The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 15, 1953, Page 4

onchs Journey To Alabama Sunday Key Westers Dig Down To Send State Champions To Tournament The Key West High School Baseball team, who put the city on the map Friday night when they became the 1953 State High School Baseball Champions, returned tri- umphantly to the city Saturday and then jumped off again shortly after noon Sunday to compete in the South- eastern District tourney at Selma, Alabama. The Conchs will represent the State against the best in high school diamond talent from all eastern United States. The Key West nine was given a foyal welcome here Saturday when they were met on the Stock Island Bridge «pon their return from Fort Pierce and were whisked into the city behind a screaming police and Sheriff's Department escort to the city hall steps where they were presented keys to the city by. Act- ing Mayor George Lastres, Conch hurler who played a key part in bringing Key West its first state ehampionship. And then Key Westers from all walks of life, showed just how much they appreciated the Conch’s performance - they dug down in their jeans to collect a total of $1,334.00 to pay for a trip to the Alabama tournament. Earlier, it had appeared that the Key Westers would be unable to make the trip due to a lack of funds in the Key West High School Athletic Department. Mayor C. B, Harvey, conduct- ing an informal drive on the steps of the city hall received pledges and cash from a huge crowd of well-wishers who had gathered there to welcome the Conchs home. Key Westers, from Navy Yard workers to affluent business men paid cash or made pledges ranging from $5.00 to $150. over the south- Baseball Results NATIONAL By The Associated Press Milwaukee Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis New Yor! Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago ~ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis 1-9 New York 0-4 Chicago 3-6 Brooklyn Milwaukee 7-8 Pittsburgh 3-0 Cincinnati 2-1 Philadelphia 1-4 TODAY'S SCHEDULE St. Louis at New York Milwaukee at Pittsburgh Only games schedu! 36 29 30 4 20 18 4 6-1 Philadelphia TODAY'S SCHEDULE No games scheduled SOUTH ATLANTIC By The ——— Press Jacksonville Columbia 2 Boston 0-0 43 St. Louis 1-1 The City of Key West dished up | Colum ledge of $250. Fund treasurer Jack Burke bi reported that the total amount 0: ph collected was $824, while $525 in pledges were made. The Conchs left by car Sunday for the Alabama City and today they were scheduled to hold a drill at the Florida State University in Tallahasse and then will proceed to Selma. Their first start in the tournament is expected to take place on Tuesday. Richmond Academy of Augusta, Georgia has held the Southeastern * title for three years, will make the first start against Newton High School of Mississippi furnishing the oppoition, Newton, a pre-tourney Augusta Montgome: Savannah Columbus Charleston YESTERDA’ Charleston 4 Augusta 3 (called end 7th, rain) Savannah 10 Columbus 3 Other games Ppd-rain TODAY'S SCHEDULE Macon at Augusta Columbia at Charleston Savannah at Jacksonville SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Birmingham 82 58S Nashville .. favorite has copped 20 verdicts | Mobile without a loss. Another hot team participating is Sidney Lanier High School of Montgomery, Alabama. Lanier has won 17 games in a row this year. Other teams participating include St. Joseph’s High School of Bards- town, Ky., Parrish High of Selma and Central High School of Mem- phis, Tennessee. Key West has lost but a single game in three years of action and piled up four impressive wins in the District tourney. VFW Bows In Junior Loop Action Friday The Evans Enterprises nine cap- tured a win Friday over the VFW Post_g0ai in American Legion Jun- jor Baseball League Action Friday night at the Wickers Field Stadium. ‘The issue was not aecided until the last half of the seventh inning on a wild pitch with two outs. The Vets jumped into a four run lead in the first frame but the Evans boys came back with three of their own to narrow the edge. Evans came back with three more inthe third after the VFW had added a single counter in the second inning. The score was then all knotted up in the sixth to set the stage for the victory. Kerr walked for Evans in thefinal frame and Atwell dou- bled sending him to third but was | oa tagged ovt in a hotbox. Then, R. /5 * Knowles singled Atwell to third- base. The hurler Carey uncorked | a wild pitch and Atwell plated the | winning run. 4 Bruno hit a triple and two sing-/ les for the losers end Albury hit two singles and Kerr a triple for | the winners. In the field, D. Carey | and A, Carey and Butler for the} losers end Orapeza for the winners were the best. | New Conference | hee ' Organized Sunday | | RALEIGH, N. C, w—The At-/ lantic Coast Conference, a seven team “playing conference.” was organized here yesterday with indi- cations that Virginia would be ad- mitted to membership later Atlanta 5-1 Chattanooga 3-6 Mobile 5-1 Mem; Birmingham 1-0 Nashville $7 Orleans 2-4 Little Rock 3-1 New TODAY'S SCHEDULE YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS By The Associated Press ALABAMA-FLORIDA Fort Walton 6 Eufaula 5 = Graceville 3 Panama City 3 (tie, called eighth, rain) at Andalusia Ppd., rain AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus 1-5 is City 54 Charleston 3-0 05 na Toledo 7-6 St. Paul 2-1 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE 53 Rochester 42 Syracuse 2-0 Montreal 5-8 Ottawa 1-4 Buffalo 41 Toronto 3-2 Seattle 7.0 Portland 1-1 San Diego 92 Sacramento 34 = Fs susesrsss AMERICAN ASSOCIA’ Kansas City ~. St, Paul i wee? wbeubee? bebebube Indianapolis Louisville Minneapolis Charteston Commbus euveened asesumsey Mgeresf seeesunf werasebe? Gs ALABAMA-FLORID: > Panama City Andatuma Graceville ett thr Eutaula Shreveport Dallas Houston Fort Worth neusesnky PACIFIC Coast ™ Seatiie Holiyweod Los Angeles Richard Bonner Hurls No-Hitter In Little League Here On Saturday “Mayor” Lastres Presents Conchs With Keys To City & : pias WHEN THE KEY WEST CONCHS arri Kae . | ived triumphantly here Saturday afternoon, Mayor C. B. Harvey stepped down from office and appointed Key West hurler George Lastres acting-mayor. Lastres proceeded to pass out the Keys to the city to the Conch baseballers. Included in the photo are the Mayor, and City Commissioners Jack Delaney and Louis M. J. Eisner.—Citizen Staff Photo, LOPEZ PONDERS YANKEE By ED CORRIGAN AP Sportswriter Unless Al Lopez is an incurable optimist who wears rose-colored glasses even in the dark, he could do worse than give his Cleveland Indians a little talk today—some- thing like this: “We've tried everything to beat those Yanks, but whatever we do, they manage to go us one better. When we streak, they put together a better streak, When we have the pitching, they manage to set the big blow to beat us. When we have the hitting, they outslug us, Let’s concentrate on nailing down second place this year and give it another whirl in 1954.” Until a week ago, Lopez was still talking pennant, At least the Indi- ans were in hailing distance of the Yankees at that time. But the clean sweep of the four-game se- ries that ended with a double con- quest, 6-2 and 3-0, for the Yanks yesterday, just about knocked the breath and hope out of the Tribe. Casey Stengel and his swashbuck- ling crew now are 10% games ahead of the Indians with the sea- son almost half over. The Yanks STREAK Don Liddle threw a five-hitter for Charlie Grimm’s lads in the first game and Bob Buhl came right back with a two-hit job in the afterpiece. The Brooks knocked off the Chi- cago Cubs, 6-3, in the opener of their scheduled double-header with Billy Loes and Joe Black both working. But in the nightcap, they had to be content with a 6-all tie. The Dodgers were ahead, 6-2, in the ninth, but Ralph Kiner smashed a home run with the bases loaded and two out to tie the count. The game was called because of darkness. Ken Raffensberger outpitched Robin Roberts as the Cincinnati Redlegs beat the Philadelphia Phil- lies, 2-1, in the first game of a double-header. The Phils came back to win the second, though, with Carl Drews going eight inn- ings Harvey Haddix and Sal Maglie hooked up in another brilliant pitching duel, with the former hurling the St. Louis Cardinals to a twin bill. The Cards also won the nightcap, 9-4, behind Vinegar Bend Mizell. Mrs. Koraska Paces Navy Wives League BY TRUDY COCHRAN Last week Ginny Koraska and | Anita Stranghoener of the USO- © |NCCS team came through, with first for the Yanks and Vie Raschi egy the shutout, yielding three flying colors. Ginny bowled high series of 480. Anita rolled a 173 for {third high single game. Lou Duke's 183 was high for the a 1-0 triumph in the first game of | American Legion Baseball Records Player - Club AB RH Avg. Cleare, K.W.1. 2 3 2 1.000 Bethel, Strand ..... 1 11,000 Herrick, Post 28 667 Pineda, Strand -600 F. Curry, Evans -600 W, Albury, Evans ... M5 L, Knowles, Evans ... 529 A. Carey, V.F.W. ...... Bruno, VFW. & P 168 Kerr, Evans .. Portier, Post 168 J. Santana, Evans E. Atwell, Evans .. Leon, Strand . V. Dean, V.F.W Leggett, Post 168 Brantley, K.W.1. White, Post 28 Bervaldi, Strand Puig, K.W.I. . Simms, Post 28 . Hoppy, Post 28 .......... D. Carey, Post 168... Bennett, Post 168 .. Blanco, Post 28 J. Diaz, Evans i SARWAN RAMRIIWHABANSNYEROWH AT3 461 ey FUMAwweR AUN HS WADSAOSAROAROHRS 125 OTHER RECORDS Most times at bat - J, Santana |22. Kerr 19. Most runs scored - J. Santana 15, Knowles 13. Most hits - J. Santana 10. Kerr, Knowles, F. Curry 9 each. Most doubles - J. Santana 4. Pineda 4. Most triples - J. Santana 2, Kerr |2, White 2, Key 2. Most homers J. Santana 1, Knowles 5, Leon 4, Portier 4. | Simms, A. Carey 1 each. Most times fanned - Atwell 6, Oropeza, Luppens, and Dopp 5 | each. | Most times walked - Oropeza 8, J. Diaz, Puig 7 each. Runs batted in - Kerr 14, Knowles 12. | PITCHERS’ RECORDS Yates has won two games and lost none; Barnett, Leggett, At- well, Porter, Bean, and Taylor ere lost their | Week and Ginny's 175 was second. | have won a game and lost none. Phila- a pair of tri- » 60 and Pierce tossed the first, giv- The see-saw battle for first place in the National League continued between the Milwaukee Braves and | Ginny's team collared Naval Sta tion CPO's for three points and | Naval Station Annex CPO team | YMCA. | High scratch team game of 146 | were rolled by Naval Station CPO’s ' TEAM STANDINGS Naval Station CPO - 9 Naval Station Annex CPO - 7 SO - NCCS - troit Tig et star foot ball player for the University of Michigan Le Whitey he Des, Knowles, Caraballo have won a game and Tone one each. Thompson, J.Carey, and J. Mi- each. Weech, Joe Santana, Stickney have won none Most batters fanned; J. Carey 18, Carballo 16, Knowles 15, Tay- 14, Bean and Thompson 13 Yates 24, Carballo Atwell 3. Por. r. O. Knowles 8 Yates 6. Bean a oe HM, Jt Mira 6. AM A70 Richard Bonner, Elks ace right- hander pitched himself into the Little League Hall of Fame by hurling a no-hit, no-run game a- gainst the Jaycees Saturday night in the first'game of a doublehead- er, The score was 16-0. Bonner allowed only one runner to reach third and that was in the second inning when Joe McMahon, Jaycee catcher, was safe on an error and got to third on a couple of wild pitches. Bonner won his fifth game without a loss, struck out nine, walked five and not a ball was hit out of the infield off the strong-armed righthander. It was the second no-hitter of the sea- son. Bobby Pazo, Lion righthander duplicated the feat against Evans jon May 23rd. Backing up Bonner’s no-hitter, the Elks pounded two Jaycee hurl- ers for eleven hits. A 12 run rally in the second sewed up the game for the Elks. Led by Bill Solomon, who collected three doubles and a single in five trips to the plate, the Elks increased their lead to one full game over the second — place Kiwanis. In the nightcap, the VFW defeat- ed the Rotary, 12-7, to put them ; Within a half game of the league jleading Lions in the National Lit- tle League. The combined hurling of Eddie Diaz and Tony Estenoz held the Rotary to three hits as their team- mates were getting 11 off two Rot- ary hurlers. The VFW took a 4-0 lead in the first inning on two errors, three walks, singles by Bobby Thompson, Pete Esquinaldo and a double by Raul Cervantes. They added two more in the second on an error and singles by Cervantes, Estenoz and Esquinaldo, The Rotary scored twice in their half of the first on two walks, ani error, and a single by Richard Gar- cia netted the Rotary two more runs in the second, but the VFW exploded for four runs in the fourth on three walks, an error and two singles to sew up the ballgame. Cervantes and Esquinaldo shared hitting honors each collecting three hits. R. Garcia collected two of the Rotary’s three hits. The line scores: TEAM— Diaz, Estenoz (2) and Esquinal- do; Estevez, Plowman (4) and R. Garcia. FW Evans Rotary Lions Regain FIL Lead Sun. tin, were back on top of the Flor- ida International League today, half a game in tront of the Miami Sun Sox. Tampa’s up-and-coming Smokers won their sixth game in seven J. Santana 18, starts and third straight by whip-/ ping Miami Sunday, 74. The Lions walloped St. Petersburg, 8-4. West Palm Beach went back into fifth place by beating Havana, 2-1. Tampa’s Bob Curistophel scat- tered nine hits and the Smokers clubbed Dick Lovell and Mack Mosley for 10, axded by five Mi- ami errors. Wilkie Davis homered | copped four points from the USO- ra have won a game and lost two | for Miami in the ninth Five singles in the seventh in- ning gave Ft. Lauderdale four rans jand high scratch team set of 2188 Higgs, each have lost a game and #4 put the Lims ahead of the Saints to stay. Billy Seal hdin- ered in the St. Petersourg fourth and ninth, each time with the bas- es empty. Havana‘s only run at West Palm Beach came on Jcam Delis inside- the-park homer. The Cubans pro- tested the Indians’ winning tally in the eighth: which came when Tom- my Veen walked with the bases full, forcing m Gene Stewart Ralph Rosado went wide around 5 | Pita, rf Page 4 For Tourney THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, June 15, 1953 CONCHS WON ON STO Two stolen bases, a double and jthree-hit one-run relief pitching tells the story of the Key West Conchs’ victory over AA Cham- Pions West Palm Beach Wildcats | Friday night at Ft. Pierce. The triumph settled the question of which high school team in the state would represent Florida at the Southeast District tournament to be played at Selma, Ala., the latter part of this week. The stolen bases were racked up by Gibby Gates, centerfielder, who twice tied the score by stealing home, once in the sixth and again in the tenth. The two-bagger came j off the bat of Gates, in the eleven- th, when he drove home Biff Salga- do, who had walked, with the run the Conchs had been battling for all those 11 exciting innings. George Lastres, now credited with all four victories in tourna- ment play, relieved Don Cruz in the fourth to hold the Wildcats to three hits and one run in seven and one-third innings. Lastres, himself, belted three singles in the game in which the Conchs amassed eight hits off two Wildcat hurlers. Groover, who took over mound duty for the upstaters in the open- ing inning after the Conchs got to Bucholz for one hit and two runs, limited the locals to seven hits and three runs in 11 innings. Lastres struck out seven, walk- ed one and cut loose with two wild Pitches, one of which put the Wild- cats out front again in the tenth. Another attempted steal by Gates would have ended the game in the regulation seven innings but fail- ed by inches at home plate. West Palm belted Cruz for three Tuns as soon as the game started, but Key West came right back in the same stanza to score twice and knot the count in the sixth. Both teams scored once each in the tenth, and then Gates won the game with his paying double in the eleventh. Box scores: KEY WEST — (5) ~Player— AB RH Pi Gates, cf R. Lastres, 1b... Rodriguez, 3b - if Cruz, p-3b Henriquez, ¢ . Salgodo, 2b G. Lastres, If-p ., ° pauUnuseue Sccooncocookrn eCrwecscorrn Honn Gn Se wonaororer Hormonecco) Catala, ss = BlweceSerSuene3S 8 Bl eewecrcoouncad J wl cooworcceoo™ eonnonon, OoneHonor. Caneusane alooce aleoce HCl wa e A 5 Rr .- 300 900 000 10—4 200 001 000 11—5 SUMMARY — Runs batted in: Casey 3, Cruz 2, Salgado, Gates; two-base hits: Casey, Gates; three- base hits: Casey; stolen bases: T. Howser, Gates 3, R. Howser, G. Team— West Palm . Key West .. | Palm 10, Key West 9; bases on | balls: off Buchholz 2, off Groover |5, off Cruz 7, off G. Lastres 1; struck out: by Buchholz 6, by Groover 9, by Cruz 5, by G. Las- \tres 7; hits: off Buchholz 1 for 2 runs in 6 innings, off Groover 7 for 3 runs in 11, off Cruz 3 for 3 runs |im 3 2/3, off G. Lastres 2 for 1 run jim 7 1/3; hit by pitcher: Groover }(Catala); balk: Groover; wild pitches: G. Lastres 2; passed balls: Henriquez 2; winning pitcher: G. Lastres umpires: Fenton, Boell, Cushman; scorer: Dunham; time: 3:00; at-/ fendance: 605. Pascual and Charlie Harris each allowed six hits. Sunday Results Tampa 7 Miami 4 FL Lauderdale 3 St. Petersburg 4 West Palm Beach 2 Havana 1 Tonight's Games Tampa at Miami Havana at West Pelm Beach Ft. Leuderdale at St. Petersburg Standings: Pt. Lauderdale losing pitcher: Groover; ot LEN BASES 'Post 28 Whips Strand Saturday Post 28 gained a hai win over the Strand Theater Saturday night at Wickers Field in an Amer- ican Legion Junior Baseball league lcontest. The score was 14-9 with the lead see-sawing back and forth until the sixth inning when the Le- gion boys scored seven runs and won the ballgame. Bean pitched the entire game for the Legion while S. Perez and J. Mira divided the mound duties for the Strand. White hit a triple and two sine gles for the Post 28 buys and Blan- co hit a double and two singles for the winners. In the field, Blanco was the star for the Legion and Pons for the Strand, This week’s junior league sche- dule, will see the Legion Post 168 meeting the K. W. Insurance Co, tonight and on Wednesday, Strand.will tangle with Evans, On Friday the Post 6021 will meet the K. W. Insurance Co. nine and Saturday Post 28 and Post 168 clash. The standings: Es Hepene ds peogebe 72 uesese2 ° A. With Jones By HUGH FULLERTON JR, OAKMONT, Pa. — Ben Ho- gan's fourth victory in the United States Open Golf Championship has revived the controversy whether lithe little Ben or somewhat big- ger Bobby Jones is the best golfer America ever has produced. H if H i Hi sx Ee 83 ri i hs ff HT aE 5 S 2 = | i ; : gf in 1977, Last jot 72, and there wi | Hogan was in jscores that could be | by perfect golf, | Lieyd Mangrum 37. had 24s. | Fazic, Jimmy jiaty TE5 rides eotes J, T. Penney, Unive of South Carolina faculty chairman . leties, was elected pre: the the Brooklyn Dodgers. The amaz ing Braves edged past the Brooks York G <U..¥ winning 2 double-header from | first tim . * Pacsbargh Pirates, 7-3 and 6-0. | dat asqman for second base and was tagged ea St Petersburg s ied a major before Vena rescbed first, maying LST games ing the p 5 ae bem is Rerttand ayena? [ Pale Beat Havana Soocwmres tox