The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 23, 1952, Page 5

Gibby Gates 2 Hit Effort —: SPORTS — By NESTOR CASTENEDA Gibby Gates bested Jim a ble in a tight pitching duel as Coca Cola shaded VX-1, 1-0 in the first game of . double head- er at Bayview Park last night. Coca Cola’s lone tally came in the first inning when, with two | away, Danny Lastres walked and | stole second when Gamble was caught napping. John Cruz then sent Lastres across the plate with a single to left. The game, one of the fastest played this season, took only 50 minutes to complete. Gates allowed only two hits while his mates were garnering five off Gamble. Not a man reached second base off Gates as he turned in one of his _ best pitching performances of the year. John Cruz led the Coca Cola offense with two singles in three tries. Bob Santana’s seventh inning homer spoiled Franklin’s bid for a no-hitter as the Navy defeated General Electric, 6-1 in the sec- ond game of the double header- The loss decreased General Elec- tric’s league to a half game over second place Coca Cola. Alfred Knowles, who was beat- en for the first time in this half got a poor support from his teammates in addition to being touched for five hits. Two er- rors, a walk, a double and a sin- gle netted the Navy three runs in the second. They added two more in the third op an_ error and Hinton’s double and Frank- lin’s single. Two errors gave the WMavy their final tally in the fourth. With only two men _ having reached first via walks going in- to the seventh, Franklin had a count of one strike and one ball when the batter hit the next pitch into deep center field for the first hit. Franklin then re- tired 1 next hitter to gain his second hit win of the second half. 5 Franklin also aided his own cause by hitting two singles in three tries to lead his team’s of- fense. Mississippi State Faces Vols Saturday By The Associated Press Mississippi State, consigned to | “the Southeastern Conference cellar in pre-season polls, faced the chilling prospect today of meeting terrifying Tennessee without the services of three regulars. The Maroons are likely to enter the uneven struggle at Memphis Saturday minus Murphy Roberson, offensive left guard; Ken Deloe, offensive right tackle, and Don Joseph, defensive halfback. All jsell, suffered crippling injuries in last Saturday’s rugged game-length scrimmage. At Knoxville, Coach Bob Ney- | land of Tennessee worried about | blocking. The general, always a perfectionist, was displeased with | his blockers in last Saturday’s scrimmage and reviewed assign- | ments Monday with each offensive lineman and back. For the Vols, rated sixth nation ally in the Associated Press pre- season poll the game with Mis- sissippi State opens the 1592 sea- son, Coach Bear Bryant traditional “light Monday” out the | window and kept his Kentucky squad on the practice field after dark, The Wildcats’ gruelling | workout consumed several hours as the tight-lipped Bryant sought to correct flaws he noted in the team’s 25-6 loss to Villanova After the workout the growled: “They don't seem to be getting well too fast in view of the big Mississippi squad coming up here Saturday.” Several other SEC coaches acted as if they had never heatd of the custom of beginning the week lightly. Johnny Vaught let his Mis sissippi Rebels look at movies of their 54.6 rout of Memphis State and then had them on the field for @ rough, two-hour session with plenty of contact work Auburn and Florida also scrim maged in deadly earnest. Auburn meets Maryland at Bir and Florida faces Geor in Atlanta rday mentors figured could waste fp fore coping w try’s top-ranked te Alabam Coac locked the gates at Ty | threw the Bear Sat team sessions be the coun- gh scrim the worked at patching | Mitchell | 311; Sun Sox Capture FIL Championship By Licking Beach MIAMI (#—The Florida Interna- tional League baseball season is over at last. It went the limit. Miami’s Sun Sox won the Class B circuit’s pennant by a single game over Miami Beach in the 154-game season. Miami and Mi- ami Beach defeated Tampa and St. Petersburg, respectively in the five-game Shaughnessy playoffs, three games to two. Then Miami met Miami Beach in a seven-game series ending Monday night. Miami won that, four game to three, taking the final fray, 5-4, before 4,087 fans in Miami Stadium. Billy Harris, the young Canadian righthander who won 26 games during the regular season, pitched the final game and got credit for the victory but needed help from dependable Gil Torres in the ninth. Humberto Fernandez sparked Miami’s 10-hit attack on four Miami Beach moundsmen with a double and a triple. Paul Arm- strong doubled in the first inning to score Fernandez, who had walked, and Harris doubled in the second behind Dick Gray’s two-bagger for another run. Oscar Sierra singled Armstrong home in the third dan Armstrong singled to score Fernandez in the fifth. Jim Bragan singled behind Fernandez’ three-bagger in th seventh for Miami’s final run. Lastres Stars To Meet Brooks Sun. A hot afternoon of baseball has been scheduled for next Sun- day at Oceanview Park when the Lastres Stars will meet the Brooks Stars in a tilt slated to get underway at 3:00 p.m. The Lastres Club is composed of the Lastres brothers, including Danny Lastres who recently re- turned from a successful season in the Pioneer League. C. Las- tres, Jr., Bob, George and Fito will be the others of the clan to perform. Kaki Rodriguez, Henriquez, Anguiera and others j will make up the balance of the club. Alce, Brown, MclIntoch, Rus- Richardson, Dean, Galla- gher, Smith, Portier and Roberts | will see service for the Brooks. MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press American League BattingPFain, Philadelphia,.328; Cleveland, .321; Wood- ling, New York, .314; Kell, Boston, Goodman, Boston, .308. Runs—Avila, Doby and Rosen, Cleveland, 100; Berra, New York, 95; Minoso Chicago, 92. Runs batted in—Rosen, Cleve- land, 102, Doby, Cleveland, 101; Robinson, Chicago, 100; Berra, New York, and Zernial, Philadel- phia, 95 Hits—Fox Chicago, 187; Avila, Cleveland, 175; Robinson, Chicago, 172; Fain, Philadelphia, 171; Ros- en, Cleveland, 169. Home runs—Doby Cleveland, 31; Berra, New York, 29; Dropo. Detroit, 28; Rosen Cleveland ‘and Zernial, phia, 27. Pitehing—Shantz, Philadelphia, | 7, .774; Raschi, New York, 16-6, 7 Reynolds, New York, 19-8 704; Garcia, Cleveland, 22-10, 688; Lopat, New York, 10-5, .667; Dorish, Chicago, 8-4, .667. and Easter, passing game which faltered badly in last week's loss to Texas. After seeing his backs fumble six times against the Longhorns, Tinsley concentrated on ball-handling well. He promoted Tackle Al Rob- ichaux, Guard Phil Beron and Fullback Russ Gautreaux to the first teams in a personnel shake. up. Tulane listened to three coaches who scouted Georgia's 19-7 con quest of Vanderbilt last week and then heard Head Coach Bear Wolf iF for Saturday's meeting The Greenies mage to- h Moe | Philadel. | Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT PHILADELPHIA (#—You’ve got to go with raw, rugged youth in this one, so the pick is for Rocky Marciano, 28, to wear down Jersey Joe Walcott, 38, and stop the world champion somewhere after the 10th round of vonight’s fight. It might happen a little sooner if the Cam- den Pappy becomes careless. Marciano. an unbeaten young man of great potentialities, plans to go out and tuck down his gran- ite jaw and throw punches at Wal- cott’s body until something comes loose. “Walcott might get away from two or three of them in a row,” says Charlie Goldman, the Mar- ciano trainer, “‘but he’ll only find more coming after him. He can’t block or get away from all of them. Every one that hits his belly will take something out of him. He'll feel it in his legs first. When he’s ready, Rocky will knock him out.” Obviously, the challenger’s camp ‘does not feel that Walcott’s pre- vious opponents have exploited the body attack as they might have. Looking at some of Walcott’s more recent bouts on television or on films, they noticed that after almost every exchange of blows Jersey Joe dropped his gloves and made quite a production of hiking up his tights before resuming the fray. They decided he might be hiding his front with the gloves while he is takng a long, welcome breath. “Yeah,” Rocky grinned when asked about this, “I notice he goes for those tights, all right.” It was plain the way he said it that he means to try to keep Joe’s gloves not only up at all times tonight, but extremely busy. There will be no rest for the older man except between rounds. As he goes out for each succeeding round, the chances are he will feel a little more tired of it all. Finally the time will come when the old champ’s arms will drop to defend his tortured insides, and . . . bang! It comes sometime to all of them. Anyhow, that’s the blueprint as we see it. If it should by any chance be proved wrong this time, we'll simply haul it out again the champion. FLORIDA BRIEFS WEST PALM BEACH (#—Bus fares here will be cut to 10 tokens for $1 for a one-month trial start- ing Monday. -quarter rate was ‘approved’ Mon- day by the City Commission at the request of Mrs. Helen Combes owner of Florida Cities Bus Co. A letter from the company’s at- torney said future of the company, which Mrs. Combes took over a |year ago, “lies in its public re- | lations and in increasing its num- | ; ber of riders.” | Mrs. Combes said the new rates | | will continue if enough riders are | lured to make up for the es ence in rates. “People have got to ise to | support their bus company if they want lower fares and better serv- ice,” she said. PENSACOLA (#—An aged, par- alyzed man was being treated for |malnutrition today after he had | been found with the body of his | wife, dead for several days, lying jat his bedside. | John Langford was found near | | Starvation when a firewood sales. }man happened by his house Mon- | day, |his 65-year-old wife, was believed to have died Wednesday of a heart | attack. | The paralyzed, 80-year-old Lang- ford had been unable to summon | aid. Grady Willis, the firewood sales jman, called at the couple's home , im nearby Ferry Pass. He said he heard Langford’s faint cries when ;he knocked at the locked door | Neighbors who described the j couple as recluses, said they had |Moticed nothing unusual in the | stillness of the Langford home. | MIAMI W—A Miami seaman Monday filed suit against Gregc S. Melntosh, retired of Fort Lauderdale, for $100 for injuries received in a fa aboard the yacht Mojo last April Edwin S. Nickerson, who filec he suit, served as c Mojo, owned by industria next time they meet, for Marciano | is destined to be heavyweght | | The reduction from the two-for-a Mrs. Harriet Beall Langford, | BASEBALL MONDAY‘S RESULTS By The Associated Press American League * Cleveland 6 Detroit 3 Only game National League | No games | Florida International League Play- off Miami 5 Miami Beach 4 (Miami wins final series 4-3) By The Associated Press Won Lost American League New York Cleveland Chicago Philadelphia Boston Washington St. Louis Detroit 507 507 412 -329 suit said he slipped off the upper deck and fell 15 feet onto a pier in Fort Lauderdale, sustaining per- manent back injuries, WEST PALM BEACH (#—Cir- cuit Judge Joseph S. White ruled Monday it’s all right to tow a loggerhead turtle—in the water. State law prohibits taking or killing loggerhead turtles when they are out of the water and on beaches from May through August. James Howell had appealed a Criminal Court verdict which or- dered him to pay a fine of $50 or serve 30 days in jail for vio- lating that law. Judge White said things looked suspicious but he reversed the de- cision. He said Howell was pulling the turtle northward, toward where his car was parked. Still, the judge ruled, establish- ment of guilt “can never rest upon | suspicion no matter how strong it may be.” LAKELAND (® — A Lakeland Ledger poll of citrus experts brought an estimate of 84 to 86 | million boxes for Florida’s new | orange crop. | That compares to a record 78 - | 900,000 boxes for the 1951-52 sea- | son. | Other estimates were for 31 to | 34 million boxes of grapefruit and | 44 to five million boxes of gerines Last season there were 36 mil- lion boxes of grapefruit and 4% | million boxes of tangerines. The estimate for the entire crop ranged from 121 to 122% million boxes compared to last season's actual 119,400,000 boxes. The men polled did not permit | use of their names. Their guess will stand until the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture issues its first formal estimate of the new season Oct. 10. BARTOW (®—The Bartow office of Sen. Spessard L. Holland will remain open until about Dec. 7. Paul Shelley, administrative as- sistant to the senator, said Holland plan the office one day a week make speak’ engageme about state the rest a & the TAMPA fully ra day fficers unsuccess ded a Tampa house Mon looking for the alleged head ring assistant state said he had posi that H was at the several other ind him tan- From The Press Box By OSCAR MILIAN Well tonight’s the night of the | big fight and this column venture | to predict a victory for Rocky Mar- | ciano inside of 8 rounds. The chal- lenger claims to be in tip top shape and while he has never gone the full route of 15 rounds. in any of | his bouts his condition for this scrap and the crack at the title which he has been eyeing for five years, will carry him the full length in the event Jersey Joe Wal- cott the champion decides to jab and run,“If Joe makes an attempt to fight at close range the fight | will be a short one.’’ Marciano | told newsmen as he wound up his training camp Sunday. Jim Cobb, our sports editor also picks Rocky to be the winner to- | night. Jim, however while confident | that Marciano will be the next Neavyweight champion of the world has not named the round in which Rocky will deliver the rocking blow. No matter wo wins the ti- tle tonight in downtown Duval to-| morrow night somebody will be rolling somebody on a wheel bar- rell. The odds are on Marciano to win but is there any one avail- able to cover the odds? Believe it or not but the Key West Conchs lead the Florida In- ternational baseball league in most 3 base clouts with 44. Miami Sun Sox ran next with 37. For the Conchs Severino “Flash” Mendez, sensational center fielder hit the most three baggers. The Key West Conchs and West Palm Beach ran tie on 2 base hits with 178 each. Charlie “Chuck” Harig, left fielder was top man for the locals in this department | with 28. Harig’s record for the sea- son was 140 base hits which includ- ed 23 base hits, 13 homers and 71 runs batted in for a batting aver- age of .260. Nap Reyes, who may be the | playing manager for the Conchs | in ‘53 and far the most popular | man for the Key West club head- ed the batting list for the locals | with an average of .277. Reyes rbi's | | for the season was 60 in 93 games | in which he collected 95 base hits. | He also topped the Florida Inter- | |national League in most consecu | tive games in which he hit safely | 21, Severino Mendez, was top thief with 21 stolen bases to his credit. | Angel Scull of the Havana Cuba | was winner in this department with 51. | Eddie Zielinski left hand pitch er of Macon Georgia, whom Nap Reyes, claims can be made into a top hurler next season with 20) minutes a day training, issued the most bases on balls in one inning The Blonde southpaw gave 6 free passes in a game with the Havana Cubans in Havana in one sing inning, Shortstop Aldo Salvent and first baseman Robert Cueto, won honors iM most errors committed in one game. In a game with West Palm Beach on July 14 which Key West lost by a 10 to 3 score Cueto made five errors at first base while Sa! vent committed the same number of miscues in the St.Petersb Key West Septe r first co The Conchs regist cord in the Fi League when they com three pitchers issued 13 benes on balls to drop the game 19 to 3 ng through the Miam high-Key West ¢ abble last Friday 5 Stadium proved no 2 i work out for the | loc: me baseba seemed for awhile have ten they were witnessing the Gesu 1 squ t Wick | bring in $62,500, ‘2 ! Tuesday, September 23, 1952 | | | Citizen Staff Ptoto TROOP 54 CAPTURED A VICTORY on Friday night in the first annual Boy Scout Swim meet at the Enlisted Men’s swimming pool on the Naval Station. shown as they took to the water in a racing start in the 50 yard freestyle event. Three of the youthful swimmers are Orange Bowl Take Is Upped For ’53 MIAMI (#—Competing teams in the 1953 Orange Bowl football game may get $110,000 each. Oscar E. Dooly, chairman of the Orange Bowl’s Radio and Televis- from broadeasts alone should including $25,000 for radio rights. Georgia Tech and Baylor each received $94,800 for the game last Jan. 1 and Dooly estimates the payoff may be boosted to $110,000 for the next competing teams Softball Schedule WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24— :30 p.m. — Coca Cola vs. G. E. 9:00 p.m. — VX-1 vs. Navy. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26— 7:30 p.m. — Coca Cola vs. Navy. 9:00 p.m. — G. E. vs. VX-1. first football game of the season. One fan asked,“‘Who is this fellow they are talking about to handle | the Key West club next year?”’ be- fore his question could be answer- ed, the standswent wild as Joe Pineda broke through the Gesu line to give Key West its first score. After the excitement of the first touch down, the baseball bug con- tinued ‘How "bout Bob Doty, is it true he was at one time affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians?” At that time there was Lucy Gonzalez headed for another score and the cheers | from 4000 fans could be heard miles away. So the baseball fan in dis- gust said to himself ‘‘What’s the use, these people here are football erazy.”’ Odd but true. After next Sunday's tournament, |the players who will participate Shot putter off trap. Par 7. will be saying to themselves, ‘Jam- boree, my aching back.’ The rules and shots for each |hole were made up by Jimmy Mi- ta and the few who saw them re- | marked that it would be a sport- | ing event to end all that have hap-! pened before. Here is the way each hole will be played: No. 1—Drive blindfolded. 2nd shot on one leg. 3rd shot one hand-| ed. The rest will be played the regular way. If ball goes into a! marked area on the green, you will be penalized 25 yards off the green| or else you take a two stroke pen- alty. Par for this hole is 7. to green with regular club through marked area before green. On marked area around hole, drop back one club length. Par 7. No. 3 Vitamin or XXXX. Driver off tee, next two shots with the hands opposite of what you normal- Lebanon Elects New President BEIRUT, Lebanon (®—Parlia- ment overwhelmingly elected for- mer Foreign Minister Camille Cha- moun President of Lebanon today. He succeeds the veteran independ- who resigned last week. Chamoun, 51, was the candidate of the opposition Socialist National | Front which spearheaded the country-wide reform drive that forced El Khoury from the office he had held since the French relinquished contro! of the country in 1943. * Led by Socialist Kamal Jum- blatt, the opposition accused El Khoury and his family of corrup- tion, scandals and failure to insti- tute needed economic reforms. Chamoun was elected by the same Parliament which previously had supported El Khoury. The pres- sure of public opinion was so great, however, that the lawmakers will- ingly accepted the opposition can- didate. To prevent disturbances during the voting, the government clamp: ed a 3 a. m. to 3 p. m. curfew on Beirut during which time no unauthorized person was permitted on the streets. The army commander in chief |Gen. Fuad Shehab, had held the presidential powers in the interval THE KEY WEST CITIZEN No. 2—Short driver on tee. Play! ence fighter Bechara el Khoury, | BENCH VIEWS By JACK K. BURKE tly use, No. 4 wood on green, 5th No. 4—Driver off tee. Over-drive green one stroke penalty. 2nd shot use 9 iron. 3rd a No. 4 wood. 4th, driver. If not on green with five or less strokes, 2 stroke penalty. | Par 7. No. 6—Driver off tee. 2nd shot short of trap. 3rd on trap. Must make 6 on hole or 2 stroke pen- | alty will be imposed. No. 7 Vitamin or XXXX—No. 3 {wood off tee. 2nd shot through barrel? 3rd shot through a barrel. Ball within marked area on green 2 stroke penalty. No. 8 Drive off bed spring. Play up to green with hands opposite to what you normally use with a | putter. No. 3 wood to hole out. No. 9—Hit swinging ball. Play up to green in regular way. Ball on marked area on the green, one stroke penalty, drop back length of club All contestants are asked to sub- mit their names as soon as poss | ble. \ Watch for the results, Gators Schedule |Heavy Practice GAINESVILLE (#—Despite a |soggy turf left by two days of | rain, Coach Bob Woodruff declined Ito spare the rough work for his Florida Gators Monday. He sent them against a determined bunch lof B stringers in what was de- scribed as a “good head knock- ing.” No one needed to mention the | reason for this man-sized prepara- tion. Each knew that the next foe is highly touted, rough and ready | Georgia Tech. Monday's drills were hot, heavy and spirited the defense adminsi- tering a sound thrashing to a run- ning, passing and kicking group of freshmen while the offense pushed the ball all over the other end of the field. | between El Khoury’s resignatior ‘and Chamoun’s election. In the balloting, Chamoun re ceived the votes of 74 of the cham ber’s 77 members. One deputy wa absent, one put in a blank ballot and a lone dissent came from Ab dullah Hajj, fiery member of the opposition national bloc. The new President is an inde pendent who works with the So- cialist National Front and has a reputation for honesty. Fu Now only At last—a famous premium KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Parra, ac Priel ond Ginn by Gammons ssrassees commeey quality Sour Mash Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is available at o popular price. GLENMORE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON MADE BY THE OISTILLERS OF *MEmTUCED SteAGe! 80 famous KENTUCKY Taveen® SOTTAD am BOMB « oe CUMMORE OUSTRALEES COmPan + LOVISVIL, EF