The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-01

second game of Sundays South
Miami- Blue Sox conflict for a
few seconds, we listen to Arman-
do Acevedo. sitting on the west
section of the grandstands, yell
ing at umpire Jimmie Griffin
with the usual, Gee, what a
crook, Jesse James, where is
your horse?Y Hey. Jimmy, who
are you playing with? South Mi
ami?", 'sCojo; watch out for your
head; etc, etc.
And at the middle of the stands
there's. Lionel Plummer, yelling
for "Pisica' one inning and pull
ing for Carbonelll the next. And
calling to Roy Harnlin to ask if
the sale of soda water was also
stopped along with peanuts.
Then SOM one sitting along
side Mr.. Pstmmer compliments
umpire Gonzalez for the fine
work he was doing this was dur
ing the Con<h- Pirate affair after
the inning il which Colo had
called ball~On a pitch Armando
Acevedo had struck at and miss
ed-so Gonzalez expresses his APP
probation To the fan and says,
ME out of shape right now, but
before "Cojd could finish the
sentence Lionel makes everyone
burst out with laugh by shout
ing, .He never had shape.
Just a little further down on
the other side of the grandstands
reserved for free passes and ball
players are the ever popular pair,
Freddie Carbonell and AIlnando
Davila, criticizing the scorekeep-
er's judgment. Charlie Vidal, old
time bali player, also joined in
the fun: They couldn't under
stand why shortstop Garcia of the
Pirates was credited with hit
on his line drive over third base
that Esmond Albury leaped two
feet in the air to make a beautiS
full stop of the hit ball.
Some ten or twelve years ago
when Armando Acevedo played
his first important game of base
ball in a local league it was the
publie's general opinion that
some day there would be team
composed of all Acevedo brothers
and now comes the news from
the Conchs' flashy shortstopnan
that ball club numbering from
No 2 to No. inclusive will play
the Blue Sox Thursday afternoon
on Trumbo Field. There will be
one player who will not be an
Acevedo; he is the pitcher Catch
er, first, second and third bases
and shortgop will all be brothers;
left, center and right fields will
also be Acevedos.
The brothers will probably be
placed on the field in the fol-
lowing order: Manuel. catcher;
Florencio, Jr., first base; Alberto,
second base; George, third base;
Armando, shortstop; Eloy, left
field Albio, centerfield, and the
rightfielder will probably be the
son of Florefcio, Jr. A great first
baseman, too, is, Lily Acevedo,
only sister of the crew. but, Of
course, she viii not be in the line
up.
The Acevedo Starsl-history in
the making. Never in the history
of baseball in the State of Florida
has there ever been a baseball
team composed of brothers of the
same family.
Joseph Mendoza, former Key
Wester and strong Conch back
er, now living in Miami for some
time, sends, in two nice poems.
One is dedicated to the Key
West ConchS and the other to
Robert Bob Schultz. Here they
are: -.
KEY WEST coNcE1S
The Conchs went to Tampa in
search of fame,
But when they got there, they
couldn't win a game.
They came out on the field like
a bunch of terrors,
But you can't win a bali game by
making errors
They found a bunch of Cubans,
who really play ball,
And showed them Conchs that
they can't play at all.
You have to hit that ball and be
fast on your feet
If you can't do that, you'll 60
down in defeat.
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