The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1953, Page 6

White Sox Outclass Faltering Yankees, Braves Drop Third Straight Milwaukee Keep. Lead In oo | | Baseball Results Despite Losses By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sportswriter After watching the New York Yankees blow two in a row to the | St hustling Chicago White Sox about the only conclusion. you can come | te is that somehow the players put on the wrong uniforms. Certainly the outfit that wore the big “NY” on their suits the past two days bears no resemblance to a world championship club. And the White Sox look every inch pen- Bant contenders instead of third- Place talent. | The Sox not only have gained a mi 6-4 season’s edge over the vaunted Yankees. They’ve succeeded in making the New Yorkers beat themselves. In Tuesday night's 11-3 rout the Yanks committed four er-| Tors, three of them in a single in- ning. Both were high marks for the year. Yesterday it was faulty pitch- ing. Starter Jim McDonald found the plate only once in 13 pitches and was sent to the showers in the | first inning with the bases loaded and nobody out. Chicago cashed all three of those runners, plus two more in the in- ning, and coasted to an 8-4 vic- ie tory. | Au Sa: Br St Pi Ch Ja AMERICAN By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind | 16.742 St. Li NATIONAL By The Associated Press Iw 22 25 2 24 31 36 45 40 ttsbir hicago YESTERDAY'S RES! Cincin 7 Brooklyn 4 Ph cksonville gus ata vat So the Sox have proved that | Coiumt even the’mighty Yankees are only | Montgomery human and that despite their tre-| mendous 10-game bulge over sec- ond-place Cleveland, the New| Yorkers aren’t quite home safe| et. ree the St. Louis Browns snapped their 18-game winning | streak, the Yankees have played| only .500 ball, winning five and losing five on the present home stand, The New Yorkers might be more | worried if somebody besides their | Indian cousins from Cleveland | were coming to visit this week end. Cleveland has lost seven straight to New York and is the only team in the league that hasn't | beaten the Yankees at least once. The Indians came out on top in a 31-hit slugfest at Boston yester- day, whipping the Red Sox, 13-9. St. Louis scored five runs in the last two innings to edge Washing- | ton, 7-6 and Detroit won its. third straight, 6-3, over Philadelphia. | ‘The suddenly docile Milwaukee | Braves lost their third in a row, 10-1, to Pittsburgh, but maintained | Bi | Charleston Colum: Colum Augusta 4 9 Mo Savannah 3 Jacksonville 11 Macon § Augusta at Savannah Columbus at Charleston Macon at Jacksonville Montgomery at Colum! Won Lost Pet. 651 603 5877 586 500 +400 1338 333 ULTS Pet. Behind 4 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press irmingham | Memphis ville ta Orleans ttle Rock | Mobile | Chattan YESTERDAY'S RE Birmingham 2 emph SCHEDU ‘Won Lost Pet 566 562 554 527 480 M78 421 LE lemphis (2) jobile : New Orleans Nashville at Little Rock k (2) Syracuse 5 Montreal 4 ‘Toronto 2-8 Springfield 1-3 (ist 11 innings) | Buffalo 11 Baltimore 7 (called end 7th~ | their three-game league lead over | curiew) the Brooklyn Dodgers. The | Dodgers were beaten, 7-4, by Cin- | cinnati when Gus Bell homered | with two on in the last of the | New York whipped St. Louis, 3-0, | as Sal Maglie scattered eight hits | and Philadelphia won its 10th game of the season from Chicago, | ie Hegan, Dale Mitchell and | Bob Avila each contributed te | safeties to the 17-hit Cleveland at-| tack. Mitchell drove in four runs | ‘as did Del Wilbur and Tom Umph- | lett of the Red Sox. Wilbur | homered with two on in the sev- enth for Boston. Home runs by Roy Sievers and | Dick Kokos enabled the Brownies | to make it two straight over Wash- | ington. ‘The ‘Tigers jumped on Charlie | Bishop for four runs in the first | inning, including a home run by} Steve Souchock. Shortstop. Harvey ; Kuenn contributed three straight | hits, one a home run, for Detroit-| Ned Garver went all the way for) his sixth'victory. He's lost six. | The slumping Braves managed | only seven hits, six of them sin- | ;,, gles, against the slants of Roy Face, pint-sized lst. XAS TE: Fort Worth 4 Dallas 3 (11 innings) OWaboma City & Tulsa 2 San Antonio 3 Shreveport Houston » Beaumont 0 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Dothan 7-14 Andalusia 6-2 Eufaula 7 Fort Walton 1 Panama Ci AME Toledo 5-12 Ci Indianapolis 3-11 Indianapolis 3-11 Louisville 5 Graceville 3 Charleston Charleston 1-7 Poy pEmatapntis 15 (second | game 10 innings) Kansas City 6 St. Paul 5° PACIFIC COAST San Diego 2 Hollywood-1 e a2 Portland 12 TODAY'S BA oH By The Associated Press AMERICAN ASSOCIATION at-Toledo at_ Indianapolis at Kansas City is at Louisville LABAMA-FLORIDA a at Dothan Dallas at Ft. Wo th Buffalo at Syracuse BASEBALL Th AMERICAN ASSOCIATION dianapolis right-handed | Toiedo | Kansas city rookie curveballer who posted his | Tauis third victory without a loss for ne Pittsburgh. The Pirates climbed © out of last place with a 15-hit at- tack against four Milwaukee pitch ers. Se Bell’s blast for Cincinnati cli- |‘ maxed a long uphill struggle after Brooklyn had scored four times in the first inning on home runs by | Wayne Belardi and Gil Hodges Fine pitching by Maglie halted the Cardinals for only the third P time in their last 15 starts. The ‘New York ace had runners on base tin almost every inning but nobody got past second. Wilmer Mizell was the loser, The Phillies pounded Chicago pitching for a dozen hits, seven of them for extra bases while Karl Drews held the Cubs scoreless un til the ninth. The loss dropped the > Cubs back into the cellar Legion Loop Tilt Is Rained Out Rain halted an American Lex Junior League clash betwe: Strand Theatre nine and 168 baseballers at the e complete inning of play Both clubs seemed even! ed with the Stran per cent i addition 0! the plate a the box. B. state cha School basedall y match Holtywood lun PACIFIC ttle 08 An, Portiand Sacram San I Oakland San Francisco Won Lost Pet. 29 coast Won 1 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Wal INTERNATIONA 17 597 592 576 507 500 435 418 389) 413 410 Lost Pet Won Lost Pet TAMP ‘Spicola In LEWIS’ HOMER GIVES Ft. Pierce For Parley Whether or not Key West will have a Florida Interna- this season, apparently hinges on a conference set| for tonight in Ft. Pierce, be- tween Tampa Smoker offi- cials there. Tom Spicola, president of the Tampa club who is_ ex- pected to make a_ decision which Key West baseball fans are viewing with inter- est, has announced that he is ' definitely vacating Tampa due to apathy of the fans. A decision as to where he will move to is expected to be made over the weekend. Fort Pierce, town of but 18,500 is com- peting with Key West for the franchise, and yesterday, Spicola reported that pre- liminary talks with civic leaders there were “encour- aging.” Spicola is due in this city Friday night to confer with local leaders. Key West’s good showing at the turnstiles during the three months they operated an FIL franchise is expect- ed to be a major factor in its favor. Tampa manager Ben | Chapman, former New York performer, will accompany Spicola. ' Meanwhile, telegrams | urging Spicola to consider , [Key West as his home base |including those of city com- | missioners John | Carbonell and Louis M. J. Eisner, con- tinued to pour out of the | city. Civic organizations. in- | cluding the Chamber‘ of | Commerce, the. Lions and | Kiwanis clubs have already gone on record to Spicola as favoring the move here. Favor Sam Snead In Golf Tourney CLEVELAND #—-Sammy Snead was a red hot favorite today as 1188 professionals and 23 amateurs started a 72-hole, four-day scram- ble for a $15,000 purse over Ma- nakiki Golf Club’s 6.651-yard par 72 forest-infested layout. The long-hitting, drawling West Virginian—just back from a Flori- da fishing trip—clipped forner Na- tional Public Links Champion Smiley Quick by two strokes with | a 67 in a practice round yesterday and declared he was ready. Arrayed against Suead, who has tional Open, is an impressive group of golfing talent. The field includes such luminar- ies as former National Open Cham- pions Lawson Little, Billy Burke, National Public Links Quick and Al Leach; former Ama- }; teur Champions Little and Skee PGA victors Jim Turnesa, and Denny Shute; | Riegel; \ Jim Ferrier, 7! former Intercollegiate Champions | Freddy Haas and Earl Stewart, and | practically all the Ohio Open, Amateur, and Public Links winners | of the decade. The field plays 18 holes today and tomorrow with the 50 low scorers continuing Saturday and Sunday | The Manakiki tournament is a new one on the “: parade. First prize is 100. RE. STR: AINT ISsU ED PENSACOLA W—Siciking mem- bers of an AFL common laborers union today faced a temoorary restraint on picket lines in the Pensacola area traint was issued Wednes. Jucige L. L. Fabi- paint by the Norta Assn. of General Con- The contracte ion with tryi tional League baseball team} an east coast | won everything except the Na-/ Cary Middlecoff znd: Julius Boros; | ex-kings | BLIZZARDS. VICTORY John Lewis’ homer with a mate aboard in the eighth inning enabled the Dairy Queen Blizzards to edge the VX-1, 5-3 in one half of a soft- |ball double header at Bayview Park last night. | In the first game, DeWitt Roberts | pitched and batted Evans to a 13-4 ictory over General Electric. Roberts, who won his second game of the season, batted in three runs with three singles while Evans | piled up their biggest score of the season. After GE built up a 1-0 lead in , the first inning, Evans came back | in the second with five hits runs on four hits and two walks to go ahead. GE picked up a pair in third on three hits, but Evans came back and picked up a run in the third and three in the fourth and finally iced the ballgame with a four run rally in the fifth. Joe Castro and Luis Casada aid- ed Roberts offense with two hits jeach. Casada belted two doubles. Castro had a double and a single in four tries. Roberts, who was touched for seven hits, struck out four and walked two, Rocky Marucci started on the | hill for GE but gave way to Clint Warren in the fifth, Marucci was charged with the loss. The Dairy Queen continued their winning ways behind Bill Frank- lin’s four hitter but it took Lewis’ homer in the eighth inning to do it. The Dairy Queen jumped into a 3-0 lead in the second on doubles by Franklin and Lewis, a fielders choice and a two run single, VX-1 picked up a run in the third when | Wayne Pigg beat out a-hit, took second on a passed ball and scored on two infield outs. In the fifth, Pigg sent the game |into overtime when he homered | with Farrell on base. Ken Kerr opened the eighth with a double. After Franklin and Cook- ie Gonez got out, Lewis delivered his game winning blow. In gaining his fifth win of the season, Franklin struck out seven and walked tworGambe was charg- }ed with his fifth loss against three wins. Lewis led the Blizzards at the plate with two doubles and a homer in four tries. Pigg led the VX-1 attack with a single and hom- er in three tries. The box scores: First Game > J 2 Player— Leaderhouse, cf .. Smith, ss Wertz, 1b Lightcap, If - 2b . Griffin, ¢ ‘Cruz, 3b Warren, 2b-p Carpenter, rf Hull, rf ... Marucci, p Prererrerr rarer HoeoeoocooNn HocooooHeHm eoscleneuns Mw oOOwWOHMHOSOP ecoonscoooo+l Totals— wa z Slomemnuwconnmm Casado, cf C. Valdez, If S. Valdez, 1b Villareal, ss Roberts, p Santana, 3b Aritas, rf Castro, ¢ Catala, 2b ... Bl ermomunnen Bl wmwconuwed al rnwocowonnon a wlecconrescoot Totals— lsh WR wuUUNnnen The scores: Team— | General Ele Evans ..... RH 102 0100—4 7 051 340 x—13 10 Che) | SUMMARY — RBI: Smith, Light- cap (2), Casado, C. Valdez (2),) | Villareal, Roberts (3), Santana (2), Aritas, Castro (2); 2BH: Casado (2), Castro, Santana, Aritas; SB: Roberts; DP: Santana, Satala, S./ Valdez; Cruz, Wertz, Griffin; SO: by Roberts 4, Marucci, 4; BB: off | Roberts 2, Marucci 5, Warren 3; ‘Hits: off Marucei 9 in 5 173 innings, | off Warren 1 in 1 2/3 innings; Win- | ner: Roberts; Loser: Umpires: Irvin, Dover; Casteneda; Time: 1:40, Second Game DAIRY QUEEN Player— ABR Sawyer, If . Pazo, ss Lastres, 1b Kerr, 3b Franklin, p Gomez, 2b Lewis, ¢ Rodriguez, cf Lunahan, rf Marucci; Scorer: 3 oonouuncoo>» HOUCmNmonm mn concoeniue Onenunuene CONM eH Oooo Totais— Player— ink, ¢ -necooococon ne eae wail “mre eocecoo> eooconrnoom eercecoo™s | Observers in Selma say that a quartet of Key West High School baseball performers will come in for a lot of attention from major league scouts in the future. Scouts |who had a look at George Las- | tres, in particular, predict a birght future for the classy right- hander, Brother Bob also came in for a lot of attention as did Don Cruz and Gibby Gates. What with all of the bonus mon- ey floating around these days, a couple of the quartet stand a chance of picking up some real folding money, Lastres arm is expected to bounce -back after some rest -- he is going to play third base for one of the teams in the Junior League and throw a few balls every day to keep in shape. No less an authority than Pep- when a pitcher gets warmed up -- it makes no difference if he pitch- es one oe or nine - he still needs rest Before his next start. Jerry Pita and Eloy Rodriguez are a couple of performers who} put on a few years. Pita proved that he is a real Casey Stengel Mum On Star Tilt Selections By JACK HAND NEW YORK (#—Casey Stengel won't talk about the All-Star Game. “No Sir, I'm not supposed to say a thing until they annouace it,” said the New York Yankee man- ager in the dugout before yester- day’s game with Chicago. But you can’t stop him from | thinking about the July 14 game at Cincinnati. Winner of four} straight pennants and four straight World Series, old Case hasn't won an All-Star Game yet. “There's a fella keeps calling me up every night,” he said. “He says, ‘How can you help putting three of your own pitchers on the team?’ He says I gotta have Whitey Ford and Eddie Lopat. And Allie Reynolds too, I keep telling him I can’t talk. “One year they made me take one pitcher off each club. That was easy, slighting nobody. Then one year I got them all picked and a couple of fellas I didn’t pick come up with no-hitters.”” Turning suddenly to one of the | audience of baseball writers, he said: “Who do you think are the best | pitchers in the league?.” . Without too much hesitation, the | writer came up with Bob Lemon. | Stengel didn’t say a word, just nodded and winked, “How about that fella in Wash- ington?,”’ Stengel said. “‘That Shea (ex- Yankee Spec Shea). You'd never think he had a bad arm.” Somebody brought up the name. | of Satch Paige, whose last appear- ance against the Yanks will be membered by Stengel for many days. It was Satch who relieved for the St. Louis Browns the night + | they ended the Yanks’ 18-game win | streak last week. “TT tell you something,” said. “Paige was going to pitch; ithe next three innings last year in Philadelphia (where the 1952/ All-Star Game was played) if it! hadn't rained.” A late arrival strolled up to the | bench and sat down beside Case. Pigg, if Gamble, p Totals— The scores Team— Dairy Queen VX-1 . RHE 630 000 12 5 9 2 1 oo 3 4 1 SUMMARY—RBI: Gomer, Lewi (2), Lumabap (2), 2BH: Lastres, Franklin. Lewis (2), Kerr; HR: Lewis, Pigg: DP Botelho, Farrell, Edwards; SO: b "rankiin 7, Gamble 1; BB lrankiin 2, Gamble 2; Winner Franklin; Loser’ Gamble; Um pires: Dover, Irvin. Scorer) Ca teneda; Time 179 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Views From The Southernmost Sporting Scene By Charlie Conch per Martin, told the writer that! will also bear watching when they | “How would you like to eae Fink, Pigg (2);/ chasing a long fly ball in leit field. His mouth happened to be open and a bug flew into it. Pita jalmost choked and te. ballgame was held up until he recovered. Tourney‘s End? The word is that the Southeast- ern tourney will not be played next year unless something un- foreseen happen s.Costs too much to operate and most school ath- letic funds cannot stand the gaff of travel over long distances. A group of Key Westers have been known to discuss the possi- bility of bringing the tourney here next year. Gridiron Gleanings The Key West High School foot- | ball team is going to have a hard | | time finding a pass catcher to re-| place John Vermette who will at- ‘tend school in the north this year. Vermette is shooting for a» ap- pointment to West Point and will attend prep school in New York. | Stu Logun has a summer job | with a local construction company | to get him in shape for the grid| | season. Coach Ed Beckman is in New | York studying at Columbia Uni- versity. an all-Yankee team in the All- Star Game?,” he asked. “Don’t ask me about all-stars,” said Casey, “I can’t say ‘a word about it.” Moore Turns Back Maxim’s Title Threat By BOB MYERS OGDEN, Utah (#—Archie Moore of California may te a relic of |ring warfare, but he is still the |light heavyweight champion of the world, The 36-year-old warrior from San Diego turned back the threat of Joey Maxim of Cleveland last night, whacking out a unanimous {decision in a mauling, bruising 15- round match—Utah’s first title show, California Archie, who lifted the crown from Pal Joey in St. Louis last December, after campaigning for 16 years, weighed 173% and Maxim, his 31-year-old threat, scaled 175, Referee Ray Miller of New York | gave it to Moore, 7 rounds to 6 for Maxim and 2 even. Judge Nat Fleischer of New York scored it 8-7 for Moore, and Ken Shulsen, Salt Lake City, gave Moore 8 rounds, Maxim 5 and 2 even. The New York system of round-by- round scoring was used. Moore's immediate plans are in- definite. But his manager, Charley | Johnston, said he had tentative of-| fers for Archie to appear in South | America, where he won five fights | in 1951, and in San Diego. | Maxim left the ring with a cou ple of eye cuts but neither w: serious nor had any effect on the | | outcome. | Maxim seemed to have landed | the two hardest punches, | right-hand blows for which he is not famed. But he was unable to) | hold off the swarming Moore. | “Joey was much stronger than/ the last time,” Moore said later. ! “He really was in there trying all the time.’ i Said Joey: “I wasn't hurt at jall. He caught me with a whale of a left. Not the kind that puts you away but makes your head rattle.” There were no knockdowns and |aside from Joey's slight cuts and an occasional mouth bieed by Moore, no one got hurt Co-promoter Kenney Mayne re- potted gate receipts for the fight would total about $70,000. He said the promotion “missed by about $20,000" but emphasized that “ev- eryone will get paid.” He said between 7,000 and 8,000 persons attended the bout. CHIEFS CHOOSE HEAD — a ANDO W— Carl Engel Miami, was re-elected as president of the da Police Chiefs Assn. Other A ts of the organization formed a few moenlhs ago, also were re wet | Miami Nine Will Invade City For Tilt The softball fans of Key West will be in for a treat when American Industrial Sales of Miami, who were runners up in the National Softball Tournament last year and | 55. who are currently leading the) { MAJOR» LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING — Schoendienst, Louis, .342. RUNS—Schoendienst, S.. St. Louis, RUNS BATTED IN—Campanel- la, Brooklyn, 62. strong Moore Park League of Mi- ami, will invade Key West for a doubleheader Saturday night at) Bayview Park. ing winning streak last year fly chaser in Selma when he was| which eventually carried them to | the finals in the National, have a former Key West boy in the line - up by the name of Jack Sweeting. Sweeting will do the | catching for AIS, Arno Lamb, one of the country’s leading softball hurlers, will hurl one of the games with Marty Bruder and Joe Griffin, who pitched for the | Hollywood Stars last season, pro- bably will share the pitching of the second game. In the first game, the strong AIS Island City Softball league while Evans Enterprises, who are cur- rently leading the local joop, will furnish the opposition in the second | game. | The first game Saturday night | will begin at 7:15 p. m. This is the | first time that a team of this cal-| iber has played in Key West, so the locals will be out to try to up-} set the highly favored AIS softball- ers. | 66 Cam panella Tops |; HITS—Schoendienst, Louis, 92. DOUBLES — Spicer, Brooklyn, St. j and Dark, New York, 18. AIS, who compiled an amaz- | Be TRIPLES — Bruton] Milwaukee, | HOME RUNS — Mathews, Mil- | waukee, 20. STOLEN waukee, 13. PITCHING — Burdette, Milwau- kee, 7-0, 1.000; Smuh, Cincinnati, 5-0, 1,000. STRIKEOUTS — Roberts, Phil- | adelphia, 81, AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING — Umphiett, Boston, BASES—Bruton, Mil- | 328. RUNS—Mantle, New York, 59. RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, {will face an All Star Team com-| New York, 52 prised of the teams in the local | HITS—Kuenn, Detroit, and Ver- non, Washington, 81 DOUBLES—Kell, Boston, 18. TRIPLES — Jensen, Washington, 6. HOME RUNS—Zernial, Philadel- phia, 18. STOLEN BASES—Rivers, Chi- cago, 13. PITCHING—Lopat, New York, 8-0, 1.000. STRIKEOUTS — Pierce, Chicago $$$ SAVE $863 For QUALITY USED CARS All-Star Voting jand General Auto Repairs | CHICAGO (‘#—Catcher Roy Cam- | Panella of Brooklyn’s second-place Dodgers returned tc the lead to- | day in the ballot-battle for a start- | ing assignment in the All-Star Baseball Poll. | The 31-year-old Negro, who is | seeking his fifth straight berth in the All-Star game in Cincinnati, July 14, passed his Milwaukee rival, Del Crandall by 8,714 votes. The latest tabulations of returns in | the nation-wide balloting headquar- | ters showed Campanella with 172,- 918 votes. Crandall has been named | on 164,204 lineups. The voting contest will end sel midnight, July 3. It began June 12. | The eight players chosen from | each of the Americsn and National | Leagues will start the inter-league | contest and will play a minimum | of three innings. The sixth USGA Junior Amateur | Championship will have 48 qualify- | ing sections, six more than were held last year. 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