The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1954, Page 6

- Cruz Outpitches Renuard 3-0 For Conchs One Of Greatest Pitchers In Miami History Falls To Powerful Conchs Don Cruz won his sixth game of the year as he pitched a 3 to 0, 1 hit vic- tory ever the Miami Tech Blue Devils in the Conchs final home game of the year. John Lewis’ .545 Batting Average Tops Island City Softhall League The only hit off Cruz was a; scratch single by Joe (Bucky) Roberts, a former Key Wester who is a cousin of the Conch hurler. Roberts’ single came in the fifth inn- ing with two outs. Cruz walked only two batters as he got 12 Blue Devils out Benny Mershon THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, May 24, 1954 Franklin Second a With 364 Avg; [Baseball Results |PRO vs. DUFFER|Deadlock On | [Scouts Do Good Wertz Leads With 2 : Three Homers John Lewis, Dairy Queen out- fielder, leads all softball hitters with a lusty average of .545 after three weeks of play in the Island City Softball league. His closest competitor is Charles Franklin, Sonar School pitcher, who is clip- ping the ball.at .364. Wayne Pigg, VX-1 outfielder, holds down third place with .357, while firstbaseman Bobby Lastres of the Blizzards is Little Rock. 5, Mobile 1, Cha‘ ° New Orleans 10, Nashville 2 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE mphis at Atlanta ttle Rock at Birmingham Mobile Chattanooga at Nashville at Néw Orleans Mer Lit right behind with an average of | Montgomery .353. Another pitcher, Joe Lewis of | Chariotte Coca Cola, is in fifth spot with a .333 batting percentage and Mic- key Wertz, Sonar School outfielder, rounds up the top six hitters with an average of .307. In other offensive departments, Lewis and Wertz are tied for the most runs batted with with 7. Bill Moyer, Sonar School thirdbaseman, “|and Al Pazo and Bobby Santana 2-Time Winner In Sunday’s Stock Car Racing cl cocoosc coed > wl comcccnoor> ~ SomomoBonod Bl mormon d Player— “Santana, ss —___ Knowles, 2b eccooroHncoe® nlooncccooot SooOorCOHOHS ecooooronH, iyg 17 a lit iy td Bean, rf Totals— Errors: Levitz, Grice, Roberts; riguez; stolen bases: Santana, Lastres, Salgado; struck out by: Cruz 12, Renuard 8; bases on balls off: Cruz 2, Renuard 5; ho: Cruz 1, Renuard 2; umpires: Rod- Tiguez and Halpin. New Outbreaks oe Seen In Tunisia TUNIS, Tunisia (—Eight per- sons have been killed and five wounded in new scattered out- breaks of violence between Tunisi- an nationalists and the French in this restive North African protec- torate. The French announced their troops captured a nationalist stronghold near Bizerte after a two-day battle ending yesterday. Five rebels were killed and one wounded. The French lost two killed and three wounded. Two attack: on automobiles ac- counted for the other death and injury. Schnapps Credited As Longevity Aid KOENIGSLUTTER, Germany — A glass of schnapps a day keeps the doctor away. That’s the advice of Mrs. Karoline Matkowski, Ger- many’s oldest resident, who cele- brated her 114th birthday anniver- sary today. Mrs. Matkowski settled in this small village near Brunswick after she fled from her native Romania 10 years ago. Distress Signal Heard GENOA, Italy A predawn oe ne os from the Italian iP verio today reported . the vessel sinking. Two rescue craft searched the area off Genoa without finding any trace of the ship. Port authorities said. there were two officers and 10 men aboard. Citizen Advertisements Helpy Save You Money oo 2 2 - After four weeks of inactivity, the Stock Car Boys succeeded in Teally mixing it up Sunday after- noon. The track was dry and fast. All the ‘races except the 20 lap feature, was run over the one third mile course, which kept the cars closely bunched and the action rough. No driver succeeded in do- minating the’ win circle. Benny Mershon, driving his orange color- ed 99, sponsored by Key West Sal- vage Co, was the only two time winner for the day. He the 20 lap feature as one of his wins. The Stock Car Association will hold a Special meeting at the Am- erican Legion on Stock Island Tues- day eve May 25th, to lay plans and draw up rules governing the 100 lap race that is scheduled for Sundays races: FIRST HEAT SECOND HEAT 1. Bob Turner Sr. — Car V8 2. Bob Turner, Jr. — Car 44 3. Joe Perex — Car 6 THIRD HEAT 1, French Larue — Car 92 2 Bob Turner Sr. — Car V8 3. Bob Turner, Jr. — Car 6 FOURTH HEAT 1, Benny Mershon — Car 99 2. Jerry Hinde — Car 11 3. Bob Reaves — Car 13 The 20 Lap Main Feature lenny Mershon — Car. 99 renchy Larue — Car 92 Long Hitter Is Favored To Win MUIRFIELD, Scotland 7 — The sixday British Amateur Golf Championship got under way today and players cast anxious eyes to- ward the unpredictable Scottish weather. They all agreed that the 59th title would go to the longer driving player ‘with ability to sink putts on soaked greens. . The weather here has a habit of reversing quickly, but a relent- less rain the past few days has softened up the testing 6,066-yard, par-72 links considerably. Players from 15 nations are en- et a empha of snuningion big Bill Campbell I» W. Va., and defending champion Joe Carr of Ireland the two players to oe the longest hitters in the Frank, Stranahan of Toledo has White Sox Buy Kell; Make Offer To Phil Cavarretta By TOM BRANAGAN CHICAGO ( — Ina lavish, un- characteristic gambde,the Chicago White Sox paid a reported $100,000 for hard-hitting George. Kell and now are ready to acquire another famed slugger, Phil Cavarretta. Frank Lane, the Sox general 1 manager, got third baseman Kell from the Boston Red Sox for re- serve infielder Grady Hatton and cash — so much that Red Sox “couldn’t turn it down.” Lane didn’t announce the amount involved but Manager Paul Rich- ards, when asked if it was Kell has hit over .300 the last seven seasons and Cavarretta has a lifetime .292 batting mark in 19 seasons at first base for the Cubs. With the Sox pitching staff manned by — Richards says it’s the best in the American League — the weak-hitting Comis- key club needed a player of Kell’s batting ability badly. Richards said only Saturday that the club had to find a le slugger to stay in the race. Sox pitchers were hurl- ing five and six-hit games and losing. “It Cavarretta is obtained and can regain even a respectable fraction of his old form, another Sox problem would be near solu- tion. Richards hasn’t been able to call forth a reliable pinch hitter in clutch situations. He sent pinch batters to the plate 35 times ‘this season before one of them — pit- che Bob Keegan — produced a it. ‘The ex-Cub pilot, relieved during spring training, and replaced by Stan Hack, was due in Chicago to- day for a talk with Lane, They dee Teported close to an agree- ment. Major League Leaders BATTING - J; blonski, St. > 380. RUNS aaa Be igu Musial, St 5 HOME RUNG. Moti fs 4 Musial, St. Louis 14. PITCHING -Raschi, St. Louis, 30, 1.000. AMERICAN LEAGUE Rae ee Cea 382, a i - lcago and Avila, HITS Avila, , 52. HOME RUNS <Heoek tiectiang, i. PITCHING-Lemon, Creveland, 60, 1,000, By A variety of the African ele- Phant species is small—about half the size of larger types at* full growth.. ‘The bearings cor propeller shafts of many ships are made of hard, tropical wood. [rca WAR SS been installed as co-favorite with | install Carr by the professional oddsmak- ers, but he has been far off in Practice rounds. of the Blizzards are tied for the most runs scored with 5. John Le- wis and Bob Lastres of the Bliz- zards have collected the most hits, 6, while Jim Nelson, Sonar School outfielder, has drilled the most doubles, 3. Wertz, who led the lea- gue last year in homers, is setting the pace this year with 3. Three players are tied for the most ‘tri- ples with one. They are John Lew- is and Bobby Lastres of the Dairy Queen and Pigg of VX-1. Four players are tied for the most sto- len bases with 2. They are Ken- neth Kerr, Lastres, and Pazo of| the Blizzards and* Dowen of the Sonar School. Bob Edwards, VX-1 firstbaseman, has struck out the most times, 7, and Moyer of Sonar has drawn the most walks,. 6. In the pitching. department,. Dan- ny Brooks of the Blizzards leads all hurlers with three victories and no losses, Harold Schmidt, VX-1 righthander, has struck out the most batters, 31; has issued the most walks, 12; has pitched the most innings 32; has allowed the most hits, 23; and has given up the most runs, 18. Brooks, on the other hand, has the lowest ERA with BIG SIX HITTERS Player— John Lewis, DQ - 11 Franklin, SS —. 11 Pigg, VX1 14 R, Lastres, DQ —. 17 Joe Lewis, CC 12 Wertz, SS =e DQ—Dairy Queen SS—Sonar School CC—Coca-Cola Ave. 545 357 R 4 3 2 3 1 333 4 H 6 4 5 6 4 4 Baksi Fights Big | +307 | Los, Ange Columbus 3, Charlotte 2 Jacksonville 5, Macon 2 MONDAYS SCHEDULE Augusta at Charlotte SUNDAY’S BASEBALL RESULTS By bi TED PRESS San Diego 7-7, Oakland 3-2 San Francisco 6-2, Portland 3-1 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Graceville 5, Dothan 4 Crestview 9, Panama City 8 Fort Walton Beach 5, Andalusia-Opp: 4 INTERNATIONAL ‘Montreal 3-2, Richmond 2-1 (second game innings) Havana 7-1, Buffalo 3-8 Ottawa 15, Rochester & Toronto 5-2, Syracuse 2-0 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus 4-1, Louisville 2-4 Toledo 5, Charleston 2 Kansas City 12, St. Paul 9. Indianapolis 12, ‘MONDAY'S By THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘Toledo at Columbus Charlotte at Louisville Kansas City at Minneapolis St. Paul at Indiana; a TEXAS Oklahoma City 2t Tulsa Houston at Beaumont San Antonio at Shreveport games scheduled INTERNATIONAL Havana at Montreal (2) Richmond at Ottawa (2) Buffalo at Toronto (2) ‘Syracuse at Rochester ALABAMA-FLORIDA Graceville at Dothan Panama City at Crestview Fort Walton Beach at Andalusia-’opp Andalusia-Opp ‘Crestview Panama City -364 | Hollywood -353 | Seattle MONDAY’S BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 10.206 — Bob Baker Tonight ee NEW YORK # — Joe Baksi, back for “just one mece chance,” kicks off the boxing progam to- night at Brooklyn’s Eastern Park- way (ABC-TV) against Big Bob Baker, a Pittsburgh giant who also fumbled away his big chances. When Baksi, now 32, came down from the farm at East-Nassau, | Brooklyn | .. N.Y., around the first of the year he weighed a bulging 261 pounds. After weeks of training and one “tuneup” knockout victory he’s down to “about 233.” Baker’s bright hopes were dimmed by chronic bad hands. Every time he started to make his move, the hands went back on him. He got up around 223 but-weighed only 209 when he was stépped by Archie Moore March 9 at #iani Beach, aH The rival TV show at St. Nichol- as Arena tonight (Du Mont) fea- tures Ralph (Tiger) Jones and Pedro Gonzales in a middleweight J0rounder. Jones disappointed badly as a 5-1 favorite May 14, losing to Jacques Royer at Madi- son Square Garden. Gonzales, a youngster from Ran- kin, Pa, has won 11 of 18 pro starts, losing ‘to Pierre. 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Behind 20 14 588 Kon Vek ee lew at jac » 7 p.m.—! aed gy Dickson a = urgh at B: yn, 7 pul |. — Surkont cus GH ie Posi oe = . icago at i: 5 mM. D: vs. Raschi (4-0) > arian (Only games scheduled) SUNDAY’S RESULTS Brooklyn 5-6, Pittsburgh 4-2 New York 6, Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati 13, St. Louis 6 Milwaukee 4-9, Chicago 2-3 JERRY BARBER By JERRY BARBER 1953 Azalea Open Winner (Written for AP Newsfeatures) A great many average golfers have a bad left hand grip. This is natural as most people are right- handed. They have a habit of being | the too strong with the right hand and do not know where to put thé left. They should use a tighter grip with the left hand, while retaining the same force with the right. Instead of starting down from the top of the backswing with their left hand, too many golfers em- Ploy a turn of the body and the Tight hand as if casting a fishing Tod. Atlanta Nears So. Assn. Lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Atlanta Crackers, bouncing 564] along on a nine-game victory string, today are threatening to move back into the Southern Asso- ciation lead from which they were dumped nearly a jponth ago. Aided by Little Rock’s 5-2 victory Sunday over the league-leading Birmingham Barons, the Crackers moved to within one and a half air | games of first with a 5-1 defeat of Memphis. Atlanta’s Bob Giggie kept the Chicks under control with a six- hitter marred only by Ed White’s ninth-inning homer. The blow cut off Giggie’s skein of scoreless in- nings at 21. Elroy Face hurled four-hit ball to give New Orleans a 10-2 victory over Nashville and Mobile @iged Chattanooga 1-0 despite three-hit Pitching on the part of Dick Hyde and Gonzalo Narranjo. Citizen Want Ads Pay Off! VITAL MESSAGE! Tonight at 7:45 Over WKWF HEAR... JIM FRANKLIN (Lever No. 3-A) (Pa, Pol. Adv.) LINDSEY MOTOR COMPANY “FEATURING SUPER QUALITY USED CARS ONLY” 327 Duval Street Telephone 2-6241 E. H. 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But he said “It certainly is a Possibility” that the two houses of Congress will fail to agree on a farm. bill. President Eisenhower has urged abandonment of the present system of mandatory price supports on basic field crops at 90 per cent of parity and its replacement by a system of flexible props ranging from 75 to 90 per cent of parity. Parity is a standard for measur- ing farm prices said by law to givé farmers a fair return in relation fe Prices they pay for things they Congress in 1948 and 1949 put on the books g flexible support: system, although not in the form Eisenhower administration has Tecommended. But it has post- poned its effective date from year to year, continuing the rigid 90 per cent props first provided in war- time to stimulate production, The 90 per cent supports now are slated to expire at the end of the 1954 crop year, and failure of Congress to pass new legislation would permit the flexible plan now on the books to go into effect, Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) of the Senate Agriculture Committee said “there’s a possibility we might not do anything.” But Rep. Hope (R- Kan), chairman of the companion House committee, said he “can’t conceive that the Congress won’t do something.” -Secretary of Agriculture Benson has said he- would recommend a presidential veto if Congress votes for rigid supports. Knowland said: “If there is a deadiock in-Con- gress or a bill passed that the President doesn’t approve, the flexible supports will still go into effect.” Despite the uncertainty over the farm issue, Knowland said he be- lieves Congress will come up with a program of accomplishments that will convince the voters they ought to keep the GOP in control of Congress. He blamed Democrats for defeat of two of Eisenhower’s proposels: revision of the Taft-Hartley Act amendment to give the vote to ic- | year-olds. Both died in the Senate. Knowland predicted that the GOP will go to the voters with a program that includes tax reduc- tions, social security expansion, a year’s extension of reciprocal trade with some customs simpli- fication, revision of the Atomic Energy Act, highway construction, Turn For Leader LOS ANGELES #—The Boy « Scouts of Troop 666 did their good turn yesterday — for their scout- master, First they had to get him out of town.They contacted Jim Stevens’ sister in Fresno and arranged for her to invite him up there for a’ isit. Then they set to work, with Prental supervision, and painted ht house — a job they knew he ha been planning but had post- Pokd to work with them. It helped tha a painting contractor was an of the parents’ commit- tee or the troop. .W figured that since he'd sivet'so much of his time to us, we OWd him a little in return,” as S-year-old Scout Warren mith, Duke 5 In London LONDG « — The Duke of Windsor, anned and sporting a jaunty grén velvet pork pie hat, arrived frm Paris today on a short visit ) attend to “personal business maers.”* His Amerign-born duchess, the former Mrs.Wallis Simpson, re- mained in Fince, a> enn Ard continuation © the housing pro- gram and aproval of the St. Lawrence seawy, He said any ich program will demonstrate tha the Republicans mean to carry o} their promises, and he continue “T don’t think Yesident Eisen- hower was ever ujer the illusion that heewould get 00 per cent of his recommendatior through Con- gress in the first ti years of his presidential term.” You SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU BUY | A DEPENDABLE * BATTERY | With Its Self-Charging | Feature } | 4 \ WE BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN You Help By A HESTER BA’ ig LOU SMITH 1116 White Street SPECIAL STOCK CAR RACE MEMORIAL DAY Sunday, May 30, 2:00 P.M. 100-LAP RACE ON OUR NEW \ 1/3-MILE TRACK Qualification Races — 1 P.M. 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