The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1954, Page 6

Lastres To Hurl Opener Against South Broward Conch Infield Revamped For 2-Game Series The Key West High nine goes back into action tonight when they tangle with the South Broward Bulldogs at 8:15. The Broward team has a fair record in district play and could upset Key West should the Conchs fail to play their top brand of ball. A loss to the Bulldogs to- night could seriously hamp- ew the Conchs Gold Coast chances as Miami Tech is also undefeated with a 3-0 record, Coach’ Davis will use George Lastres and Don Cruz in that or- der with Leeburg Knowles handling any relief duty if needed. Big Julio Henriquez will be on the re- ceiving end of their tosses with Sidney Kerr ready to step behind the plate if called on. The Conch inner defense will be slightly changed for the Broward series, Biff Salgado will be at his regular first base position with Don Cruz at the hot corner. Lee. burg Knowles will be at the key stone stick. Julito Santana, classy +Conch shortstop, will round out Key West’s infield, Harold Solomon will start in left Dairy Queen Takes 1st Place Punch Hitter In Island City Softball Loop Behind the brilliant three hit|Calero, rf pitching of Danny Brooks, the Dairy Queen Blizzards took sole possession of first place in the Is- land City Softball loop with a 20 win over the VX-1 Flyers in the, second game of a doubleheader at Bayview Park last night. In the opener, the Sonar School dump- ed Coca Cola, 6-1, behind Charles Franklin’s four hitter. A jittery Coca Cola infie‘d en- abled the Sonar School to notch their first win of the season, Early in the first inning, the Sonar School began taking advantage of Coca Cola’s mistakes when Frank- lin doubled with one away, and later scored when Pat Lenihan was safe on an error by third- sacker John Solomon. In the third, Sonar sent started Alfred Knowles to the showers when a single by Franklin and doubles by Lenihan and Jim Nelson sent two more Tuns acfoss. Coca Cola picked up their only run off Franklin in the fourth as a result of two errors and an in- field hit. In the sixth, the Coca Cola fell apart and four errors and a walk allowed the Sonar School to tally three times without the aid of a field with Eloy Rodriguez drawing | pit. the starting assignment in center. Jerry Pita and Roger Bean are waging a terrific battle for the starting berth in right field. Jerry played a bang up game against Jackson getting one of the Conchs five hits and making two beautiful running catches in the outfield. Tomorrow’s game will be played at 8:15 at Wickers Field. The Conchs have only 4 more home games following the Broward Ser- ies so a good crowd is expected tonight, Flamingos Down Tally In FIL Play By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Miami Beach continued to hold the lead today in the dwindling Wlorida International League, with West Palm Beach in second place. Miami Beach scored an easy 7-3 victory last night over the cellar- -dwelling Tallahassee team despite the presence of Duke Doolittle as new manager for the Rebels. West Palm Beach won a close one from St. Petersburg 5-4. It was the first time the four teams had played since Miami and Tampa bowed out of the league. They. continue their current series Miami Beach pounded out nine hits off three Tallahassee pitchers and scored in all but three innings, tallying twice in the fourth and eighth. The Rebels’ eight hits were scattered and resulted in only three runs. West Palm won behind the steady pitching of Cuban rookie Enrique Collantes, a right hander who scored his fourth win of the season against no losses. His teammates gave him good support, including three double plays. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Miami Beach 7 Tallahassee 3 woe Palm Beach 5 St. Petersburg TONIGHT’S SCHEDULE St. Petersburg at West PalmBeach Miami Beach at Tallahassee STANDINGS Won Lost Pct. Miami Beach 21 10 = «.677 West Palm Beach, 17 12 .586 St. Petersburg 4 14 «500 Tallahassee 3 26.103 EDITORS NOTE: The won and lost columns do not balance be- cause Tampa and Miami have dropped out of the league) LINES BY SO / ~ “‘ .S : i i, jax i I f ¢ ? i ri iii ies i eit Ht ae Hes alll efits FH L ' NOH eh E 4 ir i I iH Franklin, in addition to his nice pitching stint, led his team’s at- tack with a double and single in three tries. Franklin evened his season record at 1-1. The right- hander struck out 10 and walked only. one. The Dairy Queen Blizzards, get- ting off to a fast start in this young softball season, rode Brooks’ three hitter for a 2-0 win over the VX-1 Flyers.. It was the second straight shutout for the Flyers. Tuesday night they bowed 1-0 to Coca Cola. Brooks, in notching his second straight win, struck out 10 and | 2 walked only one. Only one man got almaeckaee | as second off the young righthand- er, who only Tuesday night stag- gered to a 4-3 victory over the Sonar School. The Blizzards gave Brooks a 1-0 lead in the first inning when with two away, Bobby Santana singled only to center. Higby Schmidt, VX-1 righthander, slightly lost his con- trol and walked Kenneth Kerr and Claude Valdez to load the bases. Bobby Gastres then followed with a sharp single to center to score Santana and a fine throw by cent- erfielder Barney Morgan nipped Kerr at the plate to snuff the rally. The other run for the Blizzards came in the third when Kerr blast- ed his first homer of the season over the left field wall with no- body on. Schmidt, the loser, went all the way for the Flyers allowing the Blizzards only four hits in striking out 4. He walked two. After Claude Valdez singled in the third, Sch- midt held the Blizzards hitless the rest of the game. Kerr’s homer was the first hit in league competition this season. This signifies that the pitching has dominated the games thus far. Box scores: FIRST GAME Coca-Cola (1) Player— J, Rodriguez, ss..4 0 Villareal, c .. rie K. Rodriguez, 2b 3 0 Sands, lf 30 Island City League Action Set On Sunday A double header has been sche- duled in the Island City Baseball League for Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Wickers Field Sta- dium, At that time, the Mike’s Plumb- ers nine will battle it out with the Naval Air Station. The Plumbers were the 1953 champs. The Air- men won their first start this sea- son over the HS-1 baseballers. Robbie Robinson, who hurled a no-hitter in his first outing is ex- pected to try for his second win. Manager Quesada of the Plumbers will start Lefty Rodriguez in box with Santana behind the plate. At 8 p. m., the Cuban Club will cross bats with the Eagles in an- other league tilt. Both teams have one victory to their credit in league play. ‘Cuban manager Valdez will use Joe Lewis on the mound and De- Witt Roberts behind the plate. The ie aaa has not been an- ‘The standings: Club— W. L. Pet. Naval Air Station 2 0 1000 Cuban Club 1 0 1000 K, W. Eagles 1 0 1000 HS-1 Helicopters 01 000 Naval Station 0 1 000 USS Gilmore 0 1 000 Mike Plumbers @ 0 000 Brown, 1b Solomon, 3b Cruz, cf Lewis, cf Knowles, p Warren, p coococs eoooroce eroocce Totals— Sonar Scho! Player— Jones, ‘c ... Franklin, p Lenihan, p Nelson, ss Wertz, cf Garrard, rf Gaffney, lf Moyes, 3b ... Moser, 2b ww. coooorHENOtSe cocootrNNnon ™ eroconmanks BProSCoOoCONOD » cd o ~ Totals— 4 Score by innings: R. H. E. Coca-Cola .. 000 100 0— 1 4 5 Sonar School 102 003 x—- 6 4 2 RBI: Lenihan, Nelson; 2bh: Sands, Solomon, Franklin, eLni- han, Nelson; sb: Calero, Moyer; dp: Fraklin to Lenihan, Villareal to K. Rodriguez to Villareal to Solomon; so by: Franklin 10, Warren 2; bb off: Franklin 1, Warren 2; hits off: Knowles 4 in 2 2/3, Warren 0 in 3 1/3; win- ner; Franklin; loser: Knowles; umpires: Irvin, Arango; scorer: Castaneda; time: 1.32. SECOND GAME VX-1 (0) Player— ABRHPOAE Fink, ¢ .. 200 500 Greenwood, S04. 2.2.0 Pigg, lf 300 3.0 6 Edwards, 1b 300 400 Morgan, cf 30 1 © 10 Parker, rf 300 200 Vargo, 3b $00 1383 0 Sewalk, ss 2 0:0)-2.6-2 Schmidt, p 201 00.6 Totals— “403161 Dairy Queen (2) Player— ABR HPOAE Pazo, s: 300 © 1 7 Aritas, 200 000 Smith, 2b 100000 Santana, ¢ 3s 22 1 0.0 Kerr, 3b 222 2 2.6 Valdez, cf a0 -1 22.000 Lastres, 1b 30 1 5 2246 Sawyer, lf 200 000 Angueira, 2b-rf..2 00 100 Brooks, p 200000 Totals— 22242141 Score by innings: R. H. E. VX-1 —....... 000 0000-0 3 1 Dairy Queen 101.000 x— 2 4 1 RBI: Kerr, Lastres; hr: Kerr; so by: Brooks 10, Schinidt 4; bb off: Brooks 1, Schmidt 2; win- ner: Brooks; loser: Schmidt; um- pires: Irvin, Arango; scorer: Cas- taneda; time: 1.12. THE .KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, May 7, 1954 AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind 4 7 67 Frida Philadelphia at New York, 1 p.m.- o a or Portocarrero (0-0) ve Washington at Boston (night), 7:30 p.m.— Stobbs (1-2) vs Nixon (1-1) or Kialy (0-2) games scheduled) THURSDAY'S RESULTS ‘New York 9, Baltimore 0 , Washington 4 Chicag Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 2 Detroit at Boston. ppd. Rain. SHONAL LEAGUE brig Lost bie Behind Philadelphia wh. a Gincinmatt 8 s0 ys Brooklyn 8 556 St. Louis 0 9 «52 Milwaukee 8 9 471 3 yehicago 8 467 3 New York 1 450 3% Pittsburgh 318 64 15 Friday's Sehedale ond paeeae pone Brooklyn at Phigadelphia p.m.— 'Newsombe (21) ys Simmons (3-1) New York at Pittsburgh ae 7:30 p.m Q Antonelli (2-1) vs Law (2-2) St. Louis at Cincinnati (night), 8 p.m.— Staley ros) vs Valentine (2-2) Chicago at Milwaukee aight, 9 pm— Hacker (0-1) vs Buhl (0-1) THURSDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 8, Brooklyn 7 Cincinnati 5, New York 4 Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia at St. Louis, ppd. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION WonLost Pet. Behind 1 10 jirmingham 10.615 z ll 593 a 522 122 520 me 2 455 4 12 4554 5b 2 5 1 407 5% § RESULTS Atlanta 5-7, Mobile 4-1 Birmingham 10, New Orleans 3 Nashville 3, Little Rock 1 ‘Chattanooga 8, Memphis 2 TODAY'S SCHEDULE SOUTH ATLANTIC WonLost Pet. Behind Macon ew uo (eT Jacksonville 5 8 652 = Montgomery 49 609d Savannah 3 9 591 1h Columbia 0 12 485A 1a ee Sots i 5 i 2388 YESTERDAY’ 3 : eee sta 9, Charlotte Cokimbus 4, Savannah 0 Macon 9, yo 6 Jacksonville 2, Montgomery 0 TODAY'S SCHEDULE _ Columbia at Augusta Seixsonvitie’ at Columbus Charlotte at Macon Savannah at Montgomery ‘YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS ERNATIONAL Montreal ry ‘Rochester. Ottawa 9, Toronto 3 Richmond eee 5 se javana Syracu; Beis San Antonio 6, Dallas Oklahoma City 2. 8 Shrevesert 1 Houston 6, Fort We Beaumont at Tulsa postponed—rain ALABAMA-FLORIDA Dothan 6, Graceville Panama City 16, Crestview 4 Fort Walton Beach 16, Andalusia-Opp 4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis 6, Charleston 1 St. Paul 7, Toledo 4 Louisville 9, Minneapolis | A. Kansas City 5, Colt ACIFIC S OOAST Ay fe of San Francisco Eos Angel Portland 2 Hollywood 2, ‘an Diego 1 Seattle 7, TODAY's “BASEBALL SCHEDULE RIOAN ASSOCIATION ound at Indianapolis Shreveport at Oklahoma City Beaumont at Tulsa BASEBALL STANDINGS WonLost Pet. Syracuse 8 12 Rochester 10 6 «(625 juffalo 7 5 «583 Havana B 500 Montreal 6 455 Toronto _ ... 8 429 7 1364 0 1333 Ottawa... Richmond Dothan Crestview"... Andalusia-Opp Fort Walton Bea: Panama City. Graceville _ .... San Antonio Beaumont Dallas ll Yo Sparks Reds With .378 Avg. By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer Tobacco-chewing Johnny Tem- ple, who aims for first base in- stead of the fences, is proving the sparkplug of the Cinciunati Red- legs’ fight for first division. Sandwiched into a lineup which breathes power at almost every position, this 24-year-old North Carolinian has parlayed his hump- back liners over the infield into a .378 batting average, tops on the club. He has been personally responsi- ble for the winning run in exactly 25 per cent of the Reds’ victories this spring. He drove in the deciding tally again yesterday as Cincinnati shaded the New York Giants 5-4 and moved into second place in the National League with a 12-8 record. The Reds trail the first- place Philadelphia Phillies by half a game. While Ted Kluszewski, Jim Greengrass, Gus Bell and com- pany aim for outer space, Temple, a graduate from the Texas League, is satisfied with his Texas League singles. Against the Giants he dumped one into right field in the eighth inning that scored pinch runner Nino Escalera from second base for the winning run. The Brooklyn Dodgers fell before the Chicago Cubs 8-7 in 11 innings and Milwaukee beat Pittsbugh 3-0. The Phillies were rained out at St. Louis. In the American League the Chi- cago White Sox stretched their lead to a game and a half over Detroit and Cleveland by edging Washing- ton 5-4. The Indians won their seventh game in eight Eastern starts, 3-2 over Philadelphia, and New York trounced Baltimore 9-0. Boston and Detroit again lost a decision to the weatherman. Faulty fielding in left field—a sore point with the Dodgers for two seasons—helped Chicago to its winning run. With Randy Jackson on first in the 11th, Ernie Banks doubled to left. George Shuba couldn’t find the handle and Jack- son scampered home. Hal Jeffcoat, an outfielder in _| Previous years, made his first ap- pearance as a pitcher and picked up the victory in relief. He worked eight innings and struck out catch- er Rube Walker with the bases 444 | loaded in the ninth. PACIFIC COAST Won Lost Pet. 58) Indianapolis 45 (737 Kansas City 1 7? «(6 Louisville 12 8 600 St. Paul... 10 8 556 Columbus 8 98 41 Minneapolis 7 12.368 Toledo - 6 12° .333 Charleston’ oS 13.316 Major Leag League Leaders By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING —Jackson, Chicago, .391. RUNS-Sauer, Chicago, 23. RUNS BATTED IN—Fell, Cincinnati, 22. HITS—Jablonski, St, Louis, 32. soe RUNS —Sauer, Chicago, 9. ITCHING—Meyer and Podres, Brook- wa, Minner, Chicago, Nuxhall, Cincinnati a Presko and Raschi, St. Louis, 2-0, AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING Tuttle, Detroit, .404. RUMS~Minoso, Chicago, ‘18. RUNS BATTED IN-. ee ‘Chicago, 21. HITS—Groth, Chicago, 27. HOME RUNS—Jensen, Boston, Minoso, Chicago, Westlake, = and Vernon, and Sievers, Washington, 4. PITCHING ~Lemon, + Cleveland, Gromek, Detroit, Lopat, New York and Trice, Phila. Crea 4-0, 1.000; five pitchers tied with The U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that world food production has been increas- ing at the rate of about 2 per cent a year. READ THE CITIZEN DAILY 10,000 MILE Guaranty on USED CARS a i Z Carlite B @ue acantp ¥, qq re NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval St. Tel. 2.7041) e Braves beat the Pirates be- hind the five-hit pitching of Lew Burdette, who turned in the first shutout by a Milwaukee pitcher this season. The Braves moved in- to fifth place. At Washington the White Sox waited until two were out in the ninth before staging their winning rally. Nellie Fox doubled and rode home on Minnie Minoso’s fourth single. Minoso scored after an er- ror and Willard Marshall’s single. Harry Dorish, in relief, ran his lifetime margin over the Senators to 14-4. Early Wynn bested Arnold Porto- carrero in a pitching duel at Phila- delphia with Al Smith providing the deciding margin with an eighth-inning home run. Vic Power singled home the first Philadelphia run and matched Smith’s circuit blast in the bottom of the eighth. The Orioles, hitless wonders of the American League, managed only one hit—Bobby Young’s first- ater tines don STUMBLING BLOCK ... When you socom an aisle seat ina theater, don't block the way of others whe wont to go out. Tampa Plans To Field Baseball Team In 1955 TAMPA —The Tampa Citizens Baseball Club isn’t giving up base- ball after all. The team, dropped from the Class B Florida League Wednesday, will start plans to field a club in 1955, according to Howard Gardner, president of the fans-operated corporation. “There’s nothing we can do for the rest of this season,” said Gardner last night at a meeting of officers and directors, “but we hope to get all our affairs straight- ened out and be back in some league next year, a league of high- er ‘classification if possible.” Gardner told the directors the club owed the Internal Revenue Department about $7,000. He said the club would convert its assets to help meet its obligations. Gardner explained Tampa was dropped’ from the FIL because it was in the poorest financial con- dition of the five clubs remaining after Miami quit. A bright red flame may be pro- eet by using strontium salts in a fe. inning single—off Allie Reynolds before the Yankee veteran retired with a cramp in the eighth. The Yanks battered Joe Coleman for four runs in the first inning, with Yogi Berra’s homer the big blow. Vic Vet says MORE AND MORE WORLD WAR II VETERANS ARE CONVERTING fgilt 61 Stem INSURANCE NENT PLAN POLICIES, SUCH International, Bannister Thinks 4-Minute Mile Is Over-Rated Today OXFORD, England (® — Roger Bannister, who broke the four- minute mile, drew back into his shell of shyness today while the/| athletic world acclaimed his feat of the century. The quiet, 25-year-old medical | student shattered the world record with a dazzling 3:59.4 clocking in the blustery cold here last night and thus won the race to the peak | of trackdom’s Mount Everest—the | four-minute mile. “I think the four-minute mile has been overrated,” he said quiet- ly as if trying to justify his feat. “After all it’s only a time. The essence of athletics is racing| against an opponent rather than a clock.” He said he was tired at the end of the race and that he knew he’d just about make it to the end. “TI think people have been fright- ened of this four-minute mile,” he said. “Now that it’s been broken, I’m sure other runners will break it, too.” Although the slight 157- pounder | was unimpressed by his great ef- fort, he did acknowledge that the | 15-mile-an-hour wind in the Iffley | road track might have cost him two seconds. “I think the 3:56 mile is within | reach,” he said. But he didn’t say | he’d be the one to do it. | This was his first race since last fall and along with his mother and father, about 1,000 spectators were on hand for the dual meet. It was on the very cinders where eight years ago he ran his first mile race as an Oxford freshman—in more than five minutes. When he sprinted those last 300) yards to the finish line and sport- ing immortality, experts wondered only what new worlds are left for him to conquer. Only a few weeks ago he com- mented somewhat diffidently that jhe felt he was a better half-miler than a miler. That means he could set out after the 880-yard world record of 1:48.6 now held by Mal Whitfield, or possibly the wonder- ous mark of 1:46.6 for 800 meters established in 1939 by Germany’s Rudolph Harbig. The world 1,500-meter record of 3:43—held jointly by Haegg, Len- nart Strand of Sweden and Werner Lueg of Germany—seemed easily within Bannister’s reach. He tied it unofficially in his record-shatter- ing mile. It was unofficial only be- cause there was but one clocker at that point and the rules require three for official marks. 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