The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 15, 1954, Page 10

Edison Falls 6-1, 9-6 To Key West High School Nine The Key West Conchs wrapped up the District Four baseball crown yester- day afternoon when they de- feated the Miami Edison baseballers, 6-1, Then for good measure, they came back last night and pinned another defeat on the Mi- amians by a 9-6 score. In the afternoon tilt, the Conch’s ace hurler George Lastres gained his 11th win of the season by limiting the visitors to three hits and one unearned run. He struck out nine batters, raising his sea- son’s total to 111. i : : E ; i i a if Ef g gts é E f d ate Pi i A if i a g aug ce fe &3 re se u i E gti ill Fi 3 in Li 4 HE re8 pee F zi E | i : i L i Be od af rH i B a 2 zg F week g E : i F i ; 2 i BH E 6 ‘ a ef é ai i E i y i gk 2 4 é A i ecoccoanwonop> SroocoowMoHonPry | ff ecoocrtonnroon e : i i | | i NOH DN & Oo 00 oo H if eo & a = 8 Be 8 J CH HUM hoMD ih a | i i | e nreonoooooon~ if F H fet f i j DOWNTOWN GULF SERVICE STATION Is Now Owned and Operated Nathan ...FOR THE BEST IN... Lubrication ' Washing Polishi Visit “Boogie” Today DUVAL and FRONT STREETS Page 10 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, May 15, 1954 Are Set Sunday = ‘The Stock Car Boys will go back} keeps the action closer to the spec- in action Sunday afternoon, after|tators. A majority of the drivers a three week lay off, due to rain|prefer a short track. ~~ : and Spring tides. A hundred lap race is in the mak- A six race card has been sche-|ing for Decoration Day, May 30th. duled. Time trials will start at) This type of race will require ex- one p. m. tra judges and, also, extra pit The drivers are looking forward|men, as the cars will be allowed to a crack at the Monroe Motors/to pull in the pits for service. . This will be a 25 lap race|Some members, and-the main event of the day. |stated, “that his race will separate Stock Car Racing Associa-|the men from the boys.” It is my has made arrangements to/opinion that a lot of the jalopys we the track reduced from half| will also be separated.\trom a lot to one third mile, This will/of their badly needed parts in a the cars closer bunched and ‘race of this distance. Tigers Show Best Improvement In Major League Flag Races By BEN PHLEGAR AP. Sports Writer major league pennant into their second month, 16 teams find them- off than they were at Gromek who had won five in a row for Detroit with a dozen hits in the first six innings. Gene Wood- ling led the barrage with a double and a triple. Bob Grim, who took over from Harry Byrd in the fifth, won his first major league game but he needed help from Jol Sain in the ninth. : Bob Turley won his fourth game and raised his eae leading E g i i 5 le E i i 3 a z H & z 5 e é have fall- far back of after the first onth of last Based on games behind the first | Strikeout total of 53 place team, the Detroit Tigers have made the biggest gain. A dreadful last at this point in 1953 they were 12 games behind, Tigers now find themselves game and a half off the the first place White Sox. National League the most provement has been made by ¢ Cincinnati Redlegs with the New York Giants a funner-up. The Redlegs were games behind. Now one game back, even are laying fifth in the ational League race. Z i gs Five runs in the eighth inning broke up a 2-2 tie. A grand slam home. run by George Strickland against Wash- ington made it easy for Bob Lemon’ to win his fifth of the year. The Indians scored all five of their runs in the. first inning. The Senators got six hits, including a home run by Eddie Yost. It was a time in com- ing but when Cardinals scored their first victory at Ebbets Field since September of 1952 they did it in fine style. They smashed 14 hits. Stan Musial hit his 11th home run and drove in three tal- lies. Walt. Alston homered. And Vic Raschi, back in Brooklyn for the first time as a National Leaguer, rationed eight hits for his fourth triumph without a loss, Al Dark and Don Mueller com- bined for nine hits in the Giants success against Chicago. Dark hit a home run and four singles in five times at bat. Mueller had four singles, Dark also stole two bases. Art Fowler of Cincinnati blanked the Phillies on eight hits as he protected a one-run lead from the . 1 first inning. Bobby Adams, who , Philadelphia all even, Pitts-| made the only hit off Robin Rob- '% behind and Milwaukee|erts the night before, opened with 4 a single and scored after a sacri- Yankees trimmed Detroit |fice and Gus Bell’s single. Murry the only day game yester-| Dickson was the loser. night action Cleveland} Two ex-Braves combined to trip ‘ashington 5-2, Baltimore| Milwaukee at Pittsburgh. Max Boston 7-2 and Chicago|Surkon went the distance against Philadelphia 43 in the|his former teammates and picked League. up the victory in the 10th when Giants defeated the Cubs/|pinchhitter Walker Cooper doubled 96, Brooklyn absorbed a 10-1 home Bob Skinner. thrashing by the Cardinals, Cin- : cinnati edged the Phillies 1-0 and Pittsburgh broke a seven-game los- at the expense of Mil- ee fie G a ! £38 TARE $ ne ERs » ece ree BEERS ae Major League Leaders By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE error enabled| BATTING—Boone, Detroit, .354._ RUNS~Minoso, Chicago and Aviia, a full game | tana, ‘gf care, erican League. ith two two-hit as a starter, victory while Fie F alt ‘HITS—Avila, Cleveland, 35. Lemon, and New York, 5-0, 1.000, sn snd Lopat, NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING -Musial, St. > 390, RUNS—Moon, St. Louis a) :BUNS BATTED "IN—Musial, st. Louis, ‘HITS—Jal 5 HOME RUNS Maio St Louis, 11. G— and Raschi 2, Lastres; SB: Knowles, Greene; BB, off: Lastres 5, Meyers 3; SO, by: Lastres 9, Meyers 4; Umpires: Halpin, PITCHIN ACROSS. FROM BANK BUILDING “BOOGIE” Roberts Road Service Tire Repair Accessories TELEPHONE 2-9284 zeny have jokingly, Cleveland FRIDAY’S RI New York 6, <a Cleveland 5, Wi Roy Valdez Pitches No-Hitter For Kiwanis To Gain Little Fans 16 In Shutout Win; Evans Gains third on a wild pitch. Valdez then struck out Ray Morales and got George Senderling to pop to sec- ond. The Kiwanis gave Valdez a 2-1 edge in the first inning on singles by Mario Alfonso, Milt Esquinaldo, 4th Straight and Valdez. They added another in no-| the third on a walk to Valdez and Roy Valdez pitched the ee singles by George Mira and Char- as the Kiwanis beat the|/¢s Pierce. In the fourth, Valdex Shriners, 4-1, in the first game of ance by ae gen cen- aoateg at Bayview Park! r where he Scored snoments la. fireballing ter on a wild pitch. 16 and walked three. fl Dave Vernon went all the way for the Shriners. He allowed six hits, struck out nine, and walked ly one. It was his first loss of i it ; ss F League Win ond on an‘ infield out, and went to | al Little League, by two and half games, sewed up the game in the second inning with a six run up- rising. Five hits, including triple |by Danny Garcia and Bartolome, featured in the rally. Richard Garcia, with three sin- gles in four official tries led Ev- ens attack. Richard, with two sin- gles drove in three runs. Pete Es- quinaldo collected two of the VFW four hits off Santana. _ Santana struck out 7 and walked five. It was his second win against no losses, Score; Evans 260 81 17-125 VFW 02041 45 Santana and R. Garcia Thompson, Hernandez (3) and 20. RUNS BATTED IN-Rosen, Cleveland, | $1 }» Washington Chicago 4, Philadelphia Baltimore 7, Boston a" * Atl The Yankees kayoed Steve| me uae am 7, Mobile 1 3, Chattanooga 1 Little Memphis 10, Nashville 8 yy fanning 11| Macon as the Orioles whipped Boston. = Augusta 8, Macon 35, Ji Columbus Montgomery at rounds) Kansas City at Indianpolis (N) Minneapolis at. st. Paul (N) TEXAS City at Fort Worth Tulsa Houston at Shreveport San Antonio at Beaumont , Oklahoma Dallas at al Graceville it Panama Fort Walton Beach at Andalusia-O) Crest FRIDAY’! TODAY’S SCHEDULE Memphis at ville Little Rock (Only games YESTERDAY'S RESULTS annah 6 Nash PASADENA, Calif. — A stray at Chattanooga schuled) fawn had a lively afternoon of it yesterday. Wandering dowa an arroyo from the .Sdn Gabriel Mountains, it was seen leaping over the hood of a car, Then it entered a jewelry store ‘by the rear door, slid across the slick floor and upset a stool cceupled by jeweler W. B. Me- air. Next. it bounded out: the ‘front door onto Colorado St.,. the .main’ thoroughfare, and two humane of- ficers and police officer Duke Roberts chased it six blocks, Roberts fell on it in a courtyard of ll Saints z Church, where nimble animal sought sanctuary. . It was taken to a humane society pen. ¥ Varsity Friday to gram. High Savi at Charloote “wparain) Columbia = (Ppdswet at City Dothan PP view. ALI AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO) Columbus 5, 1 Kansas City 2 Minneapolis 14, St. Paul 6 Toledo 7, Louisville 1 SOUTHERN ‘ASSOCIATION Atlanta 3, er Orie: m Little Rocm 3, Chattanooga Memphis 10, Dallas 4, Fort Lake ae —w 5 San Antonio 15, Beaumont 5 INTERNATIONAL Montreal 5, Rochester 2 Baffalo at Richmond (2) (Ppd-rain) Havana 25, S: cit Graceville 4 Sacramento 5, San Diego 2 ans © Mobile 1 1 jyracuse 0-4 Ottawa 5 Zz 5 ag ity 7, Andalusia. 1 22, Fort Walton Beach $ Fn ff BSRERREES bebbeeR? SekenR? SoeecuEu g by WRSEBEUEG Beeetenf seusuEy Bessedes Never Varies .. . Always And. The Lowest Prices At 100% Air-Conditioned if £ i sistas Thies also with a triple and single in two Smith | official letters were pres 37 Key West High athletes during an assembly pro- Athletic Director Winston Jones presided over the impressive cereniony. State Beoressataive Bernie C. squad and captains e Don Walston received a manager’s Ictter. and Gibby Gates FY & | ; H i I i : Ek i di SIGSBEE SNACKER HOME OF THE TwinBURGER victory was his first against no prises won their fourth straight game, with a 17-7 victory over the VEW behind pitching. Evans who is leading the Nation- peak sams is nth remit watson Esquinaldo AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE WL Pet, 3 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 ie season against no wins. Valdez’ 5. Valdez led the Kiwanis offense pavasis S Shriners Jaycees NATIONAL LITTLE L' trips to the plate. 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