting eye. He made @ home run and two singles yetterday for the Red Sex, pac- ing his te 11-hit attack. te the National League, the St. Lawis Cardinals bowed to the | : Seston Braves by a score of 3 to | Fort Lauderdale 6 Spabn of the Braves held the Cardinals to six hits and never was in danger Brooklyn Dodgers came ‘back, ater guffering a rout at the tends of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and won from the Pirates by a ore af 10 to 6. leomerd of the Philadelphia Phillies held the Cincinnati Reds hits, and the PhiNties .4to 1. ompson, rookie out- star of the New York paced his team’s hitting the Chicago Cubs and the won, 6 to 3. Thompson his 15th homer deep into lield seats at Chicago on in the fouth inning end then highlighted a four-run inning rally by smashing ’ loaded double. The results yesterday: gs at Lifter Pty 28 260 loff, Drews, Page and! Berte; Gette!, Kieinmann, Lem- @ and Hegan. First MBM. Louis R. H. E. Pitilade|phia 491 St Louis 510 2 Detrich Christopher, Savage and Rosar; Muncrief, Movider and Early. Second Game At St. Louis R. H. E. Philadelphia 47% St Lewis 140 MeCahan and Guerra; Kramer, Moulder and Early First Game At Detroit R. H. E. Washington 814 0 Detroit 912 2 Robertson, Masterson, Ferrick. Wynn and Evans; Newhous Hutehinson, Gorsica, Houteman ond Swift —_———- Second Game At Detroit R.H. E. 10 16 0 153 Over- and R. H. E. 71 2 8 Galehouse and Tebbetts; Ruff- ing. Warrist, Maltzberger and Dickey. At Chicago Bost NATIONAL LEAGUE At Boston R.H. E. Boston 311 0 Louis 061 Spohn and Camelli; Dickson, Burkhart and Wilder. At Brookly 7 R. H. E. ah 613 2 Brooklyn 0141 Bonham, Ostermueller, Strince- vieh and Kluttz; Bahrman, Tay- lor and Edwards At Philadelphia R. H. FE. Cineinnat: 1 31 Philadelphia ott 1 Vandermeer, Gumbert and La- Manno; Leonard and Seminick. At New York R. H. E. Chicago 39 New York 6 9 2 Borowy, Chipman and Scheff- ing; Kennedy, Trinkle, Beggs and Cooper California, with almost million automobiles, had the most cars on the road during 1946. New York was second with al mwet 2 million. 2 1-2 814 0! 1 games—Chandler (9-4) and John- 7 Raiders To Play In Lake Worth The Red Raiders, under leader- jship of Cyril Griffin, have closed an agreement with the Lake Worth Ramblers to play a two- day series at Lake Worth on August 31 and September 1. This is an annual affair be- tween the two clubs. The more northern east coast city will re- turn the Key West visit on the first holiday in the month of No- vember. Last year’s Lake Worth club featured Swede Hansen, a New York Giant major leaguer. | | Baseball Statisties By The Associated Press STANDINGS Florida-International League 31%" 160 Bisel 156 ya THIGH 21" 14%" 14%" 10" 4 Ee Ce re Club— W. L. Pet. Havana 71 19.789 Tampa 63 29 .685 Miami Beach 50 38 .568 West Palm Beach 40 45 471 St. Petersburg — 4250 .457 Miami 41 50.451 |" Lakeland ..-B0 63.323 22 65 .253 National League Club— W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 49 34 .590 Boston 2 45 35 .563 New York 43 35 .551 St. Louis 43 39 .524 Cincinnati 41 45 .477 Chicago 3745 451 Philadelphia 36 47 .434 Pittsburgh ,...___.32 49.395 American League Club— W. L. Pet. New York 56 26 .683 Detroit 43 35.551 poet... 532 Cleveland 36 38 .486 Philadelphia 389 41 .488 Chicago 3745 .451 Washington _ 35 44 «443 St. Louis 28 50.359 GAME RESULTS Florida-Internation&: weague (Tuesday’s Scores) Miami 8, Fort Lauderdale +1. Tampa 8, Havana 4. St. Petersburg “5-5, Lakeland 4-3. Miami Beach at West Beach, postponed, rain. . National League (Wednesday’s Scores) New York 6, Chicago 3. St. Louis 0, Boston 3. Pittsburgh 6, Brooklyn 10. Cincinnati 1, Philadelphia 4, American League (Wednesday’s Scores) Boston 7, Chicago 2. Detroit 9-1, Washington 8-10. { New York 8, Cleveland 2. Philadelphia 4-4, St. Louis 5-1. TODAY’S GAMES Florida-International League Havana at Miami. Miami Beach at Lakeland. West Palm Beach at Tampa. St. Petersburg at Fort Lauder- dale. National League Chicago at New York, two games—Erickson (2-3) and Pas- seau (0-3) vs. M. Cooper (3-9) and liott (1-3). St. Louis at Boston, night game '_Brecheen (10-4) vs. Barrett (6-6). Pittsburgh at Brooklyn—Sew- ell (3-4) vs. King (1-2). Only games scheduled. American League New York at Cleveland, two son (4-2) and Embree (4-7) vs. Gromek (2-1). | Boston at Chicago, two games —Dobson (9-5) and Dorish (5-8) vs. Gillespie (5-4) and Lopat (7-7). Philadelphia at St. Louis, night game—Fowler (5-7) vs. Sanford (3-5). | Washington at Detroit, two games—Hudson (5-6) and Haef- {ner (3-8) vs. Trucks (6-6) and Benton (5-5). Softball Games BAYVIEW PARK NIGHT GAMES | TONIGHT— 7:15—Key West Merchants vs. VFW (exhibition game). 9:15—American Legion vs. Jerry’s Half-Acre (exhi-| bition game). FRIDAY— 7:15—Bob’s Sports Shop vs. Adams Dairy (exhibition | game). 9:15—Naval Hospital vs. USS. more (exhibition con- test). The tiny male of one fish at- Palm |over Champion Tony Zale in the sixth round. The end came two | minutes and 10 seconds after: the ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . New Champion “Rocky Graziano Scored: TKO Over | Joseph: Zorsky Named President. - Ex-King of Middleweights In Sixth Round Last Night ae vet INA BOUT that will go down in boxing history.as one of the most fiercely fought, Rocky Graziano got up off the floor in the third to avenge a previous knockout | Se Lodld Rocky Grazino Crumples Champion Tony Zale’ In ROCKY COMES BACK& STRONG AND F ASTOR: hard rights of Rocky’s. This :tound was Graziano’s. AFTER TERRIFIC PUM-. MELING EARLIER (Speeta! to The Citizen? CHICAGO, July 17..— Rocky } Graziano won the worid’s middle- | weight championship last night | by scoring a technical knockout | Round Six: The Gary, Ind. champion reeled from a hard right to the ribs. Graziano poured on the punches, send- bell opened the round. The new champion courage and stamina worthy of | boxing’s all-time greats, came back to win after taking a ; | | | | i | | | | showed as he} stiff lacing in the earlier rounds, | including a_ knockdown in tI third round. Both of Grazian: eyes were cut. The right eye was completely closed when _ the | knockout occurred. The scheduled 15-round_ bout | started off with the New York challenger, Graziano, landing a hard left and right that hurt the Champion. Zale weathered the storm and at close quarters || scored with a hard right over | the heart that forced Graziano to give ground and go on the de- | fensive. Zale continued the pres- | sure by forcing the challenger | | to the ropes, and placing a padi cut over Graziano’s right eye. | This round was Zale's. | Round two opened with Zale | the aggressor, and he proved he | was the more expert box he fired jabs to the face. G iano missed with wild righ! | i} | Wrinkle The cut over Graziano’s Resistant, was opened again. Graziano fin- Cool and ished the round strong, as he Salt Li landed four hard punches. The Long round was even, with the edge, if Wearing any, in favor of Graziano. In the third round Zale floored Graziano, who was up without Gray - Tan Blue - Brown Neat Stripes acount. Zale was aiming for Plaids and Graziano’s bad eyes, one of | Check which was completely closed, °6”° to s] = ia while the other was bleeding profusely from Zale’s deliberate at the hands of Tony Zale, king of the middleweights before the go last night. + with a hard rigat. The champ- + “| some missing, others connect- | Sixth Of Bang-Up Fight ing the champion retreating to ' record indoor gate of all time. \ Men’s and Young Men’s — ——COOL SPORT. SLACKS || Finely Tailored SLACKS the ropes. Zale was staggered. ion. showed all his craftiness as he bobbed, weaved and ducked Graziano’s punches, ing. All were driven with ter- | tific force. Zale was groggy | and wobbling, his arms dang- ling at his sides, as he got up at the count of three. Graziano | moved in for the kill, as Ref- | eree Speer stepped between the raging challenzer and the dezed, glaze-eyed Zale, and waved.Grasiano to his corner. | The new champion received a tremendous ovation from the with Talon Fastener, Fly and Pleated Front jabbing. Rocky missed continual- | ly. It was Zale’s round by a| wide margin. | Round four again found Zale | jabbing and scoring on the face | of his opponent, ever aiming at | | | | | i | | | | | | H | the other's cut optics. Zale slip- || ped to the floor as he missed a |j hard punch, Graziano was trou- |? bled by his poor vision as he |# groped about the ring. Zale’s | round by a good margin. | Graziano came to life in round | five after having been in an al- most dazed condition in the f | mer session. The New Yorker |; staggered Zale momentarily with | a left hook to the face. Graziano’s | | blows to the face now eausen blood to flow freely from the | taches itself to the body of the | female itself and becomes in ef- | fect merely an external organ, | champion’s mouth. Graziano was the aggressor and the champi. f| back-pedaled to avoid those Made by MANHATTAN, McGREGOR, BVD and OTHER NATIONALLY KNOWN MAKES Washable Cotton... and Spun Rayon PLAIN COLORS and HANDSOME FIGURES | $250 to $595 oo. CLOSE 1 P.M. EVERY THURSDAY SHIRTS MENS SHOP | officers interested in. the course, 4 Of Island City Baseball League Joseph Zorsky was elected Ya OAS A president of the Island City Base- ie 5 * ball League last night in the of- |SMITH’S GROCERY fice of the City clerk. Earl Ad-.| OPERATED BY SON, HASTINGS SMITH; ams was named secretary, and Smith’s Grocery; at 1201 White | Jeague directors named were B. “Dutch” Goehring, Louis Ma- loney, Enrique Esquinaldo and | treet, at the corner of Catherine Roy Hamlin. Riss street, operated for years by Mr. Managers: Cyril Griffin, Red |Charles H. 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