The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1952, Page 5

~ Conch General Mgr. Ryan To Take FHL PREXY BAYNARD' & WILL TOSS OUT Ist BALL IN OPENER FRIDAY NIGHT being ing’s i ul sEEL gs ir es i a [ : 5 i £6? at 4 #3 \ : 23 it g g i fi s ii Z ge z F f é § than have if ‘the game was sold » but according to the backers, plenty of good seats are available. The ducats can be obtained at Lou's Appliance Store and the Broadway Cigar Store, on Duval street, i Hi 28 Four In FIL Celebrate Sale To Key West By Licking St. Petersburg By © 6-1 Margin Monday By GENE PLOWDEN Associated Press Staff Writer The Florida International League “All-Stars, who'll become the Key West Conchs on Friday, may yet climb out of the cellar. The All-Stars won their third game in four starts Monday night, whitewashing the St. Petersburg Saints, 60, to put them eight games back of the Lakeland Pilots who lost to Miami Beach,’ 3-2 Tampa's Smokers whipped Mi- ami, 4-1, to cut the Sun Sox lead to a game and a half, and West Palm Beaci handed the Havana Cubans their fourth straight loss T2. Dick Haack, on the hill for the homeless All-Stars, scattered eight hits and bested Clarence Hooks Tott, who gave up nine, The Saints made four errors and Haack didn’t allow a runner to reach second after the second ining. Miami Beach came up with three runs in the ninth, leading with Whitey Platt's bomer. Lakeland had picked up one in the first on Charlie Glock’s walk, followed by singles by Buddy Bates Walt Kowalski. Kowalski do in the eighth and Gene § singled him in, Tampa routed Miami with four runs in the first on two costly crrors, three walks, a hit b: n and two singles before Grosskopf relieved Starter Seijas and put out the fire Alex Patterson scattered eight Havana hits and West Palm Beach racked up four runs in th on two walks and four singles. w Lowe Art first Seat Directors LAKELAND W& ~~ Florida Cit ‘Mutual today seats new directors @ might name a new president The directors take office at Mu Early Birds At Conch Ticket Office ‘MRS. TONY ARANGO (second from right), was the first Key Wester to purchase tickets for Friday evening’s debut of the Key West “Conch” baseball team. Shown with her, from the left: Club officials, Benny Fernandez, Rogelio Gomez and Carbonell. Second in line for Charley Aronovitz. Varela, Van Reach Tennis Semi-Finals ena el Men’s Tournament “ld Timer” Peter Varela and Coach Van yesterday joined John McNulty in the select semi-final “| round of the Key West Men’s Ten- nis Championships. This leaves just one more position to be filled to make the semi-final round com- plete and there is little doubt that it will be filled by first seeded Bob Robisoa. Peter Varela defeated Jay Wag- ner 7-5, 10-8. Pete seems to follow ‘| the ways of fine wines for as he grows older he seems to grow bei- ter. Pete has been playing in these championships for oevr twenty years and in all this time it is a good bet to say that he never played better than yesterday. Jay was seeded number two in the tournament and had looked like Annapolis star Bill Barnes. He still looked great in his match with the “Old Timer” but could not solve the mystery of Peters chop strokes enough to gain victory. Pete played far differently from ithe way he has in the past. He played a smart retrieving and chop jgame with a sudden drive intr- spersed between long rallies. His former game was that of a “killer” and he would try to drive every forehand through the cement. But this was not the case yesterday j; and as the match ended it seemed that he had picked out the best formula for victory. In the second set, Pete showed his tournament spirit when he came from behind at 3-5 to tie up the match and finally go on to vie- j tory. | In the other match of the day, Coach Van had plenty of trouble | with his protege, Leo Carey for one set. Leo played beautiful tennis and it looked for a time as if he were | Soing to send his teacher down to | “humiliating” defeat. He went into a quick 20 lead and led 40-love in the third game. The coach man. aged to take this game with some shots and this put him back in match. Leo still pounded away however and seemed to have com mand of the match as he went into | 3 lead. At this point Coach applied the pressure and even. Helped by several olleys on Leo's part be final mt on to take the first set. With the first set lost Leo lost heart and was an easy mark for coach in the second set. The final score was 9-7. 64. rship ¥ new of. teday or postpone this until Mutual's a champion in defeating former’ his | Citizen Staff Photo Louis a pair on the first base line is Thomson Again Poles Game Winning Home Schmidt Hurls One Pitch And Is With Loss As Giants Lick Cards By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Who said everything happens in Brooklyn? How about the Polo Grounds? Ever since Bobby Thomson cracked that pennant - winning home run in the final 1951 playoff game, the weirdest things have been occurring in the home of the New York Giants. Nothing that has taken place on Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field can match them. Look at what happened in the Pole’ Grounds last. Sunday, for in- stance. The Giants were rolling along enjoying an 11-0 iead over the St. Louis Cardinals when sud- denly the roof caved in. Before they realized what had happened the Cards had won 14-12. Monday, just 24 hours later, the Cards were leading 7-4 when the Giants came to bat. Two walks, a single, an out and boom. Thom- son practically duplicated his ‘51 feat by hitting a grandslam homer to beat the Redbirds, 8-7. That’s not all. Look at this believe-it-or-not situation. Willard Schmidt, who tossed up that goph- | er ball to Bobby, made only one | pitch—and he was charged with | the defeat. The rookie righthander had been summoned to relieve Will Werle, In contrast, the victory went to George Spencer, fourth Giant pitcher. He, too, made only one | pitch. That was a double play de- | livery to Del Rice to end the top | | of the ninth. So we have the un- | | Precerented situation in which two | hurlers make one pitch each, one of which is credited with the vic- | tory while the other is charged with the defeat. |a current loot of $9,450 as a pro | sophomore, faces an 83 qualifier —. SPORTS .— BASEBALL MONDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press National League New York 8 St. Louis 7 Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 4 ONLY GAMES American League NO GAMES Florida International League Tampa 4 Miami 1 West Palm Beach 7 Havana 2 All-Stars 6 St. Petersburg 0 Miami Beach 3 Lakeland 2 Florida State League Palatka 5 DeLand 3 Jacksonville Beach 14 Daytona By The Associated Press American League Philadelphia at Chicago (2) Boston at St. Louis New York at Detroit Washington at Cleveland National League Cincinnati at Boston (2) Chicago at Brooklyn Pittsburgh at*New York St. Louis at Philadelphia Florida International League Havana at West Palm Beach All-Stars at St. Petersburg Miami Beach at Lakeland Tampa at Miami Florida State League Cocoa at Jacksonville Beach DeLand at Leesburg Orlando at Sanford Daytona Beach at Palatka Betsy Rawls Nears $10,000 In Golf e e Earnings This Year CHICAGO ™ — Betsy Rawls, golf’s golden gal from ‘Téxds, to- day aimed to parlay medalist hon- ors into a $1,000 conquest in the 23rd Women’s Western Open Tour- nament to swell her 1952 fairways harvest past the $10,000 mark. Miss Rawls, who Monday fired @ ome-under-par 74 to pace the qualifying field by two strokes, stormed into the 16-match opening round at Skokie Country Club against a stern amateur, Mary Agnes Wall, Menominee, Mich. Betsy, 24-year-old Phi Beta Kap- pa from the University of Texas, snatched the favorite’s role from defending Champion Patty Berg, who qualified two strokes behind ' with another slick pro, Louise Suggs, at 76. Miss Berg and sidelined Babe Zaharias virtually own this meet with four titles each. Miss Rawls never has even threatened in the event. Miss Rawls, who won the recent Weathervane Tournament and has in Miss Wall, twice runnerup in the meet. Miss Berg, still a rugged con- tender in an opposite bracket from Miss Rawls, had a lively first- round foe in pro Beverly Hanson, former National Amateur cham- pion who qualified with 83, Miss Suggs, whose sharp putter seems ready to bring dividends, met one of the brighter lights of the teen-aged set, Seattle's Pat Lesser, an 4 qualifier. Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Won Lost Pct. National League po 1 New York “a 18 654 Chicago «a «2E 618 St. Louis 23a 2 491 ti 3 2 463 Philadelphia 22 «30423 Boston © 4. $22 31 415 Pittsburgh 1 4 (2 Played Florida International League Miami aT 2 662 Miami Beach 46 26 639 Tampa “4 26 629 Havana 39, 31 557 St. Petersburg “x 3 479 West Palm Beach 33 37 ATL Lakeland “a 47 +338 All-Stars 1% 55 225 Florida Ste League DeLand 42 22 656 Jaxville Beach 40 22 645 Orlando 3826594 Palatka 35° 28ST Sanford 32031 -508 Daytona Beach 32 32 -500 Leesburg 2% 38 (406 | Cocoa 22 «40 355 JOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National .League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .330; | Lockman, New York, and Robin- | son, Brooklyn, .327; Atwell, Chica- | 0; .326; Baumholtz, Chicago .321. Runs — Lockman, New York, 45; Robinson, Brooklyn, 41; Wil- liams, New York, 39; Reese, Brook- lyn, and Sauer, Chicago 38. Runs batted in — Sauer, Chicago, 59; Thomson, New York, 49; Cam, panella, Brooklyn, 42; Hodges; Brooklyn, 40; Hatton, Cincinnati 39, Home runs — Sauer, Chicago. 18; Westrum, New York, 12; Hod ges, Brooklyn, and Kiner, Pitts- | burgh, 11; Mathews, Boston 10. | Pitching — Roe, Broklyn, 5-0, 1.000; Hearn New York, 6-1, .857; Erskine, Broklyn, 5-1, .833; Mag: | lie, New York, 9-2 .818; Hacker Chicago, 4-1, .800. American League Batting -- DiMaggion Boston, .332; Rosen, Cleveland, .330; Kell, Boston, .325; Robinson, Chicago, 316; Groth, Detroit .310. Runs — Avila, Cleveland, 39; Di- Maggio, Boston, and Rosen, Cleve- land, 35; Joost, Philadelphia 34; Boone, Cleveland, 32. Runs batted in — Rosen Cleve- land, 38; Dropo, Detroit,37; Mele, Chicago, and Doby, Cleveland, 33; Lenhardt Detroit 32. Hits — Simpson, Cleveland, 71; Fox, Chicago, 70; Robinson, Chi cago, 67; Rosen, Cleveland 66; Avila, Cleveland, 65. Home rum. — Dropo and Wertz Detroit, and Rosen, Cleveland, 11; Easter, Cleveland, Lenhardt, De- troit, Berra New York and Jost, Philadelphia, 9. Pitching — Shantz, Philadelphia, 11-1, 917; Garcia, Cleveland, 9-3, .750; Raschi ind Sain, New York, 6-2, .150; Henry Boston, Paige, | St. Louis, and Marrero, Washing: | ton, 5-2, .7M. | | | “uumuser wie pice rae Support The Key West Baseball Team Philadelphia Phillies some 15 years | ago. He started a game against | the. Chicago Cubs on May 5, 1938. After three pitches, two balls and a strike to Leadoff Hitter Stan Hack, Lamaster complained of a | pain in his arm and was replaced | by Tom Reis. Hack drew a base | on balls and eventually scored. Chirago continued to pile up runs at an amazing pace against five Philly flingers and won 21-2. Who | Was charged with the defeat? Why, | Lamaster, of course, since he was | charged with the walk to Hack, | | who scored the run that put the Cubs in front. | In the only other game scheduled in the majors Monday, the Phillies edged out the last-place Pittsburgh | Pirates, 54, to move into sixth place past the Boston Braves. A triple by Richie Ashburn and a long fly by Granny Hamner broke a 44 Ge in the seventh. | Delaware Park race track is the only majer mile oval in the cour wy with the front and back stret i ches each 100 feet wide. ' 3 © the convenience of Key financial Citizen i P Westers wishing to offer their d to the newly formed Key West Baseball Club, The | ing the pledge form displayed below All checks should be made payable to the Key West Baseball Club, Incorporated, and mailed to President Louis Ca: rbonell at 622 Duval street Key West, Florida , 1952 I hereby agree to purchase stock in the Key West Florida International League Basball Club to the extent of $_____ In pledging the purchase of this stock, I agree to pay to the designated treasurer the value thereof upon reasonable demand. VIEWS FRO THE THIRD BASE LINE — By OSCAR MILAN The fact that the Islanders- | FAWTUlant game last Thursday night ended in a one sided score in favor of the Boca Chica Fliers bared no reflections on the part of the performance of the Sun- coast Fishery squad as far as this column is concerned. As a matter of record the Islanders played a better defénsive game than the FAWTU, Clayton Sterlings boys missed three chances in 47 batted balls to them . while the Fliers missed six of their 46 chances, three of them by third baseman Gilbert who apparently had a bad day on the field. 000 Why are ball player’s uniform shirts numbered? Is it for identi- fication purposes to help scorers and umpires as well as fans in describing an individual player in a certain position or it is just to have some decorations on the back of the uniform? Won't some- one give a helping hand to the coaches of the FAWTUlant team on this question. In the fliers game against the Strand on June 3, Catcher Joe Bosco and pitcher Devane wore a uniform shirt with the same no. 11. The scorer called this to the attention of chief um- pire Edward Bohm as it became very confusing at times as the g me progressed. “That has no bearing on the game said Mr. Bohm but I will call it to their attention.” Well, it happened again in Thursday night’s game against the Islanders when Joe Bosco, apparently the official No, 11 and right fielder Devane again were No, 11, calling the coach’s atten- tion this time Devane was switched to No. 13. But then came anothe rduplication, this time Stan Markwoski and short- stop Silva wore No. 3. How about watching those. numbered uniforms Mr. Armstrong. 000 The FAWTUlant team is going to be hard to stop and fans are already predicting that the Naval Air Station Fliers from down Boca Chica way will not lose a} game this half which ends July} 17th. W- have every reason to believe that this may be a logical | rediction considering the heavy and constant hitting of first base- man Studer,, left fielder Ander- son, and third baseman Gilbert. | These boys have been hitting the pellet right on the nose. In the pitching department, the! FAWTU is tops. Devanne pitched | the Air boys to its first victory on June 3, holding the Strand to one run on six well scattered hits and striking out 10 batters. In} their second league encounter} this time opposed by VX-1, Man-! ager Armstrong marched out) Meerrened State Commenter VA Marina New “swept-back” woesdey, June 17, 1952 THE ad KEY WEST CITIZEN Page $ Helm Ennie who although touched for 10 hits, struck 13 batters to win his game. Thursday night, against the Islanders, youngest team in the league, Stan Markwoski pitched six hitless innings to win for the FAWTUlant. Watch the Air boys for a hundred per cent ball playing. With good hitting, excellent pitching, not to say anything about their fine fielding, a team can’t be stopped. Jim Gilbert, of the FAWTUlant is the league leading batter, with an average of .555. He has played in every game. Other top hitters who have taken part in every game are: Albert Cabot, Strand third baseman, .468; E. Anderson, FAWTUlant, center fielder, .488; John Cruz, Islanders, .424; Billy Kirk, -VX-1, .417; R. Shrigley, VX-1, .392; C. Gomez, Strand, -384; 13. Studer, FAWTUlant, .337 000 League treasurer Betty Cabot announces that while the league is not operating in a profitable way by a long shot the attendance is picking up. This is undoubtably due to the brand of ball playing displayed by the teams. At pres- ent the weakest team in the league seems to be the Strand Theater but manager Valdez has not given up trying and is con- stantly scouting around for new talent. 000 Well with Key West moving into the Florida International League, local youngsters will have the chance of a lifetime to get inte organized baseball. This column suggests strongly to the kids now active in the local league to put out their utmost, show pep, the will to fight in a game win or lose during a con- test and display your playing talent. Remember there may be scouts around, and an opportunity to get a crack in the FIL will be your reward, Teen-agers like George Lastres, Vincent Catala, John and Don Cruz and others not yet perform- ing in the Island City League will have the opportunity of a life- time to get into big time baseball. But activity is one thing they've AIR $50 Deposit UNIT SHIPP 2177 S. W. Ist STREET Today Only Four U.S. : Entries Survive , In British Golf TROON, Scotland (® — Only four | of America’s 10 entries in the Brit- ish Women's Amateur Golf Cham- pionship were on hand at tee-off time today. The other six were among the spectators, having taken the long journey across the Atlantic to be dumped before the third round got underway on Troon’s tricky 6,500- yard course, The eliminations—including U.S. Champion Dot Kirby, Atlanta— came as a distinct surprise. Miss Kirby, in fact, was one of the two knocked out in the very first round. Pat O'Sullivan, Orange, Conn., no slouch on the fairways herself, turned the trick, 3 and 2. The only other American girl to be beater in the first round was Elaine ) Pasadena, Calif., who was overwhelmed. by Frances Stephens, England, 8 and 7. Still in the running as play got underway were C. Doran, Cleve- land, Polly Riley, Fort Worth, Mae Murray; Rutland, Vt., and Mrs, Frank Goldthwaite, Fort Worth the non-playing captain of the American Curtis Cup team, Besides, Miss Kirby and. Miss Cranston, the cheering section con- sisted of Miss O'Sullivan, Grace DeMoss, Corvalis, Ore., Marjorie Lindsay, Decatur, T., and Dot Kielty, Long Beach Calif. Miss Kirby, could not keep up her good form and was beaten by Philomena Gravey, a member of ~ British Curtis Cup team, 4 and 2. The University of Alabama's 16. 51-52 basketball team was the high- est scoring quintet in Crimson Tide history, got to display. Accion and the fighting wil) of a true. baseball man. This is the chance, that our -- Special Sale -- 1951 MITCHELL ROOM CONDITIONERS 5 YEAR FACTORY GUARANTEE ON COMPRESSORS OFFER LIMITED — ORDER NOW! boys of long ago didn’t ever get. With Order EDC. 0. 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