The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1951, Page 3

xk kk x * * KEY WEST CONCHS START a Defeats McAllister | To Enter Semi‘s: Hurtenstine Downs Gilliam’ The curtain goes up to-\ day at County Beach on the} Semi-finals of the Men’s Tennis C mamptennniye with Peter Varela, Commander! T. W. Cordry, Commande: er! Joe Watson, and defending! ehampion Ralph Harten.| stine the stars of the show. | Former champion Peter] Varela was by all odds the hero of the quarter-finals and wrote another page of achievement on his come-| back trail. Yesterday, be-| fore an overflowing gallery) he turned back Command-| er J. A. McAllister by the! surprising ease of 6-1, 6.2.) The cars were still trying to park in spots with a view when | the Commander fired the ing ser at five o'clock. The wind was zooming briskly fron the ocean to add im 1petus to | strokes and he carried servic from 30-all. They changed courts and Peter held serve with e celerity with the wind. He th went right to work on McAllis ter’s second ball and did Little Leaguers Finish i open- much | as he wished with it to b through to 2-1: As they char courts almost no one in the ¢ was predicting other than a lo hard match. It never materializ ed. Varela interspersed deer forehands with a forehand drog shot that behaved perfectly and landed repeatedly within six in ches of the net. He ra posite baseline with t forehand drive and attacked the net behind every shot of hi ponent that failed to clear y McAllister at »d the op famec eourt. And when tacked he retrieved with deep balls that allowed time reposition. At the same time the Lions, (picture number 1). Commander was _failin pletely to find touch response to the fir blow w a ball . Set to Varela at 6 Baseball Statistics VX-1 Wins Over Me. ister started the second He took McAllister th: vealed the ai drives from de usually shows. Peter 2, ‘53; and match z lodking back. De ing his match with ~ 5 : complete toss-up wit! ren or thoroughly experienced and con-| 0 °3 shares fident of victory. Tt utcome may hinge on Stamina Kermit Roberts, aft of good tennis, fins day against the cla Commander Joe Watson went down 6-2, 6-0 gt all. As was true wit fer, he never best game. W ) into his baseline dic any. Kermit’s @r-finals mak Whan his quarter nce. It include: ) rnett, 6-1, 6-4 ove finaldo, and 6-3, 1-6, 8-¢ tain Payson § Command tournan’ he trimm without t Geath. Tra d chukke me point on Cor me extended mt point tc 28 balls over mmmander he snuffed ov m0. R wt th ae 2 yen? pean Independents Ai Play Jr. Woman's The first game has tentatively play. ie pee Se ee # raiahe aces | _Clut : W. L. Pet been scheduled for the last of | MOREY FHSS MOSS “their vari- and a whirlir eh past | Corporal 01 oon 0 Bay view Park Team In Softhall August. _ : ous projects. Varela at the net re was no | Sub The JayCees, a men’s team, will —— indication at thi ent that 667 Ocaca Four Picks | At a meeting last night, rep- | meet the Junior Woman's Club. | New York ranks as the world’s tage a ig peu Up Victory Over sich Phi glen Tunink Wonumene ‘In order to even things up, the | largest coffee importing center, 30 Say with | Home Milk 20 OpDev Team . he i a break-throug f the | OpDevSta 8 000 The VX-1 Flye : cine: tise 4 Saar ved Tepe ated 1R5| +e Naval Station, Langue | Indep n the first game of U RI 10 0 K AT TH steadiness. From here RS 4 bp L. Pet. | an Is City Soft League Wi moved swiftly in Pete eae Ni ) ust night, in Bayview poe .| FAWTUI Ei svSta y ayers disenab 67 eee c 1 Flyer Independents 0) Claire ar Rodrigue 00 003 1 6 2 000 0 2 d Silke and Walker cagles both car Pet ’ 645 York \ 42.618 65 45 591 45 468 431 In th Ron Four the Sub the OpDev a score of 3-1 settled t his NATIONAL LEAGUE WL F Today's Games 7 an AMERICAN LEAGUE Louis (F sht) rver (14-6) ,bated| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL e .| Tean Ww Jack Sellers ted of hin i None of the ' e fruit t ly to place Games This Week ISLAND CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE IRSDAY Corp Heme the FLORIDA iets tobog Tampa at Mi es fell{ Miami Beact h- | burg. of Lakeland at Ft Havana at West Paim mstine’s two-way | helped Eleven s ph before Gi three conse eetiousd On Page 7) j ee The | Saudi Arabia is 1,068 miles long.| oil pipeline Beach. traversing} C JayCees Will cn Aa ise an ea oh Seesina Rage x * x x * Wednesday, August 15,1951 THE KEY WEST Wedheiey Lae et SOS Wet Se Peter Varela Writes Another Chapter Of Achieveme x * * * * *® THEIR DRILLS MONDAY FOR FIRST SEASON 1951 Season;. Lions Are Champs Citizen Staff Photos t FOUL GOES BALL NUMBER ONE AS UTILITY MAN JOSE DIAZ SLUGS AWAY in the final playoff game Saturday night between the Rotary and the Alceo Vidal (2) swings and misses on a fast ball.twirled right down the middle of the plate. Sidney Kerr has his glove right ready to snag the peg. Manuel Casas (3) slides home after a wild pitch by Frohock, covering the plate. Jim Keene. right on the play, is the head umpire of ‘the league. Vidal again was caught missing the ball, (4. Jose Diaz (5) took the oie and turned to see what the ump thought. JayC ‘Cees will wear women’s toggs and will bat left handed. The following week, they will | Club discussed plans for two soft- ball games to be played at Bay view Park this month, * Win Jones Will Put Them Through | Their Paces | Feothall practice for) | | Coach Winston Jones’ sea West High School Concha| will commence Monday) jafternoon at 3 p. m., at} | County Beach. | | The boys will be out in, light equipment and toggs| since no heavy gear is al-' lowed before September 1, by order of the State Ath- letic Association. | Expectations are for at least 45) | boys to turn out for the initial/ training period. The drills will} be jimited for the next few days | to running of plays, funda-| mentals, passing, kicking, block-} i ing, tackling and dummy opera-| tions. Coach Jones has just spent one week the University of Miami under instruetion of Ray El- Mlinois, Coach Howard of Clemson, Coach Wood- ruff and Hoosher of Florida and Hart Morris of the University of Miami. Jones also attended bas- ketball and football demonstra- tion clinics. | . While in Miami, Coach Jones | helped in coaching the defon- | sive ends of the North team in the North-South All-Star High School game in the Orange Bowl. The Conch boys have been hardening themselves up with manual labor .jobs this summer , and will need it when they shift} into an early. session in the | F morning and late evening. The sessions will continue until the) beginning .of school when prac-' tices will be limited to one a! day. | The Conchs are’ starting off on an ambitious schedule by .book- | their class. Among the rigid jschedule, the names of South Broward, Lake Worth, Vero} Beach, Belle Glade and other strong teams appear. these games will be played at the | new Wicker’s Stadium under the! strong arcs. | Intelligent football observers say that the Conchs will be) lucky in breaking even in this! | class of competition. i Coach Jones’ only comment at! the time was, “I have no opinion until I see the material report~ ing. ‘The schedule is as follows: The opening game of the season is) with Lake Worth there on Sept.) 21, Pahooke opens the home — ' | WEDNESDA Y- ing the best on the East Coast in| s Five of! Belle Glade, INDIANS — DOWN TIGERS Jim Hegan Strokes Single -In Tenth Frame NEW YORK, Aug. 15, With the help of groggy {Jim He the Cleveland dians continued pe ward yesterday © by ‘their favorite baseball team, } Detroit 8-5. te Stunned twice in ‘collisions @ | the plate, in the sixth and Ee innings, Hegan stepped © to jbatter's box in the. tenth i ‘with two cuts and stroked Single to left field ~ off Borowy, to score Harry from second if a That was the ball game, ting Clev out in front ob three full res and the: Indianis consecutive” streak to 12, longest in more a decade. Tennis Sched Schedule ander J. A. Varela in the er-finals at County Beagh. THURSDAY §:00-—First Renepey match at County Beach. FRIDAY *5:00—Second Semi-final pres at County Beach, |SUNDAY- 4:30--Final match for the Men's City Tennis 5:00—Cor Wicker's & | Sept. 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