The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1950, Page 6

Key West High basketball | ath'that.’ refused to .give up, a seemingly lost game out of the fire in the final three | to win 56-54. The Home- : had led for three quar- : ‘to. have the fighting : pull even in the last seconds and win on John me field goal with eight 11-5 lead in the » as the Conchs lost efor the basket.. In the j to knot the score at 23- “quarter the Home- ge away toall ‘but in the final four quez and Oropeza into their hands quarter the Key Westers! file < j \B, }deer a chance - Beats Pate. In Thriller | i The Key West Tennis Club primed its weapons for the March 4 go with the University of Mi- ami, by staging the biggest week- end of tennis ever played in Key West. Between 2:00 p. m. Satur-' day and: 5:00 p. m. Sunday, 11 of the 12 scheduled singles matches were completed at the Seaplane ase. i Joe Pinder plays Harvey Sel- lers tonight in the park to finish the series. Not a ‘single: player who was expected to appear failed to do |so. In addition: five new players appeared uncalled:and were ad- mitted to membership. Finds of the-weekend were En- sign Duncan Packer and. Peru’s Pancho Queiros. These two can’ be expected to make: strong bids for a place in the Big Six. t Only regular not present in the! seins oeeratiers eiicbiaae rapidly populated, ask the gov- ernment to. make it a_ refuge. How about it fellows? Give the SCALES: "Twas a very proud lady that} hopped off the charter boat Sun- | day afternoon. Proud and beam-| ing too, for her catch was the heaviest Lrought in by the group. Yes, in spite of the fact it was the only fish she caught, and that she JOHN BUSTO weeveyvvervT WvVV EVV YTV ly a ictory Breat fighting spirit. was a great team and accurate team at the m this year as- they 33 foul shots in two y night the conchs r and Pauls of M won from the local boys in two over time periods ¥ he South jorida igh “= ; ‘By JACK DELANEY. Fishing Editor WAILS: of rapidly disappearing game, The Liast Stand Of The Key Deer but no more deserving species Mahy of you, will recall in one Te™ains alive today than the Key| 4 + » _; deer, and no other is so critically “ Sak ees tags vee fot. con ‘in need of a’helping hand. No ool eager te 8 SER other occupies 80 distinctive and } a 4 Unique an environment or so apa limited habitat. “ a ky eh practically -non- Refugee Manager Gerald F. { irate: lay “place Maker Reports hs # i - +. That an adult deer, killed on 5 ae the Big Pine Key recently, w 9 05 18 BER OF COMMERCE ured an overall length of 38 f teow TOURNAMENT ‘|inches, and 26 inches high at ‘ q *. the shoulder. The estimated Pe ee Tipping the Scales Wigs wae between (00 es < . fifty pounds. Leading Catches To Date Bakers report. shows further Fish— eight that it has been the practice of Amberjack ___.. 68 Lbs. | Key West residents to put dogs “African Pompano _ 15 Lbs. | om the outlying Keys, where they Barracuda _94 Lbs, /¢hase the deer to a point of ex- Bonito 16 Ee. {haustion, finally forcing them in Cero Mackerel... 10 Lbs, / ‘the water where they are easily Cobia i ig 49 Lbs, | Killed from boats. Other methods Crevalle Jack 20s“ Lbs. of hunting reported by Mr. -Bak- Dolphin 39 Lbs. oS fire lighting at night, and Grouper -__ 52 Lbs. by burning areas to provide con- Ki "centrations. The new growth on Mutton Sna; 13 recently burned areas are ex- “ capper Lbs. tremely attractive to deer. This meek FEM 46 Lbs. ‘year-round menace has been ‘arpon + 78 Lbs. {compensated somewhat by resi-| rn — | lon sheir number at possibly 26 head, | Patrolmen of the U. S. Fish and ve 2. Sein of not more! Wildlife Service whose migratory - head. | bird refuge takes in a small por- ave before mea copy of a! tion of the Key deer range. memorandum that originated in{ Solution r the offices of James Silver, Reg-| Outright ownership and per- a Director of the United! manent setting aside of the 10- ates Department 000 acres involved for exclusive ites I of the In-| terior, Fish and. Wildlife Service, | use of the Key deer is a minimum Premise on which the salvation which should be of interest to every person advocating preser-jof the deer must de I adv ting ‘S epend. It is vation of Florida’s Wildlife. drawing close to the time when action will be too late, and it is Location Ona small Sroup of subtropi- greatly hoped that some groups a grey one hundred among those interested in. the ee of the . maihland of! preservation. -of the vanishing pa la; a small nucleus of the] species ‘will figure out some way : unique deer inthe United} in Which this objective can be ac- tates is still hanging on to a complished, are| Its Up To Us Qrecarious existence, the Key deer, the ‘smallest " of all!" Whether takin’ inthe area of living in the rea : Cubans and Bombers one tied game.) (Stock Island) Bayview (Morning, Afternoon and Night) Daily and Sunday play. SHUFFLEBOARD Park s the solution, and by | ® was seasick for the balance of the day, Mrs. Mary Stack of | North Chicago, IL, was well} pleased with her amberjack that | tipped the scales at 43 pounds. measured four feet, one ° inch, with a girth of 28 inches. And the’ first time she had been fishing, | too. | And while we are on the sub- ject, the Baxter family of New] Rochelle, N. Y., are hereby given the name of “Bonito.”” For two days they have been fishing, and on both occasions their entries have consisted of bonito, one be- lieved to be a winner. So your friends in New Rochelle, instead of saying; “there is Bill Baxter,” can now say: “there is “Bonito Bill.” The charter boat Lucy, return- ed to her dock this afternoon with a nice catch of Kingfish, no en- tries were received by the Tourn- ament Committee, since the party had already departed. BARRACUDA—From Claude &| Al's Bait House at Perky comes | this entry of Anne K. Cantley, of Jenkintov.o Pa, weight 28 pounds, length 4 feet, 6 inches, } girth 19 inches. Herbert S. Blitz,} of Kansas City, Mo., reports a| 32% pourd catch, measuring 4 feet, 8 inches. with a girth of 1834 inches BONITO—William Baxter, Jr., of New Rochelle, N. Y., weight 13 pounds, length 2 feet, 5%} inches, rth 20 inches, | COBIA—Fishing in Northwest | Channel, Leon Myers, of 515 Frances street, reports a Cobia} that after gutting, tipped the| seales at 3144 pounds, measur 4 fe in length, with a girth of 3| inches. The :catch was’ weighed at | Thompsoi:'s Fish Wharf, | GROUPER=Louis. Gonie, of! River Rouge, Michigan, submits} an entry weighing 49 pounds. measuring 3 feet, 54 inches, with \ ster Dietrich, of | Pa, 28 pounds,| length 4 feet, 3 inches, with a| girth of 18% inches, V. W. Os- borne. fishing from a Navy boat submits the new leader in thi: class, weighing 44% pounds, length 4 feet, 10 inches, with a girth of 21% inches SAILFISH—R G. Peir, of Steu- benville, Ohio, submitted an e try in this class weighing 38 ounds, measuring 6 feet, 8 inch- h '@ girth of 22% inche Williamstown, m not quite sure. There certain- door nore numerous, The Key|ly would be no nece sity for this} ise abe ts ha ty ever the} at the present time if hunters u: af el eiged ey West and Key | ing the Key area would bear in! ae eS ne primarily to the|mind that each time a deer is} stb ve! lid and the; killed it means just that much| Gert goa lomes motels etc.,;less chance of re-populating the! Sate labitation is now on area, Bear in mind also the re-| Big Pine Key and a few adjacent than fifty| Port states not more , allof which are largely deer are left on the Key today. a true sportsman knowing this! wy Need For Help condition exists would institute | conservation laws of his own to! protect them. It’s up to us. Then’ if we see this area is becoming were slaughtered by Bri- tis bowmen at Crecy in 1346. In the West, large areas have been acquired for the protection ! }ran out the match with a | will. become.a singles man of no! a Saints Win From Cubans, 7-2; Pitchers’ Duel In Nighteap Sunday San Carlos Saints won over line-up was that seasoned cam- paigner, Dr, Fred, Carbonell, who. was called to. Miami.Saturday. . Week-end box score reads: Ralph Hartenstine defeated, Lt. Walter, Pate—6-2, 6-8, 6-4, Lt. Roberts Smith——6-3,, 7-5. Peter Varela deféated Andy Alonzo—8-6, 9-7. Jack Sellers defeated: Comman- der J. A. McAllister—6-& 6-0. Pancho Queiros defeated Lt. J.! S. Buck—6-1, 6-3. Ensign Duncan. Packer defeat- ed Charlie Bowen—6-3, 6-2. Commander Ralph Blauvelt de- feated Melvin Whitman—6-0, 6-1.| Chester Knowles defeated) Commander Fielder—6-2, 6-3. ! Charles Lott defeated J. M,! Brinkermen—6-0, 6-0. A, B. Wodehouse defeated B. L.! Vandergriff—6-1, 6-2: Peter. Varela defeated J. E.} Garcia—6-4, 6-2. / R. Russell defeated T. Saunders | 6-3, 6-4. | In the struggle for the number | ‘ » Bombers Shutout | Adams | Dairy In Baseball Games. . * the Key West Cubans yesterday afternoon at Wickers Field in the opener E. A.. Hamblen. defeated |’ one singles position, former Penn- sylvania champion, Ralph Har- tenstirie again turned back the} challenge of -Lt. Walter Pate be-/ fore a gallery divided metween! Key Westers and Navy, who cheered their respective favorites! aftereach forcing shot. Harten- Stine stole the first set before Pate realized the match was un- derway by the old device of put- ting everything in play with soft! placed strokes and counter-attack | when pressed. The Navy, ace woke up at 5-allin the second set and pounded his top-spin forehand through the Key West-[ er’s cunning, to tie up the match. Hartenstine with net attack in the final set} and had 40-15 before he faded and the fermer Annapolis team captain came on to tie: at 4-all. Here Hartenstine’s second (or fourth?) wind returned and he series of stunning drop shots and _lobs. Roberts Smith, in his battle with that old fox, Lt. E. A. Ham- blen, played the best match ten-} nis of his career in leading Ham- blen 5-3 in the second~set. Up to that point Roberts more than matched Hamblen in the ground strokes. But at the climax his first service had no controlling | element and his net attack failed | to synchronize with his forcing shots. If he wii. solve his first service and his-net attack, Smith mean abiaity. Peter Varela regained _ his old} number 4 position by out-playing his arch rival, Alonzo. Andy had | one set point at 5-4 in the first set, but the tension was too much | and he kicked it away with a| double fault. Both players drove | well and boin need to deeper and more often. The next event on the roster will be the Club tennis meeting in the home of Jack Sellers on Monday evening, 8:00 on Febru-} ary 27, when the highlights w ill} be the enacting of a permanent} gram of tennis instruction for West youngsters, the con- struction of adequate tennis courts in Key West, and the an- nual City Championships which begin on March 18, raced to a 4-1 lead? hi: of a doubleheader of baseball, 7 to 2. Atomic Bombers won by a2 to 0 score over Adams Dairy in the, second bat- tle, which developed ‘into a pitch- ers’ duel. i wn swinging, . SMe Cubans scored two ‘runs off} © be Leztres in. the opéning frame of’ the first’ game on a walk, a wild pitch and two er- rors, but from then on the re- tired policeman held them to no runs and only three hits. The trio of safeties came in the fifth inning. ‘ Saints scored two in the fourth to knot the count. In the fifth, Lastres poled a triple and Val- dez singled to score the winning run. They added four more in the sixth for good measure. Score by innings : R. H. E, Cubans 200 000 0-2 4 4 Saints 000 214.x—7 9 3 Raines and Beuford; G, Lestres and K. Rodriguez. . — In the nightcap, .a pitchers’ duel was staged between Mc- Manus and Vidal. Vidal struck out nine and McManus ten. Barber hit a homer to deep left in the first to score the first run—enough to win the ball! game. [ In the seventh, Valdez dropped Jack Villareal’s fly to deep cen- HIALEAH'S ~ a L s we World Pamo Friday. March 3 o Flamingo Parade Birds are. paraded only once a year v Flamingo Stakes One of America’s Fore’ SHOP & SAVE R DUVAL at PETRONIA STREET MONDAY ... TUESDAY SPECIALS . NO. 1 CANADIAN POTATOES 10 » 29 FRESH LARGE SIZE PINEAPPLE «cv NO. 1 YELLOW. 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