The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 8, 1947, Page 3

i ' & SATURDAY NOVEMBER * meet nn en Bob's Sports Sh | 64, From USS. Gilmore In Last Official Contest PICKED TEAM SCORED IMPRESSIVE 18 TO 9 TRIUMPH IN SECOND GAME AT PARK ae The last official softball game of the year was played iast night. | In the first game, the Bob’s| Sports Shop won by a score of | 6 to 4. In the nightcap the Naval. Air Base los’ 1947 Fey Army Barracks Stand Improved By Ball Players The baseball p:ayers whe regularly use the Army Bar- ; Wickers Field Tm KEY WHS? CITIZEN | Field On Flagler Ave.; | Exciting Contests Ex- | pected ! Baseball games scheduled for tomorrow after- | noon will bring together the Na- val Air Base and the Boca! -+ sane: ee ae NAVAL AIR TEAM PLAYS FLYERS AND RAIDERS SUNDAY ‘Plays Twice At) Wieker’s *———. | Special Volleyball Game On Monday The 72A and 72B teams have enjoyed the City Recreation De- partment’s volley ball so much that they have requested a spe- cial game—not a_ tournament racks diamond, with the aid of: Chica Flyers in the first game. ! game, however—at Bayview Park Army = engineers, moved the ; These two clubs played eleven' t to a picked team'stand back some 20 feet to al-: innings to a tie last Sunday, and| by the one-sided score of 18-9, ; Tucker allowed three hits in; the five frames he pitched and Hickson pitched the last two, al- | lowing only one hit off livery, Griffen pitched the first four frames for Bob’s and allowed five hits, and Roberts allowed one in the last three frames.. Smith and Osborn hit two Safely and Stenger and Hickson hit one each for the losers. Ba- ker, Sterling, Gonzalez and Rob- erts each hit one for the win- ners. In the field Cates, Sterling. Al- bury, Villareal and Baker play- | ed well for the winners, and Stenger, Myers, Osborn and. Means for the losers. Score by innings: Bob's 110 301 0—6 4 Gilmore 130 000 0—4. 6 Griffen, Robert sand Albury; Tucker, Hickson and Fallon. Two-base hit: Sterling; stolen bases: Baker, Gonzalez, Hickson; sacrifice hits: Tucker, Cates; dou- ble play :Villareal to Baker to j Sterling; struck out: by Griffen | 1, by Roberts 3, by Tucker 2;! 4 R.-H. E. on Monday at 3:30 p. m. On Tuesday afternoon’ the low spectators a better view of} this will almost be a continua- | tournament will be continued the games played there. Baseball League released today show there never has = been a} as de-{ closer. run for first place in the,rf, Muncrive c, Mastens 1b, Lil- | | tion of that game. { Standings of the Island City! The Air Base boys will line} {up something like this: | Doggett ss, Duke 2b, Caldwell, with the first game at 3:30 p.m., between the two. winning teams of last week, the 7B1 ‘against the 7B2. The second game will put the 8th grade against the league. Every team still has a/lis lf, Babinski 3b, Finkelstein ; 12th grade. chance to lead the league at. the ‘ef, and Myeys p. finish of the schedule. lead on the USS Gilmores. San’ Carlos is an aggressive young lot’ made the, oldsters of the other teams hus- ; tle to win. The league leaders: have selected two new umpires, | of boys, that have and that should give slight edge in the breaks. Tomorrow San Carlos and the Blue Sox, who are trailing in the standings, will meet in the first game, which stars at 1:00 p. m. The second game should decide the second position, for it will bring together the Gilmores and the Pirates. It also was announced today that there will be games at the. Barracks en Tuesday, Armistice ; Day. them a: p i For the Boca Chica Flyers, | San Carlos has a half-game/ Ferns will be at second, Luzon game of the tournament to de- | 5 termine the winners of the Re-! West catcher, Henson, first base, | creation Department’s volley ball left field, Evencheck shortstop, } Webb or Lee in right field, | Dean third base, Gwynn, left field, Day in the box. This game is scheduled to start at 1:30 . Mm. { In the nightcap the Air Base! | Will play the Red Raiders, and! this game should also be a “hum- | : dinger.” The Red Raiders have: _to win to stay in first place. If! they lose and the Air Base wins, the Air Basers’ will ga into first place. " The Air Base will have almost ; the same lineup as in the first: game and Finkelstein will be in the box. For the Raiders it will be Ba- : Oe ‘ker in left field, Cates at sec- | Tunisia in North Africa hasiond base, Hernandez at third ' these two the deciding The winners of games will play tournament. Mars was one of the few. gods originated by the Romans: agi net “borrewed.” | About 10,000 tons of gold have been mined from the Witwaters- rand in South Africa. night field, Villareal in center field, C Griffen behind the plate. | | Griffen or Lastres in the box, with F. Lopez, Smith, Schachta Domenech, Walker and Buster Roberts ready for duty. This game will start imme- diately after the end of the first game. Robert Bethel and M. Medina will be umpires, and P. bases on balls: off Griffen 2, off @bout the same number of peo- , base, Sterling at first base, Acce-; Aguilar the scorer. Ellis Bradley, | don't DO that! IT'S THOUGHTLESS. . . . To hold lang gossip fests on the tele- phone—especially if it’s a party line. Be brief. Italy Makes Progress Repairing Railroads ROME.—(AP).—Italian indus- ‘try has constructed 8,124 railway | freight cars and repaired some . 16,000 passenger coaches, freight | and ‘baggage cars since the war, | Statistics show, ae Available rolling stock now | comprises 67,000 freight cars, 2,- | 250 steam locomotives, 1,000 ' electric locomotives «and 235 electric- and . gasoline-powered ' coaches.. | Considerable progress has also been made in repairing and im- proving tracks, the report suid, _and it is expected by the end of ; the year to have the Milan- ‘ Florence - Rome, Rome - Naples- Battipaglia-Turin routes ceri- | pletely double-tracked. Confucius i¢ buried outside the Tucker 5, off Hickson 3; time of game: 1.00; umpires: Calero and Quesada; scorer: Aguilar. In the nightcap the Picked; Team. won over the Naval Air! Base by a score of 18 to 9, with | 28 hits and 13 errors being made. For the Picked Team every one hit safely and all scored at least one run. Tucker and Osborn each hit three safely; Osborn’ and Vidal scored three times each. For the losers, Myers hit four in four trips to the plate; Caldwell nit | three, Luzon ‘and Chick hit es, each. Score by innings: NAS Re: 002 023 2— 9 12 8, Picks 611 523 x—18 16 5} Crenshaw and = Martindale; Tucker, Means, Mathews and Fal- lon. Three base hit: Mathews; two- base hits: Tucker 2, Osborn, My- ers. How They Stand BASEBALL Key West's Senior Baseball League (Wickers Field) Club— W,. Ly ‘Pet. Red Raiders —....-----4. 3 571 xNaval Air Station 3 2 .600 xBoca Chica Flyers ...2 4 .333 xTie game. ot NO¢QUUAAAAAEREEOUAMATEUDEUUETALUDDULLEGLLAELES FRYER, SPORTS and “RECREATION | > ‘aqiapet LAMARABEAE AGRA EMRE SWIMMING—South Beach, south end of Duval Street. DEEPSEA FISHING—Gulf Dock, west Caroline Street; Craig) Dock, north end of Grinnell Street. BASEBALL—Games, usually on Sunday afternoon, at Munici- pal Stadium, Duck Avenue and 14th Street. GOLF--Municipal Golf Course, Stock Island. silanol TENNIS—Bayview ° vision Street (day and night facilities). BASKETBALL—Outdoor courts at South Beach and Bayview Park. HANDBALL—Bayview Park. SHUFFLEBOARD — Bayview Park and South Beach. PICNICKING—Tables at Bay- view Park. CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND — Bayview Park. COMFORT STATIONS—Bayview Park. qn BASEBALL GAMES SCHEDULED WICKERS FIELD (Municipal Stadium) Afternoon Games * So . aay Air Station vs. Boca Chica Flyers. 3:45—Naval Air Station vs. Red Raiders. rf ar, islands world’s 10 largest is) i one-eightieth of the total area of the earth. ple as Oklahoma. jvedo at shortstop, Joe Mira in official announcer. ‘city of K’iuh-fow, China. fos Here’s Post-war Power for ‘ 1947 Fireball engine puts today’s Sparkling Zip into your 1937-1942 Buick 4 brand-new _Pre-war Buicks — headed for thousands and thou- sands of miles of smooth, spirited service. cars are so hard to get? 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