The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1953, Page 6

Conchs Gain State Finals Lastres Fans 11 In Two-Hit Effort; Conchs To Battle For Title Tonight| PHILLIES. ADVANCE WITH TWO WINS OVER CUBS THURSDAY The Key. West Conchs did just exactly what everyone expected of them Wednesday—they whipped the P. K. Yonge of Gainesville nine to gain a spot in the finals of the State Class A baseball tourney at Ft. Pierce. yy Key West will face Tate High of Pensacola to- night at 7:00 p.m. in the tourney finals. And the Conchs are favored to cop the title if they play the ‘brand of ball they have exhibited thus far in the state action. Enthusiasm is at a high peak as the gallant band of baseballers fitht for a spot on the schoolboy baseball map in the state, George’ Lastres continued his tkein of wins in yesterday's tilt B ll When he set the upstaters down hb R ult with but two hits while fanning 11 ase. a es Ss L gain his second tourney rae py TneXATIONAL - stres was never in trouble in the y The Associated Press sontest when he ran his strikeout Sone total. in the tournament up to a real whopping: 22 whiffs. He has been| touched for but six hits in 14 inn- ings. of action. Milwaukee Brook'yn Philadelphia St. Lou's New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Page 6 Elks Take Over Lead With Vin Behind the four hit pitching of Jim Bonner, the Elks earned un- disputed possession of first place in the American Little League with a 5-2 victory over the Kiwanis in the second game of'a Little Lea- gue doubleheader at Bayview Park Tuesday night. In the first game, Evans knocked the VFW from first THE KEY WEST CITIZEN , Key, West. jumped into the lead ; {n the opening frame of yesterday’s tilt. when frisky Gibby Gates put on, a One man base-stealing exhibi- tion. Gates walked to open the ball | fame and then stole second base. | {t was his fifth stolen base of the tournament, He went to third on a Passed ball and then scored on a squeezeplay when Eloy Rodriguez laid down. a perfect bunt to the pitchers mound. Key West clinched the ballgame fn the second frame when they plated three runs. Dick Salgado - fanned: te open the inning but reached first base when the P. K.: Yonge catcher. dropped the bell. Jerry Pite sacrificed him | fe-second base and Catala walked. Then, the Conchs executed a dou- and Gates again bags. “Robbie ground ball got a midget rally go- they could cvuteupucwbae meee i wl occocesooonnm™ lor wennend wleccconocrun ae wl ecccchooons rlecsore : Lb alroocreccon wlorocccoroces Ri wernwkouacd ol rocceontnnor wleorroccoo®™ « | Houston ; | Oklahoma City > }St. Paul place in the National Little League with a stunning 13-9 win. Evans took the lead in the sec- ond inning when Danny Garcia blasted his second homer of the season over the centerfield fence to start things off. They added an- other run that inning on an error, a passed ball, and a wild pitch. VFW picked up a run in the third | on singles by Bobby Thompson and | Mario Hernandez and an error. In \the fourth, Tony Estenoz, who re- Chicago YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Milwaukee 6 New York 5 Brooklyn 13 Cincinnati 3 St. Louis 5 Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 9-8 Chicago 1-5 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Milwaukee at New York Cincinnati at Brooklyn St. Louis at Pittsburgh Only games scheduled AMERICAN own By The Associated Press New York Cleveland Boston Washington Chicago Philadel phi |the VFW, was wild and Evans cashed in on his wildness for six runs on six walks, two errors, and single by Danny Garcia and Jerry Hargraves. However, Evans blew this 8-1 lead when the VFW in their half of the inning came up with seven big runs to tie up the ball game. Three walks plus singl- es by B. Thompson and Don Cur- ry and doubles by Pete Esquinaldo and George Thompson climaxed the rally. fn'the fifth, Evans broke the tie once again with a five run fally at the expense of Estenoz wildness. Four walks, an error, and singles by Fred Case and How- Barnwell produced the winning started on the nd fans but gave way to Richard Curry in the fourth. Cur- ry got credit for the win. Estenoz was’ charged with the loss. His third ‘against one victory, Danny Garcia led Evans attack with a homer and single:in four tries. He drove in three runs. Bobby Thomp- son led the VFW at the plate with two singles in four tries. With two away in the first inn- ing of the nighteap, the Elks jump- ed on the Kiwanis fireballing ace, St. Louis Detroit YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 11 Detroit 4 Cleveland 2 Washington 1 Philadelphia 2 Chicago 1 Boston 11-3: St. Louis 22 TODAY'S SCHEDULE New York at Detroit Washington at Cleveland Philadelphia at Chicago m at St is Jacksonville Columbia Macon Augusta Montgomery Savannah Columbus: | Charleston ‘ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS 4 Charleston 45 Jacksonville 1-3 (second 10 innings) ‘Other games ppd-rain ‘Won Lost Pet. 09 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Charleston at Jacksonville Columbia at Savannah (2) Columbus at Macon (2) Montgo1 RESULTS. Chattanooga 7 New Orleans 4 Birmingham 5 Little Rock 4 (13 innings) Memphis 7 Atlanta 2 Nashville 5 Mobile 2 TODAY'S New Orleans at Chattanooga Birmingham at Little Rock Atlanta at Memphis Mobile at Nashville (protested game of May 8 starting with first half second SRN: Rerer ene Ae SRO) Evans Enterprises nine fought the Dairy Queen to a 3-3 tie last night in the first game of a soft- ball doubleheader last night at Bayview Park. Bill Franklin, Dairy Queen ace, hooked up in a pitching duel with Evans’ DeWitt Roberts. Franklin allowed only three hits, but he dug Ft, | his own grave by committing three “srs | errors in the first which led to Roberts, who was ‘soo | touched for ten hits, was tight in the pinches however, He struck out five and did not walk a man. Franklin struck out seven and walk . | ed two. The Dairy Queen drew first blood in the first frame when Joe Alonzo was safe on a fielders choice fol- lowing Buck Sawyer’s single. Singl- }es by Ken Kerr and Didi Torres followed, scoring Alonzo. Evans came back in their half of the first and scored three runs on Al Acev- edo’s single and three errors - all by Franklin. The Blizzards picked up another run in the third on Alonzo's single, Kerr's double and an error, and they tied it up in the sixth when Franklin singled, took second when Lefty Aritas fumbled the ball and scored on Sawyer’s single to center BASEBALL STANDINGS By The Associated Press ALABAMA-FLORIDA Won Lost Pet. Panama City oe See | Se 9 Andalusia 29 Graceville Eufaula Fort Walton Dothan . 20 392 INTERNATIONAL Tulsa Beaumont AMERICAN A: . 2 veebeeys exezeueth* sbevkensf E Pet. Si? 488 | 38 ‘ an (Bitsy) Grant, 42-year-old , Atlanta veteran, meke their bids today to fi the two remaining | quarterfinal berths in the South- ern Amateur tennis tournament. Richardson, winner of last week's Blue-Gray tournament at Montgomery, Ala., faces Wade Herren of Birmungham, Ala. in ope af the ‘two remaining fourth reund matches. The Davis Cup star and seventh ranking amateur in this country whipped two opponents yesterday after getting a first round bye. Richatdson beat Les Shapiro of New Orleans 60, 60 in his first Competition of the tournament and 4} Evans threatened to break the ©3 | tie in their half of the sixth when theskasht eliminated Bill Harris of the Uni- versity of Texas 6-1, 6-4 Herren was idle yesterday after | got Bobby Santana and Sam Val- winning his third round match |dez om easy poppers to cool the Tuesday | threat. The veteran Grant, defending! In the nightcap, Dave Gamble champion who has won the tourna: } pitched two hit ball and the VX-1 ment 12 times, beat capable Vince ; softballers defeated General Elect- Distefano of New Orleans 75, 6-3/ ric 41 to move within a half game yesterday j of first place. Grant's fourth-round foe is Gor-}/ GE picked up their lone run in don Warden of § Warden was ie yest winning 6-2, 7-5 of Tulane in a t Tuesday. Those who have clinched quarter- final ber seeded |off Gamble came in the seventh when Lightcap singled with two away. VX-1 tied the game in the second i & when Donnie Walston, who matched Gamble’s effectiveness, re of bit a wild streak and walked four F t of At-/ batters. forcing in the tying run. Ty russ of Jaciag> | VX-1 broke the tie in the fourth Wh 2 three run rally sparked by Larry » Morri An- ress ville, Fla |lieved starter Raul Cervantes for; -} Lion: Wi Thursday, June 11, 1953 Little League Over Kiwani Roy Valdez, for two runs on an error, singles by Sam Holland and Joe Brennan and a couple of wild Pitches to take the lead. They add- jed another in the third when Bob- j by Santana doubled, took third on an infield out, and scored on a wild pitch. The Elks made it 5-0 in the fourth on a walk, an error, and singles by Bill Solomon and Johnny Parks, Meanwhile, Bonner, Elks strong righthander, was pitch- ing one-hit ball, but in the fifth, | the Kiwanis finally broke the ice |and scored a run when Tony Gar- cia singled, stole second, and scor- ed on Milton Esquinaldo’s single. They added another in the sixth when Lenny Conly singled, took second on error, third .on a wild pitch, and scored on an infield out. In registering his fourth straight win, Bonner struck out 8 and walk- ed only 2, Valdez, who went all the way for the Kiwanis to absorb his third loss against two wins, struck out 9 and walked 3. This increased his league strike out tot- al to 60 in 31 innings pitched. Score of first game; Team— RHE Evans 020 65—13 6 2 VFW 001 71—9 7 4 Lopez - R. Curry (4) and M. Ace- vedo; Cervantes - Estenoz (4) and Esquinaldo. ; ‘Score of second game: E 2. 4 Bonner and Brenan; Valdez and D. Garcia, Sawyer (1). American Little League Team— Elks Kiwanis JayCees Shriners Standing Ww. ~ S heat 2282 National Little Lbsgue Sta Team— Ww. VFW .. Evans Rotary 3 2 2 e 3 2 2 0 Evans, Dairy Queen Battle To Tie In Softball Action Thursday |two walks, Tom Fink’s double and | Steve Vargo’s single. The win was Gamble’s against one loss. The standings: Team— third . Pet. 750 667 AM 125 First Game DAIRY QUEEN Player— ABR Sawyer, If - cf Alonzo, 1b Lewis, ¢ .. Kerr, 3b .. w#eococoone NoCONNO RN coonmuntae’d NOOHHHONOD i] 4 Bele Sooo oKore mr ® 1 i ae Une nae woSmooonn “ 5 | RH 310 33 Team— | Dairy Queen - | | 101 O01 O— . 309 Oo oO SUMMARY—RBI: Sawyer, Tor- | Scorer. Casteneda; Time: 1:20. | 1 | Player— Pilgrim, # Leadertiouse, of Smith, ss Cruz, 3 Griffis, « e e s ! By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter The Philadelphia Phillies have the day off today but their pitchers have been. working so often they may show up at the ball park and} begin throwing just from force of | habit. | At the start of the season Man- ager Steve O'Neill's biggest prob- | lem was finding one more starter | {to go with his big three. Now he’s | Dimingo Valiz broke up a 7-7| trying to locate three more start-| eighth-inning tie with a triple| rs to go with his big one. Wednesday night to give Cocoa,a| Despiie his troubles O’Neill still | 9-7 victory over Sanford and put/|has a winning ball club, The Phil- 'the Indians on top of the Florida |lies have taken eight out of 12) i State League, jand four straight since their cur- The triple drove in Eni@ Mar-;rent home stand opened a week tinez and George Hughes and ex-|ago Tuesday. They won a pair| tended. Cocoa’s winning streak. to/from Chicago last night, 9-1 and Veliz’ Triple Wins For Coeoa Over Sanford By The Associated Press res; 2BH: Kerr, Villareal, Casado; | ile, Ala. / the first when Darrel Pilgrim sing-|Sac.: Aritas; SB: Alonzo; DP:) day after led to center and moved around | Kerr - Alonzo - Lewis; SO: by Rob-| + Don Merritt/on a walk, a fielders choice and/ erts 6, Franklin 7; BB: off Frank- rd round match | an infield out. The only other hit| lin 2; Umpires: Dover, Warren; | five games. Cisco Lopez, tiny Cuban left- |hander, went the route for the |vietory, hitting a homer in the | third to aid his own cause. A San- |ford home run came in the sixth from the top to second place by a 10 innings. The «iefeat marked the end of a Daytona six-victory skein. DeLand clubbed Lakeland, 15-2, and Leesburg -vhipped Orlando, 6-5, in other action. runs in the ni Craumer walked in Don Reimer, who had singled, to give the Sea Birds the winning run in the 10th. Jack Gaines spun a three-hitter winning run in the eighth. He got on base when Len Liverman hit him for the second time of the game, moved io second on a passed ball, and trotted home on Calvin Collins’ single. DeLand subdued Lakeland in quick fashion, scoring six times in the first inning. Jesse Cade al- Jowed the Pilots, losers of their 12th straight, only ‘six hits w his mates combed three hurlers for 1. Wednesday Results Cocoa 9 Sanford 7 Teesburg 6 Orlando 3 DeLand 15 Lakeland 2 Jacksonville Beach 10 Day *Beach 8 (10 innings) ‘Thursday Games DeLand at Orlando Daytona Beach at Sanford es Sable Beach at Cocoa rg at Lakeland Standing: Cocoa Daytona Beach Jacksonville Beach Leesburg Sanford DeLand Orlando Lakeland tona wee PCT. 21 21 35 24 33 24 » 26 29 26 32 20 39 16 41 638 379 AT3 448 339 Boxing Results WEDNESDAY’S FIGHTS By The Associated Press DETROIT — Kid Gavilan, 151%, j Havana, outpoinied Italo Scorti- | ehini, 155, Milan, Italy, 10, (Non- title). 4 TODAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE By e Assoccated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Loutsville at indianapolis Only game scheduled ALABAMA-FLORIDA Fort Walton at Andalusia Dothan at Graceville Eufaula at Panama City TEXAS Dallas at Beaumont Fort Worth at Shreveport Oklahoma City at San Antonio Tulsa at Houston INTERNATIONAL Montreal at Toronto Rochester’ at, Siriaetield oe Syracuse at Baltimore The nickname of Johnny Logan, | Shortstop of the Milwaukee Bray is Yachta. It means John in Ukra-- nian. -301 000 200 7 ° -3 00 0 206 4% J | Lighteap, rf | Hull, 1b 1 0 2 9 74 PO 4 rE 6 1 0 9 6 I 6 z i 2 é 2 e ’ e Gamble, p e 6 Totals— The score: Team— OB on | VX-2 | SUMMARY — 2BH: Fink Edwards; SO: ton; BB Winner Unpires Castereds. Gan Dev at Orlando and scored Leesburg’s | 281} 0} } 8-5, and moved within four games| of the league-leading Milwaukee | | Braves. | In the dozen contests O'Neill has j gotten a route-going performance | j three .times—three victories by |have seen action in each of the 10-8 Jacksonville Beach victory in| other games. Steve Ridzik worked | bY Clark, a 32-year-old touring pro jin six of the 12 |} and Karl. Drews in five apiece. | O'Neill opened the: year with a} | pitching rotation of Roberts, Curt| |Simmons, and. then either Drews | and Jim Konstanty | Konstanty has been able to go with- | | out help. Both have been working, as relief pitchers as often as, starters, Reberts became the first pitcher | \in either league to win 10 games! as he picked up the decision in! the first game last night, Kon- stanty started and won the night-| cap, although Ridzik’and Drews were in action before it ended. |. The’ Phils’ fate now appears to | depend on Roberts’ continued bril- | liant form and on how long O'Neill can remain a successful juggler. The Braves kept a game in front of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Edg- jing New York, 6-5e The Dodgers jhammered 13 hits off Cincinnati | pitching to whip the Redlegs, 13-3, | St. Louis won for the third time in 10 road games, 5-1 over Pitts- burgh. |_ In the American League, the |New York Yankees trimmed De- troit, 11-4, for their 13th straight and Cleveland nipped the Wash- ington Senators, 2-1, for their seventh in a row. The Yanks lead the Indians by 5% games. Boston moved into third place ‘with a pair of victories over the | St. Louis Browns, 11-2, and 3-2, {with Jimmy Piersall equaling a |major league record with six | Straight hits in the opener. Phila- |delphia edged Chicago, 2-1. | The big blows in Milwaukee's success at the Polo Grounds were home runs by Eddie Mathews and | Sid Gordon. Mathews’ poke was his 18th of the season and put him out in front in the Jeague’s home run race, Gordon's came with two aboard in the eighth and provided | j}the winning runs. | Brooklyn broke open a 3-3 tie | with theee funs in the sixth and} frosted the cake with seven more | in the eighth. 3 Manager Eddie Stanky sent his, Cardinals through a long day work- out and got dividends in the night game with the heavy hitting com-| \ing from Enos Slaughter, four for | |four, and Stan Musial, a double! | and single in three trips. — | In the Detroit contest — yankee pinch hitters Johnny Mize and | Yogi Berra sparked a seven - hit, | | seven-run rally in the sixth inning. | | Mike Garcia, finally flashing the} jform he showed last season, set) the Senators down on four hits | at Cleveland. Piersall’s six-for-six spree led a} | 19-hit Boston attack in the firs! game at St. Louis, but the Red Sox had to seramble for the ond when they were outhit, The White Sox, as hard good starting pitchers as any in the league, gave relief ace wegra his first starting “ment but forgot to get him | runs. They managed a single off Harry Byrd in the first, were blenked. t YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL BESULTS By The Acsoctsted Freee ALABAMA FLORIDA Graceville & Amtstuma 3 Fort Walon 7 Panama City 6 (called Od net? Eulage at Dothan pped—raie AMERICAN ASSQCISTION i Pout a Colunwes ped-wet grounds | Mcmeapeiis af tharwestes peb-rae Konsss Cy § Toledo 3 Inmamageses & Loweriiie # INTERNATIONAL inhemer & Syrecume 7 Mowtres! 1 Toreate 6 Springhed & Battan 4 Oxy gees schetaled Te Beaemeant 6 Delias t For oh 7 Srevepert > Cay 8 Sam Amonio 3 + Boastem 4 > Olieeremeste 3 han Pranciees * Detsware Park's $00, Castle Handicap to be Can Be Licked By HUGH FULLERTON JR. OAKMONT, Pa: (~The two experimental qualifying. rounds of the 53rd National Open Golf Cham- Pionship have shown that the man- ufactured ‘‘monster,” Oakmont, can be mastered like any mechan- ical toy. Today 157 of the nation's best golfers set out in dexd earnest to reassert their mastery of the storied golf course in the 72 holes of what used to ve the entire Open. All previous scores, including | Jimmy Clark’s 6 under par 66 that | set a new competitive record for} the 6,916-yard Oakmont course were wiped out with the start of | the tournament proper. Not a player of importance failed | to finish inside the qualifying limit | One, Defending Champion Julius | Boros, was exempt. So about all | that was proved by the new quati-| fying round, sharply criticized by | off the bat of Manager J. C. Dunn. | Robin Roberts, the league's best,|Some of the players, was that Daytona Beach was‘ bumped! Anywhere from two to five pitchers | Oakmont can be licked. That was done quite thoroughly | | who has won little more than pea- nuts in four years on the tourna- ment trail. His round of 34-32--66 yesterday was the best ever record- ed in competition at Oakmont. And 6 Jacksonville Beach scored four!or Konstanty or both, Now Sim.| bis:two-day total of 138 earned him inth inning to send! mons is out indefinitely w.‘h an ‘he qualifying medal and $250 cash. its game into overtime. Ernie | injured foot and neither Drews nor , Prize by a two-stroke margin over 1949 Open Champion Cary Middle- And the course‘over which only one player had broken 300 for 72 holes. in’ two previous National Open Championships submitted meekly to a handfv: of-other un- awed golfers. Actually, the narrow, deep-roughed Pittsburgh Field Club Course, where half the qualifying rounds were played, proved a tougher scoring pi 5 Long-hitting Chick Harbert shot h 4-1 Win Thursday | ‘Pros Proved |MAJOR iThat Oakmont |LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING — Schoendienst, St. Louis, .3362. RUNS—Snider, Robinson, .and Campanella, Brooklyn, and Schoen- dienst, St. Louis, 42. RUNS BATTED IN—Campanel- la, Brooklyn, 55. HITS — Schoendienst, St. Louis, 7. DOUBLES—Dark, New York, 17. TRIPLES — Greenglass, Cine’ nati, Bruton, Milwaukee, and Ber- nier, Pittsburgh, 5. HOME RUNS — Mathews, Mil- waukee, 18, STOLEN BASES—Bruton, waukee, 11. PITCHING—Smith, Cincinnati, 5- 0, 1,000; Burdette, Milwaukee, 4-0, 1,000; Milliken, Brooklyn, 3-,0 1.000, STRIKEOUTS — Koberts, Phila- delphia, 64. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Mantie, New York, 351. RUNS—Mantle, New York, 47. RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, New York, 42, HITS—Vernon, Washington, and Kuenn, Detroit, 67. DOUBLES—Keil, Boston, 16, TRIPLES — Jerisen, Washington, HOME RUNS—Zernial, Philadel- phia, 13. STOLEN BASES—Rivera, Chi- cago, 12. PITCHING — Lopat and Ford, New York, 6-0, 1,000; Hooper, Cleveland, 4-0, 1.000; Stuart, St. Louis, and Moreno, Washington, 3- 0, 1.000. Mil- ed and then didn’t notice it again until the last three holes yesterday, when he tired and went five strokes over par. Still he's regarded as a 66 there Tuesday—and skied to @ae man to beat. an 62 at Oakmont yesterday. But Come in and try it $$ $$ SAVE $858 then drop a hint to the folks —Father’s Day, June 21 Only Shavemaster has eet, SedOTH bel, . CLOSER, CLEANER