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

giicit. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 DODGERS BOOST LEAD TO FOUR AND A HALF GAMES; BEAT BRAVES, SENSATION OF 1.0, AS PIRATES TOP CARDS, 53 SOPTBALT Vie Lombardi Limits Bos-¥ ' ton To Four Hits; Yanks; Beat A’s, 8-5: Phils cip Baseball Statistics eel ate ‘Nightfighters, : nc By The Associated Press Giants, 6-5 (iy The Ansocinted Press) | STANDINGS NEW YORK, Aug. 15—An cigh-| getand City Baseball League th-inning single by Carl Furillo} @yyp— L, Pet. scoring Eddie Stanky combined |pirates __ ca. with four-hit pitching by little !Biue Sox 3.2 Vie Lombardi to give the Brook- |Red Raiders 23 lyn Dodgers a 1-0 victory over the Boston Braves yesterday, tretching their National League San Carlos ... Florida-International League lead to 4% xames as the St. Louis 4, Club ‘of ems Cards took a 5-3 beating from ave Maen 1 14 “e04 Pittsburgh. Miami Beath 64 50 .561 Furillo aptly *brated Carl West Palm Beach 54 62 466 Furillo Day at Ebbets field by Miami {ieee 55 63 466 driving in the winning dun after St. Petersburg .- 55 65 458 Stanky had opened the eighth Lakeland 40 79.336 with a single and taking second Fort Lauderdale 31°85 .267 on a sacrifice. Pete Reiser flied National League out and then Furillo drove aj @yy— L. Pet. sharp grounder through Nanny Brooklyn 607 Fernandez’ legs. Warren Spahn gj, Louis 569 was the loser of the tight pitch- New York ‘538 ers’ battle, Boston de -532 Fritz Ostermueller set the Cards Cincinnati — 465 back at Pittsburgh with nine Chicago 464 seattered hits, one a homer by Pittsburgh 429 Terry Moore in the fourth. Ralph , Philadelphia -400 Kiner’s 30th homer in the first | American League with two on and Jimmy Blood-}| Club— W.L. Pct. worth’s single with the bases full New York 72 38 635 in the sixth provided the Pirate Boston 59 48.551 runs. Detroit 57.50 1 The New York Yankees comb- Philadelphia “56 54.509 ed Phil Marchildon and Bob Sav- Cleveland -. 51 53.490 age for 10 hits at Yankee Stad- Chicago... 51 60.459) to beat the Philadelphia Ath- Washington 46 58 442 8 to 5 for Allie Reynolds’ St. Louis 40°71 360 15th vieaory. The A’s Were held GAME RESULTS to six hits, one a homer by Hank Joost in the sixth with none on. Florida-Internations: League At Philadelphia the Phillies | (Wednesday at Scares) took their third straight from the | ‘Tampa 9, Miami 8. New York Giants, 6 to 5, using! Havana 3-7, West Palm Beach four pitchers in the process, Pinch 9-6, hitter Don Padget’s single with | the bases loaded in the seventh postponed. rallied the Phils from a 4-3 de- Miami Beach at St. Petersburg, postponed. National League (Thursday’s Scores) Pittsburgh §, St. Louis 3. Brooklyn 1, Boston 0. Philadelphia 6, New York 5. Only games scheduled. In the only major league night game Dutch Overmire shut out the St. Louis Browns with four hits at St. Louis. Cleveland and Chicago were unable to play | their night game because of rain. Results: ‘ * AMERICAN LEAGUE American League Night Game (Thursday’s Scores) At St. Louis R. H, E.! New York 8, Philadelphia 5. Detroit _710 2 Detroit 7, St. Louis 0, night St. Louis 0 4 1 game. ate Overmire and Wagner; Kramer,' | Cleveland at Chicago, post- si a a Only games scheduled. At New York R. HE. Sreeeen Philadelphia 5 6 1! TODAY’S GAMES New York 6 10 2{ Florida-International League Marchildon, Savage and Rosar;! Tampa at Miami. Reynolds, Shea and Robinson. Havana at West Palm Beach. — Miami Beach at St. Peters- Cleveland at Chieago, postpon- burg. ed, rain, National League New York at Boston—Jansen fot (13-14) vs. Barrett (9-8). Brooklyn at Philadelphia, night igame—Hatten (11-7) vs. Rowe \(10-8). Roston and Washington, scheduled, NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia R.H.E,! St. Louis at Pittsburgh, night New York 5 9 1 game—Munger (9-3) vs. Bonham jelphia 6 7 3 (9-5). Trinkle, Kennedy and| Chicago at Cincinnati, night Donnelly, Schmidt, game—Lade (9-6) vs. Vander Jyrisch, and Seminick, Meer (5-11). American League oo Boston at New York, night At Brooklyn R. H. E. game—Ferris (10-10) vs. Drews Boston 0 4 0 (5-2). Brooklyn 1 6 6 Philadelphia at Washington, Spabn and Camelli; Lombardi night game—Coleman (4-6) vs. and Edwards. Masterson (9-9). At Pittsburgh R. H, E, —Trucks (8-6) vs Haynes (7-4). St. Louis 310 0 Cleveland at St. Louis, night Pitisburgh 5 9 0 game—Black (9-8) vs. Kinder Wilks, Dickson, Rice and Wil- (6-9). ber; Ostermueller and Howell. Cincinnati and Chicago, no Stork Beats ‘Goose’ NASSAU, B.W.I. — (AP). —A race stork and a Figure Skaters Plan Benefits “goose” end l here with the For Olympies (oe scooce" outa tana The “Goose,” a six-passenger aturitg amphibian of that name operated the three members of the by the Bahamas Airways, Ltd., U. S. Olympic figure skating was rushing Hazel Rolle from team—Dick Button, Gretchen the tiny outlying island of An- Merrill and Eileen Seigh—will’ Gros to a Nassau hospital, On open August 30 at Lake Placid the thirty-minute flight, the and run four performan: Pro- stork overtook the plane, deliv: ceeds will go toward defraying Ging Margaret Rolle. Margaret the expenses of the figure skating Starker, an English nursing sis- squad in the 1948 Olympic games. 4... officiated. ii Captain Leonard Thompson Softball Games ‘summed it up: “It was a close . |race. Our Goose was fast, but the BAYVIEW PARK between a LAKE PLACID, N. Y.— ure skating operetta fe stork—probably aided by favor- NIGHT GAMES ‘able winds—beat Us by a few TONIGHT— | minutes. 7:30American Legion _ vs. Read the Classified Ads in The USS. Gilmore (exhibi-; R tion), \ Citizen. 9:15—Adums Dairy vs. Naval} Se Hospital. ! Subscribe to The Citizen. -800 lead to defeat the Key West Me 600 chants, 12 to 11, in a © -400 softball league game last night. BOCA CHICA WINS 13TH IN -1 4 .200 It was the third defeat for the | At bat, Al, Acevedo poled three the Ni: Detroit at Chicago, night game! Wild Game From | { Naval Hospital overcame a 9-4 So. Beach, 8 -2 ass B city 15 STARTS; PLAY RED RAID. ERS SUNDAY AT WICKERS FIELD The Nightfighters of Boca Chi- first-half champions. In an ex-j Jhibition, the USS. Gilmore won over Jerry’s Half-Acre, 7 to 5. | In the first game of the eve- ning at the Bayview Park field, | an error, two wild pitches and a/ és single by Stinnett scored Curry /¢a continued unbeaten in 15 for the Gilmore's first tally. In mes yesterday, defeating the the second frame, a walk and a} pac =» i jeigemore, rung. Three singles, |. 'g to 2, at Wickers Field. ta bases on balls and three errors produced three other tallies in, The Nightfighters will play the the third and a single. a sacrifice ;Red Raiders at 2:30 p.m. at and a wild pitch gave the Gilmore ,Wickers Ficld Sunday, Manager its final run in the fifth. 'Floyd Acevedo of the South | Meanwhile, Jerr Half-Acre |Beach team announced today. ‘scored once in the first on a walk,| Five-hit pitching by Hansen a bunt and a double by Walker.'paved the way to the Nightfight- ‘Al Acevedo doubled and Joe Mira | ¢ 18th win in 15 starts. Only ies iwth the University of Ha- {singled to put one more over in the third. Then came two single and the Blue Sox kept the a free ticket to first and an error aviation team from 15. straight jthat gave the Half-Acres their] \istories. jlast three runs. Scoring one run in the first ghtfighters knocked Delfi lout of three for the victors. Carey | pencnies Se oe he bee he hit two to lead them in hitting.) re - . \third inning with a four-run out- | In the field, Fallon and Meason |} yrc wrtal were, the best for the winners,|.q yielded three runs in the |Higginbotham and Walker for the | ifth. ' Salers ee jlosers. iv ‘th. South Rs cord its on- ly runs in the third. Second Game A Merry-go-round |“ with the exception of Mora in The second game witnessed a 164 field and Baker in right, the total of 23 runs scored on 12 hits, South Beach lineup was the rég- !six errors, 16 bases on balls and SOU! ular Blue Sox club. eo dante Score by innings: spital stored four runs ‘Nightfighters ning on two hit bats- South Beach 002 000 0—2 5-3 !men, an error and a homer by | Hansen and Gordon; Fernan- {Miller. In the second, the Mer-\dez, Lopez and Arango, Acevedo. outdid the Hospitalmen by | ig home plate nine tim on five hits (three off Miller anal LS Rout Pine two off Martin), three walks and) Fomanden = hme” PY) O96 to 4, To Hol Junior Loop Lea | Hospital whittled down some ot| The Police Athletic League in- R. H. E. that lead by tallying three limes in the third on a hit, three bases | on balls and an error. The Men| in White added two more in the jfourth on Wells’ single and a second homer by Miller ,or softball league Wednesday In the fifth, Skaggs walked and routing the Pine Street Boys, 26 ‘Martin overthrew first, allowing to 4, at Bayview Park. In the jtwo runs to score. Martin went CPening game, the Pine Streeters ito the showers and Miller came trounced the United Street Mar- in to pitch for the second time. ket nine, 11 to 2. Hospital knotted the score in‘ The PAL’s took a 10-run lead the fifth on a triple by Rogers in the first inning and had no and three wild pitches and won trouble in holding it behind the jthe game in the sixth on a walk fast-ball pitching of Joey Lewis. jto Rogers, who stole second and The pitcher also scored five runs. went home on two wild pitches. PAL officials said today that At bat, Miller hit a single and all members of the PAL team itwo homers in four times up. He must be PAL members from now scored three runs and drove home on or be replaced by PAL boys. ihree. Fernandez poled a homer, Other members of the league- jfor the losers, scored a run and Yeading PAL's are Sam Roberts, drove home two. Peter Diaz, Earl Griffin, Bobby | In the field, the best were/Crusoe, Raymond Gwinn, Rollie |Alonzo, Fernandez and Pazo for sands, Robert Soper and Everett the losers, Wells and Bresnecky Rivas. Names of players on the ce CEE. jother teams were not available Score by Hee ‘as the scorekeeper used only first Raat Gane ‘names in the scorebook turned 'Gilmore 123 001-7 6 4 j2¥er tO The Citizen jJerry’s - 101 030—5 6 3 mane Rodenberr yand Fallon; F, OFF-SEASON VISITORS |Tynes and Walker. VIEW FLAMINGOS AT | Home run: Curry; two-base Acevedo, Walke HIALEAH RACE PARK 2, Means, | Merchants, 12-11. Unbeaten, Clip Lopez took over} 104 030 0—8 9 2) creased its lead in the city Juni- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IS ¥Bob’s Sports Shop’ Faces was always fighting for the top; | P ,,. ‘tuhg of the ladder, | No. 1 Seeded Team Or have changed since then ahd Joe, Tonight Key West’s powerful’ entry in stead game at 9 o’clock in Moore Park. = ! Three of the four seeded teams were still in the running up to last night's games, Key’ West top- ping the only bracket« in ,which the seeded team had heen elim- | inated. ee ; The Pan American Clippers. No. 1 seeded team, had come , through as expected ~in ~ the’ bracket and were slight favorites to beat the tough Brooker Lum- ber nine of Homestead fast night. | Carl's Liquor finalists last year, and No. 2 ded ‘téam this year, were to play the Pan Amer- ican Gremlins last night, having beaten Horne Hardware of Home- stead, 3 to 0, Thursday. | The No. 3 seeded team,’ Edison Center, was to play Turner's Li- quors or Horne Hardware to- night. s | Key West’s achievement in bat- tering its way to the tdp of its bracket has been the outstand- ing feature of the tournament. iFirst Eastern Airlines“ of Hia- ‘leah upset St. Sophia, No. 4 sced- “ed team. Then Laura Lee Cand- ies upset the upsetters, leaving Key West to beat a team theoreti- cally considerably better than the No. 4 seeded team. This, ceeded to do, knocking, off the upsetters of the upsetters, 4 to 2, Thursday night, to become, the ,first team to enter the semifinals ‘although the embarrassed. Miami jPapers played down the feat. | Last night’s rest was just what Manaer Alton F. (Dutch) -Goeh- ring wanted so that Dewitt Rob- erts, his ace windmill pitchér, and Blondel Hancock, as steady as ithe Rock of Gibralter, would be ; thoroughly ready jcrucial clash. If the Clippérs are the oppon- ‘ents, they will have to do better hitting than they did Thursday jagainst Rogers Electric when they won, 4 to 1 on only two hits. One happened to be a_ double jwith the bases loaded. Brooker Lumber, the Homestead ¢lub, on ;the other hand, trounced the ‘Junior Chamber of Commerce, 10 to 0. i i TODAYS - \ ANNIVERSARIES (Know America) 1761—Edward Preble,,. noted naval officer his day, hero-com- modore in war with Tripoli, born jin Portland, Maine. Died. Aug 125, 1807. : 1791—Duff Green. journalist, industrial promoter, diplomat, an active figure his generation, born Woodtord Co., Ky. Died June 10, 1875. | 1796—John Torrey, famed New York botanist-chemist, a-wonder- fully atiractive personality,’ born in New York. Dicd Mareh 10, 11873. 1824—Charles G. Lelarfd, poet, q : DAA AAAASAL44A4RBHS | vai ! Last yeat and year before last} ts Conqueror In Miami moted to the Cla the Fourth District softhall tour- | nament in Miami, Bob’s Sports | Parks is with Bob’s Sports Shop; ; Shop, makes its bid 4enight to'and Juanie Navarro is with the! enter the fihal round-:witen it Legion. faces the winners of last night’s'ager and all-around man, is re-} Pan American Clipper - Home- tired and R. Valdez is resting for! Bob's Sports Shop pro- | for tonight's ! ROLLOWING THROUGH ' ) { | ' | i} i { ‘the B-29’s had a softball club that But times ‘Mira and Malgrat have been pro-| B league; M. {Hérnandez, Charlie Albury and | Qsterhoudt have gone to the Le-{ :gion; Buster Roberts to Bob's! Sports Shop; Rueda and Mario, Hernandez to the Veierans; Andy, “Pie Traynor”, the man-; Abreu is a retired busi- | ess man. Sturtz is retired (pe-{ riod), and Buck Sawyer is with iJerry’s Half-Acre. } So far, Andy is still pitching} ‘good ball for the Sports Shop.! | Malgrat has failed to get a hit soi { in the second-half. Navarro {played one game and hit well. | iJoe Mira is slowing up a little land needs some rest. Charlie Al- i ing great ball. Mario {Hernandez has slowed up some {but we do not know the reason. Buster Roberts is still pitching} ‘good ball. Osterhoudt is still the ‘a while. 4 MISS MARJORIE VARN, Boat Regette to be held in historic old St. Augustine on August 17, % ShoWn of the bow of the “Miss Jaycee”. many valuable prizes td be given the lucky winners of the seyen es “ sd" Queen of the Second Annual N. E. Flotida This boat is one of the jsame; he will never change . . “| Faces by the St. Augustine Junior Chamber of Commerce. jand so time marches on . . . ete aA ee = oe lia an si | B H eock. He has less walks in each! surely will be out ev} | CEO TIME RS tet seeee jgame than any other mounds |TO GO ON FOREVER {man | The oldest active player in the : is another plover ‘oftball leagues is Monk Kerr. He| “ a ip any club. layed with the “Never Sleep” /PLAYERS "FOR SALE TSE w b in 1930 and has played in jevery game since. performer who has played many years and seems to just go on orever. He is always a danger- Lous man at bat and on the bases. Dutch Goebring is of the old ischool. He played with the Re- jlief, Busy Bee and other clubs. i Rene Machin also played for ne y years and always played ra. |) YOUNGSTERS’ Of the new crop of players just coming up we find that Haskins, jAlonzo, Lastres, John Lewis and jPaul Higginbotham, of the Class B league, show tots of promise. ™ the Class A league, Casado, iJohnny Ogden, James Ogden, iJack Villareal, Santana, Castro, Barber and Hopkins have played {well so far in the past two yeats. In the box, Rosam and Claude Valdez have been the best of the new crop of pitchers. and Rob- jerts, Hancock and F. Tynes are jstill the best of the lot. : PITCHERS Pitchers who are doing well, although a little wild at times, are: “Vieja” Arias, Claude Val- jdez, Vidal and Harris. 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LEAMINGTON \ |<, Miller and Wells a Yased. by 65 since raging closed. |weekly. i | Home runs: Miller 2, Fernan-| — MAT et PORNO | |dez; three-base’ hit: Rogers; wo-| base hits: Rodriguez. Brost - e len ba +, Fieitas, Atonzo,! | Lonsilleetom Pazo, R. Vidal, Mille Bresnec! Rogers; sacrifice h ; Wells; bases on balls: off Miller | 3 off Martin 4, off Vidal 9. out: by Miller 5, by Vidal of game: and Jame Season Up Although summer is popu- larly considered a favorable time for removal of children’s infected tonsils or adenoids, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, through its local chapter, urges parents to seek the advice of their own personal physician on whether Such operation during the polio season is advisable. Pl CU Softball Standings CITY LEAGUES STOTT TTT TTT aiat ies in Polio. to Ph {&-club— ad is W.L. Pet. Scientific investigations car- Vets of Foreign Wars. 3 2 .600| || Ted cet with March of Dimes lis S 4 <5 5 eno! || funds indicate that there may {Bob's Sports Shop 2 2 .500 be more of a predisposition to ! Legion 2 3 .400 infantile paralysis infection ag a resalt of tonsil and adenoid ,USS. Gilmore 2 3 400; operations performed during the seasonal polio months—June_| ! CLASS B { through September. | .Club— W. L. Pct.! Consequently, the National Foundation points eut, parents Je’ s Half-Acre 6 1 857 should be guided by their owa physician’s advice in each in-_ Key West Merchants 2 3 .400, || dividual case. ‘i sa |Naval Hospital 2 4 333) | S vAdams Dairy 1 3 250 xxLow Summer Rates Air-Conditioned Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge %100 Rooms and 100 Baths— Air-Cooled Radio in Every Room *Parking Lot Adjoining Opposite Greyhound and Trailway Bus Station %Se Habla Espanol Last, but not least, Ralph Sier- He has been|T@, who also was on the B ito all the state tournaments play-{Bombers, is out of a job playing ted by Key West teams in Miami. j Ball He has nen oe fs Philip (Chita) Baker is another {the doctors pulled out his appen- n dix, and now is open to play with} AMERICAN Class A, B or X league. So, let’s hear fro msome club that needs a ball player who may not be a AIEEE IE LOOT PE B29; Your Grocer SELLS That God STAR * BRAND pre Found a veight for Ba ogee eal costume jewels. 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