The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1954, Page 6

Cleveland Stretches League Lead; Giants Slump Yanks Trail By 8% In American; Bums Gain In National Loop By JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Wrier It would be ridiculous to accuse ; the five-time world champion New, York Yankees of “choking up.” It must be gratifying to the long-suffering Cleveland faithful, however, today to check back dar-! ing the past few days and discover | that.it was the proud Yankees, and not the maligned Indi-ns, who lost seven of their last 10 clutch games. casitsoaions 37, And in the same period, the Indians lost only two out of 10 to pick up five big games on the weary world champions, If ever there had been any doubts about Cleveland’s intestinal fortitude, the American League leaders dispelled them yesterday with a glorious double triumph over New York that all but ended the long Yankee dynasty. The 4-1 and 3-2 victories before 86,563 spectators, the largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game, stretched Cleveland’s first place) margin-over the Yankees to 8% lengths. That is almost an insur- mountable hurdle for Casey Sten- gel’s crew. With only 10 games left, the Indians can clinch their first flag since 1948 by merely winning three, even if the Yankees win all their remaining 11. Giants’ Lead Sliced All was not rosy for the Cleve- land’s springtime sparring part- ners, the New York Giants, how- ever. Continuing the lack-lustre| play thet has marked their recent performances, the Giants were | beaten 4-3 by St. Louis and had | their National League lead sliced to three games when the rebound- ing Brooklyn Dodgers came through with a 4-2 and 4-3 double- header sweep over the Chicago Cubs, ' | BASEBALL RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE New York Brooklyn Milwaukee Cincinnati Philadelp! St. Louis Chicago . Pittsburgh Brooklyn. 4-4, Chie go 23 (2nd 14 innings) St. Louis 4, New York Philadelpifia 5-1, Milwaukee 22 Cincinnati 11-13, Pittsburgh 3-2 MONDAY’S GAMES Milwaukee at Philadelphia Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Only games >. © © AMER! 1 Won Lost Pet. Behind Cleveland 104-40 - |New York Chicago | Detroit Boston Washington Baltimore emfiadetptte 48 96 UNI RESULTS Cleveland 43, New York 1-2 Detroit 5-8, Washington 0-3 Chicago 5-7, Boston 3-5 Baltimore 44, Philadelphia 3-5 MONDAY’S GAMES (No games INTERNATIONAL Syracuse 4.4, Ottawa 2-1 Buffalo 3-10, Montreal 0-13 Toronto 44, Richmond 1-1 Havana 12, Rochester SOUTH ATLANTIC PLAYOFF Savannah 4, Jacksonville 2 (Savannah wins final series 4-3). SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF New Orleans 10, Birmingham 3 (New Orleans leads 3-2) Memphis 4, Atlant 3°(5 innings; Atlanta leads 3-2). TEXAS PLAYOFFS Fost. Worth 2. , Shreveport 0 CF wins series ‘ort Worth P Houston 9, *Oktanoma Pity 5 Houston wins series 4-1). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus 4, Louisville 2 St. Paul 5, Indianapolis 4 rapped out five Tiger hits, drove in two and score twice. In The Basement The bettle for last place in the American League resulted in-a mate as basement-tied Baltimore |and Philadelphia divided a pair. The Orioles won the opener 4-3, scoring all their runs in the sev- enth for Bob ‘Turley’s 12th win Eddie Waitkus’ pinch single drove The Athletics took the second 5-4, scoring the v. inning run in the ninth when Howie Fox walked | Spook Jacobs with the bases load- Milwaukee’s Braves, still in the | &4 running despite two recent losses to the Dodgers, drew to within 4% | games of the top by earning a split with the Phillies in Philadel- phia. Lew’ Burdette outpitched Robin! Roberts for a 2-1 Braves’. victory after the Phillies had snapped War- ren Spahn’s 11-game victory string 5-2. Cincinnati’s Redlegs climbed into fourth place, drubing the Pittsburgh Pirates twice 11-5 and 13-2 as “Ted Kluszewskimdrove in nine runs and smashed homers Nos. 47 and 48. Chisox Top 90 Wins | The Chicago White Sex, paced by Nellie Fox and Minyje Minoso, vanquished the Boston Red Sox twice 5-3 and 7-5 to Mach, and pass, the 90 victory mark for the first time since 1920. Fox produced three hits including a two-run dou-! ble. He also stole three bases, in- cluding home, to help Bob Keegan post his 16th triumph in the op- ener, Minoso, ejected from the first | game came back to drive in four | runs in the nightcap with a home run and double. Detroit trounced Washington twice 5-0 and 8-3 to sweep past Boston into fourth place. Steve Gromek registered his 17th-victory with‘ a six-hit shutout and sore- armed Ted Gray won his first | game since May 12. Harvey Kuenn | Jof 11-11 against the Yankees. Cleveland’s 86,563 fans, with 84,- 587 paid, cheered themselves hoarse over the Indians’ double win that gave them a season slit Rosen’s two-run double in the sev- enth off Allie Reynolds broke up a 1-1 deadlock in the opener a Bob Lemon went on to register his 22nd_ victory. Yankees Bow Early Wynn struck out 12 Yan- kees including Enos Slaughter, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra in the ninth as he outpitched Tommy Byrne for his 2ist triumph. Wynn allowed three hits including Ber- ra’s first inning homer with a man on base. Stan Musial and Harvey Haddix combined to beat the Giants. Mu- sial batted in three runs with a single and his 35th homer. Haddix j gained his 17th victory although he needed help in the ninth. The Giants had the tying run on base and one out in the ninth when Brooks Lawrence came in and re- tired the side by fanning Alvi Dark Thompson on an infield grounder. Carl Furillo drove in the winning runs in both Brooklyn victories. He doubled in two runs in the opener and broke up the second game with a bases-loaded, two-out single off Warren Hacker in the 14th inning. 30% CLOSING OFF OUT ALL BOYS’ SHIRTS ani PANTS ALSO SPECIAL RACK LADIES’ BLOUSES, SKIRTS, PEDAL PUSHERS 50% Off Gold Coast Casuals 423-B DUVAL STREET — Across from La Concha Hotel and disposing of-: Hank | ‘in ‘the tying and winning runs. | [ Minneapolis 3, Kansas City 0 Toledo 7, Charleston 5 PACIFIC COAST Portland 1-0, Hollywood 0-10 Los Angles 3-2, San Diego 2-7 Oakland 5-0, Sacramento 0-3 Seattle 10-2, San Francisco 3-5. GEORGIA-FLORIDA PLAYOFF Brunswick 12, Fitzgerald 6 (Fitzgerald leads series 3-2) GEORGIA-STATE PLAYOFF Vidalia 12, Douglas 8 (Vidalia leads » Pim Standings PACIFIC, COAST LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind ope Diego 601 Portland 0 Be X—Hollywood plays San Dieco in first Place «playoff tonight. _INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE % 377 «39 jyracuse in fourth place playoff tonight, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won test Pet. Behind Se Columbus St. Paul Toledo Kansas City Charleston WESTERN LEAGUE WON Lost Pet. 94 56 Denver 627 510 497 413 316 *ONDAY’S ALL SCHEDULE “ >" ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF Memphis at Atlanta ew_ Orleans EORGIA STATE PLAYOFF Vidalia at Douglas Following Through Pedro Aguilar Tuesday night at 7:30 p. m, the Strand Theater Babe Ruth champs | , for 1954 will play the fourth game of their seven-game series against the All-Stars. The first. game was won by the Strand by a 10 to 2 score, the sec- ond game went to the All-Stars by a 7 to 6 score, and the third game | 48. went to the Strand by a 7 to 6| 00 score. The first game was won by S. Snow and lost by Flood. The. sec- ond game was won by Hoppe and lost by Diaz. The third game was won by Kerr and cost by Hoppe. The best hitters in this series so far have been: For the Strand, Key - 667; Oropeza and Kerr - 500 each; Diaz - 428; Bethel - 250; R. Vildostigue - 250; Allen - 166; De- meritt - 142; Snow - 110. For the All-Stars, Higgs - 250; Owen - 444; Moorehouse - 428; Cur- ry - 333; Solomon - 285; Hoppe 555; Casas - 285; Fernandez - 200; Page 6 Ex-Champ Says He Feels Stronger Than In Last Title Try By ED CORRIGAN MONTICELLO, N.Y. w—Ezzard Charles, the 33-year-old ex-heavy- weight champion, who will try for the third time to regain the crown Wednesday night, does not aim to prove he can take one of Rocky Marciano’s punches. “No, sir,” he said today before going through his final full-scale workout, “I’m not aiming to prove I can take a punch. In fact, I’m going to try not to get hit.” Ez has his own analysis of Mar- ciano, who licked him with a unan- imous decision last June 17: a tre- mrendous volume of punches, few of them direct hits, plus tremendous strength. “If he couldn’t punch, he’d be a bum in the ring,” said Charles. Charles figures on weighing 190 — four and a half pounds more than he did in the last contest — when he steps into the Yankee Stadium ring . “Sure, he hurts,” Charles admit- ted. “But he doesn’t floor you with a single punch. I feel stronger this time. I’ve been punching the heavy bags more and I’ve added a mile or a mile and a half of roadwork to the three miles I did each morn- ing in June.” Charles is sort of a quiet fellow and still refused to make a definite prediction on the outcome of the fight. “If I put some punches together, I'll be all right,” was about the closest he came to summing up his chances. MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS AMERICANL EAGUE {BUNS BATTED IN—Berra, New York, “TOME RUNS—Doby, Cleveland, 30. (TCHING—Consuegra, Chicago, ak NATIONAL LEAGUE | BATTING —Snider, RUNS~Snider, Brooklyn, 116. et BATTED IN—Kluszewski, Cinein- nati, NOME RUNS-Kluszewski, Cincinnati, PITCHING—Antonelli, New York, 205, 3, McEwen - 100. It is predicted that "| Hoppe will try again for the Stars, and Kerr will pitch for the Champs. Chester “Chesty” Covington and his Giants baseball club will play at Wickers Field next Saturday night at 7:30 and Sunday atfter- noon at 2 o’clock. The Jr. Conchs will play both games. Mgr. Cates will have sev- eral older boys on his club to bal- ance the club and we will see a real ball game next Saturday and Sunday at Wickers Field. Due to the Terrific BIG OVEN PUBLIC DEMAND G-E DEALERS ARE REPEATING THIS SENSATIONAL 1954 RANGE VALUE! Duval and Olivia Sts. BIG CAPACITY G-E RANGE N ropay! — WITH DELUXE FEATURES DION & SMITH TIRE SUPPLY Store Open Mondays Till 8:00 P.M. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, September 13, 1954| Ez Means To Dodge Punches; Rocky Aims At Fast Start Champ Is Surprised At Story Louis Said He Was ‘Foul Fighter’ By JACK HAND GROSSINGER, N.Y. (®—Heavy- weight champion Rocky Marciano | isn’t fooling this time. Remembering with a shudder that he was behind on the cards of all three officials for the first half of his last title bout with Ez-| zard Charies, the king of heavies| declared today: “TI hope to get off to a fast start because I know Charles might try to do something with me.” The Rock, going into his last day of training before Wednesday night’s fight, thinks he might have stayed in camp a little too long before the first Charles battle which he finally won by a unani- mous decision. “I had some dull days a week! before the last fight,”’ he said be- fore hitting the road. “I think the Brooklyn Manager By BARD LINDEMAN BROOKLYN (# — Manager Walt. Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers took one look at: the remaining schedule and couldn’t help smil- ing. But he said cautiously: timing is just right for me this time.” Marciano weighs 188 pounds and has boxed 112 rounds in 26 work- outs. Today was to be devoted to road work and camp will break tomorrow. Before the first Charles |bout, the Rock boxed 180 rounds. Meanwhile, _ the with reports of former heavy- | weight champion Joe Louis ‘tagging Rocky a “foul fighter.” It was as good a way as any to keep interest up, and it drew immediate retorts from Marciano’s camp. “I’m surprised at Joe,” said Marciano. “I don’t know why he’d say that.” Marciano said his style was best described as a “rough type who might look like he’s hitting foul but really wan’t. “As far as hitting after the bell (a Louis accusation), said Rock, “Charles started it, not me. I | think the pictures will show he got the last punch in. too.” camp. buzzed} Can’t Help Smiling At Rest Of Slate | “I haven't made any Predictions; Alston was high in his praise of jah year and this isn’t the time | Billy Loes who relieved in the sev- to start. | enth inning of the 14-inning night bia the New York Giants by) cap whch was finished under the ree games and a game and a} iQ, hoked th half “ahead of the Milwaukee |~® Rap RRS se, |Braves, the schedule favors the | ‘three hits the rest of the way. Brooks all the way. Of their re-} “He wae: De est I've ee him | maining games, nine are at home. | all year,” commented Alston. | Five of the 11 are with the last-; |place Pittsburgh Pirates, . three | with the Cincinnati Redlegs and three with the Giants. Leo Durocher’s men, on the other hand, have 13 games left — three with Brooklyn, a half-dozen with Philadelphia, three with Milwau- kee and one with St. Louis. Seven are at home, six away. 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