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

Yanks, Tribe Duel For Lead In American Loop Indians Tie ) Red Sox, Yanks Down White Sox By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer What does a feller have to do to Set into first place in this league? Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees is running the hottest ball club in the American League. Only * 3% ‘games off the pace on July 1, the Yankees have won 17 out of 19 games since then. And they still aren’t up on top. Last night they came within one putout of reaching their objective. They fought off third-place Chicago handily, winning 4-1. The huge scoreboard in Yankee Stadium showed Boston leading. Cleveland 5-3 after eight innings. But in the ninth at Boston Al Smith coaxed Willard Nixon for a walk with two out and Bobby Avila drilled his seconé home run of the contest to tie the score. That’s the way it stayed through seven more innings. It wound up a 5-5 tie after 16 innings with the league curfew calling a halt. You can’t start an inning after 12:30 a.m., local time, and it was 12:57 a.m. by the time the last out was made in the 16th. It will have to be replayed from the start sometime later. So, by four percentage points, the Indians stayed in first place. The issue may be settled tem- porarily this weekend when Cleve- land invades New York for three games starting Friday night. While the American League race was tightening, the National League became more lopsided with the New York Giants stretching their advantage over Brooklyn to seven games, their longest lead of the year. The Giants won a 13-inning struggle in Cincinnati 2-1 and Brooklyn lost in 10 innings in Chi- cago 3-2. St. Louis defeated Phila- delphia 4-2 in the only other Na- tional League action. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh were not scheduled. Other results in the American League included a 9-1 triumph by Washington over Baltimore and two more losses by the Philadel- phia Athletics, their 9th and 10th in a Tow, this time to Detroit 12-0 and 4-3. The Giants and Dodgers’ games were decided on errors. In Cincinnati, ihe New Yorkers . pushed across the winning run in the 13th on a single by Bobby Hof- man followed by two misplays and &@ sacrifice fly by Whitey Lockman. Gene Baker scored the winning Tun for Chicago against Brooklyn by scampering home from second base when pitcher Jim Hughes dropped an easy toss at first base _ should have been the third Johnny Antonelli stayed all the ‘way for the Giants in winning his 4th game against two losses. The only run against him was a homer by Ted Kluszewski, Harvey Haddix of the Cards Joined him as a 14-game winner after beating the Phils but Haddix needed ninth-inning help from Gerry Staley. Four hits climaxed by a triple by Ray Jablonski pro- duced all of the St. Louis runs in the first inning. - The Yankees pinned the fifth loss on Bob Keegan although they were outhit 8-7, Fine fielding which in- eluded three double plays helped Whitey Ford to his ninth success. Detroit scored aine runs in the first inning of the first game af Philadelphia in a splurge which in- cluded a double and a grand slam home run by Hafvey Kuenn. In ‘the nightcap the Tigers rallied for three runs in the eighth, two of then on a home run by Bill Tuttle. Roy Sievers and Eddie Yost were the hitting standouts in Washington’s triumph over Balti- more. Yost tripled with the bases Joaded and Sievers hit his 15th home run. Connecticut with a population of two million and an area of 3,202,500 acres has two million acres of forest land. 10,000 MILE Guaranty on USED CARS NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval St. Tel. 2-7041 Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, July 21, 1954 BACK SAFELY—Paul Higgs, Evans Enterprises performer, slides safely back to first base under the throw taken by Leonard Curry during last night’s Babe Ruth League clash between Evans and the Strand Theater nine at the Wickers Field Sta- dium. Strand copped the verdict, 16-4.—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. KO Victory Tues. DETROIT # — Allie Gronik, 1492, Detroit, broke down and cried after knocking out Pat Lowry, 143%, Toledo, at 1:48 of the first round of their sched- uled 10-round bout at the Motor City Speedway last night. Gronik said he felt bad about knocking out Lowry particular- ly since Lowry had scored two recent wins in welterweight bouts. Gronik, the Michigan welter- weight champ, dropped Lowry twice for counts of nine with a right to the jaw. The third time he knocked Lowry half out of the ring and Referee Bob Watson did not even bother to count. Strand Nine Wins Fourth Straight Tilt The Strand Theatre nine picked up their fourth straight Babe Ruth League victory last night when they trounced Evans Enterprises, Ford Gets Boost From Stengel With Reverse Psychology Tues. By JOE REICHLER is as crazy as a fox... and twice as sly. Talking to newspapermen before last night’s game with Chicago, the New York Yankee manager spied Whitey Ford, his ace southpaw. “You want to know who is the best left-hander in the league?” he asked. “That feller (Billy) Pierce with the White Sox. He’s better than my feller. Sure I picked my feller to pitch the All-Star Game. But that was only because the} other feller had just recovered from a sore arm, But the other feller is better.” Ford undoubtedly heard every word. A few moments later he arose and began throwing warmup pitches. About 2% hours later, he walked off the field with a neat eight-hitter, after pitching the Yan- kees to a 4-1 victory over Chicago that kept the. Yankees hot on the heels of the Cleveland Indians. Reached in the clubhouse later, Ford declined an invitation to take issue with Stengel but admitted he was determined to show his manager that he was a pretty good pitcher too. The 24-year-old ex-serviceman turned in one of his best efforts of the year last night. He struck out five and walked only two as he posted his ninth victery against only one loss against the White Sox since he entered the league in} 1950. It was his fourth straight strong Performance after a poor spring. His record, which once was 2-4, is now 9-6. “IT was all mixed up early this year,” he explained. “My control was off, my curve ball wasn’t do- ing a thing and I seemed to be going from bad to worse. I finally lost all confidence in myself and if it wasn’t for Jim Turner (Yan- kee coach) I might be sitting in the bullpen now or pitching for Kansas City. He straightened me out.” Ford went on to explain that Turner discovered he was doing several things wrong. First, he SAN DIEGO, Calif. 9 — Tennis | ooking downer tee te wat champion Maureen Connolly, seri-| each itch, n on the ground. after ously injured when thrown against | ,.. pitch instead sot keeping his a moving cement truck while rid- ae fal the batter. Third, he was | ing her horse, rested in a hospital sail following through his his curve here today. = “Little Mo’s” injuries—a broken and severely cut right leg—will prevent her from defending her U.S. singles title at Forest Hills, N.Y., Aug. 28. Dr. Bruce Kimball, who operated on her leg shortly after the acci- dent yesterday, said the fibula or | ———————_______ small bone below the knee was|riding her thoroughbred Colonel fractured and that some muscles|Merry Boy yesterday, were torn but not severed. She|panied by two girl companions, was in surgery more than three|when the accident occurred near hours. . Mission Valley polo grounds. ; Dr. Kimball ssid she would be oe-(MO' ade : s | Mo” said: Pitalized at least a week. He said,| “We were riding along Friar’s however, that the injury would not| Road. We stopped our horses as permanently cripple her. He or-|the truck approached. dered her not to touch a tenms| “Colonel Merry Boy shied and racquet for a month, and perhaps | whirled into the truck. My leg was Stanky Promises To Reform After His Suspension ST. LOUIS (®—Eddie Stanky, un- der suspension and a fine for his action in a forfeited game Sun- day, has bounced back with a pub- lic apology and a promise to re- form. Warren Giles, National League president, handed a five-day sus- pension and $60 fine to the St. Louis Cardinal manager yesterday after a hearing here. A free-for-all and stalling in Sun- day’s game led Umpire Babe Pin- elli to give the Philadelphia Phils a 9-0 forfeit victory in the second half of the twin bill. Stanky told newsmen later he realized he has embarrassed and hurt St. Louis fans, baseball na- tionally, the Cardinals and his own reputation. A lot of people say, “Eddie Stanky won’t do it,” the Redbird pilot said of his promise. ‘‘How- ever, I consider this challenge the biggest of my baseball career. I will win.” Giles also punished St. Louis catcher Sal Yvars and Philadel- phia first baseman Earl Torgeson. Their boxing in the top of the fifth inning of the game led to the near- riot. Yvars drew a three-day sus- pension and Torgeson two days. All the suspensions started last night. Philadelphia Manager Terry | Moore, in the middle of the home plate battle, drew no penalty after telling Giles he was trying to re- store peace when Stanky tackled him about the neck. Giles also upheld the forfeit rul- ing, based on stalling by -Stanky and Cardinal players. “Little Mo” Hurt In Riding Mishap ee _Although California farmers cul- tivate only slightly more than 2 per cent of U. S. cropland they grow a third of all U. S. fruits and nearly a quarter of all U.S. vegetables. - NEW YORK — Casey Stengel™ accom- ; The loss left Evans two games off the pace of the league leading Strand in the pennant race. In the nightcap, the Key West Insurance Co. fought their way in- to a tie for second place with a 10-7 victory over St. Joseph’s base- ballers. The Strand took advantage of a 16 hit barrage in winning last night. Mira, the Evans hurler was sent to the showers in the fourth inning with Watson serving as his relief. Snow hurled the entire game for the winners. At bat, S. Kerr had a homer, double and triple for the winners. L. Curry had a two triples and Be- thel a single, double and triple. Higgs’ triple and Valdez’ two singles placed the losers. In the nightcap, the Insurance boys put together eight safeties to gain the win. Hoppy had two sin- gles and a double. D. Yates had a single and a homer while Simms hit a triple. For St. Joseph’s, Tay- lor had a homer and Garcia two singles. The standings: Strand Evans K. W. Ins. Co. é St Josephs a ‘Little Fry’ Night Avg. 1 Set In Bayview Pk. |= Tonight is Little Fry night in ‘Tulsa Bayview Park. At 6:45 p. m., 20) Bene or more uniformed ball players will take to the field for their first Official game of baseball. These | Toronto boys range in ages from 7 to 8 years and it will be an event that will always thrill them. It could be the youngest ball club ever to participate in organized competition, especially under the lights. These two teams are part of the Midgets called for several months ago by the City Recrea- tion Department and have been developed by Mrs. Gladys Kirk, who has daily given of her time and effort with these boys and cer- tainly deserves a big hand for a swell job. A second game of base- ball will be played at 8:15 p. m. between the V. F. W. and Lions of the Little League. PGA Tourney May Draw Top Gallrey By HUGH FULLERTON JR. ST.PAUL, Minn If the weather, golfing “form” and Sam Snead’s stiff neck all react prop-| erly, a new golf attendance record may come out of the 36th PGA Championship, starting today on the tiny, parklike Keller course. On the basis of advance ticket sales and enthusiasm shown by St. Paul fans for previous pro tourna- ments at Keller, PGA officials run of the show. But all the doubtful elements will have to work out in just the right way. The PGA record of 53,000 was set in the upset-ridden 1947 cham- pionship at Detroit’s Plum Hollow Club. This could turn out to be another just like that—with the favorites going out in droves dur- longer. caught between my horse and the The 19-year-old tennis queen was truck.” ing the first two rounds of match Play 16-4 in the Wickers Fielg Stadium. | “Gf Augusta at Columbus Seen M a ery Savannah at Chariotte Boxer Weeps After Little Rock 9, Mobile 3 Memphis 5, New Orleans 4 Nashville 413, Atlanta 1-14 TUESDAY'S RESULTS New York 2, Cincinnati 1 (13 innings) Brooklyn 2 (10 innings) Philadelphia 2 Only games scheduled WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE Brooklyn at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at St. Louis New York at Chicago AMERICAN LEAGUE wT Cleveland New York Boston curfew) New York 4, Chicago 1 WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE ‘York TUESDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS TEXAS Dallas 5, Houston 3 San Antonio 4, Fort Worth 3 Oklahoma City 8, Beaumont $ veport 5, Tulsa 0 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Paul at Charleston (2) postponed, Minneapolis at Columbus (3) postponed, Louisville 11, Kansas City 4 . Toledo 7, Indianaj 1 . INTERNATIONAL 2, Montreal 1 it Ottawa postponed, rain Toronto}, ‘ Rochester. 8-6, Syra os ALABAMA-FLOBIDA Andalusia-Opp 15-10, Panama City 0-7 Graceville 10, Fort Walton Beach 2 Dothan 14, Crestview 2 PACIFIC COAST Lpoyhens 5-1, San Francisco 20 s Angeles 3, Oanipad 0 San Diego at Seattle postponed, rain Sacramento at Portland postponed, rain WEDNESDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE a pANEnICAN ‘ASSOCIATION . Pai ree Sete Kansas City at Louisville Indianapolis at Toledo TEXAS Dallas at Havana Oklahoma Tulsa at Shreveport INTERNATIONAL Richmond at Montreal (2) Havana at Ottawa Buffalo at Toronto (2) Rochester at Syracuse ALABAMA-FLORIDA Andalusia-Opp at Panama City ch at Graceville BASEBALL STANDINGS ALABAMA-FLORID. . | Beavers, If $70 | Rodriguez, Syracuse Buffalo Richmond Ottawa AMERICAN agesesuzy sassenrey secses 3 e aga Zz Indianapolis Louisville kansas City Columbus Toledo ~ = ceepeee?: Sacramento Portland Los Angeles sonasss.§ sussex? NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING-Snider, Brooklyn, 299, RUNS-Musial, St, Louis, 77. RUNS BATTED IN- Musial, St. Louis, 87. HITS —Schoendienst, St. Louis, 130. HOME RUNS-Mays, New York, 33. PITCHING—Antonelli, New York, 142, 875. AMEICAN LEAGUE BATTING-Noren, New York, .358, RUNS—Minoso, Chicago, 75. RUNS BATTED IN-' » Chicago and Rosen, Cleveland, E RUNS ie, New York, 19 HOME RUNS— ; . 19. OMHING Reynolds, New York, 10-1, Boxing Results MIAMI. BEACH, Fla.—Bob Satterfield, Bebb. Calenl i ae out John Holman, 201, ., 10. DETROIT—Allie Gronik. 149%, Detroit, knocked out Pat Lowry, 147%, Toledo, 1. ‘NEW ORLEANS-Ralph Dupas, 137%, New Orleans, outpointed Armand” Savoie, 137%, Montreal, 10. WEST HAVEN, Conn.—Jerry Luedee, 158, ped Don Lambert,” 157, Billy Tisdale-Freddie postponed to Friday (rain). | Wilson, 3b . | Sonar School VX-1 Hands Dairy Queen 2nd Straight Loss Tuesday Two unearned runs in the seven- th inning enabled Sonar School to edge out Coca Cola, 5-3, in the first game of a softball doubleheader at Bayview Park last night. ‘A walk, a fielder’s choice, and two errors netted Sonar two runs in the seventh breaking up 4 nice pitching duel between Coca Cola’s Joe Lewis and Sonar’s Frank Ramsey. Coca, Cola took a 1-0 lead in the second when Bobby Brown walked, and on a hit and be at ares on Red Wilson’s single to ¢ Sonar tied it up in the third when Jim Nelson tripled and scor- ed on John Moser’s fly to center. Coca Cola forged ahead in the third with two runs Meer Bunsy Villareal walked, Al Goehring sin- gled, and Lewis dotbled them both home. Sonar tied it up once again dn the third when Sonar came up with two runs on doubles by Ramsey and Nelson and Moser’s infield hit. Nelson led Sonar’s attack with a double and triple in three offi- cial trips to the plate. , Ramsey notched his third win of the season without a loss. The right hander struck out 7 and walked three and limited Coca Cola to four hits. The VX-1 Flyers handed the Dairy Queen Blizzards their sec- ond straight loss, 5-4. Four errors in the second inn- ing enabled the Flyers to score four times to clinch the win, The Flyers drew first blood in the first when Vic Boutot walked and scor- ed on Parker’s triple. Kenneth Kerr’s homer in the second inning gave the Blizzards their first run in the second inn- ing. The Blizzards retaliated in the fourth and scored three times with- out the aid of a hit on a walk, a hit batsman, and three errors. The loss cut the Blizzards lelad to 5% games. The box scores: First Game SONAR SCHOOL (5 Player— ABR Nelson, ss Moser, 2b .. Gaffney, 3b Wertz, If Schultz, 1b Franklin, rf Ramsey, p Castro, ¢ .. Koller, ef .. Newburg, cf Bryant, cf w= COSSHOOHHON SCOSCSOKOCKHOONNE CORAM HAH OwNS COSHH ONOwWOOD ecocooroooroom Totals— COCA Player— Solomon, 2b .. BARSEART ES OM Villareal, ¢ Goehring, cf Lewis, p Brown, 1b Carey, rf . Totals— Score by innings: Team— 001 200 2—5 Coca Cola... 012 000 0-8 SUMMARY—RBI: Nelson, Moser 421 | (2), Lewis, Wilson; 2BH: Nelson, Moser, Ramsey, Lewis; 3BH: Nel- son; Sac.: Moser, Carey; SB: Cas- .| tro, Rodriguez, Goehring; SO, by: Lewis 7; BB, off: Lewis 5; Win- 485 | ner: Ramsey; Loser: Lewis; Um- pires: Jenkins - Pineda; Scorer: Casteneda; Time: 1:33. Second Game DAIRY QUEEN Player— ABR Pazo, ss = Barber, 2b Aritas, rf .. Santana, c Lewis, 1b-lf ...... Grooms, p Valdez, cf Kerr, 3b .... Fleitas, ¢-1b . Sawyer, lf- rf 4) ( H 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 o 0 HE Nemecwen CorNnrooccooe exrcHounoned oco4reoccoorNnS ecroconocoo+t ~ Vargo, 3b Boutot, ss .. Parker, p . 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Balance on Hand beginning of year: Support and Maintenance County Bus and Building Fund District Funds —__. _ Foundation Cap. Out. & D. 8. Total Anticipated Receipts: State and Federal Funds County Taxes — : District Taxes Racing Comm. Other Total Funds Available $1,688,919.00 Proposed Expenditures: Administrative Expense ............ Ins' z ») ion of Plant _. = ‘al School Maintenance ary Agencies . Fixed Charges Capital Outlay Transfers to Sin Other Schools (nig Accounts Payable — Reserves and Balances Total ll BUDGET FOR FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION FU Cash on hand ..... $1,082.00 Proposed Expenditures: Transfer to Support and Maintenance — III, BUDGET FOR INTEREST & SINKING FUND: Cash on hand _ — Transfers from other funds .... $1,082.00 3 46.00. 60,500.00 Total ae 11. BUDGET FOR INTEREST & SINK Proposed Expenditures: Payments of Bonds, (1950 Issue) interest etc. $35,500.00 25,000.00 46.00 Sinking Fund requirement — Cash to be carried over —._. $60,546.00 The millage to be levied on the 1954 assessement roll to produce necessary revenue for these budgets for the ensuing fiscal year are: Total County Current School Fund District Current School Fund District Interest and Sinking Fund - + School Building and Bus Reserve Total Millage —. 145 Complete details of each separate vart of the school budget sum- marized above are on file and are ayailable for the public Inspection at the office of the county superintendant of schools at the School Admin- istration Building and will be available for such public hearing together with all supporting statements and information. All interested persons are cordially invited to participate in this public hearing and to discuss the school program and budget for this county for the ensuing year. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. july 21, 1954 top average bowler with 175.6 was R. N. Gilmore (VFW) with Stan Grenuck (KorC) coming up fast on him with a 171.8. The remaining top five were Gene Halpin (KafC) and George Barber (VFW) tieing for 3rd place with 160.2 and Cal Civic Bowling League was good Greenwood (Am. Legion) bringing with the V. F. W. taking two points |up Sth with a 158. from the American Legion to main- | This was the beginning of the second round o: the summer meet. tain their tie for first with the! oe Knights of Columbus who dumped| The Lion’s Club has been drop- ped from the league for failure to the JayCees out of a tie for first. The Knights scored a neat victory | show up for two consecutive weeks in accordance with the ‘eague con- with total pin fall of 2388 along with high game for the week with | stitution and by-laws. Another team will be invited to take over an 815. The V. F. W. rolled second high series with 2230 and the Am-!in their place. High three game series for the week went to Gene Halpin (KofC) with 540, Stan Grenuck (KofC) with 532 and George Barber (VFW) get- ting 521. High individual single single games went to Gene Halpin (KofC) with 204, George Barber (VFW) with 194 and Stan Grenuck (KofC) with 189. Subscribe To The Citizen YOU SAVE MONEY WHEN YOU BUY A DEPENDABLE HESTER BATTERY With Its Self-Charging Feature WE BROUGHT BATTERY PRICES DOWN You Help By Buying A HESTER BATTERY LOU SMITH 1116 White Street FOOTBALL Season Tickets Now On Sale Limited Number Will Be Sold Seats Are In Special Section Buy Now From: Quarterback Club Members Paul J. Sher Jewelry Store — Key West High School Evans: Enterprises Eight Home Games Civic Bowling League Notes Pin action this past week in the a 2090. Also V. F. W. and Am- erican Legion scored second and third high game with 776 and 735 respectively. Still maintaining his lead as the Edwards, cf Pigg, If ... Sewalk, 2b Totals— Score by innings: Team— Dairy Queen .. SUMMARY—RBI: Kerr, Parker, Sewalk; 3BH: Parker; HR: Kerr; SB: Pazo, Fink; DP: Parker to Salgado; SO, by: Parker 2; BB, off: Parker 3; Winner: Parker; Loser: Grooms; Umpires: Jenkins, | Pineda; Scorer: Casteneda; Time: 1:28. Joe’s Blacksmith Shop Outside Welding - Machine Works “IF IT’S METAL—WE FIX IT” Gasoline and Oil Tanks Repaired PHONE 2-5658 614 Front Street Price, $7.00