The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1953, Page 6

i) { 1} 1} i ie | \| Sonar School Nips Dairy Queen In Island Cit DeWitt Roberts Misses Bid For No-Hitter On 7th Inning Tilt Pat Lenihan's double in the sev- enth spoiled DeWitt Roberts bid for a no-hitter and gave the Fleet Son- ar School a 14 victory in the first game of a softball doubleheader at Bayview Park last night. | Dan McGrew, Sonar righthander, bested Roberts in a tight pitching duel. McGrew, who allowed only three hits, struck out nine and walked only two, Roberts, who two weeks ago pitched a no-hitter a- gainst Sonar, had pitched 13 1-3 in- nings of hitless ball before Leni- han delivered his game winning blow. The winning tally came as a re- sult of an error by thirdbaseman Kenneth Kerr on Henk’s grounder to open the seventh. After Moser popped up, Lenihan delivered a Hine drive double to right cecter to score Henk with the winning n, | Not a man reached third off Mc- Grew and only two got as far as second, Before the fatal seventh, only one man had reached second off Roberts as he and McGrew turned in in one of the best pitch- ing duels of the winter season. SCORE: RHE Fleet Sonar School 00 000 1 1-1-2 Dairy Queer 000 000 0 0-3-1 Roberts and Fleitas | McGrew and Roland. | In the nightcap, DeWitt Roberts pitched five hit ball and the Dairy, Queen Blizzards edged out the VX- 1 Flyers, 3-2. The win threw the Blizzards into a’ tie for first place in the winter softball race. Roberts who pitched a one hitter in the opening but bowed 1-0 went all the way for the Blizzards. Roberts struck out nine and walked in gain- ing his sixth win against four loss- es, Hal Schmidt, VX-1 righthander, went all the way and was touched for six hits, He struck out three and walked two in dropping his second game of the season against ree wins, ba Flyers picked a run off Rob-| erts in the first inning when Vic Botelho singied, took second on a wild pitch, was sacrificed to third, and scored on a passed ball. | The Blizzards took the lead in| the fourth when John Lewis’ doi ble and infield hits by Claude Val- dez and Sam Valdez loaded the bases with no outs. Schmidt mana-) ged to get Kenneth Kerr and Rob-| erts on pop ups, but Tito Angue¢i- ra came through with a two-run) double. In the sixth, the Blizzards pick- ed up what proved to be the win-| ning run when Kerr singled and} scored on Roberts . double. | The Flyers scored their final run} in their half of the sixth when Dick} Edwards singled, went to second! on a wild pitch, took third on a passed ball and scored when Ang-| gueira let Greenwood’s single go| through him for an error. | Botelho, VX-1 shortstop, led the! Flyers offense with two singles in| three official trips to the plate. Wednesday night the Flyers and the Blizzards will tangle in the sec- ond of a twin to decide the winner} of the Island City Winter Softball! League. In the first game, Fleet Sonar School will play General} Electric and exhibition game. SCORE RH E Dairy Queen 000 201 0 3-6-1 VX-1 100 001 0 2-5-2 Roberts and Lewis - Fleitas (2) Schmidt and Fink | SOFTBALL STANDINGS | WL Pet.| VX-1 2 6 600) Dairy Queen 6 .600 Fleet Sonar School 7 33 General Electric 4 11 .267| Yank Stadium Sale To K of C Is Rumored ST. LOUIS w — The St. Louis! Globe-Democrat reports a national Catholic fraternal organization heralded eons trying to buy Yankee Stadium in sala Bit! of New York for a price of” 1% million dollars. | The newspaper's first report that | 16th day of December. A. D. the Knights of Columbus had com- quick denial from the head of the organization. " . s/f This report “is not true," -said|taxen as contecsed bY Luke E. Hart, supreme knight of | Notice shall be published once each 3. A week for four (4) consecutive weeks ed hi the Knights of Columbus, from in ‘The Key West Citizen, a news-jthe New Haven, Conn. paper of & al circulation pu Of the original said: “It ts true we have been dis- cussing the purchase of the sta- report, dium as an investment purchase Mi ¢ but the deal was not made. | In New York, Yankee General eee Manager George Weiss said ‘omment.” jthe time comes today or tomor- against you and others to quiet the title of Ray - Corwin, his wife, Plaintiffs herein, | West. in and to the following described land, situate, lying and being in a Monroe County, State of Florida, - to-wit i en eC Government Lot 1, Section 12, | (Cireult Court Sea ownship 61 Range 29. contain. By (sd) Florence F. Sawyer “in excess |Whose's THE COUNTY Key West, Florida, on or before the J COUNTY, 1953.) IN PRo- jand thereafter file the ortgina thereof in the office of the Clerk Pleted the purchase brought *Seunte of Monroe County at shed tn y Softball Loop Battle Tuesday, December 8, 1953 Americans Are Teaching The British Soccer MANCHESTER, England ww — A team of United States soccer! Players is plugging away at the top of an English amateur league NEW YORK #—Boxing’s most money. The men who foot the bills —and soccer-mad locals are blink- important social note of the season would like very much to have the ing their eyes in amazement. comes in the form of an engraved public on their side if it should card from Al Weill, manager of cae to a serious showdown. The; teum causing all ‘the’ tos heavyweight champion Rocky Mar- ie ciano, announcing that he has! Herman Taylor, veteran Phila-/from United States Air Force men moved his offices into a hotel suite/delphia promoter, swings at tele-'at the Burtonwood base in North- over on Manhattan’s swank East vision from the floor in the cur. ern England. Side. jfent issue of International Boxing They have played 23 games and In moving his and the cham- Magazine. lost only twice. In league games Pion’s enterprise into a neighbor-| “You can't sell something you're they boast a 100 per cent record. hood where steaks start at $7.50, giving away free,” Herman says.'They have scored 95 goals against Weill obviously is making a clean “However, boxing is doing just 38 in nine league matches. break with the Broadway-Eighth this—selling its birthright for a “We started the season as a avenue sector which for a quarter mess of pottage. novelty,” Capt. Ted Zitrick, per- of a century has been the box-' “To offer two, three and even sonnel officer at Burtonwood, said. ing capital of the world. jfour boxing shows a week on video “Now we're a threat and in a It’s a sizable taxi ride across gives the fan more boxing in a strong position to win the cham- town from Madison Square Garden'month than he would ordinarily pionship of our division—and no and Stillman’s Gymnasium and the'see in a year. And all in the con- longer a novelty.” theatrical office buildings which'venience of his home. So, what is| Zitrck, who comes from Han- traditionally have housed game’s managers, sometimes three the local Promoters with their,reserve team aid that’s undefeated to a room, to Weill’s new offices. |weekly shows matching local talent|in six matches, “I notice,” commented a rival and neighborhood rivals? They| The Yanks take on local factory of their richest manager, “that he have to go out of business, and teams and their success has fired waited until he was out of town with their demise goes boxing. |the imagination of other Ameri- to have those notices mailed out.| “Throughout this area, spots like, Cans at the base. He probably thinks it will blow Camden, Allentown, Atlantic City,| ‘“‘About 40 or 50 boys travel to over by the time he gets back.” (Trenton and Reading, all have been €ach match—and if we have no forced out of business, Here ingame many of them, now rabid It might have been more than Philadelphia only one club is run. Soccer fans, go to another soccer a coincidence that about the first nnig, and that has been running Match,” Zitrick said. thing the big league owners did at a loss for the past few years. /Zitrick said the team started THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Roundup By Gayle Talbot after coming to order was announce|There is no autopsy needed—we Playing last season. Then it attendance figures for the past know what is killing boxing.” branched out and went into a Season. - jleague. ; The news was nearly all bad. LEGAL NOTICES “Men with soccer experience _____|formed the nucleus of the team. ‘TIOUS |Now we are getting plenty of con- VEN that/verts,” he said. |. “We are playing an average of es\three games a week—and that’s : ihe tough going. Now our fame has itious| Spread and we have received invi- Circuit|tations to play games in Scotland orida. | and Ireland.” Business dropped in every Ameri- NOTICE UNDE can League park a total of 16 per cent. Only the fact that Milwaukee broke all National League records | kept the National from showing algng game.°f similar drop. One authority claims|Greene Sts. Key West, F that 12 of the 16 major leaguejnarme sei eter the Raid th clubs lost money. |Court of Monroe Count Thus the owners have their sit-; Dated uation indelibly on the record when 1d. HE! “2 Priseo Seals Are co NOTICE TO CRHDITORS row to go to the mat with theirjiy we cotNne Sua iN Players on the matter of increa URT, OUNTY, . ing pension payments and other) ,,"LORIDA. IN PRoBAT: Said To Be Sold benefits which would run into! JOE GAITI, also known as | LOS ANGELES # — President Deceased. Clarence Rowland of the Pacific LEGAL NOTICES To All Creditors and All Persons iN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE|JAVing Claims or Demands |Coast League says he expects the SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT) AESinst said Estate ms Nog antiasiates eae |San Francisco Seals to be pur- OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, d each of you are hereby pee IN ASD FOR } ONN OR Cone] notified and required to. present any/Chased this week from the league. IN CHANCERY clarma oF demande which you, or Rudi Schaffer and Bill Veeck ob- . 976 er of you, may have against the yjously insi i RAY A. CORWIN and estate of John A. Gaith, also Viously have the inside track, since FREDA CORWIN, his wife, ely as J: A. Gaith, deceased, Schaffer has deposited $25,000 of Plaintiffs,|late of said County, to the County th 000 in; ice ani vs. SUIT TO QUIET TITLE) Judge of Monroe Counte: Poti: tne $100, asking price and has PAUL B. LOWE, not known to be dead or alive, et al., sald County at Key West, Florida,/mer owner Paul Fagan relinquish- Defendants.|within eight (8) calendar months j 7 Hf NOTICE BY PUBLICATION from the time of the first publica. ©S his right to take over again IN GHE NAME OF THE STATE OF|tion of this Notice. Eactt|at any time within five years, FLORIDA claim or demand shall be tn writ- TO ing and shall state the place of | residence and post office address also known) of the claimant and shall be sworn t knownito by the claimant, his agent or to be dead or al his attorney, and any such claims} Frances E._Lowe, © known or demand ‘not so filed shall. bel as Fannie E. Low not known) void. to be Alead or alive; h Virginia Tayler, not known to > be dead or alive: ELLA R. mark GAITT All unknown spouses of the) Aas Executrix of the Last Will and above named Defendants who} Testament of J: Gaiti, also may be married known as J A J. A. GAIT, | Paul B. Lowe, not known to be dead or alive: Stephen S. Lowe, as Steven 8. Lowe, er The unknown heirs at .IPAUL EB. SAWYER legattes, devisees, grantees, Attorney for Executrix creditors, assignees, Menors,’ se trustees, and all other periee and claimants claiming _ by,| 1 OF 7 throug’ nder or against any ane Sec IRCUIT © bo efen- F TH 3 R a ee ee ce ee FOR MONROE COUNTY, The unknown heirs at | IN OBARCERY legattes, . devisees, i : °. creditors, assignees, EVELYN GEOF Y trustees, "and all other parties is Plaintite and mants claiming y,| 8 iv $ through, under or against|JAMES A. GEORGE, Deticeace enry D. Low known as efendan’ inte rete uitee sen: NOTICE BY PUBLICATION All claima: under any of the|TO: JAMES A. GEORGE aforesaid ies Defendant G06 oth Street | And all persons having ‘or Charleroi, Pennsylvania | claiming any interest in the| You are hereby following described and situate/BIill ef Complaint for lying and being in the County|been filed against you, you of Monroe, State of Florida,|hereby required to se D toowit: your Answer-to the Bill of Com- Government Lot 1, Section 12, [Plaint on the Plaintiff's attorney, Tow 61 Range 39, contain- [8nd file the ori office of the ing acres, Island of Key Largo as recorded in Deed Book |Court on or N-583, Monroe County Records, |December, 1 Such ‘lands located in Monroe |the Bill o 11 be taken County, Florida, containing 37.33 |®8_confe: ou. sores ache “er? kees, || This Notice shall be published for You are hereby notified that ajfour (4) consecutive w | Bil of Complaint has been filed] Key West Citize - A. Corwin and Freda {16th day of November. EAR R. ing 3 acres, Tsland of Key : Deputy Clerk Lago as recorded in Deed Book [Plaintiff's attor : N-569, Monroe County Records. IGNATIUS LESTER lands located in Monroe y, Florida, containing 37.33 more or less, hereby oun ~s oo dec, 1-8, A. D. 1953 F INTENTION TO MAKE APPLICATION FOR FINAL | t HARGE je Law 1933) required ff's at of the Circuit Court of Monroe |¢ Florida tn the Court House Key West, G a; otherwise the allegations a Bill of Complaint will you | "Deceased. be/To All Who It May Concern This is hereby By (sd U the to happen to the smail clubs and ford, Calif., said they also run al at his office in the Court House of Offered to add $40,000 more if for-| SCOCCCCC COO ECOL ES OLES Indiana Cagers Happy Chandler Advises Ballplayers Not To say Indiana, last year’s NCAA champion, might be in for a rough'them not to go into the Atlanta to make important decisions re- in the mi season? The Hoosiers, who had their Frick, troubles licking Cincinnati only|!€arned today. three days ago, came back last night and coasted to a 92-66 vic- tory over hapless Kansas State, one of the three teams to beat them a year ago. Only today, the nation’s sports jwriters and sportscasters voted In- jdiana the No. 1 team in the annual basketball poll. Maybe the score against Cincin- because they stepped on the court {in Bloomington and ran up an 11-2 count in just three minutes and Coach Branch McCracken, who }had the woes before the game, {stopped worrying. | Six-foot-10 Don Schlundt hit for after that State never was in the game. Schlundt wound up with 25 jPoints, although, like most of the first team, he played only about a half. Duquesne and Oklahoma A&M, rated Nos. 3 and 4 in the AP poll, both won. But the Aggies had their troubles with Texas and it wasn’t until the final 20 seconds \that Tom Fuller connected with a push shot to put his team in front 62-60. Duquesne coasted to an 83- 58 victory over St. Francis College of Loretto, Pa. Minnesota, which is figured to give Indiana and Illinois a run for the Big Ten championship, had its |difficulties, frittering away a 17- point first-half lead against Tulsa. But the Gophers came back to eke out a 62-60 victory when Chuck’ Mencel dunked a 20-foot, one-hand- jer with 20 seconds left. A fellow can’t hold his records, for any time at all these days. Saturday night, Kentucky's All- America of two seasons back, Cliff Hagan, poured- 51 points through the hoop against Temple—an all- time high for a Southeastern Con- ference player. Last night, Louisiana State’s' Paul Pettit went into action against Louisiana College and hit for 60 points as his team scored a chilling 128-74 victory. In a major upset, Vanderbilt's young team outscored Duke, one of the powers of the Atlantic Coast Conferende, 71-66. Duke ran up imore than 100 points in each of its \first two games, but Vanderbilt |apparently was unawed. Dan Finch jwas the leader of the uprising with 22 points. Missouri opened with a 75-43 tri- jumph over Drake; Marquette came on fast in the second half to stop Creighton 92-73; George- town won its third straight 93-83 at the expense of Mount St. Mary’s; Niagara licked Toledo 79- 62, and De Paul turned back St. prornere 90-47, ove SEE THE NEW CHEVROLET MULBERG CHEVROLET CO. 319 CAROLINE STREET | NEW YORK w—Former Base. ter pension dispute between the indifferent to By ED CORIGAN |ball Commissioner A. B (Happy) Players and club owners came to their wishes. And they have every | NEW YORK # — Did someone Chandler |Associated Press preseason college| jnati was what the Hoosiers needed| is the Burtonwood Gunners, formed! 16 points in the first quarter and| Attend Atlanta Meeting With Ford Frick By JOE REICHLER | This new development in the bit-) “Certainly no one wants to be the players and counseled the major light today for the first time only/right in the world to retain a law- league player representatives on hours before the National and yer. their pension rights and advised American League executives met) put trying to create doubts of the public on the ntegrity of the club jmeeting wih Commissioner Ford garding decisions regarding the veracity and The Associated Press Players’ demends. ewners is not going to solve the The 16 player representatives at‘Woblem. It would have been so their special meeting in Atlanta much better to have approached last Wednesday, telephoned Chand-jthe problem with dignity.” ler at his Versailles, Ky., home| The owners were almost certain for advice before deciding whether to reject the players’ demands for to meet with Frick ja boost in pension benefits from Chandler, in an answer to a ques-/$50 to $80 for five-year men and tion, informed the players that all from $100 to $150 for 10-year men. radio and television money of the Kiner said the players based ;World Series and All-Star Game their requests for increased pen- The Outboard Races held in Gar- belong to them and rightfully be-|sions on the consideration that tison Bight Sunday afternoon were longed in the pension fund, He More money would be available jpart of the Conch Bow! Festival. advised them not to meet with,in 1956 when the plan would nor- jOver 1000 people lined the sea wall. Frick without the presence of their/mally be renegotiated under the Cecil Cates turned over in his lawyer, J. Norman Lewis. The/five-year setup. He said in two speedy little craft when he hit a players followed his advice, walk-|years the $1,700,000 still owed from Piece of driftwood in the B Class,,ing out on the commissioner when/the original 4% million for pro- but was able to make repairs to he refused to allow Lewis to at-|rated payments on old ballplayers, jenter the free for all. tend the meeting. jwould be paid up. That, he said, Bascom Grooms suffered motor National League player rep-/W9Uld leave between $750,000 and trouble, and was unabie to run the resentative Ralph Kiner, who ear- °"¢ million additional money avail- lfirst heat of the B Class. lier had denied he was present at #5l¢ each year from the World | David Nason turned up the win-/any meeting in which baseball's $¢Tes and All-Star Game televi- jner of the beautiful trophy for this|Executive Council had passed a syria class. resolution to consider ending the ‘st = cro has to go some- | In the B-Fishing Gene Skaggs pension plan, amended the Ce ee said. “We want it i g fo go into the pension fund and was winner of the first heat, and ment last night. nok dato: th ; of on his way to win the second heat, The slugging Chicago Cub out- e owners’ pockets. his throttle broke and he had to fielder said from his home in Palm! | | ‘Thousands See ‘Conch Bowl Outboard Races drop out and leave J. Schneedle- Springs, Calif., the only resolution $$SS33 SAVE $88858 |bach and Tommy Saunders to tie proposed with which he was in for first place. agreement was to name ot GARAGE Again the D-1 class was won by mttee to see if it would Pos-| chet Tingler 1st and Walter Cuds-|sible to turn over the pension plan Means QUALITY land 2nd of Marathon, Fla. |to the players. REPAIRS The free for all was Bascom! “When we got to Atlanta,” Kiner AUTO } BODY WORK Grooms 1st, Cecil Cates, 2nd, Chet|/ declared, “we found the resolution PAINTING Tingler 3rd. jhad been changed This will be the.final race of the|along the line.” year and the Race Committee will) Kiner’s version was in sharp var- At the RIGHT PRICE tally up the points for the presen- jance with that of Baseball Com- tation of the “Point Trophies” at Ford Frick h | NEW STUDEBAKER s missioner ‘ore rick, who re- jthe annual banquet which will be sided over the now pivotal sept, |CARS AND TRUCKS |announced later, |29 meeting. Frick, No. 1 figure in| Mean Maximum E. the game, insisted, both major’ FOR REPAIR APPOINTMENT Sea Scouts Make somewhere league player representatives — AUTO DEMONSTRATION |Kiner and Allie Reynolds of the Come By New York Yaniees—together with Overni ht Cruise Lewis, were present at the meet- 1130 DUVAL STREET 4 ing. The commissioner pointedly or DIAL 2.2401 Seven Sea Scouts from Sea Ex-/#dded that Kiner and Reynolds vot-|s ¢ ¢ $$$ SAVE $338888 plorer Ship 250 spent an overnight ©4 in favor of the resolution. Frick) cruise on Cow Key, it was an- S#!@: | nounced today by Skipper Sal Al-| “I stopped the voting once and ‘varez. |told them they were going to hurt Under the direction of Alvarez the pension plan, but they contin- land Mate Harry Williams, the ved the discussion and voted unan- Scouts .ttended classes in boats|imously, 6-0. I have only one in- and boat handling, cooking. and terest, to save the pension plan. sailing. Other classes included sea. ee or motive was to protect the manship and ground tackle, ape , P Alvarez said any boy interested) J. Walter O'Malley, president of in becoming a sea scout can con-|the Brooklyn Dodgers, who intro- tact him at 2-2150. duced the resolution, backed up| the commissioner, adding that a check of the minutes would prove TV Cruelty Charged . |that all three were present and SALEM, Mass. W®—Mrs. Ruby. A.|voted for the resolution. |Cavanaugh, 29, of Lynn, testified) “There is no question but that jin Salem Probate Court yesterday |Kiner and Reynolds voted in favor that after her husband objected/of the resolution in the presence | to her watching television he of their lawyer,” O'Malley said. | tossed an ax through the TV)‘Kiner is a fine, clear-thinking | screen. young man who is being sincere || Judge John V. Phelan took herjin his efforts to carry out hs ob- petition for divorce on grounds of ligation. 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