The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1947, Page 6

PAGE FOUR a DODGERS DEFEND LEAD AGAINST CARDS IN 2 GAMES TODAY; PHILS CLIP BROOKLYN; ST. LOUIS WINS Beat Pirates, 6 to 5, And¥———— RAIDERS BREAK Seek To Slice 3144-Ga™e Lead; Braves Beat Giants 2-1 and 3-1 (By ‘The Associated Press) NEW YORK, — Aug. °18—A “erooshul” doubleheader likely to heave an important bearing on the National League pennant race opens this afternoon when the Brooklyn Dodgers and St Louis Cards collide in Brooklyn with the Dodgers seeking to pro- teet their scanty 3%-game lead. The Cards will have Harry (The Cat) Brecheen pitching the after- noon game while Howie Pollet will get the call for the night contest. Manager Burt Shotten is picking Vic Lombardi for the dey game and Harry Taylor to hurl under the lights. The Cards sliced a full game off Brooklyn's lead yesterday by edging the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 to 5 at Pittsburgh while Dutch leonard of the Philadelphia Mpillies was shutting out the Dodgers, 4 to 0, at Philadelphia. The Cards and Pirates played a scoreless tie in their second game, which was called after six inn- ings on account of wet grounds. The Dodgers and Phills played five innings to a 4-4 tie before the curfew law enforced a post- ponement. The Boston Braves drew up to a threatening spot only two and a half games behind the Cards by shading the Giants, 2-1 and 3-1 NIGHTFIGHTERS’ STREAK, 7 TO 3 *Unbeaten SDDIOEOIMD 4! Pan Am Clippers May Play Bob’s Sports Labor Day An effort is being made to bring the Pan American Clip- pers of Miami, Fourth District softball champions, to Key West for a Labor Day’ game against Bob’s Sports Shop, Neil Saunders, softball asso- ciation president, announced today. The Clippers defeated Bob's Sports Shop in the semi-fin- als, 7 to 2, and went on to beat Edison Center, 3 to 1, Saturday, to retain the cham- pionship which they won in 1946. V hehiddihdidhedey Softball Games BAYVIEW PARK at Boston. The Braves were out- NIGHT GAMES hit both games, .getting five in Hie each contest while the Giants pds aa aritsAcce. ve. collected eight. Warren Spahn won his 15th victory in the open- er and Bill Voiselle turned back his old team-mates in the night- well Blackwell won his 19th ef the season for the Cincinnati Reds by blanking the Chicago Cubs, 2 to 0 at Cincinnati in the opener of a twin bill. Grady Hat- ten's 13th homer with one on in the eighth broke up a scoreless mound duel between Blackwell and Red Erickson. The Reds col- leeted 19 hits in the second game to trounce the Cubs, 11 to 3 as Ken _Raffensberger went the reute. At Yankee Stadium the Bos- ten Red Sox took a 3-0 decision from the New York Yankees be- fore 45,000 fans when Sam Mele homered with two on in the 11th inning. Denny Galehouse was the winning pitcher, yielding the Yanks only six safeties. Vic Ras- chi dropped his first game in a Yank uniform. Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics continued their first-di- vision sprint by handing a twin defeat to the Washington Sena- tors, 2 to 1 and 5 to 2. The A’s seored two in the eighth to win the opener although outhit, 10 to 7. In the second game Phil Mar- childon pitched four-hit ball to win his 15th victory. The St. Louis Browns knocked Robby Feller out of the box in, the first inning of the first game with the Cleveland Indians at 81. Louis and continued against four other pitchers to win, 7 to 6 The Indians took the second game, 4 to 3. Taft Wright's homer in the | eighth gave the Chicago White Sox a 1-0 victory in the first game of a doubleheader with Detroit at Chicago, Ed Lopat; pitched shutout ball. In the sec- ond game the Tigers scored four in the fourth for a 4-3 victory. NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game At Pittsburgh R. H. E. St. Louis 697; Pittsburgh 612 1 Hearn, Munger, Brazle and ! | Rice; Higbe, Singleton, Roe and Howell. Second Game At Pittsburgh R. H. E, St. Louis ® 41 Pittsburgh 020 (Called, end 5th, wet grounds) Dickson and Wilber; Queens and Kluttz. First Game At Boston R. H. E. New York 1 8 0| Boston 25 3 Hartung and Cooper; Spahn and Masi. Second Game At Boston R. H. E. New York $:$71| Boston 35 0 Hansen, Jansen, Trinkle and! Lombardi; Voiselle and Camelli. First Game | At Cincinnati R. H. E. Chicago 0 53 Cincinnati 260 Erickson and McCullough;! Blackwell and Lamanno, | Second Game At Cincinnati R. H. E. Chicago 8 ks Evans, Key West Merchants. 9:15—V.F.W. vs. USS. Gilmore. TUESDAY— 7:30—Adams Dairy vs. Key West Merchants. 9:15—American Legion vs. USS. Gilmore. THURSDAY— 7:30—Naval Hospital vs. Jerry's Half-Acre. 9:15—American Legion vs. Vets of Foreign Wars. FRIDAY— 7:30—Adams Dairy vs, Jerry’s Half-Acre. 9:15—Bob’s Sports Shop 5 USS. Howard W. Gilmore. Most fish provide nature’s best example of a. streamlined struc- ure, Cincinnati 1119 0 Schmitz, Passeau, Meeres and manno, First Game At Philadelphia R, Hy B. Brooklyn ~.... Leo ae Philadelphia 490 is: Behrman, Barney and Edwards; Leonard and Seminick. Second Game At Philadelphia Brooklyn Philadelphia (Called, end 6th, curfew) Gregg, Behrman and Bragan; Heintzelman, Jurisch and Pad- 0 1 ‘gett. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game Fowler and Rosar; Wynn and Ferrell. Second Game At Washington R. H. E. Philadelphia 512 0 Washington 241 Marchildon and Guerra, Rosar; | Haefner, Candini, Pieretti and First Game At St. Louis Cleveland St.Louis Fell R.H. E, 411 0 . B. Stephens, Gromek, Willis, Kleiman and Hegan, Rus- zowski, Lopez; Fannin, Moulder Hegen, Getel, Lemon and Lo- pez; Sanford, Zoldak, Kramer and Moss, Early. First Game At Chicago R. H. E. Detroit 050 Chicago De Ja) Hutchinson and Wagner; Lo- pat and Tresh. Second Game At Chicago R.H.E. Detroit 49 Chicago 32@ i Newhouser, Benton and Swift; Papish, Gebrian, Caldwell and Tresh, Dickey. At New York R. H. E. Boston 3 8 OF New York 061 (11 Innings) Galehouse and Partee; Raschi and Robinson, = 710 0 Stretch Of 15 Games Shattered As F. Lastres, Meador Limit By NESTOR CASTANEDA ;15-game unbeaten streak of the 'Beca Chica Nightfighters yester- ‘day, winning 7 to 3 at Wickers Stadium. Fito Lastres and Bo Meador combined their pitching talents {to limit the Chicans to three jscattered hits. The Red Raiders scored a run in the first on singles by Paul jHigginbotham, Fidel Lopez and ,Jack Vellareal. The Nightfighters took the lead ;momentarily in the third on two walks and three consecutive wild pitches by Higginbotham who had jtelieved Lastres in the third { The Raiders came right back tin their half of the third to put the game on ice with two tallies. !Fidel Lopez homered with no- body on and Jack Vellareal walk- ed, stole second, took third on an overthrow and scored on a wild pitch. | The Raiders added three more tin the sixth on three singles, an error, and a wali. They put across their final tally in the seventh on a walk to Lastres and ‘Lopez’ second hit. The Nightfighters scored their jfinal run in the ninth on a single which took a bad hop over cen- tterfielder Joe Domeneek’s head and went for a homer. Lastres struck out 4, walked 1 and allowed one hit in four and one-third innings and Meador 3,|struck out 6, walked two, and allowed 2 hits in four innings. Harold Haskins, with 2 singles yin three tries and Fidel Lopez, {with a homer and a single in |four tries, led the Raider’s at- tack. Score by innings: R. H. E. Boca Chica 002 000 001-3 3 4 'scheffing; Raffensberger and La-|Red Raiders 102 003 10x—7 11 2 Florida Game _ Commission To Meet On Friday cn (Special vw D TALLAHASS! State Game and . Aug. 18 Fresh Water Fish Commission will meet here | 'Friday, August 22, Ben C. Mor- |gan, commissioner director, said i today. | Morgan said the five-man board {will outline a series of special ‘ conservation projects for the At Washington R. H. E,/coming year and lay plans’ for | Philadelphia 2 7 © .acquiring additional land to be | Washington 010 O/used for public hunting. The commission already owns or has under lease 60,000 acres of such jland, the director disclosed. | ee “Cookie” comes from the \Dutch word “koekje.” a diminu- tive of “koek” meaning cake. | We Have In and UsEn co; at P AD: AT and Moss. { AT Bras tae alot ware, SHOP Second Game | fo Duke's Hat At St. Louis R. H. E. | ie... ae Cinveland 411 +0) St, Louis 34 2) Cy THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Baseball Statisti By The Associated Press STANDINGS Island City Baseball League W. L. Pct.| ODDDOADES. Sub Base To Play Boca Chica; K. W. Vs. Miami Sunday A top-notch doubleheader Aviators To Three Hits| The Red Raiders snapped the | .4 1 .800; is being arranged for Wickers -3 2 .600, Field for next Sunday, Roy .2 3 .400,; Hamlin, field director, an- San Carlos - -1 4 200) nounced today. e -Interna‘’ in e opening game, the oan Taternational League | Boca Chica Nightfighters will H x 734! play the Submarine Base club avon "’*| which recently went to the ‘Tampa 688; final tournament of the At- Miami .Beach - 65 52 556 | lantic Coast Navy cham- Miaminy 42.2.5? 65 467 | pionships, only to lose, 4 to 3, [West Palm Beach 57 65 467} Saturday. to the USS. Am- St. Petersburg 57 66 .463! A Key West team will play Lakeland —_., 44 81 .352' a Miami All-Star aggregation Fort Lauderdale, 33 89 .270, in the nightcap. National Lenge pet | OOM OOM Ss jed y 3 Win Golf Club Bogie Prizes | | Charles Salas, Helen Sher and F. S. Elbertson were the “Blind \Bogie” winners in the golf tour- jnament held over the weekend jat the Key West Golf Club. They :won merchandise of $6.00, $4.00, ‘and $3.00 respectively. | Low medalist was Jimmy Mira iwith a 40-35-75. In second place jwas Humbert Mira with an 80 land Paul Mesa, Jr. captured third position with an 81. Bill Cates Fells Havana Player; Bill Cates, popular Key West- sr, took a prominent nart in the vinging fight which mark- 3 rday’s game between the} Havana Cubans and the Tourists at Miami. Club— wee * Brooklyn 605 i F ° {St. Louis 64 48 571 Boston 63 52 548 Director Back; 'New York 57 53.518; S ° ‘e S Cincinnati . - 56 62.475) ‘ | Chicago 52 62 .456! wimmins tarts Pittsburgh 49 66 .426: sed Philadelphia 45 68 .398. Mrs. Jane Hopkins Whidden} jresumed her duties today | American League ‘playground supervisor of the city ! The ; Club— W. L. Pet. recreation department after tak- New York a Py oe ing her annual vacation. Detroit 9 51 538 -Mrs. Whidden announced that Philadelphia 60 54 .526 Swimming classes at South Beach Cleveland _....54 54 .500 Will resume tomorrow morning Chicago 52 62 .456 and will continue each Tues Washington 46 62 .426 and Wednesday from 9 to 11 a. St. Louis 41 74 .357 m. Classes which have been con- a ducted at the swimming pool un- GAME RESULTS ,der Joe Erickson will continue a Florida-Internationu: ueague |" °° TODAY’S a ana 3. ~ -0 Lakeland 3, Miami Beach 2, 12! ANNIVERSARIES innings. (Know America) St. Petersburg 8, Fort Lauder-; 1774—Meriwether Lewis, joint dale 3. ‘commander of the historic Lewis- West Palm Beach 8, Tampa 2. National League (Sunday’s Scores) St. Louis 6-0, Pittsburgh second game, tie. Philadelphia 4-4, Brooklyn 0-4; second game, tie. Boston 2-3, New York 1-1. Cincinnati 2-11, Chicago 0-3. American League (Sunday’s Scores) Boston 3, New York 0. Philadelphia 2-5, Washington 1-2. Chicago 1-3, Detroit 0-4. St. Louis 7-3; Cleveland 6-4. Clark expedition, born in Albe- marle Co., Va. Died Oct. 11, 1809. 1807—Charles Francis Adam famed diplomat, son and grand son of Presidents and father of famous sons, born in Boston. Died Nov. 21, 1886. 1834—Marshall_ Field, famed iChicago merchant prince of his jage, born near Conway, Mass. {Died Jan. 16, 1906. 1846—Robley .D. Evans, distin- guished naval commander of his day, born in Virginia. Died Jan. (3, 1912. 1854—James M. Hyslop. - josopher-psychologist, lez in psychical research, born at Xenia, hio. Died June 17, 1920. * 5-0; TODAY’S GAMES Florida-International League Havana at Miami. Miami ‘Beach at Lakeland. Fish is one of the most perish- able of foods. The peaceful-minded Cates, who is a coach of the Tourists, took a hand in the vroceedings only after he noticed Hiram Gons' iIn Fleet Games, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947 DaOPDIODL& «4 Y ony Horoscope Key West Loses MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947— This day promises to develop a schemer, full of enterprise in business. Developing the char- acter on its better side, a strong business man and a good citizen will result; but if there be bad aspects to fortune or liberty, and laxity in training, the jail may prove the end. Great caution is needed in the daily conduct of af- {fairs, 4 RT EE EET I SIS Quality Body Repairs Expert Metal Work Complete Paint Jobs By 4 To 3 Score The Key West Submarine baseball team was defeated in the first round of the At- lantic Fleet championships held at Norfolk, Va., on Sat- urday, it was announced here today. The Key West team lost by a score of 4 to 3 to a team representing the USS, Am- phion. The Amphion team tied the score in the eighth on an unearned run, and won it in the ninth with solid hitting. Brooks pitched for Key West. Itewas a “sudden death” se- ties. In other words, there were four games Saturday and the losing teams automatic- ally were eliminate~. It is expected the Key West team will return here late today. Read the Classified Ads in The ; Citizen. WRECKS REBUILT TONY’S Auto Body Shop 603-605 GREENE STREET Near the Corner of Simonton St. TS “BUY IT IN KEY WES’ zalez, Havana rightfielder, and “rancisco Quicutis, first baseman, ; swinging bats as they entered the fight. Cates neatly knocked Quicutis down and Ed Bass, Miami right- fielder, tangled with Gonzalez, both Havana boys emerging some- Y what the worse for wear. The fight started when Mike Lastra, Havana second baseman, da ball at Danny Doy, Mi- shortstop, as the teams chang- ed fields after the sixth inning. The two players had had a mixup at second in the fifth when Las- tra was put out to start a double play. Both teams swarmed on the field but the Miamians diverted their attention to Quicutis and when the latter came nging the bats. More than 400 specially train- instructors teach home eco- ed wae DRIVE BY a BROWN'S Chicken Shack 800 CAROLINE STREET Phone 9238 Delicious Golden x FRIED CHICKEN], k FeNCNi Fried POTATOES C IKE! 5 CAICKEN BASKET 75 Open Daily ‘til 12 P.M. 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National League St. Louis at Brooklyn—After- ; noon game, Brecheen (14-6) vs. Lombardi (7-9); night game, Pol- let (7-10) vs. Taylor (9-5). i Only games scheduled. | Softball Standings. 1 | CITY LEAGUES _ CLASS A 1 Club— W iL. Pet.! Vets of Foreign Wars 3 2 .600, Bob's Sports Shop 2 2 500: ‘American Legion 2 3 400 |USS. Gilmore 2 3 400, CLASS B | Club— W. L. Pet.! Jerry’s Half-Acre 6 1 857; Key West Merchants _ 2 3. .400 Adams Dairy 2 3 400: Naval Hospital 25 | the distance acr ELS EET Your Grocer SELLS That Good! STAR * BRAND | rete COFFEE | and CUBAN ——Try A Pound Today. Rob OFFICE | oberts surrtits' 123 Duval St. Phone 250: Royal Standard & Portable! Typewriters - Safeguard Check) riters - Allan Wales and R. C.! 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