The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 26, 1952, Page 5

Kentucky Grid Squad Hurt By Scandal Talk By STERLING SLAPPEY Associated Press Sports Writer If Kentucky football players are like most other impressionable youngsters in their ‘teens or early 20’s, they need a rousing pep talk, @ pat on the back and assurances that everything is going to turn out okay. Many of them must be far down in the dumps with chances of going lower, It’s hard to see how they can help wondering just what may hap- next at Kentucky, Th 18 months ago king of Sugar Bowl and king of col- basketball—today is in trou- and the end isn’t in sight. football , practice due to start in less than a week Kentucky | an NCAA investigation lato its bas- ketball affairs. Within the past month the SEC expelled Kentucky from conference basketball for a year. Three immortal Kentucky basketball players were found to be point manipulators and another former star is in a legal entangle- ment. In a different action the SEC also tuled Kentucky’s best football Payee cubetitute tackle, inelight lus a 5 le. Lei SEC Commissioner Ber- nie Moore ruled that Donaldson received outside financial aid, the 1952 Wildcats were considered fifth best in the-12-team Southeastern. Judges were men who know—head coaches in-the SEC. After the loss of Donaldson and affairs are badly jumbled. college awaits the outcome of consideration, of how. adversely Kentucky morale may be affected by all the goings probably would rate Kentucky dif- differently, loss of i three first magnitude stars in Quarter- back Babe Parilli, Center Doug Moseley and Guard-Tackle Jim McKenzie. Their eligibility ran out when Kentucky needed them most. Even with the loss of McKenzie, the tackle situation should be im- Conchs Wallop Lakeland, ~ 8-2; DelMonte Goes Limit |Basep VIRGIL TRUCKS Mendez And DeSouza Lead Conchs To Win + The Key West Conchs bested the Lakeland Pilots last night in a «game which ‘might well have de- cided the tail-end championship of the Florida International League. Copping the win by an 8-2 score, the game gave them a 2-1 edge in the,series with the seventh place Lakelanders. Severino Mendez and Chickie Desouza were the big guns in the Conchs assault which put them in the lead in the opening frame—— an edge which they never relin- quished, Mendez, with a triple and a pair of doubles found his batting eye with a venegeance. , Gaspar DelMonte started on the mound for the Conchs and when the smoke of battle had cleared, he had given the Pilots but seven a pair of runs, one of eee omfortable margin which proved to be all they needed for the win. Miami’s hopes for a Florida In- ternational League pennant bright- ened Monday night as the Sun Sox defeated Havana, 4-2, to sweep a 3-game series. ‘! , Pia fei gid increased Mipats ead to 144 games over Miami Beach Flamingos, who gpfit a doubleheader with St. burg. ‘ Miami, in its last. game of the season with Havana, conquered the Cubans with two runs in the sey- of gg a 3-hit- ines a 2-run Beach came back to shut 2.58 rfl of money. according to By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer Virgil (Fire) Trucks was riding om the clouds today: but if the double ho-hit pitcher of the Detroit , Tigers was going around in circles, who could blame him? The 33-year-old righthander, suf- fering his poorest season jn the majors, suddenly finds himself in the pitchers’ mythical Hall ‘of Fame, joining Johnny Vander Meer and Allie Reynolds on a pedestal | reserved for those who achieve two no-hitters in the same season. York Yankees hitless and won, 1-0, in a sensational, thrill-packed per-" formance that cut the world cham- pions’ American League lead to one game over the Cleveland In- dians, who defeated Washington, months and 10 days after he hand- cuffed the Washington Senators without ‘a hit or a run on May 15. The Birmingham fireballer also has pitched a one-hitter, a 2-hitter, a 4hitter, a 5-hitter and two 6-hit 7-2. The classic came just three | ball, HURLS SECOND PERFECT GAME in his glove as he tried to pick it out for the throw to first. After | one bad stab, he grabbed it but the toss was low and late and Rizzuto was safe. John Drebinger, official scorer and veteran baseball writer of the New York Times, called it an er- ; tor immediately and the “E” was | flashed on the scoreboard in cen- Then, after a moment’s lection, he reversed himself. Un- the impression that the ball d stuck in the webbing of Pes- Sere Drebinger changed it to it. Still not satisfied, Drebinger tel- ephoned Pesky in the visitors’ dug- out as the Tigers came to bat in the seventh and the shortstop Teadily took the blame. “It was my fault. I booted the ," he explained. “I had it in my glove but it squirted loose just as I reached to take it out.” Drebinger then reversed himself again, ruled it an error and had the public address system an- nounce it to customers. The hospi lubbed Connie Mar- 1 rero for sweeping botl j day-night St. Louis. doubleheader, 3-1 and 9-5, to boost their National League lead to 10%, games. The New York Giants slipped past the Cardinals into second place de- | spite a 3-0 loss to Cincinnati. No other games were scheduled. d Miami Make Pact ee el - in Beane HONSCOMmMPD il ~ ~ bd S eo CHocronnw a enorourmnwt cunaninmw sd vVnwoooeorwro> eocecescoom es T |3B — Stewart; HR — Ellis (mone fon); S vent and Reyes; BB — DelMonte BIRMINGHAM # — Athletic The contract, drawn up in South- eastern Conference Commissioner reported at getting Miami to conform in a large degree with SEC regulations governing athletic scholarships and transfers of football players from | schools. A prief statement issued by Moore said merely that he had a new contract between lations.” belongs to no major con- has unsuccessfully to the South- past. The game be- Florida has headliner in that here was attended Woodruff, Florida athletic Miami's Athletic Di- Harding and Football Gustafson. except to contra: athletic schools for ae 1 gil | g 3 | iL eft Bre HT i a8 8 teams this Georgia, Ly cy Fe | : } i — DeiMonte 5 18 : 5; Winning — DelMonte; Losing — Lutz, Felder, DelMonte;| Glock; Left — Lakeland 10, Key) The capital of Indenesia | DB — Salvent. Reyes, Felder, Sal-| West 15; T — 2:05, U — Krysiak,| Jakarta, new name for © Williams; scorer — Milian. on, SEC coaches ! proved. The two big reasons are Bob Fry and Frank, Fuller. Ken- tucky coaches say Fry is the best tackle in the country and that Ful- ler is the best defensive tackle in the SEC. John Griggs is the third Wildcat considered either of All-America or All-SEC ealiber. He’s a fine | linebacker and offensive ceftter. While the tackle situation may | be well off, Kentucky’s two great ' sore spots will be quarterback and ' defensive center. Griggs is fine but more than one good linebacker is _ needed in modern football. | A 55-man varsity squad (not counting freshmen) is more heavi ly sprinkled with Kentuckians than any recent Wildcat team, which is in line with Bryant’s statement last ‘winter that Wildcat recruiting | MONDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press National League Brooklyn 3-9 St. Louis 1-5 Cincinnati 3 New York 0 Philadelphia 6 Chicago 3 (10 in- nings) Only games American League Detroit 1 New York 0 Cleveland 7 Washington 2 Only games Florida International League Miami 4 Havana 2 St. Petersburg 2-0 Miami Beach 1-2 Tampa 9 West Palm Beach 6 Key West 8 Lakeland 2 Florida State League DeLand 5 Daytona Beach 1 Jacksonville Beach 6 Leesburg 3 Sanford 9 Orlando 2 By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet, National League Brooklyn 80 New York 70 St. Louis 72 Philadelphia 65 Chicago 60 Cincinnati 54 Boston 52 Pittsburgh 37 American League New York 72 Cleveland 70 Boston 66 Philadelphia 63 Chicago 65 Washington 64 St. Louis 52. - Detroit 42 Florida International Miami Miami Beach Tampa i St. Petersburg Havana 70 West Palm Beach 60 Lakeland _ 48 (94 Key West 39° «101 Florida State League DeLand 49 Daytona Beach Palatka Jaxville Beach Sanford Orlando Leesburg Cocoa Today's Games By The Associated Press American League 872 583 581 480 435, 433 291 SSeres SSSRSRss HSEuHEE 5 $i League a 3 so 6, 58 66 71 81 BRRBRYRS BBSERRE 6 23 2 31 33 36 10 50 ; | St. Louis at New York (night) Detroit at Boston (night) Cleveland at Philadelphia (night) Chicago at Washington (night) National League | New York at Pittsburgh (night) Brooklyn at St. Louis (night) ! Boston at Cincinnati (night) Philadelphia at Chicago Florida International League Miami Beach at Lakeland Key West at St. Petersburg Havana at West Palm Beach Tampa at Miami Florida State League Palatka at Leesburg DeLand at Orlando ; Sanford at Daytona Beach Jacksonville Beach at Cocoa Women’s Softball CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. #—Witb the blue chips down, Hanes Hos- | iery, Winston-Salem, N. C., sewed up the Southern women’s regional | softball crown Monday night. Hanes nicked Atlanta's Brisco Inc.. 14, after the Georgia team sent the tournament down to the last wire with a 42 victory in the first game. Earlier Atlanta eliminated the defending champions, R. H. Hail, | St. Petersburg, Fla., 20, to earn {the right to meet the undefeated ; Hanes team in the double elimi- nation meet. Carolyn Henderson powdered a home run in the top { tallies. a Ba tavia, 537, | would bea home state operation from now on. The squad, withthe big morale _ question mark hanging around, | must work its way through an 11- "game schedule well loaded with danger. Villanova, Mississippi, L. §. U., Tulane and Clemson play in Lexington while the Wildcats go ! forth against the Texas Aggies, Mississippi State, Cincinnati, Mi ami (Fla.), Tennessee and Florida. Whether Kentucky wins as many as seven out of that bunch won't affect one thing—the Wildcats can’t miss making a lot of money play- ing those teams. The schedule isn’t designed to ease the Wildcats into their fourth straight major bowl although the Wildcats got to the Cotton Bowl last January after a ‘ schedule almost that rough. SPORTS :— LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press American League Batting — Fain, Philadelphia, .337; Mitchell, Cleveland, .332; Woodling, New York, .320; Kell Boston, .312; Goodman, Boston, -308. Runs batted in — Zernial, Phil- adelphia, 87; Doby, Cleveland, 86; Robinson, Chicago, 84; Berra, New York, 78; Rosen, Cleveland, and Dropo, Detroit, 76. Hits — Fox, Chicago, 161; Avila, Cleveland, and Fain, Philadelphia, 144; Robinson, Chicago, 143; Jen- sen, Washington, 141. Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, 27; Berra, New York, 25; Zernial, Philadelphia, 24; Easter, Cleve land, 22; Rosen, Cleveland, 21. Pitching — Consuegra, Washing- ton, 6-0, 1.000; Shantz, Philadel- phia, 22-4, .846; Raschi, New York, 15-3, 833; Benton, Boston 4-1, .800; Bearden, St. Louis, 7-3, .700. National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .325; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, 317; Lock man, New York, .307; Robinson, Brooklyn, .305; Atwell and Baum- holtz, Chicago, .302. Runs batted in — Sauer, Chicago, 108; Thomson, New York, 87; Hodges, Brooklyn, 85; Ennis, Phil- adelphia, 82; Campanella, Brook- y lyn, 81. = “ Hits-— Adams, Cincinnati, 154; Musial and Schoendienst, St. Louis, 150; Lockman, New York, 146; En- nis, Philadelphia, 136. Home runs — Sauer, Chicago, 34; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 28; Hodges, Brooklyn, 27; Gordon, Boston, 20 Thomson, New York, 19. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 10-1, 909; Black, Brooklyn, 10-2, .833; Yuhas, St. Louis, 8-2, .800; Wil- helm, New York, 1®3, .786; Rob- erts Philadelphia, 20-7, .741, Fifteen Vets Report For FSU Drills TALLAHASSEE (®—Eighty car didates for the Florida State Uni- versity varsity football squed re port to head Coach Don Veller to- day to open fall drills. Included are 15 lettermen from last year’s team which compiled a 6-2 record. Veller plans morning and after. noon practice sessions to prepare his squad for a 10-game schedule that is the most rugged in FSU’s brief gridiron history. Georgia Tech, North Carolinz State, VMI, Louisville, Mississipp‘ Southern and Furman will test the Seminoles this season along with such now traditional foes as Stet- sen, Tampa and Wofford following the opener against Louisiana Tech here Sept. 27. Veller expects to put his squad through contact work with a full- scale scrimmage as early as Wednesday. More than 40 freshmen are in- eluded in the opening day squad and Veller said the atility of the Seminoles to cope with their oppo- nents will depend on finding first- year men who can fill the gaps left by graduation of such stal- warts as Little All-America Guard Bill Dawkins and Fullback Mike Sellers. - Veller who plans a wide open offensive this year, is putting much reliance in a pair of crack fresh- men passers—Billy Rabon, Fitz- gerald, Ga., and Frank Henico, Linton, Ind. The ‘returning lettermen are ends Curt Campbell and Jimmie Lee Taylor; Tackl-- Vie Szcepanik and 4. of the seventh with a runner on Bob Wodrich; Guards Charles | lock (Mendez, base to drive in the game’s only Booth, Preston Bradley, Charies | i j Brown and John Karlowicz; center Steve Kalenich, and “Backs Roy is Thompscn, Bobby Fiveash Nelson $1 victory for DeLand over Da: Raliane, Dick Turk, Mac Hucy and Harry Bringger, From The Press Box By OSCAR MILIAN Rene Solis’ shutout victory over | the Tampa Smokers last Thursday night boosted the: Conch twirler’s consecutive scoreless innings to 21 Tuesday, August 26, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page $ Local Queen Of Swat allowing 8 hits in 2 games and/ 3 innings. | _ Willie Felder, the Conch’s rookie | infielder is doing a pretty good job at second base. In the last several games he has handled 41 chances with 3 miscues chalked against him. Ever noticed a very busy charac ter jotting notes on a score card along the third base line bleachers? The busy gent is none other than } ‘ Dr. Herman K. Moore, In many | instances he meets the official scorer on the way out of the base ball park after the games and will say “I agreed with you tonight” to which Mrs. Moore, asks“‘agreed to what?” There was a middle aged gent sitting just below the press box the other night, and he was com- menting on the Key West baseball team. He liked the way they fight and play to win. He specially ap- proved of the way they argued with the umpire when they thought the ump was wrong. The name of the fan could not be learned at that time but later I was able to find out that-he was a Korean veteran and had just got back from over- seas and incidentally it was the ; first ball game he had seen since coming back. It was also learned that he hailed from Brooklyn, | which of course explains his ap- proval of the old familiar call “kill the ump.” Barney Lutz, the Conchs playing manager, makes the average high school kid look sick as far as speed is concerned. Did you _ notice Barney who calls himself old at 34, stretch a base hit into a double in the first of the three game ' series with Lakeland last Saturday night? That wasn’t all the speed hs displayed for one game for he stole second and went all the way to third when the catcher’s throw got away from Joe Burgos and later give his club its first tally. Are Key West baseball fans sel fish? You answer that one. How ever, we do know and see it every | night, at Wicker’s Stadium that when a local player kicks on the umps decision they are applauded all the way through. What happens when one of the visitors call the umpire a “blind bat” we boo ’em , til they get.dizzy all through the ‘game. Remember Max Macon of the Sun Sox? and Vern Watercutter of the Lakeland? Not to say any- thing about Hank Anderson, Tam- pa’s third baseman. Nat'l Amateur Goes Into 2nd Round Today VANCOUVER, B. C. (#—Defend- ing Champion Walt McElroy, Van- couver, and some other late start- ers got into the act today, realiz- ing the man to beat in the 1952 edition of the Canadian Amateur from East Rochester, N. Y., Sam- my Urzetta. McElroy drew a bye in Mon- day’s opening round. So did Billy Campbell, the tall politician from | Huntington, W. Va., and equally | tall Bill Mawhinney, Vancouver, the 1950 champ. The Capiano Golf Course was sodden with rain—and so were the 110 golfers—in the opening 18 holes of play Monday and the weather- man could promise only “variable cloudiness” for today’s second 18. To Urzetta, 1950 U. S. amateur champ, the weather seemed to ; make not a bit of difference. He | hammered around the first nine in 33—four under par—and needed just four more holes to close out Bill MacPherson, Seattle. He fin- ished three under par. | Almost as bot as Sammy was | Bill Shields, Albany, N. Y., who | was two under par for 17 holes | but got stiffer competition before | he bested R. G. Moir, Powell Riv- jer, B. C., 2 and 1. Robert Roos, | San Francisco, earned the right to take the first crack at McElroy | by trouncing M. Brown, Vancou- ver, 7 and 5. Vie Painter, Victoria, B. C., trimmed Omer Bogan, fresh from victory in the U. S. Public Links | Championships, 3 and 1. ‘DeLand Triumvhs Over Daytona Mon. j By The Associated Press | Jack Cade slams his way along toward the Florida State League | batting title and Jacksonville | Beach, Daytona Beach and Palatka | jockey for playoff positions; but the crown of attention Monday night rested on the heads of the ‘Red Roberts, winningest south- Paw in the league, tossed a Shit y- tona Beach. Joe Angel won his | 18th, a 63. Jacksonville Beach de- ; si Evang Studia MISS MARIE RENDUELES is shown above.as'she squares off Golf Tournament is the slugger | to take a poke at the ball as a member of the Evans Enterprises Girl's softball team. Originally, it was planned to form a loop of “Sixteen Inch Softball” teams but present plans call for con- ventional type ball clubs. “PITCH AND CATCH" By GENE GRAHAM As honorary president of the Key West Boosters Club we would sug gest that a post-season baseball game between the Key West Conch and the Navy-Semi-pro All Stars would be a source of raising money for sodding the stadium. Funds are required before the football season gets underway but money is | also welcome at anytime to defray | the expense of upkeep and resod- | ding. We're inclined to believe that | pil ‘Manager Lutz and his players would donate their services to the cause and local baseball fans would respond to the attraction. Mossman and Roberts for the All Stars. Vidal and Dunlap for the Conchs. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Rene Solis deserves a lot of credit for his courage and loyalty to the Conchs. His shutout of West | the local Palm Beach on Sunday 17th was accomplished in spite of a painful infection under the nai} of the index finger on his pitching hand. The nail was punctured the following day to relieve the pain and Rene swirled a one hit shvtout against Tampa this past Friday night. We can’t help but admire the ‘ local advertisers and baseball fans who have presented $25.00 rewards to Conch players who have hit home runs, There is no doubt that the custom is an incentive to the Conch longball hitters to wait for the good pitch and to swing with a vengeance. Yet, the system of | Vidal .... 166 162 qualifying for a prize seems to be | DelMonte _ 189 198 a bit unfair to the players who | Solis 168 150 mever hit the long ball. Surely | Zielinski 27 50 Chickie De Sousa’s game-winning | Haack 172 179 blow into left field Saturday night 'Jiminez _. 31 Dunlap . 99 30 19 Reyes _. 264 78 22 Lutz — 484 129 50 Harig 473 116 55 Mendez . 460 111 66 Solis 121 29 10 | DeSouza 451 106 57 Vidal _. 217 4614 Bosch _. 102 20 8 | Felder . 182 35 11 Team— IW H See Sed cision over Leesburg. Baseome | four for four—and Hamm pitched a shutout for Pa- ui at The Jacksonville Beach Sea- Birds kept a firm hold on second place in the all-season standings. Palatka pulled into a tie for third with Daytona Beach, three games behind the Sea-Birds. In the play- . Starting Saturday, DeLand be host to the fourth-place and the second-place team will be host to the third placer. all the pitchers Monday now has a 152 best earned run red-haired DeLand his pitching rity ¢ 85? 5 5 E I Ae iy iit | z i & gtee BE ec < eet 35 a v