The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1953, Page 8

CONCHS FACE BUSY ROUND OF DINNERS Kiwanis To Fete State Champs At Dinner Here The Key West Conchs, who have compiled an amaz- ing record on the baseball field, now face a busy season in the banquet circuit in hon- or of their performance in winning the first state cham- pionship ever to be brought here and then going on to gain the runnerup position in the Southeastern tournament in Selma, Alabama. The Conchs returned here Sunday and they didn’t need the keys to the city that they were presented with two weeks ago by Mayor C. B. Harvey — the town was theirs. The Conchs will make their first start in the knife and fork league tonight when the Key West Kiwanis Club will fete them at a din- ner in the LaConcha Hotel beginning at 6:45. It will al- so be Ladies Night. On Thursday night, the Key West Liofis Club will get into the act and the Quarterback Club and the City of Key West have indi- cated that they will enter- tain the victorious nine at dinners before the celebra- tion is finished. The boys, in the past, have declined to appear before the microphone, but several of them are expected to lose their reticence and tell the fans exactly how they went about their winning ways. Key West Ins. Baseballers Wallop Evans "The Key West Insurance Com- pany baseballers captured a hard fought win over the Evans Enter- prises nine last night by a score of 8-6 in American Legion Junior loop action at the Wickers Field. Higgs hurled masterful ball for the Insurance boys to hold Evans to just seven hits, His teammates played errorless ball. The Insurance nine scored three runs in the first inning when Puig singled, and the ball got away from Albury in left and Puig scored. Sweeting was walked, Acevedo fan- ned and Higgs popped up but Jimmy Tynes doubled to left and Parks and Sweeting scored. In the third, the Evans nine scored three Tuns to knot the count, With one out, Diaz singled to center and Yates to right, while F, Curry tri- pled to deep right center, scoring Diaz and Yates, Santana hit a dou- ble to score Curry. Kerr walked and Albury fanned and Santana was picked off second base. In the fourth the Insurance boys scored three more when Acevedo walked, Higgs singled and Orapeza went to the shower: d@ F. Curry went in to pitch for. the Evans, Tynes walked to fill the bases, Weech walked and forced Acevedo home and Luppens forced Higgs at the plate. An the seventh, the Evans threat- ened when Orapeza walked and At- well singled to center and Herce singled. Diaz flied out and Yates singled to left to plate three runs. At bat, Tynes, Weech and Parks shone for the winners, while Yates | and Herce led the losers. In the field, Luppens, Parks and Weech led the winners while J. Diaz andj Kerr paced the losers. Sierra Tops FIL Batting Race At 360 Oscar Sierra of the Miami Sun Sox is still the top hitter in the Florida International league ac- cording to statistics released by the Howe News Bureau. Sierra is hitting the ball at a 360 clip, Pressing him is Ray Wil liams of Fort Lauderdale, batting 338. Gene Hassel of St. Petersburg, moved into third place with a mark of .355, Al Baro of Miami is fourth with an average of 352 and Big John Davis, Fort Lauderdale, fol lows him with a mark of 350. The bright spot in the league is Davis, who has clouted 19 circuit blows to drive in 73 runs, is high Page 8 BASEBALL AMERICAN By The Associated Pre: New York 1 Philadelphia St. Louis YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Cleveland 5-5 Washington 2-2 Only games scheduled TODAY'S SCHEDULE Chicago at New York (n) Cleveland at Boston (2) Detroit at Philadelphia (n) “4 St, Louis at Washington (a) We 3 Milwaukee 72 Brooklyn : ‘ 1 St. Louis Philadelphia New York Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 Chicago 9 Brooklyn 4 Only games scl TODAY'S SCHEDULE Philadelphia at Chicago New York at St. Louis (n) Brooklyn at Cincinnati (n) Pittsburgh at Milwaukee SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press Nashville Birmingh: Memphis Atlanta New Orleans YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New Orleans 6 Chattanooga 3 Birmingham 4 Little Rock 3 Memphis 14 Atlanta 5 ville 2 Mobil a ittle Rock at Birmingham it Mobile at New Orleans jashville Chattanooj By The Associated Press Pet, B 706 681 an 458 Ae Sd RESULTS , ugusta 4 Charleston reached city too late for game Moore Wants To Keep Title OGDEN, Utah (@—It took 16 years for Archie Moore to achieve | the goal of a world champion in boxing and the 36-year-old crafts- man from California doesn’t intend to surrender the title he holds as king of the light heavyweights in his 15-round fight with Joey Maxim tomorrow night. Moore, the St. Louis-born Negro, has seen enough of the fight game from the lower ranks. It was a long, bitter and often frustrating path he trod coming up. And when he got his big chance he made the most of it. This was in St. Louis last December when he handed the champion, this same handsome Italian from Cleveland, Maxim, an artistic lacing in 15 rounds, The bout is to be televised nationally (CBS network). It will not be broadcast anywhere by radio, Co-promoters Al Warden and/ Kenny Mayne predicted a turnout of 10,000 to 12,000 in the open air Ogden Stadium and gate receipts approaching $100,000. On top of this will -be the television money of $50,000. Each fighter gets a $25,000, or 30 per cent of the net gate, plus 15 per cent of the TV money. The promoters took over selec- tion of a referee and two judges when Jack Kearns, Maxim's man-} ager, and Charley Johnston, for) Moore, failed to agree on officials. It was in St. Louis that he fought | his first professional bout. He won, | over a man named Sammy Chris- tian, Some 119 matches later came | the title victory. Archie's luck was indifferent until nearly nine years ago when / he wrote Johnson in New York and | asked him to handle his affairs. | “I told him to come on,” John-| ston recounted. “He drove over in| }a rattle-trap car from California. Believe me, he was out at the | seat of his pants, but we've done | pretty well since then. We don’t; |want to backtrack now j | with 152 total base-hits and leads ythe hit parade with 83 safeties. | Hassel leads in stolen bases with 22, edging Baro who has pilfered 20. Ed Charies of Fort Lauderdale has scored the most runs with 6 jand is tied with Gordy Bragg of Tampa and Baro for the lead in three-base wallops, each having banged out seven. Joe Bernier of Miami tops the burlers with six wins and no losses. Charley Harris of Miami, West Palm Beach, has won most games, 2@ and completed 11 contests while | hurling the most innings, 1M. On the other side of the ledger, he has given up the most base hits, 116. Dick Lovell of Miami has issued the most free passes, TT while Daie Matthewsor of Tampa, bas whithed ithe most bate, Tl. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 23, 1953 RESULTS Macon $ Jacksonville 3 (12 innings) Columbia 3 Montgomery © SCHEDULE Augusta at Savannah Columbus at Chariston Macon at Jacksonville Montgomery at Columbia BASEBALL RESULTS Associated Press TEXAS Fort Worth 5 Houston 4 San Antonio 16 Dallas 1 Beaumont 3 Tulsa 2 ‘Oklahoma City § Shreveport 2 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION YESTERDAY'S By The Panama City 9 All - Stars 5 PACIFIC COAST No games scheduled TODAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE By The Assoc Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus at Toledo Charleston at Indiana St. Paul at Kansas City at Louisville ALABAMA-FLOBIDA Graceville at Dothan Fort Walton at Andalusia Panama City at Eufaula TEXAS Dallas at Fort Worth Tulsa at Oklahoma City San Antonio at Shreveport Beaumont at Houston INTERNATIONAL Syracuse Springfield at Toronto Baltimore at Butfalo S8essrer ue ES ceeseses Sox Pilot Says He Will Catch Yanks By ED CORRIGAN j NEW YORK #—Remember what | Chicago Sox Manager Paul Rich- ards was saying just three short months ago? That his club had as good a chance as any to win the American League pennant, that the New York Yankees could be beaten, etc. Now he’s changed his mind. Not that he has given up completely. He's not the type. But he’s joined the bandwagon of the other mana- gers to the extent that all he says now is that he and his club never will stop trying to catch the Bronx Bombers. The Pale Hose have been going well of late but they still were 2% behind the second-place Indians today. They open a three-game set with the Yanks tonight. | “Certainly the Yan re going to be awfully tough to catch,” the Chisox leader said. “But we'll never quit hoping and never quit Playing, The season is still young.” His main hope seems to be that the Yanks will lose a few, then get panicky. That's happened be-/| fore in the majors. | “Let us get hot or lucky,” he) said, “Let the Yanks slump a little and cool off. Then they might begin Pressing and get desperate and/ throw some games away.” The Sox, of course, will need an assist from the rest of the league | if they entertain any hopes of mak- ing up the big deficit. So far they've split eight games with the Yanks. They're the only club in| the laegue that can show a .500/ mark against Casey Stengel’s men. Richards even admitted that he was more optimistic over his chances the last time the Sox vis- ited New York. At that time he| thought maybe some of the veteran Yank pitchers would break down/ come the hot weather. | “But look at them,” he moaned. “Ed Lopat, Vie Raschi and Allie Reynolds have lapped the league. Johnny Sain is twice the pitcher be was when he joined the Yanks from the Braves, and Whitey Ford is a big winner. If we are to have | any chance of beating them, we'll have to outpitch them as a starter “We've got to learn not to lose the game ir the first few innings The Yank pitchers usually stay a run or two ahead and if they tire in the late innings, you've still got Phil Dickens, new football coach at Wyoming, played his college} ball at Tennessee under coach {Bob Neyland im 1904, “35 and “3s | | Sometimes Ray Babi calls strikes {ie’s an umpire in the Denver high @thool basedall leagues. Giants To Start 2nd Tough Set By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter Leo Durocher’s reluctant Giants, finally exhibiting signs of arousing from their spring doldrums, move in on the St. Louis Cardinals to- night for their second straight showdown series with a first di- vision club. Flushed with success after gain- ing two vicotries and a tie out of a four-game series with the league - leading Milwaukee Braves the New Yorkers have a chance to prove to their faithful followers that even yet they may fulfill pre- season predictions, Leo’s lads generally were picked to finish no worse than third. But most of their battling so far has been to keep up to the .500 mark and somewhere within striking distance of first division. Durocher has switched his lineup so much he already has qualified for a master’s degree in juggling, but he’s going back to one of his old reliable formulas in an attempt to whip the third-place Cards. He’s sending lefty Dave Koslo to the mound, For several years Koslo has been no mystery to the other clubs but he has baffled the Red Birds .|regularly. This season his magic has been missing. He’s tried twice and failed against St. Louis, but he won a game in Cincinnati last week. If Leo can get by with him to- night, he will know there’s hope ,|for his club yet. The Giants will be meeting St. 3s¢ | Louis during one of the Cardinals’ better periods. In tne current home 496 | stand the Cards have won six out of seven including a 6-3 verdict 403 /over Pittsburgh last night. Brooklyn continued its miserable Mercury now brings you ys Western trip with a 9-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs while in the American League the off-and-on Cleveland Indians won a pair of 5-2 contests from the Washington Senators. The rest of the clubs in both leagues had the day off. The Dodgers’ loss shoved them three full games behind the Braves and left them only 4 game and a half in front of the Cardinals. Cleveland trails the New York Yankees by 10! games. Gerry Staley joined the so - far select group of 10-game winners as he checked the Pirates on eight hits. Enos Slaughter drove in three runs with a double and another one with a single. 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