The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1954, Page 6

ackson, Tenn., Added To Conchs’ 1954 Grid Slate Tenn., Added To Conchs’ 1954 Grid Slate Conchs Face Rugged Slate; Practice Set On August 20 The Key West High School athletic department has announced that they | BASEBALL RESULTS |“Rocky Will |Tebbetts Lauds GIANTS’ WIN STREAK COSTING AMERICAN LEAGUE have signed a contract to | bring Jackson, Tenn. high school gridders here on Nov. 5 for a battle with the | Slevelana Conchs, The Tennessee aggrega- tion, rated as one of the toughest. prep combinations in the south, will’ replace | SLous weak St. Annes of Miami on the Conch’s '54 gridiron BES i PI 5 ge gue i i A g e z 2 iad e g g 5 z i Pee pee To sose'E roy iia 4 Fs 4 fete, lie Charlotte 2 Savannah 5, jacksonville Conch Jayvees will bat- be High School gg ole 5 stivel to battle-Miami Beach and on Nov, 5 will play Jackson. Their traditional battle with the RESULTS a“ 4 0 Fa 34 Pet. ar Su SB 7 500 MT ed 8 Pet. es 359 831 507 es Ae a Pet, = 516 56 c] Pet. a 333 sa z 2 cd 2 a s = 2 2 Fs a Lest 31 20 x» “ Fy Fy or » Lost ry zm 2» 3 Loot 2 x “ Fy s zs » a BUT GETS FINAL SCORE RIGHT By FRANK ECK ™ Newsfeatures. Sports Editor How well does President Eisen- hower keep a baseball box score? On opening day Ike visited Grif- fith Stadium in Washington to see Bucky Harris’ team beat Casey Stengel’s champion Yankees. The chief executive, who played some baseball at West Point, also saw a game on May 29. But it was the opening day game that shows his scoring technique. After the Senators won the game in the 10th inning, 5-3, on Mickey Vernon’s home run, Ike autograph- ed his score card “to Clark Grif- fith — From his old friend — Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Later on pictures of the first Presidential scorecard were taken. In the 10th, Ike’s car properly shows a base on balls for Wash- ington leadoff hitter Eddie Yost. After Allie Reynolds fanned Tom Wright, Vernon hit his game-win- ning homer. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER. an avid baseball fan and golf- er. records his game play-by- pay. But here Ike erred. While the begs records the score as 5- “he large figures on his card, his 10th inning total gives Wash- ington only one run. In his excite- ment of “toot, root, root for the home team,” Ike still has Yost on first base. He forgot to score him as a run. Also, in the ninth inning when | a, the Yankees threatened pitcher Chuck Stobbs, Sonny Dixon came to the rescue with two out. Dixon eventually became the winning pit- cher. But Ike never noted Dixon’s appearance in the game — at least not for the (scorecard) record. However, when one carefully ex- amines all the evidence as to hits and how many batters went to the plate in each inning, it can be seen that Ike knows a lot about our na- tional game: If you care to keep seore like Ike here are some of his symbols: Strikeout — So. Base on Balls — W. Sacrifice Bunt — SH. Fielder’s Choice — Force Out — FO. Fly to Center — FO 8. Single — (plus sign) Double — (Double plus sign) Home Run — (number sign) -In the first inning the Senators went dgwn in order. Yost ground- ed out to first. Ike notes the play s 6 to 3. That ‘is the mark of a ed scorer. Some fellows from school call the shortstop 5 big time baseball writers shortstops 6. might save time on strike- Instead of SO he could K the’tulprit who fans, as the writers do. For_a single he could use a single dash and two dashes for a double. His symbol (number sign) for a home run resembles a tick- tac-toe box, but it’s not a bad idea since all home runs look alike in the box score. All in all, Ike knows what the score is, even if technically he still has Yost on first base. onDooOoOooOAc the but al call Ike outs. Pett 1 | Lt i al deere oat clue ee It’s a lot neater than cards kept by most fans. “Rocky Will Connect,” Says |Performance His Handler By MURRAY ROSE NEW YORK (#—The long, hard months of training were over. Now the hours grew longer for heavy- weight champion Rocky Marciano and challenger Exzard Charles as they ‘sweated out the mental for- ture of waiting for the opening bell at Yankee Stadium Thursday night. This is a bad time—the wait- ing—for most fighters. And most observers feel that it will affect the boxer—Charles—more than the Marciano, “It’s the long ride to the stadium the night of the fight that gets | 1952, the boxers,” said Marshall Miles, | ony? who managed the great Joe Louis and saw many of the bomber’s opponents freeze before the bat- tle. ‘They die on that ride.” Miles picked Rocky in 10 or less. “Charles probably will lead for] seven or eight rounds,” said Miles, “and then Rocky will connect just like Joe used to do.” The odds are 1-2 that undefeated ‘Rocky will make the former cham- Pion from Cincinnati his 4ist kaye victim. On the fight itself, the 29- year-old Brockton Bruiser held ee as a 1s eae It was against Charles sco) a khockout. tii Both gladiators were due to leave their Catskill Mountain train- ing camps late today. Charles, who boxed a final four rounds yester- day, planned to leave Monticello by car at 5 p.m. Rocky, who did some road work and calisthenics Tuesday, will take a helicopter ride from Grossinger, N.Y. to Newark, N.J., about 2:30 p.m. Then the fighters will go into seclusion until the noon weigh-in Thursday. Although there was a forecast of warm and humid weather and pogsible thundershowers for Thurs- day, promoter Jim Norris report- ed a brisk ticket sale. He said there was $300,000 in the till and that he expected it to go up to the stadium Thursday night with between $350,000 and $400,000. He- held to his prediction of a $500,000 gate “or more” with a break in the weather. The fighters will share in an- other $190,000 or so from the coast-to-coast theater - tele- vision and $35,000 from the net- work radio broadcast. There will be no home television of the 9:30 p.m. (est) 15-rounder. A canvas cover will be hung Over the ring in case of a drizzle late Thursday night. In the event of a weather post- Ponement, the bout will be held the following Thursday. Navy Golf Tourney Set The Naval Base Varsity Golf Tournament will get underway on 23 June 1954 with 10 teams entered in the competition. The tricky Stock Island golf course has been receiving a lot of play recently from the Surasdev- det shot makers. They are shoot- ing their qualifying rounds to de- termine who will represent Suras- devdet in the race for the honors in the golf division of the Admir- al’s Trophy. The men now qualifying to make up the team are: Lt. Smith; Lt. Robeson; Witzel, YNC; Wymore, TDC; Gudding, TD2; Ford, SN; Dimmick, YN2; Beck, DM2; Ber- genzer, S01; Bennett, YN2; Sch- neider, YNSN. Of the qualifiers it is expected that Witzel will be the favorite with Smith, Gudding, Ford, Rob- eson and Wymore crowding him. Witzel has had a lot of experience in tournament golf and it is a known fact that he knows his way around the local links, Major League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING — Snider, RUNS — Musial, St. 36. RUNS BATTED IN-Musial, 8t. Louis, 69. Jablonski, St. HOME RUNS-~- Musial, oe St. Louis, 2. Milliken, Brookihn amd Nux- hall, Cincinnati, 3-0, 1.000. Tee LEAGUE Of Gus Bell NEW YORK — Cincinnati’s Birdie Tebbetts, a freshman man- ager in the National League, is highly impressed with the all- around abilities of the ers” Duke Snider and the Giants’ Willie Mays, but he said today he “wouldn't trade Gus Bell for either one.” “Understand, I’m not knocking Snider or Mays,” he emphasized. “They're fine ballplayers. But I'd rather have Bell on my team than any other center fielder in the Na- tional or American League.” The 25-year-old Bell, whom the Reds Signe from Pittsburgh in nba an even .350—sev- enth highest in the senior circuit. has slam: driven ‘Bell does ev of a playe: hits lefty ante yer,” Tebbetts contin- equally well against right-handed pitchers. fielder and throws out Tunners on the bases. There’s only one thing wrong, I guess—he doesn’t get all the pub- licity that Snider and Mays do.” Birdie is too concerned with the problems of lifting his club out of sixth place to worry about the up- coming All-Star Game, bat he thinks it would be a shame if Bell or Ted Kluszewski were left off the squad. “Show me a better first base- man than Kluszewski,” he said. “He bats .300, knocks in over 100 funs and comes up with 40 homers. What more can you ask? “Why if he played in the Polo Grounds he would hit 60 home runs for the Giants. They say he’s not much of a fielder, but every time I bee a ball hit his way, he comes up with it and he digs those low throws out of the dirt too.” He and ask of a ued. “He ‘and He’s a fine is faase cf Whales have forelimbs resemb- ling fins, but beneath the smooth skin are bones typical of the fore- legs of mammals. Citisen Want Ads Pay Off! 1. totally new Choice TUBE or TUBELESS totally new Ride . totally new Safety AGAINST BLOWOUTS, PUNCTURES. totally new Silence totally new Styling LONGER, LOWER LOOK totally new Value WO PREMIUM IN PRICE WO BOUNCE, NO JOUNCE . totally new Steering EASIER HANDLING and CONTROL . totally new Mileage 250 EXTRA MILES PER 1,000 Tebbetts Lands|GIANTS’ WIN STREAK COSTING LEO DUROCHER LOTS OF MONEY New York Tied With Dodgers In National By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer If Leo Durocher’s bank balance holds out there’s no telling what heights the New York Giants may reach this season. Leo’s Personal investment in the rapid rise of the Giants mounted to $200 today as he hauled out his checkbook and paid off Bill Taylor and Hank Thompson. Taylor got his hundred for a home run in Milwaukee last Thurs- day, the only run in a 10-inning victory that moved the Giants into a first-place tie with Brooklyn. Thompson got into the act last night with a three-run homer after two were out in ninth. It gave the Giants a 5-3 victory over Cincinnati and sole possession of first place. In neither case did Durocher tell the hitters of his offer before they went to bat. The Giants came home last night and went into the last of the ninth against Cincinnati trailing 3-2. Wes Westrum coaxed Harry Perkowski for a walk to open the ninth. Hoot Evers popped out trying to bunt but Whitey Lockman also drew a walk. Howie Judson came in to erase Al Dark, who had collected three hits. Then lefty Jackie Collum was brought on to face the left-handed- hitting Thompson. As Hank ran the count to 2-0 Du- rocher turned to the bench and said: “If he hits one I’ll give him a hundred too.” Thompson and Gardner will be on hand today to collect. coe Giants knew from the sev- ingress on that Brooklyn had lost to Milwaukee 7-6, meaning UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY PRESENTS the totally. new tire... U.S.Ro THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 16, 1954 that first place was theirs if they could beat the Reds. Milwaukee took third place as Philadelphia bowed to St. Louis 3-1. In the American League Cleve- land stretched its lead to three games over the Chicago White Sox by whipping Washington 9-3. The White Sox never quite found out what hit'them as they fell to the Philadelphia Athletics 11-4. New York defeated Baltimore 6-4 and Detroit downed Boston 4-1. The Dodgers, who lost only 17 games at home all last season, dropped: was the third straight ‘time Milwaukee has beaten Brook- lyn in Field this year. The Btaves combed three Brook- lyn pitchers for 14 hits and put to- gether four singles in the eighth for the tying and winning runs. Hank Aaron got Milwaukee away to a 20 lead with a first-inning home run but Brooklyn led twice, 3-2 in the third. after a two-run triple by Junior Gilliam, and 6-5 in the fifth after Duke Snider’s 14th home run with two aboard. Vic Raschi scattered six Phila- delphia hits in winning his sixth game for the Cardinals. He gave up a run-in the first on two walks and a single by Granny Hamner and helped get it back when he singled in-the third in front of a home run by Rip Repulski. Cleveland’s sixth straight victory featured the return to limited ac- tion of Al Rosen. The heavy-hitting first baseman, who has been side-' lined since June 4 with a fractured finger, appeared in the eighth in- ning against Washington as a} pinch hitter and unloaded a three- | run double. The hit helped Art Houtteman post his sixth victory. The suddenly ferocious Athletics won their fifth in a row, this time at the expense of Bob Keegan, the American League's winningest pitcher. Keegan had won nine and lost only one but against the Ath- letics he lasted only into the fifth inning. Bill Wilson, White Sox Property until last week, homered in the fifth. Bill Renna hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Don John- son. J:m Finigan led the 14-hit as- sault with a double, a triple and a Pair of singles. The Yankees wrapped up their victory at Baltimore with four runs in the fifth. Three came on a homer by Joe Collins. The Orioles put the tying runs on base in the ninth and Allie Reynolds had to have help from Johnny Sain to gain credit for his eighth victory. The Red Sox showed they can lose on the road as well as at home. ‘They dropped their eighth straight as Steve Gromek beat them on seven hits. 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