The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1952, Page 4

. noon when he made a one hand Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Rodriguez Allows 8 Hits In Tight Pitchers Duel At Wickers’ Stadium Johnny Cruz’ smashing singie to left field in the tenth inning broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Islanders a 3-2 victory over the Strand Theater in a beautiful pitchers’ duel between “Lefty” Rodriguez and Mingo Esquinaldo at Wickers’ Field Sundey after- noon. Both clubs played big league style baseball behind the stellar pitching of their respective moundsman as fans applauded time and again, the spectacular plays’ performed by individual players on the infield and outer nm. Anderson’s looping shoe string catch of catcher Fernandez’ line drive to left in the seventh in- ning brought the fans to their toes as did Louis Anguiera’s grab of Alvio Acevedo’s short liner to center in the’ fifth. Cuqui Gomez got the biggest hand of the after- jumping run catch of Alvio Ace- vedo's blast in the third inning which was racing for the left field wall. ‘The Islanders took advantage of a bad inning to take a two run lead in the second frame, Ingraham was safe as Pazo muf- fed his roller to short, he stole second. on the next pitch and came all the way home on Ham- burg’s blasting double to left, Catala grounded out, Cabot to Roberts, Hamburg advanced to third on the play and scored on Lefty Rodriguez’ long fly to left field. Lastres ended the inning with a weak roller to Esquinaldo. "The Strand Theater put over a marker in the third stanza, a short single to center by Gomez, who went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Cabot's siz- zling grounder between second and first base. The lads from the movie in- dustry tied the score at two all ir. the eighth when with the first two men at bat going down in order, Pazo lined a double to left, Cabot followed with a smashing two bagger to right scoring Pazo; DeWitt Roberts beat out a slow grounder to the pitcher for an infield hit, stole second as Cabot raced to third on the play. Both runners died on base as Alonzo went out, second to first. Husky fence of former days, Clayton Sterling got a big ova- tion from the stands as he walked to the plate in the sixth inning as a pinch hitter with the bases loaded and two men out but the crowd, looking for Sterling to knock one across the road were disappointed as he accidentally hit a weak fly to short as he mov- ed out of the way of one of Esquinaldo's wild pitches. The score: STRAND Player— ABRHPOAE Gomez, if - oii 488 Pe, oc... 4 13 221 Cabot, 3b 5603220 Roberts, Ib -4011 20 Alonzo, rf 400200 Fernandez, c 300400 J. Rodriguez, 2b4 0 102 1 Angueira, cf 3 0 0 200 Esquinaldo, p_4 00060 Total— 36 2 8°2814 2) “One out when winning run was scored. I ISLANDERS Player— ABRHPOAE R. Lastres, cf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Acevedo, ss $5 1246 0 Anderson, f 5 0 1 1 0 0} J. Cruz, rf 4 0 1:1 0 4} D. Cruz, 3> 300000 Ingraham, 2b 3 1 0 3 3 0 Hamburg, 1b 2 1 1 3 0 Of Sterling, 1b 200 4 0 0) A. Lastres, Ib 000100 Catala, ¢ 3008 0 3} R. Rodriguez, p4# 0 1 2 6 9) Total— 3% 3 6315 | Strand 001 000-010 62 Islanders 020 000 000 1 3 in—P. Rodrigues, hits Cabot. bases — J. Rodriguez, Acevedo 2, J. Cruz, and Stolen Robert Double play — Ingraham, Ace- vedo, Hamburg, J Pazo, Fernandez. High pitcher—Cruz Left on base—Strand 5, Island * on ballse—P. Rodrigues 3, naldo 3 out — P. Rodriguez 5;) Monday, June 9, 1952 Islanders Edge Strand In Tenth ~ Cruz’ Single In City Loop B : Sox Jump Delay Seen In FIL | Into Ist Spot Franchise For KW Louis Ca fresh from a American By JOE REICHLER American League today. The New| coyid not in Bc nto wel ~ York Yankees jumped from third) commend that the local backers to second and Cleveland plum- meted from first to third. All three clubs could charge it to the pitch- Rodriguez, | V. | fig? ers’ pet peeve—the free ticket to first. Because of the walks, only three Percentage points separated the three teams after Sunday’s activi- ties, which saw the Red Sox sweep a pair from Detroit by 5-2 margins; the Yankees take two from the St. Louis Browns, 5-2 and 3-0, and the Indians drop two to the Phila- delphia Athletics, 12-4 and 11-3. Sam Jones, thon’ by passing Elmer Valo with the bases loaded in the first inning at Philadelphia to force home the A's first run. In all, Jones walked. five in two innings. Teammate Bobby Feller did even worse in the second game, walking seven in the first grame as the A’s buzzed into a 5-0 lead. Eddie Joost, veteran shortstop, was the big gun for the A's, smacking two home runs in ‘the first game to make Bobby Shantz’ 10th victory—He’s the first league hurler to get that many— an easy one. At Yankee Stadium, Tommy Byrne, Brownie lefthander, gave up only two hits in the first game but lost when three of seven walks came in to score. Reliefer Kuzava tossed six-hit ball for nine innings to win. In the nightcap, another St. Louis southpaw, Stubby Overmire, gave up only two walks, but one of those turned into one of the Yanks’ three runs. Overmire ran into a tough opponent, however, as right- hander Vic Raschi fanned 13 in racking up his fifth victory for the champs. At Boston, George Kell and Diz- zy Trout, both ex-Tigers, sparked the Red Sox to their double tri- umph over their former team- mates. Kell pounded out five hits, driving in two runs, while the vet- eran Trout made his first start for the Sox in the second game and pitched a six-hitter. In the other American League game, Nellie Fox, with three hits, led Chicago to a 6-3 victory over Washington. It was Washington's fourth straight loss and dropped the Senators into fourth place, one point ahead of the White Sox. In the National League, Brook- lyn continued to build up its lead by sweeping a doubleheader from Cincinnati, 11-7 and 10-4. It gave the Brooks a 4\4-game bulge on the New York Giants, who trounced Pittsburgh, 9-1, behind Larry Jansen’s seven-hitter and home runs by Al Dark and Bob Elliott. ‘The Chicago Cubs won their fifth Straight, beating Boston 7.5, in the first ame of a double header but the wir streak was stopped when Sam Jethroe hit a grand slam homer and Sibby Sisti socked a three-run homer to give the Braves a 76 victory in the second game. Stan Musial and the St. Lovis Cardinals pounded out a §-3 win! over the Philadelphia Phils. Musial homered With two on in the first inning and added two other hits hooting his batting average to 331, Fussy Fishermen REGINA, Canads.—().—Work | done by biolégists in protecting the fish population of Saskatche- wan Lakes was outlined by Mor- ris F of the Provincia! Game Br “The biologist must also study the fisherman—the hardest to handle of all life," he said They want just certain fish, and ws the balance off.” Chub W. L. Pet. ‘ Y 2 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 r 0 3 000 VX-1 -0 8 000 GAME SCHED’ rrow night the VX-1 tke) Hunters will play Strand eater at Wickers’ Field at $ ‘k. With the FAWTUlant and Islanders now tied for first place two wins and no losses. The ¢ teds and VX-1 will be g for third place since they are now tied for that standing Cleveland right- | hander, started the day’s “walka- Lauderdale operators threw in | the sponge. | This figure, wth only about two and a half months of base- ball remaining in the season, would make the venture econo- mically unfeasible, Carbonell | said. a | However, plans are going a- | head, according to Carbonell, to . faise the necessary funds to | dring the franchise here for the | next season, All club owners at the meei- ing were in favor of the transfer of the franchise to this city, he added. ~*|Miami Lead FIL Melts To 30 | Half Game Sun. By GENE PLOWDEN Associated Press Staff Writer Three stra! defeats over the week end mi Miami's Florida International. Lea, lead to half a game over Miami Beach and tightened up the pennant race all down the line, The Jowiy Ft. Lauderdale Braves whipped West Palm Beach three times in a row to get into the race for the first time this season but had to go 13 innings to win Sunday night, 3-2. Miami dropped a pair to Miami Beach, 1-0 and 42, while St. Petersburg whipped Havana, 4-2 and Lakeland shaded Tampa, 3-2. Ft. Lauderdale got 11 hits off four West Palm Beach flingers and was aided by five errors. A single and three walks brought the winning run. It was West Palm Beach's 12th loss in 13 games. check Miami on three hits in the | opener while Billy Harris allowed | five. Knobby Rosa's triple and Jesse LeVan’s single produced the | run. In the nightcap, Miami got ; only five hits off three Miami | Beach pitchers. Two singles, an | error, @ safe bunt and a fileder’s choice gave the Flamingos three in the ninth to wipe out a 2-1 | Miaun lead. Chet Covingten’s wild throw on | A whopping crowd of 4,100 Miami | Stadium fans saw Pete Morant | On - aseball Elks In Little Loop The Jaycees teat the Elks 15-1 in the first game of a Little Lea- gue doubleheader at Bayview Park Thursday night and the Kiwanis set the VFW down 16-8 in the sec- ond game. Jaycee pitching ace Sandy .Snow had a no hitter going into the fourth inning, when Buddy Owens, Elks catcher, came up with one out and slashed a ringing double into left- center. The hit rattled Snow as Owens stole third on him and in the attempt to get Owens at third, Sandy threw the ball into the dug- out allowing the Elks their lone tal- Snow struck out the next two bat- ters to face him and to chalk up his 4th win against one defeat. The Jaycees scored their 15 runs on 5 walks, 7 errors and 8 hits. Big guns of the Jaycee attack were Manue Perez, ist baseman, Ben- ny Pierce, catcher, and Sergio Puig, shortstop, each of whom col- lected two hits out of three times at bat. Snow and Gutierrez, 3rd baseman, also hit safely. Wildness on the part of starting VFW pitcher, Raul Cervantes, and his reliefer, Martin Thomas, and 3 errors, couples with 4 hits enabled the Kiwanis to score 13 runs in the first inning of the second game. John Foley came in to pitch for the VFW with only one out and his team 13 runs behind in the first inning, but he stopped the rally and went on to pitch a wonderful ball game. Foley got into trouble in the third inning when 3 errors and a hard hit double by Danny Orepezo, Kiwanis 3nd baseman, gave the Ki- wanis 3 runs. After the third inn- ing, he held the Kiwanis hitless and scoreless. George Mira started for the Ki- wanis, but he walked 6 men and allowed four hits, two of them good for home runs, giving the VFW 7 runs. Cervantes first man up in the second inning rocketed the tall over the right fielder’s head for his first home run of the season. Ray Taylor also hit his first home run but there were two teammates on base at the time. Roy Valdez started to pitch for the Kiwanis in the third inning and turned in a brilliant pitching per- formance. He struck out 10 batters in the four innings he pitched and allowed only one hit, a scratch in- field hit and one unearned run in the 6th. He also belted a double. Little 9 year old Milton Esqui- naldo, Kiwanis rightfielder, led his team at bat with two for three, one being a walloping double down left field foul line in the first inning which drove in two runs. | Ray Taylor, VFW catcher, hit two for 4, one a homer, and Villier | Esquinaldo, VFW third baseman, hit two for three to lead the VFW! team in batting | Bonner 3, off Snow 2. Struck out — by Owens 1, by Bonner 1, by Snow 8. Hits—off Owens, 4 in 1 1/3 in- nings; off Bonner, 4 in 1 2/3 in- nings; off Snow, 1 in 4 innings. Umpires — Esquinaldo, plate; Rosam and Valdez, bases. Ttime of game—1 hour, 15’ min- utes. fered. The classes will be held for ore and a half hours daily. ———— ° Baseball County Recreation | | All children interested in parfi- and | Program Slated | st ings |For June 16th | Sponsored by the Monroe County | School By The Associated Press . Won Lest Pct. cipating in the program should re- gister, at the nearest school on June i6th between the hours of 9 aud 5. Commission, the Annual; Roger Bacon is believed to have eet ‘ S National ‘i eae | been the first to produce a gun- Tera aaah Bs yn 4 11 __.24§| Summer ,Recreation Program will | Swder which actually exploded, ing pil 4 New York 30° 16 =«©=—-.652 get _ underway on June 16th and! although incendiaries of similar AME Chicago 2 19 -604 | continue throughout the summer. | composition but with impure in- peg ae St. Louis a 2 -490 | With sessions slated for 9 a.m. to} gredients had been known for a KIW Cincinnati 23 «26 —-469 5 p.m. daily at the Key West High | long time previously. Player— AB RH PO A E| Philadelphia 19 26 © .422| School, Truman, Harris, and Poin- | Mira, p-ss 5 1 1 © O 1/Roston. 18 27 ~—- 400 | ciana Elementary schools and Bay- Knowles, c _. 3 2 012 1 9| Pittsburgh 2 39 -235 view Park, the program is open to Valdez, ss-p 5 2 1 2 0 0! American |youngsters from seven years of Orepezo, 2b — 2 3 1 1 2 O|poston 28 20 lage and up. | Yates, 3b mak BS . ; ; New York 25 18 381; Winston Jones of the Key West | Conly, 1b {Cleveland 2 at -580/ High School Physical Education| {j, J. Garcia, cf 0 1 0 9 0 9 | Washington 23 22 511 |department is the director of the | |'S al ECONOMIC WASTE Esquinaldo, rf.3 1 1 0 : 9 | Chieago 25 24 .10| program. He will have a staff of setieiins Jenks, rf 1 0 0 0 0 9 Philadelphia 20 © 2 = —-.476 | eight working with him. Ig SMa D. Garcia, ne Fe St. Louis 2 «22 340 sports and social activities, the 8 . May Company ———— | Detroit b RB 319 | program is expected to attract an | ubimeoe. : Total— 2916 518 4 1) Bigrida international League —jeven greater attendance than last | : ne = Miami a2 2 -667 | year’s 490 participants. This year | estore Division vw, Miami Beach = 42 «22 ~—.656 | for the first time, a fulltime pro-| | ' "ss Std Street, New York 17, W. Y. Player— AB RH PO A El Tampa 38 2 613 gram of art instruction will be of-! Established 1938 Lloyd, rf 0 0 0 0 0 0) Havana 3 6 581 Thomas, p-rf- 1 2 0 2 © Olgt. Petersburg 31 32 492 Cowart, 1b a 4 . : . 2) West Palm Beach 28 34 = .452 , ie Saylor, ¢ Lakeland 2 «42 333 poke 7 / Esqui'do, 3b-2b3 0 2 1 0 2) Lauderdale 13 50 206| Shappiug SEMA & Carnival, ss - “3 “ ‘ ; : 4 Plerida State League | Sawyer, ss | DeLa 3716 698 | sells oki 1 the ca ary oe Ge. Re a kind ouvwho sells it by.looking:in the Garcia, cf 1 0 0 0 0 Oloptande 3 M625 1 / et eee med = YELLOW PAGES Johnson, If 1 0 0 0 O Ol patatha 2B me Cervantes,p-3b3 1 1 1 2 O} Daytona Beach 26 28 481 Dicect Leesburg 20 . 35 1364 | of: Your Telephone Directory Total— 21 8 518 6 5) Coeoa i 35 ~~ 352 caw 10m woi8 3 | Today's Games Kiwanis .——1 ‘od G . ! = VF.W. —.. 340 001— 8 5 5 Y C E For Sal eg aniea 1,| DY TM Associated. ess oniracior s quipment or e Runs batted in — G. Mira 1,| american L Valder 1, Yates 1, D. Garcia 1,| Amricen Lome Cervantes 1, Esquinaldo 2, Taylor 3, Esquinaldo 2. 2-base hits — Valdez, Oropezo, Esquinaldo. Home run—Cervantes and Tay- lor. Stolen bases—Orepezo 1, Thom- as 3, Cowart 1. Base on balls—off Cervantes 2, off Thomas 4, off Foley 3, off Mira 6, off Valdez 3. Struck out—by Cervantes 0,, by Thomas 0, by Foley 3, by Mira 3, by Valdez 10. Hits—off Cervantes 2 in 1/3 in- nings; off Thomas, 2 in 0 innings; off Foley, 1 in 5 2/3 innings; off Mira, 4 in 2 innings. Mira, 4 in 2 innings; off Valdez, 1 in 4 innings. Umpires — Rosam, plate; Es- quinaldo and Valdez, bases. Time of game — 1 hour, 40 minutes. Winning pitcher — Mira; losing pitcher—Cervantes. LITTLE LEAGUE STANDINGS Team— FIRST GAME Thursday, June 5. 1952 ELKS Player— AB R. Santana, If Solomon, ss H POA 0 0 0 ry | Joe Burgos’ bunt let a Lakeland runner score the winning tally in| | the ninth and break a 2-2 dead-| | lock. Dinty Moore and Bill Boyette | {held Tampa to five hits. Herb |Chapman’s triple put Tampa in| front in the third but two singles and Charley Glock's double en-; abled Lakeland to knot the count | in the eighth. | | st. Petersburg ended a six-game losing string with a 12-hit assault on Carlos Pascual. Billy Seal hit | a triple and Herschel Held doubled in two Saints runs. Hooks lott | spacea seven Havana hits, includ ing singles and doubles by Carlos | Pascual and Mike Guerra, to noteh his seventh win against two losses Baseball Results | SUNDAY'S GAMES | By The Assecisted Press Nationa! League Brooklyn 11-10 Cincinnati 14 Chicago 14 Boston 5-7 St. Louis 5 Philadelphia 3 New York 9 Pittsburgh 1 American League | Chicago 6 Washington 3 |New York #9 St. Louis 20 Boston $-S Detroit 22 Florida International League A: Lauderdale 3 West Palm B | Milam! Beach 14 Miami 02 j Lakeland 3 Tampa 2 j Petersburg 4 Havana 2 Fleride State League } | Jacksotwille Beach 3 DeLand 2 Leesbarg $ Sanford 4 | Orlande 4 Cocos 2 s Bi atl : pa Gs S. Holland, ib Owens p Sibila, cf Bonner, 3 J.D. Averette. Brennan. 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