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Smoker Officials Are Due Here For Talks Today BRAVE FANS BEMOAN LOSS OF LOOP LEAD Tampa Fans Out To Keep Club As Talks Are Slated Two Tampa Smoker exe- eutives are due to plane into Key West today to continue gegotiations for the possible fwansfer of that Florida In- ternational team here. The pair, General Manager Mil- ton Karr and Eddy Miller, are slated to meet with city officials in an effort to reach an agreement for the lease of the Wickers Field Sta- dium. Also up for discussion is the possibility of obtaining the concessions there from Armando Acevedo who has them under lease from the ‘ eity. Tom Spicola, Smoker president indicated last Fri- day on a visit here, that he would not be interested in bringing his team here unless he obtained the concessions. He is expected to get the same kind of a deal from the city for the use of the sta- dium as the Havana Cubans and the Fort Lauderdale Lions, (then the Miami Beach Flamingoes) which included free use of the ball- park if the club failed to make a profit. Meanwhile, in Tampa, the fans are making a last ditch fight to save the club-as at- tendance continues to slump. A group of Tampa _busi- nessmen are investigating the possibility of buying out the club. Fort Pierce is virtually out of the running, it was re- ported. Spicola has gone on record as stating that Key West is. much better equip- ped to handle the ball club. Gridman OK After Serious Brain Injury NEWPORT ne i ast oung man, and somewha‘ H , looked a lot older than his 22 years as he welked in some- what labored fashion near the home he hadn't seen for eight long months. His hair, once blond, now was a dark brown. His words, when he spoke, were slow and halting. * But they had a right to be. For this wes Charles Lawson, and for Lawson, simply to be alive for this homecoming on June 28, 1953, was a triumph over medical odds once estimated at a hundred to one against him. Lawson, a star football tackle, suffered a critical brain injury last Nov. 1 while playing for Randolph- Macon against Johns Hopkins at Ashland, Va. Doctors despaired of his life, His classmates came to Richmond’s Medica! College of Virginia Hospital and, kneeling outside his room, prayed for his. survival, He stayed in a deep coma until late February. Two hundred and thirty - nine days, in all, Lawson was in the hospital, The 20th, yesterday, was homecoming. Finally deciding it was safe for him to travel, physi- elans gave his father, B. F. Law- gon, a gorcer, permission to take | him on the 100-mile journey from Richmond to Newport News. _ Lawson didn’t seem tired, as he should have, when he climbed out of the car shortly before dinner time. But after he ate his first home-cooked meal in almost a year, and took a nap he walked several blocks around the neigh- borhood accompanied by his fam- ly and a nurse, Since he snapped out of the coma three and a half morths ago, Law- gon bas had to re-learn all he once knew—how to talk, how to walk, how to understand the words of others. He is still far from com- pletely recovered, but his progress amazes doctors and his friends “I wouldn't have believed it,” said a Medical Coilege physician who attended the youth each day from November wntil yesterday. “We were all certain there was no hope.” ‘Praise be to God,” said Mrs. Lawson, the mother. Jack Egan, captain of Florida State University’s tennis team, is a tennis instructor in the Ocala (Fia.) Recreation Department. Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, June 29, 1953 CHAMPS DISPLAY WINNING FORM * JERRY ROY, 13, of Huntington, W. Va., won the 1953 national marbles championship with some fancy shooting at Asbury Park, NJ. Here, the new champion poses with Arlene Riddett, 14, of Yonkers, N.Y., queen of the nibs shooters. On his way to the title, Jerry set a new world’s record of 53 victories in 60 games played in the first four days of the marbles tournament. (International Soundphoto) Al Lopez Takes Sox Streak Evans Wins Lack Of Hitting Causing Braves’ er — Dive, Says Grimm On Friday By CHRIS EDMONDS A o MILWAUKEE ‘When the hit- DeWitt Roberts and Claude Val- |ters don’t hit and the pitchers be- des teamed up Friday night to/ come just throwers, you start los- ee aspen et ee evans ZEnter-| ing the games you were winning e defeater -1, 6-1, in the} pases, aces aetna ot 2 doubleheader at/’ ‘That's the plight of the Milwau- Dairy Queen Blizzards won their Lia peat ae bes meee fifth straight game by defeating tie for the ‘Nati | League lead ue, 146, behind a 16) s74 took off today for a short jun- Be i ket with a seven-g streak Kenneth Kerr blasted his first homer of the season with one on and Bill Walker exploded with an- other roundtripper with the bases loaded in the first inning to cli- max a six run first inning rally which started the Dairy Queen to their fifth straight victory. The| : General Electric had picked up| the Eastern end of the league on its two runs in the first on a single |€@"S a fortnight ago suddenly go by Dick Carpenter, a walk, a dou- | into a tailspin? ble by Lightcap, and an error.| “We stopped hitting,” says Man- They added another in the second| ager Charlie Grimm, “And we on a single by Clint Warren, a| Stopped getting the kind of pitching The latest touch was yest |11-1 pasting by Brooklyn, in which five Milwaukee hurlers were tlouted for 16 hits, eight for extra bases. al walk, and Carpenter's second hit, | We had earlier. That's all. The Blizzards added three more in| “But don’t givé up on these the second on a single by Al Pazo, ; The ing to press a a walk, and doubles by Bill Frank- | little, 1 th but I'll stick with lin and Kaki Rodriguez. They pick-|’em all the way. We'll be back and ed up two more in the third on | don’t forget it. Pazo’s first homer of the season| The miseries hit Milwaukee with and singles by Cookie Gomez, / arrival of the New York Giants John Lewis, and Rodriguez. |got worse when the then-tailend ,A walk, Gomez single, and/| Pittsburgh Pirates moved in and Kerr’s double produced another |stayed that way with Brooklyn on Tun in the fourth for the Blizzards, | hand. They wound up their scoring with two runs in the fifth on an error,|the regulars were far from trivial, singles by Rodriguez and Lewis,|Young Eddie -Mathews, the s'ag. and an infieid out. General Elec-! d 26 Why should a team which se*| ‘Bets y Rawl's Bankroll Is Swelling Now By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK \2—By winning the first Women’s Open Championship lof the United States Golf Associa- ;tion, Betsy Rawls kas just about | proved that it is possible for a girl \to have everything. | Three years ago she was gradu- | ated from the University of Texas jwith a Phi Beta Kappa key and ja strong desire to become a top- |flight golfer. Now she has the big- | gi title a woman golfer can win} and a comfortable bankroll and good looks, too. In addition, the feminine golfing | ee brigade has a firmly established | championship tournament—some- |but their gloom was By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sportswriter Moaning Milwaukee fans were crying in their beers today over the collapse of their beloved Braves shared by millions of New Yorkers who still |eannot understand what has hap- jPened to their cnce high and |mighty Yankees. Seven straight defeats for the world champion Yankees, the same outfit that had rolled up 18 conse- cutive victories earlier this month to apparently make a shamMles of the American League race. A week ago the Yankees led by 114% games. Today, following their 4-1 defeat at the hands of ‘Cleveland, the Yankees’ seemingly insurmount- able margin over the Indians has to Detroit followed by three losses |to Chicago and three to Cleveland did that. Milwaukee's plight is even worse than the Yankees. The Braves, too, dropped their seventh in a row | yesterday, suffering an 11-1 rout by been whittled to six games. A loss | + | 71-77 The batting slumps of most of! In Stride; He Is Eying Flag ging third baseman, dropped 29 that wasn’t quite certain until the | Brooklyn to lose first place to the past few days. | Dodgers. Just seven aays ago, they When Miss Rawls beat Jackie | Were enjoying a coméortable three- Pung of Hawaii and Glasgow, Ky.,|8ame bulge. But a loss to New in yesterday's 18-hole title | York followed by three beatings by playoff after they had tied at 302 | Pittsburgh and three more by in a thrilling three-way finish Sat-| Brooklyn. plummeted them out of jurday, the continuation of the | the National League lead. |Women’s Open as a USGA tourn-| The two league races tightened ament was assured. It was the {considerably following Sunday's climax of a highly successful ex-|Fesults. The rampaging White Sox | periment. |walloped Boston, 13-4, to climb within 64 games of the Yankees. Despite a rather small entry list, By JACK HAND tric picked up three runs off | points from .317 to .288; Del Cran-| the tournament drew good crowds Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—The patron saint of the modern umpire is the late Byron Bancroft Johnson, who_ or- ganized the American Leagué in 1901 in-a snarling fight against the old, established National League and, as one of his first acts, raised the men in blue to a position of | authority, dignity and security they had not known before. Up to that time the life of an umpire had been a hazardous and {| degrading one. Baseball was a rowdy game, and the men who made the decisions were subjected almost daily to intimidation and worse by players and club owners alike. John Heydlez, who later was to become president of the National League, had retired from umpiring because he no longer could stom- ach the abuse heaped upon him by Andrew Freedman, a somewhat notorious president of the New York Giants. Realizing that baseball could never become a truly great game under such conditions, Johnson let it be known from the start that the umpire (there was only~ one on the field in those days) was his personal representative and, as such, supreme. He warned that he would stand for no abuse of his umpires or for any infringement of their authority. He made it stick, too. While this might seem rudimen- tary today, when players and man- agers are being thumbed out of games practically every hour on the hour, Johnson’s freeing of the umps was a revolutionary move 52 years ago. Perhaps no other single rule, or ukasc, did as much toward making baseball the game we know today. A vivid picture of the scandalous pre-Johnson era, as well as that of the past half-century during which the arbiter rose to his present full stature, is contained in James M. Kahn's “The Umpire Story,”’ pub- lished today by G P. Putnam's Sons. You’! wonder when you put it down why it took so long for someone to put this colorful clan between covers. Kahn, a former baseball reporter who knows his subject through long experience, has tracked down about every funny story ever about the never-ending struggle between the umpire and the play- er, There are scores of them, in volving practically every well known figure that profession has known, from the fabled T: of the turn of ce through the late Bil Kiem, arbitrator Hurst it was jimmortal phrase tthe hours” and who we | ball cap with the letier front because, he said for BEST and Johnso fellows to know how I stan him.” By and large, the history of um piring, though it bas had lighter moments, i ef dedicated men average courage who the slings and arrows whil | Satural enemies, the play the cheers ea @e gravy. } | } the wt in the middle of the 1898. season | t the thir NEW YORK W — Manager Al Lopez acted like a man who had expected his Cleveland Indians to} sweep three from the slumping New York Yankees, he wasn’t | overly excited. It was as though it | happened all the time One week ago his Tribe was struggling, 11% games back. Peo- | ple were talking about a split sea- son and a Shaughnessy playoff. Now they were only six games away and coming strong: “The end is too far away,” he} said in the Clubhouse after Early | Wynn’s three-hitter sank the Yanks with their seventh straight defeat. | “We've got close to 90 games to! go (to be exact, 88 games). This should be a great help to us but we still have a long way to go. “Like I said when they werej| winning those 18 straight, they | aren’t any super club. They were hotter than a pisiol. Now their} batters are not getting the hits and their fielding is not as good as it was. But I don’t see any signs of any crackun.” Lopez recalled that last year his Indians once were 7/2 pace bur came back in the stretch. | Somebody tried to get him to) say, they could forget that talk) about the split season now, but he | wouldn’t go for it. “I don’t want to get them mad,” he said with a grin. Tony Cuccineilo,, one of his coaches, wasn’t quit¢ as particular. “What does Casey (Manager| Casey Stengel) have to say now?” | he asked. ‘When they beat us in| Cleveland he said they were over} | the hump. What dces he say now?” | Over in the Yankee Clubhouse, | Stengel didn’t hav2 much to say. | “We're not hitting, pitching and fielding,” he commented. Later he | | ,each had three hits to lead | the| Blizzards at the plate. Carpenter | throwers shows up best in the com-| Franklin, who picked up his sixth | dail fell off 24 points, from .320 win of the season, on a walk, three | tg .296, and Joe Adcock 21, down errors, and Carpenter’s third hit. !to (265, : Gomez, Lewis and Rodriguez; The fact the pitching platoon uddenly turned into a squad of led the General Electric's attack | plete game department, Only three with three hits in four tries. pitchers went the route during the A walk and two errors gave VX-1/13.came home tour. their only run in the second game VETS VIEWS By as Evans coasted to an easy 6-1 win. Roberts, who is scheduled to GEORGE H. HANSKAT VA Contact Representative start against the strong AIS to-! night, gave way to Claude Valdez , in the fifth after pitching hitless | ball. for four innings. Valdez held | the VX-1 in check the two innings | he worked to record the first no-| | Here re authoritative answers jhitter in the softball league this} from the Veterans Administra- year. tion to four questions of interest Evans clinched the game in the| to. former servicemen and their second inning when they scored| famili bo five times on singles by Al Aceve-| QL up all my entitlement do, Joe Castro, Sam Valdez, ajfor training under the World War walk, a double by Luis Casado,|U GI Bill, then I went back inte an error, and a tremendous triple | service and was disabled in Ko by slugging Jack Villareal. They |Tea. Would I be eligible for more added another in the third on an| ‘taining under the law that fur. error and Robert Santana’s long/Nishes training to disabled veter- triple to right center. ans? VX-1’s lone run came in the) A. If you meet all the eligibility first when Tom Fink walked and |Tequirements for training under scored after Botelho and Farrell|the Vocational Rehabilitation Act both were safe on errors. A fast |for disabled veterans, you make double played killed VX-1's hopes | further training, even though you for a rally. used all your entitlement under The only threat of a hit for the World War II GI Bill. VX-1 came in the fifth when Wayne} @- I applied for a pension last Pigg lined one into center, but year for a nonservice-connected Roberts, who had taken over sec- disability, and VA turned me dows ond base when Valdez went in to|D@cause my yearly income w:s pitch, leaped high into the air to above the legal maximum. I under- snare the labeled hit. It was Rob-| Stand that income ceil erts third straight win against no|T#ised last July. Will losses. Sellers, who started for MY Case automatic X-1, was charged with his third|™¢ the pension if straight loss. junder the new Score by innings: I apply again? " Fiest Game A. You will have to reapply for a pension, No au & was A review and pay I eligible ing? Or must am jwas closeted with co-owner” Del Webb. | The Yankees were inclined to be | Philosophical about it. i | Eddie Lopat summed it up: “It j could be a lot worse. We could be | second—or even third.” | INVITATIONS SENT FOR ISRAEL OLYMPICS TEL AVIV (#)-— Sportsmen and women of the Hebrew faith from 27 countries have been iavit- | ed to participate in the Fourth! Maceabiah (Israel Olympic Gam- es) to be held here in September. Among the events will be football, basketball, handball, volleyball, hockey, tennis, gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, weight-lifting, fencing, | cycling, shooting, bowling and swimming The athi will stay at a spe- cial “Maceudi Village” to be erected near the Ramat Gan sta m, the scene of the major com- The Roses re: at the Overland tournament in Di won the first ff dad and were in bloom men's Golf Club r. Jeanne Rose Rose Goldberg Seima Rose the .d. | Yesterda ski of the Cardinals ‘Fans M Club— GE. R. H. E. . 210 003— 6 6 Dairy Queen _ 632 12x—14 16 Warren and Griffin, Kacher; Franklin and Lew | Pension 5 (cases wher d down bec Second Game R. H 100 000—1 051 00x Club— -1 Evans Sell erts, Evans Defeats Legion, 10-3 The Evans Enterprises defeated the American Legion Post No. 28 by 10-8 score in the Junior Base ball league yesterday at Wickers Stadium. Tonight the Veterans of Foreign Wars team ys F 168. ob Hogan CARNOUSTIE, S Hogan's popularity to be hinderin, up for the Britis i mB see war h Open Ch, wds swarm all over Texan the goes a Was no excep ever he more than 2,000 for the playoff— and the players were delighted with the course and the conduct of the jevent, They'd like to play oftener on real championship courses. hitting her wood shots better than ever before during the tournament, had rounds of 75-78-75-75 for the regulation 72 holes and then tied the brand new course record with her 34-3771 in the playoff. GRID COACHES HIT BY PLATOON SYSTEM, TOO WILLIAMBURG, Va. — Players} {may not be the only ones affected |by the abolition of the two-platoon | system in football. The coaches |may have their share of troubles, too. Jackie Freeman, athletic direc- tor and head football coach at Wil- liam and Mary, says he plans a reduction in the Tribe's coaching | staff because of the retura to the} j single platoon. | “While we needed two backfield | coaches last year,” Freeman says, | ‘one for the defensive and one for | 'the offensive backfield, we don’t | | believe we'll need them this year. | | We only have so many hours} of practice and the boys will be) trying to play both ways. There-| | | one coach can| all the time and| {fore, we ficure stay with them teach them both types of play ees SAVE $ $33 For QUALITY USED CARS| and General Auto Repairs: TWINS GARAGE 1130 DUVAL ST. DIAL 27°91 $$$ $ SAVE $5323 8% Miss Rawls, who said she was! The third place White Sox now have won seven straight and 14 of their last 16. Philadelphia’s Phillies halted St. Louis’ march with an 11-inning 4-3 triumph over the Cardinals to close within four games of the league- leading Dodgers. The Cardinals remained in third place, one game behind the Braves and two in back of Brooklyn. New York's fifth place Giants thumped the Chicago Cubs, 12-2, to wind up their Western swing with nine victories in 13 gamés. Although still in fifth place, the resurging Giants are only 7% games off the pace. Cincinnati's improved Redlegs shellacked the Pittsburgh Pirates twice, 4-1 and 9-2. Two American League doubleheaders ended in splits. Philadelphia’s Athletics nipped the Browns, 2-1 after St. Louis had won the opener, 4-1. Detroit whipped Washington, 5-1 after the Senators bad copped the first game, 5-2. Al Rosen’s three-run homer and Early Wynn's three-hit pitching DANGER TERMITES SWARMING For Home or Commercial Use . We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clean, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE Thempson (Ice Di Dial 2-6831 , Inc. vision ) Key West, Florida gave the Indians a sweep of their three-game serizs with the Yan kees. New York had won its pre- vious seven games with Cleveland, Rosen’s homer followed singles by Dale Mitchell and Bobby Avila ia the first inning when Cleveland knocked Whitey Ford out of the box. Wynn helped win his eighth game with a home run in the fourth. 4 The losing streak is the longest for the Yanks since the 1945 club dropped nine in a row under Joe McCarthy. A five-run fourth inning climaxed by Minnie Minoso’s three-run hom- er was all Virgil Trucks needed to post his second victory since he joined the White Sox two weeks ago. Chicago banged out 18 hits off loser Willard Nixon and three relievers. The Dodgers really lowered the boom on the Braves. They backed up Russ Meyer's four-hit Pitching with 16 hits that included five doubles, two tripies and a home run, Granny Hamner’s 11th double followed by two infield outs produced the winning Philadelphia jrun over the Cardinals. Reliefer Ral White, who had allowed only ene hit from the sixth to the Lith, was charged with the loss. Pitcher Carl Scheib singled fol- lowing catcher Joe Astroth’s two- cut triple in the ninth to give the A’s their 2-1 triumph. Clint Court- bey drove in three St. Louis runs with a pair of singles and his first home run of the season to lead the Browns to their first game victory, —————— —a.. FREE! With Purchase of Motorola Radio AMAZING PERFORMANCE AND PRICE! ~ Delightful tone, inrge speaker, remarkable Concentraved