The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 2, 1954, Page 6

Spahn’s Rei urn To Form Was Too Late For Braves Berra Paces Yanks To Win - Over Tribe By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer Warren Spahn, whose sensation- al return to form ip midseason made the National League pennant race a three-team affair, still is; firing away with amazing precision although time probably has run out for his Milwaukee Braves. © After a mediocre spring and early summer during which he lost 10 games, Spahn hit his win- ning stride July 18. He won his ninth game that day, beating Pitts- Dburgh. Last night, again against Pittsburgh, he won his 17th. In be- tween he’s gone unbeaten. With 25 games left, a minimum of five more starts for the 32-year- old left-hander, Spahn stands a chance of'winning at least 20 for the sixth time. ; 23.while losing only 7:a the best of his nine sea- the Braves. He also won an 20 in 1947. and from| igh 1951. His worst big son was 1952 when he 55 SESE22 22 pea moved the Braves within 6% of the first-place New York and within 2% of second- Aaa both losers yes- Cincinnati beat the Giants 9-7 in a game played under protest ui He their pennant hopes alive with a 4-1 conquest of Cleveland, cutting the Indians’ first-place margin to 44 games. The Chicago White Sox split at Boston, losing the day game 7-2 and winning the night game 6-3. Washington defeated De- troit 4-1. Baltimore and Philadel- phia weren’t scheduled. The Braves scored one run on three hits and two runs on one hit in beating Pittsburgh. Three first- inning singles produced the first run. The other two came on Andy Lower Eeagues Are Producing SS | Baseball Slated At Wickers Field ‘The Strand Theater, 1954 Ba- be Ruth League champions will meet an All-Star team compos- ed of the other three clubs in the loop at 7:30 p. m. in the Wickers Field Stadium. Trophies will be presented to the champion batter, pitcher and other performers who ex- celled during the regular ses- sion. KOfCSets Unusual Talent For Majors City Bowling (AP) Newsfeatures Sports . ee HENRY AARON in 1951 he was from Negro baseball; first baseman Bob Skinner has been in the service : ‘jthe last two years and Brooks ’s 3-1 victory over the Pi-| - Pafio’s single, a two-base error | Colors by Curt Roberts, a sacrifice and a wild pitch. Neither the Giants nor the Dod- gers looked good in losing. The Dodgers committed four errors in the game, three in one inning and two on one play and their pitching was shaky. The bad inning was the ,sixth when the Cubs combined three hits with three errors for four runs. The Giants used seven pitchers in a vain effort to halt the Redlegs. Ted Kluszewski led the 13-hit Cin- cinnati assault with four singles and drove in three runs. Third base umpire Frank Secory ealled back what appeared to be a Giant run in the third-when he said he had called time before the play. Manager Leo Durocher im- mediately declared he would fin- ish the game under. protest. Its doubtful the protest will stand up. A grand-slam home.run by Del Ennis in the first inning paved the way for the Phillies’ victory in St. Louis. Yogi Berra and Eddie Lopat combined their hitting and pitch- ing talents in the Yankees” defeat of Cleveland. Berra scored one run, then drove in two more with his 18th homer. Lopat rarely has been more impressive with his assort- ment of “junk”. He gave up nine hits but only. one—Jim Hegan’s triple in the third—figured in the scoring. Johnny Schmitz won his ninth game and pitched his second shut~ out in dlanking Detroit on seven hits. . Reserve outfielder Karl Olson and rookie pitcher Tom Hurd were the standouts in Boston’s daylight victory over Chicago. Olson drove in two runs and scored a third. Hurd; who pitched the last 4 1-3 in- nings and allowed only two men to reach base, received credit for his first major league victory. Johnny Groth hit a two-run homer and walked with the bases loaded to force home a third run. Boxing Results WEDNESDAT'S FIGHTS both from Denver to Pittsburgh. Frank Sulivan, Albany ‘to Boston. Tom Finigan, Binghamton to Philadelphia A’s. Dan - Schell, ‘ Schenectady. to Milwaukee. Jacksonville to Henry Aaron, Milwaukee. Aaron, Shepard and Roberts are like. Grim.° They were, added’ just before: the season started. Their managers wanted to make certain. Aaron: got his chance when’ Bob- by Thomson: broke his ankle. He now bats. fourth for the’ Braves. He has been ‘one of the. | responsible for their August Finigan was ranked gue) "pug aeeb wrence. made the Cardinal staff after only two months with Columbus in the AAA American. Assn. In 1953 he was with Portsmouth, Va., in the Class B. Piedmont League. For fellows like Bill Skowron the Cards the climb wasn’t too difficult. They came from AAA ball, And Gene Baker of the Cubs came from unlimited class- ification at Los Angeles. But for the most part, the Class A’s have it. They are producing better players all the time. BASEBALL NATIONAL Fag oe gd saazusest ayeeeeeer” WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Cleveland i New York 4, Key West Gun Club To Meet September 19 ‘The Key West Gun Club which regularly meets on the ‘second Sunday of each month will net meet on Sunday, Sept- T. Hoppy, Key :West Insarange: Co. Aaclaginteill ac S. Kerr, Strand M. Casgs,-Key West ‘Insurance Co Cae tit J. Diaz, Strand... J. Tynes, Evans. G. Thrift, Strand . W. Allen, Strand * = S. Yates, Key Ws T. Estenoz, St. W. Albury, rane R. Taylor, St.) Joes (+ F. Brady, Key West’ Inkurenee About 45 per cent of the Japa- ’ ese are farmers. ie Fase SBC GF - ISTO RAD OO LTP a OAa jby the highest total pin fall for TOM FINIGAN RESULTS Kaneee City at St. P Paul Indianapolis at Minneapolis TEXAS LEAGUE Shreveport at Houston Beaumont at San Antonio Tulsa at Dallas Fort Worth at Oklahor INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Syracuse at Montreal Buffalo at Ottaaa Toronto at Rochester Richmond at Havana Major League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Noren, New York, .340. RUNS— Mantle, New Ri 108. RUNS BATTED < Saepeay we HITS—Fox, Chi HOME RUNS Deby, Cle PITCHING Conscogrey thtehae. ws, Na‘ TIONAL TEAGUE BATTING —Snider, Brooklyn, .346. bg aaa Brooklyn and Musial, St, (8. BATTED IN—Musiel, St. Loute, Mars ‘Mueller, New York and Sehoea- St. Louis, 176. HOME. RUNS— Klusrewaki, Cincinnati, 41. PITCHING—Antonelli, New York, 208, The Key West Citisen Is 4 FAMILY Newspaper Tourney Here The Key West Knights of Colum-! bus are sponsoring a Bowling Tour- nament to determine the city championship bowling team for 1954. jough steps are being tak- en to organize all bowling leagues under the American Bowling Con- gress, it will not be until 1955, | when the City Championship will be recognized officially by the Am- erican Bowling Congress. The winner and runner-up of each league will be eligible to en- ter this tournament which will be held at the Roll Away Lanes Bowl- | ing Center on Truman Ave. The| first match will be held on Tues- day, September 7, 1954 starting at | 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited. There is no admission | charge for spectators. The following teams have been entered in this tournament. Repre- | senting the Commercial league is| the Key West Supply and Johnnies | Place, from the Industrial league will be Westinghouse and Home Milk, the Civic League will enter the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Knights of Columbus. The tournament will be decided three nights of bowling by all teams. The Knights of Columbus will present the winning team with the Championship Trophy at the) Columbus Day Ball on October 16, 1954. Other trophies to be awarded | will i nclude one to each member | of the championship team, high- est average, highest single game and high three game series. Paul Dennis, of Johnnies Place, | has been appointed as chairman | for the tournament. Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK ™ — Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the 80-year-old dean of American trainers, is getting about the Aqueduct stable area/ with a spring in his step these mornings as he and his assistants attend to the care and feeding of some 30 thoroughbreds entrusted ; to their special talents. The reason is, say his associates, that “Mr. Fitz” has come back from the Saratoga meeting more than a little convinced that he has next year’s triple crown winner in Nashua, Belair Stud’s crack 2- year-old who won last week’s Hopeful Stakes at the upstate track for his fourth triumph in five | starts. Another sweep of the 3- weno classics — the Kentucky Derby, | Preakness and Belmont Stakes —| would supply a fitting climax to one of the most notable careers in the history of the American turf. They say there isn’t a man in the| business who wouldn’t be happy— well, fairly so — to see the kindly sage of Sheepshead Bay rack it up as his valedictory. The veteran trainer, who still drives his own car to work before; daylight and puts in a full 12-hour lay, already has a pair of triple crowners to his credit — Gallant Fox in 1930 and Omaha in 1935. | ‘Studio Audience’ Sees Substitute Bouts On TV Wed. By RALPH BERNSTEIN PHILADELPHIA (® — Boxing history was made last night with |the first “‘studio-home audience” | nationally televised fight show, but the only happy faces were those of four unheralded preliminary fighters. It took a case of mumps to ful- fill a prediction by the late’ Mike Jacobs, renowned New York pro- moter, that the day would come when prize fights would be held before unpaying audiences. Kid Gavilan came down with the mumps Tuesday, 24 hours before he was scheduled to make his eighth title defense against Johnny Saxton. The promoters — Herman | Taylor and the International Box- | ing Club of New York — were faced with the prospect of no show | at all. Rather than break the uninter- |rupted four-year Wednesday TV Gavilan Had The Mumps But Show Went On Without Him “We're Back In Business”—Stengel By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK ® — “Yesterday | we were out of business; today we're back in it.” | Manager Casey Stengel was in an yShort until they are mathemati- ally eliminated. “The other guys don’t have # wrapped up yet. They just think they have. Don’t forget they j haven't had a slump all season. - expansive mood after the New! But if we can beat them again York Yankees’ 4-1 “must” victory ;|tomorrow and keep the pressure over Cleveland yesterday that |0n them, we might scare them into sliced the Indians’ first-place mar- | °"¢- gin over the defending champions; “I’m not saying they'll choke. to 4% games. | They never have. But they could “It was a game we had to win,” | slow up a little. I know one thing, said Stengel, ‘and just as we’ve| We better not choke. We can’t af- been doing for six years, we won it. That’s why you can’t count us| out yet. Never sell the Yankees | ker MRSS AS CBRE RPE each got a nice chunk of TV mon- ey. But everyone else connected with the affair wasted no smiles. Gavilan was home in bed with the mumps. Saxton was down in the mouth at losing his opportunity — for the time being at least — to fight for the 147-pound crown. Promoter Taylor and IBC rep- | ford to lose any more. |fight show series, Taylor and the| resentatives were busy counting up IBC put together a double windup | their financial losses because of | Program of six-rounders, No ad- | the postponement and the expense | mission was charged for the show | of putting on the substitute show. at the Met, a small club with about! The sponsor of the TV show | 5,000 seats. | claimed he lost 20 per cent of his | Some 2,000 fans — about the size | audience because of the Gavilan-| of a large studio audience—turned | | Saxton postponement. out, most of them from the neigh-| About the fight: borhood surrounding the Met. The| Justine, 140, suffered cuts over fighters, George Justine and Ell-| both eyes and a bruise under his wood Davis, Philadelphia welter- | left eye, but emerged a surprising weights, and Bobby Bell, Young-| winner over Davis. stown, O., ‘and Ike Chestnut of New | Chestnut, 127, a former Golden As expected, the Cleveland club- house was quiet but no one appeared dejected. Manager Al Lopez aceepted the defeat philo- sophically. “T feel the same way about it now as I did Tuesday night,” he said. “I still think that was the big ‘one for us. No matter what happens tomorrow, we’ll still leave here with a pretty comfortable lead. After all, it’s too much to expect us to sweep all three games here. This is still a pretty good club we're playing.” The Yankee battery of southpaw Ed Lopat and catcher Yogi Berra was. the “whole” club yesterday. Lopat spaced nine hits for his 12th victory of the year and his 40th lifetime win over the Indians, Berra laced three of the Yanks hits, including his 18th home run, scored twice and drove in two runs, The national junior sailing York, each received $1,500 for their | Gloves champion, and Bell, a 25- jchampshionships will be held at the appearance. The fighters were happy. They | Army fought to a draw. | year-old Ohioan recently out of the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club, Hol- jland, Mich.., beginning Aug. 30. FLAGSHIP’S LOWER PRICES on Kentucky Burbon FIFTH 6 Yr. Old... 86 Proof Reg. Price $4.62 FLAGSHIP’S PRICE . $3.40 ae in Bond Choice LIGHT or DARK FLAGSHIP'S a Imported Botanicals Hircm Walker's Best GIN Full Fifth Paice . $3.29} BOURBON |? - Reg. 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