The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1954, Page 6

Key West Little Leaguers Are In Finals , Lopez, Dick Garcia Star In 2-1 Win Over Sarasota The Key West National League All-Stars edged Sarasota last night 2-1, to gain the finals in the South Florida Tournament in West Palm Beach. The Victory gave them the right to play the North Bro- ward entry tonight at 7:30 p.m. The winner of to- night’s tilt will represent South Florida in the South- -ern Regional tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina, starting next Monday. In’ gaining last night’s victory the Conchs proved that they can compete with the best of them. They managed to garner but two hits off Sarasota’s ace hurler, Mike | Kubbes — but they got them when they were needed. Kubbes is the ‘boy who has hurjed seven no-hit- ters throughout the regular little league season in Sarasota. Kubbes | fanned 11 batters and walked four’) for the evening. | Meanwhile, Eloy Lopez was hurl-| ing a steady ballgame for Key) West. He failed to fan a single bat- ter but he scattered six Sarasota) hits. Dick Garcia’s pinch single in the third inning was the big hit of the All-Stars To Meet The Junior Conchs The Junior Conchs will battle the Key West All-Stars Friday at 7:30 p. m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. The Conchs walloped the All- Stars last Sunday, but Mana- ger Valdez is not satisfied and he has challenged Conch ma ger Bill Cates to a rematch. Joe Lewis will.hurl for the All-Stars with Paul Higgs slat- ed to go for the Conchs, A’s Have Two (Offers To Buy Franchise PHILADELPHIA (#—A board of directors meeting of the Philadel- two offers to buy the American League baseball club. One comes from a Chicago busi- nessman who wants to move the team to Kansas City. The other |was presented yesterday by a syn- dicate seeking to keep the A’s in the Quaker City. Today’s meeting follows talks be- tween the Philadelphia group and Roy Mack, executive vice-president of the A’s. The “basis for settlement” by a evening. Kubbes had walked two group headed by financier Albert batters and a wild pitch put them|M, Greenfield and drug store ex- into scoring position. Garcia’s bin- | ecutive Harry Sylk was the second gle plated them for the winning | offer for the club within a week. tallies. Sarasota’s run came in the six- th when Garret singled and Kubbes doubled him home for the tally. Key West nipped an infant Sara- sota rally in the fifth with a spark- ling double play. There were Sara- |Chicagoan Arnold Johnson recent- jly said he would buy the club for |a reported 4% million dollars and move the team to Kansas City. The exact nature of the local syndicate’s offer was not disclosed |—possibly to allow Earle Mack sota base runners on first and third} and his father, Connie, now 91, to when Garret hit a roller down the! weigh the two without the pressure first base line. Nilo Garcia fielded | of public opinion. it and threw to catcher Dick Gar-} cia to’erase the runner. Garcia then relayed the ball to second pase to complete the double play. Tonight, manager Bob Santana will start Mike Hughes on the mound for the Conchs. He'll have Tony Estenoz and Dick Curry in reserve. The Conchs will return to Key West tomorrow afternoon. Batchelor Trial On POW Charges Set For Aug. 30 SAN ANTONIO, Tex. ® -- Cpl. Claude Batchelor, who chose to stay with his Communist captors in Korea and then changed his mind, is to go on trial before an Army court martial here Aug. 30 on charges of aiding the enemy while a war prisoner. The court martial had been scheduled to start in mid-August. | ‘The Army said the new date was set after consultation with Bat- chelor’s attorney, Joel Westbrook, but Westbrook told reporters it was ridiculous to expect him to pre- pare a defense in one month to charges he said it took the Army five months to prepare, Twenty-two U. S, prisoners orig- inally decided to stay, with the Communists. Later, Batchelor and |northland, Queen Elizabeth’s hus-| Cpl. Edward Dickenson of Crack- er’s Neck, Va., returned to the U.N. side. Dickenson was convict- ed by a court martial on similar | permine, 100 miles above the Arc-|K. W. Ins. Co. charges and sentenced to 10 years. Roy wants to keep the club here | and maintain an active part in its | affairs, Earle and his father have indicated they want out soon and |that the club’s financial situation is too precarious to continue oper- | ating much longer. |. It has been indicated that the |Johnson offer probably would |méan a two million dollar cash split for the three’ Macks. Greenfield, on the other hand, has estimated that it would take about 4% million dollars to “‘sal- vage’” the club, of which only a million would go to the Mack fam- ily. Cars Used By Duke Up For Sale YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest ter- | ritories (® — Two of the 2,500 res- idents of this gold bonanza town not only can get new automobiles, they can get royal cars. If they | have the money, that is. The cars were rushed 770 miles | by road from Edmonton, Alta., and |then across 200 miles of water by barge for the Duke of Edinburgh |to use during his visit here yester- day and today. | They will be up for sale after |the Duke’s takeoff later today for Churchill, Manitoba, 1,000 miles |away on Hudson Bay. | Continuing his tour of the barren {band arrived here by plane yes- terday after a two-hour stop at | the tiny Eskimo settlement at Cop- tie Circle. | mines here. He visited two gold Phia Athletics is faced today with | Page 6 THE KEY WES TCITIZEN Wednesday, August 11, 1954 Moore Is Favored To Whip Johnson By MURRAY ROGE NEW YORK (#—Light heavy- weight champion Archie Moore, still a great fighter as he nears his 38th birthday, is a 5-8 favorite to whip stolid, young Harold John- son in a 15-round title bout tonight. The globetrotting 175-pound rul- er, now a Miami resident, will be seeking his 19th straight victory when he steps into the Madison Square Garden ring at 9 p.m., (EST) against the muscular, 26- year-old contender from Philadel- phia. It will be the fifth scrap between the two Negroes in a series dating back to April 26, 1949. The first time the clever and experienced Moore floored the ex-sailor twice j and won dcisively. The next three ; were all close with Moore winning |two and Johnson one. Johnson's ten round triumph on Dec. 10, 1951 was Archie’s last defeat. The strong-armed Moore edged the Philadelphian Jan. 29, WORTHING, England, (#—Sir | Gordon Richards, pint-sized knight of the saddle and the world’s lead- ing jockey, has decided to give up riding at the.age of 50. Sir Gordon has been thinking for a year about hanging up his saddle. An injury suffered in a spill a month ago apparently has- tened his decision to quit. “TI shall never ride again ia public,” he announced suddenly yesterday. “After 34 years as a jockey, every minute of which I have en- joyed, it is naturally with no little regret that I make this an- nouncement,” said the man who knew the friendship of kings, queens and commoners alike. At Sandown track July 10 Sir Gordon was thrown and crushed at the paddock by Queen Eliza- beth’s colt, Abergeldie. His retirement leaves another English-born jockey—Johnny Long- den—as the leading active rider. |Longden at 44 has won more than 4,400 races, while Richards retires with 4,870 victories. Strand Wins In Babe Ruth Loop The Strand Theater nine picked up their second victory in the sec- ond half Babe Ruth League race iast night when they downed the Key West Insurance Co. nine, 11- 8, in the Wickers Field Stadium. Enterprises baseballers triumphed over St. Joseph’s 12-3. outs in the fifth frame and seven runs crossed the plate. Taylor had three hits for St. Joseph’s and Solomon had two for the winners. In the nightcap, the Insurance boys matched the Strand’s 11 hits but could not bunch them properly. Kerr had a double and a single for the winners and Owen had three singles for the losers. League action will resume Thurs- day at 7 p. m. in the Wickers Field Stadium when the Key West In- surance Co. will meet Evans and Strand will tangle with St. Josephs. The standings: Strand Avg. 0 1.000 -500 Evans -500 St. Josephs » ee aa 02 In the opening game, the Evans | * St. Joseph’s blew up with two} 155 1952 and went on to sweep 17 other fights, including three title con- tests with Joey Maxim. In building up a 12-fight victory streak of his own, Johnson, son of a former heavyweight boxer, de- feated Ezzard Charles and Nino Valdes, the two leading heavy: weight contenders. Although the match between the two leading light heavies has been long awaited, the promoting Inter- national Boxing Club probably will be satisfied with a crowd of 8,000 and a gate of $30,000 at a $10 top. The telecast and the local radio broadcast will bring in another $50,000. Moore will get 40 per cent of the net gate and radio-Tv money while Johnson is down for 20 per cent. If Johnson wins, he'll have to give Archie a return fight within 90 days at a 30-30 split of the purse. Although he’s been fighting 18 years and has had 141 scraps, this will mark Archie’s debut as a Mad- ison Square Garden contestant. British Jockey Quits At 50 Landy Changes Cut Foot Story VANCOUVER, B. C. #—John Landy admitted yesterday he ac- cidentally cut his left foot the day before he and Dr. Roger Bannister ran the “Miracle Mile” and said he tried to keep the injury secret so it could not be construed ag an alibi. After a day of denying published reports, the Australian miler reluc- tantly acknowledged the stories were true. He told reporters he stepped on a photographer's dis- carded flash bulb, inflicting a cut that required four stitches. The accident occurred at 3 a.m. Friday. Landy said yesterday the cut “didn’t bother me in the slightest.” Despite the injury, Landy the field in the mile until Apres ing yards when Bannister spurted past him to win in 3:58.8. Landy was clocked in 3:39.6, Major League Leaders RICAN LEAG! BATTING—Noren, New ‘ne a. RUNS—Mantle, New York, 93. RUNS BATTED IN-Doby, Cleveland, 99. HITS—Fox, Chicago, 1 ME RUNS—Doby, BITCHING © Contests” 224, NATIONAL LEAGUE be LE. BA’ "i 3 RUNS—Musial, §t. Louis, RUNS BATTED in “Msiale” %. Louis, HOME RUNS-Mays, No . PITCHING- Wilson, Saueauneer €0.°5.000 Boxing Results MUM BEACH, Fla, pe Sales. awlings, . . DETROIT ~ sonny Liston, 201, 9t. Louis, gutpointed John Summertin, 195% tte” Sn a tee 21, Oakland, 10. | The 1954 PGA championship will ‘be held July 21 through 27 at \Keller golf course, St. Paul, Minn, | Birdie Tebbetts, manager of the Cincinnati Redlegs, is a licensed insurance agent and broker, Stanky’s Removal As Boss Seen, Giants Shade Bucs Yanks Move To Within Three Games Of Lead By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer Eddie Stanky’s chances of stick- ing as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals appear to be growing slimmer day by day. Fa Unless there is a sudden change for the better in the Cardinals’ fortunes — and none is in sight— owner Gussie Busch is going to have to decide how much longer he can stick with Stanky in face of mounting opposition. The source of Stanky’s present difficulties is his pitching staff. He talked hopefully about his mound corps during the spring, especially after the purchase of Vic Raschi from the Yankees, But it hasn’t been good, even at the start, and the staff has gone from bad to worse. Raschi took his lumps last night in an 11-0 trouncing by the Milwau- kee Braves. It was the seventh loss for the veteran righthander, who has won eight. Cardinal pit- chers have completed only 27 of 110 games and only one this month. The Cards sank to sixth place with the loss. Eight of the 10 Mil- waukee hits went for extra bases. Del Crandall, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Eddie Mathews all hit home runs. Even with another two years en his contract Stanky must be mighty uncomfortable. There was a lot of good pitching last night, too. Jim Wilson of the Bri gave St. Louis only three singles in winning his eighth game without a loss. Johnny Antonelli and Marv Gris- som combined in a three-hitter as the New York Giants shaded Pitts- burgh 2-1. The Giants got only four safeties off Dick Littlefield and Johnny Hetki. Lefty Mel Parnell of the Boston Red Sox scattered four hits in beating Washington 4-0. Ned Gar- ver spaced five singles in Detroit’s 40 triumph over Cleveland, The Braves gained a game on second place Brooklyn, which lost to Philadelphia 6-3, but stayed 7% behind the Giants. ‘The New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 5-2 and moved within three games of the Indians. Baltimore whipped the Chicago White Sox 3-1 and Cincinnati edged the Chicago Cubs 2-1, Cleveland's pennant drive was stymied temporarily by Garver, who lowered his earned rup aver- age to 2.21, lowest in the league. Wayne Belardi’s 11th homer, in the fourth inning, provided the only scoring until the eighth when the ran wild on the bases. Grim gave up 10 hits to the Athletics but kept them scat- tered in becoming the first rookie to win 15 games this seagon. Parnell’s victory for the Red Sox was his first this season. The left- hander has been sidelined with a broken wrist most of the year. Ted Williams had a perfect night with two singles and two walks, A day game between the Sena- tors and Red Sox was rained out. The Birmingham Barons of the ‘Southern Assn. have an odd-size battery when Mark Freeman, 6 feet 6, is the pitcher and Jack Urban at 5 feet 8 is the catcher. Grand American Is The Nation’s Noisest Sport By FRITZ HOWELL @ Newsfeatures VANDALIA, Ohio — America’s + Dead- ing up for sports event. It’s the cash-conscious 55th Grand American trap-shoot, sched- uled Aug. 20-28 on the half-mile firing line of fhe Amateur Trap- shooting Association’s permanent home here. Last year more than 2000 scat- tergun enthusiasts fired in the 1000-target championship bom- bardment. At least that many will be on hand this time, and they’ll Tepresent all the states, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba and the Canai Zone. 60 Tons of Pellets More than 1,500,000 clay targets will be thrown, and the same num- ber of 12-gauge shotgun shells will spray some 60 tons of lead pellets at them. ‘This is a peculiar sport in many Ways. ye Dicks and Doras are tun- the nation’s noisiest | One oddity is that the amaturs | win cash pries—and plenty of *em |—while the professionals win tro- |phies only. Another is that favor- ‘ites seldom, if ever, win—especially | talented are placed far back of the traps from which the elusive |targets take off. A third peculiar- lity is that the spectators pay a |slight fee at the gate—not to de- fray expenses, but to hold down the erowd. in the handicap events where the | To fire the full nine-day pro- gram requires $276 in entry fees alone. That covers an 1800-target route, the first 800 in tune-up Taces. On top of that, if a shooter de- | sires to get into the optional wager- ing system, in which each is per- mitted to back up his prowess with cash, he may pour $479.50 into the pot. That’s a total of $755 for an “all the way” marksman, and many of them go the limit. HERE ARE SOME of the 32 traps at Vandalia. Ohio. They stretch a half mile and permit 100 shooters (they fire in squads of five) on the firing line at one time. The big event of the week is the Grand American Handicap, a 100-target race which requires a $25 entry fee.. Some of the visitors in the big race have picked up better than $10,000 for an afternoon of firing —and it’s generally some un- known from nowhere who has & hot day at the traps. The feature has been won by & 14-year-old boy, a 10-year-old man, Pastors, railroad — eonduuctors farmer, oil men, mechanics, gun club operators and others from all walks of life. No woman has ever taken the big prize, but several have come close. Ne Repeaters In S previous tries only five men have broken 100 straight to win, and mo one has ever won twice. Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, tated the greatest shot of our times at the traps, has never threatened in the handicap. He’s won the high overall champion- ship for the week six times, the North American clay target title (2000 targets at 16 yards) four times, the National Doubles crown twice, but in the handicap he fires from 25 yards back of the traps while the novices are at 17 yards, so he doesn’t have much chance. Only Walter Beaver, of Berwyn, Pa., has ever won from the -ex- treme 25-yard » ho one has won from 24 yards, and only three from 23 yards. Old Oriole AP Newsfeature BALTIMORE—The old Baltimore Orieles are remembered fondly by thousands of Americans not only for their contribution to base- ball legend but for starting an en- tirely different sport. : If it hadn’t been for the Orioles, there might never have been the game known today as duck pin bowling. The origin of the sport is traced directly back to members of that famed turn-to-the-century Last season more than 11,000 duck pin teams bowled on some 5,300 alleys in Canada and the eastern part of the United States alone. The annual duck pin tourn- ament, held this spring at Nor- folk, Va., attacted more than 900 teams. 5 Duek pin bowling is, simply, bowling with smaller balls and smaller pins. Authorities have established that the old Orioles—most of them bowling devotees—founded the game in their leisure moments. Looking for a light form of ex- ercise, they began rolling at reg- ular-gize tenpins with a six-inch ball. This was not entirely satis- factory so one of the players de- vised a set of smaller pins to con- Birmin form to the little ball. John McGraw the late Oriole and New York Giant manager, is said to have looked in on the game one day and, seeing the pins fly, declared they looked like a flock of flying ducks. Before long, a Baltimore sports- writer ehristened them ‘duck pins” and the name stuck. Duck-pin balls are slightly more than half as big as a reg- ular bowling ball—about 16 inches in crcumference to the regular fea ball’s 27-inch maxium—and the pins are nine inches tall compar- ed to the 15-inch height of the re-| gular tenpin. The diminutive balls and pins make for a tough, low-scoring game. Whereas regular bowling is considered more of a winter sport, duck pin bowling is an especially popular summer past- time. Baltimore-area bowlers, _fol- lowing the lead of the old Orioles, dominate the sport to this day. The ~1954 singles champions are waukee ~ Vinee Della of Baltimore and | Philadels Elaine Perlin of Norfolk. Men’s doubles champs are Dr. Harold | Chicago Carbaugh and Charles Harshman of Hagerstown, Md., and the ‘women’s tandem queens are Libby Rakowski and Juanita Johnson of Balitmore. The Patterson team of Balti- more captured the men’s team event in this year’s tourney and Hyattsville’s, of Washington, D. C., the women’s championship. Governing body of the sport is the National Duek Pin Bowling Congress with headquarters in Washington. Mel Parnell Has New Lease On Life BOSTON (#—A more confident Mel Parnell, injured nearly four months ago, took a new lease on life today and so did the Boston Red Sox after his four-hit shutout against Washington. “I was afraid that I was all washed up—that it was too late for me to stert over again,” ad- mitted the 32-year‘ old lefthander. The one-time ace of the Sox mound corps, making only his sixth appearance since his wrist | was broken by a pitched ball against the same club April 24, | P: allowed only two runners to get as far as secénd base in giving up three singles and a double for 4 40 triumph last night. “My arm had been me for a long time,” Mel said. “‘I was worried before this game. But Ballad ‘A VINCE DELLA Started Ducks ELAINE PERLIN National Duck Pin Champions Baseball Results SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. Behind 3 49 598 30 33 58 cd nm 3 at RESULTS 8 Atlanta 3 3, Birmingham 2 lashville 7, Mobile 5 Orleans 7, Chattanooga 3 WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE Birmingham at Little Rock = * New Orleans at Nashyille (2) Atl at Memphis (2) at Chattanooga SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Won Lost Pct. Behind 7 48 593 — jumbia 3, Montgome: Shariotie 6° Columbus 3 Macon 12, Jacksonville 9 WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE at Savannah Augusta at Jacksonville ery at Columbia Colukbus at Charlotte NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pot. Behind 70 41 (631 — New York on Bi » 66 6 35 33 2 a4 9 TUESDAY'S RESULTS Milwaukee 11, St. Louis 0 New York 2, Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphi: Cincinnati 2, Chicago 1 WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE Milwaukee at St. Louis Only games scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pct. Behind Cleveland 7% 33 (.6M7 New York Chicago Detroit. altimore ladelphia B88BRau! phil Baltimore 3, Chicago 1 Boston 4, Washington 0 (night gate) ‘Washington at Boston (day game), ppd., WEDNESDAYS SCHEDULE Cleveland at Detroit BASEBALL STANDINGS INTERNATIONAL | Won Lost Pet. | -2 fg si Dothan __........ | Andalusia-Opp Fort Walton Be: Graceville aIssseee agaaseees Eta bee TUESDAY'S RESULTS INTERNATIONAL San Diego 1, Hollywood @ Seattle 8. 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