The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 1, 1954, Page 6

| Red Sox Sweep Twi Boston Makes Desperate Bid |Vukovich’s Pit Crew Laudéd By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer 30 days should decide of Boston in the 1954 race. Will the in June or are cond division? e ely pity : ff They own a three-game winning streak for the first time this sea- son. They’ve gotten route-going performances from their pitchers in two of their last three contests. And Ted Williams is due to start bustin’ out all over after being back in action for two weeks. If the Red Sox can’t move now there isn’t much hope they will after the midway point since the first division teams already have a good jump. Boston is.11% games out of first place. Boston was the only club in either league to sweep a Memorial Day double-header yesterday. They buried Philadelphia 20-10 in the highest scoring display of the league season, then mopped up 9-0 in the nightcap. The Cleveland Indians stayed a game ahead of the Chicago White Sox in first place by whipping the White Sox 63 on Jim Hegan’s eighth-inning home run after los- ing 64 as Bob Keegan posted his seventh victory in eight decisions. Washington’s Senators, who cause the New York Yankees more trouble than an investigating com- mittee, beat the world champions 10 on Johnny Schmitz’ three-hit- ter. Then they pushed the second game into extra innings before bowing 7-6 in 10. Spee Shea forced home the winning run with a bases- loaded walk, Detroit rallied in the ninth for a The only significant shift in the standings came in the American League. Boston moved from seventh to sixth and Baltimore from eighth to seventh as Phila- - delphia dropped to last. The Red Sox’ big day. included 27 hits, five of them home runs. Milt Bolling hit two. Williams, Jim Piersall and Harry Agganis got One each. ° A bunt, an error, an infield out and Mickey Vernon’s single pro- duced the one run Wi needed to beat New York in the Opener. Casey Stengel argued the bunt hit batter Eddie Yost’s cap and got tossed out of the game for his vigorous protests. Baltimore outhit Detroit 14-9 in the first game but left 15 runners stranded. Three runs in the ninth gave the Tigers the decision. In the nightcap Vern Stephens’ homer and triples by Jim Fridley and Sam Mele helped counteract 11 strikeouts by the Tigers’ Billy Hoeft. ‘The White Sox ended Cleveland’s 14-game home winning streak in the curtain raiser with the help of two-run homers by Minnie Mino- so and Ferris Fain. Hegan’s home Tun broke a 3-3 tie in the second game and the Indians added two more in the same inning. Ahead 3-1, the Dodgers suddenly found themselves trailing by one run in the eighth at Philadelphia when Smoky Burgess smashed a pinch-hit home run with two aboard. Brooklyn tied it in the ninth after George Shuba doubled. The Phils threatened in the 12th after Hodges had given Brooklyn the lead, putting two aboard after two out. But Duke Snider raced up the center field wall and hauled down Willie Jones’ tremendous drive for the final out. Willie Mays of the Giants con- tinued his hitting spree with his 14th home run in-the first game at Pittsburgh. Stock Car Races Sponsored by Key West Stock Car Assn., Inc. Sunday, 2 P.M. BOCA CHICA ' ROAD TRACK Admission —__. $1.25 34 fell short as Franklin pitched him- Page 6 Nelson’s Homer All Stars To Win Saturday A two-run homer by Jim Nelson enabled the Navy All Stars to edge the Deerfield Beach All Stars, 3-2, in the second game of a softball doubleheader at Bayview Park Saturday night. In the opener, Deerfield Beach’s Ray Hobbs best- ed Key West’s Joe Lewis, 2-4, Deerfield Beach scored two un- earned runs off Lewis in the fourth to give Hobbs enough margin for the win. The locals took a 1-0 lead when Al Pazo tripled to lead off in the first and then scored on John Lewis’ fly. In the fourth, the Key West infield became jittery and Deerfield Beach scored its two tuns.. Ed McNair opened the in- ning by drawing a walk, Tom Rhoden then hit a potential double play ball to Kenneth Kerr who threw wild to second base. Me- Nair then scored on Don Bigbie’s fly to left. After Lewis got Floyd Westbrook on a fly to right, Hobbs bounced to Kerr who threw wild to first, allowing Rhoden to move to third. George Black’s sharp single to right scored Rhoden with the second run. ‘ Hobbs, one of the best right- the locals have faced all season, struck out 10 and walked. three. Joe Lewis, who lost a heart- breaker, allowed only three hits, struck out three, and walked two. In the nightcap, the Navy All Stars earned the locals a split in the twin bill by edging out a 3-2 win behind Charles Franklin, Al- though Franklin was touched for ten hits, he was at his best in the pinches. Deerfield got off to a 1-0 lead in the second inning when West- brook tripled and scored on Vearl Hutchinson’s single. The locals'tied it up in their half of the second when Barney Morgan blasted Hutchinson’s first pitch over the left field fence for a homer. In the third, Tom Fink walked and after Wayne Pigg struck out, Jim Nelson powered a drive over the left field fence to give Key West a 3-1 lead. Deerfield’s rally in the seventh self out of a hole. With one away, Emmett Grover and Monty Rob-/¥ink, c ertson singled. Hobbs then bounced to shortstop, Nelson, who threw wild to first, scoring Grover and sending Robertson to third. With the tying run on first and the winning run on second, Franklin struck out Rhoden for the second out, but Bigbie then hit a smash down the third base line which Bill Moyer . made a terrific stop, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN throwing Bigbie out at first to end the game. The Box Scores: FIRST GAME Deerfield Beach Player— ABR Black, rf 40 2) PO ( HPOAE 2000 CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY STARTS—Defending titlist Norton Harris (left) began his defense Tuesday, June 1, 1954 Paces Local Ross, ss . Grover, 2b Robertson, MeNair, cf Rhoden, 3b ... Bigbie, c Westbrook, 1b . Hobbs, p ...... Totals— CORO EH Key West Player— Pazo, ss .. R. Lastres, 1b John Lewis, If Kerr, 3b ..... Villareal, 3b Santana, c ... D. Lastres, 2b Valdez, cf Anguiera, Joe Lewis, p ry s 2| wnnnwonp =! B ecoocococoony SooHocoooHmS ecoocooonone Totals— Score by innings: Team— 1234567 RHE Deerfield Beach 000 200 0—2 100: 000 0—1 ‘Summary — RBI: Black, Bigbie, John; 3BH: Pazo; Sac.: Ross; SB: Hobbs, Pazo; DP: Robertson to Westbrook, Westbrook (unassist- ed); SO, by: Lewis 3, Hobbs 10; BB, off: Lewis 2, Hobbs 3; Winner: Hobbs; Loser: Lewis; Umpires: Irvin, Arango; Scorer: Castaneda; Time 1:31, SECOND GAME Deerfield Beach (2 Player— ABR Black, rf Ross, ss Grover, 2b Robertson, cf wu. 4 MeNair, If Hobbs, p .. Croeesocoroe Br NRooHmNonm mweccoonnnsd rPoonooooooDp’ eocccoocooccoos ry Navy All Sfa ‘Player— s (3) Morgan, cf ......... 3 Lenihan, 1b ww 2 Franklin, D ... 2 Moyer, 3b .. ee CrNROCOFSCOH PD eccoococooroe SF H 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 COOSOHOHOMY ” Score by innings: Team— 123 456 7—R. H. E. Deerfield — 010 000 1— 2 10 0 ecoooooon By DALE BURG INDIANAPOLIS mw — taking any credit from driver in Bill Vukovich straight 500-mile auto rai yesterday, the coid statigi that his pit crew dese: chunk of cash when distributed tonight. Jack McGrath, whojholds ‘the from the field like last year. He wa: around the track impossible 140 miles in the contest. i Vukovich won andjMcGrath fin- ished in third plac@ behind hard- driving Jimmy Bryga of Phoenix. Vukovich was 1:99.59 ahead of Ryan and 1:57 ahe@l of McGrath. Vukovich had mafle two pit stops for fuel and tires énd his crew got him back on the tfack with a total loss of 1:42. Bri had to make three stops and Ist 2:04. McGrath stopped three tiges and lost 3:39, ineluding once when his engine stalled. Fresno friendg of the short, dark and untalkative Vukovieh probably will contend, with considerable reason, that if Vukovich hadn’t held a full lap lead over Bryan late in the face, he would have been pushig his fuel injector special eves faster than his new record of 10.840 m.p.h. He cer- tainly wasmt loafing after starting in 19th pléce. McGratl, from South Pasadena Calif., had a phenomenal average speed of 139.860 for the first 50 miles ang Bryan was hardly a car length ind him at that point. McGrath reported later he was forced to abandon the torrid pace because of magneto trouble. He said he was faced with the choice of spefding time in the pit while the part was changed or giving up the all-out speed. Vulovich got ahead of Bryan durigg one of the latter’s pit stops and stayed in front till the end. Jimmy Daywalt, later involved in a spectacular accident, led 8 laps; McGrath, 53; Bryan, 45; Sam Hanks, Burbank, Calif., 1; and Art Coss, La Porte, Ind., runner-up to Vukovich last year, 2. Daywalt hit the northwest wall, 11 laps past the midway point of the race, and bounced off into Jim Rathmann’s car, in which Pat Flaherty of Glendale, Calif., was driving relief. Neither driver was hurt but the yellow “‘slow down” light was on 12 minutes. Other accidents slowed the race a total of 21 minutes and 9 seconds, but still faile dto prevent the first three finishers from breaking Troy Ruttman’s 1952 record speed of 128.922 m.p.h. No one was hurt. screaming | an almost hour early inson; 3bh: Westbrook; HR: a | gan, Nelson; Sac.: Pigg; SB:! Grover; DP: Moser to Lenihan; SO by: Franklin 5, Hutchinson 3, Hobbs 4; BB off: Franklin 1, Hutchinson 2, Hobbs; Hits off: Hutchinson 3 in 3, Hobbs 0 in 3; winner; Franklin; loser: Hutch- All Stars _ 012 000 x— 3 3 1 RBI: Morgan, Nelson 2, Hutch- inson; umpires: Truin, Arango; scorer: Castaneda; time: 1.36. Sun- day of the Key West Golf Club championship with a blistering 70 over the Stock Island links. Fine round gave him a victory over Ray Fernandez. who had a 78. Others in photo, Jack Haire (center) and Navy champ Gene Witzel, were idle in opening round of match play. Title will be decided in one month with matches set weekly.—Citizen Staff Photo by Sybil. ames From Philly Golf Day Play Slated Here National Golf Day will be observed in Key West Satur- day, June 5, as throughout the nation, when golfers at the Key West Club, Stock Island, match their skills off} With Ben Hogan, the Na- tional Open Champion, in a unique tournament. Hogan will play a solo round at the Baltusrol Country Club in Springfield, N. J., while thousands of ordinary golfers, with their handicaps allowed, will be shooting against his score on their local courses. A bronze medal inscribed “I Beat Ben Hogan,” will be pre- sented all winners by the tourna- ment sponsors, Life Magazine and the Professional Golfers Associa- tion. Each challenger is permitted his bona fide handicap rating or, if not rated, will be judged by the Callaway handicap system. Wom- en playing from the women’s tees are allowed 7 strokes in addition to their regular club handicap. Those whose scores, with handi- cap, beat Hogan will receive a specially cast bronze medgl bear- ing the inscription, “I Beat Ben Hogan on National Golf Day, 1954.” The $1.00 entrance fee in this challenging tournament will be di- vided equally between the USO and the National Golf Fund, Inc., for worthy charities in golf. The $54,000 which USO realized from last year’s event is being devoted to the establishment of a new USO center in Japan for American troops stationed in that country. Gilmore Nine Downs Mikes Plumbers, 5-3 The USS Gilmore nine defeated the Mikes Plumbers combination, 5-3, in a Memorial Day baseball game at the Wickers Field Stadium The Navy’s Papuly and Mike's Quesada went the distance on the mound. The Gilmore broke the scoring ice with two outs in the third inn- ing when pitcher Papul reached base on an infield hit and Spinelli bunted safely. Casell was then hit by a pitched ball to set the stage for Hoffes’ triple to center-field to clean the bases. Mace then walked and stole second and Southards in- gled to right to score two more runs and bring the Gilmore total to five for the uprising. In the fourth frame, John Lewis poled a long drive over the head of a centerfielder for an inside-the- park-homer. Kaki Rodriguez then doubled and stole third base. Da- vis walked and stole second with the Gilmore catcher electing to throw to third base. It went wild and Rodriguez scampered home with another run for the Plumb- ers. In the fifth inning, the Gilmore’s Mace walked and stole second base. He took third on a bad throw and Gidaro sent him in to score with a single. In the ninth, Mike’s scored their final run when Morgan doubled to left field and C, Lastres singled to plate him. Games set in the Island City League this week: ‘Wednesday, 8 p. m. : Naval Air Station vs. Key West Eagles. Friday, 8 p, m.: Mike’s Plumb- ers vs. HS-1, Sunday, 2 p. m.: Cuban Club vs. Mike’s Plumbers. 8 p. m.: HS-1 vs. Mike’s Plumbers. The league standings: Cuban Club Key West Eagles USS Gilmore Mike’s Plumbers HS-1 Pet. 1.000 667 667 550 BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Se Gemson A $15.5 Battery ‘That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 i. Lou Smith, 1116 White Joe Lopez, professional of the; Key West Golf Club, has indicated | that green’s fees will be waived for | tournament players who pay the entry fee of $1.00. Richard E. Evans, director of i the USO-YMCA Club, urges every- one who can “hold a golf club” to take part in the National Golf Day competition and stated that “the | need for USO service is still un- met in many parts of this country and overseas. While trying to beat Ben Hogan, we can at the same time help the USO to extend its services for the young men and women of the Nation’s Armed For- ces. Much of the National Golf Day Day Fund, Inc., share of the tour- nament proceeds go into caddie ' scholarships in various parts of the | country, its annual report diselos. ces.”” Member agencies of the USO are the Young Men’s Christian Asso. 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