The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1954, Page 6

Mantle Has “Arrived” Experts Say, Yanks Win Tribe, Yanks Build Lead In American Loop By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sports Writer One of the prime reasons for the recent rise of the New York Yankees ‘is the Mickey Charles Mantle into a big time big leaguer. The 22-year-old switch ‘itting eenter fielder apparently has ar- rived, although some fans who re- gard Yankee miracles as common- place feel he took a long time com- Amid reams of ballyhoo the i Yanks tried to jump Mantle from the Class C Western Association into Joe DiMaggio’s job in 1951. It didn’t quite come off. Mantle had to go down to Kanvas City for seasoning. He came pack in 1952 for what would have been a sensational season for any normal rookie. He hit 23 home runs and finished with a .311 average. But it wasn’t enough for the fans who were still dreaming of DiMag. Mickey fell off to .295 last_season and when he came up with an old knee injury during the winter the Yanks were really worried. blessoming of j Page 6 pein An operation. put him out of com- mission through much of spring training and he wasn’t ready when the season started. But he’s really rolling now. His average of .323 is decond high on the club. He leads the league in home runs with 20 and tops the Yankees in runs scored, triples, hits, runs batted in, total bases and bases on balls. He also has struck out the most, not too unusual for a distance hitter. In the field he ranks with the best. When the Yanks ran out of infield- ers in the first game of their double triumph over the Chicago White Sox. Mantle was the batting*star in the first game of yesterday’s double triumph by the Yanks over the Chicago White Sox. He drove in the tying run with a right- handed single in the eighth inning and the winning run with a left- handed home run into left field in the 10th. The score was 43. The Yanks coasted home in the second 11-1, Cleveland alsc won twice, 6-3 and 5-2 over Boston, and kept its half game first place lead. Brooklyn climbed a game eloser to the New York Giants with an 85 victory over Cincinnati while the Giants bowed to Chicago 13-5. New York still holds a six game edge. In other action Milwaukee edged Philadelphia 3-2 and St. Louis shaded Pittsburgh by the same score in 14 innings in the National League. Detroit defeated Philadelphia 9-4 and Washington beat Baltimore 3-2 in the American League. Two home runs by Vic Wertz helped’ Bobby Feller post his seventh straight triumph in the first game at Boston. Bob Lemon tamed the Red Sox in the second game. Willie Johnson Tops Navy Wives Bowling League High singles honors in the Navy Wives Bowling League were tak- en by Willie Johnson, of the NCCS bowlers with a 186 game Thurs- day, Second and third place were taken by Dot Williams of the Kot- ton King combination with 184 and a 179 games. The race is really a hot one with three teams tied for first place in the standings. Mrs. Williams also took high ser- jes honors with 514. High team score was rolled by the Florida Fish and Poultry team with 742. High team series was bowled by Kotton King with 2089. The standings: wtuL 16 8 16 8 16 8 9 15 8 16 717 Kotton King Islander Dirve-In NCCS Lou’s Radio Aronovitz Men’s Shop Florida Fish POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SHARPSHOOTER AWARDS—Chester L. Alexander, AD1 of VX-1, displays some of the many medals and trophies he has won in three years of competitive marksmanship tournaments. Team captain of the VX-1 pistol team, Alexander has been a regular strong threat in the monthly pistol matches held at the Key West Gun Club on Stock Island. An eleven-man pistol team will represent Key West in the 6th Naval District Regional Matches in Jacksonville July 29. Alexander figures io be a high scorer in the sharpshooter events of this tourney. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK After one has gone into the strange affair at some length, he does not wonder that. there was a certain amount of confusion just before darkness descended upon Busch Stadium in St. Louis last Sunday. He wonders, rather, that there occurred no more than a small- size riot between members of the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadel- phia Phils, that a game was for- feited to the Phils, and that Man- ager Eddie Stanky of the Cards wound up with no worse than a fine and suspension and making a public apology to the fans of his town. The possibilities were much greater than that. To recall the circumstances, the Phils were leading 8-1 and were still at bat in the top of the fifth. Once they were out and the Cards had taken their turn, it would have been a legal game and, probably, a Philadelphia victory. The sun was down. Stanky—and apparently everybody else in the park—was under the impression that the lights could not be switched on to complete a game that had started after 6 o’clock. So, as is common in such cases, Stanky stalled for time. He brought in fresh pitchers at the drop of a foul. Tempers flared and there were fisticuffs. Finally, with two Phils out, Umpire Babe Pinelli lost patience and forfeited the thing to the visitors. National League President War- ren Giles, in upholding the for- feiture and meting out punishment, observed that Stanky—and, pre- sumably, everyone else—did not realize there was a new league rule which permits the turning on of lights to complete Sunday games in all cities except Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The only stipulation is that no Sunday game may be start- ed under lights—in other words, no scheduled night games on that day. So, where does that leave us? It leaves us facing the fact that Stanky, not knowing of the rule passed at the last league meet- ing, committed acts which cost him a ball game that his club might possibly have won in the regula- tion nine innings under lights. It also leaves us wondering why the umpires, if they were aware of the new rule, did not remind Stanky of it when he began stall- ing for time. Part of an umpire’s duties is to head off trouble. Driven by curiosity, we have sought to read a copy of the new regulation locally, but so far with- out success. “I think we have a copy some- where,” said one magnate. ‘“Any- way, there’s no doubt that the rule was passed, because I was there.” He was told that, believe it or Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES Course Faces Test nPGA Tourney Today By HUGH FULLERTON JR. ST. PAUL, Minn. —The test whether the bleak little Keller Course is capable of giving the top golf professionals a real the beginning of match play in the 36th PGA championship. Keller had been ridiculed before the tournament as being too easy for such players, but as scores be- gan to mount in yesterday's sec- ond qualifying round, one acute observer remarked: “This course is so easy it’s get- ting tough.” That’s about what happened dur- ing the two days of qualifying and what’s more likely to happen in the man-to-man contests. The pro sharpshooters, seeing possible bir- dies on almost every hole, tried too hard to get them. The result was that Ed Oliver, the rotund “Mr. Pork Chops” from Lemont, Ill., breezed off with the medal and $250 with a score of higher than the PGA qualifying Tecord made on reputedly tougher courses. Jack Burke and Cary Middlecoff came in with 137’s and it took a Score of 147 to get intm... ssmnen came in with 137’s and it took a score of 147 to get into the 64- man match play bracket. That’s | otta some sharp scoring but hardly taking apart the tournament par of 36-35—71 for the level 6,652-yard course, Today’s program cailed for two rounds of 18-hole matches. That | jinnesrols kind has to be won or lost in a hurry and presents a real tempta- — to gamble on the “‘birdie” ‘Ss amc alpen ode : a » out) carl by : t outpointed Walls, BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Oscar Pharo, 185, 1am, outpointed Billy LeBlanc, 180, New Orleans, 10. BROOKLYN (Fort Hamilton—Rinzi No- 2 » 8. LIVERPOOL, England — Pat McAteer, England, knocked out Harry Mino, Bel- gium, 4 (middieweights but exact weights not available. could be no Sunday lights at Bos- ton, which still was in the league when the copy was printed. But a nothing at ‘all about the other cities. And so, we seem to arrive at the fact that, before this season, National League umpires did not Permit Sunday lighting under any circumstances, though there was no official rule against it. And that now, when they are specifically in- structed to finish Sunday games not, there was nothing in the pre- vious year’s regulations that said one way or the other whether the lights could be turned in St. Louis on Sunday. It said games at Phil- adelphia and Pittsburgh had to stop at 6:59 p.m. and that there under the lights when necessary, | 9° they don’t seem to know about it. We also come to the conclusion that Stanky should try protesting the game again, just to see what bappens. ear * Feiey, July 2, 4) Baseball Results THURSDAY'S RESULTS Columbus 7, Augusta 5 Jacksonville 9, Columbia 3 ‘Montgomery Macon 11 Savannah 6, Charlotte 5 FRIDAYS SCHEDULE Augusta at Mont Jacksonville at Charlotte sasnceney sseauses: THURSDAY'S RESULTS henna Auta pra +e jew Orleans 5-5, Memphis 1- Little Rock 1, Mobiie "0 rapirmingham at Chattanooga postponed, FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Atlanta at Nashville New Orleans at Memphis Mobile at Little Rock Birmingh: AMERICAN LEAGUB ‘Won L-st Pet, Behind Cleveland a = New York & eat S4eesasy 3 “0 cy 7 a2 2 ati RATS Site 1, Chicago Cet Cleveland 6-5, Boston Washington 3, Baltimore Detroit 9, Philadelphia 4 FRIDAY'’S SCHED! Cleveland at New York Chicago at Boston Baltimore at Philadelphia Detroit at Washington Philad Iphia ade! Baltimore NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pet. Bel New York a Brooklyn Sees iladelphia_ Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh re THURSDAY'S RESULTS & ti Ss Chicago 13, New York 5 Milwaukee 3, Philadi St. Louis 3, Pitapugh (4 innings FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE New York at Milwaukee Brooklyn at St. Louis Pittsburgh at Cincinnati Philadelphia =» 62 36 = 47 “4 a 6 % 2 cheduled _ ALABAMA-FLORBID. Dothan 11, Graceville 1 Andalusia-Opp 4, Fort Walton Beach 1 Panama City 11, Crestview 9 PACIFIC COAST San Diego 14, Seattle 1 Sacramento 6-5, Portland 31 Oakland 4, Los Angel Hollywood FRIDAY'’S BASEBALL SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis at Charleston St. Paul at Columbus Indianapolis at Louisville Kansas City at Toledo Only games All-Star game Andalusia-Opp, at Fort, Watton Beach at Fort" Crestview at’ Panama City Dothan at Graceville seesanuse AMERICAN Ps aad BREGESEES AGSREREET ebbket eoheiee? s¥eseenst seesenect aeseners$ sessee$ seessecny Major League Leaders x AMEEIAN, Laaeus \TTING ~Noren, Ne Ae — age, oe UNS BATTED IN-' » Chieago Mantle, New York, 74. oe HITS~Fox, Chicago, 122. HOME RUNS-Mantle, New York, 20. PITCHING—Reynolds, New York, 1¢-1, BATTING. sGnider, Brooklyn, 4, RUNS-~ Musial, St. Louis, 79. RUNS BATTED IN-Musial, St. Louis, 87. HITS ~Schoendienst, » 133. HOME RUNS-Mays, New York, 33. | ,BITCHING-Antoneli, New York, 143, Lastres Gains 3rd Pro Victory Key West's George Lastres has picked up his third profes- sional baseball pitching win, it has been learned. Lastres scattered six hits in hurling his Danville, Ill, club to a 9-4 win over the Dubuque: lowa club in the Missouri Ohio Valley league last week. Lastres struck out four batters in gaining the victory. His teammates backed him Up with four homers. The vic- tory brings his season record to three wins and a single de- feat. Lastres signed a New York Giant farm contract at the close “of a brilliant career with the Key West High School nine. Strand Lose First Babe Ruth Loop Tilt The Key West insurance Co. baseball team pinned the first loss of the season on the Strand Thea- tre nine last night in a Babe Ruth league encounter. The score was 4-1, In the second game of a double bill, Evans Enterprises took the measure of the St. Joseph’s nine by a 11-7 margin. Pitcher D. Yates was the big gun for the Insurance boys last night. In addition to hurling a fine ball- game, his big bat accounted for four runs. He had three singles for the evening. Jackie Carbonell started on the mound for the Strand and was re- lieved by Bethel who finished the game. Moorhead hit a homer for the winners and D. Allen hit two sin- gles and a triple for the losers. Maris hit a double and a single. Yates pitched the full game for the Insurance boys and weakened in the seventh when five hits gave the Strand six runs — but not enough to win the ball game. In the second game, Solomon and Pazo hit two safely for the losers and Alexander hit a triple. Jim- my Tynes had a perfect night at the plate for the losers. League action will resume to- morrow at 10 a.m. when St. Joseph’s will seek their first vic- tory against the Strand. At 12 o’clock, noon, Evans will meet the Key West Insurance Co. nine. The standings; WL Avg. Strand z Evans z K. W. Ins. Co. St. Joseph’s ” “Sunny Ji Fitzsimmons Has Birthday By ED CORRIGAN NEW YORK (#—On Aug. 7, 1900, a novice trainer saddled his first winner — Agnes D. — at the old Brighton Beach Race Track in Brooklyn. Today, more than half a century and almost 2,000 winners later, Sunny Jim Fitzimmons celebrated his 80th birthday by rising before the sun peeked over the horizon and making tracks for Jamaica to supervise the training of some 60 horses under his care. Mr. Fitz, as he is known around the race tracks won’t have a birth- day celebration until tomorrow when a “little” family get-together will mark the occasion. Besides the guest of honor there will be his five sons, one. daughter, 17 grandchil- dren and 16 great-grandchildren. His wife died three years ago. A little fellow whose shoulders have become stopped through the years, Mr. Fitz hasn’t slowed up a bit and still works 12 hours a day. He was the leading trainer at the recent Belmont and Aqueduct meetings. He has had two triple crown win- ners — Gallant Fox and Omaha — and sent three Kentucky Derby vic- tors to the post. All told he’s won about 275 stake races, a record they’ll be shooting et long after he’s gone. “I guess I’ve been lucky,” he observed. I’ve had good horses and good bosses. They have let me do what I wanted to do. For example, I don’t believe in pointing a horse for the Kentucky Derby. I never decide on a Derby horse until we run the Wood Memorial. “I train them all alike. When is ready I run him. I believe you have to let a horse develop naturally. You’re liable to hurt i if you rush him and force His all-time favorite? “Well, I suppose it was Gallant Fox,” he answered reluctantly, in- dicating they all were his pets. “‘He bad courage and class. He always ran his true race, never needed an excuse. Horses are a lot like humans, you know. You have to| be tolerant 'zo’s double to center. Blizzards End Losing Streak With Victory Over Coca Cola Sonar School Slaughters VX-1, 21-4 The Dairy Queen Blizzards snap-| ped a two game losing streak with | a 7-1 win over Coca Cola in the} first game of a softball double-| header at Bayview Park last night. he Blizzards blasted three hom- ers to aid Roberts to his eighth win of the season. Roberts limited Coca Cola to five hits, struck out seven, and walked three. The Blizzards picked up a run} in the first inning when Al Pazo hit an inside the park homer to open the game. It was Pazo’s first homer of the season. They added another in the third when Pazo was safe on a fielders choice, stole second, took third on George | Barber’s infield hit, and scored on} a wild pitch. In the fifth, the Bliz-| zards picked up their third run when Roberts singled, was sacri-| ficed to second and scored on Pa- In the sixth, the Blizzards clinch- ed the win with four runs. John| Lewis walked and Claude Valdez} followed with his fourth homer of the season over the center field | fence. After Jack Villareal flied | out. Roberts walked and Bobby | Santana drilled one over the left! field wall for his second homer of | the season. The lone Coca Cola run resulted in the fourth when Bobby Brown | walked, took second on an infield | out, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on another infield out. Pazo led the Blizzards eight hit attack with a homer, double, and single in four tries. Barber chip- ped in with two singles in four tries to aid the attack. John Solomon collected two of Coca Cola’s five hits. In the nighteap, Sonar School slaughtered the VX-1 Flyers, 21-4, in a one-sided affair. : Sonar sent 12 men to the plate in the first inning to score seven | runs. In the second, they rallied for eight more runs to sew up the game and hand the Flyers their worst defeat of the season. Mickey Wertz led Sonar’s eleven hit attack with a triple, double, and single in five tries. Jim Nelson hit an ineide-the-park homer in the third. Quinn Jones hit a bases loaded homer in the fifth to aid the Sonar attack. Biff Salgado had a triple and single in three times to lead the VX-1 Flyers offense. The box scores: First Game COCA COLA (1) Player— AB Rodriguez, ss Solomon, 3b B. Villareal, ¢ Joe Lewis, p Goehring, cf Brown, 1b Gates, 2b Cruz, If Wilson, If Beavers, rf ecoooroocooon eoooorHHOoNneE A SURE aS Soe SOSH OCOOHMwUKwD ecocooooooortl Totals— DAIRY QUE Player— AB Pazo, ss .. Barber, rf Smith, 2b .. John Lewis, lf Kerr, 3b .. Valdez, cf J. Villareal, 1b Roberts, p Santana, ¢ 4 4 2 3 2 3 3 2 2 o » Totals— Score by innings: Team— Coca Cola ..... Dairy Queen R 000 100 0O—1 101 014 x—7 on me SUMMARY — RBI: Wilson, Pazo (2), Valdez (2), Santana (2); 2BH: Pazo; HR: Pazo, Valdez, Santana; Sac.: Santana; SB: Pazo; DP: Solomon to Gates to Brown, Pazo to J. Villareal; SO, by: Roberts 1; BB, off: Roberts 3, Lewis 4; Winner: Roberts; Loser: Lewis; Umpires: Jenkins, Henriquez; Scorer: Castaneda; Time: 1:31. Second Game SONAR SCHOOL (2 Player— ABR Nelson, ss Jones, 3b Gaffney, cf Wertz, If Schultz, 1b Moser, 2b Castro, ¢ Franklin, p Bryant, p pores ino (05 (09 earto REE EwOoRM HT ACh eee Cwonocooocorop Totals— Player— Fink, ¢ Vargo, 3b Salgado, 1b Packer, rf-P Warren, p - lf Edwards, cf ........ Greenwood, 2b-ss | Stengel hops it will be brief enough SrrHoceonn~ Croconery wrccomnad BHooONOwHD NYrOOKONEM Boutot, ss-Lb ... 4 Official U.S. Navy Photo JIM TRIER Balao Cops’ Title In Dull Ballgame For the second consecutive year, the team from the submarine Ba- lao won the Naval Base “B’’ Soft- ball League. The only interesting feature of the game against the Trutta, outside of the top-heavy score 18-0, was the superb pitch- ing of Jim Trier. Trier allowed but two hits while his teammates were hitting the ball to all fields, Two home-runs were hit by the Balaomen. Bill Leonard got his in the first inning with the bases loaded. Frank Celestina garnered his in the third with the sacks empty. This was Celestina’s last game. He is being discharged from the Naval service this week. The Balao is a unit of Submarine Squadron 12 and the Trutta is part of Submarine Squadron 4, Stengel Sees 3-Way Race In American NEW YORK Casey Stengel sends his New York Yankees after! the American League lead tonight in the first of three games with Cleveland, but he’s still convinced it’s a three-team race for the pen- ; nant. i The Indians own a half game; edge over the Yankees and have'| played the world champions on an/ almost even basis so far this sea- | son, winning 5 of the J games. | The Yanks never have been in the | lead. | The Yanks deflated the pennant | hopes of the Chicago White Sox | at least temporarily yesterday by | winning a doubleheader 4-3 in 10) innings and 11-1. This dumped the | third place Sox 6% games behind | Cleveland. | But in discussing the way the | Yanks and Indians have traded | decisions Stengel outlined the road back for Chicago. “Tf it keeps up like this,” he said, “those fellers can come back by beating the other fellers (mean- ing the second division teams.) The veteran Yankee manager didn’t have much to say about his immediate problems with the In- dians except to pick Eddie Lopat as his starter for tonight. Big Chief Allie Reynolds will be in the bull pen, just as he was yesterday. He wasn’t needed against Chicago and if he escapes work again tonight he’ll be the starter tomorrow. If he works to bring him back as a starter Sunday. Whitey Ford will open whichever game Reynolds doesn’t. Al Lopez, the Cleveland man- ager, told Boston writers ‘even though we had to use (Bobby) Felser and (Bob) Lemon I think our pitching is set for the Yankee series starting with Early Wynn.” He’s picked rookie Don Mossi for the second game. Mike Garcia will get the call, Sunday. — Gentilini, If-rf Pigg, ¢ .. Totals— Score by innings: Team— Sonar School SUMMARY — RBI: Nelson (2),| Jones (4), Wertz (2), Schultz (2), Moser, Castra (2), Bryant, Salgado, Boutot; 2BH: Wertz, Fink; 3BH: Wertz, Salgado; HR: Nelson, Jones; SB: Wertz, Franklin; SO, By: Parker 3, Franklin 5; BB, off: Warren 4, Parker 4, Franklin 1;| Hits, off: Warren 1 in 1/3 inning, | Parker 10 in 4 2/3 innings; Winner: Franklin; Loser: Warren; Um-} pires: Jenkins, Henriguez; Scorer: | Castaneda; Time: 1:33. 3 VX-1 Swimmers Take Honors In Norfolk Meeting In the Atlantic Fleet Swimming Meet held at Norfolk. Va. begin- ning July 14, three VX-1 swims mers took honors in the events. Marvin E. Burke, PHAN, Riche ard L, Young, , Greenwood, AO3, q ComAirLant team and t ComAirLant in the Atlantic Fleet Matches. Burke swam the style and placed was third in the 200 meter free- style races. The ComAirLant team tied with the Fleet Marines for se in the Atlantic Fleet Captain of the Marine former Yale swimming star Lt. Dick Thoman who swam a near world record 57 second flat 190 meter and a 400 meter free-style relay. Star Batter Is AWOL Soldier MIAMI, Fla. (®—As the Miami Police Department softball team warmed up for a game last night, the cops arrested the star batter of the opposition team. Detective W. W. Watson picked up Louis Leon Shields, 20, on re- quest of military police who said he had been AWOL from Fort Jackson S. C., since April 23. Shields was the leading hitter of the Edison Center League The game with the police was halted by rain in the first inning. Fish in the Columbia River are tested periodically for possible radioactivity which might be de- rived fom the Hanford Atomie operation. 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