The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1953, Page 6

Huge Crowd Welcomes Conchs At Bayview Park © Traffic Jam Results As High School Nine Returns From Selma Tourney The Key West Conchs were feted for the second time in two weeks Sunday when they returned from the Southeastern High School Baseball tourney in Selma, Ala- bama. The Conchs managed to fight their’ way into the runnerup position in the meet although they were eompeting out of their class, but judging by the attitude of the crowd, they came home champions. The crowd was estimated by police at nearly a thou- sand persons and traffic was tied up for blocks around as Key Westers flocked to the park for the welcome home eeremonies. Page 6 Softball League Manager Kenneth Kerr of the) Dairy Queen Blizzards leads all | softball hitters with an average of | .400 in games played through Fri- | jday, June 19th. The slugging third- | |baseman, who has belted ten hits | in 25 trips to the plate, has a com- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, June 22, 1953 Ken Kerr Leads The Island City|__ Slugging Race 29 FIL Tilts Have Been fortable lead over George Barber, } The team arrived somewhat a- ead of schedule when they puiled finto town at about 4:30 p. m. in- GE Trounces Evans Enterprises secondbaseman | who is in second place with a 312 | percentage. Right behind Barber | is Bill Franklin, the Blizzard’s ace | pitcher, with .320. In fourth place Postponed By The Associated Press Florida International League clubs are missing a bet by not is VX-1’s speedster, infielder Pat | Clark, with an average of .300, and | Cookie Gomez, the Blizzards sec- ondbaseman, rounds out the first five with a .292 percentage. | Frank Ramsey, Evans pitcher, | leads the loop in homers with 3, | and in runs batted in with 10. | | Darrell Pilgrim, General Electric } having rain insurance. With the 140-game season less than half finished, 29 games have been postponed, icaving a flock of contests to be made up between now and Labor Day. Two games were rained out Sun- day night, Tampa at Ft. Lauder- dale and West Pa!m Beach at Ha- Stead of the anticipated six o’cicck. knowledged plaudits of the crowd | R k } f 5 O oc yi aruce! bring home a state championship. experienced Augusta, Georgia club, | Washed the VX-1, 5-0 in the first Ply “we beat ourselves.” } T . The boys kept their speechmak- \ . e Tn fng at a minimum whie they ac- for their feat -- in being the first | Key West High School nine to| They blamed first inning ae Behind Rocky Marucci’s two hit for their loss to an older and more pitching, General Electric white- Coach Paul Davis, in a briet/&™me of a double-header at Bay- , microphone appearance said sim- Although the Augusta club got but four hits off the slants of the Key West hurlers, walks and errors | made up the difference. First baseman Bobby Lastres and his brother George, who bore the brunt of the hurling, were sin- gled out as the major factors in the Conch’s performance. The concensus seerned to be that if the Conchs get another crack at the Southeastern title, they will succeed in winning the toga. But, it is doubtful if the tourney will be held since the clubs involved have cimplained of the expense of sending their teams all the way to the Alabama tourney. It was also revealed at yester- day’s Bayview . ceremony that Coach Paul Davis will be rehired for next year. School Board Chair- man Gerald Adam’s said yesterday that Davis was not given a con- tract earlier, but will be back next year. The 1953 season is officially wound up for the Conchs. They have a host of holdovers for next year and a banner season is in the offing. Several local organizations have indicated that they will have banquets Yor the Conchs, MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Vernon, Washington, 3333, RUNS—Mantle, New York, 58 RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, New .York, 51, | HITS—Vernon, Washington, 79. DOUBLES—Kell, Boston, 17. TRIPLES — Jensen, Washington, 6. HOME RUNS—Zernial, Philadel- phia, 18. STOLEN BASES—Rivera, cago, 13. PITCHINGLopat, 8-0, 1.000. STRIKEOUTS — Pierce, Chicago 66. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING — Schoendienst, Chi- New York, St. | view Park Friday night. In the | nightcap, Bill Franklin pitched and | batted the Dairy Queen’s Blizzards | |to a 6-4 victory over the league leading Evans Enterprises. Marucci, who gained his second | win of the season struck out thir- | teen and walked one. Bob Edwards’ third inning single and Barney Morgan’s single in the seventh were the only hits off Marucci. General Electric took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Al Cruz singled and rode home on Lightcap’s triple. They iced the game in the fifth with a four run rally on singles by Darrel Pilgrim and Marucci, a walk to Clint Warren, Ear] Smith’s double and an error. Two errors and Carpenter’s single gave GE their final run in the sixth. Smith and Cruz led the GE attack with two hits each. In the second game, Franklin | drove in three runs with three sin- gles to give the Dairy Queen their fourth straight win. The Blizzards ruined Evans start- er Bill Lades’ debut by scoring once in the first on two walks and Franklin’s single and then sent him to the showers with a four {run rally in the third, A walk, Ken Kerr’s double, singles by Franklin and John Lewis, plus an error cli- maxed the rally. Singles by George Barber and Claude Valdez, a fielders choice and Witi Casada’s double, gave Evans three runs in the fifth. The Dairy Queen picked up a run in the sixth when Franklin sin- gled, stole second and scored when Joe Castro threw wild to second base. Evans threatened in the seventh when Sam Valdez doubled, Dewitt Roberts singled and Casada was safe on an error which netted two Tuns but Franklin retired the next three batters to sew up the game. Casada led Evan's attack with a double and single in four tries. Franklin had a perfect night with three singles in three times at bat. The standings: Team— Evans .........: Bere : VX-1.. = E GE Dairy Queen “ The box score First Game VX-1 AB RH PO ¢ 00 Oe 16 Team— t.| |said, “The field was simply’ too | falling-down, fainting business 1 |outfielder, has scored the most | Vana, making an even dozen the |runs, 10, while Kerry has blasted | Cubans have missed so far. the most doubles, 6. Three players |_1In the only game played, St. are tied for the most triples with | Petersburg trimmed Miami, 4-3, 2, They are Claude Valdez of Ev-| 2nd dropped the Sun Sox three nas, Jack Sleighter of VX-1, and | full games back of the leading Ft. Lightcap of General Electric. Didi Torres, Dairy Queen’s infielder, | four and a half games back of leads the league in strike outs with | : 13, and ‘Tom Fink, VX-1 aes | Vincente Amor doled out only has walked the most times, 13, | four hits through eight innings but In the pitching department, | needed help from Dennis Jent in Ramsey, Evans ace, continues to | the ninth when Miami scored pace the hurlers vith a 6-0 record. | twice. Franklin has struck out the most | .SUNOAY RESULTS | batters, 44, and has pitched the | St. Petersburg 4 Miami 3 most innings, 57. Don Walston, | Tampa at Ft. Lauderdale, post- General Electric righthander, has |, Poned rain walked the most batters, 36. West Palm Beach at Havana, postponed rain. MONDAY GAMES Miami at St. Petersburg West Palm Beach at Havana FIVE TOP HITTERS Player - Team AB RH Pet. Kerr, Dairy Queen ... 25 5 10 .400 Bather, Byaie. <2 5 9 s21|U ee ce eeronO ee | Franklin, Dairy Queen 25 8 .320) s Clark, VX-1 20 16:6 400} Snes Gomez, Dairy Queen .. 24 7 .292 Santee Owns US. Record \For The Mile LINCOLN, Neb. (#—Wes Santee, a lean running machine from the plains of Kansas, now owns the two fastest miles ever run by an American—achieved in two consec- utive starts in a span of 16 days— a remarkable feat. Wes hung up a-4:02.4 in a night! meet at Compton, Calif., June 5. | That was the fastest an American | had ever traveled the distance. | “How come Charley doesn't do Then last Saturday evening he | all those funny things in the coach- had a 4:033.7 in the NCAA meet} ing box any more?” the fans are here—the second fastest time. asking. ‘He hasn't fainted once all Santee expressed a little dis-| year, Hasn’t done that jig, either, appointment that he had missed |or any of that other stuff he used the magic four-minute race and to pull out at Borchert Field.” ; Tevealed. he was some five pounds} What about it, Charley? junder his usual weight of 140-45| “It’s age, partly,” admitted the jand “very tired". 5 | stocky manager of the Milwaukee Interviewed in Kansas City, he | Braves. “The last time I tried that J a is 5 + 6 . Ft. Lauderdale Miami | St. Petersburg Tampa West Palm Beach Havana Grimm Doesn't Faint Anymore, [Fans Protest By CHRIS EDMONDS MILWAUKEE (#—There’s been some talk going around that Char- ley Grimm is not his old, carefree self any more. se®eaget geeeRee gSee2e | crowded to have cone any better.” | jimped for a week, so I decided to | Santee, who said he was larning | give it up.” more about his pace, still thinks! Grimm, who's 55, actually is just he can crack a four-minute mile | as gay as ever. The other night in under right conditions. It could | New York he celebrated his first come at the National AAU Meet anniversary as Braves’ manager in Dayton, O., this week end, |by entertaining sportswriters trav- | ———— eling with the club. He clowned | Lauderdale Lions. The Saints are | Quus. | Fink, ¢ . | Clark, 3b Morgan, c Povaas Pigg, lf Routot, ss Edwards, 1b Weinstanky, rf ; Gamble, rf Sellers, p 2 ‘ Louis, 334. RUNS—Gilliam, Brooklyn, Schoendienst, St. Louis, 51 RUNS. BATTED IN—Campanel- la, Brooklyn, 62. HITS — Schoendienst, St. Louis, 89. * DOUBLES — Snider, Brooklyn, / and Dark, New York, 18. TRIPLES — Bruton, Milwaukee, and 0 0 0 lrwoceeewones Blwrenrwewwwn is . HOME RUNS — Mathews, Mil. Tot#ls— waukee, 20, STOLEN BASES—Bruton, Mil- waukee, 13. PITCHING — Burdette, Milwau- kee, 7-0, 1,000; Smith, Cincinnati, , 5-0, 1.000, STRIKEOUTS — Roberts, Phila . GENERAL ELECTRIC Team— ABR Warren, 2b as | Leaderhouse, 30 | Smith, ss | Griffin, ¢ j Cruz, 3b | Lighteap, 1b All Stars Whip | pin" Navy On Forfeit Marucci, p The Key West All-Stars won by ef 0 0 Totals H POAE | Rick Casares, the University of | Florida's hard-charging fullback, ; made the All Southeastern Confer- 0} ence second teams in both football 0 and basketball in 1952. i 0} Santana, 3b 0| Villareal, 3b- ss .. 0} Aritas, rf 0) Castro, ¢ --| Barber, 2b 4) S. Valdez, 1b | Lake, p Roberts, p E 0 2 1 3 1 as:tte 00190 on oo te elnerecoce al ecurrece Bleeececua Slecenues wleescnoce g Totals DAIRY QUE AB m 9 0) Team— 0} Rodriguez, ef 0: Pazo, ss 0) Diaz, rf © Gomez, 2b © Kerr, 3d — | Franklin, p 0 Lewis, ¢ - 8s all over the place and wound up with several of his famous German versions of popular songs. “Another thing about it,” Grimm said, “is the atmosphere out here is different. This is a big produc- tion at this stadium. Out at old Borchert (where the Brewers un- der Grimm played their American Association games) the fans were 5 close enough to reach out and pat) you on the back. “It was sort of like a big family | —the same faces in the same seats { right behind you every night. They got to expect a little entertainment with their minor league baseball | so," and he grinned, “I gave it to them.” He did give it to them too, Any- thing went. Cap on sideways with the peak over his ear, Charley would shuffle with a Chaplinesque gait to argue with an umpire. A Brewer home run would find him on his knees, salaaming, as the Baseball Results AMERICAN By JACK HAND AP Sportswriter If the New York Yankees keep pouring it on, they'll break the 1906 Chicago Cubs’ all-time record of | winning 116 games. Unless some- jthing cracks they should be able to take a month vacation in Sep-| tember and bring up the Kansas City club to finish out the sched- | ule. | After yesterday’s split with De- | troit, the Yanks were playing 46-14 ball for a .767 percentage. Ath the | same rate they'll wind up at 118-36. High for the American League is the Yanks’ 110 victories in 1927. With an 11%-game lead at this stage of the race, the American League record of a 19!4-game pen- nant-winning margin by the 1936 Yanks also is in danger. They might even threaten that fabulous 26-game lead held by Pittsburgh’ 1902 champs in the National. The Yanks took advantage of another lapse by Cleveland yester- day, dividing a double-header with | Detroit as the Indians lost to Wash- ington, 5-1. As a result, New York picked up another balf game on the Tribe, now threatened from below by Chicago. New York won the first game, 63, for Whitey Ford on homers by Mickey Mantle, ! Billy Martin and Yogi Berra but lost the second, 10-3, as Walt| Dropo drove in four runs with a/ homer and two singles. Chicago climbed within a game} of Cleveland by breaking even) with Philadelphia. The White Sox came back to cop the second- 9-4, on homers by Fred March, Ferris Fain and Minnie Minoso after Harry Byrd had shut them out with seven hits, 5-0, in the first game. The St. Louis Browns broke a six-game losing streak on Bobo Holloman’s two-hit 2-0 winner over Boston in the second game after losing the opener, 3-1, on Skinny Brown’s flashy three-hitter. Milwaukee staged another of its comebacks to get a 6-6 tie with the New York Giants in a second game, called by darkness after eight innings. In the opener, Mil- waukee suffered a 5-0 defeat when Ruben Gomez threw a two-hitter. Because Brooklyn bowed to Chi- cago, 3-2, on a 10th-inning homer by Eddie Miksis, an ex-Dodger, the Milwaukee National. League lead remained.intact at 242 games. Only Philadelphia among the first division clubs gained on Mil- waukee. St. Louis’ five-game win- ning streak went up in smoke as Pittsburgh dumped the Cardinals, 5-2, and Philadelphia split a pair with Cincinnati, winning 5-2 and losing 5-3. Ford survived a rugged ninth inning in 102-degree heat at Yankee Stadium to go the distance in his eighth triumph after the Yanks knocked out Hal Newhouser in the fourth. Billy Hoeft, with the help of Ned Garver, copped ine second game for the Tigers. The loss was charged against reliefer Tom Gor- man, who yielded a triple to Ray Boone with the bases loaded in the fifth. Spec Shea held Cleveland to three hits to win bis sixth, spoiling Art Houtteman’s starting debut as BASEBALL STANDINGS A By The Associated Press INTERNATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Detroit 3-10 New York 6-3 St. Louis 1-2 Boston 3-0 Chicago 0-9 Philadelphia 5-4 Washington 5 Cleveland 1 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Cleveland at Washington (Only game scheduled) YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 3 Brooklyn 2 New York 5-6 Milwaukee 0-6 (2nd called at_8, darkness), Philadelphia 3-3 Cincinnati 2-5 Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 2 innah 2 Augusta 5 Charleston 2 (6 innings, rain) Jacksonville 3 Montgomery 1 TODAY'S SCHEDULE ah SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press WoL Pet. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Little Rock 6 Birmingham 5 Mobile 3 Nashville 2 Chattanooga 8-0 New Orleans 4-9 Atlanta 8 Memphis 6 (2nd suspended in bottom Sth with Memphis leading 2-0) TODAY'S SCHEDULE Chattanooga at New Orieans Little Rock at Birmingham Memphis at Atlanta TODAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE By Associated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus at Indianapolis Charleston at Louisville Minneapolis at Kansas City St. Paul at Toledo INTERNATIONAL Rochester at Ottawa ALABAMA-FLORIDA All-Star game at Panama City TEXAS San Diego 43 San Francisco 3-1 #4 Sacramento 61 tex: i in the ninth, did a fine job on the 's37|Red Sox in the second game | game against the Browns. The only hits off Bobo were doubles by Billy Goodman in third and Gene Stephens in the fifth. Gus Zernial’s 18th homer and «| Pete Suder's third were the big! $4 blows behind Byrd in his shutout | ® All-Star Poll «Is Underway 2 SSne ess sesessuge* geeetey sNessey4 Panama City | Gracevitie | Andalusia |Dothan _ | FL. Waiton Beach Eula _. sa 33 | CHICAGO w—First base and) $ shortstop were two hotly-contested | | 4 positions for both the American | | jand National League teams as the | Pet. annual All - Star Baseball Poil| $M neared the halfway point today. | 42 ©The vote by fans to decide the| 48 starting lineups for the inter -| 48 league game in Cincinnati, July 14, | ™* ends at midnight July 3. It began | saetyge | Shreveport | Dallas | Tales Heuston | Beaumont a Oklahoma City San Antonio ceeeteee ; meet Evans. | Strand Post 168 Wins Over Post 28 In Junior Loop The Legion Post 168 nine won! their fifth straight American Le-| gion Junior Loop game Saturday | night at the expense of the Post be baseballers at Wickers Field by a score of 17-12, The 168 boys scored six runs in} each of the first and second frames | off the slants of Red Stickney. ! Higgs went in to pitch the last four innings and allewed five runs on four hits. Portier hit a homer and a single | and K. Albury hit a homer and two singles for the winners. ' Tonight, the Key West Insurance nine will meet the Evans Enter-} prises in a league clash, Wednes- day, the Strand will tackle the! l Legion Post 68 and Friday Post| 28 will clash with VFW Post 6021. | On Saturday night, Post 28 will) The standings: Team— Post 168 .. Evans Post 6021 Kk, W. Ins. Ww 5 5 3 3 2 0 Post 28 Jack Burke Rips Par In Inverness TOLEDO # — Jackie Burke of | Kiamesha Lake, N. Y., with the | $3,400 first prize in the 16th Inver- hess Invitational Golf Tournament | in his pocket, decided today to take | a couple of days’ rest from the | fairways and traps. | The spunky Texan, who played | three days while suffering with in- fluenza, begged off from a two-day pro-amateur date in Cleveland starting today. Burke ripped a dozen strokes off par with a 72-hole score of 272 to nose out Freddie Haas of New Or- leans by two strokes as the 30 invited professionals wound up their chores yesterday. All won a part of the $18,000 prize. | Nineteen of the 30 are eligible for the PGA Championship starting July 1 in Birmingham, Mich. All but Lloyd Mangrum and Clayton Heafner will compete. Both decided to drop out because of the length of the tourney, and the uncertainty of the early 18-hole matches. Most of the professionals at In- verness picked Sammy Snead to win the PGA this year. Jim Turnesa, the defending PGA champion, said ne'’d make no spe- cial preparation for defense of his title at Birmingham. against Chicago, ending a four- game losing streak for the A’s. Gomez pitched a brilliant game for the Giants at Milwaukee, re- tiring the last 22 men in order. The Puerto Rican rookie threw eight perfect innings, yielding only two hits in the second. He didn't walk a man. j Miksis’ first-pitch home sun in the 10th broke up a tight battle at Chicago between Bubba Church, recently acquired from Cincinnati, and Dodger rookie Bob Milliken. Danny O'Connell's two - run double and Murry Dickson's steady nine-hit pitching set up Pitts- burgh’s victory. Cincinnati's opening game de-| feat stretched the'r losing streak | to five games but Bell's homer | broke it in the second game, giving | rookie Fred Baczewski ex-Cub, | his first big league victory. $3.84 Oe: 6.434 For QUALITY USED CARS. and General Auto Repairs: TWINS GARAGE 1130 DUVAL ST. DIAL 2.2001 $336 Ge 6:34.54! Yankees Threaten To Smash 1906 Record For Most Wins Youth Vs. Age Is The Key To Wimbledon Match WIMBLEDON, England #— Youth and brilliance vs. age and experience spell cat the struggle starting today on the plush green courts of historic Wimbledon for the championships of the amateur tennis world. Record books may well list 1953 as the first year of the Ken Rose- wail rule, The 18-year-old Australian with the frozen scowl and the magnifi- cent all-around game alréady holds the French and Australian titles. He is seeded No. 1 here and in the eyes of old-timers appears destined to inaugurate a personal reign that can last for years and years—unless he turns profession- This, then, seems the last chance for the veterans—Jaroslav Drobny, the 32-year-old exiled Czech turned Egyptian who was twice a finalist but never a champion; Vic’ Seix- as of Philadelphia, seeded No. 2 -|and approaching 30; and Gardnar Mulloy, America’s top-ranking player but at 39 seeded only ‘fifth. Rosewall has had one tourna- ment at Wimbledon. He lost to | Mulloy early last yezr but with his doubles partner, Lewis Hoad, he attracted almost as much atten- tion from the experts as did his compatriot Frank Sedgman, the champion who has since turned professional. Seixas summed up the Rosewall problem for the others: “When I’m playing against him he certainly doesn't look like an 18-year-old to me.” EEO Ee “I found Sea Foods in the Aquariums, Rat Poison, Ca- naries, House Cleaning — you'll find almost any prod- uct or service you need in the Yellow Pages of your telephone directory. Save time and energy — turn first to the Yellow Pages. EXCEPTIONAL INCOME Torres, 1b Walker, lf forfeit Sunday from the Naval Station nine when the sailors failed te put in an appearance. hitter rounded third base. The faint, | in which he'd sprawl backward and | collapse in the dust, always was; June 12. | In the American League poil, | CoO eUMwWoanD Score Pet. CoO NneNOOOn Heme oWoHed noocscononn f Hollywood ° Scores of fans and the home team were at the Wickers Field Stadium at the appointed time fer the me, bet the Navy never arrived, Pedro Aguilar, whe arranged the tilt, said that it was the first time in many years that the Navy has failed to show up for a scheduled game. AUTO CRASH VICTIM Crane. 42, Moniver as found dead in his demolish near bere Sunday D. E. Dempsey the road on Wee, ac VX-1 General El Second Game EVANS E Crespo, rf -¢ ‘4 lowe wwuennn wleococnrwrnenoom2d cued to some happening the fans couldn't believe either. They loved it—and they loved Charley. They still do, though nowadays about all his extracurricular activity in the coaching box consists of is stabbing ground fouls with a big, meaty hand as they go past and tossing them left-handed to the closest umpire. ‘So he's not as funny,” the fans “He's winning, ain't he? | 3 | 2 id RHE 000 02 2— 4 7 3 iM C10x—6 8 4 MARY — RBI Roberts, BH: Casado. C. Valdez Frankiin 3, S. 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