The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 28, 1954, Page 12

ms For World Series Win, 4th No Hitter : Ea% sue! i EE BAG i ; ; the mark for aR Hi i agar one-hitters, 11. Bob hasn’t given up on the of a fourth no-hitter. “I be- ieve I can do it,” he told the As- ted Press. “I’ve come pretty several times during the past 258 i reseee Be ! ' t te i i would put me in a class by my- self.” “Of course, I’m not near as fast as I was 10 years ago,” he added, “but the fast ball is still my basic Pitch. Now instead of resring back and fogging the ball through, 1 rely on control. I don't try to strike anybody out any more. | thinks When I was younger, | used to try to make the batters? miss my pitch. Now I try to make them hit my pitch—but at somebody, of course.” To mix with his fast ball, Feller always had a fine curve. Later he added a deceptive slider. This year he has been using a sinker effec- siants Nip Braves; bums i ih i r i i f i $ BE i zt 5 ae ee a Labine and Jim Hughes saved the game. The Giants put a temporary halt to Milwaukee’s pennant aspifations with. 2 3-1 triumph before a Mil- ‘waukee record crowd of 46,944. The Braves got to Sal Maglie for a run in the inning. but the veteran * Cleveland’s American League dead over New York was trimmed ‘to 3% games when the Indians were beaten by Washington, 3-2 in 10 innings, and the Yankees defeated it oe Chicago White Sox Page 12 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, August 28, 1954] National Net Tourney Starts|_ By ED CORRIGAN NEW YORK (# — Those experts FOREST HILLS, N.Y. @ — The| Who follow the daily fortunes of National Tennis‘ Championships the Yankees are convinced now under way on the manicured.Jawns,| that Casey Stengel will retire to of the West Side Tennis Club| his swimming pool in Glendale, as today. his wife has been begging him to Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT Trabert, the defending champion,| They sah at his sg y unimpres- |Party early e season Casey eatiee aor ae seriously “If I can’t win with season. , then I ought to quit and However, for the want of a chal-|let them hire a manager who can. are hired to win, and so mamagers.” Casey’s listeners not pay him too much migd at’ the time, but as the tide goes they feel certain: he 1, as is customary for the ing champion If he can play up his potentialities, no one will beat| against him him. Tony drew a first round:bye| meant it. ow Flash Of Brilliane Softball Set In Park Tonight The Howard Johnson softball team will tangle tonight with the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Force nine at 7:30 p. m. in Bayview Park. There will be two games. Right-handers Joe Lewis and Dan McGrew are expected te handle the mound duties for the locals with George “’Bunzy” Villareal on the receiving end. Johnny Selomon will be at the het corner of the HJ‘s with Rodriguez at short, Tite Angui- era at second base and Bobby Brown at first base. John Lew- is, Al Goshring and Emory Beavers will handle the eut- field chores. No lineup has been received from the tincen sailors but they. will have a team eon tap featuring the best of the At- lantic Fleet destreyers. A huge turnout is expected for the tilts. Durocher Not Worried. About Milwaukee By CHRIS EDMONDS MILWAUKEE (#—Leo Durocher is a mite dubious about the Mil- waukee Braves’ pennant chances. “I’m not counting them out, un- derstand,” warned the manager of the New York Giants, currently 7 games ahead of the third-place Braves and 3% ahead of second- place Brooklyn. “But the statistics are against them.” The Giants beat the Braves, 3-1, last night on Sal Maglie’s five-hit- ter which Durocher called “this best game of the year.” The teams meet again today with another sell- out crowd certain at County Sta- dium where last night's game drew a record turnout of 46,944. “I don’t count any of ‘em out until it’s impossible for ’em to win,” Durocher said in the club- house after the. game. “But the way T look at it, the Braves have got it pretty tough with two teams to catch instead of one. “I said at the start of the year I and won't see action until tomor-| For one thing, they have known Tow. all along that he was bitterly dis- Vic Seixas, his Davis Cup mate, | appointed when George Weiss, the has had little success of late and| Yank general manager, abruptly is conceded little chance of winning | sold pitcher Vie Raschi to the St. | the title, His first round opponent| Louis Cardinals early in spring - ‘Tom Morgan of the Yankees held the Tigers at bay with six hits, never more than one to an inning. ‘The shutout was the 16th suffered by the Tigers, tops in the league this season. Irv Noren hit his 1ith home run, Triples by Jim Rivera and Min- pie Minoso and a home run by ony Groth led to eight runs for i¢ago in the third inning at Phil. adelphia. Harry Dorish, normally yeserved for relief duty, pitched the shutout. ‘Boston’s winning run against Bal- timore came in the sixth with Harry Agganis, who had singled and moved around on an error, scoring after Ted Lepcio’s long ine Cubs tied the Phillies in the ninth on a home run by Ernie Banks, then won in the 12th when Hal Jeffcoat singled, scampered to third on an error and scored on a peautiful squeeze bunt by Gene Baker. ‘The Redlegs completed the first triple-play in the National League iis sedson. With Frank Thomas is Lt. R. Spencer Brent of Dallas, | training. s The Australians — Ken Rose-|. Casey didn’t realize that Weiss wall, Lew Hoad and Co. — was on the point of exploding be- miserably last year and there were | cause Raschi, who was holding out Tumblings from Down Under that | in a beach cottage only a few miles they were over-tennised. from Yankee headquarters, had thought 96 games would win the pennant. I still think so and that means I need 17 more out of the 30 we've got left, just a little over -500. “So if I get that many, the Braves have to win 25 of their 31 to tie me, all they can lose is six the rest of the way. “And with both us and ahead, they can’t let up at all, even against the rinky-dinks. It’s pretty Perhaps the ‘(dark horse” of the |not even called him by phone to/| tough. men’s division is Tom Brown, the San Francisco attorney. : Other top contenders include na- tional intercollegiate ch am pion Hamilton Richardson of Tulane; former ¢ham pion Art Larsen; Gardner Mulloy; Davis Cup cap- tain Bill Talbert; Rex Hartwig of Australia, Ed Moylan, Straight discuss the terms of his con- ‘tract. “If I'd known how it was,” Sten- gel told a reporter, “I’d a seen to it that Raschi called him. I could win another pennant if I had him.” So, if Cleveland wins and Casey calls it a long career, there are those who always will think it Clark and Bernard Bartzen. would have been different if a . The women’s field is topped by | $30,000 a year pitcher had spent paeee Brough, Doris Hart, Shir-|10 cents at the right time. et eee Barney Ross, who was a great Boxing Results [sms me "fes"ow She on second and Sid Gordon on first Jack Shepard bounced to third baseman Bobby Adams who stepped on the bag, threw to John- ny Temple at second and Temple’s Telay to first baseman Kluszewski beat Shepard. was awarded the 1954 Medal for proficiency in scholar- ship and -athletics. Braves’ Manager Charlie Grimm admitted the road to the pennant wasn’t any easier after losing to the Giants. “We're still in it, Grimm said. ‘‘They gotta knock us out to beat us and they haven’t|> knocked us out yet.” Told of Durocher’s observations, Grimm shook his head. “Well, then we gotta win " all,” he said. : Major League _ though,” Cleveland is than'it was in some of my young- er years. As long as it remains this way, I can pitch for several more years. I’m looking forward to at least two more winning years.” Baseball Set Here At Wickers Fieid A doubleheader set between the Miami McGahey Motors and two local teams. Sunday has been can- celled. Instead, the Junior Conchs will meet the Key West All-Stars in a game set for 8 p. m, in the Wick- ers Field Stadium. Feller hasn’t given up hope of ending his career with 300 or more victories but he admitted that goal is very remote. “If it weren’t for the war,” he said whimsically, “I’d probably be striving for 400 victories. And I’d almost certainly have been way out in front with more than 3,500 strikeouts. Based on the games I won before and after my four years in service, I figure I’d have won 100 more games and added 1,000 strikeouts, But I’m not com- plaining. I'd do the same thing again,” Although he has been a major leaguer since 1936, Feller probably remains the best conditioned ath- lete im the game. He is still as;pitching in the World Series is lean, muscular and as well-coor- | October. dinated as he was when he first came up as an apple-cheeked boy of 17. He weighed 185 pounds then and he weighs 185 now, A firm believer in self-discipli both on and off the field, Feller is a pee = calisthenics and oth- er forms exercising. Proper food, proper rest snk deetean ex- ercise are prime requisites. Al- ways the hardest working pitcher in baseball, Bob’ has been forced to change his routine this year be- cause of the long rest given him between pitching assignments. As for the Indians’ pennant | chances, Feller thinks he will be “We have the best team since 1948,” he said. “For the first time don’t mind telling you I w: happy when he decided away his bat forever.” National Amateur Golf Finals Match Bob Sweeney, Palmer 36-Hole Test Matches Pair With Opposite Backgrounds By HUGH FULLERTON JR. DETROIT (#—The final round of the National Amateur golf cham- in |Pionship—a tournament noted for SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE ‘Won Lost Pot. Behind ry ~ FRIDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS INTERNATIONAL H ef f” axesazsed § stzsess beke? Beesesuet as " ssadusaa ee eae eeegersse 88 i] s Indianapolis. ig Pad ae Austaaasy seesaaes geadeske? weeeseeez” getekay ' H Ww Baltimore Fain PEEEERL LTS rege zy f its contrasts—today matched a pair of golfers of sharply contrast- ing age, appearance and back- grounds. But Bob Sweeny of Long Island, Palm Beach, London, and The Ri- viera, and Arnold Palmer of Lat-' robe, Pa., Kake Forest, N. C., and Cleveland had one thing in com- mon—they’re darn good golfers when the strokes really count. The last two favorites, who as- sumed those roles only when the early choices failed, Sweeny and Palmer clashed today in a 36-hole final starting at 9:30 a.m. (EST). Sweeny is 43, tall and almost cadaverously thin, with an Oxford accent and an impeccable social background. And he’s a golfer who sometimes plays Ben Hogan “level” at the plush Seminole Club in Palm Beach and even gave Ben a handicap once. Palmer, 24, son of a Latrobe, Pa. professional, Milford (Deacon) Palmer, is a:‘medium-sized, muscu- U.S. Fans To See Canadian Football By JACK HAND Pade as ee . Pm Nica ne States ans gi e glim; of Canadian brand football with its 12-man teams and five-point touch- Fitzsimmons Has Chnace For Ist Hopeful Stakes SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. —Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who has put in most of his 80 years around a race track, stands a good chance of winning his first Hopeful Stakes pee ai ear classy 2-year-old col up in the 50th running of the rich event. The genial trainer will shoot with the even money entry of Nashua, from the Belair Stud: of William Woodward Jr., and the Wheatley Stable’s Laugh. With eight starters the Hopeful will have a $78,750 jackpot, the winner dragging down $57,050, plus a lot of consideration as the best juvenile of 1954. The race will be seen on the CBS television network from 4-4:30 p.m., EST, and heard over ABC radio, 4:15-4:30 p.m. Fitzsimmons, dean of American trainers who has sent out three Kentucky Derby winners, has high lar looking fellow with high cheek bones and a face that seldom breaks into a smile, He was virtu- ally up on a golf course and h: took time out to attend Wake Forest College—where he Atlantic Coast Con- last spring—and to st Guard—where other before today and hardly knew each other except to exchange an occasional nod around a golf course. Palmer, drawn. in the toughest quarter of the draw, had to dispose of internation; Stranahan and Don Cherry and then went 39 holes —matching the record length for amateur championship matches, to turn back his 37-year-old towns- man, Ed Meister, in yesterday’s semifinal. : Sweeny, last man off the tee ev- ery day, didn’t meet a prominent player on his way to the last round. His semifinal opponent, Dr. Ted Lenczyk, never before had qualified for the national and al- ways had played in the shadow of his sister, Grace. Sweeny, winner of the British Amateur 17 years ago, simply crushed him by a 5 and 4 margin. hopes for Nashua, who won the Grand Union Hotel Stakes here last Saturday in impressive fashion. ‘The strongest competition is ex- pected from C. V. Whitney’s Pyre- ne@s and Mrs. Russell A. Fire- stone's Summer Tan. Others en- tered are W. C. (Woody) Stephens” Brother Tex, James Cox Brady's Commonwealth, the Maine Chance ’s Grandpaw. Laugh took the Albany at Ja- maica and the Flash here, while Brother Tex won the Sanford here Aug. 16 and Summer Tan won the ¥ at Jamaica in April and United States Hotel Stakes here weeks ago. ATTENTION RIOS BROTHERS, $05 Southard Street, is moving from its Present location. See us Monday at 517 Duval Streei—the store formerly occupied by Kantor’s Mens Shop. 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