The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 12, 1952, Page 5

Big, Four Run Fifth Inning Makes It 6th Win In Row By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor The Miami Beach Flamingos, who are engaged in a hectic lead struggle with the Miami Sun Sox for the lead in the Florida Interna- tional League, vented their wrath on the cellar hugging Key West Conchs last night when they cop- ped a 7-2 win in that city. It was the sixth straight win for the Flamingos and was nothing new to the Conchs, who have lost a goodly number of ball games of late. ‘They sewed up the contest in the fifth with a four run uprising when they scored on a base on balls, a balk and four hits including a two- run double by Knobby Rosa. Key West scored a single counter in the fourth and added another in the ninth. Gaspar DelMonte started on the hill for the Conchs. He was relieved by Eddie Zielinski. Dave Barnhill mastered the situation for the Flamingos. The Sun Sox, ahead by a half game, pounded out a 6-2 victory over the West Palm Beach Indans, pelting three Indian pitchers for 14 hits. Billy Darden kept West Palm Beach under control with a neat five-hitter to score his 16th victory. ‘Tampa and Havana split a dou- bleheader, Havana taking the first game 2-1 and the Smokers prevail- ing in the second 4-0. St. Petersburg defeated Lakeland 8-1 with a 16-hit barrage. Hooks Jott set Lakeland: down with four hits to register his 19th victory. DUGOUT DIGGINGS: Tonight the Conchs face the Miami Sun Sox in the Wicker’s Field stadium. The club arrived early this morning and needless to say, they are point- ing for this series which will see them fecing the Sun,Sox and the Flamingos in a five-day stand, in an effort to save face with the lo- cal fans. : We don’t know if Beach man- ager Pepper Martin had his lads attired in shorts oy'npt, but if he did, it is possible that the sight of those knobby knees distracted the Conchs to the extent that they couldn’t keep their eyes on the ball. ario Sanchéz, fresh in from ‘Tampa, and a native of Conchtown is expected to be on hand to help his third base line amigos with his vocal support. Wonder what happened to the batting cage the Conchs were plan- ning to have constructed. Besides losing a lot of balls, someone is to get beaned during batting prac- tice. And all that debris beneath the bleachers is rather an eyesore. Ho-hum. Middlecoff Gets Record Purse Monday CHICAGO (#— Golf's golden Au- gust visit by Santa Claus in the person of Promoter George S. May could be bigger and better next year than his $120,000 Tam O’Shan- ter show just closed. That should be good news to the likes of U, S. Open Champion Ju- | lius Boros and the golfing dentist, Cary Middlecoff, who Monday set tled for a record $25,000 and $12,500 | respectively in a playoff for May's “world championship of golf.” May said he has dates reserved with the PGA next year for his an- nual Tam O'Shanter carnival and has in mind an even greater jack- pot than he paid in the dove-tailed $30,000 all-American and $90,000 “world” the past two weeks. May plans to increase the $25,000 world first prize and the $3,420 top melon in the All-American. There were reports that Boros, | who rallied furiously for his two- stroke, four-under-par 68 playoff victory, and the vanquished Mid- @lecoff had an under-the-table deal to split the world $25,000 first and $12,500 second prizes. That would have given each $18,- 350 and the word was out that they had arranged to settle the taxes on the entire $37,500 swag. The PGA’s freshest money - win ning list had Boros in front with | $34,332 and Middlecoff second with $27,739. Boros, performing much like he did in his surprise U. S. Open triumph, came out of sand traps in brilliant style to whip Middle coff on the last four holes Monday. * Conchs Fall To Fla: Mon., Face Miami {ere Ton ! Model Makers Prepare For Meet Here igas, 7-2 ighl CPO’s Upset Tuesday, August 12, 1952 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 “Chopper” In [DODGERS LEAD Bowling Loop |GIANTS AGAIN The Naval Station CPOs last- Place team in the Navy Wives’ Summer Bowling League, accom- plished a near-miracle Thursday at the Naval Station Bowling Alleys, when they broke the U. S. S. “Chopper’s” winning streak ‘by a neat 3 points to 1 victory! With only two meets to go, this gives the second-place USO-NCCS team their opportunity to take the ‘‘Chop- per”, now holding a 5-point lead. The standings coming down the home stretch, are: “Chopper” — 22 points; USO-NCCS — 17; Sub- Ron Wives — 9; CPOs — 8. Also victorious this week was the USO-NCCS team, which took 3 points from SubRon Wives. The week's highest games, 179 i and 177, were both chalked up by "| the “Chopper’s” Vi Donlan; while aaa 9 Citizen Staff Photo ELEVEN OF ‘THE ESTIMATED 50 Key West model airplane enthusiasts who will participate in a statewide model airplane competition are shown at Monroe County Beach as they testeo their planes in preparation for the tourney. From the left, kneeling: Bascom Grooms, Don Bernreuter, Robert Austin, DeLand Shuts Out Daytona Monday By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Staff Writer Big Red Roberts, DeLand Red Hat pitcher, didn’t take any chances Monday night in beating the Daytona Beach Islanders, De- Land's chief rival in the Florida State League. He shut them out 7-0 with a four - hitter. The win widened DeLand’s lead- ing margin over second - place Daytona Beach to 7 % games and gave Roberts his.1ith win of the season, against two losses, to lead the circuit with the best earned Tun average. DeLand rapped loser Bill Miller for 11-hits. In other games, Palatka edged Cocoa 3-2, in an 11 - inning game, Sanford beat Orlando 9-7 and Jack- sonville Beach downed Leesburg 11-6. Palatka scored two in the eighth inning to go into a 2-2 tie with | Cocoa, then scored the winning run |in the 11th when First Baseman Gary Hildebrand drove in Third | pean Merrill Smith with a sin- gle. ' Sanford came to life in the ninth inning and scored five runs to beat Orlando, and move up a notch to | fifth place in the league. Orlando's Senators made their second triple | play of the season, on a run-down play. Orlando Manager Ed Levy filed a protest when Don Ford was held | | at second base on an overthrow of | first. Jacksonville Beach Pitcher Bill Herman added his 15th victory of \the year, against 12 losses, with the win over Leesburg. He gave up 11 hits while his teammates hit 17 off Leesburg’s Fred Montsdeoca. | Before the games, League Presi- | Manager or Player found guilty of | tors would be immediately and in- his office in Silver Springs had been nearly swamped ny com- plaints and that “the situation is suffice.” He also said Cocoa’s Lou Garcia had been fined $25 for actions in a recent game at Jacksonville Beach, Nie E 9 Strikes Out 20 CLEARWATER \#— John Hunt- } er struck out 20 and allowed only five singles to give the Clearwater | Bombers a 3-0 win over St. Peters- burg’s All - tournament bere Monday | using profanity audible to specta- | beyond the state where a fine will ' Stars in the opening | game of the District Three softball | K. W. Softballers Will Compete In District Tourney A Key West All-Star softball team will leave early Wednes- day morning to journey to Deer- field Beach to compete in the District Four Softball tournement slated to be held in that city. ke tourney Wednesday night when they will face the Florida City nine. The winner of the District tour- nament will be eligible to com. pete in the State championship tournament in Clearwater the following week, Sport Shorts HOLLYWOOD (#— The St. Pet- ersburg R. H. Hall team captured the Florida women's softball cham- | pionship Monday, defeating St. Pet- {ersburg West Coast Title 12-7 in the finals. Trophies were awarded to Angie Sala of West Coast Title as the most valuable player in the tour- nament; to Sherrille Tigner of West Coast Title as the leading batter; and to Pat Wilson of Tam- pa Jack's Cookies as the leading pitcher, EUGENE, Ore. (®— The whack- ing of timber and brush resumes today at the week-long Jaycee Na tional Junior golf tournament which already has turned into a dent John Krider warned that any | ern ball There were only a few who es- caped the plentiful fir, cottonwood, dogwood and assorted underbrush definitely suspended. Krider said | around the Eugene Country Club Monday, and chief among them ; was Tom Jacobs, smooth swinging 17 + year - old from Montebello, Calif., who recently reached the semi - finals of the National Junior U. S. G. A. tourney. Jacobs had a 34 - 34 — 68 to take the lead among the entrants — roughly 14 of them. That was four under par 37 - 35 — 72 Three strokes back of him came Don Bisplinghoff, Orlando, Fia., who won the recent U.S. G. A | Junior tournament, defeating Ja- cobs along the way Bisplinghoff, who played in the same threesome with Jacobs Mon- day. had a 37 - % — 71. For the rest, scores The two teams meet again tonight. | 80's — or worse. soared. | night. | The big majority wound up in the Johnny Faraldo, Adam Lupton, and Joseph Clifton. Nelo Rodriguez, Arthur Valladares of the Key West Exchange Club, who are sponsoring the event, Charles Faralio, chair- man of the event, Jim White and Ed Young. Displayed in the foreground are some of the planes which will compete. MONDAY’S RESULTS By The Assocated Press Natonal League Chicago 10 St. Louis 2 Boston 11-4 New York 10-2 Philadelphia 7-5 Brooklyn 2-9 Cincinnati 10 Pittsburgh 4 Amercan League New York 7 Boston 0 Washington 6-1 Philadelphia 5-2 | Detroit at Cleveland, rain. Chicago at St. Louis, rain. Florda Internatonal League Miami 6 West Palm Beach 2 Miami Beach 7 Key West 2 St. Petersburg 8 Lakeland 1 Havana 2-0 Tampa 1-4 (1st game 7 nnngs) Florida State League Jacksonville Beach 11 Leesburg 6 DeLand 7 Daytona Beach 0 | Palatka 3 Cocoa 2 | Sanford 9 Orlando 7 Betsy Rawls Is Leading Golfer postponed, | tin, Tex., pro, still leadsthe women pro golfers in money - winning for 1952, but ‘“‘world” champion Betty Jameson is crowding her. Miss Rawls ‘has earned $12,820 to date, according to official figures released today. But Miss Jameson, the silver - haired San Antonio, Tex.. shooter is right behind with $11,945. | The money winning leaders in clude: Babe Zaharias, Tampa, Fla. $6 723.25 Marlene Bauer, Sarasota, Fla. $5, 367.50 Alice Bauer, Sarasota, Fla. $2, 580.00. | BIG SHOW PLANNED | CHICAGO WwW A television and | broadcast hookup, billed as the | largest ever arranged for a sports contest, is on tap for Friday night's | college All - Star vs. Los Angeles | | Rams football game. | The Admiral Corporation. spon | Sors of the TV - radio coverage said 55 video stations will carry | @ coast-to-coast telecast of the sol | dier Field contest. Some 400 Mu tual Broadeas: System radio stations will carry it, the corpora ' tion said. postponed, , CHICAGO #—Betsy Rawls, Aus- Standing: Today's Games By The Assocated Press American League Washington at New York (night) Detroit at Cleveland Philadelphia at Boston (night) Chicago at St. Louis National League New York at Brooklyn (night) Boston at Philadelphia (night) St. Louis at Chicago (Only games scheduled) Florida International League Tampa at Havana Lakeland at St. Petersburg Miami at Key West West Palm Beach at Miami Beach Florida State League Orlando at Sanford Jacksonville Beach at Leesburg Cocoa at Palatka DeLand at Daytona Beach By The Associated Press Won Lost National League Brooklyn 71 N. York 62 St. Louis 63 | P'delphia 37 ! Chicago 55 Cnati a7 P‘burgh 32 | American League N. York Cland Boston Wash’ton Chicago P'delphia | St. Louis Detroit Florida Inter: Miami M. Beach Tampa Havana St. P’burg W. P. Beh Lakeland Key West Florida Stete Li DeLand D'tona Bch Jax Beh Palatka Sanford Oriando Leesburg i Cocoa Pet. 33 42 683 568 -528 508 423 Seuss SRE8R Blues w 2 & ~ Po Ee 4 KIEL L2e2B gue BSRRRses 235 596 | 2s | not far behind were Cherry Mc- Farlane and Ruby Caldwell, both bowling for USO-NCCS, with 173 and 171. Charlyne Roberts scored for her CPO team a rather unusual high set of 495, made up of a 164, 165 and 166! USO-NCCS came up with the high scratch game of 729 pins, and the “Chopper” was credited with high team scratch set of 2131. None of these individual or team scores for the week challenged the League’s previous records, which remain: League Hi Single — Vi Donlan — 202. League Hi Triple — Vi Donlan — 541. League Hi Scratch Game — USO- NCCS — 806. League Hi Scratch Set — USO- NCCS — 2238. GE EDGES COCA COLA MONDAY By NESTOR CASTENADA Lightcap’s broken bat single with the bases loaded gave the General Electric a 3-2 victory over Coca Cola in the first game of a sche- duled double header in the Island City Softball league at Bayview Park last night. Alfred Knowles of GE hooked up with Coca Cola’s Donny Williams in a pitching duel. Willams had a three-hitter going into the eighth when Santana opened the inning with a double to right center. After Smith’s per- fect bunt. put Santana on third, Fo- ley was purposely passed to load the bases. Lightcap then singled sharply to center to break up the baHgame. Coca Cola broke the ice in the third inning when Solomon walked and scored moments later when R. Lastres single got past the center- fielder allowing both runners to score. General Electric came back in the fourth and tied the game up on a similar play. Foley beat out an infield hit for the first safety off Williams, Lightcap singled to center, the ball getting away from center fielder John Cruz, allowing both runners tc score. R. Lastres led the Coca Cola at- tack with three hits in four tries. Lightcap was the big gun for GE with four hits in four trips to the plate. In the second game the Navy came from behind with seven runs in the fifth inning to edge VX-1, 8-7. The Navy took the lead in the first inning when doubles by Nelson and Hinton netted them a run. VX-1 however, came back with five runs in the second inning on singles by Delaney, Fink and Sleighter, coupled with a pair of walks and Higgins’ double. They | made it 7-1 in their half of the fifth on Weem’s double, Berkery’s | single, a walk and a fielder’s choice. The Navy opened the fifth with Duncan drawing a base on balls. Hoffman then doubled to right and Bear, the big Navy first baseman then drove both of them across with a scorching single. After Hinton had walked, Rounds delivered a tremendous homer to make the score 7-6. Rhodes, pinch | hitting for Shevlin, beat out an in- field hit and after Harold flied out, | Lowing walked to put the winning | run on base. Hershaft doubled to left to tie up the ballgame and Dun- can, coming to bat for the second time in the inning, hit a slow bouncing ball to third, and Lowring crossed the plate with the winning marker. Hershaft led the Navy attack | with a double an single in three official trips to the plate. Delaney and Higgins shared the hitting honors for the VX-1 collect. j ing a double and single for the | evening The lines scores: Team— | Coca Cola | GE R 002 000 00—2 000 200 013 | VX-1 050 02—7 |Navy _____—._ 106 07-8 #. 81 6 2 8 2 16 2 By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer The time is now for the little miracle of 1952. Dawn of this fateful day — Aug. 12 — again finds the bewildered new York Giants, rocking and reel- ing, far in the wake of the front- running Brooklyns. Once more the pennant is being conceded to the Dodgers’ booming home run power. Once more the Giant cause is a forlorn hope and a prayer. Nine games back — instead of 13 or 13 % as they were last year— the Giants show no sign of an August - September drive such as thrilled the nation in ’51. Sal Maglie is ailing. Willie Mays is in the Army. Monte Irvin still is below par. Larry Jansen isn’t winning. The outlook for another miracle is even darker than last year. A freak of the schedule — or is it fate? — brings the Giants to Brooklyn tonight for a three-game series. The Brooks come into the big series with all guns booming. Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella and Jack- ie Robinson hammered home runs Monday night in a big six-run rally in the sixth inning at Philadelphia to earn an even break for the night. Robin Roberts pitched the Phils to a 7-2 victory in the first half of a twi - night doubleheader for his 18th win. The Phils were out front in the second game, too, on Bill Nicholson’s three - run pinch- homer in the fifth until the Dodger homer barrage . started. When it was over, Brooklyn had the second game in the bag, 9-5. Double disaster. was the story for the Giants in Boston where they followed two shutout defeats with a doubleheader loss to the sixth - place Braves, 11-10 and 4-2. St. Louis also lost ground: to Brooklyn, while absorbing a 10-2 pasting by the Chicago Cubs. Chi- cago’s Hank Sauer slammed his 29th and 30th home runs to his runs batted in total to 96. Allie reynolds’ two - hit shutout and 150th major league victory was the big news in the American League as the New York Yankees blanked Boston 7-0, opening up a 2 ¥% - game lead on idle Cleveland. Cleveland) and Detroit were rained out. So were St. Louis and Chicago in the American, Washington split two with Phila- delphia, the Senators taking the first on pinch hitter Frank Cam- pos’ fly ball with the bases loaded in the ninth, 6-5. The A’s bunched three of their six hits in the sixth to beat Randy Gumpert on singles by Ferris Fain and Dave Philley and Elmer Valo’s double, to win the second 2-1. In the other big league game, Cincinrfati drove Pittsburgh evén deeper into the National League cellar with a 10-4 romp. “PITCH AND CATCH" By GENE Some idea of the rigors of the present Florida International League schedule can be gleaned from the following mileage table which shows the number of miles the Conchs must travel to play games on the road. ; All mileage distances are from Key West. Miami — 167 miles. Miami Beach — 182 miles. Tampa — 400 miles. St. Petersburg — 375 miles. Lakeland — 387 miles. West Palm Beach — 223 miles. Havana, Cuba — 110 miles. Perhaps with the above mileage table in mind, local fans can un- derstand why some of the Key West players do not always per- form at their best. Trying to sleep or rest from a hard game while traveling Florida highways, is not an easy task. Stiff muscles and tired eyes do not enable a_ ball player to produce at his best. It is hoped that the schedule maker for 1953 will be able to shorten the trips and make the se- ries between the league teams of longer duration, thereby easing the strain on league players and cur- tailing expenses. Of course, the demise of Fort Lauderdale and re- placement by Key West added mileage to league travel, but it it a problem which should be intro- | duced at league meetings before MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, | 327; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, 310; | Lockman, New York, .307; Slaugh- ter, St. Louis, .306; Schoendienst, St. Louis, .305. Runs batted in — Sauer, Chicago, 96; Thomson, New York, 74; Hodg- es, Brooklyn and Ennis, Philadel- phia, 73; Slaughter, St. Bouis, 71. Hits — Schoendienst, St. Louis, 138; Musial, St. Louis, 136; Adams, Cincinnati, 134; Lockman, New | York, 127; Hamner, Philadelphia, 121. | Home runs — Sauer, Chicago, 30; Hodges, Brooklyn, 24; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 22; Gordon, Boston, 18; Mathews, Boston, 17. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 8-1 889; Wilhelm, New York, 9-2, 818; Black, Brooklyn, and Yuhas, St Louis, 8-2, 800; Roberts, Philadel- | phia, 18-6, .750; Hearn. New York, 12-4, 70. American League Batting Fain, Philadelphia, 345; Woodling, New York, .323 Kell, Boston, 322; Mitchell, Cieve- land, 83; Robinson, Chicago, 77 Runs batted in — Doby, Cleve land, 83; Robinson, Chcago, 77; Zernial, Philadelphia, 74; Dropo, Detroit, 73; Rosen, Cleveland, 69. Hits — Fox, Chicago, 142; Rob- | inson, Chicago, 132; Fain, Phila delphia, 127; Jensen, Washington, qwy: Avila, Cleveland, 125. Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, | 26; Berra, New York, 23; Zernial | Philadelphia, 21; Robinson, Chi— | cago, Rosen, Cleveland, Dropo, De- | troit and Joost, Philadelphia, 19 | Pitching — Consuegra, Washing | ton, 6-0, 1.000; Raschi, New York. | 13-2, 367; Shantz, Philadelphia, 20 14, 833; Bearden, St Louis, 5-2, GRAHAM the 1953 pennant race gets under~ way. St. Petersburg’s Al Lang Field features a Family Night occasion- ally. All the family is admitted to the ball park for the sum of $1:25 with apparently no restrictions on the size of the group. Perhaps the Key West Club treasury balance is not conductive to such a local pol- icy at this time but at a later date we feel it would be a nice gesture by local baseball and stadium of- ficials. CONCH AVERAGES (Includes game of Aug. Players ABH R RB! Jiminez . 14 4 Lutz ... Reyes Dunl Harig Solis .. Mendez DeSouza .. - = Sak SoeS oaks auwks aio se Sooo oHM EN aANes PITCHING AVERAGES Pitchers IP H BB $0 Mossman. 7 7 6 4 McCall .. 23 2 13 7 Vidal 144 139 113 71 DelMonte .. 176 180 79 64 Haack 155 156 45 39 Solis . 141 111 (62 41 Zielinski .. 7 11 14 3 Olivar Named As Eli Grid Mentor NEW HAVEN, Conn. #— Jordan Olivar, who joined the staff only a few months ago, today was named Yale's acting head football coach. He succeeds Herman Hick- man. = Big, 300 - pound Hickman, one of the nation’s best known coaches, quit Monday for private business. The naming of Olivar and the resignation of Hickman, who had eight years to go on a 10-year ap- pointment, came as big surprises to nearly everybody at Yale, and elsewhere. Hickman signed a public rela- tions job with the General Cigar Company of New York. He alse promised to help Olivar, when time | permits, as a consultant and scout. Olivar was appointed acting head. football coach for the 1952 season only. But, it was believed to be | only a technicality, depending om how the squad he inherits from | Hickman performs. Probably not as well known na- tionally as Hickman, the 37-year- old, Olivar is rated high among | the football coaching fraternity, His experience includes six years at Villanova, where he also cap tained the eleven as a senior, and three years at Loyola of Los Am | geles. | Olivar, whose home is at Ingle | wood, Calif, was reported heading | for New Haves to meet with Hick- man and other members of the | staff later this week. w 1 2 9 7 6 4 ® No player on the West Virginie University baseball team batted | 300 this season. Nevertheless the | Mountaineers tied for second in the | Southern Conference northern dive | sion. 714; Sain, New York and Shea, Washington, 9-4, .602,