The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 30, 1954, Page 6

District Softball Play Starts Here On Tuesday Albury Says I’’s First For Key West A milestone in Key West’s sports history will be mark- ed next Tuesday when Florida’s F o ur t h District softball tournament will get underway in Bayview Park. Although Key West has been participating in state softball play for 25 years, this is the first year that Key West has played host to the tournament. It was through the efforts of city recreation director Paul G. Albury that Key West will have the chance to see the cream of the softball crop from Florida’s east coast in action on their home grounds. cluding the Lake Okeechobee area. It now has so many members that it has been necessary to divide the district into subdistricts to eli- minate much time and travel need- ed to compete in tournaments. At present, all teams north of comprise the northern end, and all other teams are in the ee ARE THOSE AL KALINE By FRANK BCK AP Newsfeatures Sports Editer NEW YORK — Eleven. major league clubs now have strings.on 19 bonus players, but the jury is still out on whether any has made the grade. A bonus player. under the last tule change is a‘free agent who signed his first major league con- tract for more than $6,000 for his ; |first season. Ht tournament teams ere com- of selected players from of district tournament is a dou- ble elimination affair. glily g Zest For Victory NEW YORK (#—They’re calling him the “new” Eddie Stanky but The eleven clubs“ during ‘the last year and a half expended more than $500,000 on untried players.They. must stick ‘in the majors.two years or be subject to baseball draft. With the 1954 season well into its last half, there -still is no out- standing bonus player. This isn’t altogether the fault of the players. Most managers can’t see tossing a rookie, especially one just out of high school, inte the daily big league grind.” BASEBALL the snazzy pair of sports shoes he |M* bought in a midtown store yester- day. _ He’s still the same scrappy little | Charlotte guy with that tremendous zest for | victory. He still has that same de- votion to his ideas on running a ball club and if he has mellowed in any way it is not noticeable at first glance. ical of his nature, Stanky still his Cardinals have an outside chance of catching the leaders. St. Louis’ easy victory over New York and Chicago’s tri- umph over Brooklyn yesterday might have influenced his think- ing but Eddie stubbornly insists the National League race is still | Mobile wide open. “I admit to thinking there are still two months to go. Let us have one good long winning streak and the entire pennant picture might change. That goes for any one of six clubs. We haven't had a real winning streak yet. Maybe we're due for one.” The Cardinals are finding it a tough task to sneak into the first division but they’ve been playing good ball of late. ‘ Kid Matthews To Face Dan Cockell SEATTLE ‘#—Harry (Kid) Mat- thews is taller and has a greater reach than Don Cockell of London, but he'll be topped in all other statistics by the British champion in their 10-round heavyweight fight tonight. Matthews, who is 5 feet 11, will weigh about 180. His reach is 74% inches, compared to 71 inches for the 5-foot 9% Cockell. In chest, neck, biceps and other measure- ments Cockell has the edge. He even has the edge in the Ring Magazine ratings, which list THURSDAY'S RESULTS Augusta 11, Charlotte 4 Macon 5, Columbia 3 Jacksonville 9, Montgomery 5 Savannah 10, Columbus © FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Won Lost Pet. Behind ~H 8 7 = Ye 5 4% v a DY Atlanta 6, Memphis 5 Birmingham 9, Littie Rock & Chattanooga 4, Nashville at New Orleans (2 (Ppé, vain FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE Memphis at Atlanta Little Rock at Birmingham Chattanooga at Mobile Nashville at New Orleans (3 AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pet. Behind a 0 O11 — nd Clevelai 1% FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Washington at Cleveland New York at Baltimore Philadelphia at Chicago New York Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Philadel; Chicago ae him in third place and Matthews in seventh. Snow Fence Helps Young Ballplayers BOSTON @ — Massachusetts Public Works Commiss‘oner John | “rieston Volpe reported yesterday his de- partment has loaned out five miles | gure, of snow fence this summer. The principal borrower was the Little Lea tion of boys. Some 38 teams have encircled their playing diamonds with snow fence sections. Six players who were with the Cleveland Indians when they won | Oakiand the 198 American Leagus pennant and World Series are still with the oe gue, a baseball organiza- | Tulsa FRIDAY’S BASEBALL STANDINGS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘Won Lost Pet. 7 6 337 su 08 481 416 436 J z bes & 3 weneseses scocueesf aeceses aeeakeeet bane Ri And fellows like Paul Giel of the Giants, Hugh Pepper of Pitts- burg, Bill O'Dell of Baltimore, Ron Jackson of the White Sox and Harmon Killebrew of Wash- ington still are too new to have a fair test. ~ Pittsburgh, faced with the tough- est rebuilding job in the history of the majors, has five bonus boys: “Two of the Pirates’ best, Johnny and : Eddie O’Brien, the Seattle University basketball twins from Perth Amboy, N. J., are in the Army, ‘and due out next sum- mer. The Pirates also have Vic Jano- wicz, ex-Ohio State All-American; Pepper and Nick Koback. The only clubs which have not picked up a bonus player since the rule was changed after the 1952 season are Brooklyn, Cin- einnati and Chicago in the Na- tional League and Cleveland and Philadelphia in the American, RESULTS - INTERNATIONAL enosuasey sagseaeed Pet. 660 410 49 319 gueseeg AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo 8, 2 Kansas City 2-15, le 1-15 (second game tie; called end 10th to allow entrain teams Charleston 1-0 ‘St. Paul 7-1, Minneapolis 10, Columbus 2 INTERNATIONAL Ottawa 3, Buffalo 2 (10 Havana ‘st Toronto Ppa, rains PACIFIC COAST Seattle 4, Sacramento 1 Hollywood 3 ALABAMA-FLORIDA Andalusia-Opp 4, Panama City 0 Graceville 10, Fort Walton Beach 9 Crestview 4," Dothan 1 FRIDAY’S BASEBALL SCHE! INTERNATIONAL at Havana AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City ‘Columbus at St. Paul (3) Charleston at Minneapolis (@) [A-FLORIDA at Fort Walton Beach City NEW YORK #—Ezzard Charles may never go down as the great- est heavyweight champion, but he will have his own little niche in the history of the ring. The lithe Cincinnati Negro will be the first ex-champion ever to get three cracks at winning back his title. He lost the crown to Jer- sey Joe Walcott, dropped a return decision to Jersey Joe, then lost another decision to Rocky Marci- ano. Now he’s going to get a second crack at Marciano, here on either Sept. 15 or Sept. 21. Mordecai (Three-Fingered Brown was the first pitcher in the major leagues to hurl four con- secutive shutouts. He got them in 1908, $50,000 PHENOMS? How Long Can Yanks, Tribe By BEN PHLEGAR Associated Press Sportswriter Today is Casey Stengel’s 64th birthday but he’s going to have to wait awhile longer for a present from his athletes. The New York Yankees didn’t quite make it to first place in time for the celebration. In fact, they haven't made it to first place any time this season although they’ve won more of their first 100 games than any Yankee club Casey has managed. When they whipped Chicago 10-0 yesterday, they ran their record for the year to 67 won and 33 lost. ‘)None of the past five New York Thus far only two bonus se- lections have been getting any attention from their managers. Fred Hutchinson, who has done a fine job with young players in Detroit, has gone all the way with Al Kaline, 19-year-old son of a Baltimore broom maker. The 6-1 outfielder hit .245 in his first 76 games. Lou Boudreau of the Red Sox thinks Bill Consolo, a 19-year-old kid from Los Angeles, someday will be a fine infielder. Boudreau uses Consolo whenever he can, but in his first 32 games the in- fielder batted only .159. Consolo and Janowicz will be off the bonus list at the close of this season— the second full year for each. Other bonus players are Joe Jay and Mel Roach with Mil- waukee, Joe Amalfitano with the Giants, Tom Qualters of the Phil- lies, John Schofield of the Card- inals, Bob Miller and Reno Leja of the Yankees. Woman Lands Sail On First Try Here Mrs. Mario Roque, 1418 Laird $St., landed a seven foot sail- fish weighing 52 pounds Tues- day — on her first deepsea fishing expedition. Fishing as guest of Lt. and Mrs. C. R. Hale aboard the Fleet Training Group AVR, Mrs. Roque battled for 45 min- utes to land the fish. The party had been trolling near Pelican Shaols. Philly Turns Cold Shoulder To Campaign PHILADELPHIA (®—A move- ment in Philadelphia to ‘Save the A’s” seems to need saving as much as the financially distressed Amer- ican League team. Business and industry leaders in the city, at any rate, have turned a cold shoulder to a drive to keep the Athletics in Philadelphia. And paying fans aren’t exactly flocking to Connie Mack Stadium in support of the team. A report not yet released by | Mayor Joseph S. Clark’s office was ‘turned over to Clark yesterday informing him that efforts to stim- ulate attendance at A’s games have encountered apathy and in some instances outright resistance from the public as well as from busi- ness leaders. The report was prepared by three staff members of the mayor's committee to “Save the A’s.” It said that most leaders in Phila- delphia business and industry have refused to accept membership in the committee or to work for it in any way. Of the 125 letters sent to leading citizens asking them to head up subsidiary groups for the purpose of selling tickets to A’s games, not one favorable reply was re- ceived, the report said. ‘ A change in present management is needed before any movement to save the A’s can be successful, the Teport said response indicated. Neither Roy Mack, executive vice president of the club, nor his brother, Earle, was available for comment on this latest of a series of developments involving the hard-pressed club. It was Roy who appealed to Mayor Joseph S. Clark early this month to help the club draw at least 400,000 more fans to the park this season. Since then at home, pennant winners has done as well. New York trails Cleveland by a game and a half and the day-to- day question is how long can the two clubs keep up their sizzling Pace. During the last seven weeks the Yanks have won 37 out of 49, a -755 clip. The Indians captured 35 of 49 over the same period for a 114 mark, exactly equalling the best winning percentage ever com- piled by an American League champion. Who'll crack first? The man with the answer wins the jackpot. In 10 consecutive games with Cleveland and third place Chicago the Yan- kees won seven times. But two of the losses were to the Indians. Yesterday, however, it was no contest. While the Yankees were routing the wishful White Sox, Cleveland collapsed before a Bos- ton onslaught, bowing 10-2. The Red Sox had lost 15 out of 16 to Cleveland before turning on the league leaders, Of the nine games played yes- terday, four ended in shutouts. Whitey Ford held the White Sox to four hits in the Yankee victory. Vie Raschi, the ex-Yankee star now working for the St. Louis Car- dinals, beat the New York Giants 8-0 on three hits. Corky Valentine of Cincinnati pitched a four-hitter against Philadelphia, winning 3-0 and Chuck Stobbs of Washington checked Baltimore on five hits in a 60 triumph. In other action Chicago defeated Brooklyn 6-5; Milwaukee won its seventh straight, 5-3 over Pitts- burgh in 10 innings and Detroit took a doubleheader from Philadel- phia 4-2 and 7-3. Raschi was in complete control of the league-leading Giants. He gave up two bases on balls and struck out a pair. The only New York hits were singles by Willie Mays, Bobby Hoffman and Don Mueller. Ray Jablonski’s bases- loaded double in the fifth was the big blow for St. Louis. Pinch hitters flopped for Brook- lyn as the Dodgers lost a chance to shave their two-game deficit. Man- ager Walt Alston used five and not one got the ball out of the infield. The final failure was George Shuba who grounded to first with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth. Hank Sauer and Ernie Banks homered for the Cubs. The Braves had a close call in Pittsburgh. They tied the game in the ninth on three straight singles and added two more, including Hank Aaron’s 12th home run, in the 10th. Valentine not only pitched a shut- out for the Redlegs, he was the bat- ting star as well. He doubled twice, singled once and scored two of the four runs against the Phil- lies. The loss dumped Philadelphia into sixth place behind the Cardi- nals and Reds who are tied for fourth. Boston wrapped it up early against Cleveland, routing Bobby Feller in the second inning after piling up a 5-0 lead. It was Feller’s second loss and broke a seven- game winning streak for the vet- eran fireballer. Jackie Jensen drove in six runs with two homers and a single. Ted Williams also hit a home run. Detroit came from behind in both victories over the faltering Ath- letics. In the first game a two-run triple by Frank Bolling followed by a squeeze bunt by George Zuverink put the Tigers in front in the fifth inning. In the second game the A’s jumped ahead 3-0 but were caught and passed in the third in- ning when Bob Nieman hit a grand slam home run. A pitching experiment failed for the Baltimore Orioles. Bonus rookie Bill O’Dell was given his first starting assignment but couldn’t get past the first inning. Two doubles, a single and a walk was in shutout form for Wash- ington. Baseball Set The USS Bushnell baseball team will meet Mike’s Plumbers tonight in the Wickers Field Stadium at 7:30 p. m. Papo Quesada will hurl for the Plumbers and Nash will take the mound for the Navy men. Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears completed seven touchdown passes in a 1943 game against the only 51,798 fans have seen the raa| giants for a National Football League record. brought Lou Kretlow to the rescue | but it was too late since Stobbs| Dairy Queen Softballers Edge Maintain Pace?) Navy All-Stars In Exhibition DeWitt Roberts Hurls Victory, Strikes Out 9 The Dairy Queen Blizzards edg- ed the Navy All-Stars, 3-2, in an exhibition softball game at Bay- view Park last night. Dewitt Roberts, veteran Dairy Queen ace, bested the All-Stars Jim Trier. Roberts, although touch- ed for seven hits, struck out nine and walked only one batter. Trier held the Blizzards to two hits, but his six walks contributed to his downfall. In the first inning, the Blizzards took a 1-0 lead when Al Pazo open- ed the inning by drawing a walk. After Bobby Santana grounded out, George Barber bounced to third and Pazo was caught on a run down with Barber taking second during the run down. John Lewis then drove Barber in with a single in left center. The Blizzards added another in the fifth when Sautana walked, was sacrificed to second, ‘and scored when first baseman Frigley threw wild to second at- tempting to nab Santana. A walk, a hit batsman, a fielders choice, and a wild pitch, gave the Bliz- zards their final run in the sixth. The All-Stars threatened in the seventh when they came up with two runs on a triple, an error, and Triers third hit of the game, but Roberts got to Downer to fly deep to Valdez in center to end the game with the tying run on third. In the first game, Coca Cola de- feated Sonar School, 10-0, behind Joe Lewis one hit pitching. The box scores: NAVY ALL STARS (2) Player— ABRH Lyons, 3b 2 Morgan, 3b _. 2 Blazek, lb __ 2 Feigley, lb __. 2 Downen, 2b __ 3 Snead, ¢ _. Thomas, rf Pokowski, rf Soupy, ss Brushta, ss _— Matthews, If Warwick, cf — Cuto, cf — Trier, p Crorocoocoooooe WOOK OSCOOCOHHEHOS CN COrMHONUMUNoT eccoooooHMooMus ecooorococoroool ONE wWENE NOD Totals— DAIRY QUE! Player— AB Paro... ——..3 Santana, 3b — 2 Barber, 2b _. Lewis, cf-rf Kerr, lf Aritas, rf — Valdez, cf Roberts, p Fleitas, ¢ — Angueira, 1 Mir m4 ecooorocHrooe tt A Se at oncwonon Ole <= Crocco oRRKoD COMSCCHOOHOH Bs! ~ cy Totals— Score by innings: te: ae 8 Navy Stars . 000 000 2—2 2 Dairy Queen 100 011 x—3 2 3 RBI: Feigley, Lewis; 2bh: Bla- zek, Trier; 3bh: Matthews; Sac.: Barber; SB: Blazek; SO by: Rob- erts 9, Trier 2; BB off: Roberts 1, Trier 6; winner: Roberts; los- er: Trier; umpires: Jenkins, Brown; scorer: Castaneda; time: 1.36. Boxing Results THURSDAY'S FIGHTS SYRACUSE, N.Y. Pat Manzi, Syracuse, stopped Chuck Foster, Omaha, 6. BROOKLYN (Fort Hamilton) — Johnny Busso, 13914, NewYork, stopped Frederico Escalera, 139, New York, 5. WEST JORDAN, Utah — Rex Layne, 208, Salt Lake City, knocked out Garris Alle, 213, Los Angeles, 2. Reciprocal Trade Hailed By James LOS ANGELES (@—Reciprocal | trade is the cornerstone of lasting peace, and trade with the potential enemy is one way of reaching be- hind the Iron Curtain, says James | Roosevelt. He told the Democratic Lunch- eon Club yesterday: “The time has got to come when we must consider that we cannot stand alone without trading with the mil- lions in Southeast Asia.” The Democratic nominee for Congress in the 26th California District charged the Eisenhower ‘foreign policy lacks unity so that our Allies do not know whether we mean to stand firm or ap- pease. Town Is Sold boo] 150, 147, entire town was auctioned off yesterday. | ceived definite bids for all of Del- activities. dining hall, school house and sev- eral other buildings. Delleker was founded in 1909 by the Feather River Lumber Co. The available timber supply became jexhausted last November, and the town’s away. jemployes and 11 firemen. DELLEKER, Calif. — This; Irwin Friedman, San Francisco | auctioner, announced he had re-j; | Boca Chica Beach Track leker, site of former lumber mill | Sold were 58 homes, a hotel, al | | 350 inhabitants moved | Page 6 Paul Higgs fanned 14 batters and: hurled a no-hitter last night but his Evans Enterprises baseball team bowed to the Strand Theater in a Babe Ruth League encounter in the Wickers Field Stadium. Higgs lost the verdict when the Strand pushed across the winning counter on a passed ball with two outs in the sixth inning. R. Valdez scored the only run for Evans in the first inning on a walk and two errors. Kerr, the Strand hurler, held Evans to two safeties while fan- ning eight batters. In the first game of the double- header, the Key West Insurance Josephs nine. St. Josephs jumped into the lead in the second frame with four runs but they could not hold their edge. The game was won in the sixth on a single, an error and a wild pitch. Billy Solomon and Martinez star- red for the losers and Casas and Brady for the winners, Action will resume at 10 a. m. Saturday when the Key West In- surance Co. meets the Strand nine and St. Josephs tangles with Evans Enterprises. The standings: Strand K. W. Ins. Co. Evans St. Jospehs Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS ( — The near} South Side of Indianapolis was rocked by a roaring explosion last night that gutted an Eli Lilly & Co. chemical plant and injured 6 Scores of other fire fighters and policemen were burned around the feet and ankles by rivulets of di- luted acid washed’ into the streets by thousands of gallons of water and “foam” used to smother the flames. Hundreds of firemen, Civil De- fense workers and Red Cross per- sonnel were rushed to the scene to evacuate injured and keep the fire from spreading to barrels of highly explosive compounds stored in and around the laboratory. Officials of the company, one of the nation’s largest pharmaceu- tical houses, would make no offi- cial estimate of the damage, TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK #® — Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the nation’s sixth largest steel maker, shot ahead 6% at 59% today on the New York Stock Exchange on the strength of merger talks with Bethlehem Steel. Just before the close yesterday, Eugene G. Grace, Bethlehem chair- man, disclosed that his company was in the midst of merger talks with Youngstown officials. He de- opened on 3,500 shares up % at 78%. The market as a whole was high- er and rather quiet in early trad- ing as compared with recent activ- ity. Prices advanced fractionally for the most part with a few stocks pushing up between 1 and 2 points. Higher stocks included Boeing, Douglas, Curtiss-Wright, Lockheed, U.S. Steel, Chrysler, American Tel- ephone, Western Union, Homestake Mining, Union Carbide, New York Central, and Standard Oil (NJ). THE KEY WEST CITIZEN clined to elaborate. 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