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St. Louis Browns Make Mer. Hornsby Look Like He Meant It When He Said Finish First ul Jf § BREF F fat fi eH it [i i : | | | ZF Fe if itt 1h el Ft othe i i i! ify i i i if ete iH Pets exe j a F ? f if i et il a F s PSs ll gee tis i u ae F z if | ie p i af . H é E Br 38 5 give Philadelphia a 3-1 decision Brooklyn continued to pound the ball as though Manager Chuck Dressen expected to open up his 13%-game lead by Decoration Day. In three wins at Boston, the Dodg- ers hammered 48 hits‘for a team batting average of .378. Thursday, Brooklyn won, 8-2. Connie Ryan, an ex - Giant, slashed a 2-run homer in the lith inning to give his new Philadelphia Phil pals a 5-3 victory over the New York Giants. St. Louis was dumped from the unbeaten class by Pittsburgh’s rookie-studded Pirates, 5-3. Three Cardinal errors and Peanuts Low- rey’s tumble that ruined a prom- ising rally helped Lefty Joe Muir register his first big league win. Ralph Kiner had three of the six Pirate hits as they pinned the loss on Rookie Reliefer Eddie Yuhas, Pinchhitter Lowrey fell down on the base lines to break up a threatened “big” inning for the Cards when they collected four hits but only two runs in the seventh. Kenny Raffensberger, who al- ways finds Chicago an easy mark, shut out the Cubs with five hits for Cincinnati’s 3-0 edge. Florida International League Pitchers A pparently Have Hit Their Mid-Season Form pitchers reached Big 2-hitter By The Associated Press Florida : s ? ge = if FE fie » while Havana’s Ca brothe: SE i Lakeland and the Cubans BaF #F § & At ai 1,266 fans. Hum- singled for Miami's only | be Dean was nicked for | and Miami made five » but tossed in three E a £ rt E 3 Hidalgo got three of the hits, all of them for extra | tripled in the first, dou | th and coubled again | but the Saints eould- him around. Billy Seal got other hit off Jent. George single, Jent’s sacrifice and | * one-baser petted the | Tun, Following! Through Pedro Aguilar BITES | American Legion Junior Base | ball League to play a scheduled! game tonight at Wickers’ Field—/ the game will get underway at 8p. m. j The Evans Enterpris: ‘ef the league, will tac West Insurance Co. leaders | ne Key | who are at | ys want to stay! @m top and the “Safety” lads na furally want to get out of the @amp cellar, so it should be a good fight. The Insurance boys will line- @p something like this: { F. Curry, first base; N. Pinder, eenter field; S. Perez, pitcher; Whittaker, left field; H. Pierce. sight field; G. Archer, third base Castro, catcher; Demeritt, short stop, and Alayon, second base. Evans will have none other than that little pack of dynamite. Diaz, on second; Frohock, third base; Knowles, center field: San- fana, short stop; Kerr Watson, first base; He r field; Albury or Atwell, left field, | end Pita in the box Tom Connolly, Umpire-1 of the American League born in Manchester, England Ct was} Havana hammered Al Zilian, Spot Kash and Jim Davidson for 14 hits, including three each by Severino Mendez and Anérea Fie- itas and a triple by Angel Scull. One of Lakeland’s hits was Bill LaFrance's pinch-hit double in the eighth. Tony Garcia spaced 13 hits at Fort Lauderdale and the Braves rallied for three runs in the ninth, including a homer by Chuck Harig, but Tampa had sewed up the game in the top of the ninth when Herb Chapman homered with Hi- ram Gonzalez on base, Filling Up For The Havana Race and Key West on the way. escorted them to Havana. Three Eaele Scouts In 253 At the regular meeting of the Holy Name. Society held Easter Sunday, Captain A. H. Dropp, U. S.N., and Joseph M. Bringman were guests of honor. District Com- missioner Dropp, presented Louis M. J. Eisner, Institutional Repre- sentative, with the charter for the Boy Scout Troop No. 253, sponsored by the Holy Name Society. District Chairman Bringman presented the registration cards to Eisner together with Leonard Mc- Elveen, John J. Tallon, Eugene C. Fredette, Sr., and Eugene Marti- nez. Scoutmaster Tony Martinez ac- cepted his registration card and those for Explorer Advisor James T. Stark, Assistant Scoutmasters Marvin Lessne and James E, Witt- struck, Troop No. 253 is a five year ve- teran, this being the sixth charter to be presented to the Troop. There are three Eagle Scouts and four Scouters who became Eagles, in the Troop at present. Scout Charles D. Kaufman and his brother, Hugh J. Kaufman guests of Tony Martinez, President of the Holy Name Society, The skins of most fish secrete a slime which protects the body. Schooner Gets of.e Face-Lifting LONG BEACH, Calif. —(%).— Richard 5S. Rheem's 98-foot schooner, Morning Star, is about to get a face-lifting. ‘The owner 1s going to re-rig the sailing craft as a_masthead ketch for his fourth try in the Trans- Pacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu next year. The Morning Star set an all- time elapsed time record for the race in 1949 of 10 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes. The new rigging will give her a chance to win the race’s handicap, Rheem says. Long Time Coach HARTFORD, Conn.—(?).-— Oosting, Trinity College’s Direc- tor of Athletics now in his 29th year as a faculty member, has been its basketball coach for 25 years. Together with Dean Joseph Clarke, swimming coach, and Dan Jessee, football and base- ball coach, this trio has a com- bined coaching tenure of three quarters of a century. The sugar content of the sap | of maple trees is from 2 to 7 per cent, BASEBALL SCORE THURSDAY'S RESULTS By The Asociated Press American Legion | Philadelphia 3 New York 1 | St. Louis 3 Detroit 1 Cleveland 5 Chicago 3 | Boston 9 Washington 2 National League ‘ Breoklyn 8 Boston 2 Philadelphia 5 New York 3 (11 innings) Cincinnati 3 Chicago 0 Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 3 Florida International League Miami Beach 2 Miami 1 (11 in- nings) . Havana 10 Lakeland 0 West Palm Beach 1 St. Peters- burg 0 Tampa 6 Fort Lauderdale 5 TODAY'S SCHEDULE By The Associated Press American League Chicago at St. Louis Detroit at Cleveland Philadelphia at Boston Citizen Staff Photo THE FLAGLER, out of Delray Beach, refueling at Gulf Dock late yesterday afternoon enroute to Havana. It was one of the 12 yachts which raced down from Miami and stopped off at Marathon Coast Guard vessel Ariadne picked up the yachts in Key West and A Filly That's Vistful LOUISVILLE, Ky.—(?).—Calu- met Farm’s fast filly, Wistful, winner of last year’s Clark Handi- cap at Churchill Downs, is eligi- ble for the same event this year. The 78th running of the race is set for May 1. Wistful is the second filly to win two out of the three feature races that have been run on the Louisville track annually since 1875. She won the Kentucky Oaks in 1949. Th other filly to win both the Clark and the Oaks was Maj. T. C. McDowell’s King’s Daughter which won the Kentucky Oaks in 1906 and took the Clark Handi- cap in 1910. Whirlaway, another Calumet Farm horse, was the last Ken- tucky Derby winner also to win ‘the Clark. He took the Derby in 1941 and captured the Clark next year. He couldn’t make a sweep of the three 77-year-old features, since the Kentucky Oaks is open only to fillies. Pitcher Joe Nuxhall -of the Cincinnati Reds holds the dis- tinction of being the youngest player ever to perform in the majors. He played with the Reds in 1944-when he was only 15 years old. Barbara Delgado Makes Dean’s List At Florida State University Fsu F assistant Gean of women, an AESHMEN WOMEN ACHIEVE DEAN'S LIST. g over the Dean's I Sue H a Euza Dick, Meili Ones thie, s, Ft. Prerce; Washington at New York National League New York at Brooklyn Boston at Philadelphia \St. Louis at Chicago {Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Florida International League Fort Lauderdale at Miami Miami Beach at West Palm Beach St. Petersburg at Havana Lakeland at Tampa Florida State League Palatka at Daytona Beach Cocoa at Sanford St. Augustine at Leesburg Orlando at Gainesville — Jacksonville Beach at DeLand Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. ‘National League Brooklyn St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Boston American League Cleveland St. Louis Boston~ New York Philadelphia Washington Detroit ChB REN eheesEe eueeeens CORP wwe Chicago Florida International Tampa 8 6 5 FOUN HH SOS WN HHH S ve West Palm. Beachs St. Petersburg 5 Lakeland 3 Fort Lauderdale 0 Florida State League Gainesville 4 Cocoa Jaxville Beach Sanford DeLand Orlando BREEESERES BERLE CHE NNN NL we ' Ancient Coin ‘Is Found | WINNIPEG, Manitoba. —().— A Roman coin found by a man digging an excavation here was | taken to museum authorities, who | pronounced it a relic | from the years A. D. to 60.” The ancient coin has a likeness of | Nero. “probably | was int Friday, April 18, 1952 Governor’s - (Race Today By The Associated Press Florida’s major eandidates for governor are shaking hands among 6,000 school teachers at the Flori- da Education Association conven- tion in Miami today. | They won't be allowed to speak, because campaign talks are taboo at the biggest of all state~ con- ventions, but it is a rare oppor- tunity to solicit votes personally ; among delegates from every coun- ty in the state. Timing his attack to coincide with the teachers’ meeting, Dan McCarty. charged in a state-wide radio speech from Miami Thurs- day night that Brailey Odham is insincere in his campaign promises to support the minimum foundation school financing program in full. He. said that when the 1949 Legislature was considering House Bill 548, which financed the foun- dation program and carried its major features, Odham “voted re- peatedly in favor of various amend- Alto Adams. He said he thought McCarty “is personally honest, but I don’t know if he'll fight cor- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 Students Are Coming Home JERUSALEM ()—Many Is rael students now attending for- eign universities in Europe or the United States will have to return to Israel and continue their studies here, because the government cannot grant them the foreign currency needed. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Haifa Tech- nion are prepared to enroll the “homecomers” provided that the government increases its yearly allocation. In exceptional cases, particularly where local scienti- fic facilities are not sufficient, students may continue their stu- dies abroad. things they are saying as lies. I have been running on my own record. I will continue to do so, but at the same time I do not intend to stand idly by and trickery and deceit go lenged.” He said although Odham is c paigning for higher dog race taxes and ruption, . . . How many times|for House Bill have you heard him say that this tracks,” and for House Bill 907, harness racing measure which would have “created a dates from whom little has been heard, said at Winter Garden Thursday Floridians should be 8 Eggs ierrlage & Sea H e & iS TFS a eet Adams caught it from Odham, too. 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