The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 30, 1947, Page 5

\ : 63, AND DODGERS BOOST MARGIN { e 9 9 BRAVES BLAST PHILLIES BY 9T02 Advance Within Half A x. { _ Game Of Second-Place IL p ad ee Cards; Yanks Win 4 to Baseball oo eague Lists By The Associated Pr. phdahamoepaleg ee | 2 Tilts Sunda (By The Aswocinted Press) H STANDINGS y NEW YORK; Aug. 30.—Young | ; Ralph Branca turned in a four- | Island City Baseball League At Barracks’ hitter for the Brooklyn Dodgers | _Club— W. L. Pet. night at Ebbetts Field to Pirates — 4 1 .800 the New York Giants, 6 to 3, Blue Sox 3 2 .600/ WINNER OF PIRATE-SAN CAR- und put his team 7% games Sco Gaiters mana 400 LOS CLASH TAKES FIRST shied of the idle St. Louis Cards 58 Carlos 1 4.200 in the National League pennant! Florida-International League | PLACE; BLUE SOX FACE race. ! Club— W. L. Pet. cMORE It was Branca’s 19th victory ebay - oe a | ee nine defeats. One of the Nain ‘Sdouch "6 “ hes The Island Cilty Baseball four Giant hits was Willard Mar- i Miami 64 68 "485 League continues on the Key} shall’s seventh inning homer with iSt. Petersburg 61 73 "455 West Barracks diamond tomor- none on. |West Palm Beach 60.74 .448 TOW with the USS Gilmore meet- The Boston Braves crept Up |Lakeland _.44 92 .324 ing the Blue Sox and San Car- Oe plccion: ni poate ‘Fort Lauderdale 40 96.294 los facing the Pirates. lelphia illies, 9 to 2,: The first game will start at on 17 hits, in a night game at | Seances League 1:30 p. m. Gabe Lastres, the Bie eniy tail a game ous of secs Brookivn M1 Toonnd tor the Sex with doe Na: ond place. jSt. Louis - 560 Varro behind the bat. Murray aged Newsom, with some help also er ee and Saunders will form the Gil- Joe re won a mound Cincinnati “469 more. battery. : duel from Early Winn under the ‘Chicago 444 Bubber Sweeting is slated to Ao Secon Stadium, 4 {0 3..Pittsburgh 4 .421 pitch for San Carlos with Lee} mators were limi’ .Philadelphia - .411 Griffen on the receiving end. five hits, all their runs resulting ‘Pancho Salinero or Livio Valdez from homers by Stan Spence, one American League lis the choice of Manager Perucho ' with one on base in the second, } Cjyb— W.L. Pet, Sanchez of the Pirates with Or- and another in the fourth. The .New York . 80 45 .640 lando Rodriguez catching. Beers collected six binglos. Boston - 67 56 .545 The ,Saints and the Pirates are The three-hit pitching of Bob | Detroit ..67 59 532 4) i i t = tied for first place in the newly Harris of the Boston Red Sox |Philadelphia - 65 60.520 reorganized circuit. Last week was too much for the Philadel-|Cleveland - 63 59 .516 the Pirates edged the Blue Sox, | phia Athletics and they dropped {Chicago 58 67 .464 > to 1, and San Carlos shaded & 2-to-1 decision in a night game Repos ‘ rs a a the Gilmore, 3 to 2. Hence, the at Boston. og gaan held the /St. Louis erie wo';winner of tomorrow’s second eo ye sea aa SNE GAME RESULTS game will ride into undisputed . possession of first place. Louis Browns made one-run mar-) Firida-International League ——— gins unanimous for the day in (Thursday’s Scores) VIVVVVV Www the American League as the Ti- aa viet Ales Miami 10, Miami Beach 5. Bere At game.’ Vert Stoker | West Palm Beach 11, Fort Laud- F pier 3 ' erdale 4. homered in the ninth for the Havana at St. Petersburg, post- Browns off Al Hutchinson, who poned. By went the route for Detroit. is ep Only games scheduled. PEDRO AGUILAR AMERICAN LEAGUE Semen yacase basesbekecaenanaae 'riday’s Scores) Pr , eg q Night game. y cage leg $5 3) Boston 2, Philadelphia 1, night| ATTENDANCE—Close to 500 atk Mancuso? Newsom eae, . Harel 3 fans, mostly servicemen and their Page and Robinson. etroit 5, St. Louis 4, night wives and many civilians, — —_ PRIZES—The promoters of the icago at Cleveland, postpon- |g, 5 + Night Game Chicago at Cleveland t games gave away absolutely free, ae Boston RHE ed, fe eons two bottles of rum, a case of beer, ~~ Philadelphia 130 lationi ague two boxes of chocolate and other} Boston 2.510 (Friday’s Scores) prizes. | Coleman and Rosar; Harris and| Brooklyn 6, New York 3, night} FIRST GAME—This contest of- Tebbetts. game. } : fered several thrilling plays. First « ECA ee Boston 9, Philadelphia 2, night, was the pitching of Al Day, who| Night Game game. allowed one scratch hit in the first At St. Louis R. H, E.| Only games scheduled. five innings. The second hit was| Detroit $12 ,.1 a ETE a homer in the sixth by Marko-/ St. Louis €:8.1 TODAY’S GAMES vitch. It went over into left cen-| SATURDAY, AUGUST 80, 1947 BRANCA’S 4-HITTER STOPS GIANTS, Hutchinson and Wagner; Klin- ger, Zoldak and Moss. Chicago at Cleveland, postpon- ed, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE Night Game At Brooklyn R. H. E. New York - ee Brooklyn 611 0 Koslo, Beggs, Trinkle and Coop- ¢r; Branca and Edwards, Florida-International League Miami at Miami Beach. St. Petersburg at Lakeland. Havana at Tampa. Fort Lauderdale at West Palm Beach, bt tnt tn tntntn tntntntntntintn tn tal ‘Softball Standings CITY LEAGUES 02£44444444.44444444 ih Cam CLASS A Night Game At Philadelphia R.H.E,|_ Club— W. L. Pet. Boston 917 0|Vets of Foreign Wars 6 2 .750 Piadeiphia 45 2; 8; 2/ USS. Gilmore 4 4 500 Voiselle ‘and Camelli; Heintzel-|Bob’s Sports Shop ..3 3 .500 man, Hughes, Schanz, Schmidt|American Legion 2 6 250 and Padgett. CLASS B Club— W. L. Pet. Only games scheduled. Jerry’s Half-Acre T2218 _ -|Adams Dairy 4 4 500 i Key West Merchants . 4 5. .444 Key Wester | Naval Hospital -.. S18) 4300 Wins At Golf On Japanese Links (Special rw The Citizend WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 30.— Sgt. Dave Douglas, Service Com- pany, 24th Infantry, while on test leave at Unzen Kanke Holet, Isahaya, Kyushu, Japan, defeated Sgt. Harry Williams, 27th Infan- try, in the finals of the weekly golf tournament on July 26, 1947. The match was hotly contested all the way, with the finals re- sults ending two down and one to g0 in favor of Sgt. Douglas. Sgt. Douglas entered the Army August, 1942, at Camp Blanding, Fla,, and served in the ETO and South Pacific before joining the 24th Infantry in November, 1946. At present Sgt. Douglas is per- forming the duties of night dis- patcher at the Regimental Motor Pool. Sgt. Douglas is the nephew of Mrs. Mattie Brown, Key West, Fla, and acquired his golfing ability while caddying on the course in Key West. The battle of Gettysburg came to a close on the eve of Inde- pendence Day, 1863. | gunner, i Softball Games BAYVIEW PARK NIGHT GAMES STL CL ULL LLL hl MONDAY— 7:30—Adams Dairy vs. Hospital. 9:15—All Star Game (two all- star teams from Class A League). TUESDAY— Naval Half-Acre. 9:15—Bob’s Sports Shop vs. 7:30—Adams Dairy vs. Jerry’s Half-Acre. 9:15—American | V.EW. \FRIDAY— | 7:30—Key West Merchants vs. | Naval Hospital. 9:15—USS. Gilmore vs. Sports Shop. 400,000 LINE (Continued From Page One) ous as the paraders passed block atter block. All in all, leading Legionnaires ‘said, it was one of the most suc- lcessful conventions they have ever held. Legion vs. Bob’s .in the second inning,-second and 7:30—Naval Hospital vs. Jerry's | ter for about 400 feet and tied the score. Ewart was on base at the; time through a walk, the first is- sued by Day. Griffen also pitched a_ great game and although he allowed five hits in the first 11 innings the two first runs were unearned. He struck out 10 and Day whiffed seven. Henson made a wonderful run of about 100 feet from first base into foul territory to snag with one hand a ball hit by Gamon in the sixth. _Evenchick ran back to leftfield to snag another ball hit by Callon.. ; It was a great catch. | | Another feature was the base stealing of Dean, who stole third third in the tenth. He scored the Nightflyers’ first two runs. | Gorton, who went hitless all through the game, came up in the 12th with a single. Whiteman sacrificed him to second and My- ers, who had been hitless also up to then, singled to center to win the ball game for the Nightfly- ers. SECOND GAME—For the Mi- ami All Stars, Walters hit two singles and Villareal poled one and Molaer one fo rthe four hits the visitors garnered off Finkelstein. | For the Section Base, Myers hit| two, Seward a triple, Fagan and} Mastens one each for the five bingles allowed by Bindschaller. | Henning, of the All Stars, struck | out the three times he was up at the plate. Section Base scored in the first | inning on a walk to Fagan, aj fielder’s choice, a single by Myers | ;and a triple by Seward. The visitors scored one in the |third. Hoke walked, Walters sin- 'gled. In their half the Sailors scored once more on singles by Fagan and Myers and an error by Wal- ers. The All Stars tied the count in jthe fifth after two outs, Walters, Villareal and Melear singled and an error by Fagan allowed two runs to cross the plate, In the field, Hoke, Do-Do Villa- real and Melaer were the best for the visitors. Seward, Moncrief| and Mastens were the tops for the ‘opposition. The pitching of Finkelstein also featured for the locals . He struck are] | est Hills ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN AUSTRALIA PLAYS | U.S. FOR DAVIS CUP THIS AFTERNOON Kramer Plays Bromwich;* Schroeder Meets Fail!) Navy Clubs In. | Opening Matches At For- Doubleheader | Here Sunday BOCA CHICA NIGHTFLYERS, TO TACKLE SECTION BASE, Jack Kramer, No. 1 U. S. play- USS. 3008 VERSUS SUBMA- er, was slated to play the open- RINE BASE | ing match against Dinny Pails, i | No, 2 Australian. Pails was con-} Four crack Navy teams provide | ceded virtually no chance against |tomorrow’s doubleheader at the California wizard but Jack,Wickers Field. The Boca Chica Bromwich, No. 1 Australian, ;Nightflyers will play the Section rated a slight choice to beat Ted Base in the opener at 1:30 p. m., Schroeder, No. 2 American en- jand the USS 3008 faces the Sub- try. imarine Base. The draw suited the Austral-} Al Day, Nightflyers’ ace, is} ians perfectly, since -other pair-'expected to pitch against the ings might have left them trail- Section Base with Gorton catch- ing, 0-2, after the first day’s play.:ing. Finkelstein is the mound In Sunday’s doubles match the ‘choice for the Section Base with Australians are conceded an out- |Moncrief on the receiving end. side chance of upsetting Kramer! Jn the nightcap Griffen and and Schroeder. The newcomer, Sheaf will comprise the Sub Base (Speeral to The Citizen) FOREST HILLS, L. I, Aug. 30. —More than 10,000 tennis fans jammed Forest Hills stadium early this afterncon to watch the United States defend the Davis Cup against Australia for the first time in eight years. Colin Long, husky, bespectacled battery. The combination for the slugger, has looked impressive :syupbmarine has not been an- when paired with Bromwich. In ' nounced. se en) el eae ruuana| ‘Victorious over the powerful ly beat the Americans last win- Sub Base club, 3 to 2, in 12 ‘in- ter in four sets in the doubles ~. ¢ eR . Bere nings last week, the Nightflyers final of the Victorian tourna- | qu out to continue their excel- ment at Melbourne. jlent season. Day pitched the 12- Kramer and Schroeder, how- | inning victory, ever, defeated Bromwich and) ane secti a iaved: acti Adrian Quist in the Davis Cup! “ne Section Ad oe doubles without a great deal of with the Miami -Stars Jast | trouble. Saturday. | The Australians are banking é e on victory by Bromwich over’ Legion Forfeits Schroeder today, squeezing ; ? | through in the doubles and then, T W an upset by Bromwich over hen Beats VF Kramer or Pails over Schroeder | ° on Monday. The Aussies will; ° And Adams Dairy find plenty of takers if any of | them want to bet that way; in| The American Legion was forc- eae waa pet the jed to forfeit to the Veterans of one * iForeign Wars in the Class A city ‘softball league games last night EXCEPT FOR MARATHON put then beat VFW and Adams (Continued from Page One) ‘Dairy in a doubleheader, 7 to 0 have gotten their Florida state'and 14 to 2, respectively. certificates to teach. | Hancock was invincible against “There is a possibility of some | VFW in the first game, allowing delay about the coming of Mr. | only four hits, all singles. Legion and Mrs. Dorri said ‘Willard ‘slammed Arias for eight bingles M. Albury, © superintendent of |and scored eight runs. public instruction, today. “They | Leaders at bat were Vidal, who will have to wait until the state ipoled two for the winners, and board of education grants them | Garcia, who hit one for the losers. certificates to teach.” |My Tynes hit one in his only time But every school in the county at bat. . has been put in excellent condi- ; In the field, Barber, Vidal, .Al- tion and each has full teaching ‘pury and Stinett played well. for staffs to begin instructing the | Legion, Casado, Carbonell and children, the superintendent said. |Machin for VFW. It was also announced by Al-) yancock went back on -the bury and by Principals Earl mound in the second game and Hamilton, Division Street School, jheld the Dairy boys runless ‘the W. E. Fowler, Harris School, and first four innings. In the fifth, by Albert Carey, Poinciana jSands singled, Calero singled to School, that any child who is or ;put him on third and on a play will be six years old by Jan. 1, jthat caught Calero stealing, Sands 1948, is eligible to enter the pub- iscored the first run of the night lic school in the school zone in ;off Hancock. which he lives. j In the sixth, George Lewis, , 5 . {batting for Abston, tripled to cen- Until this date the public j,¢, "A wild pitch put him over schools of the county had been ithe plate. enrolling only those pupils who Legion scored fourteen runs on will be six years old.on or be-/ig hits. C. Albury hit safely fore Dec. 1, 1947 ithree times and Vidal twice. Al- According to the most recent ;bury scored three runs and drove opinion that has been received home two. Vidal scored twice in the office of the county su-jand sent three runners across the perintendent from J. Tom Wat- ‘plate. Byers blasted a homer, son, state attorney general, rela-jscored two runs and drove home tive to the birth date of begin- ;two. ¥ ning pupils, it is stated that any| In the field, Walker, Sands and child of six by Jan. 1, 1948, can jCalero were the best for the los- enter school. jers, C. Albury, Myers and Barber = ‘for the victors. When Wyoming entered the { Scores by innings: Union in 1890 it granted votes for First Game r the first time i R. HOE. woes for the first time in U. S. onepe Ola eA = zs !Legion 221 020 x—7 8 3 Arias, Rueda and Castro; Han- ‘cock and Griffen. Two-base hits: Albury, Stinett, Vidal; struck out: by Hancock. 1, by Arias 1; bases on balls: off out seven and Bindschaller fanned four. THIRD GAME—The Red Raid- | ers scored once in the second in-' ning when Mario Hernandez sin-} gled and a passed ball and an er. | Srias 3; umpires: Griffen and ror put him over the plate. ro eeatalG) In the second frame, All Stars ies ed started hitting with two down. : Lar rape|| are i eet Legion - 110 516—14 10 0) Villareal singled, Melaer tripled, made 000 O1I- 2 6 2 Shattronee ee a Meme andi “Hancock and Griffen; Walker, That sentj,,. pio Sr Oe pea al Bo Meador to the showers. Fito | widereal. J: een Liege Sony Lastres went in on the mound} ree shesd re (@. tuessty ie | and walked Marks. Bindcheller TR ETeAIE Sorat | and Hoke singled. Henning flied |?25¢ Mts: Albury, Malgrat. out to center on a great catch by; : 5 i . = ; Abraham Lincoln proclaimed | Mauldin. Simpson went in Sass last Thursday in November, | Pitch for the visitors in the third (the las : mihi ao) and retired the side. In the fourth }1863 as the first annual national Thanksgiving Day. j Lopez singled, Hernandez walked, : Haskins forced Hernandez at sec- | 7yyoewww~ Se vewwwessy | STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | ond, Mira and Jack Villareal} walked and Simpson went to the showers. Do-Do Villareal came| TRIUMPH | in to pitch. Fito Lastres flied out} COFFEE to the pitcher. Mauldin and Ace- MILL vedo singled and Roberts walked. i Then Umpire Eloyd Villareal call- at ed the game on account of dark-| 4llGrocers ness. | McNeil, executive 'the chapter, telephone 286, Mrs. |teers serving 568 hours. There! Appeal For Volunteers A Naval Hospital Is Issued GRAY LADIES OR NURS* ES’ AIDES souceT; Patients With RED CROSS REPORT z MADE KNOWN | Tuberculosis An urgent appeal for volun- teers having completed the training course for Gray Ladies! Patients who leave tuberculosis or Nurses’ Aid, and who are now |Sanateria against medical ad- inactive, has been voiced by Mrs. vice were named today by Joe L. H. Goddard, chairman of the! Allen, president of the Monroe Key West Red Cross chapter’s!County Tuberculosis and Health Volunteer Special Services, in aj Association, as one of the great report depicting Red Cross con- problems in tuberculosis control. ditions at the Naval Hospital. } Allen said that he is-hoping Insufficient volunteers on the the results of a study into th chapter’s active roster, coupled problem of “AWOL” patients with the recent withdrawal of now being conducted by the WAVES from the hospital, and a;New York Tuberculosis and reduction in paid Red Cross staff |Health Association will aid the at the institution, have created |Monroe County Tuberculosis and a great need for volunteer as-!Health Association. The sistance, Mrs. Goddard stressed. | York study was undertaken when Interested trained volunteers 'it was found that 29 per cent of should contact Mrs. Helen E. :tuberculosis patients in 40 insti- secretary of tutions in that area were leaving against medical advice. “Monroe County is worse than Goddard said. Her report to chap- 4 ‘ ter executives on conditions at;most areas in this respect,” he the Naval Hospital follows: jcontinued. “Last. year we had “Compared with six months |5¢Ven new cases committed to ago, when 35 volunteers served |S2natoria. Twenty-six ponncctcan 706 hours, I can report 21 volun- jarrested and nine _ left“ against {medical advice.” has been some dissatisfaction!, 4 Patient who leaves a sana 5 ium against medical ice i among the Gray Ladies; for some a oaie eine = ounce ce time they felt that there was in- lieressare: Chance” with his owl sufficient work for them to do but is. endangering the : nee { life, out at the Navy Hospital, since 2 the number of’ patients has so jhealth of all those with whom he materially decreased. comes into contact, according to “At that time the paid Red |*Hen. Cross staff furnished by National Headquarters had not been re- duced. In the past month and a half, all that has changed dras- tically. “There are no longer WAVES at the hospital. To Kentucky Home | Mrs. Gerald Saunders, 1220 With (Seminary street, left this week Given Advice New} |Mrs. Saunders oom PAGE THRE CUBA GETS (Continued From Page One) ers, two auxiliary rescue tugs 882 tons each. | The Cuban magazine, “Ci jteles,” devotes a lengthy artic! |to the purchase, with illustr: , tions, Commodore Ruiz recalls in tl article Cuba’s naval activities ii both world wars, its basing two ships in Key West in Worl! War I and the gratitude exp! led by Secretary of the Na’ Robert Lansing. During World Wr I, he point out, the veteran Cuban, shi Cuba and Patria, convoyed Allied ships and rescued 88 pe: sons. The government acquit! six sub-chasers under lend-lei and one, the No. 13, under Mario Ramirez Delgado, sank }German submarine U-716, M 115, 1943. The Cuban Navy sailed 399,7 imiles on convoy duty in the wat land lost only 19 per cent of the ships protected by it, a record surpassed only by Brazil of Latin American countries, Ruiz ex= plains. The Cuban sea chieftain declares his aim is to place thi Cuban navy at the strength sii should attain to be one of tl {finest in Latin America. | ~- | Prince Edward Island in th |Gulf of St. Lawrence is t smallest province in the Unit States. | AMERICAN and cusan COFFE i ‘Try A Found T BROADWAY this reduction in personnel, there has not been a commensurate re- duction in the number of sick women and children. ° “Hence the crying need for Nurses’ Aides. We have in the chapter only one Nurses’ Aide, Mrs. Bowers, an officer’s wife transferred from Hartford, Conn. The Gray Ladies who continued to, work during the summer months were pressed into service, on an emergency basis, as tem- porary Nurses’ Aides. Mrs. Wi liam Holman, Mrs. Otto Scherini, and I have been aiding Drs. Lan- drum and Smith in the pediatric clinic. “As to the paid Red Cross staff at the hospital, there are now only two: Miss Margaret Jones, field director, and Mrs. Capitola Schmueser, recreation director. The craft shop has to be closed a great portion of the time, be- cause there is no one to put in charge. With the assistance of volunteers, Mrs. Schumueser could plan more adequate ward and recreatign hall activities to meet the recreational needs of ! both the bed and the ambulatory patients. Because of the need for Gray Ladies in the dependents’ ! ward, they have not been able to | service the rest of the hospital in two months. “The library, too, needs volun- teer assistance. It is an unusually CIGAR STORE 610 Duval Street BASEBALL SCORES POPULAR BRANDS of i| Cigars and Cold Soft Drinks ifor Bowling Green, Ky., by rea- } son of the illness of her mother, ; ;Mrs. Lena Montgomery. Mrs. | {Saunders may be gone from Key’, West a month. . | i} Seeks Divorce A petition seeking a divorce was filed yesterday with Circuit ,Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer by John Edward Storm against \Kathryn Florence Lore Storm. jfine one. A Gray Lady qualified: jin library work could well en-! hance its services.” i ENTRY BLANK || Pal Open Boxing Tournament, Labor Day, 1947 H (Entry May Be Made in the Following Weight Classes: 50, 65, 80, 95, 112, 118, 126, 135, 147, 160, 175 i and over 175 pounds) Please enter me in the pound class of ; the PAL open boxing tournament to be held Labor »: Day, Sept. 1, 1947. | (Signed). sella Racer teenie 18 (Present this blank to N. H. Pepper at High School gym- nasium between 9 a.m. and 12 noon or 1 to 3 p.m, August 28, 29 or 30.) AWARDS TO CHAMPIONS OF ALL CLASSES A NEW FLEGTRIC. POWER LAWN MOWER a ABSOLUTE SAFETY UNDERWRITERS’ APPROVED EASY TO OPERATE or, guUAr= year 1 derective and _wor'l st ad- ting handle itself to opera- height and con- fe tires, Ball- wheels. Glide lawn. height sim- atting: ply adjusted. 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