The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 28, 1954, Page 6

eets KW T ertz’s Homer Enables Sonar The once beaten Clewiston Tigers come to town tonight for a two game series with the local nine. The visiti ° 5 aggregation will be putting uis P redicts KO their 16 and 1 record on the|BY Marciano Over line tonight as well as th/Fzzard Charles ‘honor of the Suncoast Con HALIFAX, N. 8. wh — Former ference. : world heavyweight boxing cham- The Conchs are the Gold |pion Joe Louis predicted today that Coast title holders and they|titleholder Rocky Marciano will Pt * kayo challenger Ezzard Charles will be fighting wy uphold when the two tangie for the cham- the prestige of their confer-|pionship in New York vie) Be ence. It will be interesting |, Mareiane, #1) Wotnds,” Louis to note if the Conchs can de-jsaid in an mote, pues tos feat the Suncoast champions, poogaaee ee) : a conference from which! Louis is refereeing a series of they were refused admif-| wrestling matches in this area. Dairy Queen Blizzards Win 7th Straight In Nightcap Mickey Wertz’ three run homer enabled Sonar School to defeat Coca Cola, 4-1, in the first game of a softball double header at Bayview Park last night. In the night cap, the Dairy Queen Bliz- zards won their seventh straight by outscoring the VX-1 Flyers, 13-7. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN chool To Defeat Coca Cola Friday, May 28, 1954 Sports NEW YORK The touring pro- fessionals spend most of their year playing golf over pitch-and-putt courses which permit them to make a couple of careless shots on almost any round and still check tance two years ago. Key West trounced Lake Worth, last year’s champs, both games of a two game series last season and it willbe sweet revenge if the Conchs can do the same this year against the Tigers. Ace Conch righthander George Lastres will -be shooting for his thirteenth victory of the year when he takes the mound against the visiting nine. He has yet to be defeated this year and has a re- markable 1.2 earned run average. ‘The Clewiston nine, which is noted for its heavy hitting, may find the going rough when they face the de- ceiving tosses of the Key West hurler. Lastres will be facing an equal- ly capable opponent in Letty Rich- ard Bethea, all-round athlete and top hurler on the Tigers mound staff, Bethea is also undefeated this year with ten wins but may have trouble quieting the Conchs big bats. Don Cruz will come back Satur- day night for Key West and will pitch against Bill Roland. Both of DeLand Makes Drive For Fla. State Loop Lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Those. DeLand Red Hats are making a drive to capture the lead of the Florida State League. Last night, they cut. down Jack- sonville Beach 9-6 to whittle the Sea Birds’ edge to three games. It was their fourth victory in a row, and their second over Jack- sonville Beach which now has its last three outings. Centerfielder Enio Martinez star- red ina 13-hit DeLand attack with three doubles and a single. He also scored the deciding run in the ninth inning on an error. Meantime, it came to light the cellar-dwelling Cocoa Indians are in more trouble than being on the short end of the score most of the time. Fidelis Harrer, team Pi announced that the In- dians would have to show an in- créase in attendance for the club to ¢ontinue. Before Wertz homered in the! in with a sparkling 65 or 66. It fifth, it was a pitching duel be-|siready is being predicted that tween Coca Cola’s Clint Warren) they will have angry words for the and Sonar School’s Charles Frank-| Baltusrol, N. J., layout over which lin, In the fifth, however, Bill Moy-| the National Open is to be played er beat out an infield hit to start) starting June 17. the rally. After Taube walked,/ ‘The thought occurs that the wide Wertz drilled one between left cen-| disparity between the winter-tour ter for an inside the park homer | shooting galleries and the tough- to send Sonar School ahead 3-0. | ened-up championship courses Coca Cola picked up the only/ might have been an important fac- tun off Franklin in the sixth on sin-| tor in the wonderful record of Ben gles by Onelio Calero and Bunsy| Hogan since the Bantam recov- Villareal and a double by Danny) ered from the terrible injuries he Lastres. received in a car-bus collision Sonar added an insurance run Roundup By Gayle Talbot at Carnoustie, which offers the most grueling test in all golf. In other words—and barring his sentimental play in the Colonial Open at his native Fort Worth— Hogan scarcely has struck a shot for several years on anything ex- which he did not exert the limit of his powers of concentration and skill. Something has set him apart from his brother pros of the money circuit, and it seems logical that this has helped. In fact, there have been complaints from the field that Ben wasn’t being entirely fair about it. : Anyone who is brave enough to in the bottom of the sixth when Scott Gaffney walked, took second ‘on a wild pitch, third on an error, and scored on an infield out. . Wertz led the Sonar’s attack with his 4th homer of the and a early in 1949. During some 15 years of serious ‘competition before the crash, Ho- gan had won only one Open title, in 1948. Since he amazed both the medical and golfing world by get- ting back on his wobbly 40-year-old single in three tries. D. Lastres| pins and resuming his career, the had a double and single in three | dauntless Texan has won three of tries to pace Coca Cola’s offense. |the four Opens played, in ’50, ’51 Franklin, who struck out 7 and| and ’53. walked two, won his 3rd game| Over that unrivaled period Ho-~ against two losses, Warren was| gan, because of his lack of charged with his second loss a-| stamina, has been forced to pass gainst no wins. up all the lesser events on the The win moved Sonar into a tie | ¢,000-yard courses and confine him- with Coca Cola for second place.| self to a few of the big ones where Scoring eleven runs in the first | distance and accuracy are essen- two innings, the Dairy Queen Bliz-| tial on shot after shot for 72 holes. those boys hkye 6 wins and 1 lost records and should provide quite a mound duel. set Saturday night as a test, it a special night with ad- attractions thrown in. Unless ‘fans show up, he may call oe in Cocoa a losing propo- ion and move or give up his chise. If Cocoa folds, the FSL will have Julito (Irish). Santana, Cua stolen 20|Jacksonville Beach and Lakeland —already have threatened to quit j if the turnstiles didn’t see more Hal on will be in left field | action. with fen rita in right, Eloy Rod-| The scheduled Orlando-Cocoa riguez, whose beautiful running | game last night was rained out. catch was the fielding gem of the| Rolando Ortega withstood an 11- Conchs last game will be in center-| hit Daytona Beach attack to reg- field for the locals. ister a 10-6 victory for the Lake- The game will start tonight at|land Pilots. It was Ortega’s tenth 8:15 p. m. and-a good crowd is|triumph against two defeats. His expected to witness the fray. teammates inflicted the eighth de- feat in a row on Daytona Beach Conrad Reaches for the Conchs. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS DeLand 9 Jacksonville Beach 6 zards made it seven in a row and increased its league lead to four full games over Coca Cola and Son- ar School. The Blizzards spotted the Flyers two runs in the first inning and then bounced back with four runs in their half of the first to take the lead. In the second inning, the Bliz- zards took advantage of Bogdon's wildness to knock him out of the box. McGrew, who followed Bog- don on the hill was not either and before the dust had cleared, seven runs had crossed the plate. Big hit of the inning was James Aritas single with the bases loaded. Ed Rowe started on the hill for the Blizzards, but needed from Dewitt Roberts. His crowning achievement was his victory in last year’s British Open pick against the great men, then, in the coming struggle at Baltus- rol should at least be aware that the USGA, as usual, has gotten in its licks early and fixed up a|Macon course that will not be for boys. In the opinion of some who have examined it recently, Baltusrol will be only for Ben Hogan and, pos- | Columbus sibly, for Samuel Snead if the latter can keep his drives straight on every hole. They say that the famous course, which has been lengthened from 6,873 to 7,027 yards for the Dpen, with 10 new setback tees, is going to be a terror and that a total of 286 strokes should be good enough to win. This is against a par of 34-36—70, or 280 for the 72 holes. A player shooting that sort of golf on the winter circuit, it should be pointed out, would run out of eat- ph money on about the second stop. Orioles Can’t Buy Better Players BALTIMORE #—The man who) raised the money to return major league baseball to Baltimore said | yesterday it takes more than cash to build a winning ball club and urged Orioles fans to be patient, “The simple truth is that we have offered very large sums of money to purchase several play- ers,” said Clarence W. Miles, corporation lawyer wao became president of the Orioles. “The difficulty is not lack of Aritas and Valdez led the Bliz-|funds, but the old story of finding zards offense. Aritas had a single|a club willing to part with their and triple in two tries driving in| better players at the risk of weak- three runs. Valdez had a double | ening their own club and strength- and triple in three tries to push | ening the Orioles.” Semi-Finals In By RUSSELL BRUCE MEMPHIS (#—It was little man against big man in the Southern Amateur golf semi-finals today— Defending champion Joe tonio, took on towering Howie Johnson of Houston in an all-Texas S6-hole tangle. It was odds-on that Texas would Keep the Southern title, but the gallery’s sentimental favorite was Nabers, a 43-year-old regular who has been shooting for the cham. pionship since 1925. Nabers pulled through to the semifinals for the first time yes- terday by walloping two tough op. ponents: Cotton Rockholt, Mem- phis, who lost the quarter 3 and 2, and W. W. Farish of Gulfport, Miss., a 3 and 2 victim in the morning round. The hard money favorite, how- ever, was Conrad, a calm, relaxed, almost casual golfer who didn’t let a driving rain that soaked the 6,617- yard Memphis Country Club course throw him off stride. Conrad beat Lew Oehmig of Chattanooga, Tenn., a former Ten- nessee Open champion, 5 and 4 in the quarterfinal. In the morning round, he eliminated Charles Dud- ley of Greenville, S.C., former North-South champ, by the same score. Johnson, who seldom studies the lie of his ball more than two sec- onds before swinging, clipped Cur- tis Person of Memphis, 3 and 2, then mowed down Tommy Barnes | {¥@day of Atlanta, a two-time Southern champ, by an identical margin. Wittenber; 8, a former Louisiana State University golfing star, had to go 18 to beat Memphis: news- Paper reporter Tom Michael, 1 up. In the morning round, he ousted Sonny Ellis of Atlanta, 3 and 2, Jacksonville Beach with odds riding on the halfpints, [DOL@e Conrad, | Lakeland the little redhead from San An- Dertoad Beach Cocoa Sports Shorts Lakeland 10 Daytona Beach 6 Orlando at Cocoa ppd Southern Amateur |>-u rain TODAY’S SCHEDULE Cocoa at Daytona Beach Jacksonville Beach at Orlando STANDINGS Won Lost Pct 131 5.674 28 18 .609 26 19 .578 21 25 .457 16 20 .348 15 30 .333 BOSTON (#—Sanford W. Goin of Gainesville, Fla., will receive a fellowship for public service from the American Institute of Architects at the organization’s Cdnvention here June 18. Only four Florida architects have Teceived the award in the past. Goin, 46, Has practiced in Gaines- ville since 1934. He was city com. missioner in 1951-52. : DELAND (#—Stetson University starts with the annual breakfast lay and concludes with gradua- June 7. Val Peterson, administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Admini- ition and former governor of Nebraska, will be commencement There are 180 candidates for de- Grees, > Praga Method- their. 11 annual Conférence here June 9-13. More 1,000 ministers and lay dele- are expected to attend the Meeting. Boxing Results By The Associbted Press Mich.—Kemny Lane, 194, Sammy Rodgers, Mich. 10. 6s, out. Bos Sioines, ND.-1 Day, nn four runs across. Box scores: FIRST GAME Coca-Cola (1) Player— ABRHPOAE Cruz, cf 2 0 Calero, rf — 1 Villareal, c __. 3 K. Rod’ez, cf-2b 3 D. Lastres, 3b _ 3 Sands, If _.__. 3 Brown, 2b 1 Lewis, cf —__. 1 A. Lastres, 1b _ 2 zMachin __. al J. Rodriguez, ss 2 ecooooocoosore cooooooNeorre CHWOCMOONNWH HE BROS OCOCONNOOOS Totals— Sonar Sc! Player— ABR Mayer, 3b _. 4 Taube, ss —. 3 Lenihan, lb —1 af a Fa 8 sl CNoconoomay Franklin, p — Nelson, cf —— Jones, If Castro, c Moser, 2b Gaffney, rf Bo ort COBO OO | Hhoccoononn ] coroocoonoor Lt | ocoostKrrontwrr colocccoccoccc ot S! - ~ Totals— 2Fanned for A. Lastres it Score by innings: . H. E. Coca-Cola ... 000 0010-1 4 6 Sonar School 000 031 x—4 4 0 RBI: Wertz 3, Moyer, D. Las- tres; 2BH: D. Lastres; HR: Wertz; SB: D. Lastres 2, Brown; DP: K. Rodriguez to D.. Lastres; SO by: Warren 1, Franklin 7; BB off: Warren 5, Franklin 2; winner: Franklin; loser: Warren; um- pires: Irvin, Arango; scorer: Cas- taneda; time: 1.29. SECON DGAME VX-1 (7) Player— ABRH Fink, ¢ +. 2 1 ap teehee Pigg, If ——— Morgan, cf 3 Edwards, lb — 3 Colles, 2b —— 3 3 = & wy s 1 0 2 1 & {jMeGrew, p 2 0 | Angueira, 2b _ 1 Miles said the task of “‘convert- ing the Orioles into a pennant con- tender” belongs to General Man- ager Art Ehlers and Field Manager Jimmy Dykes. “They have been assured that funds are available to purchase players, and I can say categorical- ly that Ehlers has left no stone unturned to build up the club.” He said he could not see “any DeVito, 3b —3 1 gency, <t 3 0 Bogdon, p _..1 0 coco orow Totals— Dairy Queen ( Player— ABR o* Lastres, lb 3 Villareal, ss _. 3 Kerr, 3b 2 Santana, c —. 3 Aritas, rf ___ 2 Lewis, 2f 2 Valdez, cf _. 3 Sawyer, If 2 Rowe, p .____ 2 Roberts, p 1 Totals— 2413 8 Score by innings: Hi. VX-1 a 201 310— 7 4 Dairy Queen 470 02x—13 8 5 RBI: Pigg, Morgan, Geary, Mc- Grew, Lastres, Santana 2, Aritas 3, Valdez 4, Rowe; 2BH: Mor- gan, Valdez; 3BH: Aritas, Valdez; SB: Edwards, Morgan; SO by: BB off: Rowe 3, Bogdun 4, Mc- Rowe 2, Roberts 3, McGrew 3, Grew 4; hits off: Rowe 3 in 4, Roberts 1 in 2, Bogdon 4 in 1, McGrew 4 in 4; winner: Rowe; loser: Bogdon; umpires: Irvin, Arent? scorer: Castaneda; time: SCOONHNOOHHEH ecocoosmMmang HOCOCOHANHEHMD COCK ONNHEwHD 1 almwocconmoonoomM wl ooon pol nal o E. J SOFTBALL STANDINGS WL Pet, Queea 7 0 1.000 Cola 429 School "429 143 reason to apologize” for the per- formance of the club to date. “Actually, we are a bit higher than we were rated by the vast majority,” he said. The Orioles, who came home to- day r seven straight losses on the road, are in sixth place, only half a game out of the cellar. They were picked to finish eighth or seventh. “Danger Trail” Is Film Slated By Youth Here For the regular Saturday night Youth for Christ Rally, held in the Fleming Street Methodist Church at 8 p. m., YFC will be showing aiWestern Type Gospel Film en- “The Danger Trail.” elist Bill Rice gives thrilling ofjthe dangers on the old-time Western trails. He skillfully does this to emphasize the awful dang- to come to Him for eternal life. The film opens with a scene of the ranchers and their friends rid- ing horses, coming home. Before sweet Gospel song, Western style. Rancer Bill follows with his chal- lenge. Everyone is invited to attend. Payments To Farmers High WASHINGTON # — Records of payments to individual farmers un- der the government’s huge price support and soil conservation pro- grams now are open for inspec- tion. Such records heretefere have been secret, but Secretary of Agri- culture Benson said yesterdey he has ordered county offices to make ithis information available to those it. Sa inant information will be made public,” Benson said in a statement. He added this would not include certain confidential in- formation supplied by individual farmers. Baseball Results HEQWUDAT'S BASEBALL By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind Baltimore 12 2 iL Cleveland 4 Bseseoon eeeeeeeae FRIDA’ New York at Boston (night) Delrott at. Cleveland t) fashington at Philadelphia (night) Ghivage at Baltimore: (2). Ctw/night) THURSDAY'S RESULTS Detroit 7, Baltimore 1 Only games scheduled NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind BW a THURSDAY'S RESULTS Philadelphia 11, Brooklyn Chicago 7, St. Louis 3 Only game: SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION ‘Won Lost Pct. Behind 2 15 «Sl — cept an exacting golf hole and on | Bitmingh: ere is a film with a real chal-| 7" leige to come to Christ now. Ev- Montreal adeounts, illustrated by real action, | Rehmond er of putting off Christ’s invitation | Crest a camp fire, a cowboy sings a §%, Memphis at New Orieans postponed, FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Chattanooga at Atlanta Nashville at Bi am Little Rock at Memphis at New Orleans (2) WonLost Pet. Behind 6 A - 15.634 581 512 5% 4290«9 45 9 419 9% 35 THURSDAY'S RESULTS Charlotte at Savannah postponed, wet Jacksonville 4, Columbia 1 Augusta 3, Columbus 2 (11 innings) Montgomery 8, Macon 1 FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE jannah Buffalo 6, Only games scheduled AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘Toledo 4 Beaumont 6, San 4 Fort Worth 11-4, Oklahoma City 43 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Seattle 7, San Francisco 4 Los Angeles 1-7, Portland -4 FRIDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo at Charleston Louisville at Columbus Minneapolis at Indianapolis Kansas City at St. Paul TEXAS Fort Worth at Oklahoma City as Syracuse at Ottawa Rochester at Buffalo Only games scheduled . ALABAMA-FLORID A ndalusia-~ at Graceville Orgaview ae Fort Walton Beach Dothan at Panama City BASEB: By The Associated Press AMERICAN ASEOUIATION on Lost Pet. Indianapolis 14 650 Louisville FLORIDA ALABARS ‘Won Lest Pet. ee 3 a 2 18 eceenne 1S Panama City LJ ¢ jan Antonio ENSE Buses Bes Worth Oklahoma City Dallas Tulsa Beaumont Houston SRRNEEENE Be 2 Bees PACIFIC COAST Won! a? Hollywood Seattle Oakland San Diego Sacramento San Los aeeeee 32 26 2 6 26 ory 3 : EE SKATING TONIGHT © Paul Albury, city recreatin director, has announced the gular Friday night skating wy be held tonight on the tennis court at Bayview Park. All youngsters are invited 4 come to the park to skate be tween the hours of 7 and 4 P. m. Davey To Quit Boxing For Good: CHICAGO —Attired in a dark blue budiness suit, with a matching | left eye, Chuck Davey yesterday told a press conference that he was hanging up his boxing gloves for good. The announcement came as no Hee Knowles, had said Wednesday tg recom- mend that Davey quit. D. had just suffered a seventh-ror 0 by welterweight Vince MartineMin surprise. His manager, night that he was going Chicago Stadium. ‘ The balding Davey, 28, who Ips a masters’ degree in education, said it was tough to be haved now “because I wanted to have, good fight before leaving the rit as an active boxer.” “Boxing has been very reward- ing to me,” he said. “It enabled me to receive an education. It aried exper- jiness, at my age, could I have done so well.” gave me a rich a! ience. In no other Onl Expect Auto Reae Record Faster Than Last Year ht¥ INDIANAPOLIS (#—Drivers in the 500-mile auto race field Mon- day expect the early pace to be about 136 miles an hour, three miles faster than Bill Vukorich’s record run in the first hundred miles of his winning effort last year, They haven’t said so, but they wound up fuel and carburetion tests yesterday with snort runs at 136 to 138. In the late tests, the drivers run at what they guess the race speed’ will be, to give them a check on* their engines at a competitive Pace. All of the 33 qualified cars got through the preliminaries without accidents, although some mechan- ies are still replacing parts dam- aged in the qualifying runs, There isn’t much change of al- ternates Eddie Johnson, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Jimmy Davies, Pacoima, Calif., getting into the lineup. Johnson will go if one of the 33 starters can’t get away from the line, Davies if two are left behind. They’ll be ready, just in case. The track will be closed until gates open at 5 a.m. (EST) Mon- ‘|day. Drivers and crews will meet Sunday with speedway and AAA Officials to review the race rules and incidentally entertain Marie Wilson, movie and TV star who will present the Borg-Warner Tro- Phy to the winner. Davey, whose record stands at 40 victories against five defeats and two draws and whose earnings have been estimated at $150,000, still is not through with televisiin, the medium that built him up to Campbell Wins MUIRFIELD, Scotland — Bill Campbell of Huntington, West Va., a onetime national boxing hero. “I’m going to try to break into the radio and television sportscast- ing field,” he said. “I’ve had a sports show in my home town— Lansing, Mich.” for two years, and now I’d like to branch out.” Mobile’s Winning Streak Stopped By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mobile’s improved Bears saw their longest winning streak of the season snapped last night, but the jubilant Atlanta Crackers stretched their undefeated string to 13. Mobile and Little Rock exchanged shutouts in. their doubleheader while Atlanta was downing Chatta- nooga 5-1. For the second night in a row, rain forced postponement of two! Southern Association games—Nash- ville at Birmingham and Memphis at New Orleans. é Mobile ran its victory string to five by blanking the Travs 2-0 in the seven-inning opener, but Little Rock turned the tables in the sec- entered the semi-finals of the British Amateur Golf Tournament today by turning back A. M. Bucher, a giant Scot, 5 and 4, The 32-year-old West Virginian played near flawless golf as he seized 4 three-hole advantage at the tutn and held it. He was under par for the first eight holes over the 6,806-yard, par 72 Muirfield Course before hitting his first bad shot on the ninth. Here he took a wild six, although he still finished the nine in even par 36. Campbell and Maj. W. D. Hen- derson of San Francisco, a happy weekend golfer, were the only Americans left in the field. Henderson took on Englishman W._A. Stark today: YOU . 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