The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 13, 1953, Page 6

Reckoning Is keke zxx*rk ‘ Wants Key West astillo Clarifies Cuban Baseball. Situation He Ko 2S To Have Plenty Of Baseball Tilts There are a lot of rumors floating around these days g@oncerning the status of the Havana Cuban baseball club ef the Florida International League and today © Bolivar Castillo, road secretary of the team took time out to quash at least one of them. " “The Cubans are not for sale,” he said emphatically. It was rum- @red that Carlos Maduro, million- aire owner of Havana’s Gran Stad- had made an offer to Joe mbria for the purchase of the “elub at the League meeting last! Betiniay in Miami. However, Cas-' tillo pointed out: that even though the story got into the Miami press, | Maduro was not at the meeting. | “The man to talk to if he wants i to buy the Cubans is Clark Grif- fith,” Castillo continued. . Cuban president Joe Cambria ‘today is in Havana dickering with} Maduro, but only for the leasing of Gran Stadium. The principles shave been unable to arrive at an agreerhent to date Because of Wed- | fesday night soccer games which have been scheduled there. * Just how much FIL Sasebll, Key Westers will see this be Seog a question today. gue has gone’ on ae Se ox ‘decision. as-to nae hey will per. form, not later than i aie noon. “I have been working for two years to bring baseball to Key. West,” Castillo: pointed out, i The Havanans - ‘Wednesday with a two game ser- ‘ies with the Fort Lauderdale Lions and if they are successful in® getting league. permission to’ play further tilts here, will return } on April 28th for a series. with “West Palm Beach. Meanwhile, Fort Lauderdale and. the Sun Sox wound up their Key, West exhibition stint on eo Sega a to pe Beds ealy ren to the Fane losely when Frankj Smith drew a free pass, pilfered second and gained third on a long fly. He scampered across the piste Ge & pasand ball ie Sox plated enough in their half of the first inning to give them the win, however, ae “5 ow om HUNCH UNM aN BERS SORE SH COR 81 mVecoscccecocon nleoececoccone eel Cn wR onmnnmewos X—Hit Batsman for 1 SUN SOX couMon RewCEUEnaee eleeoeos almececounonm 81 enokaunnmnd® 3 é t 81 HHS | emronccun> 5 52 ff Fordor. Average Rubber, Radio _ Little Leaguers Set Doubleheader The Little League will go in- fo action tonight at Bayview Park with an exhibition dou- ble header in preparation for their opener on next Monday. The first game, which will get underway at.6;30 p.m., will pit the Lions and the Rotary and the second will show the Elks and the Jaycees. ‘Ben Hogan. grockets Big AUGUSTA, Ga. (®—When Ben Hogan, the little perfectionist from Texas, stepped up to accept the $4,000 check for his record-shat- Golf Tournament, he said he hoped to return next year and shoot the Golf Tournament, he said he hoped to return next year and shoot the same caliber of golf. Byron Nelson, a fellow Texan who has acted as host player since Bob Jones retired, replied: “If Ben Hogan comes back and shoots the same caliber of golf he shot this year, he'll be out there Playing all by himseif.’* the way the “retired” Ho- gan tamed the tough, 6,900-yard Augusta National Club course, his :tournament mates probably wish he’d waited until today and played with President Eisenhower during his golfing vacation instead of hunk of prize. money. The 40-year-old 1951 Masters champion made the beautiful,, spa- cious course look easy with his almost faultless performance, His ne ro ee asa ast ularly effective, Not only did he slice 14 strokes off par, but he also bettered the previous tournament record by five strokes. And his 70-69-66-65— 274 was the third time in Masters history that anyone has managed four sub-par rounds. Par is 36-36— ‘72. Ed (Porky) Oliver of Palm Springs, Calif., shot a 70 yesterday to match the oid record of 279 and finish second. Lioyd Mangrum of Niles, Tit, high money winner this winter, made a nice comeback to finish ird with a 282, liver pocketed. $2,500 and Man- m $1,700 when prize money in $10,000 tournament was doubled the way down the line. The of Egg mateur honors with 291s, igre ge Champion Sam Snead phur Springs, W. Va. ‘al and a tie for 16th. E25 ili g2 | $445 1950 CHEVROLET Good Rubber, New : $1195 Paint. Seat Covers OUR USED CAR LOT IS OPEN EACH NIGHT UNTIL 10 PLM. NAVARRO, INC. USED CAR Lot 424 SOUTHARD 57. DIAL BNE |Key West Kennel Club Result Charts—Friday, April 10th| peppmnaicnetengsie Date of Last Race bir Ae SS MILE Time—31.4 4-9 Idol Red 1 22. ¥ 80 Handil; 4-8 Jacoba B 8 F P22 = 4.80 ' Tried 4-8’ Lucky Par 3% 5143 4.80“! Good effort 4- 8° Blind Alley 53435 6 4 ro 18.30 *! No mishaj * 4 8° My Charlott- 55°22 45 6S 5.40 * Raced wide 4- 8° Silque 65 4235 @ 35,70 *# Faded back 4 8° Lennox = 38 °847T 35.70 *? Wide 1st turn 4- 8 Impending 6:73 -%. 8 18.30 *°? No factor Winner—Mrs. 0. Z. Ferrell's: Red D., April, 1951. Idol Bright, Imp.— Queen Elaine IDOL RED 3.60 «63.60 862.20 JACOBA é 11.20 420 Quiniela (1-8) 18.60 LUCKY PAR 2.20 Date of Last Race SECOND RACE—5-16 MILE 62 3 3 1% Tim Fast finish 4- 8° Silent Profit <'s 1.80 * pol Blew By 876 4 2 5.60 * Saved ground Guajira 2.5.25 se 8.40 “ 3a in foto t e Inkey Racer 1322 4 4.40 *? Outrun str. 4- 8' Gail Lee 344 5 5 740 * Raced wide 4- 8 Suki Sal 565 6 6 3.40 . No factor 4-8 Reckless Trudy 2 ee Bee ef 40. Outrun 4- 8* Clever Guy 74 Scratched bie agt O. Z. Ferrell's Brindle D., May, 1951. Rural Streak—Little SILENT "PROFIT 5.60 3.00 2.20 ‘ BLEW BY 440 2.20 Quiniela (4-8) 9.80 GUAJIRA 4.60 Daily Double—Idol Red and Silent Profit paid 11.00 Date of Last Race THIRD ‘RACE S-16 leas Time—32 4-10* Tendresse 23 2 1.60 | Saved for win 4- 8° Sooner Senator és j WEE > °25.00 * Outrun str. 4- 8° Just Passing 4748423 3 5.40 ‘ Tried 4- 8° Migrator O44 4 e 14.60 * Wide, evenly 4-8 Southern Gent es 28 Se 5.40 * No mishap 4- 8° Sir Hidelgo V8 5 O76 et 9.30 * No factor 4- T° Aska Kay 3° 6 Boe 2 4 9.90 *! Early trouble 4- 8 Bomb Light 2. 368 8 8 3.40 ** Early trouble Ses Spice Kennels’ Dark Brindle B., July, 1951. Never Blue—Glad TE! DRESSE 5.20 3.00 2.60 ER SENATOR 17.80 3.60 Quiniela (5-7) 66.00 JUST PASSING 3.80 Date of Last Race FOURTH RACE—5-16 MILE Time—32 4. 6° Flashy Frank O23. Fe 1.50 All the way 4-8" Liz Cooper 844 3 2 15.60 * On inside 4- 8'° Honest Fax 655 4 34 7.40 *# Some wide 4- 6*° Moveable Sc ae ee 20.40 * Little gain 4- 8° Kitchen Maid 312.2 8 3.40 *? Outrun str. 4- 8° Metropolis 788 6 6% 4.40 % Off late 4-8 Shattering 133 7 7 £41140” Early factor 4- 8° Roose Goose 4668 8 12.60 * Qutrun Winner-——R. Hutchings’ Dark FLASHY FRANK LIZ COOPER HONEST FAX pew of Last Race Brindle D., July, 1951. Lucky Ally—Lora Roll 5.00 3.20 «2.60 ony Quiniela (2-8) 18.20 FIFTH gee oh MILE Time—31.4 4-8" Cameron Hilander 61 RE ae at og 2.20 Just lasted 4 Make Haste 61% 5 he ee OS 12.70 * Just missed 4-9 Jewel's Trump 56%743 4 3 5.20 * Came again 4-9 Top News 52% 464 3 4" 15.60 * Tired 4- 8 Suki Susie so. 6 87S 6.60 * Off late 4- 8° Thataway 5330C€«38 «1 6 6 6M 3.40 "4 Shut off 4- 8 Careful Sir e487." 8.40 * No factor 4-7 Just Katy 238 8 6.30 * Bumped 8 ‘Winner—Mrs. i. E. Russell’ ¥ Dark Brindle D., July, 1949. Cameron—Idle Chatter CAMERON HILANDER 640 400 3.60 es MAKE HASTE 6.80 4.20 Quiniela (1-8) 35.60 JEWELL’S TRUMP 24.60 Date of Last Race SIXTH serie ie ai MILE Time—31.4 4- 9° Harvest Call 7 3: From far back 4- 9° Razor's Rocket oo t See | 2 3 FS .70 ™ Outside route 4-9 Fame-N-Fortune 69 342 1 3 42.60 * 3d in foto 4-9 JanJan 614254 4 9.40 * Evenly 4 9° Portis Boy 6443 3.33 14.70 * Gave way 4- 9° Nick Lutz eo 625 %¢ 9.40 * No factor 4-9' Whistling Lad 647876 T 8.40 * rates ng 4. 9° Judy Go 60% 568 8 8 78.60 °° Winner—Williams and Fagg’s Dark Brindle D., Nov., 1951. Caifax-Do Dat HARVEST CALL 980 4.40 " 2.60 a RAZOR'S ROCKET 2.80 oy - Quiniela (1-8) 12.20 FAME-N-FORTUNE Date of Last Race SEVENTH RACE ILS Time—31.4 4- 8° Withwin s7% 11 5.10 Muzzle off 4- 8 Joyous Miss 5014 77 ; ri ¥ 8.90 "! Good effort 4 8 Good And Glad 6% 46 4 3 3% 12.60 * On inside 4-7* Laurel Wood 2 688 7 & 3.80 * Wide ist turn 4- 6" Lightning Rodney cL ee Se ae Bee oe! 8.40 * Evenly 4-6" Top Bracket 34 233 6 6 4.40 * Early factor 4. 8° Focus 643.52 2 7 2.80 ' Weakened 4 6° Mill Town 6 846 8 8 8.90 ° Offstrided Winner—Olympic Kennels’ White and Ticked B., June, 1950. Roanoke Rambler—Steppin G. IN 12.20 21.20 WITHW! JOYOUS MISS 14.00 11.60 20.20 = Quiniela (1-7) 50.80 GOOD’ AND GLAD 5.00 Date of Last Race — eer MILE _Time—31.3 4-7 Miss Intellect oe ee 1.70 _ Inside route 4-8* Spring Festival eo é 844 2 2.40 * Up on outside 47 Col. Matt Wynn ie ee a eed 12.60 * Outfinished Sixty a 50 25 3 3 4" 35.7% * Outrun str, My Bi 54a 5 2 8 6 5S 8 §.40 * Shut off Hush Shane m3 346 7 6 4.40 * No factor * Lost Trail 6? 465 5 7 12.60 * Outrun r 56 337-3... 8 35.70 * Outrun jams and Fagg’s Brindle B., Oct., — Rolling Roy—Kay Roo 33 5.40 3.200 2.80 3.20 Py Quiniela (1-6) 15.00 Time—31.3 Saved ground ™ Forced pace * Even effort “+ On outside * Ne factor ") Wide Ist turn "! Forced wide "* Outrun Mitchell, Date of Last Race * Show menow NIN : 4 RACE—5-16 ar fo Suan eoenwe OO as or eH eo nae Bo mre meses “S8Ssssss 4 a Imp.— Audrey SHOWMENOW 8. BILL PROVERB STIRRING NEWS BS vanvw-swan Quiniela (1-3) 15.60 { } iE Date of Las cg NTH RACE S16 — Time—31 4 Re: 3 cd Easily best a Ta 80 * Wide stretch 4 4 * 3d im foto 4 2 * Little gain 4 6 ° Gave way as So “No mishap +s R ce ee * Forced wie 2 DB Die 1. * Wide ist turn M HB. Russeli al Red—Sweet Image KONING MIE Quiniela (35) 8.66 E OOD D st Race ” ELEVENTH RACE—38 MILE Time—39.4 4 » ee Se ee os 60 Outside route 4 MHais3s3s 7 3.40 * Closed fast 4 m Lass B4aiwies ¢ # 5.60 * On outside 4 BS ¢irr¢ 2.40 * Tired bediy 4 76 $3458 = 10.28 * Off late 4 ee $637 @ 10.10 ° No factor +: p = Gm f 29) * Outrun S2 4 Scratched Walf's Brindle D., August, 1948. Paro—Handy Hazel : 4.00 » i £ ‘eo 1 miniela (1-3) 22.20 SENSATION LASS i ™ ORIGINAL ILLEGIBLE Top Pups Tangle | | Tonight In The Feature Raée Mrs. H. E. Russell’s Rec- koning did it again Satur-| day night when he. finished | in the van of a top ranking} pack of greyhounds in the! feature action at the Key | West Kennel Club. A heavy favorite of the fans, Reckoning had to go all out to gain the win, when he languished in third place} throughout the early part of | the race. He gained the lead and was easily best there- after. | Tammie finished second and | Hazy Moon came in third. Reckoning returned 3.20, 2.40 and 2.40 while Tammie paid 4.00} and 2.80. Hazy Moon returned | 2.80. | Easy Winner At Key West Kennel Club Saturday Ni Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—The time has } come, by popular demand, to knock down the Yankees and assure their horde of ill-wishers that Casey Stengel’s athletes wil! not win their fifth straight flag in the American League race starting today. The job gets harder with each passing | spring. You might be surprised to know how many persons there are within | our borders who hate the Yankees. It is a phenomenon we have not seen satisfactorily explained, other ‘than that a lot of fans are blamed tired seeing one club get all the gravy. Perhaps 30 times recently, and } over a wide stretch of country, we were asked, “What's the chances | likely to begin fal apart a tne dnt ling t any ‘0 particularize,. we: have. them to take little Phil = the Speeders in the infield. Phil has been ea baby food all winter and ange com- bat his ulcers, and he’s going inte the race underweight. That's ex- tremely encouraging to the ant Yanks, The other infielders haven't been hitting in exhibition games, Stem- gel was quoted the other, day as saying they had him’ plenty wor- ried. He said he simply dids’t | know where to turn after his boys ;were combed by the Pittsburgh | Pirates, 10-5, the other day, es | another good sign. | Added to that, Vic Raschi, the veteran starting pitcher, hasn't of getting those bums out of| looked good‘at all. He tas pitched there?” And they didn’t mean/29 ingings in the exhibitions and Brooklyn. jhas been bombarded for 39 hits In every case our reply has been that succor is at hand, Cleveland Indians sre going to} that the | and 20 “runs, As for Yogi Berra, we saw one bet made at even money that he In tonight's feature action, a trio| wrap up Stengel’s fat cats this; jleads the league in in batting this of Grade A dogs will battle it out | |time and deliver them. We have | time. This plainly shows that the over the 5-16 mile distance. Includ- ed in the group are F. B. Stutz’ j explained. that the Yankees are getting very old, most of them be- Yanks, or their followers, at least, | are becoming overconfident. It's Vendome, who finished third to| ing in their 30s, and that they are ‘been the downfall of many a club. Magnate and Brindle Comer in his last outing, R. K. Hutching’s Betty Bob who has been in the money in virtually every start to date and Brindle Comer owned by ! Fred Whitehead. Brindle Comer ; has captured a pair of seconds in his last two tries and will be battling tonight to gain a first. Plenty of competition will be furnished by Believe Me, High-| land Hawk, Bizarre, Burnished Blade and Exciting Post time ie conte is 8:15 » m. Miami Police Nine Wallops Key West, 9-] The North Miami Police ba ball team walloped the Key West} All-Stars Sunday by a score of 9-1/ in the Magic C Didi Torres’! terrific home run over the center | field wall was the only bright sport in the picture for the Conchs. The Miamians started off their scoring in the first frame with a big five runs when Knobby Rosa was safe on an error and stole second. Lasry clouted one to short and Rosa was caught napping be-! tween second and third, Lasry was then called out when both runners were standing on second at the same time. Flitas was hit by a pitched ball and Young singled to right to score Rosa. Torres doubled to right and Eaton drove one over! the left field fence for a three run homer. The Conch infield then tighten- ed up to retire the next two men and end the inning. In the second inning Kaki Red- riguez went in to pitch relieving joe Casa and Al Pazo handled | the catching duties. Kaki ‘fanned six men in the seven innings he hurled. He gave up but one earned run--a homer by Young in. the eighth. The locals got their first single in the second when Orlando Rod- riguez hit one to -right. In the fourth, Kaki Rodriguez hit a single to right and in the fifth Pazo singl- ed to center. Al Cabot also el on in the sixth. Crip Lastres got the last base | hit for the Conchs when be hit a single through first. For the Miami Police nine, Young hit a homer and two singies | and drove two runs home. Eaton hit a homer with two on base in the first frame. / Mitchell fanned eight and Gus tafson struck out four for the home « team on the mound. In the field, Rosa, Lasry, Flitas: and Eaton played great ball for! hte police. Paro and Al Cabot were the best for the Key Westers Michigan State fen- Dick Berry € Ten epee ship in 1853 three victories to key Albert all riders m winning Park's Leonard Richards for} three-year olds, ' i Wath “Save $ $ ey $+ For QUALITY USED CARS jand General Auto Repairs | TWINS GARAGE 138 DUWAL ST DIAL 22401 $33 SAVE ee COMING MONDAY, APRIL 13— Water color landscape painting class, 2 to 4 p.m., West Mar. EVENTS every Tues. evening. Open house party, 8 p.m. s.adies Golf Tournament. KR W, wllo Gallery Art Classes, Golf course, 9 a.m County Beach. Portrait painting classes, 2 to ¢ Gym «lasses for O.W.C., Sea p.m., West Martello Art Plane Base, 10 a.m. School, County Broach. Alcoholics Anonymous open} Navy Thrift Shop, 10 am. to meetin, 5%2 Duval Street | 1 pm. Kiwanis Club dinner meeting, 6:45 p.m. CMI siudents present) my cical e “Mr cy! Convent eud’t Second’ night for ™ Key West. Picr ft . Anchor Lod: tion at Barn Ths tus Scottish R pam, DeMolay fs Wate: ‘s * i Loca ‘No, My Nee " V, 7:20 p.m. 2 m. |. Updies Ausitary, ¥." xo West. Art and Historica! “VFW Hore, 8 p=. Siciety, 8 et . Wesleyan ce Guild, WS ke fecasd , 4 list Church, 7 Gen 86, Ladies a First. Presbyterian |. PRAs* elubreom=, & pie: phat ge sb Presbyterian | rumen Elementary PTA, at Circle 1, Women of First; Sctool 8 p.m. Presbyterian Church, 8 9.m. Poinciana Sehool, school, 8 p.m. TUESDAY, APRIL 14— Bowling for Officers Wives, 1 to} PTA, at! St. Ann’s Hall, @ pm. (This Catholic Daughters of America, Court Mary Star of the fen, | may be postponed due to opening of CML musical com- edy. Check with president.) 3:30 p.m. jat Naval. Station | ving alleys. j W.S.C.S. of First Methodist Ft. Taylor Duplicate Bridge | Church at church, ree pm. Club, 7:45 p.m. at La Concha! Hotel. Youth for Christ Bibie Study, at Service Mon’s Christian Center, 517 Fleming St. Reginners’ Bridge Group, Ft Taylor Officers’ Club, 8 p.m. Combined social and handicraft hours at K. W. Youth Center Page 6 | ZX-11 O.W.C. coffee, Aero- palms, 10 a.m. Harris School PTA, meeting in auditerlum, 8 pam, Southernmost. Pistel and | Club, Legion Post ests pn. | sieete sy ee THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NEW LOWER TRUCK PRICES! See or phone your