The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1949, Page 5

b 7 : 7 . I. my 7 " ere ee 4 é po ' ‘ ; : . pe 4 ‘ Tig? & tke § a ! ai ’ vol i : : WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1949 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - < is HICH SCHOOL TEAM (CARDS DEFEAT BRAVES; PLAYS BLADE GLADE DODGERS BEAT a Sports Calendar | | FOR CHAMPI Meets ‘Glade Team tn Two Games Friday; Conchs May Play At Avon Park Key West High School baseball te School this Friday in a double- header. The games will be the | Tn the pitching departrient, while the Cincinnati Reds won firtt two of a three-game series for the Bast Coust District cham- pietiship in baseball among high achools Should the Conchs win the se- vies they will go to Avon Park for the state championship play- off: in June A combination of good pitch- ing and timely hitting have kept the Conchs undefeated this year. Lest Friday they won the south- erm distriet championship and VETERANS, 'TIDES-INN WIN GAMES LAST NIGHT Vietims Are VX-1 Plyers And Naval Hospital: Hancock Pitehed Well In Ist Veterans of Foreign Wars won over the VXL Flyers by a one to nothing score last night at Bay- view Park, while the Tides Inn defeated the Naval Hospital, 8-5. In the first game the lone run came in the fifth after Henson had retired the Vets in order for fur frames and the first batter in the fifth. Then came’ Dawrlen and he hit one to left center, a quick return and the ball got to the pl Dawnen but he was safe by a hair. ‘That was the first man to reach first and home for the Vets. Han- cock was touched for two hits but good fielding saved him on sev- eral occasions. In the first the first batter Coleman single to right, Gibson hit to third and beat the throw to first. The bail got away and he is thrown out at . Horner popped to seeond, Sutton to catch- er Im the second Henson and Seim singled to left, Marsee popped to pitcher, Fisher forced Henson at third, and Dawnen flied out to right In the sixth Gibson bunted and t it out. Sutton doubled to cen- md then Henson popped to pe with be te third In the last frame Seim singled to left, Marsee puts him on sec- ond and Fisher popped to second and Henderson flied out to center to retire to the side Hover hit one into the street and Johnney Ogden went out and caught the ball in the third. Mar- see caught some good ones in center. At bat, Gibson and Seim hit two each. In the field, Means, Downen, J. Ogden Garcia and Hopkins were the best for win- ners and Horner, Seim, Sutton, Fisher and Gibson for the losers. Seore by innings R. H. E. VXL. Flyers 000 000—0 7 0 Vo FLW 000 010— 1 3 Oh Batt Henson and Damanis; Hancock and L. Griffen Home run, Dawnen. 2 bast hit, Sutton, Sacrifice hit Marsee, Struck out Hancock 1, Henson 2 Walks Hancock. Henson @ Left on Flyers 5, Vets 2 time 1. hour. Umpires Abston and Kocik. Scorer Aguilar In the night cap the Hospital end the Tides Inn played a very goed game and was interesting WHE the last out. Miller pitched the first two frames dnd did not @ow a@ hit. In the third to bunts and one error @nd the Tides scored one in the fourth two walks and two errors and one hit and Tides d three runs. The Hospital d first run A single and two walks and an error and one score in the second In the fourth, Walks and two errors gave them two runs. In the fifth, a walk and @ error gave the Hospital an- @her run and the last run in the Sventh, on an error and a single put two runs on base. A fielders he 1 Martin scored. Burke i out and then Pickard bunted Meadro got the ball and touched runner and threw home to catch K coming home. The Tides won the game in the fifth Two walks, a single and a walk and Miller went to the towers, and Martin came in In the sixth three singles, two walks and an error and three Yume scored. At bat the best were, Kerr and Ingraham with two Yorrnes Bostic hit two and Enos bme for the losers. In the field, irech, Bostic, Jarabek were the he a hit and two; ONSHIP fthe right to meet Belle Glade in} {the East Coast District cham-| {| pionship playoffs. i | Leading hitter's with the Coneh;| have been Ingraham. who is clip-' | ping the ball at a .460 average;: | Henriquez, .540; arid Lewis, .483.' m will meet Belle @lade High Knowles has been hitting for ex- last night the Brooklyn Dodgers tra base hits. | Lewis has four victories agginst ino defeats to his credit and Fer-, ,Mandez has not lost as yet. | The third and final game of | the series will be played at Belle! }Glade Saturday if necessary to; ‘decide the champions. The ‘first |two games will be played as a twin bill Friday, begirining at 1 | o'clock. | Officials of the Belle Glade | High School are making arrange- ments to broadcast the game over the Belle Glade radio station. | Homestead Plays ‘Locals Saturday « |cissinns ‘Night In Softball. | | Homestead all Stats to play a double header in Key West Satur- | day night. This will show the lo- {cal fans the caliber of players the | locals have and those of the next | big city from Key West. The locals played the Home- |stedd AN Stars and the locals { | won by a 5¢to 3 score. | That shows. that they have a ‘ good club and the boys from Key {| West will have to play soft ball | to win. ’ The visitors have the following ' players on their roster, Biondo 8b, | Tomelin If, Forte cf, Greer, catch- er, Edwards, ss, Pokomo 1b, Bar- jrow 2b, Neely rf. Fuchs and Thomas for pitching duty. The ideals will have Valdez and | Buster Robérts for first game and | Henson for the night cap. S BASEBALL STANDING “Island City Baseball League Series (Municipal Stadium) Club— W. L. Pet. Atomic Bombers ..... 1 0 1.000 Red Raiders* “ 0 1 .000 Florida-International League Club— W: L! Pet, Miami - * 27 18 :600 Havana 28 19 .596 Tampa 29 21.580) West Palm Beach 24 20. _.545 Miami Beach 25 23 _.521 Lakeland 21 28 9 Fort Lauderdale ....19 29 .:396 St. Petersburg 16 31.340 National League | EB. “Pct Club— Ww. b. Boston 20 13 .606 New York 19 13 594! Brooklyn 18 15.645, Cincinnati 17 18 “SST Philadelphia 15 16 .484 Pittsburgh 14 19 494 St. Louis 13.17 “414 Chicago 13 17 %414 American League Club— Ww. L. Pet. New York 21:10 677 Philadelphia 19 15 «859 Boston 16 14 533 Chicago 17.15 531 Washington 17 17.500. 16.17 .485 12.15 .444 St. Louis 9 24 1278 SOFTBALL STANDINGS (Bayview Park) ~* CLASS “A” Club— Ww. L, Pet. Bamboo Room 6 2 750} VX-1 Flyers 5 3 625 V.F.W. 3 4 429 1 6 143 Adams Dairy ‘ CLASS “B"” =) L. Pet. ig 3.87) 6 33 6 .250 oo best for losers and Williams and. Solomon for the winners. Club— | wides Inn Op-Dev-Sta BlimpRon Naval Hospital wom Score REE N. Hosp 010 210 1— 5 3 4 Tides Inn 001 313 x— 8 17, 8 Batt. — Miller, Martin and Krech, Williams’ and Kerr. Stot en bases, Dyer, Rickard, Hurewitz, Kerr, Solomon and Ingraham. Sacrifice hits. Ingraham, double | play, Meador to Kerr; Fanned Miller 0, Martin’ 1, Williaths 4. Walks Williams 5, Miller 7, Mare tin 2. Hits off Miller 4 in four and two thirds; Balk Miller, took one hour and 16 min. Umpires Kocik) 4 €rocers and Abston. Scorer Aguilar. | jican plane designer Reds Win One From Phils; Cubs Take Giants, 8-2; i Bosox Beat Tigers (Special to The Ctttzend NEW YORK, May 25. — St.} Louis Cardinals came to life last night and defeated the Boston: Braves by a score of 3 to 1. Also! beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-1, one from the Philadelphia Phil- lies, 4-3. Yesterday the Chicago Cubs beat the New Yurk Giants, 8-2. Last night’s scheduled games in the American were cancelled be-, cause of rain. Yesterday the Bos- | ton Red Sox defeated the Detroit! Tigers, 8-7, in ten innings, while the New York Yankees were win- | ning from the downtrodden St. Louis Browns, 13-3. The scores: : NATIONAL LEAGUE Night Game RHE. , St. Louis 3° 8 1f Boston 15,0) Bréechen and Rice; Antonelli} and Masi. Night Game | RH. E. | Brooklyn 6 13 0! Pittsburgh 190 Branca and Campanella; Ches- | nes, Gregg, Chambers and Fitz- gerald. Night Game R. H. E. 48 3.5 oo Philadelphia Vandermeer, Dobernic, Peter- son, Guibert and Mueller; Mey- er, Trinkle, Konstanty, Simmons and Seminick. | R..H. E, 810 0 2.5 2} Jones, Chicago New York Chipman and Walker; Henson, and Cooper. . AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland and Philadelphia, night game, postponed rain. Chicago and . Washington, game, postponed, rain. night! R. H. E. Boston 817 1 Detroit -712 0 Harris, Hughson, Johnsoh and Tebbetts; Houteman, Trout, Kret- low and Swift. R. H. E. New York 13:15 1 St. Louis eee oy 4 Raschi, Marshall and Berra;!} ak ‘Ostrowski, Starr and Lol-} ar. ONE-MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ 1. Who is manager of the Cin- cinnati Reds? 2. For whom does George Kell play third base? 3. What class did Tony Zale box in, 4. Is Mrs. Lou Gehrig living? 5. How many races did Man-| o-War lose? THE ANSWERS: 1. Bucky Walters. 2. Detroit. 3. Middleweight. 4. Yes, she recently testified before a Congressional commit- tee. \ 5. Only one—to Upset. SS TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Dy John R. Mott famed Y. M. c. A. leader, born in Livingston Manor, N. Y., 84 years ago. Philip Murray, president of CIO, born in Scotland, 63 years ago. John Holmes, president of! Swift & Co, Chicago, born in| Treland, 58 years ago. Gov. Oscar Rennebohm of Wis- consin, 60 years ago. Walter Duranty, journa thor, born in England, ago. Igor I. Sikorsky, pioneer Amer- and_heli- copter maker, born in Russia, 60 yars ago. by id Bennett A. Cerf of New York, | book publisher-author, born in New York, 51 years ago. Marjorie Hillis of New York, editor-author, born in Peoria, Ill. 59 years ago. Gene Tunney, industrialist, forther heavyweight champion, born in New York, 51 years ago. Harold F. Brigham, director of the India State Library, Indian- apolis, born in Newark, N. J., 52 years ago. Bill Robinson of New York,} dancer-actor, born in Richmond, j Va., 72 years ago. | ‘The first life insurance _ policy| or record was issued in England in 1583. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | TRIUMPH | COFFEE | MILL | SUNDAY— ist, creator of , “Foxy, po born ie Soft Drinks SENIOR BASEBALL Island City Baseball (Municipal Stadium, Afternoon) * Game Time: 2 P.M. Second of Five-Game Seri¢s—! Atomic -Bombers vs. . Raiders. SENIOR SOFTBALL (Bayview Park, Night) First Game: 7:30 THURSDAY— ‘ First — V.F.W. vs. Bamboo Room. Second—Naval Hospital vs. Op- Dev-Sta. FRIDAY— First—Adams Dairy vs. VX-1 Flyers. Second—Tides-Inn vs. Blimp- Ron, SATURDAY— First — Bamboo Room and Homestead Stars. Second — VXA_ Flyers vs. Homestead Stars. ; SKATING Bayview Park, Nigh FRIDAY— . 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. TENNIS Bayview Park, Afternoons and Nights Daily play. SHUFFLEBOARD (Bayview Park) Daily play. TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES (Know America) 1803—Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous Concord, sage, essayist, poet, thinker and philosopher, among the’ great of all time, born in Boston. Died April 27, 1882. 1835—Henry C. Potter, New York Episcopal bishop, ever fear- less in behalf of truth and justice, born in Schenectady, N. Y. Died July 21, 1908. 1840—Alfred J. Reach, popular early baseball player, who be- came a millionaire business man, born in England: Dfed Jan. 14, 1928. 1860—Carl.E. Schultz, cartoon- popular a generation ago, born in Lexington, Ky. Died Jan. 18; 1939. 1883—Leslie J. McNair,-lieuten- and-general, born in Verndale, Minn. Killed on the front, by an American bomb, in Normandy, July 27, 1944. TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) 1780—Lowest financial depths of the Revolution—wkeén the Continental money wasn’t worth a “Continental.” 1825—The American Unitarian Association founded in Boston. 1905—Act of Congress remits part of the Boxer Indeminity to} China for educational purposes. 1918—German sub begin cam- paign of sinking American ships —19 sunk off the coast from New Jersey to Virginia in néxt three weeks. 1923—Former Allies agree to have U.S. army of occupation on Rhine paid for by the’ Germans —who, however, paid very, very little in end. B 1923—U. S. Steel refuses to abolish the 12-hour shift. 1925—U. S. Supreme Court holds Japs and other Asiatics in- eligible for American citizenship —even those who served in the American forces. 1942—Tokyo broadcasts that Pearl Harbor was not a treacher- ous act. - 1945—166 Jap planes shot down as Jap suicide flyers raid Okin- awa and Io. 1947—Gen Mark W. Clark ac- cuses Russia of violating the Potsdam Agreement. 1948—Railroad labor heads urge Government ownership of the railroads. ———e No flowering plants within the Antarctic circle. occur BROADWAY CIGAR STORE 610 Duval Street BASEBALL SCORES POPULAR BRANDS of Cigars ad Cold PIRATES Guiding | the Philatelic Brains Seen °. By SYD KRONISH, AP Newsfeatures Writer Jesse Jameg and Jimmy Valentine were tame Mother Goose! characters compared with present day postage stamp thieves. | | Philatelic yeggs have commited a number of daring burg-} laries throughout the country in recent months. Thousands of! dollars worth of rare and valuable stamps have been stoler | from stamp dealers. Litile of the missing loot has been re*, covered so far. Peter G. Keller, executive officer and secretary of the Amer-} ican Stamp Dealers Association (ASDA), 18. working in close cooperation with police, postal and FBI authorities to track | ———— | down the culprits. These authorities believe that the thieves might be a combin: tion of philatclists and p: sional gang: ‘s. In all cz ported, a carefully worked plan ‘of eniry and safe-c' has been perpetrated. prints have been lefi most valuable s ps stolen. Within eight months, the of-! id of two stamp dealers in New ork City were broken into, safes cracked and $160,000 worth of vare stamps taken from both! 1 A more daring brand of stamp, banditry occurred in Hollywood, Cal. a This was a daytime affair. The’ robbers, evidently philatel entered a stamp shop. tied up the manager and employees and then made off with $20,000 wrth of rare stam: coins. While the store was being ransacked a‘ customer entered. He, too, re-! eéived. the “tie-up treatment ! Another amp robbery intNew | York recently netted the thieves’ $10,000 in rare . stamps. What do the thieves do with the stamps? They have to seli them to stamp dealers ot collec- tors in order to realize cash. And where the ASDA comes in. As s the ASDA is noti- fied of a robbery it immediately notifies its 500 members the country to be on the for those specific items. times the dealers p! identify s on the out of thg stamps. . This information fis alo relayed to ASDA mem- bers. { With the postal and federa authorit = trail with the leading stamp dealers posting we the thieves find it very difficult to get rid of the loot. “Sometimes the crook forced to hold on io the for years before attempting to dispose of them. But the ASDA; and police are ready to pounce! on, them if they try to sell in this country. | One. case was solved by the alert work of an ASDA member. The robbery occurred in } ast May. .A SAVE 67% ON RETURN: TICKET NATIONAL AIRLINES SUMMER EXCURSION FARES May 15th: - October 313? 21-0AY ROUND TRIPS NEW. YORK $112.50" PHILADELPHIA = $103.75* WASHINGTON, o.c. $ 93.70* . 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