The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 10, 1954, Page 6

Conch South Broward Falls, 11-3, As Cruz Hurls Three-Hitter The Key West High School baseball team is as- sured of at least a tie for the District Four championship as a result of their 11-3 vic- tory Saturday night over the South Broward Bulldogs. To gain undisputed title to the toga, the Conchs will have to win but one of their four remaining games with Miami Edison and Miami Tech. They’ll go into action again next Friday night in the first of a two game ser- ies with the Qdison baseball- ers. A win then would assure them of a shot at the state title in Ft.'Pierce June 8-11, Key West is the defending champion. Although they played in the Class A divi- sion last year, they went on to defeat the AA titlists and gain the toga. Saturday night, the Conchs un- loosed a display of offensive power when they pounded three South Broward hurlers for 12 hits. Mean- while, Don Cruz, who has blossom- ed forth as just about the most valuable player the Conchs have on their roster, was taming the Bull- dogs with a three hit effort — and fanning nine batters. Cruz was never in real trouble and he aided his cause consider- ably when he pounded out three hits, batted in three more, and for good measure, scored one himself. The Conchs opened up with a brace of runs in the first inning when Santana walked, stole second and scored on an error by right- fielder Hal Littlefield. Catcher Ju- Tio Henriquez also reached base on an error and Cruz picked up his first hit, a single that sent Hen- riquez home to score. “ The Browards pulled into a short- lived lead in the third frame when they scored all of their three runs. Stewart started it off when he walked and Herndon - sin- gled. Stewart scored on the play when Salgado committed a mis- cue, Then, Cruz issued another free pass and Pfister singled in two more runs, But the Conchs came back in the third to clinch the ballgame when with two men out, Henriquez sin- gled, and Cruz doubled off the right field wall to score him. Salgado was then safe on Stuart’s error and Solomon reached base on an- other error to score Cruz. Leeburg Knowles, playing his first game at second base, singled home Sal- gado. The Conchs finished their seor- ing in the sixth and seventh fram- es. : Only dark spot in the loss was an injury to Gibby Gates, who suf- fered a badly sprained ankle slid- ing home in the seventh. He'll be out for at least a week, The box score: SOUTH BROWARD (3) Player— ABRHP Jacobson, ss Fortier, cf Broussau, If Pfister, 3b - p Littlefield, r! Cleminger, c Lewis, 1b Steuart, 2b Herndon, p - 3b Serene rs ConMwwwwnd MHosooHoooH HHRONMOON > Totals— KEY WEST (11) : Staff Photo, Karns. BIG CATCH—Jewfish was the orcer of the day! last week when this 500-pound catch was reported from the “Sissy Joe’ a 16-foot outboard. The fishermen, from the left, were: S. Shackleworth, J. M. Dowling, J. L. Balleu, and M. Marton. The fish were speared at the Marquesas, on May 1 -—Citizen Page 6. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, May 10, 1954 Local Ringmen Capture Five Wins Over Green Cove Springs Sat. thusiasts watched the Naval Base Boxing Team score a resounding victory over their guests from Green Cove Springs. In an eight bout! card staged at Walker's Field last Saturday night, the local Navy boxing team took five out eight bouts on the card. In the main event of the even- ing, lightheavy Don Horner of Green Coves Springs scored a TKO over Cal Ferguson of Biscayne Boxing Club. Ferguson represented the local Navy team. Ferguson scored a split decision Rodriguez, cf Lastres, 3b Henriquez, c .. Kerr, x Bean, ¢ Cruz, p Salgado, ‘1b Solomon, If Gates, xx Yates, If .. Knowles, 2b Pita, rf .. oO 3 4 2 1 i 4 4 2 0 0 3 3 BPwCOCOHwWoOHHNS Totals— 30 11 12 RBI’s: Cruz 3, Salgado 2, Pfister 2, Santana, Lastres, Solomon, Knowles; ‘triple: Salgado; Double: Cruz; Stolen bases: Santana 2 Rodriguez, Salgado and Knowles; Errors: Salgado, Fortier, Little- field and Stewart; Double plays: Lewis to Stewart to Lewis, He don (unassisted); Strikeouts: Cru 9, Pfister Wall don 4, Pfister 1; Wild pitch: Cruz, Player— ABRHPOA Santana, ss 32 ho ¢ Herndon; Umpires: Rodriguez and Gugliemo. NAVARRG, ic. VACATION SPECIALS For Tuesday Only 8 AM. till Lot No. 1 424 SOUTHARD STREET Tel. 2-2242 1951 STUDEBAKER Fordor V-8 COMMANDER, RADIO, HEATER Automatic Transmission NEW PAINT $987.00 9:30 P.M. Lot No. 2 OPP. NAVY COMMISSARY Tel. 2-7886 1952 CHEVROLE Fordor RADIO Very Clean $1147.00 Key West Navy Boxers Triumph A capacity crowd of boxing en-| 1 | who needs a little more experience. : Cruz 6, Hern- | © over Key West Nayy’s Bernie Klemcheck at Wicke¥'s:Stadium, a couple of weeks agd,..Ho: is Florida’s North weight Golden Glove: B , ed again you can’t ge a book} iB its cover, or a ‘koxer by the shape he appears to be in. 4 Looking completely out-of Shape, | [Baseball Results SOUTH ATLANTIC Won-Lost Pet. Behind ville 692 ot! Augusta Columbus. Charlotte 4 2; Mont * Columbus at Columbia ugusta at Jacksonville iontzome: i SOUTHERN A\ Behina Birmingham New Orleans Horner proved to be in good-eon++¢) jditon, and was in there slugging} jfrom the first bell until the last. | | Ferguson, who'is in his first year | of amateur boxing put up a good! \fight, but was no match for Hor- jner’s bull-like tactics. With a lit-| jtle more experience he will be-| ;come a top notch fighter. In the first event, Roland Mc- | Peters of Key West TKO’d Bill {Newham of the Green Cove Bul- jlets, in a minute and 40 seconds jof the first round. Newham, fight- | ing his first fight is another lad In the second event of the eve-| | Coves team roused himself to show g| the stuff that champions are made | of. Howe, the Northeast Fla. Gol- den Gloves Featherweight champ, | was behind in points when he tag- ged Ray Davis of the Biscayne} | Boxing Club, representing the Key | West Navy, in one minute and twenty seconds of the second round. | Chuck Phillips of Key West Na- | vy never looked greater than he |did Saturday night when he defeat:|. |ed Green Coves veteran Duke Kor- Y'S SCHEDULE anta BALL RESULTS SOCIATION ‘apolis 2-2 Columbus 1 0|ning Mickey Howe of the Green|“ Crestview 16, Andalusia-Opp kle. It was Phillips’ fight from the | very first as he used some of the| most effective counter punching | |tacties that’s been seen in Key| | West. The people who came to sce | | lie fight his last fight for Key | West certainly weren’t disappoint- | d. | The fifth bout of the evening ;found Key West’s Jim Johnson w defeated by the Bullets ring-wise | veteran, Oscar Albaugh. If John-| son had fought in his other fights as he did against his opponent | | Saturday night, he would have been “ |a terror. i st’s old faithful Bernie qlightheavy, ‘came | ugh with flying colors trounc-| ing Willie “The Chief’ water of Green Cove imous de thro; | ‘eer and with experience will be | ing all his opponents stiff com-| petition. | Key West’s Frank Celestina, heavyweight, scored a rough TKO | over Jim Percy of the Key West Amateur Boxing Club. It was al rough row to hoe for Celestina the whole way through, but the fight| was over when Celestina belted! Percy so hard the ropes were torn | loose and they had to be repaired before the card could continue. The best dance of the evening | was provided when Al Smith of the | loczl Navy team was given the nod over his friend Doug Laidlow of Green Cove Springs. It appeared ; as good |< | that they left the ring friends as when they entered. | The eggs of different species of | birds hatch after brooding times | | varying from 12 or 13 days to 8 ' weslas, : Louis Toledo Fort Worth at Dothan Graceville at Crestview Fort Walton Beach at Panama City Pet. Won IN Lost 1607 Indianapolis Ki City ‘jtook the hill for the Navy and | had two singles and R. Lastres a Cuban Club, Naval Station Gain Victories The Naval Air Station baseball team won their second Island City Baseball league game Sunday af- ternoon at the expense of the Mike’s Plumbers nine, 13-5, at the Wickers Field Stadium. In the sec- ond half of a doubleheader, the Cuban Club triumphed over the Key West Eagles, 8-4. Kaki Rodriguez, who started on the mound for the Plumbers was sent to the showers’ in short order when he was touched for three doubles, five singles and ten runs in five innings of action. Torres fared little better when he issued five free passes and gave up three Tuns, Markowski started on the mound for the Flyers and gave up three hits and five runs in the four frames he lasted. Flekinger then tamed the Plumbers with just two hits and seven strikeouts. At bat, Cardillo hit two doubles and a single. Bosco also had a tri- ple for the winners. In the second game, the Cuban dub clinched a victory in the eigh- th inning when they were issued three free passes and Joe Lewis and Catala came through with sin- gles. The Eagles gave the Cubans a stare when they scored one run in the first inning, two more in the third and another counter in the seventh. But the Cubans scored one in the fourth, and three in the sixth to knot the count. At bat, Catala hit four singles in five tries, Roberts double. For the losers, Portier had a single and a double. In the field, Catala, Valdez, Anguierra and R. Lastres shone. The standings: Avg. 1,000 1.000 Naval Air Station Cuban Club Key West Eagles HS-1 Naval Statio Mike’s Plumbers USS Gilmore Sub Fishing Tournament Is Underway West is known as a “Fisherman’s Paradise,” Submarine Squadron Four has inaugurated its own fish- ing tournament, open to all men attached to units of its command. The tourney, which has been in progress since April 1, is open to all personnel, officer and enlisted, of Squadron Four and is limited to eight types of fish. Eligible fish are grouper, jack, barracuda, red and mangrove snapper, par- rotfish, mackerel and yellowtail. At the close of the tournament on June 30, 1954, awards will be presented to the winners and run- nersup in each class of fish. The largest fish entered thus far is a 6 ft. 222 lb. jewfish (entered in the grouper class) landed by Jess Favors, Electricians Mate First Class, of the USS Trutta. In the mackerel class, Charles Szete- la, Printer Second Class, of the USS Gilmore leads with a king- mackerel weighing 31% lbs. Four- teen pounds is tops presently for barracuda. This entry was landed by G. D. Franklin, Fireman, also of the USS Gilmore. No entries have been made as yet in the remaining: groups, Sunday’s Stars By The Associated Press BATTING — Ted Kluszewski, Redlegs — walloped three home runs and drove in eight runs, four in each game, as the Redlegs split with the St. Louis Cardinals. St. PReERHOoM | Louis won the opener 10-7 and 2 8 10 8 6 4 5 Ric Won Lost Pet. Fort Worth .. ~18 14 OK} Be Tulsa oaks Shreveport Houston SaaS Tt ALABAMA-FLORIDA Dothan * Crestview Andalusia-Opp Fort Walton Beach .... Panama City : Graceville LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behina wll 5 8 Detroit = . 14 Chicago New Yo Philade Washington Cincinnati the nightcap 6-5. PITCHING—Bob Turley, Orioles —permitted only four hits and struck out five while walking one as Baltimore defeated the Cleve- land Indians 2-1 in 10 innings. —_—__ Boston Baltimore 4 F ot - night), 7:90 p.m.< Ford (0-2) vs Lemon ao Nis m5 Philadelphia at Baltimore (night), 7 p.m.— Fricano (1-1) vs Larsen (0-3) Only on scheduled DAY'S RES Baltimore 2, Cleveland 1 ag New York '7-1, Philadelphia second game called at end of ninth, darkaesey MONDA’ New York at Cleveland Detroit 3-0, Chicago 2-0 (second game called at end of tenth, darkness) Washington at Boston (2), postponed, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE ; ‘Won Lost Pct. Behind 13 8 619 — 14 11 12 11 9 Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis .. New York Chicago Milwaukee 9 Pittsburgh 1s MONDAY’S GAMES No games scheduled SUNDAY’S RESULTS New York 5, Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 5, Milwaukee 3 St. Louis 1 0-5, Cincinnati 7-6 pot In State Tou ste: rname is han nt. Good Hurling And Hitting Give Tigers A “New Look” Detroit, Red Sox Batile To 10-Inning Tie By JOE REICHLER AP Sports Writer Rival American League clubs are beginning to take the amazing Detroit Tigers seriously. Last Sunday, after the Tigers had blanked the Yanks at Yankee Stadium, New York Manager Casey Stengel called them the most improved club in the league. Yesterday, after the Tigers had whipped the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in the first game of a double- header and held them to a 10- inning 0-0 standoff in the second game, White Sox Manager Paul Richards voiced Stengel’s senti- ments. Today, the Tigers are in first place with 11 victories against only five defeats, a half game in front of Chicago, a full game ahead of Cleveland and two ahead of the defending champion Yankees. They return home with brilliant 5-1-1 record for their first road tour. Improved is hardly the word for the Tigers. A complete change is more like it. Tight fielding, timely hitting and superb pitching had given them “the new look.” A year ago today, they were buried in last place with five vic- tories and 18 defeats. They were | last in fielding. The pitching was | atrocious. The staff had completed only three games. This year’s Tigers are second in fielding. The pitchers, headed by veteran Steve Gromek, own 10 complete games in 17 starts, one tie. They have hurled four shutouts, twice as many as they did all last year. Yesterday’s victory was De- troit’s eighth in nine road deci- sions, Last year at this time the Tigers had dropped all seven road games. In other American League games, Baltimore defeated Cleve- land 2-1 in 10 innings, and the Yankees whipped and tied Phila- delphia in a double-header. Three home runs gave the Yanks a 7-4 opening-game triumph and rookie Bill Skowron’s run-scoring single in the eighth gave them a 1-1 tie in the second game, halted after nine innings on account of dark- ness. Rain washed out a sched- uled double-header between Wash- ington and the Red Sox in Boston. Brooklyn opened up a half-game lead in the National League, nip- ping the Philadelphia Phils 2-1 while the second-place Cincinnati Redlegs split a double-header with St. Louis. The Redlegs came back to win the second game 6-5 after j the Cardinals had captured the opener 10-7. The New York Giants walloped Pittsburgh 5-1 and the Chicago Cubs edged out Milwaukee 53. It took Detroit 11 innings to de- feat the White Sox in the opener. The winning run crossed the plate when Cass Michaels committed a throwing error with two out and the bases loaded in the 11th. Gromek went all the way, giving up nine hits and walking one for his fifth victory without a defeat. Virgil Trucks, who relieved starter Sandy Consuegra in the 10th, was charged with the defeat. South- paws Billy Hoeft of Detroit and Billy Pierce of Chicago hooked up in the scoreless second-game duel. Pierce fanned 12 to Hoeft’s eight. The Indians missed an op- portunity to pass Chicago for the runner-up spot when Turley held Piedad Archer Wins Ladies’ City Tourney Mrs. Piedad Archer captured the city ladies: handicap golf cham- pionship at the Key West Golf Club; when she fired a two over par 80 last week. | She gained’ the Ralph Faraldo| trophy when she led the field by a good margif, but a costly nine stroke 18th hole, put her into a deadlock with Mrs. Jeanne Foulk. | Mrs. Archer triumphed in the | sudden death affair on the 19th! hole. Runner-up honors went to} Mrs‘ Foulk’ ‘and low gross prize | was won by Polly West. This was the last of a series of three tourneys to be held this spring. The club championship will be decided in the fall. Mrs. Archer was presented with a trophy by, Ralph Faraldo at the clubhouse after the tourney. } In the Ladies Flag Day tourna-| ment held April 27 at the golf club, | first place went to Kay Faraldo | with Jeanne Foulk coming in sec- ond. Third place honors went to Anne Witzel.__ | low putt tourney Polly West and was held bod Piedad Archer sharing the honors | for the firstyprize in Class A and Maxine Ritter ‘winning in Class B. against the Pirates for his fifth triumph against one defeat. The Giants broke'a ‘1-1 tie in the eighth and added two: more in the ninth on Willie Mays’ triple. Home runs.‘by Hank Sauer and Ralph Kiner of Chicago helped Bob Rush defeat Warren Spahn and the Braves. Ted Kluszewski hammered three home runs and drove in eight runs the second of the nightcap and ninth of the season, proved the difference in the 6-5 Redleg vic- tory. Stan Musial batted in four singles to lead the Cards to their first-game victory. Vie Raschi picked up his third triumph with- out a defect-in the first game al- though he needed help from Al Brazle in the ninth. Musial col- lected two more hits in the night- cap to take over the league batting for the Redlegs. His last homer, | runs with his 10th homer and two ; Mrs. Foulk Fires 1 Over Par Sunday Mrs. Jeanne Foulk, who played her first round of golf only 18 months ago, fired a one over par 79 Saturday over the Key West Golf Club course. The score was the lowest to be recorded in ladies play this season. A missed putt on the 18th green prevented her from equzlling par for the course. Mrs. Foulk, a na- tive of England, has been a resi- dent of Key West for 14 months. He husband, Bill Foulk, is city cham- pion. > Wheat stem sawfly caused a loss of $17,200,000 to:farmers in ‘*on- tana and North Dakota -in- 1952. Snow often disappears at tem- peratures below freezing, being converted directly. into wapor. Stock Car Races Sponsored by Key West Stock Car Assn., Inc. Sunday; 2 P.M. BOCA CHICA ROAD TRACK Admission ____. $1.25 You. SAVE MONEY _ WHEN YOU BUY A DEPENDABLE HESTER | __ BATTERY With Its Self-Charging Feature - WE BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN You Help By Bu A HESTER Sart 4 LOU SMITH lead with .382. KEY: WEST CITY D) svat. 1116 White Street These businesses or individuals interested in the purchase of, or advertising in, the New IRECTORY, who have not as yet been contacted, write to : Johnson Publishing Co. 203A NO. 87TH STREET, MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN them to four hits. Gil Coan’s single scored Neil Berry with the run that hung the tough defeat upon Art Houtteman. : Home runs by Andy Carey, Yogi Berra and Enos Slaughter account- ed for all but one New York run as the Yankees inflicted the first defeat. of the season upon Bob Trice, the A’s rookie right-hander. Trice has won his first four starts. Skodron’s single off Alex Kellner scored Mickey Mantle, who had doubled to wipe out Philadelphia’s one-run lead in the nightcap es- tablished by ex-Yankee Bill Ren- na’s fifth-inning home run. Carl Erskine outpitched Robin Roberts as the Dodgers swept the three-game series from Philadel- phia. Erskine permitted five hits but was in constant hot water with nine bases on balls. ‘Five double plays helped him immeasurably. The Dodgers snapped a scoreless duel in the seventh when Sandy Amoros doubled in a run and scored on Billy Cox’s single. The Phils got one back in the eighth but Jim Hughes replaced Erskine with two on and one out and got Johnny Wyrostek to. hit into a I am sincerely grateful for me on May 4, You to every citizen who voted have helped win a major battle on the road to a better Florida, and final victory shall be ours. overwhelming one. Yoy can help make it an I invite all who want honest, efficient government {6 join us in our victory march against m a politics. Every free and independent voter is welcomed to help carry MAKE LER Florida forward on May 25. OY COLLINS “YOUR GOVERNOR! Political advertisement paid for by the double play with his first pitch. Sal Maglie hurled a six-hitter Collins-for-Governor Campaign Fund—Spencer Borress, Treas.