The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1953, Page 4

Conchs Meet Augusta For Southeastern Title | Key West Downs St. Joseph’s Of Kentucky, 7-1 .In Selma The Key West Conchs covered themselves with glory and moved a notch closer to the baseball championship of the Southeastern United States Thursday night when they defeated St. Joseph’s High of Bardstown, Kentucky, 7-1. The win gave them the right to battle Richmond Academy of Augusta, Georgia tonight for the champion- ship. The game will be played at 7:30 West time) at Bloch Field in Richmond is bidding for ern Championship after winn: Montgomery, 13-5. Key West scored all of their runs in the first inning of Key West’s clash when their wide-open base running and heads up play completely befuddled the St. Joe defense. Only two of the seven Tuns were earned when the Ken- tuckians committed eight miscues afield. Pitcher Tony Clements was the worst offender when Gibby Gates laid down a bunt to open the game and he threw wild to first base. He did the same thing when Bobby Lastres bunted and Gates romped all the way home to score the first run of the game in rapid fashion. Lastres ait to first base who made a wild throw to the plate and then Cruz singled to right. Henriquez hit a pop fly to second base who committeed a double error when he dropped the ball and threw wild to the plate. Pita’s sacrifice, another error and Gates’ single completed the scoring. After the initial lapse, St. Jose- phs settled down to make it a ball- game which shaped up as a pitch- er’s duel between Clements and Key West's George Lastres and Don Cruz, The Conchs garncred seven hits of Clements while the Kentuckians were able to connect for but three. Kentucky gained their only run Forms designed to save time, priced to save you The right forms can streamline your oper- ations. Why not get suggestions and pric- es? Both make sense! DIAL 2.5661 THE Ariman Press Across From City Hall GREENE STREET 1 (8:30 p.m., Key Selma, Alabama. its third straight Southeast- ing their semi-final tilt from in the seventh on a walk and an error. Dugout Diggins: Weather was somewhat cooler yesterday but temperature remain- ed in high 90’s. Stronger breeze made it more pleasant. Clear skies all yesterday. “Dizzy” Dean, in a recent broad- cast of “The Game of the Day” over MBS, informed his vast lis tening audience that Key West had won the state high school baseball championship and would: compete for S. E, title at Selma. Quite a number of major league scouts were in the stands. Key West executed its first double play of the tournament. In the fifth with Don Cruz on the mound, the first batter singled to right. The next batter slammed the ball back at the pitcher, who threw to first. G. Lastres then whipped the ball to second base for the double killing. G, Lastres was removed from the mound after four and one-half innings of play, He will start against Augusta tonight. Cruz went to the hill and Lastres to third base. Lastres struck out nine, did not issue a base on balls, gave up two hits, no runs scored against him. Cruz struck out two, walked three, gave up one hit and had one run scored against him. After the wild first inning, the Kentucky pitcher settled down and held Key West scoreless the rest of the way. Kentucky threatened in the sec- ond but Lastres put out the fire with two strikeouts, In the seventh, Cruz had worked Kentucky into two outs when the Key West leftfielder failed to snag a high fly ball, allowing the only run of the game for Kentucky te score. Cruz ‘became nervous and hit the next batter but got Talbot to pop out to end the battle. Big League Leaders BATTING — Schoendienst, St. Louis, .347, RUNS BATTED IN—Campanel- la, Brooklyn, 59, . HITS—Schoendienst, St. Louis, 8. “DOUBLES — Snider, Brooklyn, and Dark, New York, 18. TRIPLES — Burton, Milwaukee, HOME RUNS — Mathews, Mil- waukee, 20, STOLEN. BASES—Reese, Brook- lyn, and Bruton, Milwar 12, PITCHING — Burdette, Milwau- kee, 6-0, 1.000; Smith, Cincinnati, 5-0, 1.000. STRIKEOUTS — Roberts, Phila delphia, 73. * AMERICAN LEAGUE Page 4 VFW Wallops [Braves Up | Shrine To Boost Lead | The VFW increased their league lead to: one full game by defeat- ing Evans Enterprises, 20-2 in the first game of a National Little League doubleheader at Bayview Park last. night. The VFW ‘had little trouble -in winning as they blasted 13 hits - six of them for extras bases and scored in every inning +o give Tony Estenoz his third win of the sea- son, Raul Cervantes blasted his eighth homer of the season in the sixth. Cervantes, who relieved Es- tenoz in the fourth; pitched hitless ball during the last three frames. Ke took out seven and walked Bobby Thompson, VFW third- sacker led the attack with a double and two singles in three official trips to the plate. Estenoz had two doubles in two officiai trips to the Plate. Left-fielder Fred Case led Evans attack with two singles in three tries. The Jaycees overcame a ten run The Shrine scored 15 runs in the on six hits, ten walks errors to set a record for scored in a single lub, but the Jay- the third and five in the fourth to cop the vic- Bryan Williams fire out. Billy faughan started for the Shriners but gave way to Dave Vernon in the Williams led the Jaycee attack THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, June 19, 1953 Lead To 3 By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer The St, Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers are doing their level best to insure the 1953 Na- tional League pennant for the up- start Milwaukee Braves. It’s _ strictly unintentional of course. But nobody is happier than the transplanted Braves about the current state of affairs where the Cards can’t win for losing in Brooklyn and the home-loving Dodgers would be much better off if they just skipped St. Louis on their Western tours. The two would-be contenders have met nine times this spring. The Dodgers won the four played in Brooklyn and the Cardinals have just finished sweeping their second series—a total of five games —from Brooklyn in St. Louis. Milwaukee, certainly not an out- fit to let such a golden opportunity slip by, has gained three full games during Brooklyn’s decline and fall in St. Louis. And because the Braves, too, have been win- ning, the only progress the Cardi- » | mals have made towards first place is the half game they picked up yesterday when Milwaukee was rained out. The Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 12-4, in the windup of their series, played with the thermometer push- ing 100 degrees. The Chicago Cubs moved within two percentage points of getting out of the cellar as they whipped Pittsburgh, 8-4, and New York defeated Cincinnati, 6-3. The onrushing New York - Yan- kees subdued St. Louis twice, 5-0 and 3-0, stretching their amazing American League lead to 11 games over Cleveland. The Indians had to go 12 innings to beat Philadelphia, 6-4. Boston broke almust all modern records for single inning scoring by pushing across 17 runs in the Busall Renlls|PLAY BY PLAY OF ST. JOE-CONCH TILT, By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 5-3 St. Louis 0-0 Boston 23 Detroit 3 Cleveland 6 Philadelphia 4 (12 innings) Chicago 8 Washington 4 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Detroit at New York By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind Milwaukee 18.690 Brooklyn St. Louis Philadelphia New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago. ‘ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 6 Cincinnati 3 St Louis 12 B 4 Chicago 8 Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia at Milwaukee ppd-rain TODAY'S SCHEDULE Brooklyn at Chicago (2) New York at Milwaukee (n) t Cincinnati (n) TODAY'S SCHEDULE Little Rock at Atlanta Memphis at Birmingham Chattanooga at Mobile seventh against Detroit. The Red |“ Sox went on to win, 23-3, making a total of 40 runs scored off Tiger pitching in two games. Chicago defeated Washington, 8- 14, with six runs in the ninth inn- id Es- quinaldo; R. Curry and Barto- lone. R. HE. 0015 0-15 9 5 Jaycees _._.__. 14 6 516 7 2 Vaughn, Vernon (3) and Mora; Tweihaus, Carbonell (3), Williams (3) and McMahon. The is: AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE Team— : W. L. Pet. 5 0 1.000 41 800 mn 3 4 AD 6 7 .000 NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE Team— ‘ W. L. Pet. 5.1 833 42 667 3.3 .500 we O 6 000 BATTING—Mantle, New York, | 6. 332. RUNS — Mantle, New York, 54. RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, New York, 48. uenn, Detroit, and Ver- non, Washington, 7. DOUBLES—Keil, Boston, 17. TRIPLES — Jensen, Washington, HOME RUNS—Zernial, Philadel- Phia, 16, STOLEN BASES—Rivera, Chi- cago, 13. PITCHING—Lopat, New York, 8- 0, 1.000. f STRIKEOUTS—Pierce, Chicago, 4, KEY WEST SEAFOODS Corner Greene and Elizabeth Streets WEEK-END SPECIAL OS re WE HAVE: Fresh Shrimp — Cocktail and Jumbo Size Red Snapper Jewtish Steaks Virginia Oysters Turtle Steak West Coast Mullet Grouper Conchs Crab Meat K. W. Soft Shell Crabs Scallops Fresh Killed Chickens modern Forced ing. Carl Erskine, who used to be able to beat the Cardinals just by toss- ing his glove on the mound, lasted only four innings and gave up six runs—three of them on a bases loaded double by Stan Musial. The loss marked the 10th straight ganfe a Brooklyn starting pitcher has failed to last. Harvey Haddix, aid- ed by Hal White in the sixth, picked up his eighth victory. Hank Sauer, a home run special- ist last season, hit his first one since May 30 in the Cubs’ third straight success over Pittsburgh. Lefthander Dave Koslo lasted long enough against Cincinnati to gain his first victory of the year, although he had to have help from Hoyt Wilhelm in the sixth. Eddie Lopat in the first game and Jim McDonald and Tom Gor- man in the second game baffled the Browns as the Yankees made it three in a row and 31 out of their last 36 games. Lopat’s victory was his eighth straight this season. He won his last five in a row last year. During the runfest at Boston the Red Sox collected 14 hits and six walks to score their 17 runs. One of the hits was a home run by Dick Gernert with two on base. All but two of the other safeties were sin- gles. Three men reached base three times in the inning. Gene Stephens doubled once and singled twice. Sam White and Tom Umphiett got two singles and a walk apiece. White scored three runs. All were | major league records. th homered for the Ath- the two and three scratch hits Two walks, a double and four eed the six Chicago the ninth at Washington. | irgil Trucks made his first start | Sox since being trad. the Browns, but Mike Forn- THURSDAY'S FIGHTS By The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. Green, 160, Los Angeles, Woody Harper, 15644, Oakland, 6. DETROIT — Allie Gronik, 148, Ice Cold Watermelon | Lincoln Park, Mich, knocked out Fresh Eggs We Deliver Anywhere Phone 2-6134 4 Russ Jeffries, 145, Cleveland, 2 NEWARK, N. J.—Joe Serafini, 152%, Newark, outpointed Henry Gorman, 1492, Paterson, N. J. into extra innings when | ninth, the Indians | Daas runs in the 12th on | MAYFIELD, Ky.—Wes Bascom, | Pertiand SEBALL RESULTS y The ated Press INTERNATIONAL Balt 6 Minneapolis 3 Columbus 3-6 St, Paul 1-11 (first game 11 innings) * Louisville § Indianapolis 4 (14 innings) PACIFIC COAST Portland gm 2 (iL innings) 7 # hea? beeukee ee*eehsd bbb > sesbveue§ exesesf susssnel k : webeees? weateuee? 4b fella llobleg uxeuuneel bkikwese? acssuuney beepheke? Elwin (Preacher) Roe, south paw ace of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Michigan State halfbacks Leroy Bolden and Ellis Ducket also were teammates on their high school track team @hich won the state Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK w—As Ben Hogan expects to fly away to Scotland some time this weekend to begin practice for his climactic assault on the British Open golf cham- pionship, the time seems right to start conditioning Ben’s millions of American admirers for a shock. They’re going to wake up on July 6, the day of the first qualify- ing round at Carnoustie, and dis- cover that their hero, for the first time in his career, doesn't have a par score to shoot at. That’s right —there are no par figures for Carnoustie, not for any one of its 18 rugged holes or for all of them put together. We have tried to pui this simple ,j statement of fact over before, from both sides of the Atiantic, but have never seen the slightest indication that anyone paid any attention. Already tne inquiries are trickling in as to Carnoustie’s “length and par,” and some of those who wish to know will be- come increasingly pressing as Hogan’s greatest hour nears. Apparently it is unthinkable to an American that a golf layout does not have a par, yet they have managed to get along without the gadget in Scotland and England for a couple of hundred years. They don’t want any part of it now. The secretary of one of their clubs never looks at you so blankly as when you propound the question: “What is your par?” There is a very good reason why no effort was ever made to post an official “‘perfect’’ score for the seaside links—as opposed to inland “courses”—over which the British championships are played. The reason is that playing conditions fluctuate wildly from day to day, even in..mid-summer, depending upon the wind. Take. Carnoustie, which is laid out over a desolate, forsaken stretch of seashore where a gopher would have trouble scratching up a living. Although a couple of its holes have been shortened a little in recent years, it still reaches out well over 7,100 yards, a distance matched by only a few courses in this country. A player—Hogan for example— might go out on a calm, warm day and hit all his shots extremely well and tour Carnoustie in 70 strokes, which happens to be the competitive record. He might go out the next day, when the wind is cutting to the bone and the white- caps may be seen from several tees, and come in with a 75. He would have shot just as good golf the second day, too. As it happens, two former Amer- ican stars, Ed Dudley and Henry Picard, helped set the Carnoustie record with 70's in the British Open of 1937, Big Ed, now a links pal of President Eisenhower, shot his in the opening round. Two days later he had a 78. Picard jumped in successive rounds from 70 to 80. Henry Cotton won the event with a 72-hole total of 290. Because the American mind appears to adjust itself only to par ,it probably will be necessary for the boys who cover Hogan's at 72, that being figure on a still day. But you can make money bet- |ting it isn’t Carnoustie’s official nieTy’ ES Paris Belts FIRST INNING KEY WEST — Gates, on an at- tempted bunt, gets on first safe- ly by virtue of a wide toss to first by pitcher. R, Lastres beats out bunt in try to sacrifice Gates to second and pitcher again throws wide to first, Gates goes all the way home and Lastres lands on third. Rodriguez hit to first, first sacker throws wide to‘honie plate as Lastres scores, and Rodriguez goes to second. Cruz singles: to right. Rodriguez, attempting to score on play, called out at plate on quick and acgurate throw-in from outfield, Heffriquez pops’ to second baseman, who drops ball and makes wild pitch to second in attempt to get Cruz. All runners are safe. Two errors by second baseman on that play. Salgado hits a double play ball to second basemaa, who lets ball get by him. Cruz scores, Henriquez and Salgado both land on second but in confusion Salgado gets back to first safely. G. ‘Lastres ‘line drives to left, scoring Henriquez and send- ing Salgado to third, Lastres Teaches second. Seven errors al- ready committed by Kentucky. Pi- ta out at first. Salgade scores on play. Catala hits to third baseman, who throws wild to first. Lastres scores standing up and Catala reaches second. Gates up for sec- ond time in inning. Gates singles between third and second scoring Catala. Gates attempted to steal second and called out but plate umpire had .called time before completion of play and Gates goes back to first. R. Lastres, up for second time, pops out to second baseman. 7 runs, 3 hits, 8 errors. KENTUCKY — Ball strikes out. Rizut called out on strikes. Mac- kin line drives to Cruz for third out. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, SECOND INNING KEY WEST — Rodriguez safe on first. Cruz up. Rodriguez goes to second on passed ball. Cruz strikes out. Henriquez singles to left, sending Rodriguez to third. Salgado strikes out and Henriquez goes to second on play. G. Las- tres out, third to first. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors. KENTUCKY — Talbot hit to third baseman, who fumbled, al- lowing runner to reach first safe- ly. Clark singles over first, send- ing Talbot to second. Blair out on deep fly ball to left. Ryan strikes out. Hughes up. Talbot advances to third on passed ball. Hughes called out on strikes to end first Kentucky threat without any dam- age. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error. THIRD INNING KEY WEST — Pita fouls out to catcher. Catala out, short to first. Gates, who watched a wild pitch go over his head, strikes out, 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors. KENTUCKY Clemmins strikes out. Ball goes down swing- jing. Pizut singles through pitcher's box, Mackin up. Rizut steals sec- ond. Makin strikes out swinging. © runs, 1 hit, 0 errors. FOURTH INNING KEY WEST — R. Lastres beats out roller to short.’ Rodriguez up. Lastres thrown out on attempted steal at second. Rodriguez out, second to first. Cruz strikes out. 0 runs, 1 hit, © errors, KENTUCKY — Talbot strikes out. Clark flies out to center. Blair pops out to first. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, FIFTH INNING KEY WEST — Henriquez waiks. Salgado pops out to short. G. Las- | tres flies out to left. Pita out, sec. ; ond to first. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, |. KENTUCKY — Cruz now pitch- ling for Key West, and G. Lastres jon third. Ryan singles to right. Hughes hit into double play, pitch- jer to first to second. Clemmins, \lefthanded pitcher and batter, | walks. Ball walks. Rizut up, Clem- jmins steals second. Rizut forces Porgy out at third, short to | third. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, | SIXTH INNING KEY WEST — Catala pops out, | Gates called out on strikes, R. Las- | tres thrown out at first. 0 runs, @ | hits; 0 errors. | KENTUCKY — Mackin, another }lefthander, out, pitcher to first, | Talbot strikes out. Clark flies to right, fielder missing ball, Blair {out on line drive to second base- | man. 0 runs, @ hits, 1 error, SEVENTH INNING KEY. WEST — Rodriguez flies out to right. Cruz blasts deep fly ball to center for second out, Hen- riquez walks. Salgado singles to | center, Henriquez too far off sec- ond play and goes out on pitch-in from center, 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 er- | rors. 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