The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1953, Page 8

BRAVES FACE CRUCI Skipper Lauds Club; Red Sox Open Fourteen- Game Road Trip By JOE REICHLER AP Sportswriter dust how good are Milwaukee’s @mazing Braves? The next 10 days may supply a @efinite answer. Charlie Grimm’s second-placers are at Ebbets Field tonight starting a three-game Series with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then comes a four-game series in Philadelphia followed by another four-game set in New York. By that time, the rest of the league should know whether the Baseball Results SOUTH ATLANTIC By The Associated Press Columbus 8 Macon 5 Columbia 4 Savannah 1 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Augusta at Montgomery Jacksonville at Charleston Macon at Columbus (2) sou ASSOCIA’ By The Associated Press ‘Won Lost Pet. 2 Braves are to be taken seriously. | Mobile Despite their lofty perch, there are still some rival managers who in- sist the Braves are playing over their heads and will drop back among the second-divisioners when the weather gets hot and the go- ing gets rougher. “We're up there to stay,” he says, “Out hing has been great, our infield has been tight and our hitters have begun to find the range. From what I’ve seen thus far, we're as good as any team in the league.” Certainly the Braves have been the surprise of the league. With six weeks of the season gone they are only a half game behind the league-leading Dodgers. All teams enjoyed an off day yesterday. A victory tonight would put the Braves on top. This is the same club experts Picked to finish sixth and seventh. A good part of the explanation Ties in the of. sophomore third baseman Fddie Mathews (331. batting average, 14 homers and 37 runs batted in), the resur- gence of shortstop Johnny Logan, the fine showing of rookie pitchers Don Liddle and Bob Buhl and ut- fielder Bill Bruton, and the return from service of battcrymen Johnny Antonelli and Del Crandall. Not to be overlooked is the tre- mendous reception the transplanted Braves are getting in their new home. Just how important is encourage- ment and fan enthusiasm to a pro- fessional athlete? “It gives you a lift,” says Sid Gordon, the socking outfielder of the Braves. It makes you want to play that much harder, run that much faster and hit and field that much better.” Frick, who, like all baseball peo- ple are delighted with the Braves’ showing, thinks the Milwaukee fans deserve a big assist for their team’s fine play. “Maybe it sounds like hooey,” | Toledo |... he says, “but I’m convinced that | Lovsvils, a,team reacts to that kind of sup- . It puts out a little extra.” With the exception of the Braves, the National League races are run- ning normally. Brocklyn, Philadel-| Rochester phia and St, Louis are up there | Toronto the slow-starting Giants right them. The New York , a8 expected, are setting the pace in the American with and Chicago striving ightily to overtake them. Can they prove suc- road? They open a Western tour in Cleve- tenders, = home during next it. The St. Louis un Saee will be on road, not to home until Tt shoul an interest- qe CLEVELAND — Mike Garcia YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Birmingham ‘3 Chattanooga. 2 am at Only games scheduled TODAY'S SCHEDULE Nashville at Atlanta Chattarooga at Birmingham eS: wseueess sYeescf neescscs§ Seeeuses! eapkbhes: s¥eaee? ceneccke? Far: MONDAY’S FIGHTS HOLYOKE, Mass.—Jose Ra:..>s, 12944, Puerto Rico, outpointed Tit Valles, 12934, New York, 8. NEW ORLEANS, La. — Ralph Dupas, 1384, New Orleans, stopped Pete (Tote) Martinez, 139%4, Stock- ton, Calif., 6. CHICAGO, Ill. ~ George Berry, 137, Gary, Ind., outpointed Benny Uhl, 136, St. Catherine's, Ont., 8 SAN FRANCISCO — Eddie Cha- | vez, 138%, San Jose, Calif., stopped | Armand Savoie, 135, Montreal, 9. BUTTE, Mont.—Basil Marie, 128, Philadelphia, outpcinted Doug Kir- by, 135, San Francisco, 10. Tommy Burns was the first heavyweight champion to box on soil. was peeved, The St. Louis Browns | foreign had just knocked him out of the box—and in the second inning. “I need more pitching,” moaned the Cleveland pitcher, winner of 22 games fast season. “All that rain and this blasted schedule have been murder.” That was a little over a week £0. Mike and his two pals on Cleve- land’s terrific Big Three pitching incredible of 67 cod ony they had won 15 and lost 11. “They're all three slow start ers” said one member of the In- dians’ front office, “You watch. Around July 1, they'll be hot as a/ Pistol. { stafi—Bob Lemon an¢ Early Wynn | ~-bave beer complaining like that logically, Manager it today that they'll from now on, The blanks om the schedule are just! loreover, Lopez added confi- : “E think all three of them win 20 again this season.” figures show that have an excellent approaching the almost ; Wynn at first. He'd been . and we didn't think he'd be! }ready in time. But he's | jand lost two so far, whereas had a 54 record a year ago. “What they want is to every fourth day, especially joa and Wynn.” } | Garcia is a litte behind. He ha ja 63 tally last year, 43 this year.) j Lemon looks about the same: i last year, 55 this year. NEW YORK — Pat Abbott, a handsome 40-year-cld ‘ Southerner who gave up ambitions to be an actor and turned - professional golfer, grabbed the No. 1 qualify- ing spot for the United States Open Championship from a. field of more than 1,600 of the nation’s links ex- perts. ‘ Abbott was all by himself out in front of the 268 golfers who qualified yesterday in the first step of the complicated rew system of getting into'the Open tournament. Julius Boros of Mid-Pines, N. C., last year’s open champion, and 31 other players were exempted from the tests, which saw almost all of the leading professionals get through. A ‘number of the top amateurs failed to qualify. Notable among the failures was the virtually complete collapse of the famous Turnesa golfing family. Mike, Willie, Joe and Joe Jr., all were eliminated in the New York City area competition. Only J’m Turnesa, who as the defending PGA champion automatically es- caped the first cutdown, is still in the running, Abbott, professional at the Mem- phis Country Club for five years, toured the neighboring 6,167-yard Memphis Colonial Country Club layout in 5 under par, 69-66—135. Next among the candidates who on 32 widely scattered courss were Dave Douglas, vet- eran tournament pro from Newark, Del., who had a 69-67—136 despite a morning thunderstorm at Phila- delphia, and Ray Gafford, the pro at the Northwood Country Club in Dallas, where the 1952 Open was played, Gafford also shot a 69-67— 136. Dick Chapman of. Pinehurst, N. C., former British and U. S. amateur champion, failed by a stroke. at Philadelphia. Jim Mc- Hale, a Walker Cup star from Philadelphia, missed by the same nate at Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Bill‘ Campbell of Hunting- ton, W. Va., could get no better feed an alternate's spot at Hunt- Under. the new qualifying setup being. used this year for the first time, ‘the players who passed yes- terday will now enter a 36-hole preliminary competition, at Oak- mont, Pa., June 9-10. They will be joined in these pretiminary rounds Batting Lead NEW YORK w— Switch-hitting Al (Red) Schoendienst of the St. » who swings equal- \CUBANS COME TO LIFE IN FIL PENNANT RACE By The Associated Press The Havana’ Cubans, in the Flor- ida International League cellar since the season started, apparent- ly have the Tampa Smokers num- ber, anyway. The Cubans whipped the Smokers Monday night for the fourth time in six meetings, 7-3, while Miami blanked the St. Petersburg Saints, 3-0, in a game cut to seven innings by rain at Miami. Rain at West Palm Beach washed out the game between the Ft. Lauderdale Lions and West Palm Beach Indians and they scheduled a double header Tuesday night. Miami thus picked up a half game on the idle Lions and Row leads the circuit by one game. Tampa is in fifth place, a game back of West Palm Beach. Camilo Pascual checked the Smokers on six hits while Havana hammered three Tampa mounds- men for a dozen safeties. A triple by Severino Mendez sparked Ha- vanas two-run outburst in the fourth but Jerry Ackerman doubled in a pair for Tampa to tie it up. Three Havana hits in the sixth produced two more and Tampa never caught up, although Hiram | Gonzalez homered for the Smokers in the eighth. ‘i Joe Bernier allowed St. Peters- burg 10 hits but kept them seat- tered and Miami bunched eight off Stan Malankovich. Al Baro’s double was the big blow. It was Bernier’s fifth victory of the season without a defeat and his first shut- out. peration Is Promised By Pres. Rhee South Korean Head Refuses To Divulge Contents Of Message From Eisenhower SEOUL #—President Syngman Rhee said today South Korea will “co-operate with the U. S. at any cost” but declared he will insist to the end on withdrawal of Chinese forces from North Korea after an armistice. Rhee said he had received a three-point message from Presi- dent Eisenhower, but refused to disclose its contents. The 78-year-old leader’s state- ment came on the heels of a re- port from Washington that he had proposed™to Eisenhower a mutual defense pact plus substantial U. S. financial and military aid as South Korea’s price for accepting Allied truce terms. “Out of gratitude to the U. S., common sense and wisdom re- quires that we co-operate with the U. S. at any cost,” Rhee said. “We must accept anything the U. S. President wants, but to allow the Chinamen to stay in our coun- try is similar to acceptipg a death sentence.” Saying he is in a “very difficult position,” Rhee did not elaborate jon his statement indicating South Korea’s bitter opposition to the latest U.N. truce proposal may be softening. Although Eisenhower's massage to Rhee was cloaked in secrecy, Washington sources said it stressed these three points: 1, The U. S. will not be deterred from concluding an armistice on t, | what it regards as honorable terms 2. The security of U. N. forces in Korea must be tue determining factor in the truce talks. 3. The U. S. continues ready to 10 |Support the South Kcrean xovern- pace-setter bome and runs. batted in 10,| Fred Ehbits, was happily swinging | schedule to } ment. Only Monday, Prime Minister | Pyun Yung Tai threatened a break with the Allies because of what he called the U. N. command's | “sellout” to the Communists. The ROK president said be had _}not yet replied to the from Eisenhower but that he would do so “very soon.” The armistice negotiations at Panmunjom have been in recess since May 25 and the Communist reaction to the Allied plan will! not be known until Thursday when they are resumed. New Swing Kills HOPKINTON, Ia. @#—Paul Ehits, 6, stood by eagerly while 2 new ;Mmetal swing was erected in bis lyard here. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. message} In Island City Lee Griffin, General Electric’s heavy hitting catcher, leads the Island City Softball League, with an average of .412 in games play- ed through Wednesday May 27th. Teammate Earl Smith and VXI's Jack Sleater are tied for second place with .375 while George Bar- ber, Evans outfielder, is in fourth place with a .348 percentage. Vic Boutot, VXI shortstop, and Bobby Santana, Evans manager and sec- ondsacker, are tied for fifth spot with a .333 average. Barber leads the league in hits with 8 and is tied with Ken- neth Kerr of the Dairy Queen and Barney Morgan of VXI for the most doubles with 3. Frank Ramsey, Evans pitcher, has belt- ed-the most homers 3, and has driven in the most runs,10. Sieat- er has belted the most triples, 2. Pilgrim, General Electric out- fielder, has drawn the most walks 10, and is tied with teammate Leaderhouse for the most runs scored with 8. Didi Torres, Dairy Queen secondbaseman, has struck out the most times,6, In the pitching department, Ramsey, Evans ace, leads the league with six victories and no defeats. He has struck out the most batters, 16, and has pitched ‘Lee Griffin Paces Hitters League most innings, 41. Donnie Walston, General Electric righthander, has walked the most batters, 29. SOFTBALL’S TOP FIVE Player-Team ABR H Griffin, GE. secs 17 7 Smith, GE .. 16 Sleater, VX- 16 Barber, Evans Boutot, VX-1 Santana, Ev: Pet. 412 375 375 SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK, JUNE 3 - 5: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3— 7:15—Evans vs. General Electric. 9:00—Dairy Queen vs. VX-1. FRIDAY, JUNE 5— 7:15—Dairy Queen vs. General Electric. 9:00—Evans vs, VX-1. Only two months after Bermuda claimed a world’s record bonefish in the 12 pound test fine class, Mrs. Bruce Adams of Wilmette, I., hooked a silver beauty on Bermuda’s North Shore and shat- tered the record by 1% pounds. Six world heavyweight champ-| © ionship fights have been held on the Fourth of July and two on St. Patrick’s Day. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—Is Ben Hogan the greatest golfer the world has ever seen? The belief is given in no less august a medium than the U. S. Golf Association Journal, whose June issue features‘an ar- ticle by Herbert Warren Wind en- titled “How Great Is Ben Hogan?” It has not been popular in some circles to suggest that the amazing Texan has proved himself a finer | consistent shot man than was Bob- by Jones, the wonderful Georgian. Wind, author of “The Story of American Golf,” sticks his neck out, in part, as follows: “Not for a very long time—per- haps not since Jones won them all in 1930—has a performance by a golfer excited the admiration of the game's insiders as did Hogan’s four rounds over the Augusta National last April when he low- ered the Master's record by five strokes simply by not playing one loose shot in 274.... “It is certainly understandable if, since Augusta, a number of reliable critics have decided that Ben is, without any qualifications whatever, the greatest golfer who ever lived. Perhaps it would be fairest to put it this way: in the long history of golf, there probably never has been a better golfer than Ben Hogan. “This disposition to elevate Hogan to a status comparable to that of Vardon and Jones is wide- spread but not by any means unan- }imous. The most interesting dis- sent comes from that band of tra- ditionalists who claim they cannot go along with such a rating until Ben wins a British Open and dem- onstrates he is equally a champion at ‘that other kind of golf’—con- trolling the ball when the wind is ripping hard across a British links, with its snugger fairway lies, its rougher rough and its hard, un- agree with watered greens. implicit sugges- | British Open is | stirs the golfer’s ima; | would Ben, who has ‘a competitive round in | make out in their Open? | modify his repertoire of shots to | meet the different requirements of | the courses selected for our major | tournaments. | “Let us hope that one of | while be is at the t Ben arrange AAT ‘BEeewpy Stee re has cabled in his entry for the British because ‘‘so many people have been urging me to do so.” He added, however, that “there are some commitments I must get out of and I have to get a hotel res- ervation.” NEW YORK w—Back in 1949 the manager of the Brooklyn .Dod- gers, Burt Shotton, gazed admir- ingly at the bulgy, brown-skinned athlete pulling off his uniforn’ across the locker room at Ebbets Field and observed: “He’s a na- tural catcher—he'll be another Bill Dickey some day.” Those who were within earshot of the old-timer glarced question- ingly at one another. Was Burt beginning to show his years? Af- ter all, that was cnly Roy Cam- panella’s first full season with the Brooks, and he wasn’t hitting bet- ter than around .250 at the time. To mention him ijn the same breath with Dickey, he of the 314 life- time average, seemed premature, to say the least. Four seasons later Shotton is en- titled to look up from his fishing down in Florida and taken an ex- tra deep bow. Campanella hit the big show too late in life—he’s go- ing on 32 now—to threaten Dickey’s exploits over a long span, but who will say that the squat, impish backstop is not, as of now, every bit the equal of the famed Yankee before him? Or of Gabby Hart- nett, probably the greatest of Na- tional League catchers, whose ree- ord of 37 hgme runs in a season Campanella appears certain to sur- pass? Just in case the 200-pound Negro maintains his present dizzy clip, or comes anywhere near doing so, we have looked up a few vital statistics which might come in handy, Unlike his friend Satchel Paige, Campy knows exactly when and where he was born—Nov. 19, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was an all-around athlete in high school, lettering in baseball, football, basketball and track. He was 15 when, in his junior year, the Negro Bachrach Giants of Phil- adelphia offered him $50 to catch on week ends. Next stop was the Baltimore Elite Giants, and from there on Campy's life was @ trav- elogue — Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela—until the Dodgers + Daytona Gains On The Leaders In FIL Monday By The Associated Press Out of such wild-scoring games as 11-10 and 9-8 came a tightening of the first-place race in the Flor- ida State League Monday night. a Leesburg’s Lakers beat the lead- ing Cocoa Indians, 9-8, and though they are in fourth place they are only two garaes out of first. Day- tona Beach pulled the 11-10 de- cision over DeLand and picked up a game on Cocoa. So did Jackson- ville Beach by Beating Lakeland, 41, Daytona Beach is half a game and Jacksonville Beach one game behind the leader. Sanford tied DeLand for fifth Place by taking a 5-2 nod over Orlando, Leesburg’s Syd Thrift gave Cocoa five hits for five runs in the first inning; then scattered five hits the rest of the way. Tom Dunbar’s homer helped Leesburg get back in the game and go on to beat Cocoa Manager Bama Rowell. Daytona Beach and DeLand put ona real batters’ battle, Howie O'Flynn knocked a bases-loaded homer for DeLand. Rudy Mayling contributed a three-run triple and a home run to the Daytona Beach winning cause. John Skorupski also added a Daytona Beach hom- r. Jacksonville Beach got good left handed pitching from Bob Kitchen and comparable left handed bat- ting from Bobby Trump, Kitchen, a rookie, gave Lakeland eight hits but kept them spaced. Trump drove in three runs with a pair of doubles. Ernie Palmieri pitched the San- ford Cardinals to their third vic- tory in a row, doling out seven hits to Orlando, -striking out nine and walking nobody. Tony Barone got four straight hits for Sanford, in- cluding one to open a. four-run burst in the fifth inning, MONDAY RESULTS Leesburg 9 Cocoa 8 Daytona Beach 11 DeLand 10 Jacksonville Beach 4 Lakeland 1 Sanford 5 Orlando 2 " TUESDAY GAMES DeLand at Daytona Beach Leesburg at Cocoa ~ Jacksonville Beach at Lakeland Sanford at Orlando STANDINGS Cocoa Daytona Beach Jacksonville Beach Leesburg DeLand Sanford Orlando Lakeland Hogan To Shoot For British Title By Will Grimsley NEW YORK #—Ben Hogan is going to play in his first Open Golf Tournament next month —if he can get a hotel reservation. “I've had my entry cabled in and I'd like to play,” the 40-year- old Texan said last night before leaving for Pittsburgh te shoot for his fourth U. S. Open title. “But there are some commitments I must get out of and I have to get a hotel reservation. “The hotel problem has me ried. There is one hotel vicinity of the course stand it is filled up. in, I can't play.” The British touraament held at Carnoustie, Scotla across the bay from St. Andrews, July 6-10. Although he has won three U. 8. Opens, two PGA crowns and two Masters championships and is gen- erally rated the greatest golfer the era, Ben has never played a British event. His only trip Engiand was as nonplaying ca) tain of the U. S. Ryder Cup in 1949, right after his near-fatal auto accident. “I decided I'd play in the British SaASRBSste BENS2Scer HEBBERER? signed him in 186 to play for | Open because so many people have jashua i } nd | been urging me to do so,” Hogan|$$$$%$ L eee j said. “Also, I've always wanted to r : as At eke : 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN LL TEN DAY TEST IN NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAY Abbot Grabs Tuesday, June 2, 1953 Medal Action Will Start In Tourney DALLAS (~The star-: field of 139 that has been the par 71, 6,496-yard Country Club course apart in prac. tice rounds started playing for keeps today in the Southern Ama: teur golf tournament. Slender Floyd Addington, South more, who trimmed par with 69s two days then tied the course record with a blazing 65 yesterday, was the man they watched as the bulky field went through the first 18-hole qualifying round. The second is scheduled tomor row and match piay for the 63 low shooters plus defending champion Gay Brewer of i Ky., who does not have to qualify, will start Thursday. There were plenty of sub-par ; rounds in the final tune-ups, with L. M. Mebemers Jr. of Dallas, fore mer Trans-Mississippi cha: doing a 67. = . a Another former champion, Arnold Blum of Macon, Ga., made it 69. Blum, Dick Collard of New Ore leans, Eddie Merrins of Meridian, Miss., and Don Cherry of Wichita Fallas and New Yerk, were rated jeans contenders for Brewer's le. NCAA Baseball . Tourney Starts CHARLOTTE, N. C, w—District 3 tournament action in the NCAA baseball competition gets under way here tonight with four teams shooting for a berth in next week's beatae college world series a Georgia’s Southeastern Confer- ence champions meet Rollins at 6:45 (EST) in the opener, Duke's defending district champions, rul- ers of the Southera Conference for three years in a row, take on Mississippi State in the 9 o'clock nightcap. Play is on a double elimination basis, Climbers Reach Peak Of Everest For Coronation LONDON — Queen Elizabeth TI took time eut on ber Coronation Day today to send congratulations to the British expedition that plant- ed the Union Jack atop 29,002-foot ey Everest. The feat —— man’s first success- ful attempt to scale the world’s highest peak—wus announced last night by Buckingham Palace. The news that two climbers in a party headed by Col. John Hunt had successfully battled their way to the icy summit in the Himalayas ,on May 29.was relayed to the Queen first."A palace spokesman described the dramatic news as a “eoronation gift.” In her message, cabled to the | British minister at Katmandu, the | capital of the Himalayan kingdom |of Nepal, the Queeh said: “Please convey to Col, Hunt and jail members of the British expedi- jtion my warmest congratulations jon their great achievement in jreaching the summit of Mt Everest. (signed) Elizabeth R.” $3353 SAVE $59995 Means QUALITY REPAIRS ~ AUTO ) Heer AND USED CARS At the RIGHT PRICE NEW STUDEBAKER CARS AND TRUCKS Mean Maximum Economy FOR REPAIR APPOINTMENT AUTO DEMONSTRATION Come By 1130 DUVAL STREET or DIAL 2-2401 SAVE 585559