The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1954, Page 6

Lopez Wins Key West Golf Club Title | 17-Year-Old Defeats Gene Witzel In 36- Hole Tourney The largest gallery ever to witness a championship golf match here saw 17-| year-old Joe Lopez, Jr. de- le feat veteran Gene Witzel for the Key West Golf Club championship on the Stock Island links Sunday. Lopez, defeated Witzel 2- up on the 36th green to pick up his first major title. The finalists traded strokes in a grim battle, which will go down in the books as one of the most stir- ring matches in the annals of local golf, right down to the wire before Lopez sank a two-foot putt on the final hole to clinch the victory. Lopez’ medal score Sunday was 73 while Witzel carded a 74. The final round started Saturday |, and at the end of that play, Lopez held a 1-up margin over Witzel, three-time Navy champ. Lopez carded a 7 in that round and Wit- zel had a 73. The drama that capped off the struggle for the coveted club toga occurred on the 36th hole. Lopez held a one-up lead as they stepped to the tee on the tortuous 370 yard test. Dramatic Moment An edge on that hole would put Witzel in a tie for the match and sent the match into extra holes. Lopez had a chance of winning the match. ~ Both hit booming tee shots and followed up with approaches that put them a little bit short and to the right of the green. Witzel pitched to within five feet of the cup and Lopez followed with a shot that left him lying two feet from the pin. The match hinged on those putts. Witzel missed his and conceded Lopez’ to end the match. As Sunday’s round got underway, it appeared that the match might not be as close as predicted. Lopez started off to burn up the course. He fired successive birdies on the first three holes, parred the fourth and garnered another birdie on the fifth to give him the lead four-up. Lead Shrinks But his lead shrank on the back nine when his putting, thus far flawless, began to falter. Lopez’ driver is credited with the big factor in making him the youngest golfer ever to win a local club title. Although he’s only five feet, nine inches tall and. weighs but 140-pounds, Lopez didn’t hit anything under 250 yards Sunday. Only tee shot anywhere near off | the button was on the 15th hole when he pulled his drive about five feet into the rough at the left of the fairway. But he recov- ered nicely and racked up a par. Lopez, who has played some out- standing golf here in recent weeks will make a bid for further golf- ing honors July 22nd when he plays in the Florida Open Tourney in Tampa. Legion Nine To Battle Cuban Club . The high-flying Arthur Sawyer Post 28 baseball team will meet the Cuban Club nine tonight at! for two runs in the ninth, the: 8 o'clock in the Wickers Field Stadium. The Legionnaires, coached by Bill Cates, are undefeated in a four-game warmup series for the American Legion District tourney in Miami July 17-21. They have scored 51 runs on 43 base hits and have committed but six errors. Paul Higgs will twirl the Cubans, either Bunzy Villa- real or Kaki Rodriguez will han- dle the mound duty. DeWitt Roberts will catch. Higgs won his last outing. He has given up 14 hits in a like number of innings. He has fanned 15 and walked the same number of batters. Stuart Yates is currently pac- ing the Legion mound staff. The winner of two games, he has twirled 15 innings and allowed 13 hits. Yates has fanned 11 and} walked six. Leading hitter for the Legion is D. Carey with a .600 average. Other batting averages: Sims, .500; J. Santana, .411; R. Bean and S. Yates, .333; P. Higgs, 400; Hoppy, .400; J. Carey, .266; Knowles, .200. The team jall Trucks needed. tonight’s | battle with J. Carey catching. For | | when Bob Grim lo: batting average is| Page 6 THE KEY WEST Ci TIZEN here. Staff Photo. NEW GOLF CHAMP—Joe Lopez, Jr., displays the form that made him the youngest Key West Golf Club champion on record Lopez defeated Gene Witzel 2-up yesterday.—Citizen Back In By ED CORRIGAN AP Sports Writer The American League pennant chase is developing into a war of nerygs, Cleveland Manager Al Lopez sa§®he isn’t afraid of the Chicago White Sox. . . . Haven't got the pitching to last out the long sea- son. . . . More concerned wih the New York Yankees. . . . But the Tribe still has the better club. Chicago Manager Paul Richards merely shrugs off last month, when his club went into first place... . He expected it all along. ... New York Manager Casey Sten- gel doesn’t have much to say... . He’s been spending his time look- ing up at the other two hoping they’d eat each other. Right now, it appears that Sten- gel’s hopes have been coming true. Last week the Indians swept the Sox four straight games. Had they been able to do the same in the four-game set that just end- ved, they migh have made a run- away of the race. But the Sox won all four, finishing operations with a 3-0, 8-2 double victory yesterda: The Yanks, who have been tak- ing advantage of the second-divi- sion clubs, won their ninth in a row ‘and 12th in their last 14 by sluggirlg the Washington Senators 7-3 to climb within half a game of the Indians. The White Sox are three games back as the chase con- tinues to tighten. Billy Pierce, back ‘or the White Sox after being sidelines with a sore arm, tossed a two-hitter in the first game shutout yesterday and Virgil Trucks came back in he nightcap to hold the Tribe to five hits. Until the Indians got to Trucks had gone 23 innings without sco ing a run. Minnie Minoso hit a two-run ho- mer and Matt Batts hit one ‘with none on to ateount for all firsts game scoring. In the afterpiece, bonus rookie Ron Jackson homered with two on in the third That wa Ra: ‘as tagged with the first-game loss and Bob Lemon the second. Except for the seventh inning, d te bases with none out, the Yanks had no \particular problems with the Sen- ators. Johnny Sain came in to res- cue the youngster, who got credit for his 10th success. In other American League action, | Detroit whipped Baltimore 2-1 and the Boston Red Sox won a double- header from the Philadelphia A’s 18-0 and 11-1, The National League action left the New York Giants still 5: }games in front of the Brooklyn |Dodgers. The Giants thumped Pittsburgh 13-7 in the first game jof a double-header, but dropped the second 5-1. Brooklyn edged | Philadelphia 8-7 in the first game jot a twin bill but lost the second 3-1. Cincinnati and Milwaukee split a double-header, the Redlegs tak- Chicago Sox Are The Race jing the first 6-5 and the Braves winning the second by an identical 6-5 count. St. Louis nipped Chic- ago 43 in the other National League game. Al Aber, who retired the first 17 Baltimore batters, needed help |from Billy Hoeft and Steve Gromek |to protect his victory after Jim Fridley hit a home run in the eighth. The winning margin was provided by rookie second baseman | Reno Bertoia, who .got his first jmajor league hit—a home run— in the fourth. The Red Sox moved into sixth place from the American League cellar by virtue of their double triumph over the A’s. They had 40 hits, including four by Ted Wil- |liams, who now is batting .367. The A’s lost Gus Zernial, prob- | ably for the season, when the big outfielder slipped and broke his |left collarbone while attempting to |field a line drive in the ninth inn- | ing of the first game. Tom Brewer {and Frank Sullivan were the win- | ning pitchers. The Giants massacred the Pir- ates on six home runs—including |No. 31 by Willie Mays—in the first {| game. But in the second, Dick Lit- |tlefieldg, who rarely could get Ameria League batters out dur- jing his tenure with St. Louis, De- troit, Boston and Chicago, snuffed jthem. The game was close until \the Pirates broke it open with |three runs in the eighth. Jim | Hearn was the victim. The Dodgers had their troubles | with the Phils. They dissipated a six-run bulge in the ‘irst game |and finally had to win it in the eighth on doubles by Billy Cox and | Junior Gilliam. Earlier, Gil Hodges | had clouted two home runs and| Carl Furillo, one. But Carl Erskine ouldn’t stand the prosperity and the Phils tied it with six in the eighth. The second game was tied a 1-1 going into the seventh inning. | Del Ennis hit a home run off Don Newcombe to break it up. Herman | Wehmeier, with an assist from | Robin Roberts, stopped the Brooks. | Jim Command made his first ma-! jor league hit. a grand slame home |run, in the Phils’ big eighth inn-| ing of the first game There is} nothing in the record books to in- | dicate if any other major league | players have hit grand slam ho- mers for their first major league | hit. The Redlegs beat the Braves in the first game on_ back-to-back home runs bv Gus Bell and Ted | Kluszewski. Bell also collected a home run, a triple and two sinetes for the losing cause in the setond | game. | Joe Cunningham hit his fifth} home run since ioinins the Cardin- | als June 30 to lead the Redhirds | to their triumvh over the Cubs. The blow broke a 3-all tie in the| sixth. There are about 55 million ve-| jhicles on U.S. roads—72 per cent | bmore than in 1940, Monday, Joly 1, 54T doctrial Bowling 4 HIGH TEAM, SERIES—Westinghouse, TEAM— WON Home Milk - 36 Westinghouse —. (2 ey’ Roy's Book Store 5 Bill’s Southernmost Garage ___ 5 General Electric 4 Coca-Cola __ Lost TOTAL PINS 8471 8945 8187 8069 8338 2230. HIGH TEAM, SINGLE GAME—Roy’s Book Store, 803. HIGH INDIVIDUAL, SERIES—K. Myers, Westinghouse, 576. HIGH INDIVIDUAL, SINGLE’GAME—K. Myers, Westinghouse, 201. Baseball Results SOUTH ATLANTIC ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind 13 ms 315 MT 536 Montgomery... Columbus Charlotte Augusta SUNDAY'S RESULTS Augusta 18, Macon 7 Columbia 14, Charlotte 2 Columbus 4, Montgomery 3 Savannah 5, Jacksonville 2 MONDAY'S SCHEDULE Augusta at Macon Charlotte at Columbia (2) Montgomery at Columbus Savannah at Jacksonville SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION or Atlanta Sew Orleans Birmingham Chattanooga SUNDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta 8 Birmingham 6 Memphis 3-13, Little Rock 1-3 New Orleans 3, Mobile 1 Nashville 9-3, Chattanooga 7-1 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Mobile at Atlanta (2) New Orleans at Birmingham (2) Little Rock at Chattanooga Memphis at Nashville AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 56 615 New York 667 Chicago a 3 19 2 3 38024 a 4 24% " & Probable Pitcher No games scheduled. SUNDAY’S RESULTS New York 7, Washington 3 Chicago 3-8, Cleveland 62 Detroit 2, Baltimore 1 Boston 16-11, Philadelphia 0-1 NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pet, Behind 614 519 New York Brooklyn Philadelphii Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago 494 Monday's Schedule & Probable Pitehers No games scheduled. SUNDAY’S RESULTS New York 13-1, Pittsburgh 7-5 Brooklyn 8-1, Philadelphia 7-3 Cincinnati 6-5, Milwaukee 5-6 Chicago 3 SUNDAY’S BASEBALL RESULTS 5 INTERNATIONAL Buffalo 9-7, Ottawa 6-2 Syracuse 10-2, Montreal 8-0 Rochester 7-8, Richmond 43 Havana 5-5, Toronto 1-1 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo 4-1, Louisville 3-3 St. Paul 8-2, Indianapolis 2-0 Minneapolis 8-6, Kansas City 5-8 Charleston 1-4, Columbus 0-3 PACIFIC COAST San Francisco 10-4, San Diego 2-9 Hollywood 5-0, Seattle 1-6 Portland 44, Oakland 3-0 Los Angeles 5-4, Sacramento 1-3 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Dothan 8, Crestview 1 Andalusia-Opp 16, Panama City 5 Graceville at Fort Walton Beach un- reported XAS ‘ TE Tulsa 9, Dallas 8 Fort Worth 7, Oklahoma City 0 San Antonio 5-3, Beaumont 42 Shreveport $1 MONDAYS L SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Louisville at Charleston St. Paul at Kansas City Indianapolis at Minneapolis Only games scheduled TEXAS Dallas at Oklahoma City Tulsa at Fort Worth Houston at San Antonio Shreveport at Beaumont INT Toronto at Hi Rochester at Syracuse at Buffalo Only games scheduled ALABAMA-FLORIDA Andalusia-Opp at Panama City Fort Walton Beach at Graceville Dothan at Crestview BASEBALL STANDINGS «INTERNATIONAL Won Lost Rochester - 4 38 Toronto a Montreal Havana Syracuse Buffalo Richmond Ottawa 48 42 2 33 a AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. indianapol 38k St. Paul SS Louisville Kansas City . Columbus Minneapolis Toledo. Charleston ALABAMA-FLORIDA Won § seeeres x-Fort Walton 49 Dothan S 48 Andalusia-Opp ~ 45 Crestview... a2 x-Graceville 9 Panama City . a x—Does not include Sunday night game. PACIFIC COAST Won ei Pet. Beach .... BSEESSS: Hollywood San Diego Oakland. San Francisco Seattle Sacramento Portland Los Angeles Shreveport San Antonio Houston Oklahoma Cit; Tulsa Fort Worth Bet Beaumont Dallas seseeeges asesesaes Eclipses of the sun are used by map makers to measure distances on the earth’s surface with ex- treme accuracy says the National Geographic Society. Nat'l League Rated 8-5 In All-Star Tilt By JOE REICHLER CLEVELAND @ — Two 1ith- hour changes in the American League pitching staff have caused the odds on the already favored National League to soar to 8-5 to- day for tomorrow’s annual All-Star Game. Nobody here could recall when one league ruled such a prohibitive favorite over the other, even dur- ing the years when the power- packed American League captured four straight from 1946 through 1949. Now, on the eve of the 21st clash, the shoe is on the other foot. Not only does the National own a four- game winning streak but it has most of the long-ball hitters. Until New York’s Allie Reynolds and Cleveland’s Mike Garcia were declared physically unfit, it ap- peared the American League's seemingly superior pitching might offset the National’s numerous home run hitters. Reynolds begged off because of a pulled groin muscle and Garcia was excused because of a ruptured blood vessel in a finger. In their places, Manager Casey Stengel chose Sandy Consuegra, crafty Chicago White Sox right-hander, and Irv Noren, currently hot Yan- kee outfielder. Noren probably will see action only as a pinch hitter. Both managers — Stengel and rookie Walter Alston — were mum concerning their pitchers but the expected crowd of 65,000 in Cleve- land’s Municipal Stadium probably was due to see a battle of right- handers — at least during the first three innings. Based on the starting lineups, which are predominantly right- handed, and by process of elimina- tion, the. field narrowed down to Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies and Bob Keegan of the Chicago White Sox as the opposing hurlers. Both will be well rested by Tuesday. Keegan has done no Pitching since Friday, nor has Roberts except for a brief mopup job Sunday. The only other well rested pit- chers are the Yankees’ Whitey Ford and the New York Giants’ Johnny Antonelli. Milwaukee’s Jim Wilson, who replaced the injured Harvey Haddix, does not figure to start. Ford and Antonelli are left- handers. Roberts, although sporting a subpar (for him) 11-8 record this season, is a veteran All-Star com- petitor. He was the starting pit- cher in three of the last four games all winning ones for the National League. Keegan (12-3), a sopho- more, is enjoying his first out- standing season in the majors. Ring Roundup NEW YORK ® — Rocky Marci- ano’s 1955 opponent may emerge from Wednesday’s heavyweight | match at Madison Square Garden $54/ between Hurricane Tommy Jack- son of New York and Nino Valdes 407 (Of Havana, Although Jackson was an early 2-1 favorite, the price is narrowing and Valdes might even enter the ring as the favorite. The 10-round bout will be tele- “33 | vised by CBS, Jackson weighed 192% at Fri- day’s checkup and Valdes 207 pounds. The Hurricane, 22, beaten twice in 20 pro fights, is making his ‘4g3 | Second start since he was deflated by Jimmy Slade. Valdes, 29, has an eight-fight winning streak and a 30-8-2 record. The Cuban is No. 2 among the heavyweight challen- gers and Jackson is No. 5. the winning path tonight against Jacques Royer, the French: . | who upset Tiger Jones at the Gar- den May 14. It will be the first outing for the 19-year-old Brooklyn 499 ; ight heavyweight since his first loss, a disputed decision to Joey Maxim June 7, The eight - round bout at St. Nicholas Arena in New York will be carried on Du Mont television. Willie Troy, a fast-rising ,middle- weight until he was stopped by League Results| F']]c 5 Capture Second Straight ad Floyd Patterson, former Olympic | 4« | champ, is expected to get back on American Little Loop Pennant Bill Solomon Hurls Victory Over Kiwanis Bill Solomon pitched the Elks to their second straight American Little League pennant, defeating the Kiwanis, 10-2, Park Saturday night. Solomon, who received errorless support from his teammates, yield- ed only five hits, struck out eight, and didn’t walk a man. It was Solomon’s seventh win of the sea-| - son against one loss. Roy Valdez, the Kiwanis ace, went all the way for his fourth loss against three wins. Valdez was touched for only six hits, but @ight errors by his teammates, had him in hot water all through the game. The Elks picked up a run in the first on two errors and a fielder’s choice. The Elks came right back in their half to tie it up when Milt Esquinaldo singled to center, took second on a passed ball, went to third on an infield out, and scored on Valdez’ fly. The Elks iced the game in the third by scoring four times on two walks, a hit batsman, an er- ror, and two hits. Johnny Park’s single. with the bases loaded, sparked the rally. After that it was easy going for Solomon as his teammates got him two more runs in the fourth, two in the fifth, and one in the sixth. The Elks got to Solomon for an- other run in the sixth when Es- quinaldo singled to center, went to second on an infield out, and tallied on Valdez’ single to right. In the nightcap, Eloy Lopez’ single with two outs and the bases loaded in the fourth gave: Evans a 6-5 victory over the Rotary. Up until the fourth, Huston Plowman had held Evans to one hit, although his teammates had allowed Evans to score four runs on errors. In the fourth, however, with two away, Joe Pinder singled to center. After Richard Curry walked, Rich- ard Garcia shot a single to cen- ter to load the bases and set the stage for Lopez’ single. Score by innings: Team— Rotary Evans Plowm: Estevez; Santana, Curry (2) and R. Garcia. Box score: Player— Dion, 2b Santana, ¢ Solomon, p Anderson, 3) Mesa, ss Parks, 1b ; McMasters, cf Hermenau, rf Adams, If ... Muhlberger, If .. CHooNOCOoHNOHY ccorerueecd cooo4ronwooD> Totals— Esquinaldo, ss-2b 3 Sibila, cf-rf Valdez, p Mira, 2b-ss Singleton, 1b . Pearee, rf-lf . McCormick, If .. Graves, cf . Alfonso, ¢ Skaggs, 3b . Hughes, 3b .. He wo 8 to Totals— Score by innings: R. H. E. Elks —....___. 104 221—10 6 0 Kiwanis 100 001— 2 5 8 RBI: Santana 2, Solomon, Parks |2, Valdez 2; 3bh: Mira, Singleton; SB: Santana 2, Solomon; SO by: Valdez 6, Solomon 8; BB off: Val- dez 4; winner: Solomon (7-1); los- ler: Valdez (3-4); umpires: Gates, |Bethel; scorer: Castaneda; time: 1.22. Joey Giardello March 19, gets back to the wars against Tony Anthony, former Golden Gloves champion from New York, in the 10-round bout at Brooklyn’s Eastern Park- way tonight on ABC-TV. Marine - Automotive - Transport Diesel Starting - Lighting BATTERIES Florida's leading manufacturer ...28 years of dependable service | SRE Scoceccooot at Bayview | -900. game winning Boxing Resulis WEEK END FIGHTS HOLLYWOOD —Willie Bean, 207, Los An- flies, cutpeinted Young Jack Johnson, 208, Angeles, 12. 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