The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 8, 1952, Page 5

~ Key West Captures Win From Smo::ers |. On Sixteen Hit Attack Thursday, 7-5 Reyes And Harig Hit In Clutch _ For Victory / With a big run in 6th inning the ‘Key West Conchs sailed past the ‘Tampa Smokers last night for their first victory in the three game. se- ties with the upstaters. The Conchs came from behind after Tampa’s Earl Brucker had slammed a two-run homer in the third inning that had put the visi- tors ahead, 5-1. The Conchs knocked Tampa’s pitching mainstay, Dale Matthew- son from the mound in the eighth inning as the Key West batsmen Piled up a 16 hit performance. In the sixth inning, George Vi- day started the uprising with a sin- gle and Art Bosch duplicated his effort.. Rene Solis helped his own cause along with a screaming two- bagger to score both runners, Dun- lap walked and chunky Chuck Har- fg crossed up Matthewson when he caught hold of an outside pitch and poled it to left field for a two- bagger and two more coupters. Nap Reyes then came to the plate and poked out a double for another score. Key West added another counter «fn the eighth when Dunlap led off with a single, advanced to third base on shortstop Varonas’ error and came in on a single by Ma- ager Barney Lutz. The Conchs had scored in the first inning when Charley Harig drove in Severino Mendez with a single. Solis went all the way for the Conchs. Rene scattered 10 Tampa hits. Shaky at times, he bore down in the clutch to strike out four and walk a like number, Harig Stars Charley Harig was the hitting star of the evening for the winners, with a double and two singles in five trips to the plate while Solis had two doubles. Florida International League batters put on their hitting clothes Thursday night and pounded out 56 safeties in three games, com- pared with only 51 base hits in four games Wednesday night. Miami Beach ‘pounded three Mi- m i A won eit panes 62 white Se Petersburg got 10 blows off two West Palm Beach pitchers to score Dick McMillin and Mort Smith combined to limit Miami to six hits and the ‘Flamingos sewed up the game on four singles and a long fly in the second inning. West Palm Beach collected only four hits off Monte Lopez, who had @ shutout until the ninth when an error, a walk, and a rundown let in a run. Billy Seal paced the Saints’ bat) attack with a. bases- ° loaded double and single to drive in five runs. The Saints won five out of seven during their home stand. DUGOUT DIGGINGS: Conchs leave for Miami today for three games with the Sun Sox and two with the Miami Beach Flamingos. They return here on, Tuesday for a five game stand against the same clubs. Key West fans are plenty irked about the officiating in the FIL, particularly during the Tampa se- ries. Last night, the Conchs were the losers on three close decisions that could have put a different complexion on the ball game. Frank Dunlap made a very pret ty throw in the seventh to retire Gonzalez on an attempted steal to second. With two outs in the ninth and the Conchs coasting along on a two run bumper, the Key West fans headed for the exits, but Tam- pa’s Verona singled and Bitsy Mott drew a base on balls. Both Tunners advanced on a passed ball to produce a tense situation. How- ever, after running the count up on Pecou, Solis forced him to hit @ towering pop foul which Dunlap caught hold of and squeezed for the final out of the ball game. With but seven runs on 16 hits, we wonder if the Conchs might be @oing a little loafing on the base- paths? The Scores: tT. Player— Pecou, rf Gonzalez, cf Chapman, If _ Brucker, ¢ Fernandez, 1b Anderssohn, 3b Varona, ss Mott, 2b Matthewson, Geiser, p 25 O02 20NH Em Oog> 3 wloco~-poooem eae ee erent SCOMmMoS NH P CVs ueaaenues Totals— Mendez, cf Dunlap, ¢ — Bia BS South Gains 39-37 Cage Victory GAINESVILLE (#—A fiery little forward from Tampa cut the taller North team down to size and gave the South a 39-37 victory in the third annual Florida high school all - star basketball game’ here Thursday night. Dick Miller, the little fellow with the spark, drove through the entire North team to score a field goal | that tied the score with two min- | utes left to play. He was fouled on the play and calmly madé the free throw and South stalled out | the victory. North had the size, especially. with 6-5 Dick Lenholt from Day- tona Beach Seabreeze operating | around the baskets. He was in- | dividual high scorer with 10 points. But he had to yield the starring role to 5-9 Miller, who was high point man for his team with nine. The game was close all the way, the biggest margin being the 5-0 lead the North ran up at the start. South caught up near halftime and North was on top again’ most of the second half until Millet’s tiger- like efforts clicked. South took an edge in the all- star series, two games to one. The game is played annually as part of the State High School Coaches Clinic which winds up academic sessions here today and then shifts to Jacksonville for the annual all- star football game tonight. Bench Views JACK K. BURKE To witness a baseball game that has poor officials can be expected in an.amateur contest but to watch professionals making themselves biag in the Florida International League is a matter that should be taken up with the president of the league. An umpire should give as much consideraion to an eighth Place club as he does to a first or second. The way it looks is that he ‘wants~to~-get- the game over as quickly as possible so that he can do something else. This is not only my conception ‘or the some 800 people who watch- ‘ 2d Thursday night’s game will ve- cify these statements. Enough on the sport of baseball. Prior to game time, the Bench vas able to corner Louis Cartonell to ask him a few questions in re- wards to the boxing idea which has been upmost in the minds of many for its benefit can be enjoyed by the populace. He sated that within the next two weeks he will make a journey to Miami to talk with Chris Dundee, local fight promoter in the Miami and Beach area. Lou has received correspondence from him in re- gards to promoting fights in this area and it has. been promised that if this idea does pan out that they will not be of the calibre previous- ly seen in Key West. For the few doubtfuls who do not believe that it will happen, the only thing I have to say to you is, when Leu Carbonell starts out on something he never gives up till it materializes. Negroes Charged With Murder GAINESVILLE (#®—Two Negroes here have been charged with | murder in the fatal beating of Fitzhugh Lee Cain, University of ; Florida Agricultural Experiment Station employe. Cain died Thursday. Police Chief W. D. Joiner said he was beaten | Sunday night after he attempted to buy beer in a Negro jook. The police officer attributed the attack to robbery ' The chief identified the Negroes held on murder charges as William Ingram and Willie Lee Mobley. | Two others are being held as wit- nesses, Vidal, 1b Bosch, ss . Solis, p | | ere wwe 5] mue at] mee oo) ie wl ooo! = Totals— - a | 4 100 005 Olx—7 RBI—Harig 2, Chapman 1, Va- rona 2, Brucker 2, Solis 2, Reyes 2. 2B—Fernandez 2, Bosch, Solis, Horie, Reyes. HR—Gonzalez. S— Matthew: 2 Keiser Satie Mrithewson 2, cr 0, Solis 4 MO»Matthewson, 14 in South Florida All-Starr Are Favorites JACKSONVILLE (#—The South Florida High School 4ll - Stars, packing a versatile backfield be- hind a line that averages 207 pounds, is favored to whip the North in the annual all-star foot- ball game in the Gator Bowl here tonight. The fourth annual grid game winding up the State High School scene of its origin tonight. It was played here in 1949 and in Miami the past two years. All-stars from the south part of the state have won twice and those from the north have won once. But the hopes of the North for evenning the series are smack ur against a handfull of backs like Wally Piper, All-Southern from Miami High; Ed Bass, All-State from Vero Beach; Charles Horton, St. Petersburg; Ray Brown and ick Albrecht, Miami Edison, and irwin Swichko, Miami High. South Coach John Edison, Plant City, has a big enough line for a college team. Ish Brant, Jacksonville Beach Fletcher, who will coach the North, concedes the weight advantage to ‘hé South and says his opponents have another advantage. “Edison has boys used to his system,” Brant said. “Most of mine have played in the T and are having to adjust to the single wing.” Both teams are using the single wing. Top operators in the North back- field will be Jackie Hardy, Pensa- cola; Carleton Burroughs and Claude Hunter, Orlando, and Gene Cox, Lake City. Brant expects to do a lot of passing rather than trying to run through the big South line. ‘The teams and many of the state’s high school coaches come nere today from Gainesville, where the coaching clinic is winding up. FIRST BASE ‘GLEANINGS By Gene Graham Earl Brucker, Tampa catcher is the son of Earl Brucker Sr,, a Cin- cinatti coach. Earl is also a bonus baby. Several years ago the Phila- delphia Athletics are reported to have paid Brucker $35,000 for sign- ing in the proper place, x *k * Much too eiten the 200 hitter; oh the Conchs are hitting the : and 1 piteh. Perhaps that is wh: they are .200 hitters and the occz ; sional big inning is missed. As! any pitcher, manager or fan, each will tell you that the free tickei | to first is a big factor in the nation al pastime. The power hitter go for the cripple, but why shou! the ‘slap hitters go for the sing! which they have f 15 percent edgc on already??? x kek The Tampa hitters say left hand ed offerings come at them from out of the white background in , center field which ‘makes George | Vidal a winning pitcher on the home grounds. Mebbe so, We havi not been up to the plate recent! but if the contention is true Ed Za! insky should develop a cross-fire pitch. xk &k * Chickie De Souza bowed a ten lon last night and necessitatec Manager Lutz taking over the key sone position and Zilinsky covering ‘ight field after thé sixth inning. sarney didn’t get any chanees ir spite of the fact that the right sidc of the infield was a busy spot be fore he took over. It is expected hat De Souza will return to the lineup tonight as Williams has gone the way of all weak hitters:and in- field replacements are super | searce. x * * “Fireplug’’ Harig is in the throes of an attack of pop-up-itis. No bing- les this week. Keep swinging Shor ty! Before long those hump-back liners will straighten out and be- come RBI's, Leesburg Wins Fourth Shutout By F. T. MACFEELY Associated Press Staff Writer The Leesburg Packers may be out of the running for the Florida state League pennant, but there “iM be one bit of pitching their 4.5 3..208 can look on with That was the MAJOR AGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National League Batting—Musial, St. Louis, .333; Addis, Chicago, .311; Kluszewski, | Cincinnati and Atwell, Chicago, 310; Lockman, New York, .309. Runs batted in — Sauer, Chicago 88; Thomson, New York, 14; Dod ges, Brooklyn and Ennis, Phila- delphia, 71; Slaughter, St. Louis, 87. Hits — Musial, St. Louis, 132; | Adams, Cincinnati, 128; Schoen- | dienst, St. Louis, 127; Lockman, | New York, 123; Hamner, Phila- delphia, 115. Home runs — Sauer, Chicago, 27; Hodges, Brooklyn, 22; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 20; Mathews and Gor- don, Boston, 17. 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; Black, | Brooklyn 7-2, .778. American League BASEBAT, THURSDAYS RESULTS By The Associ--_- American Lea: Washington 4-1 low York 2-7 Philadelphia 7-4 Boston 5-8 St. Louis 5 Detroit 4 (night-12 in- nings) (Only games scheduled) National League New York 8-5 Brooklyn 2-7 (day night dou der) St. Louis 7 Cincinnati 4 (night) Philadelphia 2-10 Boston 1-2 (Only games scheduled) Florida International League Key West « Tampa 5 Miami Beach 5 Miami 2 St.Petersburg 8 West Palm Beach ! Lakeland at Havana, ppd, wet grounds Florida State League Leesburg 1 Daytona Beach 0 Jacksonville Beach 8 Orlando 1 (called in 6th rain) Palatka at Sanford, ppd, rain Cocoa at DeLand, ppd, rain Today's Games By The Associated Press American League Boston at New York (night) Philadelphia at Washi n (night Detroit at Chicago (2)(night) Batting — Fain, Philadelphia, | 344; Woodling, New York, .329; ' Kell, Boston, .321; Goodman, Bos- ton, 316; Robinson, Chicago, .310. | Runs batted in — Doby, Cleve ‘and, 78; Robinson, Chicago, 76; Yropo, Detroit and Zernial, Phila- lelphia, 70; Rosen, Cleveland, 67. Hits — Fox, Chicago, 138; Rob “nson, Chicago, 131; Avila, Cleve and, 123; Rosen, Cleveland and fain, Philadelphia, 122, | Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, 24; Berra, New York, 23; Zernial, | | Philadelphia, 21; Robinson, Chica: | go, Dropo, Detroit and Joost, Phil- adelphia, 19, Pitching — Consuegra, Washing- ton, 5-0, 1.000; Shantz, Philadelph- ia, 20-3, .870; Raschi, New York, | 13-2,.867; Madison, St. Louis, 4-1, ; 800; Sain, New York, 9-3, .750. SPORT SHORTS STARKE ( — Hialeah Post 32 and Jacksonville Post 9 meet here tonight for the American’ Legion Junior baseball i ip of Florida. Post 9, unbeaten in the double elimination tournament, can move on to the regional eliminations at Cleveland at St. Louis (night) National League New York at Boston (night) Brooklyn at Philadelphia (night Chicago at Pittsburgh (night) St. Louis at Cincinnati (night) Florida International League Tampa at Lakeland Key West at Miami St. Petersburg at Havana Miami Beach at West Palm Beach Florida State League Daytona Beach at Leesburg Jacksonville Beach at Orlando Sanford at Palatka DeLand at Cocoa —Ss Baseball By The Associated Press Won Lost American League New York 64 Cleveland 60 Boston 56 | Washington 56 Philadelphia 52 | Chicago 54 | St. Louis 46 Detroit 36 National League Brooklyn New York St. Louis Philadelphia Chicago Boston Cincinnati 43 Pittsburgh 30 Florida International Miami 79 Miami Beach 7 Tampa 67 Havana 63 St. Petersburg 61 West Palm Beach 58 Lakeland 43 Key West 34 Florida State League DeLand 34 Daytona Beach 31 Jaxville Beach 26 Sanford Palatka Orlando | Leesburg Cocoa 45 47 47 50 49 53 63 70 67 62 62 56 52 42 32 38 44 47 51 60 63 79 42 42 51 54 60 65 79 13 7 22 22 Ww ll 36 Evans Nine Will Play Marathon Siandings Pet. -589 551 544 528 515 505 422 340 677 -620 585 544 505 412 408 .275, League 647 568 +538 504 472 -352 276 .123 646 542 522 -489 468 370 234 At Wickers Tonite The Evans Enterprises baseball nine will cross bats with the Mara- thon Sluggers tonight at the Wick- | Kerr receiving his tosses. Florence, 8. C., by winning tonight. ' | If Hialéah wins, the teams meet here again Saturday night for the title. Lee Corso pitched hitless, runless ball Thursday night to put Hialeah in the final. He blanked Sanford Post 53 and eliminated the Celery City team, 7-0. Alex McFarlane stole home for the first Hialeah ‘un in the second inning and that vas all Corso needed. ORLANDO “® — The Little @aguers—baseball players age 12 and under—open play for the Flori- da state championship here today. Lakeland meets St. Petersburg at 2 p. m. and Miami West Flagler plays Pensacola at 4 p. m. Winners | play Saturday at 4 p. m. for the title and the chance to go to the regional tournament later this month at Charleston, S. C. OGDEN, Utah ® — Youthful heavyweight Rex Layne said today he is going after Ezzard Charles in their 10-round bout tonight like he was fighting for the title. “I'm going to knock him out,” Layne said, “and I'll be after him all the day.” But the 24-year-old Lewiston, Utah, strongboy said he'd rather not predict the round But Charles and his handlers had a different version of the outcome “Ezzy is ready for Rex,” Jake Mintz, Charles’ co-manager an nounced. “‘If he should lose this one, he’s about through. But a vic- tory tonight will put him back in the picture.” CHICAGO # — Tam O'Shanter Country Club was ready to post this notice today: ‘‘Wanted—the murderers of par.” Wild-eyed pros, some of whom have grown lean eating hamburg ers on the gruelling tourney grind to make ends meet, set out for the bonanz# in Thursday's first Found of the $90,000 72-hole tourna ment. As expected, par 36-36--72 wasn't worth a plugged nickle. Twenty eight, or 35 per cent of the field Breaking into the lead was a pair ef club pros, Lew Worsham and Pete Cooper, each with 65 | tinez for eight innings. Then Buck Coltins walked in the ninth, stole second and scampered home on Brice White's single. Jacksonville Beach took a rain shortened §-1 decision over Ozlan do. fk was stopped in the sixth in- a hor is LEAGUE By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer Eddie Stanky, the brash fresh man, and Steve O'Neill, the old greybeard back for another try, are turning the National League , into a four-club race while Brook: in a private neighborhood braw! Preoccupied in their personai feud, the Dodgers and Giants seem to be concerned. only with the yes or no of “a miracle of ’52.”. The | Brooks gather around Chuck Dres sen to “stop the Giants” and the | Giants charge at Leo Durocher’s call to “remember last year.’ | Neither pays much attention to the onrushing Cards and Phillies. The Cards closed to within 8'2 games of the first place Dodgers Thursday night by whipping Cin cinnati, 7-4, as Brooklyn rebounded from an afternoon 8-2 defeat to {top New York in the night half of their day-night doubleheader, 7. { -5. Philadelphia, winning 28 of 40 starts since O'Neill replaced Eddie Sawyer as manager, swept a pair from the Boston Braves, 2-1 -and 10-2 behind Robin Roberts and Russ Meyer: Roberts’ three-hitter was his 17th victory. American, except the seventh-place St. Louis Brownies who are too far back to make any difference. The leading New York Yankees ers Field Stadium. The game is slated to get underway at 8:00 p.m. The locals gained a 6-2 victory over the Marathon club there last week and the Marathon boys ure coming down for a little revenge. Manager Kellar Watson will start Gibby Gates on the mound with 37° f. Yb ge ae lyn and New York trade punches * Nobody gained anything in the! Nom RAC split with Washington, losing the first 4-2 but copping the second 7-1 on Bob Kuzava’s four-hitter. The Boston Red Sox dropped the ‘rst of two at Philadelphia, 7-5 yut came back to break even, 8-4. The Brownies won their second traight 12-inning game, from De- roit, 5-4, on Gordon Goldsberry’s louble. Cleveland and Chicago in the American and Chicago and Pitts- durgh in the National were not scheduled. The “big” series in the Polo Jrounds went to the Giants, two games to one, but their bid for a iramatic sweep fell short. As a result they picked up only one game on the Dodgers and still trail sy 5% games. When Al Corwin, Durocher’s sur- prise starter in Thursday’s day game, was relieved in the nighter, it was his fifth straight appearance in five games since he joined the Giants. Hoyt Wilhelm’s dancing knuckler helped Corwin home with his sec- ond win in the first contest as Hank Thompson, Al Dark and Davey Williams ripped into loser Carl Erskine and two others for 12 hits. , Hank Thompson hit a homer and the Dodgers cooperated with two errors by Pee Wee Reese, a passed ball by Roy “ampanella and a balk by Erskine. The Dodgers made short work of George Spencer, Durocher’s second surprise starter, after the Durocher night ceremonies. Cam- panella’s bases-loaded home run gave the Brooks a 4-0 bulge in the first. Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson homered off reliefer Hal Gregg in the second. Z DICK HUNTER DISPLAYS TWO RECAPPED AND ONE NEW U. S. ROYAL TIRE. CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? By JAXON of Dick's Tire Service is busy these days demonstrating his recapped tires. In a display es, done at the shop on U.S Royal Air Tread design Matrix and a new tire, this to tell which was which. And that's just the slant that makes these recaps so possible to tell the difference at cll recaps cre of the finest whole rubber made by the U.S. Rubber people, made on a Matrix e Air Ride tire, and used by Dick only because he is the U.S. Dealer. The full Ss which is new tire depth also and uses a full three pounds of rubber more apped of cheaper jobs.* four-hit Ww pride. syed | 7 1/3 innings. PP—Verona, Mott>/ Marty Martines Harig, it | Ring just after Origngo tallied it: jand Ferngngez. Winner—Sgiis 0| Loser—Matthewson. PB—Bruck- we Elder and A—600. T—2:10, Reves, 3b - Lutz, rf Felder, 2b wrconms, VU lor j sets a t Daytona Beach Isaacs Pharedy night. Leesburg got only four hits, too, off Johnny Lang. He matched goose egg for goose egg with Mar lope Tun. Rain washed out scheduled Ps latka at Sanford and Cocoa at De | Land games. 2s@ tires to give as many of more miles than a new ‘ire and his motto is m too. “New tire safety at one-half the cost!”