The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 21, 1954, Page 6

Don Cruz Hurls 3-Hitter In First Professional Til -Key Wester Hurls Cocoa : To Victory Key West’s Don Cruz picked up his first profess- fonal pitching victory last night when he fashioned a three hit performance as the Cocoa Indians downed De- Land, 6-1. Cruz was signed to & Brooklyn Dodger contract with a bonus at the close of the Key West High School | baseball season and farmed out-to Cocoa for seasoning. In losing last night's game, the DeLand club man- aged to bunch the three hits Cruz allowed them in the fourth frame and score their the ball game since it was the fina) tilt of the first half of the trouble at the plate however. He has picked up just two hits thus fa Flock To Park ToBoo Team BALTIMORE gt Aprarprag fans have gotten a jay booing their losing Orioles steadi- ly, but they’re still paying to do it. There were 17,149 of them who bought tickets yesterday to put the Orioles 4,732 over the half-million - admission mark in 26 dates. That’s a healthy average of 19,412 and a total higher than the St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia Athletics drew all last season. But there was a decided change fn the fans’ tone yesterday. When they moved to Baltimore from St. Louis the players were cheered at every turn regardless of what they did. Balls and strikes were greeted with roars reserved for home runs in other big league booed soundly. It was different yesterday. Fans started booing Manager Jimmy Dykes when he made his appear- ance to give the umpires his start- ing lineup.. It went on and grew as the team lost a double-header 7-1 and 7-2 to, of all searhy toe neighboring Washington Senators. For a change, even the Senator pitcher was given a hand when he came to bat in the late innings. ‘The Orioles have now lost eight fn a row. x Pole Vault Mark Set At 11th Hour ST.LOUIS w—The Rev. Bob Richards’ last-minute pole vault record wrote an exciting finish to the National AAU track and field championships. New meet records were set in 13 of the 21 events to egg the 66th running one of the it. Richards, competing for the win- ning Los Angeles Athletic Club, cleared the bar at 15 feet 3% inches on his final attempt Satur- day night while a taxi waited on the cinder track. He had 30 min- utes to catch a midnight plane for Long Beach, Calif., where he was to deliver, a sermon and perform two marriage ceremonies yester- day. . is an inch above the Mark set in 1942 by Californian Cornelius Warmerdam was the ninth in 12 events Saturday. Five marks were surpassed Friday and one of those, the 80-yard run, was bettered again in the finals Satur- day by Mal Whitfield of Los An- eles A.C,, who ran 1:50.8. Baseball Results SOUTER ATLANTIC Ss" ae gS 4 SUNDAT’S BESUL: jacksonville S Columbus, Augusta Charlotte New Orleans Mem Little ae MONDAY'S sommauny: New Orleans at Chattanooge Little Rock Atlanta at at Memphis at Nash NATIONAL LEAGUE jon Lost NOW YORK nnn 0 Brooklya nusseress, New York, inrso'p.mu.~ Staley m.— . Hearn a). § teueunses Eee? pedeeteht San Seattle... \ memeseset® vesenene: exuseng seeseuec§ suseeses F | | estes? ktpessee? ebeabeee? bee AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING~—Avila, Cleveland, 364, RUNS— 33. RUNS BATTED IN—Minoso, Chicago, 57. HITS—Fox, Chic: 4 HOME RUNS — Cleveland and a Dewrett, 13. on New York, &1, .869. NATIONAL LEAGUE Page 6 THE-KEY WEST CITIZEN t Monday, June 21, 1954 Giant Homers Nip Cards; Keegan Wins 10th For Sox Wimbledon Net Action Set To Start Today WIMBLEDON, England #—The 68th All-England lawn tennis cham- pionships opened today but the field is so big and complex it will be late tomorrow afternoon before all the players get started. The st match today pitted defending champion Vic Seixas of Philadelphia against Geoffrey Cash of Darlington, Eng., a club player and Oxford man. No. 1 seeded Tony Trabert of Cincinnati met Paul Wooller of England, another club player. Men’s singles and a scattered few doubles will cover tomorrow. From then on, through July 3, grcepting Sunday, women and en will alternate. The men’s single championship will be decid- ed Friday, July 2, and the women’s July 3. The field of 128 men and 9 women was expected to shake it- self down into an American vs. Australian fight in practically all departments. the first eight men in the seedings, four are American and four Australian. The men’s dou- bles seedings are evenly divided and so are the mixed doubles. Only in women’s singles do Aus- tralians fail to figure. England ranks second to the United States in production of women tennis players. Americans have won every Wim- bledon since World War II except in 1946 and 1952. Trabert is the 3-2 choieé to continue the dominance. Lewis Hoad, the top Australian is seeded second and is picked by a few London tennis writers over the 24-year-old Tral Maureen of San Diego, Calif., is the overwhelming woman favorite. Her first match is to- morrow. Should Miss Connolly, the defending champion, fail, then the No. 2 girl, Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., could be expected to win, Dark In Lead As All-Star Shortstop CHICAGO W—Alvin Dark of the New York Giants regaitied the lead fer the starting National shortstop job as voting today in the annual All-, all poll. The 3i-year-old Dark went ahead of Milwaukee’s Johnny Logan by 796 votes in the latest tabulation at the Chicago Tribune, head- quarters for the balloting. Dark had 36,712 votes to Logan’s 076. The voting to decide the starting American and National League lineups (except pitchers) for the annual interleague game at Cleve- land July 13 began June 11 and continues until July 3. Stan Musial continued to be the pell’s highest individual vote get- Lea: conti Sta . The St.Louis Cardinals out-} women at Salem, Mass., July 18 with renewed confidence. The ridge soagiwll por Antonio, » won peat in 18 months Saturday with a 6 and 5 triumph over dé- fending champion Louise Suggs in the scheduled 36-hole final of the Western Open. Since winning the Miami Beach Open in the winter of 1953, Miss Jameson had finished second in three of her last four tourna- ments before taking the $1,000 first prize Saturday. Citizen Advertisements Help Save You Money By JACK HAND AP Sports Writer Watren Giles’ embargo on the $100 home run bonus came just in time to save Leo Durocher a lot of money. Yesterday two Giant pinch hit- ters, Bobby Hofman and. Dusty Rhodes, tied a record by hitting pinch homers in the same inning of New York’s 7-6 victory over St, Louis. Wes Westrum also hom- ered in the sixth inning and Al Dark hit one earlier. If Giles hadn't sounded a warn- ing, Leo probably still would be handing out $100 bills as he did last week to Bill Taylor and Hank Thompson. The Giant homers yesterday routed Vic Raschi and hung a de- feat on Cot Deal. But the New Yorkers’ lead was sliced to one half game by Brooklyn’s double victory. The Dodgers again fell back on relie fpitching and knocked off Chicago twice, 6-4 and 6-3. Clem Labine bailed out the first game and Bob Milliken and Ben Wade held the fort in the second after Billy Loes left. For the first time since Sept. 6, 1953, Pittsburgh actually won a double-header, downing Milwaukee 2-1 in 10 innings when Lew Bur- dette hit Curt Roberts with a pitched ball with the bases loaded. Gair Allie’s three-run homer gave the Pirates the second game, 6-3 over Bob Buhl. Cincinnati bumped off Philadel- phia twiee, 4-3 and 15-6, chasing their old teammate, Herm Weh- meier. The Redlegs scored nine Tuns in the first inning of the sec- ond game. Cleveland hiked its American League lead to four games by beating their old Boston sparmates around the head 3-1 and 9-2 while New York and Chicago were di- viding two. Bobby Feller’s five- hitter and Art Houtteman’s 10- hitter both had home run help from Al Smith. . The Yankees managed 20 hits, ineluding home runs by’ Bill Skow- ron, Gil McDougald, Mickey Man- tle and Joe Collins in thumping Chicago 16-6 in the first game. Then Bob Keegan squared matters for the White Sox 7-3, becoming the first American League pitcher to win 10 games this year. The second game was held to eight innings by darkness. Sherm Lol- lar’s two-run homer in the seventh was the big blow. Baltimore’s losing streak stretched to eight straight when Washington’s Connie Marrero and Dean Stone pitched the Senators to a double victory, 7-1 and 7-2. A Philadelphia-at-Detroit double- header was rained out. It was 6-3 in favor of St. Louis when the Giants cut loose in the sixth. After Willie Mays singled with one out, Hofman batted for Billy Gardner and homered. Wes- trum slammed the ball out to the left field roof, ending Raschi’s day. Rhodes, batting for Marv Grissom, the eventual winner, blasted re- liefer Deal’s first pitch into the lower right field stands for the winning run. Roy Campanella collected a bunt single, double and triple and Carl Furillo hit a three-run homer in Brooklyn’s first-game triumph, in which Labine’s stylish relief work saved the day for Carl Erskine. Milliken and Wade allowed three hits in the last 6 2-3 innings after Loes departed in the second game. Pittsburgh’s Max Surkont, for- mer Milwaukee Brave, defeated his old mates for the third time when Burdette plunked Roberts with a pitch. Allie, @ .221 hitter before the double-header, was the big blow of a six-run rally in the seventh inning that chased Buhl with his fifth defeat of a non- winning season. Gus Bell and Tex Kluszewski hit successive doubles in the seventh 10,000 MILE Guaranty on USED CARS with <7 ™m), s Z NAVARRO, Inc. NE n Clon Downs Mike’s Plumbers, 9-3 The Cuban Club baseball team Scored enough runs in the first inning Sunday to defeat the Mike's Plumbers nine in an Island City Baseball League encounter at the Wickers Field Stadium, The first six Cuban batters pick- ed up base hits and each of them Scored. Final score was 9-3. In the sixth inning, the Cubans scored three more. A single by Villareal started Club and fanned ten batters. Kaki Rodriguez fanned six Cubans. At bat Pazo had a single and a triple and Danny Lastres a single and a double. Every member of the Cuban Club nine scored a run. League action will resume Wed- nesday night when the Cuban Club meets the Key West Eagles at 8 p.m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. Dehydrated Man Freed From Train CASA GRANDE, Ariz., ~Food and water are on Milford Alvin Fitzgerald’s mind today after be- ing trapped in a sealed railroad cer for eight days. Dehydrated from the long ordeal, the 28-year-old man was freed last night after a hobo reported hearing a noise. Fitzgerald, at first unable to talk, was hospitalized in “poor, but improving” condition. After several hours he began to mumble incoherently and finally, he said: “Ym awful hungry.” Nurses at Pinal County General Hospital at Florence fed him chip- ped ice at first, later soft foods. Southern Pacific Railroad offi- cials said Fitzgerald, of Seattle and Spring Valley,. Calif. appar- ently had climbed int. the car loaded with lumber in Washington State a week ago Saturday. TRANSPORT MISSING MEXICO CITY # — A Mexican military transport with 19 persons aboard is missing, the air force announced today. Thdse aboard were soldiers and their wives and families. inning for Cincinnati’s first-game success at Philadelphia. Wehmeier walked four men and contributed a wild pitch to the nine-run inning before he gave way to a stream of successors. The big inning took 55 minutes as Cincy scored nine runs on only four hits. an error and six walks. Art Fowler won his fifth on relief. 1 Duval St. Tol, 2-7081 | Baltusrol | 1 By ORLO ROBERTSON SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (#—Prob- ably the most untalkative golfer ever to tread a fairway is the new U.S. Open golf champion and he can credit much to a crippled left arm. Ed Furgol, a lean, 37-year-od professional from Clayton, Mo., put tegether consistent rounds of 71, 70, 71, and 72 over the long par-70 Baltusrol course for a 284 — good enough to finish one stroke in front of 23-year-old Gene Littler, 1953 amateur champion from Palm Springs, Calif., now playing as a pro. Baltusrol’s narrow fairways and tough rough offered Furgol little trouble. His left arm, 10 inches shorter than his right and stiff from the elbow down, guided the ball true to the target with few exceptions as his right applied the er, power. “My left elbow was a little stronger than Hogan’s,” said Fur- gol jokingly afterwards. “It kept me out of the rough.” Defending champion Ben Hogan, seeking his fifth title, ended five strokes off the pace with a 289, Furgol injured his left. elbow at the age of 12 when he fell off parallel bars at Utica, N.Y.. The injury never healed correctly. and he was left with a crooked, cocked arm. Acting on doctors’ orders, he took up golf to strengthen the arm and became an outstanding ama- teur before turning to pro in 1945. “But I never could afford any lessons,” he said. “What I learned about the game came from watch- ing others and constant practice.” The stiff left arm, however, proved valuable. He didn’t have to learn to hold it that way as he guided the club head into the ball. He did develop something of an unorthodox swing. His left arm came in good stead, however, on the 18th when he hooked his drive into the trees. For a moment it looked as if the title was going to elude him. But the crooked arm guided a seven iron true as he came out on a fairway of another course, hit the green from the side and took two putts te get down. However, not until he had clinched the title, when Littler failed to drop an eight-foot putt on the 18th for a tie, did Furgol ! start talking. Not once during the three days did he engage in a con+ versation of more than two or three words as paced off the dis- tance between ‘shots. He was a tight-lipped man with a purpose. “Golf is my work,” he said, “and I didn’t want anything to distract ‘|Withered ‘Arm Helped Furgol To Win National Gpen Title Had Little Trouble On Sperts NEW YORK That prize pixie of the tennis courts Art Larsen has taken pen in hand and stirred up our Australian friends to the point where anything might hap- pen and probably will. Official pro- tests promise to be the least of it. Tempers are becoming ragged. Larsen, who is playing in the Wimbledon Championships start- ing today, set the pot boiling when he wrote for a recent issue of “World Tennis an article which he meant to be humorous entitled “I Played Australia.” A copy seems to have reached Australia, and, judging by the contents of a cable we have received, the Aus- tralians do not think Larsen is funny. The Victoria Lawn Tennis Assn. at Melbourne has protested that Art’s literary flight of fancy has “damaged Australian prestige.” The president of that body, Harry Pitt, has complained to the U. S. Association that our former na- tional champion’s charges are “entirely incorrect” and ‘“Fantas- tic’. As it happens, he’s right on both counts. Referring to Larsen’s tour of Australia a few years ago — a tour which the Aussies swore at the time would never be repeated —Pitt has this to say: “Larsen was treated with every consideration and efforts were made to soothe him. Throughout the tour the authorities had been too lenient with Larsen and the crowd was very irritated with his behavior. The criticism was mild and much less than he deserved.” One is likely to wonder what in the world our tennis hero could have written to- bring down such honest wrath, and by the greatest good luck there is a copy of the offending article at hand. It’s dy- namite if we ever saw the ex- Piosive. Examples: “On the day of the finals (Larsen writes) there was a 70-mile-an- a difference. That is why I never talked to anybody, not even my caddy.” The caddy received $1,000 of Furgol’s $6,000 first prize. Between Littler and Hogan in the final. standings came Dick Mayer, St. Petersburg, Fla., and| Lloyd Mangrum, Niles, Ill, 286; Bobby Locke, Johannesburg, 288; Tommy Bolt, Houston, Fred Haas, New Orleans, Shelley Mayfield, Seguin, Tex., and amateur Billy Joe Patton, Morgantown, S.C., 289. |me from. a.shot that might = okie Snead had 290. WE NEED USED CARS $300.00 DISCOUNT On 1954 Ryundup By Ge Talbot hour Wd. When I stepped on the court tbegin, a huge box came flying thugh the air and knocked me dow, had to hit every ball twice betuse the wind kept throw- beet ee at me.” Tea see, we feel, why the Asies do not think Lar- sen is funn Why they are sore is not quite sdjear, Again he recalls a high spe of the tour, which apparently q@ many: : blew cork. I picked my rackets and stalked off th court amidst a shower of DB bottles and a ra aes Gra chorus of s.”” From the info\ation we have, the Aussies are rticularly upset over this passagéand with some Teason. Our own gpicion is that Art is exaggera. Australian beer comes in quai les, which are very unwield¥or throwing Purposes, and are 2 sold at ten- nis matches. Boxing Reslis SATURDAY'S Fi TOLEDO, Ohie- Although the moon about the earth, it is Phebe | the earth complex which'yolves about the sun. SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU BUY A DEPENDABLE HESTER BATTERY , With Its Self-Charging ‘ Feature WE BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN LOU SMITH 1116 White Street — Plymouths, Dodges, De Sotos, Chryslers, (all models) ON 1949 AND 1950 PLYMOUTH . . FORD AND CHEVROLET TRADE-INS This Offer Good Till June 30th NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval Street Telephone 2-7041