The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1952, Page 5

Segoe Vand -rbilt Grid Squad Mourns Loss Cf Stars| ’ * By STERLING SLAPPEY ~ Associated Press Sports Writer “vanderbilt is like an infantry- bottom (9th) of the SEC as we are | anderbilt will ‘| er from iv to win ¢’ “Idle combination of football arge and he is forced to turn‘ o freshmen for help. Bil Kr’ .» is the eyer, a.6-1, 200-pound- ; ransville, 1951, will play tackle on both of- fense and defense. Probably Van- dy’s best remaining guard is John Hall, a Knoxville boy, who between his all - frosh season last year and candidate. and Larry | this month has gained 10 pounds. quarter Frank, a six foot, 180 - pound At- lantan, is the center candidate. No problem exists for Edwards at full and halfback. End looks like a well manned position. In the backfield Vandy sports R. C. Allen, Chuck Newman, John Dodd, Dick Foster, Roy Duncan, Mickey Lakos, Don Gleisner and Jimmy Ray. End Ben Rocerick, along with Mikey Lakos, is a prime Vandy All-SEC candidate. John Cheadle, a strong guard in However, he’s still a lightweight at 182. Coach Edwards is quick to name Guard Roy Keathley, Tackle Earl McCaslin and Jimmy Ray as the most improved Commodores dur- ing spring drills. Vandy’s mark last fall was six victories, five defeats. The Com- modores likely won’t beat that this year but they may do just about as well percentagewise in a 10- game schedule. Conch-Indian Contest Is Rained Out, Flamingos Win . The Key West Conchs gained a respite ‘from the baseball wars last night when a torrential tropi- eal downpour in West Palm Beach gave them a chance to rest up and lick ‘their wounds. And with the present state of the Conch hurling 5 it was a happy thing indeed br ioe locals. The only drawback to the sit- uation is that tonight they will g0 up against the Smokers in a twin bill. Eddie Zielinski, who pitched to it six batters here in Key West onday night is expected to han- jdle the pitching in the opener and ESE 2588 Gaspar DelMonte will twirl in the second contest according to skipper The condition of catcher Frank Monday night! arco re 4 y s wi per- him to see action tonight. , who apparently can anything on the ball- the nod for the back- Beach Flamingos me winning in.the me F af a é vital zeate 3 2 & ? E i at ) standings. . Petersburg Saints beat na Cubans twice, winning 9-1 and the nightcap 1. This gave the Saints a three one-half game lead over the Nerve ne je oer me — Shaughnessy playoffs. The Saints have taken. 14 of the last games. In anothér contest the Tampa Smokers defeated the Lakeland Pi- lots, 5-2. A growd: of 4,789 watched the Fla os and the Sun Sox see- saw pack and forth. The game was tied, up 3-3 after, six innings and fH ao & » it.remainéd that way until Whitey Platt scored on a long fly to center = by George Wehmeyer in the ‘The Tampa Smokers made the most of a series of singles and DeLand Cops Win In FSL By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Préss Staff Writer DeLand and Leesburg batters pounded each others’ pitchers for 10 hits apiece in a Florida State League game Tuesday night, but DeLand wound up with the most runs and won the game 8-3. League leading DeLand broke a 2-2 tie.and went ahead in the sixth inning with three runs on two hits, {two walks and a Leesburg error. | Three more runs in the seventh, on four hits, clinched it. In other games, Daytona Beach beat Palatka 5-1, Sanford trounced Jacksonville Beach 9-4 and Orlan do edged last-place Cocoa 7-6, Daytona Beach, 5% games down in second place, walloped two Pa- latka pitchers for two homers, two triples, a double and two singles to win its game. The home runs were by Sécond Baseman Bot Rucker, in the fifth inning with one’ man on, and First Baseman Gene Pollard, in the sixth. by slapping a lot of hits through a loose Jacksonville Beach infield. . | Three of the Sea-Bird errors were on possible double plays and every error allowed a run to score. Catcher Don Ford knocked a dou- -ble down-the-right field line in the last of the ninth inning to drive in Centerfielder Ray Thomas with Orlando’s winning run over Cocoa. Cocoa scored three times in the > tag inning to tie the game at \Ike To Be Given Welcome MIAMI #—Leaders of the “Flor. ida - for - Eisenhower” movement went ahead with plans to welcome the Republican presidential nomi- nee in Miami Sept. 2 despte a report from Sarasota that the date of the trip was in doubt. William A. Washburne Jr., Sara- sota County Republican campaign walks to chalk up five tallies while | manager, said Tuesday he received the best Lakeland cou'd do was two in the sixth. ri i | CUBA_ BOUND ® a telegram from Arthur E. Sum- merfield, chairman of the Repub- MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .325; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, .314; Lock. | man, New York, .308; Robinson, Brooklyn and Baumholtz, Chicago, 303, Runs batted in — Sauer; Chica- 0, 100; Thomson, New York, 81; Hodges, Brooklyn, 80; Ennis, Phil- adelphia, 77; Slaughter, St, Louis, 1”. Hits — Adams, Cincinnati, 146; Schoendienst, St. Louis, 143; Mu- gial, St. Louis, 142; Lockman, New York, 138; Hamner, Philadelphia, 129, Home Runs — Sauer, Chicago, 31; Hodges, Brooklyn and Kiner, Pittsburgh, 26; Gordon, Boston, 19; Mathews, Boston and Thomson, New York, 18. _ Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 9-1, 900; Wilhelm, New York, 11-2, ;. Black, Brooklyn, 9-2, .808; , St. Louis, 8-2, .800; Roberts, Philadelphia, 20-6, .769, American League Batting — Fain Philadelphia, 335; Woodling, New York, .328; Boston, .315; Goodman, Boston, 306. * Runs batted in — Doby, Cleve- land, 83; Robinson, Chicago, 80; Zernial, Philadelphia, 78; . Berra, New York, 77; Dropo, Detroit, 74. Hits — Fox, Chicago, 150; Robin- son, Chicago,. 139; Jensen, Wash- ington, 137; Fain, Philadelphia, 136; Avila, Cleveland, 135, . Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, 26; Berra, New York, 25; Zernial, Philadelphia, 22; Rosen, Cleveland, 20; four players tied with 19 each, | Pitching — Consuegra, Washing- ton, 6-1, 1.000; Shantz, Philadel- vhia, 21-4, 840; Raschi, New York, 14-3, .624; Gorman, New York 4-1, 800; Bearden St. Louis, 7-2, .778. —_ National Committee, which | “While we are considering an —: SPORTS -— BASEBAI.L _ TUESDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press American League Boston 6 Cleveland 5 Philadelphia 4-6 Detroit 3-5 Chicago 3 New York 1 Washington 2 St. Louis 1 National League New York 5-3 Chicago 0-1 Brooklyn 3-3 Cincinnati 0-5 Philadelphia 10 Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 7 Boston 5 Florida International League Miami Beach 4 Miami 3 (10 in- oe St. Petersburg 9-7 Havana 1-1 Tampe 5 Lakeland 2 Key West at West Palm Beach, ppd, rain. Florida State League Deland 5 Leesburg 3 Daytona Beach 5 Palatka 1 Sanford 9 Jacksonville Beach 4 Orlando 7 Cocoa 6 Today's Games By The Associated Press American League Chicago at New York Detroit ‘at Philadelphia (night) St. Louis at Washington (night) Cleveland at Boston National League New York at Chicago Brooklyn at Cincinnat! Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Boston at St. Louis (night) Florida International League Lakeland at Miami (doublehead- er—no game Thursday) St. Petersburg at West Palm Beach Key West at Tampa Miami Beach at Havana Floride State League Daytona Beach at Palatka DeLand at Leesburg Jacksonville Beach at Sanford at Cocoa. Clearwater In Softball Finals CLEARWATER (® — Clearwater shut out Pensacola 5-0 Tuesday night to win a place in Thursday’s finals of the Florida state softball championships. Clearwater’s opponent Thursday By The Associated Press Won Lost Pct. National League Brooklyn a 38. 661 : New York 68 45 602 | St. Louis 68 49 581 Philadelphia 62 «(53 539 Chicago 58 «60 492 Boston 49° 65 430 Cincinnati 50. «68 424 Pittsburgh 35 (86 289 | American League New York 70 49 588 Cleveland 67 = 50 573 Boston 62 (52 544 Washington 62 «(56 525 Chicago 61 58 513 Philadelphia 59 56513 | St. Louis 50 70 AT Detroit 3979 331 Florida International League Miami Beach 88 43 672 Miami 8945 664 Tampa 1% 57 71 St. Petersburg m6 537 Havana 68 «65 Sil West Palm Beach 59 76 437 Lakeland 47 «89 346 Key West 36 COB 269 Florida State League DeLand 43 16 729 Daytona Beach 38 22 633 Palatka 3206 552 Sanford 30. 29 -508 | Jax Beach 30 0-30 500 Orlando 2 32 -467 Leesburg 2 «(37 373, ‘Cocéa 4 45 237 Marines Take Honors In Pistol Tourney JACKSONVILLE — The Ma- rines won team honors in the na» tional trophy pistol match here Tyesday with a -record-breaking. 1,116 points. Top individual shooter in the match for .45 calibre pistols, orig- Congress, was the Army’s Capt. Bert C. Curtis with 283. The winning marine team was Lt. T. R. Mitchell, 281; Sgt. Wil- liam MeMillan, 279; Corp. Ronald Bisenhower tour in the South, I | will be the winner of Wednesday’s | Schier, 273; Capt. J. Jagoda; 283. am not able at the moment to give | you definite information as to dates i + and places.” game between Hollywood and Pen- sacola. Hollywood got to the semi- | finals with a 7-1 win over Orlando. Army placed second in team competition with 1,096, Navy third with 1,084, the U. S. Border Pa- | trol and the St. Louis police teams inated in 1903 by a special act | tied for fourth at 1,060. 282; W. T. Toney, new national pistol champion from El Paso, Tex., third with 279. Fourth with 278 was Army Sgt. Heulet Benner, last year’s national pistol champ '|from Ft. Kobe in the Panama Canal Zone. Thursday the national smallbore ; | rifle championships begin, Nat'l Amateur Field Trimmed SEATTLE # The double squeeze hits the field in the men’s national amateur golf champion- ship today but such standout chal- lengers as Frank Stranahan, Har- vie Ward Jr., and Charlie Coe are expected to survive the crush. Sixty-four players remained in the field today, awaiting the day's double round. By nightfall at the Seattle Coun- try Club, they will have whittled each other down to a select 16. Two major upsets were regis- tered late Tuesday. The first came when Robert W. | Kuntz, Larchmont, N. Y., former i| Citizen Staff : THE PEPE'S ALL-STAR CAFE NINE wil! journey to Cube Sometime this menth to tangle with the Cuban Amateur Cham- pions. The club which is made-up of top-notch local amateur talent is shown above Back row, from the left: Kaki Rodri- guez, George Lastres, Jackie Gonzalez. ing: Ray Garcia, R. Santana, Jesu Rodriguez, Gil Valdez, Albert Paso, Claude Valdez, Eley Redri is Chino Bairo. E. Henriquez, Alv Leone, Robert Lastres, Wita Cascade svcz an Knee!l- Batboy and Rafe+! Ferrer. Ti s Yale captain and U. S. Marine, eliminated Joe Gagliardi, Mamaro- when he defeated the defending cham- ever, 3 and 2 The field's youngest star, i7- year-old Donald Bisplinghoff. Or lando, Fla., whe won from Anthony Second individual shooter was the Marines’ Sgt. McMillan, with ' Wednesdaw, Asgust 20, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 ROBERTS HURLS 20TH WIN FOR PHILLIES. By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Who is the best pitcher in base- ball today? The folks of Pottstown, Pa., point to their own Bobby Shantz, the pint-sized southpaw of the Ath- letics, as the game’s top hurler. The citizens of Springfield, I., contend that their Robin Roberts, ie oe of the Phillies, is the plete game in 28 starts Tuesday night as the Phils outslugged Pitts- burgh, 10-5. The Pirates four times in the last two after the Phils had built up a 9-1 lead. It marked the third straight year that the 25-year-old righthand- er has reached the 20-win mark. The Athletics didn’t need the service of Shantz as they swe; a double header from the low! Detroit Tigers, 43 and 6-5, to climb into a fifth-place tie with Chicago and advance within nine games of the pace-setting New York Yankees, Although beaten by the White Sox, 3-1, the Yankees managed to retain their two game advantage over the runner-up Cleveland In- dians who lost 6-5, to the Red Sox in Boston. Washington clung to fourth place, edging the St. Louis Browns, 2-1. The National League race tight- ened as the Cincinnati Reds held the front running Brooklyn Dodg- ers to a split in their doubleheader while the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals and Phillies all won, ; The Reds won their first game of the year from Brooklyn in Cin- cinnati as they snapped a 3-3 tie in the eighth to take a 5-3 night- cap win after the Brooks had won ‘the opener, 3-0. The Leo Durocherless New York Giants sliced Brooklyn’s lead to six and a half games, sweeping a pair from the Cubs in Chicago, 5-0 and 3-1. % * The third place Cardinals moved to within eight and a half games of the top, defeating the Boston | future so that Braves, 7-5, on the strength of two- | exténded from By SAM SUMMERLIN Woman Cleared Of Slaying Pact BLOUNTSTOWN (®— Primitive Baptist Preacher Jess W. Ayers SEOUL, Korea (#—The U. S. | was still in jail Tuesday but the Fifth Air Force said about 200 Air | woman he implicated last week in Force and Navy warplanes today | his story of a slaying pact was billeting area on the Coast about 25 miles of Pyongyang. m American carrit on the . They were followed by Fifth e damaged. explosions the area as bombs smacked id buildings. said its to- claims from the ll not be known until : ; ic £ H < On Angela Street City Attorney Lester will prepare the necessary papers in the near Angela St. can be White through to run homers by rookie Vern Ben-| North Beach Road. son and Red Schoendienst. expressed —— | desire Monday night that a 30’ City commissioners a Petry, Oakland, 4 and 3, took on | right-of-way be acquired and that Lloyd Ribner, White Plains, N. Y.|the present undesirable crowded Beach, beat Hillman Robbins Jr., peal the dead-end street be Memphis, 4 and 2. — from ingredients Communist ammunition sup- | freed. Mrs. Flossie Pumphrey, 39, Ay- ers’ stepdaughter, was cleared of Red capital of | Ayers’ charge that they agreed last October to- kill his wife and her husband, who died suddenly Oct. 14 - | of what were listed as natural Ayers Tuesday had a new story to tell Circuit Judge E. C. Wel Korean East Coast ' who released Mrs. Pumphrey ai the target first—shortly after | also approved a motion to exhume the body of her husband, farmer and grocer Luther Pumphrey. Ayers told the judge that he was kidnaped by three armed strangers last Wednesday and forced to make . | his “confession.” Ayers was left in jail to await a sanity hearing. a QUAN, BORN OF WOMAN, (Ss OF FEW DAYS AND THEN A DEAD END NX SERVICE AND QUALITY MERCHANDISE HAVE NO DEAD END DICK’S TIRE SERVICE Ph. 778 929 Truman Ave. character, that comes stand-up krow-how in handling the sensitive of beer. 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