The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1952, Page 5

Monday, August 4, 1952 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZER ~~ Page 8 Vidal Hurls Four Hitter As Conchs Clobber Cubans —.: SPORTS .— BASEBALL |JayCees Take Mates Jump On Havana For 17 Hits In 11-1 Win Sunday gv By JIM COBB * Gitizen Sports Editor Those fabulous Key West Conchs, whose fortunes go up and down like a ping-pong ball, got their dander up last night and drubbed the hapless Havana Cubans, 11-1, with a 17 hit as- it after absorbing a pair of in the first two games of the series here, George Vidal, who is fast earn- ing a reputation around the league, sharpened his pitching gecord when he gave the Cubans but four hits in the win. A tremendous 340 foot home gun clout by backstopper “Pappy” Dunlap in a big four run first inning was the high point in the wictory. ‘The fun started in the opening frame when Severino Mendez poked out a single and Barney Lutz blasted out a double to plate him. Rene Solis then singled and Dunlap blasted his base clearing home run: over the right field wall. The Conchs, who scored in every frame but the fifth, con- tinued their drive in the second when Mendez blasted his second single of the evening. Carlos De- Souza drew a pass and Barney Lutz laid down a perfect bunt to advance the runners. Solis got eredit for an RBI when he reach- ed first on a fielder’s choice and the Cuban infield committed a pair of miscues for the scores, The third inning produced an- other ccunter for the locals when dJiminez, performing in left field, poked out a screaming triple to the fence and came home on De- Souza’s single, Barney Lutz opened the sixth frame with a terrific triple and scored moments later on Dun- lap’ single, ey added two, more in the seventh when Mendez reached first on @ fielder’s choice and went to second on DeSouza’s single.” He scoréd “on another fielder’s choice. The locals added--another in the eighth stanza when Bosch doubled and romped home on Jimenez’ third base hit of the evening, Vidal was in trouble but once during the evening when he allowed the Havanans to load the sacks in the sixth when he walked Garcia, Mike Guerra singled and he issued another pass to Pacheco. He retired Me- jido on strikes and a tight Conch infield prevented.a score. Vidal’s shutout was spoiled in the fourth when he walked Gar- cia and Mejido doubled. Every man on the Conch club hit safely with Lutz, Dunlap and Jiminez bearing the brunt of the attack, In Saturday’s game, the Conehs didn’t fare so well when they received a 5-2 drubbing. Garcla twirled a five hit effort for the Cubans while the visi- tors jumped on three Conch hurlers for ten safeties and the * 1952 Olymp Attracted 70 |Olymp Participants By BEN PHLEGAR HELSINKI (#— The 1952 Olym- pic Games became history today and the historians are going to need a whole new book to take care of this gigantic sports car- nival. The games which ended in the Finnish twilight Sunday were big- ger and better in every way than any of those of the previous 14 modern Olympics. More people took part. More countries entered. They lasted longer. More went on. Perform- ances were amazing. There was a minimum of incidents, The late Baron Pierre de Cou- bertin, a French scholar who con- ceived the idea of reviving the games of ancient Greece, would have been proud of the show. Soviet Russia competed for the first time. Germany and Japan were back for the first time since World War II. In all, 70 nations sent 5,780 ath- letes to this clean, attractive city— more than 1,800 above any pre- vious entry. Forty - nine of the 70 countries broke into the unofficial scoring column which recorded the first six places. Their totals varied from 614 for the United States down to one made by Singapore for a sixth in featherweight weightlifting. Russia presented an extremely well balanced team and scored 553 % points, second to the United States. The U. S. won out Saturday, the final full day of competition, and added four more points Sunday in the team section of the Prix des Nations, the show jumping climax of the equestrian competition. This event brought France its sixth gold medal of the games, in the individual section, and Great Britain its first, in the team divi- sion. All but three of the men’s track and field records were equalled or broken. In swimming every record was broken. In boxing the United States won five titles, the most any country ever ha: taken, called “Encuentra la Pelota” in left field last night after a couple of long Conch drives. Scull finally found the apple in a pothole while Ramos spent his time searching through the weeds. Meanwhile, the Conchs gleefully circled the basepaths. Chuck Harig has been placed on the suspended list because of salary difficulties. As we see it, this is no stage of the game to allow a ball player like away. Bh ics [Reds Claim ic Win . Over U.S. HELSINKI # — Russia today claimed an overall victory in the Olympic Games with 494 points against 490.25 for the United States. Apparently the Russians decided a first place was worth only seven points instead of the 10 points awarded by the standard scoring method used on all Olympic Games since 1920. A statement issued by N. Ro- manov, leader of the Soviet Olym- pic team, said the Russian score would have been better if the judg- ing had been more “‘objective.” Under the standard scoring meth- od, the United States was this year’s Olympic team victor with 614 points against 563 % for Rus- sia. This is based on 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 - point awards for the first six placements in all events for which gold medals are’ awarded. The Russian statement made no explanation of how the Soviets got their point total, but papers in Moscow today published a point system giving seven Points for first place instead of 10. Scoring for the other placings was the same as the standard system. ‘There is no official team winner in the games. All team tabulations are unofficial and frowned on by Olympic officials. Guerra, c —— Mejido, 1b — Pacheco, ss — M. Perez, 2b owunonwn DelMonte, p — 0 Totals— 31 a—Ran for Reyes in 9th b—Flied out for Haack in 9th Team— ? Havana Cubans . 102 000 002—5 Key West —___. 000 000 002—2 RBI—Guerra, Pacheco, Duany, Vidal; 2B—Guerra, Pacheco; DB —Haack, Bosch, DeSouza, Bosh, and Reyes, Pacheco, Perez, and Mejido; SH—R. Garcia; SB— Scull 2, Ramos, Perez; BB—Haack 2, R. Garcia 2; SO—Haack 8, R. Garcia 1; HO—Haack 8 in 8 in- nings, DelMonte 2 in 1 inning; Left—Havana Cubans 8, Key West 3; Winning—R. Garcia;; Losing — Haack; U — Williams, Krysiak, Henline; T—1:46, Afternoon’s Game HAVANA CUBANS ABR 3 SUNDAY RESULTS By The Associated Press National League _ Brooklyn 3-0 Chicago 2-1 Pittsburgh 7-10 New York 0-8 Boston 7-0 Cincinnati 4-4 Philadelphia 6 St. Louis 0 American League New York 6-6 St. Louis 1-4 Cleveland 4-2 Philadelphia 1-9 Detroit 6 Boston 0 Washington 0 Chicago 0 (tie, 8 in nings; second game postponed, rain) Floride International League St. Petersburg 1 Miami 0 Havana 9-1 Key West 4-11 Tampa at Miami Beach ppd rain West Palm Beach at Yakeland ppd rain Florida State League DeLand 4-9 Palatka 3-3 Sanford 7 Cocoa 0 Beach 3 Leesburg 1 Orlando 0 Today's Games By The Associated Press American League New York at Washington (n) (Only game scheduled) National League (No games scheduled) Florida International League Havana at Key West Miami at St. Petersburg West Palm Beach at Lakeland Tampa at Miami Beach (2) Florida State League DeLand at Palatka Cocoa at Sanford Orlando at Leesburg Daytona Beach at Jacksonville Beach Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Wen Lost National League Brooklyn 66 N. York St.Louis P’delphia Chicago Boston C’cinnati P’burg American Leag New York Cland Boston W’ton P’delphia Chicago St.Louis Detroit Florida International League M. Beach 73 41 M. Beach 3 & Tampa 48 Havana 53 St. P’burg 59 W. P. Beach 63 Lakeland 76 Key West Florida State League DeLand 2 & sagess ds BSSEREER Bees we 2 65 SSSSLASLSE SRR LLKS Qeesesaae ge Bs BBRRBE w 8S First Place In Little League The Jaycees took over first place in the second half of Little League season Saturday night by stopping the Kiwanis 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader at Bayview Park and the Elks moved into third Place by dropping the Lions 10-2 in the second game, Sandy Snow, pitching ace of the Jaycees, had things under control until the fourth inning when the Kiwanis scored two runs on one hit. With two outs, Snow walked Oropeza, who proceeded to steal second and was safe when Carbo- nell, Jaycee second baseman, dropped the ball. He went to third on a passed ball and came home when Pierce, Jaycee catcher, made a wild throw to third in an attempt to pick him off. Roy Valdez also | walked, and Yates beat out an in- field hit to third and Snow let Mil- ton Esquinaldo’s grounder get | away from him to load the bases. | Sandy had trouble finding the plate and-walked Graves to force in Val- dez. He then settled down and| struck out Sawyer to stop the ral- ly. The Kiwanis scored again in the fifth inning, when with 1 out, Rob- bie Knowles singled over second, went to second on a passed ball, and come home on Tommy Smith’s double into right field. Oropeza then struck out and Smith was thrown out trying to steal third. Danny Oropeza went into the last inning with a qo hitter, but Benny Pierce, Jaycee catcher, started his down fall, when Yates, Kiwanis third baseman, let his grounder get away from him for an error. Joe McMahon followed with a single into right, the Jaycee’s first hit, then Carbonell beat out an infield hit to load the bases. Ser- gio Puig then drove a fly into cen- ter field, which got away from Graves, Kiwanis centerfielder, and allowed two runs to score. Orope- za was then relieved by Roy Val- dez, who walked Snow to load the bases, and then Bryant Williams droves a double into left field to break up the ball game. One out went the winning run was scored. Snow waiked 2 and struck out 9, as Oropeza walked 1 and struck out 4. The Lions got to Buddy Owens, Elks starting pitcher, for two runs in the second inning. With two out, Mike Hughes walked, went to second on a passed ball,and came home on an overthrow by the sec- ond baseman. Owens then walked both Kenneth Rife and Mario Mar- tinez and Wayne Key scored them both with a double into left, his second hit of the night and the only Lions batter to collect a hit. Carl Trout then relieved Owens and From The ; Press Box } By OSCAR MILIAN Little Shirley Alfonso, 10 year old PHILS AND A’S TAUNT LEADERS By RALPH RODEN daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armando| Associated Press Sports Writer Alfonso of this city, kept ten hun- dred baseball fans in suspense as she daringly climbed the wire sereen behind the catcher’s back- stop of the grandstand section some fifty feet high to get a base- Philadelphia’s vastly improved Phillies and Athletics don’t figure to clash in the 1952 World Series but the men of Steve O’Neil and Jimmy Dykes will have a lot to Say over who does. Both Philadelphia . clubs, below ball pinned at the top by Angel/ the .500 mark a little more than Scull, Havana Cubans centerfield- a month ago, have been playing at er in the first inning of Saturday’s| a pennant clip of late and the ma- game. Whether the semi-blonde acrobatic child was able to get the batter’s autograph was not learned. However, it was said that Severino Mendez, and Carlos ‘‘Chickie” Souza were asked to autograph ball. Mendez and DeSouza, way are the most popular players of the Key West Conchs roster, Chuck Harig, jority of their remaining games are against the pennant contehd- ers. The Phils, for instance, have 13 De-| games to play against the Brook- the | lyn Dodgers, who lead the National by the | League by 6 %4 games today, and nine against the Tunner-up New York Giants. Dykes’ darlings are confronted fence buster of the] with a more strenuous schedule Key West Conchs, was out of the | than the Phils. The A’s have nine line up in the Havana Cubans — Key West three game series. Won- der what’s up? games to go against the frontprun- ning New York Yankees, 14 against - place Boston, 12 against fourth-place Washington and four When Lou Carbonell, formally | against second - place Cleveland. announced that he was resigning Philadelphia’s rise in the base- as president of the Key West | ball sun coincides with the appoint- Baseball Club, this corner was of | ment of O'Neil as boss of the Phils the opinion that the board of di- rectors would never accept the re-| won signation of the man termed life of the club.” June 28. Since then, the Phils have 26 and lost 12 for a .684 pace “the | and the A’s have captured 24 and dropped 16 for a .600 gait. The Phils moved to within 3 % Claro Duany, the home run of the | games of third - place St. Louis Florida International League, was|Sunday as Lefty Curt Simmons struck out twice by Dick Haack. | blanked the Cards, 6-0, on four The Cuban “king ’o the swat” hits for his 10th win. He was looked very poor swingin at Dick’s | helped by Granny Hamner’s three- deep curves. Saturday night. No doubt about it, in “Chickie” run homer, Meanwhile, the Dodgers lunged farther ahead of the Giants by can League chase. The Yanks 9-2,after losing the first, 4-1. The Red Sox fell four games be- hind and the Senators § %. Ais i a é. BERS FE Bie 3 zd 8g 5 Johnny DeSouza and Qrtelio Bosch, the| sweeping a doubleheader from Chi- victory for the Yanks Key West Conchs has the best dou- | cago, 3-2 and 9-1, while the Na-, of two at ble play combination in the lea; “Give us Chino Hidalgo at base and we'll have the best in-| and 10-8. Cincinnati and Boston di- field in the circuit” says Perucho | vided a bargain bill, the Braves Sanchez and Chicho “Mr. Grass” winning ‘the opener, 7-4, behind Ferrer strong supporters of the} Warren Spahn,: and the Reds the Club. Seems like the Conchs are labor- nightcap, 4-0, on Bubba Church’s The Yanks, with an assist from ing under a state of confusion. | the Athletics, moved three games What's happening to the boys? | ahead of Cleveland in the Ameri- What about Williams at third base? Rene Solis is about the best hit- ting pitcher in the Florida Interna- tional league. How ’bout keeping ’em on the line up, Barney! All hopes of Key West t Chino Hildalgo, St. Petersbur;, infielder faded following the an- nouncement by business manager Bolivar Castillo of the Havana Cu- bans that his club had completed negotiation with Hidalgo and is to report following the series with Key West. Angel Scull, sparkling center- fielder for the Havana Cubans stole 5 bases in the first two games of the Key West series. Asked if he robbed catchers of other clubs of the same number of bases, the An- gel answered in surprisingly good English, “I can steal from any catcher who allows me 10 feet from any base.” Well Barney Lutz, Conchs man- | ager, who is often the victim of Want to know who sells them «++ Who buys... who rents i... who repairs? You'll fiod— Tey, the products or services you want — quickly. easily —in the “YELLOW PAGE: There's no shopping guide gue. | tional League champions dropped | hits. third | a pair to last place Pittsburgh, 7-0 ever selected for the All-Star game was eight from the St. Louis Cardinals in 1943. Player— Scull, ef __. § Ramos, If —_. 5 Duany, rf ___ 3 S. Garcia, 3b _ 3 Mejido, 1b —. 5 D. Beach Sanford Tville Beh Palatka Orlando sruck out Leo Curry to end the inning, and proceeded to hold the Lions runless and hitless the rest of the game while striking out 9 and walking one in the 4 and one- third innings he worked. | criticism, because he fails to | switch pitchers as often as the spectators would like to see him do, jhas some consolation as Fermin| « “Mike” Guerra, Havana's catcher- manager, has the same trouble and he Phen, hes Wke “The Classified.” + ‘SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 88 ball game. Five Conch miscues helped the Cubans along. Sunday afternoon Havana scor- @d six runs in the first two in- nings and coasted in to a 9-4 vic- Ey gas oF g = & s ds 2k #3 tory, Enrique Soto and Paul San- chez scattered nine Conch safe- ties. Whitewashing the Florida In- ternational League leading Miami Bun Sox is becoming a habit: with Saint Petersburg’s George Greene, who blanked the top team for the third straight time ima row, Sunday night, 1-0. DUGOUT DIGGINGS: The game two clubs go at it again in the series finale with game time at 8:00 p.m. The Conchs will be attempting to even up the series, while the Cubans, who have been losing an awful lot of late, will attempt to break into the win eolumn, ‘The revamped Key West in- field ran hot and cold. At times they brought the fans to their ps Raa play. base. 2 Frank Dunlap was ‘complain- ng before last night’s ball game that he was hitting the bal! solid- ly but that there was always an outfielder in the way, should be happy after his tremendous homer last night. Ramos and vana outfielders ‘SéUll' played an Gd Spanish game | Gareia, 3b ___ j ERE [ Bolivar Castillo, Havana road secretary and a native Key West- er, is one man who is happy to see the Conch baseball operation successful—except when Havana loses, that is. Castillo, as well as his two brothers, Chalo and Flores, at one time played plenty of baseball in the Island City. Chalo, whe was at one time a Citizen employee is now with a newspaper in Tampa. After Sunday afternoon's base running exhibition, Willie Ward and Alpheus Deane took Angel Scull in tow before the evening contest. Plans called for a bit of sabotage. They took the Cuban Flash home for shrimp enchilado hoping that they could stuff Scull so full that he couldn’t run. Angel was evidently wise to them though, when he scampered around in his usual peppery fashion. Box Scores: Saturday Night’s Game HAVANA CUBANS Player— Scull, ef Ramos, If Duany, rf PO 4 1 4 e Cavino, ¢ _._. Pacheco, ss _.. 4 Perez, 2b On mM oOomuUMmon SCOMSW WH Hen COsMN SH RWS wWOUnMDOIOHOD oconmooocooom Felder, 3b — Sails, ¢ Dunlap, ¢ Boschk, ss — McCall, p — Solis, p - Totals— © a Team— Havana . 240 000 102—9 Key Wset ____ 001 300 000—4 RBI—Duany 2, Cavino 2, Ra- mos 2, Vidal, Solis 2; 2B—Lutz, Mejido, Solis; SB—Scull 3; DB— Garcia, Perez, Mejido, Vidal, Solis; BB—Soto 2, McCall 3, Solis 2; Sanchez 2; SO—Sanchez 1, McCall 1, Solis 3; HO—McCall 6 in 1 1/3 innings, 7 in 7 2/3 in- nings, Soto 7 in 4 2/3 innings, Sanchez 2 in 4 1/3 innings; Win- ning—Sanchez; Losing — McCall; U—Krysiak and Williams; T— 2:08. SUSENNBRESEAEBR SSURRSaR 8 Leesburg Cocoa Hidalgo, ss-3b _ Duany, rf ____. Garcia, 3b-p _ Guerra, ¢ Mejido, 1b Pacheco, 2b-ss _ Ramos, Ib _ mMODSCORMMHOS COM OCONOHNOM MOOK OOSCOCOON ecoocoeocoHooe SCOSSCORHH OM Player— Mendez, cf _. DeSouza, 2b — Lutz, rf = Solis, 1b Dunlap, ¢ __ Felder, 3b Bosch, ss Jimenez, Vidal, p _. Totals— Team— Havana Key West — 000 100 000— 1 421 101 lix—ll RBI—Solis 2, Dunlap 3, De- Souza, Fedler, Mejido; 2B—Lutz, Bosch 2, Fedler, DeSouza, Mejido; 3B—Jimenez, Lutz: HR-—Dunlap; SH—Lutz; BB—Vidal 7, Forniela 2, Garcia 2; SO—Vidal 5, For- niela 2, Garcia 4; HB—Vidal (Me- jido); Left—Havana 11, Key West 10; HO—Fornieles 7 in 2 in- nings, Rodriguez 2 in 2/3 innings, Garcia 8 in 5 1/3 innings; Win- The Elks scored 3 runs off Ma- rio Martinez, Lions starting pitch- er, in the fourth inning, when Ro- bert Santana opened the inning with a double into center. Solomon walked and all hands were safe when Joe Curry, Lions third base- man, let Pazo’s throw on Sambi is up against the same thing in the lone star Country. The big pro- blem ‘“‘we have no pitchers”. Pero los fanaticos no ven eso. How ‘bout it Mike? When words were heard though the speakers of the announcing Holland grounder get away from | stand at Wickers Stadium Satur- him, and Santana raced home. | day night the L. P. Artman, pub- Trout then singled into left scoring | lisher of the Key West Citizen was Solomon. Owens hit to Pazo, Lions | shortstop, who threw him out at | first, and then Garcia, Lions first-| West series, the true baseball baseman, threw home to catch Sambill Holland, for a double play. JD Holland then singled into cen- ter to score Trout. Martinez struck out Averette to end the inning. Ro- bert Pazo relieved Martinez in the beginning of the Sth and yielded 7 runs on 4 hits, 4 base on balls and one error, in the 2innings he worked. Sambill Holland lead the Elks attack with two for four, and Carey Dion, and Bill Solomon, ac- | counted for the other Elks hits. | DeLand Sweeps Two In FSL Sun. | By NEIL GILBRIDE | Associated Press Staff Writer | present to see the opening game of the Havana Cubans — Key fol- | lower and enthusiast of long ago | was the recipient of an ovation | from old timers, that will long ring in his ears. Many left their seats to shake the hands of the man who | once was the biggest helping hand to the national pasttime in this city. We hope to see you more often Mr. Artman. + burg won a close one over Orlando, 10. Dick Dotson pitched a four-hitter while his DeLand teammates pounded Joe Pennington for 11 sin- gies to win the first game over Palatka. DeLand’s Slim Jim Vick- ery held Palatka to five hits in the second game. Daytona Beach whacked out 17 hits to beat the Jacksonville Beach The Florida State League's lead- | Sea - Birds, while pitcher Bill Mil- ing DeLand Red Hats won a dou- ler gave the Sea - Birds 11 scat- ble header 4-3 and 9-3 over Palatka | tered hits for his eighth win against Sunday to keep a couple of jumps | one loss. Dick Baller hit a homer ahead of second - place Daytona and Ed Cook hit another plus a Beach, the hottest team in the cir- triple for the winners. cuit presently with seven straight wins. The Daytona Beach Islanders Sanford’s George Rivero pitched |a four - hitter, clouted a homer ‘and drove in four runs to shut whipped Jacksonville Beach 10-3.!out Cocoa. Outfielders Fred Cav- In other games. Sanford shut out allero and George Kenis also hit last - place Cocoa 7-0, while Lees-i home runs for Sanford, { Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fact Dependable Freight and Express Servies T11AMI AND KEY WEST Also serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYD Between Miami and Key West Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. tives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 oclock Mid West at Al “KEY WEST DALY (Ex ex. Ar Mia oe Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE end WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaten and Francis Sts, PHONES: 92 and