The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1954, Page 8

Lastres To Hurl Opener As Conchs Seek Title The Key West ‘High School baseball team will make its opening bid today for their second straight state baseball championship when they tangle with Tam-| _ pa Hillsborough at Jaycee Field, Ft. Pierce, Interest of Key West sports fans will be centered on the diamond action for the crucial. opening tilt set to be played at 1 p. m. The Conchs, pre-tourney favorites in some corners, will go into action with an impressive 21-2 record for the regular season. But they'll have no-pushover in the Tampa nine which man- aged to win 16. verdicts while dropping but four. ‘Action in the AA phase of the denton, 10-3 and St. Petersburg picked up a 1-0 win over Tallahas- see Leon, Miami and St. Peters- burg will meet Thursday in a semi- final clash. If the Conchs mange to pick up i victory today, they will battle er the Jacksonville Lee and ee is are set for Friday. is a possibility that the win- AA title may meet the itlists in a challenge Petey > bee s 2832 3 ‘aul Davis is expected to hurler George Lastres in e opener ang come back with Cruz in the second tilt if the Conchs are Successful today. NEW YORK w—When it comes _ to fielding, it’s hard to find a better Second baseman than Red Schoendienst. Averages compiled by the Asso- ciated Press disclosed today that Schoendienst, a nine year veteran with the St.Louis Cardinals, tops all National League pivotmen de- fensively with a .993 mark. He has made only two errors in 276 chatices. The figures include games through Monday. Forrest (Spook) Jacobs of the Philadelphia Athletics, called by Baltimore manager Jimmy Dykes “one of the best rookies around”, is the leading American League ~second haseman with a .992 field- ing percentage. He has erred twice in chances. Leading the way defensively is nothing new for Schoendienst. The slim redhead has set the pace at his position in three seasons (1946, 1949, 1953) and holds the league record for consecutive chances (320) and consecutive games (57) without a miscue. Danny O'Connell of Milwaukee is second to Schoendienst in the National League with a .978 slate. O'Connell, acquired from Pitts- burgh last winter, has made five errors in 226 chances. He’s fol- lowed by Curt Roberts, Pittsburgh (.977) and Davey Williams of the New York Giants (.973). Boston’s Ted Lepcio, with one error im 115 chances and a .991 average, is runnerup to Jacobs in the American League. Frank Bolling of Detroit is third with .980 on four errors in 205 chances. Bobby Avila is fourth with a .978 average. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE Branca, Detroit, Morgan, New ‘York and "Stowe S000. » Washington, 3-0, A NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING - Musial seu RUNS BATTED Ii—Musial, St. Louis, 66. HITS—Jabionski, St. Louis, 82. ME RUNS— Musial, St. Louis, 20. > Podres, Brookig@ 61. 857. Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 9, 1954 NILO GARCIA SETS LITTLE LOOP PACE Nilo Garcia, the Lions hard-hit- ting catcher, continues to pace Na- tional Little League hitters with a tremendous batting average of an even .700. Bobby Harris, Jaycee firstbaseman, leads American Lit- tle League batters with .588. An- other catcher, Richard Garcia of Evans, comes right behind N. Gar- cia with a .571 percentage. Tony Estenoz, VFW infielder, is in third} place with .452 while Danny Gar- cia, Evans centerfielder, is in four- th spot with an average of .444. Eddie Diaz, VFW infielder, rounds up the first five hitters of the Na- tional with .429. Bill Solomon, the Elks hard hit- ting catcher, is close behind Har- ris in the American League with .516. Teammate Bobby Santana is in third place’ with a batting av- erage of .471, Roy Valdez, Kiwanis pitcher and infielder, holds down fourth place with .419. while Carey Dion is in fifth place with .387. Evans hitting star, Richard Gar- cia, tops most of the offensive de- partments of the National League. The young catcher. has the most hits, 16; the most runs-batted-in, 17; has scored the most runs, 18; and has blasted the most homers, 4, Estenoz and Dan Garcia of Evans are tied for the most tri- ples with 3. Don Crusoe of the VFW has struck out the most times, 10, and Richard Curry of NATIONAL LITTLE Player-Club— N. Garcia, Lions Club —__ R. Garcia, Evans Enterprises —...._._ 28 Estenoz, Veterans of Foreign Wars 31 D. Garcia, Evans Enterprises —. Diaz, Veterans of Foreign Wars ____. 28 AMERICAN LITTLE Player-Club— Harris, Junior Chamber of Commerce _ ‘17 Solomon, Elks Club ____ Santana, Elks Club —___. Valdez, Kiwanis Club Dion, Elks Club Evans and Chiquitin Hernandez of the VFW have drawn the most walks, 10. In the pitching department, Joe Santana, Evans righthander, tops all hurlers with four victories and no defeats. Mike Hughes, Lions righthander, has walked the most batters, 22, and Estenoz has struck out the most batters, 34, and has pitched the most innings, 24. Over in the American League, the Elks two’ power hitters, Solo- mon and Santana led the league in most hits with 16 and in homers with 4. Santana is tied.with Valdez of the Kiwanis for the most runs scored with 15. Valdez also leads the league in doubles with 4. Ray Morales, Shriners shortstop, leads in RBi with 11. John Venczel, Ki- wanis thirdsacker, has struck out the most times, 20, while team- mate Royce Skaggs has drawn the most walks, 9. In the pitching department, the Elks ace righthander, Bill Solo- mon, who is as good pitching as he is with his bat, leads the lea- gue with three victories and no de- feats. Roy Valdez, the Kiwanis fire- balling ace, has struck out the most batters, 56, and has pitched the most innings, 30, for an aver- age of almost two strike outs per inning pitched. Another Elks right- hander, Dion, has walked the most batters, 34. LEAGUE TOP FIVE AB R H 20 12 14 18 16 u 14 16 12 11 12 LEAGUE TOP FIVE AB R 7 13 15 15 i Ave. -700 571 452 27 H 10 16 16 13 il Ave. 588 516. AT 419 387 aoe 34 31 —. 31 Hogan Favored To Cop Nat'l Open NEW YORK (#—Who is going to beat Ben Hogan, the defending champion who claims he isn’t in shape to win again, in the U.S. Open golf championship at Baltus- rol next week? In spite of his recent illness and his protests that he can’t win, Ben still will be the favorite when the first round begins June 17. But if you have to pick someore else once, collecting nearly $16,000 in tournament winnings. : Mangrum, who had trouble with his clubs during the winter, ap- parently found a set to suit him this spring. Since late March, Lloyd hasn’t finished worse than 10th in any tournament and only last week he beat Ted Kroll in a sudden death playoff for the West- ern Open title. Worsham hasn’t seen much tour- nament action since he holed that as the winner, there are 13 other | wedge shot to win at Tam O’Shan- former Open champions in the field—and the big man who never won, Sam Snead. And at least four, possibly five, of the ex-champions must be con- ceded a good chance to repeat. Taking them in order, they are Julius Boros (1952), Cary Middle- coff (1949), Lew Worsham (1947), Lloyd Mangrum (1946) and Byron Nelson (1939). Boros managed to break through the-Hogan monopoly in Ben’s home state two years ago. The same year he won the Tam O’Shanter world championship and led all the pros in money winnings. Middlecoff, who stalked off the course during last year’s Open in a pique over starting times, has had a very: successful winter and spring session. Although he hasn’t won a tournament this year, he has taken home second money three times and has been out only' Robin hy a record margin. = Pazo, as ter last August. He got one of those fat exhibition contracts. But he did take down top money in the Seminole Invitation event and played well to tie for 12th place in the Masters. Nelson, Hogan’s boyhood rival who retired from tournament play nearly a decade ago, has slowly been emerging fram: retirement this spring. Starting with the Mas- ters, he has played in four tourna- ments, and he showed some of his old-time form and accuracy when he tied for third in the Fort Worth Colonial Invitation. Snead, of course, is supposed to be hexed in the Open and he looked that way when Hogan pulled away from him on the final round at Oakmont last year. But it was a different story when he whipped Ben in the Masters playoff in April | and won the Meadow Brook Round Dairy Queen Gains Tenth Straight Win Over VX-I, 14-1 Scott Gaffney’s single in th inning enabled Sonar edge out Coca Cola, 4-3, first game of a softball er at Bayview Park last Gaffney’s single broke ug a pitch- ing duel between Frank/Ramsey of the Sonar School and War- ren of Coca Cola. t Coca Cola got all of itg runs off Ramsey in the second Bob- by Brown opend with a/double to right. Oscar Cruz and/J. Rodri- guez followed with pushing Brown across. Cruz si on Tau- be’s error and then Calero squeezed in J. Rodri with the third run. Ramsey held ‘Co- ca Cola hitless the eighth when Cruz singled to, . Sonar School got first run when Quinn Jones went a- round on infield hits by John Mos- er and Wootenburg and scored when Warren threw wild to the plate on Ramsey's grounder. Sonar School picked up another run in the sixth when Mickey Wertz. beat out an infield hit, was sacrificed to second, and scored when Brown threw wild to third ter Moser had led out, Gaffney, pinchditting for W tenberg in the seventh, right. After takigg second on wild pitch, Ramey rapped a gle to center to score Gaffney the typing run. In the ninth, with one away, yar, batting fdr Taube, was when Danny Lastres booted easy groundef, Gaffney then lowed with hig single to left to the game. _ In the Blizzards straight win with a 14-1 victory ov- nin- to the ad- EBS a2 i i er the VX-1 Flyers. Claude Valdez ! paniade! pitched two-hit balls to gain his first win of the season. The Blizzards took advantage of seven VX-1 errors plus wildness by Barney Parker and Joe'Bogdon to pile up their second highest score of the season. ete The Blizzards got tWe runs in the second without the ‘aid of a hit on a hit batsman and two errors. Sed ca we te aie = the a five run explosion on two walks, three hits, and two er- rors. The lone run off Valdez eame in the third when VX-1 bunched their two hits following a walk to Vie | S#2*® Butot. Manger Jack Villareal, Al Pazo, and Valdez each collected 2 hits to pace the Blizzards ten-hit attack. The box scores: FIRST GAME Sonar School ( Player— AB Moyer, 3b suin 4 Castro, ¢ . Lenihan, 1b ....... 2 ZNEWDETE ereverssne © Vallanato, If 0 2 Wertz, If-tb .... 4 = = xxGilliam, ss ..... Totals— 3 z—Ran for Leniha x—Singled for Wootenberg in 7th. zz—Was safe on an error for Taube in 9th, xx—Ran for Cryar in 9th. Coca Cole Player— Calero, Pf eninmen 2 Lewis, rf seccssnne 8 Villareal, ¢ .......... 4 K. Rodriguez, 2b 5 Lastres, 3D cna. 4 Sands, lf... 4 Brown, ID cecssnnne 2 | eorenenmaneonked | peocnocen Fel eenmronore Nom Fe) at wl eorconorceeccenlt bs leonmrneeccoon woloormreenmorm NloconeSunwamed Slernmneomancor wl enoconnmocoo™ 3% 2zz—Flied out for La: Score by innings: Team— 123 456 789 «RK Sonar School 000 101 101— 4 Coca Cola .... 030 000 000— 3 d : HE 92 84 SUMMARY — RBI: Gaffney, Ramsey, Calero, J. iguez; 2BH: Brown; Sac.: Jones; SB: K. Rodriguez; Co, by: Warren 5, Ramsey 8; BB, off: Warren 2, Ramsey 3; Winner: Ramsey; Loser: Warren; Umpires: Brown, Arango; Scorer: Casteneda; Time: 1:47, SECOND GAME Dairy Queen (14) Player— ABR H POA E 4e2 318 i Bl weowronna)l wl oeonroonos el ececcoceccee wl ececoveecones BEleccommnonmond elecHrormroenowor TF alecnocconormonm. 3 2 e E 2BH: Pazo; SB: Smith; DP: Bog- don to Boutot to Collea; SO, by: Parker 1, Bogdon 1, Valdez 4; BB, off: Parker 3, Bogdon 1, Valdez 2; Hits, off: Parker 3 in 3, off Bog- don 7 in 3; Winner: Valdez; Loser: Conchs Test Hillsborough In State Tour SONAR SCHOO! EDGES COKEMEN|=- hnamen wuuntes weeeesesS we abektet Sedbbake? ke P: a Graceville”, 2 Indianapolis 6, Charleston 5 seanens City at Columbia (2) postponed, Toledo 5, 4 Louisville 3, St. Paul 1 Pg ome aa Tulsa 14, Houston 3 Dallas 8, Shreveport 3 JUST WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! 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