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

Rene Solis Hurls One Hit Ball For Seven Innings As Smokers Gain Win up six hits and the first two in- hurler Rene Solis Tampa hitting at- But the Conch plate work was evidently not at its best when ‘Tampa's Dick Baxter. and Red Barret. set them down with but five hits and the two ins. The Smokers, who had been shutout three times in «a tow last week while losing fow of five games, are currently riding @n the crest of a six game win- EEE i i tit rail eeee evening underway at 6:45. A definite slig!.t improvement in the brand of baseball is evi- , dent since the FIL All Stars be- came the Conchs on June 2ist. At that time, the All-Stars were struggling @long with a 17 won and 58 lost.recurd for a percent- age ratirig of .227. Since donning the Conch span- they have won 9 of their } Games to date for a .360 rat- ing, which is a considerable im- provement over their late June position, ‘When the Key West Baseball Club took over the franchise, the the league as a battling club and the leaders ‘ton't take | i it Hi if E x & ; é 4 i A Bi ye I FHL ire u Hy H i : i | Hit ete R 5 ié i YANKS CL¢ INDIANS Cleveland New York (2)(twi-night) Detroit at Washington (night) St. Louis at Philadelphia (2)(night) Chicago at Boston National League Lakeland at Miami Key West at Tampa Miami Beach at Havana St.Petersburg at West Palm Beach Florida State League Leesburg at Palatka Orlando at DeLand Daytona Beach at Sanford Cocoa at Jacksonville Beach Lutz, rf Reyes, 3b ____ Harig, if Vidal, 1b Williams, 2b _ | El oncom wloocerren = elecsecco! eccoeoocororem” vy co} > na Cocoon wt eee ecoooeorococoom 123 456 789 Key West 000. 000 020—2 310 000 00x—4 Runs batted in—Chapman, An- derssohn 2, Fernandez. Two-base hits—Brucker. Stolen bases—Pecou 2. Double plays—Baxter to Fer- nandez, Baxter to Mott to Fer- nandez. Left on bases — Key West 9, Tampa 4. Bases on bails—off Solis 3, off Baxter 7, 2 BBER WICE ii eff ef 77 : i i ? HL it ag : Ee i i =f 8 é E F 2 H t if i : = F i Eis : Fy r = i z a Ee a5 Ss Ef : a3 i 4 4 3 z a HH ge* Byé aie J ie nicl BE eae Lemon. Lemon was forced to reti after six innings because of the heat. Mickey Harris, Louis Brissie and Mike Garcia failed to protect his 6-4 Jead. The Yanks won the nightcap with a 4run rally in the seventh against Bob Feller. Gil McDougald’s 3-run pred was the big blow of the 3 rally. The defeats also endangered Cleveland's grip, on second place as the third-place Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox, 1-8, to move to within a half game of the Tribe. Lefty Mel Parnell scattered nine Chicago hits as he coasted to his seventh victory. The Red Sox hopped on Joe Dobson for six runs in three innings. Southpaw Bill Wight pitched the Detroit Tigers to a 9-0 victory over Washington. White held the Sena- tors to four hits while his mates collected 14, Walt Dropo collected two hits in four trips giving him a record of 15 hits in his last 18 trips. A doubleheader between Philadelphia and St. Louis was rained out. Brooklyn maintained its 5-game Navy Softball Champions THE COMMANDING OFFICER ef Destroyer Division €01 "Is shown above gi ™ & to Norfolk, Virginia, where they wit fompete in the Southern Area Elin pit them against the Northern Area Champions to decide the Atlantic Fleet Soft Deland Nips Jax Beach In Lith Inning bi By NEIL GILBRIDE Press Staff Shortstop Bill Mostransky hit a | line ‘drive in the ith inning to! break up a pitchers’ dael and give | the first-place DeLand Red Hats a | | 48 victory over Jacksonville Beach | in a Florida State League basebalt game Wednesday night. Mostransky’s liner drove in First Baseman Gale Penza from second | with the winning run. DeLand took a 2run lead in the second inning | on a triple by Manager Charlie Brewster, an error and a double by Penza. Shortstop Nick Ugarte it up when he whacked a 350- home run with one man on in fifth inning. Jacksonville Beach scored again in the sixth, and De- | Land tied it again in the eighth. Tom Mills was the loser. In other games Orlando trimmed Palatka 4-3; Daytona Beach beat | Winning pitcher was Red Roberts. | { Leesburg 4-1, Daytona Beach Leftfielder Bob | Rucker hit @ 340-foot homer in | the fifth inning to tie the score } | with Cocoa at 3-3; Then in the | j seventh inning, Daytona Beach | piled up three more runs to win. } After ‘Leesburg scored one run | in the first half of the second | inning and Sanford scored four in, the second half, the game settled | down to a scoreless pitching duel ; between Sanford’s Jorge Rivero and Stan Zedalis, | Palatka, trailing Orlando 40 at! the start of the ninth inning, scored ; three times in the ninth but could | not get the tying run to put the; game into extra innings. It was | the sixth straight defeat for Palat- | ka. Lefty Pennington ‘held Orlando | to five hits'while George Klarman, | the winner, and Sonny Raper gave | ‘ap stx, : 3 | lead in the National League, down- | ing Cincinnati, 5-3, while the run- | nerup New York Giants eked out | |an 8-7 victory over the St. Louis | ; Cardinals in 10 innings. In other ;8ames, Philadelphia edged Pitts- turgh, 8-7, and Chicago tripped Boston, 3-2, in 13 innings. Three first-inning errors by Red ; Catcher Andy Seminick helped the Dodgers score two runs and the } the USS Sarsfield is leading im the Northern Division with a 2-8 iecord. Pictured above, in the first row, are: F. J. Paonessa, Ist base, Larchmont. N. ¥.: J. L. Paucher, Ind Best, Massena, N.Y; . Mass: P. 2 Vinson, catcher, Miami Pia: K. A. Reuter. °° tiep, Alden. N. ¥. Second Row: J. A. Tosches center field, M: R. T. Pemberton, pitcher, Everton, Ma: Rhode Island, RR Jonson, pitcher, wan, manager, Shreveport, La: J. Wenzel, 2nd bese, Lancaster. Pa: ¢ Settersonville, Indiana: RB. 3. 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S Pagano, rd base, Midcictoys, Conn; Ensign BF Mane Cocoa 63; and Sanford defeated | g¢ | Lakeland WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press American New York 8-7 Cleveland 7-4 (first game 10 innings) Boston 7 Chicago 3 Detroit 9 Washington 0 St. Louis at Philadelphia postponed rain National League Chicago 3 Boston 2 (13 innings) Philadelphia 8 Pittsburgh T New York 8 St. Louis 7 (10 innings) Brooklyn 5 Cincinnati 3 Florida International League Tampa 4 Key West 2 Miami 7 Lakeland 5 Vest Palm Beach 5 St.Petersburg 4 Miami Beach at Havana postponed, wet grounds Flori State League DeLand 4 Jacksonville Beach 3 Orlando 4 Palatka 3 Daytona Beach 6 Cocoa 3 janford 4 Leesburg 1 Baseball Standings By The Associated Press © National League Broo! g Chicago Philadelphia Boston Cincinnati Pittsburgh American League New York Cleveland Boston Chicago Washington Philadelphia 36 St, Louis 34 it a Florida State League and 20 Jaxyille Beach 15 Sanford 13 Daytona Beach 14 Orlando 13 Palatka 12 Leesburg 9 a 5 Florida International ami # : Miami Beach Tampa Havana 355 St. Petersburg 48 West Palm Beach 44 55 52 48 “4 40 35 35 23 geese Fepevuee sesessss *seeeuuy 3s Ewe Beskerse be: ee & C3 3 eeeeese. Key West Brocks remained in the van for keeps. Seminick’s miscues set a league record for most errors in one inning by a catcher. Oficial U.S. Navy Phote ing the USS Swufiey Softball team a sendoff nt om Ju At prevent, A win there would the Saufley's sister ship, > W. A. Powler, left field, Stuthenville, Ohio: RB. — ight field Pawtucket, BE Beck row. Lt. W. R. Zimmer- yer Division g fre eiplltyi ff rine Fp ' E i E a Ki it i g i § FEE #82 is§ i f i i ts ito i if , sf E i Mt il i Bebe & ‘’ : i F i Fy he frbs*F =F = gis g 8&2 i | an : 4 PE i re! ANMEUSER-ByuscH, INC... . 5% LOUIS, MO, » fF file NEWARK, WN. 2