The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 10, 1952, Page 5

Thorsday, July 10, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page S Flamingos Shade Conchs Wed., 3-2; Home Tonight Key West Loses Heartbreaker To Miami Beach; Solis Hurls Gem Three crucial hits in the fifth fmning gave the Miami Beach Flamingos a 3-2 victory over the Key West Conchs last night in Miami Beach. Rene Solis was the victim in the ball game when he gave up but eight hits, yet emerged the losing pitcher. The Conchs were coasting along on a two run _ lead up to the fifth when a walk to Ed Wilson and a trio of bingles cost them the verdict. Tommy Venn was the big gun in the Conch assault with a brace of safeties in three official trips to the plate. The Havana Cubans have a chance to move into third place in the Florida International League tonight and even their series with the Tampa Smokers. The two teams have met 15 times so far this season, with Ha- vana winning seven and Tampa eight. The Smokers are half a game in front of the Cubans, but Havana can go ahead by the same margin by taking tonight's contest in Tampa. Mike Fornielles checked the Smokers on three hits Wednesday | night to shut them out, 7-0. Carlos (Big Potato) Pascual went the route for Tampa and was pasted 11_ times. In other games, Miami's Sun Sox defeated West Palm Beach, 3-11 and Lakeland whipped St. Pet- ersburg, 3-1. Miami's Billy Harris notched his 16th victory against two defeats as he allowed the Indians only five hits. Five of Miami's seven hits figured in the scoring while two of the Indians’ hits came in the ninth when the home team scored its only run. Each team got six hits at St. Petersburg, where Lakeland -put together a walk, singles by Harry | Geis and Charley Glock and Man- ager Buddy Bates’ 2-bagger for three runs in the fourth. DUGOUT DIGGINGS: Tonight the Flamingos and the Conchs go at it at the Wickers’ Field Stadium in a single game set for 8:15 p. m, Louis Carbonell announced yosterday that help in the catch- ing department is forthcoming when he signed Eddie Stansky to aid in the backstopping. Stan- sky has seen action with the Hartford Club in the Eastern loop as well as the FIL. A loop meeting Las been set for West Palm Beach tomorrow, at which time the highly con- troversial “Split Season” ques- tion is expected to be resolved It is known that at thi time there are enough votes in the loop to assure passing of the measure, but anything can hap- pen. Meanwhile, has visa trouble postponed the arrival of Ist sack- | er Cueto and Edug@do Miro from Cuba. They are expected in Key West imminently to strengthen {he club. The Box Score: KEY WEST ABR 3 AE 0 Player— Mendez, cf De Souza, 2b Lutz, rf Reyes, 3b Harig, if _... Venn, ¢ 3 P. Williams, ss Vidal, 1b Solis, p Sewer wouw ere 0 0 0 26 & = Totals— 31 MIAMI BEACH Player— A Rosa, 2b Caro, ss Calombo, if Levan, 1b Piatt, rf R. Williams, 3b Wilson, cf Ehiman, ¢ ___ Morilla, p o = Eg 0 On te eon ee Totals— “ is Key West Miami Beach RRBI—Vidal n, Colombo. 2B-—Levan Morilla. DPMorills. © Caro, Lett—-Key We Beach 6 BB-~Soli Balk—Morilla. U lor, T—-1:35, Lend Japan Ships WASHINGTON w — The United | States is lending Japan 18 frigat and 30 lending craft to help b up that country’s new Coast ¢ President Truman signed a bill authorizing the loan Tuesday ores | Royal “| Thomson had a 43 for 3} who led overnight * Golfers To Vie For Carbonell Trophy Sunday Play will get underway Sun- \day afternoon at the Key West Golf Club for the Cecil Carbonell Trophy. A large entry list is expected to compete for the diadem and all members who plan on entering should contact Joe Lopez at the course as soon as possible. Redbirds Are Threatening Dodger Lead * By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer The next two weeks should de- cide the fate of Eddie Stanky’s St. Louis Cardinals. Beginning tonight, the red-hot Redbirds take on Philadelphia, Brooklyn and New York in suc- cession before closing out their |home stay with Boston in an 11- game stand against the Eastern | clubs. | By then, the sizzling Cards may \either have blown a fuse or have established themselves as a solid | pennant threat on an even footing with the Dodgers and Giants. Currently the hottest club in the National League, the Cards are riding high on a 9-game winning streak, with 18 triumphs in their last 22 games. Wallowing in the second division a month ago, they have pushed inte third place, 9% games behind Brooklyn. Dodgers’ healthy 13-game edge on the decisive defeat side of the standings, refuses to concede a } thing to Brooklyn and New York. “We've still got an outside chance for the pennant,” the scrappy, bench-warming little in- fielder said. “We're going good we shouldn't continue. We picked up four games on the Dodgers in a little over a week. And we're This race isn't over by a long Stanky’s optimism was based on the fact that his team has shown it can beat the Dodgers. The Cards hold a 6-5 margin over the league leaders. While the Cards are threatening National League race, the Ameri- can continues to resemble a fox |} hunt with Cleveland, Washington, | Boston and Chicago chasing the |New York Yankees. The White Sox showed speed of foot during the | past week to move into the runner- | Up spot, three games behind the Yankees. The Indians, Senators and Red Sox are not far behind. The Yankees face an opportunity ‘to increase their first-place margin, launching a 14-game home stand jtonight with the St. Louis Browns jas the first of four Western op- | ponents. | All major league teams were ‘idle Wednesday, the usual open date after the All-Star game Bobby Locke Leads British ‘| Golf Tourney | ST. ANNE'S #—Bobby Locke, th imperturbable South African, took jthe lead in the Britisir Open Golf al Championship today with a second round 71 With a 36-hole total af 140 he is just one stroke ahead of the young Austra! Peter Thomson part ed Locke in a peck and neck struggle around the 4,467.yard Lytham and St. Anne's Course Mi British Ryder Cupper Fred Daly with a as last first twund card of 67 head Locke, who was British Ope: in 1849 and 1980 en strokes behind Locke and wally axsured of a place in the ttling for the uth wday was the veteran o, N.Y. gentleman farmer won the British Open 20 years Sarazex jRess-tike ur came up with B today to put mark—10 places a basi 2 strokes came Frenk Strenahas. O.. leading amateur ¢ e 5 Opes for the last Uwee years, and Stanky, though well aware of the | right now. There is no reason why | going to pick up more ground. | Ex-Champs Out Of PubLinx Golf Tourney By BEN FUNK MIAMI # — With champions watching wistfully from the sidelines and a 21-year-old Illi- nois laborer hogging the spotlight, the rough-and-ready National Pub- lic Links Golf Tournament moved today into its fifth exciting round. BULLETIN Norton Harris of the Key West Golf Club was eliminated from the National Public Links Golf Tournament in Miami when he was defeated one up on the twenty-first hole in the fourth round of the tourney by A. C. Sword of Dallas, Texas, at the Miami Country Club. | The man to watch was rangy ‘Bob Scherer, an unknown, 21-year- old workman out of Decatur who came from nowhere in Wednesday morning’s third round to blast de- fending Champion Dave Stanley, Los Angeles, from this meeting of the stars of America’s municipal golf courses with an astounding 4 and 3 victory. Scherer came back in the after- noon fourth round and, just as George Caskey, Dayton, O., out of the running, 4 and 3. So, just five years after he swung his first golf “club, Scherer was well on his way to becoming the king of the week-end players and, possibly, to carving a career for himself in the professional ranks. Stanley Bielat, Yonkers, N. Y., the 1950 champ, was bumped by Honolulu, 1 up, and Andy Szwedko, the stubborn Pittsburgh steelwork- ler who won it way back there in 1939, was knocked out by Charles Hess, Indianapolis, 2 and 1. Rutkiewiez, who avenged a semi- finals defeat by Biefat in the tour- nament at Louisville two years ago, had only a short time to en- | joy his triumph. He was kicked | out himself in the afternoon round | by Matt Carvey, Harvey, Ill., 1 up. ‘uled today, to reduce the field to |four for Friday’s 36-hole semi- finals. The fifth-round pairings include: | W. A. Pagan Jr., West Palm pene vs. Matt Carvey, Harvey, | Tommy Jenkins, Jacksonville, Omer L. Bogan, South Gate, ‘Deland Wallops Cocoa In FSL By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Staff Writer The first-place DeLand Red Hats | walloped three pitchers for the last place Cocoa Indians for 17 hits to win a Florida State League game, 113, Wednesday night. all former | Two 18-hole rounds were sched- | BASEBALL WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press National League No games American League No games Florida International League Havana 7 Tampa 0 Miami 3 West Palm Beach 1 Miami Beach 3 Key West 2 Lakeland 3 St. Petersburg 1 Florida State League DeLand 11 Cocoa 3 Sanford 7 Palatka 4 Daytona Beach 3 Leesburg 1 Jacksonville Beach 3 Orlando 1 Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Florida International League Miami 63 31 Miami Beach 59-33 Tampa ss) 39 Havana 52.39 St. Petersburg 46 West Palm Beach 41 Lakeland 3260 Key West 23 69 Florida State League DeLand 14 Palatka 11 Jaxville Beach 11 Orlando 10 Daytona Beach 10 | Sanford Leesburg Cocoa Today's ak By The Associated Press American League St. Louis at New York (night) Detroit at Boston (night) Cleveland at Philadellphia (night) -670 641 576 571 495 6 National League New York at Pittsburgh (night) Boston at Cincinnati (night) Brooklyn at Chicago Philadelphia at St. Louis (night) Florida International League Havana at Tampa Miami Beach at Key West St. Petersburg at Lakeland West Palm Beach at Miami Florida State League | Daytona Beach at Leesburg Orlando at Jacksonville Beach Sanford at Palatka DeLand at Cocoa SPORT SHORTS DeLand scored seven times in | the seventh inning, in which Cocoa used the three pitchers. Third Baseman Jack Cade led DeLand slugging with a triple and two singles in four times at bat before he sprained an ankle sliding into |home plate. Manager Charlie Brewster hit three singles in five | trips, In other games, Sanford beat Palatka, 7-4; Daytona Beach took Leesburg and Jacksonville Beach trimmed Orlando, both by scores fof 31 | Sanford Third Baseman Chuck | Aleno whacked his 17th and 18th homers of the year out of the park and drove in five runs to lead the win over second-place Palatka Winning pitcher with a S-hitter was Louis Rentas Jacksonville Beach moved up to third place with its i@-inning win ever Orlando. Pitcher Joe Angel scored the run that won his own game when he hit a triple in the top of the 10th and crossed the plate on a double by Second Base men Dick Pace Daytona Beach got less hits but more runs than Leesburg to 2 Bill Stough struck walked one man. Don lowed Daytona Beach only struck out one and walk 2 j 78 from Hines today gave them a M-bole total of 151 : be good enough to Hi the top 80 eligible for Wilie Buster, j Penning by taking S FORT PIERCE (® — Undefeated North Miami Police and Patrick Air Force Base teams clash tonight | in the Florida State Semi-pro Base ball Tournament, with Jupiter and Eglin Air Force Base meeting in the losers’ bracket Patrick had a narrow Wednesday in beating in 13 innings. Don Mar' the hero, scattering 10 E and winning his own ga th a home run in the 13th after two were out Stuart slammed out wallop Fort Pierce, 10-5 Hall collected three safeties and Charlie in three runs. Joe S hits in four tries fi 13 hits Ch ST. ANNE’S-ON-SEA, Eng —The British Open Golf Cl pionship went into the round today with a tense developing between 1M7 C Fred Daly and a strong Empire group The five Americans sti running were trailing fa the leaders but nd another drop them s im seventh place with | Poliowing were Jimmy Hines, Chi 73, veteran Gene Sar nter, Los Angeles and Amateur Frank Toledo, with a 75 Daly piayed the 6,647-yard Ro: Lytham and St. Anne's ¢ though ti ‘ round, notching s 67. one a the existing cours he | two hits and | their half of the Won Lost Pct. - | hits which | Whitfield « | the game Chicago at Washington (2)(night) j the sacks —: SPORTS .— GE Ties For First Place In City Loop General Electric a tie for fir jumped into t place with Coca Cola by wa Pital, 16-6 in the first doubleheader last night GE spotted the runs in t game of a at Bayyv'ow Park Hospital four on an error and came back in first to score three times on four hits and an error. One of the hits was Smith's first homer of the season General Elect took the lead in the second when they pushed across three runs on three walks, an er and Whitfield’s double The hosp tied it up in the third put th iE came b of the thi tie was short strong in and scored walks and five included homers by n. They iced th with a two walks, single by six times on two four run splur three errors anda | Whitfield Whitfield was tt collecting a and two sin tting star, | the plate. He t | Clint Warre n who game of the season to his own use loaded homer. In the secord game, the USS Coates dumped Telco from frist place with a 10-7 Coat éighth on R two men on won his sixth contributed with a bases score e to cop the win. ored aid of a hit. A a bit batsman and a wild pitch did the trick Telco tied in the second when Pop Walker delivered his first home run of the on with empty 7 Coates again in the two hits its but the top a two Id « seventh and on two hits, ‘ouple of in. eighth. the next med Gene Stau as h and said Stauber ing the Naval Hos- | once in the} From The Press Box By OSCAR MILIAN When®Chuck Harig, conch’s left fielder, lifted Seijas straight pitch | over the right field wall in the sev- | enth inning for a homer, his second { in Key West and No. 10 for the | season, Benny Fernandez, immed- jiately announced that the chunky | outfielder would receive $25.00 for | being the first batter to hit the ball ‘over the sign which reads “‘Ben- | ay’s Cafetria.” i Umpire Talley has a way of pro- | nuncing spanish names his ‘own, when Arturo Seijas relieved | Lowell Grosskopf in the third inn- | ing the big ump with his thunder- ous voice called “‘ now pitching for Miami,” Arturo looked around somewhat surprised expect- ing to see anther pitcher take his place on the mound before he had a chance to throw a ball. “So I'm) the seahorse” he mumbled to him- self, as no one else appeared. The deafening cat cries and boos | directed at manager Max Macon, of the Sun Sox, by the estimated 1900 fans who jammed the Stadium | Monday night, appearently failed | to bother the veteran pilot, but the action by the little lady sitting on the first base line bleachers and | near the Miami dug out who was nursing her new born baby with a bottle hit the spot when she cried out to the angry manager as he walked back to his bench after giving umpire Talley a very heat- ed argument, holding the milk bot- tle with niple and all high in hand, “here cry baby nurse the bottle and go to sleep” Boy, oh boy did he give the gal a mean look. You can’t class Talley amongst the hot tempered umpires. We got a good impression that the big ump does not belong under that classification when he obviously took a good verbal thrashing from Max Macon on an argument which grew out of DeSouza’s drive to Armstrong in the sixth inning which dropped off the left fielder’s glove and rolled some where near the left field foul line when he ac- | cidently booted it. Carlos reached | third on the miscue and Vidal, who had opened with a line single scored from first base. Macon ar- gued that ground rule would have limited DeSouza to second base and Vidal to third. Three Miami Sun Sox pitchers failed to strike out a conch: bats- man. While Gasper DelMonte was having a big time fanning batters like Max Macon, Charles Rotzell, Humberto Fernandez, Dick Gray, Cecil Dotson twice and Lowell Grosskopf. Reynaldo “Raton” Garcia, a} conch clown if there is one, is hav- ing a special item made for the Tampa Smokers and Miami Sun Sox when the two club return to Key West the first and second week in August. What the two teams will be presented with by! the Conch rooter from the cuban} club, is not known at this moment | but we have a bunch it will be} something the spectators will get} a laugh from and the club's man-; : nt will not get a bang out; s guy with the aid of “Cha- Sanchez, always have some. comical up their sleeves. h them during a game! The Rios brothers like many Key ers are really supporting the es out at Wicker’s Stadium | s. Mario and Raul plus their, wives and inlaws nets the league | in ission some where in the ighborhood of $14.00 per game. Shorty Butts Parrott, | es on Harris Avenue quite tance of Wicker’s stadium wondering where all the yeil- was coming from Monday He didn't know whether he wa ar the Yankee stadium dur. ing a New York Brooklyn world/ series game or in shibe park at! Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney world | heavy weight championship fight | Odd but the yelling woke him from | a seund slumber. It seems to this corner that Man ager Barney Lutz, of the Key West | is showing his baseball ex. game. The cool, well cales- | at pulls off some tricky | Umes. The veteran man-/ yed ® big part in Key) i te independence from Spam im the isms and 1600s. | ‘ e 12 YEAR OLD TONY TOLEDO FANS 102; PITCHES TEAM TO LEAGUE TITLE Tony Teledo, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Toledo who are former | Key Westers, is making good in a big way in Little League Base- ball in Miami, according to a story appearing in last Sunday's edition of the Miami Herald. The article was accompanied by a picture of the youthful hurler in an action pose. Besides a mound record of & wins and no losses, including three no hitters and 102 strike- outs, young Toledo is belting the ball at a .571 clip. Twelve year old Tony, play- ing with the Luby Chevrolet team in the Miami loop, has already pitched them to 1 championship. Tony just started playing base- ball last year and except for oc- casional wildness has been hurl- ing flawless ball. He credits most of his success to a “slider” but according to his teammates also ; has a fast ball with plenty of hop. In addition to his baseball talent young Toledo recently won an award in a talent show. spon- sored by the Dade County play- ground department. He is a pianist. He recently completed his fifth school year with perfect at- tendance. Tony has several relatives in Key West including Police Lieu- tenant Gene Hernandez and Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Aguilar. Russians To Play In 1952 Olympic Games By TED SMITS HELSINKI (#—The Iron Curtain nations unexpectedly let down the bars at their isolated Olympic vil- lage today in what appeared to be an official switch in policy. Ted Smith, Associated Press gen- eral sports editor, and Murray Rose of the AP New York sports staff were the first American news- papermen to go through the camp. ‘They penetrated the barrier of red tape by the simple device of | driving in behind a busload of Hun- @arian athletes, Several hours lat- er official passes were issued to others. Russian and other Iron Curtain athletes were affable. Some of- fered seltzer water in crude brown Paper cups. Frequent handshakes and salutations of “hello” and “hi” were exchanged. The language handicap was too great, however, for American sports writers. Hitherto the Russians and their neighboring Communist nations have been as aloof as Moscow it self. The sudden change appeared to be official policy im line with Russia's participation in the Olym pic Games which open July 19. The Russians and the other Iron Curtain athletes are housed at Otaniemi, a beautiful series of col- lege dormitories surrounded by; barbed wire at the edge of a bay some five miles from Helsinki. Others there are the Czechs, Poles Hungarians, Romanians and Bu! garians. About 500 athletes are at Otaniemi now with 1,000 more ex pected. No Russian official would talk ™°* to the newspapermen but the Fin- nish camp commandant, Maj Huuronen, said there was no ob jection to talking to Russian ath letes “who can speak English None could be found. Legion All-Stars Conquer Post 168 The American Legion League All-Stars capture last nigh’ over the Legi 163 Club by @ 7-1 score Wicker's Field Stad The game served or the upe Py Jur When Barnett walked and went sround on an infield bit and brace of errors. The All-Stars s nm the fi was safe on an er le second os a wild pich Hen- sored three t when and Son Of Ex-Key Wester Makes |Kiwanis Edges Good In Miami Little Baseball; Hurls 3 No-Hitters [Extra Innings ~ Lions Nine In . The Kiwanis edged out thelp chief riv.'- the Lions Club, 5-4 in an extra inning and in one of the hottes* ‘tle League ball games of the season Tuesday night at Bayview Park. Pitching aces, Danny Oropeza of the Ki- wanis and Gibby Thrift of the Lions, hooked up in a pitching duel with Oro, za emerging the victor. The Kiwanis got to Thrift in the third inning to. ore 4 runs. ‘With two outs, Georgia Mix ra singled to right and mee Bx Knowles fol! wed with a double into left. Smith, big- Kiv :nls first baseman, walloped a home run into right field to clear the bases, and Oropeza followed with a double into right and came home when Leo Curry, Lio s second baseman, made an ‘Tror on Valdez’ hit ball. Camalier ended the inning by grounding out pitcher to first. Oropeza held the mighty Lions scoreless 1nd allowed only two hits. until the last inning when Leo Curry opened with a single into right, Thrift waiked and Mike Drzal was Lit by a itched ball, filling the bases. Oropeza was able to strike out Diaz, catcher, but Wayne Key, third baseman, drove in two runs with a double into right field. Rubert Pazo ivllowed with a single into right and drove in two more runs, Oropeza then settled down and struck out Joe Curry and Garcia to end the rally an” in- ning. Six innings is an official Lit- ue Leagu? ga! bt as the game was tie 4-4, an extra ine rng was required. W'th one ou& Thrift walked Siritb, and Orone-+ za helped win his own game by sloshing a single into right and Smith scored the winning -un tlater on a fielder's choice. In the Lions’ half of the seve eith, with one out Leo Cure? drove a do ‘hie into right cenrer, hs second double snd third bit if the evening. Thrift was out second to first and Curry ade vu1eed to third. Mike Drzal wag intentionally passed and Orope- za ended the game by striking out Diaz, catcher, for the fourth ume. Oropeza struck out 14, hit one batter, walked 4 on the mound and while yetting three for four at bat, two of them doubles. Thrift struck out 9, hit one bat- ter, and walked 4. Kiwanis made one error and the Lions com- mitted two errors. In the second game, the Elks Club nosed out the Rotary Club 6-5 to m ve int. third place. The Elks got to Rotary pitchers Ken Pinder and Hubert Juesada for 6 runs on only 1 hit, 5 base on |balls, one hit batsman and 6 ere rors. Sambill Hol'and, Elks first | baseman, doubled in the ‘ rd ine ning to account for their long bingle. | Owens, and Trout were able + thold the Rotary to 5 runs on § hits, one hit batsman ors. “Libttle, right field. x on the of the Rotary hits, basen.an, beag for the othr were Ingra- ‘ughes, jriquez si c Bazo and ; s nguez came ig bail, 1 four two 5 bai team, got Jand Ros out an | Rotary ires Rosar y and