The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 24, 1954, Page 6

Solomon Sparks Elks To Win Over Shrine=: Evans Whip Rotary In Little Loop Bill Solomon sparked the Elks to a 7-3 victor yover the Shrin- ers in the first game of a Little League doubleheader at Bayview Park last night . The young Elk catcaer had a perfect night at the plate. He drove in three runs with a hom- er, doyble and single. The homer, his fifth of the season, was a tre- mendous clout over the leftfield fence in the first. It was the second homer which hag been hit over the fence this season. The other one was hit by teammate Bobby Santana two weeks ago. The Elks sewed things up early getting six runs in the first two innings. From then on they coasted while Santana was notch- ing his first win of the season with a nice four-hitter, Santana struck out 11 Shriners and walk- ed six. His only trouble came in the fourth when the Shriners bunehed two walks, an error and . singles by Billy Vaughn and George Sanderling for their three runs. Score: R. HE. Shriners ____. 000 300-3 4 4 Elks _.______. 330 10x—-7 6 2 Vernon and Crusoe; Santana and Solomon. In thé nightcap, Evans took first place in the National Little Leagiie with a 12-2 win over the Rotarf. c Evans jumped on Huston Plow- man and Barry Barroso for 12 runs in the first three Evelyn Estevez finally came in to silence Evans’ bats in the Eloy Lopez was the big gun for Evans. The big second baseman hit two triples and a double in three tries. The win placed Evans’ percent- <age points ahead of the second Lions. 750 “583 354 TO DIM THEIR LIGHTS ORANGE, Va. —Wpen the ap- proaching car didn’t dim its lights as required by state law, State Trooper James W. Chambers turned around and overtook the velticle. Mike’s Split Doubleheader In City Loop ‘Mike's Plumpers split an Island | ; City Baseball League doublehead-| er last night in the Wickers Field| 4 Stadium. The Eagles copped the| first game by a 10-2 score and| teh Plumbers came back to gain |p the verdict in the second, 8-3, over the Cuban Club. The Plumbers picked up their|{s first run in the third inning on & single by Eloy Rodriguez and i a triple by Kaki Rodriguez. Their final counter crossed the plate in the fifth frame when Rodriguez and Bean put together singles. The Eagles scored one run in the third inning when Barnett] 4 blasted a line drive triple and scored onan error. The game was marred when the Plumbers’ Ham- blin suffered a fractured collar-|/ bone in a futile effort to grab NY Barnett’s drive. The. Eagles scored three more| runs in the fifth when R. Carey singled, Terry doubled and Key tripled to right field. A big six- run sixth inning clinched the ver- dict for the Sagles. * At bat, Terry had two doubles, Barnett a triple and a single and Albury two singles . In the nightcap, the Cuban Club scored three runs in the second inning on two walks, a double by Bunzy and Henriquez’ single. The Plumbers came back with four runs on four walks and three @rrosr. Mikes scored one more in the third and three in the sixth. Bean and Quesada led the winners, at the plate and Henriquez paced the losers. The standings: Club— W. L. Pet. Key West Eagles _._.5 1 .800 Cuban Club.._.- 4 2 .667 Mike’s Plumbers 3 4 460 ro. Fishhook In Eye Puzzles Doctirs MILWAUKEE (#—The fishhook lodged next to Roman Trzcinski’s right eyeball will be left undis. turbed for a while to see if na- ture will help in getting it out. The 12-year old boy’s physician decided yesterday that the hook was too deeply imbedded in soft and delicate tissue in the eye socket next to the eyeball to be removed b y agiant electromag- net at St. Luke’s hospital. The hook caught in Roman’s eye Sunday when « fishing plug, cast struck him in the Two youths in the err, Jackson | ' Libert, 18, and Aubrey Caldwell, 21 both of Gh wy turned poke be escapees a state eamp. The car had been stolen % il hours earlier in Roanoke, Tribe’s By FRANK ECK AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor When Al Lopez called Al Rosen into his office just before the baseball season opened the Cleve- land Indian manager solved one of his biggest problems. First base has been an Indian sore spot for many years and since Luke Easter, Rocky Nelson and Bill Glynn failed to knock down fences Lopez decided he might shift Rosen there. In the days when Lopez played it was the rule that a first baseman should be one of the team’s big hitters and play regularly. Lopez knew he had such a man in Rosen for in his last four sea- sons Albert Leonard Rosen, 29, has averaged 117 runs batted in and 33 home runs. He averaged 153 games a season, too: 4 “Would you have any objec- tions to playing first base,” Lopez asked Rosen. : “T'll play first if you think it will help the ball club,” Rosen replied. Rosen’s shift to first base has been the biggest move Senor Lo- pez has made since taking over the Indians in 1951. Rosen has a chance to repeat as the American League’s most valuable player. His transfer from third base to me = Lopez to bring rookie Rudy Rega- lado into the lineup as a third baseman: Lopez wanted Rega- Jado’s bat but he couldn’t use him at first base, so he shifted Rosen. Rosen was the first fegteuin, major league history to wnanimously as most valuable WATCH HIM GooD NEXT YEAR. HES jeoce Of suRPAISES @ t THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June 24, 1954 7 ITCAERS RESPECT Aim . i aah lt Demos Down GOP Baseball Team Towner Invites Public To Base Athletic Events All Key Westers have re- ceived a cordial invitation from Rear Admiral George C. Towner, USN, Naval Base Commander, to attend the baseball games. held throughout the week at the Naval Station’s Walker Field. The Admiral pointed out there is no admission charge for these games and that the Fleming Street Gate opens at 7:15 p.m, Game time is 7:90. Tonight, the Naval Station goes against the men from Helicopter’ Squadron One. And on Friday night, it’s a return match be- tween the Naval Air Station and the Gilmore. Again next week, baseball be- tween the various local Navy .ac- tivities will be played Monday through Friday nights. The pigments which determine the color of the human eye often appear some time after birth so that children who will be dark- oe later, often are blue-eyed at HERE AL ROSEN is about to pick Philadelphia's Spook Jacobs off first base. Rosen, the Indians’ big slugger, has a chance to became the third player in history to win the most valuable Player award two years in a row. Player in 1953, His .396 batting average just missed catching Mickey Vernon for the hitting ti- tle but he did lead the league in Tuns batted in with 145 and in homers with 43. : He could be the third player in history to win the most valuable player award two years in suc- cession. The other also were American ieoguad — Jimmie Foxx in 1832-33 and Hal Newhous- er in 1944-45. Foxx also won the award in 1938. Since the voting by the baseball writers began in 1931 Stan Musial and Joe DiMag- gio are the only other three-time winners. Two-time Americar League winners are Hank Greenberg’ and Ted Williams and Carl Hubble and Roy Campanella, in the Na- tional League, By HERB ALTSCHULL WASHINGTON (#—Congressional Democrats boasted the first no- hitter in Capitol Hill’s “World Ser- ies” history today — but éven so they were hard pressed to main- tain their unbroken victory string over a fighting Republican nine. The afhual congressional base- ball game went into its fifth and final inning last night with the GOP stalwarts out in front, 1-0, two out and nobody on base, Then came a Democratic deluge: Rep. Harlan Hagen of California walked and stole second. Rep. Sei- minski of New Jersey tied up the game with a double. Rep. Eugene MeCarthy of Wisconsin fouled off one pitch, took a ball, then wal- the third offering into the left field reeesses of Griffith Sta- dium for a triple. Final score: 2-1, in favor of the! Démocrats who have yet to lose sinee the charity series started seven years ago. Rep. Don (Fireball) Wheeler of Georgia was the hurling pride of the Democrats with a no-hit stint. The only run off him was un- earned. For the Republicans it was Rep. Glenn Davis of Wiseonsin on the mound — and pitching steady 3-hit ball until the roof fell in on him in the fifth frame. Half the meat produced in the world is beef and veal. ‘Rosen Looks Like 3rd Repeater aS For The Most Valuable Player Selection|zi:: 3B OR 1B—It makes no differ- ence to Cleveland's Al Rosen. He even has plsyed some shortstop for the pennant con- tenders. Thus, Rosen has a chance this Season to join a select group, not to mention sluggers like Foxx, Greenberg and Musial as fellows who switched one position to another and still maintained their effectiveness as hitters, d “A t team ma@, Rosen, and a pent buy." says Manager Lo pex, Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE ah. rence (0-0) vs. Law ( WEDNESDAY'S RES! Milwaukee, 5, New York 2 330 p.m.—Law- (6-6). Braves’ Jolly Comes Through To Squelch Giant Rally Wed White Sox Down Nats In American By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer Depending on where you hail from, ‘jolly good” may sound like ish slag or phoney Indian tals. But around the tribal councils of the Milwaukee Braves it means . it’s a good thing Jolly’s good. .m.—Porte- (13). (Only game sel 49). jand, a. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS delphia 2 &, Wi 6 TION 6, Memphis i, Nashvalle 7 THURSDAY'S Néw Orleans at Cha af Mem; ae oe Mobile at Naghville (2) Besaney WEPNESDAY’S RESULTS Augusta 3 vo Savannah ‘! lum! i Sucksoavile, postponed, rain Giameit 8, Montgomery 4 THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE a "| BRSULTS ‘WEDNESDAY’ BARES cuse at Montregl postpofied. tain Havens 11-2, Ottawa 84 (first 10 innings) See aia 2 RICAN atson Shreveport Sam Antonié at Dallas INTERNATIONAL at Montteat > suuseef senssuesy seresues! wegiseas? seaseeea? seeks? cebbeeee' Poi Me eor yy ‘Musial, St. Louis, 39. RUNS BATTED IN Musial, . Laws, Ph Bader, pisbet ny and Jal l. HO} Uns mays New York and CHING Antonelli, New York, 92, bags AMERICAN LEAGUE parhate Swe = RUNS BATTED IN—Minooo, Chicago, 38. HITS—Fea, chieage, 3 i ErrcninG neyoclis, New Works #1, a, Subscribe To The Citizen Joe’s Blacksmith Shop Outside Welding - Machine Works “IF IT’S METAL—WE FIX IT“ Gasoline and Oi] Tafiks Repaired PHONE 2-5658 614 Front Street Dave Jolly is the Braves’ “‘sav- er’, the pitcher who gets the call when the going is the toughest. He has the special job of protecting leads in late inning or stopping the opposition while his own team still has a chance to win. The lean righthander from Stony Point, N.C., has been delivering in brilliant style. He’s in his sec- ond full term in the majors, after seven years’ seasoning in the minors and so far he has been in 23 games, more than a third of the Milwaukee total. In 36 innings Jolly has given up only 23 hits and 4 earned runs for a sparkling earned run average of 1.00. His personal record shows four victories and two defeats. One of his most. spectacular perform- ances came yesterday in Mil- waukee’s 5-2 triumph over the fast moving New York Giants. Jim (No-Hit) Wilson sailed into the last of the ninth with a three run edge en route to his fourth straight victory. But the Giants, who think they own the copyright on Frank Merriwell finishes, got rid of Wilson with successive sin- gles by Monte Irvin and Don Mueller. With the dangerous Willie Mays at bat, Jolly strolled to the rescue. He worked the count to 2-2 on Mays, who had homered earlier, before hitting him in the back to fill_the bases. Then Jolly applied the pressure. Pinch hitter Hank Thompson loft- a short fly. Wes Westrum fouled ‘ Bobby Hofman who has eh hit home runs this plate to end the threat. Brooklyn took advantage of Mil- waukee’s suctess and cut the Giants’ first placé margin to a single gme by, beating Cincinnati 63. St. Louis defeated Pittsburgh 1-1 as Harvey Haddix won his 12th game. Philadelphia whipped Chi- cago 5-3. ig hours 58 minutes, the longest game Lea and one minute short of the night game in major league history. Four Boston runs in the ninth sent the game into overtime and and the Orioles finally won in the 17th on a single, a fluke double, walk and a successful dash for home by Jim Brideweser on a in the infield. Boston ex- season's second triple first inning. U.S. crops depend i n, Gypsy Tribe Keeps Watch By ROBERT H. JOHNSON JR. DALLAS (®—A gypsy matriarch lay in the hospital, and out on the lawn her dark-skinned tribe camped, waiting and Praying. Sometimes the clansmen laughed aloud as their children darted squealing among the trees. Mostly they talked softly, in small clus- ters, and changed from English to a rapid flow of Gypsy dialect when a stranger came near. They kept watch over Mrs. Rosie Evans, 75, of Fort Worth, injured in a car wreck. “She is our elder, the leader of our tribe,” said Joe Evans, a Fort Worth Coppersmith. “That is why we wait.” Evans, a slim, middle-aged man whose brown mustache almost matches his skin, is the oldest of the gypsy leader’s seven sons. If she should die he would become the tribal head. “No, of course I won’t be the \‘King -of the Gypsies’,” he said. That’s foolishness. There are many gypsy tribes, anc there is no ‘King’ or ‘Queen’. That’s just something people like to say about gypsies. “But she is our mother—and she is a Queen to us.” Mrs. Evans suffered from shock, a broken ankle and foot, an in- juref hip and deep cuts across one knee and her forehead. She was hurt in a wreck near here Sunday night. The tribe began gathering the next day. There were about 30 gypsies keeping watch at Methodist Hos- pital—only part of Mrs. Evans’ tribe. Besides the seven sons, she has four daughters, 30 grandchil- dren and 10 great grandchil dren, plus nieces and nephews. “Sure, we're gypsies,” Evans said. “My mother is a Cherokee Indian and my father was a Serb- jan, born in Chicago. My great grandfather came from the old country. “But we’ve put a stop to that ‘roaming gypsies’ stuff. We have ged homes and regular jobs. We ve like anybody else. “T'll tell you something, though— there’ll always be gypsies, always, “And I'll tell you why,” he said, glancing .down and smiling. “We're proud of being gypsies. | That’s why.” Planes Pile. Up SHAWNEE, Okla. (#—Two light} Planes landed simultaneously — one on top of the other — at the Shawnee Municipal Airport last night. The pilots escaped with cuts and bruises. The planes were damaged , heavily. “If you ever had the world drop in on you, you know how I felt,” said H. E. Reding, pilot of the ‘plane on bottom. The fer-de-lance, a poisonous snake found in Central and souia America, resembles a rattlesnake j without the rattle. Tampa Cubans Set Came With Key West Stars The Circulo Cubano baseball |team, of Tampa, will Play a three-game series with a local All- Star team July 3-4, The Cubans will face the cream of the local baseball crop with the All-Stars culling players from the Island City Baseball League and the Key West High School baseball team. The. local roster will include DeWitt “Buster” Roberts, who performed in the Class D Florida State League; Viti Vidal, former Florida International League pitcher, and Danny Lastres, for- mer professional infielder. In addition, the club will in- clude infielders Al Pazo, one of the hottest in the city, and Coffee Butler, who has shone well this Season. Outfielders will include Claude Valdez and Tito Anguierra. Wa fie Henriquez and Biff Salgado, former Key West High School players, will aleo be on the roster. Bunzy Villareal, Gallagher and Kaki Rodriguez will be available for mound duty. “Bob Santana, Jesus Rodriguez and John Lewis will bolster the club’s strength, The visitors will be led by S, Burns, who hit .381 in the first- half of the Tampa Social League race; J. Cuesta (.364), A. Sanchez (341), E. Kansriddle (.318), A, Pullara (.294), D. Almieda (.292), M. Miranda (.286), E. Rubio (.258), M. Iglesias (.212) and F. Leto (.157). The Tampa pitching staff in- cludes S. Burns, who has won two and lost one game while fanning 27 batters and walking ; 14 in 29 innings. Kinsriddle has won one game and lost two. He has fanned 10 and walked a like number of bat- ters in 20 innings. Thirty years ago, three pounds of coal wefe used in the United States to produce a kilowatt of electricity; today it takes a little more than a pound. 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