The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1953, Page 6

Tampa Smokers Hint Move To Key West Or Fort Pierce As Crowds Drop Meeting Set Friday Night Here With Key West Backers | The Tampa ie whose box office ‘receipts | are fading this year, are con- sidering a move to ‘either| Key West or Fort Pierce, it was revealed Tuesday by Louis Carbonell, local base- kgll promoter. President Tom Spicola of the Smokers has verified the | fact that he is seeking to Move the club and said that he will journey to Fort Pierce on Thursday night’ and Friday will be in Key West to meet with local fans It isn’t the first time this year that Key West has been mention- ed for an FIL franchise -- both the Havana Cubans and the Fort Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 24, 1953 LITTLE. LEAGUE. @ - ESKY. SECOND BASEMATI- AND HURLER FOR JAY CEES HAS COVEREO H1S FIELD BRILLANTLY FOR A BID TO THE “ALL STARS" Baseball Results AMERICAN By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind 4 1S 1S a New York 1s 134 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 11 New York 3 Boston 6-2 Cleveland +1 (2nd 10 innings) Detroit 5 Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 4 Washington 3 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Chicago at New York Cleveland at Boston Detroit at Philadelphii ‘St. Louis at W: By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Bel Milwaukee 21 Brooklyn St. Louis Philadelphi: : | New York Cincinnati Chicago : | Pittsburgh YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Philadelphia 6 Chicago 1 St. Louis 15 New York 8 Cincinnati 3 Brooklyn 2 Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee @ TODAY'S SCHEDULE R. CERVANTES TOPS LITTLE LOOP SLUGGERS Raul Cervantes, the VFW’s slug- ging first baseman, continues to lead the hitters in the National Little League with an average of .583 in games played through Sat- urday, June 20, according to sta- tistics released today. Tony Estenoz is right behind Cervantes with .576 while the Lions power hitter, Nilo Garcia is in third place with a mark of .545./ Mario Martinez, Lions pitcher-in- fielder holds down. fourth place} with 485 and Richard Garcia of | the Rotary rounds out the top five hitters with .436. In the American Little League, | Robert Santana, the Elks heavy- hitting third sacker, leads the loop with an average of .563. Joe Mc-/ Mahon, the Jaycee’s top slugger | is in second place with a .509 per- centage, Milton Esquinaldo, Kiwanis sec- average to .419 to hold down third place while teammate Roy Valdez is right behind with .413. Sam Hol- | land, Elks firstbaseman is in fifth | spot with an average of .405. Cervantes continues to pace the! National Little League in most of | the slugging departments. The big firstbaseman has belted the most hits, 28, the most doubles, 10, and has blasted the most homers, 8. Garcia of the Lions, has scored the most runs, 28. Roberson, Ro- tary infielder, has struck out the | most times, 17, while Huston Plow- | man of the Rotary and Bobby Pa- zo of the Lions are tied with the most walks at 17, In. the pitch- Strand To Meet Post 168 Tonight | The Strand Theater nine will meet the league leading Post 168 righthander has pitched the most | baseballers tonight in an American innings, 27. : | Legion Junior Baseball loop tilt at Ri cryraphied Feat gi as | the Wickers Field Stadium. Game the American Little League in — i ot Pee that department and he is tied| The Legion boys have won five with Santana of the Elks for the| straight games and are two full most hits with 27. Santana also| games ahead of Evans who have rp appa ae cease won five games and lost two. and Bob Daley of the Shrine are | MAJOR tied for the most homers with two Buddy Mora, Shrine catcher, has! each. whiffed the most times, 25, oe I AGUE ment, Richard Bonner, Elks ace, ing department, Martinez, Lions’) has five victories without a loss to righthander leads the league with|lead the pitchers. Roy Valdez of Milton Esquinaldo has walked the most, 24. In the pitching depart- | four victories and no defeats. Pazo, | the Kiwanis has truck out the most | also of the Lions, has struck out the | batters, 63, and has pitched the} most batters, 49, while Richard! most innings, 33 2-3. David Vernon | Garcia of the Rotary, has walked | of the Shrine has walked the most! By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING Schoendienst, Louis, .344. St. jee has boosted his batting | the most, 57. Tony Estenoz, VFW ‘hitters, 47. Philadelphia at Chicago RU Lauderdale Lions romanced local fans, but nothing happened. Spicola today has scheduled a meeting with Tampa Mayor Cur- tis Hixon and other interested par- ties reported trying to arrange to take over the Smoker franchise | but this was postponed because of Hixon’s illness. Fort Pierce appears to be a lit-| tle bit ahead of Key West in plan- | ning but proof that Key West will draw baseball fans, as was evi- denced last year when the last | place Key West Conchs drew aver- | age crowds of a thousand fans, is | expected to be a big factor in Spi- cola’s final decision. | Ft. Pierce leaders conferred with Spicola over the weekend and the Tampa club owner said that he “was very much impressed” with | the conference. The fourth place Smokers have | drawn less than 500 at recent) home games and Spicola said that | the club is costing $500 per day.) Key West, which lost its fran- chise when Lakeland dropped out * of the loop this year, is well equip- ped to-handle the operation. The city is expected to make the Smo- kers the same deal that they of-| fered the Havana and Ft. Lauder- dale clubs. Telegrams from the Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club, the Ki- wanis Club and from several pro- minent citizens have already been dispatched to Spicola to advise him of interest here. Colorado U. Golfer Tops NCAA Meet COLORADO SPRINGS (#—Husky | Merle Backlund of Colorado Uni- versity challenged Eddie Merrins of Louisiana State for the favorite’s role as 64 golfers teed off today in match play to decide the indi-| vidual championship of the 56th) NCAA tournament. Merrins continued to be ranked the top linksman despite the fact Backlund yesterday copped medal- | ist honors with a record-breaking (137 for 36 holes over the par-70, 6,622-yard Broadmoor course at the | foot of Cheyenne Mountain. | Backlund bettered the old medal- ist record by one stroke, It was set by Arnold Palmer of Wake | Forest University in the 1950 tour-| ney over the’ University of New| Mexico course in Albuquerque. Merrins’ card read 141. His 66, yesterday was the best round of the. tournament. Backlund faces Charles Cassidy of the University of Southern Cali- tfornia in the first match of today’s upper bracket. Merrins was paired with Fred Brown of Stanford in the lower bracket. | Stanford University won the team championship yesterday with a “four-man total of 578, ending the four-year reign of North Texas State, North Carolina placed sec with 580, followed by Louisiana State with 581 and Oklahoma A, & M. with 382. North Texas finished fifth with 583. Site Of Blue-Gray Tilt Will Change MONTGOMERY, Ala. u—Ch Pickens yesterday sold all and title to the annual Blue-G football game to the Blue and G Cradle Association of Montgomery for an undisclosed sum Sale of the copyright gridiron class.c will petuation of the ga gomery, it was anno meeting of the ass: of trustees. A large reportedly been offered the game to New Orleans The trustees said P e game here ¢ @ach December St COND ONLN TO MAS M ARON: AS RELIEr Ca By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter It finally got hot enough in St. Louis for the Cardinals to catch, fire and the word was out to the | rest of the National League today | to start looking for 25 extinguisher. ; The €ards, last senior-circuit club to win a World Series, have taken seven out of eight games since coming home a week ago yesterday to be greeted by 100- degree temperatures. They roared through the Brook- jlyn Dodgers for tnree straight, | | added three out of four from Pitts- | \burgh and last night»greeted the ; |New York Giants with a seven-run {barrage in the first inning that ‘carried them to a 15-8 triumph. : | One of the happiest things from | ta St. Louis viewpoint about the |winning splurge has been the {heavy hitting of Stan’ (The Man) Musial. Hampered all spring by his most jprolonged slump since coming to |the majors, Musial finally seems to have found his eye. He's blasted |five doubles, a home run and sev- jen singles in 30 times at bat for a .433 pace on the home stand. His over-all average has risen \from a mere .251 to .274 and he \has batted in nine runs to inerease |his total from a puny 27 to an jimproving 36. Harvey Haddix went all the way on the mound last night for his ninth victory, even though the Giants got to ‘him for 11 hits and eight runs. . In winning the cards moved with- jin a half a®game of the slumping second-place Brookiyn Dodgers, who lost, 3-2, to Cincinnati on | Grady Hatton's pinch-hit hgme run, | and to within 3'2 games of league- Heading Milwaukee. The Braves got a beautiful two- hit pitching job from Warren Spahn but lost, 1-0, to the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates. Robin Roberts won his 12th game as he pitched | | rdinals Gaining Ground On Braves {men on base in the eighth. Bob the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-1 decision over Chicago. In the American League the first place New York Yankees increased their lead over Cleveland to 11 games although they lost 11-3 to Chicago in one of their worst show- ings of the year. Cleveland dropped a day-night pair in Boston, 6-4, and 2-1. The night game ran 10 innings before Milt Bolling doubled home the win- ning run with two out. St. Louis edged Washington, 4-3, | and Detroit’s Steve Gromek white- washed the Philadelphia Athletics on four hits, 5-0. The Dodgers, zetting good pitch- ing from Billy Loes, were breezing along with a one-run lead until the ninth when Hatton delivered with a man on base. Spahn lost his heartbreaker when Carlos Bernier sliced a single the second Pittsburgh hit, with two Hall pitched the shutout. The Yankee defense fell apart for four errors, three of them in the fifth inning, against the White Sox. The Chicagoans scored six runs in the fifth. Allie Reynolds | § absorbed most of the punishment for his third loss. At Boston the Red Sox took the afternoon game by runs in the eighth inning on what apparently was gving to be an easily caught fly ball. The wind caught the fly and converted it into a triple for Dick Gernert. Bob Chakales lost a five-hit pitching duel to Maury McDermott in the night game on Boiiing’s double. Gromek, making his first start for Detroit since being traded by Cleveland, struck out three at Phil- adelphia and walked nobody. Bob Nieman homered in the third with one aboard to pin the third loss | Ba on rookie Marion Fricane. Satchel Paige snutfed out a ninth- ; inning Washington rally to save the Browns’ victory over the Sen- ators for starter Bob Cain. Flood Of Cash At Race Traek Helps State TALLAHASSEE to the race tra picked your hor bet Did you ed to the | You went | k last season and e and made your ever wonder what hap flood of cash you saw ws ack to the 5 lation basis. ount was payoff was 7 per cent | Florida cities will pave streets sion concerning their allocations | of race track money. | The football stadium will be} built at a cost of $200,900, with $10,000 pledged annually from Bay County's share for principal and interest payments. At least two this year with racing funds. Ar-; cadia in DeSoto and Trenton in| Gilchrist County, The Legislature provided $1,500 annually from Walton County’s | share for the development of the | music departments of the county's | high schools. Allocation of Frank- lin County's funds was changed to guarantee the cities of Apala- chicola and Carrabeile $35,000 ev- ery year, to be divided on a popw } Previousiy, gulf coast cities received all of the county’s money above a cer- tain amount. A bill was passed providing that $12,000 of the money received by t' Okaloosa County would be spent - for the construction of fences os center for aged cal} funds to be m Gov. Dan McCarty’s increased dog pari-mutuel taxes have been earmarked in Lafayette Counyt for 1933-54 for the recos- struction of the “old Drew rai-| toad bridge’’ and the following year for the construction and mainte ce of a farmers’ map ket. E mated the new wa Ww $19.000 annually te each ¢ Bbca du 8 passed for Har scoring two = Brooklyn at Cincinnati (n) Pittsburgh at Milwaukee (n) New York at St. Louis (n) 7 1c By The Associated Press = ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind Jacksonville 9 20 710 — Columbia Macon Augusta Savannah Columbus Montgomery Savannah 7 Augusta 6 Jacksonville 4 Macon 3 (11 innings) Columbia 3 Montgomery 2 Montgomery SOUTHE! TATH By The Associated Press ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind Birmingham 3600 = Memphis Nashvill Atlanta, New Orleans... Little Rock ‘Mobile Chattanooga YESTERD. Memphis 8 Atlanta Birmingham 11 Little Rock $ Mobile 7 Nashville 6 Chattanooga 6 New Orleans 1 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Birmingham at Mobile Atlanta at New Orleans Chattanooga at Memphis Oniy games scheduled By The Associated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. Indianapolis 41 29.586 Toledo. Kansas City St. Paul Louisville Minneapolis Charleston Columbus PACIFIC COAI saree? bes z z Shreveport Fort Worth Dallas Tulsa seuseueey eosstees$ xsessf sassseee§ esdenes eeebeeent Dothan 6 Graceville Fort Walton Beach 9 ‘Andalusia 6 Panama City at Eufaula ppd-rain ‘AN ASSOCIATION Meus # Leiria 8 indianaPol TERNATIONAL Rochester 12 Ottawa ae ‘mnings) Hollywood 6 San Diego @ Los Angeles # Portland § AMERICAN ASSOCIA’ Cotumbus at Toledo Charleston at Indianapolis St. Paul at Kansas City Minneapolis Al Panama City at Graceville TEXAS dee County specifying the rst 2.300 of the new tax fetutns for the Resthaven Old Folks Home. and the next $2,500 for the me- morial youth center. Hamilton County pledged its increased rac-; ing funds for the construction of a new jai. In St. Lucie, the gov- ernor's home county, the sddition- al racing monies are to be used ¢ a new courthouse or jail, a¢ mprovemeats of the existing str ic- tures 369 | even things up. 4 Saturday stake events must be Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT ne NEW YORK @—We feel it is necessary to bring the nation’s vast new television audience along slowly and carefully, and as self- appointed counsellor to the sports section of the nation-wide group | we shall from time to time at- tempt to answer certain puzzling questions and in general smooth the way. For instance, from the com- ments we have heard there seems | to be some confusion among those |who witnessed the middleweight fight between Bobo Olson andj Paddy Young the other night here in the Garden. That is, the parlor | customers claim that what they saw didn’t jibe with what they heard. They say they saw Olson belting Young all over the ring and rais- ing welts on his features, while at the same time the commentator was ‘assuring them that Bobo was slapping Paddy with open gloves and wasn’t hurting him much, really. Our advice in such a case as this is to hitch up a little closer to the screen and sharply reduce the volume of sound. That should | A second group which appears to be, having some trouble since the coaxial cable ran amock is the horse-racing audience. Those responsible for picturing the big made aware that they have mil- lions of fans now who never pre- viously saw any horse except Trigger. One of the things the fans do not understand, for example, is the fact that a good, steady rain the course of an afternoon may tually make a track faster than would have been if the sun had mained out, They want to know come the announcer says the ack is fast when they can see water coming down with their eyes. e case in point was the run- of the Belmont Stakes here on a recent Saturday. Native | Dancer won it from Jamie K. in| the remarkable time of 2:28.6 for the mile and one-half, only two-} fifths of a second off the record for the 85-year-old event. Although creens in millions of homes glis- tened with moisture and everyone at Belmont plainly was soaked, they called the racing strip “‘fast.”” Some thought this gave Alf Van- derbilt’s colt less than full credit for his great achievement. | SeaeeS 2% | Bs | | Not at all, says our horse-racing | women’s record of 284 strokes for | USO-NCCS agent. The fellow who's going to Seeded Players Expected In Wimbledon Play By TOM CHILTREE WIMBLEDON, England —The Process of grinding out tennis went into its third day at Wimble- don today--thus far without a sin- gle surprise. Seeded players in all divisions of the tournament have advanced as expected. Most of them have been able almost to loaf through their matches. This lack of early round thrills | is beginning to leave its mark on the crowd. Spectators wander from court to court in this temple of tennis hoping to stumble onto a match that is close. { What Wimbledon needs today is | | Abdesselam of France on the Schoendienst, St. Louis 55. R S BATTED’ IN--Campanella, Brooklyn, 62. HITS--Schoendienst, St. Louis, 91. DOUBLES--Snider, Brooklyn and Dark, New York, 18. TRIPLES--Bruton, Milwaukee, 7. OME RUNS-~Mathews, Milwau- { Advance As H kee, 20. STOLEN BASES—Bruton, Mil- waukee, 13. No. PITCHING--Burdette, Milwaukee | 7-0, 1,000. 1 court at the same time. Boih x i Seixas and Rosewall should tavelaeee ee ee ene rhe caly, taller produced in the! vsti ey aga tournament thus far was the men’s! ate NG = er a doubles match yesterday which “ puns. vi i Seixas and Gardnar Mulloy of chs eipean Teac tee Coral Gables, Fla., took in five york 52 z sets from Britain's Geoff Paish Hrts.Vernon, Washington, 81. and Tony Mottram. | 7 oe It was classic tennis most of the Le ltd casaeigpns he 6. way with each side earning its| ome RUNS~Zernial, Philadel- points by placements and not de- delphia 81. : pending on opponents’ errors. “ 4 ani hee Maureen Comolly and Doris Hart, STOLEN BASES-Rivera, Chica Top seeded Ken Rosewall, of Australia, goes against Robert{ an upset--any upset. | won first round macches without The order of play pits Bernard | losing a game. Bartzen of San Angelo, Texas, | Miss Hart’s play carried a hint against Egypt’s Jaroslav Drobny, | that she might give Miss Connolly 66. seeded fourth. { If Drobny does not win this one convincingly, a lot of people who | fancied him to take the men’s singles title will begin to wonder | the last bus. Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, seed- ed No. two meets Wladyslaw Skonecki, a self-exiled Pole, on| cake’ the ladies at Wimbledon go_ the center court. | | 72-hole test, with its suitable cash prize for the low-scoring lady pro, will turn into a benefit for Louise Suggs, the girl from Carrollton, Ga., who has succeeded Babe Za- harias as the greatest golfer of her sex and, at 29, appears destined to go on and prove herself the great- est ever. All of a sudden, it seems, there is no girl capable ‘of really chal- lenging the slim star from Bobby Jones’ state. Louise has gone away from them, just as Ben Hogan went away from the men, by consistently shooting a brand of golf which scarcely could have been imagined even a decade ago. With the more famous Babe side- lin€a by her operation, Miss Suggs won the recent Weathervane cross- country tournament by the vast margin of i1 strokes. She just finished polishing off Patty Berg by 6 and 5 in the final of the Women’s Western Open at Atlanta, winning her fourth title in that event. In last year’s unofficial “open” | at the Bala Club in Philadelphia | the slight Georgia girl set 72 holes which might not be} trouble if they meet in the women's finals, as expected. Besides Miss Connolly, the big favorites with the British fans is Hugh Stewart, a 25-year-old biond | if the self-exiled Czech has missed | giant from Los Angeles. His sporting play makes him a number one favorite with the men and he’s just the kind of “‘beef- for in a big way. CPO Wives Top Bowling Loop Action By ANN MACE Congratulations of the week go to Louise Duke ana Gladys Ehring- er for gaining first place ties with single high games of 157 each in the Navy Wives Bowling loop this week. Second in line was Trudy Coch- rane with 156 and Ruw Forsythe was third with 155. The action took place un Thurs- day afternoon on the Naval Station alleys. High set of the week went. to Louise Duke with 430. High team set was rolled by the Naval Sta- tion CPO team with 1947, The same club rolled high scratch game of 676. The standings: Club— val Station CPO's Vaval Station Annex Won Lost 12 4 s§24 8 8 'SO-YMCA 4 2 0, 5 PITCHING -- Lopat, New York, 8-0, 1.000. STRIKEOUTS -- Pierce, Chicago, DeLand, Jax Beach Cop FSL Victories By The Associated Press DeLand and Jacksonville Beach opened the second half of the Flor- ida State League season with vie- tories putting them on top of the standings Tuesday right, but Day- tona Beach, the first-half cham- pion, was denied a chance to play because of rain. Jacksonville Beach defeated Leesburg, 6-5, and DeLand beat Sanford, 15-1. Daytona Beach's game with Orlando was rained out as was Lakeland at Cocoa. DeLand’s Jim Clarich struck out seven and didn't issue a base on balls posting a six-hitter, His teammates got 12 blows, includ- ing a triple by Gale Penza, who returned to the lineup after two weeks absence because of an in- jury. Every DeLand player drove in at least one run Leesburg scored five runs in the sixth off three hits, « walk and an error, forcing Jacksonville | Beach, blanked until then, to real- ly start scrambling. Clyde Heinert [homered with two on in the sey- enth, and in the eignth Red Fos- ter batted in two men and made the winning run himself on Sid Hatfield's single. TUESDAY RESULTS Daytona Beach at Orlando, ppd | rain | Lakeiand at Cocoa, ppd. rein, | DeLand 15 Sanford 1 | Jacksonville Beach 6 Leesburg § WEONESDAY GAMES “call” the track knows it’s rain-|equalled for a long time. Her! ing, all right, but he's more in-| rounds were 70-69-70-75, and we terested in the times made in the | still contend it wasn’t possible. The | Preliminary races. On Belmont best four-round score the fabulous | | Leesburg at Daytona Beach | Cocoa at Orlando Sanford at Lakeland acksonville Beach at DeLand NO PRO BALL FOR WERBER DURHAM, N. C, (#) — A lead- day he saw a number of average} nags whom he knew personally | come bouncing down in near-rec- | ord time just before the big race was run. He knew then that just the right amount of water was on the track to make the horses love it. Two races after the Belmont, | incidentally, as the rain continued. to pelt down, the track was offi-| cially described as ‘“‘sloppy.” That's second best. After that come “good,” “heavy,” and, fi- nally, “muddy.” NEW YORK .P—Women’s golf will come officially of age tomor- row when the nation’s leading amateurs and professionals begin play at Rochester in the first open championship sponsored by the U.S. Golf Association. There isn't much left now for profestional wermes r¢ quer, only wei pig sticking being » their reach. There have been, we believe, seven so-called women's opens be- fore this one. bet they had no Teal standing aad will not be found * and will a the record book. This one will because the 1 G. A. gives fmale mae * mod sel ip that tbe Mrs. Zaharias ever shot was 288./ ing member of Duke University's baseball team is Will Werber, Jr., So far this year Louise has won| son of the former major league THE STANDINGS (second half) Fy z a parently beyond $15,766 in prize money. Since she turned pro in 198 afler winning both the American and British | amateur crewns she has won some $45,000, so if you have a daughter who likes the game don't discour- age her. Because she does not exactly sparkle with color, Louise has re- ceived less publicity than several of her golfing s{sters and has had to come up strictly on her soa | to hit an iron shot, It took Louise several years} after she turned pro to get her | game anywhere near its present’ | precision. In fact, we note that up | to two and three years ago she’ still was shooting between 200 and 310 in most tournaments. Under the >a t her being caught g the next three days. $333 save $33 8) For QUALITY USED CARS| TWINS GARAGE 136 DUVAR BT. DIAL 2.2601 Save $$ $5 Sewer DeLand | Packsonvilie Beach star. But he has no professional baseball aspirations. A Duke BT 8- | Cocoa duate with honors, Billy plans 10 | Daytona pairs join his father’s insurance firm in| Lakeland Washington, D. 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