The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 26, 1954, Page 6

Indians Have New Hope After Win Over Yankees Chisox Gain With Double Victory Sun. By JOE REICHLER AP Sports Writer The Cleveland Indians failed to sweep the Yankee series in’ New York yesterday but they have gained a new-found respect all over the American League. Back home today after a suc- cessful road trip, the league-lead- ing Indiaas found the home town fans talking pennant for the first time this season. Before, when they returned home in first place, the cynical Cleveland populace would greet them like this: “why get steamed up? They nev- er win the big ones. They wilt be- fore the Yankees. Especially in New York. They'll blow it again down the stretch.” The Indians arrived in New York Friday with a thin half-game edge over the Yankees and left Sunday night a game and a half ahead. That was not exactly wilting. The Yankees nipped the Indians 43 in 11 innings yesterday but the Tribe’s satisfaction over victories Friday and Saturday was not dimmed. Casey Stengel, Yankees’ manag- er, muttered: “This has got to go down to the last weeks. Cleveland is not going to blow up. pine too many good players for that.” The Indians are obviously a much better club than the one that finished second to the Yankees in 1951, 1952 and 1953. As Stengel pointed out: “For the first time in years they’ve got a strong bench and good second-line pitching to back up the big three.” In the National League, the New York Giants’ lead was whittled down to four games yesterday as the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers defeated St. Louis 2-1 while the Milwaukee Braves were walloping the Giants 7-5 for a sweep of the three-game series. The Dodgers meet New York at Ebbets Field tonight. Chicago’s surprising Cubs downed Philadelphia twice, 6-1 and 2-1. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati di- vided a doubleheader, the Pirates winning the opener 4-2 and the Redlegs taking the nightcap 3-2. Chicago’s third-place White Sox climbed to within six games of the pace-setting Indians in the American, sweeping a twin-bill from Boston 5-2 and 42. Jack Harshman, rookie Chicago left- hander, struck out 16 Red Sox bat- ters — two short of Bob Feller’s major league record — in the opener. Washington protected its fourth- place hold by beating the Detroit Tigers 11-8. Frank (Spec) Shea won his first game of the season. Philadelphia’s Athletics buried the Baltimore Orioles deeper in the eellar with 9-4 and 6-4 victories. Cleveland enjoyed a 3-1 lead over the Yankees until the seventh. Mike Garcia, seeking his 13th vic- tory, was chased in that inning when the Yankees tied the score on pinch hitter Eddie Robinson’s double with the bases loaded. Rookies Bob Grim of New York and Ray Narleski of Cleveland bat- tled on even terms from the eight until the 11th, when the Yankees filled the bases on walks to Mickey Mantle and Gene Wodling and an infield single by Irv Noren. Andy Carey hit past a drawn-in infield to break up the game. Clem Labine, making his second start of the season for Broklyn, outpitched Harvey Haddix, Cardi- mal ace. Labine permitted four singles and no runs through the first eight innings but hits by Ray Jablonski and Red Schoendienst and walks to Stan Musial and Joe Cunningham after two were out scored a St. Louis run and filled the bases. Jim Hughes replaced Labine and struck out Rip Repulski on three pitches to save his 17th game for the Dodgers. Pitcher Howie Judson won his own game with a tie-breaking sin- gle in the seventh to give the Red- legs a split after Frank Thomas had paced Pittsburgh to a first- game victory with a homer and three singles. The White Sox followed up Harshman’s sensational strike-out performance by defeating an old nemesis — Ellis Kinder — in the second game with a _ two-run seventh inning rally that broke a 2-2 tie. A seven-run eighth inning in the first game and a four-run seventh in the second enabled the Ahtletics to come from behind twice against the Orioles. South African Bobby Locke’s biggest golf victory in this country came in 1947, his first year in NEW YORK w—Major league club owners held their annual mid- summer meetings today and the executives had to worry no only about new player demands but oy @ problem from within as well, Hank Greenberg, generat man- —— a SUNDAYS RESULTS Chattanooga 53, Atlanta 2-4 Memphis §-6, Mobile 3-7 Nashville Lite "Rock 103" New Orcas $7 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE ager of the Cleveland Indians, has | Columbia come up with the revolutionary idea that American and National League clubs play interleague games to count in the standings. Most of the owners shuddered at the thought and Greenberg’s proposal had little charce of get- ting even a lukewarm reception. “It would spice the schedule,” Greenberg said. “In a year where one team makes a runaway of the race, more or less killing off fan interest, an interleague schedule would help keep baseball interest alive. “Fans in Cleveland read about the Musials, Kiners, Robinsons and other stars in'the National League, but never get to see them. An in- terleague schedule would bring them all into Cleveland. I see Each club in one league would play each club in the other league four times—two games a home and two away. Greenberg said it has worked out fine in the National Football League between the East- ern and Western Conference teams. The winter baseball problem also faced the owners. With the play- ers, it’s a matter of dollars and cents, They want to negotiate di- rectly with the clubs in the Carib- bean leagues, and, further, demand permission for an unlimited num- ber of players to perform in the loops. Under present rules, the Carib- bean owners deal with the clubs, not the players, who figure they ran could drive a better bargain them- selves. Also, only three established major leaguers are permitted to play with each Caribbean club, all of which are centered in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama | Rochester and Mexico. Bushnell Nine Downs Plumbers The USS Bushnell baseballers took the measure of Mike’s Plum- bers last night in the Wickers Field | T™s*, Stadium by a 14-9 score. The game turned into a slugfest | Dlss when the ballplayers blasted out 32 hits — good for 42 bases. Coto had two singles and a dou- | Louisville ble, Postol two doubles and a sin- gle, and Yohe and Skinner each had two safeties. In the field, J. Rodriguez and Gates starred for the losers and Tetrewalt, Postal and Trexinick | Hollywood paced the winners. Tonight, the Bushnell will cross bats with the Cuban Club in a game set for 7:30 p. m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. Nash and Adair will form the battery for the Navy with K. Rodriguez and Rob- erts handling the duties for the Cu- Sew bans. TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK (#—Prices were somewhat lower today on the New York Exchange in early dealings. The steels, which have been buoyant in recent days, were us- ually lower by small margins. confined to a fractional range. Gains were scattered with a few Boing to little past a point. Lower with the steels were most rul » coppers, oils, and rail- roads. The motors were steady along with airlines, aircrafts, radio-televisions, and distillers. Higher stocks included Follans- bee _ Steel, American Smelting Westinghouse Electric, Amerivan Viscose, and U. S. Gypsum. Lower were U. S. Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Chrysler, Goodyear, American Telephone, Anaconda Copper, In- ternational Paper, New York Cen- tral, Standard Oil (NJ), and Para- mount Pictures. |BOAT PROP KILLS TAMPA WATER SKIER TAMPA (RA 21-year-old water skier, Mrs. Iris Carter, was struck and killed by a motorboat propel- lor yesterday on Egypt Lake. A boat driven by Fred M. Phil- America, when he won the All- American title at Tam O’Shanter. He beat Ed Olive in a playoff and ‘won $7,000. lips, 39, was pulling Mrs. Carter when it collided with another boat driven by Otis Garvin, 42. Mrs. Carter was thrown from her skis Losses throughout the list were | Brookiyn a INTERNATIONAL : Buff: 4 MONDAY’S BASEBALL SCHED! AMERICAN “ASSOCIATION Toledo at Indianapolis at Tulsa San Antonio at Oklahoma City Beaumont at Fort Worth at Dallas BASEBALL STANDINGS ALABAMA-FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL aeesaces$ messecee? = penes seeseses? sseaceaed AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. oe 648 asesassel gexeess Ne games scheduled SUNDAY'S RESULTS New York peeess e| 1 innings Chica, 34, we SUNDAY’S RESULTS New York 4, Cleveland 3 (11 innings Boston 2-2 Paitadelphia 96, Baltimore 4-4 Washington 11, Detroit 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Won Lost St. Joseph’s Ruth Tilt The St. Joseph’s School baseball team picked up their first Babe Ruth League victory Saturday when they trounced the league- leading Strand Theater nine, 13-8 in the Wickers Field Stadium. In the second game of a double- header, the Key West Insurance Co. triumphed over Evans Enter- prises by a 12-10 score. St. Josephs unloosed a 12hit barrage to send three Strand hurl- ers to the showers in their tilt. Snow, Kerr, Yates and Gutierrez paced the winners while Flood had three hits for the losers. The Evans - Key West Insurance clash resulted in a see-saw battle which was not decided until the final inning when Evans scored four runs. They looked big until the insurance boys put together two singles, a walk and a triple and Hoppy’s homer to gain the winning edge. Owen and Casas also shone. League action will resume Tues- day night with a doubleheader in the Wickers Field Stadium at 7 p. m. The Strand will meet St. Josephs and the Key West Insur- ance Co. will clash with Evans En- terprises at that time. Toweel Makes American Debut NEW YORK # — Vic Toweel, former world bantam champion, makes his American debut tonight as a lightweight against Carmelo Costa, Brooklyn featherweight who recently upset Mexico’s Baby Ortiz. Toweel, 26, had trouble making the 118-pound bantam limit and was knocked out twice by Jimmy Carruthers, who since has retired. The South African hopes to shoot for the lightweight title in his new campaign. Costa, a Brooklyn youngster, will be making his second 10-round fight. He is unbeaten in 2 fights é| with 21 victories and 3 draws. The bout will be beamed from Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway at 10 p.m., EDT, over ABC-TV. Paulie Andrews of Buffalo, N.Y., a fast-rising light heavyweight con- tender, boxes Yvon Durelle of Baie 9|St. Anne, N.B., tonight at New York’s St. Nicholas over Du Mont TV. Andrews drove Danny Nardico into retirement and won over Chubby Wright at Miami Beach i Other averages: Player-Club— J. Tynes ,Evans - Flood, St. Joe —. . Thrift, Strand Kerr, Strand —. Allen, Strand -. Yates ,Evans Estenoz, K.W. Ins. Co. Taylor, Evans . LaTorre, Evans PRU PADUBOA . Monteagudo, Evans W. Key, Strand -. T. Owen, K. W. I. G. Mira, Strand ... 0. MONDA\ New York at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.—Maglie vs. Erskine (11-9 Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, Conley (8-5 vs. Law (6) Only games scheduled SUNDAY’S RESULTS Milwaukee 7, New York 5 Brooklyn 2, St. Louis 1 Chicago 62, Philadelphia 1-1 Pittsburgh 42, Cincinnati 2-3 Boxing Results SATURDAY’S FIGHTS BUENOS AIRES — Yoshio Shirai, 112%, , world flyweight champion, fought 'Riaw with Pascual Perez, 108, Argentina, 7:30 p.m.- The 183-yard fourth hole is the shortest for the National Open at Baltusrol in Springfield, N. J. and as Garvin’s boat whipped around its propellor hit her on the neck. 1 G. Maris, Strand - B. Solomon, St. Joe R. Pazo, St. Joe _.. M. Casas, K.W.I. Co. J. Diaz, Strand Club— Strand Theater Key West Insurance Company Evans Enterprises —_.. St. Joseph’s Pitchers wen and lest record: z H. Bethel and S. Snow of the Strand Theater nine have won two and lost none. N. Rodriguez and J. Carbonell have lost one each. Hoppy and D. Yates have won one each and lost none, Casas has won two and lost two for the K. W. Ins. Co. For the Evans nine, Watson has won two and lost one, Montea- gudo has won one and lost one, and J. Mira has lost one. For St. Joseph, Saunders won one, lost none, Taylor has lost four and Flood lost one. OTHER RECORDS 1 Most times at bat, M. Casas, J, Diaz and W. Demeritt, 20 each. Most runs scored: G. Thrift 13, J, Diaz 12. Kerr and Hoppy 11 each. T. Hoppy, K- WL. Co. .._______._._. 19 Watson, Evans —_... eS N. Alexander, St. Joe and K.W.. Co. 16 OUTBOARD ROUNDUP By DAVID NASON We will begin this week’s round- up with a short story about a baby Stingray. About a week ago, Bud- dy Johnson spotted a Junior Sting- ray swimming around in shallow water, just off the Club House pier, with a few lucky licks Buddy con- sidered him dead, maneuvered him into the shore. A bunch of youngs- ters had gathered very much in- terested. In order to get him up on the bank, he picked him up by what he thought was a tailor made han- dle — the tail. Buddy felt a sharp pricking of one finger immediate- ly, his arm began to feel numb, Buddy stated. That plus four shots of penicillin, cost him a bum arm for a week. The moral, never grab what looks handiest at first glance. Three new members were ac- cepted at the Club’s regular Fri- day meeting. Jack Knowles and Joe Henriquez, both of Key West, became regular members. Sparky Carbonell, was shifted from a Junior to a regular member due to reaching the age requirements. Sparky reports that Daddy Fred and himself are working over a couple of Johnson racing motors at Segundas Hideway. As for myself, never heard of the place. From reports of several mem- bers, the building of runabout hulls is in full swing. John McKillip is building one of Florida runabout class. Charles Fry is assembling a Taft Kit of the same class. Tom- my Saunders is building a 17 foot fishing outboard hull. Yours truly, having good ears for detecting the sound of an outboard racing motor, was lured out to the Club House on Sunday afternoon of the 18th. After arriving at the clump of mangroves, which is my favorite spot of spying on those soupled up artists, I was sure the sun was finally getting me, it just couldn’t be a female out there whipping a 3 point Hydro around like a veteran. After cleaning my glasses the third time, I had to admit it was. And who is this intruder of the mens’ rough and tough game? She’s Mrs. Ray Miller, a navy wife and the mother of a 8-week-old ba- by boy. By cornering the husband, Ray, I succeeded in gaining this bit of news. Before the Millers were transferred from Maine to Key West and her time of expected motherhood, Mrs. Miller saw quite a bit of action among the boating clubs in New England waters. Ray stated that wife Louise will enter Hydro competition here in the near future as a three point driver. Oh, man what are we going to do. Looks to me like the Hydro boys better wake up and call a special strategy meeting. I am going to cancel my vacation, this first male - female Hydro race, “I gotta see.” Sammy Baugh completed 1,709 forward passes during 16 seasons with the Washington Redskins. his most recent outings. He is managed by Marshall Miles, who Threatened To Walk Out Half Way Through His Match By HUGH FULLERTON JR. ST. PAUL, Minn. & — Tommy Bolt, a perfectionist among golf pros who can’t understand why the galleries don’t admire perfection, figures: he made a lot of friends out on the hot stretches of the Keller course. At least, he was around to meet suaded him not to walk out on the tournament, in one of today’s semifinals of the PGA Champion- ship. He wasn’t hanging from a tree, as he had predicted. The other 36-hole semifinal brought together defending cham- pion Walter Burkemo and former Open champion Cary Middlecoff. Bolt, whose temper operates on a hair trigger, battled anger and Smmy Snead yesterday and fi- nally won out over both on the 39th hole. Halfway through the match he threatened to walk out because of what he called unfair treatment by the galleries. Strangely, it was Harbert who persuaded him to con- tinue. After a couple of club-throwing tantrums and an incident on the 18th green, when a few spectators applauded a missed Bolt putt, Tom- my angrily proclaimed that he wouldn’t tee off in the afternoon. “They treat Snead like a favor- ite son; if I won they’d probably hang me from the nearest tree,” he said. But before the finish, the fans were cheering Bolt for his dogged persistence in sticking with the fa- vorite and at the end he used up one of his rare smiles and re- marked: “I guess I made some friends out there this afternoon. But wait until you see the headlines tomor- row: they’ll say ‘Snead loses on the 39th.” _ That’s just about what Sammy did. He hit his second shot on the 39th like a duffer—smothering a wood shot on the 510-yard hole and sending it only about 80 yrds. He took bogey 6 to lose the hole as Bolt made his par 5. From the fourth hole to the 39th, Bolt never was ahead. But he never let Snead get more than a two-hole margin either. Then, two down with only four holes to go, the unsmiling Bolt kept the pres- sure of steady pars on his tiring opponent and caught up at the 34th. Harbert, beat Jerry Barber 1-up over the 36-hole route. The only easy victory went to Burkemo, the snub-nosed scrapper who thrives on match play. He caught Argentina’s Roberto de Vi- cenzo on a bad day and trounced him 5 and 4. Middlecoff, who al- most blew his match twice on the used to handle Joe Louis. #|\Lefty Hoppy Leads Babe Ruth .;|League Batters With 578 Mark Lefty Hoppy, of the Key West Insurance Co. nine, is leading Babe Ruth baseball league batters with a cool .578. He is followed by Jimmy Tynes of the Evans Enterprises with .555. 4B OR ll a Ave. 578 555 533 500 -500 -500 460 428 437 428 400 +384 384 +384 375 375, 363 357 357 -350 -350 ~ oy 18 15 18 16 8 15 a 16 x 5 13 13 13 8 BOK WWUNDU I NNNNOWHWWO CONN ABWAT WN WIN TROODS 2 Lost 2 Pet. -667 | 667 -500 2 3 | 5 166 Most hits: Hoppy 11. J. Tynes 10. Thrift, Diaz and Casas, 9 each. Most doubles: Hoppy 3. Flood 2. Casas 2. Most triples: Alexander 2. Kerr 2. Most stolen bases: G. Thrift 8. Kerr 6. Hoppy 4. Most times fanned: Taylor 5, Lt. Curry 5, J. Carbonell 5. Most times walked: P. Higgs Most runs batted in: Diaz 8. Kerr 9. M 7. G. Thrift 6. R. Knowles 5. lonteagudo 8. front nine only to recover coming back, turned back Shelley May- field 3 and 1, Harshman Fans 16 Batters For White Sox Sun. BOSTON (#—Jack Harshman of the Chicago White Sox, who couldn’t make the grade with the New York Giants as a first base- man, has added a near-record 16- strikeout performance to his im- pressive first season as a major league pitcher. The 6-foot-2 left-hander struck out 16 Boston Red Sox batters in hurling a five-hit, 5-2 victory in the first game of a double-header yesterday. He fell two short of the modern big league strikeout mark of 18 by Cleveland’s Bob Feller in 1938, Before this season, Harshman’s jonly major league Pitching con- sisted of six innings with the Giants in 1952. He gave up 12 hits and 10 earned runs in those six. Prior to ’52 he had been a first baseman since breaking into pro- fessional ball in 1945 with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. Today Harshman, 27 - year - old San Diego southpaw with powerful wrist action to snap off his break- ing pitches, has appeared in 20 games and has a 7-4 record for the pennant-hopeful White Sox. “Throwing strikes is the most important thing in pitching, not speed,” said Harshman yesterday. “Every pitcher finds out you can’t just throw a fast ball by everyone. My control was better than usual today. My slider was my best pitch—I was able to get it over on the outside and inside.” Baseball Set There will be a Midget Baseball League clash tonight in Bayview Park at 6:30 p. m. At that time, the Bobcats and| Chick Harbert, the man who per-|- Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEA BATTING —Noren, New You 35g RUNS~Minoso, Chicago, 99." >* RUNS BATTED HITS~ Chicago, 128. RUNS— Mantle, New Yorks 20” “ieveland OgITCHING—Reynolds, New York, NATIONAL BATTING - Snider, Brook 55 RUNS~Musial, St. Louis. 79°" RUNS BATTED IN~-Musial, Si. Louis, 87 HITS—Schoendienst, St. Louis. gp” © HOME RUNS~ Mays, New York. 34, gigi TCHING—antonelli, New Yori, “i¢-2, arse ITCHING —Antonelli, New York, 14-2, and 10-1, —_—___ Byron Nelson won eight straight | golf tournaments in 1945, Harold | (Jug) McSpaden was second in} three of the tournaments, <n Golf pro Bud Holscher formerly THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ' IN~Minoso, Chicago, 76. 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