The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 5, 1947, Page 5

PR RO NY pet HR. preome e PRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, Lyd? 2. ee LOMBARDI BLANKS GIANTS, 2-0, FOR DODGERS ASB R 0 OKLYN BOOSTS LEAD TO SIX, HALF GAMES Cub-St. Louis Game Rained. Out; Braves Edge Phil. Lewis Blanks lies, 6 to 5; Chisox Stop Cleveland, 4-2 ‘te Th Aw i NEW YORK, Sept. "5 The Brooklyn Dodgers added another half game to their National League lead last night as Vic 2 to 0; VFW Beats the Polo Grounds. The St. Louis Cards, whose game Chieago Cubs was rained out, are now 6'2 games behind the Dodg- ers. The Boston Braves moved to within three games of second place by hammering three Phil- adelphia pitchers for 14 hits as they beat the Phill in a night game at Philadelphia, 6 to 5, Bill Vonselle, the ex-Giant, and Walt Lanfranconi, did the ing for the Braves. At Detroit the St. Louis Browns dealt the Detroit Tigers’ quest for second place a: blow by staving off a ninth inning ral- ly to win, 2 to 1, behind Fred | Sanford’s five-hitter. Jeff Heath ! The Marathon Silver Kings will play the Key West All Stars here Saturday night. The All Stars have played the Silver Kings twice at Marathon and have won twice, once with Claude Valdez in the box and once with Lee Griffen. He has his club lined up as fol- lows: A. Dion, ¢; L. Griffen, 3b; M. Alayon, Jr., 1b; A. Brost, 2b; O. Blanco, ss; J. Castro, c; L. Ca- sado, lf; C. Alayon, cf; R. Perez and Claude Valdez, pitchers. The Marathon boys may have an additional pitcher from Home- toss- hit @ two-run homer in the first stead, inning to give Sanford the lead ‘ which he maintained to the fin. !_ The game will start at 8 p. m. ish. ; Only one game will be played. Ed Lopat beat the Cleveland League-Leading Jerry's, Marathon Softball] Gam? wm ive nies |Nine Plays Hene with the On Saturday Night ts eae * AP Newsfeatures OVER CARDS nine states. . ° Legion Nine, 7 to 4 -4VETERANS INCREASED LEAD IN CLASS A CIRCUIT: CON-| TESTS PLAYED LAST NIGHT | AT PARK FIELD Adams Dairy turned back the league-leading Jerry’s Halfacre nine, 2 to 0, last night at Bay- view Park, in a Class B city soft- ball league game behind the shut- out pitching of little Joe Lewis. The result cut the Jerry’s lead to a game and a half. In the nightcap the Veterans of Foreign Wars increased their Class circuit lead by defeating the American Legion, 7 to 4. | Lewis allowed only 3 men to -Teach second. Haskins walked in the second and stole second base, Mauldin hit a double in the sixth. and Joe Mira singled ai went to second on a field choice. These were the only heavy buyers. so for the Jerry’s and. allowed two hits until the sixth. } In this inning. Villareal hit a Okla., on stallion: pony he Metkovich, Fo AP Newsteatures ILEVELAND.. lucky grabs when they obtain Metkovich, one of the spare right ican League champions, had been the consensus reaction fans was “So what?” However, after the regular kovich started doing tricks. As- signed to center field, he has | ATTLE HORSE TOWN PERRY GOES IN BIG FOR PONY SALES ERRY. Okla.—Perry isn’t a one-horse town but it is the biggest tion of Bob Daniels, owner of the “little horse” center in the country. That claim is based on the annual Shetland pony sale, the largest of its kind in this coun- |CUshman Motor Scooters. try. The second annual sale attracted more than 6,000 people from’ There were 170 head of “kid ponies” sold for $31,323. The aver- €ge on the high 10 head was $492 and the sale top was $670 for a ' stallion purchased by Arvin Payne, Booker, Texas. V. O. jruiee, bought the high.mare of the sale for $575. Breeders were the jor, president; Ivan Baggett, vice ROUGH RIDER takes it easy—George Davis IV, Sand Springs, Indians Get-um Surprise Star, By LARRY SMITH —The Cleveland Indians made one of those rare, | 1883—Anna E. Richardson, na- When the Tribe office announced during spring training that among. ! | | campaigns got under way Met- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Watler Elected To! Head Scooter Club} A motor scooter club was formed Friday under the direc- x kw B & B Cycle Shop, dealer for the One of «the main purposes of the club will be to teach safety jin driving and courtesies of the road. The following were elected to Lane. ‘serve as officers: Malcolm Wat- | |president; Mrs. Claudia Watler, ‘secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Daniels, treasurer. ! Meetings are to be held the second and fourth Friday of the month at the home of Bob Dan- | ‘iels, corner of Caroline and Grinnell streets (rear). A special meeting has been ,called for tonight at 8:00 o’clock, to make ‘plans for an outing to ,be held Sunday. All Cushman owners are invited to attend. | The Key West. Scooter Club ,; made its initial appearance in 'the Labor Day parade. TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES i (Know America) | 1825—Darius O. Mills; Califor- nia 49’er, Sacramento banker- ant, donor of the New York hotels”, born in Westches- ‘o.,N. Y. Died Jan. 4, 1910. 1836—Edward H. House, journ- author, musician, Japan’s official publicist, in the born in Boston. Died on) j ; 1901. | ; _ 1847—(100 years ago) Jesse James, legendary outlaw, a clergy- man’s son, Confederate guerilla, | who carried on as gang leader for — 115 yea until sho tby member of \his own gang, born Clay Co., Mo. | | Died April 3, 1882. | 1856—Thomas E. Watson, Geor- gia congressman, senator, polit- ical leader, writer, famed South- jern agr. in rebel of his age, born at Thomson, Ga. Died Sept. 26, 11922. it sal bought at Perry for $400. r Little Wampum ,tionally-known leader in educa- tion for homemaking, born in Charleston, S. C. Died Feb. 3, 1931, ed George Metkovich. fielders carried by Boston’s Amer- purchased for an undisclosed sum, ime ponies Without Prejudice \ It had been one of the best ; feuds in years and feeling had been fanned high all over the - moutain region. given the Indians a brand of single to center. Ingraham bunt- Indians, 4 to 2, at Cleveland, for eae ed and Meadors threw wild to the Chicago White Sox in a Baseball Statisties tirst Villareal came all the way night game. home and’ Ingraham went to At Pittsburgh Eddie Miller led By The Associated Press = third. J. Lewis singled and the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 win Mimi scored. P esupie of hore: runs. Wally STANCE iis had nine outs, Al Crus Westlake and Dixie Howell| Florida-Internaticnal League = four assists, and Sands two outs homered for the Pirates in the Club— w. and two assists to lead the win- second, but the Reds scored aie ,Havana see BD te ners. For ‘the losers, Sawyer, in the third. : Tampa 99 42.702 Haskins, Mira and Walker play- Results Miami Beach . ~ 81 60.574 eq a good game. The game was AMERICAN LEAGUE Miami : ~66 72 478 played in 53 minutes. At Detroit RHE St, Petersburg 63 76 4 Sgore by innings: R.H.E. St. Louis PT dao pig ee cep ee apa i - 000 000 0-0 3 2 Detroit Lb 5 peered 8 328 Adams “000 002 x—2_ 4 0 a hanford and Early; Hutchinson 7°" see roo el pag and Walkarsg saben ls ‘agner. ja League and Villareal. ware Club— W.L. Pct, Two-base hit: Mauldin; stolen At Clevels Brooklyn .624 base: Haskins; struck out: by Bol- Chi aay olend _ HN e St. Louis .577 ton 2, by Lewis 1; bases on balls: Cleveland 272 Boston .552 off Lewis 1; left on bases: Jerry’s lk ‘ eee . New York 512 4, Adams 3; time of game: 0.53; ypat and Tresh; Lemon, Kline- Cinci ; 471 ires: J. Mi a C. Griffi man and Hegan. Chea. a0 umpires: J. Mira an . Griffin. speed and ,excellence in fly to reach second for the iy | 1 Bolton pitched a great game.a , Now, a jury was being select- } ed to decide the winner’s fate. jhundred feet to pick up gliding | j i ji = .A_ bewhiskered rospective New York at Washington, night Sg as see nee va aes catching that recalls pleasant Me juror was asked, ae you pee Postponed. American League “and Garcia singled, to give the pusmocrlesjounegpast: Cap thea) formed any opinion as to the Club— 'W. L. Pet, Vets their first run. A walk and| Dases he’s a threat to rival | : guilt or innocence of this defend- | No other games scheduled. New: Work 85 47 644 Ahpee cihgles vadded Mires frank) pitchers and catchers. i ant?” H — Boston 71 58 .550 A homer by A. Acevedo in the He i ae foie arve of play- “T ain't, Sir.’ NATIONAL LEAGUE Detroit 71 61 .538 third gave the Legion their first st Manges: aude reais Ano veg obj ectntoa Conia laDan Night Game Cleveland 67 63 [515 run. Bubber Sweeting hit one {rompining speed, spirit’ and jyiehmenty a Boston R. H. E.| philadelphia 66 65 .504 in the fourth for the second; so 4 Noman ree, (wee eties prompt iladelphia 5 ‘Chicago 62 70 .470 Legion run, both with no one Metkovich has figured impor- not in this case, I do} Boston 6 14 0 Washington 55 75 .423.on base. ‘i tantly in ma: tribal triumph | Rowe, Jurisich, Judd and Sem- gt. Louis 47 85 356; In the firth a single and a this season. He a typical ex- _ aaa fnick; Voiselle, Lanfranconi, John- homer by Arias gave the Vets ample: \ ! Cuba supplied the United fon, Barrett and Camelli. GAME RESULTS two more runs and enough to| George scored the winning run States, during World War II, —~— win the ball game. Garcia dou-|in @ recent game with Washing- with more than half of the sugar _ Night Game Florida-International League {1 )09 and M. Tynes single, scor-|ton by sprinting all the way from received from all sources. At New York R. H. E, (Wednesday’s Scores) ling the last run for the Vets. first on a single by Boudreau. paces aaneccmamaimraemmane | Brooklyn 2 8 0{ Fort Lauderdale 4, Miami 1. | Score by innings: R. H.E,|The Nats had expected him to ; - \ New York 0 5 1] Miami Beach 10, West Palm. Legion 001 120 0—4 7 1 {pull up at third on the hit—they ' Quality Body Repairs Lombardi and Edwards; Han- Beach 3. i Veterans 130 210 x—7 10 2]}weren’t even thinking of a pos- fen, Koslo and Cooper. St. Petersburg 2, Tampa 1. Hancock and B. Sweeting; Arias|Sible play at the plate. But Os- eee —— Havana 4, Lakeland 3. and Castro. car Melillo sensed the situation Expert Metal Work At Pittsburgh R. H. E. Le Home runs: A. Acevedo, Sweet-{and a perfect slide sent him 3 ——— | Cincinnati 710 2 pnericay: tate ing, Arias; two-base hits: Albury,|zooming across the plate before | ; ‘Complete Paint Jobs | Pittsburgh £423 (Thursday’s Scores) Machin, Garcia; stolen bases:|Catcher Rick Ferrell could slap} © GEORGE METKOVICH 1) hao z Lively, Gumbert and Laman-| St. Louis 2, Detroit 1. Barber, Osterhoudt; struck out:|the ball on him. | A Lucky Grab | | 9; Queen, agby and Howell. St. Louis at Ch 10, postponed, | Chicago 4, Cleveland 2, night game. New York at Washington, night game, postponed. ’ by Arias 2, by Hancock 1; bases} George has never knocked on balls: off Arias 4, off Hancock!down any fences with his bat- 1; hit by pitcher: Albury;. left on|ting. He’s never hit the .300 mark bases: Legion 8, Veterans 3; time/in the majors but ‘he comes thru : WRECKS REBUILT then was sold to the Red Sox. Last year as a sub in right field | TONY’S Auto Body Shop 803-605. GREENE STREET he ‘hit :246 ih 86 games. ——Try A ¥ound Today——— ANMMONNHOMNNANIM, | Only games scheduled. of game: 1.07; umpires: Griffin! with many a base knock when it (¢ He batted twice’ in the World | Near the Corner of Simonton St, ie a mee ; : i Series against the St. Louis Car- | fib Il G National League and Mira; scorer: Aguilar. is needed. saohesha i He | . a yames (Thursday's Scores) nee Wika nvesidentepiliveeck was (St eee eae \ Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 5. AMON, | Poe baseball man. that! seein ere \ BASNIEW PARK Brooklyn 2, New York 0, night SPORTS d bit Petitaaiaces (vers aise | Revising the Scene BRO ADW. AY He ante sPhilndelphia(s) night an pointed when Cleveland beat! A Meare ay poe ornare joston 6, Philadelphia 9, nt 5 stkovich’s contract. ;had set up is easel on ej roniGiT— cas RECREATION [een ee een ereinstics, beach, and was busily sketeb-|f QIGAR STORE 7:30—Key West Merchants vs.) St, Louis at Chicago, postponed. “Yes, sir, sometimes you get a,ing a picture of the small inlet, } ‘Secuautusuuuuegnaugeruizasnagenneacnteret 9 MES SWIMMING—South Beach, south TODAY'S — ter end of Duval Street. Florida-International League {peepgeA FISHING—Gulf Dock, Miami Beach at Miami. west Caroline Street; Craig West Palm Beach at Fort Laud- Dock, north end of Grinnell erdale. Street. Tampa at Lakeland. BASEBALL—Games, usually on Havana at St. Petersburg. Sunday afternoon, at Munici- pal Stadium, Duck Avenue and 14th Street. 3OLF—Municipal Golf Course, Stock Island. TENNIS—Bayview Park on Di- vision Street (day and night facilities). Naval Hospital. Gilmore RTS ccus jupon whose waters rode a small: ing pu 610 Duval Street COMPLETE BASEBALL SCORES POPULAR BRANDS of Cigars and Cold Soft Drinks break in th Vice pr vs. Bob's y Grabiner 'Schoone. A native pa paid George a high compliment: paused to watch the a tis : “That boy reminds me of the “Fr iend,” the latter finally old timers back in the days when ,quired, “do you own that ve only 15 men were carried by each ,out there? i : Ta club. None wanted to ride the! “Yes, I do,” replied the native. id bench.” “Well,” said the artist, “I George himself says, “I never;would count it a favor if you! thought it was asking too much |Would go out there and tighten | to hustle for nine innings, or your lines. Then I could draw | even 30 if the game lasted that jthem on my canvas with a rul-} long. Now that I’m playing under er.” | Een hh de dadadtndatede tedden) Softhall Standings CITY LEAGUES AAL444444444444444& Bill Veeck and Lou Boudreau it’s fun and a real pleasure to keep! Read the Cla Citizen. sified Ads in The : 4 é Face ‘Tina x wk AP Newsteatures sonally, | wasn’t convinced of was my first ride in a glider. up there, Bub?” “All we try to do is make a liar out of the guy who said ‘everything that goes up must come down,” Glider Pilot Guy Storer of Sanford. Fla., com- mented over the left harness strap of his parachute. planes entered in the 14th annu- al meeting of the National Soar. ing Society looked like flypa. per captives. Just below a cleud up ahead little biplane tugged at several hundred feet of tow rope. Yes |siv, felt like a kite ride. “Don't wiggle your elbows or you'll punch a hole in the fab- bric,” Storer head warned when introducing the glider's cockpit. No one wants to punch holes in a craft that looks—and feels—about as durable and airworthy as one. of Sally Rand’s fans. “How do you like it?” Sto used about the same tone o: any auto driver would use in telling kids to kep quiet on the back seat. Practically no noise. Nothing but the sound of the wind rush- ing past the cockpit canopy and wings. Storer gulled a lever and the tow rope fell away. “See. Nothing up here but us and the air currents.” One wing- tip lined up with the flag pole at Sheppard Field. The other could have been flirting with stars. I never knew I had it so good on the ground. “Those are spoilers,’ pulled a gadget. barn door-looking things popped} up on the wings. The glider prac- | tically went in reverse. Liké ped- aling the wrong way on a coaster } bike. | Then we dropped down a couple | speed again. ride elevators. “That was a thermal.” A ther- | mal feels just like a kick in the pants. “That's what keeps us up in the Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN ensemble in carved design thet one day he criticized Rue and received a completely unex- pected answer. Lyons charged up to Rue ind shouted, “Joe, what's the matter with you today?” And Rue iled back, ein't I terxible?” LL—O: courts|trying with all I have.” 5 dy CLASS A Lamp ip hiieeaeeerereei THepanyeniolduepecan ranch} —— Club— w. i ~ 3 ant broke into pro ball with Ful- i Announcing .. \ Vets of Foreign Wars 4 HAN! w Park. ton, Ky., of the Kitty League in! r ° USS. Gilmore —.... 4 4 .500 Sere tiem 1939, after listening to a*Detroit | The Opening of ' val Bob's Sports Shop .... 3 4 429," "52:4 and South Beach. coach. Be became one of the 92 fe) , American Legion ..... 2 7 222 prontckING—Tables at Bay-|Tiger-controlled players set free | AP Newsleatures Geen ationgue CLASS B view Park. by the late Judge K. M. Landis. | J < ARM ONA ncaa nag aoa an in} Club— W. L. Pct, CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND —| Casey Stengel signed him as| e = | bia rite: Joe Rue Mink he's al- (Jerry's Half-Acre 8 3.727) Bayview Park. a free agent and took him to the | Cut-R ' mo whe docen't Ted Lyons|Adams Dairy ........ 6 4 .600 COMFORT STATIONS-——Bayview Boston Braves camp at Braden- | ut- ‘ate ways right, Manvger Sox claims |Key West Merchants 4 5 444/ "Park, ton, Florida, in 1940. He was at Of the Chicege White Sox clams 'Naval Hospital 9 9.280) [Evansville on option for two I IOI JOR S I ORE of the Arabian Nights and now Eastern League had him in 1942 capital of modern Iraq, is known ‘as a first baseman-out-fielder. as the city of silks and tiles be- Sold by the Brav to San cause the art of making those Francisco of the Pac Coast materials has flourished there for League, he helped himself to a 2,000 years. 325 average for 71 games and] A patent has been issued for chemical peeling of potatoes by ‘ plunging them into a certain so- lution to loosen the skins, which “Boy, then are removed by rinsing in Ne ater. Age Bagdad, once the fabulous city |years and Hartford, Conn., of the | | A Complete Stock at the Lowest Prices | 1114 DUVAL STREET | (NEXT TO THE CUBAN CLUB) ‘ey Je * How It Feels To Ride { GLIDER SEEMS AS STURDY AS SALLY RAND’S FAN 7 By GARTH JONES Down below the other sail- | Ls Ss | | Storer | A couple of | A 6-diamond matching bridal Pollock’s QUALITY 514 Duval Street" See Our Store * A Kite , é ; ICHITA FALLS, Tex.—Up front the glider pilot wiggled ja few gadgets and seemed to be having a swell time. a the extent of my pleasure. It's not like riding in a regular airplane. It's more someone tying a kite string to you and saying, “How are things * —_—. air,” Storere explained. It wi ;soing to take a lot of exo ing. Either the ground was co jing up to say “Howdy” or bd {were going down faster than jgreased pig on a fireman's pol Guess we must have lost ci jthermal. We seem to be goi down.” There was an ‘Aye’ ve from the backseat. “Thing I'll just land it on the pron close to the hanger.” A iglider pilot's idea of ‘close’.is ne: jto the wash room where*he 3 jreach the paper towels without stretching. + | A used ar bargain pulled o1 lon the t rip. Storer whisth and ye id bounced. The FBI jean pick up a copy of my finggt- prints from those etched on ‘the ripcord of that parachute. ,:"4' | Somebody went over © ai jsomebody went under. | Storer cussed because the no ‘of the glider was barely ins! the hanger Coors. *s And now-—Has anyone seen fellow ubout so high and abgi jso wide? 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