The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1952, Page 5

Yank Loss To Browns Tues. Cuts Lead To Single Game By JOE REICHLER AP Sports Writer The weary New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, stumbling along the rock road to Pennant- ville, are finding their paths blocked by revenge-minded former teammates. The Yankees’ lead over Cleve- land was a skimpy one game today following last night's 5-4 loss to the Browns in St. Louis and the Indians’ 6-1 triumph over Bobby Shantz and the Philadeiphia Ath- letics. Brooklyn's once seemingly safe 10 game bulge over New York dwindled to four as a result of yesterday’s 7-* loss to the Chicago Cubs, several hours after the Giants had thrashed the Pittsburgh | Pirates, 11-7. | Brooklyn’s woes were further in- | creased by the rapid climb of St. | Louis’ “longshot” Cardinals, Ot pushed back into the pennant pic- ture with a 7-5 victory over the | Philadelphia Phillies that left them 6 games off the pace. Two former Yankees—Dick Kry- hoski and Clint Courtney—teamed | up last night to bring victory to | the Browns. Kryhoski, pinch hit- | ting for winning pitcher Dick Little- | field, doubled off Ray Scarborough | to open the last of the ninth. An | infield hit and an intentional pass, sandwiched around an out, loaded | the bases, Scarborough’s third’ pitch to| Courtney hit the catcher to force | home Ray Coleman, running for } Kryhoski, with the winning run. | It was four-time loser Littlefield’s first win of the season. At Ebbet’s Field former Dodgers Dee Fondy.and Toby Atwell proved the big hatchetmen as knuckle- baller Warren Hacker stifled the Brooklyn hitters with seven safe- ties. Fondy smashed a run-scoring triple and Atwell chipped in with a single that drove in one of the tallies in Chicago’s big five-run, fourth-inning rally against loser Ray Moore and Joe Landrum. Early Wynn reached his 20-vic- | tory goal for the second straight season as he pitched the Indians to their sixth straight triumph. Held scoreless through five innings * Coke Softballers Take Four Wins |On Nassau Trip Key West Coca Cola Soft- ball team, who recently com- pleted a history making jaunt to Nassau, where they tackled the cream of soft- ball talent in that city, cap- tured four straight wins over the hometowners. The Coca Cola nine played two double headers on Fri- day and Saturday of last week before crowds of 6.- 000 people. Donny Williams hurled the first game which the Coke nine took by a 9-2 score. In the second game on Friday, Gates hurled 2 2-0 shutout win for the locals who were very «vell received in Nas- sau. In Saturday's action the Coca Cola captured the first game by a 11-3 score and Williams came back in the finale to hurl the Coca Cola to another win by the same margin. The Nassauans have in- vited the club to return at a future date. The trek marked the first time e2 Island City athletic aggregation has journeyed to Nassau, Today's Games | By The Associated Press American League |New York at St. Lou;is (night) Boston at Detroit Philadelphia at Cleveland (night) Washington at Chicago National League Pittsburgh at New York | Chicago at Brooklyn (2) (night) | St. Louis at Philadelphia (night) | Cincinnati at Boston (night) by Shantz, the Indians rallied for two runs in the sixth and added six more in the eighth to hand the little lefthander his seventh setback. | A dozen Giant hits, including homers by Monte Irvin, Don Muel-| ler and Alvin Dark, helped rookie Bill Connelly rack up his fifth | straight success since joining the club in mid-August. Five Pitts- burgh errors helped considerably presenting the Giants with six un- | earned runs. | Solly Hemus’ bases-loaded single and Red Schoendienst’s two-run double featured a five-run, ninth- | inning uprising that gave the Car- dinals their uphill triumph over the Phillies. Stan Musial got one hit—his 2,000th major league hit for St. Louis. Chicago's White Sox advanced to third place in the American { League, taking a pair of 3-2 de- cisions from Washington. Pitcher Saul Rogovin batted in the first two runs and scored the winning |run on an 1lth-inning single by Nellie Fox in the opener. Pinch- | hitter Sam Mele homered in the last of the ninth to give Harry Dorish the second game win over rookie Mike Fornieles. Successive homers, Mapes and Joe Ginst last half of the 11th gave Detroit a 4-3 victory over Bos{gn, dropping }the Red Sox into fou! place. Cincinnati and th@, Braves swapped shutouts in thejr twi-night twin bill in Boston. The’Reds Harry | Perkowski bested Max Surkont, 2-0, after the Braves’ Warren Spahn | had taken a 1-0 hurling duel from | ‘rookie Joe Nuxhall. Durocher Ban Starts Today NEW YORK (#—Leo Durocher started serving his third suspen- sion of the season today as his New York Giants prepared to face the Pittsburgh Pirates in the sec- ond of their three-game series. The latest suspension is a two- day vacation handed to the fiery manager by National League Pres- ident Warren Giles for the bean- balling incident in the New York Brooklyn game of Monday after- noon. Durocher was held responsible for Monte Kennedy throwing at Joe Black but the suspension was held to a minimum because the Giant pilot removed his pitcher after a warning by the umpires. Leo also was fined $100. Other Giants fined were Kennedy and Larry Jansen, who hit Billy Cox with a. pitch in the ninth inning and was ordered from the game by plate umpire Lee Ballanfant. Kennedy was fined $50 and Jansen $25. Because of Jansen’s excellent record, his fine was remitted. Durocher was forbidden to direct his club in today’s and tomorrow’s games. Each time the Pirates are the opposition. Leo has been sus- pended twice before by Giles, once for the shin-kicking episode with umpire Bill Stewart in Philadel- phia June 29 and the other time for his near fist fight with umpire Augie Donatelli Aug. 17 at the Polo Grounds. In a lengthy telegram to Giant officials, Giles said Kennedy was fined because it was believed that he threw deliberately at Brooklyn batters, “Under the provision of a bulle- tin sent to all clubs dated Aug. 5, Manager Durocher must be held accountable but this is not intended to imply that he gave any instruc- tion to Kenpedy to deliberately throw at any batter. On the con- trary, it appears that Durocher did exercise some control of the situation by voluntarily removing nedy was warned by the umpires.” Kennedy did not pit anybody but drew a warning for two inside pitches to pitcher Black. Another Kennedy pitch sent Gil Hodges to the dirt in the seventh, Jansen hit Andy Pafko and Cox, and Hoyt Wilhelm hit Hodges. The latter in- cidently spiked Giant second base- man Billy Rigney, inflicting a wound in the calf of the right leg that required five stitches, Stall applications for Santa Anita Park were distributed at far off Saratoga Springs, N.Y. in 1932, the year the California ‘track was built. Kennedy from the game after Ken- THE FULL FLAVOR OF OLD KENTUCKY — NATURALLY GREAT SINCE anes | STRAIGHT RCHO SPRING BOURBON DISTILLY 44S HEY «+ 8 NG COMPANY + VEARS OF . Louisvi 86 PROO LLE, paeodicsent are | —: SPORTS :— BASEBALL TUESDAY’S RESULTS By The Associated Press American League St. Louis 5 New York 4 Cleveland 6 Philadelphia 1 Chicago 3-3 Washington 2-2 (first game 12 innings) _ Detroit 4 Boston 3 (11 innings) National League Chicago 7 Brooklyn 1 New York 11 Pittsburgh 6 St. Louis 7 Philadelphia 4 Boston 1-0 Cincinnati 0-2 Baseball Standings By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. American League New York 8 57 590 Cleveland 81 58 583 Chicago 3 «65 529 Boston 72 «65 526 Washington 12 ° 68 514 Philadelphia 71 «68 S11 St. Louis 5782 -410 Detroit 4 «OL 336 - National League Brooklyn 86 OS 632 New York 82 54 603 St. Louis 80 (57 584 Philadelphia 74 68 540 Chicago 68 71 489 Cincinnati 61 #17 442 Boston 60 7 438 Pittsburgh 39° «101 279 MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .334; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, .318; Baumholtz, Chicago, .316; Schoen- dienst, St. Louis, .306; Robinson, Brooklyn, .305, Runs batted in — Sauer, Chica- go, 116; Hodges, Brooklyn, 98; ! Thomson, New York and Ennis, Brooklyn and Slaughter, St. Louis, Philadelphia, 94; Campanella, 92. Hits — Musial, St. Louis, 171; Schoendienst, St. Louis, 169; Ad- ams, Cincinnati, 168; Lockman, New York, 161; Dark, New York, 157. Home runs — Sauer, Chicago, 35; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 32; Hodges, Brooklyn, 30; Gordon, Boston, 22; Mathews, Boston and Campanella, Brooklyn, 21, Pitching — Corwin and Connelly, New York, 5-0, 1.000; Roe, Brook- lyn, 11-2, .846; Johnson, Boston, 5-1, .833; Yuhas, St. Louis, 9-2, 818, . American ti Batting — Fain, Philadelphia, .333; Mitchell, Cléveland, .328; Woodling, New York, .321; Kell, Boston, .311; Goodman, Boston, 310, Runs batted in — Doby, Cleve- land and Zernial, Philadelphi 95; Rosen, Cleveland, 93; Robin- son, Chicago, 90; Dropo, Detroit, 89. Hits—Fox, Chicago, 171; Fain, Philadelphia, 162; Avila, Cleve- land, 158; Robinson, Chicago and Rosen, Cleveland, 157. Home runs — Doby, Cleveland, 30: Berra, New York, 29; Easter, Cleveland, 28; Zernial i phia, 27; Rosen, Clev Dropo, Detroit, 25. Pitching I— Consuegra, Washing- ton, 6-0, 1.000; Shantz, Philadel- phia, 22-7, .759; Raschi, New York, 15-5, .750; Gorman, New York, 5-2, FIL Playoff Fight Moves To Miami Wed. By The Associated Press Baseball fans of Greater Miami will have a choice of two Florida International Lague Shaughnessy Playoff games tonight. Miami Beach and St. Peters- burg, even in their series at one ; game apiece after the Flamingos whipped the Saints Tuesday night in St. Petersburg, 6-5, shift opera- tions to Miami Beach’s Flamingo Park. Across the bay Miami and Tam- pa, rained out Tuesday night, try again at Miami Stadium with Tampa’s Dale Matthewson (21-6) going against Miami's Labe Dean (16-9). Tampa won the opening game Monday night, 3-2. A crowd of 2,497 saw Miami Beach rally for five runs in the fourth to go ahead, 5-4, and add | the winning marker in the fifth. Neither starting pitcher, Walt Nothe for Miami Beach and Joe Kirkland for St. Petersburg, was | around at the finish as Miami | Beach used four moundsmen and | the Saints five. Miami Beach rapped a doz- en hits off Kirkland, Marshall O’Coine, Vincent Amor, Monte Lo- pez and Manager Bill Herring, | while St. Petersburg got only six off Nothe, Chico Morilla, Pete | Morant and John Podgajny. The | two teams have used 19 pitchers in two games. The winning run was set up when Amor walked Jesse Levan. | Ray Williams singled to center and Lou Columbo forced Williams, Lev- | an going to third. Eddie Wilson | singled Levan home. St. Petersburg rallied for one in the ninth but couldn’t tie it up. Tonight Miami Beach plans to use either Dave Barnhill or Andy Elko while St. Petersburg will call ' on either George Greene or Clar- ence (Hooks) Iott. Yanks’ Turner Won't Talk After Loss ST. LOUIS #—“I won't talk, 1 won't talk. See Casey Stengel to- morrow.” That’s all coach Jim Turner had to say as he escorted a reporter and photographer out of the New York Yankee clubhouse last night. The thing he wouldn’t talk about was the Yanks’ 5-4 loss to the St. Louis Browns just a few minutes | earlier. Turner had been acting | manager for the ailing Stengel dur- ing the game. Turner wouldn't let the players talk to the newsman about the weather, let alone the defeat. The room wasn’t too gloomy,but it | was quiet. | “I can’t talk for the club,” Tur- | ner said. “I’m not the manager. | Casey Stengel will be happy to H see you at his hotel tomorrow af- | ternoon.” Stengel is suffering from a virus | infection in the stomach. It was a pitch by Ray Scarbor- | ough to St. Louis catcher Clint Courtney’s thigh that lost the game. The bases were loaded and the score tied at the time—the last of the ninth. Courtney proudly showed off a | bruise from the ball in the Brown's dressing room. “That's an easy way to win a a Reynolds, New York, 17-8, By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—Robert W. Kuntz defeated Frank Strana- han in the first round of the Na-| team as a player four times. tional Amateur Golf Championship. FIVE YEARS AGO—The Dodg- ers maintained a 4 game edge in the National League by defeat- ing the Cubs, 5-1, while the Car- dinals also were winning. TEN YEARS AGO—Fritzie Zivie won a 10-round decision over Wel- ball game,” he said. Courtney said Dick Littlefield, with his seven-hit pitching, really | beat New York. | He didn’t do as well as in his | two-hitter against Chicago, but he was facing a harder-hitting club.” | Lon Warneke was assigned as an umpire for the 1952 All-Star game for the first time. He pre- | viously made the National League terweight Champion Freddie Coch- rane in a non-title bout in New York TWENTY YEARS AGO — Ells- worth Vines defeated Henri Cochet to win the National Tennis Cham- Pionship. | Gator Gridders Lose End GAINESVILLE #~Mikey Kelly, a Jacksonville boy who missed the 1951 football season while in the armed service, has moved into the right end spet of the la Gators that Owen Thomas was knocked out of last Saturday with a broken collar bone. A rangy 190-pounder, Kelly played three games as a regular for the Gators in 1950 before being called in the Marines. He was j paired in Tuesday's scrimmage with regular defensive Left Bob Horton, also of Jacksonville On the offensive front. a fresh man and a sophomore have bat ed their way to the end positions wub ths reserve team. Freshman Earl Jefferson, Live Oak, was at the left wing and sopbomore Bil] Godfrey, Miami, was on the other end of the line as Coach Bob Wood- ruff seat two defensive combina- tions threugh a lengthy runsing and passing scrimmage Three sophomores were running with the tentative first offensive team, Center Larry Dyal. Half. back Dick Watson and Fullback Billy Bass Others of the tentative first stringers were lettermes Ends u nd Jack O’Brien, Tack- ne Dougiss and Dan Guards John Hammock nny May, Quarterback Rick Casares and Haifpack Buford Long. Sport Shorts MIAME (#—The University of Miami's offensive quarterback post probably will go to Bob Schneiden- bach, senior from Newark, N. J Schneidenbach sparkled as a sophomore but was reserve defen- sive back last season. In Tuesday’s workout his sharp passing set up the first four of seven touchdowns in a lengthy scrimmage session. DELAND (#—Coach Jay Pat- tee’s choice of a starting fullback in Stetson’s opener against Florida apparently narrowed to two vet- eran candidates today. Pattee said Willie Han, Torring- ton, Conn., appeared to have the edge on the offensive assignment ! while Herb Werner, Pittsburgh, looked best on defense. LAKE ALFRED (®—The octag- onal one and two-thirds mile course where many outboard rac- ing records have been set again will be the site of the national outboard championship Oct. 18-20. NEW YORK ™# — Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, 78-year-old dean of | American racing trainers, will be | honored today at Aqueduct where he rode as a jockey when the Long Island race track opened Sept. 27, 1894. A large silver plate suitably en- | graved will be presented to “Mr. | Fitz” by Cyrus S. Jullien, Aque- duct president. Fitzsimmons has made Aqueduct | his headquarters for 40 years, dur- ing which time he has developed more than 100 stakes winners in- cluding Gallant Fox and Omaha, two winners of the Derby-Preak- | ness - third Derby winner was James- town. Fitz has won the Belmont | five times. MONTREAL (#—The next move in the squabble between Light Heavyweight Champion Joey Max- | im and the U. S. and British box- ing fathers was up to Jack Kearns, | the titleholder’s manager, today. Maxim and Kearns had been suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission at the re- quest of the British Boxing Board {of Control for refusing to meet the British champ, Randy Turpin, in London. Kearns claimed no such promise was made. The National Boxing Association, in convention here, had been asked to‘concur on the suspension, but after two days of talks a compro- mise was reached. This called for Maxim to meet Archie Moore, St. Louis, a leading contender, in a title match within 60 days. The winner of this bout then would meet Turpin within 90 days. Kearns can get off the hook with his fighter by signing with Moore. Wednesday, September 10, 1952 UP THIS By JOHN CHANDLER NEW YORK — With a fall term of racing yet to come and liminary survey of attendance and betting at the nation’s major tracks today showed a fantastic gain as compared with 1951. The thoroughbred racing sport is | riding along on its biggest boom since the plush postwar years in | the mid 1940s, when the jingle | around the parimutuel windows hit THE KEY WEST CITIZEN figures far from complete, a pre- | | mew $100,000 stakes plus sever- | al of the $50,000 variety, | another big winter as does Santa Pace f TRACK CROWDS YEAR betting increase after a 24 per cent | boost at Keeneland and 17 per jcent at Churchill Downs. Florida, which has posted three looks for Anita, Orleans. SOFTBALL and Fair Grounds, New record proportions. An unofficial Associated Press | compilation from the 24 racing | states discloses mat betting is up at every one of the tracks, by from 8 per cent to 67 per cent. The biggest parimutuel betting | year in the nation’s racing times | came in 1946 wren the mutuel ma- chines handled $1,830,287,455. Last | season the AP nation-wide survey | | showed $1,629,239,777 wagered, an | | increase of 17.01 per cent over 1950. | | Attendance totaled 24,302,020 in | | 1951, a gain of 6.01 per cent over | | 1950, and revenue to the states reached a record $99,927,423. | i} Track officials give various ex- planations: (1) the crackdown on illegal bookmaking following the (2) an increasing public confidence | in the sport, through efforts of the | Thoroughbred Racing Protective | Bureau to rid racing of the crooked | element. The upsurge was indicated an {the nation as a whole when the Belmont triple crown. His | Florida, California and Louisiana winter tracks did a land office bus- iness. It has carried through to | the Northern tracks. | Bowie, which raced its spring meeting at nearby Laurel, Md., posted a 47 per cent boost in at- tendance, and a whopping 67 per cent jump in mutuel play. Atlantic City, still operating, re- ports attendance up 39 per cent, | betting up 29; upstate Saratoga Springs, N. Y., broke all records — handle up 17.7 per cen, attend- ance 8.5 per cent. Chicago tracks reported big gains over 1951, with Washington | Park’s betting up 28.5 per cent and | gate, plus 16. Arlington had plus 20 betting, attendance up 18 per cent. Hollywood Park (Calif.) closed | its session with betting up 16 per cent; Del Mar on the West Coast | is breaking records. Wagering at | Golden Gate Fields, Calif., was up 37, attendance 37 per cent. Narragansett, Lincoln Downs, New England report boosts up to | 18per cent in betting, 12 in at- tendance. When the sun goes down and the Schlitz comes out, that’s an evening to your taste— at home or in your favorite tavern. 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