The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1954, Page 5

Braves Win 8th Straight, Face Five Crucial Tilts Orioles Down Yanks, 10-0, In American By BEN PHLEGAR Asociated Press Sports Writer Quly four of the 16 major league clubs gained ground in the pennant res in July, but neither the New Wrk Giants nor the Cleveland In- dans were able to strengthen their first place positions. The Indians, in iact, have lost half a game of the edge they held} 30 days ago. The New York Yan- kees, one of the four clubs which improved, replaced Chicago as Cleveland’s closest pursuer and moved from four games behind to 2%, pending today’s action. The Giants sailed into July lead- ing Brooklyn by three lengths. On the last day of the month they still are three in front of the Dodgers. 5 The major change in the Nation- al League standings involved third place. Philadelphia, third a month ago, won only 10 of 30 games and skidded all the way to sixth. Mil- waukee pulled up from fourth, 12 games back, to third, only nine games behind the Giants. The Braves ‘represent a threat of unknown proportions. They ran their current winning streak to eight last night with a solid 93 triumph over Brooklyn and have threé more games with the Dodg- ers and three with the Giants com- ing up in the next 10 days. St. Louis moved from sixth to fourth but doesn’t figure to go much higher. Boston pulled up from last to sixth in the American League with five games separating the Red Sox from first division. Cleveland and the Giants both made headway last night. The In- dians whipped Washington 8-3 while the Yankees were heing trounced 10-0 at Baltimore. The Giants defeated Cincinnati 6-1 with all the New York runs coming on homers and Brooklyn lost at home to. Milwaufee for the fifth time in six games. In other action St. Louis tripped the stumbling Phillies 12-3; Pitts- burgh and the Chicago Cubs split a pair with the Pirates winning the first 8-6 and losing the second 8-5; Chicago White Sox pushed the Philadelphia Athletics into the, American League cellar with a 4- decision. and Detroit whipped Bos ton 4-0, Milwaukee spotted Brooklm three runs in the first inning, tlen got them all back with plenty to spare as Carl Erskine lost his tuff after-three hitless innings. Dany O'Connell. hit a three-run her. Joe Adcock hit into the seats with one aboard and the Braves were off. Ernie Johnson, who too over from. Bob Buhl with two @t and four runs home in the firs, chill- ed the Dodgers on two sifles the rest of the way. — The Giants got powe hitting from unexpected source) in their victory over Cincinnaf Pitcher Ruben Gomez drove in Wo with a blast into the left fiel/ seats, his first of the year, and /on Mueller hit his second homer ¢ the season. ‘Wes Westrum and Hak Thompson also homered, but Nillie Mays, who leads the leagw With 36, had to settle for a seh single. The Cardinals’ Hting spree at Philadelphia inclyed a bases- loaded triple by cher Bill Sarni and a double andtiple by pitcher Harvey Haddix #ho posted his 15th victory. Ripfepulski homered e Cards. malay Kiner Alked twice in the Pittsburgh doyeheader and each time Chicago Msser ‘Hank Sauer drove him irVith a home run, running his jason’s total to 32. Frank Thon} Collected four hits in the Piratd first game success. ‘Art Hout#an, one of the best “second line’’ pitch- 10th game as Indians routed Washington in Stone. Jim Hegan r of the Indian runs. The Ykees got their first look at Baltpre’s new lights and they didn’t J& what they saw. They did my better when they couldn’t see sMuch since they had won ive night games in Balti- itil last night’s fiasco. Bob ly hit a grand slam home id drove in two other runs as Orioles broke Allie Rey- no} 10-game winning streak. Garver limited Boston to hits and Al Kaline insured the it triumph with a three-run er in the eighth. b Keegan of the White Sox his victory total to 13 at the mse of the Athletics. It was ie righthander’s first success ince July. 9. The 1955 U. S. National Open golf championship will be played on the Olympic Country Club’s Lake course situated 10 miles from @owntowa San Francisco, Saturday, July 31, 1954 THE be b GENERAT, . mullet for bait. Wayne, va Citizen Staff, Sybil. By JACK HAND For GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK # — While the Giants watch the Dodgers and the Dodgers watch the Giants, the Mil- waukee Braves have been making up ground, They’re out in the mid- dle of the track now, ready for a stretch drive on the leaders who may not have much left. You never saw a manager take more raps on the chin than Char- lie Grimm absorbed last spring. The punch that almost floored him was Bobby Thomson’s triple fracture. When Bobby stretched out in agony in St. Petersburg after breaking his ankle in an inept slide, Milwaukee went in mourn- ing. A few days later Eddie Ma- thews’ chronic bad back started acting up. Chet Nichols, the ex- GI who led the league in earned Tun average before he went away to war, couldn’t get the ball over the plate. The team was losing ex- hibition games. Things were rough. It was just as bad when the sea- son started. The Braves couldn’t get the runs when they got the pitching and, when they did get some hits, the: pitching flopped. As recently as the morning of July 19, Milwaukee was fifth, 15 games behind the Giants. Now they are only 9 out. What happened to the Braves? SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y. (®—The |condition of Tony Trabert’s blis- | tered racquet hand is beginning to |concern Davis Cup moguls even | though the Cincinnati youngster is | favored to sweep through the semi- jfinal round of the Meadow Club tournament today. | Trabert, the country’s No. 1 hope |to regain the cup. from Australia next winter, still is bothered by the blisters which formed durinz the Wimbledon tournament almost a month ago. He took the court against Ed Moylan of Trenton, N.J. |with his middle finger still band- aged. “The finger feels much better ithan it has,” said Tony. “All I'm TIGHT PLANES AND BIG FISH STORY—Who says they aren’t catching big ones at the city fishing pier? Bill Wayne (above), of Chicago, exhibits a 30- pound barracuda he landed there yesterday, using light tac! joning here at the Flagship Motel, is*the’ brother of Frank Wayne, local sporting goods dealer.— Davis Cup Moguls Have Worries KEY WEST CITIZEN 32-10V 2 ED ¢ and Roundup By Gayle Talbot Or should you ask what happened to the Giants. “We're finally making our run,” Grimm said. “The potential has been there since opening day. Our Pitching was good enough ail along. Now we’re hitting, hustling and coming on.” Asked to be more specific, Grimm picked up some stray ex- amples. He didn’t need to mention that Thomson’s return, even as a pinch hitter, had been a tremen- dous morale booster. “The kid, Hank Aaron, has been hitting good, especially the last three games. He won the last game in Pittsburgh with a home run, “Eddie Mathews has started hit- ting home runs like he did last year. For a long time he wasn’t pulling the ball. “Joe Adcock is having a good year and Andy Pafko is going good again after we gave him a little rest. Bill Bruton is so hot in center that I don’t alternate him and Jim Pendleton any more. Bruton can on the bases, “Del Crandall has been doing a getting started at bat.” Grimm has a “big five” pitch- ing staff — Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, Bob Buhl, Gene Conley, and Jim Wilson. In the bullpen he has been using Dave Jolly and Ernie Johnson on relief, hoping is that it won’t get any worse today and tomorrow. “I really intended to rest this week, and get some treatments for | the blisters in Cincinnati. But 1; read some stories in the papers about all the trouble they had with the dropping of the Baltimore tour- nament and I figured tennis need- ed some quick help after all that} | bad publicity. “T felt I could provide it by re- turning to action.” Trabert powered his way through two matches yesterday, first blast- ing Australia’s Doug Reid, 7-5, 6-2, do so many things when he gets |” great job. He had a tough time ; Stock Car Racing Set Here Sunday The Stock Car Racing Associa- tion has given the go ahead sign to the Jalopy Jockeys. The boys have been very active the last few weeks getting the kinks ironed out of their “soup cans.” Jerry Hinde and Bob Kolbe spent a full day working on the bridge at Mac’s Fishing Camp replacing bad timbers and report it*is in very good shape. Weather permitting, there should be a good field of cars and a lot of new faces in the drivers’ lineup tomorrow afternoon. Navy drivers will dominate the card and those boys like to mix it up. There will be four 10 lap races plus a 20 lap feature. The Bush- up their sleeve. This of course will have to be proved tomorrow after- noon, as the Gilmore and several other boats are of a different opin- ion. Races will start at 1:30 p. m. “Junior Conchs” Meet All-Stars The “Junior Conchs” wili play Wickers Field* Stadium at 7:30 Pp. m. The Conchs are composed of for- mer high school performers and members of the Babe Ruth base- ball league. They'll line up this way: J. San- tana, 3b; Knowles, 2b; Bean, 3b; Henriquez, c; Salgado, 1f; E. Rod- riguez, cf; Gates, rf; Hoppy, 1b and Paul Higgs will pitch with S. Yates, Kerr, Moorehouse and L. Sims in reserve. The Navy’s lineup: Tetwault, 2b; Skinner, ss; Postol, 3b; Adair, ¢; Hoffses, 1f, Yehl, cf; Adair, rf; and Terzaniak, 1b. Nash or Workman will hurl with Cullen, Cheesman and Ciringiani in reserve. Spinelli, Hanskat, Landis, Bauman, Miller, Brady, Cassell and Schutte will also be available for duty. Mike’s Plumbers Down Bushnell Mike’s Plumbers defeated the USS Bushnell baseball team last night by a 12-6 score in the Wick- ers Field Stadium. « The Navy used five pitchers and 16 other players but the rejuvenat- ed plumbers had their hitting caps on and blasted out 14 safeties, Henriquez and Leon hit doubles and Salgado had a brace of triples. Quesada and Rodriguez shared the mound duty for the winners, Pestol had two singles and a triple and Spinelli two singles to lead the losers at the plate. In the field, Juli: .atana made several sparkling catches. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Noren, New York, .350 RUNS —Minoso, Chicago and Mantle, New York, 82 RUNS BATTED IN-Minoso, Chicago, Rosen, Cleveland and Mantle, New York, 7 HITS—Fox, Chicago, 130 HOME RUNS—Doby, Cleveland and Man- tle, New Yor rk, 21 PITCHING—Reynolds, New York, 10-2, 833 NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING —Snider, Brooklyn, .360 RUNS—Musial, St. Louis, 85 RUNS BATTED IN~Musial, St. Louis, 91 HITS—Moon and Schoendienst, St. Louis, 41 HOME RUNS-Mays, New York 36 PITCHING~ Antonelli, New York, 15-2, 882 Boxing Results FRIDAY’S FIGHTS SEATTLE-Don Cockell, 210%, London, stopped Harry ‘Kid” Matthews, 180, Seat- le, tle, 8. PITTSBURGH-Bob Baker, 217, Pitts- burgh, stopped Embrel Davidson, 205, Detroit, 4. KANSAS CITY-Bobby Bickle, 139, x peka, Knocked out Marvin Smith, 138, Wichita, 8. LOUISVILLE-Sid Peaks, 215, Brookiya, stopped Bob Jackson, 190, Di Becker, a promising English play- er, 6-3, 6-2. The other semifinal pitted two Davis Cup captain Billy Talbert— against each other. Mulloy squeezed by Gil Shea of Los An- geles, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 and Talbert pol- ished off young Sam Giammalva of Houston, 6-0, 6-3. Giammalva, one of the better juniors for the past few years, turned in the upset of the tourna- ment before he went down before Talbert’s steady strokes. He elimi- nated Bernard Bartzen, the Na- then stopping Chile’s Luis Ayala, 6-4, 6-3. Moylan turned. back Roger | tional Clay Courts champion, 46, nell Boys say they have an ace Mei the Navy All-Stars Sunday in the | ™ [Wally Ulrich To Defend His a former National Inter-collegiate champion who has been close but never has won a major tourney since turning pro, puts his halfway lead in the $20,000 Kansas City Open golf tournament on the line today. The 30-year-old Rochester, Minn. pro, a runner-up in the Canadian Open, scorched the sun-seared, 6-625-yard par 73 Blue Hills Coun- try Club course with a 66 yester- day, giving him 135 for 36 holes. He had an opening round 69. Ulrich fired seven birdies over the course where the only green spots are the putting greens. E. J. (Dutch) Harrison, the old Arkansas traveler playing out of St. Louis, matched Ulrich’s 66 to go with his first round 70, putting him one stroke off the pace and tied for second with Mike Krak, Louisville, Ky. : The unknown Krak, who electri- fied the opening day crowd with a hole-in-one and grabbed the first round lead with a 65, had a 71 yesterday. BASEBALL SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pct Behind 6 586 1 FRIDAY’S RESULTS Memphis 5, Atlanta 4 Birmingham 8, Little Rock 1 Mobile 6, Chattanooga 3 New Orleans 6-1, Nashville 0-5 SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Little Rock at Atlanta Memphis at Birmingham Nashville at Mobile Chattanooga at New Orleans SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Jacksonville nS 44 S89 Ressess ‘Colum! cass LA a 2 ntgomery 1-5, Jacksonville 0-6 (both games 9 innings) SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Augusta at Charlotte Colunbus at Savannah Macon at Columbia saTuRDAY's BA ‘SCRE! IC, ASSOCIATION Louisville at Indianpolis Toledo at Kansas City Columbus at St. Paul (2) Charleston at Minneapolis (2) ‘DULE Shreveport at Fort Worth INTERNATIONAL Montrreal at Toronto Ottawa at Rochester Buffalo at Richmond (2) Syracuse at Havana Fort Sivemeiperton ach at alt Panama City at Crestview on oP? Graceville at Doth FRIDAY’S BASEBALL RESULTS AS TE: Fort Worth 6, Shre: Dallas 2, Besamont te * Tulsa 5, San Antonio 4 Houston 8, Oklahoma City 7 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘polis 8, Louisville 7 Toledo 10, Kansas City 7 Columbus at St. Paul (2) ppd, raitt. Charleston at Minneapolis (2) ppd, INTERNATIONAL Montreal 2-7, Toronto pended game of May Ottawa 7, Rochester 5 Buffalo 7-7, Richmond 3-4 « games scheduled) Sacramento 5, Oakland 3 (Only games scheduled) ALABAMA-FLORIDA 0 Andalusia-Opp 5, Fort Walton Beach 2 BARGAIN DAYS SPECIAL August 2 - 3 - 4 START and GO with Starts 809 Times After Only 5 Minutes Rest In a recent test, a stock Hester Battery was deliberately discharged by engaging the starter on d car, with the switch off, until the battery refused to turn battery was allowed to car was then started and the engine stopped immediately. This operation was repeated 809 times before the battery failed. 12 MOS., 39 PLATE, Reg. Price $15.58 _ FITS MOST C...:S ‘Special Prices for All Makes of Cars “rain. | Brookiyn si 0-1 (ist was sus- » Lead In Kansas City Open KANSAS CITY #—Wally Ulrich, | Grouped at 137 were Gene Lit- tler, Palm Springs, Calif., the U.S. nm runner-up, who shot a 67 yesterday; Earl Stewart, Jr., of Dallas with a 71, and Pete Torza, St. Charles, Ill., 68. Veteran Lloyd Mangrum, Niles, Ill, with a 70 yesterday, Ted Kroll, New Hartford, N.Y., 69, and Jim Turnesa Briarcliff, N.Y., 71 were tid at 138. Bob Toski, the little Livingston, N.J., belter, defending champion Ed Oliver, Lemont, Ill. and Fred Hawkins El Paso, Tex., were next at 139. Dr. Cary Middlecoff, Memphis, Tenn., a two-time tournament champion here, blew himself out of this year’s tourney with a 77, for a 36-hole total of 149. He’s been troubled by a sore hip. Sixty-one pros of the 160 who started the second round made the qualifying limit of 145 or better for the final 36 holes. Jim English, Topeka, Kan., led the amateurs at the halfway mark with a 73-68—141, RESULTS Panama City 8, Crestview 7 Graceville 7, Dothan 5 SATURDAY'S BASEBALL STANDINGS TEXAS Won-I vst Pet. Beaumont Dallas sasseses SRBS8ERS AMERICAN ASSOCIAT! S z Kansas City St. Paul .... Columbus Minneapolis Toledo. Charleston egees? aenaueees * ees INTERNATIONA: ‘Toronto Rochester Montreal Havana Syracuse Buffalo Ottawa Richm¢ eteenssad sauseanes lollywood San Diego ..... San France! Oakland Sacramento seagesace Ft. Walton Beach Andalusia-Opp Graceville Crestview Panama City ‘RID: Baltimore 10, New Celeveland 8, Washin; Chicago 4, Philadelphia 2 Detroit 5, Boston 0 SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Washington at Cleveland New York at Baltimore Boston at Detroit Philadelphia at Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia F New York 6, Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 9, Brooklyn 3 St. Louis 12, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 8-5, Chicago 6-8 SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Cincinnati at New York Milwaukee at Brooklyn St. Louis at Philadelphia (8) Chicago at Pittsburgh the engine over. The test for 5 minutes, the 80 AMP. BATTERY for only $7.71 Exch. LOU SMITH — 1116 White Street 8-6, 6-0, ° Durocher Spikes ° Rumors Of Giant . ° Dissension By ED CORRIGAN NEW YORK \ — Manager Leo Durocher today put to rest for- ever, he hopes, rumors that his New York Giants are torn by dissension. “There is no dissension on this club at all,” he said before send- ing his club against Cincinnati jn the second of a four-game set, “Furthermore the Lockman inci- dent #s closed—for good.” Durocher was referring to his | hassle. with first baseman Whitey Lockman during Thursday’s game against St. Louis. Durocher yanked | fi Whitey after he failed to run out a grounder and the two had words in front of the dugout to the de- light of the Cardinals, “Whitey definitely is and will re- main my first baseman,” Durocher continued. “All we need is a couple of games like our 6-1 victory ovcr the Reds last night.” “We were in some sort of a tail- off after our winning streak,” Durocher said. “It’s too bad that everybody had stopped hitting. Just to pick out some names at random, Al Dark, Davey Williams, Monte Irvin and Wes Westrum haven’t been able to do a thing. “With no hitting, the pitching, which I call 85 per cent of our game, went sour.” HOW ABOUT A DOG? MOULTRIE, Ga. ® — William Raiford was plagued by rats, He got a couple of cats and pret- ty soon there were no rats, But at last count, there were 14 cats, “You can’t win,” says Raiford. Al Brosh was born 15 miles from S|the Cherry Valley Golf Club at Garden City, N. Y., where he is golf pro. He was born at Farm- ingdale, N. Y. Cockell Eyes Marciano Bout SEATTLE (#—Burly Don Cockell dreamed today of an early whack at Rocky Marciano and the world’s |heavyweight title after his lethal fists — with an assist from a slipped sacroiliac — disposed of |Harry “Kid” Matthews last night in the eighth stanza of a sched- juled 10-round fight. Matthews could not vome out for the eighth against the British em- pire champion, who outweighed jhim 210% pounds to 180. Cockell had the edge all the way !and the crowd of 10,478, which paid |$91,000 to see the somewhat sout |finish, thought it was his headhunt- jing attack which left Matthews ‘helpless. | The clouter from London, for |whom this was a third triumph over the same enemy, felt this was |his best fight of the three. Referee James J. Braddock, for- mer heavyweight champion, called thefirst round a draw and gave all the rest to Cockell. (Miami Mailman Was “Too Tired” MIAMI, Fla. W—A 42-year-old letter carrier admitted he de- stroyed about 180 pieces mail be- cause he “didn’t feel like work- ing.” William C. Grey told U. S. Com- missioner Roger E. Davis during a hearing yesterday that “I don’t know why I did it. But I’m guilty and I want to get it over with.” A complaint said Grey dumped the circulars and postcards near a trash can at the rear of a serv- eci station May 21. An inspector quoted him as exe Pplaining he did it because he was “too tired and I guess I didn’t feel like working that day.” We’re Back Again! STOCK CAR RACES SUNDAY, AUGUST Ist — 2:00 P.M. Boca Chica Beach Track KEY WEST STOCK CAR ASSOCIATION ADMISSION $1.25 Tallest In Town! Super-sodas, built sky high and topped with real whipped cream! SIGSBE SNACKERY 100% Air-Conditioned ‘ .