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

QUARTERBACK CLUB PLANNING WICKERS’ FIELD RENOVATION TurfIs ToBe * Re-Sodded By Plans Of Grid Fan Club Spearheaded fy the Quarter- back club a drive was launched Monday night to raise $3,600 to sod the outfield of Wickers’ Sta- dium in order that fodtball can be played there this year by the Key West High School football team, City Commissioners and City Manager Dave King assured di- rectors of.the city’s cooperation and having the football playing area ready for sodding. ‘The goal is 120 running yards at $33.00 per running yard. Contributions by six direc- tors of the club assured pur- chase of the first one and one- we show an improved visiting teams this ill not be able to book next year,” Archer football is wanted here ‘was evident by the large crowds home games drew here last season, Donations ean be mailed to Glynn Archer, president of the Quarterback Club, a phone call to Archer at 92 will bring some- one to pick up the donation. ‘The drive is on, The money, $3,600 must be raised in 20 days. Will Key West sport lovers help to attain the goal? The answer must be yes! he a Evans Cops Win ° Over Marathon : \ The Evans Enterprises “ nibeseballers- joi all the way. “Gibby” Gates hurling for Evans struck out GE Bows To Coca Cola In Gity Loop In a free swinging contest the Coca Cola nine edged out the Gen- eral Electric, 10-7 in the first game of a scheduled double header in the Island City Softball loop at Bayview Park last night. The game had all the markings of a pitcher’s duel between Claude Valdez of GE and Donny Willi- ams of Coca Cola, Things broke loose in the fifth inning however, but before that, Coca Cola had picked up a run in the second when John Cruz walked, stole second base and scored on brother Don Cruz’s single. In the fifth, with one out, Ingra- ham, Coca Cola second sacker opened up with a double. After R. Lastres singled sharply, J. Cruz | walked to load the bases. D. Cruz’s single brought in two runs. They picked up the other two runs on a pair of infield outs, General Electric roared back in their half of the fifth inning when they took advantage of some loose fielding and timely hitting to plate six runs. A walk to Al Cruz and Santana’s double, Warren's single and a pair of miscues produced the other four runs. In the sixth, Coca Cola came from behind to win the game with a five run rally, Williams opened the frame with a single to left. After Solomon walked, Obie Ingra- ham bunted safely to load the sacks, R. Lastres singled to bring in two counters and Valdez then buckled down and struck out the Cruz brothers. George Lastres doubled in a pair of scores, however. He scored the fifth run moments later when Pazo was safe on an error. General Electric threatened in their half of the sixth when they managed to pick up two runs when Smith and Valdez doubled and Pil- grim singled. But Foley, General Electric first baseman, fanned to end the threat and the game. Ingraham led the Coca Cola at- tack with a double and two singles in four tries. Smith was the big gun in the GE assault with a doub- _|le and homer in three tries. and an error gave Marathon their only scores, In the second contest, VX-1 made Reynolds And Raschi Team For Yanks By JIM KENSIL Associated Press Sports Writer Remember when Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout combined their talents to hurl the Detroit Tigers to the 1945 American League pen- nant? E At the time, baseball fans didn’t think their great two-fold perform- ance would be matched for some time to come. But then Johnn: Sain and Warren Spahn cam ‘ along with the 1948 Boston Braves | and delivered a one-two pitching punch that landed the flag. Okay, so baseball history repeats itself. Don’t look now, but Vic Rasch! and Allie Reynolds, a pair of New | threatening to do it all over again. Raschi tossed his 11th straight win Monday night, a 1-0 blanking of the Washington Senators that brought his season slate to 13-2. Tonight, Reynolds faces the same Senators in the nation’s capitol and in 20 decisions. That means the will be shooting for his 13th victory counted for better than 40 per cent two Yank righthanders with 25 in front of second-place Cleveland Raschi scattered six hits and fanned eight while walking only of their team’s 62 triumphs. one, So the Yanks are now 3% games and another full game ahead of third-place Boston, both of whom were idle Monday night along with the rest of the American League and all of the National, 3-0 lead in the second inning on a walk and four errors. Telco scor- ed a run in the third on singles by Davison, Cruz and Valdez. They added another run in the foyrth on a walk, a hit and an error. Telco tied the count in the fifth on a walk, catchers interference and a single. - VX-1 came back in their half of the fifth and broke loose with a five-run rally to sew up the game. 1 Two errors, two walks and a brace of hits bave them the scores. Delaney paced the VX-1 attack with two singles in three tries, In the Ice Ages it is believed that eight million square miles of the best of nine Telco errors to | Europe and North American were take an 8-3 victory, VX-1 took a} covered by deep deposits of ice. Here They Are Gals; The Key West Conchs! BATTLING ALONG in an effort to pull out of the Florida International Loop cellar, the Key West Conchs have captured the hearts of Key West fandom Shown above. from left to right, kneeling: Russ Sails, catcher; Ortelio Bosch, infi e + Barney Lutz; Severino Mendez, outfielder; Willie Felder, infielder; Pete Williams, infield Gaspar DelMorte, pitcher: Nap Reyes, infield; George Vidal, pitcher; Tom McCall, pitcher; Endio Jimenez, pitc with their fighting lap, catcher; Ma spirit, bat boys are Pat Lutz and ‘ Red Cochrane. — SPORTS — MAJOR LEAGUE » LEADERS By The Associated Press Am in League ea: Batting — Fain, Philadelphia, .345; Kell, Boston, .323; Goodman, | Boston, .322; Woodling, New York, -319; Mantle, New York, .312. Runs batted in — Robinson, Chi- cago, 75; Doby, Cleveland, 70; Dropo, Detroit, 68; Rosen, Cleve- land, 66; Zernial, Philadelphia, 64. Hits — Fox, Chicago, 135; Rob- inson, Chicago, 128; Rosen, Cleve- land and Fain, Philadelphia, 118; Jensen, Washington, 117. Home runs — Doby, Cleveland and Berra, New York, 23; Robin- son, Chicago, Dropo, Detroit and Zernial, Philadelphia, 19. Pitching — Consuegra, Washing- ton, 5-0,1.000; Raschi, New York, 13-2, 867; Shantz, Philadelphia, 19- 3; 864; Sain, New York and Shea, Washington 9-3, .750. National League Batting—Musial, St. Louis, .354; Atwell, Chicago, .316;. Addis, Chi- cago, .312; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, 311; Lockman, New York, .310. Runs batted in — Sauer, Chicago 87; Thomson, New York, 71; Hodg- es, Brooklyn, 67; Ennis, Philadel- phia, 65; Slaighter, St. Louis, 64. Hits — Musial, St. Louis, 126; ' Adams, Cincinnati, 125; Lockman, New York, 119; Schoendienst, St. Louis, 118; Hamner, Philadelphia, 114, Home runs — Sauer, Chcago, 27; Hodges, Brooklyn, 21; Kiner, ittsburgh, 20; Mathews, Boston, 17; Gordon, Boston and Thomson, New York, 16. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 7-1, 875; Wilhelm, New York, 9-2, 818; Hearn, New York, 12-3, .800; Yu- has, St. Louis, 8-2,.800; Erskine, Brooklyn, 11-2,.786. BASEBALL MONDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press National League (No games scheduled) American League New York 1 Washington 0 (night) (Only game scheduled) Florida International League West Palm Beach 5-9 Lakeland 0-3 (ist game 7 innings) Miami Beach 2-11 Tampa 1-1 (1st game 7 innings) St. Petersburg 3 Miami 2 : Havana at Key West, ppd, rain. Florida State League Sanford 1-10 Cocoa 0-7 Leesburg 1-1 Orlando 0-4 Palatka 8 DeLand 4 Jaxville Beach 5 Daytona Beach 3 and Gene: los DeSouza, infielder; Frank Dun- g: Dick Ha By The Associated Press Won Losi Pet. American League New York 62 Cleveland 58 Boston 55 Washington a4 Philadelphia 50 Chicago 53 St. Louis 43 Detroit . 36 National League (No games scheduled Monday) Florida International League Miami 73 «640 d Miami Beach 7 41 Tampa 6 50 Havana 62 53 St. Petersburg 59 59 West Palm Beach 57 63 Lakeland 42 «78 Key West 3387 Florida State League DeLand 32. Daytona Beach 29 Sanford 24 Palatka 22 Jaxville Beach 23 Orlando 21 Leesburg 16 Cocoa 10 Harig Remains Second In FIL Slugging Race Flamingos’ Levan Continues To Lead FIL Hitters Jesse Levan of Miami 43 46 45 48 48 51 63 67 661 AT 565 -539 500 ATS -350 275, 13 16 20 21 22 23 17 35 711 644 545 512 Sil AIT 372 222 Beach | continues in the lead in the Flori- da International League batting race with an average of .323. Earle Brucker of Tampa is in the runner- up spot with a mark of .319. Levan and Brucker are the only three hundred hitters in the loop. Levan also holds the lead in to- tal basehits with 175, two base swats, 28 and is second in base hits with 133. Levan continues his domination of the batting race with second place in runs scored, 63, according to statistics compiled by the Howe News Bureau. Hi Gonzalez of Tampa is leading in runs scored with 70. Bragg of West Palm Beach has poked out 133 base hits to lead in that department. Herb Chapman is still in the lead in RBI's, having pushed 61 runners around. Humberto Fernandez, of Miami took over the lead in stolen bases with 32, while Scull of Havana, who had been leading, is now second 2 tO BY Awad oc aeild ‘Tuesday, Avsost 5, 1952 ~ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “* Page 8 WEST PALM HURLER Baseball |TWIRLS NO-HITTER with 30. Scull is setting the pace in triples, having‘ blasted out 11 threebaggers. Duany Leads In Homers No change in the homerun depart- ment with Claro Duany of Havana holding the top position with 12 round trippers. Charley Harig, with 11 circuit clouts is the runner- up. He is followed by Whitey Platt | of Miami Beach who has belted 10 | out of the park. ; Ramon Morant of Miami Beach leads the hurlers with 10 wins and but one setback. Billy Harris of Miami and Dale Matthews of Tam- pa, have won the most games, 17. Gil Torres, of Miami has comple- ted the most games, going the route in 20 contests. Dave Martinez of Tampa, has won the most games, 20. Clarence “Hooks” Tott of St. Petersburg has fanned the most batters, 151. Today's Games By The Associated Press American League New York at Washington (n) Boston at Philadelphia (n) Cleveland at Chicago (2)(n) Detroit at St. Louis (n) National League Brooklyn at New York (n) Philadelphia at Boston (%)(n) Gordon | Eddy Zielinski, and ager Ray Ryan. The St. Louis at Pittsburgh (n) Chicago at Cincinnati (n) Florida International League Lakeland at Havana Tampa at Key West Miami at Miami Beach West Palm Beach at St. Peters burg. Florida State League Daytona Beach at Palatka DeLand at Leesburg | Sanford at Jacksonville Beach Orlando-at Cocoa The WEATHERMAN _ Say Key West and Vicinity: Partly | cloudy, local showers and thun- derstorms today through Wed- nesday; continued warm and humid. Gentle to moderate vari- able winds. Florida: Partly cloudy through Wednesday with widely scattered mostly afternoon showers and thundershowers. Little change in ten-perature. i Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Light to moderate winds, east to southeast over south por- tion and southerly over nerth portion through Wednesday. Partly cloudy weather and wide- ly scattered showers, Key West, Fla., Aug. 5, 1952 Temperatures Highest yesterday _..._.#._§. 88 Lowest last night —__.___. 75 nee ee Normal 84 Precipitation Total last 24 hours ___ Total this month _..._ .62 ins. Deficiency this month _ _.08 ins. Total this year 18.22 ins. Excess this year -44 ins. Relative Humidity at 9:00 A.M. 10% Barometer (Sea Level) 9:00 A.M. 30.04 ins.—1017.3 mbs. -54 ins. 9:08 a.m. 10:06 p.m. 2:22 a.m. 3:53 p.m. | Conchs Meet Tampa | Of Three Game Series With Smokers SPORT SHORTS LAKELAND (# — The Lakeland Pilots, in sixth place in the Florida International League, have moved to strengthen their club with a new pitcher and catcher. The pitcher is southpaw Jerry Riffenburg, who has looked good with a semi-pro team in nearby Plant City. He hurled in the FIL in 1950, winning four and losing eleven with Lakeland, West Palm Beach and St. Petersburg. TAMPA (® — Many of Florida’s top amateur golfers are playing 36 holes here today for the state’s five places in the national amateur championship. Among those entered were Jim Lee Jr., Tallahassee; Dr. Charles Hillyer, Jacksonville; Bev Nabers, St. Petersburg; and Bill Stembler and: B. B. Lotspeich, Miami. Don Bisplinhoff, 17-year-old Or- Jando player, has qualified for the national event by winning the U.S. junior championship. STARKE (® — The state Ameri- can Legion junior baseball tourna ment opens here today with Hia- leah Post 32 scheduled to play Sanford Post 53 in the first game. Bil Hardaker, Legion Junior baseball commissioner who nounced the pairings, said the sec- ond game tonight will be between Jacksonville Post 9 and Pensacola Post 33. Today’s two losers will play Wednesday afternoon and the two winners Wednesday night. Palatka Whips DeLand In FSL By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Staff Writer The Palatka Azaleas moved from fifth to fourth place by beating first-place DeLand 84 Monday night in a Florida State League game. Jacksonville Beach also pulled an upset by giving Daytona Beach its first defeat in eight games, 5-3. In other games Sanford beat Cocoa twice 1-0 and 10-7, while Leesburg and Orlando split a doubleheader. Palatka piled up an 8-0 score in the first two innings and then sat tight to beat the DeLand Red Hats. Bescom Hamm pitched a nine- hitter for tka. Outfielder Ted Brooklyn hit a homer for DeLand in the seventh. «A Jacksonville Beach Pitcher Bill Herman gave up two runs to the Daytona Beach Islanders in the first inning, then shut them out enough to win. Leesburg’s Packers. won the first game of their doubleheader 1-0 by holding Orlando’s Senators to four hits, although the packers them- selves hit only three times. Orlan- do won the second game 4-1 with Lefty Klarman pitching a six-hit- ter. Sanford Pitcher Sonny Raper shutout Cocoa on four hits to win the first game of that doublehead- er, but had to be relieved in the fifth inning of the second game. George Kenis came in to finish out Dusty Rhodes and First Baseman Pep Rambert hit homers for a Sanford total of 75 homers so far for the season. 000 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Tonight In First The Tampa Smokers rolled in- *& te town today, smarting from a , double setback at the hands of | the second place Miami Beach | Tonight's game is scheduled to get underway at 8:15 p.m. Rumor has it thet Charley Harig and the club owners have B-36 Explodes FORT WORTH, Tex. # — An Air Force investigating team said today leaking gasoline, ignited by a spark, caused the explosions and fire which destroyed a B-36 bomb- er and injured 13 men. The big battle plane was being | readied for a takeoff and local i flight Monday when it exploded during a thundershower. At first it was believed lightning struck the big plane. The B-36, widely known as Amer- fea’s atom bomb carrier, costs about 3% million dollars. By GENE PLOWDEN Associated Press Staff Writer The third no-hit game of the Florida International League’s 1952 season went into the books beet put there by West Palm Beach’ Frank Sulkowski, 23-year-old south- Paw. Sulkowski used only 68 pitches Monday night to blank the Lake- land Pilots, 5-0, in the seven, inning opener of a doubleheader. West Palm Beach also won the nightcap, 9-8, for their fifth ina Tow. Sulkowski, a limited service play> er, was given flawless support. He walked three and struck out two in the abbreviated contest. Fritz Luciano held Lakeland to eight hits in the other game, while his mates pounded three Pilot flingers for 12 and started with five nits in the first inning. * The league’s other no-hit games were nine inning affairs. Clarence (Hooks) Iott, St. Petersburg, per- formed the feat against Ft. Laud erdale on May 9 and Gil Torfes of the Miami Sun Sox duplicated cont West Paim Beach on July Miami Beach won a pair, edging Tampa 3-2 in the first. game and romping home in the nightcap, ll-1. St. Petersburg shaded the leading Miami Sun Sox, 3-2, and Havana was rained out at Key West. Miami Beach took the first-on only four singles and in the second 17 safeties were banged out off three opposing moundsmen. The double victory cut Miami's league lead to two games as. the’ Sun Sox lost their second in a row. to the Saints, who now lead Miami in season's play, 10 to 9. High School Grid Mentors Hear Talk canesyvect? @ — Florida high school coaches heard a highly technical /lecture on the split-T formation; offense today ‘presented im Coach Dewitt Weaver of Texas Monday, the 60-odd mentors at- tending the coaching clinic here heard Murray Warmath of Missis- sippi State go into all of the details Beard and a basketball session led by Florida’s Coach Jolin Mauer. Today, North Football Coach Ish Brant, Jacksonville Beach Fletcher put his charges through a rough and tumble scrimmage in prepara- tion for the all-ster game in Jack- sonville Friday, with the accent on protection for punter-passer Jackie Hardy, Pensacola, South Coach John Edison con- running game, with the the ball carrying handled by Wally Piper, Miami Senior; Dick Al- brecht, Miami Edison and Charles Horton, St. Petersburg. The all-star basketball teams, under, North Coach Don Cobb, Ocala, and South Coach Bill Crews, Lake Wales, went into their second day of twice daily drills today. They play here Thursday night, OLD HEAVEN HILL Bottled in-Bond