The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 31, 1952, Page 3

League doubleheader evening at Bayview ° _ e . 2 Losing Pitcher, Indianapolis They Can Raise 7 I ra Manuel Perez, Race Won B Needed $25,000 * leaders are expected to tell the One Hit Florida International League today In the first game of a Little} | | INDIANAPOLIS (® — Bill Vuko- | derdale baseball club franchise. % lvieh, Fresno, Calif., moved into| Ft. Lauderdale’s ownership gave Park, the Jaycees defeated the Rotary jhistory book today alongside Ralph | Henry S. Baynard, president of the cond |DePalma and Louis Meyer—the | league, is running the club. game, the Elks Club the hard fighting VFW Club 24-| Memorial Day auto races {group do not go through the FIL Southpaw Manuel Perez a- ee ones: J.C. Agajanian | snd meet at Miami to consider lowed the Rotarians 1 hit, but |S Pedro, Calif., the winning com- | what's next. u about $65,000 tonight at the annual | «45 ig optimisti , pled with 5 errors, the Rotary! speedway victory dinner. TIE Ae ide ines was able to score 4 runs. h ies ee eupneance, which At a special FIL directors meet- ing pitcher, was nicked for 5, l00ked like the biggest ever—may-| ing here Friday Ryan said the hits and issued 4 bases on ba 'Chieago White Sox Take Two From Indians By ORLO ROBERTSON Associated Press Sports Writer The storm flags were flying to- day as the Brooklyn Dodgers headed west and the Chicago White | Sox moved east with two of their | 1951 hitting stars once again wield-| ing big bats. True, two games do not make | season, but Gil Hodges, Dodgers’ first baseman, and Minnie Minoso. the White Sox great 1951 freshman | outfielder, pounded the ball Friday in a manner that brought joy to their followers. Hodges, who not so long ago was considered one of the leading candidates to break Babe Ruth’s home run record, broke out of his | jdismal .198 batting slump to drive ‘home eight runs as the Dodgers | | whipped the Boston Braves 5-4 and 11-2. He won the first with a three run homer in the eighth and nailed idown the 2nd with another three- jrun blast in the fifth. | At the end of the Memorial Day ; doubleheader, Gil was sporting a more respectable .227 average and the Brooks trailed the National League leading New York Giants by only a half-game Minoso, idle since May 18 with jtorn ligaments in his right foot, | played an important role in tighten. Saturday, May 31, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Ne 4 Re Official U.S. ORR ik <*& he oR koe * * Group Certain Allows Only TAMPA — Key West civic y whether they will buy the Ft. Lau- Thursday |the Indianpolis Motor Speedway |up Wednesday night. Right now Club 7-4, and in the mpled| champion herd luck losers in 36| If negotiations with the Key West 5. Troy Ruttman, Lynwood, Calif., | will take over the franchise Sunday issued 10 bases on balls and cou-| shout $65,000 tonight at the nemect | ,20¢ Ryan of the Miami Beach The purse will depend upon tg finance a club. Pubi Carbonell, Rot start-| be 200,000. s Key West group has raised $18,000 | 428 the American League pennant | to help the Jaycees push across Vukovich and car owner Howard their 7 runs. Herbert Quesada, Keck, Los Angeles, may get $18,- pitched the third inning for the |00. and $15,000 of that will rep- Rotary and struck out 3 of the! resent Vukovich's earnings for 4 batters who faced him, one | !¢ading 150 of the 200 laps getting on base by an error by Vukovich apparently had the Rotary shortstop Vildostegui. |T@C® Won in the 192nd lap when Quesada also secured the Ro- tary’s lone hit with a smashing ar brushed the northwest outer wall. that left the 250-pound Rut double into centerfield. Benny |iman far ahead of his nearest op- Pierce, Jaycee catcher, had 8! oonent and he -won easily perfect night at bat with two'” nepaima ted in 1912 with less hits at two tries, one being 4/ than two laps to go. His Mercedes two bagger. k engine failed and Joe Dawson In the second game, Richard) crossed the finish line while De- Bonner held the VPW to 5 runs,/paima and his riding mechanic and 5 hits, while his teammates jumped on three VFW_ pitchers to score 24 runs on 17 hits and 4 VFW errcrs. Bonner struck out 8 batters, walked 6. and hit a double and a long home run out of 5 times at bat, accounting for 6 of his team’s runs. Elks catcher, Buddy Owens, hit three for were pushing their car Meyer was leading the 1939 race trying for the fourth victory that no one ever has won, when he lost a tire in the 197th lap. Wilbur Shaw passed him for the big prize Vukovick, former national midget racing champ, was only about 26 seconds ahead of Ruttman at the three fr a perfect night at bat-/time of his mishap in the fastest Roy Taylor, V*W catcher, was|500.mile race ever run heavy hitter for his team with! Ruttman’s winning speed of 128 two singles in three tries at bat|g22 miles an hour compared with — Lee Wallard’s 1951 recor 26 oes acaunue e€ illard’s 1951 record of 126. LITTLE 244—and many old timers around Teams W. L. \the track predicted Wallard’s rec Lions 4 lord would stand for years. Rut Jaycecs tman covered the 500 miles in three Kiwanis 3 minutes and 41.88 sec Rotary Elks VFW — record. The weather was fine, the FIRST GAME field was slowed only about two ROTARY r es by wrecks i the com Playe AB © H PO A E peti Estevez, rf 100000 ec Gar.ia, « 1:0 7 0 Glest Solomon, 3b ooo ¢ e Ross, 1b 00000 Quesada 22 0 0) Day Carbor 2 0 Ae ae, Yin Vildostegui, ss 0 0 0 ‘ Gay Dopp, 2b 1 0 ¢ 0 Olpr Barrosa, of 0 cide h making him a better Key, If 1 0 0 0 0 O speedway contender R Chicago, only 23 Total 15 4 1 9 1 1 finished rancor Wynn JAYCEES been a ne 126.72 s AB RH PO A E jar r if Ruttman hadn't t SECONE his steering shaft broke and his | — ei AS scrap. He had only a .237 average pay oolas een aL seul neler | going into the twin bill but when Ryan was leader of a group of the day’s work was done it was 3 directors insisting that the other | Points higher as the result of three ‘clubs must help the Key West home runs that led the Chicagoans club—if it gets the franchise—with |!0 # double victory over the pace players. seting Cleveland ‘Indians, 17-2 and | Baynard reported to the directors | 3"1- ; that the Ft. Lauderdale club owed | Minnie hit a three-run homer in about $30,000 and the owners said | the seventh of the opener to break they would not put up more money. |# 22 deadlock and belted round Tonight at Ft. Lauderdale, |ttippers in the fifth and seventh there’s a $3,500 payroll to be met |innings of the nightcap to provide The league directors voted to as-|J0@ Dobson with the margin of jsess each club $500 to help foot | Victory. the payroll. On deposit with the| While Gil and Minnie were | National Association of Profession-| thoroughly enjoying — themselves {al Baseball Leagues is a $2,000 | here’s what happened elsewhere deposit by Ft. Lauderdale to be! The Giants lost ground by divid- used in just such an emergency. |ig @ doubleheader with Philadel That money will help defray the | Phia, dropping the opener 3-0 and operating expenses of the Braves. | Winning the second 4-2. The Chica Should the Key West deal not |&0 Cubs whipped the Cincinnati jell, the league might try operating | Reds, 7-6 and 11-0, and Joe Gara Ft. Lauderdale as a road team | 8iola pounded out a three-run ninth for the remainder of the season. |imning homer to give the lowly Baynard said there were no other | Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 win over |prospects in sight for taking up |St- Louis after the Cards had won the franchise. |the first encounter 3-2. And in the American League the B i I Boston Red Sox moved within a game of the Indians by capturing By The Associated Press the nightcap, 5-3, after Eddie | Yost’s three-run ninth inning homer |gave the Washington Senators a 5-2 win in the first half of the twin | bill The split left the Senators two Rea al Lest Pet. | vames off the pace and the White New Yack oe Sox three ; Rboaklva 4 “4 Meantime, the Yankees found . d troublesome foes in little Bobby 4 Shantz and Bob Hooper as_ the “ Philadelphia Athletics took two 19 from the world champions 14 innings and 42 i eglien trail by three one-t ‘National L J Hedi arg ones 2 Browns broke even in the other svpiand ui doublehe Boston 16 ed : 17 553 two base “ 565 | Brownies had cap 1 20 24 roe 32 ona oo by is si Ds str 1519 441 . 22 Lott Wins Florida International League 679 iu 3 2 “* Two Games vaninsea® = 30 Friday Night Rierida Shite because. 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