The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-21
CONCHS WIN FIRST
CONTEST OF SERIES
FROM ALLSTARS
coRK-ARM PITCHER. OSCAR
MOLINA. SURPRISED FANS
AND PLAYERS BY GOING
ROUTE AGAINST vIcToRs
By o. L. MILAN

BY o. L. MILAN
Several hundred fans sat
through a tantalizing drilling
rain to watch Roy Hamlin's
Conchs win a 5 to ! decision over
the All-Stars selected by George
Acevedo at Trumbo Field yester-
day afternoon in the first of a
five-game series.
The contest was the nightcap
of a doubleheader at the Field
yesterday. Sox won. the opener
from Pirates, 12-4.
Oscar Cork Arm) Molina, who
caused all the fans to frown as
he walked to the pitchers box to
hurl against the heavy-hitting
artillery of Gates & Company,
surprised every man in the park
except the blonde-headed youth
in the person of George Acevedo,
who so gamely and courageously
trotted out the best team he could
select-but which was not the
best in Key West outside of Ham
Inns aggregation. Several other
players, who had promised to
come out and play with the Stars,
sent last minute word that they
could not appear due to some UNI
expected difficulties.
However, Acevedo's players
gave the Conchs a good fight.
Those boys got together and
battled until the last Conch bat
ter went out on long fly to left.
Cork Arm" Molina pitched good
ball and it was unbelievable how
he got by Hamlin's murderous
row inning after inning, tanning
the Conchs' most dangerous hit
tiers. William Butch" Gates and
Esmond "Tarzan" Albury. He
checked the opposition when the
going got tough.
In the third inning when the
champs threatened a rally after
Villareal rolled out, shortstop to
first base, the bags were filled on
Jackie Carbonells second error of
the game, a base on balls and a
hit batsman, but Molina kept his
nerves strong and forced Cyril
Griffin, Hamlin's gang most dan
gerous hitter in the pinches. to
fly out to center, and Cheta Bak-
er to go out on weak grounder
to second. This was sensational
stanza and the fans cheered
"Honky" with open mouths.
The strong Conch aggregation
clinched the game in the first
round as lead-off batter Armando
Acevedo opened with a line sin
gle to center, Villareaps grounder
to short that was fielded by Lo-
PEE, who tagged second, forcing
out Acevedo, and making a per-
feet throw to first to beat the bat
ter for a double play; Jackie Car
bonell's muff of Gates roller to
third Esmond Albury'S double to
right with Gates stopping at third
on the hit-and-run play. and Cyril
Griffin's line single to center scor-
ing Gates and Albury. Carbor
nelIs error on dead out play
gave the Conchs their first two
tallies.
Key West nine added three
more runs in the eighth inning
on four singles. a sacrifice hit and
a free ticket to first. Dininutive
Lou Gonzalez, who pitched shut
out ball for the Conchs, drove in
two of the three markers in that
frame and can be given credit
for winning his own game con-.
sidering earned runs.
All-Stars scored in the sixth
Stanza. j. Garcia, hitting for
George Acevedo, paled safe one
to center. was sacrificed to sec
ond by AL Acevedo and scamper
ed home on Rueda's line hit to
left. Rueda's hit appeared to
have been caught on shoe-string
catch by Machin but there was
a little commotion on the field by
the All-Stars' players, who
thought umpire Mccampbell had
called the batter out. The deci-
sion on the field rested with UNI
pire Vidal. who declared the ball
hit the ground and that all runs
ners were safe. There was no
dispute on the part of conch
players.
Box score:
AIl-Stars
PLAYER All r HPO Al E