The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1954, Page 6

‘Miracle Series” Between Indians And Braves Seen Tribe Stretches Lead To 4 Games In American Loop By JOE REICHLER AP Sports Writer Cleveland’s steady stream of vic- tories and Milwaukee’s spectacular Jate-season drive have brought up the possibility of a renewal of the 1948 Indians-Braves World Series rivalry. The betting gentry probably will give long odds it won’t happen but baseball has had miracles before. Remember the New York Giants incredible 1951 finish? A little over two weeks ago, if anybody had even suggested a Cleveland-Milwaukee World Series, he would have been hauled to the nearest nuthouse. Just 18 days ago, on July 22, the Braves were mired in National League’s fourth place, 15% games behind the Giants. What a change those two and a half weeks have brought. The Braves in third place today trail the pace-setting Giants by only 7 games. Fourteen Milwaukee victories in 16 games have slashed eight lengths from New York’s lead. Cleveland has won 15 of 19 during the same pericd and wid- ened its margin over the Yankees to four games. That is the Indians’ biggest lead since July 4. Milwaukee whipped the Giants again yesterday 5-2 to sweep the three-game series at the Polo Grounds, A fine six-hit perform- ance by southpaw Warren Spahn and a perfect day at bat by slug- ging third baseman Eddie Math- ews were the features. Mathews smashed his 30th homer, off loser Sal Maglie, singled in another run and scored twice. Effective pitching by Bob Lemon and Art Houtteman and home run hitting by Lemon and Larry Doby highlighted the Indians’ 7-2 and 5-2 doubleheader sweep over the inept Philadelphia Athletics. Lemon’s homer with one on overcame an early 2-1 Philadelphia lead in the first game. Doby’s 3-run homer off Alex Kellner in the first inning, his 26th of the season, got the In- dians off to a flying start in the nightcap. Pinch hitter Jimmy Delsing’s two-run homer in the 10th inning broke up a free-hitting affair as Detroit made it.two in a fow over the Yankees with a 10-8 triumph. The Yankees had overcome 4-0 and 8-5 Tiger leads to force the game into overtime. Delsing’s dramatic homer inflicted the fourth defeat upon ace reliever Johnny Sain and gave Steve Gromek his 13th vic- tory. Brooklyn’s runner-up Dodgers closed to within three games of the Giants with a 20-7 romp over the Cincinnati Redlegs. Aided by third baseman Chuck Harmon’s two-out error, the Dodgers rapped across 13 runs in the eighth, 12 of them unearned, to set a scoring record for that inning. Gil Hodges helped Carl Erskine achieve his 14th victory, banging out four hits including a double and triple in the big eighth. Chicago’s third-place White Sox dropped seven games behirid.Cleve- land, dividing a doubleheader with Washington. Rookie southpaw Jack Harshman shut out the Senators 3-0 after Washington had won the opener 7-6. Roy Sievers wielded the big bat in the first game, smashing his 20th and 21st home runs, Roy’s first homer came with two mates aboard in the first inning. His sec- ond snapped a 6-6 tie in the ninth. Jackie Jensen divided four hits, two runs and two runs batted in equally in each game as the Bos- ton Red Sox took both ends of doubleheader from Baltimore 4-2 and 4-1, The opener was won in the 11th on singles by Jensen and Billy Consglo and an errer by Billy Hunter. The second-game defeat was the 15th by Baltimore’s Don Larsen, to make him the losingest pitcher in the majors. Robin Roberts became the first pitcher to win 17 games and out- fielder Del Ennis drove in six runs as the Philadelphia Phillies took two games from Chicago’s Cubs 8-4 ‘and 8-3. Roberts was clipped for four runs in the first two in- nings of the opener but stopped the Cubs cold the rest of the way | despite yielding 12 hits. Ennis hit his 19th home run for the Phils in the first game. Granny Hamner, Danny Schell and winning pitcher Herm Weh- meier all tripled in a four-run Phillie outburst in the eighth in- | ning of the nightcap. | Pittsburgh’s cellar-dwelling Pi-| rates surprised the St. Louis Car-} dinals with a pair of victories 12-4} and 5-3 for their second double- header sweep over the Redbirds in three days. the Pirates blasted five Card hurlers for 15 hits in the opener and won the second on Ed Be ac es Page 6 Team— Westinghouse Electric General Eleetric Roy’s Book ‘Store Home: Milk Bill’s Southernmost Garage Junior Conchs Down All-Stars The Junior Conchs whitewashed the Key West All-Stars Sunday night by a 30 score in the Wickers Field Stadium. The game was played for the benefit of the National Little Lea- gue All-Stars who will leave today to compete in the state tourna- ment. A total of $25 was collected to defray expenses of the trip. Gibby Gates hurled for the Jun- ior Conchs, a club made up of for- mer Key West High School and Babe Ruth League players. He al lowed but six scattered hits. Only threat to the Conchs was in the second frame when Fernan- dez doubled. He was thrown out at the plate, however, when he tried to score on Greenwoods’ single. The Conchs plated two of their runs in the fourth inning when Sai- gado lined a drive to center field. string catch and it was good for two bases. Knowles then singled to right to score Salgado and took second base on a wild pitch. Eloy Rodriguez singled to centerfield to score him, Rodriguez tripled in the sixth in- ning and scored on an outfield er- ror for the Junior Conchs’ final tal- ly. . Rodriguez paced the Junior Con- chs at the plate and Fernandez led the Stars. Strand Gains Babe Ruth League Win The Strand Theater nine, first half champions, picked up a vic- tory as the second half chase in the Babe Ruth League got under- way Sunday in the Wickers Field Stadium. They trounced the Evans Enterprises baseballers 4-1, in a hotly contested ballgame. Pellagrini’s two-run single in the eighth. Boxing Results SATURDAY NIGHT'S FIGHTS VANA—Charley Salas, 156, Phoenix, AnAVSNpointed Charollto Spiriiuano, 155, Cuba, 10. YwoOD = Gil Cadilli, 196, Los annie stopped Jerry Struts, 129%, Port. dead, 6 In the first half of the twin bill, the Key West Insurance Co. pound- ed the St. Josephs nine by a 14-5 score, < The nightcap proved to be a pitching duel besween the Strand’s Sidney Kerr and Paul Higgs. Kerr gave up but three hits and Higgs Scattered two safeties. J. Dias hit both of the safeties for the Strand and LaTorre, Mon- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tito. missed on a try for a short; Industrial Keg League Standings — W. L. Total Pins 5 15,653 8 14,699 14,322 14,667 13,282 8 10 11 High Team Single Game: General Electric, 8434, High Team Series: Westinghouse, 2301. Individual High Game: O. Gomez, Roy’s Book Store. Individual High Series: Ken Myers, Westinghouse, 582. Union Of Right Wing Parties Seen In Italy ROME (#—Italy’s Fascist and Monarchist parties are discussing union in an extreme right wing bloc. Alfredo Covelli, Monarchist par- ty leader, confirmed the negotia- tions with the Fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), which expresses Monday, August 9, 1954' THE NEW CHAMPIONS — Key West's National Little League All-Stars, who left today to compete in the state tournament district crown in Miami, are shown above. Front row, from the left: Armando Mira, Richard Garcia, David Sweeting, Richard Curry, Pete Esquinaldo, Evelio Estevez and Sergio Hernandez, Jr. Top row, from the left: Frank Wayne, president of the National Little League; Carrol Key. Michael Hughes, Nilo Garcia, Tony Estenoz, Eloy Lopez, Aldo Bartolone, Danny Garcia and Keller Watson, manager. Robert Santana, assistant manager and coach of the team was not present for the picture—Evans Studio Photo. % BASEBALL RESULTS MONDAY’S SCHEDULE ere at rer oo a irmingham at Memphis (2) Mobile at Nashville (2) New Orleans at Chattanooga SOUTH ATLANTIC Won Lost Pet. Behind oO 4% 60 — RESULTS Charlotte 4-9, Augusta 1-1 Savannah 2, Columbus 1 Macon 7, Columbia § Jacksonville 7, Montgomery § MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Augusta at Macon Columbia at Charlotte Montgomery at Columbus Savannah at Jacksonville nostalgia for the days of Benito | Brooklyn Mussolini. They aim at “a pact of | Philadel united action,” he said. Covelli controls 31 deputies and 14 senators. The fascists have 29 deputies and 9 senators. Even united, they would have only nuisance value in Parliament. The ruling center bloc, dominated by the Christian Democrat party, holds 303 out of 590 Chamber of Deputy seats and 125 of the 237 Senate seats. ‘Monarchist strength recently was | Chic weakened when millionaire ship- owner Achille Lauro bolted the party, taking eight deputies and one senator with him. Lauro gen- erally is supporting the govern- ment. The trend toward rightist unity does have long range significance, in the opinion of political observers. Both the Monarchists and Fascists have showed growing strength in the last two national elections. By getting together now and planning their campaigns together, they could become a more important challenge to the government. tagudo and Leo Curry each had one for the Evans combination. In the opening game, the Insur- ance Boys took advantage of a sev- en run second inning to gain the win. Five walks and three hits did the trick. Casas hurled the entire game for the winners, giving up six hits. Guttierez had a double and Tay- lor a triple for the winners. Mc- Ewen and Moorhouse had doubles for the losers. Action will resume Tuesday night when St. Josephs and Evans clash in the first half of a twin bill at 7p. m. in the Wickers Field Sta- dium. Strand will meet the Key West Insurance Co, nine in the sec- ond game, Brooklyn 20, Philadelphia 8-8, Chicago 4-3 gh 12-5, St. Louis 43 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Behind Cleveland 1% ‘A ers ong sHassext sures MONDAY’S BASEBALL SCHEDULE Merican iew ‘ork vs Cincinnati at a AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘All Star game at Indianapolia Texas Houston Dallas San at Fort Worth Beaumont at Oklahoma City Shreveport at Tulsi RESULTS INTERNATIONAL Rochester 3-0, Montreal 2-9 (ist game 11_innings) Toronto 4-4, Ottawa 04 (and : game sus FI > sesseesn: ALABAMA-FLORID. Fort Walton Beach Graceville esassg keoeRs? geeebeue? Bs bet eRbese aseessexf sestesesf eRe? SbeREREE: auzerens= sesenses$ ssesesset~ sesree{ zusesese ee sresssanf shee ROUNDUP By DAVID NASON We will start this column with ‘a true fish story. At Friday nights meeting, Early Wise came on the scene lugging a 14 pound Permit, a wrecked rod and reel and a hap- py smile on his face. I will pre- dict this catch will win the out- board club’s Trophy for the out- standing catch this season. It was landed on 8 pound test line and spin tackle. Charles Moody, of Sfoek Island, was voted a member of the Out- board Club and is already turning up to do a bit of racing. Jack Knowles, another new mem- ber, has just acquired~ a hydro- plane and stock racing motor and is rai to go. Se Bill Porter says plans are all set for the cruise io Tavernier on the week end of 2ist and 22nd of August. d The March of Dimes Regatta will be run in Garrison Bight next Sun- day -afternoon. The field of boats should be heavy, as quite a few new racing rigs have joined the club. Will give another run down on the Regatta in Saturdays Citi- zen. New U. S. Open his final 18 holes. aS Thursday by eet the \Civie Bowling League Notes With only one more night of bowling left in the Civie Bowling League, the V. F. W. Post 3911 is almost assured of their first place position, Action in the league last week shows the VFW taking three points by forfeit, the Knights of Columbus also 3 by forfeit from the Elks, and the American Legion coming in strong against the Jay- Cees to take three big points. This leaves the standings as: VFW first place, K of C second, American Legion third, JayCees fourth and the Elks fifth. The Lion’s club team dropped out after three weeks of action. American Legion team rolled three game high series and high single game with a 2244 and a 767. They were followed closely by the VFW with 2119 and JayCees with 2032. VFW and JayCees also fol- lowed close in high single games with 742 and 698 respectively. Individual high three game ser- ies went to Gilmore (VFW) with 578, Spear (Am. Legion) with 531 and Sweeting (JayCees) with a 487, Individual high single games goes, for the week to Gilmore (VFW), with a 214, Spear with a 194 and Fradette with a 194 tieing for second high single and Gre- nuck (K of C) with a 18. Pinfail thus far in the league in- dicates the VFW rolling a total of 20,242 (8 man team) for a team average of 141; K of G totals 18, 515 (9 man team) for a team aver- age of 148; American Legion to- tals 19,286 (9 man team) for team average of 185.7; JayCees totals 17,427 (7 man team) for team av- erage of 137.3 and Elks totals 15,- 381 (8 man tam) for team average of 120.8. Gilmore of VFW still maintains his leading league average, in- creasing it this week to 180.5, fol- lowed by Stan Grenuck of Knights of Columbus who dropped to a 173.8 and Gene Halpin also of Knights of Columbus with a 161.4, So far the VFW holds the league record for high team single game with an 883 followed by the Knights of Columbus with an 848. Upon the completion of this lea- gue next Tuesday, trophies, donat- ed by Mr. Frank Wayne of Evans’ Enterprises, will be awarded. It will be announced later when jand where the presentations will take place. Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Norén, New York, .339. RUN! » New 5 ; |Bannister’s Race Amazed John Landy By JACK HEWINS VANCOUVER, B.C. # — John| Landy, the Australian running ma- chine who flows along like a quiet brook, shook his head today in slight bewilderment over the “Miracle Mile” he lost Saturday to Dr. Roger Bannister of England. “If anyone had told me I would run the mile in 3:59.6 and finish second, I’d have taken him on a bet right there.” But the great and gracious John L. added: “I can’t be disappointed. Roger was the best runner of the day, there’s no doubt.” The 35,000 spectators who filled Empire Stadium for the feature event of the British Empire games would agree with Landy. They hoped for, but did not expect, a 4- minute mile. Neither of the two principals in the 8-man race would predict such a blazing speed. But the track was dry and fast, the temperature around 75, the sun warm on the runners, Bannister er weather, but said conditions were much better than when he ran his world record 3:59:4 mile at Oxford last May. “I have very great respect for John Landy,” said the young Eng- glish physician, “and I knew I had to give everything to beat him.” His everything was 3:58.8— not quite as good as Landy’s pend- ing mark of 3:58 but better than Landy on Saturday. Landy led the way for three laps and up to the final 90 yards. But Doe Roger says he “ran in- dependent of the others. I set my pace for 3:59, which I felt would win.” Bannister ticked off the first lap in 59.2, the second in 59.8, the third in 59.6 and the last quarter in 60.2 seconds. Landy got the big jump that kept him in front so long by wheeling the opening quarter in 58.2. After that his times were slower than Bannister’s—60.1 each for the second and third and 61.2 for the last. Just before Bannister went ahead Sail Reported In Sehaefer Fishing Meet Some fish will be hard to beat and others are still easy marks. That’s the story of the Rudy Scha- fer Fishing Contest as the state- ‘wide event goes into its sixth mon- th of competition. The leading sailfish weighed 98’ pounds, was caught off Fort Laud- erdale, June 23 by Roy E. Abd- nour. This fine entry came as a pleasant surprise at contest head- quarters, which earlier had been forced to disqualify a 93% pound sailfish. In the latter case the en- try had been postmarked after the legal limit of seven days. On the other hand, the ladyfish (chiro) class is wide open. An ex- cellent 7% pound chiro was dis- qualified because it was caught four days before the event official- ly opened. At 4% pounds, this class is wide open, Several sec- tions of Florida produce bigger chi- ro than 4% pound: Heaviest cobia is small in terms of maximum weight for this spe- cies. The current leader weighs 47 pounds, was taken off St. Peters- burg. by Charles M. Levinson of Takoma Park, Maryland. Believe it or not, the entire state of Florida has produced but a sin- gle crappie (speckled perch) en- try in excess of the two pound minimum. This was made from Red Lake on March 13 by Burt L. Hampton of Jacksonville. Num- bers of lakes house larger crappie than that. The first two to send in legal crappie entries will rate au- tomatic plaques, unless displaced. The dolphin class illustrates an important phase of the Rudy Schae- fer Fishing Contest namely, the way its statistical section can pin- Point unusual angling activity. Sev- en giant dolphin have been enter- ed so far that range from 46 to 56 pounds. Of these, five weigh 51% or more pounds. They were caught between Key Largo and Palm Beach Iniet. The leader is William Shearer of Riviera Beaca and he got his huge dolphin from an outboard powered skiff. There are no entries for bluegill (bream). The minimum for entry is two pounds. On the other hand, the black bass class is especially strong with fine representation from 22 Florida counties, Seatrout has been the most po- .|pular fish so.far. Gary Bennett’s HOME RUNS—Mays, New York. 26. PITCHING (eight decisions) — Antonelli, New York, 16-3, #42. Seafood of Cocoa is a single weigh- ing-station which has checked over 800 seatrout of 6 or more pounds. “Some fish may be hard to top,” said sponsor Rudloph J. Scheafer of New York and Florida, “but I have looked the listings over care- [fully and can see room left for lots of competition.” said he would have preferred cool- | they passed the clockers at the 1,500-meter mark and Landy was clocked in 3:41.9, topping the world record of 3:43 for the metric mile. Rich Ferguson of Canada ran the greatest race of his life to take third place ahead of Vic Milligan of North Ireland and Murray bert of New Zealand. Bannister now will go back to England to work at being a doctor. “My medicine comes first,” he said. He does plan, however, to com- pete next month in the European games at Bern, Switzerland. Landy probably will go to Glas- | gow, Scotland, to compete in a mile race Aug. 20. Then he will go back to Melbourne to begin a teaching career Sept. 3. Officials Probe Killing Of Dogs \In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS — Sheriff's officers were checking numerous tips today in their quest for the Person who threw strychnine load- ed wieners into a kennel, killing eight dogs that were being trained to lead blind persons. Deputy Sheriff Eric W. Stephens, in charge of the investigation, said nothing definite had been turned up. Meanwhile, John L. Sinykin, training director for the Master {Eye Foundation of America, i feared about seven of 15 other dogs made ill Saturday by the poison would not survive, i Sinykin, who termed the Poison- ing as “the most inhuman act I’ve ever seen,” knew of no enemies who might have poisoned the val- uable animals, Sinykin said the dogs that died had been valued at about $20,000, Among them was Sir Lancelot, the national champion. Offers of aid and Messages of sympathy reached Sinykin from more than a dozen states, The Master Eye Foundation of America is a non-profit organiza- brit beste training German is a Adin; guide blind Sacieeg: ier Jockey Jimmy stakes during the Monmouth Park, —_—.. 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