The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1947, Page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947 ATHLETICS CREEP UP; BOSTON RED SOX WIN OVER WHITE SOX, 8-7 Philadelphia wos .5 Team; Bosox Go Four- ‘Acres, Hospital teen Innings In Defeat-! ing Chicago, (By Associated Press) * NEW YORK, July 24.—The Philadelphia Athletics is the team | In the Softball League, pense) to watch in the American League. At all events, Philadelphia crept up in the 500 class last night by winning over the Cleveland | Legion team in the second game Indians, 6-3, Fowler turned in a good pitching performance, and Philadelphia had no trouble win- ning by getting 12 hits. Connie Mack at last seems to have a team worthy of the name of the old Athletics. He appears to have good pitching, and ‘in a fight race that is about every- thing, and his team will bea watching from this point for-' ward H Boston Red Sox went 14 in- nings before defeating the Chi- cago White Sox, On Tues- day the Bostons took a ninth-in- ning game from the White Sox. Hughson furnished the pitching | after the ninth inning and de- serves credit for the victory. The Detroit Tigers lost an op- portunity to creep up on the | By The Associated Press Present last night were: Dwight me w York Yankees last night. | Hunter, A. B. Goehring, A. C. | ve % succumbed to the \Sweeting, H. K. Curry, Wayne ; Washington Senators, 5-0. under | STANDINGS |Miller, Manuel Alayon, Aifred | the fine ehukking furnished by | Florida-International League | Brost, Floyd Villareal, Charles W. Scarborough. On Tuesday the! Club— W. L. Pet. Wels, Linton Camus, P. McCul- | Tiger t to.the right-handed | Havana 74 22 .771 Jough, I. F. Nolte, J. C. iel, | pitehing of Wynn, of the a- 66 31 ya & Neil Saunders. In the other American League |} nares ALs | game. the leaders, the Yankees, 'West Palm Beach -.42 a ¢ P Defeated | dropped one to + St. Louis be ado ahs = a '343 | Sale | Lakeland 5 sue ie "ean, othe | Fort Lauderdale 25 69 ° 266 Pine St. Boys at hiite, wtaiie the Browns ayy National League €1! Shies, the phen ~ dptcning | Club— W. L. Pet.| PALs defeated the Pine Street find ef Yanks, out. of the | Brooklyn 55 36 .604 Boys team, 24-13, in the Junior ion | Boston 48 39 .552 Softball League, in a game play- Sreckive Dedees nat | New York 45 38 542 ed at Bayview Park field. It was gee “ ee ne) St. Louis ~~ 47 41 534 the third win, with no losses, a oe tneee Gaye. Vester. i 42 48 for the PAL team. Man goo tS ae 488\"“While Mrs. dane Hopkins eds - a pot Whidden, who is connected with tee dawn with five hits until Piusburgh : 36 51 Ald | the city recreation department, | nag ve — when he gave way American League jis on vacation Louis Eisner, p: ‘ 7 we re win-] Gjub— W. L. Pct.' agent of the PALs, is taking her ~— ent, 53 New York 60 30.667 'p} . scored once in | Detroit 47 38.553, Gatnes Grilles 5 the exhth and added two more Boston .47 40 .540 Wednesday: The tear engag in the ninth. The Dodgers re- | Philadelphia 44 44 500 t4 play on that day will be an- tained their five-tame dead over {Cleveland 381499400) ca Monday. t wmner-up team, the Boston | Washington 38 47 447 z cs te | Chicago 39 50 .432 St. Louis Cardinals rallied for |St. Louis 3253 376) Sotfballers To fo wns in the last of the ninth | a ee nip New York, 6-5, pull GAME RESULTS ine to within » half same of the Florida-Internationa: League Brird-place York Giants. | (Tue lay’s Scores) They still trail the Dodgers by! Miami Beach 9, West Palm| Key West Merchants Softball Six and one-hall games ‘Beach 4. team will play Marathon in a Trailin the « sed | Miami 11, Fort Lauderdale 0. {softball tilt at 3:30 p. m., Satur @ Red Bird ’ skij St. Petersburg 4, Lakeland 3. |@ay, July 26. The Marathon @pened the last } ef the ninth} Havana at Tampa, called end jteam is under the management fine with « single. Sh ater | 8th, light failure, with Havana | of Jim Wright, while the Key MNied ¢ but Medwiek moved |!eading 10-6. West are led by Manuel | Kurewski to second with a sin- National League n. The game wiil be played @ke Dievring ran for Medwick (Wednesday’s Scores) in Marathon. | Morian wolked. Du batting! St. Louis 6, New York 4. The Merchants are champions | for BR ed Marion at sec-| Boston 12, Chicago 4. of the local City Class B League. ond, but s for the, Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 2. ueaCe relief pit doubled | Pittsburgh 6, ae 2.) mamuunittanmesraeemenate cr to right 4% came home American League S . d Boston be the Chi (Tuesday’s Scpres) ic PORTS an cago Cubs, 12-4, and Pittsburgh | (Wednesday's Scores) beat the Philadelphia Phillies, | Boss echicene Gt a RECREATION 6-2 -hiladelphia 6, Cleveland 3. le iis Washington 5, Detroit 0. TOT TE NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 8, New York 2. SWIMMING—South Beach, south | At Cincinnati R. H. E.} i end of Duval Street. | Brooklyn 511 1 Y’S GAMES DEEPSEA FISHING—Gulf Dock, Cincinnati 2 6 0! ptorida-International League west Caroline Street; Craig Behrman, Casey and Edwards; | Fort Lauderdale at Miami! Dock, north end of Grinnell Raffensix ind Mueller c sach; ! Street. At St R. H. F.!~ Miami at West Palm Beach. |BASEBALL—Games, usually on New York 511 0} st. Petersburg at Havana. Sunday afternoon, at Munici- St Law A 11 0. Tampa at Lakeland. pal Stadium, puck Avenue Koso nd Cooper Munger, N. an a reet. Burkhart, Brazie and Rice | New Ye GOLF—Municipal Golf Course, At Chicago R. I. E.'(9.4) vs. Dicks Stock Island. : Boston 1215 0) Boston at Chicago — Spahn|TENNIS—Bayview Park on Di- Chieago 410 1 (13-4) vs. Ladé (7-7). vision Street (day and night Sein and Masi, Wyse, Kush,! Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, two facilities). Chipman, Meers and Scheffing,!games—Rowe (9-5) and Hughes|BASKETBALL—Outdoor courts McCullough vs (4-8) vs. Bagby (3-3) and Higbe| at South Beach and Bayview At Pittsburgh R. H. E.1(6-9), Park. Philadelphia 211 0} Brooklyn a: Cincinnati—Lom- | HANDBALL—Bayview Park. Pittsburgh 6 8 1)bavdi (4-8) vs. Vander Meer (4-7).| SHUFFLEBOARD — Bayview dorisich, Schanz and Lakeman, American League : Park and South Beach. Bonham and Kiuttz. Detroit at Washington, night) pICNICKING—Tables at Bay- | - game—Trout (7-6) vs. Pieretti! View Park, AMERICAN LEAGUE 2 . |CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND —| At New York RH at Philadelphia—Fel- Bayview Park. St. Lamis 8 13 0; er ee COMFORT STATIONS—Bayview New York 2 6 1) St. Louis at New York—Mun- Park, Kinde Moss: Shea, Page, |crief (5-10) vs Ras i (2-0), e i a Lyons, Johnson and Berra Chicago at’ Boston — Papis eT Ne At Boston R. H. E.|(5-6) vs. Galehouse (5-4). Softball Games | 715 3 a= a MMi nn BAYVIEW PARK 1 Haynes, Harrist, Lee, Caldwell ° and Tresh; Ferriss, Doyish, Hug Softball Standings NIGHT GAMES son andl Tebbett TONIGHT— 5 At Philadelphia R.H.E. CITY LEAGUES 7:30—Naval Hospital vs. Jerry’s Cleveland 31 | SUOgNIOCUUUNTUunaTecuaantetaetntaeaae Half-Acre. é Philadelphia ais 3) CLASS A American Legion vs. Black, Lemon and Hegan;| Club— W. L. Pet. USS. Gilmore. Fowler and Rosa Ivets of Foreign Wars 1 01.000,FRIDAY At Washington R. H. E.{Bob's Sports Shop 0 0 .000' 7:30—Adams Bs vs. Key Detroit © 6 1/American Legion om 097.000| ip get Merchants, Washingto 5 8 0'USS. Gilmore 0 1 .000| 9:15—VFW vs. Bob's Sports Hutehinson and Wagner; Scar-| CLASS B Shop. borough and Evans | Club— W. L. Pet.: The ane ane . : Jerry’s Half-Acre 1 0 1.000 - he nort erly record fof any Historians estimate that thru-!Adams_ Dairy 0 0 .000 bird is about 350 miles from the out her history China has had Naval Hospital 0 Q .000 pole, where the Ivory Gull has about 4,000 civil wars. |Key West Merchants . 0 1 .000,been found. ‘Saunders To Continue On As | Softball Head Softivall managers, meeting at | the office of Recreation Director Dwight Hunter in C.ty Hall, last night, requested Neil Saunders, | who tendered his resignation, to accept their apologies for any | misunderstanding over rules af- | | And Legion And |mis. lfecting softball play and to re- | nap Tonight es his paras iaae or at} .least to serve out term as ‘president. . Saunders, who was not pres- jent at the meeting, withdrew his | resignation today. Other business included the ‘appointment of Cyril Griffin to jserve as umpire along with Jim- my Mira, and the re-scheduling for August 4 of a doubleheader, (rained out on July 21. ie alf Acre piays its first game with Naval Hospital, while USS Gilmore tackles the American ‘in tonight's contests. In the opening game of the first half of the season, the Leg- ion team won over the Gilmore outfit by a 12 to 6 score. Jerry's} The managers also agreed to Half Acre won over the Navaljcome out with volunteers to dig Hosiptal by a 10 to 5 score. Wal- holes for installation of a chain- | ker pitched and won for Jerry’s link fence that will be six feet | Half Acre, while Miller was the :high. This fence will be situated losing pitcher. jin both left and right field, cov- Emerson lost for the Gilmore | ering the area where the two- and Harris was the winning , pase hit rule is now in effect. pitcher. In tonight's game, Har- | A ball driven over the fence ris will pitch for the Legion and jon a fly will be only a two-base Porter for the Gilmore. Sweeting } thit. This has to be done will open for Acres and Miller|}a1) rules state that any fence for the Hospital. ithat is shorter than 200 feet from |the plate, must carry a two-base Habel‘for balls-driven over it. The ; Baseball Statistics two-base fence will be 197 fect jfrom the plate. | | Meet Marathon | ONE BARRACKS makes a barn. Another provides for house and ‘verted to starch. 40, 50, 60! Get Pep | For atle'ay all > Sis anal aaa THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BARRACK ROOM BALLAD OF HOME ON THE FARM AP Newsfeatures jt bananas totaling 20,056 acres in California, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming have been awardéd'to 244'véterans by the Bureau of Reclamation in the past year. ‘Anothér ‘181 men are sharing 16,439 acres being divided this summer ‘in Arigona and Wyoming. Each gets two barracks buildings, free, from ‘feemer war relocation camps. TWENTY FEET WIDE and 120 feet.Jong, the barracks ate hauléd to the new farmsteads on trailers. They originally cost $4,000 /eath but only bring about $263 when sold. Well-constructed, they make attractive homes when remodeled. { smaus FeuiTs i AND VEGETABLE outbuildings. Carl J. Thye, Reclamation Bureeu ; architect. has drawn 14 plans to show veterans how to convert, the structures. Above is a farmyard layout. Plans are free. ‘ FRONT ELEVATION for a two-bedroom house designed by Thye, a Minnesotan who taught engineering at Washington University. St. Louis, Mo. He says the structures provide a problem ii in design, but can be made into comfortable homes. Living Roon Wazo . FLOOR PLAN of the two-bedroom house, showing how interior can be partitioned in a compact layout. It makes a home worth $3,000 to $4,000, says Thye, adding “that’s quite a start for the home- steader.” The bureau also distributes to veteran settlers such surplus Ergnerty as stoves, beds, blankets, mattresses, clothing and fertilizer. | a HUNDREDS INTO MILLIONS | i i CLINTON. Ill—Miss Vella M. | Wilcox, in Hong Kong, China, r cently was sent a check for $709,63, representing her share of an estate. The check, in Chinese ;money, will amount to $7,096,- “BROADWAY | CIGAR STORE || 610 Duval Street BASEBALL 2 Plead Guilty To Intoxication Ann Griffin: was charged swith | intoxication when she we ra aigned before Judge Thomas Ss. ‘o of Criminal Court, and she} pleaded guilty to the charge | > Caro fined her $5 and) Costs onfy were charged Ben- jamin Stirrup who pleaded guilty before Judge Caro to a charge of intoxication. In Maine bushels last year 6,500,000 of potatoes were con- Men, Women! 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He delighted With | bep. younger teeling — of your meney back Sca'stures overs where. _ | esas: Nep ; ing. “A player,in the big show | SCORES {7 AP Newsieatures se eee a. nce eneeamnaers Bi 2 - Nephews Honor “Unele enw By HAROLD RATLIFF PAGE THRE COMIC BOOKS CAUSE DIVORCE DES MOINES, lowa- — Aftor testifying of her husbend’s pas |sion for comic books and his eter- AUSTIN, Tex.—“Uncie Billy” Disch, who gave more ian @0 years nal “tinkering with his old car; of ‘his life to baseball, recently had the distinction of a day in |Mrs, ‘Phyllis Fearsen, 49-year-old which an entire state paid tribute Uncle Billy, 72-year-old superviser of coaches at the University of Texas checked up on “Billy Disch Day” and found he had seen to him. English war bride, ‘was granteti divorce. more than 30 of his boys go to the major and more than 50 bad} Right played in the minors. These do not count: the many others he gave | Suddenly, in the presence of a push upward from college andy ————————— nm COMPANY, the smail daughter of sandlot diamonds as a big league - Fe scout. Disch says the first time he remembered holding a ball in his baud was when he started Playing with his mother’s yarn. He Hked it end made baseball In 1911 he came to the ate university. It was a.question of “if you can’t lick ‘em, join ’em” be. 7 cause Disch’s St. Edward’s Uni- versity team across town was beating the Texas nine regular- ly. For four years Texas won the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship, then, with formation of ‘the Southwest Conference baseball race in 1915, , the Longhorns redlly went -fo town. In 26 years of Disch coach- ing Texas won 21 titles. Ster Pupil: Coaches Tilness foreed Disch’s ‘retire- ment as field coach, in 1940 but jke’s been advisory mentor since then. One of - his star pupils, - Bibb Falk, pilots the Texas ball- , players. | Noted for developing ‘smart Players, Disch cancentrated on training the minds ef players as well as on hitting and field- has to know what to do with the bali,” he says. Still keen of mind, Disch can | recall just aout hitter in every ,game and whet the | count on ‘the hitter was, teo,| sys Pat Amkemann,:one of. his | Products who now is manager of the Oklahoma City Club of the Texas League. ‘His boys tell about how some- |. times in an exciting period of aj game Uncle Billy would bury his | Many sufferers relieve | tere | _Jounsows ep | PRICKLY HEAT i] | Bigode L, They help most peonle pass abeat 8 | 1¢ | Gets Neat Results | 7M vhen disorder of funetion permits | WOE | str, ess erage [a ee | Po R Pe Rees | Teg pains. tose of Pep and encrey. getting wb | } ees Set Sesidaes mad madre. he eres, | ! 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