The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 23, 1950, Page 6

‘Tile Friday night the Key West Arena is putting on r boxing card tha’ pear’ on the presentation. ‘main bout will see Charley pitted against » “Joe. Paleoka” Brown. Both men have appeared in the local ring be~|’ fore, and this should be a great }~ has yet to meet defeat professional, but}. he gets a real try-ouly]: who saw Brown against Saey knows that the New x. in tip-top shape, the fans are in for a’ treat. will be many who will be- reer is stepping out will. go down to ile others are of the that the local, hard-hit- Navy man_ has too much = for the Easterner to cope semi-final, Key West's Johnny Yates meets dee Brunswasser. This is Brun- first appearance loc- all who have attended Manager Valdez Is ‘Taking Along Hard, Aggressive Group Of Local Ball Players — for no quarter meets Al “Spider” | Field's Bs ay | the young ie Seneey the baseball aggregation, e second at 3 p.m. all for i ty, a Golden Gloves’ to a of | Rodriguez. Williams. ond. Jack Villareal will win over Leland last be at short. George Barber, Bamboo, OpDevSta Defeat SubRon 4, Flyers At Softball Room edges SubRon. reserve. Roberts is in two very close fought games of Soft- Bayview Park last night. ‘war a display of midseason’ by some of the players. lighting the second game Were two consecutive home runs Gyidack Villareal; in his final two trips to the plate, both being blows that went into the Knowles of SubRon Four, also a circuit blow,in the sixth, to pull his club to within ene run of a tie. Exceptional Satine features were made by of Bamboo Room and Mc- Cann of SubRon Four. B. Sweeting Leads Pitchers Of League With Four Games’ ‘Phe first game was featured by] Won And None Lost the hitting of L. Campbell and Fisher of OpDevSta, Fisher get-|3Y PEDRO AGUILAR 4 circuit blow, the hitting of j and pitching of Jen! VX" Flyers. Both games went the fullroute and were won by, one ruh margins. One-Minute Rodriguez .421, Domenech ppand Jacy Villareal 384, The averages: SPORTS QUIZ* |.2%;. ‘ E. Rodriguez, Saints 3 om M, Sanchez, Saints 15 1. What horse did Colonel Matt Ju. Villareal, A.D.’ 9 Winn choose as the greatest D. Roberts, Bomb. 25 American thoroughbred? {AL Cabot, Cubans 21 2 Who was Bronko Nagursk:? |G. Lewis, Adams _ 7 % Who won the Texas Open K. Rodriguez, St’s. 19 folf tourney? Domenech, Adams 17 4. Who is Andy Kerr? | Knowles, Saints 15 & ts Ty Cobb still alive? ‘Ja. Villareal, Bom. 26 —_—_ ‘ Anguiera, Saints _10 THE ANSWERS: ‘ Joe Mira, Bombers. 5 t. Exterminator. Al. Pazo, Saints _19 3, Minnesota's great footballer. ek COTO AHO APRAINASAUIS WOO ID V. Vidal, Bombers 14 BN WMA- WOO NN RK OCOOMNAWROE ONO 3. Sam Snead. B. Villareal, A.D. 13 4 Recently retited —footban|A. Acevecc, Cub 18 333! _ Pitchers’ records: soach of Lebanon Valley | Mon: Sanchez, St’s. 9 338 picher— W.L. Pet ~<a ' Solomon. Saints _ 9 3 i 40 } pioneer 2 < B. Sweeting 4 0 1.000 q in the | & Lastres, Saints 3 333 Vy Vidal 3 0 1.000 1G. Barber, Bom 24 Se 1 0 1.000 |J, Atitas, Bombers 24 ‘33g G Lastres - : C. Vald Saints .21 "3332: Rodriguez 1 0 1,000 iB) Lastres, Saint _15 Mario Sanchez 1 0 1,000 Beuford, Giibans “10 300 D. Fernandez 1 1 500} : : B. Villareal i 1 500, Miscell: Torres ee 500} Rounds 1,2 333) Most triples—D. Roberts 4,)J. Casa 01.000, Domenech 2. K. Rodriguez 0 1 000 Most dotibles--Roberts 2, Ca-}Mongolo 0 2 .000 bot 2, Joe McManus 2, Knowles}Joe McManus 1-4 200 "Wes, but it's d-d-darned hard! 2, K. "Rodriguez 2. Joe Lewis O° 1 .000 te work into a c-e-conversatidn.” - 0 1 ,000 ASU NSE SERS Bombers Go To Miami On Sunday To Meet Strong All-Star Aggregation Key West's “Atomic Bombers, will By The Associated Press Der-|play a doubleheader at Miami the first game get- ting under way: at 1 p.m. and The locals will have a strong club on the field. Manager Val- . dez ‘has’ promised the Miamians | Gra’ unbeaten|to bring the strongest team he +a 8 he to Jack|can assemble for the twin: bill up yea there. He expects to have Buster Steve Roberts and Beauford for back- meet Steveistop duty. On the mound will good punch, }he Bubber Sweeting, Viti Vidal, Rounds, Joe McManus or Kaki At first will be Joe Mira and Robert Santana will be on sec-| hola ly good in his |down the “hot corner” and Albio Acevedo or Danny Lastres will James Aritas| and C. Valdez will be available for outfield duty, with Arango in hitting 440, Vil- lareal 384. Joe Mira 400, Kaki Rodriguez .421, Vidal 257, Beu- ford 300, Rounds 300, Lastres} strong Al!-Star Miami team with 333, Acevedo .260, Aritas 300, Valdez .333, and the pitchers have | pitchers of the Florida Interna- OpDevSta takes the the following record: Sweeting 4| tional League. Roberts Leading Hitter With .440 Average; He Is Followed By Rodriguez Leading bitters in the ‘Island! kins of City Baseball League, including , have housed 40 dogs, and spread |games of February 19, show the’ rapidly, under a brisk wind. leader to be Roberts with .440,| followed by Cabot with .423,/ other kennels nearby. 4M, rok i AB R H Ave.! Most stolen bases—Jack Vil- (©. Valdez —.... ET * * BASKETBALL SCORES a Florida Games College oi Florida Southern 74, Wofford 62. 3 Florida Frosh 72, Tampa B 50. High School Group 8 Class C, Eastern Di- vision (First round). Lake Placid 50, Clewiston 39. Southeastern Games Georgia Tech 61, Auburn 53. Mississippi 61, Alabama 52. Florida 59, Tampa 52. won, no reverses, Vidal three woh no loses, Rounds two and one, Joe McManus two and four, Kaki two and two, Vidal and Mc- Manus are efthanders, J. “Lefty” Aritas is the only batter that bats on the wrong side of the plate. The others bat gight. The Bombers will play al Graham, Todd .and two other * H $9,500 FIRE | (Continued From Page One! | best and that almost all of them | were young ones. Schooling has! | been in progress for. some time. Collins said the fire started in which could {an empty kennel, 520 dogs were quartered in lareal 5, D. Lastres 3, G. Barber Most sacrifice hits—Anguiera 3, J. Lewis 2, Barber 2, Ju. Villar- 867 eal 2. 466° “Most tines. walked—Knowles +444 7, J. Lewis 5, Acevedo and Bor- 440 ber 4. 428) Most times fanned—Lee Grif- 428 fen 8, F. Sands 7, Mazer, J. Lewis A21 | and Barber 4. All! Most times 400 McManus 2 384: Least times fanned—Cabot 0, 400 ©. McManus 0, J. Mira 0, Ju. Vil- -400 Jareal 0, Valdez, Pazo, Mario San- +368 chez, Solornon, E. Rodriguez, Al. ai | Aceveda and Roberts 1 each. hit by pitecher—C. SECOND CRACK S, PETER AND PAUL'S QUINTET THIS Key West High will their home this Friday night when they meet St. Peters and Pauls, of Mi- ami in a return game. St. Peters and Pauls was one of the three teams to defeat. the Conchs this season in‘ Miami in a real battle which found the game tied at the end of the period, The first overtime period found the score, still and in the second overtime, the Miami boys scored on the top-off! to win the “sudden death” game, The main thorn in the sides -of. the Conchs was Fogarty, tall cen- ter who hot for 22 points to lead his team to the victory. column. This boy bad averaged 17 points a game and bounds for the Miami boys. South Florida Catholic league at present with nine wins (and one defeat however the local. “boys will be out to avenge their ¢orlier | defeat and make it 11 out of 12) won since their loss to Ponce-in the second game of the season. . ° St. Peters and Pauls is the only! leweights in the game until he other team to have defedted the; met. Marcel Conchs._ with in this years line-up, and will be out to end their High! school career with a win. end their season when they meet Fawtulant in game. MACHINE MAKES chine that can be used for speech dusky, Ohio, 57 years ago. correction, speech training for the deaf, foreign-language train- jing and technical research, soon N. Y., born in Glen Cove, N. Y., will be in use at the University ments and in phonetics experi- ments. The University of Texas spectrograph will be one of the few in use at U. S. educational institutions. FRIDAY Laverne Roach Died Today Of Boxing Injury NEW YORK, Feb, 23.—(4).— Middleweight Boxer Laverne Roach succumbed to death in St. Clare’s Hospital today after being severely. injured in a ten- round bout ast night. The 244 year-old Texan died in a deep coma, Roach was knocked out by George. Small in the closing minutes of the tenth round in their fight at St. Nicholas Arena. Must Stop Fogarty To Score Win Miamians Won Last Contest By Second Overtime Period finish up basketball season regular deadlocked lime. the| York State Boxing Commission says Roach suffered a brain con- cussion which may have been complicated by severe internal bleeding. At 8 a. m. this morning, EST, a spokesman for the hospital said Roach had -shown no improve- ment during the night and re- mained in critical condition, Roach is well_known to South Florida boxing fans. It was in Miami that the Texas youngster rose to fame. " Roach'§ Homeds ih Plainview, ‘ex, * controlled. the te] St. Peters and Pauls leads the! Roach was one of the best mid- Cerdan.. Cerdan and from the exception of | Knocked Roach out, they | (now America) Judge John T. Loughran, Chief: Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, born in Kings- ton, N. Y., 61 years ago. Prof. Frederic L. Paxon, of the University of California, famous historian, born in Philadelphia, 73 years ago. SPEECH VISIBLE | Charles Merz, editor of the AUSTIN, Tex—(#).—A ma- New York Times, born in San- The Junior Varsity. will also the préliminary | Dr. Alan Valentine, president of the University of Rochester, 49 years ago. of Texas. Dr. Samuel S. Stratton, presi-) Sunday, March 19, at the con- Speech sounds will be made dent of Middlebury College, Ver-'clusion of the tournament a visigle by the device, a “sound mont, born in Lynn, Mass., 52 driving contest will be held on | Spectrograph.” It will be used years ago. |'No. 1 tee. Anyone who played in chiefly by the Romance and William L. Shirer, author and, tournamen ton final day is eli- ‘Germatic Lpnguages Depart-. radio commentator, borh in! gible to compete. Contest will be Chicago, 46 years ago. Howard E. Babcock, of Ithaca, N. Y., noted cooperative agricul- Dr. Vincent Nardiello of New, Key West Municipal Golf Course. This year the tournament will be a 72 hole event. played iuacession Sundays ‘pesinning the above date and March 19. ‘ . The City Championship decided by the lowest gross for the 72 holes, however, in: nection with that there prizes for low. net, 2nd low | for each 18.holes, for any ~ rounds (36 holes) and the big }prizes for the low net and 2nd — low net for 72 holes, ‘There will also be a Driving Tournament the _ final Suhday. a There have been 59 entries up until Tuesday afternoon with ~~ ; fmore. expected before the dead- line Saturday. Starting times and: - pairings will be announced in | Friday’s paper. Late entries will have to see Pro Joe for pairings. and starting times. é 1 Among the entries is defend- ing champ George Valdez, 10. has just developed a new putting stroke with help from. his uncle, Humbert Mira, who won this event im 1948;. James Mira who won it in 1947; Joe. Lopez, Jr., whose dad. Pro Joe, was the first winner in 1946, while he was still an amateur. Tom Drace, Artman trophy winner, Steve Shangula, Navy. sharpshooter. The peren- niel Bob Spottswood, and others who might figure in to win. The public is cordially invited + to watch the matches, which, will ~. begin at.12 noon on Sunday. The ~ } Jaycee Sports Committee Chair- man. Newt Ketcnings is in charge of the event, assisted by Kermit Loucks, Golf Club ament Chairman and Joe Lopez, Prov), * Prizes are is follows: Low Gross 72. holes—City Championship trophy dozen golf bolis. Second Low Daily. and. . i ‘Gross 72 holes— Second Low net 72 holes $30 *RIDAY— golf bag. One display. 36 Hole Prizes Any two 18 hole, rounds may 1 Homestead which defeat has-al-, them on, the boxer had trouble} Runner-Up trophy and one -doz- fee beck well fee | getting back in the win column. |en golf balls. a This will be the final home a Low Net 72 holes $75, set-of and te | gathe for the five starting seniors) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS | woods. On display. 8 : | be used. Low net—Pair golf shoes. Ages. Low gross—Pair golf shoes. 18 Hole Prizes All balls DO Each Si:nday for the four Sun- bounds. poids these prizes. will be awar fe healnte Low net—New putter or Piteh- plus trophies. ing wedge, ($10.00). Second Low net—Six golf balls. Low gross—Six golf balls. Driving Contest determined by PGA rules which are as follows: ' tural leader, born in Gilbertsville, N. Y., 61 years ago. TENSE MOMENT IN NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE RACE BILLY HUBER of Reading, Pa.. is thrown from 200-mile National Motorcycle Championship road race at Daytona with his camera was Bob Hunter, city editor of the Daytona Beach News and Journal, who sometimes doubles in photography. It would make a beter story mounted and went on to win the race. But alas, alack, that wasn’t the case. The winner of the race was Bill Mathews of Hamilton, Ontario. Each contestant may drive three (3) balls. Longest ball counts.” Other two eliminated. his machine in a spill on the north turn of the (#) Wirephoto Beach, Fla. Right on the spot if we could say that Huber re- Bayview Park (Morning, Afternoon and, Night) | Sunday es ’ SHUFFLEBOARD Bayview and one (Morning, Afternoon and Night) Daily ‘and. Sunday play. 7:30 to 9:00. P.M. Head hunting is said to have Any two 18 hole rounds may been practiced in the British Is- aay e 4 les up to the end of the Middle} Prize—Six golf balls. plays. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Automobiles Accepted Until 8 A.M. Saturday Tourists’ Automobiles $39.50 (Each Way) i NOT have to be in; | $204.00, | of prizes,