The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 19, 1954, Page 6

Pennant Contenders In Both Leagues Triumph American Loop Leaders Ride On Win Streaks By BEN PHLEGER AP Sports Writer Maybe the American League should let Cleveland and New York go ahead and play the five games they have left with each other and get the pennant race. The way the Indians and Yan- kees are playing now they might) well win all their other games| anyway. j They have to use up their strength playing “‘crucial’’ series with teams mathematically elim- inated from all possible chance at the title. A slipup anywhere along the line could spell the difference. Just consider the futility of the chase. In their last 68 games — more than half of their total played to date — the second-place Yan- kees have gained exactly half a length on the Indians. Here are the figures: The Yan- kees have won 9 in a row, 15 of} their last 18, 35 of their last 43, | and 52 of their last 68. But Cleve-| land has won 8 straight, 12 out of 13, 17 out of 20, and 51 out of 68. Everybody with any pennant hopes left in either league won yesterday. Cleveland beat Detroit 40, New York defeated Philadel- phia 6-1 and Chicago whipped Bal- timore 4-1 in the American League. The New York Giants thumped Philadelphia 6-2, Brooklyn shaded Pittsburgh 3-2 and. Milwaukee de- feated St. Louis 3-1 in the National. | In the only action not involving | a contender, Boston edged Wash- ington 9-8 in 11 innings on Karl Olson’s single with two out. Ted! Williams went hitless in six times at bat. Cincinnati and the Cubs were | | | Olson Says He'll Beat Castellani By RUSS NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO #—This may not be “stop the press” stuff but it is news when middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson makes an outright prediction. In a question-and-answer inter- view that was practically pried eut of the 160-pound kingpin, he said he expected to beat the No. 1 chal- lenger, Rocky Castellani, in their 15 trained for a 15-round fight,” he said. Asked if he expected to win by a knockout or a decision, he said, “I’m ready to go 15 rounds, come what may.” He has no set plan of battle. “I’m ready for any kind of fight Castellani puts up.” He was asked what kind of a fight he expected the challenger to wage. “From what I have read im the papers I expect him to try to jab and outspeed me. If that’s what he does, I'll press him all the way.” Odds makers have established Olson the 4-1 favorite. The bout will be nationally tele- vised (except for a San Francisco blackout within a 100-mile radius) from the San Francisco Cow Pal- ace by NBC. Starting time will be 1@ p.m. EDT. Most observers think the pulver- izing body beatings Olson hands out will win him the fight. But Castellani followers see the form- er Luzerne, Pa., coalminer, now a -round title fight tomorrow night. ¥ “I have trained hard and I have oer Baseball Results SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE ‘Wen Lost Pet. Behind 585 376 586 345 Savannah Jacksonville Macon. Columbia Montgomery Charlotte 15 72 31 Augusta Columbus WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Charlotte 6, Columbus 3 Columbia at Montgomery postponed, rain Macon 4, Jacksonville 1 (called end sixth, rain) Savannah 11, Augusta 4 THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Charlotte at Columbus Columbia at Montgomery (2) SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. New Orleans a 12, cy ” 4 or 15 7 7 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Mobile 2, Memphis 0 New Orleans 7-11, Little Rock €7 Nashville at Atlanta postponed. rain Chattanooga at Birmingham (2) post: | , rain | Nashville at Atlanta (2) Chattanooga at Birmingham (2) Memphis at Mobile Little Roek at New Orleans NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind 7a 44 ga — 7 2 a % 19% W 17% 26% » Philadelphia Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS New York 3, Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 3, Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 1 Cincinnati at Chie Ped., raim THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Philadelphia at New York Brooklyn at Pittsburgh St. Louis at Milwaukee Cincinnati at Chicago (2) AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 3718 New Yerk Chicago Detroit Washington Boston Philadelphia Baltimore. too, for Gerald’s catch slides into Youngsters Are Urged To Enter Fish Tourney There’s lots of room in the Rudy Schaefer Fishing Contest for young anglers. In his instructions to con- test headquarters, sponsor Rudolph J. Schaefer said: “Be fair to everyone, of course, but remember that today’s youngsters may grow a bit straighter if encouraged in their fishing and _ out-of-doors play.” Answering him was 14-year old Gerald Pledger, of Panama City Beach. The 19% pound bonito he caught from the Panama City Beach fishing pier was a class leader for over two solid months. Even in early August it holds down third place. This is a re- markable thing, considering that bonito are stock in trade for pro- fessional boat captains from Pen- sacola to Key West to Jacksonville. Thousands and thousands are caught each year by those fishing | from ocean boats. Thus, when a 14-year old lad en- ters a 19% pounder on 9-thread line, but fights it from an im- mobile fishing pier, he’s earned extra consideration. He'll get it, a special category. It’s ticketed for perusal by the nine statewide judges as an outstanding angling achievement, this decision to be made after the contest closes on December 31. Key West Seeks Softball Crown PENSACOLA (#—The opening 3-Way Tien 'High School Stadium Near Commercial Bowling Loop There was heavy action Friday | Plant Will Be night in the Commercial Bowling League when Johnnie's Place took | One Of Best four points from Rollaway Lanes to go into a tie with Rollaway Lanes and Roy’s Auto Parts who| In The State won four points on a forfeit from | | Monsalvatge Cigar Co. ar ae * | Key West Supply took four points | The Key ; West High | from Lindsley Lumber and stayed’ School's new football stad- in the race only one point behind|jum on 13th Street is near- porng ie Meare aie in completion and will be} | | Completion At 13th Street Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The (Former Capon Weatherman Mobster Slain Says| CHICAGO \®—Charles (Cherry Nose) Gioe, who survived gangs land shootings when he was a Thursday, August 19, 1954 e Key West and Vicinity: Partly bowling for average by throwing a 259, 199 and 194 for a 652 series. This is the first time in the league that any bowler has gone over the 600 series. His 259 singles is also seven straight strikes in this game. Paul Dennis of Johnnie’s Place also had a nice singles game with a 225 and a series of 506. Bud Bildreback of Johnnie’s Place had a 199 and a 507 series. Roy’s Auto Parts had high team singles game with a 842 and high three game series with a 2402. The standings are as follows: Rollaway Lanes Johnnie’s Place Roy’s Auto Parts Key West Supply Monsalvatge Cigar Co. Lindsley Lumber Race Track Crowds Are Up This Year By JOHN CHANDLER NEW YORK (#—Attendance at the nation’s major race tracks is up in a majority of cases, and may exceed the record total turnout of 1953, figures of the Thoroughbred Racing Assn. showed today. Incomplete figures through the end of July show a slight decline in the pari-mutuel handle, but racing officials are highly pleased at the attendance. There are reports from 29 of the jready for use when the} q Conchs make their public appearance Sept. in the Miami Hearld Foot- loudy and warm today thru Fri- first | day; isolated showers or thunder- 14 showers. Low tonight near 80 de- | grees; high Friday around 93 de- | grees. Light to moderate easterly |high game for the season. He had| ball Clinic, it was announc- | winds variable and fresh in thun- not find any witnes | dershowers. ed vodaye : | Florida: Fair and rather warm | All that remains to complete the | thru Friday except for widely scat- | $100,000 stadium — one of the fin-|tereq showers on the lower East {est prep school athletic plants in coast and widely scattered mostly ithe state — is the installation of afternoon thunderhoswers else- the lighting facilities. Four of the where., ten 90-foot light poles have been! Jacksonville thru the Flroda jinstalled thus far. The work will Straits and East Gulf: Light to |be completed by the end of the| moderate east to southeast winds | month. over south portion and variable | The lighting plant will be iden-| over north portion thru Friday. |tical to that in the Wickers Field} Partly cloudy and widely scatter- ‘Stadium, which is suitable for (ed showers in south and central, ‘Class A professional baseball. A | mostly fair over extreme north por- total of 240 1500-watt bulbs will} tion except for isolated afternoon | flood the field. , thundershowers. | Sod was placed on the field early; Western Caribbean: Moderate | this year and is in top shape. | northeast to east winds thru Fri- The erection of bleachers ac-|day. Partly cloudy weather with comodating 5,000 spectators will be | Widely scattered showers. started as soon the lighting] Weather summary for the tropi- { plant is installed |cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea area The brisk sale of season tickets | 4nd the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: lindieates that crowds will be big| Weather conditions are about nor- |this year as the Conchs tackle the|™al with no signs of a tropical | roughest schedule to date. | disturbance today. Future plans call for the erec- | tion of permanent concrete stands seating 10,000 fans. A 100 by 240 ‘foot practice field and a quarter ae sa mile track are included in the set- | Temperatures up. | Highest yesterday The field will probably be dedi- | Lowest last night - cated on the night of the football Mean clinic. The name of the new sta-/Normal __ | dium has not been selected, as far} |as The Citizen can learn | Precipitation Meanwhile, Coach Ed Beckman’s | Total last 24 hours Total this month |Deficiency this month | Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., August 19, 1954 93 80 87 84 T. ins. .6% ins. 1.89 ins. |Conchs are rapidly rounding into | shape with two a day drills at the member of Al Capone’s mob, was found shot to death in an automo- bile last night Assassins pumped five bullets in- to his body. Police said they could But they who had es. found several heard the shots Gioe’s body was slumped over jthe front seat, his head nst |tye right-hand door. The ignition |Keys of the car were clutched un his right hand. Gioe, 52, and three other Capone Sangsters were sent to prison in |1944 after their conviction of con- spiracy for extorting more than jone million dollars from the mo- | tion picture industry. The four won |a parole in 1947 after serving one third of a 10-year sentence Chief of Detectives John T. O'Malley theorized Gioe was am- bughed as he prepared to start his car after visiting a restaurant in |which he had an |restaurant is about |from where ( bs Erie St persons interest ne half a block tioe’s car was parked eet near May Street on the city’s near West Side. | Police said the slayers fired nearly a dozen shots, five striking |Gioe in the head, shoulder, back, chest and hip. |_ Police said the car, which bore ese license plates, had been loaned to Gioe by Jack Weingarten lot Chicago. Gioe, reportedly the manager of the big gambling operations of the Capone gang, had been questioned by police last March after the |gangland killing of Paul (Needle Nose) Labriola and James Wein- | berg, whose hodies were. found. tuffed into the trunk of an auto- 39 member tracks of the TRA, the @nex field. They will don the pads | Total this year 23.47 ins, | Mobile WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Cleveland 4, Detrois 0 New York 6. Philadelphia 1 Chicago 4, Balti: | Cleveland resident, as a winner Cleveland managed only fiye| due to his flashing speed. ; hits off southpaw Billy Hoeft but| Rocky's left jab is superior. He two were home runs — by Bobby | Moves in and out and around the Avila with the bases empty for | Ting faster than Bobo. He Probably the first run and by Al Smith |is the harder hitter with a right with two aboard for the other | hand. Excess this year __ 2.69 ins.| __ 4 | Visible light from the syh yas: ses through glass, but when it is reflected from objects. some of it jis tuurned into invisible rays of longer wave length which cannot penetrate The result is Tained out at Chicago. round of the men’s state softball tournament begins tonight, featur- ing the champions of the four dis- tricts. The Key West All-Stars district four, and McAteer Dairies of Ocala, district two, meet in the Parent organization which makes nd begin heavy work Sept. 1. up ali the major tracks in this ORL iat Sat et Sa country. Most of these have com-} TOD AY’S session me are still in operation | STOCK MARKET! Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 80% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.09 ins.—1019.0 mbs. New York at Philadelphia Detroit af Cleveland (2) Boston at Washington Chicago at Baltimore pleted their season, or have a fall} and final figures will come later. glass three. Early Wynn finally won his | 16th game in his fourth try. Chicago pitching continued to} baffle the last-place Orioles, who have scored only twice in their | last 27 innings. Sandy Consuegra, | lifted in the sixth for a pinch hit- | ter, registered his 15th success with fine relief from Dick Strahs | and Harry Dorish. Don Larsen was | charged with his 16th loss, tops in both leagues. Another hunch paid off for Man- ager Leo Durocher of the Giants. | He replaced the slumping Monte) Irvin with Dusty Rhodes and the! substitute outfielder belted two | home runs that accounted for five | runs. The night before. Durocher | inserted Rhodes’ roommate Bobby | Hofman and he homered twice. | The Pirates’ five-game winning; streak ended as relief ace Jim Hughes of the Dodgers retired the side in the ninth after two runs had scored and two men were on base | Lefty Warren Spahn checked the Cardinals on five hits, including | Stan Musial’s 32nd home run. Har-| vey Haddix had a one-hitter work- ing until two out in the seventh. A pop fly triple by Joe Adcock drove in the first run and he scored a moment later on a single by Andy Pafko. Gavilan ued For $150,000 NEW YORK (#—Welterweight | champion Kid Gavilan and George Gainford, who once worked in his| corner, have parted ways and Gainford is suing Gavilan for $150,- a0. The suit has been filed in Su-| preme Court, with Gainford claim- ing his “advice and counsel” helped Gavilan win the title. He said he was signed in 1947 ts ad- vise, counsel and create bookings for Gavilan at 10 per cent of the fighter’s earnings He said he never had been paid er given an accounting although Gavilan earned approximately 1'2 million dollars Gavilan entered a niel. GIRL DROWNS AFTER SURVIVING TUMBLE ATHALMER, B.C., American girl t 60 fell iv’ss Hh s y; Ro: dian Mounted Police reported yesterday. ‘The Mounties said Patricia Chri- spensen of Dubuque, Iowa, lost her palance while posing for a photo- graph Tuesday at the edge of Marble Canyon in Kootenay tional Park and toppled over th Buys general de- e ‘Ma Durocher Plays Hunches To Win Ball Games By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (# — Leo-Durocher, regrouping his faltering forces for the stretch run, is up to his old tricks again, A hunch player from way back, the New York Giant manager is playing them to the hilt—and they're paying off. Shocked by three straight losses to the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Durocher shook up his lineup a- gainst Philadelphia Tuesday night, putting Bobby Hofman on first, Billy Gardner on third and Ray Katt behind the plate. All Hofman did was slam two home runs and drive in four runs to spark a 8-3 victory. Gardner shone defensively | and Katt contributed a double and a Tun-scoring fly. Yesterday, with a right-hander pitching for the Phillies, Durocher sent Dusty Rhodes, the power-hit- |ting pinch hitter, to left field in | intianepele Place of Monte Irvin. Rhodes blast- ed a pair of home runs and drove in five rons as the Gianis won 62. Rhodes got the Giants off to 2 3-0 lead in the first inning, ham- mering Herm Wehmeier for a three-run homer. His second homer, and 12th of the season, came off southpaw Ron Mrozinski in the fifth with one man aboard. “Every time we go bad,” Duro- cher said, “I call upon Rhodes and Hofman. They're my minutemen. I first got the idea using them as | Heustop trouble shooters last fall during | our tour in Japan. They were both hitting fools on that trip. Dusty and Bobby easily were the best hitters on the club. If it weren't for them we wouldn't have won a single game in Japan.” Hofman's batting average of, 238 is misleading but Rhodes is Pacing the club with a .371 aver- age. He has driven in 32 runs on ° jor League aders AMEBICAN LEAGUE 138. Cleveland, 27 era, Chicago, 1-3, | NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING -Snider, Brooklyn. 39%. RUNS Musial, St. Louts, {RUNS BATTED IN- Mui - Lots, lia. ane ~Moon aad Schesadienst, #&. Lents, 183 WEDNESDAY'’S BASEBALL RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis 7, Toledo 5 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 8, Toronto 7 Buffalo 8-8, Havana 7-5 Rochester 4, Ottawa 1 Richmond 7-0, Syracuse 2-1 TEXAS LEAGUE Fort Worth 3, Dallas 2 Oklahoma City 10-0, Tulsa 6-6 Beaumont 6, Houston 3 San Antonio 4, Shreveport 0 ALABAMA-FLORIDA LEAGUE Andalusia. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE San Diego 9, San Francisco 4 Hollywood 7, Sacramento 4 Oakland 2, Portland 2 (tie, 13th, curfew) Los Angeles at Seattle postponed, rain THURSDAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Richmond at Syracuse Havana at Buffalo Only games scheduled AMERICAN. ASSOCIATION Columbus at Indianapolis Charleston at Ka City called end | Louisville at Minneapolis TEXAS LEAGUE Fort Worth at Dallas Tulsa at Oklahoma City Beaumont at Houston Shreveport at San Antonio ALABAMA-FLORIDA LEAGUE Andalusia-Opp at Crestview at Panama City Fort Walton Beach at Dothan BASEBALL STANDINGS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis St. Paul Cotambus Kanses City Toted ie . Charleston Rochester Montreal Syracuse Hevana Buffalo | TEXAS LEAGUE | we Pet. 387 332 was Shreveport San Antonio Oklahoma City Tulse Fert Worth Beanmont Dallas 321 436 422 481 424 om 80 74 73 a 87 6 ALABAMA-FLORIDA LEAGUF Pet x:Dothan 38: Andalusia-Opp Fort Walton Beach aceville Crestview Panama City x-Does not include S78 Wednesday PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE ‘Won Lost 8 35 Hu Bollywood San Diego San Franeisee s Angeles - Sacramento Portland STRIKE CALLED AGAINST ANACONDA Butte, Mont. The Inde- pendent International Union of | Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers have called a strike for Monday moraing against the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Negotiations broke off Aug. 10. The union is asking a 25-cent hour- ook 75 avi Aes 65 asl HOME RUNS&- Mays, New Yor! PITCH PITCHING — Antonelli, New York, 18-2, 4.833. ly wage increase pilus fringe benefits. first game. The second contest will pit Jarrard Motors club of Pensa- cola, district one, against Sally’s Grill of Tampa, district three. The tournament, a double-elim- ination affair, is the first held here since 1951. Last year’s winners, the Clearwater Bombers, go direct- ly to the regional tournament at Canton, S.C. A&P Announces Cut In Retail Coffee Prices NEW YORK —The Great At-! |lantic & Pacific Tea Co., operator | V00d Park, Longacres, of 4,000 A&P stores across the country, has announced a 10-cent cut in retail coffee prices, effective | today. The announcement yesterday by | jthe country’s largest food chain |coln was the first drop in coffee prices | |by a big nationwide distributor. | mutuels, Delaware 2.1, Longacres Smaller firms began announcing | price cuts Monday following a/ weekend easing of foreign ex- change regulations by Brazil. . The A&P cut applies to all its leoffee brands, bringing the price of Red Circle, 8 O'Clock and Bokar | fea Jabels down to $1.09. The three | brands have been selling at a umi- form price since June. , Yesterday, for the third day im a row, the price of coffee futures on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange dropped 2 cents a pound, | | ts, | the maximum reduction allowed in | any single day’s trading. \ ee i The eattle egret, a bird former- | ly found in Africa and Asia, sud- denly appeared in South America in 1930 and was found in the United States in 1952, says the Sacech arin, a very sweet sub- sometimes used as a sub- Stitute for sugar hae no food Vic Vet says INSURANCE ARE PAYING PREMIUMS ONCE, TWICE FOUR TIMES A YEAR Twenty of the 29 reporting tracks show attendance gains, while) NEW YORK (®—The stock mar- wagering is up at 16 of them. ket was irregularl; : The 1953 season was the greatest | t"ading today. Volume was light. | on record, as 27,969,331 fans turned | Changes were generally minor | out, and produced a two-billion-| fractions. | dollar pari-mutuel turnover for the, Steels, which were under selling first time. The total wagered was| Pressure most of yesterday's ses- $2,064,572,984, with total revenue to | S10. a a a de ‘ A | aircrafts. lemicals an ru fen TRCIDE qetates Deine 91s e ee dicen were also in moderate While the betting may not ap-| demand. The rest of the market proach 1953 because of various rea-| ““ = Wy ees locks a sons, including a tighter dollar, | es iC — piocks ~~ most tracks will settle on the con-| eee EH a 4 on Hea tinued gains in the gate. ee eee aun ony Teaches show . _!Shares and Montgomery Ward 74'2 ‘racks showing attendance Bains | yp 54 on 2,500 shares include Omaha’s Ak - Sar - Ben,| ‘Others improving were Republic | Aqueduct, Arlington Park, Den-/ steel, General Motors, Goodyear, | ver’s Centinnial, Delaware, Holly-| Boeing, Douglas Aircraft, Allied | Mon- Chemical, DuPont, Seaboard Air mouth, Randall, Saratoga-at- Line, and Twentieth Century-Fox. | Jamaica, Churchill downs, Atlan-; Lower were Bethlehem Steel, tic City, New Orleans Fair! Chrysler, Caterpillar. Radio Corp., Grounds, Garden State, Hialeah, | Philco, Commonwealth — Ediso Jamaica, Keeneland, Laurel, Lin-| Kennecott Copper and Baltimore & Downs and Oaklawn. Ja- Ohio maica was off 0.1 per cent in the | | M.P. 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