The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1954, Page 10

Conchs Bow; Cruz And Lastres Sign Pro Contract Green Devils Down Key West, , 9-5, In State Tourney Finals FORT PIERCE (Special To The Citizen) — The Key West Conchs missed out in their bid for a second straight State Class AA baseball championship Friday night when they bowed to the St. Petersburg Green Devils, 9-5, but two members of Coach Paul Davis’ aggregation were started on their way to professional baseball careers when they inked contracts at the close of the tourney. Both George Lastres and “Don Cruz, who have bee) == under the surveillance of scouts throughout the sea- son,. gained the status of “bonus babies” when they signed pacts. Lastres was signed by. the New York Giants organization and will report to the Danville, Ill., club in the Class D Three-I League, early next week. Cruz elected to cast his lot with the Brooklyn Dodgers and starts i d i i : f iu e li z eS if Eg ge Reg £8 8 F : F i : ; giiey atee see ue Es it Bucky Hawk lifted pitcher in Sonny Stull, St. Pete starter. e victory when Tunners-up in both di- after the Key contest. Slee) Hite i iH fat] He Philadelphia fn 1 starday’s Local Golfer Bids For Driving Title Sheldon Smith, lecal golfer will make his bid Sunday for national recognition in a driv. ing contest against Slamming Sammy Snead. Smith gained the finals, along with 50 other golfers all over the country, in the contest spon: sored by the MacGregor Sports- wear Company, with a boom- Ing 350 yard drive a month ago. At 1 p.m. Sunday, Smith will hit three balls off the first geboknene . =! at New York, T a v4, Ford (3-4. sa Washington 9, Baltimore 8 Detroit 16-1, Philadelphia 5-2 NATIONAL LEAGUE t New ’ York 4 | Jaycees Milwaukee 1, i ER OST aad Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis SATURDAY’S BASEBALL SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City at Louisville gators Page 10 The Lions defeated the VFW, 13-9, in the first game of a Little League doubleheader at Bayview Park last night. The Lions took the ‘lead early when they chased two runs across in the first inning on an error and singles by Mike Hughes and Jim Taylor. The VFW came back in their half of the first to score four runs and take temporary lead with aid of three errors. A single by Wawne Spencer and a triple by Tony Es- tonez ‘sparked the rally. Hughes sent the Lions back into the lead in the second inning when he homered with the bases loaded. It was Hughes third roundtripper of the season. The Lions sewed it ‘up in the fourth with a five run rally sparked by Armando Mira’s bases-loadéd double. They” added two insurance runs in the fifth, on an error, a fielder’s choice, and a double by Nilo Garcia. The VFW added single runs in the second and fifth and managed to add three more in the sixth on two walks, a fielder’s choice an error and a couple of wild pitches. Mira, who only yielded three hits, went all the way for the Lions for his secohd win against no loss- es. Estenoz, who started for the "| VFW, was charged with his third defeat against no wins. Hughes led the Lions at the plate with a homer and a single in three official trips to the plate to drive four runs across, Score: Lions 240 520 13-7-5 VFW 410 013 9-3-4 Mira and N. Garcia Estonez, Hernandez (5) and Es- quinaldo. In the nightcap, the Kiwanis cool- ed off a Jaycee last inning rally to edge them, 4-3. With the tying run on third base, Roy Valdez relieved George Mira and struck out: Ray Diaz and then got Danny Puig to ground out to end the game, Milton Esquinaldo’s single and Valdez’ homer gave the Kiwanis a 2-0 lead in the first inning. They added another in the third when Valdez tripled and later scored on a wild pitch. The Jaycees finally got to Mira for two runs in the fifth on an er- Tor and Puig’s homer. ‘The Kiwanis made it 4-2 in their bottom of the fifth on an error and Esquinaldo’s double. The Jaycees picked up a run in ‘the sixth on two errors, and a wild pitch, but Valdez came in to snuff the rally. Valdez led the Kiwanis attack ‘Harshman | With two triples and a homer in three trips to the plate. Puig led the Jaycees at the plate with a homer and two singles in four tries. Score: Jaycees 000 021 3-5-3 Kiwanis 201 Olx 463 Puig and Twiehaus Mira, Valdez (6) and Valdez, Esquinaldo (6) American Little League WL Pet. Kiwanis -700 Elks 625 Shriners -400 333 vewa Gonuu National Little Lea: y # Evans Lions VFW UCLA Favored In NCAA Games By JOE FALLS ANN ARBOR, Mich. (®#—With all- but one of its 15-man squad competing in today’s finals, the University of Southern California is favored to name its own winning margin in the NCAA games on Ferry Field. It probably will be 2 to 1 over its nearest competitor, which could be anyone of a half dozen teams. The Trojans qualified eight of nine athletes in yesterday’s pre- lims to smash early upset hopes of one see 838 the largest NCAA field in history Hollywood 4, Los Angeles 2 ‘San Diego Sacramento 2 (10 innings) Seattle q —92 teams. Figured to fight it out for the NCAA's “‘tiny title’—second place — afe Michigan State, Illinois, California, Michigan and Stanford. Michigan State, in somewhat of while Ilinois, California, Michigan and Stanford had four each. »| Yale also had four qualifiers but (tis aunds} |the Elis don’t figure to have BASEBALL STANDINGS INTERNATIONAL Wen | enough strength te make a run for second place. Although the female Indian ele- THE. KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 12, 1954 LIONS DOWN VFW . IN LITTLE LOOP) cteveiand Gains ROOKIE MAJOR LEAGUE RACES SCRAMBLED AS FIRST THIRD OF SEASON ENDS On White Sox In |Giardello Wins |Ulrich Credits Eight-Foot American Loop \Qver Jones By |Putt With Givin By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer The major leagues moved into the middle third of the campaign today with the pre-season experts still on shaky ground. The experts, of course, picked Brooklyn and the New York Yan- kees to repeat as champions. with Milwaukee and Cleveland runners- up, just like last year. Brooklyn has dodged in and out of first place all.spring, holding the top rung at the moment by one game over, the New York Giants. But the Yankees haven't found the. consisteney they need to take charge. They moved within three games of the top by ding the Chicago White Sox 3-2 last night. The White Sox lead Cleveland by half a game with New York third. The Yanks haven’t been in first place, even for a day, so far. At the moment the experts are j) |right on the nose with 6 of their DAVE JOLLY AP Newsfeatures David Jolly, Milwaukee pitcher . . .Bats and throws right. . Born Oct. 14, 1924 at Stony Point, N. C., where he still lives. Height 6 feet weight 160 . Drafted by the Braves in 1952 after he compiled a 6-1 record appearing in’ 40 games for Kanasas City. . .While serving apprenticeship in bullpen with Bra- ves perfected a knuckle ball. . . Though only decision in 1953 was a lass he was invaluable in relief while appearing in. 24 games. . . Began organized ball career in 1946 with Mooresville in-North Caroli- na State League. . .Had a 5-3 re- cord. . .Following season had 14-7 mark at Mooresville. . .Pitched for Tulsa in 1948-49; getting 15 deci- sions, losing 12... Had rough time at Syracuse in 1950.with 5-11 re- cord. . .Back with Tulsa in 1951 his record was 9-13... City Bowling League Action Is Underway Bill Fradette, temporary Presi- dent of the Civie Bowling League rolled the first ball to start the mid-season bowling meet Tuesday night at the Rollaway Lanes. This is the first time in the history of Key West that a bowling league has been organized for civilians. Fradette is a member of the nights of Columbus bowling team. The Civil Bowling League was just recently organized and is com- posed of these charter members: V. F. W. Post 3911; Arthur Saw- yer Post 28, American Legion; Knights of Columbus; Elks Lodge 551, Key West Lions and Key West Junior Chamber of Commerce. 16 pre-season placings. In the American League they look good on Cleveland, picked for second, and Washington, picked for fifth. In the National Brooklyn, sixth place Cincinnati, seventh place Chicago and last place Pittsburgh are behaving as predicted. This is the way they picked them, with the current standings in brackets: American League—New York (3), Cleveland (2), Chicago (1), Boston (6), Washington (5), De- troit (4), Philadelphia (8), Balti- tmore (7. National. League—Brooklyn (1), ae (4), St.Louis (5), New (2), Philadelphia (3), Cincin- (6), Chicago (7), Pittsburgh Ul B; Tegained sole posses- sion of first place last night by thumping Cincinnati 10-8 after the, Giants had bowed to the Cubs 5-4 ee Close Decision By JACK HAND NEW YORK # W— “The fight they couldn’t fix” turned out to be a victory for Joey Giardello, Bobby Jones, who spurned an alleged $15,000 bribe offer from heavyweight Clarence Henry last Friday, fought a brilliant battle against the 9 to 5 favorite but lost the votes of all three officials. It was @ close call for the high- ranking Giardello, who hopes to fight Bobo Olson.for the middle- weight title Oct. 22. Referee Al Berl and Judges Artie Aidala and Frank Fofbes all had it 5-4-1, for Joey. So did the Associated Press. The ringside working press was split with five for Giardello, three for. Jones and two calling it a draw. , Giardello started with a rush, ran out of gas in the fifth round, got his second wind in the eighth but withered again in the tenth under Jones’ closing bid. “I thought I won it 6-4,” said Giardello. “I thought I won it 6-4,” said Jones, the 28-year-old veteran of 65 fights from Oakland, Calif., who twice fought Olson. Olson.” any of the crowd of 3,093 pay- $8, to see the Madison are in a 10-inning day game decided bi on Eddie Miksis’ first homer of the season. Pittsburgh defeated St.Louis 8-5. and Milwaukee edged Philadelphia 1-0, breaking’ a five- game losing streak. Cleveland moved within half a game of the White Sox by beating Boston 6-2. Washington outlasted Baltimore a ae Detroit split a pair with delphia, winning 16-5 and losing 2-1. : The White Sox ran into their one-run jinx against the Yankees. The teams have met five. times with every game decided by a single run and with New York winning four of them. Irv Noren singled home Phil Rizzuto, break- ing a-2-2 tie with two out in the eighth. Home runs were in vogue last night. Cleveland’s Larry Doby hit a three-run home run before. the first out was made a Boston. George Strickland and Wally Westlake gave Art Houtteman added insur- ance with homers in the fourth and eighth. Ray Boone, who tied a major league record with four grand slam home runs last season, hit his first of 1954 in the Detroit victory at Philadelphia. i other homers in the ‘twin bill. Al Kaline also hit a grand slam in the first game when the Tigers totalled six home runs. The main purpose of this organi- | jj zation is to create good fellowship and a high spirit of cooperation between the various civic organi- zations within the city. It is felt that in this way with all the or- ganizations joining hands greater | ;, civic work in the city can be ac- complished. The mid-season meet will con- tinue every Tuesday evening through August and then the lea- gue will begin anew. At the con- clusion of this league a champion- ship trophy will be awarded to the team receiving the highest number of points. This will be a no-handi- cap league and no individual a- wards will be given. During the winter meet several trophies will be awarded including champs, run- ner-up, high single, high triple, and others. In the near future it is hoped that other leagues can be organiz- ed and Key West established as a sanctioned American Bowling Con- gress area. At the present time Key West must remain under the Greater Miami A. B. C, area. The Civil Bowling League bowls every Tuesday, evening at 8 p. m. and all interested persons may at- »|tend. Each of the various teams have opening for new members. A requirement along this line is that you must be a member in good standing in the organization that 58 | you bowl with. Before starting the mid-season meet, Fradette welcomed each of the charter members and gave @ 8 F ia zii ¢ i i league home runs for and pitcher Vernon Law. Brooklyn gained’ the nod at cinnati despite a late home assault by the Redlegs. They hii three in the seventh and a of five. E Milwaukee, beaten twice in a on shutouts, scored a run in j I e Beg be posted in the Rollaway Lanes. Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 Lou Smith, 1116 White By ROBERT MOORE VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. W— Wally Ulrich of Maplewood, NJ.,. today credited an eight-foot putt as the “mental lift” that sent him on his way.yesterday to carving one of the greatest golf rounds in the history of the Professional The chunky, 30-year-old Ulrich became one of four golfers in PGA annals to fire a 60. His magnificent performance came in the second round of the $15,000 Virginia Beach: Open tournament — being played over the par 69 Cavalier Yacht and Country Club course. “T really didn’t know what I was doing until I started down the back nine,” said Ulrich, a native of Austin, Minn. “It was just one of those days when everything went right. I got a mental lift on the second hole by sinking an eight- foot putt for a birdie 3. “After that, it was easy.” Only ‘other golfers credited in PGA record. books with having toured a course in 60 strokes are Ted Kroll, Al Brosch and Bill Nary. Despite his sensational round, Ulrich, a former National Inter- Collegiate champion who once fired a 59 in the Western Inter- collegiate, found himself tied only for third place as the tournament g Him Lift moved into the third round today. His opening round 71 left him with a 36-hole total of 131—and tied with Pete Cooper of Branford, Fla., and George Fazio of Clem- enton, N.J. Ulrich, Cooper and Fazio were five strokes off the blistering pace being set by Tommy Bolt of Hous- ton, Tex. Bolt tied the PGA’s 36- hole record with a 126 total. Shelley Mayfield of Chicopee, Mass., shot a 64 yesterday for a two round total of 129 to pull inte second place. For today’s third round, the original field of 153 dwindled to the low 60 professionals and the low 10 amateurs. The final round will be played tomorrow. PROCLAMATION ‘WHEREAS, the Thirty-Third Anniversary of the founding of the Shriners Hospitals for crippled chil- dren will be commemorated June 13th, 1954, and will be known as “National Shriners Hospitals Day,” and ‘WHEREAS, the attention of the general public is directed to the treatment being given to over two hundred and fifty thousand crippled children re- gardless of race, color or creed, and without cost to any child or parent, and ‘WHEREAS, not only necessary medical treat- ment but education in Public Schools and Sunday Schools, Manual Training, ‘Sewing, Knitting, Weav- ing and other facilities are provided for these crip- pled children, and WHEREAS, the annual budget of approximately siz million dollars is met by « yearly assessment to each Shriner, by Shrine-sponsored events, such as football games, and voluntary gifts and bequests from friends interested in-helping crippled children, NOW, THEREFORE, I, C. B. HARVEY, Mayor of the City of Key West, Florida, do hereby prociaim Sunday, June 13, 1954 As “National Shriners Hospitals Day” “and do call upon all of our citizens and visitors to 4 financially ond in every other way in ! helping with this charitable and humane work. (s) C. B. HARVEY, Attest: VICTOR LOWE, Mayor. SIGSBEE SNACKERY while you have a real COOL Skyscraper, Soda or Gigantic Sundae! ie (WE'RE 100% AIR CONDITIONED)