The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1953, Page 6

FIL Starts 140 Game Scramble Heed Tonight Avenger, Reckoning Will Race Tonight At Kennel Club | Viaory Tueedey |3 Clubs Are Unbeaten In Florida State League Victory Tuesday By The Associated Press s a e F n F. B. Stutz’ Avenger, the n j ri $ |top favorite of fans at the i | DeLand, Jacksonville Beach and Lifter At Wickers Stadium By JIM COBB, Citizen Sports Editor With a new six team format, the Florida Internation- al League will embark on its eighth season tonight with! viet d THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, April 15, 1953 @itention centered on Key West when the Fort Lauder-| ————___—. dale Lions, who are favored to cop the 1953 pennant, tan- ; gle with the Havana Cubans or Key West Conchs—which-' ever you want to tag them. The battle will get underway tonight at 8:15 at the Wickers Field Stadium. Known as the Miami Beach Wlamingos last season, the Lions Lions Oppose Havana In Lid | | \Ke inl! j : : Orlando held sway in the .Fler- | Key West Kennel Club will . ' (NO. POST POSITIONS) : ida State League today with. the go into action tonight in the . Sixth Race—5-16 Mile First race — 5-16 mile are, in the words of manager Pep- per Martin “a stronger elub than the one we started with last year.” They finist _one game off the pace of the Miami Bun Sox. Ft. Lauderdale will start vet- @ran Andy Elko on the mound to- night and skipper Armando Mar- gan will counter with Camillo Pasqual in what shapes up as a Pitching. duel of the first order, The Lions received a boost yes- terday with word that Jesse Levan, the FIL’s top hitter last year with a 334 ayerage, has been sent back by the Atlanta Crackers. Along with the heavy stickwork expected from big) John ‘Davis, George Handy. and catcher Chuck Ehiman, the Lions will pose a formidable threat to the loop’s hurlers. In ad- dition to: these power hitters, hold- over shortstop George Wehmeyer should give a good account of him- self. Martin has a good looking mound staff with Walt Nothe, Bob Palmer, | Chico Morilla and Dave Barnhill. The Havana Cubans, at this writing are something of an un- known quality. With their ranks riddled by player deals, Papa Joe Cambria has corralled a host of young ball-players from the Carib- bean area to build with. Infielder Chino Hidlago and cen- terfielder Severino Mendez, who captured the fancy: of the fans as a@ Key West-Conch last year are the veterans. One thing is certain,. in exhibi- tions to date (they have won 15, Ist none), the Cubans have proved tgs are dangerous on. the basi ths, having stolen some 23 bases. s festivities tonight. will in- dud? an appearance” by the Key West High. School. Band and top Navy offielals, including Rear Ad- miral Irving T. Duke. Mayor C. B. Harvey will toss out the first ball. . ‘Twenty-five hundred. fans are expected to flock fo the park for the opener to swell the total FIL attendance tonight to an estimated 10,000 fans. ‘Last year’s pennant winning Sun Sox play at West Palm Beach and St. Petersburg is at Tampa. League president Phil O’Connell predicted a successful season for the circuit, cut to six teams when Lakeland dropped out and Key West as a result, lost its franchise. Cotton State Loop To Open Schedule | GREENVILLE, Miss. #—“The : Cotton States League will open; April 21 as scheduled with the | present eight members.” | | Directors of the Class C loop} jissued that statement late yester- day after conferrag on problems arising from’ the signing of two Negro pitchers by the Hot Springs Bathers. The league had sought to ;oust the Bathers for signing | Jim and Leander Tugerson. Presi- dent George Trautman of the Na- tional Association of Minor Lea- gues ruled, however, that this action could not be taken until after a full hearing. Officials who met here declined to comment on yestcrday’s meet- ing. At Hot Springs, officials of the Bathers would not say whether they would try to use the Negroes in Tuesday’s opener at Pine Bluff. Babe Faces Knife BEAUMONT, Tex. (®—Dr. Rob- | ert M. Moore, professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, was revealed today as the specialist who will perform an. operation on Babe Zaharias in an effort to remove a malignancy that threatens to end her athletic career. The Beaumont Enterprise sand it had learned Dr. Moore was the man who would operate on the famous woman athlete at 2 p. m. | Friday. Tt could not confirm this officially, however. Dr. Moore was reportedly in Austin to attend a medical convention and could not be ‘contacted last “night. O'Connell said more :young play- ers would.mean faster action and more» entertaining games. The Sun Sox call on Dick Lovell, a member of the 1951 Sox who played with Lancaster and New- port News last season. Charlie Harris will oppose him. «Attend- ance is expected to reach 4,000 there. Tampa, with. the proceedings sponsored by the Egypt Temple Shrine, expects their opener to top the 4,343 they drew a year ago. The league ends its season Sep- tember Ist, with time out for the All-Star game July 16 - 16. geese enenenagns teenie an * the Key West Sporting scene is the driving sange shown abore which wil Portis Boy Whistling Lad Reckless Trudy Suki Sal Shattering Kitchen Maid Metropolis Second Race—5-16 Mile Kegn Kut Angus Babbling Bess Nick Lutz Guijara Gail Lee Hunter's Choic Third Race—5-16 Mile Beseech Mountain Park Migrator Sir Hidelgo Bomb Light Southern Gent Just Passing Sooner Senator Fourth Race—5-16 Mile Queen’s Bomb Taxes Me Vandal Lustre Gal Gay Beauty Heart Strings Salter Path, Jack Riboud Fifth Race—5-16 Mile Adjust Hill Queen Resonator Tippy’s Cash My Bitsey Focus Lightning Rodney Flashy Frank Sensation Lass Ester, Reed Famous Wheel Fame-N-Fortune More Corn Suki Susie Roose Goose Beguile verth Race—5-16 Mile mmedan Days Lost Trail Joyous Miss Eighth Race—5-16 Mile n Power orward Spring Festiv Bar-K Magnate Pen Pal lar Girl Honest Trouble Ninth Race—5-16 Mile 8 Choice Steppin y Tenth Race—3-8 Mile Honey Rebel Loudeal Crystal Ghost Pasha’s Lady Ramadan Moveable Tendresse TODAY'S. BASEBALL SCREDULE By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE at_New York Philadel; Washington at Boston Only games scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE Louis at Milwaukee New York at Philadelphia Cincinnat! at Chicago SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Atlanta at Chattanooga Memphis at Mobile Birmingham at Nashville Little Rock at New Orieans * AMERICAN ASSOCIATION .. Paul at Louisville Minneapolis at Kansas City Charleston at Indianapolis Columbus at Toledo SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE at Savannah Montgomery at Columbus TEXAS LEAGUE at Tulsa Dallas Fort Worth at Oklahoma City Beaumont at Houston be con Milwaukee 3 St New York 4 Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn @ Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 3 Gincinnati_ 2 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland 66 San Diego 5-2 San Francisco 4-4 Oakland 1-2 Sacramento 6 Seattle 4 Hollywood 6 Los Angeles © YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS By ‘the Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE 10 Detroit © (night) Philadelphia 5 New . York 0: 6 Chicago @ Washington at Boston, ppd., snow and wet grounds NATIONAL LEAGUE TEXAS LEAGUE San Antonio 2 Houston 1 (10 innings) Beaumont 2 Shreveport 0 Fort Worth § Tulsa 4 Dallas at ‘Oklahoma City ppd. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Chattanooga 9 Atlanta 8 Birmingham 12 Nashville 8 Little Rock 2 New Orleans ‘t Memphis 4 Mobile 3 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Augusta 4 Columbia 6 Charleston 1 Jacksonville 6 Savannah 4 Columbus 10 Montgomery £ Macon 2 te the Kay West Golf Club. Range will be drailt at « cost 8 Gheut $15.000. No opening date has been announced. Louis 2 (10 imnings) feature race. The classy i |three year old who has won | |six of his 12 starts thus far, |in the season and finished’ out of the money but three |times, ran third in his last |outing and will be primed ‘for a victory tonight. He ‘holds the record over the |5/16 mile distance. | Toughest threat to the Avengers’ { popularity will come from another | favorite of the fans, Mrs. H. E. | Russell’s Reckoning, who has cap- | tured nine_victories in 23 starts. | Reckoning has won four straight, | most of them easily and could | come up with a win tonight, | Two other dogs in the race, | Noremae, owned by Fred Palermo and Cliff Waller’s Turning Point have won their last races. Other entries include Two-Ee, Pagoda, Stepping By and Chuckie’s. Choice. A pair of imports from Holly- | wood Kennel ‘Club dominated the {picture in last night’s feature when Obedience, owned by the Williams and Fagg Kennel came in a winner followed closely by| | Candalon. A heavy favorite in the , Wagering, Obedience showed plenty | of speed when he circled the track | in just 31.1 seconds only a tenth | of a second off the track mark. | Showmenow ran third. The win- ner paid 3.60, 4.80 and 4.00 while Candalon returned 13.20 and 6.00. Showmenow paid 4.40. . Boxing Results TUESDAY'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press CLEVELAND—Kid Gavilan, 152, Havana, outpointed Livio Minelli, 151, Italy, 10 (Non-title). BROOKLYN (Ridgewood Grove) —Johnny Brattgn, 149, Chicago, outpointed Al “Sugar” Wilson, 145%, Englewood, N. J., 10. LOS ANGELES—Harry “‘Snuffy’’ Smith, 138, Rochester, N. ‘Y., out- pointed Freddie “Babe” Herman, 140, Los Angeles, 10. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bobby Why, 132, Los Angeles, stopped John Butterworth, 13344, Manches- lter, England, 4. . WHITE PLAINS, N. Y¥.—Eddie |Compo, 131%, New Haven, out- jpointed Jimmy Wilde, 136, New York, 8. Se ae structed by the Wayne Corporation on Stock Islend edjec TWO FIGURES FAMILIAR TO KEY WEST baseball fans talk things over during drills at Wickers Field Tuesday, Ar- mando Marsan (right), menager of the Havana Cubans, was first here in 1908 to oppose a local nine while his center fielder, Severino Mendez, performed last year with the Key West Conchs in the Florida International League. Both will be on tap tonight when the Cubans oppose the Fort Lauderdale Lions in FIL opener.—Citizen Staff Photo. CUBAN HURLER CAMILLO PASQUAL will take the mound tonight for the Havana Cubans in the lid lifter of the 1953 Flor- ida International loop season. Pasqual will oppose Fort Laud- erdale’s Andy Eiko. Top crowd is seen for the opener—Citizen Staff Photo. struck Delano winning put over its wi ron in the bottom of the ninth after 11, and. MeCor- eight-run seventh as his bases- loaded double cleared the sacks after hitting a foot telow the top Right-handed Virgil Frazier gave up eight hits, three of them com- ing in Palatka’s seven-run fourth inning. 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