The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1953, Page 10

Key West High School Baseball Team Heads For State Tourney Sunday Conchs Will Meet Kissimmee In Bid For Their First State Nine Title The Key West High School baseball team will leave tomorrow for Fort Piefce in quest of the 1953 Class A baseball champion- ship. Coach Paul Davis is pinning his hopes on the good right arm of George Lastres along with the hitting power of his teammates to op the opener. Lastres has won 11 decisions while losing but one. He has struck out 129 batters thoughout the season and posesses a fine 19 earned run aver- age. Gibby Gates and Don Cruz are also being counted on to help with the mound duties. In the hitting department, the Conchs are being paced by Don Cruz and Bob Lastres who are hitting 425 and .387 respectively. The Conchs also boast of five more 800 hitters in Biff Salgado, .387; Julio Henriquez, 333; Elroy Rodri- guez, .333; Gibb Gates, 327 and George Lastres, .305. Henriquez and Bob Lastres lead the team in doubles with three each and also in RBI’s with 19 each, Bespectacled Elroy Rodri- guez has pounded out seven triples for the Conchs this season. Bob Lastres is leading the Conchs afield with a .990 fielding average. If the Conchs get by the Kissim- mee, their first opponent, they will meet the winner of the Wachulla- P. K. Yonge tilt for the right to play in the finals. If the Conchs manage to cap- ture the state title, it will be a first for a local high school nine and will boost the prestige of the locals no little measure, DeLand Can't Start Wining By The Associated P Even with good hitting and pitch- | ing the DeLand Red Hats can’t regain the winning pace that brought them Florida State League penants the past two years, Jack Cade, the league batting leader, pitched 8 1-3 innings against Jacksonville Beach Friday night and gave the Sea Birds only three hits—but Jacksonville Beach won, 8-7. Six of the Jacksonville Beach runs came in the first inning and were charged to Cade’s two pre- decessors on the mound, But it wasn’t all their fault either. All the runs were unearned, as were two in the fifth inning, DeLand making five errors. All other scheduled games were raied out, putting’ Jacksonville Beach in a virtual tie with Daytona Beach for second piace, Each is half a game behind the leading Cocoa Indians. * FRIDAY RESULTS Jacksonville Beach 8 DeLand 7 Other games ppd. rain SATURDAY GAMES DeLand at Jacksonville Beach Orlando at Cocoa Leesburg at Sanford Lakeland at Daytona Beach STANDINGS: Cocoa Daytona Beach Jacksonville Beach Leesburg Sanford DeLand Orlando Lakeland, A welldaid thatched roof will last 15 to 25 years. ‘él “481 “4 340 3u4 Willie Pep - Outelasses Marcone Fri. By JACK HAND NEW YORK (®#—Willie Pep, a shadow of the old master, still is much too good for the likes of club fighter Pat Marcune, For five rounds, Wily Willie moved like the Pep of old last night at Madison Square Garden. Tiring down the stretch as blood streamed from cuts around his left eye, the 30-year-old Pep barraged Marcune with a desperation attack for a technical knockout in 14 sec- onds of the 10th round. “You remind me of a guy I used to hear about,” said Bob Christen- berry; chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission who re- cently lifted a suspension that ex- iled the former featherweight champ for 20 months, “Thanks,. commissioner,” said Willie. ‘It could have been better. I’m glad you gave me the chance.” Pep wore a long face in his dress- ing room as Dr. Vincent Nardiello examined the gashes around his eye that will sideline him for at least a month, “This knocks me out of a couple of fights,” said Pep. “And they were cuts I didn’t have to get. “I was on my honor and he wasn’t. He butted me a couple of times.” Pep, of course, was referring to his suspension. He was definitely on his good behavior last night in his first New York appearance since his TKO loss to Sandy Sad- dler Sept. 26, 1951. It was a wild ending for the 3,571 who paid $9,681 to see the nationally televised bout. Pep was way out front until he tired. In the early stages of the ninth, Mar- cune chased him around the ring. It looked like he might have Pep in a bad way until Willie staged a strong flurry, nailing Marcune in a neutral corner with a desperate attack. Marcune sagged against the ropes and might have dropped if he hadn’t been pinned in a corner. Pep, thinking he heard the bell, walked away with a few seconds remaining in the round. When Marcune webbled out for the tenth, Pep quickly barraged him, prompting Referee Petey Scalzo to step between them. FIL Resumes Action After Idleness By The Associated Press ‘Florida International League teams renew activity Saturday night, weather permitting, after two evenings of idleness. All games were rained out Fri- day night and only one was played Thursday night, making 21 games postponed since the season opened April 15. Toight’s schedule has Miami at Ft. Lauderdale, Tompa at Havana and West Palm Beach at St.Peters- burg. Ft. Lauderdale infielder George Wehmeyer, 21, is scheduled to marry Neomia Hughes, Havana, Cuba, at home plate in Ft. Lauder- dale tonight at 7:45 p. m. (EST). Half an hour laver he will take his place in Manager Pepper Mar- tin’s lineup against the Sun Sox, | who lead the Lions by 4 percent- jage points for first place. Wehmeyer, a native of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, figures he | won't have time for a honeymoon until the baseball season ends. Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 6, 1953 Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—As the trading deadline nears in the big leagues the general manager under the most intense’ pressure from his fans is Hank Greenberg of the Cleveland Indians. The former great home run hitter will wish many a time in the coming week tnat he still had nothing more pressing on his mind than whether he was going to get a fast ball or a curve. The Yankees slowly but surely are pulling away from the Indians as they now stand. Despite all his dreams of the spring in Arizona, Hank knows now that he hasn’t quite got what it takes to give his town a pennant. Two of the pitchers upon whom he relied to win 20 or more games, Mike Garcia and Bob Lemon, show no signs of attaining that goal. Shortstop Ray Boone’s knees are sagging on him again, So Hank knows. He knows also that the Cleveland fans, who take a very active interest in running his club, feel that he should make some sort of deal before it is too late. They contend there is no sense in continuing to die with the same ball team. Santee Shoots For Four Minute Mile COMPTON, Calif. (»—Stringbean Wes Santee has set his sights on a four-minute mile today after setting a new American record in last night’s Compton Invitatioal track and field meet. The blistering race by the Uni- versity of Kansas star outshone a world record shot put performance by the University of Southern Cali- fornia’s Party O’Brien. Santee ran away from two top European foes, Denis Johansson of Finland and Gaston Reiff of Bel- gium, winning in 4:02.4. No other American and only three other humans have run a faster mile. O'Brien put the shot 59 feet 2% inches to eclipse the accepted The pressure vill rise since the Chicago Cubs landed such a prize as Ralph Kiner in their rip-roaring multiple player deal with Pitts- burgh. There, the Cieveland chorus will tell Hankus, in effect, it is | St, Louls Possible to strike a blow, to clear the deadwood from your dugout. They will not realize that their general manager is handcuffed. The Kiner deal was between two second division outfits. Both were in position to gamble. Greenberg, with a contender, is not. At least the memory of the last time he tossed the dice is too green. That was when he let Orestes Minoso get away. The big thing is, though, that no club in the American League is going to give the Indians any play- | Charie: er who might possibly help them without demanding in return one or more of the Indians’ best men— Al Rosen, Larry Doby, Early Wynn, Lemon or Garcia. That is why we are not quite ready to credit the report that Cleveland may land catcher Clint Courtney of the Browns in exchange for three of their lesser lights, includ- ing outfielder Da'e Mitchell. Boxing Results FRIDAY’S FIGHTS By The Associated Press NEW YORK—Willie Pep, 127%, Hartford, Conn. stopped Pat Mar- cune, 129%, Brooklyn, 10. CHARLOTTE, N. C.—James 3. |°°™"™"* Parker, Toronto, stopped Big Bill Wilson, 223, Hickory, N. C., 4. MACON, Ga. — “Kid” McCoy, 148%, Macon, outpointed Sonny Luciano, 14342, Paterson, N. J., 10. VIENNA — Al Mobley, Newark, N. J. and Leo Starosch, Austria, drew, 10. Middleweights, but exact Pi ‘Toledo world record of 58 10% set by Jim Fuchs, formerly of Yale, in 1950. O’Brien had bettered the mark with 59 feet % inch at Fresno, Calif., last month. About that four minute mile—the Calif., last month. 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The revamped Chicago Cubs con- tinued to lose, dropping an 11-1 ver- dict to the New York Giants and Cincinnati defeated Pittsburgh, 7-4, with Gus Bell hitting a pair of homers. Cleveland hung 5%¢ games back of. the Yankees with a 10-inning 3-2 squeaker over Philadelphia while Washington took third place away from the Chicago White Sox with an 8-4 victory featuring a grand slam-home run by Wayne Terwilliger. Rain in the third inning washed out Boston’s game at Detroit with the Tigers leading, 1-0. All of the games were played at night. At Philadelphia, the Braves twice came from behind to tie and then scored the winning run in the llth on a walk, a sacrifice and a single by catcher Del Crandall, to make the final tally 3-2. Brooklyn took advantage of some loose St. Louis fielding to score four runs in the third inning. Third baseman Ray Jabinski threw too late on Roy Campaneila’s slow roll- er, then fumbled Gil Hodges’ hot bounder. Carl Furillo scored Cam- panella with a clean single and EEE ss Sailing Club News To Be Publicized , The Key West Sailing Club has been requested te provide both “Yachting” and “Motor Boating” with results of races and news of the club activities. Both publica- tions have @ large circulation nationally and internationally. Due to the inclement weather the club‘s outing scheduled for Sunday June 7th has been can- celled. The next regular meeting will be Wednesday evening at 8 p. m. at the Wesley House, 1100 Varela St. Truce Is Near Red Papers Say MOSCOW —Soviet newspapers told their readers today that the truce negotiators at Panmunjom | were “extremely close” to signing a Korean armistice. The announcement, carried in the form of a Soviet News Agency Tass dispatch from New York, was the most optimistic ever printed in Russian papers on prospects for a truce in the war-torn Asian penin- The S-S men are split up now, Johnny Sain working for the New York Yankees and Warren Spahn still with the Braves but calling Milwaukee instead of Boston home. Although on the shady side of 30, both are having great years. So are their ball clubs. If things keep up they might find themselves Pitching against each other in a world series game. Sain,the busiest pitcher on the Yankee staff, picked up his sixth victory and his first shutout last night against the St. Louis Browns, 5-0, He’s started nine times, worked seven complete games, lost two and has an earned run average of 2.65, Spahn, apparently as good as new after an early season injury, also won his sixth game last night, an 11 inning struggle over the Philadelphia Phillies in which he gave up only five hits. He’s been beaten once in seven starts and has worked five complete games with an earned run average of 2.10. Sain’s victory extended the Yank- NATIONAL LEAGUE By The, Associated Press Pi Won Lost Pot. Behind Milwaukee ae ae es Brook! a burgh 4 Milwaukee 3 Philadelphia 2 (11 innings) TODAY'S SCHEDULE ., —. St. Louis at Brooklyn Chicago at New Yi Milwaukee at Philadelphia Cincinnati at Pittsburgh SOUTHE: ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind 2 wo YESTER! Atlanta 3 Chattanooga 2 Birmingham 9 Nashville 5 Little Rock 11 New Orleans 2 Mobile 5 Memphis 4 (12 innings) TODAY'S SCHEDULE Chattanooga at Atlanta Nashville at Birmingham Memphis at Mobile (2) Little Rock at New Orleans Betty Pinder Tops Navy Wives Loop BY TRUDY COCHRAN Orchids of the week to Betty Pin- der for picking up that 7-4-10 split and to June Camfield for an espec- ially spectacular pick up of a 7-4- 5-10 split. Betty’s game of 175 was the high single and Lou Duke came in second with 168 and 164. Lou had high triple this week again with a 479 in the Navy Wives’ Bowling League. The Naval Station CPO’s had high scratch team game of 727 and high scratch team set of 2103. The Na Station Annex CPO took three points from USO-NCCS and Naval Station CPO team took four points from the USO-YMCA, College Golf Finals Slated DALLAS, Tex. @—Gay Brewer, playing the kind of golf most ama teurs dream of doing, squares off against crooning Don Cherry today in the semi-finals of the Southern Golf Association’s 47th annual championship tournament. The 21- year-old University of Kentucky freshman was a heavy favorite to win his second straight title. In the other 36-hole semifinal | match, North Texas State Col- lege’s perennial ace, Joe Conrad, faces H, C. Vandervoort of Ft. Worth. The 36-hole finals will be played | Sundi TRAI D ON POLE. te Detroit — Victor Van Meerbeeck 48, telephone lineman, spiked his way up a pole in an alley to make a minor repair. Feeling heat from below, he looked down and saw flames licking at his feet. A smol- dering rubbish heap had set fire to the fence and the pole was on tions left to be solved are those fire. He hurriedly tapped a tele-| Which arouse compardtively insig- phone line, called the operator, who | Sificant disagreement. called firemen. He was rescue just | in the nick of time, | Subscribe to The Citizen YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Washington 8 Chicago 4 Boston at Detroit (ppd-rain) Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 2 (10 innings) New York 5 St. Louis 0 6 obile citi Associates 3 98 ingto 3353 19 2 St. Louis at Brookiva ‘Cincinna’ Pittsburgh so ATLANTIC ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind 12 760 2 i ES oe am 19 22 “ Jacksonville Columbia Macon Augusta ‘Montgomer; TODAY'S SCHEDULE ‘Columbus Macon at Montgomery Savannah at Charteston BASEBALL STANDINGS By The Associated Press TEXAS Houston - Fort Worth .. Beaumont Oklahoma City San Antonio .. Seserees from news agencies, it is clear that the sides participating in the talks in Panmunjom are extremely close to signing an agreement for an armistice in Korea. “According to The Associated Press, the answer of the (North) Korean and (Communist) Chinese side to a proposal made 10 days ago by representatives of the com- mand of the United Nations forces lis being viewed by American offi- cial circles as a factual acceptance BeBSES ALABAMA-FLORIDA eesess BEESES Le® 3 : ] gheases seebeees PACIFIC COAST AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City 7 Columbus 3 3 rieston 1 Minneapolis 35 Indianapolis 27 Toledo 9 St. Paul 1 ‘called end Sigsbee Park FOR A SNACK OR A BRAVES ARE PINNING HOPES ON SPAHN NOW came home behind Hodges when Enos Slaughter misplayed Bobby Morgan’s hit into a triple. Morgan scored after a fly ball. Ruben Gomez went the distance against the Cubs for New York and struck out 11 men in gaining his first major league victory, There were more home runs in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati contest than in the other three National League games put tegether. In ade dition to the two by Bell, Roy Me- Millan hit one for Cincinnati and Frank Thomas for Pittsburgh, The Browns, who had pushed the Yankees into extra innings in their two previous meetings this season, didn’t offer much opposition, They against Philadelphia wi Hank Majeski lofted a long field fly with the bases loaded none out. The. A’s had tied test with a pair of ninth, The White Sox lost a row as Washington built a 7. lead in the first four innings, ers by Tom Wright in the and Sam Mele in the seventh help- ed narrow the gap but both came with the bases empty, a MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Presg NATIONAL LEAGUE and Kell, Boston, .348, RUNS—Mantle, New York, 42, RUNS BATTED IN — Cleveland, Mantle, New. 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