The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 18, 1954, Page 6

Brooklyn Moves Into Tie For First Place; In Hit Slump Garver Walks Williams, Jensen '‘ Homers To Break Strategy By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer ‘The legson for today is how to move from third to first place while averaging less than three runs a game over the last 10 games. The instructor is Walter Alston, who used to teach school in the Midwest and who now is learning the facts of major league life ag manager of the Brooklyn ers. Alston this season inherited the National League champions, who had inspired fear in the hearts of their opponents with their mighty slugging. The punch was so potent the league batting champ, Carl Furillo, hit seventh in the order, By now Alston must be about convinced the Dodgers did it with mirrors. He has his team in an exact first-place tie with Philadelphia but over the last 10 games the Dodgers have scored a total of 27 runs, with 10 of them coming in a single game. ‘The opposition has scored 31 runs. The tedm batting average has skidded from .280 to .259. The home fun production has totaled a mere three. Of the 10 games, the Dodgers have won six .and lost four. The victories have come almost en- tirely from excellent pitching, top- ped by Carl Erskine’s two-hitter against St. Louis Saturday. But the big factor which has allowed Brooklyn to improve its position has been the inability of the other clubs to take advantage of the Dodger slump. Only the New York Giants, now half a game out of first, have made real progress. They’ve won seven and lost two. Rut the rest of the league has been beating each other often enough to allow Brooklyn to coast uphill. Alston realizes this happy state can’t last indefinitely and for this reason he’s happy about the im- mediate schedule. The seventh- place Chicago Cubs come to Brook- lyn tonight fora two-game series |- to be followed by the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, who will be around for five games. Even in a the Dodgers should win at five of seven. Meanwhile, the Dodgers ben- efited from last night’s intra- league warfare when the Phils and Cardinals split a pair of decisions. Philadelphia whipped St. Louis 8-4 in a game completing the sec- ond half of Sunday’s double-header which was suspended by Pennsyl- vania curfew. In the regularly * gcheduled game St. Louis won 84. Boston edged Detroit 43 and Chicago defeated Pittsburgh 10-6. ‘The other clubs weren't scheduled. ‘The Phils owned a 6-3 lead when the Sunday game was after six innings and the Cardinals couldn’t catch up against Murry Dickson. : St. Louis unleashed its home run power in the full-length contest. ‘Wally Moon, Rip Repulski and Ray Jablonski hit for the circuit against Robin Roberts, who had pitched a one-hitter the last time out, and Stan Musial added one against Karl Drews in relief. Little Joe Presko scattered seven hits in registering the first shutout by a Cardinal pitcher this season. At Detroit, Manager Freddie Hutchinson of the Tigers went against baseball custom and or- dered pitcher Ned Garver to walk the potential tying run. The strat- egy backfired when Jackie Jensen lined into’ the left field seats for a three-run homer that won the game for Boston. Hutchinson’s reasoning seems more justified when you realize the man he ordered walked was Ted Williams, who got eight for nine in the Detroit douple-header Sunday. Williams went hitless in two official trips yesterday. Hank Sauer broke a ‘2-2 tie in the fifth inning with a grand-slam home run that set the Cubs on the winning trail at Pittsburgh. Major League Leaders By The Associated Press ‘AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING— Avila, Cleveland, .378. RUNS~Avila, Cleveland, 26. RUNS BATTED IN-Rosen, Cleveland, HITS — 5 land, 42. HOME RUNS-— Rosen, Cleveland, Boone, Detroit, Berra, New York and Vernon and ee Lory yen 6. resale ‘CHING — Lemon, Cleveland and Lopat, New York, 5-0, 1.000. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING —Jablonski, St. Louis, .379. RUNS~Moon, St. Louis, 32. RUNS BATTED IN-Musial, St. Louis, 35. HITS-Jablonski, St. Louis, 50. HOME RUNS-Sauer, Chicago and Mu- sial, St. Louis, 12. PITCHING —Podres, Brooklyn and Ras- ehi, St. Louis, 40, 1.000. About 18 million passengers en- ter New York City elevators in a typical day and are carried about 225,000 miles vertically. Oriole Stuart Couldn’t Even Beat Preacher Roe’s Father AP need onerhal BALTIMORE—Some of the gray hairs on Marlin Stuart, Baltimore Oriole pitcher, undoubtedly are due to a couple of Roes. Stuart had the rare experience of pitching against Preacher Roe of the Brooklyn Dodgers and to the Preacher's father. He lost both times by the score of 1-0. And ‘to make it more aggravating each time it was a bunt that did the damage. Stuart’s meeting with the Roes were 18 years apart. He recalls: 5 “It was back in Jonesboro, Ark., in 1986 when I pitched against Preach’s dad. I was playing Oc- cane in the state semi-pro tourna- ment and old man Roe was pitch- ing for Jonesboro. He was 52 years old then and was more of a fast ball pitcher then young Preach. “Well, we went along for 10 innings and nobody could get a run. Finally, in the last half of the 11th, somebody beat out a bunt for Jonesboro and that led to the win- ning run. “Then last fall, after the sea- son, I pitched against young Prea- cher in an exhibition game at Sal- em, Ark. And darn if Roe didn’t bunt on me with a runner on third base. “I ran over to the third base PREACHER ROE “MARLIN STUABT — line and I must have picked the around, everybody was safe and While he’s gray haired and play- ball up six or seven times. By the that Roe never did let us come ed against two generations of Roes, time I finally stopped kicking it PRO VS. close to tying the score.” DUFFER By WALTER BURKEMO, 1953 PGA Champion (Written for AP Newsfeatures) Clubs that bother the average golfer the most, I have found, are those he uses in his short game, such as the 9-iron or the wedge. Average golfers usually find truble in using these shots for chip- ping over sand traps and hitting the ball over water. ‘This is mostly a mental problem. The part time golfer develops a fear of water or sand traps. Be- 4 cause of. this fear he tries to lift the ball dyer the hazards instead of swingin@the club naturally. In other words, he attempts to scoop the ball"Sometimes he stabs at the ball and fails to follow through. Both are bad habits. Concentra- tion, plus practice, whenever pos- sible, should do much to correct these faults. My advice to the average golfer is to spend as much of his free time as he can during the week, either at a practice course or on a driving range. If he is unable to get out to a course, at least he might find time to go to a nearby driving range and hit 50 or 60 balls. If he can manage to get out to a range two or three times a week, he will be surprised at the results. ‘The results will show when he (or she) gets out Saturdays or Sun- days for a regular game. Confi- dence will be increased and be- lieve me, confidence plays a great deal in this game of golf. I corrected this trouble by mov- ing the ball slightly forward, that is, I changed my stance so that the ball was on a line just inside my left heel. : ‘This makes you stay behind the ball, gives your swing more of an Rookie Fans 15 In Southern League By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Batters fanned up quite a breeze in Nashville's Sulphur Dell last night. And when it was all over the Southern Association had a new one-game strikeout record on the books. Rookie Joe Margomeri, who re- cently joined the Vols after a stint in the armed forces, was the big man in the strikeout session. The lefthander with the good fast ball fanned 15 batters while two New Orleans pitchers were striking out il. The total of 26 is one more fhan the old Southern Association record Margoneri’s periormance helped the Vols to a 5-4 victory over the Pels, their third straight over the one-time league-leaders. To Erv Dusak, one of the league’s top hitters, goes the unwanted dis- tinction of being the 26th — and record-breaking— strikeout victim. Dusak came in as a pinchhitter with two out in the ninth, but Margoneri took him in stride. New Orleans’ Bob Schultz struck out nine Vols and Nelson King whiffed two as their contributions to the record. Chattanooga whpped Mobile 2-1 in 12 innings. Birmingham at Little Rock and Atlanta at Memphis were Postponed because of wet grounds, - i ial | WALTER BURKEMO are and sends the ball on a high- er trajectory. Incidentally, as a word of en- couragement to average golfers, the average score of all golfers in this country, including the scores of professionals, is 96 strokes per round. Bassett, Saddler Had Better Stick To Their Class NEW YORK — Feaherweight champion Sandy Saddler and Percy Bassett, the “interim” king had better stick to the 126-pound class from now on The champ expected a romp against Hoacine Khalfi, a 3-1 un- dierdog, last night at St Nicholas Arena and lost a split decision to the fleet Algerian lightweight Bassett found himself in away over his head against Orlando Parkway and lost a unanimous verdict to the clever Cuban with the snapping left jab who is ranked second among lightweight con- tenders. Khalfi used superior speed and a solid right hand punch to offset Saddler’s left-hand punching and roughing tactics Referee Teddy Martin bad Khalfi a lopsided 8.2 winner but the other officials thought it was close Judge Joe Eppy voted for Khalfi 6-4 and Judge Joe Agnello for Saddler 6-4 The AP card found for Khalfi 5-4-1 paownice weighed 132% and Khalfi Zulueta, a 13-5 choice, won as he Pleased over Bassett, avenging two previous defeats by the top-ranking feather contender The Cuban weghed 135 to Bassett’s 130 Poiunds The votes for Zulueta were: Referee Pepe Scalzo 6-4, Judge Charley Shortell 6-3-1, Judge | Amerco Schiavone 8-2, AP 9-1. Citizen Want Ads Pay Off! Stuart is only 35 years old. Five-Inning Rally Gives Jacksonville Sea Birds Victory By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A five-run eighth-inning rally, sparked by Russ Nixon’s double and Roy Chambers’ home run, Cincinnati Gives Up 48 Home Runs _By BEN OLAN Kiwanis In Ist Place In American League NEW YORK Manager Birdie; _. Tebbetts soon will be putting him- self to sleep counting home runs, particularly if the Cincinnati pitch. ing staff he tabbed ‘‘as good as any in the National League” con- ie to give up gopher bails at To rate date, Redleg hurlers have yielded 48 homers. That’s the top figure in the majors and with lefty Harry Perkowski the individual leader with 10 “home runs off,” it’s making Tebbets’ freshman sea- son at the helm that much tough- er. Fred Baczewski, another Cincin- nati southpaw, has given up nine circuit blows, a equaled by Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardin- als. The other Redleg totals are: Gorky Valentine 8 and Bud Pod- bielan, 7, Judson, 4, Joe Nuxhalf and Art Fowler, 3, Herm- an Wehmeier and Ken Raffens- berger 2, and George Zuverink, now with Detroit, 1. In the American League, Cleve- land’s Early Wynn and Chicago’s Billy Pierce are tied for the lead with seven apiece. On a per-inning basis, Bubba Church of the Cubs is away ahead of the pack. The veteran right- hander has given up seven home uns in the 13 frames he’s worked. Curt Simmons of the Philadel- phia Phillies and Mike Garcia of Cleveland have been the toughest pitchers for home run hitters. Sim- mons has yielded only one—by Ernie Banks of the Cubs—in 54 in- nings and Garcia one—by Sam Mele of Baltimore in 53 innings. Except for Cincinnati, the pitch- ing staffs of the Cardinals, 34, the Cubs, 30, the Athletics, 30 and the Giants 29, have been the most vulnerable. Baltimore pitchers have permit- ted the fewest gophers 12. Beach Loses Two Games Last Night By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Miami Beach Flamingos lost two games last night and the Tallahassee Rebels won one to tighten the Florida International League race by a notch. The Flamingos were beaten by gave the Florida State League- | hitting leading Jacksonville Beach Sea Birds a 5-0 vetory last night over runnerup DeLand. The triumph stretched the Sea Birds’ edge in the standings to 5% games, DeLand’s starter Jim Ruiz load- ed the sacks in the eighth on two welks and Bilty Dashner’s single and his services were dispensed with. French LeBlanc came on, and the Sea Birds sent in Nixon as a pinchhitter. Nixon drove in two runs with his double, then Chambers put one over the left field fence to clear the bases. In other action, Orlando beat Cocoa 9-3 and Lakeland took Day- tona Beach 13-12. Bob Wilson paced Orlando’s at- tack with three of his team’s four- teen hits. Every member of the Orlando lineup hit safely at least once. Marty Solomon, rookie right- hander, never was in trouble earn- ing his sixth victory. Bobby Roberts came through with a home run with two men on base in the ninth to account for the Lakeland’s victory which broke a three-game Daytona Beach win- ning streak. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Jacksonville Beach 5 DeLand 0 Orlando 9 Cocoa 3 Lakeland 13 Daytona Beach 2 TODAY'S SCHEDULE DeLand at Lakeland Daytona Beach at Cocoa Orlando at Jacksonville Beach STANDINGS Won Lost Pct Jacksonville Beach 10.714 DeLand 16 .556 Orlando 17 528 Lakeland 19 472 Daytona Beach 20.429 Cocoa 25 .306 The Amazon River was named by a Spanish explorer after a bat- tle with Indians in which a large number of Indian women took part, reminding the explorer of the leg- end of the Amazons, a warlike race of women. BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.68 Battery ‘That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 Exch. Lou Smith, 1116 White and Gil Torres for 14 hits, includ- ing Lou Russo’s three-run homer in the third, to win their fifth victory against 32 defeats. Dave Wikinson and Monk Stevens hed the Indians to eight hits, one of them a two-run homer by Mack Meeks that tied the score in the seventh. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Petersburg 5-5 Miami beach 3-1 (first game 11 innings) Taghassee 11 West Pam Beach 7 TODAY’S SCHEDULE St. Petersburg at Miami Beach West Palm Beach at Tallahassee STANDINGS Won Lost Pet Miami Beach 26 13 667 West Palm Beach 22 17 «564 St. Petersburg 20 18 .526 Tallahassee 5 32 .135 Alexander Graham Bell was a teacher of the deaf before he in- vented the telephone. * The horse is known to have de- veloped from a four-toed animal about the size of a fox. Pic ARR AMES. Bh ihn 8 otha ee TB a Ah a Page 6& THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, May 18, 1954 LOTS OF SAILFISH—Mrs. Ygnacio Carbonell (right) landed a 7-foot, 2-inch sailfish and her fishing companion, Mrs. Virgil W, Qsborne (left) boated a 7-foot, 4-inch sail. They were fishing from a Fleet Training Group Boat piloted by Mrs. Osborne's hus- band, a chief bos’n mate. The sails and other fish were caught in the Gulf Stream about 10 miles from Key West. Sports NEW YORK (#—Nobody seems to have the slightest idea what the Cleveland Indians are doing around first place in the American League at this stage of the race, any more than they can under- wing finally taken the big If you haven’t kept tab on the Condition Of Jockey Critical CHICAGO (# — Jockey Herbert Cavalier is paralyzed and in very eritical’” condition today as the result of an injury suffered in a three-horse spill at Sportsman's Park yesterday. The 19-year-old apprentice from New Orleans suffered a spinal cord injury and is reported near death at St. Anthony’s Hospital. Two other jockeys, William Car- roll of Chicago and Ronnie Baldwin of Warren, , both 22, also were hurt in the collision, but suffered only minor injuries. The collision occurred during Sportsman’s fourth race. Cavalier’s mount, Skitterygusset, stumbled and fell and was piled into by Lawl ridden by Carroll and Bald- wi af i NAVARRO, Inc. 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In left field is Al Smith, a semi- rookie whe came up from Indian- apois last season; and on the bench is Dale Mitchell, long an established .300-plus hitter. Play- ing right field in place of Wally Westlake, Suitcase Simpson and a half dozen others is Dave Philley, whom the Philadelphia A’s no longer wanted. , In fact, when the/Indians finished winning an important game the other day with a rousing late-inn- ing rally, the only “old faces” in their lineup were those of Bobby Avila at second, George Strickland at short, Larry Doby in center field and Rosen at first. Hal Naragon, a rookie back from the service, was catching, and Hal Newhouser, the veteran from De- troit, was scoring his 201st pitch- ing victory. Of the Indians’ Big Three pitch- ers, only Bob Lemon has pitched up to his normal form. While Mike Garcia and Early Wynn were be- ing unpredictable, important help has come from a pair of rookie George Mira Hurls Three-Hit Ball To Gain Third Victory The Kiwanis took undisputed pos- session of first place in the Ameri- can Little League with an 8-2 vic- tory over the Elks in the first game of a doubleheader at Bay- view Park last night. George Mira pitched three hit _|ball to gain his third win of the season against no losses. He struck out 8 and didn’t walk a batter. The Elks took the lead in the second when Bill Somomon hom- ered to left center. The Kiwanis exploded for five runs in the third to take the lead. The big hit of the inning was a bases loaded double by Roy Valdez. The Kiwanis pick- ed up two more runs in the fourth on a fielder’s choice, a triple by Valdez and a wild pitch. Two er- Tos, sandwiched by a single by Charles Pearce, produced the Ki- anis last ally in the fifth. Carey Dion’s double and two Ki- wanis last tally in the fifth. in the sixth. Dion, who went all the way for the Elks, was charged with his first loss against two wins. He struck out nine and walked four. Dion collected two of the Elks three hits. Valdez, with a double and triple in four tries, ted the Kiwanis attack. Score of first game: R. H.E. Kiwanis 005 210-8 4 2 Lo ——- 010 001-2 3 4 Mira and Esquinaldo; Dion and Solomon. In the nightcap the VFW routed the Rotary, 12-4, to take over 2nd place in -the’ National Little Lea- gue. The VFW sewed up the game in the second inning with a five run uprising. Three walks, four hits, and Tony Estenoz double featured in the rally. Chiquitin Hernandez got credti for the win although he was re- lieved by Estenoz in the fourth. Hernandez allowed two hits in gaine ing his second win of the season. Huston Plowman was charged with the loss — his second against no wins. Estenoz led the VFW’s attack with a double and a single in three tries driving in three runs. Score, second game: R. H. 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