The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 29, 1953, Page 6

Lastres Fans 20 As Conchs Down Clewiston 2000 Fans Witness First Of Three-Game Series For Title George Lastres fanned 20 of 29 batters he faced fast night as the Arthur Sawyer Post 28 baseballers downed Clewiston to take the lead in a three game series| flor the Southern Area American Legion title before up- wards of 2,000 rabid fans at Wickers Field Stadium. The fans, who turned out en mass to cheer the lo-| @al Legionnaires on in their quest for the State and possi-! bly the national title, were treated to over an hour of darkness when the lights at the stadium failed to func-| tion prior to the game. i Key West will journey to Clewis- | ton today and Thursday will tackle ‘that club in the second game of the/ three game playoff. If the series! to three games, the third will) played in Flamingo Stadium, ow Yoek id Miami Beach. Secten Lastres, in racking up the lat- Geveland | AMERICAN LEAGUE By The Associated Press First Key West Run FLAG RACE MAY NAR |the story. The "Yankees have a/ TO WHITE SOX, ROW YANKEES By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer | Page 6 Could it be that New York and; a nae toutat acne NAVY Men Win 4 ‘Pool, Pingpong ‘Championships Today and tomorrow should tell chance to wipe out the flag hopes | for fourth-place Cleveland. The Waite Sox ‘are ina pesition:to do! 7’ e Branch, SO1, Fleet Sonar —+— THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, July 29, 1953 'Race Is Slated ‘By Outboarders The Key West Outboard Club will hold their monthly point race jon Sunday, but the location, either Garriscn Bight or their clubhouse jthe same for Boston. Neither series is the kind on which you’d want to risk the fam- ily jewels although both the Yanks ‘School, and Harvey Resdick, SA,/on Stock Island will not be decided USS Albatross, won first places in until their meeting Friday night. ‘the handicap pocket billiard and! Entry classes will include B- table tennis tournaments, respec-'Hydros, B-Fishing, D-1 and C-Ser- est in a long list of sterling pit- priadeipnia Detroit... St. Louis —- YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York 4, Cleveland 2 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Cleveland at New York Boston Chicago at St. Louis at Philadelphia (N) Detroit at Washington (N) MATIONAL LEAGUE n RESULTS Milwaukee 2, New York 0 ie es Bi KEY WEST’S JULIO HENRIQUEZ scored the first run in action agai fourth inning on a fielder’s choice after he had doubled to start a Post of Key West won 5-0-when George Lastres fanned 20 batters. 4and the White Sox looked good in) ;winning last night. New York ran jup a 4-0 margin in the first six linnings against Cleveland and beat |the Indians 4-2. Chicago took the \measure of Boston by the same/ jeount with Same Mele, one-time! jmember of the Red Sox, banging} {home three of ‘he four tallies. \ | Both of the winners were due for|USS PC 579, second in the ping-| good game. They’ve been running \1-2 mostly by default for the past 10 days. The Yankees hadn't looked | like champions since they captured | a double-header in Chicago a week | ijago Sunday, and the White. Sox! <j had dropped six of their last nine! But the gap is widening now. New York leads Chicazo by 514; games and has an 8%-g2m2 bulge over Boston and 9 over Cicveland. | The Indians save stayed close! inst Conch rally. Arthur Sawyer tively, at the USO-YMCA Club, 530 Whitehead Street, Key West, Tues- day evening. Both tournaments were conduct- ed as double elimination affairs with Bernie Vozar, SA, U. S. Coast Guard, runner-up in the pool tour- ney and Donald Strong, ENFN, pong event. These tournaments will be con: ducted weekly on Tuesday eve- nings with drawings at 8 (2000) o’clock sharp. Handicaps in the pocket billiards as a result of last night's play ar Branch. 83, Vozar .76, Mike Rya SA, USS Gilmore .72, and Paul E. Lisak, EMFA, USS Sturtevant .32. In the table tennis tourney Res- dick carries a handicap of two points per game in matches wii mainly because they had won s'x Strong, K. E. Moser, RDSN, USS in a row from New York. With this| Robinson, and T. Cueson, SK2, Sea- r 439 “a He (YESTERDAY'S RESULTS 13, Mobile 4 Joe Horgan Was A Colorful Bag By WILL GRIMSLEY jehampions before and after the NEW YORK @—In 1922 Gene turn of the cemury. He was the Sarazen was on a golf exhibition| true professional.” tour after winning his first U. S.| Horgan became almost a legend- Open and had a ‘rip to, make from| ary figure. He carried clubs for the Long Island to the Westchester/first U. S. Open champion, Horace Country Club in Rye, N. Y. Rawlins, in 1895. He was the second Gene's caddy told the golfer not}man in three of Willie Anderson's Park in the Bronx, cents for nine holes. band of nomads who- traveled all over the country to the big tourna- ments to carry clubs, said. “He took a special liking to the British visitors—Vardon, big jbubble broken, they are in danger, Oter FOr FLOS ¢ tacing tas: | Boston, on the other hand, stands to get a big psychological lift today when Ted Williams returns to Fen- way Park. He was released from \the Marine Corps yesterday. Whether his mere presence—since. he says he’s not yet in shape to play—will be enough to keep the| ‘Red Sox going remains to. be seen. Brooklyn maintained its seven- receiving 1s} “He became the leader of a little Sarazen Pet. Behind BS 520.194 an MM Ml 35% 2 am 33 07 Augusta 2," Columias’ 8 ‘Macon 3, Montgomery 2 TODAY'S SCHEDULE at Savannah Hi bigz TEXAS LEAGUE Houston 22, Fort Worth 14 Dallas 8, San Antonio 6 Beaumont 7, Oklahoma City 1 Shreveport i.7, Tulsa 06 ALABAMA-FLORIDA LEAGUE Panama Eufaula 3 og a SEBALL SCHEDULE RICAN ASSOCIATION Paul ALABAMA-FLORIDA LEAGUB Fort Walton Beach at Graceville ‘Shreveport at INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Toronto land and Detroit on our last Key West Navy ° ° ° Nine Wins Title Representing the Key West Fleet air detachments, the Fleet, All Weather Training Unit soft-/J¢s ball team captured the runner-up position in the Fleet Air softball tournament in Jacksonville, Fia.| Jacksonville's Fleet Air Squad-)panas ron 109 edged FAWTU, 2-0, in a/Shreveport __— 13-inning heart-breaker Saturday Fort, Wert to claim the championship. West- | s aerecases a2, koseeene? Heptha? & aie —3 TEXAS LEAGUE we rl Ei ea st 61 FY JOklahoma City le Rear Admiral Osborne B. Har-/Reses,, = @ison, commander, Fleet Air,/San Antonio — Jacksonville, sent his congratu-! associa’ lations to the FAWTU team and! RAS ron omg all participants for their Tiere = = Kansas Git Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, stiorespota” Fia., is going through a refurbish. 2u™>ss, ment program during the summer} months. The running strip, built on! a-nine-inch cushion of mud, is to Holtywooa be spread with black marl and pag ey sand, Portiand Oakland Subscribe To The Citizen S205, of aeresessy cseuerest seencens? cedes sokekse : aeeeasag Sananeusy Baeeanye? i | i) } } to worry, he'd bring along the!four Open. triumphs from 1901 clubs. After reaching Rye, Sarazen 1905, stood around nervously waiting for the caddy to. show. Finally he appeared, but no clubs. “I stopped off in the Bowery,’ the caddy explained, without re- morse. ‘Some fellows in a tavern there took a liking to the clubs, so I gave ‘em away.” The caddy was old Joe Horgan, picturesque dean of America’s club luggers, who died Monday night in Brooklvn at the age of 72. “Joe was the last of the old school of caddies,” recalled Sara- zen. “He caddied for all the great) But mainly, Horgan was Harry Vardon’s “‘boy.” The great English stylist would have no other caddy|Caddying. was a sport. He always during his American’ appearances. Horgan caddied for Vardon in 1900) when the Briton won the U. S. Open and again in 1913 and 1920. ‘Shortly before Vardon died he ked how Horgan was getting along,” Sarazen caid. “I told Harry that Joe had quit shouldering clubs and had turned golf journalist. Var- don seemed very pleased.” Horgan began his career at the public course in Van Cortlandt “,.. And Then There Was Light” “Sime, * KEY WEST BASEBALL FANS were treai the above pictured City Electric System workman last night at the Key West-Clewiston American Legion playoff clash when the lights at Wickers Fieid Stadium failed to function. The field was | bathed in darkness for more than an hour prior to the start of the j q a to & performance by Ted Ray, ete.—and always met them at the boat. He was the Grov- er Whalenof caddies. “To him money was secondary. wanted to caddy for the champion. | So he'd pick him out. And ne wasn't often wrong. . “He would study the course and the golfers and chen pick his man. {But he was tough. He'd tell: his.em- ployer what club or what kind of a shot should be made on 2 certain hole. If the golfer didn’t follow his jadvice—blooey—that was all. Hor- gan wouldn’t touch him again for @ million bucks.” I | game edge over Milwaukee in the plane Base. walk, a double by Al Rosen and a single by Luke Easter. The Red Sox also drew their largest crowd—35,385 — to watch them Jose for the third time in 13, games. The loss went against Hec- tor (Skinny) Brown, who had won 10 games this ‘year and seven in a| row. Mele and Minnie Minoso ac- ‘counted for all the Chicago runs. Both had home runs. jYork 2.0. Third-place Philadelphia The Cubs gave the game away jto Brooklyn in Chicago as a pair of jerrors contributed to seven un- jearned runs in the second inning. Johnny Podres checked the Cubs on four hits, three. of them singles by National League by swamping Chi- cago 13-2. The Braves edged New \slipped nine gamés._ behind by los- ing 5-4 to Cincinnati, and St. Louis pulled into a fourth-place tie with mindy Jackoes ° : bel oor hit < hooped Re at bo ai “cagewg —_— meric: i waukee to three hits but me eee rg — the.Braves didn't need any of them to score their two runs against the Giants. Three walks, two sacrifi and a long fly got the runs hom Bob Buhl, who scored one of the runs, won his seventh game. Ray Jablonski drove in half of ithe Cardinals’ runs against Pitts- burgh with a pair of singles. Cliff ‘Chambers and Joe Presko scat- St. Louis 9-7 on Ray run homer in the The largest New York crowd in two years—57,461—showed up to watch the Yankees break their Cleveland jinx. Joe Collins and Gil MeDougald hit home runs and the other two Yankee tallies scored on Murray's two- a double by Irv Noren and a single by Phil Rizzuto in the sixth. Cleve- land got its two in the seventh'on a H of the Fourth of July races and | The Key West. Sailing Club/of other sailing events, includi ‘will meet Wednesday night.at 8/the Orange Bowl Regatta at Mi- o’clock at the Wesley House, 1100/ami woe ami. Varela Street. All members are urged Colored movies will be shown'present. Phillies and Harry Perkowsk weathered a four-run uprising in the eighth to post ‘his ninth vic- tory. vice Hydros. | On Sunday, September 6, the An- nual Labor Day Regetta will be held, sponsored by the Key West Lions Club, Handsome trophies will be donated by the club and the races are open to all participants. | This annual race has always drawn an enthusiastic crowd and competition is very keen in this jrace as winners are also reward- fed with a sumptuous supper by the Lions Club. Mrs. Gehring Tops Navy Wives Loop By ANN MACE Mrs. Gehring roiled the high e of the week in the Navy 'Wives Bowling ‘oop when she top- pled the timber io the tune of a 195 game, In second place, Alice Bratkovic \rolled a 189 which breaks the re- jcord for high score in regular lleague play to date. Coming through to take third iplace was June Camfield for a nice game of 184. 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