The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1953, Page 6

oon Conch Baseballers Will Tangle With Constance High Here Tonigl Locals Seek To ’ SET AT KENNEL CLUB HERE TONIG! Improve School’s District Standings The Key West High School baseball team’ will wind up its regular season with a two game series with the. Constance High of Mi- ami nine tonight and Satur-|& day. The tilts will be played |% at Wickers Field Stadium, getting under way at 8:00 p.m, The Conchs, who are undefeated in District play, will be seeking to maintain their number one rating which will give them a favored Position in the district tourney which starts May 14th. The Conchs have already cinched themselves & spot in that action. It will mark the first meeting of the two clubs. This is the first year of operation for Constance and they will meet the Conchs in SOUTH ATLANTIC By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind 1605 (762 = YESTERDAY'S’ RESULTS Macon 6-3 Columbia 2-4 Columbus 6 Savannah 4 Charleston 2 Augusta 1 (second game ppd--rain) Jacksonville at Montgomery ppd~wet TODAY'S SCHEDULE at Macon Columbia at Augusta Jacksonville at Columbus Savannah at Mont vHE! 8s By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind Birmingham 9 640 — Memphis __.... Chattanooga baseball and again this fall on the | Kit Rock gridiron, Coach Paul Davis’ nine is in top | Sens shape for tonight’s contest and the locals are favored to sail through ‘without too much trouble. With the! n fine performance of Gibby Gates on the mound last week, Davis is now in the enviable position of hav- ing three hurlers which will not hurt him a bit in tournament play. George Lastres is expected to get the nod for the hurling as- signment tonight with Julio Hen- viquez receiving his tosses. Bob Lastres will hold down the first base position with “Hal Solomon ). en second. Vince Catala will be at short and Dick Salgade is ex- pected to be at the hot corner. * ‘The outfield will consist of Rod- Tiguez, Gates and Pita. Key West is currently topping the field in the District Seven standings:but .a loss tonight could drop them to, second place. ‘. South Broward is tied with the \" Conchs for the honor spot. and Pompano with seven wins and a single defeat is in second place. Central Catholic of Fort Lauder- dale and Homestead follow in that order. : z There will be a meeting of Dis- trict répresentatives over the ew Orleans 2. Birmingha : 2 (10 innings) lew am Little ‘Rock at: Nashville ppd--wet grounds Only games scheduled TODAY'S SCHEDULE Atlanta at Memphis Mobile at Nashville Only. games sched YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS By The Associated Press All games. ppd--weather AMERICAN No games scheduled “INTERNATIONAL Seattle at Portland ‘ppd~wet grounds TEXAS Houston $ Oklahoma City 0 ee ee Ot first game BALL SCHEDULE ssociated Press NAL end to determine.the pairings for}, the upcoming tourney, Key West stands a good chance of having the action here, Athletic Director Win Jones has announced, ‘at Chicago (n) Cleveland at St. Louis <n) _ AMERICAN ASSOCIA’ , RESULTS ‘NIGHT OF STARS’ BASEBALL Beaumont at Dallas Shreveport at Fort Worth INTERNATIONAL Montreal at Toronto Rochester at Ottawa ield at Buffale at cuse DINGS By The Associated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis Kansas Cit; St. Paul Charleston Louisville ‘Toledo Portland San Diego San Francisco Sacramento Oakland 2 eB Sebee38 Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK —A_ week from tonight the heavyweight champion- ship of the world is-to be con- tested in Chicago Stadium, barring another postponement, and you would hardly know it around this ghost town of the fight game, The once bustling offices of the International Boxing Club are de- serted except for a few older em- Ployes who-have nowhere else to go, Now and then a couple of ancient managers, left behind at the ebb.of the tide, drop in and recall the good old days of last ; #Jtme when-New York saw a title A variety of the buffalo or bison ‘once ranged as far north as Great Slave Lake. All of the Net Proceeds of the Track’s Operation _‘ Will Be Divided Between Needy ‘So. come on out, folks, and meet the Stars, and friends, under the stars. At the same time, enjoy~ vars Worthy Cause. Box gis free open-air parking. Thank You, At Its Best—and, remember, it's Come early for the choice bleachers. Acres of tree ers Hae fight between Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim. For some reason—and we might as well blame this on television, too—there is a great apathy here about the return meeting of Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott. There has been no ticket sale here worth mentioning, whereas $30,000 was taken in at the local IBC box- ‘office for their first fight at Phila- delphia last summer. Up to now exactly one fan, try- ing hard to fill an awkward pause talk, has asked me thought it would come out. has dampened interest locally. Joe Louis, who experienced first hand that Rocky would bag him much sooner than the 13th round this time, People still listen to Joe, even after catching his act. According to word brought east a Terry Moore To Present Trophy To Winner Here The stars will be shining tonight at the Key West Kennel Club when a: group of Hollywood favorites ap- pear at the track to do their bit for the Key West Charity 3 | Night scheduled there. The beauteous Terry Moore, star of 20th Century Fox production |‘“‘Twelve Mile Reef” will present ag {2 trophy and a blanket of roses to the winner of the feature race. Which has been designated the 3 | “Twelve Mile Reef Handicap.” And all of the net proceeds of 3 | the evening have been donated by the track management to worthy | charities in. the city. Kennel Club President Abe Aronovitz, who was $83 | instrumental in arranging the eve- ning, will be on tap for the pre- sentation of the stars. Robert Wag- ner, J. Carrol Naish and Gilbert . | Roland will also be on hand for the affair. A top group of Grade A compet- 560 318 itors will go to the post tonight in the feature, led by Melvia Joe, who captured an impressive win in her last outing. Other entries include High Stakes, Fusbudget, Scotch Lad, Trappist, Hazy Moon, Flighty and Greenbrier Boy. A bonus tonight in the form of a 3-8 mile hot box marathon is al- so scheduled to top off the evening. Williams and Fagg Kennel’s Obe- dience did it again last night when he circled the 5-16 mile course in just 31.1 seconds. to edge Famous Wheel and Duette. The winner paid a nice 22.00 to win, 8.40 to Place and 6.20 to show. Famous Wheel paid 10.00 and 6.20. Duette returned 7.20. The Quiniela on the feature was good for 73.20. Two Quinielas, last night paid better than 100.00. Major League Arc Season Starts Tonight By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter Major_league baseball, which has seen mighty little sunlight this ‘spring, goes completely under the lights tonight for the first time this season. At least that’s what the schedules say, although the weatherman may have other ideas. He has had so many times since the baseball sea- son opened almost four weeks ago that club owners are beginning to suspect the Weather Bureau has been taken over exclusively by rainmakers, First place in the National League will be at stake with the Philadelphia Phillies coming into Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field for a three game set with the second place Dodgers. Milwaukee will attempt to play its third home game of the year— the Braves have been rained. out of their new home four times in six tries—with the Chicago Cubs as guests. St. Louis will be at Cin- org and Pittsburgh at New ork, The New York Yankees put their game and a half American League lead on the line in Boston after a |. two day layoff. The Cleveland In. dians, the Yanks’ nearest pursu- ers, invade St. Louis. Philadelphia Athletics are at nome to Washing- j ton and Detroit visits Chicago. The Phillies, nursing a precious half game edge over the Dodgers, will fire their three biggest guns— Curt Simmons, Karl Drews and | Dressen of the Dodgers says he Plans to counter with Billy Loes tonight, Preacher Roe tomorrow and possibly Joe Black on Sunday. In the invasion from the West that just ended, the Dodgers, as Tonight's Entries . (NOT POST POSITIONS) ‘ First Race — 5-16 mile Really Rare Take Ten Sign Here Razor’s Rocket Modern Age. Maude’s Girl Jan-Jan In Person Second Race — 5-16 mile Portis Boy Genteel Jury Duty Dublin Gal Doctor Dodd Fair Hope Powerline Lucky Par Third Race — 5-16 mile Little Darlin Little Secret Just Passing That's My Gal Sooner Shindig Sir Hidelgo Gaudy Galivanting Gal Fourth Race — 5-16 mile Fiesta Girl Blixt Bomb Light Fancy Times Sukie Sal Ascot Mer-Shak Mim Fifth Race — 5-16 mile Impending Jack Kochman Spur On Whistling Lad Zavalla Silque Blue Sails Sanguine Sixth Race — 5-16 mile Diehard Shattering Ozona Stop Over Milly’ ike. Brash * Aska Kay’ 4s Beach Trampi. Seventh Rage -gu5-16 mile Vicente ~ zi Marianao Whata Bug Harvest Call Jack O'Lish Two-Ee Lady Portis Careful Sir Ei Race — 5-16 mile . Pete Lightning Rodney Restore Sixty Days Nigtt, Race — 5-16 mile ack Riboud = - Farm Master Tippy’s Cash Speedy Girl Embraceable Pen Pal Mill Town Novella Tenth Race — 5-16 mile Melvia Jo Scotch Lad Greenbrier Boy Trappist High Stakes Hazy Moon Fusbudget Flighty Eleventh Race — 3-8 mile Cuddly Cute Gay Farewell Moveable Beguile /Nadya’s Girlie Summer Girlie Summer Special Painted Sensation Lass SPORTS MIRROR By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO — Hill Gail, winner” of the Kentucky Derby, declared out of the Preak- pess because of an ankle injury. FIVE YEARS AGO—The New York Giants defeated the Pitts- burgh Pirates, 12-5 and took over first place in the National League. TEN YEARS AGO—Henry Arm- strong KO'd Tommy Jessup in one jminate of the first round at Boston. Elks Topple |Kiwanis In. \Little Loop Behind the tremendous relief Pitching of Richard Bonner, the Hleagueleading Elks toppled the second place Kiwanis, 6-2, in the first game of’a Little League dou- ble-header at Bayview Park last night. Bonner went to the mound in the second ‘inning with the bases load- ed and one out and’ retired the next two batters on strikes. He pitched hitless ball for four and two-third innings to gain credit for his second win of the season. Bon- ner struck out ten and walked four during his entire mound perform- ance for the evening, ‘The Elks started early when they picked up three runs in the first inning when Bobby Santana doubled with two, outs. Santana moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a passed ball. After Sam , Holland walked, Joe Brennan dou- bled to right. Holland stole home for the second run and Brennan scored moments later on a wild pitch, : The Kiwanis scored their only runs in the second when Santana, who started for the Elks, hit a next two hitters to end the threat. The Elks picked up their three insurance runs in the fifth on two walks and singles by Solomon, San- tana, Holland and Parks. Roy Valdez, ace Kiwanis right- hander, was touched for seven hits, but a little better support from his teammates weld have prevented some of the: . Valdez struck out nine and four men. San- tana led the Elks at the plate with a double and single in three tries. In the nightcap, the VFW wal- loped Evans, 12-5. The VFW scor- ed in every and were never behind in the ame. They pick- ed up single runs in the first and/ second innings without a hit. They added three in the third on singles by Bob Thompson and Tony Este- noz and a double by Esquinaldo. In the fifth, Estenoz’ double wa: followed by Raul Cervantes’ four- | th homer of the season. Foley, VFW fighthander, had Evans in check until they got to! him, for two runs in the third on a hit batsman and singles by R. Curry and D. Garcia. They picked up three runs in the fifth on Dan-| ny Garcia's tremendous se with two mates aboard. Foley, in notching his third win of the season struck out 15 and walked three. He allowed five hits, R. Curry was Foley’s chief offend- er. Curry had a perfect night’ at the plate with three singles in three tries. Tony Estenoz led the VFW attack with a double - and eee te. Low Bidder On Missle Test Center Construction JACKSONVILLE u—Paul Smith ae Co., Orlando, low bidder Thursday at $971. building three laboratories the Missile Test Center, Patrick Air Force Base near Cucoa, $$355$ SAVE $55555) Means QUALITY REPAIRS AUTO ) 3333 AND. USED CARS At the RIGHT PRICE NEW STUDEBAKER CARS AND TRUCKS: |Mean Maximum Economy | i FOR REPAIR APPOINTMENT AUTO DEMONSTRATION streak of wildness. After Danny Garcia ‘singled, Santana walked the next four batters to force in the two runs, Bonner came to San- tana’s rescue and struck out the Page 6 The battle of the century will be run off Saturday when Luther Pin- der, skipper of the 36-foot cabin cruiser “My Baby’ and Dr. J, A. Valdes with his 35-foot “Joey Bob” battle it out in a 12 mile ocean marathon race to determine who has the fastest vessel. Prize posted for the “‘grvdge Bat- tle” will be four quarts of - ice cream. Interest is’ at a.fever pitch for the race with both competitors | making claims that they are going to come in winners. “T think I can beat him,” Pin- vanilla ice cream.” Pinder added that he “may even have time to stop and do a little fishing before the end of the race and still come in a winner.” But Doctor Valdes . countered with a claim that he “will be back at the starting line eating his ice cream before Pinder circles the course.” The boats will race 12 miles starting at the Crawfish Bar Bea- con in the Northwest Channel, They will run out to sea six miles and then return. County Judge Tom Caro and Willie Wickers will be the judges for the affair. The race is the end result of a long period of rivalry between the two yachtsmen but they emphasized that anyone with a boat of like size’ can join in the race which will get underway at 1:00 p, m. Sunday. Pinders boat is ‘powered with twin 115-horsepower Chrysler ma- rine engines, while Valdes has a pair of 145 Chris Craft motors. Pin- 25 miles per hour and Valdes’ claims the same. — A top crowd is exnected to be on hand to see the pair attempt THE KEY WEST CITIZEN der said yesterday, “and I like}; der says he can reach a speed of” to prove their claims. W's @ smart move to get in on our big % og USED CAR AND USED 601 DUVAL STREET AS ADVERTISEO 18 Holiday ant Esquire W. J. STOUGHTON, General Manager. Kentucky Derby jockeys, Don Meade and Herb Fisher, each were set down for 30 days for rough | riding. Come By 1130 DUVAL STREET er DIAL 2.2401 {$$$$35 save Styled for leisure - built for comfort. . Here's inspired styling for leismre—e gregt new Ades inj. lightweight shoe comfort. Smart as « whip, eney. (with the hidden elastic threat). it's SPECIAL BUSSES LEAVE EVERY HALF HOUR + AND ON HOUR at Strand Theatre-— Fare 15 RACING SEASON ENDS FRIDAY NITE. MAY 15