The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1952, Page 5

Whursday, August 14, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 8 | MAX CAREY, EX-BIG LEAGUER WILL GET TRACK POST —: SPORTS :— Billy Harris Loses No-Hitter In Ninth On Dunlap 's Two Out Double Miami Edges Key West. 2-0. Vidal Gives But Six Hits Wednesday * By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor Within one out of a coveted no- hit ballgame, hurler Billy Harris of the Miami Sun Sox saw it go out the window last night when Key West’s Frank Dunlap poled out a ninth inning double to center field as the Sox shaded the Conchs, 2-0 for their third straight victory over the cellar dwelling locals. _ After Vidal had popped to short- stop in the fateful ninth, Harris re- tired Mendez on strikes and Dunlap eame to the plate to lofted a long fly to center field which Rocky Rotzell gloved but couldn’t hold. Official scorer Oscar Milian ruled . that it was a basehit. It was win number 21 for the season for Harris and he earned it all the way. It also marked his ith shutout. At one stretch he retired nine- teen straight batters. While Harris was making his bid for fame, Key West’s George Vi- dal was hurling nice ball as well. Giving up but six hits, the Sun; Sox were able to score but two | runs in the sixth frame, to capture the win. Jim Bragan did the damage in that inning when he led off with a screaming triple to center field. Armstrong reached first on a walk and Rocky Rotzell came through with a clutch single to “push Bragan across. Armstrong scored mements later on Ed Lit- tle’s long fly. a The Conchs got nothing that even looked like a hit throughout the contest. Harris walked Severino Mendez to open the ballgame and then settled down to scratch the next nineteen batters to face him. | In the seventh; only thing even issued and Reyes. out of that one and coasted along until the heartbreaking ninth. Fanning t ‘onch batsmen, Harris retired side on strikes in the eighth. Vidal did the same in the fifth, inning. Meanwhile, the Miami Beach Flamingos, who trail the Sun Sox by less than a full game, continued their battle for first place by edg- ing the West Palm Beach Indians 3-2 for their eighth consecutive vic- tory. The Flamingos got all their runs in the ‘first inning on an error, a-triple by Ray Williams, and sin- gles by Jesse Levan and Whitey Platt. St. Petersburg scored twice in the top of the ninth to defeat the Lakeland Pilots 3-1. Lakeland came right back to load the bases with nobody out in its half of the ninth, but pitcher Joe Kirkland put out the fire by getting two batters on ‘pop-ups and striking out Babe Glunt. Havana pushed across six runs in the last two innings to beat Tampa 6-1. . DUGOUT DIGGINGS: Tonight the Sox and the Conchs go at it in the series finale set for 8:15 p.m. at the Wickers Field stadium. Key West fans, evidently smart- | ing under the previous evenings’ performance, missed a.whale of a ball game last night, when they stayed away from the ballpark. A slim crowd appeared. Harris throws hard. It appears that Billy likes to throw them fast and high. Very seldom did he aim a ball around the knees of the Conch hitters. And that ball does funny things when he flicks it. It looked as if Max Macon was going to start repetition of Tues- day night’s hassle when he charged out of the dugout to protest a de. cision by umpire Williams in the opening frame. Our boy Willie would have none of'that, however You could have heard a craw fish picking his teeth in center field last night in the tense; dra- ma filled ninth inning. When Vidal, leading off, drove a screehing lin- er to short, it looked like a sure base hit. However, Humberto Fernandez managed to hang on to the pelota. Harris, working like a demon then got to Mendez on strikes to set the stage fof Dun- lap’s much discussed hit. Harig’s pop to third to end the game was an anti-climax. MIAMI Players— ABR Fernandez, ss . 5 Bragan, 2b _3 Armstrong, If _ 3 Rotzell, rf 4 Sierra, lb 2 Kwiatkowski, cf 2 Little. c ~ af Gray, 3b - Harris, p - v fo} mH ororocowry, eooocorrte Coon en won ne Soawone ecocorcooom Totals— 31 2°627 7 1 KEY WEST Dunlap, c Harig, If Reyes, 3b -... Lutz, rf Solis, 1b Felder, 2b ~. Bosch, ss = Vidal; p:—1 coccooco+eE meee oa PONNON SOD mrooocooces owe wet mes “escooocce O70 1.20 18 2 Miami . 000 002 000—2 Key West . 000 000 000—0 RBI — Rotzell, Little, 27 — Totals- — Miami 7, Key West 2. SO — Harris 3, Vidal 5. Bd — Harris 10, Vidal 5. DP -- Sierra, Fer- nandez and Sierra; Bosch, Felder and Soliz. U — Williams, Kry- siak, Gugliermo. T — Frank Secory, new Natijonal League umpire, came to the sen- vior circuit from the Texas League where he spent the past three seasons. We are forced te vacate by August 18... here is your chance te make drastic savings — come in early! @ SHORTS @ UNIFORMS (BLUE and WHITE) @ UNDERWEAR. E On All MERCHANDISE DURING OUR tc. NAVY 421 DUVAL STREET TAILOR Sierra, Dunlap. S — Sierra, Left | High School Grid Hopefuls State Meeting A meeting of candidates for its second foorvail squad will be held at the high school gym af 7 p.m. Friday, August 15. Coach Ed Beckman will intro. fuce John Davis, the new assist int coach, te the squad anc ‘tans will be formulated fo: ractice sessions. After the meeting movies o' fast year’s games will be .re siewed. The Conchs face a tough sche dule of ten games, eight of whict will be played at heme. Work has already started tc ready Wickers stadium for the opening game with Gesu High oi Miami on September 19. By The Associated Press Won Lest American League «ew York Cleveland Boston Washington Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Detroit » National League Brooklyn New York ' St. Louis Philadelphia Chiergo Boston Cincinnati Pittsburgh Fo ida International Miami 86 umes Havana 65 St. Petersburg 66 West %olm Beach 58 Take and ~ “4 Key West Kr Fiycida State League De and 39 Da:t-na Beach 33 Jaxvil2 Beach 29 Palatka 27 San‘ord 21 Orlando 25 Lersb rg 20 , Cocoa ‘ 12 Pet. 581 563 542 527 518 514 426 330 ASRSSeBsR BESRSSSS 679 S71 3ST 527 505 435 425 281 agve 672 528 524 446 341 262 BESSELBS it 72 138 611 537 529 509 RSRERES RRSSEMESTRSLRRSSS 41 726 ;Warhington Lad Holds JayCee Tourney Lead © EUGENE, Ore. ‘P—Roger Boyd, \7-year-old from Tacoma, Wash., held a narrow lead today as the nation’s youngsters headed for the OPPOSITE LA CONCHA HOTEL } ONLY OLD BROILER LONDON (#—Police cordoned off a wide area and a bomb disposal squad was called when a steam shovel scooped up a large oblong | st. Louis 5-1 Cleveland 2-9 metal object at a gravel pit here.| Chicago 7 Detroit 1 * Residents of the area breathed easier when the bomb experts an- | Brooklyn 5-4 New York 48 nounced it was only an old boiler. | Cincinnati 11-0 Chicago 3-7 halfway mark of the annual Jay- cee junior golf tournament. The Washington state junior champ, who reached the quarter. finals of last year’s Jaycee tourney at Durham, N. C., equalled par 37-35—72 on the 6600-yard Eugene Country Club Wednesday, This surprised Boyd as much as anyone else, for he had not been ' shooting well in qualifying rounds. ‘ He was 16 strokes over par in the qualifications, and he went two more strokes over par on the first two holes. Suddenly his game turned. He | slipped over par- only twice the | rest of the day, meanwhile running home four birdies and ten pars. There were 18 other players close on his heels, though, as the 100 entrants in this Junior Cham ber of Commerce tourney began to learn how to avoid the numerous trees along the fairways. Only one stroke back were the dangerous Don Bisplinghoff, Or. Jando, Fla.; Buddy Manderson, Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Scotty Fra- ser, Panama City, Fla. The shooting of the Florida boys won them the team championship in a playoff with California. The four-man teams had tied earlier at 610 strokes each. Florida won the playoff, 299 to 313, SPORTSWRITER JACKSONVILLE (®# — Jackson ville Journal Sports Editor Joe Liv ingston laughed in print Wednes day after he said a baseball man ager threatened him with “physi cal retaliation.” acergeet ‘said Crowther Boyd business manager of the South At lantic League’s Jacksonville Tars, “called me on the phone to cry in profane terms over the column which appeared here Monday.” Livingston said in the first para graph of Wednesday's column tha‘ Boyd’s thrgat made it “the da) for laughter—riotous, rollicking tib-breaking laughter.” Then he continued that “I havc many a bitter story from players and every manager who has been heré since 1948—and that is four not including the present onc—has confided the pathetic relations and lack of co-operation Mr. Boyd has given them in their efforts to win _ the pennant. . . The reputation has © spread. Unhappy players do not win pennants.” Livingston said in his column Monday he had written that ‘when tle in 1949. 1 BASEBALL WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press American League Washington 12-9 New York 4-10 (Second game 13 innings) Boston 4 Philadelphia 0 National League. Philadelphia 3-3 Boston 0-9 (Only games scheduled.) Florida International League Miami 2 Key West 0 Miami Beach 3 West Palm Beach 2 St. Petersburg 3 Lakeland 1 Havana 6 Tampa 1 Florida State League Leesburg 7-2 Sanford 4-17 Daytona Beach 5 Cocoa 3 DeLand 4 Jacksonville Beach 2 Palatka 6 Orlando 1 Today's Games By The Associated Press American League Vashington at New York *hiladelphia at Boston (2) “‘hicago at Detroit Only games scheduled) National League New York at Brooklyn Boston at Philadelphia Cincinnati at Chicago Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) Florida International League Lakeland at St. Petersburg Havana at Tampa Miami at Key West West Palm Beach at Miami Bea Florida State League YeLand at Jacksonville Beach Orlando at Palatka Cocoa at Daytona Beach Leesburg at Sanford | attempting the | ed his ball club. Also I might add | Decries Umpiring August 13, 1952 Sports Editor Key West Citizen Key West, Florida Editor: UMPIRES — WICKER'’S STAD- IUM — UMPIRES — THE KEY WEST CONCHS. Tuesday night a crowd of well over — 1,000 people witnessed one of the sor- riest assortments of decisions ever made in one baseball game. Speak- ing of the Miami-Key West double header held at Wicker’s Stadium. The foul plays called by the um- pires on the Key West ball club were so obvious that a near riot was in the offing about. 8:30. Just to mention a few of the plays that were called that were enough to turn the average base- ball fan sour against the game | are given. (Withholding all names). The incident of a Miami player ‘Steal Home’ on tthe Key West pitcher. The catch- }er saw the runner coming, the pitcher fired the ball. The catcher dropped on his knee, completely covered home plate and when the Miami player finished his slide into the home plate he was call- ed SAFE. At no time when the | Miami plaver went into his ‘hook slide’ did he ever get any closer to home plate than two feet away. Not more than ten minutes had passed when another Miami play- | er interferred with the ‘pickle’ be- tween third and home. The ball }was hit with the interference of tthe base runner by his swinging arms, this player also was al- | lowed to score. Shortly after this the manager of the Key West team was told to leave the game by the Umpire, only because he protested so vigorously to the outlandish and outrageous decision that was hand- ; | | the umpire calling the plays at THREATENED. ittendance # poor it is time to sk the fans why they are stay ng away and what they want _ He said Boyd “called me up au ussed me oul. 7 have never ha nybody talk to me like tat.” He said according to record he Tars have been in the first d ision only twice in Boyd's 13 year: 1s business maneger. Livingston said an hour and alf after his Wednesday colun Yppeared he had some 20 cal rom fans. and that all of the cal ‘rs complimented him on the co: mn. The cost for ¢ pair of jockey’s 20 to $30. A pair of | use on muddy | -- | Catcher White of the | Boston Ri sons for ersit | ington beiore signing with Seat Dog Track Official saiaaane MAX CAREY. ex-Major League baseta he visited The C appointment as p! vel Club Dog Track. izen office first base and second base. The | catcher made an attempt to stop a stolen base with the runner go- | ing for second, ‘The umpire was standing directly behind the pitcher and in front of the second baseman so that when the ball was thrown by the Key West catcher, the umpire man- aged to be in the way to block the view of the ball from the re- ‘eiving second baseman. | This letter is written in the) hopes that the president and staff behind the administration of the <ey West ball club will endeavor ‘© acquire men that are capable | xf watching over a ball game the | way it should be watched over. These people proved in the game! last night that they are not UM- Former Dodger Manager To Be Presiding Judge If The County Permits Dog Racing Max Carey, one of base- t- ball’s immortals, has been named presiding judge of the proposed Key West Dog Track, Stock Island. The well-known Miami Beach athlete will be charge of all racing at the track, ap- prove the proposed dog track. Carey previously held a similar Position with the Biscayne dog track of Miami. Under Carey will be an. Associate Judge, Paddock Judge, veterinarian. All these offi- cials will be duplicated by State appointees in similar jobs. Carey broke into the Majors with Pittsburgh, and was a Pirate for 17 years. He later played with Brooklyn, and managed the club} for two years, During his tenure as Dodger Manager, he traded the righthand fast-baller Dazzy Vance for Carroll and Flowers. This trade was, ben- eficial for Brooklyn in that Carroll should voters PIRES. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe all the plays were called correct- ly, but 1,000 irrate fans couldn't be wrong. KEY WEST has been beaten and beaten badly, they have lost games to some good ball clubs, they have won games from good clubs, but, that game last night was a farce. Nine players on the opposition are hard enough to beat, but it is a known fact that with the MIAMI BEACH FLAM- INGOS so close our nine playing CONCHS can’t beat nine playing Sun Soxers and the three umpires. Leo B. Kolbe, YN2, USN Italy Gets Ready ROME #~Italy’s armed forces have been strengthened by some 800 tanks and 328 war planes since the American military aid program began, it was reported today. The Rome News Agency, which usually depends on official soure- es, said also that 63 of the planes were jet-propelled. Other American aid to Italy has included the transfer of two de- stroyers, three escort vessels and 31 landing craft, the agency re- ported, - won 12 games for Carey while Vance was able.to garner only five. The Pittsburgh the record for more games (738) than any Nae tional League ball player in his- tory. Only Cobb and Speaker sur- pass his record in the American League. Asked a Citizen reporter: “Max, they always said you made your great base-stealing record by head- work not speed, how did you do ‘I don’t know how that story got going. I'd like to have it stopped somehow. How can anybody say I didn't have speed when I stole 51 bases out of 53 tries in one year, and the next year was thrown out only four times out of 46 attempts. “One day I hit a single ever the pitcher’s mound into center-field. I made second on the hit, and Goose’ Goslin told me that I was the fastest man he ever saw on the bases. I have even broken the world’s record for circling the bases. 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