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1953 Conch Football Schedule Is Releas zkaek zak 2 Ss * x ker x ere * x xk *® xere d; Nine Home Games Featured x ® ® Key West Legion Nine Drops C lose Verdict To Pan American Post xn** ee Homecoming Tilt With Jefferson Is Featured A Thanksgiving Day homecoming tilt with the Jeff-| erson of Tampa eleven, tops the list of nine home games scheduled by the Key West High School football squad im the coming season, it was announced Monday with the Release of the 1953 grid schedule by Athletic Director Winston Jones. Less than a month remains before the Conchs, play-’ ing their third year of football in recent years, begin their drills for what promises to be their most ambitious eampaign. Coach Ed Beckman will blow the whistle for preliminary practice sessions August 17. : £ Hy 7 ; é 3 4 E i : i NATIONAL LEAGUE By The Associated Pregs Won Lost Pet. Behind E e 5 i F i gs a te i ersseses : i rie F FER A HY H i iF i tye git rea f i i i nH H g ul 2 H f [ : z E i 4 4 : E innings) . ‘Columbus 3-1, Macon 2-0 Augusta 28, Montgomery 1-4 i i at mbia Macon at Montgomery Savannah at Charleston SQUTRESN ASSOCIATION By The Assoc! ress . Won Lost Pet. Behind jashville 8 42 S80 ! rl | E aF ie a i & 5 E Py us aE it i i 5 3 sais 3 g rs i = i i & H i te ai ae E i i at ah ih YESTERDAY'S RESULTS 5, Atlanta 2 5, Nashville 4 ‘New Orleans i z et} § ig : i i E : & (postponed — |~rain) ! jit: 535 Hi E Hl fate ge 3 Ey E i Baseball Resulis #8 |fider Don Thompsun. By now there "Who Are The Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BROOKLYN PITCHING INCREASES MARGIN | In Tournament By BEN PHLEGAR ‘So was Fondy’s walk. But K AP Sports Writer Jer’s blow, a screaming knee Some of the National League’s drive toward cen‘er field c {best pitching magic must have Miksis on the leg. The nner rubbed off on Cheerful Carlie |was out automatically, the ball was the tour Dressen at the All-Star Game. jdead and the rules credit Kiner at jt tonight After associating with the likes with a single. bring the of Robin Roberts, Warren Spahn| With Fondy on second and Kiner ig & Co., Charlie has come home to\on first Dressen switched from back to Ke Brooklyn and with a wave of the Meyer to Hughes. Jackson looped The Conchs hand—the one ne used to wag one over the infield th ¥ |frantically at the bullpen—he’s short right for an appar’ jsuddenly converted a staff of Kiner held too ‘ong at jthrowers into a ceasonably danger- was forced at second by ous assortment of pitchers. {son's throw. Thus two were | Dressen still has to be the mas-/even though the first four batters jter of the quick change, such as had reached first ba last night when Russ Meyer sud-| The Cubs made cne last attempt’ Lefty Jim -P. |denly blew up in tne ninth after to break the shutout as Joe Gara- iat Whiale:of a jshutting out Chicago on three hits'giola caught Hugies’ first i ate for the first eight innings. But on|and rifled it over the right field the Key West the whole he has been getting screen—four by iess than 10 feet. set.them down good pitching—good enough that Then he hit to Hodges at first nits but his m it’s’ going to be harder and harder base to end the game. to budge the Brooks from their! The victory was the sixth in able to conne first-place spot. J seven games for Brooklyn since than four s Meyer and Jim Hughes com- the All-Star break. them the bined to pitch the second Dodger) For the Pirates, Paul Lapalme oi shutout in seven games, a five-|picked up where he left off Sund, truck out hit 3-0 effort against the Cubs that|and pitched four more ele stretched the Brooklyn lead overjinnings to win his fourth ne the idle Milwaukee Braves to 3/The Cards had been at bat in t games. sixth with one out when the Sun- | The only other action yesterday day curfew forced a halt. was in Pittsburgh, where the Pi-| In the regular game Pittsburgh when Pan American gart rates preserved their lead in a,jumped off ahead with four si hen I an Si signs & . suspended Sunday game to beat/in the first inning against Stu Mil- ed two runs on 2 pair the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 andjler but the Cards svon caught u a wild pitch and then bowed in a regularly sched-|Bilko homered with the bases uled contest 9-4. as Steve Bilko empty in the fourth and with Mz | West came back broke a batting slump with twojager Eddie Stanky aboard in the eft Came, DAC home runs and a pair of singles. ninth. Peanuts Lowrey drove inthe seventh inning w Meyer and Hughes were lucky two runs with a triple in the sixth Portier doubled to aid to get out of the ninth inningjinning. Cliff Chambers, second of ED ea without being scored upon since/four St. Louis pitchers, received OW Cause and rom ithe first four Cub batters reached |credit for his first victory of the home on a single by F first base. season. Curry. Eddie Miksis started it with a| Everybody gets back into the tg double. Dee Fondy walked. Ralph|act today and tonight with a day x Kiner singled and Randy Jackson’s|game and three night contests in action tonight sinking liner fell in front of right|the American League and a d: game, a twilight-night double-head-', er and two single night games in * the National League. In Action At Miami Beach } Arthur went down to . night in Distri Miami bu Sawyer P bowed to aliant sever ell but one ru ing.it up. er pite game en h Ss were for e. struck out 13. up until the fifth fre ugainst were two men out. icked last Saturday in Miksis’s double was legitimate. win. wag | A’ victory tonight : S rts Roundu lsend them up against po Pp lwinner of tonight's Har By JACK HAND lSeeds Post-Hialeah ‘ga Bead Tea |The battle t for 9 NEW YORK w—Is Native Dane..2°™* at Miami —_ Eit ler another Man o’War? ‘The evi- , é dence is beginning to™pilé’ up on/Lhompson will go to his side, The Dancer‘has won 16 mound Yor Key West. of 17 and $658,570. Man o' War lost; only 1 in 21 and earned $249,465/ Top Rookies In Majors? NEW YORK (#—Who are the top George Lastres Tuseday, July 21, 983; Conchs Go Back three more d it cost batters while Miami’s hurler, Osacer The tilt was a scoreless tie The Conchs go back into ‘oral Gables nine who they |, tourney opener in a shutout're Will slants at the Cubans or he may golead the National League and Lefty ' ‘National Loop ‘Home Run Recor Expected To Fall NEW YORK ~The a National ue, Row stronger hitting it than the American, is a bet to eclipse its all - time run record this season. ‘Aims At Record ‘Aims At Record By SHELDON SAKOWITZ NEW YORK — Monte Irvin} imay be the first New York Giants} ‘hitter to win the National League! With about three-fifths of the batting championship since Bill) gn gone, National League/Terry's .401 won the crown in 1931./ ters have blasted out 705 hom-| Irvin, climbing steadily the past) At that rate, the year’s total few weeks, now is right on the) reach 1,175. The existing heels of pace-setting Red Schoen- k is 1,100 set in 1950. dienst of the St, Louis Cardinals.) he homer-conscious Brooklyn Schoendienst, who has topped the| » have walloped 53 in'league since the end of May, is| es, lead both batting 3334, while Irvin’s average | tuns with 116, )is .3331, > Cincinnati Redlegs, who broke, During the week Sehoendienst ir own mark of 110 last Sun-/went 6 for 25 and tosi seven points, are second im the National/Irvin, in moving “up from third, 112. gained three points by going #-for- he surging New York Giants15. Figures include Monday's | re third with 101 followed by the! games. 8 | Braves, 91, Chicago) Brooklyn's Carl Furillo, is third} St. Louis Cardinals, 79;/at .3323, followed by Chicago's hia Phillies, 71; and the Frankie Baumhoitz at .3321, r-less Pittsburgh Pirates, 52.; In the American League batting Im the American League, where derby George Keil of the Boston 515 homers have been hit to date/Red Sox again has pulled away record is 973), the Cleveland/from teammate Biily Goodman. } ns are tops with 88. Then'Kell, tied with Goodman for the! e the New York Yankees with /lead last week, boosted his av-| St. Louis Browns, 70; Boston/erage to .333, while Goodman slip-| i Sox, 66; Philadelphia Ath-|ped back into the runnerup spot 5; Detroit Tigers, 56; Chi-|with .3326. | amet: hite Sox, 47; and Washing. | Keil collected seven hits in 18, “iton Senators, 45. jtrips and raised his average four! ner- points. Goodman went 5-for - 18 of and suffered a three-point decline. | 3 Orestes (Minnie) Minoso of the) ‘Chicago White Sox remains third with .322. In going §-for - 23, Min-| Action Slated In oso skidded two points. i Island City Loo : y P Ted Kluszewski of the Redlegs’ The Cuban Club and the Mike/and Eddie Mathews of the Braves Plumbers nine will cross bats to-|are tied for home run honors in night at Wickers field. |the National League with 28 apiece Both clubs won their opening and R9y Campanella of the Dod-| a Mi- » tin hed for he un- | He in hen! his ped red games played Sunday, the Cuban gers has the most runs batted in,) jClub over the-Overseas Trans. Co, '82. | and Mike Plumbers won over| In the American League Cleve-| Chuck Sandiches. jland’s Al Rosen is tops in both Mer. Valdez of ‘the Cubans will departments with 23 homers and is star pitcher on the mound. |77 RBIs. Rodriguez, with Pazo on the| Pitching laurels still go to Mil- ceiving end, jwaukee’s Lew Burdette and Ed Mgr. Quesada of the plumbers Lopat of the Yanks. Burdette sports) will use Quiro Diaz to fire his@ Perfect 7-0 won-lost record to) | the the kK the‘in there himself and stop’the Cub-\Lopat heads the American loop vey ans. J. Rodriguez will be the cacth- ber 10-1 mark for a .909 per- lel jcentage, :00;thing like this: jana 3b. J. Mira, 2b. A. Alonzo ef ny . ¥ Canalejo, Ib Quesada, 1f, P, Rod- her) Pazo. e. C. Valdez 2b, An; 3, viguez, rf and Diaz p. ef, K. Rodriguez, p. Casado, 1f, J es 86 m } Tab. Remember fans at Wickers Field! tlie ie RY 3b. C Lastres, ib bet p.m, to-night, | The Plumbers will be, J. Rodri-! Albio Acevedo, ss R. Sant-| er. Me.| ‘The Cubans will line up some- CLUB STANDINGS jguez, ¢. Club— W. L. Pet. Monte Irvin 11953 Key West HS, d Paces Batters, Football Schedule (CLIP AND SAVE) Sept. 11—Clinie Sept. 18—St. Annes Sept. 25—Miami Tech Oct. 2—St. Theresa 9—St. Patrick’s 16—Bishop Hur- ley 23—Constance 30—Miami Beach Nov. - Noy. Nov. 20—St. Peter and Paul 28—Jefferson of Tampa Nov, “Away Bushnell First In Tournament The USS Bushnell’s softball team was recently awarded the first place trophy at a brief ceremony at the Armed Forces YMCA, The Bushnell team went undefeated in a nine game league sponsored by the Y, to win the trophy. first she had lost in two ye: The last game the Bushnell team played was with Jim Carey on the mound with the USS Perry getting the ax, score 11 to 5. Ca- rey, in winning the last game rack- ied up his seventh victory of thr season, and holds league pitchin~ honors with 7 wins and no loss r~ cord. Chief Veigh gets the cred’ \for the team’s two remaining vic $$3$$$$ SAVE Means QUALITY AUTO ‘ REPAIRS BODY WORK PAINTING AND USED CARS At the RIGHT PRICE | season St. Paul, outpointed Al Pelle-|Cuban Club ...... 1 0 1,000) ‘CARS AND TRUCKS if! has more than iwo months to go, indications are that the annual awards will go to shortstop Harvey Kuenn of the Detroit Tigers in the American League and pitcher Har- vey Haddix of the St. Louis Car- dinals in the Naticnal. Kuenn, the bonus baby the Tigers plucked fresh from the University lof Wisconsin campus, is batting a WSh2F - e i — = 5 i | in the pre-inflation days of 1919 and} Although the 1953 campaign still| 1929. As Alf Vanderbilt’s Grey Ghost continues to dwarf the 3-year-old) field, his defeat in the Kentucky Derby becomes more difficult to! superb performance by Dark Star, the fact remains that Erie Guerin is destined to go down) through the years as the jockey'— who lost the derby on the Dancer. Jim Norris might as well go BROOKLYN—Randy Sandy, 1 figure. Call it bad racing luck or New York, outpoinied Lee S ja NEW ORLEANS—Dei Flanagan, jrefused to answer bell) 150, New Orleans, 10. Mike Plumbers 1 0 1,000 ZINAW, Mich. — Al Andrews, |Overseas Trans. Co. 1 000) Chicago, outpointed Pat|Chucks Sandwich Shop ..0 1 | Syracuse, N.Y., 8. | Thursday night at 8 p.m., Chuck's 5 — Yvon Du-|Sandwiches vs. Overseas Co. 16,5 Baie Ste. Anne, N.B.,| ala, awarded decision over Joey Greco| The first. gasoline driven boat |160, Jersey City, N.J., 4. (Greco putt-putted a few yards on the Riv- er Seine in Paris. back in 1887. Boxing Results g MONDAY NIGHT’S FIGHTS | By The Associated Press %, Donora, Pa., 10. (oo, Mean Maximum Econom; FOR REPAIR APPOINTMENT AUTG DEMONSTRATION Come By . 1130 DUVAL STREET or DIAL 2.2401 S$S$S$S SAVE $5553. , {Solid .311, seventh highest in the junior circuit. He also leads the league in hits with 118. In the field, Harvey's been more than adequate, making only 12 errors in 88 games. Haddix, a 27-year-old southpaw, has won 11 games arkl dropped only three, pitching eight complete! games, two of them shutouts. He! and the veteran Gerry Staley have: been the only dependables on the Cardinals’ sagging mound corps. Kuenn’s closest competition for jback to the fight business and get jbusy signing Randy Turpin-Bobo Olson. His Jamie K. just ain't jgoing to catch the Dancer. Jim must know it now after that humil- jiating defeat in the Arlington IClassic when Jamie K. finished fifth while the Dancer scampered home nine lengths ahead of the second horse. Any doubt about the Dancer's \ability to run on an off track was |. removed by his performance in . the heavy going at Arlington. He fe Fe Oa ees (poe as lopey tack at tarciogs League come from Tom — nd (ast year but all his other races Boston Red Sox outfie Browns: {had been over a fast.strip. Never Billy Hunter, St. Louis Browns’ |aiq he win as easily a8 in the shortstop, : isteq |Classic. Umphiett, who wasn’t even listed ‘on the Boxos’ roster last spring, ihas been one of the more pleasant \surprises for Manager Lou Bou- dreau. In 78 games aproertrte = a 301 average, with 18 doubles and cients to run the meeting at the 2 home ruts ras 8 = ee beautiful upstate horse park. They center fielder, he ae jactually move to’ Saratoga Aug. 3 {fans forget Spesiyrinnged Dod.|t9 Fun through Aug. 29. Native Hunter, obtaine m the Dod'nancer’s next start will be up ger organization last winter, shows) # ‘only a .237 batting mark but his) there in the Travers, Aug. 15. |fielding bas onthe ional |, N€%, York just finished the side. \Em pire City-atJamaica meet- In the National League, Jim ling last week, although there has ee : jbeen no Empire City track for cee ts Neorg Red-| several years. The old Empire City imepulski fie — men Cardinaly|Plant_now is Yonkers Raceway, lee are going great in their ¥¢re the ges horses trot and i “ guns jpace under the tights. Perc eae use aiies most!, With New York attendance and of his clubs’ right -band power, is handlers fighting to stay even wtih hitting .306 with 14 home runs and 58 runs batted in. iast year’s level and New Jersey jtrack that New York fans deserve? Jablonski, 26-year-old thi base-/2* before they build the modern man, is at .289 with 13 homers! and 63 RBIs. Repulski, the Cards’; track that New York fans deserve The dax when somebody ope; ‘best center fielder since Terry Moore, is hitting .304. The Saratoga-at-Jamaica season opened yesterday. That's the gim- imick by which they make enough money from the New York City | t : 5 & if H : ai! 1 ai Ye iii ai = A ~ z i i : i rf i fi i aie gz i} i : [f FI * gheaebee? Sepdkees? saeenuet seeneses$ xerecces}* esaseee bf Ti i é 8 eae | i “ALL READY FOR THE STORMY SEASON! ourney To End MARIETTA, Ga. W — Augusta Pensacola, Fia., meet here in the finals of the Region’ The above picture is not a disaster scene, but one of preparedness. It shows one half of the big front on the Gulf- Food Department Store at. 1105 White Street with the new installed. Hurricane Shutters stiers wer nufactured by the Jones Shutter Products of Miami, Florida. They are all aluminum, Sight- i orc, They are cosy to install as is demonstrated by the very first installation which is primarily for fitting purpeses, and will be removed until needed. i These Shutters ere a guaranteed complete protection against hurricanes, and are the Gulfstream’s insurance against hurricane damage. Fie cael are gladly given by the Jones Shutter oducts of Miami, and you may write them at Pest Office at international Airport, Miami, Florida, or ask infor mation for the Phone i a borse track in New Jersey, across the river at the end of th ‘6, District 7 Pony League baseball| = __|Lineoin Tunnel, may be closer than tournament. by defeating Marietta 62 in the You think. winner will go to Florence, |semi-finals last night. | . Monday to represent the’ Pensacola best Alexander City,, Gene Woodling of the Yankees ‘district in the regional tournament./Ala.. 114 in the other semi-fina] won the batting title in every min i Augusta advanced to the finals' game. or league in which be pla EGER a i 4 g i ; i Sex 203 8 & s 5