The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1953, Page 6

onchs Romp To An Easy 13-4 Victory Over Selma In First Tourney Start Key West Will Face Kentucky In Semi-Final Game Tonight The Key West Conchs were practically handed their first Southeastern High School baseball tournament game on a silver platter last night in. Selma, Alabama, when they trounced the Parrish High Tigers of that city, 13-4. The Conchs scored seven runs in the first two innings on just one hit to gain the semi-finals in the tourney. They face St. Joseph’s High School of Bardstown, Kentucky in @ tilt slated to get underway at 8:30 p.m. (9:30 Key West Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, re 18, 1953 Island Ci LCHETLE “LEAGUE. ESkY | of mR IMG we bral len 1 { THE, POWE RHOUSE JAYCEES CATCHE K sau a {3° SORE “2/ Dairy Queen ____ Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK #—The mailman Drought a letter signed by Charles C. Riccio, 19, a resident of Brook- | lyn who wishes to become a pro- fessional baseball catcher and who feels he has. been given a fast shuffle by his hometown Dodgers. “On May 6th,” Riccio writes, “I was awarded a contract with Brooklyn and assigned to the Hor- mell farm team, Class-D Pony League. I left for Hornell on May 18, having left my job, put up my ear for sale and been given a ind sendoff by family and low, less than three weeks later, I am home again, having been unconditionally released. “The three weeks I .was at Hor- nell I spent sitting on the bench and warming up pitchers. I was assigned to play only on two oc- casions and was at bat three times. Do you consider this a fair trial} ¢; of a player’s merit—justifying the abrupt cancellation of his contract? “IT am wondering’ whether this is the way all new players are treated by the Dodgers, or whether I was especially unlucky in falling into the hands of the manager at Hornell, who happens also to be the catcher of the team there. “The manager himself insisted on playing in all the games, even though on one occasion his ankle ing. Another time, when he was stricken with flu and ordered to stay in bed, he still insisted on playing and actually threw up in the it. “Of course I’m not giving up yet, but I did want you to know such high hopes could be so |, I believe, unfairly short a time.” unitation from base- has been rare , and we lost little H | 4 A Dodgers. Advised Position to do PEE Ht E , his card,” he has a yellow N, P. ans no prospect. I a copy of -his like he’s writing to 3 i $s = 2 4 & 5 same, we pursued, did ers cause this ambitious ye man to lose his regular job by promising him a baseball ca- z. E : reer and then cast him loose after | only three times at bat? “He did not give up his job,” asi . “We insisted that | get a leave of absence before we consented to his plea that he be given a chance, We gave him & one-month contract, even though we thought he was too small and did not consider him a prospect. thought it fairer to him to cut him loose. We were convinced he could hope to reach the big , 80 Why kid him? In addi- is pay we gave him $50 his expenses.”” customary, we asked, to such basis? Our vague impres- been that all baseball ran for at least a season. | kind we need, We'll take care of | ve to do it that way in low minors,” Buzz explained time). | (In other action, Lanier High) | of Montgomery, Alabama, andj } Richmond Academy of Augusta, | TO MAKE THE Toe FIVE IN GATTINGs AVERAGES hopefuls on a month-to- | Georgia, took opening round vic- tories. The Poets from Lanier moved on via a 7-6 win over Central High. The defending champions from Georgia entered the second |round after blanking. Newton, | Miss. 0, in an afternoon game. A four-run inning brought the three-run’ outbursts by Memphis in the first and fifth frames. The second rally by the Ten- nessee combine sent starter Bob- by Ledford to the showers ahd brought on Warren Gilley to work the rest of the game and notch the Poet, victory. Richmond Academy of Augusta, the winner for the past two tangles with Montgomery’s Lanier High in the opener at 6:30 today.) Key West wiil oppose Kentucky, who drew a bye in the first round, in the nightcap. Key West had the only walkaway in the tourney when they used eight timely safeties and five Selma errors to gain their win. Selma starter Johnny Moore showed plenty of stuff but he could not find the plate and before he was finished, he had given up 10 bases on balls up to the fifth inning, His catcher had trouble holding his tosses. And the Conchs took advantage of the situation when they ran the basepaths with abandon, to throw their men into scoring position. George Lastres started on the mound for the Conchs but as vic- tory became apparent, he was re- moved after three innings on the hill. Coach Paul Davis ordered the switch to save Lastres for tougher opposition that may face the Conchs, He was replaced by Gibby Gates, who was relieved after two innings of effective hurling by Harold Has- kins, In the third frame, Lastres suf- fered a touth of wildness and walk- ed the first three men to face him. He then proceeded to fan the next three batters, Amazingly, each of the four Key West pitchers managed to dupli- cate his feat of striking out the side. Before the game was over, the Key West moundsmen had rolled up a total of 17 strikeouts. Don Cruz was the big gun at the plate for the Conchs when he pounded out two safeties including a screaming, two-run triple. The game was played in 100- degree heat. Scores of “‘good-luck” telegrams | showered the Conchs throughout | the day. “Otherwise we'd find | oursel loaded up vith kids who }ean’t really play ball.” | One more thing—what about that jeatcher - manager up at Hornell | who won't let anybody else play, }even when he should be in an oxy- | | gen tent? What about him? |for tipping us off about that fel- jlow,”” Bavasi chortled. ‘‘That’s the | that boy. His name’s Merv Dorn- burg.” Poets from behind. They entered | ; the bottom of the fifth with a+! three-run deficit after a pair of} “We owe Riccio a vote of thanks | | | 1} | | Joe CAN SNATCH THE BALL away > WITH SUCH EASED Tear RATTLES — THE GATTERS —*7 AND FREEZES THE BASE KONNER® Jf BRAVES By BEN PHILEGAR AP Sportswriter Maybe those hit-happy Milwau- kee Braves made a secret excur- sion to Yankee Stadium on their last trip East. Somewhere along the line they certainly stole a copy of the New Yorkers’ private beok on how to win pennants. Applying the techniques de- scribed in the chapter “club ’em to death,” the Braves mopped up their new stadium with the Phila- delphia Phillies, 9-6, last night, and pulled a fat 2% games out in front of the rest of the National League. Two and a half games doesn’t sound like much when compared with the Yankees’ tremendous 10¥2 length advantage over Cleveland in the American ‘League. But it has to qualify as a big lead in the senior circuit, where only one other time this season has the first-place team been that far ahead. That was way back on April 27 when the Phillies led the Chicago Cubs— yes, the same Cubs now occupying the cellar—by 2% games. The Braves came home Tuesday only half a game off Brooklyn’s pace after a 22-game road trip. They remedied this immediately by winning two from the Phils Tuesday night while the Dodgers bowed to St. Louis. Last night’s victory came as the Cards again obliged by thumping Brooklyn, 9-3. Adding to the joy of the Milwau- kee fans is the league schedule which calls for their new idols to play 18 of their next 21 games at j home, where they have a spectacu- lar 16-4 record so far. | With second-place Brooklyn on | the road and the third-place Car- dinals still 64 games behind, this | could be the Braves’ big chance to blow the race apart Chicago defeated Pittsburgh, 5-4, last night in 16 innings—longest |game of the season in either |league—and the New York Giants |beat Cincinnati, 4-1. i The New York Yankees hit the | KEY WEST SEAFOODS Corner Greene and Elizabeth Streets WEEK-END SPECIAL a — WE HAVE: Fresh Shrimp — Cocktail and Jumbo Si: Red Snapper Jewfish Steaks Virginia Oysters West Coast Mullet Grouper Conchs Crab Meat K. W. Soft Shell Crabs Scallops Turtle Steak Fresh Killed Chickens Ice Cold Watermelon Fresh Eggs We Deliver Anywhere Phone 2-6134 BOOST LEAGUE LEAD winning trail again at the expense of the St. Louis Browns, who broke the New Yorkers’ 18-game victory the Yankees won, 5-3, with Allie Reynolds back on the starting line after a siege of bullpen duty. The Cleveland Indians outlasted the Philadelphia Athletics, 9-6, to end a six-game losing run, The A’s had won seven straight. Boston smothered the Detroit Tigers, 17-1, and Walc Masterson threw a sparkling two-hitter at the Chicago White Sox to give Wash- ington a 1-0 decision. The Braves jumped away to a 7-0 lead over the Phils in the first three innings with an attack which included home runs by Joe Adcock and Del Crandall in the third. They ‘et the Phils get within striking distance at 7-6, then pulled it out with a final two runs in the eighth, The Cardinals, aided by a pair of doutles by Stan Musial and Steve Bilko’s eignth homer, scored all their runs after two were out. The first one came on four straight walks in the first inning by starter Johnny Podres, who had retired the first two men. Bilko homered with one on in the third and the Cards pushed five scross in the seventh. The marathon at Chicago ended when Randy Jackson singled with the bases loaded in the 16th off Johnny Hetki, who had held the Cubs scoreless since coming on in the ninth. The victory went to Turk Lown, who took over in the ninth when the Pirates tied the score with three runs, Rookie Ruben Gomez, with help from reliable Hoyt Wilhelm, won his second game in a starting role for the Giants. Billy Martin sparked the Yank- ees’ return to form against the | Browns with a perfect day.at bat— three singles in three times up, driving in a pair of runs. The closest contest was at Wash- ington, where Masterson and the | White Sox’ Saul Rogevin both had jone-hitters through seven innings. Chico Carrasquel opened the Chi- cago sixth with a single and Jim |Rivera got the only other White |Sox hit, a double to start the eighth. The Washington tally came in the ninth on a sincie by Mickey Vernon that brought in Ed Fite- gerald from third. Bill Wight and Art Houtteman, two newcomers from Detroit, came to the aid of Bobby Feller as Cleve- \land beat the Athletics, Feller couldn't hold a 8-2 lead and Wight took over in the fourth. Houtteman followed in the seventh with Wight getting the triumph, his first. Willard Nixon celebrated his 25th birthday in high style at Boston where he gave up only five hits and contributed a pair of his own to the Red Sox’ 20-hit assault on four Detroit pitchers. Strand Forfeits Legion Loop Tilt Umpire Rodriguez forfeited the scheduled game between the Strand Theater and the Evans Enterprises in the American Legion Junior Baseball loop to Evans last night, 94. Albury, as a result, resign- ager of the Strand nine taw Valdez was named in ce Friday night. VFW Post 60m will tangle with the Key West Insuraace Co, sine in Junior loop action. streak Tuesday night. Yesterday | Mobile Loop Standings — W.L. Pet. -800 555 364 -300 NATIONAL By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind 40 18 690 — 19 % 6 8 2 2 41 16% 3B 2 36.308 2 RESULTS New xox Gacimantt — cago ittsburgh 4 ings) St. Louis 9 Brooklyn 3 eames Milwaukee 9 Philadelpliia 6 TODAY'S SCREDULE New York at Cincinnati Brooklyn at St. Louis Pittsburgh at Chicago Philadelphia at Milwaukee AMERICAN By The Associated Press ‘Won Lost Pct. Behind 2 77 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 5 St. Louis 3 Boston 17 Detroit 1 TODAY'S SCHEDULE St. Louis at New York (2) Detroit at Boston Cleveland. at Philadelphia at Washington (n) 10% ls YESTE RESULTS Memphis 6-0 dBirmingham ¢7 Chattanooga 6 Mobile 4 Only games scheduled TODAY'S SCHEDULE Little Rock at Atlanta SOUTH ATLANTIC By The Associated Press }. Behind os — 3 1% 1 18 ‘Montgomery Savannah ......... 1% Columbus x YESTERDAY'S RESULTS 8a ran Montgo: : o vi 2 mery Columbus 11 Jacksonville 10 Columbia 9 Augusta 7 TODAY'S SCHEDULE — Charleston at Macon ‘ Columbia at Augusta Jacksonville at Columbia Savannah at Montgomery Indianapolis insas City BR mene “9 Louisville 41 (second game 5-6 Minneapolis 3-9 Charleston 8 St. Paul 6 PACIFIC Charleston at Minneapolis Columbus at St. Paul (2) ALABAMA-FLORIDA Andalusia at Eufatia Fort Walton at Graceville Dothan at Panama City TEXAS STANDINGS Associated Press TEXAS BASES. By The Shreveport Dallas Fort Worth Houston | ao Beaumont San Antonio Oklaboma City sunudeusy beebekes? | Pertiand | Sea Francisco Sscramemte | Oakiand jo aoe ! esestvest beResena? | tele lene bob eyenumays ayrbuek + cod fich war pr as sine million eggs As {man Play-By-Play Of Key West-Selma Tilt| Soviets Claim FIRST INNING SELMA — Ken Chambers walks (one of balls, a wild pitch), Catcher drops ball on attempted ‘bunt by Morrer (passed ball) and on attempted steal to second, Chambers is thrown out. Morrer goes down swinging. James Stag- ger follows suit. No runs, no hits, no errors. < KEY WEST — Gates, with a | full count of three and two (one a. wild pitch) doubles to rizhtfield. Robert Lastres strikes out. Catch- er drops ball on third strike but throws to first to retire Lastres. a advances to third on-play. | Rodriguez walks and advances to |second on wild pitch. Gates scores on a wild pitch and Rodriguez goes to third, with Cruz in the bat- ter’s box. Cruz walks. Henriquez is up. Cruz steals second. Henri- quez attempts bunt when Rodri- guez tries to steal at home and Henriquez is automatically called out. Rodriguez returns safely to third. Delgado up. Henriquez scores on passed ball. Cruz ad- vances to third. Salgado walks ~ third base on balls of inning. G. error. SECOND INNING SELMA — Jim Shanahan grounds out to first. Ben Crane | Strikes out, Dick Bond pops out to | first. © runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, KEY WEST — Pita strikes out. Catala follows suit but catcher drops third strike and throws to first for out. Gates safe on first on error by thirdbaseman. R. Lastres up, On wild throw to first by nitch- er, Gates goes all the way home but is called back to second base by virtue of ground rule. Gates advances to third standing up on passed ball. R. Lastres walks and Gates scores on fourth bail, a passed ball. Rodriguez up. Lastres goes to second on passed ball. Catcher unable to hold pitcher by Moore, Lastres scores all the way to third on passed ball. On third strike, catcher misses ball, allow- ing Rodriguez to score and Cruz to reach first safely. Rodriguez hurt on slide into home plate. Crane, starting at shortstop, re- Places catcher.. Shannahan comes in from right to short and Cozel is sent to right. Henriquez up. Cruz goes to third on wild pitch. Henriquez walks. Salgado up. On a pitch-out in attempt to catch Henriquez stealing second, Cruz scores and Henriquez makes sec- ond safely. Salgado strikes out, 4 Tuns, 0 hits, --errors. THIRD INNING SELMA — Nick walks, Cozel up. Nick steals second, Cozel gets free ticket to first. Moore up. On try by Lastres to catcber Nick off second, ball goes into outfield and both runners advace a base. Moore walks -- third base on balls in row. Bases now loaded. Chambers strikes out. Morrer called out on strikes. Lastres pulling himself out of tough spot. Stagger strikes out swinging, retiring side on three straight strike-outs after three bases on balls in row. 0 runs, 0 hits, © errors. KEY WEST G. Lastres doubles to left. Piat sacrifices Las- tres to third. Catala out, pitcher to first. Gates out, third to first. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors. FOURTH INNING SELMA — Gates now pitching for Key West. Shannahan up. Las- tres replaced by Gates in appar- ent attempt to save Lastres for peakks? . Shanna- . Catala pops out to Gas out, secand to first, on scar stop of hit ard throw =. @. Lastres singies to cen R tes to « oa rar ames. va wild 218 eg BE By pede | jwild pitch, Lastres streaks for ;home but is tagged out. 0 runs, 3 hits. SIXTH INNING SELMA - Cruz now pitching for Key West and Gates goes to third base. Bond becomes first strikeout victim of Cruz. Woodingham, bat- ting for Nick, strikes out, catcher drops third strike but tosses to first for the out. Cozel strike out. 0 run, @ hits, 0 errors. to center. Salgado up. Henriquez | ball. Salgado doubles on line drive | through third. Harold Solomon now batting for G. Lastres. Solomon | called out on strikes. Pita out, pit- | cher to first, Salzado advancing to} third. Catala triples to left center, scoring Salgado. George Haskins, | batting for Gates, now at the plate. Catala scores on passed ball, Hask-! ins walks. R. Lastres out, pitcher to first. 3 runs, 3 hit. SEVENTH INNING SELMA - Haskins «pitching for Key West. Solomon goes to center- field for locals. Jones batting for Moore. Jones strikes out. Gillian, | jfor Stagger. Cochran strikes out. {Crane singles, scoring Gillian, and | | sending Morrer to third, and him self going to second on throw-in. | Bond up. Morrer scores on wild! Bill Franklon, Diary Queen's ace}! righhtander became the first pitch- | er to hurl a no-hitter this season} | in the Island City Softball league | as the Blizzards edges General Electris 3-2 in the nightcap of a double header at Bayview Park last night. In the opener, Evans} Enterprises defeated VX-1 behind DeWitt Roberts’ three hit hurling. Evans scored early in the game j off Dave Gamble when they com- bined two errors and Jack Villa- real’s single for two runs in the first inning. They added three} more in the second on an error, | singles by Joe Castro and Luis Casado and a two run triple by Joe Valdez. The lone run off Roberts came in the sixth when Barney Morgan doubled and scored on an error. Roberts, in notching his first win of the season, struck out six and walked five. He yielded three ‘hits + two by Morgan. Casado, | Evans centerfielder led their at- tack with a double and single in| two tries. Both runs scored off Franklin | were unearned as his teammates | constantly kept him in hot water | by committing six errors. Frank- lin, however, tightened up in the Pinches. He struck out 11 and walk- ed only one. Rocky Marucci, GE righthander, pitched equally well. He struck out 12 and walked three while being touched for five hits. The Dairy Queen picked up a/ Tun in the fourth on a walk to Al) Pazo, a single ty Cookie Gomez | and Franklin's fly ball. GE came} back in the fourth to tie it up! when Earl Smith lived on an er-} ror, stole second and scored when | catcher John Lewis threw the ball | The Blizzards made it 2-1 in the} fifth when Didi Jones, doubled, took third on Kaki Rodriguez’ in-| hit and scored on a wild) h, but GE came back in their) of the fifth to tie it up once; when Hull lived on an er- second and went all the Lewis again threw the/ airy Queen scored the winning in the sixth on a similar play. | singled, stole second) ed when Lee Griffin, GE, atcher threw wild into center-| i ‘The box score: FIRST GAME | > & 2 6 i -MeKoene nme sanoocononw® wm og coooen 3 ) Sleighter, if j Buen women Se re SCOSo. conocer Gamble, p _.. 2 } Totals aA Score by inings e-em atk hunt batied in ~leoescocuoos Meleocec-oosenem » FEL oe avekl moceueceune, KEY WEST - Henriquez doubles | scores from second base on passed | Errors In Gov't In Lithuania MOSCOW W—The Soviet press today disclosed “serious mistakes” in the governing of the Baltic state of Lithuania and said more Lith- uanian Nationals are going to be given a chance to make good. Today’s papers said a recent jmeeting of the Lithuanian Com- jmunist party’s Centcal Committee {admitted distortions in carrying out national policies, particularly by “insufficient trainng and pro- motion” of Lithuanian nationals to party and economic posts. Similar mistakes were uncovered only last week in the important Ukrainian Republic. As a result, the top Communist there, L. G. Melnikov, was ousted from his post as first secretary of the Ukrainian party. It was reported at tke time that the firing of Melnikov was a part of the Kremlin campaign. against individuals or policies tending to undermine the friendship among the various nationalities of the Lastres up. Salgado steals second. | Pinch hitting, singles to center. |Sovet Union. For one thing, Mel- Cruz scores on passed ball. La- | Chambers sacrifices Gillian to sec-|nikov was aceused of ordering the tres strike out. 3 runs, 1 hit, 0| ond. Morrer walks. Cochran batting | use of the Russian language rather | than U krainian some _ schools, itch, Crane going to third. Bond walks. Last batter strikes out. 2 runs, 2 hits, ‘Franklin Hurls No-Hitter As Blizzards Nip G.E. Softballers dez 2, Villareal; two-base hits: Casado, Morgan; three-base hit: C. Valdez; stolen base: Porris; struck out: by Roberts 6; bases on balls: off Roberts 5; winner: Roberts; loser: Gamble;. umpires: Doree, Irvin; scorer: Castaneda; time of game: 1.15. 5 ot i SoOrKRoHooeE Player— Rodriguez, cf . Pazo, ss .. Gomez, 2b Kerr, 3b .. Franklin, p Lewis, ¢ .. Torres, 1b .. Walker, If .. Crespo, rf .. wl oomocnone conwrocont Pilgrim, If ....00 Leaderhouse, ef ., Smith, ss . Griffin, ¢ Cruz, 3b ... Lighteap, rf Hull, 1b -... Warren, 2b Marucei, p lecosorore™ 3 Hw. 4 0 Totals— Score by innings: Dairy Queen 000 111 Gen. Electric 000 110 6—2 SUMMARY — RBI: Franklin; 2BH: Torres; SB: Kerr, - Lewis, Smith, Hull; SO: by Marueci 12, Franklin 11; BB: off Marucel 3, Franklin 1; Winner: Franklin; Loser: Marucei; Umpires: Dover, Irvin; Scorer: Casteneda; Time: 11 Baseball Set The Naval Station baseballers will cross bats with the Key West All-Stars Sunday afternoon. The game will get underway at 2:00 p. m. but apparently, it has not been decided where the game will be played. Inefficient Burgiers YUBA CITY, Calif (a) — Bur- giars stole a small safe, knocked a hole in the bottom but failed to reach its contents. They abandoned the safe on a lonely ranch road. When it was found, Sheriff G. [x 2 E. 6 2 5. small hole ‘The currency and the safe were returned to the owner. $$$ save $3995 ‘or QUALITY USED CARS Conveniently Located For Downtows — % Block From Staton 24M. &. Ind STREET