The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 24, 1947, Page 3

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ee MONDAY NOVEMBER 24 1947 THe KEY CARL GRIFFIN HURLS NO-HIT, AGA Struck Out 13 Batters: Opposition” Failed To Out Of FLYERS NOSED NAVAL’ AIR STATION 4-3-IN SECOND CONTEST AT WICKERS FIELD Carl Griffin, Red Raider hurl- er, pitched himself into Key West’s hall of fame, when he tossed a no-hit, no-run game against the Boca Chica Flyers. Griffin allowed only one man to reach first and allowed no balls to be hit past the infield. Day, for the losers, did well, allownig but five hits. In the fourth Cates singled, Acevedo forced Cates at second and then Acevedo stole second. Lopez flied out to center and Acevedo went to third. Roberts singled to left and Acevedo scored. Jack ~Villareal singled to center and Roberts stored. Baker waiked and Griffin ended the inning, short to first. | In the fifth they scored their ' last run on Mauldin’s double to' + I have contacted most of the | NO-RUN GAME | INST B.C. FLYERS ‘Five Teams To Play Intermural r Drive Ball Infield | e | . * | The High School Association Plan Benefit - ‘ ; mural basketball tournament \ Contest For | this year. This year the tourna- | Sth, 10th, 11th and 12th, which will ee for prizes. | By PEDRO AGUILAR ' gold ema and the run- Grantland Rice, the well! ners-up wil! receive silver bas- me a letter urging all of us to ; of the grades met with Coach contribute to the Infantile { Nathan Pepper. The grade man- | again will sponsor an_ inter- ‘ment will be among grades 8th, ‘arm § Warm Springs } winners will receive known columnist, has written | ketballs. Last night the m: anager Paralysis Fund. agers are: Eighth Grade, William Lehan. Ninth Grade, Bert Thompson. Tenth Grade, John Solomon. Eleventh Grade, Jack Larsen. Billy Albury. It was decided to allow baseball players, and softball | players of Key West, and they | are more than willing to play | exhibition games for the fund. | Twelfth Grade, I wish that all ball players } whom I have not contacted would get in ‘touch with me and|referees would be High Schooi express their wishes on_ this | varsity basketball players. subject. The schedule calls for a round robin tournament that will start today and it would end February 16. The teams will play every | Monday night at the High School gymnasium. RUM a SPORTS and right center, and Cates hit a RECREATION epee neh single through second. j ; = Tis aimasainamssaissie eaniecamnens In the field Roberts had 14 ““HQIINIMTITINIITTOMTONNNNY H Th S d put-outs and Villareal seven. 8W IMMING—South Beach, south | OW cy tan Cates had four assists. Lopez two and Griffen two. For the losers, Roland had four assists, Evencheck four, Day six. ! Roy had 14 oufs, Lee three, Campbell two, Evencheck two and Webb one. Evencheck had the only error of the game. Grif- ! fen fanned two batters in the first, three in the second, one in the third, one in the fourth, three in the sixth, and two in the seventh. ' Score by innings: R.-H. B. Raiders 000 210 0—3 5 O Flyers 000.000 0—0 0 1 Griffin end Roberis; Day, Lee and Camphbell. Two-base hit: Mauldin; stolen bases: Villareal 2, Mauldin, Ace- vedo, Roberts, Baker; struck out: by Gnuiffin 13 (Flarety 3, Webb Rolan 2, Evencheck, Campbell, Lee, Roy 2, Day 2), by Diy 4 (Leahan 2, Lopez, Roberts); bases onbalis: off Day 1. off Grif- fin 1; time of game: 1.35. In the nightcap the Boca; Chica Flyers won over the Naval Air Station nine in the last frame with two down and two | strikes on Campbell. Campbell; hit a line drive to left, scoring Evencheck with the winning - run. The NAS scored the first run | of the game in the first on a walk to Dukes, who stole second and who scored on a double by ; Marsten to center. The Flyers knotted the count in the same frame on a double by Webb and! a single by Evencheck. | In the fifth the Flyers scored two more with iwo outs, Luzon doubled, Rolan_ singled and «Gwynn singled and two runs crossed the plate. In; the sixth Walker. -bunted and: was safe when the ball hit him in the back on the throw from pitcher to first. A single by White put him on second and then he stole third when White was trapped between first and second and crossed the plate. In the seventh they tied the Dukes lined to left fielder score, who dropped the ball. Muncrief fanned. Mastens' pulled the squeeze play and Dukes scored; Rabinski fanned. In the seventh, the Flyers won| the game and darkness stopped further play. At bat Evencheck hit two safely, drove home one run, and scored the winning run. Munerief -hit two safely for the losers and in the field, Dukes, Masten, Lee, Babinski and Sos- man were the best for losers,|ing scratches or and Rolan, Webb, and Campbell for winners. Score by innings: R. H. E. NAS 100 001 10—3 6 O Flyers 100 020 01—4 8 4 (Two out when winning run was scored) Finkelstein and Muncrief; Lu- zon, Day (7) and Campbell. Two-nbase hiis: Luzon, Walker; stolen bases: Dukes 3, Evencheck, Gwynn, Finkelstein; sacrifice hit: Mastens; struck out: by Finkel- stein 6, by Luzon 4, by Day 3; bases on balls: off Finkelstein 1, off Luzon 3; winning pitcher: Day; hits: off Luzon 6 for 3 runs in 6 and 1-3 innings; left on bas- . Flyers 5, Naval Air Station 7 time of game: 2.00; scorer: Aguilar. dabiiahadiiaennninmianensaciione In the 13th Century, Venice the was the business center of the; wort: end of Duval Street. DEEPSEA FISHING—wulf Dock. west Caroline Street; Craig Dock, north end of Grinnell Street. BASEBALL Key West's Senior Baseball League BASEBALL—Games, usually on (Wickers Field) Sunday afternoon, at Munici- pal Stadium, Duck Avenue Red Raiders 7 . p and Mth Street. 1 45 .444 sOLF—Municipal Golf Course, | .Roo. Chica Flyers 4 6 .400 Stock Island. ixTie game. ‘ENNIS—Bayview Park on Di- | Series ib aid BASEBALL GAMES xNaval Air Station vision Street (day and night} facilities). | DALL WG? 3ASKETBALL—Outdoor court: | SCHEDULED at South Beach and Bayview WICKERS FIELD Park. (Municipal Stadium) HANDBALL—Bayview Park. Afternoon Games SHUFFLEBOARD — Bayview] SUNDAY— Park and South Beach. 1:30--Naval Air Station PICNICKING—Tables at Boca Chica Flyers. view Park. 3:45—Naval Air Station vs. Red SHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND — Raiders. Bayview Park. SOMFORT STATIONS—Ravview Park. ONE-MINUTE Vs. Bay- As early as 1830, canned in Baltimore and shipped by wagon to Pittsburgh. Basketball Tilts each ; team to have ten members. The ' Wrst CITIZEN . mt a lth TCO i aces ane tanec re en ne i wn i a PAGE THREE. ao ee Jimmy Mira Wins Golf : Honors With 74 Score ‘ROB | SCORE OF 80; BLIND _ BOGIES’ WINNERS | At the Key West Golf Club Course Sunday, Jimmy Mira scored a 74, two over par, to win low medalist honors and the first prize of a bottle of wine. Blind bogies’ winners were Humbert Mira, $5; Ken Austin, $4.50; Jim Heg, $4.50; Leo Lopez, , $2.00; Walter Vinson, $2.00. lows: Charles Blanchard Ken Austin , Jimmy Cooper Leo Lopez Octavio Recio Robert Knowles Bill Dunn Jim Heg Jimmy Mira ; Charles Salas ! Fred Mathews Charles Yates ' Kermit Loucks Humbert Mira , George Valdez James MecCardle D. K. Peterson \ 85 Valter Vinson 92 F. S. Elbertson 92 Charles Smith 84 Alton Park 91) Art Price Hi! Mel Uamel 90 Bascom Grooms 97 Hartley Albury oT : Bob Spottswood 80 Tony Demeritt 86 Pinky Osborne 91 Russell Hyman 102 Nerman D. Artman 84 Dr. Jack Hayes 88 Louie Pierce - 90 Fop Tone e 88 . Harry Knight 84 ; Atwood Sands 90 Paul Mesa 88 LAUGH A WHILE! Pleasant Game A colored warrior was explain-) —. ‘ing judo to a friend. “It’s just a low-dowh, mean ‘form of wrasslin’ that you might | know a Jap would think of. When ; mon oysters were 'name , the you gits to-close-in fightin’, you exien’s the glad hand of fellow- ship to the enemy, and while you is shaking hands, you sprains his ankle so he can’t run while you * breaks his neck.” Galena, the name of a com- wad are, has given {ts to towns in five states of United States and one in Alaska. SPOTTSWOOD IN* SECOND PLACE WITH Individual scores were as fol- | , there isn’t any shower | roem. | SRAR TS lcMCcUS AP Newsfeataresn EW. YORK Giant players dur- ing the reign of the late John McGraw were in constant awe of , the great manager. One of the ‘most awesome characteristics of McGraw.was his vast store of trivial facts. Once Virgil Barnes sneaked out ‘er an e-2ning of revelry during a Giant western swing. his way back to the hotel, Burnes fell over a fence and sprained his ankle. Making Later in the morning he tele- Phoned McGraw and told the manager he would be unable to eppear at the ball park because , he had injured an ankle. “How?” asked McGraw. Answered Barnes, “I slipped on the soap in the shower.” “You're a liar,” shouted Me- Graw. Barnes replied with proper in- dignation, “Now, Mr. McGraw, you can’t call me names like that.” “You're a liar,” repeated Mc- Graw. “You're in room 247 and in that 7 dollars.” city of 300,000 had ‘One aise ¢ 600 temples. we RS he Ss wo x Se ol ast CS oe ‘ > _ Oe a bg ee Rs 2 ae os Hots Cok mie eq" O ye SK ~“ SPORTS QUIZ 1, Who wrote “Casey At The r Bat”? 2. What horse won the Ken- | ' tucky Derby in 1944? | 3. What was the score of 7 California - UCLA game. this year? | 4. Name the two outstanding Swedsih runners of tle mile | distance in the last two years. | 5. What year did Glenn Cun- | ningham set a world mile mark? | | | ! THE ANSWERS: 1, Ernest L. Thayer. 2. Pensive (2.04 and 1-5th). 3. California 6, UCLA 0. 4.;\Gunder Haegg and Arne Anderson. 5. In 1934. Do You Know? } When peeling onions, you can! avoid tears by holding a_ piece ! of dry bread between your: eine hand. That striped or _ vertical-pat- terned wall.paper make a room} seem taller, while large splashy , designs and horizontal motifs! tend to decrease the apparent size of a large area. That coal oil or kerosene will remove stains and dirt from en- ameled bathroom fixtures caus- lessening the Evencheck, } gloss of the surface? GOOD TURN COSTLY BALTIMORE, Md.—Edward A. | penne, a truck driver from Do-! ver, Ga., offered a couple a ride from Baltimore to Virginia in — tractor-trailer. They stopped for the night and, | thinking they had gone out to; eat, Dennis went to bed, after hid- ; ing his wallet, containing $35, in| one of his shoes. A few minutes later, he was awakened by a noise and saw the, couple running out the door of his cabin—with his wallet. He gave ;| chase, caught them and handed them over to police. When Alaric sacked Rome in 80 A. D., 3,000 pounds of pepper was part of the ransom for the tcity. amore valuable member of | i} | | grown... for the experi- | | Subscribe to the | Key West Citizen 25c A Week by Carrier i | | seeee The newsvoy who delivers your paper may be starting his first million every time you drgp some coins in his ‘And even if he’s never a millionaire, he will be a better business man; his community when he’s ence he’s gaining now. BES UR BRERRERRBERBHRBBaeUeesueeeae esti rm nim VGYUROUQUOUENODEOODOEEUORRUOEOODOEREEYEREALORNUOESSESOGUOREOECESSAUREQOEROEUOONEE: (ETTROLUOUHEERHAD SPO POET TO EADS LET i A YOUR CARRIER BOY! Klis Future ... in the Business World! 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