The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1954, Page 6

Milwaukee Braves Lead Nat'l '® vs DUPER Esquinaldo Homers A League; Were Sixth Week Ago | Vic Raschi Hit By Ball; Will Be Out Of Action For Few Days By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer Seven magic days have given THE KEY WEST CITIZEN the Milwaukee Braves undisputed rossession of first place in the National League. Only a week ago they were sixth. Suddenly everything started com- ing their way. They wor seven straight. And wher they took the night off last night, the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates rose up and toppled Brooklyn 5-2, knocking the Dodgers down to second position. For the Braves it was a week | managers like to dream about. An § ailing pitcher found himself. A rookie pitched a complete game in his first start. One game was won with five runs in the ninth, another with four in the ninth and still another in extra innings. Chet Nichols, the young left- hander fresh from the Army who was supposed to take up the slack ; left by the trades of Johnny Anto- nelli and Max Surkont, pulled his record above the .500 mark with two good triumphs. He’s now 4-3 after losing his first three. Ray Crone, making the big jump from Jacksonville of the Class A Sally League, chalked up a 10- inning victory Sunday. In winning a double-header Sat- urday the Braves scored four runs against Chicago in the final inning ofthe first game and ‘five in the ninth in the nightcap." But the winning streak alone — longest of the season in the Nation- al League — wasn’t quite enough to put the Braves on top by them- selves. They were tied with Brook- lyn after Sunday’s twin bills. Then Pittsburgh obliged. The Pirates’ decision over Brook- lyn was one of the four games played last night. Im the others Chicago defeated St. Louis 6-2, the New York Giants edged the Phil- adelphia Phillies 5-4 and the New York Yankees whipped the Phil- adelphia Athletics 7-3. Pittsburgh had lost six in a row and eight out of nine to Brooklyn this season. But last night a two- run homer by Frank Thomas and a bases-empty blast by Dick Cole gave Surkont the margin he needed to win his fourth game. The veteran right-hander al- lowed just four hits and was in trouble only in the seventh when the Dodgers combined a bunt, a walk and a single by Don Hoak with two infield outs to score both their runs. Carl Erskine, Brook- lyn’s biggest winner last season, suffered his fourth loss against four victories. Jim Davis, a rookie left-hander up from Seattle, held the Cardin- als to seven scattered singles in his first big league starting as- signment, Stan Musial went hitless and Ray Jablonski, the league’s leading hitter, managed only one hit in four times at bat. Vic Raschi started for the Car- dinals but gave up after one in- ning when he was hit on the right leg by a line drive, ently no lasting damage. He is ex- pected back in action in a few days. Willie Mays drove in four of the Giants’ five runs at Philadelp! He hit two home runs, one with a man on base, and a single that drove in a rup. Hoyt Wilhelm, who took over from Sal Maglie, picked up his second victory. The Athletics fell into last place as they bowed on three hits to rookie Bob Grim of the Yankees. Harris Night In. Washington Park WASHINGTON ( —After 38 years in organized baseball, Bucky Harris finally gets his “night” tonight. As with everything else, the per- sonable manager of the Washing- ton Senators took this occasion in stride. There’s a brand new car waiting for presentation before tonight’s game with the New York Yankees. is sponsoring the event, is keeping their nature a secret. Bucky now is serving his third hitch as manager of the Senators, world championship. He was only 21 at the time. He stayed with Washington until 1928, then moved to Detroit, where he piloted the Tuesday, May 25, 1954 SOub 4ITS iW 6 Games 4 Southards Of Gilmore Leads League With .714 Average Official batting averages for the Island City Baseball League up to and including game of Wednesday, May 19, 1954. Player— Club Southards, Gil. Papau, Gil, ......... a C. Lastres, Mikes ..... 3 V. Catala, Cubans ......11 Beck, HiSih secs 2 Key, Eagles wn 4 Hannibal, Eagles ...... 2 Portier, Eagles ......... 8 AB R H Avg. 4 714 1 500 667 R 2 545 500 -500 500 Silva, Flyers ..sc010013 Barnett, Eagles ........ 5 Joe Lewis, Cubans ..... 8 D. Lastres, Cubans .... 8 . Roberts, Cubans ..11 Santana, Mikes 400 375 375 363 -333 -333 Malgrat, Mikes ........ 3 Parks, Gil. reumeene BS Cardillo, Flyers ........13 Pago, Cubans wend Other Records — Most times at bat: Silva and Cardillo, 13, Most runs: D, Roberts and Silva, 5 each. Most hits: Catala and Silva 6 each. Most doubles: Southards and Car- dillo, 3 each. Triples: D. Lastres and D. Roberts, 2 each. Home runs: Mace and Mallaly, 1 each. Most stolen bases: Gilbert 6, Silva 3. Most sacrifice hits: Bosco 2. 333 333 333 333 307 WROKPHOCONUWUNMNHMOHONH &WOO SCHRH EEE KDE RUOONAH RH MH AN Most times fanned: Catlin, 7. Most | th times walked: D. Lastres and Bosco, 6 each. Pitcher’s Records — Games won and lost: Robinson won two lost none. ‘kowski, Venzell, Allen, R. Lastres, Papau, won one each and lost none. Villareal lost one and won one. Torres, Warden, K. Rodriguez, and Hannibal, have lost one and won none. Burks has lost two. : Most fanned: Robinson 25, Vil- lareal 15, Allen 9,. Warden 8. Most walked: wyanbseel 12, Tor- res Markowski 9. Mort innings pitched: Robinson 18, Villareal uceea Burks 117, Venzell 9, Warden 8. Most earned runs, off: Burks 10, Villareal 9, Torres 6, K. Rodriguez 5, Venzell 1, Warden 1, Robinson 0, R. Lastres 0, Papau 0, Hannibal 0, Allen 3, Markowski 4. No Explanation By Errant Angler SPARTANBURG, S. C. —In April last year, H. J. Johnson Jr. rented a motor boat and went fishing. The next day the boat was found, overturned, in the Santee-Cooper Lake and an unsuccessful search for Johnson’s body followed. Yesterday Johnson came home. Asked about his strange disap- pearance, he replied, “No comment.” League as manager of the Phil- adelphia Phillies for half a season. After two years in the minors, he took over as manager of the Yankees, winning a pennant in 1947, He was fired after his Yan- kees wound up third in 1948. He has been back with the Sena- tors since 1950. Under him, the club finished fifth three seasons and seventh once. No Harris club One-Two Punch In Tennis Not Very Effective PARIS #—Henry Hopman, the unsmiling coach of the Australian Davis Cup team, admitted today that he was puzzled about what 500; happened to the meet dangerous one-two punch in amitcur tennis— Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall. The two 19-year-olds who were good enough to defeat the United States in the Davis Cup Challenge Round last December have been eliminated in the French Interna- tional Championships here before they got as far as the quarter- final round. Ancient Gardnar Mulloy whipped Hoad Sunday and Sven Davidson of Sweden gave Rosewall the same treatment yesterday, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 63. That leaves the stern taskmaster from Down Under plenty of wor- ries about what he can do to pring the boys around for the coming Wimbledon Tournament. He said Hoad could be a litile slow rounding into form. “After all,” he said, “this is his first tournament in five or six months. He had three months in military camp. But you can’t say e same thing for Rosewall. He was complaining before we got here that he had had too many | Dothan tournaments lately. Meanwhile, the quarter-finals were scheduled for today with five # Americans still in the running— Mulloy, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Art Larsen and Budg tty, along with Davidson, Aust Rose and Argentina’s Enrique Morea. Veteran Reynolds Leading Pitcher NEW YORK (Husky Allie | Guarentee run averages, figures compiled by The Associated Press revealed to- day. Reynolds, the earned run leader in 1952 (2.07), has given up only five earned runs in 45 innings for a brilliant 1.00 mark. He has won five games and eet epe the lone defeat coming in on opening day against the Senators. in the National League, Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phil- lies is setting the pace with a 1.86 average. The 24-year-old left-hand- er bas worked 63 frames and per- mitted 22 tallies, but nine of them were unearned. Ned Garver, out with a bad knee for a good part of last season, is runner-up to Reynolds in the AL. The Detroit right-handed has yielded 10 earned runs in 63 frames for a 1.43 percentage. Ned has three triumphs against one setback. Bob Keegan (6:1) of the Chicago Baseball Results SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION By The Associated Press Won Lost Pet. Behind 2 6 es MONDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta 8, Memphis 7 (11 innin; Mobile 5, Castine 4 ay in > ga Nashville 10, New Orleans 6 — TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE Chattanooga at Atlanta NATIONAL LEAGUE Won-Lost Pet. Behind 20°14 588 Philadelphia women Chicago Ty Pittsburgh 12 Tuesday's Schedule— Pi Phila at Bi Roberts (5-4) vs. Pittsburgh at New York, 7:18 p.m. Palme (04) vs. Antonelli 2) be |. -Klippstein 5 G3) ” MONDAY'S "RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 10-706 ‘Tuesday's Cleveland at Chicago, 6:3 (6-0) vs. Pierce (2-4) Bap x at Washington, 7:30 p.m,— it (5-0) or Mc! id (2-0) vs. Dermott (2-3) rea Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.—Nixon (1-3) vs. Martin (1-3) Baltimore at Detroit, 8:15 Hoeft (1-3) p.m.—Lemon Montgomery 9, Jacksonville 4 (13 ee TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE Augusta at Charlotte vannah Columbus at Say Macon at Columbia Montgomery at Jackson MONDAY’S Bi ‘LL RESULTS vane Richmond 2-6, Ottawa 1-1 Toronto 5-10, Buffalo Rochester 3, Syracuse AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 5, Columbus 3 Oklahoma City at ils ma ity at sa | Beaumont 4, Houston 3 ponents Shreveport 3, San Antonio 2 Only games ‘scheduled ALABAMA-FLORIDA Panama City 4, Crestview 3. Graceville 11, Dothan 6 Fort Walton Beach 15, Andalusia-Opp 11 TUESDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO! Toledo. at Calumbus a City INTERNA’ Havana at lot Buffalo at “Toronto Syracuse at ieee ALABAMA-FLORIDA Panama Cy at Fort Walton Beach Crestview at eebees: aeEEERE? beaeeuE? BEREBSSe HeesEEEe eeetbae? & LOTS OF ADVICE ELMIRA, N.Y. @—There were 300 kibitzers on hand last night when firemen doused a small blaze in the kitchen of the Mark Twain Hotel. The advice came from delegates to the 27th annual conference of the Eastern Assn. ‘of Fire Chiefs. White Sox is third with 1.89 fol- lowed by Baltimore’s Bob Turley with 1.96. Brooklyn’s Russ Meyer is second ny the National League with 2.19. veteran right-hander has yielded nine earned runs in 37 innings while compiling a 2-2 won- lost slate, Robin Roberts of the Phillies is third with 2.22, Then come Gene Conley and Lew Burdette, both of Milwaukee, Conley (3-1) has a 2.35 — Tun mark and Burdette CRAIG WOOD By CRAIG WOOD Former U. S. Open Champion (Written for AP Newsfeatures) Opening the club face is one of the big banes of the average club golfer. If he would concentrate on tak- ing the club face back square for three feet he would be better off. Then he could let the club take its normal course. Doing this would improve one of every two golfers playing today. On the short wedge shots the face would be open. The square face on wood shots and the open face on wedge shots are two things that should help most average golfers. Bare-Handed Catch Of Vicious Fish Is Revealed PORTLAND, Ore. % — Tom Baker, 20, is one of the few per- sons who have caught a hand-saw fish, and perhaps the only one to do it with his bare hands. The deep water fish was a slen- der, 4%-foot-long member of the vicious lancet family. It had a mouth eight inches wide, full of knifelike teeth. Baker, an airman third class from Columbus, Ohio, now sta- tioned at Portland, came across the fish in four feet of surf at Cannon Beach. He grabbed the scaleless, muscular fish near the tail and somehow managed to dodge the teeth while tugging it shoreward. A State Game Commission ex- pert identified it yesterday, ex- plaining it is rarely found near a shore. Baksi Loses To Baker By Decision BROOKLYN, N. Y. @—Bulging Joe Baksi sobbed deeply with head hung low, crushed by the death of his manager during his losing comeback fight. All he could do was shake his head, mopping his face with a sponge, while he considered the bleak future. His manager, Lee Feuereisen, 56, had collapsed in a ringside seat after the sixth round of Baksi’s losing fight with Bob Baker of Pittsburgh. He never regained con- sciousness and died of a heart at- tack in the dressing room despite the efforts of the doctors. Baksi did not learn about the death until after the fight. The Baksi-Feuereisen team had been reunited last winter at Baksi’s request after the death of Natie Wolfson, his former manager. Feuereisen, a senior officer in the New York State Department of Licenses, had been one of three partners who managed the hulking coal miner from Kulpmont, Pa., in the early days of his career. Feuereisen had broken off with the others after Baksi knocked out Bruce Woodcock in London in 1948, then took another fight with Olle Tandberg instead of coming home to a certain title bout with Joe Louis. Everybody knows that Baksi lost his chance at the champion- ship by losing to Tandberg. Baksi, 32 and low on cash, sought out his old manager last Decem- ber. He was sent to Florida with a trainer, Jimmy Leto. After two months in the gym, the veteran pared down from 260 to 236 pounds. | Opa He took a fight with Jimmy Smith in Jacksonville and knocked him out in one round, March 30, his first bout since 1951. On the strength of that success, Baksi continued. Feuereisen signed for a TV bout at Brooklyn’s East- ern Parkway with Baker. Now it was over. Baksi had lost a unanimous decision. “I don’t know. I don’t know,” he said when they asked if he would continue. Then he said. “I guess I’ve got to go on for Leo.” Kiwanis Down Shriners Evans Defeats VFW In Nightcap By 9-5 Score The Kiwanis came from behind with six runs in the fourth inning to defeat the Shriners, 11-6, in the! first game of a Little League dou- bleheader at Bayview Park last night. The Shriners got off to a 4-0 lead in the fitst inning when they jump- ed on Kiwanis starter John Venc- zell and reliefer George Mira for three walks, an error, a single by Chuck King and doubles by Jack Crusoe and Billy Vaughn. Mira, however, setteled down to pitch two hit ball the remainder of the game to get credit for his fourth straight win. The Kiwanis picked a single run in the second when Vaughn hit a streak of wildness and walked four straight batters. Richard Senclerl- ing, who relieved Vaughn in the second was the victim of the Kiw- anis six run fourth inning. A hit} batsman, two singles and homers by Roy Valdez and Mira featured in the rally. Milton Esquinaldo’s homer accounted for the final Ki- wanis score in the fifth. Valdez led the Kiwanis offense with a homer, triple, and double in three official trips to the plate batting in three runs. Score: 4 Kiwanis 013 6 1 11-102 Shriners 40101 65-2 Venczell - Mira (1) and Esquin- aldo ‘Vaughn - Senderling (2) and Cru- soe In the nightcap, Evans won their seventh straight win with a 9-5 vic- tery over the VFW. The win in- creased their league lead to 4% games. Evans had to come from behind to take the win with a four run rally in the third. VFW took a temporary lead on a double by Eddie Diaz, an error, and a triple by Pete Esquinaldo. Evans picked up their first run in the second when Danny Garcia singled to right and scored ‘when the rightfielder let the ball get away from him. Evans combined two walks, an error, and singles by Joe Santana, Richard Curry, and Pinder for four runs in the third. They iced the game in the fourth with four more runs on Santana’s second hit, a double by Richard Garcia, a walk, and a triple. by Dan Garcia. The VFW picked up two runs in the fourth on two walks, a couple of wild pitches, and a single by Diaz. They picked up their final run in the fifth when Tony Estenoz tripled and scored later on a wild pitch. Score: VFW 20021 5-44 Evans 0144 x 972 Thompson, -Hernandez (3), Es- tenoz (4) and Esquinaldo aon Curry (4) and R. Gar- ia AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE W iL Pet. 6 1 815 3 2 .600 Kiwanis Elks Jaycees Shriners 3 2. Smo Evans VFW Lions NAS Flyers Defeat Opa Locka 6 To 3 The NAS Flyers defeated Opa Locka Marines by score 6 to 3 for their 9th straight, 16th win of the season, one defeat, Dvane of the Flyers went all the way and gave up 3 runs, 5 hits. He struck out 11 men for his 2nd win. Caudill went the distance for the Marines giving up 8 hits, good for 6 runs and struck out 12. “Doc” Silva his his 1st home run of the season in the 5th with one on. Big guns for Flyers “Jo Jo” Cardillo 2 for| 5, Anderson 3 for 3. . ! Tonight at 8 p. m. Ace Robinson for the Flyers against Lifty Nun- ley of Marines. First Game of Three Wickers Stadium, 8 P.M. BREE b Sports NEW YORK (#—In the spring it was difficult to pick the Chicago White Sox to win the American League pennant for the reason that they did not possess a big league third baseman of the class of, say, George Kell of the Boston Red Sox. There was widespread agreement that, if he had a player of, say, Kell’s ability to play third base for him, Manager Paul Rich- ards’ conviction that he could beat out the Yankees would have been justified. So now the square-jawed man from Waxahachie has not only a man of Kell’s talents, but he has Kell himself, and there no longer is any handy excuse for not pick- ing the go-go boys to play in the next World Series. Provided only that Kell’s ailing back permits him to play regularly, either at third or as replacement for nonhitting Jim Rivera in the outfield, we hereby change our vote, In looking back over their record for the past month, it is plainly evident that the Sox, already great defensively, need only another solid hit now and then from the Key West Conchs To Play Suncoast H. S. Champions Key West High School’s champ- ionship baseball team will tangle with Clewiston high school Friday and Saturday. The Clewiston team is the Suncoast champions and al- so District 6 champions. They are coming to town with an undefeat- ed pitcher, Bethea. This left-hand- er has yet to meet defeat. The Clewiston aggreation has lost only one game, in their season’s play. Like the Conchs they will play in the State Championship tourna- ment at Fort Pierce. Major League Leaders By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Avila, Cleveland, .382. RUNS— Minoso, Chicago and Avila, Cleve- ind, 29. RUNS BATTED IN—Rosen, Cleveland, 44. —Avila, Cleveland, 52. HOME RUNS—Rosen, Cleveland, 11. PITCHING NATIONAL LEAGUE HOME RUNS—Musial, St. Louis, 14. ITCHING—Raschi, St. Louis, 5-0, 1.000. Troublesome Bees MARYSVILLE, Calif. (#—Clar- ence Santry tried to smoke out a swarm of bees from a tree near his front porch and accidentally Roundup By Gayle Talbot bottom half of their batting order to pull out in front serpin there. Kell, transferring from a cellar club to one which is heated up with flag fever, should be his old -300 hitting self in short order. From April 24 through May 24 the White Sox lost just 10 games, and in seven of those setbacks they were beaten by a margin of one run. They lost three to the Yankees that way, all heartbreak- ers that could as easily have gone to the Sox. In the same period Richards’ club won 18 games, and in exactly half of them its pitchers were forced to make a one-run lead stand up to the bitter end. In other words, the coming cham- pions won or lost by the slimmest of margins in 16 out of 28 contests. That’s tough on pitchers, as well as on managers. For all we know it might be some sort of modern record. In addition to the dividends they may expect from Kell’s bat, the Lemon, Cleveland, 6-0, 1.000. | f) set the tree on fire. The damage: a scorched tree and some bee-bitten firemen, Citizen Want Ads Bring Results Sox also will have an even tighter inner defense if it is decided to play him steadily at third and send the surprising Cass Michaels to the outfield to keep his hot bat in the lineup. No left-side combination in either league would quite com- pare to Kell and the gifted Chico Carrasquel at shortstop. That, in- defensively. 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