The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 7, 1954, Page 6

Spills Mark Lions Club Regatta Sun. By DAVID NASON David Alsop, of the Ft. Lauderdale Outboard Club, succeeded in hitting his stride in the late races to win the Free for All in the Lions’ Regatta Sunday aft- ernoon. Due to motor and steering troubles he was un- able to land in the money in the earlier races. Jerry Schnaedelbach copped the “B” Runabout race with his new GO Devil, Jr. David Nason came in for. place. Charles Moody, ‘k Island Grocery tycoap, just recently joined the Out- ars was a close his new racer ePedetue. se} 4 3 a3 ge | 3 see iGii spite geferiaie reste Eqz2 F § Braves, headed East today on a 12-game trip which undoubtedly will decide the National League em,” said veteran pitcher Warren Spahn, “‘and the way we're going we can do it.” The way the Braves have been going—they took a nine-game win- ning streak, second such in a month, with them—there was no the Chicago Cubs, 13-2 and 61, yesterday sent the Braves East in second place only four games be- hind league-leading New York. The pair of triumphs, coupled with Brooklyn’s double loss to Pitts- burgh and the Giants’ split with Philadelphia, turned the trick and shoved the Dodgers into third, a spot the Braves had held since duly 21. Manager Charlie Grimm snorted when told his players figured they eould catch the Giants. “Sure they figure that way,” he said. “A month ago when we were 13 games behind they felt the same way, didn’t they? Naturally they haven’t changed their minds now.” What about the statement by Giants’ Manager Leo Durocher a few. weeks back that the Braves would find it tough to catch two teams? “Well,” said Grimm, “We've caught one of ‘em now. The way 1 look at it, if you go out and do your job and don’t pop off you|* come out pretty good.” Grimm’s players have been go- ing quite a job during the current drive. A week ago Sunday they took a pair of sound pastings from Boa THe sek back to take the final two games from the Dodgers. Since then they have beaten Pittsburgh once, swept a four-game set from Cincinnati and trounced the Cubs twice, Harness horses are given, us- nally, six warm-up miles before hay parade to the post, : 4 “ } ean lerdale Racer CONCH WORKOUT—Red Stickney (No. 20),:Key West High School halfback, goes through the line in scrimmage session. Cenehs held four-hour drill Labor Day in preparation for their opener September 17—JKB Photo. Sportswriters Don’t Believe *:/Ted Williams Will Quit Game NEW YORK # — Ted Williams expected to be-back hammering home runs for the Boston Red Sox to do despite his statement to newsmen yesterday he was through after this year. It’ was: a tired and disgusted Williams' who made that statement to newsmen in the Red Sox club- house after enjoying one of his greatest batting days at Yankee }| Stadium. He was slowly dragging his soaking uniform off his weary body when reporters asked him whether he had changed his mind about quitting after this season. “Not a bit,” he barked. “No more baseball for me after this year. To heck with it. I know when I've got enough. I’m through.” At the time he said it, he meant every word. Right-now he is sick tired of baseball. It has been most trying of all 12 seasons great slugger. Handicapped asstill mending left collarbone ‘ast spring and retarded long siege of flu during June, exhausted physically, Women Drivers Are Nervous Claims Girl Stock Car Ace By GEORGE W. HACKETT "SEAN ROEDER er. One promptly rammed pole before she was half- quarter-mile ‘Thete were three ar . vous ones in the race wi ef “Key West Little League and Pony League All-Stars made a .clean|of the sweep of a four game series with roared | 4 Strand, All-Star Team To Clash The Strand Theater baseball team, .1954, Babe Ruth League champions will meet an All- Star team selected frem the other three clubs in the leep, tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the Wiikers Field Stadium. The Strand won an earlier encounter with the same elub. Miami Stars Drop 3 Of 4 Games Here ‘The Key West All-Stars oajitur- ed three of four games over the weekend with a picked team from the Miami Amateur Baseball Lea- gue. Key West swept both ends of a double header Sunday, 7 - 6 and 5-3, and came back to split with the Miamians in a Labor Day twin bill. The Conchs took a 9 - 7 drub- bing in the first game Monday and came back to win the second 6 - 0. Don Cruz, recently returned from his first season of professional baseball with Cocoa in the Florida State League, took the hill for the locals in the opening tilts Sunday but was off form. He gave up nine hits and five runs in five frames. Gibby Gates took over at that point and turned in a neat bit cf relief work, holding the Miamians to_a single run on three hits. In the nightcap Sunday, a sixth inning rally brought the Conchs from behind and gave them a win. Catala, Santana and Lewis paced the winners. Monday, Miami wp with a 17 hit assault to edge the locals in the first. game. In the final game, Gibby Gates whitewashed the Miamians while K Of CBowling| Milwaukee Sneaks Into 2nd Place, Sets Attendance Mark Tourney Gets Under Way The Knights of Columbus spon- sored Championship Bowling Tour- namemt, to determine the city championship will get underway Tuesday at the Roll Away Lanes Bowling Center. Six teams have entered this tour- nament representing the winner and runner-up from each league from the summer bowling pro- gram. Representing the leagues and the team captains are as follows: In- dusrtial League, Westinghouse, Ken Meyers; Home Milk, Bill Christo- pher; from the Commercial Lea- gue, Key West Supply, Chuck El- der; Johnnies Place, Paul Denni: Civic League, VFW, A. Gilmo: Knights of Columbus, Gene Halp’ Bowling will get underway at 7:30 p. m. The public is invited, admission is free. The next match- es will be held on next Tuesday evening, same time, same place. Paul Dennis, of Johnnies Place, is chairman of this tournament. Prizes for the tournament includes the Knights of Columbus Champ- ionship Trophy and an individual award for each member of the winning team. Other prizes include highest average, highest single game and highest three game ser- ies. 17-Lb. Bluefish Entered In Schaefer Meet Some spectacular fish have been entered in the Rudy Schaefer Fish- ing Contest. This is natural enough to expect where the contest is state-wide and embraces all of Flo- rida’s territorial waters. However, with six months of competition mo one entry appears unbeat- able. This is the 17 pound bluefish caught off Riviera Beach by Wal- ter Laabs. Fully investigated and backed by much documentation, Laabs, entry is likely to be un- challenged, not only this year, but also in future Schaefer contests. That Laabs’ fish was allowed is unusual. When earliest plans for the Rudy Schaefer Fishing Contest were made, bluefish figured heavi- ly in the rod and reel division. It is a fish available all over the state. It is a great favorite with Mr. Average Fisherman. And the contest is dedicated to Mr. Aver- age Angler. But when final forms came from- the printers, bluefish was not on them. After thinking it over, spon- sor Rudolph J. Sachefer, New York and Florida sportsman. and indus- trialist, said bluefish should be in- cluded. Hence the break for Laabs, and hence a fish so exceptional it could stand up on the Sachaefer record books, possibly for many years. Seixas Seen As Davis Cup Performer By ED CORRIGAN FOREST HILLS, N.Y., (# — Vic victory in the National Ten- nis Championship after trying for 14 years didn’t seem to impress anyone. But it accomplished one Fast In Hospital PALO ALTO, Calif. w#—Glenn 8. (Pop) Warner, former football bp ge gained coat je late Jim Thorpe, one world’ at Carlisle the Coral Gables All-Stars here ov- sylvania, e: Cup squad this year. Until he whipped Australia’s Rex ig in the final 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, , Seixas’ name seem- Seixas. Bo doubt was at least par- tially deserved. Vie was unimpres- sive im the Challenge round last year and had a mediocre season on this summer. David Cup Captain Billy Talbert allowed as how Seixas played well. “But I’ve seen him play better,” Talbert said. “He had the strokes in terms of was thinking doubles even aft- rage Avila Takes | Over American Batting Lead By BEN PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer place in the National League. The amazing Milwaukee Braves edged ahead of Brooklyn, yester- day on the strength of a nine-game winnjng streak and Brooklyn’s first double-header loss to Pittsburgh in 3% seasons. The New York Giants were six games ahead of Srooklyn and 6% in front of Milwaukee going into Sunday’s action. But they now lead Milwaukee by only four lengths and Brooklyn by five. The Giants and Brooklyn both lost two out of three. Milwaukee won four. Cleveland picked up a full game on New York Sunday in the Amer- ican League, stayed even yester- day and now leads the New York Yankees by 4% games. The In- dians won two out of three, run- ning their season’s winning total to 98 games. No Cleveland team ever has won more. The Yankees lost two out of three. There’s a new leader in the American League batting race. Bobby Avila, Cleveland’s hustling second baseman, caught Irv Noren of the Yankees with four hits Sun- day and passed him with four more yesterday. He’s hitting .337 to Noren’s .333. In yesterday’s games Milwaukee defeated Chicago 13-2 and 6-1. Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn 9-6 in 12 innings and 9-7. The Giants whipped Philadelphia 8-4 but Rob- in Roberts came back to win his 20th game in the nightcap 5-4 in 11 innings. St. Louis bumped Cin- cinnati 8-1 in a single game. Bob Lemon of the Indians be- came the first pitcher in either Baltimore 6-1 in the first game. Then the Orioles came back to nip the Indians 3-2 in 10 innings. The Yankees came from behind to edge Boston 6-5 in the first game, but blew a 7-0 lead and lost the nighctap 8-7. 9-1 and 3-2, the second game going 10 innings. Washington defeated Philadel- the Senators 3-2 for a split. Eddie Mathews, now fully recov- most two weeks by injuries, sparkled in the Milwaukee tri- umphs. He hit his 35th home run, a double and six singles and walk- ed once before finally being retired in his last time at bat. The onrushing Braves drew the day’s largest crowd — 43,207 — and ran their season’s total attendance to 2,001,091, tops in both leagues, Only the Yankees and Indians ever have drawn more than two million fans in a year. Roberts, the Phillies’ strong, armed right-hander, became the first pitcher since Carl Hubbell to reach the 20-game mark in five consecutive seasons. He made it when fleet-footed Richie Ashburn scampered home from second base on an infield single by Granny Hamner. Trailing by five runs early in the game, the Pirates beat the Dodgers in the first contest when Billy Loes walked two men in the 12th with the bases loaded and Curt Roberts laid down a squeeze bunt which scored a third man. Five runs in the first inning against Don Newcombe put the Pirates on the winning trail in the second game and the Dodgers couldn’t catch up despite home runs by Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson and Sandy Amoros. At Baltimore, Lemon’s hitting support in the first game came mainly from Al Smith, who banged two doubles and two singles. Dick Kryhoski’s bases-loaded single in the 10th inning of the nighteap pre- vented a Cleveland sweep. Andy Carey’s’ bases-loaded sin- gle in the last of the ninth cli- maxed the Yankees’ uphill climb against Boston in the opener at Yankee Stadium. Jimmy Piersall’s two-run homer in the eighth gave the Red Sox the runs they needed to capture the second game. Ted Williams collected four straight hits in the nightcap and six during the afternoon. Ned Garver held the White Sox . 5, Bi There’s a new team in second Detroit won two from Chicago | Charlie: phia 8-1 and the Athletics shaded | Houst= THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, September 7, 1954 BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE Ss New York 84, Philadelphia 45 (and game 11 innings) Pittsburgh 99, Brooklyn 67 (ist 12. innings) Milwaukee 13-6, Chicago 31 St. Louis 8, Cincinnati 1 TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE New York at Philadelphia Only game scheduled game AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Cleveland 8 3 a iL iL 3B “e “s MONDAYS RESULTS New York 6-7, Boston 5-8 Cleveland 6-2, Baltimore 1-3 (and game innings) 10 Detroit 93, Chicago 1-2 (and game 10 innings) Washington 8-2, Philadelphia 1-3 TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE Philadelphia at Washington Only game scheduled Atlanta New Orleans Birmingham MONDAY’S RESULTS Mobile 3-11, Atent 18 TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE scheduled) LAYOFF 000 012 1105 80 S61 200 Oox 9.14 9 Kume, Stemple (i), Raether (4), Crad- dock (8), and Robertson; Robinson and league to win 21 games, beating “on . a seissaae Tulsa ered after being sidelined for al- sesessees sesadens§ seetese=f weaseeas? eeaeesoe? eaeeesiet Davis Bids For Shot At Saddler NEW YORK #—Ever ready Ted- dy (Red Top) Davis made another pion Sandy Saddier, and his manager said he’d back it.up with cash. “Saddler can have $25,000 if he’ll fight Red Top for the champion- ship in New Haven,” Manager Mushky Salow said after his little Savoie last night in St. Nicholas Arena. “Tve been chasing him for two years,” said Davis, No. 4 feather- weight from Hartford, Conn. “If I ever catch up to him I’m gonna make him pay for keeping me waiting so long. I guarantee you, I'll knock him out in five rounds.” to four hits in Detroit’s first vie-| i tory. Harvey Kuenn singled home the winning run in the 10th inning of the second game after Minnie Minoso had tied the score in the ninth with a homer. Harvey Haddix of the Cardinals won his first game since July 30 and his 16th of the season in beat- ing Cincinnati on eight hits. Ted Kluszewski, the majors’ leading home run hitter, was sidelined with a swollen ankle. 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