The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1954, Page 6

Key West Faces Jax Lee In Semi-Finals Conchs Explode For.7 Runs In 10th To Defeat Hillsborough FT. PIERCE (SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN) — The Key West High School baseball team will battle it out tonight with the Jacksonville Lee baseballers in a semi- final tilt in their quest for the State Class AA champion- ship. The game is set for 7 p. The Conchs earned the right to compete in the semi-finals yester- day when they squeaked past the Tampa nine, 8-1, in a ten inning Don Cruz, (7-1) the Conchs right handed fastballer is slated to draw the pitching assignment tonight. It was Cruz, with a clutch sin- gle, and diminutive Jerry Pita, the Conch’s rightfielder who starred in yesterday’s victory when they ral- lied behind George Lastres’ eight hit mound performance with sev- en runs in the first half of the. tenth inning to gain a victory in their first tourney start. ‘The Conchs blew the game wide open in their half of the tenth hits, three walks and a balk losing a one run lead in the inning. Pita, Key West rightfield- started the Conch’s big tenth a walk. Julito Santana follow- and was safe at first on a field- 8 choice, Pita going to. second. Leeburg Knowles singled and Pi- ta held up at third and Santana stopped at second. . Third baseman Don Cruz th a bases loaded single into field scoring Pita and San- Fit Henriquez, the next batter, Pitcher Allan Brice field- ball but threw late to third hands were safe. les, who advanced to third iquez bunt, scored on a by pitcher Howard Prescott, had just relieved Brice. After George Lastres walked to load the bases again, Biff Salga- do scored Cruz on an infield single. Eloy Rodriguez followed with an- other single scoring Henriques. Tam; pitcher Prescott then, ieee 5g Virgil Brinson (4-2) started on the hill for Hillsborough and pitch- ed three scoreless innings before Key West tapped him for one run gled to left and Lastres and Sal- gado rapped singles to center. by a courtesy runner. Don Alvarez singled and Jesse Hartline walked to load the bases. ‘Then Lastres walked Billy Austin, i tenth frame. burg Knowles and Salgado fest at the plate, each jafeties in four trips. in, Tampa first base- Terrier hitting at- for three followed Alvarez who slap- one-baggers in four rf gd E z F 8 5 4 & F s ne Figg were no extra base by either club. Jerry Pita, pla: right field for the Key raegen Aiea two outstanding catches. Running backward, he speared a hard-hit liner in the last of the with the bases loaded. Had missed the catch, Tampa would be playing tonight — not Key West. Pita also snared an out of bounds blooper in the third — _ besides hr ie gp in al seventh e a possible Hills- borough rally, The box scores: KEY WEST (8 Player— Santana, ss ... Knowles, 2b A > wo ET J HOCOKH NH HH COSC MH HH NOM are oset ame d roocooornsonep> Sooococce+ ry eae & “ ao @ HILLSBOROU Player— iH (1 ecocecorocceon MONOMNROOH OMT erwnwoonwerd Suvnrorocooracp @reccccooroel™ m. at Jaycee Field, Ft Pierce. Midget League Meeting Slated All boys who have signed up in Bayview Park* for the Midget League, are asked to be at Bay- view Park, Friday aftetnoon at 4 p. m. for assignment to teams and Playing fields. Kilgore May Face Olson MIAMI BEACH, Fla, w—Billy Kilgore’s surprise technical knock- out over Ernie Durando here last night may have earned him a non- title bout with middleweight cham- pion Bobo Olson. “I might get slaughtered,” the plain-spoken Miamian said in his dressing room, ‘“sut I doubt it. I think I have a chance,” were taken in a cut over the right eye$ < The Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#)—Utter non- sense involved in attempting to judge a prize fight accurately, providing that the principals are fairly evenly. matched, was never better illustrated than in the wide- ly televised number between Joey. Maxim, the former 175-pound champion, and Floyd Patterson, the Olympic Games phenom, in Brooklyn the other night. A few more like that and the home expert, who has been con- scientiously learning to score jabs and hooks, will be fully justified in throwing away his ledd pencil. If the men who make their living at it can’t come within a country mile of agreeing on a winner, what chance has an outsider of attaining any degree of skill at the new parlor game? It’s frustrating. At the end of eight rounds of spirited milling before a small cap- tive audience and untold millions of. television fans, the three ring officials agreed unanimously that Maxim, the’ somewhat blubbery veteran; had scored a clear-cut victory over the 19-year-old ‘ Ne- gro, who had won his first 13 bouts as a professional. One of the judges, Arthur Suss- kind, who fought as young Otto and is considered to be one of the soundest officials in these parts, voted the Maxim ticket 7-1. .The other judge, Joe Eppy, made it 5-3. Referee Ruby Goldstein, who was the closest of anybody to thé action, slipped Joey past the prom- ising kid 4-3-1. f There was considerable booing at the verdict, but the commen- tator on the nation’s screen said soothingly that the sounds you heard came from Patterson’s friends and neighbors. Brice, DP eewmnnnn 2 0 Prescott, Totals— f—Ran for Henley i: Score by innings: Key West .... 000 100 000 7-8 Hillsborough .......... 000 001 000 0—1 SUMMARY — RBI: Salgado 2, Santana, Cruz 2, Rodriguez, Bean, Austin; SB: Gonzalez 2; S: Hart- line; SF: Santana; DP: Salgado (unassisted), Radice and Austin, Santana, Knowles and Salgado; Left: Key West 9, Hillsborough 10; BB: Brinson 6, Brice 3, Prescott 2, Lastres 7; SO: Brinson 3, Brice 1, Prescott 2, Lastres 11; HO: Brinson 4 in 6, Brice 2 in 3, Pres- cott'2 in.1;.HBP: Lastres 1; Balk: Prescott 2; PB: Forsythe; Loser: Brice; Umpires: Fenton, Stokes, Hamscher; Time: 3:05. Shriners Edge Jaycees In Little League The Shriners scored six runs in the fourth to edge the Jaycees, 7-6, in the first game of a Little League doubleheader at Bayview Park last night. Oscar Jeris’ single provided the winning margin. The loss dropped the Jaycees in- to last place in the American Little League. & Trajling 7-2 going into the fourth Shriners knocked Bry- Baseball Results SOUTH ATLANTIC fon Lost Pet. Behing Jacksonville — nnn 36 31 ‘632 we Macon u $18 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS 5, ae gahgomery 2 Columbia 9, box with a/R. Gan a ge 001 041 7-3-2 020 012 5-5-1 Taylor, Hughes (2) and N. Garcia Curry, Lopez (6) and R. Garcia Amé@rican Little League Tigers Talk Trade With The Yankees Andalusia-Opp NEW YORK — Heartened by » thy the results of their trading efforts the past two weeks, the Detroit Tigers were in a mood today to swap some more players. Tiger boss Walter O. (Spike) Briggs and his, first lieutenant, | Oakland General Manager Herold (Muddy) Ruel, were in town confab with General Manager George Weiss of the New York Yankees. While both Weiss and Briggs de- nied a rumor that they had dis- cussed a deal involving five play- ers, neither would comment on a report they planned to get together again today. The players mentioned include southpaw Ted Gray, Johnny Pesky and Fred Hatfield and outfielder Bob Nieman of De- troit and second baseman Gil Mc- | Tis? Dougald, outfielder Bob Cerv and | Houston pitcher Tom Gorman of New York. Gray definitely is on the market. The 29-year-old Detroit native ap- parently has outlived his useful- ness to the Tigers. Currently Plagued by a sore arm, he owns a 12 record this season. When handers in the American League. A fast ball pitcher with an excel- lent curve, he has a lifetime mark of 55 victories and 66 defeats in six full seasons with Detroit. fielder for at least a month has weakened the Yankee bench. today for a | Sec infielders | San Antonio WEDNESDAY’S RESUL’ Little Rock 4, Atlanta 3 ce Nashville 5-1, Mobile 2-13 THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Little Rock at Atlanta Memphis at Birmingham Nashville at Mobile Chattanooga at New Orleans Won Léet et, Behind fon Lost Pet. 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BEBBSSe Es sesexeee> seensey seenecs’ a pussees FEY tae LEE $2 at BegELEEES BbaeEEE ssuussues BenEesEs baeahubat = q s AMERICAN LEAGUE 7-YEAR GAMBLE PAYS OFF AS BOB KEEGAN WINS STH FOR WHITE SOX Giants Move Into Tie For Nat'l League Leadership By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer After being mired in the minors for seven years with an aching arm, pitcher Bob Keegan leads the American League in victories to- day because Manager Paul Rich- ards told him to get his arm sore in January instead of June. The big right-hander from Roch- ester, N. Y., is the brightest new star of the first-place Chicago White Sox. He won his ninth game last night, 9-4 over Philadelphia. He’s-been beaten only once. Keegan, a sinker ball artist, is hitting his prime just two months shy of his 33rd birthday and in his second season in the majors. The White Sox grabbed him out of the International League, where he won 20 and lost 11 for Syracuse in 1951. He was available because the New York Yankees, who had owned him for six minor league seasons, had given up on his sore arm. Sure enough, in his first season with the White Sox, Keegan came up with a sore arm last spring and had to go on the disabled list for 30 days. He finished strong, however, winning seven and losing five. The past winter Richards ordered him to go to work in the gym. Just as he expected, the pitcher developed his old ache. But the fectly. and Keegan was fit and ready when the season opened. He started 11 games, finished nine of them and has a fine earned- run average of 2.27 in 99 innings. He’s beaten every team in the league except the Yankees at least once and he holds three decisions over Boston. So far he hasn’t faced the Yankees although he’s sure to get a chance this weekend when the White Sox invade New York for four games. The triumph in Philadelphia, which included home runs by John- ny Groth, Chico Carrasquel and Sherm Lollar, enabled Chicago to hold its one-game lead over the Cleveland Indians, who shaded Washington 1-0. New York defeat- ed Detroit 5-1. Boston beat Balti- more 7-6, The surprising New York Giants drove into a tie with Brooklyn for first place in the National League as Johnny Antonelli registered his second straight shutout in beating Milwaukee 4-0 while St. Louis tripped Brooklyn 3-0. Philadelphia won a pair from Chicago 4-0 and 1446. Cincinnati edged Pittsburgh 4-3 on four home runs. The Giants jumped off to a 1-0 lead against Warren Spahn in the first inning, added a second tally on Antonelli’s run-scoring single in the eighth and two more on three singles and a sacrifice fly in the ninth. The Dodgers folded before the southpaw slants of Harvey Haddix, who. joined Keegan as the only nine-game winners in the majors. He gave up only three hits, all singles, after holding the Dodgers hitless through the first five in- nings. The Cubs got 10 hits off Murry Dickson but failed to convert them into a single run in their first game Low Prices — Higher Trades °48 PONTIAC Club Coupe, Hydramatic $575 |’51 Ford Vic., Fordomatic, Radio, Heater $1195 °48 CHEVROLET, Coupe - °50 MERCURY, Club Coupe °49 FORD, 2-Door, Radio _ loss to Philadelphia. In the night~ cap the Phillies won a battle of home runs. Willie Jones hit a pair and Bobby Morgan, Stan Lopata and Granny Hamner got one apiece. Joe Garagiola and Bill Serena, both pinch hitters, hom- ered for Chicago. The long ball made all the dif- ference in Cincinnati too. After Pittsburgh jumped on Joe Nuxhall for three runs in the first, the Red- legs fought back with bases-empty homers. Nuxhall got one in the third; Gus Bell, one in the sixth and one in the eighth; and Jim Greengrass, one in the ninth. Bob Porterfield of the Senators had a no-hitter working until Vic Wertz singled with one out in the seventh and he gave up only four hits all evening but Cleveland got the one run of the game. Wertz moved around to score on a single by Dave Philley and an error by Eddie: Yost. Boston came from behind in the seventh against Baltimore and won in the ninth on a triple by Sammy White after Jackie Jensen had sin- gled. The victory went to Frank Sullivan, the 6-7 Red Sox rookie, who was the fourth Boston pitcher, A three-run double by Yogi Berra and Eddie Robinson’s first home run since joining the Yankees led to Detroit's defeat. Tom Morgan, who replaced Whitey Ford after two innings, picked up his fourth straight victory. Ford developed a blister. Bonus Baby Prefers New Automobile MILWAUKEE (#)—How does a income of $60,000 for the next three years? If he’s Paul Giel, the Minne- sota football star whose signing to pitch professional baseball for the New York Giants at these terms was announced here yes- terday, he’s more impressed with a gift automobile. “Boy, you ought to see it,” he told newsmen at a press confer- ence attended by such high brass of the Giants’ organization as President Horace Stoneham. “They gave it to me up at Minne- apolis the other night. Was I sur- prised! It’s a cream-colored, hard- top convertible, a 1954 model.” Don’t conclude from this that Giel, a two-tithe All-America half- back at Minnesota, is more than usually naive. He had his pick of six or seven offers from major league baseball teams and turned down a couple of what he called “highly attractive” bids to play football in the Canadian League. “I decided a long time ago to play baseball instead of football,” the 21-year-old single-wing tail- back explained. “But when those Canadians came around I just had to listen. They made me some real attractive offers.” Actually, Giel admitted, ‘‘sever- al” other baseball offers were bet- ter than the one he agreed to with the Giants. “But there were some other con- siderations — and I always wanted to play with the Giants anyway,” he added with a grin. Exact terms of the bonus ar-| rangement were not, as is custom- | ary in major league baseoau, «- vealed. But the Giants’ publicity department announced in the/ __- 450 850 650 * °50 OLDSMOBILE, “88,” Hydramatic ___ 995 ' New Studebaker Sedan, Sportmodel, or Station Wagon TWINS GARAGE, Inc. Phone 2401 1130 Du <a Page 6 THE KEY WEST CIT IZEN Thursday, June 10, 1954 National Open Field Is Cut After Monday’s By HUGH FULLERTON JR. NEW YORK ®—If Ben Hogan doesn’t retain the National Open Golf championship at Baltusrol next week, the natural assumption is that his successor will be a reasonably young professional who has been beating his way around the tournament circuit long enough to learn how to control his nerves, his temper and his shots. The number of these “challeng- ers” was reduced considerably last Monday when such prominent play- ers as Skip Alexander, Jerry Bar- ber, Porky Oliver and Chick Har- bert failed to make the grade as the field was slashed from 1,937} to 162. 1 But Hogan still has to reckon with the players who qualified au- tomatically by finishing in the low 20 at Oakmont last year and a double handful of other “name” pros who qualified sectionally. No. 1 in the first group, natural- Miss Connelly Defends Title LONDON (® — Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly of San Diego, Calif., world’s No. 1 woman tennis player, opens the 26th Wightman’ Cup matches tomorrow at Wimbledon against Britain’s Helen Fletcher. Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., meets Ann Shilcock of Britain in the second singles match. 3 Angela Mortimer, Britain’s No. 1 player, has withdrawn from the competition. Mrs. Margaret Osborn du Pont, of Wilmington, Del., captain of the American team, said she would become an active player instead of acting as non-playing captain and will team with Louise Brough of Los Angeles in the doubles. Miss Brough also has been named | to replace Shirley Fry of Akron, Ohio, in the singles. | pressbox at last night’s New York- Milwaukee game that Giel had “signed a three-year bonus con- tract.” And one of the biggest of the club’s front-office brass agreed $60,000 was “‘about right,” adding it would constitute the youngster’s salary spread over a period of three years. NOW ON DISPLAY New - Beautiful 41-Foot STREAMLITE 2 BEDROOMS Open For Inspection ... Many Other New Trailers On Display Our Rate of Interest, 5Y% Percent On Long Term, 48 to 60 Months Contract ON SHORT TERM— 6 PERCENT Rawling Trailer Sales _ 1201 SIMONTON STREET epe Qualifier ly, Is never-win, always-close Sam Snead. It also includes Jackie | Burke, Jimmy Demaret, George Fazio, Marty Furgol, Fred Haas, Dutch Harrison, Ted Kroll and Dick Metz. 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