The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1953, Page 8

Conchs Are In Top Shape To Battle For Southeastern Title Tonight Key West Will Make First Start Against Selma In 8:30 Game The Key West High School baseball team is ready today, to begin a fight for the Southeastern District base- ball crown. The tournament opens this afternoon in Selma, They Finally Did It... Yanks Bow In Try For 19th Straight Alabama with seven of the south’s top prep teams battling for the coveted crown. Key West will make its first start tonight against Parrish High School of Selma under the lights at 8:30 p. m. (Central Standard Time). Word from the Alabama city has it that the Conchs are in ‘ top shape and well rested for the lash. Three games are slated in the “sudden death’? meet today. Rich- mond Academy of Augusta, the Georgia champion, puts itg title on the line against Newton, Miss. in! the first game at 3:00 p. m. Sidney Lanier of Montgomery takes on Central High of Memphis, Tenn. at 6:30 p. m. under the arcs at Selma’s Bloch Field. St. Joseph’s Prep of Bards- fown, Kentucky drew a first found bye and will play its first game in the semi-finals tomor- tow. The Southeastern champion- ships will be decided Friday night at 7:30. Pre-tourney favorites, according to the Associated Press, are Lan- fer and Richmond Academy, Lan- ier goes into the meet with a re- cord of 17 victories against no set- backs. They are making their fourth appearance as State champs. Richmond Academy is seek- ing its third straight win tour- ney title. They won their first crown in Montogomery in 1951, and the second in Gadsden last year. Key West is the smallest school in the Southeastern meeting. Me Coach Paul Davis is expected to send his ace right hander, George Lastres to the mound tonight with Gibby Gates and Don Cruz in re- serve. The game will be broad- cast in Key West. Bobby Locke Hurls 2-Hitter For Daytona By The Associated Press Bobby Locke pitched a two-hit- ter Tuesday night to give Daytona and a 2%-game lead in the fast- closing Florida State Langue | first half race, Only five days remain for the second-place Cocoa Indians to catch up, The Indizns didn't act Tuesday night like they would be able to turn the trick, losing 9-4 to last-place Lakeland. Locke struck out 14 Orlando bat- ters while his tearnmates collected “28 hits, including’ a home run, triple and two singles by Manager Ed Levy. It was Daytona Beach's fifth straight vietory. Al Pirtle slammed out two dou- bles and a pair of singles which drove in two runs to pace Lake- land’s assault cn Cocoa, Pitcher Floyd Bridges kept 10 Cocoa hits well seat In other action, Leesburg whipped Jacksonville Beach 6-1, and DeLand and Sanford split a doubleheader, DeLand winning the opener, 5-1, and losing the night- cap, 7-6, Leesburg’s Billy Bass. yielded six hits to Jacksonville Beach. The decision came in the fifth, the Lakers scoring twice when John Richard struck Norm Miller with a pitched ball, forcing in a run, and Chico Fundore stole home. Jim Clarich turned in a_three- hitter going the route for DeLand first game at Sanford. In the afterpiece, Sanford nipped the Red Hats on a one-run single by Tommy Leonard in the ninth. Tuesday Results DeLand 5-6 Sanford 1-7 Leesburg 6 Jacksonville Beach 1 Lakeland 9 Cocoa 4 Daytona Beach 43 Orlando 1 Wednesday Games Daytona Beach at Leesburg Jacksonville Beach at Orlando Sanford at Lakeland (2) Cocoa at DeLand Standings; Daytona Beach Cocoa Jacksonville Beach Leesburg DeLand Lakeland Legion Loop Tilt Scheduled Tonight Evans Enterprises will cross bats; tonight with the Strand Theater in an American Legion Junior Base- ball league clash at Wickers Field Stadium. Yates will pitch and Kerr will eateh for Evans while manager Paul Albury of the Strand nine will start J. Mira with Pineda catching. Bob Porterfield Ww ashington. Senators " d pitcher for the was bern His father. ni feng ah hem at the age of six. | San Antonie 7 | Dothan Baseball Results By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind Brooklyn St. Louis Philadelphia New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago 36 1 29 6 1 20 5 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 7-5 Cincinnati 5-12 Pittsburgh 6 Chicago $3 St. Louis 6 Brooklyn Milwaukee 6-3 Philadelphia 5-2 (second game 10 innings) NODAY’S SCHEDULE New York at Cincinnati (n) Pittsburgh at Chieago Brooklyn at St. Louis (n) Philadelphia at Milwaukee (n) AMERICAN By The Associated Press New York Cleveland Chicago Washingtor Boston... Philadelphia St. Louis 0 Detroit 2 30 1 29 30 28 SSBBNSRe YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis 3 New York 1 Detroit 5 Boston 3 Philadelphia 9 Cleveland 7 Chicago 7 Washington 3 (11 innings) TODAY'S SCHEDULE St. Louis at New York Detroit at Boston Cleveland at Philadelphia (n) Chicago at Washington (n) SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Nashville 39 29 («S74 367 ar 522 492 78 412 1406 Rock 3 New ‘Orteans 1 DAY'S SCHEDULE Memphis at Birmingham (2) Chattanooga at Mobile ‘Only games ———s SOUTH ATLANTIC By The Associated Press om —- ~ Jacksonville Columbia Macon 14 BY 16% Columbus 174 Charleston 2 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Macon 7 Charleston 4 Augusta 2 Columbia 1 Jacksonville 4 Columbus 3 Montgomery 3 Savannah 3 INTERNATIONAL Ottawa 3 Montreal 2 FRE cues! ASSOCIATION ae # 7 Kansas City 5 Sainueapall ve ie eons is 5 Colum TEXAS LEAGUE San A ‘Antonie: 1 ww 10 Okiahoma City 6 Dallas § Beaumont 0 San Diego 4 San Francisco 1 les & Seattle 3 Oakland 9 Hollywood 9 Sacramento » TODAY'S BASEBALL ‘SCHEDULE. By The Associated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis at Kansas City Toledo at Louisville (2) Columbus at Minneapolis at St. Paul ALABAMA-FLORIDA Graceville at Fort Walton Eufaula at Andalusia Panama City at Dothan ‘Shre at Meret SER RNATION aL By The Ateseiset Prese INTERNATIONAL Wpn Lost Pet. 19 6a 2 Montreal Rochester Toronto — | Baltimore | Ottawa Syracuse Springfield... Seblssbend Syuey Shreveport Dallas Houston Fort Worth ‘Tulse | Beaumont AAA asf sesuessef 2 8 bu ALABA’ | Panama City | Gracevitie Aralahtsia asf Fort Walton Futy Betauia PACIFIC, COAST Pet 18 i io +a os a att Seattle Helix wood Los Angetes Peruiand Sacramento Sen Franciace Oaklard San Diego AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘Won Lost Pet. 3 6 oN 3s “ “ buskuseey Kanaas Cty 2 3 sat oy tersees nm Al Lopez, manager of the Cleve- land Indians, holds the major lea gee record for having caught the most games in a lifetime, 1918. Lopes played pears in the map! ors. By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter Maybe there’s still some hope for the American League, The New York Yankees finaliy lost. The St. Louis Browns finally won. The two longest streaks of the seasun ran slam-bang into each other at Yankee Stadium last night and today both are broken, along with several others. The Yankees won 18 in a row— one shy of the American League record — before bewing to the Browns, 3-1, before 30,362 shocked and dismayed New. York fans. For the Browns it was their first victory in 15 games, an all-time record losing streak for the club. The St. Louisans also-ened Whitey Ford’s all-winning streak as a starting Yankee pitcher and snapped Joe Collins’ 14-game hit- ting streak. Ford, a brilliant young southpaw, had won 16 games since coming to the Yankees in 1950, all as a starter. He lost oace in relief in his first year. Duane Pillette and Vie Wertz, didn’t want, were the Browns’ stars. Pillette, once Yankee pr erty, combined with old Satch Paige to baffle the Yankee slug- gers on six hits. Wertz, whom the Yanks turned down in a proposed deal only last week, arranged the winning margin by homering in the fifth inning with Jim Dyck on base. _ The Yankee half of that fifth inn- ing provided the only joy for the home folks. With two men on, big Johnny Mize stepped up as a pinch hitter looking for his 2,000th major league hit. He met the ball solidly and cracked a single into right field, driving in what proved to be the only Yankee tally. The Milwaukee Braves, almost overpowered by a welcoming home earlier in the day, showed their appreciation last night by bouncing back into the National League by a full game and a half. The Braves won a pair of squeak- ers from Philadelphia, 6-5 in 10 innings, and 3-2, while the St. Louis Cardinals were disposing of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-5, As a result, the Dodgers were re- placed at the top by Milwaukee and the Phillies lost third place to the Cardinals, By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—In the wake of the Yankees’ sacking and pillag- ing of the last remaining Indian. settlement on Lake Erie, columnist Ed McAuley of the Cleveland News says in sepulchral tones; “Organized baseball is in trouble. Its ailments will be aggravated seriously if the four-time winners continue to make a joke of the flag race.” Truer words were seldom spok- en, If the American League thinks it has a headache in its various television problems, just wait until Casey Stengel’s runaways increase their lead to 18 or 20 games along in August, Who, for instance, beyond a few homeless knotheads from the Bronx would be interested watching the big team win its 19th straight tonight at the expense of the St. Louis Browns, losers of 14 in a row? It could get worse than that, though not much. ‘As McAuley goes on to say, no- body wishes the Yankees to let jup. “The task of balancing the }league belongs to the clubs behind | them, not to the conquering Jead- ers,” he sighs. But in the following | paragraph, Ed concedes there is {no prospect of relief soon: “Doggedly, patiently -—- and no 3 | doubt expensively—the clubs which | trail the Yankees will have to dup-|Sugar Ray Robinson, but came / Matthews of Seattle, fighting to licate their operation, not only on| back te hold the Negro to a close| gain a top niche in heavyweight | w, jthe field but in the front office, So far only one owner, Tom Yawk- ey of Boston, has shown the ability } and the disposition to match check- books with the champions.” Coming from Cleveland, where | the suffering must be intense. these remarks are unusually tolerant and well timed. They are not the ery of the wounded, but simply a statement of fact—that the Ameri- can League has a mess on its hands. The Yankees are much too good for their opposition, and at- tendance is going to suffer the re- | mainder of the summer. | At least a half-dozen local fans sas Who make an occasional visit to Yankee Stadium have told me in recent days they are through for this year, at least. They don't | blame the Yank players for whoop- ing & up and going for that $6,000 World Series cut. They just no longer are interested when there is no pennant Face. BRANCH. x B i Oison, who is t Ceri fiugat LONG Bodo) a couple of players the Yankees | .jhome the winning run Pittsburgh split a daylight dou- ble-header with Chicago, winning 6-5, and losing 3-2, while the New York Giants divided a twilight - the second, 12-5. action, all at night, Chicago de- feated Washington, 7-3, in 11 inn- ings: Detroit surprised Boston, 5-3. Trailing by five runs after five innings of the first game, the Braves picked up a pair in the sixth on Eddie Mathews' 20th home run of the year and tied it up with three in the eighth off Karl Drews and Robin Roberts, who was work- ing in relief. The winning run came home in the 10th when rookie Thornton Kipper, the sixth Phila- delphia pitcher, walked Bill Bruton with the bases loaded. In the second game Max Sur- kont celebrated his 31st birthday by edging Jim Konstanty in a pitching duel for his ninth victory | against a single loss. At St. Louis, Rip Repulski, jrookie outfielder’ who had been benched for weak hitting, singled in the seventh inning against Brooklyn. Johnny Lindell, a six-time loser, victory in the first game. Howie Pollet, who moved from the Pi- rates to the Cubs in the Ralph Kiner deal, beat his old club in tory of the year. Redlegs pounded 43 hits in their double-header, including five home runs, Larry Jansen, with help from Hoyt Wilhelm, took the first game. Bob Kelly, recently of ‘the Cubs, won his first of the season in the nightcap. Ray Boone broke in with Detroit in a big way, hammering a home run and a pair of singles in a perfect night against Boston. Boone was traded to the Tigers by Cleve- land Monday. The Indians lost their sixth in a row at Philadelphia, twice fritter- ing away three-run leads. Eddie Joost drove in two runs as the Athletics rallied to win in the eighth. The White Sox broke out with four runs in the top of the lth to whip the Senators, = (Sports Roundup Paddy Young for the middleweight ; championship of this country in practically everybody’ s Siving room Friday night, is a pleasant, unscarred young man of 24 who learned his trade as a saloon bouncer in the tougher sections of Honolulu. He makes his home now in San Francisco, where he has a wife and three children aged 6, 4 and 2. He is completely confident he will defeat Young, the New York City toughy, probably on points, and expects to receive meaner competition from Randy Turpin, the British champion, if and when they meet for the world 160-pound title, Olson is living here in an old, ramshackle hotel which the locals in | Claim once was the summer hang- | out of numerous of our presidents, | including the ill-fated Garfield. He trains in a ring pitched just out- side, near the swimming pool, though from all accounts and from what we have seen, Bobo hasn't worked too hard. He says he has| no weight-making problem and, | anyway, was. in shape when he| | got here more than a week ago. Olson has-earned this shot at ‘the title by a string of solid suc- leesses within the past couple of year. He suffered the only knock- out of his career at the hands of} | decision in their second 15-rounder ince then he has come on stead- y. | Mostly, wading in and leaning over and pumping both gloves to his oppo- nent’s middie. He doesn’t plan to; change against Young, whom he obviously hoids in no great regard. | He boxe day and other lick 1 he climbs through the ropes Friday night. “I've seen Young only once, and that was on television,” he said. “I think he has a pretty good left I can't say li stop him but I think I can outpoint him. I should know after a round or two. The reason | think Turpin might be teugher for me is that he's older and more experienced and has an awkward syle. I saw a picture of bls second fight with Rebissoo Bil Bruton, speedy rookie out fielder for the Milwaukee Braves ed the Northern League in stolen deses with 66 in 1960. Bobo attacks to the body, | -\ sive string of eeclonts night pair at Cincinnati, The Giants | took the first game, 7-5, but lost |” In the other American League 2 Pitched and batted the Pirates to ~ the nightcap for his second vic- The heavy-hitting Giants and! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Z Wednesday, June 17, 1953 Beant ‘oyun | Partly cloudy thru Thursday, EVANS DOWNS ROTARY + TUES. Evans Enterprises handed the Rotary their sixth straight loss when they defeated them 15-11 in j the first game of a double header jin the Little League last night at Bayview Park. Evans took a 4-0 lead in the first inning on three walks, one error, a single by Jerry Hargraves and a double by Howard Barnwell. The Rotary came back in their half of the first to tie it up climaxed by Rick Garcia’s third homer of the season, with two men on base. Evans came back with three more runs in the*second to take the lead and iced the game with a six run tally in the third, The Rotary came to life and put Pom. @.8ix run rally in tho fifth on two, walks, two errors and four hits, One of*the hits was Barros- 0°s first homer of the season. nny Garcia and Hargrave led Evans attack with two hits each, R. Garcia, with a homer and a double in four tries was the big gun for the Rotary, In the second game, the Kiwan- is beat the Jaycees, 13-6, to climb within one game of the league leading Elks. The Kiwanis pounded out 15 hits off the combined pitching of Bryan Williams and Peebie Car- | jerror and Joe Me | They rallied for three sine | third on three walks, 4 Matthews Whips 'Beshore Tuesday PORTLAND, Ore. — Harry ranks, hammered out a one-sided |10-round decision son Te Freddie Be- | shore of Los Angeles here tonight. Matthews, 180, had bleeding and out on the final bell. The Seattle veteran of the punching power manship that won him an iat iil staggered him to the jaw. A fierry punches drove Beshore ows corner, and he hung mote punches sent the Los fighter reeling across the ring at! the bell The decision was onanimogs. fudge Ralph Groman voted 664. ludge Freddie Sterile, 47. and Referee Keddie Volk, 34-31% ie gel Kiwanis iced the game with an eight run rally climaxed by Es- quinaldo’s homer with the bases loaded. Two errors and MeMahon’s single gave the Jaycees a run in the fourth and they added another by Williams and McMahon. Esquinaldo led the Kiwanis with a homer, double and single in four tries and Danny Garcia, Kiwanis third sacker chipped in with a double and two singles to aid the offense. MeMahon, Jaycee eatch- er, led their offense with a double and two singles in four trips to the plate, The line scores: Team— Kiwanis ....... 320 800-13 15 5 JayCees ,. 103 101-6 6 6 Mira and Sawyer; Williams, Car- bonell (3) and McMahon. RHE lome; R. Garcia, Plowman (1) and Estevez. The standings: AMERICAN LITTLE 1eAUs For Dad’s Day WASHINGTON @#—Rep. Horan | ghee today renewed his — recognize third Sunday in June each year Jack Webb Places Third In Tourney Jack L. Webb, of the Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla., gained a third place finish in the Air Force Atlantic Fleet tennis tournament held in Jack- sonville, Fla. fast week. Webb, Key West navy singles champ, teamed with LTJG J, Warmath of the USS Midway to take runner-up spot in the dou- bles competition. On the strength of his play in Jacksonville, Webb will be re- Webb is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Leslie N. Webb, 410 N. Bragg Ave., Lookout Mountain, Tenn, Prior to entering active duty with the Navy in August 1951, Webb graduated from Den- ison University, Grandville, Ohio He holds a B. A. degree in psy- chology. Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid a) with: isolated thundershowers -= *| able winds. Florida: Continued warm le- ly seattered thundershowers likely in afternoons or evenings. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Gentle to moderate variable winds mostly westerly. Weather partly} 4 cloudy thru Thursday with occa- sionally a few widely scattered showers. Western . Caribbean: Moderate east winds and partly cloudy wea- ther thru Thursday. A few widely scattered showers. Weather Summary For The Trop- ieal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and in the sixth on an error and singles | The Eastern Gulf Of Mexice: Con- ditions are normal over the entire tropical area today, No waves or other indications of disturbance, Observations Taken at City Office, 9:00 A.M, EST Key West, Fla., June 17, 1953 ‘Temperatures Highest yesterday . Lowest last se Mean Normal . w 3 pasion Total last 24 hours . Total this month . Excess this month Total this year... Excess this year Relative Humidity, 9 A.M. 6% Barometer (Sea Level). 9:00 A. M. 30.00 ins,—1015.9 mbs. 0 ins. 4.78 ins, 2.59 ins. 14,60 ins, 7:18 p.m. 11:45 a.m, e900 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water, Bahia Honda (bridge) ———-oh 10m 9.0 ft Mo Name Key feast end) —+2h 20m +14 tt Corrections | to be subtracted. By MERCER BAILEY | ATLANTA W—Patty Berg, who had to master an erring putter to survive her first match, met de- fending Champion Betsy Rawls to- day in the second round of the Women’s Western Open Golf Tour- nament. The redhead from St. Andrews, Tl., came from behind to defeat former Champion Betty Jameson of San Antonio, oe ee yesterday’s opening round. Winners by wide margins includ- ed Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Jacki Pung of Glasgow, Ky., and am teur Claire Doran of Cleveland, 0., |the co-medalists; and Miss Rawis of Spartanburg, S. C., and 1951 National Amateur Champ Dot Kir- by of Atlanta. Betty MacKinnon, of Dallas, 3- down at the turn to Bee McWane of Birmingham, recouped when the Southern Amateur runnerup’s game fell apart of the back nine. ee won five holes coming in and took the match, 1-up. Pat Devany of Grosse He, Mich., carried Marnie Polk to the 19th hole before bowing to the Chatta- nooga amateur, Miss Suggs, seeking her fourth Western crown to match the rec- ords of Miss Berg and Babe Za- harias, played golf to oust 17- vearald Bebe Smith of Columbus, a. nent was pretty Boxtte ee coed who won tional Intercollegiate ped ny Phan Miss Doran, ost National Ama- runnerup, defeated Mary Crawford of Americus, Ga., 6 and MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE RUNS—Mantle, New York, 52. RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, New York, 46. 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